It was more than five years since she stood on the beach of Angel Grove. Breathing the smell of the salty sea as it ran into her nose and into her system gave her the feeling of being home. The wind washed her face, and combed through her long black hair, sending it flying wildly. She stared at the man who still held her heart. She watched the handsome face dance with laugher, after catching a two year old girl in his arms, as she giggled endlessly.

She smiled, and tears shone in her eyes, it was a joyous moment to see father and daughter share a simple affection for each other.

It was her heart which was heavy with the need for love. From a man who never saw her as anything more than a friend. She sighed deeply, playing with her rings. You’re married now, she reminded herself, looking at her wedding ring. You can’t leave your husband.

How did she fall so hopelessly in love with him? How long had it been since she recognized that her feelings towards the former leader of the Power Rangers had changed so much? Why had she noticed it too late?

Turning her back on him, she made her way to her yellow car. She felt jealous rage build up, but forced it down. She wasn’t the type to get jealous easily. Calmly she started the car; bringing its engine to life. And sped away towards the one place she had called a second home for a year and a half of her life.

She parked her car not far from the place where it once stood. Walking up she saw it was not the building she remembered, but now it was rubble of what had been. Their memories were buried under the pile of mass destruction. Their father figure was now gone forever. Tears blinded her, she cried for the first time since she gave up her Power to another.

Today she would remember the man who had brought her faith. Remember the way she called out to the Saber-Tooth Tiger Powers. She had been proud of the good deeds she had done for the planet. Proud of the team she worked with, before she left Angel Grove forever.

But she never left that place in her heart. Each and everyday she listened to the news with the friends who came with her, and he was one of them.

“Guys, I think we should have listened to Zordon,” he was saying to the others as they made their way out of the odd looking building.

Before any of them could say anything, an unfamiliar looking army jumped at them.

They tried to fight them, only to be thrown on top of each other.

Getting up on their feet, Jason spoke, “Zordon said these will give us powers!”

“Okay, let’s do it!”

“Mastodon!”

“Pterodactyl!”

“Triceratops!”

“Saber-Tooth Tiger!”

“Tyrannosaurus!”

That day had sealed their friendship, greater than the universe had ever before known.

God, how long ago was that? It seemed like just yesterday.

“Hey, you okay?” a voice asked.

She nodded, “Yeah, just came to say goodbye to a special someone.” She didn’t look at her husband.

“Are you sure you’re okay?” he asked, concerned.

“I miss him so much,” she sobbed on his shirt.

“We all do.” He held her in his arms, letting her cry out her pain.

She pushed away and placed a yellow flower at the place that once was the entrance to the Command Center.

Trini Kwan Cranston had just given her final farewell to Zordon.

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