My mother sent me on my way to play with the dogs in the park. I next met him in the Power Chamber. I had been playing chess with Alpha and winning when Cassie came in and asked me to come out with her. My mother was leaning against the man in the armor, except this time he had his armor off.

He looked almost exactly like the few pictures my mother had of my father. Except the man in armor was older. My mother and the man were both crying. This was also the first time I met Dulcea of Phaedos.

Mother explained to me that this was my father. When he had destroyed the flagship of MasterVile he had teleported out at the last moment. He hadn't managed to escape unscathed. His memory had been temporarily wiped.

He had spent the time between when I was born and when he first arrived in Angel Grove healing and training. When he was determined fit enough, Dulcea sent him to Earth. That is where he first met the Turbo Rangers.

Father was very happy to see me, after he recovered from the shock of meeting a son he didn't know he had. When he asked Mother how I came about, she mentioned a shower and the night on Phaedos. I've never seen anyone blush so red before or since.

That night and the following three days, I spent with aunt Kim. When I saw her later, she had a very big smile on her face and she was so relaxed. It seems that they also needed to get a new bed. My parents from then on, slept on a futon.

The next few years were quite enjoyable. My father's very presence, once it was found out he was alive was enough to prevent inter-galactic villains from coming to Earth. I guess when you have a reputation as the killer of great evils, the lesser ones leave you alone. Someone told me that when Divatox found out who the Phantom Ranger really was, she left so fast she curled her hair. Of course, uncle Rocky said it a different way but when he says it that way around my mom she hits him. As do every other woman in the house.

Uncle Rocky is a funny man. He told me when I get older that he'll teach me how to pick up women. When I said lift with the legs and not with the feet, he couldn't stop laughing. He finally stopped but only because aunt Kat kissed him on the lips. How can people DO that? It's disgusting!

I don't want to forget to talk about Mother and Father's wedding. It was in the park and I got to hold the ring! That was so great! All my aunt's and uncle's were there. Even Alpha-5 made it for the wedding.

The ceremony was short. The reception was interesting. Uncle Rocky called it a "fuster-cluck", whatever that means. He can be so strange sometimes. Someone that Mother knew in high school named Jason Scott showed up. He was real drunk and mean. Father just stood there and didn't do anything.

When uncle Tommy tried to get Mr. Scott to leave and was pushed aside, that's when Father moved. I have never seen anyone or anything move so fast. He got the punch that Mr. Scott was going to hit uncle Tommy with. My father never even moved. The fist just stopped on his face.

When my father turned his eyes so that Mr. Scott could see them, Mr. Scott backed up. The only other people to see what Mr. Scott saw were uncle Tommy, uncle Rocky and uncle Adam. They looked scared as well.

A pretty blonde woman ran into the room. She was followed by aunt Kat, aunt Kim and aunt Tanya. Aunt Kim is real brave, she went and stood in front of Father so that he wouldn't see anyone else. The others pulled Mr. Scott away. When Father made a move to follow, aunt Kim stayed in front of him. Father finally stopped trying to get past aunt Kim and instead sat down. Mother and aunt Kim sat beside him and they both held him.

Eventually the party started again. I stayed with aunt Kim that night then the rest of the week as well. I remember asking her what she saw in my father's eyes that scared everybody. She never does tell me.

I know that... but it's so tediously, mind-numbingly, brain cell turning to Jell-O boring. It wouldn't be so bad if Dulcea showed interest in me. That what's all the other kids think when I show up at the school to hand in my take home courses. That I get to score with Dulcea on a daily basis.

AS IF! I tried to bring the subject up with her once and she told me that the only man she would sleep with is the one who can defeat her in martial combat. When I pointed out that the only one to ever do that is my Dad, she just sighed. Then she said my Mom was a lucky woman.

Speaking of that, can't those two ever stop and come up for air? It's frustrating. Darn, I have to stop writing now, apparently we get to go to Earth. Oh joy.

~*~

The only person I have ever seen dispute something with my Dad is Mom. He thought what she said over and agreed to do it her way. But she's the only one. Why does he scare everybody? He's just Dad.

They were visiting me for my birthday and Dark Spectre decided to try and break up the party. So he sent a monster and some of his super-tengas to the park. Alpha-6 paged us and so the current Ranger team went to the park. Mom and Dad went to the Power Chamber.

We fought the monster and tengas. We started to win, when they sent another monster to fight us as well. Then we started to lose. Before they could gain the upper hand, we al heard a howl. Then a man in a Ninjetti uniform that was white with green highlights appeared. He was armed with a sword.

By the time the monsters turned to see him, he had already downed five of the tengas. We managed to take care of the others and then with the Ninjetti's help we killed the monsters. The Ninjetti warrior was brutal in his fighting. He was also controlled, no movement was wasted.

When we got back to the Power Chamber, the Ninjetti took off the mask revealing my Dad. Now I knew why so many feared him. In battle, if you fought him, you died. I saw his eyes after he took his mask off, his eyes where those of a timber wolf. They slowly returned to normal but the image still haunts me.

On a better note, I met a girl. She likes me. Her name is Vivian Scott. She's fifteen. She knows that her dad and my dad don't get along, so we've been keeping this pretty quiet. We don't want no Capulet/Montague type of thing happening.

The funeral was yesterday. I don't remember much of it. Mom and Dad showed up, as did all the other Ranger's. Mom and Dad still haven't changed much. Mom talked with Mrs. Scott. Mr. Scott wouldn't talk to Mom or Dad.

This morning, Dad came into the house and dropped the monster's sword on the kitchen table. It was covered in monster blood. He then dropped a hand on the table beside it. The hand didn't belong to the monster that killed Vivian.

When I asked whose hand it was, he told me Dark Spectre. When I asked why he didn't kill Dark Spectre he told me it was mine to do. What he had done was let it know that he was not pleased.

He left me alone so I could cry. He sent Mom down to be with me. I know now why my father can't cry with me. If he started he wouldn't stop.

I see now why my father told me that revenge solved nothing. For the past four years I have lived on my hatred and now, my focus is gone. Now I have to learn to live again.

She was set up as a blind date for me. Neither of us expected to meet someone that we could like. Somewhere in her past, someone really hurt her.

I think I can finally get over losing Vivian.

Age 29
Tanda has had our first child. We named our daughter Rachel in honor of my grandmother who I never met. I'm working as a liaison with the Aquitaran Embassy. The Cranston name holds considerable weight in interstellar affairs.

Age 47
Today I buried Adam and Tanya Park as well as Tanda. They were driving to meet me at the embassy when the ground car they were in experienced a full system's malfunction and crashed into a tree. They died instantly upon impact.

Age 55
Rachel got married today. She married Pietro DeSantos. Rocky and Kat's grandson. He's just like Rocky was at the same age. But I still like the kid. Rachel and Pietro will be living on Eltare as part of the first Earth Embassy there.

Age 61
Rocky DeSantos is dead. A little kid was drowning in Angel Grove lake and Rocky jumped in and pulled the kid out. The exertion caused a heart attack. He died on the way to the hospital.

Age 89
I'm dying. Everyone I knew growing up is dead. Justin, Kat, Tommy, Kim, Aisha, Zack, Jason and Emily Scott, Carlos, Ashley, Cassie, T.J. and Dulcea... Old age got them all. That or accidents. Everyone dies, except my parents.