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A/N: This story includes Kira, Conner, Ethan, Trent and Tommy. I hope you guys will like it. And enjoy the first part of Day of the Dino.
*Day of the Dino*
To celebrate my accomplishments; and my time I spent as protector of Earth. I started out as a regular high school student until that one fateful day changed my life. It was a good thing. I helped more people than I could count on both hands. It felt good to help the innocent, the underdogs. Even if no one could know who I really was. Until the day that I received that letter, that letter changed who I was. It changed all that I knew about myself.
If you're wondering about who gave me that letter. It came from the last person I thought would break my heart and a little of my soul. Her name was Kimberly Hart. Kimberly Hart was the love of my life. She was my other half. Three years we've been dating and when she left to follow her dream, I was sad but I knew she had to do it. Then this letter came along saying "She met someone else." "She only thought of me as a brother." Nothing else in the world could have broken me more than those words.
When I graduated, I left to study paleontology, the study of dinosaurs. For two years as I got my doctorate, I studied with Anton Mercer. He was a great and amazing guy until that day on the island when all the experiments that we created went horribly wrong.
Flashback
Running through the lab as it getting destructed was definitely not how, I wanted to spend my morning. But as I held onto to the black bag, it was all I could do not give up. But he used to be a Power Ranger. And the motto was 'Never Give Up'. And he be damned if he gave up to be destroyed on this island. He ran out of the lab into the forest of trees just as the Tyrannodrones surrounded him.
"Don't let him get away." The voice hissed.
I saw the figure of a horrible creature. It called himself Mesogog. "Give me the gems." It holds out his hand, hissing out his words.
"Never, Mesogog." Tommy says, holding the bag closer to him. He looks around his surrounded trying to figure out the best way to get off this island.
"You'll pay for your insolence." Mesogog sticks out his hand and sent a bolt of energy where Tommy is standing and sent him flying into a tree. Tommy rises from the ground and backs up putting enough space between Mesogog and himself until he's on the edge of a cliff. He looks back at Mesogog and the Tyrannodrones right before he jumps.
He jumps off the cliff just as the island explodes and it self-destructs. He was at least 30 feet from the hitting the water but he thought it'd be better than staying on the island.
There was still something that plagued him as he drifted upon the ocean. He might have made it off the island but how was he going to make it out of this ocean. As he paddled for what seemed like hours, he came across this boat floating around. When he got onto the boat, the two young men asked him if he wanted to go anywhere specific.
All he could say was. "To the closet marina, please." After that he slept and slept until they got to a marina. It said:
'Reefside Marina'
End of Flashback
That's when everything changed my life again. And threw me back into the world that I thought I left behind. But as the old ranger saying goes, "Once a Ranger, Always a Ranger." And in Tommy's case always more than usual.
A year and a half later….
Entering Reefside High as the first homeroom bell rings. He enters his first class of the day as a teacher, 12th grade science, the last year before all these students go out into the world and become adults. Since the class didn't have a teacher, all the kids were throwing papers, flying paper airplanes. One girl in the corner was writing fiercely into her notebook and another boy was typing away profusely into his laptop.
Dr. Oliver walked into the class, surprised at the attitude of the seniors. But he couldn't really talk much about it. I mean not too many years ago he was them. He walked in leaving the door open as he went to stand behind the desk. "Guys! Settle down and take your seats."
Once they started to settle down and take their seats at the lab tables and turn to watch as the new man at the desk addressed them. "I'm Dr. Oliver and this is first period science. Before we start are there any questions?" Tommy asks the class.
The girl at the first lab table raises her hand, wearing an all pink and white cheerleading-like outfits from the 60s.
"Cassidy, Cassidy Cornell." She smiles as the other in the classroom groan in annoyance and just plan irritated. She ignored and continued. "Dr. Oliver, as you might know I am the anchor and reporter of the schools TV station. And were all probably wondering, you don't look old enough to be a teacher." She says in a way of trying to coax him into spilling his secrets. He opens his mouth to respond but she turns around quickly to address another student.
"Devin, are you getting this?" She asked to the dark haired boy holding the camera. She turns back to Tommy and smiles.
"Cassidy," Tommy replied. "I promise I'm old enough. Let's put the camera away." He gestures to the camera.
"You missed it." She hissed at the boy. Before turning back and returning to her seat.
"From now on, let's talk about what you expect to get out of this class," he went on. "That's what's really important."
As he scanned the room, silently, he noticed an empty stool. "Is someone missing?" He asks.
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Two guys practicing on the soccer field, it seems skipping class. Especially, since one of the guys blocking the goal, fully padded down seemed nervous. As the other in the red soccer uniform, kicking and doing a few small tricks with the red soccer ball.
He kicks the ball up a few times before sending the ball up in the air. Doing a 180 degree corkscrew kick, delivering a powerful kick. As he landed on the ground softly; He watched the ball fly towards the goalie who quickly dodged it.
"Dude, you're supposed to block it." The guy in the red soccer uniform says, laughing at the goalies action.
"Are you sure were supposed not going to get in trouble for this? I mean it's the first day back and the bell just rang." The goalie says, looking around nervously. Not really wanting to get in trouble on the first day.
"Look, if anyone asks, tell them Conner McKnight gave you permission to be out here." Conner tells him. As if that explanation would keep him from getting in trouble.
"Man, but I heard the principal was crazy. She worked in a prison before she came here." He explains.
"Don't worry about Randall− she's a woman." Conner was still talking even though the goalie was trying to get him to stop talking, as Randall approached behind him. "Woman are just grown up girls. Need I say more?"
"I think you said quite enough, Mr. McKnight." Randall smirked, as Conner eyes widen as he turned around. He masks his face to a cool and calm expression.
"Principal Randall, I've heard great things about you." He puts on his best smile.
"Vicious rumors, I assure you." She stated. "Go." She says.
Conner shook his head murmuring "Oh, man." Randall glared at the goalie. "What are you looking at?" As she kicked the ball so hard it knocked into the goalie with such a force that sent the goalie into the net. "NOW GET BACK TO CLASS!" She yells at the poor boy.
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Kira Ford is sitting on top of the picnic table; her guitar in her lap and she start strumming away. She starts to sing.
"Hey,
I wanna know, know where you're at.
I'm at the front, but you're still at the back.
Oh, can you tell me where, tell me where you're at?
Freak you out. Freak you out.
Freak you out. Freak you out.
Freak you out. Freak you out.
Freak you out. Freak you out."
The group around her applauded after her performance.
The applause died down as Randall approached, with a clipboard in hand and Conner McKnight reluctantly following. "Miss Ford. I'm afraid you need written permission to perform on school grounds." She informed the teenager dressed as if for a rock concert.
"Are you aware that kids, who play an instrument, are 50% more likely to get into college? Kira inquired to the older woman.
"Well your hardly college material now are you, Ms. Ford." She smiled bringing her glasses down to the bridge of her nose.
Kira gawked at her as she slid off the table taking her guitar with her.
As the two teens followed Principal Randall across the grounds toward the school, the sprinklers went off, spraying them with water from all sides.
"You've got to be kidding me." Kira muttered as the followed Randall out of the sprinklers radius.
Randall turned as she saw a blue clad African American teen walking through the sprinklers with an umbrella over his head smiling. "Ethan James," she let out as she grimaced. "I've should've known." She went off at him yelling as the other two to follow, which they did reluctantly.
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"Sit." She barked as they arrived in the office. The three teens—two of which are drenched, sat down on the bench.
"Principal Randall, I'd just like to point out that there is nothing linking me to that unfortunate sprinkler incident." Ethan says, trying to keep himself from laughing.
"Save it for Judge Judy, Mr. James." Randall snapped. "The three of you have detention. For one week. Starting today. Now if there are no further questions…." Randall trails off.
All three burst out with excuses. Conner's because soccer, Kira because of band practice and Ethan because of computer club.
"I didn't think so." She said as she stalked into her office.
"Okay, someone seriously needs a hug." Kira says leaning back into the bench.
Conner leans up and stares at Ethan.
"Dude," said Conner looking passed Kira. "Computer club?"
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Principal Randall catches Tommy as he's walking up the stairs.
"Dr. Oliver, how was your first day?" Randall inquires.
"It was good. The kids were great. No problems." Tommy says as they're walking down the hall.
"Great. You'll be seeing a lot more of them in detention." She instructs.
"Mind telling me what I did?" Tommy asks, half joking.
"No, you'll be in charge of it today." She says with a slow smile.
"I was actually planning on going to a museum outside of town." As they turn the corner, they see the three teens leaning against the wall all with grim looks on their faces.
"That's good; bring the little monsters with you. That should be good torture for them. I've trust you've all met," said Randall as she waves her hands between the two parties. She then grins. "Well, enjoy your little outing." Randall tells them before walking away. Without letting Tommy say anything in response.
Tommy looks at the three teens with a little unease.
"Do you guys like museums?" He asks shrugging.
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As Tommy pulled into the museum, Ethan spotted the giant T-Rex statue. "Whoa, check out the T-Rex." As they all got out of the jeep, they headed towards the sidewalk but stopped shortly when they saw the sign that says 'Sorry We're Closed'.
"That's weird." Ethan says, glancing at the sign.
"Great, let's go home?" Kira suggests.
"I'll tell you what. Why don't you look around the grounds? If you find anything prehistoric I'll cancel detention for the rest of the week." Tommy suggest, knowing they wouldn't be able to pass up the chance to get out of detention.
"Sweet!" Conner says.
"I'm going to find someone that can tell us when their opening up." Tommy tells the teenagers before walking towards the entrance.
The three teens start walking away down the road.
"So there's an actual club just for computers?" Conner asks Ethan, as they walk down the road.
Tommy walks up to the door and stares at it in shock.
"In case of emergency, call Anton Mercer Industries. Anton Mercer? It can't be." Tommy shakes his head looking around.
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As they're walking through some part of the woods getting further away from the museum, Ethan starts a little conversation.
"Did you guys read the story about the guy that fell into a giant sinkhole?"
"Must've missed that one," said Kira her voice thick with sarcasm.
"Come on, it was on all the urban legend websites." Ethan says.
"Dude, this isn't computer club." Conner says speaking for the first time since they started walking through the woods.
"Oh, I guess you're too big and bad to surf the web. Well, what do you do for fun?" Ethan asks.
"Me? I go out with girls. You know they're the ones at school that smell really good, with the long hair and the makeup." Conner says in a telling way knowing that Ethan probably didn't have much interaction with the opposite sex at school.
Ethan stops and looks at Conner. "So it's like that?"
Conner walks up to Ethan in one step. "Yeah, it's like that."
"Whatever." Kira says pushing herself in between them and walking pass them. Conner snorts and starts walking again.
"I'm just trying to give you guys the heads up. Stuff happens out here. Just don't come crying to me when you fall into a giant sinkhole." He says smirking but in a minute of saying that the ground it ripped from under them as they fall into the ground.
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Tommy turns back around and starts looking around the three teens. Trying to figure where they wandered off to.
"What?" He starts looking around as he sees the T-Rex statue alive and not just frozen as it was a few moments ago.
He does a turnaround kick. Then he runs to his Jeep and jumps in and locks the door.
"Yeah, great Tommy, lock the door." He says talking to himself. He grabs his keys and put them in the ignition. Two turns and the car don't start. On the third try the car starts and he punches it into reverse and then does a quick turnaround, (Just like when he used to race), as the T-Rex starts chasing after him.
Down this long road, he swerves into the different lanes to keep from getting caught. The T-Rex uses its nose or snout whatever; you want to call it and it hits the back of the jeep. As he sends the Jeep into the next lane, Tommy looks ahead and sees a bridge. He guns it and drives right under as the T-Rex hits the bridge and a piece of it falls off and the T-Rex falls to the ground. Tommy stops the Jeep and walks over to the T-Rex. Sparks are coming out of it. It's not real. It's just mechanical.
WHAT!
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Kira, Ethan, and Conner same time of day
They all look up to figure out where they are. Dust is all over their clothes and hair.
"You guys stay here where it's safe. I'll climb up and come back with help." Conner says.
He steps towards the wall of rocks. He grabs one piece as he starts to climb up but as soon as he does that the piece of rock breaks and he falls to the ground.
"Back already?" Ethan asks sarcastically.
They help Conner up. They start walking the path in the cave like place.
Kira starts singing the last part of her song.
Freak you out. Freak you out.
Freak you out. Freak you out.
Freak you out. Freak you out.
Freak you out. Freak you out."
"Babe, could you keep it down? I'm trying to stay focused." Conner asks walking ahead of them not noticing Kira stop.
She stops mid step. "Did you just call me babe?" She looks to Ethan. "Did he just call me babe?"
"I don't know. I wasn't listening. I was grooving to your tunes." Ethan tells her.
She walks up to Conner and looks at him.
"What? Chill out why don't you." Conner asks absently.
"Look, my name is Kira. Why don't you write it on your hand so you can remember?" Kira says then turns and walk away.
Conner looks at Ethan for an answer to what just happened but he just shrugs and keeps on walking.
She stops when she sees a bone fossil like thing of a dinosaur.
"This screams Jurassic Park to me." Kira says staring at the fossil.
"This will get us out of detention forever." Conner says with a hint of glee.
He walks up to it and touches it's mouth and starts to bring it down.
"Don't you think you should…." Kira stops mid sentence when the walls start opens up and when you walk in its got computers and a lot more other things. It's got fossils and its dim lighting sets the tone of the place.
"I could do a crazy music video in here." Kira says looking in awe. "I could become famous as hell on Youtube if I uploaded it." She says almost giddy.
"Whoa, this must be like the mother ship to you dude." Conner says patting Ethan on his shoulder before searching around.
"Usually, I'd be insulted but when you're right you're right." Ethan says not even feeling an ounce of anger from the statement.
They walk up to like a mini pedestal with three gems on it. One red, one blue and one yellow gem lying there as fog of smoke spreads around it. Conner walks up to it and reaches to touch one.
"Yo, don't touch that." Ethan says on the right of Conner.
"Why not?" Conner asks not seeing what the big deal is.
"You really are taking this dumb jock thing to a whole new level." Ethan informs the taller boy.
"I've sat through enough lame science class to know that thing looks prehistoric. And if I don't have to miss practice…" he lets the rest hang in the air.
"I really hate to agree with him. Really I do, but I've already missed one rehearsal."
They all pick one up as they start to glow. Conner's bright red. Ethan's blue and Kira's yellow.
"Well, what are they?" Kira asks when they stop glowing.
"I could go online later and figure it out." Ethan says studying his.
"You behind a computer, wait, let me put on my surprise face." Conner says trying and failing with a serious tone.
"You know, ten years from now when you hairline receding and your playing pickup soccer in the park because your dreams of turning pro never quite worked out. I will have my own multi-billion dollar software company. Yeah." Ethan says looking proud of himself for his future achievement.
Conner looks at Kira a little confused but she just shrugs it off and turns around and starts walking away.
"Where are you going?" Ethan asks.
"I don't want to think about what kind of a freak leaves in a place like this, and I sure don't want to be here when it gets home."
"Right behind you!" Conner says as he and Ethan follow her.
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On an island that's dark and dreary, inside of a lab.
A creature stands talking to the scaly green lizard's creatures that Tommy had to fight off a year and a half ago. "The gems have moved. Go bring them to me." He hisses.
The green scaly lizard creatures leave out.
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"This way." Ethan yells as they run out of the cave back into the woods. They each start to brush off the dust off their clothes.
"A compass. Does anyone have a compass?" Ethan asks looking at the other two.
"And I was going to bring one." Conner says sarcastically.
A sudden gust of wind runs through them and they all stop.
"What was that?" Ethan asks.
"The wind?" Kira proposes. But they all know that isn't just the wind.
"That ain't the wind. As much as we want it to be it ain't." Ethan tells her looking around.
No sooner had he said that a green portal opens and these lizard freaks come out not more than 15 feet away.
"Don't move." Conner whispers to the both of them
"Great, make it easy for them." Kira whispers back.
"New plan, run!" Ethan yells as they all start taking off running.
Conner is in front then Ethan, then Kira. They all run through the woods to when they get to this ditch. Conner jumps then Ethan and they both make it over to the other side. When Kira jumps she doesn't make it and rolls down to the bottom. Conner and Ethan turn back around and help Kira out. They continue to run the lizard freaks are still behind them. Kira trips and falls to the ground. She turns and still see them behind and getting closer. She opens her mouth and let out a scream and in some sort of sonic wave it hit two or three of those things and knocks them back.
Conner and Ethan grab their ears and hold them down. They run back to Kira.
"Help her up." Conner says as they both help her up.
"What was that?" Ethan asks looking at Kira in shock.
"I have no idea." Kira says as a yellow glow comes from her pocket. She takes out the gem and watches it glow yellow, she can hear the sound of a bird calling to her. It lets out the glow and the lizard things look at her. They start to run again. Kira stops and turns to face them. She seems to get more confident. One comes towards her and she moves out the way as she starts to fight them. She does a double kick and sends two of them flying. She does a roundabout kick as two creatures' falls straight to the ground.
Ethan starts or tries to fight them. He gets kicked in his chest and he falls back into two of them. He kicks his legs out but they grab them and toss him to the ground. He slowly gets on his knees as one of them uses his hand/sword thing and swing to hit him. Ethan blocks it and his arms are like a computer inside, he seems to have some strength in his arms. He looks in his hand and the dino gem glows blue and he can hear the voice of the triceratops. He gets up and uses his arms to fight through those things.
Conner pushes one away but then get thrown into a tree and falls to the ground. He opens his hand and looks at the red dino gems as it glows red. He picks himself back up and kicks one down. 'Whoa, everything's so slow' it echoes as he uses the time to kick each one that's coming towards him. He can't believe he has super speed.
When there each done they meet up together. They all stare down at the gems.
"How much do I love detention?" Ethan's says grinning.
"Hey, you guys alright?" Tommy says running up to them.
"Yeah. Couldn't be better." Ethan says before anyone can say anything. As they all discreetly hide the gems.
"Nothing out of the ordinary happened?" Tommy asks.
"No, just your ordinary walk in the woods. All the furry little creatures." Ethan insists.
"And a few scaly ones." Kira says under her breath.
"So you get into the dino exhibit?" Conner asks to distract him.
"Still working out the kinks. Come on we should get you guys back." Tommy says as he turns and starts walking away.
"Do you think we should tell him?" Kira asks the other two.
"I own over a thousand sci-fi DVDs. You wanna know how many super heroes end up in some freaky government lab experiment." Ethan says playing the fact that if people knew they would become a part of a government experiment.
"Even I know that." Conner says.
"Are you guys coming?" He asks them realizing that they stopped walking.
They all look at each other and they follow their science teacher.
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"So we're agreed no one talks to anyone about this." Conner asks with his red soccer ball in his hand, as he, Ethan and Kira are leaving the school.
"I'll do you one better. I'm out of it. Just pretend I wasn't here and I'll do the same." Kira says as she puts the gems in Conner's hand.
"Why does he get it?" Ethan asks.
"Well here." Kira says taking it out of Conner's hand and puts it in Ethan's.
Ethan smiles and nods his head as he's satisfied that he got Kira's gem.
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Cassidy and Devin are walking out of the school but Cassidy stops once she sees the three talking. She pushes Devin over to hide behind a van.
"Doesn't that strike you as strange?" Cassidy asks Devin
"Three kids standing around talking." Devin says.
"No, why would Conner McKnight king of all jocks be around Ethan James…" Cassidy looks at Devin and he looks confused.
"King of all Geeks!" She says. Devin smiles and nods as he understands.
"Not to mention the Avril wannabe. In all the three years we've been here I haven't seen them talk to each other." Cassidy says as she uncaps her lip gloss. Devin and Cassidy watch them from the side of the van.
"I give up." Cassidy hears Kira say as she throws her hands up and walks away and starts walking down the road. They watch Kira walk away just as a portal opens and these lizard freaks jump out and grab her and Conner and Ethan try to stop it but it's too late. They took her.
"Did you get it?" Cassidy asks Devin as he films. She looks over at him but see's the only thing he films is of is the sunset.
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In Conner's car they drive to Dr. Oliver's house but all Conner is thinking about is the fact that he lives like in the middle of the woods. Why would anyone want to live there? They get out and knock on the door but there's no answer.
"Knock again." Conner says trying to see if anyone's home by looking through the windows.
"Now what?" Ethan asks
Conner twists the knob and the door opens.
"Why would he leave it unlocked?" Conner asks.
"He got no neighbors." Ethan says in a logical sense.
"What you never heard of the three bears?" Conner asks Ethan as he steps into the house.
"Was that the last book you read?" Ethan says walking behind Conner and closing the door.
There's a little miniature statue of a dinosaurs and Conner walks up to it and touches the mouth part.
"Remember the last time you did that?" Ethan cautions Conner.
"Dude, the guys a teacher not batman…." As the floor traps doors open and they both looked shocked.
"Are you freaking out?" Conner asks as they walk into the same cave that they were in earlier.
"Yeah, I'd have to say I am." Ethan agrees as they both look around in astonishment.
"If you two are looking for extra credit, you're in the wrong place." Dr. Oliver says behind them.
Conner and Ethan turn around and look as if they just got caught with their hand in the cookie jar. They see Dr. Oliver standing there with his hands on his hips, his body language tensed.
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On an island, in a laboratory, Kira's lying unconscious in a chair. As you get an overview of the room, there's freaky things in vials and a chair that looks like a thrown. Mesogog stands behind Kira with his claw/hands on the back of the chair.
"Aww, Excellent." He hisses the last word 'Excellent'.
FADE TO BLACK.
TO BE CONTINUED...
A/N:
I hope you guys liked Day of the Dino part 1. More soon to come come. Next Chapter Coming up soon.
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