November 2003

Reefside Mall

5:45 PM

It was finally Christmas, the most wonderful time of the year. The smell of freshly baked Christmas cakes and cookies coming from the Sweet Angel Bakery, which had just opened in the mall with in the last few days. It was impossible to even get a look inside since it was crowd with people. The Five Star Café was also swamped with people in line to creamy hot chocolate poured into their mugs. Children giggled at each other when they saw their siblings and friends with chocolate mustaches as they enjoyed their warm drink. Santa Claus sat in front of Sears with a long line of children waiting to see him. Photographers stood close by snapping pictures of children sitting on Santa's laps. Parents with small children had their fingers crossed that their child wouldn't get scared and cry when they heard Santa's loud "Ho-Ho." Old children were around Cookie Craze waiting to get a soft baked gingerbread man cookie, which had all kinds of facial expressions. And there was Kay's Jewelry store which had a long line of young men waiting in line to get an engagement for their girlfriend.

That always gave Kimberly an upset stomach. A few years ago, she got a letter from Tommy saying he had fallen in love with Katherine and was breaking up with her. She never could understand why he'd break up with her. Was it because they were on different sides of the country? Was it because they weren't getting to talk to each other as much? Or maybe he heard about her gymnastics injury and thought she wasn't good enough anymore. A few weeks before she got the letter, she was fell off the balance beam and injured her leg, which ended her gymnastics career.

But she couldn't think of that right now. At the present time, she was running late and needed to get to Build A Bear Work Shop to get there before a long line of children came to purchase a bear and a dressed it as one of the dino thunder rangers. She was being honored for her power ranger collection being a huge hit since 1997. She was also going to be signing bears at 6:00 and at 8:00 the new black dino thunder ranger bear would be released. That whole year, she didn't know which ranger she'd base a bear off of. Well, that was until she met the black ranger a few months day on her way to work, she had been attacked by trannyodrones and the black ranger came to her we get ahead of things, we need to rewind things back to the year 1997.

After her recovery, she moved back to California and got a job working for Build a Bear. She had designed a power ranger collection which was a huge hit. The power ranger collection had ranger suits from every team there was so far. Children instantly fell in love with the power ranger collection when they saw posters advertising it. On the day that the collection became available there was a long line of children waiting to pick out a cute little teddy bear and dress it up like their favorite ranger. A year later, the owner was impressed that collection was still very popular. She was to design two power ranger bears. So, she created a bear based off pink and red mighty morphin power rangers. Like the ranger suits, kids waited in a very long line to pick their favorite. The ranger bear became so much more popular than the ranger suits. In 1998, she designed a bear off of the original green ranger and she designed the green dragon dagger to go with it. Like the other two bears, everyone else loved the green ranger bear. For the next years, a new bear came out a Christmas. The next three years each bear that came out were all based on Tommy. The previous year, her best friend Trini passed and she designed a yellow ranger bear in memory and in honor of her best friend. Looking down at her watch, she only had fifteen minutes to get to build a bear.


Meanwhile, Tommy Oliver was walking into the mall to check out the new bakery and to look at the build a bear collection. He had never been in a build a bear work shop before, but the fact that the new dino thunder collection was out really interested him. Tommy also found it strange that there was a power ranger bear designed from every ranger suit that he ever wore. He was a legend and had his own fan club. Also, he was hoping to attend the 8:00 PM Dino Thunder Party, where they would be releasing the new dino thunder bear. The designer decided not to reveal the ranger the bear was based off of. Many little girls had their fingers crossed that it would be the yellow ranger.

He reached the bakery and found out that they had a huge long line. Oh, well, he could come back there later. Once everyone had a chance to check out the new delicious treats and say "I've been to the Angel Bakery," the lines would shorten and there wouldn't be a long wait. But, the dino thunder party was only going to happen once. Even the rest of the team was going to be there. He was relieved that they could had hired people to come in and dress up as the rangers. Little kids could get pictures taken with those multicolored super heroes.

His heart started to race when he walked into Build a Bear. Sitting at the table was a woman. And not just anyone, woman. It was Kimberly Hart, his former team-mate, former girlfriend, and the one person he could never fall out of love with. Her Carmel hair was hanging loose and was a few inches passed shoulder length. Even the dress she was wearing made her look gorgeous. It was a short Fuchsia cocktail dress and very thin spaghetti straps.

"Kimberly?!" Tommy blurted out. He wasn't expecting to see her here of all place. Finally, after six years, he could ask her why she broke up with him. If he couldn't make her happy, he hoped that someone else could.

"Tommy," she gasped looking up. After six years, she couldn't believe she had come to face to face with him. He had even gotten more handsome since she had last seen him. But his hair was now cut short and spiked. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to check out the new bakery and I'm here to see the new dino thunder collection," he explained. "I'm also here to see which ranger the new bear is based off of. What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I'm the designer of the power ranger collection," she quickly answered. "I started working for build a bear after my gymnastic injury...… Tommy, why did you write me a break up letter?"

"Kim, I didn't write you a break up letter," he corrected pulling up a chair next to her. "You broke up with me. I can't understand what I did to cause you to break up-"

"Excuse me?! I didn't break up with you," she answered raising her voice. "You wrote me a letter saying you fell in love with Kat."

"That's a lie!" he snapped. "I started dating Kat after you broke up with me. I never once cheated on you-"

"-Now, you are trying to imply that I cheated on you?"

"I never said that!" he sputtered letting out a deep breath.

A blonde-haired woman in a red sweater dress walked over to them. "Ms. Hart, I see there is going to be a lot of children coming in," she informed. The woman noticed that Tommy was sitting next to her. "Several of our workers have agreed to help stuff the bears and assist anyone who has never been to build a bear before. We're two people down. Would you and your friend help us?"

"Sure, Sally. I'll be glad to help," Kimberly smiled when she got up from her chair. "I don't know if my friend is familiar with build a bear."

"Why don't you show him how it works," Sally suggested.


Kimberly lead Tommy over to the power ranger collection. He took a long look at all of the ranger bears that he could choose from. "Why did you design a bear based off all of my ranger suits?" Tommy questioned when he saw her pick up a pink ranger bear.

"I still loved you," she answered.

"If you loved me you wouldn't have written the letter," Tommy snapped when he picked up a green ranger bear.

"I told you I never wrote a break up letter," she corrected. "I've got the letter in my purse to prove it."

Tommy walked over to huge stuffing station. "Before we go, I'd like to see it," he requested as he started to stuff his bear. He noticed that there was a sack of hearts in a bag sitting next to the stuffing machine. "What are these hearts for?"

"You're supposed to put it in your bear," Kimberly explained. "Before you do, you are supposed to kiss the heart and make a wish."

He reached into the sack and pulled out a pink heart. "I wish that I could learn the truth behind Kimberly's break up letter. I wish we could have time together now without any interruptions," Tommy thought as he kissed the heart and placed it inside his bear. "I still love her and want her back."

On the other side of station, Kimberly picked out a red heart and gave it a kiss. "I wish I could learn the truth behind Tommy's break up letter," Kimberly thought as she put the heart in the bear. And she continued to stuff it. The clock struck six and children and their parents came into work shop. "I wish that we were alone now and we could talk without any interruptions. I still love him and want him back."

"Kim, after we finish stuffing our bear, who is responsible for sewing the animal shut?" Tommy asked.

"You get an employee," Kimberly answered as she started to sewing her pink ranger bear up. "I'll be right there to help you."

She finished sewing up her bear and walked over to Tommy. Kimberly pressed the pedal and turned off the stuffing machine. She grabbed a needle and sewed the back up.

Suddenly, a small gust of cold air wind came out of nowhere. Small specks of glitter came pouring down on them and it swirled around their bodies. "What's going on?" Tommy questioned pulling Kimberly closer to him. Their power ranger bears landed on the floor and they looked around the work shop. The clock wasn't ticking and everyone in the work shop wasn't moving.


Kimberly woke up and found she was sandwiched between two pieces of Fuchsia material. She slowly got up and crawled through the material like tunnel. When she reached the end, she recognized it as the dress she was wearing. Her pink high heeled shoes were lying next to the dress. "Tommy?" Kimberly whispered when she realized everything was much bigger than her. "Tommy, where are you?"

"Kimberly, where are you?" Tommy shouted.

"I'm standing on fuchsia material," Kimberly turned around and found khaki pants, a black tee shirt, and a tan shirt was lying next to her clothes. A green bear was standing on the neck band of Tommy's black tee shirt.

The green bear slowly walked over to her. Toys don't walk, well unless they are Toy Story movies. "Kim, is that you?" asked the green bear. He even sounded like Tommy.

"Yes," she snapped staring at the green bear. "Can you please stop acting so weird? Why are you wearing a green ranger bear costume?"

"Kim, I'm not wearing a costume," Tommy clarified taking hold of her hand. "I have no idea what happened, but when I woke up, I noticed I that I was small and my skin was green-"

"Why am I pink?!" Kimberly squeaked as she looked down at her skin.

"Kim, I don't know what happened," Tommy began giving her hand squeeze. "I have been turned into the green ranger bear and you have been turned into the pink ranger bear."

"How did this happen?" she screamed.

"First, let's find a safe place to hide," Tommy suggested when people in the work shop started to move around again. "I think I know what happened."


Author's note:

I am aware that the red and pink ranger bears didn't come out until 2017 and the green ranger bear didn't come out until the 25-year anniversary episode which aired on August 28th, 2018. But, for this story I decided that would come out much earlier; I also decided that it would be interesting if there was a bear based off all Tommy's ranger colors and one based off Trini since she was Kimberly's best friend.