"Hey guys," Hayley greeted as she approached her favorite teenagers. "What's up?"
"Dr. O told us to meet him here," Kira told her. "He said something about a surprise."
"Yeah, maybe he's gonna tell us that Mesagog finally dropped dead or something," Connor said as he dribbled a soccer ball.
"I wouldn't be surprised though," Trent replied as he joined the group.
"I know what you mean," Ethan, the last of the group, agreed. "Everything's been pretty quiet these past few days."
"But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have your guards up. You never know, he could be planning something big."
The four teenagers nodded in agreement.
The sound of the door opening caught the group's attention. They all turned their heads, hoping that it was Dr. Tommy Oliver. The teenagers all sighed when they saw that it was only a young woman.
"Hello Christine!" Hayley cried as she waved at the woman.
"Hi Hayley!"
"What can I get you?"
"I'll take a chocolate milkshake on the go," Christine replied, giving a smile.
"Who's she?" Ethan asked Kira.
"I don't know, I've never seen her before," she whispered back.
"Maybe she's new."
"She looks old," Connor said, a bit too loud. "She looks to be like Dr. O's age."
Hayley chuckled as she heard Connor's comment.
"Christine, let me introduce you to my favorite customers. That is Trent, Kira, Ethan, and the one over there with the soccer ball and the big mouth is Connor."
"Nice to meet you all, I'm Christine."
The group exchanged handshakes with her.
"Well I got to go. I still have a few more boxes that need to be unpacked," Christine said as she picked up her milkshake. "Thank you Hayley. I will see you tomorrow?"
Hayley nodded her head. Once Christine was out the door, she turned her attention back on the teens.
"So is she new or just passing through?" Ethan asked.
"She just moved here from Florida."
"She seems nice," Kira commented.
"She is. And she'll be working here starting tomorrow."
"Who will?" a voice asked.
"Dr. O! Finally!" the teenagers cried.
"What's the surprise?"
Tommy smiled down at his anxious students.
"You'll see. Just be patient," Tommy said looking at his watch. The teens all groaned as they headed over to the computers.
"What is this surprise?"
"You'll see too."
"Can't I know?" Hayley asked.
"No, then it wouldn't be a surprise."
Hayley continued to wipe the counter. Tommy jumped up from his seat when his cell phone began to ring. Hayley tried to inch closer to listen, but Tommy stepped out to take the call.
"Where'd Dr. O go?" Trent asked as he went around the counter.
"He stepped out to take a call."
"Think it has anything to do with the surprise?" Ethan asked excitedly as Kira and Conner followed behind him.
Hayley only shrugged while the teenagers watched their teacher talk on his cell phone.
"Hey bro! Listen, I'm a little lost. What's the directions for the café again?"
"What? The legendary red ranger is lost?"
"Ha-ha, funny," Jason replied into his cell phone. "Are you gonna help me out or not?"
"Okay," Tommy finally said.
Jason pulled over to the side to scribble down the directions.
"Alright, see you in a few."
Jason ended the call and switched his hazard lights off. A bunch of yelling and screaming stopped Jason from pulling back into the road.
"Monster!" a little girl cried.
Jason immediately jumped out of his red convertible and ran opposite of the crowd's way. He could see a group of what seemed like robotic mutated dinosaurs running around the park. As he got closer, Jason saw a young woman surrounded by the dinosaurs. The young woman was taking up a defensive stance. The veteran ranger ran faster and landed a kick on one of the monsters. It wasn't long before the Power Rangers appeared.
"It's okay, we'll take things from here," the black ranger told Jason, who only stared back. The voice sounded familiar to Jason.
"You two go on and get out of here," the red ranger said, gently pushing the woman to Jason.
"Let's go!" Jason cried grabbing the woman's hand and leading her out of the fight.
"They're following us!" the woman exclaimed.
The two began to run faster and ended up in the woods.
"I think we're safe here," Jason said facing the woman.
"What were those things?" she asked.
"I don't know."
The woman opened her mouth to say something, but a sound distracted her.
"What was that?" she whispered, fear appearing in her eyes.
Jason shrugged and motioned for her to stay put. He slowly and quietly made his way towards the moving bushes. A streak of green lightning shot out and hit Jason square on his chest. He flew back to the tree behind him.
"Are you okay?" the woman asked, running to his side.
"I-I'm okay," Jason groaned, slowly getting up. A robotic figure appeared. Jason stood up and took a defensive stance.
"I have no interest in you!" the robot said, sending another shock of green lightning. Jason fell back down to the ground. The robot turned its attention on the woman.
"Christianne!" the robot said.
"Who-who are you?" the woman, Christianne, asked. Her face paled when the robot said her name.
He walked towards her, but she took a few steps back.
"I won't hurt you," the robot told her.
"Damn right you won't," Jason cried as he kicked him in his stomach. He threw a few punches before getting hit back. Christianne stood helpless as she watched the two go at it. After what seemed like hours, the robot finally gave up.
"I'll be back! This isn't the end!"
Jason tried to throw one last kick but the robot disappeared. He turned around and saw that Christianne was nowhere to be found. He looked around once more before heading back to his car. He noticed that the fighting had ceased and that the power rangers were gone.
"That was real weird," Kira said as they entered the Cyber Café.
"Fighting against tyrannodrones, especially if you're a ranger, isn't weird," Connor replied, plopping down on one of the seats.
"No, I didn't mean that!" Kira cried, rolling her eyes. "What I meant was…the tyrannodrones didn't seem interested in fighting us."
"You're right," Tommy said, joining the group.
"Then why did they show up in the first place?" Ethan asked.
"They wanted something!" Connor suggested.
"The bad guys always want something," Trent said.
"Okay, they wanted someone."
"You know…" Tommy said. "I think you're right…"
"I am?"
"He is?" Kira, Trent, and Ethan asked at the same time.
Tommy nodded, thinking about the recent fight they just had.
"Who?"
The teenagers were left hanging for his answer as Tommy walked out of the café without another word.
"Hey bro!" Jason cried. "Sorry I'm late. I, uh, I got held up."
"No problem," Tommy replied, already knowing what the hold up was. The two best friends exchanged handshakes.
"So, what is this place?"
"The cybercafé. My friend from college, Hayley, runs it. Come in and let me introduce you."
The two walked into the café.
"Reminds me of the Youth Center back in Angel Grove. Brings back memories…"
"Yeah," Tommy agreed. He led Jason over to the counter and introduced him to Hayley.
"Who's that guy?" Trent asked.
"I don't know, but he looks familiar," Kira replied.
"Yeah, he does. It feels like I've seen him somewhere before," Ethan agreed.
"Why don't we go over there and find out?" Connor asked walking over to their teacher. Tommy saw Connor and began to shake his head. But of course, Connor didn't notice.
"Wait!" Kira cried, seeing her teacher's actions.
"Hey Dr. O!" Connor said.
Jason looked at the teenager who just approached him.
"Dr. O?" Jason looked at Tommy. "I thought you were a teacher?"
"I am, my students just like calling me Dr. O."
"Who's he?" Connor asked. Kira rolled her eyes, while Trent and Ethan groaned.
"Might as well join the conversation," Ethan said. The three walked towards the counter.
"More students of yours?" Jason asked.
"Yeah," Tommy replied quickly. He reeled his brain to try and find a way to get rid of his students before they found out about Jason's rangering days, or before Jason found out about the new ranger team.
"You look really familiar," Connor said.
"Uh, we should get going," Tommy said.
"I'm Jason," he held out his hand.
"Connor."
"I'm Kira."
"Trent."
"Ethan."
"So, are you one of Dr. O's friends?"
"Yeah…," Jason said, finally noticing the teenager's choice of colored clothing. 'Red, yellow, blue, white.' He looked at Tommy who seemed to be nervous about something.
"Are you here visiting?" asked the girl clad in yellow.
"Yeah…pretty much," Jason replied. "Just out of curiosity, do you have another girl that hangs out with you?"
The teenagers stared at Jason.
"Um…no, but even if we did, she most likely be too young for you," Connor said.
Jason shook his head and bit back a laugh.
"Come on, Jase," Tommy practically pleaded.
"Alright, alright." Jason took on last sip from his drink and stood up. "It was nice meeting you all."
The two began to head towards the door.
"Oh wait, I forgot something," Jason said, walking back to the teens. Tommy followed behind.
"What?" Tommy asked.
"I need to tell your students something."
Tommy's face turned white at what Jason said.
The four teens listened to Jason attentively.
"I may be going out on a limb here but…" He looked at each teen while saying only four words. "Red. Yellow. White. Blue."
The teenagers had a look of shock on their face.
"Wha-" Tommy began.
"And since I don't see a fifth teenager here who is wearing an article of black clothing…" Jason turned around and looked at Tommy. "What is this, your third, fourth color?"
Tommy stood staring at his friend speechless.
"You know, rangers should really stop wearing their colors," Jason said, smirking.
"How-"
"You know about the rangers?" Kira asked in a low voice.
"Of course."
Tommy's students all looked at him for an explanation.
"Alright, Jason, this is my new ranger team. Guys, this is Jason, the original red ranger."
The teenagers' jaws dropped.
"Wow, it's the original re-"
"Connor!" the rest of the team yelled as they all lunged to cover his mouth.
"You're also the guy from earlier right?" Trent asked. "From the park?"
"Yeah, that was me."
"What were you doing there?" Tommy asked.
"Well, after I got directions from you, those weird robotic dinosaur things-
"Tyrannodrones," quipped Ethan.
"Yeah those. Anyway, I went to see what was up."
"Couldn't help yourself huh?" Tommy smirked.
Jason shook his head.
"It was pretty cool being back in action…or at least for a little while."
"Hate to break up this reunion," Hayley said. "But it's closing time in about five minutes."
The group all headed out of the café. The teenagers slowed down their pace, hoping their mentor would notice.
"No," Tommy said, as if reading their minds. "There's school tomorrow and I'm thinking of having a pop quiz tomorrow."
The teenagers groaned.
"We can study at your house," Connor said.
"How about you kids go on home and I'll make sure that Tommy here doesn't give a pop quiz. Me and your teacher have some personal things we need to talk about."
"Yeah-wait…what? Personal things? Like what?"
"Yeah, like what?" Connor repeated.
"Such a dork," Kira muttered under her breath.
"Like Kim," Jason said smirking, before hopping into his car.
"On second thought, maybe a study group would benefit you four, especially you Connor," Tommy said.
The teenagers cheered and climbed into Trent's car to go to Tommy's house.