Author's note:

I'm reposting chapter 1 after making some corrections. Thank you Mae-E for your Review telling me that there were notes in the middle of the story. I didn't catch that until you mentioned it.

Kimberly Oliver grabbed her favorite pink sparkly gel pen and marked off the current day's date. She smiled at the next day's date October 18th, eight more days until Build-A-Bear Workshop would open. Build-A-Bear workshop was a toy store that would only sell stuffed animals. But it was much different than any other toy store. This toy store would be the first toy store where child would go in and choose a stuffed animal of their choice and stuff it themselves. And the store even had clothes of all sorts for kids to dress their animals in.

She walked back over to her bed where a beautiful little girl dressed in light purple pajamas was laying. The little girl had pale complex skin, medium length blonde hair, and a pair of sparkly blue eyes. They were in the middle of watching Full House. Kimberly couldn't help but smile when she climbed in bed next to her niece. Shortly after she decided to stay in Angel Grove with Tommy, she received some unexpected news. Her niece Maya was in the custody of police after no one picked her up from pre-school. Her sister-in-law had been found on the streets of New York City after she had been attacked by Lord Zedd. And her brother Kermit was nowhere near to be found. The only information that he had divorced his wife and left her to raise his daughter. Katy's parents were deceased and Kimberly's father and step-mother didn't want Maya. Kimberly was Maya's last hope of being taken in so she didn't have to get placed in a foster home. And of course, Kimberly wanted Maya.

When she became Maya's guardian, the Oliver family invited Kimberly and Maya to move in with them since they had two extra bed rooms. Jan was able as able to adjust her work schedule, so she could take care of Maya while Kimberly was at school. Kimberly was greatly appreciative of Tommy's family helping her raise Maya. But, as Maya's guardian she decided to try to find a better paying job than giving gymnastics lessons after school. One day when she went to the mall, they were hiring people to work at Build-A-Bear Workshop. After all of the employees were hired, the store owner asked everyone to design a stuff animal or accessories that could be sold in the store. Some of the workers designed sound chips that could be placed in the animal. Those sound chips could play music, make noise, or record your own message. Others decided to design outfits for toys such as sports uniforms, dance costumes, race car driver outfits, gymnastics clothing, ordinary street clothes and so much more. Kimberly decided to do a power rangers collection where children could dress their stuffed animal as their favorite ranger. Most days she had to take Maya to work with her. But Maya usually brought her drawing supplies and she sat and drew most of the time. For her age, she was a very good artist. One day Maya had taken a liking to all of toys that people had designed, but she liked Kimberly's design the best. She decided to draw a bear that was based off her favorite power ranger. After seeing her niece's design of the pink ranger, Kimberly thought the idea was so cute and she decided to have a pink ranger bear in the power ranger's collection. But she made sure that Maya would get full credit since the pink ranger was originally her idea. The owner loved the idea to have power ranger bears in the collection. He asked Kimberly to design another power ranger bear that little boys would like. Both her and Maya decided to design a bear based that was based on one of Tommy's suits. They decided to design a green ranger bear. Maya had always heard about Tommy's dragon dagger and suggested that a dragon dagger was to be designed to go with it.

"Have you told Uncle Tommy?" Maya hinted when Kimberly slid in bed next to her.

"He knows about the power ranger's collection," Kimberly assured her.

"I am not talking about that," Maya corrected with a grin on her face. "I was talking about the power rangers' bears."

"He knows that it was your idea to design power ranger bears and he knows that you designed the first one yourself," Kimberly answered. "But he doesn't know which ones we designed."

Jan Oliver sat on the couch reading a newspaper, until she heard the noise of key be inserted into the living room. She sat really still until the door swung open and Tommy walked in. "How was your day?" Jan asked when Tommy closed the door behind him.

"It was good," Tommy answered when he took a next to his mother. "I stayed for Adam's piano concert. You'll never believe that Skull plays the piano and can play classical music. I'm sorry I'm late coming home-"

"-you're off the hook," Jan assured him as he slipped off his jacket. "Kimberly told me that you called her and said you were going to be late."

"After Rocky's football game, we got held up in traffic, " Tommy informed. "There was a monster attack in Angel Grove and we had to a detour. Adam just dropped me off."

"That was nice of Adam," Jan smiled as he got up and headed up the stairs. "It was so sweet of you to let Kimberly borrow your truck when she got called to work. I can't believe someone purposely damaged her car last week."

After taking a very quick shower and a quick change into a white tee shirt and red pajama pants, Tommy stepped out of his private bathroom and headed for his bed. He couldn't help but smile when he saw Maya sleeping next to Kimberly. Before he climbed in bed, he gave Kimberly a kiss on the cheek. She let out a yawn when she opened her tired eyes. "When did you get home?" she questioned when she rolled over on her side to face him.

"About a half an hour ago," he said as he slid in bed. "Thanks for covering up for me."

"Anytime," Kimberly whispered with a smile. "Did you find out what the secret toy was in the mall?"

Tommy glanced at his niece as she rolled over on her side facing him. Both remained quiet, until they were one hundred percent sure Maya was still asleep. "We don't know exactly what they are," Tommy stated. "We just know that they connected with Rita and Zedd."

"Some woman named Kelly is working at Build-A-Bear," Kimberly revealed as she watched Tommy's mouth drop. "And don't worry it isn't my step mother. She looks nothing like her. She has long auburn hair, her complexion is darker, she has green eyes instead of hazel, and she is a little heavier. My step mother won't wear any jewelry unless it is pearls or gold. But this woman wears a ruby pendant. Kelly and I are getting to be friends."

"Maya told me earlier that she overheard the owner talking on the phone. She said he was talking to someone about a power ranger villains' collection," Kimberly addressed. "Do you think it could be that?"

"It's very likely," Tommy guessed watching Kimberly spoon her niece up in her arms. "Did you hear any of the conversation?"

"I just heard the manager ask the person if they cared if they put their stuffed toys on display with the others that are available," Kimberly confirmed. "And they said they did."

The warm bright sun shined through the thin curtains right into Maya's eyes. She blinked a few times to adjust to the glare pointed right into face. Rays of bright light reflected on the lamps and other glass items in the room which decorated them differently. The loud ring of the phone went off like an alarm clock. Tommy woke up and picked up the receiver.

"Hello," Tommy answered letting out a loud yawn. He watched Kimberly sit up in bed and rub her tired eyes.

"This is Markus Snyder from Build-A-Bear. Is Kimberly there?"

"Hold on," Tommy stated. He handed Kimberly the phone.

"Hello," Kimberly answered as she turned to the speaker phone on.

"Hello, Kimberly," greeted Markus. "I was just calling to let you know that you need to be at build a bear at eleven. We will be opening at noon."

"I thought the store wasn't opening until the 26th," Kimberly puzzled.

"We open today," Markus corrected. "I laid a flyer on everyone's table two weeks ago. We decided to move the opening date to this week since its fall break. Can you make it?"

"I can make it," Kimberly promised as she got out of bed. "Do I need to wear anything particular?"

"Wear whatever you like," Markus answered.

"I'll will see you at noon," Kimberly assured looking at the clock. Her eyes widened when she saw it was 9:00.

"I don't remember us getting a paper," Maya said when she climbed out of bed.

"Maya, go get dressed," Kimberly instructed as Maya went out of the room. "I'll take you to McDonald's for breakfast."

"I will be there as soon as I can," Tommy promised when Kimberly got out navy garment back out of the closet. "I'm going to the power chamber to talk with Zordon and the other rangers."

Author's note:

I hope this wasn't too fast. I wanted this chapter to cover how Kimberly got to working for build a bear and the rangers searching for Rita and Zedd's toys. Do you have any idea what the toys are? The next chapter will cover build a bear and more about Kimberly's relationship with Maya. I don't own Maya Hart. She is from Girl Meets World and she was my favorite character. Also, I know Build-A-Bear opened in 1997, but in this story it will open a year earlier. If you've read Build-A-Bear Christmas, the store will open on the day Tommy and Kim got their break up letters.