Chapter 1: New Job

It had been almost a decade since she had sent the letter that had destroyed her and her true love. Kimberly woke with a start early one morning after of him again, as she had for the past month.

Her dreams had always been the same. The one night they had shared their love with each other. And then a flash of what would have happened had she not left after Divatox had kidnapped Jason and her…………a family with Thomas Oliver.

Knowing she wouldn't be able to get back to sleep she decided to get ready for her first day at her new job, teaching gymnastics at a local high school. While she was in the shower she reflected on what happened after she left Angel Grove. After injuring herself during the Pan Globals she sent that letter not wanting Tommy to know about her failure. After a couple of months she decided to get her degree in Physical Fitness. She moved to a small town in California about 2 ½ hours from her hometown; Reefside, California.

After getting dressed for work she noticed that she had a missed call on her cell phone, she checked the caller ID and laughed. 'Only you bro would call me to make sure I was up for work' she thought as she dialed a familiar number.

""Hello" came a sleeping voice from the other end.

"Hey, Kat, Sorry to wake you but my-oh-so-wonder brother called to make sure I was up." She said in a sarcastic voice.

"Hold onhe just came back from the bathroom here."

"Hello. Who's this?" came a male voice from the phone.

"Why did you call to wake me up if you know I'm not sleeping well, Jason?" Kimberly said.

"I didn't call to wake you up. I called to say good luck today." Jason replied. "Besides I thought the dreams stopped."

"They did," she replied hesitantly, "but they came back about a month ago. I have to go to work, but I'll talk to you later. Bye"

"Bye. Kat says bye and good luck, too." And with that the phone connection died.

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On the other side of the city a man with spiky black hair was walking out the bathroom getting ready to go to work. Dr. Thomas Oliver worked at the local high school as a science teacher. His phone started to ring as he walked into his kitchen for breakfast. 'Jase, it's too early to deal with you' he thought as he checked the caller ID.

"Hey, Jase."

"Hey man. Did I wake you?" the familiar voice of his long time best friend asked.

"You know I get up early to train before school, besides I'm even surprised myself that your even up this early seeing as you live on top of the dojo."

"Sure whatever! I had to call a friend before they left for work. Unfortunately, my call was seen as trying to be the over-bearing big brother." Jason was ranting and Tommy knew why.

"How is she? I know it was her you were talking to." He said sadly.

"Tommy, I'm sorry I didn't mean to her up. She's good though. She's teaching at a school here in California as a P.E. and Gymnastics teacher." He said as hesitantly as he could without opening the flood gate of questions that were sure to come.

Tommy knew that there was a new teacher in the school starting today, but he wasn't sure what subject. "Are you………do you……um….know what school she's………..teaching at?"

"Not really, but I think its close to Angel Grove." Jason said.

"Okay well anyway I better go or else I'll catch hell from my boss about being later. Talk to you later, bro." After looking at his watch he realized he would be late for the staff meeting that morning.

He hoped in his jeep and drove to the school thinking about his life over the past few years and the girl he wished was by his side.

When he finally got to the school he knew something about this day would not end well.

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As Kim was being shown around by Principal Randall something in the air seemed familiar. While she was no longer a ranger she was still in touch with her ninjetti animal, the crane. She looked around for the disturbance but found nothing.

"Miss Hart I was wondering…Why you choose to work here in Reefside seeing as there are so many monster attacks?" Principal Randall asked.

"If you grew up in Angel Grove then monster attacks are one thing you are used to." Kimberley replied honestly "Besides the monster attacks were a bonus for me and they just reminded me even more of home."

"Oh, so you lived in that area during the attacks."

"Yeah I grew up there most of my life then moved to Florida to train for the Pan Globals, though I wish I never left." The last bit didn't reach the other woman's ears.

"I believe we have another teacher here who attended Angel Grove high; you actually might know him seeing as he lived in that area about the same time and it is a pretty small town."

"Oh really. What's his name?" She asked but before she could finish she saw the one person she had dreamed of seeing everyday since she left for the Pan Globals. "Tommy."

At the sound of his name, Tommy Oliver looked around to see who had called him.

"Tommy there you are. We were just walking toward your classroom to talk to you, but you saved us the trouble thankfully." Principal Randall said calling Tommy over.

"Tommy looked over and saw Ella talking to the one person he would and could never forget. "Kim? What are you doing here?" was all he could say as he took in her presence.

"I'm the new gym teacher." She said looking at Tommy.

"I see you two already know each other that's good. Tommy I'll leave Kim in your extremely capable hands. Kim if you have any questions please talk to Tommy." And with that she walked down the hall with a smile on her face, the two had no idea what was in store for them in the coming battles.