Prologue part 2

Jason hung up as it finally hit him and he sank down onto his couch. He balled his fists and put them to his face. *Tommy, are you really gone? We promised to always survive. How could you leave me? We promised to be Brothers to the end.* "I refuse to believe you are gone, I know you are out there somewhere and I will find you bro." he yelled into his empty family room in his house.

Reefside Hayley's Cyber Café: A day after Tommy was on the island

Breaking News: The Navy and Coast Guard have called off their searches for possible survivors from the island that exploded earlier this week. The consensus is that there are no survivors to be found. Representatives from the company, Anton Mercer Industries, have stated that they will be notifying the families and responsible parties.

"No! Tommy!" Hayley uttered before sinking into a chair, her hand on her mouth with tears rolling down her cheeks.

Reefside Bay:

Tommy dragged himself onto the beach sopping wet, haggard from the days of swimming and fully exhausted. *I made it. Hayley's was four blocks from the bay if I remember right.* Tommy continued to walk up the beach and onto the road. Pausing on the sidewalk, he turned and started towards the Cyberspace four blocks away. As he walked, Tom could only hope that she was there. Walking up to the building, he turned the handle and walked inside. The first thing he heard was the soft crying. Looking around, he spotted Hayley sitting in a chair.

"Hayley" Tommy uttered.

Hayley got up and spun around. When she saw who had said her name, she froze.

"Tommy is that really you?" Her voice wavered slightly, as if she didn't trust the image that she saw before her.

"Yes."

Hayley rushed to Tommy and wrapped her arms around him. He returned the hug, wincing in pain. They both started to shed tears of both joy and pain. When they had calmed down she led him to a booth. "Here let me get you a towel then I will see if I have some of your old clothes in the back. Wait here."

Hayley left and found a towel then tossed it to Tommy then went off to the back to look. Tommy took the towel and started to rub it on his arms, legs and all over. The shock of the cold water had started to wear off and he was starting to shiver badly.

"Here Tommy, I found some old sweats of yours from college. They should still fit" Hayley said as she walked back to Tommy. Hayley took one look at him and said "Tommy, get out of those clothes this instant! I don't want you to get hypothermia and die. I have already seen you without clothes on anyways thanks to college so no need to be a prude."

Tommy stripped and put on the sweats.

"Come on Tommy, I am taking you to my friends place. He is a doctor here in Reefside and we need to get you checked out. I was about to close anyways. Just let me grab my purse and keys. Here is a plastic bag to put your wet clothes in." Hayley tossed him the black plastic bag and went to her office for her purse and keys. Tommy just nodded his head before putting his clothes in the bag.

"Come on lets go the sooner we get to his place the sooner you will be in less pain." Hayley took Tommy's hand and dragged him to the door. She punched in the security code and dragged him to her car parked outside. She unlocked the doors and they both got in. Then she put the car in reverse, backed out and put it into drive before heading down the streets of Reefside to her friend's house. She pulled it into his driveway then parked. They got out and walked up the path to the front door. Hayley pushed the doorbell. "Hayley is that you? What are you doing out here and who is this with you?"

"This is my friend Tommy. He is injured and needs your help." She paused " And your confidence."

"Sure come on in and let me look you over Tommy to see what is wrong."

Hayley and Tommy went into her friend's house and they sat down while her friend went and got his medical supplies. He came back and started to look Tommy over. About 20 minutes later, Mark sat back with a sigh and looked at Tommy. "Well, you're obviously suffering from hypothermia and are dehydrated. You also have a couple bruised ribs and 3 that are probably broken. I can't tell for sure without an X-ray, but there's a slight give to them. I'll wrap them for you here." He looked over at Hayley. "Re-wrap them daily. It'll help keep the ribs from shifting and possibly puncturing a lung." Turning back to Tommy, he set to work cleaning the multitude of abrasions. "Keep the cuts and abrasions clean and dry. The deeper ones you can apply an antibiotic ointment to and cover with a bandage. That'll keep an infection from taking hold. For the next few days, you're not going to want to move around a lot. You spent a lot of energy just keeping moving with all of these injuries. The hypothermia is going to take a lot out of you as well."

Mark worked as he talked, looking back and forth between his patient and his friend. "When you get him home Hayley, remove the wrap and let him take a shower. Start the water out kind of tepid and he can warm it up from there until he feels warmer. No more than 20 minutes in the shower though. After that, hot liquids and something to eat. A pair of sweatpants, heavy socks, T-shirt and sweatshirt will do a lot to helping keep you warm, Tommy, after you get out of the shower and Hayley's re-wrapped your ribs. Drink lots of fluids over the next few days."

"Thanks again Mark for doing this for me and understanding. I will give you a call if anything goes wrong and you will be by to check on Tommy later right?"

"Yes I will be by to check on Tommy."

"Thanks Mark for being understanding" said Tommy.

Mark nodded. "Just remember this when I come around to check up on you. I'll be over tomorrow Hayley. If you're still dehydrated or spending a lot of time sleeping, I'll probably put you on an IV. So enjoy your freedom while you have it."

Tommy and Hayley got up and left the house and got into Hayley's car then they went to Hayley's house. They went in and Hayley directed Tommy to go to the bathroom and she unwrapped the wrappings. "Here Tommy, take a quick 20 minute shower. By the time you get out, I'll have some tea ready for you and we can sit in front of the fire in the living room to talk." Tommy just shook his head from side to side and did what he was told. He was used to it from Hayley. After the ordeal he had been through it was nice to have some normalcy again. So Tommy peeled off his sweats and turned on the water and got into the shower. He kept the water at a cooler temperature following the doctor's instructions. Once he felt he had his body temp a little closer to normal he got out and put the sweats back on. He opened the door and walked out. He followed Hayley down to the kitchen. She gave him the tea and then steered him to the living room in front of the fire. Hayley started to rewrap his ribcage.

"Ah, Hayley, this is really starting to get me warm."

"Tommy what happened? Jason sent Lightspeed Rescue out looking for you, how come they did not find you?"

"On the island I did an experiment with bio-signatures. It exploded but the doctor could not find anything wrong. Some of it might have seeped into my skin, maybe you should look with your scanner. Do you still have my signature before I went on the island?"

"Yeah I have it on file. Hang on let me go get the scanner." Hayley went out of the room and down to her lab. She picked up the scanner and came back. "Okay, Tommy, sit still."

Hayley turned on the scanner and scanned Tommy. The scanner recorded it and she took it back to the lab and entered the results into her computer. She pulled up his old results and gasped. Hayley ran back to Tommy.

"Tommy, your signature… it's somehow being masked to the point that it's covering up both your bio-signature and the normal readings of your Ranger signature." She sat back. "No wonder Lightseepd couldn't find you. They would have needed a copy of your old signature to compare it to in order to discover the changes. From what I can tell, you would need an energy surge, like becoming a ranger again, to break the masking effects."

"Good."

"What do you mean good? Don't you want to let your family and the others know you are alive?"

"Hayley if they knew they could get dragged into this business and I don't want that. We did experiments with combining Dino DNA to objects. They eventually led to these things called Tyrannodrones. Someone reprogrammed them because they started attacking me and set off the explosion that blew up the island. One day Mercer disappeared and this guy called Mesogog showed up. He wanted these." He pulled out the Dino gems he retrieved from his clothes before he put them in the bag, and placed them on the table. "When I found them I knew they had enormous power. I believe they originated from the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs. The power is similar to the Zeo crystals, but I have a feeling that the gems choose the person and not the other way around."

"Tommy you are talking about rangers, aren't you?"

"Yes I will need your help building the morphers. I took all the info about the grid with me on this CD." Tommy placed it beside the gems on the table. "Do you remember that box I gave you before I left? It contains the rest of the computer knowledge from the Command Center/Power Chamber. I may not be a rocket scientist like you, but I did deal with the computers with Billy then later by myself. Once the rangers left Angel Grove I went back and accessed the computers. I downloaded it all and kept it safe since."

"Okay I can help you, but what about your family? The news has reported that people will be notified to get a hold of families. Who did you put down as your Power of Attorney?

"I put you down as my POA so you will just have to tell them that you want all my records sealed and have me down as missing and presumed dead till further notice from you."

"I can do that but you will be in trouble with your friends and families when they find out you are alive. Not to mention Jason will dismember you."

"Hayley it is better that they think I am dead. I don't think that Mesogog died. They usually never do on first encounters. I don't want to drag them into this. David finally accepted me being a ranger then not. If I said that I was alive and was getting back into that field he would flip. I know the others would be okay but they would still be vulnerable. Three fourths of them don't have powers. I refuse to put them in harm's way."

"I will do my best to help you. I disagree with you on not telling but I will help. One of the first things we need to do is get a hold of your money, information, and figure out what to do about your identity."

"Well my parents legally changed my name to Thomas Oliver when they adopted me. I can go by Tommy Trueheart Oliver. In a state where they are use to monster attacks they would not look at someone having a similar name. Plus, with you having my POA, you should be able to access my accounts and then you can transfer them to another account with the new name on it so I can use the money."

"That's a good idea, but let's put the rest of this conversation on hold till tomorrow. Now what do you want for dinner?" She asked him.

"Something warm like soup or ramen noodles would be nice," He answered.

"Okay, let's head into the kitchen and see what we can come up with," she said. With that, they headed off to the kitchen in search of food.

An: Okay this is the final time I will be posting the prologue. I had Prophet144 help me out with the medical details and the bio-signature details. The scanner Hayley used is like the size of a Tri-corder if anyone has seen startrek you can get he picture. I envisoned it like the ones from Voyager. It is more powerful than the Lightspeed Rescue scanners but it is not uber awesome like in Voyager. It just is todays technology just slight more powerful. I hope now this will make much more sense and allow you all to get a better idea of where I am taking this and even give you some hints as to where this is going.

As always thanks to my beta's: Prophet144 and JasonLeeScottfan who both helped with this half of the prologue. Please if you have already reviewed drop me a PM telling me if you liked it. If you have not please Vote in my Poll on my profile.