For once, Kim and the girls were the first ones in the training room, they knew what their leader expected of them so they were all in black yoga pants with a workout bra that matched their colors. Their hair was all french braided tightly pulling it back out of their face.
"Just like every morning Ladies, 10 minutes warm up, start at a jog for 2 minutes, Run for 1 minute Jog for 2 minutes Repeat. We will stretch and then go at a 4-1 melee Rotating after 5 minutes and then repeat. After that I want to begin our stretches and a cool down." Kim said and the other girls nodded. The warm up began it was over rather quickly, they stretched before getting into position, as always the youngest went first They all surrounded the blonde Aries moving quickly, Felicity was forced to block all for teammates at once her body ducking and evading just as much as she was blocking. Before they knew it the alarm sounded the 5 minute mark and they flawlessly went into going after Angela. It was true this girl was the brains of the group, and the second youngest. She moved with calculation rather then flow but each block kept the hits from attacking. Next was Celeste, the redhead moved flawlessly into the center to begin evading and blocking.
About half way through the first round Tommy and Jason made their ways to the training room to practice early but they were floored at the amazing routine before them. When ever they trained their teams it was always one on one. When the alarm sounded they watched the effortless transition between Celeste and Valerie the oldest of Kim's team save for herself. Valerie was the other red and she had the ability to be a leader but it was quite obvious who was the true leader.
Finally the last transition in the first round came, Tommy and Jason were in awe as Kim was taken on, her body moving with the grace she had always had, Her unlike the others managed to get in a few good hits herself causing them to evade while fighting. To be honest the training was quite amazing if you asked either of the boys. By this time more reds were starting to come in and they were gazing on the 5 women in the center of the room.
The second round was just as impressive as the first, None of the women seemed to stop for the entire training by the time Kim was in the center of the melee for the last time every ranger in the mega-ship was gawking at them. Kim could only smirk as she noticed the others. She pushed herself for the last leg of the battle while it was quite obvious she was getting tired. Finally the last alarm rang and they started their cool down. While they ran around the room all the girls felt as if they were on cloud 9, every single jaw was on the ground and they even overheard Jason Tommy and rocky debating on if Kim and her girls could take them down.
Finally the 10 minute jog was up and that left the girls to their stretches. They stood in front of the group with grins on their faces.
"Its all yours Andros" Kim winked as she pulled an arm across her chest the girls followed.
"wow, that was... Impressive Ms. Hart" Andros watched her "how long have you been doing this... routine?" most of the men were still in awe the only ones that seemed to have regained their senses were the older rangers
"That's our every morning routine and has been since we started as a team together. I am all for making sure all of my girls can defend themselves in large groups as I remember quite often being surrounded and quite often getting pinned in one way or another" Kim smiled and Andros nodded
"well if you aren't too tired, would you care to lead the rest of us today?" it was truly a sincere question and it made Kim smile
"Of course," she turned to her girls" its time we get some real training in, they don't know your strengths. They don't know your weaknesses, that puts you in advantage but don't get too cocky I can guarantee they didn't get here with out being able to kick some butt. Keep moving, I wont make you do your warm up run." she turned to the rest of them, "Go, Jog 2 minutes, run 1, Jog 2 minutes run 1 Jog 2 run 1 jog 1 Meet back here and we will split into groups while you stretch." she smirked and looked back to her girls this was going to be fun and it was going to show the guys that they could handle their own. She had much confidence in her girls.
When the guys returned from their run they started stretching really good and Kim started going through splitting them up. She knew she would take on her original teammates and Andros, they were the most skilled and could match her the best, if she took the younger ones she wouldn't be training herself. Once the stretching was done they got into their groups.
"Now you begin the training. There are 5 per group. My girls will be the first in the center the rest are the first to attack, You will attack until the alarm sounds. The next person will be ranger who has been in the least amount of time. Each person will take 2 turns in the center resulting in a 50 minute workout I hope you are all ready" she grinned and pointed to Andros "You're up" she winked
Andros was not to bad, But he struggled quite a bit and was fighting his ass off to keep from getting pounded into the ground by the other 4. he was glad when the 5 minute alarm went off and quickly took his spot as a fighter while rocky defended.
Once again rocky was struggling as fists and feet came at him, he noticed that Kim was one hell of a player as she hit almost double the amount of times as anyone else. She found ever weak spot in his stance managing to put him on the ground For a split second. Before the bell rang.
Tommy took over in the center and Kim smirked. She refused to hold anything back against him and neither did Jason or rocky, this was a hard fight for him and he knew it but he managed to stave off most of their blows. To say he was ready when the bell rang was an understatement. Kim pushed Jason in the middle indicating that she would take last.
Jason once again got everyone's best. And he like Tommy managed to stave off most of the blows until Kim managed to get a good uppercut in after he blocked two previous punches from her, She was fast and it made him want to give it all back to her. Finally the bell sounded once more and Kim smirked with her girls she took it easy for the most part, now she knew she could go all out.
Kim shifted into the middle effortlessly, Andros had seen how she had been fighting and let all out, Tommy knew her capability's rivaled the rest of them long before she had been training like this and he too went all out. What surprised them all was that even with them pushing themselves to take her down she still managed to floor rocky and Andros. Tommy and Jason converged on her at the same time and she managed to duck and flip back catching Jason in the jaw before she sprung off her feet and landed her shoulder into Tommy's gut. He never had the chance to see it coming leaving him sprawling on the ground with Kim catching herself from the blow and doing a front layout over his head just in time for the bell to ring. She smirked seeing the guys continue to lay there and then looked around. The scene around her was pretty similar, the guys were exhausted leaving the girls standing
"Okay, I guess we have had enough training for today?" she smirked down at Tommy who was still breathless he just managed to nod as did the rest of her group. This caused Kim to chuckle as she held out a hand to help Tommy up
"wow Kim, and to think you had already done an hour of that before us" Tommy Jason and rocky all nodded in agreement with Andros statement.
"that's what happens when your workouts get interrupted to fight the bad guys." she shrugged and pushed them all to go run "Go cool down before your muscles start to freeze up. Same as before then we come and stretch"
her and the girls decided to jog with the guys who were all seriously lagging behind. When the jog was finished they stretched slowly and the guys fell down flat on the ground breathing heavily Angela who had been in Connors group sat down next to him
"Just think a couple weeks keeping up with this and you might be good enough to take on felicity" she chuckled at the look on Connors face he shook his head and closed his eyes.
"Yea right, I think she could take Dr. O and I know for sure Ms. Hart could. She already did and she was supposed to be defending" he felt defeated and Andros sat up looking around.
"Kim," Andros said as he turned to look at her "I think your idea for training is great, Can it help in two weeks." he was curious as to the woman's thoughts
"well, 2 weeks isn't much, me and the girls have been doing it for years. But I am sure it couldn't hurt" she looked around curiously, the girls seemed to have done well, and that made her proud.
"What do you think of keeping our groups like this. There is dynamic between the girls and the guys, It also will help the guys give an immediate form of protection and keep them on their toes" Andros made some good observations
"I agree, each of your girls, even if they aren't reds are leaders Kim. I have never seen anything so strong as your group but if we can split that up and give that strength to the others then we stand a large chance That can put us at the head and we will take down the big guy," Jason piped in,
Tommy was sitting back pensive. Kim had definitely honed her skills and he truly felt safe knowing that this was the most current team of earth.
" I think that might work. Its going to take more then once a day to get you guys up to par though. We don't have enemies to fight right now, so instead of 1 a day practices I want to go to 3 if not 4, when our group last exodus we went from 1 a day to 2 a day just to keep up. You guys aren't keeping up your learning it all in 2 weeks, we need to do this as much as possible."
"Kim's right"Tommy nodded in agreement "the last time half of us fought it was against king Mondo on the moon. Yes we have had a couple teams since than but that still leaves less then 5 of the guys who have fought monsters in the past 10 years. Monsters have never gotten easier over time. So we need to be fighting as much as possible."
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That evening after the second practice the guys were exhausted as they moved from the showers to the kitchen to get food. The girls once again were the first ones out of the showers and had already started dinner when half of the guys trudged in and sat at the table unmoving. Feeling sorry for the others Celeste and Angela went to work getting ice and rice bags for the guys Valerie and felicity worked to put together salad and chicken penne with feta cheese and marinara. Kim alone was working on mixing up a drink, citric acid, Salt, sugar and and iced tea base. It would help replenish their electrolytes while tasting good at the same time. For added flavor she added 2 cups of cranberry juice and half a cup of lemon juice, it was definitely a tart drink, but the girls eventually learned to love it. When Tommy and Jason finally got in they too sat down and Kim placed a glass each in front of them before sitting on the edge of the table
"drink up. You're going to be feeling this the rest of the night." she stole a couple bags of ice and stood up to hold them between both boys shoulder blades. Causing them to moan. Rocky came in last and kissed Kim on the cheek before sitting down and putting his head on the table
"Jesus woman, What did you do to me, I think I would rather lay down and sleep then eat." rocky admitted, this drew a laugh from Kim
"Oh come on boys, We do that twice a day as is. Just think about tomorrow when we have both full workouts weather you are tired or not. If you don't block me and the girls will kick every single one of your asses." she heard a groan from everyone and moved the ice to the thighs of Tommy and Jason Replacing the ice between their shoulder blades with a heated rice bag drawing another moan
"I think we are already bruised to no end Kim" Jason piped up as the girls began to serve dinner to the unmoving guys.
"well you better heal fast then hmm" Kim smiled and stole a piece of chicken off of Tommy's plate quick as it was sat down in front of him.
Dinner went over quite well, and then most of the guys went off to relax in their rooms. Tommy stayed behind as did Jason Kimberly was cleaning up and told the girls if they wanted to go they could so they went.
"Kim, how did you get back in, What happened" Jason was the first to ask he was curious.
"Well, I live in Opal Cliffs CA, after the Pan Global's I went to college and became a teacher. I teach mythology and Art. When I moved to Opal Cliffs there weren't homes, I had the extra money to buy land right on the ocean so I did. As we were excavating for the foundation I came across a few stones, I contacted billy and we found that they had the power in them. The first one bound to me instantly and so I built my house big enough to cater to the rangers and my power chamber. Since I live on the cliff its self the hanger was an easy enough build. I got extra funding and technology from billy and he helps me out occasional. He is running Opal Cliffs while I am here and he is ready to call upon the Dino thunder rangers in Reef-side should anything happen but exodus became very quiet a few weeks ago so hopefully evil will remain at bay for a while. We still have our power though, so I don't think he is gone for good." She didn't take her eyes off of what she was doing while she answered, so she missed the wide eyed look that Tommy had.
"Opal Cliffs, that's with in a half an hour drive of Reef-side, I didn't know you were the leader of we would have offered our assistance" Tommy spoke up quickly watching Kim with a newly appreciative look. He couldn't believe she managed to keep the fights so condensed. Reef-side hadn't even heard of them until a few months back.
"Wow Kim, I am impressed. You've done good for you and those girls, not to mention they scare me if they are anywhere near as good as you at fighting." Jason had to state as he remembered just how fast felicity was when Conner asked the girl to room with him. It was hard fitting 4 beds into that room but they managed it took both him and Tommy maneuvering them but they did it. "Well, I think I am going to go Hit the hay, " he winked at Tommy who seemed like he wasn't really ready to leave Kim yet.
"Night big bro" said Kim as Tommy just waved. Tommy stood up to move behind Kim leaning over to see if she needed help.
"Want any help?, You wash? Ill dry?" he was so close that he could smell her perfume. He watched Kim closely taking in every single movement she made as she wiped off the next plate before handing it to him with a smile
"you asked for it" she through him a playful wink and went back to cleaning the dishes Tommy dried them and put them away. They worked amicably for a few minutes.
"so how did things go with that one guy" Tommy asked quietly hoping Kim would answer.
"He left." she didn't go into detail but Tommy could see her shutting down on him, there was a story behind her words that he was determined to get
"You can tell me if you want to" he watched her reaction. The stiffening of her shoulders as she remembered
"It happened a long time ago, Its history Tommy, Maybe after the mission Please" She finally turned to him her eyes pleading with him not to push her on this. He only nodded and moved his hand to her shoulder
"I am here if you ever want to tell me Kim, No more hard feelings," it was true he wasn't completely over the way she broke his heart but he had long since come to the realization that regardless of what she did, he loved her and he wanted her to be happy.
"thanks Tommy" she noticed they were done with the dishes and just standing in the dimly lit kitchen. "Walk me to my... I mean your old room?" she smiled up at him hoping to mask the previous hurt in her own eyes.
"as you wish beautiful" he winked down at her and held out an arm. They went out the western doors of the kitchen and turned to make the trek down the hall. He made sure to open the door which clearly let her know he still had access. With the way the rooms were set up hers looked out directly into the living area and Tommy would have to pass through the living area to get to Andros' room which he now shared " here we are" he looked down at her and smiled. She was still everything he remembered her to be
"Thanks Tommy, so, I guess I will see you and the rest of the guys bright and early tomorrow, My training starts at 8 am sharp. Don't be late, you will get called out and given double. I don't play favorites" She smirked and spoke in her best professor voice. This caused Tommy to chuckle
"and just what will my punishment be Ms. Hart, detention with the teacher?" while it was true they were flirting helplessly he couldn't help but push her buttons
"For your information Dr. Oliver its Professor Hart. And I promise I can find something that equals the crime" she winked before sliding backwards into the bedroom.
"Do I get bonus points if I tell you the bathtub in that room has jets and is the only one in the ship?" he toyed and watched her retreat.
"I told you I don't play favorites, even if I am getting spoiled mercilessly by you giving up your room. Does that mean you are going to begging me to let you use it?" she was curious.
"Nah, I wont beg, Its still my room Kim" he blew a kiss and turned to walk away "Night beautiful, Sleep tight. See you in the morning" he walked away before she could dispute the fact that he shouldn't let himself in.
She sighed and shook her head before closing the door. She made her way to the bed and looked around. Maybe a jacuzzi soak would be nice. Then again she wanted sleep. She determined that the Soak could wait until tomorrow. Quickly changing she climbed into the bed and sighed. Sleep quickly took her and the last thought that crossed her mind was how good her bed smelled. It smelled like him.