Summary: The first day of filming for the gang turns out to be harder then they ever anticipated.
Disclaimer: I don't own the Power Rangers. I do own Mr. Jackson.
Chapter 2 The First Time's Always the Hardest
The day before the filming began, Tommy ran up to the gang as they walked through the hall at school before class started.
"Hey there, bro," Jason said as Tommy put both hands on his shoulders.
He seemed to be so cheerful. No one had seen Tommy like that since to the first time he and Kim kissed.
"Someone's all smiles today," Kim noticed.
She pulled Tommy away from Jason and took his hand.
"Why wouldn't I be?" Tommy asked. "Filming starts tomorrow."
They all looked at each other. Just the other day, Tommy was hesitant about doing this. What had changed his mind?
"Tommy, I thought you were unsure about doing this with us," Zack said.
"Yeah, but I've been thinking," he admitted.
"About what?" Kim asked.
"Well, if this is the only way to relive the good old days, then I should take it," Tommy said.
Kim pulled Tommy into her arms. She was so happy to see him with a smile on his face again.
"All right, so where do you all want to assemble after school?" Billy asked.
Zack and Kim looked at each other. Kim then looked at Jason and Tommy, who just shrugged their shoulders.
"What'd he say?" Kim asked.
"Where do we want to meet after school?" Trini laughed.
"I have the bigger car, so let's all meet at my house," Zack said.
"Good deal," Trini smiled.
Kim pulled Tommy back to her as the rest began walking to class.
"Hey, I love you being happy," she told him.
"I love how you love me being happy," Tommy said.
He gave her a quick kiss before leaving to class.
xxx
The six teenagers walked into the studio an hour after school had ended.
"Welcome to the studio," Mr. Jackson smiled.
There had to have been five stages set up. In one area, there was a classroom. There was also a hallway, and other set ups for another show.
"Thanks," Jason said.
Zack looked at Trini and started to whisper in her ear.
"I'm going to love to see the look on his face when we tell him we 'designed' the morpher," he said.
She giggled and turned to Mr. Jackson.
"Mr. Jackson, how are we going to become the Power Rangers?" Trini asked. "How do we morph?"
They had to admit, fooling the producer was going to be amusing.
"Morph?" Mr. Jackson asked.
Mr. Jackson had the same look on his face that Kim did when she first heard that word.
"Metamorphosis," Billy laughed.
Walter gave Trini a puzzled look.
"It means to change," Trini said.
"Does he talk like that all the time?" Mr. Jackson asked.
"Don't worry, Mr. Jackson," Kim said. "Billy talk is not understandable to me either. I have to ask Trini to translate all the time."
"All right, we start in ten minutes," he replied.
They waited until he left to say what they thought.
"It looks like we don't need morphers," Tommy sighed.
He took one last look at his old morpher before shoving it back into pocket. Alpha had managed to save his morpher and gave it to him as a gift.
"I wonder what he's going to do about the Zordon figure in this show," Kim said.
"At least he hasn't said we had to wear our colors," Billy half smiled.
"No kidding," Zack laughed.
"All right people, look alive," Mr. Jackson said.
"Where is the setting anyway?" Trini asked.
"Right this way," Mr. Jackson said.
They walked into a school hall, thankfully, nothing like the one at their school.
"Who's going to be like our mentor?" Kim asked.
"That will be Mr. Scott," Mr. Jackson said.
"Me! Why me?" Jason asked.
He looked at Tommy, who just shrugged his shoulders. Sure, Jason was indeed the leader of the Power Rangers, but he certainly was no Zordon.
"I don't know. I figured that the leader of the group would give them the powers," Walter said.
"Yup, he's not working for Zedd," Zack told himself.
"So, what? We don't know each other?" Billy asked.
"Right," Walter nodded.
"Let's get this thing started," Tommy said.
xxx
Kim sighed as Walter yelled cut. They had been filming for about an hour now.
"Next time, Hart, be a little slower getting up," Mr. Jackson suggested.
"I'll try," Kim said.
"Take two," Mr. Jackson yelled.
Kim turned from her locker with books in her hands and bumped into Tommy, making them fall. She slowly got up and smiled as Tommy helped pick up the books.
"Thanks," Kim smiled.
"No problem. Well, see you in class tomorrow," Tommy said.
"Wait," Kim called.
Trini covered Mr. Jackson's mouth before he yelled.
"Please, I beg you, don't yell cut," she said.
Tommy turned back to Kim.
"Do you want to go to the Youth Center after school?" Kim asked.
"Yeah, that's sounds cool," Tommy said.
"Cut," Walter yelled. Kim was still in her dream state. "What the hell do you think you were saying?"
"What? I said park, didn't I?" Kim asked.
"Um, Kim, you said Youth Center," Tommy said.
"Oh, no… I didn't," she moaned.
"Oh no is right, Hart. And it was real good too," Mr. Jackson said.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Jackson. The third time's a charm," Kim replied.
"It better be," he said.
xxx
It was the rest of the gang's turn for the cameras. Jason, who was already in his seat, watched as the rest entered the room.
"Hey you five," he called.
They all looked at each other first, and then back at Jason
"You mean us five?" Billy asked.
"We don't even know each other," Zack said.
"What do you want with us?" Trini asked.
The five of them walked up to the desk.
"Just meet me at the park after school," Jason said.
"Hey, you can't tell us what to do," Kim replied.
"Yeah," Tommy nodded.
"If you don't, the world will perish," Jason said.
"As in be destroyed?" Zack asked.
Jason nodded.
"What does that have to do with us?" Trini wondered.
"Yeah," Kim said, "and how would you know something like that?"
"Meet me at the park after school and you'll find out," Jason said.
xxx
The day was over and everyone was walking outside. Kim had felt really bad with her slip on her first scene.
"Don't worry, Kimberly," Billy said. "Your Youth Center slip was nothing like almost blurting out you-know-what."
She looked at him in shock. That scene had been filmed when she was on break.
"No, you didn't," Kim said.
"Oh yeah, I did," Billy laughed.
"You almost said it, I yelled the damn thing out," Jason said.
"Jason," Tommy yelled.
"What? Thank God I didn't reach for the morpher," he laughed.
Jason and the rest all nodded about that.
"That's true," Trini said.
"Do you think we should be doing this?" Zack asked.
"The first time's the hardest," Billy said.
"You guys…" Kim sighed. Everyone looked at Kim. "We got to promise not to mess up anymore. Today was too close of a call."
Everyone nodded in agreement.
xxx
The next week had been pretty quiet to say the least. There had only been one attack.
"Kimberly…" her mother said.
Kim rolled over in her bed, forgetting what was she had to do that day.
"Kimberly Ann Hart! Get your skinny ass out of bed," her mother yelled.
"What? I'm…I'm up," she yawned.
"You're going to be late to the studio," her mother said.
"What?" Kim gasped.
Kim shot her head towards the clock.
"Oh, no. I so forgot to set the alarm," she moaned.
"You better get ready soon. Tommy and Jason will be here any minute," her mother said.
Kim threw a pink dress on, put on her shoes, and began putting on her make-up. There were moments were she would have given anything to go back to bed.
"Tommy's really rubbing off on me," she laughed out loud.
Tommy was known to be forgetful. He would always be at the least twenty minutes late to every date.
xxx
The doorbell rang ten minutes later. Kim had just finished putting on her make-up.
"Kimberly, the guys are here," her mother yelled.
She put on some perfume and started down stairs.
"I'm coming," Kim yelled back.
"She'll be here in a second, Tommy," her mother replied.
"I'm here, I'm here," Kim said out of breath.
"A late start, Kim?" Tommy asked.
"I'd say. See you later, Mom," she said.
"Take care, dear," she smiled.
Kim closed the door, and she and Tommy began walking to Tommy's truck, where Jason was waiting.
"I can't believe I forgot to set the alarm," Kim said as Tommy opened the door for her.
"Well, you don't usually set the alarm on the weekends, do you?" Jason asked.
"No," Kim answered. "I think Tommy's forgetfulness is rubbing off on me."
"Oh come on now, Kim," Tommy said. "Am I really that bad?"
Kim and Jason glanced over at each other and began laughing.
"Yes," they said on unison.
xxx
Later that day, they started filming a battle scene before the sun set.
"You go left, I'll go right," Zack said to Tommy.
"Right," he nodded.
They easily took down the look alike putties, which were hard not to laugh at.
"Cut," Walter yelled.
"What did we do now?" Trini asked
"Nothing. That's a print," Walter smiled.
"Tremendous," Billy said.
"You guys," a girl yelled.
"That was Kim," Tommy said.
"Where is she?" Jason asked.
"There she is," Billy said.
Kim looked back at everyone as they ran to her.
"Um, are they part of the show," she asked.
"I don't think so," Tommy said.
"What are we going to do?" Trini asked.
"Um, Mr. Jackson," Jason said.
"Yes, Mr. Scott?" he asked.
He walked up to the group, who was eyeing two figures.
"May I ask why those two are here?" Jason asked.
"You always have to have bullies, right?" Walter wondered.
"Sure, whatever," Kim said.
Skull turned his head when he heard Kim's voice.
"Hey, it's Kimberly," he smiled.
"Oh no," she moaned.
"What are you geeks doing here?" Bulk asked.
"Didn't you hear? We're in the show too," Zack said.
"Oh, yeah, as what?" Skull asked.
"We're the Power Rangers," Tommy said.
"You geeks, playing… the Power Rangers?" Bulk asked.
"You wouldn't know the first thing about being Power Rangers," Skull laughed.
"Deal with it, okay," Trini said.
xxx
The gang watched as Bulk and Skull did their first take.
"Detention," Bulk yelled.
"What did we do?" Skull asked
"Cut," Mr. Jackson yelled.
"The depressing thing is, if they weren't such jerks, they would make good actors," Billy said.
"Sad, but true," Kim sighed.
"Was that a compliment?" Tommy asked.
"Yes," Kim moaned. "Don't laugh."
"Too late," Zack said, letting out his laugh.
Soon, they all were laughing.
"If I keep doing well, will you consider a date?" Skull asked.
"Don't get your hopes up, Skull," Kim said.
"Just give it up. She's with me," Tommy reminded him.
xxx
The six teens were sitting on chairs at the studio before leaving.
"Man, what a day," Jason said out of breath.
His shirt was all sweaty.
"Well, I think we improved," Billy said.
"Oh, definitely," Trini smiled.
"Let's hope we keep this up," Kim said.
"We will, Kim," Tommy smiled.
"Unless…" Zack started.
"Unless what, Zack?" Kim panicked.
The way Zack said it did not sound good. Tommy looked down, having an idea what Zack meant. He did not want to think about it. Being around his friends was beginning to feel normal again.
"You really think they'll do that?" Tommy asked.
"I'm not saying they will," Zack said. "I'm just saying that it'll be the one thing that will break us all down."
Tommy nodded. Kim seemed to be the only one that was confused to a point. The smile she had seen on her boyfriend's face a minute ago was now gone.
"They better not do what I think you're saying," Kim said, almost yelling.
"What if they do, Kimberly?" Billy asked.
"Then I quit right now," she said.
Kim was serious, more serious than she ever had been. She got up and started walking towards the door.
"Kim, you can't," Jason said, running after her.
He turned her around and did not let her go.
"Like hell I can, Jason! I won't go through that day again. I can't," Kim cried.
"Kim, please, you are stronger than this," Tommy said, walking up behind Jason.
"I can't bear losing you again," she wept.
"Kim, you're not really losing me," Tommy told her. "Yes, it'll suck for me too, but I think I can pull it together."
Mr. Jackson came walking up to them.
"All right people, this is what we're working on for tomorrow," he said.
They all waited for him to leave before they saw it. When they opened the paper, their eyes grew.
"No way," Jason gasped.
Jason looked at Zack.
"It can't be…" Zack said, shaking his head.
"I don't believe it," Trini whispered, looking over at Billy.
"I'm reading, but not believing. How could this be?" he asked.
Kim had her eyes closed. Tommy put his hand on her shoulder.
"This is bull. It's like knowing what will kill us all," he said.
"I'm not looking, I'm not looking," Kim repeated.
"You don't have to," Tommy comforted her.
"Is it what I think it is?" Kim asked.
Tommy put his head down and sighed.
"I'm sorry, Kim," he said.
She opened her eyes and screamed looking at the paper.
"No," Kim cried.
She buried her head in his arms.
AN:
How's the gang going to handle reliving possibly the worse day of their lives?