AN: Warning! This chapter contains some fluff! I hadn't meant for it, but it sort of just happened. Please forgive me for the fluff, it was completely unintentional. But hey, a little fluff is good sometimes, right?

Kat was walking in Reefside Plaza, looking around at the various shops. After her visit with Tommy the day before, she had needed to clear her head a bit, and so she thought she'd explore the town a little. She hadn't really been anywhere since her arrival to Reefside, so she thought a little sight seeing would be nice before her return to Australia. She was making her way to one place in particular. A little place called "Hayley's Cyberspace", where she was supposed to meet Tommy for a drink. When she reached the little café, Tommy was already waiting for her.

"There you are!" He said, sitting at a table, "Did you get lost?"

Kat smiled and took a seat at the table, "Oh, no, I didn't get lost. I just got distracted with all the stores."

Tommy laughed, "I should have known."

Kat ignored his comment and looked around the café, "This is a really nice place, and I see why you like it here. It kind of reminds me of how we used to hang out at Ernie's all the time. All of us." Kat sighed, resting her head in her hand, "It seems so long ago."

"Yeah," Tommy replied. For some strange reason, he seemed a bit strange to Kat.

"Tommy, is everything all right?"

"Of course, why wouldn't it be?" He seemed normal enough.

"Yes, Kat… why wouldn't it be?" A sleek voice said behind her. She turned her head quickly and came face-to-face with the ugliest creature she had ever seen. He walked like a human, but his hands were claws and his head… his head looked like that of a dinosaur. Kat sat there, unable to move or speak. She couldn't even make herself scream.

In a flash the creature flew by her, causing her to turn quickly in order to keep track of it, and the sight before her horrified her. She was no longer in the café. As a matter of fact, she was nowhere. Everything had turned to black and all she could see for miles were bodies. Bodies of people she loved and people she had never even met. At her feet were the bodies of Tommy's recruits, the three young teens she had met not 24 hours before. Their eyes were open and they were covered in blood.

"Oh, my God…" Kat managed to say barely above a whisper.

Then she heard it… the horrible sound… a gurgling sound.

Slowly she looked up, bracing herself for what she was about to see. Before her was the creature with his claws wrapped around Tommy's throat and holding him some feet above the ground.

"NO!" Kat screamed as the creature threw Tommy's lifeless body at her feet beside the three teens. She fell to her knees at Tommy's side, his eyes open and staring at nothing.

"And you couldn't save him…" the creature said, laughing, "because you don't have the power."

"No…" Kat choked, tears falling down her cheeks and landing on Tommy's face, "No… no…" she looked at the three teens, "this can't be happening…" she looked up to see the bodies of her old friends, "Tanya, Adam, Rocky, Billy, Jason, Kim…" she choked, reaching her hand out to them, even though they were far out of reach.

More tears fell from her eyes like rain falls from the sky as she saw Reefside in flames and the screams of hundreds of innocent people filled the air, all the while the creature laughed.

His laughing ceased and he turned his attention towards Kat. She felt her breath catch in her lungs. "Join your friends!" He said, and he swung his arm violently toward her. The ground beneath her disappeared and she began to fall.

"NOOOO!" She screamed, "TOMMY! TOMMY! NO!"

"Kat… Kat!" Tommy's voice rang in her ears.

Kat's eyes snapped open and she flung herself forward and into the arms of a very worried Tommy, holding onto him tightly and crying into his shirt. Tommy gently wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close and trying his best to calm her.

"Shh," he said gently, "it's okay, it's okay. Kat, I'm here, it's okay."

She pulled away from him so that she could look at his face, "Tommy... y-you're here… you're all r-right…" she said in a shaky voice, putting her hands on his cheeks, as if to confirm that he was really there. Cold sweat covered her face and arms and her hands were clammy, but Tommy didn't notice or care.

He pushed some stray hairs out of her face, "Of course I'm here." He said, stroking her hair gently.

"No, you weren't… you were… he…" she wrapped her arms around him again.

"It's okay, it was just a nightmare," he said soothingly, "you're fine now."

Outside Chimera smiled to herself and disappeared.

Tommy made some tea after some time had passed and Kat had had a chance to calm down. She was sitting on the sofa again, her eyes were red and puffy and her hair was unkempt. Tommy handed her tea to her and sat down, "How are you feeling?"

"I'm all right," she said after some time, "it was just a nightmare…" 'A nightmare that felt so real…' she thought to herself.

She looked around, a bit confused as to why she was still at Tommy's house. "Why am I here?"

"While we were catching up, I went to the kitchen to get something to drink and when I came out you were sleeping on the sofa. I didn't have the heart to wake you, especially since it was already after midnight at the time, so instead I covered you with a blanket and went to my own bed." He told her, "I woke up when I heard you screaming, so I rushed downstairs to make sure you were all right."

Kat looked over at the clock: 3:47 am. "I'm sorry." She said, setting her tea down on the coffee table, "I'm sorry I woke you."

Tommy watched her closely. He knew there was something she wasn't telling him, but he didn't want to push her. "Don't worry about it," he said, brushing off her apology, "the important thing is that you're not hurt." They both stayed silent for a while.

"Let's just try to get some sleep." Tommy said finally, breaking the uneasy silence, "Do you want me to stay with you for a little while? At least until you fall asleep."

She smiled, "Thanks, Tommy. That's really sweet of you, but I don't want to keep you."

"No problem, Kat." He said, taking a seat on the recliner as she began to lie back down, pulling the blanket around her, "I won't leave this spot until you go back to sleep. I promise." Kat's smile, that beautiful smile Tommy loved so much, brightened and she laughed.

"I feel like a little child who needs her father to come and scare off the monsters under her bed," she said, a little embarrassed.

Tommy chuckled, "Don't feel that way. Every once in a while we all need someone to come and fight our monsters for us, or someone to be there and keep them away. I'll always be here, Kat, if you need me to fend off your monsters."

Kat felt her cheeks warm up a bit and she smiled once again, nodding, "Thanks Tommy. I'm lucky to have a friend like you."

"No problem."

Kat yawned and turned over on her side, facing away from Tommy. "And you couldn't save him because you don't have the power." The creature's voice echoed in her head.

She shut her eyes tightly and took a deep breath, 'It's just a dream… it's just a dream… it's just a dream…' she repeated in her head, trying desperately to drown out the creature's voice, and slowly drifted off to sleep.

Tommy stayed with her, even after he was sure she was asleep, and watched her sleep until he too drifted off to sleep.

xXx

"I'm just saying that I sensed a little more than 'friendship' between them, that's all." Conner said matter-of-factly as he, Ethan, and Kira entered Hayley's Cyberspace that afternoon.

"So you're saying that if two people are of the opposite sex, they can't be 'just friends'?" Ethan asked.

"No, I'm just saying that they seemed a little more 'intimate' than, say," Conner twirled his mini red soccer ball in his hands as he searched for an example, "than Dr. O and Hayley."

"Mhm, I see." Ethan said, "Well, there is no doubt that they dated at some point, that's for sure."

"See, you agree with me! They have a his-tor-y." Conner said almost musically.

"And speaking of, there they are, so both of you shut up!" Kira hissed, pointing out Tommy and Kat sitting on one of the sofas. Kat smiled as Tommy told her something, but Kira noticed that she looked a little worried, if not scared, and that she was looking around the café when she wasn't looking at Tommy. 'This is a little strange.' Kira thought, raising her eyebrow.

"Hey Dr. O!" Conner called, walking over to them. The three of them greeted Kat and Tommy and sat down on the sofa opposite them.

Tommy immediately went on to tell them that they would have a meeting at the lab later on to go over more of the footage. The three teens groaned, obviously wanting to do something else, but agreed. They may have better things to do, but this involved the fate of the world. If Mesogog's monsters were getting stronger, that meant that the Power Rangers had to get stronger, too.

Kat listened to them and watched them as they quietly talked about their latest battles, bringing back old memories of when she was once a Power Ranger back in Angel Grove. She thought about going to Ernie's, hanging out with the Rangers for hours, going to the beach, and, of course, Zordon and Alpha.

It wasn't easy on any of the Rangers when they heard about Zordon's fate during the battle with Astronema, when she had led a full-fledged attack on Earth and other planets throughout the universe. Zordon had sacrificed himself for the sake of everyone. His intentions, no doubt, were to rid the universe of all evil, and he had… for a little while. But unfortunately, evil had emerged again and again, taking on different forms every time.

Kat was pulled from her thoughts when the building began to shake. She fell forward, but caught herself on the coffee table and pushed herself up. Ethan, who was getting a smoothie at the bar, fell backwards and dropped his smoothie on a blonde girl, and a boy with messy shoulder-length brown hair frantically helped her up. Conner had caught Kira when the two of them were nearly thrown off the sofa. Tommy had grabbed onto the armrest of the sofa and when the first shake stopped, he looked up at the other Rangers. The only thing Kat could think was that it had to be a dream, but she knew perfectly well that this time it wasn't.

"Would you mind getting off of me?" Conner asked.

"Happily!" Kira said, irritated, and pushed herself up. Both of them got to their feet as Ethan ran over to them and Tommy stood up. They all looked at each other and nodded. However, they immediately fell over again when another quake hit. The four un-morphed Rangers got to their feet once again and ran out of Hayley's Cyberspace, pushing their way through a bunch of fleeing, frantic people.

They were stopped when they came face-to-face with Elsa. "Hello, Rangers."

"Elsa!" Tommy said angrily, "What do you want now?"

"Meet me at Reefside Woods in 15 minutes," she commanded, "there is someone I want you to meet." Kat came running out of the Cyberspace just in time to hear Elsa's demands. "Be there in 15 minutes or else!" She said and then disappeared.

"No doubt it's a trap," Kira said, looking at the other three.

"Yeah, but we don't have a choice." Tommy told them, "Who knows what she'll do if we don't show up." The others nodded.

"Tommy," Kat came out, "Tommy, there is something you should know about the dreams-"

"Stay here, Kat," he said, ignoring her attempts to warn him, "You'll be safe here." And with that, he and the other Rangers ran toward their destination.

"No! Tommy!" Kat called to him. "Ugh!" She punched the air, frustrated. "What do I do? I can't just stay here… I have to do something!" She looked up in the direction they ran. "I have to do something."

Kat took off after them, determined to do everything in her power to keep her dream from becoming a reality.

AN: Eh… I'm not so sure I liked this chapter too much, but I'm too lazy to rewrite it. I mean, I put a lot of work into it, don't get me wrong. I even like some parts of it. But… erm… not too sure I like it all that much. Well, lemme know what you think.