Cat: Hey all! Quick note, Ryan and Captain Mitchell were injured fighting before the Space Rangers showed up to save their butts. Just in case you were wondering. I probably won't be able to update for a while, my life is steadily spiraling out of control. But I wanted to give you this to tide you over.

Disclaimer: Consider this piece officially disclaimed.

"Hey guys!" Conner said brightly as he, Kira, and Ethan crossed across the restaurant to the series of six tables squashed together in the center of the room. The other Rangers were crowded around, chatting casually.

"Hey Conner! Wuz up man?" Dustin greeted.

"I notice you're alive." Ashley commented.

"Conner never drives again." Kira said sharply. Ethan shuddered his agreement.

"Come on! I am not that bad a driver!"

"Why, exactly, did you let Conner drive?" Tommy questioned.

"Seemed like a good idea at the time."

"Most bad ideas do." Jason agreed.

"Anyways, sit down." Kimberly urged. Kira grabbed a chair from another table, conveniently missing the way the waiter flinched at the idea of having to serve yet another person. She squished it between Kimberly and Cassie. Ethan sat across from her. Both of them were very far away from Conner, who'd managed to maneuver his chair between a potential girlfriend, Tori, and his idol, Jason.

"Oh yeah, Dr. O." Conner got his attention.

"Yes, Conner?" Tommy wasn't entirely sure he wanted to know.

"We got your phone call." Tommy sunk into his chair, mentally kicking himself as he realized what call they must have been talking about. Both Kimberly and Jason burst out laughing.

"What's so funny about the phone call?" Cassie wanted to know.

"Ethan. Do it, do it!" Kira urged. Ethan cleared his throat professionally and Tommy groaned.

"You three need to get your asses—butts! Butts! Because you're students and I can't cuss in front of students." Ethan recited, his voice slurred, dramatically replaying the drunken call.

"I only had one beer, okay?!" Tommy shouted.

"One. Yeah right, Dr. O." Kira laughed.

"No joke. You must've been going on at least two and half." Conner agreed.

"How would you know?" Tommy asked sharply.

Conner realized quickly that it was probably not a good idea to mention his underage drinking in front of a bunch of highly responsible adults. "Ethan. Keep imitating." He said quickly.

"Don't you dare." Tommy threatened.

"And, your parents called again, Kira, and they're really really scary and I don't know what to tell 'em." Ethan continued.

"You did call your parents and tell them you're with us, didn't you?" Tommy asked.

"No." Ethan answered. "And we don't plan to unless you all want their wrath here."

"Right! I agree! Bad plan!" Shane said loudly.

"I'm sure they're going out of their minds." Cassie interjected.

"They know we're all right."

"Besides, I am so not looking forward to another 'Oh my God. Kira! You can't keep secrets from us! We deserve to know where you're at! Yada yada.' Conversation."

"Another?" Trini questioned.

"They've left voicemails." The yellow ranger answered.

"A lot of voicemails." Agreed Conner.

"It was the only way to get ahold of you three." Tommy said pointedly.

"Do we look stupid to you?" asked Conner. "We weren't gonna answer the phone."

"You're going to have to go home eventually." Tori pointed out.

"Yeah, but not for a while."

"Yeah. There's a lot in live that I haven't done yet, and my parents are gonna kill me." Ethan agreed. "One of which would be eating Tai food." He frowned, glancing down at the menu. "Is this even in English?"

"Well, you should have been here earlier. We all ready got thrown out of four pizza huts, two McDonald's, a Jersey Mike's," Cassie tallied. She shut one eye to concentrate better and the three teens just stared at them in disbelief. "A Chick-fil-A, a couple of unpronounceable Chinese places,"

"A Food Lion." Jason put in.

"Yeah, but that one wasn't a restaurant so I wasn't counting it."

"Yes, but we got thrown out because people were eating in it." At this point the Dino Rangers were feeling like failures at life. They'd only ever been thrown out of a tattoo parlor.

"True. Oh yeah, there was the Steak-and-Shake." Cassie added.

"Oh! And the food court at the mall." Tori piped.

"Right!" Ashley said loudly. "I didn't know it was possible to get thrown out of the mall without doing something illegal."

"We were scaring everyone away." Jason explained.

"Please don't tell them why. Please please please." Tommy begged. The Dino Rangers turned to him expectantly. "Please!" he said again when Jason showed every sign of telling. "They don't need any ideas!"

"Good point. Sorry kids."

"No!" They all yelled at once.

"Can I take your order?" The waiter, who'd been listening in on the restaurant-throwing-out-of conversation, looked purely terrified. All eyes instantly turned to him. He gulped.

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"What do you know, they're gonna let us back in." Greg observed outside.

"Even after Hunter tried to conquer it."

"I'm Napoleon!!" He shouted.

"Hitler was better!" Conner yelled.

"Don't make fun of my height!"

"No more drinks for Hunter." Tori said under her breath.

"Maybe we should step in and save him." Blake responded, motioning to Conner. The former Red Ranger was now using Kira as a human shield. "After all," Blake continued, "he is new."

"I have a better idea. How about you try to control your brother."

"Me? You're a teacher at a school for ninjas. I just ride motocross."

"You're an ex-Power Ranger." Tori shot back.

"So are you!"

"Guys!" Cam stepped in. "Is someone going to help him or not?" Tori and Blake glanced at each other. Then they turned to look at both Conner and Hunter in turn. Finally, their gaze returned to one another. They turned, in unison, to look at Cam.

"You go first."

"Kira! Hide me!" Conner squeaked.

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"They're not leaving." The waiter observed from the safety of the building. "They're not leaving."

"Just calm down." His friend told him. "Just breathe."

"What if they come back!" He wailed.

"Breathe buddy. Breathe."

"They're not leaving!"

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"What now?"

"Movies!" Four people shouted at once.

"No way are we going to get 27 seats together." Tommy shot.

"You only need 26." Ethan replied. "I was gonna go and use the hotel computer."

"25." Kira agreed. "I was going swimming."

"Me too!" Greg said too quickly.

"I'll go supervise." Ashley offered.

"Aw! Mom! No!"

"I'll supervise." Conner offered.

"No!" Four people shouted that as well.

"I'll supervise." Tori offered. "That should keep him happy." She motioned to Greg. "You all just enjoy the movie."

"I'll go with you." Blake offered, not quite selflessly.

"Okay, so how many people still want to go to the movie?" Tommy asked, slightly frustrated now.

"It depends on the movie."

"Okay, so, which movie are we seeing?" He asked.

"Goodbye sanity." Greg predicted and at once twelve different movies were suggested.

"Oh boy." Maya sighed.

"The little vein in Dr. O's neck is doing that twitching thing again." Kira observed.

"Yeah, no joke." Agreed Ethan. "Maybe we should escape while we still can."

"Good idea." Blake said. "Everyone in the car, quick!"

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"Not a chick flick." Hunter said firmly.

"I second that." Piped Max.

"Oh. But there's a good one playing." Kimberly argued.

"No."

Twenty Minutes later.

"I thought you weren't going to a chick flick." Kimberly teased.

"Don't talk to me." Tommy said grumpily.

"Oh, come on. What're you doing in here?"

"The only seat left in the stupid theater didn't have an actual seat, just a back." He admitted.

"So, basically you could sit on the floor or be in here?" Kimberly summarized.

"Sit on the floor?" Tommy repeated, eyes widening. "I could do that?"

" People walk on that floor. And spill things."

"Bye, Kim." He said, standing sharply.

"Tommy don't you dare!" He didn't listen.

Cat: That's all folks. Also, just a heads up, there will no be no swimming pool scene, and many other scenes will be incomplete. There is just so much that I want to have them doing and it was taking too long. You'd never ever get to see the real plot. I'm sorry, but that's the way it hasta be.