Chapter Three:

Kira followed Ethan to the Cyberchase Café, even as her eyebrow slowly inched upwards. When Ethan said he wanted to show her and Conner where he liked to hang out, she had not expected him to take her to the Café that she occasionally volunteered at to earn extra money. She was even working on getting a constant gig there. Being a family friend should totally help out with that…Hayley after all was the Maid of Honor at a certain wedding. Kira stepped through the door, her gaze sweeping the area. The café looked the same has it did the last time she had waitressed here. There were tables scattered about the place, and a long line of computers against the one wall. There also was a stage against the other wall.

"Aunt Hayley!" Kira called out to the older woman that was working behind the counter.

The owner of the café looked up, a grin crossing her face. "Kira! Nice to see you again. Need extra money for something again?"

Kira shook her head no, hopping onto the barstool in front of the counter. "Nope. Have you thought of my offer?"

Hayley hummed, pretending to be thinking about it. Ethan blinked rapidly, before shaking his head as he pointed to both of them. "You two know each other?"

"Hmm, Kim is one of my best friends." Hayley announced, before winking at Kira. "And yes, I did think about it. I'll get you your schedule for your band in a little bit. Right now, Conner there is a soccer try out that is open to all those interested."

Conner brightened up instinctively, a grin flashing across his face. "Sweet! I'll come by again later…I need to check this out!" He sprinted out of the door, leaving the others by themselves.

Hayley glanced over at Kira, nodding to the door. "You might wanna talk to your band and figure out what your first gig is going to cover."

"Right. See ya Aunt Hayley!" Kira left the café then, humming excitedly to herself.

Ethan blinked; confused on how she knew what both of his new teammates liked and would abandon him for. Shaking his head, he sat down just as his new communicator went off. Glancing around to make sure that no one was watching, he raised his com to his mouth. "Yeah?"

"It's me, Dr. O. I found something that you need to see…Now." His new science teacher spoke through the com, his voice full of command as if he expected the teen to follow him.

"On my way." Ethan truthfully was too curious not to go see what this was about.

Standing up, he nodded a farewell to Hayley, before hurrying out the door.

….

Tommy knelt down next to the nest of not one, but three non-fossilized dino eggs. He's been here for a few minutes already, glad that he had decided to go looking for the dinozord eggs himself before Mesogog could get to them. Glancing up, he tensed as he heard a stick snap nearby. A bush rustled loudly, making him tense even tighter…and then Ethan appeared in place of Tommy's imagined attacker.

Sighing, he gestured for Ethan to get closer. "It's just you. See these eggs? They're dinozord eggs."

Ethan blinked, before shooting him a quick questioning look. "Dinozord as in what we drive?"

"Yes. Once these guys hatch you can ride them to your battles." Tommy looked down at the eggs, worry wiggling its way in. Something bad was supposed to happen right about now…he could just feel it.

As if to prove his thoughts right, the thing from before, as well as Tyrannodrones and a creepy looking lady that he didn't recognize, popped out of nowhere. The creepy lady stepped forward, her gaze glaring at them. "We'll take those. Zeltrax!"

"On it Elsa…" The thing from before murmured as he darted forward and grabbed at the eggs.

Ethan clicked something on his communicator, distracting Tommy for a second. That second was long enough for Zeltrax to seize one of the eggs. Alarmed, he launched forward to try and grab it…only for Zeltrax to dance out of his reach. Snarling, he leaped to his feet and got ready to fight. A red blur suddenly zipped past Zeltrax…taking the egg with it. Skidding to a halt, the blur was revealed to be Conner morphed. A loud screech sent Elsa flying as Kira, again morphed, screamed at her.

Ethan tackled several of the Tyrannodrones, morphed for action. Amazed, Tommy paused to watch as they reclaimed the eggs and easily defeated the villains. A moment later the villains had fled and Conner was handing him the egg he had rescued. "Here… I have to get back to the tryouts now, before it's too late." He zipped off again.

Tommy shook his head, before turning to the others. "I'm gonna take a guess here that you all have things you need to get back to."

Nods rippled through the group, before they quickly ran off. Kira paused and turned to face him, a grin flashing across her face. "Bye Batman!"

Tommy shook his head, but couldn't help the smile that crossed his face…

…

Kira glanced around the café…and immediately noticed a cute new kid waiting on one of the tables. He had dark brown, almost black hair and eyes, and was wearing a black denim jacket over a white shirt. He maneuvered over to the table that they were sitting down at, a grin flashing across his face. "Hello. My name is Trent and I will be your server for today."

"Hi." Kira couldn't think of anything else to say as she looked into his eyes.

Ethan coughed, before addressing Trent. "I'll have your blueberry smoothie. With extra blueberries."

"Got it. And for you miss?" He turned to face Kira.

Kira blinked, before remembering why he was talking to her…and why she was here in the first place. "I'll have the banana smoothie. With extra bananas."

A hum escaped the teen, before he turned and left to tell Hayley their orders. Ethan shot Kira a look as he wondered what was up with that. A loud crash, followed by customers running into the building screaming something about a monster told him to worry about it later.

…

Monster didn't even begin to describe the horrible thing that called itself BirdBrain. It appeared to be a humanoid cyborg crow… and it had one large red glowing eye and carried a funny looking gun. It was also hard to keep up with. Thus why they have their new Raptor Cycles to help them to chase him down.

Conner pulled his to a stop, his gaze flickering back to the others. "Um? Is he supposed to do that?"

BirdBrain somehow had gone from six feet to thirty feet. In one second too… Kira shook her head, as Ethan contacted Tommy. "That can't be good."

~Back with Tommy~

Tommy checked that Cole was asleep, before going back to the computer screen that was monitoring the new Power Rangers. Just in time for Ethan to call him too. "Dr. O, we've got a problem…"

"What happened? Did the monster you were battling just turn to a thirty foot sixed monster?" He drily commented as if that was totally normal.

"Yes! How did you know that?"

Tommy blinked, before shaking his head and clicking on a few things. "No idea… if you figure that out, please tell me." Sucking in a breath, he continued to give them instructions. "Summon your megazord. You can defeat him for good with that."

"On it!"

Tommy leaned back, working a kink out of his back even as he heard a door open and close. A smile crossed his face as he turned to face the beautiful gymnastics coach that was coming down the stairs. "Hello Beautiful. How was your trip home?"

"Exhausting. Where's Kira?" Kim wrapped her arms around her husband's neck, resting her chin on the top of his head.

Tommy gestured to the screen in front of him. "She's the one in yellow."

A sharp intake of breath told him that she did not appreciate hearing that her little sister was out there fighting crime. "I see…"

"I'm headed over to Hayley's café later to support her and her band. Do you want to come with or stay with the kids?"

"Stay with the kids. You didn't lose your head…so I need to make sure that you didn't lose a kid."

"My memory is not that bad!" Tommy protested weakly, knowing she had a point. Kim laughed loudly, waking Cole up from his nap. Upon seeing that his mommy was home, Cole stretched his arms up to get picked up. Kim happily obliged him.

…

Tommy could hear the loud music that Kira and her band played before he even stepped foot into the building. He reached for the door, just as a gust of wind announced the arrival of more Tyrannodrones. Before he could react much to that, or call for the new team that he was mentoring, the humanoid creatures seized and teleported out of there.

A/N: Done! Um, yeah…Kim is now home…and Tommy has been kidnapped. Also, he doesn't know why he knew that the monster grew to, well, monster size really. I think they are gonna realize something is wrong a lot sooner than in the show. Since his wife knows where he was headed and Kira can confirm that he never showed up. Oops.

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