Back in the Line of Duty
Welcome to Reefside, CA

Dedicated to: PinkRangerV for letting me bounce ideas off of you early this morning and late last night.

Thanks to JeremyShane for their review on Chapter 3!

Reviews are love guys. These next 3-5 chapters are setting the ground work and then we'll pick up around chapter 7-9 into the action so bare with me. The background is important to the story.

Tommy Oliver woke the next day at three am, knowing he would have to do several runs to the airport to pick up his friends and fellow rangers who would be flying in from across the United States. He already smelled coffee which meant that Hayley was already up and working in the command center. He was sure she was ready to meet Billy and Justin as they were stumped on how to actually create the morphers.

Sure, Hayley had a general idea and design to keep them from being too obvious but it was a matter of how to get them set up that way that had both of them stumped. As he dressed half asleep and made his way in the direction of the coffee pot that they kept in the downstairs command center he began running through a mental checklist.

They needed teenagers that where self-motivated, who could avoid the suspicions of their parents if at all possible but considering the fact they could very well be choosing teenagers that were going into their sophomore year, due to Hayley's interest in Ethan James, transportation could very well be an issue until they started their junior year but they could cross that bridge when they got there.

A psychological evaluation wouldn't be a bad thing to run them through either, being a ranger wasn't easy, but at the rate rangers kept being turned evil, it probably wouldn't be to fair to force them into a psychological evaluation. One would be rated to make sure they could handle the training schedule which would be rather through and not to mention tough.

That was a part of the reason he was bringing in Jason, Rocky, and Adam. All three had previous martial arts experience. He would feel more comfortable brining in Alyssa and Taylor from the Wild Force team if they wound up with a female ranger, which Tommy was sure they would, it was always good to have a female ranger to help balance out the egotistical tendencies of the male rangers.

Shaking his head to clear it from such deep thoughts this early in the morning, he took the stairs down into the command center two at a time silently handing Hayley her cup of coffee that he had already placed in a travel mug that was probably four times bigger than should legally be allowed before he sat down and began emailing the two female rangers he hadn't thought of until his brain was clouded with sleep.

"I'm picking up Jason, Rocky, Adam, Zach and Katherine here in about an hour as well as going to a grocery store. You're picking up Justin, Billy, Kimberly, Aisha, Tanya and a rather large order from Best Buy, and Office Depot. My crew and I will have to stop by a house that Jason rented out here to pick up an order that we didn't want coming straight to the house and then we'll we back." Tommy said, as Hayley raised an eyebrow in his direction.

"Can I have Katherine and you take Kimberly?" she asked, not sure if she wanted to be in such an enclosed space with the first pink ranger.

"Kimberly and I have gotten over our differences a long time ago, and she's actually a very sweet girl." Tommy said, giving Hayley a look that said 'work with me' before he turned back to the grocery list he was making. "Is there anything you want me to add to the grocery list?" he asked, knowing that her working twenty hours around the clock for him had to have been wearing her out.

"Coffee and caffeine, lots of it. If we each go through only two cups a day at eight ounces, that'd put us at 176 ounces of coffee in one day, and you and I both know that we drink more than two cups." She said, turning to give him a grin as she continued," a canister of coffee gives out 240 cups each and we'll go through a minimum of twenty two cups of coffee a day so we'll probably need four canisters of coffee since they're staying two weeks." She said, watching as he looked at her in amusement before adding it to the list.

"Four cases of water, the Citrus Full Throttle's in a Case of 24, get two just in case anyone else drinks it. From there enough food to last us a week, so meat, chicken, fish, the rest you can figure out once you get there." She said, as she handed him another list that she had put together, glad to see it was a rather short list as he grabbed his coffee cup and headed to pick his friends up at the airport.

By the time the entire group had arrived back at Tommy's house everyone was rather curious as to why they were there, as Tommy had only given them the barebones basics over the mass email and phone call he had sent out.

Thankfully both Alyssa and Taylor had received his email, and as Taylor was recently retired and Alyssa was helping her father with their marital arts studio she was able to leave him in charge for as long as necessary.

After relaying the important information, and introducing Hayley to everyone that was there it was time to get down to business.

"I assume you want a female ranger, or we wouldn't be here, correct?" Taylor asked, motioning to Alyssa and herself.

"Yes. The other two will be males but it always seems to work better when there's a female ranger on the team. Alyssa, you still practice the White Tiger method?" Tommy asked, wanting to make sure he had his facts right.

"I do. I'm running a dojo in the evening and teach kindergarten during the day." She said, giving Tommy a smile as she turned to Taylor. "I assume Kimberly, Katherine, Taylor, Aisha, Tanya and I will be training the female?" she asked, glad to see Tommy nod.

"Kimberly's gymnastics saved her life more than once as a ranger, it'd be helpful to teach the girl ranger a few things about gymnastics. Katherine dances, and once again it saved her life more than once. Aisha and Tanya are book smart to the extreme and have developed their own styles of fighting. Taylor's got her military background to help train the girl in and you have the White Tiger method to train her in, we can't afford for the one girl ranger to be the weak link, they always go for the girls. I want the six of you to get together and come up with a training program, start from scratch as if they knew nothing because we probably won't get that lucky. The same for the guys, start from scratch on a training regime, the blue ranger, Ethan James, will also be spending a fair amount of time with Hayley, Billy, and Justin because he's a computer person, Hayley wants him to know how to run the computer system like the back of his hand as well as code it if Hayley isn't available to us for a while." Tommy said, before he stood and started a rather large pot of coffee.

"Billy and Justin, Hayley needs your help with a few things and then I want the three of you to come up with a feasible school schedule for our newest rangers. Hayley sent out ½ priced coupons to the entire school that are good for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so we'll be picking over the course of three days unless we find one we really like. The other colors we have to work with are yellow and red, and no, I am not taking one I am getting too old for this." Tommy said, as soon as a few set of eyes turned to him as soon as he mentioned the Red Dino Gem. There was no way he was going back into spandex, he had no problem training but he was not going to become a ranger again.

"Okay guys, divide off, tech is with me. If you're working on the female's training schedule there's a table to the left. If you're working on the males there's a table to your right." Hayley said, as Billy and Justin stepped up to her before introducing themselves and then pulling up a chair for what would be a very long session of brainstorming.