Chapter Four: It's Gonna be Weird For A While
Note: My bad I skipped the prolog. So this is actually chapter five. Oh well. Gina this chapter is yours. My partner decided to update without telling me so I may finish it under the name Coolheads as well. Chapter 17 of that is up so you can look at it if you want.
Dino Thunder Cave
Kim got up from the chair and walked over to Tommy." I'll be back in a few." Tommy grabbed his wife's hand giving it a gentle squeeze before relinquishing her hand and watching her walk out the entrance. "Tommy can you come here for a minute." Hayley called over her shoulder "Sure Hayley." Tommy applied as he approached his technical friend and the two of them started talking in a low tone Adam, Tanya, Kat, Rocky, Tommy and Trey looked on from their spot they claimed. "Max, what's up buddy?" Conner asked as he stooped down to the little boy's level. "Mommy's worried." Max replied quietly. "Everything's going to be alright." Ethan added. "I hope so; I mean there's two of my daddy's here." Trent and Kira sat down and crowded around him. "It is weird you guys." Trent pointed out as he watched their teacher and Hayley go even deeper into their conversation. "And why is she staring at me like that?" Max queried. "Who Max?" Kira wondered. "The one with the blonde hair is." Max answered pointing at Kat. Kira looked up at the Zeo Team and watched the Pink Zeo Ranger and Yellow Zeo Ranger share small talk then the Pink Ranger did a small hand gesture at the little boy before glancing over at the Red Ranger." Man. Dr. O's teen self looked like he entered the Twilight Zone." Ethan told his friends. "Max come here son." Tommy commanded from the console. "I'm coming Daddy, excuse me." Max told Kira as he got up and walked over to his father. "Hayley is going to take you upstairs. I want you stay in the kitchen so that when your mother comes up…" Tommy was cut off by Max. "Daddy if just want me to stay upstairs then say so." Max said as he turned around and went over to his toy ball and picked up then he carefully climbed up the stairs. "Man Dr. O, he's too smart for his age." Conner exclaimed as he got up along with the rest of his friends. "When Two Rangers in the same caliber of Kim and Tommy, you will get the first born whether it's a girl or in Max's case a little boy that is a mixture of them right down to a 'T' as per say you younger generation prefer to describe, and when a strong and stubborn woman with the attitude of Kim's stature meets as well as love someone with just as an equal qualification in Tommy's stature you will get a smart and yet an very quick to grasp the obvious no matter how much you try to skirt around the question." Dr. Oliver glared over at Doce before turning back around to work on some of controls
Hayley smirked as she looked over out the corner of her eye as Tommy's jaw clenched and unclenched.' he's very lucky that's for sure. "Well I guess that you should already know what to do for your son Admiral." Kim spoke. 'Maybe not.' Hayley thought as she looked over at Kim. "Yeah I do." Doce replied. "Well that's good for you, but this is not your time era or planet, so why don't you go out there and check on your son." Kim suggested in tone that let him know to not argue with her. "Stubborn as well as strict." Doce thought as he shrugged then padded out of the Cave without looking back.
"Kim." Tommy called Kim looked over at the Zeo Rangers who were staring back at her especially the younger Tommy. "Don't Tommy, I think it's best that I just go upstairs with Max." Kim told him. "I want to know why." Tommy implied. Kim walked up to her husband and placed her hand on both of his knees." You know why." Kim replied with glance to her right. Tommy looked over at the Zeo Rangers and immediately looked right at himself seeing exactly what he didn't even tell Kim when they decided to give their relationship another shot three years ago and now that it's going on their fourth year anniversary with a highly intelligent three year old. "Kim don't worry about it...it's in the past." Tommy told her in a supporting tone. "Well the past has resurfaced, and I know that you did one hell of job hiding the pain that my letter caused when we got back together, but I just can't stay down here any longer. I'm sorry, but I'm going to go upstairs and make myself and Max content and out of the way." Kim explained then turned around and walked upstairs. "Dr. O, do you mind." Kira asked. "No, go ahead Kira I don't think anything else is going to happen today, but if it does I'll call." Tommy told her. Kira nodded then smiled down at Trent before turning and running up the stairs. "This will no doubt make us question each other all over again." Tommy mumbled to himself. Hayley heard the comment and stopped what she was doing and pushed the chair. "Look Tommy just like I told Kim no that long ago you two have found each other and you each gave the other another shot at happiness and this time has to come down to the both of you mutually agreeing, no letter is acceptable this time, do those words register inside your head." Hayley told him as nicely as she could. "Um, Doctor O, what are we going to do about the Zeo Rangers." Ethan queried. "They'll have to stay down here; I have foldout cots that they'll have to share." Doctor Oliver told Ethan.
A few moments later someone spoke. "Can we get something to eat?" Rocky asked with a hopeful look. Both Tommy's laughed at him and the others joined in. "So Dr. O, this is how it was back in the day as a Zeo Ranger." Trent questions. "Yeah, but back then I was able to have a little freedom." Conner followed up. "A little freedom...yeah right." Adam said with his signature half sided grin. "It wasn't like it probably is now with your parents hounding your every move." Rocky stated. The younger Tommy got up from his spot on top of a boulder looking right at the Older Tommy. "There's no chance you can tell me how I get from where I am to where you are?" Tommy asked with pleading eyes. "No I can't." Dr. Oliver informed him. "You know even though David looks exactly like you, but what if they're two of you know." Rocky asked. "That would never work out." Tommy and Dr. Oliver stated at the same time. "Dude, that's not even funny." Conner said to Dr. Oliver. "Conner, what did I tell you about that word." Dr. Oliver reprimanded. "Sorry, never happening ever again Dr. O." Conner responded quickly. "Kat are you okay." Tommy asked as he went back over to his girlfriend "Yeah, I'm okay I think I need some air. Ex...excuse m-me." Kat says then ran out of the cave sobbing with Tommy quickly chasing after her. "I'm going to go order some pizzas." Dr. Oliver inputs then leaves out of the dino lab stairs. "He's going to go check on Kim." Hayley, Rocky and Adam chimed instantly causing them to laugh at how predictable Tommy/Dr. O was. "How long have they been married." Tanya queried to Hayley. "A few years and that's all I can say." Hayley stated. "This is going to be tough on us." Conner said. "And why would you say that." Adam inquired. "He's going to make sure that we do extra if and when he's in a bad mood." Conner told them with a worried look. "That's time change for ya." Rocky inputs as his stomach grumbled." And I hope the food gets here quick." He concluded. "Do you think Billy is trying to locate us?" Tanya wondered. "Billy." Haley mumbled to herself. "Tommy!" she yelled not noticing he was walking down the steps. "Yes Haley." He answered. "We might need another technical advisor." Tommy got back downstairs halfway. "You can send him page. Anything that will help send the Zeo Rangers back to their time before anything else get out of hand." Tommy told his friend. Hayley nodded knowing he was right then turned around and sent a page to Billy Cranston's computer.
Note: This was harder to edit due to the amount of bad grammar, but she wrote a good chapter so I hope you enjoy it. It was originally two long chapters so I tried breaking it down more for you to make it easier to read.