Chapter Nine:

Kira frowned as she tapped away at her keyboard, trying to get the paper done in time. Conner was working on the same paper as her across from her, while Ethan was playing a video game on his computer. An excited squeal escaped Ethan as he did something…though what was a mystery to her.

"Can you please keep it down Ethan?" Kira shot a glare at the blue power ranger, tapping her fingers in annoyance.

"Sorry…Yes!" He punched the air in excitement, clearly pleased about something that his avatar just did.

Conner leaned across the table and quickly turned the computer off, killing the game. "We're trying to work here!"

Ethan scowled at him, a protest leaving his lips. "It took me three hours to get to that level!"

Kira groaned as she turned back to her paper. "We have a paper due… shouldn't you be working on that?"

"Eh…Trent and I already finished it a while back." Ethan brushed himself off.

"Seriously?" Conner groaned, even as Kira glanced around the café.

"Where is Trent anyways? I thought he was on shift right now?" Kira mused to herself as she powered down her computer.

"Are you leaving?" Conner glanced over at her, surprise flashing in his eyes.

"Yeah…I'm babysitting my nieces and nephews. Wanna come? I'm sure I can find a dirty diaper for you to change." Kira smirked, already knowing his answer.

"Ew…no thank you." Conner and Ethan both made gagging noises.

Kira rolled her eyes, before walking out of the room. She could handle this. She was the 'fun' aunt anyways!

…

Kira checked on the triplets, before moving over to check on Mari and Bianca. The two girls were playing dolls while the others were playing a board game that was a little advance for their understanding. "How are things going in here?"

"Great! Do you want to play too?" Mari held up her doll, while Bianca hugged hers close to her chest.

"Nah. I'm good. I really should go check on Cole. He should be waking up soon." Kira stood up, and left the room.

Moving across the hall, she peeked into the nursery to find Cole still dozing peacefully in the crib, sucking on his new binky.

She had barely walked back into the living room when Tommy came barreling into the room. "We're going on a field trip!"

"What are we? Kindergartners?" Kira slapped her hand to her forehead.

…

Tommy rolled his eyes as he stepped to the side away from Principal Randall. For some reason she was acting rather…flirty towards him…all of a sudden. Shaking his head, he glanced over at his teammates to find them arguing over something again. Wonderful.

"Kira…." He didn't say anything else, allowing it to hang in the air there.

Kira snapped her head over to look at him, before muttering something to the others. As the rest of the class gathered around the head archeologist to learn more about what it was that they were digging up, he hovered back, prompting them to approach him.

Kira crossed her arms, a scowl on her face. "I still think that your treating us like kindergartners."

"Yeah…we don't really need to hold hands with our partners." Conner mumbled, clearly annoyed about that little bit of instruction.

"I have six kids…all of them under eight years of age. I like the buddy system…I don't lose kids when we do that." Tommy defended his reasoning quickly.

Ethan glanced sideways at Kira. "Why does he make it sound like that he has lost them before?"

Kira shrugged, not really getting the big deal. "That would be because he has the world's lousiest memory and has forgotten someone at some point in their lives. First day of school he forgot about Cole, reason why he brought him to work and instead of Day Care."

"Oh."

Tommy tapped his foot, his arms crossed against his chest. "Oh nothing…that's ancient history. Now the real reason why we're here is because there is a dinozord egg somewhere around here. You need to get it back before Mesagog realizes it's here."

Kira blinked, before glancing at her two 'buddies'. "That's why in assigning us are partners for the field trip you put all three of us together. We need to go power ranger on Mesagog."

Tommy nodded, before gesturing for her to follow him. "Should be over here if…my…calculations …are right." He froze upon seeing that Elsa was already there. "Yeah time to morph and I'm getting everyone else out of here." He turned and bolted back to the rest of the class, knowing he had to act quickly.

…

"How about we make a list of all the things that can go wrong today?" Kira muttered under her breath as she flopped down in her living room.

Conner and Ethan nodded in agreement, even as Kim walked in, bouncing Cole on her hip. "Well all that just happened."

"Gee sis, you don't say?" Kira rolled her eyes, even as she held her arms out for her youngest nephew.

Kim dumped Cole into her arms, turning to face the boys. "Soo… ready for your homework?"

"No!" They groaned slumping down on either side of Kira.

~Meanwhile Back with the Retired Power Rangers~

Billy frowned as he glanced at the device he was holding, then back up at what was right in front of him. "I don't get this…nothing is here."

TJ frowned, before glancing over at Jason. "Maybe we made a mistake…?"

Jason quickly shook his head. "I trust Billy. If he says that the signal came from here, then it came from here. We must be missing something."

Just then Trini came running up to them, holding something in her hands. "Soo, Jason… seems to be we have a new team to meet up with."

"Wait what?" The three men turned to stare at her as if she had grown an extra head.

Rolling her eyes, Trini handed the newspaper to him. "Front page. Dino Thunder Power Rangers save the day yet again. And it's here in Reefside."

Billy nodded to it, interest in his eyes. "That might explain why we can't find anything. We must be on top of their HQ. Which would mean that…"

"One of these newbies triggered the flag. Wonderful." Jason muttered under his breath, rolling his shoulders as he looked to the sky.

"They have relatives in this team." Trini spoke up, clearly interest in the new team. The others gave her a blank look. Rolling her eyes, she pulled out several old newspaper clippings…all of them on the new team. "The Pink and Yellow rangers are sisters apparently and the black ranger is somehow related to them. Either that or he is way too close to the Pink ranger to be just friends."

Billy scanned the papers, arching his eyebrow upwards. "Somehow related? The way they talk makes it sound like their married. Clearly older than the others."

Nods rippled through the group, even as they wondered who was behind the helmets this time around…

A/N: Done! Yeah… the retired power rangers are now looking in at what is going on out in Reefside and are bewildered on why they are just now hearing about this new team… I can't wait for them to meet the kids! That is going to go soo well.

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