A/N: Hint: What can go wrong in the desert?

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Chapter 11: A Small Problem, a Big Reaction

"Come on Jas," Kim yelled, sitting at the bottom of the stairs.

"I'll be there in a moment," Jason called down the stairs.

"Hurry up! We were supposed to meet the others ten minutes ago!" Kim shouted up the stairs.

"Then I guess we'll get there at the same time as Tommy!" Jason called out, followed by the sound of a door opening and closing.

Soon Jason appeared on the top step, wearing a black t-shirt. He hurried down the stairs, "Okay let's go."

"When are you going to tell me what's up with all the black clothes? I get that you want a change in wardrobe, but what is up with the change in color. I know Grandma isn't doing well, but aren't you supposed to wait until after her death to start mourning?"

Jason rolled his eyes at Kim; she was smart; it would be hard to hide his new secret identity for long from her, especially since they lived in the same house, "Do you want to spend all day here, asking me questions I already answered…"

"Those answers were lies," Kim interrupted, "My mother was right, you are a terrible liar."

"Fine," Jason snapped, storming off, ignoring Pocco's yelp of pain as he accidentally stepped on his tail, "But don't think I'll take you to see your fiancé."

Kim frowned, Jason was never this moody, which meant only one thing; he was under an evil spell.

Tommy, Tommy can you hear me. She sent silently if he was under a spell, she didn't want to alert him to the fact that she was suspicious of it.

Beautiful, what's wrong.

Jason's acting weird. Dressing in black, not wearing red, snapping at me and lying. I think he might be under some sort of evil spell or mind control.

Keep an eye on him; let either Zordon or me know if something doesn't seem right.

Thanks, Handsome will do.

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The Youth Center was busy, which was common for a Saturday morning. Kim rolled over to where Tommy and the others were at as Jason snagged Trini away for a date. Kim smiled as Kat and Raymond, a friend of Tanya and Adam, arrived, carrying a tank between them.

"Since we all are free today, I figured we might do our ecosystem project today," Kat suggested.

Tommy nodded when it came to group projects where someone in the group was not a power ranger getting the project done early before monster attacks got in the way was the best way to go, "Great idea, we can go to the desert and collect stuff for it."

Kim frowned, "Sand's hard for me to get around on." She admitted, causing the other members of the group to frown, Kim didn't let her wheelchair get in her way much, but there were some things she just couldn't do.

"You can stay here, Beautiful and paint a background for the terrarium," Tommy suggested, before adding silently and have Baka keep an eye on Jason, we still don't know if he is under a spell or not.

"Just be careful," Kim urged, giving Tommy a quick kiss.

"What could go wrong in the desert?" Kat asked as she grabbed her backpack.

"That's what they say at the beginning of every horror movie I have ever watched," Zack called out from across the room, "Right before somebody dies."

"Not helping Zack!" Kim called out back at her friend.

"Glad to be of service." He said with his customary smirk.

After that, the Youth Center fell back into its usual Saturday groove. That was at least for ten minutes until Kim let out an earsplitting scream and Pocco started to bark as Kim toppled out of her wheelchair.

Aisha was the first one by her side, trying to make sense as her friend muttered something about Tommy being in trouble. Nita tell Balbir to tell Rocky to check in on Tommy. She ordered.

Ernie quickly hurried over to them, "What's going on? Is Kim okay?"

"The question isn't, is Kim's okay; it's what happened to Tommy?" Aisha hissed at their ally.

"What happened to Tommy?" Ernie hissed, wondering what had happened to the brave leader of the power ranger and what did that have to do with Kim's strange attack.

"All I know is that Kim's connection to Tommy was interrupted," Aisha explained, "and that's not good, those two don't block each other out ever. Block them from hearing secrets yes, but completely like this, never."

…the desert…

To say that Tommy and Kat were having a bad day was an understatement. A bad day was having the car break down or getting lost. It was quite worst when you got shrunk down and put into your terrarium by your archenemies.

"We're too small; we can't get through to Zordon," Kat announced after trying to use her communicator.

"I can't get in touch with both Kim and Sahen," Tommy added, sounding worried, he had always remained in touch with Kim ever since they had discovered the telepathic link between them. She was probably worried about him.

"Not that I'm saying that's good, but if you can't reach Kim, Kim can't reach you, she'll get the others and they'll save us," Kat paused, "Right?"

Tommy, however, wasn't really listening, sometimes waiting for help wasn't an option and he had a feeling like this was one of those times, "The likely hood of them finding us is slim, and they wouldn't know to look for miniature versions of us."

Kat frowned, turning around in a circle, inspecting their prison for any means out, "Look, there's a rip in the mesh, we can get out that way."

Both of the Rangers started to climb the rocks in an attempt to escape only to be stopped by Prince Sprocket and his new pet tarantula. "What do we do now; I don't want to be spider lunch!" Kat cried out.

Tommy frowned, "The Power Couple power is based on love, which I hardly doubt can be shrunk. I'll see if I can't transform into my power couple suit. With it, I should have the needed edge to escape."

Kat nodded, dodging the tarantula, "try it!" she called out.

Tommy closed his eyes for a minute, "Pink, Green, and White unite!"

…At the command center…

"It's Tommy's truck all right," Billy stated, looking at what looked like a toy car through a magnifying glass.

Rocky nodded, after getting the distress call from Balbir he had tried to contact Tommy and Kat but had gotten no response. With that, he had contacted Zordon and the others and had searched the desert, where they found Tommy's truck shrunk down to the size of a hot wheel.

"This is bad," Tanya stated, "Kim's in the hospital after having some sort of Seizure and we have no idea where Tommy and Kat are."

"Aisha is with Kim at the moment and Zack went to find Jason and Trini and fill them in on the situation." Adam added, "That leaves us to search for Tommy and Kat."

…The Park with Jason and Trini…

Jason and Trini were enjoying a nice quiet picnic lunch in the park when Zack came plowing past them. Jason watched in amusement as Zack struggled to stop and turn around at the same time.

"What's wrong Zack, you look like Goldar's chasing you," Trini asked.

"Kim's in the Hospital, she had some sort of seizure or something and Tommy and Kat are missing!" Zack huffed out, staring wildly at his two friends.

Jason stood up, it sounded like the gold ranger was needed, "Trini why don't you go check on Kim."

"What about you?" Trini asked.

"I have something I need to do first; I'll meet up with you later."

…The Desert with Tommy and Kat…

Tommy smiled as he bent down and scooped up the still miniature Kat. He had been surprised when he had transformed from Zeo Ranger Five to Power Couple White that the effects of the shrink rays wore off and he had started to grow large in the terrarium. He had luckily been able to scramble out before he accidentally squashed Kat or the spider.

"I wonder what kind of spells and stuff switching to Power Couple mode will cancel out." Tommy mused as he sat Kat on his shoulder.

At that moment Jason showed up as the gold ranger, he blinked to see that Tommy was full size and in his white suit. "Sorry I'm late, can I join in the party?" he asked, teasingly.

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Jason looked around, Tanya, Adam, and Rocky had showed up and it looked like they had everything under control. Kat was still Mini, but he knew that Billy would find a solution to that back at the command center.

"Looks like everything is taken care of here, I better head off back to town and take care of business there." He said to himself, before heading back to the hospital to check on Kim.

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Kim, who had been released from the hospital after all of her tests had come back normal, Kat, finally returned to normal size, and Tommy were adding the last touches to the terrarium when Raymond showed up.

"Dude, where were you? I had to walk back to town." He asked Tommy and Kat.

"I'm sorry man," Tommy said, "Aisha paged me when Kim had some sort of seizure, I honestly thought we could get back in time to pick you up, but time got away from us I guess."

"That's okay, I needed the exercise anyway," Raymond stated, "I'm glad to see you're feeling better Kim."

"Thanks," Kim said as Raymond pulled a container out of his backpack. Kat and Tommy exchanged looks, it was a tarantula.

"I figured it would be the perfect thing to finish off the terrarium," Raymond stated before giving them an odd look for the panic look they gave each other at the sight of the big spider.

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A/N: Make me smile and review.