The Falcon and the Frog II

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Chapter 14: Beginnings

Kyle Oliver-Park had inherited Tommy's height and build and Kim's looks, but in personality was far more like Adam . . . most of the time. However there were times, times like now, where he proved that he had just enough in common with Tommy to get him into trouble.

"Bro, we should so not be doing this," Aiden Scott whispered at his "cousin" as he followed him down the steps into the subterranean, and normally off-limits Dinolair. Poor Aiden tried to follow his mother's example; to be calm, placid, the voice of reason. Unfortunately, he had inherited all the personality traits that his father shared with Tommy, and so for all of his complaining Aiden was vibrating with barely contained excitement at this chance to freely explore the mysteries below the Oliver-Park home.

"Why are you whispering?" Kyle asked with a chuckle. "Nobody else is home. Besides, I come down here all the time."

"Once or twice a year with your Dads or Aunt Haley does not count as all the time Kyle," Claudia Desantos challenged with an eyeroll. While she was just as curious as the boys about the contents of the Dinolair and what they could find without the adults looking over their shoulders, she also possessed far more self-restraint than them and had voted against coming down here. However, when it became clear that her cousins were bound and determined to use the rare opportunity being left at the Oliver-Park home alone presented, Claudia had to join them. The three of them were a team after all, oldest of the kids of the original Power Rangers . . . boy, had that been an interesting thirteenth birthday . . . and Claudia couldn't let the boys get in trouble on their own, at least not without her there to try to prevent them from turning this into a complete disaster.

"It's more often than that," Kyle muttered.

Any retort Claudia was about to make died in her throat as Kyle brought up the lights. Over the years the Dinolair had transitioned from an active Power Rangers base to a sort of private Ranger museum. Tommy had been able to establish contact with nearly every team that had come after the original Rangers and had pictures of each team on one wall. Each team had also donated a bit of memorabilia. Everything was carefully preserved by Tommy.

Like most kids, the trio had idolized the Rangers, Kyle and Aiden once even fantasizing about joining SPD and entering the Ranger program. All that changed at the party to celebrate their thirteenth birthdays three years ago. After the dinner, cake, and presents, their parents had sat them down and told them the truth, that they were the original Power Rangers. At first the three laughed. Yeah, their parents each had weird obsessions with certain colors, but Power Rangers? No way. Then Kyle's dad had rolled up the rug in the study and moved the jawbone of the miniature dinosaur skeleton on his desk and they had their first introduction to the Dinolair. Ever since the trio had been itching for a chance to explore the Lair and it's contents unsupervised.

They split up. Claudia wandered over the to the picture wall and the cases containing replicas of morphers and uniforms. Aiden wandered over to the mainframe and was barely able to repress the urge to loving stoke the machinery . . . he may have been Jason and Trini's son, but there was a reason Billy was his favorite uncle. Kyle was drawn the the Raptor cycles and the weapons . . . and was quite disappointed to find that the latter were in a code-locked case.

After a few minutes Aiden and Kyle were pulled from their respective attentions as Claudia asked, "Hey Kyle, what's this."

The boys joined their cousin, who was looking at the contents of a case that was off by itself. The design of the case, it's location, and the way it was lit made it seem less a display and more a shrine. It contained a single large, broken, and slightly melted fragment what appeared to be clear crystal or glass. As Kyle walked up his demeanor became almost reverent. "That's a piece of Zordon's tube," he told the other two. "Andros retrieved the largest pieces he could from the Dark Fortress. One went to Eltar, this one was for our parents and their teammates, another is supposedly buried where the Command Center used to be."

Claudia and Aiden's demeanor's became reverent as well. Since being told their parents' secret, they had been told stories about Zordon, and it was clear that the adults considered him more than a mentor, but a father.

The three studied the piece of their parents legacy for several minutes, speechless. The lights of the Lair danced within it, and it even seemed to glow. Suddenly they were snapped from their study of the shard by Tommy yelling, "What do you three think you're doing down here?!"

The teens spun to find Kyle's very upset-looking fathers staring them down. However, before any of the three could respond, or Tommy or Adam could begin yelling the shard went from merely seeming to glow to blazing with light. Tommy and Adam shielded their eyes and the teens turned. As they did, three busts of energy struck the teens in the chest and sent them flying.

Tommy uncovered his eyes and said, "Kids, are you alri . . ."

Kyle rose and began to respond, "Yeah Dad we're . . ." His voice trailed off as he realized why his father's did. Looking down at his hands he saw that he was glowing with a Red aura. Looking at Aiden and Claudia he saw them glowing with Blue and Yellow respectively.

Before anyone could respond further, a booming, and to Tommy and Adam familiar, voice said, "MY GRANDCHILDREN, RECEIVE YOUR LEGACY."