After the first grading period, several students were invited to be in the National Honor Society. All of the rangers were given letters saying they were invited to join the club, since they had a 3.0 GPA or above. However, they had to be voted in by other students. A week later, a list was posted in the hall way of the new members. At lunch, all six rangers were sitting at the same table talking about the club.
"Rocky and I got accepted into the club," informed Adam. "What about the rest of you?"
"I did," answered Billy, as he put down his book. No one was surprised because Billy was president of the science club, he was in the lead for valedictorian, and he was on student council.
"I made it into the club," announced Aisha. She looked at Kimberly and Tommy. Both of them remained silent. They didn't want their friends to know that they didn't get accepted. "Kim, what about you and Tommy? Did you get accepted into the club?"
Kimberly exchanged looks with Tommy. "I'll tell them," Kimberly whispered as she took hold of Tommy's hands. "And I'll tell them why."
"Well, were you accepted?" repeated Aisha.
"No, we were not," Kimberly confessed. She tightened her grip on Tommy's hand.
"Really?!" gasped Billy. "Did you find out why?"
"Because Kimberly and I are getting married soon," admitted Tommy in a nervous voice.
"But, it doesn't matter to us," Kimberly lied. "I love Tommy and he loves me. In a few weeks, it will be yesterday's news." They got up from the table and went to school's swimming pool, since they had swimming classes for the last three periods of the day.
A girl stopped them as they walked down the hall way. "You two look nice in your matching outfits," complemented the girl. She stared at Tommy and Kimberly. Kimberly was in a white adidas satin tracksuit. Her pants had three pink horizontal stripes on each leg and her jacket had three pink horizontal stripes on each sleeve. She was wearing a pink turtle neck with her suit. Tommy had on the same outfit other than he had green stripes on his suit and he was wearing a green turtle neck.
"Yes, we did," Kimberly smiled as Tommy wrapped an arm around her waist. "We're getting our engagement pictures taken after school today at the mall."
The girl's mouth dropped, when Kimberly mentioned her engagement with Tommy. "I know who you are," shouted the girl as she began to laugh. "You're Tommy Oliver and Kimberly Hart. You could've gotten into the club, but you didn't because you two are getting married." All of the other students in the hall began to laugh. Kimberly grabbed Tommy's hand took off running. Within a few minutes, they reached the school's in door pool.
Luckily, there was no one else in the room. But, Mr. Kaplan came on the intercom and said school was dismissed for the day. "Wonder why, school was canceled?" Tommy asked.
"Who cares?" remarked Kimberly, as she grabbed Tommy's hand. "I'm ready for school end." They walked out of school and saw a lot fight fussing and fighting with each other. Both of them quickly got in the car and left the school. Kimberly saw that their appointment card was an envelope laying in the floor on the passengers side. She picked it up and saw there was appointment card and a note inside the envelope. Their appointment was twenty away.
"I thought you said our appointment was at 3:15," gasped Kimberly as she looked at the card. "They had our appointment mixed up with someone else!" Tommy quickly drove them to the mall and the got out the outfits that they were going to change into while they were getting their pictures taken. Tommy carried their clothes to photography store. Tommy checked them in and they were given two dressing room and a room to store their outfits in. They went into the room where they could store their outfits in.
Tommy hung their outfits on a rack. They had picked out swim wear for some beach back grounds and they would be in hot tub for some pictures. Tommy had a pair of pink board shorts with white Hawaiian flowers printed all over them. Kimberly had a pink one piece suit and it also had white Hawaiian flowers printed all of it. They picked a background with a race track, a back ground with a workout center, and a gym, so they had decided to wear white tracksuits for those scenes. They picked out a back ground that looked like a forest, a back ground that looked like an open field and they be leaning against a fence, a park back ground and they'd be sitting on bench, a background at the golden gate in San Francisco, and a garden back ground. Tommy picked out a pair of jeans and white tee shirt. Kimberly picked out a pink tee shirt and jeans.
A Few Hours Later
Jan walked through the door and put her grocery bags on the table. James was already cooking dinner. He was making a homemade pizza. "Where are the kids?" Jan asked as she kissed her husband on the cheek.
"They've been out in the pool, ever since I got home. Both of them said they needed some alone time together," James answered as he put the pizza in the oven. After James put the pizza in the oven, he walked over to the sliding door. Tommy was in sun glasses and a pair of white swimming trunks. He was laying on an aqua lounge mattress. Kimberly was sunglasses and in a pink one piece suit. She was laying on her stomach on top of Tommy' chest. Her head was resting on his shoulder and her arms were around his shoulders. Tommy's arms were wrapped around Kimberly's waist. "Both of them had a rough day at school."
Jan walked over to door and James put his arms around her. "What happened?" Jan asked in a worried voice. Both of them appeared to be sleeping and they both had a weak smile on their face.
"They didn't get into the National Honor Society," James answered.
"You're joking! Jan answered in disbelief. "Does Caroline know?"
"They didn't get in because they are engaged," answered James. "When I came home I found a note on the table that Caroline had to go out of town for the rest of the week for training. In the note she said she couldn't take any phone calls. Olivia is the president of the club and she wouldn't let them join."
"Was it the same Olivia who bullied them years ago?" Jan asked.
"It is," James answered sadly. "All of their other friends got voted in, but them."
Jan walked upstairs and changed into a pair of maroon shorts and a pink tee shirt. She grabbed her sunglasses and walked down stairs. "I'm going to go talk to them," Jan said as she opened the door. She walked outside and got out in the pool. Jan swam out to where Kimberly and Tommy where. "I heard you had a rough day at school. I'm sorry, you didn't get in the club."
"Olivia called the house when we came home. She told Kimberly if she called off the engagement that we'd be allowed to join the club," explained Tommy. He gave Kimberly a kiss on top of the head.
"But, she told me that I had to break up with Tommy and I couldn't be friends with him again," Kimberly finished. "I said no and Olivia said that that was our opportunity to get in the club. She said I was being selfish because I was preventing Tommy from being in the club."
Tommy started to stroke Kimberly's hair. "All of our other friends got in," Tommy stated. "I guess we're just disappointed because we were they only two not voted in."
"Do you really want to be in a club that expects something like that from you?" questioned Jan.
"No, I love your son," Kimberly answered.
"I'm not breaking up with her to be in a club," Tommy finished.
"I did," admitted Tommy. "I didn't get in for the same reason. The president of the club wanted me to break up with you, so she could date me. I won't do it."
"Did any of our other friends get voted in?" questioned Kimberly.
"Billy, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha," answered Tommy.
"Is there any other drama going on at school?" questioned James.
"The kids in the junior class are bragging about drinking alcohol, doing drugs, partying with the in crowd, and making love," revealed Kimberly.
"Have you gotten any static for that too?" asked Jan.
"Some," admitted Kimberly.
"I hope you both have told them that you have morals and you don't believe in making love for the heck of it, or doing drugs, or drinking," declared Jan.
"A lot of the kids in our class or doing those things, and we've been made fun of because we're not," explained Kimberly. " Billy, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha aren't doing those things."
"We know," answered James. "You need to remember that you are judged by the people you hang with. So you always need to pick your friends carefully."
"Both of us have told them that we have morals and believe in doing stuff like that," reassured Tommy.
"That's part of peer pressure," explained Jan. "Kids at your age think all of that stuff is cool and the want to be considered part of the in-crowd and they do those things. Later on in life they regret those things. Once you say or do something you can never take it back."
Zedd's Palace
Meanwhile on moon, Zedd and Rita were having a talk. Rita was married to Zedd for several months and he never got her a wedding present. Nor did he take her on a honeymoon.
"Zeddy, when are you taking me on a honeymoon or getting me my wedding present?!" Rita asked angrily.
"Rita, I have been wanting to surprise you with a monster that Finster and I have made," smiled Zedd. He was spying on the Rocky, Adam, and Billy. All of them were fighting. "We've already sent it down to earth. It is called the Hate Master."
"Tell me more about this monster," smirked Rita. She was looking through her telescope spying on Angel Grove. There were other people fighting, besides four of the rangers.
"The Hate Master causes people to hate each other," Finster explained. "It will even cause the best of friends to end up hating each other."
The Following Morning
Tommy's alarm clock went off at 6:00 AM. He turned it off, took a shower, brushed his teeth, then he opened his closet. He got out khakis and a white Henley. As soon as he got dressed, he went down stairs. In the meantime, Kimberly had finished her shower and brushed her teeth. She had gotten out a pair dark pink velour tracksuit and a white turtle neck. Kimberly quickly got dressed and down stairs.
"Tommy, what do you think of my outfit?" asked Kimberly, as she walked into the kitcher.
"You look beautiful," answered Tommy.
Tommy took a seat and the breakfast table and Kimberly sat next to him. Jan served them breakfast. After breakfast, Kimberly and Tommy got in Tommy's car and he drove them to school. When Tommy pulled into his parking spot, Kimberly noticed there was a monster in the parking lot. The monster looked really ugly and mean. All she could tell was it had a dark blue face.
"Did you see that monster in the parking lot?" asked Kimberly.
"Yeah, I was going to go get a closer look," answered Tommy. "You go on in."
As soon as they got out of the car, she rushed over to Tommy. She didn't want him to go alone. And Tommy could tell by the look on Kimberly's face, that she didn't want him go alone. He held out his hand and she took hold off it. "You can come, but you have to stay with me," ordered Tommy. The monster began to sing rap music about people hating each other. They walked over to where the monster was, but it had disappeared before they could get a better look. So, they went on into school. As soon as they walked into school, they heard Rocky and Adam yelling at each other.
"I SAID GET OUT OF MY FACE!" yelled Rocky.
"YOU SPIT IN MY FACE!" yelled Adam.
"What's wrong with them?" Kimberly whispered to Tommy.
"No idea," replied Tommy. "It doesn't sound like Rocky and Adam they are closer."
They went to their lockers to get their books out of their lockers. Both of them saw Bulk and Skull slam their locker doors really hard. Then they were arguing who was better at pranks. Tommy noticed Billy was yelling at Rocky and Adam for being in his way. Aisha was yelling at Adam for making her drop her text books The bell rang and all of them went class. Usually in Ms. Appleby's class, Aisha sat in back of Kimberly, Tommy sat in the desk next to Kimberly, Rocky sat behind him, Adam sat behind Rocky, and Billy sat behind Adam. However, it was that morning. Only Kimberly sat next to Tommy. Rocky sat in the back corner on the right side of the class; Adam sat in back corner on the left side. Aisha sat in the left corner of the room and Billy sat in the middle of the room.
Bulk and Skull came into class five minutes late as usual. Most of the time they made to their desks and Ms. Appleby usually said she was glad they made it to class. This time, they were pushing and shoving each other to get in the room. Bulk pushed Skull down and got into the room first.
"Boys, I'm glad you made it. But, there was no since pushing and shoving!" yelled Ms. Appleby.
"Bulk pushed me down!" hollered Skull. "I was here first!"
"No, I was!" Bulk said angrily.
"That's because you slammed my locker door shut, before I could get my text book!" answered Skull.
"Did he slam the locker door in your face to make you mad?" interrupted Aisha.
"You kept opening your locker just so you could slam it really hard!" remarked Billy. "I couldn't hardly get my stuff, because you were making too much noise. So, I paid you back and started opening my locker so I could slam it."
"But, it was making too much noise!" interrupted Adam. "Your lockers are right next to each other. And mine is across the hall! When you both slamming you lockers shut, it was making too much noise. I had to go back to my locker four times, because I kept forgetting the text book."
While, Bulk, Skull, Adam, Aisha and Billy were arguing, Kimberly and Tommy were whispering back and forth.
"What do you think caused this?" questioned Kimberly.
"Maybe that monster we saw in the parking lot," guessed Tommy. "Did you see anyone around it?"
"All I saw was people walking into school," confirmed Kimberly. "Maybe the monster had something to do with this."
During the morning break,Tommy and Kimberly went to the youth center and took a seat at the back table. Rocky, Adam, Aisha, and Billy, were all in the youth center. Their communicators went off. "Rangers, the hate master is effecting you," stated Zordon. "Come to the command center."
Kimberly and Tommy were the only ones who teleported to the command center.
"What happen to them?" asked Kimberly. "This morning we saw a monster in the school parking lot and it was singing a hate song in rap."
"Kimberly, the monster uses it rap music to cause people to hate each other," explained Zordon. "It can cause the best of friends to hate each other."
"Why weren't Kimberly and I effected by this?" asked Tommy.
"Alpha, start running a diagnostic scan on Tommy and Kimberly," requested Zordon.
A few minutes passed since Alpha began to run the scan. He couldn't find that was shielding them. Just then the scanner went off.
"It's coming from their necklaces," gasped Alpha. He pointed at Kimberly and Tommy's friendship necklaces. "The necklaces seem to have a strong wave length of energy linked to them."
"Yes, their energies of love and friendship, must have shielded them from the monster," declared Zordon.
Just then the power supply to command center was turned off. All of them knew it was Billy who was responsible because he knew about the command center's electrical system."How much energy will it take to get us out? asked Tommy.
"A minimal amount," replied Alpha. "But, we don't have it."
"Alpha, yes we do," smiled Kimberly. "You can hook yourself up to the control panel."
A few minutes later, Alpha had enough energy to teleport them out. Tommy took his necklace off and handed it to Alpha. "You said you'd never take it off!" gasped Kimberly.
"They will need to try to free the others," explained Tommy.
"But, we will need both halves," added Alpha.
"I can't take mine off!" sobbed Kimberly. "We could run into the hate master. I don't want it make me and Tommy to hate each other. He's my best friend!"
"Beautiful, they need both halves to free the others," reassured Tommy. "You'll be with me. We'll be fine."
Kimberly took her necklace off and handed it to Alpha. "Both of you are true power rangers," smiled Zordon. Tommy and Kimberly teleported out of the command center. They arrived at the park and the hate master was waiting for them. He started to sing a rap song. Kimberly was scared of his rap music and she threw her arms around Tommy and she was sobbing.
"I don't want to hate you," sobbed Kimberly. "The others are already under a spell and are saying hateful things to each other. I don't want it to happen to us to."
"Beautiful, it won't happen," reassured Tommy.
He wrapped his arms around Kimberly and held her close. "Tommy, I love you and I'd never forgive myself if I was under a spell and hurt you," Kimberly said tearfully.
"I feel the same way,"answered Tommy. "I love you too."
The hate master noticed his powers were weakening.
"All this talk about friendship and love is making me grow weaker," gasped the hate monster.
"You can't tear us apart," smiled Tommy. "Kim and I have an unbreakable bond. Our parents thought us about love and friendship our whole lives."
The hate master exploded after Tommy made the comment. Five beams of light appeared in the park. It was Rocky, Adam, Aisha, and Billy.
"Where's the monster?" asked Billy.
"Did you defeat it without us?" gasped Aisha. "How'd you do it?"
"By telling the monster about friendship and love," grinned Tommy. "That was the monster's weakness."