Reefside Outskirts

The dino rangers were riding in Conner's car while Trey was riding with Tommy in his jeep. Since the space rangers still had their old communicators, they got the coordinates of where Tommy lived and had Alpha 7 teleport them at Tommy's house.

Tommy was talking with Trey as they were riding to the outskirts of town.

"So you live out here?" Trey asked as he looked around, noticing trees, grass, and not much else.

Tommy chuckled slightly. "Yeah, I guess I value my peace and quiet you could say."

Trey nodded. "Hmmm."

Tommy decided to ask the gold ranger a question that's been dangling at the back of his mind since he heard the back story of Trey coming from the future. "So if you followed Scorpina from the future, where's the one from this time period?"

"I don't know," Trey did not sound assuring. 'I don't know if she was resurrected and sent back in time or if she is alive somewhere in the galaxy causing trouble or just keeping a low profile.

Tommy nodded but was partially satisfied with the answer, although a part of him wanted to know where the Scorpina was that came from his time period, that of 2004. But then again, if she wasn't going to be causing any problems for another twenty one years, then Tommy did not have anything to worry about. Although now was the time to panic, for he was going up against the greatest evil he had ever faced, the newly resurrected Lord Zedd, Rita Replusa, and their cronies.

Tommy did not like the idea of facing his past again. True he did it a few years back when he teamed up with nine other red rangers to face the remains of the evil machine empire, but this was different.

Yes the machine empire tried to use him as a pawn in destroying the rest of the zeo rangers when Gasket brainwashed him. But he was still himself although his memories were temporally being blocked.

But with Zedd and Rita, Tommy had a more difficult past with them. Recruited by Rita to be her evil green power ranger under her spell and nearly destroying the power rangers along with Zordon and Alpha 5 was something Tommy had problems still dealing with. And then Tommy had dealt with a joker card twice when his green ranger powers were taken away first by Rita and then by Zedd. Plus with the kidnapping of Kimberly and the destruction of the Command Center were big blows for Tommy.

Tommy felt a cold chill run down his back, even though it was late in the day with warm temperatures.

"Earth vehicles are so stranger," Trey observed. He had never been in a car before.

Tommy looked at him. "Oh, yeah I guess." Tommy was still thinking about those nightmarish events that happened in his life during his time as part of the Mighty Morphin Power Ranger team.

"I was thinking, maybe we should contact another team," Trey was wondering what Tommy would think of the idea.

Tommy thought about it for a second. "We already have my team and the space rangers, plus you. Who do you have in mind?"

"I was thinking of calling the zeo ranger," Trey informed his cohort in black.

Tommy did not like the idea. He had not seen the zeo rangers in years. He had not kept up with them in such a long time. He did not even know if all four were sill in good shape. As people grow older, they let their bodies go and since Tommy did not keep tabs on them, he did not have a clue as to how they looked or if they were still able to fight.

But one thing did trouble Tommy. When he left the turbo team, his relationship with Katherine Hillard, the pink zeo and turbo ranger was stained. Tommy opted to purse a career in college that journeyed him to the otherside of the country. Kathrine was going to stay in Angel Grove but when she found out Tommy was going to the east coast for school, he broke up with her and she moved to England to study ballet, a hobby of hers besides swimming.

Tommy looked over at the man. "Please don't."

Trey was confused. Why would Tommy refuse another team to help out. "May I ask why this sudden difference in your character. Normally you would jump at the chance to get your old friend back into action.

Tommy shook his head. Annoyance was the emotion he was feeling, as if he did not want to be badgered with explaining his feelings. "Look, I haven't spoken to the old team in years. I don't even know if they're still in top contending shape."

"You just don't want to be confronted with your past girlfriend," Trey hit the bulls eye mark by nailing it.

Tommy grunted. "Yeah, that too."

No way that little reason was going to make Trey not call the old zeo team. "I'll consider it. But if we need more help, I'm giving them a call. I have my own little ways of finding them."

Tommy decided that would have to do for the mean time and continued to drive.

Tommy's House

Tommy pulled up to the driveway of his house and was greeted by Conner and the rest of the dino team, as well as the space rangers who were probably waiting for some time since they had the ability to teleport.

Andros walked up to Tommy as the man was getting out of his car. "Took you guys long enough."

Tommy looked at the red space ranger. Obviously he was trying to pull Tommy's chain. "So sorry that we can teleport anymore."

By then Conner had joined up with Tommy and Andros. "You know Dr. O, we need something like that. I mean imagine me using it to get to school. Why I can sleep in five minutes before the bell rings, put my clothes on, and teleport to my seat within a few seconds."

"No way kiddo, not going to happen," Tommy started to walk up towards the house with the two red rangers.

"Well teleportation does save the costly payments of rising gas prices," Conner remarked.

All rangers walked in Tommy's house. The space rangers and Trey decided to look around the house, just to get familiar with it.

Carlos and Cassie walked into the living room.

Not really having a taste of the décor, Carlos was impressed with his surroundings. "Very nice."

Cassie however had a difference in opinion for she thought the house was too simple and plain. "It's rather boring if you ask me. Not much color around the room. I don't know, the place needs something to make it sparkle, you know."

Cassie looked at Carlos, but Carlos just shrugged his shoulders, not knowing anything about interior decorating and how to make the inside of a house more adaptable for all tastes.

Zhane turned his attention to Tommy. "So this is it. This is your command base of operations?"

Tommy shook his head. "My command center is down in the basement." Tommy wanted to get everyone rounded up. "Carlos, Cassie, follow me please."

All rangers walked down a corridor of stairs to the room underneath the house, the command center.

T.J. glanced around. "Very nice."

Carlos concurred. "This will do."

"It kind of reminds me of the power chamber," Cassie remarked. "But with no Dimitria."

"Well I'm sort of like Dimitria and Zordon, being a mentor for the team, but also a ranger," Tommy explained.

Hayley walked towards the approaching people.

Tommy looked on as he saw his friend. "Hayley, didn't I tell you to pull out the red carpet?"

Hayley cracked a smile. "I would have if I knew you were going to bring the legendary space rangers. Not to mention the gold ranger too."

"Everyone, this is Hayley," Tommy proclaimed. "She is the tech advisor for the team. Not to mention she helped me get through graduate school."

"Can you believe she went to college and now runs a café?" Ethan remarked looking at the space rangers. "If she really wanted to do that, I don't think she should have gone to college."

Hayley gave Ethan a playful punch in the shoulder. "Ethan shut up."

The rest of the rangers started to giggle.

"Anyway, it's nice to meet you all finally," Hayley warmly said, a good will greeting to the others. "Tommy's told me so much, from him and his old team passing their turbo powers to you all," she looked at Ashley, Carlos, Cassie, and T.J. "To joining the red rangers in a group effort to stop the rest of the machine empire from taking control of Earth."

"And I was in both those events, thank you all very much," T.J. joked.

Cassie slapped T.J. across the chest. "You just want to hog all the glory don't you?"

"Well our house is your house," Kira gently said, moving on. "Make yourselves at home."

"I have a feeling we're going to need it," Tommy said.

All the rangers moved around the house. The dino rangers walked over to the space rangers and Trey respectively. They had a million questions they wanted to ask them. But they couldn't help but get a little star struck. After all, these were legends when the dino rangers were just kids. They all remembered watching the events on the television of the space rangers revealing their identities in an all out effort to stop Astronema and the rest of the evil alliance.

But two space rangers were silent, Andros and Ashley. They moved to a private corner as both needed to talk.

Ashley looked at Andros. She wanted him to speak first, but he did not budge. All he did was seem to look at the ground, either to shy or afraid to say anything first.

Ashley sighed. "How come you never called me?"

There, she said it. Ashley started the conversation first. She did not know how productive it would be, but atleast she was willing to give it a shot, even if nothing happened. Hell, Andros had to say something. What was he going to do, look at the ground the entire time before the enemy attacked.

Andros started to scratch his hair. He finally had enough courage to look Ashley in the eye. "What do you want me to say?"

"That you're sorry that you stopped speaking to me. That you're sorry you just left without even saying goodbye before you departed to the unknown," Ashley's pain started to show, pain she's been hiding for years.

Andros started to pace around. He was uneasy at this confrontation, this crossroad of problems he was now facing that was far complex for him to figure out. "I felt that I was not good for you."

Ashley rolled her eyes in disgrace. "When did you come to that conclusion?"

"Several months after we helped the Lost Galaxy Power Rangers," Andros answered.

Ashley couldn't believe the bull Andros pulled out just then. "You got to be kidding me Andros, months after meeting the galaxy rangers?"

Andros was now getting ticked off. "What do you want me to do, snap my fingers and go back through time to where I was just about to leave and stop myself from not going?"

"I would think after all these years of you being along and isolated on that ship that you would want some companionship," Ashley was still pulling out all the punches in the fight they were having.

"I did, well, maybe I wanted that," Andros started to back out of the sentence. He turned to the side as he looked down. "Maybe I was meant to be alone, a loner for the rest of my life, to not experience happiness."

As much as she wanted to continue to yell, Ashley couldn't, not after she had just heard that statement. "Andros, look at me."

The red space ranger looked at Ashley, going through a roller coaster of emotions through the depths of pain.

"I still like you." Ashley gently grabbed Andros's right hand. "That's all I ever talked about when you left, about how much I loved you and missed you."

Andros then began to feel like crying, as he was getting misty-eyed.

"I talked my head off about you to T.J., Carlos, and Cassie, well mostly Cassie," Ashley continued. "And believe me, she wanted to tape my mouth shut. I just kept on going on and on about you."

Andros couldn't help but show a wry smile.

Ashley continued. "Look, maybe after all of this is done, we can try again."

"I won't lie to you that I've felt lonely these past few years. That as I get older, I often wonder if I would ever find someone," Andros explained. "Alright Ash, after all this chaos is over, we'll try again. Only this time, I won't run out on you."

And with that, Ashley hugged Andros.

But to their surprise, everyone else had managed to watch both talk things out and make things work.

"Aw, such a sweet reunion," Kira started to cry.

Trent handed her a couple of tissues, being a polite gentleman and all.

The yellow dino ranger wiped some tears from her eyes and blew her nose rather loudly, in Ethan's opinion.

"There's one way to stop Lord Zedd," Ethan mused.

Hayley, standing right next to Ethan, punched him in the arm again. "Shut up Ethan."

"What is this, some sort of gag on me?" Ethan started to rub his arm, glaring at Hayley.

"Come on dude, let's go grab some food," Conner gestured his head to Ethan. "I'm starving."

"Count me in," Zhane noted.

"Is this an all guys club, or can I sign up too?" Kira playfully joked.

"Let's all go to the kitchen and grab something to eat then," Hayley said.

Everyone started to walk towards the stairs, all except T.J.

"I'll be there in a minute," T.J. looked at everyone. "I have to make a phone call real quick."

Everyone hurried up the stairs as they left the blue space ranger alone. T.J. pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number. "Hey, it's T.J. We may need your help."