"What are you doing Demetri, they'll hear you!" Nadrox said in an urgent whisper as they tiptoed around the living room. They could hear noises from the bedroom, but neither of them were sure that they would be able to get close enough to observe them without one of them recognizing their presence. Their senses were heightening with every encounter and they were afraid that they would soon be able to sense them from blocks away. Their surveillance of them was already not nearly as good as they needed it to be, but they had to try this, it seemed to be their only option now.

"With as much noise as they are making, I don't think it possible that they will hear us," Demetri said as she placed her ear on the door of Tommy's room and she heard nothing from within, so she gently opened the door. The room was empty, which was odd. As far as she knew, they still generally slept in different rooms. Nadrox's discovery of the wedding band that Tommy carried with him made this little expedition necessary. They needed to see what their true relationship was. A married couple was going to be a lot harder to deal with than a bonded couple. There were things there that they were sure that the rangers didn't even know about and with each passing day, they seemed to be making it harder on them.

"Tommy…" Kim whispered as her mind began coming back to her and she could coherently speak.

"Yeah," Tommy said as he forced himself to roll over onto his side so that he could see her.

"They're here, again," Kim said, in a depressed tone as Tommy let out a frustrated sigh and he then got up and pulled on a pair of boxers as he threw her one of his t-shirts. He was so tired of hearing those words from her, but it seemed to be happening much more often than he would ever like. "Tommy, don't do that."

"Kim, they don't want a battle, guess what I'm not waiting until we are in are late thirties to duke this thing out. I can't give up that much time," Tommy said as he slung the door open and Nadrox and Demetri jumped away from it. They had been seconds away from leaving them, but they had been discovered and they didn't know how it was possible. They had been nearly silent and had been sure that if one of them sensed them that they would blurt it out, not calmly walk to the door and greet them. "Nice to see you here again…I'm starting to think that you like this place more than we do."

"Blasted rangers," Demetri murmured as she started to shimmer away, but Kimberly caught her arm. They were not going anywhere unless the two of them wanted to take them somewhere.

"You're not going anywhere," Kim said as she looked over at Tommy, who had a firm grasp on Nadrox. The both of them had had enough of their fooling around. They wanted to get this over with so that they could go on with their life. "We are taking you somewhere."

"You're not evil, you can't make us do anything," Nadrox said, as he knew that only evil beings could usually take them anywhere.

"You forget something about us, we've flirted with the line of good and evil for years, so I'd definitely think before you say that we don't have an evil side that we are willing to exploit when we have to," Kim said as they teleported them to the middle of the desert.

"I'm tired of the bull shit," Tommy said as he slung Nadrox away and Kimberly did the same thing with Demetri. If they left them here, then they were perfectly fine with that. They had gotten them out of their house and that was all that they wanted right now. They wanted to have some peace and in their opinion that was not too much to ask. "The both of you want to take over the earth, we want to stop you. So let's just go ahead and settle all of this shit now."

"You see, we cannot fight you until we are told to or we are as good as dead. We do want to take over this planet, but some people think that it needs to be on their terms," Nadrox said as Tommy just shook his head and took a step towards him.

"I don't believe that there is anyone telling you when and where to fight us," Tommy said as Kim grabbed his arm and he looked back at her.

"They're telling the truth Tommy," Kim said as he looked down at her as Demetri and Nadrox stared at her in shock. She was protecting them? A ranger that was destined to kill them was protecting them? When had this happened and why did it scare them so much? "They have to wait for whoever the hell it is."

"Kim…" Tommy began as she just looked up at him. "How can you say that?"

"I understand what it's like. There's not much of a choice about it," Kim said as he walked over to her and Nadrox and Demetri started to sneak away. "Don't you dare go anywhere, we're not done."

"What will you do? Come battle us in space?" Demetri asked as Tommy and Kim both smiled.

"That actually sounds like a wonderful idea," Tommy said as he gave Kim a concerned look. There was something in the way that she said everything that made him believe that he was going to have to sit her down for a long talk. He was not comfortable with her knowing all of this and him knowing next to nothing.

"We were being sarcastic," Nadrox said, trying to dig them out of the hole that Demetri had put them in.

"You should know better than to be sarcastic with a ranger. It's not very wise, we take most things very seriously," Kim said as Nadrox grabbed Demetri and they shimmered away before either of them could catch a hold of one of them. "Damn it."

"At least we got some things out of them," Tommy said as he put his arms around her. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah, I just want to go home," Kim said as he brought her into a hug and then teleported home.

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"Interesting, isn't it?" Ben said as he walked around the lair and Mesogogg nodded. It had taken weeks for him to get any evidence that Kimberly and Tommy were married, but he had finally been able to find the certificate, after a lot of illegal searching. He knew that this was something that Mesogogg would want to know about and hopefully it would keep him out of the hot seat for a little while.

"Yes, I do say that their marriage will be part of their downfall," Mesogogg said as Ben just shook his head. That was definitely not something that he believed.

"It's just going to make them stronger. The two of them are powerful beyond belief and I think that their replacements are going to be just as powerful," Ben said in a worried tone. "I think that we're in over our heads."

"The teenagers are nothing without those two," Mesogogg said as Ben looked down at the ground.

"Those teenagers will learn more from them everyday. They will become like one of the first ranger teams and that bond is what we've been trying to prevent as of late," Ben said as Mesogogg just shook his head. All of his plans had been foiled since he had attacked Kimberly. He had released something in the woman that honestly scared him. She was never this powerful before and now he knew that it was because of her kindness that she had never killed him before.

"If Tommy and Kimberly are involved, I doubt we'll be able to stop it, unless we go for one of them right now," Mesogogg said as Ben looked over at him. He didn't think that capturing a ranger would solve anything. He actually thought that it would create more problems than they already had.

"Who do you suggest we capture?" Ben asked as Mesogogg looked over at him and leered. He could tell that Ben was not overly excited to do this, but there was not much that he could do about his feelings.

"Tommy, let's see what Kimberly does without her precious husband," Mesogogg said as Ben looked at him in shock. Suggesting Tommy was surely suicidal, but what could he do about it? Mesogogg was not listening to reason anymore. He had become irrational since Kimberly had become the one woman that could defeat him without any qualms.

"I'm telling you that's not a good idea," Ben said as Mesogogg glared over at him.

"And I'm telling you to do it and quickly," Mesogogg said as Ben let out a sigh and then left. He was going to have a very busy day today.

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"Dr. Oliver," Principal Miesner said as Tommy walked into the building looking extremely tired. He had had a very long night last night, no matter what anyone else thought, being a newlywed had been fairly good until they had had a midnight visit from the monsters of their lives. "Have you seen your wife today?"

"My wife? I just left home," Tommy said, rather confused, as he had walked out the door only ten minutes ago and Kim had been heading down to her office at about the same time.

"She's in your room," Principal Miesner said as Tommy just looked at him and then looked down into his bag. He wanted to find his cell phone, but it seemed that he had left it somewhere.

"Can I use the phone?" Tommy asked as Principal Miesner nodded his head and Tommy walked into the office and picked up the phone. "Kim…hey, where are you?"

"In my office, Tommy, you're not losing your mind are you? You just left here about ten minutes ago," Kim said as Tommy looked back over his shoulder and Principal Miesner left the room.

"My principal just said that you are here," Tommy said as Kim dropped her phone and then scrambled to pick it up. She prayed that Tommy would listen to her and not do something stupid right now, which was very likely to happen.

"Don't go into your room, please wait for me to get there, Tommy," Kim said as Tommy looked down at the floor.

"You want me to wait? Kim, I'm sorry but you showing up here will make some people realize that something weird is happening. I'll call you when I can figure it out," Tommy said, hanging up as Kim yelled her last protest, hoping he would listen to her. "Thanks."

"Any time," Principal Miesner said as Tommy walked past him to his room.

"Hey, Kim," Tommy said as he walked in and the person turned to face him. "I know you're not her."

"Smart, Dr. Oliver," the woman said as she kissed him and he tried to pull back as he felt the woman take him away.

"She's going to kill me," Tommy muttered as he found himself in Mesogogg's lair being strapped down to a table.

"If we don't first," Mesogogg said as Tommy let out a frustrated sigh. Kim was going to kill him if he got scars to match hers. It didn't matter how he left here, he had a feeling if he was killed, and she would just bring him back to kill him again.

"She's worse," Tommy said as he felt his phone vibrate and he just looked down at his side. He was far too out of it this morning to realize that he had his phone on his hip. Principal Miesner must have wondered about him asking for a phone, considering the fact that his was on his hip, but he knew that the man was a little bit forgetful.

"You only believe that because you have never experienced our torture," Mesogogg said as Tommy smiled up at him. He honestly was not too worried about what this man might try to do to him.

"Kim will kill me," Tommy said as he laughed. He knew his welcoming home would not be pleasant, unless something bad happened to him and he did not wish that sort of stress on Kim right now. She had enough on her mind without him being severely injured.

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"What do you mean he's not there?" Kim roared as she paced her office. She just had a bad feeling about all of this and needed some comfort.

"Mrs. Oliver, I'm sorry, but he seems to have disappeared," Principal Miesner said as Kim slammed the phone back in it's cradle and let out a frustrated yell. How could they just lose a teacher?

"You okay?" Ben asked, peeking his head in her office as she shook her head no. "What's wrong?"

"They've taken Tommy," Kim said, quietly, as Ben stared at her. He had to at least act shocked, although this was not new news to him. "I'm going to kill him."

"If they don't," Ben muttered as Kim looked over at him. He was taking this far too well and although Tommy had said nothing she knew he didn't trust Ben. She was now beginning to wonder if he had been right about some things.

"They won't kill him, they never do. All they wish to do is make me suffer, but why would Nadrox and Demetri choose him again?" Kim wondered aloud as she scrolled through her cell phone to fine Billy's number. "They couldn't do anything to him last time, so why try it again?"

"Who's that?" Ben asked as Kim shook her head, if he only knew what was going on.

"Our other problem," Kim said as Billy's phone continued to ring, until her call was forwarded to his voicemail. "Damn it…who else can help me?"

"I can," Ben offered as Kim shook her head no. She could not see Tommy letting him into a command center and she wasn't going to do that either.

"Thanks, but I better not," Kim said as she picked up her purse and keys. "Can you finish today out for me and lock up? I've got to figure this crap out."

"Okay," Ben said as he walked out of her office and she locked it. "Why are you doing that?"

"I want to know that if anything happens in there it was caused by a monster, not by a student," Kim said as she walked out the front door and jumped into her car.

"This is not good," Ben muttered as he waved Kim good-bye. He knew that she was beginning to become suspicious and if he had any hopes of getting out, he had to do it soon. He had to do it before too much damage had been done.