Six and a half months were gone within the blink of an eye. Now, here Tommy and Kimberly were in their last semester of college. Doing their student teaching at Northern Boston High School, sure did bring back a lot of memories. The classroom doors being crowded the moment the bell rang when it was time for a class period to end. Seeing the hallways crowed when the bell would ring. Students running up and down the stair cases, stopping at their lockers getting their books and materials that they need for their next class, the principal walking up and down the hall making sure there was no horse play taking place, and trying to push through the crowed hall to make it your next class before the tardy bell rang. Yes, they both experienced all of those things back in Angel Grove. But, being power rangers reminded them that their high school days were twice as hard as a normal person. The fear of their communicators going off at the wrong place, trying to find a place to hide just to answer the communicator, sneaking out of school to save the world, and coming up with an excuse why they didn't come to class. They also had parents to deal with. Many times, it was hard to come up with an excuse of why they were late coming home or why they had to leave suddenly.

But, on the other hand, their last semester was going by were slow. It felt as if time had slowed down because the clock needed a new battery. Mainly due to graduation being two and half months away, looking forward to their upcoming marriage, and having to decide which classes they wanted to take the following the semester when they started working on their master's degree.

Tommy was doing his student teaching under Mr. Masterson, who taught juniors and seniors. Mr. Masterson was taught paleontology, biology, and environmental science. Over fall break, Mr. Masterson was taking the paleontology classes to Mexico over fall break to visit dig sites, especially the famous dig site at Yucatan Peninsula. Tommy was asked to go on the trip and he could invite a friend go with him. And of course, he asked Kimberly.

In the meantime, Kimberly stepped out of the changing room in her new pink bikini. She twirled around in front of the mirror as she modeled in it. The Bandeau top was strapless and the cups actually looked like a mermaid's shell bra. The bikini bottoms were high cut and ruffled. "I can't wait for him to see me in this," Kimberly thought when she slipped on her pink flip flops and sun glasses. She grabbed her tote bag and made her way down to the beach.

After making sure the ground steak of his large black beach umbrella was firm in the sand, Tommy opened up the side flaps and placed some steak on the small tied down cords to prevent them from moving. He opened back pack and laid out a wide fluffy green beach towel underneath the prefect shady spot. "Just, great," Tommy gasped when he looked through his back pack. "I didn't get any sun screen."

"I've got some sun screen," Kimberly declared. She opened up her tote bag and spread out a pink floral beach towel next his beach towel. "Tommy, do I look okay?"

He turned around and saw his princess with the prefect bikini couldn't help from looking at how gorgeous she looked in her bikini, it was providing way more cleavage than he was used to seeing and it was just barely covering her up. "Beautiful, that bikini makes you look...so...so... sexy," Tommy swooned as he started to drawl.

"Excuse me!" Kimberly blushed. "Did you just say I was sexy-"

"-I didn't say that!" Tommy interrupted as his cheeks turned red. "I meant that you look so gorgeous in that bikini."

"Whatever," Kimberly giggled when she took a seat on her beach towel. She couldn't help from noticing how muscular Tommy looked in his green square cut swimsuit and his black Hawaiian shirt. It was almost like he was wearing his usual swim briefs, but they were providing a little more coverage. They were sitting low on his waist and a few inches above his thighs. "You look cute and handsome in your swimming trunks."

She pulled out a bottle of sun screen and sat it down on her towel. "Beautiful, do you need help putting on your sun screen?" Tommy hinted as he stared at Kimberly's bikini body.

"That would be very helpful," Kimberly answered with a smiled. She squirted sunscreen into Tommy's hand and he started to rub it into her skin.

"I love this girl more than she will ever realize. She's sweet, loyal, kind, compassionate, caring, and loving. I love the feel of her smooth and soft skin," Tommy thought as he started to cover her bare back in sun screen. "She's so beautiful and attractive. Even on the inside she has a beautiful heart and soul. Kimberly is the prefect best friend for me. I can't wait to marry her. Then, we'll have the same last name, you'll come home to me every night, we'll spend holidays and birthdays together. I'll never have to worry about moving away from you again, if I get a job transfer and have to move hundreds of miles away I'll be taking you with me."

Tommy finished applying sun screen all over Kimberly's body and handed her the bottle. He removed his Hawaiian shirt and laid down on his stomach; she squirted sun screen in her hand and started to rub it into his back. "He is so cute and handsome and even more so I see him in swimwear. I never knew what love was before I met you, Tommy. I love you and you love me in return. I always feel safe when I'm with you. You protect me and hold me when I'm scared in those muscular arms," Kimberly thought when she finished applying sun screen on Tommy's back. He rolled over and she squirted sun screen on his bare chest. "I can't wait until the day I stand before you at the altar and say "I do." Then we'll have the same last name. I'll be able to room with my best friend. I'll be spending holidays and birthdays with you. I'll have your parents as in-laws and they love me. Your parents are like the parents I dreamed of having but never had. Once, we're married, I'll never have to worry about living him behind again."

After several minutes, she finally finished applying sun screen on Tommy's body. She closed the cap and put the bottle of sun screen back in her beach tote. "I'm going to work on my tan," Kimberly informed laying back on her beach towel. "You can go swimming if you want to."

"Right now, I just want to lay on the beach with you," Tommy replied. He placed his Hawaiian shirt in his backpack and put on his sun glasses. laid out on his towel, using his backpack as a pillow.

The sand was a soft shade of gold giving off a warm floor for people to walk on. Many children were scattered all over the beach building sand castles. Other were on opposite sides of a net playing beach volley ball. Some were swimming in crystal blue ocean. A lot of teen girls were laying on beach towels soaking up the sun. As of now the sand was everyone's friend, but if it the temperature got a higher, it could turn a person's enemy. Especially those who didn't wear any beach shoes or flip flops. In times like that people would be hopping, jumping, walking on their tip toes. All these came methods came in handy getting across the sand when it was a floor of lava.

At the present moment, Tommy laid on his back while he enjoyed Kimberly's company. She was laying on her side, while she rested her head on his bare chest. Both of her arms were tightly wrapped around his waist. He held her closet against his side as he started to stroke her side. Never before, had he ever realized how nice and comforting it would be to have most of her skin brushed up against his. "Tommy, I was worried yesterday," Kimberly admitted. "I looked up and you weren't at the dig site. What happened?"

"I noticed there was a small hole behind the bolder next to the path," Tommy started when he ran his fingers through her hair. "In that small hole, I saw a red, yellow, and blue light. So, I followed the path way down to a stair case that that lead down into an underground cave. I got half way down the staircase, when I noticed there was nothing but a giant pool of water. At the very back those same lights were glowing from a platform. I didn't get a chance to explore it because it was time to head back to the hotel. But, I've got all day to explore it-"

"-I'm not letting you go," Kimberly scolded squeezing him closer to her chest. "I don't want you to get hurt and no one know where to start looking for you. Besides, why would you want to go in that cave anyway-"

"-it is believed that the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs landed here at the Yucatan Peninsula," Tommy explained. "Legend says that the hidden cave of Yucatan is close to where the meter crashed into earth 65 million years ago. I think I found the cave and I want to know if there is anything dinosaur related-"

"-Tommy, I told you I'm not letting you go explore a cave alone-"

"-Kim, I'm not going alone," Tommy grinned when Kimberly removed her sunglasses. "I was going to ask you to come with me."

"I would feel better going with you and knowing you were safe," Kimberly confessed. "I've heard myths about hidden gems being in the hidden cave of Yucatan. Maybe, those lights are coming from those gems."

"It's not too far," Tommy said when he slipped on his back pack and flip flops. Kimberly grabbed her tote bag and took hold of his hand. "We'll be back before anyone even notices we're gone."

In the forest, the sky and the cotton candy like clouds, could barely be seen. Just a few patches of the sky were scattered around like they were pieces missing from a jigsaw puzzle. But, the bright sun Tommy and Kimberly continued to walk up the dusty and dirt like path, with drops of sweat running down their faces. Tommy wiped his sweaty face when he came to a halt at a small opening in the ground next to a stone like wall.

"This is it," he declared pointing to a wooden staircase that was leading down into the cave. "Follow me."

Kimberly followed Tommy down the long narrow stair case. Hot flames began to appear in torches on the wall as they made their way down the stair. Half way down they reached a square platform. She stopped took a long look at her new surroundings. The cave was nothing but a large body of water. Coming from the back of the cave a weak glow of red, yellow, and blue lights. A tiny hole was above the lights giving off a small patch of sun light. But, on the other side of the cave a large opening allowing sunlight to fill the whole cave with extra lighting. However, it was strange because the opening was at the edge of the cave as if it was a window.

"I bet those could be the gems that I heard all the myths about," Kimberly said. She looked around at her sounding noticing that the cave was built into a brown clay like rock of a cliff. They walked down a little further and their feet hit a large square stone like platform.

Tommy walked to the edge of the platform and saw the lights were sitting on stone podium table on the circular platform. They started to give off a brighter glow.

"Someone else has come for the gems!" shouted a strange voice. "Many have tried to take the gems and all of them have perished."

"WHO IS THERE!" Tommy shouted. "SHOW YOURSELF!"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN MANY HAVE PERISHED!" Kimberly yelled.

"These gems are special," explained the strange voice. "If fallen into the wrong hands they can be used for evil purposes."

"We're not evil," Tommy promised when Kimberly gave his hand a tight squeeze. "We fought against Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa!"

"That is what one said when she came to retrieve the gems. She was with a skeleton named Rito, I believe."

"Scorpina," Kimberly whispered into Tommy's ear.

"So, you know them!?"

"We fought against her and Rito both!" Tommy swore when his knees started to tremble. "Me and My friend were power rangers. She was pink and I was green, white, and red."

"There is no way you could have been three colors!"

"I lost my powers as the green ranger," Tommy stressed. "I then became the white ranger and my powers couldn't be taken away by evil. Then when the zeo team formed I became the red ranger."

"I've heard of only one green ranger and he was evil. He received his powers from Rita Repulsa!"

"My friends freed me from Rita's spell and I joined the Zordon's team of rangers-"

"-that is what the skeleton said," interrupted the strange voice.

"Kimberly, stay close to me," Tommy whispered in her ear. He took hold of her hand and they walked over to the edge of the platform. They could just barely see an outline of a creature. "I think we could have company."

While they carefully continued to look at the outline, a long purple tentacle slowly come out of the water. It wrapped itself tightly all-around Kimberly's body.

"TOMMY!" Kimberly squealed when the tentacle pulled her off the platform and held her above the water. "TOMMY! PLEASE HELP ME!"

"KIMBERLY!" Tommy cried as another tentacle came out of the water and knocked him backwards. He got up off the ground and saw Kimberly being pulled into the water.

"You have to go through a test-"

"-What kind of test?" Tommy demanded through clenched teeth.

"You have to choose between her or the gems," answered the strange voice. "Tell me your decision."

"I choose Kimberly," Tommy answered. "Will you please release her?"

"I'm no fool. That is what they all say-"

"-what do you mean-"

"-when one person comes alone, I teleport their best friend or person who they claim to love the most. Before you interrupt let me explain. I ask them who they'd like to share the gems with. And then I ask if it's a person they are in love with or just a best friend. All of them so foolish they start talking. Then the next thing they know is that person is here in the cave with them. But, you and Scorpina have been the only two to bring someone along with you. She didn't love Rito, he just happened to follow her. I was about to take Rito underwater and I gave her a choice. She said the gems were more important. I was about to destroy Rito and he said her true love was Goldar. He begged me to spare him. So, I sent Scorpina to where Goldar was when Astronoma was in Angel Grove when the space rangers revealed their identities. Goldar was attacked by Scropina and Rito. He destroyed both of them for betraying him. But, he was injured terribly. He tried to go find a friend to help him with his injuries. But, he was never seen after that."

"I'm not like Scorpina," Tommy promised throwing his backpack on the ground. "She is the best friend that I have ever had and I love her so much. I've loved her since high school and we're going to be getting married. I would do anything for her."

"He's really telling the truth!" Kimberly enforced as she was pulled further into the water. "Tommy is my best friend too and he is my one true love. He really did ask me to marry him and I said yes. I've always dreamed of being married to him. Tommy means so much to me and I would anything for him. Please believe him!"

"He has to prove that he loves you," remarked the voice. "He has to come for you."

Tommy got in the water and started to swim out towards Kimberly. Just as he reached Kimberly, two bright rays of lights came from out of nowhere and they hit Tommy and Kimberly. The light was so bright, they both had to close their eyes.

Author's notes:

I looked up on the computer where the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs crashed and it said Yu Chicxulub crater, near the down of Chicxulub which in Mexico. I always wondered what part of the world Tommy found the dino gems and thought this could be a perfect place. I thought that a hidden cave that Tommy found could be why no one else found them. They will get the gems in the next chapter or two.