Disclaimer: Disney owns Power Rangers DinoThunder, ZEO and Mighty Morphin'. This fic is for the enjoyment of the fans and was not made for profit.
Author's note: Ok, some of you have been asking for a sequel and here it is. Here is the continuation of "The Enemy of My Friend." This one I think will have a few interesting twists just like its predecessor. I wasn't sure if I was going to make a sequel because I thought that it closed well, but you wanted more…you got it. Read the first fic if you haven't already.
Restoration
Chapter 1: Leaving
By Tommy's Mistress and TommyIsCancer
It was August in Reefside and at its hottest. The DinoThunder teens were packing to go to college, except for Cassidy and Devin. They were exactly where they wanted to be. Due the events in June with Zeltrax returning and the huge scoop about the ZEO Rangers teaming up with the DinoThunders to defeat Zeltrax, things had finally quieted down. What the public didn't know however, was what happened at the Abyss of Evil. Shortly after the graduation, the Rangers all came gave a scoop to Cassidy that promoted her again to an anchor position. Unfortunately, Cassidy didn't like it much because it was the morning broadcast. But, she knew that she was making it now. Ethan, Conner and Trent were frequently visiting Rocky and Adam's dojo to take lessons from them. Tanya had gotten her job as a DJ for the early afternoon shift at one of the radio stations and Kira had got the job at the music store even though she would be leaving soon. Kira and Tanya often hung out because they loved to sing and practice with each other. Katherine was preparing for the drama teacher job and Tommy was preparing for his second year of teaching science. About a week before the DinoThunder teens were going to leave for school, Adam got a call at his dojo.
"Hello, Water and Rock Karate Academy, Adam Park speaking," Adam said.
"How formal, Adam," the male voice said on the other side. "If it were Zack, he would put flare into it."
"Jason!" Adam said happily. "How are you?"
"Just fine," Jason said. "You?"
"Great. What's up?"
"Billy is back from Aquitar. He is visiting people. He wanted to see if he could come see you, Tanya, Rocky and Kat."
"Really? When?"
"He was thinking in about a week, maybe."
"That would be cool," Adam said.
"And I was thinking that I come to see you guys too," Jason said.
"Yeah! Definitely, come down and see us! We would love it."
"Yeah, too bad that we can't see Tommy though. We don't have his current number."
"Oh, ha ha ha!" Adam laughed. "I forgot to call you guys about this. We found Tommy!"
"What?" Jason said in a surprised tone. " You did? Where?"
"Here in Reefside. He moved here before us. Kat and Tommy are teaching at the same high school."
"Really? Ha! I never saw Tommy as the high school teacher type."
"Nor a paleontologist," Adam said as Rocky came up to Adam.
"Who's on the phone, Adam?" he asked.
"It's Jase."
"Hey Rocko!" Jason yelled.
"Hold on, Jase," Adam said. "Rocky, close the door!" Rocky came into the office while Adam pressed a button on the phone. "Ok, we're on speaker phone."
"Cool, hey Rocko!" Jason said.
"Hola Jason!" Rocky said. "How are you?"
"Fine, you?"
"Just great."
"Anyway, yeah, Jason," Adam said, "Tommy is here too. We should all get together. Billy would love to meet…oh no."
"What?" Rocky and Jason said at the same time.
"Can you get Billy to come sooner?"
"Why?" Jason asked.
"Wait! Billy's coming back to Earth?" Rocky asked. Adam waved his hand at him to keep it down.
"Yeah, he is, Rocky and I will see what I can do, Adam. Why?"
"You know the DinoThunder Rangers?" Adam said.
"Yeah. They were awesome…wait! You know them!"
"Yeah. If you haven't heard yet, the ZEOs helped the DinoThunder Rangers bring down Zeltrax. They are awesome. Unfortunately, they are going off to college at the end of the week. It would mean a lot to Tommy if you and Billy saw them before they left."
"Wait, Tommy had his hand in creating them, didn't he?" Jason said slyly.
"You didn't hear it from me," Adam said in a joking tone.
"Or me," Rocky said followed by a small laugh.
"Hey, do you want Tom's number?"
"Yeah. I'm ready." Adam told Jason Tommy's phone number.
"Okay, I will see what I can do you two," Jason laughed. "I will talk to you all later. I will give Tommy a call later when I talk to Billy again."
"Okay, Bye!" Adam and Rocky said together.
"Bye," Jason said and he and Adam hung up their phones.
On the other side of town, Kira was waiting outside of the radio station that Tanya worked at, KAJJ. Tanya came walking out the door when Kira was finally about to go inside after she was waiting outside impatiently for fifteen minutes.
"Sorry, Kira," Tanya said. "My boss wanted to talk to me about what we are going to do next week."
"No problem," Kira said. The two began to walk towards Tanya's car.
"So, are you almost packed?"
"Actually, I just have my clothes left to do and I'll be ready to leave Friday."
"That's good. Are you excited?"
"Yeah I am," Kira said. "I hear that college is suppose to be more exciting and fun compared to high school."
"Yeah it is," Tanya said. "The parties and everything. So what are you going to major in or do I have to ask?" She knew that Kira was very talented when it came to singing and playing the guitar.
"Ha ha," Kira laughed. "Yeah, music."
"Figured." Tanya then noticed that Kira was looking across the street. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing," Kira said as she still stared at the warehouse across the street.
"Kira?"
"Sorry. That warehouse was where we finally defeated Mesogog. I guess the builders abandoned it after the fight. It looks like nothing was cleaned up."
"You're going to miss the fighting, aren't you?" Tanya said as they got to the car and Tanya unlocked it.
"Not so much really the fighting," Kira said as she got into the car, "but I am going to miss Dr. O and the other Rangers."
"I don't think that you are the only one that is going through that right now," Tanya said as she turned the key to the car and then drove away. At the warehouse however, there were figures looking around and gathering the remains of something from throughout the wreckage as they watched Tanya and Kira drive away.
Back at Tommy's house, Katherine and Tommy were preparing their supplies for the upcoming school year and Hayley was down in the Dino Lab fixing parts of the lab's computers.
"I think that I have everything," Katherine said. "I have enough props in the school and I have all the paperwork I need."
"That is good, Kat," Tommy said as he grabbed some of the chemistry test tubes. "I just need a few more things and I am done too. I am glad we did this early."
"Me too. Thanks for helping me Tommy."
"No problem. I know it is a little hard when you're in the first year of teaching. But, then you didn't have the first year I had."
"Yeah," Katherine laughed. "You can't stay away from the power, can you?"
"I guess not," Tommy chuckled as he scratched behind his neck nervously. "It's almost as bad as Conner's addiction to Ranger power-ups." Katherine laughed harder.
"He does have that problem, doesn't he?"
"Yeah." Tommy went somber for a second.
"What's wrong, Tommy?"
"I am going to miss the other Rangers, Kat. Much as they do get on my nerves, especially Conner and Cassidy at times, they are awesome kids."
"That they are," Katherine said as she put her files in a box. "They had a good mentor."
"Oh stop, Kat. I wasn't that good."
"Tommy, if you hadn't showed them what to do, they wouldn't have stood up to you when you were….ummm…….sorry, Tommy. I know how hard it is for you to think about that…"
"It's ok Kat. They did save me from doing something I would have regretted and they brought me back. They're very strong and they were willing to do whatever it took to stop me. I am proud of them, Kat." He looked at a picture of all the DinoThunder Rangers and ZEO Rangers he had on one of the shelves. It was a picture of the first picnic that they had all together. Conner and the other DinoThunder Rangers were practically tackling Tommy in the picture while the other Rangers laughed. "Very proud."
"Hey Tommy!" Hayley said as she came into the room. "Look what I found." She tossed him something.
"My Zeonizer!" Tommy said happily.
"Finally!" Katherine said. "Don't ever take that off Tommy!"
Tommy gave her a slightly annoyed look. He was getting annoyed at the other ZEO Rangers giving him a hard time about not finding his morpher. "Where did you find them?"
"It had been blasted into the back entrance to the Lab into the cave," Hayley said as she came in and sat down in a chair. "I was making sure that I had everything that I had put out there back into the cave and then I saw it."
"Thank you Hayley," Tommy said as he took off the DinoThunder bracelet and put the morphers on. Once they were in place, they disappeared like they were supposed to and then Tommy put the bracelet back on.
"Are you sure it is ok to have two sets of powers on you?" Katherine asked.
"The ZEO powers are for back up. You may never know." Just then, the phone rang.
"I'll get it," Hayley said.
"Well, at least you found them," Katherine said. "That day when I thought that you had no powers…"
"Tommy, it's for you," Hayley said as she handed Tommy the phone.
"Hello?" Tommy said into it.
"You couldn't have called to give me your new number there, bro?" the male voice said.
Tommy's face turned red. "Jason!" Tommy said. "Oh my God. How are you?" Katherine looked up at Tommy to see his red face. Katherine knew Tommy was in trouble with Jason and gave a small laugh.
"You didn't give me your new number, bro," Jason said. "What happened?"
"Long story. I will tell you later. How is everything?"
"Just fine. Billy is visiting Earth in a couple of days."
"Really?" Tommy said with a happy tone.
"Yeah, he wanted to see everyone, but I told him that I couldn't find you. Now I have."
"So he is coming here to Reefside?"
"Yeah," Jason said. "I am going to be coming too since I want to see everyone…plus your Rangers."
"Ah," Tommy laughed. "You heard about them from Adam and Rocky, didn't you?"
"Yeah. I did."
"Jase, if you want, you and Billy can stay with me," Tommy said.
"Oh really?" Jason said surprised. "You don't mind?"
"No!" Tommy said. "I won't mind at all."
"Thanks man. Anyway, I will let you get back to what you are doing. We will be there Friday."
"Ah, darn!" Tommy said disappointedly. "The DinoThunder Rangers will be leaving that day. You could have seen them."
"I'm sorry Tommy," Jason said. "I have a meeting tomorrow that I can't miss."
"It is ok, Jase. Don't worry about it."
"I am sorry, bro. Anyway, I will let you go."
"Ok," Tommy said. "See ya Friday."
"Bye," Jason said.
"Bye."
"That was Jason?" Katherine asked.
"Yeah, it was," Tommy, said as he clicked the phone off. "He is going to be visiting Friday with Billy."
"Really? That is great."
"You mean the Ranger genius, Billy?" Hayley said in a excited tone.
"Yeah," Tommy said. "I know that you have been dying to meet him."
"Oh you bet!"
"Too bad though. The other DinoThunders won't be able to meet Jason or Billy though. They leave early that day."
"Oh, really?" Katherine disappointedly said. "They would have been so excited. Hayley, I think that we should have a Bon Voyage party for the kids. They would love that."
"Yeah! Great idea!" Hayley said. "At the Cybercafe!"
"I agree," Tommy said. "That means that I have to go get presents for them."
"But Tommy, you got them stuff for graduation," Katherine said.
"I know, but giving them gift certificates isn't enough. I am going to give them stuff they can use."
Thursday night at around seven, the six DinoThunder teenagers came up to the Cybercafe door with confused looks on their faces. The cafÈ looked like it had been closed down for the night.
"Are you sure Hayley said to meet here, Trent?" Kira said.
"Yeah, dude," Ethan said as he was checking the windows to see any signs of light. "It is awfully dark in there."
"She said to come," Trent said as he fiddled with his keys to the cafÈ. "She told me to come straight in."
"Maybe she isn't here yet," Devin said.
"Either that or she and the Rangers are going to through a surprise party on us," Cassidy said as she twirled her blonde hair around her finger. All of a sudden, they heard a loud thud and an "Aww Man!" from inside.
"That sounded like Dr. O," Conner said as he looked in.
"Damn it, Cass!" Ethan said. "You ruined their surprise."
"Oops!" Cassidy said embarrassed.
"Come on," Trent said as he opened the door. "Let's get this over with." The group went inside and looked around.
"Five, four, three, two, one…" Ethan said. The lights went on and the adults came out of their hiding spots.
"Surprise!" All the adults yelled.
"I knew it," Cassidy said. All of the Rangers came up to the DinoThunders and everyone began to laugh when they saw Tommy. He was covered in cake.
"Tommy! The cake!" Hayley complained.
"I know! I know!" he said as he tried to make his way to the kitchen with Hayley.
"How did that happen?" Kira asked.
"Who knows," Tanya said. "You guys knew about this already?"
"Yeah," Trent said.
"Cassidy figured it out," Ethan said.
"Darn," Rocky said. "We were hoping that you were going to be surprised."
"We were," Conner said. "The timing was off."
"Dad!" Trent said as Anton came up.
"Surprise Trent," Anton said as he hugged his son. "They wanted to throw you all a going away party before you left."
"That is so thoughtful," Kira said.
"Man," Ethan said annoyed. "And we are going to have crying girls for the rest of the night."
"Well, when your teacher gets out of the kitchen, he has gifts for you," Anton said.
"What?" the teens said in surprise.
"Really?" Cassidy said.
"Yeah, he is going to miss you all," Anton said. "He wanted to get you all something he thought you would use so that he knows that he helped out in someway."
"Yeah, that was so sweet of him," Katherine said with a smitten smile on her face.
"Yeah, anything that involves Tommy she goes ga ga over him," Rocky said to Adam. Adam tried to hide his laughing.
The party continued for a while. The ZEO Rangers and Tommy swapped stories of high school and college life. Hayley even told the story on how she found out about Tommy being a former Ranger. After the party was about to end, Tommy called the Ranger teens aside to present his gifts.
"Guys, I know that you will do well in whatever you do," Tommy said. "I will miss you all when you leave. I wanted to get you things that I though would help you in whatever you want to do." He gave the presents to the teens and Ethan was the first one to get his open.
"Ah cool!" Ethan said as he examined his gift after he realized what it was. "A schedule organizer for the computer! Thanks Doc."
"No problem, Ethan," Tommy said as Ethan gave him a one armed hug. Devin was the next to get his open.
"Awesome! A new camera bag!" Devin yelled, but then saw something inside. The object had a note attached to it reading 'When you don't want to listen to Cassidy'. It was a package of earplugs. "Ha ha ha. Thanks Dr. Oliver." Tommy chuckled a little when he saw that Devin had noticed the earplugs and Cassidy didn't as she was the next to open her gift.
"Aww. A pink scarf!" Cassidy said surprised. "I loved it Dr. Oliver. You are so sweet." She gave him a big hug. Conner was the next one to finish.
"A new soccer ball!" Conner said as he ripped it out of the packaging.
"I figured that you would need a new one sooner or later," Tommy said as Conner started to bounce it on his knees.
"I need one now," Conner said as he caught the ball. "Thanks Dr. O."
"Oh I so needed these!" Kira said as she grabbed her gift out of the box. It was empty song sheets and a set of picks. She gave him a two-armed hug with the gifts still in her hand. "Thank you Dr. O."
"You're welcome," Tommy said as he looked at Trent. Trent looked very happy at his present.
"Thank you so much, Dr. Oliver," Trent said. He had a nicely bound sketchbook and a box of pencils, pens and markers in his hand. "I will definitely need these."
"I know," Tommy said with a sniff. He painfully smiled at the Rangers. "I am going to miss you all."
"We will too, Dr. O," Conner said as the other Rangers smiled back at him.
"We'll be here Dr. Oliver," Cassidy said as she hugged Devin.
"Yeah, we will come and visit you," Devin said.
"We will too," Ethan said as Trent nodded.
The Rangers finished the party and the last few minutes got really emotional for the girls of the party. Aside from the mishap with the cake, the party went well. Little did they know that back Mesogog's lab, the figures that were at the warehouse earlier were putting pieces of scaly carcass into the geno-randomizer. Around the time Hayley locked up the Cybercafe for the night, the figures flipped the switch of the randomizer. A few seconds later, a claw grabbed the side of the door and the thing pulled itself out to the machine. It looked at itself and laughed evilly.
"Yyeesssssssss!" Mesogog said coldly but satisfyingly. "Finally! Good work my tyrannodrones. I am alive once more." His look went over to a computer and saw that it was running.
"Interesting. I don't remember that working when I came to after the explosion." He accessed the computers and found footage of the fight between Zeltrax, Tommy and the Rangers. "So, Zeltrax came back and used my control serum and the Green and Pink gems I was going to collect. Too bad Zeltrax."
At that moment, he saw Tommy come out of the Abyss of Evil and fight the rangers. "That is very interesting. Dr. Oliver is more useful too when he is evil. Maybe I could use him and the other Rangers to…" Mesogog began to chuckle evilly as he looked at another monitor with readings of energy being read on it. "Soon my precious. Soooooooon."
The day came that the teens had to leave Reefside. All the Rangers were saying good-bye to their families and were already starting to miss their homes. At Trent's place, Dr. Anton Mercer was making sure that Trent had everything,
"Son, are you sure that you have everything?" Anton asked as Trent was about to get into his car with Ethan. "Socks, shoes, blankets, underwear…"
"DAD!" Trent yelled when Anton said underwear. "I have everything. If I need anything, I will buy it and if I forgot something here, I will call you!"
"Okay, okay!" Anton said. "Just checking. What about you, Ethan?"
"I have everything," Ethan said as he put an arm around Trent. "If I don't, I will mooch off my roomie."
"Hey!"
"And so you are going to study to be a game designer?" Anton said as he came up to Trent next to the car.
"Yeah, it's going to be so much fun," Ethan said.
"Ok, you guys have a safe trip. Call me when you get there."
"Right, Dad," Trent said. Just then, about twenty tyrannodrones popped out of nowhere and surrounded the car and the three of them. "What the?"
"Tyrannodrones?" Anton said as he came closer to the two Rangers. "I thought they were gone."
"That can only mean one thing. It looks like Mesogog is back," Ethan said as he closed the door to the passenger side and joined Trent and his father. "GRRrreeatt!"
At that moment, the minions began to attack. Ethan, Trent and Anton split apart. Ethan began to fight them off and at one point, his dino armor activated and started sending some of the tyrannodrones flying. Trent was handling them pretty easily knocking them down pretty fast. When the two Rangers finished fighting their attackers, they realized that Anton was being attacked as well and turned towards him to help. When they turned around however, they were surprised to see Dr. Mercer fighting the tyrannodrones. He was doing okay, but the Rangers could see that he was tiring out pretty fast and the two came in to help him. Once all of the tyrannodrones were gone, the three came together.
"You okay?" Trent asked Ethan.
"Yeah," Ethan said. "Dr. Mercer, where did you learn to fight? You handled yourself pretty well out there."
"Well, I learned a little from Mesogog," Anton said panting. "He was useful for something."
"YEeeesss!" a voice said from behind them. "And I had a use for youuuu!" The three turned to find Mesogog walking towards them.
"Oh no," Ethan said under his breath.
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Don't you just love it when we cut off the fic like that? Stay tuned for the next chapter.
