Disclaimer: I do not own the Power Rangers or any of the weapons associated with the Power Rangers, so if you recognize it, it is not mine. I do own the characters, Ally Jameson, Fanny Abbott, and Todd Billingsway as well as any other characters from "Saving the World, Again" that may be brought into this story.

jedi4jesus19: Alright, it'll be out soon and I'm glad you enjoyed the first chapter.

TrueRomantic: Well, I plan to use Conner, Kira, and Ethan as the DinoThunder Rangers, but they probably won't seem like themselves, just to go ahead and tell you. It won't follow the story line made by the writer's for this series, although Tommy will receive powers, eventually. I guess that this is the only way I could do it and try to keep the characters that were meant for the position's there.

XRachX: Thanks for the review! I'm glad you don't think that I'll have a problem pulling this off.

Warstock-Leonhart: I need the advice, trust me, but when you gave me your email address, you didn't leave the yahoo or wherever part. Could you do me a favor and send it to me again? I have a lot of questions to ask.

hhsmajorettearg: Yeah, sorry about that, but this chapter should explain it all away.

Now, on with the Story!

The next hour passed by slowly, as the rangers arrived, some in-groups of two or three and some alone. Rocky had been the last one to walk in, only five minutes ago and was grumbling about having to leave Ally alone, as this was one of the few nights he got to see her. The dojo had been taking up almost all of his time lately, since business was booming and Tommy hadn't been there to help at all. None of them seemed to understand what was going on, but when they saw Tommy, they knew it was a true emergency. He wouldn't look the way he did if something wasn't horribly wrong and he wouldn't even be here if something wasn't wrong. They knew that he was not supposed to be back for a couple more weeks, so what had happened?

"What the hell did you get me out of bed at this time of the morning for?" Jason asked, storming into Tommy's house, with Trini following behind him muttering barely audible apologies. Jason looked livid, while Trini just went and settled into a recliner, having heard all of this on the ride to Tommy's. She was shocked that she hadn't joined in on Jason's bad mood, but she didn't have to energy to at this time of morning and she also had the gut feeling that Kim would only be more upset if she joined him.

To say that Jason had never been a morning person was a vast understatement, in high school he had been known to lose his temper if someone got on his nerves too early in the morning, which was not a bright idea. They got used to avoiding any touchy subjects, until after third period on most days and if he was in a bad mood, they waited until after lunch. Now, he had been called away from his home at midnight for some little, insignificant, meeting. What the hell was Kim thinking about?

"Jason, we all want to know, but we're still waiting on Billy. We'll know once we he gets here," Rocky said, as Jason looked over to see Tommy was in a deep sleep, with bruises appearing all over his body.

This didn't look good, especially since he knew that Tommy had to have been the one to ask Kim to get them together at this time of night. She would have waited until the morning, but Tommy had never been one to wait when a problem arose and it was obvious that there was a problem at the moment.

"What happened?" Jason asked, walking over to Kim and seeing that she was just as upset as all of them, if not even more. Tommy wasn't supposed to be home, yet and now he understood why the gathering had to be immediately, they obviously didn't have much time to do whatever needed to be done. Now, he just had to go make sure his little 'sister' was all right, which she didn't look to be alright, by any stretch of the word's meaning and the two of them had been known to stretch the meaning very far.

"I don't know, but whatever it is, is pretty bad. He went to sleep as soon as I got off the phone with ya'll," Kim said, as Jason gave her a hug and she couldn't help but shake in his arms, trying not to cry. They then sat down in front of Tommy and Kim began fiddling with one of his battered hands. She had been fighting tears all night, but let a few trickle down her cheeks, as she told Jason what little bit of information she knew from Tommy. "He just kinda stumbled in and told me to call all of you before he went to sleep, from exhaustion I guess. I'm really scared about all of this, he's never done something like this before, even when he lost the green ranger powers. You know how crazy he got for awhile there and I thought that would be the worst I ever saw him, I guess I was wrong."

"It's gonna be fine. We've been through worse before," Adam said, reassuringly, as Kat had fallen back to sleep on his shoulder. When Kim had called, he wasn't sure whether he should bring her or not, but it didn't seem that Kim cared. She just wanted them to come, so she could hopefully stop worrying.

They were still going strong and Adam was planning on taking the next step, sometime soon, but he didn't know when that would be and now was not a good time to talk about it. They had another problem on their hands and it didn't seem that they could go too long without something like this happening. Being a ranger definitely had it's down sides at times but they wouldn't go back and change most of it.

"We don't have our powers anymore, Adam and we can't go around fighting this without them and we can't break the promise we made. There has to be some other power source out there," Kim said, hearing a knock on the door and knowing that Billy was finally there, which caused her to stand up and go get the door. Now they would be able to find out why Tommy had dragged all of them from the comfort of their homes in the middle of the night, to tell them this urgent news.

"Hey, Kim. What's going on?" Billy asked, as he groggily walked in and sat down on the floor, leaning his head back against the sofa he was sittng in front of. He didn't so much as look around to see what was going on or who was there that might have this news. He was too tired to think to do that and that was why he didn't see Tommy had joined them, once again.

"Tommy, wake up," Kim said, shaking his un-bruised shoulder as gently as she could. She was afraid to touch him, knowing that it would only cause him more pain, but she did because she had to. They couldn't wait around until he woke up, that might take the rest of tonight and a few other days, by the way he looked at the moment. "Tommy, come on, everyone's here now."

"Good," Tommy said, slowly opening his eyes and looking up to see that Kim still looked very concerned about him. He had expected the concern, but he could tell that she was worried and upset as well, which didn't make all of this any easier on him. Why did he always have to be the one to cause all of them so much pain and heartache, because of someone deciding to come after him?

"Tommy, what's going on? Why did you bring us here?" Rocky asked, as Tommy sat up and then pulled Kim down, so she was sitting in his lap. He felt better knowing that he would only have to say this once, but that still did not make it any easier to say. He had never liked to be the bearer of bad news and that had seemed to become his job lately.

"Well, it all started two days ago," Tommy said and gathered his thoughts about the explosion, as well as everything else he had been through while he was there. This was not going to be an easy thing to explain and he only hoped that he did a good enough job the first time, so that they wouldn't ask too many questions, as he could barely keep his eyes open now and he could only hope that he didn't go to sleep against Kim's side while he was telling it.

Flashback to Two Days Before

Tommy had just concluded his remaining research on the dino gems and was surprised to find that they contained an unknown amount of power, just waiting to be harnessed by someone. Dr. Mercer had given him this task, as well as the task of testing the tryadrones, which were the other project that they had been working on over the past few months.

Tommy had not been the only doctorate candidate that had been brought to the island and was surprised that Dr. Mercer was not making him do as much work as he was making the other candidate do, but he was not complaining. It had all been enjoyable, lonely, but enjoyable none the less. Now all he wanted to do was finish his thesis, so he could get back home to the woman that was there, waiting for him.

"Dr. Mercer, these dino gems happen to be much more powerful than you thought they were," Tommy said, having examined them thoroughly over the past three months.

His Power Ranger background let him deduce that these gems could very well be used to power some morphers. If that was ever needed again, but Dr. Mercer would never know that little bit of triva. He was not going to tell this man about what they could really be used for, as he would never understand how to make a morpher or what a morpher was, to be quite honest. Plus, he didn't trust the majority of the population enough to open up that much, to anyone besides the rangers about something of this magnitude.

"Well, Oliver, can you explain to me what, exactly, they can be used for?" Dr. Mercer asked, knowing his pupil was much more competent than he had once believed.

When they had first begun this project, he had given Tommy Oliver, or Oliver as he called him, the gems because they were the least likely to draw his attention to his real intentions that was until now. Something about this Oliver fellow made him feel uneasy, as if he had a background that would help him stop his plans, if he managed to figure out what they were. Now he was finding it necessary to not let him get off the island alive or he would be able to stop them and all of the plans they had made over this year and a half. The gems could be used in humans, but Dr. Mercer needed Tommy to explain to him how to use it and even if he didn't explain it, he could not let him get off the island with this knowledge. That just wasn't a risk he was willing to take.

"Yes, but you wouldn't believe me unless you had been one and I know you weren't," Tommy said with a smile. Dr. Mercer had been trying to get this secret out of him, the entire time he was there, but he wouldn't budge on it. He didn't trust this man and he definitely wasn't going to tell him that he had been a Power Ranger, for all of those years.

He also was going to make sure that these gems didn't leave his sight, until he left this island. He didn't want to take any chances that they would be tampered with, because if they were, then they would be rendered useless, and he did not want that to happen. If that happened, then he would have no choice but to pull out the powers they had put away only a short time ago, if something were to happen and there was always that chance, in the world that he lived in.

"Dr. Mercer, we have a problem," Todd Billingsway said, bursting into the lab and slamming the doors shut behind him. He stood about five foot ten, and looked to weigh a little over hundred and eighty pounds. His blonde hair, was buzzed, within an inch of its being and did not move whenever he walked into a room. Along with his slight appearance, he had a rather jittery disposition about things. This made him prone to dropping things and it also made him, very uncomfortable to be around in general.

He, however, got along better with Dr. Mercer than Tommy did, although Tommy couldn't see why, but he was just glad that he didn't have to spend anymore time with Dr. Mercer than absolutely necessary. Todd always took up the slack in that department, although right now it was striking him as very suspicious. Blame it on the old ranger intuition, but he didn't like the man and he didn't like his actions one bit. He seemed to know something Tommy didn't, everyone did, but it had gotten worse over the last few weeks, as his research had become more involved and they had become more desperate to get him to reveal his secret.

"What is it Billingsway?" Dr. Mercer asked, heading towards where Todd stood, hoping to be able toblock Tommy from exiting through the door, although he was already looking very determined to do whatever was needed. This was the most active they had seen Billingsway the whole time he was there and it worried Tommy a little bit, no take that back, it worried him a lot.

Dr. Mercer did not seem to be reacting to this emergency the way he would have and he slowly began making his way to where he had laid the dino gems, prepared to snatch them if he had to and even fight for them if it came to that. He was not going to leave them in Dr. Mercer's possession; his actions were just too suspicious for his liking and he had been known to do crazy things when circumstances went this way, as they often did when he was involved. He could only pray that Billy had been right about residual powers, though, because he had the feeling he would need them soon.

"We're being attacked. This Mesogogg thing is demanding the dino gems," Todd said and Tommy took this as his cue to stow the gems away in his pocket and run for it, knocking Todd down, if necessary. If these were to get into the wrong hands, it could mean utter destruction for the entire world and he did not want to have that on his conscience, if he was lucky enough to make it out of here alive.

"Run," Tommy commanded and he headed out the door Todd had come through, with Todd dodging out of the way, just in time. He could hear the attackers getting closer to the lab and he was not going to risk staying put any longer. He knew that he might not be able to make it out now and the only thing he found himself wishing for was the ability to morph, but he couldn't do that anymore. As he exited the first building, he saw a lizard-like creator standing in front of him, and he knew it must be Mesogogg. He looked to have just found himself in another battle with these crazy things, one that he had not had a clue about until a few seconds before. "Shit."

"I didn't know that you knew that word, Oliver. It doesn't matter, you won't be here much longer," Mesogogg said, as a group of tryadrones descended around him and Tommy knew exactly what he was up against, as he had been the one to help create them. The creature was carefully watching to see how he would react, but he still did not seem to be shaken, which shocked him. Most other people would begin to beg for mercy, as soon as they saw the creatures, but not this man. What could he do against them that no one else could? "If you'll give up the gems, we won't have to do this, Oliver."

"Try me," Tommy said, preparing himself to take on these creatures, that he now had, begrudingly, helped create.

He wished he would have seen it coming, but he didn't, as lately he had been focusing on getting home to Kim. He knew about the residual powers that had been drained from him before and only hoped that his newest powers had some residing effects left in him, although he had only had them for a short time. These creatures didn't scare him, not after having to deal with the asoriods, without any powers at all. He was going to get off of this damn island with the gems, whether or not Mesogogg liked it.

"Cocky, aren't we?" Mesogogg asked and then shrugged. This human wasn't like all of the others that he had met; he seemed to have something that they didn't, now if he could only figure out what that was. Surely, that would give him the advantage, or so he thought. Even if he had been able to figure out Tommy was a ranger, that would not have been an advantage, at all. "As you wish, tryadrones attack."

Tommy soon found himself in an intense battle with these creatures, but he finally managed to destroy all of them, although they took a lot out of him, but he didn't have the time to focus on that now. He then ran with all the energy that he had left in him, as buildings began exploding all around him. He knew that if he ever got out of all this mess, he was going to hang up his ranger hat for good this time. It was just too risky now. The final explosion threw him over a hundred feet, before he came to rest on one of the island's sandy beaches, barely grasping onto consciousness.

He stood up to scan the horizon for the boat that was supposed to be delivering some essentials to the island today, but nothing was out there, except water and more water. He then got the gut wrenching feeling that all of this had been planned and if he was discovered, they would kill him, without a second thought as to the people that might want to avenge his death.

He then began searching the island for some way out of this place. He continued to search the island until he found an old, abandoned airplane. He could vaguely remember some of the flying skills that he had been taught, in high school, but took his chances and boarded the plane, anyway. He was not giving Mesogogg any more time to look for him and he could only hope that the plane had enough fuel to get him back to Reefside, safely. Boy, did he have some bad news to deliver to the rangers when he got back to them.

End of Flashback

"So, I flew myself back to Reefside and paid for a cab to bring me out here," Tommy said, as he gave them some time to let it all sink in, as their faces showed the shock.

They had a new nemesis among them and after barely two years of peace, they had to decide if they wanted to suit back up or let someone new take a stab at being one of them. There was another power source, which meant they wouldn't have to use the powers they stowed away, not unless Mesogogg proved to be harder to defeat than they ever thought he would be. But which ones of them would suit up again and how long would it be before they could put the hat to the side again?

AN: I hope that you enjoyed this chapter, I know that it is on the shorter side as well, but I promise that the chapters will get longer as I go along. For those of you who are familiar with the DinoThunder series, I know that this probably does not follow very closely to what happened on the episodes that aired, so don't get too upset about it. Also, I know Kira and Conner's last names, but what is Ethan's? If you could just put it in your review then I would really appreciate it.