Kim and Kira: Chapter 4
By Ryan T. Morris
Notes: The Power Rangers are the property of The Walt Disney Company.
Kim stood up and looked at the gem in her hand. Just then a quick breeze blew through the yard. A chill ran down her spine. "That wasn't the wind… As much as I want it to be… It's not…" She started to move toward her house, when a group of Tyrannodrones dropped out of the sky and surrounded her. She slipped the gem into the pocket of her shorts and took a defensive stance waiting for them to make the first move. She was a little nervous it had been about 8 years since her last fight. Then, a Tyrannodrone lunged at her and the fight began.
Kira was upstairs, with Furball, doing her homework when she heard fight noises coming from outside. She stood up, looked out side and saw her aunt fighting about 15 drones. She put her communicator near her mouth… "Dr. O? This is Kira, come in!"
"Kira? What's wrong?"
"My aunt is in the back yard fighting a bunch of T-Drones!"
"OK, I'll call the guys and be there as soon as possible."
"OK," Kira then looked down at Furball, "You can keep a secret, Right?" Furball meowed, "Ready." Then, her gem transformed into her morpher. "DinoThunder! Power Up! Ha!" Kira morphed into the Yellow Ranger, and Furball ran under the bed. Kira then opened her window, climbed out, closed the window, jumped off the roof and landed on the ground, which startled Kim, then Kira said, "I thought you could use some help."
"Thanks," said Kim, as she and Kira fought the drones, "Where are your teammates?"
"They are on their way…" Just then, the Red, Blue and Black Rangers entered the back yard and joined the fight.
As Kim fought, she was surprised at how well she was doing, she fell like she was a Ranger again. Also, she kept catching glimpses of the Black Ranger fighting. The style looked familiar, she just couldn't place it. Just then, a drone dove at her, she jumped and was about 10 feet up when she stopped and just hung their in the air like a balloon, "Cool…" Then she willed herself back down taking out a drone in the process.
Soon all the drones were gone, then the Yellow Ranger came up to Kim, "Are you, OK, Aunt Kim?" "CRAP!" thought Kira, right after she said the words, "Aunt Kim."
"'Aunt Kim?'" said Kim, "Kira?"
Kira sighed, "I don't believe this," she unsnapped her helmet and took it off.
"You're a ranger?"
Then the Red and Blue Rangers took their helmets off, and revealed themselves as Conner and Ethan. But, the biggest shock for Kim came when the Black Ranger took of his helmet and she saw it was Tommy. As soon as she saw his face, she fainted.
"Aunt Kim!" said Kira as she rushed to her aunt's side.
"Let's get her inside," Tommy picked Kim up and carried her inside.
A few minutes later, Kim awoke on her couch. She looked and saw Tommy, Kira, Ethan, and Conner, in their normal clothes, and slowly sat up, "Are you OK?" asked Kira.
"Yeah… I think so…" said Kim, she looked at Kira, "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I thought it was best you didn't know. I didn't want you to worry," said Kira.
Kim smiled at her niece, "I don't have to worry…" She put her hand on Tommy's leg, "Your in good hands."
"What I want to know is why the drones were going after you?" asked Ethan.
Kim reached in her pocket, "Could it have something to do with this…" She pulled out the Pink Dino Gem.
"I don't believe it…" said Kira.
"Is it really?" said Ethan.
"That would explain how she could jump 10 feet straight up and just hang there…" said Conner.
Kim looked confused as she turned toward Tommy, and he said, "How would you feel about being a Ranger again?"
"What?" said Kim.
"That gem you have there is a Dino Gem. It was part of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. I found the Blue, Red, and Yellow gems and hid them. These three…" then he pointed to the teenagers, "inadvertently wandered into the lab under my house when they were in detention and found them. Our enemy, Mesogog, found the Black gem and I was able to get it away from him."
"How did this end up in the backyard?"
"I'm not sure."
"How was I able to just levitate in the air?"
"The power of your gem, it bonds with your DNA and gives you superhuman powers. Conner has super speed, Ethan has impenetrable skin, Kira has an extremely high pitched scream, and I can become invisible."
"I see… Tommy, I'm not sure If I can do this… I'm not as young as I use to be…"
"You didn't choose this Kim, the gem chose you… But the choice to become a Ranger is yours… And we'd be glad to have you on the team…"
Kim thought, she looked at the teens and Tommy, thought about her days as a Ranger, and thought about the fight she was just in then she said, "OK, I'm in. I can't let Kira be the only female on the team." Everyone laughed and Kira walked over and gave her aunt a big hug.
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Soon, the group was on their way to Tommy's house. On the way, Tommy told Kimberly all about Mesogog and the work that he and Anton Mercer did on the island before it exploded. Soon they pulled up to Tommy's house, then he led them to the study and pulled down the jaw of the T-Rex skeleton and the secret door opened. Then they walked down the stairs to the Command Center and Tommy said, "What do you think?"
"Not bad," said Kim, "Zordon would be proud." Then, Kim looked over at the control panel and saw a familiar red head, "Your Hayley, from the cyber café."
"Yes, I'm also the Rangers technical adviser," said Hayley, "I've been helping Tommy create the Ranger energy since grad school."
"I see."
"If you let me have your gem for a few moments, start to work getting your Ranger powers on line." Kim handed Hayley her gem and she started to work.
"So what Zord is Kim going to get?" asked Conner.
"I was thinking about assigning her the Stegazord," said Haley, as she continued to work. Kim smiled. A few minutes later, Hayley finished and handed a silver morpher bracelet with the Pink Dino Gem in the middle. "This is your morpher/communicator. To call on your morpher, just say 'Ready' then when its time to morph just say 'DinoThunder, Power Up!' and touch the morpher. Got it?"
"Got it."
"OK, Aunt Kim," said Kira, "Show us how it's done…"
"You've got it," said Kim, with a big smile, "Ready." Then, then Dino Gem transformed into a morpher, "DinoThunder, Power Up!" Then she touched her morpher and transformed into the Pink Ranger. Her uniform looked just like Kira's but pink. Then, Kim unsnapped her helmet and took it off, "How do I look?"
"You look great," said Tommy.
"Thanks," said Kim with a smile.
"Check out your weapon," said Hayley, "I think you'll like it."
Kim pressed a button on the belt of her suit and a bow appeared in her hands. "A Stega Bow. Perfect." She pressed the button again and the bow disappeared.
Tommy walked up to Kim and gave her a hug, "Welcome to the team."
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Just when things were looking up for the DinoThunder Rangers, they met up with a new adversary, The evil White Ranger. In their first real battle with him, he managed to defeat them all without even breaking a sweat. Then, he found his own Dinozord Egg, and begin feeding it energy from his Morpher, so as to develop a bond with it when it hatched. The Rangers tried to stop him, but Mesogog's Angor monster keep them busy in a fight with the Megazord. Soon, the White Ranger unleashed his Dragozord and stole the Kim's Stegazord, and combined it with his Dragozord, into his own Megazord, the Dino Stegazord.
Kim watched this from the ground and said, "I don't think so!" Then she jumped into the cockpit of the Dino Stegazord and started to fight the White Ranger, but she was quickly thrown out to the ground below.
Tommy rushed up to her, "Are you OK?"
Kim stood up, "Yeah, 30 stories is a long way down."
Mesogog then, sent out a souped-up version of Angor to complicate matters. The White Ranger rejected both the other Rangers, and Mesogog's side, and destroyed Angor to prove his point.
While Tommy was looking for a piece of equipment he was using to find the Dinozord egg, Tommy saw Trent turning into the White Ranger. Having modified the team's Fossil Finder, he encased Black Ranger in amber before he could alert the others of the evil Ranger's identity. Hayley called the teenagers first and had them bring in Tommy. Then she called Kim, Kim came over as fast as she could she walked down the stairs and saw Tommy in the amber, it broke her heart.
To be continued…