Kim and Kira: Chapter 8
By Ryan T. Morris
Rating: PG-13
Notes: The Power Rangers are the property of The Walt Disney Company.
The next morning, Tommy and Kim sat in the kitchen, smiling at each other and drinking coffee, when Kira came in.
"Hey," said Kira.
"Hi," said Tommy and Kim together.
"Kira," said Kim, "come here a moment."
"Sure," Kira sat down, "What's up?"
"I'm not sure what to say… So, I'll just come out and say it… Tommy and I are getting married."
Kira's eyes went wide, "What?"
"After what happened over the past few months," said Tommy, "we've both realized that we still love each other very much."
"Don't you guys think your moving kind of fast?"
"Maybe, but, the wedding won't be for awhile yet," said Kim.
"Well, I'm happy for you guys," she gave her aunt and Tommy each a hug.
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A few weeks later, Kim was lying in bed, looking over a bridal magazine, when Kira came in, and said, "Good, you're awake."
Kim put down her magazine and looked at her niece, she looked very shaken, "What's wrong, Kira?"
"I just had a really bad dream," said Kira, as she walked over to the bed and sat down, "I dreamt I was getting ready to fight a lizard monster, but before the fight began, it fell in love with me, and wanted to marry me." As Kim tried to contain her laughter, Kira squinted her eyes and replied in a matter-of-fact tone, "It's not funny, Aunt Kimberly."
"No…" said Kim, with a hint of laughter, "Of course not… Then what happened."
"Conner and Ethan showed up and luckily we were able to destroy it before it caused too much damage. Have you ever had dreams about being a Ranger?"
"Once and awhile. My friend, Trini, she once dreamt that a doll she owned came to life and started capturing things in magic bottles."
"That's pretty weird."
"Yeah…"
"Well, I better let you go to sleep."
"OK. Good night, Kira."
"Good night, Aunt Kim."
Kim took her reading glasses off, turned off the lights, closed her eyes and started to drift off to sleep. Meanwhile, in Mesogog's laboratory, Elsa continued with her plan to destroy the rangers in their dreams, with Kimberly as her target.
In her dream, Kimberly and the other Rangers were at one of the plazas near downtown, the monster looked a little like Godzilla and it was wearing a wedding dress.
"I'm the mighty Bridezilla!" said the monster, "I will destroy you Pink Ranger and make the Black Ranger my husband!"
Kim scoffed, "I don't think so… You're not his type!"
Bridezilla charged toward them and the fight began. Soon, some Tyrannodrones joined the fight leaving Kimberly and the monster to fight one-on-one. The monster knocked her back about 10 feet and said, "Give it up, Pink Ranger. I will destroy you!"
"You wish," said Kim, as she crossed her arms across her chest, "SUPER DINO MODE!" Then she jump up about 20 feet in the air, "Stego Bow! Fire Storm!" She shot several fire arrows at Bridezilla and landed on the ground just as Bridezilla exploded. Then Kim woke up, she sat up in bed, and said, "That was odd…"
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A few days later, Kim walked into Tommy's classroom as he was packing up his briefcase, "Hi."
"Hey," said Tommy, as they quickly kissed.
"Ready to go?"
"Yeah, but I've got to stop at Randal's office for a minute. She took some cards of Ethan and Devin's and I told them I'd try to get them back for them."
"OK."
Tommy and Kim walked down the hall to Principal Randal's office, they walked inside just as she transformed into Elsa, "I knew there was something I didn't like about you," said Kim.
Elsa turned around, "I was wondering how long I could pull this off."
"I have to give you credit, we should have seen it," said Tommy, "Well, looks like it's all over Ms. Randal."
"It's a shame, Tommy," said Elsa, "We could have had something."
"Dream on," said Kim.
Then, Elsa jumped on the desk and started to fight Tommy and Kim. She knocked them both to the ground, transformed back into Principal Randal and left the office. Tommy reached for his communicator and said, "Ethan, get the others. Kim and I just found out something about Principal Randal you're not going to believe." Then, Tommy and Kim took off after Elsa.
When they got outside, they saw Elsa walking toward the main gate, "Your not going anywhere," said Kim. Randal turned back around and the fight between the three of them continued. As they fought, the last bell of the day rang. The students started making their way out of the school. Everyone was stunned to see Dr. Oliver and Coach Hart fighting Principal Randal.
Kira looked at Trent and Conner and said, "Okay, Don't you think Dr. O and my Aunt are going just a little over the top trying to get Ethan's card back?"
"Maybe they know something that we don't," said Trent.
"Like what?" asked Conner.
"I don't know. There must be a reason they are fighting her."
"It's Elsa," said Ethan, as he joined up with his friends.
"Who?" asked Conner.
"Randal?" asked Kira.
Just then Randal transformed into Elsa. "You two fight well for a science teacher and a gymnastics coach."
"You're not bad for a principal," said Tommy.
"Former principal," said Elsa, "Tell the school board, I resign." then she disappeared into an invisaportal.
The next day at school, Tommy, Kim, Ethan, Conner, and Kira were walking down the halls of Reefside High, when they spotted Trent and Anton.
"Anton!" said Tommy, "How are you?"
"Tommy!" said Anton, "I'm fine. Hey, I understand your looking for a new principal."
"Why? Are you interested?"
"I'm sure Dr. Mercer is far too busy to run a school," said Kira.
"Yeah, far too busy," said Ethan.
"Hey, relax everybody, she's right," said Anton, just then Anton's beeper went off. "Oh see, even as we speak." He reached into his pocket to pull out his beeper and, as he did, the card that Elsa took from Ethan fell onto the floor.
Ethan picked it up and asked, "How did you get this?"
"Honestly, I don't know. Trent, is this yours?"
"No," said Trent, with a nervous laugh, "I don't know how it got there."
Just then, Anton's breathing started to get heavy.
"Are you all right?" asked Kimberly.
Then Anton fell to his knees and said, sounding out of breath, "I'm fine. Just leave me alone."
"We should get you some help," said Kimberly.
"No!" said Anton, as he stood up and started to run down the hall to Tommy's classroom. Tommy, Kim, Kira, Ethan and Conner took off after him.
"Leave him alone! He'll be fine! He's a doctor!" said Trent, as he followed after him.
"Anton! Wait!" said Tommy.
"Please leave me!" said Anton.
They all arrived in Tommy's classroom just in time to see Anton Mercer become Mesogog.
"No way!" said Conner, "Mercer is…"
"Mesogog," said Tommy, competing Conner's though.
"This is one crazy week," said Ethan.
Kim looked at Trent, "This is your big secret?"
"You knew this all along?" asked Kira.
"He's my father," said Trent, "How could I tell you?"
"You will pay for betraying me, Trent," said Mesogog, "You will pay dearly."
"I never betrayed you," said Trent.
"You betrayed us! If anything," said Conner.
"Silence!" said Mesogog, as he transformed back into Anton Mercer. Anton fell to his knees and said, "Trent, I'm sorry." Then he disappeared into an invisaportal.
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Later that afternoon, the Dino Thunder team minus Trent met in the Command Center.
"I always knew Mercer wasn't exactly PTA material, but Mesogog? That's whack," said Ethan.
"I'll tell you what's whack. Trent not telling us. That's whack," said Conner.
"Look, I'm as mad about this as you guys are, but don't you think we still owe Trent the chance to explain," Said Kira, "maybe there's a really good reason he didn't tell us."
"I hope so," said Kimberly, "We can't have someone we don't trust running around with this kind of power."
"I agree." said Tommy, "We'll give Trent a chance to explain. If he can't give us a good explanation for his actions, then I have no choice but to ask Trent to surrender his morpher, and give up being a Power Ranger," Then, he and Kimberly went upstairs to get Trent.
A solemn look crossed Kira's face as she stood there. Connor looked over at his girlfriend and said, "Don't tell me you feel bad for Trent."
"Well, I just hate for it to end this way for Trent. I mean, if it was me, and I had to give back my powers, I don't know if I could handle it," said Kira.
"Oh, now that is ironic. I remember when you didn't want it to begin at all," Connor reminded.
"Yeah, right," Kira agreed.
They thought back to the day that they all became a Ranger. Kira singing outside of the school, Randal giving them detention, walking in the woods near the museum and falling into the sinkhole, taking the gems from the rock in the Command Center, their first fight against the Tyrannodrones, discovering their powers, and Kira giving Conner and Ethan her Dino Gem, then Kira said, "Okay, I admit, at first, I wasn't so into it, but everything's different now."
They thought back to the day Tommy gave them their morphers, their first battle as Power Rangers, and when Kira was brainwashed by the monster that was being stored in Anton Mercer's museum. Then Kira said, "I've changed. Being a Ranger changed all of us. Look at you, Conner. You are in no way the same dumb jock that you were when we started."
"Is that supposed to be a compliment?" Conner asked.
"Well, you know what I mean," she replied.
"And if he doesn't, I do. You have come a long way, bro," said Ethan stated.
They again thought back to the day that they all became Rangers, and Conner skipping class to practice. They also thought about when he discovered Super Dino Mode, when he first became the Triassic Ranger and when he got his battlizer, "Okay, point made. What about you, gamer dude? You're not exactly Mr. Cyber Geek anymore." said Connor.
Again thought back to the day that they all became Rangers, and Ethan changing the programming on the sprinklers at school and soaked about a quarter of the student body and Principal Randal. They also thought about when Ethan almost had to fight Derrick, and when Hayley built the Hovercraft Cycle for him "Yeah, I am pretty cool, aren't I?" asked Ethan.
"Don't get carried away," said Conner, "But, it's defiantly not embarrassing hanging out with you anymore."
"Okay, now who needs to learn how to give a complement?" asked Kira.
"That OK," said Ethan, "I speak Conner."
"You know what still I still can't believe?" asked Kira, "Dr. O and my Aunt Kim are Power Ranger legends."
They thought back to the day they found out that Tommy and Kim were former Power Rangers and when they learned that Hayley was helping Tommy. They also thought about how Tommy got the Black Dino Gem and his first battle as the Black Ranger. Then they thought about the day that Kim found the Pink Dino Gem, how Kim found out that Kira and her friends were Power Rangers, and how Kim fainted after she found out Tommy was a ranger again. Kira thought about the day she lost her parents and how her Aunt took her in. "We own them both a lot," said Kira.
"Yeah, we do," said Ethan
"Are you guys forgetting who almost ended it for good?" asked Conner.
Then they thought about the day Trent trapped Tommy in amber. "Look, he was under the gem's spell," said Kira. "It's different now."
"Yeah, now he forgets to tell us Mesogog is his dad," said Conner, "glad he's changed."
"I made a promise," said Trent, as he walked down the stars, with Tommy and Kimberly close behind.
"What about your promise to us," said Conner, as he, Kira and Ethan walked toward them.
"I never let my feelings get in the way of my Ranger duties."
"That may be true, Trent," said Kimberly, "But, you put us in a difficult position."
"Conner maybe right," said Tommy, "I just don't know how we can ever trust you again."
Trent stood in the middle of the room. Conner, Kira, and Ethan sat on one side of the room & Tommy and Kim were sitting in the chairs at the main control panel.
"Tell me what I can do to make this right. I make no excuses for the harm I've caused, but you know things haven't been easy for me," said Trent. Kira and Ethan thought about the day they met Trent at Hayley's for the first time. Tommy thought about when he found out that Anton was Trent's adoptive father. Trent thought about the first time he saw his dad disappear into an invisaportal, and when he found the White Dino Gem.
"I never meant to find the White Dino Gem," said Trent, "It found me. I tried to fight it, but the power was too strong." Kira and Trent thought about when he tried to tell her that he was the White Ranger. Trent thought about when he found out that Mesogog and his father were one in the same. The whole team thought about their first run-in with the evil White Ranger. Trent thought about how his father freed him from the evil encoding on the White Dino Gem, and the promise he mad to him.
"Anton Mercer is the only family I have," said Trent, "I knew I couldn't break my promise to him, so I decided to fight with you guys until he was freed of that mutant freak forever. But first I had to free myself, by destroying the evil clone of the White Ranger." Trent then thought about his final battle with the evil clone. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you about Mesogog. My father thought he could handle this on his own, and so did I. I know now I was wrong,"
"Anton Mercer was my friend," said Tommy, "I understand your loyalty."
"Me too," said Kimberly, "If I was in your position, probably done the same thing."
Trent looked over at his friends and teammates, and said, "Being a Ranger is the best thing that's ever happened to me. I don't want to lose that, trust me."
"Yeah, I've heard that one before," said Conner.
"So let me prove it."
Just then, the alarms went off. Tommy and Kim turned and looked at the computer to see a monster attacking. "Here's your chance," said Tommy.
Conner was stunned, "What? You're not seriously going to trust him?"
"Look at that thing. We have no choice," said Kira.
"We always have a choice, and I choose that Trent come with us."
"Me too," said Kimberly, "I can't form the Dino Stegozord without him." She looked at him and smiled.
"Thank you, I won't let you down," said Trent.
"I hope not," said Conner.
"Ready?" asked Tommy.
"Ready!" replied the others, "Dino Thunder, Power Up!"
"White Ranger, Dino Power!" shouted Trent.
They morphed and ran out of the lab. Once they arrived at the harbor, the monster was already in his large form and started attacking immediately. The monster then shrank down to its normal size. Trent and Tommy went after him and found themselves in the water. "Two washed up Rangers," the monster laughed.
Conner became the Triassic Ranger and took the monster high above Earth. But, it was no match for the monster and Conner returned to earth with a hard thud, "That was a long way down." he said, as he tried to stand up.
"The bigger they are the harder they fall," said the monster. Ethan, Tommy, Kimberly, and Kira charged toward it but he easily knocked them to the ground.
"Leave them alone!" shouted Conner shouted.
The monster spun around and looked at Conner, "Very well, I'll destroy you," said the monster. The monster was just about to attack Conner when Trent blocked the attack.
"Not so fast," said Trent.
"Step aside. It's the Red Ranger I want."
"The Rangers are a team. If you're going to destroy somebody, you better start with me."
"Whoa!" said Conner.
"Trent saved Connor," said Kira.
Trent looked at the monster and asked, "Now, where's all the tough talk?"
"I'm through talking," said the monster.
"Good, because so, I am I." Then, Trent and the monster started to fight. Then the other Rangers joined him, and he said, "All together, guys."
The Rangers put all their weapons together and said in unison, "Z-Rex Blaster! Super Mode!"
"Oh boy," said the monster.
"Ready," said Tommy.
"Aim," said Trent.
"Fire!" said Conner. They destroyed the monster and the ground started to shake, they turned toward the harbor and Conner said, "Now what?"
They were stunned to see a duplicate Megazord, but this one was mainly blue and white, rising out of the harbor. "He duplicated the Megazord!" said Ethan.
Kim watched it rise out of the harbor and said, "Boy, that brings back memories."
"How do we fight that?" asked Conner.
"Only one way," said Tommy, "Brachio!" The large Brachiozord appeared and the other Zords disembarked and started heading toward the harbor. "I'll take the Triassic Rover. You man the Megazord."
"You got it," said Conner. Then he, Kira, and Ethan jumped into their Zords and formed the real Megazord. While Tommy formed Mezodon Megazord. The two Megazords destroyed the duplicate Megazord. But just as fast as the duplicate was destroyed, the monster reappeared in his larger form.
"Thanks for the energy boost," said the monster.
"Is this a joke?" asked Conner.
"Not funny," said Tommy.
"It is to me," said the monster, then it attacked the Megazords.
Kim and Trent watch from below, "We've got to help them," said Trent.
"Let's do it," said Kim.
"Dragozord!"
"Stegozord!"
The Dragozord and the Stegozord came out of their hiding places, then Trent and Kimberly jumped into their Zords and formed the Dino Stegozord. And soon they destroyed the monster. As the other celebrated from inside their Zords, Trent said, "I meant what I said, you can count on me."
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When they returned to the lab Tommy said, "Thanks for the help out there, Trent. It's always a lot easier when the whole team works together," said Tommy.
"Thanks, Dr. O," said Trent, "Like I said, I'm in this for good. That is, if you'll have me."
"I vote yes," said Kira.
"Me too," said Ethan.
"I wouldn't have it any other way," said Kimberly.
Tommy looked at the Red Ranger and said, "Conner?"
Conner then looked at Trent and said "Just one question. Are you sure you want to do this? I mean there's a very real chance you'll have to face Mesogog one day."
"If Mesogog wins, my father is lost forever," said Trent, "Mesogog has to be defeated, no matter what."
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A few days later, Tommy, Kimberly, and Hayley were in the Command Center, "Tommy, Kim, take a look at this," said Hayley.
Tommy and Kim looked and saw Zeltrax on the rooftop of a downtown building dragging a woman with medium length, black hair, behind him. "Zeltrax," said Tommy.
"But what does he want with that civilian?" said Kimberly.
"I don't know. But, whatever it is, it can't be good. I'll call the others."
"Good idea."
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A few minutes later, the team arrived at the steel plant.
"Where's the woman, Zeltrax?" said Tommy.
"Safe and sound, Rangers," said Zeltrax, "Check if you like." The Rangers charged toward Zeltrax and started to fight him, but not making any progress, "Your time is up, Rangers."
"Guys," said Tommy, "You know what time it is?"
"Ready?" called Conner.
"Ready," replied the others, "Dino Thunder, Power Up!"
"White Ranger, Dino Power!" shouted Trent.
They morphed and continued the fight. As they fought they heard a female voice calling out, "Help! Somebody help me!"
"You guys deal with Zeltrax," said Tommy, "Kim and I'll help her." Tommy and Kimberly started off in the direction of the voice.
"On it!" said Conner and Ethan, as the went back to the fight.
Tommy and Kim went inside and Kimberly called out, "Hello? Where are you?"
"Help!" the voice called out again.
Tommy and Kim followed the voice and saw the same woman they saw on the screen in the Command Center. The woman turned her head to see who was coming to her rescue, Tommy and Kim's jaws dropped and in unison they said, "Kat!"
To be continued…