Tommy sighed as he tapped away at the computers. The blue prints for the Dino-zords appeared on the screen. They'd been destroyed against the fight with Mesogog and with a new threat looming, they needed the zords again. It would be suicide at this point not to have them.

He pulled away his glasses and the rubbed the ache from his eyes. With a heavy sigh, he pushed the classes against his face and squinted at the screen. The lines began to blur together as he squinted hard, leaning forward. He growled in frustrations and tossed his glasses onto the desk.

"Too much reading for me." He whispered and rubbed his aching eyes harder. Behind him, he heard the soft clacks of high heels against metal stairs. Haley appeared at the bottom and folded her arms.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't Tommy Oliver studying Zord blue prints?" She clicked her tongue and grinned. "Well I never thought I'd see the day."

Tommy gave her a mock laugh and rolled his eyes. "Don't push it, Haley." He leaned back in the chair and stared at the wooden ceiling. Despite being only wood, it was sound proof when Tommy needed it to be. "I'm in no mood for sarcasm right now."

"I've come back to finish working on the zords." She got straight the point, not wanting to screw around. "If those are the new design plans you're looking at," – he nodded fractionally – "I've given them a much needed make over."

He glanced at the screen again, staring at the pictures. It wasn't too different then the base zords, except this time, the Megazord actually had hands. Its weapon was the tyrannosaurus' tail, except in a sword form. The shield was there, however only called upon when needed.

"To be honest Haley, it's a lot like the original Megazord." Tommy remarked, leaning forward for a better look. "However, you kept nearly the same graphic design as the original Dino Thunder zords. I comment on your workmanship."

"Yeah, well it's kind of meant to be. I realized that the previous Megazord's usually were far more powerful when the weapons were called upon. For example, the Shogun Megazord or the Dino Megazord had a base power level. When calling upon their weapon, or weapons, their power increased drastically. Well, it's the same with this version."

Tommy nodded, scanning the designs again before closing his eyes. He ran his fingers over his face and sighed wearily. He shot a glance at the clock and groaned: 3:30am. He looked over at Haley and frowned again.

"It's 3:30 am, why in god's name are you here?" Tommy questioned, looking around the lab. "You have no duties to attend to, right now."

Halley rolled her eyes and sighed. "Eh…I figured I'd drop by and work on the Zords some more while you're asleep. Their nearly completed but I still need to figure out how to create a junction device for them." She stood beside Tommy and tapped a few key's and the screen brought up several other diagrams. "You see, I'm missing the key components to combine them into the Megazord."

She fingered the diagram and sighed in defeat. "I mean, they are battle ready, just not…Megazord ready." She threw her hands up in defeat and nearly screamed when it hit some one. She clutched her chest, looking at the intruder as Tommy spun in his chair, ready for action.

"Whoa! Slow down Tommy!" The brown haired man said, throwing his hands up defense. "I'm here because of her!"

Tommy stopped mid-stride and pulled back a bit. That voice sounded so familiar. He looked back to see Haley grinning and blushing, her eyes set on his. He looked back again, squinting against the darkness. That voice…

"Billy? Billy is that you?" Tommy whispered, not exactly believing his voice worked.

The figure stepped into the light to reveal an almost un-aged, but certainly long haired Billy. He smiled his casual smile and bowed his head at Tommy.

"Hello Tommy." He choked out as Tommy threw his arms around him a crushing hug.

"Billy!" Tommy laughed and drew himself again and cleared his throat. He held his hand out for a normal ranger handshake and smiled. "It's been 10 years, man."

The Genius returned smile and hand shake, then looked over to Haley. "Well, I'm back mainly because of her. I got a message from her a few day's ago saying the new team of Rangers needed Zords rebuilt. At first I was hesitant to come, but when she mentioned your name, I had to come and see you…Mr. Legendary."

Tommy growled and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, skip the technicalities. You staying on Earth this time?"

Billy shrugged, glancing from Tommy to the computer scream. "As you said, skip the technicalities. Are these the new Zord's you're working on?"

He swung the chair around and buried himself behind the desk. Scanning the diagram, he barely heard a word from Haley; something about a missing conjunction piece and unable to form the Megazord without it.

After a moment of silence from Billy, Tommy began to lose hope.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know this design." Billy said, tapping a few key's as a 3D model of the Megazord swirled on screen. "Haley, you've based this off the Original Megazord. The coding, design structure analysis and weapon's mode has original written all over it. Building a conjunction device for this is going to be easy."

Haley and Tommy breathed a sigh of relief and fell into separate chairs. Tommy groaned, rubbing his face and stared up at the ceiling. The wood was beginning to blend together and exhaustion was creeping up on him quicker.

"Alright folks, time to call it a night." Tommy sighed, leaning forward. He rubbed his sleepy eyes and yawned mightily. "I'm going to let you two geniuses do what a genius does…Haley, Billy you can have the two spare rooms upstairs if you wish to stay the night." He bowed respectfully to them both and smiled. "Goodnight."

Billy nodded and Haley waved – both were to excited about the Megazord to really pay much heed to him. Tommy rolled his eyes and strolled lazily off to bed. Finally, through all this mess, something was going right.

Next Day.

Tommy sighed and stirred in his bed, stretching out his aching muscles. He half yawned, half roared and fell limp once again his bed. Stretching always had been the best part of waking up, now if only he could keep that up. It always seemed to feel so good.

He glanced beside him and gasped. A beautiful young woman lay beside him, curled up tightly beneath the sheets. His clothes were missing, her clothes were missing, and it didn't take long to put two and two together.

His mind was blank at the moment, not really know what to say or do. He screwed someone and he had absolutely no recollection of the event. He could feel his heart slamming against his chest and he clutched it tightly. He gasped loudly for air, causing the woman to stir.

Then he took a second glance. His eyes went wide as they could get and simply stared in disbelief. There, laying beside him was…no, it just couldn't be.

"Kimberly?" he mouthed, trying to find his voice.

She stirred again and smiled, but shivered beneath the covers. He wanted to hold her, protect her, but something stopped him. Yeah, it was 10 years of anguish, that's what it was.

Wait a second, how in god's name did she get in my bed? He thought, scrambling to find answers.

"A-ah…yeah, I'll b-be back in a second, Kimberly…" he whispered and eased out of bed. Oh yeah, that's great Tommy. Kimberly could always see threw your lies.

The woman stirred and her eyes flashed open. But they weren't the beautiful chocolate of Kimberly, but instead an evil read. The woman sneered at Tommy and jolted up from the bed. Tommy scrambled back and kicked out his leg, striking the Kimberly in the jaw. He staggered back, panting hard as he peered down at the prone form.

Slowly, the skin faded away to reveal…

"Kat? Wait a second…what the hell is going on here…" He whispered and exhaled powerfully.

"Tommy…" The body hissed, slowly staggering to its feet. "…you're going to die, Tommy…"

He froze, watching as the figure changed from Kat, to Rita, to Ashley, to Kira. The cycle repeated as the being staggered towards him. One hand reached for him and squeezed his neck harshly. He gasped for air, but none came. The woman, thing, pulled its fist back and roared,

"DIE TOMMY!"

Tommy jolted up from his bed, screaming. A cold sweat trickled down his face and body as he panted hard. That dream, it seemed so real. But that was impossible for it to be real. Kimberly was in Florida, out of contact and Kat was…somewhere. Neither of them are anywhere near him and thankfully out of contacting range.

Yesterday returned to mind and so did that voice. He shuttered at just the mere thought of it. It was impossible it could be her. Just no way in hell it could be her. She was still…there. He hated to even think of it.

"No Tommy, get a grip on yourself. Billy's back so lets go make yourself look half-way presentable and go see what the two technical geniuses created last night." He stood up from his bed and looked over his shoulder at the alarm clock. It burned a deep crimson eight, three, zero at him. "Heh…only 5 hours sleep. That's about an hour and half more then average."

He sighed and cleared the dream from his mind. He didn't even want to bring it up anymore – it was now a figment of his imagination. It no longer bothered him, and it never happened.

But it did happen and it did bother him. Tommy sighed and sagged his shoulders. Sure, he'd had nightmares before, but they were usually getting chased by one of Mesogog's monsters or something. Never of his two ex-girlfriends, and Rita of all things, trying to kill him.

He looked at the wall and frowned.

Well, ok, maybe he could believe Rita trying to kill him, but never Kimberly or Kat. Ex's never wanted to kill each other.

He burned a hole into the wall and sighed.

Ok, so that wasn't exactly the truth between him and Kimberly. He wanted to murder Kimberly; wrap his fingers around her skinny little neck and just snap it like a twig.

Of course, the first thing he'd really do if he saw her was kiss her – kiss her many, many times. Even after 8 years of pain, he'd still want to kiss her. He never really stopped loving her, just kind of…well, intentionally forgot about it. He'd buried it beneath himself and stepped on the lid.

But of all times to be coming back, why in the hell now? He thought and ripped back the shower curtain. He half expected Kimberly to turn around and scream at him, but she didn't. It was just his wall staring just as confused back at him.

He stepped in and pulled the shower curtain forward, then turned on the hot water. He cooed with pleasure as his head leaned back. The steaming hot water trickled down his muscular chest and dripped to the floor below. For once, a shower actually felt good to him. For once, he actually enjoyed it, savoring every drop of water.

His reunion with Kimberly was put on permanent hold and that's the way it was going to stay. As much as he wanted to see her again, he couldn't bare to do it. For what if he didn't rush up and kiss her? Thinking of the consequences was nothing something he wanted or needed right now.

"Alright…let's go see what those two geniuses have come up with." Tommy laughed and turned off the shower. He threw back the curtain and reached for the towel. "If they have something special made, better not keep them waiting."

He looked in the mirror and gave a deep, heavy sigh. It was now or never…

Tommy tossed the ruin bones to the side and sighed. He looked over at the computer to see it thrashed and destroyed. Smoke was still billowing from the monitor and sparks flew from the light above it. He looked over to the injured Billy and sighed deeper yet.

"How I managed to sleep through my morpher and explosions, I'll never figure out." Tommy said and picked up some gadget. He looked over at Billy, who still seemed dazed and tossed the junk to the side. "So what did you say happened?"

Billy sighed, rubbing his throbbing forehead and glanced at Tommy. His eyes were cloudy – a concussion most likely.

"It seems our friend Vertox has gotten a bit braver." Billy whispered and looked to the computer. "While Haley and I were working on the Megazord component, the forest entrance opened and some giant armored monster walked in, thrashed us and the place, then took Haley. We tried to call you, but yeah never came."

Tommy sighed and knelt down before the computer. It looked intact, thankfully. This thing had the life of the Dino Thunder in it. It contained all the information of the previous Power Rangers, the Dino Zord information and ton's more.

"Any demands?" Tommy said simply, examining the structure. He pressed a button and a low whir escaped the computer. He breathed a sigh of relief and stood up.

"Yeah, surrender all the morphers and submit to Vertox. Easy enough, eh?" Billy joked and groaned, rubbing his head again.

"The usual." Tommy replied and ran a hand through his hair. He didn't even know where to begin on cleaning up the place.

Just then the forest entrance opened and 4 student teens stopped. Conner seemed to take it the hardest, while Trent was more passive about it. Stoic and calm as usually; nothing gets past him. Tommy thought. Kira was a bit less…stunned, but still bewildered by what happened.

"Seems Vertox isn't alone in this little extravaganza of his." Tommy answered their silent questions. "Presumably a General or a monster."

They "ahed" and stopped halfway in. All eyes rested on the blue-clad figure. Tommy shook his head and smiled as he rested a hand on Billy's shoulder.

"Rangers, meet Billy Cranston. Billy, meet Kira, Conner, Ethan and Trent." Tommy said, smiling slightly. "They are the Dino Thunder Rangers."

Billy waved but stayed silent, only rubbing his forehead further. The rangers returned the gesture and Kira broke off to begin clean up. Tommy sighed and shrugged his shoulders at the rangers and began as well.

First things first…clean up, then to business.

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So what do you guy's think so far? Vertox has gotten a bit more risky in his campaign against the Power Rangers. Stormed into the Command Center, totaled it and Billy, then kidnapped Haley. If that isn't bad enough, Tommy had a horrible dream about Kimberly. Is this signs of the future? Or simply Tommy over reacting? As always, plays Read and Review! May the Power Protect You.