Summary: It's Christmas day and the Rangers wake up to a surprise. But not all is as it seems as something seems to brewing in the dungeon of the Oliver Homestead…
A/N: Oh the suspense of the summary! Doesn't it just want to make you read some more? Oh, I know I do. Oh wait, I'm writing it. Mrr "
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A heavy blizzard raged outside the Oliver Homestead as everyone was fast asleep on the couch, or in the technical advisor's cases, sleeping on the desk. Last night had been an especially difficult one; one full of pain and misery. Yesterday's events had seemed to put a stale in the rangers mood as they were to exhausted to even carry a tree home. The Christmas they had so desperately planned for was ruined now; there was nothing left.
Tommy's eyes flickered open and all he could see was a blurry, white lightly. He yawned lightly and stretched out widely as he could feel his entire body pop or crack. He sank back against the couch and left his eyes closed for a moment more, lavishing in the sudden pleasure of the stretch. His eyes flickered open again and he blinked away the weariness. He scanned the room, seeing all the pictures and decorations above each. He smiled at the red-green lights, with a splash of white here and there. Then his eyes descended to the tree. It was massive, covered in artificial snow. It had two strings of red-green lights wrapped around it and it was adorned with specially made Dino Thunder logos. Each one had a name of a ranger on it.
What sat beneath it was even bigger. Hundreds of presents littered the room; ranging from Conner all the way to Trent. Each package was almost perfectly wrapped; applied with the right amount of pressure and tape. The writing on the cards was so neatly written in a blue, ball point pen. They looked so perfectly aligned on the package; just like the gifts were sent from heaven.
Tommy shuffled to his feet and stretched again before heading into the kitchen. The clock blinked 7:30am and he stepped into the kitchen. If he was to have dinner ready for 6 o'clock, he'd need to get it on n-
Wait a minute, Christmas Tree?
He stepped back into the living room and did a double check. Sure enough a giant Christmas tree sat there completely decorated with a hundred or more packages beneath it. "What in holy hell?" He stepped into the room and looked at the ceiling and walls. Not just the living room was decorated either; the entire house, right down to the basement. Tommy looked around, bewildered by the mysterious even. Who or what had done this and why? He glanced to the counter, seeing a piece of paper with a green-white Hershey's kiss. He frowned and picked up the paper and read the letter:
Dear Dr. Thomas A. Oliver,
It's me again, Dr. Oliver, Jack Landor's. Yeah, you're probably wondering how this message got here and why your worst nightmare would leave it, right? Well, there's explanation for that. You see, Syd and Z checked in on you guy's, wanting to say their goodbye's personally and when they found you all asleep, they convinced Commander Kruger to let them stay and decorate the house.
Me and Sky cut down a tree and the girls decorated it. Bridge, being the genius of us all, concocted a plan with your own technical advisor's on how to make the decoration as soundless as possible. I don't know how, but somehow they did it. I hope you like the place; Syd and Z really put a lot of thought and time into it.
I hope we also got all the presents. Syd was quite distressed when we only came up with a 139 presents. She kept repeating over and over that we had missed some. According to…I think it was Hayley, 139 presents was all you had. Even with that, Syd still was ballistic when we left, insisting you had more presents. She's a girl, what can you expect?
If you're wondering why are…rather have done this, it's because we feel guilty for intruding on you guys so unexpectedly, and at a bad time. We figured this was the least we could do to repay you for the blood, sweat and tears you put in help defeating Maleificent. We know the decision you and your rangers came to was an especially difficult one, but we think you for your aid.
Well, I hope what we did is to your liking. Goodbye, old friend. I hope we meet again, some day. Merry Christmas, Dr. Oliver.
Sincerely,
Space Patrol Delta (S.P.D)
P.S: What was that old saying? May the Powers Protect you forever? Yeah, I think that's it.
Tommy set the letter down on the counter and looked to the window. In the distance he could see the snowman that was built; it was peering back at him, with a stalled wave and a big wide grin. S.P.D fought like true warriors but they had hearts of gold. Pulling out a bottle of ice cold wine, he poured some into a small cup and held up to the Snowman. He smiled and nodded.
"To S.P.D." He said and drank with a single shot. "To S.P.D for my sincere thanks, my friends…"
In the other room, he could hear Kimberly stirring and smiled. He pulled open the refrigerator and pulled out the massive turkey. Setting it down on the oven, he heard the soft shriek and grinned. Pulling open the oven, he pressed a few buttons and then slid the turkey in. Kimberly stepped into the kitchen, eyeing all the decoration with an all to familiar child-like gleam in her eyes. She shrieked again as his arms locked around her waist and yanked her close.
"Good morning, beautiful." He whispered, pressing a gentle kiss against her neck. She shuttered and melted in his embrace.
"Good morning to you, Handsome." She smirked and kissed his jaw ever so gently. "Oh my god, are you actually cooking?" Her eyes darted to the oven and he could plainly see the dread on her face.
"Yes, I'm cooking. What, you don't think I can?" He asked, raising a brow. He mock-pouted, looking as if he was going to cry. She grinned and shook her head.
"No, I think you're a fine cook. Except for Pancakes. You can't cook pancakes." She said, rubbing her chin. "If you can't cook pancakes, how do you expect to cook a Turkey?"
"Kimberly: I'm no chef, but I can cook." He grinned and rolled his eyes, glancing back at the oven. "Besides, who do you think cooked for me when I lived here alone?"
"Hayley?" She countered, raising a brow.
"Only once in a while, beautiful. If she was over here working on a project, and neither of us have eaten, she'd just suddenly go cook something. But most of the time, it was me cooking." He scratched his chin and shrugged. "There are still a lot of things I can't cook, but Ham and Turkey are my specialty."
Kimberly giggled and wrapped her arms around Tommy's neck, kissing him so very passionately. Tommy shivered against the kiss as his knees went shaky. He melted in her embrace as she hugged him close, smiling lightly. For all the time they'd been together, she never realized just how truly she loved him. Now, they would soon have a product of that love; something they could cherish together. She gazed up at him as he smiled down at her. Leaning up, she kissed him so very gently.
"And I love you, Thomas Oliver." She smiled, pulling him down into a deep, passionate kiss.
"OHMIGODPRESENTS!" They heard the shout in the living room and both looked at each other before dashing into the room.
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Conner moaned as his eyes flickered open. The light shined through the window as a blur of white light. He stretched and moaned before rubbing his weary eyes. He looked down to see Kira begin to stir as well. He smiled and glanced to his mentors only to find them gone. Frowning he looked to the door, but his eyes settled upon the massive tree. His eyes went wide at the tree and more importantly the presents.
"OHMIGODPRESENTS!" He shouted in one sentence, diving to the floor. Kira gasped, feeling her head smack off the couch and Trent jump several feet in the air and came down with his morpher at the ready. He growled threatening at Conner, seeing him shake the presents like a little kid.
Then he kind of caught on too. "What…the hell?" He said, looking around and let his eyes fall in the massive tree next to him. He wasn't going to think about it nor even make an attempt to comprehend it. "You know Kira; I don't think I want to know."
Kira nodded her head and glanced at the tree. Tommy and Kim came rushing into the room at that moment and both fell into a fit of laughter as they watched Conner crawl around on the floor, shaking and reading the presents. If one could be a fly on the wall, they would not see teachers celebrating Christmas together, but they'd see 6 superhero's (more importantly, best friends or lovers) coming together as one, united family to spend a single, joyous day together.
"Hey, wait, does anyone know where Ethan is?" Trent asked, looking around the room. Everyone stopped and looked as well. The Blue Dino Teen was no where to be seen.
"Yeah, right here…" They heard the heavy yawn as Ethan slipped between Tommy and Kimberly before collapsing on the couch. "Ahm…it looks our friends got everything decorated? Awesome."
All eyes descended on Ethan. "You knew?" Tommy said, glaring. "Why didn't you say something."
"Tommy…we fell on you…twice…and you didn't wake up." He said, raising a brow. "FELL. ON. YOU. Okay?"
"Were we that exhausted?" Tommy frowned, rubbing his brow. "Maleificent took more out of us when we thought."
"He took more out of Conner then us, anyway." Ethan said, his eyes flickering too him for a moment. They could all see the pain in his moments. Conner sat back, running a hand through his hair, sighing. "Conner must have fought him for nearly 35 minutes."
"How is that possible?" Tommy said, furrowing his brows. "35 minutes worth of toe-to-toe fighting? That guy was much harder Mesogog and after 15 minutes, I was finished."
"Well, I gave him my energy; like I do when he goes Triassic." Ethan said, sitting up. "It gave him a power boost, but Maleificent pummeled him like no bodies business." He glanced at Trent. "Even Trent went down. And I mean he went down fast."
Trent frowned. "It was like all the damage I did to the guy was a trick. I lowered my guard, thinking he was finished and the next thing I knew, I'm eating the dirt."
"And he absorbed your power." Conner said, fighting to stand. He groaned lightly, feeling his arm slip around Kira's neck for the help. "It came back to you after Mr. Savior over there fried him."
"Even so, he wouldn't stay down. Even with eleven rangers pummeling him, he came back three different times. It finally took a combined effort of the Z-Rex Blaster and their S.W.A.T Enforcers to destroy him." He sighed, running a hand through his spiky hair. "I don't think we've ever been beat so thoroughly."
"Oh no. Trent tops that." Conner said, wincing as he felt the pain in his leg. "I couldn't move after the beating he gave us as the Evil White Ranger."
"You're never going to let me live that down, are you?" Trent asked, glancing at him.
Conner shook his head, grinning. "Not a chance in hell, bubba."
He whimpered as Kira smacked him on the head and let him go. Conner gasped and fell over, crashing to the floor. The room was covered with laughter as Conner turned a scarlet red. That morning was full of laughter as the rangers sat down for a nice, quiet morning share tales of the past, present and their possible futures…today was indeed one of the best Christmas' they ever had…
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Billy frowned as he scratched his chin. He sighed and inserted the last line of coding into the computer and began to run the program. The Megazord swirled around the screen as various functions and codes filled down the screen. Hayley sat beside him, clutching her hands together anxiously as she watched the coding run. If they had finally gotten it right this time, the Megazord would be fully operational and battle ready.
"This will take awhile." Billy sighed, seeing it was only on line 130 or 158,000. He swiveled in his chair and let out an exasperated sigh before melting into relaxation. "Have you completed the upgrades for the rangers?" He asked, turning his attention to Hayley.
She nodded, locking eyes with him. "Yeah, we just need their Dino Gems and weapons to finish it." She frowned, looking at the screen. "But…my only question is, why did you have the zords talk this time?"
Billy shrugged. "Early April Fool's joke, plus the program was there original, however it was defective. I only set it right. The way they were created, they are actually very intelligence creatures." He said, pulling a laptop over to him. He tapped a few keys and brought out a secondary layout. "I compared the original zords to the one's we've just finalized and I found this coding." He tapped a few more key's as a line turned red and magnified on the screen. "You see, it was damaged about here." He tapped a key another line appeared above it. "I switched the coding around to make it work on each Zord. Ironically enough, the zords have extremely high intelligence and like psychologists; they are there for moral support, I guess."
Hayley rolled her eyes. "Oh that's going to go over well. Talking zords."
Billy laughed and shrugged. "I think the rangers will get a kick out of it, if anything."
For a moment the two just gazed each other; staring into one another's eyes. Hayley smiled lightly, gazing deep into his crystal, clear blue eyes. She could see deep into his soul and saw the hurt that dwelled within him. His smile faded as he looked away and turned to the computer. She sighed and looked to the floor and shook her head. Before she could do anything, a thunderous heel mashed against her jaw and her entire body collided with the wall.
Billy twisted in his chair to meet the threat, but a quick backhand had him staggering. The assailant stepped forward with a snap kick and sent him arching through the air and crashing to the cold, hard floor. The Dark Shadow knelt down beside a pile of bones and shoved it away. Behind it was a titanium safe. Reaching out, he placed his hand on the lock and a spark of energy surged through the entire safe and it popped open. The Shadow rubbed his hands together greedily as he reached into the safe and pulled out a box.
"Prepare rangers…" The familiar voice hissed and flipped the lid of the box. There, resting comfortably were the 5 Zeonizers. "Prepare for your doom…"
With a loud crack, he slammed the lid shut and fell back into an Inviso-portal…
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A/N: OH NO'S! It's the return of the Ohrangers!
Sierra smacks Kojin I Don't everyone knows who or what the hell the Ohrangers are!
Mrr…Ohranger Zeoranger. Trust me, Zeoranger is much better then Ohranger. Anyway, I hope you guys Like the suspense I left you with XD I'll leave you guessing at who went through the Inviso portal.
May the Power Protect you