Hayley and the rest of the Dino Rangers couldn't believe what they were seeing. The original team, the team that Zordon picked to fight off Rita Repulsa and then Lord Zedd were standing right before them.
Conner was thinking about the television reports that showed the rangers fighting off all sorts of monsters and putties and tengas. He was only a child when all of this occurred. He even asked his parents if he could be a ranger someday, of course his parents told him he could be anything he wanted. As Conner grew older he knew that becoming a ranger would be next to nothing until Dr. Oliver came into his life. With Mesogog destroying the city where he was living, Dr. O gave him the chance to fulfill his dreams and also grow stronger as a person. If it weren't for those events that made him change and grow stronger, who knows where he would be at this point in time.
Kira looked over at the former rangers. The first thing she saw was Jason and how muscular he was. Of course she couldn't do anything because after all, he was older, yet she thought he was handsome. She never saw any of the guys at the high school look like that. Kira then looked over at Zach and then Billy and then looked over at Trini and Kimberly. The two female rangers she thought. She wondered if she could get some opinions on how they liked being a ranger. Heck, even a fashion tip would be good since Kira was glancing over at the lovely clothes Kimberly was wearing. Obviously Kira thought that Kimberly spent a lot of money on clothes.
Ethan had his eye on Billy, looking at him, wondering if he felt as different as Ethan did because of being a little smarty than the others. Ethan had read some of the accomplishments Billy made as a ranger, thanks to the archives Dr. Oliver and Hayley had stored in the computer. Billy had commanded the rangers for a short time when the other rangers, including Dr. Oliver were children. Billy had also stepped down as a ranger to become an advisor to the team when the rangers became the Zeo Rangers. All the help and technical support Billy had given throughout his years as a ranger and advisor fascinated Ethan.
Trent looked at the former ranger team. He wondered how they viewed Dr. Oliver when he was evil as the green ranger. Trent knew it was hard for the Dino Rangers to trust Trent, but they eventually did. Then that trust was broken when he told everyone that Mesogog was his father. But what could he have done. It wasn't his fault his father was a bad guy, the one the rangers were fighting. It must have been hard for the former rangers to trust Dr. Oliver once he was free from being evil. But they forgave Tommy as did the Dino Rangers forgive Trent. Still, Trent wanted to know if they truly trusted Tommy when he joined the team.
Hayley looked at the ranger team and then at Tommy who had a smile on his face. She never saw Tommy light up with happiness, besides choosing the three teens to become the red, yellow, and blue Dino Rangers. She must have thought Tommy was glad to see his friends. He had conversations with her about how he grew apart from the Mighty Morphin team as well as the Zeo and Turbo teams. Hayley turned her attention back to Tommys friends. She only knew one ranger personally, and that was Billy. Billy helped her get the old tyrannosaurus former fixed for Jason to use in the fight against the remains of the Machine Empire. Of course he was on Aquitar at the time but he still managed to help her with trying to get the power coin working again after he helped reestablish the morphing grid. Hayley had respected Billy. She knew he was really smart, even smarter than her.
"Surprise!" Jason said with a big smile as he looked at Tommy.
Tommy approached Jason and the other former rangers. Tommy noticed that Jason looked a little bigger in terms of muscle size since the last time he saw Jason. Jason had help Tommy out as a ranger and Tommy was thrilled when Jason become the gold Zeo Ranger. Working with Jason to stop the Machine empire one last time a few years ago was also a thrill. He started to shake Jason's hand but then gave him a hug.
He then moved towards Zach, whom he hadn't seen since Zach left the team. Zach's hair was shorter than he used to wear it back when Zach and Tommy were Mighty Morphan Rangers. Zach had not changed at all and still looked like he was in great shape. He gave Zach a hug and the moved to Billy.
Billy hadn't changed much at all either. He wasn't wearing glasses anymore and Tommy wondered if Billy got surgery on his eyes to improve his vision or if Billy was still wearing contacts. Billy smiled at Tommy and both gave each other a hug.
Tommy moved over to Trini. Like Zach, he had not seen Trini since she moved away to join the Peace Summit. She still looked the same. She still had that long shiny black hair and that cute smile that Tommy remembered. Tommy gave her a hug and moved on to Kimberly.
Now here's somebody Tommy thought about the most. Kimberly was there to comfort Tommy when he lost the powers of the green ranger twice. He also was there to comfort her when Lord Zedd got his hands on the pink power coin. When Kimberly left to work on her gymnastics, Tommy felt a part of him had also gone although Kat, the person who replaced Kimberly was there to help him. Still, he hadn't seen Kimberly in a while although he talked to her sometimes over the phone just to see how things were doing.
"Man, it's good to see you, it's good to see you all!" Tommy said as he smiled and looked at each of his old friends.
"So this is where you've been hiding out," Zach said as he looked around the room.
"Man, how'd you guys find me? I haven't talk to any of you all in, well a very long time," Tommy said.
"Your friend Hayley gave me your address one day when she called me at work," Jason said as he looked at Hayley and then back at Tommy. "She told me to come over anytime as a surprise and well, I called the rest of the old gang and now here we are."
Tommy looked back at Hayley with a smile. He was surprised she even found Jason's number and called him up. Tommy turned back to Jason and the others.
"We've also been monitoring what you've been doing here at Reefside," Billy said.
"I can't believe you're still a ranger," Trini said as she started to move around looking at the room.
"Well they say old habits die hard," Tommy remarkd.
"So you're now the black ranger huh," Zach asked. "So that's green, white, red, and now black you've been in as far as colors are concerned.
"When are you going to wear blue?" Billy joked.
"How about wearing the color of yellow?" added Trini with a smile.
"Or the color of pink," joked Kimberly as she moved around looking at the room with Trini.
"Uh, I might go to blue if I get recruited back to another ranger team, but pink and yellow aren't my colors," Tommy said while smiling.
"Didn't I hear somewhere there was a male yellow ranger here on Earth?" Jason questioned while looking at some fossils.
"Uh, that would be Dustin the yellow Ninja Ranger. But of course, he doesn't have his powers anymore, although I and the rest of the Dino Rangers fought along side him and the rest of the Ninja and Thunder Rangers a month ago," Tommy answered back to Jason.
Trini looked at some dinosaur fossils on the desk where Hayley usually sat in. "So you're a teacher now," she asked.
"Ya, a science," Tommy said looking at Trini who was picking up a fossil. "Careful, that's really old."
"Don't worry, I won't drop it," Trini said still handling and observing the fossil.
Zach came and patted Tommy's left shoulder. "I never thought you'd actually get a doctorate degree. You went further than any of us, even Billy.'
Billy turned to Zach. "That still remains to be seen. Who knows, I might find a cure for cancer or the common cold," Billy joked.
"Man I never thought you'd make it out of high school let alone get a doctorate degree," Jason said still observing some fossils in a case. "Heck, I still remember when you kept on leaving things behind and were always running late for class."
"Well those days are gone. They're behind me," Tommy said answering Jason's question.
"We're proud of you Tommy," Kimberly said as she approached Tommy and patted his right arm. "All the work you put in college and also your years of being a ranger is a good reward."
"Now all you need to do is get married and have some kids, preferably five or six, so they can become ranger some day too!" Trini laughed as Tommy smiled and shook his head in embarrassment.
"I did have some help getting through college, and that was Hayley," Tommy replied.
The whole time the Dino Rangers were quiet and looked at the former rangers walking around and talking to their teacher. They felt out of place. This wasn't their friends. They didn't know them although they admired them for their accomplishments as rangers. Conner, Ethan, Kira, and Trent stood, afraid to say something, anything to the Dr. Oliver's friends.
As the former rangers finished looking around, Jason approached Conner. Conner was nervous because this was the original red ranger, the very first. Conner didn't know what to say as he was looking Jason straight in the eyes.
"So you're the new guy, the one Tommy chose to be the red dinoranger,' Jason said as he was looking at Conner.
"Yes, sir, I am," Conner said. He didn't if he should called Jason sir or by his first name. He was about to call Jason by his last name, but he didn't know his last name! Conner extended his hand out to Jason for a handshake. Jason looked at Conner's hand and then back at Conner and patted him on the left arm. Conner gave Jason a sour face. Jason remembered given Cole, the red Wildforce Ranger a similar greeting and Jason loved it. He loved being cocky to Cole and to Conner.
"Please, don't call me sir, 'kid'," Jason laughed at Conner since he addressed him as "sir." Jason wanted to even the odds. Again Conner had a sour face on him.
"So why did you leave from the power Ranger team?" Conner asked Jason.
Jason looked at Conner thinking he can't be serious. Jason then looked back at Tommy. "You and I have to have a talk about the new guy in red later."
Tommy smiled and shrugged his shoulders at Jason. "Anyway, as you know Conner is the red ranger and I'm the black ranger but please meet the rest of the team."
Tommy moved over to Trent and introduced him first. "This is Trent, the white ranger." Trent smiled at Dr. Oliver's friends and gave a wave, a welcome gesture.
Tommy then proceeded to Kira. "And this is Kira, the yellow Dino Ranger." Kira smiled at all the former rangers.
"Finally, last but not least, this is Ethan, the blue ranger," Tommy said as he approached Ethan. Ethan also smiled at the former rangers.
Tommy moved over to Hayley. "This is Hayley, the team genius who helps us by making new weapons and vehicles for us to use in are fight with Mesogog.
Hayley also smiled at Tommy's friends, particularly Billy since they knew each other.
"What, no pink ranger," Kimberly asked Tommy.
"Sorry Kim, not this time, although if there is a pink dino gem, Hayley here is available for the task," Tommy replied.
"If there was only such a thing. I could help you all instead of sitting here and watching you all fight all the time," Hayley chuckled.
"So you're fighting a villain named Mesogog," Trini said as looked at Tommy.
"Doesn't sound as tough as Rita," Zach answered.
"Or Lord Zedd," Kimberly added.
"Or King Mondo or the Machine Empire," Jason remarked.
"Trust me, Mesogog is as tough as all the other villains we've faced in the past," Tommy responded to his old friends. "But we now have a bigger problem."
The former rangers looked as their friend and his rangers and technical advisor looked down with sad faces.
"Our last battle we faced today cost us our powers," Tommy sighed.
"We know, we came in just in time to hear you guys talk about your powers being lost by the monster Mesogog created," Kimberly said. "But we got something special for you."
The old rangers looked behind the back to reveal Alpha 5, Zordon's old robot assistant. Alpha was carrying a hard cased container.
Tommy looked at Alpha and smiled at the robot. He hadn't seen Alpha since he left with Zordon after Tommy, Kat, Tanya, and Adam passed their turbo powers to TJ, Carlos, Cassie, and Ashley. Zordon walked over to Alpha and hugged him.
"It's good to see you Alpha," Tommy said looking at the robot. "I thought you were destroyed when Dark Specter kidnapped Zordon."
"Aye yai yai, I almost was a goner for good, but luckily I got out of there in time thanks to the Masked Rider," Alpha remarked. "Sadly Zordon was captured. It was a dark day for my circuits."
"Well it's good to see you. Glad you made it back in one piece," Tommy said to alpha.
"I don't get it, you guys said you have something special, what is it?" questioned Ethn who was confused.
"It isn't the robot is it?" Conner asked the former rangers.
"No, but we do have something to aid you in your fight against Mesogog," Jason said. He then nodded for Alpha to reveal what was inside the case.
Alpha moved to a table and put the case on it and opened it to reveal seven morphers, old morphers from the Mighty Morphin era. There was the tyrannosaurus, the dragon, mastodon, triceratops, sabertooth tiger, pterodactyl, and white tiger morphers.
Tommy looked at the morphers and picked one up, his old dragon morpher. "Woah, this is strange," Tommy remarked as he looked at his old morpher.
The Dino Rangers looked at the morphers in the case and were stunned and surprised. They started to pick the morpthers up before Jason stopped them. The then refrained and felt embarrassed for trying to pick up the morphers.
"After Hayley and I fixed the tyrannosaurus coin for Jason to use to fight the remains of the Machine Empire, that allowed me to fix the other morphers since I knew how to fix them," Billy said as he was telling the story to Tommy, Hayley and the Dino Rangers.
"So you got the morphing grid back up and running, fixed Jason's morpher, and then fixed the other morphers?' Tommy asked Billy.
Billy nodded back at Tommy. "Ya, it wasn't too hard."
"But what about the dragon coin? I mean the coin was drained from its power," Tommy said still looking at the dragon coin in the morpher.
"The power from the coin was drained, but so were the other powers from the other six coins," Billy remarked. "The dragon coin was as easy to repair as the other coins."
The other former rangers grabbed their respective morphers. The white tiger morpher remained in the case.
"These morphers can help us take on Mesogog," remarked Jason.
"Hey the white ranger morpher is still there, can I have it?" Trent asked eying the white ranger morpher.
"Uh, sorry kid, but this morpher is Tommy's and is reserved for him only," Jason said closing the case.
Trent gave a sorrow look while looking at Jason. This guy is really cocky Trent thought to himself.
"But guys, none of you don't know how to deal with Mesogog. I mean, I don't even know if you guys are still in shape to fight him," Tommy replied.
"Tommy, buddy, look at us, we can kick his butt or Lord Zedd's butt or even Goldar's butt, even though we did that a lot," Zack said.
"Look Tommy, we want to help, and right now you could use some help, Trini said as she looked at Tommy.
Tommy smiled at Trini and nodded.
"But what's going to happen if Mesogog's monster grows?" Kira asked. "You guys don't even have any zords."
"That's where I come in," Billy said as he moved towards the computer. "Take a look at this."
The former rangers, the Dino Rangers, Tommy, and Hayley moved to the computer and looked at the information that was displayed. The Mighty Morphin rangers smiled while Tommy and the others were surprised.
Tommy looked at Billy. "Is this even possible?"
"Ya it really is," Billy said looking at Tommy and then looking back at the computer. "This will solve our zord problems."
"But what about the dragon zord/ Would it still be able to operate?" Tommy asked.
"Since your dragon coin is fully repaired, the dragon zord should appear when you call on it using your dagger," Alpha responded.
"So it's settled then," Jason said looking at Tommy and the other Mighty Morphin Rangers.
Suddenly an alarm went off and all the rangers and Hayley looked at the monitor when Hayley activated it.
The monitor showed Renegade and Zeltrax destroying parts of downtown Reefside.
Everybody looked on. Jason shook his head thinking that these goons needed to be taken down.
"Alright everybody, are we ready?" Jason said as he looked at the Morphin team. They all nodded, including Tommy. "Let's go then."
"What about us?" Conner asked as Jason and the others were walking out of the command center.
"Conner, you and the other Dino Rangers must sit here and watch," Tommy said as he put his hand on Conner's right shoulder. "You all did your part, now it's time for these guys and me to take care of Renegade once and for all."
The Dino rangers nodded. Tommy and his friends walked up the stairs from the command center, about to take on Mesogog's monsters.