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Note: Glad you guys liked the last chapter. This will probably be the last chapter for a week or so, I'm going on vacation for a week, but I will be back in full force by next Thursday. I might have time to write another chapter tomorrow, we'll see. This chapter hopefully will tide a few of you over until then. You know what to do, hit the lilac button and review.
Chapter 11
Reefside High
Tommy and Kim were on cloud nine as they entered school the next morning. Having promised each other to separate their personal lives private while at school, Tommy and Kim struggled to stay away from each other's classrooms. As the last bell of the day rang, Tommy and Kim dismissed their classes and quickly gathered their belongings before meeting in the staff parking lot. "Hey handsome" Kim said to Tommy as they kissed. "I haven't been called that name in a while" he said grinning. "I know you have gym practice, and I know I have a pile of papers screaming to be graded, so why don't we meet at my place again tonight, some time" Tommy said as Kim groaned thinking of the papers she would have to grade sometime between practice and her date with Tommy.
Hiding in the bushes Cassidy asked Devin, "Did you get that?", Devin merely nodded. "Are you sure this is right Cass?", he asked. "Hey, whatever it takes to get the story right" Cassidy said. Tommy got into his car and drove off.
Mesogog's Fortress
"Master, we have captured one of the humans from yesterday who found one of the three dino gems." said Elsa. "Excellent, you have done well Elsa" Mesogog said. Meanwhile, Kira lay unconscious in a chair with a strange drill like object inches away from her face. She awoke and instantly did a double take. "Wow, how did I end up in this psycho dentist's office?" she asked herself only to realize she wasn't in a dentist's office, but a strange room full on bottles of odd objects that lined the majority of the walls. "Where am I" she asked trying to get up only to find she was strapped down. Trying to loosen the restraints, Mesogog realized she was awake. "Tell me where you got your dino gem from" said Mesogog breathing down Kira's face trying to intimidate her into revealing all she knew.
"Dino what?" she asked. "You mean that strange glowing rock thing? I don't have mine any more, you'll have to ask Conner and Ethan, I gave mine to them.", she said in one long breath. Mesogog paced trying to determine whether or not she was telling the truth. Looking away for a split second, Mesogog disappeared in the blink of an eye. Taking advantage of his absence, Kira wiggled her arms free and quickly undid the rest of the restraints. Kira ran towards what appeared to be a sliding door only to meet Elsa again. "You" screamed Elsa as she tried to stop Kira with a powerful round house kick. "Please, I didn't mean to…." Kira yelled as her body instantly reacted to fighting Elsa back. Taking her chance, Kira ran down the corridor and found a strange green glowing mass. She stuck her hand into it as she heard Elsa coming towards her scream for the Tyrannodrones to stop her.
Tommy's House.
Pulling his jeep up in the driveway, Tommy put his stuff down went to the dinosaur fossil model he had next to his lamp. Pulling the jaw, a secret trap door slid open revealing the entrance to the command center Tommy and Hayley had built earlier that summer. Tommy sat down by his surveillance computer and checked to see there were no monsters in Reefside. "Mesogog what are you up to?" asked Tommy silently. He was thankful Mesogog had not yet attacked the city, but Tommy couldn't help but wonder what he was up to.
"Conner, are you sure you know where you're going?" Ethan asked as Conner pulled into the woods down a long driveway. "Chill dude, I was here last night" Conner said. "I was delivering a pizza, that answer you're question?" Conner answered. Ethan remained silent. As they pulled up at the end of the driveway, a large house appeared in the clearing. The two got out of the car and ran up to the door, knocking, Ethan realized the door was left unlocked. "Dr. O" they called several times. Conner annoyed due to the lack of a reply walked into the house. "Conner, are you sure about this?" Ethan said. Conner shrugged. "You have a better idea?" he replied. The two looked around surveying how their science teacher lived. "Interesting" Ethan said.
Playing with the fossil dinosaur model next to the lamp Ethan looked at Conner and said, "remember the last time you did that." Conner shrugged again. "It's not like a trap door….." he said as a trap door opened and revealed the entrance to the command center. Ethan and Conner walked down the stairs and to their surprise found that the room they had jus entered was the same room they had found the gems in the other day. "If your looking for extra credit, you've come to the wrong place.", said Tommy surprised to see Ethan and Conner there. "Dr. O, we need your help, Kira's been captured." The two quickly explained what had taken place earlier before at the school. "Why would they target Kira?" Tommy asked aloud. "It might have something to do with these" Conner said revealing his dino gem.
Tommy immediately went up stairs and out of the command center. He grabbed his car keys as Ethan and Conner followed and jumped into his car without asking any questions. "Dr. O, what were those things we were fighting the other day?" Ethan asked. "Tyrannodrones…I helped create them, but they weren't supposed to do anything like this. Their programming must have been altered" he said. As they pulled up to a stop sign Conner joked "Why are we stopping, it's not like Kira's just gonna fall out of the sky." Two Tommy and Ethan's amusement, Kira appeared on top of Tommy's hood two seconds later. "You have got to stop doing that Conner." Ethan joked. "What, you started it."
"Wow!" was all Kira could say. "What happened to you Kira?"asked Conner. Kira explained about Mesogog and how she had escaped through the portal. "Invisiportal." Tommy said as Zeltrax appeared with the Tyrannodrones. "Aw, Dr. Oliver, we meet again." Zeltrax said. " Long time, no see Zeltrax." Tommy said. As the two approached each other, the Tyrannodrones approached Conner, Ethan, and Kira. "You might want this back" Ethan said handing the yellow dino gem back to Kira. "Thanks" she murmured as the three took their pre-fight stance. Tommy, fighting old school style, showed off his years of training with a high spin kick and fast set of butterflys. The three teens weren't doing too bad either each using the special attack they had gotten from their gem. Pulling a few tricks off his jeep, Zeltrax fell and retreated with the remaining Tyrannodrones.
Later that night
Flashback
"Zeltrax, release the bio zords, those teens and Dr. Oliver are no match for them." Mesogog said. "Yes master" replied Zeltrax.
End Flashback
Following the retreat of Zeltrax, Tommy took the three teens back to the command center. "I know this is lot to take, in, but right now, I need you to take these morphers. Combined with the powers of your dino gems, you will become Power Rangers." "But Dr. O, don't power rangers, have super human powers, and fly and stuff?" Kira asked. "You do" he replied with a grim smile. "Oh yeah, I forgot" she replied. BEEP! BEEP! The alarm next to the computer went off as the screen flashed to reveal three giant bio-zords attacking downtown Reefside. "Please, take them" Tommy said pushing the box towards them. Conner reached for the red morpher, shortly followed by Kira and Ethan. "What do we do?" he asked. "All you do is tap it and say DINO THUNDER, POWER UP! and you will instantly be transformed."
Conner nodded before saying "Ready". Ethan and Kira replied "Ready"; they all shouted "DINO THUNDER POWER UP!" and added a little "HA" at the end. Tommy couldn't help but smile. All of his hard work and preparations would finally be put to work. Opening an invisiportal, the three newly transformed power rangers jumped through and were instantly transported to downtown Reefside. Not at all surprised, no sooner had they landed ten Zeltrax appeared again with more Tyrannodrones. "You think he'd learn by now" Kira sighed. Trying to fight hand to hand, it was soon apparent this was taking too long. The longer they fought, the more of the city the bio-zords attacked and destroyed. "I'm sending you your new weapons" called Tommy as he pressed the button on the computer. Conner received a tyrannostaff, Kira petra grips, and Ethan a tricera shield.
Fighting for a while, the three finally combined their new weapons to form the Z-rex blaster and hit Zeltrax with a powerful beam of energy. Not finished yet, Zeltrax took control of a giant ship and appeared above where the rangers stood and started firing shots off at random buildings. "Dr.O, what do we do now?" Conner asked. Between the roaming bio-zords and Zeltrax's attacking the city the three were torn on what to do. "Use your morphers and gems and tame the zords" said Tommy. "Come down boy." Ethan said through his morpher as he tried talking to the giant Triceratops bio zord while he pressed on his dinogem. The Triceratops zord jumped up and turned from a shade of gray to blue stopping its assault on the city. Conner, and Kira followed Ethan's example gaining control of their zords as well. "Combine the zords" called Tommy as he watched the rangers jump up into the zord's cockpits and take control.
They formed together formed the Thundersaurus Megazord. Trying out their new power, the rangers focused their energy on Zeltrax's ship and a few minutes later were successful in bringing it down to the ground. The three celebrated and headed back for the lab.
Mesogog's Island
"I will not tolerate failure" screeched Mesogog. Elsa and Zeltrax feel to their knees as Mesogog shot a torture beam from his eyes onto his two henchman.
Tommy's House
"Excellent job guys" he said to the three. Having reconfigured their morphers to look like bracelets, Tommy handed the trio back the bracelets. "Here, put these on, when needed, they will act as morphers and communicators" Tommy said. "But, Dr. O, I thought we defeated Zeltrax and Mesogog" Kira said. "No, unfortunately, they usually stick around for a while." Tommy said grimly. "What do you mean?" Ethan asked. "I'll fill you in in time…meet me after school in my room tomorrow, and I promise I'll explain more." he said. "It's late, you three should get home and rest, better yet, get started on your homework. There will be hard work ahead of you. No one knows that better than I do. I need to know by tomorrow if being a power ranger is something you are committed to."
Kira, Conner, and Ethan nodded as they headed up the stairs and up into the living room. To their surprise, sleeping on Tommy's couch lay Kim. "Oh no" replied Tommy. "I completely forgot we had a date tonight a 7:00. Looking at his watch, it was now 10:00. Conner about to say something was poked in the ribs by Kira. "Good night Dr. O" she said as she dragged Conner out followed by Ethan. Not especially wanting to wake Kim up, he carefully lifted Kim and took her upstairs to his bed. He covered Kim after taking her shoes off, and then took a blanket downstairs. Yawning, he changed and headed for the sofa.
Next Morning
Kim awoke early after a restful night's sleep. Realizing she wasn't in her own bed, Kim freaked out for a second before realizing she must be in Tommy's bed. Being careful not to make a sound, Kim peered downstairs and saw Tommy sleeping peacefully on the couch. Figuring he must have carried her up to his room the night before, Kim smiled as she took a quick shower and snuck out to her car where she always kept a spare pair of clothes. She had been especially mad when Tommy had not shown up the night before, but knew he must have a good excuse. Kim changed into her teaching clothes, a light blue skirt with floral prints, black v-neck blouse and light blue over jacket. Kim shook her head as she headed into the kitchen.
"Tommy, you need to let me do your shopping for you" she said to herself as she looked around and found the typical bachelor foods in the fridge and around the kitchen. Kim did manage to find a few key ingredients to her delight as she se to work in making pancakes with syrup and strawberries. "Tommy must like strawberries" she said making a mental note to herself. Twenty minutes later, Tommy awoke groggy, and stiff, but smelled some very delicious food. "Am I dreaming" he said as he rolled off the couch hitting the ground. "Ow……I guess not." Rubbing his neck, Tommy walked into the kitchen and saw Kim up and about making breakfast. Sneaking up on her, Tommy put his hands around Kim's eyes.
"I wonder who that must be…Rocky, no Adam, no Jason, no…gee I guess that leaves my white tiger..." turning around, Kim kissed Tommy on the cheek. "Tommy" she said. "Smells delicious" he said. Kim grinned. "It better, I added tons, and tons of strawberries" Tommy licked his lips. "How did you know I…." Tommy started. "Tommy, it's the only fruit you have around here, I sorta put two and two together" she said. Looking at the clock, Tommy saw it was only 6 AM. "We have a whole hour and a half before we have to be at school" Tommy said. "Good, because I wanna know why you decided not to show up last night" said Kim in a hurt voice.
"I promise it's a good reason, but right now I can't really tell you…I can promise you'll find out eventually" he said hoping Kim would understand. Nodding, Kim decided not to push the issue. "That'll work for now Thomas James Oliver, but you'd better make it up to me tonight." Tommy smiled and hugged Kim. "Fine, now how about some of those tempting pancakes.", he said. Serving him a plateful, Kim smiled. "Why don't you come over to my place tonight, no offence, but you have like no edible food around" Tommy shrugged. "It's usually take out, or frozen food for me" he said. They ate together before Kim said she had to go home and pick up a few things she needed for her lesson today. Tommy kissed her good bye, and went upstairs to get changed and ready for work.