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Chapter 15
Reefside High
Kira, Conner, and Ethan couldn't help but stare out the windows of Kim's classroom. "So what do you think Conner?" Kim asked knowing the three rangers weren't paying attention. "Wha…oh..um…I'm all for it." Kim looked around the room and let out an evil smile. "So you think we should have a pop quiz….alright, you heard the man, take you a sheet of paper and take care not to write on the photo copy" she said passing papers out. "You have ten minutes to complete the quiz…" the students sighed as they took out their pens and started writing furiously. The work never seemed to end in Ms. Hart's class, even though it was supposed to be their senior year with nothing new to really learn, Kim seemed determined to work them hard until the moment they graduated. Time was called was Kim had the students correct the quizzes in class before passing them forward. Reviewing the top few papers, Kim was actually pleased with the scores. "Not bad, not bad at all, from the looks of things, so far the scores look better than my junior honors class…seeing that many of you are taking SAT this weekend, I don't see why I should assign any homework." "I wouldn't celebrate so fast though…we still have forty-five minutes of class left, and two more days until Friday…so for now, please take out your notebooks and prepare for today's lecture…"
Tommy's House
Tommy didn't quite share the same view as Kim, he had decided to assign the normal load of homework. After all, these were seniors, why should they care about SAT when many of them had already taken and completed them? "Tommy, do you remember when we were in high school?….do you remember when Trini, Jason and me had to remind you at the last minute because….?" Tommy looked slightly amused. "Kim, when are you gonna stop with the 'million dollar brain' jokes…" and with that he threw a pillow at Kim. "Oh no you did not!". Kim threw it back as they started play fighting. They snuggled together and started watching the movie they had picked out for the night. Towards the middle of the night, Kim didn't feel so hot. She headed to the bathroom where she vomited. Tommy, a light sleeper, got up to make sure she was okay. Kim said she was, but he insisted on taking her temperature. "Hmm, 99.7, that's a little high…" Tommy got a cool cloth and placed it on her head. "Relax, and try to get back to sleep…"
Next Morning
DONG! DONG! DONG! Tommy and Kim's alarm clock went off at the usual time Tommy groaned. He awoke wondering why he had slept in a chair next to the bed with a pile of papers on his lap. Kim started to get up as Tommy remembered she had been sick the night before. "Kim, you are not getting up until I check your temperature again…" Kim tried to fight Tommy, but with the way she was feeling decided it was best to do what he said, after all, Tommy could be very persuasive. He stuck the thermometer into her mouth and waited a minute as she stretched out all the kinks in his back and legs. "101.5…you are not going anywhere Kim. ..by the way are you feeling itchy at all?" Kim hadn't felt the urge to scratch until Tommy had mentioned it as she sunk back into the bed. "Now that you mention it I do feel a little itc..." she stopped in mid sentence and looked down, Kim observed small red spots over her arms and from the itching sensation she was getting, Kim was pretty sure they were all over her body. "Tommy…why didn't you say anything earlier? ...of all the ways to get sick…why me, why now…chicken pox!" Tommy tried hard to keep a straight face. "Well there's one good thing, I won't be sick…I had the chicken pox back in 1st grade…" Kim threw her pillow at Tommy. "Sighs.I better go call school so they can send a sub, I have a feeling I'll be out for the next few days." Kim said. Tommy agreed as he went to get the phone for her and started getting ready for work. Kim in the mean time went down and made breakfast for Tommy.
Half an hour later
"Kim, what did I tell you earlier…go back to bed and rest!" Kim took some crackers, Sprite, and papers up with her. "I wish I could stay home too to take care of you Beautiful, but I have a feeling with us being back in uniform, we are going to need all the sick days we can get…" Kim knew he was right. " Listen, I have a free period 4th block, so expect a call from me then and…" Tommy gave Kim a long lecture. "Okay Daddy, I'll be alright, I'm a grown woman". She gave him a small peck on the cheek. Making sure she was settled, Tommy grabbed his wallet and car keys before heading to his jeep.
Hayley's Cyberspace
"Ethan, what are you doing?" Hayley asked. "I'm playing the latest version of Wizard's Mystical Forrest, it's getting super difficult, but the first person beat the game, and crack the code gets rights from the publisher to test the newest version before it comes out." "Whatever…but just to let you know I'm closing up a little early, make sure you shut off the computer when you're done." Hayley replied. Ethan nodded as he continued to be lost in the game. "The things I do for Tommy…" Hayley thought to herself. Tommy had been running late, and had asked Hayley to look in on Kim. As soon as Hayley left, Ethan rubbed his hands together in excitement, "time to get down to real work…". Ethan took out a special code scrambler he had built and hooked it up to the computer. "With this baby, I should have the code in no time" he said aloud.
Mesogog's Lair
"Zeltrax and you has been disappointing me lately, you have both failed to obtain the dino gems from those pesky rangers…must I do thinks myself!" Mesogog shouted to Elsa. He had been torturing them with his eyes as he stopped and made his way to the lab experiment controller. He pushed a few buttons before smoke emerged from bio releaser. "Here is a true monster!" he whispered in his bone chilling voice. "Master, I am here to serve you…"
Tommy's House
Unlocking the door to Tommy's house, Hayley quietly made her way in and crept upstairs to check on Kim. Wide awake and working on her lesson plans while sitting in bed, Kim looked up and greeted her friend. "Hayley, it's good to see you…" Kim started to get up, but Hayley stopped her. "Stay where you are, I'm just here to check in on you, see if you need anything ….Tommy said to tell you he would be running a little late" Kim smiled. "Good 'ol Tommy…he can be just a tad bit overprotective…" Kim said. Hayley nodded in agreement. "I hear ya". "Well as you can see, I'm feeling better, and I have pretty much everything I need…I could use a few crackers though; my stomach pretty much disagrees with whatever I eat, but crackers seem stay in longer than other food…" Hayley looked sympathetically at Kim. She went down to the kitchen and handed her a box of Ritz crackers. "If you need anything else, I'll be working on a few things in the Lab".
Hayley's Cyberspace
The monster Mesogog had created landed from being sent through the invisiportal and started looking around for some victims. Hayley had chosen a good night to close the Cyberspace early. "Why is there no one around?" the monster asked as he searched hi and low with no luck. "Hm, what is that light….one human is not bad for a night's work I guess…" the monster watched as Ethan continued playing the wizard game. "Man I am so close to cracking the code!" he exclaimed as the code box had two letters left to decode. The monster laughed as he attacked Ethan through the window and sent him into the video game. "Wha…aw man, how did this happen?..." Ethan looked at his surroundings. He had always wondered what it would be like to e in a video game, but he had never imagined it would actually happen to him. "You should have been more careful with what you were doing…" said the strange wizard Ethan had been trying to defeat earlier. "You.!" he exclaimed as the game sent an arm of Triptoids after him.
Triptoids were not quite as bad as Tyrannodrones, but still, fighting them could be a messy business. Ethan tried fighting hand to hand, but found it rather difficult. "Too bad Kira or Conner isn't around right now" Ethan said as Kira fell out of the sky into the game. "I love it when that happens!" Ethan exclaimed. "Ethan?" Kira asked confused. "I'll explain later, just help me get rid of these guys first" Ethan said as he continued fighting. Kira shrugged as she and Ethan morphed. "PTERA GRIPS! TRICERA SHIELD!" "That's better" Kira said. "Now, why are you in a video game? One minute I go into the Cyberspace to look for you and the next thing I know, I'm being sucked into the computer game …" she explained. "I smell Mesogog's prints all over this" Ethan said. The monster hadn't had much luck with finding humans, but every so often he would find one or two. "Cassidy, explain to me why we are dressed this way again?" Devin asked.
Cassidy and Devin were dressed up as characters from the Renaissance age. Devin looked like court jester while Cassidy a princess. Speaking in a faked British accent Cassidy replied, "Because if I want to play the part of Princess Genevieve in the school musical, I must become her." "And why are we headed to the Cyberspace?" Devin asked. "Well duh, so I can like practice ruling over them!...think Dev" Cassidy said. "My luck keeps getting better and better!" the monster said as it found it's way to Cassidy and Devin. "Princess…and aw…subject, turn around…" the monster said as it zapped the two best friends and put them into the game Ethan and Kira were trapped in.
Tommy's House
"Kim I'm home" Tommy said entering the master bedroom. "Stop scratching!" he laughed at Kim. "It's not funny, these things really, really itch..." "I suppose these won't help then…" he said taking out calamine lotion, a pink rose, a small box of chocolates, and oatmeal. "Calamine lotion….my hero, but why oatmeal?" Kim asked. "My mom gave me an oatmeal bath when I was sick, and it felt so good…and besides I called her and asked her." Tommy replied. "Alright, I'll do anything to stop this itching…oh, Hayley's down in the lab working if you need her" Kim said. "I'm gonna go say hi, you go take a long hot oatmeal bath, I'll be up again soon…you might want some help with the calamine lotion" Tommy grinned.
Computer Game
"Devin, hurry up…" "Coming Cass" Devin replied. "Ethan, we better get out of here soon, I had plans with Tr…nevermind" Kira said as she started to blush. She was glad for once she had a helmet and visor on so Ethan couldn't grow in her blush. "Oh, Kira has a boyfriend…spill" Ethan teased his teammate. "Later, look who's coming…" Kira said referring to Cassidy and Devin. "Wow, the power rangers!" Devin said in awe.
Outside Hayley's Cyberspace
Conner sighed as he saw Hayley had closed the Cyberspace early. "How am I supposed to get my math homework done now without Ethan and Kira?" Conner asked absently. "I can answer that for you!" the monster replied from behind Conner's back. "Just as I thought I had wasted my time coming here, Mesogog decides to send me a little reward for my efforts…"Conner said. "How dare you insult my master, you will pay human!" it exclaimed trying to zap Conner. "That won't work on me monster!...DINO THUNDER, POWER UP! HA". Conner instantly morphed and started fighting the monster. "TYRANNO STAFF". Conner called is weapon forth and started fighting. When he had a brief free moment, he tried calling Ethan and Kira, much to his dismay, only Hayley replied."I can't reach them either Conner…I'll keep trying, but in the mean time, I'm sending Tommy" . Tommy morphed in the lab before taking a Raptor Rider through an invisiportal to the Cyberspace. "Someone call for help?" Tommy asked. "AM I glad to see you Dr. O" Conner replied.
Computer Game
"Gottcha!" Hayley said finally finding a way to get through to Kira and Ethan. "Kira, Ethan can you hear me?" Hayley asked. Kira and Ethan froze. Cassidy and Devin were inches from them, had they heard what Hayley had just said? "…Devin, we should so do that….we will have the biggest story of the year! We already have the footage where we saw them at the place..." Cassidy said. "Won't Dr. O and Ms. Hart get mad though?" Devin asked. Remembering what had happened the last time they had interfered in Tommy and Kim's private lives, Cassidy and Devin shook. "I don't want to go through that again… you're right." Kira and Ethan were utterly confused, but breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed as though Cassidy and Devin we talking about something to do with Kim and Tommy. They only knew what Cassidy and Devin had mentioned at the end of their conversation.
Flashback
"This is Cassidy Cornell reporting for Reefside High News…in faculty news, it appears the two new first year teachers Dr. Oliver and Ms. Hart are in fact an item! In exclusive footage, this reporter can exclusively reveal what happened while the happy couple went…" Cassidy was cut off from the television screen throughout the school. Although Principal Elsa Randall loved watching Tommy being humiliated in front of the entire school, she knew she had to stop Cassidy from airing the goods. She was after all Principal, and if she wanted her reputation to be kept as the strictest administrator, she would have to draw the line. "You two, my office now!" she said in a strict and no nonsense voice.
End Flashback
"Cass, my mom is going to kill me if I get anywhere near the month of detention, a three day suspension, a report on the history of paleontology and history of modern American and British literature, punishment I got last time…so good choice there." Devin said. Kira and Ethan silently laughed as they answered Hayley. "Yellow and blue rangers here, we read you" they replied. Catching the hint in the tone of their voices, Hayley played along. "The red and black rangers are working on the problem…you should be out of there soon" she finished.
Outside the Cyberspace Café
"No, I can't lose control!" the monster yelped as his power diminished and Kira and Ethan appeared out of thin air and appeared next to Tommy and Conner. "Thanks Dr. O, Conner" they said gratefully. Cassidy and Devin appeared where they had been earlier, down the street from the café. "Let's finish him off…Z-REX BLASTER!…BRACHIO STAFF!….FIRE!...ENERGY ORB!…FIRE!". "Nooooooooooo" the monster blew up into a hundred separate pieces.
Mesogog's Island
"You haven't won yet Rangers!". "Elsa, launch the hydro regenerator!" he yelled. "Yes master" Elsa replied.
Outside the Café
"Brachio Zord!" Tommy called. The bio-zords appeared out of the giant Brachio zord and formed the Thundersaurus Megazord. They battled and as usual, the Thundersaurus Megazord won.
Tommy's House
"Tommy, what took you so long?...never mind, I should have known" Kim said seeing Tommy covered in dirt, sweat and some recently healed bruises. "You know, it's amazing how fast these things heal" Tommy said referring to the bruises. "I should warn you before you shower that there's oatmeal all over the sides of the tub" Kim said with an evil grin. "I'd clean it, but right now, I'm so tired…" Tommy sighed. "I'll clean it, but as soon as you get better, you owe me…" "Tommy, have you seen the state of your house over the past two weeks…what have you noticed?" Kim asked. "Um, nothing?." Tommy said. "Exactly, it's been spot less, and have you noticed actual food and clean clothes?…no offensive Tommy, but I think it's your turn to do the dirty work" Kim replied as she yawned and got back into bed. "You can pay ME back by rubbing that lotion on my back now" she said. Tommy grabbed the bottle and a cotton swab. "That feel's so gooooood" she said. "I'll never take calamine lotion for granted again". Tommy finished rubbing the lotion before he took a shower. He was tired, but he knew he had an endless pile of papers to grade or at least make a dent in before he turned in.
The Next Morning
DONG! DONG! DONG! "I'll break that clock if I ever get my hands on it" Tommy murmured as he got up. Kim, already up hit the alarm. Kim had felt much better than she did the day before. Even though she felt like a million dollars, Kim was careful about what she ate and how much activity she did. In this case, Kim had awoken half an hour earlier than her usual time to finish readjusting her lesson plans so she could e-mail then to the substitute. "Tommy, you have to get…." Kim started before she broke into a large smile. "Never mind Tommy, um, you better go back to bed…" Tommy immediately awoke. "Oh, don't tell me…this isn't possible!..." Tommy ran to the mirror to check for the tell tale red spots. Sure enough there they were all over his face and other parts of his body. Kim started laughing! "This isn't funny, I've already had them…" "I did some research on the chicken pox last night Tommy, apparently you can have them twice if you got them when you were a very small child…look on the bright side, you got your wish, you can stay home now!"
"Great" he moaned. "Well, if I have to stay home, I'm sleeping in" with that he pulled the covers over his head and went back to sleep. "Before you do that, you might want to call the school and tell them you aren't coming in…" Kim trailed off. "Your plan book is next to the phone…" she finished. Tommy sighed as he got up. "There's crackers and seven-up on the table, I doubt you'll want much else, oh and I boiled the thermometer so when you get off the phone let me know and…." Kim lectured Tommy much as he had done to her the previous day. "Why is Kim so overprotective?" Tommy asked himself.
Reefside High
"Any luck on racking the code?' Conner asked Ethan. Ethan shook his head. "I spent eight hours trying to break it. I was so close, but that monster broke my machines when we sent that wizard back into the game" Ethan whined. "Well, at least you'll do it the right way this time" Kira said patting him on the back. "I'll catch you guys in class" Kira said as she eyed Trent. Conner and Ethan shrugged their shoulders as they headed but towards Dr. O's class. "Conner, what a surprise…" Conner started blushing as Ethan broke into coughing laugh. "Mom, what are you doing here?" he asked. "I'm your sub for the day honey-bunny!" Mrs. McKnight said. "Oh Ethan right? Your mom wanted me to tell you to see her before you go to lunch, she…" Ethan didn't pay attention "My mom?" he asked. "Yes honey, the sub that was supposed to come in for Ms. Hart couldn't get her car started, so your mom is the sub for your English class…" "Why me!" Ethan and Conner exclaimed at the same time when Mrs. McKnight turned her back.