"Hey, Tammie," Damon greeted as walked towards her.

"Hi," she responded, stifling a yawn.

"Are you okay?" he asked, noting her appearance. She had small dark circles under her eyes and her slow actions showed that she was tired.

"I'm fine, just tired. I guess all this practicing is just," Tammie brought her hand up to her mouth to cover her yawn, "making me tired."

Damon gave her a smile. "Why don't you take a break? I'm sure Alex won't mind."

"No, it's fine. I really need to work more with my Bo Staff."

"No," Damon said firmly. "As your leader, I think you should take the day off."

Tammie gave Damon a look, knowing that she didn't have a chance at changing his mind. Damon had to laugh at Tammie's cute expression.

"And," he continued, smiling. "I also think that I should take this opportunity to ask you out to dinner tonight, after you have a nice, long nap."

Tammie had to smile.

"Okay, but don't you think we should keep our relationship strictly business?" she joked. "I mean, wouldn't me dating the leader who is also the prince of Eltar cause some problems?"

Damon turned and leaned in closer to Tammie.

"I think we can work something out," he said softly, with a smile.

Suddenly the bell rang, making the two jump apart.

"I'll see you later," Tammie said with a smile.

Damon gave a disappointed smile then cursed the bell.

……………………………………….

Damon turned off the ignition and got out of the car. He made his way over to the passenger's side and helped Tammie out.

"Thanks for the ride home," she said.

"No problem," he replied. "So, I'll pick you up around six, is that okay?"

"Okay, that's fine."

"Great, I'll see you later," he said. Tammie stepped towards him and gave him a hug. Damon smiled and hugged her back, not wanting to let go.

"Bye," Tammie said before walking into her house. Damon waved and got in his car.

The phone began ringing just as Tammie walked in. She walked over and picked it up.

"Hello, Oliver residence, this is Tammie speaking," she answered.

"Hello, Tammie," a man's voice said.

"Hi, who's this?"

"This is Billy Cranston, I am a friend of your father's," he said.

"Oh, I'm sorry Mr. Cranston, but my dad isn't here."

"Do you know where I may be able to contact him?"

"He's most likely working at the dojo right now."

"Ah, yes, I do recall Jason telling me something about a new dojo. Well, thank you very much Tammie."

"You're welcome," she replied before hanging up. Then she picked up the phone and dialed Aisha's number.

"Hello?" answered Aisha after the third ring.

"Hey, Aisha, it's Tammie."

"Hi, Tammie! What's up?" she asked, knowing the answer already. It was all part of the plan.

"Um, Damon is taking me out to dinner tonight, and I was wondering if you can help me out with something to wear?"

"Of course, your Aunty Aisha is always here!"

Tammie giggled. "Okay, great. He's going to pick me up at six, so can you come around five? I'm planning on taking a nap first."

"Sure, no problem." The two said their good byes and hung up. Tammie went to her room and let herself fall on her bed and into a nice, long nap.

………………………………………………

"That was Tammie," Aisha said out loud before resuming her work on the banner. Everyone was busy decorating the Juice Bar.

Adam and Carl were in the kitchen cooking the food. Jason was in charge of the balloons and Rocky was at the dojo teaching his last class. That left Tommy and Damon working together with the streamers.

"So," Tommy began. "How are you and Tammie?"

"We're good," Damon replied, trying to remain collected.

"I've noticed that you two have been spending a lot of time together."

"Yeah, we get together to study."

"That's a whole lot of studying," Tommy said, knowing that Damon was hiding something. He continued to talk but was interrupted by Rocky's noisy entrance.

"Look who I found walking around," he cried, walking in followed by a man with dark blonde hair.

"Billy!" Aisha cried. Adam and Carl stepped out of the kitchen to see what the screaming was all about. Adam smiled and went to shake his long time friend.

Damon and Carl looked at each other and shrugged.

"And who are these two young men?" he asked.

"That's Damon and Carl, friends of Tammie's," Tommy said. The two boys went over to shake his hand.

"This is Billy Cranston," Tommy said. "We used to go to school together."

"We haven't seen you in such a long time!" exclaimed Aisha.

"I know, ever since you left for Aq-"

"Arkansas," interrupted Jason. "How's Arkansas been treating you?"

The group chatted for about five minutes.

"Well, I should get going to your house Tommy. Tammie wanted me there by five."

"Alright."

"I'll swing by to pick her up at six," Damon said.

"I hope you're not planning on picking her up wearing that," Aisha said, looking at Damon's current outfit.

"Maybe I should go change too," he said.

"I think we all should get changed," Adam suggested.

Everyone agreed.

"Rocky and I can stay here," Billy said, "since we're already changed."

"Okay, can you two make sure everything is in place?"

The two men nodded.

Everyone split up to go to their houses to change.

………………………………………………………………………

Tammie woke up just as Aisha walked inside her room.

"Get up and shower," Aisha ordered. "I have the perfect outfit for you."

Tammie did as she was told. Seeing the time, she made a new record for her shower time, ten minutes.

Aisha sat her down in a chair and began to blow dry her hair. Once it was dry, Aisha began to curl it and put it up in a bun.

"It's already 6:50," Aisha said. "Here, go try this dress on."

Tammie took the hanger in with her to the bathroom. She took off the long plastic and gasped when she saw the dress.

"Oh, here are the shoes," Aisha said opening the door and handing her the shoe box.

"Isn't this-"

"Come on, girl! Hurry up so I can see."

Tammie put on the dress and the shoes. She slowly opened the door and stepped out.

"You look wonderful!" cried Aisha. "That looks better than I imagined on you!"

"Isn't this a bit much?" asked Tammie making her way over to the full length mirror. "He's only taking me out to dinner. I think this is too formal for that."

"Nonsense," Aisha said. "I'm sure he was planning on taking you a nice restaurant anyway."

Tammie gave Aisha an uncertain look. Then she looked at herself in the mirror. The dress did look nice on her. It was a spaghetti strap dress which had an uneven hem at the bottom. It was pale pink and had accents of glitter on its bodice and hem. Her long dark locks were piled up into a lose bun filled with curls.

She reached up and undid the bun.

"That does look better," Aisha agreed as Tammie let her beautiful curly locks flow over her shoulders.

The door bell rang at exactly six o'clock.

"That must be him," Aisha said.

"I need a sweater or shawl over this."

"No you don't. Come on, let's not keep your prince waiting."

Tammie laughed at Aisha's comment.

Damon turned around as he heard the front door unlock. He caught his breath as he took in Tammie's appearance.

"I-is this too much?" she asked. "I can go change into something more casual."

"No," he said quickly. "It's fine. You look beautiful."

"You two better get a move on," Aisha said, jerking her head. "The restaurant might be waiting."

Damon nodded, catching onto her message. He offered Tammie his arm which she accepted. Tammie looked at Damon's outfit. He was wearing all white. White jeans and a white shirt under a white polo.

Damon pulled out of her driveway. "Where are we going?"

"You'll see," he said with a smile.

"The Juice Bar?" asked Tammie as he pulled into the parking lot.

"Just wait," he said as he opened her door. He took her hand and led her towards the entrance. Before opening the door, he told her to close her eyes.

Tammie did as he asked.

"No peeking." Damon continued to hold both her eyes and led her inside the Juice Bar. "Okay, open your eyes."

Tammie opened her eyes and found that she was in a dimly lit Juice Bar. She turned around. The lights suddenly brightened and everyone jumped out of their hiding places and cried, "Surprise!"

"Happy Birthday!" was heard around the room.

"Oh my God!" she cried. Tommy made his way towards his daughter and gave her a hug. "Happy Birthday, sweetie!"

"Thank you, dad!" The two shared a long embrace. Tammie looked around and saw several familiar faces. And she noticed that everyone was clothed in semi-formal clothing.

"Come on, I want you to meet some people," Tommy said. He led her over to an Asian woman conversing with Jason.

"Tammie, this is Trini Kwan."

"Nice to meet you Tammie," Trini said, giving her a hug. "You look just like your mother. She was such a close friend of mine."

Tammie only smiled. Tommy continued to introduce her with the other ex Rangers: Billy, Kat, and Zack.

After eating, everyone began to hit the dance floor.

"May I have the first dance with my princess?" Tommy asked Tammie. Tammie rolled her eyes but accepted.

"Seventeen years old huh? You're not my little girl anymore."

Tammie smiled at her dad. She noticed sadness in his eyes.

"Don't worry daddy, despite what I said before, I'll still need you from time to time."

Tommy nodded, then looked over at Damon who was watching them. He began to lead her towards Damon.

"I think someone else wants to dance with you," he said. Tammie looked and saw Damon approaching. She gave her dad a kiss on the cheek before breaking off and walking over to Damon.

"Is the prince of Eltar worthy to dance with a beautiful human such as you?"

Tammie laughed and nodded. "This is great," Tammie said as she placed her hand on his shoulder and the other in his hand.

"Yeah, this Ranger business isn't as easy as I thought it would be."

"I know."

Damon stared into her eyes. "I'm sorry that we haven't had any chance to be alone."

Tammie gave a smile. "It's okay. I just hope that this whole saving the world thing won't get in the way of what we have."

"It's going to take more than that to make me stay away from you." Damon leaned in to kiss her, but stopped.

"Will your dad kill me if he sees me kiss you?" he asked.

"Probably," Tammie joked.

"I'll take my chances then." Tammie closed her eyes as she felt Damon's lips brush against hers, but screams from around them made them pull apart. Tammie opened her eyes and saw that everyone was scrambling for the exit.

A menacing laugh sounded from the other side of the room. There stood a monster with blue skin and red eyes. He was decked out in a black armor. Figures in black with rocky looking faces appeared and began to attack. Tommy and the other ex Rangers sprang into action and began to fight their known opponents.

Tammie, Damon, and Carl ran towards them as well, but was stopped by Rocky.

"No, you three go! It isn't safe here for you."

The three slowly backed away.

"We gotta do something!" cried Carl.

"Ah!" screamed Tammie as the black armored, blue skinned monster grabbed her.

"I got you!" he cried.

"Oh no you don't!" Damon charged at the monster and kicked him, causing him to let go of Tammie. Tommy ran towards them.

"Damon, you and Carl take Tammie and get out of here."

Damon nodded and the three teenagers headed out the exit.

"Let's do it," Damon said to them. The three looked to make sure no one was around to see and then morphed.

The three Rangers flipped their way into the room.

"What-Who are those?" asked Kat.

"New Rangers?" exclaimed the blue monster. "I thought there weren't any more!"

"You were misinformed," exclaimed Carl, taking off into spinning kick towards his new enemy.

"Who are you three?" asked Rocky. The red ninja had just saved him from four of the monsters.

"If I were you, I'd be more concerned about getting my butt out of her," the red ninja replied.

"You're a girl?" asked Rocky.

The red ninja gave a small salute and launched into a series of back flips.

The white ninja helped Tommy up.

"You again?" asked Damon behind his ninjetti mask. "You and your friends have a habit of being at the wrong place on the wrong time."

"It's our business too," Tommy said. Damon didn't know what he meant by that but he shook it off and went back to the blue skinned monster.

"Ah, three new Rangers!" exclaimed the monster. "Fresh meat!"

He pulled out his sword.

"Red Dragon Bo Staff!"

"Black Dragon Nunchucks!"

"White Dragon Blade!"

The three ninjas did a fighting stance in front of their opponent. The ex Rangers all hung at the back watching, wanting to find out who they were.

They watched as the ninjas advanced towards the enemy.

"Isn't that Goldar?" asked Zack.

"Affrimative," replied Billy.

The original Rangers looked at the new Goldar who was now clad in black armor rather than gold.

"Argh!" growled the Goldar. "Enough of this. I didn't come here to deal with you!"

"Why are you were then?" asked the white Ninja.

"I was sent to collect a certain someone for my master."

"And that would be?" asked the red ninja. Tammie had a feeling that it was her, since he had grabbed her earlier.

Goldar only growled before disappearing into a cloud of black smoke.

The three ninjas looked at one another. Then they turned around, realizing that they had an audience.

"Nice seeing you all again," the white ninja said.

"But I think next time, it would be wiser for all of you not to fight," the red ninja added.

"Yeah, it is our job to protect everyone from the forces of evil. You all just get in the way," cried the black ninja.

With that they all saluted and were gone in their own colored beam of light.

"Since when were Rangers that rude?" asked Aisha.

"But they are right," Trini started. "It is their jobs now, and there's nothing we can do about it."

"Who are they though?" asked Jason. "That's what's bugging me. Shouldn't we, as former Rangers, at least have a clue of who they are?"

Everyone looked at one another and shrugged.

"Why is Goldar back?" asked Zack.

"He said he was only sent to kidnap someone."

"Who do you-" Rocky began to ask.

"Tammie!" Tommy exclaimed as be raced out of the Juice Bar. Everyone followed suit. Tommy jumped in his car and sped to his house, with his other friends following.

………………………..

The three rangers teleported themselves to Tammie's house.

"What was that about?" asked Carl.

"Were they after me?" Tammie asked.

"It seemed like it-"

They heard tires screeching in the drive way and a car door slam.

"My dad!" The three teens immediately demorphed.

"Tammie!" Tommy shouted.

"Daddy I'm here!"

Tommy rushed to hug his daughter. The rest of the other adults arrived.

"Are you guys okay?" Jason asked. The two guys nodded their heads.

"Don't worry dad, I'm fine," Tammie assured him.

Everyone found a place to sit in the small living room.

"Are you hurt?"

"No, I'm fine."

"That monster was unexpected," Adam said. "I'm sorry about your party."

"It's alright," Tammie said, sitting next to Damon. "What was that thing?"

She seemed to be talking more to Damon and Carl rather than the others.

"I don't know," Carl said. "Maybe-"

He stopped aware that there were others in the room.

"What was he doing back here?" asked Zack. Trini elbowed him and nodded to the three teens.

The two groups sat in uncomfortable silence, wanting to talk about the monster but not in front of the others.

Jason, who remained quiet the whole, was replaying the scene in his head. He shook out his thoughts and looked at the three teens sitting on the couch. They were whispering with one another. Something in the back of his mind tugged at him. But he couldn't figure out what.

"We should go," Damon said, standing. Tammie walked the two boys towards the door.

Tammie nodded.

"Bye, Tammie," cried Carl.

"Bye, Carl."

Carl waited for Damon, but realized that they wanted alone time.

"Okay, I guess I'll wait out on the driveway."

Damon turned to face Tammie. "Happy birthday," he said. He presented her with a long velvet box.

Tammie took it and opened it, revealing a beautiful silver bracelet. Damon clasped it onto her.

"You know, this is a bit much," Tammie told Damon. He only smiled.

"I'll see you tomorrow. I have a feeling that Alex is going to want to talk to us about this tomorrow."

Tammie nodded. Damon leaned in and completed their first kiss, which was interrupted earlier.

Tammie closed the door with a smile on her face. She felt herself float up the stairs and into her room. She dressed in her pajamas and curled up in her bed, ready to dream about Damon.

………………………………

The following day, Tammie teleported over to Alex's lab.

"Hi Alex," she called to the man who was tapping away on the computer keyboard.

"Good afternoon, Tammie," he replied, before standing up. "Damon and Carl will be here any moment."

A few minutes later Damon and Carl appeared.

"Let's get this meeting start," Carl said. "I have a date tonight."

They all made their way to the table.

"I have found out the identity of the monsters from last night. The blue skinned monster is Goldar, a henchman of the evil Empress Rita and Lord Zedd. And the monsters that came with him are called Putties."

"Putties? That's a cute name," Tammie said sarcastically.

Alex continued on. "At least this is a start. If Goldar is present then it is only certain that Rita and her husband Lord Zedd are present. Lord Zedd's staff is the one that powers the Putties."

"So Rita and Zedd are his bosses?" asked Damon. "He mentioned that his boss wanted him to collect someone and we think that it's Tammie."

Alex looked at Tammie. "Hmm…"

"Why me?"

"I don't know, but I think we'll only find out in a matter of time."