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Chapter 8

Tommy's Pov

I arrived at the quarry in record time as I parked jumped out and started looking around franticly for Zara and Zeltrax. I didn't have to go far to find the monster who was formally my friend as he appeared in front of me. "You came alone as instructed, good. Now I will get my revenge without interruption."

"Where is Zara Zeltrax? I want to see her." I demanded worried about what her current condition maybe like.

"You want to see her again then fight me. I'm afraid she won't have long for you to refuse, not if you want to give her the antidote and find her in time to administer it." He said as he held up a glass container that held a syringe with a green substance. I felt my blood boil as I realised he had poisoned her, with what I don't know but I didn't have time to ask as Zara's life was on the line. I activated my morpher. "DINO THUNDER, POWER UP!" I shouted as I put the key in and turned it. In less then a moment I was morphed and pulled the Biracial Staff off my hip, taking a ready stance.

No more words were said between us as there wasn't time for any as we charged at each other.

Third person Pov

Both Mesogog and Elsa watched the fight between the Black Dino Ranger and Zeltrax, only half interested. "That fool will get himself killed since he's not fully recovered from that last big fight the two of them had. Also all this fuss over one women that has some skill with a bow and military back ground. Pointless" Elsa said sounding bored to tears.

"This Zara Rodgers is far stronger then she appears that is why I want you to use the fight as a distraction to go and retrieve her." Mesogog ordered as he went to a small fridge and pulled out a blue vile which he then put into a syringe. "The poison that Zeltrax used on her is one of my own design and I alone have the cure. Be sure to inject it into her before you bring her here."

Elsa took the syringe. "Very well my lord but what of her son, Tobi?"

"I will wait for the perfect time to retrieve him and make him my own." Mesogog informed her with a hiss.

-o0o-

Back at Tommy's house Kira and Hayley were doing their best to entertain Tobi with a matching game with a deck of cards they had found. Connor was pacing the room well Trent and Ethan both stared off into space and was until Trent broke the silence. "Dud, could you stop the pacing, its grating on my nerves."

"If you have a better idea I'd love to hear it because anything would be better than sitting around here." Connor said.

"Actually I do. I say two of us go back up Dr. O and two stay here to protect Tobi and Hayley." Trent said as he got to his feet. He like the rest of them was worried about their gym teacher.

"You guys no, Tommy ordered you all to stay here." Hayley reminded them.

"Hayley, if memory serves the red ranger is always the leader, and a good leader knows when to listen to good idea." Connor nodded to Trent making the White ranger smirk. "And when their mentor slash team mate makes an emotionally stupide one they do something about it. Trent as it's your idea, take Kira and go to the quarry to back up Dr. O. Ethan and I will stay here to protect Tobi and Hayley."

They all were a bit surprised at Connor's plan as it was sound and showed a bit of maturity he rarely showed. Ethan of course had to add his two bits as he whined. "Nice plan dud but why do I have to stay?"

"If it comes down that Tobi dose need protecting with my enhanced speed and you're shielding we're better at giving Hayley time to escape with Tobi." Connor informed him and Ethan found that he couldn't really find a problem with his plan, and didn't argue. As Kira and Trent went down into the lab to morph and get their cycles it was then that they realised they had made a small mistake. "Wait, are you guys the Dino Thunder Power Rangers?" Tobi asked looking at the two older boys with stars and excitement in his eyes.

"Opps."

-o0o-

Meanwhile back at the quarry Tommy and Zeltrax continued to fight nether gaining an advantage over the other for very long. High above them Elsa and a small group of Tryannodrones arrived by invisaportal right outside the cave were Zara was being held. "Remove this rubble so I can retrieve my master's new prize." She ordered them and they began to move the rocks out of the way.

Back with Tommy and Zeltrax, Elsa's sudden arrival did not go unnoticed for very long as the two locked blades and Zeltrax saw what was happening ab9ve them. "No! She must not interfere with my plans!" He shouted before he pushed Tommy away and ran up the incline towards the cave entrance.

Confused by the sudden change of pace Tommy used the situation to retrieve what he hoped was the cure to the poison Zeltrax gave Zara. 'Hang on Zara I'm coming.' He thought as he ran as fast as he could, activating his invisibility. He retched the same level that Elsa and the Tryannodrones were on as Zeltrax as he had needed to stop and "catch his breath" it seemed on the way up. At the same time, the last of the ruble was removed from the cave entrance allowing Elsa to step inside and knell next to the dazed Zara. She prepared the syringe and was about to inject the cure when Zeltrax, who was huffing and puffing, pushed the drones out of his way. He then grabbed Elsa's arm, the one holding the needle and threw her out of the cave. The syringe went flying in her wake and making himself visible Tommy grabbed it as he flipped over a tumbling drone.

"Two different syringes, two different solutions." Tommy said, the scientist in him coming out as he studied them both. "I'm guessing one is more of the poison and the other is the cure but which is which?"

"That no longer matters." Tommy's head shot up and he felt his heart stop at the sight before him. Zeltrax had Zara around the neck as he dangled her over the side to would be a deadly fall the broken chains now ended at her ankles. "This was not how I wanted to brake your spirit Dr. Oliver but it will have to do."

"No, don't!"

"I unfortunately find myself agreeing with the good doctor as Mesogog wants her alive, for his own purposes." Elsa informed them as the Tryannodrones regrouped behind her. "So I suggest that you hand her over along with the cure and perhaps dear Zeltrax our master might just take you back." She knew that if he did as she asked Zeltrax would soon be destroyed and this time by her hand.

Zeltrax knew this of course and seeing no other options he looked at Tommy as he let Zara go. Tommy remembered shouting Zara's name as she fell, her eyes locked on him a sad smile on her face. Tommy was running to jump after her, to attempt to save her in some way but Zeltrax grabbed him, putting him into a head lock. "Watch as she falls to her death." his former friends growled as he made Tommy watch.

Tommy could only watch as Zara was suddenly grabbed by Trent who had used a pile of rubble as a ramp to gain air. They watched as he landed safely with her clinging to him for dear life well Kira pulled up next to him. Tommy signed in relief as he watched his teammates carefully place Zara on the ground and started to check her over. 'Shes alive.' He thought as he broke out of Zeltrax's hold and turned invisible again to get away. 'But it won't be for long if she doesn't get the cure soon.'

Tommy made himself visible again as he neared them but Zeltrax landed between them, blocking his path. "We are not finished yet. You will have to go through me to get the cure to her." He growled as he raised his sword at the ready.

"Get out of the way Zeltrax." Tommy growled as he held both syringes tight. "Zara may not have much longer."

"Then stop wasting what valuable time she has talking and fight me!"

Realising he had no choice Tommy decided to take a calculated risk. He charged at Zeltrax and once he was close enough he dodged to the left as Zeltrax went to strike. "Trent, Kira! Shes been poisoned! Catch!" he shouted throwing both syringes towards them. He then had to pull out his staff to block Zeltrax's next strike but he saw both white and yellow rangers catch the syringes. Now that Zara was safe, so to speak, he focused on the fight.

"Um Trent, you wouldn't happen to know which is the cure do you?" Kira asked as she looked at the green one in her hand with uncertainty.

"Not a clue." Trent replied as he looked at the blue one he held as an idea came to him. "Zara do you know which one is which?" he asked not missing the fact that there was dried blood around her mouth and on her cloths as he blasted the chains off. Her breathing was raspy and labored well her skin was beyond white.

Zara struggled for a moment as she didn't have a lot of energy left. "W-which ever o-ne he h-ad wa-s the po-" she was suddenly racked with a violent cough, followed by blood.

Panic filled both of them as Kira shout over to their mentor. "Dr. O, which one did Zeltrax have?!"

Just barley hearing her Tommy kicked Zeltrax in the stomach causing him to bend over. This gave Tommy time to quickly put some distance between them well getting closer to his fellow rangers. "The green one I think."

"You think? This is not a good time to not be sure." Trent shouted scared for Zara's life as she struggled to breathe.

"Oh for heaven sacks, give me that." Elsa snapped grabbing the syringe filled with the blue solution from Trent, pushed him aside and proceeded to inject it into Zara's arm. Elsa checked her pulse well waiting a few moments to see if the cure had worked. Soon Zara's pulse became steady as her breathing improved slightly "Its working and she'll be stable enough in a few moments to move."

"That's good to hear." Kira said as she pulled out her Ptera Grips and put one at Elsa's throat. "That gives you enough time to leave."

Elsa gave her a sour look. "I don't get a thank you for saving your dear teacher? I would have thought your parents would teach you some manors." she snapped.

Kira rolled her eyes, despite the fact Elsa couldn't see it, as she sighed. "Fine. Thank you for saving Zara, now beat it."

"That's better but I'm afraid I can't leave without her." Elsa said as the forgotten Tryannodrones surrounded them. Both Trent and Kira had no choice but to engage them which left Elsa alone with Zara who was steadily improving. She opened her eyes and saw all the rangers fighting but her focus was Tommy as he fought Zeltrax. She was well aware now that it was Tommy in the black and gold spandex which explained why he hadn't told her the truth. It also meant that he was the one who had knocked her out a few days before, and they both had some apologising to do.

"Well you seem to be stable enough." Elsa said as she started to pick Zara up which proved to be a hassle. Suddenly Zeltrax flew pass her, landing in a heap on top of some drones that were over powering Trent.

"If I were you I'd put her down, now." Tommy growled as he stood over Elsa, his staff at her throat.

Elsa didn't argue as she put Zara back on the ground and backed off before leaving the area with what remained of her forces. As Tommy knelt next to Zara he looked around noticing that Zeltrax had left as well, which was fine by him. He carefully picked Zara's upper body and was relieved to see that she was at least awake as she raised her hand and lightly smacked his helmet. "You knocked me out." Her voice was horse.

Tommy laughed as he held her close. "I'm sorry about that Zara but are you alright?"

"I'm better but not by much Tommy."

Her saying his name was a big surprise. "You know that it's me?" he asked and when she weakly nodded he asked. "Since when and how?"

"Well when being grabbed in my own house by a guy decked out in armor and told me my boyfriend is a power ranger, it's hard not to put the pieces together." Zara said with a half-smile which only last a second as she coughed up a big glob of blood.

"I need to get you to the hospital, now." Tommy said as he powered down, picked her up and carried her over to his jeep. "Trent, Kira, take both of those syringes back to the lab and have Hayley examine them carefully. I want to know exactly what she was given. We'll talk about you disobeying my orders later." They acknowledged him as he took off for the hospital as fast as his jeep could go.

Tommy's Pov

I thankfully didn't have too much trouble getting Zara admitted to the hospital. As no argues with a man carrying his girlfriend into the emergency room covered I her own blood. I told them that she accidently been injected some chemicals I had been using in an experiment she was helping me set up for my classes. They emitted her right way which was great as the poison seemed to still be in her system as she was till coughing up blood at times. After a few hours and the sun going down the doctor informed me that she was stable and would be just fine in a few days.

I was reluctant to leave her but I had to go see if Tobi was alright and see if Hayley learned anything about the poison. When I walked into the house I saw Tobi was asleep on the couch with a blanket wrapped around him well my rangers and Hayley watch some TV. "How is she Dr. O?" Ethan asked when they all saw me, thankfully remembering to keep is voice down so as to not wake Tobi.

"She sable and resting peacefully. Their keeping her over night to see if there will be any lasting effects." I informed them as I went to the kitchen realising that I was starving and hadn't eaten since lunch. "How did Tobi do with everything going on?"

"Um- ya about Tobi." Conner said nervously as he avoided looking at me. "I may have unintentionally let it slip in front of him that were the Dino Thunder Power Rangers."

If he was expecting any reparations from me for that I was sorry to disappoint him. "That's ok since Zeltrax blatantly told Zara I was one, so it makes things a lot easier." I informed him as I pulled out some left over stir fry and put it in the microwave to warm it up. "I imagine he was over the moon about it."

"You have no idea." Ethan said with a grin. "He had all sort of questions for us, like how we morphed, controlling our Zords, who made us power rangers etc. There was one question that you're going to want to answer for him though as Tobi wandered if we knew who the original Green Ranger was?"

"Of course he did." I said not bothering to hide the smile that crossed my face as took my now warm food out of the microwave. "Hayley did you analyse the poison and what we had left of the cure?"

"Not yet as we all had to stop Tobi from getting into everything when he fallowed us down when we heard Kira and Trent come back. Conner had to tackle the little guy and carry him back up here well I quickly made him some dinner. It was some Mac & Cheese you had in the pantry, which was surprising in and of its self, and that noodles were Scooby-doo shaped. Care to explain?"

"I didn't think I had a box left." I muttered remembering when Kim and Jason had come for a visit with their girl Jessica to see her Uncle Tommy. When they had announced that they were getting married I had been a little upset but in the end I was alright with it. Kim will always have a place in my heart but I was more than ready to have Zara and Tobi take permanent residence. I told Hayley that the tests could wait till tomorrow as it was getting late and it would be best if they all headed home. After they left I grabbed an old shirt of mine and I regrettably woke Tobi up to tell him about his mom well getting him ready for bed.

Tobi was a bit groggy at first as he woke but when he saw my smiling face he perked up. "Tommy, where my mom, is she ok?"

"She's ok Tobi, she's just at the hospital recovering from being poisoned, so you're going to stay with me for now. How about we get you dressed for bed in one of my shirts and you can sleep in the guest room tonight. We'll go to your house in the morning and get you a changes cloths before we go see your mom. How's does that sound?" Tobi nodded as he yawned making me smile. It didn't take me long to get Tobi ready and have him tucking in bed in the guest room. After such a long day I wasn't surprised that the kido went right back to sleep which was fine by me and I went straight to bed myself.

-o0o-

I had never been happy about being woken up early on a Saturday but I was that morning as Tobi came into my room and asking for breakfast. He is such a sweet kid, even going and grabbing the eggs out of the fridge well I made the both of us pancakes. Once we were done eating and dressed for the day I drove to their house and found a surprise on the front lawn. "Tommy why is there a for sale sign on the lawn?" Tobi asked me as I pulled out Zara's keys. I had made sure to grab them when I left the hospital last night.

"I don't know Tobi, we'll have to ask your mom when we go see her." I told him as I unlocked the door and ushered him inside. Well he got dressed into some clean cloths I pulled the knife still stuck in the wall and inspected the table. The crake was bad and I had a strong feeling that it was beyond repair as I put it back on its legs, it groaning right away. I did quick check of the house for any other damage but didn't see any as I headed to Tobi's room. "Tobi you alright? You've been in there a while."

I knocked on his door receiving his ok to open, which I did and smiled at him. He clearly had changed his cloths but he had pulled out some construction paper and pencil crayons. "I'm making mommy a get well card like I did for you." He explained as he didn't look up from his work as I walked in.

"She'll love that." I said as I went to his dresser and started to pull out some of his cloths. "I leave you to work on that well I pack you a bag, since you're staying at my place till we know when shes leaving the hospital. Is there a bag I can pack your cloths in buddy?"

"There's a Power Rangers duffle bag in the top of my closet." He said as he pointed.

I laughed as I went and pulled it out and filled it with enough cloths to last him the weekend. We both didn't say anything as we worked on our respective tasks, but he broke it as I put his bag by the door. "Tommy, what happened to my mommy yesterday? Who is Zeltrax?"

I froze as I looked at him a bit surprised that he knew Zeltrax name but then I remembered that I said it to Connor when I carried Tobi into the house. Sighing I walked over and sat next to Tobi on his bed, in my mind chuckling at the Green Ranger theme I had designed for the frame. "Tobi what happened to your mom yesterday was in part my fault. Zeltrax, a long time ago was a good friend of mine, till an accident hurt him badly. Mesogog, the one behind all the attacks on the city found him and used technology to heal him, made him look as he does now. In the last big fight were he and I faced off against each other I thought he was gone for good as did Mesogog but he survived somehow. He has been plotting revenge against me, blaming me for what happened to him and he tried to use your mom to do that. You don't know how sorry I am that this has happened to your mom as I care a lot about her but it's also my fault."

I expected him to be mad at me to throw a temper tantrum but when he hugged me instead, I was a bit surprised. "It wasn't your fault Tommy. Mommy has always said that she is a trouble magnet but at least this time she had Power Rangers to help her." He told me with a small smile as I returned his hug. "Which ranger are you?"

I smiled. "This time around, I'm the black one but I was also the Red Turbo, Red Zeo, the original White and Green Rangers."

Tobi's head shot up so fast I thought I heard his neck crake. "You were the original Green Ranger?" I nodded and suddenly found a very excited 4 year old jumping on me causing me to laugh. "I have so many questions! Why were you evil at first, who were the other original rangers, who was it that gave you all your powers and what's it like piloting a Zord?"

"Whoa settle down there kido I need to tell you something. I will answer your questions but I need you to promise me that you will not tell anyone about who any of the rangers are or that you know anything. Keeping our identities a secret is the first rule of being a ranger. It not only to protect us but our love ones as well." I told him with a bit of seriousness as I sat him down once again.

"I promise I won't tell anyone."

"Good now I'm going to pack a bag for your mom well you finish your card and pack some toys that can if in your bag. Then we'll go to the hospital."

Zara's Pov

I wasn't too surprised when I woke in the hospital that morning, in fact I would have been surprised if I hadn't. I was sore and rather hungry which seemed to surprise the doctor when he came in to see how I was doing. Once he was done and informed me that if I continued to recover well he might release me tomorrow. This cheered me as did the arrival of lunch which I eagerly tucked right into as Tobi and Tommy arrived. "Mommy!"

"Hey buddy, how are you doing?" I asked Tobi as he jumped on my bed and scrambled to give me a bone crushing hug.

"I'm good. I stayed at Tommy's last night, he made me pancakes this morning and mom guess what?" he asked eagerly and I could séance he was rather excited about something.

"What?" I asked him cheerfully soaking in his happiness.

He looked around to make sure we it was just the three of us in the room, I noticed Tommy was smiling, before Tobi whispered to me. "Tommy was the original Green Ranger, so now he's saved you twice. Isn't that cool?"

Cool wasn't what I was thinking at I looked at the now frowning Tommy, his confusion emanating off him. I cleared my throat before I put a smile back on my face well bring my attention back to my son. "I guess so. Say what's that you got there, is that for me?" Tobi was eager to show me the card he had made me which of course had Power Rangers on it as well as dinosaurs as they were his favorite thing to draw. Not too long after Kira, Trent, Conner and Hayley arrived which confused me till I remembered Tommy shouting Trent's and Kira's names when the white and yellow ranger were helping me. "So you kids are the other 4 rangers then?"

"Ya we are and on Dr. O behalf we are sorry about what happened to you yesterday and for him knocking you out a few days ago." Conner said with sincerity but Kira didn't hesitate to smack the back of him head. "What? He's going to need all the help he can get when she goes all commando mom on him."

"Commando mom?" I asked a bit surprised well I shook my head as I turned to Tommy who was also shaking his head as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "He does have a point though as you did knock me out when Tobi's class was kidnapped but how about we both forget that it. That is if you're willing forgive me for what I said back in my office yesterday."

Tommy nodded. "Deal. By the way why is there a for sale sign on your lawn?"

"Wha- there's a sign there already? I was only informed by my land lady's daughter that it was going to be put up for sale yesterday." I informed them all about the call I got after the argument Tommy and I had and I saw the sad look on Tobi's face. "We have to move again?" He asked well I picked up his ear and sadness.

"Sorry buddy but it won't be too far as I still have my job at the high school but we'll have to look fast as we only have till the end of the month." I told him not pleased that we had only finished unpacking a few months ago.

"That's only two weeks from now. There's no way you're going to find a place that fast in this town, as anything that goes on the market right now is gone in no time." Hayley said as she thought it over as she pulled out her phone. "I see if I can find you anything but I make no promises."

It was then a thought accrued to me and I smiled. "Thanks Hayley any help will be great."

By the time I was realised the following Sunday Hayley had found us a cheap place that she n=kknew the land lord and was able to set up a time for us to go and see it on Monday after school. Also it was close to where were currently lived so we wouldn't have to move to far. I was so busy talking to Tobi and how relived he was that we didn't actually have to move out of twon, I didn't notice that Tommy wasn't driving us home. When I did take notice it was as we were pulling up to what I realised was his house. "Tommy what are we doing here?"

"Well I figured that since I have seen where you live, and Tobi has seen my place, you should as well before I make us all some dinner." He explained as we got out of the car and he led us into his house. I found it fitting for a bachelor his age. I saw a lot of fossils and trinkets he had in his personal collection but I was mostly surprised when he smiled at me as he opened the secret hatch in his office floor. Tobi happily bound down the stairs making Tommy laughed and waited for me to go down ahead of him. I couldn't help but stare at the lab he had put together for him and his rangers. "Wow."

"Ya it has that effect, though it's nothing like the command center the original rangers and I used back in the day but it works." Tommy said as he put his hands in his pocket and looked around with a shrug, well walking over to me. "By the way I've been wondering about what Tobi meant about me saving you twice."

I winced and I could tell that this time he wasn't going to let me change the subject. "Well you see back when I was 16 and my brother Ben was 10 we were visiting Angel Grove as my dad had a job interview. Well he was at the interview my mom took us to look around the city a bit when there was a monster attack.

Flashback

We were walking around the park, enjoying the sun shine and the fresh air after being stuck in the car most of the day. Ben decided that he wanted to play tag and took off running ahead of us and of course I took off running after him. He hadn't gotten too far when we saw a strange blue object moving on the ground heading our way. "Zar, what is that?" Ben asked sounding confused as he pointed it out to me.

I wasn't given time to answer as a strange blue-silver shark with arms and legs jumped out of the ground and directly at us. I immediately pushed my brother to the ground and covered him with my body, well at the same time a flash of green and gold jumped on the shark. When I realised that we weren't being attacked I lifted my head, and stared in awe at the sight before us. The Green Ranger, the newest addition to the famous Power Rangers, was fighting the land shark, well keeping it away from us. Our mom reached us, her fear radiating off her as she pulled Ben out from under me and grabbed my arm.

The Green Ranger took a hard hit that sent him falling to the ground and he lifted his head seeing us standing there he shouted. "Go, get out of here it's not safe! I'll keep it busy." My mother didn't hesitate to head his order as she ran towards the family car, dragging me the whole way. Once my dad heard about what happened and listened to my mom's frantic version of what happened, he decided to not take the job. We left Angel Grove the next day and we moved to New York instead.

End of Flashback

Tommy's mouth was hanging open as he stared at me, well his emotions were a confusing mess which made me wonder if I had said something wrong. "So that explains it." He suddenly muttered as he started at my eyes.

"My story explains what exactly?" I asked confused.

"When I first saw you and since then I have had this nagging feeling that I have seem your eyes somewhere. It has been bugging me but I wasn't sure how to go about asking you in case it had to do with my being a ranger." He said with a relived look on his face as he smiled down at me. "I don't know if I should be happy or sad that your family didn't move to Angel Grove. I could have meet you a lot sooner."

A/N: I meant to post this last night but I was busy then too tired to get it done. Please review as I am dying to know what everyone thinks.