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Boosting Their Powers

Billy's POV

I am, once again, making my now weekly trip up to Reefside to work on further modifications for the Dino Rangers and their various forms of weaponry. Alpha and Hayley have been working at the project with all of the energy that they can muster, but there are times that they need some extra help and that is where I come into the picture. We all have come to terms with the fact that Tommy was able to attain a PhD in Paleontology, but he still admits that he is not as proficient at some parts of the lab work as some of us are. Honestly, I'm surprised that he made it through freshmen biology in college, but I'm glad he proved all of us wrong, on this one. If he hadn't we would be more behind than we are right now and I know it scares him because we don't know when Mesogogg will come back.

My job, as of late, has become a real pain for me to deal with, even on the best days. There are always opportunities for expansion, but there are rarely any chances for me to be able to land a job with the Reefside branch, which seems to fit into their plans. I asked my supervisor why they continued to deny my request to be sent here and his explanation reminds me of why I do not love working for huge corporations, in general. I've found a few good jobs in these corporations, but this is not one of them. The branch I am working at now, is the main branch and he told me he didn't want to lose a worker here and send him to Reefside, when he actually worked for him. I know that there are other people who did not request to be considered for that sight, but they got the job. Now, I have had to start looking at other options, which is not a pleasant idea at all, when we are at war with Mesogogg. I'm busy enough with ranger work, looking for a job is just a pain in the ass right now, to be quite frank.

"Hey, Billy," Kim said in an unusually perky tone, as she opened the door to let him in, wearing a pair of old pajama bottoms that he was fairly sure were Tommy's at one point, as they puddled around her feet.

If he had not known any better, he would have sworn that Kim was starting to get stir crazy, but Tommy had assured him that she was acting fairly normal. He had been surprised at that one, as he was sure that the gymnast and ranger in her was begging her to run around some, instead of staying still all the time. She, however, had been doing more of that since she found out that she was pregnant and he was sure that she had probably just gotten used to all of it, although that was fairly hard to believe. She had never been one to enjoy sitting still and he knew that she had not changed that much over the years, no matter what anyone might think.

"Hey, are they already downstairs?" Billy asked, as he hauled in a box full of equipment. He had not been sure what they would need out of the old command center, but he had brought anything that he thought would work well with all of the things that they were going to attempt to do. He would rather bring too many materials, than not bring enough to complete the project, because if he didn't then they would have to wait another week before they could complete the morphers, which was time that they didn't have to spare. He had made arrangements with his company to have one day off a week, as long as he let them know two days in advance and that had worked very well for him with all of the projects that he had been working on.

"Yes, except for Tommy. Principal Randall has him working on some committee at the school, not that he is very happy about that one," Kim said, as she waddled towards the trap door and opened it for Billy. She had promised Tommy that she would only do small tasks, if they asked her to work any. He did not want her exerting herself and she did not have the energy to argue with him about the amount of work that she should be allowed to do. She had settled to only do a minimum amount of housework, but Tommy was even trying to convince her to do less than that, which she was never going to agree to. Tanya had not told her that she couldn't do small chores and until she did, she was going to continue doing that.

"I don't imagine that he would be, considering everything else that is going on around here, besides Mesogogg," Billy said, as he and most of the other rangers knew that Tommy was worried about Mesogogg, but he doubted that Mesogogg would try anything after waiting so long. He would have tried it earlier, if he was going to and if he did now, only Tommy knew what he would do to the creature and that was scary if it happened.

"Billy, you brought the supplies. I'm surprised that you were able to find them at all," Alpha said, as he remembered leaving the Command Center in a mess, at least from what he was able to remember about the whole ordeal. He had tried to block most of it from his memory. He did not like being jerked away from the place the way that others decided he should be after Zordon died. He would have been perfectly happy to stay and keep up the condition of the Command Center, but some of the other people did not think it was wise to do so, he went to help the Space Rangers, who were already settled into who they asked for help. He spent more time doing small things there than anything else, which left him plenty of time to watch after all of the other rangers, like he had promised. He had managed to keep in touch with the Space Rangers while he was on Earth, although they finally understood exactly why he had to come back to Earth, which was a miracle in itself. They had been so determined that there was nothing, that when they saw the truth, they offered as much help as they could, although Tommy only took what they needed to get by.

"It did take a little bit of searching Alpha, but it was not as bad as I had thought it would be," Billy said, as he set the box down and opened it. Hayley had been searching for some other supplies in the storage closet and had not seen Billy come in, but she was glad to see him when she did. She had been stressed out over the last few days, trying to get all of the morphers ready for the rest of the modifications, but he would calm her down, somehow. She was starting to wonder how they were able to do this, but she trusted that Tommy, Billy, and the other rangers had a plan for all of this. "Hey."

"Hey, I'm glad you made it up here alright," Hayley whispered as Billy gave her a hug and then sighed as he let go of her.

It was a mental strain on him to continue to live in Angel Grove and long to be in Reefside every waking hour of the day. He had talked to some of the other rangers about it, but none of them had the problem that he did and the only ones that had, were Tommy and Kim. He didn't exactly want to take a page out of their dating how-to book or he might wind up breaking both of their hearts for some stupid reason. He just had to figure out a way to live in Reefside, no matter what it might cost him in other areas of his life. He was not happy anymore in Angel Grove and all of his friends knew it, so they were willing to help him in any way that they could.

"You didn't expect me to?" Billy asked giving her a concerned smile before he turned to unload the box of its materials. She hated this lull in activity, because of the fact that they never knew when that next attack would be and she never knew if it would be the battle that brought him out of retirement. She hated knowing that all of their lives were depending on when that one battle happened, but the sooner it did, the better it was, for all of them.

They had requested that the Dino rangers hand in their morphers, for one day, to allow them to construct the rest of the power boosters into the morphing mechanism. It did not matter that they already had an advanced defensive state built in, thanks to Tommy's careful planning and a brief moment of brilliance while designing the morphers. They did not know how quickly their powers would be depleted in a long, hard fought, battle against a full army of tryadrones. The older rangers did and they saw that this was most necessary in order to be able to defeat Mesogogg and anyone else he might decide to bring in to help him.

"It's not that. We just were picking up some odd things today," Hayley said, as they heard something clatter upstairs and then saw Tommy jog down the stairs and into the command center, looking to be irate.

"Bad day?" Kim asked, tentatively as he looked over at her and then shook his head yes. He did not want to elaborate on how 'bad' his day had been at school and he was not sure if Kim could handle the rough language and tone he would use when talking about it. It had been a day from hell by his standards and he had, had some days that he thought qualified like this before, but this one seemed worse. Randall had clawed him all day and there was nothing else that could have irritated him more. Then, he had been forced to sit through an hour long meeting with her, in which he had to bite his tongue the entire time in order to not say something that might cause her to fire him.

"Well, we're ready to get started Tommy, but do you need sometime to cool off before we do that?" Billy asked, as he knew that Tommy would have to be able to think clearly in order to be able to do this. It was much more intricate than they had expected, but they knew that it was possible for him to be able to do help them with this modification.

"Give me a few seconds and I'll be alright," Tommy said as he sat down next to Kim and laid his head on her stomach. He had never had a day turn out as badly as today did and he had to admit that he wanted to be comforted about what he had been forced to deal with. However, to receive comfort, he had to be willing to tell Kim about his day and he wanted to wait until everything was done before he did that. If he started now, he knew that he might not get done for a couple of hours and that was valuable time that he did not need to waste.

"You'll tell me later, right?" Kim asked, as he stood up and he turned around to give her a smile and a shake of the head yes. He would tell her, he just knew that he would have to be careful in the way in which he explained all of it to her. Even with him being careful, he was not sure that he would be able to avoid upsetting her, but he had to give it a try. He couldn't walk around this mad for a very long time or he would blow up at her, which was something he didn't want to do.

"Okay, now only go one step at a time," Tommy said, as he stood between Billy and Alpha, knowing that they would catch any of his mistakes well before it could hurt any of them.

"We can do that," Billy said, as he placed the first wire on the back of the red morpher and watched as it absorbed the cable, which was what they expected. There were a total of twenty cables that had to be placed into each of the morphers and once that was done, they would have established a boost of energy that could sustain them when the command center personnel could not feed anymore into them from their reserves. They continued this long and tedious process for over an hour, but the results from this added power would be seen in the battles and that was where it would make all the difference.

"Alright, check my work," Tommy said, as he had been working on only one morpher, while Billy and Hayley handled two apiece. Alpha had been busy monitoring the activities on Mesogogg's rock, as he had been able to finish the project faster than the rest of them. They had seen very little activity outside of his castle and they couldn't help but wonder how many tryadrones he would be able to store in his castle. There was no way that a full army could be staying above ground, but they did not know how much of the building was underground, although Alpha had tried to figure it out. From the scans that he had done, it seemed that Mesogogg did not have a great deal of storage under his castle, but he could have protected some of those rooms from scanning, although Tommy and Billy doubted that one.

"I don't see any obvious flaws and considering the fact that you did your wife's morpher, I don't expect that there will be any to find at all," Alpha said, as he looked over the morpher and then handed it over to Kimberly, who had walked up behind Tommy. She had gone upstairs to fix supper for all of them, knowing that they would enjoy anything after the mind numbing work that they had, had to do downstairs. She also couldn't stand sitting down there and watching them do that, so she knew that she had better go do something that Tommy wouldn't complain about.

"I hope there aren't any, even though that might not be my morpher for much longer," Kim said, as Tommy jumped at the sound of her voice and they all laughed at him. He had been known for having quick reflexes in the past, but they had never expected that he would be startled to hear Kim's voice, especially when they were married. "Supper is ready whenever you have a chance to come eat."

"Is that a suggestion that you are hungry?" Hayley asked with a smile as Kim nodded her head yes and then turned to walk back up the stairs, all the while complaining about the layout of the house.

"Doesn't like steps anymore, does she?" Billy asked, with a laugh, as Tommy placed his arm around Billy's shoulders and sighed. If steps were the only problem, he would be happy, but it was much more than that.

"Billy, she doesn't particularly like walking anymore. She hates steps now," Tommy said as the two of them emerged from the command center and he caught a death glare from Kim.

"I heard that," Kim muttered, as she served herself and then sat down in a chair around the kitchen table. Tommy then walked over to the small television to turn on the news and all of them could only pray that there would be nothing that pertained to Mesogogg on there. If there was, they might as well call up everyone and see what they could do in a few hours to get them ready for a battle. They were not going to allow him to get much of an edge, as they didn't have time to waste on waiting for him to be strong. They wanted to get at him while he was still fairly weak.

"It's the truth though, Kim," Tommy said, as he sat down next to her and carefully made sure that he handed her a glass of water. He hoped that she would see that he was joking about all of it, but there was always a chance that she wouldn't and he would be in deep trouble, as she did not forgive as easily now.

"I know, but I don't want you to remind me about it," Kim said with a smile, as Hayley and Billy exchanged a confused glance.

They were sure that Kim was going to chew his head off, but she didn't, for some odd reason. She just seemed to be tired today and they all knew that might mean that she was getting closer to having the baby, even if it was a little bit early. They knew that Tommy would just be grateful if his wife and their baby were healthy when they left the hospital, nothing else really mattered to him right now, even most of his ranger work had been pushed aside, although they did expect it.

"How are the others doing?" Hayley asked, as they had not heard much from them over the last few days. She knew that Rocky was having the hardest time of waiting all of this out. Ally had never been a ranger and she didn't know what was truly in their future. When Mesogogg showed back up, they had no choice but to go, although she hated that idea. She just hoped that none of the others were having things go as bad with their counterpart.

"Jason and Trini are doing alright. Jason has been working a lot of overtime lately, he's trying to have enough hours for when he has to take off that it won't affect his job stability. Trini doesn't like that too much, though. You can imagine why she wouldn't like it. Zack and Aisha, well, they're taking a little break right now, according to Adam. I think Aisha finally was fed up with Zack not being able to commit one way or the other. Thing is, he loves her. Adam and Kat are doing alright, Kat's just not too happy about the whole power thing, but she's gotten used to the idea of someone else taking them, when the time comes," Billy said, as Kim let her fork fall from her hands and clatter onto her plate.

"Zack and Aisha are taking a break?" Kim asked, as Billy nodded his head and Kim tried to think back to see how obvious that was supposed to be. She had really thought that they had gotten over the hard trials, but maybe Aisha had really gotten fed up this time. She had been patient for so long and it just seemed that she had finally had her patience run out. "Well, maybe he'll finally get the idea that he is going to have to get serious or let her go find someone else."

"But he loves her, that's what's hard about it. He wants to be with her," Billy said, as he could relate to the situation, but he could not deal with it the way that Zack was going to try to.

"Of course it is, but at least they are on friendly terms," Tommy said, as he caught Kim giving him a look before concentrating on eating her food. She knew what he was referring to and he only hoped that he had not stepped on her toes. If he had right now, he might be sleeping on the couch and she might not come down there tonight and snuggle up against him.

"Well, that's true. If they weren't then we might not have a pleasant time when we have to go back to fighting," Billy said, as Kim gave him a sharp look before he decided that he might want to drop the subject, for the sake of his own health. They had all feared that their fighting was going to suffer last time because of Kim and Tommy's estrangement, but they had managed to work things out. Kim was certain that Aisha and Zack could do that as well, especially knowing how both of them felt about each other. "How are Ally and Rocky?"

"They're alright, Rocky has been avoiding the subject of Mesogogg as much as he can, although I think that he is going to have to talk to her about it sometime soon," Tommy said, as Kim let out a barely audible ouch. "You alright?"

"Baby kicked," Kim said with a smile as they looked at the two of them. Tommy placed a hand on her belly and then continued to eat, knowing about Kim's theory of the baby being a ham for Daddy's affection, which did seem to be true. "So, you think that this power booster will be enough for them?"

"We have no reason to not think that. Don't worry, I made a promise and I intend to keep it," Tommy said, as he knew what was going through her mind. If there was a battle and she needed him, she didn't know if he would come get her, although he had promised her that multiple times.

"I know," Kim muttered as she looked over at the television, which was displaying a picture of the rangers with her, before she had gotten pregnant. She had no clue why they would be on the news, but she had seen weirder things on television lately. "What's that about?"

"Cassidy has been trying to figure out why the rangers have suddenly gone into hiding. She keeps asking odd questions to people at school and now it seems that she has come up with an explanation. I thought the fact that Mesogogg had stopped showing up would be enough for her," Tommy said, as Kim silently nodded her head. She had heard about what Cassidy had asked some of the students and she was sure that if she ever picked on the rangers, on the wrong day, Tommy might have to bail them out of alternative school or worse. They did not want her investigating their life and if she tried to, she might dig up some things that would get her in serious trouble with the rangers and the authorities, as Tommy had already caught her on their property once.

"She wants a hot story, Tommy and she's willing to do anything to get that. The problem with that fact is that she is getting threateningly close to the people that could tell her the truth," Hayley said, as she had seen Cassidy talking to the rangers on several occasions. She knew that there might be a day when their communicator went off in front of her, then all hell would break loose. Cassidy would want to release the story, but she would have to go through Tommy and Kim in order to do that and they would figure out some way to keep her quiet or more appropriately, they would make her be quiet.

"At least she hasn't started interviewing me," Tommy said, as he knew what he was likely to say to Cassidy if she choose the wrong moment to pounce on him. She had already asked him what he thought of the rangers, but she didn't ask him if he knew who they were, not that he would have any reason to tell her the truth and not that she could tell if he lied about it.

"I'd rather her interview you," Kim said, as Tommy looked at her. He couldn't understand why that was comforting to her, but he was not going to try to ask her to explain it, unless she decided to on her own. "You've had to lie about it for so long that it is second nature, all of us have."

"Being a liar is not something that I like to admit to," Tommy said, although they were all masters of the art. They had to be, in order to think up plausible excuses for being out of the country for roughly two years and then suddenly showing back up. It had happened to them before and he was sure that it might happen to them again, especially if this battle was long and drawn out.

"Supper was great," Billy said as he took his plate and set it down in the sink. He had learned that they appreciated the other rangers making themselves feel at home, because it had become their home away from home over the last few months, with all of the time they had spent up there.

"It was no problem, Billy," Kim said, as Hayley stood up and gave Billy a questioning look. She wondered if he was going to have to head back to Angel Grove or if he would be staying the night. If he was staying the night, she wanted to leave so they would be able to catch up some; if he wasn't she still wanted to have as much time with him as she could. "Have a good night."

"Don't worry," Billy said with a smile as Hayley and he walked towards the front door. Now Kim could really ask Tommy about what had happened, even if he didn't want to admit to it.

"Okay, Tommy, they're gone and you have no excuses left about this. What happened to you today?" Kim asked, as Tommy cleared the table and then nodded that they might want to go ahead and head upstairs. He knew that she was tired and would not want to have to come back downstairs anytime tonight. He would do the dishes tomorrow morning before he headed to the school, if he had the time.

"Well, I had a good day, until I got to my last period class. Randall has to do observations on the teachers, you know how it is and today was the day that she picked for me to be observed, without notification. I have never had an observation go that bad. I was giving them a test when she walked in and after they finished it, I told them to start the next chapter's vocabulary, although I rarely do that. I just knew that they needed something to do to keep them occupied this time. When she came in they were taking their test and I had nothing planned besides that test. You know how my tests are and how long they take for some students to finish. The first person didn't turn in their test until there was only fifteen minutes left in class, what was I supposed to do? I failed my observation from her because I showed her no instructional planning or work while she was in there. Kim, I don't know what I am going to do. I couldn't tell them to quit taking their test, so I could do a damn lesson, but now I just have no clue about anything anymore. She wants me to give tests weekly and then she chooses the day that I give a test to observe me," Tommy said, as Kim looked over at him and then sat down on their bed, exhausted from her day.

"You're doing your job, though, Tommy. There is nothing more that they can ask from you and I am sure that the assistant principal understands all of this," Kim said, as she lay on her side and watched him walk around to the other side of the bed. Tommy and the assistant principal got along fine, but there were times that Tommy had to deal with Randall, no matter what he wanted to do. "Randall and you just got off on the wrong foot a few years ago."

"I know, but I can't keep on living on her whims. One week, she's telling me that my tests need to be harder and the next week, she tells me that I have failed too many students; I should be easier on them. I just want them to tell me what they want from me and I'll do it," Tommy said, as he reached over and rubbed the small of her back. He had known that it had bothered her more over the last few weeks and there was nothing better for him to do at the moment. He needed something to concentrate on besides his anger and she was good for that cause.

"I know, I had the same thing happen to me, but I don't think that they even know what they want from you some times. There is so much that they have to account for and if you don't do a good job then it reflects badly on them. How bad are the kids failing the tests, Tommy?" Kim asked, knowing that there could be multiple reasons for them to fail and she just wanted to make sure he was covering himself right now. She knew that he didn't need to give Randall any more excuses to come after him, although she knew that the tests came straight from the material that he taught.

"Most of them it is just by a couple of points, but I have a few kids that are bombing every test that they come to; they don't pay attention and they don't care," Tommy said, as he knew that these were the kids that did not pay attention in class, at all. He had told Randall that they didn't pay attention and her solution for it was that he needed to write them up more. If he decided to do that, then he would just get yelled at some more, so they were just going to fail his class, but that was going to make some coaches mad.

"There is nothing that you can do to change that Tommy. You teach them the material; it is their job to pay attention to you. You don't have the time to baby-sit kids who don't understand it or want to try to understand it," Kim said, as she had thought about teaching high school for a few months in college, but quickly decided elementary was better for her. She was barely the same height as some of the high school kids and she did not want them to take advantage of her, like she knew that they had tried to do to Tommy, although they did not succeed. He was tough, but the kids could pass, if they just paid attention to him in class. "Little lower, please."

"Sure," Tommy said with a smile as he moved his hands slightly lower on her back and continued to move them in soothing circles of pressure. "But Kim, what happens if Randall decides to get rid of me?"

"Handsome, if she does that, you can rely on the one thing that has gotten you through so many other things. The dojo is thriving and I think that you could make a living doing just that if you had to," Kim said, as she knew that the thought had crossed his mind several times to work at the dojo full time, but he loved the teaching too much to just quit on the kids one day.

"I know, but as much as I love working at the dojo; I love teaching just as much," Tommy said as Kim rolled over to face him, negotiating the way she turned with her belly.

"Then don't worry about it. She's not going to fire you tonight and after what you said to her last year, I don't think that she ever will," Kim said with a smile as he reached down to give her a kiss on the cheek before getting out of bed to change out of his regular clothes. Kim was living in pajamas now and she was already trying to settle down for the night and he would soon be joining her on that little mission.

AN: Alright, I hope that you like this chapter. Please review, even if you don't like it. I will accept any type of feedback on this story, as it is about to pick up in length a great deal over the next few chapters and I really just need something to keep me going. I know some people like it, its just nice to hear it every once in awhile.