Passion Power and Dinosaurs

Chapter 13: Origins part 3: Realize

"Wait so you guys actually built these things?" asked Hayley in awe as Tommy showed her the three dinozords.

"Yes and no, we built him, but the design is a completely different story." Replied Tommy as Anton Mercer walked into the room.

"Ah, you must be Hayley." Anton cheerfully exclaimed. "Tommy has told me many good things; in fact I hope to use your weapons in project Dinothunder."

"Project Dinothunder? Who came up with that?" chuckled Hayley obviously amused at the corny name of the project.

"Uh….." started Anton

"It just came to us." Said Tommy.

"So who designed these beauties?" asked Hayley staring at the dormant zords, Tommy had told her that they still had many bugs to fix. 'Which would explain why he offered me this job in the first place

"I'm not exactly sure who designed it but I can tell you where we got the designs. We got the designs from an ancient book, I found while exploring some old ruins." Replied Tommy cryptically as he turned to leave the storage room.

"A book?" asked Hayley skeptically as she followed Tommy out of the massive storage room for the zords. "The technology used to create these machines is at the very least 20 years ahead of our time, there's no way you could have gotten the designs for these robots from a book written by some ancient civilization."

"I'm an archeologist Hayley, and I can tell you that there have been a lot of ancient civilizations that were more technologically advance then we are today. They built cities within days, created weapons capable of unimaginable destruction before they wiped themselves out." Replied Tommy as he walked into his research lab, Hayley followed. The lab was filled with test tubes, computers, tongs, and other scientific equipment. The most notable item was the massive leather bound book on Tommy's table.

Overcome with curiosity, Hayley walked over to it, judging from its appearance it was old, it even smelled old. The pages were colored a faded yellow and looked like they would disintegrate when touched; on the cover of the book was a strange three-pronged symbol, which resembled a dinosaur foot. "Is this the book you were talking about?" asked Hayley.

"Yeah, I found it three years, while I was exploring some ruins in mainland California." Replied Tommy nodding his head "The book was written by a nameless ancient civilization which worshipped the Dinosaurs, it took me three years to translate the first few pages, the book talks of gems melded with the very essence of the dinosaurs. Supposedly, the gems are the key to stopping a great catastrophe from happening. Project Dinothunder's purpose is to prevent this catastrophe from happening."

"Wow, but there have always been prophecies similar to the one you just told me about, what makes you think this one is the real thing?" said Hayley curiously as she brushed a lone lock of hair behind her ear.

"I didn't believe it either, until I found these." Replied Tommy as he reached into his jacket pocket and took out the three dinogems he had found during his latest dig. "At first I wasn't sure what they were, but then I ran a few tests on them. The gems are made up of a material unlike anything I've ever seen before, they have a massive energy output, and they have trace amounts of Dinosaur DNA implanted within them."

"That's unbelievable." remarked Hayley who was obviously very shocked. "A discovery such as this could change the world." Beep. Beep. Beep. "Oh crap my pager; I'm needed back at the lab. Listen, I should get to work, don't want to lose the job after just getting it, you know?"

"Yeah, I know." Tommy said smiling.

The Dinozords may have been well designed, but the interiors of each one of the great beasts were a joke. 'No wonder they aren't battle ready.' Thought Hayley as she continued to jot down major and minor improvements, the biggest problem was its operating system or OS for short, although the neural link devices worked fine, the side effects included temporary and permanent insanity, headaches, blindness, and long term memory loss. 'I'll get Tommy to invent a helmet that'll protect the pilot from such side effects.'

The Tyrannosaurus had proven to be the one with the most troubles, not only did it have a faulty OS, its autopilot program was a joke, and its power source was only strong enough to last for 5 minutes. There was no way in hell; these machines could go into battle without being destroyed within the first 10 minutes. Even worst Anton had the blueprints for about eight more Dinozords, each with their own abilities, the crazy bastard had already began construction

Hayley sure has her work cut out for her….

Elsa paced back and forth in the secret room her master had built to hide her and Zeltrax while that fool Dr. Oliver was working. Although Zeltrax did not seem to mind, all he did was lean against the wall with his arms crossed. 'But then again, you can never tell what he's thinking…' thought Elsa dryly as she continued her pacing.

"Stop the pacing, it's annoying…" growled Zeltrax annoyed "Or at the very least change your pattern." His arms uncrossed themselves, as he stood upright. His hands went to his sword, which was located at his waist held up by a leather strap; the cyborg slowly drew his sword raised into an attack position. "You should use this time to do something more productive. Like sparing."

Elsa also drew her sword and got into a fighting stance. "Good idea." Sneered Elsa and she charged into battle.

Tommy was busy putting the final additions on his newest invention, a wristband, which would shrink Hayley's rampage suit down to a more portable size. The young paleontologist was so caught up in his work that he didn't notice Hayley sneaking up behind him until it was too late. "HEY!" shouted Hayley into Tommy's ear; Tommy practically flew off of his desk in surprise.

Despite the annoying ringing in his ear, Tommy managed to crack a smile before he got back up. "What's up?"

"I need a favor." Said Hayley, there was a hint of pleading in her tone of voice which Tommy found hard to resist. "I need you to create a helmet which cuts the data flow into the brain caused by the neural link orbs by at least 50"

"Why?" asked Tommy, as he stuck a pinky into his throbbing earlobe in a desperate attempt to end the ringing.

"Well, these test results have shown that prolonged usage of the neural link orbs have had several side effects which include temporary and permanent insanity, blindness, headaches, and long-term memory loss." Replied Hayley. "I've done some research and I've concluded that the reason for the side effects is the data flow into the brain caused by the orbs."

Tommy rubbed his chin, almost as if he was trying to think up of a solution. "So you believe that cutting the data flow into the brain by 50 will fix this problem."

"No, I believe that it'll buy the pilot more time before he goes insane." Replied Hayley dryly. "The only way to prevent the side-effects from happening is to have the machine completely synchronize with the pilot, but the technology required for total synchronization is very difficult to find plus it's nearly impossible to build."

"I'll see what I can do." said Tommy as he reached over to pick up the wristband he had just finished creating. "Hey, check out my newest invention." Tommy tossed the bracelet he was working on over to Hayley, although she fumbled a bit, the redhead managed to catch it.

The bracelet was still in its early stages no covers had been placed, it was light, very light. A gray button was located in the lower right hand corner of the wristband and Hayley, being the curious person that she was, pressed it. In a flash of bright golden light, a rampage suit appeared on her, Hayley nearly toppled over in surprise. "Whoa. I wasn't expecting that…."

Tommy laughed heartily, "Sorry I should have told you that was going to happen." Said Tommy as he tried to silence the giggles that were starting to escape from his mouth, Tommy walked over and pressed the gray button on the wristband again, and once he did the rampage suit disappeared in a flash of light. "My newest invention, the Dino Morpher, it shrinks your Rampage Suit down to a microscopic level, and stores it inside the wristband. If you want it to grow back into it's normal size you press this button over here, which infuses the suit with Dino Energy causing it to grow and appear on the user." Explained Tommy.

"Dino Energy?" Hayley echoed raising an eyebrow, this project was practically all about Dinosaurs; this was getting a little strange.

"Dino Energy is the physical manifestation of our emotions." Began Tommy as Hayley handed him the Dino Morpher. "Normal humans can't release Dino Energy, but they can if they have a medium."

"Such as the Dino gems?" asked Hayley curiously, as she walked closer, their faces were inches apart. She placed his hands on his muscular chest, his black t-shirt was the only thing preventing skin on skin contact at the moment. "Does this apply to all emotions?"

"Yes." Said Tommy, was she flirting with him? It had been so long since a woman had bothered to display any sign of interest in him, much less flirt with him.

Hayley's finger traced a circle on Tommy's chest as his breathing became more rapid. "So this also means emotions, such as anger? Sadness? Passion? And even Love?"

"Yeah." Replied Tommy nervously, as he quickly reached over to the massive leather bound book, he quickly backed off and opened the book. The young archeologist was obviously very uncomfortable with the level of intimacy Hayley was displaying. "I learnt all of this from this book. The book also speaks of a shield, which grants its master with unimaginable power. I'll tell you more about it later; it is getting late come back tomorrow. I should have your synchro helmet ready by then."

After Hayley had left, Tommy sat down and let out a breath of relief. That was close, too close. 'I should have pushed her away like that.' Thought Tommy as he pondered on the design of the synchro helmet, it needs to completely cover the face if the user was to completely synchronize with the machine. "It's almost like I'm helping to create the next team of rangers."

Zeltrax and Elsa fell to the ground groaning in agony as Mesogog continued to shoot streams of crystal-colored energy at his servants. Zeltrax clutched his head in a desperate attempt to end the mind shattering the pain that he was experiencing. "You fools spent the entire day doing nothing! Do you realize that the Dino Gems are the vital part in my plan to return this planet back to its Prehistoric Roots!" snarled Mesogog angrily. "Dr. Tommy Oliver has invented many tools that are vital to my plan, I want you two to steal the blueprints to these inventions and create models for my personal use."

Mesogog stopped the flow of his mental energy to his servants and gave his two generals time to recover. Slowly the humanoid lizard walked over to Elsa, his oldest general, his hands roughly grabbed her hair and pulled on it until Elsa's face was looking forward. "Do you realize that if I wanted to could kill you right here right now?" whispered Mesogog into Elsa's ear. "But I won't because you have been nothing but loyal to me since day one, because of that I'm going to tell you a little secret. You are nothing to me, and I can kill you and Zeltrax faster than you can blink."

Mesogog flung Elsa across the room, Zeltrax quickly ran over to see if she was ok. "Now I suggest you two get started. NOW!" snarled Mesogog, Elsa quickly nodded and got to work, Zeltrax followed.

Tommy's lab was a complete mess when Hayley arrived the next day, broken test tubes laid all around the floor along with papers, pencils, beakers, and pieces of broken glass. Somebody had been busy. The room was a wreck, weeks of hard work had been for nothing. Tommy sat in his desk, obviously angry at the recent turn of events. Hayley cautiously walked over.

"Hey you ok?" asked Hayley as she placed a hand on his back.

"Yeah, luckily all my finished inventions are in storage, nothing important was destroyed." Said Tommy softly. "I'm just wondering who did this?"

"What do you mean?" asked Hayley.

"Well, we're on a privately owned island, I know it couldn't have been you or Anton, so it must be one of the other workers. Problem is that we have so many workers on this island, that it could be anyone. I think I'm going to let this one slide." Answered Tommy as he got back up and went to a safe, which was located inside of the wall. "On a better note, I managed to finish the synchrony helmet, I was talking about yesterday, plus I managed to translate two more pages of that book. Although the text had me a little confused."

Tommy opened the safe and handed a box containing the three helmets to Hayley. Now Hayley was interested, why did the text of an old book have him confused. "What do you mean?"

"The ancient race which wrote this book created many great inventions. But the book allegedly states that one of these inventions got out of control and destroyed hundreds of villages before it was sealed away." Replied Tommy as he scratched his chin curiously. "Supposedly the weapon that destroyed the civilization was a massive mobile fortress which was originally built to protect the civilization from outside invaders."

"Talk about ironic." Replied Hayley dryly.

Tommy nodded in agreement. "So how was your day?"

"Same old same old, I finally manage to finish the repairs to the operating system for the three main Dinozords, and all of a sudden Mercer comes in with 5 more zords for me to improve." Complained Hayley.

Tommy reached over and gave Hayley a comforting pat on the shoulder. "You'll be fine."

Hayley smiled. "You think so?"

Tommy nodded. "I know so."

And so it went on for three years, Hayley worked on the zords, while Tommy worked on translating the book. The two would spend their free time together, talking and joking around, until it got late and one of them would reluctantly leave to go to bed. The two had no idea that Mesogog and his goons were hard at work secretly stealing the blueprints to most of the equipment created by Hayley and creating their own weapons. Time passed by quickly…

"Hayley?" called out Tommy. No response. Something wasn't right, walking into Hayley's room, the former Ranger let out a soft gasp. It was empty, Hayley's room was completely empty, no bed, no desk, only a piece of paper was left. Walking over Tommy picked it up. It turned out to be a letter.

Dear Tommy,

I'm sorry that I have to say good-bye like this, but I felt that it was for the best. I now have enough money to open that cyber café I've been telling you about. I found a nice place in mainland California in a small town called Reefside. Once again, I'm sorry that I have to say good-bye like this.

Love

Hayley.

Tommy was shocked; he just couldn't believe that Hayley would just take off like that. After all that they had been through, he just couldn't believe it. It was almost as if the last three years meant nothing to her. Memories of his time spent with Hayley began to flow through Tommy's head. Meeting Hayley in Massachusetts, having coffee with her in some random café, Hayley crying, and now this letter.

A pat on the back brought Tommy's thoughts back into the present. Turning around Tommy saw that it came from none other than Anton Mercer. "You ok?"

"Yeah, I'm just a little upset that she left without saying good-bye." Replied Tommy his eyes not leaving the letter.

"Well, I'm not surprised that she left." Stated Mercer as he walked around the now empty room.

"What do you mean?" asked Tommy raising an eyebrow in curiosity.

"Isn't it obvious? Tommy, Hayley's in love with you." Tommy stared at Anton in disbelief. "Oh c'mon I see the looks she gives you when she thinks nobody is looking, and with all the time you two have spent together in the past three years it really isn't that hard to believe. Hayley probably didn't say good-bye to you because if she did, than it would have been that much harder for her to leave."

"Wow. That's a lot to take in." muttered Tommy.

"The real question is: How do you feel about her?" asked Anton.

"Well, I like her, but I'm still in love with that girl who left me to go to Florida to-" began Tommy.

"Oh my lord not this again. Tommy, for crying out loud it's been eight years since you guys separated, you have to get over her." Complained Anton cutting in. "People break up all the time, and people move on with their lives. If you want my opinion, I think the reason you're hurting right now isn't because Hayley didn't say good-bye to you. I think it's because you're also in love with Hayley. Tommy, if you continue dwelling on the past, you'll miss out on what's right in front of you."

Tommy was speechless, was he in love with Hayley. It was true that it hurt that she didn't bother to say good-bye to him in person, but in love with her. Hayley of all people. And slowly he began to realize that it was true, he was in love with Hayley, he loved her. The way her eyes would seem to brighten whenever she saw him, the way she smelled a light scent of vanilla, he even loved the way her smile would light up a dark room. He loved everything about her.

"Tommy, if you love her you have to go after her." Said Anton.

"I'm not sure."

"If you're worrying about Project Dinothunder, don't, I can finish everything from here." Encouraged Anton.

The alarm suddenly began to go off, and Anton began to look quite queasy. "The Tyranodrones have gotten loose. We need to evacuate the building now." He gasped, as he felt his body began to change into that creature. Tommy nodded. "GO! I'll be fine."

Running down the long hallway, Tommy encountered a large group of Tyranodrones. With a breath of frustration, Tommy got ready to fight.

A/N: OK, I admit, I got lazy, but it's a lot of trouble writing these chapters so I figured screw it. For those of you that don't know the end of this chapter leads into the beginning of "Day of the Dino Part One." In this chapter I've decided to introduce several ideas such as the idea of the Dino gems being used before by an ancient race which worshiped the dinosaurs, this made things a lot easier for me such as the idea of where the Shield of Triumph came from, etc. OK now that part three is done, I'm going to get back to the main story, I'll try to have it up soon, but there are no guarantees.