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Chapter One

"This Mara chick sure has great timing." Aisha grumbled as they started their hike through the Neola jungle. "We barely got into our reunion lunch." The three had been meeting up, having a picnic in Florida. Aisha had been returning from Africa, And Trini had come down from her home in New York to visit them both. They had just started to eat, and Kim had just finished explaining what had been going on in her life. All three had been having a good time, and were laughing, until there was a sudden sensation of teleportation and they had been brought to Phados, where they found themselves becoming rangers once more.

"Yeah…" Kim trailed off. "But this is more important. Besides. We have plenty of time to talk. You remember how long this takes."

"I don't." Trini interjected, reminding the others that she was the one thrown the hardest into the deep end.

"Well it takes a while." Aisha informed her fellow yellow. "It's a hike."

Despite Kim's encouraging, it was this comment that threw them into a silence. As the path got narrower, they shifted into an order. Kim took the lead, with Trini in the middle, and Aisha brought up the rear. It was established. Even when the path widened once more they didn't shift back.

The group walked in the quiet, thinking. Trini was thinking about the sudden change of events. Rangering again, with a new set of powers. New to her in any case. What was going to happen? There were only three of them. Would they really be able to fight off a new evil army? Would Mara leave after one defeat? Or would she be like Rita and Zedd and just keep trying?

Trini had agreed to take the powers just now…she wasn't about to let the world go into ruins and destruction. But she did have a life now. It wasn't just school and maybe a date here and there. Now she was working; she probably couldn't juggle the responsibilities of everything. Trini's main concern was getting to the power, and defeating this new enemy, but her secondary concern was what would happen afterwards.

Aisha reflected more on what the fight's were going to be like. She wasn't in shape anymore. She hadn't been fighting since she left Angel Grove for Africa. That made her nervous. She could remember the fights when she first became a ranger. She had been training at that point, and after fights she was still exhausted. What would happen if she couldn't last in a battle? She only would have two other rangers backing her up. And what if they lost energy? Mara would be able to win with no problems. They couldn't just let that happen. But what if it did?

Kim's concerns laid with the team itself. Why them, three women, who hadn't been rangers since their teen years? Kim knew from the news that there had been other teams since their own era. Surely they would make better choices for warriors to save the planet.

And what had happened with the powers? Two yellow rangers, one pink. It hadn't escaped her that the totems were now all birds. A swallow, a hawk, and a crane. She was no longer the crane, and looking more closely at it she realized that Trini probably did make more sense as the crane anyways. But why were they all birds? She had never seen something so unified.

Did that mean that the team would be unified? They were friends…sure…but they had never fought as one. Kimberly had fought alongside both of them. She had developed a unique form of teamwork with each of them. But they had never fought together. What if they couldn't develop an effective system? Would this team…this somewhat, if not completely random, and out of practice team be able to pull it together and defeat evil?

These weren't her only concerns. Who would lead the team? Zordon was gone. Dulcea couldn't leave the plateau, and they obviously couldn't base themselves on Phados. Could they have a team without a more knowledgeable mentor? Wasn't the mentor the one who was always passing along the new equipment and knowledge? How would they get those?

And out of the three of them who would be team leader? No one had any leadership experience. They were never in the position. Would anyone of them just take control? Would it be forced?

In her teens she had never thought about any of this. Everything then had just fallen into place. But clearly there was a lot that went into creating a team of power rangers. Could they handle it all on their own?

"Welcome to Jurassic Park." It was a long time into their journey when Trini broke the silence, glancing around an open area, filled with many bones, partial skeletons of creatures.

"That's what Adam said." Kim stopped walking and turned so she was facing the yellow ninjas. "This place is as good as any to stop for a break. It's about halfway, right 'Sha?"

Aisha nodded, her eyes settling on the pile of bones in the middle. "Yeah. It's also where we learned a lot more about dinosaur anatomy." She pointed to the large skull. I guess he didn't pull himself together like Rocky thought."

All three laughed, including Trini, who had heard the story more than once. "Tommy actually rode that thing?" She sat down on a rock. "He never seemed like the cowboy type."

"Trust me. He's not." Kim giggled a little. "He looked scared out of his mind." She took a seat on a different mossy rock.

The three laughed again. "You know, Tommy would just about die if he heard you guys talking about him like this right?" Aisha commented, a grin on her face.

"Well he can't hear us. Besides, even if he could, what exactly is he gonna do? Fight us?"

"Kim I'd watch who you're challenging." Trini teased her friend, slightly surprised at the ease with which her friend was referring to her ex. "If what Jason told me is right Tommy just finished up another run as a ranger."

Aisha choked back a laugh. "You're kidding." This was funny. Yeah, they didn't have a whole lot of room to talk as they were on a quest for powers themselves, but this was their first or second time. Tommy on the other hand had done it about as many times as they could count on one hand. "What color this time?"

"I think Jason said black." Trini informed.

Kim stood again. "Jeez, is he trying to touch every color in the spectrum?"

Before anyone could answer her there was a loud grumbling sound and the group turned to find one of the skeletons standing, alive and advancing towards them. "So is this what it was like the first time around?" Trini asked slightly nervously, apprehensive about the first time she would actually have to fight.

The three warriors slipped into defensive stances, backing away from the advancing dinosaur. "Pretty much."

Tommy wasn't doing well in his fight against these strange Tengas. Only he didn't want to admit this. No matter what would happen he would get back and try a different assault on the over grown birds. It was only when he landed at the foot of a tree after being thrown by two of the Tengas did he realize that maybe things weren't going well.

He couldn't figure out what it was. Yes, Tengas had always been strong enough that you needed to be morphed to fight them effectively. But even then you could normally hold them off for a while. However Tommy was getting nowhere with them, and he was starting to worry.

"I guess you couldn't stay away from the fight for too long huh Tommy?" A hand clapped down on Tommy's shoulder, and he pushed himself up from the ground to see a serious, but grinning Jason in front of him with Adam next to him.

"I guess you could say that." Tommy informed his longtime friend. "What do you say we take these guys?"

"Can't think of a better reunion." Adam offered him a hand and the former dinozord, white tiger, falcon, red zeo, red turbo, and black dino thunder stood. "Let's do it."

Thoughts?