Chapter 23
A few weeks later
Kimberly came downstairs carrying a glass of juice for Tommy. He was working on fossils after school. It was a Friday afternoon, October 5th.
"When will you come upstairs and spend time with your bad children?"
"They're watching their toons." Tommy took the glass.
"But still, how about making an appearance this afternoon." Kim's arms went around his neck. She had picked the children up from school today since she had finished all that she could at work. Since it was Friday, they didn't have homework to do, so watched their toons immediately as they got through the door, which Kimberly was happy for the peace. Tommy sighed and picked up another brush.
"Give me 5 more minutes."
"You and your dirty rocks."
"Not rocks, fossils."
"Potato…potautoe." Tommy looked up at her. She was teasing him. He pulled her into his lap.
"Your birthday is soon. Just a few hours from now, it will be midnight."
"And then the twins' birthday..."
"Nah, that is a long time."
"Like 3 weeks from now."
"Still, we have 3 weeks."
"No, you have 3 weeks, I have already put in so much for the party." Tommy kissed her neck.
"I want to give you something."
"What?" Tommy pulled put a small case.
"An early present."
"You just want me to tell you the surprise."
"Yes and no. Here." Kimberly took the black box. She opened it.
"A silver cuff like your Dino morpher?"
"No, no Dino gem of course, just a mocked one. Hayley created it."
"For me?"
"Yeah, so you can always contact me or the other rangers."
"But why, we have the computer and…."
"In case…"
"I am captured or something?"
"Don't even say it."
"I love that you care enough to be prepared." Kimberly put on the cuff bracelet after kissing him on the lips. "Looks good."
"Everything looks good on you."
"Duh." Tommy laughed with her.
"I'll be upstairs soon."
"Thank you." They kissed lightly on the lips repeatedly. The computer beeped. Kimberly and Tommy looked up.
"Who's that?" Kimberly walked to the computer screen, and she hit a few keys.
"It's all smoky," Kimberly said.
"Where is this?" Kimberly typed up a few keys to bring up the location. "Petrified Forest?"
"What could be going on there this late?" Kimberly asked.
"I better go check it out," Tommy said removing his glasses.
"Be careful." Tommy cupped his wife's face and kissed her softly.
"I always am."
"Whatever." Kimberly rolled her eyes. Tommy smiled and kissed her again. He touched the bracelet to his. Kimberly nodded and went back upstairs.
Tommy picked up his handheld computer sensor on the way out. He examined the area alone before Ethan, Conner, and Kira arrive in the forest.
"We came as fast as we could, Dr. O. What's up?"
"Stored energy, very high. Even this machine can't give me an accurate reading."
"What kind of stored energy?"
"Same kind in the morphers."
"You think another dino gem is in here?"
"Not anymore. Someone has removed it."
"But who?"
"Is this good news or bad news?" Connor asked.
"Depends on who has the Dino gem."
Trent goes to talk to his dad about their last fight over his not drawing anymore.Trent doesn't want to stop, but then agrees to listen to his father and do as he wants. As Trent walks out, he stays back enough to watch his father, who appeared to look a bit ill. Anton leaves the office using an invisaportal. Trentuses up entering the invisaportal as well.
Trent ended up in Mesagog's island. Trent is drawn to an object glowing on the table. The object attaches itself to Trent's wrist and turns into a morpher. Trent's DNA is combined with the evil white dino gem.
Hayley was called over to the house. Kimberly was working on the computer when she arrived.
"I better go check on the children." Tommy came downstairs as Kimberly was going up.
"Is Hayley here?"
"Yeah. I'm gonna take the children out for dinner." Tommy kissed her cheek.
"Okay." Hayley was barely working 20 minutes, when the computer beeped in. Tommy rushed over.
"I think I got something." A new monster appeared.
"Unbelievable." The others arrived.
"Hey, looks like we are just in time."
"What is that thing?"
"Hard to tell, looks like he's looking for something."
"We should go deal with it." Connor leads the other 2 rangers as they morph to deal with monster.
Tommy and Hayley gasp as a flash of a fighter appears and attacks the monster.
"What the heck was that?" Connor asked.
"More like, who's that?" Ethan said. They follow around and find a new ranger in white.
The White Ranger battles the other rangers and defeats them with his laser arrows from his sword with ease. Hayley tries to get a signal on who this new white ranger is, but is unable to. The rangers go back into battle with him after finding out Hayley and Tommy have no news. They go back into battle once the White ranger appears again. The white ranger's attacks cause the rangers to demorph in defeat and retreat back to Tommy's place.
"It wasn't supposed to happen like this, right?"
"An evil white ranger, no. But it has been known to happen."
"What do we do?"
"And how are supposed to fight him when we can't get near him?" Connor asked.
"We first have to figure out who this is and what he wants, before it's too late."
Cassidy and Devin see the White Ranger walking around and go after him. They need a story to make the news team. Trent picked himself off the ground after the white ranger demorphs. He runs into Cassidy and Devin who want to know if he has seen the White Ranger.Trent of course says no. He leans against the wall in exhaustion, looking down at his new silver bracelet with the white gem in the center, confused.
Tommy watches as the rangers drive off. Kimberly comes and sits on the porch with him.
"What's wrong?"
"This new guy, reminds me of…my first ranger days."
"As green ranger?" Tommy nodded.
"I can still see nearly everything I did when I was evil. Every attack, every punch I gave, kick I…" Kimberly lays her head to his shoulder. "I never wanted another person to ever experience that evil again. This is all my fault."
"What?"
"If I hadn't found the gems…"
"If you hadn't found the gems, we would probably be in worst shape than we already are. Who knows what evil woulddo withall those gems now. Don't blame yourself about this."
"How can I not! There is probably some confused guy out there filled with so much evil thanks to me."
"Thanks to you? You have done so much Tommy, training these new rangers…"
"This shouldn't be happening!"
"There are a lot of things that shouldn't be happening, but guess what? They are and they do. And that's when you really have to dig deep and keep fighting." Tommy looked up at her. "You're stronger than this, Tommy. Anything is possible as long as you believe, remember? Don't doubt yourself now, handsome." Tommy put his arm around her and kissed her.
"How would I survive without you?"
"I don't know, you sure wouldn't be far." Tommy laughed. Kimberly smiled. She stood up and held her hands out for him.
"When do I get that surprise?"
"Patience tiger. I told you, I'll tell you, when I tell you."
"Will I at least like it?"
"Definitely. You will want to scream."
"I would like you to scream…now!"
"Wha…Ahhhhh!" Tommy wrapped his arms around Kimberly, as he picked her up. She gasped and giggled as he carried her inside, while kissing her neck. The front door closed by Tommy's kick.
Next morning
The White Ranger works on trying to hatch a dinozord egg.He gives enough energy from his dino morpher to cause the egg to swell greatly. In doing all of this, causes Trent to become weak as he leaves the warehouse. Trent still goes to work at Hayley's. Kira and Ethan are called away by Tommy, worried it's the white ranger, back to cause more harm. Hayley watches as Trent stumbles about. He falls to the ground. Hayley makes Trent leave for the day, since she was closing up early today due to the party later on.
Tommy dropping petals of roses on her face woke Kimberly up early her birthday morning. They had just fallen asleep a few hours ago, after a blissful round of love making into the early morning.
"Happy Birthday, Beautiful."
"Thank you." They kissed about the bed. Kimberly rolled on top of Tommy kissing him. Tommy ran his hands along her naked back to her hair, pushing the hair back, smiling. They kissed softly. Kimberly smiled and bit his chin and lips, before kissing him again. Tommy brought his tongue out a bit, as Kimberly did the same. Tommy sat them up, kissing still, rubbing her back, before laying her back down to the bed. "Where's my presents?" Tommy chuckled.
"Later." Tommy reached over the bed for their fallen clothes. Tommy and Kimberly dressed slowly. "So, Mom and Dad want to take you out of the house."
"While you set up my party?"
"Party? Beautiful, who said anything about a party?"
"Ha ha. You better finish decorating by the time we get back from the mall."
"Of course." He kissed her again. 'Gives me a good 5 hours to decorate on my own,' Tommy thought while kissing her.
"What?" Kimberly asked. Tommy had that look in his eyes.
"You know what."
"Tommy, we don't have…" Kimberly moaned as he kissed down her cheek to her neck. Just as Tommy pulled the covers over their heads as he kissed her neck, a knock at the bedroom door. Tommy groaned. "Yes!" The door flung open with balloons and confetti being tossed into the room.
"Happy birthday Mommy!"
"Oh! My babies!" Tommy fell to his back as the children jumped into bed and into their mother's arms for kisses. The phone rung. Tommy picked it up. It was his parents.
"That was Gama and Pa, they are 30 minutes out, so let's hurry up and get dressed."
"Yay!" They all jumped from the bed and rushed to their rooms. Kimberly stood up.
"I better go make sure they…" Kimberly grabbed his arm. She shook her head.
"I need you to wash my back."
"Just your back?" Kimberly winked at him, tugging the pants' string, kissing Tommy, on her way to their bathroom. Tommy slammed the door behind him, just as Kimberly grabbed his booty.
Not even an hour later, Tommy called for the rangers to come to the lair. They found out that Tommy found two dinozord eggs. And one looks like it is really ready to pop. The group splits up to find the dinozord eggs. Connor and Kira to find one egg, Ethan and Tommy to find the other egg by the docks. Trent turns into the White Ranger again after he leaves the café.
Conner and Kira are trying to find one of the dinozord eggs in an empty warehouse. Connor groans.
"Anything?"
"Like I know how the read this thing."
"Let me see that," Kira said as she took the machine. She examines the readings. "This way!" They rushed toward the beckoning signal. They walk down the halls. They find the dinozord egg and the White Ranger. He is giving the egg another energy boost from his morpher.
"Want to try talking to him again?"
"I say we morph, kick his butt and take the dino egg instead."
"Yeah, I like that idea better."
"Let's do it."
"Hey!"
"I don't have time to play rangers. I'm busy, so go!" White ranger sent out a mass of his flying arrows. Connor shields Kira a bit. She drops the scanner.
"Not a chance. We aren't here to play. Ready." Connor activated his morpher with Kira.
"Ready." They morphed. The battle breaks out between the Conner, Kira and the White Ranger.
Mesagog tells Elsa to create a new monster to deal with the rangers. Angor is created and sent down to the city. Conner and Kira have to give up their battle with the White Ranger in order to save the city.Tommy and Ethan arrive to the docks looking for the other dinozord egg. People are running in terror. They rush down the docks to stop the new dinosaur. Hayley tells them that the Parasaur is ready for them after she is able to transfer its powers to Tommy's morpher to aid them into battle. They morph to help Connor and Kira deal with the Angor monster.
Conner, Kira, and Ethan get into their Megazord to battle Angor, while Tommy tries to find the White Ranger. Zeltrax stops Tommy before he can go find the White ranger. They battle their way inside the warehouse. By the time Tommy gets rid of Zeltrax, the White Ranger has hatch his dinozord egg. Tommy hurries to get out the warehouse as the building begins to collapse. The White Ranger has control of the White Drago Zord and is ready to use it against the Rangers.
The rangers prepare to defeat the evil White ranger and his zord. Tommy calls for additional zords to help them. The White Ranger takes control of Tommy's Stegazord forms his own Megazord in the process. The rangers battle Megazord against Megazord. But the Ranger's Megazord is no match for Drago Megazord and is defeated. Their Megazord falls apart and the Rangers fall out.
Tommy is able to use his morpher to create some friction between the evil White ranger's Megazord. He takes control back and the Stegazord is broken apart from Drago zord. The White ranger leaves with the Drago zord.
The White ranger appears in an alleyway andunable to controlhis morphing power. Devin stumbles upon the White Ranger and gets his camera ready. But Devin accidentally hits his head on a pipe and loses consciousness, just as the white ranger falls to the ground.
Meanwhile at Tommy's home
"Man that was brutal."
"Yeah, well, some days are going to be like this."
"What can we do?"
"Go, have some fun. It's still early in the day. Teacher's orders."
"I do have a soccer game I was supposed to play today," Connor said.
"And Ethan, wasn't there a new computer game you wanted to play?"
"Yeah." Connor and Ethan left.
"Kira, why aren't you leaving?"
"I can help set up with party."
"Oh, the party right." Tommy nearly forgot the party was in a few hours. He had stopped decorating after the computer beeped in about he dino eggs. Kimberly was taken out the house all morning by his parents and the children to take their Mommy for breakfast and to her favorite place on her birthday, an amazement park, bringing back the days of her youth.
Kira, Hayley and Tommy finished up quickly. Tommy went to go pick up the cake and set up the presents he and the children got. Ethan arrived to help as well after finishing his game with a present. Connor was going to come as soon as his match was done.
Kimberly was blinded before the ride home. Warren and Darren led her inside the house.
"Surprise!"
"OH!" Kimberly put on a huge smile at the attempt to throw her a surprise party. She still welcomed the party.
Conner ends the soccer games with a great score since he knew he had a party to attend. He then spots Trent sitting on a bench. Conner goes to check on Trent. Conner is concernedbecause Trent doesn't looks well, but Trent doesn't give him a chance to really do anything as he makes a very quick exit. Conner decides to follow Trent. He rushes and finds himself lost in the middle of nowhere.
"Okay, I know he went this way," Connor said as he was breathing hard. All of a sudden, Conner is attacked by the White Ranger and has to morph.
Tommy finds Kira and Ethan not having as much fun as they should be at Kim's party. Kimberly looks over at them and walked over to her husband.
"What's up with them?"
"I told them to have fun."
"With an evil White ranger around adamant on destroying them?" Tommy smiled. "Go."
"It's your party."
"Go, deal with the problem."
"I don't want to leave your party."
"It's just a party, tiger. I'll save you some cake."
"Hey, what about the surprise you wanted to tell me?"
"I can tell you later."
"Promise?"
"Yes, now go!" Tommy kissed her cheek.
"You look so beautiful."
"I know. Thank you for the party."
"Anything for you."
Kira and Ethan were motioned to follow Tommy. They did. He made sure the door was closed behind them and they went down to the Dino lair. Tommy goes to monitor for anything occurring.
"Should have known you two would have a tough time with this."
"We are rangers and it's our job." Angor was resurrected and appears on the screen, grown to building size. Mesagog wanted the White Ranger on his side, so sent the monster down to distract the other rangers while he tries to get the White ranger. Connor calls the others for help, as his battle with the White ranger doesn't go so well. Tommy, Kira, and Ethan morph into action.Tommy and Kira go to take care of Angor. Ethan goes to help Conner, but is attacked by Tyranodrones on his way.
During the battle with the White Ranger, he plays too much with Connor. Conner becomes furious with his tactics and goes to a much stronger power-up and spikes emerge on his suit. The White ranger falls in to the ground in apparent defeat after Connor's attacks in super dino-mode. Connor rushes to check himbut is tricked again. The White Ranger laughs and picks up his fallen weapon as he walks away. Mesagog and Zeltrax appear. The White Ranger wouldratherwork on his own and refuses the offer by Mesagog, he leave on his Drago zord. By the time Ethan arrives, the White Ranger, Mesagog, and Zeltrax have all left.
"Connor! Connor, you alright?"
"Just so you know, good guys do not wear white."
Mesagog uses Angor try to trap the White Ranger in his zord, but the White Ranger breaks free and destroys Angor. The Rangers return to Tommy's house.
"I don't get this, one minute the white ranger is fighting us, and the next thing he is blowing up Mesagog's monster."
"Yeah, Dr. O. What was with the super Dino mode?"
"You guys have yet to tap into all your power's potential. Give it time."
"I love the sound of that."
"Oh man, I need to head to the warehouse where we left the fossil finder."
"You know what, you guys go back to the party. I'll get the fossil finder."
"Oh thanks."
"Oh, right the party," Kira said. "Kimberly seems to be having so much fun up there."
"Of course, it's her party. My wife loves parties. Kimberly should be just cutting the cake now."
"Cake?"
"Cake!" Connor and Ethan both smile and rush upstairs, fighting for who gets first. Kira shakes her head and followed quickly. Tommy smiles.
"You too, Hayley. Go get some cake."
"I will in a minute. Here you go." She hands Tommy a backpack.
"Thanks."
"You be careful and get back here soon."
"I will." Tommy left.
Tommy returned to the warehouse to retrieve the fossil finder. He kicked through the mess of the fallen debri of the torn down warehouse. Tommy groaned at the mess. He found the small gadget beeping. It wasn't harmed at all attached to some wires and machine.
"What is this?" A crash behind him causes Tommy to turn around quickly Trent stumbles in."Trent!" Trent groans as he tries to stand on both feet. "You okay?"
"What's going on here?" Trent asked, his face pale and sweaty. Tommy helps him to his feet.
"Come on, we gotta get you out of here." Trent cries out. "What's wrong!" He loses control and morphs into the White Ranger.Tommy is tossed back. He gets up slowly to see the evil white ranger.
"Never would have seen that coming."
"It's time to perish Black ranger."
"This is not going to be pretty." Tommy morphs. They fight. Tommy gets tossed back.
"Hayley, you there?"
"Yeah…"
"The white ranger is…" Tommy tries to tell Hayley who the White Ranger is, but before he can do so, the White Ranger fossilized him.
"Tommy! Tommy, come in!"
Kimberly came downstairs with the others in a rush from the party.
"Something has happened to Tommy!"
"What?"
"I can't get any contact with him."
"Why?"
"He was fighting the white ranger and…"
"The white ranger?"
"Yes and then everything went static."
"We have to after him! We have to help him!"
"Calm down Kimberly."
"We have to go to him now!"
"We'll handle it Mrs. Oliver," Connor said touching her arm. "Come on guys."
They were able to find Tommy and bring him back to the house. Hayley got out some devices as they arrived.
"Hayley, what is this stuff?"
"Is there anything we can do to help?"
"Guys, guys, stand back. I need time to analyze this." Kimberly walked around her fossilized husband. She touched it as she walked around. The others watched her. "Excuse me." Kimberly stepped aside briefly.
"Anything?"
"No, I mean, it looks like amber. I need another scanner." Kimberly turned back to Tommy.
"Tommy, Tommy, are you okay in there?" Hayley rolled over another machine. She started examining him again. "Tommy, can you hear me?" Kimberly asked.
"Why don't you 3 go back upstairs, you have been gone a while from the party."
"What about you two?"
"We'll be fine, go," Kimberly said.
"You sure?"
"Yes, I need time to work," Hayley said. "Alone."
"Okay." They slowly walked to the stairs. They watched Kimberly sadly stroking the outside of Tommy as she walked around.
"I don't want to tell you this, not like this. But I can't keep it anymore. I hate I have to tell you it like this, but I must tell you. I promised, Tommy….my present, my surprise for you was…it is….that…I'm pregnant."
