Note: Hope this chapter makes some kind of sense. I was up really late writing it and I just really needed to update this story. Everything in italics means that it's a thought and not spoken out loud.
Katherine sat at her desk in I.D. headquarters and stared at the piece of paper that she held in her hands. It the paper that she had gotten from Hayley and on it was written Tommy's address and phone number. Although their reunion had been brief, Katherine couldn't help the old feelings that were beginning to stir up inside of her.
"You know if you want to call him all you have to do is pick up the phone, though you would need to go downstairs to the other office," Will remarked as he stood behind her.
"Getting to the office a little late aren't you?" Kat questioned as she turned around to face him.
"It wasn't my fault, all the streets were blocked off, apparently there's some celebrity in town or something," Will replied.
"Hey you two, have you heard the news?" Glenn asked as he joined them.
"And what news would that be?" Will inquired.
"Nikki Valentina is in town!" Glenn said excitedly.
"Ah, so that would explain the traffic," said Will.
"Who's Nikki Valentina?" Kat questioned not knowing who they were talking about.
"Only the hottest television star ever and the star of one my favorite shows 'Ocean Alert', she's in town to film an episode of the show and I heard they're even looking for people to play extras, man would I love to be an extra on that set, I mean just imagine being that close to a celebrity," Glenn rattled on and Kat was being to see that this was a habit of his.
"Hey Glenn, they're showing clips of Nikki on the TV in the break room," a guy said as he walked past them.
"Come on, you don't want to miss this," Glenn said as he raced to the break room and Kat and Will followed.
Kat walked into the break room and found that the room was full of other agents mostly men who were crowded around the television set. She looked at the TV and saw the news reporter who had apparently tracked Nikki all the way from the airport and was reporting that Nikki had made an unscheduled trip inside Hayley's Cyberspace. There were reporters and fans surrounding the place just waiting for Nikki to come out. Then the news report began to show clips of Nikki on her show.
"I don't know why people waste their time watching shows like that," Kat remarked as the men continued to drool over the pictures of Nikki clad in a bathing suit.
"I take it you're not a fan," Will surmised.
"Shows like that only serve to objectify women, just once I'd like to see a show about a woman whose strong, intelligent and can be a hero without wearing a bikini," Kat said as she walked out of the room.
"You mean like a show about a woman who's a secret CIA agent," Will teased.
"Don't you have some work to get to or something?" Kat asked as he laughed and made his way over to his own desk.
"Kat, you might want to come check this out seeing as how you're new in town, there are news reports that tyranno things are attacking the city again, I'm sure there power rangers will take care of them though," Glenn said as he walked by her desk.
"It looks like they're attacking only a few blocks away from here," Kat remarked as she watched the TV.
"Don't you go getting any ideas, that's not your job anymore," Will told her.
"Maybe not but I still might be able to help, what if there are innocent people being harmed, and besides if the power rangers show up I won't have to do anything at all," Kat told him.
"Just be careful will you," Will yelled as Kat had already taken off running towards the elevators.
Kat rode the elevator all the way to the lobby and quickly ran outside. She had only run a few blocks when she heard what sounded like fighting. She raced around the corner only to stop in her tracks at the scene that was in front of her. She quickly hid behind a corner and watched as the three students who she had seen just briefly yesterday with Tommy at the cyberspace fighting against the drones.
She watched them fight and was amazed at their fighting skills. Which she guessed could have only come from one person. You've trained them well, Tommy. She thought as she continued to watch the scene unfolding before her. Soon the three appeared to be fighting with super skills as Kat watched the boy in red displaying his super speed and the girl in yellow let out this high pitched super scream. Suddenly more of those drones appeared and Kat watched speechless as the three morphed into their ranger forms. I might have known they'd be the power rangers. Does that mean that Tommy's their mentor?
"Dr. O, we're heading for the beach," she heard the yellow ranger say as the drones had disappeared into a portal.
Kat knew that meant there must be some kind of monster on the loose elsewhere. Realizing there was nothing more for her to do, Kat decided to head back to the office.
"See anything interesting?" Will asked after she returned.
"Oh nothing, unless you count getting to see the power rangers up close and personal, of course that's nothing new for me," she told him.
"So, how do these new guys measure up?" he asked.
"No team will ever equal the one I served on but then again I guess I'm biased, no really I think these new guys are doing a great job, they've been trained well," Kat replied. She had already decided not to divulge the fact that she now knew the rangers' identities, at least not until she knew the full extent of Tommy's involvement.
Hours later, Katherine had returned home to her apartment and was about to pick up the phone to call Tommy when she heard the phone ring in the room that had been turned into her office.
"Agent Hillard here," she said knowing that only the agency would call her on that line.
"Kat, Nikki Valentina's been kidnapped by a monster, you need to come back to the office as soon as possible," Will told her.
"Since when does the C.I.A. handle kidnappings by monsters, wouldn't that fall under the jurisdiction of the power rangers," Kat replied.
"This is a high-profile kidnapping and the producers of Ocean Alert are threatening to sue the city of Reefside if she isn't found, something about losing thousands of dollars if they lose their star," he replied.
"Alright, I'll be right there, though I don't think we'll be of any help," she said and hung up the phone.
Wait a second; didn't the yellow ranger mention something about the beach? Kat suddenly realized and instead of taking the exit to downtown she headed for the beach instead. She arrived at the beach just in time to see a portal open up and Nikki Valentina landed on the beach. Maybe I was wrong about her, she seems to have escaped unharmed.
Kat made her way down to the beach, planning on intercepting Nikki when the monster reappeared and then the power rangers came onto the scene. However, this time Kat noticed that there were four of them. She watched as the rangers began to fight the monster who seeing that Nikki Valentina was still on the beach decided to blast her, however Nikki was saved by a boy who happened to be nearby. Seeing that Nikki was fine, Kat turned her attention to the fight between the black ranger and another creature. There was no mistaking the real identity of the black ranger; he wasn't just simply another student that Tommy had trained. He is Tommy! He's not just their mentor but a ranger as well. Kat realized and continued to watch the battle that was going on before her.
Soon however the creature fighting Tommy retreated and Kat watched as the other rangers seemingly beat the monster they had been fighting. Kat watched as the monster then grew and the rangers called on their megazord. The monster blasted their megazord and the rangers were knocked out of it back onto the beach. The monster then entered the water and was causing a huge tidal wave that was headed for the city. Kat then saw a jeep come racing to the scene and she looked in disbelief seeing that the driver was Hayley. Is she a ranger too? Kat wondered. Instead of morphing though, Kat watched as Hayley through some sort of egg to the blue ranger and then the egg hatched into a zord. Using the new zord, the rangers managed to defeat the monster.
"It's about time, you got here," Will spoke as Kat finally made it back to the office.
"Yeah, I just thought you'd like to know Nikki Valentina's back," Kat told him.
"We got the report a little while ago, where were you?" he questioned.
"I just had to check something out that's all," Kat replied heading for her desk and pulling up every file they had on Tommy and his partnership with Anton Mercer. Will said that the technology Mercer Industries had been working on was for the government. So why does it seem like that technology is being used by Tommy and his rangers? And how does Anton Mercer figure into all of this? Kat got up from her desk and rode the elevator to the fourth floor. She walked down the hallway until she came to an office that said Dr. Katherine Hillard on the door. Wow, Will wasn't kidding when he said the C.I.A. set this place up in case I got any visitors. Kat looked around the room and saw that the office was filled with a desk and computer and a book shelf full of books on the environment. Katherine picked up the phone and dialed the number that Hayley had given her.
"Hey Tommy, um it's me Kat, it was really great running into you the other day and I wanted to stop by your house but I didn't want to show up unannounced so um, I was wondering if we could get together sometime, I'd love to catch up and hear about the exciting world of paleontology so just give me a call my number is 555-1215." Kat said as she left a message on his answering machine.