Author's Note: Here's another chapter for all of you who are still out there reading and most of all for you reviewers. Unfortunately, there will not be another update until next week because I will be rocking out in the desert this weekend at a concert titled Rock the Desert no less. But I promise to try and have the next chapter up at least by Monday. And maybe just maybe we'll finally see Tommy out of that darn ranger suit.
PurpleStrobe: Yay, your review button is working again! I realize the chapters are moving a bit fast but there is a reason for that. As you pointed out Tommy and Kat haven't had much time together in this fic and I'm working as fast as I can to change that. Though I will say getting together may not come that easy for them.
PrettyDiva: I'm glad you loved the last chapter. I'll admit it wasn't one of my favorites but it seemed to get the job done. Yeah, I like Conner too. I'm really trying to work on involving more of the teens in this story.
PurpleRanger76: I'm glad you are enjoying the story. It's always nice to have someone read the story who isn't necessarily a Kat/Tommy fan and actually take the time to read it. I really appreciate it.
"Kat, where have you been?" Will questioned as Kat walked into headquarters.
"I overslept, what's the big emergency," Kat responded as she sat down at her station.
"We received Intel from NASA that someone from this location is trying to send a signal to Jupiter's Great Red Spot, which could cause the planet to explode and set off a chain reaction that would destroy humanity in the process," Will informed her.
"Sounds like something Mesogog would do," Kat replied.
"I thought so too, so I logged into the ranger's computer system and it seems like Tommy and the others are well aware of what's happening, he's sending the teens out to try and stop the transmitter from being activated," Will told her.
"We should go too, if there's one thing I know about evil villains it's that their not going to make it that easy on the rangers to stop this thing," Kat said.
Kat and Will arrived at the site of the transmitter and found the rangers fighting with the clone of the White Ranger and several Tyrannodrones.
"I wish there was something we could do to help," Kat said from their hiding spot as they watched the fight.
"What do you suppose we do, just run out in the middle of the battle and pretend that we just happened to be at the scene," Will replied.
"Maybe we could cause some kind of distraction," Kat said.
"Looks like we won't need to," Will pointed out as the rangers defeated the Tyrannodrones and managed to destroy the transmitter.
Later that day, Conner heads off to soccer practice and Kira's going to practice at the cyberspace and Ethan tells them he's hanging out with his mom. Kira later spies Ethan walking downtown and decides to follow him only to see him holding hands with Cassidy.
"This is huge," Kira whispered as she watched Ethan say goodbye to Cassidy.
"Kira, what are you doing here?" Ethan asked.
"Please don't tell me you and Cassidy were actually out together," Kira responded.
"Me and Cassidy, that's insane," Ethan told her.
"I just saw you two and there was definite hand touching," Kira remarked.
"It's not what you think, we're not going out we're just hanging out," Ethan assured her.
"But this is Cassidy, she's president of the Geek haters club, not that you're a geek," Kira replied.
"Hey, there's another side to Cassidy that you haven't seen yet, if you took just five minutes to get to know her, you'd see that," Ethan said defensively.
"Whoa, are you serious?" Kira questioned.
"Just try and be friends with her, for my sake, you two have a few things in common you know, you work at the TV station and Cassidy wants to be a reporter," Ethan told her.
"Well, if you put it that way, I guess I could try and be nicer to her," Kira said.
Back at I.D. Glenn rushed over to Kat's workstation to show her the finished product of the communicator she had him duplicate.
"Glenn, this is amazing, you truly are a genius," Kat remarked.
"Thanks but I couldn't have done it without those files you gave me about how the teleportation system works," Glenn told her.
"Have you tested them out yet?" she asked.
"Only on a small scale, I only went from one room to another but it should enable you to set the coordinates on where you want to go," he told her.
"Kat, you might want to take a look at this," Will called over to her.
"I'll be back," she said to Glenn as she left.
"Seems like Elsa is at it again, she sent a monster to the TV station and there's been a virus inserted into the control room," Will told her.
"We should have known it wouldn't be that easy," Kat remarked.
The rangers arrived at the TV station and the Tyrannodrones appeared along with the evil White Ranger.
"You guys look for the control room, I'll handle the white dude," Conner said.
"Right," Ethan and Kira agreed.
"What?" Trent said.
"Sorry, I meant the evil white dude," Conner told him.
Trent heads off in the direction that Kira and Ethan took when he is confronted by Elsa and more Tyrannodrones.
"You guys keep going, I'll handle this," Trent told them.
Conner again called on his new Triassic powers and seemingly defeated the White Ranger clone for the last time. Trent managed to keep Elsa away from the control room and the beam was destroyed.
That night, Kat sat alone in her apartment watching the Reefside Nightly News.
"It's hard to find true heroes in this day and age and this reporter for one is happy to have this city protected by the power rangers," Cassidy voice said through the TV.
"Wow, Cassidy actually did something nice for a change, I didn't know she had it in here," Kat remarked as she turned off the television.
A few days later, Katherine was in her apartment getting ready to meet Anton at Mercer Industries, when her phone rang.
"Katherine, speaking," she said as she answered it.
"Katherine, its Anton," the person on the other line said.
"I was just on my way, I'm not late am I," Kat replied.
"No, actually I was calling to cancel our meeting," he told her.
"Is everything alright?" she asked.
"Yes, I'm just working on a very important project that needs my full attention," he explained.
"Well, maybe I could give you hand with it," she told him.
"Um, no that won't be necessary but I'll talk to you soon," he said as he hung up the phone.
After hanging up the phone with Anton, Katherine walked outside her apartment and across the hallway where she knocked on Will's door.
"Shouldn't you be leaving for Mercer Industries?" he asked.
"Anton called and said that he's working on an important project and that he wouldn't need me today," Kat informed him.
"Kinda makes you wonder if that projects to rid himself of Mesogog," Will remarked.
"Let's hope so because the sooner we finish this case the better," Kat replied.
"Getting tired of Reefside already?" Will questioned.
"No, but I am tired of all the secrets, I'm helping Trent to keep this secret about his father from the others while also making him keep the secret of what I'm really doing here," Kat told him.
"Yeah, I feel bad that we had to drag Trent into this mess, but his father brought him into it first, and you do realize that even after the case is finished you still can't tell Tommy about your involvement with the C.I.A.," Will replied.
"I know, one of the perks of being an agent right," she said sarcastically.
"Well, now that you have some time off from dealing with Mercer, feel like going to a museum?" Will asked her.
"I guess so, though I could think of a million other things we should be doing," Kat responded.
"There's a new Egyptian display being featured and it just so happens that our favorite teenage rangers will be there today with their class," Will informed her.
"You know on second thought, a trip to the museum sounds lovely," Kat remarked.
"I thought you'd see it that way," Will said as he smiled.
A few hours later, Katherine and Will arrived at the museum. They walked inside to find the teens along with the rest of their class being led by a museum guide. They quickly stepped into the crowd and began walking with them as they arrived at Tutenhawken's sarcophagus.
"Ms. Hillard, what are doing here?" Kira asked as she turned around and noticed Kat standing behind her.
"I heard about the exhibit and wanted to check it out," Kat told her.
"You kids don't mind if we tag along do you?" Will asked.
"Do what you want though I don't know why anyone would actually choose to come to this exhibit," Conner remarked.
"I think it's kinda cool, I love learning about ancient cultures," Ethan commented.
"You would," Conner told him and Ethan rolled his eyes as the tour guide explained to them about the Pharaoh's curse.
"I'm gonna write this stuff down, maybe I can figure out a way to translate it," Ethan said as he wrote down the hieroglyphics.
"We're gonna head to the cyberspace, you guys wanna tag along?" Kira asked Will and Kat.
"We have some time before we have to return to work so why not," Will told her.
"Yeah, I'd be interested to see if Ethan can crack that code," Kat said.
At the cyberspace, the teens along with Will and Kat found a table and gathered around as Ethan typed the hieroglyphics into his computer and started to translate them.
"I think I got it," Ethan told them.
"What does it say?" Kat asked.
"To the defilers of my tomb, I know bestow eternal doom, woe to you who read this verse upon you is the Pharaoh's curse," Ethan read aloud.
"Maybe reading that wasn't such a good idea," Kira remarked.
"Oh come you guys don't really believe that curse is real do you?" Will inquired.
"Oh no, I almost forgot, I'm late to pick up my mom from work," Ethan said as he jumped up causing the table to move and his laptop went crashing to the floor.
"My games, my files, my life, that was a brand new laptop," Ethan said as he picked the remains of the thrashed computer off the ground.
"I hate to say it but I think the curse has started," Conner told him.
Elsewhere, Tutenhawken has come to life. He sees Cassidy and finds her beautiful. He then asks her to be his queen.
"Stop, I must speak to you," Tutenhawken said as he spots Cassidy walking with Devin.
"What do you want, don't hurt us," Cassidy remarked.
"I have no intention of hurting you, I have never laid eyes on such a beautiful creature," he told her.
"Aw, thanks man, I've been suing this new moisturizer," Devin replied.
"Not you, you dung beetle, I was talking to her," he said as she pointed to Cassidy.
Later, after being splashed with mud by a car, Ethan finally starts believing that there may be some truth to the curse.
"Could this day get any worse?" Ethan asked just as the Tyrannodrones appeared and attacked him.
After the attack, Ethan rushed back to the cyberspace to tell Conner and Kira about the weird things that have been happening to him. Cassidy then enters the cyberspace dressed like Cleopatra.
"It's a little early for Halloween," Kira said.
"You shall address me as Queen Cassipatra," Cassidy told her.
After the encounter with Cassidy, Kira heads back to the museum in hopes of finding something to counteract the curse on Ethan. As she writes down the hieroglyphics, Tutenhawken comes to life and attacks her. She morphs, but he easily defeats her and attacks the city. Ethan and Conner join her in another battle, but Tutenhawken retreats when Trent arrives.
Back in the lab, Ethan works at deciphering the hieroglyphics that Kira wrote down only to discover that Tutenhawken can only be defeated in the sky. Hayley appears and tells Ethan that she has created a new Hovercraft cycle for him.
"Tight, that's for me?" Ethan questioned.
"Yea, the latest technology, faster than anything I've ever built," Hayley remarked.
"That is so amazing, it wouldn't happen to fly would it?" Ethan asked.
"No, it doesn't fly," Hayley answered.
"Hayley, we, uh, need it fly," Tommy admitted.
"I see, and you couldn't have told me that earlier," Hayley replied.
"I'll stay and help you," Ethan said.
Meanwhile, Cassidy realizes that Tutenhawken is evil when he begins to mistreat Devin and she leaves him. This causes him to get upset and go on a rampage. Kira, Conner and Trent try to stop him but they are no match. To make matters worse, Elsa decides to team up with him.
As Tutenhawken prepares to destroy the rangers, Ethan arrives on his new hovercraft cycle. Elsa is defeated quickly and Ethan then heads to the skies where he faces Tutenhawken alone and defeats him.
"I will never again be so quick to decipher hieroglypics," Ethan remarked later as once again everyone was at the cyberspace.
"Being cursed must have sucked," Conner replied.
"I don't know how you did it," Will said to Katherine as they sat alone at a table nearby.
"Did what?" she asked.
"Put up with fighting monsters every day, these villains just don't give up," Will told her.
"That's why the job of a ranger is so important," Kat replied.
"I guess being a ranger really helped prepare you for being an agent," Will remarked.
"Yeah it did, but then again monsters don't shoot guns at you," Kat replied as Will's phone began to ring.
"William Cole speaking," he said as he answered it.
"That was I.D. we got some Intel from your dad, we're going on a little trip," Will informed her.
"Is it about Reed's case?" Kat questioned.
"Come on, I'll fill you in on the way," Will said as they quickly paid for their food and left.