Author's note: Sorry if the last chapter was kinda boring. I know it didn't have very much action in it. I will try to remedy that with this next one. But thanks so much for reviewing it anyway.
PrettyDiva: Glad you liked the changes I made to the DT episode. I had to find a way to work Kat into the situation. I promise they will hook up eventually.
ULTRA SONIC: It may be awhile yet before they spend any more time together. Kat's priority is her job right now.
Purple Strobe: Kat's pretty conflicted right now. She wants to be with Tommy but her job could put him in danger. Yeah, I was kinda in a rush with the last chapter so I didn't really get to add anything new but this next one should be better.
PurpleRanger76: Unfortunately, your misery will have to continue a little while longer because Kat is all about doing her job so the relationship will have to wait.
Tommy walked into the cyberspace late one evening to find his students still there doing homework.
"Hey Dr. O, what are you doing here?" Kira asked.
"I forgot my briefcase, what about you guys, shouldn't you be at home by now," Tommy replied.
"We would be if we didn't have so much homework," Ethan remarked.
"Well, it's getting pretty late, you guys should probably head home and try and get some sleep," Tommy told them.
"I agree, I'm totally beat," Conner said as he started gathering up his stuff.
"You coming Trent?" Kira asked as everyone but him had packed up their things and headed towards the door.
"I'm gonna stay and finish up this last chapter," Trent answered.
"Don't stay up too late," Tommy said as they all left and went their separate ways.
At I.D. headquarters, Kat too was pulling a late night shift as she went over the details of her last mission and looked for any possible leads on when they could finally go after Chang.
"Find anything?" Will asked as he sat down beside her.
"Nothing that we don't already know, I'm surprised to see you still here," Kat replied.
"You didn't really think I'd let you do all this work alone did you?" Will questioned.
"That's not why you stayed, you just don't want me here alone, but even you have to admit that this is the safest place I could be late at night rather than in my apartment," Kat told him.
"Ok, so you caught me, but I live right across the hall from you so if anything were to happen I'd be there in a flash," Will said.
"If you insist on staying, why don't you help me decode the blueprints we found of Chang's hideout in Russia," she said.
"I'll go make some coffee, I have a feeling we'll be here awhile," Will replied.
Anton Mercer is plagued with nightmares which leads to Mesogog's latest plan. Mesogog has Elsa connect the Geno Randomizer to a machine that is able to tap into the Dino Ranger's dreams with the hopes that the dreams will then destroy them.
Tommy arrived home after retrieving his briefcase from the cyberspace. He walked into the kitchen where he sat down at the table to eat the food he had just ordered. An hour later, he settled into his bed and it wasn't long before he drifted off to sleep.
In his dream, Tommy is morphed as the Black Dino Ranger and fighting a monster that looks like a Squid. At first, he appears to be winning the battle but it isn't long before the monster manages to take his Brachio staff. Tommy calls on his Super Dino mode powers and destroys the creature. Then the other rangers show up and the monsters returns this time larger. Tommy is then forced to call on the zords and they win.
"Aw man, I shouldn't have had that calamari for dinner," Tommy said as he sat up now fully awake.
In her own room, Kira has fallen asleep while writing a report on reptiles. The monster she faces is a crocodile who quickly declares his love for her. Kira tries to fight him but is over powered. Conner and Ethan eventually come to her rescue and the monster is destroyed.
"Ok, now that was weird," Kira remarked as she woke up from the dream.
Ethan's dreams are tormented by a Monkey monster. Who Ethan remarks is so ugly that this surely must be a dream. After he wakes up, Ethan contacts Kira to inform her of his dream and she reveals that she had a dream of her own. Kira then decides to contact Trent who is still at the cyberspace.
"What's going on?" Trent asked Kira.
"Whatever you do, don't fall asleep, Ethan and I both just had the weirdest dreams and we think Mesogog may have something to do with it," Kira informed him.
"Kira, I can't get Conner, I don't think he's awake yet," Ethan said as he contacted her again.
"We better call Dr. O," Kira said.
They contact Tommy and he suggests that they help Conner by sending him their dino powers. Conner's nightmare is inspired by a recent shopping trip with his mom and he fights the Rude Elf monster. After receiving a little outside help from Ethan and Kira, Conner transforms into the Triassic Red Ranger and the Elf is soon defeated.
"Dad, what are you doing here?" Kat asked as her father walked into I.D. headquarters.
"The ASIS needs your help with a mission, are you up for it?" he asked.
"Of course," she replied as she followed him into the conference room where Glenn was waiting for them.
"Ok, so you're going to Geneva to get a sample of a top secret virus, your cover is that you're going in for a kidney transplant. So you're probably thinking, wait a minute Glenn, we need our kidneys, but don't worry they're not going anywhere because of this," he said as he held up a briefcase.
"What does it do?" Kat inquired.
"When you are positioned in the operating room, just press this button lightly twice and it will activate a tank of halothane which is the same anesthetic that will be pumping into your masks, which leads to the next question, if they're pumping anesthesia in the room what's to keep you from passing out, that's where these pill come in handy, they are a mixture of anti-anesthetics and a time-release synthetic caffeine, just take one right before you go to the hospital and trust me you won't fall asleep," Glenn explained.
GENEVA
"You ready?" her father asked as they arrived at St. Austin's Hospital.
"Always," Kat said as they entered the hospital.
"Mr. Harrison, I am Jan Spinnaker, hospital administrator," a man said as he approached them.
"Hello there, this is my daughter and the very twinkle of my eye, Marion," Jack said in a Southern accent.
"Oh daddy stop it, it's nice to meet you," Kat said as she shook hands with him.
"A pleasure to meet a daughter who'd sacrifice so much for her father," Mr. Spinnaker replied.
"I would do anything for my father," Kat said in a Southern accent of her own.
"This way please," Spinnaker said as he led them down the hallway.
"I hope you have been informed that the computer in this briefcase provides me a secure link to my money and it can't be removed during the operation," Jack said as they walked down some stairs.
"All the necessary arrangements have been made…," Spinnaker told him but Jack interrupted him as he kept talking.
"I chose this hospital because of its high security standards," Jack said.
"Do not worry, we employ security with training equivalent to the secret service, so you won't be disappointed," he said as they were lead into a hospital room.
Some time later, they were both dressed in hospital gowns and wheeled into the operating room.
"Why don't you both start counting backwards from ten," the surgeon said once they were ready to begin and the masks were placed over their faces.
"One, two, three," Jack and Katherine began to count as Jack discreetly pushed the button on the briefcase. They continued to count as the room filled with anesthesia and soon the doctors and nurse were passed out cold on the floor.
They left the operating room dressed in scrubs with masks covering their faces. They calmly walked down the hallway and headed for the research unit of the hospital. Once there, Jack arrived at the desk where two doctors were seated. He waved to them and then pulled out a tranquilizer gun and shot both in the neck.
"They'll be out for fifteen minutes," he told Kat as he went behind the desk and sat down at the computer. "Patient zero is down there, you'll need to get a blood sample, I'll stay here and download the viral research," he informed her as he went to work copying the files.
Kat walked down the hallway until she found the isolation chamber where the patient was being kept. She looked at the patient through the glass wall and then stuck her hands through these black gloves that would allow her to take a sample from the patient without actually having to go into the room herself. She grabbed a needle and was preparing to draw his blood when suddenly the patient woke up and grabbed her gloved hand.
"Katherine?" the patient said as he opened his eyes and looked straight at her.
"Oh my god," she gasped as she realized that the patient staring back at her was David Reed the partner she thought was dead.
"Katherine," he whispered again as he tightened his grip on her.
"Dad, I need help!" Kat yelled and Jack came running over to her.
"Don't struggle, he could tear your glove and infect you," Jack told her.
"I'll up his morphine," Jack said as he pushed a button on the machine Reed was hooked to.
"I can't believe he's alive," Kat said tears started to form in her eyes.
"His vitals feel below the warning preset levels, the doctors will be alerted, we've got to get out of here," Jack informed her.
"But Dad, it's Reed, we can't just leave him here," Kat pleaded.
"I'm afraid we have no choice," Jack told her.
"No, I'm not leaving, what is going on here, I was with him when he died but yet here he is in this hospital infected with this horrible virus," Kat said.
"I had no idea the patient was Reed, but there's nothing we can do for him now," Jack said.
"I can't leave him, I won't leave him," Kat argued.
"Intruders, stop!" a guard yelled from the end of the hallway.
Jack grabbed Katherine by the hand and pulled her along as he started running in the other direction.
"No, we have to go back, we have to save him," Kat cried.
"Kat, are you ok, wake up," a voice said as she started to wake up.
"Reed," she said as she sat up and wrapped her arms around him.
"Kat, it's me Will, I think you were having a nightmare," Will told her.
"It wasn't real, it was just dream," Kat realized as she saw that she was still in I.D. and had fallen asleep at her desk.
"You were dreaming about Reed?" Will questioned.
"I was dreaming of a mission that my father and I went on a few years ago, I had to take a blood sample from this patient and he grabbed me and started calling me by some woman's name, only in my dream the patient was Reed," Kat explained.
"And you thought he was alive," Will stated.
"Yeah, for that one moment I did, but I know it's not true now, Chang had him killed and I swear I am going to make him pay if it's the last thing I do," Kat said.
The next morning, Tommy and the others walked into the cyberspace. They were all exhausted from the night before and had decided to stop by Hayley's for some coffee.
"I am so tired," Tommy said.
"Any chance you could get Randall to cancel school today?" Conner asked.
"Not likely," Tommy told him.
"I cannot wait until this day is over and I can go home and sleep," Kira said.
"Well at least someone got some sleep," Ethan said as he pointed to where Trent was sleeping on a nearby couch.
"Two coffees please," Will said as he walked up to the counter with Kat following close behind.
"Looks like we're not the only ones who didn't get much sleep last night," Conner remarked noticing how tired Kat looked.
"Kat are you ok?" Tommy asked as he left his students and walked over to her.
"I'm fine, we were up working really late last night," she replied.
"I need to know why you keep running from me," Tommy told her.
"Ready, Kat," Will said as he approached them and handed Kat a cup of coffee.
"See you around Tommy," Kat said as she turned to follow Will out the door.
"You're going to have to talk to him sooner or later," Will said once they were outside.
"And say what, I want to be with you but I can't because I work for the CIA and being with me would put your life in danger," Kat replied.
"I know you can't tell him the truth but you have to tell him something before he decides to start sticking his nose where it doesn't belong, if he starts to suspect that you're not being straight with him, it could jeopardize the entire mission," Will told her as he stopped in front of the car.
Kat looked up to see Tommy along with his students coming out of the cyberspace. She then looked at Will who had sat his coffee on top of the car while he got out the car keys. Kat walked over to Will and put her arms around him.
"Kat, what are you doing?" he questioned.
"Just go with it," Kat said as she leaned in to kiss him.
"Care to clue me in on what just happened here," Will said once they stopped kissing.
"You said I needed a reason for avoiding Tommy, so I just gave him one," she replied.
"He saw us?" Will questioned.
"Yeah, he was walking out the door and I saw him staring at me, I couldn't think of anything else to do, I figure this way, he'll think the two of us are together and I won't have to explain anymore why I keep running out on him," Kat explained.
"I don't know why we didn't think of it before," Will said as they got into the car.
"I hate that I just had to hurt Tommy like that but what other choice do I have, until we get the evidence we need on Mercer and make sure that Chang is taken care of, I have to keep my distance from Tommy," Kat told him.
Author's note: Please don't shoot me; I know that probably wasn't the ending you expected for this chapter. But I promise Kat and Tommy will be together eventually. You'll just have to wait a little longer.