"Are we there yet?" Conner asked for the umpteenth time.
"Conner stop being such a big baby," Kira demanded for the same amount of time.
Kim glanced over at Tommy, it only lasted a second, and their eyes only locked for half that time but in that half second Tommy could tell that Kim was running out of patience, and for her to run out of patience was not a good thing, as it very rarely happens.
He glanced at the GPS and then out the window, they were almost to Stone Canyon, which meant that they were only an hour away from their hotel located on the other side of Angel Grove. He then glanced at the clock, only a few minutes past noon, they could make it to the hotel before lunch, but they had already been in the car two and a half hours so maybe all they needed was a chance to stretch their legs.
"Why don't we stop for lunch?" he suggested.
"Great we can go to Rocky's," Kim said.
Tommy paled, "Okay, great," he said in a voice that told his wife that everything was not great.
"What's wrong?" she asked.
"Nothing," Tommy said a little to quickly, "It's just..."
"He probably will tease you about your little morphing mixup," Kim suggested as she exited the high way.
"How do you know about that, I was alone when that happened, and I purposely didn't call in the teens because of it!"
"I know the same way you fear that Rocky knows, it was on the news."Kim confessed.
"I didn't realize that it made national news, I just thought it was local news."
Tommy fell quiet as as Kim wove her way through the streets of Stone Canyon, at least until his phone started to go off with an, "Ay Yi Yi Yi."
"That is never a good sound," Kim commented as Tommy fumbled for his phone.
"Thank you for calling the power ranger emergency hotline, we are tracking your location and a team is on route, please describe your monster emergency." Tommy said, pushing a button on the radio, the large screen that none of the teens understood what it was went blank before a picture of a globe appeared and spun around, a red dot appearing.
"Opps sorry wrong number, I will take you off the call list," The woman on the other side of the phone said, hanging up.
"I can't believe that a scammer actually got that number," Tommy said, "Only a Power Ranger has that number."
"How do you know that it was a scammer?" Kira asked, "And why did you answer like that, couldn't that give away your identity?"
Kim pulled into a parking lot, "You don't know about the emergency hotline, Hayley should have programmed it into your phones when you first became rangers. does the number 565 sound familiar?"
"565," Conner muttered, "I know, you gave our first hour class a lecture on the fact that if they see a monster or alien invasion to call 565 instead of 911, then you told us that anyone using it for other reasons other than reporting monster activities would get visited by an angry power ranger and it wouldn't be pretty."
"That's our hotline number, but each ranger has a extension number that allows us to call one another through the hotline in case of emergency," Kim explained, "Most of us just have our teammates extensions, but Tommy and I have them all."
"How come we don't have extensions?" Kira asked.
"Mainly because I wouldn't put it pass Conner and Ethan to pull pranks with it."
"You don't trust us?" Conner sounded shocked, as he climbed out of the car.
"Not when..." Tommy never got a chance to explain himself before a pink bouncing blob tackled him in a great big bear hug.
"Uncle Tommy!" the blob exclaimed, turning into a little blonde haired girl, "You're here, You're here, you're here." the little girl danced around the leader of the power rangers happily, "Can you come to my birthday party? I want to see you kick a cake up on to the ceiling for real, and not on tv."
Tommy looked around the parking lot, trying to spot his former teammate, "Billy!" he called out once he spot something blue move on the other side of the car they had parked next to.
A blonde head popped up over the car's top, "Oh hi Tommy," he said briefly, "Just trying to find my phone, I dropped it in between the seats."
Tommy grimaced he hated when that happened, "Yeah, well, is this yours," he scooped the little girl up when she ran past and lifted her up.
"Hi Daddy, Uncle Tommy's here, and he's coming to my birthday party and he's going to kick the cake onto the ceiling again." She said with a huge smile.
"Katy, I thought you went in with your mother and brother," Billy insisted.
"And I thought we were going to a place with a jungle gym," The little girl pointed out, crossing her arms, "I guess we were both wrong."
"They have coloring pages," Billy offered.
"Really!" Katy asked, squirming out of her uncle's hold, "Oh Boy." with that she ran through the parking lot to the front door, "I hope one is of the pink ranger, she's my favorite."
Billy looked over at Tommy, "I don't know where she got it, neither Kat or I were ever that busy, I still haven't found something to make her sit still for."
"She's young, she'll out grow it."
"I hope so," Billy said, walking over to them, "So, why did Zeo Ranger Five: Red show up that one night to fight a monster near your property when the Dino Thunder Team was on duty?"
"I grabbed the wrong morpher okay."