Tommy parked the car and jumped out, followed by Kim, Jason, and Trent, "Seriously," he had to ask the newest power ranger as he climbed out, does your father know that you're with me?"
"No," Trent insisted, "that would defeat the point of hiding from him, now would it."
"So you can turn invisible?" Jason asked, he always felt like it was a good idea to know any special powers of any power rangers that he was hanging out with, just in case. He was sure it was his leader coming out, even when he was with Tommy.
"Nope," Trent said, "That's Dr. O's power, I have camo powers, which is why you would have seen me when I moved if you were looking in my direction, I don't turn invisible I just blend into my background."
"Come on," Tommy insisted, "We can deal with Trent and his Daddy issues later, right now we have three highly dangerous superheroes running amuck."
A young family who happened to be walking past on the way to the zoo's entrance stopped to give them a weird look.
"We're playing a roleplaying game," Kim said sweetly, "Our friends are hiding somewhere in the zoo causing 'Trouble'" she used air quotes around trouble to add to the fact that it was a game, "And we have to stop them."
The family nodded before continuing on their way as everyone turned to look at Kim who shrugged, "Someone walked in on me during a phone conversation with Tommy about him being invisible, and asked if we were doing a roleplaying game. I just went with it."
"Well let's go." Jason said, "I don't want to have to bail anyone out of jail this week, and I don't know about you but those three together scares me, what with the stories Tommy's told me about Connor."
...
Connor peered down at the lions, "So how did you end up in the lion's den?"
Zack laughed nervously, looking around to make sure no one was in earshot, "As I said, it's a long story, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that my Zord at the time was a lion."
"What does that have to do with anything," Rocky asked, before pointing to an ice cream cart up ahead, "Hey, let's get ice cream, my treat!"
"All right!" Connor shouted racing up ahead.
"If you get eaten by your ice cream again Rocky," Zack shouted, "I'm not going to help you."
The same young family that had stopped and talked to Tommy and Kim had headed straight to the lion's den, and couldn't help but say, "You must be the friends doing the roleplay with the others, they said they had friends hiding in here causing trouble."
"Yeah," Zack said with a laugh, "We've been doing this role play since we were his age," he nodded towards Connor, "Sometimes we forget when we are playing and when we're not." With that, he yelled out, "Rocky, Connor, we have a problem, Tommy's here!"
"What's the big deal?" Connor asked, "He's just Dr. O, he's afraid of needles and candles, why are you scared of him?"
"Since when has he been scared of needles?" Zack asked glancing at Rocky, the candle thing wasn't new, every single power ranger knew that, kind of hard not to when it wins a funniest home video contest.
"Well," Connor admitted, "He never admitted that he was scared of needles, but when he woke up from his coma in the hospital he freaked and started yanking the IV out, they had to sedate him."
Zack and Rocky exchanged looks, was that all, obviously this boy didn't know his mentor very well, then again Tommy always liked to keep a mysterious air around him.
"Sounds about right," Rocky confessed, "Nothing is scarier to us then waking up in a strange place and our instinct is to get out of there quickly. I would have done the same thing if I had been unconscious when I had hurt my back."
"So that wasn't the needles?" Connor asked.
"No," Zack insisted, "For Power Rangers, it would have been odd if he hadn't acted like that."
By this time all three were slurping on their ice creams, or at least Rocky and Zack were enjoying theirs. Connor had ordered a Cherry vanilla cone because it had sounded good, now he was looking at it in disbelief. He couldn't believe it, he never believed Hayley when she had said that Power rangers were attracted to their color and here was the proof. His ice cream was red.
"Are you okay Connor?" Rocky asked, suddenly afraid how silent he had become.
"Hayley told me that Power Rangers are crazy, with no sense of danger, weird phobias, and a strange attraction to certain colors," Connor said, pointing to the ice cream, "I guess she's right."
"Hayley has known us since right before Trini and Jason got married," Zack informed him, "We are so used to it that we don't even notice that we are doing that kind of things, but of course she's right. She doesn't think like a ranger, so she notices the little things we do that aren't normal."
"Like end up in the lion's den?" Connor asked, innocently, giving Zack a puppy dog look.
Zack groaned, "You are not going to let that go, are you?"
"I'm a red, I'm supposed to be stubborn." Connor insisted, "So are you going to tell me?"
"Yes," Rocky said, slowly pushing them away from Lion's den, "Away from the Lion's den, that would be the first place that Tommy and the others will look."
...
Tommy, Kim, Jason, and Trent hurried through the entrance gate, "The lion's den?" Jason suggested.
"It's a good place to start," Tommy agreed, "We better hurry before they feed Connor to the lions."
"You know," Trent pointed out, "You still haven't answered my question about the lion's den."
"And you haven't answered the question about why you are hiding from your father," Tommy pointed out.
"Well," Trent said sadly, as he looked down at his shoes, he didn't want to reveal his secret just yet, "Then I guess that I will never learn the truth."
A/N: So Trent has a secret, wonder what that is, and how did Zack end up in the lion's den in the first place. please review.
