Someone behind them cleared their throat loudly before an all too familiar voice asked, "would you care to explain what is going on here?"
Connor turned around to find Dr. O standing with his hands on his hips and a look on his face that was a good indicator that he was someone to be feared.
"Uh... somehow swinging with the apes proves he wrestled a bear with his eyes closed," Connor offered.
"A crowd is starting to form Tommy," Jason hissed.
Tommy took a deep breath and looked around, this was why he was leader and Jason was his second in demand they could think on their feet, he had locked up all of his old morphers after the whole Zeo ranger five incident in the forest, and therefore didn't have a proper morpher that worked on him. Trent and Connor were no goes as well, their powers had been recently destroyed, no time to recharge. Jason had his original powers and so did Zack, and since he helped create this problem, "Zack go hide, morph, and distract everyone." He ordered.
"Why do I..."
"That is an order Zachary!" Tommy snapped.
Zack's eyes grew round, Tommy was a pretty chill leader, most power ranger leaders were, so the fact he ordered him to do something that he didn't want to do just showed him that he was on very thin ice.
He quickly slumped away as Jason and Kim tried to clear away the crowd that was forming. Kim noticed the black form enter through the entrance of the primate house, "Connor, Ethan, I mean Trent, draw everyone's attention to the..."
"Daddy, Daddy, it's a black ranger, daddy," a little boy cried out, "Is there a monster nearby?"
"I didn't hear the monster alarm going off," the dad said softly, "and he doesn't have any weapons out."
"I'm going to go talk to him!" the little boy exclaimed, running towards Zack, "What team are you from?" he demanded.
"Mighty Morphin team, served here in Angel Grove in the 90's," Zack offered, "I'm here for my class's twentieth reunion." It was a perfect lie, he didn't even graduate from Angel Grove and the high school reunion would get some unwanted attention, pulling the attention away from the power rangers' reunion, "Would you like an autograph?" he asked, producing a pen and notepad from thin air.
"Can I really?" the boy asked excitedly, "Can I have my picture taken with you as well?"
Jason sighed as everyone swarmed around Zack, the coast was clear. He looked over at Tommy and nodded, "Okay go for it."
"Rocky Desantos," Tommy growled, pounding on the glass wall, "Don't you dare make me call in the bear!"
"Wait, the bear was real!" Connor exclaimed.
"If you have a really lose definition of bear, yeah," Kim said, pulling her phone out, "Rocky, I have the bear on speed dial," she sung, dangling the phone in front of the glass.
"Since when did a bear have a phone?" Trent asked.
"Berenstein bears," Connor offered, "Rocky got into a fight with Papa Bear!"
Kim glanced at Jason, "You see why we worry about him?"
Jason nodded, "Any response from Rocky?"
"He probably knows your bluffing," Trent offered, "I mean, calling a bear is impossible, right?" he said the last word slowly as if he was worried that he might learn something he didn't want to learn.
Kim shook her head, dialing a number on her phone, "Aisha, your husband..."
There was a flash of yellow and Aisha appeared next to the group, "My Husband did what?"
The group of power rangers pointed silently to the ape exhibit, "Apparently running around with apes prove that he fought a bear with his eyes close."
"In his sleep," Aisha growled.
"So that was only a dream?" Trent asked, maybe all of those stories Hayley told them were just that stories, maybe they weren't really crazy.
"No," Kim said, "He was asleep when he fought the bear. Well... she could be a bear if you wake her up in the middle of the night, sharing a room with her and then having a late night mission was not a pleasant experience."
"I'm standing right here you know," Aisha exclaimed.
"Okay," Connor said, "Can somebody please explain?"
... Sometime after Of Secrets and Weddings...
"This looks like a good place to camp," Jason announced, dropping his backpack down in the meadow.
"Wish we brought the RADBUG," Adam insisted, "With the amount of food Rocky brought we'll be attracting every bear this side of the mountain."
"You guys know that I get cranky when I get hungry," Rocky insisted.
"How can we," Zack asked, "You never stop eating, just on the hike up here you've eaten, five bags of chips, four apples, two foot long sandwiches, and three whole packs of oreos, which is more than I bought for food during the whole time we're up here."
That was of course when Billy finally caught up, having lagged behind on the hike up due to his lack of hiking experience, "So is this the place?" he asked.
Jason nodded his head, "Yep, I think so, last time we came we took the RADBUG, but I'm pretty sure that this is the same spot."
"Why didn't we take the RADBUG this time?" Zack asked turning to their residential genius.
"It's not operational at the moment," Billy explained, just like he had that morning and when Rocky insisted that they stop for a morning snack and stop for lunch and an afternoon snack.
"Let's get camp set up and the fire going before we end up looking for firewood in the dark," Jason ordered, taking charge. Tommy had declined to come, claiming that he had plans for that night, plans that involved a certain pink power ranger, of that he was sure.
...
Billy, Zack, Jason, Adam, and Rocky sat around the camp fire talking as the stars started to appear overhead.
"I hope Tommy's having fun with Kim," Zack commented, "Because he's missing out on a lot of fun."
"Not to much fun," Rocky growled, before asking cheerfully, "Can you pass me a marshmallow?"
Billy reached into his backpack, tossing Rocky the package of marshmallows, a small pencil box falling out of the bag as he did.
Jason leaned over and picked it up, popping it open, just to see what Billy was carrying, "Our communicators?"
"Yes," Billy stated, "I believe that I got them operational again, to bad the only ones that I know that still wear theirs on a regular basis is Tommy and Kim and I don't want to interrupt their date, or else I would test to make sure that they work long range."
Rocky snagged one of the red bands, "Who cares, I need to check on my baby sister!"
"Please remember that Tommy has the ability to destroy anyone who annoys him," Jason warned, although it was too late, Rocky had already activated the communicator and was paging Tommy.
"Rocky I know that's you!" Tommy's voice snarled through the communicator.
"How do you know that it's me?" Rocky demanded.
"Because, Adam isn't the type of guy to interrupt something just to interrupt it and the others remember the incident..."
Jason shuddered, oh yes he remembered that.
... back in present day Angel Grove...
"So what was the incident?" Connor interrupted.
"The day that we found out that Tommy's eyes could flash green," Kim stated.
"I thought we were talking about the bear incident?" Trent pointed out.
"Well," Aisha said, "Apparently Rocky talks in his sleep, and makes phone calls too... we aren't allowed to have a phone in our bedroom for that reason. On an unrelated note does anybody need a box of lucky charms, Rocky ordered like three dozen boxes two nights ago and they refuse to take them back."
"Hey, that's my personal stash," Rocky exclaimed, causing everyone to jump, they hadn't realized that he had came out of the ape exhibit when he realized his wife had showed up. Rocky looked around at everyone, "Are you guys going to just stand there, or are you going to explain how Aisha snuck up to our campsite and attacked us without any second thoughts."
"That was all you!" Aisha screamed.
"Oh yeah," Rocky sighed, "I was young and in love, what more can I say."
"We were in the awkward we like each other but didn't want to admit it stage."
"Can we please continue with the story?" Connor begged.
Tommy, however, had happened to look over to Zack, mainly because he heard a shrill squeal that was common among fan girls. Several teenage girls and several women who probably hadn't gotten the memo that they were no longer teenagers had swarmed Zack, one of them was even getting a little to close to the helmet latches with her wondering hands for any secret identity ranger's comfort, and he had so many on him at once that he couldn't keep them all at bay, "Let's rescue Zack and get out of here before we become the lead on world news tonight... pretty sure we already got on local news." Tommy announced, "We can finish the story in the car."