"As tempting as that is Adam, we can't risk them noticing any of our odd quirks."
Just then a stream of women came running out of the store, screaming, "They're here," Adam and Billy said in unison.
...
Rocky smirked as he and Connor slid to a stop inside of Wal-Mart, "Great, no one would think to look for us here!" He insisted, letting go of the younger red ranger's shoulder.
Connor rolled his shoulder, rubbing where Rocky had held on, "You know that you didn't need to hold on that tightly right, you bruised my shoulder."
Rocky grimaced, he hadn't meant to bruise the kid, he had simply forgotten just how strong his grip could be, and he hadn't wanted to lose his grip when he was being dragged at over nine hundred miles per hour.
"What I want to know is why we picked this place to meet up?" a new voice said behind them causing them to jump, Zack must have teleported to them, as neither one of them had heard the original black ranger approach them.
Connor stopped and turned around, sure enough, it was Zack standing there without a care in the world and a snake around his shoulders, "What's up with the snake?" he asked.
"Oh," Zack said pulling the garden snake off his shoulders, "This little guy and I are pals," he announced casually, as he set the snake down on the ground. The effect was almost immediate, several women saw the snake, causing them to scream and run out the door.
"Great," Rocky said, watching the stampede of working women leave the store, "Now Tommy is going to figure out where we are."
"Only if he happens to see them running out of the store," Zack insisted, "Trust me, Jason and Trini hate this place, they would refuse to have anything to do with it."
"But Tommy knows about that and knows that we know," Rocky pointed out, "Trust me when we ran, they headed straight here."
"And you'll be completely right," a cheerful voice announced, as Kimberly appeared next to them, "Come on, you guys are coming with me!"
Zack quickly bent over, picking up the snake, which he flung at Kim, who squealed, giving the three rogue rangers a chance to super speed away.
"Zack Taylor!" Kimberly shouted, "You are coming with me if you like it or not!"
Several people stopped to look at her, with confused looks on their faces, to which Kimberly simply shrugged, as if she hadn't just shouted in front of a room full of strangers, "It's been on of those days, okay people!" she snapped.
Trini, who had followed Kim into the store, grumbling and complaining the whole way, quickly grabbed Kira and dragged her out of the store.
It wasn't until they were back at the car was Kira able to pull herself free from the older yellow ranger's grip, "What was that for?" she demanded, shooting her a look that almost, but not quite, had the same effect as Kim's Look did.
"There is only one ranger more dangerous than Dr. Oliver when mad, and that's Kim, and right now she's furious," Trini explained, getting into the car, "I don't want to be stuck in Wal-Mart with an angry Kimberly ever, even if she isn't mad at me," With that Trini pulled out a cell phone, "I better warn Rocky and Zack about Kim's current mood."
"You're warning them?" Kira questioned, "But why? I thought you wanted to stop them from running amok as well."
"I do," Trini confessed, "But I also know what Kim is capable of when she's mad, though I'm surprised that they got her this mad already, she's usually a lot more patient than I am."
...
"Why didn't we leave the store when Kim showed up?" Connor asked as he skidded to a stop in the pet aisle.
"I don't know?" Rocky stated, "You're the one who grabbed us and ran off."
Connor tipped his head to the side, "Well, okay, I guess I never thought about leaving, I was just thinking about getting away from Mrs. O, her eyes were twitching, it was kind of unnerving."
"Her eyes were twitching?" Zack and Rocky echoed, giving each other a look that revealed how unnerved that statement made them. Kimberly's twitching eyes meant she was mad, and a mad Kimberly was far more dangerous than anything they faced as power rangers even an evil ranger.
"Yeah," Connor said, "It just, when my mom's eyes start twitching like that I know that I need to run for cover, so that's what I did," Connor laughed, "Some power ranger I am."
"No," Zack exclaimed, "You have amazing survival skills, no one can survive a mad Kimberly. No one, she once destroyed a monster before the others could be contacted."
"So what do we do?" Connor asked, glancing at the older rangers with a scared look on his face, what should they do with an angry pink ranger on their tail?
"We head back to the hotel and pray that we don't bump into her the rest of the week," Rocky announced.
"Why did we even come here," Connor demanded, "All I wanted was to hear a story about Dr. O as a teenager!"
Rocky pulled out a bucket from one of the lower shelves, plopping down on it as if it was a chair, "Now Dr. O as you call him had this ability to get into the oddest of predicaments."
"The Morpher mix up was probably was the worst." Zack added with a snicker, "It was definitely the funniest."
"What happened?" Connor asked.
"Well," Zack said, "Tommy and Kimberly dated throughout high school despite the fact that their dates kept keeping interrupted."
...Angel Grove sometime after White Light...
Tommy leaned back on his hands, enjoying the feel of the sun on his face as Kim sprawled out beside him, this was the first time the two of them have had time together since he had returned from his uncle's cabin as the new white ranger and he was determined to enjoy every moment of it.
"Don't you have a Karate class," Kim asked, breaking the silence between them.
"Not until one," Tommy pointed out, not making a move to get up."
"But that's in ten minutes," Kim said suddenly, looking at her watch, "You should get going."
Tommy leaped up onto his feet and hurriedly grabbed his bag, which tipped upside down and dumped the contents all over the ground.
"Yikes," Kim stated, leaping up as well, her purse sliding off her lap as she did so causing something to fall out of it into the center of the debris from Tommy's bag.
"Don't forget your morpher," Kim insisted, scooping up the mentioned Morpher.
"Thank's Beautiful," Tommy said, giving her a peck on the cheek, "See you later."
After Tommy left, Kim bent down to pick up her purse only to discover a morpher laying next to it, "HUh, my morpher must have fallen out," she said, "I might want to do something about that, what if someone besides Tommy and I had been with us."
...Angel Grove Wal-Mart Present day...
"It wasn't until Lord Zedd attacked two days later did they discover that they had accidentally swapped morphers," Zack said with a grin, "and even then it was after they had morphed."
"Yes, but as soon as we realized what had happened we swapped morphers back." a new voice announced causing the three rangers to look up at Kimberly who was staring at them with a look on her face that the older two were well acquainted too. The pink ranger was not amused, in fact, the opposite was more accurate, she was annoyed and ready to get even.
"Hi Kimberly," Rocky and Zack said sheepishly.
"You know we wouldn't have followed you around like this if we could trust you two to stay out of trouble," Kim said, "But no, instead of a nice relaxing evening, we had to pull you out of the ape exhibit at the zoo and stop you in a car chase, and now you three are sitting in the middle of Wal-Mart talking about our big secret in a public place, might as well announce it to the world if you're going to go talk about it in public. Now I want the three of you to march out to my car, you are going to get in the car, and you are going to come back to the hotel with me, and you are going to behave yourself the whole way or you will regret it." Kimberly leaned in close to Zack and Rocky, "Do I make myself clear."
"Yes Ma'am," Zack said with a salute and a silly grin which withered rather quickly as Kim gave him her signature look. Okay so maybe Kim really was mad. sometimes she was such a great actress that Zack couldn't tell if she was just acting mad, or was actually mad. Actually mad was dangerous, they better do as she says or else it wasn't going to be pretty.