"Come on Trent I know you're there."
The lamppost stretched and shimmered before the white dino thunder ranger appeared, "Hi, mind if I join you?"
"Why are you hiding from your father?" Tommy asked, "Don't tell me Mesagog is back."
"What! No!" Trent insisted, "I just feel like I need to give him some personal space, but he thinks this should be a family vacation."
…
Kim gave Tommy a knowing look, "Okay," she said slowly, clasping Tommy's hand, "But please remember that Tommy and I are married and might say or do something you don't like."
"Sure no problem," Trent agreed, nodding his head frantically.
"So what do you think is up with Trent hiding from his father?" Tommy hissed into Kim's ear.
"I think that his dad wants to make up with the time he missed while he was Mesogog and that could be overwhelming Trent, he does strike me more of a loner."
"But if he's a loner why is he hanging out with his old science teacher and his wife, this was suppose to be a second honeymoon."
"We never got a first Honeymoon," Kim pointed out, "You abandoned me at the resort to go to the moon with the others, remember."
"So first honeymoon?"
"Yeah, because going to an amusement park was what I had in mind for that."
"So," Trent said, shifting slightly at his teacher and his wife, "What ride are we going on first?"
"History of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," Tommy said, "I'm curious on how accurate they got it. They couldn't do it exactly, not without figuring out who we are, but..."
"Maybe it would tell us what happened to the Original Green Ranger, I heard a lot of people mentioning him," Trent turned to look at Tommy, "What exactly happened to him, no one seems to know, I heard TJ Johnson said that that topic was taboo once."
"It was," Tommy confessed, "It was a very personal, very difficult thing that happened, those that served with him didn't like talking about it, but time has healed that wound, but by then it was just taboo, so no one talked about it anyways."
"So no one knows what happened to the Green Ranger besides his teammates, and Mrs. O works with the teams, so she must know what happened to the Green Ranger," Trent turned to Mrs. O eyes pleading for answers.
"I was expecting this from Conner, not Trent," she confessed.
"Conner knows, Ethan hacked into my video diaries once."
Trent followed them into the line behind a couple of girls who were talking loudly, "This is so exciting," the blonde said, "For all we know, the people in front of us are power rangers, or the people behind us!"
"Hush," the red head said, with a giggle, "Think about it, no one knows that we aren't power rangers, who knows, maybe we can get a date with Joel from Light speed Rescue, I heard he was single."
"I don't know," the brunette finally spoke up as well, "They have the conference room all closed up, only open to the power rangers, kind of applies that they know who each other are."
"But there's so many of them, surely they can't all know each other," the blonde protested.
"Trust me," a new voice said from further up the line, "Power Rangers are crazy, TJ Johnson once..." Hayley trailed off, she hardly knew TJ Johnson, or any of the other public identity rangers, "Nah, you wouldn't want to hear about that."
"Wise choice," Tommy called out, "He's fascination about getting baked into a pizza is weird. He won't stop talking about it, yet he claims that he can never look at another slice of pizza again."
The group of girls turned to look at Tommy, "And you are?"
"Someone who had way to many run ins with Putties growing up," Tommy confessed, running a hand through his hair, "Must have left an impression, seeing as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers invited me."
Trent snorted, but any comment he would make was silenced with a shake of Kim's head, as she pointed absentmindedly to the decor around them, "I think some of these probably came from the Youth Center," she said, "I remember this one," she added pointing to a poster for a dance, that's the first date Tommy and I ever went on."
The line was moving fairly quickly and Kim and Tommy pointed out different things that they actually remembered, even newspaper clips, blown up so that they were easier to read.
"'Green Ranger No Show for Power Ranger Day,'" Trent read out loud, "'Several fans are disappointed that the Green Ranger, who no one has seen on the battle field for quite some time did not make an appearance with the other rangers at the city park.' Cool," he said, racing to catch up with the others as the line moved once more.
"'Putty attack at the park,'" Tommy read from another newspaper clipping, "'It was pretty freaky, Local teen Kimberly Hart confessed.'"
Trent frowned as Mrs. O sputtered, "Well, now we know why we got our invites, I made the newspaper once for being attacked by putties."
Tommy skimmed through it, "This is from when Curtis was living with Zack and his family. Curtis was interviewed as well. Didn't he have a crush on you or something?"
They moved along with the line as Kim nodded, "Yeah, something about knowing that I could kick butt in a dress and high heels really impressed him, but he knew that I was with you, and he moved back with his parents soon after that. No harm done, at least he wasn't annoying about his crush like Skull."
Now they could hear the safety instructions being played over the intercome, "This is the Original Blue Ranger," said a voice that was absolutely not Billy's, "With a reminder to keep all arms, hands, and feet, inside the vehicle at all times, and please watch your children, we don't want to have to rescue them from Rita Repulsa if we don't have to."
Up in front of them, cars where stopped in a row and people where climbing in and out of them.
"Those kind of look like..."
"Exactly..."
"Would you two like to tell me what you are talking about?"
Tommy and Kim glanced at Trent, "The Radbug," Tommy explained, "A flying Voltswagon Beetle that Billy built… I bet it's still in his father's garage."
Trent raised an eyebrow, "It's still around."
"Well, Billy couldn't take it with him, and he couldn't sell it."
By now the group of girls in front of them were getting on the ride, and they followed suit.
The car lurched into action taking them into a scene from the Youth Center, which everyone knew was a local Power Ranger hangout, several automatons crouched under tables as the car shook back in forth.
"Earthquake," Ernie's voice called out, "Everyone stay calm."
"It's just like the first day," Kim said as the car moved forward into a tunnel with flashing lights, before emerging into what was obviously the old Command Center, "Wow, they actually recreated this pretty well."
The rest of the ride was pretty predictable, to the point that Trent started to complain that they were ruining the ride. "Hey, that guy wearing green must be me."
"Here comes the putty attack."
"Do you guys mind," Trent asked.
"How long is this ride," Tommy muttered, "When do we get to the candle scene?"
"I'll get you yet Green Ranger," an evil chuckle filled the room.
"Now," Kim stated, "Close your eyes Dear."
Trent nearly chuckled from the back seat as his science teacher, the guy who faced down ten foot tall monsters without batting an eye, closed his eyes and grabbed his wife's hand in his, squeezing tightly as they entered the next area of the ride, were it showed the green ranger tied up and a green candle burning. "Once the green candle burns out, your power will be ours." a low voice came from what appeared to be a golden monkey.
"They didn't do a good job on this Goldar," Kim commented, "Doesn't look anything like him, he didn't have round ears."
Tommy chuckled, but kept his eyes closed as the sound of shouting filled the area, "We've got to save the Green Ranger, come on everyone it's morphin time."
"Okay, looks like their skipping to the white ranger stage," Kim said, "I can hear Alpha, and see electricity crackling."
Tommy cracked his eyes open as they entered the next scene, a giant floating head was greeting a ranger dress and white as the new power ranger. As the ranger slowly took his helmet off, the pink ranger collapsed onto the floor.
"Tommy," Kim's voice came out low and slow, Trent shivered in the backseat, "How did me fainting get into the ride?"
"I don't know, I don't think that I told TJ that, we can hunt him down after this."
By now they were back in the loading bay, getting help out and headed to the exit.
Billy was standing there with Katy, Kat and Cory nowhere in sight.
"That ride was fun, Daddy, is it true that the green ranger became the white ranger, and the pink ranger fainted when she found out?"
Kim rose an eyebrow, shooting Billy her signature look.
"I had nothing to do with that," Billy insisted, raising his hands up in a pleading way, "But out of all of those who would know to add that, I would suggest..."
"Zachary," Kim growled, storming off.
"Oh dear, Zack is still in hot water from last night," Tommy said, "I better make sure that she doesn't do anything that might revel her true identity in front of someone who really shouldn't know it."
"And I better warn TJ that Kim didn't like the ride, he had to approve everything before it was built, and how he thought he could get away with a fainting Kim is beyond me."
"What are you talking about?" Katy asked, "Kim didn't faint, the Pink Ranger did, she was like this," she put her hand up to her forehead, "And then she was like this," her knees folded beneath her as she shank to the ground, "and then she was like this," she said jumping up to her feet.
Just then Kat emerged from the bathrooms with Cory, "Just so you guys know, Kim stormed past that way," she pointed in the direction she had just come from, "and she looked mad."
"Zack was a little too helpful while helping plan the ride," Billy offered, "I suggest we avoid Zack as much as possible until Kim calms down some."
"But I like Uncle Zack, he's fun," Katy piped up.