AN: I'm back from my great Thanksgiving break. I hope everyone had a good turkey day and are still stuffed like me:) Onto a new chapter, enjoy and don't forget to review!
Chapter 14: Best Man For the Job, Might Be A Woman
It's anything but politics as usual at Angel Grove High as students running for president are the highlight for the week. The elections were always held in the spring, but the winner could only begin working after the now, President graduates in June. Elections would go on for 2 weeks, then a President would be chosen on a Friday threw ballots. Aisha, Kimberly Billy and Tommy were walking down the halls together as the signs for elections were being put up. They had just finished first block and were heading for their morning break.
"Wow, look guys. Student elections start up this week."
"Hey Tommy, ever thought about being school president?" Billy asked.
"Oh, I don't know man. It's kind of a big responsibility."
"Yeah, of course it is, but think of the thrill of the political process. It would be a great chance to make a real change."
"Yeah, that's true." Tommy opened his locker and put away some books.
"And uh, if you run. I could be your campaign manager." Tommy turned to Kimberly.
"Well, what do you think about it Kim?" Tommy asked.
"Oh, I think you would make a great president."
"Alright I'll do it!"
"Yeah!"
"Okay, bye." Kimberly kissed Tommy's cheek and walked away with Aisha. The girls went to their lockers.
"How's this for a campaign slogan, 'Tommy Oliver, the best man for the job'?"
"I like that, cool." Billy and Tommy smiled. Kimberly hopped over with Aisha.
"So, you really gonna do it?" Kimberly asked.
"Yeah."
"Good." Tommy put his arm around Kimberly as they went to get a morning snack before heading to their second class.
At lunch, Tommy was dealing with filling out his student package. He must fill out before he can run for president.
"So, will you be the first to sign my letter?"
"Of course," Kimberly said taking the pen from him. She signed the paper. Billy and the others were next.
"You really think I will make a good president?"
"Of course, Tommy! And with Billy as your manager, there is no way you could lose to Bulk, Mark or Jennifer."
"Jennifer, your friend is running too?" Jennifer was on the school student committee board with Kimberly.
"Yeah, she just told in 3rd block."
"Oh, cool."
"Yeah, well, you can't have all guys running, won't be fair. She did say however, she wants to be called Madame President when she wins." Kimberly shook her head with a laugh.
"Well, I got my work cut out for me then. I gotta get 50 signatures by this afternoon."
"Don't worry, I'll help you. I'll even create spectacular posters for you too. You know I have such great artistic style."
"Thanks." Tommy kissed her cheek. "I really appreciate it."
"Of course, handsome. I would love to help." Kimberly helped Tommy get signatures throughout the day. Tommy was going over the list of things he wanted to stand for during his campaign for president. He would check off a few ideas. Kimberly looked over the things with him. Billy went to get the final signatures for Tommy.
"You want new computers in the library?" Kimberly asked.
"Yeah, Billy suggested it would be a great idea. Why not?"
"Huh. Nothing. You want vending machines all around the school?"
"Yeah! Rocky is always complaining about wanting a snack. Why not have vending machines around the school?"
"Uh huh."
"What, you don't agree with that?"
"No, I mean, those are fine ideas Tommy." Kimberly looked down his list of ideas more. "Wait, you want to cut the budget in half for redoing the theater and new books for library?" Kimberly asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, I mean, I know the theater is old in all…"
"It's ancient!"
"But that look is classic! And I think that is not a major issue. Why try and remodel it into something else," Tommy said. "The theater is just fine as it is, nothing but what a little paint couldn't fix."
"What about the books?" Kimberly asked.
"We get donations all the time for our library."
"Yeah, but we could always use more money for the library books."
"With the computers, we won't need so many book. It's just an idea, Kim."
"Huh. I gotta go." Kimberly kissed his cheek.
"Wait…Kimberly….where are you…"
"See ya later." Kimberly smiled and walked out.
That afternoon
The students running for president had to come up with a quick 5-minutes speeches to the principal telling Principal Caplan why they would make great presidents. Mark was inside giving his speech, as Kimberly was waiting with Billy and Tommy. Kimberly saw Jennifer breathing hard.
"Excuse me," Kimberly said walking over to Jennifer. "Jen what's wrong?"
"I thought I could do this, I thought this would be fun, but…I…I can't…I can't breath, my hands are sweaty, I can't focus or see my speech."
"Just calm down, you're nervous, that's all," Kimberly said rubbing her back.
"Kimberly, if I can't even give a speech to our principal. How can I give a speech to our class, to everyone!"
"Jen, just breath, everything will be okay."
"I can't do this, Kimberly." Aisha came over to them.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
"Jen is freaking out." Kimberly looked up to see Tommy getting ready to give his speech.
"You do it," Jennifer said handing over her speech.
"What?"
"Come on, Kim, we went over my ideas earlier. You came up most the ideas to help me, you would make a great stand, better than me."
"No, this is you. You do it, but…I can't run for president."
"If I drop out, then there only will be guys running." Aisha looked at Kimberly.
"Hey, sometimes the best man for the job, is a woman," Aisha said.
"What?"
"Kim, I think you would make a great president."
"Me too," Jennifer said.
"Oh, I can't run against Tommy."
"Why not, you two are best friends and a couple. That means this will be a good clean race."
"Besides, didn't you tell me we needed more women on the student board? If you are our President, that might interest more girls in joining the team," Jennifer said. "Please, for me. You're stronger at this than me. I was a fool to think I could do this." Kimberly thought a moment, and then went over to Tommy. She stopped Tommy.
"Tommy, um, how would you feel if I ran for president too?" Kimberly asked.
"What? Are you?"
"Jen just dropped out and I…"
"Hey, no! I think that will be great."
"Really? You don't think this too weird!"
"What, of course not! If I would make a good president, you would make an even better one. Hey, look at this way, at least one of us might win."
"Hey that's right," Billy said.
"Well, may the best man or woman win," Aisha said. Aisha and Billy looked at the couple. Jennifer came over to them with a smile. Tommy held his hand out for Kimberly. She took his hand and shook it. Tommy kissed her cheek.
"Good luck."
"You too." Tommy went inside to give his speech. Jennifer went to Kimberly.
"You're doing it?"
"I guess so."
"Oh great!" Jen hugged Kimberly. "Good luck."
"Thanks, gonna need it."
Lord Zedd couldn't be happier from the Moon. He knew nothing could spoil a relationship such as the one between Tommy and Kimberly as a politics. Rita felt like an excellent plan for coming up. Zedd laughed at her, knowing she couldn't come up with a better plan than him, as he went to think one over. Rita already had a trick up her sleeve. She used Squatt and Baboo to take magic rope, to put a spell on Tommy and Kimberly to make them super competitors against each other. In hopes they would destroy one another once and for all. Rita wants to prove to Zedd that is she the baddest bad girl in the universe.
Tommy and Kimberly were walking home after the speeches. Aisha had agreed to become Kim's manager and they got together for some slogans to work on tonight.
"How about this, 'Win with Kim'." Tommy laughed as Kimberly gave a slogan she had just thought about. Kimberly took his arm as she laughed as well.
"Just kidding, I really love that slogan, Kim."
"Yours is great too. I am so happy we can run against each other and still get along so well." Kimberly put her arm around his waist.
"Hey, we love each other, of course we wouldn't let politics get in the way of that."
"Exactly!" Kimberly kissed his cheek. Squatt and Baboo appeared. They got on either of a path before Kimberly and Tommy and put the rope in their way. Kimberly and Tommy tripped over the rope and fell to the ground. Their eyes flickered with red as they looked at each other. Squatt and Baboo very pleased at doing Rita's job for a change. They left.
"Way to go Kimberly, thanks for tripping me!" Tommy held his hand out for her after he got up.
"ME!" Kimberly slapped his hand away as she got up herself. "We wouldn't have tripped if not for your big feet! You pushed me!"
"Guess you can't take a little competition!"
"Ha! You would like that huh! You are the one that can't take it! That's why I am going to beat you so badly in the elections!"
"Oh yea right. We'll see about that!" They both turned and left in disgust.
Rita decided to let the cast upon which she set on them fester in them for a few days, knowing the stronger the spell was, the more evil they would become against each other in the end. Zedd found out about the spell from Goldar, and was somewhat pleased his wife too initiative to take on the Rangers. He made Goldar kept an eye on the progress of Rita as he went to create an evil plan of his own.
Billy came into the school with a new set poster designs he had created for Tommy. They had already put up the dozen before; this was the shipment, arriving today. Billy found Tommy standing by one of Kim's poster.
"Oh great." Billy noticed that someone had marked on Kim's face.
"Hey, look at that. I wonder who did that?"
"Oh, geez, I don't know. But I know how to fix that." Tommy put his poster right over Kimberly's poster. "Looks great."
"Hey losers," Kimberly said walking beside Aisha as she saw the guys. "Still think you guys can beat me." Kimberly laughed.
"Oh laugh it up, miss second place. I'm gonna win, watch me prove it to you." Tommy went to a passing fellow down the hall. "Hey, you're gonna vote for me right?" Tommy put his arm around the guy. Kimberly bust in between them, pushing Tommy's arm off.
"Oh, no you're not. You're gonna vote for me right. Win with Kim," Kimberly said handing him a flyer promoting herself. She patted the fellow's stomach and sent him off.
"Win with Kim, what a joke," Tommy said. "Come on, let's go fix some more posters." Tommy walked away.
"That's right, walk away losers."
"What's going on?" Billy asked. Aisha shrugged.
"Billy, come on!" Billy walked to catch up Tommy. Kimberly went over to Tommy's poster after she waved off to the guys.
"What's up with you guys, why are you so competitive?" Kimberly pulled off some stickers from her folder and placed them on Tommy's poster. "'Don't vote for Dummy', wow, Kim, now that's really mean."
"He started it! And now I'm gonna finish it no matter what. Come on." Bulk and Skull walked around campaigning their platform for Bulk's presidency. His plan is to reveal the Power Rangers.
After watching the two feuding rangers for a few days, Rita decided to put forth the next step to her plan. She knew Tommy would be easy to attack first, so sent a note to his locker. Billy and Tommy had finished putting up his posters. Tommy headed back to his locker. He pulled off the nasty stickers put on his poster.
"Well right now the polls show you and Kimberly are practically neck to neck. You're ahead by a slim 10 percent. But as you know, polls can be misleading…and this mud slinging campaign you have against Kimberly could easily turn voters away from you."
"Well, I don't want to win by 10 percent, I want to beat her by 50 percent by election time."
"You know Tommy, I don't understand. This isn't like you, or Kimberly…you guys are best friends and…" Tommy snatched a note off his locker. He read it with a laugh.
"I just want to win, Billy. W-I-N, at any means necessary. I gotta go." Billy picked up the note dropped by Tommy. He read it.
"Tommy, come to the park, immediately. I have information that will help you destroy Kimberly. Oh no, I gotta do something." Billy rushed to call the others.
Tommy went to the park alone and was attacked by Goldar and putties. Tommy morphed to battle the putties. Billy found the others. They went to find Kimberly. Kimberly was at her locker, looking over her speech.
"Kimberly, we need to talk."
"Okay."
"This campaign has gotten completely out of control."
"I don't think anything is wrong with wanting to win at any cost." Kimberly closed her folder and put her speech away. Their communicators went off. Zordon informed the Rangers about Tommy being in trouble at the park.
"Figures, he would need me now," Kimberly said closing her locker. They looked around and morphed out. They found Tommy in trouble and went to help. Kimberly groaned. "Oh, why can't he do anything right? I'll save him." She rushed to deal with the putties attacking Tommy.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing? I don't need your help!"
"You're useless, let me handle this myself," Kimberly said pointing at Tommy. He pushed her arm away, taking down a puttie in return.
"From you! Yeah right!"
"Yes me! You arrogant airhead!" Tommy walked away. A putty jumped at Tommy, missing and falling to the ground. "Get back here!" Kimberly stomped, kicking the putty and running after Tommy. "How dare you walk away from me when I am talking to you!"
"Oh yeah." Tommy mocked her.
"Typical, typical, Tommy, block-headed behavior."
"Who's the block-head?"
"You are!"
"You're out of your mind!" Goldar stood between the arguing twosome.
"Can't take the heat, huh?"
"Yeah right!"
"Ooh, am I more than you can't handle."
"Whatever… go back to the mall."
"Excuse me…" Goldar tapped Kim's shoulder.
"Buzz off! I am talking to Mr. Runner-up here, and you know it, don't ya!"
"I'll tell you what I do know…"
"This is ridiculous! Alright!" Goldar grabbed Kim's shoulder and punched her aside. Kimberly groaned as she hit the ground
"Hey!" 2 putties grabbed Tommy and Goldar took Saba. Goldar walked away with Saba.
"Oh no, look! Goldar's got Saba!" Kimberly looked up to see Tommy running after Goldar. She defeated the putties around her.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing pal?" Kimberly took off running as well.
"Leave this to the professional!"
"I'll get Saba back!"
"I got it!"
"Stop right there, Goldar!" They ran into each other.
"Oh way to go, Kim! You blew things again!"
"Me! I would have had him by now, if you didn't get in my way!"
"Why don't you just stay out of this?!"
"Oh, really, wasn't it your fault about losing Saba in the first place.." Kimberly pointed to his chest. Tommy got in her face.
"Hey, hey! Guys stop it!" The other Rangers came to pull the two apart. Goldar used Saba against the rangers and they had to teleport out.
Tommy was not happy as they arrived to the Command Center.
"Goldar has taken Saba," Adam informed Zordon.
"Zordon! I would have had it, if it wasn't for this one!" Kimberly laughed as Tommy pointed at her.
"Yeah well, your ponytail is too tight, mister, because you are way off. I had him."
"You know I had it up to here with you!" Kimberly gasped at his hand right above her head, but below his chin.
"Hey guys! Knock it off! Zordon, is there any way, Kimberly and Tommy could be under some type of spell."
"ALPHA, PLEASE DO A BIOSCAN OF KIMBERLY AND TOMMY."
"Right away, Zordon." Alpha picked up the scanner. "Aiyayaya, Billy is right. The Rangers are under a spell."
"Thank goodness," Aisha said. "What can we do about it?"
"THERE IS ONLY ONE SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM. TOMMY, KIMBERLY, ONLY BY SMELLING THE ROSES, SYMBOLS OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP TO COMBACT RITA'S SPELL." Billy and Aisha picked up the small bouquets of roses.
"I don't mean to be a jerk, Zordon, but…"
"Well, you have a had time not trying…"
"Hey, listen. I have had enough of you!"
"Guys, please. Just smell the roses." Aisha handed hers to Tommy. He took it. "Do it for the team."
"I'm only doing this for the Rangers."
"Me too," Kimberly said taking the roses from Billy. They both took deep sniffs of the roses. The spell was released. Kimberly shook her head with Tommy.
"Oh man. Kimberly, what was I thinking?"
"We said some pretty harsh things, huh." Kimberly smiled looking at her friends and finally Tommy.
"Kim, I'm so sorry."
"Me too. I can't believe how horrible I was to you."
"You know I would never do anything to hurt you," Tommy said.
"Of course I do." They kissed. "I'm sorry too." They smiled at each other. Tommy took his roses and ran them under her chin. She laughed. The alarm went off. Rita was in the park about to call upon the Tiger zord, with Saba, she could control it. Billy thought of an idea to create a magnet and steal Saba back. Alpha went to work on that with Tommy, as the other Rangers dealt with Rita and her goons. Rita called the zord forth, the Rangers called forward their Megazord. Tiger zord and the Megazord battled. Alpha gave Tommy the magnet. Tommy sneaked up behind Rita and took back Saba. Rita left in anger. Zedd laughed at Rita, knowing she would fail.
At the election speeches, Kimberly was the second last candidate to speak. All around the crowd of students were posters promoting their pride for Kimberly, a fellow for Tommy and Mark, and none of Bulk. Kimberly took a deep breath and gave her speech.
"In conclusion, I will strive to be the best student President, Angel Grove High has ever had." The crowd cheered and clapped as Kimberly stepped down from the podium. Tommy and Kimberly held hands briefly before she went to take her seat. Tommy went to make his final speech.
"Well, um, I know you guys were expecting me to say that the best man for the job is me. I'm sorry, Billy, we had a great speech, but I was really listening to Kimberly's speech. And the best person for student President is well, standing right next to me." Kimberly gasped. "Our school needs Kimberly. She really has great ideas and best skills to get the job done. She had really done her homework on this campaign. She has addressed all the tough issues, even the minors. She has a great plan to solve all the problems facing our school. She would make an incredible President, one I would be proud to vote for. That's why, I'll be voting her and I think you all should do the same." Kimberly covered her mouth. "Let's hear it, for Kimberly!" Tommy started clapping and looked back at Kimberly. She smiled and walked back over to him. They hugged tightly. Bulk and Skull came up to the podium. Skull arrived, carrying around a drum to beat for Bulk's campaign. Tommy put his arm around Kimberly as they stood in the background away from the two clowns. Bulk went to give his speech, earning laughter from the students in the process as Skull stumbled around with the huge drum on his stomach and back.
Kimberly and Tommy were walking around, waiting on the ballots to be counted. They held hands as they walked around. Kimberly stopped Tommy.
"So, um. Why did you really drop out the race Tommy?"
"Hearing your speech really made me realize something…"
"What's that?"
"Winning and losing is not important. It's having the best person needed to get the job accomplished done that is really what matters. And I really think that is you," Tommy said.
"Oh! I'm just glad this whole thing is over with." Kimberly ran her hands pass Tommy's stomach and hugged him. Her head buried into his chest. Tommy smiled and hugged her just as tight.
"You're going to make the best student president, Madame President." Kimberly laughed. Principal Caplan went to the podium to announce the winner.
"Attention everyone, attention! I have the results of the final ballot. And the new President for Angel Grove High starting this summer is….Kimberly Hart!"
"Yes!" Everyone cheered. Kimberly and Aisha hugged first. Kimberly hugged her friends next, as Tommy slightly disappeared. Kimberly looked back for Tommy after hugging Rocky. Bulk and Skull were a bit upset, Bulk even demanding a recount. He was shocked to find he had 1 vote, Skull had even voted for Kimberly, not Bulk.
"Congratulations, Madame President," Aisha said. Kimberly smiled.
"Yes, we did it, ha!" They held hands. Tommy appeared behind her.
"To Kimberly," Tommy said holding up a rose. "The best person for the job." Kimberly took the rose and smelt it. Tommy kissed Kim's cheek. Everyone smiled at the couple. Kimberly blushed and hugged Tommy.
About a week later
Tommy woke up to the sound of a buzz. Kimberly was resting on his chest as he reached over and turned the alarm off. She moaned and pouted her lips, pulling her eyes from the sun. He smiled and kissed her forehead. Kimberly smiled and pulled away.
"Yucky! Morning breath!" Tommy laughed as he pulled the covers over their heads and got on top of her.
"Yours isn't exactly minty fresh, Beautiful." His mouth lingering around her neck and chin. Tommy's mouth covered her rosy left nipple finally. Kimberly moaned, holding his head, rubbing his back. Tommy looked up at Kimberly, biting around her breasts before coming back to her lips.
"Ew…."
"Oh hush."
"Well, I'm not kissing you with funky breath again," Kimberly said giggling as his tongue tickled her ear. They kissed over and over, not caring about each other's breaths. Kimberly ran her hands up and down his sides as he pressed against her. Kim's mother opened the door and found moaning from underneath the covers. She cleared her throat and watched as Kim and Tommy's head came up from the covers slowly.
"Morning Mommy."
"Morning, Mrs. Dumas." Tommy and Kimberly sat there, holding the covers to their necks.
"You two have school. Don't be late again." Kimberly smiled.
"We're coming, Mommy." Kim's mother closed the door.
"Your mother just swore me to hell again." Kimberly laughed. Tommy helped Kimberly from the bed. She wrapped her pink towel around her, as Tommy put her pink robe around his naked body. Kimberly laughed.
"What?"
"Nothing, pink looks good on you." Tommy glared at her.
"Come on." They went to shower and change for school.
Kimberly packed a gymnast outfit, because she knew she would want to train today. Tommy was finished and eating breakfast as Kimberly came down.
"Eating without me?"
"You took too long," Tommy said. Kim reached down for a bite and Tommy gave her some of his eggs and pancakes. Tommy went to give her some more but she stopped his hand.
"I'm making you some more Kimberly, if you give me 5 minutes," Pierre said.
"Nah, that's fine Pierre. I can get an orange or some grapes."
"No, you need to eat something productive," Kim's mother said.
"I'm fine, Mom. Not really hungry."
"You will at least eat some eggs and toast."
"I said no, gosh!" Kimberly yelled picking up her bags. "Can we go?"
"I'm not finished." Kimberly looked at Tommy. Tommy looked up. He hopped up, quickly stuffing his mouth and got up as Kimberly was about out the door.
"Tommy!" Kimberly called from the door.
"Thanks for breakfast," Tommy said rushing after Kim. She tossed her things into his backseat.
"So, are you going to tell me what happened in there?"
"What?!"
"You blew up at your mother."
"NO, I didn't!"
"Now you are yelling at me."
"Well, gosh! I just wasn't that hungry! She acts like I should eat like 5 meals a day." Kimberly closed the door after she got in. Tommy followed.
"You are a very active person. You do gymnastic, cheerleading, very tiring…"
"Making love to you is like another sport that will never be tiring," Kimberly said taking his hand. He smiled and kissed the back of her hand.
"Same here." They pulled into school about 10 minutes earlier. Kim got her things for class and put away her gym bag. Tommy stood behind her after kissing her neck, his hands on her waist as the others came by.
"Today we get our grades from our assignment we did last week," Adam said with a smile.
"I'll bet 5 bucks I have to lowest grade, Rocky said. Kimberly shook her head.
"Oh Rocky. Take joy in knowing, at least you beat Bulk and Skull." Rocky smiled at Kimberly.
"Now there is some good news about having those two around." Everyone laughed.
School was just a half-day today, to give more time to setting up for this afternoon's special event. The school was giving it annual Book Sale to promote money for the library. Aisha was having trouble deciding what book to pick since there was so many. A friend called Aisha over to the fashion side. Aisha hurried to that section. Rocky, Adam and Billy laughed and continued on. Kimberly and Tommy were over at another side, going through the stacks of books. Kimberly was checking the fairytale section.
"I love fairytales. I always wanted to be a princess and get rescued by a handsome prince on a white horse," Kimberly said holding a book to her chest.
"Oh, what about a white tiger?"
"That would work." Tommy and Kimberly smiled at each other. Kimberly gasped as she found a book.
"What is it? Are you okay?"
"Oh my gosh! This book!"
"Grumble the Magic Elf?" Tommy asked putting down the books in his hand.
"Yes! My Dad used to read this story to me all the time when I was a little girl." Kimberly laughed. "Oh, this brings back so many memories! I just loved it so much." Kimberly held the book with a sigh.
"Well, then. You should have it." Tommy pulled out 5 bucks from his wallet. He handed the money over. Kimberly smiled.
"Oh Tommy! You are so great. Thank you, thank you so much!" Kimberly kissed his cheek.
"No problem." Tommy smiled. Tommy and Kimberly look through the book together.
"Ain't it cute?"
"Yeah." Tommy put his arm around her.
"You are so sweet." Kimberly went to kiss his cheek again, but Tommy moved his head. Kimberly laughed as she pulled away. They both smiled.
Rita laughed from the Moon about Kim's love of fairytales. She decides it would be great to create a story of her own and get rid of the Power Rangers. She decides to take Kim's precious book and trap the rangers in that book. Goldar didn't want Rita doing anything without Zedd's approval first, but Zedd was napping, so Rita didn't care.
Kimberly was helping Tommy find a book. She was holding her book to her chest. Tommy put down a few books after thinking it over.
"How about that one?" Kimberly asked.
"Nah, come on." Tommy led Kimberly over to Rocky.
"Hey, I just brought a great book on mediations. Supposed to help with the martial arts."
"Oh great!" Tommy took the book. "Can I read it when you're done?"
"Uh sure." Ms. Applebee took a break to talk to the 3. She was happy about their book selections.
"Remember, the more books we sell, the better benefits for the library!" She walked away. Kimberly, Rocky and Tommy laughed.
"Where are the others?" Kimberly asked.
"Oh, they already found books and headed to the Youth Center. I was on my way there, you two want to come?" Kimberly and Tommy looked at each other and shrugged.
"Sure," Kimberly said.
"Let's go." Bulk and Skull even found books. Bulk found one on monster making to draw out the rangers.
Tommy, Kimberly and Rocky walked through the park on their way to the Youth Center.
"Tommy, I am so happy we found this book!" Rita zapped the book from the Moon. Kimberly gasped as it turned red in her hands. "Whoa!" The book flew in the air and landed in the trash.
"Then why are you throwing it away?" Tommy asked.
"I didn't!" Kimberly grabbed his arm. "It's just flew out my hands." Kimberly pulled him with her, as she went over to the trashcan. "Wow, it wasn't this earlier!" Rocky stood beside her. "What's happening!" The 3 of them were pulled into the book. "Woo!" They landed. Tommy and Rocky groaned. Kimberly sat up slowly, as the guys were already standing.
"Where are we?"
"This place seems really familiar," Kimberly said standing up. She looked around.
"It does?" Kimberly gasped and grabbed Rocky and Tommy's arms as she showed them behind her.
"Oh my gosh! We're inside my book!"
"Oh man, we better call for help." Tommy brought up his communicator. "Zordon, come in. This is Tommy."
"Nothing? We're completely shut off." They all looked around.
"Maybe we could just morph," Rocky said.
"That won't do us any good. We're still stuck in here." After a few moments, Rocky looked around.
"Did you guys hear something?" Grumble the Elf appeared. Everyone gasped. Tommy looked to Kimberly.
"We really are in my storybook."
"Oh, this is just too weird."
"Alright, who are you, what are you doing here? What do you want?"
"Hi, I'm Kimberly, that's Tommy and that's Rocky. And you're…Grumble…"
"Grumble the Elf, what's it to ya girly?"
"Wow, what's with him?" Tommy asked.
"An evil magician put a spell on Grumble and made him into a grouch. He must delivery all these toys to the orphan kids if he ever wants to be happy again."
"What are you some type of expert gossip on my story or something?"
"I have heard the story a hundred times."
"So, what do you want a medal?" Kimberly slightly sighed. "Well, I got something for you. Get out of my way!" Grumble pushed Kimberly aside and went to drag the huge cart filled with toys away.
"Hey, maybe if we follow him, we'll find a way out of here."
"It's worth a try."
"Everybody is butting into my business!"
"Let's go."
Aisha looked up to see the other still hadn't come. Zedd saw what his wife did without him, but wasn't upset. He decided to help it out. He knew that if the Elf never delivered the toys, then the book could never be finished. He decided to send some putties to steal the toys from the Elf and trap the Rangers inside forever.
Kimberly, Tommy and Rocky raced after the Elf.
"Grumble, wait!"
"We need your help to get to the end of the book."
"What do I look like a tour guide? Go find the end of the book yourselves."
"Oh man, hold on." Tommy and Kimberly jump in front of Grumble to stop him. "Please, we need your help."
"Help?"
"Yeah, maybe there is someway, we can help you." Putties appear. Everyone gasped.
"I think we need to help ourselves, first," Kimberly said. They went to fight the putties, but the putties didn't attack them.
"They want the toys!" Rocky said. Kimberly gasped.
"Oh no! If they take the toys, then the story will never end, and we will get out of here." The Putties were able to steal the toys before Tommy and Rocky could lay a hand on them.
"They've taken the toys!"
"Oh no!"
"Oh this is just great! Now, I have no toys, all the kids are going to be disappointed and I have you 3 to thank for that. I'm gonna stay grumpy forever now, thank you very much." Grumble pushed his way past the Rangers and continued on. Kimberly sat down. They all stood around thinking of solutions.
"You guys, this is all my fault," Kimberly said.
"No, it's not Kim. The only 2 people to blame here for this is..." Tommy stood next to her.
"Rita and Zedd."
"What now?" Kimberly asked. "How do we get out of here?"
"Well, the only one that can help us is the Elf, but he's gone."
"I say we catch up with the Elf and see if maybe there is another way."
"You're right. Okay, let's go." Kimberly got up. She took Tommy's hand and they raced after the Elf.
Aisha stood up after giving Ernie the dirty glasses.
"You guys, Tommy is always late, but Kimberly and Rocky should have been here by now."
"I agree. Something could be wrong," Adam said.
"Maybe we should check back at the book fair," Billy said.
"Yeah." They left to head back to school. Aisha asked Ms. Applebee about the others, but she said they had left already.
"Okay, now I am worried."
"Let's try and contact them." They went over to a secluded corner. Billy called for the others, but got no answer.
"Billy, I don't like this," Aisha said. "I am really worried."
"Let's go to the Command Center," Billy said.
"Right." Billy, Adam and Aisha find out the other 3 rangers missing, thanks to probably Rita and Zedd. Billy helped Alpha locate the others through the communicators. They couldn't figure out where the other Rangers were, but they knew it wasn't Angel Grove. Alpha was able to find out the others were in some book. The only way to save them was to locate the book and have him analyze it.
Bulk and Skull were at Skull's garage working on the creations of their monster. Skull got the books mixed up with his Thanksgiving book, but because he had no brains, continued working on the monster as Bulk went to find a power source.
Rocky, Tommy and Kimberly came to an icy part of the book.
"Guys, I think we're lost," Tommy said rubbing his arms.
"Yeah, and we're not dressed for the season either."
"We're not lost, but, I don't think you guys want to know where we are." A loud stomp came. Kimberly gasped. "Whoa!" Loud stomping could be heard coming closer. "Whoa!"
"Kim, what is it? What's going on?" The ground shook terribly, shaking the Rangers off their feet.
"Woo!" Kimberly dropped to the ground with the others. "You guys, there is an evil snow monster in this part of the book. He's really ugly! And guess what, he doesn't like uninvited guests!"
"Oh perfect it!" They all turned to see the Snow creature stomping toward them.
"Pardon the chilly reception, but I don't recall asking any of you to come and make snow angels in my valley! Now, I'm going to have to keep you 3 on ice."
"It's gonna be impossible to outrun him on this ice."
"We better so something."
"Right." They pulled out their morphers. "It's Morphing Time!" Nothing happened.
"What's going on?" Kimberly asked looking at her morpher.
"It must be the cold. They're frozen!"
"What are we going to do?" Tommy and the others rush to run away to hide. The snow monster picked up rocks to throw at the Rangers. Kimberly was hiding behind one rock.
"I'm gonna crush you into snow cones!"
"Come on, Kim!" She gasped and took off for Tommy's hand as the monster threw a rock at her. Tommy caught her.
"There's gotta be a way to get the morphers to work," Tommy said.
"Yeah, but how?"
"I don't know. But if we don't think about something soon, this story is not going to have a very unhappy ending." The Snow monster sent off an avalanche of snow after getting knocked to the ground by Tommy and Rocky.
"I can't see anything!"
"Woah! What's going on?"
"It's an avalanche!" Kimberly screamed. Snow falling from everywhere collapsed around the 3 of them.
"Kimberly!"
"Tommy!" Tommy grabbed Kimberly, holding her tight against him.
"Rocky!"
"We're going down!" Kimberly screamed again, and clung to Tommy.
Oooh, do the Rangers survive the defrost ahead? And will they get out the book? Until next time! Babye!