AN: thanks for all your support up until now. this series is my first fan fiction so as you would guess Writers Block as been a major issue. this next chapter is the longest by far and it moves the story line forward a bit. the Action starts Now. Enjoy!

Back to Action

The next few days were a blur. He called in sick to work. Randall did not seem to care as there had not been any major issues that had come up. Then came the weekend. Dom was going to get discharged from the hospital. Most of the rangers had come and gone wishing Dom well but they knew better than to stay in a town that had an active ranger team in order to prevent distractions as well as get caught up in the fight. Kat came by herself to pick up Dom for the Hospital. She had walked into the room as he was putting his black shirt on. she caught a glimpse of the scar that the sword wound left and cringed. He was shocked to see her here by herself and was glad that she was trying to move forward with her life. he went over and hugged her and gave her a kiss on the forehead.

"Hey Kitty. Ready to get me outta here?" Dom asked

"You bet, the show is about to start. The others were on there way over to Tommy's house. I never heard Trini excited about sparring with other people."

"Good, he deserves everything he gets though the guys might have a little problem with him."

"Kim said she is joining in too." Kat said smiling

"Guess that means Billy is on medical standby just in case something happens." Dom said

"And the kids are planning on joining in." Kat said

"Cool maybe I should join in to. This incident made me realize that I need to get back into shape."

"Dom, you better take it easy." Kat warned

"I will. That's why I will only spar if asked or if Conner needs to be taken down a peg or two. Though I think that Kim should get that honor. From what I have seen he acts like idiot red."

"Oh yeah he does he tried to quit to go play soccer. Glad he decided to stay."

"anything interesting going on?"

"not here but Jason is going through a lot right now."

Why what happened."

"Emily has been cheating on him with someone from her old gang. He filed for divorce."
"Shit"

"He got custody of Trevor. Tommy had to calm him down when he had walked in on her and the guy. He broke the guys arm. Wes had to bail him out. He is sleeping in one of tommy's guest room."

"Well. I can take someone into my house to prevent overcrowding. May you should you should move in with me." Dom said

"I don't know" Kat asked

"I have a guest room you can use. Besides we are both adults and Tommy has enough on his plate. Besides Kim will bug you to move in with me. She is persistent you know." Dom laughed

"that she is. Well we are almost there." Kat said.

Dom and Kat arrived at Tommy's house. Renée ran out the front door to greet them. Renée hugged them and Dom held Kat's hand as they walked to the back yard. They walked into the backyard. Everyone back there was in comfortable clothing wearing their colors that they use to. Those who had two or more colors wore them though tommy was only in black due to him being an active ranger. Jason was sitting next to his son. Dom Knew that Jason and Emily were having problems. Dom went over to Jason and gave him a reassuring pat on the back and hugged Trevor.

Rocky and Adam were sparring against Connor and Ethan respectively. Kira was sparring against Trini. Tommy and Kim were sparring against each other while mocking each the looks of tommy he had already had a couple of spars against the others. Zack and Billy were sparing. Tanya and Aisha just finished their session. The three kids were having a hard time keeping up with these older opponents. Dom just laughed at the Sight. A few minutes later Hayley walked out.

"well everything seems to be in working order except the megazord merging mechanism is worn out. Until I can figure out how to fix it no megazord."

"How are we going to fight without the megazord." Ethan asked

"we will just have to make do." Connor said

"Hayley, what kind of Damage does the module have." Billy asked

"overheating and cracks throughout. The self-repair mechanism only delays the problem. Next change to megazord will damage the systems." Hayley

"Well, until it gets fixed that means more fight training." Tommy said

"Well handsome maybe they need new opponents." Kim said Happily

"Connor fights Kim." Dom said. The older group laughs

"Why should I fight a girl. She does not look like she can fight." Connor said haughtily

"what was that rookie?" Kim said angrily. Kim marched up to Connor

"That was easy." Dom whispered. Kat elbowed him snickering

"since Connor has an opponent who should we fight." Ethan said

"since Connor put his foot in his mouth. I will train you Ethan. And Zack can help." Jason said getting up.

"you up to it?" Tommy asked

"Yeah, I need to move on." Jason said with a sigh

"Okay young man let's do this." Zack said enthused

"What about me?" Kira asked

"why don't you train with Adam? Each former ranger has a different fighting style. He has an adaptive form."

"what are you going to do Dom?" Kat asked

"Going to get a little dirty." Dom said

"You are going to work on the zords aren't you." Tommy said

"why not. besides you guys are going to need the megazord. Dom said

"can you handle it?" Hayley asked

"no problem. I worked on the old dinozords before and these seem to have similar construction. I go check it out. You guys have fun."

Dom walked into the secret basement then went into the Zord hanger. The bio-zords were in their respective spots. They all eyed him and determined that he was not a threat. Dom went over to the nearby computer and pen up a diagram of the thundersaurus Megazord. He saw that not only was the transforming couplings damaged there was damage to some of the control systems of the zords. Dom knew that Hayley and tommy were doing the best they could but the zords were not all that powerful from what he had seen. He ran a diagnostic on the three machines and found that there power levels could be brought up to a higher level. He just needed to make some minor adjustments. Billy then walked in with Trini.

"Dom, already getting to work I see." Billy said

"You find out what caused the damage" Trini said

"yeah I did. Tommy put the zords together well but the megazord sequence was made after the fact. The original was made for mega zord first and the individual zords second."

"think you can fix it?" Billy said

"I can. Billy you can help me if you want to. Trini can watch if she wants."

"why can't I help?" Trini asked

"you are pregnant aren't you?" Dom asked. Billy and Trini jumed back at what he said

"you are the first one to find out." Trini said

"I kind of figured that out." Dom chuckled

"why is that?" Trini

"Kim did not go valley girl on us." They laughed

"what needs to be done?"

"I need I heat retaining polymer that can handle the energy that comes from the conversion process."

"metal based" Billy asked

"preferred. Maybe a Tungsten alloy. The alloy that the original zords were made of was similar. The problem is that it will reduced stability."

"I agree." Hayley walked in

"well Balance is key. The problem is that the zords use neuro-functions to move" Dom said

"how would we work around that?" Trini asked

"I could try and replicate the sequencer from the Tyrannosaurus dinozord

"How?" Hayley asked

"I know what it looks like. Hayley can you create a Tungsten alloy that conducts electricity but is sturdy."

" will that work."

"we can try. We can also recreate the metal that the zords were made of."

"that might work. Dom do you remember the combination of metals." Hayley asked

"Yeah. Here" Dom handed her a paper.

"Wow down to the last percent. Very good." Hayley said surprised

The four people got to work and after a hour the metal was recreated. Dom went to work on stabilizing it while Hayley got the sequencers off the three zords. They would also work with any new zord they would find. Trini sat down next to her husband. Hayley went to get water for the four of them.

"just like old times Dom." Trini said

"Yeah the rangers sitting here watching you fix their zords." Billy said

"well these are going to be easier to work with. I had nothing to work with when I worked on the dinozords. The thunderzords were easier. Ninja Zords were a nightmare. Shogun zords had no problems. Zeo and Super Zeo had advance self-repair capabilities. Each team had zords that were created different ways."
"don't forget that you built the turbo zords and their secondary ones." Billy said with a smile

"yet they were easily destroyed." Dom said as he was attaching the last part.

"I heard from the Space team that you ripped them a new one when you found out." Trini laughed
"just as bad as when I yelled at you guys when the thunder zords were destroyed." Dom said sighing

"we said we were sorry." Billy said

"I heard about that." Hayley walked back in. "tommy said he had never seen Dom that mad ever."

"you would be too if you had spent three days straight repairing it after a month's worth of battles. And done. Hayley can you bring the others in here." Dom said as he jumped down. Billy handed him a towel. The Teens walked in with the older generation of rangers after them. Anglea had shown up after work.

"well I see some things never change." Tommy said

"it's fixed. There should also be a power increase. Can you guys hop in so you can feel out the differences." Dom said "Just don't break them."

"come on dude its me." Connor said confidently

"You break it and the ass kicking you just got from kim will be nothing."

"you weren't even out there." Ethan said

"Please, it's Kim. Her older brother and baby daddy were the ones that taught her how to fight. She can handle herself." Ethan laughed

"why thank you Dom. You are one of the few guys that admit that I am strong." Kim said happily.

"From what Karone told me Dom has gotten his butt kicked a lot. Were most of the people picked a fight with rangers." Kira asked

"there's Karone, Jen, Taylor, Kim, Trini, and Kat" Tommy said

"Pinks and Yellows." Dom looked away

"Well, we love you to death but sometimes you make us mad." Trini said laughing

"how did you get Jen and Taylor mad at you by the way?" Tommy asked not knowing the answer

"21st birthday, Jason thought it would be fun to take me out for drinks. He left me at the Bar and I got arrested for involvement in a bar fight. The officers called Wes and Eric. They thought it would be funny if Jen and Taylor picked me up. I don't rememeber the rest. I woke up and Eric and Wes were laughing at my swollen face. They said Jen did it.

"that's what happened?" Jason said laughing

"Yeah. They remind me every time to never start a fight." Dom shook his head.

"well enough of the reminiscing. Let's do this." Connor Said

The three teens got into their zords. Almost immedently the Zords responsed to their touch and awoke. Hayley went over to the computer and saw that their was a 13% increase in output. The Megazord transformation was also okay. The teens were excited Dom walked over and sat down. Kat walked up to him with a change of clothes

"You need a shower Dom. You stink." Kat said Dom stuck out his tongue

"Tommy can I use the shower upstairs?" he asked

"sure. Just don't take to long. The water heater here is small." Tommy said

"that is going to change." Kim said low. Everyone chuckled

Dom went up to the shower and changed out of his jeans and polo. After his shower he changed into a pair of sweat pants and a black t-shirt. He walked back outside and they were back to sparring. Ethan was sparring against Tanya. Aisha and Rocky had to leave to go home. Adam was sparring aginst Kira. Connor was just standing there. Zack and his wife had left. The only people left were Kim, Kat, Tommy, Jason, Trini, Billy, Dom, Adam, and Tanya as well as the three kids. Connor still seem to act cocky but Dom knew that was from being a red. Dom sat down on the porch and Began to close his eyes. He had not slept well in the last couple of days. Kat saw this and went over and sat with him while the others continued training. After a while the teens went home and the others were still sparring. Trevor was came out with Renée. Trevor ran over to his dad. Renée ran to her parents with tommy picked her up.

"daddy look, uncle Dom fell asleep and so did aunt Kat." Tommy looked over kat had curled up to Dom. Kim went in to grab a camera and took a picture.

"time to black mail." Kim said smiling. Tommy just shook his head

"he already asked me." Kat said sleepily

"Damn." Kim said

"Mommy cussed." Renée said

"Sorry honey."

"Dom figured that you would try to black mail us with something. He asked me to move into his guest bedroom."

"the guest bedroom? Why not the main room?" Kim asked slyly

"we are going to take things slow. Dom wants me to move in with him and we will see how it goes.

The next day Kat had moved out if Tommy's house and into Dom's guest room. Dom was at work when the monsters attacked the school. Dom got some students out of the way. Connor Kira and Ethan managed to find to find a place to morph. Dom kept all the other students away. Tommy came later morphed.

"Zeltrax, guess you have not learned your lesson yet." Tommy said

"Black ranger you are mine today." Zeltrax said

"Focus, we only need Tommy, the others don't matter." Elsa said

The rangers started to fight Elsa and Zeltrax. Dom watched making sure that the students were not going to get involved. All of a sudden a white flash came down onto the field. There was a white ranger and by the looks of it he was evil. Tommy did the best he could but the appearance of the evil ranger unsettled him. Elsa shot tommy with a ray and he dropped. Elsa then grabbed something a shot it with the ray. It item flashed green and out of the flash came a green ranger. Dom knew who it was. It was Dragon, the evil green ranger. They had managed to separate tommy's darkside from him. Connor and the others were shocked but they continued fighting.

"guys get out of there now." Dom yelled

"we can take them." Connor said.

"Connor , you listen to me. You guys are not ready for something like this. Get out now."

"I agree with Dom you guys are not ready for evil rangers." Hayley chimed in

"you guys are pathentic." Dragon said. Dom ran out of his hiding place when Connor, ethan and Kira were thrown back. He knew tommy's fighting style well enough but never spared when he was dragon.

"Dragon, it's been awhile." Dom said scowling.

"Dom, you think a weakling like you can handle the power of the dragonzord?" Dragon laughed evilly.

"Dom can you hold on for a few seconds. I will get youy guys out of there." Hayley said

"you guys are weak." Dragon and the white ranger left with Zeltrax and Elsa. A invisa-portal opened and Dom and the others landed in the Dino liar. Kim was there with Kat. Dom sank to the ground panting due to the difficulty of the fight. He got up and punched Connor. The others were surprised

"you are an idiot. You could have died." Dom said angrily walking away

"what exactly happened?" Hayley asked

"they drained the evil energy from Tommy and recreated the green dragon power." Dom said sitting down. Kim and Kat got tommy over to the med table. Jason ran in.

"I saw the fight on tv. Was that really the green ranger?" Jason asked

"Yeah. It's Dragon. The ranger has his personality." They all gasped

"Dragon was still a part of Tommy's soul?" Kim asked

"always has been." Dom said

"what should we do. Dr.O is out." Kira asked

"we wait and see." Hayley said

"Dom, you okay?" Kim asked

"fighting Dragon took a lot out of me. How is Tommy?" Dom said

"He's unconscious. What am I going to tell Renée." Kim said near tears

Dom looked over at Jason. Jason nodded.

"Call Dana." Dom said getting up

"OK with what how do we get ahold of her" Hayley asked

"the ranger distress system. I created it with Billy and Andros. Every former ranger has access except ninja storm."

"who you going to call." Jason asked

"Billy and Trini. Carter and Dana. Anyone else you can think of?" Dom walked over to Tommy's computer

"this is gearhead on the RDS system. Requesting yellow saber-tiger, blue wolf, fire rescue 1 and med rescue 5." Dom said into the Mic

"Blue wolf here with yellow tiger" Billy said

"fire and med rescue here." Carter said

"Gearhead here. we have a situation."

"what happened?" Billy said

"Green dragon has returned. White falcon was drained. Evil white appeared also."

"on our way just need to get a few things."

"thanks. Gearhead out."

"blue wolf out"

"fire rescue out"

Billy and Trini arrived an hour later. Trini was starting to show more. Kim was surprised. Carter and Dana arrived fifteen minutes after that. Kat answered the door

"I am here. where is Tommy?" Dana said

"Down in the Medbay. Kim is with him." Kat said

The four adults went down into the basement. The kids were sitting on the couch. Hayley was at the computer. Kim was sitting next to Tommy with Renée. Jason was in a chair with Trevor. Dom was deep in thought when he looked up and saw his friends. he got up

"What exactly happened. you said green dragon does that mean.." Billy began

"they managed to extract the remanants of the green mighty morphin ranger powers from Tommy. They managed to drag Dragon out of Tommy with it."

"Dragon? Is that why Connor has a black eye." Trini asked worried

"That was Dom." Kim said

"what? why?" Carter asked. Dom was normally calm.

"Connor went against Dom's advice and nearly got the team killed." Kat said

"I still think we could take the two evil rangers." Connor said

"two? With just the three of you? On top of which one is Dragon?" Dom was right to do what he did." Trini said

"Dom did the right thing. You guys were too young to remember what the green powers could do." Billy said

The discussion got more heated when the evil white ranger and green rangers appeared in the quarry. Connor and the others morphed to go fight. They were managing to hold on but barely. The two rangers were too much for the Dino's. Dom sighed and walked over to the middle of the room. The others were wondering what he was doing. They all heard Dulcea say Dominic now is the time. Dom looked at the others and they were wondering what he was doing. They were surprised when he got into a stance.

Dom yelled, "It's Morphin Time! Gold Ranger Power!" He morphed in front of everyone. their mouths dropped. In front of everybody in the lair stood the Gold Zeo Ranger. Jason's expression did not change.

"Dom wha…" Kim and Kat said

"Girls yell later. I have to rescue the Dino's."

"Fine. but you are going to explain everything that is going on." Jason said in his leader voice.

"will do." Dom said in a muffled tone. He teleported out

Connor and the others were fighting the evil whit ranger and the evil green ranger. They heard a thud. They were shocked to see the gold ranger standing in front of them. the gold ranger managed to knock away the white ranger and took on the green ranger

"So Dom, you managed to become a ranger. I will show you what it really means to be a ranger." Dragon said. Dom and Dragon went at it as hard as they could get. Dom knew tommy's fighting style better than the kids. After a while Dragon Back off.

"Time for Dragonzord Power." Dragon brought the dragon dagger to his lips. The six tone flute sound rang through the Quarry. A roar rang through air. The DragonZord has returned to the surface

"Shit! Connor call the zords." Dom Yelled.

Connor did what was asked and formed the Thundersaurus megazord. the Evil White Ranger stood there then tried to attack Dom. Dom held him back to prevent the Dino's from being overwhelmed. He retreated after a while. The Dino's did their best but the DragonZord was too strong. The Green ranger laughed then left leaving the megazord with moderate Damage. Then four rangers left. They arrived back at the Lair. The teens demorphed and Dom demorphed and fell to the floor. He was covered in sweat. Everyone looked at Dom. Dom Told them what Dulcea told him then fell back on the couch. Jason looked at Dom proudly. Dom was definitely the person to hold the gold power.

"Well that explains your fast recovery." Dana said

"Why did you not tell us you were a ranger?" Connor said angerly

"I did it because you guys need to learn to fend for yourselves." Dom snapped back. "You guys are a team and need to start to act like it. Kira and Ethan work well together but as the leader you need to learn to work with others. Having good individual skills is important but the key to being a ranger is teamwork. This team has it the hardest because you three could not be any more different. Tommy and I might not always be here. I was given the power because the previous owner Trey has decided to retire. Trey figured I would be the one who could use it to its fullest without risking injury. I received this power the day after my attack."

"Dom's right Connor. There is more to being a red then being powerful. You are usually the leader, therefore you are the one responsible for your team." Jason said. "Right Carter"

"Right."Carter added

"I agree." Tommy had woken up.

"About time handsome." Kim said smiling with tearsin her eyes

"Daddy!" Renée ran to him and hugged him

"Hey princess. And hello to you Beautiful." Tommy kissed Kim.

"you okay Tommy?" Dom and Jason asked

"Yeah, Tobias woke me up." Kim and Dom were shocked

"he's still around?" Dom asked

"guess so" tommy said

"that means the others are too." Everyone besides Kim, Tommy, and Dom was confused

"Wait are you talking about your animal spirits?" Jason asked

"Yep. Tobias is my falcon spirit. The others were also able to hear the names of their animals." Tommy said

"they also help control our zords." Kim said

"Weren't most of your zords destroyed." Hayley asked

"he was the only ninja zord that was not destroyed." Dom said "besides the falcon ninja zord. The only other zord of the original's not destroyed was the dragonzord. The other dinozords which were also the thunderzords as well as the shogun and ninja zords were all destroyed."

"What about the Zeo and Super Zeo Zords?" Ethan asked

"Still in My Zord bay." Dom said with a smile

"wait your zord bay?" Trini asked

"Forget that I lived in there full time. I know a certain couple forgot a one point." Dom pointed at Tommy and Kim who blushed. The Kids started gagging while all the adults laughed "Worse night ever."

"So Kim and Tommy did the nasty in the Zord Bay Huh?" Trini said laughing

"Not in the zord bay it was in the tigerzord." Dom said deadpanned. "I heard the noises and told them to do it somewhere else. Zordon had contacted me about it."

"ZORDON KNEW?!" Kim and Tommy yelled

"oh he knew. That was one of the most awkward conversations I have ever had." Dom said shaking he head."anyways back to the situation how should we handle this tommy? Connor maybe the leader but you are the mentor." Dom said

"let's not forget the fact that you are a ranger and did not tell us." Kim said narrowing her eyes. "and you have the gold Zeo powers from what I understand nearly killed Jason."

"Dom, so Dulcea told me the truth then." Tommy said looking at his friend

"it was her idea and trey's. they thought Mesogog might pull something with the green ranger coin he found. Trey decided to retire and gave the powers to me. I did not want to worry you guys." He looked over at Kat who had a hurt look on her face. "Sorry I did not tell you this sooner but I need to make sure we had an ace in the hole if the managed to extract the green powers from Tommy."

"I know Dom." Kat said looking back at her future boyfriend

"Good thing you got them. Man that green ranger has a nasty temper. He did not seem human but the white one did." Ethan spoke up

"He is." Dom said

"Tommy and Dominic can you guys get over here so I can examine you two." Dana said

"well everything checks out." She said after a while

"the city is all clear." Hayley said as she got up and left

"thanks Hayley. See you later." Tommy said

Kim and Jason put the kids to bed and came back down stairs. Connor was still angry that Dom butted in.

"how are we going to handle two evil rangers. From I have seen at most there ever has been is one." Kira said

"we can take them." Connor said haughtily. Tommy shook his head

"you guys have little experience when it comes to fighting. When the others fought me they already had half a year of ranger duty done." He looked over at Jason and Kim'

"we did and it still took us almost two weeks to convert him back to good. the other evil rangers took a lot less time. Dragon is not an opponent that can be underestimated." Jason said

"There is also the fact that there was 5 of us and we had been friends for a long time and knew each other's style." Kim said

"I was evil for a three weeks and it took a lot to bring me back to normal." Kat said

"the problem is not the green ranger. We can deal with him when the time comes but the white one. He is human that means he may just be evil or he may be under some kind of spell." Dom said

"that means we can't destroy him." Tommy said. They all looked at each other trying to figure out what to do.