Chapter Four-A Journey Through Time
The Rangers and Will ate peacefully for about ten minutes, before they heard the alarm.
"Aw… Man." Conner groaned placing his sandwich on his napkins.
"Never any peace." Ethan joined as the two stood and stretched.
"I remember those days." Will said fondly. He was already at the computer.
"Don't complain." Tommy said joining his friend at the computer. "You'll miss it when it's over."
"Is that why you keep coming back?" Kira jibbed as the teens circled the adults.
Will already had the cause of the disturbance on the large flat screen.
Elsa and a bunch of tyrannodrones were gathered in a secluded wooded area of Reefside.
They seemed to be searching for something.
"Billy, scan the area and see if you can find any abnormal energies. Possibly something connected to the dino gems." Tommy ordered.
"Already ahead of you."
Will typed something into the system and a concentrated frown appeared on his face.
"These readings are strange."
"What are they?" Ethan asked not recognizing the wave lengths on the screen. He and Hayley had never came across anything like them in all their time as the brains of the Dino Thunder team.
Will pushed his glasses and typed some more and then looked at the screen.
"I haven't seen readings like these since I was a Ranger."
"Billy, what are they?" Tommy asked.
"A time portal, but it's not like the one our Pink Ranger fell through. This one is not fully open. Some power is missing from it."
"So, that's good, right?" Kira squeezed Conner's arm nervously.
"Not if Elsa gets enough power." Dr. Oliver said looking back at the two. A frown appeared on his face before he realized Trent didn't noticed how close Kira was to Conner.
The teens looked at one another knowing what their teacher was going to say next.
"Come on guys, we have to get there and stop them." Tommy said.
The ranger moved to their vehicles. The took their stances they usually took before morphing.
"Dino Thunder Power Up, ha!" They exclaimed.
"White Ranger Dino Power!" Trent said.
After they were in uniform they went to their individual vehicles and straddled them.
"Good luck." Will told them before they left.
In the wooded area, Elsa was beating up the tyrannodrones that were in her path to the portal. She held up a strange gun look a like and fired, aiming it at the multicolored vortex. A beam of light came from the barrel of the gun. A big blinding flash of light and then nothing.
"No." She cried and hit the gun with her hand as if that would make it work.
"What, things not going as planned?" Kira asked.
"Rangers." Elsa said turning to the group of superheroes. Inwardly she smiled. Things were going exactly as planned.
"Glad you remember us." Conner said.
"How can I forget?" She returned. "Attack!"
The tyrannodrones charged forth. They separated the Rangers, but kept them close to the portal.
The fight went own for a good twenty minutes and Mesogog's team was winning. A large group of drones were piled on the Blue Ranger and Kira was kicked into the nearest tree. Conner fought his way to save them, but was crowded by his own horde of the mindless minions. Trent tried to get Kira, but was thrown to the ground and kicked in the back.
Dr. Oliver fought Elsa. He was the only ranger who seemed to have and advantage. A good blow from his bracchio staff and the villianess stumbled back.
"I will not fail." She said convincingly. "This is too important to my master."
"You can tell Mesogog, that I'm sorry."
"I don't think so, Dr. Oliver." The woman said with a gleam of triumph. "I think this is one battle we will win."
"Yeah?"
He punched her in the gut and then grabbed her arm. Elsa twisted out of his grip and moved away.
"Yeah."
Elsa then rushed him and grabbed his left wrist. She shoved a duplicate of his morphing key into the lock and turned it. She aimed his morpher toward the portal and a beam of black energy hit its dead center.
At the same time, the teens used their special Dino abilities and beams of red, white, blue, and yellow energy beams hit the center of the vortex at the same time.
It took the black ranger awhile to realize what Elsa was doing. He yanked back his arm and grabbed the woman with his other arm. He kicked her, hard, into a far tree and she was out cold.
The morphing energies that had been sucked into the portal caused a chain reaction. A flash of light and a huge vacuum effect occurred. The strange thing was, the portal was only sucking up the Rangers. It seemed as if it was trying to gain more power by taking the Rangers whole.
One moment the Rangers were in Reefside, the next, they were sucked into the portal to God knows where.
The Dino Thunder team landed in a sunny park.
Dr. Oliver stood stunned as took in their surroundings. The expanse of green grass, trees to their right and their left, a paved sidewalk was behind them and in front of them was a lake.
"Where are we?" Kira asked.
"Why are we unmorphed?" Ethan said.
They looked down at their street clothes in shock.
"When are we?" Conner asked noticing the people walking on the sidewalk clothes were out of date.
"We're in Angel Grove, 1996." Dr. Oliver answered.
"What!" The teens exclaimed.
"You heard me." Dr. Oliver said not wanting to repeat himself. His attention was entirely on a couple by the lake.
"I get how you know where we are," Trent said. "but I don't get how you know when we are."
Their science teacher the couple. The teens stared at the tall boy and the short girl by him. They didn't look much older than they were, but there was something about the boy.
"That's me when I was your age."
They turned to him and then back to the boy again.
"What's with hair?" Conner asked.
"Well, she doesn't seem to mind." Kira said noticing the girl mussing her companions shoulder length hair.
"What's with the white?" Trent asked. He wasn't there for the Ranger history lesson, so he was clueless on Dr. O's past.
"Dr. O was green, white, red, and now he's black." Ethan said. "Who's the girl? She looks familiar."
"She's Kimberly, the first Pink Ranger." Dr. Oliver replied grimly.
They all turned back to the couple.
The White Falcon Ranger was chasing the Pink Crane Ranger up and down the beach of the lake. They were laughing and having a good time, not paying the group staring at them any mind.
"You look..." Conner began.
"Happy..." Ethan continued.
"Carefree..." Kira added.
"In love..." Trent finished.
"I was." Dr. Oliver said sullenly.
In a second, the scene ended. Dr. Oliver's younger self looked around and saw the group, but didn't seem to care that they were there. He brought his wrist to his mouth and spoke.
"Right now, Zordon, my mentor, is asking to report to the Command Center." Dr. O explained.
The Pink Ranger looked around to make sure no one approached them and ended up staring. Something about the one in black drew her attention.
She was shook out of thought by her boyfriend. He was trying to get her to follow him into the cover of the trees. After a minute she followed.
Seconds later, the Dino Thunder Rangers watched as a pink and a white beams of light flew through the air.
"Wow." Kira sighed.
"Cool." Ethan awed.
"How come we can't do that?" Conner asked.
Dr. Oliver ignored him and ordered them to move into the cover of the trees his past self had just been.
"Why did we move?" Conner asked.
Ethan looked at him as if he had three eyes.
"Conner," He began in the slow way he liked to explain certain things to their Red Ranger. "If Dr. O is seen, it would be really bad."
"Oh."
Kira smacked him upside is head.
Meanwhile in 2003, a woman with long brown hair was walking along a beach. She wore a blue shirt and jeans. Her tennis shoes were held in one hand, her socks stuck inside. Her other hand toyed with her necklace.
She was Kimberly Ann Hart, gymnastics coach for the Pan Global Games.
People who knew her in high school would have thought she was happy with life she had chosen, but she wasn't. She was in her mid-twenties, childless, and recently divorced. Gymnastics no longer offered the happiness it used to. Her only friends were her colleagues. She had lost touch with her true friends. The bond they all shared no longer held in her heart, not since Zordon's sacrifice.
She had too many regrets to count and one had to do with the necklace she wore.
She sighed. No life was awful for her now. She wished she could change things, but she didn't know how.
As she thought about this, fate stepped in for her.
One moment Kim was walking one the beach of the Atlantic Ocean, the next she was on the beach of Angel Grove Lake in Angel Grove Park.
She gasped and look around. She just couldn't be here. She was just in Florida, there was no one on earth she could be in California.
"Kimberly!" A blonde girl said as she ran up to the woman.
When Kim saw the girl's face, she thanked God she had not changed much in the past seven years.
"Hey, Stacey." Kim said uncertainly with an awkward wave.
"Where's Oliver? I thought you two were attached at the hip or lips." She added slyly.
"Um..."
Kim bit her lip and shuffled.
"Um... He's supposed to meet me." She lied. "You know Tommy, always late. He probably forgot what time to meet me."
"Yeah, well, it was good seeing you."
"You too, Stace."
Kim watched s the girl disappeared. She growled in frustration as she plopped down onto the ground and dusted off her feet.
"Unbelievable." She groaned as she put on her socks and shoes. "Wonderful. I'm stuck in the past, again and this time there is no one to save me."
"Um... Dr. O?" Kira asked.
"Yes." Dr. Oliver answered not really paying attention.
"Why is the first Pink Ranger by the lake again?"
"Yeah and in different clothes?" Ethan put in.
"And longer hair?" Trent added.
"Oh, no." The Paleontologist groaned. "Please, don't let it be her."
AN: From this chapter on Tommy as an adult will be known as Dr. Oliver, unless addressed by the adult Kimberly. Kimberly as an adult will be known as Kim and teen as Kimberly. Less confusion that way, I hope.
Wow. I'm proud of myself. This is one of my longer chapters.
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