"We've got to do something," Andros said as he sat in Jason and Trini's kitchen, early the next morning. He knew that Kim would not wake up for a couple more hours. It was time that the big guns be brought in and if Jason and Trini couldn't help, then no one could help them. He knew just how miserable this was making all three of them and he might be the only one that could do something about it.
"I agree," Trini said as she sipped on some tea and just shook her head. She couldn't believe that he had come here for help. "But Andros, I know that this isn't going to be easy and I don't have the emotional depth to pull this off. Kim would try to say something about how she doesn't really like him and I would lose my mind when I let loose on her. I can't risk it right now. I've already had to deal with this idiot right here and that was bad enough."
"But what will we do?" Andros asked as Jason stood up and walked over to the phone.
"I will take care of it. Don't you think that locking them in a room together will make them realize?" Jason suggested as Andros shook his head no. He had already tried that one and Kimberly had still escaped. She had abilities that could not be held in by most things that would hold normal rangers.
"Kim is likely to knock him out again. I actually don't know if he has woken up, yet," Andros said as Jason just shook his head. He couldn't believe that Kim was resorting to that to get away from Tommy.
"I think I might be able to keep her from doing that. Tommy can be brought up to even in no time and she doesn't want that," Jason said as Andros smiled and Trini just shook her head. She knew that making Kim think that Tommy was about to become a permanent ranger might make her talk to him, but she didn't think it wise to do that.
"I don't know if we should threaten that sort of harm. They both are under a lot of stress to make things right. I know that Kimberly's view of right is screwing all of us over, but what can we do? She's been desperate to keep Tommy out of this, just in case something ever happens. She doesn't want to risk Jenny not having any parents and I can understand that," Trini said as Kimberly teleported into their house and was surprised to see Andros there. She had thought that he had gone to check on Tommy, but she was obviously wrong.
"Guys, I need some help," Kim said as they all looked over at her, wondering what type of help she was going to ask for. They could all hope that it would be with Tommy, but the last few days had taught them that that would be foolishly optimistic to even consider that as a possibility.
"What sort of help, Kim?" Jason asked as Kimberly held out a picture and then walked away from all of them. "He's been captured?"
"Yeah. He would have fought them off if I hadn't knocked him out. I was so stupid to do that," Kim said as Andros walked over and gave her a hug. "I have the gems that he had collected and there are some teenagers that would be fairly receptive to them living in Reefside. The problem is that we are going to have to convince them that the risks are definitely worth it all."
"I don't think that you'll have a problem there, little bit," Andros said as Kim nodded and then walked over to the nearest teleportation portal she had made and disappeared. "Well, there is nothing like a rescue mission to get the two of them back together."
"Yeah, let's just hope that she doesn't throw three teenagers into the fire without explaining any of it to them," Jason said as Trini just looked over at him.
"You know that is exactly what she is about to do," Trini said as Jason grabbed his jacket and then pulled her off the couch.
"Come on, we have to get up there, just in case," Jason said as Trini nodded and waddled over to get her coat as well. She completely agreed with what he had said.
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"Hello, are you Conner McKnight?" Kim asked as she walked up to the teenager and he stood there in shock. He had never had a girl approach him before and all his friends were giving him smiles.
"Yeah, who are you?" Conner asked as Kim grabbed his hand and dragged him off, while he just looked back at his friends and smiled. He was certain that this was going to be special.
"No time. Do you know Kira Ford and Ethan James?" Kim asked as she continued dragging him behind her and he just looked at her. Did she even know which circles he ran in?
"Yeah, but only by association, they aren't my friends," Conner said as Kim looked over at him and then slung him into a closet and she quickly followed. "Uh, I don't know you that well…"
"Hold your horses Romeo, I'm about ten years older than you and the only reason I am here is because I have to save the one man I love. So don't even think about it," Kim said as Conner removed his hands from around her and he gave her a confused look.
"Save the one man you love and you throw me into a closet?" Conner asked as Kimberly wheeled on him and slammed him back against the wall.
"Be a good boy and you might get a kiss," Kim said as he just shook and she stepped away. "Now, I have to find them and if you leave this closet, you'll get nothing except an ass whooping."
"By you that wouldn't be a problem," Conner said as Kim glared at him and he felt something radiate off her, but he had absolutely no clue what that might be.
"Watch it or you'll have a voice that is a few octaves higher," Kim said as she exited the closet and began looking around for the other two.
"Who the hell are you?" Kira asked as this woman grabbed her and pulled her away from her audience. To make it even worse, she had Ethan with her, who was the geek of the school.
"No time to explain," Kim said as she slung them into the closet that she had left Conner in and he looked at the other two, curiously scared about all of this.
"I was not expecting this," Conner said as Kim just shook her head and held out her watch which projected a beam around them and they found themselves standing in the underground room, completely confused as Kimberly landed only feet from them.
"Andros," Kim said as Andros walked out and over to them, carrying the three gems, which had already begun twitching. "How right was I?"
"Pretty right, if these things are any indication," Andros said as they flew out of her hand and Kimberly smiled as each teenager caught one.
"Well, that solves it, welcome to the club," Kim said as Jenny stumbled down the stairs and threw her arms around Andros as she began crying.
"Where's Daddy?" Jenny cried as Andros held her close and Kim looked over at the two of them.
"Look, I need help to get Tommy back, for the both of us," Kim said as she flipped open her own morpher and morphed. "I'm the red crane, I have no clue what you might be when and if you morph, but I just ask you to do this once. You can leave then if you want."
"Do I still get a kiss out of that?" Conner asked as Kim just looked over at him and Andros's eyes widened. What the hell had Kim promised the boy that might get him killed by Tommy.
"Only my Daddy can kiss her," Jenny retorted as she glared up at the boy and he couldn't help but laugh.
"I wouldn't say that," Andros said as he caught the eight year old before she punched him.
"Who's her dad?" Conner asked, as none of them knew Dr. O's first name.
"Tommy Oliver," Kim said as all three of them promptly dropped their morphers from shock. "I know that he is a teacher of yours, so maybe you'll be willing to help me here."
"I won't be getting that kiss after all," Conner said, with certainty, as he was not going to try to go up against Dr. O, that was suicide. "So what do we have to do?"
"Save him, what else is there to do?" Kim said as they just looked at her and could not believe what they were hearing. "I'm not strong enough on my own, I need some help to get to him."
"This coming from the woman that continues to push him away," Andros muttered as Kim glared over at him and Jenny just looked up at the two of them.
"I won't do that anymore Andros, I promise," Kim said as tears streamed down her face and Jenny just looked up at her.
"It'll be all right Mama," Jenny said as she gave Kim a hug and Kim wrapped her up as tight as she could.
"Yeah it will, if only I can get your daddy back," Kim said as she stood up and faced them. "I know he's your teacher, but if I don't get him back, all hell is going to break loose."
"We'll help," Kira said as the other two just nodded. They could see the severity of the situation, even if they didn't know the woman asking for their help.
"Then let's go," Kim said as the three teenagers just stared at her as she pulled all of them with her and they disappeared.
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"When is the calvary going to arrive?" Mesogogg asked as Tommy woke up and looked around at everything that was going on around him.
"What did you do to Jenny?" Tommy asked as he looked over at Mesogogg, who was shocked that there was someone else in his house.
"I did nothing to her, I only wanted you," Mesogogg said as he heard a loud boom outside the door. "I guess we have company."
"Like that scares me," Tommy said as the door was blasted down and four rangers walked into the room. "Kimberly…"
"Funny that you should say her name first, the woman you want to be your bitch," Mesogogg said as Kimberly slung him to the ground and began un-strapping Tommy as quickly as she could, the new rangers were having to fight the tryannadrones with everything they had, but she knew that time was not on their side.
"Are you okay?" Kim asked as she looked at his face and he nodded as he grabbed the black gem next to him. Kim then looked at it and then at him. She tried to take it away, but found that he almost couldn't let it go. "We have to get out of here."
"I know," Tommy said as he stood up and quickly wrapped her up as Mesogogg sent a violent shock towards them.
"Tommy, why'd you do that?" Kim asked as she looked up at him and saw the pain in his eyes.
"Let's just get out of here," Tommy said as they all went away and landed in Reefside. "You know that they're going to follow us."
"Yeah," Kim said just in time to find herself pushed behind Tommy as Mesogogg sent a ray directly at them and Tommy pulled out his last line of defense, the gem that he had grabbed as a last ditch attempt. He then vanished from sight with a rather violent explosion.