"I love you," Tommy whispered in her ear as she snuggled up against him and he felt her relax as his own eyes closed peacefully. He had needed a night like this with her. He had been completely miserable without her and knowing that she was back here with him made him feel so much better. He knew that this was the entire reason that his parents had sent him home. There had been weekends when the two of them had sent him to his grandparents and he understood it now. He understood just needing some time.
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"Wake up!" Andros yelled as he landed in their room and Tommy groaned as Andros had begun to pull on the covers, but Tommy snatched it back from him. He didn't mind if Andros saw him in the nude, but he wanted Kim to stay as protected as possible.
"You do that, you die," Tommy muttered as Andros just shook his head in frustration.
"Get up and get some damn clothes on. Your rangers are in a fight," Andros said as Tommy nodded as he gently moved Kim away from him and scooted out from under the cover and walked over to his closet.
"Tommy…" Kimberly murmured as he looked back at her and Andros stood there with a smug smile on his face.
"Sleep, I'll be back in a little while," Tommy said as he bent down and kissed her on the forehead and she sunk back into the bed as Tommy walked out of the room with Andros right in front of him. "What's going on?"
"This morning Mesogogg came out of the blue at Conner's soccer game. They were able to get into a place where they could morph, but they're not doing so hot. They just aren't up to speed yet," Andros said as Tommy walked down into the Command Center and looked at the monitor and just shook his head.
"I'll go," Tommy said as Andros barely nodded as Tommy teleported away and landed in the midst of the battle. It took him moments to orient himself and then begin fighting himself. He knew what needed to be done and which ones to engage in battle first.
"Dr. O?" Kira asked, shocked that he was there helping them. They had all thought that they were going to have to do this alone and that was certainly something that they didn't like, considering what had been going on lately.
"Yeah, I guess that I'm the calvary," Tommy said as Kira barely nodded her yellow helmet and he shook his own head as a tryannadrone came after him and he managed to throw it up against the wall as it headed towards her.
"Just you?" Conner asked as Tommy glared over at him and Conner just went back to fighting. He knew that he did not need to say anything else to him, otherwise he might find himself thrown up against a wall that he didn't particularly like.
"Tommy, where's your little slut?" Mesogogg asked as Tommy spun around and they all felt the glare coming off of him. They were sure that Tommy was going to kill Mesogogg for making that comment.
"You son of a bitch," Tommy said as he launched towards Mesogogg and Mesogogg started backing up and Tommy threw his body into Mesogogg and Mesogogg rolled away from Tommy. He was full and ready to kick Mesogogg's ass in order to make all of this work. Tommy knew that he was teetering on a dangerous edge right now and where that might take him, he didn't know, but he was sure that Mesogogg was about to find out.
"Such language for a teacher!" Mesogogg taunted as Tommy felt his body tingling and decided it was best to morph before his body did it for him. As the familiar white ninja drab enveloped his body his determination became more iron clad. Mesogogg could feel the pulses that were emanating from Tommy as he raised his eyebrows in the small area where he could see his eyes.
"I was a ranger first," Tommy said with a smile as Mesogogg gave him a thorough look before taking a step towards Tommy, who just shook his head in disgust as he lifted his arms and the energy that had been building in him shot out towards Mesogogg. "I've also picked up a few tricks that they don't have."
"You really were brave to leave Kimberly alone," Mesogogg said as he forced himself to stand up and Tommy pegged him to the nearest wall and Mesogogg's face held its own self satisfied grin. He wanted to push Tommy over the edge and make him do something that he wouldn't normally do.
"What have you done to her?" Tommy asked as he lifted Mesogogg from the ground and stared him in the eyes, willing him to blink or do anything that would piss him off right now.
"I'm just saying you are brave to leave her when you have only recently gotten her back in your folds," Mesogogg said as Tommy threw him to the ground and Mesogogg then called up an invisaportal and he and the tryannadrones disappeared in a matter of moments.
"Dr. O, come on, let's go," Kira said as she grabbed his arm and tried to pull him to where they could power down and then teleport.
"You go ahead, I have some things to look at," Tommy said as they looked at him but did not question him as Kira let go of Tommy and they then teleported away as he walked forward to where the invisaportal had been and examined the ground for a moment. He could tell that something was off that the matter had somehow been affected by the invisaportal appearing, but he was not sure how to convey that to anyone who didn't have a science degree.
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"Why didn't you drag him back with you?" Andros asked as the three rangers landed and they looked over at him in shock.
"I'm not brave enough to try that, if you want to get yourself killed, you go ahead and drag him back," Conner said as Andros just shook his head and right before he was going to teleport himself out, Tommy landed in the Command Center.
"Is she still asleep?" Tommy asked pulling down his mask and Andros nodded his head yes as Tommy let out a sigh. He had hoped that Kim had woken up and stumbled down the stairs.
"You know he was trying to trick you," Andros said as Tommy nodded his head yes. "Why did you jump for it then?"
"For this," Tommy said as he held up a half crushed coin and Andros gave it a funny look. "It's how he calls his lovely little invisaportals. So, we now know that we just have to keep him from using these things if we can help it."
"You are one lucky son of a bitch," Andros said as Tommy nodded his head with a serious look in his eyes. "You better go wake Kim, she'd want to know about what happened."
"All right," Tommy said as they watched him demorph and leave the room. The rangers had tons of questions, but they felt that those could wait until the both of them were down there. It seemed that Tommy would not even attempt to answer them without Kimberly anyway and they might as well settle down while they could.
"It's going to be a long morning, isn't it?" Conner asked as Andros nodded his head. He honestly doubted that Kim and Tommy would let them out of there before noon, but he did not want to tell the teens that. He wanted them to have some hope, because that was the only thing that was going to keep them going.
"Kim," Tommy whispered as he walked into their bedroom and looked at the bed, where she was still sleeping soundly, only she had now shifted herself to his side of the bed in an attempt to just have his smell with her. He hated to wake her up, but he knew that if he prolonged it, she would only be mad at him and he didn't need that right now.
"Come back to bed," Kim muttered as she rolled over and held her arms open, waiting for him just to crawl in next to her.
"I'm sorry, but you have to get up, honey," Tommy said as he sat down on the edge of the bed and she reached for his shirt and began pulling it off. He forced himself to stop her hands and as he did, she opened her eyes for the first time and gave him a concerned look.
"What's going on?" Kim asked as she sat up and pulled the covers with her as he just shook his head. He absolutely hated making her feel like shit and he hated pointing these sort of things out to her.
"The rangers were attacked this morning," Tommy said as Kim looked at him and then threw the covers off herself and walked over to his closet, to try to find the bag of clothes that she had brought over here. "You're clothes are in the guest room."
"Damn it," Kim muttered as Tommy just shook his head and stood up to go get them for her. He knew that there was always a chance that the young rangers would be allowed out of the lair and allowed to explore and he was afraid of what that might mean if Kim just decided to walk out in her birthday suit. "Thank you."
"You don't have to thank me, Kim," Tommy said as she took the bag from him and pulled out a few garments. He tried to keep himself from watching her, but he couldn't help it and she certainly didn't seem to mind.
"Is that why you left?" Kim asked as Tommy nodded his head yes and she reached over for his hand and gently took it in her own. "Why didn't you wake me?"
"You looked so peaceful, I couldn't bring myself to wake you up," Tommy said as she smiled over at him and she gave him a chaste kiss as Tommy leaned into her and she smiled up at him.
"Thanks. I think that's the first morning that I've slept late since Jenny was born," Kim said as Tommy gave her a sympathetic look. "Tommy, don't. You can't blame yourself for what you didn't even know about."
"Kim, what if…" Tommy began as Kim just shook her head. She couldn't consider being pregnant right now.
"If that has happened Tommy, we'll find out in a few weeks when I wake up sick to my stomach," Kim said as Tommy looked over at her and she stood on her tiptoes to give him a kiss. "Tommy, I don't mind carrying your child."
"Kimberly, I don't mind either, but I know that we've got so much ahead of us. We're going to have to go to Phaedos again," Tommy said as Kimberly nodded and reached towards him and he gently wrapped his arms around her.
"We'll talk about it when we get there Tommy, if we get there," Kim said as they heard a bang from downstairs and they both jumped.
"If the two of you want to come down, we've only been waiting for the last fifteen minutes!" Conner yelled up the stairs as Kim threw open the door and glared down at him as Tommy followed after her with a smile. He knew that Kimberly was going to go down and rip Conner a new one, but he had to admit that the two of them had been answering questions that they needed to answer instead of skating around them.
"Give us a few minutes!" Kim yelled down towards him as Conner stumbled back and Tommy stopped in his tracks as he was about to run into Kim. "I just need you right now Tommy. I don't want to hear about anything else."
"But…" Tommy began as she just shook her head and he gave her a curious look.
"I just need you," Kim repeated as he nodded and placed his arms around her in a firm hug as she rested against him and he couldn't help but wonder why she didn't want to talk to the rangers right now, but merely placed it as stress. Little did he know that Kimberly had other reasons to avoid the rangers that they had to train.