Above the sleeping houses of Reef Side, Mesagog's lair was buzzing with activity. The Laz-Raptor had been growing impatient with waiting for Mesagog's order to attack. The creature was pacing back and forth, wringing his hands.
"You know, when people don't follow his order, they usually get punished…painfully," Elsa informed the monster.
"He would not punish me; his own brilliant creation," the monster countered. Elsa just rolled her eyes.
"Go ahead. Try and destroy the city before he tells you to and see how he feels about it," she goaded. Just then, Mesagog stormed in.
"What are you two arguing about?" he growled.
"Your little pet project wanted to start attacking the city without you," Elsa answered.
"Snitch," the creature hissed at her. She just winked at him and shrugged.
"Enough," Mesagog boomed, getting their attention. He moved to sit on his throne, keeping a close eye on both.
"We will attack when the rangers are most vulnerable," he began. The Laz-Raptor looked expectantly at his master.
"When they are at school?" Elsa proposed.
"No!" he hissed. She cringed.
"Wile they sleep is when we will attack," Mesagog spat. Elsa took a step back, laughing weakly as she went.
"Can I go and attack the city now?" the monster begged.
"Pathetic," Elsa grumbled under her breath.
"Go and do not stop until all of Reef Side has been restored to its rightful state," the giant lizard ordered. With a flash of bright light, the Laz-Raptor disappeared. Elsa merely looked disgusted.
Down at the Reef Side city Jail, Tommy was staring up at the ceiling in boredom when a noise caught his attention. He looked to his right but saw nothing. With a sigh, he went back to staring absently at the cinderblocks above him.
"Psst," a familiar voice called. He definitely wasn't imagining it. This time, Tommy swung his legs over the edge of the bed. Before he could even stand up, Trent materialized from the wall. The sudden appearance of one of his students in the middle of the night made Tommy jump.
"Trent, what are you doing here?" Tommy hissed. At the moment he was at least grateful that this little intrusion wasn't going to be witnessed by a cell mate.
"Getting you of here," Trent answered, peering through the bars on the door to make sure no one was coming.
"Are you crazy? How did you even get in here?" Tommy gasped.
"Uh…I can camouflage myself remember," Trent replied.
"You can't break me out of jail," he protested.
"Sure I can. I can blend in with any surface and you can become invisible. Doesn't seem all that hard to me," Trent responded. Tommy just shook his head.
"Thanks for the offer but I have no intention of becoming a fugitive," he stated.
"Dr. O we're trying to get you out of this…and this is the only way I know how," Trent pleaded.
"I know you're trying. Believe me, it's not going unnoticed. But its better to just let things work through the system at this point," Tommy said. Trent didn't like that answer but said nothing. They fell into silence for a few minutes.
"Your dad came to see me earlier," Tommy murmured. Trent looked up at this.
"Said he was helping you with something," he added. Trent could tell Tommy wanted to know why Anton had paid him a visit.
"Uh…yeah. We built a device to show Kira what happened. Elsa put a spell on her and it made her forget what she did," Trent explained uncomfortably.
"I had a feeling Elsa and Mesagog might be behind this," Tommy spat.
"How would your dad visiting me help with that exactly?" Tommy asked. He had a sneaking suspicion he wasn't going to like what Trent was about to say.
"Please don't get mad…but my dad knows I'm a granger. He knows everything," Trent mumbled.
"How?" was all Tommy could come up with. Trent bit his lip and took a deep breath before giving an answer.
"My dad…is Mesagog," Trent finally admitted. He waited for the anger to explode within Tommy.
"What?" Tommy hissed. He hadn't expected that as an explanation. But it made sense didn't it. How Anton miraculously showed up again.
"He's trying to fight it. It's why he came to see you. He knew it was the only way we could help Kira," Trent replied defensively. Tommy let out a long breath.
"This isn't something you can keep from the team, Trent," Tommy scolded.
"I only found out a little while ago. And the team barely trusts me as it is," Trent bean.
"Does your father know what Mesagog is planning?" the elder of the two asked.
"All I know is he created some kind of creature. It's really powerful," Trent replied.
"Look, I want you to tell the others everything that you know. And I mean everything, Trent," he said firmly.
'What about you?" the boy questioned.
"I have a hearing with the school board this morning. If you can come up with something…anything to get me out of this I'd really appreciate it," Tommy answered. Trent nodded and started to blend in with the wall.
"One more thing," Tommy whispered. Trent became fully visible again.
"Tell Kira not to worry," he called.
"You got it," Trent murmured before completely disappearing from view. Tommy stared at the spot for a minute before climbing back on top of his bed.
In the business district of the city, the Laz-Raptor looked around. He expected people to still be out and about but found there was a severe lack of humans. He scratched his head for a minute but let it pass. They would come when they felt the changes start.
"Time for a make over, Reef Side," he cackled wildly. He was going to enjoy this. He turned to his left and sized up the high rise buildings before him. Opening his arms wide, lasers shot out from his multi-colored scales. He laughed a little as the beams collided with the buildings. Everything the lasers touched was instantly reverted to rock formations and lush, green, vegetation.
"This is fun," he exclaimed, turning his lasers on other surrounding buildings. He moved quickly through the business district, leveling skyscraper after skyscraper.
Back on the other side of town, monitors began blaring at the lab. Hayley, who had taken to sleeping there in Tommy's absence, sat up straight at the noise. She looked around, trying to figure out what time it was. She finally spotted the clock on the TV set and found it was nearly one in the morning.
"What is going on?" she grumbled, heading down to check the computers. She saw the business district, or what was left of it, on the screen.
"Great," she groaned, opening up communication with the ranger.
"Guys, I'm really sorry to wake you up but we have a huge emergency," she said. Conner, Ethan and Kira all groggily responded.
"It's one in the morning," Kira groaned.
"Yeah…I was asleep," Ethan added.
"Can't it wait?" Conner grumbled.
"How big of an emergency?" Trent's voice came, clearly awake.
"Oh about seven feet of an emergency. If we're lucky we can stop it before it hits the more residential part of the city," Hayley answered.
"This has to be Mesagog's monster," Trent exclaimed.
"Care to explain further?" Ethan asked.
"Mesagog created a monster that is supposed to be really powerful. Not sure what it does—" he began.
"Turns everything it touches back to the prehistoric era," Hayley yawned.
"Nice way to achieve his plan of world domination," Conner commented.
"I know it's really early but can you guys get over here? We need to stop this thing before it does some major damage," Hayley asked.
"I'm on my way," Trent said and his connection went dead. She got mumbled confirmation from the other three and went upstairs to wait. They arrived twenty minutes later.
"Dude, why are you so awake?" Ethan yawned, looking at Trent.
"Long story," he replied.
"Give us the cliff notes version," Kira said.
"I snuck into prison to try and break Dr. O out but he wouldn't let me," Trent began. He expected commentary but got none.
"And…the reason I know what Mesagog was kind of planning is because my dad is Mesagog," he said as quickly as he could.
"He what?" Hayley boomed.
"I know…you all have a right to hate me but right now we have more important things to deal with…like stopping that monster," he countered.
"What about Dr. O?" Kira asked.
"He has a hearing this morning. We need to try and come up with a way to get him out of this," Trent repeated the familiar words.
"Conner…you and Trent go take care of this dino-sore. Ethan and Kira and I will work on Dr. O's situation," Hayley said. With one last look between them, Conner and Trent stepped back to morph.
"Dino Thunder, Power up- Ha!" Conner called.
"White Ranger, Dino Power," Trent added.
"Let's get this prehistoric pest," Trent said and he and Conner disappeared.