Notes: I own nothing but the plot. Anyway, what if Cassidy hadn't kept her mouth shut? Obviously that means they need their powers back, and let's add Tommy's old powers too. By the way: "someone talking on the other line of the phone." "a split personality talking to them" thoughts
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The dino thunder rangers, Hayley, and Leslie Randall were all standing in the lab. "I guess this is it." Trent said with a sigh. Suddenly, their eyes were blinded. When they opened them, their dino gems were fully charged again and everything was fully repaired. The five rangers heard a voice. "I'm afraid your identities were leaked. I'm giving you back all your powers to deal with this."
"Did anyone else hear that?" Connor asked. Tommy, Kira, Ethan, and Trent nodded while Hayley and Leslie shook their heads. "I believe that someone might have repaired everything here back to their prime condition." "What makes you say that?" Kira interrupted. "The fact that Tommy's wrists are glowing." She said, pointing at Tommy's glowing red wrists. He flicked his wrists and two bracelets appeared. Before anyone could get a closer look, they disappeared.
"Wait, if the Zeo Crystal was charged then my coins are charged too!" Tommy exclaimed. The four Dino teens and Principal Randall exchanged a look. "I'll see you at work tomorrow!" Leslie called as she ran out. Tommy finally found what he was looking for: two odd devices. However, in his hands were two coins. One glowing green and the other glowing white. He put the white coin in a slot before pausing.
"Uh, anyone got any coping strategies for a friend that hasn't spoken to anyone in a decade?" "Uh, what do you mean?" Ethan said slowly. Hayley sighed. "Better confront him now. Everyone, get ready to have your mind-blown."
Everyone stared as Tommy put one of the two near identical devices in his pocket. He held up the other one. "It's morphin time! Tigerzord!" Tommy said before he morphed into the White Mighty Morphin ranger. Suddenly, his sword flew out of its holster. "It's about time you reclaimed me! It's been so boring without you!" The sword said. "Um- where did you get a talking and flying sword?" Kira said. "How did you get a talking and flying sword?" Trent asked. "And why do you have one?" Ethan added. "What's its name?" Connor finished. The other three looked at him. "What?"
"I'm Saba, personal weapon of the White Mighty Morphin ranger." The sword replied. "We can talk later, Saba. Power down." Tommy said, demorphing. Saba disappeared in a flash of white light. "Why can't we have talking weapons?" Ethan asked. "Anyway, there's school tomorrow. Go get some sleep." Tommy said stubbornly. The kids nodded and sighed.
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Tommy walked into school the following morning. However, he wasn't aware that Cassidy had sent out the video to every single person in the school through Social Media. It was not long before it spread throughout Reefside. The class excitedly whispered to each other before Tommy entered. "Dr. Oliver, why didn't you tell us?" Cassidy asked.
"Tell you what?" He said, confused. "Uh, look at the 8pm news last night." Devin suggested. He stared at it as he watched himself and the kids morph. 'Dino Thunder rangers revealed to be a Science teacher and four of his students' was the caption. Before he could respond, a voice came over the speakers. "Can Dr. Oliver, Trent, Connor, Ethan, and Kira please come to the front office?" The voice that was definitely the principal's said.
When the five reached the office, they noticed a news reporter outside. "Tell me, how did you become power rangers?" One reporter said. Trent spoke up, "Connor, Ethan, and Kira found their morphers in what would later become our base. Me and Dr. O found them in Mesagog's lab. He took his the same day Mesagog got it but I took mine at least a few days after he got it. I was turned evil until the evil encoding broke." "Next question: what was the hardest monster you ever faced?" "White Terrorsaurus." The four kids said. "Twin man." Tommy said. The other rangers, Principal Randall, and the news reporter all were confused.
"Uh, do you personally know any other rangers?" The news reporter continued. The five rangers nodded. "We all know Ninja Storm personally. We also know White and Green Mighty Morphin, White Ninjetti, and Red Zeo." Kira said. "I know Mighty Morphin, Ninjetti, Zeo, Turbo, Space, the Alien rangers, Lightspeed rescue, Red wild force, Red and pink Lost Galaxy, Red time force, and the Quantum ranger." Dr. Oliver said.
"Tell me, when did you meet them?" "We met Ninja Storm when they were at Reefside and we met the other rangers on the first day of school." "I met Mighty Morphin during the time a ranger fought them. I met Ninjetti, Zeo, and Turbo on their first day while Lightspeed on their first week. I met the Aquitar rangers when they came to Earth, Space I knew four out of six before they were formed and I met the other two plus Pink Lost Galaxy while they visited Earth. Finally, I met the other rangers on the list the day we went to the moon, during the Wild Force era." "Do you know civilian identities?" "Yep, of every ranger we said and Dr. O knows all of them." "Last question, did you ever go to space?" The news reporter said. The teens shook their heads while Tommy nodded. The News reporter smiled and left.
"Thank the Power." Tommy said as soon as he was out of earshot. "Now we've gotta figure out how to deal with the press." "Could we go to another planet?" Ethan asked, hopeful. "There are three planets that would be fine with humans living there. One wouldn't allow our living style. The second is the place the silver and red space rangers are from as well as Karone, the pink Lost Galaxy ranger, but their food is not from anywhere on our planet. Plus it's really gross. And the third is 95% water." "So that's a no." Trent concluded.
Tommy's phone started buzzing. "Can we use your office?" Tommy asked Ms. Randall. She nodded. "I'll put it on speaker, you guys might wanna hear this. But be quiet!" He said as they walked in. He then answered the phone.
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TJ was looking at social media when he saw a post called 'Dino Thunder rangers revealed to be a Science teacher and four of his students.' He watched the clip then frowned. He sighed and dialed Tommy. He waited a minute before answering.
"Tommy! How could you let a kid catch you morphing?"
"A kid hid in the bushes with a camera! How was I supposed to know she was there?"
"Just be honest with reporters." TJ sighed.
"I'm thinking about pretending to be evil again. Caudimordax wants to but Corentin doesn't." TJ heard some voices in the background.
"Who's Quarantine?" One person said.
"He said Corentin." A second voice said.
"Also, who's Caudimordax?" A third voice said.
"I bet TJ knows." The first voice replied.
"We should be quiet." Yet another voice said.
"He did say you should be quiet." An older sounding voice said.
"He said you should too!" The second voice protested.
"Just be quiet before I scream!" The third voice demanded, causing all five voices to go quiet.
"Tommy, who is that in the background?" He heard a sigh at the end of his line.
"The first voice is the red ranger, Connor Mcknight. The second one is Ethan James, the blue. The third and yellow is Kira Ford. The fourth voice is the white, Trent Fernandez-Mercer. The final one is a former evil minion, Principal Randall."
"You made friends with a former henchman?"
"Trent's father shared a body with Mesagog and we're also friends." Tommy added.
"Didn't you make friends with Astronema?" Connor asked.
"Tommy, slap him for me."
"With pleasure." TJ smiled as he heard a slapping noise.
"Ow- what was that for?" Connor asked.
"Nobody speaks of that. I better not hear that name come out of your mouth again." Tommy said.
"Wait, you said Trent's the white ranger right?" TJ said.
"Yes. And the answer to your next question is not yet. He may be like the Thunder ninjas and never get one."
"Are we sure they never got one?"
"I suppose it might be because Lothor lied to them. So I guess any day now."
TJ sighed. "I'll take the next trip to Earth. You need to stop Trent from freaking out when it happens."
He could hear anger in Tommy's voice. "I did perfectly fine with Kat and both of us did fine with Karone! But Karone had to tell her brother! And he told every Space ranger. Ugh, stay out of it. Only those who can hear them and their dates are allowed." TJ rolled his eyes as Tommy hung up.
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"Hear what!" Ms. Randall demanded as soon Tommy hung up. "It's none of your business." Tommy snapped, gesturing to her, Connor, and Ethan. "I need to tell Anton and Trent though. Trent, if you really like Kira, then she can be in on it." Trent held Kira's hand and nodded.
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Later that day, Tommy took Kira and Trent to his house. They waited until Anton Mercer showed up. "So what was that about hearing stuff?" Trent asked nervously. "Well, when you've been evil for longer than a day and have a connection to the Morphing Grid, it splits you from the leftover evil." Tommy explained. "That's a good thing, right?" Kira said. Tommy shrugged.
"The grid then takes that evil and turns it into a split personality so to speak. You can communicate with it in your head and it can take over your body." The three gasped. "It's not actually a bad thing unless you don't accept it, like Merrick. It can be hard to live with civilians if you don't accept it."
"Can it take over your body without permission?" Anton said nervously. It was clear that he was thinking of it as Mesagog. "Yes. If you and it get along it will wait for permission then." "When will it happen?" "Any moment now. You'll faint and then meet it." Tommy said, right before Trent fainted. "Trent!" Kira and Anton exclaimed.
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Trent stood in a foggy forest. He saw a big white dragon. "You must be my other self." Trent said calmly. In a flash of light, the dragon was now a clone of Trent. However, its eyes were white. "Only those who know that you are a power ranger can see that our eyes are white when I take over." It said, "I am Drachenstien." Trent nodded slowly. "I guess you know I'm Trent." He nodded.
"So uh- are we going to this like Dr. O?" Trent said nervously. "Do you want to work with me?" Drachenstien said. Trent nodded.
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Tommy's eyes were green as Trent woke up. "Trent!" Anton and Kira exclaimed. "Not yet." Tommy said as they saw his eyes. "My name is Drachenstien. Me and Trent will be working together."
"Good. I didn't want to end up with another Merrick and Adolphus situation. Especially since Tommy has no idea where he would've had you if the Wild zords don't like you." Tommy said. "Why are you talking like that?" Anton said nervously. Trent blinked as his eyes returned to normal. "Mr. Mercer, look at his eyes." Kira whispered. "Uh, who are you?" Trent said.
"I see you're already Trent again." Trent nodded. "I am Caudimordax, the leftover evil of Rita's green ranger." He said. "Can we have Tommy back?" Anton said carefully. Caudimordax blinked as Tommy's eyes returned to normal. "You mentioned someone else named Corentin?" Kira said curiously. "Is he from the Machine Empire?" Tommy shook his head. "He's my ninjetti spirit, a falcon. Unfortunately that means when ninjetti spirit animals want to communicate with the split personalities, they go through Caudimordax and Corentin."
"So I heard from Ms. Randall that the reporters are going to ask a lot of questions tomorrow." Kira said, changing the subject. "There's no rule against living swords on campus. I'm sure Saba will help." Trent and Kira exchanged wary glances.