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Chapter 28: First Day of School

Tommy and Kim's House, Reefside

September 15, 2004

7:15 am

Kim was busy getting JT and Amelia ready for their first day of school as 2nd graders while Tommy was getting Brielle and Bennett fed.

The twins and Kim came in the kitchen and sat down at the table.

"You two look pretty impressive," Tommy said to JT and Amelia.

"Thanks, Daddy!" JT and Amelia said in unison.

"Your mom is coming over to watch the younger twins while I take the older twins to school and you go to work," Kim said giving Tommy a kiss.

"Okay. That must be her now," Tommy said as Jan pulled up to the house.

Once Jan was in the house Kim grabbed her purse, the older twins got their backpacks and lunch bags, and they left the house, saying goodbye to Tommy as they left.

Tommy helped his mom clean up the younger twins, changed them and dressed them. Then Tommy grabbed his suitcase and left the house, remembering the keys to his jeep on the way to the jeep.

Reefside High School

3:30 pm

Tommy locked his office for the day when Principal Randall came up to him.

"Dr. Oliver? Leaving so soon?" she asked.

"Well, it is the end of the school day," Tommy said.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you that you had detention today."

"Wait, I thought I didn't have detention until Thursday?"

"I changed my mind. You have detention today," she said as she led him over to three teenagers sitting outside her office.

She walked away, leaving Tommy to address the teens.

"Okay, I thought that I didn't have detention today, so instead of sitting in a stuffy classroom for an hour, how about we go on a fieldtrip?" Tommy said to the teens.

The teens nodded as they got up and followed Tommy to his jeep.

They were soon on the road. They were all silent on the drive.

Tommy pulled up to the museum and he and the teens got out.

As they got to the front door Tommy saw that there was a closed sign on the door.

"Okay, change of plans. I live out in the woods and it's a great place to find fossils, so for the rest of detention I want you to find me some fossils, okay?" Tommy said to the teens who nodded.

Tommy pulled up to the house. It was dark inside. Kim must've gone to Amelia's dance lessons with mom, JT, and the younger twins, he thought to himself as he let himself in the house and went down to the basement to make some adjustments on the equipment.

While Tommy was in the basement the teens were exploring the woods until one of the teens, Kira, fell through a hole in the ground. The other two teens, Conner and Ethan, went after her.

What they discovered underground would change their lives forever.

They soon discovered that the gems they found had quirks of their own the next day at school. Kira decided she had enough and handed her gem to Conner.

Then seconds later she was kidnapped by these strange creatures. Conner and Ethan knew they had to ask the teacher who took them to his house for help.

The house was quiet when they got there. Then Ethan discovered the dinosaur on the counter, twisted its head, and the door to the basement opened. They went downstairs.

"Dude, what is this place?" Conner asked Ethan.

"You're asking me?"

"Hey? Who's down there?" Tommy asked.

"Uh, Conner and Ethan, the kids who had detention with you the other day," Conner said as Tommy came downstairs.

"What are you doing here?" Tommy asked, arms folded across his chest with a baby monitor in one hand.

"First, what is this place that you call a basement?" Ethan asked.

"I won't answer your question until you answer mine," Tommy said.

"We have a problem, dude. Kira got kidnapped by these strange creatures after we discovered these," Conner said, handing Tommy the gems.

"First, don't call me dude. Second, where did you find these?" Tommy asked.

"Underground in the woods," Ethan said.

"Don't tell me you bonded with the gems?" Tommy asked horrified.

"Kind of," Conner said.

"Well, I'm afraid you two and Kira are in it for the long haul," Tommy said.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Conner asked.

"I'll tell you on our way to find Kira," Tommy said but then a baby's cry was heard on the baby monitor reminding Tommy that he had other obligations.

"Look, I need to find someone to watch my two youngest kids, then we'll go find Kira," Tommy said as he ran upstairs to tend to Brielle and Bennett and to call one of his friends.

Ten minutes later Aisha arrived after her shift at the animal hospital was over for the day.

"You owe me big time for this. I had to push back my dinner date with Jimmy," Aisha said.

"Jimmy will be fine. Kim will be home in a half an hour with the older twins. She had to go grocery shopping," Tommy said as he left the house with Conner and Ethan in tow.

They were driving near where Kira was kidnapped when Kira came falling out of the sky and onto the hood of Tommy's jeep.

"There's Kira, and there they are," Conner said as the strange creatures started swarming the jeep.

"Tyrannodrones," Tommy said to himself.

"What?" How do you know what they are?" Ethan asked.

"Because I helped create them," Tommy said as he started fighting them. Conner, Ethan, and Kira joined him.

After the Tyrannodrones were defeated Tommy and the teens went back to his house, where they were met by an angry Kim.

"Thomas…James…Oliver! You have some explaining to do!" Kim screamed at him.

"Yes, dear," Tommy said hanging his head low as Kim continued to scream at him.

After Kim was done screaming at him, he led her to the basement along with the teens to explain everything.

"Now that they've bonded with the dino gems, they are now the next team of Power Rangers," Tommy explained calmly to Kim, who didn't look too pleased.

"We're…Power Rangers?" Conner squeaked out, barely believing what he just heard.

"Yes, you must take these," Tommy said, opening a case with three morphers. The teens took them cautiously.

"They double as communicators so if you need help you can call me or each other," Tommy said, trying not to notice Kim's glare.

Once the teens left, Tommy prepared for the attack that Kim was going to launch at him.

"Can you really handle a group of teenagers like that?" Kim said shaking her head.

"No, but I'll have help. Hayley, my friend from graduate school, agreed to help me mentor them," Tommy said.

"Look, I don't mind you mentoring the next team of Power Rangers, but if you get powers again so help me God…I'll kill you and bury your body in the woods myself," Kim said as she went upstairs.

Tommy gulped. He knew he was in serious trouble when she said that. And she didn't say that all the time, either.