Disclaimer: I don't own Power Rangers and I never will unfortunately, if I did Justin would have returned in Dino Thunder and got together with Kira instead of Trent or Conner.
Summery: this a rewrite of Dino Thunder it starts just after the teens go home after finding the Gems.
A/N 1: Thanks to JJB88 for his idea for the fight scene between Conner and Justin
A/N 2: big thanks to lMV16 for allowing me to use her O/C Andrea Scott (she can be found in the stories Power of winter and Andrea's past life.)
A/N 3: Thanks to JJB88 and Shadowlord 1329 for the reviews to the previous chapter.
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Chapter 8
Kimberly had been back in Reefside for about two hours and was getting caught up with what had happened between Kira and Justin they couldn't talk Ranger business as Kylee was sitting with them.
"Well I'm glad you two decided to give it a go?" said Kim.
"Yeah Kira I'm glad your happy I wish you and Justin all the luck in the world" said Kylee.
"Thanks you two" said Kira hugging them both it felt good being able to talk to her friend the e she remembered again and it proved that the old Kylee was still in their.
"Kylee, I thought you were supposed to be in concert tonight?" asked Kira.
"I was but I canceled it. After hearing what we did together it made me admit that you were right the old me is a much nicer person."
"Kylee I've missed being able to talk to you?"
"Well I'm back Kira and I promise I'll try to be a better friend"
"Great thanks Kylee"
"I just have to finish this tour and than I'm coming back to Reefside for awhile"
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Meanwhile Kim and Tommy had moved to a different table so they could talk in private.
"Kim how long have you known your Ninjetti Powers were still active?" asked Tommy.
"Since the day you got taken by Zeltrax, those Tyrannodrone things cornered me and I just decided to try it otherwise I'd have been taken as well" replied Kim.
"How come you left town right after that?"
"I needed some time to think about what had just happened. I mean we have just started talking again after years where we haven't talked then you vanish and my Ninjetti Powers suddenly start working again. It kinda freaked me out a bit so I went back to Angel Grove to try and find answers"
"Did you find anything?"
"Well Jason and Adam listened as I told them what had happened and you know Jason he wanted to come here and try to rescue you"
"Sounds just like him but I don't know if his Morpher would have worked with Conner being the new T-Rex Ranger"
"Oh there is one more thing I bought someone with me from Angel Grove, she's registered at Reefside and is staying hear the rest of the school year with her boyfriend Trent"
"Who is it Kim?"
"Andrea"
"Jason's sister?"
"Yeah she's been going out with Trent for the past year and a half"
"Ok"
"So anyway what is going on between Conner and Justin?"
"I don't know they seem to have got off on the wrong foot but always seem to be able to work for the team at the moment"
Hayley had walked over to them and said. "I think Justin is trying to see how far Conner is willing to go before he snaps I mean Justin criticizes him for being a Red Ranger saying that he doesn't have the commitment of previous Red's"
"How does Conner respond?" asked Kim.
"He jabs back occasionally I just hope he didn't hear the exchange between Justin and Zeltrax" said Tommy.
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After a few more minutes they all regrouped and talked Kira and Kylee into singing the song again and they obliged after another round of applause Kira and Kylee left the stage and Kira walked straight into Justin's arms as they hugged and kissed, Kylee saw this and looked a little jealous that she wasn't getting any attention she looked and saw Conner looking exactly like she was so she walked towards him and to everyone's surprise sat on his lap and kissed him.
"Kylee what was that?" asked Kira still in shock.
"What I wanted to make sure he doesn't forget me while I'm away?"
"Well Conner won't forget that in a hurry even for him it'll be hard to do?" said Justin as they all laughed at Conner and decided it was time to make their way home.
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Hayley, Trent and Andrea were locking up the Cyberspace, when Hayley turned to Andrea and said. "Where did you learn to handle that many orders at once?"
"Oh I did a Work Placement at Ernie's Youth Center in Angel Grove last summer plus I've helped out their for the last few years, why?" came the reply from Andrea.
"No reason just curious, but I bet Uncle Ernie isn't to thrilled by you moving to Reefside"
"Wait did you say Uncle Ernie?"
"Yeah he's my uncle"
"O.M.G, he did mention he had a niece in Reefside but I never expected to meet her on my first day in town let alone work for her?"
"Well at least I don't need to cheek your references if Uncle Ernie trusts you then so do I"
"Thanks Hayley, now which way is it to Dr. Tommy Oliver's house?"
"Hear let me give you directions" said Hayley as she quickly jotted down the directions that Trent would need to drive her to Tommy's.
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Half an hour later they had arrived at Tommy's house and Andrea noticed the Blue jeep parked in the drive way.
"I see Justin's hear?" she said.
"How do you know him?" asked Trent.
"We've been friends since we were both 11, my brother Jason and Tommy used to teach Martial Arts classes and Justin was their prized student I started training with then not long after Justin won the Junior regional's"
"Cool so he's a good fighter then?"
"Good, Their was only two people that could beat him one was Jason and the other was Tommy, I'll tell you something he had the skills to defend me once when we were attacked by Quantrons in Angel Grove Park he fought them so I could escape and get help"
"Wow I wouldn't like to get on the wrong side of him? By the way what are Quantrons?"
"Oh they were henchmen sent to attack the Earth by Astronama"
"You mean the woman that the Space Rangers stopped from destroying the Earth?"
"Yeah" said Andrea as she knocked on the door and waited for it to be answered.
"Hi can I help you?" asked Tommy as he answered the door.
"Uncle Tommy are you serious, you don't recognise your own niece"
"Hey Andy I knew you were in town Kim, Jason and Justin told me"
"You spoke to Jase?"
"Yeah he asked that I make sure you don't get in any trouble, or else he'll hunt me down"
"Sounds like Jase to me" said Andrea laughing to herself.
"Yeah so what can I do for you Andy?"
"Actually I was wondering if I could stay hear the night while Trent talks Anton in to letting me stay with them?"
"Sure of course you can infact Justin and Kira are getting a room ready for you"
"Thanks Uncle Tommy"
"Just remember that in school though you'll still have to call me Dr. O even Justin does"
"What, Justin's still in school?"
"Yeah it's a long story that has to do with the Countdown"
"Ok Tommy, Thanks again for letting me stay hear tonight" she said.
"Don't worry the room is yours as long as you need it"
Kira and Justin came down the stairs just as Trent kissed Andy goodnight.
"We'd better be making a move as well Tommy" said Justin.
"Yeah see you in school Tomorrow Dr. O you to Andrea it'll be nice to get to know you, and find some secrets out about Justin that he hasn't told me" said Kira.
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The next day after school Kim had the Rangers gather in the basement of Dr. O's house as she bought out 5 packages and handed them round as they opened the parcels as they opened them they all saw a Dark Blue jean jacket that had a Light Blue patch in the middle of the back and in the center of that was a two lettered initial in their colours Ethan's had a Dark Blue E J on it, Conner's had a Red C M, Kira's had a Yellow K F. Justin's was a little different it had a Blue J and a Green S on the back and Tommy 's had a Black letter T and a Red letter O on the back but was inside a white patch then Kim pulled a sixth one out that had a Pink K and H on it.
"Wow these are cool" said Conner.
"I had these made for you all while I was in Angel Grove I thought it would be away of identifying yourselves when not in your suits and if you got separated in a crowded area like at school or in the park" said Kim.
Everyone except Conner put theirs on straightaway and then they turned to look at him.
"What I'll put it on later right now I have my Leather jacket on" Conner's Leather Jacket was all Black except for a horizontal Red stripe across the back of it.
Before anyone could say anything two separate alarms went off, one at the harbor but they couldn't see anything yet, and the other on the edge of town near a dam where a bunch of Tyrannodrones had been seen their.
"Guys we're gunna have to split up" said Tommy.
"Right so who goes with who?" asked Conner.
"Conner you and Justin check out the Harbor the rest of us will go after the Tyrannodrones"
"Ok do we Morph first or not?"
"No go as civilians then you won't seem so suspicious, but the rest of us will Morph"
"Do you want me to come along?" asked Kim.
"Yeah Kim I always felt safer when you were with me in the olden days" said Tommy.
"Good luck guy's we'll contact you if we find anything" said Justin.
"Be careful Dragon" said Kira.
"I will Ptera just make sure you get back in one piece" replied Justin as they shared a quick kiss.
"Ready guy's asked Kira taking Conner's role as leader.
"Ready" they replied.
"NINJETTI THE CRANE" called Kim.
"DINO THUNDER POWER UP" the other Dino Rangers called.
"PTERA" called Kira.
"TRICERA" called Ethan.
"BRACHIO" called Tommy.
They jumped on their Raptor Riders with Tommy taking Justin's and Kim taking Conner's.
"Let's go?" said Justin as he and Conner watched them exit the Cave.
"Whose car are we taking?" asked Conner.
"Both it'll look less conspicuous that way"
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Twenty minutes later Conner and Justin pulled up at the harbor and headed off in separate directions to try and find whatever was causing the disturbance that had been detected by the sensors in the Command Cave.
After a further twenty minutes they reconvened at there vehicles Justin had already realised why they were at the harbor. Conner still believed their was something for them to find so he decided to try one more sweep round the harbor after running a check using Storm Blasters sensors which revealed nothing, the area was clean.
"Why did they send us hear?" asked Conner.
"Don't ask stupid questions McKnight they sent us hear so we could talk. God even for a Jock your an idiot" said Justin.
"How do you know that?"
"Well Tommy's been planning it for awhile to try and ease the tension of the team"
"So are we gunna talk then?"
"What do we need to talk about I think we're fine as we are"
"Well I don't what have you got against me?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Ever since you found out I was the Red Ranger you've been continually on my case"
"You're point is what"
"You always pick on me?"
"Look as a Red you need to be able to take whatever comes at you but when you were interrupted from your stupid Soccer tryout's to help us you wanted to give up your powers you spat in the face of what Zordon taught the original 12 Ranger it offended me and I said something about it and I know Tommy and Kim were disappointed especially Tommy as a former Red he was really offended by it"
The two had been walking towards the pier as they talked to each other neither raising their voices seeing as their was civilians about who didn't know their secret ID's. After they were away from the civilians Conner turned to Justin and said. "What else come on tell me?"
"Their isn't anything else Conner once you started to act like you didn't want to be in the team I prodded you just enough to get you to change your mind but I still don't get why you were chosen as the new Red" came the reply.
"So Zeltrax didn't hit a sore spot when he was talking to you and I saw you tense up I saw Kira try to calm you down"
"Conner you want to watch your next words"
"No listen to me you have been different since Zeltrax I know he said something to you so what was it"
"Conner I'm telling you to drop it before you awaken what I have tried to leave buried"
"Justin just tell me how bad can it be"
"Fine you asked for this Conner. Zeltrax hit a spot that I have tried to burry for 8 years what happened to my parents. My mother died 8 years ago in what I believed was a car crash and my dad was killed in what I believed was the Countdown Invasion 6 years ago. But because of Zeltrax I don't know what to believe, he said some horrible things about my life and about me"
"Justin come on you know what they say a problem shared is a problem halved"
"You won't say that when you hear it, Zeltrax said that my mother's death was to stop us from moving to Reefside so we stayed in Angel Grove and I became the Blue Turbo Ranger. Then he said that the death of my father didn't happen during the Countdown attack but he was attacked before by Zeltrax to stop him from taking a job in Reefside and to stop me becoming the Green Ranger but Kim adopted me and moved hear anyway. Then after Kira tried to calm me down he said that Tommy's death didn't mean anything to me I swear if Tommy hadn't reappeared I don't know if Kira would have been able to get through to me"
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Meanwhile at the other side of town the others were fighting the Tyrannodrones and trying to defend the dam when Zeltrax and Elsa showed up and attacked causing Tommy and Kim to turn and fight Zeltrax and Elsa while Ethan and Kira fought the Tyrannodrones. At first they were getting beaten down quiet badly even when they pulled out they pulled out their weapons they were still outmatched. Then a Purple blur arrived on the scene and pulled out a Cannon like weapon and knocked a group of Tyrannodrones down and helped Ethan and Kira up and together the three of them fought off the Tyrannodrones until they retreated leaving the three of them to help Tommy and Kim with Zeltrax and Elsa.
"Who is that and where is the rest of your team?" asked Zeltrax.
"None of your concern on both counts" replied Tommy.
As they fought off Elsa and Zeltrax who eventually retreated.
"I wonder what they wanted?" asked Ethan.
"Well what ever it was they didn't get it" said Kim.
"So do we go back to base or do we wait and see if they return?" asked Kira.
"We go back to base and scan the area and try to find what they might have been looking for" said Tommy. Tommy, Kim, Ethan and Kira turned towards the new arrival but whoever it was wasn't their anymore.
"I wonder who that Ranger was?" said Ethan.
"No idea lets get back to base for now"
They returned to the Raptor Riders and headed back to the Command Cave. Tommy ran a scan on the dam to see what Zeltrax and Elsa were looking for and while he did that he turned on a tracker so they could see what Conner and Justin were doing.
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Meanwhile at the harbor Justin was standing their waiting for a reply from Conner who turned
to Justin and said "Is that all"
Justin couldn't believe what Conner had just said.
"Are you serious" Justin said as calm as he possibly could given the circumstances.
"What he just said it to get in your head" said Conner.
"Conner I'm gunna give you five seconds to get away from me"
"No I'm not going anywhere"
"That's your problem then" said Justin as he swung a fist at Conner who just managed to duck out the way of it but while he avoided that he didn't see the leg sweep coming and connect knocking him over but he quickly got back to his feet, and once again ducked a fist but this time he countered the leg sweep and tried to fight back more in self defence than anything else. But soon it broke down into a full blown fight, it wasn't even like a Martial arts contest it was just simple old fashioned fist to cuffs between them.
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Meanwhile in the Command Cave Kira was watching the fight brake down into a full on fight.
"Why are they fighting?" asked Kira.
"Their clearing the air Kira once it looks like their getting to violent we'll stop them I don't want either of them to get seriously hurt" said Tommy.
"I know but why does everything end up with a fight"
"I guess these two were always gunna end this way, I mean think about the prodding that Justin done to Conner when he wanted to give up the Ranger Powers."
"I guess but why now?"
"I decided it should be know Kira they will both need each other and we will need them both in this fight so they need to do this"
"Couldn't they talk it out or something. Kim you can't like the way this is going?"
"Kira Justin is like a real part of my family in the true family sense. But he is also a brother to me in the Power Rangers family just like you, Ethan and Conner are part of the Ranger Family, they need to deal with this I might not like it but it needs to happen"
"Well I'm not gunna sit here and watch my boyfriend and my team mate beat the hell out of each other" said Kira turning her back on the computer.
While this was happening Ethan loaded up another computer to try and find out who the new Ranger was, but the only thing he could work out was it was a Female Ranger seeing as the suit had a skirt on.
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Conner had taken a hard punch to the lip and received a busted lip but he kept getting up to take another round of attacks from Justin. The next attack had Conner down again this time when he got up he was holding his shoulder, but still he tried to fight back not really sure what else he could do. Conner had only connected with a hand full of hits before Justin once again knocked him to the floor neither realising they had also got close to the edge of the pier. And were fighting right on the edge Justin swung a fist at Conner in an attempt to end the fight and make Conner give up but he missed and as he tried to catch his balance Conner managed to connected with a fist that caught Justin on the chest pocket of his jean jacket knocking Justin off balance again. This time though Justin fell backwards and was going to go over the edge, franticly he grabbed Conner's leather jacket to try and keep his balance but the jacket started to rip along the red stripe all the way round and then the jacket fell to pieces causing Justin to end up pulling Conner in as well. They hit the water hard and Justin snapping back to his senses realised where they were and forgetting the fight looked round to try and find Conner who he had recently found out couldn't swim. Conner was struggling to stay afloat until he felt someone grab him and support his weight he looked round and saw Justin was trying to save him.
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Back at the Command Cave Ethan saw them hit the water and shouted. "WE NEED TO GET TO THE HARBOR CONNER CAN'T SWIM AND THEIR IN THE WATER"
Tommy looked up and tossed his keys to Kim and then he teleported to the harbor.
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"CONNER DAM YOU STAY ABOVE THE SURFACE IF YOU START TO SINK I WILL AS WELL" shouted Justin. As he struggled to keep Conner floating while swallowing mouthful's of salt water while trying to save the jock then from out of know where the Dragon Dagger appeared in one of Justin's hands he played the activation tone. Justin was now struggling as well he had swallowed to much sea water and was slowly losing consciousness thankfully the Dragonzord appeared from underneath them and carried them to the shore line where Tommy was waiting for them. The Dragonzord placed them gently in front of Tommy then returned to the ocean while Tommy waited for the jeep to arrive he called an Ambulance just to be on the safe side then Tommy made sure they were not seriously hurt and was glad that they had both survived.
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Twenty minutes a had passed and finally the jeep with the rest of the rangers had arrived the minute it stopped Kira was running over to Justin who was in worse shape that Conner as once they had reached Tommy he dazed in and out consciousness. Conner's busted lip wasn't bleeding any more but he wasn't in any condition to drive home.
"Justin please wake up?" said Kira as she sat beside him resting his head on her lap.
Suddenly Justin made a strange noise and water came out his mouth, Kira was scarred and called Tommy over.
"Tommy I think Justin swallowed some sea water."
"Oh God we need to get it out of him" before he loses consciousness again.
"How?" asked Kira afraid she could lose her boyfriend.
"You need to suck it out of him"
"Do you mean the kiss of life?"
"Yeah Kira and only you can do it"
"Why not you or Kim?"
"Kim's his mother and he's like a son to me I don't think I could do it"
Just then Kim walked over and said, "What's wrong?"
"Justin swallowed a lot of water trying to save Conner from drowning" said Tommy then he added "Kira you need to get it out of him an ambulance is on the way"
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Fifteen minutes later the Ambulance arrived and loaded Justin in he was conscious at the moment Kira had done the Kiss of life and managed top clear some more water from, out of his body. Conner meanwhile was rapped in a towel trying to keep warm as the ambulance staff came over to him and loaded him in to the ambulance with Justin and just before it went off Kira jumped in the back to stay with Justin. Then they drove off to the hospital.
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Tommy, Kim and Ethan were recovering from the shock they'd just seen of firstly the fight then Justin nearly dying trying to save Conner's life. They walked over to the cars and Tommy passed Ethan the Keys to Conner's mustang, Kim drove Tommy's jeep and Tommy sat in Storm Blaster and they headed to the hospital Storm even behaved it self with Tommy behind the wheel as it understood the situation. Justin could lose his life and Storm was concerned Justin had been more than his owner they were the best of friends.
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Tommy, Kim and Ethan had made it to the hospital and went to find Kira she was sitting in the relative's room crying to herself.
"Come on Kira they'll be fine?" said Kim hugging Kira.
"I know it's just today I could have lost a friend and my boyfriend"
"But you haven't Kira, Justin did the right thing after they hit the water he knew Conner couldn't swim so he tried to save him, I know Justin he would have died to try and save Conner it's why the Dragon Coin chose him he has perhaps the greatest sense of right and wrong of any Ranger ever which probably comes from him being a Ranger since he was 12" said Tommy.
A Doctor walked over to them and said, "Mr McKnight is lucky had Mr Stewart not saved him he would have died, he will however make a full recovery and will need to rest his shoulder for a few weeks. Mr Stewart swallowed a lot of sea water more than anyone should we have just removed the last of it and he should be alright as well.