Trent entered the museum that afternoon and somehow found himself looking at the Brachiosaurs exhibit his mind wandering back to his mentor, Tommy Oliver. He wondered what he was doing now that he no longer had powers other than his civilian power of invisibility. He took a seat on a bench and began to sketch and soon a sketch of Tommy and Brachiozord began to take form. He knew it probably wasn't the best idea to draw Tommy and one of the zords while sitting in public but sometimes he couldn't control what ideas popped into his mind and started to take form on paper.

"That's some nice art," a female voice said from behind him causing Trent to drop his pencil in surprise and rush to hide the sketch, but it was too late she had seen what he drew.

"Were you a power ranger?" the woman asked.

Trent looked over his shoulder and gave a smile at the blonde that stood behind him.

"Why do you say that?" he asked doing his best feign ignorance.

"That looks like a zord." She remarked sitting down on the bench beside him.

Trent sighed Tommy's warning to keep his identity as a power ranger secret ringing in his ears.

"Don't worry, I know you were probably told to keep your identity secret, but this should help you" she showed him the Dino Charge communicator she carried with her to keep in contact with the rangers and Keeper, "I'm not a power ranger but I am a mentor."

Trent sighed "I am… was a ranger." He held up his wrist to show his still present dino gem "Dino Thunder White ranger."

"I'm Kendall."

"Trent, it's good to meet you." Trent felt that he could relax knowing that she, as a mentor, would keep his secret.

"Who is he…" Kendall asked, "He actually looks kind of familiar."

"That was my mentor, Dr. Thomas Oliver." Trent sighed, "His friends usually call him…"

"…Tommy" Kendall cut in finally realizing who he was and why he looked so familiar.

"Wait, you know him?" Trent looked shocked.

"I've been on a couple of digs with him over the years," Kendall replied "I always wondered what happened to him; he dropped off the radar around 2002 I think, I know it was after Anton Mercer's research island exploded. I was afraid he didn't survive the blast. I know Anton has been seen since but I hadn't heard anything about Tommy. It really made me wonder if he had actually died on the island."

"He survived and moved to Reefside. I think he wanted to drop of the radar and have a quiet life." Trent filled in, "He became a science teacher at Reefside high school, that's where I met him, I had his class my senior year."

"I noticed you drew him with what I can only infer is a Brachiosaurs zord so is it safe to assume that he was a ranger, not just a mentor?"

Trent hesitated

"Trent I haven't spoken to Tommy Oliver since that extra credit dig as an undergrad, I wouldn't know how to get in touch with him, so I'm not going to run to him and tell him that you divulged his secret." Kendall sighed.

"Kendall, I'm sorry, I'm going to have to stand by my loyalty to Dr. Oliver and say no comment to your question, he wouldn't do that to me no matter how unlikely it would be that I would ever find out he did and I'm not going to do that to him." Trent looked away.

"You really look up to him, don't you?" Kendall asked.

"Yeah, I do…" Trent replied. "He did so much for us that he didn't have to do over the time we were rangers and still to this day we can always turn to him if we need a friend."

"I remember thinking that he was such a great person but… in those quiet evening moments when his mind wasn't consumed with the studies he buried himself in I noticed a haunted quality to his eyes like he was weighed down with regrets from the past." Kendall sighed, "Sins that he felt he could never atone for…" she sighed, "The same haunted look I see in your eyes. It's a shame really, I have a feeling both of you are capable of great things." "I had thought no one noticed back then…" a voice spoke up and Trent stood awkwardly.

Kendall and Trent both looked in surprise to see Tommy standing by the exhibit looking up at the fossils of the dinosaur whose DNA had powered his most recent zord.

"Except Hayley…" he looked to them "… The haunted look you speak of stems from the fact that Trent and I… we were touched by the darkness in ways you probably couldn't even begin to imagine."

"We… we were controlled by the darkness, turned against the power rangers and sent on a mission to kill them or die in the attempt, and…" Trent hesitated to continue.

"…And we both came extremely close to being successful." Tommy added where Trent hesitated. "Back when we worked together, Kendall, I had not made peace with all of what happened, today I can say that I have found some measure of peace with it after taking up the mantle of mentor to the Dino Thunder rangers." He didn't mention that a lot of that peace didn't come until he became Kira's foster father and was able to help her build herself back up into a confident woman after her mother crushed her self-worth and almost completely broke her spirit.

"I can only hope that I can find that same peace one day" Trent sighed.

Tommy was silently hoping it wouldn't take Trent nearly as long as it had him to find the peace he sought, but Tommy figured Kira would help Trent make peace with his past and remind him that deep inside Trent really was a good person.

Tommy noticed that Kendall was side-eyeing Trent's sketchbook curiously.

"You can look through there if you want." Trent told her as he noticed her looking at the book.

Tommy knew Trent's sketchbooks were often filled with random works as he sketched the ideas as they came to him with no particular order or set theme for the book.

"Oh wow, she's pretty, who is she?" Kendall asked as she came to a particularly detailed sketch of a young woman holding a guitar. That was a typical sketch for Trent to draw in his spare time.

Trent looked and Tommy couldn't possibly miss the smile that played across the younger man's features as he looked at the image.

"That's my girlfriend, Kira." Trent replied. "She's a skilled guitarist and singer."

"This is a really great sketch." Kendall handed Trent the book and stood to leave.

"Thanks" Trent replied slightly embarrassed by the complement.

"I've got to go check in on my team; it was really good meet you Trent… Tommy, we should catch up sometime, maybe I could introduce you to my team."

"Good to meet you too, Kendall." Trent said.

"Kendall, I'll give you my cellphone number and you can call me and we can set up a meeting." Tommy replied.

Kendall pulls her phone out, and programs Tommy's phone number into it and gave him her number and she left.

"So you really knew her?" Trent asked as Kendall got out of earshot.

"Yeah, she showed a lot of scientific promise; she was one of the best students I worked a dig with." He commented with a smile; then turned to Trent. "Come on, the others are supposed to meet us at the entrance."

"Okay," Trent smiles and the two men leave the Brachiosaurus exhibit happy to hear that the world is safe in the hands of a new team of rangers with a good mentor, Kendall.

The End…

A/N Yes I know, Tommy again, but I couldn't help it a season with dinosaurs, I couldn't resist throwing everyone's favorite dinosaur guy at it XD