Several months flew by since they lost Jan and Caroline. Tommy and Kimberly made peace with the fact that their mothers wouldn't be a part of their life any more. A lot of things happened over the past several months. Tommy and the other red ranger went to the moon and fought the remaining members of the machine empire, Kimberly learned that there would be an opening for a PE teacher at Reefside High School the following year. Even though she was really excited about being a gym teacher, she was looking forward to Tommy getting his PhD. He finished his internship with Anton Mercer and Terrance Smith. Or at least they thought that he did. He got a letter in the mail saying that there was more to the internship, than studying at the lab in Reefside. He had to go to an island to study fossils that were on the island. Tommy would be working in a lab on the island. He'd be gone during September, October, and November. Then he'd have his PhD. Kimberly had gotten a job as a substitute teacher at Reefside because the PE teacher was out a lot.

Even though she was going to be a substitute, she was really excited about it. She made Tommy go to the mall to help her pick out some athletic clothes to wear, before he went to the island. Since she was required to wear gym clothes every day, she decided she was only going to wear pink outfits and pink shirts. She bought several rose pink adidas tracksuit that were made from spandex and satin material (she loved that the outfit looked shiny), several pale pink sleeveless polo shirts, several solid pale pink tee shirts (she got some in long sleeves and short sleeves), several pale pink turtle necks, several packages of pale pink socks, and two pair of pale pink adidas shoes. Kimberly tried her outfit on front of Tommy and he thought she was really beautiful in her pink outfit. He was looking forward to seeing her wear that pink outfit every day, especially since it was shiny looking. He thought that outfit brought out her true beauty. But,he thought she was the most beautiful girl he laid eyes no matter what she was wearing.

Tommy was happy that she was finally going to get to be a gym teacher. It had been her dream for years, other than marrying him. He couldn't wait to get his PhD, but he hated that he was going to be away from Kimberly for three months. Tommy wanted to take her with him and he even asked if she could come with him. But, he was told he couldn't bring her. It was really hard for him to go off and leave her for three months. Both of them cried a week before he left. When they both went to bed the night before he left, both of them held each other all night. Both of them were crying in each other's arms and they both cried themselves to sleep. When the woke up the next morning, both of them woke up crying. They cried when they took their shower, when they were eating breakfast and neither one of them could drive to the air port because they were both crying so hard. Billy and Haley drove them to the air port and they cried all they way to the air port. The hardest was when Tommy had to get on the plane. When Tommy left to go to the island, he took a calendar with him. Every night when he went to bed, he mark off a day on the calendar. He was counting down the days until he'd be back with Kimberly. He called her every day and twice a day on the weekends.

Two Month and Two Weeks Later

Tommy had two weeks left until he could go home. Time had gone by really slow. It seemed like he was there longer than he really was. While he was on the island he worked with Anton and Smitty. They researched dinosaurs and they Tyrannodrones, Raptor Riders,Dinozords, and Tommy created dino gems. He made a black gem, a pink gem, a red gem, a blue, gem, a yellow gem, and a white gem. One day, a science experiment went wrong and it caused the lab to explode. Tommy quickly grabbed the gems and took off running. All he had on his mind was getting home to Kimberly. That was his main focus. It didn't matter that he was going to loose everything that he took the island. It didn't bother him that he'd escape with only the clothes on his back and the dino gems. Trannodrones chased him out of the lab.

Finally he got out of the lab. There was no where else to go, so Tommy had to jump off the cliff. He hit the water hard and swam up to the surface. Tommy watched the lab explode. He wondered if Anton or Smitty made it out of the lab. But, his still man focus was Kimberly. He was stranded out in the ocean and he knew he'd have to swim for miles. Tommy started to swim with the dino gems safely in his back pack.

Meanwhile, Kimberly was at the mall buying a dress. After Tommy's graduation, they were going to winter formal. She picked out a pale pink dress made of satin. It had a long skirt that came to the floor, it had a heart shape neck, and it had spaghetti straps. After she bought her dress, she drove back home to wait for Tommy's phone call. He usually called at 6:00 every night and on the weekends he'd call her at 7:30 in the morning and also at 6:00 in the evening. When she got back to the house she sat by the phone for an hour. She knew that he was always running late, but while he had been away, he called her on time.