Billy Cranston sat at table in the library with his head in the newspaper. He was well known for being one of the smartest kids in Angel Grove High. He was a straight A student, being the first one to turn in homework before the due date, being a member of the science club and the computer club. Plus, he was in the lead for Valedictorian. "I didn't know this!" Billy cried in an excited voice.

"SSHHHHHHHH!"

He immediately looked up and saw Ms. Nichols with her finger over her mouth. "Sorry, Ms. Nichols," Billy apologized. He exchanged looks with his friend Jason Scott. Billy handed Jason the paper and pointed to the front of the page. "Here it is."

Jason looked at the picture that on the front of the Angel Grove Headlines. "Oh, my," he gasped in a surprised voice. His eyes glanced at the picture of two astronauts on the moon opening a brown dumpster. "That must be Rita's dumpster, isn't it?"

Ms. Nichols was walking around the library making sure there was dead silence. Several groups of students who were working on a project and they were whispering back and forth. "I said that I want everyone to be quit in my library!" Ms. Nichols hissed as she dropped a heavy text book on the table. "What part of that do you not understand?"

"We are working on class project. We have to give an oral report in history at the end of the week-"

It was like Ms. Nichols didn't care that they were studying or working on their homework. Her face was about to explode as her glasses slide to her nose. Ms. Nichols eyes shifted when she saw a student had taken of WWII book from the book case. "I thought I told you that you couldn't use this book!" she scolded as the group of students exchanged looks with each other. One of them handed her a note and it was snatched out of their hand. Her angry eyes skimmed over the note and she wadded it up. The note was thrown across the room and landed in the trash can. "Very well, you can use the book! But, it doesn't go outside of my library. Do I make myself clear!?" All of the students quickly shook their heads yes and didn't try to argue with her.

"So, anyway, it says that a group of Astronauts landed on the moon this weekend and met an evil space witch," Billy continued while he looked around to make sure the coast was clear. "Apparently, the which casted a spell over them and they opened a chamber and let out some type of monster who was sleeping for thousands of years."

"I'm just surprised they lived to tell the tale," Jason remarked while he continued to read the paper. "In this article, it says that all of the Astronauts escaped as soon as the monster was free. They didn't get a good look at his face because he was wearing a sliver mask. But, his body looked as if all the flesh was burn off. This monster had a special type of wand with a Z on the point of it."

"I bet he is working with Rita!" Billy gasped as he raised his voice a little bit. Jason covered his mouth as he saw the angry and unfriendly librarian walking towards them. He didn't have to ask Jason what was wrong because a heavy textbook landed on the table.

"Mr. Cranston, I think it's time that you and Mr. Scott collect your materials and leave!" Ms. Nichols spat as spit accidently came out of her mouth and hit Billy in the face. "This is the second time, I had to-"

"-We were just reading the paper," Jason interrupted as he tried to reason with the librarian. "This is all over the news worldwide." He pointed to the article about the incident on the moon.

"I don't care what you were talking about! Just get out of the library!" The boys could tell she was hot steaming mad and they quickly gathered their books and materials and left the library.

"Let's go to the youth center," Jason suggested as they stepped foot out of the library. "We're meeting with the rest of the group for lunch anyway."

The Angel Grove Youth center was probably the most popular place for teen to hang out at. It had a juice bar, where students could order snack. Probably the most two items that were purchased the most was Ernie's famous smoothies and milk shakes. The youth center had a work out center for students to practice martial arts or gymnastics, and an arcade center.

A petite girl with brown shoulder length hair wiped the sweat off her face as she got off the balance beam. She walked over to the table and took a seat next to the boy with shoulder length brown hair. The two of them had been friends with since nursery school. "So, Tommy, how'd I do?" she asked as she looked into his brown chocolate eyes.

"Kimberly, you did wonderful," Tommy assured her as he took hold of her hand. "You're going to do great in the gymnastics competition."

They both blush when they noticed were holding hands. "I hope Kat doesn't find out about it," Kimberly whispered as she quickly let go of his hand. "I wouldn't want to cause trouble between you and your girlfriend."

"Kim, I'm not with Kat anymore," Tommy admitted as a heavy-set man dressed in a Hawaiian shirt brought each of them a bowl of chili, a grill cheese sandwich, and a Dr. Pepper. "Thanks, Ernie." The man smiled and went back behind the counter.

"What's going with you two?" she asked as opened a package of crackers and put them in her chili.

"We decided that we just wanted to stay friends. We were both okay with the decision and wished each other the best," he replied answered as took a bit out of his sandwich. "I'm not dating anyone right now. She is dating Chris Master and they're going steady. He is on the diving team with her and he's got a chance to be in the Pan Global Games too."

"I'm glad that neither one of you got hurt in the break up," Kimberly replied. "You'll find someone too and she'll steal your heart."

They saw Jason and Billy walk into the youth center with a newspaper and they walked over to the table that Trini, and Zack was sitting at. Kimberly watched them move to the back table and they were whispering back and forth. A blonde headed girl walked into the room and took a seat at the table next to Zack.

"Hey, Kat, what are you doing here?" Zack questioned. "I thought you were training for the diving competition."

"I was but I got an important call," she stated.

"Is it about the Pan Global Games?" Trini asked as her eyes lit up. "Please tell me that you made it."

"Let's go talk in the hall," Kat suggested. All of them got up and went outside.

"What's going on Kat?" Trini asked as she watched Billy put the paper in his bookbag.

"Alpha contacted me and we're to report to the command center," she whispered in a low quiet voice. "I think it has to do with what's on the paper."

All of them looked around to see if it was okay to teleport. "I think the coast is clear," Billy declared. Five beams of multi colored lights shot up into the sky.

Back in the youth center, Tommy was trying to gain the courage to ask Kimberly a very important question that would determine the fate of their relationship. "Kim, there's something I want to talk to you about," he started out. A blush spread across his face and he began to twiddle his thumbs as he tried to keep eye contact with her. "I really need to tell you that I have realized that-"

"Did you hear the news!?" Adam exclaimed when he walked in with Rocky and Aisha. They took a seat next to Tommy and Kimberly. "Trini, Jason, and Zack were selected to go to the Peace Conference!"

"I'm happy for them," Kimberly replied when she finished chewing the last bite of her sandwich. "I've known Trini, Jason, and Zack since kindergarten. I know they are going to do great things."

Tommy sat at the table and didn't say a word. He just finished eating his meal in silence. He had been trying to get her alone so he could tell her how he felt about her. But, he got felt butterflies flying around in his stomach. "Kim, what I was going to tell you was-"

"You can tell me now."

"I'll tell you later," he said as he gathered up his books and materials. "It can wait."

Kimberly's eye brows raised in suspension because he was acting different. He continued to blush, his eyes were blinking and he jammed his hands in his pocket. Plus, he looked away from her. Tommy never did those things unless he was nervous. "Tommy, are you okay?" she questioned as she watched him throw his book bag over his shoulder. "Is there something bothering you?"

"Oh, it's nothing serious," he lied as he walked out of the youth center and headed outside.

Just as Tommy left, Ernie walked over to their table. "What can I get you?" Ernie asked as he began to take orders.

"I'll take a double cheeseburger, fries, and a coke," Rocky answered.

"I'll take a chili cheese dog and a coke," Adam replied.

"I think I'll just have a chocolate shake and a fruit salad," Aisha stated.

Ernie walked back to the kitchen. Once he was out of sight, Rocky looked around to make sure no one else was around. "What do you think this will do the power rangers?" he asked while exchanging looks with his three other friends.

"I have no idea," Adam remarked as he put his book bag on the floor.

"It's still hard for me to believe that they are the power rangers," Kimberly spoke up, when she got up from their table. She grabbed her book bag and headed to the girls' locker room. Once she walked into the locker room, she striped out of her sweaty pink leotard. She wrapped a fluffy pink towel around herself, grabbed her tote bag, and her clothes and headed to the shower.

As she started to take her shower she began think about the day she, Rocky, Adam, and Aisha learned who the power rangers were two weeks previously.

October 26th, 1994

Rocky, Adam, Aisha, and Kimberly were all in a ninja competition against Stone Canyon and were heading outside to meet their friends. But, they were all captured by Goldar and were taken to a cave outside of Angel Grove. Once they were in the cave, Goldar chained them against the wall and laid a wooden snake on the ground. They were asked to become evil and join Rita Repulsa and they refused. But, the evil gold monkey told them they didn't have a choice. He revealed that in one hour the snake would come to live and bite them, turning them evil for good. All of them tried to escape, when Kimberly and Aisha picked the locks. However, the putties chained the back against the wall. After an hour passed the snake came to life and began to slither over to the four teens.

Kimberly looked down and saw the snake slithering up her leg. "Kimberly, don't move," Aisha warned as she broke the silence for the first time in a long hour. "It will be okay; the power rangers will be here?"

"I doubt that the power rangers even know who we are?" Rocky spoke up as he watched the putties patrol the cave from outside.

"We can't give up hope," Aisha assured her friends as they all sat in fear. She looked down at her lap when she felt the snake slither across her lap and it was now sitting in Adam's lap as it began to open its mouth.

"I can't believe I'm going to be the first one become evil," he gasped as the snake moved over close to his arm.

A laser was fired at the snake and it fell to the ground. The blue ranger ran into the cave with the red ranger flowing him. "THE POWER RANGERS!" Aisha cried with joy. "See I told you!" The blue ranger began to wrestle with the snake as the red ranger fired his laser at the chains. The heavy chains fell off and the four teens followed the red ranger outside, where the black, yellow, and pink ranger had finished fighting off a group of putties.

"Hey, where is the blue ranger? questioned the yellow ranger.

"He must still be in the cave," gasped the red ranger, as he ran back into the cave with yellow, pink, and black ranger right behind him.

Kimberly stood there in disbelief. She could have sworn that the yellow ranger sounded liked Trini and the red ranger sounded like Jason. It finally dawned on her that two of her friends were power rangers. She broke out in a run and ran into the cave. "Kim, wait up!" Aisha cried as she followed Rocky and Adam into the cave.

All of them walked into the cave and saw Billy sitting on the floor and his helmet was off! "Oh, no!" Billy gasped as he saw his friends walk into the cave.

"Billy!" Rocky burst out in disbelief.

Kimberly pointed at the red and yellow rangers. "You two are-" before she could finish, Trini and Jason removed their helmet. Both of their faces were pale as a ghost and they stood there in disbelief as Kimberly guessed their identities.

Adam looked straight at the pink and black rangers and they removed their helmets. "Zack! Kat!" Adam cried.

"You guys are the power rangers!" Aisha gasped as she stared at all five of her friends in their uniform. "Unbelievable!"

Kimberly stood under the shower as the soap suds rinsed off her body and out of her hair. Even to this day she couldn't believe her best friends were the power rangers. When she first found out, she couldn't understand why her friends never told her their secret. But, after she went to the command center along with Rocky, Adam, and Aisha, she learned that their leader Zordon didn't want them to tell anyone they were rangers. All four of them promised they wouldn't reveal their friends' identities to anyone.

She stepped out of the shower and changed into a pink Nike wind suit and a pale pink long sleeve tee shirt. The locker room door swung open and Aisha walked in. "Hey, girl, why'd you walk out?" she asked as she took a seat next to Kimberly on the bench.

"Oh, I just had a lot on my mind," Kimberly answered.

They got up from the bench and walked out of the locker room. " Does this have to do with a new relationship?" Aisha questioned as they walked down the hall.

"I haven't dated since I broke up with Chris Masters back in the 7th grade. But, there is someone I love," she revealed as she began to blush. "I've loved him since 7th grade. I just didn't know it until my parents divorced and he was there for me. He helped me get through my grieving. "

"Have you told them how you feel?"

"Not, exactly," Kimberly confessed as they left the youth center and went outside. A mixture of orange, gold, and red leaves were falling from the trees. Some of interlocking tree branches were bare and bright rays of sunlight were peeking through the gaps, as the sun. Acorns were lying in the soft mud waiting for the squirrels to collect them for the winter. "I'm afraid he won't feel the same way about me."

Aisha stopped dead in her tracks and turned to face Kimberly. "This doesn't have anything to do with Tommy, does it?" she questioned as she watched Kimberly begin to blush.

"It does, we actually held hands in the youth center," Kimberly began to blush. As the stop light turned fire engine red, they crossed the street with the other pedestrians. "Tommy told me that he was no longer with Kat because they thought they were more like friends than lovers. He said Kat was dating someone else, but he wasn't."

The gusty wind began to pick up speed and Aisha felt the heavy wind whipping her hair around her eyes. "I noticed that Tommy was really nervous about something," she replied as she put her hood on.

"When he left the youth center he acted like what he was going to tell me wasn't important. But, I knew it was important," Kimberly stated while she zipped her jacket up. "Tommy knows that he can tell me anything and it won't go any farther. Why did he feel like this was any different?"

Aisha didn't say anything until they walked inside the mall and sat down on the bench. "Kim, what were the exact words that Tommy said?" she asked while she removed her hood.

"Kim, there's something I want to talk to you about. I really need to tell you that I have realized that-" she paused for a minute. "He never did finish his sentence."

"What did his facial expression look like?"

"When he started to tell me, he began to blush and then he was having a difficult time keeping eye contact," Kimberly answered. "All this happened before you came into the youth center."

Aisha grabbed a cart and they started to walk down the long hallway. "When he told you what he said wasn't important his eyes started blinking and he jammed his hands in his pocket and he broke eye contact with you," she said.

"I noticed that too. Then he hurried up and left and said he was going to the park," Kimberly replied. Aisha turned around and watched her clap her hand over her mouth.

"Are you okay?"

"Actually, I think he does feel the same way, "Kimberly gasped. It dawned on her that Tommy had try to hint at what he was getting ready to tell her. "He said he wasn't dating anyone yet. But, he said when he started dating again it would work out because they girl would be special. Tommy was just waiting for the right time."

"Go tell him, how you feel," Aisha urged.

"Wonder if he's still at the park?" Kimberly asked as she pulled her cell phone out of her pocket. She dialed Tommy's cell number, but he didn't answer. Then she tried to call his home phone number waited for someone to pick up.

At the Oliver house, Jan Oliver had just returned from work as the phone started to ring. She walked over to the phone and saw Kimberly's cell phone on the caller ID. "Hello, Kimberly," Jan greeted. "Tommy's not here, he's probably at the park or at the youth center."

"Thanks Mrs. Oliver, if he gets home before I find him, please tell him I called and have him call me," she stated. "There is something really important I need to talk to him about."

"Okay, I'll tell him," Jan replied. "Have a good afternoon."

Meanwhile, Rita and Zedd were sitting in their elaborate throne room thinking of their first evil deed they could do together now that they were reunited. Zedd tapped his long slivery sharp finger nails on his arm chair. "Have you tried getting into their command center?" he asked.

"Don't you think I've tried that?!" Rita barked. "No one can enter that place without a power coin."

"That's it!" Zedd cried in delight when he heard Rita mention a power coin. "Since we weren't able to create a power coin-"

"I think it should be green," Rita interrupted as she watched Zedd throw his Z staff down on the ground and it turned into a snake. "We'll then find a worth candidate to become our evil green ranger."

"Rita, you're a genius!"

"Zeddy, we'll need to create a zord," she started while watched the snake slither around on the floor. "I was thinking we make it something powerful. I was thinking a sea serpent or a dragon."

Zedd got up from the throne. Later he returned with blue prints that he created years and years ago. "Rita, we need to consider that the rangers have their mega zord," he began as he showed her all the blue prints that he created, starting with Serpentera. "I think we should create a dragon zord and it will be the same size as the megazord."

"That's brilliant!" Rita smiled as when her eyes landed on the dragon zord blue print. The dragon stood and its hind legs and it was as tall as a sky scraper. "We'll base the green ranger's helmet of the dragon zord and we'll give him a gold armor shield to wear to protect him. Something is missing those we need to-"

"-create a weapon," Zedd finished.

"You took the words right out of my mouth," she replied as Zedd took hold of her hand. "I was thinking we create a dragon dagger. He can use it like a like a flute to control the zord from the sea."

"Let's get started on our newest creation!" Zedd exclaimed!