The next three years went by quickly. Riley and Maya were able to adapt to their new living arrangements. Both of them were really close friends since kindergarten, so that helped them cope with loosing Katy and David. Jan and James loved the two girls like they were their own grandchildren. Since Tommy and Kimberly were living in Reefside, Jan and James moved there. They wanted to help Tommy and Kimberly raise Riley and Maya. The girls spent a lot of time at Tommy's parent's home because Tommy and Kimberly weren't home much during the day.
Tommy was finishing up his PhD. Kimberly couldn't find an opening position as a PE teacher in Reefside at the present time. So, she took a job working in a sports center in Reefside and she offered physical fitness classes and swimming classes. In her physical fitness classes people did a lot of jogging, walking, treadmill training, swimming, and cycling. During her swimming classes, she taught people how to swim and she offered advanced swimming classes. Since Kimberly was giving physical fitness classes and swimming classes, she wore bathing suits, tracksuits, track pants full time. And all of her clothes were pink of course. She was still into fashion and she still liked to look nice. Kimberly always wore a pale pink sleeveless polo shirt. And she either wore a pink tracksuit or a pair of pink track pants with her sleeveless polo shirt.
After Tommy did his internship on an island with Anton Mercer and Terrance Smith, he earned his PhD. However, he decided to take a few years off before getting a full time job because he had missed spending time with Kimberly, Riley, and Maya. And another reason was because the lab exploded. Tommy barely made it off the island. He ended up having to jump into the ocean to avoid the explosion. After he jumped into the ocean he had to swim for miles. Kimberly almost went crazy when she found out about what happened at the lab. And it really upset Riley and Maya since they had already lost both of their parents. But, Maya ended up having a better relationship with Tommy after she nearly lost him, when the island exploded.
Both of the girls were now ten years old and were in the middle of their fourth grade year. Tommy secretly created dino gems because he thought there was good chance a new team of power rangers would form. So, Kimberly, Riley, and Maya helped him build a lab down in the basement. Tommy started to substitute teach a little bit to see which school in Reefside he'd like to teach at. During the girls' spring break Tommy took them to Disney World for the week. But, Kimberly had to work. However, the following week, Kimberly was on vacation. However, Riley and Maya had to go back to school. Since Kimberly was on vacation, Tommy decided to take her to a beach resort for week. He had promised to take her on vacation to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary, as soon as they got a week of. Tommy promised her that they could go on the vacation alone.
Spring 2002 Beach Resort
On the first day of the vacation, their vacation got interrupted because Tommy had to go to the moon with the other red rangers for a mission. As soon as he got back, he promised Kimberly that there wouldn't be any more interruptions. However, Bulk and Skull were there. Neither one of them had seen Bulk and Skull for several years. They learned that Bulk and Skull had their own Business in the Reefside mall and the Angel Grove Mall. They had a power rangers store. And the were doing really well with their business. They were at Reefside three days a week and in Angel Grove three days a week.
"For the next six and half days, it's just the two of us," promised Tommy. "We can swim in the pool, go to the beach, go to a tanning bed, go to the spa, or what ever you want."
Bulk and Skull were still up to their pranks and it had been a long time since they had pulled a prank on Tommy and Kimberly. They used to pull pranks on them separately. After Tommy married Kimberly, they were scared to pull any pranks. Mainly because Tommy told them that if they pulled any pranks on Kimberly they would deal with him. Tommy also told them that Kimberly was officially married to him and neither one of them could flirt with her.
"Are you up to pulling any pranks on Tommy and Kimberly?" whispered Bulk.
"Bulk, don't you remember what Tommy told us?" asked Skull. "He told us that if we smart we wouldn't touch his pink princess."
"We aren't just going to pull a prank on Tommy's precious pink princess!" whispered Bulk. "We are going to get them together."
"Meaning we pull a prank on them at the same time?" asked Skull.
"Yes," whispered Bulk. "We're going find out what they are going to do. So be quiet!"
Both of them shut up and listened to what Kimberly and Tommy were planning on doing.
"Beautiful, what would you like do?" asked Tommy.
"Go to the beach and lay out in the sun," answered Kimberly.
Tommy was already in a pair red speedo swim briefs and Kimberly was already wearing pink bandeau and a pair pink hipster bottoms. So they were already to go lay out in the sun. Tommy grabbed their tote bag with their sun screen, beach towels, and beach umbrella. Bulk and Skull followed them to the beach. Kimberly sat up their beach umbrella and spread out their beach towels. Tommy squirted out sun screen and they rubbed sun screen on each other's body. Both of them put on their sun glasses and laid down on their towels. Kimberly and Tommy ended up falling they fell asleep, Bulk and Skull buried them in the sand. A few hours later, Tommy and Kimberly woke up and were covered in sand. For the rest of their vacation, they stayed away from tanning booths, the beach, and the spa. Both of them were afraid that Bulk and Skull would pull a prank on them.