Tommy and Kimberly applied for a job at Reefside High School at the end of Riley and Maya's fifth grade year. Tommy was teaching science and Kimberly was a PE teacher. Riley and Maya were entering the sixth grade and would be in middle school. Right before school started, Tommy went down stairs to the lab. He noticed that the dino gems were glowing. That meant a new villain was out there and it made him worry about his nieces safety. After he had a talk with Kimberly, they realized that they wanted Riley and Maya to be safe. Both of them decided that it was best if the girls went to go live with Tommy's parents for awhile. They explained to the girls why they came to that decision. Riley and Maya understood their decision. However, Tommy and Kimberly didn't want to go a long period of time without seeing Riley and Maya. So, they decided to spend the weekends at Jan and James house so they could spend time with the girls.
During the first week of August, Tommy learned he'd be teaching chemistry and paleontology; Kimberly learned that she'd be teaching PE in the mornings and swimming in the afternoons. Before school started, Tommy and Kimberly went school clothes shopping. Tommy bought green, black, grey, and khaki dress pants, dress shirts and ties. Kimberly bought pale pink sleeveless polo shirts, pink trackpants, pink tracksuits, and pink one piece swimsuits. On the first day of school, Tommy was assigned detention duty. He promised the three students if they found anything dinosaur related he'd cancel detention. All three students found a dino gem. He was able to hide it from Kimberly because she was having to stay after school for swim team practice. Shortly after Conner, Ethan, and Kira found dino gems, Tommy was kidnapped. Conner, Ethan, and Kira learned that Tommy and Kimberly were both power rangers. After they rescued Tommy, he became the black dino thunder ranger. That afternoon all of them met at Haley Cyber Space.
"All of you have to promise me that you won't tell Kim about us becoming rangers," requested Tommy.
"You're married to her," stated Ethan. "She's going to find out sooner or later."
"There's a pink dino gem out there," explained Tommy. "I think it is probably hers. But, I don't know where it is."
"How would she react if she found the gem and she found out that you were hiding this from her?" asked Kira.
"I've been married to her for seven years," declared Tommy. "Kim will be fine. Both of us were raising our two nieces, but they are living with my parents right now. The gems lit up this summer and I knew a new villain was out there. We both love Riley and Maya, but I'd never forgive myself if something happened to them."
Conner noticed a petite woman with brown hair was sitting near them. The woman was wearing a pink satin tracksuit and looked really pretty. She was talking to Haley. He noticed that the woman had suspected something was up. She walked over to where they were at and took a seat behind Tommy.
"Doctor O, what does your wife look like?" asked Conner.
"She's petite, she has shoulder length brown hair, and she is very pretty," smiled Tommy.
"What is her name and what does she do for a living?" asked Kira.
"Her name is Kimberly and she is the PE teacher at school," replied Tommy. "She's my whole life."
"Doctor O, if she means so much to you why would you want to send her away?" asked Ethan. "Wouldn't you miss her?"
Conner noticed the beautiful woman got up and started to leave the café. He nudged Kira to get her attention.
"What?" whispered Kira.
"Did you notice there was a petite woman with shoulder length brown hair sitting behind Doctor O?" asked Conner.
"Yes, I did," replied Kira.
"She looked really beautiful," stated Conner. "She matched Doctor's description."
"Doctor Oliver there's a petite woman with brown hair walking out of the café," informed Kira. "She's wearing a pink satin tracksuit."
"That's Kimberly," replied Tommy.
Conner noticed she took a seat by the door. Tears were streaming down her face. It dawned on Kira and Conner that Kimberly was in the room. Both of them realized she had heard some of the things that Tommy said.
"How have you been able to hide all of this from her?" questioned Ethan.
"She's been coaching the swim team after school," revealed Tommy. "She also the assistant cheerleading coach."
"Doctor O, she's here," warned Conner.
"No she isn't she had to stay after school," corrected Tommy. "Swim team practice was canceled today and she was staying after school to grade papers."
"Doctor O, she's really here," informed Kira.
"She isn't here," corrected Tommy. "She's at school. Before she comes home, I'm going to head to the mall. I don't have a shortage of black in my closet."
"Doctor O, you probably shouldn't go to the mall," warned Conner. "You probably need to explain to Kimberly why you said those things about her. I think the mall can wait."
"We come here together all the time," stated Tommy. "Both of us come here after school every day, when she doesn't have to go to cheerleading practice or swim team practice. If I didn't have all of this stuff going on, I would have invited her to come here after school. And I would have helped her grade papers, when we got home."
Conner nudged Ethan and told her Kimberly was there. Ethan turned around and noticed Kimberly was sitting by the door in tears.
"She really is here," whispered Ethan.
"Wonder why Doctor O hasn't seen her?" asked Conner.
"I don't think she wants him to know she's here," stated Kira.
"Then why is she staying here?" asked Ethan.
"She probably wants to know what Tommy's hiding from her," gasped Conner. "She may think he is seeing someone else."
"Doctor O, let me ask you something," requested Kira.
"What do you want to ask me?" answered Tommy.
"Let's say Kimberly was here and happened to over hear everything you just said," explained Kira. "And if you have a good relationship with her like you say you do, what would you do to fix it if you looked up and saw her sitting by the door in tears?"
"I don't have to worry about that because if she wasn't grading papers, she would have told me," answered Tommy.
"Have you ever hurt her before?" asked Ethan. "She looks really hurt right now."
"Kimberly is perfectly fine," reassured Tommy. "And no I have never hurt her before."
"How do you know that she's okay?" demanded Ethan.
"I know Kimberly very well," declared Tommy. "I've known her for ten years. We dated in high school and married before we went to college."
"If she was here, would you mind if we asked her how she felt about you?" asked Ethan. "She's really here. She just got up from sitting by the door and is now standing behind you."
"If she was here I wouldn't mind if you asked her how she felt about me!" Tommy said angrily. "I'm tried of you trying to trick me and convince me that she is here. If she was here, why hasn't she walked up to me and told me she was here."
"Maybe because I wanted to know what your secret is!" interrupted Kimberly.
"Kim, what are you doing here?" gasped Tommy. "I thought you were grading papers. You said you weren't going to be home until five."
"I didn't grade papers todays," announced Kimberly. "I was looking for you!"
"Why were you looking for me?" asked Tommy. "You know that I had a meeting last night and would be out of town. I told you I'd be getting a hotel room and I'd be at school today."
"You missed a full day of school without calling in!" revealed Kimberly. "Prinicpal Randall jumped me for not telling her that you were going to not be at school!"
"Kimberly, I couldn't help missing school today. Something happened yesterday afternoon," explained Tommy. "Before I was going to the meeting, I was going to come here to hear Kira sing. But, I didn't even get to do that."
"Doctor O, you probably need to tell her what happened," suggested Ethan. "She's going to find out about the dino gems."
"I already know about the dino gems," said Kimberly. " I've seen them before. He created a red, yellow, blue, pink, black, and white dino gem. I helped him build a lab in our basement."
"It is a good thing she knows about the gems," interrupted Conner. "You won't have to tell her about them."
"All you will have to tell her is that they've been found," added Kira.
"How many of the gems have been found?" demanded Kimberly. "Tell me the colors and who has them."
"I have the red gem," informed Conner.
"I found the blue gem," confirmed Ethan.
"And I have the yellow gem," added Kira.
"We're the red, blue, and yellow ranger," revealed Conner.
"What about the other three gems?" asked Kimberly. "Have they been found?"
"Doctor O, you really need to show her," warned Kira.
"Show me what?" gasped Kimberly. "What are you hiding?"
"Doctor O, she's wanting you to answer this question," declared Conner.
"I'm smart enough to figure that out," remarked Tommy. "Beautiful, this is an interesting story. I was kidnapped by Zeltrax and I was taken to Mesogog's island. Kira, Ethan, and Conner came to rescue me after they watch my video diary of our history as being power rangers. Before I left I found this."
Tommy reached into his pocket and pulled out the black dino gem.
"You have the black dino gem?" Kimberly said in disbelief.
"I'm afraid so," admitted Tommy.
Like always, Kimberly fainted when she was stunned about something. This time she was stunned about Tommy becoming the black dino thunder ranger.
"Doctor O, what are you going to do now?" asked Kira.
Haley walked over to them and told Tommy that there was a secret passage in the back room. Tommy carried Kimberly to the backroom and walked through the secret passage. They came out at Tommy's lab. He never knew there was secret passage in Haley's Cyber Space Café that lead to his basement. Haley and the other three rangers walked down stairs to the basement.
"We drove your cars back here," informed Conner. "Haley followed and she's going to take us back to the café so we can get our cars and drive home."
"Thank you," smiled Tommy. "That really means a lot."
"How Kimberly?" asked Haley.
"She still hasn't woken up yet," replied Tommy.
"I think she had a lot to take in," warned Ethan. "First you hide that the dino gems have been found, you missed a day of school, she heard you say that you were going to hide all of this from her, she learns that you were kidnapped, we saw your video diary as a power ranger, we rescued you from Mesogog, you found the black dino gem, and you are the black ranger. "
"Tommy, she was talking to me about the dino gems," confessed Haley. "She knew that they had been found."
"How would she know if I didn't tell her?" asked Tommy.
"She saw something pink glowing in your pool in the back yard," stated Haley.
"You have a private pool?!" gasped Conner.
"Yes, I do," answered Tommy. "We had our nieces living with us for away. Their names are Riley and Maya and they are in sixth grade. But, they are living with my parents right now. This summer, the dino gems lit up. I knew there was a new villain around and I didn't want them to be exposed to all of this ranger business."
"Why were you raising them?" questioned Kira.
"My brother David had a daughter named Riley and Kim's sister Katy had a daughter named Maya. We didn't know that we had a sibling, until we came back from Florida. Both of us met our sibling and niece," explained Tommy. "Maya's father left Katy and Maya when she was little. It was the same way with David's wife. She left David and Riley. We met our nieces when they were four. When they were six, Katy and David were attacked by Lord Zedd and didn't survive. They were coming rescue me and Kim. We were in a pageant and Zedd came to where were getting ready to compete in the evening attire competition."
"Do you know what happened?" asked Conner.
"It happened on the day that the space rangers revealed their identities to the city of Angel Grove and all the villians were destroyed," answered Tommy. "It was only the villians that the mighty morphin, zeo, turbo, and space rangers fought. Zedd turned to dust and was destroyed. Kim and I were passed out and see what happened. All we remember is that Zedd was shooting volts at us with his Z staff."
"That's how you got the girls," gasped Kira.
"It is," admitted Tommy. "We were the only relatives they had. Kim's father and step mother didn't want Katy after she had Maya. And David didn't have anyone who lived close by. Both of them stated in their wills that if anything happened to them, Kim and I would be the guardian of their child. The girls are staying with my mom and dad. They really love my parents and my parents love them like they were their own grandchildren."
"Doctor O, if Kim told Haley about seeing the gem in your pool, don't you think you may need to go check it out?" questioned Ethan.
"That's what she was at the café," admitted Haley. "She was looking for you. Tommy, you need to go with her to your private pool in the back yard."
"I guess you are right," confessed Tommy.
Tommy was still hold Kimberly and she was still unconscious. He kissed her in front of Haley, Conner, Ethan, and Kira.
"Beautiful, it's time to wake up," said Tommy.
Kimberly began to wake up. She noticed she was in their basement and Tommy was holding her. Then she noticed all of the other rangers and Haley were there. She still looked like she wasn't happy with Tommy.
"Put me down!" demanded Kimberly.
Tommy put her down on the floor. Kimberly got up and walked up the stairs and left the basement.
"Where is she going?" asked Tommy.
"You know where she's going," warned Haley. "She going to your pool in the back yard. I know because she told that she going to find out what glowing at the bottom of your pool."
Tommy realized that she didn't need to go after the gem alone, especially since it was at the bottom of their private pool. He quickly ran up the stair and went outside to their back yard pool.