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“RANGERS, TELEPORT TO THE COMMAND CENTER IMMEDIATELY,” Zordon said through Tommy’s communicator. His voice was strangely laced with worry. 

The rangers looked at each other, an unsettling feeling passed between them. What could have possibly happened to make Zordon sound so worried? The rangers looked around the park, making sure no one could see them, before teleporting to the Command Center.

Immediately upon arriving at the Command Center, the rangers looked up at their mentor, who somehow looked more worried than he sounded. Alpha was working on something at the front console, not even acknowledging the Rangers arrival. 

“What’s going on, Zordon?” Trini asked, her voice laced with worry as well. 

“RITA AND ZED HAVE SENT A NEW MONSTER TO ATTACK ANGEL GROVE, AND IT SEEMS TO BE PROTECTING A PAIR OF EGGS,” Zordon replied, “OBSERVE THE VIEWING GLOBE.” 

The rangers turned to face the viewing globe behind them. On it they saw a bat-like monster. It had bat-like wings, giant ears, and fangs. Also somehow a set of six pack abs, and a pair of torn bermuda shorts on. This bat was standing in front of a makeshift nest with two speckled eggs. One was white with yellow spots, and the other was white with green spots. Both about the size of a football, in the middle of the nest, that the bat was making with sticks, stones, moss, and some other things. 

“What’s it doing?” Kimberly asked in disgust.

“What are those eggs?” Billy asked.

“THAT WOULD BE WHAT WE DON’T KNOW RANGERS,” Zordon told them. The rangers turned towards their mentor in shock.

“What do you mean you don’t know?” Zack asked with concern. 

“It means, we have no record or anything on what those eggs are or what they could do,” Alpha answered, turning to face the rangers. Holding his hands together in worry. 

“What about the bat?” Tommy asked, “Do we know anything about it?”

“WE KNOW SOME. IT GOES BY BAT-ATTACK, WITH ITS MAIN WEAPON BEING ITS SONIC SCREAM. ITS CLAWS AT THE END OF ITS WINGS AND FEET ARE TO BE AVOIDED AS WELL,” Zordon told the rangers leader. 

“So what’s the plan Tommy?” Jason asked.

“It’s not much of one, but the main goal is going to be getting those eggs,” Tommy started, looking at his team. “That can be for Billy and Zack to try and do, while the rest of us distract the bat.”

“Sounds good enough for me,” Zack said, trying to loosen up. 

“BE CAREFUL RANGER,” Zordon said, still sounding actually worried, “AND MAY THE POWER PROTECT YOU.”

With that, the six teens got into position as Tommy yelled, “IT'S MORPHIN TIME. TIGER ZORD.” 

The others followed suit,

“MASTODON.”

“PTERODACTYL.”

“TRICERATOPS.”

“SABERTOOTH TIGER.”

“TYRANNOSAURUS.”

The six multi-colored rangers landed in front of Bat-attack, who was taken by surprise by the sudden appearance of the rangers. They were in a small clearing in the forest, many trees surrounded them, and the midday sun was shining through the break in the leaves. 

“Rangers!” Bat-attack said, or rather squeaked, in surprise. “I suppose you are here for my emperor’s dinosaur eggs.”

Bat-attack sucked in a deep breath, and as the blue ranger muttered, “Dinosaur eggs?” released a sonic scream that caused the rangers to cover their ears, as best as they could with their helmets on. As well as the scream sent the rangers flying back into the trees behind them. 

The Bat-attack, losing breath, stopped its scream to look at its handy work. 

“I thought you rangers would be harder to beat,” Bat-attack stated, as putties suddenly appeared from behind the trees and started to tie up the yellow, black, and blue ranger. 

“Jason, Kim, take care of the putties, I’m gonna try to distract it away from the eggs,” Tommy told his teammates. Who just nodded in response, running off to get the putties off of their friends. While neither the pink or red ranger really agreed with, let alone liked, the plan, they knew better than to go against their leader in white in the middle of a fight unless they had a better idea. Which neither of them did. 

Jason and Kimberly ran over, taking out the first five putties that were trying to stop them with relative ease. Jason pulled out his blade blaster, firing off two shots, making direct hits on both Billy’s and Zack’s restraints, getting them free. Right before the red ranger fired off another shot, a putty managed to knock the blaster from his hand, as well as sending him flying backwards into a tree behind him. 

“Jason!” Zack yelled, taking out the putty and helping his friend up, “all good?”

“Yeah,” Jason said, regaining his balance. “Billy, Kim. Can you guys get Trini and Zack and I will go help Tommy?”

“Yeah, we got this,” Kimberly replied, hitting another putty’s Z and running over to her friend in yellow. 

Jason grabbed his blade blaster as he and Zack ran over to help Tommy out. Racing over, they covered their ears as Bat-attack shouted another sonic scream, sending Tommy flying backwards, again. Once the scream ended, the red and black ranger raced over to help their friend stand back up, making sure he was okay. 

“I can’t seem to find a weakness on this guy,” Tommy said, regaining his balance, "every time I think I’m close, he does another sonic scream.”

“Great,” Zack said, disheartedly. 

“Give up yet rangers?” Bat-attack sneered, readying itself for another scream, “or do you need another reason too?”

“Never!” Tommy yelled, reading himself for another attack, only it didn’t happen. 

Instead a yellow portal opened in between the rangers and Bat-attack, about three feet off the ground. Nothing happened for a good five seconds. Neither the rangers or the monster knew how to react to the portal. Suddenly a yellow blur shoots out of the portal, hits the ground, about five feet from the portal and rolls a couple of feet before stopping as the portal disappears as quickly as it appeared. 

Looking at what just shot out of the portal, it looked like a teenage girl. She had blond hair she had pulled up into two loose pigtails. She was wearing a long sleeve black shirt underneath a yellow t-shirt. She was also wearing black leggings underneath a denim skirt and was wearing short black combat boots. On her left wrist was a silver bracelet with a yellow stone on it. 

At this point, the other three rangers had joined up with their teammates, and were just as stunned as to what happened as they were. The Bat-attack was stunned as well, so Tommy decided to take this advantage and attack, with Jason and Zack, while Billy went to check on the girl, and Trini and Kim tried for the eggs. 

“Hey, are you okay?” Billy asked the girl as he gently shook her shoulder trying to get her to wake up. 

Screeeee

Billy covered his ears as Bat-attack did another sonic scream sending his teammates flying into the trees again. Trying to focus on the girl in front of him, and not his friends getting their asses handed to them. 

“Ugh,” she groaned, stretching her hands out feeling the ground. She lifted her head up enough to see in front of her. Blinking away the blurriness a couple of times. She took in a couple of deep breaths, trying to figure out where she was. 

Screeee

Bat-attack sent Trini and Kimberly away from the eggs, causing Billy and the others to cover their ears again. The girl on the other hand, just groaned forcing her eyes closed. But the groan wasn’t exactly in pain, it was more in annoyance. 

The sonic scream stopped as the Bat-attack took its original position in front of the nest again. The five rangers stood in front of it. 

“Blade Blasters!” Tommy yelled. The five rangers pulled out their blade blaster and fired at it. Once the dust cleared, the Bat-attack stood completely unscathed, taking in another breath for, yet another sonic scream.

Screeeee

“WOULD YOU JUST SHUT IT!” the girl yelled, forcing herself up. Bat-attack instantly stopped in surprise. “I’ve got a pounding headache, no thanks to you, in a place that I don’t know where I am,” she paused, glancing over at the rangers, “or apparently when I am either. And you doing a pathetic version of a scream is not helping me figure out what happened or what’s going on!”

The girl, now standing in front of the rangers, very much annoyed with the monster, took a deep breath in, bringing her arms up as she did so, then putting her arms down as she breathed out. It looked like she was trying to calm herself down. 

“ PATHETIC! ” Bat-attack screeched, sounding offended at the girl's comment of its scream. 

“You heard me,” she said, crossing her arms and leaning onto her right leg as she did so. 

“You have no right…”

“I have every right to say that seeing as though I can do it louder, more precise, longer, and just over all better than you any day,” the girl said, not changing her stance.

“So what? You’re not human?” Bat-attack asked, genuinely confused. 

“Oh, no,” the girl said, smiling. She was having fun now. “I’m a power ranger.”

The six rangers behind her looked at each other in shock. This girl was a ranger? On top of that, she’s making fun of the monster that was kicking their asses. Acting as if this monster was nothing. The rangers were in position, waiting for Tommy’s signal, to jump in and help her.

“Really?” Bat-attack said, starting to sound a little worried. “You don’t seem like any ranger I’ve ever seen.”

“Oh no you wouldn't,” the girl said, a bit condescending. “See, I’m from the year 2004, and I am quite certain that it is not 2004.”

The rangers just stared at the girl in shock. She was from the future. Sure, they’ve known about time travel, but they’ve also only ever traveled into the past. Usually because of Rita or Zed though. 

“Doesn’t matter if you're from the future or not,” Bat-attack said, “if you're a ranger, you will fall like them too.” 

With that, Bat-attack sucked in a deep breath and released another sonic scream, aimed for a direct hit on the new girl. The girl didn’t flinch though. She took in a small breath, and let out a screech that made the rangers agree with her, Bat-attack’s sonic was pathetic compared to hers. 

She easily overpowered the monster and walked forward. 

“W-what ranger are you?!?” Bat-attack asked in fear. 

“Name’s Kira Ford,” Kira said smiling, “I’m the yellow Dino Thunder Ranger.” 

Kira stood a couple feet away from the monster, in a ready stance, prepared for the monster to attack her, and that was exactly what he did. Launching itself at her, she easily dodged it, moving sideways and bringing her leg up to its stomach, sending it backwards a couple of feet. 

“Lucky shot,” it mustered out in pain. 

“Hardly,” she retorted, holding her fists up ready for another attack.

Tommy decided to demorph, and the rest of the team followed suit. They all looked at each other, unsure of what to do. Whether to help her, or just watch. 

“Billy, is there really a possibility that she is from the future?” Tommy whispered.

“The data is inconclusive, but I would say the probability is high,” Billy replied. 

“Translation,” Zack whispered.

“We don’t know any more than what she has told us, but with what is going on, more than likely,” Trini whispered to Zack. 

“Got it,” Zack said. 

None of the rangers took their eyes off of the fight, just watching in amazement. Kira was easily dodging the attacks of the monster, as if she could see the Bat-attack’s moves before it made them. She moved as if she was almost made of water, she was fighting with almost grace. The other thing that they were all noticing, were, while her moves were definitely all her own. The underneath of each of her moves, had traces of some of Tommy’s moves. 

Bat-attack came at Kira, aiming for a final hit, jumping up to land a hit on her from above. Kira jumped up, spun around, and kicked its head, sending it flying back into a tree. 

The rangers just stared in complete and utter shock and disbelief at what just happened. 

Kira landed as Bat-attack disappeared, or rather teleported, away. Leaving the eggs behind. 

Kira relaxed and looked at the rangers who were just staring at her in amazement. 

“Uh, hi,” she said, quieter than she normally would, almost sounding embarrassed. 

Tommy was the first one to shake the shock off.

“Hi, I’m Tommy Oliver,” he said, holding his hand out in greeting. Kira stared blankly at him for a second, almost as if she was staring at a ghost. 

“Sorry, Kira Ford,” she said, shaking his hand. 

“So you’re a ranger from the future?” Billy asked, more curious about the time travel than formalities. 

“It seems like it, and you’re Billy Cranston, first blue ranger, right?” Kira asked.

“That would be accurate,” Billy replied. “So you know who we all are then?”

“Well, I know about you from my, uh, mentors files. But I only know you guys from the files,” Kira told them. 

“So you know us by the facts but not as a person,” Tommy summed up. Kira couldn’t stop herself from smiling at Tommy’s statement. 

“Exactly,” she said, nodding at him. 

“Did I say something funny?” Tommy asked.

“No, it was just,” Kira started, trying to quickly come up with something, “my mentor said the same thing when we first got to look at the files. See the, uh, inactive rangers have reunions here and there, and he told us that when we meet them, we don’t just base them off of what we learned from the files.”

“So, you know all of our names?” Jason asked.

“Sort of,” Kira confessed.

“What do you mean, sort of?” Kimberly asked.

“Well, I know your names, but I don’t exactly remember your faces. Now if you told me your color, I know exactly who you are,” Kira explained. 

“So if I tell you that I’m red?” Jason asked.

“I can tell you that you are Jason Lee Scott, first red ranger, first leader, and a couple other things, but that may spoil something,” Kira told him, confidently. 

“So knowing that I’m Tommy?” Tommy mentioned.

“You were the first green ranger,” Kira noted Tommy wincing a bit at the mention of it, “as well as the first white ranger, and definitely more that I would end up spoiling a lot if I told you anymore.”

“Pink?” Kimberly asked. 

“Kimberly Hart, first pink ranger, and in my own personal opinion, fashion icon of the team” Kira told her.

“Sounds right to me,” Kimberly said smiling. 

“Oooh, black,” Zack said excitedly.

“Zack Taylor, first black ranger, and definitely has the best moves on the team,” Kira told him. 

“You know that’s right,” Zack said, spinning around.

“Yellow?” Trini asked.

Kira smiled. “Trini Kwan, now I may be a bit biased in this, but first of the best colored rangers.”

“No, I don’t think you’re biased at all,” Trini said smiling. 

“How did you know who I was so easily though?” Billy asked. 

“Uh, well,” Kira said. “My blue ranger kinda became obsessed with his predecessors. To the point of annoyance. So, I'm pretty sure if I didn’t know you from first glance, he might have killed me.”

“I understand that,” Zack said, playfully nudging Billy. 

“Anyways,” Billy said rolling his eyes at the remark, “would you happen to know anything about dinosaur eggs?”

“Depends on what type of dino eggs you're talking about,” Kira replied. 

“The ones behind you,” Jason said, gesturing towards the two eggs laying in the makeshift nest behind Kira. Kira turned around to see the eggs Jason was gesturing at. She sucked in a breath. 

“So you do know,” Tommy deduced.

“Sort of,” Kira replied, looking at him, but then quickly away. She can’t seem to look at him for too long, or else her mind wanders to her time. Which caused her to worry about her team, and why she was alone. 

“What do you mean, sort of?” Kimberly asked. 

“How about we take the rest of the conversation back to the Command Center,” Tommy said before Kira could respond. “It’s getting late, and I don’t want to take the chance that Zed is going to send more putties to get the eggs back.” 

“Good point,” Jason said, grabbing the green spotted egg. Kira walked over and grabbed the yellow one. 

“Can you teleport?” Billy asked. 

“Uh, no,” Kira replied, making a mental note to talk to Dr. O and Haley about that. 

“That’s okay,” Trini said, walking over and grabbing Kira’s arm. “You can teleport with me for the time being.”

With that, they were all of a sudden standing in the Command Center. 

“WELCOME KIRA,” Zordon said.

“Uh, thank you, Zordon?” Kira said, wondering why Dr. O never mentioned his past mentor being a holographic floating head.

“YES, AND I MUST SAY I AM PLEASED THAT THE RANGER LEGACY HAS PASSED DOWN TO SUCH AN INDEPENDENT YOUNG LADY,” Zordon said, “WHILE CIRCUMSTANCES ARE NOT THE BEST, I AM GLAD TO MEET YOU.”

“Uh, same here,” Kira said, a little uncomfortable. 

“Zordon, do you know anything about these dinosaur eggs?” Billy asked, pointing to the eggs that Jason and Kira were holding. 

“NO, THESE EGGS ARE NEW TO ME, BUT I HAVE A FEELING THAT THEY COULD BE FROM KIRA’S TIME, IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN,” Zordon mentioned. 

“Uh, maybe?” Kira said, very much unsure. 

“Here, you can set them down here for now,” Alpha said, motioning towards a pedestal of some sort that had multiple blankets and pillows set up similarly to a nest-like look, and a heat lamp set up overhead. 

Kira and Jason set them down into the nest, and Trini and Kimberly helped settle the eggs in. 

“So, Kira,” Billy said, once the eggs were all set in their nest, “picking the conversation back up, what do you mean you sort of know about the dino eggs?”

Everyone turned to look at Kira. She had never had an issue with people looking at her, she was used to being the center of attention, she was a performer, it was her job to be good at being in front of people. Yet, standing there, with the original rangers, who were the same age as her, seemed to be throwing her off. Even worse was Tommy. The guy she saw as her teacher, her mentor, and honestly, in some ways, a father figure, was the same age as her, waiting for her to speak. 

Her only issue was trying to figure out how to tell them, without saying something she probably shouldn’t have.  

“I don’t know much about the eggs, because none of us, us being my team, really asked,” Kira told them, shifting a little uncomfortably. “Which brings me to, do you know if anyone else has come through anywhere?”

“I’M AFRAID NOT. WE WERE NOT EVEN AWARE THAT YOU WERE GOING TO COME THROUGH.” Zordon replied.

“Maybe if you tell us what you were doing before you got here we might be able to help,” Alpha suggested.

“Sure, uh, who are you though?” Kira asked, not really remembering who the little robot was. She remembered seeing him in the video diary, but could not remember his name.

“Oh, I’m Alpha 5,” Alpha cheerfully told her.

“Oh right, I remember now,” Kira said smiling, remembering Conner comparing Haley to Alpha. 

“So, you arriving here?” Billy asked, very curious about the situation.

“Oh, right,” Kira rubbed the back of her head, shifting over to lean against one of the computer consoles. “The last thing I really remember is me and my team fighting this crystal kind of monster. Only it was weird.”

“Weird how?” Jason asked.

“It wasn’t fighting us,” Kira told him.

“Then why were you fighting it?” Tommy asked, not exactly liking the idea that rangers in the future were fighting something without it fighting them.

“It was putting the citizens in danger, destroying the park, blowing things up, but it wasn’t directly fighting us. So we were attacking it to get it to stop,” Kira answered, “we did try to talk to it first, but it didn’t change anything.”

Tommy nodded, feeling better about it, but noticed that Kira didn’t make eye contact with him. She had made eye contact with Jason, and Billy, but avoided looking at him. He shook it off, he was probably just imagining things.

“So this crystal guy might have sent you back in time?” Zack asked, not really sure if he was getting what was going on. 

“Probably, that might have been a reason why our mentor was telling us to stop attacking it,” Kira mentioned.

“Wait, your mentor told you to stop attacking it and you didn’t?!” Kimberly asked, a little horrified. The idea that any of them going against Zordon was just, unheard of.

“Well, he didn’t know what we were fighting until he got there to help, and I’m pretty sure if he had known before getting there he would have told us to stop sooner,” Kira stated.

“Wait, so your mentor goes into fights with you?” Trini looked at the rest of her team, who also looked very confused. 

“Well, yeah, he’s also our black ranger,” Kira told them, not sure why they looked so confused.

“So, your mentor is not Zordon?” Jason asked. The question that had been ringing through all the Mighty Morphin' rangers minds. None of them had ever really considered the idea that they could lose Zordon, or that future rangers wouldn’t have Zordon as a mentor.

“Uh, no,” Kira said, suddenly realizing what topic they just hit. She didn’t know the details, it was a touchy subject with Dr. O, for good reasons. What she did know was that Zordon had saved the universe and wasn’t around anymore. She knew Dr. O was probably close to Zordon due to the couple of times she had heard him mumble under his breath something about asking him for help. 

“Then, who is your mentor?” Tommy asked.

Why did he have to ask that question? Kira thought. Seriously, it’s not like she can just turn to him and say, hey, you are actually my mentor in the future!  

Then Kira remembered something about Dr. O’s past. She doesn’t remember the details of the conversation, but she does remember Haley teasing Dr. O about how bad of a student he was in high school and college. How no one, not even he, thought in a million years that he would end up with a Doctorate degree, in anything. 

“Uh, we usually call him Dr. O,” Kira told them, making an effort not to look at Tommy, and keep her heart and breathing level. 

“I’m gonna assume you can’t tell us the rest of his name?” Tommy asked. 

“Uh, yeah,” Kira confirmed his suspicions. 

“If you can tell us this, I am kinda curious, would you be able to at least tell us if we know him now?” Trini asked, incredibly curious.

“Um,” Kira was not liking this, she was a terrible liar, but she didn’t know what to say. If she said yes, then it wouldn’t be hard for the rangers to figure it out. It wasn’t like she was doing a good job hiding her awkwardness towards Tommy. But if she said no, she would be lying to them, and she didn’t want to lie to them.

“HOW ABOUT WE TURN FROM THIS CONVERSATION AND GO BACK TO THE EGGS? KIRA, WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THESE EGGS?” Zordon asked, Kira sighed a sigh of relief.

“I know that they are created with a fusion of different dinosaur DNA and technology. We have some that are our Zords, and we had three dino eggs that hatched into our Raptors,” Kira told them.

“But?” Tommy asked, noticing that she seemed to have more to say.

“We were under the impression that there were no more eggs. The rest had all been destroyed before we became rangers, or something else happened. So, how any got here is beyond me,” Kira finished telling them. 

“So, they shouldn’t exist?” Kim asked, pointing to the eggs, sounding a little concerned. 

“As far as I was aware, but that doesn’t mean that Dr. O didn’t know about them and just never told us,” Kira said, or forgot about them , she thought. 

“Okay, so you are the yellow ranger from the future,” Zack started.

“A yellow ranger,” Kira corrected.

“What do you mean A ?” Trini asked. 

“You are the first yellow ranger, the Mighty Morphin, to be exact, right?” Kira asked.

“Yes,” Trini replied, still a little confused.

“Well, I’m the yellow Dino Thunder ranger, but there are yellow rangers, about eight if my memory serves correctly, between you and me,” Kira answers. 

“So there are eight other ranger teams between us and you?” Tommy asked. 

“Uh, well,” Kira said, laughing nervously, shifting her stance now. “It would depend on how you define other teams.”

“Huh?” Jason said, confused. 

“I BELIEVE WHAT KIRA IS TRYING TO SAY IS THAT SOME OF YOU MAY BECOME RANGERS AGAIN FOR OTHER TEAMS,” Zordon tried to explain to the rangers. 

“Give or take,” Kira said, nodding at Zordon. Yawning after her statement from the sudden wave of exhaustion. Causing her to wonder what time it actually was. It wasn’t like she had a watch on or anything. 

“And on that note, I vote Kira comes with me, I feel like us yellows should stick together, and we can catch up tomorrow,” Trini said, walking over to Kira wrapping her arms around Kira’s shoulder. Kira looks at her smiling in agreement. 

“What!? It’s not that late,” Billy complained, causing Kira to try and hold back laughter.

“What?” Trini asked, unsure as to what was funny.

“Oh, nothing,” Kira said, waving it off, “I just was finding it humorous how similar my blue ranger is to you.”

“Ah,” Trini said, “and yes Billy. It is late enough for someone who had just time traveled about a decade into the past, had to fight a monster, then stand here while we berated her questions.”

“TRINI IS RIGHT BILLY,” Zordon said agreeing with the yellow ranger, “THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF TIME TO ASK KIRA QUESTIONS, AS LONG AS SHE IS COMFORTABLE OF COURSE, AFTER SHE GETS SOME REST.”

With that, the rangers said their good nights, and Kira found herself standing in Trini’s room. It was dark outside, glancing at the clock on the side of the bed, it was only 7:30 PM. Kira had been up later than this on a regular basis, but perhaps what Trini had said early held more truth to it than she thought.

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“So,” Trini said, bubbling with excitement. Another ranger, another yellow ranger, that she could talk to and learn from. She had so many questions.

“So what?” Kira asked, walking into the room. She was wearing one of Trini’s pajamas, which she was lucky to fit her so well, but they both had agreed to go to the mall later to get clothes for her. Trini had blown up an air mattress for her, with a couple of pillows and blankets for her to sleep on. It was placed next to Trini’s bed, but currently Trini was sitting on top of the mattress. 

“What’s your team like? How did you become a ranger? What’s the future like?” Trini asked, “If it’s okay to tell me, unless you want to get some rest. Or if you have questions for me.”

Kira smiled relaxing, she still wasn’t sure how to act around Trini though. She didn’t know too much about Trini, or any of the original rangers actually. She couldn’t really blame Dr. O for that, none of them really asked him either. Probably should have, probably will later.

“Lets see, my team is kinda chaotic, and Dr. O tries to control the chaos, sometimes successfully, other times not so much, and sometimes he’s the cause of it,” Kira sat down across from Trini. 

“He sounds like a fun mentor,” Trini said.

“Yeah, he is. He can be, uh, not so fun. Especially at the beginning, ugh, the number of lectures he would give us, but he’s gotten better,” Kira said.

“That’s good, but how did you become a ranger?” Trini asked, reminding Kira of her previous question.

“Right, I fell into a hole,” Kira deadpanned. 

Trini blinked a couple times, “you what?!?”

“Fell into a hole,” Kira used her hands to space out the words.

“I need you to explain this more,” Trini said, shaking her head in confusion. 

Kira chuckled, she always had wanted to do that, but she hadn’t been able to with the whole keeping it a secret thing. “I had gotten detention, along with Conner and Ethan, the red and blue rangers respectively, and so our science teacher got put on detention duty.”

“Okay?” 

“He had already had plans to go to the museum out of town, so we got dragged to go with him. When we got to the museum it was closed, so our teacher said that if we found something prehistoric we would get the week of detention off. We went into the forest and fell into a hole, found a tunnel, found what we thought was like an alien something, with prehistoric gems lodged in a rock.”

“Okay, hold on.”

“Yeah?”

“So, you teacher took you guys to the museum for detention?”

“Yes, he already had plans to go, and so the principal just told him to take us with him.”

“That’s weird. Also why something prehistoric?”

“He has a doctorate in paleontology.”

“That's pretty cool. Who’s alien something was it that you found the gems in? Which I am assuming is the gem on your bracelet.”

“Uh, our teacher, and yes you would be correct. This is my dino gem, one of the three we found. Oh and that place is now our, uh, Command Center.”

“How?” Trini asked, confused again.

“Dr. O is also our science teacher,” Kira explained.

“Okay so he’s your science teacher, ranger mentor, and black ranger?” Trini asked, not sure how to react to this idea. Maybe that was common for ranger teams in the future.

“Yup,” Kira said, nodding taking humor is Trini’s confusion.

“Your team sounds chaotic and I’ve only met you and heard about your mentor.” 

“Yup,” Kira said nodding in agreement, “we are chaos, but I wouldn’t change any of them for the world.”

“Makes sense,” Trini said, yawning, causing Kira to yawn. The two yellow rangers glanced at the clock seeing that it was almost 10. “Oh wow, we should get to bed.”

“I have one question,” Kira said, moving to get into the air mattress, while Trini climbed up into her bed. 

“Yeah?”

“Do I go to school with you tomorrow or?”

“Uh, let's ask Billy tomorrow.” 

“Okay.”

And with that the two rangers drifted off to, for once, a dreamless sleep.

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Monday morning, Kira woke to Trini’s alarm going off at 7 am. The two of them got dressed, found a backpack for Kira, and a couple of notebooks for her to bring. Trini’s parents had left for the morning, and so the two of them talked with Billy and Alpha over coms about getting Kira registered for school. She has most of her classes with at least one of the other rangers, except for the first one. With that out of the way, the two of them headed to school. 

Kira wasn’t really sure what to expect when she walked into the building, but for some reason, the idea that the past highschool was basically the same as her highschool was not a thing. She looked around, almost in awe at the high school that her mentor went to. She felt a shiver go up her spine, it was a little unsettling. 

“Kira! Trini!” Kimberly called the two yellow rangers over to the group at the locker. 

“So, how are you doing?” Billy asked, curious if she was having any side effects from time traveling.

“Good actually, it's a little weird going to school in the past, but other than that, I’m doing pretty good,” Kira said smiling. 

“That’s good to hear,” Jason said walking up behind them. 

“Yeah, it would suck if you weren’t doing well,” Zack said, “do we have any updates on the situation?”

Kira sighed, “sort of.”

“What do you mean, sort of?” Kimberly asked.

Ring!

“Well, that’s the bell,” Trini said, “do you know where your first class is?” 

“Uh,” Kira looked around, “yeah, right there.” she pointed at the class room that was right across from them. 

“Yup, well, we will meet you here after class okay?” Trini said.

“Okay.” Kira said, as the group dispersed to their respective classes, but Kira couldn’t help but wonder where Tommy was. 

Class was miserable, it was biology class, which she had already done pretty well in during the future, and she didn’t see why she should really try when she could be working on song lyrics. On top of that, she managed to get herself a detention slip. It wasn’t her fault the teacher was incompetent. Okay, it may have been more on her, but he put her to sleep with the boring lecture. And then he had the nerve to yell at her for falling asleep in his class. So naturally, Kira argued back, and earned herself a detention for the day. She then argued that she didn’t deserve it, and earned herself detention for the rest of the week. 

She was off to a great start. As the end of class bell rang, she stuffed her detention slip into the bottom of the bag, she did not want to see her new friends to see that she got detention on the first day of school, again. 

She walked out of the classroom to see Tommy and Jason at the lockers. 

“Hey, how was your first class?” Jason asked her.

“Uh, good, maybe better than his?” Kira pointed to Tommy. 

“I’m fine, and I did sleep last night,” Tommy said, pushing himself off of the lockers and opening his, switching out his books.

“Right, like five minutes. Tommy you can’t keep this up,” Jason told his friend. 

“I have managed to keep it up this long. I can keep it up a little longer. And I slept longer than five minutes,” Tommy closed his locker as the others rounded the corner. 

“How was your first class in 1994?” Billy asked, having a notebook pulled out. 

“Uh,” Kira looked a little nervous at the notebook. 

“Billy, you can ask her all about her experience in school after school,” Tommy said, patting the blue ranger on the shoulder as he headed to his next class.

“Is he okay?” Kira asked. 

“He’s fine, he just probably forgot to sleep again,” Kimberly said, getting a weird feeling about Kira. She kept looking at Tommy weirdly. Kimberly tried to just shake it off. 

“Ah,” Kira said, so that doesn’t change .

Chapter Text

The six Mighty Morphin rangers sat around a table at the Youth Center. It was about an hour after school, all of them had a textbook out, with at least a notebook. They had all learned that if they weren’t doing anything else, they had to do homework, or they wouldn’t get it done. Kira wasn’t with them, she had told them that she was going to hit the library for about an hour then meet up with them at the Youth Center. They had tried to go with her, but somehow she had convinced them not to. 

“So this is where you guys hangout?” Kira asked, walking over to the group.

“Yeah, how was the library?” Billy asked.

“Oh, uh, good,” Kira looked around smiling.

“Something familiar?” Tommy asked, noticing.

“Uh,” Kira kept freaking every time he talked to her, “yeah, insanely similar to the place me and my team hang out.”

“Really?” Zack asked. 

“Here are your smoothies,” Ernie said, setting down glasses for everyone, “new special I want you guys to try.” 

“Thanks Ernie,” Jason said, taking a sip from the smoothie, “hm, this is good, what’s in it?”

“Peanut butter and banana,” Ernie said. 

“So, what's the place you hangout like?” Kimberly asked.

“Oh, well it's called Haley’s Cyber Cafe,” Kira started, having pulled up a seat in between Trini and Kimberly. Glancing at Tommy, Kimberly noticed and shifted closer to her boyfriend. 

“Wait, cyber as in technology?” Billy asked for clarification, and sounded a bit more excited than he intended.

“Yeah, uh, tech has really developed from now. So, the cafe has a section of computers so that we can do homework, play games, chat online, etcetera,” Kira explained, it was weird for her to explain to people, about her age, something that she’s been so used to. 

“So, it’s like the Youth Center where you guys just hang out, get work done,” Zack concluded. 

“Yeah, exactly,” Kira said. She was becoming a lot more comfortable with these past rangers. Well, all of them except Tommy, she wasn’t sure if she was ever going to get used to being around him.

Jason was about to ask Kira a question when Tommy’s communicator went off. Glancing around, Tommy answered.

“What’s up Zordon?”

“TELEPORT TO THE COMMAND CENTER,” Zordon said over the little communicator. 

The seven teens gathered their things and headed into the hallway, glancing around once again before teleporting. 

“What’s going on?” Jason asked, as Trini helped keep Kira steady herself. She wasn’t quite used to teleporting yet. 

“A couple of things,” Alpha mentioned.

“Okay?” Kimberly said, not sure what this could mean.

“FIRST OFF IS MISSILE LAUNCHER. YOU SHOULD BE WARY OF HIS TAIL, AND MISSILES THAT HE WILL FIRE FROM HIS BACK,” Zordon told the rangers. “OBSERVE THE VIEWING GLOBE.”

The seven teens turned to the floating crystal orb as it showed a blue and white torpedo shark monster, stomping around the park. The scene changed as it pointed to a sandy nest of two eggs, almost identical to the other two eggs except these were blue and red. 

“We also know that another ranger will be showing up in about five minutes, at the same location,” Alpha mentioned. 

“Great, so he’ll be able to help out when he gets here,” Kira said, not really sure which of her team members it would be, but it didn’t really matter. 

“So you know which of your team members it will be?” Jason asked.

“Not a clue, but any of them would be helpful,” Kira stated, the rest of the team looked at her a little confused. 

“Well, it would also take them about five minutes before they would wake up too,” Alpha mentioned. 

“What? Why?” Kira asked, concerned.

“Look, can we get an answer about that after. We need to take this guy out before he hurts someone,” Tommy mentioned. 

Kira shook her head, “right, yeah, I can know after.” She didn’t know how the rangers would react to her going out on her concern, and whoever it was she needed to be there to help them.

“Okay, IT’S MORPHIN TIME! TIGER ZORD.” 

“MASTODON.” 

“PTERODACTYL.”

“TRICERATOPS.”

“SABERTOOTH TIGER.”

“TYRANNOSAURUS.”

“DINO THUNDER POWER UP!”

The seven rangers arrived at the park, all the citizens having run off in fear, it was just the rangers, Missile Launcher, and a group of putties. 

“Whoa, nice look,” Trini said, looking at Kira’s morphed look. 

“Thanks, you too,” Kira said. 

“Rangers! You should just give up now,” Missile Launcher yelled at the rangers as it fired two missiles at them. The seven teens barely got out of the way before impact. Before recovering, the putties attacked them, splitting the rangers up. Trini and Kimberly, Zack and Billy, Jason and Tommy, and Kira by herself. 

Missile Launcher laughed as the putties fought, and at that moment beating the rangers. That didn’t last for long. Jason and Tommy beat all of the putties surrounding them first, and started their attack on Missile Launcher. As they were, another portal opened. Exactly the same as the one Kira came through. Within a few seconds, a blue blur shot out of the portal.

Ethan! Kira thought, running towards him now laying on the ground. She started shaking him, and then remembered Alpha telling her that it would be about five minutes before he woke up. Great.  

“Are they okay?” Billy ran over to Kira, seeing the teenage boy laying on the ground.

“Yeah, I think so, but we have to wait about five minutes for him to wake up,” Kira reminded him. 

“We should be able to do that,” Billy said, looking over to the rest of his team. 

At this point, the rangers had pulled out their blade blasters and were firing at the shark monster. It looked like for a moment that the blasts had done it, but as the smoke cleared, Missile Launcher shot another two missiles at the five rangers, sending them backwards and knocking them to the ground. 

“Or this could be a bit more difficult,” Billy said, growing worried. Kira looked at Ethan who was still completely unconscious. 

“Go help the others, I’m going to stay here and wait for him to wake up. When he wakes up, we’ll come and help,” Kira told the original blue ranger. Billy nodded and ran to the five rangers who were working on getting up.

“Are you guys okay?” Billy asked, helping everyone up.

“Yeah,” Kimberly said, looking between her team, Missile Launcher, and Kira and the new boy. 

“We’re okay,” Zack said.

“Do we know who that is?” Jason asked, looking at Ethan.

“Other than a ranger on Kira’s team, no clue,” Billy said, “and we’ve got about three minutes before he wakes up.” 

“Okay, let’s keep this guy away from the two of them,” Tommy said, holding Saba at the ready. 

“Right,” the other rangers nodded, pulling out their power weapons. The six of them charged at Missile Launcher.

Ethan groaned, “Finally” Kira thought, this was probably the longest five minutes of her life. She had demorphed, keeping the putties at bay with her Ptera scream. 

“Uhg, Kira,” Ethan managed to say, pushing himself up.

“Ethan,” Kira turned to him, helping him up. 

“What is going on?” 

“We are currently in the year 1994, the original rangers are fighting over there against a missile launching shark.”

“Wait. We timed traveled!”

“Yes, we can discuss that part later.”

“Fine,” Ethan actually looked around, “I should probably morph then.”

“You think?” 

Ethan grumbled, Kira helped him up. Once he had regained his balance he got into position. 

“DINO THUNDER POWER UP!”

Missile Launcher looked over to the dino thunder rangers, “Ha, another ranger, not a problem.”

“You sure about that shark face,” Ethan yelled at the monster, “TRICERA SHIELD!”

 “PTERA GRIPS!” 

Another missile headed for the mighty morphin team, Ethan jumped in front of the team, deflecting the missile with the tricera shield. 

“Impossible!” Missile Launcher yelled in shock. 

“Not really!” Kira yelled as she launched herself off of Ethan’s shield hitting the shark with her Ptera Grips. 

“NO!” Missile Launcher yelled and disappeared. 

“Again?” Kira said as she demorphed and ran up to join the others who also demorphed.

“What do you mean again?” Ethan asked, doing his best to stay focused on Kira and not the past rangers. 

“Well, when Kira first arrived, the monster we were fighting did the same thing. Like it just teleported away instead of fighting us,” Kimberly answered. 

“R-right,” Ethan nodded. 

“Lets grab those eggs and head back to the Command Center,” Jason said, heading to grab the eggs. 

“Eggs?” Ethan asked, even more confused. 

“We can go over everything at the Command Center,” Tommy told him. 

Ethan opened his mouth to say something, but ended up just closing it. 

“Smooth dude,” Kira said, elbowing Ethan. 

“Ha ha,” he replied, rolling his eyes. 

Jason and Trini grabbed the two eggs, and the group of teens teleported back to the Command Center.

“Wow,” Ethan said in awe of the Command Center, “This is so much better than the lab.”

“WELCOME BLUE RANGER,” Zordon welcomed.

“Uh, thank you?” Ethan replied, glancing at Kira.

“Yeah I know,” Kira said, nodding.

“Well, I believe introductions are in order,” Trini said, bumping Kimberly who was eyeing Kira. 

“Uh right,” Ethan said, looking at Kira for guidance. She just nodded at him, “I’m Ethan James, Blue Dino Thunder Ranger.”

“It’s good to meet you Ethan,” Billy said, reaching his hand out, “I’m Billy, but Kira said you would already know that.”

“Yeah, I kinda went through ranger files when I could,” Ethan said, nodding and shaking Billy’s hand.

“Well, we can still do introductions, I’m Jason,” Jason said, raising his hand, leaning against the control panel. Everyone went around the group, Ethan avoided eye contact with Tommy, and Kimberly still kept glancing at Kira. 

“So what has been shared?” Ethan asked.

“Well, we know that you guys got here from fighting a crystal monster,” Kimberly said.

“And that Kira at least didn’t know anything about these dinosaur eggs,” Billy said.

“And that your mentor is named Dr. O, and he’s your black ranger,” Tommy added.

“And Kira told me how you guys became rangers, and that Dr. O is also your science teacher,” Trini added, chuckling a bit.

“Yeah, and the guess is that the crystal monster we were fighting sent us back, there are dino eggs, and I think that's everything so far,” Kira summed up. 

“Okay,” Ethan said thinking. 

“You got anything?” Kira asked the techno geek.

“Well you got here first, about 24 hours before I did.”

“Right, so?” 

“Where were we all when that energy blast happened?” Ethan asked, jogging Kira’s memory.

“Uh,” Kira thought.

“What would that have anything to do with this?” Zack asked.

“Because the two of us were the farthest away,” Kira answered.

“Right, I shielded you with my Tricerashield. Trent was running towards Conner and Dr. O,” Ethan added.

“Which, if we're right,” Kira said, Ethan cleared his throat, “right, if you're right, then Trent will come through next, and then who was closer, Dr. O or Conner?”

“Your guess is as good as mine on that one,” Ethan shrugged.

“Okay, so we know the order, give or take,” Billy said, “and Alfa, you can pick up when and where they will show up.”

“Yes, the next ranger should show up about the same time tomorrow, only it will take them 15 minutes for them to wake up,” Alfa said. 

“IN THE MEAN TIME I RECOMMENDED ALL OF YOU HEADING HOME AND GETTING SOME REST.” Zordon suggested.

“I could get behind that, after someone tells me where I am staying,” Ethan said. 

“Well, you can resign with me for the foreseeable future,” Billy said.

Kira chuckled.

“What?” Ethan asked.

“So far we are matching up by color,” Kira said, patting his shoulder as she walked to be next to Trini.

Ethan just gave her a confused look as she disappeared in a yellow streak. 

“What did she mean by that?” Jason asked.

“I have no idea.”

And with that the rest teleported back to their respective homes.

Chapter Text

At Billy’s house, the two young blue rangers were nearly ready for bed before Billy’s curiosity took over. 

“Okay, how did you guys become rangers?” Billy blurted out, “and what happened during that fight? And do you know anything about those dinosaur eggs? And sorry I just.”

“Never had a blue power ranger from the future to ask questions before,” Ethan said calmly, “I get it, in a way.”

“Right, so, what can you tell me, I don’t think you can share who your mentor is, but can I know anything about them?” Billy asked.

“Okay one question at a time,” Ethan said, grabbing some blankets from the closet.

“Right, sorry.”

“It’s all good. Uh, lets see, I became a ranger from finding the dino gems with Kira and Conner in Dr. O’s basement. Although we didn’t realize that at the time.”

“Explain.”

“Well, the three of us were walking though the forest and fell into a hole. Searching for a way out we came across a t-rex skeleton. Conner tried to grab the bottom jaw of the t-rex and it instead opened up to a secret room, which looked like an alien something honestly. In there we found our dino gems lodged in part of an asteroid.”

“Which is what gave you your powers,” Billy guessed, “but why were you three in the forest?”

“We had gotten detention, and our science teacher, Dr. O, got put in charge of detention, and was planning on going to the museum anyways, so we got dragged along with him.”

“So the fight?” Billy re-asked his second question.

“Right, I don’t really know honestly. It was a weird fight, well, comparatively at least. And Dr. O got there late, and when he did I think he tried to get us to stop, but none of us could hear him.”

“So you think he knew this was going to happen and tried to warn you guys but was unable to?”

“Yeah, but we will be able to actually figure this out when the rest of my team shows up.” Ethan 

“Right, do you know anything about those eggs?” Billy asked, very curious about those eggs. 

“Not a clue. Dr. O didn’t know about them, forgot about them, or just didn’t tell us.”

“Hm, quite peculiar, but, one more.”

“What can I tell you about Dr. O?”

“Yes,” Billy said, a bit more hastily than intended. 

“Well, he was a ranger before this. He found the dion gems for us. He’s our science teacher. Has a doctorate in paleontology. Uh, and we're going to leave it at that,” Ethan said yawning. 

“Right, we should get some rest,” Billy said, turning the light off. And with that the two blue rangers drifted off to sleep.

Chapter Text

“So this is school in 1994,” Ethan mentioned as he walked into the school behind Billy. 

“Yup,” Kimberly said, putting her books away.

“Wow, high schools haven’t changed that much,” Ethan said, suddenly feeling uncomfortable, being surrounded by the original rangers. He kept glancing around for Kira, but instead saw Tommy and Jason. Ethan tried to relax, but he hated social situations.

“Hey, how's everyone doing?” Jason asked.

“Doing well so far,” Kimberly said as Tommy leaned against the lockers behind her. 

“A little nervous for later today,” Zack said, startling Ethan, “ooo sorry, didn’t mean to startle you.”

“No, you're all good,” Ethan quickly replied, “I was getting lost in my head.”

“At least there are things that stay the same,” Kira said, walking up with Trini. 

“Well some things have too,” Ethan said.

“True, what’s your schedule?” Kira asked.

“I made his the same as yours,” Billy answered for Ethan.

“Nice,” Kira said, then leaned in and whispered, “the first teacher does not like me.”

“What happened?” Ethan asked, smiling.

“Tell you later.” 

“Uh, does anyone have a pencil I could borrow?” Tommy asked, looking through his backpack.

“Yeah I got one dude,” Jason said, heading to his locker to grab on. At the same time Bulk and Skull walked around the corner. 

“Oh look, the dweeb squad has expanded,” Bulk joked. Kira looked at Ethan in a hope he knew who this was. 

“Just ignore them,” Kimberly told the two future rangers, sneering at Bulk and Skull.

“Oh come on, we just want to get to know the new dweeboids,” Bulk said, elbowing Skull.

“Right, and how's your search on who the power rangers going?” Tommy asked, glancing at his friends, Kira and Ethan just looked at each other, wide eyed. 

“Uh, yeah actually,” Bulk said, suddenly acting, or trying to act, professionally, “we have them narrowed down, and shall reveal them soon!”

“Uh, narrowed down to who?” Zack asked, chuckling as he said it. 

“Not you dweebs,” Skull stated condescendingly.

“Right,” Kimberly said, smacking her gum, rolling her eyes. 

What the hell?! Ethan mouthed at Kira. Kira just looked at him, shaking her head and raising her shoulders, just as confused as Ethan. 

Ring

“Well, we will catch you guys later,” Jason said as the hallway emptied and everyone headed to class. 

“See ya,” Kira said, leading Ethan to their first class.

“So, teacher not liking you?” 

“The dude was lecturing, it’s a biology class, I fell asleep, he yelled at me, so naturally I argued back.”

“And you got detention.”

“For the week.”

“Wow, that's Principle Randal strict.”

“Well, it was for the day, but I then argued that I didn’t deserve it.”

“So, don’t argue with the teacher?”

“Yeah, and if you do get detention, we go to the library after school.”

“Okay?” Ethan gave her a confused look.

“You want to explain getting detention to the original rangers?” Kira asked, dropping her voice at the end.

“Did Dr. O ever get detention?” Ethan asked.

“Add it to the list of questions we need to ask him when we see him,” Kira stated as the two entered the class room. 

The teacher gave Kira an annoyed look, but didn’t say anything as the two teens walked to some of the empty seats in the back of the room. Ethan gave Kira a look and Kira rolled her eyes. 

“Welcome to the class where you learn just how amazing Dr. O is for our teacher,” Kira stated.

“Oh joy,” Ethan replied.

Chapter Text

Unsurprisingly, Ethan managed to get detention, for hacking into the school's bells, which sent everything into chaos and the principal let everyone go early while they called someone in to fix what Ethan did. The computer teacher managed to figure out who it was and well, Ethan got strapped with detention for the rest of the week starting Wednesday. The rest of the school, rangers included, had no idea who the maestro was. The group went to Ernies, Tommy and Jason were sparing, Ethan found the arcade games and was making it his mission to get the highscore, Billy was working on a new device to track new portals from the time jumps, Trini and Kimberly were talking about the shopping trip with the Dino Thunder rangers and what shops they should take them too, Zack and Kira were working together on a new song. 

“Has Kira mentioned anything, like, about why she’s acting so weird about Tommy?” Kimberly asked Trini, watching the two guys.

“Uh, what do you mean?” Trini asked, glancing between Kira and Tommy, noting neither of them paying attention to the other. 

“The way Kira keeps looking at and acting around Tommy, that she doesn’t do around the rest of us,” Kimberly said, confused how Trini hadn’t noticed. 

“The same way Ethan is reacting to Tommy?” Trini asked, confused. 

“No?” Kimberly said, confused.

“Both of them literally froze when they saw Tommy,” Trini pointed

“That was for all of us, seeing the original rangers at their age, or younger,” Kimberly said, not sure what her best friend was getting at.

“Yes, but they literally froze for a second seeing Tommy,” Trini emphasized, “I think they know of us, but they know Tommy.”

“So Kira doesn’t have a thing for my boyfriend?” Kimberly clarified, her cheeks flushed embarrassed. 

Trini looked shocked, “that’s what you were trying to get at?!”

“Yeah, I mean, she was acting so shy around him, and well, I just assumed,” Kimberly tried to defend.

“That the ranger from the future, had a crush on someone who is in their late twenties from her time,” Trini said, dumbfounded at her friend.

“You know, when you say it like that,” Kimberly said chuckling embarrassed, “but with that cleared up, I do agree, they know Tommy. But why do they only know Tommy?”

“I don’t know,” Trini said, “hey Billy, could you come here for a moment?”

Billy set the device down and his screw driver and walked over to the girls. “Yes?”

“Did you get any information from Ethan last night?” Kimberly asked.

“I got how he became a ranger, and some more details on the fight before they got here, why?” Billy told them.

“We think that they know Tommy in the future,” Trini told him.

“Well yes, they know all of us,” Billy said, confused at what she was getting at.

“No, yes, they know of us, but we think that they actually know Tommy,” Kimberly explained. 

“Oh, well, yes, I can see that,” Billy said, glancing at Ethan, “but I wonder how they know Tommy then.”

“I don’t know, maybe they had an evil ranger and Dr. O had to call Tommy for advice or something,” Kimberly suggested.

It took every ounce of strength in Ethan not to burst out laughing and collapse. The three Mighty Morphin rangers were trying to keep their voice down, but Ethan was just close enough while playing the game to be able to hear their speculations. 

“Maybe, or they needed his Zord for something,” Trini suggested.

“Or maybe Tommy got in a predicament and required their assistance?” Billy offered.

Ethan was impressed that they hadn’t noticed him struggling in the corner. His was mandatory breathing to keep himself calm. 

“Whatever it is, I doubt any of them will just tell us,” Trini stated. Billy nodded in agreement and went to grab his stuff to sit with his friends.

Zack and Kira were sitting on the bench by the mat where Jason and Tommy were sparing. Zack was letting Kira use one of his guitars while they were chatting.

“So, you’re a singer,” Zack said as Kira fiddled with the tuners. 

“Yeah, and I’ve been told that I’m pretty good,” Kira said, happy that she can talk music with someone.

“Well, want to play something?” Zack asked.

“Right now?” Kira asked, shocked.

“Yeah,” Zack said, “why not?”

“I won’t get in trouble?” Kira asked, glancing over at Ernie. 

“Why would you get in trouble for playing?” Zack asked, very concerned, “I mean as long as you aren’t bothering others.”

“I was just checking,” Kira said smiling, “I got detention for playing during lunch outside once.”

“Seriously,” Zack said shocked, “why? The teacher is a stickler or something.”

“Principle, and you have no idea,” Kira said.

“Oh?” Zack said, curious.

“Dr. O told us that on his first day she told him that if we were smiling, he was doing something wrong.”

“You're kidding,” Zack chuckled in shock.

“Nope,” Kira shook her head. “I got detention on the first day of school, because apparently I needed a permit to play on school grounds.” 

“Was that a thing before?”

“No idea. I don’t think so, but even if it was a thing, there was no teacher that called me out on it, let alone our previous principle,” Kira said.

“So if it was a thing, she’s messed up for enforcing that, if it wasn’t, she’s even more messed up for creating that with no heads up to the students,” Zack stated getting pissed for Kira. 

“Yeah, not to mention her cracking down on every tiny little thing out of place with the other rules and students too,” Kira said groaning, “I think we’ve hit the highest detention rate in the school's history.”

“What makes you say that?” Tommy asked as he and Jason walked over to them.

“How strict their principle is,” Zack told them.

“Even most of the cool teachers are hesitant to do anything against her,” Kira added.

“Cool teachers?” Jason asked.

“Yeah like Dr. O,” Kira explained, “if we really have a problem with something that she did, or something that she took, he would try talking with her. Him and other teachers ended up being our uh ambassadors between us and Principle Randal.”

“I mean, that’s cool of him,” Tommy said, looking through his bag, “uh, Jas?”

“Forgot water and towel?” Jason said.

“Yeah, you mind?” Tommy asked, a little embarrassed.

“Not at all, kinda have extras at this point,” Jason chuckled, tossing Tommy a towel and water bottle.

“Thanks,” Tommy said. 

Kira couldn’t help but smile, trying so hard not to laugh, wow, things really don’t change she thought.

Before any of the boys could ask her what she was stifling laughter about, Tommy’s communicator went off. Jason caught the attention of Billy and the girls who tried to grab Ethan who waved them off that he would be over in a second.

“Go ahead Zordon,” Tommy said, holding the communicator up.

“HEAD TO THE COMMAND CENTER, WE HAVE THE LOCATION OF THE NEXT TIME PORTAL,” Zordon said.

“Okay, we’ll be right there,” Tommy said and nodded to the others, and everyone grabbed their stuff, Kira walked to Ethan.

“Dude, time to go,” Kira said, grabbing Ethan’s collar.

“What?!” Ethan complained, “I almost got the high score!”

“Trent just got here and we need to help, especially if the pattern is following,” Kira emphasized. 

Ethan groaned, “fine,” and headed to the group begrudgingly. 

“Ready?” Jason asked. The two Dino Thunder rangers nodded and everyone suddenly showed up in the Command Center. The Dino Thunder teens looked around again in awe, they didn’t think they would ever stop being in awe of their predecessor's HQ.

“So we have a point on Trent?” Ethan asked, glancing at the instruments.

“Yes, it seems as though another portal will be showing up in the park,” Alpha said walking in front of the group, “when the next ranger shows up, I should be able to teleport them here while we wait for them to wake up.”

“That’s good,” Kira said, “One of us should be here when he wakes up.”

“Agreed,” Ethan looked like he was debating, “Rock, paper, scissors, or flip.”

“Nope you go out, I’ll stay here,” Kira started scoffing at him.

“What?! Why?!” 

“I’ve been here longer and have already dealt with two monsters,” Kira said, holding up her fingers, “It’s your turn.”

“You're better at explaining sanely than I am, especially with Trent,” Ethan chuckled. 

“You two really think another monsters going to show up too?” Kimberly asked.

“Well, two times isn’t really conclusive enough to say one way or another,” Billy brought up.

“I was just gonna go with we’re rangers, odds of it not happening were low,” Ethan said, everyone humming in agreement.

“You do have a point there,” Jason chuckled. 

“So Kira will stay here,” Tommy said, starting to lay out the plan, “the rest of us will go to the park, and wait.”

“Sounds like a plan,” Zack said, the others nodded and teleported to the park. 

Kira, now standing alone in the Command Center with Alpha and Zordon, suddenly felt both uncomfortable and comfortable at the same time. She wasn’t sure how to interact with them, the only times she had was immediately before and after a monster attack, and even then, she wasn’t really interacting with them. How was she even supposed to talk with Dr. O’s mentor? Does that make Zordon her grand mentor or something?

“Are you okay Kira?” Alpha asked, snapping Kira out of her head.

“Oh, uh, yeah,” Kira stuttered, “just, I hope the rest of my team’s okay, and I don’t think I will ever get used to hanging out with, uh, them.”

“I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW WEIRD IT IS FOR YOU BEING THE SAME AGE AS PEOPLE YOU CURRENTLY LOOK UP TO,” Zordon said, in a calm manner that Kira didn’t think was possible for someone so loud, and only a head.

“Younger actually,” Kira corrected.

“Oh?” Alpha inquired.

“Me and my team are all currently eighteen,” Kira smiled, “and uh, while I’m not sure exactly how old the others are, they are in freshman year of high school, right?”

“Thats correct,” Alpha stated, “most of them are fifteen, but Tommy is still fourteen.”

“Wait,” Kira chuckled, “Tommy’s, the youngest?” 

“YES,” Zordon said, sounding confused, “WHY IS THAT HUMOURUS?”

“Oh, um,” Kira said, starting to giggle. When Haley had told them that Dr. O wasn’t the oldest power ranger, she didn’t think that he started out as the actual youngest either. “Well, we, um, I’ve met Tommy, you know, in my present, and when we had learned that he was a ranger, Conner mentioned that Tommy was the ‘oldest living power ranger’”Kira made the air quotes, “to which we, were told that he’s not the oldest, but I didn’t expect him to be the oldest.”

“I SEE,” Zordon said, Kira swore she heard some humor in his voice.

“So you’ve met them when they’ve grown up?” Alpha asked, kind of excited. Alpha had taken a liking to the teens, and had felt like an older brother to them.

“Uh, unfortunately I have only met Tommy,” Kira said, glancing around the room, “and he didn’t really talk about his past as a ranger, so, I don’t really know anything about the others.”

“Oh,” Alpha said, Kira could hear the disappointment in his voice. 

“BUT AT LEAST WE KNOW THEY HAVE ALL DONE AMAZINGLY,” Zordon said, mainly consoling Alpha. 

“Yes,” Kira said, “as far as I know, they not only saved the planet multiple times over, they also went off to do great things as civilians too.”

“That’s good,” Alpha said, sounding a bit relieved. 

“I MUST SAY I AM CURIOUS ABOUT THIS DR. O OF YOURS, AS WELL AS HOW YOU GOT YOUR POWERS,” Zordon said.

“I think everyone is at least somewhat curious about both of those,” Kira chuckled. 

“YES, BUT I GET THE SENSE THAT YOU WOULD HOLD BACK ON CERTAIN DETAILS WITH THE OTHER RANGERS,” Zordon said.

“I, uh,” Kira stuttered, “yes, you're probably right. It’s just,” Kira paused, she hadn’t made eye contact with Zordon once since she had gotten there, “Dr. O never discussed what we could and couldn’t say to who if we ever time-traveled. And I mean, he doesn't really mention a lot to us, but at the same time, we don’t really ask, so it’s not like we can blame him for not sharing, but I don’t want to accidentally say something that could change things.”

“I UNDERSTAND KIRA, AND I WON’T ASK YOU TO TELL ME THINGS IF YOU DON’T WANT TO OR IT MAKES YOU UNCOMFORTABLE,” Zordon stated, restraining his curiosity. 

Kira smiled, she was grateful Dr. O learned how to be a great mentor from her grand-mentor, “I appreciate that,” she paused for a moment thinking about how to explain this, "Well, Conner, Ethan, and I became rangers on a detention trip.”

“Oh?” Alpha said, shocked by this new information.

“Yeah,” Kira chuckled, “the three of us managed to get detention on the first day of school, for various reasons, but it was also Dr. O’s first day. Anyways, Principal Randal assigned Dr. O to be in charge of detention, but he already had plans to go to the museum on the outskirts of town, so Randal just had us go with him.” 

“So, Dr. O orchestrated the three of you getting detention, because he saw the potential in the three of you, to help him take whoever down and make you rangers, right?” Alpha said, excitedly. Kira’s face gave it away before she could tell the little robot he was wrong, “or not?”

“Unfortunately no,” Kira said apologetically, “although that would have been really cool.”

“Oh?” Alpha said, disappointedly. 

Before Kira was able to continue, an alarm sounded, startling Alpha and Kira, both of whom turned to watch the viewing globe as a white blur shot out of a yellow portal, exactly the same as Kira and Ethan. Alpha immediately scrambled hitting buttons. Kira, unsure of what to do, she couldn’t really help with the tech to teleport, so she just watched the viewing globe. 

“Got them,” Alpha said after a moment. And with that, Trent was laying in the middle of the Command Center. “Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi! I didn’t set up a place for them to rest!”

“It’s okay Alpha,” Kira reassured him, dropping next to Trent, double checking his pulse and breathing. “Look, Trent’s stable, so I can help you grab something to put him on until he wakes up.”

“I can just teleport something here, but I could use assistance putting him on it,” Alpha said, pressing a couple of buttons and a couch showed up. 

“That works,” Kira blinked. She and Alpha got Trent up on the couch, and he seemed comfortable.

“So, how did you get your powers then?” Alpha asked, going back to the previous conversation. 

“Right,” Kira said, turning back to Zordon and Alpha, “when we got to the museum, it was closed, so Dr. O sent us into the woods and if we found anything prehistoric, he would cancel detention for the rest of the week.”

“WHY PREHISTORIC?” Zordon asked.

“He has a doctorate in paleontology," Kira stated.

“That’s useful,” Alpha mentioned, “with your dinosaur powers at least.”

“Yes, to an extent,” Kira chuckled, “but we went searching in the woods, and ended up falling down a hole. We were fine, but found a bunch of tunnels, and since we couldn’t climb out we just followed the tunnel.”

“And found a prehistoric thing,” Alpha guessed.

“Yes,” Kira said smiling, “a t-rex skull. When Conner grabbed it, opened up a secret lab, where in the middle of it was an asteroid that had three rocks in it. The rocks ended up being our Dino Gems,” Kira showed them her gem, “and then, after getting attacked, and I got kidnapped, Dr. O gave us our morphers and we became rangers.” glancing at Trent, "Well, that’s at least how Ethan, Conner, and I became rangers.”

“THAT IS AN INTERESTING ORIGIN,” Zordon stated. 

“I would have to agree,” Alpha said, “I do hope the others are doing okay.”

“I’m sure they’re fine,” Kira said, glancing at the viewing globe at the wrong time as all of them got blasted onto their backs. “I think I’m gonna use Dr. O’s definition of the word.”

“ALPHA,” Zordon asked, “HOW MUCH LONGER TILL HE WAKES?” 

“About five minutes,” Alpha replied looking at the scanner, “by the way, who is he?”

“Oh, right,” Kira said, completely forgetting about introducing her teammate, “this is Trent, he’s our white ranger.”

“Ah, so he will end up staying with Tommy then,” Alpha said.

Kira couldn’t stop herself from giggling, “y-yes.”

“WHY IS THIS HUMUROUS?” Zordon asked.

“Uh,” Kira froze, “no reason.”

Zordon hummed, not believing her, but he wasn’t going to press. 

“So, uh, are there more eggs?” Kira asked, trying to change the subject.

“Not sure,” Alpha said as he turned to the control panel to try and check. Kira just stood there, suddenly uncomfortable again, she almost visibly sighed with relief when she heard Trent groan, signaling him waking up. 

“Trent,” Kira said, kneeling next to him. He rolled his head towards Kira. Slowly he opened his eyes, blinking a few times, trying to figure out where he was. “You're safe, we are in 1994 in the Command Center.”

Trent blinked at Kira, very confused, “what?!”

“IT SEEMS AS THOUGH YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAVE ACCIDENTALLY COME INTO THE PAST, 1994 PRECISELY,” Zordon tried to explain. It wasn’t helping.

“Okay, the crystal dude we were fighting,” Kira tried, Trent, now sitting up, nodded acknowledging that he remembered, “well, Ethan and I are thinking that the reason Dr. O was telling us to stop because that bright light was from the monster and sent us back in time, but separately.”

“How separately?” 

“It is Tuesday evening,” Kira said slowly, “I showed up Sunday evening, Ethan showed up Monday evening, and Conner and Dr. O haven’t shown up yet. As well as each time, a monster shows up and guards a pair of dino eggs, but disappears before we can defeat them.”

“So there’s one right now?” Trent said, trying to take in the information.

“YES, YOU CAN SEE IT ON THE VIEWING GLOBE BEHIND YOU,” Zordon told the young ranger. Trent turned around to see, yet again, the rangers getting thrown around, again.

“What rangers are they?” Trent asked, looking at Kira. “I recognize Ethan, but the others?”

“Uh,” Kira had completely forgotten that Trent never saw the video diary, “you know what, let's help them, and then we can do a full introduction for everyone.”

“Ookaay?” Trent said warily, but he knew better than to go against Kira.

“Alpha, can you teleport us to them?” Kira asked.

“Yes, right away,” Alpha said, and before the two teens knew it they were standing in between the rangers and the bipedal chameleon monster. 

“Trent!” Ethan called, running up to his teammates, “dude, it’s good to see you.” 

“It’s only been a couple of minutes,” Trent smirked. 

“Ugh, right,” Ethan groaned, "we're gonna hear that from Conner aren’t we?”

“Yes,” Kira nodded, “and I will punch him for it, if he does it too much.”

“The two of you want to help?” Zack asked, groaning, as the other rangers came over.

“Ah, yes, sorry,” Kira said to the others before turning to Trent, “ready?”

Trent smiled and nodded, “ready.”

“DINO THUNDER POWER UP!”

“DRAGO POWER, WHITE RANGER!”

Jason nudged Tommy, “white ranger looks kinda cool.”

“Yeah,” Tommy admitted.

“Two more rangers?” the monster yelled, “you really think that two more is really going to make a difference?”

“Seeing as though so far, each Dino Thunder ranger has turned the tide for us,” Billy stated, “yes, I do think that they are going to make a difference.”

“Trent, want to take this one?” Kira said, gesturing to the chameleon thing. 

“Sure,” Trent smirked and walked to the front of the group, facing the monster. 

“You think you can beat the great Boom Boom Boy!” the chameleon yelled. It took everything Trent and Kira had to not double over laughing. 

“I’m sorry,” Kira said between breaths, “Your name is Boom Boom Boy?! Who named you?”

“Obviously someone who doesn’t like him,” Ethan chuckled.

“I named myself!” Boom Boom Boy yelled in defense. The Dino Thunder rangers lost it. The Mighty Morphin' rangers were struggling but still standing. None of them were holding themselves well enough to fight, let alone defend. Boom Boom Boy saw the opportunity and took it. All nine raNgers were sent flying, their laughing stopped as they remembered that this guy would destroy them.

“Okay, my turn,” Trent muttered frustrated. He pulled out his sword and super speed around Boom Boom Boy, hitting the chameleon multiple times over. He stopped standing between Kira and Ethan, waiting for the monster to collapse, destroyed. That didn’t happen. 

Just like the other two monsters, it just disappeared, teleporting away. 

“What the?” Trent said, baffled.

“Yeah, that’s been a thing,” Ethan stated.

“Power down,” Kira said, the others followed suit. 

“This is just weird,” Trini said as she walked to the Dino Thunder rangers. 

“No doubt,” Ethan concurred. 

“Let’s check if there are any eggs around,” Tommy said, “we can catch up back at the Command Center.”

“I think I saw some over in the bush,” Billy said pointing to a bush by the edge of the field they were fighting in. 

Kimberly and Zack walked over to the bush Billy was pointing to. Pushing back some of the branches the two of them found two eggs, one completely white, the other with purple specks. The two of them grabbed the eggs and headed back to the group. 

“Shall we then,” Zack asked, Trent looked confused, looking to his teammates who nodded. Trent just nodded with them, trusting them. 

Kira took Trini’s hand, Ethan took Billy’s, and Tommy hesitated, then offered his hand to Trent, “so you can teleport.”

“Uh, sure?” Trent said, a little confused, but took Tommy’s hand. Next thing the teens knew they were back in the Command Center.

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“So, I take it you already know who we are,” Kimberly stated. The new eggs were gathered with the others on the pedestal and the teens were all standing around in between the consoles. The three Dino Thunder rangers with their back to the viewing globe, and facing the Mighty Morphin and Zordon. Trent took the time now to look around the Command Center, and looked very confused at Kimberly.

“Why would I know who you guys are?” Trent asked, giving the Mighty Morphin rangers a confused look as they looked at Ethan and Kira.

“Oh, right,” Kira chuckled awkwardly, “you never saw the video diary.”

“There’s a video diary?!” Trent asked, surprised.

“Yeah, we found it way before you showed up,” Ethan explained.

“But they are all in it?” Trent asked, gesturing to the others.

“Yes, it is Dr. O explaining all of ranger history up until us,” Kira told him.

“Maybe we should introduce ourselves then,” Trini suggested.

“That would be helpful,” Trent said, faintly desperate. 

“Well, I am Trini, the yellow sabertooth tiger ranger.”

“Kimberly, the pink pterodactyl ranger.”

“Zack, the black mastodon ranger.”

“Billy, the blue triceratops ranger.”

“Jason, the red t-rex ranger.”

“And I’m Tommy, the white tiger ranger.”

Trent, like his teammates, froze realizing who Tommy was. Ethan nudged Trent who shook his head, shaking the reaction off, “uh, right, I’m Trent, the white drago ranger, and can I talk with the two of you privately real quick.”

“Yeah,” Kira said, trying to hide her smile. Ethan didn’t trust himself to say anything, barely controlling his chuckles. 

The three of them walk a couple ways away from the other rangers, who just looked at each other confused, but just assumed that they were going to fill Trent in. Kimberly and Trini filled the others in about their theory with the Dino Thunder rangers knowing Tommy, especially with how Trent responded. 

“What happened?!” Trent asked, voice barely above a whisper. The Command Center echoes a lot. 

“Which part?” Kira asked, still snickering.

“All of it!” Trent said, “last thing I remember Dr. Oliver was telling us to stop fighting that crystal monster and then a blinding white light.”

“Okay one,” Ethan said, having calmed down enough, “Only call him Dr. O, we are trying to limit the amount of damage to the time line.”

“Okay,” Trent agreed. 

“As I said earlier, we are in 1994, and we have a couple of theories about the crystal monster and how we got here,” Kira explained.

“Well, what are the theories?” Trent asked.

“Well, one is the order that we are showing up is from the farthest back, to the closest,” Ethan explained, “So, I had shielded Kira, then you were in front of me, but then there is the problem of Dr. O and Conner, neither of us could tell who was in front of the other.”

“Honestly, I couldn’t either,” Trent admitted, “I would bet that it was Dr. O in front, trying to shield Conner, but I have no idea.” 

“That would make sense,” Ethan said thinking.

“So Conner is probably showing up after school tomorrow then,” Kira stated. 

“Yeah, which also means another monster and more eggs,” Ethan added.

“Yeah, what’s with the eggs?” Trent asked. Ethan and Kira looked at each other then back at Trent.

“Dude, your guess is as good as ours,” Ethan said.

“Great,” Trent sighed, "Did Dr. O tell you guys how to handle time travel?”

“No,” Kira and Ethan replied at the same time.

“Okay,” Trent said, the information was not boosting his spirits, “What has been shared and with who?”

“I’ve told Trini, Alpha, and Zordon how Conner, Ethan, and I became rangers, and everyone knows that Dr. O is our mentor, black ranger, and science teacher. Oh and that he has a doctorate in paleontology," Kira told him.

“I’ve told Billy the same thing, oh, and that Dr. O used to be a ranger before,” Ethan explained. 

“What?!” Kira said, slightly horrified, “why would you mention that?!”

“What’s the problem with that?” Ethan asked, confused.

“We don’t need to say anything that would make them be able to figure out who Dr. O is,” Kira said, getting irritated.

“How would they figure it out, all the information they have is, is that he has a doctorate, was a ranger, and is currently our mentor, science teacher, and current black ranger,” Ethan stated exasperated. 

“He has a point,” Trent pointed out, agreeing with Ethan, “It’s still too vague for them to figure it out.”

Kira sighed, “yeah, you're right. Sorry, it’s just.”

“We are all worried about Conner and Dr. O, but we can’t do anything about it,” Ethan said, trying to reassure Kira, but himself and Trent as well.

“Anything else I should know?” Trent asked, keeping the calmest, per usual.

“Yeah, Ethan and I have gotten detention for the week, as far as they know, we are going to the library,” Kira said. 

“And we have been staying over at our respective colors houses,” Ethan said, the smile returning to his and Kira’s face, while Trent’s face fell with realization.

“I am staying over at Tommy’s place,” Trent said in a very hoarse whisper.

“Unless you can come up with a reason not to,” Kira said, chuckling.

“So I am staying with Dr. O when he was our age?!” Trent asked, desperately.

“Yes,” Ethan said.

“Actually,” Kira brought up, “they are about three years younger than us.”

Both boys looked at Kira in shock and confusion. 

“What do you mean?” Trent asked.

“Tommy is fourteen, the others are fifteen,” Kira explained. 

“Wow,” Ethan said after a moment, “They act so much older.”

“I’m pretty sure all rangers act older than we are,” Trent mentioned. 

“True,” Kira agreed, “I mean we all act more mature than when we started, right?”

The three of them paused thinking for a moment.

“I would hope so,” Trent finally said.

“Same,” Ethan said, “but is there anything else we need to discuss before regrouping?”

“I can’t think of anything,” Trent said. With a nod from the other two, the three Dino Thunder rangers joined up with the others.

“You guys all caught up with each other?” Trini asked.

“Yeah, for the most part,” Kira said, "what's the next steps?” 

“Well, I have news about the next portal,” Alpha told them.

“Great,” Kira said excitedly.

“Someone’s hoping it’s their boyfriend,” Ethan sing-song whispered in Kira’s ear.

“Shut up,” Kira gritted back to him. Ethan just smiled and chuckled to himself. 

“What do you have on it?” Trent asked, ignoring his teammates, and the concerned glances from the others.

“It should show up at the beach,” Alpha said, which caused Ethan to snicker, Kira to roll her eyes at him but smirk nonetheless, and Trent to look very confused at both of them.

“Why are we smirking at that?” Tommy asked them.

“It doesn’t really matter,” Ethan said, brushing the question off.

“They should be out for about thirty minutes this time,” Alpha added.

“Which reminds me,” Kira brought up, “why are they being out for so long, and why do each of us, every time, are out for longer?”

“IT WOULD SEEM TO HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH HOW YOU ARE ARRIVING,” Zordon chimed in.

“It would seem that from, the crystalline monster, some residue has been left on you when traveling back, so the longer it takes for you to show up, the more time you have gotten residue on you, keeping you out for longer periods of time as you get readjusted to the new time period,” Billy explained.

“Okay that makes sense,” Trent said, nodding along to the original blues train of thought. 

“So we should do a similar plan as what we did today,” Kira stated.

“I agree,” Tommy said, nodding in agreement, “you guys can discuss who should stay again, and since this pattern of monsters seem to be centered around your guy’s powers, what are the potential powers to look out for?”

The three rangers froze. They realized that Tommy was one hundred percent right, all the previous monsters were easily defeated by whoever showed up. So, if Conner showed up, super speed, they could deal with a super speed monster for thirty minutes. Not ideal, but could be dealt with. Dr. O was another story. They all knew Dr. O held back a lot when sparring against them during training. They’ve seen him in fights against Zeltrax and other monsters when he stopped holding back as much. They watched him take down a full grown monster without a zord. Suddenly they were very much hoping that Conner was the one showing up tomorrow.

“Uh,” Kira finally said, “either super speed, or possibly praying.”

“What?” Jason said, after a good minute. The three Dino Thunder rangers nodded agreeing with Kira, and the Mighty Morphin just looked concerned.

“Well,” Ethan explained, “Conner has super speed, and well we can definitely deal with a monster with super speed.”

“And the possibly praying?” Zack asked warily.

“If Dr. O shows up,” Trent said softly, “his, uh, civilian power is invisibility, which is hard enough by itself.”

“And we are hoping that it would just have the invisibility and not,” Ethan drifted off, not sure how to describe the additional way they were worried about it.

“Not what?” Kimberly asked, even more confused.

“Let me put this in perspective for you guys,” Kira stated, “Dr. O has taken down full grown monsters without a zord and barely breaking a sweat.”

“That’s possible?” Zack asked, turning to face Zordon.

“IN THEORY, BUT NONE OF YOU HAVE THE AMOUNT OF POWER NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH SUCH A FEAT,” Zordon told the rangers. 

“Yeah and Dr. O has the power, not that he usually uses that much power,” Ethan stated. 

“THAT IS IMPRESSIVE,” Zordon stated, “AND A GOOD THING HE DOES NOT USE IT OFTEN.”

The Mighty Morphin rangers just stood around, not sure how to take in the new information. 

“Uh, well, maybe we head home for the night, and catch up in the morning,” Trini suggested, breaking the silence.

“Agreed,” Kira said, nodding. The others nodded along, then Kira, trying to hide her smile, “Uh, Trent you good going with Tommy?”

Trent gave her a small glare before sighing softly, “Yes.”

With that, the teens all headed to their respective homes.

Chapter Text

While the two teens would have already been awkward, Trent was making it so much worse. The entire time, Trent was actively avoiding Tommy as much as he could while staying at his house. Tommy could ignore the future rangers avoiding eye contact with him, hesitating before talking to him, actually freezing when they see him for the first time, or in Trent's case, when he learned who he was. It made Trini and Kimberly’s point more apparent, that maybe they did know him in the future. Tommy wanted to know, but didn’t want to know too much and affect the future, but Trent was really starting to bother Tommy with how apparent he was being.

“Okay, seriously,” Tommy finally said, “Do you guys have a problem with me in the future or something?”

Trent froze holding blankets, “uh, what do you mean?”

“All three of you act weird with me, and not the weird that you do with the others,” Tommy explained, doing his best to not sound annoyed. 

“Ah, yeah, we're not that great at poker faces are we?” Trent admitted, still not looking at Tommy.

“Not really,” Tommy said, hiding the annoyance better, “Look, Trini, Kimberly, and Billy made a theory that the reason you three have been acting this way to, just me, is because you guys know me in the future.”

“And what do you think of their theory?” Trent asked. 

“That they’re probably right,” Tommy said sitting on the chair at his desk. 

“Please don’t,” Trent said. 

“Don’t what?”

“Sit there while we’re talking,” Trent said, finding weird similarities between Tommy now and the future. 

“Uh, okay?” Tommy said, standing back up confused. 

“Sorry,” Trent said, trying to come up with something believable, “just lets, uh, stay on the same level?”

“Okay?” Tommy said, growing in confusion, “sure.”

“It’s a long story,” Trent said, trying to help with Tommy’s confusion. It wasn’t working.

“I feel like most things are going to be a long story,” Tommy stated, “sit on the floor then?”

“Yeah, sure,” Trent said, somewhat more relaxed. Not by much.

“Okay, just yes or no, do you guys know me in the future?” Tommy asked.

“Uh, yeah,” Trent admitted. 

“Is it in a good or bad sense?” Tommy asked

“Good,” Trent said, nodding.

“Okay, that’s all I really wanted to know,” Tommy said, sighing with relief, “this isn’t gonna help the awkwardness with you guys and me is it?”

“No,” Trent answered faster than he expected. 

“Okay, can I ask other questions?” Tommy asked.

“Yes, and we can see if I can answer them,” Trent said, smirking a little.

“Okay, how did you guys become rangers?” Tommy asked.

“Uh,” Trent hesitated, “well, I became a ranger, uh, differently from the rest of the team.”

“Okay, how did they become rangers vs you then?” Tommy asked, a little wary. 

“Well, the three of them, uh, Kira, Ethan, and Conner, got detention on the first day of school, Dr. O took them to the museum, they fell in a hole while Dr. O got chased by an animatronic T-Rex, they found the dino gems in Dr. O’s lab basement accidentally,” Trent explained.

“Okay, that, uh, weird, but also there rangers that’s not too far out,” Tommy stated, “You and Dr. O?”

“Uh, well, Dr. O, got kidnaped by Mesagog, who is our big villain, and bonded with the black dino gem there,” Trent said carefully. 

“Okay.”

“And, uh, I was kinda in the wrong place at the wrong time scenario,” Trent said, trying to explain this to Tommy without really hitting too close to home for him. Dr. O had told Trent that he was evil and had offered to talk if Trent wanted to, he just hadn’t taken that offer up yet, and was starting to wish he had. “I accidentally showed up in Mesagog’s Island fortress, and found the white dino gem and it was, um, infused with evil. So, when I put it on it, kind of, infected me, and I lost complete control of myself, until Mesagog viewed me as a traitor, or more of one, and tried to destroy and it backfired on him, cleansing the gem of the evil and turning me back in complete control of myself and powers, saved Dr. O, and joined the team.”

Tommy just stared at Trent for a good minute, Trent kinda froze afraid that he shared too much about this.

Tommy took a deep breath, “Okay, so you were evil too.”

“Yes.” 

“I’m sorry.”

“Not on you. Kinda on my own curiosity.”

“Still, I know where you're coming from.”

“Yeah, uh, changing topic, your sword?”

“Oh, Saba?”

“Yeah, it looks really cool.”

“Yeah, he can get kinda annoying.”

Trent looked at Tommy confused.

Taking Tommy a moment to figure out why Trent looked so confused, “oh, uh, he’s sentient.”

“Seriously?!” Trent said excitedly, “that’s cool.”

“And annoying,” Tommy chuckled, “and it was so weird when I first became the white ranger.”

“I can imagine,” Trent laughed, “wait, if he’s sentient, can he move on his own? How does that work?”

“Yes he can move on his own, and I’m not entirely sure how,” Tommy said thinking, “I never really gave it too much thought honestly as it's not the most prevalent thought in the middle of a fight.”

“Yeah, that wouldn’t be on the top of my head either,” Trent said, “but like he’s just a floating moving sentient sword?”

“Who can shoot white lightning out of his eyes like lasers, and would also take offense to you describing him with the word just,” Tommy said.

“Why does he have white lightning lasers?” Trent asked.

“No idea,” Tommy said, chuckling, “but question.”

“Okay?”

“Kira had this sonic scream.”

“Her ptera scream,” Trent corrected.

“Right, okay,” Tommy said, “you guys mentioned stuff that Conner and Dr. O can do, so, do all of you have stuff?”

“Oh, yeah we do,” Trent said, smirking.

“Okay, Kira has Ptera scream, Conner has super speed, Dr. O invisibility,” Tommy said, recapping the ones he knew, “so what do you and Ethan have?”

“Well, I have camouflage, and Ethan has uh, basically his skin becomes impenetrable and triceratops skin armor,” Trent tries to explain. 

“So you have camouflage and Dr. O has invisibility?” Tommy asked. 

“Yeah, subtle differences, but important differences,” Trent said. 

“Cool though,” Tommy said. 

“Yeah, it is,” Trent said, “uh, I don’t have any other questions for you right now.”

“I don’t have any for you,” Tommy said, “see you in the morning?”

“Yeah,” Trent said.

And with that the two teens went to sleep, and Trent managed to set the alarm clock.

Chapter Text

“So, what’s the story for detention?” Trent asked, sitting between Ethan and Kira during lunch. They were all outside, the three Dino Thunder rangers were sitting on the bench on the side of the basketball court while the Mighty Morphin were playing a small game.

“Library,” Ethan said, not looking at Trent.

“What did you get detention for?” Kira asked.

“Drawing in class” Trent said exasperated, “and not even drawing! I was doodling, drawing squiggles, in the margins!”

“Wow, must have been a really strict teacher on that one,” Ethan said.

“Yeah, it was that science teacher,” Trent said, trying to remember the teacher's name.

“Yeah, he doesn’t like me very much,” Kira stated.

“What did you do?” Trent asked.

“She fell asleep in his class then proceeded to argue with him,” Ethan answered, chuckling.

“That sounds about right,” Trent said, nodding. 

“How was last night?” Kira said, smirking.

Trent gave her a small glare before returning the smirk, “it actually ended up pretty good.”

“Really? Cause I was definitely betting on it being awkward,” Ethan said.

“Oh it was,” Trent agreed.

“Like, how awkward?” Kira asked, smirking. 

“Like, very, awkward,” Trent said, not sure how to compare the awkwardness, “he recognized how all of us reacted to him compared to the others. And apparently all of them have recognized this too, so the girls figured out that we knew Tommy in the future and just knew of the others.”

“I think we underestimated the girls,” Ethan stated, a little shocked.

“No, you underestimated Trini,” Kira said smirking, “she told me that Kimberly thought that I had a crush on Tommy.”

The two boys looked at her with wide eyed amusement and started stifling laughter. 

“Yeah, I overheard them yesterday actually, coming up with different ways we would know Tommy,” Ethan said between giggles. 

“Seriously? What did they say?” Kira asked.

“One was that Tommy got in a predicament and need our help,” Ethan said.

“Which did happen,” Kira stated, trying to keep a straight face.

“Multiple times,” Trent added, also smirking.

“Another was, uh, that we needed his Zord for something,” Ethan said, brushing that one off, “I think they were stretching on that one.”

“Agreed,” Kira nodded.

“The uh last one though,” Ethan said, glancing at Trent, suddenly not smiling.

“Has to do with evil rangers,” Trent guessed. 

“Yeah, that we had an evil ranger and called Tommy for advice,” Ethan said.

“Which isn’t too far off either,” Kira said, but turned to Trent, "but what did you tell him?"

“I just told him that we know him in a good sense,” Trent said. 

“That’s it?” Ethan asked, a little shocked. 

“That’s all he wanted to know,” Trent informed. 

“That at least matches,” Kira offered. 

“Yeah,” Ethan said disappointed. 

“So fingers crossed on dealing with a speedster after the ‘library’?” Kira asked, putting up air quotes when she said library. 

“Yes,” Trent said, “I think we will need all of us to deal with whatever monster shows up for Dr. O.”

“No doubt,” Ethan said, as the bell rang for the next class. The teens all grabbed their stuff and headed inside to their next class.

“So, see you guys at Ernie’s?” Kimberly asked.

“Yeah, we're gonna hit the library again, but afterwards,” Kira told her as sincerely as she could. 

“Yeah, see you then,” Jason said, and everyone smiled and waved goodbye and headed to their classes.

Chapter Text

As it’s been for the entire week so far, after school the Mighty Morphin’ headed to the Youth Center and set up a table to work on homework, while the Dino Thunder rangers sat in the back of the classroom for detention while Mighty Morphin’ thinks they are in the library. 

“At least they know you in a good way,” Jason said, trying to help his best friend. 

“Yeah, I just,” Tommy said, not sure what he was trying to say.

“Want more information, but don’t want to spoil the future or get them even more uncomfortable around you than they already are,” Zack suggested.

“Yeah,” Tommy said, agreeing with Zack.

“It would be kinda cool to like, know how they know you,” Kimberly mentioned, to which all the teens nodded in agreement. 

“Or why they only know Tommy,” Billy added. 

“Yeah, so many questions, and we are probably not getting any of them answered,” Trini said, sighing. 

“Like who we end up with?” Zack asked, smirking at Angela who had just walked in with her friends, who rolled her eyes at him. 

“If they don’t know you guys, how would they know who you end up with?” Tommy asked, smiling. 

The smirk quickly fell from Zack’s face, “uh, well.”

“Nice try dude,” Jason said, patting Zack’s back. 

“No, but they might know who Tommy ends up with,” Kimberly said looking at her boyfriend. 

“That’s true,” Trini said suddenly, also intrigued. 

“Okay, hold on,” Tommy said, a little shocked and trying to slow them down, “we don’t know how well they know me, it could have easily been a day thing where I showed up to help them for something small, and small talk didn’t really happen,” then turning to Kimberly, “on top of that, do we really want to know, there's a chance we don’t stay together for some reason.”

Everyone went a little quiet at the last remark, Kimberly letting it sink in, “you have a point, but hopefully.” 

“Yeah, I mean the two of you are perfect together, it would really have to be something to get you two to break up,” Zack said, not really sure what to say.

“The fact that Dr. O can take down a full grown without a Zord,” Jason said, in a low whisper, trying to change the subject.

“Yeah, that’s insane,” Tommy said, very happy to change the subject.

“But also impressive that he can use that level of power without going overboard,” Trini said, “I mean, if we had that power level and didn’t just use it everytime.”

“I think that may be why that power has been given to Dr. O as their mentor,” Billy mentioned. 

“Hey guys,” Kira said as the three Dino Thunder rangers walked up.

“Oh, hey, how was the Library?” Jason asked.

“Uh, good, lots of cool facts,” Ethan said, glancing at the other two as they all took a seat. They went alternating between Dino Thunder and Mighty Morphin’, with Kira sitting between Kimberly and Trini. 

“What are you guys studying in the library anyways?” Billy asked.

“Oh, uh, we have a history paper that is due, uh, in two weeks from when I first showed up,” Kira said, looking at the boys for help.

“Yeah, about the 1990’s and we figured that since we are here,” Trent added, before looking at Ethan.

“That now has better information about the little bit of the decade, than what we might find in the future,” Ethan finished. 

“That makes sense,” Kimberly said, nodding along. The Dino Thunder rangers almost let out a sigh of relief that they bought it. 

“So, any updates on a new monster?” Ethan asked. 

“Not yet,” Zack said.

“But probably soon,” Billy said, everyone looked at him, “what?! All of you guys have shown up at about the same time. So, in keeping with the data, Alpha and Zordon should be contacting us very soon.”

As if on cue, Tommy’s communicator went off. All of the teens looked around and gathered their stuff before heading into the hall. 

“Go Zordon,” Tommy said to the communicator. 

“WE HAVE AN UPDATE ON THE MONSTER,” Zordon said. A mild panic set through the rangers, especially the Dino Thunder. Glancing around once again, the nine rangers teleported to the Command Center. 

“So, the monster is in the park by the lake, seems to be going by the name of McQueen,” Alpha said as the teens dropped their stuff on the side. 

“Oookaay?” Ethan said, warily, “what is its power?”

“IT SEEMS TO HAVE SUPERSPEED,” Zordon said, and you could almost feel the tension leave the room. 

“Okay, well, I will stay and wait for Conner then,” Kira said. 

“What?! No way!” Ethan yelled in shock at her.

“Someone needs to be here when he wakes up, right?” Kira stated.

“Yeah, but why you?” Ethan asked, “you stayed last time!”

“Well yeah, but he is my boyfriend,” Kira stated, as if it were obvious.

The Mighty Morphin’ just stared at the two of them, unsure what to do with them. 

Trent just sighed, “uh, guys?”

“What?!” both of them asked.

“One, Conner hasn’t even shown up yet,” Trent started, “so we have a loose speedster monster out that needs to at least start dealing with that. And on top of that, it’s supposed to take Conner about thirty minutes for him to wake up when he does get here.” 

Both Ethan and Kira opened their mouths to argue, but closed them.

“Okay, you might have a point there,” Kira admitted. 

“So, deal with McQueen, then Conner, which hopefully we would have already dealt with McQueen,” Tommy said. 

“Sounds good to me,” Jason said, nodding in agreement with his best friend. 

“MAY THE POWER PROTECT YOU,” Zordon said. 

“IT’S MORPHIN TIME! TIGER ZORD.” 

“MASTODON.”

“PTERODACTYL."

“TRICERATOPS.”

“SABERTOOTH TIGER.”

“TYRANNOSAURUS.”

“DINO THUNDER POWER UP!”

“DRAGO POWER, WHITE RANGER!”

And the nine rangers showed up on the shoreline of the lake.

“And I thought Conner was bad!” Ethan yelled as McQueen threw him and Billy into the water. 

“He is!” Trent said, barely dodging as Tommy gets thrown into the sand, “but, he holds back during training!”

“What if we got him in the water?” Kira suggested. 

“Okay, how are we getting him in the water?” Tommy asked. Kira and Ethan look at Trent.

Trent looked between his teammates, “okay, I just want to establish that I am barely dodging this dude.”

“Then teleport, or use your arrows for all we care,” Ethan said, “but currently, you are the best bet to manage a hit of any kind on him.”

“Wait, you can teleport?!” Zack asked astonished, “what else can you guys do?”

“We can go into the depths of all of our powers, when we are not getting our butts kicked,” Kira said, grunting as she tried to blast McQueen with her blaster. 

“Agreed!” Jason yelled, slicing a branch off, which caused McQueen to trip and roll along the beach.

Easily getting back up, McQueen started off towards Jason, but Trent teleported to him knocking him off balance. 

“Since when do rangers take cheap shots?!” McQueen yelled, gaining his balance.

“I don’t think that was a cheap shot,” Trent shrugged, “White Drago Sword, laser arrows!”

The Mighty Morphin’ rangers stood in amazement as Trent’s laser arrows all hit McQueen, sending him flying into the lake. The red speed demon went sputtering into the lake. After a couple of seconds of the monster attempting to swim, it disappeared, teleporting away, again. The rangers demorphed. 

“Conner hasn’t shown up yet,” Kira said worriedly, as everyone gathered together, scanning the beach for the eggs. 

“It’s not like he’s gonna just fall out of the sky,” Ethan said looking around. Everyone stared at him like he was insane. “What? It worked last time.”

“What?” Trent asked, shocked. Kira nodded and shrugged that technically Ethan was right. At the same time, Conner shot through the same yellow portal that the others had, only difference being the red streak. He rolled and tumbled in the sand. The Dino thunder rangers ran over to him. 

“Found the eggs,” Zack said, crouching next to a rock, and picked up two more speckled eggs, one black, and the other brown. 

“Okay, let’s teleport back to the Command Center,” Tommy said as Trini grabbed one of the eggs from Zack. Kira stood with Trini, Ethan with Billy, Trent with Tommy, and they let Alpha teleport Conner, as everyone showed up back at the Command Center.

Conner actually ended up on the couch this time, Kira threw a blanket over him, and Zack and Trini added the new eggs to the collection on the pedestal. Dino Thunder all sat down, leaning against the couch, while Mighty Morphin’ awkwardly sat across from them. 

“I take it that you guys are staying here until he wakes up,” Kimberly said.

“Yes,” Kira said, looking a little shocked with how fast she responded. 

“We already know how close you two are, do not give that look,” Ethan said, accusatory. 

“That and we also need to make sure he doesn’t say certain things,” Trent added.

“Right, like what Ethan and Kira did for you,” Jason said, clearing things up. 

“Oh, uh,” Trent said, not making eye contact, “that too.”

The Mighty Morphin’ just looked at them confused. 

“Conner’s just, uh,” Trent said, looking at his teammates for help.

“Challenged,” Ethan said with zero hesitation, Kira slapped his shoulder, “ow! What?”

“No he’s not!” Kira said, defending her boyfriend. 

“Kira,” Ethan said knowingly.

“He’s gotten better,” Trent pointed out.

“Yeah, you're right,” Ethan admitted.

“Uh, what?” Zack asked, asking for the very confused Mighty Morphin’.

“At the beginning of the school year, and well, us being rangers, Conner was, uh, kinda your typical jock,” Kira explained.

“Oh,” Jason said, realizing. 

“He has improved, a lot,” Ethan said, emphasizing the last word.

“It’s not like any of us were amazing at the beginning of this anyways,” Kira added. Ethan and Trent nodded in agreement. 

“Well, I mean, maybe not in the same, uh, extreme,” Jason said, glancing at his teammates for support, “but I think being a ranger really helps you improve your character.”

“Yeah, it provides life experiences that you wouldn’t get otherwise,” Kimberly added.

“And close call experiences,” Ethan chuckled. 

“No kidding,” Trent said, exasperated.

“Okay though, weirdest monster,” Zack asked, trying to lighten the mood.

“Ooo, that's hard,” Trent said thinking.

“Okay, but you guys too,” Ethan said. 

“And first,” Kira added. Her teammates gave a confused look, “so that maybe Conner will be up by the end so that he can go with us.”

“Fair enough,” Tommy said.

“Okay, I have mine,” Trini said smiling.

“That was fast,” Kimberly pointed out. 

“Yeah, but how could I forget Ticklesneezer,” Trini remarked. 

“It is quite hard to forget learning what a ship in a bottle feels like,” Billy added.

“Okay, I think we need to make this, name the weirdest monster, and please add context,” Ethan said, sounding very confused. 

“That’s your doll, right?” Tommy asked double checking himself.

“Yes,” Trini said.

“I’m gonna second the context and raise, how do you not know?” Kira said, directed towards Trini and Tommy.

“I hadn’t moved yet,” Tommy explained. 

“Oooohhh,” the three Dino Thunder rangers said.

“And being your doll?” Trent asked Trini.

“Ticklesneezer is my favorite doll, that Rita had somehow brought to life,” Trini explained, “he had a knack for collecting things, and the way he would add things to his collection was sucking them into glass bottles.”

“Upside, he was actually quite nice and other than the scare of him trapping Billy and Trini along with a couple of buildings, planes, and a couple of other things with civilians, it wasn’t too bad of a fight,” Jason added. 

“Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!, that could have been bad,” Alpha said, thinking about how badly his friends could have been hurt. 

“BUT WITH YOUR TEAMWORK, EVERYTHING ENDED WELL,” Zordon reminded, the Mighty Morphin’ all nodded in agreement, smiling at how much Alpha worries over them.

“I think the weirdest monster for me would be Eyeguy,” Billy said.

“Eyeguy?” Trent asked, almost in disbelief.

“The monster was covered with eyeballs,” Zack described with amazement. 

“Rita sent it after my friend Willy, who had a morphonaminal invention for the science fair, to steal his smarts,” Billy explained. 

“Morphonaminal?” Kira asked.

“Yeah,” Zack said, “you guys don’t use words like that?”

“No,” Trent said. 

“Interesting,” Billy said as if he was taking notes. 

“Okay,” Jason said, thinking for a moment, “I think the weirdest one for me is Pudgy Pig.”

“Ooo, that's a good one,” Kimberly agreed. 

“Pudgy Pig?” Ethan asked, shocked. 

“Yes, it was just a pig head and the only way to defeat him was to feed him spicy food,” Trini explained. 

“Seriously?” Kira asked, chuckling. 

“Yeah,” Zack said, “and I’m gonna go with Pumpkin Rapper.” 

“Uhg, he was annoying,” Kimberly said.

“So, it was a pumpkin that rapped?” Kira asked, confused.

“Bad raps and put our heads in pumpkins,” Trini explained. 

“Yeah, I think you guys are leading on the weirdest monsters,” Ethan said, not sure how to react to the monster putting pumpkins on their heads. 

“We haven’t heard your guy’s monsters yet,” Jason offered.

“We also haven’t heard Tommy’s or Kimberly’s choice,” Trent pointed out. 

“Right,” Kimberly said remembering. Everyone turned to face Tommy who looked to still be debating.

“I don’t know,” Tommy admitted after a minute, “I mean there are a lot of weird monsters.”

“Okay, well I have one,” Kimberly said, smiling at Tommy. Tommy returned a confused look. “Pursehead.”

“Oh, yeah, that was weird,” Tommy said, realizing why Kimberly was smiling.

“Let me guess, it was a monster with a purse for a head,” Ethan asked, smirking.

“Yes,” Kimberly nodded, “Lord Zed turned my purse into Pursehead, as well as my lipstick, during mine and Tommy’s date a couple weeks ago.”

“Well, uh, that probably made for an interesting date,” Ethan said, trying to not make the sudden awkwardness from the Dino Thunder rangers seem as obvious.

“More or less interesting than that date with Cassidy?” Trent asked, smirking.

“Ookaay,” Ethan said, chuckling awkwardly, “that date went fine.”

“Yeah,” Kira said, “with Dr. O’s help.”

“Dr. O helped with your date?” Tommy asked, for the confusion of the Mighty Morphin’ rangers.

“Well, Ethan was drowning,” Trent stared.

“Figurativly,” Ethan quickly added.

“So you admit that it wasn’t going well,” Kira brought up. Ethan opened his mouth to argue, but decided it wasn’t worth it.

“Anyways, Ethan was drowning, Dr. O was stuck invisible, and gave Ethan a helping hand,” Trent quickly explained. 

“Okay,” Billy said, understanding, “Dr. O was stuck? Invisible?”

“Uh, yeah, that’s a long story,” Trent said, trying to change the topic. 

Almost as if on cue, Conner started groaning and waking up. Kira turned and started shaking Conner’s shoulder to wake him up faster while everyone else got up.

“Do you guys want to take him to the side like with Trent?” Tommy suggested.

“Uh, yeah,” Ethan said, nodding.

“Who got the number of that bus?” Conner groaned as Kira helped him sit up.

“Yeah it was 1994,” Ethan told him, which he just received a very confused look from the red ranger.

“We will explain everything,” Kira said, getting her boyfriend off the couch and leading him away from the group. Trent and Ethan follow closely behind. “Over here.”

“Where are we? What happened? Where is Dr. O?” Conner asked in rapid succession. 

“Who, bro, slow down,” Ethan said, putting his hands up in a stopping motion, “not all of us have superspeed.”

“We are in Angel Grove,” Trent answered.

“In 1994,” Kira added.

“We think that monster we were fighting sent us back, but we don’t actually know,” Ethan said.

“And Dr. O is supposed to, pattern permitting, show up tomorrow,” Trent explained.

Conner just stared at his teammates for a minute or so, trying to process what they had told him. “Okay, so, that monster we were fighting, the one that Dr. O said to stop fighting way too late, somehow sent us all back in time to 1994? And what do you mean pattern permitting?”

“That is the working theory,” Ethan said, giving Conner a half nod.

“Pattern permitting, as in,” Kira said, debating how exactly she was going to explain this to cause the least amount of concern from Conner, “I showed up on Sunday evening, and it is Wednesday.”

“You’ve been here for almost four days?!” Conner asked, concerned, “wait, when did you guys get here?”

“I got here Monday evening, and was out for about five minutes,” Ethan said, which made Conner even more confused, and concerned. 

“I got here yesterday evening, so Tuesday, and was out for about fifteen minutes,” Trent said.

“How long was I out for?!” Conner asked.

“Thirty minutes,” Kira said calmly. 

“Okay, so, pattern permitting is that Dr. O will show up tomorrow evening, and be out for how long?” Conner asked, calming down slightly. 

“Uh, I don’t actually know,” Ethan said looking to Kira and Trent for some help, they did not help, “Alpha will know.”

“Okay, fine we are in 1994, what have you guys been doing?” Conner asked.

“Hanging with the original rangers,” Ethan said, smirking.

“Original including Dr. O?” Conner asked softly. The three of them nodded almost excitedly. 

“Now, you have to remember to call him Tommy, and Dr. Oliver Dr. O,” Ethan explained, “all that we have shared with them is that Dr. O is our science teacher, mentor, and black ranger.”

“I have shared with Trini, Zordon, and Alpha how I became a ranger,” Kira told him.

“I told Billy how we became rangers, and that Dr. O was a former ranger,” Ethan shared. 

“I told Tommy how I became a ranger, how you guys became rangers, how Dr. O became a ranger, that we know him in a good sense in the future, and what all of our powers are,” Trent said. 

“All of them know that Dr. O has a doctorate in paleontology, our science teacher, mentor, and black ranger,” Kira added. 

“What else?” Ethan said thinking. 

“What have you guys been doing?” Conner asked, “where have you been staying?”

“Uh, school,” Kira said slowly.

“Why?!” Conner asked, horrified that they would be going school, on purpose. 

“Because what else are we going to do,” Ethan said like it was obvious.

“Literally anything,” Conner stated.

“In 1994? In a town we don’t know?” Kira asked, trying to point Conner in the right direction.

Conner paused, giving Kira a look, knowing she was right, “okay, fine, so school.”

“And detention is us going to the library,” Trent added.

“All of you have gotten detention,” Conner said, chuckling. 

“Yes,” Kira said, nodding, chuckling. 

“At least we’re constant,” Conner said smirking at his friends, before looking confused at Trent, “wait, even you?”

Trent sighed, “yeah, I got detention too.”

“Huh,” Conner said, “well, okay, going to school kinda sucks, but where are we staying?”

Trent sent a small glare at Kira and Ethan before turning back to Conner, “we have been staying with our respected colors.”

“Okay, so I’m with their red ranger?” Conner asked, checking himself. 

“Yeah,” Ethan answered, “Jason, but we can make sure we introduce you to everyone when we rejoin them.”

“Okay, anything else?” Conner asked.

“Uh, yeah,” Kira said, “there are dino eggs, we have zero information on them, we seemed to have shown up in the order of getting hit by that beam from the monster. Uh, and, I think that covers it.”

“But Dr. O knew what that monster was going to do, right?” Conner double checked.

“Uh, not sure,” Trent said, glancing at Kira and Ethan.

“Yeah, all we know is that Dr. O showed up, told us to stop fighting it, and then we end up here,” Ethan explained. 

Conner sighed, “okay, I guess if there is not anything else, we should rejoin the others.”

“I don’t have anything else,” Trent said, starting to walk back to the group. Kira and Ethan shrugged, not having anything else to add, and followed Trent. Kira walking next to Conner.

“Oh, also we are sharing weirdest monsters,” Kira said as they rejoined with the Mighty Morphin’ rangers.

Chapter Text

The Dino Thunder rangers rejoined the Mighty Morphin’ rangers. Alpha was working on something on one of the consoles while the teens were just chatting in the center while they were waiting. 

“WELCOME TO 1994,” Zordon said to Conner as everyone joined together. 

“Uh, yeah,” Conner said, glancing around, “good to be here?”

“Should we do another introduction round?” Trent asked, glancing between his team and the other rangers. 

“Yes,” Conner said, quickly. 

“Okay,” Kira chuckled, nodding towards Trini to start.

Trini nodded in response, “I am Trini, the yellow ranger.”

“Kimberly, the pink ranger,” Kimberly said, raising her hand cheerfully. 

“Zack, black ranger,” Zack said, turning to look down the line.

“Billy, blue ranger,” Billy said, pushing his glasses up.

“Jason, red ranger,” Jason said, eyeing Conner, not sure how to react to the older, but younger red ranger.

“And I’m Tommy, the white tiger ranger,” Tommy said, sighing as he noticed Conner’s reaction.

“Okay, and I’m Conner, red,” Conner said hesitantly. 

“It’s good to meet you,” Jason said, not quite sure what to say.

“Well, we haven’t heard Tommy’s weirdest monster yet,” Ethan points out.

“Oh, yeah,” Zack said, “what’s your pick?”

“Oh, uh,” Tommy said thinking, Dino Thunder tried not to look as interested as they were in his response, “maybe Hatchasaurus.”

“Oh yeah, when Terror Blossom brought him back up when Lord Zed kidnapped Rocky, Adam, and Aisha, a couple weeks ago,” Kimberly said, remembering the monster. 

Kira and Ethan glanced at each other, double checking that the names they just heard were who they were thinking of. 

“You guys know them?” Trini asked, catching the glance.

“Uh, the names sound familiar,” Kira said, ignoring Conner and Trent’s confused looks. 

“Okay,” Tommy said, figuring they wouldn’t get anything else from them, "Well, we've all given you our weirdest monsters, what’s your guys?”

“Tutenhawken,” Conner said immediately.

“Oh come on!” Ethan said offended. 

“Dude, why would you translate an Egyptian curse?!” Conner argued.

“I didn’t believe in curses!” Ethan defended.

“You're a Power Ranger!” Conner pointed out.

“Curses were not explained!” Ethan stated.

“Most things were not explained to us!” Conner stated.

“Okay, so, Tutenhawken was a mummy in the museum that we went to on a field trip, and Ethan decided that it was a good idea to translate the ruins and got himself cursed while also letting Tutenhawken free to try to turn our classmate into his queen while he takes control of the city,” Kira explained, stepping in front of her teammates to explain it to the Mighty Morphin’. 

“Oh, okay,” Trini said, understanding what the argument was about now. 

“At least we all learned something from the experience,” Conner said, which made all of the Mighty Morphin’ rangers look at him impressed, and the Dino Thunder’s groan.

“That we shouldn’t read or translate anything found in a museum,” Ethan suggested, just for kicks.

“No,” Conner said, smiling way too wide for what he was about to say, “we should avoid museums.”

“Wait, what?!” Jason said, shocked, the other Mighty Morphin’ looking shocked, Alpha freezing for a moment. 

Kira just chuckled and shook her head, Ethan groaned and rolled his eyes, Trent just sighed.

“What?” Conner asked, somewhat genuinely confused. 

“How did you get there?” Billy asked.

“Well,” Conner started.

“Dude, this has been a losing argument since you started it,” Trent said.

“Look, the first time we went to the museum,” Conner said, ignoring Trent, “it was due to detention and Dr. O got chased by an animatronic T-rex.”

“And the three of us became power rangers,” Kira added.

“The second time Kira got mind controlled into letting Fossilador out,” Conner continued. 

“Okay that one was bad and completely not in anyone's control,” Ethan said.

“The third time, Ethan got cursed,” Conner finished.

“Which was Ethan’s fault,” Trent reminded.

“So, out of the three times you have been to the museum, only one trip went poorly and you didn’t have control over it,” Tommy clarified.

“Yes,” Conner said.

“So, why should you avoid the museum?” Trini asked, as all the Mighty Morphin’ were still very confused by Conner’s statement. 

“Because Conner just doesn’t like the museum and was trying to come up with a reason,” Kira explained, “the rest of us have no issues with going to the museum, other than having to hear Conner complain about us going to the museum.”

“Okay,” Kimberly said as if she understood. 

“Uh, so, what are the rest of your guys' weirdest monster choices?” Zack asked, trying to shift the conversation back.

“Uh,” Ethan said thinking, “maybe Megalador.”

“Which one was that?” Trent asked.

“The shark monster,” Kira said, glancing at Tommy who did a small wince, but she also noticed Jason wincing a little at it, “who kidnapped Nikki Valentina for who knows what reason.”

“Oh yeah, she stopped by Hayley’s,” Trent recalled. 

“Who’s Nikki Valentina?” Kimberly asked.

“She’s this tv star on this really popular show called Ocean Alert where she’s this life guard,” Conner explained.

“Where these two forgot to focus on fighting the monster and not Nikki Valentina, and got hit by that pollen beam,” Kira smirked pointing to Conner and Ethan. 

“It’s pretty cool that you guys got to meet a famous star though,” Zack said to the two boys.

“Yeah, and then we actually met her,” Conner said, having a somewhat disgusted look on his face.

“Yeah, her beauty is actually only on the surface,” Ethan said, having a horrified look as he remembered the day. 

“But I think I’d have to go with Donkeyvac,” Kira said.

“Please tell me it was an actual donkey,” Zack said smiling.

“Yes, it was,” Ethan said, “that sucked the youth from people.”

“Was that with Kylee Styles?” Trent asked.

“Let me guess, another super popular celebrity you guys got to meet,” Zack guessed, “why don’t we get to meet any celebrities?”

“Weve never had to save any celebrities,” Billy stated.

“Which is a good thing,” Tommy reminded.

“Right,” Zack said, half-heartedly agreeing, “would be cool though.”

“Yeah, but Kylee ended up being Kira’s best friend when she was younger, and we should have believed her when she first told us,” Conner said, apologetically.

“Conner you have apologized for that so many times,” Kira said, "I've told you, it’s okay, I probably wouldn’t have believed me either.” 

“Okay, well, I guess it’s my turn then,” Trent said thinking, “okay, does it count if I wasn’t a ranger yet, but I still fought them?”

“I’m gonna say yes, but only because I want to hear the story,” Trini said, the rest of Mighty Morphin’ nodding in agreement. Dino Thunder were all trying to figure out what monster Trent was talking about. 

“Goldenrod,” Trent said.

“Oh,” the Dino Thunder rangers said in unison. 

“Yeah, he was weird,” Ethan said.

“And the story?” Kimberly asked.

“Well, from my perspective of not knowing who the rangers were, or being one yet, it was definitely weird,” Trent chuckled, “this dude first showed up while Dr. O was driving me home, running and caught up with us, when Dr. O slammed the brakes and he slammed into us. Getting out of the car, he got up and started attacking Dr. O. I tried to fight him too, but not being a ranger, I didn’t really do anything, which is when you guys showed up.”

“And they beat the monster and saved the day,” Alpha said.

“Uh, not yet,” Ethan said.

“We showed up, and Zeltrax, a cyborg, technically, who Goldenrod called his father, called him back,” Conner explained.

“My father tried to take over Hayley’s Cyber Cafe, so Dr. O took Ethan and I to city hall to try to convince them to not let my father take control of the cafe, when Goldenrod showed back up. I took the counsel women to a safe spot, while Dr. O and Ethan, at the time, I thought they were trying to distract the monsters and call someone,” Trent said.

“We did call someone,” Ethan said, “Conner and Kira.”

“This would be the monster that Dr. O took down without a zord,” Kira added.

“I think you guys win on the weirdest monsters,” Zack said, impressed. 

“Yeah, I mean we’ve got some really weird monsters, but, wow,” Jason said.

“I think it’s safe to say that we all have some really weird monsters to fight,” Trent said.

“Agreed,” Tommy said. 

“So, what’s the plan for, uh, next however long we are going to be here?” Conner asked.

“Well,” Alpha said, turning to face the teens, “I have figured out exactly where, I am going to guess, Dr. O is going to show up, and when.”

“That’s perfect,” Billy said, heading over to look at the papers that had printed out.

“And?” Ethan asked as politely as he could, there was no denying how curious and concerned the Dino Thunder rangers were about Dr. O.

“Well, he should show up in the forest about the same time as you guys, and should only be out for an hour,” Alpha explained.

“Okay that’s not bad,” Conner said slowly, mostly trying to convince himself of this. 

“In the meantime, you can stay over at my place, and then Billy and Alpha can set the stuff up again for you to join us at school,” Jason said.

Conner opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, his girlfriend answered, “yes you have to go to school with us.”

“Okay, fine,” Conner said, knowing better than to argue with her on this. 

“Then I guess we will see you guys tomorrow,” Trini said, walking over to Kira.

“Good night everyone,” Kira said as the two yellow rangers teleported out. 

Everyone else said good night, and headed to their respective houses, or colors house.

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The two red rangers had set up an air mattress in Jason’s room, Conner was borrowing some of Jason’s pajamas, and was doing his best to keep his mouth shut. Conner wanted to talk, but one, he couldn’t, most of the things he wanted to talk about either didn’t exist yet, or would be a spoiler. Jason was just trying not to make it awkward. He had questions, but didn’t want to make Conner feel uncomfortable. So for a good thirty minutes while the boys got ready for bed, and made Conner’s bed, they just stayed silent, unless absolutely necessary. Also probably a record for Conner. 

“Okay, I can’t,” Conner said, finally breaking.

Jason froze, pillow in hand, “uh, can’t what?”

“Not talking,” Conner stated, “I mean, dude, you have got to have so many questions, and you're just staying silent? I know I would be hounding me if I was in your shoes.”

“I mean I do have a lot of questions, but I didn’t want to make you uncomfortable,” Jason told him honestly.

Conner sighed, “okay then, how about this, you ask any question you want, and I will answer them, or tell you that I can’t answer it.”

“Okay, that sounds reasonable,” Jason agreed, taking a seat on the floor leaning against his bed. Conner sat across from him. 

“So, what questions do you have?” Conner asked. 

“Who’s the leader?” Jason asked.

“Ah, that’s a good one,” Conner said, “I am.”

“Okay, but Dr. O is a ranger too,” Jason reminded.

“Yes, but he’s our mentor.”

“Expand this please,” Jason said, who was mostly understanding, but wanted more information. 

“Well, uh,” Conner said, thinking about how to explain this, “like how Zordon is your mentor, so he guides you guys, but he doesn’t lead you in a fight. The difference being that Dr. O is in the fight with us.”

“Okay,” Jason said, understanding it better, “so Dr. O still mentors you when at your command center,”

“Lab, but yes.”

“But when you're in a fight on the field, you take charge.”

“Yes, unless something happens and Dr. O doesn’t have a choice, he’ll take charge, but that pretty much never happens.”

“Okay,” Jason said, thinking about his next question, “you mentioned that the first time you guys went to the museum, Dr. O got chased by an animatronic T-rex, and you became rangers.”

“Oh, yeah,” Conner chuckled, “it was the first day of school, me, Ethan, and Kira managed to get detention, and Dr. O got stuck with being in charge of detention, and already had plans to go to the museum, and so our principal decided that the museum was the perfect punishment for us and we got dragged along.”

“So, you guys just left school with your teacher on the first day of school because you got detention? Wait, what did you get detention for?”

“Uh, one, yes, that is exactly what happened,” Conner said, “and uh, two, I don’t think that’s relevant.”

Jason gave Conner a confused look, and partially concerned look, “it couldn’t have been that bad.”

“Well, I mean I did get detention for it,” Conner said, “but Ethan definitely did worse.”

“Okay?” Jason said.

Conner sighed, “I skipped the first class, which happened to have been Dr. O’s class, to play soccer, got caught by the principle as I said some, uh, not so great things about her.”

“Okay,” Jason said, not convinced but not wanting to know more either. 

“We went to the museum, it was closed, Dr. O sent us into the grounds on whim that if we found anything prehistoric he’d cancel detention for the rest of the week.”

“So you went into the grounds and found the dino gems,” Jason figured.

“After falling into a hole, wandering through tunnels, and finding Dr. O’s basement, yes, we found the dino gems.”

Jason just stared at him for a minute, “that is very different from how I became a ranger.”

“Oh we know,” Conner said.

“There was a mention of a video diary,” Jason said remembering when Trent showed up.

“Yeah,” Conner said, trying to word it correctly, “uh, when Dr. O disappeared Ethan kinda hacked into his computer and found a video diary about the history of the power rangers.”

“I’m gonna assume your mentor made it.”

“Yes.”

“So, you also T-rex?” Jason asked, not sure what else to talk about.

“Yeah, best dino ever,” Conner said, as though it was obvious.

“The only zord that really has been able to compete with mine are Tommy’s.”

“Right, Tommy had the Dragonzord, right?” Conner asked. 

“Yeah, and it was powerful too,” Jason said, Conner was pretty sure he heard a hint of jealousy in Jason’s voice.

“Did it get destroyed?” Conner asked, genuinely not sure. He vaguely remembered the original zords getting destroyed but he couldn’t remember if it included the Dragonzord or not.

“No, but without the green ranger, and the dragon dagger, he can’t be summoned,” Jason explained.

“So one of the most powerful zords just sits at the bottom of the ocean?” Conner asked, almost in disbelief. 

“Yeah,” Jason said.

“Wow, okay,” Conner said, not sure how else to respond to that, “oh, I did have a question.”

“Sure,” Jason said, “I don’t really have anything to hide.”

“Okay, when Kira mentioned that Megalador was a shark monster, you and Tommy winced,” Conner reminded, “why?”

“Ah, yeah,” Jason said, sounding slightly embarrassed, “that would be due to the Slippery Shark.”

“Slippery Shark?” Conner asked, doing his absolute best to not laugh. 

“Yeah, uh,” Jason said, “Rita put a spell on Tommy and I so we would turn against each other, then sent the Slippery Shark down to finish us off.”

“Ah, yeah, I could see why shark monsters aren’t really the best for you guys then,” Conner said, remembering Dr. O’s comment when Megalador showed up.

“Well, it’s getting late,” Jason said, not really sure what else to say, “we should get some sleep.”

“Yeah, probably,” Conner said, heading to his makeshift bed, “guess I’ll see you in the morning.”

“Yeah, night,” Jason said, turning the light off. 

And with that, all rangers drifted off to a mostly dreamless sleep.

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The school day actually went along without a problem. As far as the Mighty Morphin’ were aware that is. As far as the Dino Rangers were concerned, the day was far and few between without a problem. 

The first period, fine, other than the glares from the science teacher.

Second period, the rats got out, how the rats were in the english room, no body is one hundred percent sure, but everyone is looking at Bulk and Skull. 

Third period, no one is sure what Conner did, but all the computers in the computer lab are now fried. 

Lunch was fine, Ethan chatted with a couple geeks he met, Kira worked on a song, Trent drew, Conner played a game of soccer, the Mighty Morphin’ were playing a game of basketball. 

Fourth period, Conner was late, cleaning up with the soccer pals, then getting lost on his way to class, landed himself a warning, to which Conner argued that it was his first day, to which the teacher replied with a, you should have figured out where the class was during lunch, so he now has detention for the remainder of the week.

Fifth period, nothing happened.

Sixth period, fire drill. For the Mighty Morphin’ that was the only thing that happened, and also knew it was happening. None of them remembered to tell the Dino Thunder teens, so the drill on top of everything else, they were not having a good time.

School is out, they manage to keep up the ruse that they are going to the library, and Mighty Morphin’ head to the Youth Center.

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“We get to meet their mentor today,” Kimberly said, almost singsongy, very excited. 

“In theory,” Billy reminded her.

“Yeah, there is still a chance that he won’t show up,” Trini said, “or somehow someone else shows up.”

“True,” Tommy said, nodding in agreement, “we don’t want to get our hopes, let alone their hopes up.”

“Yeah, they seemed really concerned when Alpha was talking about him last night,” Zack pointed out.

“Yeah, but it’s like both so easy and so hard to read them,” Kimberly said. 

“Agreed,” Jason said, “like when we knew they knew Tommy, but past that.”

“Precisely,” Billy stated, “speaking of though, were you able to learn anything from Conner last night?”

“Uh, not really,” Jason said, “I mean, I figured out their dynamic with Conner is still the leader on the field even though Dr. O is a ranger too, uh, how he became a ranger, he agreed that the T-rex is the best, and then he asked about the Slippery Shark.”

“Wait, could we compare notes real quick?” Zack asked, suddenly realizing that he and Kimberly were probably the only ones out of the loop.

“Oh, yeah, we haven’t discussed what they’ve told you guys yet,” Kimberly said. 

They probably could have during the many times that the Dino Thunder rangers caught up with each other, but they were going over stats for the monsters, the theories for why they are teleporting away, discussing the future morph outfits, and doing their best to not be as jealous as they really are, Billy going over the odds of them being actual Dinosaur eggs, and Zack going with the he could have a baby dinosaur, or just making sure they are all caught up with homework. 

“Okay, Trini, Kira showed up first, so I guess we should start there,” Tommy said, looking at the others who nodded in agreement.

“Hm, okay,” Trini said thinking back, “I asked her about her team, she said it was chaotic.”

“That has been proven accurate,” Jason chuckled.

“Definitely,” Trini agreed nodding, “uh, I then asked her how she became a ranger, which was very different from how we became rangers.”

“I’ll have to agree with you there,” Billy said, Tommy and Jason also nodded in agreement. 

“Can we get the story?” Zack asked.

“Yes,” Trini said, “she started off by telling me her, Conner, and Ethan all fell in a hole.”

“Ethan started it off by saying they found the gems in Dr. O’s basement,” Billy said.

“Trent just explained it,” Tommy shrugged, “probably because he wasn’t there.”

“I got it from Conner pretty straight forward, but I also asked using what he was saying earlier with the reasons that they should avoid the museum,” Jason said.

“Oh right,” Kimberly said, remembering the conversation. 

“Wait, how does falling in a hole, Dr. O’s basement, the museum, and Dr. O getting chased by an animatronic T-rex, go together?” Zack asked. 

“Well, let's see, Kira, Conner and Ethan got detention on the first day of school and Dr. O got put in charge of detention, but he had plans to go to the museum outside of town,” Trini started.

“But the museum ended up being closed, so Dr. O sent them on to the grounds to look for something prehistoric,” Jason added.

“The three of them went into the forest to look for something prehistoric, while Dr. O got chased by the animatronic T-rex, and while walking they fell in a hole into a tunnel system,” Tommy continued.

“While following the tunnel to find a way out, they came across a t-rex skeleton, and Conner then tried to grab its jaw, and it opened into what they later learned was Dr. O’s basement,” Billy added. 

“So, they, like, just walked into his basement and took the dino gems?” Kimberly asked, concerned.

“Yes, but not on purpose,” Trini said reassuring her best friend, "Apparently his basement looks more alien, and the gems were lodged in a rock in the center of the room.”

“Thats kinda cool though,” Zack said.

“That’s all I got from Kira,” Trini said, turning to Billy, “did you get anything else from Ethan?”

“Not really,” Billy said thinking for a moment, "We've already learned more about the fight since Ethan told me, he had no information about the eggs, but I did that Dr. O had been a ranger before.”

“So, if we were trying to figure out who Dr. O was,” Zack said, “that still wouldn’t give any form of a hint not knowing who any ranger that comes after us is.”

“And we really shouldn’t try to figure it out as it could really screw with the future,” Tommy said.

“But I am not the only one who really wants to know right?” Zack asked.

“No,” Jason said.

“I am really curious, but even if we ask, I seriously doubt any of them would spill,” Trini said. The others nodded in agreement, disappointed.

“Well, Trent showed up next,” Kimberly said looking at her boyfriend.

“Oh, uh, yeah he did,” Tommy said, suddenly taking interest in his blank notebook.

“Tommy?” Jason asked, concerned for his best friend, “what did you learn from Trent?”

“Uh, well, other than confirming that they know me in the future, he told me how Conner, Kira, and Ethan became rangers, how Dr. O became a ranger, I guess again, and how he became a ranger, and I asked about their powers, and, um, I think that’s everything,” Tommy said, still fascinated by his blank notebook.

“Okay,” Jason said, not sure what part of that got Tommy acting like that.

“So, how did Dr. O and Trent become rangers?” Billy asked. 

“Uh, Dr. O apparently got kidnapped and bonded with the black dino gem there,” Tommy said, taking a deep breath before continuing, “and, uh, Trent ended up being evil for a little.”

“Oh, well, uh,” Jason said, not sure how to respond to that, “at least his friends are with him and probably helped him beat whatever was controlling him.”

“I honestly didn’t ask further questions,” Tommy said. 

“But their powers?” Billy asked, fascinated by the Dino Thunder rangers powers work.

“Uh, I mean the obvious with Kira having that sonic scream,” Tommy said, “Ethan has super strength and his skin becomes triceratops armor. Conner has super speed, Dr. O can turn invincible, while Trent can camouflage.” 

“Wait, what does triceratops armor mean?” Zack asked. 

“I’m not sure,” Tommy answered. 

“I am curious about the difference between Dr. O having invisibility and Trent just having camouflage,” Billy said, “Camouflage you can see them the second they move, that can’t be very useful in a fight.”

“Uh, we didn’t really go into detail about that,” Tommy said, apologetically, “he just mentioned that the differences were subtle but important.”

“This is where you ask more questions,” Kimberly stressed to her boyfriend.

“It was late, and they are all already uncomfortable around me, I didn’t want to make it worse,” Tommy defended. 

“He does have a good point there,” Jason joined in with his best friend, “out of all of us, Tommy’s probably the last person to try to get more information out of them.”

“Not that we want to,” Zack added, “or should.”

“Right,” Trini said as they all nodded their heads in agreement. 

“Well, Tommy, was there anything else?” Kimberly asked.

“Uh, no,” Tommy said, “I think that was everything.”

“Okay, Jason?” Kimberly said, and all of them turned their attention to the red ranger.

“Uh, not really anything that hasn’t already been mentioned,” Jason said thinking, “oh, I did get what Conner got detention for on their first day of school, but that’s kind of it.”

“Oh yeah, none of them told us what they got detention for,” Trini remarked.

“Did Conner only reveal his, or did he say what the others did too?” Zack asked.

“He just told me what he did,” Jason answered, “but he did say that what Ethan did was a lot worse.”

“Okay?” Billy said worried, “what did Conner get in trouble for?”

“He skipped class, it was Dr. O’s class, to play soccer and was caught by the principle by  saying some not so great things about the principle,” Jason said, unsure about the last part.

“Not so great things?” Tommy asked for clarification.

“Your guess is as good as mine on that one,” Jason stated. 

“What did Ethan do?” Billy asked, kinda quietly.

“I have no idea,” Jason stated.

“Hey guys,” Conner said as the four Dino Thunder rangers joined the Mighty Morphin’. 

“Oh, hey,” Kimberly said cheerfully,

“How was the library?” Billy asked.

“Oh, uh, pretty good,” Trent said avoiding eye contact.

“Any information on Dr. O?” Ethan asked taking a seat next to Billy. 

“Not yet,” Tommy said, “but Alpha should be contacting us soon though.”

“Okay, cool,” Kira said, “lets hope that everything goes, uh, as well as they can go I guess.”

“Agreed,” Trini stated. 

This would be the point that Tommy’s communicator went off.

“We just got here,” Conner complained. 

“Dude,” Ethan slapped Conner’s shoulder, “This means that Dr. O has probably shown up.”

“Oh, right,” Conner said, still slightly disappointed as everyone scrambled to gather their stuff and head to the hall way, after double checking that no one was looking, the group of ten teens teleported to the Command Center. 

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Once arriving at the Command Center, Dino Thunder immediately went into figuring out the situation. 

“Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi! Give me a moment,” Alpha cried.

“OBSERVE THE VIEWING GLOBE,” Zordon said. 

“The what?” Conner asked his girlfriend.

“Just turn around,” Kira smirked as the four of them stood behind Mighty Morphin’.

“It’s literally a crystal ball,” Conner stated, trying to hide his disbelief.

“Just shut up and pay attention for once,” Ethan muttered.

On the viewing globe, a humanoid white snake with a purple strip from the top of its mouth to the end of its tail that dragged on the ground slightly. It had a purple underbelly as well, with claws at the end of each finger. 

“Now that’s a weird snake,” Zack stated.

“No doubt,” Ethan nodded in agreement, Zack gave him a slightly confused look, but shook it off, facing the viewing globe. 

“IT SEEMS TO GO BY INVISA-SNAKE, AND,” Zordon started to explain. 

“Let me guess, it can turn invisible?” Conner guessed, raising an eyebrow smirking at his teammates. 

“Now how could you guess that?” Kira asked, smirking at her boyfriend.

“You know I’d like to know that, I didn’t think he could get to conclusions like that,” Ethan jeered. 

“He gets concussions all the time, I don’t know what you're talking about,” Trent smirked.

“Yay, Trent you're learning,” Kira smiled, cheering.

Trent shrugged before smirking, “Dr. O’s been teaching me a little.”

“Uh,” Tommy said, very confused, “getting back on track, what were you saying Zordon?”

“CONNER IS CORRECT, IT DOES HAVE AN ABILITY TO TURN INVISABLE, AS WELL AS IT’S CLAWS HAVE VENMON,” Zordon said, trying to settle the tension. 

“He does seem to have eggs,” Alpha added, as the viewing globe showed two matching eggs to the rest, one was teal and the other was another purple egg.

“And the next portal?” Kira asked.

“Should show up in about five minutes, and it should take them an hour to wake up,” Alpha told them.

“Okay,” Trent said cautiously, his teammates nodding with him. 

“I say we take this snake to get defanged quickly then we can deal with Dr. O,” Conner suggested.

“That works,” Tommy said, “uh, if we are still dealing with Invisa-Snake when he shows up,”

“We can just teleport him here and deal with it when we are done,” Conner cut him off, “he’s supposed to be out for an hour anyways right?”

“True,” Tommy said, warily, looking at his teammates who had a similar look on their face. The Dino Thunder rangers were acting weird and they couldn’t put their finger on it.

“Shall we then?” Jason suggested.

“Uh, yeah,” Tommy said, shaking the feeling off, “IT'S MORPHIN TIME. TIGER ZORD.” 

The others followed suit,

“MASTODON.”

“PTERODACTYL.”

“TRICERATOPS.”

“SABERTOOTH TIGER.”

“TYRANNOSAURUS.”

“DINO THUNDER POWER UP!”

“DRAGO POWER, WHITE RANGER!”

The ten rangers teleported in, just a little way away from the monster, enough to still see him, as long as he was visible, but not close enough to insight an instant attack. There were ten teens, more or less, brightly colored that did not blend in with the forest, they were lucky it hadn’t spotted them yet. 

“Whats the plan chief?” Ethan asked.

“What?” Trini asked.

“Nothing,” Kira said, ignoring the statement and the question, “how are we doing this with ten of us and one monster in a more or less, enclosed area?”

“Working on it,” Tommy said as Saba floated up next to him.

“Uh, dude, you know your sword is kinda,” Conner started, pointing at Saba.

Trent put Conner’s hand down, “yeah, that’s Saba.”

Conner paused for a few seconds, “what? No further explanation.”

“Okay, I have an idea,” Tommy said. 

They quickly huddled up as Tommy explained his idea, to which Conner’s only points were trading where Trent and Kira went. Giving each other a quick nod, they went to their places. 

They split up by color, so Conner and Jason were sitting directly across from Tommy and Trent. Kira and Trini were in a tree with Kimberly in the tree across from them. Billy and Ethan were on stand-by for egg grab and Zack was ready to teleport Dr. O back to the command center when he showed up. 

On Tommy’s cue the red rangers and the white rangers attack, all having their weapons drawn. 

“TYRANO-STAFF!” Conner yelled as he came down on Invisa-snake's head, who mostly easily dodged smacking Conner into the tree next to the yellow rangers. 

This left Invisa-snake open for Jason to deliver a slice across its chest, sending it back into the tree with the pink ranger, who flipped off of it shooting it repeatedly with her bow, only managing to hit it twice, but that was enough. 

Hisss

“You rangersss won’t win this time!” Invisa-snake sneered as it turned invisible. 

“Dang it!” Conner yelled, spinning around as Jason went flying backwards. 

“Trent!” Kira called, “I think a dust storm was on the radar!” 

“No there’s not!” Billy said, knowing for a fact that there shouldn’t be any form of high winds today. 

“Yes there is!” Conner said, nodding to Ethan who nodded, pulling up his Tricerasheild. 

The Mighty Morphin’ tilted their heads in confusion, but they quickly got over it when Trent started speeding around the clearing kicking up the dust. While not perfectly able to see the snake, they can better than before. Ethan, now knowing where it is, swatted him over the head with his shield knocking him completely off its feet. 

“You have no idea whatsss to come!” Invisa-snake sneered as it disappeared like the others. 

“Power down,” Conner said, shaking his head, “that wasn’t ominous at all.”

“No not at all,” Kira said, jumping down from the tree with Trini, joining the main group as everyone demorphed. 

“Well at least we got the eggs,” Billy said walking up with Ethan carrying the two eggs. 

“That’s true,” Tommy said looking around, “but uh, wasn’t another portal supposed to open up?”

“Yeah it was,” Jason said as everyone remembered and started looking around for any signs. 

“How about Billy and I get these eggs with the others, and we can ask Alpha and Zordon about the portal,” Ethan suggested. 

“That sounds good to me,” Tommy said, giving a nod to the two blue rangers as they teleported out.

“So in the meantime, what if we split up, try to see if maybe it opened up somewhere nearby,” Conner suggested.

“Yeah, we can split into pairs,” Jason added.

“Colors?” Trent suggested, shrugging.

“Yeah, and Zack and I can team up for once,” Kimberly said walking next to Zack.

“Okay,” Tommy said nodding in agreement, “keep comms open.”

“Sweet, Jason and I will take this way,” Conner said, starting to walk into the forest. Jason nodded and followed. 

“See you guys in a little bit,” Kira said as she and Trini went in the opposite direction. Everyone else just nodded and headed into the forest. 

It only took a couple of minutes before Alpha contacted all the groups, “Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi! It seems that he showed up, about ten minutes ago, but we can’t seem to get a lock on his location.”

“So, we get to wander the woods as the sun goes down,” Conner clarified.

“Yes,” Alpha confirmed.

“Seems about right,” Ethan added.

“But that means that Dr. O will wake up in about fifty minutes,” Kira said.

“Yeah, as we are still wandering the woods, at dusk, trying to find him, while he’s just sleeping,” Conner reminded.

“Then we better search fast,” Zack said.

“Ethan, Alpha, and I shall prepare a place for him,” Billy said.

“That sounds good,” Tommy said, “everyone else, let's get searching, and let's try to step up the pace a little bit.”

It took about fifteen minutes of the teens walking through the woods, that only about half of them had any idea of where they were, before Conner and Jason found the clearing that Dr. O had landed in. 

“Finally,” Conner said super speeding over to his mentor, double checking Dr. O’s pulse and breathing, relaxing a little. 

“Guys, we found him,” Jason said into his coms, "Yeah, see you guys at the Command Center in a minute.”  

“Okay, I’ve got Dr. O, ready to teleport when you are,” Conner said, holding onto Dr. O’s shoulder. Jason teleported the three of them, Dr. O landed on the same couch they had been using for the others and the two red rangers stood by the side. 

The couch was placed outside of the center area, the blue rangers figured that since he was going to be out for a bit longer than maybe not having him in the middle like Trent or Conner would be better. Once the three had arrived, Ethan put a blanket over their mentor and the four rangers went to the center as everyone else showed up. The Dion Thunder rangers not really taking their eyes off their mentor. 

“So he’s fine?” Kira asked, teleporting in with Trini, and the others showed up seconds after. 

“Yes, everything is the same as the rest of you,” Alpha said looking at a sheet of paper, “that’s weird.”

“What’s weird?” Billy asked as he walked over to look at the paper with Alpha. 

“So we have how long until Dr. O is supposed to wake up?” Trent asked.

“Uh, I think about thirty minutes?” Trini replied looking towards Alpha and Billy who were now absorbed in whatever was on that sheet of paper. 

“ALPHA, BILLY?” Zordon asked.

“Oh, sorry,” Billy said, “uh, yes, he should wake in roughly thirty minutes.”

“So we wanna just chill here for thirty minutes then?” Conner asked. 

“We could head to the park,” Zack suggested, “chill there, play a game of ball.”

“Yeah, let’s go to the park, relax for a little and then Alpha can call us when he wakes up,” Kimberly said. Everyone nodded and agreed, teleported to the park.

Dino Thunder sat at the picnic table as the Mighty Morphin’ played a couple rounds. 

“He’s gonna be fine, right?” Kira said after a bit, just barely above a whisper. 

“Yeah, of course,” Conner said, “It’s Dr. O. Why wouldn’t he be?”

“I can’t stop thinking about the coma,” Ethan said.

“Reason I asked,” Kira stated.

“Look, Alpha’s gonna contact us in,” Trent looked at his watch, “about fifteen minutes, and tell us that Dr. O is awake and is fine.”

“Exactly,” Conner nodded to Trent for the support. 

“Hey, you guys want to play a couple rounds?” Tommy asked as the Mighty Morphin’ came over for a water break.

“I don’t really play basketball,” Conner replied.

“None of us do,” Kira said smiling, “but I’d love to learn.”

“Okay, so we are pretty loose on rules, but,” Trini said as she started explaining the rules to the Dino Thunder rangers. They played a couple rounds of ball before they realized another thirty minutes had passed.

“Uh, has anyone gotten a call?” Kira asked.

“Oh, nope,” Trini said, looking around at everyone else who shook their heads. 

“Okay, let's just teleport there and see,” Conner said.

“Yes, they probably started talking and just forgot to contact us,” Jason said. 

“Exactly,” Tommy agreed. The teens glanced around the park, it was night so there was not really anyone around anyways, and teleported back to the Command Center.

“So, where’s Dr. O?” Ethan asked.

“Uh,” Alpha started. 

“DR. O HAS NOT WOKEN UP YET,” Zordon said.

“Why not?” Trent asked, as they all glanced over to Dr. O who had not changed since they left for the park.

“We don’t know,” Alpha said, somehow softly for the little robot.

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It took a while for everyone to settle down after Alpha stated that they have no idea why Dr. O hadn’t woken up yet. Turns out that there was something, that Zordon explained as basically all of them had a time blanket over them when they arrived, that they got from the portals, and when the blanket was gone, they woke up. Well, the blanket is completely gone from Dr. O, but he’s still unconscious and there doesn't seem to be any other variable, so they are not sure why he is out. Kira calmed Conner down, or at least enough that he’s not gonna do something stupid. 

The teens eventually decided that they should head home, try to get some sleep, as tomorrow was Friday and they did still have school. Ethan did offer to fix that, to which Trent shot him a stink eye, Kira elbowed him, Conner looked like he was debating it, Kira also elbowed him, and the others had originally thought he was joking. 

No one really slept, especially not the Dino Thunder rangers, everyone was worrying about Dr. O and what Invisa-snake had said. The rangers went to school, moved through the day mostly dazed out of it, especially Dino Thunder, having no way to help Dr. O, they were not doing great, and were just thankful that the others didn’t ask them about the library this time.

At about noon at the Command Center, Zordon and Alpha were going through scans and ideas on what was going on and how to get Dino Thunder home when Dr. O started to wake up.

“Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!” Alpha said, getting startled when Dr. O groaned slightly as he started to wake up. Dr. O groaned, wincing at Alpha’s noise.

“ALPHA, CAN YOU TURN MY VOLUME BOX DOWN FOR THE TIME BEING?” Zordon asked, trying his best to whisper. It did not work very well, and Dr. O seemed to groan in pain again. 

“Right, Zordon,” Alpha said, walked over to a console and turned Zordon’s volume down.

“Thank you Alpha,” Zordon said, so much quieter than Dr. O knew he could. 

“I’ll keep on some of these scans while he wakes up a little bit more,” Alpha told Zordon.

“That is a good idea,” Zordon said, agreeing.

Dr. O at this point was conscious enough to hear what was going on, but so did not have the energy to open his eyes, let alone sit up, try to talk, which is what he wants to do. He’s figured it’s 1994, and that it’s noon. What he couldn’t figure out was where his students were, if they were okay, what was going on with the current team. 

It took a good ten more minutes before Dr. O could open his eyes and sit up.

“It is good to see that you are okay,” Zordon said, once Dr. O had fully sat up. He was grateful that he was on a couch and could lean back on the edge.

“I didn’t realize your volume could be controlled,” Dr. O stated.

“So we know each other,” Zordon concluded.

“Yes,” Dr. O smiled softly, “uh, have my students?”

“Yes, they are all here,” Alpha said, “they were very worried about you when you got here.”

“They were all here first?” Dr. O asked.

“Yes, Kira showed up on Sunday evening,” Zordon said, “and,”

“It’s Friday,” Dr. O finished. 

“Yes,” Zordon said, “how did you know that?”

“Uh, I’ll get back to that,” Dr. O said, sighing tiredly, “just, uh, I guess can I get I run down of everything that’s been going on in the past, uh, week then?”

“Of course,” Zordon said. 

“Kira showed up on Sunday evening, Ethan showed up Monday evening, Trent showed up Tuesday evening, Conner showed up Wednesday evening, and you showed up last night,” Alpha started to explain, “each time there was a monster that either matched or rivaled who ever showed up’s ability, but they haven’t beaten them, the monsters just teleport away.”

“That’s unusual,” Dr. O stated.

“And each time they have found a pair of dinosaur eggs as well,” Zordon added.

“Dinosaur eggs?” Dr. O asked, confused.

“Yes,” Alpha cheered, stepping out of the way so that Dr. O could see the makeshift nest.

“Uh, okay, I’m gonna need to do a couple tests on those later,” Dr. O said warily. 

“Of course,” Zordon said.

“Uh, did they tell you who I am?” Dr. O asked, realizing that maybe, just maybe, he should have talked to them about time travel.

“They told us that you are their science teacher, their mentor, and their black ranger,” Alpha told him.

“So they did not tell you my name,” Dr. O figured.

“No,” Zordon stated.

“They said your name is Dr. O,” Alpha added.

“Right,” Dr. O sighed, “which none of you would ever guess that I managed to get my doctorate, in anything.”

“What?” Alpha asked, confused. 

“Uh,” Dr. O said, debating how he was going to do this, “they are going to kill me, but uh, they could have been more open with you, and the, uh, kids.”

“How so?” Zordon asked. Zordon and Alpha also had the idea that the Dino Thunder rangers knew Tommy in the future, but they hadn’t gotten anywhere on how the teens would know him.

“I’m Tommy Oliver,” Dr. O said, sounding almost like he regretted saying it.

“Oh?” Zordon said, “Alpha had a scan that does not quite match.”

“Let me guess the brain waves,” Dr. O said. 

“Yes, if you are Tommy, why are they so different?” Alpha asked.

“Uh, well it's kind of the reason I can not time travel anymore,” Dr. O explained.

“I was quite certain that human brain waves don’t change when they get older, or that there is a decrease in the ability to travel through time,” Zordon said, slightly confused and curious.

“Uh, no, not usually,” Dr. O answered, “but there was an, uh, incident, when I was Zeo ranger five red, that altered my brain waves, and gave me time sickness”

“As in the Zeo crystals?” Zordon asked for clarification.

“Yes, the Zeo crystals, there were many reasons why we had to find them, but yes,” Dr. O explained. 

“How did you find out that it was time sickness?!” Alpha asked, running through all the horrible ways his friend could have figured it out.

“Well, there was a thing with a time loop the next week,” Dr. O explained, not realizing how worried Alpha actually was, “but I learned that I actually had it when Time Force went and tested everyone.”

“Time Force?” Zordon asked.

“They are the ranger team that showed up in, uh, 01 I believe,” Dr. O explained, “most of their team is from the year 3003, where they have time travel, so they have ways of testing if you could potentially get sick or die from time traveling.”

“That does make sense, would they have other devices to help time traveling?” Zordon asked.

Dr. O sighed defeated, “yes, they do.”

“Meaning?” Alpha asked, not quite keeping up.

“My students hiding as much information that they have been, they did not have to,” Dr. O clarified, “Time Force has a device that can pause memories so that it won’t affect the time line, but those memories aren’t just gone for good from us.”

“So, you have no memories of this right now, but when you get back to your time,” Alpha started.

“All the memories will filter back in, which should be interesting,” Dr. O stated. 

“I would have to second that,” Zordon stated.

“Oh yeah?” Dr. O asked.

“They have been staying over at their respective color houses for the time being,” Zordon explained.

“Oh,” Dr. O said, chuckling to himself, “it might be a toss up between Kira and Trent then on who would want to kill me more then.”

“I could see that,” Zordon said, “so you have taken my position.”

“Oh, uh, yeah,” Dr. O said, noticeably softening his tone, almost looking into the middle distance, “Jace has called me the next Zordon a couple of times at this point.”

“How did this come to be?” Zordon asked.

“Uh, in what way?” Dr. O asked, trying not to show how uncomfortable the conversation was making him.

“I figured I went back to my planet after a while,” Zordon stated, having a decent guess why Dr. O was acting this way, “but I doubt you took over immediately for me.”

“Oh, yeah, no,” Dr. O said, horrified at the thought, “I went off to college a short time ago after you went back to your planet with Alpha actually. Lived, well, as normally as was possible for me, until I got to Reefside, and well, Kira, Conner, and Ethan found the gems, and I tried to get the gems back before they couldn’t turn back, but, ended up a little bit too late and there wasn’t anyone else around to help them so,”

“You took over to keep an eye on them,” Alpha guessed.

“Yeah, and to keep them on the right path,” Dr. O said, then smirking, “they weren’t completely, uh, the greatest friends, let alone teammates at the beginning.” 

“Kira told us that they all got detention and you took them to a museum,” Alpha said.

“Yeah, I already had plans to go out, and then I got stuck with them, so, figured I should just take them with me, but uh, did they tell you what they did?” Dr. O asked, chuckling.

“No,” Zordon asked.

“I’ll get them to share for you guys later,” Dr. O said, “it’ll be better that way. Kira was the only one who didn’t quite deserve it.”

“Interesting,” Zordon said, “do you have a plan for what to do next though?”

Dr. O did a small chuckle before carefully standing up and walking over to the center consols. Alpha walked over to him with the idea that if he collapsed he’d be able to catch him. He was fine though, ish. 

“Not a coherent one,” Dr. O admitted, leaning on the consoles, “but it does include catching up with my students, running tests on those eggs as they should not exist, seeing if I can figure out how to contact any member of Time Force to see if they can get us back home as that’s going to be the simplest way to get home, and uh, hoping we don’t get hit with any more ranger luck.”

“That is a place to start at least,” Zordon stated.

“Are you okay though?” Alpha asked.

“Uh, for the most part yes,” Dr. O said, “not a hundred percent yet, but we're getting there.”

“So right now?” Zordon asked.

“Well, the kids are probably getting out of school in a couple of minutes, so, uh, I guess I’ll meet them down at Ernie's, and we'll see from there,” Dr. O shrugged, grabbing an extra communicator from a holder.

Billy had made some extras for Tommy just in case he ever forgot, or lost another one. They hadn’t given any to the Dino Thunder rangers, because, well, they all forgot about it, and they hadn’t asked for anything. 

“I will make a spot in one of the back rooms for you,” Alpha said.

“Oh, thanks,” Dr. O said, “uh, I guess I’ll see you guys in a little while.”

“We will see you in a little while, Tommy,” Zordon said, giving a small nod towards Dr. O. Dr. O froze for a moment, he hadn’t heard Zordon say his name since he left for college. He managed a nod before teleporting outside the youth center.

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Dr. O paused for a moment when he entered the youth center. The place had been changed a few times in his years at Angel Grove, and he honestly wasn’t sure that it still existed at this point. The teens weren’t out of school just yet, which was fine with him, he needed a minute to reset from talking with his former mentor, who he hadn’t talked to since he left for college. Who he never expected to talk to again. 

Glancing over at the bar he noticed Ernie giving him a second glance. Smiling Dr. O walked over.

“Uh, you seem familiar,” Ernie stated.

“What do you mean?” Dr. O said, willing to play it up for a little. He had reconnected with Ernie a couple years prior, and was not shocked to find out that Ernie had figured out that he was a ranger. He was honestly more shocked with how many people kept quiet about them being superheroes than anything else. 

“Well, you look like an older version of a kid that comes here,” Ernie stated bluntly.

“That might have something to do with the fact that I am,” Dr. O told him. Ernie gave him a bit of a blank expression, not sure how to react, “Ernie, I know you know, it’s fine.”

“Oh,” Ernie said, breathing a sigh of relief, “wait, how?”

“Future,” Dr. O stated.

“That makes a lot of sense with what’s been going on this week,” Ernie said.

“Care to share?” Dr. O asked, taking a seat on the far side.

“You waiting for them?” Ernie asked, as he started making Dr. O a drink.

“Yeah, I don’t really have anything else right now,” Dr. O said, “and they get out in, what? Thirty minutes?”

“Well, you and your friends do yes,” Ernie stated, handing Dr. O a smoothie, “but the new kids usually get here about an hour or so later.”

Dr. O paused before responding to Ernie, took a deep breath, “oh?”

“Uh, yeah,” Ernie said, confused by Dr. O’s reaction, “they say they go to the library afterwards.”

“Ernie, I can almost guarantee they are not going to the library,” Dr. O stated, shaking his head, trying to think about what his students did to get detention this time. “What, uh, what have they all been saying while they're here though?”

“A mix of things,” Ernie shrugged, "Monday they were discussing a place called Hayley’s Cyber space,” Dr. O smiled softly at that, “Tuesday there was discussion about if the new kids knew Tommy in the future, which Kimberly had apparently thought that Kira had a crush on Tommy,” Dr. O started coughing on his drink, “you okay?”

“Yeah,” Dr. O coughed, “just wasn’t expecting that.”

“That seems fair,” Ernie nodded, “uh, lets see, Wednesday, not much was discussed other than Zack wondering if you would know who he ended up with.”

“Of course he did,” Dr. O smiled.

“Not sharing?” 

“Nope.”

“Uh, oh, they also figured out that the new kids keep going to work on a history project about the 1990s,” Ernie stated, interested in how Dr. O was going to react.

“The 1990s history project?” Dr. O asked, Ernie nodded, “wow, that’s the story they're going with.”

“You seem shocked,” Ernie noted.

“I shouldn’t be at this point,” Dr. O said, shaking his head. 

“Can I ask you a couple of questions?” Ernie asked.

“You can ask,” Dr. O said.

“But you might not share?”

“Some things just aren’t things that can be shared,” Dr. O shrugged.

“Fair enough,” Ernie nodded.

“I hope Dr. O is okay,” Trini said, as the Mighty Morphin' made their way to the Youth Center.

“Yeah, the others seem really kind of shaken about it,” Zack said.

“I mean, we would too in their shoes,” Tommy said. 

“I don’t want to imagine Zordon like that,” Kimberly stated, shaking off the thought.

“You’ve been quiet all day,” Trini remarked to Billy.

“Yeah, you okay?” Tommy asked.

“Yes,” Billy said, not very convincingly.

“Right,” Zack said, “I don’t really believe you.”

“It does not matter,” Billy defended, “it is probably nothing anyways.”

“Oh well now you have to share,” Zack said, trying to encourage his friend to share.

“We need something to distract ourselves anyways,” Tommy added.

“I do not believe you would like this,” Billy stated, mostly directed towards Tommy.

“Why not?” Tommy asked, concerned.

“It can’t be that bad,” Jason said, not sure how to take whatever Billy was talking about.

“Yeah,” Trini encocurage, “come on Billy.”

“Okay, okay,” Billy gave in, “was it just me or did Dr. O look similar to Tommy?”

There was a pause, as the group thought about what Billy said, and what Dr. O looked like. None of them were really thinking about last night, too busy trying to figure out why he hadn’t woken up, and calming the Dino Thunder rangers down. 

Sighing, almost sounding defeated, Tommy replied, “yes, I noticed, but he has to just be someone who looks similar to me. There is no way I end up receiving a doctorate in anything, let alone be everything they described Dr. O as.”

“Paleontology actually,” Dr. O said, as the teens suddenly found themselves having entered the youth center, “almost went pro at stock car racing, but after, uh, a team, I decided I was done driving race cars for a while.”

The teens froze.

“You know paleontology makes sense for you,” Ernie stated, “the doctorate is a little shocking, but dinosaurs, that makes sense.”

Before continuing the conversation with Ernie, Dr. O noticed the six teens had just entered, “oh I was starting to wonder if school got out late today.”

“The usual guys?” Ernie asked the rangers who just nodded in response, not quite shaking the shock of suddenly seeing Dr. O yet.

“You guys okay?” Dr. O asked as Ernie got to work on the drinks. 

“Uh, yes,” Kimberly said as they all walked over to the corner table by Dr. O.

“We should be asking if you're okay,” Trini stated, glancing at Dr. O seeing if there was anything physically wrong.

“I’m fine,” Dr. O shrugged, “woke up a couple hours ago.”

“Well, I guess you already know where the others are,” Jason said. 

“Uh, yeah,” Dr. O said, “library right?”

“Yes, they are usually here about an hour after we get here,” Billy replied, looking like he was scanning Dr. O for information.

“Sounds about right,” Dr. O said, “In the meantime, are you guys going to do work?”

“I mean it’s Friday, it’s not top priority,” Tommy said, quieter than he had intended. He was doing his best to ignore his instincts telling him he was talking to his future self, he really was, but it was a losing battle. 

“Fair enough, but you have an hour,” Dr. O said, knowing full well that he was going to get to have that conversation with Conner again later. 

“You could join us at the table and we can catch you up on the past week,” Kimberly suggested pointing to the open chair in the corner. 

“Sure,” Dr. O said, getting up from his seat at the bar, steading himself for a second before, “Zordon and Alpha did fill me in a little bit, but you guys, I’m going to assume, know some other things that the two of them don’t.”

“Are you sure you're okay?” Trini asked.

“Trini, I do appreciate your concern, but I promise I’m fine,” Dr. O reassured her. 

“So you do know who we are,” Billy noted.

“Yes,” Dr. O said.

“They mentioned that you were a ranger before,” Jason brought up.

Dr. O chuckled, “did they now?”

“Uh, yes they did,” Zack said, looking at his teammates warily.

“Did they go into details about it, or just say that I had been a ranger before?” Dr. O asked for clarification.

“Uh, just that you had been a ranger before,” Billy said, confused.

“Okay,” Dr. O said, probably taking more entertainment from this than he should, “well I was.”

“Cool, so like, were you always a black ranger?” Zack asked.

“No,” Dr. O stated.

“What other color?” Jason asked.

“Uh, red,” Dr. O said, debating which other color he was going to choose to share with them, “twice, actually.”

“You were red twice?” Tommy asked for clarification. 

“Yes, two different powers, and uh, not completely different teams, but it was still a new team,” Dr. O explained. 

“Okay,” Trini said, mostly understanding. 

“They mentioned that they knew Tommy,” Jason brought up. Tommy thought he was gonna die in that chair.

“They did?” Dr. O asked, shocked, with everything else that they had been holding back, he was genuinely surprised on this one. 

“Well, they kept reacting weirdly to Tommy,” Kimberly explained.

“And after I explained that Kira did not have a crush on Tommy,” Trini jabbed at her friend, Dr. O froze for a moment, doing his best not to choke on his drink, again, “we figured that they had probably actually met Tommy.”

“To which Trent confirmed that they did, but in a good way,” Tommy added. 

“But they didn’t give you any more information than that,” Dr. O clarified.

“Right,” Trini said, “we were hoping that you could tell us more.”

“Uh, I mean there's not much more to tell,” Dr. O said, “they know Tommy, they have never met any other ranger, yet. What else do you guys want to know?”

“Well, why only Tommy?” Zack asked.

“What do you mean?” Dr. O asked, not really sure where Zack was going with this.

“Like, what was going on so that Tommy was the only ranger you called to help?” Kimberly asked.

“Oh,” Dr. O asked, trying not to laugh, trying to figure out how to say it. He could just tell them, but he wanted to wait and share that in front of his students anyways. “Tommy was, uh, in town when they first became rangers, and uh, helped them settle into the ways of being a ranger.”

“So Tommy was just in the right place at the right time?” Jason summed up.

“If you want to call it that,” Dr. O said. 

“They told us about how they became rangers,” Trini said.

“I doubt they gave you all the details,” Dr. O stated.

“We got most of them, but they didn’t tell us what they got detention for,” Tommy explained. 

“Except for Conner,” Jason jumped in, “although I’m pretty sure he glossed over some things.”

“More than likely,” Dr. O confirmed. “Kira was the only one who didn’t really deserve it.”

“Wait, was Kira’s, the playing during break on school property?” Zack asked.

“Yes,” Dr. O said.

“But what did Ethan do?” Jason asked.

“What did Ethan do, when?” Conner asked, not seeing Dr. O.

“Hack into the sprinkler system causing them to go off at different times during the day,” Dr. O said, smirking.

The Dino Thunder rangers eyes light up, “Dr. O!” They cheered.

“You're awake!” Kira cheered.

“Are you okay?” Trent asked.

“Why are you sharing that?” Ethan asked, concerned.

“We were at the library,” Conner

“Yes I am,” Dr. O said smiling, feeling slightly revealed actually seeing his students, “As okay as I can be right now, because they asked, and I was told.”

“We were curious,” Kimberly quickly added, which the Dino Thunder rangers noticed Dr. O tense up. 

“No you're all good,” Ethan reassured her.

“You were told?” Conner questioned, Kira giving him a death stare. 

“Yes,” Dr. O said, giving Kira a knowing look. She just sighed and nodded. “Just, what are you guys doing in the library for an hour after school, in 1994?”

“The history project on the 1990s,” Kira explained, doing her best to keep her voice level.

“The one that Trent and Ethan finished a week ago?” Dr. O questioned. There was a pause.

“Why?” Conner finally asked Ethan and Trent.

“It was assigned three weeks ago,” Ethan defended, “and it’s due, uh, today?”

“We’ll figure that out when we get back,” Dr. O reassured.

“You haven’t started yet, have you?” Kira asked.

“No,” Conner said it like why would like it was obvious, “have you?”

“Yeah, I started it Saturday,” Kira said. 

“Wait, if you guys like weren’t at the library, then what were you doing?” Kimberly asked. Dino Thunder froze, glancing at Dr. O who took a strong interest in his drink. 

“Are you guys going to share, or do I get to guess what you guys got detention for?” Dr. O asked.

“Is that what happened on Tuesday?” Trini asked, “why we got out early?”

“Ethan?” Dr. O asked, with a warning tone in his voice.

“It was computer class, I was board,” Ethan tried to defend.

“We’ve been over this,” Dr. O retorted. 

“Conner was late,” Ethan added.

“Dude,” Conner said offended.

“That’s not shocking,” Dr. O stated.

“And what, this is?” Ethan asked.

“No, but you have had multiple conversations about what you can and can’t hack into when your board, with both me and Hayley,” Dr. O reminded him.

“Right,” Ethan said, remembering, “and hacking into school property was on the list of things not to do.”

“Close to the top of that list if I recall,” Trent stated, Dr. O nodded towards him in agreement. 

“Hold on,” Billy said, both horrified and impressed, “you hacked into the school’s sound system?”

“Really,” Dr. O said, disappointed.

“What else was I going to hack into?” Ethan asked.

“There’s a list,” Dr. O stated.

“Right,” Ethan said nodding.

“So, like, what did the rest of you do?” Kimberly asked.

“I fell asleep in first period science,” Kira said.

“And got detention for the who week?” Tommy asked is disbelief.

“You argued against it, didn’t you?” Dr. O asked smirking a little.

“It’s not my fault his lecture put me to sleep,” Kira defended.

“His lectures have a tendency to do that,” Dr. O said nodding in understanding, everyone looked at him confused, “Trent?”

“I got caught doodling in the margins,” Trent said.

“Same teacher?” Dr. O asked.

“Yes,” Trent, Kira, and Ethan said.

“Yeah,” Dr. O said knowingly, “Conner, you were late?”

“Barley,” Conner defended. 

“What do you mean?” Jason asked.

“Well, I had helped the guys clean up after playing soccer with them,” Conner started, “and I may have gotten lost getting to my next class.”

“And then argued with them?” Dr. O asked.

“It was the first day for me, how was I supposed to know where the classroom was?!” Conner defended.

“You could have asked one of us,” Tommy offered. 

Conner gave an irritated look towards Dr. O.

“Right and on that note, you guys want to stay here or go somewhere else?” Dr. O asked, ignoring Conner. 

“We could go to the park,” Zack offered. 

“That works,” Dr. O said, standing up, “I have a couple of things I need to clarify with all of you anyways.”

“What do you mean?” Trini asked, as everyone grabbed their stuff. 

Dr. O glanced at his students, “yeah, I’m gonna wait till we have a little bit more privacy before sharing.”

“Does it have to do with all the stuff you never shared about time travel with us?” Conner asked accusing. 

“Yes, actually it does,” Dr. O stated as he nodded in appreciation to Ernie, and all the rangers headed towards the park.

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“So this time travel knowledge?” Conner asked.

“Impatient?” Dr. O asked.

“I feel like’s it’s a little over due,” Conner stated. 

It hadn’t been two minutes since the group of eleven entered the park. The first time the Dino Thunder rangers, most of them, could apprecieate the park, without getting attacked or worrying about if Dr. O was going to wake up or not. That’s not to say that they weren’t all antsy about what Dr. O was going to tell them, and that went for Mighty Morphin’ as well, but the others were at least taking in the park. 

“That is understandable,” Dr. O agreed.

“Why didn’t you tell them anything?” Tommy asked. Dino Thunder gave Dr. O a knowing look, Dr. O just shook his head at them.

“I didn’t tell them anything about time travel, probably because I had a weird mindset that if I didn’t share, it wouldn’t happen,” Dr. O explained.

“Obviously that failed,” Conner pointed out.

“Thank you captain obvious,” Ethan jeered. 

“Do you guys want to hear this or not?” Dr. O asked before it got out of hand.

“Yes,” they both said nodding. 

“Okay then,” Dr. O said.

“Before we, like, start,” Kimberly suggested, “what if we go sit by the lake?”

“Yeah,” Tommy agreed, “that would be nice.”

Conner groaned, “I don’t know.”

“Why not?” Jason asked.

“A lake is water,” Conner said.

“It’ll be okay,” Dr. O reassured Conner. Conner gave him a look, Dr. O just nodded. 

Sighing, “I guess, it’ll be fine.”

“I’ll sit between you and the water,” Kira whispered to her boyfriend. Conner chuckled, “Thanks.”

It wasn’t that long of a walk to get to the lake shore, where the eleven rangers found a spot to sit. They all sat around in circle, Dr. O leaning against a tree, Dino Thunder around him, and Mighty Morphin’ across from him, he wasn’t sure how to feel having Tommy directly across from him though. 

“Okay, where do you want me to start?” Dr. O asked. 

“What is the protocol for time travel?” Billy asked.

“Well, there isn’t really a protocol specifically,” Dr. O answered, “not for rangers at least.”

“Can we get more information? Trini asked.

“Sure,” Dr. O shrugged, “so, there is the Time Force Angency that is where most of the Time Force ranger team is from. The Angency has prodocols for time traveling, either on purpose or on accident, what to do what not to do.”

“But rangers don’t have one?” Tommy asked confused.

“We do, it’s just a lot more loose than the Agency,” Dr. O clarified.

“Examples would be?” Ethan asked.

“If you promise not kill me for this one,” Dr. O stated. The teens all glanced between themselves confused, but nodded, “especially Kira and Trent.”

“Uh, promise I won’t kill you?” Kira said confused. 

“Same,” Trent said, equally confused.

“Okay, the agency has protocol in place that if you time travel, you do your best not to share any information with anyone you meet, no matter what, and you try to just blend in until you can get home,” Dr. O explained, “rangers on the other hand. After Time Force became inactive we gathered and came up with our own little thing.”

“And that would be?” Conner asked.

“I am getting there Conner,” Dr. O said, trying to keep his voice not showing his annoyance. 

“Yeah,” Kira said, nudging him to stay quiet.

“Right, sorry,” Conner stated.

“For rangers, as none of us usually have any control of how we time traveled or what’s going on once we do. We might not have a choice but to share things, to engage and not blend in. So, that became our rule. There isn’t a limit to what you can and cannot share, somethings are obviously easier than others, and when Time Force finds you, they will bring a device that will pause everyone’s memories of the time you were there,” Dr. O explained.

“So our memories are still there but we won’t remember them until it won’t effect the time line anymore,” Billy concluded.

“Exactly,” Dr. O said, trying to avoid the glares of his students.

“Why would they have tried to kill you with that information?” Zack asked.

“Zack asked. 

“So, we could easily just share everything and it wouldn’t be an issue?” Conner asked notably irritated.  

“I mean not everything,” Dr. O clarified. 

“But the little bit that we all have been trying really hard to avoid mentioning, especially Trent and Kira?” Conner asked. 

“Yeah, that could have been shared no problem,” Dr. O said, sounding almost apologetic. 

“I now understand why you made us promise not to try and kill you,” Trent stated. 

“Sorry,” Dr. O said, trying to offer an apologetic smile. 

“Do we like get to be filled in?” Kimberly asked. 

“Dr. O?” Conner said denaturing for him to share. 

“You want me to share?” Dr. O asked, not expecting that. 

“Why not?” Kira said smiling.

Dr. O sighed, “okay, I’ll share.”

“Please don’t hold us in suspense,” Zack joked. Tommy just stayed quiet, pretty sure he knew what Dr. O was going to share. 

“I am Dr. Tommy Oliver,” Dr. O shrugged. There was a pause of silence. 

“How did we not figure that out?” Jason asked finally. 

“We did, we just reasoned that odds were that I would never end up like that,” Tommy said quietly. 

“Yeah that sounds about right,” Dr. O said nodding, “there are still comments on how I managed to get a doctorate in anything.”

“But paleontology makes sense,” Jason said. 

“Weird how that works out,” Dr. O smirked. 

“So, uh, Dr. O?” Zack asked, glancing between him and Tommy, “wow that’s weird.”

“Weird on my end too,” Dr. O reassured. 

“Angela?” Zack asked with a knowing look. 

“Had a feeling you’d ask about her,” Dr. O said, “and before anyone else asks about romance in any capacity, I am not sharing any of it.”

“But you said our memories get paused so it won’t affect anything,” Kimberly defended. 

“Yes, your memories, not your emotions,” Dr. O clarified. 

“So even without the memories of what would happen, the underlying emotions from those memories, even without remembering the memories they come from will ultimately affect the outcome,” Billy concluded. 

“Uh, yes, I think,” Dr. O said, slightly confused. It didn’t matter how old any of them were, Tommy still got tripped up by Billy. 

“Could the rest of us be caught up to speed?” Zack asked. 

“If Dr. O told you that you and Angela didn’t work out, and then your memory of the conversation happening is erased, you would still feel like you two aren’t meant for some reason which could still affect the time line,” Trini clarified. 

“Exactly,” Dr. O said, agreeing with Trini and actually understanding what she said. 

“So that’s a no on who any of us end up with then?” Jason asked. 

“Yes,” Dr. O emphasized. 

“Are we going to meet other rangers?” Ethan asked.

Dr. O sighed, “I don’t know.”

“What do you mean?” Conner asked.

“Theres a chance you will but there is a chance you won’t,” Dr. O explained, “it will depend on what Wes and Jen decide is the best course of action with this.”

“And Wes and Jen would be Time Force rangers?” Billy concluded.

“Yes,” Dr. O said.

“So, uh, what’s the next steps?” Tommy asked.

“Why were you out for longer than Alpha said you would be?” Kira asked.

Dr. O glanced at Kira, having an almost reluctant look in his eye, before turning to Tommy, “I have a couple tests to run on those eggs, and I was going to see if I could figure out how to contact Time Force.”

“If you need anything, you can borrow stuff from my garage,” Billy offered.

“Thank you,” Dr. O nodded, ignoring the stares from his students, “I will probably take you up on that.”

“So the rest of us, in the mean time?” Trini asked.

“Up to you guys,” Dr. O said, “this is like any other down time.”

“Why didn’t you answer Kira’s question?” Conner asked.

“I, uh,” Dr. O looked away, “I’ll tell you guys later.”

“What does that mean?” Conner asked, slightly annoyed.

“Later Conner,” Dr. O stated.

“But,” Conner tried again.

“Later,” Dr. O repeated, making eye contact with Conner. Conner hesitated, debating trying again, but decided against it. 

“Fine,” Conner mumbled. Mighty Morphin’ just stared at the two of them in confusion.

“Uh, well, I’d love to help you if you’d let me,” Billy said trying to break the tension.

“That’s be great actually,” Dr. O said, grateful for the change in topic.

“Well, the rest of us could like go to the mall,” Kimberly suggested, “you guys need new clothes anyways.”

“A new change of clothes would be nice,” Trent agreed. 

“Okay, so, Billy and Dr. O can go and work on what they need to and the rest of us can go hang at the mall,” Tommy agreed. 

“Uh, you guys go on ahead, and we need to have a team meeting,” Conner stated, giving Dr. O a look.

“That’s a good idea,” Dr. O stated, nodding in agreement.

With a nod of agreement, and a wary look from Tommy, they started heading towards the exit of the park closest to the mall. Dino Thunder rangers stayed where they were.

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After the Mighty Morphin’ had gotten out of ear shot, Dr. O sighed, “okay, you guys want the full story?”

“No doubt,” Ethan stated. The four of them scooted closer in, creating a new smaller circle. 

“And why did we have to wait for them to leave?” Conner asked. 

“Because of the second time I went evil,” Dr. O explained, hesitantly. There was a pause.

“You, you went evil twice?” Trent asked hesitantly.

Dr. O nodded, “yes.”

“And what happened the second time is why you were out longer than intended?” Ethan asked.

“Yes,” Dr. O stated. 

“So what happened the second time?” Kira asked, her own curiosity getting the better of her, noticing the sudden downcast look Dr. O had she quickly added, “obviously not having to tell us the whole story.”

“No it’s fine,” Dr. O reassured, hesitating, “You guys already know what happened the first time.”

“Right, you got put under a spell,” Trent said, softly.

“Yes,” Dr. O said, “uh, the second time, I was brainwashed.”

“How?” Conner asked. Kira elbowed him, “ow! Look, I mean, how did they manage to brainwash you?”

“They kidnap me,” Dr. O stated.

“So that’s a pattern with you?” Conner smirked.

“Seems like it doesn't,” Dr. O nodded. Sighing, “anyways, they brainwashed me, my friends got me back, the way they did it altered my brainwaves. Found out that a side effect of this is that I am now sensitive to the, uh, temporal disturbances.”

“Uh, what?” Conner asked, confused.

“Let's just put it as, I always know exactly what time it is, and therefore time traveling throws me, a little, if I do time travel,” Dr. O said.

“A little?” Ethan asked.

“It depends,” Dr. O answered.

“Depends on what?” Kira asked.

“On a number of different variables, most of which I don’t actually know,” Dr. O answered. 

“And the ones that you do know?” Kira asked, mostly wanting the knowledge for a just in case scenario.

“Not much,” Dr. O admitted, “I know, usually, a longer jump would be worse, but every jump the effect is different.”

“Different?” Trent asked, confused.

“Yes, like this time I was just sleeping, but another time I could just have a migraine, or a nauseous,” Dr. O explained.

“Those all seem like pretty okay symptoms to me,” Conner said, “I mean not great sure, but for the price of traveling through time?”

Dr. O sighed, “those are the light symptoms Conner.”

“Why just tell us those?” Ethan asked.

“Because we still have to get home,” Dr. O stated simply.

“And what? You don’t want to scare us?” Conner asked, like it was a stupid question.

“Kind of,” Dr. O admitted.

“Wait, seriously?” Conner asked, slightly in disbelief. 

“Look, going back is always worse, and I don’t want to worry you guys,” Dr. O admitted. The teens all paused.

“Think of it this way,” Kira tried, “one, knowing what to expect would help us worry less, and two, we would know what to expect so that we could be prepared.”

“Well,” Dr. O stuttered, sighing, “remind me how you seem to make the most sense out of all of us?”

“I keep wondering that actually,” Kira said smiling. 

“Okay, uh, some of the worst things are high fevers, respiratory problems, uh I know there are other ones but I can’t remember,” Dr. O said giving in, “I haven’t time traveled since, um, I was white tiger, next year actually.”

“Next year is the last time you time travel?” Conner asked, making sure he understood. 

“Yes,” Dr. O replied. 

“So time loops?” Ethan asked. 

Dr. O smiled, “okay how about we hold off the time related questions till we get back.”

“Okay, the eggs?” Ethan asked, redirecting. 

“Not a clue,” Dr. O stated. 

“What do you mean?” Conner asked. 

“I don’t know anything about these eggs,” Dr. O answered. 

“How?” Trent asked confused, “I mean you and my dad worked on these together so how would you not know about them?” 

“All of your dad’s and mine experiments have been accounted for at this point,” Dr. O explained, “whether they have been destroyed, or we found them, or Mesagog has taken control over them, they’ve been accounted for.”

“So these eggs are, what? Extras?” Kira asked. 

“Pretty much,” Dr. O nodded. 

“That’s not concerning,” Conner scoffed. 

“Look, top priority is trying to contact Time Force, and we can figure the egg stuff out and why they are here after,” Dr. O said, ignoring Conner. 

“Okay, but what about the monsters?” Trent asked. 

“If they show up again, we will deal with it then,” Dr. O stated, “until then, head to the mall, hang out with the others, keep your eyes out for anything out of the ordinary, and, uh, actually never mind.”

“What?” Kira asked. 

“I was going to say try to keep your heads down, but,” Dr. O said. 

“You remembered who you were talking to,” Conner smirked standing up. 

“Something like that,” Dr. O said, as everyone joined Conner. 

“Wow they did not get far,” Ethan said looking over to still be able to see the Mighty Morphin’. 

“Pretty sure they were purposely walking slow so that we could catch up,” Dr. O said as the five of them made their way to join them. 

“Because other than you, we have no idea where anything in this town is,” Ethan stated. 

“Technically, but I haven’t been back since I left for college, and this is already about ten years ago, you really want to be relying on my memory?” Dr. O asked. 

“I don’t want to rely on your memory for most things,” Conner said, “is your watch accurate?”

“What?” Dr. O asked, confused. 

“Why wouldn’t his watch be accurate?” Zack asked as Dino Thunder rejoined the group. 

Dr. O looked at his watch, “no it’s not.”

“I’m going to second Zack’s question,” Trini said, “why isn’t your watch accurate?”

“The watch is mostly just to look normal when someone asks me for the time,” Dr. O answered. 

“So how are you still late to things?” Conner asked. 

“Because just because I know the exact time at all times does not mean I have any perception of time,” Dr. O responded with a tired look. This wasn’t the first time he had answered this question and he knew it wasn’t going to be the last. 

“Well on that note, shall we go to the mall,” Kimberly suggested, not sure what else to say to that. 

“Yes while Dr. O and Billy go work on the boring things,” Conner stated.

“It is not boring,” Billy stated, Dr. O just shook his head. The two of them teleported away, Dino Thunder noticing that Dr. O teleported separately. 

“Wait! Since when can he teleport?” Conner asked.

“He probably grabbed something when he woke up,” Kira shrugged. 

“And nothing for us?” Conner asked. 

“Why would he?” Trent asked. 

“I don’t know, I just want to be able to teleport,” Conner said. 

“And that’s probably the reason he didn’t,” Ethan said.

“What reason?” Conner asked. 

“Nothing,” Kira chuckled. Conner looked at her, then his teammates, then the other rangers confused before just shrugging it off. 

The nine rangers wandered around the mall for a while. Initially the girls and boys split off to find the Dino Thunder rangers some new clothes. After they had all wandered, gotten the clothes everyone needed, the nine rangers met back up towards the entrance of the mall. 

“So, we all like the new fits?” Kimberly asked cheerfully.

“Yes,” Conner sighed.

“What’s wrong?” Kira asked.

“I,” Conner started 

Ethan interjected, “he found a red leather jacket that he wanted.”

“But, he couldn’t give us a good enough reason to let him get it,” Trent added.

“It would look cool,” Conner defended.

“Again, not a reason,” Ethan retorted. 

“Yeah, I’m gonna side with Ethan and Trent on this one,” Kira said apologetically, “you don’t wear leather anyways.”

“It would still look cool,” Conner mumbled.

“You keep telling yourself that,” Ethan said, patting his friend on the shoulder. 

“Okay?” Kimberly said confused, but ignored it, “shall we all walk through together?”

“Sure,” Tommy shrugged, “we don’t really have anything else to do.”

The nine teens walk for a minute or so, with idle chit chat before Jason goes, “So, Dr. O said he was also a red ranger.”

“Yes, he was red for?” Trent looked at his teammates. 

“Turbo,” Conner said. 

“Zeo,” Ethan said at the same time. 

“Dr. O has been four different colors and a Ranger six times,” Kira clarified to the confused Mighty Morphin’.

“So, uh, green, white, red, and black?” Tommy asked.

“Yes,” Conner answered, “not that he’s really talked about it.”

“We also haven’t asked,” Kira pointed out.

“Maybe we should ask more questions when we get home,” Trent suggested. 

“Not a requirement,” Tommy stated. Jason looked at his best friend confused.

“Why not?” Jason asked.

“There are just some things that don’t have to be shared,” Tommy drifted off. 

“Wow, things don’t change,” Conner stated, smiling knowingly at his teammates.

Trent tilted his head like he was disagreeing, Conner gave him a confused look, but both of them decided to discuss later. 

“Right,” Jason said, not quite believing Tommy, or understanding what was going on with Dino Thunder. Not that he really ever understood what was going on with Dino Thunder. 

“So did Dr. O mention anything about the dinosaur eggs?” Zack asked, still curious.

“Yes, nothing helpful though,” Trent answered. 

“How so?” Trini asked.

“He says they shouldn’t exist,” Conner said, chuckling a little, mostly in annoyance. 

“What?!” Kimberly asked concerned. Kira stopped walking.

“Uh, yeah,” Ethan said, distracted by Kira freezing, “he said that all the experiments had, uh, been accounted for.”

“Kira?” Conner asked, walking over to his girlfriend, “what’s up?”

The rangers were on the second floor of the mall, and had been crossing over one of the bridges to the other side of the mall. Kimberly wanted to go into a new makeup store, when Kira had stopped and was just staring down at the first floor.

“I, I need to get Dr. O,” Kira stuttered. 

“What? Why?” Conner asked.

“Explain later,” Kira said, pointing to a guy, “keep an eye on that guy.”

“The guy wearing a dig outfit, in a mall, oh, got it,” Conner said, realizing that that might be a little strange. 

“I can teleport with you,” Trini offered.

“Yes, please,” Kira said, almost running to get to a spot that they could teleport from.

“That was weird, right?” Jason stated.

“No doubt,” Ethan said.

“Who’s this guy we are supposed to be watching?” Tommy asked.

“No idea,” Trent replied.

“It is weird to be wearing like, a dig outfit in a mall though,” Kimberly stated, almost sounding disgusted. 

“Yeah, but Kira almost looked like she recognized the dude,” Conner said, tilting his head to try to get a better look at the dude, who went into a store, “not that I do. You guys?”

“No,” Trent said, shaking his head.

“Not a clue actually,” Ethan said, also shaking his head. 

Dr. O and Billy had teleported into Billy’s garage, or rather his lab.

“Wow,” Dr. O chuckled, smiling a bit, looking around.

“You’ve been here before,” Billy stated.

“Not exactly,” Dr. O stated, “I think I only ever came over to your place to hang, or you were showing off a new invention. I never really looked around, not that I’d probably understand half of what you have around here at the time either.”

“That is understandable,” Billy stated, clearing a spot on one of his tables, “so what do you need?”

“Uh, lets see, I need a base, two antennas, a motherboard, and lets start there, see how well I can remember how to do this,” Dr. O stated as Billy moved around grabbing the stuff.

“I will also assume you need a computer to program the motherboard, and would you like a wired antenna that you can connect to the motherboard, or metal ones to connect to the base?” Billy asked. 

“Uh,” Dr. O paused thinking, “let’s try the wire ones first.”

“Okay, here,” Billy said, laying the stuff out on the table.

Dr. O sighed, “okay, let’s get started.”

The two worked on the communication devices, Billy listening intently to Dr. O, who barely was remembering what Trip had told him. A couple of times he mumbled something about figuring out how to curse Trip. 

“You haven’t really said anything,” Dr. O stated after burning himself, again.

“I am unsure what to say,” Billy said.

“Really?” Dr. O said, giving Billy a puzzled look, “no questions about how we got here? No question about what I am attempting to do? No questions about you in the future?”

“I do,” Billy said, “but, you said that emotions connected to the conversations.”

“And you're worried that whatever you ask is going to have an effect later,” Dr. O figured.

“Yes,” Billy confirmed.

“The emotions, knowing you, you’d keep it in check,” Dr. O said, before smirking, “that and I said that so I didn’t have to talk about relationships.”

“Wait, you and Kim?” Billy asked.

“Not discussing,” Dr. O warned. 

“Right, but other information?” Billy asked. 

“Should be fine,” Dr. O shrugged. 

“Well, Nobel prizes?” Billy asked, having a new level of confidence. 

“Zero,” Dr. O stated. 

The confidence drained, “zero?”

“It’s a little hard to get Nobel prizes when you don’t live on earth,” Dr. O explained. 

“I don’t live on earth?” Billy asked, confused. 

“No,” Dr. O said, “and I’m not going to go into details of why, but you are happy there, and you visit when you can, and you can still call all of us.”

“Okay,” Billy breathed, slightly relieved at that, “they said that you were fighting a crystal monster, and you said to stop fighting it when you arrived?”

“Uh, yeah,” Dr. O said as he plugged the motherboard to the cpu, “it was a kinetic crystalline monster.”

“So it’s a crystalline monster that absorbs energy, so when the others were attacking it, it kept storing all the energy, eventually releasing it and sending you all back in time,” Billy concluded, “reason you told them to stop.”

“Almost,” Dr. O said, “I didn’t know it was going to send us back in time.”

“Really?” 

“Yeah, there are a couple of them, most don’t live on earth, but we don’t have a record of what they can all do,” Dr. O explained as one of the wires shocked him, and he shook his hand. 

“Do you want help with that?” Billy asked concerned. 

“Uh, actually yes,” Dr. O said moving over so that there was room at the table next to him, “if you could rewire part of this to be able to transmit and receive."

“Transmit and receive what?” Billy asked, starting on the task. 

“A communication signal through time,” Dr. O stated. 

“So that you can talk to Time Force,” Billy concluded. 

“Exactly,” Dr. O said, “and the sooner I can talk to them, the sooner I can figure out how to get us back to our present.”

“Okay, so what are the antennas for?” Billy asked. 

“Video,” Dr. O said. 

“Really?” Billy asked excitedly. 

“Yes,” Dr. O said, smiling at Billy’s enthusiasm, “if I can remember how.”

“It seems to be functioning so far,” Billy stated. 

“It generally does till the end,” Dr. O chuckled. 

The two of them chatted a little bit, Billy mostly asking questions about the progress of computers and technology, Dr. O barely being able to answer, as they finally finished up, Kira and Trini teleported in. 

“You need to get to the mall,” Kira said urgently. 

“Okay, why?” Dr. O asked worried. 

“I think I saw Smitty,” Kira stated firmly. 

“Uh, Kira,” Dr. O chuckled in disbelief, “that’s not possible.”

“I know,” Kira said, “but I also know what I saw.”

“Who’s Smitty?” Billy asked, very confused. 

“Is that the dude at the mall in a dig outfit?” Trini asked, also confused. 

Dr. O sighed, “okay, I’ll go check the guy out, but Kira.” 

“I know, odds are I just saw a guy dressed in a dig outfit that looked like Smitty,” Kira said, acknowledging it, but definitely did not believe that. 

“Right,” Dr. O said, not believing Kira. 

“How could it not be, um, Smitty?” Trini asked. 

“Uh, long story,” Dr. O stated, “shall we?”

“Uh, leave this here?” Billy asked, pointing to the communicator. 

“Yes, it’s pretty much done and we can grab it after we check this out,” Dr. O answered. 

“We’re going to be able to talk to a new Ranger team?” Kira asked excitedly. 

“If we got it to work right,” Dr. O answered, as he and Billy walked over to the girls. Standing next together they teleport back to the mall and walk out to the group who was still watching the guy. 

“Are you still keeping an eye?” Kira asked. 

“Yeah, he’s still in that store, but you can see him in the window,” Conner said, pointing. Dr. O looked to where he was pointing, and gave a confused look, glancing at Kira he headed to the stairs. 

“Uh, Dr. Oliver?” Kira asked, walking after him. 

“Stay here,” Dr. O said, barely looking back at the teens. 

“What is going on?” Zack asked. 

“Dude your guess is as good as mine right now,” Conner stated, as everyone watched Dr. O walk down to the store. 

“Smitty was a friend of Dr. O’s,” Kira explained, “then things happened, and he’s now known as Zeltrax.”

“Oh,” Trent said, realizing, “that’s a little messed up.”

“No doubt,” Ethan said, not knowing what else to say. 

As Dr. O got closer to the guy, he realized that maybe Kira was right. Except, he looked exactly like he did in that photo that he threw out. 

“Smitty?” Dr. O asked, when he got close enough. 

The guy turned around and looked surprised, “Tommy?”

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Dr. O immediately knew something was off when Smitty said his name, and he started to figure it out when Smitty pulled Dr. O in for a hug. Suddenly he could feel the cold metal that he recognized immediately as Zeltrax. 

“Uh,” Dr. O stuttered, not quite sure how to get out of this without making a scene, “how are you here?”

“Well, I could ask you the same thing,” Smitty said, and it sounded like Smitty’s voice, but it wasn’t. 

“Yeah, you could,” Dr. O stated, doing his best to keep calm, “uh, but I asked first.”

“True,” Smitty stated, chuckling a little, “shall we go to the food court or something to go somewhere other than standing out here in the middle?”

“No,” Dr. O said, realizing how fast he said that, “it’s just, I actually have, uh, stuff that I need to go and figure out, and don’t really have time.”

“Ah, that makes sense,” Smitty said, nodding along, “but to answer your question, I truly don’t know how I showed up here.”

“Oh, that’s interesting, uh,” Dr. O said, trying not to alert the teens who were watching him, “uh, what have you been up to? Uh, since you got here.”

“Oh, things, I hit the museum, and met some helpful, uh, people, who I’m meeting up with soon,” Smitty said, looking almost like he was now feeling awkward.

“Ah, well, then maybe you should go catch up with them,” Dr. O stated, hoping that he could get out of this.

“Yeah, I probably should,” Smitty said, nodding in agreement, “but, hey, maybe we should try to catch up soon, any idea where you’ll be?”

“Uh, nope, no idea actually,” Dr. O stated honestly, “but if we run into each other again, we should definitely try to catch up.”

“Great, well, I guess I’ll see you around,” Smitty said smiling as he disappeared into the crowd. Dr. O sighed with relief, hoping Zeltrax bought it. Quickly centering himself he headed back up to the teens, who were all still watching intently.

“So?” Kira asked.

“We need to go to the museum,” Dr. O stated, looking at Conner.

“Why are you looking at me when you say that?” Conner asked, sounding offended.

“Maybe because you complain, every time,” Ethan clarified.

“Wait, he goes through that every time?” Jason asked, as Dr. O started to walk towards the exit, and the teens followed. 

“He went over that with you guys?” Dr. O asked, smiling.

“It came up,” Trent said, catching up with Dr. O, “but, why are we going to the museum?”

“Because he went there and I need to double check something,” Dr. O answered.

“Double check what?” Conner asked, completely lost, but for once, not the only one.

“Inventory,” Dr. O said as they all left the mall.

They had teleported to their respective houses to drop off the stuff they had bought, and then walked to the museum. Conner started complaining about it, and speculating on what horrible thing was going to happen this time, long before they got there. When they got there, Dr. O broke off to go talk to someone to get them access to the back.

“You guys are right, he is acting weird,” Zack said, as they watched Dr. O talking with a lady, probably a head or something.

“Well, I mean I think any of us would act weird if our friend who was dead showed up in the past,” Kira stated.

“Uh, what?” Tommy asked, as all of Mighty Morphin’ went silent, just being dumbfounded.

“Oh I remember now,” Ethan said, “Smitty was one of Dr. O’s friends, and there was an accident and now he’s Zeltrax and has a vendetta against Dr. O.”

Everyone just stared at Ethan, “That’s one way to put it,” Trent stated. 

“Put what?” Dr. O asked, walking back over. 

“Smitty,” Conner stated, receiving wide eyed looks from the others, but before Dr. O could respond, “so we all cleared?”

“Uh,” Dr. O said, partially confused but decided it wasn’t worth it, “yeah we’re all good to head to the back, and if anyone asks, school project.”

“We are actually walking through the back rooms?” Billy asked excitedly. 

“Yes,” Dr. O shrugged, not sure why Billy was so excited. 

“What’s so exciting about the back rooms of a museum?” Zack asked. 

“Not much,” Dr. O said, having worked in them before, they really weren’t that excited.

“It is everything that is not on display in the museum, and can be anything from a clay pot from Native Americans, to dinosaur bones,” Trini explained. 

“And to be able to see the artifacts of the past that are not available to the public,” Billy said excitedly. 

“Right,” Dr. O said, not sure how to respond. 

The group wandered through the museum, most of them finding interesting things to look at, with the exception being Conner who kept making jokes about them getting attacked or something happening and Dr. O seeming to get increasingly more anxious. Finally they made it to the archives room. 

“So what are we looking for?” Jason asked as Billy started rummaging through boxes to start learning more about whatever he found. 

“Looking more at the dinosaurs,” Dr. O said, having no idea what they should be looking for, “try to see if there is anything out of the ordinary.”

“Okay,” Kimberly said, “so like what counts as out of the ordinary, like civilian out of the ordinary or our out of the ordinary?”

“Um,” Dr. O was at a little loss for words. 

“Maybe something like the inventory saying two T-Rex teeth and there is only one?” Zack suggested. 

Dr. O sighed, “yeah like that.” Turning to his students, “check zord dinosaurs.”

“Why them specifically?” Conner asked, confused while his team mates were less confused. 

“The eggs?” Ethan guessed, frowning looking at the empty box that was supposed to hold a triceratops horn. 

“But what does this have to do with Smitty?” Kira asked, also not finding the supposed pteroid bone. 

“That wasn’t Smitty,” Dr. O stated. 

“Then who was it?” Tommy asked, finding the Spinosaurus claw. 

“Zeltrax,” Dr. O said, not looking up from the inventory list and mumbling, “how does angle grove have all of this?”

“How?” Conner asked. 

“Hologram,” Dr. O stated. 

“Oh,” was all that was said amongst the teens. None of them could figure out a good way to respond. 

The eleven of them made their way through the backrooms pretty quickly, finding that an entire fossil was missing or in the case of the Brachiosaurus, part of the bone was missing. The group gathered around one of the large tables. 

“What do these dinosaurs have in common again?” Zack asked, mostly towards Dr. O. 

“I can’t come up with anything,” Billy said exasperated, “their not all carnivores, not all herbivores, not all omnivores, not in the same family, not even from the same period!”

“But there are all of our Zords,” Trent stated. 

“So bones, and part of bones of all of these dinosaurs are the same dinosaurs that are your zords?” Jason asked.

“How is that connected?” Kimberly asked, confused.

“Wait, the eggs?” Tommy asked.

“More than likely,” Dr. O agreed, “I’d be able to confirm it better, after I run a couple tests on the eggs.”

“Okay, and that’s probably going to take you some time,” Ethan stated, “so what do we do in the meantime?”

“That’s up to you guys,” Dr. O shrugged. 

“Oh!” Kimberly said excitedly about her idea, “what if we like had a group sleepover?”

“Ooo, that could be fun,” Trini agreed, “and Dr. O can join us when he’s done.”

“Oh, uh, no,” Dr. O stuttered, “I was actually just going to stay in one of the back rooms at the Command Center.”

“Alone?” Kimberly asked, sounding a little worried.

“Yes, well, Zordon and Alpha are there,” Dr. O trying to defend himself. 

“I’m not sure how well that counts,” Conner stated, smirking a bit.

“Yeah, okay,” Dr. O chuckled before pointing to his students, “you guys, over here.” And he walked away from the Mighty Morphin’, Dino Thunder followed closely. 

“What do you have against sleeping over with us?” Conner asked once they were a couple soles down. 

“Besides it being awkward,” Trent added. 

“That is a big one,” Dr. O remarked, “but I was also going with not wanting to be the only adult in the house.”

“Why not?” Conner asked, confused.

“Just no, okay,” Dr. O reiterated, “there are back rooms in the Command Center that I can stay in, and you guys are good staying with the others.”

“So, you're just going to let ten teenagers hang out in a house all by themselves?” Kira inquired, smiling.

"I'm letting ten rangers who happen to be kids, stay in a house overnight by themselves,” Dr. O corrected. 

“So, uh, you're letting us,” Conner said, pointing to the four of them, “hangout with them, for a night, by ourselves, with a communicator to the Time Force rangers?”

“Ah,” Dr. O said he had forgotten about the communicator, “I can grab that from Billy’s.”

“But Dr. O,” Kira said.

“Okay, why do you guys want me to stay?” Dr. O asked. The four of them hesitated, glancing at each other, “okay what?”

“Slightly worried about you,” Kira said, quieter than usual.

“Why?” Dr. O asked, confused. 

“Because you're part of our team and our mentor, and at this point we all get nervous when you're out slightly longer than you're supposed to,” Conner stated, a little bit more aggressive than he intended. 

“And if we are doing a conjoined thing with additional teams,” Trent added. 

“Then maybe we should have the whole team there,” Ethan finished. 

Dr. O nodded reluctantly, sighing, “okay maybe you guys have a point.”

“Maybe?” Kira asked, raising her eyebrows and smirking. 

Dr. O shook his head defeated, chuckling, “fine you guys win, but I am checking those eggs out first.”

“Fine, but if you take too long we will go and find you,” Conner stated, smirking at Dr. O.

“That seems fair,” Dr. O nodded in agreement, “you guys go join them, and I’ll meet you at the house.”

“We will let you know which house we choose,” Kira said.

“Pretty sure I know which house is getting picked,” Dr. O said smiling, and teleported out.

The four Dino Thunder rangers walked over to the Mighty Morphin' who were listening to Billy going into details about different bones. 

“Where’s Dr. O?” Kimberly asked, noticing only four of them walked back.

“He went to the Command Center to check on the eggs,” Trent answered.

“But we convinced him to meet us at whoevers house we pick,” Conner added. 

“So who’s house?” Zack asked.

“Tommy’s,” Jason stated, like it was obvious.

“Uh, why mine?” Tommy asked.

“Because you're the only one whose parents aren't home,” Jason explained.

“Ah,” Tommy said understanding.

“That does give us less questions,” Kira pointed out.

“So, head to separate houses to gather our stuff and meet at Tommy’s?” Zack asked double checking as the ten teens headed out.

“That works,” Trini said, grabbing Kira’s arm, “we’ll see you guys in a little bit.”

As the teens departed the museum, none of them noticed Smitty walking around the outside of the building and towards the back with Goldar.

Chapter Text

“This all seems too covenant,” Rita said looking through her telescope at Zeltrax and Goldar. 

“I wouldn’t worry about it, my sweets,” Zed said walking up behind her, “if this, Zeltrax, turns out is lying to us, we shall have fun making him pay for wasting our time.”

“And possibly curing me of this headache,” Rita stated leaning away from her telescope, “but if this plan works, we shall be rid of the rangers once and for all.”

“It shall be a good day either way,” Zed stated, pulling her in for a spin, as a golden portal opened and two beings stepped through. “Who dares enter my palace?!”

“Who dares talk to my master with that tone?” the human female stated, standing up a little straighter, hand on her sword, ready for a fight.

“It is alright Elsa,” the weird dino looking guy stated, “after all we are on the same side.”

“If we are on the same side?” Zed asked, taking a step towards the unknown people, “then how far down on the line are you if I have never heard of you?”

“I am from the same period as a previous subordinate of mine, I believe you have already met,” dino guy replied.

“Zeltrax,” Rita asked, “who has given us a wonderful plan to take care of the rangers.”

“Zeltrax who has stolen from me and is now using my information to feed his own poorly thought through revenge plot,” dino head stated. 

“Hm, well, I can understand that,” Zed stated, taking a seat in his throne, “maybe we can come to an understanding that will help us both out.”

“What do you have in mind?” bad breath asked, bowing slightly, solely as a sign of respect. 

“Hold on,” Rita interrupted, “what are we supposed to call you?”

“Ah, my apologies,” dino guy said, giving a small nod towards Rita, “my name is Mesogog, and this is my, uh, helper, Elsa.”

“That seems fitting,” Rita said, looking Mesogog up and down with disgust before walking over to stand beside Zed. 

“Now now my dear,” Zed said cooing, “we should be nice to our guests.” Then, he signaled Rita to move closer to him, he whispered, “we don’t need them taking the credit for the rangers destruction now.”

Rita smiled her sly smile, “oh of course Zed, my mistake. Can I get you two anything? Water?”

“We shouldn’t be long enough,” Mesogog stated, “I just want Zeltrax.”

“To, I assume, remind him of his place,” Zed stated, leaning back on his throne. 

“Precisely,” Mesogog said.

“Well, he has given us materials for a very impressive plan,” Zed started.

“You can keep them,” Mesogog said, interrupting Zed.

Elsa looked at her master in horror, “master?”

“We keep the materials, we go forward with the plan, and you just get?” Zed said questioningly.

“Zeltrax,” Mesogog confirmed. 

“Well, I believe we can agree to that,” Zed said, if he could smirk he would, “Rita, my darling, could you call Goldar?”

“Not at all,” Rita said, walking over to the balcony, “GOLDAR GET BACK UP HERE AND BRING THE TIN CAN TOO!”

It took maybe a minute before Goldar and Zeltrax appeared in front of the throne, facing away from Mesogog and Elsa.

“You called?” Goldar asked, bowing to Zed and Rita. 

“Yes,” Rita said, sounding happy, “Zeltrax is going back.”

“What are you talking about?” Zeltrax asked, in disbelief before screaming in pain, falling to the floor holding his head.

“Did you really think you were going to get away with this?” Mesogog asked, sounding like he was hissing. 

“I, uh,” Zeltrax stuttered, before yelling in pain again. 

“I thank you for your cooperation, and we shall be off,” Mesogog stated, giving a slight nod towards Zed, Rita, and the very confused Goldar, before turning to Elsa, “throw it.”

Elsa nodded before turning towards the back wall and chucked a small crystal at the floor, within seconds it exploded into a yellow portal.

“Are you sure this will work, master?” Elsa asked, looking at the portal worried. 

“You doubt me?” Mesogog asked, glaring at Elsa.

Elsa looked down, shaken, “of course not master,” and she walked through the portal. Mesogog then turned to Zeltrax and shoved him through the portal, nodded towards the three behind him and walked through and the portal just closed up behind them. 

“Is everything in place Goldar?” Zed asked after a moment.

“Yes, Lord Zed,” Goldar said, “everything is in place for the rangers' destruction.”

Rita walked over to her telescope holding her head, “and with our luck, they are already working on a counter attack for us, and oh! My head!”

“But Rita my dear,” Zed said, trying to comfort his wife, “even if they have figured it out, with this plan, there is no way for them to win.”

“Oh,” Rita said, sounding more excited, looking through her telescope.

“What is it?” Zed asked, curious what got her so excited so suddenly.

“The rangers are playing a board game,” Rita said, turning to her husband, “they don’t seem to have any idea about the plan at all!”

“Wonderful!” Zed said, standing at the balcony and started laughing. Rita walked over to his side, and joined in the laughter.

Chapter Text

The ten ranger teens had gotten themselves situated at Tommy’s house. They had all changed into what they were wearing for bed, and were all sitting around a coffee table playing monopoly. They had modified the game slightly, so that everyone could easily play. They agreed Kira got to be the bank, and regarded her as just the referee for the entire game. They had ordered ten pizzas, five cheese, five pepperoni. Tommy got out-voted for something healthier, but they did compromise with smoothies instead of sodas, ignoring Conner’s complaints. 

“Okay, Trent, your turn,” Kira said, counting her money from Trini. 

“Right,” Trent sighed, not really wanting to, “need anything but a five.”

“Did you really say that out loud?” Zack asked him, raising an eyebrow.

Trent paused, confused at first. The teens could watch as he realized what he said, “well, I guess I’m paying you five hundred.”

“Hold on,” Conner interrupted, “roll first, maybe the luck won’t mess with a board game.”

“Says the dude who has jinxed himself to almost bankruptcy,” Jason pointed out.

“Yes,” Conner agreed with confidence.

Trent just rolled his eyes, then the dice. The teens watched the two little squares roll across the table, the first one landing on the four, Trent held his breath watching the second one, as it landed on one.

“Can I blame Conner?” Trent asked counting his money. 

“More than likely,” Dr. O said leaning against the hightop for the kitchen eating a slice of pizza.

“You don’t even know what he’s trying to blame me for,” Conner tried to defend.

“No, which is why I said more than likely,” Dr. O explained.

“How is that fair?” Conner asked, offended.

“Conner,” Dr. O started, “we say something, and the odds automatically shift in the universe, every time.”

“Never mind,” Conner mumbled.

“Any ways,” Kira said, “it’s Kimberly’s turn.”

“Ooh, yay!” Kimberly said excitedly, grabbing the dice. 

“Right, uh, Billy?” Dr. O asked.

“Oh, right,” Billy said, standing up and quickly moving to his bag and pulling out the communicator.

“Thanks,” Dr. O said as Billy handed it to him.

“You're doing that in here, right?” Conner asked, sounding slightly accusatory. 

“Seeing as though, there is a fifty percent chance it’s going to blow up when I turn it on, no,” Dr. O stated.

“If it does turn on?” Ethan asked.

“I wasn’t exactly planning on coming back inside,” Dr. O admitted.

“It'd be kinda nice if you did,” Kira added, “and not just so that we can meet other rangers sooner.”

“But so that we can actually know what's going on,” Trent finished for his teammate while regretfully handing Zack money. 

Dr. O paused for a moment, looking like he was contemplating arguing before sighing, “fine, if it doesn’t explode and it does work, I’ll come back in to have the conversation.” 

The Dino Thunder rangers almost froze, looked at each other, then to Dr. O who closed the door behind him, then back at each other.

“Why are you guys looking so shocked?” Kimberly asked. 

“Uh,” Ethan tried to figure out how to talk.

“He usually tries to argue a bit more,” Conner stated blankly. 

“Why would he hide something so important like what's going on?” Jason asked, leaning against the couch, looking at Tommy.

“Why are you looking at me?” Tommy asked, sounding surprised. 

“As you and Dr. O are in fact the same person, you are the most logical to attempt to explain to us why Dr. O does things,” Billy explained. 

“Yeah, that,” Zack agreed, not completely understanding what Billy said, Conner having a similar expression.

“Oh, uh,” Tommy stuttered, “I, uh, don’t really know. Who’s turn is it?”

Dino Thunder looked at each other knowingly, Mighty Morphin’ looked at their friend concerned. 

“It’s Conner’s turn,” Kira said, “and I believe he's about to be bankrupt.”

“Ha, don’t count your money just yet Teller,” Conner smirked.

Dr. O sighed when he closed the door, shaking his head. He looked around the dark backyard, giving his eyes a minute to adjust to the night, he found the shelf on the window sill and set the communicator on it. After turning it on, he took a good couple of steps back as he wanted for it to either blow up or connect to the future. 

After a minute it flickered to life, “thought it was going to blow up?” Jen asked, smirking, arms crossed in her uniform. 

“What would give you that impression?” Dr. O asked, breathing a sigh of relief, walking toward the window. 

“You being a good fifteen feet away was my first reason,” Jen stated, “I was starting to wonder if we were actually going to have to search through time for you?”

“Yeah, well, I was trying to build this thing off of memory, on top of the rest of everything that's going on,” Dr. O countered, gathering it up to head back inside.

“Were moving?” Jen asked.

“Uh, yeah,” Dr. O said, glancing at the holoscreen, not being able to stop the smile across his face, as he saw six hands doing bunny ears behind Jen’s head.

“What?” Jen asked, concerned.

“Nothing,” Dr. O said, suddenly so much more interested in trying to open the door, trying desperately to contain laughter. 

“Tommy! it’s obviously not nothing,” Jen said, annoyed, “do I have something in my hair or something?”

“I mean, technically,” Dr. O stated, placing the communicator on the kitchen ledge. The teens looked at each other confused. “You can see everyone?”

“Yes, and what do you mean technically?” Jen asked, patting her hair. 

“Dr. Oliver?” Trent asked, confused, as Dr. O walked to the other side of the room and leaned against the wall. He just shook his head, and the confused teens looked up at the communicator, their eyes went wide.

“That’s not helpful,” Jen stated, starting to get irritated.

“Um, it seems like you have some bunny ears,” Kimberly said, pointing at the fingers that were now putting on a performance that looked like a scene from the nutcracker. 

“I,” Jen started, then taking a deep breath, “whoever wants to go time jumping with me will put their hands down and join me.”

The fingers immediately dropped and the sound of footsteps running and were getting louder until the respected people of those hands were crowding around the holofeed. 

“How long were you guys there?” Jen asked accusing her teammates, “and why were there?”

“Well we thought you were on a call with Wes,” Lucas said.

“But this turned out better,” Trip said, smiling obviously very happily, “Hi Tommy!”

“Hey Trip,” Dr. O nodded, smiling.

“Looks like your ribs healed nicely," Katie said apologetically.

“Yeah,” Dr. O said, “that was fun to deal with during exams.”

“Sorry,” Katie said, “at least it was just a fracture?”

“Try almost broken in half,” Dr. O stated, “three.”

The Time Force rangers winced at the mention, the teens looked at each other, all of them as confused as each other, none of them having a clue what’s going on.

“Um, could we get an introduction?” Conner interrupted.

“Well we know who everyone is,” Trip said, shrugging.

“Time Force doesn’t exist yet,” Dr. O stated, pointing to the Mighty Morphin’ rangers, then pointing to Dino Thunder, “have not met you guys yet.”

“Right, I’m Jen, the Pink Time Force ranger,” Jen started up, throwing what looked like towel over something off screen and Lucas looked horrified at her, “the sad pretty boy is Lucas the blue ranger, the green haired one is Trip the green ranger, and then there is Katie, which I don’t recommend underestimating her strength.”

“You guys don’t have a red ranger?” Jason asked.

“We do, but he lives at the same time period as you guys,” Trip explained. 

“So, we might know him?” Zack asked. 

Dr. O chuckled, “you have heard of him, but no, none of you have actually met him. And you haven't even heard of the quantum ranger.”

“So? Who is he?” Trini asked, curious.

“Wesley Collins,” Dr. O stated.

There was a silence that filled the room.

“The rich kid from Silver Hills who was on the news for the fire on that yacht last month?” Tommy asked in disbelief.

“Oh,” Dr. O chuckled, “I had forgotten about that.”

“But yes,” Lucas answered the question. The Mighty Morphin’ looked at each other in slight horror.

“He’s your red ranger?” Jason asked, very concerned. 

“Yes,” Katie stated, all of the adults having huge smiles on their faces, “and please tell me someone made this bet.”

“I don’t think so,” Dr. O stated, turning to the horrified Mighty Morphin’ teens, “but for you guys, Wes has ended up being one of the best red rangers so far.”

“The spoiled rich kid?” Zack asked.

“With a good heart,” Trip added. 

“Right, but to the reason for the call,” Jen said, trying to get the conversation back on track.

“Yeah, can you guys bring Zords with you?” Dr. O asked. The teens all looked up at him confused, the Time Force ranger's eyes widened.

“Why can’t it just be a pick up?” Jen asked.

“You’ve met Tommy, right?” Lucas asked, readjusting his hair. 

“Why would it ever just be that simple, for any ranger, but especially when Tommy’s involved,” Katie pointed out.

“It’s not every time,” Dr. O argued.

“Pretty close,” Conner stated.

“Not helping,” Dr. O muttered.

“Wasn’t trying to,” Conner said. 

“I like him,” Lucas said. 

Dr. O rolled his eyes, “can you answer my question?”

“What was that again?” Jen asked.

“The Zords,” Dr. O reminded.

“Oh, right,” Jen thought for a moment, “yes, why?”

“Kind of going to need them,” Dr. O stated.

“Why?” Conner asked.

“Those eggs you guys found,” Dr. O said, not really wanting to go into more detail.

“What about them?” Zack asked, not wanting to lose his hope for having a baby dino. 

Dr. O sighed, “they seem to have the original layers of code to them, and not the additional layers that Anton and I added after learning that we desperately needed additional layers.”

“What’s the difference?” Kira asked.

“The first couple of batches were insanely unstable,” Trip stated, “you guys had no control over them at all. So you added more layers to their code so that when they first hatched they were tamer and easier to train.”

“Exactly,” Dr. O said, nodding appreciatively to Trip, “what this looks like is, Zeltrax found the plans for the original experiments.”

“And whether on purpose or not, they are unstable and when they hatch will destroy anything and everything in their path,” Jen sighed.

“Hey look on the upside,” Trip said cheerfully. 

“What upside?” Conner deadpanned.

“It’s never boring being a ranger,” Lucas smirked.

“That is very true,” Dr. O agreed. 

“Okay, so, plan,” Jen stated.

“Why?” Lucas asked.

“We need a baseline idea of what we're doing,” Dr. O answered, “and we need something to be able to chuck out the window later.”

“Exactly,” Jen said. 

“Well, we don’t have to grab our Zords,” Trip reminded.

“Right, but we need to stop by 2004 to grab Wes and Eric, and to grab Tommy’s kids Zords, before we can go,” Jen thought for a moment, “what year are you guys in?”

Dr. O sighed and glared a little at Jen, as his students just stared at him.

“1994,” Billy answered.

“Why did you call us that?” Conner asked, not looking away from Dr. O.

“Call you, oh,” Jen realized her slip.

“Every team has a nickname,” Katie explained, “some nicknames end up getting used more than the real name.”

“And how do these nicknames come about?” Trent asked.

“Most of them by accident, and then there were some that didn’t have any so we made some up to fit them,” Trip explained.

“So, ours?” Ethan asked.

“I believe Jason gave you guys that one,” Lucas stated looking at Dr. O for confirmation.

“Yeah, he did,” Dr. O confirmed, “we were on a call, he was joking around with what was going on, and it was before I was the black ranger,”

“And it stuck,” Trip finished. 

“Unless you four disagree with how well it works,” Jen said. 

The Dino Thunder teens looked at each other, before shrugging, and Kira stated, “no it fits.”

“They unfortunately usually do,” Jen stated. 

“What’s your teams?” Trini asked.

“Y3K” Trip stated.

“Ah,” Conner stated sympathetically.

“Who gave that nickname?” Jason asked.

“Oh, uh,” Trip thought, looking at his teammates.

“Not sure actually,” Katie said.

“Ryan,” Dr. O stated.

“Oh yeah,” Lucas said, remembering, “it was the first ranger reunion we went to.”

“Yeah,” Trip remembered, “he was explaining to us the origin of the term Y2K and made the reference that since we were from the year 3,000 that we were from Y3K.”

“To which Joel overheard it, and Carlos and Justin found it funny, and it spread like wild fire from there,” Dr. O added. 

“Cool, um,” Trent said, “I remember you mentioning Ryan, but, who are the others?”

“Who is Ryan?” Ethan asked.

Dr. O sighed, “Ryan is the silver Lightspeed ranger, Joel is the green Lightspeed ranger. Carlos was the green Turbo ranger and the black Space ranger, and Justin is the blue Turbo ranger.”

“Do you know all of the rangers by name, color, and team?” Kira asked, shocked.

“Well yeah,” Lucas said as if it were obvious.

“I don’t know everyone,” Dr. O argued.

“Yes you do,” Trip said, “most of them because you were on a team with them, their color, or, the uh, other reason.”

“That isn’t even most of them,” Dr. O tried to defend. 

“Look, running this, we should be there tomorrow morning," Jen said, switching topics back. 

“That works, they shouldn’t start hatching till mid day, so,” Dr. O said tilting his head knowingly.

“Fingers crossed,” Jen said understanding. 

“Ooo, wait, before we go, can I talk to Tommy privately?” Trip asked, looking excited. 

“Older Tommy or younger?” Katie asked warily.

“Older,” Trip said, confused why Katie was asking. 

“Yeah, prefer if that wasn’t completely private,” Jen stated.

“Well I don’t know if it could work, and I need Tommy’s help with it, so I don’t want to share with everyone and get their hopes up,” Trip explained.

“Okay, let me put this a different way,” Jen said, “the last time any amount of greens were left alone, a building was disintegrated.” 

“You still can’t prove that was us,” Dr. O reminded. 

“Doesn’t matter,” Jen stated.

“Pretty sure it does,” Dr. O countered.

“I would like to be looped into whatever craziness the two of you talk about,” Jen stated.

“Sure,” Dr. O shrugged. 

Jen looked wary of how quickly Dr. O agreed, “okay, well, we will go get ready, you two chat quickly, and everyone get some rest.”

“Sounds good,” Dr. O said walking back over to the counter to grab the communicator, “see you guys soon.” 

“See ya,” Lucas said, waving as he pulled his mirror out of his pocket. Katie waved as she dragged Jen away, leaving Trip.

“Do you know which building they’re talking about?” Trip asked when he was sure the others were out of earshot. 

“No,” Dr. O stated shaking his head, “there were like five, I just don’t ask for specifics or give specifics, and they think there was only one building that no longer exists.”

“At least we know it works,” Trip said, as Dr. O closed the door to the back yard leaving the teens alone in the living room.

“Well, that was interesting,” Kimberly said after a moment of silence. 

“I like them,” Conner said.

“Do you guys know what they were talking about with the disintegrated buildings?” Tommy asked concerned.

“No,” Ethan stated, shaking his head.

“So, uh, there's a thing against green rangers?” Tommy asked quietly.

Dino Thunder froze.

“Not that we’re aware of,” Trent said. 

“Yeah, uh, shall we continue with the game?” Kira suggested trying to change the topic.

“Yes,” Kimberly agreed, “Conner went last so it’s Billy’s turn, right?”

“Yes, can you pass the dice?” Billy asked. 

The teens continued to play monopoly while Dr. O talked with Trip about who knows what. After a while, Dr. O walked back inside, looking exhausted and surprised that the teens were still up.

“That took you a bit,” Ethan said, moving his piece. 

“Do you guys know what time it is?” Dr. O asked concerned.

“No,” Jason said, “and you owe me 400.” 

“Its almost midnight,” Dr. O told them, “you guys should go to bed.”

“We want to finish the game,” Conner explained.

“You guys are playing monopoly,” Dr. O stated.

“Yes,” Zack said.

“Have any of you lost yet?” Dr. O asked.

“No,” Trini answered, “and were probably nowhere close to it.” 

“Right, and tomorrow were are probably going to be in a pretty big fight,” Dr. O reminded them.

“It would be wise for us to go through a REM cycle,” Billy said, a little disappointed. 

“What?” Conner asked, confused.

“Go to bed,” Dr. O translated.

“Oh,” Conner realized. 

“Sounds good to me,” Jason said, yawning. 

The teens begrudgingly agreed and packed up the game, and headed upstairs, the boys sleeping in Tommy’s room, the girls getting the guest room, and Dr. O took the couch.

Chapter Text

Dr. O woke up from a nightmare, unsurprisingly about the fight, and them losing. Shaking it off, he got up and headed to the kitchen. It was starting to get light, which meant they had a couple of hours before Time Force was supposed to get in. He put a pot of coffee on, doing his best to stay quiet, wanting to let the teens sleep as much as he could let them. Although that didn’t mean that some of them weren’t already up. 

“Dr. O,” Jason said suddenly. 

Dr. O spun around, startled, “uh, Jason? I didn’t think any of you would be up yet.”

“I’m the only one so far,” Jason said with a confused look.

“What’s up?” Dr. O asked, taking a sip of his coffee.

“You're drinking coffee,” Jason stated. 

“Oh, yeah,” Dr. O said, understanding Jason’s confusion, “college.”

“That does not explain anything,” Jason stated, still confused.

“You will,” Dr. O said, “Do you want anything to eat?”

“What is there?” Jason asked.

“Um,” Dr. O put his cup down and walked over to the fridge, “there are eggs.”

“What about stuff for waffles?” Jason asked, “we could make waffles for everyone.” 

Dr. O shrugged, “sure.” 

The two rangers gathered the ingredients and bowls and started making waffle batter. 

“We’re still friends, right?” Jason asked after a little.

Dr. O paused for a moment, then looking at the teenager, “is there a reason you think we wouldn’t?”

“Uh, well no, but things happen in life and I don’t know if something happened later on between us,” Jason explained. 

“Okay, I can understand the concern there,” Dr. O said nodding, “but no, we are still good friends.”

“That’s good,” Jason nodded. Dr. O just smiled softly and the two of them got back to making waffles. 

After the waffles started cooking, more of the teens started joining.

“Do you guys need any help?” Trini asked.

“No,” Jason, Zack, and Kimberly said, quicker than they intended. Trini looked at them with a mixture of confusion and hurt. Kira just looked confused.

“We have it covered but thank you for offering,” Dr. O tried to explain calmly. 

“Oh,” Trini said, understanding, “maybe next time.”

“Uh, yes, next time,” Dr. O said, avoiding eye contact, taking his coffee and taking a seat on the couch. 

Kira walked over to his side, whispering, “uh, what’s the whole thing about Trini and cooking?”

“Leave it at, don’t eat anything she makes,” Dr. O whispered back. 

“Oh,” Kira said understanding, before walking over and grabbing herself a plate. 

It didn’t take too much longer before everyone was downstairs and having some breakfast. They were all obviously tense, knowing what was probably going on later that day, but were doing their best to keep their minds off of the future fight for the moment. Well, Dino Thunder was at least. Mighty Morphin’ were trying to get a plan together. 

Tommy had walked over to Dr. O, “so, is there a plan?”

“Uh, technically,” Dr. O replied. 

“Meaning?” Tommy asked, confused.

“We are meeting with Time Force when they get here then figure the rest out later,” Conner answered smirking at Dr. O.

“Something like that,” Dr. O said, nodding to Conner as he got up. 

“So there currently is not a full plan,” Billy stated.

“It is a little difficult to have a full plan when we don’t know the full idea that we are going against,” Ethan explained. 

“But we do know,” Jason said, “the dinos that are hatching from those eggs, they're going to attack. What more is there?”

“Well for one, exactly which species are hatching,” Trent mentioned. 

“There that, but the dinos can’t be the only part of this plan, there is always more that the heads are cooking,” Dr. O added. 

“So, knowing what Rita and Zed have planned is another part of the plan?” Tommy asked.

“Yes,” Dr. O said, as Tommy’s communicator went off. 

“Go Zordon,” Tommy said into the communicator, everyone went quiet so they could hear. 

“ALPHA HAS FOUND A YELLOW SHIP OF SOME KIND ON THE BEACH BY THE CLIFFS,” Zordon said, as the communicator with Time Force started beeping. 

“You going to get that?” Conner asked Dr. O.

“Were about to go meet them,” Dr. O told him, putting the communicator in his pocket. 

“What are the coordinates?” Billy asked Zordon. 

“I shall send those to you,” Alpha said, “the scan shows there being six lifeforms and all of them seem to have ranger power.” 

“Then that should be Time Force,” Tommy stated, looking at his team “we can meet them at the beach.” 

“ONCE YOU ARE ALL THERE ALPHA CAN TELEPORT ALL OF YOU BACK TO THE COMMAND CENTER,” Zordon added. 

“Sounds like a plan,” Jason nodded.

“Okay, everyone ready?” Tommy asked, looking around the room.

“No, I was actually going to get another waffle,” Conner smirked. 

“I think you're fine after the four you just ate,” Kira chuckled, walking over to Trini. 

“We should get going though,” Trini reminded everyone, “we don’t want to keep them waiting on the beach.”

“Were ready,” Dr. O said, shaking his head, with amusement at his team.

With that the eleven rangers were suddenly able to hear waves crashing on the beach next to them. In front of them was the Time Force ranger team, all of them had changed into their civilian outfits, except for Eric who was still in his Silver Guardian uniform, all of them taking in the sights of their landing. The Mighty Morphin’ team were walking a little slower behind Dino Thunder up to the time traveling team. 

Wes noticed the group first, smiling at Dr. O as he started walking towards the larger group. 

“Tommy!” Wes cheered as the two of them grabbed hands pulling in toward each other in a hug, “good to see you again.”

“Same here Wes,” Dr. O chuckled. 

“One of these times we should meet up when it’s not the end of the world,” Eric stated.

“That would be nice,” Dr. O agreed.

“Odds are not in our favor,” Trip stated, readjusting his hat. 

“Uh, hi,” Conner said, waving while walking next to Dr. O, “I’m Conner, the Dino Thunder red ranger.”

“Right, introductions,” Wes remembered, addressing all the teens while Dr. O and Trip seemed to take a step to the side to discuss what they had talked about last night. 

“Well, you already know us,” Kimberly stated, sounding a little uncomfortable. 

“True, but you technically haven’t met us yet,” Katie explained, then looking at her team mates from her time, “although the four of us have already done introductions.”

“Right, well, I’m pretty sure you guys have at least heard about me,” Wes chuckled a little embarrassed, “I’m Wesly Collins, the red Time Force ranger, but you guys can just call me Wes.”

“Yes, we have heard about you,” Jason said, trying not to show his confusion and a little bit of disdain for Wes becoming a ranger, let alone the red ranger. 

“Yeah, well, you probably haven’t heard about me,” Eric redirected the conversation, “I’m Eric, the quantum ranger.”

“Quantum?” Billy asked.

“Yes, and please don’t ask me about it,” Eric sighed, “I know you understand it better than I do.”

“To business,” Jen said, stepping forward, earning a groan from Wes, Lucas, and Katie, “we did not come here to have fun.”

“Yes, but that doesn’t mean it has to be all business all the time,” Wes countered, taking her hand, “we know that odds are this is going south fast, so lets take the time to just not be full business for once.”

“I think I’m going to like you,” Conner stated, nodding at Wes, earning an eye roll from Ethan, “just one question.”

“Shoot kid,” Wes said, glancing for a moment at Dr. O and Trip, who were still deep in a conversation. Jen took the moment to walk over to them, Lucas followed. 

“One, not a kid,” Conner pointed out.

“Right, sorry,” Wes remembered, doing his best not to smile at the remark.

“Two, Dr. O asked you guys to bring our Zords,” Conner crossed his arms, “where are they?”

“Not here,” Wes smiled, shrugging as he put his hands pockets. Katie stifled her laughter. All the teens just stared at them in shock.

“What do you mean?” Tommy asked, breaking the silence on their side of the beach.

“Not going to happen Jen,” Dr. O said loud enough for everyone to hear, which got everyone's attention to turn to the four rangers by the edge of the water. 

“Lucas?” Jen turned to the blue ranger for assistance.

He shrugged with a sympathetic look towards Jen, “sorry, but I’m on their side.”

Jen breathed heavily, putting a finger up for them to wait, “one second.”

“Question for the group,” Jen stated walking back over to everyone, Trip, Dr. O, and Lucas followed behind her. 

“What did you guys do?” Eric asked, impressed.

“We did not tell her what Tom, er, Dr. O and I have been discussing,” Trip explained simply. 

“And you think they should,” Wes concluded, sounding disappointed.

“Yes,” Jen said like it was obvious. 

“Why aren’t you guys sharing?” Katie asked.

“Because it's a, this would be really cool in the faint hope that we could pull it off, idea,” Dr. O explained.

“But odds of it working and the risks that come with it,” Wes added, looking at Jen while he talked, “puts it in the category of last resort and not sharing as to not get the rest of our hopes up that we might have this in our back pocket should everything go south.”

“Pretty much,” Dr. O nodded. 

“So I’m the only one,” Jen concluded. 

“Not the first time, won’t be the last,” Katie said cheerfully as she gave Jen a sideways hug, Jen smiled softly at the gesture, nodding as she regretfully admitted defeat. 

“So, are we just hanging on the beach? Or?” Lucas asked, looking around.

“What? The salt water air not good for your hair?” Eric joked.

“One, no it’s not,” Lucas said pulling out his hand held mirror, “the new gel that Nadira got me does reliquifies with salt.”

Different reactions went across all the rangers. Kimberly nodded in understanding, Trini, less understanding than her friend, but still understood Lucas. The rest of Might Morphin’ looked at each other confused. Dino Thunder, Trent was just shifting uncomfortably behind his teammates, not really sure how to interact, Ethan and Kira were debating if they had to hold Conner back, Conner was looking to Dr. O to see if he could get away with it. Time Force looked at Lucas, wondering how, after all this time, he hadn’t learned.

Dr. O, not helping but smiling as he knew what was going to happen, “Trip, I’ll hold Circuit.” 

“Thanks!” Trip said, handing Dr. O his backpack that had the mechanic owl in it, he, Wes, Jen, and Eric bolted to the water, and Katie picked Lucas up and carried him to the water. It took him too long to figure out what was going on. 

Dr. O sighed, "Anyways, you guys want to let Zordon know he can teleport us to the Command Center?” 

Conner broke into a laughing fit first, Kira and Ethan joined in, Trent tried his best not to join, but he could not resist for long. The Might Morphin’ just looked mostly in shock and possibly a little horror at the sight they were seeing.

“Uh, so,” Jason tried to find words to ask what was going on. Falling spectacularly. 

“Is that normal?” Zack asked, pointing to the now completely drenched Time Force team. 

Dr. O turned to look at them, then back to the teens, shrugging and nodding, “yes, give or take.”

“So, contacting Zordon?” Kimberly asked, looking around at her team.

“Uh, yeah,” Tommy said, shaking it off, pulling up his communicator, “Alpha, you can teleport all of us.”

“Right away Tommy,” Alpha said, excited to meet more rangers. 

A couple of seconds later all seventeen rangers were in the Command Center. Mighty Morphin’ and Dino Thunder showed up right in front of Zordon, Alpha was at the side computer, keeping an eye on the dino eggs that Dr. O had moved outside of the Command Center. Mighty Morphin’ breathed a sigh of relief to be somewhere familiar and with Zordon that they knew how he was going to react. 

Dino Thunder had resorted to leaning against the consoles to catch their breaths from laughing. Dr. O had set the bag down on an open area to help Circuit get out. Stretching his wings, flying around above the teens for a moment before landing back next to Dr. O. Turning his head to see the Time Force rangers trying to shake off the water, standing a little ways away from the console area. 

“WELCOME TIME FORCE,” Zordon welcomed the new team, which Trip jumped startled, “I DID NOT MEAN TO STARTLE YOU.”

“No, you're fine Zordon,” Wes chuckled, “Trip’s just jumpy.”

“You wouldn’t happen to have towels anywhere?” Lucas asked, trying to be upset with his teammates, but his smile kept sneaking through. 

“There are some in the back, three doors down,” Dr. O told them. Lucas nodded gratefully and headed to the back with Katie. 

“So what’s the plan?” Circuit pipped up.

“You can talk?” Billy asked, impressed.

“I forgot how big computer processors used to be,” Trip said in awe as he observed the consoles without dripping salt water onto it. 

“I know!” Circuit said excitedly, flying over to land next to Trip, “it’s so majestic.”

“You know, when I see a computer,” Wes said leaning on the console next to Dr. O, “I don’t think the word majestic comes to mind.”

“Does malware?” Eric asked, standing at the back in his usual stance. 

“No, that's just Tommy,” Wes smirked. 

Dr. O rolled his eyes and groaned, “that only happened twice!”

“I thought it happened four times,” Trip said, looking up from the internal wiring. 

Dr. O thought for a moment, counting on his fingers the different times, before regretfully admitting “no it happened five times.”

“How?” Billy asked, horrified.

“First one was on me, I did click something I shouldn’t have,” Dr. O admitted, “the others, I believe the consensus was King Mondo had forever infected my stuff.”

“Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi!” Alpha said worried, “King Mondo from the machine empire.”

“Alpha,” Dr. O said softly, “I already told you we had to deal with the machine empire.”

“Oh,” Alpha said sheepishly, “right.”

“Here are the towels,” Katie said, throwing her teammates towels. 

“So what are we doing?” Jen asked, squeezing her hair. 

“Waiting for the eggs to hatch,” Dr. O answered. 

“And once the eggs hatch?” Tommy asked. 

“We see what they do,” Dr. O said, nodding to Alpha to put the eggs on the viewing globe. All ten eggs were laying together in a makeshift rock nest. As in there were some large rocks in a circle and the eggs with all inside of the circle. 

“Options of what they will do,” Eric asked, turning just his head to see Dr. O.

“Option one,” Dr. O said, “they will hatch and blow up, and that will be it.”

“That would be nice, easy, we can all just go home,” Wes nodded, “so that’s not going to happen. Next?”

“Option two, they end up being vicious and attacking, but they don’t grow bigger than their eggs,” Dr. O shrugged.

“Annoying but deal-able. Odds are not high that’s going to happen,” Ethan scoffed. 

“Option three, they grow to full Zord size, but end up being harmless and aimlessly walking around,” Dr. O stated. 

“Harmless, I get the feeling that won’t happen,” Jason stated disappointed. 

“Option four, and the last option,” Dr. O sighed, hesitating, “they grow to full size and are attacking everything.”

“Hm, let's see, dangerous for us and civilians,” Jen noted.

“Risky and challenging to keep them away from civilians while trying to take them out,” Kira added.

“Sounds like it’s going to be option four,” Conner stated, “so what’s the plan on defending the city?”

“Mighty Morphin’ take point,” Dr. O told him. All the teens stared at him in a mixture of shock and horror.

“What do you mean?” Tommy asked in shock.

“You and Time Force have more experience and knowledge than us,” Billy reminded them.

“But this is your time period,” Wes pointed out.

“How does that lead to us leading?” Jason asked.

“You know the time period, you know where things are, how the civilians will react, or the military,” Jen added.

“But Dr. O,” Trini started.

“It’s been a decade, and you already know how bad my memory is, trying to remember things from ten years ago, that’s not going to happen,” Dr. O explained. 

“Look, we will take over for our team,” Wes added to try and reassure the young teens, “so, Conner leads Dino Thunder as normal, I lead Time Force as normal, you lead Mighty Morphin’ as normal. Only difference being the three of us need to have an understanding of what the other teams are doing, to fix that, you take point.”

“So, I’d just be leading you two?” Tommy asked.

“More or less,” Dr. O nodded, “and closer to the three of you working as co-leaders than you being solely in charge.”

“Okay, that’s better,” Tommy breathed. Wes gave Dr. O a knowing look, Dr. O just rolled his eyes and shook his head. 

“So, time to actually come up with a plan?” Conner asked, excitedly rubbing his hands together. Eric gave him a worried look, but Dr. O’s tired look told him not to ask. 

“Can any of the dinosaurs fly?” Tommy asked.

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When you have nineteen people in a room, it gets chaotic, there is no avoiding that. When all nineteen of them need to work together and make a plan, it becomes easy for some to get quiet, and their ideas not heard. 

“We need to split up,” Jen stated at some point.

“How would we split up?” Kira asked, exhausted, “we have three teams, nine zords we are probably fighting, not to mention if there end up being monsters to fight, there are seventeen of us, not to mention the numerous entrances to the city, so how exactly would we split up?”

“Simplest would be by team,” Wes pointed out.

“Not necessarily,” Dr. O stated, not looking up from his and Trip’s project. Dr. O and Trip had set up a small table and were working with Circuit and Alpha on something. As much as Jen kept trying, all they could figure out was the four of them were messing with Dr. O’s morpher.

Conner groaned.

“Explain,” Jason said looking over to the four of them.

“Since some of the Dinosaur zords can fly, we are going to need to send some rangers into the air, some will probably need to go to the harbor,” Tommy explained. 

“Okay, so which zords can fly?” Zack asked, mainly at the Time Force rangers.

“All of their zords can,” Eric said, waving his hand at his teammates, “mine can’t.”

“Uh, Kira and mine can,” Trip managed to say.

Conner gasped, “you can talk!” 

“I’m sorry that not all of us have enough hot air to manage talking for hours,” Trent deadpaned back to him.

“What does that mean?” Conner asked, offended. 

“Nothing,” Ethan groaned, not wanting to explain the obvious to his friend again. 

“Right, well, like mine can too,” Kimberly added. 

“Okay, that gives us eight flyers,” Tommy said, doing a head count, turning to Dr. O, “versus how many potentially?"

“Uh,” Dr. O thought for a moment, “two, probably.”

“How about we have Kimberly, Kira, Trent, and two of Time Force to keep an eye on the air,” Conner suggested. 

“That would give it three on one,” Tommy thought, “then the remainder of the teams take a different point around the city.”

Conner looked back over at his mentor, trying to figure out what they were doing. 

Wes nodded in agreement, “that sounds as sound as we're going to get right now.”

“What if we need to form the megazord?” Trini asked. The faces that went around the room, as all the rangers realized that if they went with this plan, they wouldn’t be able to easily form any megazord. 

“We stick with this for now,” Wes stated, glancing at Conner and Tommy, “we have to get the air zords out of commission first, an air strike will be a lot harder to take care of than from the land, or even the harbor.”

“Dino Thunder will take the harbor,” Conner stated suddenly, smiling very widely. His team looked at him in shock. Dr. O smiled. 

“Kids smarter than he looks,” Trip whispered to Dr. O.

“From time to time,” Dr. O nodded in agreement.

“The harbor? Are you sure?” Kira asked with concern.

“Yes,” Conner nodded, very sure of himself.

“You can’t swim,” Ethan stated.

“Don’t need to,” Conner shrugged, “we’ll be in our zords.”

“Okay,” Wes said confused, “Time Force can take the forest entrance of the city.”

“And we’ll take the desert,” Tommy stated. 

“Are you four ready?” Eric asked the two rangers and robotic helpers.

Dr. O and Trip looked up at the others, then back down at their project, then at each other and just nodded. 

“Yes, we're as ready as we can be with this,” Dr. O said, putting his morpher back on as the four of them rejoined the group. 

“How much longer until the eggs hatch?” Jason asked. 

Alpha walked over to one of the consoles and printed out a short piece of paper, “Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi! Fifteen minutes!”

“Okay, we should get in positions,” Tommy stated.

“Hold on, we don’t know if we really have to do this yet,” Zack reminded. 

“We should still be ready for the worst case scenario,” Wes explained.

“I AGREE,” Zordon said, causing Conner and Trip to flinch, surprised he suddenly started talking, “THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD PLAN, BUT IT WILL TAKE ALL OF YOU WORKING TOGETHER AS ONE TO MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL.”

“Exactly,” Jen said, nodding once in agreement. 

“Okay, everyone ready?” Tommy asked. 

“Ready,” everyone replied, getting into their positions to morph. 

“IT'S MORPHIN TIME. TIGER ZORD.” 

“MASTODON.”

“PTERODACTYL.”

“TRICERATOPS.”

“SABERTOOTH TIGER.”

“TYRANNOSAURUS.”

“DINO THUNDER POWER UP!”

“WHITE RANGER DINO POWER!”

“TYRANO POWER!”

“TRICERA POWER!”

“PTERA POWER!”

“BRACHIO POWER!”

“DRAGO POWER!”

“TIME FOR TIME FORCE!”

With the seventeen rangers all fully morphed, they teleported to the center of the city, leaving Alpha worried and Zordon hoping the power will protect them.

“Okay, fliers stay here,” Tommy directed, “everyone else split by teams, go to the designated spots. No one calls on the zords until we can see that they are on their way.”

“Right,” Wes and Conner said, nodding affirmatively. 

The three teams split up to their pre-distinguished locations, leaving Kimberly, Kira, Trent, Lucas, and Katie, scanning the currently peaceful city. The citizens were still going about their day, it was getting close to mid day at this point, so the bustle of lunch rush was at its height, especially in the middle of downtown Angle Grove. 

“You kids ready for this?” Katie asked, stretching.

“Any advice?” Kimberly asked, standing at the edge of the building looking at the horizon. 

Katie chuckled, “you have been doing this for over a year, why are you asking for advice?”

“This is like bigger than we’ve ever handled,” Kimberly said, sounding stressed.

“There has to be a first for everything right?” Kira stated, jumping up to stand next to the only pink ranger on the roof. 

“But you guys must have so much more experience than,” Kimberly started arguing, turning to face the other rangers who were still just standing on the main roof.

“No, we,” Katie interrupted Kimberly, pointing to Lucas and herself, “we've only been active for ten months, you’ve been active for over a year.”

“I’ve only been active for seven months,” Kira added, turning to Trent.

“I’ve been a ranger for five months, and uh, good for almost three,” Trent said, straining the last part. 

“But you two,” Kimberly said pointing at Katie and Lucas, “have still been going for a couple of years, longer than us, and you two,” she added pointing to Kira and Trent, “have Dr. O and all the ranger knowledge from all the teams before you.”

“Okay, yes we got lucky with Dr. O as our mentor,” Kira agreed with Kimberly, “but he didn’t really share previous experiences with us unless we were in them.”

“Which was usually after the fact, he was usually just guiding us through at the moment,” Trent corrected. 

“Right,” Kira nodded in agreement.

“Uh, looks like it’s go time,” Lucas finally spoke, pointing to two flying dinosaur zords, aiming right towards them.

“Call same as usual?” Kira asked the Time Force rangers.

“Yes,” they both replied at the same time.

Dr. O, Conner, and Ethan were walking around the edge of the harbor, waiting for the evil zords to attack. Conner kept looking at the water, Ethan kept looking at Conner, still unsure why they were at the harbor, and Dr. O kept messing with his morpher, checking in on the changes he and Trip had been working on with Alpha and Circuit. 

The harbor was eerily quiet, which did not help the three rangers' nerves, though nervous for different reasons. They had evacuated the area, not wanting to risk civilian lives, even if it just ended up being a false alarm. The workers had given them weird looks, not used to the different uniforms, but a rangers, a ranger, and they had learned what happened when you ignored the rangers when they told you to evacuate. 

“So, why did you choose the harbor?” Ethan finally asked Conner, “you can’t swim. I so would have bet at least the forest.”

“I figured it would be easier for Dr. O,” Conner stated, taking a couple steps away from the waters edge. 

“What are you talking about?” Ethan asked, now very confused and looking at Dr. O.

“Thats what Dr. O and, uh, Trip?” Conner looked at Dr. O for confirmation on saying the right name, Dr. O nodded, Conner turning back to Ethan, “we're working on.”

“How am I the one missing something here?!” Ethan asked, shocked.

“Every once in a while Conner actually picks up on stuff,” Dr. O explained simply.

“Hey!” Conner said, turning very quickly to face Dr. O. 

“You are aware of what your current grade is in my class right?” Dr. O asked, crossing his arms. 

Conner put his finger up and took in a breath like he was going to counter before he actually thought through it, deflated, “yes, I know, I’m working on it.” 

“So uh, why are we at the harbor?” Ethan asked again, a little frustrated that he was the only one out of the loop. 

“So that Dr. O can try and call the Dragonzord,” Conner shrugged. 

Ethan paused, not sure how to react. He stared out onto the water for a minute, knowing that Dr. O’s original zord was somewhere down there.

“Really?” Ethan finally asked, trying to hide his excitement of seeing the legendary zord.

“Maybe,” Dr. O said, bringing both his students back to reality, “this is very iffy, and hasn’t been done before.”

“Dr. O most of what you’ve done has never been done before,” Conner stated, crossing his arms. 

“How would you be able to connect to it anyways,” Ethan asked, having walked over to Dr. O to get a better look at his morpher. 

“Used the residual power from the green power coin,” Dr. O explained, letting Ethan take a closer look as his morpher seemed to fluctuate between the brachiosaurus and dragon.

“Wait, there's still power?” Conner asked confused, “then why are you the white tiger?”

“There’s not enough to morph or do much of anything,” Dr. O said solemnly, “but there was enough to infuse it with my current morpher.”

“But we won’t know if it works until you try it,” Ethan stated. 

“Yes,” Dr. O nodded. 

“But if it does work it’ll be awesome," Conner said laughing. 

“No doubt,” Ethan said, nodding along. 

“Well we may get the chance to test it out,” Dr. O said looking at the horizon as the brachiosaurus was riding the stegosaurus with the cephalasaurus and T-Rex were riding the brachiosaurus. 

“We should try that when we get home,” Conner stated, the three of them unmoving. 

“I don’t think that it will work the way you're thinking,” Dr. O said. 

“Do you think we should call the zords?” Ethan asked, watching the four evil Dino’s come closer and closer. 

“I was actually thinking Dr. O could knock them off course first,” Conner said looking at his mentor. 

“Conner we’ve been over this,” Dr. O said exasperated. 

“Yes, but hear me out,” Conner said, defending himself, “if you can just take them down without us having to escalate this by calling our zords.”

“We can go help the others and get home faster,” Ethan finished. 

Dr. O sighed, it wasn’t a bad idea, he just doesn’t like doing it often. “Okay, behind me.”

The two teen rangers took a step behind their mentor so as to not get caught in the blast.

“BRACHIO STAFF, WIND STRIKE!” Dr. O yelled as he hit the ground with the staff sending a massive gust of wind towards the four zords. It was powerful enough to knock the three zords off of the stegosaurus. Though not enough to just stop the stegosaurus. 

“Yeah!” Conner and Ethan cheered. 

“Conner, Ethan,” Dr. O said, turning his head to look at them.

“Can we not cheer on the small victories?” Conner complained. 

“Focus on the next steps,” Dr. O stated, as the brachiosaurus started to breach the water, with the t-rex and cephalasaurus still on its back. 

“Call the zords,” Conner directed, “and Dr. O start working on the dragon, I get a feeling we're going to need him.”

The two Dino Thunder rangers nodded in understanding. Dr. O pulled his mopher up to contact the brachiozord.

The five Mighty Morphin’ rangers were standing on top of one of the plateaus in the desert just outside of the city. All of them were getting antsy with nothing to do except wait. 

“So, it’s been a weird week,” Zack said leaning against one of the large boulders, “even for us.”

“It’s been cool though,” Trini said, "I mean getting to meet so many future rangers.”

“And Tommy’s future self,” Jason reminded them, giving Tommy a friendly shove.

“I think that’s been the weirdest part,” Tommy admitted. 

“That or you being a mentor, or you receiving a doctorate, or you being a high school science teacher?” Billy asked.

“All of it,” Tommy stated chuckling a little. 

“It’s good to know that there are still people protecting the planet though,” Jason brought up. 

“As long as we can get through this,” Zack pointed at the horizon where the triceratops and ankilosaurous. 

“It’s two against five,” Jason said, “this might be a lot easier than we thought.”

“Don’t count on it just yet,” Tommy said, pulling Saba out. At the same time the ankilosaurous spun around slamming its tail into a nearby plateau, crushing it to rubble. 

The remaining Time Force team were standing in the clearing between the city and the forest. They had all devolved into playing a game, where they had drawn a target in the dirt and were taking turns throwing small rocks onto the target. Each ring having a number of points, Jen was in the lead.

“There is a chance that we won’t have to fight,” Eric stated.

“Dude!” Wes yelled at him as everyone looked at the Quantum ranger.

“I just said that out loud, didn’t I?” Eric sighed apologetically.

“Yes!” Trip shocked Eric would say that.

“Relax, we can’t base everything off of superstitions,” Jen said, trying to calm everyone down. 

“You're right Jen,” Wes said nodding and walking over to her, "superstitions are bogus.”

“But when they are supported by years of evidence,” Trip added.

“We really taking them seriously,” Erin stated.

“Just because one of us said, that,” Jen tried to counter, “doesn’t mean we are going to get hit hard or anything.”

“No, not at all,” Wes said nodding his head in agreement, but his disbelief was laced in his voice.

“And it definitely has nothing to do with the towering monsters that are walking towards us,” Eric said as he and the others watched the parasaurous and dimetrodon got closer to them.

“Is it just those two?” Trip asked, looking at his teammates.

“See, it’s just superstition,” Jen stated. 

“You wanna say that again,” Wes said, Jen knew he was doing the stupid smile that he knew he was right and she was wrong.

“Yes, I will!” Jen defended herself.

“Even with them?” Trip asked, pointing at what looked like the shadowy outline of a monster bat and a humanoid figure. 

“Uh, did we miss something?” Eric asked.

“We did show up towards the end of this,” Wes said, patting Eric on the shoulder, “who wants to call?”

“Can I?” Trip asked excitedly, raising his hand.

“Go for it,” Wes nodded.

Chapter Text

Out of all the teams, the air support was probably doing the best. Having only two dinosaurs to battle against, and their being five of them. Kira took the lead on the firebird with the girls while Trent led Lucas against the drago. 

“Kimberly, take the short cut around the buildings and cut it off,” Kira directed the pink Mighty Morphin’ ranger while she and Katie kept the dino between the buildings. 

They were running the risk of it turning suddenly and destroying the buildings they were trying to keep it between. That and the civilians that had not evacuated the surrounding area were being put at risk, but it was the simplest plan for the three of them, and seemed to be working. 

Kimberly had gotten ahead of the pterodactyl, turning her zord to glide between the buildings of the cross street, completely blocking the dinosaur from being able to move forward, stopping it in the air. While it paused for a moment, contemplating its next move, whether to break through the buildings, just go straight up to the sky, or try to break through the pink firebirdl zord. Kira and Katie took their shot, both making direct hits.

The pterodactyl screeched, shattering the windows in a block radius from them, as it disintegrated into yellow dust. 

The girls took off into the sky line to get away from the buildings. 

“One dino down,” Katie stated.

“Only nine more to go,” Kira finished the statement.

“Should we go help the boys?” Kimberly asked as the girls watched Trent and Lucas chase the Drago through the clouds. 

“Uh, not sure,” Katie said, watching Trent dive under it while Lucas tried to take it from above. 

“They seem to have it under control,” Kira said, not really wanting to intervene if they had it. 

Trent pulled ahead of it, staying underneath, while Lucas pulled back, staying above it. Trent flipped over so his zord was flying back facing the ground. The dino started to turn to get out of the zord sandwich it was in, but Trent and Lucas had already gotten it lined up. Before it could really move anywhere, the two guys opened fire, causing it to screech in pain as it also disintegrated into yellow dust. 

“Yeah!” The two guys cheered, flying up out of position.

“Nice shot boys,” Katie said, as the girls stayed hovering in a line. 

“I take it you girls have taken care of the pterodactyl,” Lucas stated as he and Trent pulled up in front of the girls. 

“Okay, if we have taken care of everything here,” Trent said, scanning downtown, “should we go help our teams?”

“Probably,” Kimberly said, “especially, like, you guys only have three on the harbor.”

“True, we should go help them out,” Kira agreed, worried about Conner. 

“Okay, but remember we need to stay in contact,” Lucas reminded.

“Right, if any team needs backup,” Katie added.

“Call immediately,” Kimberly said. 

“Right,” Kira said.

“Well, uh, see you guys later,” Trent said awkwardly, as the five of them started to head to their respective teams.

“Keep your eyes open, this feels too easy,” Katie stated. 

At the harbor, the rest of the Dino Thunder team was not feeling like it was too easy. The two brachiosaurus’ weren’t really doing anything, other than blocking the exit to the harbor. The zord was doing its best to attack its counterpart but it’s not a fighting zord, just transport. The stegasaurous kept battering the rangers with wave after wave. Not that they could get a good foot hold with the cephalasaurus constantly punching Conner, while the T-rex kept Ethan still in its jaws. Dr. O was making progress with the Green Dragonzord, however little it was, it was still progress. 

“Conner!” Ethan yelled with the pressure of the T-rex’s teeth starting to break his zords metal plating, “please tell me you are coming up with something, anything at this point!”

Conner groaned in pain as he got launched into another building, “ugh, other than flattening the harbor, it’s a little hard to come up with something getting jostled around like this.”

“What about some help from air support?” Kira said as she and Trent divebombed the cephalasaurus and T-rex, knocking them from their friends, but not destroying them yet. 

“Yeah!” Ethan cheered as the pressure finally let up. 

The cephalasaurus and T-rex then turned their attention to figuring out how to get the two flying above. 

“Where’s Dr. O?” Trent asked scanning the near complete ruins of the harbor.

“Uh,” Conner thought while getting his zord back up, “either on a building that’s still standing or on the brachiozord.”

“My scan says building,” Trent said, relieved when he spotted him, but confused.

“Wait, why is he just standing there?” Kira asked before Trent could. 

“He’s trying to summon the Dragonzord,” Ethan stated.

“Please tell me you're going to explain this afterwards, because I don’t think we have time right now,” Kira said very confused. 

“Yeah, sure,” Ethan said, stopping himself from going down the path none of them wanted to think about.

“Okay, but with you two back, we should be able to take these guys down, no, uh,” Conner stopped himself.

“With little difficulty,” Trent offered, chuckling. 

“Yeah, that,” Conner stated laughing with Kira and Ethan, “okay, Kira take out the stegasaurous, Trent the brachiosaurus.”

“What about you?” Kira asked worriedly, “and Ethan.”

“Thanks,” Ethan said.

“We will be dealing with the T-rex and cephalasaurus,” Conner told her, “with the stegasaurous occupied with you, we can keep our footing, we’ll have a better chance.”

“And once we're done with the other dino’s we can come and help them,” Trent added, flying over to the brachiosaurus’. 

“Right,” Kira said, already knowing the information, just wishing they had a better plan. 

Conner and Ethan, now not getting whacked by waves as the stegasaurous was occupied with Kira, could stand their ground. As the cephalasaurus came for another attack on Conner, Conner whipped his zord around and smacked the dino in the skull with the tyranno drill. This sent the dino flying into the rubble of a building, destroying it into a cloud of yellow dust. 

“See, it’s not that fun,” Conner yelled at it. 

“Nice one Conner,” Ethan deadpanned as the T-rex charged at him. 

Ethan had his zord duck down, horns facing the T-rex’s stomach. The T-rex tried to stop itself from impaling against the zords horns, but it just couldn’t stop fast enough. It roared in pain, shaking the blue Dino Thunder’s zord, as it dispersed into a cloud of gold dust. 

“That’s not disturbing or anything,” Ethan stated, readjusting himself.

“You good?” Conner asked.

“Yeah,” Ethan said, shaking himself off. 

Trent had lined up multiple shots, but every time he was about to fire, the Brachiozord got in his line of sight. He had contemplated just asking Dr. O to get his zord to back off for a moment, but he didn’t want to break Dr. O’s concentration on getting the Dragon Zord. So, he just kept circling the two brachiosaurus waiting for the shot to open up, which at this point Trent figured that wasn’t happening and had to quickly come up with some way to separate the two. 

Trent swooped close to the two, seeing if the dinosaur would follow him. He was right, and cut the turn a little close as the brachiosaurus almost took a bite out of his wing. Sucking in a breath, he took the lead in front as the brachiosaurs started to follow him, while the brachiozord followed the brachiosaurus. It didn’t take long before the brachiosaurus was far enough away that Trent wasn’t risking his mentor’s zord as well. Firing off a shot, he made a direct hit, causing the brachiosaurus to roar out in pain as it too disappeared into gold dust. 

Trent gave a nod to the Brachiozord who dipped it’s head in response, before Trent flew off and landed next to Ethan and Conner. The Brachiozord headed over to Dr. O and just stood behind him. 

“Nice set up,” Conner told Trent.

“Nice shot,” Ethan stated.

“Thanks,” Trent said as the three boys watched Kira blast into the water.

The stegasaurus kept diving into the murky harbor water, where none of them could see it disappear under the waves, as it would start shooting at her. After a couple of close calls, she had her zord do a pterascream, in the faint hope that she could radar where the dinosaur was. She was right. 

As the scream robounded through the water back to her zord, she suddenly had a very clear image of exactly where the dino was. Kira sent two shots into the water, making direct hits. No sounds were heard, the only things seen was the mass of bubbles and gold dust that floated to the surface. 

“Well I guess Dr. O doesn’t need to worry about getting the dragon zord up here,” Ethan stated, breathing a sigh of relief. 

“No, he should still,” Conner said, watching the water.

“Conner, we got all of them,” Trent expressed confusion.

Before anyone could say anything, let alone react, a twenty story version of Missile Launcher broke the surface of the water, firing a missile at Kira, and three at the boys on the shore. In the same instant, the Green Dragon Zord broke the surface of the water directly in front of Dr. O. It whipped its tail to take the hit of the three missiles, and fired all of its hand missiles at Missile Launcher and the other missile headed for Kira. 

It just barely got to the missile in front of Kira in time, and struck the shark monster, all direct hits. It didn’t destroy the monster, but it did shake it enough that it dove back under the water and quickly swam away. 

The teen rangers froze in stunned silence for a good minute before they processed what had just happened. Kira quickly flew back over, landing her zord, the four of them jumped out of their zords and headed to their mentor. 

“Dr. O?!” Kira yelled as they got closer.

“I’m fine,” Dr. O called back. 

They finally got over part of the rubble to spot their mentor leaning against the front legs of the Brachiozord. The Dragon Zord had stopped, still in the water, standing facing Dr. O and at eye level with the Brachiozord. 

“You sure?” Ethan asked, staring up at the two zords. 

“Just drained,” Dr. O said, sounding tired. 

“Sit for a minute,” Conner said, staring in awe of the Dragon zord, “it looks like we have a minute.”

“We should see how the others are doing though,” Trent stated, staring off towards where the other teams are fighting.

“Yes,” Dr. O stated, sitting down against the Brachiozord, “you should see if any of them need backup.”

“Okay, Kira contact Mighty Morphin’,” Conner directed, “Ethan call Time Force, Dr. O rest.”

“Conner,” Dr. O warned, starting to get up.

Trent walked over to him, “Dr. Oliver, we have a minute so take it, and for that matter we all should.”

“Agreed,” Conner said, nodding in agreement with Trent, taking a seat in the ruble.

Dr. O sighed reluctantly, sitting back down against his zord. Kira sat down next to Conner, just resting against him for the moment, while Ethan sat across from them. Trent took a seat across from Dr. O.

“Trini, are you guys good over there or need some help?” Kira asked over her com.

“We are all good here,” Trini replied, “are you guys good?”

“Yeah, we're all set,” Kira told her, "Ethan's asking Time Force if they're good.”

“We are seeing some smoak going on over there,” Trini shared. 

“Okay, uh,” Kira wasn’t sure how to respond to that, “Ethan?”

“Uh, hold on,” Ethan said fiddling with his morpher, “it’s not working.”

“Not working as if they're not responding, or that it’s not working,” Conner asked.

“I can’t tell,” Ethan admitted. 

“Let me try,” Dr. O said, trying to contact his morpher, that the rangers were just noticing that instead of the Brachiozord on his morpher was the Dragon zord’s head, “Wes? Trip?”

“The bat and car!” was all any of them could understand Trip saying through static.

“Uh, Trip?” Dr. O tried again.

“The Disney Car! We can’t catch it!” Trip yelled clear as day through the communicator.

Even though everyone had their helmets still on, they could all sense the confusion from each other.

“Um, Trip? Do you need back up?” Dr. O asked, very confused. 

“Yes,” Wes said, answering very quickly. 

“We’ll take the zords over,” Conner said getting up and directing his team, “Kira and Trent go ahead of us, Dr. O bring both of your zords.”

“Right, we’ll see you there,” Kira said, squeezing Conner's hand before running towards her zord with Trent. 

“Dr. O?” Conner asked before running off.

“I’ll be fine,” Dr. O said, nodding towards the red ranger. Conner didn’t quite believe him, but he didn’t have time to argue. So begrudgingly, Ethan and Conner ran over to their own zords. Dr. O jumped up to the top of the Brachiozord. He took a seat on its head while both of his zords started walking to the forest. 

Jumping back to Might Morphin’ as Kimberly joined up with her teammates.

Tommy, Jason, and Zack had surrounded the Ankilosaurous, while Billy and Trini were working on the Triceratops. 

Tommy had taken the Ankilosaurous’ tail in the tiger zord’s mouth, doing his best to hold the dino in place while Zack and Jason came at it on both sides. The lion extended its claws, ready to come down on the dino’s back, while the dragon went for its head. Just before anything could happen, the Ankilosaurous had gotten a footing and managed to whip its tail around, sending Tommy flying into Zack, and hitting the bludgeon at the end of its tail on the dragon's head, knocking it to the ground. 

“Well, that didn’t work,” Zack groaned. 

“We need a new plan,” Tommy said, righting himself.

“Seeing as though that seemed like our best option,” Jason reminded.

“Zack and I will pin it down, you go for the head,” Tommy directed. 

"So a small variation of what we just did?” Zack doubled checked. 

“Yes,” Tommy stated, “unless you guys can come up with something better.”

“I’ll get the left,” Zack sighed, moving his lion to the other side of the Ankilosaurous, Tommy kept the tiger on this side of the Ankilosaurous while Jason flew the dragon zord around the side for another attack from the side. 

The tiger zord put all its weight on the top half of the dinosaur while the lion zord pinned down the back. The Ankilosaurous fought back hard, causing Tommy and Zack to really strain to keep the dinosaur down. Jason flew at the Ankilosaurous’ head, ripping it off at the speed he was flying at. The dino quietly disappeared into a cloud of gold dust, causing both the tiger zord and lion zord to collapse onto the ground.

Billy and Trini were on top of a plateau circling around the Triceratops who was very good at the offensive. The dino kept swinging its head around to try and poke at Billy and Trini. Trini could not get a good grip with her Griffin claws on the Triceratops’ hide, and Billy kept crossing horns with the Triceratops. 

“We are making no progress,” Trini stated after another failed attempt of slashing at the dino’s hide. 

“If we push it to the precipice, we can just send it to the rocks below,” Billy suggested.

“It’s worth a shot,” Trini said, standing next to the unicorn zord. 

The yellow griffin zord and blue unicorn zord angled themselves to keep pushing the Triceratops backwards towards the edge. The dino was paying more attention to the two zords getting closer to it, than the edge of the plateau. It didn’t take too long for it to slip and its center of gravity to cause it to fall to the ground. It gave a small roar of fear as it fell towards the grounds, disappearing into a cloud of gold dust at the sudden stop. 

“It doesn’t feel any colder,” Billy said thoughtfully.

“What do you mean?” Trini asked very confused by Billy’s comment.

“After fall is winter,” Billy explained.

“Oh,” Trini said chuckling, “not bad.”

“Thank you,” Billy said, “was that it?”

“It feels too easy,” Trini sighed. 

“Agreed,” Billy said. 

“Uh, guys?” Zack asked over coms. 

“Yes?” Trini said, “are you guys good?” 

“Yeah, we're good, but I think Boom Boom Boy is making his way towards us,” Tommy stated. 

“Okay,” Billy said carefully, “think Kimberly is done?”

“Hopefully,” Tommy said, “in the meantime, why don’t you two come over here and we see what we can do in the meantime.”

“Okay, be there in a moment,” Trini said as she and Billy headed over to the other rangers. 

The five of them stood in a line watching as Boom Boom Boy got closer. As the chameleon monster loaded its shoulder cannons Kimberly flew over the line of zords and fired on the monster, causing it to fall backwards, firing its cannons directly up into the air and coming crashing back down on it. The impact of the cannon balls caused the monster to implode.

Kimberly landed in front of the line of her teammates, and all the rangers just paused for a minute.

“Was it supposed to be that easy,” Zack asked after a minute.

“After all that, I felt like it should have been, I don’t know,” Jason stated in confusion.

“Harder?” Tommy suggested. 

“Yeah,” Jason said, agreeing with the word.

“You guys take care of the flyers?” Trini asked Kimberly.

“Yes,” Kimberly stated, “the only really tricky part was trying not to destroy any of the buildings.”

“But everyone’s good?” Jason asked.

“Yeah, we got rid of the two dinosaurs, then like we all went back to our teams,” Kimberly stated.

“That’s good,” Tommy said, “we should contact the other teams, see if they need backup.”

“Trini, are you guys good over there or need some help?” Kira’s voice came in through Trini’s communicator. 

“Prefect timing,” Jason stated.

“We are all good here,” Trini replied, “are you guys good?”

“Uh, guys, is that smoke?” Zack asked looking over towards the forest and Time Force.

“Yes, I think it is,” Billy stated, “we should possibly head over and see if they need assistance.”

“Yeah, we're all set,” Kira told her, "Ethan's asking Time Force if they're good.”

“We are seeing some smoke going on over there,” Trini shared. 

“Okay, uh,” Kira said confused over the coms, “Ethan?”

“We should go over and check it out,” Jason stated.

“Agreed,” Tommy stated.

“Should we tell Dino Thunder?” Trini asked.

“Yes,” Tommy said, “let's head over and they can meet us there.”

“Kira?” Trini asked opening the comms again.

“Yes?” Kira answered, sounding out of breath.

“We are heading over to Time Force, meet us there?” Trini said as the Mighty Morphin’ started heading towards the forest. 

“Already on the way over, so yes,” Kira stated.

All twelve zords headed towards Time Force as quickly as they could, having no idea what they were going to find upon arrival.

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“We are blaming Eric right?” Trip asked, narrowly dodging the tail of the Dimetridon, but was unable to doge McQueen and was sent flying into the trees. 

“Yes!” Wes said, firing at Bat-Attack who turned around sonic screamed at him, knocking him off course. 

“Why?” Eric asked from the top of the Q-Rex.

“Because you said the thing!” Jen yelled, firing at the Parasaurous to let Trip get up. 

“What did Eric say?” Katie asked flying in with Lucas.

“Something he really shouldn’t have,” Wes stated, annoyed through gritted teeth as McQueen kicked him into the ground. 

“That doesn’t really answer the question,” Lucas said, as he and Katie started firing at Bat-Attack. 

“AAAHH! MORE PESTS!” Bat-Attack screeched, as he waved his wings to try and swat at the yellow and blue ranger. 

“All I said was that maybe we wouldn’t get attacked!” Eric yelled as Q-Rex fired its lasers at the Dimetridon. 

“Why would you do that?!” Katie asked, shocked.

“We established that I wasn’t thinking,” Eric defended.

“When does he ever?” Jen asked as she and Trip circled the Parasaurous.

“Hey?!” Eric said, sounding offended.

“You becoming the Quantum ranger,” Wes reminded, chuckling as he joined Katie and Lucas against Bat-Attack.

“Okay, we don’t need to list everything,” Eric stated, “Q-Rex tail whip!” 

The Q-Rex spun around with its tail spinning, making direct contact with the Dimetridon sending it flying into the tree line. 

“Nice hit,” Katie stated, firing another barrage of lasers at the bat monster.

Screech 

Bat-Attack diverted all the laser blasts to hit Wes, Lucas, and some of the trees, which caused the trees to catch fire.

“That’s not great,” Trip stated. 

“This bat is driving me batty!” Katie complained.

“How did you guys take out the flyers so quickly?!” Jen asked, getting hit by McQueen again.

“I don’t know, they went down with one direct hit,” Lucas stated, narrowly dodging Bat-Attacks wings. 

“Well these guys aren’t going down with one hit,” Wes stated, watching the Dimetridon get back up. 

“So reason why these are weirdly harder?” Lucas asked, knowing what he was setting up.

“Eric said the thing,” Trip said way too excitedly.

“You can’t blame the whole thing on me!” Eric argued.

“Yes we can,” Katie stated firing just after McQueen.

“Haha too slow rangers!” McQueen cheered.

“And we will!” Wes added, firing at the back of Bat-Attack throwing the bat monster off balance. 

“Ugh! This Disney rip off is really getting annoying,” Trip yelled as he got hit by McQueen again.

“What do you mean by that?” Wes asked, finally exhausted about Trip making those references.

“Trip, didn't that first one come out in 2005?” Lucas asked.

“Yeah,” Trip answered.

“So, next year for Eric and me?” Wes asked. 

“Oh, yeah,” Trip realized.

“Cool, what is it?” Eric asked.

“Disney came out with an animated movie about cars,” Trip stated.

“Why?” Wes asked.

“No, the why is why they made it live action,” Trip stated.

“What?!” Eric asked, horrified.

“Yeah that was bad,” Katie agreed. 

“Can we focus on the current situation?” Jen asked, narrowly dodging McQueen. 

“Right,” Wes said, agreeing. 

“We need to corner them,” Eric stated.

“Right when you figure how to do that let us know,” Wes stated, hitting the Parasaurous. 

“Wes? Trip?” Dr. O’s voice came through the coms.

“The screeching bat and the Disney car won’t let up!” Trip yelled as he got thrown into the fire forest.

“What?” Lucas asked exasperated. 

“Uh, Trip?” Dr. O asked worriedly.

Trip got himself back up flying after McQueen, “The Disney Car! We can’t catch it!”

Wes sighed.

“Um, Trip? Do you need back up?” Dr. O asked, very confused.

“Yes,” Wes said, answering very quickly. 

“What are you talking about?” Eric asked, sounding offended, “we can do this.”

“Eric we haven't been able to take down any of them, we need backup,” Jen stated firmly.

“And this fire is getting out of control,” Katie reminded. 

Kira and Trent get there first, flying quickly over the forest fire, snuffing out the flames. 

“What is going on?” Kira asked, not sure how to take the scene. 

The rest of Dino Thunder and Mighty Morphin’ showed up at the same time.

“Yes!” Trip cheered seeing the Green Dragon zord, “It worked!”

“That’s what you two were working on?!” Jen asked, shocked.

“Yeah, but I mean we didn’t know if it was going to work or not,” Trip stated.

“How?!” Billy asked in amazement. 

“Later,” Dr. O stated before Trip could dive into all of the details. 

“Well, if you are all here, then we should upgrade!” McQueen yelled as Missile Shark showed up behind Dino Thunder firing off three missiles. 

“I thought you took him out?!” Conner yelled.

“I hit him,” Dr. O corrected, “did not destroy him.”

“We need to take these dino’s out, then deal with them,” Eric said.

“Not that we shall give you a chance!” Bat-Attack yelled as the three monsters stood next to each other and morphed into a larger monster combined of all three of them. 

The new larger monster is now blue like Missile Shark, furry like Bat-Attack, had a red tracksuit on. The missile launched was set on its back, and it had a long tail that seemed to be a prehensile tail. 

“Uh, megazords?” Ethan asked.

“Yes.” Wes said quickly. 

All three teams tried to combine into their megazords, but the Parasaurous knocked into the Mighty Morphin’, the Dimetridon knocked into the Dino Thunder, and the new monster grabbed Katie in its tail and threw her behind it. 

“Okay, that didn’t work?” Zack groaned.

“You can’t win, Rangers!” the monster yelled. 

“Okay, anyone have any ideas?” Wes asked, “cause I’m running out.”

“We need to get those dinosaurs out of the way,” Trini stated. 

“Agreed,” Jen stated.

“The simplest way is to split up, some of us take out the two dinosaurs, the rest distract the monster,” Eric stated.

“I have an idea for more power, but I need Eric, and we need time,” Dr. O stated, sounding slightly like he was regretting it. 

“Okay, we can buy time,” Wes stated, not really sure how they would be doing that. 

“We can take the monster,” Tommy stated. 

“Uh, what?” Jason said surprised. 

“We can do it,” Tommy repeated, “just long enough for the others to take care of the dinosaurs.” 

“We got it,” Kimberly agreed. 

“We’ll take the Dimetridon,” Conner stated.

“Then we’ll take the Parasaurous,” Jen stated. 

The rangers all split off, the tiger zord and red dragon biting down on the monster's arms, causing it to fall backwards. Kimberly tried to fly over the monster but it sonic screamed directly up, knocking the firebird off course. The griffin and lion extended their claws piercing the tail, trying to keep it down. It did not last long as before Billy could line his zord up, the monster threw Tommy and Jason into the unicorn zord, and whipped its tail, sending Trini and Zack flying up and into Kimberly. 

Lucas and Katie went low, Jen and Trip went high while Wes took the center. All five of them fired consistently at the Parasaurous, managing to actually get enough contact with the dinosaur for it to scream out in pain and explode into gold dust. The Time Force rangers quickly changed course to fly back to help out Mighty Morphin’.

Kira flew in front of the Dimetridon playing as a distraction while Trent flew over top of it and picked it up in the Drago zords talons, flying the dino up. At a certain height he dropped the dino onto the blue triceratops’ horns, causing the Dimetridon to roar in pain and explode into a cloud of gold dust. Dino Thunder quickly turned back to join Mighty Morphin’ at the same time as Time Force. 

Simultaneously, Eric and the Q-Rex were standing across from Dr. O and the Green Dragon zord. 

“So, what’s your idea?” Eric asked, scoffing, “and is it to determine that the Q-Rex is better than your Dragon?”

Dr. O sighed, finding humor in Eric’s statement, “no, but Green Dragon is better, and before we get into that argument,” Dr. O put his hand up knowing Eric had already opened his mouth, “my idea is risky.”

“What isn’t?” Eric asked, now more intrigued in the idea than defending his zord.

“Yeah, but nothing like this has been even remotely attempted,” Dr. O added.

“Which makes it more exciting, what is it?” Eric asked, actually excited about this now.

“We combine our zords,” Dr. O stated.

Eric paused, not sure how to react, “like, combine the Green Dragon and Q-Rex?”

“Yes.”

“Is that possible?”

“No idea.”

“So? Um.”

“Its a huge risk, with no idea if it’s even possible, but if it does work, the new zord should be more than powerful enough to take out that monster,” Dr. O explained. 

Eric paused, contemplating the idea. It was a huge risk on so many levels, but if it worked, it would be seriously amazing. The Quantum ranger nodded his head, the two rangers would attempt the impossible. 

“How do we do this?” Eric asked as the two of them stood together. 

“Uh, well,” Dr. O said, thinking the plan more through, “Q-Rex is voice command, and right now the Green Dragon is telepathy controlled, so.”

“I tell the Q-Rex to combine, and you think it?” Eric suggested.

“Good as any place to start,” Dr. O shrugged. 

“Q-Rex!” Eric commanded, “Combine with Green Dragon Zord!”

Dr. O held his morpher and was doing his best to just think of the zords combining. 

After a minute, the zords started to move. The tails separated at each intersection and reconnected alternating from Q-Rex to Green Dragon Zord. The Q-Rex abdomen and arms went inside of the Dragon zord, while its laser cannons went on the outside of the Dragon. The Dragons head went inside the Q-Rex and the Dragon zord alternated the legs like the tail with the Q-Rex, so the zord stood even taller.

While combining, the monster noticed what they were doing and tried to sonic scream the two rangers. The Brachiozord stepped in the way, taking the brunt of the scream, sliding a little towards the rangers. The monster ran out of air before it could move the Brachiozord anymore. 

Once the two zords were combined, Dr. O and Eric jumped up to ride on its shoulders. 

At this point all the teams were converging on the singular monster, the last thing they had to defeat. Dino Thunder and Mighty Morphin’ paused to awe the now Quantum Dragon, while Time Force came from behind the monster, firing rapidly on its back forcing it to move towards the Quantum Dragon. 

“Fire shoulder cannons!” Eric yelled, while Dr. O thought about the missiles firing from the hands. 

The Quantum Dragon sent green laser beams blowing up the missile launchers on the monster's back. As Time Force got out from behind the monster and moved in front of the teen rangers, the missiles made contact at every portion of the monster's body, leaving it no chance as it exploded. 

There was silence from all the rangers and their zords for a couple seconds. Everyone fully expected something else to happen, but to everyone’s pleasant surprise nothing did.

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The sigh of relief from all the rangers probably could have been heard all the way in the harbor, if there was anyone over there. The destruction was insane, the harbor didn’t really exist anymore, there were plateaus that definitely dropped a couple of feet, and the forest had not only burned the tree line back, but the ground underneath had been torn up to be almost unrecognizable. All the rangers stood in front of their zords, all standing in a circle together having demorphed. Dr. O was leaning against the Brachiozord and Eric was leaning against the Quantum Dragon, neither of them having the energy to try and separate their zords. The other rangers were standing a lot closer to each other. 

“Can we never do that again?” Conner asked as they all stood around.

“I’m good with that,” Zack agreed. 

“So like now what?” Kimberly asked, looking towards the Time Force.

“Uh, well,” Wes started, “we should send the zords back, and go back to the Command Center.”

“Agreed, and probably sooner than later,” Jen stated.

“Can you two separate them?” Trip asked Eric and Dr. O.

Eric and Dr. O looked at each other as all the rangers turned to look at them.

“Well?” Eric asked Dr. O.

“I have no idea,” Dr. O shrugged tiredly. 

“It was your idea,” Eric stated shocked pushing off of the Quantum Dragon to look at Dr. O. 

“That I didn’t know if it was going to work or not,” Dr. O restated. 

“You guys could give it a shot,” Katie suggested, shrugging.

“I, um,” Dr. O tried to figure out how to say how tired he was.

“Well, maybe since the Q-Rex is voice commanded, maybe Eric can just command it to separate,” Trip suggested, noticing how tired Dr. O looked. 

“Yes,” Billy agreed, “that should work in theory.”

“Okay?” Eric shrugged, not having anything better to suggest. He stepped back from the Quantum Dragon holding his communicator up, “Quantum Dragon split!” 

All the rangers stared at the giant zord that just stood there.

“Well, anyone have any other ideas?” Lucas asked awkwardly after a minute.

“If they morph and do the same thing as combining them,” Ethan suggested. 

“That might,” Dr. O started talking, as the Quantum Dragon suddenly started moving.

All the rangers took a couple steps back, as the Q-rex and Green Dragon started to separate. Slowly and creakily the two zords completely separated and reformed standing next to each other. The Green Dragon then turned around and headed back into the harbor. 

“Uh, nevermind?” Trent stated, as all the rangers just stared after the Green Dragon zord. 

“We can send the zords back and just head back to the Command Center then,” Jen stated, still a little shocked about the Q-rex and dragon. 

“Yeah,” Trip agreed, “Circuit and I can do that at the Command Center.”

“So let’s just teleport back and figure out what the plan is,” Tommy stated, which everyone agreed with. 

Teleporting into the Command Center, Zordon and Alpha were standing ready for them as they were all crowding in the middle area of the controls. The Time Force Rangers moved to the left side, Trip and Circuit stepping to the side to send all the out of time zords back to their respective times. The Dino Thunder rangers moved to the right side, Dr. O standing at the back and leaning against the consol. The Mighty Morphin’ stayed standing in the center.

“YOU ALL DID VERY WELL AND I WAS IMPRESSED BY THE INGINUITY,” Zordon stated. 

“Well we have learned over the years,” Eric stated, which got a lot of ‘what are you talking about’ looks from the adult rangers. 

“It looks like you guys have taken care of everything!” Alpha cheered. 

“Which means we can go home,” Kira skeptically cheered. 

“Yes,” Dr. O said, not very enthusiastically, looking unhappy at Wes.

“It’s not like you can stay here,” Katie stated, sorrowfully. 

“I know,” Dr. O said regrettably. 

“So, it’s time to say goodbye?” Trini asked, looking at Kira sadly. 

“The memory pause thing?” Kimberly asked, remembering.

“We’ll do that right as we leave, so you guys don’t miss anything,” Trip explained.

“And when we get back to 2004, Dr. O will remember all of what happened here but from Tommy’s perspective,” Ethan stated, clarifying.

“Pretty much,” Jen nodded, “which we should get back to sooner than later.”

“Well, how about the teens head to the beach and start to say goodbye, and the adults stay here, say goodbye to Zordon and Alpha,” Wes suggested, trying not to look at Dr. O.

“Can we not say goodbye to Zordon and Alpha?!” Kira asked, sounding hurt.

“Oh, that’s not what I meant," Wes quickly corrected himself, “you guys say goodbye to them, then you and the Mighty Morphin’ go to the beach and say goodbye.”

“Yeah okay,” Kira stated, knowing full well what Wes was trying to do. She walked over to be in front of Mighty Morphin’ looking up at Zordon. “It was really good to meet my Grandmentor, and it was amazing learning from you directly. And Alpha, I will miss you little quirks.” 

Alpha beamed while Kira traded places with Ethan. Zordon decided to stay quiet until all four of them were done, while Dr. O just looked at his students with soft pride.

Ethan stood in front, “um, I did not think about the fact that you are our Grandmentor but we will be tormenting Dr. O with that now. But I think it was a good experience to meet both of you and I will never forget it.”

Ethan went back to his place, and Trent walked out in front, “uh, while I already felt welcome with my own team, you did not question the, uh, interesting way all of us became rangers, and it was a nice week, despite everything.”

Trent nodded awkwardly for a second trying to think of something else to say, but when nothing came to mind, he stepped back and Conner walked in front. 

“Well, I wasn’t here for as long as the others, but it was fun and I will treasure the few moments I had with you guys.”

Conner nodded, not being able to come up with anything else, and walked back to his spot. 

“IT WAS GOOD TO MEET ALL OF YOU, HOWEVER BRIEF IT WAS, IT IS GOOD TO KNOW THAT THE POWER GETS PASSED TO SUCH CAPABLE HANDS,” Zordon told the Dino Thunder teens, and if he was more than just a head, he would have bowed respectfully towards them.

Alpha took a couple of steps forward, “Aye-yi-yi-yi-yi! This is so sad! I wish we could get to know you better, but I am glad to know how much you grew just being here this week!”

“Thank you Alpha,” Kira said, smiling at the little robot. 

“Shall we?” Conner asked, looking at his team, and the Mighty Morphin’ rangers.

“Yeah, to the beach,” Zack said, as the teen rangers all gathered together to teleport to the beach just outside of the Time Force’s time ship.

Once the teens were gone the other rangers moved to be in the center of the Command Center. 

“Well I don’t really feel like there is much for us to say,” Trip stated looking at his team.

“There isn’t,” Wes reassured Trip, but looking at Dr. O, “but I figured you’d want to say a couple things without the kids here.”

Zordon and Alpha looked at Wes and Dr. O in confusion. 

“Yeah, but you guys say your quick goodbye’s first, and I’ll catch up,” Dr. O said, nodding in agreement with Wes.

“Seems fair,” Katie shrugged. 

“It was good to officially meet you, both of you,” Wes stated.

“I’m glad you live up to your legend,” Jen adds.

“Kinda what they said,” Katie shrugged.

“Yeah, it was good, as far as end of the world experiences go,” Lucas stated.

“It was good meeting you and I hope we never have to like this again,” Trip states.

“I don’t think I can add anything else,” Eric said, nodding at his team.

“It was good meeting you guys too!” Alpha cheered.

“AS WHAT ALPHA SAID, IT WAS GOOD MEETING YOU ALL, AND I’M GLAD THE TIME LINE IS PROTECTED BY SUCH AN IMPRESSIVE TEAM,” Zordon complimented. 

“Thanks,” Wes said, smiling at his team, then turning to Dr. O, “we’ll be ready when you are.”

“Thanks Wes,” Dr. O said softly. 

The Time Force rangers teleported to join the other rangers at their ship, leaving Dr. O in the Command Center with Zordon and Alpha.

Mighty Morpin’ and Dino Thunder teens showed up on the beach, right in front of the Time Force ship. It was still the same sheltered part of the beach, surrounded by the cliffaces, it was just the ten teenage rangers. The ten of them just stood there for a minute, just listening to the waves crashing on the shore, the wind beating the cliffs, and the occasional seagull. No one wanted to talk first, no one wanted to say goodbye.

After a good couple of minutes, Conner sighed, “it’s not like this is actually goodbye.”

“Right,” Jason stated, “we will probably see you guys when you get back home.”

The group all nodded in agreement. They knew this, but that didn’t make it any easier. 

“When you guys get your memories, other than Tommy,” Trent nodded at Tommy with a smile, “I’m pretty sure we would love it if you guys would stop by and say hi.”

“Definitely,” Kimberly said, smiling at the idea.

“If you guys need anything, don’t hesitate to pester Tommy about contacting us,” Zack added. Tommy looked at him offended. “Like you are just going to?”

“Probably now,” Tommy stated.

“It’s always an after thing with you,” Conner said, his voiced laced with humor, “we don’t learn you had been a ranger till you got kidnapped, we don’t learn about time travel till we time travel, we don’t get other rangers contact information until after we meet them.”

“At this point it would be weird to do things differently,” Tommy pointed out smirking.

“No doubt,” Ethan agreed, “and we will probably sit down with a list of actual questions.”

“Deffinetly,” Kira agreed.

“Though we will try to find you guys first, before you get the chance to ask Tommy,” Trini stated, "despite how weird it will be.”

“What do you mean weird?” Conner asked, “I think we all got used to the weirdness.”

“Yeah, but next time we see each other we’ll be the same age as Dr. O, and you guys will stay the same,” Billy explained. 

“Yeah, that’ll be a little weird at first,” Trent said, “but I think we’ve all gotten used to the weird.”

“I would hope so,” Wes chuckled behind the Dino Thunder rangers, “being used to the weirdness is like rule one of being a ranger.”

“Or pretty close to number one at least,” Katie added as the Time Force rangers walked over to the group. 

“Uh, where’s Dr. O?” Conner asked, noticing that their mentor was not with the Time Force team. 

“He’ll be here in a little bit,” Trip stated, “we still need to set up the ship, so it’ll be a bit anyways.”

“Anything we can do to help?” Billy asked, very curious about a time travel machine. 

“Uh, not really,” Trip said, noticing most of Mighty Morphin’ look disappointed, as they all wanted to look inside, not necessarily help, “but that doesn’t mean you can’t come inside and look around.”

All the teens lit up with excitement and followed Trip into the ship.

“Just don’t touch anything!” Jen called after them, as she and Wes hung back while all the other rangers on the beach went into the ship. Making sure the others were inside and out of earshot, she turned to Wes, “How long do you think Tommy’s going to be?”

“I don’t know,” Wes admitted, “probably not too long, but I mean we both know this is a little more than just a goodbye.”

“I know,” Jen emphasized, “I just.”

“Don’t want to be here any longer than necessary,” Wes finished. He chuckled softly, “I know. How about we go in with the others to get the ship ready?”

Jen nodded, “okay.”

The two of them headed into the ship where Billy and Ethan were standing attentively by Trip while he excitedly explained different parts of the ship. Conner was leaning against the far wall, as the initial excitement of a time travel ship had disappeared from him. Kira was standing next to him talking with Zack about when they meet back up in the future and talking about Kira’s music career. 

Kimberly and Trini were standing by the computer with Lucas going over future fashion trends, where Lucas surprised the girls with his large knowledge on the past and future fashion trends. 

Tommy, Jason, and Trent were standing by the window, making note of so many similarities and differences between the three different teams. 

Circuit had gotten Eric wrapped up in actually getting the ship started up. 

Dr. O was standing there in the middle of the Command Center, looking up at his mentor through all of highschool, one of the only constants throughout those four years he had, who in his time was gone. Sacrificed himself to purge the universe. Not that it lasted as long as any ranger had hoped, but it was a brevity of peace. And now, he actually had the opportunity to say goodbye, to share how much he appreciated Zordon, but as he stood there, he couldn’t seem to say anything. 

“YOU HAVE TRAINED SOME GREAT RANGERS,” Zordon said, snapping Dr. O from his mind. He looked up at the holographic head, and he could almost see pride in Zordon’s eyes. 

“Thank you,” Dr. O breathed, “I learned from the best.”

“AND YOU HAVE DONE WELL,” Zordon added. 

“I, um,” Dr. O stuttered, trying to figure out the right words. Sighing, “it was good to talk to you, again.”

“I AM SURE,” Zordon said, “IT WAS GOOD TO SEE HOW MUCH YOU GROW, AND TO KNOW THAT YOU DO IN FACT BECOME AS GOOD AS I FIRST SAW IN YOU.”

Dr. O paused for a moment, “wait, from back when I was evil?”

“YES,” Zordon said, “IT IS ONE OF THE REASONS ALPHA AND I WENT TO YOUR FIRST TO BECOME THE WHITE TIGER.”

“I didn’t realize that,” Dr. O said, “uh, well I appreciate that. Kinda felt like a second chance for me after the whole green ranger stuff.” 

“IT SEEMS AS THOUGH TRENT IS GOING DOWN A SIMILAR PATH,” Zordon pointed out.

“Ah,” Dr. O chuckled awkwardly, “yeah, but he actually has someone, and potentially multiple people to talk to about it though.”

“THOUGH, GETTING TO KNOW YOUR TEAM, I MUST SAY YOU HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB,” Zordon said.

“Thank you Zordon,” Dr. O said sorrowfully, “I, uh, really appreciate your teachings.” 

“IT WAS A PLEASURE THE PASS THE KNOWLEDGE ON TO YOU,” Zordon said.

“And it was a pleasure gaining it,” Dr. O replied. 

“MAY THE POWER PROTECT YOU, TOMMY,” Zordon stated. 

Dr. O just nodded, not wanting to say something to ruin the mood, and not having anything to really add. 

“Goodbye Tommy,” Alpha added quietly, figuring that there wasn’t anything else to add. 

Dr. O just smiled sadly and teleported to the beach. He paused for a moment, noticing that everyone was on the ship. Taking a deep breath, trying to shake off the final goodbye from Zordon. Just standing on the edge of the beach listening to the waves, he didn’t notice Wes walk up next to him.

“You good?” Wes asked softly, Dr. O jumped a little, getting taken out of his head again. 

“As good as I can be,” Dr. O stated looking at Wes shrugging, “I guess.”

“You good enough to deal with having to time travel?” Wes asked. 

Dr. O sighed, “yeah, we ready to go?”

“Almost,” Wes replied as the two of them started walking back to the ship, “I think we just need to pause Mighty Morphin’s memories and then we can head out.” 

“That’s going to be weird,” Dr. O stated, groaning thinking about suddenly getting all the memories from this week suddenly back. 

“Yeah, but you might be out when that happens so,” Wes said friendly shoving Dr. O. 

“I can’t tell if that's better or worse,” Dr. O stated. 

“We can ask the others how it goes,” Wes suggested as they walked into the main room with everyone else.

Conner had moved to talk with Jason about a list of things to bother Dr. O about. Trini, Kimberly, Kira, and Katie were in the corner talking about the change and repeating fashion trends and their opinions. Zack and Trent were discussing their different artistic medians, how they differ from each other, how they are also the same and how they move forward in their respective industries. Tommy had moved to join Billy, Ethan, and Trip going through the ship. Lucas had moved to help out Eric and Circuit. Jen was trying to get everyone to move, which she had been trying to do since she saw Dr. O teleport to the beach, it wasn’t working. 

“Ask which others what?!” Jen asked exasperated. 

“Oh, uh,” Wes froze, not sure if responding would be making it worse. 

“Time to go?” Trip asked, noticing Dr. O and Wes in the room.

“Yup, all set,” Circuit chirped landing in the middle of the table. 

All the rangers stopped their conversations and walked over to surround the table.

“This is all it took for you guys to listen?!” Jen asked, shocked.

“Well, we knew nothing was going to happen until Dr. O got back,” Conner stated, shrugging. 

“You could have at least said something instead of just ignoring me,” Jen stated. 

“Yeah, but then you would have had us do things if we talked to you,” Katie stated. 

“And we just wanted to talk to each other,” Kira added.

“Or learn,” Billy added.

“Yeah, or that,” Zack shrugged. 

“Fine, okay,” Jen said, giving up. Looking at the Mighty Morphin’ rangers, “you guys ready?”

The youngest rangers in the room looked at each other, shifting a little uncomfortably. 

“It doesn’t hurt,” Lucas reassured.

“Yeah, and you will get these memories back,” Wes added. 

“It’s just to make sure that the time line doesn’t get screwed up,” Katie said.

They all took a deep breath, looking at each other and nodded. 

“Okay, yeah,” Tommy said, speaking for his team. 

“Great,” Jen said excitedly, “you guys head outside, and I’ll meet you there.” 

The Mighty Morphin’ just nodded, waving their last goodbye’s as they left the ship. Jen quickly followed them with what looked like a blue flashlight. 

“Okay, I’m going to set this for a five minute buffer for us to leave,” Jen stated, messing with the dial on the device. The rangers just nodded, standing in a line in front of her. When the pink Time Force ranger was ready, she aimed it wide, being able to hit the entire team at once. With a flash bang, the teens stood there stunned. Jen quickly headed back into the ship where the Time Force rangers were at their stations, while the Dino Thunder teens were surrounding the window to watch the time stream, and Dr. O was sitting at the table, not looking forward to the trip. 

“Okay, we all set?” Wes asked, putting in the last quadrants into the auto pilot.

“Yup,” Circuit replied, “please everyone take your seats.”

“Wait, do we actually have to?” Conner asked. 

“No,” Trip said, “take off could just be a little rocky.”

“Oh, okay,” Trent stated, and the four of them stayed where they were. 

Katie stood behind the teens, just in case they lost their footing. Wes and Trip took a seat on either side of Dr. O. Eric and Lucas took a seat on the other side of the table, while Jen stood by the main computer to keep an eye on the path, and calculations that were coming through. 

Dr. O tried to focus on what was going on, between his student’s ooing and awing as time rushed by them, to Wes and Trip trying to keep his mind off of suddenly not sure when it was anymore. Though the voices started to blend together, and soon his vision started to, and at that point he just put his head down and passed out.

“Is Dr. O okay?” Trent asked, noticing their mentor had passed out. 

Wes had put the back of his hand to Dr. O’s forehead, “I think he might have a low fever, but he’s fine.”

“Uh, question,” Ethan stated, suddenly realizing.

“Yeah?” Trip said, ready to answer.

“When will it be when we get back? And, I don’t know, what’s the plan?” Ethan asked, as to them, a week had gone by and none of them had any idea how they were going to explain to their parents that they were fine just a decade into the past. 

“We set the time for an hour after your fight,” Trip stated.

“So it’ll still be Sunday,” Kira said, as the teens breathed a sigh of relief. 

“And as for the plan,” Wes said, “you guys can chill at my house. Tommy will be, at least until he wakes up.”

“Hayley’s already there too,” Jen added. 

“And odds are the originals will show up too,” Eric added.

“Ooo, we could all have dinner together,” Katie suggested.

“I think we should probably call our parents first, but yeah, that sounds good to me,” Kira said looking at her teammates. 

“Sounds like a plan to me,” Wes said smiling.

Chapter Text

The entire flight from 1994 to 2004 went rather smoothly, which did throw most of them, but the rangers just chalked it up to Dr. O and his timesickness covered any altercations. The ship landed in Wes’s backyard, or at least part of a clearing that was behind the manor. Katie took Dr. O and carried him over her shoulder to one of the guests' rooms for him to rest in. Hayley had been reading in Wes’s library, but followed Katie to monitor Dr. O. Wes and Jen headed out to the store to get enough food for the seventeen people they were expecting for dinner.

The teens immediately called their parents, reassuring them and explaining that Wesley Collins had invited them for dinner, and they figured they could maybe get an internship, or sponsoring, or something. To their surprise, their parents didn’t question it, and just said as long as they get to school the next day it would be fine. Once the call was done, they headed up to check on Dr. O.

Entering the room, they saw Hayley sitting in a chair pulled up next to the bed where Dr. O was sleeping in. 

“How is he?” Conner asked, not quite looking away from their mentor. 

“Well his fever’s gone,” Hayley said, looking up at the teens with a questioning look, “did he mention any of this stuff to you guys?”

“Before or after time traveling?” Ethan asked. 

Hayley sighed, “he explained it while you guys were there.”

“Yeah, but at least he honestly went through all our questions,” Kira pointed out leaning against the bed facing Hayley. 

The team stood around quietly for a little, Hayley was too focused on Dr. O’s breathing than asking the teens questions about their adventure. It had maybe been an hour and a half since they had gotten back to the present when the door bell rang, ringing through the entire manor. The teens looked at each other, all wondering if it was who they were hoping it was. Leaving the room they walked to the entryway balcony by the stairs, watching as Phillips opened the door, showing all the original Mighty Morphin’ rangers on the porch. 

“Ah, we were expecting you,” Phillips said, letting the inactive rangers into the manor. 

“How did you guys get here so fast?” Conner yelled. 

The now adult rangers looked up to see the teens just staring at them from above. 

Jason smirked at the teens, “how about you come down here, so we aren’t yelling through the manor.”

Conner super sped down the stairs to get in front of the adults, while Ethan and Trent ran down at normal speed, and Kira slid down the banister. 

“How’s Tommy doing?” Zack asked when they were all there. 

“He’s fevers gone, but it seems like he’s just sleeping,” Ethan explained.

“Hayley’s with him,” Kira added.

“Oh good, you guys are here,” Wes said, walking in with Jen and a handful of grocery bags in each hand. 

“Yeah, need a couple of hands?” Billy asked walking over to the couple to help.

“No we got it, and Katie’s got the rest,” Jen replied walking to the kitchen. Everyone paused for a minute until Katie came through the door, with two arm loads of groceries. 

“We should go help,” Trini stated, leading the rangers from the atrium. 

“And now you can,” Kimberly joked, friendly elbowing her friend. 

“I was meaning to ask about that,” Kira remembered.

“Oh,” Trini chuckled a little embarrassed, “I was a really bad cook in high school, and they all were too nice to actually tell me.”

“But now she’s gone to culinary school, so we don’t have to make up excuses,” Zack said, grabbing onto Trini’s shoulders. 

Entering into the kitchen, everything was already chaotic, and with now fifteen people in the room, it did not matter how big Wes’s kitchen was, fifteen people trying to make the same stuff was just too many people in the kitchen. 

“Okay, Dino Thunder, you can set the table,” Jen instructed, “Trini pick five other people to help you cook, and everyone else you get to do clean up after dinner.”

“Uh,” Conner raised his hand.

“Phillips will help you guys,” Wes said. 

Trini ended up choosing Kimberly, Billy, Lucas, Wes, and Trip to help her out. Jason, Zack, Eric, and Katie headed out to the living room to just hang while dinner was cooking.

Dr. O started to wake up to the smell of spaghetti and meatballs. Hayley noticed him waking, but decided to wait until he opened his eyes before letting her presence be known. It took longer than Hayley felt like it should take for him to open his eyes, but Dr. O was really comfortable in one of Wes’s expensive beds and his head hurt. After a minute or so of him being conscious, he opened his eyes. 

“Hey,” Hayley said softly. Dr. O turned his head to face her, blinking a couple of times as she came into focus. 

“Hey,” Dr. O said softly, smiling at her. 

“How are you feeling?” she asked, keeping her voice soft.

“Uh, like I have weighted cotton balls in my head,” Dr. O tried to describe. 

“Weighted cotton balls?” Hayley asked, trying not to laugh.

“I don’t know how else to describe it,” Dr. O defended, trying to sit up a bit. 

“You sure you're good for that?” Hayley said worried, but helped him. 

“Yeah,” Dr. O breathed, leaning back against the headrest, “how long was I out for?” 

“Couple of hours,” Hayley said, sitting on the bed, facing Dr. O. 

“Okay that’s not bad,” Dr. O stated as Hayley took Dr. O’s hand. Dr. O looked at Hayley, who had a contemplating look on her face, “you good Hayles?”

Hayley took a deep breath, “why had you not mentioned anything about the time travel to me?”

Dr. O froze, he already had to explain, but he hadn’t explained why he didn’t share to the kids, and he really didn’t want to explain it to Hayley, who definitely wouldn’t let him just brush it off. 

“Tommy,” Hayley emphasized, squeezing his hand tighter. 

Dr. O sighed softly, “I didn’t say anything, because, uh.”

“What? Trying to protect me? The kids?” Hayley tried to guess.

“No,” Dr. O quickly stated, “to protect me.”

Hayley stared at him, “what?”

Dr. O sighed, “look, what I didn’t tell the kids is that time traveling could kill me. And I had gone over five years of not mentioning it, and it didn’t happen.”

“It can what?!” Hayley yelled.

“Kill me,” Dr. O repeated, realizing that he actually just shared that with her. 

“And you didn’t share the fact that if you suddenly time travel it could kill you with me because you hadn’t mentioned it for five years and nothing had happened, despite you becoming a ranger again,” Hayley summed up. 

“Yes that is what happened,” Dr. O said, sounding a little guilty. 

Hayley just sighed, she knew what she was getting herself into when she learned about the rangers, and then again when she and Dr. O started dating.

“Is there anything else that could randomly happen that could kill you?” Hayley asked, knowing this was going to be one of the few times Dr. O wasn’t going to actively try and hide something from her. 

Dr. O sat there for a moment thinking, “no, I don’t think so.”

“Good,” Hayley stated, as the door opened behind her.

“Oh good, you're up?” Jason said walking into the room.

“Hey Jas,” Dr. O said, smiling at his best friend. 

“Dinner’s ready if you're up for it,” Jason said. 

“Uh,” Dr. O looked at Hayley for confirmation, “If I move slowly, I should be good.”

Hayley nodded in agreement, “yeah, we’ll be down in a couple of minutes.” 

“You need help?” Jason asked as Dr. O started to stand with Hayley’s help.

“No, we should be good,” Hayley said, supporting Dr. O. 

“Okay, I’ll let the others know then,” Jason said, leaving the room. 

Hayley turned to Dr. O, “you sure you can get down there?”

“Yes,” Dr. O said determined.

It did take Dr. O and Hayley a good couple of minutes to get to the dining room where they had somehow perfect timing as Zack and Billy were putting the last couple of things on the table. Everyone else was sitting at the table, shuffled around so they weren’t sitting with their teammates. They had all agreed that Dr. O got the head seat and Hayley sat next to him. 

They passed the food around, everyone catching up with each other. All the adult rangers shared as many stories as they could about Dr. O, who tried and failed miserably to stop them. Hayley succeeded in listening to all of them. The Mighty Morphin’ sharing ways to deal with going to college, or at least moving out of high school and away from their town after being a ranger. 

By the end of dinner, Dr. O had regained all his strength, Hayley and the teens had learned so much blackmail on Dr. O he was not looking forward to school the next day. All the inactive rangers gave the teens their contact information for whenever they needed it, or just wanted to bother Dr. O. 

The Time Force team, who were from 3003, said their goodbyes and headed back to their time, while Wes gave all the Dino Thunder teens a ride back home. 

“You’ve got a good team there," Jason said as Hayley and Dr. O walked to Hayley’s car. 

“Yeah, looks like it,” Dr. O said. 

“Zordon thought so,” Billy stated. 

Dr. O looked at him confused, “what do you mean?”

“You stayed back, said goodbye,” Billy shrugged, “he thought they were good too, right?”

Dr. O smiled proudly, “yeah.”

“Just keep an eye on them,” Trini said.

“Yeah but you seemed to have taught them enough to be able to stand on their own,” Zack added.

“Just remember to talk to us,” Kimberly added, “because you know your kids will.”

“I will, I promise,” Dr. O said getting into the car on the passenger side, and closing the door. 

The rest of the original team headed to the center of the front lawn. After Hayley had driven her and Dr. O off of Wes’s property, Billy teleported everyone back to their homes, and himself to Aquitar.