AN: What's up everybody? Now I know I haven't written in practically two (make that three) months, but between enjoying what was left of summer, watching Transformers a couple of times (that movie is sick), playing Metroid Prime 3 (also sick), getting ready for my fall classes, and having another attack of writer's block, I've been out of it for a while, but I'm back.

I figured before I got started on this fic I'd go back and take a look at my other fics and make some edits in some places that needed them. The changes aren't blatantly obvious, but I think it helps polish up the fics a little more than when I first published them.

Disclaimer: No, I still don't own the rights to Power Rangers. The Walt Disney Company/Buena Vista Entertainment does.

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Chapter 1-Getting back into the kick of things

A usual day in the life of a typical teenager at Reefside could usually be described as merely going to school, and then either going home to try and catch up on some homework (maybe), or going to Hayley's Cyberspace to veg out with old-school arcade games and/or chat up a storm with other kids there. For a lot of teens, it can usually be either all or only some of things. And usually, when Friday comes around, it's usually more of the latter choice, especially on Saturdays like today. And while Conner, Ethan, Kira, and Trent would be doing more or less the kinds of stuff their other peers would be doing, today though…wasn't exactly one of those days.

It had been a few days after the whole incident with the sixth dino gem (which resulted in Kat being the gem's rightful owner and the "newest" addition to the team) and Tommy had suggested that they relax for the rest of the week but that they meet up back at his house early Saturday afternoon for some training.

Tommy's students (namely Conner and Ethan) groaned at first, but when Tommy said that the training would be light and that if anything it wouldn't last for more than an hour, the whining stopped…a little.

Conner and his friend's arrival at their teacher's house at been just a few minutes ago and when they had rang the doorbell there wasn't an answer, but then when they saw their teacher open the door looking slightly flushed and Katherine standing right behind him with a rosy blush of her own on her face it didn't take long for the four teens to realize Kat had gotten there before they did, plus it took even less time for Conner to think up several "scenarios" as to what might have gone down between their teacher and Kat just before he and his friends got there. But since the two adults were wearing exercise clothes and they both didn't look as though they just woke up, Conner said nothing.

I really gotta lay off watching One Tree Hill.

As soon as they made their way through to the house to the back porch, Katherine, Tommy, and Tommy's students wasted no time getting to work. After about ten minutes of warming up, the sixsome split off into sparring groups. One was Conner and Ethan; another was Tommy and Trent; and the last one was Kat and Kira.

Twenty minutes later, the groups switched out with it being Trent and Conner; Ethan and Kira; and Tommy and Kat.

At first the sparring went just as before, but then all of a sudden, just as Tommy was about to execute a move, Kat quickly countered it, catching her boyfriend completely off guard and executing a takedown that had Tommy lying flat on his back with Kat literally sitting on top of him in a semi-straddle. Needless to say, Tommy's students saw the whole thing and just stood there with their eyes wide open.

"Whoa!" Ethan exclaimed.

"Dude," Conner followed.

"Getting a little rusty, Tommy?" Kat asked teasingly.

"No." Tommy said with a slight smirk as he tried to get up, but Kat's legs were holding him down good.

"Okay, maybe a little…" He conceded.

"How'd you do that?" Kira asked.

"It's a little move Tommy taught me way back when." Kat replied.

"Can't believe you still remember that move." Tommy remarked, still amazed she floored him with little effort.

"Well, during my days in London, I'd practice it in my off-time, as well as a few other moves."

"Damn," Ethan said.

"Remind me never to get you p.o.'d." Conner said.

"Somehow I don't think Kat's the one you need to worry about pissing off, Conner." Kira supplied. "Because that position's already been filled."

"Oh, look at me; I'm shaking in my Adidas." Conner said in a mock tone.

"Okay, could you guys cut it out already and get back to your exercises?" Tommy asked, though he too was fighting to urge to smile. "We still have a half hour to go."

Forgetting about his argument, Conner went back to sparring practice with Trent, even though he, along with everyone else saw Kat still straddling their teacher.

And he tells us to get back to what we're supposed to be doing? Conner thought to himself as he took a quick glance at his teacher and Kat.

"Well, never let it be said that I never literally fell for you." Tommy said.

"Indeed." Kat said with a teasing light in her eyes as she leaned into her boyfriend's face for a kiss before she got up and helped him to his feet.

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Thirty minutes later, training was over and everyone went inside to Tommy's kitchen for some water and to relax a bit. After a while of lounging the group went down to the Dino Ruins to check up on any possible attacks Mesogog might have either launched or planned.

"You know, I've already been down here a few times, but I still have that feeling that I might see Alpha coming in from a corner or something." Kat remarked as they finally got to the basement level of the Ruins.

"Believe me, you're not the only one who's had that feeling." Tommy said.

"Was he that red robot who said 'Teleportation sequence activated' in that video diary?" Ethan asked.

"Yeah." Tommy answered his student as he stepped up to the mainframe and turned it on. "He was Zordon's chief assistant (strike that, his only assistant) for the longest time, even way before Jason and the original Rangers showed up. He was a little bit klutzy at times, and a little bit too much of a worrywart, but he was definitely into the cause as much as the rest of us and did everything he could to help us out, and then some." Tommy finished with a nostalgic look in his eyes.

"So where is he now?" Ethan asked.

"Well, he went back to his home planet of Edenoi after Dark Specter and his forces were destroyed; then after briefly joining me, Jason, and several others to find and take out the Machine Empire's remnants, he relocated to Aquitar to join Billy there and that was the last time I heard from him." Tommy answered.

"The original Blue Ranger's living on another planet?" Kira asked.

"Yeah," Kat replied. "It's kind of a long story…"

"Whoa,"

Kat, Ethan, Kira, Trent, and Conner then turned to the sound of Tommy's voice as he looked at the screen that had a satellite picture of Reefside with a dialog box in the middle saying, ENERGY SIGNATURE DETECTED.

"What's going on?" Trent asked as he and the others joined Tommy.

"I'm not sure." Tommy replied. "The tracking system's detected some kind of energy reading, but that's it."

"Is it Elsa and co.?" Conner asked.

"I don't think it is." Tommy answered.

"Can you get a fix on it?" Ethan asked.

Tommy entered in some codes, and the response said, LOCK-ON FAILURE. ENERGY SIGNATURE UNTRACEABLE.

"'Untraceable'?" Trent, Ethan, and Kat said at once.

"But it just said…" Trent began.

"I know." Tommy said as he typed in some more keys, and after a minute the screen then said, NO DINO GEM ENERGY MATCH FOUND.

"So whatever that energy is out there, it's definitely not a dino gem." Kat remarked.

"No, definitely not." Tommy said as he typed some more, already guessing as to what the energy might be

"What if it's a Dinozord egg?"

"Already thinking that too." Tommy said as he typed in some keys, and for more than a minute the screen only said, LOADING… After which a dialog box then appeared in the middle saying, ENERGY UNKNOWN.

"Okay, scratch that one out." Ethan said.

"Let's not rule it out yet." Tommy said. "It only said it didn't know what it was, that doesn't mean that it might not be a Dinozord egg." He continued as he remembered getting energy traces on Conner, Ethan, and Kira's respective Dinozord eggs only after his three students became Rangers.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean that it is," Conner pointed out.

"All the more reason not to rule out anything yet." Tommy reminded.

"But I don't get it why we can't a lock on it though." Kira said.

"Something's gotta be blocking it somehow." Katherine guessed.

"Think Mesogog's trying to bait us?" Conner asked.

DEET-DEET-DEET! DEET-DEET-DEET!

The screen quickly switched out of the search mode and showed some Tyrannodrones and the White Ranger clone in Reefside's industrial district.

"I think might answer your question, Conner." Trent supplied.

"Bait or not, we got to get it first before they do." Tommy said as he typed in some more keys to get a more specific lock on their location. "Okay, you guys get over there and try and stop them from finding whatever that energy source is, I'll keep trying to locate where the energy's coming from."

"Got it, doc." Conner said.

"I'll go with them." Kat said.

"I had a feeling you would." Tommy said as he smiled warmly at his girlfriend. "Be careful though."

Kat nodded with a smile as she joined the four teens in the middle of the lab.

"Ready?" Conner asked.

"Ready!" Replied everyone else as they activated their morphers.

"Dino-Thunder, power up!"

"White Ranger, dino power!"

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AN: The part where Kat takes Tommy down and is straddling him I got from watching Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story where Linda does pretty much the same thing on Bruce during a teaching session (funny moment in the movie, I gotta say). Well, enjoy the chapter, hopefully for the next one I won't take so long.