Hey guys! We are FINALLY back. :) This is the long ago promised sequel to Dino Time, we have been working on it and tweaking it (while getting distracted by other stories oops). We hope you like this, it's a bit different than the other. Our orginall plan was to show the other team and their reactions ... it turned into this.. Oh well, enjoy the read and give us feedback. We have everything written now and it will be published quickly!

Disclaimer: We are poor students we can't afford a doughnut, let alone a multimillion dollar organization like power ranger... Oh to dream...

"One-two-three-four—two-two-three-four—three-two-three-four—" Tanya counted, clapping her hands with the beat as she watched the dancers. "Four-two-three-four—"

In the background, she heard Zach talking to someone. Frowning, Tanya turned to see who he was talking to as she continued clapping. He was standing with his back to her and the dancers, his phone pressed to his ear.

"Zach!" Tanya hissed, trying to get his attention.

He didn't turn around. But a yelp from one of the dancers caught Tanya's attention and she whipped back around to see several of them in a pile on the ground. Tanya sighed, rubbing a hand across her face.

"Zach!" she called. "Don't you think you should be over here helping?"

He still didn't acknowledge her. Tanya took a deep breath.

"Alright," she said shortly, looking at the dancers. "Untangle yourselves and take five. I will be right back."

Spinning around, she marched toward Zach.

"What are you doing?" she demanded, striding up to him.

"Oh, hi Tanya," he said, glancing around for a moment before going back to the phone call. "Yeah, man, you're crazy…Listen, Tommy, I know you're not really a sports person, but you've got to be crazy to think they're the better team…Well they aren't!"

Tanya moved to stand in front of Zach, hands on her hips as she glared at him. Zach's eyes went wide.

"Umm… Listen, dude," he said quickly. "I gotta go…Yeah, Tanya's giving me that look again…Uh-huh…Give Hayley a kiss from me…No! Not in a creepy way…Don't you dare. She'll kill me…"

Tanya's eyes narrowed and she started tapping her foot.

"And Tanya is going to kill me if I don't get off the phone," Zach muttered. "I'll call you later… Bye."

Hanging up the phone, Zach stuffed it in his pocket, giving Tanya a tentative grin.

"Something more important than—hmm…I don't know—your job?" Tanya asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, it was Tommy," Zach protested meekly. "We don't really get to talk much, being on opposite schedules and all. I mean, he's at school all morning and then by the time he gets out I'm usually here working with you and the dancers, so I like to talk to him when I get the chance…It's nice catching up with him once in a while…"

Tanya dropped her hands down, still frowning.

"Why is Tommy going to school?" she asked.

"Not going to school," Zach corrected. "Teaching it."

"He teaches school?" Tanya exclaimed in surprise.

"Yeah, high school science," said Zach, relaxing a little now that Tanya wasn't glaring at him. "He's a doctor of paleontology, too."

"What?" she said, slightly stunned.

"Yeah, I didn't see that one coming either," Zach said with a shrug. "Apparently he's made some pretty important discoveries too, but I don't know a whole lot about them. I usually stop listening after about thirty seconds any time he mentions dinosaurs…but that's ok, cause he knows it. He likes to call me when he needs to talk something through for himself and doesn't want to look like a crazy person. At least when he's on the phone with me it looks like he's having a conversation with another person instead of himself—"

"Wait a minute," Tanya interrupted, holding up a hand. "Tommy's a paleontologist and a teacher? Why don't I know this?"

Zach shrugged again.

"I don't know," he said. "But I guess I didn't know it myself until about three months ago."

"Why not?" Tanya asked, confused now.

"Well…" Zach said slowly. "Probably because I kind of sort of maybe forgot about him…"

That made Tanya paused. Shaking her head, she took a deep breath.

"Ok," she said. "I realize I haven't talked to him in a long time either, but how did you forget him?"

"I don't know," Zach said. "I guess it was because I was busy working and always put off calling him back or going to visit…and technically none of us were speaking to him anyways, so that was part of it—"

"Hold up," Tanya said, interrupting again. "You were fighting with Tommy?"

"Well, yeah," Zach muttered, rubbing a hand over his head. "Technically. It's complicated, really, but there was this sort of blow up and then a minor fight and none of us were talking…But Jason and Tommy were really the only ones actually fighting. I mean, before three months ago the last time they had seen each other they got into a full out physical fight. From everything I heard it really wasn't pretty…"

Tanya took another deep breath. Zach's rambling explanation was starting to give her a headache. Rubbing one hand across her face, she held up the other to forestall his continued explanation.

"So you were fighting," she said. "But you're talking now."

"Yep," Zach confirmed. "Tommy and Jason are great now. They spar all the time and Jason's been helping Tommy with some training and stuff—I avoid all of that though. I spend too much time on the ground no matter how fast I move. But we're all talking now. Billy helped Hayley set us all straight—and of course the message from Zordon helped."

"Message from Zordan?" Tanya asked, getting more and more confused. "And how did Billy help? He left Earth years ago."

"Oh, Billy's back on Earth," Zach said offhandedly. "And Zordon locked a message away in our memories—there was this whole time travel fiasco you see and we had to lock the memories away so we didn't mess up the future so Billy built a machine and before he used it Zordon gave us a message about Tommy and being friends and remembering our loyalties and—"

"Enough!" Tanya exclaimed, throwing her hands up in frustration. "Give me your phone."

Zach whipped his phone out of his pocket without thinking and Tanya snatched it away.

"Hey!" Zach exclaimed. "Why are you taking my phone?"

"I'm assuming Billy's number is in here?" she said.

Zach nodded.

"Good. I'm going to call him," she said. "Go back to work. You need to focus on your dancers right now."

"Why?" Zach asked, frowning. "Did something get messed up?"

Rolling her eyes, Tanya spun and stormed away, searching through Zach's contact list as she went. As she left the stage area, Adam came walking in. She barely glanced up as she passed him.

"Make him focus please," she said, pointing at Zach without pausing.

Adam stopped in confusion, watching her walk out before turning back to Zach, who just shrugged. Sighing, Adam shook his head before joining Zach and the dancers, back from their break.