Green with Rage

Chapter 1: Day of the Dino Part I

Reefside, California;

September 20th, 2010:

Neve sighed as she looked one last time into the full length mirror on the back of her closest door. She wore a dark pink sheer striped sleeveless shirt and a knee length layered white skirt. On her feet were her favorite brown ankle boots and she wore the dragonfly watch Hunter gave her the week before on their last date before she moved. She also wore the Phoenix necklace from Hunter on their first anniversary and the phoenix earrings from Tori before she left. It had only been four days since then, since her date with Hunter and her final goodbye to her friends and former teammates. She already missed Blue Bay and her friends, she even missed being a Ranger. A lot more then she thought she would but she also felt good with the fact she could try and be normal again.

Picking up her dark emerald green leather jacket which instead of skipping up you pulled the right side over to the other side of your chest and it buttoned shut before it had a Velcro layer to insure it wouldn't pop open accidentally. It was a new jacket, something she picked up when she was with her mother school shopping that weekend. Leaving the jacket stay open to show her top she twirled once and nodded. It was as good as it would get.

"Neve, come on your going to be late!" her mother yelled from downstairs and Neve smiled. She had something similar five months ago when they had moved to Blue Bay – hopefully this didn't mean she'd be kidnapped again. Shaking her head and laughing at the idea she grabbed her green and pink backpack and ran down the stairs. Her dad was waiting at the bale with a piece of toast in his mouth and her mother was feeding Davie some jarred apple sauce. She smiled and kissed her mother cheek while grabbing the other piece of toast off her fathers plate.

"Thanks, dad. I'm going to wait in the jeep!" she said and ran out the door. Tommy frowned as he looked down at his empty plate and sighed before looking up at his wife.

"That's your daughter," he said and Kim laughed.

"Oh, so when she's exited she's my child but when she is anything else she's yours. Really Tommy...oh you better get going your going to be late," Kimberly told him, shaking her head and Tommy checked his watch before grabbing his briefcase and kissing Kim.

"I'll see you after school Beautiful," he said and Kim smiled and watched as he took off out the door. She rolled her eyes, Neve was her father's daughter, it was painfully obvious. She smiled, she wouldn't have it any other way.

xXx

Tommy looked at his daughter and smiled. She had come so far in the last half a year and you would hardly know it if you didn't know her before or during this time.

"Are you nervous?" he finally asked and Neve turned and smiled at her dad. She shrugged.

"Maybe a little bit, but not really. Actually I kind of missed school," she said and Tommy laughed and shook his head.

"Your about the only teenager I've heard say that." Neve chuckled and looked around as her uncle found a parking space in the school lot and turned off the jeep. She got out and waited for her dad to grab his briefcase before looking back at the school. Students were flowing in and she smiled.

"Well, I've got to find my locker. I'll see you in class daddy," Neve said kissing his cheek before she ran off and Tommy smiled before readjusting his glasses and walking in. He nodded at a few students and as he walked through the halls.

"Dr. Oliver," a woman with short black hair, glasses and a professional suit mostly in tan approached him from the side. "I'm Principal Randall." Tommy turned and smiled and held out his hand to shake.

"It's nice to meet you," he said.

"It's your first day too, isn't it?" Randall didn't take his hand, but opened the folder she had with her and read through it, or seemed to as they walked beside each other.

"Yes," she said slowly. "I'm still trying to figure out why a doctor of Palaeontology, would come all the way to Reefside to teach science to teenagers?"

"I guess I'm just looking for some peace and quiet," Tommy told her and Randall looked at him unconvinced. Tommy couldn't but get a weird feeling around this woman, something about her simply wasn't right.

"So you became a High School teacher," she stopped in front of him.

"That just doesn't make a whole lot of sense, now does it Dr. Oliver?" she asked.

"You know, I was thinking; maybe we should get together?" Tommy suggested "That way you can fill me in on what you expect of me."

"I expect you to make it hard for them, painful if at all possible. If they smile, you know your doing something wrong," she said and Tommy had to wonder if this woman was cold blooded.

"Now, I'm off to find my first truant...we'll talk later." Tommy watched her leave before shaking his head, he felt bad for the poor student to be the first one to be in her way. He then entered his classroom which turned out to be just ahead of where Randell had stopped them.

The last bell rang as the first period science class of the junior class began, signaling the beginning of their first semester of the new school year. The class was loud and most were running around or throwing paper air planes at one another. One girl was filing her nails, another was busy in her own corner writing things in a notebook, one boy was staring blankly into space and another was typing away on his laptop.

Tommy's eyes widened at the attitude of the eleventh graders who were so close to being considered adults. At least most, he smiled as he noticed Neve run in with her bag and throw him a small smile as she walked over to the girl writing in the notebook and Tommy noticed the theme of yellow she seemed to have.

"Hi, I'm Neveah," Neve said as she sat down beside the girl in yellow. She looked up and smiled slightly, her hair was wavy and dirty blonde and her eyes were a dark hazel. Neve couldn't help but notice she was very pretty, even with the totally different style she had compared to Neve herself.

"I'm Kira Ford, your new aren't you?" she asked and Neve smiled and nodded. Before she could speak though her father began to speak.

"Guys! Settle down! Take your seats, please."

He was happy to notice it didn't take long before they listened, sitting down at the lab tables and paying some attention to the man at the front. "I'm Doctor Oliver, and this is first period science. Before we start are there any questions?"

A girl near the front, dressed in a pink and white cheerleader-like outfit raised her hand high into the air. Tommy pointed at her and as he grin grew he blanched, he had a feeling he was going to regret this.

"Cassidy, Cassidy Cornell," she smiled, standing and walking up to him. Everyone in the room sighed with annoyance, and one girl near the back with yellow arm bands even rolled her eyes and Neve who was setting beside her chuckled. Cassidy ignored this and continued to smile at the new Teacher who she had to admit was rather handsome for a science teacher. "Doctor Oliver, as you may know I'm the anchor and reporter for our school TV station. I'm sure our viewers are wondering – well, you don't really look old enough to be a teacher."

Her smile dropped as she turned around, "Devin, are you getting this?" she snapped at a brown-haired boy holding a camera who had previously been staring into space.

"Cassidy," Tommy began, now realizing his mistake. "I promise you, I'm old enough. So let's put the camera away."

"You missed it!" she hissed as they returned to their seats and Tommy sighed and mentally rolled his eyes. From the smirk his daughter was throwing his way he knew she found it amusing.

"For now let's talk about you guys, what you expect of yourselves in this class, because that's what's really important."

He looked around the silent and non-responsive class which seemed to be staring at him as if he was speaking in pig Latin until his eyes fell upon an empty stool. "Is uh, someone missing?"

xXx

On the soccer field, two guys were practicing, one was dressed in red and white completely and the other boy fully padded and shaking in the net was nervous. Across from him the boy in the red and white soccer uniform kept a red soccer ball slightly in the air with his foot.

His keep-ups lasted a few more seconds before he kicked it high into the air, flipped sideways after it and delivered a powerful kick as it came back down. As he landed on the grass, the ball went hurtling through the air towards the goalie, who shook in his shoes and dodged it as if it was a bomb.

"Dude, you're supposed to try and stop it," the soccer star groaned shaking his head at the goalie.

"You sure we're not gonna get in trouble for this? I mean…the bell rang and it's the first day school," the boy said and the soccer star sighed.

"Look, if anyone says anything tell them Conner McKnight gave you permission to be out here," the red-clad soccer player stated, his messy brown hair falling slightly into his brown eyes.

"Yeah, but I heard the new principal is crazy! She worked in a prison or something before she came here to Reefside!"

"Don't worry about Randall – she's a woman," Conner began, unaware of the fact Randell was slowly walking up behind him even though the goalie was clearly telling him to shut up. "And women are just grown up girls. Need I say more?"

"I think you've said quite enough Mr. McKnight," Randall smirked, causing Conner's eyes to widen and his body to freeze before he turned around. He put on his best smile as he faced her.

"Principal Randall. I have heard such great things about you," he grinned.

"There all vicious rumors I assure you," she stated her face passive of any emotion. "Go."

Conner groaned and shook his head, walking off. Randall watched him before turning and glaring at the goalie. "What're you looking at?" she asked, sneering at the poor boy, before kicking a soccer ball with such force it hit the kid in the stomach and knocked him back against the net and over onto his stomach.

"NOW GET BACK TO CLASS!" she yelled as he groaned on the grass in pain. Conner watched with wide eyes and gulped slightly. That was surely going to bruise tomorrow.

xXx

"Kira, wow is this yours?" Neve asked as she ran across the grass and hopped on the table next to Kira. Kira smiled at the girl and nodded, looking at the acoustic guitar.

"Yeah, it took me forever to save up for it. I was using my mom's old one before that," Kira said and Neve smiled.

"Wow, I play and sing a little as well. My mom did when she was our age as well. So how's your day been?" Neve asked as she took a chocolate chip cookie out of the bagie of four in her lunch box. Kira looked at the cookie and Neve chuckled after she swallowed her first bite. She held out the bag.

"You want one?" Kira smiled and took one while she sat her music book on the table, the song she'd been working on page open. Neve looked at it and smiled, it was very good.

"Your very good, why don't you play it for me?" Neve asked as they finished a cookie. Kira looked at her new friend and shrugged.

"I don't know...it's not finished." Neve shrugged picking up the book.

"Who cares, I'll even sing it with you if you don't mind," Neve said and Kira grinned. She did want to hear Neve, it wasn't that she didn't believe the girl could play or sing she just always felt curious about that. She wanted to know if the girl was any good, she didn't seem shy about preforming in public so she must be.

"Sure," Kira said and picked the guitar up and began strumming what she had. Kira was almost shocked when Neve began the song.

"I wanna know, know where you're at.

I'm at the front, but you're still at the back.

Kira smiled and they both began to sing the rest of the song together, drawing a crowd from other students.

Oh, can you tell me where, tell me where you're at?

Freak you out. Freak you out.

Freak you out. Freak you o-out.

Freak you out. Freak you out.

Freak you out. Freak you o-out."

The group clapped and Kira and Neve smiled at each other but their applause was ruined seconds later when Randall stalked up to them, clipboard in hand and soccer star Conner McKnight reluctantly following. Neve took a double take as she looked at the red clad boy and rubbed her eyes too make sure she wasn't seeing things. Conner noticed the pretty girl – the new one – and nodded smiling the smile that had gotten him any girl he wanted in the pass. He was a bit shocked when she shook her head and turned back to Randell and Kira.

"Miss Ford, Miss Oliver. I'm afraid you need written permission to perform on school grounds. Let's go!" Randell barked and Neve's eyes widened. This couldn't be happening.

"Are you aware that kids who play an instrument have a fifty percent higher chance of getting into college?" Kira inquired and Randall lowered her glasses to look at her and then Neve.

"Well, you two are hardly college material now are you, Miss Ford?" she smirked, tapping her clipboard as both girls mouth dropped at the obvious slur to their intelligence. "Now come with me."

Kira groaned and slid off the table, and Neve followed grabbing her backpack and lunch box off the table. As the three teens grumbled and followed the Randell across the grounds, the sprinklers burst into life, spraying them with vast amounts of water from all sides.

"My guitar!" Kira yelped, covering her instrument with her arms as best she could. Neve squealed and jumped around, her skirt and cloths getting soaked. Thankfully her jacket took most the water though the front of her shirt was unfortunate. She was glad she didn't wear the white shirt and pink skirt today instead.

"This is just great…," Kira muttered as they followed Randall out of the sprinkler radius, wiping at her guitar.

The principal turned and spotted a blue-clad teen of African-American descent walking towards the school with a blue umbrella in hand and grinned grimly. "Ethan James," she growled slowly as if the name was something she would find on the bottom of her shoes. "I should've known." She stalked off after him, yelling for the other three to follow her which they did though not happily.

xXx

"Sit!" Randell barked as they arrived near the office. The four teens – three of which were drenched and looked like drowned rats – sat down on the bench outside her office.

"Principal Randall, I'd just like to mention the fact that there's no hard evidence liking me to that unfortunate sprinkler incident," he stated, smiling innocently. All three teens looked at the boy and Neve and Kira both gave him a evil eye knowing what he was trying to do but was failing at miserably.

"Save it for Judge Judy, Mr. James," Randall snapped before looking at each student, her eyes lingering on Neve. "The four of you have detention! For one week. Starting today. Now if there are no further questions-"

The four teens burst into a frenzied protest, Conner's about soccer, Kira's about band practice, Neve about seeing her boyfriend and Ethan's about computer club. "I didn't think so!" Randall yelled, cutting them off before storming into her office and slamming the door.

"Okay…," Kira sighed, her voice thick with anger and disbelief. "Somebody seriously needs a hug."

"Tell me ab out it, someone obviously killed her puppy as a child," Neve said shaking her head as she wrung her dark pink shirt out.

"Dude," Conner began as he leaned forward, looking past the girls to stare at Ethan. "Computer Club?"

xXx

"Dr. Oliver," Randell called as she found him walking in the halls at the end of the day. "How was your first day?"

"Oh, the kids were great," Tommy answered. "No problems."

They came to a set of stairs and started the climb up to the top floor. "Good, because you'll be seeing a lot more of them. In detention," she said, her voice lacking much emotion.

"Mind telling me what I did?" Tommy asked, raising a eyebrow. He was pretty sure he couldn't be given detention anymore – not since he was in high school, but then maybe this was why all his old teachers had been so stuffy.

"No, you're in charge of it today," Randall clarified.

"Uh no, actually I have plans to go to a museum outside of town, and -" he began but Randell clapped her hands and with some of the first amounts of emotion he'd heard from her all day she spoke.

"Perfect, bring the little monsters with you." They rounded a corner to where Conner, Kira, Ethan and Neve were waiting. Tommy looked a this daughter and raised an eyebrow at her frowning. She sighed and hung her head as Randall began to speak again.

"I'm sure that will be pure torture for them." she turned to four teens. "Well, enjoy your little outing." She walked away.

Tommy then turned to the four teens and he removed his glasses and surveyed them. Neve winced as his gaze stayed on her and he sighed.

"You guys like museums?" he asked.

xXx

"Whoa!" Ethan grinned like a little kid as Tommy's jeep pulled up to the museum."Check out the T-Rex!"

"Dude, it's cool T-Rexs' are the Dinosaur," Conner said and Kira rolled her eyes from beside him. Despite knowing him since they were in kindergarten it still amazed her how superficial Conner could be at times.

"I prefer Pterodactyls myself," Kira muttered as they all clambered out of the jeep and they began walking to the entrance. They were standing in front of a chain that a sign hung from - Sorry, we're closed.

"That's weird," Tommy commented, looking up at the museum.

"Oh well, no museum for us," Conner said faking disappointment.

"Great, let's go home," Kira suggested and they all turned but was stopped by Tommy.

"I'll tell you what, why don't you guys have a look around the grounds?" Tommy inquired. "If any of you guys find anything prehistoric, I'll cancel detention for the rest of the week."

"Great, then I don't have to worry about not making it to Hunter this weekend," Neve said and Tommy smiled at his daughter.

"I'm gonna see if I can find someone who can tell us when they're opening up," Tommy stated. The teens nodded and walked off, down the side road.

"Who's Hunter?" Kira asked and Neve turned to her and smiled.

"My boyfriend, he goes to an academy a few miles away," Neve said and Kira nodded.

"So lemme get this straight," Conner began, looking at Ethan, not really interested in knowing who Hunter was. "They have a club just for computers?"

"Oh my god," Neve said walking ahead of them and Kira chuckled and caught up with the smaller brunette – though not by much, Kira was only 5'5 herself.

xXx

"Hey, you guys ever heard the story about the guy that was hiking up here that fell into a giant sinkhole?" Ethan inquired as they trekked through the woods. Neve looked at him with confusion and asked.

"Sinkholes?" she asked, she bit her lip. She didn't like caves, because they were dark usually and she didn't like the dark.

"Must've missed that one," Kira replied, rolling her eyes as she looked at Neve and shook her head.

"Don't worry, it's just a myth," Kira told her and Neve nodded sighing in relief.

"C'mon!" Ethan exclaimed. "It was on all the urban legend websites!"

"Dude, you know this isn't computer club, right?" Conner asked as he chuckled.

"Oh, I guess you're too big and bad to surf the web!" Ethan mocked, and Neve and Kira watched them walk ahead.

"Yeah."

"Well what do you do in your spare time?" Ethan inquired.

"Me?" Conner smirked, looking over Ethan's head towards the girls and his gaze caught with Kira's. "I got out with girls. Y'know, they're the ones at school that smell really good with the long hair and the make-up." Neve giggled as she saw Conner had pretty much said this while looking at Kira. It was kind of sweet, in a sexist way. Though she figured, Conner still had time to be trained. Kira struck her as one of those who could work miracles for boys like Conner, reminded her a bit of her Aunt Trini and mom and they'd only been friends a few hours.

"Oh, it's like that is it?" Ethan stated, stopping in his tracks and nudging Conner's arm.

"Yeah," Conner scoffed, staring down the shorter teen. "It's like that."

"Whatever," Kira rolled her eyes, brushing past them ignoring Conner as she went. Neve smirked at the two boys as she followed her blonde friend.

"All I'm trying to do is give you guys the heads-up," Ethan told them as he followed after the three teens.

"Stuff happens out here. Just don't come crying to me when you fall in a giant sinkhole." No sooner then the word left his mouth did Ethan go plummeting through the ground as it gave way. Kira, Neve and Conner followed from where they stood. The teens all hit the ground, though Kira landed beside Conner, Neve landed on his upper stomach where his ribcage ended with her legs on either side of him. She sat up groaned, her head spinning that she didn't realized her skirt had flown up. Conner chuckled as he sat up and looked at Neve.

"Nice panties," he said and Neve's eyes widened and she stood straight up and stepped over him, making sure to kick him in the side with her shoe as she did. Conner grunted and Neve glared, not wanting to admit that her detention mates and potential friends – even Conner as hard as it might be to believe- had seen her crimson underwear. Kira glared at Conner as the four teens got to their feet, brushing off whatever dirt and dust they could. Neve then realized where she was and the lack of light. She bit her lip and edged closer to Kira.

"It's dark," she muttered and Kira looked at the girl clutching her arm.

"Your..your not afraid fo the dark Neveah?" she asked and Neve looked at her friend and nodded sheepishly.

"Maybe,"

"You alright, Neveah?" Ethan asked and Neve looked over at him and smiled.

"Yeah...I just don't like the dark."

"Nyctophobia," Ethan said nodding in understanding and though Neve seemed to know what he said the other two just shook their heads.

"Alright. You guys stay here where it's safe. I'll climb up and come back with help," Conner said and He passed behind Kira and Neve, sliding them out of the way by placing a hand on their backs.

"Why are letting him do that?" Kira asked, sort of concerned but more annoyed that he had elected himself leader.

"Wait for it," Neve said as she smiled and clutched Kira's arm, at least their was some light streaming down from the hole. Watching as the soccer player got about two feet off the ground before a rock broke away where a hand was and he came crashing down.

"Back already?" Ethan chuckled, before helping Conner up.

As they walked on, Neve kept close to Kira and Kira tried to calm down the frightened teen with her singing. She knew it had helped her when she was little and her mother would sing to her, so maybe it would work with Neve even if she was much older then Kira had ever been.

"Freak you…Freak you…Freak you out…Freak you o-out…," she sang softly, and Neve smiled and kept her mind on the song as best she could as they traveled the dark tunnels.

"Babe, could you keep it down?" Conner smirked, walking past her. "I'm trying to stay focused."

"Did you just call me babe?" Kira inquired, switching from her singing voice to a heated one faster then Neve could even realize her own eyes had flashed pink as her mind was taken back to the dark. Conner walked off a few feet, exploring the tunnel a little more. Kira turned to look at Ethan and Neve with angry eyes. "Did he just call me babe?"

"I dunno, I wasn't listening," Ethan said as he shrugged. "I was grooving to your tune."

"I'm afraid so...hey my cell phone!" Neve said as she pulled it out of her jacket pocket and kissed it before trying to get a signal. Kira blinked before moving to stand in front of Conner.

"Listen, my name is Kira. K-I-R-A," she explained annoyed. "Maybe you should write it on your hand or something. Alright?"

"It works, yay!" Neve squealed and hit speed dial number one and placed it to her ear as she followed the after Ethan and the others already calming down as she heard Hunter's voice come through the phone.

"Neve, that you?" Hunter asked and Neve smiled.

"Yeah Handsome it's me. How are you?" she asked.

"Fine, the students are great only had to scold a few. How are you Beautiful?" he asked.

"I've had a better day, you'll never believe what's happened to me!" she exclaimed and as they turned a corner the three other teens turned and looked at their new friend. Kira stepped forward, looking at her with wide hazel eyes.

"Neveah...is that a cell phone?" she asked.

"A working cell phone?" Ethan asked.

"When we are stuck in a series of tunnels?" Conner asked, his eyes twitching slightly and Neve looked at them sheepishly. She knew Hunter could hear them as well from the laughter on the other end.

"Maybe..." she squealed as she moved backward as the three teens attacked her and she held the phone above her head jumping so that she could try and keep from Conner.

"I GOTTA GO HANDSOME, I'LL SEE YOU THIS WEEKEND!" she yelled and flipped the phone shut . Kira kicked her in the shin and Neve yelped and dropped the phone. Conner picked it up and opened the pink and crimson phone. He walked around a few moments and sighed shutting it and looking at Neve and the others.

"It's dead, not that it would matter I can't get any signal now," Conner said and the other sighed and Neve looked at them like she was innocent and shy.

"Kira..." she began and Kira sighed and let the girl attach herself to her arm.

"I'm sorry, I was scared and Hunter is the first person I think of to help me and.." she was cut off by Kira who sighed once again.

"It okay Neve, we understand," Kira said and Ethan nodded. Conner stayed quiet but as the girl in pink looked up at him with wide tear filled brown eyes he couldn't stay mad.

"Yeah, it's cool," he said and Neve smiled. It took them another five or so minutes before they got to the end of the tunnel to find a skeleton of a T-Rex.

"This just scream Jurassic park to me," Neve said as she stared at the skeleton.

"This'll get us out of detention forever!" Conner said as he grinned, stepping up to the head of the Dinosaur and reaching out towards the jaw.

"Do you think you should be—" Kira didn't finish her sentence as the T-Rex jaw snapped down and a click echoed in the tunnel.

"Whoa…," Conner breathed as the wall beside the skeleton began sliding upwards. Behind the door was something that looked like a lab, with stone walls, tables covered in machines and gizmos and a three-toed Dinosaur print as lights along the walls. Ethan, Conner and Kira walked in and Neve strayed behind. Something felt fishy about this, and she hated fish.

"I could do a crazy video in here," Kira smiled as the four teens walked in and looked around.

"It's better than the creepy dark tunnels," Neve said shrugging in relief.

"Whoa," Conner said again, patting Ethan on the shoulder. "This must be like the mother ship for you, dude."

"Normally, I'd be insulted. But when you're right; you're right," Ethan said and grinned as he looked around.

In the center of the room there was a large meteor-like thing sitting on a table with mist pouring out of it. In the center there were three small rocks, like gems. Red, Blue, and Yellow – an ironic color scheme Neve thought as she looked at her three new friends and looked around.

As Conner reached for the red one, Ethan shook his head. "Yo, don't touch that."

"Dude, listen to him for once," Neve said having a bad feeling about those stones, a familiar feeling.

"Why not?" Conner frowned as the two girls came up on either side of him, in front of gems that reflected their color-theme outfits – or not in Neve's case. Ethan was across from him in front of the blue one.

"You're really taking this 'dumb jock' thing to a whole new level," Ethan commented.

"Look, I have sat through enough lame science classes in my life to know that thing looks fully prehistoric," Conner pointed out. "And if I don't have to miss practice…" he trailed off and Neve sighed.

"I hate to agree with him – really, I do," Kira put in. "But I already missed one rehearsal."

They all nodded and together the three teens picked up the gems in front of them, which began to glow brightly seconds after and emit slight noises. Neve gasped and bit her lip. She really hoped they were not what she thought they were.

"Well…what are they?" Kira frowned, turning the glowing yellow gem around in her hand.

"I can go online later and see if I can find out," Ethan offered.

"You, in front of a computer?" Conner asked as he chuckled. "Wait, let me put on my surprised face."

"Conner, so not the time," Neve said.

"No, that's fine," Ethan stated, standing his ground. "Because in ten years from now when his hair line's receding and he's playing pick-up soccer in the park because his dreams of turning pro never quite worked out – I'll have my own multi-billion dollar software business."

"But there isn't one for Neve, shouldn't we try to find her a pink one or a white or green one or something?" Kira asked as she survayed her friends color choice. Neve chuckled at the irony and shook her head.

"No, don't worry I'm sure those will get me out of detention as well," Neve said and Kira nodded before she turned toe and headed towards the door.

"Where you going?" Conner called, making her turn around.

"I don't wanna think about what kind of freak lives in a place like this, and I sure don't wanna be here when he gets home," Kira said and Neve's eyes widened.

"Wait for me!" Neve cried, running after her and pausing at the door before she sucked it up and followed Kira into the dark tunnels.

"Right behind you," the guys stated, following as well.

xXx

"This way!" Ethan called about fifteen minutes later as they were finally reaching the end of the tunnels. Light was a lot more prominent here and as the four teens ran swiftly they reached a large opening out into the woods again.

Conner, Kira and Ethan stopped once they were at the top of the small path leading from the tunnel, but Neve continued until she was out in the open and fell to her knees. "Light! Thank god!" she said and Kira chuckled and pulled her back up.

"Compass," Ethan realized. "Does anyone have a compass?"

"Gee, and I was gonna bring one," Conner said sarcastically as a large gust of wind blew by.

"What was that?" Ethan asked worriedly.

"The wind," Kira suggested and Neve stepped forward, her face grim.

"That ain't the wind," she began as louder sounds echoed around. "As much as we'd like it to be, it ain't." There was a large flash of green to their right and left and front as a group of six or seven freaky lizard-like creatures dropped from each.

"Don't…move…," Conner whispered.

"Great idea, make it easy for them!" Kira hissed.

"New plan..." Ethan let his words hang for a moment before continuing.

"RUN!" he yelled and they all took off running. They reached a huge ditch in the road and had to jump. Conner made it across with ease, while Ethan hit the edge and struggled but made it over. As for Neve, she had a bit of experience with long jumps and knew the proper speed and time to jump she she landed in a crouch safely on the other side. Kira wasn't as lucky and fell into the ditch.

Her yells of surprise made the guys and Neve turn and run back, peering over the edge. The lizards were approaching fast as Kira got to her feet and reached up.

"C'mon!" Conner yelled, pulling Kira up. As the monsters began coming over or through the ditch, they ran off as fast as they could.

Kira unfortunately hadn't noticed a tree root sticking out and tripped, falling to the ground. As she turned, the monsters closing in, she screamed. Waves of yellow sonic energy amplified her scream, knocking the lizards off their feet and into the dirt. A few feet away the other three stopped running, clamping their hands to their ears to brace against the painfully loud sound. When the sound died, they looked at one another before running back to Kira.

Neve's eyes were wide as she stopped and tried to figure out what the hell had just happened.

"Help her up," Conner stated and Ethan nodded, taking one arm while the soccer player took the other. When she was on her feet Ethan backed off but Conner kept a firm hand on the small of her back, steadying her for no good reason though Kira ddin't seem to notice and if she did she didn't care.

"What was that?" Ethan asked, referring to the scream.

"I have no idea," the dirty blonde shrugged, and suddenly the yellow gem in her pocket began to glow fiercely. She pulled it out and felt a rush of warmth and tingling flow through her as the image of a large yellow Pterodactyl, its scream echoing through her head and reflecting the one she had just uttered moments before.

As the gem stopped glowing and made a funny zapping sound, the lizards were alert again and on their feet. The rushed forward and the teens took off running again.

As the monsters teleported in the four teens took off in different directions. Kira was the first to stop in her tracks and turn, staring at the monsters darkly. As one jumped at her she dodged, swinging her fist up to catch another one in the face. It was sent sprawling, as she spun around another creature, kicking out behind her and causing it to hit the ground as she went on.

She blocked the attack of one lizard, before ducking under the swipe of another. Almost on autopilot she grabbed an arm of each, and spun them together, causing them to crash into one another and get knocked out. Roundhouse kicking the nearest monster she looked up, amazed by her sudden adept ability to fight.

A little ways away Neve was fighting as well, but unlike Kira it looked like she knew exactly what she was doing as she twirled and flipped over the Dino-rejects. She punched one in the chest and spun around to kick another as she turned and jumped using the punch it had thrown as leverage to kick off and onto its shoulders before flipping off kicking it in the back as she spun around and swept the one behind her off its feet.

She gasped as two came at her from either side and she cartwheeled out of the way and smirked as they collided with each other and knocked the other out. Yep, she was right at home.

Ethan was less successful than the girls, having been grabbed from behind by two lizard creatures. He jumped, kicking his feet out only to have them land in the hands of two more of the creatures. They growled and threw him a few feet away, onto the ground.

Groaning, he pushed himself to his knees and his eyes widened as a monster rushed forward. Bringing his arms up to brace against the attack, a sudden warm feeling shot through him as the monster's sharp arm connected with his and did nothing but bounce back.

He frowned, looking up and seeing that his arms were covered in shinning blue scales. Grinning like a kid with a new toy, he pushed it back onto its knees, getting to his feet and slipping into a series of fight moves against oncoming monsters that he had never done or known before.

"Something's happening to me…," he breathed, looking at his glowing scaly arms. He opened his right hand and found the blue gem there in his palm, glowing brightly. As it turned off the remnants of an image of a large blue Triceratops flashed across his mind.

Conner was last to have his gem trigger, as he was attempting to hold his own with what street fighting and brawling he'd learned growing up and fighting with his brother. Neve noticed as she went around to see if any of them need help that he wasn't half bad. This was of course until he was grabbed and thrown a few feet through the air, into a tree. He cursed as his back smashed against the wood and he fell to the ground.

Looking up and groaning, the gem in his hands began to glow bright red, and a red T-Rex roared across his mind, adding strength and a feeling of power to him. He looked up in time to see a monster charging towards him and Neve handling another who had thrown him, and flipped to his feet, spinning into a kick that hit it in the face and floored it. He looked around, frowning as everything was moving slowly.

"Wow…everything's so slow!" he cried. He looked left and right and watched as two sets of monsters flew slowly through to air towards him. Grinning, he raced towards one group at fast speeds and kicked them away, before racing across to the other and punching them away.

He grinned, before finally getting out of there and back to a path, where he met up with the other three. They all had their gems in hand, and were panting, though Neve had followed him and was simply blinking as she looked between the three teens.

"Yo…how much do I love detention?" Ethan laughed.

"Hey!" Tommy had finally found them and as he ran towards them, the three future Rangers stuffed the gems into their pockets and sleeves out of sight, looking as inconspicuous as possible. "You guys alright?"

"Well I—" Kira started, but Ethan interrupted, nodding.

"Yeah, couldn't be better," he grinned.

"Nothing out of the ordinary happened?" Tommy inquired.

"Naw, just your, uh, routine hike in the woods," Ethan told him. "Lots of furry little creatures."

"And a few scaly ones," Kira commented, and Conner applied slight pressure to her foot by standing on it, shutting her up as Tommy frowned at her. Neve smiled at her dad as she looked from her friends to him.

"Everything is fine Dad," she said and the three teens looked at her sharply and then to Tommy before yelling in unison.

"DAD!" Both Olivers winced and Neve frowned.

"Didn't you know?" Neve asked and they shook their heads before Conner shrugged.

"So, you get into the Dino exhibit?" Conner inquired, drawing Tommy's focus to him.

"Uh, still working the kinks out," he stated. "We better get you guys back. C'mon."

"Don't you guys think we should tell him?" Kira inquired as they dropped back a bit from their science teacher in order to talk.

"I dunno about you, but I've got over a thousand sci-fi DVD's and you wanna know how many times the dude with the super powers ends up in from freaky government lab on a table with wires in his head?" Ethan whispered.

"Even I know that," Conner stated as they stopped to talk in a little circle.

"That is true, you shouldn't tell anyone," Neve told them and they looked at her.

"You won't tell you dad will you?" Kira asked and Neve blinked and shook her head. She didn't know what those things were and she thought her dad might be able to help but she couldn't tell him something that had nothing to do with her unless they gave her permission.

"Of course not," she told her and they nodded.

Tommy stopped walking and turned to look at them. "You guys coming?"

Giving each other one last agreeing glance, they followed.

xXx

"Okay, so we all agree, no one talks about this?" Conner inquired as the four teens away from the school. They exchanged glances.

"I can do better than that," Kira stated, turning to face them and outstretching her hand to drop something in Conner's palm. "I'm out."

They looked down and spotted the yellow gem in his hands. "Just forget I was here and I'll do the same," she stated.

"How come he gets it?" Ethan complained and Kira rolled her eyes and took it and placed it in Neve's hand even though Neve hadn't even wanted it in the first place. Yellow really wasn't her color.

"Well here, Neve can have it." Ethan pouted. As they debated this, Cassidy Cornell and cameraman Devin Del Valle came out of the school, walking towards the parking lot.

"I'm telling you, there's something weird about Doctor Oliver," Cassidy stated. "I mean seriously, I called Angel Grove High and they wouldn't tell me anything. It's like his private record's just one big secret."

"Yeah…I kinda think that's why they call it a private record," Devin said, scratching his head. "I mean if they were public-!"

Cassidy interrupted him as she pulled him in behind a small station wagon, peering over the hood in the direction of the four talking teenagers. "What?" Devin inquired.

"Don't you think that's a little odd?"

"A bunch of kids standing around talking…yeah, freaky man."

"No!" Cassidy snapped, wanting to hit Devin over the head. "Think about it; why would Conner McKnight, king of all jocks, be hanging out with Ethan James?"

Devin shrugged, looking totally lost.

"King of all geeks!" Cassidy added, and it clicked in Devin's brain.

"Yeah! Right!"

"Not to mention the Avril Wannabe and the new kid," Cassidy sneered. "I mean seriously, in the three years we've been at Reefside have you ever seen them look at each other? Cuz I haven't."

"You know what?" Kira groaned, knowing that it was impossible to talk to them at this point. "I give up! Take it, do whatever, just don't involve me!"

With that she turned away, and walked off. She got no further than fifteen feet before an eerie wind blew by – the same from earlier.

"Oh you gotta be kidding me," she muttered, turning around to see the three others watching. She turned back to the road and the lizard monsters from before were suddenly there and grabbed her from all sides, making her drop her backpack. "Get away freaks!"

"Kira!" Conner yelled, and he and the others rushed towards her, only to have her be teleported away before they could reach her.

"Hurry, the camera!" Cassidy yelled. "What do you see?"

"Wicked, you gotta check this out!" Devin smiled, opening the LCD screen for her. It showed nothing but beautiful skies and healthy trees.

"There's nothing there," she snapped.

"She's gone…," Ethan stated.

"I hate this," Neve said sighing.

xXx

Conner's red 1967 Mustang came roaring around the street corner, Ethan in the front and Neve in the back seat holding onto anything she could. And she thought Dustin was a bad driver. Tires screeched as he did and Ethan was glad to be in the front seat.

"Right so…where are we going?" Conner inquired.

"You're driving like a your asking for us to get hit and you don't even know where we're going?" Neve cried.

"Guys! Focus!" Ethan pleaded with a worried tone. "Look, what about Doctor Oliver's?"

"What's he gonna do?" Conner frowned.

"He's a dinosaur guy! These things are dinosaurs...sorta..." Ethan trailed off as he brought his PDA out of his pocket and began working at it.

"Oh great!" Neve groaned.

"Alright, so where's he live?" Conner inquired.

"Hello, I live there too. 1992 Valencia Road," Neve said and Conner frowned.

"Valencia Road that's…," Conner frowned, thinking about it. "That's like way out in the middle of the woods."

xXx

A little while later they pulled up a dirt path, all the way to the little house at the end. Stopping the car and turning it off the three got out and raced to the door.

Conner peered through the window while Ethan knocked, Neve sighed and shook her head.

"Guys, I get the feeling you keep forgetting I LIVE here!" she exclaimed and pushed the door open and smiled upon seeing Davie asleep in his play pen. The two boys frowned at it and looked at her.

"Oh come on, I'm fourteen! He's my brother, I do have a mother you know," Neve said and rolled her eyes.

"Wait, your fourteen and a junior?" Ethan asked.

"I skipped a few grades," Neve said and they nodded.

"Why would he leave it unlocked?" Conner suddenly asked and Neve looked at him like he was stupid.

"He's got no neighbors," Ethan pointed out.

"What, you've never heard of the three bears?" Conner chuckled, moving inside.

"Is that the last book you read?" Ethan taunted, following.

"Do I have to repeat myself again, I live here...as in I need to get in while my key is being made?" Neve said, saying the last part slowly. The boys nodded, making a 'oh, now I get it' face as they entered. Neve sighed and followed and she found the boys in what appeared to be the study. On the main table was a small replica of a T-Rex Skeleton, almost like the one from the tunnels. She had seen it before but had never been allowed to touch it.

"Doctor Oliver!" Ethan called.

"Now you call for him?" Neve said and shook her head.

"Mom, dad!" Neve called and got no reply back. She had to wounder where they were. It wasn't like them to leave Davie alone, even with him asleep.

"Hey, check it out!" Conner grinned, stepping up to the T-Rex model. He went to touch the jaw and bring it down like the one from the tunnels but Ethan stopped him.

"Remember what happened last time you did that?" Ethan inquired.

"Dude, the guy's a teacher, not—" Conner's words were delayed as he pulled the T-Rex jaw and a tile slid away from the floor and up, revealing a staircase into a basement with dim lightning.

"Batman?" Conner finished, eyes wide.

"Oh my god!" Neve cried and the other two blinked.

"You didn't know?" Conner asked and Neve looked at him.

"No, I didn't know!" They shrugged and exchanged glances before following. The sight they found at the bottom had never crossed any of their minds. Stone walls, tiled flooring, three-toed Dinosaur prints as lights, tables covered in machines and computers. They walked slowly, staring around in awe.

"Dude, this looks like the place from earlier!" Ethan realized.

"Oh my god," Neve said.

"Are those the only words you know?" Conner asked and Neve glared.

"Shut up," she said and Conner ignored her.

"Are you guys freaking out right now?" Conner inquired.

"Yeah…I'd have to say I am," Ethan nodded.

"If you're looking for extra credit, you're in the wrong place," a voice told them, and the three teens turned to find Doctor Oliver standing there, looking none-too-pleased.

"Oh Crap!" Neve said, staring at her father. Her Mother was coming up behind him with a confused and worried look on her face.

A/N: So here we are the beginning of Green with Rage - I think it is pretty obvious what Neve's new color is. Haha. On my profile I will post a graphic to show Neve's green Ranger suit, much like I did with the Pink Spirit Ranger. I will get the second part up by tomorrow and as you probably guess she doesn't get her gem for a while and even then it won't be too happy at first.