“Yeah right!” Rocky coughed out. “Frog boy doesn’t want to partake because he knows he’s going to lose.”

“Shut it you stupid ape,” Adam growled back.

“Frog? Ape?” Conner asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Ningetti powers,” Kira supplied. “You really were out of it when they told us the story of how they went to Phaedos, weren’t you?”

“Phaedos?”

“Never mind,” Tommy sighed. “Have Ethan and Trent tell you later. Anyway, Zack, no matter what the reasoning is, you can’t make a team all by yourself; and I refuse to race.”“So Jason and I will come meet you in an hour or two?” Trini suggested. The others nodded.

“That was an awesome match against Dr. O,” Kira said as she and Trent climbed into Kimberly’s car; the others were riding with Zack.

“Thanks,” Kimberly said. “I kind of lost count of who pinned who more, though.” She sighed and stretched her neck from side to side. “He’s a heavy guy, you know.”

“I’d imagine so,” Trent said. “Anyway, thanks for humiliating Conner for us.”Jason raised an eyebrow at the exchange, but said nothing. In the last few weeks, the pair had come to a steady truce of sorts and had begun working easily with each other again. It was weird to see them together everyday, but not really together. It seemed odd to him that it was Carri and Rocky mooning over each other and not Kim and Tommy; although they did seem to spend a lot of time together lately.

For some reason, the old grid buried on the property she bought wanted to communicate with Tommy more than her. She shrugged it off, but Jason knew it annoyed her to no end. They’d spend hours together planning, working, going out together, even bickering like an old married couple, but they weren’t together. Tommy apparently even had some sort of new girlfriend in Stone Canyon and Kim appeared to care less. Then again, Kim was so focused on her house that she hardly noticed anything else.