“Now, ladies, if you’ll excuse us, my friends and I are going to enjoy the rest of our day.” With those last words she turned her back, swung her wet hair over her shoulder, and plunged back into the pool, resurfacing a good distance away from the maid who was climbing out of the pool with the aid of her partner, looking like a very large drowned rat. The other former rangers looked from the two women to Kimberly, shrugged to one another, and swam over to join her.

“Ok boys, what do you say?” Kimberly asked Jason, Zack, and Tommy sweetly.

“Thank you,” all three muttered. Zack grinned and kissed her on the cheek.“I’m going to be,” Billy lied. He hadn’t been able to tell his father he was coming into town; there had been a major computer malfunction right after he’d set up the trip and he’d barely had time to sleep, let alone plan, while dealing with it; his only chance to contact Earth had been a few hurried conversations with Trini. He didn’t want to hurt his father’s feelings by saying that he’d been in town for a few days, but in all honesty he’d been so excited to see the gang and come back to Earth in general that he’d kept forgetting to mention his father once he’d arrived. The gang had a tendency to make him forget everything, even his inventions, and the last few days had been rather hectic, even though it was definitely the good sort of hectic. “Trini’s picking me up at the airport tomorrow. I was going to surprise you, but then I thought you might not be home, so…”Carri felt awful. Hundreds of little yellow lights danced in front of her eyes and everything felt three times too big. Her mouth felt like cotton and her throat like sandpaper. It was like she was trying to breath through a straw.

“It’s an allergic reaction of some type.” Billy said not far from her face. She couldn’t see him, but he was obviously close by. “You should start feeling better in a few minutes.” She felt something cold injected in her neck and assumed it was an antidote of some kind.

“The good new is, Zedd has recalled those things.” Tommy said, coming into the room, “The bad news is we collected very little meaningful data on them and there are several civilians reporting stings.”

“Whatever they were, they’re nasty.” Kim said, rubbing her arm as Billy injected her with anti-venom.

“Tell me you have an idea of how to contain it.” Tommy said turning to Billy. He knew Billy must have already