Dino Thunder: Continuing the Legacy

Missing Bone

Chapter 15: Missing Bone

As the bell rang, signaling the start of class, Conner, Kira, Ethan and Andy walked up the stairs to their class together.

"You guys heard from Trent yet?" Conner asked as they avoided the other students.

"No, and I'm not sure I really want to," Kira told him with a frown.

"He's so lucky Zoey went to Angel Grove." Jenna joined them, "With her powers so out of wack, there's no telling what she would do to him."

"Girl's dangerous on a regular day." Andy smirked, "She don't need any more powers."

"She doesn't have any more new ones, doofus. She is getting control of her current ones."

"So, without Zoey, it's up to us to keep an eye on Trent." Conner frowned, "There's no telling what that guy's up to."

"We need to make sure he doesn't go off on some poor freshman cause the kid won't give him his lunch money," Ethan shook his head, looking worried.

"I think he's after a little more than a free grilled cheese," Jenna rolled her eyes.

"And when we know what that is, maybe we can deal." Kira shrugged. "But until then, we keep an eye on him," she said to her friends as they walked into their classroom, unaware that Trent was listening to every word they said.

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As they waited for their substitute teacher to show up, the class of teenagers entertained themselves. While Ethan, Andy and Conner tossed paper balls into Devin's camera bag, Kira wrote down lyrics to a new song she was writing, and Jenna sat at the TA desk, writing in her laptop. Since Zoey deferred, Jenna was going to be in the science room from now on. Trent, sitting on the opposite side of the same table as the other four, just rolled his eyes, ignoring them.

"Hey, did you guys hear we're supposed to get a new teacher today?" Ethan asked as he tossed another ball into the bag.

"How many does that make now?" Andy quirked a brow in Jenna's direction, "I mean, she's like the Sub Sinker. She's systematically gotten rid of every one of the substitutes that Principal Randall has brought in. Do you think she does it on purpose?"

"Let's see." Conner chuckled, "The first teacher tried to kick her out, as she wasn't a student, and she didn't work with TAs. Jenna went to Randall and threatened to call the school board." He turned to Andy, "She really have the connections she says she does?"

"Their brothers do."

"The second teacher treated her like a student and made her get up in front of the class to figure out the radiometric dating, whatever that is, of a triceratops bone in rock." Ethan smirked, "Teacher thought she was being smart, but Jenna showed her up and proved why she's a TA and she get's all those A's in her classes."

"Come on guys. Leave Jenna alone." Kira admonished, "She can't help it. Besides, you three have been no picnic either."

"Those teachers are nothing compared to Dr. O." Conner smiled, "But we can promise to be nicer to the new substitute, whoever it is."

"Well, I heard from a very reliable source, that it's this 80-year-old woman who used to teach kindergarten in Silver Hills," Cassidy spoke up as she stood at their table.

"Really?" Conner looked unconvinced by her words, and the door opened. They looked up as Principal Randall walked in, looking down her nose at them.

"Good morning class," she greeted as everyone quickly took their seats. "I would like you to meet your new teacher, Doctor Anton Mercer," all of the Rangers sitting at the table looked up instantly, their eyes wide as the man walked in.