Disclaimer: I do not own Power Rangers

A/N: Yes, I did add a second chapter. After all, the blue had to come off some how...

Theo had hidden in the loft for two days, trying to get the blue color off his skin. Finally, with Lily's unintended assistance, he managed to corner Casey. Then, armed with The Backstreet Boys, a couple of bees and his ability to tickle, he set about torturing the important information out of his red ranger. Thirty minutes later, minus a lecture from RJ on the depth of Casey's bee allergy, Theo was on the road. Three hours later, with Casey's instructions in mind, he walked into Briarwood's Rock Porium. The store was mostly empty, save a few employees stocking shelves. Theo studied them, and finally selected a young man in the comic book section who wore a yellow shirt under his employee shirt. "Excuse me," he said quietly.

"Can I help you?" The red head replied as he put the comic he was holding open on the shelf guiltily.

"My name is Theo Martin," Theo said, he kept his head tilted down, and strongly resisted the urge to reach up and pull either his hat or his hood further down, "my friend Casey Rhodes said I could find Nick Russell here, or someone who could contact him?"

"What do you want with Nick?" The guy asked.

Theo bit his lip, and glanced up, "I really, really would like him to undo whatever it is he did."

"You're blue!" The guy yelped, taking a step back.

Theo's patients thinned, "Yes, I'm blue, and it's Nick's fault," he snapped. "Now, I would appreciate it if you could tell me how to get in touch with him so that he can undo this."

"Is everything all right?" Someone asked behind Theo.

Theo stiffened slightly, even as he identified the speaker, male, Australian, no doubt this was Xander, the Green Mystic Ranger. Theo turned, "I'm looking for Nick Russell, so he can undo this."

"And you are?" The man asked, crossing his arms and making his green undershirt slightly more visible.

"Theo Martin," Theo replied, "I'm Casey Rhodes's teammate."

"You work with him at that pizza place, Jungle Boogie or something, right?" Probably Xander asked.

"It's actually Jungle Karma Pizza," Theo corrected.

"Right," Probably Xander flipped his hand, "What color are you?"

"What color are you?" Theo countered.

"Xander, what's going on?" The third employee had finally shown up and Theo could feel his face heating up as she studied him. "Who are you?"

"My name is Theo Martin, I'm from Ocean Bluffs, I work at Jungle Karma Pizza with Casey Rhodes," Theo ground out; he was getting really tired of this. "I am looking for Nick Russell so that he can undo this spell, or whatever it is, that he did to me."

"Right," the woman said, giving both her co-workers a look, "you're blue. I'm Vida, pink. These are Xander, green and Chip, yellow. Nick's at our headquarters, so it won't take him long to get here."

"Great," Theo said, "thanks. You're right, I am blue. It's nice to meet you."

"Pleasure is mine," Vida replied with a smile.

"Nick's on his way," Chip piped up, Theo glanced over in time to see Chip shoving something in his pocket. "Are you ok, Theo? You seem kind of jumpy."

"What, oh," Theo raised a shoulder, "I'm just worried that Dai Shi will attack while I'm here. I mean, I know my team…"

"We can understand that," Xander said. "If you don't mind me asking, what did happen to you?"

"I said it wasn't fair that Casey got to go off planet all the time and Casey invited me to come along." Theo replied with a sigh, "Casey did warn me, but I didn't really believe him. We met Nick and Conner the first night and I got dragged around for the next three. Since I was the first one to pass out from all the drinking we did, this was my punishment."

"Didn't they warn you about drinking with reds?" Vida asked.

"We weren't planning to run into Nick and Conner," Theo said, "besides, it's not the first time I've been drinking."

"Theo!" Nick strode into the Rock Porium, as he reached their group; he smirked, "Why so blue?"

"Fix this," Theo said, "Casey said you could do it."

"You have to say it first," Nick told him.

"No." Theo replied.

"Come on, Theo, all you have to do is say the magic phrase and this will all go away."

"Like I believe you, fix this!"

"Say it."

"What's he supposed to say?" Chip asked.

"I can't tell you," Nick said, "it would invalidate Theo having to say it."

"Why won't you say it?" Vida asked, looking at Theo.

"It's stupid," Theo said, "and I don't believe it and I am never saying it."

"I guess you like blue then, because it won't go away until you say it," Nick replied.

"Why not just say it in the bathroom or something?" Xander asked, "If you don't want people to hear you say it."

"I tried that," Theo muttered.

"He can't," Nick said, "part of the requirement is that he has to say it in front of Rangers, clearly, in English." He smiled proudly, "I think I do some of my best work with alcohol in me."

"We won't tell anyone," Vida said, with another look at Xander and Chip, "you can say it here and not a word will get back to your team."

"Casey knows what I'm supposed to say," Theo replied.

"Which is why you have to say it," Nick said.

Theo looked around, "You guys swear, nobody hears about this from you?"

"Ranger's honor," Vida, Chip and Xander said in unison.

"On my honor," Nick agreed.

"Fine," Theo said. He took a deep breath, because he really didn't want to have to say this. "Reds rule and Blues drool." He announced. Blue and white sparkles filled his vision before he could close them and when his vision cleared, he looked at his hands. They were normal. He reached behind him and confirmed that his tail was gone.

"Nicholas Bowen Russell how could you?"

A pretty young woman who bore a strong resemblance to Vida stood at the end of the comic books. "Madison?" Nick said, "I thought you were at school this weekend."

Madison lifted her chin as her arms crossed over her blue top, "Surprise." She smiled at Theo, "Hi, I'm Madison, blue ranger. You must be Theo. I apologize for our red ranger. He has issues."

"Hi," Theo said. He would have said more, but his morpher beeped. Glancing around the empty store as the other Rangers tensed, he slipped his sunglasses on, "This is Theo, what's going on?"

"I don't care if you are pink with orange stripes, we need you in Ocean Bluff as fast as you can drive." Casey said, "We've got trouble."

"I'm on my way," Theo said.

"Trouble?" Vida asked.

"Yes," Theo said.

"We'll get you back," Nick said, pulling out his morpher. Theo eyed him for a moment. "No pranks, Theo."

"RJ's jeep," Theo began.

"I'll drive it back," Nick said, "I promise, no scratches."

Theo took a breath and nodded, "Let's do this."

As the purple light of the spell obscured his vision, Theo found himself hoping everything hadn't completely fallen apart in his absence from JKP.