What Really Happened In Forever Red

Ten Reds. One mission. The real story that nobody was willing to say, where we see all the parts they tried to edit out.

Hints of CarterXDana, TaylorXEric, WesXEric, CarterXRyan, WesXAlcoholism, ColeXMonkeys, LeoXAuricoXMarriage (like, don't even ask about these... Most are mocks.)

DISCLAIMER: We do not own Power Rangers

Chapter Three

Goodbyes and Surprise Attacks.

The sun was setting on Earth, colouring the sky a soft orange which reflected out onto the buildings; the light was bright as the Red's (minus Aurico who had decided to make his own way home rather than sharing a cross galactic ride with Leo) descended out of the ship.

"Been a while since I had a fight that good." TJ said with a stretch, the group walking toward the cars that were parked facing toward them. "Thanks for getting in touch."

"We did well." Carter acknowledged, "Considering this is the biggest only Red team up I've heard of, and we went to the moon."

"Yeah," Wes lightly punched Cole in the shoulder, the smaller man looking slightly terrified as he did so, "You did good kid." Cole smiled but looked toward Tommy who appeared ready to make a speech- no question in Cole's mind, Tommy was the greatest Ranger.

They put their fists together and Tommy began. "We made history today, guys. I can honestly say that I'm proud of my legacy-"

"Whoa, no, wait, 'your'? What d'ya mean 'your'? I was the first red so, technically, it's my legacy."

"Hush Jason; don't ruin the moment." Was the last thing he said before he turned and walked off into the horizon.

Cole watched, awe-struck, "He really is the greatest Ranger." The other men scoffed in reply and yelled their protests.

"I was the original!"

"I saved a whole other galaxy!"

"I saved the world with shit technology,"

"That's not something to be proud of Grayson."

"I saved two time streams!"

"Did I ever tell you guys about the time I was stuck inside a giant pizza?"

"I killed Zordon." The facial expression Jason pulled (a mixture of shock, anger, aghast and fury, in case one wondered) would have been the next thing the Red's made fun of had it not been for the sudden shout of 'Carter Michael Grayson.' Coming from behind the group. The man in question cringed at the female's voice, glaring over at Eric and Wes who were smirking.

"What did you do?!" He hissed, still reluctant to turn around, even as he heard her footsteps approaching.

"Wes may have answered your morpher- while drunk."

"You idiots." He retaliated before turning around to face the angry blonde standing before him with her arms crossed over her chest, "Hey hone-" Oh boy, the whole team were standing just past her watching on... They'd come to watch a show and he was apparently doing an improv performance.

"Don't honey me." Her blue eyes cutting him down like daggers, "So, where did you go? Do you know it's been nine hours past your deadline?"

"I was dropping something off at Eric and-"

"Don't try that bullshit." She poked him straight in the chest before looking past him at the nearest Red- and unfortunately for Cole, he was her target. "Where did you guys really go?"

Eric took sympathy on Cole, stepping in front to answer the question, "Another Galaxy Girl Scout."

"Mirinoi." Leo added but TJ, being still slightly drunk, shouted over him with, "Moon!"

"You went to the moon?!" Dana hit Carter in the chest again, "The moon!"

"There are a lot of moons-" Wes began to point out, but realising he might be assisting Carter getting beaten up by a five foot eight ex-Pink Ranger, he stopped... His stopping was, unfortunately, too late as Ryan Mitchell perked up and began barking something along the lines of 'You lied! There are more moons! I told you there were!' to his little sister.

"Thanks a lot Wesley!" She turned her scowl to him but did managed to slip her hand in Carter's jacket pocket and withdrew something which the giant failed to notice, "You ruined the geo-centric model we had Ryan believing!" She turned her attention back to her boyfriend, "You lied to me!" As she kept grilling him, she tossed the smuggled item behind her back to Chad...who failed at catching it.

The Yellow glanced to where the object had slid beneath the Rover, slowly (and totally not suspiciously) crouched down and reached beneath the car to retrieve the fallen item. Everyone that wasn't Carter watched her slowly rise to her full height with an awkward-innocent smile on her face.

"He thinks the geo-centric model is right?" Amusement laced Eric's tone, lips curling into his signature smirk, "What next? Tooth fairy? Santa?"

"Watch this one..." Kelsey turned to Ryan with a grin crossing her mischievous face, "Ry, what comes after X in the alphabet?"

Ryan, with a look of excruciating pain on his face, took a few seconds to think before he answered with a very doubtful sounding, "Q?" Not hanging around as he quickly ran away, leaving those stood around to openly mock him.

"It's G idiot." Everyone turned to Wes and for once, the man didn't seem to be joking- so much for his private school education!

"It's L." TJ added and now, the Lightspeed team, Eric and Leo seemed quite concerned- Andros could be forgiven if he didn't know the alphabet, his alien one was probably more complicated than the standard twenty six letter English alphabet, but the other Reds?! That was worrying; defenders of the planet and only a handful knew the alphabet?!

"I couldn't exactly tell the truth-" Carter said, bringing the attention back from the apparently appallingly educated other two, although he regretted it when Dana's glare returned to him.

"Don't try that line." She hissed back at him. Now, from where the other Reds were stood, this was a heavily amusing sight, so amusing in fact, both Eric and Wes had withdrawn a camera type device from their morphers (something Trip had recently added) and were filming the whole show down; oh come on, it's not everyday you see a giant taken down by a five foot eight twenty year old girl.

"If I had said I was going to the moon for a mission, would you have let me go?!"

"Yes."

He was stunned into silence at her blunt reply- cocking his head to the side, "Really?"

"Duh."

"Look, forget I lied, we saved the Earth- and I did an awesome flip in the process." He indignantly stated. He'd basically proclaimed a challenge, and in doing so had forgotten that although normally sweet, Dana wouldn't miss an opportunity to be proven right, to embarrass the person she was mad at and to be entertained in the process.

"Okay. Do it again."

"Again?"

"That's what I said." She walked back to the Rover where everyone else was stood, "Do it."

"Fine.." How hard could it be? Eric watched as the blonde man readied hinself and flipped. He almost felt sorry for him but that was overshadowed by his growing amusement as the man fell flat on his back, though not before a laser beam shot from his blaster straight towards the alien of the group.

"MY HAIR!" Carter looked to Andros to see half of his hair smoking, singed and much shorter than the other side. Carter began to attempt to stutter an apology- but this was over shadowed by two girls shouting 'Go! Go! Go!' He span around just in time to see his team all in the Rover along with Leo and Cole, Dana in the drivers seat slamming her foot down on the accelerator.

"Hey!" He shouted but it was too late; Bonnie was just a shape fading into the distance. "Dana!"

"Get in." Eric hissed to Wes, indicating to the car behind them. Once both were inside, they locked all the doors- looking through the window screen to see both TJ and Jason had followed suit. Carter turned at the sound of multiple engines starting and his eyes widened as they all began to drive off,

"Guys! What-? What are you - GUYS! WAIT!" Aaaand now they were gone too. Brilliant. He ran a hand through his hair and over his face and looked up to the sky, "Why?"

"Let's go Gigantor, I can only be asked to wait for you for so long," Carter turned round to see Ryan on his bike, the sidecar empty.. Oh no.

"Okay." The blonde driving the Rover shouted back to Cole as they began to approach the park where his team had apparently stayed at waiting for their Red's return. "I'll slow down just enough for you to jump, but I can't stop- I can see Carter's red face in the side mirrors."

"Is this safe?" Cole asked with his eyes glazed over in a petrified state.

"Probably not," Joel rested a hand on Cole's shoulder, "Worries you that she's two years away from being a fully fledged doctor right-"

"I'm so ending up staying at the base tonight-" Dana groaned, "Carter will be sulking and Ryan sleeps on the sofa; it's either staying at the base or in a tent in the garden."

"I'll bring over the marshmallows and we'll have a slumber party." Kelsey suggested as the car slowed enough; she then turned to face the shaking man next to her, "Just remember to tuck and roll- Good luck and nice meeting you." Cole didn't ask questions, quite frankly it weirded him out that the five people in the car didn't seem too bothered about what they asked him to do but he needed the sweet liberation of land... He dived from the car, executing a perfect forward roll before landing back on his feet being met with a round of applause from his team as the other team sped off.

"Just to clarify, that was a dude who collected you earlier, so why is he a chick now?" Taylor asked, "And nice one Monkey-boy."

"That was his girlfriend I think- I'm not sure."

Taylor scoffed, "It has a girlfriend?"

Cole shrugged, "Apparently."

Carter spotted the blonde next to Cole and proceeded to hide his face behind his hand, "Oh God why? Do you really hate me so much?!"

"What? What? Tell me!"

"It's.. her." Ryan saw Carter shiver after spitting out the word. He looked around and saw who he was referring to.

"Okay!" He turned the motorcycle and drove up to her.

Panic flashed through the taller man's eyes, "Ryan no-!"

"Hey man, who are you?"

The blonde raised an eyebrow at the man who was now circling her, "Taylor. Who are you?"

"I'm Ryan!"

"Hi Ryan. Any particular reason you're circling me?" She deadpanned.

"So Gigantor over here can't get out and 'cause he's scared of you!" She allowed a smirk to grace her lips at the disclosure.

"Well I try. Though I can honestly say I'm not quite sure what I did."

Carter paused at that and pondered for a moment, "You know, neither do I..-"

"Who cares how? Point is, I like you!" Ryan broke in. "We should get together-"

"She has a boyfriend!"

"We're not dating!"

"That's not what Eric said!" Carter interjected after Cole.

"EW not like that COOTIES! WHAT I MEANT WAS TO DISCUSS CARTER DESTROYING TACTICS!"

"..Okay."

"Cool! What's your cell number?" Ryan pulled out a pink flip phone and Carter's eyes lit up in recognition.

"Wait a minute- that's Dana's phone! She's gonna kill you!" Carter tried to pull the phone out of Ryan's hands, but instead it clattered to the ground. But of course, it didn't end there, that would be too easy. Ryan then proceeded to run over the pink device, crushing it. Thoroughly. As they drove off, Taylor could hear yells of 'Dana's gonna kill you!'.

"Huh." Taylor turned and walked off, an amused lilt to her lips.

Fini.

SAM: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!. Hi.

GREG: Hey, it's like five days late but we're running low on chapters to post so we thought we'd delay it and see how much more we'd get written... Two paragraphs xD Amazing right?

SAM: Yes but, it's also my birthday. I'm sorry, I had to.

GREG: She's gonna keep saying that until we all get the message... So like, we have two more chapters/one shots until the mainish story and we're only three chapters in on that... So we're gonna be annoying and rotate with Matchmaking to give us more time... It's exam season, leave us be :'D

SAM: Yeah, we have mocks next week and a fifteen hour/three day art exam. That is a long fricking time to sit and paint a fucking flower. So, last chapter of this three-shot; hope it was enjoyable.

GREG: So, firstly thanks to Nicholas Dreamer for the fave and follow :P.

SAM: And, Dash master 48, I thank you for acknowledging our awesomeness. It was much appreciated. Personally, I like Leo and Kendrix fluffinessss.

GREG: I agree, Leo and Kendrix for Lost Galaxy pairings... Okay anyway, CarterlovesDana- Andros would be an amazing Pink, he has the flippable hair *swish* and Leo thinks he has the legs for it... As for the psycho Red, I genuinely can't remember them but Sam does and another friend does... I kinda don't know how we could've incorporated him but it was an awesome idea. Hahaha, Barbie Girl :') It's Carter's number one song choice :')

SAM: So that's that. We have a one shot coming up next but, for now, peace out. And, it's my birthday~!

GREG: The one shot immediately follows this story and is a CarterXDana one in case you're wondering... Anyway; SEE YA!
Oh, by the way, did you know it's Sam's birthday? I had no idea... How did she let it slip past us?