Breathless

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With that being said on with the story

Lots of love, xo

It's morphin time 3

Chapter 6

~Food Fight~

With an early start Claire was already ready for the day ahead, she was dressed in denim shorts, white top and orange cardigan, she had knee length orange socks and white chucks, and her long hair was braided and not in a high bun for once. She looked at the clock and saw that she still had time before she had to head over to the Youth Center and help out with Cultural Food festival, so she decided to go to Billy's to see if he was awake, since she saw him sleeping about half an hour ago. She took her backpack and keys and left her house locking the doors on her way out and went to Billy's, she smiled when his dad David opened the door and waved.

'Good Morning' She said cheerfully as David let her inside,

'Good Morning Claire Bear, what brings you over so early?' David asked as Claire put her backpack down and followed him to kitchen,

'Oh I came to see if Billy was awake, we were supposed to help today at the Youth Center, there is a Cultural Food Festival' She answered as David sat down on a bar stool and took newspapers,

'Oh, well I think he is still asleep but feel free to go and wake him up, he is impossible to wake in the mornings' David complained and Claire laughed and shook her head and made her way upstairs to Billy's room.

Claire softly opened the doors and poked her head inside, she saw a familiar blondish head sticking out from under the covers and she heard soft snoring which made her giggle, she walked over to his window and pulled away the curtains and opened it a bit letting the fresh air inside. She took the moment to really look at his room, she was here before but she never gave too much attention to it, it had white and blue walls, dark wooded floor, it also had two windows just like Claire's room, and a bed just as big, the curtains were white, he had a working desk, and a bookshelf filled with all kinds of science books, there was also a wardrobe and another door that led to his bathroom, he also had some picture frames here and there, with his friends, and mom and dad which made Claire smile.

She walked over to his bed and took off her chuck climbing on it and sitting crisscross next to him, she gently shook him in hopes of waking him up, 'Billy, time to wake up, or we'll be late' she said while shaking expecting a response from him, but she was met with silence, 'Billy, I mean it, Trini will be so mad if we're late' she tried again and waited but nothing. She huffed and crossed her arms over her chest waiting for an idea to pop into her head.

After about 10 minutes she felt Billy move and decided to start again, 'Billy, come on, wake up' She said as she shook him, and slowly started to get a response from him.

Billy felt someone shake him and heard a familiar voice calling him softly, he slowly opened his eyes and rubbed them slowly with a yawn hearing a giggle come from next to him, 'C-Claire? What are you doing here?' he asked as he sat up and Claire handed him his glasses,

'Morning sleepy head, well you almost overslept so I came to wake you up' She said and he looked at her puzzled,

'Overslept, for what?' He said scratching the back of his neck and Claire gasped,

'For what? Cultural Food fair, you know that Trini would be so angry at us if me missed it' She said and Billy suddenly remembered,

'That's today?' He asked surprised,

'Yes, but thanks to me we won't be late' Claire said with a smile and Billy let out a breath of relief as he fell back down to bed,

'Thanks Bear' He said and Claire laughed,

'Don't mention it, but get ready and I'll wait for you down stairs okay?' She asked with a smile and he looked at her and nodded smiling back at her.

Claire put on her chucks and walked downstairs where his dad was still drinking coffee and reading newspapers, when Claire joined him they enjoyed small talk while waiting for Billy to come down, once he did and they were both ready they made way to the Youth Center together.

'Hey Billy, Hey Claire Bear' Kim said as she saw her two friends walking in, and they both waved,

'Hi guys' Claire said with a smile,

'Hey' Billy said after her with a smile before he walked over to Trini's stand to leave his backpack,

'Wow everything looks good and Hi Trin' Claire praised and greeted as Kim smiled and Trini walked over carrying a tray,

'Hi Claire' Trini said with a bright smile,

'Thanks' Kim said, 'Hey Claire can you help me with that tray over there' Kim said and Claire nodded as she put her bag down next to Kim's,

'Sure can do' Claire said happily picking up the tray following Kim and Trini when they were stopped by the Principal,

'How you doin girls?' He asked walking over,

'Hi' The three of them said,

'Wow, looks like the Cultural Food Festival's gonna be a huge success, huh?' He asked, as the boys joined Kim, Trini and Claire,

'Yes, we should raise a lot of money for the preschool and day care center' Trini said and the others agreed with her,

'Oh, what's this, huh?' He asked moving his look onto Kim's and Kim moved it away,

'Hey, hey, hey, Mr. Kaplan you have to buy it first' She explained,

'And I believe that one is 20 dollars' Billy said holding a jar,

'Well I wasn't really hungry anyway' He said walking away and the others laughed.

'Hey, let's go back to work kid's doors open in ten minutes' Ernie said and they all nodded,

'This is gonna be an awesome food fair' Zack said happily,

'Yeah I just hope Rita isn't hungry for any trouble today' Jason said,

'You can say that again' Claire added and they all went back to what they were doing,

Claire finished helping Kim and Kim smiled at her,

'Thanks Claire bear, and I love what you did with your hair, I didn't even know it was that long' Kim said as she noticed that Claire's hair was below her waist,

Claire smiled as a small blush appeared on her cheeks 'Thanks Kimi' she happily said and went to over to Trini's stand as she was helping her for the day along with Billy,

'Try some of these vegetables' Trini said,

'Your fried rice' Billy said as the woman thanked them and Claire smiled and sipped some water for her,

'Here you go' She said happily,

'Thanks' The customer said as she walked away,

'Well we're doing good for now' Claire said as she took a glass of water for herself,

'True, I just hope we raise enough money' Trini said honestly as she served another customer,

'We will, don't worry about it' Claire said and Billy agreed, 'Oh yeah, I will be right back I left my bag at Kim's table' She said and Trini nodded,

'Okie' She said as Mr Kaplan walked over.

Claire started to walk towards Kim's stand with American food when she sensed something flying over her head, she turned around and saw a pie missing Mr. Kaplan, only getting his wig hitting Skull straight on his face,

'Oh-oh' Claire whispered under her head as Skull picked up a pie, she knew she was in bad position and she started to slowly walk backwards hoping that would help her,

'Food fight' was the last thing she heard before all hell broke loose, and she tried to escape but just as she turned a pie hit her straight in the face, Claire tried to move but she couldn't see and she was whipping a pie off her face as fast as she could as she walked forward but she was hit with at least three more, so she just crouched down hoping for the best.

'We gotta stop this' Jason said as he met with the others,

'Yes, look at this mess you guys, we gotta save the food fair' Trini said as she tried to dodge all the food that was flying,

'You're right' Zack agreed,

'I'll go find Claire, I think she was in the middle of all of this when it started' Billy said,

'Good luck Billy' Kim said as they all went their separate ways to try and stop the riot that was happening,

Billy quickly moved towards the center where he saw little further a familiar person crouching down and he rushed towards her,

'Claire!' He called causing her to look up at him as she whipped her eyes,

'Billy?' she asked as he helped her up and took her hand pulling her from the chaos, he led her towards the stand that Trini was holding and took her behind it,

'Hide here, there is probably a towel you can use to wipe your face off' He said and she nodded,

'Thanks Billy' She said with a smile, and he nodded smiling back as he went to help the others.

Jason went after Bulk, taking sausages as weapons, he used them like nunchaki as he spun them around catching Bulks attention causing him to drop the pie he was holding onto himself,

Kim went after Skull who was holding a bowl full of fruits over his head and standing on a table, 'Skull!, put it down!' She yelled but he just laughed at her,

'Okay, sure, no problem' he said as he pretended like he was going to put it down but instead he threw everything from the bowl, Kim quickly moved to the side causing everything to fall on Bulk, who turned around and threw a pie at Skull's face laughing,

'Hey!' Billy yelled as he took a tray fool of cheese burgers from a guy that was throwing them and put them on a table as Trini joined him, but as they turned around they saw a guy launching at them with two pies, and they did the first thing they could think of which was moving to the side as the guy went over the table falling face first in a bucket of tomato sauce,

'Happy lunch' Trini said with a smile,

'That'll be 20 dollars' Billy said as he wrote a receipt giving it to the guy,

Claire whipped her face as best as she could but her hair and clothes were ruined, she stood from behind the table hoping she could help, as she saw Zack and walked behind the table where Mr. Kaplan was,

'Hey big guy' Zack said noticing Bulk going crazy with whipped cream, 'Why don't you chill with whipped cream' He said but Bulk didn't listen as he got ready to launch at Zack who just got an idea and took his apron off holding it in front of him moving it right to left,

'Toro, Toro' Zack called with a smirk and Bulk didn't take long to give in as he finally launched at Zack, but luckily Zack moved just in time and Bulk jumped onto the table sliding across, and like it was Claire's unlucky day, Mr. Kaplan and she got soaked in punch.

'That is it!' Mr. Kaplan said and everyone immediately stopped and turned towards him, as Claire just moved away and walked towards her friends hair and clothes dripping wet, 'Look at this mess' he cried, 'Our Food Festival is ruined, 'You should be ashamed of yourselves' He said pointing to Jason and the others,

'I only hope we have enough money to pay for the playground equipment' he continued, and they were all confused since it wasn't them who started this,

'Mister Kaplan' Jason started trying to explain what happened but Mr. Kaplan interrupted him,

'Oh I don't want to hear any excuses, Here' he said taking a mop 'Here, you're in charge of a clean up' He said throwing Jason the mop who caught it easily and left along with everyone.

Claire just stood there lost for words until she felt something wrap around her shoulders, she broke from her thoughts and saw Billy putting his hoodie around her, she smiled softly at him and went to thank him but she was interrupted by the familiar sound of their communicators going off which could only mean one thing Rita was once again up to no good, she sighed and Billy just smiled back at her and nodded,

'Come on' Jason said and they all moved to the side as Claire put Billy's hoodie on, the others took off their aprons and Jason answered the call from Zordon, 'Come in Zordon' He said bringing his communicator closer,

'Power Rangers I need you at the command center immediately' Zordon said and they all looked at each other and nodded,

'We're on our way' Jason said and they all teleported vanishing in bright lights.

'What a pig' Kim commented as they were watching Rita's new monster trough the viewing globe, and Claire felt her breakfast coming back just from watching him, and she was sure she wasn't the only one feeling that way,

'Man, this dude needs a serious diet' Jason added,

'Doesn't he ever stop' Trini said grossed out,

'If he doesn't I feel like im gonna see my breakfast' Claire said putting a hand over her mouth,

'The images you see have been just a moment ago, it appears that Rita has unleashed a ravenous pig upon the earth, its sole purpose is to eat' Zordon explained as the others continued to watch the pig,

'Man, if this dude keeps this up' Zack started,

'He'll eventually eat everything' Billy finished for him,

'I calculate he will consume the entire supply of food on earth in 48 hours, this pig must be stopped' Zordon said and everyone agreed with him,

'Look at that thing it is soo gross' Kim said,

'Just yuck' Claire added.

'Greetings dudes and dudettes' Alpha said finally coming into the main room of command center and others turned his way,

'Hi Alpha' Claire greeted with a smile and a wave,

'I thought I'd give you a hand with the food for the festival' He said,

'Thanks alpha' Jason and Trini said at the same time and the others smiled,

'Later Alpha, our Power Rangers have work to do, I wish you luck' Zordon said,

'Guys, it's morphin time' Jason said and everyone agreed standing behind him,

'Stegosaurs' Claire started,

'Mastodon' Zack continued,

'Pterodactyl' Kim said after him,

'Triceratops' Billy said,

'Saber tooth tiger' Trini went,

'Tyrannosaurs' Jason finished.

'Power Rangers' They said all together teleporting out of the command center, and with a flip they landed on the ground and saw the pig on a building right ahead.

'Alright porker, your big feast is over' Jason said,

'Oh yeah, you're finished pig' Zack said,

'He is so disgusting' Kim commented,

'Come down and fight like a pig' Trini called,

The pig jumped down and they all got ready to fight, the Rangers got ready holding their Power weapons and went to attack, but the pig was good and easily fought back, he pushed away Clare and Kim who both did a roll and went back to their legs, suddenly the pig started to act like a vacuum and suck them both towards him, he took both of their weapons In his mouth and started to eat them,

'Claire he's eating my Power Bow' Kim said and both she and Claire were pushed back on the ground as the pig ate their weapons,

'No!' Both of the girls cried out as he slowly but surely continued to eat,

'Billy hit him while he's eating' Trini called as they both attacked his but suffered the same fate as Claire and Kim as they were pushed to the ground, Zack tried to help Billy but only finished on the ground,

Jason was the last to try and to something but just like his friends his Power weapon was eaten, 'Oh man my sword' he said as he stood in a fighting stance ready to fight the pig with his fists,

The pig kicked Jason to the ground and the others came to his help and pig used that and attacked them all catching them in his vortex and Claire felt like the world was spinning.

The next thing they all knew they appeared at the park as they all fell on the ground,

'What a weird way to travel' Zack said as they all started to get up,

'This is too strange' Jason said while helping Kim up,

'You can say that again' Claire added as she dusted herself off while Jason's communicator went off, he brought his hand up and answered the call,

'Power Rangers, while you were caught in pigs vortex he found his way into your food festival and it's caught in chaos' Zordon explained and they all looked at each other,

'Oh no, come on' Jason said as they all ran to the Youth Center.

By the time they all got there people already ran out and the pig was nowhere to find and Youth Center looked like a bomb went off,

'Ewww a mess' Kim said,

'I guess we're too late' Zack added as they all stepped forward,

'Man he ate everything in sight' Jason said sounding defeated,

'Mr. Kaplan is going to flip his wig, again' Zack commented as they all looked around,

'We gotta stop that wig' Jason said,

'Yeah, but how? That thing just swallowed our weapons' Kim asked and Claire noticed Trini smile like she just came up with something,

'Hey, wait a minute' Trini started making everyone look at her 'Do you guys see what I see?' She asked them, and Claire was confused because all she saw was a ruined Youth Center, 'Come on' Trini said and led them as they followed her.

Trini led everyone to her food stand and turned along with the rest to look at the other stands 'Look around' She said, 'That pig ate everything in sight, but it didn't even touch the hot stuff' She explained as she took on of her trays and showed it to the others,

'Well obviously he doesn't like the spicy foods' Kim said not getting Trini's idea at first,

'Yeah but we could use that information to defeat the monster' Billy said explaining Trini's idea,

'Well how do you figure that?' Zack asked,

'Well why not lure the animal with food, after we stick this peace of radish inside' Billy proposed picking up one of the radishes from the tray,

'But of course, Billy you are a genius' Claire said happily,

'Morphenomenal idea Billy' Kim added,

'So we make it sick we get our weapons back?' Jason asked putting his hand on Billy's shoulder,

'Affirmative' Billy answered,

'I'll bring the hot stuff, come on' Trini said and they all spread to get everything they needed to put their plan in motion.

Once they got everything they needed Jason contacted Zordon, 'Zordon we found a way to defeat the pig' he started,

'We just need to know where he is' Trini asked,

'My sensors tell me that it's terrorizing the food plant, go now Power Rangers and let the Power protect you' Zordon said,

'We're on our way' Jason said as they all morphed.

'All right let's do this' Jason said as they appeared in the food plant,

'Power Rangers!' they all yelled getting into their poses,

'Power Rangers, let's get him' Jason said jumping up followed by others,

They all took their trays with food and held it out 'Come on pig free food' Jason called as they all tried to lure the monster and it worked as the pig showed it's self'

'Here you go' Kim said as they all threw him the food and the pig caught it hungrily,

'Okay Trini send down the hot stuff' Jason told Trini who nodded,

'One red hot radish coming up' she said as she put the radish in the sandwich she was holding 'Hey pig you hungry?' She asked while holding up the sandwich 'Catch' She said and threw it to the pig who of course caught it and started eating it, they all stood still waiting to see if their plan would work and it did causing the pig to throw out everything he ate.

'Alright' they all said and jumped down and caught their weapons as the pig threw them out, Zack and Billy attacked first using their Power Axe and Lance, followed by Kim and Claire with Power Bow and Guns who used Zack' and Billy's shoulder to jump high shooting at the monster, after them went Trini with Power Daggers and Jason in the end with his Power Sword.

'Alright let's finish this pork' Jason said and they all agreed as they brought their weapons together,

'Power Axe' Zack said throwing his axe in the air,

'Power bow' Kim yelled as she threw her bow, which landed perfectly on Zack's axe,

'Power Guns' Claire called throwing both of them, which landed on either point of Kim's bow

'Power Daggers' Trini said as her daggers fit perfectly next to Clair's guns

'Power Lance' Billy said as he threw his lance which landed next to Trini's daggers

'Power Sword' Jason called and put his sword on top, directly at the middle,

With Jason standing in the middle holding their combined weapons, the others stood behind him as he powered up the weapon aiming it at the monster, 'Power Rangers' They all said together as Jason shoot the beams straight to the monster hitting it and destroying it,

'Hey Rita you have to do better than that if you want to defeat us' Trini yelled up at the sky.

'That was great, we really gave it to her this time' Jason said as they all walking in the Youth Center,

'Yeah we were Bam! Morphenomenal' Zack said while jumping over the steps, and Claire laughed as she walked over with Billy and Kim,

'Yeah we took care of the pig that's true, but what about the food festival?' Kim asked motioning around her,

'Kim has a point' Claire said as she looked around along with the others,

'Do you guys think we made enough money for the playground equipment?' Trini asked and they all shrugged their shoulders as the sound of the communicator was heard followed by Zordon's voice,

'I see you've finished your mission Power Rangers' He said,

'Yeah we sent that puggy face with a fat punch' Jason said and others agreed,

'Congratulations, well done' Zoron praised,

'Oh happy day, I have figured out a way to defeat that pesky thing' Alpha's voice was hear out of o where,

'Woow Alpha, I think we have the problem under control' Jason said and the others laughed,

'Yeah that pig is sausage man' Zack added,

'Right and he ruined our food festival' Trini added and everyone looked down,

'Oh that's too bad, hey maybe these will help' Alpha said and everyone looked confused, 'Teleporting now' he said and soon tree trays with food appeared,

'Hey thanks Alpha' Zack said gratefully, and others smiled until they saw Mr. Kaplan walking in,

'Oh hi Mister Kaplan, look we're really sorry about what happened' Kim said apologetically,

'Look I know you kids weren't responsible, oh we almost have enough money for the playground equipment despite all of this' Mr. Kaplan said,

'With a little help Mr. Kaplan we can make up for the rest' Trini said pointing to the food on the tray that Zack was holding,

'Hmm, let's see what you've got here' He said looking at the food he went to pick up a sandwich but Trini's voice stopped him,

'it will cost you 20 dollars' She said and he looked at her,

'20 dollars?' He asked,

'For the playground equipment' Trini added hopefully,

'Okay' Mr. Kaplan said with a sigh giving in, 'I'm starving, with all this craziness today I didn't eat lunch' He explained and picked up the sandwich from the tray,

'Oh no, not that one Mr. Kaplan it's a little bit…' Billy started to say but it was too late as Mr. Kaplan already started to eat the sandwich with the radish in it.

Mr. Kaplan put the sandwich down and held a hand over his mouth, 'Water, I need water' He said once he swallowed the bite he took and Kim ran to find him some water, she can back with a jug full of water and Mr. Kaplan took it and went to drink from it but he tipped it over a little bit too much as the water poured down on him causing his wig to fall off, and everyone was silent not knowing what to say,

'A little hot, but not bad' He said with a little cough and everyone burst out laughing along with him.

When Mr. Kaplan left the gang went and cleaned the Youth Center together, and it didn't need them a lot of time so Claire was thankful for that because she couldn't wait to get home and take a shower and wash out all of the pie and punch out of her,

'Well guys I don't know about you but I will be heading home now' Claire started as she adjusted her backpack, 'I really feel gross after being hit with pie and drenched in punch I really need to get all of this off' She explained and the others nodded with a little laugh,

'If I were you I would have left the same moment to get a shower' Kim said,

'Oh believe me I would but duty called and I had to answer' Claire said and they all laughed,

'True, well we'll see you tomorrow' Kim said and everyone said bye to each other and her and Billy started their walk home.

'Oh yeah, thanks for the hoodie Billy it helped loads' She thanked with a smile,

'You're welcome' He said smiling back,

'I'll give it back as soon as it's clean' She said and he nodded,

'Don't worry about it' He said and he smiled,

'Whatever you say' She laughed, 'So are you going to the dance that's coming up?' she asked,

'I really don't know, I guess I'll go if I maybe find a date, but I guess I'll go even if I don't if all of you are there' he admitted and Claire nodded, 'What about you?' he asked,

'I really don't know, I want to go, I probably won't find a date, but like you said I would go for you guys, plus I have never been on one of those' she admitted shyly as she looked down,

'Never? How?' Billy asked surprised,

'Well there weren't such things at my old school, well since I went to ballet school and we danced whole day, every day that they maybe thought we didn't need those, I really don't know, we did have a lot of strict rules' She explained and he nodded,

'Well I'm sure you will find a date why wouldn't you, you really are pretty' He said and she looked down not used to compliments of such sort, and just shook her head,

'Right now I'm a mess' she admitted with a laugh and he said something under his breath and she heard him but stayed quiet about it as they reached her house first,

'I'll see you tomorrow?' She asked turning to look at him,

'Affirmative' Billy added turning to her and she smiled,

'Bye Billy' She said as she waved and walked to her house,

'Bye Bear' Billy said walking to his own and Claire smiled hearing the nickname he gave her, and blushed as she remembered what he said thinking she wouldn't hear,

'Perfect' she whispered and smiled wider as she closed the doors behind her locking them.

Well that's it, I am really sorry you guys had to wait, I wanted to upload last weekend but I go sick -.- and it lasted until Thursday so I couldn't write too much. I do hope you guys will like this chapter as well, a lot more things coming up including the only Claire chapter, I'm curious to know what you will think about it. As far as the relationship between these two I don't plan to put them together yet, I have some plans in my head, well to be honest I have too much plans in my head. Anyhow thanks to AvalonBay and Snowki for reviews, it means a lot to me. Well I won't talk anymore, I hope you have liked this chapter, please review don't be shy, and I guess that's all for now.

Lots of love XOXO 3