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Budding
Chapter X / Water Fight
Three days had passed, and the rangers were getting a little worried about not having heard from the Machine Empire. They knew they must keep their guards up for Mondo could have anything in store for them. The only thing that worried Zordon and Alpha was the Rangers lack of sleep. All of them had trouble sleeping for fear of getting snatched from NiteGlider whom was still around for all the knew.
Billy's birthday was coming up, and the rangers wanted to do something special for their friend. They all wanted him to have the best birthday of his life; they really wanted him to celebrate it instead of being in the Power Chamber like he planned to.
"Oh, come on Billy, your birthday's tomorrow. Your parents are probably gonna take you out or something" said Rocky.
"Yeah, who knows when we're gonna have another free day" added Tommy.
"Umm, how 'bout all weekend long?" Billy answered pretending to be annoyed at his friends for wanting to drag him out to have some fun.
"Just admit that you want to go but are scared," said Adam making the others laugh.
The four boys along with Sherry and Kat were sitting in Billy's backyard near a huge tree for shade wanting to take Billy out to celebrate his birthday.
"Come on Billy, I bet you you'll have a lot of fun" Kat said after staying quiet for a while. She was more than happy that Billy had healed her hand in such a short amount of time. It was glorious for her having the Power Chamber and their technology there to help her.
"I'm willing to take that bet," said Billy.
"Boy have you been distant lately." Sherry said.
"It's not that, I just don't want to go. I've been working on a project lately and I don't want to get behind" he said in his defense.
"What, do you like set your own time limits or something?"
"Sherry"
"Yeah?"
"No" he said taking back the insult he had for the young girl.
A voice came from behind Billy; "I don't care if you want to or not, you're going," said Tanya before she shot Billy with a Nerf Water Gun on his back.
Billy squirmed forward and laughed as he got soaked with water.
"Where did you get that?" he yelled.
"Found it," she said as she pulled the trigger, this time squirting the rest of her friends in the process.
They all got up and Tommy and Rocky went directly towards the water hose.
Adam, seeing his two friends, followed behind.
Sherry and Kat were trying to get away from Tanya with no success until Kat saw that Sherry was running to the left so she decided to go to her right and have Tanya chase Sherry. Kat's plan didn't go as planned since Tanya then ran after her and was still soaking Kat's back.
"Tanya, I'm gonna get you for this!" she yelled as she ran.
"Ha, whatever!" Tanya yelled back.
Sherry thought she was out of danger and reclined her back on a medium sized tree. Soon after, she heard Kat running in her direction and instantly felt the gun's squirt on the right side of her face.
"Ahh, Tanya!" she yelled.
"That's what you get for trying to get away from me!"
"Yeah, attack her Tanya!" yelled Kat while stopping and looking around for Billy. As she turned her head back around, she saw a huge ball of water heading towards her. She closed her eyes while putting her hands in front of her and crouching her body a bit to the right.
"Tommy!" she yelled.
"Yeah, get her!" said Tanya while taking off the tank from the water gun and dumping it on Rocky.
Adam was laughing hysterically before he felt a huge bucket of water being poured on him. He cringed downward before he looked up and noticed Billy getting him wet.
"Is this what I'm scared of?" he asked Adam.
Billy had another bucket of water and went towards Tanya now.
Tommy had turned with the hose and was now wetting Sherry at this point.
Katherine saw another bucket of water that was out on the steps. She ran towards it.
"Thanks Mrs. Cranston" she told Billy's mom while picking up the bucket.
"Don't let Tommy get away with it, Kat" she said before she went inside to fill another bucket of water.
"I won't."
Kat ran over to Tommy but Rocky, upon seeing her yelled, "Tommy, behind you!"
Kat gave him a look while still heading towards Tommy. He turned around only to get his face and chest soaked with cold water.
"Ahh" he screamed, "alright Kat!"
He gave the hose to Rocky while saying, "hold this…revenge!"
Katherine, upon seeing Tommy give the hose to Rocky knew she was in trouble, she then ran towards Billy who wasn't so far behind and snuck behind him.
"Don't hide, Kat!" Tommy yelled.
"I'm not hiding!" She said before starting to sprint away from him, "I'm running!"
Tommy quickly chased after her.
Rocky was filling the other buckets with water while Tanya and Sherry went over to get four more buckets of water from the back door steps.
"And those are the last ones, okay?" said Mrs. Cranston before heading inside then turning around again. She saw Rocky filling up his second bucket, Adam splashing her son with the first bucket which Rocky had filled, Tommy still chasing Katherine around the backyard trying to grasp her, and Tanya and Sherry heading over to the others with each holding two buckets in their hands. She smiled before yelling to them, "And don't you kids get my kitchen wet and dirty!" She knew they weren't listening, but it was sure worth a try.
Tommy caught up to Kat; he then threw his arms around her; noticing this, she quickly crouched down allowing herself to sway away from him and started running the other direction.
"Come here!" he yelled out to her.
"No way!"
Billy was laughing at seeing the two flirt like that before he got splashed by Sherry. He closed his eyes tight as the water made impact with his face.
"Ooh, Sherry, you're gonna get it!" said Rocky witnessing the event.
"No!" Tanya yelled to him, "you're gonna get it!"
She splashed Rocky with one of the buckets and quickly got the other one off the floor seeing how quickly they had taken it away from Sherry.
Tanya swiftly got away with the bucket, but not before being splashed with the hose by Rocky. He then gave the hose to Adam while he went over to Sherry who was soaking wet sitting on the picnic bench.
"Hey," he said. "Melting with so much water?"
She smiled at him. "No, I just wanna watch for a while, that's all."
"Oh, I see, well, you mind if I watch with you?"
"Not at all" she said with a smile as he sat down next to her and put his right hand on her hip.
She lowered her head on his shoulder and laughed alongside with him as they both watched their friends still yelling and wetting each other.
"Kat, don't make this worst than it already is!" yelled Tommy, frustrated that he still couldn't catch Kat.
"A little tired grandpa?" yelled Kat from just a few steps ahead of him, still running.
Adam ran over with the hose towards Tanya, while Billy had the other bucket that he took away from Sherry.
Tanya was running towards a corner, but turned to see behind her that she could've gotten cornered so she decided to make a swift left turn but slipped on the wet grass.
The boys behind her quickly started laughing, but Billy took the opportunity to wet her with the bucket.
Adam couldn't stop laughing at Tanya who was just getting up, but like a trooper started running again while laughing hysterically too.
Kat had seen her friend fall and couldn't keep in the laughter. She started laughing hysterically making her slow down and letting herself be caught by Tommy.
Tommy quickly noticed her slowing her speed, and went for her while grabbing her by her shoulders.
"Tommy!" she yelled as she tried to push his hands off of her shoulders, but soon noticed that was the worst thing to do.
As soon as seeing her hands come up to her shoulders, Tommy quickly grabbed her wrists and took hold of her.
"Ha, I got you!"
She again crouched down, but to no prevail in getting away from him.
"You're not getting away from me this time!"
Tommy pulled her strongly against his chest not letting go of her wrists. He pulled her, but noticed she was pulling all her weight to her right side away from Adam, whom was filling another bucket still laughing at Tanya.
Billy then went towards Adam to get the bucket. Tanya came in behind him and swung the bucket in his direction.
Billy flinched, but noticed that there was no water coming his way. Tanya hadn't noticed that aside from dropping water with all the running she did to get away from Adam and Billy, she had dropped all the water when she fell.
"Hmm, no wonder it got a lot lighter" she said looking down into the bucket before getting splashed from the top of her head by Billy.
Tommy couldn't pull Kat any further towards Adam so decided to call Adam himself.
"Adam, bring the hose!"
"No, Adam, don't listen to him!" she yelled trying still to get out of his grasp.
"I'm gonna show you what a grandpa could do!" Tommy said putting his arms around her abdomen and quickly scooped Kat up while heading towards Adam.
"No Tommy! Please!" she begged.
"Oh, now it's please" he said while still going over to Adam quickly, by which he was coming towards them with the same speed.
As they were ten feet from each other, Adam turned the hose towards Kat. Tanya began to laugh hysterically as Katherine was still squirming, but this time turning her head from side to side lowering it in the process.
"Get 'er good Adam!" said Tommy, not minding he was getting soaked as well. As long as I have you in my arms like this, I don't mind anything, he thought.
"Adam! Stop!" yelled Kat for yet the twentieth time.
Tanya was still laughing as Adam lowered the water hose panting. She soon realized they were all panting.
Tommy let Kat go, and Kat just took a few steps away from him as he was still laughing. Hell, why'd he have to stop? She thought, Tommy really had me tight, she whined to herself still wanting to be held by Tommy.
Billy was laughing as well along with Adam who was turning off the water.
"Well, that was fun," said a still panting Billy.
"I know someone who had way morefun," said Tanya slyly. The group looked at her questioningly before turning towards where she was looking.
They all saw Rocky and Sherry sharing a passionate kiss, without thoughts of breaking it.
At that, their communicators went off making Tommy say sarcastically, "And time for a little more fun."
The group again looked in Rocky's direction and saw that he looked up at Sherry stopping their kiss.
"What was that?" she asked.
"Ummm…nothing…just my alarm; I promised my mom I'd mop the floor today and I didn't do it."
"Oh, so do we have to go?"
"Yeah, I think it's best."
"Alright" Sherry said with disappointment in her voice. She got up and turned to the team; "I'll se you guys later."
"Bye" they said as they saw her walk off.
Rocky jogged towards them and said, "Look, I'll drop her off and I'll go to the Power Chamber as soon as I can."
They all nodded before seeing him leave and having Tommy answer the call.
- - -
The five teens arrived at the Power Chamber shortly and looked around.
"What is it Alpha?" Tommy asked going to the consoles while Billy walked directly to the scanning bay.
"Ay, yai, yai, we don't know what's making the system go off!"
"Calm down Alpha" Katherine stated going over to Alpha, "I'm sure that whatever it is, it'll show up."
"Yeah, we just have to look for it" Tanya said looking over the sheets coming out of the gap on the monitor.
Adam went over to the left side to look at the apparatus that Billy was working on.
"What's this?" he asked.
"Oh, that's a work in progress."
"Was that your project?" Kat asked going over and looking at it as well.
"Well, yeah…sort of."
"Well, what is it supposed to be?"
"A cannon. I just have to work out the cliches here and there."
"Billy, the computer found something!" Alpha exclaimed.
Billy ran over to Alpha and saw the screen for the outlined picture of what was making the sensors go off.
"What is that?" he asked squinting his eyes in confusion.
The others made their way towards Billy and Alpha where Tommy was already there.
Adam also took a long hard look a it, "It looks sort of like a…pyramid."