Disclaimer: "Power Rangers" does not belong to me. Each chapter in this theme challenge is its own mini-story and not related to or built off any that have come before or will come after it.

A/N: Hey there! Just wanted to plug for you Mystic Force fans my new story, "Gossip Girl." (Yes, it is based off of the popular book/TV series). I hope y'all will check it out. OK, back to the theme challenge! Happy reading! - Destiny45

Darkness

(Takes place after the episode, "Just Like Me")

"AHHHHHHH!!!!!" shrieked Ronny, dropping the basket of laundry she was carrying upon hearing the deafening crash of thunder coming from overhead the mansion.

"Come on, Ronny! You're not scared of a little storm are you?" teased Mack, before turning his attention back to the game of pool he was playing with Will.

"NO!" shot back Ronny indignantly as she bent down to start picking up her clothes that had scattered across the Rec Room floor when she had dropped the laundry basket. "The thunder just startled me, that's all. And I wouldn't call this a 'little' storm, Mack! It's been pouring cats and dogs outside for hours now. I sure hope Dax and Rose make it back home from their mission OK."

"On my home planet, lightening means we're going to have a good banana crop this year," cut in Tyzonn brightly from where he was sitting on the couch; his statement causing his three friends to turn around and stare at him strangely.

"So if it's not lightening and thunder, what does scare you, Ronny?" asked Will as he came over to help her pick up her clothes.

You, Will, and telling you how I really feel about you, thought Ronny to herself sorrowfully as she stared deep into the dark eyes of her fellow ranger she found some handsome and had been crushing on since she got to the mansion.

"Well, Ronny?" prodded Will, flashing her one of his trademark cocky grins that made her week in the knees.

"Uhhhh, well, it's just…" hemmed Ronny, causing Will to look at her quizzically.

Ronny was eternally grateful to the heavens for cutting off her embarrassing stammering with another booming thunderclap. Everyone jumped as another bolt of lightening the next instant shot down from the sky and seemed to practically land right outside the mansion window. This was followed by a loud fizzing noise.

And then complete darkness.

"We've lost power!!!" shouted Tyzonn in a panic.

"Thanks Ty, we would have never figured that out without you," replied Will sarcastically.

"I don't know why the mansion's back-up power generators haven't kicked in," wondered Mack. "Will you come with me to check it out?"

"Wait, who do you want to come with you…" started Ronny.

"We're good, Ron, be back in minute. Hopefully with some power," responded Mack cheerfully as Ronny through the pitch black a pair of footsteps growing distant.

In the darkness, Ronny was unsure of who remained with her until she felt some dreads brush against her cheek. Will, she realized, her heart automatically skipping a beat. She was realizing she would never have the nerve to tell him she liked him when just looking at his gorgeous face and wickedly handsome smile made her lose all her cool. Maybe now, with the lights out, was the time if she was ever going to get up the guts to make her move.

"I know this probably isn't the time to be telling you this," laughed Ronny nervously. "But whatever, here it is. I…I…I have a crush on you!!!"

Ronny held her breath as she waited for Will's response. Yet the knots in her stomach only tightened as the room remained eerily silent in the darkness. Praying she hadn't completely freaked, or worse, grossed Will out, Ronny nervously plowed on ahead.

"Please don't be too freaked out," begged Ronny. "It's just you asked me what I was scared of earlier, and it was telling you how I felt about you. I thought maybe here in the darkness, I could get up the guts to tell you how much I care about you and have been wanting to kiss you since the first day I've met you…"

The lights at that moment chose to flicker on in the room, and once again, Ronny screamed. For starring right back at her with a grin a mile wide on his face was, not Will, but Tyzonn.

"Do you like my Will wig?" Tyzonn asked her eagerly."I wanted to try it on again from earlier today when I was trying to dress like Will. He is so lucky to have real hair like this. I love shaking my head from side to side with this on…"

"TYZONN!!!" exclaimed Ronny angrily, not only for having not identified himself before, but for the fake locks of hair from his wig that were now whipping her in the face.

"Sorry," apologized Tyzonn sheepishly, removing the wig before growing 100 percent genuinely serious. "But the next time I see Will, I will be sure to pass along your message to him that you have a crush on him and want to kiss him," he said, listing bullet points off on his fingers with genuine seriousness written on his face.

"Tyzonn, that's not a good…" began Ronny nervously.

"Oh Mack, Will, you're back!" interrupted Tyzonn upon seeing his friends return to the Rec Room. "Good job getting the power back on. Oh Will, before I forgot, Ronny told me that she wants to…"

"TYZONN, don't you DARE!!!!!" shrieked Ronny, picking up her laundry basket and beginning to hurl at him shirts, socks, panties… any item of clothing she could get her hands on to keep him from opening his mouth.

"But… but… I was just trying to be polite and pass your message on to…" stuttered Tyzonn in pure confusion as he was pelted with panties.

"Don't you EVER repeated what I just told you!!!!" warned Ronny, continuing to throw her laundry at him.

"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!" screamed Tyzonn as a yellow sports bra landed on his head, running from the room with Ronny close on his heels.

"Girls," sighed Will, shaking his head as he exchanged an amused glance with Mack. "They have a way of even making aliens look normal."