A couple of weeks later Logan and Zack were spotting Tommy as he was lifting weights in the youth center after school. As Logan kept glancing at Zack who kept looking over his shoulder to where Angela was stretching. Logan shook his head a small smile on his face.
If he keeps staring at her like that he'll drool the love sick puppy he thought then he covered his ears as an out of tune electric guitar rang.
He turned and nodded to Kimberly as she walked in and they looked up at the tables where Bulk and Skull where. They were up against the railing Skull with his guitar and Bulk singing very off key against the best skull could do with his fingers going up and down on the strings. Logan walked up to stand by Kimberly as they watched them as they practically made the song up as they went.
When they were finished a coupe people uncovered their ears, Kimberly started laughing, and Ashley came over.
"Ha, Ha you guys have got to be kidding me," Kimberly said, laughing
"Hey we happen to have an audition today that will make us both very big stars," Bulk said, keeping his back to them.
"Yeah stars," Skull, said, dreamily.
Logan cracked a few ribs trying not to laugh. "Yeah…you're…eh sure to knock em dead," he said.
Ashley snorted and nodded. "Literally," she muttered.
Bulk and Skull quickly turned to look at him glaring. "What you think you can do better dweeb," he growled.
Logan raised his hands. "I didn't…," he started.
Skull whipped his guitar strap off and held it out to him. "Why don't you put your money where your mouth is dweeb," he said.
He looked at the guitar to Kimberly and Ashley who shrugged before he took it and slung the strap over his shoulder.
He ran his hands over the strings plucking a few notes and a coupe people covered their ears and Bulk and Skull smirked. He tightened a couple of strings a and loosed two and plucked the same notes and they came smoother and the people lowered their hands. When he was finished adjusting the strings he thought for a moment then his hand on the neck of guitar zoomed up and adown as he started playing and sang.
World Turns Black And White
Pictures In An Empty Room
Your Love Starts Fallin Down
Better Change Your Tune
Reach For The Golden Ring
Reach For The Sky
Baby Just Spread Your Wings
We'll Get Higher And Higher
Straight Up We'll Climb
We'll Get Higher And Higher
Leave It All Behind
Run, Run, Run Away
Like A Train Runnin Off The Track
The Truth Gets Left Behind
And Falls Between The Cracks
Standing On Broken Dreams
But Never Losin Sight
Spread Your Wings
We'll Get Higher And Higher
Straight Up We'll Climb
We'll Get Higher And Higher
Leave It All Behind
So Baby Dry Your Eyes, Save All
The Tears You've Cried
Ohh That's What Dreams Are
Made Of
Oh Baby We Belong In A World
That Must Be Strong
Ohh That's What Dreams Are Made Of
We'll Get Higher And Higher
Straight Up We'll Climb
Higher And Higher Leave It All
Behind
Higher And Higher Who Knows
What We'll Find
And In The End On Dreams We
Will Depend
Cause That's What Love Is
Made Of
When he was finished, he turned and bowed to the some of the cheering people. "Thank you, thank you I'll be here all week," he said, and a couple people laughed.
When he stood straight, he slung the guitar from over his shoulder and handed it back to Skull. "A little out of tune but not bad," he said, as Bulk and Skull just stared as they turned away.
Logan turned to Ashley. "You know Ash if…," he started but stopped as she gapped at him.
He frowned down at her then turned to Kimberly. "Kim what…," he started to ask but stopped when he saw she was in the same condition.
He stopped as Tommy put the weights down. "Ok what is your problems?" he demanded flinging his arms up.
"where did learn to play and sing like that?" Kimberly demanded.
Logan shrugged. "Just a hobby I started when I was a kid had to do something besides martial arts or I'd probity lose my mind," he said.
Kimberly chuckled as Tommy stood from the bench and they all looked at Zack as he kept watching Angela. After she gathered her stuff and headed to the lockers and Zack followed her every step mouth open. Logan rolled his eyes, reached over, and closed his mouth.
Zack looked a Logan who shrugged. "You were starting to drool man," he said.
Zack chuckled then. "Angela's birthday is coming up I gotta to do something morphinalminal for her," he said, looking at them.
Tommy shrugged. "Why don't you just get her flowers," he said, and Kimberly put her arm around his.
Zack arched his eyebrows. "Flowers are tired I'm thinking something real special like… a pair of pearl earrings," he said.
Tommy chuckled and Logan arched his eyebrows. "Zack that's a little out of your budget isn't it?" Tommy said.
"or why don't you get her a… singing telegram," Kimberly suggested.
Logan nodded. "And call me a little old fashioned but I think a girl should like you for the thought not for how expensive it is," he said, and Ashley lightly elbowed him in the gut.
He puffed out a little and chuckled, she smiled, and they turned back to Zack. "A singing telegram yeah a singing after I surprise her and then give her the pearl earrings," he said, and Logan looked at Tommy.
"Zack maybe you shouldn't try to impress her so much," Kimberly said.
"Guys trust me on this ok you guys want to triple date if Angela agrees?" he asked.
"Sure"
"Yeah why not"
"We'd love to"
"as long as you're buying," and Ashley elbowed Logan again and Tommy and Kimberly laughed and Zack went to ask Angela.
Shaking his head Logan looked form Zack's retreating back to Tommy. "What do you think of the odds of this coming out badly?" he asked.
Tommy chuckled. "This is Zack were talking about," he said.
Logan nodded. "So pretty good," he said, and the two left to spar.
The next day after school Logan and Ashley dressed fancy under Zack's suggestion. As they pulled up to the café Zack picked out for the date they saw why and they pulled their helmets off and met the others. The café was more like an outdoor French restaurant with umbrella tables and arches with roses wrapped around them.
A hostess showed them to their table near a marble fountain and they took their seats. Tommy sat next to Zack and Logan sat next to Tommy with their dates across from them.
When they were handed their menus Tommy leaned close to Zack. "It's all in French," he muttered.
"don't worry I've got it covered," Zack answered as Logan looked the menu over.
Logan looked up at the sound of snapping fingers and a. "Garton and a waiter in a red and white uniform came up.
"Oui mesieur. We are ready to order?" the waiter asked.
"Oui. Why don't I take the liberty for ordering for all of us?" Zack asked them and they nodded.
When Logan heard what Zack had ordered for everyone his eyes went wide and his worry deepened.
When the waiter left, he tried to put on a smile. "Ah guys I'll be right back I… got to… use the men's room," he quickly made up, left the table, and followed the waiter inside.
He caught up to the waiter. "Pardon mesieur," he said, in French and the waiter turned.
After quickly explaining in rapid French the waiter understood and the two changed the order. When the waiter walked into the kitchen and Logan, keeping true to his excuse for leaving the table left for the bathroom. When he got back, everyone was in conversation and Tommy looked at him as he sat down.
When Logan was putting his napkin on his lap, Tommy leaned close. "What did you really do?" he asked in a whisper.
Logan looked at him. "What do you mean?" he asked trying to sound innocent.
Tommy frowned. "You did more than just got to the bathroom and I want to know what," he whispered.
Logan shrugged. "I just changed the order," he muttered.
Tommy frowned. "You speak French?" he asked.
Logan nodded. "My father taught me never knew it would come in handy," he said.
"What did Zack order us?"
Logan looked at everyone at the table making sure they were still deep in conversation about the football season. Then leaning close to Tommy's ear, he cupped his lips and whispered in his ear and Tommy's eyes went wide and turned to face him.
"He order himself frog legs, me calf's liver, and you chilled monkey brains?" he demanded and Logan nodded.
Tommy took a deep breath. "Thanks," he muttered in a under tone.
The two quickly joined the conversation trying not to think about the meal that might have been. When the food arrived, every one eagerly thanked Zack for his choices and Logan bore the widest smile of all. Everything was going smoothly as the waiter approached the table weaving his way through the tables.
He smiled down at them and said. "Excuse moi is there a Mademoiselle Angela?" he asked.
"That's me"
"tres bian," he muttered and snapped his fingers.
To Logan's horror Bulk and Skull wearing red tights and to-to tops with different colored hearts on them with cupid wings on their backs came through an arch Skull with his guitar and Bulk with a giant Lyre. When the two saw the couples, they froze.
"oh uh now way," Skull said, then turned to leave.
"No wait lets show them what real music is all about," Bulk said, throwing out his arm.
"oh no," Zack muttered.
"You can say that again brother," Logan muttered and Ashley and Kimberly snorted.
"Well I guess the audition really paid off ha guys?" Tommy asked them and the groups laughed a little.
Bulk sneered at them then the two started playing the same tune from earlier only it sounded worse with the Lyre. Zack buried his face in his hands while Angela and Kimberly, and Tommy tried to keep a straight face. Ashley soon had her ears covered while Logan pinched the base of his nose eyes closed.
"Some surprise Zack," Angela muttered after the two finished.
Zack quickly pulled a small wrapped box from his pocket. "Just open this," he said, desperately.
She took it and gave it a small shake. "And I suppose this explodes or a can of worms jump out at me?" she said, and Logan rolled his eyes.
Zack reached out and took her hand. "Please just open it," he said, with a smile.
She smiled. "Well the meal was delicious," she said, and started to unwrap it.
Logan frowned as a jewelry case was revealed and she opened it to a pair of gold-rimmed pearl earrings.
"Zack they're beautiful!" Angela said, her eyes going wide.
"You like them"
"I love them"
Logan leaned close to Tommy. "Where did he get the money to pay for those?" he whispered in his ear and Tommy shrugged.
Logan smiled as the two leaned across getting closer by the second as Bulk and Skull kept playing but ignored completely. Then Logan looked up as the waiter started over with the birthday cake, as the two got closer. When the two were centimeters apart, Skull's guitar bumped the waiter and the cake went flying.
It landed face down on the table and it spattered out hitting Zack, Tommy, and Logan. Bulk and Skull lost balance well into the table behind them, which collapsed under their weight spattering them in food, and the three of them leapt to their feet as they were spattered with cake. The waiter started yelling a mixture of French and English at Bulk and Skull as they sat up Bulk with a mouth full of frog legs.
"Ah we'd better go clean up," Tommy suggested.
"Yeah I second that"
"absolutely ah we'll be right back girls don't go away," Zack said, as they left for the rest room brushing cake off themselves.
"I won't dream of it," Angela said, taking out the earrings.
When they were almost there Logan's morpher began to vibrate and he grabbed it to make sure the other two won't notice. In the rest room, Logan waited for the other two to leave before pressing the sides. An image of the area around his table and everyone still as statues and taken on a bluish tint to their skin.
Logan watched as Zack and Tommy appeared in the image and checked everyone over before teleporting away.
Logan released the image then looked up in the mirror what could hav… he started to think then he stood straight and slapped his forehead.
The pearls it was the pearls and a stillness spell he thought and detached his Dragon Gem.
"DRAGON RIDERS UNITE! HA!" he called and morphed then streaked out of the restaurant locating Tommy and Zack.
He stopped on the cliffs overlooking the beach and watched as the two of them split up with Tommy heading south.
"Eyes of the Dragon," he muttered and his vision turned infrared and he focused his search on the water.
He slowly scanned from the north working his way down searching for hot spots that shouldn't be there. He froze around the area that Zack was looking in when he spotted and less than a second later Oysterizer leapt out of the water and attacked Zack with a punch.
Zack was knocked off his feet and landed hard on the ground. "So you want to play like that eh," Zack said, as he awkwardly climbed to his feet.
"Oh I'm not playing with a puny little barnacle like you. You couldn't whip a blind shrimp with the bilge, you're out of your league here, you won't be able to take what I'm doing to you…," Oysterizer said, before Logan nailed it with a flying sidekick knocking it off its feet.
Logan back flipped off the blow, landed next to Zack, and stood straight why do they always monologue? He asked himself.
"Oh I can take it and we can take you to!"
Zack yelled and the two got in to a fighting stance.
"NO WAY HA HA," Oysterizer said, before covering his chest and shooting a purple liquid at them.
Logan dive rolled to the side as Zack got the full blast and was covered in a gel that was making an odd hissing sound.
Logan's eyes went wide acid he thought.
"ACID GEL ZORDON DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THIS! TOMMY! RED DRAGON! HELP!" Zack yelled.
"BYE BYE LITTLE RANGER!" Oysterizer said, then leaned forward and firery lasers shot from his pearled head.
Zack was hit full on, Logan felt someone approach fast, and he summoned the Dragon Sword. He rolled forward, he and Tommy struck from different angles, and Oysterizer was launched off his feet. Tommy landed on his feet next to Logan who duplicated his sword and covered them as Oysterizer landed hard and Tommy knelt down to check Zack.
"You ok I came as soon I heard you call me," Tommy said.
"TOMMY DON'T TOUCH ME!" Zack yelled throwing Tommy's hand off him.
"He sprayed me with some kind of acid gel it could get you to," Zack explained.
"Here take my shield the powers will heal you and give you energy," Tommy said, and transferred his shield to Zack in a flash of green light.
"Thanks Tommy what about you?"
"I'll be okay eh LOOK OUT!" Tommy yelled as Oysterizer climbed to his feet and Logan brandished his swords.
"YOU TWO ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT," Oysterizer yelled and fired its acid gel.
"LOOK OUT ZACK!" Logan and Tommy yelled together and stepped in front of the gel getting a full blast.
"TOMMY! RED DRAGON! NOOO!" Zack yelled as the two were launched off their feet covered in the gel.
"Oh that's going to leave a mark," Logan muttered as he clutched his chest.
Zack bent over them, as he looked them over. "Sit tight buddies I'll take care of this guy," he said, then leapt up into the air and double punched Oysterizer in the chest.
He was launched off his feet over the cliff and landed in the water with a giant splash.
Zack darted to the edge looking over it. "Yeah that should break the spell," he said, slamming his fist into his palm.
He then turned and darted to the other two as Logan climbed to one knee and Zack gripped his shoulders.
"Zack help me," he muttered as he struggled to his feet.
"Man you should lie down or I should get you to the command…," Zack started.
"Water… get me to the water…," Logan moaned as he felt the gel start to eat through his armor.
"Red Dragon…," Zack started.
"NOW," Logan yelled and as fast as they could Zack helped him to the ledge threw him over it.
Logan dropped like a stone, twisted around, landed back first in the water, and sank beneath the surface. Logan continued to drop as bits of the gel was washed off him piece by piece. A monitor popped up on his visor showing his air level dropping fast as he hit the floor and laid still.
"Logan what are you doing! You can't remain submerged much longer your air supply is failing!" the Red Dragon Spirit yelled.
"I know but the acid isn't completely off yet," he said.
After a few moments, the bar was almost all the way, down when Logan turned over after feeling the last of the acid slip off him.
"give me a count!" he said, when he was on all fours.
"Six percent… Five percent…four percent…three percent…"
"AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHH HH!" Logan yelled then launched himself up.
He burst from the water and flipped back onto the ledge landing on one knee in front of Zack still wearing the Dragon Shield. He breathed deeply as his air supply went back up to normal and the monitor disappeared.
He slowly climbed to his feet and Zack lightly held onto one of his arms. "Man you ok now?" Zack asked and Logan nodded then looked at Tommy still on the ground.
Logan darted to him and knelt down as Zack got down on one knee next to him.
Logan looked at him. "Zack transfer the shield back now!" he barked.
Zack nodded and transferred it back to Tommy in a flash of green light then looked at Logan. "I have to…," he started.
"get back to the others I'll look after Tommy," Logan said, and Zack nodded and teleported away.
Logan looked down at Tommy. "Ok my friend let's get this stuff off you," he said, then stood and walked around to Tommy's feet.
He dove deep into his magic and with his hands up turned toward the cliff. Concentrating so hard that he felt a vain throb in his head and a moment later, a stream of water came in to sight.
It bent over toward him and continued to flow and between his hands he shaped it into a funnel then turned to Tommy still on the ground.
He shot his hands forward and the water as powerful as a fire hydrant hose it shot forward at Tommy.
Very carefully, he drew the stream up along Tommy's body hesitating only when he reached an Acid spot. When he was finished Tommy's armor was soaking and Logan dropped to one knee after the reaming water splashed to the ground. After a few minutes, Tommy sat up and held his head then looked at his armor seeing that it was soaked.
He shook his head and hands to get the water off his helmet and gloves. "What happened?" he asked.
Logan stood up and helped him to his to his feet. "Well I had to get that gunk off you somehow," he said.
Tommy chuckled then…
"Tommy do you read us? We need you," came Billy's voice.
Tommy looked at Logan. "There in trouble time for Dragonzord power!" he said, drawing the Dragon Dagger.
He starting playing it and an instant later an explosion erupted in the sea as showered them in water and their hands shot up to shield them from the shrapnel. When they lowered their hands, they looked up as Oysterizer sailed over them and onto the cliff.
"TOMMY! GET DOWN!" Logan yelled as he shoved him down when boulders rocketed and rolled down at them.
Then after focusing hard on the spell, he arched his hands up from different directions and a wall of rock fifty feet high and twenty feet wide rose up in front of them. His arms began to shake as the boulders hit the wall and he struggled to keep it up and strong under the bombardment. When the rocks stopped falling in them, he lowered his hands and the wall sank back into the ground.
Breathing hard Logan turned to Tommy who was looking up at him. "You ok?" he asked and Tommy slowly nodded.
Logan nodded. "Now if you don't mind I think I'll just collapse right here," he said, then fell straight back.
He was just about to pass out when the ground started to rumble under him and the next thing he knew he was between Dragonzord's toes. His eyes went wide as the top of his head rested on the on the ground touching both sides of the arch between the toes before the foot was lifted off the ground. As he was, shaking Tommy walked over and looked down at him.
The two looked at each other. "Are you ok?" Tommy asked.
"Yeah… I'm …fi …fi …fine …good …ne …ne …ne…news…I don't…have to… pass out anymore …fo …fo …for at least fifty years. Also… I… thi… thi… think… your… zord… has… foot fungus," Logan said, in a slightly higher voice.
Tommy chuckled, helped him up, and held him up. "Next time after I save you don't try to run me over," Logan said.
Tommy laughed. "Well he's got big feet," he said, and they looked up at the battle.
They watched as Oysterizer materialized a chained giant pearl weapon out of thin air and nailed Dragonzord with it. After a couple more blows from the pearl weapon, it wrapped around Dragonzord's neck. Oysterizer pulled Dragonzord closer before spraying with his acid gel then nailed Dragonzord with its laser knocking it off its feet.
"This can't be good," Tommy said.
"If only my Zord was working," Logan muttered.
"What was that?"
"Nothing"
Then as Oysterizer was dragging Dragonzord toward him the ground started shaking again and the two turned. They watched as bit by bit Megazord emerged from the water with it spilling back in from the cracks. They cheered like mad, as it towered above them then leapt aside.
"HEY WATCH IT WILL YOU," Tommy yelled up at them as they summoned the power sword and cut Oysterizer's chained weapon.
"HEY WE'RE WALKING HERE," Kimberly yelled back as they used Megazord's laser to cut the acid gel from Dragonzord.
Dragonzord climbed to its feet and roared as the three faced off two on one.
"let's do it buddy," Tommy said, played the Dragon Dagger and Dragonzord fired its missiles nailing Oysterizer.
Then Megazord nailed Oysterizer with its Sword powered up. Oysterizer after taking a couple of steps collapsed on its face and exploded. While the others were busy, cheering Logan streaked away as fast as he could back to the restaurant.
When he got back, he powered down and met Ashley at his bike and she rushed at him and wrapped her arms around him.
"Are you ok? I've been looking everywhere I was so worried," she said, as he struggled to breath.
"Ashley I'm fine not a scratch," he said, when she loosened her grip and he looked around.
"Hey where's Angela?" he asked her.
She bit her lip. "She took off after the earrings started to well… disintegrate. She didn't look all that happy and I thought it was going well," she said.
Logan nodded. "Yeah so did I," he said, as he handed her, her helmet and put his on and they drove off.
A couple hours later Logan with Kimberly's borrowed guitar (just in case) across his back over his shoulder with Trini and Ashley outside the youth center. Trini armed with flowers.
Zack walked up with a handful daises and a broad smile. When he reached them, Trini took one look at the daises before taking them out his hand and thrusting the flowers in her hand into his. Then they all turned and walked inside and stopped at the entrance and Zack stared at Angela on the mat.
"I sure leaned a lot today," Zack said.
"Yeah what's that?" Trini asked.
"Never try to impress somebody with money because you can't buy love"
"That a good motto to live by just always be yourself"
"Here, here," Logan said.
"Yeah and because I'm broke those flowers are all I could afford," Zack said, and they laughed a little.
Then the group turned as Bulk and Skull turned up still wearing their uniforms. "Good luck," Trini said, and she, Logan, and Ashley left and joined the others at their table.
Logan shifted the guitar to his side so he could sit down. "Thanks Kimberly for letting me use your guitar until I could replace my old one. I never knew Ernie could be so persistent when I got back here he hardly left me alone," he said.
She smiled at him. "It's not a problem and he was desperate especially after the impression you left," she said, and Logan shrugged and they turned as they heard music.
For once Bulk and Skull were playing softly as they walked toward Angela with Zack between them singing.
"You know when there not trying to rock out they're not half bad," Logan muttered and the group nodded.
They watched as Zack walked up to Angela who turned to look at him a smile on her face. He concluded the song and he handed her the flowers then they leaned close and kissed. That is when Bulk and Skull decided to sing and rock out and people's hands flew to their ears.
When they were finished, Ernie rushed over to Logan. ," Logan I beg you will you start now! An…and if you do I'll throw in a bonus," he said, on his hands and knees.
Logan nodded took a deep breath and went down to the low stage that Ernie had set up for him.
He adjusted guitar and switched on one of the mikes as people were leaving and turned it on. "Excuse me ladies and gentleman," he said, into it and they turned.
He took a deep breath to calm his nerves. "Hi me again and after careful consideration and the endless begging from parties that won't be named," he said, and some people laughed and Ernie turned slightly red.
"I have decided to take part time job here for after school. Now for my first piece is dedicated to the growing couples and I think one in particular will find meaning in it," he continued and started strumming the right tune.
"Look into my eyes - you will see
What you mean to me
Search your heart - search your soul
And when you find me there you'll search no more
Don't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
You can't tell me it's not worth dyin' for
You know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you
Look into your heart - you will find
There's nothin' there to hide
Take me as I am - take my life
I would give it all - I would sacrifice
Don't tell me it's not worth fightin' for
I can't help it - there's nothin' I want more
Ya know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you
There's no love - like your love
And no other - could give more love
There's nowhere - unless you're there
All the time - all the way
Oh - you can't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
I can't help it - there's nothin' I want more
I would fight for you - I'd lie for you
Walk the wire for you - ya I'd die for you
Ya know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you," he conclude and the Youth Center roared with applause and he raised his hand smiling.
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