Disclaimer: No! No! I won't do it! I own the Rangers. They're mine! Mine, I tell you! What? What do you mean I don't? I paid that guy ten whole bucks for them! Really? I don't own them? Awwwwwww…..I want my money back!

You can read the first two hundred stories in "When Rangers Meet," "More of When Rangers Meet," "Headquarters Where Rangers Meet," and "Those Rangers Just Keep on Meeting.

This is story number thirty-nine.

Reviews are greatly appreciated. Honest, they are.

Kendrix and Casey

By

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

"Hey!" cried Kendrix as she was unceremoniously shoved through the wormhole. "What kind of backwards people are you to be scared of a few simple experiments?" Just because she had genetically altered some of their flora to have arms so they could water themselves… "This is just great," she moaned. "How the hell am I supposed to get off this moon?" It wasn't as if she could float around anymore. How she missed the days when she could grab the former Magna Defender by the hand and dangle him over a cliff until he cried for mercy. She had been angry with Mike ever since he had blabbed to Commander Stanton about her tendency to take her plants to bed with her.

"This will show them all," grumbled Casey as he stepped around a hill. He adjusted his backpack as he noticed the blonde woman. "Hey, is that the wormhole?"

"Where did you come from?" asked Kendrix. Then she gasped. "You must that evil offspring of Zedd and Rita! Andros came and warned us about you!" She held out the saber she had managed to yank out just before getting shoved through the wormhole. "Go! Galactic!"

"Do I look like an ugly evil concoction?" asked Casey. "Thrax is so last season." He pouted. "But I bet he would have gotten his master's stripes if he wanted them. RJ would probably like him better than me."

"Die, Zedd Junior!" cried Kendrix as she ran forward with her saber held out.

"Power of the Tiger!" Casey grinned as his tiger spirit showed up and jumped in front of the saber. He then frowned as it hopped back out of the way and disappeared. "Oh come on! I already told you I'm sorry for trying to forcefeed you that rancid meat." Casey had been desperate to do something, anything to keep RJ from using it as a topping on his newest creation 'Garbage Can Pizza Supreme.' He closed his eyes as the Pink Galactic Ranger reached him...and missed.

"Damn these contacts," grumbled Kendrix. "I'm going to have to thank Karone for the suggestion." She wondered if she could invent something to make her temporary replacement allergic to tight leather. She then glared at Casey. "What was that thing? Some evil spirit concocted by you, no doubt."

Casey sighed. "What does it matter? Even my own tiger spirit thinks I'm a loser. I bet he would've beaten your ass if he belonged to Theo the Perfect." Just that week the Blue Jungle Fury Ranger had held a three hour lecture on the importance of tying an apron bow perfectly.

"Stop evading the issue!" cried Kendrix. "Which dark minion are you? Oh wait," she squinted closer at him. "Why didn't I see the resemblance before? You must be Squatt and Baboo's love child." She had always known that the 'special information' Andros had left for them on the evil aliens would one day come in handy.

Casey pulled himself out of his funk long enough to glare at Kendrix. "Are you nuts? Why do you keep saying that? I'm just a regular guy."

"Oh really?" asked Kendrix with suspicion. "How does a human get on the moon? Why haven't you suffocated yet?"

"Why haven't you?" retorted Casey. "And for your information, the Earth to Mirinoi shuttle dropped me off back there." He pointed to the hill he had come rom. "Besides, since when can't humans breathe on the moon?"

"Oh, right, darn those alternate universe textbooks," replied Kendrix in a sheepish tone. She peered closely again at Casey. "I guess you could kind of pass for human." She was beginning to wonder if the others had good reason to think being a dead floating ghost had decreased her mental capacity. But then again Damon had probably done something to that kindergarten level test to make her fail it. He had been pretty pissed at her when he found out that she had been testing the gravity of Mirinoi by dropping his favorite tools off hills and cliffs.

"Guess I should keep on going," sighed Casey yet again. "I may as well be invisible seeing as I'm useless to my team. I bet I'm the worst red ranger ever."

"Only if you have a tendency to date brainless girls named Ginger." Kendrix was still sore that Leo had secretly eloped while she was stuck in Mirinoi's only mental hospital after the other Rangers had stuck her in there because she kept trying to walk through walls.

"Yep, I'm going to head to Mirinoi where I can hide in their jungles and not have to face all those who look down on me for being such a failure." Casey looked under his eyelashes at Kendrix. Just a bit more and she'd be sympathetic enough to want him. RJ and the other masters would surely give him his stripes if he had a hot former Ranger babe on his arm.

"You can have Mirinoi," retorted Kendrix. "Do you know how difficult it is doing my genius experiments with just leaves and coconuts?" Even watching old episodes of Gilligan's Island hadn't helped her.

"Well, you may as well join my old team, seeing as they don't have a Pink Ranger." Casey gave a little pout. "I bet you'll get your master stripes tomorrow. Not me, no one likes me."

"Awww, you poor little thing," said Kendrix. "Come here." She gestured for Casey to come closer to her.

"Sure," said Casey dejectedly. Inwardly, he was beaming. Yes, now he would be able to impress the others with his new girl. He stepped up to Kendrix, closed his eyes and puckered his lips.

Kendrix rolled her eyes. Then she pulled her lipstick out of her purse and slashed it all over Casey. "There, now you have stripes, you stupid dork."

Casey looked down at himself. Then he looked up at Kendrix. "Stripes!" he cried happily. "I got stripes! And they're red just like my Ranger suit! I've got to go show Theo! His are just a plain boring black!" With that, he turned around and ran back to jump on the Moon to Earth shuttle.

"Wait, you're a Red Ranger?" asked Kendrix in shock. "Dear God, Earth's in grave danger! I'm going back to Mirinoi." She'd take her chances with the backwards natives any day.

The next day, Casey was cursing his head off as he was made to do even more of RJ's personal chores. It seemed the Masters took his lipstick stripes as an insult to them and the whole Pai Zhuq Academy. Scrubbing his favorite chair wouldn't have been so bad if the Wolf Ranger hadn't currently been on the tenth day of his no bathing strike to protest the cruel treatment of houseflies.

At the same time, Kendrix was busy researching ways to become a ghost again so she'd be able to avoid all the angry Mirinoins who kept putting stranger curses on her. As she poured more chemicals into a test tube, she pushed aside the multicolored beard she had somehow grown overnight.

AN: Well, I'm not crazy about how this came out. I got stuck on this story and just really wanted to get back on track with the writing. I'm hoping my next pairing will be better.