CHAPTER 19: CRIME, TAKES NO VACATIONS

"I'll get the popcorns." Sky said, they had just entered the movie hall, and the little problem was that the theatre doors hadn't opened yet. They were a little early. Sky had misjudged the distance from the hotel to the movie hall and here they were about ten minutes earlier.

Not so cool.

"okay, and I guess I'll just wait here." She said,

"pop corn, and what else?"

"Nachos, if they have them, and some drinks. Your choice" Z shrugged, not really interested in the food.

"okay, I'll get it." Sky said, and went off, leaving Z there, alone to her fantasies.

She stood thinking, and going into a little trance, she leaned against the back wall, wondering whether she and Sky would make it.

Wait a sec, that sounds very serious, no, she was wondering how far she and Sky would go. Would they date for a year, three or four years, maybe less than a month? Would Cruger approve of their relationship, or would he be unsupportive? Why couldn't she get him out of her head? How would their first night together pass? Would it—

Her reverie was broken by an unfamiliar hand on her shoulder, and she turned around astonished, to see the face of Justin, what was he doing here? Z thought.

"hi Justin" she said, nevertheless, "You? Here?"

"yeah, just thought I'd catch the 'Night Under Stars'" he said.

"it's 'Night Full Of Stars'," Z corrected, catching his lie immediately. He was here on some other business. And suddenly, a doubt struck her.

But anyway, she played along.

"right' I'm sorry." he said.

"it's fine. Anybody can get the names of movies mixed up. Even Mark, he got it mixed with a Coldplay song, of similar name." she said, and shrugged.

"speaking of him, where Is Mark?" Justin asked, looking around.

"he went out to get popcorn." Z replied.

"and you mademoiselle?" he asked, (addressing her as Miss.) Z didn't get French or she would've got what he was hinting at. She let it pass.

"I'm here waiting for him here, bored as hell."

"well, then lucky for you, I have just the perfect ways to end boredom!" now he looked excited: knowing Mark was gone and Iris was irritated with him.

she followed him nonetheless, curious. He led her to one of the deserted hallways where not a soul passed because: (A) it was in the hind part of the theatre, and nobody got there, and (B) there was no movie anywhere else other than the main three halls, which were far away from here.

"Give me a minute" he said, and went and latched the door, meanwhile, Z knowing something was gonna go down, took her morpher and urgently whispered into it, ""Space Patrol Delta 4 Ranger Yellow, requesting for immediate backup. This is an emergency situation, repeat, requesting for immediate backup."

By the time she had put away the morpher, Justin was back.

"hi Justin" she said, still maintaining her calm. Z Delgado wasn't that easy to intimidate.

"what were you doing?" he asked.

"nothing, just waiting for you. Why have you got us here?"
"well, don't think of me as a creep for bringing you in here, and hear me out first" he said, Z realized that she had to stall him until backup got here. If her suspicions were true, then she might need the whole squad's help.

But she was enough to handle him right now, like this.

"I'm listening." Z nodded.

"well, Iris, since I saw you, I've had a crush on you, a really, really, obsessive crush. That's what drove Melissa away from me. I want you, Iris Evans and I'm not afraid to get you. I know you don't love Mark. I can see it in your eyes that you don't love him. I don't even get why you two are married. It seems like a mistake to me, your marriage. You two aren't in love, at all, probably you are with him to get back at an ex, or you just made a drunken mistake. Listen, I know my feelings aren't one sided." He said.

"what makes you think that?" Z asked, her cover was almost blown.

He launched into an explanation, "I've seen you flirting with me and replying to my flirting too. You sit with me when I'm by the pool. You even invited me to your alone time with him. You even let me carry you to your room! I am sure if Mark wasn't there, you would've even invited me in. Face it, you don't love Mark!"

"I love Sky!" Z said, almost impulsively.

"his name is Mark." Justin said, victorious, while Z realized what she had said, she loved him, and it had to be this Justin guy, to make her realize that.

"I don't care what his name is, I love him."

Justin was mere inches close to Z, and his intentions were… sketchy. The next minute, she found his lips against hers, while his hands made their way into her skirt, trying to violate her.
It took her a minute to realize it, and when she finally did, she grabbed his hand,and twisted it painfully behind his back.

"who the fuck do you think I am?" her voice was chainsaw on metal, "some slut who might sleep with any random guy she met three days ago?"

Justin's face was twisted in a sick rage, but Z couldn't see it, because she was twisting his arm behind his back, in an excruciatingly painful position.

"well, Justin, you are deeply mistaken. Just because I acted as your friend, doesn't mean I am interested in you, you sick pervert. I became your friend because you were going through a rough patch after your break up."

"come on. You didn't even remember your husband's name. you don't wear a wedding ring, I am starting to think this is all a scam!" Z was taken by surprise when he mentioned the wedding ring. How intently did he notice her? And she let go of his hand, and he turned back and threw his arm out to punch her, which she blocked in an excellent move, and then pulled his hand towards him, and knocked him down with an elbow jab, and he was there on the floor, pinned against Z's foot on his neck.

"here's some advice Justin, ask girls before puling something like this." She said, sassily, and then, the next moment, a flash of light threw her back, and Z's back hit the wall.

She staggered to her feet, and she saw an alien standing in the place were Justin had been less than a minute ago, and he had a chitin armor, along with spikes on his arms, and a streamlined body shape. At that moment, all her doubts were confirmed. Mr. Justin Whatever was actually Scolferic Venezuhu…

"I knew it!" Z said, through gritted teeth, "SPD emergency!" she yelled, pulling out her morpher, and morphing into the yellow SPD ranger.

"you're SPD?" Venezuhu was shocked to see a power ranger in front of him. She wasn't the helpless girl he had thought her to be. Big mistake.

"and you are a wanted criminal guilty of thirteen murders, four sexual assaults, and seventeen heists." Z said, backup would be arriving soon. Till then, she had to hold off one of the worst criminals in the galaxy.

A/N: who expected this twist?