Zhane rolled over and snuggled deeper into his bed as he ignored the sound of Deca's alarm. As the sound increased, he placed his pillow over his head and tried to fall back asleep, but somewhere in his foggy brain he realized that it was useless. Deca could patiently turn up the alarm until he was deaf. Even worse, she could send Andros after him.

         "Ok," he muttered. "I'm up."

         The alarm stopped. He reluctantly squiggled out of his bed and onto the floor. He pulled on a clean uniform before he groggily made his way along the gray corridors to the synthetron.

         Zhane wasn't surprised to find himself the only one in the launch bay. The others were probably already searching for Zordon having eaten a while ago. Grabbing a muffin and stuffing it into his mouth, he headed up to the bridge. 

         As the lift doors opened, he heard Cassie call out "Looks like Sleeping Beauty's up." Zhane narrowed his eyes, not getting the reference, but considering Cassie's tone of voice decided not to take it as a compliment. Cassie, TJ, Carlos and Ashley were all at various workstations on the bridge. All of them had turned towards Zhane as they heard the lift arrive and were smiling at Cassie's comment.

         "I can't help that I need more sleep than you guys," Zhane said, grinning.

         "I thought you'd have had enough sleep after the two years in the cryogenics chamber," she replied.

Continuing to grin, Zhane tried not to let his discomfort about that subject show. No one seemed to notice.

"You're certainly having a bad influence on Andros," added TJ.

"What do you mean?" asked Zhane.

"Deca says he's still asleep," replied Ashley, "and he's usually the first one up."

"He probably was just up late searching for his sister," put in Carlos.

"But he's usually up early anyway," Zhane muttered to himself. Beginning to get a little worried, Zhane did a quick mental check on his friend, but he was only able to tell that Andros was indeed still asleep. "He's probably just catching up on his sleep," he told the others. "I'll go wake him up."

The other rangers could not help noticing the evil grin Zhane had on his face as he left the room. They simply shook their heads and thanked God that they weren't the ones about to be woken up by Zhane.

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Without bothering to knock, Zhane entered Andros' quarters. Andros was still lying on his bunk fast asleep, so Zhane went over and started prodding his friend. Andros rolled on to his back, but didn't wake up. Zhane pocked some more, but since this did not seem to be having the desired effect, Zhane decided to use drastic measures. Sitting himself down on his best friend's stomach, Zhane began to tell jokes. Bad jokes. Extremely bad jokes.

He began.

"Did you hear about the pilot who went on sick leave? He had the flew." 

Getting no response, he continued. 

"A skeleton walks into a bar. He says, "Get me a beer and a mop." "

 Zhane laughed at himself, but Andros did not stir. So, he started talking louder and using deadlier jokes. 

"Two sodium atoms were talking together. The first atom said, "Help, somebody has stolen one of my electrons." The second atom asked, "Are you sure?" The first atom replied, "I'm positive!!"" 

Andros' eyes fluttered opened and he moaned. Zhane grinned. 

"Mummy why do I keep going round in circles? Shut up or I'll nail your other foot to the floor."

Andros lifted his weary arms weekly trying to fight against Zhane.

"Two strings walk into a bar. The first tries to order something. "I don't serve strings in this bar," the bartender says roughly and throws him out. The second ruffs himself up, ties his ends together, walks in, and orders. "Hey, didn't you hear what I told your buddy?" the bartender says. "Yeah," the string says. "Aren't you a string?" the bartender says. "I'm a frayed knot," the string replies. "

"Enough," groaned Andros as he managed to shove his friend off him and on to the floor. Andros sat and rubbed his eyes. "What did I do to deserve that kind of wake up call?"

"As if you haven't done worse to me," muttered Zhane. He sat up and grabbed a handful of hair saying, "You've overslept, Lazy Bones."

"What?" said Andros. "Deca, what time is it?"

"09:30, Andros," replied the computer.

"Why didn't you wake me?"

"It appeared that you need the sleep."

Andros glared at Deca's camera while Zhane frowned.

"Nightmares again?" he asked.

"It's nothing," replied Andros trying to avoid the subject.

"What was it about?"

Andros stood slightly stiffly to his feet and met Zhane's gaze.

"I dreamed that I was paralyzed."

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