Disclaimer:  I don't own Power Rangers.  Someone else does.  I don't know who because it keeps changing.  Please don't get offended if I insult your favorite character.  Some pairings are easy to write a story for while others are really tough.  So please realize that some of my stories will be better than others.  Hi to all my fellow AFPR's including my fellow female Psychos :).  And I really appreciate the reviews :).

     Well, I hope this one is a bit better.  It was difficult to narrow down on just one scenario for these two characters.  Btw, if my calculations are correct there are 1185 potential pairings among the Rangers (from MMPR to NS and not including the Aquatian Rangers).    

Tommy and Eric

By

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

            Tommy walked through the open gate behind the trailer house.  "Eric?"  He approached the Quantum Ranger from behind.  Instead of a response, all he heard was baby-voiced babbling.  "Eric?"

     "…and if my wittle baby birdies eat all of their numnums, Daddy Eric will give you a vewy special tweet…"

     Tommy snickered and then tapped Eric on the shoulder.  Eric jumped and turned around, his blaster already drawn.  At the same time, his parakeets flew out of the already opened cage.

     "Fluffums!  Sweetie!  No!!!!"  Eric dropped on the grass in his yard and began roll around crying. 

     "Uh, sorry about that."  Tommy mumbled in embarrassment at the usually stoic Ranger's behavior.

     Eric jumped up and brushed the grass off his clothes.  "Hehe, I do that every time they escape.  I figure it gives them something funny to watch while they are up in the tree.  They'll be back later."

     "Oh," Tommy said in confusion.  "Do you mean that tree where that hungry-looking cat is perched?"  A second later they could both hear the sound of crunching.  Several blue and green feathers fell on Eric's head.

     "Nooooooooo!!!!!"  Eric began to fall to the ground again, but then remembered Tommy's presence.  "Er, I mean, I guess I'll be hitting the pet store tomorrow.  Now, what was so important that you had to get my pets murdered?"

     "Hmm?"  Tommy asked, having temporarily forgotten his mission.  "Oh yeah."  He pulled a glove out of his pocket and smacked Eric in the face with it.  "I heard your challenge, and I accept it.  We duel at dawn."

     Eric rubbed his cheek in disbelief.  "What are you talking about?"  He began to scratch his now hive-filled cheek.  "And did you have to use a woolen glove?"

     "Great," Tommy thought to himself, "I've been here less than five minutes and I already have two more things to feel guilty about."  Out loud, he answered, "Well, Kim told me that Trini told her that Billy told her that Delphine told him that Karone told her that Mike told her that Leo told him all about you saying how your Q-Rex could 'eat my Dragonzord for lunch.'"

     "So?"  Eric took on his usual air of aloofness.  "We were all bragging then.  What did you expect from a large group of testosterone filled Red Rangers?"

      "You?  A Red Ranger?  Don't make me laugh.  There's only one Red Ranger on each team.  You're just some guy who decided to steal a morpher just so he could impress his boss.  If Zordon was still in charge, you'd never have lasted a minute as a Ranger."  Tommy crossed his arms, waiting for Eric to take the bait.

      "But, I was included in that mission.  Besides, my suit is red."  Eric felt a bit taken back by Tommy's comments.      

     Tommy snickered.  "So is Santa Claus's, but that doesn't make him a Ranger.  Anyway, we only had you on the mission because Wes begged us to take you with us."

     "Good old Wes," Eric was touched by his best friend's loyalty.  "He knows talent when he sees it."

     "Actually, he was hoping you'd go all gung-ho and attack Serpentera all by yourself.  He said you had a tendency to do that kind of thing.  Unfortunately, the rookie did it instead.  Luckily for Cole, we were able to use a remote control to turn off the explosives Andros had planted on Serpentera."           

     Eric stared at Tommy in disbelief.  "Wait a second.  Are you telling me that you guys had Serpentera rigged to explode?  Yeah, right.  And I suppose you'll be telling me those Beetleborg reject monsters were all part of your plan."

     "You said it:  'Beetleborg rejects.'  We found the discarded costumes in the dumpster outside of  Hillhurst Mansion.  Zack, Kai, and Kat wore them and pretended to be left-over warriors from the Machine Empire.  We even pretended to fly to the moon in that mock spaceship. " 

     "Oh, really, and pray tell me why would Wes want this all set up just to kill me?  I thought he was my best friend."  Eric was beginning to fume.

     Tommy chuckled.  "Oh, I don't know, something about wanting to do threesomes with Jen and that blonde haired Ranger from Turtle Cove.  He even showed me a letter from her suggesting he get you out of the way so you'd leave her alone."

     Eric exploded.  "WHAT???  I don't believe it!  My best friend and my girlfriend both tried to betray me???  I thought I finally had some friends, but I guess I was wrong!  Well, if that's how they're going to be about it…Quantum Power!"  With that, Eric morphed and ran past Tommy.

     "Wait a minute," Tommy called.  "Aren't you going to fight me and my Dragonzord with your Q-Rex?"

     "Not now!"  Eric called as he hopped on his Time Force Eagle.  "I've got a so-called 'friend' to take care of first!"

     "Uh, oh," Tommy mumbled to himself as he pulled out his cell phone and quickly tapped in a number.  "Hello?  Wesley?  It's me, Tommy Oliver.  Yeah, I'm fine.   Oh, by the way, watch out for Eric.  He's coming after you in Ranger form.   Why?  Oh, well, it seems he's gotten it into his head that you wanted to have him killed so you could be with Taylor.  Probably some hallucination from all that hash you guys collected at that drug bust last week…"

     "Aha!"  The Quantum Ranger swooped in from behind Tommy and jumped off the Time Force Eagle.  "I knew it!  I just knew you were making all that stuff up!" 

     "Oops, gotta go, Wes."  Tommy hastily pressed a button on the cell phone then turned to face Eric, who had now unmorphed.  "So, I guess I couldn't fool you with that idiotic story after all."

     Eric nodded.  "Well, that and the fact that I've been doing threesomes with Taylor and Jen for the past four months.  Seems Wes isn't 'man enough' for Jen.  Oh, uh, but don't tell him I said that."

     A stream of angry cursing came from the earpiece of the cell phone.  "Too late," Tommy mumbled as he pressed the correct button to disconnect the call.  He looked at Eric who was still fuming.  "Aw, come on.   All I wanted was a battle between our Zords.  I'm so bored.  Being a Ranger was great.   Morphing…using all different kinds of weapons…challenging monsters all on my own while making my teammates fight the dumb putties…screwing Kimberly behind Zordon's big headed tube…."

     "Really?" asked Eric in fascination.

     "Sure," Tommy reminisced.  "She would do me anytime, anywhere.  Ah, those were the days."

     "No, I mean fighting monsters on your own.   I did the same thing a lot.  Well, I tried to at least.  Except the others kept trying to get me to believe that six Rangers could be stronger than just one."

     "What a dumb concept," said Tommy.  "How can one expect to be a hero if all the other riff raff are continuously getting in the way of the Great and Powerful White Ranger?"

     Eric looked at him strangely.  "Actually, I was going to say they were right.  I just didn't work well with others back then.  Geez, you sure have a problem with megalomania."

     Tommy shrugged his shoulders.  "Whatever, what do you say we both morph and get this competition started?"

     Eric sighed.  "Fine…Quantum Power!"  He morphed into the Quantum Ranger.

     "Dragonzord!"  Tommy ran behind a shed.  Two minutes later he was back wearing an old Green Ranger Halloween costume and holding a toy replica of the Dragon Dagger. 

     "What the???  You can't seriously expect to call the Dragonzord with that."  Eric barely repressed his laughter at the child's costume that was tearing at all the seams and revealing a bit too much about Tommy.

     "Well, it's not like I can ever get the green power coin back.  Besides, I am the Great and Powerful Green Ranger and with this magical dagger, I shall call on the DragonZord!"  With that, he held the toy to his lips and began to hum.  "Doo doo doo doo doo….doo doo doo doo doo….doo doo doo doo doo…doo doo doo doo doo…doo doo doo doo doo….doo doo doo doo doo…."

     Eric quietly dismorphed.  Shaking his head, he headed out the gate to take a walk towards the pet store.  Perhaps this time he would get himself a pair of pit bulls to keep the oddballs out of his yard.

     He never even noticed when the DragonZord arrived and stomped on the Q-Rex that had been standing absolutely still in its hiding place.

*Author's note:  Yeah, yeah, I'm sure you all wanted a real knock down drag-out fight between the two Zords.  But, I really can't write fight scenes too well.  So I took the easy way out.