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 :).

     Yes!  I got another one done today!  This one is a bit perverted, I think.  It's not that easy trying to think up ways to pair up some of these characters.  

*Note:  I have just reposted this.  Thanks to a suggestion by Cmar (read her stories if you haven't already, they're excellent :) ), I have changed the ship Katie steals to get on the Megaship.. 

Cassie and Katie

By

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

     Cassie stared absentmindedly through the Megaship's window.  Alone in her room, so as not to be further harassed by Zhane and Carlos constantly making kissing noises at her, she grabbed yet another of the rare flowers that Andros had been collecting in hopes of finding cures for rare diseases.  For a brief second, Cassie felt guilty about using the flowers for such a selfish purpose.  Then she shrugged uncaringly.  "He loves me.  He loves me not," she recited over and over as she pulled on the petals.

     Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.  As Cassie got up to answer it, a note slid under the door.  Then she heard someone run away, giggling.

     "Hmmm," she thought as she picked up the note.  "Sounds like someone's playing a trick on me.  But, that didn't sound at all like Ashley."  She gave a brief shiver at the thought of one of the guys giggling like that.  "Maybe those rumors about Andros and Zhane really are true," she mused.

     Then she opened the note…and all thoughts of it being a trick leaked from her mind.

     "Dearest Cassie," it read.  "How I love you and will forever be yours.  How I want you to have my green scaly babies.  Please meet me in the Ten Forward Lounge so we can discuss killing off the rest of your crew and making this ship into our own personal Love Boat."  It was signed, Phantom Ranger.

     "Whoohoo!"  Cassie tossed the letter aside and ran wildly up and down the decks and hallways.  After twenty minutes, she finally stopped running around in random directions and headed straight for the small dining area that had been named after something on Andros' favorite TV show. 

     "Hello?" asked Cassie tentatively as she entered the room.  "Phantie?  Sweetie?  I'm here for you."

     Suddenly, a sheet-covered figure came out of the corner.  "Whoooeeeeooooo," came an obviously female voice.  "I am your Phanty.  I am here to take you away with me." 

     Cassie blinked.  "But, but, where is your Ranger outfit, Darling?"

     "Oh, uh," hesitated the 'ghost' "it's at the dry cleaners."

     Cassie looked a little skeptical.  "Wait a second, if you're really a ghost then you can make things fly around, can't you?"

     "Of course I can!"  With that, the 'ghost' picked up a table in one hand and the jukebox in the other hand.  Then it began dancing around the room. 

     "Wow, Phanty," gushed Cassie.  "You really are strong.  Ooh, let me feel your muscles!"  With that, she lunged towards it.

     'Phanty' began to back away in a panic.  "Oh, uh, whooooeeeeee you can't touch me, I'm a ghost."

     "What are you talking about?  You didn't say that when we were alone on DivaTox's ship."  Cassie made another lunge for 'him.'

     "Get away from me you perverted loon!" screeched the 'ghost' as it jumped away again.  The table and jukebox both came crashing down.  "Yeeeeoooooouuuuuccccchhhhhh!!!!!!" 'Phanty' began hopping around the room holding 'his' foot.

     "Gotcha!" cried Cassie ecstatically as she finally landed on her 'love.'  "Whoa, Phantom," she commented as she felt the body beneath her.  "I didn't realize you were both ways.  But I guess I can live with that."

     "That does it!"  'Phanty' threw Cassie off and stood up.  Then 'he' pulled the sheet off. 

     Cassie did a double take at the sight of a young African-American woman who was glaring at her.  "You, you, you're not my Phanty!"  She began to sob.

     "No duh," sneered the other woman.  "I can't believe you still thought I was even with that stupid sheet.  I mean I heard you were completely smitten with him.  But that was just pathetic."

     Cassie wiped away her tears.  Then her face hardened.  "Hey, who the hell are you, anyway?  What are you doing on this ship?  If any of the guys ever found you were here they'd…"

     Katie snickered.  "I'm Katie, Yellow Time-Force Ranger."

     Cassie scowled.  "And what the hell is a Time Force Ranger?  I thought we were the only Rangers around."

     Katie smirked.  "Well, technically you are.  You see, I'm originally from the year 3000.  But my team and I went back to the year 2001 to capture an escaped mutant named Ransik."

     "But it's 1998.  Why…"

     Katie plowed through Cassie's interruption.  "Anyway, we found out that Alex, our former Red Ranger had an ancestor named Wes who is now our Red Ranger.  So I thought to myself that maybe I also had a really cool ancestor.  Besides, I need some connection to home.  And I don't care if I'm not allowed to time travel on my own.  I mean home is the most important thing there is.  More important that keeping the stupid timeline safe.  More important than catching Ransik and his cronies.  More important than doing it with every alien at the Time Force Academy in the back of the cryogenic units.  More important than."  Katie's voice had become so hysterical that Cassie slapped her.

     Katie blinked and then continued as though nothing had happened.  "So I had Circuit go through all the extensive data bases to check on my ancestors."  She paused in thought.  "I wonder if that had anything to do with the loss of power we encountered during that battle with the Vomitarium mutant.  Jen's still trying to find a dry cleaners that does Ranger outfits for cheap."

     "What does that have to do with you pretending to be my love and getting my hopes up?"  Cassie began to wail, "Oh, Phanty!  Wherever could you be?"

     "Ahem," Katie said, annoyed at the interruption.  "As I was saying, I found out that I had one ancestor, TJ Johnson, who also had been a Power Ranger back in 1998.  So, I decided to borrow Ransik's prison ship, well actually it wasn't his prison ship since he stole it first, but anyway…"

     "You borrowed whose what?"  Cassie was really getting confused.

     "Never mind.  Just suffice it to say that I plan to get it back before he and his goons wake up," said Katie as she flexed her knuckles in memory of that knockout punch.

     Cassie looked at her curiously.  "Well, in that case, why didn't you just return them and the ship back to wherever you came from and put them all in prison?"

     Katie paused in thought.  "Why didn't I think of that?  Why didn't I get the other Rangers to shrink and freeze them?  We could have been done with all this.  I could finally have gone home!  I could have finally…" She continued to rant for ten minutes.

     Cassie yawned loudly, effectively breaking Katie from her rant.

     "Where was I?" Katie pondered.  "Oh, yeah, I came here to visit TJ.  We met at that Surf Spot in Angel Grove.  He didn't even believe I was a Ranger until I morphed."

     "Hold on there."  Cassie said skeptically.  "You used your morpher for personal gain?  Didn't Zordon take your power away for that?"

     "Zor…?"  Katie puzzled over the name for a second.  "Oh, you mean that giant bald head we read about in our history books.  No danger of him doing that to any of us after this year.  I mean after Andros killed him there was…"

     "WHAT?????!!!!!!" screamed Cassie.

     "Whoops.  I guess that wasn't something I should've told you."  Katie made a mental note to visit the Megaship ten minutes earlier than before so as to warn herself not to reveal Zordon's fate.  "Well, anyway, TJ and I got to talking.  And he really seemed upset.  So I asked him about it."

     "Upset?" questioned Cassie.  "What could he be upset about?"

     "This."  Katie handed her a picture.  "TJ found it when he went into your room to read your diar..oops."

     "And he wonders why I broke up with him," growled Cassie as she studied the picture.  It had originally been one of TJ and her all dressed up for the high school prom.  But Cassie had glued a cut out of the Phantom Ranger's head over TJ's and had crossed out TJ's name on the bottom and penned in Phantom's under it.  "This is what he was so upset about?  This is why he sent you to do that stupid gag on me?"

     "Well, actually it was my idea.  I just wanted a way to show off my amazing muscles by lifting furniture."

     Cassie stared at her dumbfounded.   "You've got to be kidding.  Why don't you just get a job as a furniture mover when you go home?"

     "HOME!!!!" wailed Katie as she was reminded of the one thing she missed most of all.  "I want to go home!!!!!!"

     "Talk about pathetic," murmured Cassie as she left the dining area to head back to her room for more flower destruction.