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Story number 40! Whoohoo! Ummm…I hope this one makes some sense. My brain is beginning to melt :)
Cam and Trini
Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)
Cam tapped his foot nervously as he waited for his blind date to arrive. Seven months on the Internet dating sites and he had finally found someone willing to go on a date with him. Well, someone female that was. Only recently he had discovered the changes Blake and Hunter had made to his singles profile, changing his desirable date from an 'intelligent, athletic Asian female' to a 'hulking muscleman with his own hot oil.' A few 'special' adjustments to their Thunder Cycles took care of those two jokesters.
He looked satisfactorily around Ernie's Juice Bar and Gym. It was the only place for miles around that provided a place to eat and exercise within the same room. For some reason, flying sweat didn't make for very appetizing burgers. But, it would be the perfect place to impress his date. After all, no one wanted a plain old geek.
Trini peeked into the juice bar and looked around cautiously. Then, she breathed a sigh of relief when she didn't see anyone she recognized. It had seemed too much of a coincidence that this 'Cam' had invited her to her old teenage hangout. She had feared that this would be yet another practical joke by Zack and Rocky. After those two had started their own dojo/dance studio together, they had become the bane of all their friends. Or former friends smirked Trini. Jason still hadn't forgiven them for substituting his super protein muscle shakes with blended cheesecake every day for almost a year. It was going to take him forever to get rid of his new thunder thighs.
"Hello?" asked Trini as she tentatively approached Cam's table. "Are you Cameron Wantanabe?"
"Yes, and you must be Trini Kwan." Cam quickly wiped his palms on his pants before shaking hands with Trini. "It's so wonderful to meet you."
Trini grimaced as she wiped her hand on the tablecloth. "Uh, yeah, you too." She then forced a smile. This had better be worth it. Ten years of pining for Billy who was now living on Aquitar with his wife and three fish brats had caused her to become a bitter 'old maid.' It was only due to mind numbing boredom that she had been studying the information Tommy and Andros had been collecting on all the Power Rangers that had existed since the original team had been formed. When she found Cam's profile, she was impressed. He was intelligent, no; a genius, and he loved martial arts. And when she had done a search on the Internet for him, she found his singles ad. Perfect. As soon as Billy learned that she was replacing him with another genius Ranger, he was bound to drop that slutty Cestria and come racing back to her.
Cam smiled back. He continued to smile as he tried to think of something 'rad' to say. Shane and Dustin were right, no way was this lovely woman going to want to hear him spout on about his technological achievements. "You..uh..look great…"
"Why thank…"
"I mean that yellow blouse really doesn't wash out your skin coloring too much."
Trini blinked. "What?"
Cam mentally smacked himself. "No, I uh mean that the yellow really helps to fill you out. That is…"
Trini jumped up from her chair. "Are you saying that yellow clothing makes me look pale and fat? Oh my God! That ugly bald jackass and his rust bucket put me in a color that I look bad in???" Unaware of Cam's confused looks, Trini ran to the ladies room in tears.
"Just great, Cam, you scared off another one," he sighed to himself. He began to smack himself over and over on his head with a plate. The couple at the next table silently slipped to a different table while giving him dirty looks.
As Cam finally managed to crack the plate, Trini finally sauntered out of the ladies room. "Hey, there's nothing wrong with my outfit. Maybe you should get your eyes reexamined." She sat back down and noticed the plate. "A clumsy geek," she thought, "perfect, Billy will really be jealous."
"Maybe we should just order," said Cam as he quickly stuffed the broken plate into a nearby potted plant. "Garcon! Garcon!"
"The 'c' is soft," whispered Trini.
"Uh, yeah, so are lakes and rivers," replied Cam in confusion. "Garcon!"
A bored looking teenager finally appeared.
"Allow me," Cam said in his smoothest voice. "We'll have bouillabaisse, quiche lorraine, and your finest champagne." He leaned back smugly.
The waiter stared blankly at him.
Trini laughed nervously. "He's just kidding. I'll have a chicken sandwich, side salad and a kiwi-strawberry smoothie." She shoved a menu into Cam's hand. "This is not a fancy French restaurant if you haven't noticed."
Cam blushed. Then he perused the menu. "Hehe, I'll have the double cheeseburger, onion rings, and I guess a sprite."
Everyone in the room gasped. The waiter glared at him.
"What?" asked Cam.
"No one orders soda in here," replied Trini.
"Oh, well then, I'll have some mineral water."
Someone screamed in fear. "It's the apocalypse!"
"NO NO NO!!!!" cried Trini. "You must order a smoothie. We only drink smoothies here!"
"But I don't like smoothies," mumbled Cam.
"AAAAAAYYYYEEEEE!!!" half the customers had fainted while the other half were running around screeching. The wait staff had all jumped behind the counters, shaking in fear. Trini paled and began to cry.
"Oh, good Lord!" exclaimed Cam. "What kind of weird place is this where you can only drink smoothies???" He covered his ears as the screams continued. "All right! All right! I'll have a chocolate mocha smoothie!"
Everyone quieted down and went right back to what they had been doing.
Five minutes later, Cam was nibbling on his onion rings while trying to decide on what his next move should be. So far he hadn't impressed Trini.
"So," said Trini. "I hear you're a computer expert. I bet you have an extensive vocabulary." She batted her eyes at Cam.
"That…that's not in my profile." Cam was dismayed. He had not wanted her to know about his technological savvy. "How…how did you know I'm into computers?" Probably those annoying Thunders again, he growled to himself. Well, he would just have to design some special power disks just for them. He'd always wondered what would happened if skunk spray got released inside a Megazord.
Trini leaned in closer. "You know, it'd really turn me on if you said something verbose to me," she whispered.
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Why don't you give little old me some sweet technological nothings?"
"You want me to what?"
Trini grabbed him by the collar. "SAY SOMETHING IN BIG WORDS, NOW!!!"
Cam gasped. "Uh…superstupendous malifuously tambourining loquacious Mozambiquian?"
Trini sighed with happiness. "You are so wonderfully geeky."
"G…geeky?" Cam jumped out of his chair. "I'll show you I'm no geek!" He ran to the exercise mats. "Look at what I can do!"
Trini looked at him curiously.
Cam grabbed a gigantic cinderblock and balanced it between two other cinderblocks. Then he bowed. "EEEEYYYAAAA!" he shouted as he karate chopped the cinderblock in half. Then he bowed again and turned back to where Trini was sitting. "Impressive, huh? I bet you think I'm a really happening dude now."
Trini blinked. Then she sauntered over to him. "That's pretty good. Can you do this?" She placed two cinderblocks on top of each other. "HIIIIYYYAAAAHHH!!!!" She pulverized them both with her head.
"How…what…no fair!" cried Cam. "That was supposed to my big moment! Why is it, every time I do that trick no one gets impressed???!!!!"
"Well maybe because," Trini shook Cam's sleeve causing a large sledgehammer to fall out, "you cheat?"
"OW!" hollered Cam as the giant hammer fell on his foot. "Confabulatedblastedmoronicallyscabularalytommyrottedapoplexycausing…"
"You really do know how to sweet talk a girl," sighed Trini. Forget, Billy. This was the guy for her.
"That does it!" announced Cam as he grabbed his jacket. "Blake and Hunter were right. I should've gone with one of those musclemen after all!" He stormed out of the Juice Bar.
Trini ran out after him. "No! Wait! We can work this out! Don't leave me alone…"