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Chapter Twenty-Four

He saw her sitting on that same bench, the sun making her blond hair shine and her eyes sparkle. Melissa was beautiful. He'd admit it to himself. But, he knew that the events from the passed two days might have changed the way that she had felt about him. But, his feelings hadn't changed for her, even if it seemed like they had.

He smiled as he saw her sitting there, strumming a guitar. He hadn't seen her around a guitar for a long time. He wasn't even sure that she had been around a guitar in a long time.

He wanted to go over and talk to her, to apologize to her, but she wasn't alone this time. Kira sat with her, trying to understand what the older woman was trying to teach her. He saw Kira nod as Melissa handed the guitar back to her. She started to play, but struggled slightly with it.

Kira laughed slightly as she tried to play the right note, but she just couldn't do it. Melissa smiled and instructed her to keep trying. Kira nodded again and continued to play, this time hitting the right note. She was happy that she had Melissa to talk to about learning new things. If she went to a professional, they wouldn't be this lenient on her, plus it was more fun.

The older woman smiled as she felt eyes upon her. She looked up to see her admirer standing across the way, a smile on his lips and clad in one of his famous red shirts. She gave him a kind smile and got up from the bench, telling Kira that she would be back in a minute.

"Hey." She said to him.

"Hi." He replied. "What're you up to?"

"Helping Kira with a song."

"Telling her about your old band days?" He asked, joking slightly.

She let out a short laugh. "Yeah, really. Not much of those were around after I came here… but, I've been telling her a bit, yeah."

He let out a frustrated sigh. He was stalling and he was pretty sure that she knew it. "Look, Mel, I apologize… for everything."

"I know... It's hard to swallow all of this, I know."

"I want to make it up to you." He said, quickly.

"Jase, you really don't have to." She said.

"I know. But, I want to." He seemed sincere as he looked at her the way so he could make her swoon.

She gave a small smile as she gave in. "What did you have in mind?"

"A picnic, tomorrow? Just the two of us." He took a hold of her hand and brought it up to his lips to give it a light kiss. "What do you say?"

She gave a small giggle as his lips touched the back of her hand again. "Well, how can I turn down an invitation like that?"

"Great. So, I'll meet you here at noon?" He asked.

"Sounds great." She said, taking her hand back before he decided to kiss it again and walked back to Kira.

Jason cheered to himself as he walked back to the karate studio, an extra bounce in his step.

"What was that about?" Kira asked.

"He asked me out again." Melissa said as she took the guitar from Kira and strummed on it for a second, as though to get the song in her head.

"Wow. I'm impressed. He must really like you."

"Either that or he just wants us to finish one date before I have to go back to New York." She handed the guitar back to the Yellow Ranger. "Okay. Try it in a lower key. That might help."

Kira nodded and began to play in a lower key than she had before. She stopped as quickly as she had begun. "I've got a great idea. I'm playing a gig at Hayley's on Saturday. Why don't you come along? We can sing it, together."

The older woman smiled. "Really?"

"Yeah."

"Okay. I'd like that."

Elsa paced liked a caged animal in front of her master. She was angry and very disappointed in herself. "They just won't give up!" She let out a low growl. "Ugh! I hate them!"

"Calm yourself, Elsa. I still have a few plans up my sleeve." Mesogog informed her.

"Yes, but they won't do any good, it seems. Every time we get an advantage, they seem to get even more powerful. It's disgusting!"

"I agree that it is… But, there are human and have feelings and emotions. Take the Green Ranger, for example." He pointed out as an image of her appeared on his viewing screen. They watched as she and Jason talked on their picnic, their feelings for each other quite obvious.

"Yes, I see what you mean. She is in love with this human. She'd have no choice but to give up her powers to protect him… My Lord, you are a genius."

"Yes. I know. Take some Tyrrannodrones down there… Make the girl suffer."

Elsa grinned evilly. "Yes, sire."

Melissa smiled as she nibbled on a piece of sliced apple. Jason was making her laugh as he told her stories of before she'd arrived in Angel Grove. "So, Ernie trips and the cake goes flying… It landed all over Bulk and Skull. It was hilarious. They deserved it, but it was hilarious." He said, taking a sip of water out of the bottle in front of him..

"I'm sorry I missed it." She said.

"Me too… You know, I'm really glad we did this."

"Me too."

"I don't understand why I thought it would be hard to ask you out, in high school. I'm having a great time."

"Well, when you, Trini, and Zack left, I was still the punk-rocker chick who didn't really want anything to do with any of you. I just hung out with you 'cause I didn't know anyone else."

"True." He smiled, leaning in slightly closer to her. She blushed as she noticed this, but didn't say a word as he lightly sniffed her hair. "Mmm." He said. "You smell really good. What is that?"

"Lavender." She said trying not to laugh as his face appeared only inches before hers.

"It's really pretty." He said, softly.

"Thanks." She replied just as softly as they leaned in once more to kiss.

"Ugh! Don't make me sick!" They heard an evil voice say from behind them.

Their lips were only centimeters apart when Melissa heard that familiar voice. She looked up to see Elsa standing over her and Jason.

"What the?" Jason asked.

"Don't worry. Just get out of here." She said as she jumped to her feet and got into her fighting stance. "What do you want, Elsa?"

"To have some fun." The dark-souled woman said as she ordered the Tyrrannodrones to attack.

Jason didn't run away. It wasn't in his nature to run from a fight, so he stayed to help. He knocked a few of them to the ground, but they quickly got right back to their feet.

Melissa let out an exasperated sigh as she kicked the few that Jason was fighting, in the head, knocking them out. "Would you get out of here?" She asked as she shoved at him.

"I'm not leaving you, here." He said as he did a backward flip kick to one Tyrrannodrone.

"Ugh! Men!" She said as she did a few cartwheel kicks, knocking five drones down.

Jason stared in awe of her. He'd never seen her fight like that. In fact, he's never seen anyone that agile and light on their feet. She was quick and strong. "Wow!" Was all he said as he saw her take down two more with one move.

Elsa growled evilly. Melissa was taking down all of the drones and she didn't have one single chance to get at Jason. "That's it! I've had enough!" She charged up her sword and fired an energy blast toward an unsuspecting Jason.

He turned too late.

But, Melissa quickly rushed to stand in front of him, hoping that she would be able to stop the blast. She closed her eyes as her hands began to feel warm and only thought it to be the energy blast. But, then she felt the blast hit. It pushed her back, slightly, but it didn't do any damage to neither her nor Jason.

"What?" Elsa roared, stopping the energy blast. "It can't be!"

Melissa opened her eyes to see Elsa's eyes as round as saucers. Then, she realized what she was looking at. She raised her hands to eye level. She couldn't believe what she saw. Her hands were on fire, flames emitting from somewhere among her fingertips. "Huh?" She asked.

"Grr! This isn't over!" Elsa said as she teleported.

"Mel?" Jason asked as he tried to touch her hands, but was warded off by the heat the flames were letting off. "How?"

"I don't know." She said as the flames died down. "But, I hope someone does." She pulled her communicator to her wrist. "Tommy, there's something you and the others need to see."