Bleu Soliloqui

Chapter 14?

BleuWoulfe & Cobalt-Blue

Fair warning, Slash, A/U versions of some of our rangers. Rated R for language and angst.

Thanks to Cobalt Blue for the inspiration for continuing, and for contributing to this fic and to my growth as a writer. I'm naming him co-author… since we've collaborated so much on the last few chapters.

It was one of those fall day's for which California was famous, cool, clear, and beautiful, almost in exact opposition to Aisha's mood as she walked toward class alone.

"Hey 'Ish, wait up!" Adam called from behind her.

She turned around and gave a wan smile. "Sure Ad, what's up?"

Adam shrugged as fell in beside his best friend, putting a tentative hand on her arm. "Just haven't spent time with the better-looking member of the Stone Canyon Ninjas lately. She seems to be walking around with a cloud over her lately."

Aisha laughed bitterly. "Well that cloud seems to be there for the duration. It's not like I can make anyone like me."

"Look, I like you girl," he said. Then he leaned in closely and whispered, "And I know a certain member of a huge family clan that likes you too," he told her. Then almost under his breath, he added, "a lot."

Aisha smiled again, this time with more warmth. "Don't kid, my hearts a little too fragile now for jokes."

"Who's joking?" he said. "We've been best friends for years, so you know I wouldn't kid about that." He stopped and took her by the arm to get her to halt as well. Looking her in the eyes, he added, "Look, I'm not kidding. Rocky would kill me if I said anything, but he's ready to kick Alex's and Billy's ass right now."

She looked at Adam in shock for a second then recovered her calm facade. "Oh and why would he want to do that? It's not like they did anything to him."

Adam sighed and looked at Aisha. He chose his next words very carefully, "Because they hurt someone he cares about." He added quietly, "And turned down something he wants but is afraid to ask for."

Aisha thought carefully before she caught Adam's veiled meaning. "Oh... oh Adam, are you sure?"

Adam looked over at her, swallowed, and then nodded to her solemnly, "I wasn't supposed to say anything..."

"It's ok... I'm glad you did. I don't want Rocky trying to beat up anyone because I was too caught up in my own little world to notice him." Aisha picked up the pace so she could catch Rocky before their first class.

Adam jogged to catch up with his friend who now seemed like a woman on a mission. As they rounded the corner toward AGHS suddenly the air was split with a familiar six tone tune.

Adam looked around to make sure nobody was looking and then answered, "What's up Zordon?"

The ancient sorcerer's voice came over the wrist link, "Rangers, Zed and Rita have sent down their latest monster, Pottymouth. Please teleport to the Command Center immediately."

"We're on our way." Aisha ground out, letting her irritation show at being called into battle so early in the day, especially when she had a certain Red Ranger to straighten out.

Arriving at the Command Center in streaks of black and yellow light, Adam realized that they were the last Rangers to arrive. Looking around, the others were already facing the viewing globe. A creature with a head like a toilet was terrorizing the park.

Zordon gave them information on the monster currently attacking the city. "THIS IS POTTYMOUTH, A CREATURE WHO HAS THE ABILITY TO GARBLE THE SPEECH OF ANYBODY AROUND HIM , FORCING THEM TO USE SHOCKINGLY OBJECTIONABLE LANGUAGE"

Billy looked up at the screen and checked his readings... "Any discernible weaknesses detected Alpha?"

"None yet," the small robot said in his tinny voice.

"I'm still working on it."

Jason looked over at William and the other alternate universe rangers and then back up to Zordon, "What can we do to help Zordon?"

"Join in, the Rangers can probably use all of the help they can get with this monster"

A broad smile broke on the former Ranger leader's face at the obvious thought of a chance to go back into battle, "Got it Zordon."

"BE PARTICULARLY CAREFUL OF HIS PLUNGER," Zordon said. "IT FIRES A POWERFUL BEAM OF VACUUM PRESSURE THAT IS CAPABLE OF DAMAGING YOU EVEN THROUGH YOUR UNIFORMS."

Billy smiled at the grin Jason failed to contain. "Gee Jase, I guess you missed the spandex a lot huh?" Billy winked at Jason, shocking the assembled crowd of Rangers... and further angering Rocky.

"Noted Zordon." William looked at his Jason and Rocky. "Ready to do this guys?"

"Never been more ready in my life." Rocky answered, while Jase gave his commander and lover a nod and a smile. William looked over at Tommy and growled under his breath….

"Ready to go when you are, Thomas."

Tommy looked at the other Rangers, stepped forward, placing his hand behind his back to rest on his morpher and said, "Let's to it." A half beat later; he said "It's morphin' time!"

Several seconds later, nine forms landed in Angel Grove Park where Pottymouth was running amok, as little kids ran away screaming obscenities.

"What did those kids say?" William asked in mild shock as they looked up to see a huge Potty terrorizing Angel Grove.

"I believe it was on the order of fuck, damn, oh hell, god dammit... etc." Billy said as he landed near William after he finished morphing.

"I'm not repeating it," Rocky said. "My mamma would wash out my mouth with soap."

"So would mine, just for hearing it Rocko. So fearless leader, what's the plan?" Aisha asked while observing the mayhem in front of them.

Tommy looked around at the situation, "William, you and your crew get the kids out of here, we'll handle this...," before he could finish was hit by a beam from the great toilet headed creature. "... Shit-for-brains fuck-faced turd."

William smirked as the great Falcon was reduced to language he used daily... "Sure thing, oh great leader." William snagged his Jason and Rocky, and then went off to get the kids out of harm's way.

Billy grinned inside his helmet, he couldn't help it... hearing Tommy use such vulgar language was amusing, even in the midst of battle. "Well, I guess that's his power; making anyone cuss up a blue streak."

Tommy shot Billy a dark look under his mask, "Suck me, queer," he found himself saying.

"Fuck you asshole" Billy shot back without being under the influence of the beam. He growled as he rolled away from a beam aimed at him while he traded barbs with Tommy. "Well what's your great plan?"

Tommy looked over at the rest of his team, blushing heavily under his mask at his shame of not having enough control of his own choice of words. Finally, giving up in frustration, he gave his orders, determined to deal with the consequences later. "Rip this mother fucking shit-hole apart!" he told them.

Jason looked back to where William and crew were escorting the last of the children out of the area, convinced that their ears were blistering from the epitaphs coming from the tot's mouths.

William was actually enjoying the shame that Tommy was suffering as his mouth refused to cooperate with his brain via their helmet comm's. "Say, Tommy you ok over there? Seems like you have a problem controlling your tongue. And the kids are safe now... may I suggest we destroy this thing?"

Billy shook his head... one day hopefully William would learn to let things go. "Stop baiting him Will. You know he can't help it. The monster got him with its beam."

"You're one to talk. He'd be sucking his own cock if he'd said that to me. Lack of control my ass; he's probably been itching to say that to you all day."

Knowing that any reply would be twisted by the spell he was under, Tommy refused to give any comment voice. Instead, he just nodded to Jason and the two tore into the monster as Adam, Rocky, Aisha, and Billy worked their way around to flank it.

William, Jase and Rocky joined the ranks and completed the circle surrounding Potty mouth. "So Billy, care to join me in some therapeutic destruction?" William asked with such joy in his voice it chilled Billy and the other's who heard him via their comm units.

As if sensing the approach of the other Rangers, Pottymouth suddenly backhanded both Jason and Tommy into a nearby tree with a single powerful blow from the plunger he was carrying and spun to face Billy and Kim coming up on him from behind. Leveling a concentrated field of negative air pressure at them, he forced the Blue and Pink Rangers to abort their attack and dive to the side.

Distracted by Kim and Billy, Pottymouth never saw the attack launched at him from either side as Rocky and Adam went up and over to land a dual kick to opposite sides of the "tank" on his head.

Jason and William followed their act with spinning kicks to the "bowl" that made up his torso and slid to a stop as they looked for their "Rocky" to follow suit.

Turning to see where their "Rocky" was closing, having been distracted by the child he was helping, was a critical mistake. "Rocky" looked on in horror, as behind them, Pottymouth was leveling a point blank blast at his leader's back. All William and "Jason" saw was their young protégé suddenly launch himself toward them, knocking them past the path of the blast. "Jason" was stunned as "Rocky" took the monster's attack full in the chest. For a moment his body seemed to vibrate, then their medic, their friend, and their confidant suddenly exploded outward, as the pressure in his body and suit overcame the negative pressure surrounding him.'

It took both William and Jason all of two seconds before their shock turned to grief and rage... William let out a howl that made the other's cringe as he and Jason charged Potty mouth full tilt with rage lending them strength. William pounded on Potty Mouth with an inhuman level of strength as he kept replaying Rocky's gory demise over in his head...

Billy finally moved once he was able to overcome the psychic backlash from William's grief and joined his doppelganger in tearing the monster to pieces, nearly bare-handed.

Tommy felt a deep rage well up from inside him. He may have had his problems with William, but this was like seeing his own Rocky so brutally murdered. For a brief moment, he felt the same anger and rage that controlled him under Rita's spell come to forefront of his mind. He went on automatic, as he too closed with Pottymouth.

It was a short fight. Four enraged Rangers versus a single monster. It was literally torn apart until only the oversized pair of Brogan work boots were left where it was standing, smoke pouring from their tops.

William sunk down to his knees unable to do anything but scream out his grief. Billy

de-morphed, removed his helmet, and promptly lost his lunch before he too sunk down to the ground near William. It was too much for them to bear. They always knew death was a real option; but to see one of their own die so horrifically was too much.

Billy put his head in his hands, and started sobbing... he was already an emotional wreck from what was going on. He knew that they got hurt doing this... but he didn't think that he'd ever see one of them killed. Not like that, not less than 20 feet away from him.

"We need to get this back to the Command Center, " Tommy said gently to the others, as the spell on him was broken.

Neither Billy nor William responded they merely helped each other up and teleported back with Jason right behind them. "Jason" tried to comfort William, but he'd have none of it. He went to the med bay to be with what little of "Rocky" they were able to recover.

Jason nodded to Tommy and gently put a hand on Billy's shoulder. "C'mon Bill. Let's go."

Billy turned to Jason and nodded solemnly. He didn't have a voice for what had happened; he couldn't speak even if he wanted to. He followed Jason, to allow William and "Jason" to grieve in private. The last thing he heard was the anguished keening that William had resumed upon seeing Rocky's remains.

Aisha looked to their Rocky and flung herself into his arms... "I'm sorry Rocky. I'm so sorry." She said as she clung to him... realizing she was lucky to still have him there. Despite her misgivings about the other Rangers, she'd never wish that kind of death on her worst enemies.

Noticing the distress on Billy's face, Jason asked gently, "You're picking up from William, aren't you?" He got a tired nod by way of an answer, and had his hands full with keeping Billy upright. William had passed out after trying to make sure Rocky was given proper rites and such. He couldn't do it... and since Billy was linked to him, he too slid to the floor unconscious.

Billy opened his eyes just as Jason was lowering him to the floor. "William, he's passed out, he... I... it's so horrible Jase." Billy turned on his side and closed his eyes. He couldn't help seeing what William did, and if he'd had anything left to throw up he would have.

"I don't understand," Jason said.

"What don't you understand?" Billy didn't have the strength for lengthy inquiries. He was doing good to be conscious himself

Sensing his lover's distress, Jason shook his head, "I don't have to understand right now. If you need anything I'm here."

"Can you check on them? Then please help me to get home, I don't think I can explain why I'm like this without giving ourselves away. I'm too shell-shocked."

Jason nodded and gently squeezed Billy's shoulder, "I'll be right back."

Half way there, Tommy stopped him, "How's Billy?"

Jason looked back over his shoulder, "He's pretty out of it." Looking past Tommy he said, "I'm going to check on William and Jase, and them I'm going to take him home."

"Is that a good idea?" Seeing the look of irritation on Jason's face he quickly added, "I mean with all the stress at his house." He shrugged, "Look, why don't you take him to your place."

"Maybe. I don't want to cause him any trouble at home by not having him come home. I'll call his dad and see if he can stay over tonight."

Tommy nodded, "Take care of him, pal."

"For the rest of our lives." Jason continued to the med bay room where "Jason" had placed his beloved. He sat, and held William's hands and let his head rest on William's chest. "He's in shock; I don't know how he's going to be when he wakes up. We were ready to leave for San Diego, to start our lives here... all three of us. Rocky didn't deserve that, he gave up his life for us; I don't know if I can forgive myself."

Jason looked at his counterpart, "I don't know what to tell you, except this. What happened isn't your fault. It's the monster's fault. It's Rita's and Zed's fault, but it's not your fault."

"Jason" shrugged non-committally. For the moment he only would listen. His double wouldn't understand what he felt... at the moment he felt like destroying something, someone like killing that creature a thousand times over for each heartbeat it took for Rocky to die in front of them. "It's how I feel now Jason. Logically, I know you're right... but now I'm feeling not thinking. Try telling William that when he comes to... I'll guarantee he won't agree, at least until we've taken care of Rocky."

Jason nodded, "Oddly enough, I understand. I know it'll take you a while for your head to convince your heart, but you will." He laid a gentle hand on his counter-part's shoulder and said, "If you need to talk. If you need anything, let me know. I'm here for you." He looked over at William, "For both of you."

"Thank you. I'll take care of him; you take care of your wolf... he needs you. We'd like to give Rocky a funeral... send him home to the Goddess he served. She'd want him back, and we don't want his spirit to wander aimlessly for long."

Jason nodded, "I don't entirely understand, but I don't have to. Just do what you need to; the Rangers'll make sure you get what you need." He turned to leave the room. "If you'll excuse me."

"Of course. I'll ask Zordon to call you once we are ready to send him off." Jason put his head down and felt his beloved's heart beat beneath his lips. He wanted nothing more than to scream his grief out, but he decided to wait, at least until William was awake again. He also silently thanked every single God and Goddess he knew that they were still alive.