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This is story twenty-one. It was requested by not gonna say ().
Kelsey and Justin
By
Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)
"Wahooooooo!" cried Kelsey as she whizzed around the skating rink. She could never get enough of her favorite pastime. The speed, the thrill, the ability to make others jump out of the way and then glare at her, fists shaking in anger. "Yep," she thought as she paused to readjust her now-gray hair into its bun, "those were the good old days."
But she had been stuck in this dilapidated nursing home ever since her so-called friends had managed to convince the courts that she really was crazy and needed constant supervision. They claimed that it was because she had stalked Chad and his fishy wife over the past fifty years and kept frightening the female flounder by calling her and playing songs from The Little Mermaid backwards.
Luckily, Kelsey had yet to spend any of her inheritance from her grandmother. She knew she'd need it for something important one day, like her own personal roller skating rink. And so here she was, speeding along to her pacemaker's content, no one around to bother her…. no one around to get in her…
"Yeeehaaaaaaaaaaa!" yelled Justin as he whipped by Kelsey. The skates attached to his walker made a bizarre clicking noise. "I can't believe I had the good luck to land in this place!" he called back to Kelsey. "And to think I was planning on hunting down Muranthias to retire on. I mean aside from the lava monster, it really was a cool place!"
With a growl, Kelsey tapped her foot until the man came by her again. Then she stuck it out and tripped him and his walker.
"Yeeeooww!" howled Justin as he crashed onto his backside. "Oh, my titanium hip," he moaned as he rubbed his left side. He then glared angrily at Kelsey. "What the hell is the big idea? Are you crazy or something?"
Kelsey smirked. "Crazy is my middle name." The she glared back at the balding old man, "but I don't see what good it does for you to brag about stealing Ryan's hip."
"Huh?" asked Justin in complete confusion.
"Nevertherless," continued Kelsey impatiently. "I'll have you know that this is MY skating rink that I paid for with MY inheritance."
"Really?" asked Justin as he rolled to his knees and grabbed his walker, "that is so cool of you, donating this awesome rink. Hey, maybe we could get a skating class started here. Some of the others here have really gotten to be porkers. Did you notice how Bulk now has to roll Skull down the hallway every day?"
"Well, its nice that he pushes his friend's wheelchair, but…"
"I never said a chair was involved." Justin got himself off the floor by using his walker as leverage.
Kelsey blinked at that. "Anyway, as I saying, this is MY private rink. And I'll thank you to keep off it."
"What for?" asked Justin. "This rink is big enough for fifty people to skate in. Besides," he called as he dashed away, "this is part of the nursing home, so we all have a right to it."
"I'll have my lawyers see about that!" retorted Kelsey as she chased after him. "In the meantime, I will thank you kindly if you get your wrinkled butt off my… Muranthias!" she gasped as she skidded to a halt, the momentum causing her dentures to continue on by themselves. "You wuh in Muwafania?"
"Yeah, so?" replied Justin as he wheeled by, his walker clicking over the false teeth, causing him to fall over again.
"So?" asked Kelsey in annoyance as she grabbed her teeth and wiped them on her slacks before sticking them back in her mouth. "From what I was told, the only people to visit Muranthias were the Turbo Rangers and two other former Rangers."
Justin grinned as he popped his artificial knee back into place. "Yeah, those were the days. Everyone was so dazzled by my cool moves back then. Kat was so into me, she had even convinced Principal Kaplan to let me start high school two year earlier just so we could be together." He glowered at his faulty memories. "But that bossy old Tommy just had to steal her away from me. If only…" he stopped as something occurred to him. "Wait just a damned second. The only ones who knew about us going to Muranthias were other Rangers."
Kelsey grinned. "Yep, Captain Mitchell kept a lot of information in those folders of his." She paused with a frown. "It took a while for us to convince him to put it all on Mariner Bay's computers."
Justin studied her closely. "Lightspeed, huh? I heard about their so-called rescuezords."
Kelsey glared at him. "What do you mean so-called? I'll just have you know that my HazRescue 4 was state of the art."
"Oh, and I suppose it's just a coincidence that we had rescuezords years before you did. Besides, my Siren Blaster was far cooler than some cruddy old truck."
"Hey! Ms. Fairweather said there was nothing wrong with getting ideas from the past teams," Kelsey snapped back, pushing all of her old doubts about the other woman's actual ability to invent. "And if she just happened to find some leftover Zord parts to use? Well, waste not, want not. Besides, our rescuezords could've run circles around yours."
"No they couldn't!"
"Yes they could!"
"No they couldn't!"
"Yes they could! And furthermore, I could skate circles around your sorry ass," challenged Kelsey.
"Oh really?" retorted Justin. "What say we have a little competition? Ten times around the rink."
"Fine by me. If I win, you leave my rink…forever."
"And if I win, you help me locate Kat and convince her to leave Tommy for me."
Kelsey shook her head. "Will you just give that up already?"
Justin shrugged. "Fine, then if I win I get to take over this rink and you will leave it forever." He held his hand out, and Kelsey shook it.
"Ok," said Kelsey as she and Justin lined themselves up. "Ready…Set…"
A loud squealing sound came over the intercom just then. "Lunch is now ready in the dining room. Today's special is pureed whitefish, strained beets, and tapioca pudding."
"Tapioca pudding!" they both screamed. "All right!" With that, Justin and Kelsey skated off the rink and out the door.