Disclaimer: I don't own the Power Rangers. So don't try to buy them from me. Please don't get all offended because I mocked your favorite Ranger. I try to mock them all. Besides, it's just for fun. I really do enjoy the show :). 'Hi" to all from AFPR…especially my fellow Psychos. Please let me know if I make any errors. I have no difficulty with receiving constructive criticism. Thanks to Joe Rovang and SirStack for their Writer's Guide to the Power Rangers Universe which I rely on a lot.

If you haven't done so, please read the first fifty stories in "When Rangers Meet." Thanks.

This is story number twenty-six. Since I neglected to post a reminder in my last story about requests, I will extend the deadline to the end of July. Please let me know if you want me to write about a particular pair of Rangers by then. Please, one request per person. So far I have requests from Crimson Mystery (already done), masterranger3, random, Jason Barnett, and tinaelin27. I am alternating requests with nonrequests that I pull out on strips of paper. See the chapter 'Justin and Billy' for details.

Oh, and I'm not sure if the lantern was paper or not. So I'm saying it is just because it helps with my ending joke :)

Adam and Trini

By

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

"Trini? Trini Kwan? Is that you?" Adam asked as he tapped the woman in front of him on the shoulder.

"Hiyah!" cried Trini as she grabbed Adam and flipped him over her shoulder. "Try to attack me, huh? I'm not some defenseless Pink princess."

Luckily for Adam, his fall was broken by the customers standing in front of Trini. With a groan, he stood back up, ignoring the glares and curses coming from those who were still sprawled on the floor. "Are you nuts? I was just saying 'hi.' Don't you recognize me?"

Trini stepped back into a defensive position. "Is that you, Zedd? I can tell a bad disguise when I see one."

Adam rolled his eyes. "Do I look like a fender faced skinless man? I'm Adam Park. And you almost made me crush my lantern." He held out the ancient looking paper lantern he had received from his parents.

"Who?" queried Trini, narrowing her eyes. "No way, I remember meeting Adam before I gave up being a Power Ranger and he doesn't have long, girly hair." She took no notice of the other people who were now pulling out their cell phones to pass along this information, or searching their pockets for pens and paper to get her autograph.

Adam looked offended. "It's been almost six years since you guys gave us your powers. Hair does have a tendency to grow if you don't cut it. Besides, Tanya always loved running her fingers through it." His eyes became dreamy as he continued. "She always called me her 'soft widdle cuddly uddly.' And she always made..uh..let me rub her feet after each battle. And she always cut my food into bite size pieces so I wouldn't choke." He suddenly burst into tears. "Why'd she leave me? Why?"

"Because you're a crybaby?" guessed Trini. "Besides, Jason wrote me that Tanya told him that you guys broke up because every time she tried to get intimate with you, you just kept mumblimg 'ohhhhh Sabrina.'"

Adam smiled at that name. It was just his luck that the most beautiful and gracious woman he had ever met had turned out to be the mean, nasty Scorpina. He kept reminiscing to himself as he grabbed something to blow his nose on. Soon, the long-range communications system he was assembly from the parts he had snuck out of the Power Chamber would be ready. Then he'd be able to call his one true love. He wasn't sure how he'd get Scorpina to switch permanently to Sabrina. But he'd find a way. He'd…"

"Hey!" screamed Trini as she yanked the item away from him. "No one does that to Mr. Ticklesneezer! You'll lower his value!" A second later, she had him on the floor again. Again she took no notice of the moans and curses coming from those Adam landed on. "Are you alright?" she asked as she bent down to wipe the snot onto Adam's shirt.

"Yes, I'm all right," stated Adam as he got up. "Nice of you to ask after you flipped me twice without any warning. What happened to that so-called sense of honor. I thought…"

Trini glowered at him. "I was asking Mr. Ticklesneezer if he's alright. Not you. Besides, what do you know about honor?"

Adam pulled a card out of his wallet. "I'm a certified member of the National Honor Society."

Trini looked at it dismissively. "That's for high school students with top grades. It has nothing to do with how honorable you are."

"Well, I played fair in a ninja competition against my former girlfriend's former boyfriend who had planned to cheat by using this thing of Mondo's that could turn him invisible, but didn't because he decided to be honorable at the last minute as well." Adam paused to catch his breath.

Trini rubbed her suddenly headachy forehead. "O..kay…I guess…uh…so what are you doing here at the Antiques Roadshow?"

"Oh, I'm going to see how much this stupid lantern is worth."

Trini examined the lantern. "It's beautiful. Hey, wait a second. Kim told me about Zedd and Rita messing with it. Besides, I thought it was a family heirloom. That you promised to take good care of it."

Adam snorted. "Family heirloom my ass. My granddad got sloshed at our last Christmas party and admitted that he had swiped it out of someone's yard."

"Ah, and you're selling it because you're upset that you were lied to." Trini patted his arm sympathetically.

"Nah," said Adam absent mindedly as he stared at Trini's doll. "Actually I'm selling it because the judge ordered I pay for the damage I did to the old fart's living room." He pointed to Mr. Ticklesneezer. "But why are you selling that cool troll doll for? Kim told me that you loved Mr. Ticklesneezer. She said you slept with it and whispered sweet nothings to it and lubed it up and…"

Trini slapped her hand over his mouth. "That's EXACTLY why I have to get rid of him. I can't have these uh…false…rumors go any further." She didn't even notice the other customers who were now looking at her with disgust or holding out their autograph books for her phone number. "Besides," she whispered, "he's really creepy looking. I can't stand the way he stares at me when I get ready for bed. Watching as I undress and probably thinking unclean troll thoughts about me." She shook the doll as hard as she could. "You disgusting pervert! You won't have me around anymore! I hope you get some old hag. That'll make you go blind!"

Adam looked around nervously. "Uh, yeah, you might want to stop that before they put you on the funny farm. Besides, he's not ugly. I'd love to have a doll just like him." He decided not to mention his desire to paste Tanya's picture on it and practice his karate moves on it.

"Oh yeah?" commented Trini who had finally calmed herself. "Well, I think that lamp is beautiful. I'd love to have it in my backyard." She decided not to mention that her own grandfather had promised to name the person who found the lamp that had been stolen from his yard over fifty years ago as his sole heir.

"Oh, well, would you like to buy it?" asked Adam.

"Sure, how much?"

"Five hundred dollars."

"Grandfather had better not be lying," she murmured as she counted out her money.

"What did you say?" asked Adam as he grabbed the money and handed her the paper lantern.

"Oh, nothing," lied Trini. "Say, since you like Mr. Ticklesneezer so much, would you like to buy him?"

"Are you kidding?" questioned Adam as he pocketed the money. "I'm not crazy enough to spend money on a snot covered doll." With that, he pressed the button on the old communicator he still wore…and landed several feet away from Trini. "Well, that was useful," grumbled Adam just before he dove out of the side door and dashed down the street.

Trini shrugged. Five hundred dollars was little to pay for the inheritance of over fifty million dollars that she would get for the lantern. Gleefully she danced around with it, not noticing the man smoking behind her. Ten seconds later she was wailing as she stared at the pile of paper ashes in her hands.