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-eight. I wrote it quickly today in celebration of the Fourth of July. If I get this sent out by midnight, I think this will be the first time I got three stories sent out in one day. Whoohoo! Oh, and please remember to have your requests in by the end of July.

Andros and Trini

by

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

"TJ? Zhane? Where are you guys?" called Andros as he wandered around Angel Grove Park. He couldn't believe his teammates. How many times did he have to remind them that he hated crowds? The last time he went on a double date with Ashley, he completely freaked out and knocked all the dishes off the table. Two days later, Ashley had suddenly decided that she didn't want to date a 'wacko alien' anymore and started going out with Carlos instead.

"Snap snap snap babooom!"

"Incoming!" bellowed Andros as he dove under a nearby picnic table, knocking all the food on it to the ground. "Everybody get down! Dark Spectre's back and he's planning revenge on my ass!" He didn't even realize most people were ignoring him as they oohed and ahhed at the Fourth of July fireworks.

"Hey!" cried the Asian woman whose food he had upset. Trini was seething. Normally, she would've been able to brush something like this off with some meditation. However, her in-laws were coming and she had really hoped to impress them with the picnic supper she had set out for them. Billy's mother and father were both extremely overbearing. Nothing she did was right. No wonder Cestria had dumped him two days after she met them on 'bring your parents to Aquitar' day. She should've sensed something was wrong when Billy accidentally 'lost' his parents' invitations to the wedding. "Get out from there and clean this mess up!"

But Andros wasn't paying any attention. He was too busy tapping his communicator, not realizing that the others had turned theirs off. It seemed that his habit of alerting them to every little emergency, such as a car backfiring or his alarm clock going off in the morning had driven them crazy. "TJ? Ashley? Anybody? We've got to..." SPLAT! A pile of potato salad and relish landed on his head. "I'm hit!" he cried. "Oh, and I never got to tell Deca about my secret feelings for her. Goodbye all." With that, he laid down and closed his eyes.

"Oh for heaven's sake." growled Trini as she yanked the young man from under the table by his arm. "Get up, you buffoon. It's just food. You ruined my picnic supper and I'm missing the fireworks."

"Fireworks?" asked Andros sheepishly, food dripping down his back. He had forgotten that there were to be fireworks. "So we're not under attack?"

"No," stated Trini. "But you will be soon if you don't help me clean up this mess and find a place that can cater to here pronto. I will NOT give those Cranston cretins the satisfaction of seeing me fail."

"Are you positive everything's safe?" questioned Andros again.

"Yes, I am. Now, go get the garbage..." SPLAT! Trini screeched as Andros used his telekinesis to transfer the food from his head to hers.

"No one messes my hair," Andros said sweetly. He turned to fetch the garbage can. He didn't see the sudden flash of yellow.

"THAT'S IT!" screamed the now fuming Yellow Ranger. "You're going down!" She dashed at him

As Andros dove away, he morphed into his Red uniform as well. "But, I thought you gave your Dino powers away to that other girl." He blocked a kick. "And I thought you couldn't use your powers for personal gain!"

"Well, thanks to you getting rid of Baldy the Dictator, now I can!" She threw him over a park bench. "Besides, I only gave that dumb Aisha a copy of my sabertooth tiger coin. That's what's got destroyed. Billy's replicating machine is great. Too bad the boob forgot to make a copy of his own coin before it got destroyed as well." She pulled out her daggers and began swinging at the other Ranger, not even noticing the others who were now fleeing from the park in panic.

"Aren't you overreacting just little bit?" retorted Andros who was now furiously tapping on his communicator as he dodged the blows. "I was always told you were the calm, honorable one of the group."

"Honorable?" Trini suddenly demorphed and fell to the ground in tears. "I'm going to lose my presidency in the Angel Grove Honor Association for sure."

"There's actually a club for it?" asked Andros who had also demorphed.

"Well, kind of," sniffled the young woman. She decided not to mention that she was the only current member, or that the president was extremely strict. "But I'm sick and tired of other people doing things to me without apologizing and then telling me I should be the honorable one." Only that morning Zack had pranked called her while she was shaving her legs and didn't even apologize through his guffaws while she was bleeding. But she got him back by alerting the IRS of all the loopholes he had taken when doing taxes for his dance studio downtown.

"Oh," said Andros, shamefacedly. "I'm sorry I ruined your dinner. If we can hurry maybe we can clean this up. I think maybe we can get some more food from..." He stopped as he realized Trini was now laughing.

"You won't believe this," Trini snickered as she held out the small slip of paper she had pulled out of her pocket along with her tissues. I misread the date. They're not coming until the fourteenth." She smacked herself in the head. "I should've realized something was wrong when no one showed up before the fireworks. I just thought Billy was trying to get out of doing the grilling."

"So, I guess we should just clean up this mess then?" asked Andros. "I'm sure my team is worried sick about me." Or not, he thought bitterly as he realized that no one had even appeared during his so-called battle.

"Yeah," agreed Trini. "But it would be such a waste to just dump it."

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" asked Andros as they each picked up a handful of food.

"Food fight!" They both hollered just before letting the baked beans and tofu burgers fly.