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This is story number thirty-nine. It was requested by Anonymous().

As for the odd assortment of food...well, let just say they had themselves a smorgasbord.

Leo and Zhane

by

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

Leo stared in dismay at the guest quarters on Terra Venture. He couldn't believe that they had even built guest quarters. Those who were part of the colony had their own homes and it was highly unlikely that others would just fly onto the colony to visit. Well, Trakeenah and her ilk could, but he sure as hell had no intention of inviting them to stay over.

But, although it was highly unlikely, it wasn't impossible. A week ago, the Space Rangers had come to help them defeat the Psycho Rangers. So they used the guest quarters. And they left a horrid mess. Being the newest member of GSA, and being that he had yet to develop any useful skills, well other than destroying a big ugly insect bent on ruling the universe, he had been assigned to clean it. It wouldn't have been such a tough chore if he hadn't instigated a major food fight when he and his team members had visited them that first evening. But before they could end their three-day argument over who should clean the disgusting mess, they became busy with locating Kendrix's quasar saber and then installing Karone as the new Pink Galactic Ranger. He grimaced as he began scrubbing the hardened green jello off the wall.

"Excuse me?" asked a light-blond haired man who appeared in the open doorway. "Your commander directed me here. Are you Leo Corbett?"

"Yeah," replied Leo as he scrubbed at a particularly stubborn spot. "Did he send you to help me? You can start on the spaghetti sauce on the pillowcases." Not bothering to look up, he continued to scrub.

Zhane didn't reply. Instead, he sauntered up to the other man and kicked him, causing Leo to topple over into a pile of mashed pototoes. "Yeah, I'll help you, alright. I'll help your butt into a sling." He went to kick Leo again, but instead slipped on a sliced tomato. Zhane skidded into an open closet and the crash caused the door to slam on him. "Hey! called Zhane as he rattled the doorknob, this door's stuck, let me out!"

Leo got up quickly. "Hey!" he called to the closet. "I've never seen you in here. Who...ah, you must be Deviot in disguise. Well, you won't get away with this." Leo clicked on his communicator. "Guys, Deviot's here. He disguised as some geek in a Space Ranger outfit."

"Forget it, Little Brother," his brother's voice came back. "We're fighting Deviot right this minute." The sounds of a battle could be heard in the background.

"Oh well then," he reached for his morpher...and found it missing. "My morpher! Someone stole my morpher!"

"Heheheh," interrupted the voice on the communicator. "You're not getting out of cleaning that mess you made for any reason."

"But," Leo was interrupted as the closet door bashed open. "You're going to have to replace that," he commented as he pointed to the doorknob in Zhane's hand.

Zhane dropped the doorknob. Luckily he had managed to turn the screws with his telekinetic powers. Otherwise, he would've been stuck in there all night while this creep had his way with fiancee. "Where is she?" he snarled.

"Where is...? Oh," replied Leo, smacking himself on the forehead. "You must mean our local psychiatrist, Dr. Sesasasamaninining. I'm sure she'll take a lunatic like you without an appointment. Well, just take a left out of this building and go five blocks. Turn a left on Great White Ranger Ave..."

Zhane ran over and grabbed Leo by the collar. "Where's my fiancee? Where's Karone?" He was going to get her out of there as soon as he found her. No way was he going to let her be a Pink Ranger. He already knew the past history of Pink Rangers falling madly in love for their Red Ranger leaders.

"Is that what this is about?" Leo began to shove some scrambled eggs off the windowsill and into a wastebasket. "She's off with the others fighting Deviot." He felt himself topple over from yet another kick. This time he landed into a still-wriggling pile of grey and purple goo that Andros had expressed to be his favorite food. "What's with you?" he cried as he got up again.

"You're letting your team fight while you stay here and clean?" cried Zhane. "You're letting my PookieWookie put herself in danger while you play miss maid!" He picked up his foot again.

"Hey!" responded Leo defensively as he jumped out of the way. "That's not my fault! They stole my morpher!"

"A likely story," accused Zhane. "Let's Rocket!" he quickly morphed into his Silver Ranger outfit. "Ok, wiseguy," he stated, threatening pointing his super silverizer below Leo's belt . "If you don't want your family line ending now, I'd suggest you morph and get your cowardly butt down there."

Leo dove into the now empty closet and held the door closed. "Who the hell made a loon like you into a Ranger? I told you, they won't give me my morpher back until these rooms are cleaned!"

"Forget it, Sissy Boy!" retorted Zhane as he approached the closet. Again, he slipped...this time on a pile of jellybeans. He landed in a smashed blueberry pie and some spilled grape juice. "My outfit!" he cried as he quickly demorphed. "My beautiful Silver outfit!"

Leo peeked out of the closet. "I think there's a dry cleaner six blocks from here."

"Yeah, nice try. But, I guess you were right," said Zhane as he finally noticed the disgusting mess in the room. No one would want to get stuck cleaning this.

Leo breathed a sigh of relief and went back to his cleaning. A minute later, he whirled around. "Wait just a damn second!" he stated. "You're the Silver Space Ranger!"

"Wow, not only a maid, but a bright one at that," replied Zhane who was now nibbling at the grey and purple goo. He was beginning to think that he had nothing to worry about. No way would Karone be interested in this brainless boob.

"So, why weren't you here last week when we were fighting those Psycho Rangers?" Leo stepped closer to Zhane. "Why weren't you here to help?" He was getting angry. "And you were calling me a coward! My girlfriend is gone and now I'm stuck with that Pink imposter. How do I know she's not Astronema disguised as a normal girl? How do I know she's not here to let Dark Spectre onto Terra Venture?"

Zhane looked up. "Uh, because Darkonda blew Dark Spectre up and because Zordon's golden wave made Astronema turn back into Karone?" He scooted back as the still-fuming Leo flung the soapy scrub brush he had been using at his head.

Leo blinked for a second. "Oh yeah, that's right."

"Besides, it's not my fault I wasn't there. I had tickets to the Miss Universe Pageant. And I mean a real Miss Universe Pageant, not that thing you Earthers hold" Zhane's eyes went dreamy. "No way I was going to miss that."

Leo looked at the Silver Space Ranger askance. "And Karone let you go to that?"

Zhane snorted. "She doesn't even know. She was spending the week at some Therapeutic Camp for formal evil villains turned good." He stood up and brushed his shirt off. "I bet you didn't know that Divatox talks in her sleep."

"Well...ok," conceded Leo who was eager to get rid of his visitor so he could finish his task before he grew old and gray. "If that's all, I'd really like to get back to work."

Zhane shrugged his shoulders. "Sure, I'd better get that dry cleaning place you mentioned before the stain sets in my Silver suit." He headed for the door, having completely forgotten that the Ranger uniforms were self-cleaning.

"Oh, if you have any pictures from that Miss Universe Pageant, could you send me a copy?" Leo figured he should get something out of the interruption.

"Sure," answered Zhane. "I guess it's the least I could do for thinking Karone could be interested in a boob like you." He looked around, "Do you have something I can write your address with?"

"Sure," Leo pulled a pen out of his pants pocket. Something else fluttered out of it.

"Here, I got it," announced Zhane who grabbed the item before Leo could. He looked down at it and realized it was a picture of his fiancee. "What the!"

"Uh oh," Leo began to sidle away.

"Dear Leo," Zhane read out loud. "Last night was the best night of my life. You are twice the man Zhane ever could hope to be. I promise that I will never ever go back to that lech (did I tell you that he snuck away to see that disgusting Miss Universe Pageant? Andros e-mailed me all about it while I was at camp.) Please meet me tonight..." Zhane stopped reading, the picture floating to the ground. "YOU!" he snarled. Then he picked up Leo's soap bucket and threw the soapy water all over him.

"Can't we talk this over like two adults?" sputtered Leo as he dove from the cleaning items and leftover food items being thrown at him. "Oh, come on! I'll never get my cleaning done at this rate!" He ran out of the room.

"Get back here you scumbag! I'll teach you to steal my girlfriend!" screamed Zhane as he chased after Leo, pelting him with green hot dogs.