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This is story number forty-one. It was requested by my friend, Joan.

Ok, this one isn't that good. I just couldn't get a good idea for this pair. And yeah, I did take a jab at all the Ninja Storm slash out there. The fics for that season just seem to be so inundated with it.

Hunter and Billy

by

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

Hunter sighed as he stared at the cave for the millionth and fifth time. No one, not even Blake knew that he came to the place where he had seen his parents' ghosts. He just couldn't get over the feelings of nostalgia when he thought of them. He fondly remembered the time his mother spent teaching him how to ride a bike. He remembered his father listening to his every word as he excitedly talked about what happened in Kindergarten. He remembered how that little upstart invaded his family and took away his parents' attention while he ended up sleeping in the attic. "It's over, it's over, it's over..." he chanted to himself repeatedly until he was calm again.

Boom! A strange ship landed right on the spot where Hunter's parents had appeared. The door opened and out climbed a very dizzy Billy. "That's the last time I let a jealous alien girl program coordinates for me."

Hunter gave the older man a furious look. "What the HELL do you think you're doing landing on my parents' grotto? This is MY private place to visit. NO ONE but me ever comes here." He was completely unaware of the weekly meetings the local boy scouts held in the same spot.

Billy held up his hand and then turned around to empty his still-swirling stomach. "Sorry," he apologized when he was done. "Never allow an angry ex-girlfriend to program your spaceship for you." He didn't know how Cestria had managed it, but the ship had spun the whole way from Aquitar to Earth.

Hunter, having finally realized what had landed, just gaped. "Spaceship?" He looked suspiciously at Billy. Then he morphed. "I don't know who you are, or why Lothor sent you, but you will NOT learn the location of Ninja Ops." He studied Billy. "You don't look like him at all. You must be a distant relative."

Billy, who had begun to work on the damaged engine, stopped and stared at the now-morphed Crimson Ranger. "Well, that's an odd shade of red."

"It's crimson," growled Hunter. "I am the Crimson Ranger. Don't ever, ever, ever, say it's red. Red is for braindead show-offs. Red is for jerks who skateboard into your motorbike causing the need for a two-hundred dollar paint job."

Billy twisted two wires and was instantly jolted. "Ow!" he cried, his hair standing on end and smoking. "Damn this alien technology."

"Alien? As in evil space ninja?" Hunter held out his thunder staff and charged at Billy. He was flipped over the former Blue Ranger's back as Billy bent over to pick up a wrench. He landed ignobly on his butt as his staff skittered into a dark corner of the cave.

"Actually, alien as in Aquatian. I just got back from living there for the past seven years. Seven long years of slaving for those ingrates. Fixing everything on their planet. Hell, I had it a hundred times better as Zordon's repairman. At least he gave me Alpha to assist me. And he didn't constantly pretend to have a headache when it was time to 'pay' like someone I know." He noticed the Crimson Ranger hesitating. "That is, if I had wanted to get 'paid' in that manner by the Big Head," Billy quickly corrected. "I don't want you to get any funny ideas."

"Oh, great. Not you, too," groaned Hunter as he demorphed. "Tori and Blake have been trying to set me up with Dustin. Dustin and Shane have been trying to set me up with Cam. And Cam has been trying to set me up with his father. I just don't know where everyone got the idea that I'm gay."

Billy shrugged his shoulders disinterestedly. "Who said you were gay? I didn't want you to get any funny ideas about me and Zordon." He glanced up from his repairs. "Maybe if you didn't wear such a funny red..."

"Crimson!" bellowed Hunter from the dark corner where he was retrieving his thunder staff. .

"...crimson, people wouldn't think such things." Billy pressed a few buttons and the panel slammed on his fingers. "Damn this stupid alien crap!"

"Uh, ok," conceded Hunter. There was no need to tell Billy of the love letters to himself that Blake had found in his quarters. All that talk about strong muscles and handsome features. Well, no wonder they thought he preferred a boyfriend. Although, Billy was looking kind of cute bending over his repairs...Hunter snapped out his drooling reverie a few seconds later. "Wait just a damned second! Zordon? You knew the famous Zordon? Sensei talks about him all the time." He didn't add that the jealous guinea pig constantly complained about having to live up to such a legacy. "That must mean you're a...a..."

"Power Ranger? Yep, I was the original Blue Ranger. I was a Ranger until Zordon pullled me aside and convinced me to give the Yellow Zeo Crystal to Tanya. 'I'll give you top pay if you stay in here and help us,' he promised. Yeah right, coupons and monopoly money aren't worth the headaches I got trying to keep those bumbling idiots from completely destroying their Zords. Yeeech!" cried Billy as a wrench fell on his foot. He hopped about grumbling explicatives.

"Aha!" cried Hunter who had morphed again. "Gotcha! Prepare to die, Evil Space Ninja!"

Billy put his sore foot down and stared at the Crimson Ranger. "Are you insane? I'm Billy Cranston. I mean, I did have some ninja powers at sometime. But they were just part of our Ranger Powers."

"No way could you have been Blue. That's a girl's color. And no way some woman called Tanya could be Yellow. That's a guy's color." He charged at Billy who flicked a switch. The engine started and Billy hopped into his ship as Hunter swiped at where his head had been. "Come back here!" ordered Hunter as the spaceship slowly lifted up.

"I'm getting out of here!" retorted Billy. "You guys have really messed up the Ranger colors. Earth is probably doomed. I'm going to see if Trey can accommodate me on Triforia."