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This is story number forty-six. Please read the three stories I posted just before this one. And a belated Happy Thanksgiving.

Cassie and Eric

by

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

Cassie cautiously opened the storage bin door and peeked out. Finally, the Red show-off Rangers were gone. Supposedly traipsing around and bragging to each other how great they were. She snorted as she thought of the plan the other non-Rangers had to short-sheet all their beds in revenge. But, that really didn't matter to her. What did matter was that she was finally alone on the Megaship II and could use its state of the art communications array to contact her long lost love...the Phantom Ranger.

She carefully stepped out of the small storage space and tiptoed to the communications panel. She mentally told herself that there was nothing to worry about. After all, she had been an important member of the Space Rangers. Just because Andros had ordered her away from his ship after she had fried her thirtieth board through her incessant hunts for Phantie (as she liked to call him), didn't mean that she had no rights at all. With that self-reassurance in mind, she reached for the first button.

"Alert, alert, intruder on ship." Cassie's shoulders fell as she realized that Andros had programmed Deca to guard against her. "Alert, alert, int...zzzzzzzzzzz"

"Oooh," teased Cassie in a sing-song voice as she began typing in numbers. "Andros is not going to be happy that you destroyed his substitute mother. But, thanks, I really owe you..."

"Get your hands up!" snarled a male voice behind her. "And keep them up there. A guy can't even sneak back in to use the facilities without coming upon some spy."

Cassie winced as she felt the object poking into her back. Then she smiled and in the blink of an eye had wrenched the blaster away from Eric and thrown him over her shoulder. A second later, she was sobbing as she realized that the Quantum Ranger had landed on the communications panel, causing it to spark and smoke. "You idiot!" she screeched at the now groaning man. "Now I'll never hear from my love again!" She broke down into heart-wrenching sobs.

Eric gingerly picked himself up and patted out the small fires on his jacket. "Well, you're the one who tossed me on this thing." He reached for his now tossed-aside blaster, but thought better of it when he met Cassie's furious eyes. "Aren't you a spy for Astronema or Ransik or uh...who's current...oh Master Org?"

Cassie wiped her eyes and looked at him strangely. "I happen to be a Ranger just like you."

Eric snorted and crossed his arms. "Oh really, then why were you hiding on the ship?" He pulled out his communicator. "Andros, this is Eric, I...OOOFFF!" he doubled over as Cassie elbowed him in the gut and took his communicator. "And that's not suspicious?" he squeaked breathlessly.

"You can't let Andros know I'm here." She announced as she pocketed the communicator. "He'll never let me call..." she stopped and smiled. "Vibration mode, huh? I bet you guys made a lot of calls to each other."

Eric blushed. He actually hadn't had much of an opportunity to call the others since they had all been out to get him and his morpher back then. But he had made quite a few calls to himself. "Yeah, whatever," he replied quickly. "That still doesn't explain what you're doing on this ship. If Andros doesn't trust you then you must be evil. Evil!"

Cassie karate chopped him to the ground. "One more Professor Phenonomous impersonation and I will puke on you." She began tapping on the buttons in the fruitless hopes of sending a love letter to her snuggly-wuggly in black.

"That does it!" called Eric as he struggled to his feet. "I'll teach you to spy for Rita or those demons or uh...Divatox. Quantum Power!" With that, he had morphed into the Quantum Ranger. "Prepare to meet your doom!"

Cassie blinked at him in disbelief. "Wow, I heard the Rangers had sunk in recent years, but morphing to attack a defenseless woman? That's a new low."

"Hardly defenseless," grumbled the Quantum Ranger as he rubbed his still-sore shoulder. But he had his head bowed in shame. What would the others think of him? The Red Rangers would never stop taunting him for picking on a civilian, or at least a spy disguised as a civilian. Worse yet, Taylor would incessantly nag him for acting like a jerk yet again. "Sorry," he mumbled as he quietly demorphed. "I shouldn't have done that. That was uncalled for."

"Yeah, and so is this!" With that, Cassie, who had silently morphed into the Pink Space Ranger while Eric had been self-berating himself, deftly kicked the Quantum morpher off Eric's wrist.

"Hey!" exclaimed the shocked leader of the Silver Guardians. "You..you're a Pink Ranger! What, what are you doing to my morpher?" he cried in horror as Cassie dangled it over the disintegrator.

"Now, you had better help me find my love, my darling, my Phantom Ranger or I will drop this thing!" Cassie's eyes were burning behind her visor.

"But..but...don't you think that if he was interested he would have found you by..."

"NOW!" ordered Cassie as she let the Quantum morpher slip just a little bit.

"Okay! Okay!" complied Eric as he reached for the ships controls. Then he had an idea. "Quantasaurus Rex!" he called in the direction of his morpher in the hopes he could still voice-activate his Zord. "Help me! I'm being held by a crazy woman!"

"That won't work," Cassie stated calmly as she flicked on the ship's screens. On it, they both witnessed Tommy's Dragonzord sitting on the downed Quantasaurus's back. Tommy was dancing on top of his Zord in victory.

"Quanti! No!" whined Eric in horror.

Cassie let the morpher slip just a tiny bit more. "Now, I strongly suggest you get your ass moving. If I'm not snuggling againstmy darling's ruby in the next twenty four hours, you will become the 'powerless Ranger.'

Two minutes later, Andros and the other Red Rangers were running after the ship as it clumsily flew around, crashing into trees before blasting off into space.