The Unmasking of Rex Red and Wolf McBlue
By: PernDragonrider (with major help from Ghost Zero)
Disclaimer: Power Rangers belongs to Disney, not me. World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and WWE belong to Vince McMahon. No copywrite infringement intended with this work of fiction. No money is being made and this fictional writing was done for enjoyment, not profit.
Notes: A big thank you to Ghost Zero who was responsible for getting this plot bunny to have bitten me. Thanks for all of your help Ghost; it wouldn't have been possible to write this without your input and advice.
Chapter OneJason Lee Scott, former Red Mighty Morphin and Gold Zeo Power Ranger, walked into the front office of one of LA's biggest radio stations and approached the receptionist almost awkwardly. He stood there and smiled brightly when she turned her attention to him.
"Can I help you sir?" The petite, shapely, blond asked as she looked up at him towering over her and the desk she sat behind. /Oh my. This one is built and luscious./ The receptionist thought as she had to stop herself from drooling.
"Yes, I have an appointment with Mrs. Park at one o'clock." Jason replied his soft baritone held nothing but a business like tone besides the smile that showed through. "Would you let Mrs. Park know that I'm here please? My name is Jason Scott."
"I'll let her know that you're here, Mr. Scott." The receptionist replied with another bright smile. She picked up the phone, as Jason stood and almost lounged against the counter that was part of her desk.
The intercom connection she'd dialed was answered with a hurried and frazzled, "What is it now, Anna?"
"There is a Mr. Jason Scott here to see you Tanya." Anna replied with a worried tone. "He says he has a one o'clock appointment with you."
"I don't remember making an appointment." Tanya said with a disgruntled smile. "I'll be right up to take care of it." /Dang I don't need this./ Tanya thought as she hurried from her small cramped office and through the maze of corridors that would take her to the reception area of the radio station she worked for. /Adam's birthday is in a week and I've not found anything to give him. Not to mention that Justin is graduating with his Associate's Degree on the same day./ Tanya's mental rumblings brought her to the reception area and she looked around. Her eyes lit up with happiness and she squealed Jason's name as she ran straight to him. "JASON!"
Jason looked up from where he'd been leaning casually against a wall and his handsome face broke into a huge welcoming smile when he saw Tanya running toward him. He just stepped away from the wall slightly and braced to keep Tanya's headlong charge from knocking both of them on the ground. He opened his arms and was rewarded for the effort with Tanya's body connecting solidly against his own. "Hey, slow down, Tanya." Jason said as she ran into him at almost full speed.
"Oof." Tanya grunted as she made contact with Jason's body and then shrugged off the loss of breath as she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. "God it's so good to see you!" Tanya gushed.
"Easy Tanya." Jason said with an indulgent smile and tone of voice. "I need to breathe now; if you don't mind?"
"Huh? Oh, sorry, Jase." Tanya said sheepishly as she released the near stranglehold she had on his neck. "You're looking good. What have you been up to and where the devil have you been hiding?"
"Haven't been hiding anywhere, Tanya." Jason answered with a secretive smile. "Just been busy working."
"Working out is more like it, Jason Lee Scott." Tanya scolded even as she admired the muscular build of her former teammate. "What are you doing in LA?"
"Can we take this to your office or can I take a friend to a late lunch?" Jason evaded the question with one of his own. "I don't have much time before I have to meet up with my partner so we can discuss our plans for an upcoming event."
"Anna, I'm gone for a couple of hours." Tanya said smiling at the receptionist's nod of acceptance. "Let CJ or Lee know that I'm taking a late lunch and I won't be back in time for my shift. They'll hook me up because they owe me for covering for them last week."
"Got it Tanya." Anna replied and then added a teasing. "Have fun. Oh, and what should I tell that gorgeous hunk, your husband Adam, if he calls for you while you're gone?"
"Tell him that I'm having lunch with an old friend that's golden." Tanya said with an absolute serious tone and straight face. She even managed to hide her smile when Jason's happy laughter was heard echoing in the large reception area.
"I'll tell him those exact words." Anna said with an equally serious tone of voice. She'd realized that when Jason's laughter had burst out that it would more than likely make sense to Adam too.
Jason and Tanya left the building and Jason led Tanya to the adjacent parking lot. "I'm parked in the visitor's lot, Tanya. We can take my ride."
Tanya nodded and walked with Jason to the visitor's parking lot and stopped dead in her tracks when Jason walked up to the passenger door of a shining black, brand new Hummer with three interwoven stripes of color in red, green, and gold running down the side of it. Jason unlocked the car with his remote and opened Tanya's door for her. "Your chariot awaits, madam." Jason said teasingly with a slight bow.
"Whoa, Jase." Tanya said with a low whistle. "You and your partner must be doing really well if THIS is your ride."
"We get by." Jason said as he helped Tanya into the vehicle and then trotted around the hood and jumped into the driver's seat. "I know the perfect place to eat where we can talk without having to shout over other conversations."
Tanya sat in the luxurious leather seats and watched Jason navigate the LA traffic with an ease she'd never mastered. She was enjoying the scenery and didn't notice when Jason turned away from the downtown area and headed out into the more exclusive parts of the city. Tanya watched the houses passing and was surprised when she felt the Hummer slow and make a right hand turn into a gated driveway. Jason simply pressed a button on the dashboard and the gates swung open without a sound.
"My place." Jason said with a small smile. "I'm sharing until my partner's house next door is completed."
"Jason what exactly do you do for a living?" Tanya asked with a gasp of surprise when she saw the large mansion come into view through the tree lined and shady driveway.
"I'll explain once we're inside, Tanya." Jason said with a devilish twinkle in his eye. "Don't worry, everything we do is legit."
Jason parked the Hummer in front of the main door to the house and he jumped out with a sigh. "God I am so glad to get home. No offense Tanya, but I hate suits. This damned tie is choking me to death."
Tanya laughed as Jason opened her door and the two went into the house together.
"Hey McBlue!" Jason yelled as they entered the house and door closed behind them with a silent click. "Company's here!"
Tanya almost fainted when Billy Cranston entered the foyer wearing nothing but a pair of tight denim shorts and was rubbing a blue towel over his hair.
"Hey!" Billy said without looking at Jason. "About time you got back. Vince has been calling since you abruptly departed while conversing with him earlier. Since you did not consider relating the details of your plan to me; I have allowed the answering machine to receive the multiple and long missives he's been leaving. He is not pleased, Jason."
"Sorry, bro." Jason said with a small smile. "I thought of the perfect plan this morning, when I looked at the birthday calendar, while I was talking with Vince earlier. I jumped into some decent duds and took off to get the one person that could help us pull this off without giving everything away too soon. Billy, get that danged towel off your head and say hello to Tanya before she faints."
Billy quit rubbing the towel over his hair and looked up at Jason in exasperation. "Tanya? What would Tanya be doing at our domicile without the accompaniment of her husband?"
"Billy?" Tanya questioned from where Jason blocked Billy's ability to see her. "When did you get home? Where did the muscles come from and what are you and Jason into?"
"Tanya!" Billy cried with delight and surprised her completely when he lifted her off the floor with his exuberant hug.
"Billy, put her down!" Jason teased and then sighed when the phone rang. "Excuse me, but I need to take this call from Vince before he gets really pissed at me. I'll be right back."
Jason ran down the hallway and disappeared through a doorway. Seconds later the telephone stopped ringing. Billy took Tanya on a quick tour of the house and they finished the tour in the room Jason had disappeared into. As the two entered the room Jason could be heard saying, in exasperation, "Look Vince. (Pause.) We agreed to lose the masks and we are; (pause) but you agreed to let us lose them the way we wanted. (Pause.) My plan of attack is sound and I'm in the process of finalizing the details right now. (Pause.) Just get those four tickets sent out here by express or a courier ASAP. (Pause.) No, Vince I'm not telling you how to do your job as long as you quit telling me and Bill how to do ours. (Pause.) I can always use that clause in our contracts (longer pause). I thought you'd see it my way. Just get me the ringside seats as soon as possible. The masks are absolutely coming off during my title match with Hunter next week. Bill and I decided that since our fans have made us so popular that we're going to get a couple of them to unmask us. Yes Vince, Hunter knows exactly what we have planned. We're going to be working on it with him and Hogan again tomorrow. All right, and thanks boss. You're the best, even if you are as aggravating as one of those monsters that attacked my hometown all the time; see you in Anaheim on Thursday night. We'll be there and we're ready to rumble. Later boss man." Jason hung up the phone and sighed as he rubbed the back of his neck.
"Vince giving you some hassles again, Jase?" Billy asked as he stepped behind Jason and began massaging his neck and Jason sighed as Billy's hands worked out the kinks he'd developed arguing with Vince McMahon their employer.
"He's just giving me grief because we were supposed to have lost the masks last month. He agreed that we could do it during my title match against Hunter next week. Tanya, come in and have seat. Billy and I will explain what's been going on in our lives since we last saw you guys. I can only hope that Adam and Rocky are still big wrestling fans or my idea is down the tube."
"Wrestling fans?" Tanya asked and then smiled an impish grin as she asked, "What does them being fans have to do with anything?"
"Who are their favorite wrestlers, if you know?" Billy asked as he sat down on the large couch in the room.
"Justin, Tommy, Adam, and Rocky are all very big fans of Rex Red and his manager." Tanya said as laughter crept into her voice.
"Whew", Jason sighed in relief as both he sank into the couch across from where Tanya and Billy were sitting. "Problem solved, little bro."
"Affirmative." Billy said relief and happiness in his voice and a smile on his face, as he finally relaxed completely.
"What problem is solved and what's…" Tanya started asking and then stopped in mid sentence when it finally dawned on her what Jason had yelled when they'd walked into the house about 45 minutes earlier. "You two are Wolf McBlue and Rex Red?"
"Guilty as charged, Tanya." Jason said with a small smile. "I'm Rex and Billy's Wolf. Our boss and owner of the WWF, Vince McMahon, has been after me to quit wrestling solo and team up with Billy. We didn't want to do it at first, but we finally decided we would. Next week during my title match against Triple H we're going to publicly lose our masks. We both wanted the fans to be in on this and Vince let us run with the idea. I've been wracking my brain and Billy's for a way to make this work for the last month. I was talking with Vince this morning when I looked down at the birthday calendar I keep for all the Rangers. I saw Adam's birthday listed for next Wednesday and my brain finally fell into gear. I'm going to give you four front row, ringside, tickets for the event at the Coliseum next Friday. I want you to tell Adam that you used some connections from work and got them for him. Two are for Adam and two are for Justin's graduation present."
"You're going to get them to help?" Tanya asked and then smiled brightly. "They'll love it and then they'll kick both of your asses to the Moon and back for not telling them!"
"We know." Jason said with a smile. "Bill and me are planning to sneak them pass for backstage and then we're going to take them out to dinner and bring them back here for the weekend. Here's the best part. We've also managed to get Aisha, Kimberly, Zack, Trini, and Kat coming out to dinner and back here with us. We want to celebrate our 'unmasking' with all our friends."
"Not just that, but if you agree to go along with our deception you'll be able to see their reactions from where you'll be waiting for us to join you for a late dinner together." Billy said with a surprisingly concerned tone of voice. "We've reserved a private room at the newest and most exclusive club in town, the Ranger Space. You and the others will have exclusive closed circuit television of the entire event, should you care to watch, along with anything you wish to eat or drink while waiting for us to join you. You're the only one of our friends and former teammates that is aware of what we do for jobs, Tanya. Both Jason and I trust that you can keep our secret until next Friday evening?"
"Adam will strangle me if he finds out I knew about this beforehand; but I'll do it." Tanya said with a large smile. "I've been trying to think up something for his birthday that would be a great gift and also trying to find something to give Justin for his graduation. Thank you, you've solved my problems too."
"Anytime, Tanya." Jason said seriously as he rose from where he was relaxing. "I promised you a late lunch. Let's get into the kitchen and I'll whip up a quick Thai stir fry."
Tanya gasped in shock as Jason rose from the chair and she followed with Billy close behind her as they went into the large and well-appointed kitchen of Jason's home. "Don't gasp, Tanya." Jason said as they entered the kitchen that was just off the office they'd been in. "I haven't poisoned either Bill or myself in the five years we've lived or the four years we've been working together. Oh, and don't even hint that Bill's anywhere near Earth. All of his e-mails are still being routed through Cestro on Aquitar."
"When did you actually get back, Billy?" Tanya asked with a concerned voice. "We all missed you and would have been there to welcome you home with a party."
"Truthfully, if Jason hadn't contacted me a year after I'd left and professed his need for my assistance, I don't believe that I would have ever come back to Earth, Tanya."
"How did you manage contact him without us knowing about it?" Tanya asked and then her mouth watered in anticipation as she smelt the food Jason was cooking while her and Billy sat at the round wrought iron and glass table in the breakfast nook that was the size of her formal dining room at her own home.
"I went to the Power Chamber, just before Divatox's attack that destroyed the place." Jason said absently as he was dishing up the food. "I got Demitria's permission to use the communications equipment and talked to Bill for about two hours before he agreed to come home. Been together ever since and have been wrestling for Vince for about two years now. We're just to the point that we make enough money so that we can finally quit dipping into the Emergency Fund to survive."
"Emergency Fund?" Tanya asked with a small frown. "What's that?"
"Oh, we'll tell everyone about that next Friday night." Jason said with a dismissive tone of voice even as he shot Billy a glare of warning to change the subject.
"Truthfully," Billy said as he swallowed quickly. "We have just recently settled down to the point that we're able to see anyone. We've spent the last four years living out of suitcases and motel rooms while traveling all over the United States. We're due a break and after our unmasking next Friday, we're going to be cutting back on the number of appearances that we perform so that we can start working on our tag team moves. Professional wrestling is not the fake showing that most believe it to be. The blows from your opponent are real, but just not as violent as they appear on television and to the live audiences. The anger and the bluster at each other are just that and most of the people we work with are nothing like the persona they portray. Jason and I have finally come to the point that we're able to miss a month or two of work and still be able to eat and pay our bills without having to choose between those two necessary items. We never set out to become professional wrestlers. We were working for the World Wrestling Federation in behind the camera positions and we were working on some new attack moves for another of the wrestlers hours before anyone should have been in the building. Jason was showing me the moves and explaining as he acted it out and then he'd have me use it on him while the wrestler we were developing this for watched from an audience member's perspective. There were also one or more of the video directors there watching to see if the move looked as effective for broadcast purposes."
"I'm not going to argue with whatever deity had Vince and Shane in the building six hours before they needed to be that day. " Jason said quietly. "If we hadn't been working on a way to compensate for Steve's neck injury so he could still wrestle, we wouldn't be here today talking with Tanya."
"I too am loath to contradict our good fortune at being gone from the apartment that day." Billy said with a slightly sad tone of voice.
"What happened?" Tanya asked sensing that there was a bigger story behind the one they were telling.
"Suffice to say that while we were occupied by work that the apartment complex we lived in was destroyed an explosion and fire." Billy said with a distracted and sad voice.
"We weren't at home, Bill." Jason said gently as he laid his left hand over Billy's shaking right hand. "We weren't supposed to be at home that day because it wasn't our time. I miss Dani and Toni as much as you do; but apparently it wasn't fated for us to keep them. We'll find someone else, bro. I promise that one day we'll find someone to share out lives with."
Tanya was surprised when tears sprang into the eyes of both men. She ducked her head and then looked back up in a few seconds. "Who are Danny and Tony?" Tanya asked as she looked like she'd never seen Jason or Billy before.
"Dani and Toni had the apartment next door, Tanya." Jason said sadly. "Bill and I had been dating them for about six months, Dani for me and Toni for Bill, and both of us were getting read to ask them to marry us. We'd bought the rings that morning and were taking them out that night and asking them. We never got the chance."
"You were going to marry men? You're GAY!" Tanya asked with a shocked gasp and then watched as both Billy and Jason scowled and then smiled sadly.
"T…O…N…I, Tanya." Billy said with deep sadness in his voice. "Antonia Maria DeMarcos. A female and one I cared for deeply."
"D…A…N…I." Jason said quietly and sadly. "Danielle Carlotta McBride. Also, female and I loved her."
"Oh." Tanya said and then quickly jumped from her chair and hugged first Jason and then Billy. "I'm so sorry, for both of you. Why didn't you call us and tell us?"
"We've lived." Billy said sadly. "Vince and the others were absolutely wonderful in understanding our increasing bouts of anger as well as seemingly endless tears for almost a year."
"We almost turned down Vince's offer to leave the fight manager's positions we held and to start working in front of the cameras instead of behind." Jason said quietly. "He was the reason we weren't home that day. He'd seen us working together in the ring to demonstrate the moves for Steve and the cameras. He and Shane pulled us into an office at the stadium and started talking. They didn't shut up for almost four hours and the only reason they did shut up was because we agreed to consider the offer."
"We bolted from the arena and hurried back to our apartment as fast as we could." Billy's voice was distant and the tears he was holding in could clearly be heard in his tone. "When we actually did arrive in the vicinity of our domicile; we couldn't get there because everything was blocked by emergency vehicles. Dani and Toni were only identifiable by their dental and DNA records."
None of the people at the table moved for few moments when a stranger's voice issued from the doorway to the office. "We take care of our own when they're hurting and both Jason and Bill were one of us because they worked for Vince."
Jason's head snapped up and he forced a bright smile as he said quietly, "Hey Mick. Come on in. There's Thai in the wok on the stove. What's up?"
"Coming to see why the two of you haven't been into the office today?" Mick said with a smile. He helped himself to a large plate of food and got a drink from the fridge as he sat down across from Jason. "Hunter and Hogan both are chomping at the bit waiting to hear the details of how you're, finally, going to lose masks. Besides, Vince called and ordered me to bring you these." Mick slid an envelope across the table to Jason and smiled when Jason opened it to find the not only the four tickets he'd requested, but ten tickets. Jason slid the extra six tickets out of the envelope that bore the WWF logo and passed the rest to Tanya.
"Vince didn't have to send you all the way out here." Billy said taking the envelope from Jason's hand and putting it in front of Tanya. "Mick, this is an old school friend of mine and Jason's, Tanya Park. Tanya, Mick Foley; better known to wrestling fans as Mankind or Cactus Jack."
"My husband is going to shoot me dead." Tanya groaned and then put her hand out to shake hands with Mick Foley. "Pleasure to meet you."
Mick shook her hand and smiled happily. "Always a pleasure to meet a pretty lady."
"Back off Foley!" Jason growled with a teasing note in his voice. "She's taken already and besides the fact that your wife would have you for dinner if you ever cheated on her, her husband holds at least two, if not more, black belts.
"I can look and appreciate all I want." Mick shot back with a bark of laughter. "I just can't partake."
Tanya blushed at Mick's words and looked at her watch. "God!" She exclaimed. "Adam is going to kill me. I was supposed to be off work and at home by now."
"Tell him you got held up with his birthday present, Tanya." Billy said as he reached across the table and tapped the envelope by her plate. "That will keep him from being angry or upset as well as provide him with another conundrum to ponder over what you would be giving him that would make you tardy coming home from your place of employment."
"I'll drive you back to the station, Tanya." Jason said as he started to get up from the table and then he groaned as his back protested. "Ouch."
"I'll provide Tanya with transport back to her workplace, Jason." Billy said as he rose from the chair and gently pushed Jason back down into his. "Mick would you assist Jase into the workout room and call the chiropractor. He'll come out and put that vertebra back into place so Jason will be able to move without pain for the next few days?"
"Go on Bill." Mick said as he quickly swallowed the mouthful of food he was chewing on. "I'll see that he takes care of himself properly. Besides he ain't going anywhere until I finish eating this great Thai. Who cooked you or him?"
"I did." Jason groaned again as he tried to shift in his chair. "Damn it all to hell!" Jason exploded in anger as he slammed his fist into the table. "I'm going to tear Jeff and Matt both new assholes for not listening to me when I said I wasn't ready!"
Billy quickly ushered Tanya from the room as Mick rose from his chair to get Jason up from the table before he shattered it. Jason, almost carried by Mick, left the room by another door while Billy led Tanya to another door that led to the garage. Tanya smiled to see Billy's old Radbug nestled between two every expensive red and blue Lamborghini Diablo automobiles along with another brand new deep blue Hummer that was parked to the right of the Diablo. Billy led her to the blue Diablo and she quickly got into the car.
"Sorry Jason lost his temper like that, Tanya." Billy said as he opened the garage door with a remote button on the dash and started the powerful car up. "Jason's been a bear for about two months now. Jeff Hardy didn't hear Jason say he wasn't ready for the fall and Jason fell badly. He's got a vertebra in his back that needs aligning about every day. The chiropractor said that it would take about another five days before he doesn't have to have it corrected daily anymore. You know how he and Tommy always hid their injuries from us and Jason was not angry with you or Jeff and Matt, but just with himself because he couldn't get up when he wanted to."
"Is it serious?" Tanya asked with a small worried frown and concern showing in her voice.
"No it isn't." Billy sighed in relief. "It could have been much worse, but with all his years of martial arts training combined with his experience as a Ranger, Jason will recover and be just fine in few weeks."
"That's good." Tanya said with a sigh of relief as she relaxed and hummed along with the music playing on the radio. In a few minutes, Tanya was again back the radio station and Billy waited until she'd gotten her car from the mostly deserted parking lot. He pulled away with a wave of his hand once Tanya had unlocked her car and gotten it started.
Tanya drove home with attention only half on the act of driving while the other half of her mind remained pondering over the startling surprises she'd received that day. She pulled into the driveway of the modest suburban Los Angeles home that she and Adam called home to discover that Tommy, Rocky, and Justin were waiting on the porch with her husband and all four men looked very angry about her tardiness in getting home.
"Where the devil have you been, Tanya?" Adam said as he jumped from the porch and opened the driver's door of Tanya's yellow classic Mustang convertible. "I called the station five times and all Anna would tell me was that you went to lunch with an old friend. What old friend and where the HELL have you been?"
"I'm going to strangle that assistant of mine." Tanya said with a sigh. "I went to lunch with a friend that was helping me get your birthday present and Justin's graduation present. Since you're both here now, I'll just give you your combined present and go fix dinner for all of us."
"Don't bother with dinner, Tanya." Rocky said as he moved Adam away from the car so Tanya could get out. "Momma cooked spaghetti and like always she forgot and cooked enough to feed all of us kids. I brought most of it over for you, Adam, and Justin to have. So what did you get for Adam and Justin that could be combined into one present?"
"Justin." Tanya said as Rocky and Adam followed her onto the large porch. "Hi Tommy." Tanya gave Tommy a quick hug and then looked at him and said, "You in town for few days and need a place to crash?"
"I'm back for about three weeks, Tanya." Tommy said with smile. "Thanks for letting me always crash here with you guys. Now what did you get for Adam and Justin that took you all afternoon?"
"Come inside and sit on the couch, all four of you." Tanya ordered and was surprised when they meekly obeyed. She smiled as she saw all four of them almost bouncing with suppressed excitement, especially Justin and Adam. "Okay, I had to cash in a ton of favors for this present and the two of you had better appreciate all the hard work I've gone though by getting the yard and house fixed up." Tanya's voice was teasing until she talked about the yard work and all four men knew she was serious about that. Tanya walked over to the small cupboard that her and Adam kept their digital camera in. She opened the cupboard and took out the camera. She handed the envelope to Adam and said with a bright happy smile, "Two of these belong to Adam and two of them are a graduation present for Justin. You can each pick one person to take with you."
Adam and Justin looked at the envelope lying in Adam's lap and both reached for it at the same time. Tanya started snapping pictures with the camera and by the time they'd discovered exactly what their present was; she was glad she'd thought of getting out the camera.
"Honey?" Adam asked with a small frown of concern in his voice. "I love you to death, you know that right? But how the FUCKING HELL did you manage four ringside seats to the wrestling event of the year at this late date?"
"That is for me to know and for you find out." Tanya said with a small smirk. "I do have it on good authority that Rex Red and his manager, Wolf McBlue, will be getting publicly unmasked. You want me to return them to the friend that was kind enough to help me get than and tell him you said no thank you?"
"Don't you dare!" Justin said with a high-pitched squeak of distress. "I don't care how you got them, but I love you Tanya and thanks!" Justin turned to Tommy and smiled at him impishly. "I supposed I could ask Tommy to go, but he doesn't care about the fake wrestling matches, do you Tommy?"
"Justin." Tommy growled and then started laughing suddenly. "You've got me. Yeah, I like wrestling. I really like watching Rex Red battle. What's the main event going to be for this? I've been out of the loop for a while."
"Well tomorrow's show is supposed to feature a match between Rex and Hulk Hogan. The winner gets to go up against Triple H for the title next Friday and Tanya has just given us ringside tickets to see that match up close and personal!" Adam said. His voice was calm and quiet at first; but it rose steadily and was almost a shout of happiness when he finished.
"Tanya?" Rocky asked quietly as he followed her into the den where she got onto the computer and started downloading all the pictures she'd taken of Justin and Adam opening the envelope. "Where'd you get tickets for this? It's been sold out for almost six months now and even the radio stations have all given away their tickets."
"I got them from a good friend that works for the WWF, Rocky." Tanya said with a small smile as she quickly typed in an e-mail note and attached the recently snapped pictures. "I didn't get them from a scalper or anything like that. They're the real thing and I'm assuming that you're going with Adam while Tommy accompanies Justin?"
"He'd better ask me or I'll never speak to him again." Rocky said with some indignation in his voice. "Whom did you have lunch with then? I stopped by the station and just missed you, according to Anna. She said you left with this really built hunk that drove a brand new black Hummer. We don't know anyone with that kind of money Tanya. Who was it?"
"Rocky," Tanya said with a bit of exasperation. "What did Anna tell you about the person I went to lunch with?"
"She said that you told her to tell Adam that you went to lunch with an old friend that was golden." Rocky replied and then frowned.
"Well that's exactly what I told her to tell Adam." Tanya said with a small smile. "I'm sure you'll figure it out in a few minutes, Rocko."
Tanya walked from the room and smiled as she saw Rocky's face start to change as Anna's words started making sense. "You went to lunch with Jason?" Rocky asked and accused at the same time. He ran from the small office/bedroom and found Tanya in the kitchen dishing up spaghetti calmly.
"You went to lunch with Jason and didn't call any of us?" Rocky accused as his loud voice brought Justin, Tommy, and Adam running into the room in time to hear Jason's name.
"What are you yelling at my wife about, Rocky?" Adam asked as he came in the room smiling.
"She went to lunch with Jason without calling us!" Rocky accused as he flopped into one of the chairs around the table.
"Jase?" Tommy asked as he looked to Tanya for confirmation. "You got those tickets from him?"
"No I didn't." Tanya answered truthfully because Mick Foley had brought the tickets to Jason's house.
"Then you just had lunch with Jason and didn't tell us?" Tommy asked with disbelief in his voice.
"All of you were at work or school when I ate with Jason." Tanya said with some exasperation. "I would have told you about it over dinner."
"All right, we forgive you, Tanya." Adam said smiling as he sat down at the table. "So how's he doing?"
"He looks really good." Tanya replied absently. "He's put on more muscle than he had during his time as the gold ranger. Doing pretty good at whatever he does for a living because the Hummer was his."
"Did he say what type of job he was doing?" Justin asked.
"Nope and I didn't have time to ask cause I had to meet with the person that was getting me your presents." Tanya replied with a smile. "We ate, chatted for just a few minutes, and then he took me back to the station where I met my friend and we went and got the tickets."
The guys changed the topic of dinner discussion to the upcoming event and Tanya sighed in relief when they did. She nodded and followed as much of the conversation as she could before getting up and leaving the room with a happy smile on her face.