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The Guys on Syd
"Geez Syd, put a shirt on," scoffed Sky as he observed his curvaceous, blond teammate enter the Rec Room a low-cut, pink tank top and hip-hugger jeans.
"Why should I take my shirt off just to put it on again?" sauced Syd to Sky, getting in his face much to his displeasure as he continued to try and read the SPD conduct handbook.
"You can leave the shirt off," commented Jack nonchalantly, but with a sly smile gracing his face.
Syd quickly flattened Jack's cocky expression with a couch pillow to his face. "I need to go get ready," continued Syd like she was talking to a bunch of toddlers. "Z and I are going to a club in a bit for a little girls' night out."
"Why wasn't I invited?" complained Jack as he got and began to dance around her. "You know how I like to get jiggy with the ladies!"
"The only ladies you'll be getting jiggy with tonight is in the Command Center while you're on night duty with these pussies right here," teased Syd as she pointed to Sky and Bridge, who glared at her with hate and hurt respectively.
"Whatever," responded the red ranger, turning away slightly and crossing his arms in mock anger.
"Oh, and by the way, Jack," added Syd as she brushed past him slowly, letting her hand trail sensually down his arm. "The one lady you will never be 'getting jiggy' with… is me."
Smiling at her cheekiness, Jack laughed and shook his head as Syd made her way back to the room she shared with Z. Sky, also starring after the departing pink ranger, snorted meanwhile in disgust.
"Why does she continue to act like that?" reprimanded Sky for his longtime teammate's impertinent attitude, which he deemed "unprofessional."
"Because she can," replied Jack, still smiling broadly in the direction Syd had walked off in.
"What do you mean?" asked Bridge, genuinely lost as to Jack's meaning.
"Hello?" inquired Jack, looking at Bridge like he was a bumbling idiot. "Are you telling me you've never noticed?"
"Noticed what?" asked Bridge again, still clueless.
"Syd is a total, regulation, A-grade hottie!" exclaimed Jack. "Well, except that she is on B-Squad."
"Translation?" pleaded Bridge, for once not being the person who needed an interpretation as he turned to Sky.
"Syd is an attractive girl," said Sky without looking up from his novel.
"Nope, never noticed!" said Bridge, shrugging his shoulders.
"Jack likes Syd," continued Sky as he flipped a page in the handbook. "And not in the same way you like your Aunt Sadie, Bridge."
"YOU HAVE A CRUSH ON SYD?" shouted Bridge so loudly that Jack that he was sure Syd and the entire rest of the base heard.
"What the…" began Jack dumbfounded.
"Jack likes Syd, Jack likes Syd," sang Bridge as he danced around his friend. "Jack likes…"
"That's enough, Bridge!" ordered Jack in his best "I'm Red Ranger" tone. "And I did not say I had romantic feelings for Syd. But I mean, come on, Sky. You've known Syd forever. You've had to have noticed that underneath our dreary uniforms, our dear, pink princess has got quite a hot body."
"I'm here to work with the SPD staff to defeat Grumm," declared Sky as he sighed at Jack's immaturity. "Not to look at my teammates' 'hot bodies."
"Touché," grinned Bridge at Sky's retort as Jack's scowl grew deeper.
"But if pursuing Syd is what you as red ranger want to do in your free time," continued Sky in his lecture. "Instead of helping to train cadets or filing criminal reports or reading the SPD Rules & Regulations handbook, then I can't stop you."
"But you did not deny that Syd is hot!" pointed out Jack. "Jealous some, Sky?"
"Syd is attractive," responded Sky like he was analyzing a lab specimen. "But I'm a professional, and I'm not interested in asking teammates out like you are."
"I am not interested in asking Syd out!" protested Jack again to his friends. "I was just commenting on the fact that everyone knows she is a gorgeous girl."
"But," began Sky, now his turn to have a sly smile spread across his face. "You haven't denied that you wouldn't turn her down if you two had the chance to hook up. NOW, I get what you're after Jack. Come on, try to deny it."
"I…what…you…" stuttered Jack as Sky's candor.
"Ha!" laughed Sky victoriously. "You want to get with Syd!"
"I'm not trying to get with her!" said Jack, trying to defend himself. "Not that I wouldn't want to get with her, but I am not going to get with her or going to get any from her or get…"
Jack found his rambling cut off by Sky and Bridge double over, practically on the floor, in hoots of laughter. Throwing his hands up in the air, Jack groaned. He'd been caught red-handed.
A/N: I always wanted to do a short, chapter story the nature of any romantic connection witnessed amongst the rangers of SPD. This story is based upon evidence I felt was in the actual series footage itself, and not upon influenced by who I personally like best together as couples.
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