Tommy, however, had happened to look over to Zack, mainly because he heard a shrill squeal that was common among fan girls. Several teenage girls and several women who probably hadn't gotten the memo that they were no longer teenagers had swarmed Zack, one of them was even getting a little to close to the helmet latches with her wondering hands for any secret identity ranger's comfort, and he had so many on him at once that he couldn't keep them all at bay, "Let's rescue Zack and get out of here before we become the lead on world news tonight... pretty sure we already got on local news." Tommy announced, "We can finish the story in the car."
Chapter seventeen:
"Okay," Zack insisted, as the group of rangers arrived at the zoo's parking lot, "Next time you need a decoy, volunteer yourself."
"Next time don't let Rocky teleport into the ape exhibit," Tommy countered, "We really didn't need a repeat of the lion den incident."
Connor groaned loudly, "Again with the Lion's den mention, what happened?"
"Woah," Aisha exclaimed, "You can't demand to hear one story while we are telling another."
"Okay," Connor said, eagerly, "So the boys were camping and they had the communicators working again and Rocky talks in his sleep, so what happened?"
...Sometime after Of Secrets and Weddings, The Campbell's house...
It was late out and Aisha was exhausted, between Vet school and her job at the animal shelter, her day had been busy. All she wanted to do was drop down onto her bed and fall asleep. But for some strange reason she couldn't, because some one was singing "The Bear Went over the Mountain," through her communicator.
"Rocky knock it off, you can't sing," she growled, slamming the communicator down in her nightstand drawer and slamming it shut without finding out if Rocky heard her or not.
...
Back at the campsite Rocky giggled, "Aisha had her communicator on," he announced.
There was the sound of a drawer slamming shut and then silence on the other end, "correction," Zack announced, "she had her communicator on."
Jason rolled his eyes, stretching a bit as he stood up from the log he was sitting on, "Okay I think we've done enough prank calling for one night, let's hit the hay."
With that he headed over to the tent that he was sharing with Billy, the former blue ranger following close behind, "Make sure that the ambers of the campfire are properly extinguished before you retire." Billy called to the others.
Rocky and Zack both rolled their eyes at Billy, they might be carefree but they were not careless.
Half an hour later the campfire was out cold and everyone was sound asleep.
...The Campbell's house...
The loud, annoying beeping drew Aisha out of a peaceful sleep, causing her to glare at her alarm clock, twelve thirty in the morning, but that meant it hadn't been the alarm clock that was making the noise. She looked at her nightstand in confusion, was it her phone? She quickly grabbed her phone and checked it, just as she had thought it was on "Do Not Disturb mode," so what was making the noise.
By this time her whole nightstand was vibrating, "What is going on?" she groaned out loud as she checked one last place to find the culprit, the drawer.
There, right where she had left it was her communicator, vibrating violently as it beeped. Aisha groaned, unlike Phones Communicators don't have ignore buttons or voicemail, she would have to answer it, or wait for whoever was on the other side to give up and hang up themselves.
"What do you want?" she grumped into the watch like device.
"I Love you, you love me...We're a great big family..." Rocky's voice filtered through the device, oddly slurred and distorted in a way that wasn't the communicator's fault, if Aisha hadn't known that it was impossible for Rocky to get drunk she would have assumed he was.
Aisha was not impressed, "Rocky, GO TO SLEEP!" she growled posing to throw the communicator back in the drawer.
"But I can't fall asleep," Rocky protested, "Need you to cuddle with me..."
...Present day Angel Grove Zoo's Parking Lot...
Connor was doubled over laughing, "He really said that?"
Aisha nodded, leaning against Zack's car's hood, "Yes, I should have realized he was talking in his sleep, this wasn't the first time it happened."
"Why did the communicator vibrate and why were they that loud?" Trent asked, "I thought Power Rangers were light sleepers."
"We weren't always light sleepers, One of us slept through a monster attack right outside his bedroom window," Jason explained, giving Tommy a dirty look.
"Only once!" Tommy protested.
Kim shifted uncomfortably, "Actually, it happened four times, we just didn't tell you about the first three times..."
Trent glanced around, "So what happened next, I mean, Rocky just woke Aisha up in the middle of the night to confess his undying love for her, and she does not like being woke up."
"Well..." Jason said, stroking his chin, "As you may or may not know, since we lost the Power Chamber, we can only teleport to the location of another ranger, but we can still teleport, something that Aisha took full advantage of."
...Sometime after Of Secrets and Weddings, Rangers' campsite...
Aisha landed in the middle of the campsite, great, now where was that obnoxious ape ranger? She silently went to the tent on her left, two figures were asleep in sleeping bags, one blue, the other red. However, a loud snore from the red sleeping bag eliminated the occupant as only Jason snored that loudly.
...Present day Angel Grove Zoo's Parking Lot...
"I don't snore," Jason insisted.
"Yes you do," The older rangers chorus.
...Back to the Campsite...
Aisha carefully unzipped the tent in front of her, this was the one, she knew it. It had to be as the other tent only had Jason and Billy in it.
"Rocky," she growled out, kicking the red sleeping bag as hard as she could, no need figuring out which one was his, Adam was in a green bag and Zack in a black one.
Rocky slowly sat up, a little jerkily, "Ahh!" he screamed, "A Bear!"
Aisha shot Rocky a dirty look, which was all she had time to do before the former ranger tackled her to the ground.
"Rocky!" Aisha snapped, "First you woke me up, and now you're attacking me? What did I ever did to you?"
Adam, who had been woken by the fighting, looked over at Aisha, "I could answer that Question, but I don't want to deal with an angry Yellow ranger, so I won't."
Another sleepy head stuck itself out of the tent, "Is Rocky still asleep?" Zack asked, "Wow, didn't know that a power ranger could be such a heavy sleeper, I mean Tommy was at the beginning but then he found out he was sleeping through missions and that put a stop to that."
Just then Billy and Jason stuck their heads out of their tent, "What's going on?" Jason asked.
"You aren't getting my food, bear," Rocky growled.
"Honestly, Rocky, wake up," Aisha shouted in his face as she threw him off her.
"He's asleep?" Billy asked, impressed, "Perhaps he took a sleeping aide?" he suggested, "Sleep walking and talking are common side affects of such drugs."
"I didn't see him take anything, but who knows what is going on." Zack shouted, "I haven't seen anyone sleep through this much noise since Tommy first joined the team, and he wasn't the one being beat up." he winced as Aisha threw Rocky into the logs they had been sitting on earlier that night.
"Go gentle on him Aisha, he doesn't realize that it's you," Adam insisted.
As if to contradict him, Rocky charged Aisha head first, "I'll teach you to steal my food, bear!"
"Yeah, I'm trying, but maybe we should wake him up?"
It took them another five minutes before Zack, ignoring Jason and Billy's warnings about waking a sleep walker, snuck up behind Rocky and dumped the remains of the water container that they used to put out the fire on him.
Rocky sputtered wiping the water from his face before looking at Aisha, "Aisha good you're here, use your bear zord and scare away the bear before it eats all my food!"
Aisha looked at Rocky in disbelief, "That bear you've been fighting was me!" she exclaimed, "What did you eat last night?"
"Oh," Rocky said with a shrug, "I've become such a light sleeper that I've been taking an over the counter sleep aide to help me stay asleep."
"Rocky, it works a little too well."