Disclaimer: Okay so there was this one time at band camp…oh wait that's a story for another day. For today I just wanted to let everyone know that I own nothing but the insanity! And even that can be sold to the highest bidder!
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The Rangers re-converged on the base after their wearing excursion.
"Man I think that was more exhausting than fighting Gruumm's hordes." Syd complained as she threw herself onto her bed. "And in heels none the less."
"Yeah I forgot just how energetic kids could be when faced with the prospect of free candy." Z followed her roommates cue and collapsed on her own bed.
Quiet moments passed between the two until Z finally spoke up.
"Hey Syd, I'm really sorry about earlier today. I was out of line." The Pink Ranger pushed herself up on her elbows to look at her friend.
"I understand that you want to look out for Jack, but that wasn't all of it was it?'
"No," Z shook her head. "Jack just said something's that shouldn't have set me off but for some reason they did…"
"What did he say?"
"Oh just some stuff about Bridge and me, it wasn't really that so much as my own insecurities."
"You're insecure?" Syd scoffed. "Could have fooled me." The girls laughed. "Seriously though why would Bridge make you insecure?"
"I don't know," Z admitted. "It has something to do with my dating history, lets just say I'm not the best at finding guys who aren't pieces of dirt."
"Well Bridge isn't like that, and he's been madly in love with you since the day we brought you in."
"He has?" Z sat straight up in her bed.
"Uh…yeah!" Syd raised her perfectly shaped eyebrows at her roommate. "Are you telling me you never noticed? The way he looks at you all the time? The way he watches you read?"
"I dunno. I thought maybe that was just Bridge being Bridge."
"Nope. He's got a grade A 100 full blown crush on you." Syd let the information sink in before continuing.
"And just so you know Bridgey is like my brother so all of that stuff you said about me and Jack?"
"Yeah?"
"Well you can pretty much put it on repeat for you."
"Done and done. Except no ones ever wanted to put me on a magazine cover."
"Well then I'll just have to destroy your precious music collection using my fists of steel!" Syd waved her fist in a mock threat that made the two girls go into another set of giggle fits.
"So did Bridge ask you to the party?" Syd asked after they had calmed down a bit.
"Yeah." She blushed slightly
"And you said…?"
"To meet me in the common room at 7." The blush turned into a full on grin.
"Well it's 6:30 right now so we better get you dressed!" Syd jumped up from her bed and ran to her closet.
"But Syd I'm already dressed!" Z whined.
"Not good enough!" The Pink Ranger reached into the closet and pulled out a French Maid costume. "Here put this on instead!"
"Syd I don't even want to know why you have that lying around."
"Yeah your probably right."
"Eeewwww!"
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"Hey Sky!" Bridge ran to keep up with the taller man. "Sky wait up!"
The Blue Ranger pretended not to hear his roommate and continued on his steady pace towards their room.
"SKY!" Bridge yelled, and with a burst of speed finally caught up with his friend.
"Sky…I want…to say…that …I'm sorry…" The Green Ranger apologized between gulping breaths for air.
"For what?" Sky asked off handedly.
"I shouldn't have said what I did about you being jealous. It wasn't very nice of me and well I'm sorry." Bridge had taken off the sunglasses and now looked at him with pleading eyes. Sky looked down upon the shorter boy taking in his ridiculous costume, and pathetic puppy dog look and realized the same thing he always did at times like this - There was just no way to stay mad at Bridge, that was like saying you liked to drown kittens in your spare time. So swallowing his pride (and nearly choking on it) Sky returned his apology.
"I'm sorry too." He said through gritted teeth. "I shouldn't have told you that it was wrong to ask out Z. I know how much you like her and your right maybe I am a bit jealous that I don't have anyone to ask."
And then playing the part of the concerned friend, "So did you ask her?"
"Yeah."
"And she said?" His eyebrow raised in an arch above his blue eye.
"To meet her in the common room at 7." Bridges entire being glowed with joy and anticipation.
"Well it's 6:30 right now. Are you going to change or anything?" he asked again eyeing his roommate's attire.
"Why would I want to change?" Bridge was actually quite proud of his costume. It had taken him weeks to find just the right mullet wig to complete the look.
"Bridge the mullet died a terrible death back in the 1980's, it should have stayed that way."
"That's why it makes such a great costume!" he grinned. Sky shook his head despondently
"Well at least let me re-draw the tattoo on your arm, it looks absurd."
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Jack detoured to the command center his morpher in hand.
As much as he tried to convince Syd that nothing was wrong he still couldn't shake the feeling that something was indeed VERY wrong. Kats tech had never failed before so why would it start now? Entering the double doors Jack walked into an unfamiliar scene. The command center was empty. The command center was never empty, ever. The deep sense of foreboding got worse. They're probably all out getting ready for the party…right? I mean why should I worry. I'm sure even DC has to leave the command center sometimes…right? Jack was woken from his internal reassuring when he heard a noise coming from behind the central desk. Looking over the large round computer terminal Jack found wires, tools and a pair of legs. Gingerly he reached down and gave the pants an experimental tug.
"AHHHHHHHH!" the owner of legs screamed, causing Jack to go tumbling over backwards letting out a shrill scream of his own.
"Who's there?" he demanded.
"Jack?" a hesitant voice asked.
"Yes."
"You scream like a girl."
"Who is that?"
"It's Boom." And after a few minutes of squirming out and untangling himself from the wires he jumped up from behind the desk and revealed that it was in fact…him.
"Good God man! Way to send me into cardiac arrest! What are you trying to do kill me?"
"No…why would I want to do that?"
"I don't know."
"Yeah me either I mean why would I want to kill you? Or any of you for that matter?"
Jack gave Boom a once over look but shrugged his shoulders and let it go, Boom was always like this when around anyone who out ranked him, and since he flunked out his first day in the academy that put, anyone who out ranked him, to pretty much everybody.
"Right, anyway have you seen Cruger? Or even better Kat?"
"No. Why would I know where they are? It's not like it's my business to know right? It wasn't my day to watch them." Everyone's favorite gadget tester seemed to be unusually on edge.
"I guess not, but hey maybe you can help me. Earlier today I tried morphing and my morpher isn't working."
"It's not?"
"Uh…no. In fact neither is Syd's and I'm wondering if any of ours are."
"Oh you know what?" Boom said hurriedly "I forgot to tell you that we were putting an upgrade into the system and that your morphers would be down for a few hours."
"A few hours? That's an awfully long time."
"Yeah I know, couldn't be helped, and actually Kat asked me to get all of your morphers to complete the final phase of the upgrade."
"I thought you said you hadn't seen Kat."
"Well…uh your right…I haven't seen her, recently. She asked me this earlier today, but I had to wait for you guys to get back, so now uh …your back! So I guess I'll be down in a bit to get your morphers okay?"
"Okay…" Jack eyed Boom apprehensively there was something…off about him tonight, but then again Boom was always a bit off. "I'll just tell everyone to leave them in their rooms okay? Well here I guess you can take mine right now." Jack handed over his morpher to Boom and couldn't help but feel like he was loosing a bit of himself in the process.
"Thanks. Hey I'll get these back to you before morning okay?"
"Alright," Jack gave Boom another once over but still couldn't seem to put his finger on exactly what he thought was wrong. "See you later." He waved over his shoulder and jogged out of the command center down towards the common room. He had a party to go to and a hot date to go with. Soon thoughts of Sydney in leather mini skirts were burning away any feelings of unease.
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Well at least everyone has made up right? Because they always say you should never go to bed angry. Not that anyone was actually on their way to bed…but you know what I mean right? Coming up next…PARTY!
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Real quick before I go - I was checking something out on the PRSPD DVD and something I had never really paid attention to before is that Cruger is spelled with a C! Why didn't anyone correct me! (not that I haven't seen that a lot of you spelled it with a K as well) But you people let me go around spelling it KRUGER and that was wrong! Oh and Grumm is actually spelled with 2 u's! (Gruumm) Damn! Now thanks to my anal retentive behavior I have to go back through all of my stories and fix the whole C K thing(and add extra u's) ! You people suck!
Ha…
Just kidding…
About the whole you suck thing …
You still love me right?