Disclaimer: Just to keep it simple: A. I don't own Power Rangers. B. I just make fun of them; so don't get upset if I mock your favorite. C. Please review. I don't mind constructive criticism. D. Thanks to Writer's Guide to the Universe and Power Rangers Central for providing a lot of the information that I need.

If you haven't done so, please read the first hundred and fifty stories in "When Rangers Meet," "More of When Rangers Meet," and "Headquarters Where Rangers Meet"

This is story number seventeen. It was requested by M.L. Shards

Justin and Rose

By

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

"Ah," said Justin as he adjusted the aluminum foil. "This should do it. My time travel-invisibility-mind reading machine will soon be ready." He taped on the cardboard buttons. "I will be known as the smartest Ranger ever! I will prove that I am way smarter than that Billy or Kendrix, or um…Journey? Trek? Whatever." He rubbed his head. "I will find out why my head is always hurting." He had already forgotten the beaning he had taken a few days ago for being an 'annoying little slug' from Kim, Kat, Aisha, Tanya, Trini, Delphine, Cassie, Ashley, Kendrix, Karone, Maya, Dana, Kelsey, Jen, Katie, Taylor, Alyssa, Tori, Kira, Vida, and Madison when he had invaded their 'Female Ranger Reunion' and started hitting on all of them.

"Excuse me," said a younger student as she began setting up her own science fair experiment next to Justin's. "Do you have a soldering iron? I think this wire is a bit loose." Rose sighed. She was so tired of winning all of the science fairs in the area. But, it wasn't as if there were anything else to do. It wasn't as if someone was going to need her to go save the world. Nope, her brain would just stay in this school wasting away.

"Sure, here." Justin handed her an object. Then he went back to work.

Rose looked confusedly at the plastic Lego he had handed her. "What is this?"

"My soldering iron."

"It's a large green Lego." Rose looked over at Justin's 'invention.' "And you've got an upside-down laundry basket with cardboard buttons on it. Wait, did I accidentally join the pre-school science fair?" She looked around anxiously and sighed in relief at the sight of several explosions at the other side of the room.

"It is so a soldering iron," refuted Justin. "Tommy said so. And Tommy is always right. Not like that dumb old TJ who told me this was the soldering iron." He held out a rubber ball.

"And I suppose that's the wire cutter?" asked Rose.

"Nope, that's the hammer." Justin began to bang on the stickers he had attached to the laundry basket.

Rose stared at Justin, "This has to be a joke. Either that or you're an escaped patient from the psych ward."

"Oh!" cried Justin as he flung the ball aside, knocking over several beakers and causing a very burly contestant to glower at him. "Don't you think I know that? But I'm not allowed to handle any more tools."

"Says who?" asked Rose as she adjusted some screws on her android. She was so proud of her invention. It was intelligent enough to walk, dance, and shake hands. Some day she would patent her invention, but no rush. After all, it wasn't as if anyone could create an android more lifelike than hers.

"Says my dad, and Tommy, and TJ, and Andros, and Cassie, and Carlos, and Kat, and..."

Rose tuned him out for several minutes as she pasted the Brad Pitt mask to her android's face. She smiled as she suddenly began to dream of going out with her android. But then inwardly scolded herself. There was no way she would ever go out with a mechanical man. Not even if he ended up being one of those infamous Power Rangers.

"...and Ms. Appleby...oh, and the judge."

Rose closed her eyes. "Okay, I'm afraid to ask, but why would they not let you use tools?"

Justin suddenly found the floor to be very interesting. "Oh, uh, no reason. They just didn't like the adjustments I had made to Terra Venture before it took off." He had raided Bulk and Skull's old garage and drank some of their leftover 'Ant Be Gone'. Then he snuck onto Terra Venture and used his super strength to knock down all the boring buildings and put in more soccer fields, candy stores, toy stores, and carnivals. It had taken them another year to repair the damage he had done. But was it his fault that they were too stupid to put in extra security guards?

"Terra Venture...that's that city that went into space, flew around for a year, and landed on a planet that they could've reached through a wormhole on the moon, right?"

"Yep, that's it. And they also didn't like that I had souped up the Megaship2 that time...and the Megaship3 as well. I mean, come on, you've got a spaceship and you don't want to go hot-rodding in space with it? Lame!" Justin decided not to mention that both Eltar and Triforia were on frosty terms with Earth for its act of violence in crashing the large ships into their largest cities.

"Megaship…yeah, okay." Rose began to gather her stuff. "I think I'll go set up over there," she pointed to an already overcrowded part of the room. "I…uh…need more room." There was no way she was going to let this idiot's stupidity rub off on her.

"I'm not stupid!" exclaimed Justin. "I was the genius on the Turbo team after all. But never mind, I'll still win. Now, where'd I put that silly putty?"

"Turbo what?" Rose paused, her brow furrowed in thought. "Is that some kind of racing team?"

"No…Rangers…as in Turbo Rangers." Justin was so glad that he had won that lawsuit against Zordon and gained the right to let others know about his powers.

Rose stared at him. "The what?" she asked.

Justin sighed. "I was the Blue Turbo Ranger." He looked at the young woman's uncomprehending face. "You know…Power Rangers….we fought in Zords and defeated aliens."

Rose's face brightened as she began to put everything back on the table.. "Oh yeah, I heard of them. Morphin Rangers, Zeo Rangers, Space Rangers, Lost Galaxy Rangers, Light Speed Rescue Rangers, Time Force Rangers, Wild Force Rangers, Ninja Storm Rangers, Dino Thunder Rangers, Mystic Force Rangers. There were even reports two years ago about something called SPD Rangers showing up from the future."

"And Turbo Rangers. You forgot Turbo Rangers."

Rose began to recalibrate her android. "No such things." She paused and then turned to Justin with a furious look on her face. "You're making this stuff up to score with me, aren't you? You men are all alike. Pretend you're a genius and then next thing I know we're whispering sweet nothings like the periodic chart and Einstein's theory of relativity to each other." She slapped him hard.

"OW!" cried Justin. "Are you crazy? The Turbos were so real. We fought Divatox."

"Diva…oh, isn't she the one who hosts that kiddie pirate show on television?"

"Yeah, well, you try to get a job with no skills other than looting and destroying planets," commented Justin. From what he had heard, the villains turned humans were having a very hard time fitting in. According to Tommy, Zedd had decided to become an exotic dancer after Rita left him to live in some kind of ice castle.

"Turbo...Turbo...it's beginning to become a bit more familiar to me..."

"Tommy was our leader. Then TJ was. Thank God for that, at least he didn't keep yakking on and on about car safety and stupid stuff like that. I mean just because I rammed my Zord into that bike shop that time...Big Burpa could have been in there buying another bike." It had taken Justin almost a year to keep from screaming like a girl and running every time he passed by a ten-speed.

Rose's face brightened. "Now I remember! I guess I must've forgotten about it...but why?" She paused in her 'adjustments' to her android's all too realistic anatomically correct parts to think.

Justin grabbed a plastic egg and opened it. Then he began smearing silly putty on the top of his 'invention.' "There, that should keep alien waves from interfering with this. Yeah, Adam and Carlos were the Green Rangers, Tanya and Ashley were the Yellow Rangers, and Kat and Cassie were..."

"The Pink Rangers!" enthused Rose. "They were my favorites when I was a little girl. It's just a shame they weren't complete geniuses." Her forehead wrinkled. "In fact, from what I recall their so-called 'genius' was some strange kid with a sissy haircut."

"Hey!" cried Justin a bit miffed. "That was not a sissy haircut. It was cool and all the babes liked it!"

"You!" retorted Rose. "You were the reason I blocked them out of my mind! How dare you even pretend to be a genius!"

"Pretend?" asked Justin as he stuck clothespins all over the edges of the laundry basket. Now it would be able to shoot quills at any demon that dared approach it. "What, do you think you could do a better job?"

"Definitely. At least I'm not using stupid items to invent...whatever. At least I'm sane." She finished buffing her invention and then gave it a kiss on the lips of its Brad Pitt mask.

"Get out much, lately?" grinned Justin.

Rose blanched. "Why you..." But at that point the judges showed up. She smiled as she flicked a few switches on her android. It picked Justin up.

"Hey! What are... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" He yelled as he was thrown across the room, knocking over several tables in the process. "Oh," he moaned as he looked up...into the faces of several very burly scientist. "Since when do science nerds take steroids? OW, OW, OWWWWWWWW!!"
Rose smiled wickedly for once in her life as they continued beating on the guy who had been an embarrassment to real geniuses everywhere. "Well, I may as well get rid of this stupid thing as well," she said as she grabbed the aluminum foil on the laundry basket and pulled at it.

"Whoosh!" Rose suddenly found herself on some kind of deserted island. "Where am...AHHHHHHHHHHH!!" She screamed as several pirates appeared with a treasure chest in their hands. "Pirates! I hate pirates!" She ran around in circles until the Disney security guard caught her and threw her off the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

AN- Uh…nothing actually. I just felt like writing an Author's note. Thanks for reading.