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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 thirty.

Kat and Chad

By

Eileen (Psycho Tangerine)

     Kat casually placed her long blonde hair in a ponytail.  She then straightened her bathing suit.  With confidence, she climbed the ladder and stepped to the edge of the diving board.  She jumped and did five somersaults and four twists before landing in the pool.   Kat came up with a satisfied smirk.   Let that silly old Kim have her dumb Pan Global gold medal.  Having the agility of a cat was really going to help her win the Olympic gold.  She briefly wondered if Rita ever got the 'Thank You' card she had sent her.

     "Hey!" called Chad from across the pool.  "Get out of there!  You're scaring the dolphins!"  He tossed a fish to one of them.  "And you're not allowed to be here after closing anyway!" 

     "Oh, I uh..." Kat sputtered, not wanting to explain that she had been bounced out of every diving pool within a fifty-mile radius thanks to her tendency to hack up hairballs while in them.  "I didn't realize this was a fish pool?" she asked tentatively.  "Yeah, I thought this was just a regular pool."

     Chad narrowed his eyes.  Then he dove under the water.

     "I guess he bought... glugguggugggugg!"  Kat felt herself being yanked under by the ankle.  "Are you daft?" she gasped as he came up again.

     "No one...absolutely no one... calls my sweeties fish!" stated Chad.  "They are mammals!  Mammals!!"

      "Well, sorry," grumbled Kat as she headed for the ladder.  "I'll be more careful next... wait," she turned back around to face Chad.  "'Sweeties?' I think someone has been working here a bit too long."

      Chad remained silent as Kat headed back up the ladder.   All the other Light Speed Rangers had gone on to worthwhile careers.  Carter was decorated fire chief.  Well, at least he had decorated a cutout badge with glitter and pasted it to his coat.  Dana was a pediatrician who had innovated a new cure for the Cooties and was currently trying to get the medical community to recognize it.  Joel flew rescue helicopters...high priced ones.  Only last week he had airlifted a senator out of a crack house just before a police raid.   Kelsey climbed buildings to rescue kites, toy airplanes, and the occasional suicidal office worker.  And Ryan, having decided that he missed living under ground, was now digging tunnels for disabled moles, gophers, and rabbits.

      But Chad was nothing more than a dolphin trainer at this poor imitation of Sea World.  He could've gotten more important work deep sea diving and looking for lost treasure or working for the Coast Guard.  But the thought of being anywhere his ex-wife could pop up and demand child support for their mer-babies kept him where he was.  Besides, Marina was the one who had decided to run off with that scrawny little guy just because he claimed to have shark power. 

     "Watch this!" called Kat, effectively pulling Chad out of his reverie.

     "No!" cried Chad.  "You'll scare Pookie!"

     "Don't be so silly," retorted Kat.  "I'm going to do a quintuple back flip and then form my name with my body in this dive!"

      "Don't!" cried Chad desperately.  "Pookie doesn't like being frightened!  I don't know how she'll react!"

     "So, just toss your dolphin a fish and she'll be happy!"  With that, Kat jumped off the board.  She did one, two, thr...YEEEAAAAAHHHHH!" Kat screamed as she discontinued her back flips and veered to the left to avoid the open maw of the killer whale beneath her. 

     "Oh, so that's how she reacts to being scared," commented Chad non-nonchalantly.

     "What...what the hell is that monstrosity doing in here?" spluttered Kat indignantly.

      Chad rolled his eyes.  "This is an aquarium, you idiot.  This is where she lives."  He patted the whale's side.  "And you'd better apologize to Pookie for calling her a monstrosity" 

      Kat narrowed her eyes.  At this rate, she'd never get enough practice and become a top Olympic diver.  She'd never get Tommy back from the man-stealing Pink hussy.   Kat deeply regretted ever picking Cassie to be her replacement.  "I've got a better idea," she said sweetly.

      "Oh?" asked Chad.  "What is it?"

      Kat concentrated... and turned into her white cat persona.  "Hisssss...rrreeeowrrr!" yowled the cat at the whale and dolphins.  PC went after them claws unsheathed.

      "Pookie!   Cuddles!   Sweetums!" shouted Chad at his retreating friends.  He turned back to Kat as she was transforming back to her human form.  "Now look what you did!" he snapped, not thinking it a bit odd that she had just turned into a cat.  "Do you know how difficult it is to find a pet therapist who deals with sea creatures?"

      "Whatever," replied Kat as she headed back to the diving board.   "Now watch th...Yeeeeaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!" she shrieked as Cuddles and Sweetums jumped into the air and pushed off the diving board... and into Pookie's mouth.

     "I told you to apologize," commented Chad. 

     "Get me out of here!" cried Kat's muffled voice from inside the whale.  "It smells like fish!"

     "Hmmm... maybe I could convince her to spit you out," considered Chad.  "Not sure how though..."

     Kat suddenly remembered where she had seen this guy before.  "Oh, look!" she cried.  "There's an unconscious mermaid in here as well."

      "What?!  Marina?!  No!  I'm so sorry I stayed away!"  Chad dove into Pookie's mouth.  "What the... hey!  It's just a swordfish!"

      "Swordfish, mermaid...I can't tell the difference...you're the expert," cooed Kat.

      "That's it!" cried Chad.  A flash of Blue could be seen coming out of the whale's spout.  A second later a flash of Pink could also be coming out of her spout.

     Pookie slept peacefully as the two Rangers battled within her belly.   But eventually, she finally became nauseous and puked them up...in front of a full stadium of gaping people.

AN:  Yep, I think this is my grossest one so far.  Sorry about that.