Matchmaking Mishaps
What do you do when two people are so blindly in love that neither are fully aware of it so refuse to take action? Take action into your own hands, just like Ryan knows all about… Or in which Carter conforms and Ryan just can't be asked anymore.
CarterXDana/SOAverse/Lightspeed Rescue/ Fluffy, awkwardness and amusement.
Disclaimer: We wish we owned it but all rights belong to Saban, we only own the plot.
[A/N] Ryan is OOC for entertainment purposes. If you don't like the changes, please don't flame. If you don't like it that much than you can not read, we won't take offense with that. :)
CHAPTER THREE
Plan A- Attempt To Capture
Ryan scanned down the list of plans he had in the back of his new notepad (okay, so it was Dana's one... She had loads anyway! What would one missing do? He'd made his own by adding silver dots onto the pink and red swirled design, she couldn't claim it as hers.) He'd made it up to 'Plan P' and now, it was time to start.
He could see two set backs with Plan A; firstly, how could he keep Dana in a storage cupboard? Secondly, how could he get Carter into said storage cupboard with Dana? And Finally, how would he keep them both in there, together, without getting suspicious? Ryan could do it; he was Jaques after all, and Jaques was resilient so therefore Ryan was.
He waited by the storage cupboard and was pleasantly surprised when Dana came along minutes after arriving. She met Ryan's gaze briefly with her own suspicious look and paused next to him.
"What are you doing?"
"Hiding from Angela; blew up a prototype and now she wants my blood." A very convincing lie if he didn't say so himself. "What's up with you face ache?"
She narrowed her azure eyes at him, huffing impatiently, "I can't find my notebook- it had all my exam notes in!" Ryan slid the notebook into his jacket; well she should clearly label any important stuff! How was he supposed to know?! "If I don't find it, I may as well just quit the course!"
"Did you leave it at school?"
"No, I ran all the way there to check! And Kelsey checked the gallery for me." She genuinely looked upset about it; Jesus, it was only like thirty pages of notes!
"Well, what did it look like?"
"It was a hard back A5 notepad, the cover had pink and red on it- my name was on the back."
"Y'know, I think I saw Angela put it in the cleaning supply closet earlier-"
"The cleaning supply closet?" Dana looked at the door before turning back to Ryan, "You're kidding me Ry?"
"Nope, near the top." He pushed her towards it, "You search around and I'll get Carter to check the top shelf."
Dana didn't question the logic, pressing her key card to the pad whilst mumbling on about 'Angela being "the greatest mind of her generation" my ass.'
"Totally, that woman." Dana went in and after the door shut, Ryan looked at the keypad- he had no idea what wires to cut but he had time as Carter was yet to appear... Hmmm that looked pretty enough!
"Ryan?"
"Hey Fire Truck, I was wondering when I'd see you!"
"Whhhyyyy?"
"Relax, Dana wanted you to help her look for something or the other in the supply closet," he gestured.
"Why don't you?"
"Because I have better things to do,"
"What, and I don't?"
"Not if Dana's involved and you freaking know it, " he said with a knowing, accusatory cock of his brow; clearly that wasn't clarifying enough for him. Ryan sighed, leaning in toward the towering giant, "Look, honestly- I can't see the top two shelves. She needs you for your height."
"Why didn't she just ask herself?"
"Do you think I can read my sister?! Females are beyond me as it is but she is a completely different individual! If I couldn't remember Mom being pregnant with her, I'd swear she was an alien. Now; get in the closet with my sister." Ryan forced the door open, and he could see Dana knelt down checking through a cardboard box, "Carter's here to help!" He pushed the man in before Dana could respond, allowing the door to shut again; okay, red wire goes there, green here and... Uh oh... Smoke. He ducked down, out of sight from the porthole with his ear pressed against the door- hmm, quite a familiar position to him.
"What is it you're looking for?" Was that a hint of awkwardness in his tone? Well, the cupboard was small but didn't that mean they'd have to be closer which is kinda what both wanted?! Why did Carter have to be so awkward?!
"Uh my notebook. It's pink with red swirls.. I'm sorry but what are you doing here?"
"Uh R-Ryan s-s-said yo-you wanted..uhm why are you looking here!?" He anxiously tried to divert the subject away from him, thankful for the lack of light allowing his burning face to go unnoticed.
"Because Angela." Dana glanced briefly back over her shoulder up at the giant, "Well, you've come at a good time because I need you."
"Uuuh..w-what..?"
Ryan face palmed and hissed at the fireman "Why are you questioning it!?"
"I can't see the top shelf, could you maybe look?" Ryan rolled his silver flecked pale blue eyes at the new found awkwardness in her tone, "I doubt she'd put it up there but you never know with 'Lightspeed's finest'." She rose to her feet, bumping into his broad chest as she did so- whoops, she forgot the space was incredibly tight. "Sorry." She blushed, "It's kinda... Small in here."
"Right...s-small.." Carter felt his throat become dry at the brush of contact, trying to press himself into the shelf behind him.
Dana moved to exit the cupboard, trying to give Carter ample room to check the shelf. She pressed at the door but it failed to respond. Taking her keycard to the scanner also had no effect so she tapped on the door, "Ry, you still there?" Before turning back to face Carter, who, it seemed from the limited light, was attempting to press himself flat against the shelf, "The doors not working."
"W-what? Um let me try.." he said, edging to the door whilst still pressing himsef back as far into the shelves and wall as he could. Once he reached, he repeated her actions and was faced with the same outcome. "Weird..it was working fine earlier..." he murmered. Dana moved closer to him whilst reaching for the door and he felt himself freeze and edge away again.
"Well, it's broken now and Ryan clearly has run off." She would try him on her morpher as she wasn't entirely sure the other Rangers were on the base, but she suspected that she would be met with 'GO AWAY! CINDERELLA IS MAKING HER BALL GOWN!', so the action would be pointless. "And my book clearly isn't in here which means I am so screwed tomorrow." She leant against the wall, eyes closed in thought while planning out where to search next, "We're gonna be here a while..."
"Hm.." was all he could mutter out with his lips pressed together, clinging on to the shelf behind him as a lifeline. Meanwhile, Ryan snickered into his fist as he threw a handful of torn up wires behind him.
"Actually, I've been meaning to talk to you..." She trailed off slightly as she attempted to muster the courage to ask the question that Angela, her father and the other Ranger's have been pestering with lately, "I was wondering if-" Ryan held back a squeal; This had worked?! "You were okay..." He felt himself deflate, major let down little sis. "You've been acting weird and everyone's really worried."
"Weird? W-what do you m-mean? I'm f-fine."
"Well... You've been kinda- distant with everyone and very, for lack of a better term, out of it. If you're stressed you could always take a leave of absence or I am here to talk to; literally, here right now because there is no way-" she opened her eyes and bore witness to sight of him pinned to the wall, "Are you feeling claustrophobic?" She reached a hand out to his shoulder comfortingly, "it's fine, honest. You just need to distract yourself."
He tensed at the contact before nervously muttering out a "I-I-I'm t-t-totally f-fine, r-r-really.."
"I'm not convinced..." She mumbled under her breath, pulling her hand back as she physically felt his uncomfort; maybe it wasn't him not being okay, maybe she had done something to upset him and that was why he was being so awkward and uptight. "If you say so..." Sadness clear in her tone as that thought spiralled through her mind continuously.
"I'm-it's like-I'm not u-upset or s-stuff..it's uh I've um..been...a bit busy! Y-yeah busy.."
"Busy?" That was a tiny bit of a relief. "Well, if you're not busy tonight, we have a night off right? Well, I was meant to go to see a film with Kelsey and she got the tickets but then-" she waved off the story, "basically, she bailed on me so I have a spare ticket and its the last night... Do you want to go?"
"N-no-nat-bao-sil-wha-we-ni-ho-"
"No?" She didn't even attempt to hide the disappointment in her voice, he had flat out rejected her! "You don't want to go?"
"Na-it's-we-how-wai-"
"I don't understand." Ryan face palmed as his sister sounded at breaking point from both frustration and sadness; Carter Grayson must be the only man to decline an attempt at a date from the one girl he wanted to date. "You don't want to go? I can ask Chad, I guess..."
"He-wel-yo-wai-no-tha-" Dana glared in the direction of the man- this was just irritating her now. If she had annoyed him in anyway, she'd appreciate him telling the truth instead of this stupid babbling.
"Can you reply with words rather than sounds?!" He clamped down on his lip to stop more illegible nonsense from escaping and shook his head carefully. "I can hear your head moving but I can't see it." Ryan forced back all his bubbling anger for he could see himself punching the door or shouting 'Say yes!'. Even as his sister sounded more and more hurt, he wanted to shoot Carter. Dana had thrown him a bone and given him the perfect opportunity to be alone together and he was declining?!
"Look, whatever, I'll just ask Chad." Chad had to be the default guy, it always had to be Chad! This would be a down sight easier if it had been Chad Dana was crushing on then the big, babbling, stubborn giant in the closet with her! If it had been Chad, Ryan was sure they'd probably be married now because, from what he had heard, Chad fell hard and fast when it came to women... Or mermaids if Kelsey hadn't been pulling his leg about Marina.
Speaking of Chad...there he was nearing his crouching position. He hadn't noticed him yet. He should probably keep it that way. Ryan tuck and rolled before jumping onto his feet and making a run for it. 'I would be a totally badass spy.'
Chad was just minding his business, thinking about starfish, when he heard what sounded like muffled voices from the empty hallway. Hold the phone. His head turned to look at the supply closet, sure that there was where the noise was coming from. Then he noticed the access pad was missing several wires and was smoking a little. He took a moment to analyse the wrecked machinery before coming to a solution. He gave the sliding, mechanical door a good, strong, even-footed, mid-mass, well-placed punch.
And it opened. Dana quickly and purposefully walked out, grabbed his arm and said "You're going with me," before dragging him away. Chad was quite confused. Carter slumped against the shelves into a sitting position with his head on his knee's.
"I'm fine I swear, besides the fact I've been trying to distant myself from you because I have this ridiculous crush on you which isn't appropriate. No, I'm not busy, I'd love to go with you but I'm too much of an idiot to be able to string that sentence together to tell you. Awesome job, Carter; awesome job(!)"
[A/N]
GREG: So Ryan's hare-brained schemes are underway! And Plan A is off with a bang. :3
SAM: Yes, I suppose this is, more or less, the official start to the story- basically, the actual content.
GREG: You have to admit, Ryan's planning is down to a tee(!) Dude has thought of everything... Except for Chad coming along.. Damn it Chad!
SAM: *lesigh* And poor Chad doesn't even know what's going on- he was just thinking about starfish.
GREG: Poor, poor Chad... He has no idea what's coming. MWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!
REVIEW REVIEW TIME!
GREG: So, Dash master 48: We're glad that you like it so far and we're really happy that you gave us some suggestions but there is a couple of problems. We kinda have a Wild Force sort of this finished (well, it features a lot of Rangers) and two from Wild Force are reoccurring characters for us. (NO HINTS AS TO WHO!) Sam and I have this tiny dislike to Tommy, like he's great and a legend but we aren't into him enough for a whole story (He's a reoccurring character in our later stories however). The other three options is the main problem with us... Sam would love to do a Mack story but I don't know Mack or Antonio (I actually stopped watching at Wild Force but saw a bit of Ninja Storm) and she doesn't feel passionate about Noah (I watched Megaforce and Super Megaforce so know him xD). So thank you for the five suggestions and if you have any other suggestions of Rangers you'd like a story about then suggest them and we'll take them into consideration; if one catches our eye we will do it. :)
SAM: Okay, my turn- CarterlovesDana: We're glad Ryan's Cinderella thing amused you but he will latch onto that because he maybe twenty something but he is mentally six. The demon kidnapping thing kinda stunted his cognitive development (pulling out my psychology terminology like, so proud of myself).
GREG: I hate when she uses psychological terms... If I started busting out drama terms it'd be the same for her. MONOLOGUE, DUOLOGUE, STANSILAVSKI, BRECHT, FORUMN THEATRE, IMMERSIVE THEATRE!
GREG: So that's it for today...
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SAM: Actually, I do know what most of those things mean but yah, like Greg said, keep up to date with the SOAverse and we'll see ya later! Peace out.
GREG: Bye!
And Remember-
Ryan is OOC for entertainment purposes. If you don't like the changes, please don't flame. If you don't like it that much than you can not read, we won't take offense with that. :)
(To address a review we received that we can't decide if it's a flame or not xD We thought we'd reiterate what we said in the first chapter).
