RPM 3- “Thinking of You”

We walked into the room where the auditions were being held.

“Can anyone audition?” I asked.

“Hey Mandy.” Flynn said walking over and kissing me, “I’m not sure I

want my girlfriend to be a Ranger.”

“I’d make a great Ranger.”

“You would. But I’d always be more concerned about you than the battle.”

I smiled, “You’re sweet.”

“So when do audition start?” Mikki asked.

“Soon I hope.” Scott said.

“Let’s find out.” Flynn said, “Ziggy!”

A guy came out from backstage, “Yeah?”

“Where are we starting?”

“Few minutes.”

“Ziggy?!” Myli cried.

“Miles?” Ziggy asked.

“You’re alive…you…you rat!” Myli cried as she lunged for him.

I grabbed her, “Whoa…you know him?”

“Wait a second…is this THE Ziggy?” Mikki asked.

“Yes, that’s the rat.” Myli said.

“You’re THAT Ziggy…you…you…” I let go of Myli and started to throw my

hands up to zap him. Flynn grabbed my wrists.

“Care to explain what’s going on?” he asked.

“Ziggy was my boyfriend before he left town.” Myli said.

“We weren’t actually dating…technically.” Ziggy squeaked.

“What would you call it?”

“Um…um…”

“We were dating…and then he just took off.”

“And the whole time they were dating Myli kept him a secret from us. We never knew about him until after he left and the people he owed started harassing Myli.” I added.

“He’s nothing but a con-artist and he could have gotten my sister killed.” Mikki said.

“I’m sorry…” Ziggy started.

“You will be.” Myli said as she threw her hands up to zap him.

“Hey now…let’s just calm down. You girls should go and calm down. We’ll all sit down and discuss this later.” Flynn said.

“Fine…but this isn’t over.” Myli said.

“No, it isn’t.” I echoed as we left.

Myli

~~~~

I was walking around the city thinking when I saw Ziggy speeding along on a golf cart thing.

“Ziggy…” I said.

“Miles…sorry, want to talk…can’t stop…gotta run.” He said.

I stood in front of his cart, “No, talk.”

“Talk later, run now.”

I saw this chick after him, “Guess I’m not the only girl you pissed off.”

“Not girl, Venjix android.”

“Oh crap!” I cried as I hopped on the cart and we rode off.

We hid among some clothes lines where we decided to take a rest. Ziggy called in to the Ranger base then I looked at him.

“What the hell?” I asked.

“Venjix is trying to get the Ranger Green Morpher.”

“Just what we need. Since we’re alone you can explain.”

“Explain?”

“Why you took off on me and left me to fend off your mess.”

“Did they really come after you?”

“Yeah, everyone you owed. They all thought I knew how to find you.”

“I’m so sorry Miles. I never meant for you to get dragged into this.”

“Maybe not, but it happened. And even barring that…you broke my heart.”

“I did?”

“Ziggy…I loved you.”

He looked down, “I didn’t realize you felt that way. We had fun and all but…”

“You didn’t love me?”

“I didn’t say that.” He sighed, “It’s complicated. I guess I did love you but I didn’t want to drag you into the mess I was in.”

“Mission failed.”

“Obviously. I never wanted that to happen to you.”

“I was so angry when you left.” I said as we heard someone whistling

‘Farmer and the Dell’.

“That’s her…I’m not afraid of you Tenaya 7.” Ziggy said.

“Oh yeah? Well you should be.” Tenaya said as she grabbed Ziggy.

“Oh hell no, no one touches this weasel but me.” I said as I kicked her.

Ziggy threw some clothes over her head to trap her while we ran.

“OK, we gotta buy some time…hmm…buy some time…I got it.” Ziggy said as he grabbed my hand and we ran.

We ended up at the race track.

“Ziggy no…not this again. This is what got us in trouble.” I sighed as we approached Fresno Bob, the leader of one of the town’s cartels.

“Fresno Bob, did you miss me?” Ziggy asked.

“Ziggy! I must say, you never fail to surprise me. And Miss Myli, you’re still with this guy?” Fresno Bob asked.

“No. No, no, no. Just got dragged along. I’m not ‘with’ this weasel anymore.” I said.

“I knew you were a smart girl.”

“You said bring what I owe.” Ziggy said as he held up the bag he was carrying.

“What you owe? What you owe doesn’t fit in any bag. You know that.” Fresno Bob said taking the bag as Tenaya ran up and attacked the cartel goons. While Tenaya fought them Ziggy and I made a get away.

“Don’t tell me the morpher was in the bag.” I said.

“Of course not, it’s right here.” Ziggy said as he pulled it out of his pocket.

“Good, now run.” I said.

We were still running when Dillion pulled up in his car.

“Oh sweet, now there’s a real hero.” I smiled. OK so I had a crush on Dillion.

“Get in!” Dillion called.

“Gladly.” I said as Ziggy and I got in the car.

“Careful, she doesn’t give up.” Ziggy said as we heard the whistling again, “Yeah, yeah…she does that, it’s like her calling card or something.”

“Cute.” Dillion replied, deadpan, as he started to drive.

Tenaya jumped on the hood of the car. Dillion slammed on the brakes to get her off but she just ran over to the car and reached through the open window, pulling Ziggy out. Dillon and I got out of the car and went after her.

“Stay back!” Dillion told me.

“Not likely.” I said.

“Check on Ziggy.”

I sighed, “Fine.”

Dillion Morphed and I went to Ziggy’s side.

“Are you ok?” I asked as I knelt next to him.

“Ugh…I think so.” He said. He was having a hard time getting up.

I was trying to help him when Tenaya walked over and grabbed the Morpher out of his hand.

“Now I will bond with your Series Green and destroy the Power Rangers from within. I will become the final stage of techno awareness.” Tenaya said.

“You talk to much.” Ziggy said as he stood up and grabbed the Morpher back. He and Tenaya were struggling for it…and that’s when it happened…

Ziggy activated the Morpher and became the operator of Series Green. Yes. I know. I lost hope at that point too.

“I’m a Power Ranger!” Ziggy cried.

“Oh dear god. What have you done now you weasel?!” I cried.

Ziggy got Tenaya to retreat, but not before warning about a gopher bot.

“Ok, we need to check that out. Myli, can you get yourself home?” Dillion asked.

“Yeah, yeah…but Ziggy…this conversation is NOT over yet. I want some answers.” I said.

“Um, ok, sure.” Ziggy said.

“I don’t even wanna know. Ziggy, come on.”

They took off and I went home. I walked in and saw Mandy on the sofa reading.

“Well there you are. I wondered where you went off to.” She said.

“Ran into weasel boy and had another exciting adventure.” I mumbled.

“Ziggy? My God…what did he get you into now Myli?”

“Evidently Doctor K trusted him with the Ranger Green Morpher which was mistake number one…well he got attacked and it keep the Morpher from Venjix he had to activate it.”

“Oh no…that means…”

“Yes, Ziggy is Ranger Green.”

Mandy closed her eyes and sighed, “Oh god no. Why him?”

“I know.”

“Where is the weasel now?”

“Probably with the others fighting some robo-gopher or something.”

“Flynn is in battle with that weasel? Oh my god. If anything happens to Flynn because of Ziggy I’m gonna kill him.”

“Get in line. Fresno Bob still wants his head on a platter.”

“Fresno Bob? And you know this how?”

“Um, we kind saw him.”

“He took you back around the cartel? I’m going to kill that weasel. You hear me Mandy? He’s going to be weasel stew!”

“Oh relax. Nothing happened.”

“Not this time…but I want you to stay away from Ziggy. I mean it Myli…stay away from him.”

I nodded, “Believe me, I want nothing to do with the weasel.”

And when I said that I meant it…however that didn’t stop me from sneaking out later that night to go see Ziggy. He was sitting outside the garage.

“Hey.” I said.

“Miles, hey.” He said.

“What’s wrong?”

“The team isn’t too happy about me joining.”

“Did you expect them to be?”

“I guess not.”

“Ziggy, you do these things without thinking.”

“Yeah, I know…like hurting you…you know I didn’t mean to hurt you Miles.”

“Maybe not, but you did. Why did you take off?”

“I had to.”

“Why? Was that truck really more important than me?”

“You don’t know everything.”

“So tell me!”

“I can’t! I don’t want you involved anymore than you already are. The less you know about it the better.”

“What was on that truck anyway?”

“It’s better you don’t know.”

“Right, I forgot…you’re the king of secrets.”

“Myli…”

“Don’t ‘Myli’ me! Ziggy, I loved you so much! I was absolutely in love with you and you just left!”

“I didn’t mean for any of that to happen! I loved you too!”

“Then how could you leave without even telling me?!”

“There was no time!”

“I deserved more Ziggy! I deserved a goodbye, an explaination, something!”

“You’re right, you did, but I can’t go back and change it! You obviously aren’t going to forgive me so can we please just try to move on?!”

“Move on?”

“Myli, you’ll find someone way better than me. Someone that actually deserves you. And in the mean time, I really would like it if we could be friends.”

“Ziggy, we will never be friends. I was just hoping for some answers…for a reason….a reason you left…a reason you hurt me.”

“It was the right thing to do…you have no reason to trust me but it was the right thing to do.”

“Whatever…I’m obviously never going to have the answers…but that’s fine. You’re a Ranger now…big guy in the city. Enjoy the power you conned your way into Ziggy. That’s all you are. A con-artist. I can’t believe I ever loved you. You are a weasel.”

“Myli…I’m sorry…”

“Go to hell…just go to hell.”

I ran back to my house and snuck back in my window.

“The door is easier.”

I jumped at the sound of the voice. I turned around and saw Mikki sitting on my bed.

“Mik, I…I…” I started.

“It’s ok. You needed answers. I get it.” Mikki said.

“You do?”

“Yeah. But why did you sneak out?”

“Mandy said not to see him again…and I don’t want to but I needed answers.”

“Did you get them?”

I shook my head, “No. Just a lot of excuses and no real answers.” I started to cry, “I really did love him.”

“Oh sweetie, come here.” Mikki said pulling me onto the bed next to her and hugging me.

“I don’t want to feel anything for him anymore but it still hurts.” I said as I cried.

“I know Honey, I know. It sucks, but you’re not alone. Everyone has felt this way. I wish I could tell you that there is an easy fix, but there isn’t. I can promise that time will heal your heart. I know that seems lame, but it is true.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, it is.”

I laid my head in Mikki’s lap and she started to brush my hair with her hand.

“No matter what I love you very much my Myli.” Mikki said.

“I love you too mi Mikki.” I said as I closed my eyes. In no time I’d fallen asleep.