NixRangers
Chapter Three- Teleportation and a Missing Speedo

It was long after midnight when STREETNiX finally decided what they were 
going to do.

"How do we get to this 'Land Of Macaroni'?" Cherry asked, cleaning engine 
grease from under her fingernails with her hunting knife.  "I sure as Hell 
have never heard of it,".

"The Land of Macaroni is a very closely guarded secret," BJ said, pulling of 
his shirt and throwing it into a rumpled pile on the floor.  "It's a kingdom 
on the planet Lethbridge, ten thousand light years away,".  The boys were 
getting changed into their super-hero outfits as BJ spoke.  

"Lethbridge?" Cherry asked, cocking an eyebrow.  "Isn't that in Alberta?"

"That's what they want you to think," Joel said, pulling off his socks.  
"That's why it's such a good secret.  The port-hole to the planet is well-
hidden, right in plain sight," he began to unbuckle his belt, stopping only 
to look at the leather-clad dominatrix in front of him.  "Um... can you not 
look?".

Cherry turned around, indignantly.  "I don't want to look," she huffed, 
offended.  "Besides," she now faced the far wall, "why are you getting 
changed in here?  Don't you super-heroes have some sort of transformation 
module, or something to go a little... faster?".  

Tony lay on the floor, squirming as he tried to fit into his white tights.  

"No... this is it.  A pain, but it'll do in a pinch,".  Aaron stood up, and 
straightend his unitard, the first to be fully-dressed.  His costume 
consisted of yellow tights, with a blue 'L' on the upper right pectoral 
muscle, Tall blue boots, and a blue speedo.  He donned a cap with a lemur 
face on it, and wore a long, flowing yellow cape.

Cherry turned around, and gave her version of a laugh.  "That is the most 
ridiculous thing I've ever seen!".  

"And yours is so much better?".  He gasped in surprise as a knife appeared 
next to his throat.  "Which, er, it is...!".

"You two, calm down,".  Joel ran a hand through his hair and adjusted the 
purple speedo he wore over his red tights.  "I'm busy enough here without 
worrying about paying for blood on the carpet,".  His costume as NixRanger 
Platypus was much like the one Aaron wore as Lemur.  Tights, boots, cape, the
orks.  A purple 'P' adorned the right side of his chest, and the baseball cap
on his head had a bill for a brim.  His cape was purple, and extended below 
his knees.

Cherry Bomb sighed, and leaned against the wall.  "All right, all right, I'll
lay off him- just don't be surprised if he's even more knocked around than 
you by the end of the night,".  Joel turned a shade of red, and placed a hand
over his black eye.  

"How are we getting there?".  Cherry asked.  BJ slid a pair of blue speedos 
over his green tights.  His cape, too, was blue, along with the boots he 
wore.

"How else?  NixRanger teleport, of course,".  BJ smiled, and sat down on a 
nearby bed to wait for a still-changing Tony to finish.

"You guys... uh... you guys?".  Tony rested on his hands and knees in the 
closet, throwing various articles of clothing behind him in a rather blatant 
search for something.  Only his rear could be seen, the rest of him as far 
into the closet as he could fit.

"Yes... Tony's ass?"   BJ half smirked, but Tony didn't see, his head being 
so far into the closet it was in a different time zone.

"My.... speedo....  I can't.... find it!".  Various items shot out of the 
closet.  Shoes.  CDs.  The latest issue of Seventeen.  Tony crawled out of 
his hole and squinched up his eyes in annoyance.  "Where could it be?".

Cherry sighed.  "Oh yeah, this is going to take all night,".

"I can't go without my speedo!  We won't match!" Tony yelled in exasperation.

"Well, what color are they?" Cherry asked with a roll of her eyes.  Maybe we 
can help.  She glanced in distaste at the skinny guy in the white tights 
before her.

"They're black, like my boots,"

"Yeah, yeah.  And your cape," Joel nodded and stood up impatiantly.  "Where's
your suitcase?".  Tony pointed across the room to a battered blue suitcase, 
which Aaron promptly picked up and chucked on the bed.  

Joel threw it open, and picked out a pair of old, black HANES gaunch.  "Here,
wear these.  It's no speedo, but it's black.  We've got to go,".  

Tony picked up the pair of underwear (which had landed on his head), and 
wrinkled his nose at it.  "Ah, fine.  Whatever," he grouched.  He stood up 
and pulled the underwear on, glaring at the smirks on the other NixRangers' 
faces.  "But only 'cause we've got to rescue Amanda,".

"Naturally,".  Aaron unsuccessfully hid a smile.

"Let's just do this, please,".  Cherry rolled her eyes, and crossed her arms.
"How do we get to Lethbridge?".

The four NixRangers gathered in a circle around her. "NixRangers, Teleport," 
they called out in unison.  

"NixRangers... what?" Cherry raised an eyebrow.

"Shhhh, we've got to concentrate," BJ said.  He closed his eyes.

"NixRangers Teleport...."

Out of no where, a bluish glow surrounded the five, and lit up the entire 
room.

"What the fu-?"

The glow surrounded them, and within seconds, everyone had dissapeared.


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Where will they go?  Will they find Amanda?  Will Tony ever find his 
underwear?  Does Cherry even *wear* underwear?  All of these answers and 
more in our next installment of....

NiXRangers!!!!


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Authors Note:  Scout Power!  Anyone else notice the whole Sailor Moon takeoff
bit?  That has little or no meaning....

Or does it, Venus, Mars, and Saturn?

Love ya All,
Mercury.

(_o_)

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