Standing Tall and Standing Proud
By: M14Mouse
Summary: Luan isn’t about let Nick tell off his teammate…even if the dude has a magic wand.
Disclaimer: Don’t own them
PR_Bingo Prompt: unmorphed: storm
A/N: I wrote this for Rivulet that I wrote months ago. Part of her very awesome universe where Zack is a red ranger
“Dude, back off.”
Nick paused in the middle of his rave to Claire. Honestly, Clare is a power ranger? What was this Ara person thinking?! It took her months of her not turning a cooking pot into mush. Claire looked down from the ground over at his shoulder. She looked slightly surprise for a moment. He turned around to see a small Asian guy with his arms folded across his chest. He looked pissed off. Clare introduced as one of her teammates. He couldn’t remember the name…Lou…Louise. Hell, if he knew.
“What?” He said.
“I told you to back off,” the little Asian guy said.
“Luan…it is okay,” Claire said.
“No, it isn’t, Claire.”
“Listen…this is between me and Claire….” He started to said.
“No, it isn’t. The minute that you started bad mouthing her is the minute that I got involved.”
“You don’t understand…”
“Oh, yes, dude…I do. My bro is a power ranger. He was the first person that I told when I got my shiny morpher. He didn’t quite believe me…probably because I woke him up…He doesn’t like that much. RJ explained that bro was doing late night training with his cubs. Dude, I should bring him ice cream for that…”
“Luan…” Claire said with a small smile. She was actually amused by this guy.
“Oh, right...point. My bro support me…ask me if I needed help. Offer to train me even with everything else he has going on. Training his students…working at JKP….going back to school. And here is Claire asking the same from you…from her family. The only thing that you are doing is dissing her!”
“I….”
Luan’s eyes narrowed just a little bit at him.
“I may be new to this game. I don’t know the rules but I do know one thing, you don’t mess with my teammates.”
“You don’t get it. She doesn’t know how to fight.”
“DUDE! Me and Fran blew up a rock. A ROCK! Poor thing didn’t do anything to us. Then we tried fighting…dude, we flail and run…and flail so more. Clare here…she was awesome! She totally kicked butt.”
This guy couldn’t be serious. He glanced over at Claire to see her face turning red.
“So, let me tell you something. You may be red and a magic wand. So what? Because…dude, I don’t trust you to watch my back. I trust Claire. So, dude…back off.”
His mouth opened to say something but he was cut off by a loud roar.
The door to Rootcore opened and Chip stormed in. His face broke out into a huge grin. He ran over and hugged Claire.
“I heard! Congs, Claire!”
Claire smiled softly and hugged back.
“Thanks, Chip.”
Chip let go and stared at Luan.
“Fellow yellow! You must be Luan…Dustin told me about you!” Chip said happily as he offered his hand.
Luan blinked and shook Chip’s hand.
“You are Chip?”
“The only one!”
Luan grinned.
“Awesome.”
“Me and the gang are taking Claire out for ice cream for become a power ranger. You are welcome to come. Later, I can show you my flying motorcycle.”
“DUDE! That is awesome.”
Chip threw his arms around Claire and Luan’s shoulders.
“Come on...let’s go…chocolate ice cream, awaits!”
He listened as they talked among themselves. He caught Chip giving him a look when he left. He saw the cold, steel look in his eyes when he knew Chip was pissed.
He gulped slightly.
He wasn’t in for a good time when Chip came back.
End