Fic: Trick or Treat Wishes Chapter 3

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Title: Trick or Treat Wishes
Fandom: Power Rangers and one BTVS char
Pairings: Tori/Blake, Hayley/Tommy, Jason/Kim and Cam/Dustin (but only after those who have been reduced in age are once again their normal age.) So slash and het.
Rating: Pg-13
Summery: When Chip has a wish granted by a demon he and several other former rangers are reduced to children. The only way to turn them back is to take them trick or treating.
Disclaimer: I own nothing to do with the Power Rangers or BTVS. Neither is my toy box and I’m merely playing. I also don’t own anything to do with the X-men or Batman.
A/N: First off much thanks to moonlite-n-roses for introducing me to this fandom and discussing this piece with me. Thank you! This is supposed to take place just post the OO team-up 'Once a Ranger' and is before they send Bridge home.



Adam smiled around his spoon as Jason dropped into the seat across from him. His former teammate eyed the bowl of mac and cheese that he was eating, then gave Clare a skeptical look. Adam could understand the skepticism. Clare was at the stove working on her second attempt at mac and cheese. They’d both seen her first attempt. It’d looked like a thing ready to jump out of the pot and attack them. Her magical cleaning hadn’t restored their faith in her. Madison was sitting on the counter nearby to make sure she didn’t attempt to mix magic and food again.

“Microwavable,” Adam whispered.

Jason’s eyes lit up at the prospect.

“Xander bought a lot, it’s in the cupboard next to the fridge.”

As Jason got up Clare pouted, “But I’m almost done, I think.”

“The water hasn’t even boiled yet,” Madison pointed out.

“This takes forever,” Clare sighed.

For a brief moment Adam was tempted to tell her that adding a little salt would speed up the process, but since he was worried she’d use too much he continued eating.

Clare brightened, “I could put self-cleaning spells on all the pots and pans.”

“But he’s a not magic user!” Madison told her with wide eyes.

Jason shared a look with him. That wasn’t quite true, it wasn’t like Tommy had never used magic, or had it used on him, but Adam wasn’t quite sure he wanted to start a debate on Tommy’s status as a magic user. It looked like Jason had the same idea as he put his bowl into the microwave and attempted to stall, “Ah…”

Adam took in Clare’s overly helpful look and tired to quickly think of a way to deter her without insulting her.

“Tommy likes doing dishes,” Jason finished lamely.

Adam raised his eyebrows. Jason shrugged. Clare turned towards them with a frown, “He does?”

Jason nodded, “Yeah, he finds it um…relaxing, don’t you Tommy?”

Tommy, who had just entered, gave them all a confused look, “I find what relaxing?”

“Doing your own dishes,” Adam explained with an encouraging voice and eyes that pleaded for him to agree with them.

Tommy took in Adam’s look and then turned to Jason. Confused he took in Clare’s eager face. He paled, “Dishes are great!”

Clare deflated and as she looked in the pot she cried, “But it’s still not boiling!”

“Give it time,” Madison encouraged.

“I don’t think you’re supposed to watch it,” Tommy suggested.

“Huh?” Clare asked.

As Jason pulled his bowl from the microwave and once again sat across from Adam, he advised, “A watched pot never boils.”

“One of us could take over,” Tommy volunteered, “if you want to go watch the movie. I don’t think they’re through the previews yet.”

“Oh!” Madison bounced on her perch, “Please Clare, please?”

“Televisions are weird, aren’t they?”

Madison shook her head at Clare, “But it’s ‘The Princess Bride’! Please, pretty please, Clare.”

Clare took in the overly excited child and shrugged with a smile. She picked her up and turned to the guys, “Are you sure?”

“We can handle it,” Jason reassured. Tommy smiled as Adam nodded. As Clare walked from the room with Madison Tommy collapsed into the nearest chair and rolled his eyes upward.

“Thank you,” he whispered.

“You should be thanking us,” Jason teased, “You could have had spelled self cleaning pots and pans.”

Tommy shuddered, “Somehow I don’t think that’s how it’d have turned out.”

Jason tilted his bowl of mac and cheese so Tommy could see it, “Hungry?”

Tommy frowned for a moment before he brightened, “I came in here to make popcorn for the kids.”

“You’re going to spoil their dinner,” Adam pointed out.

As Tommy moved to take the popcorn out he asked, “Are you going to tell Kim she can’t have popcorn with her movie?”

Both Jason and Adam shook their heads no and went back to their dinner. Tommy took out several bags and after starting to microwave them he began getting out bowls for everyone. He wasn’t even going to attempt having the kids share, they were each getting their own bowl.

“Make sure Bridge’s is extra buttery,” Adam suggested, since he knew Bridge was supervising the movie.

“Huh?” Tommy asked.

Adam shrugged, “He’ll appreciated it.”

“He’s kinda quiet, isn’t he?” Jason commented.

Tommy and Adam exchanged a confused look before Tommy asked, “Who?”

“Bridge.”

“Jason, Bridge never shuts up,” Adam pointed out.

Tommy sat down as the popcorn began to pop, “He was quiet in the store, that’s weird. I didn’t think of it at the time because I was distracted by having to help Shane put together a pirate costume with enough red to satisfy him.”

Jason threw up his hands, “Don’t look at me bro, I was knee deep in pink, wings, wands and tiaras. I don’t want to hear it.”

Adam smiled, he’d already seen Kim running around in her fairy princess costume. He really wasn’t sure if she was ever going to take it off, well maybe when she got big.

“I was helping Shane become a pirate,” Tommy reiterated, “I have issues with pirates.”

“You have issues with pirates?” Jason asked in a voice that clearly stated, ‘and I don’t?’

Tommy wisely changed the subject, “Bridge had it easy, he didn’t have to help piece together anything, just grab an off the rack witch and Wolverine costume.”

“Conner decided to be Wolverine?” Adam asked.

Tommy nodded, “It was sorta sweet, he wanted a costume that had all his other teammates colors in it.”

“I wonder what Ethan, Vida and Chip are making Kira, Xander and Hayley do?”

Tommy shrugged, “Ethan will be something blue, and Chip will have something with a cape. Vida I have no idea.”

Adam nodded. Chip had gotten very excited when he realize they were going trick or treating. He’d started running around and telling them all about the merits of capes. Buying them all costumes was going to get expensive.

“Andrew wants you to send him the bills, he’d like to reimburse us or something,” Adam told them.

“I can handle buying Kim a costume for Halloween,” Jason frowned.

“He said it’s the least he could do after everything the others and I did for him.”

Tommy smiled, “You got your own team. That was cool.”

“Yeah, it was,” Adam agreed with a smile, “though I’m beginning to realize that if I’d gotten any other red but Bridge I’d probably have been taking orders.”

“Probably,” Tommy agreed.

Jason looked lost, “I’m telling you the guy doesn’t talk. How can he give orders if he doesn’t talk?”

“Um, Adam wasn’t joking earlier. Bridge really never shuts up,” Tommy pointed out, “I mean I thought I’d heard some good babbles, then I heard a Bridge babble.”

“It can be intimidating trying to sort out his point,” Adam agreed.

Jason gave them a skeptical look, “Nothing is more confusing than a Billy babble."

“Oh, it’s worse,” Tommy told him.

“If you say so,” Jason shrugged, “but I’ve maybe heard Bridge say three words around me.”

Adam frowned, “Okay, I’ll talk to him, see what’s going on. He might just be intimidated, you know he’s from the future right?”

“No.”

Tommy and Adam exchanged a look and Tommy groaned, “We forgot to give him the ‘don’t touch Bridge speech’ after we were so meticulous in warning the kids.”

Jason looked between the two of them, confusion evident on his face, “Why would I touch him?”

Adam and Tommy shrugged before Adam told him, “Bridge is from the future, from some special Power Ranger police force so he knows a lot about the history of Power Rangers.”

“And he’s an empath,” Tommy blurted out as he got up to start pouring the popcorn.

Adam rolled his eyes, “I was getting to that.”

“Empath?” Jason questioned.

“If you touch him or he touches you, he can get overloaded by your emotions. It lets him do this tracking thing that’s cool,” Adam finished.

“Okay,” Jason shrugged, obviously not seeing why he needed this information on Bridge.

Adam stared down at his empty bowl for a moment before he told them, “We didn’t know about Bridge’s power at first, just that he was good at avoiding being touched and wore long sleeves with those gloves. Then Xander gave him a ‘good job’ slap on the back and accidentally touched his neck. We were barely able to catch him before he hit the floor and even then we weren’t sure…we got an explanation when he came to, but there for a moment we were panicking.”

“I said I was sorry,” Bridge groused as he joined Tommy in pouring popcorn, “I’m getting better at accepting skin on skin contact. I’ve also been working on projecting and the telepathy has been getting easier. Empathy is probably always going to be my strongest mental power, but I’m getting better at building mental shields. I might not even have to actually wear my gloves all the time, except I’m so used to them. I’ve had a few instances of precongintion and…”

Bridges voice trailed to a stop as he turned and caught sight of Jason.

“It can be kinda weird to explain,” he finished quickly as he left the room several bowls of popcorn in his hands.

Tommy, Adam and Jason blinked at his retreating form.

“I think I believe you about that babbling now,” Jason said slowly.

“Something’s wrong,” Tommy nodded.

“I’ll talk to him,” Adam decided, “when Kim isn’t trying to introduce him to a movie he’s never seen."

“Yeah, she wouldn’t forgive you for that,” Jason smiled.

“She would, eventually, maybe when she got big.”

“Nah, I’m going to have to agree with Jason on this one,” Tommy sided as he carried the rest of the popcorn out. Adam checked the mac and cheese, stirring it as Jason finished up his dinner. Both he and Jason jumped, startled as Halfrek suddenly appeared in the kitchen, sitting in a chair, her hands obviously tired behind her back.

Jason moved toward her, “You’re supposed to stay downstairs.”

Adam pulled out his phone, ready to contact Udonna, who was out with Nick.

“No,” Halfrek shook her head, “Udonna set up the binding spell so that I couldn’t be in any room that the kids were in. There aren’t any children here, at least I don’t think there are, could I be wrong?”

Deciding Udonna wasn’t needed, Adam put his phone away. Tori pounded up the stairs from the Dino Thunder Lair and into the room, a glare set on her face as she ordered, “Back downstairs.”

Halfrek rolled her eyes, “I’m a great and powerful Vengeance Demon, you can’t just go ordering me about and tying me up on a whim.”

“We didn’t tie you up,” Adam pointed out.

The bonds on her hands disappeared as Halfrek pouted, “But it feels like you did. All these children in this house and I can’t even talk to one. Do you know how horrible that is?”

Tori’s eyes narrowed, “You don’t even want to know what will happen to you if you go near Dustin.”

“Oh and that tough girl attitude, not intimidating honey, but let me tell you what we can do. I know this…”

Frustrated Tori cut Halfrek off, “I need a break!”

“We can watch her,” Jason volunteered.

“Thanks,” Tori sighed before she disappeared back down the stairs she’d just raced up.

Tommy reentered the kitchen and looked at Halfrek confused. He poked Adam, “Why is she up here?”

“She’s driving Tori nuts.”

“I was just telling her the advantages of changing sides. A little bit of magic, vengeance and creativity and she could be having so much more fun.”

By the look on Tommy’s face Adam could tell Halfrek was going to get a verbal lashing. Jason beat him to it, “First you put my wife in pull-ups and now you’re trying to make a Ranger go evil?”

Halfrek took pause at the look of fury on Jason’s face before she reminded, “I am evil.”

“Wrong answer,” Jason told her moving in.

“You kill her now and we can’t guarantee that the children will be turned back,” Cam pointed out from the doorway. In response Jason forced himself to sit down in the nearest chair. Tommy quickly pulled open a drawer and tossed Cam a towel. Cam caught it and frowned.

“Why are you soaking wet?” Tommy finally asked.

“Because giving Dustin a bath was a bad idea.”

Jason focused in on the new topic, as he tried not to glare at Halfrek, “I thought the goal was to get him to relax so he’ll finally go to sleep, and he was filthy.”

“I really don’t know how he managed to get that dirty,” Tommy added helplessly, “we are keeping them all inside.”

“He’s an Earth Ninja,” Cam pointed out dryly, “He doesn’t have to find the dirt, it finds him.”

“He’s not sleeping is he?” Adam asked with sympathy.

“No, he’s not,” Cam admitted as he collapsed into the nearest chair and attempted to dry himself off.

“Oh man,” Tommy said with a shake of his head, “I don’t understand how he still hasn’t slept.”

“One of the other children could wish for him to sleep,” Halfrek offered.

“No!” the three men told her in unison.

Cam’s eyes narrowed, “You stay away from my boyfriend.”

“Thanks to Udonna I can’t get near him,” Halfrek complained.

Jason stood and threw his empty bowl away, in an attempt to ignore the taunting demon.

“You shouldn’t have gone near any of them in the first place,” Tommy pointed out.

Halfrek glared at him, “It’s just a fluke you weren’t reduced as well.”

As Tommy started forward Jason caught him, “Don’t let her work you up bro, it’s what she wants.”

Halfrek shrieked in frustration. The men eyed her wearily. She crossed her legs as she gave them a pout. She turned to Cam, “You know, one little, just a little, wish and Dustin…”

“Dustin doesn’t want anything that you’re offering,” Cam cut her off, “He’s the most trusting person I’ve ever met and if he didn’t trust you then I’d count my losses and stop trying.”

“But I could change the past, give him a more stable childhood.”

“That’s supposed to entice me how?” Cam asked dryly before he pointed out, “If you change his past, then he’ll likely never become a ranger. Then for all we know, Lothor wins.”

With a huff of frustration Halfrek disappeared, Tori’s cry of frustration was enough to let them know where she’d disappeared to.

Tommy sank into the nearest chair, “There has to be some way to defeat her.”

“She’s invincible,” Adam reminded with a shudder as he remember how she’d proved that point. A mortal wound healing wasn't something he'd needed to see.

“Still there has to be a way,” Jason said.

Cam mopped at his face with a scowl, “Let’s hope so.”

Chip bound in excitedly, “Guess what! Guess what!”

“What?” Adam ventured.

“I’m Batman!” Chip announced, “And Vida’s Batgirl! How cool is that?”

“Very cool,” Tommy agreed as he moved to finish up the mac and cheese while Chip told them excitedly about his costume.