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Ron, with his ever-present naked mole rat buddy on his shoulder, stood outside the sensoriums. Multiple turkeys, along with many other traditional Thanksgiving foods, were held inside, and now all that was needed for the cooking to begin was wait here for the rest of the Ranger team to show. He'd even managed to dig up color-coded aprons for all of them.

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Billy hurried, expecting another combat practice session. Instead, he found Ron and Rufus...holding aprons?

If this was what he suspected, Billy was in trouble.

"Hey," he greeted. "What's the assignment?"

Edited 2010-12-02 02:15 (UTC)

Kate was surprised by the message, but figured it was more training. That last one went well, but they had a ways to go. Especially with the recent visitors here now.

"Hey Ron, uh... what's with the Top Chef setup?"

"Well, despite the fact that Thanksgiving was 6months ago, enough people have come and gone that I figgered I can get away with doing it again. And since there's a ton of people on board, I'm gonna need some help." Ron answered, tossing one of the blue aprons to Billy, and the pink one to Kate.

"So, in the spirit of team-building, you guys get to be my kitchen staff."

Spidey had just walked (crawled?) in just as he saw Ron tossing the aprons to Billy and Kate. This was going to be interesting.

"...so we went from Power Rangers to Iron Chefs." he said, cracking a smile behind his mask.

Andy headed in as well, and stared.

"This isn't a team building exercise."

"Hey?" Jamie managed to wander in right after Andy. There had been a question there, but whatever it was went right out of his mind as he caught sight of the aprons.

"Ye can't be serious."

"Note serious face dude." Ron said, though not in the annoyed tone that phrase usually was spoken in. He tossed the red aprons to Spider-Man and Jamie, and the blue one to Andy.

"And just because it's not trust falls and all that baloney doesn't mean this isn't totally a team building exercise.:

Billy nodded. "The members of my own team were already friends when we were given the Power, but we enhanced that relationship by working together for school projects and charity events. We would have done something like this."

But there was a qualifier, of course. "But I have to suggest that I be assigned away from cooking," he added. "My previous cooking attempts have been failures, up to and including an explosion, so I'm really best with organizing, arranging, cleaning, cutting, preparing, and measuring."

That said, he donned the apron dutifully. He'd find a way to work at this.

Kate tied her own apron around her waist, and remarked, "It won't be too bad. I haven't done this since helping with the soup kitchens back in the city. And don't worry Billy, should be enough of us to manage the cooking part."

Lash arrived last, as it was almost a tradition.

Lash then turned around when she saw the yellow apron without a word. Uh, someone please stop her.

"You're not gettin' out of this Lash. You have to help too." Ron said, pitching the apron at her.

"And you're gonna have to wear a hairnet.. Not a punishment, it;s jsut athat with hair like that you'd have to wear one regardless."

~~And then Lash shot Ron and ran.~~

"What? Why would I even wear a hairnet? What's a hairnet?"

"Let's put it like this: without it, you'd be minus an afro." Spidey said, putting on his own apron. "...y'know, I'm so glad the guys back home aren't seeing me right now. I'd never hear the end of it."

Andy just sighed. "Don't you think you should've ASKED if we wanted to cook first."

"Er...I don't suppose ye actually need to have the turkeys killed?" Jamie asked hopefully, holding the apron in his hand rather than putting it on immediately. "I could do that to help."

The answer's likely to be 'No', but it's worth a try. Hunting he can do. Eating, no problem! Cooking? Not so much. At least he's managed to keep his hair around the length it was when he woke up on Stacy, so he shouldn't have to wear a hairnet...whatever that was.

"If I had, we would've never been able to find Lash. And that would've made the entire point of this kinda, er, pointless." Ron pointed out.

As to Jamie's question, "Nah, they're all in there and defrosted and stuff."

"Your secret's safe with me, ...Spidey. And come on, guys, it's fine. We can make it fun you know?"

"This will only be fun if we get to use large knives." Lash was attempting to stuff her hair into a hairnet but really. Really.

"Maybe you will," Billy tried to assure. He had to admit that her hairnet troubles were mildly amusing, but he would be good and hide his smile.

Now, though, it was time to work. He set about washing his hands, then checking everything for satisfactory sanitation, then checking the positions of the oven racks. "Just show us the recipes and I'll try to get everything set."

With everyone else, of course. He could set a dial fairly well, it was the mixing ingredients that got dicey.

Lash simply continued to grumble as she epicly struggled to get that hairnet over her mass of hair. ~~And she did so until Pixle returned from her own cooking classes.~~

"Alright. So here's how it's going. Jamie, you're on stuffing, Andy, you're on potatoes, Kate's on soup and gravy, Spidey's one bread dough mixing, Billy, you're on the halibut, and Lash? I'm gonna need help prepping one of the the turkey's for deep frying. I'll be taking the regular turkeys as well." Ron handed out recipes for each dish he assigned then to. "Me and Rufus will come around periodically and check on how you're doing. Any questions?"

"Mffftffftt!" Lash explained.

Which meant, "could someone please help me with this hairnet, I believe, my good sirs that I have it a little over my head a little too much." But you know, with a lot more swearing.

"Och." Jamie didn't look exactly thrilled, but pulled the apron over his head anyway. Taking the recipe from Ron, he scanned it briefly, then glanced over at Kate, not bothering to hide his skepticism.

"If ye have a good idea how to make this fun, I'd be glad to hear it."

Fortunately, he's distracted from being annoyed too much by Lash's epic hairnet failure. Moving over to try and help her only results in him pulling at it in a well-meaning but ultimately futile sort of way - as he's still a bit confused by the concept.

"Er...is this bit supposed to be over your ears?"

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Billy nodded, glad to see Lash and Jamie helping each other. This boded well for the team.

What didn't bode so well for him personally, however, was the assigned recipe. Halibut. Fish. Who on earth ate fish at Thanksgiving dinner anyway? It was almost as if the exercise was designed to intentionally make him uncomfortable.

But Billy would bravely deal with his troubles. Fighting back any thoughts of oncoming nausea, he made his way to his station and began to set up.

"I'm okay," Lash finally managed to stutter as the hairnet was pushed to hold only her head and not her entire face thanks to teamwork. "I still think this is stupid...how do you even begin to fry a turkey?!"

Plunging a turkey into hot oil sounded like a fun endeavor, at least.

"Don't ask me, I'm used to turkeys being roasted," Kate remarked as she grabbed a pot and ingredients for soup.

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