Gerard's POV. Today had been so awesome

Today had been so awesome. The whole workplace sang 'Happy Birthday' to me at lunch time and Erica had baked a cake. I'd never had so many people celebrate my birthday before. It was so weird. And it was all thanks to Mikey for telling Frank and Frank for loving me so much to want to organize something like this.

After work, Mikey stopped by with the massive balloon he had promised to give me in the shape of the numbers '2' and '8'. He noticed the massive box I had in my arms and squealed just as much as I had when I saw what Frank had given me.

"Oh my god, where did this come from?" he asked, looking at the machine with awe.

"Frank gave it to me for my birthday," I replied. Mikey got all excited.

"I knew I'd done the right thing in telling him it was your birthday today! Can I use it? Please? I promise I won't break it," he pleaded.

"No," I replied as we all walked out of the tattoo parlor and up the street. Both Frank and Mikey were helping me carry the other presents I'd received today. Mikey was begging constantly all the way home, my answer remaining the same, "No."

"Oh come on! I'll do anything," he spoke once we got in the apartment and straight away went to set the machine up. Bingo. Those were the magic words.

"Ok, well, in that case, you have to promise that when I tell you that you can't have dessert, right before I walk off with the ice cream, strawberries and Frank to my room, that you won't say a word or complain about hearing stuff that you might not wanna hear," I told him. He scrunched up his face before pulling out his cellphone and calling someone on it.

"Hey you. I was just wondering whether you'd be falling asleep alone tonight?... Well I was just asking!" he sighed. "Yes it's my way of asking for some.... Sorry I'll work on it so I'm not a sleaze... I'll see you at 8... Bye Sexy," he said, before hanging up his cell.

"Ha, Erica thinks you're a sleaze," Frank spoke, before continuing. "You are," he added, breaking down into a giggle fit.

"How am I a sleaze?" Mikey asked.

"You asked her if she was falling asleep alone. It would've been better to say something like 'I miss you,' and then she'd say 'I miss you too,'" Frank explained, trying to put on a high voice which made me chuckle. "And then you go 'Can I come and see you tonight,' and she'll be all like, 'Oh my god, yes!' and then she'll say the same thing later on when you fuck her brains out," he spoke, pulling a face of disgust.

"I'll have to try that one, thanks dude," he spoke, getting out his favorite coffee mug and going over to the coffee maker. "How does it work?" he asked. We spent the next 15 minutes figuring out how it worked. In the end we eventually got it and were all so excited that we just made coffee from a coffee maker. After my cup of coffee, I went and pulled on my Dark Ninja attire before invisibly flying Frank to his place so that he could also get dressed in his Skeleton gear.

Once we were done, we flew off to see if any of the city needed help. The cops hadn't called us yet. We soon found out why. The evil power-ranger supervillain had put up another wall of crystal, but this time to our surprise, he was hovering over it and shouting something to the people. I flew Frank and I invisibly closer to him to hear his rant.

"How can you fucking call me 'The Crystalizer?" I fucking hate your name for me. From now on I want you to all call me Dr. Krustallos. It is all I answer to. You fucking call me The Crystalizer again and I will fucking find where your media building is and put acid-crystal all through it so that you all die. Not that it won't happen to everyone eventually. I plan on taking over this city. I will be the Mayor of this place and the only people who will survive to answer to me will be those who are willing to co-operate. You don't co-operate, and you die. It's simple. The only people who don't have that choice are those who are on my list. And right at the top of that list are The Dark Ninja and The Skeleton. Who knows where they are, so I can kill them right now?" I felt Frank hold me tighter as I kept us invisible.

"No one's talking, huh? Well how about I give a reward to you people. One million dollars if you can bring me both The Dark Ninja and The Skeleton to me, dead or alive," Dr. Krustallos spoke. Holy shit, Frank and I were in danger now. Sure, people looked up to us because we saved people, but now this asshole was offering one million dollars to someone who could catch us. Frank and I had to be careful when saving people from now on that no one turned on us. Suddenly, Frank's cellphone rang, breaking the silence among the huge crowd of people.

"Someone answer your fucking phone!" Dr. Krustallos said as I flew Frank and I down the street, far enough away that he wouldn't hear Frank speak when he answered the phone call.

"Hello?" he breathed, his voice visibly shaking. I couldn't see him, but I could still feel him holding onto me for dear life. We remained invisible as we were still close enough to Dr. Krustallos to see what he was up to. I waited while Frank talked to whoever was on the phone before hanging up.

"Gee?"

"Mm?"

"That was the Mayor's office. The Mayor wants to see us. Dr. Krustallos is being broadcast live on all the major networks. Considering his job's under threat by that fucked up Power Ranger, I think we can trust him enough to go and pay him a visit. He might have ways to protect us."

"Ok. When did he want to see us?" I asked him.

"Right now. That Dr. Krustallos is still live on TV, so we can hear him from the Mayor's office and remain safer than if we're out here," Frank pointed out.

"But what about the crystal wall and all those people gathered around it?" I asked.

"I don't know. I guess we could ask the Mayor about that when we see him," he spoke to me as I began to elevate us into the air. We then began our journey to the Mayor's office. Fuck, I hoped this crazy mess would be sorted out soon.