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"I can't pick up what that light thing is," Cam said, vigorously typing into his computer. "I have a sneaky suspicion that Lothor has something to do with it, though."
"Of course he does," said Shane. "When is he not involved in anything?"
"What do you think we should do?" asked Tori.
Cam turned and looked at Shane, Tori, and Blake. Hunter and Dustin were still out, racing each other. Shane had called Tori and Blake and they came right away, sensing that something was a little off. Tori wasn't surprised that Shane had seen the same light thing that she saw earlier.
"We will be sure to alert you if anything is found," Sensei said. "You may leave."
"I guess let's just head to the Storm Chargers," said Shane. "We could catch up with Hunter and Dustin there." Tori and Blake nodded, following him out.
Kim and Aisha were walking down the street from the theater. After the show finished, they had gotten ice cream at a small parlor and decided to walk home since they were close by.
"And then they were talking about going to Chile to help out over there," Kim was saying. She took a small scoop of her ice cream.
Aisha was eating hers out of a cone. "Oh, that'll be cool! I've always wanted to go to Chile. My boss was saying that he might need people to go out to the Indonesia to help out with relief efforts. I'm hoping that I'm picked."
"Ooh, Indonesia!"
Aisha nodded. "Yeah, but I don't know if I'll get picked."
"Aw, you will, 'Sha. Remember when you got to go to that trip a few months ago? Where'd you go, again? Morocco?"
"Yeah, Morocco. You'd love it." Aisha raised her eyebrows. "Lots of shopping."
The two of them laughed as they headed into their apartment building. They still spoke amongst themselves as Aisha let them into their apartment. "My gosh, you scarf your ice cream down."
Aisha laughed. "You say that every time! It's not my fault that you seem to take forever and a day to finish your ice cream."
"My teeth are sensitive!"
Aisha laughed again as she threw away the remnants of her ice cream cone. She went to her room and changed her clothes while Kim headed to her own room. She set down the ice cream cup on her dresser and turned the radio up. Kim zipped down the dress she wore and changed into a set of pink shorts and put on a white vest. She looked at her hair and pulled it back from her face with a pink clip. She picked up her ice cream cup and walked out to sit in their living room. She turned on the TV and started flipping channels.
"You look fancy," Aisha said, sitting down next to Kim. She took a bite out of Kim's ice cream.
"Uh, you're welcome."
Aisha laughed. "Thanks."
"And look who's talking." Kim gestured to Aisha, who was dressed in yellow pants with a black vest. She had also pulled on a black Kangol hat, wearing the long brim to her side. They sat silently, watching an old Friends episode.
A thud came from the kitchen. Kim and Aisha looked at each other and stood up defensively. Kim reached for the remote and turned the volume up on the TV. She raised a finger to her lips and Aisha nodded.
"I told you, don't land there!" a low-pitched voice said. "You landed on my foot, you idiot!"
"I'm not an idiot, you're one!" an higher-pitched voice said.
"Shh! They might hear us!"
"You were the one who was loud first."
Kim and Aisha jumped into the kitchen. They were immediately immobilized by a weird ice-frost thing. Kim and Aisha looked at each other with worried eyes before turning their attention to the two strange-looking girls standing in their kitchen. One, the taller one, had outrageous pink hair and some sort of headdress. She had two long pink braids down to her shoulders. The other girl looked similar to the taller one, except she had dark hair and had her hair in two long locks down her shoulders. She also wore a big outrageous headdress.
The taller one with the pink hair smiled. "Look what I did, Marah. Uncle will be so proud of me."
"We did it together, Kapri," protested Marah.
Kapri looked at her sister and rolled her eyes. "Whatever," she snapped. "Let's just take our prisoners and get going."
Aisha and Kim glanced at each other, still frozen. Both had worried looks in their eyes. They had no idea what the heck was happening to them, nor did they know who these two girls were. Kim looked at Aisha and motioned with her eyes, as if she were asking Aisha if she knew what was going on. Aisha tried to shake her head, but was still frozen. She widened her eyes to get Kim to understand what she was saying. Kim tried to nod, but also couldn't move. She rolled her eyes and Aisha smiled at Kim through her eyes. "We'll get through this," Kim tried to communicate to Aisha. "We always somehow do."
"Come on, Marah!" yelled Kapri.
Marah looked at her sister standing directly next to her. "I'm right here!" she yelled back.
"We're going!" In a sudden flash of light, Kapri, Marah, Kim, and Aisha disappeared from the room.
"You guys seriously want to go camping again?" Tori asked, shaking her head. "Do you not remember what happened the last time?"
"Oh, you mean the time you blew out our generator?" teased Blake. He playfully swiped at her hair.
Tori rolled her eyes. "I said I was sorry for that."
"You should come with us, Tor," said Shane.
"Mm, no thanks!" Tori held up a hand. "But I will offer to drop you guys off."
"Will you blow out our generator, too?" asked Hunter with a serious look on his face.
"No!"
"You should just stay," encouraged Blake. He nudged her. "I'd share a sleeping bag with you."
Tori looked at him, wondering if he was serious. She rolled her eyes and gently shoved him away. "I hate camping. Like I said before, I'm just going so I know where to find you if trouble comes around."
"It has been a little quiet lately," said Dustin softly. "That's a little weird, isn't it."
Tori, Shane, and Blake had filled in Dustin and Hunter with what they found. Or rather, what they saw and didn't find.
"If Cam finds something, he'll let us know," reassured Shane. "And since it has been pretty quiet, I think we should go."
"With or without your generator?" teased Tori.
"That depends. Are you going to blow it out again?"
Tori laughed. "I'm gonna be at the beach if you need me."
"Ooo-kay, water-baby."
Jason turned the knob on the shower, turning the water off. He reached for his towel and wrapped it around his waist. Jason slowly stepped out of the hot shower and he stood in front of the mirror, trying to look at himself. Shaking his head, he opened the medicine cabinet and pulled out some hydrogen peroxide and a band-aid. He rubbed a circle in the midst of the fogged-up mirror and leaned in close to examine the cut beneath his eye.
"How the heck did I get that?" he thought.
Jason dabbed a bit of hydrogen peroxide on a cotton ball and rubbed it along the cut. He winced at the slight sensation. It wasn't painful, but it wasn't the most comfortable thing in the world, too. Jason threw away the cotton ball and carefully opened the band-aid. He placed it over the cut and headed out to his bedroom to get dressed.
He put on black sweatpants and a silver muscle shirt and opened his gym bag from his earlier match. He threw his clothes onto the floor and pulled out his water bottles, taking them to the kitchen and placing them in the sink. Jason opened his refrigerator and took out some cold pizza, eating it as he headed toward his living room to watch TV.
Jason dropped his pizza on the floor when he saw the sight of...something in his living room. "What the hell?" he said, angrily. An overweight...something was standing in his living room. He...it was green and scaly and wore some sort of weird-looking hat. It also carried a bunch of weird equipment.
"First red ranger?" it said.
"What the hell are you?" Jason took a defensive stance against it.
"I'm Choobo!" it exclaimed happily.
Jason gave it a weird look and prepared to fight against it. But before Jason could move, the thing imprisoned him within some sort of energy sphere. Jason was powerless against it and within a moment, he disappeared.
"Ow!" Kim yelled out as she was thrown into a cell. She felt Aisha being pushed into the same cell behind her.
"And stay here!" Kapri yelled at them before closing the door to the cell. She dangled the key in front of them before securing it around her neck. "Come on, Marah. We've got more work to do."
Marah stuck her tongue out at Kim and Aisha as they watched Kapri and Marah walk away. Marah had run into the wall while looking back at Kim and Aisha. She nearly fell to the ground and had to run to catch up to her sister.
"You okay, Kim?" Aisha asked. She took Kim's hand and the two of them slid to the floor.
Kim nodded. "Yeah. You?" She took her hand out of Aisha's and crossed her arms.
"Where do you think we are?"
Kim shrugged. "I never thought I'd be in this position again. Kinda brings back some old high school memories, huh?"
"Do you think high school has something to do with this?" Aisha gestured around them.
"Not necessarily high school itself. I think the extracurricular activities we did outside of school is what got us here."
Aisha nodded. "Yeah. Did you hear them? 'I captured the pink and yellow ranger!' Ugh! Makes me sick."
"Well...they're definitely not Rita and Zedd, that's for sure."
"Okay, guys. You think you got everything?" Tori asked briefly looking around before jumping into the driver's seat. "Because I'm not coming back."
"Hey, don't you still owe us-"
"No!"
Blake laughed as he jumped into the passenger's seat. "I think we have everything." He placed a hand over Tori's. She quickly moved it out from under him onto her lap. He looked at her curiously. "You sure you don't want to stay with us? At least have dinner?"
Tori rolled her eyes and smiled as she turned around and saw Hunter, Shane, and Dustin crammed into the back seat with all their things. "I'm sure, Blake." She turned to face front and turned her car on. "And no stopping for anyone. We all remember what happened last time, right?"
"Right!" the guys echoed.
Tori rolled her eyes again, smiling as she pulled onto the street. Blake had turned the radio on and Shane, Dustin, and Hunter were playfully arguing about something in the back.
"Hey, how are you?" Blake asked softly.
Tori briefly glanced at him in surprise. "I'm fine," she replied.
"You sure?" he asked, looking at her with concerned eyes. "I know Cam said he couldn't find anything and you had a weird feeling and all, but..."
Tori shrugged. "I know Cam'll find out whatever it was. But...yeah, I'm fine. I think I am."
Blake smiled at Tori. "I'm glad to hear that. You know you could talk to me about whatever, right?"
Tori furrowed her eyebrows. "Where is this coming from?"
Blake shrugged. "Who knows? Maybe I'm going soft in my old age."
Tori rolled her eyes again and smiled at him.
"See you tomorrow, Adam!" someone called to him.
Adam turned toward the direction of the voice. "Yeah, tomorrow!" he called and raised a hand to wave. "Tomorrow, again and again," he said softly to himself. He walked off the studio and headed toward his car, going through all the security precautions before being allowed to leave. Adam looked at the studio in his rearview mirror as he drove away.
Something jumped on the hood of his car, causing Adam to swerve to the right. "What the hell?" he yelled. He felt something hit the back of his car and the sides. Adam also heard something on his roof. He looked around and saw creatures wearing all black with some sort of orange designs on their faces. "What are those things?" he said to himself.
Immediately, Adam pumped the gas and tried to get these things off the car. He drove faster and faster, but noticed that these things were not budging. One of them punched through the back window. "Oh, hell no!" Adam pulled off to the side and jumped out. He started fighting them, but soon saw that there were too many for him to handle on his own. "Right now would be a good time to go back in time and have some powers." He noticed that they seemed like the old putties that he used to fight. Two of them grabbed his arms and another grabbed him around the waist. Adam could no longer move. "This is not good," he said before disappearing.
Kim and Aisha jumped up as another prisoner was thrown into a cell with them.
He jumped up as soon as he hit the floor and ran to the bars as they closed. "LET ME OUT!"
Kim and Aisha looked at each other, recognizing that voice. "Jason?" Kim said, tentatively.
Jason immediately turned around with a murderous look in his eyes. "What!" he said angrily. His eyes immediately softened when he noticed Kim and Aisha. "Kimberly? Aisha?" His voice softened as well as the three of them ran to each other and hugged. "What are you doing here?"
"I guess the same thing that you are," answered Kim. "These two...girl-things were in our apartment."
"And one of them blew on us or something, but it froze us," continued Aisha. "And then we ended up here."
Jason nodded. "Some green thing picked me up in my apartment."
"Green thing?"
"Yeah, it was weird and gross and stuff, but..." Jason shrugged.
"Aisha and I think it has something to do with us being former rangers."
Jason nodded again. "Yeah. That thing asked if I was the first red ranger." He shook his head and the three of them slid to the floor. "Guess we could run as fast as we can from it, but we could never escape."
"Did you want to escape?" asked Kim.
Jason furrowed his brow and didn't answer.
"How are they doing?" Cam asked Tori.
Tori shrugged. "As far as I know, they're still out in the wilderness, watching TV."
Cam laughed. "Something they could be doing at home."
"But according to them, there's nothing like watching TV out in the open air." Tori looked over Cam's shoulder. "Nothing, yet, huh?"
Cam shook his head. "Not yet. Maybe it's actually something that we shouldn't be concerned with."
Tori furrowed her brow. "Yeah...maybe. I just...I had the strangest feeling, though."
Cam nodded. "Well, if Lothor is involved, we won't have too long to wait."
Tori nodded. "Do you think I should get the guys?"
"No, let them enjoy their...TV watching in the wilderness. If anything happens, then we could get them."
"Sure, okay."
Rocky waved to Phil and John and whistled as he headed to his car. He pulled his keys out of his pocket and dropped his bag in the back seat before opening the driver's side door. Something suddenly closed the door and he instinctively kicked. He saw a bunch of black creature things and Rocky immediately started fighting them.
Almost as suddenly as they appeared, a couple of them grabbed Rocky and disappeared.
Jason, Kim, and Aisha jumped up again, hearing footsteps heading in their direction.
"Think we should try to make a break for it?" asked Jason.
Kim shrugged. "Unless they're bringing another one of us in."
"I wonder who it could be," said Aisha.
"Stay back!" a voice said. They felt an icy frost through the air and immediately froze in place. The gate opened and another body was thrown into the cell. When they were free to move again, Kim, Aisha, and Jason ran to the body.
It groaned and Jason turned it over.
"Oh...Adam," said Aisha. "Are you okay?"
Adam groggily opened his eyes and looked around, holding his abdomen. He saw Kim, Aisha, and Jason staring down at him. "Oh, I've got to be dreaming."
"No, man, you're not," said Jason. He helped Adam move into a sitting position. "Are you all right?"
"I think so. What happened?"
"We don't know," answered Kim. "Do you think you're hurt?"
Adam shook his head. "I don't think so. Just a little sore. A couple of kicks in the stomach without the proper handling."
Kim looked at Jason with worried eyes. "Do you think they're capturing all of us?"
Jason shrugged, the murderous look back in his eyes. He looked off in the direction of where their captors had been walking in and out of. "I don't know."
Tommy jumped out of his car and dreaded walking into his house. He slowly opened the door and dropped his backpack onto the floor, rifling through the mail. He threw it on the counter and narrowed his eyes at the sight of the boxes in his living room. He saw a creased sheet of paper on his coffee table and threw the closest thing he could get his hand on at it.
The glass shattered against the table.
Tommy rolled his eyes and proceeded into his kitchen. He turned on the light and saw two girls standing there. One of them blew an icy frost, rendering Tommy completely frozen.
The two girls jumped and cheered. "Yay! We did that perfectly!" the one with pink hair cheered. "Let's go tell Uncle that we have the final piece." Tommy barely had enough time to blink as they disappeared.
"Here it comes," Jason whispered.
"Do you think this is some sick joke by Rita and Zedd or somebody?" said Aisha, sitting next to Adam.
"Can't be," said Adam. "They turned good years ago, didn't they?"
Jason held up a hand to shush them. They all backed away from the entrance, waiting for their captors to come.
"Hurry!"
The gate opened and another body was thrown into the cell.
"Oh no, Rocky!" exclaimed Aisha. She jumped up and ran to his side.
Rocky sat up. "Aisha? What are you..." He saw the others around. "Jason? Kim? Adam? What..."
"We don't know," answered Kim.
"I guess we just have to make the most of this, huh," said Adam. "How are you guys anyway? I haven't seen any of you in...how long has it been? Years?"
Kim nodded. "Yeah. I mean, Aisha and I just got back in touch."
Rocky looked at them. "None of you guys had spoken to each other?" Jason shook his head. "Really? Not even you and Kim?" Kim shook her head, as well. "Gosh, you guys were like brother and sister."
Jason and Kim looked at each other. "We were close, weren't we?" he said. Kim nodded sadly.
"We were all close," said Aisha. "What happened?"
"Life," Jason answered.
"Yeah, but...that can't be our excuse," said Kim. "I haven't seen anybody in years. Trini...Zack...Billy...and I grew up with them."
"I haven't seen them for years either," said Jason.
"Last I heard about Billy, he was living on Aquitar," said Rocky. "But that was when we still had the Zeo powers, I think. I don't know if he's back on Earth or whatever."
"So...where have you guys been?" asked Adam, with a soft voice. "I'm a stuntman and...it's actually gotten pretty boring. It was fine at first, but...I don't lately it has just not been fun anymore."
"Kim and I live in Geneva," answered Aisha. She looked at Rocky and they smiled at each other. She had missed really missed him. "She works at the United Nations and I'm at the Red Cross."
"Yeah, we met at a Starbucks while I was looking for a place to live," said Kim. "And then one thing and whatever and now we live together."
"I'm studying to be a chef," mumbled Rocky. He rubbed his shoulder and shrugged.
Jason looked at them. "I'm a boxer," he said, not offering anything else.
Kim and Aisha looked at each other with questions in their eyes, but didn't say anything. At the moment, it seemed like Adam was the friendliest, even though he didn't offer too much. Kim wondered what happened in Jason's and Rocky's lives after they had left the rangers. Kim remembered hearing that Jason returned to the team for a bit, but wasn't sure what happened after that.
"In a way, are you guys kind of...glad to be here?" she asked. They all looked at her like she was crazy. "No, no...I mean, we haven't seen each other in years and now we're all here and...now I'm kinda wondering who's the next person to be thrown in here with us, you know. Aisha's been the only one that I've seen in forever and...hopefully once we get out of this...we can all be friends again. I kinda miss you guys."
Aisha gave her a small smile. She and Kim had talked about this subject at length. She gave Kim a small nod and looked around. Rocky was staring at Aisha, with a strange look in his eyes. She gave him a smile and he looked away to the floor. Nobody responded to Kim and they were all taken aback when they heard footsteps coming down the hall again. Nobody moved as they heard the gate open and barely looked when another body was thrown in the cell.
"WHAT THE HELL? LET ME OUT OF HERE!"
They all looked up at the recognizable voice. Aisha looked worriedly at Kim, who widened her eyes.
"LET ME OUT!"
"It's useless, man," Jason said from his spot on the floor.
The familiar man turned and looked around. "Jason...what are you-And Rocky, Aisha? Adam?" His eyes settled on the last person and narrowed in anger and hurt. "Kimberly," he said angrily.
Kim looked up. "Tommy," she said coolly.
Adam looked between the two. "Awk-ward," he said softly so only Aisha, Rocky, and Kim could hear him.
Everyone felt the tension grow. Tommy went back to the bars and rattled them, yelling through the bars.
"It's useless, man," Jason repeated. "What do you think we've been doing?"
"You obviously have not been trying hard enough."
"We've tried, but feel free to keep going."
Tommy faced the bars and continued to yell.
There's that chapter. Let me know what you think! Thanks for reading!