A/N: Hey All! Chapter 3 is up! Thanks to all who have reviewed the story so far and are following it and me. You guys rock. If you have any suggestions, please let me know! Keep those reviews coming!

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-Paige

DISCLAIMER: I still don't own Power Rangers. I own Dani alone.

Chapter 3, Beauty and the Beach

Tori Hanson walked out of the water with her board, feeling pretty confident on her performance. When she was walking towards Shane, she saw he was talking to a guy- a super hot surfer guy. Then he got a sad expression on his face and left the Air student in a fist bump.

"What was that all about?" Tori asked her friend.

Shane shrugged. "Some guy that couldn't stop talking about you, how cute you are, how he wanted your phone number."

Tori's eyes widened. "Whoa whoa whoa, stop. Rewind. Super cute surfer hottie was asking about me?"

Red laughed. "Man, it was so lame!"

Blue glared and punched his shoulder. "And you let him leave?!" She walked off with her board.

Shane winced. "Dude, what was that for?"

"Did you ever think that I'd wanna meet him? See if he wanted to hang out sometime?"

A familiar brunette jumped on Shane's back. "HEYY!" Shane sighed.

"Hey." Dani frowned and hopped off his back. "Alright, who's pissed who off?"

Tori rolled her eyes. "There was a super hot surfer, he asked about me, and Shane let him leave!"

"Bad move, my friend," Dani told him before slapping him upside the head.

Shane moved his hand to the new spot of pain. "Ow! You're kidding, right?" Tori glared at him once more before taking off again. "What's wrong?" Shane asked, unaware of what he did.

"This is further proof that you're a complete doofus!" She yelled, storming off. "I gotta meet Dustin."

Shane stood there, a confused look on his face. "What is with her?"

Dani laughed. "Shane, we're girls, not books. You can't always read us, and you can't judge us by the cover." She checked her watch, realizing she had to leave. "I have to help Kelly, so see ya!" She sprinted off the beach, leaving the Red Ninja more confused than ever.

Little did the rangers know that they had unwanted company. Hidden on a hill, Kapri looked into her binoculars while Marah watched the three from a distance, her eyes locked upon Shane. "Oh, let's go for him," she said dreamily.

Kapri rolled her eyes at her sister. "Stick to the plan, Marah, it's gotta be blue."

"I know, just look at her!" Marah sneered. "So perky and athletic. I just wanna bury her up to her neck in sand."

Kapri scoffed. "First you'd have to learn how to learn a hole."

Marah tried to grab the binoculars from the pink haired girl, but failed. "Never, EVER, grab. We clear?"

"Sorry," Marah frowned.

"Just remember who's running things around here, Marah," Kapri snapped. "And nobody gets hurt."

Tori walked into Storm Chargers for new surf shorts when her yellow friend greeted her at the counter. "Hey, dude," Dustin said. "Y'know, Shane thinks you're mad at him."

Tori rolled her eyes. "Wow, I guess that's why he gets the red suit."

Dustin crinkled his nose in confusion. "What happened? It didn't sound like a big deal to me."

"You don't get it either. I'm a girl. GIRL."

The boys were still oblivious. "Yeah, but you're not like a girl-girl," Dustin told the blonde.

"You're like a guy-girl," Shane yelled from the background. Tori gave them a look of disbelief, not wanting believe she heard what she did.

Kelly and Dani walked in, the brunette trying to hold in a laugh. "My advice to you both?" Kelly said to them. "Stop trying to make it better, 'cause it's only getting worse."

"Yeah," Dani chimed in. "The best way to make up with your friend is NOT by calling her a he-she, Shane."

Shane realized what he had said and smacked his forehead. Kelly shook her head and turned to Tori. "This just showed up for you," she told her, handing her an envelope.

"That's weird," Tori noted, wondering why people would send her mail here of all places. "From where?"

"Don't know, just found it out back," the redhead replied.

As Tori was opening the envelope, the boys peeked over the blue ninja's shoulder. Shane asked, "What's it say?"

"Girl sport magazine saw me surfing and want me for a photoshoot. An article about 'Beauties of the Beach.'"

Shane turned to Dustin. "Isn't that the one where they have like these incredibly gorgeous girls?"

Tori turned around, sneering at the two. "Yeah, so?" The two boys looked at each other.

Dani glared at them. "Idiots," she mouthed.

Dustin was smart enough to grab Shane before he said anything else.

"Okay, we'll just go back to silent mode now." He smacked Shane and the two left.

Tori turned back to the two girls. "You gonna do it?" Kelly asked.

Tori shrugged. "I don't know. I'm just surprised they didn't send this to Dani instead."

The brunette shook her head. "No way, Tor. If anyone should be 'Beauty of the Beach,' it's you."

The blonde girl sighed. "I wanna show them that I'm not some dopey tomboy."

"Hope that's a good enough reason," Kelly smiled. "Thanks for helping me, Dani," she added as she left to take care of customers.

"No prob, Kel," Dani replied.

Tori turned to her teammate. "You think I should do it?" she asked.

Dani thought about it. "I think it'd be pretty awesome," she started, "but if you're really that uncertain about it, maybe a certain guinea pig could help you. C'mon, I'm due for training anyway."

As the two girls left, Dustin was shaking his head at Shane. "Dude, you called her a he-she!"

-NS-

Tori and Dani walked into Ninja Ops. "Hey," Cam said to the girls.

"Hey yourself," Dani replied casually. "I'm gonna get started." She turned to the blonde. "Good luck," she said as she walked out.

Tori knelt at the table Sensei was sitting on. "Sensei, can I talk to you about something?"

"What is it?" he asked the water ninja.

When she explained her dilemma, she asked, "Is that a good enough reason to do the photoshoot, Sensei?" Sensei pondered this.

"A ninja's power flows through them from deep within their being," Sensei replied. "This inner strength can help you in all situations."

Tori smiled and shook her head. "You're no help, you know that?"

"There's a difference between helping someone and deciding for them," the guinea pig told her. Tori got up, still shaking her head, and left ops.

As she left, Cam sighed and stretched. "I feel like I've been writing code for the past three weeks," he told his father. "I think I'm getting blisters."

"Your effort is admirable, son," Sensei replied, "I have a terrible feeling we will need it." Cam nodded, yawned, and decided to check on Dani.

Dani was perfectly controlling some water when Cam came into where she was training. She put the water back in the river gently, and no mess was made. "You're getting better," Cam smiled.

"Well, I haven't made a mudslide yet," she smirked, "so I guess that's a start." Next, she jumped into the air, took a few steps, and gracefully landed on her two feet.

Cam went to high-five his friend. "Very nice!"

She beamed. "Thank you very much!" She said, bowing before laughing at herself. " To be honest, I forgot what landing properly felt like."

Tori looked at the letter from Girl Sport. Then she looked at the RV in front of her. "Is this the right place?" she wondered as she continued to the vehicle.

What the blonde didn't know is that she had two spies- rangers to be exact- watching her from a distance. The navy ranger frowned inside his mask. "This waiting is getting old," he said to his fellow ranger.

"Chill," Crismon replied. "We have to do this right."

"With you bro," the navy replied as the two streaked off together.

Meanwhile, by the RV, Tori was still confused. "Hello? Anybody here?" The door opened to reveal two hideously-dressed girls, one with pink hair, one with brown.

"Hello!" the brunette said as they walked over to Tori.

"Hi, I'm Tori," the water ninja introduced herself.

"My, aren't you... ordinary?" The brunette frowned. "Let's see if we can do something about that."

Minutes later, Tori came out in a terrible wardrobe and hairstyle to match. However, the workers seemed to be pleased. "Perfect!" The brunette squealed.

Tori shook her head. "This is so not me," she told the two.

The woman with pink hair rolled her eyes.

"We've seen what's you, okay? Now you just.." she rushed the blonde in front of the camera, or so-called camera. "Smile for the camera, alright? Perfect." The pink girl had a device in her hand, with an inscription on the back:

"If found, please return to Lothor."

Tori smirked. "I thought I recognized you two. Bad hair, bad clothes, too much makeup."

"Do you really think it's too much?" the brunette revealing to be Marah asked. "I mean-"

"MARAH!" Kapri screamed. She pressed a button on her PAM. "KELZAKS!" As they were summoned, Tori ran forward to fight them. At one moment she was winning, punching and shoving each Kelzak. However, she couldn't hold them off forever, and she was pushed in front of the camera.

"Say cheese!" Marah yelled as she pulled the camera's trigger.

Suddenly, a clone of Tori appeared in front of the three girls. "Look familiar?" she retorted. The real Tori was being sucked into the device.

"It worked!" Kapri exclaimed. Clone Tori turned to the pinkie. "What are your orders?" she asked in a robotic tone. "Return to Storm Chargers and make those two boys take you to their headquarters."

"Yes ma'am."

Kapri shook her head. "And DON'T call me ma'am. I'm not that much older than you."

"Tori" bowed and left the two real girls alone. Marah giggled and turned to her sister. "Can we go shopping now? 'Cause I have Uncle's card."

The real Tori, however, was inside a contraption surrounded by Kelzaks. "Let me out of here!" she cried. "Let me go!" The monsters, however, shook her cage to mock her. Furious, Tori took off her "fashion" clothes, revealing her ninja uniform, and tried to contact help. "Cam, can you hear me? Shane, Dustin, Dani, anybody?"

Shane and Dustin were busy working on the yellow's bike when they got a sudden tap on the back. Tori, at least they thought it was, was dressed in a style not her own and gave them a look that would scare most children. "Whoa! Did you just crash into an outlet mall?" Shane asked, seeing the clothes.

"I have to get to ninja ops right away," she told them. Shane and Dustin pulled her father into the back of the store.

"Dude, I can't I have bikes stacked up, like, out the door," Dustin said.

"I really need you guys," the blonde explained. "I was attacked by Kelzaks." Shane looked at her, then at Dustin, and headed out the door.

Real Tori pounded on the walls, and tried somehow to get out. After about ten minutes of pounding, she realized it wouldn't work. Sighing, Tori knelt in the middle of her captivity. She thought back on something Sensei had told her previously;

"A ninja's power flows through them from deep within their being."

Tori smiled. "That's it!" She stood and prepared to use her water powers. "I summon blue ninja powers of the rising waters!" Her powers kicked in, causing water to flow from under her and rise her towards the exit. She let out a giggle, proud of herself.

Dustin, driving Tori's van, sighed as he looked at the gas meter. "Aw, we might have to stop for gas man,"

"We're not stopping!" Tori ordered. Shane and Dustin frowned, wondering what was wrong with her.

"Well, what if we don't make it?" Shane questioned.

"We'll make it!" Tori snapped in reply, "Just drive!" The two boys looked at each other, a little scared of the new water ninja.

As they continued driving, they were again stopped by an obstacle. "Oh no, road work!" Dustin complained, stopping the van for the construction workers.

"Don't stop!" Tori demanded.

"What can I do?" Dustin asked concerningly.

Tori took off her seatbelt and jumped out of the car. She walked up to the construction man, holding the stop-slow sign and started yelling at him. Shane and Dustin hear very few words from the van, which was far away from the gate. While walking back to the van, the boy from the beach noticed Tori and waved. Tori saw him and gave him a look that could kill before getting back inside the van. "Tori! That's the guy!" Shane exclaimed.

"What guy?"

"The guy from the beach! Dude, that's him!" he said.

"Whatever, can we just go?" Tori asked impatiently.

"Hey, whatever dude, I thought you were all into him and stuff," Shane replied, officially weirded out, especially after their fight.

Tori slowly turned her head to him."CAN WE GET THERE PLEASE?!" she yelled.

"Dude, start the car!" Shane yelled to Dustin, who was already turning the engine back on. "Start the car!" The two boys were now terrified of the Tori who had asked them for help.

The water ninja was finally at the top of the contraption. When she finally got out, she contacted the ranger that was not with her clone. "Dani?"

"Yeah, Tor, what's up?"

"Shane and Dustin are on the way there with my clone. The photoshoot was a trap. Stop them before they get there."

"Wow, that's a new one. On my way."

She smiled and streaked right in front of her van. Dani streaked to her side. "I had to see it for myself. Wow, this IS interesting!" The real Tori rolled her eyes at her friend's comment.

When the van stopped, clone Tori frowned. "Now what?"

When the boys saw the girls, they froze. Finally, Dustin spoke up; "Dude, that girl next to Dani looks just like Tori." Shane gave him an 'um, duh' look. "Ya think?" he retorted. Clone Tori growled and got out of the car.

When she faced her 'twin', she smirked. "Anything you can do, I can do better."

"Except pick clothes," Real Tori replied. "And what is with that hair?"

"Yeah, you might wanna check a mirror," Dani agreed.

"You think you're funny?" The clone snapped. "Bring it on, girlfriend!" She, too revealed her ninja uniform and fought the two others.

"We still gotta help her!" Shane said, running towards the girls.

"Wait," Dustin stopped the red. "Which her?"

"The one that Dani's fighting with," Shane told him. "There aren't two of her. Let's go." He and Dustin ran towards the fight when a monster jumped in front of them.

"Tori's busy, I heard you say," the monster started, "so the Copybot's come to brighten your day!"

Dustin turned to his friend. "I'll give you one guess what I'm thinking right now."

Shane nodded. "Reading your mind, bro."

"NINJA STORM! RANGER FORM HA!"

"POWER OF AIR!"

"POWER OF EARTH!"

While the boy's battle was looking pretty well, the girls weren't having such luck. Dani was having trouble making sure which Tori was which. When she was trying to keep track, the clone kicked her in the stomach and knocked her down against a rock and the hurricane ninja hit her head.

The Toris' kept a tough battle going until the point where the real Tori hit a fountain. Her clone smirked. "Looks like you've met your match. Face it, sister, you're finished."

Tori looked behind her to discover the fountain and smiled. Getting up, she said, "I'd say you're the one that's washed up." Using her power of water, Tori splashed her clone, knocking her to the ground. The clone melted, giving the blonde victory. "Well, I guess she's not exactly like me."

Dani was standing behind her, fully recovered. "That's something you'd see out of Wizard of Oz," she noted. "Is your real name Dorothy?"

Tori laughed at her friend. "You're a dork. Let's get rid of the copycat."

"Agreed."

When they rushed over to help the guys, the boys stopped for a minute. "Guys, its me," Tori smiled.

"And I don't have an evil clone," Dani added.

"We know that, Dan," Dustin said, but turned to Tori, "but how do we know it's the real Tori?"

She rolled her eyes. "Your real name is Waldo, and Shane, you're afraid of spiders."

Dustin laughed. "You're afraid of spiders?"

Shane glared at the earth ranger. "You wanna make something of it Waldo?"

The monster got up. "Are you through?"

"Now that you mention it," Dani said, glaring at the other two, "yes, we are. Ready?" Tori nodded.

"NINJA STORM! RANGER FORM! HA!"

"POWER OF WATER!"

"POWER OF THE HURRICANE!"

"KELZAKS!" Copybot yelled. "Attack them I say! Attack right away!" The rangers defeated the minions with no problem, using their new techniques. "So you beat the Kelzaks, whoop-de-doo!" The monster yelled. "You rangers will pay by the time I'm through!"

"Not today!" Dani yelled and ducked under Copybot's blasts. When she tried to attack, the alien disappeared. She frowned.

The monster smirked. "Copybot magic, for you it's so tragic!"

Tori smirked. "I got a little magic of my own. Blue ranger flood attack!" A shot of water was sent his way. The monster was beat, and thanks to the Storm Striker, destroyed momentarily.

However, the copycat grew and the zords were called on. When they formed the megazord, Copybot cloned himself and ordered; "Multi attack! Give them a whack!"

When they were getting attacked from all sides, the rangers groaned. "Cam, there's too many Copybots!" Dani said into her morpher. "I didn't even like it when there was just one!"

"Got something for you," he said through the communicator. "I like to call it the Megazord Lightning Mode. You control it by using your inner power, but remember it only lasts sixty seconds."

"It takes longer to make microwave popcorn!" Shane frowned.

Dani rolled her eyes. "Great, Shane, now I really wanna watch the Wizard of Oz."

"That's all the time we'll need!" Tori told Cam. "Ready, guys?"

"We're all over it!"

"Like I'd say no!"

"Let's go!" Using the Lightning Mode and the power disks, the rangers took out the Copybot once and for all.

While Tori was walking to Storm Chargers to pick up Dani for a movie night, Shane stared at her. "What? What are you looking at?"

"Nothing," he said casually, "I was just noticing, I mean you aren't completely unbeautiful, you know."

Tori looked confused. "Gee, thanks."

"Okay, Tori," Dustin said as he walked in with Kelly and Dani. "There's a customer over there who needs help with a surfboard. Can you do me a favor and talk to him?"

"You do realize I don't actually work here."

"Tor, Dustin's clueless when it comes to surf talk," Dani said.

"Hey!"

"What about Kelly?" Tori asked suspiciously.

Dustin shook his head. "Okay, dude just go talk to the guy!"

He pushed her over towards the customer "Fine! Can I help you?" she asked the surfer.

The boy turned around, revealing to be the hot surfer from the beach that morning. She looked behind her, all of her friends giving her the thumbs up. She smiled, turning back to him.

"Hi, I'm Tori," she said sweetly.

"Hey, I'm Dill," the boy replied, shaking her hand. The two talked about surfing while the other rangers and Kelly smiled at them.