Where Are You?
"Where could she be?" Dustin asked the rest of the team, pacing a path in the floor. They had all been out looking for Tori ever since they noticed her missing from the skate park. They tried getting in touch with her with their communicators but it seemed to them that she was ignoring them. "Any ideas, anyone?" He said, getting impatient.
"Dustin! Will you please stop pacing? Its not helping matters and it's getting us frustrated," Hunter said giving Dustin a harsh look. The yellow ranger looked at Hunter and sat down where he was.
"Cam, get the location of her morpher and we'll go find her that way," Blake said with a sigh. He didn't want to completely invade Tori's privacy but it was getting late and the sun had already gone down with no word from Tori all day. "Do you think anything bad has happened to her?" Blake asked worried. The navy thunder ranger was concerned for their friend and wanted to find her to know if she was alright.
"Almost there," Cam muttered, honing in on Tori's communicator. "Got it!" He proclaimed a moment later and the rest of the team gathered around him to find out where she was.
"That's her house!" Shane burst out, shocked that she was simply at home.
"But when I went by there earlier, she wasn't home," Dustin said, confused as to why she wouldn't tell them she was okay if she was just at home. Especially after they had been trying to contact her through her morpher all day.
"Come on guys, let's go see if she's alright," Shane said, already on his way towards the entrance to Ninja Ops. "Cam, do you mind staying back incase anything happens?" The red ranger asked their genius friend. Cam simply nodded his head and turned back to the computer, listening to the team run out to find Tori.
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Blake was the first to arrive at Tori's door and knocked quickly. Dustin, Shane and Hunter were behind him a few moments later with worried looks on their faces. When no one came to the door, Blake knocked with more force.
"If someone's home, shouldn't lights be on in the house?" Dustin asked, moving down the front steps and looked in the front window.
"Unless they're asleep," Hunter said, looking down at his watch. "But it's only 9:30, they should all be awake in there," he said, referring to Tori's parents and herself.
"I'm going in there," Dustin said suddenly a few minutes later when still no one had come to the door. He ran over to the garage door and punched in the code and the door opened. He moved inside and noticed that neither car or van where present. Dustin had the distinct feeling that something was wrong and that Tori was in trouble.
"Cam," Shane said into his communicator, "are you sure that Tori's at home? It's dead and no one is coming to the door."
It was a few moments before they heard Cam's response. "Positive Shane. Her signal is coming from her house," they heard his familiar voice over their communicator.
"Thanks Cam," Shane answered and they watched as Dustin disappeared into the house through the garage.
Dustin walked into the kitchen and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. He walked into the living room then and again everything was as it should be. The yellow ranger made his way off memory upstairs to Tori's room and saw the door closed. He moved in front of the door and took a deep breath before knocking on her door. After a few moments and no answer, Dustin reached his hand out and turned the door handle. The teen pushed the door open and looked around the blue room, finding it empty. He sighed deeply before bringing his communicator to his lips. "Cam, call Tori's morpher for me, ok?" Dustin said and let his arm fall back down.
The yellow ranger almost jumped when he heard the familiar sounds of their morhpers being called. He searched the room for Tori's morpher and opened one of her dresser drawers to see it beeping up at him. He sighed deeply and reached down to pick up the morpher. "You can stop calling it Cam. I found it," Dustin said into Tori's morpher and walked out of Tori's room with her morpher in his hand.
Dustin was silent as he made his way back out of Tori's house, through the garage. He didn't say anything when he saw his team members waiting for any news on Tori. He punched the code back into the keypad and the garage door closed and locked itself again. When everyone rushed over to find out if Tori was home or not, he silently opened his hand and revealed her morpher.
Shane took a step back. "Why would she take off her morpher? She knows were not supposed to," he said quietly, more to himself. The others simply stared in disbelief at the blue morpher in Dustin's hand.
"Do you think she willingly took it off or was forced to? Do you think she's hiding from us?" Blake asked them. He didn't want to believe that anything bad has happened to her because of Lothor, but it was even worse to think that she was hiding from them because of something they didn't know about.
No one knew what to say to Blake's question but they all knew that they had to get back to Ninja Ops to try and be able to locate her. Shane, Hunter and Blake all streaked back to Ops, leaving Dustin outside Tori's house alone.
The yellow ranger sat down on the grass in front of Tori's house, holding her morpher. He didn't understand why she would abandon them without telling them anything, or hinting at anything. He wanted to see her again, talk to her like they used to before they became Power Rangers. They used to go to the beach in the middle of the night and talk about whatever was bothering them. Sometime it would be girl troubles for Dustin, or family life for Tori, or simply just talking about what was going on at the academy. The yellow ranger missed their time together and didn't care about not getting enough sleep as long as they got to have some time to be alone to talk about whatever they wanted.
Dustin slowly stood back up and knew that mopping around wasn't going to help the rest of the team find Tori. If he ever wanted to go on those talks with Tori again, he would have to find her first. The teen brushed away a few stray tears that fell down his face before streaking off to Ninja Ops to help the others try and find Tori before anything bad happened to her.
A/N: This update took longer than I had hoped, I had to work everyday all week with today being my first day off. I know it's not a good excuse, but I updated! Please leave a review, you know you want to! I will update after I get 5 reviews! It's all up to you, the readers, for more!