"Wait, Lily's pregnant? And she knows?" Kira asked, snatching the ultrasound from Ronny and looking at it, wide eyed.
"I'm gonna kill that girl," Ronny growled, clenching her fists. "Not only did she not tell me, but she's out in her Ranger suit, looking for trouble! With a belly!"
"I'm surprised she's not showing yet," Conner smirked, taking the picture from his wife. Kira looked up at him, giving him a strange 'wtf' look.
"Conner... what?"
"No, tiny Lily," Conner smiled. "You know..."
He pulled up his shirt and sucked in his stomach to prove his point. The others all looked away, and Kira shook her head.
"Conner, shirt down," she said.
"Right, anyways, she's tiny. I think I saw her get bigger after she ate a grape!" Conner stated. "You know... just saying."
"Anyone able to contact Lily to get her ass back here?" Tori asked.
"Pass me your morpher," Leanne said, taking Tori's morpher when it was offered. She activated it and ripped open the back, exposing the many wires.
"Cam's gonna kill you if that stays broken," Tori pointed out, smirking as she thought of Leanne getting in trouble with Cam.
"Please, like he could get mad at me," Leanne laughed.
"What are you doing?" Dustin asked.
"One sec," Leanne said, lifting a finger to shush him. She put the cover back on the morpher and put it against her mouth. "You might wanna cover your ears."
The rangers listened to her, with Conner using one hand to cover Kira's mouth. Leanne noticed and rolled her eyes before yelling into the morpher.
"LILLIAN KAYLEIGH FUCKING RHODES! GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE BEFORE I TRACK YOU DOWN AND DRAG IT HOME MYSELF."
Leanne turned off the communication and gave Tori her morpher back, all while smiling innocently, as if nothing ever happened.
"Here you go, thank you," she grinned before skipping down the hall to get changed.
"What the fuck?" Blake asked, looking around the room. "Did she just... was that... Leah?"
"I don't know," Doc frowned.
Ronny waved her hands desperately in the spot where Leanne had been standing seconds ago.
"That was the real Leah, right? It wasn't like... a cyber Leah?"
"I don't know," Tori frowned.
"Okay, we pretend this never happened, got it?" Kira decided looking at her family.
"Got it," they all agreed, each grabbing two people's hands and shaking to seal the deal. Tori looked down at her morpher, only to scare herself as the memory came back. She had a small twitch and lost her grip on the morpher, trying to catch it several times before it hit the ground. She looked at it in fear before picking it up, and stuffing it in her bag.
-----A-Little-Miracle-----
Lily met up with a few of the Rangers in Ninja Ops, playing with her hands nervously. She had an idea of why they wanted to talk to her, and figured she was going to be in shit for keeping it a secret.
She saw Ronny glaring at her, before her face softened and she walked up to her little sister and hugged her, half relieved, half worried.
"The hell was that about?" she asked, looking Lily in the eyes.
"Um, Kaylee was missing, RJ, Casey and I are the only ones with Powers left... we went after her..."
"We found this," Kira held up the ultrasound picture, letting Lily take it back and stuff it in her pocket. "Why didn't you tell us?"
"It just happened," Lily admitted. "Casey doesn't even know yet. And I didn't think it would matter all that much right now..."
"Lils, at anytime, it matters," Kira smiled, touching Lily's arm softly. "Especially when you're a Ranger."
"I know... but announcing it when Kaylee's missing..."
"Look, we can officially announce it to everyone else, and Casey, when we get Kaylee home safe and sound," Ronny smiled, coming up behind her sister and wrapping her arms around her. "Good?"
"Perfect," Lily beamed. She walked over to Leanne, who was on the super computer. "Any luck finding her?"
"No," Leanne frowned. "It's like she's dropped off the face of the earth."
Cam chose that moment to walk out from the back room, catching the last part of the conversation.
"Who dropped off the face of the earth?" he asked.
"Kaylee... she was taken from the hospital," Leanne answered him. When Cam heard this, he ran over to the computer, leaning over his wife as he ran a search on the city for Kaylee.
"Did you..." he asked, but Leanne cut him off.
"Tried it."
"How about..."
"Three times."
"And?"
"Nothing."
"What about...
"All I got was this," Leanne wheeled her chair over to the printer and grabbed a paper.
Kelly turned to Tori and whispered.
"You know they've been married too long when..." she whispered.
Tori laughed, but Leanne gave Kelly a dirty look.
"Shut up Red Head," she said before turning back to Cam. "Anyways, when I narrowed the search down to a specific region, I found Kaylee had been brought back to San Angeles. But who would want her, and who would bring her there?"
About a dozen set of eyes turned to Leanne.
"Right, Ranger business... lots of enemies," Leanne frowned. "Ronny, Rose, any from Operation Overdrive who are still alive?"
"Not off the top of my head," Rose said, turning to Ronny. "Can you think of any?"
While the others tried to figure out who took Kaylee, Tori looked over and spotted Dustin, sitting in the corner of Ninja Ops, curled up with his head resting on his knees and buried by his arms. She walked over beside him and sat down, resting her head on his shoulder.
"If anyone can get out of this, it's Kaylee," she assured him.
"I know... but I'm terrified right now. If anything happens to Kaylee, or the baby..."
"You'll have to wait until I'm done kicking ass," Tori smiled. She wrapped her arms around Dustin and curled up with him. Hoping they could find out who had Kaylee, and why.
-----A-Little-Miracle-----
Kaylee found herself lying on the ground. She slowly peeled herself off and sat up, holding her head as she looked around.
She couldn't see much of her surroundings, the only light came from under the door. Kaylee tried crawling over to the door, to look out, but when she moved, a sharp pain shot up from her stomach. Kaylee grabbed her stomach with both hands and fell to the ground, rolling over so she was lying on her back. She lifted her shirt, exposing her stomach, and felt a long, deep cut. She screamed when she realised what happened.
She had been taken from the hospital and attacked. Whoever kidnapped her must have had a knife, and when she struggled, he stabbed her stomach, right where the baby was supposed to be.
Her healing powers had taken over quickly after that, repairing her stomach while she was unconscious, so she wasn't sure if the wound would have affect the baby at all, but chances where great that Kaylee had another miscarriage.
Kaylee screamed again, slamming her fists on the ground before thrashing around. Her screams echoed in the small room, only making her realise she was stuck and alone in a small, locked room, with no windows and very little light.
Her claustrophobia got the better of her, making her curl up into a ball in the middle of the room and rock back and forth, cradling her small stomach with her hands.
Her watch suddenly beeped twice, telling Kaylee the day had changed. It was no longer June 30th, it was July 1st. It was Ronny's birthday.
Kaylee ran a hand through her hair as she tried to focus on the only positive thought in her mind. Because she was panicking, her hand grabbed a chunk of her hair and refused to let go. But Kaylee didn't feel it. She was numb to everything around her as she tried to get her mind out of the small room and distract it from the two miscarriages she was sure she had.
-----A-Little-Miracle-----
While Leanne and Cam worked on the computer to get a lock on Kaylee's location, Lily, Ronny, Rose, Tori, Blake, Kira, Conner, Sensei and Dustin were left to stare at anything they could find.
The other former Rangers and allies all knew about Kaylee's disappearance and had visited the Ninja Ops to offer their support to Tori and Dustin, and tried helping, but when it got too late, most of them went home. Only a few stayed behind.
Lily was staring at the clock, dreading what would happen when the longer hand reached the twelve. Her eyes followed the second hand, counting down the little time before.
BEEP!
Lily turned to Ronny, who looked up when she heard the beep. She smiled at her sister, but Ronny shook her head slowly. Lily's smile dropped when she went back to staring at the clock.
"I got it!" Cam called out, shaking his wife, trying to keep her awake as everyone crowded around the computer.
"Did you find her?" Dustin asked.
"Of course, it just took a little time," Cam smiled.
"She's in an abandoned warehouse, not too far from the Hartford mansion," Leanne yawned.
"Abandoned warehouse? Seriously?" Tori frowned. "It's obvious; we should have looked there first."
"Victoria, the most obvious answer is the hardest to find," Sensei reminded the water Sensei gently.
"Yeah, so I've heard," Tori sighed.
"Well, what are we standing around here for?" Ronny asked, running for the stairs. "Let's go get her."
"Veronica..." Sensei called, forcing Ronny to stop and roll her eyes at her full name. "You should know we can't go out there."
"What?" Dustin asked.
"Why not?" Tori frowned.
"We still don't know who has Kaylee. Until then, we must be careful. Going in there unprepared is just as dangerous going in there in with three tons of dynamite and a Fire Ninja."
"Dad's right," Cam frowned. "For all we know, whoever has her could be the worst villain we've ever faced. Until I can get an idea on who he is, we should all stay here."
"Cam, have you forgotten, my pregnant wife has been kidnapped by some psychotic maniac! There is no way I'm sitting around here and waiting! C'mon Tori."
Dustin was headed for the stairs, thinking Tori was following him. When he heard a sob, he turned around and saw she was sitting on the table, her hair falling in front of her face as she looked down. Kira was sitting beside her, gently rubbing her back with one hand.
"Tor..." Dustin trailed off, sitting in front of her.
"Sensei's right, Dustin," Tori whispered. "We can't go after her."
Tori started crying, pulling away from Kira and sitting alone on the other end of the table. Dustin pulled in closer to her and held her close to him as he looked up at Sensei. He gave his master a dirty look. He knew Sensei was usually right about everything, but this time, nothing felt more wrong than just sitting in Ninja Ops, waiting for the worst to happen.
Sensei saw the look he was receiving from Dustin and couldn't help but feel guilty. He knew Dustin's anger wasn't personal, but it still hurt to know he was slowly losing his trust. But at this point, there had to be at least one person who could think straight, and Sensei was the only one.
Seeing as Dustin was comforting Tori, Kira got up from the table and walked over to Ronny.
"I guess you still deserve a happy birthday," he smiled weakly, giving the stock car driver a small hug. Ronny accepted it, but wiped a tear away from her eye when she pulled away.
"I can't even think about that now," Ronny sighed.
"It's your birthday, you don't have to feel guilty about being a little happy," Kira said.
"Kira, we don't know what's happened to Kaylee or the baby. They could be dead..."
"I bet you Kaylee's lying on a stone cold floor, in a pool of her own blood, waiting for us, or death," Lily whispered, looking up at her sister.
Ronny was shocked to hear such a dark though come from her baby sister. She knew Lily was probably close to being right, but didn't want Lily to lose hope.
"I bet you she's fine," she smiled. "She's going to come home soon, safe and sound."
Lily seemed to perk up as she hugged her sister.
"I know, I just wanted you to bet it," she said. "After all, you've never lost a bet."
Blake could only watch as everyone tried comforting each other. Conner was kicking a small soccer ball against the wall, trying to get his mind off the green Ranger he had come to love as a sister. Rose had curled up in the far corner, hugging a book close to her chest. Cam was holding Leanne as she tried not to fall asleep. Sensei had retreated into the back rooms. Lily, Kira and Ronny were trying to stay positive, but he knew they weren't doing so well.
Blake's heart broke when he looked over at the small table and saw his best friend and his wife crying desperately for Kaylee to come home. He wanted to go up to them, tell them everything was going to be okay, but until Kaylee was home, safe, sound and still pregnant, nothing was going to help them.
Blake ran a hand through his hair before he locked eyes with Rose. Without speaking, he told her to keep her mouth shut as he ran out of Ninja Ops.
He had a sister in-law to save. And he wasn't going to come back until she was back where she belonged.