Author's Note: Just so you all know (I don't know who is a fan and who isn't) but Comet Warrior is still alive and will be sending me the next template for the Sabrina series as soon as possible. So our fiery red head should be back soon.
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended in the making of this series. I simply own my OCs and anything that is not recognizable from the show. Power Rangers belongs to Saban... although Ninja Storm was created by Disney. Enjoy.
Title: Lightning Storm! Ranger Form!
Summary: We all know the story of the Wind and Thunder Rangers; but what about the Lightning Rangers? Two teens that played a vital role in the destruction of Lothor? Not to mention kept the others on their toes. It's time to meet the new: Defenders of Earth.
Tori and Dustin sat in the back of Storm Charges watching a tape of Dustin riding out on the track, when the door opened as Aliyah entered, Linkin Park blaring from her headset and oblivious to the rest of the world. She approached the back room only to stop as a hand touched her shoulder.
Aliyah shrieked, grabbed the hand, spun around and flipped the person over. She let him go, however, as Dustin and Tori run out to see what the commotion was about and Dustin yelled at her to let go of the customer.
"Dude, I am so sorry," apologized Dustin, as he threw Aliyah a glare. The girl in White held her hands up in defence.
"No, it is alright," the man answered. "No harm done. I'm sorry that I startled you!"
However, now that the customer was fully standing in front of him, Dustin could see clearly who he was and his jaw dropped. "Dude, you're -"
"Roger Hannah," the man nodded, shaking Dustin's hand. "Nice to meet you."
"Who is Roger Hannah?" asked Tori, confused.
"Five time motocross champ," answered Dustin. "More wins than anyone on the planet!"
"That might be a stretch," chuckled Roger Hannah.
"You're the team manager for Factory Blue," Dustin added, and two seconds later realized what he had said. "Oh! Wait a minute!
He dove for the pile of tapes on the table behind him, rummaging for his video. Aliyah, who had removed her headphones by now, frowned at the mess. "Dude, the back room is more of a disaster zone than my bedroom! It looks like a hurricane tore through here!"
"At least I didn't attack a civillian!"
"It was self-defense!" snapped Aliyah. "How was I supposed to know he was a motocross celebrity? For all I knew he could have been a perv - no offence!" she added to Roger Hannah.
Hannah nodded. "None taken... you can't be too careful!"
"At least he agrees with me!"
Tori, who had been silent after the introduction, chuckled at her friend.
"Um, maybe you could watch this," said Dustin, handing over his video. "I've been busting some super-fast lap times."
"Maybe another time," said Roger. "I'm looking for a couple of guys in particular. I hear they ride at the local track sometimes."
Aliyah tensed and glanced Tori.
"Don't tell me," sighed Dustin. "One big guy, one not so big guy, both insanely fast?"
Roger Hannah nodded. "So you know them?"
"Blake and Hunter," said Tori. "You could say we know them!"
"More like hate them," hissed Aliyah.
Roger frowned at her as Tori nudged her with her elbow. "Well, can you tell me where I can find them?" he asked.
"I really wish I could," said Tori, her expression falling.
"Yeah, dude, she does," nodded Dustin. "She's got this thing for -"
"Dustin," warned Aliyah. "If you value your life - shut it now!"
Dustin fell silent as Roger Hannah chuckled in amusement.
"Well, here is my card," he said. "If you run into them have them call me. It is important!"
Dustin nodded and took the card, waving as Roger Hannah walked off.
Aliyah took the card and looked at it. "How about we just tell Blake that Roger Hannah came looking for him, and we tell Hunter that no one finds him worthy?"
Dustin frowned. "What do you have against Hunter?" he asked.
"I just don't like him!"
"But I thought you had a thing for the whole 'brooding-bad-boy' persona?" asked Tori.
Aliyah glared. "Zip it, Blondie!"
"So you do like him?" questioned Tori. "And he reacts to your bait - which means he likes you, so this is great!"
"Whatever!" Aliyah said, rolling her eyes and headed back out into the open air and sunshine. She could hear Tori laughing, then footsteps and turned to glance over her shoulder. Tori had abandoned Dustin and was following her out of the store, a grin stretched over her face.
Aliyah groaned in annoyance... sometimes being the younger sister - despite not being biologically related - was annoying as hell.
~*Lightning Storm*~
Aliyah yelped as she ducked under a kick from Dustin, before retaliating with a sweep kick, knocking the Yellow ranger's feet out from under her. She snickered as he hit the ground with a thud.
"Make that 4 against 1, Shane," she called over her shoulder to where the Red ranger was watching. "That is four to the Ninja drop-out..."
Dustin grumbled and pushed himself to his feet.
"What was that?" asked Aliyah. "I couldn't hear you!"
"I said: What is it with girls and their humiliation of men?"
Aliyah grinned. "It is not our fault you make it so easy," she answered, turning to the sound of footsteps in the entrance cave. Seconds later Tori appeared, looking frazzled. "I sense bad news..."
Tori looked sheepish. "Uh, Dustin..."
"No," the Yellow ranger said, spinning around wildly. "Please tell me you didn't!"
Chewing her lower lip, Tori turned and pointed to the wreckage that used to be Dustin's race bike Shane, who had joined them, chuckled mercilessly and patted Aliyah's shoulder, as the Ninja in White clapped her hand over her mouth to hide her shock at the destruction.
"What did you do?" Aliyah asked, turning to Tori. "Run over a log?"
"Sort of," answered the blonde. "But it wasn't intentional... I was run off the terrain."
"By who?" asked Shane.
"Well, that is the part you're not going to believe,"
"Try us!" said Aliyah.
Tori took a deep breath and collected her thoughts. "It was Blake," she answered. "I was run off by Blake!"
~*Lightning Storm*~
"I don't buy it," said Shane, shaking his head. It was at least half an hour after Tori had explained the entire story to her friends, and an even further half an hour after it had taken the three Wind rangers to calm Aliyah down. Making it almost an hour since Tori had destroyed Dustin's bike.
"What's not to buy?" asked Tori.
"Well, why would Choobo decide all of a sudden to turn good?"
"I must agree with Shane," nodded Sensei from his habitat. "It sounds far too convenient."
"Hunter and Blake said they were going to check it out," explained Tori. "Even if they get in the ship, they won't attack until they can bring us in for backup."
"When I thought they couldn't get any dumber!" Aliyah scoffed.
Dustin rolled his eyes at the White ninja and turned to Tori. "I guess this gives us time!"
"Time for what?"
"For you to fix my bike, Miss. Freestyle, No-hand landing," answered Dustin, earning chuckles from Shane and Cam.
Tori blushed in embarrassment. "It wasn't that bad," she said sheepishly. "I just took a little spill!"
"The fender is facing backwards," Dustin pointed out, and Shane nodded seriously.
"Alright!" Tori whined as Aliyah giggled mercilessly from behind the blonde.
~*Lightning Storm*~
"Have they told you their plan?" Aliyah asked, blocking Tori's moves as the blonde launched punch after punch at her, forcing the White ninja backwards.
"They said they'd let us know what happened," she replied, kicking Aliyah in the chest and firing another punch. "I trust them!"
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" asked Aliyah. "Last time you trusted them; they betrayed you and kidnapped your Sensei!"
"What is it with you?" asked Tori. "Why do you detest them so much?"
"I don't detest them!"
Tori gave her an unconvinced look.
"Alright, fine!" cried Aliyah. "I have nothing against Blake! But I just don't like Hunter!"
"Why?"
"Because he is the biggest prat known to mankind!"
"Don't you think that is a bit harsh?" asked Tori. "You don't even know him!"
"I know enough to stay away from him!"
At that moment Shane walked in accompanied by Dustin. "You may want to listen to this," the red ranger said, walking past the two girls and into Ninja Ops.
Tori and Aliyah exchanged looks.
"What's up?"
"I just saw them at the shop," answered Dustin, "and they just totally blew me off! I don't know it was like déjà-vu all over again!"
"Technically, that is impossible, Dustin," said Cam.
"Whatever man," complained Dustin. "But I'm telling you, these guys are suffering from a major brain fade, okay? I mean, it's like our adventure in the Cavern of Lost Souls never even happened."
"But I thought we were all cool," frowned Tori.
Aliyah quirked an eyebrow at her. "Yeah, and those guys have always been reliable!" she commented.
"Speaking of reliable," said Cam, walking between the group of four. "Looks like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed!"
He pointed at the computer screen where a huge crab-like creature was attacking the power plant.
Aliyah chuckled at the image.
"Where does Lothor get these losers?" she asked.
Tori shrugged and turned to Shane. "Do you want to say it or should I?"
Shane nodded and stepped back away from Cam and Aliyah, she still refused to even acknowledge her Ranger destiny. She wanted absolutely nothing to do with her morpher! She had a reason... she just refused to share that reason with her friends. It meant opening a can of worms that she had worked extremely hard to close!
"Ready?"
"Ready!"
"Ninja Storm, Ranger Form! Ha!"
~*Lightning Storm*~
Arriving on scene, Shane looked around for any signs of a struggle. There were none.
"I don't see anything!" he said, turning to his team-mates.
"I hate to bring it up," Tori replied. "But this is always how it starts!"
Suddenly steam shot out from a near-by pipe infesting the place with some serious stank. Shane, Dustin and Tori recoiled in revulsion. Unfortunately, it seemed that steam was a diversion, because the second it had appeared all three Wind rangers ended on their butts in the middle of the construction site.
"I rest my case!" announced Tori.
"Well, if it isn't the world famous Power Rangers," the snail trailed. "You know? You look taller on TV!"
"Has anyone ever tell you that you look uglier in person?" retorted Dustin as he made it back to his feet.
"What is this?" questioned Tori, following his action. "Attack of the giant snail?"
"Not a problem!" said Shane, being the last back to his feet.
Meanwhile, on a rooftop, overlooking the battle, stood Blake and Hunter already in morphed form.
"There they are," Blake smirked.
"It's show time!"
Firing a blast of crimson lightning at the Wind rangers, Hunter chuckled darkly as they were blasted off their feet again.
"Where did that come from?" asked Tori.
Looking around, Dustin spotted the Thunders and pointed. "What the -?"
"Hey, remember us?" called Blake.
"What are you doing?" called Tori.
"Yeah!" nodded Shane.
Instead of answering, Blake and Hunter jumped from the rooftop and ran at the three rangers, drawing their weapons mid-sprint.
"Wait!" shouted a voice and a blur of black landed between the two teams. "What the hell - didn't we already do this?"
The Black Lightning ranger had arrived.
"Good of you to join us," said Shane, as he and the Black ranger were cut off from Tori and Dustin by Blake, who had not heeded her warning. "Too bad your partner in crime decides to ignore her calling!"
"She can't avoid it for long," answered the Black ranger. "She'll join us! Just give her time!"
Shane frowned. "Who are you?"
"Now is not really the right time," she answered, ducking under an attack from Blake and catching the next in her hands. "Dude! Can't you see we're trying to have a conversation?"
"We don't want to fight you!" added Shane.
But Blake ignored both of them and continued on his rampage, while Hunter made short work of Tori and Dustin.
Within minutes the three Wind rangers and Lightning ranger were blasted backwards into the warehouse by a blast of Crimson thunder.
"I seriously do not appreciate my own power being used against me," snapped the Black ranger. "I'll do the Lightning attacks if you do not mind!"
"Why give just a powerful element to such a weak individual," sneered Hunter.
"Who you calling weak, dumbass!"
Tori, Shane and Dustin exchanged looks. If they didn't know better, they would have said it was Aliyah under the black mask.
~*Lightning Storm*~
Aliyah giggled as she and Cam monitored the fight from Ninja Ops.
"I'm starting to like her," she said, nudging Cam. "Maybe she really is my partner in crime!"
"Crime fighting, you mean?"
Aliyah shrugged. "Meh, as long as she gives Hunter hell, I could really careless!"
The boy in green rolled his eyes. "Well, why don't you show your partner some hospitality and go help her?"
"Morphed or not?"
"Aliyah..."
"I don't want to morph, Cam!"
"Why not?"
"Why is it so important to you that I accept what is being asked of me?"
"Because I would do anything to have the opportunity!" yelled Cam. "I would give anything to be in your position... I just don't understand why you would want to throw away the honor of defending your city!"
"I can defend Blue Bay Harbour without the likes of a morpher," answered Aliyah, hotly. "You want the stupid powers? You want a bounty over your head... then here -" she shoved her morpher into his hands. "Take the stupid thing! I quit!"
Cam sighed as he watched her storm out of Ninja Ops.
~*Lightning Storm*~
"Where are we going?" Dustin asked as he followed Shane and Tori through the warehouse. The Black ranger had disappeared the moment they entered the darkness and they had no clue has to where she had gone.
"Away from that stanky smell!" Shane called over his shoulder as the snail continued to chase them. Stealth was not an option with this clown... the rangers could smell him before they could see him.
Skidding to a halt in front of a hundred foot drop, Shane, Tori and Dustin turned back to the snail that now had then cornered.
"Trapped like rats!" complained Tori.
The Snail chuckled. "This gas is a total blast!" he said, blasting them with his toxic fumes.
Managing to get to their feet, the Wind rangers locked arms and spun around, sending the gas away and knocking the snail out of the warehouse. Calling forth their weapons, they followed him and attacked simultaneously, causing him to explode.
The moment he exploded, the snail returned, but this time he was bigger... better... and ready for them.
"You're about to get shell shocked!" the snail snarled, transforming it a shell and attacking the rangers.
"Lightning Megazord, power up!" Shane commanded.
The Megazord slimmed down and attacked, causing little to no damage at all.
Unfortunately, the fight with the snail was not the only problem the Wind's had to deal with. Blake and Hunter had recovered and returned with their own Zords... both of which transformed into their own Megazord.
"Oh, great," Shane said sarcastically. "The bugs are back!"
"Looks like you guys could use a little more help," said a familiar voice and seconds later a giant black eagle swooped in over the Wind Ninja Megazord. "Assault mode!"
The wings of the eagle folded backwards into its body, and it transformed into a blaster.
"Black Eagle!" the Black ranger commanded. "Blaster mode!"
The blaster slid easily into the hand of the Wind Megazord as the Black ranger combined her systems with that of the primary rangers. "Now you have twice the power!"
"But... how?" asked Dustin.
"Something's are easier to explain than others, Dustin," answered the Black Ranger. "This is just a little trade secret I picked up in Ocean Bluff. Don't worry... things will seem clearer real soon!"
Dustin frowned at the dashboard of his Zord... how did she know his name?
"Now what?" asked Tori.
"Aim and Fire!" the Black ranger commanded.
Shane nodded and took aim. He fired the blaster and watched as energized giant eagle spirit rammed into the snail. There was a split second pause before the snail exploded, issuing several bright orange lights into the atmosphere.
"What's happening?" yelped Tori as one of the orange lights wound its way around her dolphin zord.
"I don't know!" answered the Black ranger as another strand of light took hold of her Eagle zord.
On the ground, Choobo laughed as each of the individual zords were tapped into by the energy strands. "I hope you like the beach," he called, joyfully, "because that's where you're headed!"
There was a bright flash and seconds later, both Thunder and Wind Megazords shut down, as the Black Eagle slipped from the Wind ranger's hands and clattered to the ground.
Choobo laughed as he looked up at his handiwork... Lothor was going to be proud of him now!
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A/N: Someone asked me if there would be Hunter/Aliyah fluff… in truth? I am not sure what there will be. I am conflicted on pairings. I know for a fact that it will be a Blake/Tori pairing.
But I do not know of any others as of yet… any specific pairing you would like to see, then don't hesitate to tell me… and that pairing does not have to stay within the confinements of Ninja Storm! It can include another ranger from another series.
If you have an idea on who Aliyah should be paired up… then let me know… I would appreciate the help.
Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Chapter updated Tuesday, June 05, 2012 at 5:04am