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A/N: Over half of this was written in the time between I went to bed and fell asleep. I think I've found most of the typos, but I can't make any promises. I did, however, find the part where I was typing out my dream instead of this story and took it out. It was weird, I dreamed about X-Men...


It wasn't often Cam had a night off, but he'd enjoyed this one, dinner and a movie with the Bradley brothers and Tori, falling asleep on Hunter's couch afterwards, and returning to Ninja Ops after completing his morning run. As such, he was relaxed and actually smiling when he walked into Ninja Ops. "Good morning Father, Cyber Cam," he said as he cleared the door. The holograph and guinea pig were standing by the computer.

"Cam," Cyber Cam wailed, before launching into a complaint in a language Cam didn't know.

"What? Father, what happened?"

"I do not know," Kanoi Watanabe replied. "However, there does appear to be an issue with the computer, and I do not believe this is your keyboard."

"What?" Cam exclaimed again. He was at the desk as fast as he could without Ninja-streaking, only to sit in his chair in shock.

It wasn't his keyboard. His keyboard had some extra keys for specific programming codes, and there was Japanese lettering under the English, as well as the button to launch Ranger technology in the center. Although this keyboard had a similar button, the keys were labeled in an odd, flowing series of characters that Cam had never seen before. The computer's screen, at first glance, was normal. Then Cam realized that instead of the familiar codes, there was a blocky sort of script covering the screen, again, something Cam had never even seen before.

"Did anything happen last night?" Cam asked.

"No," Kanoi replied, "Adam Park came by for a short period of time to seek advice, but he left before I retired."

Cam rubbed his forehead, "I need my keyboard," he said, "I can't fix anything without it." He looked around the room, until a beeping brought him back to the computer screen.

Like a doomsday clock, there was now a clock on the screen, running backwards from about eight hours. Cyber-Cam babbled at him for a moment before falling silent, as if realizing that Cam couldn't understand him.

Cam took a deep breath, "I'm going to need help," he said, "There are too many nooks and crannies around here to hide that keyboard."

"Call the Rangers," Kanoi said.

Cam nodded and lifted his amulet to send out the alert. "Go for Shane," Shane declared moments later, to Cam's relief.

"Shane, Cam," Cam said simply, "There's an emergency at Ninja Ops. Contact the others and get here as soon as you can."

"You got it," Shane replied.

Cam dropped the amulet and stood to begin his search, walking calmly along the perimeter of the main room, weaving around the screens so as not to miss anything. Cyber-Cam faded away while Kanoi watched his son's restless walk. As he passed the door and climbed the steps to the small library area, Hunter and Blake arrived. "Cam, what's wrong?" Hunter asked.

Cam leaned over the railing; "We've got trouble, Hunter." He said, letting the rail support his weight. "Last night, somebody placed a virus in the Super Computer, as well as made off with its keyboard. I'm hoping the board is somewhere on base, If you could help me search?"

"Sure," Hunter said calmly, "How can we help?"

"Zord bay?" Cam said, hopefully. "It's either out in the open or it's in a place we wouldn't normally look, if it was still here."

"We can take the bay," Hunter said after a look at Blake, "It's no problem, Cam."

"Thank you," Cam replied, and watched the two headed down the passage to the Zords.

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As the timer ran down to zero, the Winds, Thunders and one frustrated Samurai searched for the missing keyboard. Thankfully, the alerts didn't seem to need to go off, which meant that Cam could feel slightly less embarrassed by the sabotage. He sat in his chair and watched the final seconds tick by with the other Rangers surrounding him, tense, as if prepared to fight the computer if they had to.

The timer hit zero and the screen pulsed, before the image spun into an ever tightening spiral. Just as the last of the image touched the center, the image expanded to reveal a man somewhat older than the Rangers, with glasses and spiked black hair. He wore a green shirt and had his hands folded on what appeared to be the edge of a table or desk. "Greetings," he said, calmly. "This message is for Cam Watanabe. I will hold for a moment while you fetch him." There was a two minute pause, and the man spoke again. "You won't recognize me, I'm in no way famous to the normal public, however; I assure you that you've heard of me. I am Dr Tommy Oliver, and in my past I have had the honor of holding the Red Turbo, Red Zeo, White Ninja, White Thunder and finally, the Green Dino Powers. You are receiving this message because you are the newest Ranger team and there is a tradition amongst the Green Rangers that we are initiating you into. It's very simple. Congratulations, Cameron Watanabe, you have been officially pranked by the green Rangers. As a Green Ranger, you are part of a long standing, and illustrious Prank War involving any and all who wear Green." The man grinned wickedly before the ribbetting of many frogs overwhelmed the speakers. A frog hopped over the screen, and then a second.

Soon the screen was briefly overwhelmed by frogs hopping across it, when they cleared; Adam Park was sitting there. "Hello, Cam. I'm here to tell you that your computer will be reverting back to normal at the end of this message. Unless, or until, a very specific code is entered into your computer, it will not revert to Eltarean again. I have been reliably informed that your computer will not experience any change in performance after the program has run its course. We've had the finest minds in green building this program. Good luck out here, man, it's a frog eat falcon world, ya know?"

A frog driving a van filled the screen. Next was a person that Cam thought was familiar, but he couldn't place it. "That's Carlos!" Dustin began.

"Greetings, Cam Watanabe," the dark haired man said, "I'm Carlos Vargas, former Green Turbo Ranger, although you probably recognize me as the Black Astro Ranger."

"Nice call," Shane murmured.

Cam lifted a hand, "I'm here to tell you that your keyboard is not in Ninja Ops, although it is in a place that your team has visited many times. We promise; we've given it the best of care. You can put the old one in the trash if you want. It's just a piece of scrap. I'm not even sure it works." Carlos shrugged, "Hope you don't decide to head for the hills after this, because remember, we will find you."

The screen went black, and then wavy lines filled it before clearing to show two African-American men in the middle of what appeared to be a shot contest. "Guys," a man's voice hissed, "we're filming."

"Right," one of the men said, waving his hand, "I'm Damon, Galaxy Green."

"And I'm Joel," the other men said, pouring another shot. "Lightspeed Rescue Green."

"We just wanted to warn you."

"Intergalactic Prank Week this year…"

"Commences on July 15."

"You have been warned."

"Now go away."

The two men threw back their shots in unison.

The screen blanked, and then opened to show all four men holding up glasses filled with a fiery red liquid, "Welcome to the family, Cam," Tommy said, "We'll come find you after Lothor is defeated and share a victory glass."

"And good luck finding your keyboard," Joel added.

"Yeah, Kelly said she'd take good care of it," Damon finished.

They tossed back their drinks and the screen cleared. The familiar shots of Cam's work began to pop up one at a time and a shimmer of light heralded the arrival of Cyber-Cam, "Finally!" He declared, "I know that Adam dude said it wouldn't be permanent, but still. That was totally uncalled for."

"Wait," Cam said, "You knew Adam did this?"

"Yeah, he waited until Sensei was asleep, then he came in and put the disk in. I tried, bro, but that worm was nasty, like a virtual Lothor or something. Once he scrambled the language that Damon guy came in and switched the keyboards. I couldn't stop them, I couldn't even surprise them. We gotta do something about that, bro."

"Questionable grammar aside," Cam muttered, "I'll see what I can do. That was reckless of them, what if there was a monster attack?"

"Adam said that if there was an emergency, the screen would be fixed and the computer would respond to voice recognition if need be."

"If you know everything, where did they take my keyboard?" Cam said.

"Storm Charges," Hunter interrupted from the door. He entered the room with the board. "When they said Kelly, I knew. She said that two guys came by and asked her to hold it this morning, sounded like those two black guys."

"Hunter, PC," Blake muttered.

"What ever," Hunter replied.

"Thanks," Cam said, unhooking the odd keyboard, "I appreciate you went for it."

"Hey, you're part of the team, that's what we do," Hunter said.

Neither Hunter nor Cam caught Shane's rather triumphant smirk from where he was watching the scene.

"Besides," Hunter continued, "now I have leverage for you to go see a movie, and maybe even do dinner too. Depends on my budget."

"Are you asking me on a date?" Cam asked, as he moved the keyboard. Shane took it and moved away while Hunter put the old one in its place.

"Could be a date," Hunter replied, "could just be payback. We can decide on the title later."

Cam nodded as he plugged the board in. "Uh, Cam," Cyber-Cam said, "I should warn you, Adam and that Damon guy said something about your Zord too."

Cam carefully set his board down securely, then spun and ran for the underground tunnel to the Zord Bay. Minutes after he disappeared, his voice trailed back into the room, a wail of utter dispair; "It's PINK!"

Hunter looked at Blake, who shrugged, "I thought it would be a nice surprise. It's only the interior, after all."