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AN: This is a wicked muse that came to me, so that's my explanation for this.
ANN: This one is all about the Ninjas. It will go back to being both soon, but since I did a mystic chapter, I thought I would do a ninja chapter!
"Tori?" The blue Dino tilted his head in confusion, as the other two males did while Kira gave a big hug to the blond
"You know, Tori Hanson" Kira replied giving a smile to the newly arrived female
"Doesn't ring a bell" Conner said
The water ninja sighed "The evil..." She looked around for witnesses, there were none "…ranger who attacked you?"
"Oh!" All three yelled, the two females met eyes…men.
"It's good to see you, how the team?" Ethan said kindly
They had gotten over the attack; it wasn't the other team's fault that they had been turned evil. The two ranger teams had stayed in slight contact, although now it seemed that the females had stayed much closer communication wise. Trent eyed Tori for any sign of her being a threat. The foreign ranger noticed this and prepared to surprise him.
"BOO!" She jumped at him, startling him before laughing
The others descended in chuckles, except the white ranger who glared.
"I'm not evil this time, I swear" The blond smirked at him
He accepted it, but that did not mean that he wasn't going to forgive her just yet. He was suspicious; it was his nature to be.
"Sorry Ethan, what was your question?" She hadn't heard it earlier due to the fact that she was preparing to scare a certain ex-evil ranger.
"How's your team?" The triceratops blue replied
She froze.
No movement, no sound. They waited for a response, but not a moment passed before they noticed something was wrong.
No! She silently screamed, she didn't want to think about…don't bring it up!
The younger rangers responded to her internal distress, especially Kira, who somehow just sensed that something was wrong. Looking straight into her eyes, the yellow tried to get her attention.
"Tor?"
There was no answer, which set the four on high alert.
The patrons of the café seemed to find her behavior strange, staring at her.
The Dino rangers circled her, to shield her from their gazes, while on the inside she collapsed.
She had tried to deny her emotions, but they were there and they wouldn't be pushed down. How were the guys? It was a simple question, but she couldn't answer it. She didn't know, she didn't want to know. It was a very good possibility that Blue bay harbor was in shambles from where they had torn the place apart looking for her. But she wasn't there; instead she was being watched by four sets of worried eyes.
"Did something happen to them?"
The question was also a simple one, but the truth was difficult. Kira had no idea what emotion the simple sentence held, the blow that she had just delivered.
No, nothing had happened. There had been no monster attack, no fire that burned down a building. Nothing had physically happened to them, but emotionally? The guys had always been strong on the outside but what about on the inside? They seemed to have a decent hold on their reactions but she suspected that had gone out the window when she left.
She could deny it but…
Yes, something had happened. She had drowned them in sorrow, the guilt was crushing her. A tear slid down, why was she crying? Oh right, she had deserted her family. She had heard it in Blake's voice when he answered his morpher, the sadness sinking it. More than likely the emotion had consumed them all, as it had to her.
"Tori!"
She didn't feel her legs collapse; she just knew that they no longer supported her.
She didn't feel herself hit the floor; she just knew she was there.
She didn't feel them shaking her, she just knew they were.
She didn't feel the tears escape; she just knew that her emotions had come loose.
She didn't feel, she knew.
The ninja didn't feel sorrow; she knew that she had inflicted it on herself
The blond didn't feel sadness; she knew that it plagued her soul.
Wanting to forget, she tried to push the thoughts away.
But they didn't budge.
"Wait!"
No, she didn't want to think.
"Tori!"
Go away, she thought.
"We didn't mean…"
Leave me alone! She wished they would obey
"We never meant…"
"No…" She whispered, she wanted to forget
"What's wrong?"
The question was ignored; she was too deep in her memories.
"I don't know what they did…"
Meanwhile the four tried to help her, doing so with knowing nothing of her fragile condition. The boys tried to lift her to her feet, finding that she was dead weight and that if they did get her to the correct position, she would slink right back down. The scene attracted the attention of Hayley, who Kira whispered a few words to. The redhead hurried to call a particular teacher, while Kira turned back to her friend…who was not responding to anything.
What was going on? The four asked the same question, but there was no answer
"TORI!"
The call went past her ears; it didn't even make it into her muddled mind.
"…but can't we talk about it?"
She didn't want to talk; she knew that she could never face them again. Why would they want to see her, she had broken their close knit family into a million pieces.
Darkness appeared in the corners of her consciousness, she begged it to spread.
Numbness, she didn't feel and she didn't want to know.
Everything else faded.
There were no memories of them.
Their faces disappeared.
The emotions vanished.
She was blank as her eyes closed.
Consumed by unconsciousness.
Nothing existed…
…and she was glad.
"Everybody ready?"
Shane looked at the pile of gym bags and their owners. They were stuffed to capacity and there was no doubt the clothes inside were wrinkled. But he didn't care and neither did the others.
Four heads nodded, it was time to go.
"Briarwood" He said
"What about it?" Hunter asked, puzzled
"The girl on the phone wanted to talk to Tori, she was from Briarwood" Would they get the connection?
"Tori might be there" Cam whispered, they all were silent for a moment
Then there was Dustin, racing past them.
"Dude, where are you going?" Blake called
"To pack! I'm going to Briarfield!" The racing yellow skidded to a stop
"Briarwood" He corrected
"Whatever…" The brunette scoffed "Are you coming or what?"
They all nodded, they were going after her.
The store emptied, knowing that only moments later it would be refilled.
It had taken about ten minutes for them to run to their homes, stuff a bag and hurry back. Smiles were on their faces, the rush of hope was one they loved.
"How are we getting there?"
Then Cam had to rain on the parade.
Again silence came between them, no one had thought of that.
Then the leader's eye rested on a specific vehicle, a van.
Scratch that, it wasn't a van…
It was her van.
They all seemed to get Shane's idea, following him as he picked up his bag and walked over. Trying the door, he found it unlocked. The smell of sand and salt came to him. The interior was clean, but the scent still faintly remained.
"So…" He ran off, before he heard the back open.
There was Hunter, throwing his stuff on before taking a seat in the back.
They all stared.
No one messed with Tori's van, knowing that a death sentence awaited them. As she said, quote on quote, it was "her baby". And if there was one thing they had learned about women, you do not hurt their babies or even get between the mother and child or face a bear. Mother bear syndrome was real, they knew personally.
They didn't know intill it had happened in till they heard the unmistakable noise of scraping metal.
"Shit" Hunter winced
They had been trying to load their bikes into her van, but…
"She's going to kill you guys" He said
"No she won't" The yellow ranger replied
"Well you can ask her" The younger thunder ninja pointed to a rapidly approaching Tori
"Hey Tor" Shane greeted her
"Hey…" She ran off and zeroed in on the damage
"We're doomed" He mumbled, making sure that his green self was not in her line of vision
It was a scrape, a big one.
"My car" She muttered
"We can fix it" Blake tried to stop her anger
"Yeah, we can borrow tools from Kelly" Dustin added
"We can…" The other Bradley brother was cut off
"MY CAR!" She yelled, glaring at them
"Run?" Shane suggested
The others didn't reply, the four ran for their lives. She was about to follow, but instead turned to him.
He swallowed in fear.
"Did you see what they did to my baby?" She hissed
"Yes I did, those bastards" He said, trying not to shake on the inside
"Can you fix it?" Her tone wasn't as menacing, but he was still afraid
He nodded, she smiled.
"Drive it to Ninja Ops and fix it" Handing him the keys, she walked started walking away
He quickly got in, starting the car before she could come back.
"HELP!"
He sped off, knowing that one of her targets had been captured.
Cam sighed, good times.
"What?" The crimson ranger raised an eyebrow "The sooner we get there, the sooner we can return the van"
Dustin smirked, agreeing with that logic. They weren't stealing her van, they were borrowing it. There was a difference and as long as they didn't crash it, she wouldn't care. Or at least that's what they hoped.
Their bags loaded in, Shane took the wheel with Blake and his best friend beside him. Cam and Hunter sat in the back, specifically peering over the seat at the moment.
They were waiting on him, but there was a slight…
"Well…let's go" The navy ranger urged
…problem.
"No keys" The dark haired male showed them his empty hands
"Fudge" The earth ninja sighed
Where would she have hidden them? Shane thought of all the places. Her house, but they had already looked there. Maybe she had taken them with her, but that wasn't like her. Ninja Ops? No, she never left them there.
Hunter started to whistle, for some random reason, he knew the words.
"The itsy bittsy spider climbed up the water spout…" He mumbled, remembering a sweeter voice
"… down came the rain and washed the spider out, out came the sun…"
"Tori, come on" He sighed and she grinned
"What? Oh right you don't like spiders" Dustin snickered
"You want to make something of it Waldo?" He growled, that shut him up
"It's just a song Shane" The surfboard carrying female reminded him
"Yeah, well…" He couldn't come up with a good argument
She rolled her blue eyes "Whatever, are you driving?"
He nodded, as he climbed into the driver's seat. She loaded her board to join them in the front. The racing yellow began to chat up the only female and he went to crank the van to remember that he didn't have the keys.
"Tor, where's the keys?" She looked to him
"Under the seat" This caused Dustin to voice his opinion
"That's not safe, anyone could find them" The brown haired male scolded
"I've been doing it for years, it would have been stolen already" She shot back
They continued bickering; he reached his hand under the seat. Feeling around for the cold metal, instead he encountered a rubbery texture. Being generally curios, he pulled the strange object.
His eyes met the thing he held…
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
…and then he screamed.
He jumped from the car, his adrenalin pumping.
He shuddered, it had been a spider.
And not just any spider, a FUCKING BIG SPIDER!
Then another sound reached him, laughter.
He looked into the van and growled.
His best friends were laughing their asses off at him.
"A fake spider!" Dustin sputtered "Brilliant!"
He stared at the thing resting in his seat, it was a fake.
Well now he felt like an idiot.
"Sorry Shane" Tori giggled
A really big one, she had set him up!
He didn't reply, just hurling the fake monstrosity into the back before taking his seat.
Digging under the seat, he found the keys and started the van.
The laughing had died down but…
"…And dried up all the rain, and the itsy-bitsy spider…" He snarled, but she didn't stop singing
They were going to pay dearly for that, he knew that much.
"…climbed up the spout again" He finished, before realizing that the other occupants of the car were staring at him.
"Dude" Dustin snickered
"Did we miss something?" Cam asked, looking between the two
"Tori sc…"
"Don't you dare" Shane hissed in pure red ranger anger
"What did she do?" Hunter was interested, great
"Nothing" The yellow ranger replied, after being sent a fierce glare
The other three raised eyebrows, but knew that they weren't going to hear the story.
Did she really leave…he wondered if she did.
Reaching under the seat, he tensed at the thought of feeling the same rubbery object. But there was none, just…
"Found them" He said, holding the keys up it victory
"Let's go then" Blake replied in an impatient tone
"Chill Blakey Wakey" The crimson ranger chuckled
"Don't call me that!"
"I will if I want to!"
"Fine, Hunter Wunter"
"Burn" Cam snickered at the thunder ninja's face
"You did not!"
"Have a problem with it big bro?"
"Hell yes I do!"
"Well too bad!"
"He's asking for it" Dustin muttered
"Blake, stop it right now!"
"Or what? Are you going to cuddle me to death?"
"YOU ARE DEAD!"
"BRING IT!"
And with that, the navy ranger was pulled into the back.
Cam quickly took Blake's place, to avoid the scuffle.
With sounds of fighting coming from behind him, Shane sighed.
This was going to be a long trip.
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And will what happened between them be reveled? (Yes, next chapter)
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