Return of the Thunder

"You look really good out there!" Tori smiled as she watched a video Dustin made of himself riding motocross.

"Now all I gotta do it get some factory dudes to see the tape!" Dustin sighed.

"Hi there, I'm looking for Kelly Holloway," a man asked.

"Sorry, she out at the moment, can I help you?" Dustin asked, pausing the TV and turning to the man. "DUDE, you're..."

"Roger Hannah, nice to meet you," Roger smiled, shaking Dustin's hand.

"Who's Roger Hannah?" Kaylee asked.

"Five time motochamp! More wins than anybody on the planet!" Dustin smiled.

"That might be a stretch," the superstar blushed.

"You're the team manager for Factory blue!" Dustin smiled.

"Three, two, one," Kaylee counted down. The advantage to knowing Dustin her whole life was that she knew Dustin, inside and out.

"OHH! Wait a minute!" Dustin exclaimed, looking on the table for his tape. "Where is it? Here! Here watch this tape. I've been busting some super fast lap time!"

"Actually I'm looking for a couple guys in particular. I hear they ride at the local track sometimes," Roger Hannah said.

"Oh, don't tell me. One big guy, one not so big guy, both insanely fast."

"So you know them?"

"Blake and Hunter? You could say we know them!" Tori smiled.

"My sister knows Blake, really well. Well wants to know him really well," Kaylee smiled. Tori brought her fist up and Kaylee ran for the backroom at the shop.

"Then you can tell me where to find them," Roger smiled.

"I wish I could, really I do." Tori sighed.

"See, it's a big..."

"Don't even go there!" Tori threatened her friend.

Roger laughed at the two teens. "Well, here's my card. If you run into them have them call me. It's really important!"

"Yeah okay, sure thing!" Dustin smiled. "Wow! Can you believe Roger Hannah... Tori? Tor," Dustin found his blue friend next to his bike.

"Hey! What are you doing?" he asked, running over.

"I'm borrowing your bike!" Tori answered.

"Oh. No you see, the way that usually works is you ask me first, then I think about it for half a second, then tell you that the only way I would let you ride my race bike is if you tied me down and tortured me," Dustin said.

"Alrighty then, yellow boy," Kaylee said, coming out of the backroom with some rope and a wrench. "Don't mess with the Hanson sisters!"

"I just did a prep okay! It's perfect!" Dustin said.

"Look! I really miss Blake, and riding makes me feel like he's still around. Since Cam keeps the Tsunami Cycles under lock and key, this is as close as it gets!" Tori begged. Dustin looked away for a second then looked back at the two girls. Big mistake, when he did, not only was Tori giving him the puppy dog look, but Kaylee as well. Dustin couldn't resist when Kaylee gave the look.

"Alright fine! But if you bend the bars or break the shifter off you have to..."

"Fix it," Tori finished, pulling the bike out of the store and getting her riding gear so she could go out. Kaylee smiled as she walked up to Dustin.

"Thanks. She's been so bummed for the past few days. I was starting to miss Blake! And I don't even like him!" she said.

-Ninja-Storm-

"Are you sure he said here?" Hunter asked his brother as the Thunders stood in the middle of a desert.

"Yeah! Maybe he forgot, or got lost," Blake answered. "I mean he's not technically an intelligent life form!"

"Ohh! Oww! Hot sand! OW!" Choobo yelled as he came down from Lothor's spaceship and landed on the desert sand!" The Bradley brothers walked up to him.

"Alright, we're here, just like you said!" Blake said sternly.

"This had better be worth the hike!" Hunter said.

"Oh it will be!" Choobo smiled. "Our leader has made a decision that will affect the power in the universe!"

"Are you for real?" Blake asked.

"I decided to leave Lothor's army, you know, go to the light side!"

"Who said the light side would want you?" Hunter asked the green alien.

"Because ex-employees always have secret information, and ways to get into places!" Choobo smiled.

"Like Lothor's ship!" Blake exclaimed.

"Possibly!" the alien replied.

"What's in it for you?" Hunter asked.

"Like I said, I'm good and I want payback for all the nasty things they said about me!" Choobo answered.

-Ninja-Storm-

"Dude, I just saw Tori out front..."

"Loading my pride and joy into her van, I know!" Dustin cut off the red ranger.

"You never even let me ride that thing!" Shane said, jealous.

"Well, she hit harder that you do!" Dustin answered.

"I'll say," Kaylee laughed, rubbing her arm from where she was hit a few days ago.

"Good point!" Shane agreed.

-Ninja-Storm-

Tori jumped over a hill with Dustin bike and rode along the straightaway. She panicked when she saw another rider coming up behind her and tried to avoid him. As she looked back, she failed to notice a tree trunk in her path and flew off the bike.

"Hey! What's the deal?" Tori yelled, pulling off her helmet. The guy on the bike beside her did the same.

"Blake? What? You totally freaked me out! I thought you were one of Lothor's goons!"

"Since when do they ride dirt bikes?" Blake asked.

"You never know!" Tori answered. "Where have you been anyway? You don't call, no letter," she teased.

"You missed me," Blake smiled.

"No," she replied seriously and defensively.

"Yeah you did. I can tell!"

"I don't like you anymore and I'm not talking to you ever again!" she smiled.

"Oh yeah? Even if I had a way to get into Lothor's ship?" Blake asked.

-Ninja-Storm-

"I don't buy it!" Shane said after Tori told him what she heard from Blake. "Why would Choobo all of a sudden just decide to turn good?"

"I must agree with Shane," Sensei said. "It sounds far too convenient."

"Hunter and Blake said they were going to go check it out. Even if they can get into the ship they won't attack until they can bring us in for back-up," Tori explained.

"Good, that that will give you time to fix my bike!" Dustin said.

"I just took a little spill!" Tori said.

"Tor, the fender is facing backwards," Kaylee smiled.

"Alright!"

-Ninja-Storm-

Dustin walked into Storm Chargers and saw Blake and Hunter seal a deal with Roger Hannah. "So what? Did you guys sign with Factory Blue? That's amazing!" Dustin smiled.

Hunter gave the yellow ranger the dirtiest look before blowing him off. "We'll catch you later."

"Don't you think we have some things we need to talk about?" he asked. Kaylee, who was bored so she was helping Kelly, walked up to her friend.

"Don't bother, they've been blowing me off all day too," she said.

"You think something happened to them?" Dustin asked.

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"Dude, what?"

"Never mind!" Kaylee said.

-Ninja-Storm-

"Have they told you their plan?" Shane asked the blue ranger as the two were sparring in ops.

"I trust them!" Tori said, pushing Shane into the stairs as Dustin and Kaylee came in.

"If 'them' is Blake and Hunter you might wanna rethink that!" Dustin said.

"We saw them at the shop and they totally blew us both off!" Kaylee said.

"It's like déjà-vu all over again!" Dustin said.

"You mean it's like déjà-vu. We've never déjà-vued this so it can't be déjà-vuing again. It would just be déjà-vu," Kaylee corrected.

"Whatever, these guys are suffering from a major brain fake. It's like our little journey in the cavern of lost souls never happened," Dustin said.

"But I thought we were all cool?" Tori asked.

"Actually, you thought you and Blake were cool. I just thought we didn't have to deal with Thunders anymore!" Kaylee laughed.

"Those guys aren't very reliable!" Shane stated.

"Speaking of reliable, looks like somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed," Cam said.

"Where does Lothor get these losers?" Shane asked, watching a snail monster on the screen.

"Hey, maybe Dustin and this monster can keep up with big kid talk!" Kaylee laughed. "There both slow, they can help each other!"

"Do you wanna said it? Or should I?" Tori asked her leader.

"Ready?"

"Ready."

"NINJA STORM RANGER FORM!" they called out. "Power of..."

"Water."

"Air."

"Earth."

"Samurai!"

"I don't see anything," Shane said as the rangers arrived outside the warehouse.

"I'd hate to bring it up, but this is always how it starts!" Tori said.

"Actually, it always starts with someone spotting a monster," Kaylee corrected. She sniffed the air for a second as something caught her nose. "Warn us next time Tor!" Tori didn't have to get back at her sister because all four rangers were hit with a claw and knocked to the ground.

"I rest my case, and HEY!" Tori said. The Wind Rangers got ready to fight the giant super smelly snail, the Thunders watched from a rooftop. Hunter smiled before blasting the Rangers with a lighting attack.

"HEY! Remember us!" Blake yelled.

"Guys!" Tori yelled.

"What are you doing?" Kaylee asked. The Thunders nodded before joining the fight. Shane and Dustin against Blake and Kaylee and Tori against Hunter. The Thunders had the Rangers on their knees as they fired their weapons, sending the four rangers into the building.

"Wait! I'm just getting gassed up!" the snail yelled.

"Oh crap! Super Ninja Nose Plugs!" Kaylee yelled, running into the building. The snail turned into a giant ball of gas and floated into the building with the Rangers. The Thunders followed, wanting badly to end the Wind Rangers. Before they could get in, Blake suddenly felt a pain in his head.

"What's the matter?" Hunter asked.

"I dunno," Blake said, holding his head as Hunter ran up to his little brother.

"You okay? C'mon, let's go!" Hunter said.

"I can't!" Blake yelled.

Inside the warehouse, the Wind Rangers were running away from the fight, trying to hide from the monster and the Thunders. "Where are we going?" Dusting asked.

"Away from that stanky smell!" Shane replied.

"Works for me!" Tori agreed.

"C'mon, you two know we can never out run Tori!" Kaylee said as she ran ahead of the group.

"If we weren't in the middle of a fight, I would kill you right now Kay!" Tori yelled.

"You can't run away from my furious fumes Rangers!" the snail laughed as he followed the rangers.

The rangers reached the end of a path and stood in front of a railing as the snail pushed them over. The Rangers landed hard, but got right back up. The snail jumped down and blew some smelly gas toward the rangers. Tor, Shane and Dustin locked arms and Kay stood in the middle. She started spinning and the faster she got, the faster the Ranger spun until they created a tornado. The force of the wind pushed the smell and smog away. It's also pummelled the snail with trash, and lots of it.

"Ninja swords! Power up!" Shane yelled, pulling out his sword. He slashed the snail and the Ranger quickly assembled the Storm Striker. It hit dead on as the snail blew up. When it did, Choobo appeared behind the Rangers and laughed.

"I hope you like the beach! 'Cause that's where you're headed!" he yelled as the Wind and Thunder Rangers magically disappeared.

When Dustin woke up he was back in his civilian clothes and lying on a stranger beach he had never seen before, and with Tori as his friend, he had seen a lot. He stood up and looked for his friends, who were nowhere to be seen.

"Shane? Tori? KAY!" he yelled.

-Ninja-Storm-

Tori woke up on the beach and immediately noticed Shane waking up beside her. She looked around and noticed her sister and Dustin were missing.

"Where are Dustin and Kay?" She asked.

"I'm here!" Dustin yelled, running down from the rocks. "I was up on the hill so I checked things out. I saw you two so I ran over. We seem to be on an island."

"What about my sister?" Tori asked, her voice squeaking as she said sister.

"Dude, I looked around for her. She's not here. Hopefully she's back at ops with Cam," Dustin said, putting his arm around Tori. She went to try her morpher but Dustin stopped her. "I already tried."

"So I'm just supposed to wait here until we get rescued? What about my SISTER!" Tori yelled. Shane bent over as something washed up on shore. He pulled it up and shook off the seaweed.

"Dude that was Kay's sweater!" Dustin said. Tori looked out over the water. Her eyes passed along the beach until she saw a body move under a small boulder. She ran over to it and carefully pushed it off whatever was underneath.

"Thank GOD!" Tori smiled, helping her unharmed sister up.

"Where are we? The last thing I remember was fighting smelly snail, Blake and Hunter," Kaylee asked.

"Yeah, don't remind me!" Shane said, glaring at Tori.

"There's an explanation!" Tori yelled.

"I think everything is pretty clear!"

"What does that mean?" Tori asked her leader.

"We've known these guys for what? A month? And how much of that time have they not tried to take us out?"

"You didn't see Blake the other day. Something must have happened to him and Hunter when they went to Lothor's ship!"

"When you get real, come and talk to me, alright!" Shane yelled, walking off. Kaylee went to follow him to give him a piece of her mind for making Tori upset but Dustin held her back.

"We could always trade him in for a new ranger," Dustin teased, trying to lighten up the moment. "Maybe a... pink one."

"Hey! Wait up!" Tori yelled as she and her friends followed Shane. "Okay, I know this is a bit brutal but you have to stay open to the chance that there might be a logical reason for all this!" Shane stopped in his tracks as something streaked by.

"You guys saw that right?" Dustin asked.

"I did," Kaylee answered.

"Careful, my sister suffers from something I like to call craziness. She's the same type as the people who see dead people," Tori smirked, finally getting back at her sister.

"It's over there!" Shane yelled, pointing inside the forest. The four ran ahead, looking for whatever it was they saw. They stopped in a little clearing.

"It came this way! I saw it!" Shane said.

"Good eye," Blake smiled as he and his brother stood before the Wind Rangers.

"Crap!" Kaylee yelled.

"You ever wonder, if two Thunders got into a fight with four Wind ninjas, who would win?" Hunter asked.

"I have the bruises to prove you guys would win. But I wouldn't mind a rematch!" Kaylee yelled.

"You know, we'll be nice, we'll give you a head start if you wanna run," Hunter offered.

"Sorry Tor, but whatever's up with these guys, we're not going to fix it by letting them stomp us," Shane said.

"Don't worry, I have no intention of letting them stomp us!" Tori smirked. The six teens glared at each other for a few seconds before the Wind Rangers pulled off their street clothes to reveal their ninja uniforms and the battle began. Shane and Kaylee fought against Hunter as Tori and Dustin fought Blake. They ninja streaked back to the beach and continued their fighting.

"We having fun yet?" Shane asked as the fighting ceased for a minute.

"Watch this!" Hunter smiled.

"TUNDER STORM, RANGER FORM!" they called. "POWER OF THUNDER."

"I knew that was coming!" Dustin said.

"NINJA STORM, RANGER FORM!"

"POWER OF EARTH."

"POWER OF AIR."

"POWER OF WATER."

"POWER OF THE SAMURAI."

Shane was once again fighting Hunter with Kaylee but the two red rangers pulled out their blasters and started shooting each other so Kay just watched the scene.

"I really need a weapon other than my stupid stick," she said.

Tori and Dustin were fighting Blake when Dustin used his ninja beams. Blake deflected them onto Tori.

"I'm okay!" Tori smiled just before Blake grabbed Dustin with some electric beam and spun the earth boy around. He let go of Dustin and the yellow ranger flew into the lake. The Wind rangers regroup in time to be blasted by Hunter.

"Alright look, you obviously have some emotional problems you're dealing with. Have you ever considered group therapy?" Shane asked, struggling to get back up.

"Other than ours, because face it, this one makes the transition back to sane pretty painful for all of us!" Kaylee said.

"Yeah, I mean I love dirt as much as the next guy..."

"Too bad it doesn't show in your riding, Dustin!" Blake yelled.

"Ohh you did not just bag on my riding!" Dustin yelled, engaging Blake back into a fight.

"Why are we fighting them?" Hunter asked himself. "Hey wait! Isn't Dustin our friend?" Memories came flooding back to Hunter of the times he spent with Dustin.

"Blake! This is wrong!" Hunter yelled.

"What are you talking about Hunter?" Blake asked, pining Dustin down.

"NINJA BEAMS!" Tori and Shane yelled, shooting beams at Blake to get him off Dustin. Hunter caught his little brother as the Rangers assembled the Storm Striker. They fired at the Rangers and after the blast hit, they continued their attack. Blake and Hunter didn't stand a chance as they fell to the ground.

"You've just been grounded!" Kaylee smiled. The Winds slowly approached the Thunders as their good memory came back.

"Where are we?" Hunter asked.

"Heaven, don't you seen all the little birdies?" Kaylee teased, still not sure if they were for real.

"What happened?" Hunter asked.

"They seem themselves," Tori said.

"HEY!" Choobo yelled from the top of the hill. "You down there in the bug suits! I worked too hard for you to mess things up now!"

"You can't keep a good snail down!" the snail monster yelled as he was summoned by Choobo. Toxipod, the snail monster, blasted the Rangers with a beam from his mouth.

"He smells so much worst! It's like he sat on sticky cheese then farted!" Kaylee yelled.

"Everything about me is worst!" The monster yelled.

"Even you're fighting?" Kaylee said, getting up faster than her friends.

"What do you want?" Dustin asked.

"Want? I want to sink this island with you on it!" Toxipod explained. "That would cause an atmospheric reaction, which will drop the temperature to -100°."

"Well there goes our global warming problem." Kaylee laughed as Toxipod shot her friends with another beam. "HEY!"

Suddenly, from out of nowhere, Kalzaks appeared and started fighting the Rangers.

"Blake, we gotta help them!" Hunter said.

"All over it bro, let's do it!" Blake yelled.

"Not so fast!" Choobo yelled, jumping down the hill. "Listen to me crimson Ranger; your brother has betrayed you."

"That's crazy!" Hunter yelled. Suddenly a beam came down and shot Hunter. The crimson Ranger cried out in pain until the beam stopped. Blake ran up to his brother.

"Are you okay dude?" Blake asked.

"I think so..." Hunter said.

"Here's the real deal," Choobo explained. "You can't trust your brother anymore. That pretty blue ranger has convinced him to join up with them!"

"Thanks for complimenting my sister, but you're full of lies!" Kaylee yelled, leaving the Kalzaks to help the Thunders.

"What are you babbling about? I would never turn on my brother! You're the one with the evil plan!" Blake yelled.

"Tell him the truth. He deserves to know you betrayed him and his poor lost parents!" Choobo smiled.

"Hunter, don't listen to him, it's all a bunch of lies!" Blake said.

"Yeah, you guys haven't joined us yet!" Kaylee added.

"My own brother!" Hunter said. He grabbed his Thunder stick and hit Blake across the chest with it.

"Dude, that's you brother!" Kaylee said, jumping in front of Blake.

"Traitor!" Hunter yelled, running up to the Wind and Thunder Ranger.

"Don't you remember anything that happened?" Blake asked, avoiding another hit from Hunter.

"I remember you sold me out to those Wind ninjas!" Hunter yelled, hitting Blake. Hunter pinned Blake down and was going to stab him with his stick when Kaylee put her own stick in the way. It was a battle of strength between the two as Blake tried to talk Hunter out of whatever lie was in his mind.

"You brought this on yourself Blake!" Hunter yelled.

"But you're not thinking straight!" Blake said. "You got zapped with that beam, remember?"

"More lies!" Choobo yelled. "Don't listen to him!"

"I've had enough of you!" Kaylee yelled to the green monster as Hunter's force brought her down to her knees.

"Hunter, look into your heart," Blake said gently. "You know the truth." Hunter was about to snap out of it when a puff of toxic smog came out from a rock and hit Hunter in the face. Hunter was pushed back and Kaylee helped Blake get up.

"THIS IS THE END BLAKE!" Hunter yelled, charging at the two rangers at full speed. Tori and Dustin ran up to the fight as Shane fought off the smelly snail. Hunter brought his sword down on Blake but Kaylee put her stick up and defend the brother.

"Don't hurt him!" Blake yelled as Dustin and Tori pulled Hunter off.

"We're not trying to hurt him!" Tori yelled.

"We're trying to hold him!" Dustin said as Hunter threw them off. The five rangers fought Hunter, with Blake taking the biggest beating. Hunter focused his attention on Blake until his brother was on the ground again.

"Get off him!" Shane yelled, pushing Hunter off the Navy ranger. Shane stood defensively in front of Blake with the others behind him.

"This has gone far enough!" he said. "Ninja smoke screen!" and with that, they were gone.

The beaten rangers carried Blake inside a cave and gently laid him down on the wet sand.

"Blake, wake up!" Tori said. "Please... wake up!" his ranger suit zapped and Tori jumped up.

"What's happening to him?" she asked.

"He's only demorphing," Kaylee said. Her sister went t back to Blake's side as the navy ranger started to stir. Blake opened his eyes and jumped up. The boys held him down as Tori told him he was fine. Kaylee put her hand on Tori's shoulder and squeezed it. Tori nodded before getting some water from the ocean and putting it on a sore Blake had gotten. The cold water helped the pain a little. Blake stood up and walked outside the cave.

"Hunter's the only family I have, he's always been there for me, and now he needs my help," Blake said.

"We'll do whatever we can," Tori smiled.

-Ninja-Storm-

"I'm sorry do you have this in another size?" a man inside Storm Chargers asked Kelly. The shop had been busy all day and without Dustin, Kelly was becoming super stressed.

"I'm sorry, this is our last pair. How about..." the red head ran to the back off the counter. "Motocross gloves! They'll keep you warm and they look cool too!" the man agreed and Kelly walked to the till.

"Dustin you are so fired if you don't come to work today!" Kelly said to herself.

-Ninja-Storm-

Back on the island, Tori, Kaylee, Shane, Dustin and Blake were walking along the shore. "My body is frozen!" Kaylee complained as another cold wind blew across the smallest girl's face.

"It is getting colder," Dustin said, wrapping an arm around the green ninja and pulling her close to him.

"I would like to know why we can morph, but can't reach ops!" Tori said, the cold affecting her a little less because unlike the others, when she got wet, she could dry off faster.

"It would help if we knew where we are!" Shane stated.

"Artegow Island," Blake said, and the other rangers stopped. "What?"

"Anything else you'd like to share with the group?" he asked.

"You don't wanna know, trust me," Blake said.

"Trust us, we do," Tor replied.

"I gotta pee!" Kaylee said.

"Well go in the water," Dustin laughed.

"Can't... cold. I'll hold it in...Never mind!" Kaylee said, running into the water.

"I heard Lothor talking to his pals before me and Hunter were sent back to earth. This place doesn't exist on any map. It rises from the sea once every two hundred years or something...," Blake explained.

"Then what?" Dustin asked.

"That's the part that is kinda harsh," Blake said.

"Wait! You're telling us this whole place is sinking back into the ocean!" Kaylee yelled as she came out from the water with her body shivering fiercely. Dustin pulled the wet ninja back into the warm hug as they spoke with Blake.

"Told you you didn't want to know," Blake shrugged.

"We better find some higher ground," Shane ordered, leading the team up the hill.

"Is anyone else worried that we haven't seen Hunter for hours?" Dustin asked as the five hiked up the hill.

"Not me, I can use a little break from getting my butt whooped," Shane said. Blake turned to the red ranger. "No offense, but your brother isn't exactly placing nice these days."

"Look, Hunter's a great ranger, one day, you're all gonna be glad he's got those powers!" Blake said.

"How did you get them anyway?" Tori asked, sitting down beside Dustin and her sister.

"It's a long story," Blake said. "Do you really wanna hear it?"

"Hey, it's either that or watch Dustin and Kay sit together and wonder how long it will take before one them falls in love, if they aren't already," Shane said teasingly.

"Sensei Omino is the one who taught our parents the way of the Thunder Ninja. After they... past away, he brought us to the Thunder Academy. Helped us get through everything. We felt like we belonged again," Blake started. "We both did really well in our training. Sensei Omino was grooming us for something but we didn't know what."

"So that's when Lothor showed up," Dustin said.

"Yeah, our school was attacked, Kalzaks and aliens everywhere!" Blake continued. "Sensei gave us our morphers. He told us we would know what to do. Then, at that moment, we were captured by Lothor."

"When you go in those ball things, what does it feel like? Is it cool? Is it like going on a freestyle ramp?" Dustin asked, Kaylee hit him in the chest and let Blake continue the story.

"Once we got on Lothor's ship, he was interested in the Ranger powers passed onto us. That's when he told us the lie about our parents."

"That's when you went all medieval on us?" Shane said.

"Let's not go there again," Tori sighed.

"You guys don't understand, Hunter's a good person. But if he believes someone's wronged him, he won't stop until he makes it right," Blake explained.

"Okay, we get that," Kaylee said. "But why is he taking it out on us?"

"Choobo used some mind erase thing on us to make us think you were our enemies," Blake said.

"How come you weren't affected?" Shane asked.

"I had a little more help remembering," Blake smiled, turning to Tori. She blushed and turned away, looking at her sister who stopped shaking and was now only cold like the rest of them.

"Then that's what Hunter needs!" Kaylee smiled, pulling herself out of Dustin's grip and walking up next to Blake, with Tori right behind her. "C'mon, we better go find him."

"Do we have to?" Dustin asked before being pulled away by Shane.

The Rangers walked along the rocky shore of the island as a stench went into their mouth and noses, causing them all to cough.

"Man, this reeks!" Dustin exclaimed. Blake turned from his friends to what was ahead of him and saw Hunter rolling down a sandy slop.

"You guys! Check it out!" he pointed. The Rangers ran to Hunter as a blast came from nowhere nearly hit them.

"You guys better bail, 'cause I'm one bad snail!" Toxipod yelled.

"If you're a snail... why do you look more like a crab?" Dustin asked.

"Crab, snail, whatever!" the crabby snail yelled as he blasted the Rangers again. They all jumped out of the way before morphing.

"Ninja shadow battle!" Blake yelled. As the Rangers pummelled the snail, Blake managed to grab the monster with his beetle weapon.

"Where is Hunter?" he asked.

"You'll never get off this island!" Toxipod yelled.

The Wind rangers assembled the Storm Striker and fired at the snail, who instantly died.

"Everyone okay?" Shane asked as the friends regrouped.

"Major headache but I'm fine," Kaylee smiled.

"Where's Hunter?" Blake asked.

"Look!" Tori pointed to the beach where Hunter was walking towards the Rangers. Hunter instinctively attacked Blake, pushing away everyone who was in his path.

"Blake needs us!" Shane yelled, running up to Blake, but Choobo cut the team off.

"Not so fast, I wanna play!" he said.

"Hunter! You've got to trust me!" Blake said as Hunter pushed him down and sat on top of him.

"You betrayed me! And now you will pay!" Hunter yelled.

"It was Choobo and Lothor! They betrayed us! Think Hunter! Think!"

"You're confusing me! No more of your tricks!" Hunter yelled, jabbing his Thunder Blade. Blake caught it and pushed it into the sand. He then grabbed Hunter by the shoulder and pulled him off.

"You're my brother!" Blake yelled.

"I don't have a brother!" Hunter retorted, blasting Blake. Blake sighed and pulled out his Thunder Blade. When his brother was close enough, he jabbed Hunter. Blake pinned Hunter to the ground.

"Now you're gonna listen to me. You're my brother! C'mon man! Shake it off!"

"No... You're lying... I know the truth!" this time, Hunter threw Blake off. "Something is wrong... my head!" hunter yelled as he held his head. He demorphed while whispering "I remember."

"Oh no you don't," Choobo yelled.

"Oh yes he does!" Shane cried. "Ninja POWER!" the four rangers yelled as they slashed the stupid green alien with their swords. Choobo retreated and the battle was won. The rangers demorphed and smiled.

"I guess Choobo didn't feel like sticking around for an encore," Tori laughed.

"Yeah! And that crab is toast!" Shane smiled.

"Man! Now I'm hungry!" Dustin whined.

"You're always hungry," Kaylee giggled. "Look! There's Blake and Hunter!"

"No! C'mon bro! Stay with me!"Blake yelled, trying to wake his brother up.

"Dude... I kinda need to breath at some point!" Hunter smiled before being wrapped in a hung by Blake.

"Do you know who we are?" Shane asked the crimson ninja.

"Yeah, my friends," Hunter smiled. Kaylee jumped on to Hunter and gave him the biggest hug.

"I'm so glad all this fighting nonsense is over!" she smiled. "It was getting kinda boring!" Suddenly Shane's morpher beeped.

"Is that you Cam?" he asked.

"No it's the phone company," Cam laughed. "I'm calling to find out if you have long distance service."

"Is he always this funny?" Hunter asked as he stood up, leaning on Kaylee for support.

"No, not usually," Shane turned back to his morpher. "We're alright Cam, thanks for asking."

"Are the Thunder rangers with you?" Sensei asked.

"Right here!"

"Excellent. I must speak to them upon your return," Sensei smiled.

"This brings our next problem. You're on an island sinking fast. You've got to find a way off." Cam said.

"What about the zords?" Blake asked.

"There on their way," Cam smiled.

"Holy crab!" Kaylee said as the snail monster grew. "Now that's a sea monster!"

"You guys ready for this?" Shane asked.

"NINJA STORM."

"THUNDER STORM."

"RANGER FORM!" the ranger jumped into their zords and the battle rebegan.

"No fair. I don't have a stupid zord..." Kaylee sighed.

The snail blew fire onto the zords. The zords put out the fire by spinning in a circle.

"Spin Blade!" Hunter yelled as his megazord was equipped with a weapon.

"Lightning mode!" Shane said. His megazord changed from a giant fighting cube into a skilled ninja megazord. The snail charged at the megazords and the Thunders were first to attack, using their spin blade to turn the snail into sushi. The Winds finished off the monster by attack it with hand to zord combat, which the monster lost badly. Kaylee jumped onto the Wind Megazord as the two giant ninjas walked in the water to head home.

-Ninja-Storm-

"Hey Kel..." Dustin said nervously as he. Kaylee and the Bradley bros walked into the shop.

"Well, look what the cat dragged in," Kelly said, giving Dustin the 'I'm pissed off and never ever want to talk to you again' and the 'what are you doing here' look at the same time.

"It wasn't his fault," Hunter said.

"He was helping us out," Blake said.

"That doesn't surprise me," Kelly said, dragging some stuff around the shop. "You could have called, sent an e-mail."

"You've got to trust me! If there was anyway, I would have been here. I'm really sorry!" Dustin begged.

"They'll make it up to you Kel!" Kaylee but in, putting on her cute look.

"Well, I'm still short handed and I could use a couple of stock boys." Kelly said.

"Stock boys?" Hunter asked.

"You know, someone to open boxes, clean floors at night," Kelly explained.

"They'll take it!" Kaylee smiled.

"Great! You can start by helping me clean up this mess," Kelly said, holding a box bigger than Kaylee.

"Actually there is one more thing we have to take care of. We'll be back in like half an hour! Promise," Dustin said as the four left the store.

-Ninja-Storm-

"Wait a minute, let me get this straight?" Shane said as the six stood in ops. "After all we've been through, you guys just want to walk away from being Rangers?"

"We have to!" Hunter said.

"Lothor's isn't going to rest until he destroys us!" Blake said.

"Um hello! Do you think we're his favourite people?" Kaylee asked.

"We can't risk anything happening to you because of us!" Hunter explained.

"But you have been given a gift!" Tori said. "It's your responsibility to use that gift!"

"Tori is correct," Sensei said. "Hunter, Blake, Sensei Omino knew the Thunder Ranger powers were meant for you. But I cannot force you to live up to your responsibility."

"So what do you say?" Shane asked. He walked up to his team and put his arms around them. "You guys in? Or not?"

"I dunno," Bake hesitated. Tori patted her sister on the shoulder as Kaylee let a tear fall from her eyes.

"C'mon guys! We did all that just to help you out! Doesn't that prove to you we don't care if it's your fault Lothor's after us!" she cried. Hunter's face fell and Blake turned away. "We're Power Rangers! It's our job to put our lives before anyone else's! Says yes!"

Hunter looked into Kaylee's eyes for a minute and gave up, "Fine!"

"YES!" Kaylee smiled as the crocodile tears disappeared. "Six Rangers!" Hunter and Blake looked shocked at the sudden change of attitude but they realised what was going on once Tori high-fived her sister.

"Okay, that's cheating!" Hunter laughed, chasing the green Wind Ranger out of Ops.