Author's Note; Hey guys, so I was thinking instead of having a Shane vs Hunter chapter I'd make it Lexi vs Hunter. I can't understand half of the words Bopp A Roo says, but I'll do my best anyway. And Oh My God this is so hard... the entire last battle was giving me a headache .

REVIEW! I think i've been forgetting to add that to a couple of chapters. Forgive me? :P

Lexi was training at the beach so that she could avoid the other Rangers. Unfortunately Hunter was also looking for somewhere to train, so he came to the beach to find Lexi practice throwing fire at rocks.

"Hey, you think I can join you in training?" Hunter asked.

"So I can finally kick your ass for everything you did to me? Yeah you can join." Lexi replied. The two got into hand- to- hand combat, and neither would let up til they won.

"I thought we were just sparring." Hunter groaned, rubbing his wrists.

"And I thought I could trust you. Guess we were both wrong." Lexi scowled.

"Enough." Sensei demanded, pushing both Ninjas to the floor; "We've talked about the Wind and Thunder Ninjas working together as one. What have we said?"

Lexi sighed; "A competitive spirit is healthy-"

"As long as you don't sacrifice honour and friendship." Hunter finished.

"But we were never friends, so as long as I don't sacrifice honour I'm fine." Lexi retorted.

"What is your problem? I apologized to you. We're supposed to be friends." Hunter growled.

"Get this through your head. We are teammates. We are not friends, nor will we ever be friends." Lexi said super slowly; "I don't need friends like you."

"Friends like me would be better than friends like you." Hunter snapped, and the two got up to fight again.

"Alright, push ups. Drop." Sensei ordered.

"Good one." Hunter said sarcastically as Lexi started doing push ups.

"Dude, just shut up and do your training."

"The banner looks great." Tori commented; "If you had surfing I'd be all over this Relay Race."

"Oh yeah that'd be fair, you blowing everybody outta the water." Dustin frowned. Shane and Dustin told Kelly they'd help hang up banners to adverstise for the Relay Race.

"And the problem with that it?" Tori laughed.

"Guys, check this course out." Kelly called them over; "We start at the Skate Park, then they run over to the Motocross Track, then a urban climb to the finish. All proceeds go to charities around the world. Teams or singles."

"You guys entering?" she asked Shane and Dustin.

"Sure... why not." Shane nodded.

That was when Lexi and Hunter walked into the shop and Lexi started to stare at the banner; "A Relay Race? Last time I was in one I broke my nose."

"You wanna sign up anyway? Proceeds go to charity." Kelly smiled.

"Anyone wanna be my team?" Lexi thought out loud; "I'll ask Roger Hannah if he wants to be my team."

"No fair, you got a pro Moto dude on your team." Dustin frowned.

"Ugh, fine. Tori?" Lexi plead. Tori shook her head.

"If there's no surfing I don't wanna be in it."

"Well, I can be your team." Hunter shrugged.

"Please, you'd have better luck seeing me wear a Ballerina costume and dancing." Lexi snorted. When the others gave her disappointed looks she sighed; "Fine, but you go on the Skateboard."

"Fine." Hunter growled and they walked away bickering.

"And here we see two hard heads doing what they do best; argue." Tori smiled.

"Bangers at bay, my fugilistic pupils. If you wanna lose the flab, you gotta pound the slab!" Bopp a roo said.

"I'm so over this!" Marah groaned.

"You distract him I'll open the cargo door." Kapri sighed.

"Velosotistins vixens. My tempestuious training wheel will pump up your pounding." Bopp a roo told them. His wheel spun and water came out and hit the girls.

"Do you have any idea how long it took to get my hair right this morning?" Kapri demanded.

"Hello! My makeup!" Marah scowled.

"I'm bored." Lothor said flatly; "We need a plan. I'm taking suggestions."

"I know. The Rangers. Put them in a class with Bopp a roo! They'd never last an hour." Marah smiled.

"Was that an actual idea that came from the pocket of air between your ears?" Lothor asked.

"Good one Uncle." Kapri ginned; "Sure, could work. Your roots are showing."

"Well at least I don't go to a salon." Marah said, shoving Kapri; "You'll always be pathetic."

"You want a piece of me?" Kapri scowled; "You want a piece of this?"

"Maybe I should stick them with the Orange Ranger for a while and let her dispose of these two." Lothor mumbled to himself.

Lexi sat on her rented Motorcycle, Hunter next to her coaching her on what to do.

"Hey, are you listening to a thing I say?" Hunter asked her.

"Dude, I do BMX racing alright? The only difference is that Motorcycles have engines. I think I'll be fine." Lexi retorted.

"Maybe I should do the Moto part." Hunter said, watching as she fastened her helmet; "It seems like you're going to fall."

"Shut up Hunter." Lexi frowned. She revved the engine and the bike pulled her forward. She did well at first, until she forgot how to brake and toppled over a stack of hay.

Hunter slapped his forhead and ran to help her up.

"Don't touch me Hunter." she snapped, dusting herself off; "I just forgot how to brake. Let's head over to the skate park and see how good you are on a board."

Hunter started down the ramp, but his foot got loose, and he fell to the ground. Blake and Lexi walked up to him.

"You're right, maybe you should take the Motorcycle part." Lexi said.

"What do you call that?" Blake asked.

"I'm just getting loose." Hunter said as Lexi took the board from him and started up the ramp.

"So is your board." Blake noted.

"Look, this is the only way I can think of to let Lexi know I am here for her." Hunter said; "I have to win."

"My advice to you... get a stunt double." Blake grinned. Lexi rode down the ram and jumped into the air doing a kickflip.

"How did you learn how to do that?" Hunter asked.

"When your manager is friends with sports stars like Tony Hawk you hang out with them and learn a few things." Lexi shrugged; "Fine, you take the bike challenge, I'll do this. I have to go do more training."

Lexi started running down the street as part of her training. Her MP3 player was on, blasting music in her ears. As she was running she heard footsteps and noticed that Hunter was running not so far ahead. She ran to catch up with him; "Thought I smelled something."

"Are you sure it isn't yourself you're smelling?" he snapped. They continued running in silence until they heard laughing.

"Splendiverous Rangers! Boxin Bopp a roo. A bouncin balley of bodacious bombacity." he yelled. He threw lasers at them, knocking both Rangers to the ground, and making Lexi's MP3 land far away from her.

"Oh you'll pay for that!" Lexi grumbled.

"Check me out! Im the prognivigator of powerful punches." Bopp a roo said. Lexi and Hunter looked at each other.

"What?" Lexi asked him.

"Forget what he said. It's time to morph." Hunter frowned; "Thunder Storm-"

"Don't tell me when to morph dirt face!" Lexi said. They started arguing again, but stopped when Bopp a roo blasted them again and they rolled out of the way; "Now you can tell me to morph."

"Ninja Storm! Ranger Form! HA!"

"Thunder Storm! Ranger Form! HA!"

"Didn't you know? The zoo's that way."

"I'm flabergasted!" it said, looking around.

"I'll get him!" Hunter nodded.

"No! I got him!" Lexi frowned, running forward as well.

"A school in flames!" Bopp a roo said, throwing more fire at them.

"Stupid Kangaroo!" Lexi yelled; "I'm a Fire Ninja, fire isn't my weakness."

"Oh, isn't this banglorious?" he smiled anyway.

"I'm tired of trying to understand this guy." Hunter grumbled.

"I'm tired of everything." Lexi shrugged, she hit him with her Fire gun.

"Have you seen my fabulous, banglorious wheel of fun?"

"Hey! You already tried the gun." Hunter frowned, pulling the gun out of Lexi's hand.

"What are you doing? I said I got this." Lexi shouted.

"Blundering, bickering, Rangers. Ready to get blasted?" Bopp a roo asked, blasting them with Electricity.

"Lexi!" Hunter shouted as Lexi fell to her knees. He walked forward, Thunderstaff in hand; "Let me handle this Thunder Style. Thunder Staff! Full Power!"

"He who rumbles and runs away lives to brawl another day!"

"Power Down."

"You let him bail." Lexi grumbled, walking forward; "I wanted to pund his face in."

"You? All you did was get hurt and whine about it." Hunter shot back.

"You're so lame. You tell everyone about my biggest secret, you practically tried to kill me a hundred times, and now you let that idiot run away." Lexi shouted; "I'm going for a walk."

"Can you get him to stop bouncing? He's making me car sick." Lothor groaned.

"Gladly sir." Zurgane nodded, hitting Bopp a roo with Electricity.

"My cudiosity, is that your commondation? Oh mighty munificense."

"Isn't it just like you two to send a mumble mouth marcupial to battle the defenders of the galaxy." Lothor frowned.

"Uncle he bodaciously boxed the Orange Ranger's butt!" Kapri complained.

"He's a banarific bombastic robot rumbler." Marah grinned.

"Thats it, the next person who uses a made up word has to put a dollar in the made up word jar." Lothor said raising a jar in his hands; "I suppose if you look on the bright side, Bopp a roo did survive his first attack with positive results."

"Yes a roo." Bopp a roo nodded.

"Maybe we should send him back. But with something more."

"More bountiful boxing gloves? Or some Kopius Kelzaks." Marah suggested. Kapri held out the jar; "What? Those are all words, look them up."

"Zurgane, oblige me."

"Make me magniferous." Bopp a roo said.

"As you wish." Zurgane nodded, zapping Bopp a roo with a beam that made his gloves tougher.

"Yeah, great gargantuing gloves for a bombastic broo ha ha."

"Those two are still at it!" Dustin frowned.

"So let me get this straight. Theres a kickboxing robot kangaroo jumping around Blue Bay Harbor and they're out playing 'catch me if you can'. They act like an old married couple." Tori said.

"Sensei we need help here." Dustin said; "Or something Sensei like."

"They must both learn the value of teamwork and friendship." Sensei told them.

"Hunter's just doing this to prove to Lexi he's her friend." Blake shrugged.

"I can't believe she had a melt down because he told us." Shane sighed.

"It's not because of that." Cam smirked; "Lexi has been running from him her whole life. She doesn't know who she can trust. That one secret has kept her safe all these years and he just blew it out. Who knows if he's gonna tell more people."

"Well she can trust me and Hunter." Blake exclaimed; "Hunter's a good person. He would never intentionally let her down."

"She doesn't need to hear it from you dude." Shane patted his shoulder; "She needs to hear it from Hunter."

"We have another problem." Cam frowned; "You know how the Monkeyzord doesn't fit with the Storm Megazord? I want to see if it would fit with the Thunder Megazord... I just don't know how Lexi's going to react to it."

"We'll tell her later." Tori assured him.

Hunter collapsed onto a park bench, and Lexi sat next to him.

"Good run Hunter." Lexi smiled.

"Did you just give me props?" Hunter grinned.

"Don't get used to it. I still don't like you." Lexi said.

"Look, Lexi... I'm really sorry alright? I didn't mean to blurt out your secret to the others, just like I never meant to go evil and try to kill you." Hunter sighed.

"I'm sorry too. I guess I haven't really given you much of a chance huh?" Lexi rpelied; "It's just... I don't know if he's ever going to come back and try and kill me again. Do you know he killed my brother?"

Hunter looked shocked; "No, I didn't know."

"I was six. My dad was drunk, and he took us to a cliff." Lexi explained slowly; "He said 'you two were the biggest mistakes I've ever made' and shoved my brother off. As a six year old I didn't know what was going on... but a voice in my head told me to run, so I did. I ran until I found Sensei, and he took me in as one of his own."

"I'm really sorry." Hunter said.

"Hey, you think we can push this all behind us and start over? Cause I kind of didn't give Blake a chance either." Lexi plead.

"Of course." Hunter said, before looking away; "Blake and I are pretty used to being on our own. No parents, no Sensei. No one to answer to except for each other."

"Things change Hunter." Lexi said; "You have us now. All of us, including me. We take care of each other, like a big superhero family. And that's the way it should be when you're in a team."

"I hear you." Hunter smiled, nodding; "You wanna finish out run?"

"Not really. I just kept running to see if you'd get tired and leave." Lexi shrugged; "But if you want to then sure."

They ran through the town until they felt the ground moving.

"Wanna take a guess?" Hunter asked.

"We better not take any chances." Lexi said, looking down at her morpher, which was surprisingly not acting up; "Ninja Storm! Ranger Form! HA!"

"Power of Thunder!"

"Power of Fire!"

"Thats him alright. He must've paid for an upgrade." Lexi told Hunter; "Dude, we better call for backup this time. I don't think I'd be able to stay together if he hits me with Electricity again."

"Right."

"Cam, the Kangaroo thing is back. We kinda need help." Lexi said into her communicator.

"Ninja Storm! Ranger Form! HA!"

"Thunder Storm! Ranger Form! HA!"

"Power of Air!"

"Power of Water!"

"Power of Thunder!"

"Power of Earth!"

The Rangers regrouped in front of Bopp a roo.

"Oh, I'm a meniacally mad marcupial!" Bopp a roo yelled.

"What did he say?" Tori asked.

"No idea." Shane answered.

"I've been asking myself that question almost all day." Lexi scowled.

"A convenient conflagitory confligration!" Bopp a roo said, blasting them with fire again.

"Flame wall!" Lexi yelled, surrounding them with bright flames; "This is tiring work."

"Good job Lex." Hunter said. Blake was surprised when she didn't snap back at Hunter. She put the wall down, ready for Bopp a roo's next attack.

"Take a note. That's twenty three dollars that boxing bone head owes me." Lothor said; "General Zurgane, go down and help finish the job."

"Hey, Uncle, what about us? I mean Bopp a roo was our teacher. Why can't we go too? Huh?" Kapri asked.

"Alright, go. At least I'll have some peace and quiet around here." Lothor said and the girls disappeared.

"I've had enough of this Kangaroo idiot!" Lexi growled; "Fire Blaster!"

"Storm Striker!"

"Thunder Blaster!"

"FIRE!"

The blast almost hit the Kangaroo, but a sheild appeared in front of it, deflecting the blast back on to the Rangers.

"What just happened?" Lexi asked.

"Some kind of sheild" Hunter noted.

"I did it! It worked, my sheild worked! How cool am I?" Marah cheered hapily.

"How lucky are you." Kapri corrected her.

"Great, the whole fmaily's here." Tori snorted.

"Let's do this!" Shane said.

Dustin and Tori took on Zurgane while Shane and Blake took on Kapri and Marah, and Lexi and Hunter were busy fighting Bopp A Roo.

"Hey! Look deep into my eyes Ranger boy!" Marah shouted, sopes shot out of her saphire eyes and wrapped around Blake, lifting him to the sky.

"Come on put them up!" Kapri told Shane.

"You got it!" Shane nodded, jabbing at her with his Ninja Sword. Kapri punched him in the gut, making him fall backwards.

"That's cheating!" Shane shouted.

Bopp A Roo pushed Lexi back into a car; "Yo Cam, what's this thing's deal?"

"Bopp A Roo can only be destroyed by delfecting its own Energy back on to itself."

"We need help." Lexi frowned. She looked up to see Hunter had fallen near her; "You okay?"

"Yeah, any ideas?" Hunter asked.

"Cam, what if there was a way for Hunter and I to combine our Energies? Would it be enough to bounce the beams back to Bopp A Roo? Draw the Power from me to Hunter, I don't do good with Electricity."

"It's worth a try. I'll channel it directly into your Thunderstaff Hunter."

Lexi sent some of her Energy over to Hunter, who was ready to go; "I got it! I hope it works!"

"I got the Crimson Ranger on the Ropes." Bopp A Roo said.

"No way, you're the one who's getting Knocked Out!" Hunter retorted.

Bopp A Roo shot Hunter, but he didn't get hit; "Thunderstaff! Fire Power!"

He slashed at Bopp A Roo, knocking him to the ground.

"Ready?" Dustin asked, forming the Storm Striker again.

"Totally." The Thunder Rangers nodded.

"Ready." Lexi nodded.

"Not so fast!" Kapri interrupted them; "You thought hers was good? Try mine."

"That looks pretty strong." Tori commented.

"What now?" Shane asked.

"What if we combine all of our weapons?" Hunter suggested, looking at Lexi.

"It might work!" Lexi nodded. They put the Thunder Blaster and Storm Striker together, but it seemed to fall apart; "Wait, add mine too."

"Thunderstorm Cannon!"

"Look at that thing!" Kapri whined; "Let's get out of here!"

"You don't have to tell me twice." Zurgane mumbled and they teleported away, leaving Bopp A Roo by itself.

"Huh? My buddies have bailed."

"Ready?" Hunter asked.

"Full power!" Shane nodded.

"Good one guys!" Lexi smiled. She high fived Hunter.

"I have to admit. I'm pleasently surprised." Cam grinned.

"You underestimate the power of their friendship." Sensei frowned.

A giant Bopp A Roo stood in front of them; "I'm one big Boppa!"

"Not again." Lexi groaned; "How many times do we have to fight this idiot?"

"Cam, Zord time!" Shane said into his morpher.

"On their way!"

They formed the Thunderstorm Megazord, but Cam had another idea as well; "Lexi, combine your Monkeyzord with the Thunderstorm Megazord!"

Lexi did so, and found herself inside the massive Megazord; "Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Lion Laser!"

They took out Bopp A Roo once and for all.

"At least I don't have to put up with that monnatenus marcupial. He was starting to make my skull ache." Lothor grumbled.

Then Marah came into the Throne room clogg dancing.

"Why can't you two do something quiet? Like Yoga?" Lothor yelled; "Or peaceful Pilates? Can you hear me? I'm not yelling just to hear myself yell you know!"

Hunter and Blake cheered Lexi on as she shredded on a skateboard.

"Go Lexi!" Tori shouted. Shane gave her a look and she shrugged; "Hey, it's called girl power."

When it was Shane's turn, everyone thought Lexi was cheering him on the loudest; "You got this Shane!"

But in the racing part Hunter beat Dustin by two seconds.

"Nice! Hunter's ripping it up man!" Shane yelled.

"You bet!" Lexi smiled as she walked up to Hunter; "You did great!"

While they were running they came out tied, a big smile on Lexi's face when she saw that Shane and Dustin came out tied right after them.

While rock climbing Lexi almost slipped and fell back but Hunter caught her, and they hit the bar at the same time.

"And the winner of this year's Relay Race is the team of Hunter and Lexi. Second place to Shane and Dustin. All proceeds are being sent to charities around the world giving children shelter." Kelly smiled.

The two held the trophy, but as Hunter was taller, Lexi had to stand on her tippy toes so he wouldn't steal it away.

"Not bad." Tori commented.

"We make a good team." Lexi said as she was about to high five Hunter but he wanted to hug her. Then as she tried to hug him he tried to high five her. They finally picked a fist pump; "This could be the start of something beautiful Dirt Face."

"As long as I get the trophy." Hunter grinned.

"No, the trophy is mine." Lexi snapped.

"At least it's a start." Tori rolled her eyes.

"Fine you can have the trophy." Lexi sighed; "I just want a picture of it to hang up on my wall."

"Deal." Hunter nodded, taking the trophy.

"Pfft, we would have won you know." Dustin frowned.

"Yeah, if you had one of us on your team." Lexi teased.

"What's so special about you?" Shane mumbled.

"Lets see. She's pro at Skateboarding and BMXing, and I'm pro at Motocross. What are you pro in?" Hunter questioned.

"Hey, she had training from Tony Hawk." Blake defended the others.

"Oh, Blake, about earlier... I have to apologize." Lexi frowned; "I never meant to snap in your faces. And I'm sorry for not giving you a chance."

"Don't worry." Blake smiled; "We completely understand."

"Awesome, so who's up for pizza?" Lexi asked, pulling out a purse; "It's on me, and I'm kind of hungry."