Author's Note: Would have had this chapter up last night before I updated my Harry Potter story, but I was engrossed in reading a Hunger Games Fanfiction. Anyway, at least the gaps between updates are getting smaller, huh?

Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended in the making of this series. I simply own my OCs and anything that is unrecognizable from the show. Power Rangers belongs to Saban... although Ninja Storm was created by Disney. Enjoy.

Warning: Rated T for safety.

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 is time to meet the new: Defenders of Earth.

Aliyah yawned and rubbed her eyes.

"Tell me again why we are up at this time of the morning," she said, turning to look at her sister. They were walking along the shore, bare-footed allowing the cool waves of the ocean to roll over their toes.

"We need to talk," Rebecca said, without looking at her younger sister. "I talked to Tori; she told me what you've been doing since you left the Lightning Academy."

Aliyah sighed and dropped her arms. "So you know about my suspension..."

"It's not really suspension if you don't go back, Ali!"

"But I hate it there!" Aliyah whined.

Rebecca sighed. "Aliyah, we agreed that -"

"If I was leaving the Lightning Academy then I had to find a suitable replacement," Aliyah nodded. "I know... but High School? I don't do High School!"

"You don't do High School or you don't do other people?"

"Both!"

Rebecca heaved a heavy sigh, stopped and turned to her sister. "Look, when Mom and Dad passed I promised that I would take care of you. I couldn't force you to stay at the Lightning Academy if you didn't want too, but you promised me that you stay out of trouble!"

"And I did," Aliyah protested. "It is not my fault that my anger controls me!"

"That is what your anger management classes are for," Rebecca exclaimed. "Do not tell me that you have been kicked out of them too?"

Aliyah shook her head. "No, I am still taking them," she said. "But I don't think they are doing me any good. In fact, they seem to be making me worse!"

"Do explain,"

"I can't," Aliyah answered. "I don't know what's happening... when i'm in class someone could make a crack, it may not even be directed at me, but I still lose my cool. And when I try and talk about it with my psychologist, I get so angry over the thought that I lose my cool again. It's a vicious cycle, Bec, I can't break it!"

Rebecca nodded. This was the reason that Aliyah had left the Lightning Academy, her anger was always in control, and she was never in control of her anger.

"This is the reason why I can't be a ranger," Aliyah added.

"What?" Rebecca asked, startled.

"I know that you only wanted to see if you can find the reason behind my denial in being a Power Ranger," Aliyah answered. "You're a good Ninja, Rebecca, but you suck being subtle!"

Rebecca grinned sheepishly.

Aliyah sighed and looked out towards the ocean. The sea was calm.

"I know you think it is my destiny to be a Power Ranger," she continued. "But I don't have the training that the rest of you do. I can't control Lightning. I can barely defend myself. I wouldn't know how to control a Megazord, and I wouldn't be able to combine our secondary weapons."

Rebecca was silent as her sister continued.

"You use Lightning as a weapon," Aliyah pressed on quickly. "A weapon is something you can control. Anger is my weapon... and I can't control it!"

She fell silent.

Rebecca chewed her lower lip.

"What if there was a way for you to control your anger?"

Aliyah glanced up. "What do you mean?"

"That is the only thing that is holding you back," said Rebecca. "If you can control your anger, you can control your Lightning."

Aliyah blinked. "What do you -?"

Rebecca grinned.

"Oh no," Aliyah groaned.

"Oh yes," Rebecca nodded, grabbing her sister's hand. "Time to train!"

~*Lightning Storm*~

Two flashes streaked across the beach as Aliyah and Rebecca began to spar. The older of the two sisters was much more advanced in her training than her younger sister, and was at a much bigger advantage when it came to fighting.

"Keep your arms up," Rebecca coached as she kicked at Aliyah's head, causing the youngest to duck. "Use them to protect yourself!"

Aliyah barely had time to think, let alone register what her sister had said, before the Black ranger was at her again, and they continued fiercely.

Grabbing her sister's wrist, Rebecca twisted it and pinned Aliyah to the ground. It had been several weeks since she had broken her elbow, and although it was not fully healed, the cast had been removed.

"Ow, ow, ow," Aliyah whimpered, as she rolled onto her stomach and her sister leaned down over her. "Becca, let go!"

"Take control, Ali," Rebecca coached.

Trying to think through her pain, Aliyah grabbed her sister's ankle and flipped Rebecca onto her back. Both sisters recovered and faced each other, the teen in white clutching her wrist tightly in her free hand.

"That hurt!" she yelled.

"That's the point, Aliyah," Rebecca nodded. "In order to control your anger, you need to get angry first! C'mon... there is no rest for the wicked!"

Aliyah groaned.

"I don't remember training being this hard at the Lightning Academy," she muttered.

"That's because you left in your first year," Rebecca answered. "The further you go in your training, the harder it becomes! It's not too late to come back, you know?"

Aliyah shook her head.

"Kind of hard to return when there is nothing to return too," she pointed out.

Rebecca smiled wisely.

"If I could show you what we are fighting for," she said, "would you reconsider joining the Rangers?"

"They don't need me," Aliyah said, shaking her head. "They have you! You're a Ninja Master... you're one fight away from becoming a Pai Zhuq master! Why are the others going to want a Ninja drop out when they have all the power they need in one person?"

Rebecca shrugged. "Because you have the potential of being the greatest ranger of all," she explained. "Your powers -"

"There you go again!" Aliyah exploded. "My powers... my powers... what powers?"

"Now is not the time," Rebecca said shaking her head. "When you have learned to master your Lightning powers and activated your morpher, you will understand your powers and what you are destined for."

Aliyah sighed.

"What do you want to show me?" she asked.

"Your last home," Rebecca answered, holding out her hand. "I'm taking you back to the Lightning Academy."

~*Lightning Storm*~

At Storm Charges, a banner for Total Trek hung as the store bustled actively. "Looks great," Tori remarked. "If you had surfing I'd be all over this Total Trek."

"Oh yeah, that'd be fair, you blowing everyone out of the water," Dustin said, after he had finished hanging up the banner.

"And the problem with that is...?" Tori smiled.

"Guys, check this course out," Kelly called, pointing at a large map. "We start at the skate park; it's a run to the motocross track, and then an urban climb to finish. You entering, Dustin?"

"I'm never getting on a skateboard again," Dustin said, raising his hands in protest. "I've still got bruises from last year."

Tori and Kelly grinned, just as Hunter and Shane arrived.

"Hey, you got an entry form for my kick-flipped challenged friend here?" Shane asked.

"Individual?" Kelly asked. "Or are you two entering as a team?"

Hunter laughed a little. "Us? Together?"

"You got a better chance of seeing me on blade skates," Shane said.

"I was just asking," Kelly said, handing Hunter a form. "Well, you're the second one to sign up, Hunter."

"Yeah, who's first?"

Kelly grinned and glanced at Shane, as the red ranger brushed Hunter's shoulder and turned to leave the store. "You're toast, dirt boy."

Dustin and Tori laughed, but Hunter stopped Shane. "Wait, do you hear that? It sounds like... uh... your hopes and dreams crashing down around you."

He brushed past Shane, who followed him out.

"And here we see Alpha males in their natural habitat," Tori laughed. "Where is Aliyah when you need her?"

Dustin shrugged. "Last I checked she was heading up to Briarwood with Rebecca,"

"Really? Why?" Kelly asked.

"Dunno," Dustin answered. "Something about 'understanding the past, in order to take control of your future.'"

~*Lightning Storm*~

Aliyah swallowed as she followed her sister through the darkened forest, ahead of her she could vaguely make out the entrance to the Lightning Academy. Reaching the side of a mountain, Rebecca stepped through into the darkness, calling upon her powers of lighting to light the way to the entrance.

"It was never this dark," Aliyah commented.

"That is because the attack from Lothor caused a rock slide," Rebecca answered. "The entrance was buried under rubble... I had to use my powers to gain entry last week."

"How long were you here before you ran into Zurgane?"

Rebecca shrugged.

"A couple of hours," she answered.

"Did you find anything that could help us?"

"No," Rebecca sighed sadly. "I was in the middle of searching the main building when he attacked; he seemed rather disappointed that it was me... but he wanted a fight, so I just gave him what he wanted!"

Aliyah grinned.

For the next ten minutes, the two continued on in silence.

Soon they reached an opening in the side of the mountain; it was doubled in width and had hinges that were once attached to a set of dark, metallic gates. Rebecca passed through first, followed closely by her sister.

The first thing Aliyah noticed, as she stood on the side of the training fields, or at least, what used to be the training fields, was the rubble all over the place.

The training fields held several scorch marks, the flags that stood around the edge of the Lightning Academy hung limply on their poles, charred to pieces, some had even been burned, disintegrated and lay in piles on the floor, or were like dust in the wind.

Looking north of the training grounds, Aliyah felt her heart hammering inside her rib cage. There, standing on top of its marble plinth, or what was left of it, was the completely decimated remains of the academy. Its marble walls had been blown to pieces, scattered rocks and boulders thrown in all directions.

The marble steps had been cracked in half, showing the earth underneath.

"He did all this?" Aliyah asked. "Lothor?"

"Yes," Rebecca nodded. "He destroyed many lives that day... Sensei gave me the morphers and told me to run! I didn't want to leave him, but he told me that I was the key!"

"The key?"

"To unlocking the ultimate power," Rebecca nodded.

Aliyah frowned. "The Ultimate power? What is that?"

"Not what, who, you, Aliyah, you are the ultimate power," Rebecca answered.

Aliyah blinked.

"Your powers are all that we need in order to survive Lothor and return the captured Ninja's!" Rebecca explained. "In the wrong hands, you are a danger to humanity... but in the right hands, and with the correct training, you will lead the Rangers to victory."

"How do you know this?"

"Mum and Dad," Rebecca answered, "but there is also a prophecy..."

Aliyah perked up.

"A prophecy?" she repeated.

Rebecca nodded. "Yes. I used to study it quite often between classes, but it was destroyed during the battle!"

"Oh," Aliyah frowned; she would have loved to have seen the Prophecy for herself. "Is that what Mum and Dad -?"

"Died for?"

Aliyah nodded.

"Partly," Rebecca nodded. "Mum and Dad's deaths weren't done by accident, Ali, they were pre-planned!"

"By who?"

Rebecca shook her head.

"We don't know," she answered. "All we do know is that they died to protect you! Whoever killed them was looking for you!"

"You can't be sure of that!"

"I can," Rebecca argued. "You are the answer to a lot of people's problems, Aliyah! And like you have seen, there are people out there who will do just about anything to get their hands on you!"

Aliyah sighed, this was all interesting and nerve-wracking, but it still didn't explain why she had been chosen as the White Lightning Ranger.

"Why are you telling me all this?"

"Because -"

Rebecca's morpher beeped, interrupting her. The black ranger sighed and accepted the call, she knew that she could have ignored it, but there was obviously trouble back in Blue Bay Harbour and the others needed her assistance, they wouldn't have been calling if they didn't.

~*Lightning Storm*~

Aliyah, Dustin, Blake and Tori watched as both Shane and Hunter raced one another across the sea front.

"So, let me get this straight," Rebecca said, as she paced Ninja Ops. "There is a kickboxing kangaroo bouncing around Blue Bay Harbor and they are out playing follow the leader?"

"Sensei, we need help here," Dustin said, scratching the back of his head. "Something Sensei like..."

"They must both learn that the best quality of a leader is to understand when to be a follower," Sensei replied.

"Dude's way deep, especially for a rodent," Aliyah smirked.

Dustin and Tori grinned in agreement while Blake and Rebecca rolled their eyes. The Guinea pig was a Sensei... of course he was going to be deep.

Suddenly, the computer beeped and the screen went black.

"Um... Cam?"

The boy at the mainframe turned at the sound of his name, and glanced at Aliyah who was pointing at the laptop. He sighed, got out of his chair and lifted it up.

"The battery is dead," Cam confirmed.

"Greaaaaaaaaaat," Aliyah said. "Now what do we do?"

"Cam," Shane's voice echoed over the monitors. "Looks like that Kangaroo clown is back for round two! We need help!"

Rebecca turned to her sister. "We go play!"

"Have fun," Aliyah nodded, making her way towards the computer along with Cam.

Tori sighed and glanced at Rebecca, she should have guessed that the Black Ranger had no luck in convincing Aliyah to join them. Stubborn as always she thought sadly.

"Ready?" Rebecca asked taking the lead as she and the others fell into formation.

"Ready!"

"Ninja Storm! Ranger Form!"

"Thunder Storm! Ranger Form!"

"Lightning Storm! Ranger Form!"

~*Lightning Storm*~

Bop-a-Roo grinned as he spotted the Rangers.

"I'm a maniacally mad marsupial!" he growled out.

"What did he say?" Tori asked.

"Got me," Rebecca shrugged, before her eyes widened as the dial upon the kangaroo's chest ignited and spun, landing on Lightning. "Look out!" she yelled, placing her hands on Tori and Dustin's shoulders. She pushed them both into Blake and Hunter, who stood either side of them, Hunter knocking into Shane during the descent of his fall.

Bop-a-Roo's attack hit the Black ranger, knocking her backwards into a dry-stone wall.

Tori gasped. "Rebecca!"

Rebecca coughed and pushed herself up onto the palms of her hands.

"I'm alright," she choked, clutching her hand to chest. "I'm alright!"

Bop-a-Roo laughed and punched his fists together excitedly, shouting jumped words to the skies.

Regrouping around the Black Ranger, Tori and Dustin helped her to stand.

"Why did you do that?" Shane asked

"Because Lightning is my element," Rebecca answered. "It shouldn't have hurt me as much as it did... I was just caught off guard!"

The red ranger hesitated.

"Go," Rebecca waved him off. "Fight Bop-a-Roo... I'll catch up!"

"If you're sure,"

Rebecca nodded and Shane ordered the others to follow him.

From the sidelines, Rebecca slid down the dry-stone wall so that she was sitting on the floor, her ribs hurt. Wrapping her arms around her chest, the Black ranger winced at the slightest movement, she may have told Shane that she was alright... but she was anything but.

However, with the rangers, Bop-a-Roo had just deflected their energy blast back at them and rendered them all to their knees.

"I've had enough of this!" Shane growled, pushing himself up. "Let's put them together!"

"Storm Striker!"

"Thunder Blaster!"

The two weapons fired and combined, heading straight for Bop-a-Roo, just as a shield appeared in front of him, bouncing the beams back.

"Guys!" Rebecca yelled, wincing as she lurched forward.

"What happened?" Shane asked, pushing himself to his feet.

"I don't know," Hunter answered. "It looks like some kind of shield!"

Rebecca frowned and glanced around, her gaze fell on Marah, Kapri and Zurgane standing a few feet away. "Greaaaaaaaaaat," she said, sarcastically. "The whole family is here!"

"Let's do this!" Kapri yelled, running at Hunter with her swords drawn.

Marah copied her actions and charged at Blake, while Bop-a-Roo punched Shane, leaving Dustin and Tori to deal with Zurgane.

Still injured from her surprise attack, Rebecca watched, carefully calculating the situation and ready to input a battle strategy if, and when, the guys needed one.

Much to the Black ranger's disappointment, Hunter and Blake weren't having much luck with Marah and Kapri; the two girls seemed to have had a bit of training since their last fight on Earth and had soon rendered the brothers to their knees.

Oh, am I glad Aliyah is not here to see this Rebecca thought, not wanting to know what her sister would have to say.

As if on cue, Aliyah's voice sounded loudly over the morphers.

"Is that the best you can do, Thunder Boy?" she yelled, and the others knew it was aimed at Hunter; he was the only person that she seemed to have a pet name for. "This is no time to be a gentleman, Bradley! Knock the stuffing out of her if you have too!"

"Aliyah!" Cam scolded.

"Cameron?" Aliyah replied, innocently.

Rebecca rolled her eyes, and lifted her morpher to her lips. "When you two have kindly finished flirting, we could use a little help!"

"What do you need?"

"A suggestion on how to take out Bop-a-Roo," Rebecca replied. "Tell me you've been watching Shane and not just looking for a way to bother Hunter."

There was a slight pause.

"Aliyah...?"

"You're no fun!" Aliyah answered, and Rebecca could imagine her pouting. "Fine. I have noticed one thing... Bop-a-Roo seems most vulnerable when you blast his own energy back at him! If there was a way to combine both powers of Wind and Thunder, you may just have a chance!"

Rebecca nodded in approval. "Cam... is there any chance you could combine the powers of Wind and Thunder?"

"I could try,"

Meanwhile, Shane was having just as much trouble with Bop-a-Roo that his friends were having with the others. After several well placed kicks and punches, Hunter hit the ground next to Shane.

Rebecca winced, not because she was in pain, but because of the beating her friends were taking.

"Any day, Cam," she said into her morpher.

"Shane, Hunter, listen up," Aliyah said over the morphers. "I am only going to say this once, so if you miss it, it is your head on a platter!"

Shane rolled his eyes.

"We're listening, Aliyah," he said into his morpher.

"Good. Rebecca has spotted a weakness in Bop-a-Roo -"

"I don't think he has any weaknesses," Hunter interrupted.

"Do not interrupt me, Thunder Boy!" Aliyah growled in response.

Shane glanced across at Hunter, but because of the visors, Hunter missed the 'Are-you-insane' look that passed across the Red ranger's face.

"Do you want help or not?"

"Fine," Hunter nodded. "What do we do?"

"You need to combine your powers," Cam answered this time. "Hunter, I am going to draw the power from you and channel it directly into Shane's Ninja sword. Understand?"

"They should," Aliyah piped up. "It is not that hard to work out... but then again, Hunter takes 'dumb blonde' to a whole new level."

Tori frowned as she ducked under Zurgane's swords.

"Hey!" she pouted.

"No offence, Tor," Aliyah added quickly. "You're smarter than Hunter, Blake, Dustin and Shane put together!"

"Hey!" the guys exclaimed.

Tori, however, grinned.

"Sadly, I must agree, Ali," she nodded.

"Hey!" the guys exclaimed again.

Rebecca rolled her eyes; however, she couldn't help the smile that graced her lips.

"Shane, are you ready?" Cam asked.

"Fire away!"

There was a spark of crimson energy from Hunter's morpher, which was directed at Shane's Ninja sword; there was a split second pause before the symbol changed.

"Got it!" Shane grinned. "Hope this works!"

Bop-a-Roo bounced from foot to foot as Shane got steadily to his feet.

"I've got the red ranger on the ropes!" he chanted.

"You're the one who is going down for the count," Shane retorted.

Bop-a-Roo fired at Shane, who deflected it with his sword, causing the monster to pause in his bouncing.

"Ninja Sword," Shane yelled. "Thunder Power!"

He ran at Bop-a-Roo and slashed downwards. Sparks flew in every direction and Bop-a-Roo was blasted backwards away from the fallen Rangers.

"Let's put them together!" Shane commanded, for the second time.

The others re-grouped around the two red rangers, as Kapri, Marah and Zurgane re-joined Bop-a-Roo.

"Hold on," Kapri shouted. "You though her's was good, try mine!"

Another shield appeared in front of them.

"That looks pretty strong," Tori pointed out.

"Hey, idiots," Aliyah called through the morphers. "You already know that combining Wind and Thunder together deflects Bop-a-Roo... why not try combining all your weapons? That is if Hunter can bear the thought of parting with is beloved blaster!"

Hunter growled. He was going to throttle her before the year was through.

"She's got a point," Dustin nodded. "The combining our weapons part, Hunter, not your Blaster issues."

"It could work," Shane nodded. "What do you say, Hunter?"

"Alright," the Crimson ranger. "Let's give it a shot!"

They combined the Thunder Blaster to the end of the Storm Cannon and aimed it at the newly formed shield. Kapri, Marah and Zurgane backed away instantly.

"Look at that thing!" Kapri gasped, in surprise. "Let's get out of here!"

"You don't have to tell me twice!" Zurgane growled, and in three separate sparks, they disappeared.

"Full Power!" Shane shouted.

The weapon started to charge and fired at the shield. It exploded upon impact and Bop-a-Roo was lost within the fiery flames of the attack.

~*Lightning Storm*~

"And the winner of this year's Total Trek is... the team of Shane and Hunter!" Kelly smiled as she presented both leaders with a trophy, one that they held between them, flashed their medals and grinned as the photographer snapped a picture for the newspaper.

"Not bad," Tori smiled, positioning herself between the two boys and under the trophy, once the photographer had departed.

"We try to learnify with great knowledgeness," Shane smiled.

Rebecca frowned.

"What?" she asked.

"We're starting to hang together better," Hunter translated.

The Black ranger nodded. "Yeah... right..."

"Hey, where's Aliyah?" Dustin asked. "Wasn't she supposed to be here?"

"Yeah," Blake nodded.

Rebecca sighed.

"She's gone home," she explained. "She wanted me to wish you guy's good luck on her behalf, but she's got a lot to think about at the moment."

"I take it she's not any closer to making a decision?" Tori asked.

"No," Rebecca answered. "But given our little History lesson today... I don't think we'll have to wait for much longer."

The Wind and Thunder Ninja's frowned.

"What do you -?" Dustin started.

But Rebecca held up her hand and cut him off.

"I gotta go," she said. "Catch ya later!"

And she was gone out the door in the blink of an eye.

~*Lightning Storm*~

Aliyah sighed as she closed the front door to her home with a snap. Her grandparents, Catherine and Daniel, were sitting in the family room quietly watching the news.

Catherine looked up as the front door opened and closed. "What happened to you?" she asked, spotting her granddaughter.

"I - I just..." Aliyah stuttered. "I just got a lot on my mind."

"Is everything OK?"

"Yeah," Aliyah nodded. "I just - I'm just going to take a bath, you know, think things over in the hot water."

Catherine nodded. "Alright."

Aliyah smiled and hurried upstairs, she didn't know why she was hiding her conversation with Rebecca from her grandparents; maybe they knew something, maybe they could help her... but she couldn't shake the nagging voice in the back of her mind that this was something that she needed to work out... alone.

~*Lightning Storm*~

Later that evening, Catherine, who was in the middle of cleaning up the downstairs area before bed, paused at the sudden knocking at the front door. Confused on who would be calling at that time of the night, the ex-Lightning Ninja cautiously approached the front door, grasped the door hand and pulled it open.

She was surprised to find her eldest granddaughter, Rebecca, standing on the opposite side.

"I must be dreaming," she whispered, clutching her chest. "Rebecca...?"

"Hi mama," Rebecca smiled. "You're not dreaming... i'm home!"

Catherine smiled and opened her arms to embrace her grandchild.

"Oh, my beautiful baby," she said.

Rebecca smiled and nodded into the embrace, how she had missed them during her time in Ocean Bluff.

"I'm sorry I didn't come sooner!"

"It was too dangerous," Catherine nodded. "Your grandfather and I understand!"

Rebecca smiled.

"Is Aliyah here?"

"She is in her room," Catherine nodded. "Rebecca, sweetheart, what is the matter?"

Rebecca sighed.

"I told her mama," she explained.

"Oh, Rebecca..." Catherine sighed heavily. "Your parents -"

"My parents are dead," Rebecca interrupted. "They wanted Aliyah to grow up and have a normal life. They were wrong... keeping this secret has done nothing but left Aliyah unprotected and uneducated. It is crucial that she accepts her destiny and soon!"

"What does Aliyah say about this?" Catherine asked.

"She doesn't want the morpher," Rebecca answered.

"Then you cannot force her!"

Rebecca sighed.

"She is one of us, Mama," she said. "I know that I cannot force her to do what is expected of her... but at the very least, let her know that she is not alone!"

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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx

Chapter updated Wednesday, 29 June 2012 at 12: 21am