Author's Note: I decided to leave out Pork Chopped and go straight into Samurai's Journey. I hope you enjoy it.
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.
Shout Outs: Just wanted to say thanks to the following: Shades-Soul, DJScales, Taeniaea, Trinaa95, Dean Winchesters Baby Girl, Nikki500, Dark Stormchaser, Razmend and Kenn-Faith-Dawn for adding this story or me to any of their alerts. Appreciate it mates.
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's time to meet the new: Defenders of Earth.
"(It starts with one)
One thing I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings.
Watch it count own to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
Didn't look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on but didn't even know
Wasted it all just to
Watch you go..."
Rebecca frowned at the loud music that was blaring from her sisters' headphones; they were stood inside Ninja Ops waiting patiently for Dustin and Shane to arrive for their lesson with Sensei that morning. Several seconds before Cam was about to call them, via the mainframe, the two boys arrived, muttering apologies to the Guinea Pig.
"If only we can get her attention," Hunter said, nodding in Aliyah's direction.
The White Lightning Ninja was wearing the traditional Lightning academy Ninja Uniform, something that Rebecca had managed to save from the Lightning academy before it was completely obliterated by Lothor, she had told Aliyah that if she was going to retain in the art of the Lightning Ninja then she was going to require the correct gear.
Rebecca nudged her younger sister with her elbow, causing the younger teen to snap to attention and the music to die away as Aliyah removed her headphones.
"What?" Aliyah asked, irritated by the intrusion of her favourite song.
"Lesson is about to start," Rebecca answered, seemingly ignoring the attitude in her sisters' voice; if her grandmother's word was anything to go by then she understood why Aliyah was acting this way. It happened once a month; Aliyah would get easily irritated for no apparent reason, unfortunately, not everyone within the room was aware of this.
Aliyah blinked and looked towards the end of the table, where Sensei was waiting patiently.
"Oh," she nodded, switching off her Ipod and getting carefully to her feet. She rounded the small wooden table and took her place between Tori and Rebecca, as she and the others gazed down at the furry Sensei as he poised in front of a brick.
"No way, dude," said Hunter, shaking his head and looking around at Shane and Dustin. "There's no way he does it!"
"I dunno, dude, he is pretty strong for a little guy," Dustin shrugged.
Shane hissed at the two.
"Quiet, have a little respect for the master," he told them.
"Watch closely Rangers," Sensei told them, leaping into the air and smashing he brick with his tiny paw.
The Rangers laughed in amusement and astonishment.
"You were saying?" Tori asked, smirking at Hunter.
"I stand corrected," Hunter said, looking around at the others. "But how?"
Tori opened her mouth to answer, but Rebecca touched her shoulder and turned to Aliyah. "Ali, do you know the answer?"
"Uh..." Aliyah hesitated, glancing around at the others and cursing her sister for putting her on the spot. "Uh... I'm not sure if i'm right, but something inside is telling me that the power comes not from the body, but from the mind." she answered.
Rebecca smiled and nodded.
"Well done, sis," she said, hugging her sister with one arm.
"Thanks," Aliyah muttered, looking down the line at Hunter, who had volunteered to try next. "This should be interesting!"
"You sure you want to go there, bro?" Blake asked.
"Hey, if he can do it, I, eh... can give it a shot," Hunter said, hesitating slightly. Shane smirked and placed a new brick in front of the Crimson ranger, patted it and the stepped aside as Hunter took his place behind it.
The others watched as Hunter slammed the side of his hand down and gasped in pain.
"Looks like Rodent - 1, Thunder Ranger - zip!" Aliyah said wrapping her arm around Shane's waist as he wound his around her shoulder, both laughing openly at Hunter's failed attempt.
"You think you can do better?" Hunter challenged.
Aliyah's eyes narrowed and darkened. "Mov -"
"No!" Rebecca intervened. "No, Aliyah is working at basic level... we normally don't do this kind of training at the Lightning Academy, besides in her angered state, Aliyah will easily shatter the stone."
Aliyah grinned smugly at Hunter. "Don't tell him that, Bec, you might injure his huge ego!"
"I hate you!" Hunter retorted.
"The feeling is mutual, Thunder Boy!"
"Don't call me that!"
"You'd prefer, 'Sparky'?" Aliyah grinned; satisfied that she could get under his skin so easily.
Hunter growled in annoyance, stood and walked away, leaving Shane, Dustin, Blake, Tori and Rebecca to attempt to break the brick but each and every one of them ended up failing, just as bad as he did, but they didn't inflict snarky comments from the Ninja in White.
Sensei sighed and shook his head at his team.
"You have come far in your training, Rangers," Sensei told them, "but you still have a long way to go."
"Yeah, but you're like a full on Ninja Master," Dustin said, before whipping around as Cam yelled and slam his hand onto the brick. A crack appeared, one that travelled straight through the brick and broke it in half.
Aliyah grinned, proudly.
"Alright, how did you do that?" Shane asked. "You used some kind of laser beam, thing, didn't you?"
Cam's face hardened and Aliyah clenched her hands tightly into fists, she had spent the last few weeks with Cam, getting to know him in ways that the other rangers never would, and in that short amount of times she had realized how much the Wind and Thunder's actually disrespected Cam for all that he did for them.
"Or you switched the bricks," said Dustin, "I saw that on a stunt show once."
Cam threw the large chunk of stone at the Yellow ranger, who was almost pulled over as he tried to catch it. "O...kay, maybe not..."
"It's gotta be a trick," said Hunter, shaking his head in disbelief.
Cam sighed in annoyance, turned around and stormed out of Ninja Ops.
"What did I say?" Hunter frowned.
"Why does it have to be a trick?" Aliyah snapped. "You just don't get it, do you? Just because Cam isn't a Ranger, doesn't make him completely useless! You act like he is inferior to you because you have a morpher! You have special powers! Well let me fill you in on a little secret, Thunder boy, if it wasn't for Cam and what he does none of you would have half the stuff you do in battles!"
And she too stormed out of Ninja Ops.
~*Lightning Storm*~
Breaking the surface of the destroyed Wind Academy, Aliyah found Cam skipping rocks down at the lake.
"You alright?" she asked.
"Yeah," Cam sighed. "I'm just tired of the lack of respect."
"Who says you don't get any respect?" Tori asked she and Rebecca had followed Aliyah out of Ninja Ops, intending to find out how Cam was after the confrontation with the others.
"Cam, don't listen to the likes of Hunter and Shane," said Rebecca, "Aliyah is right about everything she said, if it wasn't for you and what you do, we wouldn't have half the toys we get to use in the fight against Lothor."
"It's not enough," Cam sighed. "I wanna be part of it!"
"You want to be a Ranger," Tori nodded. "Why don't you talk to Sensei?"
"I have," Cam answered, "but he has forbidden me!"
"Forbidden you?" Rebecca repeated. "Why?"
"Because of a promise he made a long time ago," Aliyah answered, she knew of the reasons that Sensei wouldn't allow his only son to become a Ranger, and it was in Cam's best interest that she not indulge her friends with that insight. It was also the reason she felt guilty around Cam - here was a kid so desperate to join the fight against evil, and here was she trying her hardest to run away from it.
Tori paused and then turned to the boy in green. "Cam, your father just wants what's best for you," she said. "You have to tell him how you feel! Make sure that he understands how important this is to you! He is the most reasonable... well, Guinea Pig, I have ever met!"
"How many wise-talking Guinea Pigs have you met?" Rebecca teased.
Aliyah grinned, as she skipped another of her rocks. She and Cam had been having a contest for the last ten minutes, just enough to take his mind off of the insensitivity of the guys back in Ninja Ops.
"Go talk to him," Tori said, glaring at the Black ranger.
Cam smiled and looked between the three girls. "Alright," he caved, skipping the last of his rocks and overtaking the spot where Aliyah's had sunk two minutes ago. "But if he doesn't listen, I'm not cleaning his cage for a month!"
"Deal!" Rebecca nodded, as Aliyah pouted at Cam's win.
The four turned away from the water's edge just as it exploded into the air around them. "What the hell -?" Aliyah yelled, spinning around and coming face-to-face with Marah, Kapri, an ugly looking monster creep and a cluster of Kelzacks.
"Didn't your parents ever teach you manners?" the White ninja asked. "This is a private conversation... and you were not invited!"
"We'd thought we'd interrupt this greeting card moment," replied Kapri, "it was getting to cutesy for my tastes!"
Aliyah hissed.
"Attack!" Kapri ordered,
The freaky monster fired an energy beam at the four Ninja's causing Cam and Aliyah to jump one way, and Tori and Rebecca to dive the other.
"Back off, geek," Kapri laughed.
"Just proves he's smarter than you," Aliyah quipped. "Better to be a geek than a super-spaced Ninja freak!"
Kapri narrowed her eyes. "Did I ask for your opinion?" she spat.
"No, but I thought I'd give my input," Aliyah retorted, angering Kapri further.
Meanwhile, the others had arrived from Ninja Ops, just in time to witness the verbal fight between the two females.
"I have heard of cities coming alive but this is ridiculous!" Dustin said, observing the monster.
"Haha," the monster growled. "Everyone's a comedian! Are you going to morph, or do I have to beg?"
"You got it!" Shane nodded.
Aliyah, however, frowned as she looked between her friends and the monster, something was quite right about the situation, but before she could figure out what her friends had morphed and the battle had begun. Pushing her thoughts aside, Aliyah darted through the thicket of Kelzacks and knocked Kapri to the ground.
"You fight well with your mouth," Aliyah hissed. "But how well are you with your fists?"
And she aimed a punch at Kapri.
Marah, who attempted to aid her sister, was quickly dealt with when Aliyah pushed off of Kapri and roundhouse-kicked her in the stomach.
Meanwhile, the other rangers were in trouble. Cam had managed to hold his own against the Kelzacks before being overpowered, and the others were in the midst of being drained of their energy by the monster.
Collapsing to the ground, the rangers looked up just as Marah, Kapri, the monster and the Kelzacks disappeared, leaving Aliyah and Cam to rush forward to help.
"Dude, what happened?" Aliyah asked, helping her sister and Tori to their feet.
"I don't know," Cam answered. "We better get them back to Ops."
~*Lightning Storm*~
"Man that guy worked us" Shane grunted as Cam scanned him to find the problem.
"Cam, what happened out there?" Aliyah asked.
The other rangers were slumped over, Tori leaning on Blake, while Dustin lay on the ground, Hunter was hunched over on the table, his head between his knees and Rebecca was leaning against the wooden table, tiredly.
"Metropolis drained their ranger energy force" Cam explained, putting away the scanner. "If they go out and fight again, there's a good chance they won't come back."
Aliyah paused and turned in the direction of her friend, before rounding on the Rangers.
"Dude, that's harsh," Dustin whined as he managed to move his head and look up at the genius as Sensei surveyed the scans on the computer.
"This is grave news," Sensei sighed, turning to look at them all. "We must find a way to retrieve your powers."
Tori looked up as the computer screen changed to show the monster with the ball containing their powers.
"Look, there he is," she managed to say weakly.
"Alright, it's go time," said Shane, weakly attempting to stand.
"You can barely stand, Shane," said Cam, pushing the red ranger back down into the chair.
"Look, i'm not going to just sit here while that freak is loose," Shane growled, as the others started to get to their feet. "We have to do something!"
Rebecca hesitated. "There is one other option," she said, looking up at her sister, the others followed her gaze, realizing all too soon was she was getting at. Aliyah was the only other person with the ability to morph and her ranger powers and energy still intact.
Finally catching on, Aliyah shook her head. "Oh no," she said. "No! Rebecca... no! Forget it!"
"You have to, Ali," Rebecca said, "You're the only one left! You heard Cam, if we go out there again there is a chance we won't come back!"
"A chance!" Aliyah pointed out. "He is not 100% certain! It's 50/50... You're Power Rangers, so take the risk!"
"You take the risk," Tori said. "Come on, Aliyah, you can do this! I know you can!"
"Yeah, think of how many innocent people are going to get hurt if our powers are blown out of existence," Shane pointed out.
Aliyah looked around at them. "I'm not ready!" she protested. "I can't fight!"
"You fought Kapri," Blake pointed out. "And you fought me and Hunter the first time you met us! You put up a pretty good fight back then!"
"That wasn't fighting," Aliyah said. "That was anger!"
"It was still fighting," Blake shrugged. "Maybe you fight differently to us. Sensei Omino always used to tell Hunter and me that every Ninja has a different fighting style. We all fight for different reasons and we are all powered by different motivations! Maybe your motivation is anger!"
Rebecca nodded. "He has got a point, Ali," she agreed. "Use your anger. Channel it into your powers..."
"What if I fail?"
"You won't fail," Rebecca promised. "You're going to do fine! Once you morph everything you need to know will be downloaded to your genetic make-up! You'll know what to do!"
"Just let your powers be your guide," Sensei said, wrinkling his nose.
Aliyah hesitated and glanced around at her friends, her heart pounding inside her chest. They were counting on her. "I -" she started. "I won't let you down!"
Rebecca smiled and reached into her pocket for Aliyah's morpher, she handed it over and caught her sister's wrist just as Aliyah was pulling away. "You could never let me down!" she whispered. "I'm proud of you in whatever you choose to do. Be safe, Aliyah, and may the Power protect you!"
~*Lightning Storm*~
Back at Ninja Ops the rangers, Cam and Sensei watched as Aliyah streaked into the warehouse and stole the ball from Metropolis, she was still in her Ninja form and the look in her eye was a dangerous one.
"Hey, that's mine!" the monster yelled. "I stole from you rangers fair and square!"
"Didn't anyone ever tell you that stealing is a crime?" Aliyah retorted, holding the sphere under her arm. "I'm just here to sentence you... to a world of hurt for your crime!"
She snapped her wrist up, her morpher perched easily on top of it. Aliyah hesitated slightly, before saying, in a loud and clear voice: "Lightning Storm! Ranger Form!"
The sky darkened and a crash echoed over the speakers, lightning flashed and streaked towards the ground, hitting Aliyah who braced herself for impact. When the light faded, Aliyah was dressed in an all-white body suit, with a pair of ears on top, and a black lightning strike down her chest.
"Power of Lightning!"
"Yes!" Rebecca cheered, hugging Tori as they witnessed Aliyah's morph. "Yes! She's one of us now!"
Tori nodded promptly but instantly regretted it.
"Now for her to come back safely," Cam said, turning his gaze back onto Aliyah.
The battle between Aliyah and Metropolis went on for more than a few minutes, before the monster cast a blanket of darkness over the entire warehouse, causing Aliyah to disappear from the screens and the tracker within her morpher to switch off.
Rebecca frowned as Cam tapped furiously at the keypads. "What happened?" she demanded.
"I don't know," Cam said, shaking his head. "It's like he's taken her to another dimension or something! I can't contact her... she's not her own!"
Rebecca groaned, her sisters first time as a Power Ranger and already she was left to fend for herself. "Come on, Ali, use your inner strength... you can do it!"
~*Lightning Storm*~
Aliyah frowned as she glanced around, all she could see was darkness.
"Hello?" she called. "Rebecca? Tori? Cam!"
There was no answer... just forever, eternal darkness.
"Where am I?" she questioned herself.
"You are in my world now," Metropolis answered, appearing in front of the newly formed White ranger. "If you ever want to go home, I suggest you give that back to me!"
He pointed at the sphere.
Aliyah narrowed her eyes through her visor. "Let me get this straight... i'm supposed to hand this over? With all my friend's powers inside it? That is never going to happen!"
"Fine." Metropolis growled. "Then you can stay here..."
"I have no intention of staying here!" Aliyah spat. "I'm taking my ball and going home!"
She reached for her primary weapon on her waist.
"Lightning Sabre! Full power!"
The sabre sparked as it reached its highest capacity, she slashed at Metropolis's stomach but he disappeared as her sabre sliced straight through him. "Uh -?" Aliyah frowned, looking at her weapon. "What just happened?"
Metropolis laughed but didn't re-appear. Aliyah spun around in a full circle, it sounded like he was inside her own head.
"Where are you!" she shouted. "You coward... come out and fight!"
"Who you calling a coward?"
"The clown who hides behind the darkness rather than face me himself," Aliyah challenged. "Prove me wrong, Metropolis!"
There was a split second pause, before the monster reappeared, slashing at Aliyah with his claws and knocking her clean off her feet.
The White ranger screamed as she hit the ground and rolled for a bit.
"I guess you were wrong," he hissed.
"Guess I was," Aliyah nodded, getting to her feet. "But now I am ready to go home!"
Metropolis laughed and clawed at the White ranger furiously. Aliyah, burdened with a giant sphere containing her team-mates Ranger powers, tried her best to deflect the claws, but failed miserably as she was thrown forcefully through the air and collided with the concrete wall of the warehouse in which she had been disappeared from quarter of an hour ago.
~*Lightning Storm*~
"She's back!" Tori exclaimed as she watched Aliyah take another beating from Metropolis. "But she is taking a beating!"
Rebecca, who had regained very little of her energy back, turned quickly to Sensei. "Isn't there something we can do?" she asked. "I convinced her that she was our last hope. If anything happens to her, I will never forgive myself!"
"In the past there was a power that could help us," said Sensei, "but there is no point in longing for something that has long since been destroyed."
"This is no time for riddles, dad," Cam said in annoyance, Aliyah was in trouble and he needed to help her.
"Give it to me!" Metropolis yelled over the mainframe as he towered over a weakened Aliyah Logan.
Aliyah clutched the sphere closer to her body. "No! This sphere contains the powers and energies of those who are willing to sacrifice everything to bring home their respective academies. I owe it to the Lightning Academy to make the same promise!"
Tori watched fearfully as Aliyah pushed herself up onto her feet, she swayed slightly but managed to maintain her footing. Her arm curled around the sphere as her hand tightened around her sabre.
"In the name of the Lightning Academy, I, Aliyah Logan, declare war against Lothor!"
Tori and Shane exchanged looks. This was not good.
"Sensei, if you know of anything that can help, now would be the best time to tell us!" said Rebecca, desperately, her sister was about to become history. All because she was foolish enough to convince her to go into battle alone.
"It is useless to discuss," Sensei said. "We cannot safely predict how the portal will respond too -"
He cut off as he realized he had said too much.
"The Scroll of Time!" Rebecca and Cam exclaimed, making a dash towards the library. Cam, having more energy than the Black ranger, leapt up onto the stand and reached for the scroll, only to pull back as his father landed in front of him.
"No! You must not disturb that which is the natural progression of time," he warned.
"Dad, if we don't do something, there won't be any time left!" Cam protested. "Aliyah is about to be destroyed because she is too stubborn and pig-headed to stand down! I have to do this! I have to go back in time and get the one power source that can help us!"
Sensei shook his fury head.
"To confront one's past is an awesome responsibility," he explained. "You risk changing everything you know about the present.2
Aliyah's cries rebounded around Ninja Ops as she continued to fight against Metropolis, however, he was proving to be tougher than he looked.
"You're through!" the monster growled. "Why don't you just give up?"
"You will not beat me!" Aliyah yelled, flying to her feet and rushing back at the monster. She attacked and defended, but being out of training for so long was showing just as basic her fighting skills were, as time and time again, no matter how well she fought, Aliyah was defeated.
"Pathetic!" Metropolis laughed.
Cam, who had turned at the sound of Aliyah's cries, turned back to his father. "I have to take that chance," he said.
Sensei sighed and stepped aside, allowing Cam to take one of the scrolls.
"Thanks dad," Cam smiled, jumping down and turning to face the other rangers.
Tori and Dustin's gazes were flickering back and forth between Aliyah and Cam, as if watching a rather intense tennis match, Hunter, Blake and Shane were firmly staring at Cam, each of them cringing as Aliyah's screams hit them and her declare of war fueled their need to return to battle; while Rebecca was torn between yelling at her sister to focus and warning Cam to be careful.
Unrolling the scroll, Cam and those who were focused on him, watched as it became bigger and bigger, pulsating brightly in front of him.
Tori frowned as she watched Aliyah raise her arms up in front of her face as Metropolis reached down to grab her and the two of them froze.
"What happened?" Dustin asked, also confused on why the mainframe had frozen. "Cam, I think your computer is broken!" he added, tapping the screen.
"Don't do that!" Cam scolded. "It's not broken!"
"He is correct," Sensei nodded. "Are you sure this the only way, Cam? Time here will be frozen until the writing on the scroll fades away."
"I can't think of anything more desperate than this, can you?" Cam asked, turning to his father.
"No, I cannot," Sensei replied.
"And I can't think of any power source but one that can save us," Cam nodded. "I am going back to the past to get it!"
Rebecca stepped forward. "Cam, you must hurry," she warned him, "or you will be trapped in the past forever!"
"I know," Cam nodded. "Let's hope it doesn't come to that!"
Sensei smiled faintly. "You have your mother's courageous heart and your father's stubborn head. Be careful, my son."
"I will, Dad," Cam nodded.
He turned back to the scroll; it pulsated brightly awaiting him to step through into a world that was his own... but many years before his time. The other rangers stood and surveyed him.
"Wish me luck!" he said.
"You don't need luck," Rebecca smiled, unfolding her arms and facing him. "You need to be careful and you need to be swift! Our survival rests with you!"
Cam nodded, he knew that she spoke the truth, and with that he passed through the portal, the light and scroll vanishing in his wake.
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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx
Chapter updated Thursday, 5 July 2012 at 03:49am