Pink with Envy

Chapter 12: Shimazu's Return Part II.

Emergency A/N: If you have not reread chapter Eleven then do so now. I have updated it so it is not a A/N anymore but a real chapter. Thanks you.

"That is one ugly mutt!" Tori commented after several minutes of silence and staring at the main screen.

"Man, the leash laws in this town need some serious work," Dustin added, and the others nodded.

"You guys better get out there," Cam spoke. "before it decides to make the Federal building into a chew toy." They nodded and as they moved to get into morphing position Hunter placed a hand on Neve's shoulder.

"Neve, you should stay here. Your hurt," he said and she looked at him and then at her side which she touched softly and winced at the pressure.

"No, I'll be fine," she argued but the other Rangers looked at her and Tori was the first to act and as if to prove a point preformed a roundhouse kick at Neve's head which she spun out of the way of screamed in pain as she fell to one knee. Hunter was instantly at her side and glared at Tori. The others were speechless.

"You can't even dodge properly Neve. Let us handle this, and I'm sorry for that," Tori said and Neve stood up with Hunters help. Cam walked over and looked at the wound and saw a stitch had been pulled. He frowned but at least it wasn't more then one or two. Neve nodded.

"I understand, be careful," she said and then kissed Hunter quickly before letting Cam led her back to the exam table.

"Ninja Storm! Ranger Form! Ha!" The Wind Rangers called and stood morphed.

"Thunder Storm! Ranger Form!" The Thunder Rangers followed. Neve sighed as she watched this and then watched as the Rangers streaked out for the Zord bay. Just as they left Kimberly ran inside, her hand over her heart as she saw Cam restitching part of a six inch cut on her baby girls side. At this she promptly fainted and it was only Cam who streaked over that saved her from hitting her head or hurting the baby. Neve sighed and shook her head.

"This day couldn't get any worse," she muttered and then winced as she realized just what she had said.

xXx

The Wind and Thunder Megazords rushed forward as they finally arrived in the battle.

"Look out!" Tori yelled, as the wolf blades attacked the Thunder Megazord and sent them flying, before they turned and smashed its paw into the Wind Megazord. The two Megazords stumbled backwards and the dogs fired several laser blasts at them causing sparks to fly.

"Whoa!" Tori cried out and they straightened themselves out.

"Hunter! Mini-Zord formation!" Shane called out as they regained themselves. Hunter nodded from his Zord and placed the power disc in the free slot.

"Good call Shane. Power disc, locked and dropped." Two power spears were united at once and the Mini-Zord was formed. Then two two Zords and then Mini-Zord all formed into one large zord.

"Keep yapping mutt, we've got something for you!" Shane exclaimed and and together they called out the attacks name and the lion on the front of the Zords mouth opened and almost white laser came out and hit the Wolf Blades head on.

"Yeah boy!" Shane yelled in cheer. There was no way those mangy mutts could have survived that blast. But then the smoke cleared and the wolves snarled back at the ranger team and it was obvious they had indeed survived.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Shane exclaimed.

"No!" Hunter yelled.

"Impossible!" Tori cried.

"No way..." Blake started.

"...is this happening!" Dustin finished.

xXx

"Oh my god, you've got to get them out of there!" Neve yelled as she stood behind Cam her mother on the other side. Cam nodded and hit a few keys before hitting the large center button. At once each Ranger was teleported back to ops safely and the damaged Zords were relocated to the Zord bay.

"Power Down!" Shane commanded, and the rangers all returned to their Ninja Forms.

"Thank god," Neve said as she hugged each of them but stayed the longest with Hunter. Kim smiled at her daughter and the boy she was sure would be her son-in-law one day. They reminded her so much of herself and Tommy back in the days before they married and even now.

While Cam checked over the damage of their Zords, the Rangers all regrouped. Kim took the time to become a mother hen and checked each teenager over for injuries and made Neve sit down the moment she saw the young girl wince in pain.

"Are you feeling okay?" Hunter asked as he stood beside the exam table where his girlfriend sat and held her hand loosely in his. Neve grinned and chuckled but stopped as it jarred her side.

"Yeah. I think I should start a log though. I seem to always be getting hurt," she joked and Hunter smiled slightly but she was right and that made him frown. She seemed to get hurt a lot since the spell had ended.

"Why is that? When you...when we were fighting each other in the beginning you never seemed to get hurt but now..." he trailed off her and Neveah sighed. She didn't want to say this, or tell anyone but she knew Hunter needed to know.

"Have you ever wondered which is more powerful? Good or Evil?" she asked and Hunter blinked but nodded. Kim noticing the conversation and realizing where it was headed moved on to check on Tori and Dustin. Shane was standing at the computer with Cam helping him when he could. She remembered having a similar talk with Tommy years ago and knew how touchy it was. Blake also left as not to eavesdrop and went to sit with Tori and make sure she was okay.

"Not really, does this have a point?" he asked. Neve sighed.

"You know about the world having a balance. Ying and Yang, good and evil. Well Good always wins that's true for the most part but good has never been the most powerful. Evil is." Hunter's eyes widened.

"What?"

"Evil will always be more powerful it is why the Rangers have a team, why we work together. You noticed how I took all six of you down when I was evil, now I don't know if I could. Maybe three at a time but not all together, not while I was good. It's just a fact. I'm not invincible Hunter, no matter what it might have seemed like when I was evil," she explained and Hunter nodded. He remembered, he also remembered being evil. She was right, evil was more powerful, he remembered the power now and a small part of him missed it. He wondered if a part of her missed it as well?

"Okay, listen up everybody. The Zords should be back online by tomorrow at the latest. But, we're gonna need reinforcements," Cam announced.

Shane looked around at his friends. "Well, I'm open to any suggestions on how to deal with these freaks," he said.

"I have one, Dad, I'm pretty sure this is a clear case of emergency," Cam said, looking at his father for permission. The guinea pig nodded.

"Say no more, Cam," Sensei responded "You have my permission."

Blake grinned and clapped his hands. "We're finally gonna see what the big deal is about that box!" The wall behind Cam slid upwards and he pulled out the box he and Neve had retrieved from the Asian Museum earlier that same day.

"Anyone want to take bets?" Hunter asked and Neve smirked at her boyfriend. Kimberly looked at them all in disapproval. But she said nothing.

Shane smirked. "Oh, its gotta be like some really old sword," he suggested and Dustin moved forward.

"Or a cool fighting staff," Dustin added grinning.

"Or it could be a piece of text?" Neve suggested, her eyes wide and innocent. The other looked at the Spirit Ninja and she chuckled. She was just joking but from the shocked look in sensei's eyes maybe she was closer to the truth then she knew.

Cam placed the box on the table and the Rangers and Kim gathered around, the Samurai then proceeded to open it to reveal a scroll inside. The Rangers sighed.

"Great," Tori said with fake enthusiasm throwing her hands up. "Just what we need. Another ancient scroll. Hey how did you know Neve?" Tori asked looking at her friend. Neve looked at them in shock and shrugged her shoulders.

"I just joking, I didn't really think it was a scroll."

The Samurai removed the scroll from the box and started to read through it.

"Huh, Cam?" Shane started off hesitantly. "I just wanted to ask -"

"Shh!" the Green ranger responded holding up a hand.

"Okay..." Shane trailed, looking back at his friends. "Maybe we'll just leave you alone."

Blake smirked "So what do we do while we wait for the dog pound?" he asked.

"Good question, I don't want Neve fighting though. She is hurt," Kimberly said and Neve looked at her mom and sighed. It wasn't like they were going to let her anyways.

"Be strong, and be alert!" Sensei warned.

The Rangers nodded.

"Let's go dude," Hunter said, patting his brother on the back. "We...got something to do" he added as the Wind rangers turned to him and Blake. Hunter ignored it and turned to his girlfriend and kissed her softly for about sixty seconds before pulling back. Neve smiled at him and nodded.

"Call if you need anything," Blake shouted over his shoulder as he and Hunter disappeared from Ninja Ops.

"We'll I don't know about you...but I wanna get out of here and get some fresh air," Neve said. This was going to be a long day.

xXx

"I feel kinda guilty," Tori said as she pressed her back against the wall.

"About what? Spying on them like this. I do too, but it could be because they're our boyfriends," Neve said as she stood beside her blonde friend. Shane looked around the corner and watched as the two brothers were around the corner and heading up a flight of stairs and disappearing into the door at the top. Tori glanced around the corner and saw them disappear inside as did Neve.

"Hey, All's fair in love and show business!" Shane smiled. "I've got to find out what they're doing for Totally Talented! Come on!" he said and he started towards the steps but it was Neve who stopped as she heard a crack of thunder – though faint and Blake's voice behind them.

"You guys lost?" Blake asked. He and Hunter had Ninja streaked behind the three Rangers, causing most to jump and become slightly scared.

Shane looked a bit embarrassed as they stood in front of the two brothers. "Hey!" he said, with a fake smile, before realizing he had been caught. "I hate when you guys do that!" he finally said and the brothers smirked.

"You guys need something?" Hunter smirked, as he said this and Neve looked at him as if daring him to call her out. She knew he knew she'd skin him alive with her Phoenix Dagger if he got her mad enough.

"Uh," Tori started, almost chocking on her words and tongue. "Well, we were just in the...uh...neighborhood..."

"Tori, you're such a bad liar!" Blake said shaking his head. "Don't even go there!"

At that moment Shane's morpher beeped, saving the Wind and Spirit Rangers necks once again. "Go for Shane," he said into it, for once thanking whatever it was Cam needed or even Lothor if this was monster related.

"Shane, you and the other Rangers must come to Ninja Ops right away!" Cam responded.

Shane nodded, something of habit they all did even though Cam couldn't see them. "On our way," he said, and the five Rangers took off.

xXx

"Let me get this straight," Neveah said shaking her head.

"You want what?" she almost yelled as she regained her composure. The seven of them were crowded around one another as Cam held out one of his hands as if waiting for something. "You're power disks" he repeated.

"You can't be serious?" Tori asked.

"I know I'm the slow one," Dustin said, speaking up. "But doesn't that mean we wont have any power?"

"Only until I get back," Cam informed them.

Blake shook his head and frowned."Yeah, I don't think that's a good idea."

"Yeah, I kinda like knowing that I can kick some space Ninja butt," Hunter agreed. "If I have too."

"What he said, I'm already inhibited as it is," Neve said as she motioned to her wounded side.

"I understand your hesitation, Rangers," Sensei said, coming forward from where he had stood watching. "But it is the only way."

"How is giving up the Power Disks, going to help us defeat Shimazu?" Tori asked.

"To defeat his Wolf blades, we must open the portal to the ancient world, there are only six objects powerful enough do that," Sensei explained.

"The Power Disc," Neveah muttered, understanding now.

"Yes," Sensei nodded.

"Look, if anything happens Cyber Cam can activate the Zords," Cam informed. "You can still operate them you'll just be in civilian form."

Shane took a deep breath, it didn't look like they had a choice and he looked at his teammates and nodded. "Okay," he said reluctantly, removing his Power Disk from his morpher and handing it over. The others following suit. They all felt a slight drain from not having the power disc on them.

"Thanks," Cam said.

"We'll be ready," Shane said, before the Samurai morphed and disappeared into the Zord bay. They watched as he made his way to the portal.

"I've got the co-ordinates," Cam said over the intercoms to the listening Rangers back at Ops. "and I should be in range soon. Stay on alert rangers." he went quiet, before his voice sounded again "Just a few clicks to the portal sight."

Cyber Cam was in front of the mainframe as the rangers stood behind him when the three headed wolves re-appeared on the screen, its howl startling the Rangers. They all watched in horror as the wolves attacked the Samurai Star chopper and knocking Cam out of the sky,

"Cam!" Shane yelled. "Cam!"

"We've got to help him!" Neveah and Tori both yelled.

"Uh, hello?" Cyber Cam started. "Does anyone not notice a giant three headed dog on the loose?"

"You know, you really need an attitude adjustment!" Blake said as he and the other rangers headed for the exit.

"Neve where are you going?" Sensei asked and the Rangers stopped as did Hunter. Neve looked at them and Sensei.

"I'm a Ranger Sensei, I can't not help. I'll be in my Zord the whole time. I'll be careful," she said and Sensei sighed.

"You have my blessings Neve," he finally whispered and they nodded. Neve looked at her and nodded, knowing he couldn't change her mind now.

Cyber Cam shrugged. "Its not in my programming!"

"Is sending the Zords in your programming?" the Crimson Ranger asked and Neve rolled her eyes before they both left.

"Right," Cyber Cam said, and he turned back to the mainframe and typed on the pad some and then hit a big center button.

The Rangers arrived on the scene in their Zords though the only difference was this time they were in civilian form.

"Alright guys, without our powers -" Shane started "- we cant take any direct hits."

"Is that suppose to cheer us up?" Tori asked from her Dolphin Zord. "Because its not working."

"Yeah, this isn't going to be a walk in the park. I hate dogs," Neve said, she was being forced to manually drive her Phoenix Zord which she usually only did when it joined with the Thunder brothers megazord.

"Just be careful," Shane warned them.

"Why don't we just blow this guy away and go home?" Dustin asked as he used his lion zord to do just that but it didn't work and the Wolves attacked and Tori was next to attack.

"Hey over here in the flying fish!" she exclaimed as her Dolphin Zord flew through the air and attacked from the side. She hit the wolves with her fluke before bounding backwards clapping her flippers like a regular dolphin would.

Blake and Hunter rolled up in their Beetle Zords. "Yo, what up Dogs" Blake said. "Meet the Beetles."

Hunter chuckled, as they fired their own lasers at the three headed wolves yet it didn't seem to do much.

Shane flew in from the sky in his Hawk Zord. "Hey, haven't you heard?" he asked. "Birds the word." and he fired his own lasers at the wolves, causing more sparks to fly.

"Let's try some real fire power," Neve said as she flew in a arch and graceful circle over the site and the Zord sudenly sent waves of fire from it wings and mouth at the wolves.

"That's what I call Phoenix fire!" she called yet the wolves growled as they got back to their feet and charged the Zords. It grabbed Neve by it's tail feathers and swung it away and it let out a shrill shriek before righting itself. Neve was dizzy and disoriented inside, her side hurting.

"Cyber Cam. Any word from you're twin bro yet?" Hunter asked, worried about his girlfriend fighting in her condition.

"Yeah, cause we're getting hammered out here!" Blake called over the com.

"Nothing yet," Cyber Cam answered "Just hold those mutts off as long as you can."

"Easier said then done," Neve replied, as she flew around the attacking wolf.

Cam appeared on a rooftop near-by just as things seemed to get hairy. "Hey guys!" he said. "Check it out!" He strummed the strings on the guitar in his hands. The wolves howled and snarled facing off against the rangers once more.

"How about we finish this mutt off?"

"Sounds like a dream!" Neve said, laughing.

Cam nodded once and then looked at the new weapon in his hands. "I'm calling it the Lightening Rift Blaster!" he informed them, strumming the guitar once more.

"You couldn't have come up with a better name?" Blake asked as he laughed.

"Actions speak louder than words, Blake," Cam responded, strumming the guitar once more. "Check it out! I can use it to summon the Mighty Mammoth Zord!" The ground suddenly shifted and a huge Mammoth Zord appeared a few feet away and the Rangers all stared at the new zord, impressed.

"Why didn't you just say so?" Hunter asked.

"Whoa," Shane laughed.

Dustin grinned "Awesome!"

"Ta-da!" Cam said, from the roof-top "I'm sending you back your Power Disks."

"Alright," Shane said, as his disk appeared in his Zord. "lets put this puppy down once and for all."

"Amen to that," Neve said, sighing as she put her power disc back in place.

"Ninja Storm! Ranger Form! Ha!"

"Spirit Storm! Ranger Form! Ha!"

"Thunder Storm! Ranger Form!"

They were instantly morphed and it was only seconds before the Megazords were completed and the two Megazords combined once more into one.

"Check it out," Cam spoke. "you're going to the pound wolf man!" and he strummed more strings on the guitar.

"Power Spheres release!" Cam called and the Mammoth Zord spat out three different spheres; Blue, Red and Yellow. "Serpent Sword! Ram Hammer! Turtle Maze!"

The Ram Hammer combined with the Turtle Maze as they and the Serpent Sword attached themselves to the Megazords. The wolves attacked and the Rangers slashed at it multiple times with the Serpent sword.

"Combine with the Mammoth Zord. The power should be enough to defeat the wolf blades!" Cam instructed and the others nodded.

"Got it!" Shane responded. "Initiating sequence."

The Megazord slotted into the back of the Mammoth Zord; and it started to roll towards the wolves.

"Mammoth Zord! Engage weapons - Sphere attack!" Shane commanded .

The trunk opened up and the sphere's rolled out like bowling balls.

"Ninja Ranger Power!" the Rangers all yelled out at once, and their combined laser powers, and the Mammoth laser power hit the wolf blades causing them to explode. "Yeah!" They yelled from their Zords.

"Awesome!"

"Now that's what I call bowling a perfect game," Cam said, giving a thumbs up to the rangers.

xXx

"That thing wont summon any Mammoth robots, will it?" Hunter asked, as the Samurai joined them all back stage.

"It might. I've been known to rock a few worlds," Cam informed them.

"Big words for such a little man," he teased. "Don't feel bad when you come in second..."

"Same could be said for you..." Neve said, appearing beside Hunter and smirking at her friend.

Shane looked her. "What are you doing?"

Neve raised an eyebrow and shook her head. "Nothing, I came to watch. I can't do much of anything with these stupid stitches. No I think I'm just going to enjoy show by taking on the tradition role to watch, and mock and laugh," she explained.

"So why are you back here?" Hunter asked her and she smirked.

"I have my ways, now go get'm Handsome," Neve said giving her boyfriend a kiss and walking off to take her seat.

Neve watched happily along with her mother as Tori took over the stage for her dance. Once she was finished, Shane took to the stage with his singing. When he was done he re-took his seat and glanced across at Neve and Tori and grinned at them. Neve grinned back.

"You did great Shane," she said as the they watched Dustin as he stepped up onto the stage; suspenders and everything as he played his saxophone. Cam was next with his guitar and managed to 'rock the world' like he had said and Blake and Hunter were next, and their mystery talent was revealed. They all stared in shock, though Neve was the most shocked. Hunter had never told her he could rap much less sing. She smiled he was pretty good for a white boy. And Blake was good at his talent too and though she knew what it she couldn't think of its name or tittle.

The host reappeared back on the stage as the last performance of the day was announced. "And now for our final act," he said. "from...well, all it says is far far away, SNA - Space Ninja's with Attitude!"

Marah and Kapri appeared on the stage, dressed like everyday regular teens, they were singing and dancing. The Rangers all stared in shock, and they though Hunter and Blake performance was shocking.

"Well folks, I don't think there is any doubt about it," Stu said, coming back onto the stage. "our winners are, SNA - Space Ninja's with Attitude!"

"No way!" Shane said, turning in his seat. No one could believe this but Neve just laughed at the turn of events.

"Dude, they were pretty good," Dustin complimented, shrugging.

"They go on to win a trip to Hollywood," Stu continued "and future stardom, so lets go them a big round of applause."

The rest of the studio started to clap as the Ninja Rangers turned to Shane.

"Okay there is something wrong with this picture," Tori muttered to herself, her gaze spotted something behind the shimmery curtain, and she pushed herself up.

"I knew it!" she cried.

"You guys want to try that again?" Tori asked, as she turned around holding a pink boom box in her arms. Tori pressed play as the same song started once more before she pressed stop. "Without the CD player?"

Stu Starmaker stared at the two girls in shock before he shook his head and walked away to stand in front of the Rangers.

"No!" Kapri said. "Their our real voices -"

"Yeah," Marah said, following her sisters lead. "With a little enhancement," she admitted.

"Yeah," Kapri mumbled. "Well if we can't win, nobody wins!" she said, throwing out her hand and blasting Stu with energy blast before storming off stage, Marah behind her. It was only seconds latter Stu Starmaker stormed off as well.

"What does that mean no one wins today?" Dustin asked from in front of Blake

Cam looked towards his fellow team-mate "Oh, I don't know Dustin," he said. "I think we're all winners."

They all laughed as Hunter knocked of Cam's hat for such a cheesy line and Neve smiled knowing she had such good friend even though she'd started out trying to kill them. Yep, besides the occasion wounds that were becoming a pain in her ass life was good.

But she had no idea what was about to come her way in the next few weeks.


A/N: Well here it is. Next Chapter is the team up and I look forward to seeing if anyone can guess it. Also though it is not mentioned in the Chapter not long after they left the studio for Totally Talented Kimberly went into labor - about six or so weeks early but she'll be fine. I guess all the stress from this chapter caught up with her.