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Hunter sighed as he sat down on the bench while Blake stormed away after yet another argument broke out.
Ever since that race a while back and Blake cut Hunter off the two of them had been at loggerheads.
"Fighting with your brother?" He nearly jumped out of his skin as he turned his head to the side to see the person that had joined him on the park bench.
"Yeah…" He nodded sighing.
"I know how it feels. Sometimes siblings are hard work…especially if you're a Power Ranger."
He shot up and his hand went straight to his morpher.
"Oh sit down I'm not a monster or alien or whatever your main villain sends at ya." He finally got a good look at his new companion.
She was in her mid-twenties with dark wavy hair and large black eyes. Her olive skin seemed to shine in the sun and her engagement ring sparkled in the sunlight.
The ring itself was a silver band and a black diamond sat in between two smaller green emeralds.
She was dressed in a form fitting green t-shirt tucked into a black skirt at the waist a silver belt around it, over the outfit was a black blazer she had rolled the sleeves up.
"How did you…"
She showed a bracelet/wrist guard that was silver, a black diamond placed in the middle of a smelted figure of a wolf head.
The diamond was broken like a cracked piece of glass that hadn't shattered yet and the wolf head had a slash running down it.
"I was a ranger once. Twice actually." She told him.
"Really?" He said sitting next to her.
"Really….it was the time of my life. I made amazing friends…you see my parents and my brother moved to a place not far from here Angel Grove but I got to go to this special school where I could go on a scholarship for music and martial arts. There I became a ranger. The Black ranger….me and four boys; and we lived together… sometimes it was hell. But other times… we were blessed with a gift. Animal based of course. Cougar, elephant, monkey, turtle and my personal favourite the wolf…"
"You were the black ranger?" He said looking at the diamond.
"Yeah….I went to visit my family in Angel Grove and ended up finding out my brother was a ranger to being mentored by this guy named Zordon." She told him. "I didn't want their help. I felt it was my job to stop Citius…he was my enemy at the time. But…their black ranger…ended up changing my mind….and in a way he saved my life. Because without them. I would have died and the world would have fallen."
"Really?"
"Citius remains one of the most powerful enemies this world had….Ivan Ooze too. He destroyed my brothers' powers and nearly killed Zordon. They had to go into outer space to get new powers and….I was left in charge of the city with a friend of mine former blue ranger of my group."
"How old were you? When you became a ranger?" Hunter asked.
"I was eleven the first time. Sixteen the second."
"The second time?"
"I told you I was a ranger twice!" She smiled at him. "I was called back to action by a friend of mine. Second ever red ranger and he did end up becoming the Blue Zeo ranger. They needed someone to hold the power of the Silver Zeo ranger while the Original Red ranger Jason became the gold ranger…Rocky thought I'd be the best choice. And I ended up a ranger again. New power, new colour, new partner…new team entirely."
"Like me and the Wind Rangers…we weren't a team from the start." Hunter said.
"Exactly; I trusted my brother. Tommy; I call him the Christmas Tree Ranger because he changed colours three times."
"Really?"
"He went from green, to white then red. Hopefully he's retired now for good." She laughed.
"I trusted him. But I did battle on the inside trying to accept him as a leader because in my eyes the only leader I ever had was Finn. My red ranger….I trusted Rocky who actually ended up being my cousin."
"Huh?"
"I was adopted. And Rocky ended up being my first cousin…."
Kelzaks appeared out of nowhere.
"Stay back!" Hunter ordered her.
"Please." She huffed and kicked one square in the chest' grabbed another and threw into onto the ground over her shoulder.
"Or not." Hunter said as the two fought together.
"Duck!" She ordered him and he did as she connected her fist to the Kelzaks face.
Hunter was entranced as the girl spun and landed a spiral kick into the Kelzaks face, mask…whatever it was.
"Not a good day to wear a skirt." She muttered when they were finally all gone.
"Guess not." He laughed. "You're amazing."
"Glad you think so. I did train every day at that school…even now I'm still teaching sometimes…"
"That skill is really cool."
"Thanks. Well I better get going." She told him.
"Why?" Hunter frowned. He enjoyed chatting to the veteran ranger.
"Because I've got somewhere to be tonight but…how about we meet up again tomorrow ten in the morning on the beach? And wear some clothes to train in." She told him beginning to walk away.
"Why?" He asked.
She half turned to face him. "Because tomorrow I'm gonna train you." She told him simply before continuing on her path away from him.
Hunter found a grin growing on his face as he headed back to Storm Chargers.
The rest of the rangers were confused as of why Hunter was in such high spirits especially since he was fighting with Blake.
The next day he arrived on the beach and she was already there.
"Alright you ready?"
"Sure…."
"Okay you see that flag up there?" She pointed to the small green flag about fifty metres ahead of them.
"Yeah."
"I want you to sprint to it and back….keep going until I tell you stop." She ordered him and he nodded and started to run.
He soon discovered that this lady wasn't easy to please.
"Alright stop." She sighed after ten minutes.
He was panting by now.
"I thought you were a ninja. You're supposed to have stamina. To be a ranger you can't have good parts and bad parts. You have to be constant. You have to know what you're going to do and what you will do if it goes wrong." She told him.
"But…"
"No buts. You're a ninja so I see you're already disciplined and you're tall and you're muscular. You've got speed on you I know you do. Listen I'm short. So I relied on speed so much. That and agility I because so fast when I was fifteen I could knock a nineteen year old six foot three muscular guy on his ass."
"You're relentless." He snapped.
"And you're whiny. If you want to pack it in fine."
"No!"
So they continued. She had him lifting weights, kicking back flipping at one stage she took out some tennis balls and threw them he having to spiral kick them into a bucket she laid out for him.
By the third day Hunter was bruised tired and fed up with this woman.
"You're teaching me nothing useful!"
"Right."
"I'm starting to think you're a massive fake."
"You do that."
"I quit."
"Fine…."
"FINE! Wait what?"
"I don't care if you finish the training or not….I just wanted to see if the new generation is as good as my brothers and cousin say they are….I'm beginning to doubt their judgement. Especially if they all doubt themselves as much as you do." She stated shrugging voice indifferent and he clenched his fists.
"You don't know what you're talking about!"
"Do I? I've got one of the longest running rains as a ranger. I was eleven. I watched my brother be a ranger, my partner, my cousin, my fiancé…they were all rangers. And damn good ones. I know how hard it is. You need to believe in yourself. You need to believe you can beat your enemy. So Hunter; get your ass out of here. Come back when you decide to get your head out of your butt." She told him picking up her gear bag and walking away leaving Hunter in shock.
An hour later Hunter was fully morphed and locked in a battle with Lothor's new monster.
This thing was fast.
The rest of the rangers had been slashed down and were recovering on the floor when Hunter arrived later then the rest of the gang due to the fact sensei wanted to talk to him for some unknown reason.
All sensei said was. "Use what she gave you. She wasn't wrong."
That made Hunter feel like Sensei was a stalker.
This new monster was thin, ugly and fast slashing at him with large claws and blasting him with two lasers like beams.
Somehow Hunter when he ripped at his side pulled off a spiral kick to its face then used its shoulders to flip backwards in the air dodging all of the beams he shot at the crimson ranger.
Hunter had his thunder staff out before he touched the ground and had slashed at him twice already sending the monster stumbling back.
Hunter moved with incredible speed and shot at him using his blaster.
The other rangers were open now and in awe.
"Let's put them together guys!"
"Okay!"
The rangers put their weapons together and fired destroying the monster…..
For all of five minutes when it was revived and turned into skyscraper height type monster so the Zords were called.
Their Megazord destroyed the monster and Bay Harbour was safe again.
Back on the ground the rangers demorphed and were congratulating Hunter.
"Where did you learnt to move like that man?" Dustin asked.
"You were great." Tori smiled.
"Yeah; yeah you were. Look man I'm sorry." Blake told him.
"I'm sorry too." Hunter nodded and they hugged it out.
"Still think I taught you nothing useful?" A female voice said behind them and the rangers turned.
The chocolate haired woman walked towards them taking off her dark glasses as she did so.
"Okay who's that?" Dustin whispered to Shane.
"I have no idea…" He told his yellow wearing friend.
"Oh hey." Hunter said walking towards her.
"I knew you could do it."
"Let me guess you deliberately got me angry so I could clear my mind and pull off those stunts?"
"Oh god no! I'm not a ninja I don't teach things with deep meanings to it. Kid I'm a music teacher not a ninja. Hunter you're a red ranger. It might be a darker shade of red but it's red and all red rangers are reckless and annoying. I should know I've dealt with four red rangers. I know how you work. I also knew if I pissed you off enough your body would instantly react to your instincts and do exactly what you didn't want to do. Prove my training ability to be flawless."
"That makes no sense." Hunter said to her.
"You still did. Welcome to the world of rangers. Nothing ever makes sense." She laughed. "At least now I know….the world's in great hands."
"Maybe we can train some more tomorrow?"
"Nah. My holiday is over buddy. I'm heading back to Angel Grove…eh…." She checked her phone. "In two hours. But maybe we'll meet again some time."
"Yeah I'd like that." Hunter nodded and the woman turned hands in pockets and walked away.
"Hey wait!" Shane shouted and she half-turned. "Who are you?" He found himself asking.
"I'm Ember." She told them winking before placing her sunglasses on. "Ember Oliver."
The Ninja Storm rangers watched as Hunter's new and short lived trainer, former ranger and new friend walked away from them leaving the trust of all the past rangers to look after the city and the world in their hands.
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