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Chapter 25: Wild Wipeout
-Beach-
Aria was standing on the beach waiting for Tori to come out the water; she was heading into to town to have a little jam session with her band and was wondering if Tori wanted to join.
"Hey T!" she greeted when the blonde ran over "I'm heading out with the band, you wanna come?"
Tori didn't answer right away due to two muscle heads talking about her
"Not bad…for a chick" one guy laughed
Aria and Tori's faces grew dark expressions and glared at the two. They shared a quick glance and smiled
"Got get it T we'll be downtown when you're done" she said before watching her friend shove past the arrogant pricks and run back to the ocean. She glared at the two guys again and headed up the beach.
Tori on the other hand swam out into the ocean, just when she was about to stand up on her board Tori noticed a shimmering gold aura surrounding it; seeing a giant wav coming her way she ignored it and stood up; riding the wave perfectly, well almost perfectly.
The wave crashed down on her causing to wipe out.
-Parallel Universe: Ninja Ops-
"Ugh this is so boring" Aria complained, twirling a small knife in her hand "Can't we like, go do something?" she flicked her wrist and the knife shot out at Blake who easily dodged it
"Hey watch it!" he complained "…bitch…"
Hearing this, Aria faced her lousy excuse of a brother and summoned her powers. "What did you call me?" she never gave him a chance to answer as she hurled a ball of energy to him. He tucked and rolled out of the way and muttered a forced apology.
Aria tossed her to the side and came up behind Dustin who was seated in front of the computer as usual, wrapping her arms around him.
He completely ignored her and continued his work.
"Ya know, Aria's got a point, why don't we have go out" Hunter offered with a grin
"Let's do it" Shane agreed darkly, within seconds all six rangers, minus Tori who had gone missing, morphed and walked out of Ops.
-City-
The six strutted out in the city as a pack, blasting anything in their sights. They laughed at the screams of terror and relished in the destruction of Blue Bay Harbor. Dustin now lazily had his arm wrapped around Aria while she clung onto him as if her life depended on it.
"Time for the big finish" Shane said as he turned to the Black Ranger
Aria de-morphed and launched into the air, her eyes were pitch black and she had a sick grin on her face; she laughed evilly before blasting at the innocent aliens and people of Blue Bay. Destroying most of them in the process
-Parallel Universe: Storm Chargers-
Tori watched the small T.V as they showed the power rangers tear up the city. She was close to tears when she witnessed Aria willingly using her powers. She decided to head to Ops and figure out what was going on.
-Ninja Ops-
Cam and Aria had called in the other rangers to tell them what had happened with Tori.
"She's off the grid" Aria said in worry
"Off the grid?" Dustin repeated, not really understanding what was going on
"We can't locate her anywhere, it's like she dropped off the face of the Earth" Cam tried to explain
"Do you know what happened?" Blake asked
Aria tried to fight back tears, "She was surfing at the beach; that was the last time I saw her. And that was early this morning"
The guys were all taken aback, it was already 3:30, sure Tori loved to surf, but she wouldn't spend seven hours straight out in the water.
The computer beeped and showed a gold butterfly, Lothor's newest alien.
-Parallel Universe: Ninja Ops-
After wreaking havoc on the city the six returned to Ops. Hunter and Shane were sparring, Cam and Blake were sparring, and Aria sat across Dustin's lap while he worked on the computer.
"You guys listen the whole city's freaking out!" Tori said as she ran into Ops
"Hey Tori, there you are" Shane replied in his usual stoic self "'Sup?"
"You missed out!" Hunter grinned excitedly "We were on fire, outa control!"
"Didn't you guys hear me? I saw on the news that the Power Rangers were out there trashing everything" she continued
"Like we said, outa control" Shane smirked
The guys laughed in agreement as Tori looked on in disbelief, "What? That was you guys?"
"Shh, don't tell anyone we wouldn't want to get into trouble" Hunter snickered. His 'smiley' personality was starting to freak Tori out a little "What's up with you anyway, you've been acting weird?"
"I'm acting weird?"
"Yeah," Blake spoke up "What's with the whole goody-goody routine?"
Tori looked down; hurt by the tone of her crush's voice
"Oh, hey, I'm sorry my bad" he started before laughing "Hey what are ya gonna do cry?"
The others laughed with him as Dustin turned around with Aria still on his lap and his hand high up on her thigh. "Ha! I'm almost done with a new weapon that's really gonna rock this town!" he cheered
"My evil mastermind" Aria purred before pulling him into a deep kiss. Tori was shocked to see the usually innocent and private couple pull something like that, especially in front of her older brothers.
When they broke apart Cam spoke up, unfazed by the mini make-out session that just took place, "That's why you're the mechanical master Dude D-Man!"
"Cyber Cam, can you tell me what's going on?" Tori begged
"Whoa T, I am so not Cyber Cam"
"Oh he was cute…" Aria said aloud causing Dustin to slightly glare at her
Turning towards Sensei on the rail Tori asked "Sensei please, tell me what's happening" she didn't notice the other six stalk up behind her, Aria taking the lead with her black eyes and glowing hands. "What's happened to everyone?"
"What are you looking at me for?" Sensei snapped "If you don't want to be a ranger anymore you know where the waterfall is. Don't let it splash you on the way out."
The six were now right behind her and in her now distorted voice Aria said "Or maybe you need a little help, finding the way"
"So what's it gonna be Tori? You with us? Or not?" Blake asked
"If you're talking about trashing the city, then not!" Tori huffed
"Fine, have it you're way" Dustin said
Tori slowly made her way to the entrance as the others followed and went into their fighting stances.
One by one, starting with Shane, the six attacked the Water Ninja. They didn't hold anything back, she was their target now. Cam ran up next followed by Blake and Dustin. Hunter stepped in before Aria stood face to face with Tori. "Never did like you anyway" Aria smirked before blasting Tori. She dodged the Black Energy by millimeters; she regained her balance and faced her friends, "Can this day get any weirder?" Tori ran out the door while the others laughed.
-Storm Chargers-
Aria and Dustin walked into Storm Chargers in hopes of getting some clue as to where Tori disappeared to. Their battle with the giant butterfly, Goldwinger, ended rather quickly, seeing as he took off running a few minutes after they showed up.
"Kels, have you seen Tori?" Aria asked, all day she had been clutching onto her necklace in anxiety and hasn't let go. Tori's disappearance was really starting to get to her.
"No, I'm sorry Ri, maybe you should check the beach?" the red head suggested.
"Blake and Hunter are already there" Dustin spoke up, rubbing his girlfriend's back gently.
"Well, has she spoken to anyone before she went missing?" Kelly asked
Aria's eyes widened before storming out the store, eyes darkening as she stomped down to the beach.
"Ri! Hey wait!" Dustin called as he raced after the furious girl "What's up?"
"Those two mother fuckers who were talking shit about Tori!" she yelled as her voice started to distort itself and her hands started to glow
"Hey, hey, hey, we don't know if they did anything yet." Dustin reasoned "Look I know you're worried but take a deep breath and look at me"
Aria looked into his light brown eyes and slowly calmed down. "R-right sorry…" she muttered "Thank you"
She planted a chaste kiss on Dustin's lips before taking his hand and walking down to the beach.
-Parallel Dimension: City-
After chasing Tori out of Ops the seven rangers went out started trashing with city again, laughing along as they did.
They all blasted an abandoned car causing a huge explosion to erupt. They all cheered at the sight of the people scrambling out of their way.
They strutted down the alley with Shane in the lead. Shane and Hunter were blasting random pieces of debris out of their path
"Nothing like the smell of burning steel!" Dustin cheered
"Let's burn this city to the ground!" Aria laughed manically
They turned a corner and now all six were slashing and/or blasting anything in their sights.
"Hey!" they heard Tori yell "I told you, you're not gonna destroy Blue Bay Harbor!"
"Back off Tori, we don't wanna hurt you" Blake said casually, resting his elbow on Shane's shoulder
"I wouldn't worry about that, I'm not exactly defenseless"
"NINJA STORM! RANGER FORM! HA!"
Aria and the others burst out laughing, what did she think she was doing?
"OMG what was that?" Aria cackled
"Ha are we supposed to say that?" Shane asked sarcastically
"This is bull shit!" Dustin yelled "Go for it babe"
If Tori wasn't sure she was in a parallel dimension before, she sure knew now. Nobody calls Ri 'babe' without losing a limb, no matter who it was
Aria stepped forward, in front of the others, and de-morphed. She closed her eyes for a few seconds and when they opened they were pitch black again. She flew up in the air and stared Tori down. She summoned a ball of energy and threw down at the blonde. The balls of energy turned into a whip and she lashed down at the Water Ninja.
The others followed soon after and charged with their weapons drawn. Tori blocked their attacks but she still wasn't strong enough. Blake threw her down and the five guys surrounded her. Tori looked in the air and saw a menacing Aria ready to kill. A ball of energy appeared in her hand and she prepared to launch it. She winded her arm back but was suddenly blown away at the last minute. Aria landed in a heap on the ground unconscious. Not even bothering to help their fallen comrade up the boys turned around and saw the mayor of Blue Bay, Lothor.
-Beach-
Aria called her teammates and told them how she believed something may have happened to Tori while she was surfing. They asked the lifeguards on duty but they all said that didn't see anything out of the ordinary. Aria knew her friend could take care of herself but she was getting more and more worried. They were all walking down the beach when they ran into someone unexpectedly.
"Um you guys go down a bit farther, I need to double check something" Aria said
Her brothers noticed her staring at someone down the beach and understood completely, they helped their sister out and herded the other three guys away.
She walked up to the auburn haired girl and smiled "Long time, no see Leanne"
-Parallel Dimension: City-
Aria woke up to the sight of her team getting handled by Lothor and his aliens. Shakily she stood up and found Tori sitting in the middle of it all with a smile on her face. She looked around furiously and the wind started to pick up around her, a black aura surrounded the small teen and black lightning struck the ground behind her, giving her a deadly appearance.
"No I'm mad" she growled before attacking
Tori watched in horror as black demon-like wings erupted from her back and sped towards her, yelling as she flew at her. Her nails turned into talons and her black eyes turned a bright glowing red.
Tori shielded her face and prepared for the worst but was shocked to find Lothor blasting her from the sky again. Aria skidded to the ground but bounced back up and flew towards the masked mayor.
Marah and Kapri backed the Mayor up and fired at the flying teen. One of their blasts hit Aria in her wing and she went crumbling down, now unconscious again the Space Ninjas lined up.
The other rangers stood in a line before Lothor and his group of aliens and received a blast from their combined weapons, the Space Ninja Striker.
A group of Kelzaks held the rangers back and they de-morphed. Hunter, Blake, and Dustin saw Aria's crumpled body on the ground and tried reaching her.
Another Kelzak went and picked her up from the ground and held her alongside the others.
"I hope you boys have learned your lesson" Lothor scolded
"What if we trash anymore stuff we'll get our butts kicked?" Dustin said, occasionally glancing at Aria
"Exactly, no wonder you're the smart one. Take them away!"
"Um," Cam started "A-are we in trouble or something?'
"You ruined everything! And look at what you did to my sister!" Blake yelled coldly
"Ah, I was over this bad ranger deal anyway, I'm of taking up skate boarding" Hunter spoke up
Shane challenged him, "Skateboarding? No way man that's lame, now motocross, I could get into that"
They were taken away and Tori looked for how to get back home.
-Parallel Dimension: Beach-
With Marah's surprisingly good idea, she swam out to the middle of the ocean and prepared to ride the oncoming wave. However the screams of people caught her attention. It was Aria, her wings had been retracted so she wasn't as fast but she was still coming for the blonde surfer. Her talons were out in front of her as she dove for Tori but missed as Tori paddled faster and faster into the water. She saw a wave and prepared to stand. Aria was still coming for her so she only had one chance to do this. She stood on her board for a few seconds before wiping out, just seconds before Aria lunged for her.
-Beach-
Aria left Leanne and met up with the others, from the corner of her eye she found the two guys who were talking about Tori. She stomped up to them and stared them down
"Babe alert!" one called out
This only infuriated Aria more. She poked one of them hard in the chest "Say that again and you'll regret it, now, where is my friend?"
"What the hell are you talking about?" the other demanded
"Oh you know who I'm talking about! That one who 'had sick moves for a chick'? That ring any bells?" she quoted
"Oh that one, she was hot, she wiped out earlier. Told her she should leave the big waves to us"
Blake stepped in, if looks could kill, these two would already be six feet under.
"We are gonna ask you again, what happened to our friend" he said coldly
"A-all right ease up dude, i-is that her?"
The six looked over and found their surfer friend washed up on the shore. They ran up to her without another glance at Dumb and Dumber.
"Tori!" Aria called "Hey T!"
Slowly her eyes opened and she stood up in a panic, "Stay away! Stay back!"
"What?" Dustin asked "I showered and everything!"
"Dustin? Is that really you?"
"Yeah I'm pretty sure it is" he laughed after sniffing his armpit
Tori stood up and smiled "Oh guys it's so good to see you!"
"Hey T you ok?" Aria asked she went to hug her friend up, however, Tori flinched away from Aria's open hand.
"Uh, hey where were you? Ri was freaking out like crazy" Blake asked, Tori just turned away to avoid Aria's grey-green gaze
"Yeah what happened?" added Hunter
"I'll tell you about it later" she noticed the screaming people in the background "What's going on here?"
"Giant butterfly attacking the city" Aria spoke up softly, she was slightly offended her best friend wouldn't even look at her.
"It's good to be back" Tori said to herself "Shall we?"
Knowing what she was referring to Aria spoke up again, "People"
After acknowledges of understanding and a little bit of questioning where to morph, they found a quiet and private spot on the beach.
"Ready?"
"Ready"
"NINJA STORM"
"THUNDERSTORM"
"RANGER FORM! HA!"
"Ninja Ranger Power"
-City-
They chased the gold butterfly into the city and stood before it, "How did you escape my Gold Dust Dimension?" he demanded
"Sorry to disappoint you, but it takes a little more than just a wipe out to keep me down!" Tori countered
They leapt into battle a tried as they might, this butterfly would not go down. The Thunders managed to cut a bit of his giant wings off but they grew back in seconds. Cam came by and helped them out, slashing at a small orange button at the base of his two wings, preventing him from re-generating, and finally Shane used his Battlizer to take out the over grown bug.
Much to their surprise, he didn't grow thirty feet tall, prompting Aria to holler out in joy.
-Ninja Ops-
Tori still wouldn't look at Aria and it was really start to worry her, so she decided to ask Blake for a favor
"Who want me to what?"
"Ask her out, tell her to talk to you about what happened to her in the other dimension" Aria repeated as though she were talking to fifth grader.
"She's not gonna go for it" Blake tried to argue
Aria rolled her eyes and smacked him upside the head
"Ow! What was that for?!"
"You're fucking blind dude. From the minute we met her you both have been crushing on each other, it's starting to get pretty sad to watch now"
"Wait really?" Blake said in disbelief
"You are unbelievable, go ask her already!"
Finally Blake left Ops to go ask Tori out when Hunter came by
"You playin' matchmaker now?" he laughed
"Haha very funny"
"Hey I'm teasing. You know I love ya"
Aria knew something was up, Hunter never said that unless he wanted something
"What do you want?" she asked in a bored voice
"Lila's number?"
"Uh no, I'm not hooking you up with Lila okay that's just wrong"
"But-" Hunter began to argue but Aria covered his mouth
"Ah no buts!"
He stalked out of Ops and Cam walked towards the raven haired teen, "So, does this mean I can't link up with Nanami?"
Aria thre her arms in the air and shook her head "Unbelieveable!"
(A/N: So that's that, please Review and Follow. Also, I may not update constantly as i am heading back to school tomorrow. I will try to update as soon as possible though xx)