(Disclaimer: PRNS doesnt belong to me, Aria and original plot + dialogue is mine)

Chapter 28: General Deception part I

-Storm Chargers-

It was bright and early in the morning and as usual the rangers, excluding Cam, were at Storm Chargers. However, they were all packing up for a camping trip the boys planned.

Tori and Aria were attempting to fit all the boys' stuff into Tori's blue van without causing an avalanche, 'attempting' is the important word here. The boys on the other hand just kept hauling out more stuff from the shop

They turned around and leaned against the over packed trunk as they kept bringing more junk out. Aria was beyond annoyed that she had to wake up early; she was a night-owl and hated waking up any time before nine am. So instead of wearing her typical shorts and crop top she was wearing leggings and a grey sweatshirt.

"I thought you guys were only going for a few days" Tori complained

"Yeah, is all this shit even necessary?" Aria added

"Yes, yes it is" Hunter answered going back into the shop to get more crap as Dustin walked out carrying a T.V

"You're fucking joking….a T.V? Really?" now Aria was getting even more annoyed, they're going camping for crying out loud!

"How else are we gonna watch Supercross tomorrow?" her boyfriend smiled in response

"You're not supposed to watch Supercross Dustin" Tori sighed as the two girls closed the trunk to the van

"That's why it's called roughing it" Aria said

Shane, Hunter, and Blake walked out with the last few 'necessities'

Overhearing what Aria said, Shane commented, "If man was supposed to 'rough it' then why did he create portable generators?"

After taking her seat besideTori in the van Aria turned and glared at the guy in red, "Don't make me hurt you Clarke"

At first he laughed it off but when she quirked her eyebrow up his laughter fizzled out when he realized her seriousness to that threat.

The other guys laughed at the interaction and gave his friend and pat on the shoulder in mock-sincerity

"Just get in the van before I change my mind" Tori laughed "Or Ri kills Shane"

"Thanks for giving us a ride" Blake said before climbing in beside his sister in the front

"No problem, I wouldn't miss seeing you guys out in wild for the world"

"Plus this way we'll know when to find you when things go horribly wrong" Aria smirked at her brother

"Come on we're highly trained ninja's…what could happen?"

Aria sighed deeply and leaned her head back, closing her eyes and said "And you jinxed it"

With the other three rangers in the back Tori started the over-packed van and headed off to the woods

-On the Road-

Aria hummed along with the radio, thinking about Hunter's comment from a few weeks ago,

"And here I present another reason why I should be able to go out with Lila. Both my baby brother AND sister are dating people and I'm here all alone" Hunter exaggerated

Although she was still concerned with Lila, Hunter, Nanami, and Cam all forming relationships with each other, she couldn't help but feel a little bad for the crimson ranger.

Sure Shane was technically single too but at the same time Skyla, who is basically his soul-mate, would be with him forever.

She was brought out of her thoughts when Tori cut the music completely and Dustin asked probably the most random question he's ever come up with

"Hey, you guys wonder why the sky's blue and not…see through?"

After a collection of 'no's and weird looks Dustin continued, "Well, I mean it's just air, it should be see-through! You ever wonder about that?"

Aria was about to turn around and explain but caught Blake shaking his head, signaling her to not even try to explain the age old question, 'Why's the sky blue?'

Shane answered instead, "Uh Dustin, I'm the air guy, ya know 'Power of Air'? You worry about the dirt and wonder why it's brown" he laughed

Deciding to poke fun at Shane Aria turned around to face him, "Ok 'Air Guy' why's the sky blue?"

Shane laughed nervously and scratched the back of his neck

The group burst into laughter as they headed deeper into the woods

About thirty minutes later Aria dozed off; she was awakened when she heard cries of help coming from the side of the road.

"This does not look good" she breathed when she noticed the girl crying for help was wearing rock-climbing gear

"The last time we stopped on the side of the road our school got sucked into space" Dustin reminded as Tori pulled over.

The six of them piled out and faced the woman who was calling for their help

"You alright?" Tori asked

"It's my friend, we need help, do you guys have a rope?" the woman explained

"You didn't happen to pack a rope with the T.V and CD player did you?" Aria said to the boys somewhat sarcastically

"As a matter of fact I did!" Shane exclaimed before running to the trunk and digging out a long black rope out. "GOT IT!"

-Cliff-

The six followed the woman to a cliff where a large group of people were standing around, on the side of the cliff there was another girl clutching on the side for dear life.

The woman ran to the edge and peered over, Tori pulled her back a little as she explained what happened "We were abseiling when her rope broke, she's stuck"

Shane crawled to the edge and peered over "…shit…" he cursed when he saw the drop

"HELP ME! HELP ME!" the girl cried

"HOLD ON!" Shane reassured "WE'RE GET YOU OUTTA THERE!"

"Lower me down, I'm the lightest" Aria said

Not having the time to argue her brothers reluctantly agreed

Tori was comforting the poor woman while the others huddled up, "We should be ready to bail and go into ranger mode if things get to ugly" Shane whispered

"Reading my mind bro" Hunter agreed

Within minutes Aria was set to go down the cliff. Dustin gave her a hug while Shane, Hunter, and Blake double checked the ropes.

"K, we're ready" Shane called

"HURRY!" the girl cried from the side of the cliff

"Check" Dustin confirmed

Aria looked behind her and slowly made her decent

"Pick up the slack guys!" Shane called as she continued her way down

Aria gracefully jumped on the side of the cliff and made her way to the terrified girl. When she finally made it she gently grabbed the girl's shoulder

"Hey, don't worry, I'm gonna get you outta here okay?" she consoled. The poor girl had her own rope in a death grip, hyperventilating and her eyes were shut tight in fear. The girl wouldn't answer her and Aria was getting nervous, "Hey you okay?"

Below them Zurgane appeared and laughed, pointing the newly upgraded P.A.M at the girl he fired a laser, transforming her into a Kelzak Fury. Aria gasped and retracted her hand from the red and black foot soldier.

On the cliff edge Dustin was standing by Aria's rope when he noticed it move, panic filled him to the brim, "IT'S SLIPPING!" he yelled as he kneeled over the edge. Hunter and Blake rushed forwards and joined him

"Ri!" Hunter shouted "Is she all right?"

From behind them the woman spoke in a dark, sinister voice "She's fine" and turned into a Kelzak Fury. The remaining five rangers fell into their fighting stances as the other 'civilians' surrounded them and transformed into more Kelzak Furies.

"I did not see this coming…" Tori mumbled to herself

Soon enough they were all in the midst of battle. Dustin stayed near the edge to keep an eye on Aria's rope. He threw another Kelzak Fury to the ground when he saw the black rope holding Aria up move around.

"ARIA!"

On the side of the cliff Aria was having some issues fighting a single K.F off. It was using its blade to try and cut her rope but she kept blocking its attacks. To give her some time Aria ran along-side the cliff and flipped back and planted a heavy kick to the upgraded Kelzaks' chest. She continued to kick and punch at it but it only did so much.

It soon gained the upper hand when it swept her feet from under her and punch her in the chest, knocking her upside down. She tried to regain her balance but by the time she was able to straighten herself the Kelzak cut her rope.

The wind was knocked out of and she couldn't find her voice to scream

"NOOOO!" she heard Dustin cry

As the ground got closer Aria's senses awakened, "THUNDER STORM! RANGER FORM!" she yelled; seconds before she hit the ground.

"…holy shit…" she started "IT'S GO TIME!" calling her Black Daggers she streaked up the side of the cliff and cut the Kelzak's rope, letting it fall to the ground.

She reached her friends on solid ground as the other Kelzak Furies and Zurgane were about to rush forwards. She opened her arms up to shield her friends "You guys ok?"

"Never better" Shane groaned in pain "I think it's time to clean up these clowns"

"Ready?"

"Ready"

"NINJA STORM"

"THUNDERSTORM"

"RANGER FORM! HA!"

"Ninja Ranger Power!"

Now with all six rangers morphed they ran forwards and attacked the remaining Kelzaks.

Blake used the Tornado Staff transformation on his Thunder Staff and slashed three Kelzaks at the same time. He flipped backwards and block their continuous attacks.

Hunter stuck with the normal Thunder Staff but was pushed down onto his knees. Standing back up he swung the Staff around and caught one in the side.

Aria gripped her Black Daggers tightly, slashing anything that came within arm's reach. She summoned a ball of lightning and released it at a group of the foot soldiers, causing them to spark up.

Shane summoned the Gold Mode on his Ninja Sword and easily took a couple of the Kelzaks out.

Tori and Dustin teamed up and also powered up the Gold Mode on their own Ninja Swords. Their combined forces took out an entire group of Kelzaks and forced them to the ground.

Shane ran past the remaining Kelzak Furies and headed for Zurgane, "You wanna play rough? FINE!" he yelled

"BATTLIIZER!"

When they noticed that Shane was hovering over them the other rangers slowly backed off and let him take care of the rest

"LASERS ENGAGE!"

Now with the Kelzak Furies gone and Zurgane disappearing the six rangers de-morphed and called Ops

-Road Side-

While Shane and Hunter went to get the rope from the cliff and call Ops, Dustin, Aria, Blake, and Tori were standing by the van.

"I told ya you jinxed it" Aria smirked at her older brother

Dustin chuckled at her comment and pressed a kiss on her head

"Hey…that's my sister" Blake grumbled, prompting a small laugh from Tori and a glare from Aria

"Ok Sensei whatever you think is best" they heard Shane say "Alright he told us, there's nothing we can do back there that we can't do out here"

"Cool, so we camp?" Dustin questioned from the van

"WE CAMP!" he cheered and slapping Hunter a high-five.

"I still don't see how you guys call it camping" Tori laughed

"Tori, don't say anything until you experience it" Blake said

"Uh, we ain't experiencing anything, we're dropping you off and then we're outta there" Aria spoke up as she took her spot in the middle of the front row.

Shane, Dustin, and Hunter all cheered in excitement when Tori started the car and drove off deeper into the woods.

-Campsite-

After another fifteen minutes they finally reached the campsite. It was hard to tell who was more excited; the boys because they could finally begin their 'camping' trip or Aria because she didn't have to be stuck in a stuffed van with no space to move.

She and Tori pulled all the boys' crap out of the van and turned around to find that the guys managed to set up their 'camp'

"You're fucking joking" Aria cursed at the sight

Their tent was at least three times the size of a normal one and there was a grill to the right of it. They also had an electric fan and even a mini fridge.

Dustin was standing under the roof of the tent, the Bradley brothers were lounging on folding chairs, and Shane was setting up the T.V for them.

"Now this is the life!" Shane smiled

"This isn't camping! This is a resort!"

"All your missing is a water slide and a luau" Tori added

Shane tossed the remote to Dustin who smiled "Now that would be cool!"

The girls stood there in disbelief

"Hey anybody wanna order pizza?" Hunter suggested

The boys cheered in excitement as Aria face-palmed herself

"Except none of the ham and pineapple stuff" Blake added

"Fine" his brother said in an annoyed tone. He went to his cell phone but found that they had no cell service "Guess we're having hamburgers!"

Aria scoffed and threw her hands in the air

"Where's the fridge?" Dustin asked

"I think you guys are missing the point…" Tori said

"Ya think?" Aria commented

"The point is to have fun" Blake exclaimed "You sure you don't wanna stay?"

"Yeah, Ri you wanna chill for a little?" Dustin asked, his gaze focused on the T.V in front of them.

"Hmm, loved to" Aria said sarcastically "But we gotta head back to Ops, Cam needs help with an upgrade"

"But we'll be back to pick you up the day after tomorrow"

"Bye"

"Later dudes" the girls waved

Tori went to the driver's seat while Aria jumped to the back seats and laid down, happy to be able to have more space in the van

The blonde started the engine only to find that they were stuck in a mud hole. She looked over to the boys with an innocent smile expecting them to notice.

When they didn't Aria stuck her head out the window, "Oi! We need help"

When the four guys stood behind the van waiting for Tori to start the engine again Aria looked in the back window and watched as they tried to push the van out of the hole.

When Tori started the engine Aria was trying to hold back laughter as the boys were quickly getting covered with mud. Apparently so was Tori because when they managed to push her out not only did they fall face first into the mud, but she bumped into their portable generator and knocked Aria out of seat.

The boys walked in front of the van and just stared at the blonde who bit her lip nervously.

"Oops…"

While they headed to the shower to get cleaned up Aria and Tori went to work to make up for wrecking their generator. They worked together to fix up burgers for the guys and put their sodas in the cool stream nearby. When they were finished they waited on the rocks by the stream for the boys to come out.

Soon, the four of them returned and Tori stood up to apologize.

"Oh, man I haven't that much mud in my eye since I ran out of tearoffs last week" Dustin complained

Aria laughed softly and stood up as well

"You guys I'm so sorry for your generator" Tori apologized

"Ah, it's not your fault, things happen" Blake reassured

"How was the shower?" Aria asked

"Uh, you could say it refreshing…" Shane began

"But cold is more like it" Hunter finished

"Well," Aria began with a smile "we know this doesn't make up for T running over your generator, but your burgers are on the grill and your sodas are getting cold in the stream"

The boys' faces lit up as Blake went to check the grill "You're forgiven!" he laughed when he saw multiple burger patties on the grill

He went over to Tori and kissed her cheek while Aria was picked up by Dustin in a bear hug.

When she was released Aria looked over to Hunter, "Oh hey Hunter! Here" she grinned as she handed a slip of paper to him.

Opening it he saw

555-1212

Call me

-Lila

"Why?" he asked

"Well, one, Lila won't shut up about you, two, an added apology for the whole generator thing and three, to torture you" Aria smirked

"How is this torturing me?" he laughed

"Because you have to wait two days before you can actually call her"

His face fell and she and the others laughed

The fun was short live however when they saw two figures streak down to the quarry nearby

"Come on" Shane commanded

-Quarry-

The six of them streaked to the quarry and found Vexacus, the shark alien Shane met with Skyla, and Shimazu

"Thought I smelled garbage" Hunter commented at the sight of the two generals

"Oh we'll see you gets trashed!" Vexacus snapped

"Hey, no offense, but you two don't look like the outdoor types" Aria said

"We're not; we just came to watch your ultimate demise"

Aria almost went up to Tori and smacked her upside the head when she said, "Don't you mean cause our ultimate demise?"

"Ok, I like your way better, HYAH!" he yelled, firing a blast at them

"Can we never have a day off?" Aria groaned

"Ready?"

"Ready"

"NINJA STORM"

"THUNDERSTORM"

"RANGER FORM! HA!"

"Ninja Ranger Power!"

They all flipped into action; Shane took the lead and headed for Vexacus first. He was pushed aside and Dustin ran ahead only to be knocked away as well. Tori went next and received the same fate as her teammates.

Shane tried to attack again from behind but was met with an elbow to the gut. Dustin swung his Ninja Sword up but got his arm caught by the overgrown shark. Even after being thrown aside again Dustin stood back up again. Thrown down again Shane and Tori rushed over and combined their weapons.

Before they could fire however, Vexacus fired his own blast at them, causing them to spark up and drop the Storm Striker.

"You like spaghetti?" Vexacus mocked as he sent out three tendrils of energy at the Winds. He lifted them into the air and caused them to knock into one another before dropping them.

At the same time all that was happening, the Bradleys were battling Shimazu. Blake leapt forward and grabbed Shimazu around the waist with his Navy Antlers.

"Not this time!" he laughed as he escaped Blake's grip and punched and struck the Navy Ranger numerous times in the chest. With a swift kick to the back Blake was knocked to the ground.

"Thunder Staff! Tornado Star!" Hunter called standing in front of his younger brother as Aria went to check on him.

Hunter sent a blast at Shimazu who merely laughed and disappeared

"Where'd he go?" Aria asked as she helped Blake to his knees

At her words a giant Shimazu head came rushing towards them with a lashing tongue…literally.

At his first attack the three of them tucked and rolled but when he came around for a second time he caught them by surprise and sent red blasts from his eyes and knocked the Thunders to the ground; ranger suits sparking

The six regrouped, limping and stumbling from their battle wounds

"Fools, you have met your match!" Shimazu taunted

"You are finished rangers" Vexacus added as they slowly walked towards them

Suddenly the two generals were fired upon; they turned around and saw Cam flip over them.

"I picked up something on the radar, something coming this way" the green ranger informed

"What? Worse than these two super-freaks?" Shane asked grabbing Cam's shoulders

"Yeah way worse"

"Hey rangers!" Vexacus called "No one is worse than us!"

"I'll have to agree"

"No one messes up my weekend!" Hunter yelled, things were going so good for him before these two showed up.

They formed the Thunderstorm Canon and fired, however Shimazu and Vexacus managed to block their attack and use it against them. they were thrown to the ground as Cam watched helplessly, "GUYS!"

If things could get any worse….it did. The ground started to shake and a zord appeared from the ground

"What is that thing?" Shane asked

"Zurgane!" Cam concluded

"Ugh, I'm fucking over this!" Aria basically screamed in a mix of anger and frustration

With much effort the six fallen rangers stood up

"You're on Zurgane!" Shane challenged

Streaking up into their individual zords all seven rangers were set for battle.

"Let's do it!"

"YEAH!"

In seconds the three megazords were formed. In that same amount of time both Aria noticed that something wasn't right. When a power sphere was called a red light encased it but there was no defensive attack.

It was too easy and this worried the curly-haired computer nerd. Suddenly, Zurgane attacked out of nowhere. Yellow energy surged through the megazords causing all three to spark up a storm.

The megazords fell in smoking heaps of metal

To Be Continued….

(A/N: Ok so that's that, please review and whatnot. And i think Imma do this from now on, udate every Saturday. Also I'm thinking of starting a Now You See Me fanfic, it'd follow the plot of the movie but I'm not sure how it'd turn out. So please let me know if this is something you'd read. xoxo.