Author's Note: *Brushes cobwebs aside, and blows dust away* Um, hello? Anyone here? If anyone is here how happy am I to see you all, if not then... well... i'm talking to myself. Ooh! I know! How about I post this chapter and see how many of you actually are left? :D

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"Maneuverability."

Sabrina brushed aside a strand of red hair as it fluttered against her cheek sending a weird sensation down her spine, and causing her to shiver.

"You're not cold?" Hunter teased, wrapping his arm around her shoulders, and squeezing her.

Sabrina smiled and shook her head. "No, but there is a breeze and it's tussling my hair against my face," she answered.

"Ah," Hunter smiled, kissing the side of her head.

They were at the testing track with Angela, a few other consultants, and Carter. The latter was testing out the new Trans-Armour Cycle; the growing population of demon attacks had been getting worse in the last few weeks, which meant that the Aquabase were pulling out all the stops and making sure that the Rangers had every bit of support they deserved.

It was one thing to as six civilians to drop their lives and come fight for the city, but Angela and Captain Mitchell had to make sure that the Rangers lives were also protected too. Being a Ranger was a dangerous business, not many people seemed to realize that.

The media made a huge fuss whenever the Rangers were on the scene, and little kids looked up to them as heroes; everyone wanted to be a Ranger, but the public only saw the outside view; they had no idea of the dangers that the Rangers faced. Getting to protecting others was definitely worth something, but who was there to protect the Rangers from the demons?

"Incredible," Carter radioed back as he maneuvered around the track with little-to-no-ease.

"Try the lasers," Angela said, tapping at a few keys on the computer in front of her. A target appeared on the track and Cater pulled to a halt; he revved the bike and straightened out, before firing several brightly coloured laser beams at the target and blowing it to pieces.

With most of the basic testing complete, Carter returned to the tent.

"The Trans Armour Cycle is amazing," Carter said, as he removed his goggles.

"This is just the prototype," Angela explained. "OK, Carter, proceed to the last test."

Sabrina huffed as Carter sped away, and looked up at Hunter. "How come Carter gets a new bike?" she asked.

"Something wrong with your bike, Sabrina?" Hunter asked, although he had a pretty good idea that this pout had nothing to do with the Trans Armour Cycle in general, but had more to do with the fact that it was a Battlizer.

"No. The Phoenix Cycle is fully operational," said Sabrina, "but how come Carter gets the Battlizer, and I don't? I mean, Shane had one, Connor had one, Carter is getting one... what about me? I know it's usually only the red Rangers that get the super upgrades, but scarlet comes in at a close second."

"I was crimson," Hunter pointed out, "and I didn't have one."

"Scarlet is closer to red than crimson," said Sabrina.

"It always looked an orangey gold to me," Hunter shrugged, earning a slacked-jaw glare from his girlfriend. He smiled, and turned back to watch Carter.

"Armour Mode!" Carter commanded, initiating the battlizer sequence. The front of the bike disengaged, rose into the air, and slammed backwards into Carter's chest unseating him from the bike.

"CARTER!" Angela shouted as she raced out onto the track after the red Ranger. The bike swerved without a driver and ploughed straight into the tires lining the track, before alighting with a burst of flames.

"I got it!" Sabrina called running over to the bike with Hunter. She raised her hand against the flames, feeling the heat against her palm as the fire disappeared. "Carter, are you OK?" she added, returning to her team-mate.

"Yeah," Carter gasped, sitting up and removing his helmet. "But I think we still got a few bugs to work out."

"I don't get it," said Hunter, kicking at a stone at his feet, while the others loaded up the Humvee.

Sabrina frowned as she put the last of the equipment into the back of the Humvee, and then wrapped her arms around Hunter from behind. "What's the matter?" she asked.

"I thought we had it that time," Hunter answered, hugging her back as she slipped around to his front and looked up at him.

"You heard Angela," said Sabrina, "these things don't come natural."

"Ours did."

"That was different," Sabrina said. "We already had the power. Carter and the others are just civilians that were chosen to take on the responsibility of being Rangers; we didn't have a choice because it was our destiny."

Hunter nodded. "Yeah. I know," he said. "But Connor, Kira, Ethan and Trent weren't destined; they were just like Carter and the others: chosen to take on the responsibility."

"By a rock that crashed into the Earth sixty-five million years ago," Sabrina nodded. "Point is, Hunter, they already had the power inside them, that's why their battlizers were perfectly sync and ready to use. Carter's gotta go about this the hard way because the only powers he has come from his suit."

"What about our zords?" Hunter asked.

"What about them?" Sabrina shrugged.

"The Lightspeed arsenal is purely man-made," Hunter explained. "Just like our zords were - probably with the exception of the Phoenix zord. Cam created everything that he, Tori, Shane and Dustin used in order to defeat Lothor; your mother and uncle Tommy created everything that the Dino Rangers used, and I have no idea who created the Thunder Zords."

"I like to think it was Leanne," Sabrina said. "I'm pretty sure she's awesome with nano-technology."

Hunter smiled, but the issue was still evident as his face turned somber after a few seconds. "What if we're missing something?" he wondered aloud, "and that's why syncing the cycle's transformation mode with Carter is near impossible? There's got to be something that's different between."

"Can I make a suggestion?" Sabrina asked.

"Sure."

"Relax," said Sabrina. "You'll figure something out. Why don't we go for a ride? To clear your head. The demons have been really quiet lately, and I'm not expecting that to last much longer, this prolonged silence is similar to what Lothor did that time you went camping, remember?" Hunter nodded in remembrance, "and it turned out that Zurgane was waiting for us to let our guard down. But that doesn't mean we can't take advantage of the silence for the time being, right?"

"OK," Hunter said. "Let's go. If I can't think of anything, I can always call Cam. I mean, I may be the bike guy, but he's the technical analyst. He may have an idea or two."

Sabrina grinned and reached up to kiss him. "Awesome," she said. "You finish up here, i'm gonna tell Angela we're heading out."

"Got it," Hunter saluted, as Sabrina run off.

~*Phoenix Series*~

"Do you ever wonder how many people know about me?" Sabrina asked as sat beside Hunter while the rode through Mariner Bay and back towards the Aquabase. They didn't really have anywhere specific in mind to go, and decided that taking the long way back to the base would be beneficial to both of them.

"A lot of people know about you," said Hunter. "You are the mighty Phoenix."

"No, I don't mean 'evil-Phoenix' wise," Sabrina replied. "I mean - me. Sabrina. How many people do you think know about me? How many people know about my powers?"

Hunter glanced at her. "What are you trying to say?" he asked. "Do you want people to know about you? Normal people, I mean."

"Many already do!"

"Like who? Other than your mother and uncle, that is."

"Angela knew," said Sabrina, "let's not forget Captain Mitchell and Dana."

"Only because it was necessary for them to know. Sabrina, what's this about?"

Sabrina shook her head and turned to look out the window. "I dunno," she shrugged. "I was just thinking out loud. You remember when I came here? My first time in Mariner Bay? Do you remember why I was brought here?"

"Because they have a demon problem, and they needed the help of the Phoenix."

"Do you ever think that it could've been a trap?" Sabrina asked. "I'm not saying that Angela and Captain Mitchell set me up, but the demons have known who I am from Day One. How did they know, and who told Angela and the Captain who I am, what I am?"

Hunter was silent as he contemplated everything Sabrina was saying. Now that she had mentioned it, it did seem like too much of a coincidence that she was brought to Mariner Bay just after the Demons had made themselves known.

"Well, I can assume that your mother told Angela about you," said Hunter.

"Yes, but why?" Sabrina asked. "It's one thing to say that your daughter to be special, but it is another thing entirely to admit to them being special because of a creature that lives inside, don't you think?"

"You seem to put a lot of thought into this."

Sabrina shook her head. "Not really," she said. "But I can't help but think..."

"Here's a suggestion," said Hunter. "Stop thinking, less worrying. Seriously, it's a good thing Angela did know about you, if she hadn't then Mariner Bay would be half buried by now. I'm mean..."

"I know what you mean," Sabrina smiled, grabbing his free hand and linking her fingers through his. "Thanks."

Hunter returned her smile, nodded and then looked back at the road. They were approaching the main road that led down into the Aquabase when Sabrina's communicator beeped.

"Sabrina, there's a disturbance downtown," Carter's voice said. "Meet us at the fountain plaza."

"On my way," Sabrina replied. "Wish me luck."

Hunter nodded and raised his hand to cover his eyes as she flamed out. He blinked as the bright flames disappeared, leaving several tiny stars in front of his eyes.

~*Phoenix Series*~

Sabrina was fully morphed as she reappeared downtown, and looked around for the rest of her team-mates. She spotted them near the fountain and watching a huge arachnid scale the side of the plaza.

"Is that a spider?" she asked as she joined them.

"Yeah," Kelsey nodded.

Dana shivered, and Sabrina could only guess that she was afraid of spiders.

"Hello, Rangers, said Archnor to the flies," the spider said.

"Watch it, guys!" Carter warned as several battling's swarmed towards them. "Let's do it!"

The others nodded and met the battling's head-on, slashing and cutting them down with a single swipe of their batons, while Archnor watched from her vantage point on the side of the plaza.

"Your weapons are very high-tech," Arachnor laughed as Sabrina cut down the last of her battling and turned back to face her.

"You got that right," Carter said, as he and the others joined Sabrina. "Rescue Bird! Unilaser mode!"

"Scanning..."

"FIRE!"

A bright blast of amber lightning exploded from the tip of the laser, followed by a bright blue beam and a light pink circle. Combined the beams hit the side of the fountain with explosive result.

"Oh, no," said Joel as the dust cleared to show Archnor had disappeared. "She's gone."

"The web's gone too," Dana said, looking up. "We have to save those people."

"Let's get back to the base," Sabrina suggested. "Maybe we can track them from there."

~*Phoenix Series*~

"Rangers," said Captain Mitchell as he entered the debriefing room with Angela, "as you know the blasters and the rescue bird were ineffective against this creature. This is a tough one."

"So how do we fight it?" Chad asked.

"We think the Mega Battles have the power to stop it," Captain Mitchell explained. "That's our next plan of attack."

"Sir, we also still have the V-Lancers at our disposal," Carter pointed out.

"I also have a number of arsenals at my disposal," Sabrina added. "One being my own fire powers, and then there's my fire staff, and let's not forget my Phoenix blade, as well as the Phoenix cycle."

"I've already taken those into consideration," Captain Mitchell assured her. "That's why you're our ace in the hole. We'll try the Mega Battles first, if that doesn't work, and then you're up."

Sabrina nodded, and stepped down.

"Dismissed," Captain Mitchell said, looking at each Ranger in turn.

"Hold on a minute," Angela interrupted. "I need Carter and Sabrina to stay. We have to test the Trans Armor Cycle again, but this time I want to compare it with that of the Phoenix Cycle."

"Um... why?" Sabrina frowned.

"While you were battling Archnor, Hunter had an idea," Angela said. "The Phoenix Cycle draws its primary power from your powers, that's how it's able to enhance and combine with its own systems. Hunter thinks that we can draw on that idea for the Trans Armor Cycle, and make it work with Carter's ranger powers."

"We'll need everything we got against this monster," Captain Mitchell said. "Go."

"Yes, sir," Carter confirmed, heading out of the room.

Still confused, Sabrina followed.

~*Phoenix Series*~

Sabrina winced as she witnessed - for the second time that day - the prototype of the armour cycle crash. Everything had been going great up until Carter had tried to take it a level further. Hunter sighed and run a hand through his blond hair, while Angela removed her glasses in defeat.

"One more time," Carter said, turning to the others.

"I don't think the bike as another life in it," Sabrina said as one of the tech's with Angela pushed the bike back to them and started to look it over. It was still smoking, and the underside of the bike was sparking dangerously.

"Carter, Sabrina, if you've finished, we could sure use you here," Joel's voice echoed over the morphers. Angela touched the mic in her ear, and looked around at the two Rangers.

"Go ahead," Angela nodded. "We'll... we'll work on it."

Carter nodded and taking Sabrina's hand, flamed out.

They reappeared at the other coordinates, but found nothing but an empty plaza.

"Wait, are we sure this is the right place?" Sabrina asked, looking around.

"It's where the others energy signature was last captured," Carter replied.

"Joel! Kelsey!" Sabrina called. "Dana! Chad! Guys, where are you?"

Sabrina turned around to face Carter, and shrugged. No one was answering her calls and she was starting to get a bad feeling that some terrible had happened to them.

"Captain Mitchell, its Carter. There's no sign of anyone in the plaza," Carter said, contacting the base.

"All right, Carter," Captain Mitchell replied. "You and Sabrina report back to base."

"Yes, sir," Carter nodded. "Sabrina, let's go!"

"Yeah!" Sabrina said, hurrying back towards her red Ranger.

~*Phoenix Series*~

Hunter looked up as the door to the lab slid open and Sabrina walked inside. "Hey," he greeted, smiling as she over the table to kiss his cheek, and then looked down at the many plans between them.

"Heard back from Cam yet?" Sabrina asked.

"I just got an e-mail," said Hunter, nodding at the computer. "But I haven't checked it yet. I also messaged your mother; she sent over the schematics for the Phoenix Cycle, I've been trying to see where we went wrong earlier."

"Wow, I've never seen you so dedicated," Sabrina said, walking over to the computer and bringing up her boyfriend's email. She clicked on the one from Cam and downloaded the attachment. "He says he has a vague understanding of what you're trying to do, and hopes that these blueprints of the tsunami cycles will help you - hey, we didn't think of the tsunami cycles, they weren't connected to our powers, well, and I don't think they were."

"Mine and Blake's were," Hunter said. "I assumed that Shane, Tori and Dustin's were too."

"Hmm, well, you have the blue prints now," said Sabrina, printing off the attachment and placing them on the table. "How goes the actual Trans Armour Cycle itself?"

"Angela seems to think she's got it rid of the glitches," Hunter said. "She just needs Carter to test the armor mode again on the real cycle."

"That may have to wait," said Sabrina. "Carter's with Captain Mitchell at the moment."

"Why?"

"We lost the team," Sabrina answered.

"How do you lose a team of Rangers?" Hunter asked, looking skeptical.

Sabrina shrugged. "I dunno," she answered. "But we managed it. Look, I have to go see if there's been any word from the others. I'll see you later, OK?"

Hunter nodded and kissed her before she left. "Be careful," he warned.

"Aren't I always?" Sabrina asked grinning as the doors closed between them. Walking away from Hunter's lab, Sabrina stopped short as another door opened in front of her and revealed a fine layer of spider's web blocking her path. She was sure that the cleaning crew did a better job than this, and even if they didn't there was no way they could say that they'd missed it. It was the size of the door.

Flexing her fingers, Sabrina tossed a ball of fire at the webs, smirking as they incinerated and allowed her to pass, but every door that opened up to her a cobweb blocked her path. Destroying each and every web she came in contact with, Sabrina finally made it to the control room, only to find everyone inside gone.

"Hello?" Sabrina called, cautiously stepping inside. "Anyone? Captain Mitchell? Carter?"

There was no answer.

Turning on her heels, Sabrina headed back down the corridor towards the labs. She had to find Hunter, maybe he could shed a little light on what was going on, if not then she had to get to him before whatever happened to Captain Mitchell and the rest of the Aquabase crew, happened to him.

"Miss Fairweather!"

As Carter's voice broke through the impending silence, Sabrina broke into a run and, taking a hard right, crashed into a thick vine of webs. She shivered involuntarily, and stepped away from it, before incinerating it with another fireball. With the webs receding away from her, Sabrina reached the Trans Port just as Angela disappeared in a bright white flash.

"NO!" Sabrina cried, desperately.

"Sabrina," Carter called from the otherside of the bay. The red head shot a fireball at the cobwebs keeping them from one another, and then helped him back to his feet. "Now what do we do?" he asked.

Sabrina shook her head. "I don't know," she replied. "But we're the only two left in the whole base. Not to mention the only two rangers left standing between Mariner Bay and the demons. "So whatever we're going to do, we gotta do it fast."

Carter sighed and looked down, scanning the area for anything he and Sabrina could use to their advantage. There was nothing... except -

"Look here," said Carter, pulling a keycard from the web. "How about we find what this opens?"

"It looks like a lab card," said Sabrina, inspecting the small key. "Yeah. It looks like the one Hunter was given a few months ago. It gives him access to Angela's lab."

"So what's in there that we can use?"

"I don't - actually, I do," said Sabrina, realization dawning. "Angela wanted you to test the armor mode on the real bike, right?"

"Yeah, how did you know?"

"Hunter told me," Sabrina answered. "Come on, I have an idea," she took the key card from him and raced off down the hall, burning webs down as she went.

Carter was hot on her heels.

~*Phoenix Series*~

As assumed Sabrina and Carter found the Trans Armour Cycle, along with the Phoenix Cycle in the lab. They seemed to have been under heavy security if the Rangers needed a key card in order to gain access to them.

After morphing, and heading out of the base, Carter and Sabrina were intercepted on the main roads by Vypra in her Vyprari.

"It's now or never," said Carter, glancing across at Sabrina. "You ready to face her?"

"I'm ready to be rid of her," said Sabrina. "No one's had it in for me this bad since my father."

Carter frowned, but pushed the question that wanted to burst from him to the back of his mind. He could always ask Sabrina what she meant later, but right now he needed to focus on Vypra and the task at hand.

"Look out!" Sabrina yelled, swerving around a dark-coloured truck as it screeched to a halt in front of her. The driver leaned out of his window and shouted at her, but she failed to hear what he said as another car swerved to a halt, causing her to change paths instantly.

Glancing over her shoulder, Sabrina saw that Vypra had set her sights on her, rather than Carter, but the red Ranger was in trouble of being squashed by the two cars which were now being driven by Battling's.

Turning hard, Sabrina swerved around, and halted the bike as Vypra did the same opposite her.

Vypra smirked and held up her sword, pointing it at Sabrina as she gunned the engine of her vehicle and sped forward. Sabrina mimicked her actions, and held up her Phoenix Blade. The two females crossed paths, each taking a swipe at the other with their weapons, while Vypra also tried to overturn the Phoenix cycle by swiping at its wheels.

Sabrina steadied the bike, and turned it around to face Vypra again.

"Want some fire, my Phoenix?" Vypra taunted. "Let's see if your little human friends are so tolerant, shall we?"

"Your Phoenix?" Sabrina seethed.

Vypra smirked and blasted a passing car into the barrier on the side of the road, injuring not just one, but several people in the process.

Sabrina gritted her teeth and tightened her grip on her bike. She was already on edge from the 'my Phoenix' taunt, and Vypra was only antagonizing the situation by voluntarily putting innocent people in harm's way.

Alright, Vypra, you want the Phoenix?Sabrina thought, smirking. She revved the engine of her Phoenix cycle and sped off towards Vypra.

The she-demon smirked and prepared herself for what was to come, but if only she knew. Energized by the swarm of flames she had absorbed from the explosion, Sabrina felt the warmth of the fire surround her and the bike, making it so she had never felt more in-tune with it before. She'd had the bike since her Dino Thunder days, it had been a present from her mother and Hunter, and she had cherished it - not just because it had come from them, but also because of its unique connection to her. It wasn't just a bike - it was a Phoenix cycle.

A one of a kind.

Having dealt with the Battling's, Carter raced off to help Sabrina but stopped when he saw she was heading straight for Vypra. He watched in fascination as the flames from the explosion surrounded both Sabrina and her bike and, if he didn't know any better, he'd have said that they were getting thicker by the second. "Woah..." Carter breathed as a pair of wings sprouted from the sides of the bike, and a huge fiery tail formed at the back.

A bird's screech filled the air, and Carter saw a fiery head forming over Sabrina's helmet - scarlet eyes flashed, and a beak made of flames appeared.

Vypra gasped as Sabrina - or was it the Phoenix - raced past her. The fiery blaze burned her face as she raised her hands against the heat, but it was no use. Beneath her, the floor of the Vyprari rumbled, and tiny electrical sparks exploded all over the vehicle as it spun out of control, and then exploded. Debris and car parts rained down from the explosion, and Sabrina screeched to a halt in front of a badly beaten Vypra.

"Phoenix..." Vypra hissed her breath catching as Sabrina held her Phoenix blade to her throat.

"We're even," Sabrina said, drawing back her sword, and racing off towards Carter.

Carter smirked behind his helmet as Sabrina joined him, but deciding to leave the congratulations that were in order for later, he turned and faced his bike towards the city. "We have to find the others," he said.

"I don't think they're in the city," said Sabrina. "Use the Armor Cycle's tracker. It should be able to pick up on their morpher signals."

Carter nodded, inputted the data, and then sped off down the road with Sabrina.

Vypra watched them go, seethingly, before returning to the underworld.

~*Phoenix Series*~

"They're in there," Carter announced leading Sabrina towards an abandoned factory site. They edged closer, looking for a way in, but found that there wasn't one.

"Over here!" said Sabrina, locating a thinly layered stone wall. Firing up their lasers both Rangers blasted a hole in the wall, big enough for them to ride in, and take out the surrounding battling's, most of which had not been expecting the attack.

Screeching to a halt, Sabrina looked up to see Dana, Kelsey and the others hanging from the web that covered the whole ceiling; she scanned each of the hostages, some of which were innocent civilians, and saw that they were about to be devoured by the many eight-legged freaks that crawled from the egg sac.

"Oh! Now I see why Shane's so afraid of these things," Sabrina shivered, holding up her Phoenix blade. "Carter, aim for the sac!" she said called, jumping from her bike and slashing at the silk vine that attached the spider sac to the web.

Carter fired and purple smoke escaped from the piercings. With a snap the vine broke, and the sac crashed to the floor, where it was engulfed in a ball of flames before the little spiders had a chance to burst forth their eggs and escape.

"No!" Archnor yelled in vain.

"Sabrina, help them," Carter said, turning his attention to Archnor. "I'll deal with her."

"OK!" Sabrina nodded, flexing her fingers. She threw several fire balls at the web, dissolving the silk and easing each of the Rangers to the ground. They were still covered in sticky, silky webs, but were able to free themselves. "Guys!" she called, racing towards them. "Are you OK?"

The others nodded, and quickly wiped the cobwebs from their bodies.

"Good. Now we need to free the others," said Sabrina. "Carter's dealing with Archnor."

"Right!" the others agreed, morphing and returning to the web. They each scaled it, careful to not get caught again, and using their weapons cut down the other hostages. Dana rescued her father and Joel rescued Angela while the other Rangers dealt with the civilians.

With everyone safe from the web, Sabrina looked around. Someone was missing.

"Sabrina!"

Wheeling around, Sabrina sighed in relief and rushed over to a lab coat-clad Hunter. He was pulling the last of the webs from his body when she jumped into his arms, and hugged him tightly. Hunter stumbled but caught his footing, as he chuckled and hugged her back, covering her in most of the cobwebs that stuck to him.

"Sabrina, check this out!" Kelsey called from outside the building.

Untangling herself from Hunter, Sabrina hurried out of the warehouse just in time to witness Carter obliterate Arachnor with his new battlizer.

"Check it out!" Chad grinned.

"At least we had it that time," Hunter said, wrapping his arm around Sabrina's shoulders as she pouted.

"Phooey!" Sabrina complained. "Another battlizer passed over!"

~*Phoenix Series*~

"I thought tapping into the Phoenix always led to consequences?" Dana asked as Sabrina related back to her and the others what had happened exactly with Vypra. "I remember you saying before, when you and Carter were trapped in that time loop, that you had tapped into the Phoenix power and it led to you being taken over."

Sabrina nodded. "Yes, but I was trapped in a time loop then," she said. "The first time I found out I could control fire I did it without realizing the consequences, but that was before I knew how to harness the firebird, and not the Phoenix."

"There's a difference?" Kelsey asked.

"Probably not," said Sabrina. "But sometimes I like to think that the Phoenix is the main evil, and the fiery birds that I transform into when using her powers to my arsenal are the firebirds. You know harmless creations that disappear once I've cooled down?"

Joel pursed his lips and nodded. "It sounds logical," he nodded. "But what about Vypra?"

"I honestly think that for a second," said Sabrina, "that she must've thought I was going to roast her alive. I will admit, the thought did cross my mind, but that would be using the Phoenix for personal gain then. Besides, I'm not evil, and I don't harm for the sake of it. I just wanted her to feel the real power of the Phoenix."

"And she did," Chad said, patting Sabrina on the shoulder. "Congratulations for putting her in her place."

Sabrina grinned at her friends as the sound of an engine roared closer. Carter was returning. As everyone's attention diverted from the red head, and onto the red Ranger, Sabrina glanced up at Hunter as he wrapped his arms around her from behind.

"Talking about my power surge," she said. "Do you think it was a one-time deal, or would I be able to do it again?"

Hunter shrugged and kissed the side of her head. "I guess if you believe," he said. "You should be able to do it again."

"You think?" Sabrina asked.

"Mhm-hmm," Hunter nodded, smiling.

"I see you worked out the kinks," Sabrina said, suddenly, nodding at Carter's new bike. "Just like you said you would."

"Yeah."

"Did my mother and Cam's plans help?"

Hunter nodded. "Quite a bit, actually," he confirmed.

"I'm glad," Sabrina said.

Without warning, Dana jumped and a light scream escaped her lips. Sabrina whipped around, a fireball in igniting in her palm as she expected to see a demon or monster of any kind, only to find Dana holding a headset in her hands, and glaring at Carter.

"Very funny," Dana sighed, throwing the headset at Carter.

"You know, Carter," said Hunter. "They do say that you always torment the ones you like most. I mean, Sabrina and I used to torment the hell out of each other back before we started dating."

Carter frowned, and then his eyes widened as a dull blush spread across Dana's face as she realized she had been caught up in the whole tangled web tormented feelings too.

"Uh... I still can't believe you guys were afraid of a little spider," said Carter, trying to steer himself out of the awkwardness that had fallen after Hunter's reveal.

"Little? That spider was at least 7 feet tall," Kelsey pointed out.

"Yeah, and it's not only girls who are afraid of them," Sabrina added, as she watched Joel creep nearer with a plastic yellow-and-black tarantula in his hands.

"True," Carter nodded, pointing at her. "But girls do freak out more over a spider than a guy does."

"You'd freak out too if you were about to become spider bait," said Chad.

"Oh, whatever," said Carter. "Spiders have never bothered me."

Sabrina bit back a laugh as Joel placed the toy spider on Carter's shoulder.

Kelsey smothered her giggles with her hand, as Chad smirked and averted eye contact when Carter looked at him.

"What?" Carter asked, smiling nervously. "What are you guys -" he broke off as he caught sight of something on his shoulder, and quickly hit it off, letting lose a damned scream in the process. Looking down at the item, Carter sighed and shot Joel an exasperated look as he picked up the spider. "Funny, guys. Real funny."

Kelsey, Dana and Sabrina grinned and exchanged looks, before each letting lose a scream as Carter threw the toy spider at them. Raising her hands, Sabrina batted the piece of plastic away, and immediately dived behind Hunter, earning a light chuckle from the former crimson Ranger.

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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx

Chapter updated on Monday, January 27, 2014 at 4:06am