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Last Time
I couldn't help but laugh at this. "It will, trust me. We both live to ride, it's our thing. Once he gets going, you're going to be in for a long wait."
"I think I can handle it." She said quietly, her face carefully neutral.
This Time
(At the Beach, Normal POV)
As Tori climbed off her board she grabbed it, and sloshing to the edge of the water, she looked around and frowned a little, her blue eyes narrowing at the bright sunlight. Taking a deep breath, she brushed her soaked, long blonde hair out of her face and trudged across the golden sand to her blanket, standing her board in the sand and sitting down before digging out her watch and looking at it.
It's been a couple of hours. she thought worriedly as she glanced around again. Honestly, she didn't know how long the boys would be meditating or if Blake was going to hang out with Hunter first or what, but she was starting to debate on calling him to see if he was ok.
"Tori, give him time." she muttered to herself, remembering Carly's words on having faith in him. They might still be meditating, or something could have held them up. There wasn't a set time. Pursing her lips, she grabbed a bottle of juice and took a sip before placing it back in the small cooler. "Well, I'm water-logged." Leaning back, she closed her eyes a moment, only to open them again and jump into a standing position when screams sounded.
"Oh boy, not now!" she groaned, seeing a pile of Kelzacks running along the beach in her direction. "What happened to having the day off?!"
Running in the direction of the Kelacks, she jumped and kicked one away before it could grab a young girl. Then, after ushering her off, she turned and punched another one, ducking low to avoid a nasty swing. At least I know what these guys are capable of. she thought as she jumped again and scissor-kicked two of them back. After a few moments, she quickly checked to see if anyone was around. Seeing the coast clear, she grabbed her morpher.
"Ninja Storm! Ranger Form! Ha!"
Closing her eyes, Tori felt her body being surrounded in warm water briefly and a powerful surge running through her. Relaxing into the morph, she opened her eyes as it finished and grabbed her ninja sword from her back. "Power of water!"
Racing forward, she moved with a new speed and fluid motion that enabled her to take out multiple Kelzacks in a matter of seconds. It didn't take her long, or much effort at that, and the last of the Kelzacks fell and exploded into dust. Looking around in confusion, Tori kept her guard up, knowing Lothor never attacked for no reason, and fully expecting a powerful monster to jump out at her from somewhere.
"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" she called slightly, her body tingling with the energy she was putting in to protecting herself. "Come on, I know someone's there! Lothor never sends the Kelzacks down alone!"
"What if it wasn't Lothor who sent them?"
Spinning in place, Tori raised her sword higher as she laid eyes on Kapri walking out from behind a boulder, Marah following right after.
"Well, well, if it isn't little Miss. Blue. Where have you guys been?" Marah asked cheekily, her eyes a litle less sure than usual. "I mean, we've been out here for a long time and you guys never showed up."
"And you didn't conquer Blue Bay?" Tori raised an eyebrow behind her helmet. "Gee, there's a shocker. Looks like you can't succeed even without us here to stop you."
"Oh we could have, Uncle's just hogging all the monsters for-"
"Marah! Enough!" Kapri glared at her sister a moment before turning back to Tori.
"Oh, please, don't stop on my account." Gesturing with her hand, Tori briefly frowned and realized she should have contacted the others, earlier. "I mean, if you're talking about Lothor going after this big forbidden gem full of power, on some obscure island... We know all about that."
"And you haven't stopped us." Now Kapri seemed disbelieving. "That's a first. So, what exactly have you been up to?"
"Just training." Tori paused briefly, hoping someone had seen fit to activate Cyber Cam and he'd sensed them here.
"Oh like we believe that. Where's lover boy? And all the others?"
Blushing behind her helmet, Tori was glad they couldn't see her face and she glared fiercly at Kapri for the comment. "First of all, none of your business. Second, they'll be here."
"Kapri... Maybe we should..." Shrugging a little, Marah's evil sneer had disappeared a little while ago, and now she looked confused. "Well, I dunno."
"You never do." her elder sister muttered quietly, rolling her eyes and lowering her sword. "Fine, look, do you know some girl named Kendra?"
Lowering her own sword, Tori frowned deeply, suspiciously, not liking where this was going. "Kendra?"
"Yeah, she appeared in our dreams, and told us that Uncle was going to do really bad things if he got the gem." Marah had spilled everything without even realizing it. Her eyes widened at the exasperated groan Kapri gave before she got a more determined look on her face.
"Really bad things?" Repeating what Marah has said, Tori made a mental note to have a talk with Kendra later. "You mean worse than he usually does?"
"Look, we're not friends, and I don't expect you to answer us, I just wanna know what you know of what's coming." Kapri was glaring, but her own eyes were filled with confusion and pain. "As far as we know, Uncle doesn't even know we're here. I just want to know, is he really gonna turn into a monster?"
"And turn us into monsters?" Marah added, her face haunted.
There was hesitation on Tori's part. She wanted to scream yes, and hope they'd stop helping him, but she didn't want to believe they'd do that. She understood family ties, she also understood that the girls had practically been raised by Lothor. Besides, there was no guarantee they'd believe her. If they were going to believe someone, it would be-
"It's true."
Turning her head, she smiled in relief as Cam, Shane and Dustin all ran up to her, unmorphed. Cam stood ahead of the others, looking firmly at Kapri and Marah, his eyes unyielding. Shane and Dustin both looked at the girls in confusion.
"Blake went into one of Hunter's dreams and met Kendra, he also confirmed what he saw. My father was there, too, and he confirmed it as well. If Lothor gets the crystal, he'll unleash a power on the earth that will kill millions and turn more into monsters, including you and anyone else around him."
"But... You're Power Rangers, how do we know you're not lying?" Marah asked as Kapri seemed lost in thought. "We're family, he won't hurt us."
"You know I'm not lying because my Father's a Ninja Master, the Head Sensei, he wouldn't lie, and I'd never put words into his mouth." Cam stated with a raised eyebrow.
Shane stepped forward next. "And how can you say he won't hurt you? I've seen him blast you both before, for failing him."
"A real family, people who care about you, wouldn't do that." Tori added in, her own heart thinking about her friends and family. She felt a little bad for the girls, raised by an Uncle who treated them miserably, and made enemies with a cousin who could take them in and show them the right way, if they gave him a chance.
"How do you know Kendra's not lying to you?"
"That's the question, isn't it?" Cam sighed and shook his head. "Because we gave her a chance and followed her lead. She helped us and gave us reason to believe her."
"Well... Uncle's family. We won't betray him." Kapri insisted, raising her sword again, although there was a very strong hint of doubt in her voice.
"Dude, then why are you here?" Dustin finally spoke up, his eyes the only thing showing the pain he was in.
"Because we wanted to find out what you were up to." she shot back angrily.
Shane opened his mouth to say something, but Cam held his hand up, his face suddenly impassive. "We were getting the power to stop you, that's all you need to know." he stated stonily before turning his back on them and walking away.
Hesitating a moment, Dustin shot a pleading glance to Marah, as if begging her to rethink her actions, before he sighed, turned and walked off as well.
Shane just stared quietly at Kapri. His eyes spoke volumes of things he wanted to say, but he kept them to himself as he suddenly turned and dashed off to catch up with the others.
That left Tori once again with the girls. It seemed weird, that everyone was walking away, leaving the girls on the beach to do as they pleased, but there was this aura of pain and tension in the air that seemed to reassure the Rangers that Marah and Kapri weren't going to attack anyone else. It seemed their mission was to draw out the Rangers; they succeeded, so now they were done.
With a sigh, Tori powered down and turned to the girls. "Look, I know you don't want to betray Lothor, but is this all really worth it? We can all tell you don't want to do this, so don't." With that being said, she frowned, gathered her things and left, leaving the girls on their own with those words ringing in their ears.
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