SailorStar9: Okay, I know I'm been slow on the update, but give me a break here! It isn't easy juggling three fics in a row.
Disclaimers: I own nothing, except the plot.
Bunny Aino: Queen Serenity will return to her normal self once the Silver Alliance is formed. That is, until she finds yet another planet or galaxy to conquer.
Angel of Courage and Kagami of the Mirror: Okay, okay! This is your chapter 3. Sheesh.
Chapter 3: Nowhere to Grow
It was a couple of days later after the spell incident and everything was going as per normal. Well, almost everything.
Tori's mind had not been very cooperative for the last few days and she had consulted Sensei Guinea Pig about them.
However, Tori ended up confiding in Ami about the dreams. The blue-haired senshi then told her to pay attention to the dreams that were recurring, for that were most likely to be her past memories.
Tori was skeptic, but she took her word for it. After all, Ami was the princess and she would not lie to her.
When she left, Ami heaved an exhausted sigh. It will take some time for her to completely regain her magic.
Cam looked on as Tori departed.
Noting Ami's sigh, he asked, "Daijoubo desu ka?"
"Things aren't really going as according to plan." she answered.
"How's that?"
"Tori. She isn't supposed to remember the past right now. That spell from before; it changes everything." she replied.
"Sou ka." Cam breathed.
"That's not the only problem." she added.
Cam raised an eyebrow.
"The others. They too will remember."
"The morphers, they are linked together. Not only to the Safiastra, but also to each other. Once Tori regains all of her memories, the others will follow." she answered seriously.
Cam nodded.
"I get what you're saying."
"Do you realize how this will complicate the future?" Ami exclaimed incredulously.
"Calm down." Cam chided the hysterical girl.
Taking a deep breath, Ami sighed.
"What's done is done, we cannot change the past ne?" she asked softly.
Cam looked at her, smiled and shook his head in negative.
That night, the three Wind Rangers were recording Shane as he attempted to master his skate boarding moves, but Dustin noticed Kelzaks in the background.
The three Rangers confront the Kelzaks and were winning rather easily until Florabundicus appeared.
She dragged Shane away and, with incredible speed, embarrassed all three Rangers, but they did successfully keep the Kelzaks and Florabundicus from planting some type of weird seed.
They were about to pursue her when Cam called them back to Ninja Ops.
At Ninja Ops, the seeds burst, and a wretched smell filled the air.
"It smells like Dustin after ninja training." Tori noted.
"It does!" Dustin agreed.
"Someone get the air refresher." Ami suggested.
"Or better yet; open the windows." Shane advised.
"Too bad, we can do neither." Cam replied.
Sensei insisted that the Rangers took the seeds to a professor friend of his for diagnosis.
Since it was a school night and the Rangers were out late, he told he will give them some type of punishment the next day, but until then they would need to get a good night's sleep.
"Why don't I go? This may require someone who actually has a clue about botany." Cam offered.
Shane told him flat-out, "Dude, just so you know, not a very good pick-up line."
Ami gave a 'why-do-I-even-bother' sigh.
However, Sensei would hear none of it; he had made a promise long ago that he could not break.
"You do know he's still going to go there, with or without your permission." Ami quirked a brow at the rodent when Cam was out of earshot.
"Yes I do." Sensei agreed slowly.
The next day, it was no surprise when Cam showed up at the green house.
Dr. Belrab diagnosed the seeds as a psedemia plant, a variety of plant from the Venus Flytrap family.
"I've got giant corns to worry about." Dr. Belrab quipped, showing Cam the plants.
He also informed Cam that the seeds were no big worry unless they ere raised in a special mineral water, and the closest mineral water was the volcanic springs.
As Cam was leaving the greenhouse, the three Rangers saw him.
Shane instructed Tori and Dustin to go visit Doctor Belrab while he trailed Cam.
Instead of meeting Dr. Belrab, the two Rangers ran into his two assistants, Professor Treeleaven and Ms. Flora Roots.
They informed the Rangers that the good doctor was a little 'tied up' at the moment, but they were willing to help them.
Tori recognized the two as Kapri and Marah, but before her and Dustin could act they were knocked out by sleeping powder from a flower.
"Nighty night. Sleep tight. Don't let the evil space ninjas take over the world while you're too tired to fight." Marah joked.
Kapri shook her head in disbelief, "Don't talk, OK? Just don't"
Meanwhile, Shane had followed Cam to the hot springs.
Cam had wanted to collect some water to see exactly how the water affected the seeds when he was attacked by Kelzaks.
Cam asked, with his back against Shane's, "What are you doing here?"
Shane nodded, "Good question. You first."
The pair managed to fight off the Kelzaks.
After the fight, Shane remarked, "I didn't know you could fight like that."
Cam replied, "There's a lot you don't know about me, Shane."
Shane answered with a question, "Yeah, and whose fault is that?"
They managed to the Kelzaks from getting any of the water, but what they did not know was that Florabundicus was already raising one of the psedeumia plants in the basement of the green house, and she had all the nutrient water she needed there.
As Cam returned to Ninja Ops, Sensei confronted his son and he revealed that he had made a promise to Cam's mother when Cam was just a boy, and that promise was to always keep Cam out of danger.
He also revealed that he felt that Cam would be the bravest of any Power Ranger, but that he would not go back on his promise.
Cam accepted his father's words somewhat reluctantly.
As Tori and Dustin regained consciousness, they found their hands were tied up by big roots.
Tori called on her water ninja powers.
The water reflected the sun over to the plant, and it eventually burnt through, freeing Tori and Dustin.
Tori and Dustin then freed the doctor, who told them where the monster was at.
They raced to the basement to try and stop Florabundicus, but unfortunately the plant had already grown, and it was now commanding all the dormant seeds to arise as well.
Since Tori and Dustin could not handle the monster alone, Sensei had Cam get Shane.
Shane raced to the battle.
"Hey! We heard there was a garden party." a transformed Tori commented.
Dustin agreed, "Yeah, and we were kinda bummed we weren't invited."
Shane quipped, "Ya mind if we crash?"
With that asked, Shane blasted Florabundicus with his hawk blaster with no effect.
At Ninja Ops, the seeds had grown and they were filling up the base.
A transformed Super Sailor Mercury quickly launched a 'Mercury Aqua Mirage' at the over-grown plant with perfect accuracy.
The flora was frozen on impact.
"You just have to know where to hit." the ice senshi shrugged.
Cam blinked in obvious awe.
"The good news is, that over-grown foliage is temporary out of commission. The bad news is that if Shane doesn't destroy the mother plant, the over-grown bush over there is going to break free anytime soon." Super Sailor Mercury remarked.
"On it." Cam nodded, turning back to the console.
He informed Shane that the only way to destroy the plant is if he destroyed the original one, so Cam downloaded a stronger 'Ninja Sword' blade.
Shane destroyed the master psedeumia plant, and the other vines crumbled into to dust.
Needless to say this made Florabundicus pretty angry.
At first, she as defeating the rangers, until they used some decoy costumes to confuse her, before defeating her with the 'Storm Striker Blaster'.
And as always, Lothor made Florabundicus grow, so Cam sent out the Zords.
Immediately, the Rangers went into the 'Megazord's Speed Mode' before using some razor sharp daggers to weaken Florabundicus further.
Next they debilitated her with the 'Lion's Hurricane Rush'.
Finally, they summoned the Megazord's sword, and they defeated Florabundicus.
The episode ended with Sensei punishing his three students by sending them on a little errand; to go on a ten mile run for being out late on a school night.
They tried to argue that it all turned out for good since they got the seeds and destroyed Lothor's plot by being out late, but Sensei informed them that he had taken this into consideration and that there would be no negotiations.
Cam was laughing until Sensei informed him that he too must go on the ten mile run.
Cam asked what he did wrong, and Sensei informed him that he disobeyed a direct order, but when Cam got back, they will discuss his further training.
Cam asked his father about the promise to his mother, and Sensei informed him that there were more ways to train than being directly on the battlefield.
Cam's spirits boosted, he went to join the Rangers on a nice lone ten mile run.
"Training as a ninja or samurai?" Ami inquired smilingly.
"You already know the answer to that, hime-sama." Sensei replied.
SailorStar9: A long overdue chapter. Read and review.