SailorStar9: Well, now that Chapter 8 is out, this is Chapter 9. Read and review.

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Chapter 9: The Samurai's Journey, Part Two

"Cam has gone back in time to get help." Sensei informed the rest of the Rangers, having teleported them back to Ninja Ops. "But if he does not return until time resumes, I fear there will be nothing to prevent Madtropolis from destroying our planet."

Back in the past, the former Sensei was passing judgment on Cam who had apparently stolen Miko's amulet.

"Not guilty!" Everyone turned and saw Kanoi with a student wearing a test uniform and a mask. Kanoi removed the mask to reveal Kiya while some people gasped. "Now, tell the truth!" he pushed his twin to the platform.

Kiya just looked up at Sensei. "I'm the one who took the amulet." He admitted. "I caught it in the woods."

"Trying to use your dark ninja powers to unlock the amulet." Kanoi added, his hand clutching the said amulet.

"You always did know how to spoil a party, didn't you, brother?" Kiya told his brother.

"Any use of the dark powers will result in immediate expulsion." Sensei stated as he looked down at Kiya. "This is the first rule of the Wind Ninja Academy. Have you got anything to say, Kiya?"

Kiya stood up and smirked. "Really? I'm more a man of action." He said before firing multiple energy blasts and knocking everyone to the ground.

Turning to Kanoi, he fired a blast at him which sent the amulet into the air.

When Miko reached for it, she was hit by a blast from Kiya as well, so she kicked it away and it flew into Cam's hand before Kiya flipped onto the stage.

"Stop him!" Kanoi barked.

"This is between me and the new kid!" Kiya exclaimed as everyone stood up, so he created a force field over the platform, with wind blowing inside it. "Pity, things were going so well until you showed up."

"Sorry to spoil your fun!" Cam snapped over the wind and placed the amulet around his neck.

"You wanna make it up to me, hand over the amulet." Kiya demanded as he grabbed a wooden sword and Cam picked up another one.

"I can't do that." Cam shook his head.

"Well then, I'll have to take it from you!" Kiya told Cam before they started fighting each other. "You're a stubborn one!"

"Runs in the family!" Cam stated.

"Give me that amulet or you'll regret ever crossing my path!" Kiya ordered.

"Like I already don't!" Cam snapped.

Kiya used his dark ninja powers and lifted Cam into the air before letting him fall to the ground. Once the two of them continued sword fighting, Cam ended up on the ground again and hit the side of the force field. Just as Kiya walked over to finish the job, a bright light shone from deep within the forest, dispelling the force field and causing the amulet to glow green. Kiya was then lifted into the air until he hit the top, before falling to the ground seconds later.

"What just happened?" Cam asked as he got up and Miko and Kanoi walked over to him while some ninja students restrained Kiya.

"That was the sacred light of the Ferrum Polaris." Sensei breathed. "Our Goddess' Holy Robe has spoken."

"And the Samurai Amulet has found its rightful owner." Miko realized.

"But this is yours!" Cam insisted. "I can't take this!"

"You must. That's why you came here, isn't it?" Miko asked.

Sensei walked over to Kiya, who began rambling on about how he was going to someday rule the Earth. "Our Goddess has spoken; you've brought your fate upon yourself. You will be cast adrift in the universe where your dark ninja powers may cause no harm. You are hereby stripped of your ninja rank, and the man known as Kiya will no longer exist!"

"From now on, I will take the name of the ancient warrior of evil!" Kiya announced as Cam's eyes widened. "From this point forward, I will be known as Lothor!"

"No!" Cam yelled as he started charging at Lothor, but Sensei stopped him and formed an energy bubble in his hands before trapping Lothor in it.

"I will not forget the part you played in this, brother! I will have my revenge!" Lothor declared.

"Be gone, Lothor!" Sensei commanded as he sent the bubble into space.

"He has to be destroyed. What if he comes back?" Cam questioned.

"We can only judge someone by their actions in the present, not some future we cannot see." Sensei stated.

Suddenly, the scroll's writing started glowing before it formed a portal again. "Use the amulet." Miko advised Cam.

"Wait, there's so much I wanna ask you, so much I wanna tell you." Cam told his mother.

"Goodbye, Cam." Miko said with a smile. "Good luck."

"Sensei, what's happening?" Tori asked, as the Rangers started to fade.

"Time is resuming its true course." Sensei replied, Ami powering down from her Princess self. "You will be returned to the way you were the moment time stopped."

Teleported back to the battlefield, the powerless rangers looked up at Madtropolis before hearing something. "What's that noise?" Shane wondered.

"Look!" Tori pointed.

All of them saw a green, white, and red helicopter-like zord fly over. A door opened up as a male green Ranger stepped out a bit. The green Ranger had a helmet with a 4-point star symbol on it and a matching symbol on his chest along with gold armor on his shoulders and silver sleeves. The new Ranger grabbed his sword from his belt and the top resembled a microphone. "Hello there, Power Rangers. Looks like you could use a little help." He greeted. "Green Samurai Ranger at your service.

"Hey, who are you?" Madtropolis asked.

"I'm the Ranger that is to bring you down!" The green Ranger declared.

"Two can play at that game!" Madtropolis retorted, firing lasers at the chopper and missed.

"That all you got?" The green Ranger taunted as the chopper flew sideways and made Madtropolis sink a bit into the ground.

"Samurai Star Megazord!" The green Ranger commanded as the chopper transformed into a Megazord.

"Is it me, or do a see a guy in green Ranger gear?" Dustin asked the others, after the battle.

"Nah, dude, I see it too." Shane shook his head a bit.

"You guys never said anything about a green Ranger." Blake stated.

"Yeah, way to hold out on us." Hunter said as he looked at the Wind Rangers.

"Hey, it's new to us too." Tori agreed.

"Maybe we're all hallucinating." Dustin suggested.

"You're not, Dustin." The green Ranger assured the Earth Ninja.

"How do you know my name?" Dustin asked.

"Why wouldn't I know your name?" The green Ranger questioned. "Right now, we need to get you all back to Ninja Ops." He insisted, after reversing his morph.

"I think I'll just wait here for a cab or a bus." Dustin decided as he shook his head.

"Run, fools!" Dustin and the others looked up to see Lothor floating in the air, laughing evilly.

"Right behind you, Cam." Dustin corrected himself.

"Obviously he didn't get enough love as a child!" Blake said as all of them ran across a stream.

"Rangers!" Marah and Kapri sang as they appeared.

Lothor continued to fire beams at the rangers as they kept running while water splashed behind them from the impact of Lothor's hits. Marah and Kapri fired another blast into the water as Shane and Blake fell down and the others helped them up. All of them stopped when an army of Kelzaks appeared in front of them and Lothor flew over.

"What's the matter, nephew?" Lothor asked Cam. "You don't like the reunion?"

"Nephew?" Dustin asked as he looked over at Cam.

"You can't choose your family, Lothor!" Cam called from the ground. "I certainly didn't choose you."

"Pity. There's always a place for someone like you in my evil empire." Lothor offered.

"You have to be joking." Cam scoffed.

"We'll see who has the last laugh, Green Samurai Ranger!" Lothor exclaimed as the Kelzaks charged before the Rangers disappeared in a flash of light.

"Maybe you could give us a warning next time you do that?" Hunter told Ami as all of them got up.

"No gratitude." Ami joked.

"Sorry." Shane apologized. "It's just, I know if we had our powers, we could've taken them."

"Then perhaps it is time you got them back." Sensei decided as all of them turned to the metal sphere that held their powers. "This seal holds the power of 5 rangers. Only a greater power can open it."

"Well, how about the power of 6 Rangers and 1 Senshi?" Ami suggested as she summoned her crystal.

All seven of them placed their hands over the crystal as it floated above the orb which then started to glow before it exploded. Everyone fell onto the ground from the impact as the Wind and Thunder Rangers' energy flowed back into them. Shane, Dustin, Blake, and Hunter grinned as they did a couple of kicks and other moves just to test out their energy while Tori walked over to Cam.

"Just one question though, Cam." The water Ranger stated. "How did all this happen?"

"Okay, let's talk with Uncle Lothor." Shane decided as he looked over at Cam. "I mean, that's crazy, bro."

"Tell me about it. Nice family tree I have." Cam rolled his eyes a bit.

"Cam, Lothor is no relation of ours." Sensei assured his son.

"He's technically right." Ami concurred. "By law, once a ninja is banished, they cease to exist."

"The Princess is correct." Sensei agreed. "The one I knew as my brother is a mere memory."

"But don't you think I had the right to know?" Cam asked.

"We all did." Hunter agreed.

Perhaps, but what would it have changed?" Ami reminded. "Would you have battled him any differently?"

"And speaking of battling..." Tori interrupted as she looked at the screen.

Everyone looked at the monitor to see five monsters in four different places. "Whoa, dude, they're all over the place!" Dustin realized.

"Rangers, split up." Ami instructed. "Cam, remain here to monitor additional attacks. I always knew green looked good on you." She grinned once the others left.

Cam smiled back as he placed the Samurai Amulet around his neck and tucked it under his shirt. "I see the Samurai Amulet has finally found its home. It's an honor not to be taken lightly."

"I know." Cam nodded, looking down a little as he remembered his journey to the past. "She was so beautiful, and brave, and kind. Everything you said." He told his father.

"Do not forget wise." Sensei added.

All the rangers arrived back at Ninja Ops and noticed that Cam was sweaty and had weird red marks all over his chest after his battle against Sucker, the fly-like alien having retreated after stinging him.

"That is just nasty." Ami winced.

"Dude, what happened?" Hunter asked as all six other ranger's looked at Cam's chest.

"I got a little close to that overgrown Sucker." Cam said as he twitched a bit.

"Understatement." Ami muttered, her compact computer was already out and scanning.

The super computer then beeped and showed one of the aliens had grown. "We'll get the Zords." Shane decided.

"Blake, Hunter, handle the others." Ami instructed.

"With pleasure." Hunter nodded and grinned a bit.

"What about me?" Cam asked as he scratched his chest.

"Cam, what's that?" Tori asked as she looked down at his hands.

Cam looked down and noticed hair all over his hands as he continued to scratch. "Um, I have no idea." He shook his head.

"Guys, just go." Ami sighed. "I will investigate Cam's condition. It is as I suspected." She stated, once the compact computer's analysis was done. "You've been injected with a toxin that is causing you to exhibit insect-like qualities. You, yourself, must extract the toxin from your body."

"You're telling me I have to get him to reverse what he did to me in the first place?" Cam concluded.

"Yup." Ami nodded.

"Well, that should be easy." Cam remarked. "I can't believe that in my first Ranger battle, I practically get turned into a bug."

"It is your Green Ranger powers that protected you from a worse plight." Sensei pointed out. "Every new challenge brings new setbacks. The strong will learn from them and grow stronger."

"Is that your way of saying 'Don't give up'?" Cam asked.

"Exactly." Sensei nodded.

Later during the day after the entire battle, Cam walked into Ninja Ops, holding his Samurai Sword and noticed Shane, Tori, Dustin, Blake and Hunter standing around the computer with grins on their faces. "What are you all smiling about?" Cam asked them.

The five rangers moved aside as Ami spun around in the chair with a black and green ninja uniform on her lap. "If you're going to be a part of the team, you need to have the right gear." The ice Senshi winked as she stood up and handed the uniform to Cam.

"Wow, that is great." Cam grinned as he looked at his new uniform.

"It takes a powerful man to choose his own destiny." Sensei stated as he looked over at his son. "Congratulations. No father could be prouder of his son."

SailorStar9: Phew, this chapter is done. Read and review.