The Navy Thunder Ranger must've been out longer then he had thought. When
he came back, he saw Tori lying on the ground; her head resting on her arm,
sleeping. He set the firewood down and took a moment to look at her. He
was mesmerized by how serene she looked right then. Her damp blonde hair
resting on her back and shoulder, with some strands falling over into her
face. Her eyelashes resting on her cheeks, her mouth partially open as she
breathed. The Navy Thunder Ranger sighed and shook his head, trying to
release himself of his daze. He started building the fire.
After about a half hour or so, Tori's eyes fluttered open. She saw The Navy Thunder Ranger sitting by the fire on the other end of the cavern. He was staring at the flames, deep in thought.
"Hey." She said somewhat groggily as sleep slowly left her. The Navy Thunder Ranger left his thoughts and looked up at her.
"Hey." He responded. Tori got up and walked over to the fire, sitting next to him. The two were silent for a while, looking at the fire. She looked at him, taking a deep breath. "Sorry." She said. The Navy Thunder Ranger looked at her. "For being kinda mean before." She ran her fingers through her hair. "Haven't exactly been having the best few days." She muttered sarcastically. The Navy Thunder Ranger nodded.
"Right.Sorry about that.." He said, referring to the parts he played in it all.
"Forget it. I mean, if it wasn't for you, I'd be Kentucky Fried Tori." She said, smiling. The Navy Thunder Ranger chuckled.
"Oh yeah, Lothor was on the way to making ya extra crispy." He said. Tori laughed.
"Yeah." She said.
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Hunter walked into Storm Chargers and saw Dustin working. He walked over to him.
"Hey man." He said. Dustin looked at him.
"Oh hey. What's up?" Dustin asked. Hunter looked at him.
"Uh, I kinda need to talk to you and Shane." He said. Dustin looked at him, puzzled.
"Uh, Shane's at the skate park." He said. Hunter looked at him as if to say 'I need to talk to you guys'. Dustin looked at him. "Uh, I'm off work in like 15 minutes. We can go find him then, ok?" He asked. Hunter nodded.
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Tori and The Navy Thunder Ranger soon got tired of sitting around and set off to find a way off the island.
"Come on." The Navy Thunder Ranger said as he helped Tori down some rocks.
"Thanks." She said. They walked along the island together.
"Hello!" Came a voice. The two gasped and spun around to see the vine monster that attacked Tori the other day.
"Oh great, not you again!" Tori said. The Navy Ranger stood in front of her.
"What the hell do you want?" He demanded.
"Lothor's pretty angry at you for betraying him. He sent me over to get rid of you." The monster said.
"I don't think so." The Navy Ranger said. He held out his weapon and charged at the monster. The Navy Ranger and the monster fought heavily. He knocked the monster off it's feet and was about to destroy it when it jumped to its feet.
"You can't get rid of me that easily." It laughed. The Navy Ranger went to attack him again when one of it's vines wrapped around his neck.
"Hey!" Tori exclaimed.
"Lothor will be so happy when I report your demise." The monster chuckled, tightening its grip on The Navy Ranger. "He might promote me to General!"
"Leave him alone!" Tori yelled, rushing at the monster, trying to help The Navy Ranger.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of you soon enough." The monster said. He blasted at Tori, sending her sprawling on her back.
"......N........o....." The Navy Ranger choked out. "Leave.........er........alone......" Tori pulled herself up to her feet. Her eyes landed on a fallen branch nearby. She went over and grabbed it. She rushed up behind the monster.
"I said, leave him alone!" She yelled as she smashed the branch aganist the monster's back.
"AGH!" It yelled. It fell down, releasing The Navy Ranger. Tori went to his side.
"Are you all right?" She asked. The Navy Ranger coughed, trying to breathe and nodded. Tori helped him to his feet. "Let's get out of here." She said.
Tori helped the Navy Ranger to the cavern they had been in before. She set him down. He was coughing and struggling to breathe. Tori sat beside him. She reached for the helmet of his suit.
"Here, you might be able to breathe easierly with this off." She said. The Navy Ranger's eyes widened.
"No, wait-" He protested. He tried to stop her as she pulled it off.
"Here, you're going to be fi-" She stopped as she saw his face. "BLAKE?!" She exclaimed. Blake blinked, taking in gasps of precious oxygen.
"Tori, I can expla-" He went to touch her hand. Tori flinched away from him as she jumped up. She dropped his helmet.
"I.......I can't belive this.." She said. Blake stood up.
"Tori, I'm sor-"
"Stay away from me." She said as she backed out of the cavern.
"Tori, wait!" He said. Tori turned around and ran away from him. Blake sighed. "Wonderful."
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"Ngh!" Shane grunted as he slammed Hunter aganist a three in the park. He pressed his arm aganist his chest, keeping him in place. "Let me get this straight." Shane growled. "You, and your brother, are the Thunder Rangers?!" Hunter looked at him defiantly.
"Yeah. I'm sorry, are you deaf or something?" He asked.
"You want me to kill you?!" Shane demanded.
"Like to see you try. Me and Blake have basically handed you guys your asses everytime we've met."
"Oh just snap his neck already. This arrogant bull is pissing me off." Dustin said.
"Kill me, and you'll never see Blondie again." Hunter said. Dustin and Shane looked at eachother.
"Where is she?" Shane demanded as he let go of him. Hunter stood up staight and looked at them.
"I don't know." He said. Shane glared at him and went to attack him again. Hunter stepped into a defensive fighting stance. "Lothor transported her and my brother somewhere." He said.
"Your brother is alone with her?" Dustin asked. "Lemme guess, he's got his morpher and junk, and she's basically defenseless. Man, that's fair." Hunter looked at him.
"It's not like that." He said. "Tell your buddy to chill and I'll tell you what I know." Shane kept glaring at him, but stepped down.
"Good doggie." Hunter replied.
"Don't push it." Shane said.
"All right, so what's going on?" Dustin asked. Hunter looked at them.
"Blake was being his usual annoyingly kind generous self and was helping her out. Bringing her food, reassuring her, yadda yadda. Lothor was getting impaitiant with the fact that although they had a Wind Ranger, nothing was happening. No blabbing to Blake about you guys by accident or anything."
"She'd never do that." Shane said.
"Apparantly. Well, Lothor decides to torture it out of her."
"WHAT?!" Shane and Dustin exclaimed.
"I don't know the details, but, Blake decided to help her. Lothor caught him while he was trying to help her escape, called my brother a traitor, and transported them somewhere."
"So, basically, this is all just a one hand washes the other kind of thing. You need us to help find Blake." Dustin said.
"And you need me to find Blondie." Hunter said.
"Hey, we don't need you." Shane said. "There's no input you can offer, and frankly, we couldn't give a rat's hairy butt about your brother."
"You're the goody goodies. You wouldn't just abandon someone." Hunter sneered.
"You two clowns kidanpped our friend, trust me, there are exceptions." Dutin said. "And besides, dude, look at your hair, where do you get off calling her Blondie?"
"Let's go." Shane said. He and Dustin began to walk away. Hunter looked at them.
"How about the little fact that Blake's got a morhper and junk, he's got a little tracking device on him. Tori doesn't. And, if you don't help me, I won't give you Blake's frequency." The other two stopped, realizing he had a point. The turned to him.
"All right, but if you even think about turning on us once you and your bro are reunited, you're dead." Shane said.
"And if Tori's hurt, you are doubly dead." Dustin said. Hunter smirked.
"I'll be good, Thunder Ranger's honor."
"Didn't know Thunder Rangers had any honor." Shane replied.
"More honor then any Wind Rangers I know." Hunter shot back. Shane went to attack him again, Hunter went into a fighting stance. Dustin jumped in between them.
"Cut it out!" He said. He pushed Shane back. "Let's get Tori back. Then you can beat him until the cow's come home."
"As if he could." Hunter said. Dustin looked at him.
"Shut up, or I'll help him beat you right now."
"Whatever. Let's just go to your little base of operations already." Hunter said. Shane glared at him.
"If this is all just a ploy to get in their, I-"
"Will kill me, yeah yeah, whatever." Hunter said rolling his eyes. "It isn't. Lothor's gone stupid, and I don't want anything happening to my brother, all right?"
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"Tori!" Blake called out searching the Island. Since Tori already knew who he was, he decided to opt out of wearing his suit. He climbed up some rocks. "Come on, Tori! That vine freak could be anywhere! It's not safe for you to be off alone!" He called out.
"I don't need protecting, especially not from you." Came Tori's voice. She stood in front of him. Blake couldn't help give a relived sigh at finding her before the monster had.
"Tori, I can explain, really." He said, although he couldn't think of an explaination that wouldn't result in her still being angry at him.
"Explain why you lied to me?" She asked.
"I didn't lie." Blake replied.
"Oh really? I must've missed the conversations where you said 'Oh hey Tori, I'm the navy thunder ranger' or, before in Lothor's place, 'Just so you know Tori, I just happen to be that guy you know, Blake.' You lied to me."
"No. Topics like that never came up in our conversations." Blake reasoned.
"A lie by omission is still a lie." Tori said.
"Well, you never asked about my indentity....other identity....Whatever." He said. "Besides, it's not like you wear a neon sign saying 'hey I'm the blue wind ranger'."
"That's totally differant!" Tori replied. "You knew who I was, knew who all of us where. We had no idea who the Thunder Rangers were. You had an advantage. You really don't think that was fair, do you?"
"OK, I'll admit, we did steal the tsunami cycle plans from Dustin's bag, but other then that, we haven't used our knowledge of who you guys are aganist you." Blake said.
"If this is supposed to make me trust you, give up." Tori said. She turned away from him and began to walk away.
"Hey, I did help you at Lothor's ship, didn't I? Doesn't that give me some trust points?" He asked. Tori turned to him.
"You're right, it has. And those trust points are the only thing that's keeping me from beating you senseless right now." Blake looked at her.
"I would think that the only thing keeping you from beating me senseless was the fact that the attempt would be futile." He said. Tori glared at him.
"Screw you, Navy boy." She said.
"Real great comeback ya got there, water girl." Blake said, amused.
"Once I get my morpher back, your ass is so grass!" Tori yelled.
"That's assuming you will get it back." Blake said. Tori narrowed her eyes.
"What?"
"Well, we have no idea if we're ever going to get off of this island." Blake said. "For all we know, we might be stuck here forever." Blake said. "Might as well try to get along."
"I'd rather pull a Tom Hanks and be best friends with a volleyball then get along with you."
"Vollyball?" Blake smirked.
"Rock, tree, grain of sand, anything, as long as it isn't you!" She said. She went to walk away. Blake went after her.
"Why do you suddenly loathe my existance?" He asked.
"Well, in case you haven't noticed, I just found out that one of my enemies and a guy I li...know.......Are the same person." Blake stopped.
"Like?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. Tori glared at him.
"It was a slip." She said.
"Well, Frued always said that slips usally are what people mean to say."
"Really? I would've thought Frued was too complex for you..Hell, I would've thought Dr. Seuss was too complex for you."
"And there's that Wind Ranger wit again." Blake said.
"Bite me." She replied. Blake stopped for a second and looked at her.
"Is that why you're mad at me?" Blake asked. Tori looked at him.
"What? I'm mad at you because you're evil."
"I am not evil." Blake said. Tori smirked.
"You associate with evil, you fight the good guys, looks like you're evil buddy." Blake looked at her.
"And you're the good guys?" He asked. "Cause, well, I don't know if people who are lead by a man who murdered innocent people are the good guys." He said.
"Yet that's what you are." Tori said.
"Yeah, Lothor's evil, but your Sensei isn't exactly Gahndi himself or something." He said.
"What are you talking about? What does Sensei have to do with any of this?" Blake opened his mouth to answer when a blast shot out, shaking the ground they stood on. "Whoa." Tori said as she stumbled. Blake caught her. They looked up to see the vine monster.
"Hi kids!" It called out.
"Ugh! Can't this guy leave us alone?" Tori yelled frusterated. Blake grabbed her hand and pulled her away. "What are you doing?" She said.
"Well, seeing as both times we've faced this dude, we've ended up in vine choke holds, I suggest we run." He said as he pulled her. Tori saw his point. The two ran away as the monster chased them, blasting at them every now and then. Tori ducked as she ran behind Blake.
After about a half hour or so, Tori's eyes fluttered open. She saw The Navy Thunder Ranger sitting by the fire on the other end of the cavern. He was staring at the flames, deep in thought.
"Hey." She said somewhat groggily as sleep slowly left her. The Navy Thunder Ranger left his thoughts and looked up at her.
"Hey." He responded. Tori got up and walked over to the fire, sitting next to him. The two were silent for a while, looking at the fire. She looked at him, taking a deep breath. "Sorry." She said. The Navy Thunder Ranger looked at her. "For being kinda mean before." She ran her fingers through her hair. "Haven't exactly been having the best few days." She muttered sarcastically. The Navy Thunder Ranger nodded.
"Right.Sorry about that.." He said, referring to the parts he played in it all.
"Forget it. I mean, if it wasn't for you, I'd be Kentucky Fried Tori." She said, smiling. The Navy Thunder Ranger chuckled.
"Oh yeah, Lothor was on the way to making ya extra crispy." He said. Tori laughed.
"Yeah." She said.
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Hunter walked into Storm Chargers and saw Dustin working. He walked over to him.
"Hey man." He said. Dustin looked at him.
"Oh hey. What's up?" Dustin asked. Hunter looked at him.
"Uh, I kinda need to talk to you and Shane." He said. Dustin looked at him, puzzled.
"Uh, Shane's at the skate park." He said. Hunter looked at him as if to say 'I need to talk to you guys'. Dustin looked at him. "Uh, I'm off work in like 15 minutes. We can go find him then, ok?" He asked. Hunter nodded.
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Tori and The Navy Thunder Ranger soon got tired of sitting around and set off to find a way off the island.
"Come on." The Navy Thunder Ranger said as he helped Tori down some rocks.
"Thanks." She said. They walked along the island together.
"Hello!" Came a voice. The two gasped and spun around to see the vine monster that attacked Tori the other day.
"Oh great, not you again!" Tori said. The Navy Ranger stood in front of her.
"What the hell do you want?" He demanded.
"Lothor's pretty angry at you for betraying him. He sent me over to get rid of you." The monster said.
"I don't think so." The Navy Ranger said. He held out his weapon and charged at the monster. The Navy Ranger and the monster fought heavily. He knocked the monster off it's feet and was about to destroy it when it jumped to its feet.
"You can't get rid of me that easily." It laughed. The Navy Ranger went to attack him again when one of it's vines wrapped around his neck.
"Hey!" Tori exclaimed.
"Lothor will be so happy when I report your demise." The monster chuckled, tightening its grip on The Navy Ranger. "He might promote me to General!"
"Leave him alone!" Tori yelled, rushing at the monster, trying to help The Navy Ranger.
"Don't worry, I'll take care of you soon enough." The monster said. He blasted at Tori, sending her sprawling on her back.
"......N........o....." The Navy Ranger choked out. "Leave.........er........alone......" Tori pulled herself up to her feet. Her eyes landed on a fallen branch nearby. She went over and grabbed it. She rushed up behind the monster.
"I said, leave him alone!" She yelled as she smashed the branch aganist the monster's back.
"AGH!" It yelled. It fell down, releasing The Navy Ranger. Tori went to his side.
"Are you all right?" She asked. The Navy Ranger coughed, trying to breathe and nodded. Tori helped him to his feet. "Let's get out of here." She said.
Tori helped the Navy Ranger to the cavern they had been in before. She set him down. He was coughing and struggling to breathe. Tori sat beside him. She reached for the helmet of his suit.
"Here, you might be able to breathe easierly with this off." She said. The Navy Ranger's eyes widened.
"No, wait-" He protested. He tried to stop her as she pulled it off.
"Here, you're going to be fi-" She stopped as she saw his face. "BLAKE?!" She exclaimed. Blake blinked, taking in gasps of precious oxygen.
"Tori, I can expla-" He went to touch her hand. Tori flinched away from him as she jumped up. She dropped his helmet.
"I.......I can't belive this.." She said. Blake stood up.
"Tori, I'm sor-"
"Stay away from me." She said as she backed out of the cavern.
"Tori, wait!" He said. Tori turned around and ran away from him. Blake sighed. "Wonderful."
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"Ngh!" Shane grunted as he slammed Hunter aganist a three in the park. He pressed his arm aganist his chest, keeping him in place. "Let me get this straight." Shane growled. "You, and your brother, are the Thunder Rangers?!" Hunter looked at him defiantly.
"Yeah. I'm sorry, are you deaf or something?" He asked.
"You want me to kill you?!" Shane demanded.
"Like to see you try. Me and Blake have basically handed you guys your asses everytime we've met."
"Oh just snap his neck already. This arrogant bull is pissing me off." Dustin said.
"Kill me, and you'll never see Blondie again." Hunter said. Dustin and Shane looked at eachother.
"Where is she?" Shane demanded as he let go of him. Hunter stood up staight and looked at them.
"I don't know." He said. Shane glared at him and went to attack him again. Hunter stepped into a defensive fighting stance. "Lothor transported her and my brother somewhere." He said.
"Your brother is alone with her?" Dustin asked. "Lemme guess, he's got his morpher and junk, and she's basically defenseless. Man, that's fair." Hunter looked at him.
"It's not like that." He said. "Tell your buddy to chill and I'll tell you what I know." Shane kept glaring at him, but stepped down.
"Good doggie." Hunter replied.
"Don't push it." Shane said.
"All right, so what's going on?" Dustin asked. Hunter looked at them.
"Blake was being his usual annoyingly kind generous self and was helping her out. Bringing her food, reassuring her, yadda yadda. Lothor was getting impaitiant with the fact that although they had a Wind Ranger, nothing was happening. No blabbing to Blake about you guys by accident or anything."
"She'd never do that." Shane said.
"Apparantly. Well, Lothor decides to torture it out of her."
"WHAT?!" Shane and Dustin exclaimed.
"I don't know the details, but, Blake decided to help her. Lothor caught him while he was trying to help her escape, called my brother a traitor, and transported them somewhere."
"So, basically, this is all just a one hand washes the other kind of thing. You need us to help find Blake." Dustin said.
"And you need me to find Blondie." Hunter said.
"Hey, we don't need you." Shane said. "There's no input you can offer, and frankly, we couldn't give a rat's hairy butt about your brother."
"You're the goody goodies. You wouldn't just abandon someone." Hunter sneered.
"You two clowns kidanpped our friend, trust me, there are exceptions." Dutin said. "And besides, dude, look at your hair, where do you get off calling her Blondie?"
"Let's go." Shane said. He and Dustin began to walk away. Hunter looked at them.
"How about the little fact that Blake's got a morhper and junk, he's got a little tracking device on him. Tori doesn't. And, if you don't help me, I won't give you Blake's frequency." The other two stopped, realizing he had a point. The turned to him.
"All right, but if you even think about turning on us once you and your bro are reunited, you're dead." Shane said.
"And if Tori's hurt, you are doubly dead." Dustin said. Hunter smirked.
"I'll be good, Thunder Ranger's honor."
"Didn't know Thunder Rangers had any honor." Shane replied.
"More honor then any Wind Rangers I know." Hunter shot back. Shane went to attack him again, Hunter went into a fighting stance. Dustin jumped in between them.
"Cut it out!" He said. He pushed Shane back. "Let's get Tori back. Then you can beat him until the cow's come home."
"As if he could." Hunter said. Dustin looked at him.
"Shut up, or I'll help him beat you right now."
"Whatever. Let's just go to your little base of operations already." Hunter said. Shane glared at him.
"If this is all just a ploy to get in their, I-"
"Will kill me, yeah yeah, whatever." Hunter said rolling his eyes. "It isn't. Lothor's gone stupid, and I don't want anything happening to my brother, all right?"
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"Tori!" Blake called out searching the Island. Since Tori already knew who he was, he decided to opt out of wearing his suit. He climbed up some rocks. "Come on, Tori! That vine freak could be anywhere! It's not safe for you to be off alone!" He called out.
"I don't need protecting, especially not from you." Came Tori's voice. She stood in front of him. Blake couldn't help give a relived sigh at finding her before the monster had.
"Tori, I can explain, really." He said, although he couldn't think of an explaination that wouldn't result in her still being angry at him.
"Explain why you lied to me?" She asked.
"I didn't lie." Blake replied.
"Oh really? I must've missed the conversations where you said 'Oh hey Tori, I'm the navy thunder ranger' or, before in Lothor's place, 'Just so you know Tori, I just happen to be that guy you know, Blake.' You lied to me."
"No. Topics like that never came up in our conversations." Blake reasoned.
"A lie by omission is still a lie." Tori said.
"Well, you never asked about my indentity....other identity....Whatever." He said. "Besides, it's not like you wear a neon sign saying 'hey I'm the blue wind ranger'."
"That's totally differant!" Tori replied. "You knew who I was, knew who all of us where. We had no idea who the Thunder Rangers were. You had an advantage. You really don't think that was fair, do you?"
"OK, I'll admit, we did steal the tsunami cycle plans from Dustin's bag, but other then that, we haven't used our knowledge of who you guys are aganist you." Blake said.
"If this is supposed to make me trust you, give up." Tori said. She turned away from him and began to walk away.
"Hey, I did help you at Lothor's ship, didn't I? Doesn't that give me some trust points?" He asked. Tori turned to him.
"You're right, it has. And those trust points are the only thing that's keeping me from beating you senseless right now." Blake looked at her.
"I would think that the only thing keeping you from beating me senseless was the fact that the attempt would be futile." He said. Tori glared at him.
"Screw you, Navy boy." She said.
"Real great comeback ya got there, water girl." Blake said, amused.
"Once I get my morpher back, your ass is so grass!" Tori yelled.
"That's assuming you will get it back." Blake said. Tori narrowed her eyes.
"What?"
"Well, we have no idea if we're ever going to get off of this island." Blake said. "For all we know, we might be stuck here forever." Blake said. "Might as well try to get along."
"I'd rather pull a Tom Hanks and be best friends with a volleyball then get along with you."
"Vollyball?" Blake smirked.
"Rock, tree, grain of sand, anything, as long as it isn't you!" She said. She went to walk away. Blake went after her.
"Why do you suddenly loathe my existance?" He asked.
"Well, in case you haven't noticed, I just found out that one of my enemies and a guy I li...know.......Are the same person." Blake stopped.
"Like?" He asked, raising an eyebrow. Tori glared at him.
"It was a slip." She said.
"Well, Frued always said that slips usally are what people mean to say."
"Really? I would've thought Frued was too complex for you..Hell, I would've thought Dr. Seuss was too complex for you."
"And there's that Wind Ranger wit again." Blake said.
"Bite me." She replied. Blake stopped for a second and looked at her.
"Is that why you're mad at me?" Blake asked. Tori looked at him.
"What? I'm mad at you because you're evil."
"I am not evil." Blake said. Tori smirked.
"You associate with evil, you fight the good guys, looks like you're evil buddy." Blake looked at her.
"And you're the good guys?" He asked. "Cause, well, I don't know if people who are lead by a man who murdered innocent people are the good guys." He said.
"Yet that's what you are." Tori said.
"Yeah, Lothor's evil, but your Sensei isn't exactly Gahndi himself or something." He said.
"What are you talking about? What does Sensei have to do with any of this?" Blake opened his mouth to answer when a blast shot out, shaking the ground they stood on. "Whoa." Tori said as she stumbled. Blake caught her. They looked up to see the vine monster.
"Hi kids!" It called out.
"Ugh! Can't this guy leave us alone?" Tori yelled frusterated. Blake grabbed her hand and pulled her away. "What are you doing?" She said.
"Well, seeing as both times we've faced this dude, we've ended up in vine choke holds, I suggest we run." He said as he pulled her. Tori saw his point. The two ran away as the monster chased them, blasting at them every now and then. Tori ducked as she ran behind Blake.