Cam heard the rush of teleporting behind him. He turned towards it.
"So you guys found them-" He stopped as he saw only Blake and Hunter standing there.
"Let's make a deal, you hand over the guinea pig and we won't be forced to hurt you." Hunter said. Cam's eyes widened as he realized they had turned on the others. He got into a fighting stance.
"Now what kind of son would I be if I did that?" He asked.
"The smart kind." Blake said.
"I don't think so." Cam said. Hunter shrugged.
"All right, have it your way." He said as he punched Cam in the face. Cam staggered back a bit and held his jaw. He glared at Hunter and went at him. He kicked and punched Hunter, but Hunter easily blocked all of his strikes. Blake went over and saw Sensei. He was in his cage. He looked up at the young man.
"You should not be fighting against the rangers." He said. "They are not your enemies." Blake picked up the cage.
"Shut it, ya house pet." He growled as he went to find Hunter had thrown Cam against the wall, knocking him out cold. Hunter looked up at his brother.
"You get him?" He asked. Blake nodded.
"Good, let's go before your girlfriend and her friends get here." Hunter said as they left.
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Tori, Shane and Dustin appeared outside of Ninja Opts.
"I can't believe you brought him here." Tori chastised.
"We needed Blake's frequency o find you." Shane said. The three of them ran into Ninja Opts and saw Cam lying on the floor.
"Oh my gosh." Tori gasped. She rushed to his side. "Cam, Cam." She shook him. "Cam, say something." Cam groaned as he slowly began to regain consciousness. He opened his eyes. Shane and Dustin went over to him as well and helped him to his feet. They led him to his computer chair.
"What happened?" Shane asked.
"The..Thunder Rangers." Cam trailed off. "They were here." Dustin left the group and went to look for Sensei. He punched the wall angrily when he saw Sensei was not there.
"They took him." He groaned.
"And this is why we don't bring the bad guys into our secret lair." Tori said. Shane looked at her.
"Seeing as your tongue was down a 'bad guy's' throat just a little while ago, I really don't think you should talk."
"Don't start with me." Tori said lowly. "I'm a very angry girl right now, don't think I won't take out my frustrations on you." Cam, his head beginning to clear, looked at them.
"Fighting is not going to help my father, so knock it off." He said sternly.
"Cam's right." Dustin said. He put a hand on Tori's shoulder. "Save your frustrations for those Thunder Turds."
"Not a problem." Tori muttered.
"Any idea where they might've taken him?" Shane asked Cam. Cam thought for a second. He looked at them.
"Those two, being the 'honorable' ones they are, probably took him to the sacred Ninja resting place."
"And that would be?" Dustin asked.
"The Cavern of Lost Souls."
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Blake and Hunter walked to the cavern. Blake held the cage containing Sensei at his side. Part of him felt like crap for hurting Tori. But, his loyalties laid with his family, his brother, Hunter. And he had to avenge the deaths of his parents.
"Almost there." Hunter said. Suddenly flashes of yellow blue and red streaked by them, striking them with weapons, catching them by surprise. Blake and Hunter stumbled back. They were both greatfull they had morphed into their own ranger suits before hand. The streaks stood before them. There stood Dustin, Shane and Tori.
"You're not going anywhere." Shane said.
"Catching us off guard the only way you can touch us, eh, Shane?" Hunter sneered.
"Stuff it, Thunder Blunder." Dustin said.
"Oh. How witty." Hunter said, rolling his eyes.
"You two take care of Hunter, Blake's mine." Tori said lowly.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Dustin said, stopping her. "Now is not the time to be all 'hell hath no fury'. We have to save Sensei first, then you have full permission to severely harm the boy."
"We'll distract them, you get Sensei." Shane said. Tori tried to protest, but was cut off by Hunter charging at Shane. Shane was ready for him and pulled out his sword. The two engaged in a sword fight.
"Oh great, I get the airhead." Blake commented, staring at Dustin.
"Airhead this, Jackass." Dustin growled. He fired his Ninja Beams, hitting Blake in the chest and knocking him down. Tori looked at her friend.
"What happened to no 'hell hath no fury'?" She asked.
"Screw that. He hurts my friends, I hurt him." Dustin said, reverting to his tried and true protective role for Tori. "Get Sensei back to Opts. I'll try and leave some of Blake for you to finish off." Blake got to his feet.
"That the best ya got?" He taunted. Tori resisted the urge to maul Blake and tried to get to Sensei who Blake had dropped when Dustin blasted him.
"Argh!" Shane grunted. Dustin looked over to see Hunter had blasted him. Shane was weakly trying to get back to his feet.
"Shane!" Dustin tried to blast Hunter, but Blake tackled him, throwing off his aim. Tori spun around to see Blake on top of Dustin. She went to help him.
"Get off him!" She yelled as she kicked Blake in the face. Blake wasn't expecting an attack from her and fell back. Tori stood between Blake and Dustin, guarding her friend. "You all right?" She asked.
"Yeah." Dustin said as he got up.
"Go help Shane." Tori ordered.
"But-"
"Now." Dustin knew Tori meant business, and he knew not doing as she said would result in an angry Tori making him stay out of this fight by force. He sighed.
"Be careful." He said softly as he went to Shane's aid. Tori stalked over to Blake who was starting to get back on his feet.
"Get up." She said coldly. Blake looked at her.
"I don't want to fight you, Tori." He said softly. Tori went to kick him, but he sidestepped out of her range.
"Should've thought of that before you kidnapped Sensei." She grunted. She went to punch him. Blake caught her arm and spun her into him. He held her back against his chest. Tori struggled against his hold.
"Stay out of this." He pleaded softly. "This doesn't involve you and me."
"There is no you and me." Tori grunted as she slammed her shoulder against his chest, causing him to release her. "You basically said it yourself. You regretted what happened, right?" She asked rhetorically. She circled around him, ready to attack. Blake got into a defense stance.
"Of course I didn't." Blake said. "But Hunter's the only family I've got. I can't turn on him."
"So you decide to turn on me instead. How nice." She said sarcasticly. Shane saw Tori and Blake facing off. He left Dustin to handle Hunter and rushed over to her.
"Tori! Get Sensei out of here, now!" Shane ordered. Tori clenched her fist. She wanted to beat Blake senseless, but she knew Sensei was the priority. She saw Sensei in his cage and went to run for it. Blake tried to stop her. Shane charged at him.
"Don't you think you've had enough contact with her today?" Shane grunted as he landed a blow in Blake's stomach. Blake jumped back to his feet.
"I said I didn't want to fight Tori. You, on the other hand, I have no problems beating the stuffing out of." Blake said, his arrogant tone returning.
"Good to know." Shane said as he pulled out his storm blaster. Tori grabbed Sensei's cage.
"Are you all right?" Tori asked, looking in on the guinea pig.
"I am well, Tori." He assured her.
"Let's get you out of here." Tori said. Shane aimed his blaster at Blake and fired.
"Thunder Shield!" Blake called out as his lance turned into a hexagon shape and became a shield. The blast bounced right off of the shield, and went straight for Tori.
"WHOA!" Tori exclaimed as the impact sent her sprawling on her back near the entrance of the cavern.
"Tori!" Shane and Dustin called out to her worriedly. Blake dropped his lance.
"No.." He muttered to himself. He didn't want to hurt her. Tori groaned as she weakly tried to get up with one hand while clutching Sensei's cage in the other arm. She couldn't and fell back.
"Sensei.Are you OK?" She asked. Sensei simply nodded. Hunter saw Tori on the floor and tossed Dustin aside. He slowly walked over to her.
"NO!" Dustin yelled. Tori looked over at Hunter and weakly stood up and ran the only direction she could, into the cavern. Hunter followed.
"Tori get out of there!" Shane yelled. He went to Dustin's side and helped him up. The two headed to the cavern to try and help Tori. Blake ran in before they could even take a step in that direction.
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Tori ran deep into the cavern. Her legs gave out and she fell on the ground. The cage fell out of her grasp.
"Thanks so much for saving me the trouble of bringing him in here." Came Hunter's voice. Tori turned and saw him standing before her. She pulled the cage behind her and tried to back away from Hunter. She only succeeded in allowing her self to be cornered against the wall of the cave. "Now, kindly hand him over so I can destroy him." Hunter said as he got closer to her.
"Over my dead body." Tori grunted.
"All right then." He pulled out his lance. "Have it your way." He aimed the tip at her.
"NO!" Came a voice as a dark blue streak appeared before Hunter. There was Blake, shielding Tori.
"What the hell are you doing?" Hunter demanded.
"I can't let you do this." Blake said. "You're not going to hurt her."
"Blake, don't be an idiot. Get out of the way." Hunter ordered.
"No way, bro." Blake replied. "You want to hurt her, then you'll have to get through me."
"Stop acting all melodramatic!" Hunter yelled.
"If I didn't let Lothor hurt her, what the hell makes you think I'm going to let you?" Blake yelled back defiantly. "So, now you have two choices. Either put down the lance, or become an only child." Shane and Dustin got to the cavern and stopped, seeing what was going on.
"Blake, get out of the way, now." Hunter ordered.
"No." Blake said. There was a silent sort of standoff. Finally, Hunter growled in frustration and plunged the lance into the sandy ground.
"There, happy?" Hunter said lowly. Blake could feel himself let out a sigh of relief. He slowly got up and turned to Tori. Any expression she had was covered by the helmet of her suit. He gently took her arm and helped her to her feet. Tori stumbled a bit against him. He held her up by her waist.
"Are you all right?" He asked softly, holding onto her. Tori nodded. Shane and Dustin went to her, shoving Blake away in the process of making sure Tori was all right.
"Come on, let's go." Shane said. He pulled Tori's arm over his shoulder, allowing her to lean against him. Dustin bent down and picked up Sensei's cage.
"You all right in there, Sensei?" He asked, raising the cage to his eye level.
"Yes." Sensei nodded. "All though I think we've all had enough excitement for one day."
"I heard that." Dustin chuckled softly. Hunter stood, blocking the exit of the cavern.
"The hamster stays." He said.
"A, he's a guinea pig, not a hamster, and B, yeah right." Dustin said.
"Can we please just postpone the second round for goodness sakes?" Shane growled, annoyed.
"You think this is a freaking game?" Hunter said. "I'm not letting that murderer out of here, unless it's in pieces."
"Yeah, same could've been said about you if I hadn't stopped you." Blake said, speaking up for the first time since Shane and Dustin and pushed him away from Tori. Hunter looked at him.
"What, are you a little Wind Loser now?" Hunter said, anger in his tone. He wasn't going to be happy if his brother of all people decided to now turn on him. Blake blinked and looked at his brother, feeling nothing but pity towards him.
"No, but I guess I haven't let hatred and vengeance fill my heart like you have." Blake said, remembering what Tori had said to him when they were talking about his parents.
"Well, that's good and well, Ghandi, but unlike you, I'm not going to dishonor our parents this way." Hunter said, and with that a dark red smoke filled the room. The others coughed.
"Hey!" Dustin exclaimed as he felt Sensei's cage be snatched out of his hand. The smoke cleared slowly, and Hunter and Sensei where gone.
"Dude, I'm really beginning to dislike your brother!" Dustin exclaimed, looking at Blake.
"Come on, we've got to stop him." Shane said. He set Tori down. "Stay here." He and Dustin went deeper into the cave after Hunter.
"Guys, wait." Tori groaned in frustration. "I'm really beginning to feel the gender inequality in this juncture." She muttered to herself. "Girl stays behind while manly men save the day." She jumped slightly as she felt Blake take her arm and pull it over his shoulder and putting the other arm around her waist.
"Let's just hope the other's where in time to stop Hunter." Blake said as he helped Tori go after the others.
"So you guys found them-" He stopped as he saw only Blake and Hunter standing there.
"Let's make a deal, you hand over the guinea pig and we won't be forced to hurt you." Hunter said. Cam's eyes widened as he realized they had turned on the others. He got into a fighting stance.
"Now what kind of son would I be if I did that?" He asked.
"The smart kind." Blake said.
"I don't think so." Cam said. Hunter shrugged.
"All right, have it your way." He said as he punched Cam in the face. Cam staggered back a bit and held his jaw. He glared at Hunter and went at him. He kicked and punched Hunter, but Hunter easily blocked all of his strikes. Blake went over and saw Sensei. He was in his cage. He looked up at the young man.
"You should not be fighting against the rangers." He said. "They are not your enemies." Blake picked up the cage.
"Shut it, ya house pet." He growled as he went to find Hunter had thrown Cam against the wall, knocking him out cold. Hunter looked up at his brother.
"You get him?" He asked. Blake nodded.
"Good, let's go before your girlfriend and her friends get here." Hunter said as they left.
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Tori, Shane and Dustin appeared outside of Ninja Opts.
"I can't believe you brought him here." Tori chastised.
"We needed Blake's frequency o find you." Shane said. The three of them ran into Ninja Opts and saw Cam lying on the floor.
"Oh my gosh." Tori gasped. She rushed to his side. "Cam, Cam." She shook him. "Cam, say something." Cam groaned as he slowly began to regain consciousness. He opened his eyes. Shane and Dustin went over to him as well and helped him to his feet. They led him to his computer chair.
"What happened?" Shane asked.
"The..Thunder Rangers." Cam trailed off. "They were here." Dustin left the group and went to look for Sensei. He punched the wall angrily when he saw Sensei was not there.
"They took him." He groaned.
"And this is why we don't bring the bad guys into our secret lair." Tori said. Shane looked at her.
"Seeing as your tongue was down a 'bad guy's' throat just a little while ago, I really don't think you should talk."
"Don't start with me." Tori said lowly. "I'm a very angry girl right now, don't think I won't take out my frustrations on you." Cam, his head beginning to clear, looked at them.
"Fighting is not going to help my father, so knock it off." He said sternly.
"Cam's right." Dustin said. He put a hand on Tori's shoulder. "Save your frustrations for those Thunder Turds."
"Not a problem." Tori muttered.
"Any idea where they might've taken him?" Shane asked Cam. Cam thought for a second. He looked at them.
"Those two, being the 'honorable' ones they are, probably took him to the sacred Ninja resting place."
"And that would be?" Dustin asked.
"The Cavern of Lost Souls."
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Blake and Hunter walked to the cavern. Blake held the cage containing Sensei at his side. Part of him felt like crap for hurting Tori. But, his loyalties laid with his family, his brother, Hunter. And he had to avenge the deaths of his parents.
"Almost there." Hunter said. Suddenly flashes of yellow blue and red streaked by them, striking them with weapons, catching them by surprise. Blake and Hunter stumbled back. They were both greatfull they had morphed into their own ranger suits before hand. The streaks stood before them. There stood Dustin, Shane and Tori.
"You're not going anywhere." Shane said.
"Catching us off guard the only way you can touch us, eh, Shane?" Hunter sneered.
"Stuff it, Thunder Blunder." Dustin said.
"Oh. How witty." Hunter said, rolling his eyes.
"You two take care of Hunter, Blake's mine." Tori said lowly.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Dustin said, stopping her. "Now is not the time to be all 'hell hath no fury'. We have to save Sensei first, then you have full permission to severely harm the boy."
"We'll distract them, you get Sensei." Shane said. Tori tried to protest, but was cut off by Hunter charging at Shane. Shane was ready for him and pulled out his sword. The two engaged in a sword fight.
"Oh great, I get the airhead." Blake commented, staring at Dustin.
"Airhead this, Jackass." Dustin growled. He fired his Ninja Beams, hitting Blake in the chest and knocking him down. Tori looked at her friend.
"What happened to no 'hell hath no fury'?" She asked.
"Screw that. He hurts my friends, I hurt him." Dustin said, reverting to his tried and true protective role for Tori. "Get Sensei back to Opts. I'll try and leave some of Blake for you to finish off." Blake got to his feet.
"That the best ya got?" He taunted. Tori resisted the urge to maul Blake and tried to get to Sensei who Blake had dropped when Dustin blasted him.
"Argh!" Shane grunted. Dustin looked over to see Hunter had blasted him. Shane was weakly trying to get back to his feet.
"Shane!" Dustin tried to blast Hunter, but Blake tackled him, throwing off his aim. Tori spun around to see Blake on top of Dustin. She went to help him.
"Get off him!" She yelled as she kicked Blake in the face. Blake wasn't expecting an attack from her and fell back. Tori stood between Blake and Dustin, guarding her friend. "You all right?" She asked.
"Yeah." Dustin said as he got up.
"Go help Shane." Tori ordered.
"But-"
"Now." Dustin knew Tori meant business, and he knew not doing as she said would result in an angry Tori making him stay out of this fight by force. He sighed.
"Be careful." He said softly as he went to Shane's aid. Tori stalked over to Blake who was starting to get back on his feet.
"Get up." She said coldly. Blake looked at her.
"I don't want to fight you, Tori." He said softly. Tori went to kick him, but he sidestepped out of her range.
"Should've thought of that before you kidnapped Sensei." She grunted. She went to punch him. Blake caught her arm and spun her into him. He held her back against his chest. Tori struggled against his hold.
"Stay out of this." He pleaded softly. "This doesn't involve you and me."
"There is no you and me." Tori grunted as she slammed her shoulder against his chest, causing him to release her. "You basically said it yourself. You regretted what happened, right?" She asked rhetorically. She circled around him, ready to attack. Blake got into a defense stance.
"Of course I didn't." Blake said. "But Hunter's the only family I've got. I can't turn on him."
"So you decide to turn on me instead. How nice." She said sarcasticly. Shane saw Tori and Blake facing off. He left Dustin to handle Hunter and rushed over to her.
"Tori! Get Sensei out of here, now!" Shane ordered. Tori clenched her fist. She wanted to beat Blake senseless, but she knew Sensei was the priority. She saw Sensei in his cage and went to run for it. Blake tried to stop her. Shane charged at him.
"Don't you think you've had enough contact with her today?" Shane grunted as he landed a blow in Blake's stomach. Blake jumped back to his feet.
"I said I didn't want to fight Tori. You, on the other hand, I have no problems beating the stuffing out of." Blake said, his arrogant tone returning.
"Good to know." Shane said as he pulled out his storm blaster. Tori grabbed Sensei's cage.
"Are you all right?" Tori asked, looking in on the guinea pig.
"I am well, Tori." He assured her.
"Let's get you out of here." Tori said. Shane aimed his blaster at Blake and fired.
"Thunder Shield!" Blake called out as his lance turned into a hexagon shape and became a shield. The blast bounced right off of the shield, and went straight for Tori.
"WHOA!" Tori exclaimed as the impact sent her sprawling on her back near the entrance of the cavern.
"Tori!" Shane and Dustin called out to her worriedly. Blake dropped his lance.
"No.." He muttered to himself. He didn't want to hurt her. Tori groaned as she weakly tried to get up with one hand while clutching Sensei's cage in the other arm. She couldn't and fell back.
"Sensei.Are you OK?" She asked. Sensei simply nodded. Hunter saw Tori on the floor and tossed Dustin aside. He slowly walked over to her.
"NO!" Dustin yelled. Tori looked over at Hunter and weakly stood up and ran the only direction she could, into the cavern. Hunter followed.
"Tori get out of there!" Shane yelled. He went to Dustin's side and helped him up. The two headed to the cavern to try and help Tori. Blake ran in before they could even take a step in that direction.
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Tori ran deep into the cavern. Her legs gave out and she fell on the ground. The cage fell out of her grasp.
"Thanks so much for saving me the trouble of bringing him in here." Came Hunter's voice. Tori turned and saw him standing before her. She pulled the cage behind her and tried to back away from Hunter. She only succeeded in allowing her self to be cornered against the wall of the cave. "Now, kindly hand him over so I can destroy him." Hunter said as he got closer to her.
"Over my dead body." Tori grunted.
"All right then." He pulled out his lance. "Have it your way." He aimed the tip at her.
"NO!" Came a voice as a dark blue streak appeared before Hunter. There was Blake, shielding Tori.
"What the hell are you doing?" Hunter demanded.
"I can't let you do this." Blake said. "You're not going to hurt her."
"Blake, don't be an idiot. Get out of the way." Hunter ordered.
"No way, bro." Blake replied. "You want to hurt her, then you'll have to get through me."
"Stop acting all melodramatic!" Hunter yelled.
"If I didn't let Lothor hurt her, what the hell makes you think I'm going to let you?" Blake yelled back defiantly. "So, now you have two choices. Either put down the lance, or become an only child." Shane and Dustin got to the cavern and stopped, seeing what was going on.
"Blake, get out of the way, now." Hunter ordered.
"No." Blake said. There was a silent sort of standoff. Finally, Hunter growled in frustration and plunged the lance into the sandy ground.
"There, happy?" Hunter said lowly. Blake could feel himself let out a sigh of relief. He slowly got up and turned to Tori. Any expression she had was covered by the helmet of her suit. He gently took her arm and helped her to her feet. Tori stumbled a bit against him. He held her up by her waist.
"Are you all right?" He asked softly, holding onto her. Tori nodded. Shane and Dustin went to her, shoving Blake away in the process of making sure Tori was all right.
"Come on, let's go." Shane said. He pulled Tori's arm over his shoulder, allowing her to lean against him. Dustin bent down and picked up Sensei's cage.
"You all right in there, Sensei?" He asked, raising the cage to his eye level.
"Yes." Sensei nodded. "All though I think we've all had enough excitement for one day."
"I heard that." Dustin chuckled softly. Hunter stood, blocking the exit of the cavern.
"The hamster stays." He said.
"A, he's a guinea pig, not a hamster, and B, yeah right." Dustin said.
"Can we please just postpone the second round for goodness sakes?" Shane growled, annoyed.
"You think this is a freaking game?" Hunter said. "I'm not letting that murderer out of here, unless it's in pieces."
"Yeah, same could've been said about you if I hadn't stopped you." Blake said, speaking up for the first time since Shane and Dustin and pushed him away from Tori. Hunter looked at him.
"What, are you a little Wind Loser now?" Hunter said, anger in his tone. He wasn't going to be happy if his brother of all people decided to now turn on him. Blake blinked and looked at his brother, feeling nothing but pity towards him.
"No, but I guess I haven't let hatred and vengeance fill my heart like you have." Blake said, remembering what Tori had said to him when they were talking about his parents.
"Well, that's good and well, Ghandi, but unlike you, I'm not going to dishonor our parents this way." Hunter said, and with that a dark red smoke filled the room. The others coughed.
"Hey!" Dustin exclaimed as he felt Sensei's cage be snatched out of his hand. The smoke cleared slowly, and Hunter and Sensei where gone.
"Dude, I'm really beginning to dislike your brother!" Dustin exclaimed, looking at Blake.
"Come on, we've got to stop him." Shane said. He set Tori down. "Stay here." He and Dustin went deeper into the cave after Hunter.
"Guys, wait." Tori groaned in frustration. "I'm really beginning to feel the gender inequality in this juncture." She muttered to herself. "Girl stays behind while manly men save the day." She jumped slightly as she felt Blake take her arm and pull it over his shoulder and putting the other arm around her waist.
"Let's just hope the other's where in time to stop Hunter." Blake said as he helped Tori go after the others.