Lothor sat in his throne. He looked at Zurgane.

"General Zurgane." He said. "The rangers have had enough time to grieve their lost." He smirked. "Don't you think?" Zurgane laughed.

"Yes sire." Zurgane said. Marah jumped to her feet.

"Oh, uncle, let me and Kapri go down and take care of those pathetic rangers." Marah begged. Lothor seemed to think for a bit.

"Oh, all right. They are nothing right now, so even you two could defeat them." He sighed. Kapri and Marah smiled.

"Thank you uncle!" They said.

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Cam's brows furrowed.

"Uh, guys, looks like Lothor's taking advantage of our supposed weakened state." He said as he saw Marah, Kapri and some Kelzacks on the screen. The two were wreaking havoc in the park. "Better get Blake and Tori." The others looked at him.

"Uh, why don't you get them?" Dustin said. "I don't think we want to walk in on any alone time those two are having." Cam looked at Dustin and rolled his eyes. He went to the door to the other room and knocked on it.

"Guys, sorry to disturb you or whatever, but you're kind of needed for some ranger business." He said. Tori and Blake sighed as they got up. They went to the door and left.

"God, you guys are acting as if we're doing inappropriate things." Tori smirked. The guys shrugged.

"How are we supposed to know you aren't?" Hunter asked. Tori rolled her eyes.

"OK, fight Kelzacks now, discussion of people's personal endeavors later." Cam said.

"All right, let's go." Tori said. Cam stopped her.

"Dad thinks we should make sure you're really up to it first." He said. He looked at the others. "You guys go."

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"What's Lothor doing sending the losers?" Came a voice. Kapri and Marah spun around to see the four ranger boys in full morph. "He run out of competent monsters or something?" Dustin sneered.

"Uh, Kapri, they don't seem grief stricken and depressed to me." Marah said. Kapri shook her head.

"Of course they are. They're just putting up an act to look all tough."

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Tori groaned as Cam passed the scanner over her.

"I'm fine, now can I please go?" Tori sighed. Cam looked at his computer screen and read the scanner's readings. He nodded.

"It's almost as if nothing even happened to you." He remarked. Tori jumped up to her feet.

"All right , I'm out of here." She said as she started to morph into her ranger gear.

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The guys where all fighting Marah, Kapri and the Kelzacks. Marah kicked Blake in the chest, sending him sprawling on his back.

"What's wrong, can't fight now that your little girlfriend's gone?" Marah laughed. Suddenly a blue beam hit her. Marah shrieked and fell back. She looked up to see Tori standing there.

"Who said I went anywhere?" Tori sneered. Marah's jaw hung open.

"What? You're supposed to be dead!" She whined as she got back to her feet.

"Sorry to disappoint, but 'the report of my death was an exaggeration'." Tori smirked. She turned to Blake and helped him to his feet. "You all right?" She asked. Blake nodded. Marah looked at Kapri.

"She's not dead…..Now what?" She fretted. Kapri looked at the rangers who where now all gathered together ready to fight them.

"Now….We run away." Kapri said as she and Marah vanished. The five rangers finished off the Kelzacks with ease.

"Well that was anti-climatic." Tori grinned.

"Maybe Lothor now knows it's not a good idea to make assumptions." Dustin laughed.

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Lothor growled.

"How on earth can that despicable ranger still be alive!" He yelled. Zurgane, Chooboo, Kapri and Marah all winced and stepped back from him.

"Sir, I think now we have more problems." Zurgane pointed out.

"What?" Lothor demanded.

"Well, obviously, the Thunder Rangers and The Wind Rangers have joined forces." Zurgane said. Lothor growled angrily and zapped at Zurgane. He stumbled back a bit.

"Tell me something I don't know you intergalactic moron!" Lothor bellowed.

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"So, have you seen Tori?" Blake asked. It was the morning after the whole life/death incident and he, Hunter, Shane and Dustin were all sitting with Cam in Ninja Opts.

"Well, she had to go talk to her folks last night." Dustin said. "And since then, nah. She probably got an earful for 'going to the surfing expo without telling her folks'."

"An earful and a half is more like it." Tori said as she walked over to the guys. "They went into this speech of like having to know where I am at all times and everything."

"Is everything OK?" Blake asked.

"Oh yeah. Of course, they didn't believe the whole Expo thing and thought I spent nights with some guy or something."

"Well, you did.." Dustin said. Tori gave him a look.

"Not in that sense you doof." She said. Hunter and Shane couldn't help chuckle at that. Tori ignored them. "Anyway, so my mom basically interrogated me asking if I was 'still her sweet innocent Tori'. It was quite horrifying."

"What does sweet and innocence have to do with…." Dustin began, then stopped as realization dawned on him. "Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh." He smirked.

"Little slow, aren't ya?" Hunter laughed.

"So, what happened next in your torment?" Shane snickered.

"Shut up." Tori replied. She decided to change the subject. "So, now what's going on?" She asked looking at everyone.

"We were just discussing Blake and Hunter joining up with us." Cam said.

"We already voted." Shane said. "Didn't wait for you, cause, well, we figured you'd be biased." Shane smirked.

"Ha ha, very funny." Tori replied dryly. The others all laughed.

"We want to help take down Lothor." Blake said, taking the focus off of the taunting of Tori. Tori looked at him.

"Because of what he did to your parents?" She asked.

"Oh no." Hunter said. "Because he's an evil space ninja who's trying to take over the world."

"And our sensei gave us the ability to fight for a reason. We'd rather honor our parents by doing good, then try to just avenge their deaths." Blake added. Tori smiled.

"Great." She said.

"See, told you, biased." Shane chuckled. Tori gave him a dirty look.

"Don't make me hurt you." Tori threatened with mock sweetness. She looked at Cam. "So, any Lothor activity going on?" She asked.

"I think he's sulking at the fact that he's not going to win as easily as he thought he would." Cam smirked. Everyone laughed.

"Good, I think we could do with a break." Tori said. Dustin, Shane, Hunter and Blake agreed. Tori looked at Blake and slid her hand in his. Blake was pleasantly surprised by the sudden feel of her hand in his. He smiled softly at her. The others didn't seem to notice. Tori leaned close to Blake and rested her head on his shoulder.

"So, now what?" He whispered. Tori grinned.

"Now? I think we should finish what we started on the island." She said. Blake quickly stood up.

"Uh, we're going to go get some air. Be back later." Blake said to the others. They all smirked, knowing what "getting some air" meant. Blake and Tori went to leave Ninja Opts. Tori stopped.

"Oh, almost forgot." She said as she let go of Blake's hand. She went back over to Hunter, Shane, Cam and Dustin. She walked down the line of them, giving them each a swift smack on the head.

"Ow." Shane and Hunter said.

"What was that for?" Cam said rubbing his head.

"For being sick voyeuristic perverts." She said as she turned and went back to Blake. "Bye." The two left.

"Man, you'd think she would've forgotten about that." Shane grumbled as he rubbed his head.

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AN: LOL, like? Anyway, the whole 'the report of my death was exhagerated' is a quote by Mark Twain. J