"Hey Aeri, do you remember those guys at the beach? You know the one you
almost brained with a volleyball."
Distinctly remembering that particular person in the crimson shirt, the memory still annoyed her whenever it floated up from the depths of her mind.
"Yeah, so? What about him?" Rather irately, annoyed that her sister just brought up that particular subject.
Ignoring the acidity in her sister's voice and attitude, "Umm ok, but didn't you notice that the color of that guy's shirt was the exact same shade as that Crimson Thunder Ranger's?"
"Hmm, I think you're right, same thing goes for that shortish guy next to him in that navy flannel . . . actually, now that I think about it, all those people there with that jerk had the same colors, right?"
Clare didn't have a chance to respond, as they sprang up from the low table slipping into their fighting stances, as they heard footsteps in the stone corridor.
The three rangers Tori, Dustin, Shane, walk in to Ninja ops still talking about the unknown rangers who had fought against that electrical alien sent by none other than Lothor.
Hearing unfamiliar voices, Shane stops abruptly and holding his fist up, signaling the other rangers to be quiet.
Walking quietly, Shane came close to the entrance of Ninja Ops and immediately the voices stopped. Stepping boldly from the shadows Shane could see two Asian girls in fighting stances.
The taller of the two girls demanded, " Who are you?"
Shane taken aback, retorts, "Who are you?"
"Intruders, that's who they are!" Dustin exclaimed.
"Actually, it looks like you are the intruders." Arika snapped.
The room seemed to crackle with the tension, and Clare's eyes began to glow. Glancing sideways, Arika warns her sister, "Clare, calm down,"
At that moment, Cam walking holds his hands up in the air, "Whoa, ok, everyone just chill, - especially you Clare."
"What do you mean?"
"Your eyes are glowing."
"Oh, sorry." The younger girl took a deep breathe while closing her eyes, when she opened them her eyes were dark and clear.
Noticing, the three older Rangers drew slightly back in shock.
Flipping into the room, Sensei exclaims in his very calm and cool manner, "Ahh, so I see you've met."
"Hey guys, meet Arika and Clare, my cousins," pointing to the two girls.
"What! Fo'real?!" Shane looking incredulous with eyes nearly popping out of his head
"Hey, welcome to Ninja Ops!" Tori walks over and extending a hand, greets the sisters.
Shane looking embarrassed, apologizes, "Sorry, didn't know."
Arika shrugs and replies, "No prob" shaking the three Ninja Storm Rangers' hands.
Just then, the rangers heard other voices at the entrance. Sensei, looking back, stated, "Ahh, here's the rest."
"Rika, Clare, meet Hunter and Blake." Arika and Clare turned around to greet the Thunder brothers and stopped in shock.
"YOU!" All four exclaimed, pointing at each other.
"I see you've already met," Cam wryly stated the obvious.
"You could say that." Trying to hide his shock, Hunter replied tersely.
Arika scowled, "Apparently."
Blake by now had gathered enough of his wits to blurt out, "By the way, I forgot your name."
Clare blinked, broke into a smile, and stepped forward to shake Blake's hand, "Its Clare."
Meanwhile Hunter recovered from his unpleasant surprise, gruffly thrust out a hand, "Hunter."
Ignoring Hunter's hand, Arika replied, "A pleasure."
Slightly annoyed, Hunter merely rejoined with one word, "Likewise."
"Um Uncle, are they Rangers too," Clare turning slightly but still keeping her eyes on Blake.
"Yes, actually, they are the ones that you saved from Voltra. Hunter is the Crimson Thunder Ranger and Blake is the Navy Thunder Ranger."
"WHAT?!" Both sisters yelped.
Shane and Tori jump in surprise while Cam winces and Dustin rubs his ears
"Ow! Can you guys tone it down a little?"
Incredulous, Blake points at the two,
"Um, are they the Rangers who - you know -
Cam couldn't help himself and laughed at his friends' shocked faces,
"Actually yes, they are the Lightning Rangers. Arika has the power of Lightning and Clare has the power of -
"- Electricity." Breathes Blake, staring at Clare. "You saved our lives at the quarry."
"Yes, as I was saying, the Lightning Rangers are known for their Speed, Agility, interesting choice of Weapons, and most of all their Powers. As you've already seen I'm sure."
Hunter silent until now mumbled out, "You're the girl at the beach with the volleyball."
Arika looking wryly at Hunter simply nodded and turned back towards the others.
Shane and Tori looked at each other, noticing the frigid mood, Shane whistled, "Whoo, I think sparks are going to fly."
"While they are here, Arika and Clare will be a part of Ninja Ops." Sensei informed the other Rangers.
"That's cool with us. Welcome to the team", Shane said speaking for all of the other rangers.
Arika and Clare smile at the Rangers.
"It would an Honor, Uncle." Arika replied speaking for both of them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Beep beep beep" The computer screen showed Voltra back, this time wreaking havoc at the park.
"Rangers, go", Sensei replied.
"Let's do it! Ninja Storm! Thunder Storm! Samurai Storm! Lightning Storm! Ranger Form! Haah!"
Arika and Clare vanished in a blaze, followed by the Thunder Rangers who disappeared in a flash of crimson and navy.
Arriving at the park, the Rangers found Voltra surrounded by KelzaKs.
Shane outstretched a arm and pointed at Voltra, "Hey freak, we're gonna shut you down!"
"Haha, you shut me down? Didn't you learn from your first lesson?" Voltra cackled.
Hunter and Blake exchanged glances, both inwardly wincing at the memory of how much pain 5000 Volts of electricity could inflict.
Shane and the other Wind Rangers attack Voltra, followed closely by the Thunder Rangers. Voltra retaliates with a bolt of electricity, which shocks the other rangers, throwing them 25 feet away.
Painfully the Ninja Storm Rangers struggled to their feet, while Hunter and Blake, still weak from their earlier fight with Voltra, managed to pull themselves up on one knee.
"Are you guys ok?" Arika and Clare ran over to the other Rangers and helped them up.
"You guys better leave this one to us." Arika turned and faced Voltra, visor blazing with light.
Slowly drawing her tsai from her back and split the weapon, setting the two in front of her. Sliding the tsais across one another, a blaze of light beginning from her forehead travels down the length of her arms and lights up the tsais, lengthening them.
Shane and the other Rangers watched in awe as Arika powered up her tsais now the length of a dirk.
"We'll deal with the KelzaKs, you take care of Voltra."
"Hunter, Blake, you guys sit tight. You guys are still weak from your fight with Voltra."
Blake starts in protest, but is stopped by Hunter's hand on his arm. "No, he's right. We're still too weak to help. We'd just get in the way."
Arika glancing at Hunter, motions to Clare, "Make sure Voltra doesn't try anything, we know she can throw her energy."
Clare nodded, "You got it."
Arika flipped into the air, bringing her tsais in a slash across Voltra's chest, jumping over Voltra's low blow Arika retaliated with a jumping back hook-kick to Voltra's head, then slashed her tsais across Voltra's midriff. Followed up with a sweeping moon kick to Voltra's head, but the monster ducked under and seeing Arika's momentarily unprotected stomach, seized the chance and struck out. Catching the full impact, Arika grunted and flipped, landing hard on her back. Slightly dazed, Arika managed to roll out of the way, just in time before Voltra's staff landed where her head had been.
Hunter didn't know it, but Clare noticed that his hands were clenched into fists as he watched Arika battle Voltra. Smiling to herself despite the grim situation, /Hmm, is it just me or is there something going on with him and Aeri?/
Glancing at Blake she sees Blake watching his brother with his head slightly cocked to one side before turning back to the watching the fight.
Clare shrugged off the shiver that traversed up her spine whenever she looked at the Navy Thunder Ranger she turned back to the battle.
The battle itself was so rapid with both Lightning Ranger and Electricity monster disappearing and reappearing in alternate places in flashes that is was hard for the other Rangers to keep track of which blur was which. With the exception of the younger Lightning Ranger and the two Thunder Rangers, the three Ninja Storm Rangers were at a loss of who was winning or losing.
Rolling away, Arika flipped to her feet and threw her arm over her head, ducking slightly as Voltra's energy attack engulfed her.
Hunter began to take a step forward, but the younger Lightning Ranger was already in front of him silently holding her hand to his chest. Blake saw however, that her other hand was clenched in a fist.
The bright flash faded and Arika was left standing as slowly she raised her hands and stared at them. Her gloved hands curled into tight fists and threw them to her sides in rage as she snapped her head up.
Then slowly unclenching them she drew them in front of her chest, curled into half-fists one over the other as if holding a ball of air, instead a glowing bright light appeared from between the hands.
Slowly at first but gaining speed she rolls them in the air still keeping the ball-shape, developing the ball of light more and more until it was almost impossible to see without blinding oneself, stopped and thrusts her hands out and away from her body.
Leaving a streak through the air, it sped towards Voltra who screamed her death cry, "No! Impossible! I-"
Cutting off the screams the ball of light impacted the monster in the chest and spontaneously combusted into a giant fireball.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Arika fell to her knees. Clare ran to her sister, followed closely by the Thunder Rangers.
"Aeri, are you ok?" Clare kneeled and peered worriedly at her sister.
By now, the Ninja Rangers had defeated the KelzaKs and they too, ran over.
"I'm fii-ine. Just so tired," Arika managed to whisper, she then collapsed backwards as Hunter caught her.
"What's wrong with her? Is this normal Clare?" Asked Blake putting a hand on her shoulder.
Clare looking a bit scared shook her head. "No - no way. This has never happened before. I don't know what's wrong."
"Let's get back to Ninja Ops." Shane replied lifting his morpher/communicator to his head. "Sensei, Arika out of commission. We need to teleport her."
Jade: Dun Dun Dun.What happened to Arika?
Senga: You're a dork.
Rika: What happened to me? Hey, guys!?
Hunter: *Rolling his eyes* Gee I wonder.
Blake: Man, no comment you two.
Neways, if you want to find out what happens.REEEEVIEW!!! Please?!?!? *Clare gives famous puppy eyes*
*Rika lightly slaps her sister across the back of the head. Clare chases after her sister.*
Distinctly remembering that particular person in the crimson shirt, the memory still annoyed her whenever it floated up from the depths of her mind.
"Yeah, so? What about him?" Rather irately, annoyed that her sister just brought up that particular subject.
Ignoring the acidity in her sister's voice and attitude, "Umm ok, but didn't you notice that the color of that guy's shirt was the exact same shade as that Crimson Thunder Ranger's?"
"Hmm, I think you're right, same thing goes for that shortish guy next to him in that navy flannel . . . actually, now that I think about it, all those people there with that jerk had the same colors, right?"
Clare didn't have a chance to respond, as they sprang up from the low table slipping into their fighting stances, as they heard footsteps in the stone corridor.
The three rangers Tori, Dustin, Shane, walk in to Ninja ops still talking about the unknown rangers who had fought against that electrical alien sent by none other than Lothor.
Hearing unfamiliar voices, Shane stops abruptly and holding his fist up, signaling the other rangers to be quiet.
Walking quietly, Shane came close to the entrance of Ninja Ops and immediately the voices stopped. Stepping boldly from the shadows Shane could see two Asian girls in fighting stances.
The taller of the two girls demanded, " Who are you?"
Shane taken aback, retorts, "Who are you?"
"Intruders, that's who they are!" Dustin exclaimed.
"Actually, it looks like you are the intruders." Arika snapped.
The room seemed to crackle with the tension, and Clare's eyes began to glow. Glancing sideways, Arika warns her sister, "Clare, calm down,"
At that moment, Cam walking holds his hands up in the air, "Whoa, ok, everyone just chill, - especially you Clare."
"What do you mean?"
"Your eyes are glowing."
"Oh, sorry." The younger girl took a deep breathe while closing her eyes, when she opened them her eyes were dark and clear.
Noticing, the three older Rangers drew slightly back in shock.
Flipping into the room, Sensei exclaims in his very calm and cool manner, "Ahh, so I see you've met."
"Hey guys, meet Arika and Clare, my cousins," pointing to the two girls.
"What! Fo'real?!" Shane looking incredulous with eyes nearly popping out of his head
"Hey, welcome to Ninja Ops!" Tori walks over and extending a hand, greets the sisters.
Shane looking embarrassed, apologizes, "Sorry, didn't know."
Arika shrugs and replies, "No prob" shaking the three Ninja Storm Rangers' hands.
Just then, the rangers heard other voices at the entrance. Sensei, looking back, stated, "Ahh, here's the rest."
"Rika, Clare, meet Hunter and Blake." Arika and Clare turned around to greet the Thunder brothers and stopped in shock.
"YOU!" All four exclaimed, pointing at each other.
"I see you've already met," Cam wryly stated the obvious.
"You could say that." Trying to hide his shock, Hunter replied tersely.
Arika scowled, "Apparently."
Blake by now had gathered enough of his wits to blurt out, "By the way, I forgot your name."
Clare blinked, broke into a smile, and stepped forward to shake Blake's hand, "Its Clare."
Meanwhile Hunter recovered from his unpleasant surprise, gruffly thrust out a hand, "Hunter."
Ignoring Hunter's hand, Arika replied, "A pleasure."
Slightly annoyed, Hunter merely rejoined with one word, "Likewise."
"Um Uncle, are they Rangers too," Clare turning slightly but still keeping her eyes on Blake.
"Yes, actually, they are the ones that you saved from Voltra. Hunter is the Crimson Thunder Ranger and Blake is the Navy Thunder Ranger."
"WHAT?!" Both sisters yelped.
Shane and Tori jump in surprise while Cam winces and Dustin rubs his ears
"Ow! Can you guys tone it down a little?"
Incredulous, Blake points at the two,
"Um, are they the Rangers who - you know -
Cam couldn't help himself and laughed at his friends' shocked faces,
"Actually yes, they are the Lightning Rangers. Arika has the power of Lightning and Clare has the power of -
"- Electricity." Breathes Blake, staring at Clare. "You saved our lives at the quarry."
"Yes, as I was saying, the Lightning Rangers are known for their Speed, Agility, interesting choice of Weapons, and most of all their Powers. As you've already seen I'm sure."
Hunter silent until now mumbled out, "You're the girl at the beach with the volleyball."
Arika looking wryly at Hunter simply nodded and turned back towards the others.
Shane and Tori looked at each other, noticing the frigid mood, Shane whistled, "Whoo, I think sparks are going to fly."
"While they are here, Arika and Clare will be a part of Ninja Ops." Sensei informed the other Rangers.
"That's cool with us. Welcome to the team", Shane said speaking for all of the other rangers.
Arika and Clare smile at the Rangers.
"It would an Honor, Uncle." Arika replied speaking for both of them.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Beep beep beep" The computer screen showed Voltra back, this time wreaking havoc at the park.
"Rangers, go", Sensei replied.
"Let's do it! Ninja Storm! Thunder Storm! Samurai Storm! Lightning Storm! Ranger Form! Haah!"
Arika and Clare vanished in a blaze, followed by the Thunder Rangers who disappeared in a flash of crimson and navy.
Arriving at the park, the Rangers found Voltra surrounded by KelzaKs.
Shane outstretched a arm and pointed at Voltra, "Hey freak, we're gonna shut you down!"
"Haha, you shut me down? Didn't you learn from your first lesson?" Voltra cackled.
Hunter and Blake exchanged glances, both inwardly wincing at the memory of how much pain 5000 Volts of electricity could inflict.
Shane and the other Wind Rangers attack Voltra, followed closely by the Thunder Rangers. Voltra retaliates with a bolt of electricity, which shocks the other rangers, throwing them 25 feet away.
Painfully the Ninja Storm Rangers struggled to their feet, while Hunter and Blake, still weak from their earlier fight with Voltra, managed to pull themselves up on one knee.
"Are you guys ok?" Arika and Clare ran over to the other Rangers and helped them up.
"You guys better leave this one to us." Arika turned and faced Voltra, visor blazing with light.
Slowly drawing her tsai from her back and split the weapon, setting the two in front of her. Sliding the tsais across one another, a blaze of light beginning from her forehead travels down the length of her arms and lights up the tsais, lengthening them.
Shane and the other Rangers watched in awe as Arika powered up her tsais now the length of a dirk.
"We'll deal with the KelzaKs, you take care of Voltra."
"Hunter, Blake, you guys sit tight. You guys are still weak from your fight with Voltra."
Blake starts in protest, but is stopped by Hunter's hand on his arm. "No, he's right. We're still too weak to help. We'd just get in the way."
Arika glancing at Hunter, motions to Clare, "Make sure Voltra doesn't try anything, we know she can throw her energy."
Clare nodded, "You got it."
Arika flipped into the air, bringing her tsais in a slash across Voltra's chest, jumping over Voltra's low blow Arika retaliated with a jumping back hook-kick to Voltra's head, then slashed her tsais across Voltra's midriff. Followed up with a sweeping moon kick to Voltra's head, but the monster ducked under and seeing Arika's momentarily unprotected stomach, seized the chance and struck out. Catching the full impact, Arika grunted and flipped, landing hard on her back. Slightly dazed, Arika managed to roll out of the way, just in time before Voltra's staff landed where her head had been.
Hunter didn't know it, but Clare noticed that his hands were clenched into fists as he watched Arika battle Voltra. Smiling to herself despite the grim situation, /Hmm, is it just me or is there something going on with him and Aeri?/
Glancing at Blake she sees Blake watching his brother with his head slightly cocked to one side before turning back to the watching the fight.
Clare shrugged off the shiver that traversed up her spine whenever she looked at the Navy Thunder Ranger she turned back to the battle.
The battle itself was so rapid with both Lightning Ranger and Electricity monster disappearing and reappearing in alternate places in flashes that is was hard for the other Rangers to keep track of which blur was which. With the exception of the younger Lightning Ranger and the two Thunder Rangers, the three Ninja Storm Rangers were at a loss of who was winning or losing.
Rolling away, Arika flipped to her feet and threw her arm over her head, ducking slightly as Voltra's energy attack engulfed her.
Hunter began to take a step forward, but the younger Lightning Ranger was already in front of him silently holding her hand to his chest. Blake saw however, that her other hand was clenched in a fist.
The bright flash faded and Arika was left standing as slowly she raised her hands and stared at them. Her gloved hands curled into tight fists and threw them to her sides in rage as she snapped her head up.
Then slowly unclenching them she drew them in front of her chest, curled into half-fists one over the other as if holding a ball of air, instead a glowing bright light appeared from between the hands.
Slowly at first but gaining speed she rolls them in the air still keeping the ball-shape, developing the ball of light more and more until it was almost impossible to see without blinding oneself, stopped and thrusts her hands out and away from her body.
Leaving a streak through the air, it sped towards Voltra who screamed her death cry, "No! Impossible! I-"
Cutting off the screams the ball of light impacted the monster in the chest and spontaneously combusted into a giant fireball.
~~~~~~~~~~~
Arika fell to her knees. Clare ran to her sister, followed closely by the Thunder Rangers.
"Aeri, are you ok?" Clare kneeled and peered worriedly at her sister.
By now, the Ninja Rangers had defeated the KelzaKs and they too, ran over.
"I'm fii-ine. Just so tired," Arika managed to whisper, she then collapsed backwards as Hunter caught her.
"What's wrong with her? Is this normal Clare?" Asked Blake putting a hand on her shoulder.
Clare looking a bit scared shook her head. "No - no way. This has never happened before. I don't know what's wrong."
"Let's get back to Ninja Ops." Shane replied lifting his morpher/communicator to his head. "Sensei, Arika out of commission. We need to teleport her."
Jade: Dun Dun Dun.What happened to Arika?
Senga: You're a dork.
Rika: What happened to me? Hey, guys!?
Hunter: *Rolling his eyes* Gee I wonder.
Blake: Man, no comment you two.
Neways, if you want to find out what happens.REEEEVIEW!!! Please?!?!? *Clare gives famous puppy eyes*
*Rika lightly slaps her sister across the back of the head. Clare chases after her sister.*