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Clare, Rika, and Lightning Rangers et. Al Copyright © 2003
To our reviewers: sorry for the long update, fanfics been weird and stuff. For some reason, it won't let us see the other 5 reviews. Oh well, so here's answers to your reviews.
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son gomay vidal goku : I know that there seems to be stuff btwn Tori/Blake, but we've decided its gonna be Tori/Shane. They're always seen together (of course, it could just be they are friends). As for Dustin, we've got his pairing a bit later. You have an interesting idea, though.
To everyone else: Thanks for reviewing and your comments are always appreciated!
Enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shane, Tori, and Dustin were sitting at the low table while Cam was at his usual position at the computer while Clare was by her unconscious sister's bedside.
The three teens were talking in low tones so as not to disturb Clare.
Dustin glanced at the closed door to the med-room, "Man, it must really suck for this to happen to someone really close to you."
"Yeah, poor Clare. She and her sister seem to be really close. Imagine something like that happened to one of us?"
Shane looked up from the polished table, "Don't you remember the same thing almost did happen to us? Well, not exactly one of us three but Blake? Hunter went out of control and almost killed him."
"Oh, yeah . . . how could I forget . . ."
"Speaking of Blake, where is he? And Hunter? Have you two seen them anywhere?"
Shane and Tori both abruptly straightened and shook their heads, "Oh! Nope. We have no idea. Haven't seen them."
"Strange, neither have I." Shane stood up with his brows furrowed.
"Hey Cam, have you seen, Hunter or Blake," Dustin asked rising from the cushions on the floor.
Cam stopped whatever he was doing on the computer and slightly lowered his head, still keeping his back turned to his friends.
Tori got up from the table and put her hand on his shoulder, "Hey, Cam, you all right?"
Sighing, Cam slowly spun his chair around, "Hunter is out and it's most likely that Blake is with him too."
"Well, do you know where they are?" Cocking his head, she stared at Cam, never seeing him so dejected before.
"They're-"
"They're out to help my sister to regain consciousness."
Everyone jumped as Clare stepped out of the room, silent as a shadow, and her face just as dark, her eyes were red with unshed tears.
"They're out to -," Clare choked, burying her emotions she blinked back her tears and continued, but her voice was strangled. "Hunter went out to gather raw lightning and revive my sister - to charge her powers and her life-force."
Shane glanced at Cam who had his eyes closed, then turned back to Clare, "Can they handle it? What will happen to them?"
Clare closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "Hunter is the one who will gather the lightning, and Blake is with him."
Tori shifted uncomfortably, "But what will happen to them? Can they do it?"
"Yes, Hunter can but the risk is great, if he fails, then both he and my sister will die, and Blake will lose the only family he has left."
"What do you mean if Hunter 'fails'?" Dustin demanded, "and what about Blake?"
"If Hunter cannot withstand the pain and keep it under as much control as he can, then the lightning will overwhelm him, as for Blake, I do not know."
*Bleep-Bleep*
The computer's alarm went off, causing everyone to jump, Cam's eyes snapped open as he spun back to the computer and widened the screen.
The other three Rangers glanced at the young girl, who stonily walked pass them to Cam's shoulder, her face showing no sign of the distress that was contorting it only a few moments before.
"What is it Cam?"
"Looks to be a monster sent by Lothor, as usual."
Nodding, Shane and the other two Ninja Storm Rangers turn to Streak out of Ninja Ops.
"Wait." Rang a cool, clear voice.
Skidding to a stop, the three spin, staring at Clare, with surprised eyes wide open.
Dustin stepped back towards the computer a bit, "Um, what do you mean 'wait'? We gotta monster to destroy."
Clare, with her back turned to the three older teens, did not turn but still stared at the screen, "Look this particular monster, see anything strange?"
Running back to the screen, Dustin and Shane's jaws dropped while Tori merely stared.
"What?! That looks exactly like that last monster that really beat up Hunter and Blake!"
Still staring at the screen, Tori exclaimed, "No way! Rika destroyed it though! And Lothor only has the power to resurrect the monster once! Plus it can only be big!"
"Rangers, take a closer look," interjected Sensei who silently had flipped unto the desk.
Dustin excitedly pointed at the screen, almost jarring Cam's glasses from his head before Cam jerked to the side, "Hey guys, look! Remember the last one had a tinge of blue but this new one is completely pure white!"
Clare turned around to face the others, "Yeah, that means it's Lightning."
"Lightning?!? But, isn't lightning stronger than electricity?"
"Exactly."
Shane, Tori, and Dustin just looked at each other; they knew what this meant: Dustin tried to put it nicely, "We're gonna get an ass-whooping."
Sensei shot Dustin a reproachful look, which immediately cowed Dustin, but he could not deny the truthfulness of Dustin's less-than-nice remark. "Rangers, you will be risking a great deal in battling this monster."
Shane looked back at the monster on the screen. He thought of how Lothor's goons had already nearly taken the lives of one his teammates. He agonized over the fact that he had to make a decision to put more of his teammates at risk.
But he knew the risks, they all did. This is what they had sworn: to protect mankind with everything they were.
Sighing deeply, Shane looked questioningly at Clare, who gave an almost imperceptible nod. "Alright, we'll take care of the KelzaKs, Clare you know what to do."
Clare nodded and Shane cried, "Common guys."
5 bright flashes of light illuminated the debriefing room of Ninja Ops as the five teens morphed into Ranger forms.
"Ninja Storm! Samurai Storm! Lightning Storm! Ranger Form! Haah!"
Clare vanished in a streak of pale blue, while Cam and the Wind Rangers flashed away.
Upon landing, the Wind Rangers saw that Clare had already arrived and was exchanging jibes with the monster while waiting for her new teammates to arrive. They could hear the monster taunting Clare, "So you are the one who killed my sister. Let me introduce myself, I am Bahraka, Controller of the power of Lightning."
Clare was actually just casually leaning on one leg with her arms crossed and her head bent to the side,
"To tell you the truth, no, I'm not the one."
"Ah, yes, you're too short to do that, aren't you?" Cackled you the lightning being.
/Why does every bad guy I come across always go for my height? Am I really that short? I'm like 5'2", at least that was the last time I checked/
Slightly lowering her crossed arms she surreptitiously slid her twin tsais from their sheaths.
"Hmph, not quite. Why don't you try fighting me instead of cackling at me, you old spark."
"What?! I'll teach you not to disrespect your elders! Besides, I know what happened to your dear older sister."
Clare's grip tightened on her tsais and forced herself to listen.
"You know nothing." Acid flowed in the words, the vehemence so strong; the other Rangers were very much taken aback.
The monster momentarily had second thoughts,
/Hmm, this little twit of a Ranger does care deeply for her sister./
She felt a shudder flow through her body as she stared at the small Ranger, with her cocky stance and cool manner.
The monster shrugged off the ominous feeling.
"Oh, but I do. You see although there was never any love lost between my sister and I, I am still obligated to avenge her; I am Honor-bound, just as you are. Fortunately for you, she is still alive but just barely so. I shall tell you a secret; your beloved sister will die and so will that Crimson Thunder Ranger as well. You and I both know it. Hahahah!"
Throwing her head back the monster laughed while the Lightning Ranger gripped her tsais so forcefully that her knuckles audibly cracked, a crackling glow enveloped the young Ranger.
"NO!!! I'LL KILL YOU BEFORE YOU COME NEAR MY SISTER OR HUNTER!"
Still laughing, the monster waggled her finger at the enraged Lightning Ranger as if reprimanding a small child.
"Naughty, naughty! You shouldn't make threats that you can't fulfill. Besides, I'm not the one who'll destroy your precious sister or that Ranger."
"What do you mean," asked the Ranger, almost losing the slight grip she had just regained on herself, in a low quiet voice.
"Let me give you a hint - KelzaKs!"
All around the Lighting Ranger appeared KelzaKs with bright flashes of light. The other Rangers struggled and slashed to get to the young Ranger but the mass was too thick.
"ELECTRIC SHOCKWAVE!"
Suddenly the KelzaKs surrounding the Lightning Ranger either learned to fly or collapsed as a blinding flash of light traversed through the mass in an ever-widening circumference. Leaving the young Lightning Ranger standing alone in the center of a field of KelzaK bodies, unfortunately the blast knocked the other Rangers off their feet.
Shane sprang back to his feet and struggled to pull Tori and Dustin from the ground, all three staring in awe of the girl within the center, calmly waiting.
With her tsais revealed, electric currents skittered up and down her body and the blades of the tsais. The Lightning Tsais were brought together so that the blades of the weapons were touching and slowly slid them apart to the tip of each razor sharp point. As she slid them apart the blades grew to the length of dirks with blue electricity crawling up and down the edges as if living beings.
"Ohh, I'm sooo scared!! What are you going to do with those? Poke me to death? HAH!" The monster was impressed but hid it as she surreptitiously gathered energy from her body and cradled it in her hand, hidden behind her back.
The girl only said three words, "Shuttup and fight."
With that the Lightning Ranger slipped into her specialized fighting stance, facing half sideways in a back-stance with one tsai upraised above her head pointed directly forward at the monster and the other pointed at a diagonal angle and up.
Glancing at each other the other Rangers shifted into their own fighting stances.
"Hah! Let's see you handle this!"
The monster threw her bolt of lightning at the Rangers, the Wind Rangers ducked but the Lightning Ranger shifted to a standing position and crossed her tsais in the center of the blades, then slashed them apart in an arc, the electric currents shot out in strands that widened and connected with one other, interweaving to form a shield covering the Rangers.
"WHOA! I did NOT know that she could do THAT!" Cam yelped as he and the other Rangers whipped their arms from above their hands and slipped back into their fighting stances.
"Umm, is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Dustin quipped.
"Hmm, nice trick. Is there anything else you can do?" The monster threw another blast but instead of a single shot, it was continuous.
"Hahaha! You feel the pain don't you? Hahaha!"
Visibly the Lightning Ranger was straining under the continuous onslaught; slowly she sagged to one knee. /I can't hold this much longer... I've got - to get out of here./
Tightening her grips on her tsais, she broke the shield and threw herself to the side. But the blast from Bahraka shot through the shattered shield and hit the spot just where the Lightning Ranger had been, throwing her much farther away to the side, right into the other Rangers.
"Ow." Grunting the Lightning Ranger rolled off her friends as they struggled back to their feet.
"Hey Clare, you all right?" Cam exclaimed while pulling the girl up to her feet.
Without leaving her sights from the monster her only reply was a sarcastic, "Do I look it?"
"Spoken."
Taunting, the monster approached the Rangers, "So, did you like that little trick mine? Painful, is it not?"
"Hah. Nothing like we haven't faced before," retorted Tori as the other Rangers slipped back into their fighting stances.
"Guys, I need you to stay out of this. I'm sorry. But this is my fight."
The Red Wind Ranger touched the Lightning Ranger's arm, "You need teamwork on this. That's why we're a team."
The Lightning Ranger silently took a few steps closer towards the monster, while the Green Samurai Ranger placed his own on Shane's shoulder. "Sorry, Shane. But she's right this time. This is her fight alone."
Shane silently watched as one of his newest teammates and Bahraka converged, he sighed in resignation, "All right."
With a cry, the Lightning Ranger charged the monster, her hands holding a ball of energy by her side as well as the monster. The two clashed in a blinding blaze of light so bright it forced the other Rangers to cover their visors. The light faded leaving the two fifteen feet apart, both standing still. Suddenly, the Lightning Ranger jerked as small explosions bursts from her body as she screamed; greatly weakened she fell to her knees. The alien turned and laughed as she walked to the fallen Ranger, bending down she grabbed the Ranger's neck and lifted her into the air, her booted feet feebly kicking three feet above the ground.
"You little fool. You thought that you could defeat me. Hah! I control the power of Lightning, while you can only manipulate the leftovers, electricity, what a joke! Oh, and let me show one more thing . . ."
"Like I have a choice?" The Lightning Ranger managed to gurgle out in spite of the choke-hold.
"Hmph, you're a funny one aren't you? Well not for long, I not only control Lightning but the skies as well. Watch." While hanging the Ranger in the air, the alien lifted her face to the bright, clear sky and called out,
"LIGHTNING SKIES!!!"
Roiling black clouds rolled in pierced by streaks of lightning, which soon covered the entire sky, darkening it.
"Dude! Wha's going on?! Did that freak do this?!" Dustin cried out as he and the other Rangers stared at the darkened sky.
"Now, let's have a little bit of rain, shall we?" The monster turned back the half-strangled Ranger.
A torrential downpour of rain soon drenched everything in sight.
/Oh, shit. Now how am I goin'ta use my powers now?!/
As if reading the Ranger's mind the monster cackled, "Now how are you going to use your puny little powers now?"
"Like - this!" With that the Lightning Ranger gathered all the electricity she could generate form her surroundings as well as from her body, which convulsed from the shocks.
"What do you think you are doing, little fool? You're killing yourself!"
The Lightning Ranger could only scream as more and more currents of electricity traveled up and down her body, suddenly the alien was holding a huge bolt of electricity, which shot out of her grasp.
"WHAT THE - " The alien was left standing, staring stupidly at her empty hand, while the other Rangers watched in total shock, all thinking the same thought,
/Where'd she go?/
As the monster stared wildly around she felt a slight tapping on her shoulder, spinning around the Lightning Ranger was directly behind her, her tsais ready to strike.
"LIGHTNING TSAIS, FULL POWER!!!"
The Navy Lightning Ranger slashed her tsais in a huge 'X' across the alien's body leaving a light blue streak in the air. The Ranger turned her back on the monster, sheathed her tsais and collapsed.
Screaming her death cry she groped for the fallen Ranger, "EVEN IF I DIE, I'LL TAKE YOU WITH ME!!!"
"Oh no you won't!"
Dustin, seeing the danger, threw himself down and burrowed into the ground, a second later he suddenly appeared beside the Lightning Ranger, picked her up and jumped back down into the ground, just managing to slip out of the monster's grasp.
Appearing back above ground he gently set the Ranger on her feet supporting her, he turned just in time to see the monster disappear in a huge fireball.
Turning to his friends he dusted himself off, "Well, looks like that takes care of things."
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"Damn! That alien was this close to taking care of that little twerp of a Lightning Ranger!" Exclaimed Lothor, watching the battle on the screen, he whipped around to face Zurgane, "General Zurgane! Send down a 'Scroll of Empowerment'!"
"Yessir! At once, sir!" Throwing a hasty salute, Zurgane punched in the coordinates into the PAM, doing what he had been ordered.
" 'Scroll of Empowerment' sent sir!"
"Good. . . now let's see how they fight a monster that big! HAHAHAHA!!!"
Having no real idea (since they never really pay attention) Marah, Kapri, and Choobo belatedly joined into the laughter, after being signaled by a glare from Lothor.
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The Rangers stared at the huge reborn monster, they could only think of one thing,
/Oh shoot./
"Uh guys? I think it's time to call the Zords." Said Tori, the first to recover.
"Word. Cam? Would you do the honors?"
"Gladly," punching in the coordinates into his Samurai Saber, he called out, "Ninja Megazords! Samurai Star!"
The Wind Rangers and the Green Samurai Rangers leapt into their Zords.
The Red Wind Ranger snapped on the channel that was connected to his fellow Rangers, "All right guys! Let's do it!"
From the ground the Lightning Ranger punched her fist into the air, "All right! Awesome! This is so cool!!!"
Tori turned to look at the tiny figure on the ground, "Hey Clare! Don't' you have a Zord?"
"Nah. I think my powers make up for that!"
"Definitely!" Quipped the Yellow Wind Ranger, "Your powers are cool enough!"
"Yo, guys! Let's get into gear here!"
"Right!" (All four Rangers.)
Combining all three Ninja Zords the Wind Rangers formed the Storm Megazord as the Green Samurai Ranger switched into the Samurai Star Megazord.
"HAHAHA!!! YOU RANGERS MAY HAVE DEFEATED ME ONCE, BUT NOT THIS TIME!!!" Boomed the monster so loudly that the Lightning Ranger had a bit of a hard time staying upright on the ground.
The Samurai Star Megazord charged forward and slashed the monster with its arm blades.
"Ooh, that tickles! Here's a real slash!" Pulling out her own sword, which blazed with lightning, slashed the Samurai Star Megazord across the chest, sending it flying backwards to crash into the ground.
"No!" Cried the Lightning Ranger hearing the faint groans from her cousin.
The Storm Megazord charged the monster and threw a downward slash with its sword at the monster, but instead of striking alien it swung clumsily through the empty air.
"Hey! Where'd it go?!" The Wind Rangers searched wildly around.
"Guys! Behind you!" Cried the Lightning Ranger.
Too late, the Wind Rangers felt someone grab them from behind followed by the incredible amount of lightning coursing through their bodies.
Clare was anguished, hearing her friends' cries of pain and the inability to do anything about it.
/Cummon, cummon! Think! There's gotta be something I can do to help! If only I can get dry!"
Suddenly, lasers struck the monster forcing it to let go as the Samurai Star changed back to the Samurai Star Megazord.
"Whoohoo! Go Cam!!!" Shouted the Navy Lightning Ranger, who then snapped her fingers, "I've got it! Tori! I need you down here quick!!!"
"Wha'? Can it wait?! Energy levels are critical here!"
"No! I think there's something I can do to help!"
"Hurry up, Tor! Don't' worry, we'll take of it from here, just come back up as soon as you're done!" Shane called from the side.
"All right!" Jumping out of the Storm Megazord, the Blue Wind Ranger landed and ran to meet the Navy Lightning Ranger halfway. "K, what is it that might help?"
"Tori, can you control and manipulate water?"
"Sure, it's my element. What's that got to do with anything?"
"Well, can you push excess water out of something?"
"What do you - oh! Yeah!! Here, give me your arm."
"Here." The Lighting Ranger extended her arm toward the older Ranger, concentrating the Blue Wind Ranger pushed all the excess water out of the Lightning Ranger's suit.
"Done. Anything else?"
"Nope, thanks. I have an idea. After my signal, I need you to push the water out of the clouds, k?
"All right, let's get back to the fight." With that the Wind Ranger leapt back up into the Storm Megazord next to her teammates. "Hey guys, did ya miss me?"
Watching the Blue Wind Ranger disappear in a flash of light, the Lightning Ranger unsheathed her twin tsais; taking a deep breath she lengthened them to dirks.
/Hope this works and that I don't fry myself again./
Spinning each tsai in one hand she slammed the blades into the ground, then staring at the darkened she drew forth a strand of electricity, letting it wave in the air.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning shot out of the sky catching the strand shot down the strand and continued until it hit the crouching Lightning Ranger. Strangely the bolt seemed not to hurt the Ranger but go through her.
"HEY! MY POWER! IT'S WANING! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!" Cried the monster trying to clutch the escaping lightning.
"Oh I get it! She's channeling the lightning through her body into the ground! She's taking the power source from that freak!" The Yellow Wind Ranger exclaimed, punching a fist into the air.
"How'd you know that?" The Green Samurai stared at his friend.
"Hey! The earth is my element. If there's one thing I definitely should know is whatever anything has to do with the earth," shrugged the Yellow Ranger.
"Hey guys! Need a little power boost?" A voice crackled over the communicator.
"Wait, you can do that?" asked Cam bending slightly over the communicator and looking down at his cousin.
"Sure, two power boosts coming right up!" Letting go of one tsai the Lightning Ranger extended one arm at the two Megazords as a mixture between electricity and lightning shot out and struck the two Megazords. Instead of pain, the Rangers felt a slight tingling as the Zords were powered back up to the max.
"That is so cool!!!"
"Got enough? K Tori, you know what to do."
"Got it!" The Blue Wind Ranger closed her eyes and concentrated on expelling the water from the dark clouds.
"My turn," the Red Wind Ranger closed his own eyes and used his power of controlling the air to disperse the clouds.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!?! STOP!!!" The monster screamed in anguish as she watched helplessly her source of power and energy disperse before her eyes.
"I'd say 'Ramp Attack' should do the trick, what say you three?" The Red Wind Ranger turned to his partners.
"Sure, let's finish the job!"
"Yeah! I've got your back!"
"RAMP ATTACK!!!"
The monster screamed her death cry (again) and finally went down in a huge explosion. Thus ending the legacy of the two alien sisters.
To our reviewers: sorry for the long update, fanfics been weird and stuff. For some reason, it won't let us see the other 5 reviews. Oh well, so here's answers to your reviews.
Mysterio: I think I already responded to you. Don't worry, Hunter isn't going anywhere.
TripleL: We checked. Our chapters are still up. Sorry.
son gomay vidal goku : I know that there seems to be stuff btwn Tori/Blake, but we've decided its gonna be Tori/Shane. They're always seen together (of course, it could just be they are friends). As for Dustin, we've got his pairing a bit later. You have an interesting idea, though.
To everyone else: Thanks for reviewing and your comments are always appreciated!
Enjoy! ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Shane, Tori, and Dustin were sitting at the low table while Cam was at his usual position at the computer while Clare was by her unconscious sister's bedside.
The three teens were talking in low tones so as not to disturb Clare.
Dustin glanced at the closed door to the med-room, "Man, it must really suck for this to happen to someone really close to you."
"Yeah, poor Clare. She and her sister seem to be really close. Imagine something like that happened to one of us?"
Shane looked up from the polished table, "Don't you remember the same thing almost did happen to us? Well, not exactly one of us three but Blake? Hunter went out of control and almost killed him."
"Oh, yeah . . . how could I forget . . ."
"Speaking of Blake, where is he? And Hunter? Have you two seen them anywhere?"
Shane and Tori both abruptly straightened and shook their heads, "Oh! Nope. We have no idea. Haven't seen them."
"Strange, neither have I." Shane stood up with his brows furrowed.
"Hey Cam, have you seen, Hunter or Blake," Dustin asked rising from the cushions on the floor.
Cam stopped whatever he was doing on the computer and slightly lowered his head, still keeping his back turned to his friends.
Tori got up from the table and put her hand on his shoulder, "Hey, Cam, you all right?"
Sighing, Cam slowly spun his chair around, "Hunter is out and it's most likely that Blake is with him too."
"Well, do you know where they are?" Cocking his head, she stared at Cam, never seeing him so dejected before.
"They're-"
"They're out to help my sister to regain consciousness."
Everyone jumped as Clare stepped out of the room, silent as a shadow, and her face just as dark, her eyes were red with unshed tears.
"They're out to -," Clare choked, burying her emotions she blinked back her tears and continued, but her voice was strangled. "Hunter went out to gather raw lightning and revive my sister - to charge her powers and her life-force."
Shane glanced at Cam who had his eyes closed, then turned back to Clare, "Can they handle it? What will happen to them?"
Clare closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "Hunter is the one who will gather the lightning, and Blake is with him."
Tori shifted uncomfortably, "But what will happen to them? Can they do it?"
"Yes, Hunter can but the risk is great, if he fails, then both he and my sister will die, and Blake will lose the only family he has left."
"What do you mean if Hunter 'fails'?" Dustin demanded, "and what about Blake?"
"If Hunter cannot withstand the pain and keep it under as much control as he can, then the lightning will overwhelm him, as for Blake, I do not know."
*Bleep-Bleep*
The computer's alarm went off, causing everyone to jump, Cam's eyes snapped open as he spun back to the computer and widened the screen.
The other three Rangers glanced at the young girl, who stonily walked pass them to Cam's shoulder, her face showing no sign of the distress that was contorting it only a few moments before.
"What is it Cam?"
"Looks to be a monster sent by Lothor, as usual."
Nodding, Shane and the other two Ninja Storm Rangers turn to Streak out of Ninja Ops.
"Wait." Rang a cool, clear voice.
Skidding to a stop, the three spin, staring at Clare, with surprised eyes wide open.
Dustin stepped back towards the computer a bit, "Um, what do you mean 'wait'? We gotta monster to destroy."
Clare, with her back turned to the three older teens, did not turn but still stared at the screen, "Look this particular monster, see anything strange?"
Running back to the screen, Dustin and Shane's jaws dropped while Tori merely stared.
"What?! That looks exactly like that last monster that really beat up Hunter and Blake!"
Still staring at the screen, Tori exclaimed, "No way! Rika destroyed it though! And Lothor only has the power to resurrect the monster once! Plus it can only be big!"
"Rangers, take a closer look," interjected Sensei who silently had flipped unto the desk.
Dustin excitedly pointed at the screen, almost jarring Cam's glasses from his head before Cam jerked to the side, "Hey guys, look! Remember the last one had a tinge of blue but this new one is completely pure white!"
Clare turned around to face the others, "Yeah, that means it's Lightning."
"Lightning?!? But, isn't lightning stronger than electricity?"
"Exactly."
Shane, Tori, and Dustin just looked at each other; they knew what this meant: Dustin tried to put it nicely, "We're gonna get an ass-whooping."
Sensei shot Dustin a reproachful look, which immediately cowed Dustin, but he could not deny the truthfulness of Dustin's less-than-nice remark. "Rangers, you will be risking a great deal in battling this monster."
Shane looked back at the monster on the screen. He thought of how Lothor's goons had already nearly taken the lives of one his teammates. He agonized over the fact that he had to make a decision to put more of his teammates at risk.
But he knew the risks, they all did. This is what they had sworn: to protect mankind with everything they were.
Sighing deeply, Shane looked questioningly at Clare, who gave an almost imperceptible nod. "Alright, we'll take care of the KelzaKs, Clare you know what to do."
Clare nodded and Shane cried, "Common guys."
5 bright flashes of light illuminated the debriefing room of Ninja Ops as the five teens morphed into Ranger forms.
"Ninja Storm! Samurai Storm! Lightning Storm! Ranger Form! Haah!"
Clare vanished in a streak of pale blue, while Cam and the Wind Rangers flashed away.
Upon landing, the Wind Rangers saw that Clare had already arrived and was exchanging jibes with the monster while waiting for her new teammates to arrive. They could hear the monster taunting Clare, "So you are the one who killed my sister. Let me introduce myself, I am Bahraka, Controller of the power of Lightning."
Clare was actually just casually leaning on one leg with her arms crossed and her head bent to the side,
"To tell you the truth, no, I'm not the one."
"Ah, yes, you're too short to do that, aren't you?" Cackled you the lightning being.
/Why does every bad guy I come across always go for my height? Am I really that short? I'm like 5'2", at least that was the last time I checked/
Slightly lowering her crossed arms she surreptitiously slid her twin tsais from their sheaths.
"Hmph, not quite. Why don't you try fighting me instead of cackling at me, you old spark."
"What?! I'll teach you not to disrespect your elders! Besides, I know what happened to your dear older sister."
Clare's grip tightened on her tsais and forced herself to listen.
"You know nothing." Acid flowed in the words, the vehemence so strong; the other Rangers were very much taken aback.
The monster momentarily had second thoughts,
/Hmm, this little twit of a Ranger does care deeply for her sister./
She felt a shudder flow through her body as she stared at the small Ranger, with her cocky stance and cool manner.
The monster shrugged off the ominous feeling.
"Oh, but I do. You see although there was never any love lost between my sister and I, I am still obligated to avenge her; I am Honor-bound, just as you are. Fortunately for you, she is still alive but just barely so. I shall tell you a secret; your beloved sister will die and so will that Crimson Thunder Ranger as well. You and I both know it. Hahahah!"
Throwing her head back the monster laughed while the Lightning Ranger gripped her tsais so forcefully that her knuckles audibly cracked, a crackling glow enveloped the young Ranger.
"NO!!! I'LL KILL YOU BEFORE YOU COME NEAR MY SISTER OR HUNTER!"
Still laughing, the monster waggled her finger at the enraged Lightning Ranger as if reprimanding a small child.
"Naughty, naughty! You shouldn't make threats that you can't fulfill. Besides, I'm not the one who'll destroy your precious sister or that Ranger."
"What do you mean," asked the Ranger, almost losing the slight grip she had just regained on herself, in a low quiet voice.
"Let me give you a hint - KelzaKs!"
All around the Lighting Ranger appeared KelzaKs with bright flashes of light. The other Rangers struggled and slashed to get to the young Ranger but the mass was too thick.
"ELECTRIC SHOCKWAVE!"
Suddenly the KelzaKs surrounding the Lightning Ranger either learned to fly or collapsed as a blinding flash of light traversed through the mass in an ever-widening circumference. Leaving the young Lightning Ranger standing alone in the center of a field of KelzaK bodies, unfortunately the blast knocked the other Rangers off their feet.
Shane sprang back to his feet and struggled to pull Tori and Dustin from the ground, all three staring in awe of the girl within the center, calmly waiting.
With her tsais revealed, electric currents skittered up and down her body and the blades of the tsais. The Lightning Tsais were brought together so that the blades of the weapons were touching and slowly slid them apart to the tip of each razor sharp point. As she slid them apart the blades grew to the length of dirks with blue electricity crawling up and down the edges as if living beings.
"Ohh, I'm sooo scared!! What are you going to do with those? Poke me to death? HAH!" The monster was impressed but hid it as she surreptitiously gathered energy from her body and cradled it in her hand, hidden behind her back.
The girl only said three words, "Shuttup and fight."
With that the Lightning Ranger slipped into her specialized fighting stance, facing half sideways in a back-stance with one tsai upraised above her head pointed directly forward at the monster and the other pointed at a diagonal angle and up.
Glancing at each other the other Rangers shifted into their own fighting stances.
"Hah! Let's see you handle this!"
The monster threw her bolt of lightning at the Rangers, the Wind Rangers ducked but the Lightning Ranger shifted to a standing position and crossed her tsais in the center of the blades, then slashed them apart in an arc, the electric currents shot out in strands that widened and connected with one other, interweaving to form a shield covering the Rangers.
"WHOA! I did NOT know that she could do THAT!" Cam yelped as he and the other Rangers whipped their arms from above their hands and slipped back into their fighting stances.
"Umm, is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Dustin quipped.
"Hmm, nice trick. Is there anything else you can do?" The monster threw another blast but instead of a single shot, it was continuous.
"Hahaha! You feel the pain don't you? Hahaha!"
Visibly the Lightning Ranger was straining under the continuous onslaught; slowly she sagged to one knee. /I can't hold this much longer... I've got - to get out of here./
Tightening her grips on her tsais, she broke the shield and threw herself to the side. But the blast from Bahraka shot through the shattered shield and hit the spot just where the Lightning Ranger had been, throwing her much farther away to the side, right into the other Rangers.
"Ow." Grunting the Lightning Ranger rolled off her friends as they struggled back to their feet.
"Hey Clare, you all right?" Cam exclaimed while pulling the girl up to her feet.
Without leaving her sights from the monster her only reply was a sarcastic, "Do I look it?"
"Spoken."
Taunting, the monster approached the Rangers, "So, did you like that little trick mine? Painful, is it not?"
"Hah. Nothing like we haven't faced before," retorted Tori as the other Rangers slipped back into their fighting stances.
"Guys, I need you to stay out of this. I'm sorry. But this is my fight."
The Red Wind Ranger touched the Lightning Ranger's arm, "You need teamwork on this. That's why we're a team."
The Lightning Ranger silently took a few steps closer towards the monster, while the Green Samurai Ranger placed his own on Shane's shoulder. "Sorry, Shane. But she's right this time. This is her fight alone."
Shane silently watched as one of his newest teammates and Bahraka converged, he sighed in resignation, "All right."
With a cry, the Lightning Ranger charged the monster, her hands holding a ball of energy by her side as well as the monster. The two clashed in a blinding blaze of light so bright it forced the other Rangers to cover their visors. The light faded leaving the two fifteen feet apart, both standing still. Suddenly, the Lightning Ranger jerked as small explosions bursts from her body as she screamed; greatly weakened she fell to her knees. The alien turned and laughed as she walked to the fallen Ranger, bending down she grabbed the Ranger's neck and lifted her into the air, her booted feet feebly kicking three feet above the ground.
"You little fool. You thought that you could defeat me. Hah! I control the power of Lightning, while you can only manipulate the leftovers, electricity, what a joke! Oh, and let me show one more thing . . ."
"Like I have a choice?" The Lightning Ranger managed to gurgle out in spite of the choke-hold.
"Hmph, you're a funny one aren't you? Well not for long, I not only control Lightning but the skies as well. Watch." While hanging the Ranger in the air, the alien lifted her face to the bright, clear sky and called out,
"LIGHTNING SKIES!!!"
Roiling black clouds rolled in pierced by streaks of lightning, which soon covered the entire sky, darkening it.
"Dude! Wha's going on?! Did that freak do this?!" Dustin cried out as he and the other Rangers stared at the darkened sky.
"Now, let's have a little bit of rain, shall we?" The monster turned back the half-strangled Ranger.
A torrential downpour of rain soon drenched everything in sight.
/Oh, shit. Now how am I goin'ta use my powers now?!/
As if reading the Ranger's mind the monster cackled, "Now how are you going to use your puny little powers now?"
"Like - this!" With that the Lightning Ranger gathered all the electricity she could generate form her surroundings as well as from her body, which convulsed from the shocks.
"What do you think you are doing, little fool? You're killing yourself!"
The Lightning Ranger could only scream as more and more currents of electricity traveled up and down her body, suddenly the alien was holding a huge bolt of electricity, which shot out of her grasp.
"WHAT THE - " The alien was left standing, staring stupidly at her empty hand, while the other Rangers watched in total shock, all thinking the same thought,
/Where'd she go?/
As the monster stared wildly around she felt a slight tapping on her shoulder, spinning around the Lightning Ranger was directly behind her, her tsais ready to strike.
"LIGHTNING TSAIS, FULL POWER!!!"
The Navy Lightning Ranger slashed her tsais in a huge 'X' across the alien's body leaving a light blue streak in the air. The Ranger turned her back on the monster, sheathed her tsais and collapsed.
Screaming her death cry she groped for the fallen Ranger, "EVEN IF I DIE, I'LL TAKE YOU WITH ME!!!"
"Oh no you won't!"
Dustin, seeing the danger, threw himself down and burrowed into the ground, a second later he suddenly appeared beside the Lightning Ranger, picked her up and jumped back down into the ground, just managing to slip out of the monster's grasp.
Appearing back above ground he gently set the Ranger on her feet supporting her, he turned just in time to see the monster disappear in a huge fireball.
Turning to his friends he dusted himself off, "Well, looks like that takes care of things."
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"Damn! That alien was this close to taking care of that little twerp of a Lightning Ranger!" Exclaimed Lothor, watching the battle on the screen, he whipped around to face Zurgane, "General Zurgane! Send down a 'Scroll of Empowerment'!"
"Yessir! At once, sir!" Throwing a hasty salute, Zurgane punched in the coordinates into the PAM, doing what he had been ordered.
" 'Scroll of Empowerment' sent sir!"
"Good. . . now let's see how they fight a monster that big! HAHAHAHA!!!"
Having no real idea (since they never really pay attention) Marah, Kapri, and Choobo belatedly joined into the laughter, after being signaled by a glare from Lothor.
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The Rangers stared at the huge reborn monster, they could only think of one thing,
/Oh shoot./
"Uh guys? I think it's time to call the Zords." Said Tori, the first to recover.
"Word. Cam? Would you do the honors?"
"Gladly," punching in the coordinates into his Samurai Saber, he called out, "Ninja Megazords! Samurai Star!"
The Wind Rangers and the Green Samurai Rangers leapt into their Zords.
The Red Wind Ranger snapped on the channel that was connected to his fellow Rangers, "All right guys! Let's do it!"
From the ground the Lightning Ranger punched her fist into the air, "All right! Awesome! This is so cool!!!"
Tori turned to look at the tiny figure on the ground, "Hey Clare! Don't' you have a Zord?"
"Nah. I think my powers make up for that!"
"Definitely!" Quipped the Yellow Wind Ranger, "Your powers are cool enough!"
"Yo, guys! Let's get into gear here!"
"Right!" (All four Rangers.)
Combining all three Ninja Zords the Wind Rangers formed the Storm Megazord as the Green Samurai Ranger switched into the Samurai Star Megazord.
"HAHAHA!!! YOU RANGERS MAY HAVE DEFEATED ME ONCE, BUT NOT THIS TIME!!!" Boomed the monster so loudly that the Lightning Ranger had a bit of a hard time staying upright on the ground.
The Samurai Star Megazord charged forward and slashed the monster with its arm blades.
"Ooh, that tickles! Here's a real slash!" Pulling out her own sword, which blazed with lightning, slashed the Samurai Star Megazord across the chest, sending it flying backwards to crash into the ground.
"No!" Cried the Lightning Ranger hearing the faint groans from her cousin.
The Storm Megazord charged the monster and threw a downward slash with its sword at the monster, but instead of striking alien it swung clumsily through the empty air.
"Hey! Where'd it go?!" The Wind Rangers searched wildly around.
"Guys! Behind you!" Cried the Lightning Ranger.
Too late, the Wind Rangers felt someone grab them from behind followed by the incredible amount of lightning coursing through their bodies.
Clare was anguished, hearing her friends' cries of pain and the inability to do anything about it.
/Cummon, cummon! Think! There's gotta be something I can do to help! If only I can get dry!"
Suddenly, lasers struck the monster forcing it to let go as the Samurai Star changed back to the Samurai Star Megazord.
"Whoohoo! Go Cam!!!" Shouted the Navy Lightning Ranger, who then snapped her fingers, "I've got it! Tori! I need you down here quick!!!"
"Wha'? Can it wait?! Energy levels are critical here!"
"No! I think there's something I can do to help!"
"Hurry up, Tor! Don't' worry, we'll take of it from here, just come back up as soon as you're done!" Shane called from the side.
"All right!" Jumping out of the Storm Megazord, the Blue Wind Ranger landed and ran to meet the Navy Lightning Ranger halfway. "K, what is it that might help?"
"Tori, can you control and manipulate water?"
"Sure, it's my element. What's that got to do with anything?"
"Well, can you push excess water out of something?"
"What do you - oh! Yeah!! Here, give me your arm."
"Here." The Lighting Ranger extended her arm toward the older Ranger, concentrating the Blue Wind Ranger pushed all the excess water out of the Lightning Ranger's suit.
"Done. Anything else?"
"Nope, thanks. I have an idea. After my signal, I need you to push the water out of the clouds, k?
"All right, let's get back to the fight." With that the Wind Ranger leapt back up into the Storm Megazord next to her teammates. "Hey guys, did ya miss me?"
Watching the Blue Wind Ranger disappear in a flash of light, the Lightning Ranger unsheathed her twin tsais; taking a deep breath she lengthened them to dirks.
/Hope this works and that I don't fry myself again./
Spinning each tsai in one hand she slammed the blades into the ground, then staring at the darkened she drew forth a strand of electricity, letting it wave in the air.
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning shot out of the sky catching the strand shot down the strand and continued until it hit the crouching Lightning Ranger. Strangely the bolt seemed not to hurt the Ranger but go through her.
"HEY! MY POWER! IT'S WANING! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!" Cried the monster trying to clutch the escaping lightning.
"Oh I get it! She's channeling the lightning through her body into the ground! She's taking the power source from that freak!" The Yellow Wind Ranger exclaimed, punching a fist into the air.
"How'd you know that?" The Green Samurai stared at his friend.
"Hey! The earth is my element. If there's one thing I definitely should know is whatever anything has to do with the earth," shrugged the Yellow Ranger.
"Hey guys! Need a little power boost?" A voice crackled over the communicator.
"Wait, you can do that?" asked Cam bending slightly over the communicator and looking down at his cousin.
"Sure, two power boosts coming right up!" Letting go of one tsai the Lightning Ranger extended one arm at the two Megazords as a mixture between electricity and lightning shot out and struck the two Megazords. Instead of pain, the Rangers felt a slight tingling as the Zords were powered back up to the max.
"That is so cool!!!"
"Got enough? K Tori, you know what to do."
"Got it!" The Blue Wind Ranger closed her eyes and concentrated on expelling the water from the dark clouds.
"My turn," the Red Wind Ranger closed his own eyes and used his power of controlling the air to disperse the clouds.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!?! STOP!!!" The monster screamed in anguish as she watched helplessly her source of power and energy disperse before her eyes.
"I'd say 'Ramp Attack' should do the trick, what say you three?" The Red Wind Ranger turned to his partners.
"Sure, let's finish the job!"
"Yeah! I've got your back!"
"RAMP ATTACK!!!"
The monster screamed her death cry (again) and finally went down in a huge explosion. Thus ending the legacy of the two alien sisters.