Chapter 13
Storming the fort
The next day came and Tori, Hunter, Blake and Dustin were heading down to Storm Chargers to see if Kelly could forgive Dustin for his actions that he did yesterday. Tori turned into the parking lot and hopped out of the van
She looked down at her watch, "All right. Let's see if we can get your job back, then we have to meet Cam back at Ninja Ops." She gave them the plan. Everyone nodded and started to enter the store, everyone except for Dustin who was a bit afraid that she still be angry. Angry at something he didn't do. Something he couldn't easily explain without revealing a few secrets. Dustin took a deep breath and opened the door. He walked in and joined the others that were looking around.
"Kelly!?" Tori shouted out.
A loud voice was heard from the distant, "I'm in the back!" Everyone exchanged looks and headed on back where they found Kelly moving some boxes around, preparing for a big sale she was having today.
Hunter waved to her, "Hey Kelly." She turned to them and brushed a few strands of hair out of her face.
She smiled happily, "Hey Hunter. Hey Blake, Tori." She responded, "How's it going?" Dustin's heart sank when she didn't say his name. He figured she must have still been mad at him from yesterday.
"Kelly." Dustin spoke up, pushing through the crowd and to her. Kelly turned to him and stared at him, waiting for him to say something.
Dustin sighed, trying not to look into her eyes, "Kelly..I-I-I'm sorry for acting like a total jerk yesterday." He mumbled
She smirked, "Well at least you remembered my name." Dustin stared down at the ground, trying to act guilty, hoping that maybe she would feel sorry for him or finally forgive him.
Blake walked over and stuck his hand on Dustin's shoulder, "Come on Kelly. Give him a second chance." He pleaded. Kelly looked away, thinking for a bit.
Dustin looked back up as she began to speak again, "I'm sure you were having a bad day or something." Kelly tried to crack a smile, "I guess I can forgive you."
Dustin face lit up with joy, "Dude, really!?" He exclaimed, "So can I have my job back?"
Kelly shook her head, "I forgive you Dustin for being a total jerk but I can't give you your job back." She replied.
He was a bit puzzled, the same with the others, "What? Why not?" He asked.
"I cannot hire people that continue to come into or leave work every day. I have a business to run. I'm sorry." Kelly told him.
Tori took a step forward, "Isn't Dustin your friend? Why would you do that to him?"
Kelly nodded, "Of course Dustin is my friend but I have no choice. If he just tell me why he keeps leaving then maybe I can work something out but I'm not going to allow it if it's simply to go out and hang with friends. A job is a job, and you have responsibilities when you have a job." She explained. Dustin groaned, there was no way too win this fight. He so badly wanted to scream out 'I leave to save the world.' or 'I leave cause I'm the yellow ranger!' but he couldn't. He slowly turned around and headed back into the front store. Tori and Blake followed him. Hunter was about to do the same when Kelly spoke up.
"You understand that this is hard for me to."
Hunter nodded, "It's not you fault. You did what you had to do." He replied and left to join the others. He exited outside where Tori, Blake and Dustin were gathered in front of the van.
"You all right Dustin?" Tori asked, as she stared at him.
Dustin shrugged, "Yeah. We all know that saving the world requires some sacrifices." He replied as he climbed into the van. Tori and Blake exchanged looks, as they watch Hunter climb in after. Blake went around and into the front passenger seat as Tori started up the van. He stuck on his seat belt and then turned to the back and looked at Dustin.
"Hey, Tor and I are having dinner tomorrow night. Do you and Marah wanna join? You know like a double date." Blake asked, hoping maybe it would cheer him up.
Dustin looked out the window and then back at Blake, "Sure, why not. I'll ask Marah later." He replied. Blake turned to see if it was okay with Tori. She smiled and nodded as she continued driving. Minutes later and the rangers finally made it to Ninja Ops where Cam greeted them in the courtyard.
"Well I guess it's better late then never." He joked as they walked towards them. Shane appeared from the stairs of Ninja Ops and joined the rest of the gang.
"Finally man!" Shane exclaimed, "Well any luck with your job Dustin?" Dustin shrugged, not saying a word. Shane got the hint and didn't bother to ask again.
"Well, now if you would follow me." Cam spoke up, leading them down the courtyard path. They walked past the entrance of Ninja Ops and to another latch in the ground. Cam unlocked it and lifted it up, revealing a spiral stair case.
Hunter peered down it, "When did we have this here?" He asked.
Cam chuckled, "There are many secret places around here that you guys don't know about." He informed them, "Down here... This leads to the hanger that holds the storm ship."
Shane took the first step and started making his way down the stairs, "Well what are we waiting for? An invitation?" He joked. Everyone rolled their eyes at Shane's lame joke. They all started to go down the stairs, Cam last, shutting the latch behind him. They entered the large dark hangar where the rangers stood around and waited.
Cam went over to the switch and turned to them, "I like to introduce you to the Storm Vehicle." He said as he turned the lights on. The rangers stood there in amazement at what they saw. They saw a fairly large ship in front of them. It was a well-rounded green ship with a large cockpit in the front. Cam took a step forward and hit a button, opening a side door of the ship and letting a ramp slide out to the ground.
"Dude, this is so cool." Dustin stared in aw as he took a step closer.
"Is it set to go?" Tori asked as she started to walk up the ramp.
Cam nodded, "It should be. The only problem is, that the samurai morpher is too strong of a power source so the energy will be unstable if we use it too much."
Shane turned his head to him, "What will happen if we do?"
"Kaboom." Cam responded. Everyone exchanged looks, a bit concern of the risk. Cam signal them to follow and they entered the ships hall way. The ship had a long hallway that leads to a giant bridge that stationed a whole bunch of computer terminals and a large chair in the middle.
Hunter skimmed the perimeter of the room, "What's all these gadgets do?"
"It's the ships operation system. It has a radar, shield activation, and mainly artillery for defense." Cam said.
Dustin chuckled, scratching his head, "Uh Cam, Do we need to know how to work these things cause you know how I am with this kind of stuff.."
Cam clapped his hand together and punched in a few buttons, "I figure that, so I asked for more help." And with that, the door behind opened up and out came Cyber Cam and Cyber Blake.
"Hey dudes, how's it going? Enjoying my ship?" Cyber Cam asked.
Cam rolled his eyes, "Your ship?" He smirked. Cyber Cam just shrugged and went over to one of the terminals.
Shane walked over and looked at Cyber Blake, "I thought we disconnected him."
Cam yawned a bit and then spoke, "Yeah, but I reactivated him and did a few adjustments."
Cyber Blake craned his head towards Cam, "Were ready to go when you are Cam."
Tori looked around the room and stuck her hands on her hips, "Say, why is there only one seat? Where's ours?" She asked.
Cam gave a concerning look and sighed deeply, "I didn't install them because non of you are going." He explained. The ranger's jaws dropped as they turned to him.
Blake quickly ran to him, "What do you mean were not going?" He asked.
Cam looked away, not really sure how to explain it, "It's to dangerous." He responded, "Vexagon will be expecting us and if he gets us all then who will be left to defend the city?"
Tori stomped her foot, getting his attention, "You can't do that! That's not fair!" She stammered.
Hunter nodded, "I'm with her. Where in this together man. We have to go with you, we know the risks."
Cam still refused, "No. All I'm simply going to do is plant an explosive and get out of there. That is all. We all don't need to be there for that."
"I still don't-" Shane started to say
Cam interrupted, "Look, let's just drop it for now. Come on we have some training to do." He escorted everyone out. They made their way down the ramp, everyone except of Cam, who they all thought was still following. Cam hit a button and the ramp began to ascend back into the ship. The rangers all turned around.
"Cam!" Hunter screamed.
"I'll be fine." He reassured them and turned away as the door closed. The rangers took a step back as the ship's engine began to rumble and activate. The ship began to hover off the ground as a beam of blue light shot from the ship into a wall, creating a large portal.
Tori tried to run forward but was held back by Dustin, "Cam, don't do this without us!" The ship blasted forward into the portal and vanished. The hanger was quiet and empty after that. The rangers all grew confused and worried on what just happened..
Tori turned to them all. "We have to do something. Cam is going to be destroyed by Vexagon." She was upset. Everyone was. They knew that Cam's plan was crazy and there was no way to board the fortress without getting caught. They didn't understand why Cam would do something like this. It wasn't like him. The rangers turned ran back to Ninja Ops where Sensei stood.
"He is gone isn't he?" Sensei asked as they came down the stairs.
"Yes." Shane weakly responded, "Is there a way to follow him?"
Sensei shook his head, "I'm afraid not Shane. It is now up to Cam."
"Whoa, we have bigger problems." Blake pointed to the terminal. ScaleFace was attacking the city, destroying everything insight.
"Come on guys." Shane looked at everyone.
"Ninja Storm, Thunder Storm, Ranger Form Ha! Ninja Ranger Power!" They all shouted and ran into the city to find ScaleFace.
"Hey ugly over here!" Shane waved to him. ScaleFace turned to them and spread out his wings, creating a loud shrieking roar.
"Ah." Tori cried out as she covered her ears, "Looks like you made him angry." Tori quickly took out her sonic fin and started blasting away at him. ScaleFace stopped his horrible roars and shielded himself with his wings.
"Haha." He laughed, "Isn't it a good feeling knowing that your down here battling me, while Vexagon will destroy the green ranger up where you can't reach him." The rangers grew angry at him.
"Battlizer Engage." Shane shouted out and upgraded himself into his trusty super armor, "Come on ScaleFace, let's dance." And with that he launched himself in the air. Meanwhile Cam was flying through space, closing in on the fortress.
"How are we doing Cyber Cam?" Cam asked, as he hit a few buttons on a computer in front him.
Cyber Cam turned to him and gave him the thumbs up, "Maintaining a good speed man. We'll be there in no time."
"Fortress dead ahead." Cyber Blake pointed out the window at it. Cam looked, and squinted his eyes. He saw something coming towards them. His eyes widen when he realized that it was energy beam coming right towards the ship. Before he had time to react the ship was hit on the side, throwing Cam off balance. When he looked up, he saw dozens of energy beams coming right at him.
"Cyber Cam! The shields!" He yelled to him. Cyber Cam quickly smacked a few buttons and pulled a lever. Cam's moprher was stations in the middle of the bridge on a giant stool, growing bright green. The morphers powers was transferring into the ship and was growing even brighter when the shield was activated.
Cam turned to it, "Hang in there. Don't blow on me now." He begged. The hail of lasers deflected off the shield as Cyber Cam increased his speed.
"Shield is at 85% and decreasing." Cyber Blake shouted out, "70%, 62%, were going down fast Cam."
Cam ran forward and hit a large red button next to Cyber Blake, opening two large hatches above the ship and revealing its own turrets.
"Divert all remaining power to the guns, Cyber Blake. Cyber Cam, increase the speed." He commanded them, "Where almost there, we can't fail."
Cyber Cam was a bit hesitant, "I love to take a risk just as much as the next guy man, but if you drain more energy out of your moprher, you know what will happen."
"It's a chance we have to take. Cyber Blake, fire now." And with that, the Storm Vehicle started to fire back at the fortress, while flying towards it at high speed. The Storm Vehicle manages to make a dent in the side of the fortress, weakening the walls.
"Ram into the thing!" Cam commanded. Cyber Blake and Cam both turned to him, thinking he was crazy, "Come on! Don't make me dis-activate you!" They nodded and the Storm Vehicle took a sharp turn and smashed into the fortress from the side of the ship. Cam was thrown off his feet again. Minutes later he got back up and took a look around. Some of the computers were sparking and parts of the ceiling had fallen down.
Cam got up and picked up his morpher, "Guys?" He asked as he stuck it around his neck. They appeared.
"Now that was cool." Cyber Cam exclaimed.
"You all right?" Cyber Blake asked. Cam dusted himself off and nodded to them.
"Well get the ship ready. I'll be back soon." Cam told them
Cyber Blake took a look around, "Uh, does this thing still fly?" He asked.
Cam went over to one of the computers that was still in full operation, "The main computer is still working. This baby will still fly." He said. He then headed out the door and through the messy hall way. He made it to the end, where he opened the latch. He entered into the empty hall of the fort where he looked around,.
"Come on, they must know I'm here." He whispered to himself as he slowly made his way down. It was empty, every room was empty and quiet. Cam continued down in till he found a spiral stairs that lead below the fort. He figured that this was where the main reactor was that helped to keep the fortress suspended in space. He made his way down and stared in aw at the huge reactor in front of him. He than took out a small time bomb. A special bomb that instead of creating huge fire explosion, would send a shockwave that would fry and explode every electronic in a 2 mile radius.
"Welcome, I wasn't really expecting visitors this soon." A familiar voice spoke behind him. He quickly stood up and turned to Vexagon, "Oh well I was just leaving." Cam said. Vexagon took out his large sword and grinned at him, "No, I insist for you to stay a while." Back with the other rangers, ScaleFace and Shane were hurling through the air, fighting each other. ScaleFace shout fire balls out of his mouth at Shane. Hr quickly dodged the attack just to see ScaleFace flying off.
"Damn, he got away!" He shouted as he landed back on the ground and demoprhed. The rangers demoprhed and ran to him.
"We better go after him." Tori suggested, "He could just be looking for more trouble."
"That sounds good to me." Dustin responded, "You guys coming?" He turned to the Thunder Brothers.
"I like to see if we heard anything from Cam yet." Hunter said.
Shane thought for a sec, "Well, how bout Tori, Dustin and I will track down ScaleFace and see what he is up to and you and Blake can go back to Ninja Ops and see if Sensei has anything good to report."
"All right. Call us if you need us." Blake said and ran off with his brother.
Back up at the fortress, Cam got into a defensive stance and eyed Vexagon carefully, "Sorry, I really have to go. Samurai Storm, Ranger Form! Ha! Green Samurai Power!" He shouted out and took out his samurai saber, "Where have you been hiding for the last few days if you don't mind me asking." Cam said as he circled around him, to try to get to the exit.
"I have fully master the use of these new powers by days of meditating, and now that I'm done, I will be able to test them on you." He shouted as he blasted a surge of lighting at him. Cam flipped out of the way and towards the exit. Vexagon blasted again as Cam ran up the spiral stairs. Vexagon continued chasing him, forgetting about the time bomb that Cam set. The black wing fighter smashed through the walls of the fortress trying to chase the green ranger that was making his way to the ship. Cam saw Cyber Blake standing by the door.
"Get the ship ready!" Cam shouted out loud to him. He nodded and vanished back to the bridge. Cam quickly ran into the ship and closed the latch before Vexagon could get in. The ship began to break away from the fortress and fly away with Vexagon standing there at the edge of the giant hole that was left from where the ship was.
Cam made his way to the bridge, "Good job, let's get out of here." He told them as he demoprhed. Then suddenly the ship started to shake and an explosion was heard from the rear of it, "What was that?" Cam turned to Cyber Blake.
"Engine 1 has been destroyed." Cyber Blake quickly responded, "Were losing speed. We won't be able to get out of the radius of the time bomb you set if we lose another one." Vexagon was attacking the back of the ship, firing another shot at the second engine, creating another explosion.
He started to laugh, "You won't get away from me that easily!" He shouted.
"Engine 2 is down. One more and were toast." Cyber Cam yelled out.
Cam started to freak, "Transfer everything we have to the last engine!!" He quickly said, he then looked at his watch and then back up again, "Oh no." He whispered as he held onto something. Vexagon was about to fire another shot when the time bomb went off, sending a huge blue wave, destroying every terminal in sight, causing the fort to explode and crumble. The radius of the blast continued, reaching the Storm Vehicle. Cam quickly ducked away as the surge of energy blew up all the remaining terminals and power. Sparks were flying everywhere as Cyber Cam and Cyber Blake both began to fizzle and disappear. Parts of the ceiling began to fall and Cam lost his morpher in the chaos. The ship's last engine was destroyed, sending the now busted ship down to earth along with fragments of the fortress. The ship started to enter the atmosphere, Cam struggled to hold on as he try to think of a wave to get out of this mess. He saw the morpher roll by him and he quickly grabbed it.
"Please hope this works." He whispered as he struggled to make his way to the hall of the ship. Shane, Tori and Dustin continue to search around the city for any sign of ScaleFace. They started heading towards the way of Storm Chargers.
"See him anywhere?" Dustin looked around.
Tori lightly laugh, "I don't think it's hard to find a giant dragon walking around. He has to be here somewhere." They made their way to Storm Chargers were they saw Kelly pull up into the parking lot with her jeep.
Tori waved to get her attention, "Kelly!" She shouted. Kelly climbed out of her car and smiled to them both.
"Hey guys." She said as she made her way to them.
"Isn't the store suppose to be open now?" Shane asked, looking at the entrance of the shop.
She turned to it, "Oh Yeah, I just closed it down for a bit cause I had to run some errands." She explained, "Come on in for a bit." She said. The three of them nodded, agreeing that they should take a break from their search. As they made their way to the door, Kelly noticed someone inside, running into the back room.
"Wait, I thought I locked the door. No one should be in there." She said. Dustin quickly gasped, and pulled Kelly away. A huge explosion came out of nowhere, blowing up the shop and sending the 4 of them flying to the ground.. Clothes, sports gears and fragments of the shop were coming down everywhere around them. Kelly was screaming the whole time, as Dustin held her tightly. They all looked up and turned towards what was left of Storm Chargers.
Kelly gasped, "My-my shop." She spoke softly, too stunned to move. She and the others were all dirty from the explosion, she tried to wipe the black smudges of her face as she continue to stare. The smoke started to clear away and a figure began to walk through the rubble. Dustin, Tori and Shane both stood up and stepped in front of Kelly to face it.
"Du-Dustin? Shane? Tori? What's going on!?" She spoke as she sat there still, too afraid to move. Back at Ninja Ops, Hunter and Blake made his way down the stairs where Marah and Sensei were talking.
"Any news from Cam?" He asked.
Sensei shook his head, "No. He has not contact us at all. I'm a bit worried." He replied. Marah looked over at the terminal and noticed it beeping.
"What's with the computer?" Marah asked as she went to it. She hit a button and the terminal pulled up a view of the storm vehicle and parts of the fortress falling behind it.
"He did it! He took down the base!" Hunter exclaimed as he watch, "Why-why isn't the ship pulling up?" He asked. Marah hit a button and it zoomed in on the falling ship. They continue to watch as it hit the ground, exploding.
"CAM!" Blake shouted out, as they watch the smoke rise.
Hunter shook his head, "No-No this can't be!"
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A/N: End of CHapter 13!? Is it getting crazier so far? Interesting or am I just losing it? Let me know!
Preview of Chapter 14 - Season Finale Part 1 (It had to end sometime...): The thunder rangers witness the destruction of the fortress but with what cost? With no traces of Cam, Vexagon is unleashing his full fury on the rangers. Can the rangers stop his madness without the help of the green ranger or is this it for them? This there chance to take Vexagon down once in for all, can they do it?
Storming the fort
The next day came and Tori, Hunter, Blake and Dustin were heading down to Storm Chargers to see if Kelly could forgive Dustin for his actions that he did yesterday. Tori turned into the parking lot and hopped out of the van
She looked down at her watch, "All right. Let's see if we can get your job back, then we have to meet Cam back at Ninja Ops." She gave them the plan. Everyone nodded and started to enter the store, everyone except for Dustin who was a bit afraid that she still be angry. Angry at something he didn't do. Something he couldn't easily explain without revealing a few secrets. Dustin took a deep breath and opened the door. He walked in and joined the others that were looking around.
"Kelly!?" Tori shouted out.
A loud voice was heard from the distant, "I'm in the back!" Everyone exchanged looks and headed on back where they found Kelly moving some boxes around, preparing for a big sale she was having today.
Hunter waved to her, "Hey Kelly." She turned to them and brushed a few strands of hair out of her face.
She smiled happily, "Hey Hunter. Hey Blake, Tori." She responded, "How's it going?" Dustin's heart sank when she didn't say his name. He figured she must have still been mad at him from yesterday.
"Kelly." Dustin spoke up, pushing through the crowd and to her. Kelly turned to him and stared at him, waiting for him to say something.
Dustin sighed, trying not to look into her eyes, "Kelly..I-I-I'm sorry for acting like a total jerk yesterday." He mumbled
She smirked, "Well at least you remembered my name." Dustin stared down at the ground, trying to act guilty, hoping that maybe she would feel sorry for him or finally forgive him.
Blake walked over and stuck his hand on Dustin's shoulder, "Come on Kelly. Give him a second chance." He pleaded. Kelly looked away, thinking for a bit.
Dustin looked back up as she began to speak again, "I'm sure you were having a bad day or something." Kelly tried to crack a smile, "I guess I can forgive you."
Dustin face lit up with joy, "Dude, really!?" He exclaimed, "So can I have my job back?"
Kelly shook her head, "I forgive you Dustin for being a total jerk but I can't give you your job back." She replied.
He was a bit puzzled, the same with the others, "What? Why not?" He asked.
"I cannot hire people that continue to come into or leave work every day. I have a business to run. I'm sorry." Kelly told him.
Tori took a step forward, "Isn't Dustin your friend? Why would you do that to him?"
Kelly nodded, "Of course Dustin is my friend but I have no choice. If he just tell me why he keeps leaving then maybe I can work something out but I'm not going to allow it if it's simply to go out and hang with friends. A job is a job, and you have responsibilities when you have a job." She explained. Dustin groaned, there was no way too win this fight. He so badly wanted to scream out 'I leave to save the world.' or 'I leave cause I'm the yellow ranger!' but he couldn't. He slowly turned around and headed back into the front store. Tori and Blake followed him. Hunter was about to do the same when Kelly spoke up.
"You understand that this is hard for me to."
Hunter nodded, "It's not you fault. You did what you had to do." He replied and left to join the others. He exited outside where Tori, Blake and Dustin were gathered in front of the van.
"You all right Dustin?" Tori asked, as she stared at him.
Dustin shrugged, "Yeah. We all know that saving the world requires some sacrifices." He replied as he climbed into the van. Tori and Blake exchanged looks, as they watch Hunter climb in after. Blake went around and into the front passenger seat as Tori started up the van. He stuck on his seat belt and then turned to the back and looked at Dustin.
"Hey, Tor and I are having dinner tomorrow night. Do you and Marah wanna join? You know like a double date." Blake asked, hoping maybe it would cheer him up.
Dustin looked out the window and then back at Blake, "Sure, why not. I'll ask Marah later." He replied. Blake turned to see if it was okay with Tori. She smiled and nodded as she continued driving. Minutes later and the rangers finally made it to Ninja Ops where Cam greeted them in the courtyard.
"Well I guess it's better late then never." He joked as they walked towards them. Shane appeared from the stairs of Ninja Ops and joined the rest of the gang.
"Finally man!" Shane exclaimed, "Well any luck with your job Dustin?" Dustin shrugged, not saying a word. Shane got the hint and didn't bother to ask again.
"Well, now if you would follow me." Cam spoke up, leading them down the courtyard path. They walked past the entrance of Ninja Ops and to another latch in the ground. Cam unlocked it and lifted it up, revealing a spiral stair case.
Hunter peered down it, "When did we have this here?" He asked.
Cam chuckled, "There are many secret places around here that you guys don't know about." He informed them, "Down here... This leads to the hanger that holds the storm ship."
Shane took the first step and started making his way down the stairs, "Well what are we waiting for? An invitation?" He joked. Everyone rolled their eyes at Shane's lame joke. They all started to go down the stairs, Cam last, shutting the latch behind him. They entered the large dark hangar where the rangers stood around and waited.
Cam went over to the switch and turned to them, "I like to introduce you to the Storm Vehicle." He said as he turned the lights on. The rangers stood there in amazement at what they saw. They saw a fairly large ship in front of them. It was a well-rounded green ship with a large cockpit in the front. Cam took a step forward and hit a button, opening a side door of the ship and letting a ramp slide out to the ground.
"Dude, this is so cool." Dustin stared in aw as he took a step closer.
"Is it set to go?" Tori asked as she started to walk up the ramp.
Cam nodded, "It should be. The only problem is, that the samurai morpher is too strong of a power source so the energy will be unstable if we use it too much."
Shane turned his head to him, "What will happen if we do?"
"Kaboom." Cam responded. Everyone exchanged looks, a bit concern of the risk. Cam signal them to follow and they entered the ships hall way. The ship had a long hallway that leads to a giant bridge that stationed a whole bunch of computer terminals and a large chair in the middle.
Hunter skimmed the perimeter of the room, "What's all these gadgets do?"
"It's the ships operation system. It has a radar, shield activation, and mainly artillery for defense." Cam said.
Dustin chuckled, scratching his head, "Uh Cam, Do we need to know how to work these things cause you know how I am with this kind of stuff.."
Cam clapped his hand together and punched in a few buttons, "I figure that, so I asked for more help." And with that, the door behind opened up and out came Cyber Cam and Cyber Blake.
"Hey dudes, how's it going? Enjoying my ship?" Cyber Cam asked.
Cam rolled his eyes, "Your ship?" He smirked. Cyber Cam just shrugged and went over to one of the terminals.
Shane walked over and looked at Cyber Blake, "I thought we disconnected him."
Cam yawned a bit and then spoke, "Yeah, but I reactivated him and did a few adjustments."
Cyber Blake craned his head towards Cam, "Were ready to go when you are Cam."
Tori looked around the room and stuck her hands on her hips, "Say, why is there only one seat? Where's ours?" She asked.
Cam gave a concerning look and sighed deeply, "I didn't install them because non of you are going." He explained. The ranger's jaws dropped as they turned to him.
Blake quickly ran to him, "What do you mean were not going?" He asked.
Cam looked away, not really sure how to explain it, "It's to dangerous." He responded, "Vexagon will be expecting us and if he gets us all then who will be left to defend the city?"
Tori stomped her foot, getting his attention, "You can't do that! That's not fair!" She stammered.
Hunter nodded, "I'm with her. Where in this together man. We have to go with you, we know the risks."
Cam still refused, "No. All I'm simply going to do is plant an explosive and get out of there. That is all. We all don't need to be there for that."
"I still don't-" Shane started to say
Cam interrupted, "Look, let's just drop it for now. Come on we have some training to do." He escorted everyone out. They made their way down the ramp, everyone except of Cam, who they all thought was still following. Cam hit a button and the ramp began to ascend back into the ship. The rangers all turned around.
"Cam!" Hunter screamed.
"I'll be fine." He reassured them and turned away as the door closed. The rangers took a step back as the ship's engine began to rumble and activate. The ship began to hover off the ground as a beam of blue light shot from the ship into a wall, creating a large portal.
Tori tried to run forward but was held back by Dustin, "Cam, don't do this without us!" The ship blasted forward into the portal and vanished. The hanger was quiet and empty after that. The rangers all grew confused and worried on what just happened..
Tori turned to them all. "We have to do something. Cam is going to be destroyed by Vexagon." She was upset. Everyone was. They knew that Cam's plan was crazy and there was no way to board the fortress without getting caught. They didn't understand why Cam would do something like this. It wasn't like him. The rangers turned ran back to Ninja Ops where Sensei stood.
"He is gone isn't he?" Sensei asked as they came down the stairs.
"Yes." Shane weakly responded, "Is there a way to follow him?"
Sensei shook his head, "I'm afraid not Shane. It is now up to Cam."
"Whoa, we have bigger problems." Blake pointed to the terminal. ScaleFace was attacking the city, destroying everything insight.
"Come on guys." Shane looked at everyone.
"Ninja Storm, Thunder Storm, Ranger Form Ha! Ninja Ranger Power!" They all shouted and ran into the city to find ScaleFace.
"Hey ugly over here!" Shane waved to him. ScaleFace turned to them and spread out his wings, creating a loud shrieking roar.
"Ah." Tori cried out as she covered her ears, "Looks like you made him angry." Tori quickly took out her sonic fin and started blasting away at him. ScaleFace stopped his horrible roars and shielded himself with his wings.
"Haha." He laughed, "Isn't it a good feeling knowing that your down here battling me, while Vexagon will destroy the green ranger up where you can't reach him." The rangers grew angry at him.
"Battlizer Engage." Shane shouted out and upgraded himself into his trusty super armor, "Come on ScaleFace, let's dance." And with that he launched himself in the air. Meanwhile Cam was flying through space, closing in on the fortress.
"How are we doing Cyber Cam?" Cam asked, as he hit a few buttons on a computer in front him.
Cyber Cam turned to him and gave him the thumbs up, "Maintaining a good speed man. We'll be there in no time."
"Fortress dead ahead." Cyber Blake pointed out the window at it. Cam looked, and squinted his eyes. He saw something coming towards them. His eyes widen when he realized that it was energy beam coming right towards the ship. Before he had time to react the ship was hit on the side, throwing Cam off balance. When he looked up, he saw dozens of energy beams coming right at him.
"Cyber Cam! The shields!" He yelled to him. Cyber Cam quickly smacked a few buttons and pulled a lever. Cam's moprher was stations in the middle of the bridge on a giant stool, growing bright green. The morphers powers was transferring into the ship and was growing even brighter when the shield was activated.
Cam turned to it, "Hang in there. Don't blow on me now." He begged. The hail of lasers deflected off the shield as Cyber Cam increased his speed.
"Shield is at 85% and decreasing." Cyber Blake shouted out, "70%, 62%, were going down fast Cam."
Cam ran forward and hit a large red button next to Cyber Blake, opening two large hatches above the ship and revealing its own turrets.
"Divert all remaining power to the guns, Cyber Blake. Cyber Cam, increase the speed." He commanded them, "Where almost there, we can't fail."
Cyber Cam was a bit hesitant, "I love to take a risk just as much as the next guy man, but if you drain more energy out of your moprher, you know what will happen."
"It's a chance we have to take. Cyber Blake, fire now." And with that, the Storm Vehicle started to fire back at the fortress, while flying towards it at high speed. The Storm Vehicle manages to make a dent in the side of the fortress, weakening the walls.
"Ram into the thing!" Cam commanded. Cyber Blake and Cam both turned to him, thinking he was crazy, "Come on! Don't make me dis-activate you!" They nodded and the Storm Vehicle took a sharp turn and smashed into the fortress from the side of the ship. Cam was thrown off his feet again. Minutes later he got back up and took a look around. Some of the computers were sparking and parts of the ceiling had fallen down.
Cam got up and picked up his morpher, "Guys?" He asked as he stuck it around his neck. They appeared.
"Now that was cool." Cyber Cam exclaimed.
"You all right?" Cyber Blake asked. Cam dusted himself off and nodded to them.
"Well get the ship ready. I'll be back soon." Cam told them
Cyber Blake took a look around, "Uh, does this thing still fly?" He asked.
Cam went over to one of the computers that was still in full operation, "The main computer is still working. This baby will still fly." He said. He then headed out the door and through the messy hall way. He made it to the end, where he opened the latch. He entered into the empty hall of the fort where he looked around,.
"Come on, they must know I'm here." He whispered to himself as he slowly made his way down. It was empty, every room was empty and quiet. Cam continued down in till he found a spiral stairs that lead below the fort. He figured that this was where the main reactor was that helped to keep the fortress suspended in space. He made his way down and stared in aw at the huge reactor in front of him. He than took out a small time bomb. A special bomb that instead of creating huge fire explosion, would send a shockwave that would fry and explode every electronic in a 2 mile radius.
"Welcome, I wasn't really expecting visitors this soon." A familiar voice spoke behind him. He quickly stood up and turned to Vexagon, "Oh well I was just leaving." Cam said. Vexagon took out his large sword and grinned at him, "No, I insist for you to stay a while." Back with the other rangers, ScaleFace and Shane were hurling through the air, fighting each other. ScaleFace shout fire balls out of his mouth at Shane. Hr quickly dodged the attack just to see ScaleFace flying off.
"Damn, he got away!" He shouted as he landed back on the ground and demoprhed. The rangers demoprhed and ran to him.
"We better go after him." Tori suggested, "He could just be looking for more trouble."
"That sounds good to me." Dustin responded, "You guys coming?" He turned to the Thunder Brothers.
"I like to see if we heard anything from Cam yet." Hunter said.
Shane thought for a sec, "Well, how bout Tori, Dustin and I will track down ScaleFace and see what he is up to and you and Blake can go back to Ninja Ops and see if Sensei has anything good to report."
"All right. Call us if you need us." Blake said and ran off with his brother.
Back up at the fortress, Cam got into a defensive stance and eyed Vexagon carefully, "Sorry, I really have to go. Samurai Storm, Ranger Form! Ha! Green Samurai Power!" He shouted out and took out his samurai saber, "Where have you been hiding for the last few days if you don't mind me asking." Cam said as he circled around him, to try to get to the exit.
"I have fully master the use of these new powers by days of meditating, and now that I'm done, I will be able to test them on you." He shouted as he blasted a surge of lighting at him. Cam flipped out of the way and towards the exit. Vexagon blasted again as Cam ran up the spiral stairs. Vexagon continued chasing him, forgetting about the time bomb that Cam set. The black wing fighter smashed through the walls of the fortress trying to chase the green ranger that was making his way to the ship. Cam saw Cyber Blake standing by the door.
"Get the ship ready!" Cam shouted out loud to him. He nodded and vanished back to the bridge. Cam quickly ran into the ship and closed the latch before Vexagon could get in. The ship began to break away from the fortress and fly away with Vexagon standing there at the edge of the giant hole that was left from where the ship was.
Cam made his way to the bridge, "Good job, let's get out of here." He told them as he demoprhed. Then suddenly the ship started to shake and an explosion was heard from the rear of it, "What was that?" Cam turned to Cyber Blake.
"Engine 1 has been destroyed." Cyber Blake quickly responded, "Were losing speed. We won't be able to get out of the radius of the time bomb you set if we lose another one." Vexagon was attacking the back of the ship, firing another shot at the second engine, creating another explosion.
He started to laugh, "You won't get away from me that easily!" He shouted.
"Engine 2 is down. One more and were toast." Cyber Cam yelled out.
Cam started to freak, "Transfer everything we have to the last engine!!" He quickly said, he then looked at his watch and then back up again, "Oh no." He whispered as he held onto something. Vexagon was about to fire another shot when the time bomb went off, sending a huge blue wave, destroying every terminal in sight, causing the fort to explode and crumble. The radius of the blast continued, reaching the Storm Vehicle. Cam quickly ducked away as the surge of energy blew up all the remaining terminals and power. Sparks were flying everywhere as Cyber Cam and Cyber Blake both began to fizzle and disappear. Parts of the ceiling began to fall and Cam lost his morpher in the chaos. The ship's last engine was destroyed, sending the now busted ship down to earth along with fragments of the fortress. The ship started to enter the atmosphere, Cam struggled to hold on as he try to think of a wave to get out of this mess. He saw the morpher roll by him and he quickly grabbed it.
"Please hope this works." He whispered as he struggled to make his way to the hall of the ship. Shane, Tori and Dustin continue to search around the city for any sign of ScaleFace. They started heading towards the way of Storm Chargers.
"See him anywhere?" Dustin looked around.
Tori lightly laugh, "I don't think it's hard to find a giant dragon walking around. He has to be here somewhere." They made their way to Storm Chargers were they saw Kelly pull up into the parking lot with her jeep.
Tori waved to get her attention, "Kelly!" She shouted. Kelly climbed out of her car and smiled to them both.
"Hey guys." She said as she made her way to them.
"Isn't the store suppose to be open now?" Shane asked, looking at the entrance of the shop.
She turned to it, "Oh Yeah, I just closed it down for a bit cause I had to run some errands." She explained, "Come on in for a bit." She said. The three of them nodded, agreeing that they should take a break from their search. As they made their way to the door, Kelly noticed someone inside, running into the back room.
"Wait, I thought I locked the door. No one should be in there." She said. Dustin quickly gasped, and pulled Kelly away. A huge explosion came out of nowhere, blowing up the shop and sending the 4 of them flying to the ground.. Clothes, sports gears and fragments of the shop were coming down everywhere around them. Kelly was screaming the whole time, as Dustin held her tightly. They all looked up and turned towards what was left of Storm Chargers.
Kelly gasped, "My-my shop." She spoke softly, too stunned to move. She and the others were all dirty from the explosion, she tried to wipe the black smudges of her face as she continue to stare. The smoke started to clear away and a figure began to walk through the rubble. Dustin, Tori and Shane both stood up and stepped in front of Kelly to face it.
"Du-Dustin? Shane? Tori? What's going on!?" She spoke as she sat there still, too afraid to move. Back at Ninja Ops, Hunter and Blake made his way down the stairs where Marah and Sensei were talking.
"Any news from Cam?" He asked.
Sensei shook his head, "No. He has not contact us at all. I'm a bit worried." He replied. Marah looked over at the terminal and noticed it beeping.
"What's with the computer?" Marah asked as she went to it. She hit a button and the terminal pulled up a view of the storm vehicle and parts of the fortress falling behind it.
"He did it! He took down the base!" Hunter exclaimed as he watch, "Why-why isn't the ship pulling up?" He asked. Marah hit a button and it zoomed in on the falling ship. They continue to watch as it hit the ground, exploding.
"CAM!" Blake shouted out, as they watch the smoke rise.
Hunter shook his head, "No-No this can't be!"
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A/N: End of CHapter 13!? Is it getting crazier so far? Interesting or am I just losing it? Let me know!
Preview of Chapter 14 - Season Finale Part 1 (It had to end sometime...): The thunder rangers witness the destruction of the fortress but with what cost? With no traces of Cam, Vexagon is unleashing his full fury on the rangers. Can the rangers stop his madness without the help of the green ranger or is this it for them? This there chance to take Vexagon down once in for all, can they do it?