I don't own Power Rangers or anything associated with it. It belongs to Buena Vista and whoever else owns it. This piece of literature is simply the work of a humble fan. Also, anything else that is mentioned in this fic and isn't mine it also belongs to its respective owner.

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:::Author Notes:::

This takes place right after A Scent of a Ranger (Where CamToo is introduced and Tori and Dustin are turned into perfume). For PR: Turbo it takes place seven years after the last episode in the season, which is Chase into Space.

I know that Ninja Storm took place in the Power Rangers continuity, but it always seemed like a separate universe to me. Tori and Shane dismissing the existence of Powers Rangers in the first episode as Urban Legend was just strange. I mean the Rangers have saved the world multiple times, why would there be any doubt?

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Thanks for the reviews you guys have sent. They have been really helpful on helping me improve this story. As you can see this is my first Power Rangers story and I'm trying my best. I hope Justin's story wasn't confusing or anything. I was just trying to explain the whole Power Rangers saga as best I can from a Rangers point of view instead of a viewer. The whole ranger active, inactive thing was referring to the fact that when one team defeats 'x' their season is over and a new season starts and more rangers are called to defeat a new 'x'. And so it goes in a never-ending cycle.

Dancing Under Scattered Light

Chapter Two: Reality through a Looking Glass

By: ThunderGod

If there was one thing that Justin learned from spending time with Cam… and that was… Cam was smart… Billy Cranston smart. The ideas and different theories Cam had was so complex that Justin could bet that they would boggle some of the professors' back at Ohio University. Justin learned something else too. Cam had a way of letting his mouth run away from him when deeply interested in something. During their time together last night, Justin subtlety brought up beautiful people and Cam looked at him like he was extra slow. He had no idea what Justin was trying to say, so he had rambled on for a good five minutes nervously then let the subject drop and didn't bring it up again. They spent the rest of the night talking about computers and different ideas they had on various scientific theories.

Groggily, Justin awoke the next morning tiredly opening his eyes. In his sleepy haze, he almost decided to chalk up his whole experience as just a weird dream. That was until he wiped the sleep from his eyes and actually focused on his unfamiliar surroundings, realizing for the first time that he wasn't back in his dorm room at the university.

"Oh fork," he muttered, burying his head in his hands. "It wasn't a dream."

He threw off the blankets and rose up from the futon he was sleeping on. Justin could barely remember Cam leading him to this room last night and showing him where everything was. The room was a guest room or something of that purpose. There was a futon along the wall, a small low table in the middle of the room, and a wooden dresser in a corner with a vase full of white lilies sitting on top. Spotting a pair of clothes folded up neatly on the table, he picked them up and read the note on top.

Justin---

Here are some clothes I managed to find. There is a bathroom across the hall.

Cam

Justin smiled reading the note. From what he came to know of Cam from their long talk last night the other boy wasn't one for pleasantries. The note was definitely Cam… short and to the point. Justin followed the notes advice and after fumbling with the paper sliding door he managed to exit his room. He went to the bathroom, showered and dressed in the clothes Cam found. Justin emerged from the bathroom a half-hour later wearing a pair of blue jeans and a form fitting blue shirt. After wandering around for ten minutes lost, Justin managed to find the central control room. Cam was there as he suspected. He was focused intently on the computer typing rapidly on the keys in front of him. Seemingly lost in his on world.

"Hello, Justin," greeted Cam not even looking behind him, fingers still dancing along the keys.

Justin gaped at him stopping mid step. "How did you know I was here? I barely made a sound."

Cam stopped typing this time to spin around in his seat. He gave Justin a half smile. "Can you say Samurai Ranger?" he replied simply.

Justin rolled his eyes and said mockingly, "I bow before you and your superior skills. What are you working on anyway?"

"I am trying to solve the problem of quantum tunneling in complex circuits. This way the Zords will be more faster and twenty times more efficient power wise," Cam sighed. "I just can't get it to work. How would you do it? I know you have some ideas."

"Practically, or ideally?" Justin thought a minute, then smiled coming up with a couple of quick thoughts. "Ideally, I'd make it work for me. Why consider it a limitation, if you can find a way to control it and use it in place of ordinary circuitry?"

Cam seemed to catch on to what he was saying for he smiled and nodded, his eyes seemed to glow with an inner light as if a light bulb had been turned on in his brain. "If I could figure out how you access pockets of sub space, I could use chromaton fluctuations in combination with multitranswarp biotechnology to make the Zords systems more reliable and stronger." Cam immediately turned back to the computer and started typing even faster. "That's only ideally. Practically for the systems to take I would need to use thicker substrate, crylithium or kulcotronite instead of tryxium metalloids, and then from there… testing. I whole lot of testing."

Justin walked behind Cam's chair and looked over his shoulder at the equations he was putting into the simulated program. Cam's idea wouldn't be an overnight thing. It would take a while for it to work, but it was a start. Cam nodded as if satisfied then pressed two buttons and the computer screen went black only showing the Wind Ninja logo in the center.

Cam spun back around in the chair facing Justin. "This might actually work. I can't say that it isn't nice to have someone around that knows the difference between alkaloids and metalloids."

Justin shrugged. "I was actually thinking maybe there is some way—"

"Hey guys," said various voices from behind them.

They turned around to see the Wind and Thunder Rangers walking into the room. Justin raised an eyebrow at their style of dress. They all wore matching black uniforms that resembled gi's, and each were trimmed in their respective color.

"So are those your ninja uniforms?" asked Justin.

Shane nodded. "Yeah, is Sensei around? We're here for training."

"I am here, Shane," said Sensei suddenly flipping onto the console for them to see.

Justin was the only one who seemed surprised that the guinea pig had suddenly performed aerial acrobats effortlessly. Sensei hopped onto Cam's shoulder and suggested that they go into the training room. Justin followed everyone else, walking next to Cam as they filed out from the room. They came to a room with double, wooden doors that opened with a touch.

'This looks like a gym on steroids,' thought Justin looking around at the impressive equipment.

The training room had a high vaulted ceiling. Benches lined the walls to the left and right. In the middle of the room were mats and a large circle for sparing. Off to the right were the uneven bars, balance beam, and other equipment. Lining the wall to one side of the room was various weapons that Justin had only seen in movies and television shows. His dad used to own a dojo, but had to close after his mother's death and they hadn't had weapons like that to train with.

'What the hell?' Justin wondered shocked, as Cam basically made a motion with his hand and his clothes were instantly replaced with a uniform like the others, but his was in green trim.

Sensei bounded up to a high bench to oversee the training. He leaned on the cane with both paws and said, "Cam and Hunter, you are first."

The two nodded and strode into the circle painted onto the middle of the floor. They bowed before each other and then quickly went into fighting stances. Hunter charged at Cam full speed. At the last moment Hunter jumped in the air, delivering a flying kick. Right as he was about to make contact with his target, Cam grabbed his ankle in mid air and twisted sharply. Hunter's whole body spun three hundred and sixty degrees before he landed roughly on the ground. Quickly, he sprung up doing a backflip going back into a fighting stance. This time they ran at each other and Hunter did a sweeper kick that Cam jumped over. Hunter dodged a punch and did a series of backhand springs distancing himself from Cam.

The fight was going on for more than ten minutes and neither seemed to be gaining the upper hand. They both had different styles but they were teammates so they knew each other's moves and how to counter them. Hunter took a punch to the gut doubling over as his breath left him. He barely managed to duck the flying kick that went past his head. That didn't save him from a roundhouse kick delivered to the back of his head. Hunter fell to the ground, the breath knocked out of him. Cam stood over him with his hands an in a striking position.

"Enough," ordered Sensei's voice, sounding loud and deep surprisingly since his body was so diminutive. "Cam has won."

Cam held out his hand and Hunter grasped it, hauling himself up. He slapped Cam's hand with a smile. "Nice moves, man. You really had me with that last punch."

"I just saw an opening so I took it," Cam shrugged honestly modest about the whole thing.

"Very good Cam and Hunter," praised Sensei. "You two did very well. Hunter remember that attacking head on is not always the best course of attack. A good ninja knows his enemy and what they can do." He turned his sight on Cam. "Cam you used good judgment when first starting out by thinking strategically. But always know that in some battles you won't have time to think of a strategy. A samurai is always on guard and ready for anything."

"Yes, Sensei," spoke both boys simultaneously, bowing before the ninja master.

Justin smiled at both boys as they took their places beside him as Dustin and Tori went against each other. Justin extended his hand with a friendly smile to Hunter.

"You did a good job out there," Justin smiled.

Hunter looked at the offered hand then met Justin's eyes. The blond gave Justin a measuring look that wasn't a glare but was nowhere near friendly either. "I don't care what Sensei says. I don't trust you. You may have everyone else fooled but not me," spoke Hunter quietly in a hard voice.

Justin just raised an eyebrow as Hunter gave him a distrustful look and walked to the other side of the room where the balance beams were. Shane who overheard the whole thing gave Justin an apologetic look.

"Sorry about that man," said Shane sincerely. "Hunter has got some trust issues. He'll come around."

Justin shook his head. "It won't be anytime soon. He practically hates me."

"Who hates you?" questioned Cam walking to Justin's side a water bottle in his head and a towel hanging over his shoulder.

Shane cocked his head in Hunter's direction. "Hunter."

Cam rolled his eyes giving a small nod of understanding, turning to Justin he said, "Don't worry about Hunter, Justin. That's just his natural personality. Trust me when I say that he wasn't overly friendly to us either when he first started on the team. You just have to deal with it and wait till he gets over it. Hunter is just Hunter and he's really thick headed about some things."

Justin smiled. "Him and Andros ought to be the best of friends then." At their questioning glances he elaborated. "He's the Red Astro Ranger. Not to big on the first meeting trust thing either. What makes him one of the most successful Red Rangers, he's cautious to a 't'."

Blake walked to them, from where he had been chatting with Hunter. "Hey, me and Hunter were going to hang out at Storm Chargers or the CoffeeHouse after this. You guys down? Tori already said she was coming."

"I'm there, dude," said Shane.

Justin looked to Cam raising his eyebrows questioning. He really didn't feel comfortable going out with the Rangers without Cam. It was not that Justin didn't like them. He just didn't know them. Cam was the only one he had actually had time to have a really long talk with and honestly get to know.

Cam nodded in agreement. "We're coming too," cocking his head at Justin. "Somebody just make sure that Dustin doesn't get us kicked out of the CoffeeHouse again. He may enjoy looking like a fool but some of us don't."

Suddenly the lights in the room flashed repeatedly and a siren like alarm bleared through the room. Justin looked around in confusion. He didn't have time to ask any questions because Cam grabbed his arm, as he followed the others out of the room. They ran into the control room and Cam hit a big red and black button on the console. Instantly the monitor blinked on showing images of a monster attacking downtown Blue Bay Harbor with a group of Kelzacks.

"Oh no, looks like Lothor has sent another lackey to attack the city," Dustin groaned.

Shane's eyes grew determined and Justin watched as he drew himself up taking on the role of a leader. Just as he had seen Tommy do many times before in the past.

"I'm coming with you," voiced Justin before Shane said anything. "Even though I'm not apart of this world, I'm a still a Ranger. And I have a duty and responsibility to help."

That was enough to convince Shane whom nodded showing consent. "Okay guys, lets do it!" he said raising his arm, morpher strapped to his wrist. The other ninja rangers followed his example. They nodded morphers raised and as one they yelled:

"Ninja Storm! Ranger Form!"

"Thunder Storm! Ranger Form!"

Justin flicked his wrist and his turbo morpher and key appeared. With a quick series of moves he stuck his key into the morpher.

"Shift into Turbo!"

Light enveloped each of them and in its wake were the Power Rangers plus one Ranger from another universe. After a 'Be safe,' from Sensei they ran from Ninja Ops exiting the secret base from a portal that brought them out near a lake in a forest clearing. The Thunder and Wind Rangers barely touched the ground before they bounded off as streaks of light, leaping vast distances at incredible speeds. Justin gaped at them behind his helmet, amazed that they could do simulate teleportaion with their powers.

"You can't streak can you?" asked Cam.

Justin realized for the first time that Cam was beside him and hadn't left him. Justin shook his head negative and Cam nodded. The Green Samurai Ranger grabbed Justin close wrapping an arm around him. Then without so much as a hold on they were bounding off as a streak of light, leaping into the distance. Before he even knew it they touched ground finally. Justin looked around seeing they were in downtown Blue Bay Harbor. It hadn't even taking more than two minutes to get from Ninja Ops to here.

"We had to be going near light speed," muttered Justin completely astonished. The sound of yelling quickly brought him back to the mission at hand.

The Rangers immediately joined in the fray, taking on the Kelzacks punching and kicking with moves that they used in practice, but with more power and strength behind them. Shane, Cam, and Hunter triple-teamed the monster while everyone else dealt with the lesser Kelzacks. Justin made a motion with his wrist and his Turbo Sword appeared in a flash of blue light. Kelzacks surrounded him on all sides.

"Yahhhh!" Justin yelled, spinning in a circle sword swinging with his body.

Sparks shot up all around as Kelzacks fell under the surprise move. Screams of pain rang through the air, causing the other Rangers to look up in alarm. The monster had let loose a beam of scattered energy knocking Shane, Cam, and Hunter away several feet into a nearby statue. They all heard the cracking sound as the state nearly broke from the impact. Justin didn't even think of seeing to his teammates he reacted on instinct and ran to the monster.

"You'll pay for that one," Justin promised.

The monster growled at Justin pointing a long finger at him. "You are the one Lothor wants. He saw how you defeated his servant and would like to ally your powers with his. He extends an offer to join us."

Justin paused tapping his fought thoughtfully. "Hmmm… Do you get weekends off? What about dental?"

"Uhhh… I don't know?" it said confused.

"I was just playing, dumbass! No one wants to work for your psycho, schizo, sociopath for a boss!"

The monster's serpentine like eyes flared glowing red. "You'll pay for that you pathetic human!" it spat hatefully.

"I'm more than a pathetic human. I'm a Power Ranger" Justin replied charging forward.
The monster blocked all of Justin's blows that he dealt with the Turbo Sword. Its skin was like armor as the sword only made a clinking sound when Justin got a clean shot in. The monster gave a loud roar and batted the sword out of Justin's hands. The weapon went flying through the air, landing a few feet away from them. With his weapon gone, Justin began fighting hand to hand. He pulled out all of his best moves barely holding his own. Almost lazily the monster reared its arm back and launched its clawed fist at Justin's face.
Justin was suddenly yanked out of the way. Cam pushed him down as a dazzling ray of multicolored light hit the monster with the force of a speeding Mack truck. Justin lay flat on the ground Cam near him as the residing explosion rocked the ground. Justin stood up helping Cam up too. He glanced at the Rangers who were disassembling their combined weapons. They had hit the monster with a focused united shot. Justin had distracted it long enough for them to put their weapons together and get a clean enough shot in.
Justin was about to say something when he caught a flash of light coming from the sky. "Don't mean to ruin the obligatory victory hugs, but what the hell is that?"

"Great," muttered Cam. "He never quits."

Justin was about to ask him what he meant when his question was answered for him. The remains of the monster suddenly reformatted and grew to enormous proportions. Justin almost rolled his eyes thinking that maybe some things were universal. Growing monsters was one.

He didn't even register the Rangers calling for their Zords, as he was busy doing the same thing. Justin raised his wrist to his mouth and said, "Siren Blaster, come to the rescue!"

A glowing portal appeared at the end of the street and Justin's Rescuezord appeared from its place in sub space. Siren Blaster had been long ago given to him by the Phantom Ranger. Once destroyed all those years ago the Zord had been rebuilt and was again fully functional. Siren Blaster, modeled after a futuristic police car, came speeding down the street sirens blazing. Justin jumped into the Zord and quickly strapped in and with a few buttons he patched into the comm link the other Rangers were using for communication.

"Dude, that is one cool Zord," Dustin's awed voice came over the speakers.

Justin laughed amazed that Dustin could have split focus with fighting the gigantic monster in front of him and being in awe of Siren Blaster. The Wind Zords had combined into the Storm Megazord and was facing off against the monster with the Thunder Megazord at their side.

"Let's take this into warrior mode," said Justin pushing a red button on the control panel next to the steering wheel.

Siren Blaster suddenly went from a vehicle to a standing, fighting Zord that was all blue and the metal head wore a police hat. With four Zords fighting against one monster the battle needless to say didn't last long. It was twenty minutes later the Rangers were standing in the park demorphed in civilian clothes.

"That was so tight," laughed Shane.

Blake nodded smiling. "That time when Dustin tripped down the stairs and landed on his face… Classic. The look on that monsters face when it saw four Zords…"

"PRICELESS!" laughed seven voices at once.

Tori glanced down at her watch. "We better book guys if we want to hang at the CoffeeHouse." She gave Justin an evil grin. "There our new friend can tell us about himself."

"Only if you tell me about the time Dustin fell on his face," smiled Justin.

"Oh ha ha ha," said Dustin with mock hurt, trying to pretend to be sad. Seeing the grins on everyone else faces caused his own to come out. "Its not like I fell that bad."

Cam chuckled quietly. "Yeah right, you practically kissed the ground."

They laughed and Justin walked with the group laughing along with them. He wasn't apart of their group but he was close and that was good enough for him. So what Hunter didn't like him or didn't trust him. He liked these Rangers.

Cam looked up at Justin smiling; telling him quietly what the joke everyone else was laughing at was about. Justin nodded, while smiling along not really paying any attention. He was lost in the feeling that hit him when Cam smiled at him. Inside Justin was mentally thinking:

'I like the way my heart flutters when he smiles at me.'

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If you ever had a crush on somebody then you know the heart fluttery feeling you get when that special person smiles at you. You know what I'm talking about ^ _^ Oh yeah. I revised Chapter One, so that Sensei didn't tell Justin that Lothor was his twin brother. I agreed when someone told me that was a bit much. Anyway, the next chapter will have more Ranger interaction as they get to know Justin. Don't forget to scroll down and review after reading this.