(Doyles-always) Haha, I cracked up also when I thought about it, it's cool to have some sacarsm from time to time. Don't you agree? Anyway, thanks a lot. I'll try my best to keep on writing.

(Master of Perfect Chaos) Thanks for the comment. As I mention below, I'll try to make things a little more "unpredicted". Anyway, I'm wondering whether you could give me any suggestions? Thanks.

(ShaneWestLover) Thanks a lot for the review! Keep on watching.

This chapter starts a week after Derek's return from Blue Bay to Hong Kong.

'Great!' I grumbled under my breath as I saw the long list of homework I'd had to catch up on after the trip to Blue Bay. Of course, I knew that there'd be stuff for me to do, but never had I thought that there'd be this much.

As I shook my head hopelessly at the list, Issac came over. 'Yo man! There's a new movie on at the theatre, wanna go?' He asked.

I half-glared at him as he finished. 'Are you trying to piss me off over here? Cause you're doing a very good job on it! Just check this list out.' I shoved him the list as he gave me a puzzled look.

'Man, you ARE dead. Well, there's a price to pay.' He thought for a minute, 'And it's definitely worth it if you fought along side with the Ninja Storm Rangers. That green ranger was so cool!'

Raising a hand to tell him to shut up, I sighed. 'Ok, you've been saying the same thing ever since I got back, I get the point.'

As we were talking, another boy entered the room.

'Well, well, well. If it isn't the dumb duo?' He sang.

Issac's fists clenched in anger as I pulled him back to prevent him from pouncing on the guy.

I turned my head over to him. 'Leave us alone Jacob.'

He glared at me with fury. 'Why should I? This place isn't yours is it? I have the right to stay here.'

'Fine, suite yourself.' I said coldly and turned to Issac. 'Let's get out of here.'

'Man, why did you stop me?' Issac yelled as he jumped up and down along the corridor, 'That's guy's really getting on my nerves. Thinking that he's so great just because he scored the highest in science. Who cares?'

I looked at him matter-o-factly. 'He's just trying to annoy us. Ignore him. H- '

I didn't get to finish my sentence as my morpher started to beep. 'I'll catch ya later!' I said as I ran to a deserted area.

*One Hour Later

'I'll never die!' The monster known as Rack-pack yelled as odious fumes arose from its disgusting body.

I sat inside the cockpit of the Tornado Megazord, carefully awaiting the chance for the final strike. 'Now's the time, let's do it Panther!'

With a battle cry, the Tiger Fang charged up and destroyed Rack-pack as it reverted into smoke.

'Whew!' I sighed. 'That was close. Anyway, thanks Panther, great job!'

'No problem.' Panther replied as it sent me back down to the surface.

Carefully finding a deserted allyway, and double-checking no one could see me, I demorphed to my civilian form.

Suddenly, a voice startled me as I whirled around, only to see Jacob, smirking at me.

'What a big surprise!' He purred. 'Derek Ho is the mighty power ranger! Who would've guessed something like this?'

I walked towards him. 'Jacob, listen-'

He cut me off. 'I wonder what would happen if I told this to the media? It really makes me very curious. Maybe I should try.'

Clearly, he was trying to scare me.

'Jacob, you can't tell anyone. Please, this is not something you should play with.' I explained steadily, although my mind started to race like crazy.

'Why the heck should I listen to you?'

'Because this could affect the fate of the whole universe. I know you understand.'

Jacob remained silent for a few moments. 'Fine, I won't tell anyone, ok? Are you satisfied? But I'd be keeping an eye one you.' With that, he left.

My feet were glued to the spot as I slowly regained breath. Jacob said that he wouldn't tell anyone, but what he said didn't sound right, it just wasn't him.

If he told the media, all would be over. Just the mere thought scared me, everyone would be affected. My friends, my family, everyone who knew me.

For a few days, these thoughts still troubled me. I couldn't concentrate, in class, training, in battle, everywhere.

But that wasn't all. Kelly was about to leave soon, the time we'd have together was growing short. I'd had to grasp the chance I had, before it was too late. All of this mixed together, almost resulted in death during a monster attack. Never in my life, had I felt so stressed.

Knowing that I'd be in real danger if this continued, I looked toward my only solution- Sensei. Heading towards the inner mountains, I sat down and meditated.

'Seems like you are troubled my student.' Sensei's voice whispered as I concentrated.

'I am, sensei. What could I do about it? Am I getting my priorities wrong?'

Sensei chuckled lightly. 'You have matured a lot ever since I handed down the morpher to you.'

I groaned. 'Sensei, is this really the right time?'

'Listen to me first. Before, the word "priority" wouldn't even have appeared in your head, except when there was fun. Now however, you are willing to think about your actions.'

I was silent for a moment as I thought about sensei's words. 'Well, I guess you're right. But what am I supposed to do?'

'There is nothing wrong with your priorities. All you need to do Derek is to believe in yourself. Remember what I taught you at the academy, inner strength is what makes a successful ninja.'

Without warning, the morpher on my wrist started to beep.

Sensei spoke before I could even start. 'I can sense a strong energy surge. Now go! I have faith in you, do what you believe is correct.'

'Thanks sensei.' I replied as I stood up. 'Tornado Storm, Ranger Form!'

With no time to waste, I took out the mini-cycle Cam gave me. 'Tsunami Cycle!' With a loud roar, I sped off to where the monster was.

Screams of terror were heard by civilians as they ran to safety when I arrived onto the scene. With a swift jump, I leapt off the cycle and sent an Insectoid sprawling to the ground.

'Hey, why don't you pick on someone your own size?' A voice growled behind me.

Without warning, a punch knocked me out of my senses as I started to turn around. Ignorning the stabbing pain, I slowly stood back up.

My attacker was a 7-foot tall, muscular-looking warrior monster, with various heavy metal plates covering its body.

Carefully, I dispatched my sword from my back and with a tremendous leap, twirled around the monster and sent down an attack.

To my horror, the sword left nothing but a few scratches on the giant. Before I could react, it gripped me hard with its huge hands and lifted me above the ground.

'Might as well give up. You're no match for me.' It rasped as another punch came in contact with my stomach, knocking the wind out of me.

For the next few moments, I contunued to get clobbered by my opponent as he threw me around as if I were a little puppet.

'Crash!' The sound of breaking glass rang across my face as I plunged headfirst into a store's window. There I lay, face down in the pile of glass shards, my body heaving under the pain. Blood was dripping down to my mouth from my nose.

'Must get up.' I told myself as I slowly tried to regain balance, the monster laughed evily as it saw me make my way towards it again.

'You want to die? Very well.' It rasped, 'I'll end your life quickly.'

Without warning, it launched a punch at my stomach, knocking the wind out of me as I doubled over, gasping for breath.

In the daze of pain, sensei's words rushed back to me. 'All you need to do Derek is to believe in yourself. Remember what I taught you at the academy, inner strength is what makes a successful ninja.'

'That's it!' I exclaimed as I rolled to my left, narrowly avoiding a deadly stomp. Flipping to a corner, I closed my eyes and concentrated.

Bit by bit, I felt as if my strength was returning. Even with my eyes closed, a mental image of the charging monster floated into my head.

'Now!' My instincts roared as I jumped upwards, avoiding another deadly attack.

The now furious monster wasn't giving up this easily. 'Get back here and quit running so I can kill you!' it screamed in fury.

'You got it!' I mocked. Suddenly, a familiar beeping filled my ears as I looked downwards. Sure enough, an edge of a card could be seen from my buckle.

'Alright!' I silently cheered. 'Panther Booster!' I slid in the card without a moments hesitation as soon as the booster materialized.

'Armor upgrade!' the voice said as the metal plates rushed over my entire body.

With my armor on, it was finally payback time.

The monster suffered attack after attack as I released my moves on it. 'Take that!' I yelled as a mid-kick sent it sprawling to the ground.

'Time to finish you off, eh?' I said as I pulled out another new card. 'Panthero Attack!' Energy converged from my whole body as the armor started to glow.

'Unleash!' I roared as the energy lashed out, forming a charging panther as it ran at top speed towards the monster.

Just as I thought the hit would destroy it, something jumped onto the scene and blocked the attack, deflecting it to the ground.

As the smoke cleared, I was able to make out who it was. My fists clenced in anger at what I saw, standing before me, was the spider monster I had encountered at the academy, the one who killed sensei and Jeff!

'You!' I spat through gritted teeth as the monster grinned at me.

The monster was easily as furious as I was. 'Arancha! What are you doing here? I could defeat him!'

The spider still grinned. 'Lord Centaron is not happy with your progress, Metalar. However, as you are still a general, he sent me to bring you back.'

Even a properly trained ninja couldn't have resisted the rage within. With a furious yell I charged at the two of them, sword raised high as I prepared to hack them to pieces.

'Metalar, aim for that building.' Arancha ordered as it obeyed, then it turned to me. 'One shot, Hurricane Ranger, and those people in that building are dead!'

Immediately, I skidded to a stop. 'This is between you and me. Leave the innocent out of this!' I yelled.

The grin widened as it spoke. 'There is no such word as "innocence" in my head. One single move from you,' It warned, 'and you'll be killing many lives.'

Even before I could think about what it said, all of its arms send an energy wave at me. 'Demon Delgalto!'

Never, had I felt such pain as the energy coarsed through my entire body. Back, back , back I was thrown as I hit a wall, cracking an enormous hole in it.

Slowly, my powers drained away as I dropped out of morph. The pile of rubble around started to swirl and turn as my vision dimmed, the world fell black as I lost conciousness.

I didn't know how long I had fainted, but my body was still in great pain as I came back to my senses.

'Ohh!' I moaned as I brush myself off. I ran back to where the monsters were, only to find that they were gone. Also, to my relief, the building they had threatened to destroy was still there, unharmed.

I started to glance at my morpher to see where they were, when a nasty shot hit me, hard!

'No.' I gasped as I tried to control myself from fainting again, this was impossible.

The Hurricane Morpher was gone!

Well, another chapter up. Where is Derek's morpher? You just gotta see the next chap to find out. Keep on watching everybody. Also, I'll be trying to make the coming chapters a little "unpredictable", because of a great comment from (Master of Perfect Chaos), so please don't flame me if something comes out unexpected. Keep watchin'.