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CHAPTER 22 Reinforcements

"Will you quit pouting?" Dana asked of her 19-year-old brother rhetorically as she played with the baby version on the floor. Nate glared at her before returning to his pouting mood. He had returned less than twenty minutes after he had left, unsuccessful and defeated from an uproar of Kelzacks.

"I didn't even find mom," Nate whined. Dana lifted up the baby version of her brother to eye level.

"Learn from your mistakes," she said to him. The parent rangers all laughed at Dana. Hunter sat down beside her and put his hands out to take Nate.

"Uh, you might want to sit on the other side of me first," Dana instructed. Hunter, looking confused, did move to the other side of her. Only then did Dana willingly hand over baby Nate.

"3...2...1....," she whispered. On cue, Eli appeared, falling backwards into Dana, somehow managing to land his head in her lap. She smiled sarcastically down at him as he recovered from the sudden fall.

"So, how'd it go?" she asked sarcastically. Eli glared up at his cousin.

"Do you see your mom anywhere?" he retorted. Blake offered a hand up to his son while Hunter did the same for his daughter.

"My turn," Dana said excitedly, but somewhat sarcastically.

"There's going to be no living with you if you bring mom back is there?" Nate asked his sister.

"WHEN I bring mom back, Nate. In the meantime, change your diaper and feed yourself," Dana said right before disappearing. Seconds after she left, the rangers all turned their noses up as baby Nate began to cry.

"Oh foul!" Dustin said as he covered his nose.

"How does she do that everytime?" Eli asked. Meanwhile, Dana appeared in the very same room where her mother was tied up. Drea looked over at the girl who had suddenly appeared and was shocked to be looking at a girl who could very well be her twin.

"What in the world...?" she asked in shock. Dana did not move but immediately jumped to questions.

"Has he done ANYTHING to you yet?" she asked anxiously.

"No thankfully," Drea said.

"That doesn't mean I won't," came the familiar evil voice. Dana sighed and rolled her eyes as Lothor appeared in front of her mother.

"Well, well, the last of the future failures. I'm going to enjoy this personally," he said cockily. Dana just looked at him as if he was stupid.

"You're really just going to stand there thinking that only THREE children came out of SEVEN rangers?" she asked seriously with slight hints of sarcasm. Lothor look dumbfounded.

"Let me introduce you to Leah Bradley, future blue wind ranger; Derrick Brooks, future yellow wind ranger; Isiah Clarke, future red wind ranger; and Kenneth Watanabe, future green samurai ranger," Dana said, cockily. As she said each name, a teenager resembling each particular present ranger appeared out of nowhere in respective ninja uniforms. Lothor, stunned, could do nothing but look at each of them with a gaping mouth.

"Or as I like to call them, the Motley Crew," Dana added, again sarcastically. Derrick, Isiah, and Kenneth simultaneously attacked Lothor, easily overpowering him in his stunned state. Leah and Dana went straight to Drea, breaking the chains with a mysterious super strength. Drea, confused but relieved, did not hesitate to go with them. Lothor, having regained his stature, threw the boys in the direction of the girls, which is what they had wanted. All three guys stood up next to the girls and the six of them disappeared. Lothor growled in anger.

"I WILL have a child heir with that powerful witch!" he declared. Meanwhile, Dana, Drea, and the new reinforcements appeared in Ninja Ops.

"Drea!" Hunter cried happily. Blake smiled as he held onto his nephew/godson and watched his brother and sister-in-law embrace each other. Dustin, Cam, and Dustin eyed the new guys.

"What is going on here?" Shane asked.

"We'll have plenty of time to explain that later. This is far from over," Dana said, for once totally seriously.

Wow! More kids! What did Dana mean that it was far from over? Is that why the other kids have come? Find out in Chapter 23.