A/N: I forgot to mention that in this story, they don't know Trent is the white ranger yet.
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Chapter 7[/B]: Learning The Truth.
"Conner! We have to do something!" Kira screamed.
Conner nodded and ran forward, slamming into the White Ranger. Trent jumped back and faced him. Dustin looked up, his eyes squinting as he watched. Kira ran over to him, to try to help him as they both watched Conner and Trent starring down at each other. Conner rolled ups sleeves and summoned his moprher.
"Dino Thunder! Power up! Ha!" He shouted, "Your going down white man."
Kira rolled her eyes, "[I]Conner!? What are you thinking!? You just revealed your indenity to my brother.[/I]" She thought to herself.
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The Victor hotel began to shake again and everyone in Blake's room fell to the floor. Tori lost her balance and onto of Blake. Cam lost his balance, grabbing into the window sill. He looked outside and saw Shane and Eric holding onto something. The whole city was shaking.
"I don't think this building is going to hold!" Hunter shouted, "We have to get out of here!"
Cam agreed and opened the window, "Were going to jump. Come on guys." He said.
Cam threw himself out of the window and landed safely on the ground. His ninja skills gave him the advantage to jump down from high places. Marah quickly followed out of the window leaving the Thunder Brothers and Tori left. The three of them ran to the window and glanced to each other.
"After you bro, I wanna make sure Tori gets down safely before I go." Blake told him.
Hunter shook his head, "No, you go. I will make sure she's all right."
"Hell no." He shot back.
Tori groaned pushing both of them aside, "I will go first." She said, jumping out the window.
Hunter and Blake watched as she hit the ground. An air conditioner fell off from an above floor window and came crashing down. Hunter pulled his brother into the room, before his head got hit from the falling object. Tori jumped out of the way just in time.
"Nice going you idiot! Tori could of gotten hurt!" Hunter barked at him.
"Excuse me!? You should of gone!" He sneered back.
"Let's go!" Shane's voice echoed from below.
Hunter smirked and ran out the window, with Blake following close behind. Tori watched as people fled the building, the structure beginning to collapse. The 5 story building was old, and wasn't going to last long.
"Somebody help me! I'm stuck!" A women from the top floor screamed.
Tori gasped, "Oh my god! We have to help her!" She panicked.
Before anyone could react, Eric was already on the job. He wall jumped onto an emergency ladder on the side of the building and climbed up. He ran all the way up the steps to the fith floor and looked around. The window was out of reach and the door was jammed. He used his ninja skills to jump onto the top of the roof and ran over to the edge where the women's window was.
"Be careful Eric!" Shane shouted to him.
They watched carefully as he grabbed onto the roof and lowered himself down inside the women's window. Inside, there was a small fire and a huge decoration statue had fallen in front of the door.
"Are you all right lady?" He asked.
"Conner?" She asked.
He shook his head, "No..i'm." Eric felt the building beams were going to fall, "Come on, there's no time."
She nodded and the building began felt as if it was going to callapse. There was no time to take the stairs and get out. He ran to the window and looked to see how high the ground was.
"Give me your hand." He whispered.
She raised an eyebrow, "What? Are you crazy!? Were not going to jump."
"Ma'am. You have to trust me on this.
The blonde women nodded her head and went to the window. She smiled, "Names cassidy by the way."
He smiled, "Eric, Eric Mcknight."
"Your Conner's brother!" She gasped.
He nodded and grabbed her, hugging her close as he climbed onto the window. The others watched carefully.
"Hold on tight!" He told her.
Eric jumped, holding her as they fell. He position his body right, trying to remember everything in ninja class. If a ninja can jump from a cliff down into a valley, then a building should be no problem. He landed on the ground, holding her in his arms. He cringed as he felt a slight pain but put her down.
"Oh my god.." She gasped.
"Run!" Hunter pointed.
The building support beams got crushed underneath and the building began to fall. They ran to the parking lot and hid behind the blue van, as smoke rushed past them, filling a large area around them.
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Dustin was finally able to regain control of his powers and the shaking began to stop. Conner had slashed at the white ranger, sending him flying back. The white ranger recovered and laughed.
"You got lucky boy. This wont be the last time you see me." He spoke and vanished.
Conner demorphed and ran over to Dustin and Kira. She stood up and smacked him in the arm.
"ow, what was that for. " He asked.
"You morphed in front of him." She explained.
Conner rolled his eyes, "It doesn't matter, he's a ranger also." He pointed out.
Kira raised an eyebrow, "What?"
Dustin stood up and shrugged, "I was once one.. not anymore."
"Don't you remember that video diary at Dr O's. Remember I said something about my twin brother. He was in the video. Don't you remember?"
She gasped, "Oh my god.. Your right. I just had a blonde moment."
Conner nodded, "Dustin, something is seriously wrong with your powers."
Dustin ignored his comment, "Who was that white ranger?"
"Were not sure yet, but that's not important. We should get you back to Dr O's. Maybe he can help figure out what's wrong with you." Kira replied.
"Dr O? You mean that teacher at your school? Is he a ranger?"
Kira nodded, "Yes he is. Come on."
They both got back into Conner's car and drove off towards Dr O's house. They got out of the car and walked up to the door. Was 11 at night, and they weren't sure if he was asleep or not. Conner knocked on the door and they waited. A porch light turned on and Tommy opened the door.
"Conner? Kira?" He asked.
"Dr O. Sorry to bother you so late, but we need your help." Kira asked.
He nodded and opened the door, "What's the matter."
Conner walked over to the switch that opened the entrance to the Dino base. Tommy turned and glared at him.
"It's okay. Dustin knows. Those earthquakes we been having, he's the one causing them."
"You mean like the one we had 10 minutes ago that destroyed a few buildings in the city." He pointed out.
"Yeah, it was that bad huh." Dustin mumbled.
Conner turned on the T.V. Every channel had the local news on it, talking about the earthquake. His eyes widen when he saw his brother on T.V.
"Conner, is that Eric?" Kira pointed out.
Eric and the ninja gang, along with Cassidy was standing there beside the news reporter. They were talking about the destruction of the Victor Hotel.
"Dude! That's Tori. Shane. Blake and Hunter. And Eric. Who's the chick" Dustin asked.
"Cassidy." Kira answered.
"Your friends with them?" Conner asked, "Or do they go to the academy with you."
"Both actually."
Tommy walked down the stairs to the dino base and turned on the computer. The door bell ranger and Conner went to answer it. Hayley was standing there.
"Hayley? What are you doing here? It's late." Conner told her.
She nodded, "No crap Conner. I was contacted to come here A.S.A.P. Something about an earth boy."
Dustin waved his hand, "That would be me."
She took a step inside and looked around for Tommy, "Come on. He wants me to run a scan on the boy." She said, dragging him down the steps into the base.
Dustin looked around at the computers and walls. He was fascinated about everything. It was so different then Ninja Ops. So prehistoric. It was kind of cool. Hayley sat in a chair and started to type stuff on the computer. Tommy was in the back pulling things out.
"We need to run a test on him, that's what you want right Tommy?" Hayley asked
"Yeah. We need to figure out what's going on with him." He said coming out with white wires.
Conner and Kira both stood in the corner and watched as Hayley stood up and directed Dustin to stand in the middle. She took the wires that Tommy had brought out and sorted them. She took the end of each wire and stuck them on the side of Dustin's temple. She then grabbed the computer chair and directed him to sit down, hooking the other end of the wire to the computer.
"Now, Dustin. Can you kind of use your powers..er but not much." She said.
She walked over to the Computer and pressed a button, a screen of information appeared, as it read Dustin's body wave. Dustin concentrated a bit and the room started to shake. Kira grabbed onto Conner, to not lose her balance and watched patiently.
"Okay, that's enough." She told him.
A machine was printing out the waves and a bar chart was on the computer screen. Hayley looked them over, reading everything carefully.
"He seams to have full control of his powers." Hayley told them.
Conner shook his head, "Now he does. But occasionally he loses control. "
"I'm going to run a viral scan. Maybe its not himself causing it. But something he ate, or maybe something. I don't know." She replied.
She typed a few more things in and more information appeared on the screen. A scale model of Dustin's body was on the screen, each part color coded. She looked at the screen strangely, as if something wasn't right. She looked at the green waves that were flowing through his body.
"That's not right." She looked at it.
Conner, Tommy and Kira stepped forward and looked at it.
"Hmm." Tommy thought for a second, "If I'm not mistaken. That's a nuro-toxin"
"What is that?" Kira was curious.
"It's a rare toxic that is only found in the rainforest. Its used for self defense. When having the toxic in the body, the body acts as if it's a fever. Making the body unstable."
Hayley nodded, "He's right. And since Dustin needs concentration to control his powers, and keep them well maintain, the toxic is sending signals and false messages, making him unable to occasionally control is powers. And the bad part is, if we can't stop it, Dustin will fully lose control of his power, sending a huge earthquake that can destroy this entire planet or himself.. His Sensei must of chose him in the earth arts because he has a lot of potential. A lot of power.
"Is there any way to cure it?" Conner asked.
Hayley shook her head, "Not to sure. This kind of toxic isn't even documented in books yet. We just happened to have the information, the government is hiding all sorts of things.
"There might be a way. There's an old temple in South America where they said the toxic originated. Might find a clue for some cure or something." Tommy told them
"Dudes, can I get out of the chair now? Can someone take these things off?" Dustin asked.
Kira turned and ripped the wires off and sighed, "Looks like were leaving to South America. But School is starting soon."
"We don't have a choice." Conner told her.
"I know..." She whispered
--End Chapter