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CHAPTER 17

Storm Twins

Tara and Jon slowly walked towards their nephews, cocky grins gracing their faces. Scott and Brian tried to get up, but the pain was too intense.

"What did you do to the Lightning Academy?!" Brian demanded.

"It doesn't matter," Tara said.

"You won't live long enough to do anything about it," Jon replied.

"Wanna bet?!" came two voices. Everyone watched in amazement as Leila and Chloe charged Tara and Jon. They tumbled over and stood back up in defensive stances. Trent, Conner, and Hunter ran to Brian and Scott's side.

"Give us the Lightning power Chloe and all of this is over!" Jon cried.

"FORGET IT!" Chloe bellowed angrily before reaching over and ripping her regular clothes off, revealing her Lightning Ninja Uniform.

"Let's go," Leila said, ripping her clothes off to reveal her Thunder Ninja Uniform. Scott and Brian watched in amazement as the girls ensued a fight in fluid formation with one another.

"So it is true. The storm twins do exist," Scott said, watching his cousin and her sister fight their aunt and uncle.

"What are you babbling about?" Trent asked.

"There's a legend about two who are of lightning and thunder. The storm twins can fight so fluidly, so mirrored to each other that it's like one person is fighting," Brian explained. The girls indeed were fighting fluidly, doing exact same moves that seemed to gain the upperhand on the evil Jon and Tara.

"What's wrong with you two? What happened to you?!" Chloe cried to the people she thought were her parents.

"This happened," Tara sneered before firing a ball of energy at Chloe. She dived out of the way and tumbled towards her sister.

"Let's turn it up a notch!" Leila said. Chloe knew exactly what she meant. The girls shifted into their morphing positions but just as they were about to do their last moves, something caused them to do something different. They crossed the wrists where they wore their morphers and activated a new power in them. It reactivated Leila's seemingly lost thunder powers. When the light of the power died down, an amazing sight was before the others. The girls were wearing exact suits together with a couple of exceptions. Chloe, of course, was in silver while Leila was dressed down in gold. Down the side's of Leila's uniform were white thunder bolts and down Chloe's were white lightning bolts.

"Don't make us do this, please!" Chloe pleaded with them.

"Shut up!" Jon snarled before hurling a ball of energy at them. The girls each lifted their hands up and the ball bounced back towards Jon and Tara, knocking them off their feet.

"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE LIGHTNING ACADEMY?!" Brian and Scott bellowed, trying to get one last bit of info.

"You'll NEVER know!" Tara cried. Chloe and Leila jumped into the air and called out their new attacks at the same time.

"THUNDER BOLT, LIGHTNING BOLT, STRIKE!!!!" they cried. The surge of energy grew immensely until it collided with Tara and Jon, disintegrating them. The light of the energy ball died down and everyone looked at Chloe and Leila. The girls stood tall and proud for a second, then collapsed to the ground the very next. Their morpher left them and the girls were in obvious pain. Leila leaned to the ground in pain, gently rubbing her stomach. Chloe had tears in her eyes and was clutching her head in throbbing agony. The guys rushed over to the girls. Brian and Scott, still in pain, collapsed in front of them as Conner held Chloe, Hunter held Leila, and Trent comforted both of them in between them.

"What did you mean by the lightning academy?" Conner asked.

"They did something, I know they did," Brian said.

"We have to get there now," Chloe said.

"Not before you two get checked out," Hunter said before scooping Leila in his arms.

"Let's call the others," Conner said, picking Chloe up and rushing back into the house where the others were still standing in shock.

Back at the Lightning Academy, the seconds ticked away at the bomb. The students still screamed and struggled, not knowing how much time was left. One more look at it, and we see that exactly twenty-four hours is left.

Hours later, the rangers were gathering a plan for getting to the lightning academy and what to do next. Cam, Dustin, and Shane had ninja streaked in from the wind academy. Everyone else had come in from their night out. Hayley and Cam had ordered Leila and Chloe for immediate bed rest. Hayley was a little worried about Leila's baby but her fears were put to rest after Leila had a good few hours of rest.

"So we're really almost walking in their blind because you don't know what they did?" Anton asked of Brian and Scott.

"We can only see so much. That's the point of the power, you see enough so you know to investigate and make a difference. If you can see too much, then you ruin the point of having a future," Brian said.

"If we don't get their in time, some of us might not have a future," Laura said.

"Ease up on them guys. We should be thanking them for giving us the info they can," Tommy said, defending Brian and Scott. He knew to be cautious in situations but he still had a soft spot for people who get their start in this line of work evil but had the potential to be good. Hayley walked in right then. Anton jumped and walked over to her, taking her hand. Laura came up behind him.

"How are the girls?" Anton asked, nervously. Hayley gave both of them a soft smile.

"They're fine. I know this is A LOT to ask, but in the event that we need them to fight, I think we should wait another hour before leaving..TWO hours at the most. The girls REALLY need their rest," Hayley pleaded.

"It is a lot to ask but we need the girls," Kim said.

"Let's just hope we won't be too late," Sensei Omano said. Hunter held Leila in his arms up in their bedroom, both of their hands on her stomach.

"Are you sure about this?" Hunter asked nervously.

"Once a ranger, always a ranger baby. No matter what," Leila said, reassuring Hunter that she would fight. Conner and Chloe were wrapped up in each other's arms. Conner watched Chloe sleep, somewhat peacefully. He sighed and ran his thumb along her jaw line

"It'll be over soon. I won't let anything happen to you," he said.

Okay, they know SOMETHING'S up, but they don't know what. Will they get their in time? What's gonna happen with all the relationships and pregnancies? Find out in the next chapter as the rangers find their way to the Lightning Academy and have their encounter with Torrance.