{A/N: Yes, this *is* a chapter. I'm gonna put this in a weird order, so bear with me, k? I'm starting with personal replies, and then going to a little thing I'm calling 'Concerning Kit', next comes the chapter, then my begging for feedback. Thanks for reading (and reviewing *hint, hint*)!}
Personal Replies:
Vespera: Okay, first I would like to say arigato for the compliments. I don't want to say anything about what you've said about Kit here, but I've definitely taken what you've said into consideration and I'll be working on those small problems. Once again, thanks.
Ragemoon: Thanks for the ideas- I really like one of them, and you'll get the credit when I get around to using it. Arigato for the reviews! ^-^
TJ: Thanks.
Synalm: Kansha suru
Just a Somebody: I probably should put in more stuff with Tori and Hunter… okay, then. Arigato!
Skimmboardergirl: Sorry- this won't be a Blake/Tori pairing. Though I'll try to write a Cassie/Andros fic if I get 60 reviews… Anyways, thanks for the review.
Veronica: Thanks. And, at this rate, I can write a few more fics about Tori. Any suggestions on the ship?
Joel: Thank you- sorry this took a while to get out…
Add: About the 'dude' thing… I'll try to add that in- sorry… heh, bad history with the word.
MMkbuckley: Thanks. I'll try to write a fic for that ship too…
Moi as in *ME*: Thank you.
ShInImEgAmI: k… arigato.
Kanja: LOL- thanks for the ideas. I'll definitely put certain ones into consideration.
Heart-breaker86: Thanks
Dione: 'k
H: TY
Low Five: so far you're right, and you have the code down. Congrats. And thanks
JK: hi…
Another A/N: Sorry this took so long to get up; there have been quite a few problems lately. One was that I was grounded for three months. The second was falling down some stairs and not telling anyone- hence ending up in the hospital not long later…Another is a family matter. And the last one took place barely five minutes ago and included a knife and my finger…
Concerning Kit:
Okay, Kit was put in this story to basically create a mess than disappear. I'm working between two ideas on what will happen to her, but I think I have my mind made up.
As they finally revealed in Ninja Storm, Lother and Sensei are brothers, and as Kit is Lother's daughter (I'm amazed I haven't been killed for that yet), it's only reasonable that Sensei's her uncle and Cam is her cousin.
With her connection with Blake, I needed a reason for her to be mad at him in particular, and because she's never met Tori, that turn seemed to be the only way to go.
Also, you have my promise that she won't be hanging around much longer. Judging by what happens in this chapter, I'm pretty sure she'll be gone by the end of the next chapter.
Oh, and quick warning: she's sort of whiney in this chapter…
*Thanks everyone for their comments on Kit!*
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Fooling MeDivision III: Nightmare's Inferno
By EclipseKlutz
Genre: Romance/Action/Adventure/Drama
Rating: PG
(Would it be a good idea to change the rating to PG-13?)
Disclaimer: Don't own PR… though I do own: this plot and Kit…
If there is anything spoken in a different language, the translation shall be beneath it in italics.
Dustin sighed as a kulzack lunged at him. A simple sticking his foot out was all it took to have the space alien rolling around on its black and red striped back. He kicked another one, which, to his smug satisfaction, fell into the one behind it knocking them both down.
Shane found his attackers equally boring, punching every now and then, and stepping to the side so the kulzacks would crash into each other.
"Man, I thought that only worked in the movies," He commented as he looked down at the pile of kulzacks that had collected on the floor in a similar fashion to dust.
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"Well, can ya at least untie my wrists?" Tori huffed.
Hunter nodded, and quickly untied the cord. Tori wrung her hands, trying to get back the small amount of circulation she had lost in them.
'If I just keep her from the other rangers, they won't be a complete team… So Lother and Black will get revenge on them for what they're Sensei did… so why do I have the feeling something's going to go wrong?' Hunter thought as he watched in amusement as the blue Ninja Storm ranger poke at her meal with a fork.
She glanced over at him, "Why are you staring at me, and why does this resemble the food from my elementary school?"
Rolling his eyes and turning away, Hunter began to look through his duffel bag, fishing a red planner out. Once he had finished flipping through it, he stated, "Tell me when you're done, we're going to have to go shopping soon..."
Sending him a strange look of mock concern, Tori pushed the food aside disgustedly, "Done."
After untying her ankles, he guided her through the halls. A caustic smell filled the air around the sixth floor, and a man ran down the halls frantically.
As he passed them, his words echoed in the air: "Fire!!! FIRE!!!! The stairs are BLOCKED!"
Dismissing him for a nutcase, Hunter opened the doors to the stairs, only to find what the man had said was true. They could hardly step inside it was so clouded with smoke, and as they looked around, they were pretty sure the elevators were the same way.
Except it didn't come, and the screams from the shaft they were looking at told them exactly what had happened…
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"Password Protected Page," the computer announced again stubbornly for the fifth time.
Cam sighed, trying to think back to the password she had always used. When it didn't surface his mind, he X-ed out the program he was running, and looked back over the code.
He glared at it for a few more minutes, before rolling his eyes at what he considered 'obvious'. Cam right clicked the text twice, and when nothing came up he was positive of what he had been missing.
Opening the document onto one of Kit's many advanced programs, he finally could tell what she had done by the Layer and History panel off to the side: Scanned in the original scroll, then put a layer over it with 100% opaqueness, and put it onto a program she invented called Fox Sees.
Sighing, he did what he believed he should've done the moment he got his hands on the document, which was deleting the added layer.
Though the code was gone, he was still faced with an ancient language to translate it. After slipping it through one of the not password protected programs, he wished he had stayed far away from the document.
What it said wasn't pleasant- nor was it the actual scroll.
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Kit shuddered, not daring to turn around, "Yah, I figured that much out… Dad…"
Lother grimaced at the name. He was used to being called Uncle and Master, but Dad was something he hadn't heard since he walked out on his mortal wife and child years ago. "Who are you?"
"Let's see… Ketsueki No-Last-Name, member of Tsuki-Mizu Academy. At least for starters," she informed him, the angry glint normally residing in her eyes now resembled pure fiery hatred. "For more advanced smart people, as I'm sure you consider yourself, I enjoy the color purple, foxes, music, and… oh yes, getting revenge on the person who killed my mother, A.K.A., my father. Which, bringing that all back around, would be you."
Glaring at her was a skeptic expression; Lothor stated, "You've got the wrong space alien- I only left, didn't kill. But now, anyways, I think you should go prancing off to find your Daddy Dearest while end the world, deal?"
"And in not killing her, she did so herself," Kit muttered sadly. Wiping a tear from her face before it was too evidently there, she glared over at Blake, "Besides, you won't be finding it there."
Glancing back at her, surprised, Blake inquired, "Well that would explain why I haven't found anything yet, what'd you do with it?"
"Unfortunately I didn't have enough common sense to burn it, but I did hide it somewhere else."
"Sorry then," Blake said, not meaning it all. After a few quick words, he now stood in front of her as the navy ranger.
Lother leaned against a wall, and watched as the fight progressed before him, his mind lurking on what Kit had said: "And in not killing her, she did so herself." A wave of something washed over him, an emotion he couldn't place, though he had a strange hunch it was regret.
Blake had made it a point to deliver the first move, which had been a punch at her jawbone that she only narrowly dodged. Making quick recovery, she returned with a high kick that he merely ducked boredly, before grabbing her leg leaving her standing on one foot, determined not to fall. And with that determination also came with her launching her foot backwards, knocking him in the cheek with his own hand. But since his helmet was fairly hard, she figured most of the damage was on his hand. Either way, he let go.
Knowing he had a fairly big advantage, she was beginning to consider whether or not she should be running away. Being stubborn as she was lead to the decision of sending a hooked punch at his arm, resulting in a scraped fist.
"Come on already, its not like she's a ranger or anything," Lother complained, his voice edged with boredness.
"Fine," Blake obeyed, and tossed her into one of the walls.
She landed in the river on top of her ankle, and the faint cracking noise suggested it was either broken or sprained. As Blake and Lother began to disappear she sneered, "We'll finish this later, Blake… and it won't go your way."
"Your right, it probably won't end like I want it to," he replied threateningly. "But I'll still win."
And they were gone.
Shane and Dustin rushed in at about that moment, both looking rather frustrated and muddy. Dustin's comment as they reached the cavern was definitely telltale, "Dude, why are these places so… muddy?"
"Try because they're caves," Kit retorted, they hadn't noticed her and she was still sitting in the river, painfully gripping her ankle.
"Okay, well then. We've found you, now let's go," Shane said, turning to leave.
"Excuse me, a little a help here please," Kit muttered exasperated, motioning at her foot. "I didn't have a very nice landing, gee… who'd of thought power ranger armor, or whatever it is, was so hard."
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Tori stared at the shaft. Her eyes narrow, she stated, "Give me back my morpher."
"Even better, you sit here, I'll get them down." Hunter suggested, his tone making it very clear she wasn't getting her morpher back.
"Fine," Tori said, rolling her eyes and tossing her hands into the air. She watched as he morphed and yanked the shaft's doors open, before climbing up the chain inside.
Once she was positive he was too bust to check back in on her, she dashed back to their hotel room, holding her breath as long as she could as she made her way up the stairs. Upon reaching the landing, she stood outside the door for sometime trying to regain all air in her lungs, before dashing back to the room.
After tearing things out of his duffel bag, and not finding anything, she began ripping apart the room, finding what she was looking for in a fairly obvious place: underneath Hunter's pillow.
Morphing quickly, she hastily made her way to the elevator shaft. Using her sword to pry the doors apart, she glanced down. From what she could tell through all the smoke, the elevator appeared to be stuck right between the twelfth and thirteenth levels.
"They always said thirteen was an unlucky number," she muttered, jumping down and landing perfectly on top of the elevator. Just as she was about to open the emergency door, the lights of the hotel flickered. And went off.
Rolling her eyes and not daring to jinx anything with a witty comment, she went back to prying the door open. As it swung from its clasp, she looked inside; Hunter was glaring upwards at her, though the sigh he let out sounded somewhat relieved. A pregnant mother held her toddler in a corner; two nine year-old twin boys grabbed at their grandpa's shirt for reassurance, though his wide eyes and worried expression were far from reassuring; and a couple stood in opposite of the control panel, the woman was holding her dog tightly, and her husband was gently squeezing her shoulder.
Oh yeah, and there was plenty of smoke, not to mention heat.
"I see you weren't as successful as you thought you'd be," Tori commented wryly. Without waiting for a reply, she stretched her hand out to the woman cradling her child. "Hand him here, ma'am lease… er, it is a he, right?"
She couldn't see much of the child through the fog. But the woman handed the child up, saying, "Yes… his name is Thomas…"
Holding the child in one arm, Tori pulled herself onto the narrow platform stationed next to the door to the thirteenth floor. After yanking one of the doors open and checking to make sure there wasn't much smoke, she gently set the toddler on the landing.
"You know, Hunter, you could make yourself useful," she muttered, hopping down into the elevator, grabbing one of the twins, and pulling herself back up, and setting him on the thirteenth floor.
With a shrug, Hunter grabbed the other twin and handed him up, saving her the trouble of jumping back down. The process continued like that, until all the inhabitants of the elevator, except for hunter were safely on the thirteenth story.
Tori stepped back as the crimson thunder ranger pulled himself out, and was about to make her way to thirteenth floor herself, when a loud snapping noise caught both of their attention.
Looking up, Hunter saw the chain cracking. Grabbing Tori's wrist, he jumped onto the platform, pulling her along with him. Yanking her wrist from his grasp, and about to question why he just did that, her words didn't leave her mouth as the smashing sound from the first floor rang to through the corridors.
"Well then," Hunter began, standing up and glancing down the halls, "I think we have to put out that fire, care to help Miss Blue?"
The death glare she sent him was priceless; unfortunately he didn't see it though, as her visor was still on.
Chasing him down the corridors, and catching up easily, she began to calculate where the fire might be. Settling with second floor, by the thickness of the smoke, she opened the door quickly, but hastily attempted to shut it again as flames leaked out.
Turning around, she ordered, "You get everyone out, and I'll see what I can do about the fire."
Hunter nodded, and turned away, dashing back up the stairs. Tori took one step into the halls, trying to ignore the pressing heat. But it just got denser and denser as she sidestepped the fire. Finally muttering something along the lines of, "This is ridiculous," she turned to stare at an ice machine.
Water came spurting out; falling across the flames and slowly demolishing them as more and more came forth.
She continued walking down the corridor, her eyes narrowing with suspicion as they fell upon a broom closet. Opening the door, Tori could tell by the matches on the floor that the fire wasn't accidental.
Looking up at the walls, her eyes widened and she slammed the door shut before running as fast as she could down the corridor…
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Cam paced back and forth, nearly wearing a hole in the highly polished floor of Ninja Opts. Footsteps down the stairs alerted him to other's presence, and the audible wincing he could easily place as Kit. When they entered, Kit hopped over to a chair on one foot, and sat down.
"What took you so long?" Cam demanded, sounding a tad bit worried.
Looking over at him Kit stated, "Probably because I just became Hop-along… again. You wouldn't happen to have any ice packs around here, would ya?"
"What's up, Cam?" Shane asked, as Dustin exited the room to grab some ice.
"Other than the scroll you're trying to get ends the world?" Cam retorted angrily.
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Hunter stood outside, positive that the last of the hotel's occupants had left. As he turned around to help Tori, he was thrown backwards from a fiery force. The kind that only a bomb has.
Looking up from the place on the parking lot he had landed on, he saw that the hotel was now hardly a structure anymore, yet completely burnt. He heard what he presumed to be the sixteenth floor collapsing and taking out quite a few floors beneath it.
"Tori…"
~~*~~A/N: Okay, sorry this took so long… and it's probably not that good- but I think I can get the next chapter up sooner since this is the only fic I'm working on currently… Anyways- please review!!!