TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY
Being Wrong
A/N: I got reviews and feel a bit more capable. Please note I will barbecue those who flame me and pay back by hunting them down relentlessly until I cause them immense suffering.no joke. My therapist was working on anger issues before he fell down that step into the piranhas.
((These are thoughts and telepathy)) just so you know.
Disclaimer: Baby no own Power Rangers at all! Now excuse me as I vaporize my slaves for their tragic work on my disclaimers summaries and total lack of ability. well as an evil overlord I can get away with that.
Rating: PG-13 (It gets unpleasant later in the story)
Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance
The Next Morning: ((That hurt)) decided Shane as he lay onto his bed with a groan. ((That jerk dropped a building on us! I am in some sort of shock! A whole building!))
Someone walked past his door with frequent whispered ow's of pain. He didn't remember how they had escaped only that they'd woken up beside the debris with only aches and pains as proof anything had happened.
'They're alive!' bellowed Lothar. He smashed his hand through a brick and roared angrily. He struck the Black Ranger across the face. 'You pathetic excuse for a ninja!'
Marah and Kapri watched the boy rise fluidly to his feet and touch his damaged helmet. 'I warned you' he said. 'They aren't easy to kill. You sent me to try and I did, they'll be out of action for a while. But rangers heal fast.'
'Fix your armour and prepare to fight'
Lothar turned his back on the boy and let him leave without a comment. He looked to his nieces. 'Next time kill the rangers.'
The pair nodded dumbly, their uncle was in a "mood" and if you crossed him in one of those you learned how to walk without your legs.
Sensei looked at the rangers, nursing their wounds and shook his head. 'He is the Black Astral Ranger' he said. 'The huh?' Cam repeated.
'Black Astral Ranger' Sensei said. 'He is a student of the Astral Ninja Academy, where they learn to use powers of the mind. It seems one of them was captured by Lothar.'
'We have to free him' Blake said decisively. 'We can't let him do what we did' Sensei nodded slowly. 'There may be away. His belt buckle is his morpher.if you can destroy it he will lose his power.that is an extreme to be used. I hope you understand that'
'We get it' Dustin said. 'Now all we gotta do is get to him'
'Not so easy' Tori said. 'Lothar has a shielded base.'
'Then we get him down here' Sensei said. 'An old proverb a friend once had. The Benefits of making the river come to you are numerous.'
'That's right!' exclaimed Cam. 'If we make him come to us we can set up a trap and make sure there's no ambushes!'
'Ehh, how do we do that genius?' asked Hunter with a sever dosage of cynicism dripping from his words.
Cam shot him a look and tapped on the keys of a console. 'I can get CyberCam to send out a special image signal that will convince Lothar there's a world leader conference on.like a news clip or something'
'Not too-shabby Cam' Hunter said. 'IF it works that is.' Cam said nothing but set up the signal.
'They should be here' Kapri said. 'There's supposed to be a big meeting of totally important people.'
The Black Astral Ranger stood beside them. His stance was ramrod straight and firm. He was waiting for some action. Marah pushed open the door of the town Hall with her toe. 'Hello? Important people?'
Tori kicked her in the ribs, spinning out from beside the door. 'Thanks for the compliment!'
'Rangers!' Kapri exclaimed as the other leapt from the rooftop. The Black Astral Ranger unfolded his arms in surprise.
'Not bad' he admitted. 'They must have been that good when they killed them.' He attacked. Spinning around he pulled his sai from their holsters in his boots and rushed forwards.
'Here's samurai!' Cam laughed as he slashed a Kelzack across the chest and spun to face the other. Instead he was given a blast in the chest with the black blaster of the Astral Ranger.
'Time to go bye-bye' the Astral Ranger snapped as he aimed at Cam's face and charged the blaster to full force. Hunter took the blast, as it lanced through the air he threw himself in front of it and accepted the energy bolt. Sparks exploded through the air and he landed in a heap.
'Well, one is better then none' decided the Ranger as he slashed his sai across Blake's chest and caught the Navy rangers neck between his angles. Spinning in the air he launched Blake across the sidewalk and into some potted plants. 'You'll all pay' he sneered.
Marah and Dustin struck and lunged at one another. Arms and feet spinning only to be blocked by the other. Shane and Kapri were fighting and Tori had her hands full with the Kelzacks. 'Quick!' exclaimed Shane as he leapt away and slashed his sword across the Astral Ninja's back as he reached his comrades. 'The Thunderstorm Cannon! Aim for his belt!'
Joining their weapons looked like the only way to stop him. The Astral Ranger was taken aback by their blasters general largeness. Swiftly he touched the belt buckle with the pitch black curved Teardrop on it and twisted it. The golden haze morphed the belt and a mirror image of the buckle materialized, the black tear was now white and a flipside of what it had been.
What was black on his suit became white and what was white became black. As the Thunderstorm cannon fired the air rippled furiously and a white light engulfed the now White Astral ranger. The cannon struck it and went no further. With a scream the white ranger fell to his knees as green light flowed from his mind and hit the Thunderstorm cannon, forcing its beam upwards with the weapons nose, knocking the aim off.
Crouched on his knees and shuddering the Astral Ninja picked up his white blaster. He rose as the Kelzacks stomped forwards and raised his blaster. The black beam struck the creatures and sent them rolling away. 'Oh dear' murmured Kapri. 'That can't be good.'
'Don't worry about me' snapped the White Astral Ninja. He aimed his blaster at them .and the golden haze erupted from his belt. In an instant he was the Black Astral Ranger again.
Spinning he blasted the Rangers who had been watching in shock and awe. The explosions scattered them but not long enough to give the last few Kelzacks any kind of chance.
'This guy is weird!' exclaimed Cam.
'You have no idea!' the ranger snarled as he caught Hunter in a neck grip, trapping his Adam's apple with the joint of his elbow. The Headlock was firm and Hunter gripped at the arm around his throat.
Blake rushed in to save his brother. The result was a bolt of red light from the Astral Ninja's forehead and eyes sending him soaring up onto the roof. 'Not so fast!' he snarled. 'I won't let you get away with what you did!' 'Any idea what he's on about?' Dustin asked.
'Maybe he's just crazy!' exclaimed Shane. Silently everyone agreed but they were more concerned with Hunter, the Astral Ninja and the deadly neck lock. 'Let's play follow the leader!' suggested the Ninja. And with that he was gone in a flash of black and white teleportation light.
'CyberCam!' Cam said, speaking to the holographic duplicate in Ninja Ops. 'Track that teleportation! And hurry!'
'Dude! Hold it up! I'm tracing it.it's like.somewhere in the mountains, I'm opening the portal channels!
*** The rice paper screens allowed a misty light into the house. Hunter lay de- morphed on the ground near a wall. He groaned and sat up slowly. He'd lost consciousness when the Black Astral ranger had given some pressure to his neck. Now he was annoyed. He reached for his morpher only to find it missing.
'Not as dumb as I thought' he murmured. Sitting up he edged into the hall expecting to find Kelzacks guarding him. There were none, he was shocked by that but he continued to walk along the white corridor. His breath was trapped in his throat as he peeked into the next room. The Astral Ranger was washing his face, his helmet was off and he stood in the light. Surprisingly he seemed almost angelic.
'Make move for the morpher and die' he said, not even turning around.
'You can't kill me out of my Ranger form' Hunter murmured edging towards the Morpher.
'Cocky, try it' the ranger said strapping his helmet back on. Hunter lunged at his morpher; the green light surrounded it and hauled it upwards away from Hunters grasp. It whizzed swiftly to the Astral Ninja's hand. He wore the Ninja suit now, like what they wore in Ninja Ops normally. It was black on one side with white in places and vice-versa on the other side. His helmet watched Hunter with the black visor eyes as he stood with his arms folded only a few feet away.
'And before you ask, I am a trained ninja of the Astral Academy. That you and your comrades attacked and erased all other ninja's from.I am the only one left.'
With a shiver Hunter realized what was happening. 'Lothar is controlling you' he stated. 'Don't you see? It's what he did to Blake and me. We did terrible things. he-he forced us to hurt good people!'
A red-hot sharp pain lanced through his mind and forced him to his knees. 'Another trick of the Astral Ninja' sighed his captor. 'Now shut up'
The ninja hesitated as the trickle of blood fell from Hunters nose. 'Here' he reached into a bag on a table and tossed the small bottle to Hunter. 'Sniff that, it's an old herbal-formula to stop psychically induced nosebleeds and headaches. Natural or not' Hunter looked at the small bottle and then to the Ninja as he left.
***
Hunter swallowed the rice. It was nice, simple but tasty. The ninja watched him from the desk he sat at, a desk set on legs carved into spiralling dragons. He was dealing out the cards with the yin-yang symbols on the dark blue back with the gold framing. 'Did it ever cross your mind I might have poisoned you?' the ninja asked, not looking up from his Tarot Reading.
Hunter froze and looked up at his captor.
'It's not' sighed the Astral Ninja. 'I want to eliminate you all together for what you did to my.'
He stopped and walked away. 'You can read minds right?'
The ninja looked back. 'Yes' he nodded.
'Are you the one helping Lothar with that power?'
'Naturally' the Ninja said. 'I am Clairvoyant, I predict your every move before you make it, and with great pleasure' he added the latter. 'And when you throw that rice bowl know that I will smash you off a wall and deflect it all in one go.
The shackles around his wrists were shining darkly. Cam looked at them. 'What are they?' he asked.
'They make me strong' was the reply. 'Not that I amn't without them, but they ensure I can handle you and your.ilk'
With a deep swallow, Hunter finished his rice. 'So if you're a clairvoyant why work for Lothar and not a psychic-hotline'
'Because I'd only be able to try and talk you to death working on a hotline' was the cool reply. 'Wait until your friends arrive. They're already here.you know my visions are only so strong. They are pieces of a puzzle and thus I must focus on them should the need arise'
He advanced on Hunter. 'Yet touch gives the primary possibility of the future. It shows me the most likely happenings of the future'
He gripped Hunters arm. Hunter yelped in pain as the grip tightened and red light flared from his captor's eyes. The light was fantastic, shimmering perfectly in every way. He gasped and blinked, something shone in his eyes, visions.Hunter was unsure why but it looked so familiar.
And then he was dragged under the waters of his own thoughts. He could feel the emotions of when he'd discovered his family's death.with a gasp he felt something else.traumatic sorrow and intense depression.the Astral Ninja! He was feeling all of that! He was so alone and so sad.it made Hunter shiver.
The grip was released and he rocketed back to consciousness.
'Does that hurt you?' he asked. The Ninja gave a cold glare. 'What concern is it of yours?'
((That's a yes)) Hunter thought.
'Does it always hurt to do that?'
The Ninja stopped in the doorway. 'No, it never stops hurting' and with that he was gone leaving Hunter to wonder why he felt such a kinship to the young man. He was almost like Blake. The Brother-Aura thing, which always made them feel safe around one another.
* * * ((The place looks like a Ninja compound)), Shane thought. ((Could there be more like him?))
They watched the seemingly lifeless compound and advanced. CyberCam spoke to them over the communicator. 'There's seemingly no security. But the Astral Ninja's are good at setting up other types of traps.'
'What other types of trap?' asked Dustin.
'Mental traps' Sensei said. 'They leave signatures around their places that inflict thoughts on all who cross them. Be weary'
And with that the Ninja's moved in.
* * * The first scream of fear came, Hunter looked up as the Astral Ninja gave a chuckle. 'Tori is reliving the death of her friend.' a more masculine bellow came. 'And Blake is watching all his friends die.'
Someone screamed "NO" at the top of his or her voices. 'And there's Shane seeing himself fail to be a good leader and inadvertently kill you all.Cameron should soon find the little Snake Trap and Dustin will have a broken heart when he reaches the gates.'
The sound of sobbing reached Hunter without going through his ears. 'You're lying.they.they can't be.'
'Oh they're not dead. Just out of the way' the ninja chuckled darkly. 'It's the way I work. I expect the Sensei will undo my mental work in a while.but all I need do is wait until then with some of my other traps.'
At that point Cam kicked the door open and tackled the Ninja to the ground. The pair rolled along the floor of the long room until a red light repelled Cam upwards into the roof where he hit a rafter.
'Someone didn't step on the Snake Trap' sneered the Astral Ninja.
'I used a glider to get in over the walls' Cam shrugged. The astral ninja pulled the morpher off the side of his belt and raised it, the two gauntlets on his sleeves glinted, like shackles.
'Astrali maxim!' he exclaimed.
The blaze of light engulfed him and the Black Astral ranger stepped forwards. 'Time to play Samurai!'
They attacked. The black Astral Ninja used two short swords against the single Samurai blade. They clashed and hissed off one another furiously. The Astral Ninja was fast and more then skilled. But Cam was definitely more prepared. He pivoted on the spot as they pressed their blades together and sent the Ninja flying into a wall. As Cam rushed to strike again the Astral Ninja kicked up into his chest and stomach, sending him flying over his body and through a wall. Cam landed with a groan as the Astral Ninja picked up his blades. 'Hey!'
The Astral Ninja turned and the Crimson Thunder Ninja slammed his staff into his chest. With a hiss he blocked the next strike and was spun around into a pillar. He released a blast of mental energy and struck Cam with it, knocking him into a wall. Another blast hit Hunter and put him through the hole in the wall again.
((Cameron? Can you hear me?))
((Dad? Is that you? Don't tell me, I'm dead)) murmured Cam.
((No, but I need you to coax that boy into scanning your mind)) his father explained. ((I will set a trap and possibly release him from Lothar's control!))
* * * Kelly entered Storm Chargers, to find only two people manning the entire place. 'Okay' she said as she walked forwards. 'Where are the others?'
'Gone' Garry said as he gave a customer her change. 'Called in about an emergency and that they'd be late coming in. Even JJ called in saying he had something to do'
JJ was the newest employee and far from reliable. He always came in out of phase and had some hostility to Blake and Hunter for some reason.
'Oh wait until they do!' Kelly hissed as she shoved the door to the storeroom open and stomped in.
Gwenyth Hunter, Weesta, Star Traveller shall receive dank grimy cells with windows and small rats and cockroaches. Keep reviewing! A special thanks to you for being the first three to reply to me ever, as a thanks I will.I will.I will.hold myself back from incinerating you with my fiery gaze or drinking your blood as you sleep in an offhanded manner in the future.possibly. They gave me a real boost even if I stink. Also, a friend I sent this too suggested a slash pairing, but that's because they are a strange person. I added the undertones and pathways. Just suggest and I shall write because I like interacting with reader's thoughts. In my third chapter I intro a new femme and a new villain to make life hard. I want feedback or I release my flying monkeys with their banana ice cream (Yeuchhhhhhh Bananas)
Cam: Hey, Hunter do you think he'll couple us? Hunter: Well his friends was as psycho as him
Tori: Hey in 3 I get to hug Blake!
Blake: Ahyuck
Shane: And what of me?
Overlord: Don't worry I'm throwing up smokescreens for villains so.I don't know maybe you'll get a girl.
Shane: Wahoo
Dustin: Marah.sigh
Overlord: Wakey-wakey-eggs-and-bakey (zaps Dustin's backside) There you go.
Astral Ninja: Hey, am I going to stay dead?
Overlord: It's obviously not going to happen.R&R---R else.Dire Lord OUT! (Spangling teleportation effects)
Being Wrong
A/N: I got reviews and feel a bit more capable. Please note I will barbecue those who flame me and pay back by hunting them down relentlessly until I cause them immense suffering.no joke. My therapist was working on anger issues before he fell down that step into the piranhas.
((These are thoughts and telepathy)) just so you know.
Disclaimer: Baby no own Power Rangers at all! Now excuse me as I vaporize my slaves for their tragic work on my disclaimers summaries and total lack of ability. well as an evil overlord I can get away with that.
Rating: PG-13 (It gets unpleasant later in the story)
Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance
The Next Morning: ((That hurt)) decided Shane as he lay onto his bed with a groan. ((That jerk dropped a building on us! I am in some sort of shock! A whole building!))
Someone walked past his door with frequent whispered ow's of pain. He didn't remember how they had escaped only that they'd woken up beside the debris with only aches and pains as proof anything had happened.
'They're alive!' bellowed Lothar. He smashed his hand through a brick and roared angrily. He struck the Black Ranger across the face. 'You pathetic excuse for a ninja!'
Marah and Kapri watched the boy rise fluidly to his feet and touch his damaged helmet. 'I warned you' he said. 'They aren't easy to kill. You sent me to try and I did, they'll be out of action for a while. But rangers heal fast.'
'Fix your armour and prepare to fight'
Lothar turned his back on the boy and let him leave without a comment. He looked to his nieces. 'Next time kill the rangers.'
The pair nodded dumbly, their uncle was in a "mood" and if you crossed him in one of those you learned how to walk without your legs.
Sensei looked at the rangers, nursing their wounds and shook his head. 'He is the Black Astral Ranger' he said. 'The huh?' Cam repeated.
'Black Astral Ranger' Sensei said. 'He is a student of the Astral Ninja Academy, where they learn to use powers of the mind. It seems one of them was captured by Lothar.'
'We have to free him' Blake said decisively. 'We can't let him do what we did' Sensei nodded slowly. 'There may be away. His belt buckle is his morpher.if you can destroy it he will lose his power.that is an extreme to be used. I hope you understand that'
'We get it' Dustin said. 'Now all we gotta do is get to him'
'Not so easy' Tori said. 'Lothar has a shielded base.'
'Then we get him down here' Sensei said. 'An old proverb a friend once had. The Benefits of making the river come to you are numerous.'
'That's right!' exclaimed Cam. 'If we make him come to us we can set up a trap and make sure there's no ambushes!'
'Ehh, how do we do that genius?' asked Hunter with a sever dosage of cynicism dripping from his words.
Cam shot him a look and tapped on the keys of a console. 'I can get CyberCam to send out a special image signal that will convince Lothar there's a world leader conference on.like a news clip or something'
'Not too-shabby Cam' Hunter said. 'IF it works that is.' Cam said nothing but set up the signal.
'They should be here' Kapri said. 'There's supposed to be a big meeting of totally important people.'
The Black Astral Ranger stood beside them. His stance was ramrod straight and firm. He was waiting for some action. Marah pushed open the door of the town Hall with her toe. 'Hello? Important people?'
Tori kicked her in the ribs, spinning out from beside the door. 'Thanks for the compliment!'
'Rangers!' Kapri exclaimed as the other leapt from the rooftop. The Black Astral Ranger unfolded his arms in surprise.
'Not bad' he admitted. 'They must have been that good when they killed them.' He attacked. Spinning around he pulled his sai from their holsters in his boots and rushed forwards.
'Here's samurai!' Cam laughed as he slashed a Kelzack across the chest and spun to face the other. Instead he was given a blast in the chest with the black blaster of the Astral Ranger.
'Time to go bye-bye' the Astral Ranger snapped as he aimed at Cam's face and charged the blaster to full force. Hunter took the blast, as it lanced through the air he threw himself in front of it and accepted the energy bolt. Sparks exploded through the air and he landed in a heap.
'Well, one is better then none' decided the Ranger as he slashed his sai across Blake's chest and caught the Navy rangers neck between his angles. Spinning in the air he launched Blake across the sidewalk and into some potted plants. 'You'll all pay' he sneered.
Marah and Dustin struck and lunged at one another. Arms and feet spinning only to be blocked by the other. Shane and Kapri were fighting and Tori had her hands full with the Kelzacks. 'Quick!' exclaimed Shane as he leapt away and slashed his sword across the Astral Ninja's back as he reached his comrades. 'The Thunderstorm Cannon! Aim for his belt!'
Joining their weapons looked like the only way to stop him. The Astral Ranger was taken aback by their blasters general largeness. Swiftly he touched the belt buckle with the pitch black curved Teardrop on it and twisted it. The golden haze morphed the belt and a mirror image of the buckle materialized, the black tear was now white and a flipside of what it had been.
What was black on his suit became white and what was white became black. As the Thunderstorm cannon fired the air rippled furiously and a white light engulfed the now White Astral ranger. The cannon struck it and went no further. With a scream the white ranger fell to his knees as green light flowed from his mind and hit the Thunderstorm cannon, forcing its beam upwards with the weapons nose, knocking the aim off.
Crouched on his knees and shuddering the Astral Ninja picked up his white blaster. He rose as the Kelzacks stomped forwards and raised his blaster. The black beam struck the creatures and sent them rolling away. 'Oh dear' murmured Kapri. 'That can't be good.'
'Don't worry about me' snapped the White Astral Ninja. He aimed his blaster at them .and the golden haze erupted from his belt. In an instant he was the Black Astral Ranger again.
Spinning he blasted the Rangers who had been watching in shock and awe. The explosions scattered them but not long enough to give the last few Kelzacks any kind of chance.
'This guy is weird!' exclaimed Cam.
'You have no idea!' the ranger snarled as he caught Hunter in a neck grip, trapping his Adam's apple with the joint of his elbow. The Headlock was firm and Hunter gripped at the arm around his throat.
Blake rushed in to save his brother. The result was a bolt of red light from the Astral Ninja's forehead and eyes sending him soaring up onto the roof. 'Not so fast!' he snarled. 'I won't let you get away with what you did!' 'Any idea what he's on about?' Dustin asked.
'Maybe he's just crazy!' exclaimed Shane. Silently everyone agreed but they were more concerned with Hunter, the Astral Ninja and the deadly neck lock. 'Let's play follow the leader!' suggested the Ninja. And with that he was gone in a flash of black and white teleportation light.
'CyberCam!' Cam said, speaking to the holographic duplicate in Ninja Ops. 'Track that teleportation! And hurry!'
'Dude! Hold it up! I'm tracing it.it's like.somewhere in the mountains, I'm opening the portal channels!
*** The rice paper screens allowed a misty light into the house. Hunter lay de- morphed on the ground near a wall. He groaned and sat up slowly. He'd lost consciousness when the Black Astral ranger had given some pressure to his neck. Now he was annoyed. He reached for his morpher only to find it missing.
'Not as dumb as I thought' he murmured. Sitting up he edged into the hall expecting to find Kelzacks guarding him. There were none, he was shocked by that but he continued to walk along the white corridor. His breath was trapped in his throat as he peeked into the next room. The Astral Ranger was washing his face, his helmet was off and he stood in the light. Surprisingly he seemed almost angelic.
'Make move for the morpher and die' he said, not even turning around.
'You can't kill me out of my Ranger form' Hunter murmured edging towards the Morpher.
'Cocky, try it' the ranger said strapping his helmet back on. Hunter lunged at his morpher; the green light surrounded it and hauled it upwards away from Hunters grasp. It whizzed swiftly to the Astral Ninja's hand. He wore the Ninja suit now, like what they wore in Ninja Ops normally. It was black on one side with white in places and vice-versa on the other side. His helmet watched Hunter with the black visor eyes as he stood with his arms folded only a few feet away.
'And before you ask, I am a trained ninja of the Astral Academy. That you and your comrades attacked and erased all other ninja's from.I am the only one left.'
With a shiver Hunter realized what was happening. 'Lothar is controlling you' he stated. 'Don't you see? It's what he did to Blake and me. We did terrible things. he-he forced us to hurt good people!'
A red-hot sharp pain lanced through his mind and forced him to his knees. 'Another trick of the Astral Ninja' sighed his captor. 'Now shut up'
The ninja hesitated as the trickle of blood fell from Hunters nose. 'Here' he reached into a bag on a table and tossed the small bottle to Hunter. 'Sniff that, it's an old herbal-formula to stop psychically induced nosebleeds and headaches. Natural or not' Hunter looked at the small bottle and then to the Ninja as he left.
***
Hunter swallowed the rice. It was nice, simple but tasty. The ninja watched him from the desk he sat at, a desk set on legs carved into spiralling dragons. He was dealing out the cards with the yin-yang symbols on the dark blue back with the gold framing. 'Did it ever cross your mind I might have poisoned you?' the ninja asked, not looking up from his Tarot Reading.
Hunter froze and looked up at his captor.
'It's not' sighed the Astral Ninja. 'I want to eliminate you all together for what you did to my.'
He stopped and walked away. 'You can read minds right?'
The ninja looked back. 'Yes' he nodded.
'Are you the one helping Lothar with that power?'
'Naturally' the Ninja said. 'I am Clairvoyant, I predict your every move before you make it, and with great pleasure' he added the latter. 'And when you throw that rice bowl know that I will smash you off a wall and deflect it all in one go.
The shackles around his wrists were shining darkly. Cam looked at them. 'What are they?' he asked.
'They make me strong' was the reply. 'Not that I amn't without them, but they ensure I can handle you and your.ilk'
With a deep swallow, Hunter finished his rice. 'So if you're a clairvoyant why work for Lothar and not a psychic-hotline'
'Because I'd only be able to try and talk you to death working on a hotline' was the cool reply. 'Wait until your friends arrive. They're already here.you know my visions are only so strong. They are pieces of a puzzle and thus I must focus on them should the need arise'
He advanced on Hunter. 'Yet touch gives the primary possibility of the future. It shows me the most likely happenings of the future'
He gripped Hunters arm. Hunter yelped in pain as the grip tightened and red light flared from his captor's eyes. The light was fantastic, shimmering perfectly in every way. He gasped and blinked, something shone in his eyes, visions.Hunter was unsure why but it looked so familiar.
And then he was dragged under the waters of his own thoughts. He could feel the emotions of when he'd discovered his family's death.with a gasp he felt something else.traumatic sorrow and intense depression.the Astral Ninja! He was feeling all of that! He was so alone and so sad.it made Hunter shiver.
The grip was released and he rocketed back to consciousness.
'Does that hurt you?' he asked. The Ninja gave a cold glare. 'What concern is it of yours?'
((That's a yes)) Hunter thought.
'Does it always hurt to do that?'
The Ninja stopped in the doorway. 'No, it never stops hurting' and with that he was gone leaving Hunter to wonder why he felt such a kinship to the young man. He was almost like Blake. The Brother-Aura thing, which always made them feel safe around one another.
* * * ((The place looks like a Ninja compound)), Shane thought. ((Could there be more like him?))
They watched the seemingly lifeless compound and advanced. CyberCam spoke to them over the communicator. 'There's seemingly no security. But the Astral Ninja's are good at setting up other types of traps.'
'What other types of trap?' asked Dustin.
'Mental traps' Sensei said. 'They leave signatures around their places that inflict thoughts on all who cross them. Be weary'
And with that the Ninja's moved in.
* * * The first scream of fear came, Hunter looked up as the Astral Ninja gave a chuckle. 'Tori is reliving the death of her friend.' a more masculine bellow came. 'And Blake is watching all his friends die.'
Someone screamed "NO" at the top of his or her voices. 'And there's Shane seeing himself fail to be a good leader and inadvertently kill you all.Cameron should soon find the little Snake Trap and Dustin will have a broken heart when he reaches the gates.'
The sound of sobbing reached Hunter without going through his ears. 'You're lying.they.they can't be.'
'Oh they're not dead. Just out of the way' the ninja chuckled darkly. 'It's the way I work. I expect the Sensei will undo my mental work in a while.but all I need do is wait until then with some of my other traps.'
At that point Cam kicked the door open and tackled the Ninja to the ground. The pair rolled along the floor of the long room until a red light repelled Cam upwards into the roof where he hit a rafter.
'Someone didn't step on the Snake Trap' sneered the Astral Ninja.
'I used a glider to get in over the walls' Cam shrugged. The astral ninja pulled the morpher off the side of his belt and raised it, the two gauntlets on his sleeves glinted, like shackles.
'Astrali maxim!' he exclaimed.
The blaze of light engulfed him and the Black Astral ranger stepped forwards. 'Time to play Samurai!'
They attacked. The black Astral Ninja used two short swords against the single Samurai blade. They clashed and hissed off one another furiously. The Astral Ninja was fast and more then skilled. But Cam was definitely more prepared. He pivoted on the spot as they pressed their blades together and sent the Ninja flying into a wall. As Cam rushed to strike again the Astral Ninja kicked up into his chest and stomach, sending him flying over his body and through a wall. Cam landed with a groan as the Astral Ninja picked up his blades. 'Hey!'
The Astral Ninja turned and the Crimson Thunder Ninja slammed his staff into his chest. With a hiss he blocked the next strike and was spun around into a pillar. He released a blast of mental energy and struck Cam with it, knocking him into a wall. Another blast hit Hunter and put him through the hole in the wall again.
((Cameron? Can you hear me?))
((Dad? Is that you? Don't tell me, I'm dead)) murmured Cam.
((No, but I need you to coax that boy into scanning your mind)) his father explained. ((I will set a trap and possibly release him from Lothar's control!))
* * * Kelly entered Storm Chargers, to find only two people manning the entire place. 'Okay' she said as she walked forwards. 'Where are the others?'
'Gone' Garry said as he gave a customer her change. 'Called in about an emergency and that they'd be late coming in. Even JJ called in saying he had something to do'
JJ was the newest employee and far from reliable. He always came in out of phase and had some hostility to Blake and Hunter for some reason.
'Oh wait until they do!' Kelly hissed as she shoved the door to the storeroom open and stomped in.
Gwenyth Hunter, Weesta, Star Traveller shall receive dank grimy cells with windows and small rats and cockroaches. Keep reviewing! A special thanks to you for being the first three to reply to me ever, as a thanks I will.I will.I will.hold myself back from incinerating you with my fiery gaze or drinking your blood as you sleep in an offhanded manner in the future.possibly. They gave me a real boost even if I stink. Also, a friend I sent this too suggested a slash pairing, but that's because they are a strange person. I added the undertones and pathways. Just suggest and I shall write because I like interacting with reader's thoughts. In my third chapter I intro a new femme and a new villain to make life hard. I want feedback or I release my flying monkeys with their banana ice cream (Yeuchhhhhhh Bananas)
Cam: Hey, Hunter do you think he'll couple us? Hunter: Well his friends was as psycho as him
Tori: Hey in 3 I get to hug Blake!
Blake: Ahyuck
Shane: And what of me?
Overlord: Don't worry I'm throwing up smokescreens for villains so.I don't know maybe you'll get a girl.
Shane: Wahoo
Dustin: Marah.sigh
Overlord: Wakey-wakey-eggs-and-bakey (zaps Dustin's backside) There you go.
Astral Ninja: Hey, am I going to stay dead?
Overlord: It's obviously not going to happen.R&R---R else.Dire Lord OUT! (Spangling teleportation effects)