TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY 3
Someone said.
A/N: Watch and learn grasshopper. I'm using my evil powers to conjure a rather strange plot.don't make me angry by saying it doesn't make sense. Firstly its not meant to be logical secondly it will all come together.
Disclaimer: Are the power rangers mine? No.well I guess that answers all questions in that subject. I do own mystery ranger who you can use if you ask nice.
Rating: PG-13 (the romance gets amped up soon.)
Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance (I swear Really I do)
'What a bunch of weaklings you are!' exclaimed the Astral Ninja as he shackled Shane to the wall. 'How could you have defeated them? I'll never know.but once I'm done with you.well I'll go after your Sensei, your families and everyone you know. In fact I've already begun'.
Tori pulled at the shackles with all her might. Their morphers lay on a table not far from them. 'We didn't do anything! It had to be Lothar!'
'Yeah I'm going to believe you!' scoffed the Ranger.
'Scan my mind!'' Cam said. 'You'll see the truth!'
The Astral Ninja smiled and the red light flowed from his eyes into Cam's face. 'I think I will.'
*** Kanoi focused and released his thoughts, so long as he caught the boy off guard he would succeed. Instantly he was inside and striking with the truth breaking the shadowy cloak Lothar had placed around the Ninja's minds.
'Yes!' he said as he struck the core of the spell.and then he was thrown out.
***
The red and green wave rippled through the room. The morphers were engulfed in green and returned to the Rangers arms as they were pulled from the wall. The Astral Ninja was switching between black and white. Settling on white for a moment he looked at them. Green light whipped around them and shoved them. Hunter felt a whisper ooze into his brain from the mental tempest around them.
'What's happening?' Tori exclaimed as telekinetic wind whipped her face. Splinters and dust swirled into a shape forming a small and hasty outline of a human glowing with green light. It pointed to the door, instructing them to leave in a hurry. 'It wants us to leave' Dustin stated.
'We guessed that much' murmured Shane. The green light struck them and slapped them through the doors. The compound was shaking as the rangers rushed across the courtyard.
'Hold it!'
They looked up. Zurgane and a large group of Kelzacks were on the other side of the yard. Waiting for battle.
'We don't have time for this!' Cam shouted. 'This place doesn't look stable.' 'Our ranger will do what he must' sighed Zurgane. 'He sees all'
'Not after what our Sensei did to him!' Shane said. 'Let's go! We have to get out!'
The Kelzacks and Rangers charged to meet one another.as they approached the earth trembled and split apart. The rangers and forces of Lothar pulled back.
'RETREAT!' roared Zurgane. In a flash of teleportation light they were gone and had left the rangers to deal with the shattering Compound.
'This is not good dude!' Dustin murmured.
'Then let's run' suggested Cam. 'Fast and furiously out the gates'
Hunter hesitated but decided Cam was right. Leaving someone to die didn't agree with him at all. But he had to go.you didn't argue with a telekinetic manifestation. It just wasn't done!'
Swiftly darting out the gates they threw themselves away as the wave of dark green energy and violently bright red force burst from the compound. The light was so bright Shane swore, Tori gave a short gasp, Blake shouted, Dustin said something about the sun getting closer to Earth and Hunter and Cam both yelled the same thing at the same time.
The compound was gone.as if it had never existed.
'Freaky' Tori said. 'But handy when you have to rezone.'
'Did you just make a joke?' asked Shane.
'I guess so' said Tori. 'What happened?'
'He just.vanished' Cam said. 'Some sort of psychic overload'
'Bet he didn't foresee that' Hunter said.
***
The blade flitted forwards and nearly struck Zurgane. Lothar pulled the samurai sword from the wall near his general. 'I am most disappointed at this Zurgane' he hissed. 'He was a new lieutenant and a great weapon. Without him the Rangers will win!'
'But they won even when he was part of the team' Marah pointed out.
'Yes but he was reluctant and forced into foreseeing before. Working for us would have been perfect! He would not have withheld information!'
Lothar punched a wall and sent shockwaves through the room. Kapri and Marah looked at one another nervously. 'Well.uncle.there's someone else we.have as a candidate for a lieutenant.' Kapri swallowed. Marah nodded dumbly.
'Our trainer!' she squeaked as her uncle blazed about the room. 'She taught us all sorts of new moves!'
Lothar paused. 'Bring her here' he decided. 'If she fails I can at least use her against them'.
***
'The Academy of Astral Ninja's has vanished off the face of the Earth' CyberCam announced. 'As in, nada to be found, zilch on the search sweep' 'When I attempted to free the boy.I inadvertently set off a chain reaction to his mind and released.something. His powers gripped the school and that was the end of it all, without any trouble the Academy vanished. I do not know where to but I doubt he will return to plague us.
Hunter's eyes widened. 'When I was in his storm with you guys.I felt something. He said something, thought it and I picked up on it'
'What?' Shane asked. 'Anything useful?'
Hunter tried to catch the elusive though but it was like and oiled eel and he just could- 'Kelly!' he exclaimed. 'Storm Chargers! A trap!'
Sensei looked at them. 'Go! You must stop anyone from being harmed!'
'Got that already Dad' Cam sighed as he darted towards the portal with the others. Sensei prayed that there would be no death today.he prayed with all his heart that no lives would be lost to Lothar corrupting an innocent young man.
***
Kelly looked at the strange balloon. It was black white, an ovular yin- yang shape. She sighed as she walked forwards to take it, the balloon had been floating at chest level but abruptly floated up on red and green strings. She groaned and looked for the stepladder leaning on a wall. Folding it out beneath the balloon she climbed a step shakily and swiped at the shape. It floated away and up.
'This has been a world class crappy day' she groaned. Resetting the ladder she was about to get onto it when Blake skidded in the door. 'About time!' she exclaimed and glared at him. 'Where have you been?'
'Family emergency' he explained. 'Uhh.what are you doing?'
'Someone let a balloon in.'
'I'll get it!' exclaimed Blake. 'Best I start working now!'
Kelly looked at him cynically. 'Fine, by the way you see JJ?'
'Nope' Blake said moving the ladder. 'Why?'
'Never mind' Kelly shrugged. 'Just hoping he was somewhere. He's a really big time slacker.'
And with that she whipped out the door. Breathing out Blake looked at the balloon; he didn't know what it was. A bomb? A mental trap? Annoying?
He took out a small portable fan and turned the battery-operated machine on. The small breeze poked the balloon out the door with minimal coaxing.
Tori stood in the alley out behind Storm Chargers in full ranger gear. The balloon floated upwards and Tori aimed her blaster. 'Cover your ears Blake' she suggested. Cam held up a small camera aimed at the rising balloon, it scanned it. 'Bomb' he announced. Shane and Dustin stood at the sides of the alley standing guard while Hunter guarded the door to Storm Chargers.
'Fire in the hole' Tori murmured as she fired. The blast of energy destroyed the balloon creating a cloud of flame so big the sky flashed amber. 'Now that's a little overkill on the pop!' Hunter exclaimed.
***
Lothar smirked as he watched the Rangers spread out to return home. They had no idea what was coming next.his new General made Beevil look like a flower girl and she'd fix them for all they'd done to his plans.
***
Blake sipped the soda as he relaxed against the vending machine. 'Hey' Cameron was standing in the doorway of the storeroom. 'I wanted to apologize for the way I was so short tempered with you in the control room yesterday.I was just a little cranky that the system crashed'
Hunter swallowed his mouthful of soda and nodded. 'I shouldn't have been messing around with your computers anyway.sorry.'
There was an awkward silence before Hunter looked up brightly. 'Do you want to go get, like, a coffee or something?'
'Sure' shrugged Cam. 'D-do you want me to ask anyone else for you?'
'Sure.if you want' Hunter said with a murmur. 'I.I'll probably ask Blake and he'll ask Tori and she'll ask Dustin, who'll ask Shane and everyone will come.'
'Wanna skip the coffee and just go to the track?' Cam asked.
Hunter nodded with a small smile. 'Why not, you really need to brush up on.everything Motocross related.'
Cam rolled his eyes and looked at the blonde young man. 'Well, I'm getting better at it lately. I might surprise you' he said shortly.
'We'll see' Hunter said as he looked at his watch. 'I'll meet up with you there in about half-an-hour?'
'Okay' nodded Cam. 'But I'll win'
'In your dreams' laughed Hunter as he went back to work. 'See you in a while, guy in denial'
***
Cam walked down the street and into the Mall. The glass roof overhead with brightly lit by the sun of the afternoon. The splash of the large multi- tiered fountain was one of the few sounds in the relatively empty mall. Everyone was at work or the beach, and Cam wished he could be too. He didn't want to head back to Ninja Ops and play Gin Rummy with his father and Cyber Cam. He had a suspicion they both cheated in one way or another.
'Help! Someone Help Me!'
He twisted on the spot. A girl in dark red jeans, a leather jacket and black turtleneck top was running away from the two men, screaming. He hair was elaborately tied up into a somewhat spiky sort of ponytail like a crown at the back of her head with two strands dangling on her forehead. Her black boots clattered along the tiled floor, and then she slipped beside the fountain.
The men wrenched her to her feet and tried to pull the book out of her hands. She screamed again. Cam took off and leapt at them. Spinning around he caught one in the stomach with a kick. He fell back as Cam slammed two punches into the second guy and grabbed his arm, throwing him over his body onto the ground and kicking him squarely in the stomach to keep him down.
The other man pulled a knife from his belt. The girl gave a shriek and brought her leg into his ribs, he buckled as she fluidly spun downwards and around using the back of her leg to sweep the legs from under him. He toppled down and kissed the tiles forcefully.
'Thank you!' the girl exclaimed as she threw her arms around him and held him tightly. 'You save me and my book!'
He looked at the large leather-bound tome in her arms. The scuffed leather indicated how old it was and a stain that looked like blood was very prominent on the back. 'Why did they go after that?' he asked.
She looked at him with phenomenally green eyes. 'It's the book of Mara- Ishii. The kunoichi of the Echo Lotus. I must hide it! I am telling you this because I trust you. You must hide this tome away from the evil chasing it. They will follow me but not the book.'
She handed it to him and looked around. 'You'll see me about' she said quickly. 'I will try to speak with you when it is safe'
She twisted on her heel and darted away from the silent Cam. 'Wait! It's dangerous!' She said nothing as she vanished out the doors of the mall. Cam forced his feet to move and rushed after her. The car park was empty, not a sign of her and no sounds of a scuffle of any sort. With a whispered curse he opened his communicator.
***
'The Book of Mara-Ishii has vanished off the scanners!' exclaimed Lothar. 'Without a doubt' his new general said. 'The Ninja Academy has a cloaking field around it. But I will find it, it cannot hide from me, you know this. The rangers may have its secrets now but I will ensure they don't live long enough to use them all'. Lothar's lips pursed into a cruel smile. As the generals departed Zurgane lingered back.
'Sir, the newest general is.I don't trust.'
'I do not care!' Lothar said. 'Marah and Kapri have benefited from training under this one and a more ruthless being will not be found.after your failure to retrieve the Astral Ninja an outburst against my judgement would be most unwise'
Zurgane shivered and sidled out of the room slowly, unwilling to meet the burning gaze of his master.
***
'Hey Tori!' Blake exclaimed. He rushed up behind her as she stepped out of the surf, the white foam parting around her feet and reversing into the sea from whence it came. She smiled to see him approach her.
'Hey!' she said. He nudged the sand with a barefoot. His shoes were clutched in his hand. 'What's up?'
'Oh.nothing' Blake stammered.
'Really? Looks more like you have something on your mind' Tori smiled.
'It's the Astral Ninja.I know it was only yesterday that we defeated him but I feel we let him down by not freeing him.I mean.what happened? What did the Sensei do to his mind?'
Tori frowned. 'He didn't mean to.'
'I didn't say he did it on purpose!' exclaimed Blake. 'But.last night.I felt like we could have done more.and now he's dead.'
The short whisper at the edge of his voice was hoarse with regret. Tori put her arm around his shoulders and squeezed him into her wet body. 'It's okay' she said in a hushed voice. 'We wanted to help him but. we couldn't.'
***
Marah sat on the bench in her human garb. The Motocross rally was impressive, she watched Dustin rise over the sharp ramp and land on the other side swiftly. Her heart was fluttering? How? It was like.like.like nothing she had ever experienced before.she wished she could tell him.Kapri was suspecting Marah of feeling something for the Ranger since she blasted her for saying Marah had betrayed his trust.
'Hot Dog?'
She looked up at the bearded man in the Trench coat offering her the mustard and ketchup covered hot dog. 'Thank you but.'
The man's eyes morphed. Turning into bright green light with slit pupils, they were like a cat's or a snake's. 'Diaboli---' she was cut off from saying the generals name as a familiar shape walked by. The Navy Thunder Ranger and Dustin!
'You're drooling' the man said. He handed her the napkin and she frowned.
'Diabo! That's so mean!!'
'Call me D' sighed the shape-shifting general. 'We've known one another long enough. I presume you're watching the Ranger for a chance to attack?'
Marah nodded slowly biting into the hotdog. 'I-I am. He's always with his friends, except when he's Motocross-ing.'
D shook its head. 'I'm not like my parents Marah, they were truly great, incredibly insightful.skilled to a fault. Now I am what I am. I do not lie that I have a soul, a heart and feelings. But my heart is made of purest diamond ice, flawless like a diamond and as cold as ice. One day you will understand that a Ranger will only break your heart.they will use you and dispose of you, they are not as squeaky clean as you believe and always have but one female member. Trusting yourself to one is suicide.'
The man finished the hotdog swiftly. 'I believe you are watching him and learning as I trained you, but do not chose the path of heart. You must be cool and calculating as I am. Subdue your emotions and find focus'
Marah watched D walk away, a group of people walked across her line of vision and when they were gone so was D.
((I wish I could learn that trick!)) Marah grunted as she turned to watch the Navy and Yellow rangers talking by a snack cart. The Red Ranger approached them and spoke hurriedly in a hushed voice. Marah focused her senses on them and began to hear their words.
'---Cam was working all night---Ishii and some sort of spell for---could use it' Shane said to his friends. Blake nodded slowly.
'---Is like, totally a bad time! I have a race in like three minutes--- wait a few?' Blake laughed. 'Join us later---soon!'
Dustin waved his friends off and Marah found herself to have crept up near the cart where he was, her face obscured by a copy of "Ladies Sports". He turned around and walked straight into her. Scrambling furiously she stood up and turned away to get her magazine, abruptly she realized he was now level with her backside. She twirled playing with her hair so it obscured her face. 'So sorry' she exclaimed. 'My fault' 'Now it was mine' Dustin said. He wired around to see her face but she continued to look away, her hair cloaking her mouth and face. 'Do I know you?'
'Emmmmmm.No.I am-a from Sveeden! I just-en transferred-en to ahhh-dee-- emm school-err--en and I am a big fan of Motocross.Scoosen me!'
She turned away to escape. He laid a hand on her shoulder. 'Wait' he said.
'HEEEEEEEYAAAAA!' she shrieked on reflex and judo tossed him across the grass. He landed with a grunt and she gasped in shock. 'Sorry! Reflex!'
She grabbed a balloon from a vendor. He opened his mouth to protest but with a newly learned Spell of Influence she dissuaded any words in his mouth from jumping onto his diving board tongue.
'I have to go' she insisted and turned to leave. He darted in front of her and found himself face to face with a large red balloon. 'Can I at least get the name of a judo specialist?'
'Err.Margo!'
'Margo?' he repeated.
And she was gone, dashing like a madwoman across the fields, her brown hair flowing behind her like a kite. Dustin breathed out. 'What a woman.'
***
'The book details secrets of the Shadow, Thunder, Wind and Astral Ninja' explained Kanoi. The guinea pig hastily slapped Dustin's hand away from the snacks in the paper bag. 'And some of the other academies that did not survive.They are many but written in such an ancient tongue.I do not understand what they read.'
'I'm totally trying a rad new program' Cam said. Everyone stared at him.
'That's the fake me' the tired reply came from beneath the console. Cam rolled out holding some sort of component. 'I thought I'd lost it!'
He raised the penny sized black plastic circle with the blue dot in the core. 'This ought to tell us who our mystery woman---girl is!'
He slid it into a pair of metal pincers and tapped some keys. The pincers flashed blue and the data ran onto the screen creating an accurate high- resolution picture. The slender young lady was pretty even Blake stared much to Tori's chagrin.
'Hello!' breathed Shane.
'I'll run a scan for an ID' said CyberCam. 'This babeliscious piece of honey cannot be unnoticed!'
Shane, Dustin, Cam, Hunter and Blake nodded dumbly as the glowing green eyes locked with theirs, so innocent and fearful.
Tori yawned and stretched in an exaggerated manner before firmly placing her foot on Hunters flank and pushing the men down into a heap on the ground. 'Whoopsy, silly me' she growled.
Sensei chuckled. 'We must find this girl and help her, Lothar is undoubtedly chasing her and I sense a great evil that might be a harp to her'
'Then let's not waste anytime!' Shane exclaimed. He darted fro the portal and pasued. 'Uhh wait.where do we look?'
***
Kapri straightened the brown beehive wig she sported. Her pink suit and bag were perfectly prim and clean. She knocked on the door and smiled as it opened. 'Hello I'm Miss Moss from the Tupperware-and-Beauty group in the PTA where your child attends school.'
'Oh' the woman at the doors said. 'I see.well I don't know how you found me out here.but please step in'
Kapri stepped into the rented apartment with her smile still vibrant. 'What can I do for you?'
'Well, we just wanted to invite you to a small socialiser for all the parents in the school'
'Well, you've come a long way to find me in Angel Grove; I know I haven't been back to California in three months. But my son is perfectly able to accept that this is an important conference for me. It will be over soon.'
'We know!' Kapri exclaimed. 'But we simply must explain that it's a special ceremony for the.Students.achievements.in.the field of.of.of.' her brow wrinkled with effort. 'Participation in the Academic and Athletic quadrants and your sons excellent behaviour is exemplary. Its also a night for their volunteer work to be recognized.so I said to myself, Miss Moss, why shouldn't a mother be notified of her sons up and coming appraisal? So I hopped in my car and sped out here to make sure you knew!'
'I see.well I might need to take the workload with me.but for Shane I'll try' the woman decided. With a smile Miss Moss shook the unwitting Mother's hand and handed her the invitation. Provided D did the hypnosis on the principal this would all work out.
'We can't wait to see you soon Mrs Clarke!' she said as a shark's smile slid onto her face, transforming the one she had worn before.
***
TBC: So! Shane's mother is a target.Oh that is mean! Kapri needs a fella, she's jealous that Marah nearly had one in my view. Well one of them needed to be evil. I swear mystery ranger is not dead! But he's not someone y'all know. He's a link to the old rangers and people pasts. I do enjoy a good confusing remark and a few OC's. Now I have to go and polish off my metal terminator soldiers.me like me war machines (in moderation). Review this please because I want to hear about couples, weird as you like and anything you found funny or pointless, even just parts you liked in any chapters. I know it's awful but years of people telling me have resulted in a slightly unpleasant personality-switching thing, I fly off the handle abruptly. Hence I will hit flamers. Comprende? I will be keeping mystery girl, who will return later on. Crimson Nova placed an interesting Idea down for a couple Kapri and Shane? Also my friend is pressuring me about Cam and Hunter! Someone send me ideas.PS next chapter old rangers! Well as I ponder please send in comments and even some thoughts on your favourite parts.
The Fallen Angel's Overlord.OUT!
Hunter: Anyone here?
Overlord: They're all out looking for Mystery Girl
Hunter: Oh.
Overlord: But there's someone around here you can talk to.
Hunter: Are you trying to lure me to the crocodile pit?
Overlord: That's in my East wing; no here I have sock puppets
Hunter: (shudder) Whom do I talk to?
Overlord: Watch and learn Grass-flopper
Hunter: Yeesh! You are crazy!
Overlord: Wull.D'UH!
Someone said.
A/N: Watch and learn grasshopper. I'm using my evil powers to conjure a rather strange plot.don't make me angry by saying it doesn't make sense. Firstly its not meant to be logical secondly it will all come together.
Disclaimer: Are the power rangers mine? No.well I guess that answers all questions in that subject. I do own mystery ranger who you can use if you ask nice.
Rating: PG-13 (the romance gets amped up soon.)
Genre: Action/Adventure/Romance (I swear Really I do)
'What a bunch of weaklings you are!' exclaimed the Astral Ninja as he shackled Shane to the wall. 'How could you have defeated them? I'll never know.but once I'm done with you.well I'll go after your Sensei, your families and everyone you know. In fact I've already begun'.
Tori pulled at the shackles with all her might. Their morphers lay on a table not far from them. 'We didn't do anything! It had to be Lothar!'
'Yeah I'm going to believe you!' scoffed the Ranger.
'Scan my mind!'' Cam said. 'You'll see the truth!'
The Astral Ninja smiled and the red light flowed from his eyes into Cam's face. 'I think I will.'
*** Kanoi focused and released his thoughts, so long as he caught the boy off guard he would succeed. Instantly he was inside and striking with the truth breaking the shadowy cloak Lothar had placed around the Ninja's minds.
'Yes!' he said as he struck the core of the spell.and then he was thrown out.
***
The red and green wave rippled through the room. The morphers were engulfed in green and returned to the Rangers arms as they were pulled from the wall. The Astral Ninja was switching between black and white. Settling on white for a moment he looked at them. Green light whipped around them and shoved them. Hunter felt a whisper ooze into his brain from the mental tempest around them.
'What's happening?' Tori exclaimed as telekinetic wind whipped her face. Splinters and dust swirled into a shape forming a small and hasty outline of a human glowing with green light. It pointed to the door, instructing them to leave in a hurry. 'It wants us to leave' Dustin stated.
'We guessed that much' murmured Shane. The green light struck them and slapped them through the doors. The compound was shaking as the rangers rushed across the courtyard.
'Hold it!'
They looked up. Zurgane and a large group of Kelzacks were on the other side of the yard. Waiting for battle.
'We don't have time for this!' Cam shouted. 'This place doesn't look stable.' 'Our ranger will do what he must' sighed Zurgane. 'He sees all'
'Not after what our Sensei did to him!' Shane said. 'Let's go! We have to get out!'
The Kelzacks and Rangers charged to meet one another.as they approached the earth trembled and split apart. The rangers and forces of Lothar pulled back.
'RETREAT!' roared Zurgane. In a flash of teleportation light they were gone and had left the rangers to deal with the shattering Compound.
'This is not good dude!' Dustin murmured.
'Then let's run' suggested Cam. 'Fast and furiously out the gates'
Hunter hesitated but decided Cam was right. Leaving someone to die didn't agree with him at all. But he had to go.you didn't argue with a telekinetic manifestation. It just wasn't done!'
Swiftly darting out the gates they threw themselves away as the wave of dark green energy and violently bright red force burst from the compound. The light was so bright Shane swore, Tori gave a short gasp, Blake shouted, Dustin said something about the sun getting closer to Earth and Hunter and Cam both yelled the same thing at the same time.
The compound was gone.as if it had never existed.
'Freaky' Tori said. 'But handy when you have to rezone.'
'Did you just make a joke?' asked Shane.
'I guess so' said Tori. 'What happened?'
'He just.vanished' Cam said. 'Some sort of psychic overload'
'Bet he didn't foresee that' Hunter said.
***
The blade flitted forwards and nearly struck Zurgane. Lothar pulled the samurai sword from the wall near his general. 'I am most disappointed at this Zurgane' he hissed. 'He was a new lieutenant and a great weapon. Without him the Rangers will win!'
'But they won even when he was part of the team' Marah pointed out.
'Yes but he was reluctant and forced into foreseeing before. Working for us would have been perfect! He would not have withheld information!'
Lothar punched a wall and sent shockwaves through the room. Kapri and Marah looked at one another nervously. 'Well.uncle.there's someone else we.have as a candidate for a lieutenant.' Kapri swallowed. Marah nodded dumbly.
'Our trainer!' she squeaked as her uncle blazed about the room. 'She taught us all sorts of new moves!'
Lothar paused. 'Bring her here' he decided. 'If she fails I can at least use her against them'.
***
'The Academy of Astral Ninja's has vanished off the face of the Earth' CyberCam announced. 'As in, nada to be found, zilch on the search sweep' 'When I attempted to free the boy.I inadvertently set off a chain reaction to his mind and released.something. His powers gripped the school and that was the end of it all, without any trouble the Academy vanished. I do not know where to but I doubt he will return to plague us.
Hunter's eyes widened. 'When I was in his storm with you guys.I felt something. He said something, thought it and I picked up on it'
'What?' Shane asked. 'Anything useful?'
Hunter tried to catch the elusive though but it was like and oiled eel and he just could- 'Kelly!' he exclaimed. 'Storm Chargers! A trap!'
Sensei looked at them. 'Go! You must stop anyone from being harmed!'
'Got that already Dad' Cam sighed as he darted towards the portal with the others. Sensei prayed that there would be no death today.he prayed with all his heart that no lives would be lost to Lothar corrupting an innocent young man.
***
Kelly looked at the strange balloon. It was black white, an ovular yin- yang shape. She sighed as she walked forwards to take it, the balloon had been floating at chest level but abruptly floated up on red and green strings. She groaned and looked for the stepladder leaning on a wall. Folding it out beneath the balloon she climbed a step shakily and swiped at the shape. It floated away and up.
'This has been a world class crappy day' she groaned. Resetting the ladder she was about to get onto it when Blake skidded in the door. 'About time!' she exclaimed and glared at him. 'Where have you been?'
'Family emergency' he explained. 'Uhh.what are you doing?'
'Someone let a balloon in.'
'I'll get it!' exclaimed Blake. 'Best I start working now!'
Kelly looked at him cynically. 'Fine, by the way you see JJ?'
'Nope' Blake said moving the ladder. 'Why?'
'Never mind' Kelly shrugged. 'Just hoping he was somewhere. He's a really big time slacker.'
And with that she whipped out the door. Breathing out Blake looked at the balloon; he didn't know what it was. A bomb? A mental trap? Annoying?
He took out a small portable fan and turned the battery-operated machine on. The small breeze poked the balloon out the door with minimal coaxing.
Tori stood in the alley out behind Storm Chargers in full ranger gear. The balloon floated upwards and Tori aimed her blaster. 'Cover your ears Blake' she suggested. Cam held up a small camera aimed at the rising balloon, it scanned it. 'Bomb' he announced. Shane and Dustin stood at the sides of the alley standing guard while Hunter guarded the door to Storm Chargers.
'Fire in the hole' Tori murmured as she fired. The blast of energy destroyed the balloon creating a cloud of flame so big the sky flashed amber. 'Now that's a little overkill on the pop!' Hunter exclaimed.
***
Lothar smirked as he watched the Rangers spread out to return home. They had no idea what was coming next.his new General made Beevil look like a flower girl and she'd fix them for all they'd done to his plans.
***
Blake sipped the soda as he relaxed against the vending machine. 'Hey' Cameron was standing in the doorway of the storeroom. 'I wanted to apologize for the way I was so short tempered with you in the control room yesterday.I was just a little cranky that the system crashed'
Hunter swallowed his mouthful of soda and nodded. 'I shouldn't have been messing around with your computers anyway.sorry.'
There was an awkward silence before Hunter looked up brightly. 'Do you want to go get, like, a coffee or something?'
'Sure' shrugged Cam. 'D-do you want me to ask anyone else for you?'
'Sure.if you want' Hunter said with a murmur. 'I.I'll probably ask Blake and he'll ask Tori and she'll ask Dustin, who'll ask Shane and everyone will come.'
'Wanna skip the coffee and just go to the track?' Cam asked.
Hunter nodded with a small smile. 'Why not, you really need to brush up on.everything Motocross related.'
Cam rolled his eyes and looked at the blonde young man. 'Well, I'm getting better at it lately. I might surprise you' he said shortly.
'We'll see' Hunter said as he looked at his watch. 'I'll meet up with you there in about half-an-hour?'
'Okay' nodded Cam. 'But I'll win'
'In your dreams' laughed Hunter as he went back to work. 'See you in a while, guy in denial'
***
Cam walked down the street and into the Mall. The glass roof overhead with brightly lit by the sun of the afternoon. The splash of the large multi- tiered fountain was one of the few sounds in the relatively empty mall. Everyone was at work or the beach, and Cam wished he could be too. He didn't want to head back to Ninja Ops and play Gin Rummy with his father and Cyber Cam. He had a suspicion they both cheated in one way or another.
'Help! Someone Help Me!'
He twisted on the spot. A girl in dark red jeans, a leather jacket and black turtleneck top was running away from the two men, screaming. He hair was elaborately tied up into a somewhat spiky sort of ponytail like a crown at the back of her head with two strands dangling on her forehead. Her black boots clattered along the tiled floor, and then she slipped beside the fountain.
The men wrenched her to her feet and tried to pull the book out of her hands. She screamed again. Cam took off and leapt at them. Spinning around he caught one in the stomach with a kick. He fell back as Cam slammed two punches into the second guy and grabbed his arm, throwing him over his body onto the ground and kicking him squarely in the stomach to keep him down.
The other man pulled a knife from his belt. The girl gave a shriek and brought her leg into his ribs, he buckled as she fluidly spun downwards and around using the back of her leg to sweep the legs from under him. He toppled down and kissed the tiles forcefully.
'Thank you!' the girl exclaimed as she threw her arms around him and held him tightly. 'You save me and my book!'
He looked at the large leather-bound tome in her arms. The scuffed leather indicated how old it was and a stain that looked like blood was very prominent on the back. 'Why did they go after that?' he asked.
She looked at him with phenomenally green eyes. 'It's the book of Mara- Ishii. The kunoichi of the Echo Lotus. I must hide it! I am telling you this because I trust you. You must hide this tome away from the evil chasing it. They will follow me but not the book.'
She handed it to him and looked around. 'You'll see me about' she said quickly. 'I will try to speak with you when it is safe'
She twisted on her heel and darted away from the silent Cam. 'Wait! It's dangerous!' She said nothing as she vanished out the doors of the mall. Cam forced his feet to move and rushed after her. The car park was empty, not a sign of her and no sounds of a scuffle of any sort. With a whispered curse he opened his communicator.
***
'The Book of Mara-Ishii has vanished off the scanners!' exclaimed Lothar. 'Without a doubt' his new general said. 'The Ninja Academy has a cloaking field around it. But I will find it, it cannot hide from me, you know this. The rangers may have its secrets now but I will ensure they don't live long enough to use them all'. Lothar's lips pursed into a cruel smile. As the generals departed Zurgane lingered back.
'Sir, the newest general is.I don't trust.'
'I do not care!' Lothar said. 'Marah and Kapri have benefited from training under this one and a more ruthless being will not be found.after your failure to retrieve the Astral Ninja an outburst against my judgement would be most unwise'
Zurgane shivered and sidled out of the room slowly, unwilling to meet the burning gaze of his master.
***
'Hey Tori!' Blake exclaimed. He rushed up behind her as she stepped out of the surf, the white foam parting around her feet and reversing into the sea from whence it came. She smiled to see him approach her.
'Hey!' she said. He nudged the sand with a barefoot. His shoes were clutched in his hand. 'What's up?'
'Oh.nothing' Blake stammered.
'Really? Looks more like you have something on your mind' Tori smiled.
'It's the Astral Ninja.I know it was only yesterday that we defeated him but I feel we let him down by not freeing him.I mean.what happened? What did the Sensei do to his mind?'
Tori frowned. 'He didn't mean to.'
'I didn't say he did it on purpose!' exclaimed Blake. 'But.last night.I felt like we could have done more.and now he's dead.'
The short whisper at the edge of his voice was hoarse with regret. Tori put her arm around his shoulders and squeezed him into her wet body. 'It's okay' she said in a hushed voice. 'We wanted to help him but. we couldn't.'
***
Marah sat on the bench in her human garb. The Motocross rally was impressive, she watched Dustin rise over the sharp ramp and land on the other side swiftly. Her heart was fluttering? How? It was like.like.like nothing she had ever experienced before.she wished she could tell him.Kapri was suspecting Marah of feeling something for the Ranger since she blasted her for saying Marah had betrayed his trust.
'Hot Dog?'
She looked up at the bearded man in the Trench coat offering her the mustard and ketchup covered hot dog. 'Thank you but.'
The man's eyes morphed. Turning into bright green light with slit pupils, they were like a cat's or a snake's. 'Diaboli---' she was cut off from saying the generals name as a familiar shape walked by. The Navy Thunder Ranger and Dustin!
'You're drooling' the man said. He handed her the napkin and she frowned.
'Diabo! That's so mean!!'
'Call me D' sighed the shape-shifting general. 'We've known one another long enough. I presume you're watching the Ranger for a chance to attack?'
Marah nodded slowly biting into the hotdog. 'I-I am. He's always with his friends, except when he's Motocross-ing.'
D shook its head. 'I'm not like my parents Marah, they were truly great, incredibly insightful.skilled to a fault. Now I am what I am. I do not lie that I have a soul, a heart and feelings. But my heart is made of purest diamond ice, flawless like a diamond and as cold as ice. One day you will understand that a Ranger will only break your heart.they will use you and dispose of you, they are not as squeaky clean as you believe and always have but one female member. Trusting yourself to one is suicide.'
The man finished the hotdog swiftly. 'I believe you are watching him and learning as I trained you, but do not chose the path of heart. You must be cool and calculating as I am. Subdue your emotions and find focus'
Marah watched D walk away, a group of people walked across her line of vision and when they were gone so was D.
((I wish I could learn that trick!)) Marah grunted as she turned to watch the Navy and Yellow rangers talking by a snack cart. The Red Ranger approached them and spoke hurriedly in a hushed voice. Marah focused her senses on them and began to hear their words.
'---Cam was working all night---Ishii and some sort of spell for---could use it' Shane said to his friends. Blake nodded slowly.
'---Is like, totally a bad time! I have a race in like three minutes--- wait a few?' Blake laughed. 'Join us later---soon!'
Dustin waved his friends off and Marah found herself to have crept up near the cart where he was, her face obscured by a copy of "Ladies Sports". He turned around and walked straight into her. Scrambling furiously she stood up and turned away to get her magazine, abruptly she realized he was now level with her backside. She twirled playing with her hair so it obscured her face. 'So sorry' she exclaimed. 'My fault' 'Now it was mine' Dustin said. He wired around to see her face but she continued to look away, her hair cloaking her mouth and face. 'Do I know you?'
'Emmmmmm.No.I am-a from Sveeden! I just-en transferred-en to ahhh-dee-- emm school-err--en and I am a big fan of Motocross.Scoosen me!'
She turned away to escape. He laid a hand on her shoulder. 'Wait' he said.
'HEEEEEEEYAAAAA!' she shrieked on reflex and judo tossed him across the grass. He landed with a grunt and she gasped in shock. 'Sorry! Reflex!'
She grabbed a balloon from a vendor. He opened his mouth to protest but with a newly learned Spell of Influence she dissuaded any words in his mouth from jumping onto his diving board tongue.
'I have to go' she insisted and turned to leave. He darted in front of her and found himself face to face with a large red balloon. 'Can I at least get the name of a judo specialist?'
'Err.Margo!'
'Margo?' he repeated.
And she was gone, dashing like a madwoman across the fields, her brown hair flowing behind her like a kite. Dustin breathed out. 'What a woman.'
***
'The book details secrets of the Shadow, Thunder, Wind and Astral Ninja' explained Kanoi. The guinea pig hastily slapped Dustin's hand away from the snacks in the paper bag. 'And some of the other academies that did not survive.They are many but written in such an ancient tongue.I do not understand what they read.'
'I'm totally trying a rad new program' Cam said. Everyone stared at him.
'That's the fake me' the tired reply came from beneath the console. Cam rolled out holding some sort of component. 'I thought I'd lost it!'
He raised the penny sized black plastic circle with the blue dot in the core. 'This ought to tell us who our mystery woman---girl is!'
He slid it into a pair of metal pincers and tapped some keys. The pincers flashed blue and the data ran onto the screen creating an accurate high- resolution picture. The slender young lady was pretty even Blake stared much to Tori's chagrin.
'Hello!' breathed Shane.
'I'll run a scan for an ID' said CyberCam. 'This babeliscious piece of honey cannot be unnoticed!'
Shane, Dustin, Cam, Hunter and Blake nodded dumbly as the glowing green eyes locked with theirs, so innocent and fearful.
Tori yawned and stretched in an exaggerated manner before firmly placing her foot on Hunters flank and pushing the men down into a heap on the ground. 'Whoopsy, silly me' she growled.
Sensei chuckled. 'We must find this girl and help her, Lothar is undoubtedly chasing her and I sense a great evil that might be a harp to her'
'Then let's not waste anytime!' Shane exclaimed. He darted fro the portal and pasued. 'Uhh wait.where do we look?'
***
Kapri straightened the brown beehive wig she sported. Her pink suit and bag were perfectly prim and clean. She knocked on the door and smiled as it opened. 'Hello I'm Miss Moss from the Tupperware-and-Beauty group in the PTA where your child attends school.'
'Oh' the woman at the doors said. 'I see.well I don't know how you found me out here.but please step in'
Kapri stepped into the rented apartment with her smile still vibrant. 'What can I do for you?'
'Well, we just wanted to invite you to a small socialiser for all the parents in the school'
'Well, you've come a long way to find me in Angel Grove; I know I haven't been back to California in three months. But my son is perfectly able to accept that this is an important conference for me. It will be over soon.'
'We know!' Kapri exclaimed. 'But we simply must explain that it's a special ceremony for the.Students.achievements.in.the field of.of.of.' her brow wrinkled with effort. 'Participation in the Academic and Athletic quadrants and your sons excellent behaviour is exemplary. Its also a night for their volunteer work to be recognized.so I said to myself, Miss Moss, why shouldn't a mother be notified of her sons up and coming appraisal? So I hopped in my car and sped out here to make sure you knew!'
'I see.well I might need to take the workload with me.but for Shane I'll try' the woman decided. With a smile Miss Moss shook the unwitting Mother's hand and handed her the invitation. Provided D did the hypnosis on the principal this would all work out.
'We can't wait to see you soon Mrs Clarke!' she said as a shark's smile slid onto her face, transforming the one she had worn before.
***
TBC: So! Shane's mother is a target.Oh that is mean! Kapri needs a fella, she's jealous that Marah nearly had one in my view. Well one of them needed to be evil. I swear mystery ranger is not dead! But he's not someone y'all know. He's a link to the old rangers and people pasts. I do enjoy a good confusing remark and a few OC's. Now I have to go and polish off my metal terminator soldiers.me like me war machines (in moderation). Review this please because I want to hear about couples, weird as you like and anything you found funny or pointless, even just parts you liked in any chapters. I know it's awful but years of people telling me have resulted in a slightly unpleasant personality-switching thing, I fly off the handle abruptly. Hence I will hit flamers. Comprende? I will be keeping mystery girl, who will return later on. Crimson Nova placed an interesting Idea down for a couple Kapri and Shane? Also my friend is pressuring me about Cam and Hunter! Someone send me ideas.PS next chapter old rangers! Well as I ponder please send in comments and even some thoughts on your favourite parts.
The Fallen Angel's Overlord.OUT!
Hunter: Anyone here?
Overlord: They're all out looking for Mystery Girl
Hunter: Oh.
Overlord: But there's someone around here you can talk to.
Hunter: Are you trying to lure me to the crocodile pit?
Overlord: That's in my East wing; no here I have sock puppets
Hunter: (shudder) Whom do I talk to?
Overlord: Watch and learn Grass-flopper
Hunter: Yeesh! You are crazy!
Overlord: Wull.D'UH!