Title: Family Ties
Part Nine: Disappearing Acts
Author: Kryptonite
Disclaimer: The idea of Power Rangers itself belongs to Sabaan Entertainment (I think) and I'm using the *idea* for the basis of this. Danni is my own character.
Spoilers: Kinda hard not to have them since they aren't all my original characters.
Summary: Well, Danni comes to Ninja Ops, works things out with the whole stopping monsters from appearing on Lothor's ship. That of course makes Lothor mad. Danni also has another run-in with the social worker who gets put in her place (or so we hope).
A/N: Okay I'm apologizing now that this took so long to write. I think I wrote myself into a corner (partially) and then my muse decided to work on a million and one other things. I finally got this chapter up (yay!) so you can call off whatever evil space monsters you've told to attack me (Devidramon).
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" Anything yet?" Cam asked, coming to stand behind Danni.
" Not yet and if you keep asking me every five seconds I'm going to hurt you." She snapped out. Cam had asked her the same question at least ten times in the past five minutes.
" She has a point Cam. Let her do her work." Hunter said from where he was tossing a ball into the air and catching it. Cam sat down next to Tori and worked on his own calculations from there.
" Hey Dustin." Shane called quietly, coming to stand next to the yellow ranger. " Since when does Danni know Cam?"
" Since a while now for all I know." A phone started ringing. Danni reached down to her belt, not taking her eyes off the screen.
" Ah crude." She spat out, shoving the chair away from the table. " Dustin call Aunt Teresa. That bitch social worker's back."
" Watch your mouth." He said, grabbing the phone from mid-air where Danni had thrown it. Danni rolled her eyes.
" Cam, I'll be back later to finish this, okay?"
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" What are you doing?" Danni asked, standing quietly behind the social worker for a minute before speaking. The lady jumped three feet into the air.
" I rang the doorbell but no one answered." Danni looked down at her watch exaggeratingly.
" Well no wonder, it's only two thirty. Go away and come back at a normal hour." Danni stood her ground and glared at the older woman.
" It's Saturday." The social worker tried, huffing up to her full five foot four, still a good two inches shorter than Danni.
" Yes and both my brother and aunt work."
" Where were you?"
" Library." To prove her point, Danni held up her book bag and pulled out a library book. " Why do you care?"
" No reason, I made an appointment to come today at two fifteen and no one was here."
" Really. Well we never got a message. We save all our messages from the state social workers department."
" Whether or not you got the message is not my concern. I sent it-"
" No you didn't, now get out of our bushes before I call the cops for trespassing and attempted breaking in entry." Danni smirked, pulling her cell phone out and moving to turn it on.
" You wouldn't dare you little brat." Danni put the phone up to her ear.
" Of course sir." She said happily. " It's for you." She smirked, handing the phone to the confused woman.
" Hello?... yes, sir I am... no, I did leave a message... Um, yes?... No I didn't say that, heh heh heh... WHAT?!... I mean, yes sir... of course. Good bye." She swallowed and hung up the phone, handing it back to Danni.
" Hopefully I won't see you around here again otherwise I'll call the cops, understood?" Danni watched the woman get in her car and leave. " Dustin? Tell Aunt Teresa not to bother. She doesn't need to come." Danni turned the phone off and rubbed at her head.
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" Danni? You need to take a break. You've been working non-stop." Cam tried to get Danni to quit. The other rangers had already left Ninja Ops to go get some dinner and were returning as Cam pleaded.
" Danni, dinner." Dustin called, setting the plastic bags down.
" Not hungry." She muttered back, totally entranced in what she was doing.
" Danni, now." Dustin said more forcefully.
" I'll eat... lat..." Danni just trailed off, not finishing the sentence, eyes flicking rapidly across the screen.
" If you don't come eat right now I'll turn it off." Danni simply pushed control and s and continued working. " Danni." He said warningly, staring fixedly at the back of her head.
" I'm almost done. I promise I'll eat something when I finish."
It took Danni another two hours to finish writing the program and then another four hours to put it into being.
" Eat." Dustin said wearily from his position half-asleep on the floor. Danni smiled and then grabbed at her head.
" Go to sleep." She muttered, closing his eyes. Danni didn't even see that Sensei was still wide-awake and watching her.
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" Where did all my monsters go?" Lothor thundered as all his hired help had disappeared, some quite literally.
" I don't know sir." Zurgane said, punching in codes into the computer, trying to figure out what went wrong.
" Well fix it and get me my monsters!" Lothor screamed at the top of his lungs. Kapri and Marah cringed out in the hall.
" Now is definitely not a good time."
" No, it's not." Marah agreed, both girls creeping off to their rooms.
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" Dude, wake up." Dustin was shaking Cam's shoulder, trying to get him to wake up.
" What's wrong?" Cam asked, pulling his glasses on.
" She's gone. You were the last one up, where is she?"
" No I wasn't. You were. I fell asleep before you." Cam argued, sitting up now.
" Dustin? What's going on?" Dustin flipped the table over in his anger.
" Dude relax." Hunter said, grabbing Dustin from behind.
" She's knows not to do this!" He yelled. Dustin was having flashbacks to the last time Danni ran off without telling him.
" Where is she? Where's my sister?!" Dustin was freaking out. He had gotten a call about midnight that Danni was in the hospital. " Danielle Brooks. Where is she?"
" Sir, calm down. She's in room 220 on the next floor. Sir? Sir!" The attendant called after him, leaning over the counter to see him running down the hall. He slammed into the elevator, running between the doors as they started to open.
" Danni? Danni!" He yelled when he found the room, bursting the door open, causing it to hit the wall. Danni was lying in between the stark white sheets, cuts and bruises marring her face.
" I take it you're her brother? A mister Waldo Brooks?"
" Dustin, yeah. What happened? Is she gonna be okay?"
" She'll be fine. I just have a few questions-"
" I'm sorry." Danni muttered out, eyes closed in pain, as she coughed up a tiny bit of blood.
" Danni? It's okay."
" Mr. Brooks, if I can speak to you for just a moment-"
" Later." Dustin spat out angrily, not turning away from his sister.
" Dustin!" Tori yelled, grabbing at his face and forcing him to look into her eyes. " Nothing is going to happen to Danni. You don't need to destroy Ninja Ops. We'll find her."
" She may not want to be found." Sensei added after Dustin had calmed down.
" What do you mean?" Dustin asked, turning as much as he could to look at Sensei. Hunter still hadn't let go.
" She left last night after telling you to go to sleep and closing your eyes. Your sister truly is a genius. She had done additional research along with that to help us but I am afraid I can not access it."
" I'll try, can't make any promises." Cam said, seating himself at Ninja Ops mainframe.
" Just try."
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" Almost there. AHHH!" Danni cried, clutching at her throbbing head. 'I'm sorry Dustin.' Danni continued the hike up the trail, clutching at her head, the woods dancing around her eyes. 'Please be here.'
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Doyles-always- I thought they were interesting twists too. Here's another one.
Devidramon- See! I updated (finally). Just had to get my muse back :)
Thank you so much to everyone who's read this and reviewed. And to those of you who have read and haven't reviewed, please do so! Once more sorry it took so long to update but my muse kinda flew away.
Part Nine: Disappearing Acts
Author: Kryptonite
Disclaimer: The idea of Power Rangers itself belongs to Sabaan Entertainment (I think) and I'm using the *idea* for the basis of this. Danni is my own character.
Spoilers: Kinda hard not to have them since they aren't all my original characters.
Summary: Well, Danni comes to Ninja Ops, works things out with the whole stopping monsters from appearing on Lothor's ship. That of course makes Lothor mad. Danni also has another run-in with the social worker who gets put in her place (or so we hope).
A/N: Okay I'm apologizing now that this took so long to write. I think I wrote myself into a corner (partially) and then my muse decided to work on a million and one other things. I finally got this chapter up (yay!) so you can call off whatever evil space monsters you've told to attack me (Devidramon).
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" Anything yet?" Cam asked, coming to stand behind Danni.
" Not yet and if you keep asking me every five seconds I'm going to hurt you." She snapped out. Cam had asked her the same question at least ten times in the past five minutes.
" She has a point Cam. Let her do her work." Hunter said from where he was tossing a ball into the air and catching it. Cam sat down next to Tori and worked on his own calculations from there.
" Hey Dustin." Shane called quietly, coming to stand next to the yellow ranger. " Since when does Danni know Cam?"
" Since a while now for all I know." A phone started ringing. Danni reached down to her belt, not taking her eyes off the screen.
" Ah crude." She spat out, shoving the chair away from the table. " Dustin call Aunt Teresa. That bitch social worker's back."
" Watch your mouth." He said, grabbing the phone from mid-air where Danni had thrown it. Danni rolled her eyes.
" Cam, I'll be back later to finish this, okay?"
~~~~~
" What are you doing?" Danni asked, standing quietly behind the social worker for a minute before speaking. The lady jumped three feet into the air.
" I rang the doorbell but no one answered." Danni looked down at her watch exaggeratingly.
" Well no wonder, it's only two thirty. Go away and come back at a normal hour." Danni stood her ground and glared at the older woman.
" It's Saturday." The social worker tried, huffing up to her full five foot four, still a good two inches shorter than Danni.
" Yes and both my brother and aunt work."
" Where were you?"
" Library." To prove her point, Danni held up her book bag and pulled out a library book. " Why do you care?"
" No reason, I made an appointment to come today at two fifteen and no one was here."
" Really. Well we never got a message. We save all our messages from the state social workers department."
" Whether or not you got the message is not my concern. I sent it-"
" No you didn't, now get out of our bushes before I call the cops for trespassing and attempted breaking in entry." Danni smirked, pulling her cell phone out and moving to turn it on.
" You wouldn't dare you little brat." Danni put the phone up to her ear.
" Of course sir." She said happily. " It's for you." She smirked, handing the phone to the confused woman.
" Hello?... yes, sir I am... no, I did leave a message... Um, yes?... No I didn't say that, heh heh heh... WHAT?!... I mean, yes sir... of course. Good bye." She swallowed and hung up the phone, handing it back to Danni.
" Hopefully I won't see you around here again otherwise I'll call the cops, understood?" Danni watched the woman get in her car and leave. " Dustin? Tell Aunt Teresa not to bother. She doesn't need to come." Danni turned the phone off and rubbed at her head.
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" Danni? You need to take a break. You've been working non-stop." Cam tried to get Danni to quit. The other rangers had already left Ninja Ops to go get some dinner and were returning as Cam pleaded.
" Danni, dinner." Dustin called, setting the plastic bags down.
" Not hungry." She muttered back, totally entranced in what she was doing.
" Danni, now." Dustin said more forcefully.
" I'll eat... lat..." Danni just trailed off, not finishing the sentence, eyes flicking rapidly across the screen.
" If you don't come eat right now I'll turn it off." Danni simply pushed control and s and continued working. " Danni." He said warningly, staring fixedly at the back of her head.
" I'm almost done. I promise I'll eat something when I finish."
It took Danni another two hours to finish writing the program and then another four hours to put it into being.
" Eat." Dustin said wearily from his position half-asleep on the floor. Danni smiled and then grabbed at her head.
" Go to sleep." She muttered, closing his eyes. Danni didn't even see that Sensei was still wide-awake and watching her.
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" Where did all my monsters go?" Lothor thundered as all his hired help had disappeared, some quite literally.
" I don't know sir." Zurgane said, punching in codes into the computer, trying to figure out what went wrong.
" Well fix it and get me my monsters!" Lothor screamed at the top of his lungs. Kapri and Marah cringed out in the hall.
" Now is definitely not a good time."
" No, it's not." Marah agreed, both girls creeping off to their rooms.
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" Dude, wake up." Dustin was shaking Cam's shoulder, trying to get him to wake up.
" What's wrong?" Cam asked, pulling his glasses on.
" She's gone. You were the last one up, where is she?"
" No I wasn't. You were. I fell asleep before you." Cam argued, sitting up now.
" Dustin? What's going on?" Dustin flipped the table over in his anger.
" Dude relax." Hunter said, grabbing Dustin from behind.
" She's knows not to do this!" He yelled. Dustin was having flashbacks to the last time Danni ran off without telling him.
" Where is she? Where's my sister?!" Dustin was freaking out. He had gotten a call about midnight that Danni was in the hospital. " Danielle Brooks. Where is she?"
" Sir, calm down. She's in room 220 on the next floor. Sir? Sir!" The attendant called after him, leaning over the counter to see him running down the hall. He slammed into the elevator, running between the doors as they started to open.
" Danni? Danni!" He yelled when he found the room, bursting the door open, causing it to hit the wall. Danni was lying in between the stark white sheets, cuts and bruises marring her face.
" I take it you're her brother? A mister Waldo Brooks?"
" Dustin, yeah. What happened? Is she gonna be okay?"
" She'll be fine. I just have a few questions-"
" I'm sorry." Danni muttered out, eyes closed in pain, as she coughed up a tiny bit of blood.
" Danni? It's okay."
" Mr. Brooks, if I can speak to you for just a moment-"
" Later." Dustin spat out angrily, not turning away from his sister.
" Dustin!" Tori yelled, grabbing at his face and forcing him to look into her eyes. " Nothing is going to happen to Danni. You don't need to destroy Ninja Ops. We'll find her."
" She may not want to be found." Sensei added after Dustin had calmed down.
" What do you mean?" Dustin asked, turning as much as he could to look at Sensei. Hunter still hadn't let go.
" She left last night after telling you to go to sleep and closing your eyes. Your sister truly is a genius. She had done additional research along with that to help us but I am afraid I can not access it."
" I'll try, can't make any promises." Cam said, seating himself at Ninja Ops mainframe.
" Just try."
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" Almost there. AHHH!" Danni cried, clutching at her throbbing head. 'I'm sorry Dustin.' Danni continued the hike up the trail, clutching at her head, the woods dancing around her eyes. 'Please be here.'
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Doyles-always- I thought they were interesting twists too. Here's another one.
Devidramon- See! I updated (finally). Just had to get my muse back :)
Thank you so much to everyone who's read this and reviewed. And to those of you who have read and haven't reviewed, please do so! Once more sorry it took so long to update but my muse kinda flew away.