Chapter 3: The Choice
Cam knew that panicking would not be in his best interest as he continued to pace from one end of the empty ops to the other. He checked his watch for the thirty-second time in the past two hours and he was no longer shocked to find time was still on the moment he had closed his eyes. He had also noticed that the parasite in him had not moved or caused him pain. He was fairly certain he was stuck in time, but by who or for what reason he was not certain. He only hoped his friends were okay. No sooner had the thought crossed his mind when two visions of Hunter and Dustin faded into the room. Cam blinked a few times to make sure that his eyes were not playing tricks on him. He reached out to touch Hunter and fell forward to the floor. As Cam brought himself up he heard a laugh come from behind him.
Back in the flow of natural time the group was staring at Cam winced in pain and they knew after a few minutes that Cam was stuck. Shane took this as a good sign for the fact that if Cam was frozen than the thing inside him was more than likely not moving as well. With this the group let out a sigh of relief as they came together to find how to save Cam. Everyone started to talk a once and through it Blake shouted loudly and calm
"We need to get the amulet back, Cam's Samurai amulet" he finished in a less aggressive tone. The statement took them by surprise even himself. Even more shocking was what came out of Dustin's mouth next.
"We need to return it to the amulet so we can save Cam." Everyone looked at him and soon they were all think about going to the abyss of evil. That was until Hunter slammed Dustin into the nearest wall forcefully. Everyone stood still as Hunter was face to face with the curly brown headed boy. Hunter had his hand slightly up his shirt when Dustin tried to move Hunter forced him back into the wall.
"What are you doing Hunter?" Dustin asked in a small whimper.
"You're not Dustin" his hand reaching farther up his shirt.
Cam whipped around to see the Green Samurai standing by the chair Cam woke up in. It took him by shock and the image laughed again.
"Glad to see you know I am here Cam" the voice was toneless and cold. He took a step forward and stood in front of the images of the Yellow and Crimson Rangers. He placed his hand on the Dustin Clone and immediately it took caporal form and so did the Hunter Clone. The Green ranger turned to his true form.
"Make a choice Cam" the voice was still cold and devoid of emotions, "you must chose a host for the Stealer. If you do not it will kill you and then it will go to the other former rangers and kill them till it finds the perfect soul to devour. Cam winced at this idea and looked away.
"Cam please make a choice we will willing give up our life to save you." Clone Hunter said as a single tear rolled down his cheek. Cloned Dustin placed a hand on Cam and with out a word he vanished. Cam turned to see that Hunter was there and so was the Clone Green Ranger.
"You have made your choice the Stealer will move onto Dustin." it said to Cam. Cam lost control and the room started to spin and Cam fainted to the ground.
Hunter had Dustin's shirt off and the group was shocked at what they were seeing. Dustin was completely mechanical from the neck down. Tori's mouth was on the floor and Blake and Shane were staring in awe. The mechanical Dustin grabbed his shirt from Hunter who was looking a shocked even though he was the one who had found out. He replaced his shirt and walked over to the frozen Cam and pushed a button on his shirt. Cam wrenched forward and fell to the ground. The imposter Dustin helped him up and the group looked at Cam.
"They found out" Dustin said in a whispered tone as Cam got to his feet. Cam looked at the cybernetic doll and winced.
"That's not the only problem we have" Cam said as he walked to the middle of the room.
Please review. Okay so I lied you don't know who the couples are. And why did Cam build a fake Dustin? Where is the real one? And How did Hunter know that that wasn't the real Dustin? All in time my children…