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lkwREADer - by the way, only a few NS rangers travled to the future.
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Chapter 4
"A Ninja Encounter"
"Boy, I'm stuff." Jack and Syd made their return from a nice dinner and trip to the mall as they entered the training room where they found Bridge sleeping peacefully on the couch. Chuckling, the two silently moved to the other vacant room where he could be left undisturbed. "Thanks for dinner, Syd. It was nice of you to invite me."
She turns around and smiles. "Of course. I didn't want you to sit on your butt all day long and not have a life." Jack shot her a dirty look for the comment. Syd laughs. "I'm kidding."
"So has Sky and Z arrived yet?" Jack questions as he looks around the room and sat down.
"I don't think so." Syd made room for herself on the couch next to him. "Usually when people are out this late they're having a really good time."
He chuckled at the thought. "Sky and Z? Having a real good time with each other?" Jack is in a state of disbelief. "That's hard to imagine."
"You never know, Jack. You just never know."
"Well, there you guys are!" Sky and Z unexpectedly walk in, arms linked, and laughing away hysterically. Jack and Syd exchange puzzled looks due to their sudden outburst of joy. The two gradually eased up their enthusiasm and face them.
"You guys should go in the other room." Z suggested with a slight chuckle. "Bridge is snoring like crazy."
"Oh goodie, let's go." Syd was eager to see as she drags Jack from behind.
"Wait." He stops her. "Where did you guys go?" Jack turned to Sky and Z, curious to know how their day went.
Syd gasps. "I want to know too." She sits back down. "So?"
Sky and Z looked at each other and smile. "We had a great time! First, we went out to get food, then we did some go-cart racing, played golf, hit the arcade, had dinner, and now we're here."
Jack raises an eyebrow. "You guys did all that in one day?"
"Yup." Z looks up at Sky as their gazes linger on each other. "We should do it again sometime."
He smiles back. "Of course."
Jack looks away. 'I think I'm gonna get sick.' He thought silently to himself.
"Awww..." Syd's voice ring through their awkward moment as she gushes over the two like some peppy love story. "That's so sweet."
Jack rolled his eyes. "Whatever."
"We ran into a few new people today." Z mentions all of a sudden, making her way over to Jack and Syd.
"Yeah. It was weird." Sky added. "They were looking for Blue Bay Harbor."
"Blue Bay Harbor?" Jack questioned with a chuckle. "This place was no longer Blue Bay Harbor since...I was like 3."
"Do they even know that they change the name to New Tech City?"
Z scoffs. "Obviously not, Syd. They probably came to visit and didn't realize the change after so many years."
"Did they freak out?"
Sky and Z just looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders.
"New Tech City!" He blurted out disappointingly. "They change the name Blue Bay Harbor to New Tech City!"
"We heard you the second time, Dustin."
"Am I the only one who thinks the name stinks?"
"I actually like it."
The goofball grunted. "Whatever, dude."
"I think I wanna go home now." The blonde informs her male friends after sitting in silence. They all look her way.
"Why? We just got here."
"Well, I feel like I'm in another parallel dimension and I'm getting freaked out seeing all these aliens walking around the city like normal people!" Her voice increased in volume.
"Where are we anyway?"
"Can we not change the subject here, please? We're in New Tech City!" She groans while taking a seat on a nearby bench, frustrated with everything that's happening.
"Tori, relax. After we're through with our little adventure, we'll leave."
"Well you know what?" She stands up and faces Dustin with a serious look. "This little adventure of yours is turning into a nightmare!"
"Okay, don't hurt me!"
"She's right, man." The dirty blonde sighed. "We should just go. There's no point to this."
"Do you have the scroll?"
"Yeah." Dustin scoffs while reaching over for his pockets. "It's in my--" Tori raises her eyebrows once he was cut off. His eyes widens in shock. "Uh oh."
"Uh oh? What do you mean uh oh?"
Dustin furiously began to search every pocket in his clothing. "I swear I had it!"
Tori looks away disappointingly. "You got to be kidding me."
"Oh great, now we're gonna be stuck here forever!"
Dustin panicked. "I probably dropped it on our way over here."
"Yah think!"
He turns to an upset Tori.
"But where?" The others asks.
He looks down to think.
"We pass by that one huge building with many windows and patrol cars around, remember? You must've dropped it somehow around that area."
"It's worth a shot. Let's go." The two went down to trace their steps as one stayed behind once he noticed that Tori was still sitting.
"You coming?" He asks, slowly walking to her.
She looks up at him with a heavy sigh. "You see what would happen, Hunter?"
He nods his head out of guilt. "I don't want to hear I told you so. I feel bad as it is."
"It's not your fault." Tori turns away and narrows her eyes at their direction. "It's Dustin and Shane's fault."
The sun has begun to set over the horizon, leaving colors of orange and yellow plastered in the distant skies. Jack and Z have stayed behind in the room as the others leave with their free time. "So..." Jack started off with an awkward tone. "You had a great time with Sky?"
She smiles. "Yeah, I had a great time." He laughed at the thought, which brought Z to her attention. "What?"
"Nothing. I just didn't think you would enjoy yourself with a guy who's been--"
"Look," Z cuts him off before he goes any further, "I know Sky hasn't been easy on us. But there's more to him than you think."
"Like what?"
"Well..." She trails off and blushes at the thought of him. "He's really sweet."
"Can I ask you a personal question?" Jack asks.
"Sure."
"Are you attracted to him?"
"What!" Z splutters out in disbelief. "It's only the first date, Jack."
"Well?"
She scoffs. "No! Just because I had a really great time with him doesn't mean I'm already interested. Besides, it's a friendly date. Nothing more."
"Uh huh." Jack playfully smirks. "Seems to me you like him."
Z grunts irritably. "I am not attracted to Sky."
"I think I'm attracted to Z."
Syd and Bridge stares at him oddly. "We already know that."
"No." He chuckled. "I was only attracted to the smallest things she does. But once I got to know her today, it's different. I'm attracted to Z for who she is."
She grins. "Sounds like you're in love."
"I am not in love, Syd. I haven't fallen in love since--" Sky trails off and looks at her. "Well, let's not go there." Syd looks down in pleased embarrassment and smiles.
"Is this one of those moments where you want to be left alone, but don't want to be alone because it would seem like an awkward moment when you don't want it to be an awkward moment but it really is?"
Sky and Syd furrowed their eyebrows quizzically. "Huh?"
He said no more. "I'll leave you guys alone and have you work things out."
"What are you talking about?"
"There's nothing to work out here, Bridge."
"I know, but I feel really uncomfortable when you two..." He pauses and heaved a deep sigh when they were looking straight at him as though they could read his mind. "Uh...great. I should just go now."
Just when Bridge was about to leave, the emergency alarm came on as it ring through their ears and vibrated the room. Sky, Bridge, and Syd promptly exit the room and rushed towards the commander center, followed by Jack and Z.
"How are we going to find it? It's dark." Tori brushes her hair back and turns around as a look out. Shane, Hunter, and Dustin continue to search for the scroll. "Come on, guys. Hurry."
"Dude, we're trying."
"Well, try harder!" She hissed when suddenly a flash of light hovered towards their direction. The former rangers stopped at what they're doing and slowly turned around.
"SPD." Jack was the first to show his badge. Tori and the others exchange worried looks.
"Uh...is there something wrong, officer?"
Jack shot Dustin a look. "First of all, we aren't officers." He stated quite offensively. "We are SPD."
"Whatever, dude."
"This area is off limits. Didn't you read the no trespassing sign?"
They all turned to the direction he was pointing at with his flashlight.
Tori sighs. "Look, we're not here to cause any trouble." She attempts to reason with them. "We're just here looking for something."
"In that case, we'll have to turn you in."
She turns to the blonde female. "Turn us in? For what?"
"For trespassing." The other female says. "And we must evaluate each and every one of you, just in case you're not doing anything that will keep us suspicious.
"This is ridiculous." Tori argues back. "We didn't even see the sign."
"Yeah and we're not doing anything wrong."
Jack shrugged his shoulders halfheartedly. "Sorry, but that's the rules."
"Look, once we find what we're looking for, we'll get out of your way."
Sky abruptly takes Hunter by the arm, ready to strap the handcuffs around his wrist. "I'm afraid that's not going to happen." The dirty blonde wrinkles his forehead as he pulls away from his grasp.
"Dude, I'm not going anywhere."
Jack smirks. "Well, you're gonna have to get through us first. Either way, we're turning you all in."
Shane, Hunter, Dustin, and Tori looked at each other and got into their fighting stance, knowing it was the only way. The SPD crew were surprise at their choice of action as they find it highly amusing. "Now you're just asking for more trouble."
Tori glares at them as they magically appeared in their ninja suits, getting rid of their civilian clothes in a blink of an eye. The members of B-Squad look on in utter amazement, unaware at what they're up against. "Whoa!" Bridge was the first to acknowledge their color-coded, uniformed suits. "That was a neat trick. How'd you do it?"
Dustin smiles. "Ninjas, dude."
"Ninjas?" Syd scoffs while placing her hands on her hips. "There's no such thing."
Tori smirks. "Want to bet?"
"Hiya!" Z snuck up from behind with a cheap shot to the back. Syd and Z have a two on one advantage as they grabbed a hold of both arms. "I don't think so!" Syd took out the handcuffs and gets ready to shack them around her wrist. "This won't hurt a bit."
Tori grunted. "Think again, ladies. Hiya!" The blonde releases herself from both grips as she did a backflip over them and landed on the ground in a fighting stance. Syd attempted a high kick as Tori blocked and retaliated with one herself, but missed when the curly blonde ducked and fought back with a leg sweep. Tori jumped back up with a somersault, only to be kicked on the back by Z. She stumbles forehead and gets right to the action as she uses her ninja streak to take her by surprise. Z yelps in pain as Tori snuck from behind and adds pressure on the back of her arms, struggling to break loose.
"Let her go!" Syd pulls her by the hair, only making Tori even angrier as she kicked her right on the stomach, twisting Z's arm and flipping her over as she landed on the blonde. Syd and Z gradually get up, resisting the pain as they watch Tori motion her arms. They look on wide-eyed as the flow of water follows her every move. "That doesn't look good." Syd muffled as they stood still. Moments later, a blast of water came charging towards their direction as both ladies take the hit and landed hard on the ground.
"Oh, dude. Don't be surprised when we kick your butts." Dustin smirks.
"Yeah?" He glares at him. "We'll just see about that. Ha!" Bridge started off with a kick that Dustin easily blocked. The former yellow wind ranger began throwing a few punches at him with a combination of kicks, but was surprised to see Bridge was able to hold on, and psychic-logically knowing what his next move is while blocking every single one of his shots. Dustin begins to get frustrated when suddenly Bridge got a hold of his arm and kicked him right on the stomach.
"Ah, man." Dustin grunted in pain while hunching over. "You're good."
"Try to keep up." Bridge went down to leg sweep him, but Dustin managed to think fast when he jumped up and plunges into the dirt. "What the?" Bridge wrinkles his forehead and circles around himself anxiously once he disappeared out of nowhere. "Your tricks can't fool me." He stares carefully at the ground and made a stop at a certain point. Once Bridge could sense the slick ninja's next move he grins evilly. "Hiya!" Just what he expected, Dustin pops out from the dirt and charges right at him, but was able to get out of the way fast enough with a quick backflip.
"Woo! Oh yeah! I'm just getting warmed up!" Dustin gets back into his fighting stance and smiles cockily at him. "Pretty cool huh? "
The fight between five SPD cadets and four ninja students continue to go on as each person of both sides try holding on as long as they can.
"Are we having fun yet?" Jack had a good grip on Shane's neck as he struggles to free himself.
"You know, you put up a decent fight. But not good enough!" He tightened his grip when suddenly Shane shoved him against a fence and was finally released. He began throwing continuous punches at him till Jack ducked and grabbed him by the ninja suit and flipped him over to the other side of a nearby building. "Ninja air assault!" Shane yelled as he kicked himself from off a branch and makes a fist as he uses his command of air and knocks Jack from off the ground.
Once Shane landed in front of him, he roughly picks the guy up and twisted his arm.
"AHH!" Jack grunted painfully. He tried to free himself, but finds that he was too strong. Shane then kicks his leg and flips him over face down on the ground. He moves back to regroup with Hunter who has the advantage over Sky. "Man, these guys are tough!" Sky gives Jack a hand as both cadets hunched over in pain. Syd, Z, and Bridge joined them, breathing heavily after a surprising defeat.
"That's enough. Let's go."
"Ninja streak!" Shane, Hunter, Dustin, and Tori chorused in unison as they disappeared in a flash. B-squad watched on in amazement as their mouths fell open at what they have witnessed.
"Now that is cool." Bridge points out excitedly.
Sky groans as nodded his head in dismay. "Are you okay?" Z asks sincerely, noticing how worried he looked, although she knew everyone at the moment were feeling bummed out but seeing him down was getting the best of her.
He looks at Z and sighs. "Commander Cruger will not be happy."