Disclaimer: Not mine. Here's my second favourite pairing from the various incarnations. This chapter is dedicated to MzDany. Without her to bounce idea's off of, this little series might not have happened. Angel Mouse, August 2005
Unusual Bonds 4 – The Thunder and The Samurai
by Angel Mouse
The Thunder
Okay, so I'm not the easiest person in the world to get along with. I'll admit that. But Blake and I have been alone for so long that I tend to be very stand offish with people I don't know. So, once the whole thing with Sensei and the Cave of Souls was all done and finished with, I did a lot of soul searching. We both did really. And when we decided to stay and fight with the Wind Rangers, it was the right thing to do.
But honestly, where does he get off? He's barely civil to the Wind Rangers, let alone Blake and I. He's got such a holier than thou attitude and his sarcasm gets really old really quick. But, according to Shane, the dude can fight. And Tori said that he's really smart, and she's right on that bit. He figured out our Zords really quickly. Honestly the guy is so smart it's actually quite frightening. But I can see that being that intelligent has left its marks on him. He's such a loner, so quiet sometimes that we don't know he's there. We don't include him in our stuff when we hang out and Tori's constantly pulling us up on that, but sometimes I'm not sure if he'd really want to hang with us. I mean, what do we have in common right?
But then I got to know him and you know what, I'm glad I did. He's a decent person underneath all that sarcasm and intelligence. He's kind, caring, and sweet and constantly pulls our buts out of the fire all the time. I honestly don't know how he does it all, I really don't. He's always there when we need him to be and it can't be easy to have his Dad as a guinea pig all the time. He's never out of Ninja Ops and I swear he must sleep in that chair of his. And I must admit he didn't get a lot of thanks or respect from any of us, a fact I really regret now.
But all that changed when he got his powers. It took the most unbelievable courage I've ever seen to go back in time and end up meeting his long dead mother. And then to confront his uncle who turned out to be Lothor. That took so much courage that I completely reassessed my opinion of him. And then I took the time to get to know him and you know what, I made a friend. What really clinched it for me was the way he treated me with respect over the whole Gem of soul's thing. He was there for me in a way that none of the others could be.
Yeah, me, the Crimson Thunder Ranger with my piss everyone off attitude managed to get Mister holier than thou Samurai Ranger to relax and have fun occasionally. And you know what, underneath all that crap we both show the world, we found that we could count on each other and that we had more in common that we first thought. And you know what else I discovered, that I could count on Cam like I count on Blake. And I like that feeling. It's nice to have a friend like Cam.
The Samurai
Okay, so sometimes I can be a bit sarcastic. Alright, I can be a lot sarcastic. But sometimes I really have trouble with dealing with people. They can be annoying, troublesome, ungrateful and all together really, really a pain in the behind. All the work I do for them and never, ever a thank you. Expect from Tori, she always manages to say thank you or please. At least sometimes that's enough to keep me from going insane. And then the Thunder brother's showed up and my life got even more complicated that it already was.
It took a very long time for me to forgive them for what they tried to do to my Father. But eventually I understood why they did what they did, but it didn't make it right. But I did understand and I was able to forgive them. But sometimes I find it really hard to relate to any of them. And honest to god, if they trash the Zords one more time I really will refuse to fix them. Okay, I won't but still, I sometimes feel like I'm talking to a brick wall sometimes. Especially to him, god sometimes he's so hard to get a point through to.
I have never really felt a part of the group, and that's to be expected really. They were some of my father's worst students and the Thunder Rangers weren't even from our Academy. I mean, it's not like sometimes I don't want to be a part of their activities, I'd like to. But there's just nothing I have in common with them. And that makes it even harder. And he doesn't make things easier with that let's piss everyone off act that he does.
And then I had to go back in time to get the Samurai Amulet to save them all. And then I meet my Mother. That was the hardest thing in my entire life I've ever had to do. To go and be with her, see her, talk to her and not tell her exactly who I was. I've never had to do something so hard and so important in my life. But I don't regret a moment of it. Once I returned with the Amulet and becoming a Ranger myself I found that I began to have something finally in common with them all. And really weirdly I now had something to talk about with him and that took some getting used to let me tell you.
And most surprising to me was how well I got to know Hunter and became friends with him. Sure he can do the let's piss people off act so well it's not funny. But underneath all of that is a heart of gold and a gentle soul. We discovered we had a lot more in common than I first thought. Especially when I found out about the shards of the Gem of souls. He trusted me with those shards, and that's something I will never forget. So I found in him a good friend, someone I could rely on and someone that I knew would be in my corner if I needed him to be. And you know what, that made all the pain, the loneliness and hard work worth it. Friends like Hunter are few and far between, but I'm glad he's mine.