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A/N: Here we go guys! Here's the next chapter…have fun:) Oh and, mystic-nightmares (karen) - shut up woman, you'll just give everything away…and I might not even do that now! Lol. Enjoy the story!
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"W-What the hell has happened!" Tori stood up, her height was half what it used to be; she took a full look at herself. "Please tell me this is a dream!"
Cam shook his head slightly, speechless. "I-I think…I think that device was dangerous." He answered meekly.
"'Think'? You think!" Tori screeched.
Shane rubbed his eyes and blinked, he wasn't imagining it, there standing in front of him were four children. Tori, who was currently panicking and trying to threaten Cam, was still in her Ninja uniform. Luckily that had shrunk as they did; her hair was just below her shoulders. Shane wrinkled his nose slightly, trying to work out how old they now where. Coming to the conclusion from the fact he first met Dustin when they both were six, he decided they were definatly younger than that.
"You better figure out how to reverse this Cameron!" Tori balled her tiny fists up by her side. She glared at Shane, who started to laugh. "What's so funny?"
"You! You have no idea how un-threatening that looks!"
Tori rolled her bright blue eyes and looked at the others. Hunter and Dustin were flat out on the floor from the blast, and Blake was stirring. Tori's eyes widened as she realised the other three had been reversed physically too.
Blake opened his eyes and groaned at the ache in his lower back. "Dude, my back kills!" He looked up at Cam and Shane, after seeing their bewildered expressions he raised an eyebrow. "What's up?"
"Blake?"
Blake looked over at the voice, seeing a small blonde haired girl; he furrowed his brow. "Yeah…"
"It's me, Tori."
Blake laughed, "yeah right."
"Blake, look at yourself!"
Blake hesitantly looked down at his body, he gasped and brought a hand to his face "what-"
"Cam thinks that device was dangerous!"
Blake stood up with the help of Tori, he stood at the same height as Tori, and he felt his hair, which was still short and spiky. He sighed and looked at his clothes. "My uniform…it's shrunk too!"
Tori shrugged, "must of. Don't complain though."
"What actually happened? I don't remember a thing."
"Well…that device kind of…exploded. And you four got knocked out…and here we are."
Blake looked up at Shane, "and we reverse it…how"
Shane glanced at Cam who was shaking his head, "we-Cam, doesn't know…"
"This may be a weird question…but did we just shrink…or go back in age…"
"We're four…at least, I am." Blake looked at Tori who bit her lip slightly, "how do you know?"
"You don't want to know."
Cam walked over to the two children still on the floor, he knelt down in between the two and nudged Dustin's body, and after receiving no response he shook Hunter slightly. "I think they're out cold."
A muffled moan caused Cam to look back at Hunter, his face lifted from the floor. Hunter's eyes were still closed, and Cam nudged his again. "Hunter?"
"What?"
"Open your eyes."
"I don't want to."
"You don't want to?"
"I just heard Tori and Blake talking."
Another bang caused Cam to look over at Dustin who was stirring. "Dustin?"
Tori sat down beside Dustin's leg, the bang he had heard was Tori kicking Dustin's foot down onto the floor. Cam looked at the young girl who shrugged.
"It worked last time I needed him awake…"
Sure enough, Dustin's eyes flickered open and his arms flung over his face, "Argh! I feel like…crap."
"You don't look like it."
Tori grinned at Cam's comment and watched at Dustin's arms slowly moved from his face. He looked up at Tori and wrinkled his nose, "I recognise you." Tori just rolled her eyes and stood up, still not used to being so close to the ground, she sighed and shrugged at the young boy.
"It's me you fool."
Dustin sat up and looked over at Tori, "that's very funny…now who are you."
"Shut up Waldo."
Dustin's mouth closed tightly and a slight blush fell upon his cheeks. He stood up and looked down at the ground, "the floor…"
"It's closer." Tori brushed away her hair from her face, "we're four year olds again."
Dustin's eyebrow raised, "no way. This has to be some…test."
"It was that box thing, Dustin."
Dustin looked over at Blake, "how do we know we're four?"
Blake shrugged, "Tori said she was…I'm the same age as her so I must be too."
Tori kicked Dustin's knee slightly causing him to yelp out, "What was that for?"
"Well, at five, you had that operation on your knee…and it started when you were turning four."
Dustin rubbed his little knee, a pout on his lips, "ok but you didn't have to kick me."
"What about Hunter?" Tori asked.
"Yeah, how old would he be…?"
Blake thought for a moment, "six."
"Six?"
"You mean…he's like, twenty?"
"No…he's six."
"Not now you fool!"
"Oh, right, yeah…"
"I knew I always looked younger than I was." The three children looked at Hunter who was standing up slowly, "since everything I wanted to say has been said…let's get straight to working out how to change us back, hey?"
Shane looked at the four, whereas Tori and Blake hadn't changed much, Dustin's hair was still floppy but with a slightly larger fringe, he was a little taller than Tori and had the wide brown eyes he had normally. Hunter was another story, his hair was longer and a darker blonde than when they'd first met, his eyes were slightly dimmed but stood a head above Tori and Blake. Shane shook his head bewildered, how they were going to change this, he had no idea, hoping Cam would know what to do he walked over to the computer where Cam was already tapping away.
Unfortunately, Cam hadn't a clue either.
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"Uncle!"
Lothor rolled his eyes and turned from the control panel. "What?"
"I've been thinking."
"Always a dangerous thing for you."
"Anyway! How do we know if the plan worked? I mean…we won't be able to tell…right?"
"Get me my P.A.M."
Marah bit her lip, "you sure you want that?"
"Yes!"
"Well…"
"What?"
Marah looked at Lothor and smiled weakly, "it's kind of…broken."
"BROKEN?"
Marah winced and glanced around nervously, "yeah…we needed to add that extra power to the device…and Kapri said to use the P.A.M."
Lothor sighed and moved over to the throne, "so, how am I supposed to destroy the power rangers if I don't have my P.A.M"
"Technically it wouldn't work anyway." Kapri's voice floated in through the hall; soon she was standing at the doorway.
"What do you mean?"
Kapri shrugged, "you said rangers can only be destroyed whilst in Ranger Form…and I'm pretty sure their morphers won't work now…"
Lothor groaned, "Why didn't I think of that back then"
Marah shrugged, "so what do we do now"
"Nothing." Lothor answered irritated.
Marah pouted, "Darn it."
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Cam turned from the computer to look at the damage, Tori were sitting on the table, her little legs tucked under her body and her short arms crossed. Sitting beside her was Blake, every-so-often he'd speak up to her but they mainly sat in silence. Hunter was trying to talk to Dustin, who was bouncing to and fro. Not wanting to upset anyone by saying the wrong thing Shane had gone out to get some fresh air.
Cam removed his glasses, "guys, we have to do something…I mean, you can't stay here for however long this takes…"
"But we can't exactly go home can we?"
Cam looked at Dustin who had stopped moving around, "I guess not. But…"
"Maybe…we should just get up a room for us all and we'll be fine?"
"Hunter, I may be a four year old physically…but I'm not stupid. I'm not sharing a room with you three."
"Worth a try." Came the quick and cocky response.
"Do you think our minds will eventually roll back too"
Everyone turned to Blake, who was looking cautiously at the table. Cam thought for a moment, and maybe Blake was right. If the device had managed to reverse them physically, it could be equally capable to do so mentally.
"If it does, I apologise for anything I do or say." Dustin grinned, as Hunter shot him a look, Dustin shrugged, "what? I was a terrible kid."
Tori smiled, "he's not joking."
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Hours had passed uneventfully, in which Cam tried to find some hint of how the device works.
"Cam!"
Cam sighed and let his head drop to the table, "what have you done now Dustin"
Dustin little face popped up beside Cam's chair, complete with chocolate stained hands and nose. Cam rolled his eyes and turned to face the young boy, Dustin was looking up at him with a guilty grin.
"Where on Earth did you get that chocolate? You haven't been anywhere all day."
Dustin bit his lip, "Well…" He mumbled.
"Sorry, that would be me."
Cam looked up at Shane, "I should of known it was you"
Shane jumped up from the step he was sat on, "Well…they're young and been cooped up here for like, six hours."
Cam sighed and shrugged, "I'm not cleaning him up."
"Dude! I know how to clean myself up."
"Yeah but you can't reach the sink."
Dustin scratched the back of his head and shrugged, "good point."
Shane grinned, "Well I'm going to go get out a room for them."
Cam nodded and turned to face the others, being cooped up for ages were driving the rangers mad, whilst Dustin had found bouncing from one activity to another, Tori and Hunter were sparring. The idea of two four year olds sparring had amused Cam to no end. Blake had taken to sitting running though some of the old scrolls, anything to amuse himself. When Shane emerged from the spare room, Cam stood up.
"Come on guys."
Blake looked up at Cam who was motioning to join them; Blake stood up quietly and walked over to the two. Dustin was already beside Shane when Blake crossed the room.
Dustin looked around, "where's the other two"
"In the hallway, that's where they went to spar anyway."
Cam moved through the room and into a small hallway, he smiled at the sight of the two of them.
Hunter was leaning up against the wall, a knee propped up and his head bent forwards against his upper chest. One arm was leaning on his knee and the other wrapped around Tori, she was curled up against Hunter's side with her head nuzzled into his neck, one arm draped over Hunter's stomach and the other wrapped around her legs. Cam smiled and kneeled in front of them, he gently shook Tori since she was the nearest.
"Tori…" He whispered, "Tori…"
Tori stirred slightly and her eyes flickered open, she turned her neck to look at Cam, "ugh, my neck hurts." She mumbled.
"Well you're not exactly in the most comfortable position" Cam pointedly looked at Hunter who was stirring.
Tori sat up and looked around, "what time is it"
"Just gone midnight."
Tori groaned and stretched her legs, she moved away slightly causing Hunter to wake up. She looked over at him and smiled, "mornin'."
Hunter popped his neck and stretched, "ugh, what t-"
"Midnight." Tori interrupted, she stood up slowly.
"Where are the others?"
"Gone to bed."
"Sounds good." Hunter replied hoarsely.
Cam couldn't help but laugh as the two children stood up, "in the spare room…"
Hunter nodded and walked in front of the two, Tori suddenly stopped walking just in front of the room, "Hey! I said I wasn't going in the same room as them"
Hunter rolled his eyes and grabbed Tori's little hand, he pulled her into the room, "come on Tori. We're young…nothings going to happen"
Shane laughed and patted Cam's back; "I'll catch you later."
"You're not going to get in trouble for coming home so late?"
"Parent's are out."
Cam nodded and turned back to the room, "come on guys."
Tori flopped onto the blue mattress and sighed, "this sucks…I'm half the size of my bed."
Hunter laughed and sat down on his own bed, which was in between Dustin's and Tori's. "Quit whinging. We know Cam…he'll figure something out."
Dustin threw himself onto his bed, "I like it anyway…I mean I didn't have a care in the world when I was four! So, it's like a whole new chance for a while."
Tori rolled her eyes, "you still don't have a care in the world Dustin."
Blake sat down onto his bed beside Dustin's and leant up against the wall, he looked at the door as Cam closed it. "Guys…do you really think Cam will work it out"
Hunter looked over at his brother, "bro, he's ten times as clever as all of us put together. He'll sort it out." He smiled reassuringly and flicked the lamp off, "night guys."
"Night."
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"Pst…" A voice from above Hunter whispered, "Pst…Hunter"
Hunter felt a hand brush his hair; he batted at the hand and buried his face into the pillow. The hand ruffled the back of his head and Hunter batted at the hand again, a muffled 'get stuffed' was heard from the pillow causing the voice to laugh out.
"Come on Hunter…"
Hunter slowly lifted his head and blinked a couple of times, he tilted his head slightly to see who was talking to him, and he rubbed his eyes and smiled sleepily.
"You know, you make a cute kid - especially when you're asleep."
"Ah, don't get used to it."
Tori giggled slightly and moved aside to give Hunter room to get up, he looked around quickly and at Tori, "what time is it?"
"It's just gone 11."
Hunter yawned and looked around again, "where's Blake?"
Tori looked over to the bed in the far corner, the blanket was thrown to the bottom but there was no one in there, "he was complaining of a headache this morning, he's probably with Cam somewhere."
Hunter poked the still figure hidden underneath the yellow blanket with his foot, when the figure didn't move, he grinned.
"Don't be mean, there's no way to wake Dustin, we've never managed it."
"You haven't seen my way."
Tori looked at him cautiously, "what are you going to do?"
Hunter shrugged and climbed over the lump to sit on Blake's bed, he pulled a pillow out from under Dustin's head, Dustin mumbled slightly and clung onto the second pillow. Tori grinned and grabbed the other pillow; she yanked it from under Dustin's head. Dustin moved forwards slightly and let go of the pillow, causing Tori to pout.
Hunter grabbed a corner of the mattress and motioned for Tori to grab the other, "grab that…we'll slide him off."
Tori laughed and picked up the corner, after a count of three they both lifted their corner, the top of the mattress lifted, causing Dustin to slide onto the cold tiled floor. Hunter laughed as Dustin shot up quickly.
"That floor's cold!" He glared at the two who were now exchanging high-fives; Dustin ran a hand through his hair in a futile attempt to tame it. "This is a conspiracy."
The other two shrugged and stood up, "come on Dustin." Hunter grabbed the boy's arm and dragged him down the hallway.
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Cam turned around on the chair to look at the young boy sitting on the table, "Blake?" The boy blinked silently, a confused look in his eyes. He scratched his head slightly and brought his knees up to his chin. Unshed tears surfaced, showing how scared the little boy felt.
"Blake…do you know who I am"
The boy shook his head quickly, "no sir."
Cam furrowed his brow, "my name's Cam, I'm your friend."
The young boy looked cautious for a moment before running off the table and hugging Cam tightly, Cam held onto him with a sigh.
It was worse than they thought.
"Cam?" Cam looked up at the three standing at the doorway; Hunter tilted his head slightly, "what's wrong with Blake?"
At the mention of his name, Blake looked up, Tori looked between the two brothers, "Cam…he doesn't look…right…"
"He's lost all memory…I think he was right. I think your minds are will be affected too…"
Blake blinked away his tears and stared at the three before him, "H-Hunter?"
Hunter stood up straight and nodded, "Yeah…that's me." He answered softly.
"Dude, how does he remember you?"
"We became brothers when I was six…"
"Wait, you mean he's going to know you?" Hunter nodded, "then…that's ok right? I mean, you two knew each other so Blake will know it's all ok."
Hunter looked at Tori, "but what happens when I loose my memory…I didn't know you two when I was six."
Dustin looked around and sighed slightly.
"Houston we have a problem."
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