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Chapter 8: Call From on High
(Takes place the same afternoon as the previous chapter)
"15:00 on the dot," said Taylor Earheart as she saw the yellow Wild Force Eagle Zord approach her plane. "On time as usual."
Just because she was getting married to her longtime boyfriend, Eric Myers, next month did not mean Taylor was going to miss her daily afternoon flight alongside one of the other loves her life. With Princess Shayla still asleep and her days of being a ranger long gone, spending time with the Eagle Zord was Taylor's little way of keeping the past alive when her old friends weren't around.
Not that Taylor wasn't excited about the future. The day Eric had proposed to her right while they were in the middle of a Silver Guardians gun training session had been the happiest – and most surprising – moment of her life. Dropping to one knee suddenly in the middle of the shooting range, Taylor as she worried about him getting both of them shot once again remembered why her boyfriend could always manage to aim an arrow right through her usually stone-cold heart.
When she asked him later why he had proposed to her during a training session, Eric just shrugged and said he realized he felt like marrying her and he thought she should know. That was her Eric: always blunt, but always full of surprises. Now as she flew high above the clouds, Taylor really did feel on top of the world as she thought about spending the rest of her life with the man that even often didn't admit to herself exactly how much she cared for.
Hearing her soaring Eagle Zord's cry, Taylor smiled momentarily before switching to wear a frown when she detected a difference in the usually bird's chipper tone.
"What is it, Eagle Zord?" asked Taylor concernedly.
As the Eagle Zord sounded a series of worried wails, Taylor's eyes slowly widened in alarmed astonishment. "This can't be happening!" thought Taylor to herself in horror. "I thought we had defeated them for good!"
"I understand you, Eagle Zord," replied Taylor, immediately all business. "And I know what we must do. Lead the way."
A/N: What is Taylor going to do? How will the Ninja Storm rangers defeat the Orgs? And who will Alyssa choice: Hunter or Cole. All these answers and more coming up in the story, but first, some nice Tori/Blake action for all you fans of this cute couple in the next chapter.