Series presented by: Tori Bradley
AN: Response to the Ars Amatoria's Ranger Romance Themes Challenge
Set During 'Storm Before the Calm P 1'
Worst Case Scenario…
Tori looked around the piles of burning zord wreckage and fought to keep the tears from coming.
"Anything Cam?" she asked into her communicator nervously. She spied a part of his beetlezord and rushed over to it.
'Nothing,' Cam's voice came back. Tori felt her heart sink.
'No,' she thought to herself. 'He's not gone… he can't be.'
She felt a hand on her shoulder and saw Dustin and Shane at her side.
"We'll find them Tor," Shane assured her.
Tori tore herself away from them and demorphed, falling to her knees shaking.
"I never told him," she whispered as her tears finally came. Dustin knelt down and gathered her into his arms.
Dustin shot a look to Shane and he too knelt beside their female companion, offering her what comfort he could.
Tori's mind was racing. She had seen it with her own eyes… their zord blew apart, taking Hunter, and the love of her life with it.
"No," she said as she stood, a look of utter determination in her eyes. "We have to find them! He's not gone!"
She began to run and the others followed her.
Her mind was a blur as she ran towards Ops, stopping short when she saw the destroyed remains of their base.
Shane and Dustin followed behind her and were instantly dumbstruck.
Their worst fears were confirmed when they saw their base destroyed…