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Chapter Twelve
Everyone left the Ninja Ops except for Hunter and Tori who stayed behind. Hunter was busy talking to Cam while Tori were talking to Marah in Marah's room.
Hunter was helping Cam to clean the place up
"Man, today was not a good day for us or you," Hunter remarked.
"You're telling me, I almost thought I couldn't fixed it," Cam agreed "I mean I try to change my father back to his human form, but it was disaster like Shane get switch with my dad, Tori and Marah get switch, and then it was Dustin and my dad when I tried to switch Shane and my dad".
Hunter pats Cam's back "That was indeed a huge mess".
Cam laughs "Yeah," he placed the last equipment into the closet "So, what did you want to talk to me about?"
"Well," Hunter looked down and then at Cam "I was fighting with Marah today".
Cam turned and looked at Hunter in confusion
"No," Hunter laughs "I mean fake Marah," he correct himself.
"Oh," Cam replied.
"I tried to destroy her," Hunter says out in the open and Cam looked at him in shock.
"What! You try to destroy fake Marah?" Cam asked, slightly upset and worried. He was worried that if Hunter destroys fake Marah, Marah would die and it would hurt Dustin a lot. Lucky, Hunter didn't and he was curious to know why. He begins to wonders if Hunter knew about Marah's condition.
"Apparently, I didn't," Hunter looked at with mixed of anger and disappointment on his face.
"What's happened, Hunter?" Cam asked.
"Kapri, she stepped in and stops me," he says; tighten his fists as he recalled that incident.
"Kapri,"Cam was surprised and shock to hear that Kapri stopped Hunter from killing Fake Marah, which means she must knows about Marah's condition.
"Cam?" Hunter waves his hand in front of Cam's face.
Cam blinks his eyes and looked at Hunter
"Is there something I should know," Hunter asked, folding his arms.
Cam sighs wondering if he should tell Hunter about Marah's condition or not saying anything.
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Marah's Room
Tori was sitting on Marah"s bed talking to Marah. Marah has revealed her condition to Tori who was shock and worried.
"Marah, does Dustin know about this?" she asked.
Marah shook her head
"He should know about this," Tori told her.
"I know," Marah looked down her hands "But I can't let him know".
"Why not?" Tori asked.
"Because if he knows, he will hesitate to kill the fake me and also he would do anything to save me," Marah explained.
"That's true, Tori said with understanding "Its better knowing than not knowing," She touches Marah's hands "But I do understand your reason for not telling Dustin and I will let you decides when to tell him because one way or another he will find out about it".
Marah looked at Tori and smiles "Thanks," She looked down "Tori?"
"Yeah?" Tori looked at Marah.
"I have done a lot evil stuff to you and your friends and I don't..."
"Don't even say that," Tori interrupt Marah "Even though, you done some horrible evil stuffs, you managed to become good and help all of us. So don't say that you don't deserve to be saved".
Marah sighs and nodded.
"So, how does it feel to be me for a day?" Tori asked.
"It was great and I will never forget that experience," Marah replied as she remembers how it feels to be Tori and also to be a power ranger.
"It was great being you too," Tor remarked "Except for the pain part".
The girls laughed.
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"Are you saying that if we destroy fake Marah, we'll also destroy Marah in the process?" Hunter asked after Cam told him everything.
"Exactly," Cam folds his arms "So we can't destroy fake Marah until we can figure a way to saved Marah".
"I'm sorry man, I didn't know," Hunter sighs "I feel so stupid, I almost killed Marah".
"You didn't know," Cam says "So don't blame yourself".
"Is Marah okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, she's fine," Cam replied.
"I gotta go home," he told Cam "See you tomorrow".
Cam nodded and Hunter left.
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Outside Ninja Ops, Hunter walking toward his motorbike when he realizes something "Wait a sec, Kapri?" He remembered when he was about to destroyed Fake Marah when Kapri jumped in and saved Fake Marah "So, that why she stopped my attack," He begins to understand "Maybe she was trying to saved Marah. Does that mean Kapri is good? He wondered.
Hunter blink his eyes in confused unsure if he should believe that Kapri is good. "Nah," he says out loud "She was just there to save that fake imposter".
He snorts and got on his motorbike and drove off. Still he couldn't take his mind off about what Cam told him and the incident with him almost destroying Fake Marah when Kapri interfered.
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Next day at Ninja Ops
Lucky you were there to help Kelly," Shane said, as he, Marah, Tori and Dustin stood inside Ninja Ops. Dustin had just told them about the thieves at Storm Chargers the night before. He even mentioned that thieves were probably working for the guy who asked Kelly about selling Storm Chargers to become part of his store, which she completely denied.
Dustin nodded "Yeah, hopefully those boneheads won't come back," he says
"Your action were noble, Dustin," Sensei remarked "But using your ranger powers in every day situation can have serious consequence".
"Sensei, we fight Lothor's goons everyday," Dustin replied "What's the big deal helping out a friend?"
Hunter and Blake walked in "Hey check this out," the tall blonde said as he held up a paper
"Our boy, here's a celebrity" Blake inputted, pointing at Dustin
Tori frowned and took the paper from Hunter and looked at the front page "I don't believe this," she says in shock.
Dustin, Marah, and Shane walked over to Tori and looked at the newspaper.
"Kelly must have told a reporter about what you did," Hunter said
"BlueBay Seeing Yellow," Tori read, on the front page of the newspaper that has a picture of Dustin in his ranger form, with a massive bold headline that says "Blue Bay Seeing Yellow - is Yellow Going Solo?
Dustin chuckles with a smile "How cool is this?"
"'While the city has gotten used to the heroic's of the Power Rangers, this is the first time one has stepped forward on his own'" Shane read from the column beside the picture
Tori looked at the text "'Is this, a change of things to come as Yellow going solo?'" she finished
Everyone stare at him
"Hey, that's stupid!" Dustin said, pointing at the paper "Why would I ever go -"
But he was cut off as the computer beeped from behind them "What's up Cam?" Tori asked
"I've been keeping tabs on some of the fan sites," Cam explained "Yellow ranger just got fifteen thousand letters in counting"
Shane scoffed "Their all for him?" he asked
Dustin smirked "Hey, don't sound so surprised"
"It's over-loading the system," Cam said nervously "It's gonna crash!" there was a spark. Marah and the rangers jumped back in alarm as the computer died. Cam sighed and turned to looked at Dustin "Next time you choose to become a celebrity, tell your fans to send letters the old fashion way -" the computer sparked again "with stamps!" he sarcastically said.
Dustin scoffed with a smile.
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"This place is packed!" Shane commented as he, Tori, Marah and the Bradley brothers walked into Storm Charges.
"Very crowded," Tori says, looking around when she get pushed as customers walked passed by.
"This place is amazing, no wonder lots of peoples came here," Marah remarked when a man bumped into her "Oh, I'm sorry".
The man stares at Marah with a smile "No, I'm sorry," he touches her arms "You are pretty, would you like to hang out with me and boys?" he asked.
"No, that's okay," she turn down the man offer.
"But, I insists," the man says, not intending to let go of Marah's arms.
Marah shook her head, trying to pull away "No, I say that's okay. I don't want to," she says, rejecting the man
Hunter notices what was going on and went over "Hey! He pulled Marah away from the man and moves her right behind him next to Tori "You heard her, she say no!"
"Are you okay, Marah?" Tori asked.
"And who are you?" the man got in Hunter's face.
"I'm..." Hunter tries to come with something that would make the man leave Marah alone "Her brother," he manages to says and receive a surprise look from Tori, Marah, Blake and Shane.
"Brother," the man eyes wide "My bad, sorry man," he quickly said and then ran out the door,
"Punk!" Hunter cursed. He turns and looked at Marah "You're alright?" he asked.
Marah nodded "Thank you".
"You're welcome," he replied.
"Man," Shane walked up to Hunter "If I see that bonehead again, I will beat him to pulp".
Shane, Hunter, Tori, Marah, and Blake walked over to Kelly who is at the counter.
"Hey Guys," She greets them as they walked over to her.
"What's the deal, Kel?" Shane asked.
Kelly looked up and smiled "Ever since the Yellow ranger made an appearance, I can't keep people away!" she answered "Its kinda crazy but its great for business!"
"What?" Shane asked in surprise "Just because the Yellow ranger was here? He's not even the red one!"
Hunter and Blake glare at Shane and hit him in the back, but not that hard.
Kelly rolled her eyes at the younger red head "I dunno, there's something about a guy in yellow" she says with a smile and left into the backroom
Dustin ran out of the back room. "Oh, man I lost track of time" he said "Let me wash up!" he says as he clasps hands with Shane and then run back in the backroom.
Shane nodded before turning to looked at Tori, Marah, Hunter, and Blake "What are you guys doing, while me and Dustin are at the Skate park?"
"Well me and Marah are going to be at Ninja Ops helping Cam," Tori replied "So, we are going to head over there right now".
"Okay," Shane replied.
"Bye," Marah and Tori say and then they left out of the Storm Chargers.
"What about you Hunter?" Shane asked.
Hunter handed him a letter "It's from our adoptive grandmother!"
"Yeah, she's really sick" Blake sighed
"You gonna go visit her?" Shane asked
Blake sighed once more "Well that's the problem, she lives really far away!"
"You think Sensei will let us use the Ninja Red Eye?" Hunter asked
Shane folds his arms "There's one way to find out"
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At Ninja Ops
"Can we go Sensei?" Hunter asked, after Sensei had read the letter
"As you know Ninja Skills are only to be used for the betterment of humanity," Sensei answered "and I believe caring for your family certainly falls into that category"
The Thunder brothers smiled "Thank you Sensei," Blake said
"We'll be careful," Hunter promised
Sensei nodded "You must," he responded "we cannot afford another situation like the one Dustin has gotten himself into"
Hunter and Blake nodded and then left.
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At the Skating Area
Shane was practicing his boarding skills. Dustin was on the side cheering him on when Tori and Marah walked over to Dustin.
"Tori, Marah," He says, surprised to see them show up "I thought you say you guys were going to be at Ninja Ops with Cam".
"Yeah well, I thought Marah and I should hang out with guys," Tori turn and looked at Marah "Since Marah hasn't been outside that much".
"That's cool," Dustin says with a smile.
Tori looked at Shane boarding "So, how's Shane doing?" she asked.
"He's been doing great!" Dustin commented as he, Tori and Marah watch Shane boarding.
Shane stopped boarding and went over to them "Hey guys," he says
"Dude, that was great!" Dustin remarked.
"That's was some awesome skills you have," Tori says, patting Shane's shoulder.
"You were great out there!" Marah says
"Thanks, hey, you guys see that girl over there with the camera?" Shane pointed to a woman on the other side of the field. "She works for a magazine!"
"No way!" Dustin exclaimed with a surprised look.
"Sound like someone wants to be a star," Tori say with a smile.
"Can you guys make sure she's watching?" Shane asked. "This magazine could help me be sponsored!"
"Sure!" Dustin, Tori, and Marah agreed.
"Thanks, you guys are the best!" Shane replied with a smile.
Tori smiles "Well, don't just stand there, go!" she ushered him.
Shane smiles and went back to skating area.
"Show them what you got!" Dustin clapped. As the blonde passed by the last defenseman, the photographer was taking pictures.
"You can do it, Shane!" Tori and Marah shouted.
Suddenly a monster and Kalzaks appears fora far at the tree. No one notice it except for Dustin.
He turned to Shane for help, but he was too busy trying to impress the media. Not wanting the photographer to ignore Shane, he went on his own not saying anything to Tori and Marah.
Marah and Tori was clapping their hands and notices the photographer was paying attention to Shane.
"Great job, Dustin," Tori remarked.
Marah notices Dustin didn't say anything. She turns to talk to him when she notices he was gone "Uh Tori, did you notice Dustin walked away?" she asked.
"What?" Tori turns to looked for Dustin "Where did he go?" she asked.
Tori turned and look at Shane trying to get his attention, but he was too busy trying to impress the media.
"Tori?" she felts Marah taps her shoulders "I think I know where Dustin is," she heard Marah says.
She turns around and Marah points where Dustin was. A bunch of crowds was surrounding Dustin.
Tori sighs "Really?" she says, can't believe what she was seeing.
"Look! It's the Yellow Ranger!" She heard someone yelled. The photographer stopped taking pictures of Shane and ran with the group of people.
"What's going on?" Shane asked out loud in confusion when he notices everyone was leaving.
He walked over to Marah and Tori "What's going on?" he asked.
Shane glances at what Tori and Marah was watching and got upset "I don't believe this!" he throws his hands in the air and walked away.
Two men lifted Dustin onto their shoulders and a little parade began.
Tori shakes her head disappoint as Marah stares at Shane walking away.
"C'mon, Marah, let's go," Tori says.
Marah took one glances at Dustin who was enjoying the crowds before she follows Tori.
An hour later Dustin showed up and sees Marah and Tori were watching Shane boarding.
"Awesome, you did it!" Dustin commented with a smile.
"Too bad nobody saw that," Shane stopped boarding and went over to Tori and Marah walking passed Dustin.
"Hey, I'm sorry!" Dustin apologized. "But what was I supposed to do? That freaky tongue was attacking everyone!"
"You could have asked me for help!" Shane said as he walked up to Dustin.
"But you were busy and I didn't want to interrupt," Dustin tries to explained.
Tori walked up to him "You could ask me for help," she mentions.
Shane and Tori looked at Dustin.
"I was all over that guy!" Dustin said.
"But Dustin we are a team, and we team stick together," Tori tries to get some senses into Dustin's mind.
"Take it from someone who's been there, there is no I in team!" Shane told him
"Maybe there should be!" Dustin said. "For the first time in my life I'm not the goofy one! I'm getting respect and I'm not about to walk away from that!"
"I would never ask you too Dustin!" Shane says. "But you can't let the way people think of you get in the way of doing what's right!"
"I have to agree with Shane on this," Tori replied.
Marah grabs one of Dustin's hands "Dustin, we don't want to see you go in the wrong direction. We are all concern for you," she told him
"I gotta go phone interview with another newspaper, later," Dustin said, touching Marah's hand with his other hand and then left.
Shane, Tori, and Marah looked at each other, worrying for Dustin.
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At Ninja Ops
"I'm worried about Dustin," Shane said as he, Marah, Cam and Tori sat around in Ninja ops. "I mean, if all this attention gets to his head..."
"What? There won't be enough room for the rest of you?" Dustin asked as he walked in.
"Something like that," Shane said, only to receive a slap in the stomach from Tori.
"I think guys are jealous that I got all the attention and you guys don't," Dustin retorted.
"Jealous?" Shane and Tori asked.
"Dustin, we are not jealous, we are concern about you," Tori told him.
"Doesn't seem like it," Dustin says, not believing what they said.
"Tori is right, for what it's worth," Cam replied.
"Typical, everyone thinks Dustin can't be right!" Dustin yelled.
"Dustin, this isn't about who's right and wrong," Marah walked up to him "It's about doing what's right and not making a wrong decision".
"We are all pleased that you gained the world's attention, but how you use that is what's important," Sensei said.
"Thanks for your concern but I think I'm doing just fine. Now I've got to go, I've got to go take a call from my agent," Dustin walked off and Tori turned to Shane "Agent?"
Marah watches Dustin leave with concern on her face.
"We may have a problem," Shane sighed
"That may not be the only problem," Cam said, from the mainframe "I just lost all trace of Hunter and Blake"
"What!" Shane says as he, Tori and Marah rushes over to Cam and looked at the computer screen.
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Dustin was walking by himself outside a warehouse when suddenly fake Marah appears "What's this? yellow ranger alone," she smirked.
"I'm so not in the mood for this," Dustin says as he got into his fighting mode.
"Well that too bad! Fake Marah stretch her arms out, blasting her energy from her finger tips at Dustin
Dustin dodges out the way and then lunged at her. He kicks her in stomach making her tumble backward.
"Who's tough now?" Dustin taunted.
Suddenly Dustin got blasts from behind and he fall to the ground in pain.
Fake Marah looked and smirks "About time, you show up," she says to the monster.
Slob Goblin laughs "Why thank you," He approaches to Dustin "Now it's time to add yellow ranger to my stamp collection.
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Back at Ninja Ops, Cam was typing on keyboard looking at the computer screen. Shane, Tori, and Marah were standing behind him watching the screen.
"I've traced the Thunders DNA," Cam said after a while of searching "they disappeared off the map here -" he pointed to a spot in the middle of the woods "and repapered - there!" the screen changed to the power plant where Lothor's monster was.
"Lothor's post monster general," Shane clarified"
"Must have gone postal on Hunter and Blake" Tori said with a slight smile on her face.
"Look there the fake Marah," Shane points at the screen.
"What's she doing there?" Tori asked.
"We need to stop them," Shane says, getting ready to leave with Tori when Cam spokes up.
Someone beat you two there already!"
"How did he get there so fast?" Tori asked when she notices Dustin were also there. She and Shane saw was Dustin kicks the monster in the stomach and got out of the way.
"He's the great yellow ranger, remember?" Shane asked "of course he's there first!"
"Shane," Sensei spoke "I seem to remember that before you and Dustin were rangers, you were good friends." He reminded the red ranger "It would be a shame to lose that"
All of sudden, Marah collapses to the ground in pain "Marah!" Tori rushes over to Marah, helping her up.
Shane helps Tori lay Marah down on the table.
"What's going on?" Shane asked, clueless to what's going on. Cam got up from his chair and went over to them.
"Right now, Dustin need you two. Go, I'll stay and take care of Marah," he told them.
Tori and Shane nodded and then left.
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"NINJA STOR..."
"Hold it!" Shane yelled as he and Tori join Dustin.
"Mind if we crash your party?" Tori asked.
"Don't answer that because we already have," Shane turned to Dustin and frowned.
"NINJA STORM RANGER FORM!" the three of them shouted, before morphing Dustin and Shane fought for the spot of temporary leader.
"Ohh, pretty rangers to add to my collection!" Slob Goblin smiled before sending an energy beam to the rangers. Tori move out of the way while Shane pushed Dustin away.
"Stay here, I got this!" Shane patted Dustin's shoulder before fighting the monster by himself. Dustin cut into the fight and both boys argued over who would defeat him.
"Time to get a few licks!" Slob Goblin yelled before wrapping his tongue around Tori and pulling her into his arms, holding her waist with his tongue and her arms with his hands.
"I've got a new blue stamp!" the monster laughed, shooting Dustin and Shane
"I've got to help her!" Dustin yelled.
"You?" Shane yelled in shock.
"This whole thing is my fault!" Dustin explained.
"If that's the way you want it, then take my Hawk Blaster," Shane gave his friend his weapon.
Dustin touches Shane's weapon and shook his head "I don't want to go at it alone!" He says "I want to be a team again! Like we were before!"
"Okay," Shane nodded "Let's kick this monster butt".
"Right!" Dustin replied before jumping to the ground and landing on his stomach. Shane got on his friend's back, using Dustin as a Skateboard to attack the monster. Slob Goblin was forced to let Tori go and they finish the monster off.
All of three turn and looked at Fake Marah.
"This is not over rangers," She says before she vanishes.
Shane turns and looked at Dustin "We cool?" he asked.
All three of them have their visors open.
"Yeah, we're cool!" Dustin smiled and the two boys high-fived.
"Glad to see everything is back to normal," Tori say as she watches Dustin and Shane.
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"How was it seeing your grandma?" Dustin asked the Thunder brothers as he and Blake and Hunter walked into the Ninja Ops.
"She is so cool," Hunter answered "and feeling better now as well"
Blake nodded "she wasn't even fazed by the monster attack," he said "man that's one tough lady"
Marah came out from her room and Dustin walked over to her "I heard that you collapse, are you okay?" he asked, touching her arm.
"I'm fine, Cam took care of me," she told him.
Dustin smiles "I'm glad you are okay," he says "You almost gave me a scared there".
Suddenly, Shane came running into the room, holding a newspaper and bumping into Dustin who stumble forward and accidentally kiss Marah on her cheek.
He quickly back away when he realizes what he did "Sorry," he apologizes.
"It's okay," Marah says, avoid looking at Dustin in the eyes. She was lightly blushing.
"Check this out!" Shane said, holding up the paper. Dustin, Tori, Blake, Hunter, and Marah went over and looked at the newspaper.
There was a picture on the front of the wind rangers in their ranger forms. With the headline in bold that say "RANGERS CONTINUE TO STIFLE CRIME" in capital bold letters.
Dustin chuckled as he took the paper "That's us," he said
"Front cover," Shane said taking the paper from Dustin "Nice"
"I guess the press did show," he said, looking over the front page, from Shane's shoulder
"Fortunately they have seem to miss the part where you open your visors," Sensei said, as the four wind rangers exchanged glances. That would have been bad.
"I agree, thank god they didn't took a picture of our faces," Tori says with a smile.
Dustin rolled up the paper "Well, I'm through being a celebrity" he said "from now on, its all for one and one for all," he says, putting his arms around Marah who was smiling at him.
"Hey," Cam called from the mainframe "check this out. It seems not everyone shares the team spirit"
Choobo was wandering around aimlessly, calling out for help on the screen. "Hello? I'm not a stamp anymore...I wanna go home"
They all started to laugh at the scene on the screen, before Choobo finally disappeared back into space with the rest of Lothor's space freaks.
TBC: Whew, this was definitely a long chapter. No cliffhangers, but the next chapter will have a cliffhanger so be prepare.
Preview for the next chapter is Kapri will be in it and there will be Hunter and Kapri scene and also Dustin and Marah scene.
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