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Chapter Twenty Four

~At Ninja Ops~

Cyber Cam was sitting in front of the computer main frame watching Mobile truck going into the forest. Marah and Skyla was standing behind him also staring at the screen when Marah suddenly felt dizzy.

"Marah?" Skyla turned and notices Marah's expression "Are you alright?" she asked, placing a hand on Marah's back.

"I feel dizzy," Marah answered, almost collapsed. Lucky, Skyla caught her and help steady her.

"Cyber Cam," Sensei spokes "Do you remember what Cam told you what to do in case the virus starting to affect Marah?"

"Yeah, it's in my programming," Cyber Cam got up and injects a needle in Marah's neck.

"What is that for?" Skyla confusedly asked as she looked at what Cyber Cam was doing to Marah.

"It is something that Cam created to slow down the virus? Cyber Cam answered.

"Oh," Skyla nodded and then notices that Marah has fallen asleep.

"You should take Marah to her room," Cyber Cam suggested.

"Okay," Skyla agreed and lead Marah to her room as Cyber Cam sat back down in the chair and observes what was happening on the screen.

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Inside the mobile command centre, Shane, Dustin, Hunter stood behind Cam as he searched for the disturbance in the woods surrounding Blue Bay Harbor. He found the spike and zoned in on it, before a picture of Zurgane, Motodrone and Shimazu appeared on the screens.

"Talk about bad things happening in threes," Hunter grumbled, as he saw Zurgane, Motodrone, and Shimazu appeared on the screen.

Shane nodded in agreement "Let's get out there" he said

"I'll contact Blake and Tori," Cam told the three rangers who nodded before they morph.

"Ninja Storm! Ranger Form!"

"Thunder Storm! Ranger Form!"

"Ha!"

Motodrone laughed as the rangers rode into view. "I knew it," Zurgane growled from behind his sword resting on his shoulder.

"Where are the others?" Shimazu questioned, as only Hunter, Shane and Dustin rode into view

Motodrone gripped his robes and pulled them off "Who cares?" he asked "let's get them!" and he hopped onto his bike and rode towards Dustin; there was a spark and the two hit the ground as the yellow ranger turned on his bike and sped off after the gold monster.

Zurgane growled as he clinked his swords together and slashed them at Hunter who rode towards him; the crimson ranger ducked and the blades moved straight over him but hit the back of his bike causing damage and sparks to fly.

Shimazu acted more and more like a clown everyday; as he jumped around as Shane rode towards him on his Tsunami Cycle. The ancient war lord jumped into the air and landed on the back of Shane's bike.

"Hey!" Shane yelled "get off!"

Shimazu removed the red rangers Ninja Sword from his back and held it across Shane's chest as he drove.

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Back at the Thunder Academy grounds; Tori, Blake, and Leanne was still fighting off the Kelzaks. Blake held off his own group like he normally did, with ease. He jumped around one attack and brought his staff down on the back of the Kelzaks when his morpher beeped. He swings his staff behind him as he lifted the morpher to his lips.

"Blake the gas bag is back," Cam's voice sounded "He's at the beach, can you get over there if I send a Tsunami Cycle?"

Blake looked up at Tori and Leanne they were doing fine; the blue ranger caught his eye having heard the message through her own morpher; she nodded at him "Go" she said, Blake nodded once at her and she returned to fighting.

"On my way," Blake answered, as he started to back up from the fighting; he flipped over a few ruins of stones and ducked behind a wall to morph "Thunder Storm! Ranger Form!" he morphed "Power of Thunder!"

As promised Cam sent his Navy Tsunami Cycle, he hopped onto it and rode off towards the beach where Inflatron was situated.

"This is going to be a gas," Inflatron squeaked

Blake revved his engine as he rode in along the sand "Think again freak show," he said, shooting navy lasers at the alien and sending him through the air before he landed on his feet a few feet away.

"Come on then!" Inflatron said, turning back to Blake "Show me what you got!"

"No problem!" Blake said, as he pulled his bike to a stand still and got off of it. He removed his staff and jumped into the air at the balloon alien; but Inflatron was waiting and threw out a tentacle and pushed Blake aside like a rag doll causing him to roll across the rocks behind Inflatron.

"Smooth move," the alien said as he turned towards the navy ranger, who was getting back to his feet.

Blake managed to get back to his feet and rushed forward as he slashed at Inflatron with his staff, but the alien remained unpaved by the attack. As the navy ranger slashed downwards with the staff, Inflatron wrapped his tentacle around it and pulled it down.

"Stop it!" he said "that tickles" he inspected the weapon "Nice weapon…to bad you don't know how to use it!"

Blake struggled to free his staff from the alien's grip, before he was thrown sideways once more and rolled across the beach "Why isn't this working?" he asked himself, as Inflatron laughed above him

"Control your emotions Blake," his Sensei's voice echoed inside his mind, as he flashed back to his training days at the academy with Leanne to master the Thunder blade you must never give an opening.

"I've got to keep focused," he said, getting back to his feet "I can do it!" he raised the Thunder blade and rushed forward; only to be attacked once more and sent rolling across the sand and back up to his feet once more.

"Let's party," Inflatron said, as he hiccupped and shot balloons at the navy ranger, causing explosions and sparks to fly.

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Cam was still inside the mobile command centre when suddenly Kapri appears behind him. He quickly turns around "Kapri?" he said, surprised to see her "What are you doing here?"

"Listen Cam," She looked around making sure no one was following her "I can't be here long because Imposter of Marah might be on to me".

"Ok, Cam still confused why Kapri was here.

"I did mention to you that I would come find you to give you something remember?"

"Yeah, but this isn't a good time to come..." Cam begins to said, but immediately stopped when Kapri gave him a device.

"What is this?" he asked a moment later as he was staring at the device in his hands.

"It's a device that can destroy Fake Marah and save Marah," Kapri explained "I need you to take a look at it to see if there any glitch in it. I'll find you again at the dirt track or somewhere that is private".

"Okay, I'll take a look at it once," Kapri quickly vanished leaving Cam alone "I help the rangers with Motodrone, Zurgane and Shimazu," he finished talking.

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Blake groaned as he dragged his hand through the sand as he lay on his stomach once more; this was harder than he had anticipated.

"Now for the final blow," Inflatron said as he walked towards Blake

"Think Blake," his Sensei's voice said once more "the staff can be used in many ways; do not be limited by what you think is possible".

"That's it," Blake said, getting back to his feet "your mine now!" and he raised the Thunder blade in front of him, and snapped it cleanly through the middle.

"Uh oh," Inflatron said, as he backtracked at this

Blake raised one end of the staff and threw it at Inflatron, hitting the main gas pipe on his body; there was an explosion and excess air started to leak out from the mains. "Sky of Wonder!" Blake said raising the second end of the staff into the air "Power of Thunder!"

He then jumped through the air as blue electricity flashed; he slashed downwards with the Thunder blade as the electricity flowed through it, there was a split second and Inflatron exploded.

"I remember Sensei," he mumbled as he thought back to the time he beat Leanne at the Thunder Academy.

Blake's visor snapped open, just as the others turned up around him. Shane, Dustin, Hunter, from one side. And Tori from the other.

"Great job, dude" Shane congratulated him "You did it!"

Blake nodded once and turned back towards Tori, who smiled "I never doubted you", she told him.

The navy ranger smiled broadly at the blue ranger.

Seconds later, Inflatron was back, standing at 30 feet tall and towering over them like a skyscraper. "Now I'm really inflated," he said, as the rangers craned their necks to look up at him.

"Cam," Shane said, loudly into his morpher "It's zord time"

"I'm right with you guys!" Cam answered back, as he sent the zords

"Yeah!" the five of them said, before ninja streaking into their zords. Their Megazords transformed one by one before two Megazords stood proudly on the beach.

"Let's pop this poser," Tori said from her Dolphin Zord

"Right on!" Blake agreed

After creating their own individual zords; Shane and Hunter transformed into one big zord, as Inflatron spoke from across them. "Try these on for size," Inflatron said, sending a number of balloons at the Megazord and lifting it into the air "Up, up and away…" before he fired lasers at them and the balloons popped "and now for the big let down!"

The control panels inside the Megazord sparked causing the rangers to flinch and cover themselves as best they could.

"Hang on guys," Cam said, appearing on the rooftop near-by, he had the guitar in his hands; he plucked at the strings as a loud ringing noise played out "Activating Mammoth Zord" and the Mammoth Zord appeared behind them.

"What's that?" Inflatron asked

The rangers combined with the Mammoth Zord, and moved in front of Inflatron for what they knew would be the end of the battle.

"Ready Blake?" Shane asked

"Yeah," the navy ranger answered "let's do it!"

Using their combined powers and the Mammoth's powers, the Mammoth Zord and the Megazord fired their laser weapons as Inflatron.

"I'm popped out!" he cried before exploding, once and for all.

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The end of that day, after the battle, and the training sessions, Blake found himself walking along the beach with Leanne.

"I was studying in Nepal, when the Thunder Ninja Academy was attacked" Leanne explained "I came back and there was nothing but a big hole in the ground, where the school used to be. My father and everyone else just gone…how did you escape being captured by Lothor?" she suddenly asked

Blake turned to her, "Um…uh, it's a, uh…Long story" he said, not really know whether he should tell her everything that happened. It was after all a really long story. "Listen, Sensei Omino, he will come home Leanne…I know he will"

"I hope so," Leanne said

Blake shook his head "Nah, I know so…there is a lot of people working hard to bring all the ninjas home safely"

"Thanks," Leanne said, coming to a stop and facing him "it's nice to know someone cares"

Blake looked up and smiled as he spotted Tori, walking towards the beach "Yeah," he said "I know what you mean"

Leanne followed his line of sight and smiled "So, let me know if you want to do anymore training…"

"Yeah, thanks" Blake said watching her walk away as Tori reached them

"Hey," the blonde greeted

"Bye," Leanne said turning to the two ninjas "It was fun" she waved and left the beach, leaving Blake and Tori alone in one another's company.

"Bye," Blake said, before turning to Tori

"I just wanted to apologize for following you like that," Tori explained "if I had known you were training"

"Look," Blake said, cutting across her "you don't have to apologize. Besides, you're kind of cute when you're jealous" he grinned

"Jealous?" Tori asked "no way was I jealous!"

Blake laughed at her defensiveness "Yeah right," he said "Whatever you say"

"I just thought that it seemed you needed help," Tori retorted

Blake stopped, causing her to stop and turn to him "Help?" he asked, pointing at himself "I'll show you who needs help!"

And the two started to mess around on the beach; fighting and chasing one another.

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At the Ninja Ops, Dustin was sitting in Marah's room next to her when Marah woke up "Dustin?" she slowly sat up with Dustin's help.

"Hey, how do you feel?" he asked.

"I feel better," she smiled "I guess all I need was some sleep".

"I know, Skyla told me what happened while I was gone with the others and I did ask Cam and he filled me in about your situation".

Marah looked at him "So you know?"

"Yeah," Dustin nods and touches her hand "You should have told me what was going on".

"I didn't want you to worry about me," Marah looked down at her hands.

"Marah, I know you don't want me to worry about you because you don't want to be in the way of my ranger duty," Dustin said "But not letting me know what's going on with you would make me more worried and I won't be able to focus or deal with my ranger duty".

"I know".

"Marah," He tilts her chin up making her looked at him "Promise me you won't hide anything from me and will let me know anything that's going on with you".

"I promise," she replied and he hugs her.

"No matter what happen, we will deal with this together," Dustin assured her before he kissed her on her lips which she responds back.

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Hunter was walking around at the dirt track alone. He was hoping to find Kaitlyn there, but so far he hasn't seen her.

"Where could she be?" he muttered in concern.

Lately, he haven't heard from her or seen her. It like she disappeared without a trace. He tried asking peoples around the dirt track if they seen her, but all of them shook their head or replied they never seen her.

He was about to leave when he saw familiar face. A smile appears on his face "Kaitlyn!" he called out to her.

As Hunter approaches Kaitlyn, he saw her look up at him with a smile "Hunter," she said.

"Where have you been lately?" he asked when he was in front of her "I have been searching everywhere for you?"

"I was visiting a relative who lived far away," she answered "Sorry, I left without saying goodbye," she apologized.

"It's okay;" he touches her arms "I'm just glad you're here," he beamed, but stopped when he saw her winces in pain "Are you alright?" He let go of her arms and notices her right arm has a bandage on it "What happened to your right arm?"

"Uh," Kaitlyn immediately placed her hand on her right arm "I had an accident when I visited my relatives?" she told him.

"What kind of accident?" Hunter begins to get suspicious of Kaitlyn's bandage on her right arm.

"On the way visiting my relatives, I got into a car accident".

"Oh," Hunter winces "But, you're okay right?"

"Yeah," Kaitlyn nodded.

"What matter is that you're okay and nobody was hurt," he touches her hair with his hand before he touches her shoulder.

Kaitlyn looked at him surprised "You were worry about me?" she asked.

"Yeah," Hunter nodded and smiled "I was worried that I would never see you again.

There were silent between. Neither of them said a word. Instead they were staring at each other.

"Kaitlyn," Hunter spokes breaking the silence "Would you like to..."

"Hunter!"

Hunter and Kaitlyn turn and saw Kelly walking over to them "Sorry to bother you guys, but I really need your help at Storm Chargers".

"It's ok," Kaitlyn smiled "I was about to leave anyway".

"What," Hunter turned to her "You're leaving?"

"Don't worry; you'll see me here again".

"But," Hunter was about to say something when Kaitlyn leans up and kisses him on cheek before leaving.

He was shock and speechless at what just happen as he watches Kaitlyn walking away.

"C'mon Hunter," Kelly grabs his arms making him follows her.

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Earlier at the dirt track, Kapri was there waiting to see if Cam or Dustin would show up, telling her about the device. She didn't expect to see Hunter there nor speak with him. When he asked about her injured right arm, she afraid that he might found out the truth and was trembling while trying to come up with a reason for her injury

Lucky for her, he believed her story when she told him. She was relieved that he didn't ask anymore about it. There were awkward silence between them when he was about to asked something, but didn't get a chance to because of Kelly, which was her time to go.

She would stay a little bit longer, but she was afraid that Fake Marah or Lothor's goons might see her. So she told him goodbye and surprisingly gave him a kiss on the cheek. Then she left slightly blushing on her face.

"I can't believe I did that," she muttered and slightly smiled before teleporting away.

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