Chapter Twenty Six
Shane went to the spot where he dropped his backpack. When he got there, his backpack was gone.
"What the...?" he questioned as he confusedly looked around and then sighed thinking the worst.
Suddenly, someone cleared their throat from behind him. Shane surprisingly turned around to find his brother standing there holding his backpack. He froze realizing that his brother had seen everything
"Is there something you want to tell me?" his brother asked.
He exhales knowing that he would have to explain to his brother what was going on.
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Skyla walked into Ninja Ops and notices the place was empty with no sign of Cam anywhere except for Cyber Cam, who was sitting in front of the computer main frame.
"Hey," He turns around in his chair and smiles at her "What's up?"
"Um, is Cam here?" Skyla asked as she looked around.
"Nope, he went out with the gang," Cyber Cam got up and went over, wrapping his arm around her shoulder "But I'm here if you need to talk".
"Uh, its okay," She slightly smiles "I rather talk to Cam when he comes back".
"Cyber Cam," Sensei spokes as he appears on the table next to Skyla "I need you to keep an eye out for Lothor and his goons".
"Okay," Cyber Cam agreed and went back to sit down in front of the main frame computer. Then Sensei turns to Skyla
"Skyla, what did you want to talk to Cam about?"
Skyla sighs and kneels down in front of Sensei at the table "It's about Shane," She told him.
"So, I take that you met his brother".
"Yes, at the skate park," Skyla nodded "And he wasn't the caring brother that I thought he was," she added.
"I think Shane and Porter would work things out," Sensei told Skyla.
"I know, but" Skyla begins, but Sensei stopped her.
"You must not judge a person from just meeting them for the first time," he explained "But you must get to know the person".
Skyla sighs and smiled "Thanks Sensei," She got up "To be honest, I wasn't upset at all. I was little sad though".
"I understand, Skyla".
"I'm so glad that I talk to you Sensei, now I'm going to go find Shane," She turns and walked out of the ninja ops "Thanks again, Sensei," she said before she steps outside of Ninja Ops.
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"So, Lothor attacked the Wind Ninja Academy" Shane explained the whole story of what had happened in the past few months to his brother "and then Sensei passed on the ranger powers"
"Wow," his brother exclaimed "my baby brother is a Power Ranger, the red Power Ranger".
Shane smiled and nodded "Sometimes I don't believe it myself" he responded "hey, look you can't tell anybody about it, it's not even safe for you to know"
"Well, look, your secrets safe with me" his brother promised "Boy, I feel pretty stupid, I mean here I was telling you that you needed to be more responsible, and you're the one responsible for protecting the whole planet"
"Well," Shane started "I'm not a little kid anymore"
"No you're not" his brother agreed "and I'm really proud of you" he added with a smiled.
Shane smiles at his brother; he had been waiting to hear those words for a long time. He just didn't realize that he had to become a ranger for his brother to actually say it.
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Dustin, Tori, Marah, Hunter, Blake, and Cam had returned back to Ninja Ops. Cam is now sitting in the chair at the main frame computer with the others around him
"I've analyzed the brainwaves of the people that Eyesac attacked," he explained. "It seems that the collar can harness the deepest fear"
"That's low," Tori spoke up "Even for Lothor"
"We better make the repairs to the tsunami cycles," Hunter crossing his arms. "Just in case we need them"
"Yeah," Blake agreed looking across at Tori "Someone had a little accident"
The blue ranger grinned and looked sheepishly as the others chuckled at her misfortune.
"Okay, we'll go with you" Dustin looked over at Blake and Hunter "Some of us could use some practice," he said as he was following the Bradley brothers when Shane walked in.
"Hey," Hunter said, high-fiving the red ranger "See ya"
Shane nodded as he watched them leave "Yeah. Hey, uh, Sensei...can I talk to you? Alone?" he glanced at Cam who nodded.
"I'm going," he said, getting up and following the others out of Ninja Ops.
Later on, Shane was telling Sensei what happened with him and his brother.
"The thing is I'm kinda glad that he knows," the red ranger explained "For the first time in our lives, he respects me"
"I'm sure he respects you for more than the fact that you are a Power Ranger," Sensei spoke
Shane twisted around Cam's chair and sat down "Hey, no offence Sensei" he said "You really don't know my brother at all"
"And how well do you know your brother?" Sensei questioned
Shane sighed "Well, he's a lot older" the red ranger answered "Growing up, was like we were in different families. So I guess we hardly knew each other at all"
"Don't you think you need to know someone before you can earn their respect?" Sensei asked
Shane sighed; for once he didn't have an answer.
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Skyla was walking around looking for Shane when she spotted Porter talking on his cell phone. She exhales and begins to walk over to him when Motodrone and Eyesac appeared in front of Porter.
"Porter," she said before she took off running toward him
"I hate cell phones," Motodrone said, firing a laser at the cell phone in his hand and destroying it instantly. Suddenly everyone around them starts screaming and running.
Eyesac was about to blasts Porter with one of his fear collars when Skyla appears next to Porter, pushing him out the way and end up with the fear collar around her neck.
She collapses on the ground and screams as Porter rushes over to her side.
"Your turn!" Eyesac puts his fear collar around Porter's neck.
Just at that moment Shane appeared "Porter! Skyla!" he yelled and got in front of them. Then he turns to Motodrone and Eyesac "Skyla and my brother have nothing to do with us!"
"But you do red ranger," Motodrone growled "attack!" and Eyesac fired lasers at Shane who dodged and morphed.
"Ninja Storm! Ranger Form!" he yelled. Then he pulled out his Ninja Sword and lunged at Eyesac. Motodrone quickly move forward and grabbed Skyla and Porter
"Come with me," he ordered as Skyla and Porter withered around with their fear was unleashed before their eyes only
"Hey!" Shane yelled "Let them go!" and he fought off Eyesac and run towards Motodrone, Skyla, and his brother. Motodrone pulled off his robe and threw it at Shane, as his world went black for a few moments, once he had successfully removed the robe; he spotted Eyesac firing lasers at Skyla and Porter and effectively pushed them to aside, with a great consequence. One of the fear collars had been locked around his neck, bringing forth his own fear.
Shane was sitting in a fettle position on the floor rocking back and forth as his brother whispered in his ear.
"You're a disgrace to this family! You've let us all down! I'm so disappointed in you"
"No," Shane murmured, "NOOO!"
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"NOOO!" Shane yelled out, in the real world as he held his head as his fears took control, Motodrone and Eyesac laughed at his futile attempts to break free, before being blasted backwards by a number of lasers as the other rangers appeared on the thunder tsunami cycles. Tori was riding on the back of Blake while Dustin was on the back of Hunter.
"Yeah!" Dustin cheered, as the others came to a stop
"We might be too late," Tori said, as she dropped to her knees beside Shane who was groaning in fear as Dustin went to check on Porter and Skyla.
Marah, who was watching the computer screen at Ninja Ops, was concern for Dustin. When Cam was busy typing away on the keyboard, she quietly sneaks out of Ninja Ops.
"Shane?" Tori said as she touches Shane's shoulder.
Eyesac tosses his fear collars at them. One of the fear collars got attach on Tori around her neck.
"Please," Tori cried as she sat in the middle of a room on a stool and covered with a black silk cloth "Please, don't cut my hair. Please not my hair!"
Invisible hands came out of nowhere each holding scissors as they attacked her blonde hair. She screamed and cried in vain as she tried to stop them but it was no use.
The other fear collars almost got Dustin when Marah appears all of a sudden and push Dustin away, getting the fear collar around her neck instead.
She collapses to the ground and grabs her head "No!" She shouted.
"Marah!" Dustin rushes over to her and grabs her shoulder "Snap out of it!" he shouted.
Marah was lying when she look up and saw Fake Marah standing over Dustin's lifeless body.
"You are useless and pathetic that you can't even save the person you love," Fake Marah laughed "And also, all you friends" she added.
"No," she cried.
"You are alone now," Fake Marah approaches up to Marah "And nobody is here to save you".
"You bastard!' Dustin lunges at Eyesac and ends up with the fear collar around his neck.
Dustin found himself in his motocross gear and floating in midair, when he started to fall he started to panic. "No, no I'm falling" he said, but all he could think about was getting hurt.
"Please" he pleaded "don't let me fall"
But every time the ground came closer, the further away it became. And he started to panic all over again.
Meanwhile, Hunter and Blake rode on their tsunami cycles down some stairs as Motodrone fired lasers at them and knocked them to the ground. Suddenly, Eyesac grew larger and laughed at the two thunder rangers.
"Enough messing around!" Hunter exclaimed as he and Blake took out their crimson blaster and navy antler, and shot at Eyesac. Eyesac opened his mouth was about to suck them into his belly when out of nowhere the black cloak figure person appears in front of Blake and Hunter and unleashed her energy beam at Eyesac.
Hunter was surprises to see the black cloak figure person and has a suspicion that it's Kapri. Before he can ask, Eyesac blasts at them, knocking them to ground.
The black cloak figure person flew backward, hitting her back against the wall, and landed on the ground on her stomach first with her hood coming off.
Hunter immediately rushes over to the black cloak figure person and was in shock to see that his suspicion was right. Kapri is the black cloak figure person.
"I don't believe this!" Blake exclaimed when he appears next to his brother. He was also surprised to see the identity of the black cloak figure.
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"I've got to help them!" Cam said as he watched the destruction take place on the screen inside Ninja Ops; Skyla, Shane, Porter, Dustin, Marah and Tori were all being attacked by their fears, and Hunter and Blake was helping Kapri who was knock out cold. Cam was also in shocked to see Kapri arrived in the scene to help Blake and Hunter out.
"Wait son," Sensei ordered "You must first finish the project you have been working on; it is the only thing powerful enough to destroy Eyesac and free the rangers from his power"
"I found a periodic gap in his brainwaves," Cam explained "If only I can get them to believe that the fears aren't real, maybe they can fight it long enough for me to get there"
"An excellent suggestion," Sensei said "I will use my telepathic ninja powers to assist the rangers. And he closed his eyes and contact Dustin, Tori, Marah, Skyla, and Shane.
"Hunter! Blake!" Cam contacts the Bradley brothers "You need to stop Eyesac".
"We're on it," Hunter answered and then he and Blake got into their zords forming into the Thunder Megazord.
Sensei was able to reach to the others and they finally broke free from Eyesac's spell.
Skyla and Marah got up and stumbled. Dustin and Shane hastily catch them before they fell backwards completely, but before anyone could make sure Skyla and Marah was okay, Cam's voice sounded over the morphers "Okay guys, you may have broken Isaac's spell, but to be completely free of the collars you must destroy Eyesac. Use the Zords to distract him, until I get there"
"Okay, Cam" Shane said before he, Dustin and Tori got into their zords to help Hunter and Blake out.
Thunder Megazord was getting beating up by Eyesac when the Wind Megazord attacks him from behind.
"Hey guys, sorry we are late," Shane said to the thunder rangers.
"About time," Blake smirked.
"Let's take on this sucker," Dustin beamed.
Both Thunder and Wind megazord attack Eyesac, but end of getting knocks to the ground. Eyesac was about to attack the rangers again when Cam fired lasers at him
"Right on time dude," Shane called to the green samurai ranger
"You're welcome!" Cam responded
Hunter turned to the others "Our turn!" he said
"Not without us!" Dustin added.
"Yeah!" Tori nodded.
"Check this out!" Cam said, as he uploaded two separate power disks,
Shane took his "Sweet!" he exclaimed.
"Alright!" Hunter said
"Initiating Hurricane Megazord!" Cam commanded, and the three megazords merged together to form one. On the inside, the rangers all lined up in front and behind one another in the head.
"Hurricane Megazord!" they yelled together
The seating arrangements were planned according to teams; in the front were the wind rangers, in behind them were Hunter, Blake and Cam.
Eyesac's eyes blinked and the collars re-activated around Shane, Dustin, and Tori.
"I'm losing it!" Tori yelled
"Argh!" Dustin shouted "I'm falling!"
Shane groaned from up front "Believe in yourself!"
"We're trying, man!" Dustin retorted
Eyesac attacked, but the rangers deflected the attack and threw him backwards; he flipped over and landed on his feet before throwing blue lasers at the rangers which were deflected also, thanks to Cam.
"Let's show him some real power!" Hunter said,
"Typhoon power!" the six rangers yelled, as the star on the front of their zords started to spin wildly and a tornado erupted from them, it caught Eyesac and lifted him into the air, where he exploded.
The nightmare collars around the rangers' necks disappeared the moment Eyesac was destroyed. Even the nightmare collars disappear from the peoples neck in Blue Bay Harbor who had been affected had the same result. Porter snaps out from his nightmare and confusedly looked around when a hand extends out to him. He looked up and saw Skyla standing in front of him with Marah.
He grabs her hand and she pulled him up to his feet with Marah's help "Thanks, Skyla" he replied with a smiled before he turns to Marah and thanks her as well.
"You're welcome," Skyla and Marah answered
Hunter returned back to where Kapri was to find out that she was gone.
"Hunter, are you alright?" Blake asked as he catches up to his brother.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Hunter answered.
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Porter, Shane and Skyla were at the skate park, Porter had decided to believe in his brother and let him just be a kid, there was plenty of time to worry about growing up after he had saved the world and everything. So he was found sitting on the edge of the ramp watching his brother skateboard. Skyla was sitting next to him also watching Shane skateboarding.
They were quiet between when Porter turns to her and spokes
"I'm sorry for being a jerk to you," he apologized "I finally understand Shane and know that you're important to him," Skyla smiled "And I also know that you would always be there for my brother. It just took me awhile to realize that and you also save my life".
"You are also important to Shane too," She pointed out.
"You really think so?"
"I believe so," Skyla nodded with a smiled
"Thanks," Porter smiled and then he and Skyla returned back to watching Shane skate.
"Whoo," Porter cheers and clapped as Shane came to a stop beside him
"Hey, what?" Shane asked "Skateboarding isn't just for losers anymore?"
"Hey, well you know there isn't much," Porter started but Shane cut him off
"Uh, don't go there" he warned
Porter laughed "Hey, if you like it, then that's good enough for me"
"Thanks," Shane said "You know, your opinion is important to me. I just wished we could have seen eye to eye, without the eye thing"
Porter smiled and nodded "Do you know what I saw when I was wearing that disgusting contraption?" he asked his brother
"What?" Shane asked.
"Seeing you unhappy and I thought just because you weren't living life my way, you couldn't be happy. But you've shown me, that you can live your life your own way, and, uh, and I'm really proud of you"
Shane smiled
"And not just because you're a, uh..." Porter trailed off
Shane stopped him and smiled
"Not only that," Porter turns to Skyla "But you got yourself a wonderful girlfriend," he commented.
"Thanks," Shane said before high-fiving his brother and hugged him. Just like brothers should have.
"Oh, hey, uh" Shane said, coming out of the moment and taking off his helmet "You want to, uh, give skateboarding a go?"
"Okay, maybe just this once" Porter said, not like he had a choice, but when he attempted to ride he fell off almost immediately cause Shane to laugh at him.
"Shane!" Dustin called out to him as he, Marah, Tori, Cam, Blake, and Hunter walked over to him, Skyla and Porter.
Dustin had his arms wrapped around Marah as he walked over to Shane.
"Hey Guys!" Shane smiled and then turns to his brother "Porter, I would like to meet my friends; Dustin, Marah, Tori, Cam, Hunter, and Blake".
"It's nice to meet you all," Porter shakes all of their hands.
"The pleasure is all ours," Dustin beamed.
"Beside Shane told us a lot about you,' Tori added "And now we finally get to meet you".
"Well yeah, he's my brother," Porter puts his arm around Shane's shoulder "And I'm proud of him".
"How about we give you a tour around the place and then get something to eat," Cam offered.
"Sure! That sounds like fun," Porter agreed and follows them out from the skate park. Shane and Skyla were walking behind them. Shane has his arm around her.
"You know what," Skyla looked up at Shane.
"What?" he smiled down at her.
"Porter isn't that bad once you get to know him," she smiled.
"Yeah," he agreed.
Hunter was walking away feeling unhappy when someone taps his shoulder. He turns to his side and was surprised to see who was standing next to him.
"Kaitlyn?"
"Can I join you and your friends, Hunter?" She smiled.
"Of course," he smiled and wrapped his arm around her. Then he walked up off, following the others with a smile on his face.
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