Ninjas Gone Wild Part II.

As time runs out and Portico Island starts to sink back into the ocean, the Wind Rangers, Navy Thunder, and Pai Zhuq Ranger work together to free Hunter, who struggles to find his true self in his anger, forcing Blake to take matters into his own hands. The Rangers have to work as one, but time is running out! And is the mysterious Black Ranger willing to help them? Or will she do this on her own?

Previously on Ninjas Gone Wild.

Cam- It's like they vanished into thin air! Like they were never even there!

Shane- There's no other land or people as far as the eye can see.

Cam- I just hope she's safe.

Master Mao- Make your mother proud.

Anna- Wild Storm, Ranger Form! Power of the Pai Zhuq!

Hunter- I remember you sold me out to those Wind Weasels!

Shane- Now they're fighting each other!

Anna- Annabelle. Just call me Anna.

Tori- It's alright! Your alright.

Hunter- Blake! BLAKE!

Portico Island.

"Okay, so let me get this straight." Shane says to Anna after she explained her story as they walked along the beach, looking for Hunter, the Ninjas, still in their Ninja suits and Anna still in her robe, which Dustin called pajamas. "So since the beginning of this mess, you and your Pai Zhuo buddies have been imprisoned on Lother's ship. But after an you took advantage of Zurgane's anger issues, and made your ball thing weaker, you escaped, with a Ninja morpher your dad had?"

"First off; It's Pai Zhuq. Not Pai Zhuo! Second; Yes, that about sums it up. Any more pointless things you need explained?" Shane quickly shook his head. "Is it just me, or is it starting to get seriously cold?" Dustin asked, rubbing his arms to try to keep himself warm.

"Most of the time, I'd say it's just you." Shane tried to joke, but when he saw it didn't work, he got serious, "But it is defiantly getting colder." "I'd really liked to know why we can morph, but we can't reach Ninja Ops." Tori told them, wanting to get her mind off the cold.

"Well I'd settle for knowing where we are." "Portico Island." Anna answered Blake's question, which caused them to stop and look at her for more answers. When she noticed they weren't moving anymore, she stopped too, "What?"

"Anything else you'd like to share with the group?" Shane gestured to the rest of them, "I don't think you want to know-" "Trust us, we do." Anna sighed at Tori's response.

"While I was still a prisoner on the ship, I overheard Lother and and his generals talking about it." she paused, much to Shane's frustration with the young women, "And?" "In our world, this place doesn't exist. It only rises from the sea once every 2,0000 years."

"And then what?" Dustin asked, actually curious. "Well..." she winched, not sure how to tell them the rest, but Tori figured it out. "Are you telling us that this whole place is sinking back into the ocean?!" she asked the Black Ranger increasingly.

"I did say you didn't want to know." she reminded her. Shane sighed.

"We better find some high ground. Come on." they nodded and continued walking.

Ninja Ops.

"I'm getting something!" Cam called to his father as something picked up on the Super-Computer. "That must be them! Dad! Look at this! I tried the heat signatures from the satellite photos, and I think I found the Rangers!" he explained and his father nodded.

"That's good news, son." he complemented.

But Cam shook his head, "Not entirely. They are on a sinking island." he told him, before frowning at two other heat signatures, one near the Rangers, and one on the other side of the map. "And they're not alone."

"What do you mean, son?" the guinea pig asked him. "Well, there is one heat signature that is definitely Hunter's, but there is another one with the Rangers, and I can't figure out who it is!"

"Just keep an eye on them." Sensei instructed, Cam nodded and got back to work.

Portico Island.

"Is anyone else worried that we haven't seen Hunter for hours?" Dustin asked as the Rangers came upon a cliff and he sat down on the ground with a stick in his hand. Shane shook his head as he stopped to take a breath.

"Not me. I can use the break of getting my butt whupped." he told him. Blake turned from where he was looking out towards the sea to glare at the Red Ranger. "Hey, no offence!" he raised his hands in defense, "But your bro isn't exactly playing well with others these days."

"Look, Hunter's a great Ranger. One day your all gonna be glad he got those powers!" he scolded him, "Sure. The day he stops using them on us!" he muttered as Tori looked at the Navy Ranger, with a curious expression.

"How did you get them anyway?" she asked him, as she sat next to Dustin, who was poking the ground with his stick. "What?" "Your powers." She answered, "You never told us how any of that happened."

"Well, it's a long story. You really want to hear it?" "Yeah. Well, it's either that or watch Dustin play in the dirt." Shane snickered as Dustin half glared at him and threw the stick away.

"Sensei Omino was the one who taught out parents the way of the Thunder Ninja." He began as they all turned their attention to him. Even Anna was curious, looking at him from a branch of a tree that she was looking around on.

"After they... passed away, he brought us to the Thunder Academy. Helped us get through everything. We felt like we belonged again. We both did really well in our training. Sensei Omino, he was... grooming us for something, but we did know what." he had a small smile on his face as he remembered his childhood with his brother.

"So that's when Lother showed up." Dustin concluded as Blake's smile faded at the mention of the one who killed his parents, "Yeah. Our school was attacked. Kelzaks and Aliens were everywhere." he told them, he eyes burning with the memory of his school being burned to the ground. They saw the same look in Anna's eyes when she told them her home was attacked. "Sensei gave us our Morphers. He told us we'd know what to do. Only at that moment that he got captured by Lother." Anna internally growled at the mention of their father figure being taken away.

"When you go in one of those ball things? What's it feel like? Is it cool? Like going off a free style ramp or-" Dustin's ramblings were cut of by a small stone hitting him in the face from above, and he turned towards the direction where the stone came from, rubbing his head. Anna was glaring at him from her tree, "It's like being stuck inside a small prison with no way out! Now would you please not interrupt again?" he nodded frantically, not wanting to anger the Pai Zhuq student any farther and gestured for the Navy Ranger to continue.

"Once we got on Lother's ship, he was really tweaked that the Ninja Powers were passed on to us. That's when he told us the lie about our parents." "And so you went all mid evil on us, huh?" Shane asked him, increasingly. "Let's not go there again." Tori told him, flatly.

"You gotta understand!" Blake nearly pleaded with them, "Hunter's a good person! But if he believes someone's wronged him, he wont stop until he makes it right." "Okay, we get that!" Dustin nearly yelled, "But why is he taking it out on us?" "Choobo used some kind of mind ray on us to make us think you were our enemies." Blake explained, still trying to wrap his head around it.

Shane had only one last question, "And how come you snapped out of it?" Blake smiled a bit, "I guess I just had more help remembering who my friends are." Tori and Dustin smiled at him, the the Blue Ranger got to her feet to stand beside him, "And that's what Hunter needs. Come on, we better go find him." Shane nodded and they started walking down the hill.

"Do we have to?" Dustin whined, before Anna grabbed his shoulder and pulled him along, stick and all.

The Rangers coughed and waved at the gas surrounding them as they walked along the side of a hill, "This island reeks!" Dustin exclaimed as Anna helped Tori back to her feet when she slipped.

They suddenly heard a yell, "Guys, check it out!" Blake pointed over to where Hunter, still in Ranger form, tumbled down the hill a few feet away. "Come on!" they began running towards him as he roared at blind rage toward his younger brother. Before they even started running, a blast came out of nowhere and colored them in smoke.

They heard a cruel laugh as the smoke cleared to reveal SuperToxipod. "You guys better bail! Cause I'm one bad snail!" he proclaimed as they stood together in fighting positions.

"If your a snail, how come you look more like a crab?" Dustin tried to taunt, Toxipod growled, "Crab, snail! Whatever!" he shot another beam at them and they back-flipped away and got back into position. "Time to plug this slug."

"Ready?"

"Ready!"

"Ninja Storm!"

"Thunder Storm!"

"Wild Storm!"

"Ranger Form!"

"Power of Air!"

"Earth!"

"Water!"

"Power of Thunder!"

"Power of the Pai Zhuq!"

They transformed into their respective colors and got ready for battle. "I could take you all!" Toxipod claimed as he charged at them.

"Dream on, Snail-trial!"

"Ninja Shadow Battle!"

They all charged at him with blazing speeds before Blake caught him with his Navy-Antlers, "Wheres Hunter!" "Why do you care?! You'll never get off this island!" "Never's a long time, dude!" Blake told him as he tossed him over his head.

"Put 'em together!" the three primary colors proclaimed as they combined their weapons to created the Storm-Striker. The blast hit SuperToxipod dead center in the chest, and he exploded.

They dropped their visor and gathered around each other. "Everyone okay?" Shane asked and they all nodded, breathing heavily as they did. Blake then looked around, "Where's Hunter?" they all looked around by saw no sign of the Crimson Ranger. "Where are you?!" Blake cupped his hands around his mouth as his voice echoed across the beach.

"Don't worry bro." Shane placed a hand on his shoulder, "We'll find him." he reassured, the others nodding in agreement. Before they heard a yell of anger. "There you are! Traitor!"

It was Hunter. And he wanted blood.

He charged, pushing the primary Rangers, including Anna, aside as he ran at Blake, as he pleaded for him to stop. He slashed his brother a few times on the chest before Blake caught a hold of it, holding it under his arm.

"Hunter! Snap out of it! Lother's done something to you-!" "Liar!" Blake put a hand on his elder brother's shoulder, "Listen to me!" but Hunter got his Thunder-Staff, "No more lies!" he swung his staff at him again.

"He needs our help!" Anna called to the others, who nodded and ran to help their friend before Choobo got in the way, "Not so fast! I want to play!" he giggled like a child and ran at them.

Hunter did another blow at Blake, as he put his hands in front of him, blocking the blow! "Hunter! You gotta trust me!" "Why should I?!" Hunter tripped him and pinned him on the ground with his foot to the chest, "Because he's your brother."

They both looked at where Anna was coming towards them, somehow getting away from the fight, and walked calmly towards him. "You need to control yourself. Lother's infected you with a beam that is making you loose control of your temper. Their making you think your brother betrayed you, when in reality, Lother and Choobo were pulling the strings all along."

The Black Ranger's words seemed to have an effect on the Crimson Ranger, as he began to think about it. He thought about how he and his brother broke into Lother's ship in an attempt to get Lother back for murdering their parents. How they were being played the whole time and Choobo brainwashed them to become the Wind Rangers enemies again. Then he thought about his parents in the Cavern of Souls, saying they would always be watching over them, and told them to make them proud.

But then his rage flared back. He was becoming wild again. "Your confusing me! No Pai Zhuq tricks!" he pointed his Crimson-Blaster at her, but Blake grabbed his leg and threw him off balance, which caused him to fire at a small cliff Anna was under, which loosened some rocks and trapped her under the rubble. She tried to get up, but to no avail. Blake threw Hunter off him completely and got back to his feet.

"She's telling the truth! Your my brother!" he tried to reason, but Hunter had gone far to back into his rage to listen, "I don't have a brother!" he shot him with his blaster, making him loose his footing. Blake was starting to get frustrated and angry.

"Alright! Enough is enough!" he proclaimed as Hunter charged at him again, roaring like a mad man. "Looks like it time for some tough love!" he pulled his Thunder-Staff out, as Anna watched from the rubble she was pinned under.

The Navy Ranger slashed at his brother, who roared in pain as the attacks caused him to fall onto the ground, and was about to get up before Blake's staff was pressed gently against his neck, stopping him from moving.

"Now your gonna listen, and your gonna listen good!" he told him sternly as his elder brother groaned in pain and confusing, "Hunter! Your name is Hunter!" he started shaking him as he looked at his navy-clad brother in confusing, "Your my brother." he told him softly, before resorting back to shaking him, "Come on man! Shake it off! Shake it off!"

Hunter shook his head, "No... Your lying to me! I know the TRUTH!" he yelled as he threw him off him, before clutching his head in pain. "Something's wrong! My head..." he was silent for a moment, "It's coming back!" he said as memories of his time with his brother came back to him.

He demorphed, "I... remember." he mumbled, before falling to his knees, then to his face. Blake's visor dropped, as he clutched his stomach in pain, "Hunter!"

"Oh, no you don't!" Choobo was about to make his way to them, probably to make Hunter go mad again, before Shane got in his way, "Oh, yes he does!" he jumped into the air, sword in hand, in the other two in toe.

"Ninja Power!" they slashed his chest with their swords, before Shane powered his sword up and struck him with maximum force, and they all cheered as Choobo's body was colored with smoke from where he was hit. "I'll be back, Rangers!" he told them, "Now hoe do I get outta here?!" he muttered as he took off, before the others could stop him.

"Time to make like a banana and split!" he disappeared, leaving the Rangers groaning.

"Ninja Form!"

They demorphed and stood together. "Guess Choobo didn't feel like sticking around for an encore." Tori smiled, Shane snickered, "Yeah and that crab is toast!" "Man, why do I have this sudden craving for sea food?" Dustin rubbed his belly as Shane shot him with a distasteful look.

"Look!" Tori suddenly cried out, "There's Blake, Hunter and Anna!" they looked over at the place she was staring at and saw she was right. Blake had freed Anna from her rubble prison and then gone to try and wake up Hunter as Anna stood above them.

"Come on! Come on, bro! Stay with me!" Blake pleaded with his unconscious brother. He gripped the neck of his suit as his head rolled back, before his choked out something; "Dude! I kinda need to breath at some point here!" Blake smiled thankfully and helped him sit up as the others made their way towards them.

"At least he's back to being Hunter." Tori complemented as they got to them, "Good Hunter, or Bad Hunter?" Dustin asked, staring at them. "Do you know who we are?" Shane asked, a touch of concern in his voice.

"Yeah. My friends." Hunter nodded, as they smiled at him, glad to have the real Hunter back.

They gathered at the beach, wondering how to get off this island when Shane's morpher beeped, "Is that you, Cam?" Shane asked hopefully, not noticing Anna's head snapping towards to morpher at the mention of that name.

"No, it's the phone company." Cam's voice ranged clear in the air, sarcastically, "Calling to find out if your happy with your long distance service." he snarked as the Rangers giggled, Hunter grinned.

"Is he always this, uh, funny?" he asked them playfully, Shane shook his head, "Not always. We're great Cam, thanks for asking." he looked back at the morpher. Suddenly, Sensei Watanabe's voice came from the device.

"Are the Thunder Rangers with you?" "Right here, Sensei." "Excellent! I must speak to them upon your return!" "Which brings up our next problem!" Cam interrupted, "Your on an island that's sinking fast! You got to find a way off!"

"What about the Gliders?" "The atmospheric pressure too unstable right now. It wouldn't be safe!" "What about the Zords?" "Good idea Blake!" "Their on their way! I just have to check the structural integrity to make sure they can stand the water pressure."

"We'll be ready. Let's do it!" "Hey guys! One more thing!" Cam stopped them from walking on, "What's with the other heat signature following you guys? On the scanner, it says there are six people. But there are only..." "Six?" Anna interrupted, smiling knowingly, "I'm surprised that you forgot me so easily 'Mighty Dragon'." she said cheekily into the morpher as the Rangers looked at her with bemused faces.

"Anna?! Anna, is that you?!" "There's only one of me." "You know Cam?!" everybody said at once, "Old friends. It's good to hear from you, Cam." "You too." "Annabelle! It is good to hear that you are safe and unharmed." "Well, apart from a few aching bones from being in those spheres for so long, yeah! I'm fine." "Just like you not to give up a fight, 'Kitty'." he laughed and she laughed a bit too, "See you at the Ninja Ops."

"Alright. Let's bounce!" Shane said, Anna nodded, turning serious again, before Hunter called out.

"I just want to say that it means a lot. The way you stood up for me." he told them, awkwardly. "Hey! That's what friends do!" Hunter nodded at the Air Ninja's words, "So before this turns into a group hug, we better go!" he joked, clapping his hands on the Navy and Yellow Ranger's shoulder, as Hunter snorted.

They walked on, before a Scroll of Empowerment appeared, and SuperToxipod was reborn, only he was now thirty stories high!

"What?! Are you serious?!" to say that Anna was ticked off was an understatement. "Sorry Anna! But we're gonna have to do this without you!" Shane told her as he and the rest of them lined up.

"You guys ready for this?"

"Ready!"

"Ninja Storm!"

"Thunder Storm!"

"Ranger Form!"

"Ninja Ranger Power!"

"Hey Cam! How about those Zords?!" "Their on their way!" Anna stood with her arms crossed around her chest, as she stood on the side lines of the battle, which just got interesting as they each got into a respective Zord. Shane inside a Red Hawk, Dustin jumped in a Yellow Lion, Tori in a Blue Dolphin, and Hunter and Blake in a Crimson Rhinoceroses Beetle and Navy Stag Beetle.

"Impressive." she muttered as they turned into their Mega-Zord mode.

"Hey Ranger! You are gonna be sorry you ever crossed my snail trail!" Toxipod announced as he fired flames from his mouth, encasing them all in a Ring of Fire.

"Dude! It's hot! Like Africa hot!"

"Where's the A.C on this thing?!"

"Yo! You guys okay?!" Shane called over to the Thunder MegaZord.

"Yeah! Don't worry!" Hunter reassured, as Blake nodded, "We can take the heat!" "Then let's go for a little spin!" Shane sassed as the MegaZords started spinning, getting rid of the flames, immediately.

Toxipod was surprise they managed to get rid of his flames. The Rangers stopped spinning and got ready for the fight again.

"Spin Blade!"

Hunter called as the Thunder-MegaZord's chest opened up to reveal a black sphere with a number '04' on it. It broke apart and a four-bladed axe emerged from it. The Thunder-MegaZord took hold of it, as the Storm-MegaZord transformed into Lighting-Mode.

"Rangers! Battle Ready!"

Toxipod growled as he charged at them, staff at hand. The Thunders meet him halfway, and made contact with their weapons, before batting it aside, and slashing him across the chest, despite his protests.

Then the Wind Rangers hopped off from the Thunder's shoulder, and gave a solid kick to the chest, and flipped over towards the Thunders, who shoved them back towards Toxipod, "It's time for you to come out of your shell!" Shane taunted as they zoomed passed him, slashing him in the midsection as they went.

That blow did, and he exploded, never to return.

The Rangers cheered.

"That's what I call a 'Crab Feast'!" Shane laughed.

Tori nodded, "All you can eat!"

"Detonation of the crustacean!"

"We're going home!" Blake announced happily as they made for the shore.

"HEY!" they jumped a bit at Anna's voice at looked down to find her at the shore, waving for them wildly. "What about me!?"

"Oops!" Hunter laughed nervously as the Thunder-MegaZord, knelt down in front of her and held a hand her her to climb on, "Sorry!" he apologized, as they walked away from the sinking island.

Ninja Ops.

"It's still hard to believe that your really here." Cam said to Anna as they walked through the halls of the Ninja Ops, as the others converse with Sensei in the main room. "I find it hard to believe that you are not on Lothor's ship, but when I realized that you weren't there, I was relived to know that you were at least safe." She smiled and he smiled back.

"So... Are you gonna stay and help out?" he asked her, secretly hoping that she would stay, "I don't know. I don't know if I'll fit in here." "Please? It'd be nice to have someone around here that actually understands what I'm talking about!" she laughed gently and he started laughing too.

"Maybe... I'll think about it. But right now, I need to figure out how to get my brethren back." "We can help. You know I'll help. We did everything together. Remember?"

It was true. They have done everything together. There was never a day they spent together that they have done alone.

She knew her answer, "Very well. I'll stay. But only to save you from those 'morons' as you call them." she smiled cheekily and he laughed. Her mischievous side only came up when she was around him for some reason.

They hugged one another with huge smiles on their faces

Well... I think I made the fact that they'll be a couple soon obvious! Hope to see you soon!