Ninjas Gone Wild; Part III.
Summary; Though Anna joined the team, both she and the Thunder Rangers are having thoughts about making the right choice. While they ponder on the right thing and the smart thing, Choobo plots his revenge on the new Black Ranger for spoiling his plans! Can the other Rangers help?
Ninja Ops.
Everything was quiet in Ninja Ops. Cam was watching some Power Ranger Zord videos while Tori watched with him. Anna sat on the floor, legs folded underneath her, her hands resting on her thighs, meditating. Well, trying to meditate with all the noise that Shane was making on his skateboard.
Cam was just as annoyed. "I'm confused. Does it now say 'Skate Park' outside the secret entrance?" Cam asked sarcastically, turning his chair to face him, as Tori giggled and Anna cracked a smile at her best friend's sarcasm.
"Sorry." Shane chuckled, staking his way over to the computer, before nearly tripping when Anna grabbed it and rolled it away.
"Someone knew what they were doing when they built these Thunder Zords." he inquired, watching the morphing sequence of the Thunder Zords, as Shane sighed as the lose of his skateboard. "The technology is amazing!" he marveled at the machinery.
"Yeah," Tori chimed, frowning, "Now all we need is someone to drive them."
"Blake and Hunter will follow their destiny. Whatever that may be." Sensei told them wisely, like he always would, before Cam noticed something on the computer.
"That's weird."
"What?" Shane smiled as Anna got to her feet and walked over to see the problem. "Finally find something you can't figure out?" he asked with the same sarcasm that Cam used a minute ago, making the young genius partly glare at him as Tori grinned.
"No. I've scanned the Zords for damage, and I keep coming up with this nonfunctional retrofit."
"Could you repeat that with fewer syllables?" Tori asked dryly, not taking her eyes off the computer. Anna sighed, smiling a tiny bit.
"It's a piece that doesn't have a purpose,"
"But it is integral to the overall design." Cam finished, grinning at the Pai Zhuq, who grinned back. But his grin faded when he looked back at the computer, "I'd just love to know what the deal it with it." Shane started to snicker.
"Wouldn't that count as something you can't figure out?"
Tori strained a smile, as Cam turned his head slowly to full on glare at the smirking Red Ranger.
Anna bark a small laugh. "While you two fight this out like immature morons, I'm going to go for a walk." with that, she walked out of the cave, not noticing Cam's eyes following her worryingly.
Blue Bay Beach.
Anna didn't do much walking. She mostly just sat on a rock with her morpher in her hands, thinking over the whole situation.
She wanted to help the Rangers fight for the Earth, but she also wanted to get back on Lothor's ship and free her father and her friends and fellow Pai Zhuq, and she found it as a reoccurring dilemma.
She was interrupted by her thinking when a sonic blast blew right near her and caused a massive explosion, sending her flying into the air. With a hard thud, she landed painfully and looked up, and was surprised that it was Choobo that made the blow.
"Having second thoughts, Black Ranger?!" he swung his staff at her, but she managed to roll away and trip him, getting up and getting into a battle stance. He charged, and swung at her multipule times, but she was able to dodge or block some of them, but she was starting to get tired, and morphed and called out her Panther Sai. With some of her energy but to full, she attacked with the ferocity of her animal spirit.
Just as she was about to strike again, he let out another sonic blast, which knocked her onto the ground. Groaning, she struggled to get back up and back into the fight, but it was proving difficult. Choobo laughed evilly as he stalked towards her, staff in hand, before crimson lasers got him in the chest, knocking him to the ground. Surprised, the Black Ranger looked around to see where the shot came from and was glad to see Blake and Hunter, both morphed, and Hunter holding his Crimson Blaster.
"Anna!" they rushed over to her, and helped her stand, "You okay?" Hunter asked, and Anna nodded, before Choobo's growled as he got up, making them get back into battle ready.
"Three Rangers! Today must be my lucky day!" Blake scoffed.
"Correction; it's your unlucky day!" he told him, confident that their numbers would send him running.
But he was proven wrong.
"I don't think so! Let me give you a hand!" the container on his back opened up and large duplicates of his arms sprung out and grabbed them all and then pulled them inside!
Anna, Blake and Hunter were trapped!
Choobo's World.
The three Ranger slowly took in their surroundings, on edge and ready to fight when it came.
"Nice look." Blake said, trying to ease the tension in the air, "Early dungeon." it wasn't working.
They all spun around at the sound of something moving and saw only something green spinning towards them, and hitting them all with everything he had, which was quite alot. Choobo giggled madly as they painfully got off the floor.
"Your powers are no good here. My Ultimate realm might seem scary at first, but you'll get used to it... after a few hundred years!" he told them, stomping his staff for effect.
"Sorry. But we won't be staying!" Blake growled, ready to fight his way out, before Hunter put a hand on his shoulder.
"Hold up! We gotta be careful. This is his house." he warned the two.
"He's right. We need to approach this carefully." Anna told him, and he understood.
"Your right about one thing, little Rangers. This is my house, and your never getting out! But don't worry. After I capture the other Rangers, you'll have plenty of company. And maybe I'll get the little geek with glasses too!"
"Not gonna happen!"
"Over my dead body!"
"Exactly what I was thinking, Black Ranger! You will either learn to respect me, or you will suffer a fate worse then you can imaging!" he suddenly grew to the point where the three could only see his head. "Now take a whiff of this!" he started to breath hot, stinky breath on them, making them cry out in disgust, before they fell unconscious.
A Few Minutes Later.
When Anna finally regained consciousness, she was still on the ground, the this mixed up world of Choobo's. On the ground beside her were the Crimson and Navy Rangers, still out cold.
"Blake! Hunter! Get off your butts, now!" she shook them both a bit, and they woke up.
"Where are we?" Blake asked, and when Anna was about to respond, he held out a hand for her to stop, "Wait. Don't answer that." they all got up, legs shaking like jelly.
"We're still in Choobo's world, aren't we?" Hunter asked her, and she nodded grimly.
"I'm afraid so." she was silent for a moment, before speaking again. "Why did you two try to help me?" she was actually confused as to why they would help her, if they weren't going to be-
"We're Power Rangers. It's what we do." and she thought too soon.
"What?"
"We changed our minds. Even if we were on the far edges of the Earth, Lothor would just keep coming after us. And besides, the world needs us just as much as they need the Wind Rangers." Hunter told her, and she went into a very deep thought, before the ground started to shake, and the three were suddenly released. They Ninja Streaked all the way back to the beach, then stopped to catch their breath.
"We're back." Hunter whispered, before turning to his brother, "That was just weird."
"Yeah."
"You said it."
"Hey!" they all turned to the sound of Shane's voice and saw all the Wind Rangers coming towards them. "You guys okay?" Tori asked, and they all nodded, "We're fine."
"Better then he's gonna be!" they all looked to where Anna pointed and saw Choobo, practically seething.
"You Rangers and your teamwork really cheese me off!" he growled as much as he can, as the Rangers got into fighting stances.
"You guys ready?" Shane asked, and they nodded.
"Wind Rangers!"
"Thunder Rangers!"
"Pai Zhuq Ranger!"
Choobo wasn't impressed, and just fired lasers at them, but they vanished, their uniforms empty in their place.
"Oh, I hate it when they do that!" he looked around, trying to find them, when Dustin leaped into action, Lion Hammer in hand and hit him square chest! Then Hunter and Tori rushed at him, Ninja Blaster and Crimson Blaster at hand, and fired. Then Blake came in with his Navy Antlers and caught him in the waste, electrifying him as Anna came from behind him and slashed him with her Panther Sai, before he dropped him and had Shane finish the job with his Ninja Air Attack.
They all stood together, and the other combined weapons, the Wind Rangers forming their Storm Striker, the Thunders forming their Thunder Blaster, and Anna channeled her Animal Spirit to the highest point, to when it was surrounding her and got ready to unleash her Panther Spirit in her Pai Zhuq Fury Attack.
"Wait!" Choobo cried out, making Shane annoyed, "What now?!"
"I want to have a puppet show!" the Rangers only looked on in confusing. "I'll be the puppeteer and you'll be my puppets!" blue tentacles shot out of his hand, and vanished when they hit the Wind Rangers.
"Hey, what's happening?!"
"This way!" Choobo pulled, and the Wind Rangers were suddenly dragged across the floor on invisible strings, before they were now seated in front of him, Storm Striker poised at the Thunder Rangers and the Pai Zhuq Ranger!
"I'm holding the strings here! Now do what I do!" he crooned, making his hand seem like he was holding a gun, and pulling the trigger, but thankfully, the Wind Rangers still had enough will power to disobey.
"Choobo's going down!" Hunter seated the Thunder Blaster back on Blake's shoulder, and Anna noticed that they were both shaking with nerves.
"Hunter, be careful. If you hit the Rangers, it could strip them of their powers." Blake warned his brother.
"Or worse..." Anna whispered, not liking their odds, and focused her energy back on channeling her Animal Spirit.
"We don't have any choice, guys!" Hunter told them, putting his finger on the trigger.
"He's got a point! Right?" Choobo asked the Wind Rangers, mockingly, as their will power started to falter.
"Hunter! Go for it! I can't fight him much longer!"
"Can you do it?" Blake asked his brother in Crimson, who seemed to be at war with himself. While this was happening, no-one noticed the black aura starting to emerge from Black Ranger's body.
"No." Hunter finally muttered, taking his finger away from the trigger, "I can't risk it." he threw the Thunder Blaster away, causing it to deform in the process.
"I knew you didn't have it in you." Choobo goaded, enjoying the moment as Hunter just stared, his resolve clear. "Three powerless Thunder Rangers, with a side of power ridden Pai Zhuq, coming up!" he increased his hold on the Wind Rangers, making them cry out in pain, as their control on their bodies, started to weaken, before they slowly, steadily got back up, their will power growing stronger by the minute.
"What are you doing?" Choobo asked, confused as to how they are breaking free, "I said, your supposed to listen to me!"
"Spirit of the Panther!"
They all turned to the sound of the command and saw a huge Panther leap out of her body, and charge at Choobo, successfully getting him away from the Wind Rangers, and breaking his control over them. The Panther swiped at him a few times, before pouncing back to her host, who was bombed by questions.
"What was that?!"
"Was that a Spirit Animal?!"
"Can I have one?!"
"I'll explain later." she told them, as the Panther faded away, "Right now, let's clobber this meathead!"
"No problem!" Shane cheered, before turning to Hunter, "Thanks Hunter." he thanked him.
"No worries!"
"Hello!" Choobo called, smoking a little bit, "I'm still working here!"
"Then let's put you out of commission!"
"No problem there! Let's try this again!" Shane re-combined the Storm Striker, while the Thunders did the same with the Thunder Blaster, and Anna did the same with her Fury attack.
"Fire!"
"Fire!"
"Pai Zhuq Fury Attack!"
The two blasters fired, combining as they zoomed towards, while Anna flung all of the spiritual energy as an attack that took the shape of a Panther and engulfed the same blaster shot, empowering it before hitting Choobo head on!
But they were surprised when Choobo emerged from the smoke, coughing and laughing evilly.
"Don't count me out yet!" he coughed, "I still have one trick up my sleeve!" he pulled out a scroll, "This Scroll of Empowerment! Now your really gonna get it!" he threw the Scroll into the air, and started to grow, "They said I'd make it big someday!" he growled, before getting used to his new size.
"Cam, it's Zord Time!" Shane called into his morpher.
"Their on their way!" he told them, as the Thunder Zords made themselves known, along with with Wind Zords. The Rangers nodded, and jumped into their Zords and formed their Megazords. All Anna could do was watch.
"Thing are about to get a little sticky for you, Rangers!" he swung his staff at the Thunder Megazord, but Hunter managed to stop the attack, but Choobo pushed it away and got them in the chest a few times. He went to hit them again, but yellow laser stopped him cold, and he turned to look at the Storm Megazord, which was armed and ready.
"Any ideas?"
"Yeah!"
"On it!"
The Thunders called forth the Spin Blade and they both surrounded Choobo on both sides.
"Glad I took those spinning lessons!" he started to spin rapidly, hitting the both of them with brutal force! Things were going bad.
"Tori, you know the drill!"
"Oh yeah!" Tori agreed, pulling out the Turbine Drill, and got it to rapid machine gun fire at him, but he spun his staff around him like a fan, bouncing the shots away, mind-blowing them all. Then he breathed fire at them, sorting out the circuit and causing them to fall.
"This isn't looking good!" Anna whispered to herself as Choobo laughed and made their way towards them.
"Guys! That part I was telling you about? I figured out what it does! Check this out!" he sent them a Power Sphere Disc.
"Thanks Cam! But how about filling us in on the big secret?"
"The only way that you're going to beat Choobo, is to combined your Megazords."
"No way!"
"How Cam?"
"Call the Minizord! He was part of the program all along!"
"The Minizord?" Hunter questioned, never having heard of it.
"Just trust me."
"I'd listen to him if I were you!" Anna told them from the ground.
"It would be good to see the Powers of Wind and Thunder working together." Sensei commented.
"You guys up for this?"
"What do you think bro?" Blake responded to Shane.
"Let's do it!"
They got back up, much to Choobo's disappointment, and the Ranger nodded and placed the Disc into the slot. Then two Power Sphere emerged from their Megazords chest and the Sphere banged together and opened and a small blue figure with a crescent moon on his chest was formed.
"I am Minizord! Storm Megazord! Thunder Megazord! Combine!" the figure announced, and the two Zords combined, to form the Thunderstorm Megazord.
"How do you like us now!?"
"The bigger you are, the harder you'll fall!" he swung at them several times, but only succeeded in breaking his staff, while the Thunderstorm Megazord remained undamaged.
"You broke my stick!" He spluttered, shocked.
"Don't cry!"
"Your mommy will buy you a new one!" the Rangers mocked him, before deciding to finish it.
Their train like feet made there way towards him, as he growled, and shoot his eye lasers at him. But still went undamaged. Blake made it throw a punch, which made him spark blue electricity and hit the ground with a thud.
"This thing rocks!"
"No doubt!"
"That was your lucky shot!"
"Oh, really?" he growled at the sound of the Black Ranger's voice, "Well then your gonna hate their bull's eye!" she told him as the Rangers got the Lion Blaster ready, by the Minizord's command. They pulled out a serrated edged rope and spun the wheel on their chest, making the Lion set out a steady stream of power, hitting him square in the chest.
He staggered and struggled to stay up.
"You always have to win don't you? You can't just let me have one little-" he didn't finish, as he finally fell to the floor and exploded.
The Megazord stood strong with pride as the Lion part roared in victory.
Anna smiled under her helmet, while holding her side in slight pain.
"That's my team..." she smile softly, before making her way towards the Ninja Ops, some cheering teens close behind.
Ninja Ops.
"So, how are you doing? I noticed that you were a little out of sorts lately." Cam commented as they walked through the Zord hangers. Anna smiled.
"When I first came here, I thought that I should be working alone, and trying to save my father, and my friends. But, I know that's not what my father would want. He would want me to stay here. And do what my Spirit says. Along with my heart." as she told him this, he couldn't help but stare at her, before snapping out of it when she was finished and place his hands firmly on her shoulders.
"We'll get them back." he pulled her into a hug like he used to do when they were kids whenever she would get upset, "We'll get them all back." they stayed like that for a while, before pulling away from one another, feeling slightly awkward.
"Come on, let's see what the others are up to." she smiled and nodded, grabbing his hand and letting him lead the way.
"I can't believe you said no!" they entered the Ninja Ops to the sound of Dustin's disbelieving voice "Factory Blue, that's nuts!" apparently, Blake and Hunter had declined in Roger Hannah's offer at Factory Blue. And the others wanted to know why.
"We had something more important to do." when they only let out confused noises, they smiled.
"We're in." cheers rang through the wall as they all got in a group hug, all but Anna.
"You have made a difficult decision. I believe it is the correct one." Sensei told them wisely.
"Yeah, no lie! This is sweet!" Dustin smiled brightly as Shane grinned too.
"Your one of us now." he clapped their shoulders, before noticing that Anna was just standing away from them with a stoic expression. "Are you gonna join us?" Shane inquired and she barked a laugh.
"The only ones that some close to hugging me are Lily, Theo, Dad, Sensei and Cam. So no." Anna told them, smirking the tiniest bit.
"Why's that?" the others groaned a little bit, Dustin was sure to get hurt. "Are you two like, dating or something?" Anna didn't notice that Cam was blushing faintly, or that she was blushing too, but pushed it aside when she adjusted her sleeves and made her way towards him, the others stepping away from him as a good thud from the punch to the shoulder sounded, as he grunted in pain with a loud 'ow!'
As she walked off, Dustin asked 'what did I say?' to the others but they only laughed more.
Again! Truly sorry for the lack of commitment, and I'll try to do better! Promise!