Title: Born Under a Bad Sign
Author: Solarbaby
Rating: T
Disclaimer: All I own is the plot.
Words: 918
Summary: Lothor kidnaps Cam when he's a baby and raises him. The lines of loyalty will be drawn… Cam/Hunter
Notes: This idea has been floating in my head for awhile but it has officially been written for the Triple Threat Challenge at Power Rangers United. I've also made a trailer for this you can find on Youtube or Viemo.
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Chapter 1
It was a loud screech that woke him up. Cam shot up in his bed, groaning as the noise appeared again, this time intensified. He groped at his bedside table and the room lit up. There was another noise this time, different from the first one. It took him a few moments to realize that it wasn't screeching he was listening but someone screaming, arguing.
He pulled himself to his feet and trudged to the door. A flick of a switch and it slid open. There, in front of his door, they stood. The two paused their arguing momentarily before dismissing him. "Hey!" he cut them off. "Do you have to do this in front of my door?"
"Sorry, cousin." The pink haired one sent him a grin.
The brunette glared at her. "Yeah, sorry."
He just blinked at the two, squinting against the hallways bright light. The thought of just shutting his door and going back to sleep played in his head for a few moments. It was a nice idea, but probably not feasible. They wouldn't wake him up without a good reason. So against his better judgment he had to ask. "Why exactly are you screeching in front of my door?"
"Screeching?"
Kapri ignored the other girl, practically bouncing on her heels. "We've arrived."
There was silence in the hall before Cam muttered, "So?"
"So?" Marah repeated. "Don't you want to come see it? I mean, it is your home planet." She froze when a dark look was sent her way.
"It's not my home," Cam snapped at her. A dark emotion filled him. Anger, rage, hate. The emotion was indefinable. He pushed it back, letting a blank mask fall into place. There were identical frowns on his cousins' faces.
Marah stepped forward, pushing aside the feeling of unease. "I didn't mean it like that." She reached up and placed a hand on his shoulder. A sense of relief filled her when he didn't immediately shove it off.
He took a deep breath as he tried to calm down. In and out. In and out. Cam could feel the tension slowly leave him. These problems were his own and taking them out on his cousins would only cause more problems. "I know you didn't."
Kapri relaxed slightly, obviously seeing one crisis averted. Cam and angry were not two things that went well together. She stepped forward and linked her arm through the other female's. "You wanna come with us then?"
Cam shook his head. "No way. I'm going back to sleep. Those upgrades Uncle wanted for the ship took forever." He ran a hand through his already messy hair, making stick up even worse.
"You work too hard," the pinked haired cousin commented.
A grin tugged at Cam's mouth. He forced it away though, considering the fact that his over working was something that his cousins worried about. His uncle too, now that he thought about it. Which wasn't really fair; he'd only collapsed three times before. "Possibly," he conceded as he slipped back into his room, calling back, "Don't let Zurgane screw this up!"
"Come on, Cam. Uncle has taken over planets before. What could possibly go wrong?"
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"Power rangers?" Disbelief laced Cam's voice. Normally he went out of his way to ignore Marah's ramblings but the two words had caught his attention immediately. "Seriously?"
Marah nodded from her space perched on his desk. "Yep. Saw them with my own two eyes." She sent him a look. "Something that you could have done as well if you ever came out of this workshop once in a while." There was distaste on her face when she glanced around the room, taking in the mess of half-used mechanical parts.
"I like this room," he said as he picked up a piece of machinery that looked like a knot of wires and tried to remember exactly what he was working on when he created it. It took him a few moments to realize that it was, in fact, merely a ball of tangled up wires. He tossed it aside and glanced back up his cousin. "And Uncle didn't think to check for any of this before we arrived?"
She shrugged. "Uncle's pissed, though. They destroyed one of the aliens from his army."
"Zurgane?" Cam perked up at the thought.
Marah snickered at the small string of hope that had laced his voice. The dislike between Zurgane and Cam was legendary and a source of great amusement for Marah and Kapri. "No such luck."
"Damn," he muttered under his breath. His cousin heard it though and laughed in reply.
She grinned down at him. "Anyway, Kapri and I are going down to earth to check it out. We were wondering if you wanted to come." The look she got in reply said it all. "I thought so but I thought I'd still ask." She patted him on the shoulder as she slid of the desk. Cam had to reach out quickly to stop a large mechanical part from falling after she bumped it. Marah gave him an apologetic look and waved as she disappeared out the door. "I'll be sure to bring you back something pretty."
"Oh, goodie," Cam muttered under his breath, turning back to the computer. There seemed to be a never ending stream of upgrades and broken machinery around the ship that needed his attention. Still, he couldn't help but think about his cousin's words.
Power Rangers? This could prove to be a problem.