Chapter Four: New And Amazing Things

Tori and Cam sat by a fire, in a living room toward the back of Ops. Neither of them really said anything. They just sat, watching the flames. Every once and a while Cam would looked over at Tori. The flames seamed to dance in her blonde hair. And, when Cam wasn't chancing looks over at Tori, Tori was chancing looks over at Cam. The two had never really spent much time together. There meeting tended to go like, 'Hi, Training, Oop, There's the monster, We better go fight it, it's dead, bye now'. As you can see, not much talking would come out of that. So the two sat. It wasn't really an awkward silence either. It was one of those comfortable ones. Suddenly, something clattered to the floor. Cam had moved his foot and knocked bowl off the little coffee table in front of them. They both bent down to pick it up. Cam reached it first. When Tori and Cam both turned there heads to look at the other they were very close. Cam took a chance, and leaned forward just a fraction of a centimeater. It didn't even look like he had done it on perpose Their lips touched and a small shock flahsed as them did. They both kinda jumped back.

"Oh, um, s-sorry." Cam stuttered. Tori shook her head, a kinda far off look in her eye.

"No, no, it was, um, it was my fault." She said. Cam placed the bowl back on the counter. He then saw Tori stand up. "I think I'm gonna head off to bed." She said quickly before walking out of the little living room and toward the guest room. Once Tori was out of site, Cam mentally hit himself in the head. He then got up and walked to his room.

The next day, all the rangers were in Ninja Ops. Training, Talking, whatever, when the alarm went off.

"We've got company down by the pere." Cam said as he got up from his computer desk. All the rangers went to the middle of the room.

"Samurai Storm, Ninja storm, Thunder storm, ranger form. Ha! Ninja Ranger Power!" They all yelled. They then transformed and in a streak of their different colors, they were at the pere.

"Ah, rangers. Nice of you to join me." The alien said. He was pale white with to large blue horns on his head. On his shoulders were blue dotted black bowl looking things. His pants were Aladdin style, and his shirt was a back-pack attached to his front.

"Nice pack." Shane commented sarcastically.

"You do not insult the pack!" The monster yelled sending out a blast of something from his eyes. It landed right in front of the rangers and a fog seemed to rise. Suddenly, all the rangers were down on the ground.

"What is it with these dudes and making us fall down?" Dustin asked. Slowly, their different colors started to come of them in beams of light. A minute later, all their powers were sucked into the aliens back-pack.

"Parting is such sweet sorrow!" The alien said before disappearing. Hunter hit his hand on the ground.

"He just stool our powers." He said.

"Thanks for stating the obvious, bro." Blake said as all the rangers stood up. "We better get back to Ops." Blake added. And that's where they went.

Cam was looking through pile of scrolls as all the rangers were standing around Ninja Ops.

"I found something." Cam called to the rangers. They all came over. "This alien is called Aspirant, meaning Seeker. Lothor send him down to steel our powers. But we have record of him. There is a scroll in here for 'Returning what the Seeker has taken'." Cam said, taking a small scroll out and placing it in a bowl on the table. The everybody jumped slight as the scroll turned to liquid. "All we have to do is put some blood from a ranger on this rose stem," He said, holding up a rose stem. "And a bit more in this bowl, and then drop the rose stem in the bowl." Cam said. When he looked up, most of the rangers had backed away from the bowl. All except Tori. Tori looked at the boys standing behind her. Tori heaved a heavy sighed before walking over, picking up the rose stem, holding her hand with the stem in it over the bowl, and squeezing her hand so the thorns pierced her skin. Tori didn't seem to wince at all. Blood dripped onto the rose stem in her hand, and then dripped down into the bowl. Tori then dropped the stem in the bowl and shook the blood in her palm into it.

"Such manly men." Tori commented before walking up the stairs and out of Ninja Ops.

"Don't you think that would have hurt her a little?" Blake asked as he starred after Tori.

"I doubt it." Shane said. Cam and Dustin seemed to understand what Shane meant, but the thunders looked at him cluelessly, deciding not to ask.

"I'll go talk to her." Dustin said, bounding up the stairs. It took him about two seconds to find Tori after that. She hadn't even left the forest. She head barley even left the waterfall. "Tori, are you okay?" Dustin asked, sitting down next to Tori. Tori shook her head. "What's wrong?" He asked. Tori turned her head toward Dustin.

"We kissed." Tori blurted out. Dustin furrowed his eyebrows.

"You and Blake?" Dustin asked. Tori shook her head. Dustin's eyes then widened. "You and Cam?!" He asked. Tori nodded. "Woah, dude, I mean...." Dustin started.

"And you know what I did afterward?" Tori asked cutting Dustin off. Dustin shook his head 'No'. Tori put her face in her hands. "I ran. I said, 'I better go to bed' and then left him sitting there." Tori said. Dustin couldn't help but laugh. Tori looked up, shooting daggers. "It's not funning." She snapped. Dustin nodded.

"No. But it is funny that you say that after spilling your blood in a bowl. So, excuse me if I say, that was random." He said. Tori smiled a bit. But then, they were interrupted.

"Ah, two little rangers, sitting in a row." Aspirant said. Dustin and Tori jumped into fighting stance.

"Dude, um, doesn't there kinda have to be more then two for it to be a whole row?" Dustin asked. Before the alien could 'answer', Cam, Shane, Hunter, and Blake came out of Ninja Ops.

"Tori, it's your blood, you have to throw it at him." Cam said, throwing a ball of energy at her. Tori caught it and hurled it at the aliens back-pack. It burst open and 6 colors flew out. Immediately, the rangers were transformed.
The rangers formed their blaster, and aimed it at the alien. Within seconds, it was destroyed and the rangers powered down.

"Is that it?" Shane asked. When no Scroll Of Empowerment appeared the rangers shrugged and went inside. When they got into Ninja Ops, they saw Sensei standing by the computer with some very small suitcases.

"Cam, I need you to send me to Japan. A friend of mine has just called on me. I will be gone a few days." He said. Cam nodded and went over to the computer. He pushed a couple of buttons and then pressed the red one in the middle of the keyboard. Sensei disappeared.

"Well, I guess we got some vaca. time." Blake said.

"Great, you can spend it with me." They all heard a girl say from the doorway. Everyone turned around, and Blake's face broke out in a smile. "Jema!" He said happily before going over and giving the girl a big hug. "What are you doing here?" Blake asked, stepping back a bit. The girl, Jema, shrugged.

"Just visiting." She said. Suddenly, there was a coughing sound behind Blake. He turned around and saw the other rangers staring at the two.

"Oh, guys, this is Jema McLynne. She was a student at the Thunder Ninja Academy." He said, bringing Jema fully into Ops. Tori furrowed her eyebrows.

"No offense but, didn't Thunder Academy get taken over?" She asked. Jema nodded.

"Yeah, but I had worked a deal with the Sensei. You see, I asked if a could not come on Wednesdays and do make-up in Saturdays. He agreed, and the Academy was taken on a Wednesday." Jema said. Everyone nodded slowly.

"Usually, Jema lives in Orlando with her parents." Blake said. Jema stopped for a second.

"Yeah, but I figured I'd come see my old friend." She said. "Now, whadaya say we go take a spin around the track? It's been awhile since a whipped your ass." She said with a smile. Blake smiled two.

"Oh, no you won't. I'll defiantly beat you." He said, folding his arms. Jema smiled more and nodded your head.

"Oh, you think so, do you?" Jema asked, patting Blake on the cheek. Blake pointed at her.

"That's it." He said. Within seconds, they were both out the door and running. The rangers just stood looking at the spot the two had just occupied. Hunter started laughing.

"That was random." Shane said to Hunter. Hunter shook his head.

"Blake has had it bad for Jema since he met her. The fact that they left like that is just funny." He said.

"Well, I'm off to the track myself, anyone wanna come?" Dustin asked as he backed toward the door. Hunter walked over.

"Yeah." He said, and the two left. Tori started heading toward the door herself.

"I'm off to go apartment hunting, you guys wanna come?" Tori asked, hopping Cam would say no.

"Yeah, I'll go." Shane said. Cam just shook his head. Tori nodded. "Bye dude." Shane said as he and Tori walked out of Ninja Ops and Cam was left there all alone.

"Perfect ending to a wonderful day." Cam said sarcastically as he sat down in his computer chair.

AN: Sorry I'm so bad at the fights scenes, but I hope you could bare with me!lol R/R!