A/N: So things have gotten really hectic and I have put my writing aside, but I'm back for now.

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Chapter Twenty-Two: Quest for the Ninjetti - Part III

Trini, Zack and Jason stared at the command center. What just happened? Jason looked around just seconds ago, Tommy and Kimberly were sitting right there joking around with one another.

Trini had seen the same thing, but she had also been talking to Aisha about it, who was also now gone.

Zack had been talking to Billy and Adam and they were gone. "Where did they go?" Zack asked the other two.

Jason and Trini both shrugged. "They couldn't have been kidnapped, could they?" Trini asked uncertainly.

"Not from the command center... I don't think." Jason looked around the command center almost expecting the others to come out.

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Alexis returned to her room after being enrolled in her classes. "Tomorrow." She said with a sigh. "Tomorrow I start school in this small town hell." This sucked. This really truly sucked. She was going to have to start searching around for gymnastics schools. She doubted she would find one in Angel Grove, but Los Angeles probably had an abundance of them. She decided she would begin with Angel Grove anyway. She opened their brand new phone book and began thumbing through the pages. She ran her finger down the page it would be found on, her finger stopped suddenly. "Kimberly Hart's Gymnastics Studio." She read aloud. "Now that's odd, I thought that was located in Orlando." She picked up her cell and dialed the number. She let it ring a few times and got redirected to voice mail. She groaned and looked at her watch. Surely someone would be there, right? She left a message saying she was interested in classes, then looked at the address. She would go in and see if anyone was there.

She walked in and looked around. She saw pictures along the walls. The first ones were of a young Kimberly during her own gymnastics meets and competitions. The further along the wall you went, the older Kimberly got. She finally got to pictures of Kimberly's Pan Global days. She looked over the team. They had been her heroes. As she moved on, there was a picture of her new studio when it had just opened, and pictures of her students at meets. There were also many pictures of her with her students. Many of these pictures included Audrey. She looked over the pictures from Audrey at age ten all the way through sixteen. Alexis shook her head. Would Kimberly not accept her just because of her personal feelings toward Audrey?

She walked into the room and looked out on the floor. She saw three students doing warmups. "Is the coach around?" She asked them.

Amber looked up at the newcomer. She shook her head. "I knocked on her office door a couple of minutes ago and it doesn't seem like she's around."

"Thanks." She said. "Which class is this?"

"Champion." Haley piped in.

"Small class." Alexis told them. "Back home my class was ten students."

"There are usually four." Renae told her. She looked around. It was strange for Audrey to miss a practice.

Amber stood up. "I'm Amber Lockhart." She said, walking over to the girl and shaking her hand.

"Alexis Sherman." She responded.

"Haley Smith." Haley said, taking the spot next to Amber.

Renae joined them. "Renae James."

"It's nice to meet you guys." Alexis said. "Do you happen to know when she might be around?"

The girls all shook their heads. "Usually she's around now." Amber told her.

Alexis nodded. "Well hopefully I'll contact her soon." She answered. She gave each girl a smile then walked out.

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Trent led the others from the plateau in the direction they were to be heading. From what they all heard, whatever lay ahead of them wasn't going to be easy. They would have to make use of these new powers and hope they had it right.

The others followed behind Trent. Trent was going to be their leader and they were going to have to accept this. The two who had the most problems with this were Conner and James.

Though in essense Tommy had been the leader of the Dino Thunder rangers, he had trained Conner in leadership capacity and now he had to answer to the evil guy who had joined the team later.

James' animal spirit fit him more than anyone knew. Except maybe Audrey. James always had a problem answering to someone else. He had been captain of the football team in high school and the years prior everything was working toward captain. He hated being second in command or lower. He guessed this was something he was going to have to work past.

As the team trudged along, they began talking amongst themselves. Alana and Audrey were talking this time, James and Conner, Mallory and Trent.

Audrey and Alana were talking about boys, strangely enough, the subject kept getting onto James. Audrey wasn't sure why that was.

James and Conner were mostly discussing their reasons for having to accept Trent as the leader and their problems with it. Conner told him he liked Trent and all, but being under Trent's lead wasn't his idea of the way it should be. James explained that as his animal spirit suggested, he hated being under anyone's lead but his own. That was where the two shared their connection.

Mallory and Trent talked mostly about what was going to be expected of them. Trent, the experienced ranger gave his thoughts, but of course this was new territory, he knew he wouldn't be using his white dino gem to defeat Mesogog, that was in the past. The powers and the evil were very new to him. He didn't even have a quest like this for his last powers.

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Kimberly looked around. How did they get there? She looked for the other eight. She saw Tommy, Aisha, Rocky, Adam and Billy, but the other three were missing. Or maybe they were the ones missing. "Where are the others?" She asked them.

Tommy shook his head. He didn't know. He didn't know how they got there either. All he knew was where they were.

"I never thought I'd see this place again." Aisha said, dusting off her yellow skirt.

The others nodded in agreement. "I hoped I'd never see this place again. Adam said, in response to his wife's comment.

The unspoken question on everyone's mind was the same. How did we get here? "Someone teleported us here." Billy said. "I'm unable to compute who it might have been."

Kimberly looked at Billy. "Why can't Trini be here?"

The others laughed.

Billy shrugged. "If you look around. We've been here before. We were chosen, this wasn't an accident or random."

Tommy nodded. "That makes sense." He said, looking around. "Do you think the others are in trouble?" He asked, referring to the six new rangers.

Adam looked around. "I'm not sure." He said. "We had been able to get out of our trouble."

"Come on." Tommy said. "Let's try to at least find Dulcea. Maybe she can give us answers."

The others nodded in agreement and followed after him toward the plateau.

A/N: Okay, so I told someone the quest was either going to be 3 or 4 parts, there's a chance it will be 5... then again who knows, I might put more in and make it longer. Read and review please!