Author's Note; Ugh, you guys I hate to be skipping around so much already but I don't have much of a choice, once again my links fail me for both this and 'Where Ends Meet'. Anyway I'm not giving up! I am going to add a filler for you, yay!
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The past month had been busy for the B Squad Rangers. First, Sky learned to somewhat cope with the fact Jack became leader after they got better bikes than he did. then thanks to Syd, the dying R.I.C had gotten rebuilt and upgraded into R.I.C 2.0, Bridge showed everyone how smart he really was after they doubted him and he solved their police case, and Z helped an orphan who was being controlled by Mora to realize he wasn't alone and they found that Lexi had a new Power. Apparently, the B Squad were born with their powers, but Lexi got hers with the badge, having the power to read minds.
"Where is she?" Z asked as they passed Lexi's empty room. They wanted to get a training session done and wanted to know if Lexi would join, but they already knew the answer. Lexi didn't really fit in with them and liked staying alone, training by herself. She was also offered a B Squad uniform, but she refused and said she'd rather be known as a Ninja. They walked in the lounge room to find Lexi sitting on the table meditating.
"Hey Lexi." Bridge called, and her eye opened and she stared at them; "We were gonna have a training session and wanted to know if you'd join us."
"But we already know the answer." Sky said as he turned around; "Sorry for bothering you."
"No, wait." Lexi stopped them, and they stood frozen; "Yeah, I'll join you. Just wait one second, I need to get my morpher."
"The badge is in the case." Jack said, slightly confused.
"No, I meant the Elemental Morpher." Lexi laughed as she walked past them to her room; "I don't go anywhere without it but I've been so used to the badge I haven't kept it on my wrist."
"What's so important about it?" Jack asked curiously.
"Its the most powerful Morpher ever created." Lexi explained. It was true. The morpher's secrets were vast, but she uncovered them slowly. During her time as a Dino Ranger she found out that the Elemental Morpher didn't only change between Fire and Electricity, and over time as she's grown more and became a stronger warrior she'd unlock more Elements. Learning forgiveness, when she became friends with the Ninjas again unlocked the Element of Water, though since she didn't have the morpher on her at the time, she couldn't know. The morpher could revive dead spirits, heal, create time portals... all the good stuff people could only dream of, and it was hers. She grabbed her morpher, snapping it to her wrist as she joined the others in the hallway; "Aight, I be ready."
"You're so weird." Syd laughed as they walked to a large training room.
"Took you that long to realize this?" Lexi asked with an arched eyebrow. She looked around; "Not too bad. It'll do for now."
"For now? This is the best training room in the country." Sky said clearly.
"Then you obviously have never seen a Ninja Academy." Lexi said, sticking her tounge out at him as she walked into the room, finding a case of swords. Lexi grinned, taking one sword and twirling it in one hand facing one of the training dummies. With swift, fluid, graceful movements she sliced at the dummy, and it fell apart. She turned to the others; "Who's willing to fight me?"
They looked at each other, and Jack walked forward; "Seems fun."
"For now." Lexi nodded. She put the sword back and instead grabbed two wooden staves. Jack looked confused on how to use the weapon, but watched Lexi as she gripped the Katana from two spots, feet apart as she looked completely focused. Jack followed her positioning and it felt comfortable.
Jack and Lexi moved forward with their staves. Jack thought Lexi was weak and tried overpowering her, swinging under her feet to knock her backwards and then swinging where she left herself open, her left shoulder, but each time he swung, she'd counter and block him off and Jack found himself on the floor.
"Focus Jack." Lexi shook her head; "Focus on my arm movements, not just on where my defences are lacking."
And that's exactly what Jack did, and this time Lexi was on the ground and Jack grinned; "Thanks Lexi."
He held a hand out for her but she waved it off, flipping herself to her feet. She looked at them; "I hope you guys don't mind, but now its my turn to train."
"How do you train?" Bridge asked.
"Like this." Lexi said, and she ran towards the wall, climbing up several inches before pushing off and flipping backwards onto her feet; "The Ninja Way."
"Do you mind if we watch?" Z asked.
"Go ahead." Lexi shrugged; "Can someone bring in the Robots?"
"Robots." Sky said, pressing buttons on a keypad, and Robots came, cornering Lexi as the other five sat out; "She won't last."
"She won't make it past 5 robots." Bridge agreed.
"She's gonna beat them all." Z disagreed.
"Wanna bet?" Jack asked, and they each bet 10 dollars.
They turned their attention to Lexi, who just stood there, in a crowd of 50 robots. It wasn't looking good for just one girl, and thats when another two Lexi's popped up. One held up her fists, flaming, one had waterballs in her hands, and the last had electricity pulsing through her hands. They just shot the balls of energy at the Robots, and then as the Robots got down to 20 the two clones disappeared, leaving Lexi to grab one of the swords again and slash through the Robots. She turned to the others, grinning; "Who won the bet?"
"Me." Z stated happily as the guys gave her their money, but Z stayed confused; "You can make clones?"
"Dino Gems." Lexi explained; "Orange Dino Ranger, at your service."
"And the Fire, Electricity, and Water?" Jack asked.
"I was a Fire Student at the Wind Ninja Academy. Wind Morpher got destroyed so I got the Elemental Morpher which had both Fire and Electricity, and Water I unlocked as a Dino Ranger."
"Sounds... cool?" Syd asked in confusion.
"I know." Lexi grinned, though she knew Syd was being somewhat sarcastic.
Then sirens came and they ran out to the command center. They stood around the Hollogram projector, and Cruger showed a picture of an alien that Lexi knew all too well, and a live video of him rampaging downtown; "We don't have any records of him of recent, but he was there in the past, we don't know who he is or what he wants. He came through a wormhole and shows no signs of going back."
"I do." Lexi spoke up, and everyone stared at her; "He used to work for Lothor and came to destroy me. His name is Tony, I don't know how he got here but I know what he wants."
"What does he want?" Kat asked, and Lexi showed her the Elemental Morpher.
"Let's go." Lexi said bitterly, turning and streaking off, leaving an Orange trail behind her. The Rangers looked at each other, and then ran off to follow her.
"When I get my hands on her-" Tony began muttering, but was stopped by the sound of footsteps and turned around to be facing six teens, one he knew perfectly; "Lexi, still as annoying as ever."
"Tony, still as stupid and ugly as ever." Lexi shot back.
"Give me the Elemental Morpher." He growled.
"The only thing you're gonna get is a life time in prison." Jack sneered, as he stood in front of his team; "Ready?"
"Ready!"
"SPD, Emergency!"
"SPD Red!" said Jack.
"SPD Blue!" said Sky.
"SPD Pink!" said Syd.
"SPD Green!" said Bridge.
"SPD Orange! said Lexi.
"A Ranger again?" Tony snapped; "In the future? You just love showing off don't you?"
"Hey its not my fault I'm some sort of legend." Lexi retorted, then talking to herself; "I wonder if I beat Doctor O."
"Lexi, focus." Syd said, and Lexi did focus again.
Tony shot beams at all of them, and Lexi kept them in an Electric Force Field as she ran forward, dodging each one of his blasts. She let out a battle cry as she took out her sword and slashed at Tony, flipping him away, she freed the others from the force field and they ran forwards to join her. He just needed to blast at them once to send them flying backwards, demorphing.
"Ugh!" Syd groaned.
"You are coming with me." Tony hissed, grabbing Lexi's wrist and pulling her.
"No way!" Lexi grumbled, kicking him away as she flipped away; "I might not be a good SPD Ranger, but I am a good Elemental Ranger! Elemental Storm! Ranger Form! HA! Elemental Powers- Fire!"
Bridge gasped in shock, all this time he knew about the Elemental Power Ranger, the legendary Orange Ranger! And now he was breathless, he'd been working with the biggest name in the city. She said she was an Elemental Ranger earlier, but to them seeing was believing. The others were as shocked as he was as Lexi took her flame staff and charged, knocking her staff into Tony.
Tony slashed at her, but the suit fell empty, and behind him, three Lexi's were in the air holding Flame staves and slashed it downwards; "Ninja Power!" Tony fell backwards, and Lexi contained him in an Electric Force Field as she turned to the others; "We need to get him back to the past."
"How?" Syd asked, and Lexi looked down at her morpher, getting an idea.
Then one of the cruising jeeps pulled up and Kat jumped out; "I can make a wormhole but I'll need time."
"Or I can take him back now." Lexi suggested.
"We'd have to wipe his memory first." Kat shook her head.
"No, if you do that he'll come back thinking he hadn't done it already." Lexi argued. Kat nodded reluctantly and Lexi waved at the others; "I'll see you guys soon." She turned a dial on her morpher and a wormhole formed in front of her. She released the force field on Tony but made a few clones hold him so he wouldn't get away and they walked into the portal.
"I missed this place." Lexi sighed, she was back in Reefside. After she had thrown Tony somewhere she demorphed and walked back to her apartment ready to make another wormhole and go back to the future, but she saw her laptop and opened it, checking her email though she knew it was dangerous, but she was curious to see if anyone was worried. 6 emails: two from Hunter, one from Alyssa, one from Trent, one from Cam, and one from Tori.
She read Cam's first; "Dad's beginning to worry about you Lexi. We haven't seen you since the teamup between us and the Dinos'. Dad wants you to come over for a few weeks if you can, please tell me when you're free."
Then she read Trent's from where he was in Art school; "Lex, school's going great right now, but I miss you extremely. I was wondering if you would let me design your band's poster, please? Please reply and give me an answer."
Then she read Alyssa's letter; "I miss you a lot Lexi! You haven't called or anything, Hunter says he doesn't even know what's going on with you. Please tell me if you're okay, I just want to know if something's wrong."
The first letter Hunter wrote went like this; "Lexi, please don't go. I don't want you to get hurt. At least let me come with you, and then I can be sure you won't do anything stupid. Oh Lexi, I feel terrible now since I should have been spending more time with you and I hope you're still alive and healthy, please be okay."
His second letter came just yesterday; "Lexi, where are you? I'm going to come find you. I can't let you do something dangerous and now you're gone with no trace. Everyone's worried about you, and you never even replied to Tori's request, so she's afraid you're ignoring her again. I have to tell them, but I don't know what to tell them. Right now I just really need to see you again. I love you Lexi, please don't leave me already."
Tori's request? She realized she skipped her human best friend's letter and pressed it, surprised with the message; "I have a request for you. So as you know, since the Dino thing Blake and I have been going out... and it's gotten quite serious. So serious, actually, that he's proposed to me... and I said yes! The wedding is in next December, and since it's only March we have plenty of time cause of his riding and my teaching... I wanted to know if you'd give me the honor of being my maid of honor."
She decided to reply to each one, beginning with Cam's; "I'd love to visit sometime, but right now I can't for I'm on a hectic schedule. I'll get back to you when I know I have some time off."
The next she replied to was Trent; "Hey T! Sorry I haven't been able to respond, my schedule sucks at the moment. And of course you can design the poster. Call my bandmates and tell them I agreed to the idea. Please, don't make us superheroes though, LOL. I love you T, I'll see ya sometime."
Lexi then replied to Alyssa; "Hey there Aly! Sorry I couldn't call or anything, the phone connection where I am doesn't work right, I haven't even been able to check my mail since I left Reefside. And you don't have to worry about me Aly, I'll be fine. Keep training alright? I love you kiddo."
She chuckled nervously, unsure of what to tell Hunter; "Hunter, I don't know what to say to you. The month without you had been slow. The new guys I work with are sort of policemen, and they're pretty cool, they've been protecting me safe so far. To answer the question of where I am, right now I'm in my apartment, but in five minutes I'll return to the year 2025 to where I'm going to continue helping save the world. You still can't tell anyone, its strictly confidential business. I love you Hunter, don't worry about me I'll be fine, you just be careful with your students, don't take your fustrations with me out on them. Its time for me to head back to the future Hunter, I'll explain to you more when I get back next time. Oh and tell Tori about the mission, but make sure she keeps it a secret."
Tori's email haunted her as she replied; "Oh blondie, you and Blake were always so awkward, I'm happy for you... extremely happy for you. And about the maid of honor thing, of course I'd do it for you. I am afraid that I might not be able to get back in time, considering where I am. You'll have to ask Hunter about it, but you'd have to keep it a secret. Tori you're my best friend, and I only want for you to be happy. I wish you and Blake luck, and when I get back I'll kick his butt and make sure he stays true to you. I must go now Tor, I'll talk to you later."
With that she was done and turned off her computer before she made another wormhole and stepped through.
She walked through the hallways of SPD, hands clamped around the locket Hunter had given her after Prom with the Dinos. It had a picture of the two of them at the beach, one Shane had sneakily taken on the same birthday she was under some monster's control who told her to kill herself. Lexi's eyes began watering, but she blinked away the tears.
"There she is." Jack said proudly as Lexi entered the command room; "We've been worried about you, you were gone for a whole day."
"A day?" Lexi asked confused; "Felt like a few hours to me."
Cruger looked closely at Lexi, noticing her eyes were slightly red; "You miss your time."
"A lot has gone on without me." Lexi explained sadly;" My best friend's engaged, my boyfriend's worried to the maximum limit, my cousin and uncle are dying to know what happened to me..."
"Then go back." Cruger said plainly.
"My duty isn't only to the people I love." Lexi shook her head; "Its to the planet we share. There's plenty of time for me to go back, but if I leave now there's not going to be a lot of time left for Earth."
"Lexi, we got you something." Z said abruptly, and then out from behind her back came a model Monkeyzord and a Orange Elemental Ranger action figure.
Lexi squealed in delight, but brushed off her action figure; "My non-human best friend is now a toy? Monkey would love this."
"We were wondering..." Bridge began, and Lexi looked at him; "Maybe you'd want to hang out with us? We're going to watch a movie in the lounge."
Realizing she was wrong for taking their relationship as a business rather than a friendship Lexi smiled; "I love movies." And they had a happy rest of the day.