Found Yet Lost
The first thing that Tori could hear were the waves beating against the beach. She was slowly coming back to reality when her head began throbbing. The blue ranger groaned and slowly opened her eyes to see the darkened sky. The teen tried to sit up when she felt a firm hand on her shoulder.
"Hey, just relax. You took a nasty spill," the masculine voice said. Tori was still disorientated and saw the outline of a man sitting beside her. She couldn't focus on his face and groaned again before she passed out on the sand.
The man shook his head sadly and brushed the hair from her face. She's so beautiful, he thought to himself before grabbing his towel and putting it over her limp form. He carefully picked her up and began walking away from the beach, taking care to not jostle her head in case of causing more injury. The man carefully set her down in the backseat of his car so she could have more room. He then returned to the beach and grabbed her board from the sand and tied it down on top of his car so she wouldn't have to worry about getting another one.
The man got into his car, started it up and quickly turned the radio off when it came blaring through the speakers. He knew the girl would have a massive headache when she came to completely and he didn't want to make it any worse than it would have to be. He drove back to his apartment and parked in his usual parking spot. He then carefully picked up the girl from the backseat and made his way to the door where the doorman opened it for him.
"Is she be alright, sir?" He asked the man carrying the girl as he held the door open for the duo.
"I hope so Kurt," he said calmly before making his way over to the elevator and pushed the fifth floor button. When they came to his floor, he quickly made his way to his door and found he had a problem. His keys were in his pocket and he had an unconscious girl in his arms. The man sighed as he set the girl down on the floor and dug out his keys and unlocked the door. He propped the door open and put the keys on the table inside the apartment before going back out and picking up the girl once more. He made his way to his room and place the girl down on his bed. He pulled the covers around her and then walked out of the room and closed the door behind him. He turned the TV on to the news and put the volume on low so he would be able to hear her when she woke up in a strange room.
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When Dustin arrived back at Ninja Ops, he found everyone sitting on their own, all without talking. The yellow ranger walked up to Cam and handed over Tori's morpher silently, hoping that he will be able to do something to find Tori.
"Hey Cam, is there a way to trace Tori without using her morpher?" Hunter piped up after a while. The crimson thunder ranger walked up to the computer behind Cam and lent against the chair, hoping Cam will be able to come up with something to find their fellow ranger and friend. "Because if you can find a general area of where she is, we can all split up and ask around," he continued, trying to give them some hope of finding Tori.
"That will take some time Hunter, and it might not work if Lothor has Tori," Cam said, voicing all their fears.
"Lothor doesn't have Tori," Dustin said harshly, not wanting to believe that their friend was in the hands of the enemy. Everyone looked over at Dustin with sad eyes knowing that it was affecting him the most, as he has been Tori's friend for a long time. "If she was, we would have known if there was a monster that showed up in the time when Tori disappeared, but it's been quiet all day," he said, reasoning with the team. In the back of his mind, he still knew that there was a chance that Tori was Lothor's hands, but he didn't want to think of what he could do to her.
"That's true Dustin, but we have to be realistic about this. Lothor could have her or she's hiding from us, or in trouble somewhere that we don't know about," Cam said with a frustrated sigh. He was supposed to be the computer genius that could do anything, but he couldn't find Tori when it mattered. The green samurai ranger felt drained from sitting at the computer for hours trying to find their blue ranger.
"Rangers, stop making the current situation worse on yourselves. Tori is a very capable ranger and will be able to take care of herself until we find her. I suggest you go rest while we find out where Tori is," Sensei told them all before they could come up with even more ridiculous ways of why they couldn't find Tori.
"I'm not leaving until we find Tori, Sensei," Dustin spoke up and everyone nodded their heads and agreed with him.
Sensei bowed his head at the boys on the team. "Very well, you may make yourselves comfortable in Ninja Ops but in the back rooms where you will be able to rest," the guinea pig told them. Dustin sighed in defeated and inclined his head to Sensei before moving into the back room with Shane, Hunter and Blake following. "Cam, use Tori's DNA on record to begin a search of Blue Bay Harbour, then go to bed. I will monitor the computer while you get some rest. Lothor has been quiet lately, but it won't hold," Sensei told his son.
Cam did as his father requested but remained in his seat and didn't move. He didn't say anything about leaving his seat, but it was pretty clear in the Sensei's mind that the boy wasn't going to move willingly.
The guinea pig jumped to the computer consol and looked Cam straight in the face. "Son, I know this is hard on all of you but tiring yourself out when you need to be ready to face Lothor's attacks at any time isn't wise. I will monitor the computer while you rest and will contact all of you at the first sign of Tori or Lothor. Now go get some rest while you still can," Sensei reasoned with his son in a firm voice.
Cam sighed before slowly nodding his head and standing up from his computer chair. "I want to be woken up the moment you find anything on Tori, alright?" Cam said before walking to his room and collapsing on his bed and falling asleep immediately, the stress getting to him.
Sensei clapped his hands and all the lights in the room dimmed, leaving only the emergency ones on. The guinea pig sat down cross-legged in front of the computer monitor and watched as the system did a search of Blue Bay Harbor for their missing ranger. Sensei was hoping against hope that the blue ranger was in no danger, but he had a feeling that she wasn't in safe hands.
A/N: Sorry for late updating. This took longer to write and I was very pressed for time with my work commitments. Please leave a review, the more reviews I receive, the fast I post, work or no work. Hope this is up to par!