Disclaimer; I don't own Power Rangers
A/N: This story is still struggling, but I think I can finish it in two chapters. Maybe three if I want to go into detail about Skyla, but I don't think I will. I really just want to finish this. Takes place several weeks after Hunter and Blake adopt Angel as their little sister.
Life as Angel Raven Bradley was good, Angel reflected, except when Lothor got involved. As she watched the latest battle with Sensei, she reflected that something would have to be done. "Sensei," she said as the Rangers went to their Zords, "hypothetically, if I could transport myself and one other person onto Lothor's ship to rescue the students. Would Cam be the better option, so as to be able to trigger the mechanism while I cover for him or would Hunter or Shane be a good choice, so that I could puzzle the mechanism and they cover my back?"
"The father in me would say anyone but Cam," Sensei said after a moment, "but if you are as unfamiliar with the means of the students' captivity, he is the best choice. His technical skills are exceptional." He looked up at Angel with his nose twitching, "Could you do such a thing?"
"It's possible," Angel said after giving the question serious consideration, "Difficult, but possible. Lothor hasn't changed the shields to block me yet."
"Do I want to know how you know that?" Hunter asked from behind them as he led the team into Ninja Ops.
"Probably not," Angel replied cheerfully as she vacated Cam's chair. "So, to reiterate, I was asking Sensei if I should ask Cam to help me rescue the ninja students."
"How would we do that?" Cam asked.
Angel clasped her hands behind her back, "I would use my magic to teleport us to a secure location on Lothor's ship and then we would make our way to the students. Lothor hasn't blocked me, and there are places he never goes. There are no cameras in there, and a concealed method of travel is accessible with minimal fuss."
"You're sure of this?" Cam asked.
"If Lothor entered the room, or if the place was altered in any way, I would know. I tagged Lothor before he spelled me, and the room has been, as you would say, bugged since I arrived." Angel grimaced, "It's my room, I think he leaves it that way in the hopes I might spontaneously return to him."
"We need to talk about this," Shane said, "Lothor's going to need a distraction."
"What about Mara and Kapri," Blake added, "they're always showing up where they're not supposed to on the ship."
The Rangers began to talk at once and Angel sighed, then she created a small magical explosion. "We wait," she said, "we put the word out that Cam has the flu. Lothor spies on everyone outside of ninja ops, all we have to do is capitalize on that. Next time Lothor sends a monster, Cam and I go up to the ship and get the students. Mara and Kapri won't be a problem; they'll either be in the ops center, watching with Lothor, or on the bridge. Even if they do show up, I can handle them." She crossed her arms and smirked slightly, "I'm a pilot, not an idiot, and tactics and strategy was my favorite not primary class. I have two solid overall strategies and three back up plans. This isn't a whim; this is a proposal of a workable plan."
"Do you have anything written down?" Cam asked, "Blueprints or anything?"
"I can provide you with ship plans," Angel agreed, "the writing isn't in English, though."
"Fair enough," Cam said.
"What about your magic," Hunter said, "you get tired when you use it too much. Are you sure you can do this?"
Angel nodded, "I can teleport to the ship and back with Cam, it wouldn't be a hardship. Teleporting has different requirements than fighting magically; it's a single burst of energy instead of the near continuous drain required in a fight or with illusions. There is no guarantee if I have to use my magic in a fight though. The area where the ninjas are being held has an independent teleport station, though. We'll have to use that to get the ninjas back here anyways. I can send Cam back with them and steal a star fighter if it comes down to it. That's back plan A, by the way. Plan B is to hijack the entire ship and bring it down and Plan C is the one where we don't come back at all, but we take Lothor and Zurgane with us when we go."
"If you go, you have to come back," Hunter said, grabbing her arm, "you're my little sister; I'm not going to lose you now that I've found you."
Angel hesitated, and then hugged her brother, "That's the worst case scenario, Hunter. If we have to use plan C, Lothor goes with us. That's the most important thing, that we stop Lothor."
"The most important thing is that we survive," Hunter said, holding her tightly. Angel knew, however, that he understood what she was saying.
The silence of the room made the two of them step apart, with Hunter glaring at the staring Rangers while Angel smirked. "Tomorrow is Tori's birthday," Cam began.
"Which is where you're going to pick up your cold," Angel countered even as she leaned almost casually against Hunter, "if we're going to do this." She already knew the answer to that, and as Hunter's arm came around her shoulder, she prepared herself for the arguments that would soon be occurring.
After all, she had two Reds who tended to hover over her, a Blue who was still finding his feet as an older sibling and a father who worried about his son. All of them would need to be assured that she knew what she was talking about and all of them would need to see that Angel and Cam was the best pair to go up. Angel had to go either way, and while she probably could figure out how to free the students, she was stronger as a fighter. Cam would be better able to figure out the technology. She had been tempted to choose Dustin, but she wasn't sure how the Earth ninja would react to being abruptly separated from the planet he'd bonded with so recently. She'd learned in school that some magic-users did that, bond to their home planet, and taking them away from said planet with little to no warning would hurt them, or even kill them. She wasn't going to risk that with the absent minded yellow ranger.