Looming Thunder (Let's pretend that the Wind Ninjas practice in the morning or around noon, because it's Saturday in my world, and Dustin goes to the track really early to deal with it):

"Morning, Dr. Crayola," Alex muttered.

Tommy sighed, having given up a long time ago on trying to stop Alex from calling him Dr. Crayola. "Morning, Alex,"

"Morning, Tommy," Ana said from the other side of the table, eating cereal.

"Morning, Ana. How are my sisters today?" he asked.

"Depends," Ana glared at her brother. "How long until the Tyrano zord is out of the garage?"

He laughed. "Another week yet. Why, Ana?"

"Because that stupid zord ate my new swimsuit. I just bought it!" she complained

"It's ok, Ana, it's an easy fix," Alex soothed. She turned to Tommy. "I think we'll head to Storm Chargers after breakfast. She really hates that zord,"

"Do I ever!" she said. The she felt sick and shut her mouth.

A hammer struck her brain, and Ana's head went into her fingers. Then, as quickly as the pain came, it passed.

"Ana!" Alex and Tommy cried. They raced to both sides, and Alex crouched down.

"Ana," she said, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah," she said, unclenching her head. "Kelzaks, in the forest, we got to go,"

Alex and Ana looked up. Tommy nodded, and both girls ninja streaked out the door.

Tommy sighed and grabbed the plates. He just hoped they didn't get hurt.

(Dividers)

When they got there, Dustin, Tori, and Shane were kicking the Kelzak's butts on their motorbikes.

"Aww," Alex said, "They get cycles and we get a big fat nothing?" she asked.

"Doesn't matter, Alexandria," said Ana, using her sisters full name.

"Right," Alex said reluctantly.

The Orange and Purple rangers helped where they could, and the kelzaks were quickly dispatched.

"Wait!" the boy wearing green that had watched out on the sidelines.

The twins stopped and turned around. "What is it?" asked Ana.

"My names Cam, I'm their Tech Adviser," he explains.

"Oh, like Alpha, except Alpha was a robot," Alex said.

"Who's Alpha?" Cam asked.

"Nothing. Thank you for introducing yourself, Cam, but we have to jet," Ana said.

"Wait!" he called, stopping the Olivers from leaving. "I know we don't know who you are, but I made you guys tsunami cycles, since you helped us so much," He pushed a button and the mobile command center spits out purple and orange motorcross bikes.

"Aww, sweet, thank you!" Alex cried.

"You're welcome," Cam said, "I have to fine tune them first, but then you can take them home if you like,"

"Why, thank you, Cam, that was very thoughtful of you," Ana said. Then Alex looked at the sun a moment.

"I'm sorry, but we really do have to jet. Our brother will think we've been injured if we're not back in about 5 minutes. He's very protective of us," Alex explained.

"But civilians can't know of your true identities, can they?" asked Cam.

"They can't," Ana agreed. "But our brother is no civilian. Now, we really got to go,"

They ninja streaked out, leaving behind three confused rangers and a confused tech adviser.

(Divider)

"Hey Tommy, where did you put all the books we didn't read very often? I'm out of good reads," Ana called.

"They're in the basement, Ana!" called the middle aged man's voice.

Rumble, rumble, rumble.

Ana turned around. "What was that?" she asked the air.

The room started to shake even harder. Ana ran to the kitchen to meet up with her brother and sister.

"What the hell is going on!" Alex shouted over the noise.

"Earthquake," Tommy breathed.

Then, as quickly as it started, it stopped. The trio looked around, and although a few things had fallen, there didn't seem to be anything broken or too severely damaged.

"I guess we just experienced our first California earthquake since we were 7," Alex muttered.

"Uh, guys?" asked Ana's pain filled voice behind them. They looked back to see Ana clutching her head in severe pain.

"Ana, are you alright?" asked their slightly panicked brother.

"Yeah, but this was ranger related. Alex and I need to get to the query," she said quickly.

"So much for spending a relaxing afternoon at home," Alex mumbled.

Tommy shook his head. "Ana, are you sure that Mind Link won't flare up during battle? That could get you killed,"

"Tommy, I have a mind block in. I'll be fine,"

Tommy sighed. "Go," he said against his better judgment.

The two rangers streaked off as Tommy got to work gluing a couple of cracks on the chairs.

(Divider)

The girls got there just as Dustin got thrown out of his ninja dirt dive. They both had to stifle a laugh.

"See, this is why you don't go up against a three hundred pound dirt monster underground when you're only about 210," Alex said.

The twins rushed over to the yellow ranger's side. "Terra Mole in the House!" the thing called. "Watch and learn rangers! I'm going to tear your city from the inside out!" He disappeared into the ground.

"Damn it!" Alex called, racing to the pit. The other rangers voiced in their annoyance.

"I'm sorry we weren't here a few minutes ago," Ana said, "We might have caught him,"

"It's alright," Tori said, "He'll be back,"

"Damn right, he'll be back," Ana muttered.

(Divider)

The twins walked into Storm Chargers with two things on their mind: that idiot dirt monster, and Ana's new swimsuit.

"Hey Ana, check out this one, it's your color!" She held up a purple bikini with green, white, red, and orange designs on it.

Ana laughed. "Kind of a mantel to my wonderful family," she said, nodding that that was the suit she wanted.

They noticed Dustin just off to their right, introducing a couple of people to Tori and Shane. Ana shivered.

"What is it, Ana?" Alex asked, concerned.

"Those people," Ana answered, "They just don't feel right. They make my hair stand up on end. Something bad's going to happen, and they're going to be at its center,"

"Well, that's a glowing review from a psychic ninja," Alex said, looking at the boys. They were hot, but most defiantly not her type, if being in motercross pads were any indication.

Tori, Shane and Dustin left, but they noticed Shane listening in on the boys.

"Dude, that Tori is fine! But why does she hang out with a goof like Dustin?" the one in blue said.

"I don't know," said the one in red, "Maybe she likes doing charity work,"

Alex growled.

Ana turned to Alex and said, "Maybe Dustin's a bit of a goof, but he's a nice goof, which is more than I can say for them. Ooh, I would so go up and punch them if it wouldn't reveal our identity!" Alex realized what her sister just said.

"Ana, be careful, I don't know how, but you're mixing with me," "Mixing" was a term the twins used to describe when Ana went completely out of character because she was having trouble differentiating between her thoughts and thoughts around her.

Ana looked down. "It's the physical contact," she realized, pulling her hand away from her sister's. "Come on, let's just pay and go,"

And that's exactly what they did.

(Divider)

Rumble, rumble, rumble.

The ground started shaking again about two hours after they got home.
"My god! When is this stupid alien going to give us some god forsaken peace around here?" Alex swore as she ducked around a falling shelf to her family.

"I agree with you, Alex, I'm a little tired of this myself," Ana muttered, focusing on her breath to keep calm.

"It keeps interrupting me while trying to hatch the dino zord egg," Tommy said annoyed. "That really needs to hatch soon if it's ever going to,"

The shaking stopped. The house looked in even worse shape than before.

The two non-psychics in the house turned around to see their sister doubled over in pain. "Ana?" Alex asked, crouching down to her sister's eye level.

"It's back with a vengeance," Ana managed to choke out. Then the pain melted away and she stood up. "We need to run,"

"Ana, you've had two psychic attacks in the same day!" Tommy argued.

"And that's not even counting the mixing earlier today," Alex agreed.

"Guys, the mental block mixes with ranger energy to block out psychic interference during battles. I'm fine," Then she went over to the front door. "Race you there, Alex," she said, then ninja streaked out.

Alex looked to her brother, then ran like the wind after her sister.

(After the battle)

"Ana, you irresponsible, crazy, moronic idiot!" Tommy yelled, his eyes glowing green. "I would usually be giving the riot act to Alex, what's gotten into you?"

"Hey, Dr. Crayola, it's not her fault, she's mixing!" Alex yelled back at Tommy.

Tommy's eyes stopped glowing. "The mental block has deteriorated far enough that she's mixing?"

"I'm really sorry, Tommy," said Ana, looking down. "I don't know what's gotten into me lately. It's been really hard to keep my own way,"

"Look, Ana, Alex, both of you get to sleep, ok?" Tommy said after a moment, "I think I know what's happening. Your ranger energy comes from within you. You guys are both sapped, and that's taking energy away from Alex's spell defense. Since your psych's are so close, she's sapping energy off you to keep the spell going. I guarantee you, after a good night's rest, you'll probably stop mixing, Ana,"

"Good idea, Tommy," said Ana, "Night. Come on, Alex,"

"Night ," Alex muttered.

"Night girls," Tommy sighed.

He walked over to a small picture of him when he was 16, the twins when they were 6, and his parents. How did you guys ever do it? He wondered. Raise a teenage power ranger, I mean.