The next morning everyone meets at ninja ops for morning training. Today's exercise is a ten mile jog through the woods outside the base. Everyone is jogging through the woods. Sasha couldn't stop thinking about who she has feelings for Cam or Dustin. She is so distracted by her thoughts. She didn't see the huge tree root a few feet in front of her.
The others flip over it. They stick their landing. They turn around to wait for Sasha. They watch her face plant into the path as she trips over root. Sophia tries not to laugh. Cam walks over to her. Sasha lifts her head up and sees him standing in front of her.
"Are you okay?" Cam asks.
"Yes," Sasha says. She pushes herself up off the path. "I'm fine,"
Cam looks down at her left ankle. He sees it starting to swell. Sasha walks back to the others. She takes a few steps before she starts to lose her balance. Cam catches her by placing one of her arms around his shoulder. He helps her over to one of the trees closest to them, and sits her down. The others run over to her.
"Nice face plant sis," Sophia says.
"Thanks for your concern Soph. My ankle is fine too, thanks for asking." Sasha says.
"Sorry sis and I know this isn't relevant to what's going on. Sasha, why did you come here anyway because I thought you were going to college in Pasadena." Sophia says.
"Wow, Soph, that came out of left field, but the truth is I dropped out of college." Sasha says.
"Why did you do drop out?" Sophia asks.
"I realized that college wasn't for me. I want to go to cooking school, because I really love it and I'm really good at it too. I was too afraid to go back home to face mom and dad, so I decided to come here." Sasha says.
"Sis, mom and dad will be shocked, but at least you have a plan." Sophia says.
"You know something sis, you're really smart." Sasha says.
"I know," Sophia says.
A few hours later everyone is at Storm Charges. Sophia hands her cell phone to her sister. Sasha nervously dials her parent's number. She brings it up to her ear. It rings three times before she hears her mom's voice.
"Hi Sasha, how've you been?" Mrs. Robin says.
"Okay I guess. Mom I have something to tell you but I don't know how you're going to take it. I dropped out of college because I want to go to cooking school. You're not mad are you?" Sasha says.
"No, sweetie, I'm not. You're father and I figured that you would drop out of college to go to cooking school. I did the same thing when I was your age." Mrs. Robin says.
"Thanks for understanding mom," Sasha says.
"You're welcome, sweetie, can I talk to sister now?" Mrs. Robin asks.
"Sure," Sasha says.
The gold ranger hands the phone back to her little sister. Sophia puts the phone on her ear. She talks to her mom for a few minutes before the battery dies. She takes the charger out of her purse, connects it to the phone and plugs it in the socket on the wall. She walks over to Hunter.
"Sophia, I was reading Action Sports Magazine yesterday." Sasha says.
"Since when do you read that magazine," Sophia says.
"Because it's the only reading material you keep in your apartment." Sasha says.
"Sasha, you've heard of something called the library, right?" Sophia says.
"Yes I have sis. Anyway, The winning video will be played on national TV, during the action games." Sasha says.
"Sweet, I'm so going to get first place," Dustin says.
"No I am," Shane says.
"Boys, I hate to say this, but none of neither of you're going to win." Sasha says.
"How come sis," Sasha says.
"Don't you think that you might need a video camera to make a video?" Sophia asks.
"I have one," Dustin says.
"You had one Dustin. If I remember correctly, you taped it to your helmet , and it got destroyed when you ran into that tree." Tori says.
"You guys could ask Cam, to see if he would let you borrow his camera." Sophia says.
Dustin zips towards the door. Shane and Blake chase him out of the store. Sasha picks up her crutches and gets out of her seat. She turns to her left to see a woman and her son walk into the store. They walk over to them.
"Thanks again for doing this Hunter," The woman says.
"You're welcome," Hunter says.
"Have fun Charlie," The woman says.
The boy walks over Hunter. The woman leaves the store. Charlie glances over at Sophia.
"Who is she," Charlie asks.
"Her name is Sophia, she's my girlfriend and she'll be joining us." Hunter says.
Meanwhile at ninja ops, Blake, Shane and Dustin continue to fight over the magazine as they enter the room. Tori and Sasha enter behind them. Cam is sitting at the mainframe. The sounds of his fellow rangers entering the room cause him to look up. He turns around in the chair.
"Cam, I did to borrow your camera if that's okay?" Blake asks.
"Blake, dude, I already called it in the car." Dustin argues.
"I told you boys, that you shouldn't have called dibs until Cam said yes" Sasha says.
Cam holds up his hand to silence them. "Hold it; no one is touching my camera till I get an explanation."
"Action Sports Magazine is holding an action video contest." Shane says.
"Okay, I'll do it, but I have two conditions." Cam says
"Aw man," Dustin says.
"First condition, I'm the only person who can use my camera. Dustin I saw your helmet cam footage." Cam says.
"okay, fine, what's the other condition?" Shane asks.
"Second, everyone gets the same amount of time to shoot their video, I can't stand all this arguing. it's giving me a headache," Cam says.
"That sounds fair to me," Sasha says.
The group nods. Back in the city, Hunter and Sophia leave Storm Chargers with Charlie in toe. They decide to take a walk around the neighborhood where the boy lives. They get board ten minutes later and head to Charlie's house.
"Have you seen a Motocross race before?" Sophia asks.
"Yeah, I thought it was a fun as watching paint dry," Charlie answers.
"Do you like any sport that you need a ball, a stick stick of any kind, or you need running or throwing?" Sophia asks.
"No,"
Sophia is upset that she couldn't connect with Charlie. She was great with kids because she has three cousins that were Charlie's age and they loved her. Hunter tries one more time to get Charlie to open up to him.
"Look, I know why my mom signed me up for this. I'm doing just fine without a dad." Charlie says.
He turns around and runs towards his house. He tells his mom that he is home as he opens the door. The rangers walk away disappointed about how things went with Charlie.
A few minutes later their morphers go off, so they go to a safe place to answer them. Hunter raises his morpher to his lips.
"What's wrong?" He asks.
"City.. hall..." Sasha says.
"I think something is up with her morpher." Sophia says.
They ninja steak down town to meet up with the others in their ninja gear, the group spots the problem two kelzacks in the middle of city square. They are surprised to see them because they stumble backwards to get away from the team.
"you guys can relax, I can take this guy out with out even breaking a sweat," Shane says.
"Go ahead Shane, be my guest," Sophia says.
Shane goes down the steps, and reaches the bottom to see a bright flash of light. Two dozen more kelzacks appear. The yellow ranger stumbles backwards. Everyone else takes a defensive stance. They watch the kelzacks multiply faster than rabbits during mating season.
"Does anyone else think we should- i don't know," Sophia says.
"Morph," Hunter says.
The rangers morph and take out their weapons. They charge into the kelzack army. Dustin kicks upwards towards the kelzack sending it flying. The group quickly finds there were too many of them for them to fend off.
"Hey Soph, why don't we bust out our battlizers?" Hunter asks.
"It's worth a shot," Sophia answers.
Hunter and Sophia raise their morphers to the sky.
"Crimson Thunder ninja, full power," Hunter shouts.
"Silver Lightning ninja, full power," Sophia shouts.
Their morphers changed into their battlizers, they active them and stand in front of the group in their battlizer suits. Sophia's suit shoulder armor is shaped like lightning bolts, the upper thigh and lower leg armor shaped itself to fit comfortably around her body, and the wrist armor has retractable claws in them and active when she makes a claw with the corresponding hand. Her new weapon is a sword. It has a white colored blade with cheetah spots engraved into it and the guess is formed like a cheetah head. Hunter's suit shoulder armor is shaped like the horns of his zord, the thigh and lower leg armor is the same as Sophia's, and his wrist armor has a simple look to them but can shoot thunderbolts. His new weapon is a sword too. It has a keen blade that is the same color as his ranger suit and the guard is spiral shaped.
"Wow, you too look amazing," Shane says.
"Thanks," Sophia says.
Sophia and Hunter get to work. They use their new swords to slice down and destroy several of the kelzacks. The rest of them disappear before the two really get to test what their battlizers could do. The rangers demorph and stand in shock.
"Why did they just disappear like that?" Sophia asks.
"Yeah that was kind of weird," Hunter says.
"As long as their gone, I wouldn't ask any questions." Dustin says.
A few hours later everyone is at ninja ops, the group is watching the videos can took of them for the contest. Their disappointed with the footage because all their best moves were in the first five minutes of the video, they set down the tapes on the table.
"Man, we're going to lose big time." Blake says.
"Yeah, my video stinks too," Shane says.
"I guess you guys forgot a term called-editing?" Cam says.
"Oh," The rangers state together.
The alarm sounds and they gather around the computer. They see Lothor's new monster, radio-bot, standing on a cliff. The group heads out to fight it. The team arrives morphed. Cam and the others rangers deal with the kelzacks that radio-bot called for, while Hunter and Sophia battle the monster. It attacks them with a blast for its guitar. They dodge it be rolling to the side.
"I usually love a good electric guitar solo, but this is crazy." Sophia says.
"Yeah I know, let's get him." Hunter says.
They charge in firing their blasters at it. The blasts didn't even scratch it. They decide to give their battlizers another go. They activate their battlizer again. Radio-bot is unimpressed when it sees them in the battlizers.
"Your fancy new suits are going to help you now." Radio-bot says.
"I wouldn't count your chickens before they hatch radio-bot." Sophia says.
Hunter launches missiles from his shoulder pad. They hit the monster and it falls over. Sophia charges in after the monster gets to its feet. She uses the retractable claws in her wrist guards to slash the alien. She backs away quickly.
"Why don't we finish this it off before it has a chance to regroup?" Hunter asks.
"Good call." Sophia says.
They focus their ninja powers as their powers grow. Their swords begin to glow. They raise them towards the sky and shout "Thunder and Lighting power unite, battleizer full power, final strike,"
They slice the air and the two attacks combine as one. The a crimson lightning bolt heads towards radio-bot. it looks up in time to be hit by it. The alien falls over and explodes. The others rangers run up to them.
"Thanks for saving some of the action for us guys," Dustin says.
"Sorry Dustin, but we had no choice; beside you guys were bust with all those kelzacks anyway." Sophia says.
"Dude, she has a point. The kelzacks just kept coming." Shane says.
The scroll of empowerment descends and Radio-bot become a giant. Sophia and Hunter demorph back to the ranger form. The rangers call for their zords. They beat it because Cam sent the thunder rangers a new power disk that unlocked power sphere 11, the sting blaster. An hour later the rangers met back up at storm charges. They're gathered around the TV except for Hunter and Sophia who were in the back room with Charlie. He is sits on a crate while he watched Hunter Fix his bike. Sophia hands him a wrench.
"Hey Sophia, is your dad still around?" "Charlie says.
"Yeah he is, but I do know what it's like to lose someone you care about. I lost my uncle Nick a few years ago. We were really close he was like a second dad to me." Sophia says.
"Do you ever miss your uncle?" Charlie asks.
"Yeah all the time," Sophia says.
"I miss my dad too," Charlie says.
"'It's okay to miss your dad. there is one thing you can do to make you feel better when your feeling sad though." Sophia says.
"What's that," Charlie says.
"You can come to me and tell me some happy memory you have of your dad." Hunter says.
"Trust me, you'll feel a lot better if you do because it's not good to keep things bottled up." Sophia says.
"Thanks,I'll try to remember that." Charlie says.
They leave the back room and meet up with the others. The video starts with some awesome fast paced music. They see various clips flash on the screen. One is of Shane doing a 360 nose grab into an Ollie before smiling at the camera, the next clip is of Tori catching a huge wave and showing her mad suffering skills. The last clips are of Blake, Hunter, Dustin and Sophia race on the bike at the track. The video fades to black. Sophia was shocked to see herself in the video.
"And once again that was the winning video of the kids From Blue Bay Harbor." The announcer says.
The group cheers. Sasha looks over at her sister and sees a surprised looks on her face.
"What wrong sis," Sasha asks.
"I don't' understand how I got in the video when I was with Hunter while the others were filming." Sophia says.
"I can fill you in Sophia, while I was editing the video your sister found and old tape of you from your last race. She asked me if I could add it in somehow." Cam says.
"Sasha, you really did that." Sophia says.
"Yeah, it didn't seem fair that everyone else got a chance to be in the video and you didn't." Sasha says.
"Thanks sis, and you too Cam that video was amazing. " Sophia says.
"You're Welcome Sophia," Cam and Sasha say.
"Yeah, but the Motocross was the best part, am I right?" Blake says.
"Totally," Sophia says.
"Hello, did you guys not see my awesome skating?" Shane asks.
"Anyway Sasha, I hate to shift gears on this conversation- again. You won't be able to stay at my apartment while you heal. The elevator is broken and climbing even one flight of stairs is tough with crutches." Sophia says.
"That's true, so what am I supposed to do?" Sasha asks.
"You could stay with me at ninja ops." Cam offers.
"That sounds like a good idea to me. " Sophia says.
"I guess it would be okay, since no one else offered to let me stay with them." Sasha says.
Everyone leaves the store and heads home. Hunter walks Sophia back to her apartment.
"Sophia, what are you up to?" Hunter asks.
"Nothing, I was just looking out for my sister that's all." Sophia answers.
