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Thunderstruck

Chapter 11: Abduction

The Thunder Ninja Academy

Student Dorms

"You better have it," Zara snapped at her friends, as she returned to the dorms later.

"Relax Zara, while you were busy throwing yourself at Sensei Bradley, we got the scroll," Nate jabbed. Zara smirked.

"Jealous?" she hissed. He glared at her.

"Of Hunter Bradley? Not a chance," Nate lied.

"Yes you are. You're a crimson thunder ninja and he got the crimson thunder morpher. Every crimson thunder ninja is jealous of that. As for me, you know I'm drawn to power. And he's gorgeous to boot," Zara replied, as she took the scroll.

"Yeah and he's in bed with a water ninja," Ashlee mentioned.

"Don't remind me, she has a lot of nerve showing up here all the time. But luckily with this, we won't have to stomach that much longer," Zara replied.

"What exactly is this scroll supposed to tell us?" Derek asked.

"How to regain control, of course. Those who control the elements will control everything and right now, those who were privileged enough to be rangers are in control," Zara snapped.

"And they're destroying centuries of tradition by merging the Academies," Ashlee agreed.

"Can you translate the scroll?" Nate asked.

"Of course I can, you fool," Zara spat, as she began to read the scroll of destruction.

The Apartment of Hunter Bradley and Tori Hanson

The lights were low and the television played a movie in the background. But neither of the room's occupants noticed, for they were far too absorbed by each other. Their limbs were tangled and their lips dueled in a passionate rhythm.

Tori rested comfortably atop his tall frame, her hands combing through his shaggy blonde hair. Hunter's strong hands sensually moved up and down her back, while his lips alternated between kissing her lips and nipping his way down her slender neck. They had only officially been together a few months, but after their harrowing experience in Goldar's dark dimension and their feelings had come to the surface, they decided they would waste no more time. Since then, they had become nearly inseparable and the others sometimes joked how they were the most unlikely pair.

She was so light and he could be so dark. She was social and he was the epitome of antisocial when he wanted to be. She didn't bottle her emotions and wasn't afraid to talk about how she felt. And he was the master brooder. But as they were so good at reminding their friends, opposites attract, after all. After their near death situation had resolved without tragedy, they had talked for hours that night and the love that had been so swiftly declared had cemented a bond between them that would never fizzle.

That's why when Tori was tired of rattling around in her parent's big house alone and Hunter's lease was up, they moved into an apartment together. Their teaching salaries were nothing to write home about, but those combined with Tori's side work designing surfboards and his as a mechanic at Storm Chargers allowed them to live comfortably. They were enjoying everything about being together, especially the physical side, which they were both taking great pleasure in exploring.

As Hunter kissed her neck intently, sucking on a tender spot just below her ear, Tori busied her hands by sliding them under his shirt, letting her hands explore his muscled torso. She was lost in a haze of pleasure and felt a spike of excitement, as he stood up and swept her into his arms. She wrapped her legs around his waist, as he stumbled into their bedroom, shutting the door behind him. Neither of them noticed Hunter's phone buzzing and vibrating with a call…

"Come on Hunter…pick up…" Jason pleaded, as Billy drove. They had arrived in Angel Grove via teleportation that evening and picked up the crew for this mission. Kat and Tanya opted to stay behind with their children, as well as Rocky and Aisha's son, since Aisha insisted on coming, as did Trini, stating that they needed her since she was a doctor and could handle a gun. Kim was leaving their daughter with Hayley and she, Tommy, Conner, and Kira were meeting them in Blue Bay Harbor.

In addition to Rocky and Adam, Skull was also coming and Jason couldn't turn down help from yet another experienced gun handler.

"Tori isn't answering either," Trini reported, as she hung up her cell phone.

"It is getting late…maybe they're asleep," Aisha suggested.

"Or otherwise engaged," Rocky mentioned, receiving an elbow in the gut from his wife.

"Ah, young, ranger induced, raging hormones," Billy joked fondly, making the others chuckle, except Skull.

"All right, I get it, ranger joke, right?" Skull asked.

"Sort of…see the power supercharged pretty much everything, our reflexes, our speed, and our agility in battle," Adam explained.

"It also supercharged everything else too, like our hormones," Rocky chuckled. Skull shook his head.

"And here I thought in high school, you guys were just a bunch of goody-two shoes," Skull joked.

"We were, we didn't really act on those hormones, you know beyond making out and cuddling maybe, but I remember there being a lot of cold showers," Jason recalled, making Trini giggle.

"But…none of you are rangers anymore," Skull said.

"The morphing grid left its mark on anyone it touched. Residual power is bonded to any power holder's DNA and let's just say, certain things and experiences for us are still…enhanced," Billy said.

"Who knew you had such a gutter mind," Aisha teased the genius, as they all laughed.

"It's good that we can laugh now…because from these files we've been looking at, these guys are hard core," Skull said, as he closed one of the case files.

"Yeah, but he picked the wrong girl to mess with. They're about to get a bunch of former rangers up in their business," Aisha replied sassily.

"I just wonder how she's going to take it when she finds out her parents have been keeping a lot of secrets from her all these years," Billy said.

"I'm sure their hearts are in the right place. They only wanted to protect her and I'm sure they never thought their cover would be blown," Trini reasoned.

"Not to mention the fact that I doubt they know about the Academy or at least everything it entails," Jason added.

"Let's just hope we get there before those goons find her," Rocky said.

The Hanson Beach House

Blue Bay Harbor, CA

"Well?" Palo demanded impatiently, as his men searched the empty beach house.

"She's not here," one spoke in a heavy accent.

"We searched her room and many of her things are gone," another reported. Palo drummed his fingers on the table and then walked over to the mantel in the living room, searching the pictures for clues. There were a few family portraits from various years, a graduation picture, and then another that looked very recent compared with the photo he had of this girl. He picked it up and smashed the frame on the floor, before picking the photo up. It was of her and a group of young people, her friends he assumed, though he noticed that the tall, blonde man in the photo had his arms around her waist.

"Perhaps she lives with him now. Memorize this face too," he said, as he passed the picture of the young people around.

"What now?" another man asked, waiting for direction.

"We spread out. This piss ant town isn't that big. When you spot one of them, you call the rest. No one double crosses me and the ones that did must pay. This little girl will pay the price of her parent's arrogance," Palo spat.

Zara angrily tossed the scroll away and swept her hair up into a ponytail. She had been up all night translating the scroll and studying every passage. Now she knew what had to be done and it would not be so simple.

"What the hell?" Derek asked. She was known for having a short temper, but her tirades would get them nowhere.

"What did it say?" Ashlee pressed. Zara sighed, thinking about exactly how to put the translation into words.

"The Abyss of Evil it seems was only the precursor to what would have been so much more. The section that my…Lothor opened was only a small portion of what he could have realized," Zara explained.

"Um…I don't get it," Ashlee replied.

"That's because you're an idiot," Rachel sneered, as the two girls glared at each other.

"Stop it," Zara snapped.

"Think of the Abyss of evil as being one room in a network of other "rooms" or levels rather in the underworld as a whole. Lothor, if he hadn't been defeated when he had, would have unleashed the entire depths of the underworld upon the earth and commanded them all if he had executed the scroll's instructions properly," Zara explained.

"Does this scroll contain those instructions?" Nate asked. Zara nodded.

"Yes…but it's not that simple. In order for the underworld to be unleashed in its entirety, the ceremony must be performed during a lunar eclipse," Zara explained.

"Those aren't frequent, but they do happen more often than some astrological events," Derek stated.

"That's not it. In addition to a lunar eclipse, the planet Mars, appropriately named after the Roman God of War, must be in a rare close proximity to the Earth. Fortunately, thanks to the Internet, I found out that these conditions will happen in September 2007," Zara informed them.

"Okay…so that's still a year from now so that gives us plenty of time to prepare. It's perfect, in fact. What has you so worked up?" Nate asked.

"Because the scroll revealed something else that could ruin everything," Zara spat.

"What is it?" Ashlee asked.

"If the underworld is unleashed during this time, the scroll says that not even the army of the warriors of light can stop the destruction…unless they are protected by the union of a pair that could unleash an amethyst storm," Zara explained. Rachel sighed.

"Why do scrolls always speak in riddles?" she questioned.

"Amethyst Storm? Our Ninja powers can create storms, especially if the users are powerful enough…like ranger level power over the elements. But there's no Amethyst designation," Nate said.

"You're not getting it!" Zara snapped.

"It's a combined power. If you combine blue with crimson, you get amethyst. There is a deeper reason behind just a simple rivalry between the Academies that we have been isolated for centuries," Zara said.

"If a thunder ninja of the crimson designation was to ever have a child with a wind ninja of the water designation, that child could grow to be extremely powerful. The elders who wrote the scrolls decided that if the schools were separated, then the likelihood of such a child ever coming into being would be minimized. They originally thought it would be much too dangerous for such a child to exist, especially if the child were to be corrupted," Zara explained.

"But now that the schools will join, that could change," Derek concluded.

"It already has. Sensei Bradley is already with a water ninja. If the gossip going around the school is right, then they are in a serious relationship and that could be a huge problem," Rachel mentioned.

"But they don't have any idea what their combined powers could do, so that's in our favor…right?" Ashlee asked.

"For now, but I have no doubt that Sensei Watanabe and Sensei Omino know what this scroll says. They will tell them if it becomes necessary," Zara replied.

"So what do we do?" Nate asked.

"We go on as planned and prepare for the ceremony. Everything has to be absolutely perfect or it won't work. And we're stepping up our training in the dark arts," Zara replied.

"And what if Bradley and his little mermaid get in the way?" Derek questioned.

"Then we'll eliminate them if we have to," Zara responded darkly.

Hunter's feet pounded the pavement, as he rounded the boardwalk and continued on toward the beach. This was a typical morning, as he and Tori were up at sunrise. While he went for a run, she went to catch the early morning waves. It had become routine for them to meet at the beach and then return to their apartment to clean up, eat breakfast, and then get to the Academies for their classes.

Hunter stopped finally and breathed air into his lungs. He pulled out his phone, as he felt it vibrate and found that he had eight messages. He hadn't bothered to check it this morning and wondered who was so desperate to get ahold of him.

"Hey handsome," Tori greeted, as she was suddenly beside him with her surfboard under her arm.

"Oh, hey babe," he replied, as she pecked him on the lips.

"You're a little preoccupied," she mentioned.

"Sorry, it's just that someone must really want to talk to me. I have eight messages," he said. She smirked.

"Well…we were a little busy last night," she purred. He smiled.

"We were," he agreed, as their lips met again. They joined hands and started back toward the boardwalk. Once they reached it, they found several men blocking their way.

"For this being such a small town, you're not an easy one to find, Ms. Hanson," the man in the center said. He was dressed in an expensive suit and spoke with an accent.

"I'm sorry, but who are you?" she asked defensively, as they slowly noticed the thugs surrounding him. And neither missed how heavily armed they were.

"Friends of your parents," he said, as his men surrounded them.

"You see, they committed a serious grievance against me and now they must pay for it," he continued.

"I don't know who you are, but you need to back off now," Hunter growled.

"Easy there, we're just here to talk to this lovely young woman. I know her parents and now I would just love to get to know her too," he leered in response.

"I don't know what you're talking about. My parents don't know you. They're on a business trip," Tori insisted. The leader and his men laughed.

"Poor thing has no idea, boss," one sneered.

"Yeah, mommy and daddy lied to you, Bonita," another sneered with a heavy accent. He suddenly cried out in pain, as Hunter spun and kicked him in the face when he got too close. They both launched at two others, spin kicking them onto their backs. But the cocking of several handguns made them freeze where they were.

"Unless you'd like to find out if you're bulletproof, then I suggest you don't move again," the leader snapped. One of the thugs lunged and grabbed Tori, putting a gun to her Temple, causing Hunter to stop his advance.

"Don't move, pretty boy or poor little Blondie here will be a mess on the boardwalk…and that would be such a waste," he leered, as he sniffed her hair. Hunter gazed into her frightened eyes and slowly put his hands up. Two of the armed thugs advanced and one slammed the butt of his gun into the back of Hunter's neck, causing him to collapse to the ground. Tori screamed, as they started beating him, but the man holding her covered her mouth. She was hit as well and everything went black, as she fell limp in her captor's arms. Once Hunter was unconscious as well, they threw the pair into the back of their van nearby.

"Tie their hands and get us out of here," the leader ordered, as they piled into the van and sped off. Left behind on the boardwalk were Tori's bag with her phone, her surfboard, and Hunter's ringing cell phone.

"And neither of them are answering their phones or communicators?" Sensei Omino asked over the video feed.

"No…it's not like them to not show up for their classes," Cam replied.

"I fear something is very wrong," Kanoi said gravely.

"Dustin and I are going to check their apartment and then go around town. Maybe someone saw something," Shane said.

"Dude…how could they just disappear? They're both wicked fighters," Dustin replied.

"Many things could have occurred. If there was foul play, then it is likely they were taken by surprise," Kanoi reasoned, as Cam's phone rang.

"Hello?" he answered.

"Cam, it's Billy. Have you heard from Hunter or Tori?" the genius asked.

"No…we were just discussing that. It appears that they're missing," Cam responded.

"Damn…I was afraid we might be too late," Billy said.

"Too late for what? Cam asked.

"I'll explain in person. Can you and the others meet us somewhere?" Billy asked.

"You're here in Blue Bay Harbor?" Cam asked, now starting to get very worried.

"Yeah, what's that sports shop called that some of you worked at?" Billy asked.

"Storm Chargers. We'll meet you there in ten minutes," Cam replied, as he hung up the phone.

"What's going on?" Dustin asked.

"I'm not sure yet, but we need to go. We'll call you when we know more, dad," Cam called, as he, Shane, Dustin, Marah, and Skyla headed up the stairs to exit through the secret entrance. The aging Sensei sighed, as he sat down at his desk, swirling some tea and trying to use his inner ninja to calm his emotions. Cam was his son biologically, but the others might as well have been his children as well.

Kanoi sipped carefully at his hot tea and sighed, as he labored over his scrolls.

For months, he had taken to studying the most prophetic scrolls, because he sensed that something ominous was on the horizon. He and Sensei Omino knew what a union between a crimson thunder ninja and a water ninja could mean. They also knew that if danger were to threaten them again, they would have to tell them of the prophecy. He had been reluctant to burden their young love with duty and responsibility. He had hoped after Lothor's defeat the second time and Goldar's destruction, that his rangers could live peaceful lives. But he knew the power would call them back and for their protection, they would have to know they were destined to stand against evil for many years to come…