Chapter Thirty
Months Ago
RJ was startled as he was pulled out of his meditative state.
"We have a situation, Boss," Flit announced as he stumbled to the loft.
"What's the matter, Flit?" RJ asked.
"You might want to head outside," Flit answered, "where the deliveries are usually at."
The Wolf Master could tell that his friend wanted him to see this situation for himself as it appeared to be serious. He followed his friend down the stairs to where the deliveries were usually sent.
He looked over at the door for a moment as he wasn't sure if he really wanted to know what was going on. Then again, it must have been serious to where Flit had to bring him up here. RJ had this feeling for sometime that things were going south with his relationship with Tiffany, but he had hoped this wasn't the case as he felt a knot in his throat.
Suddenly, RJ heard laughter coming from outside. Quickly, he opened the door and to his horror, he saw Tiffany flirting with another guy. The blonde guy was eye to eye with the Wolf Master in surprise. RJ couldn't hear what was being said at first as he felt hurt and betrayed by Tiffany cheating on him. That didn't last too long as he felt a harsh sting of a slap to his face.
"Thanks a lot, douche bag!" Tiffany yelled, "You have to ruin everything for me, don't you?!"
At first, RJ didn't know what to say at first as he felt the sting of the slap.
"Got nothing to say, don't you?" the young lady sneered.
RJ wasn't aware of Lily and Casey overhearing the conversation as he was shaking with silent fury as everything was crashing down.
"How long has this been going on now?!" RJ asked, clearly upset.
"For some time now," Tiffany answered, clearly not sorry for her actions, "I have been getting the excitement that you never given me."
"Well," RJ rolled his eyes, annoyed, "excuse me for not being exciting enough."
It was becoming perfectly clear the guy Tiffany was seeing was rich and she was a gold digger, and abusive. The latter part the Wolf Master already figured as did the rest of his friends, especially when she hit Fran earlier that day.
"I had been frustrated with you being absent for so many weeks," Tiffany continued on, pulling RJ away from his thoughts.
"You know as well as I do that I wasn't the only one who went missing for over a week," RJ replied, knowing what event she was implying, "not the many weeks that you claimed."
"We were worried about his disappearance just as well as you claimed to have," Lily spoke up as she arrived at the scene, "and now, we are seeing you for who you are."
RJ was startled to see the Cheetah Master arriving at the scene.
"Oh," Tiffany glanced down at the blonde, "what's it to you, Blondie?!"
"We all have been paying attention to your actions ever since RJ started dating you," Lily confronted the punk woman, "and all the times you were abusive and controlling, always wanting to know where he was at all given times. Not to mention your attitude towards Theo and you refusing to be served by him. Disgusting."
"Are you just saying that because he's your boyfriend and your defending him?" Tiffany asked.
"Are you kidding me?!" Lily exclaimed, "you know why I'm bringing this up."
"Lily..." RJ tried to stop her.
"You're nothing but an entitled gold digger, abusive, controlling, manipulative bitch!" Lily faced Tiffany, not holding back.
"If I am so bad," Tiffany retorted, "then maybe I shouldn't be near you, especially the Wolf boy."
"Maybe you should," Lily replied harshly.
Tiffany scoffed before storming off and left the pizza parlor.
RJ didn't know what he could say about this. He was upset over the fact that Tiffany had just dumped him, and she was cheating on him. However, he was slightly grateful for Lily's help, even though he didn't know what he could say.
The Wolf Master walked into Jungle Karma Pizza, barely acknowledging Casey's presence in the room, or Lily for that matter.
Present Day
RJ slowly opened his eyes. He looked around to find himself in a dark room of some sort. No, a cell. He must have been taken to the Fortress of Despair. Yep, Kelly must have brought him here, at the hands of the Dark Elite.
The Wolf Master tried to move to try to find a way to escape, but that proved to be a fat load of good as he realized his wrists were tied together, as were his ankles as he was unable to fight if he needed to.
"Look who's finally awake," a voice chimed in.
RJ looked up to see Kelly and Kartras at his cell.
"Surprised to see me months after we broke up?" Kelly smirked.
"That was your doing if I could remember," RJ retorted.
"So, what's your point?" Kelly asked.
"What's your point in being a part of the Dark Elite?" RJ counter asked, "humanity is just as much your friend as the Power Rangers are."
In response, Kelly walked over to the Wolf Master and slapped him across the face, "Shut up! Just, shut your mouth already!"
RJ found this slap to be all too familiar, something he was too used to.
"Feel free to do what you want with the Wolf Master," Kartras told the Blue Dragon Warrior, "I will be awaiting as I plan my next move for the Power Rangers as well as the Ronin Warriors and Lady Ronin Guardians."
"As you wish, Mistress," Kelly smirked, bowing respectfully before the Mistress of Evil before she left Kelly with RJ.
"I never imagined that you'd stoop this low," RJ stated, "Playing the Ninja Storm Rangers, deceiving me and the rest of my team."
"I don't have anything left to lose, Wolf Boy," Kelly replied, "After I lost my Storm Chargers store because of the stupid state, I find out about your himbo oldest brother Dustin, and his friends Tori, Blake and Hunter...Shane as well before his death...that they were the Ninja Storm Power Rangers, and kept that from me. That was why they periodically absent during work. Then, under my alias Tiffany, I find out you guys were the Jungle Fury Power Rangers, but that was after our breakup."
"So you admit Tiffany was your alias," RJ spoke up, trying to keep as calm as possible, "what I'd like to know is why the fake identification? How were you able to convince us with your fake information?"
"With the magicks," Kelly answered, "the dark magic. I started it shortly before I left my parents and Blue Bay Harbor. I was able to master it enough to create Tiffany. I also had it to where the Ninja Storm Rangers wouldn't be able to catch on and find me."
"That was really a terrible move. You have made a series of bad choices there," RJ replied, "as Dustin said, you could have trusted him and the others, and the same with me."
Kelly responded with slapping him hard in the face again, "You're going to learn your place! Kartras is letting me do what I want with you, and boy, we are going to have some fun. Trust me on that."
She grabbed the Wolf Master by the back of his hair and forcibly kissed him on the lips. She broke away moments later, "Get the picture?"
RJ sighed roughly, he could tell she was going to do what she can to break him. Good luck with that, he couldn't help but to think, Just you wait till the rangers and the Ronins and Guardians come and find me.
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Casey woke up with one heck of a headache. He heard yelling from his room and dashed out of his bed to figure out what was going on.
"We gotta do something!" Jillian told her parents as everyone was crowded in the loft.
"I'm with Jillian on this one!" Rekino nodded in agreement, "I'm ready to go into the castle and rescue my friend from that psycho bitch that abused him!"
"I know how you guys must be feeling," Tommy told everyone, "but we can't be rushing into action without a plan."
"What plan?!" Rekino exclaimed, annoyed.
"For starters," Hayley answered calmly, "Billy is working on the device which will let us know if Tiffany Coldiron and Kelly Halloway are the same person."
"How is that going?" Minh asked.
"A good work in progress," Hayley answered, "he's just about got it ready for the results."
"We need to find RJ!" Dustin exclaimed with worry in his tone, "I just got him in life, and God knows what Kelly...or Tiffany...is doing to RJ while we're just sitting here!"
"I know how you feel, Dustin," Master Finn comforted his oldest son as he glanced at Conner and Eric, "and Conner and Eric feel the same way too, but I will have to agree with Tommy on this one."
"I agree with Finn," Master Swoop nodded in agreement, "besides, RJ is strong and he can handle his own."
"So, what now?" Casey couldn't help but to ask.
"We wait," Tommy answered.
"Wait?" Rekino groaned, "You gotta be kidding me."
"I want to go ahead and save RJ too, he's my close friend, best friend," Dominic glanced at the Wildfire Guardian, "but Tommy has a valid point here."
"How many best friends does RJ have exactly?" Rekino scoffed, annoyed.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Kira asked.
"Yeah, he's nice to just about anyone," Casey added, "that's why he has a lot of best friends."
"I actually agree with Casey in that case," Jillian glanced at the Tiger Master, "as much as we butt heads, but we both have something in common which we can't stand to have RJ hurt, and that's as much as I want to go over to the Fortress of Despair to save my boyfriend."
The next thing everyone knew, Rekino was in a big argument with the Jungle Fury team as well as Tommy of all people, and even Sage was siding with the rangers while Kento, Dustin and Conner were siding with Rekino. Ryo, Mia, Rowen, and Amaya were trying to break up the argument before things could boil over.
Finally, Jason had enough of the big argument and stepped forward, raising his voice, almost screaming, "Enough! This is why I am frustrated with the different personalities here, because of stuff like this, these arguments!"
The original red ranger/former gold ranger took some deep breaths before calming down and speaking again, "Rekino, I understand you want to hurry to the Fortress of Despair and save RJ, but Tommy's right, we can't rush into action without thinking of a plan. Going there reckless like that will get you nowhere."
"You're right," Rekino sighed, "sorry."
"Remind me never to make you mad," Hana quipped.
"Amen to that," Ryo nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, Adam heard his phone go off, "If you guys will excuse me."
Tanya nodded, allowing her husband to take the phone call.
"Don't worry guys," Kat assured everyone, "we will get RJ back. You can take that to the bank."
"She's right," Tommy glanced at his ex girlfriend before looking at the group, "RJ will return to us safely, no matter what it takes."
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"Adam?" a familiar voice called from the other end of the phone.
"Andrew Hartford?" Adam was surprised to hear who the voice was, "Um, this is kinda a bad time. What is it?"
"I was thinking about bringing the Operation Overdrive team over to Ocean Bluff," Hartford answered, "I'm sure Mack will be delighted to meet his cousin."
"Cousin?!" Adam exclaimed in shock, "Who are you talking about exactly?"
"RJ, of course, I'm the older brother to his mother."
"I suppose you mean Mack's cousins, right?"
Hartford sighed, knowing what this meant, "So RJ found out about his older brothers? About Dustin, Conner and Eric."
"Yes," Adam nodded, "and he's been kidnapped by his crazy ex girlfriend, who apparently knew Dustin as well and is now working with the enemy."
"Oh my god," Andrew muttered in shock, "so, a former ally has turned enemy?"
"That's what we're about to find out," Adam stated, "we are going to find out if Tiffany and Kelly are one and the same."
"Maybe I should hold off on..."
"No, no," Adam waved his hand, "the more help we can get, the bigger disadvantage the Dark Elite will have. Bring the Operation Overdrive team over here. I'm sure Kira and Tori will be glad to see them as well."
"We will be on our way in a matter of hours," Andrew said.
"Thanks," Adam nodded, "we will be needing all of the help that we can get."
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Mack looked on as the rest of the team saw his father hang up the phone. He looked over at his girlfriend Rose before glancing over at Ronny, Dax, Will and Tyzonn.
"So," Ronny asked, "we will be going over to Ocean Bluff?"
"That's what Dad said," Mack answered, "he said my cousin lives there, and he is also a Power Ranger."
"Make that cousins," Andrew spoke as he faced the Overdrive team.
"Cousins?" Rose glanced up.
"Yeah," Andrew explained, "RJ has three older brothers who are also Power Rangers like he is. Dustin, the Ninja Storm Yellow Ranger, Conner, the Dino Thunder Red Ranger and Conner's twin brother Eric, who is now the Ninja Storm Red Ranger."
"That's a lot to take in," Will stated.
"It must be like a soap opera!" Dax exclaimed.
"Dax," Rose chastised the blue ranger, "now is not the time for jokes!"
"In a way, Dax is kind of right," Andrew replied calmly, "RJ's mother Caroline is my younger sister. Younger by two years. The reason Dustin was put for adoption by the Brooks in Blue Bay Harbor was because she felt she was too young to raise a kid and her husband agreed, preparing for the return of Dai Shi. Then Conner and Eric were put up for adoption by the McKnights in Reefside because they were good friends with Caroline and Harold, Master Finn and the McKnights were unable to have kids of their own. However, they managed to keep RJ because they were in agreement that they were ready to have kids. Then, when RJ was a few months old, Caroline died."
Mack looked on as his father appeared to be saddened, remembering his sister's death, "Dad?"
"I'm sorry," Andrew looked over at his son, "you would have loved your aunt. She was one of the greatest. You'll see a bit of her in each of the brothers, your cousins."
"It'll be good for your family reunion, Mr. Hartford," Ronny smiled.
"It's not just RJ and his brothers we'll be seeing," Andrew straightened himself up, "it's also the rest of the Jungle Fury team, who would be RJ's team, Ninja Storm, the team Dustin and Eric are a part of, the Dino Thunder team, led by Conner and even the original teams of Power Rangers."
"Does that mean we're going to see Adam, Kira and Tori again?!" Ronny exclaimed with excitement.
"Yeap," Andrew nodded.
"As well as the original team, including the legendary Tommy Oliver?!" Dax exclaimed with excitement.
"The original and the Zeo team will all be with them," Hartford nodded.
"That's going to be a heck of a time," Rose quipped.
"Spencer will be looking after things here while we head over to Ocean Bluff, and we need to get going right away." Andrew told the team, "the rangers, Ronin Warriors, and Lady Ronin Guardians will be needing our help as soon as possible."
"Right!" the Operation Overdrive team replied, all in agreement.
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Tori took a deep breath as she looked over at her husband, and then at Dustin, who was pacing around the room in worry, "Dustin seems to be taking this really hard."
"Why wouldn't he?" Blake replied, "Kelly took his brother! I'd be freaking out too if someone took Hunter."
"Not to mention," Eric added, "we're seeing Kelly for who she truly is: a backstabbing snake!"
"That's gotta be really rough, I can't imagine," Josephine stated.
"And she created a dual personality apparently," Aisha added in, crossing her arms, "what she had done from what you all mentioned is sickening."
"I agree with you there," Kimberly nodded, "Jillian is worried about RJ, captured, and in the hands of his psychotic ex girlfriend."
"I can't imagine what she's going through there," Aisha nodded in agreement, "if that had been Rocky, I don't know what I'd do."
"Aye yi yi yi yi!" Alpha exclaimed, getting everyone's attention, "everyone! The results are in! Billy has the results ready for us to see!"
Everyone in the loft gathered around the sofa in front of the screen where Billy and Alpha had the results of the scanner ready for the results to be revealed. One side of the screen revealed a picture of Kelly Halloway and the other side had a picture of Tiffany Coldiron, and the screen in the middle had the image of the image of the Blue Dragon armored warrior. The results read: 100% positive – Kelly Halloway and Tiffany Coldiron – same person.
"Oh my God," Tori muttered in shock.
"I can't believe it," Blake stated in shock.
"I don't believe it," Hunter added.
"No way," Eric glanced at the screen in shock.
"Tiffany and Kelly," Dustin declared in shock, "they are both the same person."
"How was she able to get away with a false identity?" Fran asked.
"Must be the rinzin power she somehow obtained," Camille answered.
"Rinzin? As in the same rinzin power the Phantom Beasts had?" Casey asked, confused.
"Yes," Camille nodded, "I sensed it when we were in battle with her."
"Now, I say we go into that fucking castle and nail that tramp ass bitch who took my best friend!" Rekino exclaimed.
"Enough with the language!" Amaya exclaimed, annoyed.
"You don't like swearing, huh?" Tori asked.
"She's Catholic," Casey answered.
"It's not because I'm Catholic," Amaya spoke up, "I just think one can express themselves without using those vulgar words."
"Rekino's right though," Dustin glanced at the others, "we need to go to that fortress place to save RJ from that so called friend of ours."
"We will," James assured the group, "we need to prepare ourselves for battle. Kartras will probably have rinshi to try and distract us from saving RJ, so some of us will have to deal with them while the rest of us go and save RJ from Kelly."
"Sounds like a plan," Ryo nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, James got a phone call as he heard his phone ring, "But first, I gotta get this."
"You gotta be kidding me," Rekino groaned, "you guys and those phone calls."
Dustin grabbed a small box and threw it against the wall in frustration. Hunter looked over at Blake, "Man, poor Dustin. I can't imagine what I'd do if you had been taken."
"That would go double for me!" Tori exclaimed as she gently touched her husband's shoulders.
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"Hello," James answered his cell phone, "who is this?"
"James? It's me, Shaw Hunter," a familiar voice replied on the other end of the phone.
"Shaw?" James quipped in surprise, "how have you been?"
"We've been doing good," Shaw answered, "we all love the gifts that you sent us for Christmas."
"I'm glad, so, what's going on?"
"Some of us will be coming here to Ocean Bluff real soon," Shaw announced, "I'm interested in knowing what kind of threat you guys are facing."
"It'll be good to see you again when you guys show up," James replied, "there's something going on right now. RJ has been captured by his ex girlfriend, who we learned was playing a dual role of some punk chick named Tiffany. That ex girlfriend is working for the enemy, the Dark Elite."
"Oh my," Shaw muttered in shock.
"Yeah," James nodded, "Kelly and Tiffany are indeed one and the same, and in particular, the Jungle Fury team and the Ninja Storm team are taking this the hardest because they thought they knew this Kelly person."
"I hope you get that taken care of. In the meantime, it'll be within the next day or two when we get here," Shaw stated, "so we cannot wait to see you then."
"We'll see you then."
James sighed with a small smile.
Author's Note/Disclaimer: The Wandererverse character Shaw Hunter belongs to the late Tim Knight, and you will be seeing her along with three other Section 7 characters in the near future, albeit, this is not a multi crossover, these cameos is just an Easter egg, shout out to Ronins On the Hellmouth, the story in which this story is set a few years after. Hope you guys look forward to it!