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Thunderstruck

Chapter 19: The Storm Prisms, Pt 2

Hunter pushed the Crimson Rider to dangerous speeds, as he traversed the roads and wove in and out of San Angeles traffic. He saw a traffic jam ahead and cursed silently to himself. He didn't have time for this and even more so, he heard cop sirens behind him. He sighed and knew it was risky, but his ninja uniform and full helmet and visor was hiding his identity, so he pressed the red button on his center column and gave the onlookers in traffic a real show, as he engaged flight mode and took to the skies, leaving civilians and cops alike watching in awe. He engaged the thrusters and pushed it to maximum speed.

"Kill the rest!" Lothor ordered, as the ninjas descended.

"Ranger up!" Adam ordered, as he grabbed his morpher from his belt.

"Mastodon!" he shouted, as he morphed in mid somersault, before his feet landed soundly on the ground.

"Magical Source, Mystic Force!" Xander summoned, as his green armor molded around him.

"S.P.D...Emergency!" Bridge called, as he became S.P.D. red and engaged more ninjas.

"Dino Thunder, Power up!" Kira called, as she morphed and attacked. Tori glared at Lothor and his family, before raising her arm to the sky.

"Ninja Storm, Ranger Form, Ha!" she summoned, as her blue armor appeared again.

With a wave of his hand, a hoard of Kelzack furies appeared and quickly began to overtake them.

"This is bad," Adam mentioned, as he and Bridge fought the dark ninjas and swarm of Kelzacks.

"Yep...I wonder what would happen if I die in the past? Does baby me disappear?" Bridge wondered.

"Let's not find out, mate," Xander stressed, as he was flipped onto his back.

"They're going to overtake us!" Kira cried. As she said that though, Crimson laser fire decimated a large chunk of the horde of minions. Tori's visor opened and she smiled up, as Hunter took another pass, burning through more foot soldiers. Lothor growled and clutched the dark prism, before releasing a blast at the airborne Thunder ranger. Hunter took evasive maneuvers and he killed the thrusters, before landing in bike form. He removed his helmet and flipped off his bike, as he began fighting his way through.

Tori started toward him, but Zara grabbed her arm and threw her back. She landed hard on her back and willed her visor closed. She scissor kicked Zara away. The evil daughter of Lothor wiped her mouth and saw blood on her hand from her split lip.

"You're going to pay for that, bitch," she hissed, as her eyes went black with dark ninja magic and purple energy swirled in her palm. Tori's water beam met the beam of dark energy, but she felt the evil energy slowly eating its way toward her. Zara laughed evilly.

"I can't wait to see the look on Sensei Hunter's face when I drop your lifeless corpse at his feet!" she sneered, as she intensified her blast. But a blast of crimson thunder at her feet threw her back violently into a tree. She looked up and saw the crimson object sizzling from the lanyard hanging around his neck.

"You'll have to hit me harder than that," she growled, as she willed her own thunder powers into her palms.

"That was a light tap…on purpose. I won't go easy next time," he promised, as he helped her up. Tori's legs buckled though and her morph failed again, as he held her up and put one of her arms around his shoulder.

"I'm getting you out of here…" he said.

"No…I'm fine. I just need a minute to get my bearings," she promised. He smirked and tugged on the lanyard around her neck.

"Or maybe you need a boost," he said, as she noticed his glowing morpher.

"Your morpher…did the Sentinel Knight restore it?" she asked. He shook his head.

"No…the prism did. It's a storm prism…and so is yours," he replied. She smirked.

"Guess you don't regret reading all those dusty scrolls after all?" she teased and he rolled his eyes.

"I wouldn't go that far, but I really wish they would just tell us that all Ninja folklore is just history and really happened," he complained.

"Direct and straight to the point, as always," she joked, as Lothor and his cohorts honed in on them.

"So glad to see you, Crimson ranger…I always regretted that I never crushed you the way I crushed your parents," he said, enjoying twisting that particular knife in him, as always. Hunter's jaw set in determination.

"At least today…I can rectify that," he added.

"We'll see," he said, as Tori took her prism and touched it to her power disc to give it a much needed upgrade.

"You may have activated your prisms…but it won't matter against the dark prism," he said, as he brandished his.

"Or the air and earth prisms," he added.

"Guess we'll see…and the red and yellow prisms don't belong to them," Tori said, as she felt the new energy restore her a bit.

"Then come and pry them from our hands, little dolphin," Zara goaded.

"Ready?" she asked. He nodded, as their morphers glowed with new power and they made their signature hand moves.

"Ninja Storm""

"Thunder Storm!"

"Ranger Form!" they called simultaneously. Their ranger armor appeared and though it looked the same as it always had, the flashes of power were a subtle indication that there were upgrades yet to be seen.

As Hunter dispatched the Kelzack furies, he called on his familiar thunder staff. He charged, powering his way through his adversaries with his sights set on the dark ninjas in the near distance. Fighting monsters and Kelzacks were one thing, but these were human beings, like him. They had chosen an evil path that likely had no recourse, but it would not make fighting them any easier.

"The little power ups you just gave yourselves will be useless against me this time," Lothor hissed, as the dark prism bled an inky blackness from its place around his neck. Tamara and Zara handled the stolen red and yellow prisms and used them to fire air and earth beams at them. It blew them back, but they both flipped to evade the attacks and landed several feet away.

"Let's see what these new powers can do," Tori suggested. He nodded and new weapons materialized in their hands. In his hand was his new hammer, crackling with crimson thunder. In hers was her new hurricane trident. Armed with new weapons, they charged into battle.

Kat opened the door in their new Angel Grove home and let her husband's team inside, including Tori's parents.

"You got here fast," she said. Jason smirked and pointed to his communicator.

"Ranger Express is a lot quicker than braving rush hour traffic," he said. She sighed.

"Yeah…who knew Angel Grove could have traffic," she said. Their hometown had certainly grown exponentially since their High School days.

"No lie there," Rocky agreed, as he and Skull followed the others down into Billy's ranger layer, which he had kept secret from everyone, even Kat. But it wasn't what they expected when they got down there, as it looked like an ordinary playroom for their daughters.

"This is what Billy's been working on in secret since our fight with Goldar?" Jason asked. She smirked.

"Oh no…this is Carly and Michaela's playroom," she replied, as she led them over to a wall and pressed a button. A panel slid back, revealing a scanner, which Kat put her hand to. It blinked green and the rest of the wall panel slid back, revealing an elevator.

"Dude…Billy never disappoints," Rocky commented, as they got into the elevator and it took them down into a place that was very reminiscent from their ranger days, only more spacious and with the latest equipment.

"Billy?" Kat called, as her husband stood at one of the panels.

"Good…you're here," he said.

"What…is all this?" Jack asked. He smiled.

"Welcome to the Command Center, but a tour will have to wait. We've got big problems," Billy said, as they all looked at the large viewing screen of the battle that was ensuing.

"I didn't think Hunter had his powers restored?" Jason asked.

"He didn't. Turns out that the prism you found in the ocean was a storm prism," Billy explained.

"Storm prism?" Alana asked.

"In Ninja folklore, the storm prisms were a powerful force against evil. The problem is there is also a dark prism and Lothor found it. Not to mention that the red and yellow ones are in the wrong hands right now," Billy continued.

"It also turns out that Flurious and his cohorts tracked down an artifact called the Thunderstone of Zeus, thinking there was a jewel of the Corona Aurora inside, but instead it was the crimson thunder prism," he explained.

"So upgraded powers…they shouldn't have any problem dispatching these goons and Alpha should have the Overdrive powers fixed soon, right?" Jason asked.

"Alpha should…but as for the rest of that, not so fast," Billy said, as his fingers moved over the controls and changed their view to a place they didn't recognize.

"What are we looking at?" Skull asked.

"This is the location of the Abyss of Evil," Billy replied, as he zoomed out and they saw a large and very visible planet.

"Whoa…is that a planet?" Jason asked. Billy nodded.

"Mars to be exact and in these conditions, Sensei Watanabe said Lothor can open the Abyss and allow every evil from the past walk free again. He said there is only one way to close it in these conditions and he didn't elaborate, but said we need to be ready to fight as backup," Billy replied.

"But we have no powers anymore. Can the Sentinel Knight restore that much power?" Rocky asked.

"Not without obliterating himself…but he won't need to," Billy replied, as he pressed a very large button and the ceiling above them lit up, like a glowing, intricate web.

"What…what is this?" Skull asked.

"The grid…how?" Jason asked, instinctively feeling his dormant connection to the power tingling.

"The grid? I thought only a Morphin Master could tap it directly without a power source?" Rocky asked.

"Only a Morphin Master can…and I can't tell you too much, but one came to me and gave me the means to tap it directly. I can't say more…because they weren't supposed to, but without powers, we don't stand a chance against what's coming," Billy replied gravely.

"Earth will fall, unless every ranger is there to fight and even then, there's a slim chance we survive," he continued, as he walked over to a desk where he had three cases and opened them both.

"You restored the power coins," Jason said. He nodded.

"Including a stronger Mastodon coin and I reconnected the zeonizers to the zeo crystal. I also re-energized the dino gems. The Storm prisms will restore Ninja Storm's power," Billy replied.

"But wait…we have a lot of overlap. How are we going to get bearers for all these powers?" Jason asked.

"Tommy's is a Master Morpher. It will allow him to use all four incarnations of his powers. Adam can take his zeonizers and so can Kat and Rocky. The zeonizers will also shift into Turbo if needed," he explained.

"We better go then…they need help," Jason said, as Billy initiated teleportation and they and their non-rangers guests were swept up in colored beams.

Adam tackled Thrax as they dueled fiercely. He threw Adam off, but Kira was waiting and delivered a series of fierce kicks. Thrax raised his staff and blocked her leg. He swiped at her with his staff. Sparks ensued, as she was thrown to the ground. Adam countered meeting his staff with the blade of his axe.

"Give it up, black ranger. You never had a chance in defeating my father, so you have no chance against me," Thrax hissed.

"You like to hear yourself talk, don't you? Figures. Your dad loved the sound of his own voice too," Adam retorted. Thrax growled and knocked him away.

"I'll make you eat your words, ranger!" he growled, as Thrax raised his staff and a hoard of Z putties appeared and swarmed them.

"There's too many!" Kira called.

"Aim for the Z…if you can," Adam called back, as he managed to destroy two of them, but they were swarmed and captured.

Nearby, the scene wasn't much different, as Bridge and Xander fought an onslaught of fresh putties as well and no matter how many they destroyed, more popped up in their place.

"Yes…that's four retro rangers captured now," Thrax hissed, as they were swarmed and brought to their knees with the other two captured rangers.

"Four down…two to go," he goaded, as they hoped Hunter and Tori were having better luck.

Hunter and Tori battled the oncoming slew of dark ninjas, trying their best to only injure, as they fought their way to Lothor. He seemed eager to accept the challenge, as the ninjas branched off and went to attack the other rangers. Lothor charged Hunter, while Zara and Tamara double teamed Tori. Armed with the air and the earth prisms, they launched blasts at her, blowing her back.

"Poor little water ninja. Time to bury you," Zara hissed, as she held the glowing earth prism to her face. Tori's prism reacted and shot a torrent of water at the dark ninja, hurling her across the field.

"Only a true earth ninja can make that prism work like it's supposed to," Tori warned, as she summoned another beam of water, engulfing Tamara's attempt at an air beam and sending her into a soaking heap with her daughter.

Hunter slammed his new hammer down on Lothor's sword, dueling him for control. Lothor blasted him violently in the abdomen with the dark prism's energy sending him slamming painfully into a tree.

"You're still pathetic as ever, crimson ranger, though I'll give you props for having the guts to take me one on one," Lothor drawled, as he slowly approached. Hunter got to his feet and leapt at him with a flying kick. Lothor growled and used his momentum to leap back to his feet from the ground. But Hunter was ready and powered up the new crimson blaster with an energy sphere of crackling crimson energy. Lothor was hit head on and slammed into a rocky outcropping. Black bled from his eyes, as he pulled himself to his feet. His dark energy gathered and the dark prism glowed, as the wind flailed around him, sending violent wisps at him. Hunter dug his feet in, trying to keep from being blown back.

"I should have gotten rid of you when I hacked your parents years ago. But now I can finally rectify that error," Lothor hissed, as he sent the dark energy into the ground,

barreling toward him. The ground beneath Hunter's feet began to crack and give way. He fell into the crevice, but began quickly climbing back to the surface. Lothor was waiting though and kicked him in the head. His head snapped to the side, but his helmet absorbed the rest of the attack he might have suffered to his head without it.

"Time to die, ranger brat," Lothor hissed, as he conjured another sphere of dark energy.

"Thunder shield!" Hunter cried at the last minute. The dark energy ricocheted off his shield and back at Lothor, tossing him back with a violent thrust. Hunter climbed out of the crevice, but suddenly felt like his body was on fire, as an electrified blinding cable wrapped around him from behind. He writhed on the ground in pain, as a masked thunder ninja hovered above him, holding the gauntlet that the cable was attached to. The ninja removed his mask and Nate smirked evilly at him.

"Good work Nate," Lothor said, as he approached.

"Do you want me to drag him back to your base?" Nate asked.

"No, the thunder prism is no good to us as long as he's still breathing. This one is going to die right here and now," Lothor said evilly, as he placed his foot on Hunter's helmet.

"Slowly, might I add. Time to squish you like the bug you are, crimson ranger," he growled, as he applied pressure. Hunter cried out in pain and a loud crack was hard, as his helmet visor cracked. Lothor ripped the helmet off.

"Raise him to his knees," Lothor ordered. Nate gladly grabbed a handful of Hunter's hair and forced him up to his knees. Lothor drew his sword and Hunter swallowed hard, as the blade hovered near his neck. He spared a glance at Tori, who fought to get to him.

"Don't worry, she'll be joining you really soon," Lothor promised, as he prepared to slit his throat.

"HUNTER!" Tori cried, as she activated her ninja sword gold mode and swiped at Zara and Tamara. The gold flails of power threw them back and she drew her new, more powerful sonic fin, aiming for Lothor's hand. She fired the sonic waves and he yelped in pain, as it struck and he dropped his sword. He glared at her, as she began running for him and he conjured a sphere of dark energy from the prism.

"Tori...wait...no!" Hunter cried, as he prepared to fire at her. Despite the pain from the electrified binding, he knocked Nate away and tried to get to his feet. He shoved his shoulder into Lothor to knock him off balance. He fell to the ground and the energy hit the tree behind him, blowing it to pieces and shaking the ground beneath them apart.

"That's it...there's about to be two dead ninjas," he growled, as he got to his feet with dark energy forming in his hands. Tori quickly used her ninja gold sword and cut him loose, instantly relieving the pain and allowing him to stand. He saw the energy barreling toward them and grabbed her arms so they could get out of the way. Their prisms reacted to their closeness and the approaching dark energy, much to theirs and everyone's surprise. An amethyst shield exploded in front of them and they watched in amazement as purple fire ate away and nullified the dark energy.

"What's happening..." Tori wondered.

"Amethyst storm...it's what the scroll was talking about," Hunter recalled.

"Amethyst storm?" she asked.

"Fire storm...there's a reason why there is no school of fire," he replied. Suddenly everything he had been reading was making sense.

"I thought it was because it was too hard to control?" she asked.

"No...it's because it takes two elements which just so happen specifically to be ours," Hunter explained. She still had a lot of questions, but knew they would have to wait, as Lothor powered up more dark energy.

"Let's end him," Hunter said, as he picked up his thunder hammer and her hurricane trident appeared in her hand. They crossed their weapons together, creating a storm of purple lightning and fire that shot out directly at Lothor like a tornado of water. His eyes widened and he stopped his charge from moving away.

"No...not this time," he growled, as he grabbed Nate, who was only a few feet away and used him as a human shield.

"NO!" Hunter cried, as he realized Lothor's treachery. The blast hit and Nate was incinerated instantly.

"No..." Tori cried, as Lothor cackled evilly.

"You may have discovered your powers, but you're not going to defeat me that easily this time. And in a few days, not even your powers will be enough against me!" he roared, as he and his army disappeared, leaving them to deal with Thrax.

"That loser Lothor may have retreated, Ninja rangers, but I'm not going anywhere!" he declared.

"Hunter…you and Tori need to free the others and pull back. We have even bigger problems," Cam said, through his communicator.

"That must be what Lothor was talking about," Tori surmised.

"Putties…capture them!" Thrax ordered. Hunter's hammer crackled with crimson lightning and the sky darkened at his will. He began to swing the hammer rapidly and then slammed it to the ground. Lightning traveled toward Thrax, splitting the ground apart as it did and fried half the putties, which became dust. Tori smirked and tapped the hilt of her trident on the ground. Thrax watched in shock, as geysers of water erupted from the cracked ground and dusted the rest of the putties. The fear on Thrax's face was palpable for a moment, before he snarled again.

"This isn't over, Ninja rangers…" he hissed, as he disappeared. The other four rangers joined them.

"That was badass…but let me guess, there's no reason to celebrate?" Adam asked.

"Not according to Cam…he said we need to get back to the mansion," Tori replied, as they were swept up by a stream of teleportation, just as reporters emerged from the sidelines where they had been filming to try and talk to the rangers to no avail.