"Listen. My name is Kira. Maybe you should write it on your hand or something, so you can remember." She raised a brow at him, turned and walked away.
"For someone who has a thing for girls," Andy said, patting him on the shoulder, "you are absolutely clueless. And for the record," he smirked as they walked ahead, "the girls I know, hate being called babe. You might want to remember that for the future."
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"Bridge!" Zoey yelled, pointed ahead of them.
"I see it!" Her brother yelled, shifting, "Hang on!"
Speeding under the bridge, they could see the dinosaur follow them. However, when it got there, it hit its head on the side of the bridge and collapse. Tommy screeched to a halt, and they got out to investigate. Walking toward it, they could see its head had busted open.
"Are those, wires?" Jenna asked, seeing sparks fly out of the head. "It's a robot."
"Do we know how that happened?" Zoey looked at her brother who just shook his head.
"I have a suspicion, but no proof." He signaled for them to back up, "Let's go back to the museum. We need to find those kids and get out of here."
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After what seemed like forever, the four teens came to a wall with a dinosaur skeleton on it.
"This screams Jurassic Park to me," Kira commented.
"This'll get us out of detention forever," Conner said, reaching for the mouth.
"I don't think you should be grabbing that." Andy warned, "Hasn't anyone ever seen Indiana Jones? Bad things always happen."
"You've watched too many movies." Conner mocked, pulling the jaw.
"Do you think you should... " before Kira could finish, the wall beside the skeleton opened to reveal a strange room.
"Whoa." Ethan breathed as they went in.
"I could do a crazy video in here," Kira said, looking around in awe.
Seeing the machines and fossils everywhere, Andy started to get a weird feeling. "Why does this place seem familiar?" He muttered, looking around.
"This must be like the mothership for you dude," Conner laughed at Ethan.
"Normally, I'd be insulted," Ethan smiled. "But when you're right, you're right."
Andy looked over as he started to recognize the symbols on the monitors. He just knew he had seen them before. "Yo, don't touch that." At Ethan's whisper, Andy looked over to see that Conner was about to lift a red gem on a pedestal in the middle of the room. There were three more beside it; blue, yellow and green.
"Why not?" Conner frowned.
"You really are taking this dumb jock thing to a whole new level." Ethan shook his head.
"Look, I have sat through enough lame science classes to know that thing looks fully prehistoric." Conner pointed at the rock, "And if I don't have to miss practice-"
"I hate to agree with him, really, I do," Kira said, looking put out, "But I already missed one rehearsal." Andy looked apprehensive. Something about them was familiar, but he couldn't figure out what it was. The others had already grabbed one, leaving the green one behind.
"Well, what are they?" Kira asked, looking at the glowing yellow gem in her hand.
"I can go online later and see if I can find out." Ethan suggested, holding the blue one.
Conner laugh, "You in front of a computer. Wait, let me put on my surprised face."
Ethan glared, "You know, ten years from now, when your hairline is receding and you're playing pick-up soccer in the park because your dreams of turning pro never quite worked out, I'll have my own multibillion-dollar software business." He said, smiling. "Yeah."
"Bitter much?" The Lightning Ninja murmured, shaking his head.
"Andy, come one." Kira said, pointing to the green one, "It's a get-out-of-detention-free card." She started to walk away, "Grab it and let's go."
"Where are you going?" Ethan asked.
"I don't want to think about what kinda freak lives in a place like this, and I sure don't wanna be here when he gets home," she said, turning back to the tunnels.
"Right behind ya." Conner agreed as he and Ethan followed.
"Dang it!" Andy grabbed the green one and took off after them.
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After running through a different part of the tunnels, the teens finally found an exit.
"This way!" Ethan called, leading them outside. "A compass. We need a compass. Anyone have a compass?" He asked as the climbed a short hill.
"And I was going to bring one," Conner said sarcastically.
Andy, being a former Eagle Scout and a Ninja, knew exactly where they needed to go. But, before he could say anything, they felt the wind suddenly blow back at them. A low growl came out of the trees.
"What was that?" Ethan gulped.
"The wind?" Kira asked.
"That's not the wind." Feeling a strong sense of déjà vu, Andy looked around the trees waiting for the attack. A group of black lizard-like monsters appeared in front of them, causing three of the four to freeze.
"Don't... move." Conner whispered as Andy got into a defensive stance.
"Great idea," Kira muttered, "make it easy for them."
"New plan, run!" Ethan yelled as they took off. Andy, knowing he couldn't take them on by himself, ran with them.
Running through the woods, he looked back to see the lizards closing in on them. Conner, Ethan and Andy leapt across a ditch, but Kira didn't make it and fell in.
They ran back over to pull her out. "Come on!" They quickly avoided being overrun by freaks and started running back through the woods. They didn't get very far before Kira tripped. When they realized she wasn't with them, they turned back to see the monsters converge on her. Before they could go help her, Kira opened her mouth to scream. Instead of a cry for help, however, the scream came out at supersonic frequency that threw the monsters back. The other three had to cover their ears, to protect themselves from the pain. When she stopped screaming, Kira looked around in surprise, not knowing what to do.
"Come on, help her up," Conner said as they raced over to her.
"What, was that?" Ethan asked, as they got her back up.
"I have no idea," Kira said, looking scared. She pulled the gem out of her pocket as it started to glow. Looking down at it, she could see a pterodactyl screaming in her mind.
Seeing the lizards start to recover, they each took off in separate directions. When he got to a safe distance away from the others, Andy turned back around to face his pursuers. "Alright, you freaks. Let's see how you do against a Lightning Ninja."
The monsters surrounded him, making him smile. "Really. You think that's fair." He nodded happily, glad for a challenge, "Come on then. Let's see what you freaks have got."
He charged ahead, side kicking one lizard into another. He flipped over one and kicked it into a tree. He punched another and sent it flying back. He kept fighting as they kept coming at him. It seemed that no matter how many he took out, two more took it's place. He raised his fist to throw another punch when, out of nowhere, a green lightning bolt shot out. He blasted five of the lizards at one time, sending them back into the others.
"Green lightning?" Before he could wonder at it, more of the creatures started to run at him, recognizing him as the bigger threat. "Alright. Let's try this." He went on the defensive, blocking left and right. As he started to get overwhelmed, he gather the green lightning in his hands and blasted the remaining lizards. "Oh." He laughed, "I could get used to this."
"Over here!" Conner's yell drew his attention and he ran over to join the other three. They looked down at the gems in their hands, in awe of what just happened.
"Yo, how much do I love detention," Ethan asked, looking excited.
"Hey!" Tommy's voice rang out and they quickly hid their gems. Andy looked over to see the girls running over with Tommy to check on them. "Are you guys alright?" He asked, looking worried. The girls looked over at Andy as he shook his head slightly.
"Yeah. Couldn't be better." Ethan looked at him, innocently.
"Nothing out of the ordinary happen?"
"Nah, just your routine hike in the woods," Ethan shrugged, "Lots of furry little creatures," he nodded.
"And a few scaly ones," Kira muttered under her breath. The girls and Tommy frowned at her, but Conner distracted them.
"So, you get into the Dino exhibit?" he asked.
"Uh... they're still working the kinks out." He shook his head, looking a little worried. "We better get you guys back. Come on."
The teens held back a little as the older three walked ahead of them. "Don't you guys think we should tell him?" Kira asked, looking concerned.
"I don't know about you," Ethan said, "but I've got over a thousand sci-fi DVDs. You want to know how many times the dude with the superpowers ends up in some freaky government lab lying on a table with wires in his head?"
"Even I know that." Conner spoke up, causing Andy to smile. He knew better, though.
"Are you guys coming?" Zoey called out to them, and they exchanged another look before continuing to walk.
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"Alright, Lightning Bug. Speak." Jenna looked at him as they drove back to the house. Tommy had taken the others back to the school. "What happened."
"So, first let me ask a question." The girls nodded, "Didn't you say that you got those weird powers from gems your brother had found?" Looked at Zoey as she drove.
"Yes, why?"
"How many gems were there in total?"
"To start, there was nine. But four of them exhibited no power, whatsoever. When the island exploded, they somehow fused together, creating our gems as we have them now. The remaining gems were red, blue, yellow, black, and white. Tommy has the red, blue and yellow ones, but he's having trouble tracking down the black and white gems."
"Is there a green gem?"
Zoey pulled up to the house, turned off her engine and looked at him in surprise, "How did you know that?"
He held up the gem for her to see. Seeing the look of shock on their faces, he continued with another question, "Where did this one come from?"
"Sensei Raiku gave it to me after the Ninja graduation ceremony. Sensei Watanabe had told him about ours and they decided it needed to be with the other gems. Apparently, the Lightning Academy has been protecting this Gem since its inception."
"So, this explains why everything was so familiar to me." He looked at the girls, "This is just great. I'm supposed to be here studying Pai Zhuq, not have my DNA altered."
"Okay." They got out of the Jeep and started for the house, "You need to explain everything. Start at the beginning."
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"Ok, so we all agree." Conner said as they walked through the school grounds, "No one talks about this to anyone, no matter what."
"Shouldn't we be having this conversation with Andy as well?" Ethan asked, confused.
"Probably, but we'll have to talk to him tomorrow. Nothing we can do about it today." Conner pointed at the other two, "We have to be in agreement on this."
"Well, I can do better than that." Kira handed him her yellow Gem. "I'm out. Just forget I was here, and I'll do the same."
"Wait, how come he gets it?" Ethan demanded.
"Well, here." Kira took it out of Conner's hand a put it in Ethan's, making him grin.
"Look. We've gotta stick together on this." Conner said, trying to reason with her.
"I'm not sticking with anything. We were just attack by some freaky lizard looking mutant things." She backed up, "So, excuse me if I just want to forget about it."
"And these new found powers these rocks gave us? What are going to do about that?"
"You know what? I give up!" she exclaimed and stormed off.
As Kira walked away, the now familiar wind picked up, and said lizard monsters appeared out of nowhere to grab her.
"Kira!" Conner yelled as they ran to try and help her. Before they could reached her, they disappeared in a green light, taking her with them, and leaving her backpack behind.
"She's gone," Ethan said, as they looked around.
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"Ok, so where are we going?" Conner asked as he sped down the rode in his car.
"Uh, Doctor Oliver's?" Ethan suggested.
"What's he gonna do?!"
"He's a dinosaur guy!" Ethan shrugged. "These things are dinosaurs, sort of." He muttered.
"Alright, so, where does he live?"
"Uh, 1992, Valencia Road," Ethan pulled up the address, and Conner nodded.
"Valencia Road, that's..." Conner frowned. "That's like, way out in the middle of the woods."
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"This is beyond surreal." Zoey said, petting Kit. They were lounging on her bed after Andy explained what happened on the hike in the woods. "I can't believe there was a sink hole that led to those tunnels."
"I knew those symbols looked familiar; I just couldn't place them." Andy grumbled, laying back, "I'd only been down there once, when we got our Ninja Morphers altered into the cuffs. It didn't look the same as before." He sighed, "I'm pretty they won't say anything, but we need to talk to the other three."
"Agreed. But we need to talk to my brother first." She looked over as Jenna went over to the window, "What is it?"
"How long has your brother been home?"
"I didn't realize he was." They got up to look, and sure enough, there was his Jeep next to hers. "Huh. Maybe he's down in the lab."
"I can't believe I forgot he had a lab under the house." He grumbled, irritated.
"Like you said, you've only been down there once. And a lot of changes have been made since then. How could you know that's where you were?"
"I'm a Ninja for crying out loud. I should have realized where we were."
"Don't be so hard on yourself." Zoey slugged him in the arm, "That's our job. Now, come on. Let's go find Tommy."
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Conner and Ethan arrived at Doctor Oliver's house and hurried onto the front porch. Ethan knocked on the door loudly as Conner peered inside.
"Knock again," Conner said, not seeing anyone inside.
Ethan did, but there was still no response. "Now what?"
Conner sighed and walked over, pushing the door open.
"What are you doing?" Ethan asked, looking at the Jock.
"Why would he leave it unlocked?" he asked.
"He's got no neighbors."
"What, you never heard of the three bears?" Conner grinned, walking inside.
"Is that the last book you read?" Ethan rolled his eyes but followed him inside.
They looked around the first floor, calling out for their teacher. When there was still no response, they walked into the study filled with books and fossils.
"Hey, check it out," Conner grinned, walking over to a model of a t-Rex.
"Hey, remember what happened the last time you did that?" Ethan said, trying to stop him.
"Dude, he's a teacher, not..." Conner stopped as he pulled the dinosaur's and a trapdoor opened up beside the table. "Batman..." He finished as they both looked at the door in astonishment. They looked at each other for a moment and walked down the steps, finding themselves in the same lab as before.
"This is the same place," Ethan realized.
"Are you freaking out right now?" Conner asked.
"Yeah," Ethan nodded. "I'd have to say I am."
"If you're looking for extra credit," they turned around to see Doctor Oliver standing with Zoey, Jenna and Andy, looking very unhappy. "You're in the wrong place."
To be continued...
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