Author's Note: Hello everyone! I have been meaning to do this for some time now, and I know you are probably sick and tired of me posting, taking down, posting and taking down this story time and time again, but many things have got between me and updating the Lightning Rangers, and during those times I have come up with new ideas for this saga. Characters have been changed, as have pairings, I am not about to do what I have done in the past and that is automatically set a character up with another character of my liking without looking at other possibilities in other series (for example: Abby Holloway). Anyway, I will stop talking now and let you carry on reading, then, maybe and hopefully, you will leave me a review telling me if this is better than before.

Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended in the making of this series. I simply own my OCs and anything that is not recognizable from the show. Power Rangers belongs to Saban...although Ninja Storm was created by Disney. Enjoy.

Character Profile.

Name: Aliyah Ziva Logan

Age: 17

Height: 5'5

Weight: 110lbs

Hair: Shoulder-length black hair with red streaks.

Eyes: Sapphire blue

Hobbies: Rock Climbing. Abseiling. Surfing. Parkour.

Personality: Aliyah Logan is extremely physically active.

Other information: Aliyah comes from a military family and is best friends with Tori Hanson, Shane Clarke and Dustin Brooks. Aliyah's parents died on a routine mission in Afghan when Aliyah was two years old. She was taken to the Lightning Academy with her older sister Rebecca, and was raised by her aunt and uncle. Rebecca has been missing for six-years prior to the start of Ninja Storm.

Title: Lightning Storm! Ranger Form!

Summary: We all know the story of the Wind and Thunder Rangers; but what about the Lightning Rangers? Two teens that played a vital role in the destruction of Lothor? Not to mention kept the others on their toes. It's time to meet the new: Defenders of Earth.

My dear sweet Aliyah,

If you're reading this letter then it means we are gone and for that we are terribly sorry. We didn't want you to have this life. We didn't want it for ourselves either, but destiny is not easy to run from.

We hoped that keeping this secret would keep you safe, but all we've done is left you unprotected.

You have incredible power inside you. People will come for it. They will come for you.

We have no idea of the world you're going to encounter. But find your strength, and believe in yourself as we believe in you. Who you are is your greatest protection.

We love you forever and always.

Mom and Dad.

Seventeen-year-old Aliyah Logan frowned as she re-read the letter in her hands. Her alarm had gone downstairs to see if her grandparents were back from Briarwood when she had found the package waiting for her just inside the door, she had ripped open the brown paper the second she saw it was addressed to her, and opened the package to find a letter and another box with a symbol that she recognized easily.

It was the Lightning Ninja Academy crest.

She hadn't been a part of the Lightning Ninja Academy for nearly six years, so why were they sending her something now? She had been very surprised when she had opened the box to find a Lightning morpher inside, with a note from her Aunt Phoebe, alongside a letter from her mother.

Her mother, Jade, had been dead fifteen years so why was she only now receiving this letter? There had to be an explanation, right? But who could she turn to for answers? Her grandparents? She'd have to wait for them to come home… whenever that was.

Re-reading the letter from her mother, Aliyah sighed.

"You have incredible power inside you. People will come for it. They will come for you." Aliyah read aloud.

What was her parents talking about? Incredible power? What incredible power? And why had she been given a morpher? Did they honestly expect her to be a Power Ranger? They were joking, right?

She wasn't even a fully-fledged Ninja, she had dropped out of the Lightning academy long before she could graduate, so how was it possible for her to wield the control of Lightning as a Power Ranger? She couldn't even defend herself with the element!

Besides, why would she need to use the morpher? The only person she could think of that she would need to fight with a morpher was the rogue Ninja, Lothor, but hadn't he been banished from the Wind Ninja Academy? Why would he be attacking the other academies?

Unless the stories had been true? Her grandparents had always said that Lothor would return and try to annihilate the other Ninja academies in order to preserve himself as ruler of this world, in which case Aliyah was ready to face him, but she didn't need a morpher to do that! She could save the world without the use of spandex… plus, she was too stubborn to wear the cover of shiny suit anyway.

Also what was she supposed to do against Lothor? Weren't Power Rangers supposed to have team-mates? Weren't they supposed to have people they could rely on? People that had their backs? Weapons and Megazords at their disposal to help them when things got rough? She was only one person! She didn't have a team-mate, or a Megazord.

So what threat did she pose against someone like Lothor? None! She would be a laughing stock if she had gone out there without anyone or anything to protect herself.

"There has been a mistake," she said looking down at the device in the box. "I'm no hero..."

The sound of music echoed from upstairs. Aliyah gave a start, stuffed the morpher, note and letter back into the box, and then raced up to her room. Her cellphone lay on the bedside table as the name 'Tori' flashed across the screen in bright white colours.

Aliyah sighed, and checked the time. She was late.

Snatching up the cellphone, Aliyah quickly typed out a reply, muttering to herself as she did so. "Running late. Be there as soon as I can!" she hit send as soon as she was finished, she tossed the package onto her bed and set about to get ready.

Once she was decent, Aliyah slipped into her trainers, tied them tightly and grabbed her I-pod from its charging dock on top of her TV, and then turned back to the package on her bed.

She was sure that there had been a mistake over at the Lightning academy, there was no way that she was who they believed her to be, but for some reason she felt the need to keep both the letter and morpher on her at all times; so she slipped the morpher onto her wrist, and folded the letter up sliding it into the back pocket of her 3 quarter leggings.

And with that she hurried downstairs, grabbed her keys and headphones from the kitchen table and took off out the door.

~*Lightning Storm*~

Reaching the beach, Aliyah smiled as a familiar looking blonde run across the sand carrying her surfboard; leaving behind another familiar dark-skinned male who was stood watching her when another person joined him. Shane Clark conversed rather energetically with the surfer beside him, before the young lad walked away looking rather rejected.

Aliyah raised her water bottle to her lips and took a long draught, before making her way down onto the beach to where the dark-skinned teen stood, clad in red shorts and a grey and red t-shirt. "What was that about?" she asked, smirking in pleasure at seeing Shane jump.

"Oh for the love of -" Shane cried, "Aliyah! You're going to be the death of me!"

"Meh, at least that means my job has been completed," Aliyah teased.

"What job?" Tori Hanson asked as she joined the two of them. "Where were you this morning?" she added to Aliyah.

Aliyah smiled. "Sorry. I had some bad news from home and it kinda threw me through a loop."

"What news?" Shane asked.

"My aunt and uncle were found dead," Aliyah answered. "I am still waiting for the exact time of death, but it was definitely them. My grandparents have confirmed it."

"What about your sister?" Tori asked.

Aliyah shook her head. "Still nothing," she said. "But what am I expecting? She's been missing six-years already. She's not just going to turn up out of the blue, is she?"

"You don't seem very upset about it," Shane said.

"I'm just really good at masking my feelings," Aliyah answered.

Tori nodded. "Coming back to my first question, what job would you have completed?" she frowned.

Aliyah smiled. "Oh, Shane reckons I am going to be the death of him if I continue to sneak up on him," she answered. "I just said that if that was the case, then at least my job would be complete."

"You're cruel," Tori grinned.

"Thank you, Tori!" Shane sighed, patting his friend's shoulder.

Aliyah rolled her eyes. "I don't think you will be thinking that when we find out what Shane was talking about with him -" she pointed at the guy that had recently walked away, he was standing a few feet away, and occasionally looking over his shoulder at the group of three teens.

"What were you talking about with him?" Tori asked.

"He's just some guy," Shane said. "Couldn't stop talking about you. How cute you are, how he wanted your phone number."

"Whoa, slow down, rewind," Aliyah interrupted, reaching up with her hand to cover Shane's mouth. "Super cute surfer hottie was asking about Tori?"

"Dude, it was so lame!" Shane laughed, only to be punched in the shoulder.

"And you let him leave!" Tori cried, slinging her bag over her shoulder.

Shane glanced at Aliyah, who had removed her hand, looking confused. "What was that for?"

"Just proving the point that you are a complete idiot." Aliyah smiled teasingly.

"Did you ever think that maybe I'd wanna meet him?" Tori asked, turning back. "See if he wanted to hang out sometime?"

Aliyah nodded. "Maybe he had some super cute surfer hottie friends that were single and looking for some fun, I don't mind..." she grinned.

Tori smirked and shook her head. "You are such a flirt," she pointed out.

"What?" Aliyah shrugged. "I'm a seventeen year old girl who has been single for way too long! I have needs, you know?"

"You're kidding, right?" Shane asked in disbelief

"This is just further proof that you're a complete doofus!" Tori sighed in exasperation. "I got to meet Dustin,"

"Seriously, I can go find the guy!" he shouted, but Tori wasn't listening.

Instead Aliyah put her hand on Shane's shoulder and smiled. "It's no use, Dude," she said. "She's not coming back."

"What did I do?" Shane asked.

"Well, Tori is a girl," Aliyah stressed. "You tend to forget that sometimes; just because she prefers to wear shorts instead of skirts, doesn't mean that she is any less of a female."

She patted his shoulder and then walked away, leaving Shane alone to ponder what she had said.

~*Lightning Storm*~

"Y'know, Shane thinks you're mad at him," said Dustin, as he leaned over the back counter looking in on the workshop at the back of Storm Charges. Tori was in front of him, with her back turned, a blue t-shirt lying on the counter beside her. She was playing absently with her fingernails, doing a good job of ignoring her two friends.

"Wow! I guess that's why he gets the red suit," Tori exclaimed sarcastically, and Dustin straightened up.

"Well, what happened? I mean, it didn't really sound like a big deal to me," he told her.

Tori spun around. "You don't get it either! I'm a girl. G.I.R.L. Girl."

"I-I know, but you're not a girl-girl," Dustin pointed out; making the same statement that Aliyah had tried to make to Shane earlier that day.

"You're like a guy-girl!" Shane called from the back of the store.

At that moment, Aliyah arrived, clutching two blue envelopes in her hands. "Hey, Tori, this just showed up at my place for you," she said, handing over one of the envelopes. "If it's from a secret admire, can you please let them know that we don't live together?"

"Sure," Tori smiled.

"What does it say?" Shane asked impatiently, leaning closer to try and read the letter from over Tori's shoulder.

"Girl Sport magazine saw me surfing and want me for a photo shoot," said Tori "An article about 'Beauties of the Beach'" she told them, making Shane look at Dustin as they recognized the name.

"Isn't that the one where they have these incredibly gorgeous girls?" he asked, Tori and Aliyah turned around.

"Yeah." Tori nodded.

"So?" Aliyah asked in a low voice, almost challengingly.

"Ok, we'll just go back to silent mode now" said Dustin, and he slipped from the counter, pulling Shane with him.

"So, you going to do it?" Kelly asked.

"I wanna show them that I'm not just some dopey tomboy," Tori sighed.

"I hope that's a good enough reason," Kelly smiled, turning to Aliyah. "What about you? Are you going to do it?"

Aliyah shook her head. "No way! I like who I am!"

Kelly smiled, nodded and walked away, leaving Aliyah and Tori in one another's company.

~*Lightning Storm*~

"Is this the right place?" Tori asked looking at Aliyah who was looking around the beach raised a skeptical eyebrow at the scene. There was a small trailer parked a few feet away, a rail of clothes stood outside, and a camera was positioned facing the waves.

"I don't know," Aliyah shrugged. "I still can't believe you dragged me into this,"

"You don't have to take part," Tori said. "I just wanted some company."

Aliyah rolled her eyes. "I still don't understand why you're even bothering to go through with it! So what if Shane thinks you're a guy-girl, let's go find that dude ourselves and get his phone number, guys like a girl who make the first move, you know?"

"You've been spending too much time in Briarwood," Tori pointed out. "Not all guys like that in a girl."

"Meh must be Briarwood guys that have the appeal then."

The blonde shook her head and ventured further onto the beach, grabbing Aliyah's arm and pulling her along behind.

"Hello..." Tori called, as she approached the trailer. "Is anyone here?"

"Nope," Aliyah said, clapping her hands. "Oh, well, let's go home!"

She turned to walk away when the trailer door burst open behind her, and two girls stumbled out. They were wearing outfits that made Aliyah want to gag.

"Hello!" a girl, around their age smiled.

"Hi, I'm Tori, and this is my friend, Aliyah," Tori said, sounding a little nervous.

"My, aren't you...ordinary," the girl retorted.

Aliyah glared. "Ordinary?" she repeated. "And who are you? You look like you've just stepped out of a sixties movie."

Both girls ignored her.

"Let's see if we can't do something about this," the pink haired girl smiled, pulling Tori towards the trailer. The brown haired girl latched onto Aliyah, but the teen pulled back and stepped away from the trailer, indicating that she was not going anywhere. She was here for moral support and company, nothing more and nothing less.

Moments later the trailer door slammed open and Tori stumbled out. Aliyah took one look at her friend, and almost threw up the little lunch she had consumed. "Tori, you look ridiculous! I thought people who work for fashion magazines had a better fashion sense, I a better fashion sense that these two, super freaks!"

"I agree," Tori nodded. "This is so not me!"

"We've seen what's you, okay?" the pink haired girl nodded, grabbing Tori's shoulder and pushing her towards where Aliyah was standing, she then picked up the camera and moved it to stand in front of the two girls.

"Can we bail now?" Aliyah asked. "Don't worry, I'll take you back to my place and we'll find you something suitable to wear. This is tacky!"

"Now, don't move," the female with pink hair said, as she removed a device from her pocket. "This won't hurt a bit."

Tori tapped Aliyah's shoulder and pointed at the device. "Can you read the back of that?"

"Huh," Aliyah hesitated. "If found, please return to...Lothor!"

"I thought I recognized you two," Tori gasped. "Bad hair, bad clothes, too much make-up..."

"Do you really think it's too much?" the brown haired girl asked.

"Hey, Marah!" the pink haired female said, turning her companion and slapping her shoulder. "Kelzaks!" she added, opening the device, jabbing a button and with a flash freaky looking soldiers appeared on the beach in front of the two surfers.

Aliyah's eyes widened as she glanced sideways at Tori. Uh-oh she thought, remembering her History tutor at the Lightning academy telling her and a few others the story of the rogue Ninja Lothor and how he used freaky looking foot soldiers called Kelzaks during his attacks.

"Aliyah, get out of here!" Tori ordered.

"And leave you behind?"

"Go find the others, tell them I need help!"

Tori pushed her friend towards the edge of the beach as the Kelzaks attacked; she put up a fight, and it wasn't until Aliyah had reached the edge of the beach did she realize that she had been a target all this time; the Kelzaks had gained on her as she ran across the beach, they grabbed her shoulders and pulled her back.

"Hey, let go!" Aliyah screamed, grabbing the wrist of a nearby Kelzack, she twisted its wrist and flipped it over onto its back. Figuring she wasn't getting out of this without a fight, Aliyah jumped into the air and flipped over backwards as two more Kelzacks slammed into one another as they attempted to ram her from both sides. "Losers!"

"Aliyah!" Tori yelled.

Aliyah spun around just in time to see Kapri snapped the camera and Tori was pulled inside, as a replica clone stood beside her. "Dude, that is so not cool!" she whispered, her eyes widening as the camera was turned in her direction. "Oh, no you don't!" she said, jumping out of the way of the beam and Ninja streaking up over the cliffs behind her.

~*Lightning Storm*~

After being given her orders the fake Tori made her way back to Storm Charges to confront Shane and Dustin.

"Whoa, did you crash an outlet mall?" Shane asked, upon seeing his friend dressed in rags.

"I have to get to Ninja Ops, right away," the clone said. Shane and Dustin, thinking the clone was the real Tori, pulled her off to the side.

"Dude, I can't I have bikes stacked up, like, out the door!" Dustin said.

"I really need you guys," Tori said. "I was attacked by Aliyah and Kelzacks."

Shane's face turned serious. "What? Are you sure?"

"Positive," Fake Tori nodded. "She was there when the Kelzacks showed up, she ordered them to attack. Sensei has to know."

Shane and Dustin exchanged looks and nodded. "Fine. Let's go!" Shane agreed, although he still couldn't believe that Aliyah was involved with Lothor.

~*Lightning Storm*~

"We might have to stop for gas, man," Dustin groaned as they drove through Blue Bay Harbour.

"We're not stopping," Tori told them, staring out at the road in front of her.

Shane and Dustin turned to her in confusion. "Well, what if we don't make it?" he asked slowly.

"We'll make it. Just drive." Tori told them.

Shane looked towards Dustin; fear flickered across his face for a second, before it was replaced with fear for the construction workers that had stopped them a little around the corner.

"Oh, road works," Dustin complained.

"Don't stop," Tori ordered.

Dustin shrugged. "What can I do?" he asked.

Tori unbuckled her seatbelt, climbed out of the van and stormed over to the construction workers.

While Tori was yelling and screaming at one of the workers, Aliyah landed in a crouch behind the van, and crept silently up towards the driver's side. Dustin had rolled down the window, which made this even easier for her. "Hey, Dustin!" she whispered.

"Huh, what?" Dustin frowned, glancing out of the window.

"Down here,"

Looking down, Dustin's eyes narrowed at the familiar female. "What do you want?" he asked. "Don't you have some poor innocent to terrorize?"

"What are you talking about?"

"As if you don't know, traitor!"

At this point, Tori had turned her back on the construction worker who had already turned the sign to 'Go'; however, she paused on her return as someone called out to her, she turned around to see the surfer from that morning, she glared and returned her seat in the van, slammed the door and yelled at Shane and Dustin to get moving.

Aliyah sighed, as she straightened up the moment the van was out of sight; she glanced around and silently Ninja streaked after it. Landing like a cat on top of the Van, Aliyah waited for it to stop, before she could dismount, she had to warn Shane and Dustin that the Tori inside the van with them weren't the real Tori.

~*Lightning Storm*~

Dustin screeched to a halt suddenly, throwing Aliyah straight off the top of the van. She groaned as she hit the ground and rolled to a halt in front of another Tori's feet. "Oh, for the love of -" she complained loudly, please tell me you're the real Tori Hanson.

"You have a sister named Rebecca," Tori said. "Your parents died in a mission over in Afghan and you are currently living with your grandparents, Catherine and Daniel Logan."

Aliyah nodded as she pushed herself to her feet. "Very nice."

The sound of slamming doors alerted the two females to the presence of another, looking around both Aliyah and Tori spotted the fake stalking towards them.

"Anything you can do," the clone said, "I can do better!"

"Except pick clothes," Aliyah pointed out. "And what is with that hair? You look like you have a beehive on your head!"

The clone glared at her, grabbed her shoulders and shoved her aside. "You're insignificant!" she snapped, before turning back to her duplicate.

Aliyah hit the grass on the side of the road, and instantly shot back to her feet. She may have not been the sharpest at Ninja school but she hated be treated like a dog. "Tori, remember she is a carbon copy of you," she called. "All photos' melt under water."

Tori nodded and then rushed into battle with her carbon copy twin.

Meanwhile, Shane and Dustin had their hands full with a monster that had appeared out of the middle of nowhere. Abandoning the two boys, Aliyah chased after Tori and her clone, just as the surfer was pushed up against a fountain.

All photo's melt under water, Aliyah's words struck Tori, who turned to the fountain and grinned.

"Looks like you've met your match," the clone smirked. "Face it sister, you're finished!"

"I guess you're the one who's washed up," Tori smirked, calling upon her Ninja powers as a beam of water flew from the fountain, around the real Tori and then splashed over the clone.

"NO!" the clone yelled as the blast of water knocked her off her feet. "Help me, I'm melting!"

Soon there was only a smoldering puddle of wax left on the floor.

"Ew," Aliyah wrinkled her nose as she joined Tori at the fountain. "Guess she's not exactly like you."

"Guess not," Tori nodded. "Aliyah, you should get out of here, go back to Storm Charges, I'll call you later."

Aliyah nodded and took off down the road and around the corner.

~*Lightning Storm*~

Tori walked into Storm Charges the next morning, as she remembered she had promised to call Aliyah before the battle with the copybot, yesterday, but she had forgotten given the circumstance

She wondered what life would be like if Aliyah knew the truth about her secret identity; it would have made life so much easier, at least then she wouldn't have to lie to her every time there was a problem.

As she entered the store, she spotted Shane leaning against the wall staring at her.

"What?" she questioned. "What are you looking at?"

"Nothing, I was just noticing," Shane responded. "You aren't completely unbeautiful, y'know,"

Tori smiled nervously. "Gee...thanks, I think,"

"Think what?" Aliyah asked as she arrived behind her blonde friend. "Why are you staring at me?" she added at Shane. "It's kind of unnerving."

"He's finally realizing that we are more girls than we act," Tori smiled, wrapping her arm around Aliyah's shoulders.

"Do you think you could do that from over there?" Aliyah asked, "Because seriously, you're freaking me out!"

Shane smirked and widened his eyes as he moved closer to her. Aliyah shrieked and shoved him away. "Dude, you're a freak! Go away!" she cried, as Kelly and Dustin arrived.

"Shane, leave her alone," Dustin said. "We all know you fear Aliyah,"

"No I don't,"

Aliyah grinned. "Yeah, you do, I sneak up on you when you least expect it," she nodded. "And you jump. That's called fear."

"Shut up," Shane said, rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

Dustin grinned and turned to poke Tori. "There's a customer over there that needs help with the surfboards, can you do me a favour and talk to him?" he asked.

"You do realize that I don't actually work here," Tori said.

"Yeah, but seriously, dude, just go talk to the guy," Dustin nodded, pushing her in the customer's general direction.

The blonde rolled her eyes. "Fine. Can I help you?" she asked.

The customer turned around and Tori recognized his as the guy from the beach yesterday morning; she threw a suspicious, yet happy glance over her shoulder at the others, all of whom were grinning and laughing.

"Hey," the boy smiled.

"Hi, I'm Tori,"

"I'm Dill,"

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Chapter written by xXxKaraBeckerCutterxXx

Chapter updated Monday, February 20, 2012 at 04:37am