Satin and Sparks :The wedding trilogy vol. 2

By Lady Lightspeed and Dana Grayson

Summary: As the special unit investigates three killings which could be ranger related in Blue Bay Harbor two new agents are forced to work together in a race against time.

Disclaimer: neither of us owns anything Power rangers wish we did but sometimes we don't always get what we want.

Author's note:

Dana Grayson: We're back

Lady Lightspeed: (covering Dana Grayson's mouth as she hisses) hey we want them to read the story not run screaming in the other direction.

Dana Grayson: some people just don't get humor.

Lady Lightspeed: either way this is the sequel to the wedding which is now renamed the wedding Vol. one lasers and lace. It takes place in spring of 2005 and… (Holds hand over Lady Lightspeed's mouth)

Dana Grayson: We hope you'll read it and find out for yourself what it's about.

Additional author's note: the first part of the chapter is just the stats of the three victims. It's supposed to be as if Tori is reading over them.

Danny elis

20

Brown hair

Brown eyes

Earth ninja

Motocross

Lived in apartment: 4c 315 Winslow Street, Blue Bay Harbor

Gia Muldoon

19

Blonde hair

Blue eyes

Water ninja

Diver

Lived in apartment 3c: 315 Winslow Street, Blue Bay Harbor

Eric martin

20

Hair, black

Eyes hazel

Air ninja

Skate boarding

Lived in apartment: 2c 315 Winslow Street, Blue Bay Harbor

"According to what I found each of the three victims attended classes at the wind ninja academy." Justin said matter-of-factly skimming the data scrawling on his computer screen.

"When?" Tori asked frowning.

"2004, Gia was one of your students." Kim said leafing through her own papers.

"Well I did teach all water ninjas." Tori nodded then frowned. "I don't remember any Gia though."

"There was a tattoo on her right shoulder it said starEric." Dana put in helpfully.

"Alright, Star, yeah I knew her." Tori nodded after a minute, the girl had been in Marah's class, not as out spoken as the former bad girl but still Tori remembered her.

"I don't understand this," TJ said looking to the doctor. "How could they all be electrocuted but only have their brains damaged?"

"I'd think their might be a device like that, after all hospital's use defibulaters to restart harts and they don't disturb other parts of the body." Justin murmured thoughtfully making a note to look it up later. .

"There's another way." A voice said and Tori turned at the sound of the familiar voice.

"Hunter I'm glad you could join us." The head of the unit rose to greet the new comer.

"No problem." The thunder ninja replied and then scanned the room a minute. "You've already started."

"Yes, just have a seat and…" Carter was saying but Tori couldn't believe he was there, she'd not seen Hunter since Reefside and he looked different, dressed in a pair of black trousers and the matching dress shirt. His crimson tie the only link he wore to the rangers. Yes, Hunter Bradley had definitely changed. Since she'd joined the unit six months ago she'd not run into anyone she knew so now was a little uncertain how to act. Not that she'd ever been that comfortable in the first place. No, Hunter made her very nervous, she didn't even know why." When he took the empty seat beside her it didn't help matters either.

"Everyone meet the newest member of the unit." Carter said and all eyes went to the one-time crimson thunder ranger.

"You know ever since doc got here we just keep growing." TJ shook his head.

"That's TJ Johnson, the one-time blue astro ranger; beside him is Justin Stuart, the one time blue turbo ranger, then Jen Scott's on the other side beside Kimberly Scott and her husband Jason Scott."

""from your file you already know Tori Hanson and I'm Dr. Grayson." Dana finished up the summary so it wouldn't take too long. AFTER ALL they had a case to solve.

"Right."

"You were talking about the shocking means of death." Hunter said after another minute of introduction and Carter nodded.

"We're trying to get a grip on the situation."

"Well, as I said when I came in there's one other way I know that could directly fry someone's brain." Hunter then looked to each at the table before letting his gaze rest on the blonde beside him. "Like all rangers the power comes with certain abilities and Tori you know that with ninja's theirs can be separate."

"A lightening ninja?" Tori asked frowning. She'd never met one although she'd heard of them from time to time. The question is why would they want to kill wind ninjas? When Tori said as much Hunter didn't even have to think.

"Because he thought that the three victims were the three of you."

"You think its vengeance." Carter nodded. "I'd been thinking as much but it sounded too easy."

"And very like Mirinoi." Dr. Grayson mused.

"Mirinoi?" Both Tori and Hunter asked looking at the pair in question.

"On my first case," the doctor began. "The half brother of two villainesses killed 6 innocent by standards to make the galaxy rangers nervous."

"He was after both the lightspeed rangers and the galaxy team." Jason said as the doctor was tight lipped, no doubt from the memory of losing her father. After all it had been Kai or rather Kieran Chen who'd killed everyone including Captain William Mitchell

"And that case was like this one." Hunter nodded thoughtfully. Although he knew in their line of investigation it was dangerous to link two crimes together without blunt cause, just in case they were totally different. "The thing was who but one of the students at the school would know about the academy? After all it wasn't like sensei ever advertised at the supermarket was it." Hunter said looking at the water ninja who agreed.

"So the question would be who would not know enough to have gone right after us but to have known where we trained?" Tori closed her eyes in a hope to block out all else so she could get some sort of an image of the killer. Not like psychics did but more abstract. Sensei had always said a ninja could always sense other ninjas and by the time they'd graduated she'd learned to detect just that in people. She had known it in Kimberly heart Scott when they'd first met; she'd seen that same glow about the pink clad woman as she'd seen about Shane. It was why she'd not been surprised to find out she was not like them but her animal as some ninjeti's had a bird.

"Then again the killer could just be using the same tact to scare you, in a little cat and mouse game." Dr. Grayson said remembering her own bout with a killer. She hoped she was wrong, she'd almost lost all she'd held dear, she didn't want to see anyone, especially someone as sweet as Tori Hanson go through that too.

"So we go in and see what we can find out." Tori said knowing that it would be hard; she'd have to use three of her best friends but what if it was one of them? On the other hand what if one of them were next?

"Yes sending you two in would make the most sense, after all you're from there and since Tori you were a student at the wind ninja academy no one would think twice about you poking around there."

"Actually," Hunter was frowning as he looked to the blue clad woman to his left. "Two of our friends are getting married in a couple of weeks that will allow us to arrive and not stir too much trouble."

"Hey that's right Tori you did ask for a few days off before this came up." Kim nodded.

"Yep."

"You know I think there's something that will work to further the cause." Justin said from where he still sat looking at his computer screen.

"What's that?" Jason asked, speaking for the first time in a while.

"If they pretended to be engaged they could spend more time together, and it wouldn't seem odd." The mainframe wizard explained then added. "Too if you have to call in you can pretend your working on wedding plans of your own."

"Wait a minute, I can't…" Tori began thinking of Blake, true she'd never been with Hunter's little brother as more than a friend but it could cause problems if the navy thunder ninja showed up for the wedding.

"It makes sense." Dr. Grayson nodded as did her husband. What the blonde physician didn't add was that if she was right the two new members of their group' having to spend more time together might just light that spark she had sensed the moment Tori heard his voice. To Dana's way of thinking love was something everyone needed, even if they didn't know it. She'd not known it until she'd thought she'd lost can rather and now they were expecting their first little one.

"If you need back up I might even be able to get us invited." Jason said looking to his wife who nodded.

"A friend of ours taught the dino thunder team from Reefside."

"Wait you know Tom Oliver?" Tori asked in surprise.

"We went to high school together." Both Jason and Kim said at the some time and Justin shook his head.

"Kim also dated him when he was the green and white ranger."

"Talk about a small world." Tori laughed, she'd not remembered that from the personnel annals she'd studied after joining the unit.

"Alright." Hunter spoke up and Tori jumped as if being caught doing something wrong, he must have been answering a question but which one? She'd been thinking about the past and lost track of the present.

"Good the two of you can leave in the morning." Carter said from the end of the table and Tori knew that she'd be on that flight out of Angel Grove.

To Be Continued

author's note:

Lady Lightspeed: Alright, the story might have some of the similar ideas in the beginning but things are rarely what they seem when it comes to rangers or murder. please r/r.