Another Power ranger fic...hehehe...Anyways enjoy :D

Ashley Hammond sighed as she saw Andros moping around the mega ship. It had been a couple days since Karone had become Astronema again. He had not spoken to anyone in days, and Ashley had tried talking to him about it numerous times. Ashley guessed she should have expected that from Andros, considering he had been brooding about since he found out about Astronema being Karone…he had kept to himself. Then he finally got Karone to believe who she truly was, and she sacrificed herself to save the rest of the rangers.

Andros couldn't believe he lost his little sister…again. Once again, it was his fault that she was once again Astronema. He should have not let her go, and because of his own stupidity he had let her go again. After about a minute of Ashley standing there, did he finally notice that she was actually on the bridge, and looking at him. "Hey Ashley," he quickly muttered. He had been feeling guilty on how much he had been ignoring everyone, but especially Ashley. He had been letting on that he was interested…but had been ignoring her ever since he had become obsessed with finding his little sister.

"Hey," Ashley said in a neutral voice. She wasn't sure how to talk to him at the moment without him going all moody on her. He had Karone's locket in his hand, and Ashley could tell that he might be a little emotional still. He looked like he hadn't eat anything in awhile, and Ashley thought some down time would work out for him. "How about we go grab a burger and a shake down at the Surf Spot?" she asked. She was expecting a rejection, and having to fight him on having a break.

Andros knew he should try and enjoy himself, and be nicer to Ashley, "Um sure…" Andros said, trying to smile. Ashley couldn't believe he had said yes and even attempted to smile. "Let me go get some normal clothes on and we can go," he said noticing that she was already in her regular clothes. A few minutes later he was ready, and found Ashley waiting for him in the teleportation room, fiddling with the necklace that Andros had bought her for her birthday. He actually smiled, seeing that Ashley was wearing it. She stopped fiddling with it as soon as she saw Andros smiling. "That necklace looks good on you," Andros finally said after a moment of him staring at her.

"Thanks," she said smiling; glad he finally noticed that she was wearing it. "You ready to go?" she asked…hoping that he wouldn't chicken out at the last minute. He nodded and they were instantly teleported down to Earth. They started out for the Juice Bar, and enjoyed the sunlight. "Do you miss staying down on Earth?" he asked suddenly.

"Sometimes…" Ashley said after a moment of silent walking. "But I wouldn't trade for what I have now," she said after a moment. Seeming satisfied with the answer, he wrapped a hand around one of Ashley's. She smiled when his hand wrapped around her own. They finally hit the Surf Spot, and sat down and awaited their burgers. Andros had then started to think of Karone, and how much things had changed. Ashley nearly groaned as his depressed face came back, and she hoped that he would think of something else. Even the aromas of the Burgers and French fries didn't snap him out of it.

"Andros…I know you hardly have been eating at all, can you please eat something?" Ashley pleaded with him. Andros finally noticed he was starting to scare Ashley, and took a bite of a burger. He had loved the Surf Spot's burgers, and he had wanted Karone to experience it too.

"I'm not really hungry right now," Andros muttered, starting to get up. Ashley got up as well, grabbing his arm.

"Andros…everyone is worried about you, can't you see that?" Ashley whispered to him, not wanting to make a scene. Andros sat down again not wanting Ashley to freak out.

"Alright," Andros muttered. He took another bite of his burger, and Ashley nearly let out a sigh of frustration. He had seemed interested in her at one point, and then totally shut himself from her. He really didn't feel all that hungry still, but he didn't want Ashley to get any madder at him.

While Andros and Ashley were eating, Astronema was spying on the couple. Karone had been trying to free herself from Astronema's control, but she couldn't regain control of her body. Astronema continued to pick at what little information that Karone had gained of her brother, and his friends. Astronema finally found something worth going at. "It seems like I finally found something worth while to work with. Seems like little Zhane has a crush on you there Karone. I can kill two birds with one stone." Karone desperately wanted to take control of her body, just do anything. Ecliptor couldn't help her anymore. Karone vowed to herself, as soon as she had control of her own body, Darkonda was going down.

"Time to send some quantrons down to distract the yellow ranger…then we can grab the red ranger," Astronema snickered. Karone desperately wanted to warn them, but still couldn't control her body. Soon Astronema teleported with a whole bunch of quantrons, and they started to terrorize the people in front of the Surf Spot.

Ashley and Andros noticed the quantrons attacking and instantly went outside to fight the oncoming baddies. Astronema popped out at that point, making sure that Andros saw her. "Karone?" Andros called out. Ashley saw the evil look in her eyes, knowing it was Astronema.

"Andros don't, it is not Karone!" Ashley yelled out to him, but quantrons grabbed a hold of her, forcing her to fight back. "Andros help!" Ashley yelled, throwing one of the quantrons on her arms off her. She knew she couldn't hold them off for very long, and hoped that Andros would come to help her.

"Karone wait!" Andros called out running towards her, but she didn't listen. He didn't even hear Ashley's calls for help, he just ran after Karone.

Karone kept trying to regain control of her body, so she could warn Andros of the trap, but she couldn't. She tried just moving a finger, but she couldn't even do that. Astronema finally stopped running, and turned to Andros.

"Karone, why were you running off like that?" Andros asked, still oblivious to the fact that it wasn't Karone. Suddenly quantrons stormed around him and locked his arms behind his back. "Karone, why are you doing this?" Andros cried out.

"You are so gullible Andros. You couldn't even tell that Karone wasn't even in control of her own body. Astronema is here to stay," she smiled evilly. Just as she was about to open a portal, Ashley flew out of nowhere already morphed, and tackled the group of quantrons.

Andros finally caught on and started to fight back against them. But while he wasn't paying attention, Ashley got kicked into the portal by a quantron. "Well my plan didn't go exactly as planned, but at least I got one ranger out of the deal," Astronema cackled.

"Ashley!" Andros shouted just as the portal closed…Astronema, the quantrons and Ashley going with her. "No, not her too," Andros shouted to the sky. He knew he needed to save them…both Karone and Ashley. He teleported back to the Mega Ship and already found the other rangers there, talking about something.

"Alpha, we need to head for the Dark Fortress, Ashley got kidnapped," Andros said, trying to keep his emotions in check, so he could save Ashley…

"Wait, what how did she get captured?" Cassie asked following Andros. She looked flaming mad, and Andros really didn't want to explain it right now.

"We were eating…then quantrons attacked…I saw Karone, but Ashley stopped me from being kidnapped…" Andros quickly explained. "I am going to save her now," He couldn't believe that he got Ashley kidnapped…when all she did was try and help him…and tried to comfort him in his time of need. I am going to make this up to you Ash, he thought.

"No you can't go alone!" Zhane said. "We need to go there, and make sure you don't get captured." Zhane said, even though he had secretly wanted to save Karone from being evil. He couldn't believe he had feelings for Karone…he didn't even know her at all.

"I am not letting anyone else getting caught because of my stupidity," Andros shot back at his best friend.

"You are not going by yourself, that is final," TJ said firmly, taking his little leader pose. "We are going with you," the rest of the team nodded.