"How could he do that?!" TJ exclaimed, not for the first time. There where just not enough words to express his feelings right now. Or any of theirs for that matter.
"We have to go rescue him," Ashley said quietly.
"Are we sure he even wants to be rescued?" TJ demanded.
"That's ridiculous!" Cassie said.
"Yeah, of course we need to rescue him. Astronema captured him!" Carlos reminded him.
TJ stopped pacing and folded his arms. He refrained from saying anything, but it wasn't hard to guess what he was thinking. Did she really? Or did he go with her? He had stood in between his teammates, and their enemy, defending iher/i. Something had passed between the two of them then, they had all seen it. They had all heard Andros before he had disapeared in a flash of purple.
"Yes." What had that meant? What had she said to him? Had he agreed to go with her? Or was he simply answering a question?
A silence fell over the group as they pondered the implications of what had happened, while they tried to determined what it was that had happened.
"We need to call Zhane," Cassie said, finally breaking the silence.
Andros sat in the small room. It wasn't a prison cell, but it wasn't too far from one. He imagined it's intended purpose was living quarters for the lowest ranking crew members. The walls where bare and windowless, the only light in the room was a harsh floresent fixture on the ceiling. The only furniture was the bed with threadbare sheets he was sitting on and a small table and chair.
She haddn't said anything, bu Andros knew there where guards posted outside the door. And he was sure if he tried opening it, he would find the door it'self bolted shut from the outside.
Had he made a terrible mistake? No, he answered himself imidietly. He had protected his sister. He didn't regret that for a second, no matter what came of that decision, he would never regret it. Comming here, that wasn't something he had chosen. She had teleported him here. If she had asked, would he have gone with her? It wasn't a question he quite knew the answer to. But he knew one thing. Astronema was Karone. She was his sister, and she was the most importand thing in the universe to him. He just hoped that she believed that.
"What do you mean he went with her?!" Zhane practicaly shouted.
The other rangers, not Andros, had contacted him and said there was an emergency. Five minutes ago, he had burst out of the Megalift and he still didn't know what had happened. They weren't making any sence.
"Andros found out Astronema is his sister," TJ started again. His tone was driving Zhane crazy. Andros was missing and he sounded like he was explaining the plot of a bad movie.
"There was a monster attack and Andros defended her, then..." he trailed off.
"Then they teleported away," Cassie finished. "We don't really know if he went with her or if he was captured-"
"Of course he was captured! Do you really think that Andros would just go with Astronema?"
The other rangers exchanged looks, none of them willing to meet Zhane's eyes.
"We're going to rescue him," Zhane said bluntly.
"Of course we are," Ashley said, sounding more than anything like she was trying to convince herself of this.