Aaron was just thinking about closing her book and going to sleep when there was a knock on her door. And when she gave permission for this Aaron got a surprise to see Ashley standing in the door way. "Even though you worked us to the bone, and I know I should sleep I just can't for some reason." Ashley said stepping inside the room which actually looked lived in and looked like a home instead of the cold grey walls she saw in her new quarters.

Aaron's room was brightened with various green tapestries that had either been bought on the different planets or given as gifts from various people since returning to her people. Aaron set the book on the floor next to her bed and sat up being careful not to hit her head on the top of her bed. "Ashley, I am sorry for making you work so hard today, will you come sit with me and we can talk, I can braid your hair, did you know that when Andros, can't sleep he comes to me and lets me braid his hair?"

Ashley laughed, "He seems even more uptight then you seemed today, I can't imagine you and him sitting here talking and you braiding his hair. I couldn't sleep because I want to know what you have been up too the last two years, it drives me crazy not knowing, and that maybe me finding out can ease my curiosity as well as tell dad that you are happy and healthy, he has been a nervous wreck since you left. Dad lost everything that was important in his life within a month of you disappearing, first you go and then within a month Marissa up and left him, with not a word just one day he came home from work and everything of hers was gone."

"Ashley she left because the only reason she married dad was because of me, her mission was to keep me away from the rangers, keep me from my destiny. When I returned with Andros and the UAOE found out they had her called back as soon as they could, not a word has leaked since then about her or Jetrin. It can only be thought that for failing with such an important mission it cost them their lives." Aaron said looking at her blanket which was far form the standard issue blanket and had been a gift hand made by her mother; though it wasn't pretty it had been made with love in the refugee camp on Triforia where she currently resided. She and Aaron had met by accident earlier that year while getting some assistance with repairs on the mega ship.

"Aaron tell me right now, what happened when I ran away those two years ago, and you stayed behind; the last time I saw you?" Ashley begged

"Alright Ashley, if I tell you thins will you let me go to bed?" with a nod from Ashley Aaron smiled, "when you ran and I stayed behind I watched the rangers and when they weren't fighting, I approached them. They didn't seem to believe me except for the pink ranger, she came back for me after the battle and took me to their base. I passed out form the shock of everything soon after getting to the base. The next thing I knew was when I woke up and Andros was there, he had the family picture that had been in my pocket in his hands and was staring at it. After bantering about my identity he decided I was really one of the lost Kerovian children so he took me with him when he returned to the ship.

Flash back

Aaron's first day on the ship

The two materialized on the command deck of the mega ship however Aaron promptly passed out again once she realized she was in space.

When she woke up she about an hour later Andros was by her side and she was in the med bay "Andros where am I?" Aaron asked weakly

"It is alright, you passed out again, I brought you to the med bay, you are extremely weak, have you eaten since this began?"

"Not really, not unless my sister or her mother forced me to; I didn't feel hungry, I know it was probably a bad move, but I couldn't help it." She responded weakly while trying to sit up.

"Whoa, don't rush it, you will make your self sicker." Turning away he picked up a glass of something, "Here drink this it will help."

Aaron took a sip and it was all she could do to not spit it out, "Andros this disgusting, what is it?"

"It's a mineral drink, I find it pretty good, it'll help you feel better." Andros said taking the other cup and drank it however Aaron did not miss the glassiness in his eye's as he drank it in one gulp.

"Sure Andros! That is why you nearly threw it back up as well, you were just trying to get me to drink it by making me think it was good when in truth you find the stuff nasty." Aaron laughed while holding on to the cup.

"How about I give you a short tour of the ship and then we get something to eat, that will help you get your strength back. Then you can get some rest and tomorrow we can begin training."

"Training Andros?" Aaron looked shocked

"Yes, I am going to train you to fight, that way we can be a team. We are the only two people now that stands between the UAOE taking over all of our people." Andros replied.

"I have never fought in my life, Marissa said that fighting was wrong, and wouldn't let me learn anything more then basic self defense, even though Bill, dad, said that I should learn Karate." Aaron said still sitting on the bed.

"So that was part of the plan, keep you away from your destiny, and on top of that they were afraid that if you learned any sort of martial art it would bring out in you what you were already learning when they kidnapped you, you were already training back then." Andros helped her off the bed and then walked with her around the ship showing her where everything was.

When they stopped they were in the rec room where they would eat some dinner, it was late for Andros even though it wasn't that late by earth time standards. Andros picked something out and forced her to eat it, he wouldn't let her get down from the table till she had finished, she didn't like being treated like a little kid but she ate to make him happy, after all she would be living with this boy for who knows how long.

After she had finished, Andros told her it was time for bed. He was really treating her like a little kid. "Andros but it is only," she looked at her watch, "seven o'clock. I am not really tired."

"You may not be but you should rest, anyways by Kerovian time it is nearly the equivalent of midnight on Earth. A day on KO-35 is about four hours longer making them about twenty-eight hours per day." He again walked with her, though thins time it was to the room that would be hers.

Showing her inside the simple room that was made up with a green standard issue blanket, the walls were an ugly shade of dark grey. And to Aaron the room felt cold and frightening. "Andros, how come the room is so bare, there aren't any decorations. And what will I do for clothes; I remembered I didn't bring any with me."

"D.E.C.A estimated your size earlier and I got you some uniforms over there, if you want I can find you a large shirt for a night gown."

Aaron shook her head and grabbed the training sweat out of the pile of uniforms Andros had left for her. Andros stepped out of the room and said he had a few things he had to take care of before he himself turned in. "I will come back and check on you on my way to be alright?" Aaron nodded as she straightened out the sweats.

When Andros finally went to bed that night he as promised stopped by her room, he heard her crying and when he walked in she was curled up under the blankets. "Aaron what's wrong?" he came up beside the younger girl.

"Andros, I think I am home sick, I miss my bed because this bed is nothing like mine at home, and I miss dad, and everyone, I don't know, I think I want to go back to Earth." Aaron said looking at him with her face tear streaked.

"Aaron it is alright, but right now, there is too much danger going home, to earth, the UAOE most likely knows by no that you have met with me and know of your true destiny, you don't know what they would do to you." He paused, "I will be right back alright, I am going to get something." When he returned he had a couple of things. "These were Zhane's, I thought they might help." He then motioned for her to give her the standard issue blanket, which he had to admit he never liked. "This blanket was made by your and Zhane's mother as a graduation gift from school three years ago, in my opinion it is a much better blanket then those standard issue, Kina made one for me as well, just before I got my morpher. She had made two both identical hoping that you would come back to the colony; however in the war it was probably lost." After he had laid the blanket over her, he picked up off the ground where he had left it, a stuffed dog. "this was also Zhane's I thought having something that he had loved nearly to pieces would help."

"I can just imagine my brother carrying this around when he was little." Aaron smiled feeling a little better

"Who said anything about when he was little. He slept with it every night, the team and I got a laugh over it. Out on both the training and battle field he was one tough warrior, however you catch him in his room and he is like a little kid, one day he even forgot what time it was and came to training holding it in his arms. The rest of our team was much older and left over from out parents, so they already made Zhane and I feel like little kids, that just made them tease him more."

Aaron laughed, "Andros tomorrow will you tell me more about my brother, I mean what was he like, did we look alike?"

Andros stood up, "Sure, I will tell you everything you want to know." He then stood up and walked to the door, "And, don't worry Aaron, no matter what, as long as I am here, you don't need to be scarred, I will take care of you. Good night." And he walked out of the room. Aaron cuddled into the blanket and fell into a deep sleep.

The next morning Andros let her sleep in, before he got her into any for of regular schedule he wanted her to get her strength back, and to stop passing out every time something new was thrown at her. When she finally got up he made her eat something and went about teaching her some basic skills as well as how to use the different pieces of equipment on board the ship. They just took it slow but he noticed she was having a hard time adjusting to the Kerovian time schedule.

Later that night after he had made Aaron go to bed, yet again early even by the Kerovian schedule. He had asked to borrow her watch when he put her to bed and now sat in the computer core staring at it. "D.E.C.A, what would we lose by putting you on Earth time?"

The current time schedule came up compared to an earth one with only twenty-four hours instead of the Kerovian twenty-eight hours. Other then losing four hours a day, based on the schedule they had on board there was more then enough time in twenty-four hours to get everything done. Ok so not quite as much time for free time activities, but once Aaron is strong enough to handle her own work load, it will cut the chore list in half and give more time. Plus later on when she is better adapted to living on the ship, we can always change the time schedule back. I want this transition to be easy on her, it will be easier or me to adapt to a shorter schedule then it has been for her on this schedule. "D.E.C.A, I want to officiate the time change, put it to an earth time schedule. There was a brief surge of power as D.E.C.A reset herself making the needed changes to her programming. When everything was back up and running Andros noted the new time and after fiddling with the watch he changed the time on the watch to match the time now displayed on the screen.

Standing up, he decided that he should probably go to bed seeing what time it was on the new schedule, and he would have to learn to get used to losing those four hours a day. He decided that he wouldn't tell Aaron that he had changed the time on her watch, only that the ship was on a twenty four hour schedule, besides it was only an hour off and that could be corrected latter on with the earth day light savings time. Amazingly it was the same on KO-35 with a 365 day year, it just took longer for the KO-35 to spin around it's axis. Eventually he would have to adjust it to get them back into synch with KO-35 when the war was over but for now it would be fine he guessed.

Over the next few days, the time change was hard on him but he got used to it, but Aaron seemed to get better. She adapted to the ship better and even started to gain weight that had either been lost in the last week or that had just been kept off on earth because of her life style, and wanting to fit into the hottest styles.

By the end of the week she was learning how to take care of the ship by working right along side Andros with the chores, she had caught on quickly and was soon doing some of them by herself, Andros had to admit that the time change had to have part of the difference by making her more comfortable. He was also training her fairly hard but she didn't complain and in fact enjoyed the training time with him because while he led her through Kata's and other training he would tell her about KO-35 and of Zhane.

Andros had to wonder just how much time they had before Dark Specter reared his ugly head again, because he knew that he had to get Aaron into shape, to be able to hold a morpher and be able to fight well enough on her own to protect herself in a battle.

Through the training the real Aaron came out of her shell and showed her true colors. As Andros had thought hiding under her weak fragile form that had come to him was a girl that was full of laughter and enjoyed having a good time and to Andros' dismay shared in her brother's favoritism for pranks.

He didn't know when the shift came but it came about two or so weeks after coming on board that she seemed to fit into the roll of a Kerovian perfectly and it was then that he knew she wouldn't go running away at the first sing of a scare and decided to give her, her locket back. The very same locket that had been yanked off her neck when she was two; however the chain had been changed to one sized nearly perfect for her. During that time she quite trying to keep her hair out of her face and started to study Kerovian hair styles trying to learn them which was humorous to watch because most Kerovian women never cut their hair up to their shoulders which was her hair length and she found her hair much too short for many of the styles. So she would be doing something and her hair would just slip out and go all in her face.

The day came when Dark Specter did rear his head, and Andros had to admit he wasn't prepared and ended up on his way to his galaxy glider he threw the green morpher at Aaron. Aaron surprised him and caught it, "Andros, you think I am ready?"

"Aaron no time to find out, Dark Specter is attacking and I need your help. You are going to have to prove yourself on the battle field, I was hoping for more time but that, evidently is not going to be given to me. Just stay close to me and follow my moves, don't do anything rash and get your self in trouble, this is most likely a challenge to see if you are with me."

"Alright Andros," Aaron said falling in beside him as he ran to the launch bay.

Upon getting to the launch bay Andros gave her a crash course on how to use a galaxy glider. When they got to the planet it was empty or so Andros thought until he saw Astronama walk out from behind a tree where evidently she had been waiting for him. Right now till she could prove her self she was working with a high level war lord as one of his henchmen, but Andros knew that very soon Astronama would usurp that war lord, she was just that strong.

She called up the foot soldiers of this particular war Lords taste and ordered them to attack. "So red ranger, you do have Aaron," she said upon seeing the green ranger attack, that is all I needed to know she smiled gleefully and then retreated.

"Andros, what was that all about?" Aaron asked turning to look at Andros.

"Don't demorph yet," he said as Aaron seemed to hesitate with her morpher. "It was just as I thought, a challenge, the UAOE has undoubtedly recalled Abna/ Marissa, and they wanted to know if she had truly failed before they could punish her in the way they deemed fit for failing with such a mission. Come on lets return to the ship, we can work on training you more, they are undoubtedly going to up their attacks on us and try to succeed with their plan of eliminating all the rangers."

"Andros, you mean, do they want to kill me?" Aaron said and Andros could tell that fear was building up under the dark visor of her helmet. Andros didn't respond he just instructed her how to call for her glider to return back to the ship.

Once back on the ship Aaron took off and Andros decided after an hour that he had to go find her. He found her sitting on her bed holding the stuffed dog of Zhane's he had given her. "Aaron, they want to kill all rangers, rangers are the only beings standing between them and universal conquest."

"Well maybe I should never have looked for the truth, if I had stayed on earth, they would have left you alone, thinking you would die off and I would have been safe."

"Aaron, don't you ever say what you just said, I may have wanted to give up yes but do you want to know you gave me a reason to live just as I gave you a reason to keep on going. You were unconscious when Alpha and Zordon were trying to contact me, I gave them a hard time, because I WAS ready to give up, I could care less. And there is no telling how safe you were on Earth, you could have been living on borrowed time, at least here you have a fighting chance and I have a reason to live." Andros stood up, "So you going to stop wallowing in self pity and join me in the simu-deck for some additional training?" he said offering her his hand and she took it.

"Oh my goodness Aaron, it sounds like you have had quite the two years" Ashley said yawning, then stifling the yawn and looked at the clock. "Could you tell me one more story Aaron, tell me about the blanket, cause it looks interesting," Ashley said in a off sort of voice as if she was just being polite.

"Well alright but just this one last one then you need to get to bed, or you will be sorry when six-thirty comes around tomorrow morning, and do not tell Andros, that I told you, some of the things I just told you." Ashley just nodded.

"Alright," Aaron began. "It was earlier this year and the ship had sustained some damage, we ended up docking at a station around Triforia. While Andros was procuring the parts I went exploring in some of the markets, to see if I could find anything to add to my collection." Aaron spread her arms to show that everything that was hung up or sitting on shelves were the collections she was referring to.

Aaron, much older and much more mature then two years ago walked around the markets of Triforia. Her hair was actually long enough o stay up in the hair styles without any loose ends falling out although today for purposes unknown to her she had dressed in Kerovian dress that had been on the ship and must have been owned by one of the female rangers before her; but wore her hair down with the exception of a small portion of her hair which was twisted back and fastened to make a sort of crown. Her hair that wasn't tied around her head now reached most of the way down her back. As she was walking around a marketplace close to the edge of the main city very near the Kerovian refugee camp of Triforia she saw a woman who had to be in her mid thirties carrying a heavy basket, she had just come out of the camp and was obviously trying to sell her hand made wares so she might be able to make a little bit of money for food.

Aaron was stricken by the woman's familiar appearance and she cautiously made her way over to the woman to see if she could have a look through her basket, eager to support a fellow Kerovian. She was only yards away when some unruly Triforian children decided to knock the woman who was already small and lithe, wobbling under the weight of the basket. She had found out her self a while ago just how unruly Triforian children were when they were not born of noble birth. These children looked like they were poor and probably lived on the streets ran over to her and tried to knock her down so they could see what was in the basket and whether it was nay good for them to steal it probably.

The children succeeded in knocking her off of her feet however Aaron caught the basket and tried to order the children off however knowing that she was a Kerovian they did not listen to her and just kept taunting her along with the woman. So while Aaron was holding the basket she dropped down into a defensive state to try and scare the children off, it worked and they ran away afraid that, that Kerovian was actually going to beat them up.

Turning to the woman, Aaron offered her, her hand and helped her off the ground. "I am sorry, but you look awfully familiar" the woman replied upon being helped up. "But I don't know how, seeing as you are wearing fine clothes, that haven't been worn since the evacuation of KO-35. Thank you immensely for your help," she said gesturing for the basket back.

"No, no, let me help you, I have a while before I have to meet my companion," thinking better then to say that she was a ranger, in case the woman had some sort of grudge against the rangers for not protecting the planet and allowing them to stay on the colony. "Those children may come back, and try again to steal from you." The woman nodded her appreciation and they went about walking about the market place never once exchanging a name.

After a while the woman decided to turn back having sold half her wares and was getting tired. She told Aaron that she was weak and had been since she gave birth to her twins, sixteen years prior. The twins were hard on her. "However it is not like it matters, both of them are dead, now at least most likely, everyone knows that Zhane died during the evacuation, and Aaron was kidnapped fourteen years ago."

Aaron stepped back startled but quickly recovered, "what is wrong dear? You look like you just saw a ghost."

"I might as well have." Then Aaron muttered under her breath mother although the woman never heard in the roar of the crowds. "What did you say your name was?" Aaron asked looking at the woman as they approached the gates to the refugee camp.

"I never did dear." The woman said distracted looking for her card that would tell the guard she lived in that camp. "My name is Kina though, and what is yours, you never told me either."

Handing the basket back to the woman, "I have to go, I am so sorry, I just have to get back to my companion." Aaron took off but down the road a ways, she stopped and leaned against the wall crying. "why does fate have to be so despiteful of me, why." It was half an hour later when she finally stopped her crying and picked up her communicator, "Andros, I have to do something, I will be late coming back."

"Aaron are you alright, you sound upset." Andros, replied

"Yes Andros I am fine, I just had a run in with fate that is all, I will be fine though, if you need me, I will be in the refugee camp on the end of town." Aaron said sobbing a bit before disconnection her connection to Andros.

Turning around, she walked up to the gate and flashed her morpher which identified her as a ranger. The guard let her in without any questions asked.

"Excuse me sir?" Aaron asked the guard, "Do you know where I can find Kina and Rabin." The guard nodded and gave the directions to their tent. "Thank you." And she took off.

Upon coming to the tent, that she had been told was theirs she heard two people inside talking. "Rabin, I met a young woman in the market today, she wore nice clothes that have not been seen since we evacuated KO-35, in fact the design looked very familiar like something Leoma used to wear. She was a very nice girl, but I never found out her name, I got to talking about Zhane and Aaron, and she got a look in her eyes that made her seem like she had seen a ghost and she took off as soon as she could. She was quite mysterious, never told me her name either." Kina finished her story to her husband.

Aaron decided, know was as good a time to interrupt so waking up to the tent entrance, "My name is Aaron." Kina whipped around and stared at the Aaron and stood open mouthed, "I am home mother." And she knelt down and started to cry again.

"Aaron? Is it really you?" Kina said making her way over to the opening of the tent "have you really come home?"

Aaron just nodded and bowed her head. "Yes." She whispered as tears dripped down her face.

Rabin came over to pick her up and get a good look at her face. And once he got a good look at her face he grabbed her in a huge hug.

"Where have you been Aaron? What happened to you? How did you get here?" Kina said crying.

"It is a long story mother, but I will tell you that I have been with Andros the last two years."

"So it is true the rumors that the red ranger was joined by the green ranger and have been fighting together since then. We thought it was hopeful wishing on some others parts, just trying to keep their hopes up that the red ranger was not out their fighting alone."

Kina stood, "Please Aaron eat a meal with us and tell up where you have been? The meal isn't much but please we insist that you share it with us." Kina begged.

"Alright," Aaron smiled and was welcomed into her parents' simple tent.

Over the meal, Aaron told them of her years spent on Earth and about her family there which she had not seen in almost two years. After the meal the couple sorrowfully gave Aaron a hug and sent her on her way, knowing that she had work to do. But Kina did not send her empty handed, "I wish I could give you something nicer, like what I gave Zhane, but the material here in the camp just isn't good, and the good stuff out side the camp is much too expensive on the little money we have. But it was made with love as all my wares are, that is all that is important."

Unfolding the wrapped object it turned out to be a blanket, rough, simple and dark colors with a patch of green and grey every so often. "Oh mother, it is beautiful, I couldn't take it; this could bring you a good amount of money."

"No I never intended for it to be sold, take it and cherish it, never ever forget us Aaron." Kina smiled and wiped away a tear as she stepped back. Rabin gave his long lost daughter a hug and pushed her away a bit as if symbolizing that she should go and get on with her life,

"Go Aaron, the sooner you get that ship fixed and back in the war, the sooner our people can come home." Rabin said joining his wife and wrapping his arm around her. They waved farewell as Aaron backed away the setting sun darkening her view of her parents.

Once out side of the camp Aaron took off at a run not, wanting to have to fight any of the night time street thugs that were bound to be around.

Getting back to the ship, Aaron went right to her room to set the blanket down and to have another good cry.

Andros knowing that she had come back went to find her, he found her in her room holding the blanket. "Aaron are you alright, what happened out there?" he asked getting sympathetic.

"I met my mother Andros, and My Father, did you know they were on Triforia? They live in this little hovel of a tent, in a refugee camp. I spent several hours with my mother without her recognizing me or me recognizing her." Andros just leaned over and hugged her and comforted her.

"It will be alright Aaron." He just hugged her some more, "get some rest, we can finish the repairs in the morning." Then he left her to be alone.

"Oh my Aaron that must have been so awkward, I am so sorry for making it seem like the blanket was ugly, your real mother is right, it is made with love and that is all that matters." Ashley Yawned "Alright I am going to go to bed so I can actually get up in the morning for training." Ashley laughed and exited the room leaving Aaron alone with her blanket which was now rolled up in her lap and she was clinging to it nearly crying like she had when her mother had given it to her.