a/n-totally pointless author's note, cuz i have nothing to say, except REVIEW!

Disclaimer-see above. oh yeah, this isn't mine. well, the power rangers aren't mine. also anything you might recognize isn't mine. and the names are totally random. they aren't copied from anything or based off of anyone, or anyone else's characters. i promise. and that was an extremely long disclaimer. i mean, all i had to say was that i dont own the power rangers, and ive already said that twice already. ok, thats enough of the disclaimer for now, on with the story...

Chapter Three-Remembrances and Discoveries

"HAXEL!"

Footsteps could be heard coming closer and closer to the throne room. Finally he entered the room. Stepping up to the throne, he bowed in front of it.

"Yes mistress?"

"You take too long!" Was all Scarlette said at first. A few minutes later, she actually got to her point. "Some of the rangers are glowing. I want to know about anything that happens on Earth. I am in control now. I need to know what's going on down there."

"Very well mistress." Haxel said, bowing once more. He began to exit the room, but Scarlette called him back.

"And fetch Crystal for me. I need to have a little chat with her."

"Very good mistress." Haxel said, now out of the room.

Scarlette rolled her eyes as the noise of his footsteps receded as he walked down the hallway.

Thirty four years of that! How am I still alive? How am I still sane?

Scarlette was about to answer her question when she was interrupted by the entrance of her younger sister into the throne room.

"Hey 'Lettie." Crystal said. "What'd you want?"

Scarlette scowled. "What have I told you about calling me that?"

Crystal sighed theatrically. "'Don't call me 'Lettie under any circumstances. My name is Scarlette, and I am the Empress of All Evil. I can't have my idiotic little sister calling me strange names in front of other power ful people such as myself, blah, blah, blah.' I think that about covers it, don't you?"

"I didn't say blah blah blah." Scarlette protested.

"Yeah, whatever." Cyrstal replied. "What do you want?"

"I need you to do something for me." Scarlette began.

"NOw, what have I told you about asking me to do things for you?" Crystal reprimanded. "I'm not gonna do it. You can't make me. You know as well as I do that your magic doesn't affect me."

"It doesn't?!"

"Oh, was I the only one who knew that then? Guess the secret's out now." Crystal turned to exit the room. "I think I'll just be going now."

"Oh no you don't!" Scarlette exclaimed, now standing. She pointed her staff at Crystal and a jet of purple light flew out. The light encircled Crystal, but didn't seem to affect her at all. Slowly, Crystal turned back to face her sister once more.

"Was something supposed to happen?" She questioned. "Because all you have accomplished is making me glow purple. Not that repulsive if you ask me. Which of course, you haven't, but why do I care?"

"Are you done yet?" Scarlette asked venomously. "And just so you know, that spell wasn't supposed to do anything but disable you from walking anywhere except for in the purple light. So, good luck getting out. I'm sure the light will move around a bit, you'll just have to follow it to see where it goes."

Scarlette left the room, leaving Crystal behind, showered in purple light.

Hours later, the light still had not died away, and Crystal had made a discovery about it. Not only could she only move in it, she had to move with it or suffer the painful consequences.

After a while, the purple light seemed to pass right through the golden light next to Scarlette's throne. Crystal had always been curious about this light. It had been there since she was a young girl of about five. She remembered vividly the say it had first appeared...

Flashback

"What are you doing in here?" Scarlette snapped.

"I want mu-mummy." Crystal stuttered. "When is she coming back?"

Scarlette looked at her younger sister reproachfully. "Mother isn't coming back. I explained this to you years ago, when they left. Mother and father have no place here now. You'd be better off just forgetting about them."

Young Crystal burst into tears. "But I want Mommy! You're a big meanie 'Lettie! I just wanna see my mommy!"

"Well you aren't gonna see her." Scarlette taunted. "Now go away. I have important business to attend to."

"Like what?"

"Like finding out where Goldar got to." Scarlette snapped.

Crystal wrinkled her nose in disgust. "I don't like him. He's a big meanie, just like you. 'Cept you're meaner." She added in an afterthought. "I don't want that big gold monkey comin' back to our castle."

"It's not a castle and it's not 'ours' as you so...nicely...oput it. It's mine and mine alone."

"Is not! Mommy said it was gonna be all mine when I got bigger. You just made mommy and daddy go away so you could have it." Crystal said, tears threatening to fall from her eyes once more. "I could kick you out."

"I wanna see you try." Scarlette hissed. "But you're just a little girl. What could you do?"

"You aren't gonna find out till it's too late." Crystal replied before stalking off, her blonde pigtails swinging behind her, shining in the light reflected in the room.

A bit later, she had been in the corridor outside of the throne room crying about what Scarlette had said to her, when a woman came up to Crystal and started talking to her. She seemed nice enough. Nicer than Scarlette at least.

"Crystal." The woman said softly. Crystal looked up.

"How-how do you know my-my name?" Crystal stuttered.

"Mommy and daddy sent me." The woman said quickly. "They told me to tell you that they miss you, and want you back."

"Bu-But 'Lettie said they didn't love me anymore." Crystal said.

"'Lettie lied." The woman stated. "Mommy and daddy are waiting for you."

Crystal smiled.

"Now," She continued, "Can you tell us where we can find 'Lettie? We need to yell at her for making you cry."

That certainly hit the spot with little Crystal, who raised one arm and pointed at the closed door across the hall. The Throne Room.

"She's looking for Goldar. He never came home." Crystal offered. Then, a scowl crept onto her face. "I don't like him very much either. He's a big mean gold monkey."

The woman and a man with her glanced at each other and looked like they were in great pain. In Crystal's opinion anyway.

"Thanks Crystal." The woman said, standing back up. "We have to go talk to 'Lettie now, but we'll be back. There should be some more people following us in a few minutes. Try to stay out of their way, ok?"

Crystal nodded, and another woman led the group over to the door. Cautiously, she stuck her head in the room. From the sigh of relief that she let pass, everyone could tell tha the room was deserted. Leaving Crystal behind in the hallway, they all entered the room, as silently as possible.

End Flashback

Something had happened to those people.

Sure enough, more people had followed, and Crystal had stayed out of their way, but none of them had ever come back out of the throne room. But the next time Crystal had actually walked into the throne room, that golden light had been in there. And Scarlette had told her to never ever go anywhere near it. Now was the perfect opportunity to find out what was in there.

Following the purple light precisely, Crystal passed straight through the golden light. And all of a sudden, she wasn't in the throne room anymore. No, she was in a darkened room full of startlingly life-like statues.

Statues of people she recognized from all those years ago.

The people who had never left the throne room.

They were here.

And they were Scarlette's prisoners.

Crystal was about to walk forward for a closer examination of the 'statues', when she noticed that she was no longer glowing that funny purple color. Instead, she was surrounded by a white aura.

With a laugh to herself, she wondered if Scarlette turned black when she walked in here.

Shaking her head slightly, Crystal advanced towards her sister's captive's once more. She had to get a closer look at them. She wanted to find a way to save them.

She needed to find a way to save them.

a/n-so now we know what crystal and scarlette have been up to for the past few years.

question: do you want goldar to come back? he was sent to this intergalactic prison type thing, but he can always break out or be broken out.

tell me what you think, when you review!