A/N – here's a treat. A longer entry!

JasonScottLeefan – nuts. I completely forgot about that. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Andros walked out of the mess hall and towards the hangar bay. "Deca, are there any damages to the ship?"

"None" Deca reported.

"Then why did their shuttle drop out of hyperrush?" Andros asked.

"Reason unknown."

"Alright. I'm going to take a look at the shuttle's programming." Andros said as he headed for the hangar bay.

The former turbo rangers had finished sulking around. T.J. and Carlos got some food, Cassie went to one of the quarters to sleep, and Ashley decided to walk around the ship aimlessly.

"Um, it's Deca, right?" Ashley asked the ship.

"Affirmative." Deca answered.

"Could you tell me where Andros is please" Ashley requested.

"Andros is in the hangar bay, on deck 5."

"Thanks. And uh, how do I get there?"

"Deca, can you locate the program?" Andros asked from inside the Nasada Shuttle.

"Yes. The program has been found."

"Access it. What's the program's function?" Andros asked.

"Unable to comply. Program is locked with a level 10 Karovan code."

"But how could an Earth ship have a Karovan code?"

"Perphaps the answer is on Earth." Deca suggested.

The shuttle door opened, and Ashley entered. "Hey."

"Hi. I'm almost done. Time for you guys to go home."

"How bout you? Do you ever go home?" Ashley asked.

"This is home. "

"What about KO-35? What about your family? Or your friends?" Ashley asked in a slightly concerned tone.

"My people scattered themselves throughout the galaxy when we abandoned KO-35."

"Why don't you come back to Earth with us?" Ashley suggested.

"No. I've got a mission to complete." Andros replied.

"If you push yourself too hard, you'll burn out."

"Your shuttle's ready to take you back to Earth."

"I see. Well, you're always welcome on Earth if you ever feel like it."

"Andros." Deca interrupted.

"What is it Deca?" Andros asked.

"I'm detecting ships in the system. They're headed for the megaship on an intercept course."

"I'm on my way." Andros said as he ran towards the bridge, followed by Ashley.

Andros and Ashley arrived at the bridge.

"Deca, report"

"Seventy-five velocifighters and one unknown vessel all within firing range."

"On screen." The viewscreen showed veliocifighters as well as one large ship, which Andros assumed to be the flagship.

"Deca, set hyperrush course for Entac, hyperrush 9." Andros ordered. The ship rocked. It was hit with a barrage of shots from the squadrons of velocifighters.

"Hyper-engines are offline." Deca. Reported.

"Damnit. Deca, raise shields. Arm all weapons, prepare to fire defensive laswers once they get within one light second. Fire forward batteries!" Andros commanded.

The megaship complied and began firing at the incoming velocifighters, and managed to destroy a third of the velocifighters before they, as well as the large ship began firing. Sparks flew everywhere on the bridge.

"Shields down to 70%" Deca reported. The megaship was hit with another round of fire from the velocifighters.

"Hull breach on deck 14, sector 2." Deca reported again. Ashley just watched Andros in action, not knowing how she could contribute.

"Seal off the section and deck." Andros ordered.

"Ashley!" A familiar voice called out. It was Cassie. She had come up to the bridge with Carlos and T.J.

"What's happening? T.J. asked.

"Deca, reroute all available power to shields, concentrate fire on the velocifighters, prep missile launch tubes 1 through 50." Andros ordered.

"Andros, how can we help?" T.J. asked.

"Just shut up and stay out of my way!" He snapped.

"Missiles ready."

"Damnit. Launch missiles." The megaship launched 50 missiles all towards the flagship. However, they were all intercepted by the velocifighters that had either shot down the missiles or flown into the missiles, not only destroying the missiles, but themselves as well. The large ship responded by firing its own weapons.

Andros knew what was coming next. "Hold on!" He said to the others as the ship started to fall out of orbit and into the planet it was near. The Megaship descended hard and fast into the atmosphere. Andros did all he could to try to slow down the speed of the ship.

"Deca, reverse thrusters!"

"Thrusters are offline."

"Reroute power from weapons and secondary functions to shields!" Andros ordered.

Andros buckled himself into his seat. "Buckle up! We're going down!" Andros said. The other rangers rushed to a seat and braced themselves for the impact. The Megaship fell into the planet at a low angle, a trajectory which saved the ship from certain destruction. As the megaship fell onto the planet, it hit some mountains on the way down before finally landing in a wide canyon.

The bridge was full of sparks. The lights were flickering. The crew was physically fine because they strapped themselves to a chair, which had held its place.

"Damage report." Andros said.

"All primary systems are offline. Hull breach on decks 11, 9 and 6." Deca reported.

"Is everyone okay?" Andros asked.

"Yeah. I think so." Cassie said.

"I'm in one piece." T.J. reported.

"Same here." Carlos and Ashley said.

"Andros. The flagship has landed, and is now offloading quantrons." Deca reported.

"What's a quantron?" Ashley asked.

"How many, Deca?" Andros asked.

"Currently, there are 50 quantrons. Two velocifighters have also landed."

"Do we have any missiles left?"

"Four."

"Target the ship and fire."

"Princess Astronema, the megaship has armed weapons." Ecliptor reported.

"Activate the shields and defence lasers." Astronema ordered.

"They are offline."

Astronema's eyes widened, and she knew she couldn't stop those missiles.

"Abandon ship! Now!" Astronema ordered. Most of the quantrons had finished disembarking by the time she gave the order. Ecliptor and Astronema headed for the nearest exist.

BOOM. The large ship was hit with all four missiles and was destroyed.

Astronema and Ecliptor were knocked off their feet from the force of the blast. The two had somehow managed to get off the ship in time to avoid being killed in the blast.

"Are you alright my princess?" Ecliptor asked as he helped Astronema get back up on her feet.

"I'm fine. Just attack the ship!" Astronema said angrily.

Andros was running through the ship, and the former turbo rangers were right behind him. Andros stopped at a door on deck 8. He entered a code and entered into the room. "Stay here." He said. In less than a minute, he came back out with four morphers in his hands.

"Here." Andros said as he passed morphers to the others.

"They're Astro morphers. My instincts say that I can trust you guys, and I need the help."

The new Astro rangers put on their morphers.

"We'll help you out." T.J. said.

"Yeah, man. You can count on us." Carlos added.

"Great. Now just push the button on the bottom. It'll open the cover. Then press 335 and eject. That will activate the morpher."

"Got it." They said.

"Let's go." Andros said as he ran for the door, with his new team behind.

As the Astro rangers left the ship, they activated their morphers.

"Wow. This is incredible." T.J. said.

"Here they come." Andros reported as he took out his blaster. The others also drew their blasters.

They waited until the quantrons got closer. Andros spotted Astronema and Ecliptor at the back.

"Astronema…I'll get you this time." Andros said quietly so that no one would hear him. Andros aimed his blaster at Astronema and fired. Astronema saw the shot coming and dodged it.

"Get them!" She commanded.

"Open fire!" Andros ordered. The Astro rangers began firing their blasters at the quantrons. One by one, the quantrons fell, but there were still so many quantrons coming at them.

"Spiral Saber activate!" Andros said. The black part of his helmet emitted a green ray, and created a sword with a drill shaped blade. After the weapon was created, the green ray disappeared and the sword dropped, but Andros caught it.

"Woah, how'd you do that?" Carlos asked.

Instead of answering, Andros charged towards Astronema, while striking every quantron in his way. The other rangers charged the quantrons and engaged them in hand to hand combat.

Andros jumped into the air and was swung his sword down towards Astronema, but Ecliptor jumped in and blocked the attack with his sword. Ecliptor pushed Andros backed.

"Run princess. I will take care of the rangers." Ecplitor said as he blocked another attack by Andros.

"I'm not going anywhere." Astronema said as she fired a shot at Andros with her staff, but deflected it away with his spiral saber. Both Ecliptor and Astronema charged at Andros, and Andros did the same. They were evenly matched. Andros couldn't land a hit on either of them, and vice versa. Finally, Astronema managed to hit Andros and knock him down. She smiled.

"Well, looks like this the end for you red ranger. I wish I could kill you slowly, but, I've got so much to conquer, and so little time to do it." Astronema said confidently. She pointed her staff at Andros. But before she could finish him, she was hit with a shot from a blaster and fell back.

"Princess!" Ecliptor helped her up. "Please, princess. We must leave."

The other rangers were closing in on them.

Astronema paused. She didn't want to leave, but she knew she and Ecliptor wouldn't be able to fight all five rangers. "Fine." They ran towards the velocifighters and fled the planet.

"Are you okay?" Ashley asked as she helped Andros get up.

"Yeah. Thanks."

"Who was that?" Cassie asked.

"Astronema, Dark Spector's successor."

"His successor…" Carlos said.

"Come on. We need to get the Megaship flying before she comes back to finish us off." Andros said as he walked back to the Megaship.

A/N – well, finally, some action :p Hope you liked this one. Please review (or subscribe!) and share with other A/A fans.