A.N.: Wow... I feel like crap... Six months... Sorry. I went away to Europe in July, and starting right away in September I had a show to do, because I was in King Lear. I have a bit of a break now, and I am really trying to get back into this story. I have been really distractable(I know, not really a word) lately, and have a bunch of ideas for this story. Plus, the original draft of this chapter got lost when my family laptop crashed. So, that was a real downer... But here you go, you have waited long enough. After this one, the chapters will start to be longer!

Pairings: Andros/Ashley

Other dimension Andros/ Other dimension Ashley

Tommy/Kim

Disclaimer:

Kim: Well…. Sadly, Tess doesn't own Power Rangers…

Andros: If she did… Well there would be a lot of things different in the series… So yeah, Power Rangers belongs to their rightful owners and stations. Sadly.

Kim: Also the story idea is BlueNinjaTori's. She was just asked to write it for them.

Word Count: Around 900 words


Andros and Zhane led the way towards buildings that 'Dros and Z had taken off to. Andros was still mumbling darkly under his breath about rude people. Zhane shook his head, knowing very well that the way 'Dros had acted was very much like how his best friend used to act, before he was frozen.

Zhane was thinking, hard, as they walked. Elandra... The name was familiar for some reason.

Eventually, they reached the small grouping of buildings that made up what was left of KO-35. Zhane led them to a building that he had spotted the other two go through. He knocked, and after a minute, Z opened the door.

"Can I help you?" He asked, not coldly, but not in the most inviting manner.

"Look, we would love to get out of your way, and go home, but in order to do that, we need your help to find the monster who stranded us here. I apologize for our Andros' behavior towards yours."

"No, don't apologize for him. If he wants to apologize, he can." 'Dros said, coming to the door, and glaring at the rangers.

"I think you owe these rangers an apology yourself, 'Dros. After all, you were kind of a dick. You don't know what they have gone through." Z told his friend. Both of the Andros(es) glared at one another as Z opened the door. "Come in, we may as well get acquainted." He told them.

Zhane smiled at his counterpart and led the way in. "Okay, well we may as well start our story by telling you both about what the 'Earthlings' have gone through." He told Z. The male nodded, and invited them all to sit down, and get comfortable.

For the next hour or two, Ashley, Carlos, Cassie, TJ, and Andros began to explain to Z and 'Dros what had happened in the Ranger's lives, Andros telling about his experience with them, while the others told about their time and training as Rangers before they met him, proving that they had some experience.

When they finished telling their story, 'Dros stood up and left the room. Z sighed and shook his head. "I am sorry. He took our team's death hard. He just doesn't want to deal. From what you told us, with the exception of you two not having a full team when KO-35 was attacked, our time-lines seem to match us pretty well. Our team consisted of Elandra our Pink and Andros' wife, Corina was Purple and my girlfriend, Dianne our Yellow, Ze'ke the Blue, Tate was Black, and I think you can guess about 'Dros and I. We had all trained in the academy for years, and were like a well oiled machine... I guess that may be why, while most of the planet burned, we were able to build refuge for the few survivors... Tate and Dianne died first... They were forced out of their morph by a monster. They managed to take him down, but couldn't morph in time to stop the onslaught of the attacks from Drones. It was too much... Ze'ke, in a fit of rage, took on all the Drones. He wiped them out, but had to be evacuated by Corina and myself to a med tent, as he was drained, and couldn't sustain a morph. The battle was long... Corina disappeared. We never did find her, but after, it was just assumed..." Here he broke off for a moment to grieve his lost love. "Ela... She was poisoned by a monster while trying to heal Ze'ke. She wasn't allowed in the field as she was pregnant... With twins... Andros went on a rampage. He was unstoppable, it was a suicide mission. He was convinced he had nothing left to lose, his whole family was gone. He hunted down the monster and obliterated it, and then drove every dark force off the face of the planet. He was gone for a month. While he was gone, I was nursing Ela, trying to keep her healthy until Dros returned. At the same time, I was searching out survivors, and setting up a haven. I finally found someone to watch over Ela while I went out and searched for Dros. It took me a long time, but I found him, fighting off the last of the Drones. I stepped in and beat it for him. He was exhausted, and collapsed the second the last of the robots was destroyed. I had to carry him back to the medical tents. He wasn't allowed to leave for weeks. And after he was finally allowed. He left... When I ran into you guys, it was the first I had seen of him. That had to have been at least eight months to a year ago now. I didn't know what to think. I couldn't help him. I still can't. He won't talk to me. He wants to find Dark Spectre and destroy him. Alone." Z said.

The rangers were all silent as the story was completed. It was hard to believe the trials that they had gone through, considering they were all the same age. Zhane looked at his counterpart. "I am so sorry that all happened to you... It had to be hard..." He said. He could imagine how he would feel in that situation, and he knew that his best friend would have reacted exactly how his counterpart was if he had gone through all that. 'Dros was trying to keep himself together, even if it meant tearing apart his friendship with the only person he had left, and following a path of self destruction to do so. He was so like Andros that Zhane was surprised no one else had picked it out yet.


This is really short, but its the end of the chapter for now. I will upload again as soon as possible. That update will be both chapters 8 & 9. I will try to have them up by the middle of January if my schedule permits. The chapters will start to get longer soon, once I sort out all the transitional ideas I have in my brain.