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Disclaimer: I do not own power rangers or Harry Potter but if I did some definite changes would be made. However I do own Kimberly's parents and any other OC's that I may put into the story later on.

Angel Grove Youth Centre:

The gang had arranged with Ernie to put two tables together earlier on in the week due to the increase in numbers. So now at one end of the table was Kim and at the other end was Hermione. Next to Kim was Tommy then Billy and Trini. Then it was Aisha, Adam, Rocky and Zach with Jason sat next to Hermione.

Despite the conversations taking place around her, Hermione's main focus was on a young asian girl that was sitting at the bar. She seems so familiar! she thought with a frown. "Hey what's wrong?" Jason asked with concern as he followed her gaze.

"I feel like I know her from somewhere but I don't know where." she cried out in frustration as she looked at him before turning back to the girl.

Jason wrapped an arm around her and smirked. "A sensible thing to do then is go and talk to her." he replied amused at her frustration until she turned to glare at him.

"I was going to anyway." she snapped shrugging out of his grip and making her way over to the girl whilst the others snickered at his stunned expression.

The girl appeared unfazed as she approached and held a lost expression across her face that Hermione could relate to all to well. "Erm...excuse me." she started waiting for the girl to look at her.

The girl jumped slightly and turned towards her before gasping in shock. "Hermione!" she said her eyes wide and wary as the other girl offered her a small smile.

"Cassie Chan-I can't believe it." Hermione replied with surprise. Just yesterday she was talking to Jason about the war and Cassie and now she turned up at Angel Grove a day later. This week just keeps getting better and better! Hermione thought with amazement as she pulled her estranged friend into a hug. After a few minutes Cassie pulled out of the hug and looked around awkwardly unsure of what to say whilst Hermione took in her appearance and smiled. "So what are you doing here?" she asked her curiously as she sat down next to her.

A pained look flickered across Cassie's face but disappeared as quickly as it came. "I'm living with my Aunt now." she said staring intently at the counter unable to meet her friends gaze.

"What about your parents?" Hermione asked before wincing at the pained look that once again flickered across her friends face as she looked up at her. "Sorry. What happened?" she asked sadly as the girl looked away.

"I don't wanna talk about it. It was during the war." she whispered softly as she leaned her head onto her arms in comfort.

Hermione was taken aback in shock. How could I not know this? she asked herself as she looked at the girl sympathetically and wrapped an arm around her. "You could of told me." she said softly as she pulled her close.

"We had enough to deal with without adding my problems to the mix." the girl replied in a bitter tone as she pulled out of her friend's grasp.

Hermione's eyes widened in surprise and she decided that it was best to back off from the subject until a better opportunity came up. "No relatives in England then?" she asked with a smile as a relieved look flashed across Cassie's face at the change of subject.

The girl looked into Hermione's eyes and smirked. "Plenty of them-just none that wanna put up with a problem child. Aunt Julie's cool though and at least I have one friend in Angel Grove now." she said happily excitement bounding around in her eyes.

Hermione watched her in amusement. "So has your aunt enrolled you at high school yet then?" she asked grinning as she watched her friend groan at her before laying her head down on the counter.

"You just had to spoil my good mood." she quipped as she glared at her friend who looked at her innocently. "It's Angel Grove High-but I don't think i'm gunna do well there. After all I haven't really looked at muggle subjects in years..." she trailed off as her friend watched her with amusement. "What?" she snapped growing annoyed.

"Your worrying over nothing. I go there aswell so I can help you out." Hermione said with amusement as her friend looked at her surprised.

"You could of told me." Cassie groaned looking around and noticing a group of teenagers looking at them with curiosity. "Friends of yours?" she asked and Hermione followed her gaze to see her friends watching them before looking back at Cassie and pulling her up.

"Yup. Come and meet them." she quipped as she dragged her over to the tables. "Guys this is my best friend Cassie Chan. Cassie this is my cousin Kimberly, her boyfriend Tommy and our friends Trini, Billy, Aisha, Adam, Rocky, Zach and my boyfriend Jason." she gestured to each one in turn with a huge grin.

Cassie looked at them all in turn and held a questioning gaze with Jason as he looked at her sympathetically. Does he know? she wondered as she offered them a brief smile. "I'm not very good with so many names so it may take me a while to get them right." she said sheepishly and they all laughed at her.

Bringing up another seat to the table Hermione waited for Cassie to sit down before she spoke." Milkshakes are all on me she exclaimed happily before bounding up to the counter.

As soon as she was out of ear shot everyone turned to look at Cassie. "How do you know Mia and for how long?" Tommy asked with narrow eyes as he leaned forwards in his seat.

"From school in England and for around 3 years. Though I don't see why that's any of your business." she said raising an eyebrow at him and watching him squirm around uncomfortably in his seat whilst the others looked stunned. "And i'm guessing you all met her through-Kim was it?" she asked scrunching her face up in concentration as she looked at the girl for confirmation.

"Right!" came a chorus of replies as Rocky jumped forwards in his seat to speak.

"Well actually Adam, Aisha and I met her here a few weeks ago." he said casting her a charming smile.

She cast him suspicious glance and he shrunk back in his seat with a frown. "You just became friends with her." she said almost dis-believingly unaware that the her friend was stood right behind her.

"Is that so hard to believe Cass?" Hermione asked in a hurt tone.

The girl stood up and turned to face her with a frown. "It's not that I find it hard to believe-heck your one hell of a friend to have around. It's just...you know what forget it. I'm just gunna go." she said guiltily as she walked away from the table and towards the exit.

"No Cassie, tell me what you mean." Hermione called out refusing to back down. The rest of the group watched the two with mixed emotions as Cassie turned to face her once more.

"You have a habit of trusting people to much." she snapped before turning around and walking away once more.

"Yeah well it's better than not trusting in people at all." Hermione replied with venom. She watched as Cassie stood frozen for a moment before walking out of the youth centre. She sat down at the table with her friends and put her head in her hands releasing a deep sigh. "I can't believe that just happened." she confessed with regret as Jason rubbed her back soothingly.

"Do you wanna tell us what that was about?" Trini asked with concern from across the table.

Hermione looked at her wearily and went to shake her head but stopped at the last second. "Back in England I used to get bullied a lot by some guys who pretended to be my friends for a while. Back then I wasn't very good at standing up to them and Cassie was there for me. She'd stand up for me and became really protective when somebody wanted to be my friend. She taught me to stand up for my self and helped me learn how to brush up on my martial arts skills. She is so amazing and she even gave my best friends the third degree for a while." she finished with amusement in her eyes.

"So that's why she was like that with us then?" Kim asked her cousin with a new understanding.

"Yeah!" Hermione replied softly with vacant eyes. What she had told them was true but it didn't even begin to explain why Cassie was really the way she was. I have to help her learn to trust in herself and others again! she told herself sadly as she looked towards Jason and saw his concern. "Will you help me look for her please? I need to apologise." she said with concern over what Cassie was going through.

Jason nodded in understanding and they both stood up as he looked at their friends. "We'll see you guys later." he said grabbing Hermione's hand and walking away from the table, towards the exit of the youth centre.

Angel Grove Park:

Cassie Chan sat on the bench staring out into nothingness. Well that was what she felt like anyway. After leaving the youth centre she had walked around for a while before coming across the park and deciding to walk through it. The final words of what Hermione told her still rang clearly in her ears and brought back some memories that she would rather forget about.

Flashback:

Cassie hurried down the corridor ignoring the shouts of concern from her 'friends'. Suddenly an invisible force grabbed her by the arm and dragged her into an empty classroom. As the door slammed shut a dark haired boy came out from under a cloak looking over at the girl.

"What the hell is your problem?" she snapped glaring at him angrily as she raised her wand at him.

"What the hell is my problem? Ask yourself the same thing?" the boy retorted back in annoyance.

"Sorry Potter but I don't know what you talking about." she replied icily, refusing to back down.

"Why are you so against us being friends with Hermione-in fact why are you so against being friends with Ron and I?" Potter asked exasperatedly running a hand through his raven coloured hair.

Cassie unconsciously began to lower her wand as she began to pace around the classroom in frustration. After a few moments she broke the peaceful silence between them. "Because I don't like to see her getting hurt. I think she trusts in people to much so i've made myself her protector. You and Ron have some qualities in you that make me believe your unsuitable for her. But...it's her choice. And I just don't trust you guys okay." she snapped harshly as she stopped pacing around the room to look at him and await his reply.

"You don't trust anybody." he commented though he didn't sound surprised.

"It's safer that way." she replied softly as she opened the door.

"Safer for who?" he asked softly with sadness in his eyes as she turned to look at him once more before walking out of the classroom leaving the question unanswered.

End flashback:

A flash of gold and silver passed her eyes and she looked up to see a gold monster and some grey things surrounding her. She jumped up quickly and got into a fighting stance. "Who are you?" she asked as she looked at them all.

The gold monster let out a low rumble before it spoke. "I am the mighty Goldar. These are the putties. Now attack!" he roared. He did not want this human to get away like the last one.

Cassie's eyes widened in surprise for a moment but she quickly regained her composure as the putties ran at her. She sent a punch to the chest of one and ducked as another ran at her. It flipped over her and knocked the other putti on the ground before she flipped back and sent a high kick to another putti, watching as it fell back into three others.

Goldar growled in frustration. "I will not let another human escape." he snapped pulling out his sword and charging at her. Cassie knocked down another putti and spun around to see Goldar running at her with a sword. She rolled out of the way as he swung at her with his sword and glared at him.

"Hey. Do you always treat people like that or is it just those that are better looking than you and your friends?" she asked in an annoyed tone as she dodged another attack.

Goldar roared in anger. "Why you puny human if my Queen didn't require your presence I would destroy you right now." he snapped swiping out at thin air as she flipped back and dodged his attack once more.

A blur of pink jumped in front of her and turned towards her. "Get to safety." she said before running off to join the fight.

Cassie didn't need telling twice as she ran off and knocked into Hermione who was stood in front of her. "You just can't stay out of trouble can you?" she said with a grin as they got up off the ground.

Cassie laughed-it was her first genuine laugh since the war had ended and spoke with a mischievous glint in her eyes. "Well I can't help it if I attract trouble now can I?" she cried out in despair which earned a chuckle from her friend.

Suddenly a flash of red passed their eyes and they turned to see the red ranger standing in front of them protectively. "I will not let you hurt them Goldar." he said calling out for his spiral saber and preparing to attack.

Goldar stumbled backwards in shock as did Hermione whilst Cassie stood there stunned. "Another red ranger. No matter I will destroy you anyway." Goldar said running at the ranger who dodged the attack.

Cassie snapped out of her daze and turned to Hermione grabbing her hand and pulling at it. "Let's get out of here." she said dragging Hermione with her. They ran for about 5 minutes before slowing down and sitting down on the bench.

Hermione finally broke the silence and turned to face her friend. "I'm sorry about what I said in the youth centre." she said with a small smile as Cassie pulled her into a hug.

"Don't worry about it-i'm not. In fact i'm more concerned about what your friends think of me." she said pulling back from and looking at her sheepishly.

Hermione grinned. "They think your my hero protecting me from getting hurt by others. You'd get on well with them if you gave it a chance." she said with a slight pleading tone at the end.

Cassie frowned and looked away for a moment before turning back to her with a fake smile. "I'm happy with your friendship." she said. When Hermione went to say something she jumped up from the bench and looked around hastily. "Let's go back to the youth centre." she said quickly, reaching out for her hand and pulling her up.

Together they walked down the path completely unaware that they were being watched by a ship up in space.

Angel Grove Youth Centre:

Hermione and Cassie were just about to enter the youth centre when they disappeared in yellow and pink lights, appearing on some kind of ship above Earth moments later.

Above Earth:

"What the hell just happened?" Cassie exclaimed looking at her surroundings.

Hermione also looked around and was able to identify that they were on a ship of some kind. "I'm not sure. Maybe we should take a look around." she said, anxious to find out how much danger they were in.

Cassie nodded though it was curiosity that made her so eager to look around. They walked down a long corridor and came across a lift. Cassie turned to her friend. "Let's see where this goes Mia." she cried out in excitement as she entered the lift. Hermione looked around unsure of herself but the decision was made for her as she found herself being pulled along by her friend.

Moments later the doors opened and the girls stepped out to find that they were on the bridge of the ship. Hermione looked at the controls in amazement. "The technology is amazing." she sighed breathlessly.

Cassie grinned at her and walked up to the windows in awe of what she saw. "It's beautiful." she exclaimed softly before spinning round as a newcomer appeared on the bridge. Hermione blushed at being caught but regained her composure when she recognised the newcomer. However before she could say anything he took off and the girls chased after him. "What is your problem?" Cassie snapped once they caught up to him.

"How did you get on my ship?" he asked with suspicion as he got into a fighting stance. Seeing his move Cassie also got into a fighting stance whilst Hermione stood and watched in exasperation.

"Guys cut it out. Your the red ranger that saved us earlier right-so you won't harm us. We got here by some type of teleportation that I assume you arranged but the question is why?" she said in her know-it-all-tone.

Cassie smirked at her logic whilst the red ranger looked up at a small camera before looking at them once more. "Stay here!" he said before running off through a door and closing it behind him.

"Jerk!" Cassie muttered whilst her friend shook her head in amusement.

After a few minutes the door re-opened and a young teenage boy with streaked shoulder length hair stepped out holding an item in each hand. He smiled at them tightly and held out what appeared to be two black wrist watches. "Take them." he said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Hermione reached out to grab one when her arm was yanked back. She glared at Cassie who ignored her and looked at the boy. "Who are you?" she asked as she narrowed her eyes in suspicion.

The boy looked at her impatiently and sighed. "I'm Andros from the planet KO35. These are morphers." he said in an annoyed tone.

Hermione looked at the morphers with curiosity before looking back at him. "Morphers, they're what power rangers use right?" she said. Andros nodded and she reached out for one. "Count me in." she said with a smile.

They both looked at Cassie who looked conflicted. Finally she reached out for the other morpher and they both grinned at her. "I'm only doing this to make sure you don't get hurt." she said looking at Hermione with a determined glare. Then she turned to Andros. "My name is Cassie Chan and this is Hermione Granger. Just because i'm doing this doesn't mean I trust you." she added sternly though there was a small twinkle in her eye that told him different.

His eyes widened as though he recognised their names but he simply nodded and went to walk away when Hermione grabbed his arm. "We need to get back down to Earth." she told him with a smile.

Again he nodded and led them to a room that had five large holes with a different colour above each. He turned to look at them with a serious expression. "Do what I do." he said before flipping open his watch and typing in the code '3-3-5'. Suddenly the boy was replaced by the red ranger once more.

The girls nodded at each other before flipping open their watches and typing in the code. Moments later the girls disappeared and in their place were the pink and yellow rangers. Hermione looked down to see that she was now the yellow ranger and groaned. "Great a new wardrobe for me then." she said before whipping her head around to Cassie who was snickering at her. "It's not that funny pinkie." she snapped smirking as she watched her friend go silent.

Cassie was quite pleased with her colour because it meant she didn't need a change of wardrobe but she decided it was not wise to tease her friend anymore so instead she turned to see the red ranger standing next to the whole with his colour above it. "What type of rangers are we?" she asked curiously.

"Astro rangers." he said simply as they walked to their respective coloured holes. "You cannot reveal your ranger identities to anyone." he told them sternly before jumping through the hole and leaving two stunned rangers.

Cassie looked at her friend and shrugged her shoulders before jumping through her own hole. Moments later she was followed by Hermione and together the three of them zoomed down to Earth on what Andros called the Galaxy gliders.

A/N: This is where I will leave this chapter. Please read and review and I will update soon.

A/N: Next chapter will see team building, start of school and Andros meets the others.