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Ch. 10 Discoveries

On the Dark Fortress Astronama was having a strange dream, one about a boy with striped hair and three other children, who appeared to be siblings. They were all playing together and having a lot of fun but she couldn't figure out who they were. She shot up from her bed and opened her necklace. She stared at the picture of her and her twin brother and wondered again if she had been lied to by Dark Specter. She had been having many doubts over the past few weeks. He had told her the Red Ranger killed her family, but he was the same age as her and he couldn't be responsible. She quickly pushed the thought aside and went to plan her next attack against the rangers.

Meanwhile, on the Megaship, Andros was searching several sectors for Karone when a strange thought occurred to him. What if Astronama was Karone? He immediately dismissed the thought but it came back a second later. Could it be? It was the one place he had never searched. He considered in for a few minutes longer before making a decision.

"DECA, can you scan the Dark Fortress for Karone's DNA signature?" he asked.

"Certainly," DECA replied as she began the task. Silently she berated Andros for not thinking of this sooner. She had thought about doing so herself several times but was afraid that if she was correct Andros would blame himself even more. It didn't take her long to find Karone on the Dark Fortress but she was afraid of how he'd react. Taking notice of his slight distraction she contacted all of the rangers and Ashley's family telling them to report to the Bridge.

"What's going on?" Ashley asked as she made her way to Andros' side. At his confused expression she added, "DECA just told us to come here."

"DECA!" he yelled angrily and then it hit him. Why would have DECA told them to all come to the Bridge unless she had found something? "You found something didn't you?" Andros ignored everyone's questioning looks, concentrating only on one of DECA's eyes.

"Yes," she answered simply. At his glare she added, "Astronama is Karone." Andros collapsed into his chair and Ashley immediately sat down beside him. Although he knew that she and the other were talking to him he couldn't make out even one word, all he could hear was DECA saying, "Astronama is Karone."

"Andros?" Ashley asked, shaking him firmly. When he turned to her he saw only determination in her eyes. "We will get her back, okay? We'll come up with a plan and then we'll go get her." He barely nodded, but at least he responded.

"A new monster is attacking Earth," Alpha alerted.

"Let's go!" Andros commanded, pushing his emotions away, knowing that there were more important things to do at the moment. Besides he at least knew where Karone was even if she was his arch-enemy.

"Oh, look," the monster laughed and Andros couldn't help but think he knew this monster from somewhere, "the Power Rangers finally decided to show up!"

"Who are you? Andros questioned. 'That laugh,' he thought, immediately searching his memory.

"I am Darkonda," he answered. "Though I am hurt that you don't remember me, Red Ranger."

Suddenly, it hit him and he was attacked by an onslaught of memories about Karone's abduction. He tried to shake the images from his mind or at least push them back to be dealt with later but he couldn't. He could hear the other rangers going into battle, shouting at him to do the same but he couldn't shake the images playing themselves in front of him.

"Andros," Ashley began, trying to help him escape the memory, "you have to snap out of this." When he made no move to reply Ashley removed both their helmets and forced him to look at her. She hastily threw up all his mental blocks, hoping it would help him at least a little bit. "Come on, Andros. It wasn't your fault. We will get her back, but you have to help us now." Finally, he was able to erase the last visions of the memories and they quickly joined the fight.

Later that night, long after their battle, Ashley woke up to find herself alone in their bed. She quickly pulled on her robe and went to find her soon to be husband. She was surprised when she saw him on the Bridge, but what did surprise her was that he was watching the video data disk from the day she was kidnapped.

"What are you doing?" she asked, firmly turning him around to face her. He immediately looked to his feet but she forced him to look into her eyes. There she could see all the hurt that was playing itself again and again in his mind. "Andros, how many times do we have to tell you it wasn't your fault? You were only six you wouldn't have been able to stop Darkonda even if you would've been there. He would have just taken both of you."

"It would have been better than what they did to me," Andros whispered and Ashley wrapped her arms firmly around him. "He would've beaten me but at least I would've understood it. My dad just started one day and I didn't know why until years later."

"It's okay," she soothed, rubbing small circles on his back. "They'll never hurt you again, I swear. I won't let them." Andros smiled slightly and pulled away.

"You should be sleeping," he told her, running his finger over a bag under her right eye.

"I can't sleep without you," she replied honestly. She didn't want to depend on him that much but she did and she knew it. "Plus, I'm not the only one around her that'll need some sleep. I'm not going to be the one getting up in the middle of the night."

"You'd kick me out of the bed like that?" he asked, giving him his saddest puppy dog eyes.

"You better believe it," she answered. "You're the one who got me into this mess. If I have to pack them around for nine months the least you can do is get up in the middle of the night to feed them."

"But if there's two won't I need help?" he questioned.

"You're multitalented," she responded with a wink. "I'm sure you'll figure something out." With that she took his hand and led him to the Megalift hoping that they both could get a good nights sleep.

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