AN:SORRY, SORRY, SORRY, SORRY, SORRY. And on anther note, my dad should be home sometime in the next month . . . YAY.

Disclaimer: Don't own it and, in the case of some of the more recent seasons, don't want to.


The Astro Rangers, plus Zhane, were camped out in the infirmary when Ashley and Andros teleported back to the ship. Andros immediately demanded to know what was wrong, going straight back into leader mode as he rejoined his team.

Ashley walked in behind him, her worried expression transforming into a slight smirk as she recognized the change in her boyfriend's tone. Her eyes met Servia's over Andros' shoulder and the two of them rolled their eyes at his behavior.

Andros shot a withering look at his best friend as Zhane snapped into a military salute in response to the Red Rangers tone. His glare turned from Zhane to the Pink Ranger when he caught the tail end of her gesture. Servia glanced down in embarrassment then glared back up at the young brunet standing almost directly behind her leader and who was trying desperately not to laugh aloud.

In the meantime, Andros continued to shoot glares around the room for a few moments before giving up and rolling his eyes as well, realizing that the longer he spent trying to subdue his subordinates the more they were going to act up. He glanced behind him, expecting to share a look with Ashley and instead he found her bent double trying to stifle her laughter at the scene.

The look of surprise on his face was all that the others needed and within a few moments the room was filled with the laughter of the Astro Rangers and their friends. Even Andros joined in after spending a few moments trying to quell the rest of his team.

"Oh, oww, oww!" Kerone cried from the back of the room.

Everyone turned away from the door to see her sitting up and holding her ribs with tears streaming down her face as she tried to get her laughter under control.

"Kerone!"

"Kerone, what happened?"

Zhane turned back to his sort-of-girlfriend as her brother rushed to join the two. Ashley stayed beside the door knowing Kerone would soon get frustrated with everyone fussing around her. Besides, there was very little that the Rangers could not take care of in their own med bay.

Instead, Ashley looked around at the rest of the team, taking in the fact that they all knew the truth now and they really did not care. As her gaze wandered over the Rangers she took in the little things that others might miss. Like the fact that Andros was the one treating his sister as she explained her injuries and that Zhane was hovering just over the Red Rangers shoulder, his expression giving away far more concern for the Yellow Ranger than that of her own brother.

Servia and Kalic were leaning against the other bed in the med bay. Their heads were close together and they were whispering to each other. Every so often Servia would giggle lightly in response to whatever it was Kalic was saying.

Ashley smiled at the picture they made and wondered how long they had been keeping this secret. Her gaze wandered on until her eyes landed on Orian. The Black Ranger was rather stoic and preferred to keep his thoughts to himself unless someone asked him something. Andros told her that Orian was the most observant of them and was the one that they relied on to notice the little things while the rest of the team dealt with the major points of their missions.

Prior to that day, Ashley was under the impression that the black haired, slightly Asian looking man did not like her, regardless of knowing about her family. But he was the one who stuck up for her. He yelled at the Turbo Rangers in her defense when she had barely heard him speak in the weeks since Andros introduced her to the rest of the team.

Orian turned to meet her gaze as she was considering him and nodded his head to her with a slight smile, which she returned whole heartedly. He went to cross his arms and winced, causing Ashley's brows to furrow in concern.

"Let me see your wrist." She ordered in the same voice her brother and cousin used while teaching.

Orian looked like a deer caught in the headlights as he held out his left arm obediently; all Rangers were trained to follow instructions given in that tone.

Ashley walked over and gently took his wrist in both her hands, ignoring the stares of the other Rangers. She massaged the left side of his wrist lightly with one hand while listening intently until she reached a spot that caused Orian to take in a sharp breath and wince slightly in pain. She glanced up at his face and gave him an apologetic smile before repeating the procedure on the right side of his wrist, finding a second spot of pain on the right that was parallel to the first.

When she was finished, she gently released his arm and walked over to the back wall where all of the physical supplies and the medical synthesizer were located.

"Deca, can you produce Dioxide Calcinium?" She asked the computer while searching the med supplies for some sort of wrist splint.

"Affirmative, it will be ready in a few moments Ashley."

"Ah ha," the brunet called as she held up a splint that had been hidden in the back of one of the lower cupboards. "Thank's Deca." She said while picking the small cup of medicine up out of the synthesizer before walking back over to where Orian stood.

"You have two small bone fractures, one on each side of your wrist," she explained while wrapping the splint around his wrist. "The Dioxide Calcinium should only need about twenty minutes to heal them fully."

"Wait, wait," Servia, the teams usual medic, interrupted. "First, it takes Dioxide Calcinium at least three hours to heal any actual bone breaks or fractures and, second, how do you know that that's what's wrong, you didn't even scan him?!"

Servia's tone was an almost comical mix of confusion, frustration, and petulance as Ashley did something completely foreign to her.

Ashley's face cleared after a few moments as she realized Servia was not really questioning her in a derogatory way. The Pink Ranger seemed more concerned with figuring out how she had come to her conclusions.

"My mother, adopted, is a nurse on Earth. She started teaching the kids in our family first aid when we were practically still babies because we all got ourselves hurt so often. I got really interested in it when she started teaching me, so she kept going even after I had everything about basic first aid memorized.

"Then, a couple years ago, Divatox came to Earth and realized I was her niece. She left for a little while before coming back and attacking the Earth in earnest and . . . I went with her."

To their credit, none of the others so much as blinked at Ashley's statement. Ashley did not notice this at first; she hadn't looked up at anyone since she started talking, even after she finished working on Orian's wrist. After a few seconds of silence, Ashley felt something bump into her leg and looked up to meet Orian's steady gaze. He smiled a little and nodded for her continue. She let her eyes wander over the other Rangers and saw that they were all waiting for her to continue without any sort of judgment in their eyes.

"I wasn't exactly privy to the world of the Power Rangers at the time," she began speaking again with a look of relief on her face that had all of the Astro's vowing to get some hard "training" in with the Turbo's before they returned the other Rangers to Earth. "I had no way of knowing exactly what she was doing and she wasn't about to share with me right off.

"Anyway, as soon as I figured enough out, I left. I decided to try hitching rides back toward Earth, I guess Divatox decided to meet me there, and was paying for them by helping out the medic's on the ships. I learned a lot about the different medications and treatments from around the Universe and I taught the other medics the techniques I learned on Earth. I also started to find ways to combine different things and make the healing easier and faster.

"You see, Dioxide Calcinium speeds up the re-growth and knitting of broken bones by a tremendous amount and, over time, medics stopped using splints and casts and things because the DC acts so quickly. It would actually only take an hour maybe and hour and a half, to heal a full, clean break except for the fact that the patients are allowed to move. When they move their bones scrape each other or re-brake causing the DC to need more time because it needs to keep re-healing things.

"So I suggested that splints be used to stabilize injuries so that patients stopped re-braking things while the medicine works."

Ashley glanced around when she finished speaking and saw Kerone and Servia staring at her with wide eyes and dropped jaws. Andros, Zhane, and Kalic each blinked a few times before glancing at each other and shrugging in a unanimous decision to move on. Orian just smirked.

"Tha . . . tha . . . that's absolute brilliance." Servia's breathless voice finally interrupted the silence. "Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't anyone else think of that? Why didn't anyone tell me?"

Ashley's eyes widened as the normally calm Pink Ranger began to hyperventilate. The other Rangers just rolled their eyes while Kalic took Servia's shoulders and began whispering in her ear.

It took a few minutes for the Pink Ranger to calm down. She opened her mouth to ask Ashley another question but was interrupted by the ships emergency alarms. Everyone tensed as Andros asked Deca about what was going on.

"There is a monster attacking Landria."

Ashley's furrowed brows went unnoticed as Andros immediately began barking out orders.

"Kerone, don't you dare get out of that bed. Zhane, get up to the bridge and bring the Megaship around to the other side of the planet in case we need it. The rest of you are with me. We'll take the gliders ahead."

Zhane and the four standing Rangers raced out of the room without looking back. The room remained silent as the two remaining women pondered what had just occurred.

"Why would she send a monster to Landria?" Kerone asked aloud. "There's nothing in Landria."

"Because Landria and Cordiyeana are on opposite sides of the planet." Ashley murmured in response.

Kerone looked at the other woman in askance which quickly turned to concern as she took in her friend's posture. Ashley was standing with her arms wrapped protectively around herself. Her eyes were squeezed together tightly and her face was turned away, almost as thought she could not look at the Yellow Ranger, even with her eyes closed.

"What's wrong?"

"Andros was right," Ashley sighed as she dropped her arms and opened her eyes to glare at the door the others had run out of. "Andros with his stupid, stupid paranoia was right."

Ashley sighed and closed her eyes while turning her gaze to the opposite side of the room. She still could not look at Kerone.

"He wanted me on the Megaship for the next few days because he was worried that my Aunt would come after me again. I decided to humor him. After all, Divatox has never come at me full force before. She would just talk to me, fight with me, probably in order to make sure that I kept my skills above par, and then leave me alone for a few days to think it over."

"You're not alone anymore." Kerone's voice surprised Ashley into looking up and meeting the Yellow Rangers calm gaze. "When you were on Earth, almost everyone shunned you because of her. You were isolated and she was able to take her time in trying to ware your resolve down. But here, here you have people who care about you because of who you are. People who will support you and protect you, regardless of whoever your family is."

"Andros." Ashley whispered with a look of dawning comprehension.

"And the rest of us." Kerone nodded her agreement. "Your never going to be alone again Ashley, and Divatox knows that."

Ashley's head snapped up at that, a look of horrified resolve in her eyes that caused Kerone to startle back.

"I have to go.'

"What?"

"She won't stop until she's captured me. I have to go. I have to stop her."

"Ashley, wait . . ."

"No Kerone, the Rangers are needed in Landria right now and there is no telling what kind of damage my Aunt could do, or who she could hurt while we wait for them to get back." Ashley responded over her shoulder as she walked to the door.

"Ashley!" Kerone barked. Ashley stopped, almost involuntarily, at the others girls stern tone. "You can not go down there alone and unarmed."

Ashley turned around in confusion to see Kerone sitting up, her eyes creased with pain, as she held out a hand to her brother's girlfriend.


AN: Okay, so I'm evil. But I promise that the next chapter will be up by the end of the month. There's only two or three chapters left in this particular fanfic, but I have a few more idea's to be set in this universe. I may end up writing all the way through the current seasons. But the emphasis will be on the rest of the Universe, rather than on Earth. Anyway, that's stuff for another time. I'm really sorry it took so long to update, please review, even if it's to yell at me about how long this took.