Andros stood on the bridge of the Astro Megaship. He was running his third shift in a row. It was his way of keeping busy since Cassie left them. The others had managed to cut back his ship shifts. But when Andros was in one of his moods, they let him run shifts for up to five days.
"Andros, your shift ended." T.J. said. He entered the bridge.
Andros simply nodded and left the bridge. He aimlessly strolled through the corridors and to his quarters. He fell back onto his bed and closed his eyes.
It gad been a month since Cassie had left. Andros couldn't believe she actually left all of them. At times Andros found himself wiping tears that snuck up on him. Cassie's room had been locked the night she left and no one mentioned her name around him.
Besides his shifts, Andros spent time on the hollow deck. Training and just killing time. Sometimes he would spar against a hollow Cassie as an opponent.
"Rangers Emergency!" Alpha called.
Andros leapt from his bed and ran down the corridors. He met Carlos on his way to the bridge. Ashley and Zhane had beaten Andros and Carlos to the bridge. They had gathered around one of the screens.
"What is it?" Andros asked.
"Someone who's looking for Cassie." T.J. answered.
"They're in for a disappointment." Andros said.
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In the city park and monster destroyed everything in its path. The rangers met in front of it. Its body was a dark pink with tentacles. Several barbs stuck out of each tentacle.
"There's only five of you. Where's the Pink Ranger?" it asked.
"She's gone." Andros answered.
"Well bring her back!" it demanded.
"Even if we could, we wouldn't." Ashley replied.
"Then I'll just have to draw her out." the monster attack. It launched it tentacles at the rangers. They were struck and flew backwards. The barbs stuck to the Rangers and refused to be removed.
"If you won't call her, I'll just take one of you and lure her to me." It said. The barbs began releasing venom into the Rangers. The venom began paralyzing the Ranger very slowly. The monster walked past a few of the Rangers and stopped at Ashley.
"You'll do." The monster lifted Ashley off the ground.
Andros stood and drew his Astro Blaster, "Let her go!" he fired.
The blast hit the monster. It turned angrily to Andros and dropped Ashley. The monster knocked the blaster out of Andros' hand and drove another barb into his body.
"Or I could just kill you all." it stated.
Another blast came out of nowhere. The monster turned, but saw no one but the other Rangers.
"Leave them alone." came a voice. The Pink Ranger leapt from behind the bushes and stood in front of Andros.
"No way."
"Cassie?"
"You came back?"
"So, you are the Pink Ranger?" the monster asked.
"And you threatened to kill my friends." Cassie pulled out her Satellite Astro Blaster combo and fired. The monster was incinerated on contact. The barbs in the Rangers disappeared after the monster did.
Andros stood up. Everyone powered down, including Cassie. "I told you they'd try to use us."
Cassie smirked slightly, "And I told you I could handle it."
"So, are you just going to leave again?" Andros asked.
"Again? I never left the first time." Cassie replied.
"But we thought-"
"After I watched you guys go back into the club, I realized I couldn't leave you all. I snuck aboard the Astro Megaship while you guys took your time getting back." Cassie explained.
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TBC
