disclaimer: I don't own the power rangers, maybe some day, but not now. The song's not mine. A New Day Breaks belongs to Amy Studt.
summary: AU The biggest twist in the PRT/PRiS universe you've ever seen. New morphers, new rangers and quads!
Necroblade: Thankies. You're right, the weapon does suit Andrea and you're also right about Andros and Ashley being kindred spirits. They didn't try to make up because Ashley was the one who needed to make the next move and she didn't know how to until that moment.
Arwennicole: Yeah, Andrea is annoying isn't she? And you don't have to worry, Zhane is going to wake up very soon and two or three chapters later Andros and Ashley are going to get together, kinda. They are definitely a cute couple. I'm obsessed.
The-power-of-love: For now I'm updating every day, I'll let you know when I won't be able to anymore.
Jenny: I just LOVE your story. I'm glad school doesn't keep you from reading as well as writing, now you mention it, it does sound a lot like each other. I didn't even notice.
Born To Fly otherwise known as The Freak
Chapter 10
Andros' arms settled themselves around Ashley's waist again the moment his feet landed on his glider. This time he immediately felt her relax in his arms and she placed her arms over his.
"Hold on." He knew he didn't have to tell her, but it somehow felt right to say it.
He felt her shift a little as he accelerated and then settle herself again, leaning against his chest. Her helmet hid her face, but he had a feeling her eyes were closed and her expression was probably one of tranquillity, like she let herself forget out the monster for a while and just enjoy the moment.
When Angel Grove became more detailed he sighed slightly, not wanting to disturb Ashley, but knowing he had to.
"Ash, we're here."
Her head or rather her helmet turned abruptly and he could feel her eyes staring at him.
"Did I say something wrong?"
Her helmet shook, telling him 'no'.
"It's just nobody but my brother and his band call me Ash. It caught me a little off guard."
He nodded then he jumped of his glider and focused his attention on the monster in front of him, knowing beside him Ashley did the same. Only moments later, there was no monster to focus on anymore.
When he opened his mouth to ask the obvious question, the ground suddenly started to shake and load footsteps rumbled through the air, a Rhino like monster was dashing towards them.
Everyone seemed to have the same idea as him and eight Astro Blasters fired simultaneously. The rhino hit the ground and disappeared too.
"Well, that was easy, let's go back to the Megaship." Andrea stated.
As they turned around, Ashley caught Andros arm for a moment.
"Something's not right her."
The words put a smile on his face. She didn't have the years of experience he had, but that wasn't showing. He gave her a quick nod to let her know he was thinking the same. An annoyed exclamation from Andrea told him they had been right.
Two more monsters were standing right in front of them. Two more monsters appeared and the first two reappeared with them. A moment later Satellasers fired and the very first monster grew to Megazord size.
"Maybe you'd better get out Phantom's present again." Ashley told him.
Calling for the Battlizer he watched the Delta Megaship appear, transforming into the Delta Megazord. While trying to battle the monsters nobody noticed the ray hitting the Delta Megazord.
Only when Andros found a hole in the battle to give an order to it, mainly because Ashley was watching his back, did they notice something was wrong.
"Damn." Andros cursed, blocking the blow of one of the monsters.
"What's wrong?" Ashley asked, ducking and planting her elbow in the stomach of the monster attacking her.
"It's not responding." Andros replied, punching 'his' monster on the word not.
As if to prove Andros' point the Delta Megazord took off, transformed back and left. Just then all monsters disappeared.
"What the hell is going on?" Carlos exclaimed, frustrated. "And why did you sent the Delta Megaship away?"
"I didn't!" Andros protested. "It's like I lost control over it."
"How?" Andrew asked.
"I don't know."
"Maybe it's central ion disseminator had been reversed." TJ joked.
"The Delta Megaship doesn't have a central ion disseminator." Andros sighed exasperated. "Only gliders have."
"I was just joking." TJ replied.
"Joking or not her does have a point." Ashley said softly, but everyone heard and fixed their attention on her.
"What do you mean?" Aaron asked.
"My glider, it turned on me after being shot by a Velocifighter. Maybe the same happened to the Delta Megaship while we weren't looking."
"Damn." Andros cursed again. "Why didn't I think of that?"
"Maybe because you took TJ too serious?" Ashley replied.
She could feel her sister's foul look. Andros wouldn't have taken that answer from anyone, but he obviously had no problem with her saying it. It placed a smirk on Ashley's face. She had never really gone against the will of her sister, due to a strange sense of loyalty she felt towards Andrea, but it felt great to free herself of the binds Andrea had put on her.
Her thoughts were interrupted by Andros' communicator.
"The Delta Megazord is attacking the Angel Grove." Alpha told them.
"We need the Astro Megazord." Andros said determined.
"What if Astronema does the same to it as she did to the Delta Megazord?" Andrea asked.
"That's a risk we've got to take." Andros snapped.
Hours later
Ashley lay on her bed, think back on the events that had taken place hours before. They had won the fight against Astronema once again and they Delta Megaship was back under their control. Back on the Megaship Andrea had exploded when she had caught Ashley alone. Rambling on about her knowing she liked Andros from the start and accusing her of trying to get Andros for herself.
It wasn't as if Ashley could help it Andros liked her better, but she couldn't help but wonder. If he ever found out about what her 'gift' meant, would he still be so willing to be her friend or would he turn on her like everyone else seemed to do?
At least she had been able to talk normally with TJ while they had been looking at Andros' glider, but maybe that was just because Andros was there. She didn't know, nor did she want to.
A knock on her door startled her out of her thoughts. Nobody ever came to her room.
"Come in." She called.
The door opened and Andros stepped in, staying close to the door, but not close enough for the door to stay open.
"Hey." She greeted, not moving.
"Hey." He replied shifting a little.
A silence settled over them as he glance over at Jeff's old laptop. She smiled a little looking at the star-tunnel created by the whole screen function of the Media Player. Jeff and his band always recorded their songs once they were good enough at playing them and Sage had stored them digitally on Jeff's laptop in mp3 files. Those were the files Jeff hadn't erased from it. At the moment she was playing a very old song on repeat. She had been thirteen when they had recorded it. It was the simplest song they had, since the only instrument used was a piano. Later other instruments had been added, but this version was Ashley's favourite. For a moment she let the lyrics wash over her again.
(e-mail me for the chapter with lyrics)"That's…" Andros started, but stopped and swallowed. "That's a beautiful song."
Ashley couldn't help a blush from spreading on her face as she sat up.
"Thanks."
"Who sings it?"
"Me." Ashley admitted, blushing even deeper. "And it's Wade playing the piano."
He turned his head to her.
"You've got a beautiful voice."
"Thanks."
After another silence Ashley got a hold of herself again and looked up at him.
"So what brought you here?"
He seemed to snap out of a daze and turned to look at her again, seeming to consider what had brought him, like it slipped his mind or something.
"Oh yeah, Alpha and Andrew finished the mini-reversal laser. Want to go search for your evil glider?"
"Sure." She replied, jumping up from her bed.
Before leaving her room, she turned of the laptop on her desk. Andros was waiting for her in the door opening and a gave her a small smile when she turned to him. She returned it and they started walking to work bay.
She reflected to Andrea's outburst again for a moment. Yes, this was going to be very interesting.
A/N: Hope you liked it. Please review.