disclaimer: I don't own the power rangers, maybe some day, but not now.
summary: AU The biggest twist in the PRT/PRiS universe you've ever seen. New morphers, new rangers and quads!
Necroblade: Like the idea and I already planned to make the other rangers, with the exception of one, switch sides between the twins, but not how you suggested it. During the beginning of the story I had a great idea how to do that and I wrote it down and soon I'll finally get to use it. They way I'm going to do it will lessen Andrea's abuse instead of making it worse, but you'll just have to wait and find out what I mean with that. Oh and it's okay you're being brief, most people don't even review when they missed a chapter and only review for the latest one.
Arwennicole: No, Andrea isn't going to go after Zhane, sorry. She's going to keep her eyes set on Dros. You'll find out why I do that soon enough.
Jenny: Yes, Zhane was mentioned in chapter 8, but if you're going to look at that he's been in the story for much longer. You'll find out what I mean in the 14th chapter. Oh and the only reason I can update so soon is because I've got more chapters finished than there are on the internet. I know, that's cheating, but hey, who cares? I know I don't.
The-power-of-love: How can you ask? Of course I'll update soon. This soon enough for you?
Born To Fly otherwise known as The Freak
Chapter 12
Ashley watched in horror as Andros fell to his knees in the middle of battle and she was filled with a sense of dread. She didn't even need to ask what just happened, for she knew. The Megaship was badly damaged and with those natives inside the damage must be even greater than when they had left to fight. The damage must be taking its toll on the systems and she had a horrible feeling she knew what systems had just failed.
She just wanted to rush over to defend Andros, but Andrea beat her to it, her Nebula Blade connecting with the natives around Andros. Carlos was not far behind. Andrea was an excellent fighter, if she would finally give in and admit she left to much holes in her defence, so she could work on that.
Suddenly Andros grabbed his Spiral Saber and got up from the ground. Pure red-hot anger seemed to radiate from him as he tore through the crowd of natives.
Fear ran through her. She had learned at a very early age, anger could cloud your judgement of a situation when you let it take over. Her fear proved to be well placed when her point was proven as well and Andros got struck down from behind by the monster.
This time she was the first to reach him and helped him back to his feet. She crocked her head a little in question and he gave her a slight nod. It was as if a boulder had been dumped in her stomach. It wasn't fair, not after all these years.
There was no time to grief anymore as the monster attacked again. For once the eight of them fought the monster in a team effort, but it was no use and they were beaten up pretty badly.
They stumbled back. Ashley placed her hands on Andros' shoulder when she noticed him hold his chest, obviously hurt.
"We can't win this." TJ said, watching the monster slowly approach them.
Ashley felt Andros shoulders tense beneath her hands, stealing himself for what was to come; their deaths.
Her eyes caught something behind the oncoming monster. Surprised she watched some of the natives fly through the air out of the Megaship.
It could be, could it?
She saw Andros quickly glance at her. Obviously he was thinking along the same lines as she was.
When a silver armoured figure appeared on the ramp, Ashley's heart jumped. So she hadn't been wrong after all.
"Zhane!" Andros exclaimed, joy in his voice.
"Andros?" The figure asked.
Ashley didn't even need to look at the others to know they were shocked and not understanding what was going on. The monster too turned to watch the Silver Ranger, saying something in a strange language that was even worse than a Quantron.
"What ever you just said, I'm going to make you eat those words." The Silver Ranger spoke.
Ashley watched in amazement as he called on his weapon, the Super Silverizer and destroy the monster in mere moments. Andros rushed over to his friend, reuniting with some kind of secret handshake and Ashley felt a smile spread over her face, Andros deserved this.
The others seemed to want to pop the question on who this mysterious ranger was, but the monster growing Megazord size prevented them from doing so.
"Uh, Andy…" Andrea stuttered.
"I hate to cut this little reunion short, 'Dros, but we've got big problems." Ashley said.
The helmet of the Silver Ranger fixed on her, but he didn't say anything. They all rushed into the Megaship and he followed without a word.
Quickly the AstroDelta Megazord was formed and the monster was defeated. (A/N: The fight is not really important to this story.)
They returned to the bridge unmorphed just in time to catch the tale of some story the Silver Ranger was telling Alpha. Ashley found it hard to think of him as Zhane and not as 'The Silver Ranger', since she hadn't seen his face yet, but when she walked onto the bridge that changed.
Zhane was still morphed, but he wasn't wearing his helmet anymore. He seemed to have fallen into a bucket of bleach, so blond was his hair and he had a silly grin on his face. She had hear opposite attracts, but this beat everything. Even the open Andros he let her see was the total opposite of this boy in front of her. How the two of them ever became best friends was a mystery to her.
"I remember it differently." Andros said, interrupting Zhane's story.
The boy turned around and grinned.
"Zhane, these are TJ, Carlos, Andrew, Aaron, Andrea, Cassie and Ashley, they've got the other morphers now. Guys, this is Zhane, the Silver Ranger and my best friend." Andros introduced.
Zhane's eyes staid fixed on Ashley and he walked over to her, taking her hand and kissing it, making Ashley blush.
"I've never met a female ranger before."
Andros felt a sudden urge to pull his friend away from Ashley, but he suppressed it. He was being silly.
"Hey, what are we, chopped liver?" Andrea exclaimed, but Zhane ignored her as he turned to Andros. "Last thing I remember is KO-35 being under attack. What happened?"
Andros sighed.
"That's a long story."
"How long?" Zhane asked carefully.
"You've been in cryogenic sleep for two years." Andros muttered.
"You're right, that is going to be a long story, care to start telling me?" Zhane grinned.
Andros smiled at him.
"Sure. Come on."
With that the two left the bridge and when Zhane swung an arm around Andros' shoulder, Andros mimicked the action.
A long story later
"Hey Andros?" Zhane asked.
They were laying on the ground in the observatory, like they used to before KO-35 was abandoned, staring at the stars.
"Yeah?" Andros replied.
"Ashley, she seems to be different from the others."
Again Andros felt the urge to attack his friend, but he didn't know why.
"She's different from her twins or so she says, Andrea doesn't accept that and has been turning everyone against Ashley since they were five or something."
"What do you mean 'or so she says'?" Zhane rolled onto his side and pushed himself up on his elbow so he could look at Andros.
"I don't see what makes her so different from her twins." Andros told him, eyes still fixed on the stars.
"Who are her twins anyway? Andrea I can guess."
"Andrew and Aaron too, they're quadruplets."
"Wow." Zhane breathed. "That's a lot of kids."
"Yeah."
"But that's not really what I meant with her being different. There's just, I don't know, she seems to have this aura around her. I don't know how to describe it…" Zhane said, trailing off.
"So I'm not the only one to notice."
Zhane looked at him questioningly.
"I don't know why, but something about her makes me feel at ease, like she knows…" Andros started, but trailed off too.
They locked eyes for a moment and shock their heads at the same moment.
"Nah." Zhane grinned a little. "I couldn't be, could it?"
"I don't think so." Andros smiled back. "But if it is, she's great at hiding it."
Zhane nodded.
"Definitely."
A few days later
Ashley looked around the cell. They were captured by the people of some kind of underground society, being accused of turning their people into coral. One of them had pulled out a vial out of Ashley's pocket containing a liquid that turned into coral when he broke it on a wall. How that vial had gotten there, Ashley didn't know, but it was certainly not hers.
The others were trying to think of a way out and were currently trying to unscrew a few bars.
This wasn't the only problem bugging her, though. After Zhane woke up everything seemed to be fine between Andros and him, but as time passed Andros became more irritable around him. It worried Ashley, they seemed to be such great friends from all the stories she'd been hearing from Zhane.
The boy seemed to have taken an immediate liking in her and Ashley spent most of her free time with him to make him feel a bit more at ease. Andros was with them too some times, but whenever he was he seemed tense and would easily snap at Zhane.
"Got it!" Carlos exclaimed triumphantly. "Let's get out of here."
Ashley looked up and saw her team-mates slip through the opening. She quickly got up and followed.
"This would be so much easier if Andros and Zhane were here." She muttered quietly to herself.
The others came to an abrupt halt and Ashley saw the leader of the society lay on the ground in front of them, coral covering his body.
"Oh damn." Andrew muttered. "There goes our defence."
The man had made sure they would at least get a fair trial, but without him, Ashley doubted the trial would be fair at all.
"Ha, you're caught. Guards, bring them to the main cave. I think it's time for their trial."
Ashley gulped and followed the other rangers back to the main cave with blasters pointed at them by the surrounding guards. It may be seven against four, but the guards held the advantage with those blasters and they all knew those blasts hurt bad enough when morphed, they didn't even want to find out how they felt unmorphed.
A/N: Hope you liked it. Please review.