(A/N This is the first chapter, but please go back and read prologue to understand this story.)

Darkness Returns Chapter 1
By KO-35 Girl

Andros and Ashley were walking hand in hand toward the synthetron to get some dinner. They went and got their food before sitting down at the table with the others.

Before Andros sat down he noticed that Zhane and Karone were holding hands under the table. At seeing that he felt many things, happiness that his best friend and sister were happy, but also a strong urge to punch Zhane in the eye.

On KO-35 Zhane had had a reputation for going out with a new girl every week. I don't think he'll do that to Karone but still... Andros thought.

His thoughts were interrupted by Ashley who put a hand on his shoulder and giving him a reproving look that said all too clearly she had noticed the way he had been glaring at his best friend.

Luckily none of the other rangers noticed Cassie, TJ, and Carlos had been talking about some school assignment, while Zhane had been whispering something to Karone that made her giggle softly.

"Andros what did you do all day, well we were all out, " Karone asked him finally focusing on something that didn't have to do with Zhane.

"I ran a few system checks then I just spent some time thinking over some stuff," he answered.

As soon as they were done with dinner the other rangers decided to go get some homework done. After saying their good-byes and leaving that only left Andros, Zhane, and Karone.

"I'm going to go to the simudeck, want to come Karone?" he asked flashing her one of his smiles.

"No thanks Zhane, I want to talk to my big brother a little bit," she said, waving goodbye to her boyfriend as he left the room, looking a little disappointed that she wasn't coming.

"What did you want to talk to me about Karone?" he asked though he had a pretty good idea what it was, Andros had always had a lot of intuition. It came in handy a lot of times too. For instance when they met the Mutant Ninja Turtles he knew there was something about them that just wasn't right. Also he had a strange feeling when he first met Darconda.

"I just wanted to make sure you're alright with me dating Zhane, I mean I don't want to come between you and your best friend also I've spent my whole life not knowing you I don't want anything to come between us now that we've found each other."

Andros looked at Karone and was thinking how different she was from when she was Astronema. He suddenly felt ashamed of his anger toward Zhane. All of a sudden all of Andros's negative feelings toward his friend and sisters relationship were gone. "Karone I'm sorry about the way I've been acting toward you and Zhane lately, I've been an idiot, forgive me?" he asked with a small smile.

"Of course, well I think I'm going to go to my room, There's this book I bought last week and I've been meaning to read it."
"Wait Karone, I wanted you to tell me how that purple morpher I gave you worked?"
The rangers had made Karone a ranger right before she had been captured and brainwashed when she came back to the side of good again they gave her, her morpher back.

"Oh it works great Thank you Andros," and with that she left.

Andros was walking around the Astro Megaship in a much better mood than before. That bad feeling that something awful was going to happen felt better than it had earlier that day, but it wasn't gone. And his intuition told him it didn't have to do with any problems with him and the other rangers but what ever it was certainly had to do with them. Andros absolutely despised that feeling. Next thing Andros realized is that he's standing in front of Ashley's room.

Well why should you be that surprised? Ashley is the one that always makes you feel better whenever you're upset about something, he told himself mentally. He entered her room to find her at her desk working on some English homework.

"Hi, Andros," she said after turning away from her work to see who had come.

"You look worried about something what's wrong," Ashley said as she stood up placed her arm on his shoulder and steered him to the bed where she sat next to him looking at him a little bewildered.

Andros is so cute when he's worried but he really does need to relax more, Ashley thought to herself. Andros was just about to speak when all of a sudden Deca interrupted him.

"Earth is under attack."

"What?" Andros and Ashley both asked the computer in unison before running out of the room toward the bridge.

As they were running Andros knew that this was it, this is what his intuition had been warning him about, a new enemy. They finally reached the bridge; the other rangers had just gotten there as well.

"The attack on Earth has vanished, but the megaship is getting a message from an unknown spacecraft." Deca told the rangers.

"Deca play the message" Andros ordered, in a way that would show anyone that didn't even know him, that he was the leader.

"As you wish Andros," Deca replied The screen on the bridge all of a sudden showed a monster that looked like Dark Specter only he was made of ice not lave.

"Drellnar no, it's impossible," Andros said to nobody in particular.

"I don't believe it" Zhane said staring at the screen.

"Oh but it is Rangers, I see that you two have gotten some new rangers. Red Ranger you did not destroy me in that last battle, I was just weakened. However now I am back and I am going to make you pay for all that you did to me. I can sense that you care for all of these people red ranger. I'm going to find out more about each of them then I will capture them and torture them the more you care about them. Once I am through red ranger you'll wish it had been I that destroyed you all those years ago, that battle down on Earth was just to get your attention. Good-bye red ranger, for now anyway." He then disappeared off the view screen as he was laughing evilly.

"Someone mind telling us what that was about?" TJ asked Andros and Zhane who were still looking as though they'd gotten a huge electric shock.

(A/N well tell me what you think.)