Warning: Character Death and Suicide.
Disclaimer: I don't own the show. I don't even own the computer I'm writing this on. Big shout out to Justin who's letting me steal his, temporarily of course. I love laptops.
Invisabell says: This is another one shot. BUT this one HAS A PLOT. It could be longer but I frankly don't want to write the whole potential story. One project at a time thank-you.
Summary: Sometime after CTD:A villains attempt to turn a ranger to evil. Goes horribly right and ends in tragedy.
"So let me get this strait." Karone said. It was taking all her self control not to use everything she learned as Astronema and kill the Blue ranger. "You just let Andros my brother walk out of here."
"No Karone I-" TJ tried to explain, but Karone wasn't listening.
"I have been looking for him for days TJ. I've called in military from both Eltar and Ko-35 to help me look. Karones voice stumbled and she took a breath regaining some of her composure. "There going to kill each other, don't you understand that?" She felt tears begin to fall down her cheeks and impatiently wiped them away.
She felt a hand on her shoulder, years of reflexes made her whirl around to prepare for a counter attack. When she saw it was just Ashley. Her body relaxed slightly. After looking into each other's eye's for a moment Ashley drew the other girl into a hug. All thoughts of self control vanished and tears came. "Neither of them are going to die." Ashley whispered to Karone. She wished she believed that.
"I should have gone with them I knew something was going to happen soothing always happens." The words came out in a rush. Unwanted, unrecognizable to any ears but her own.
The monster fell to the ground. Zhane turned. He nodded his head in greeting to the Red ranger who stood crouched with the weapon still glowing in his hands. "Nice aim." He commented. He gave pushed the monster with his foot and chuckled softly when it didn't move. He took a step back took out his silverizer and shot it again.
It erupted in flames which died down immediately revealing nothing as the magical energies of the creature that gave it physical form in life, took back what was theirs in death.
Zhane in Ranger form took a couple of steps forward. Unsurprised and un impressed.
"You can't save me you know." Zhane told him loudly. "Been there exhausted all the options. Though I'll give you credit. You gave it your best."
The red ranger stood there. He shook his head, a slight movement that nearly went unnoticed.
"Okay then, what's your plan Dros. I know you have one." He said cheerfully.
"Do you remember that day on Ko-35?" Andros said conversationally. "You said you would rather be dead than taking orders from some…You'd rather be dead." He rephrased at the last minute. "You made me promise if it ever came down to it. If I was alive and able, that it would be me. You wouldn't die from some stranger after slaughtering thousands of innocents."
"Innocents" the other ranger snorted.
"It would be my hand. I would stop thing before they went to far." His head tilted up "I thought it would be harder."
"You want to kill me now." He laughed amused by the speech "and you think it will be easy kill I'm Zhane your best friend. I have been your entire life. Even if you could kill me, which you can't by the way. You wouldn't be able to live with that."
"Yes I can and I know that." The Spiral Saber appeared in his hand.
The blaster shifted in blade mode and he met the strike with his own. Zhane struck back hard, pushing the other ranger back. After a while he was too caught up in the clashing of blades to notice the red glow beginning to form around the saber until it was too late.
The Silver Ranger hit the side of the factory. His Morph disintegrated as he fell to the ground. He quickly regained his footing, back towards the wall.
The saber came towards his face again. He moved to the side.
In the calm that followed the strike Zhane raised a finger to his cheek and smiled when he noticed the blood. "You might actually pull this off Dros." He moved to get up, and was kicked back to the ground.
"Well I did promise." Andros reminded him. Moving the Saber to his left hand he took out his Astro Blaster. Zhane looked up at him from the ground His expression had faded into one of fear. He moved to get up again, only to be struck back down. His eye's darted left and right looking for a way to escape.
Andros let his ranger uniform dissolved in a flourish of red light. He stood over his best friend gun pointed at his head. Eye's met. He froze. He couldn't do this. That thing, in Zhanes body was right he couldn't do it.
"There's another way." The blond said. "Come with…" He was cut off the blast hit him just above his right eye. There was a small hole where the laser hit but Andros knew that the back of his skull was completely shattered on the other side.
The blaster was on the highest setting. That was how it was designed to work. That was how it did work on the monsters. He'd never seen the damage it could do to an unprotected human skull and he didn't want to. Covered in his best friend's blood he moved the body into a more dignified position on the ground. Then he closed the now void crystal blue eyes.
He noticed his hand had something on it not blood but thicker, something best left unthought-of. The slight copper sent that was blood, began to fill his nostrils. He looked at the wall metallic silver with a red stain, morbidly poetic. He tore his gaze to the ground. He placed a hand on his best friend's now dead face.
"Don't worry I'm right behind you. Like I promised." He took the Astro Blaster that was sitting in his other hand. His hand rose moving the blaster up to his temple.
Then he pulled the trigger.
AN: It was originally Tommy and Jason but this just fit better. This ones pretty much the only team to wander around all the time. This makes the one on one fight concept more plausible. If it had been Tommy and Jason it would have happened in Angel Grove and the others would have stopped it. That's my reasoning any way.