Disclaimer: Not mine, please don't sue me, I have no money anyway.
Ashley Hammond/Astro Yellow: Yeah, Karone is good. You're not going to like me after this. :starts building shelter:
Jenny: Nope. You can stop guessing now, though. :finishes building shelter, and locks door:
GreenDayfan1: You'll find out everything in this chapter, so you won't have to keep it a secret anymore. But you're the first person to ever say that you'll wait patiently.
Juzblue: Well, at the end, Karone realizes who Ravenna is, and then I was feeling evil, so I stopped writing and now it's two days later, and I'm waiting for angry reviews from certain people. : )
Chapter 19: Reunited
The Megaship - the holding bay
Deca was doing a good job stalling, and Zhane was quickly starting to lose patience.
"All right," he sighed. "We'll start with something simple. . . Am I on the Megaship?"
"Affirmative."
"Is Andros?"
"Is Andros what?"
Zhane rolled his eyes. "Is Andros on the Megaship?"
"Affirmative."
"Is Ashley on the Megaship?"
"Affirmative."
"Is Justin?"
"Negative."
"Where's Justin?"
"Please specify which Justin," Deca said. "The name is common on Earth."
"Deca!" Zhane cried, frustrated. "Where is Justin the blue space ranger?"
"Justin is in Angel Grove," Deca replied.
"Where exactly is he?" Zhane asked.
"The Surf Spot," Deca replied.
"Is Gabriel on the Megaship?" Zhane asked.
"Affirmative."
"Is Aria on the Megaship?"
Deca took her time answering.
"Negative."
Finally, Zhane thought.
"All right, Deca," Zhane said. "Where is Aria, the pink space ranger at this very moment?"
"She is in Angel Grove," Deca replied, very slowly.
"Where in Angel Grove?" Zhane demanded. "Deca, I need to know!"
Before Deca could answer, Zhane heared footsteps behind him, and whirled around quickly. When he saw who it was, he took a defensive stance.
"How did you get here?" he demanded. "Who . . . Karone?"
The young woman with bright blue eyes nodded, and tears sprang into her eyes. Zhane threw his arms around her and held her tightly.
"Where's my brother?" she asked. "Where's Andros?"
"Deca, tell Andros to come here," Zhane said. "And here is the holding bay of the Astro Megaship owned by the Power Rangers."
"I am fully aware of that," Deca replied.
Zhane made a face at her eye, then turned back to Karone. His gaze settled on the person beside her.
"I've just spent the last hour trying to get a straight answer out of Deca about you."
"I never told her not to tell anyone," came the telepathic reply, and Zhane looked up at the AI, amazed. Deca rarely witheld information of her own free will.
"What's going on?" Andros asked, appearing in the room.
"Andros!" Karone cried, flinging her arms around her brother's neck.
"Karone," Andros whispered. He held his sister close, not completely able to believe that she was really here.
"What is it, Deca?"
Andros looked up to see Justin in the doorway.
"I wanted him here," Ravenna said, and Andros realized for the first time that she was there.
"How did you get here?" he asked. She didn't get a chance to reply.
"What's everyone doing?"
Ashley entered, followed closely by Gabriel.
"This is Karone," Zhane said, as Andros was in no condition to speak.
Justin gasped when he saw her. "You . . . look familiar."
"Let down your blocks," Ravenna said softly.
"I know who you are," Zhane said. "You can stop now."
"You don't know," Ravenna said. "Neither did I."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Zhane demanded.
Wordlessly, Ravenna pulled off her hood, and instead of the face that Andros had glimpsed on Onyx, he was staring into one that was much more familiar. Her face was paler than usual, and there were tears sliding down her cheeks, but she was unmistakable.
"You never checked to see if I could ghost," Aria said softly. She closed her eyes, and her face changed into a near copy of Karone's.
"Amara," Andros gasped. He turned to look at Justin. "Jadon?"
Slowly, Justin lowered the telepathic blocks that he had built up over his life, and felt the presence of his brother and two sisters flare up in his mind. Suddenly, Karone had thrown her arms around him as well, and he hugged his second sister. Shrieking with joy, Aria threw her arms around them as well, pulling Andros with her. Stunned, Andros embraced the family that he'd thought he'd lost.
A/N: To whoever guessed that Ravenna was Aria: Please don't kill me. If you do, you won't see how it ends, and I promise that the ending is really, really good.
