Summary: Aurora is in college, spending only her weekends and vacations in Crystal Springs. After since Andros' reunion with his children, Blaecleah kept quiet, but peace never lasts for long.

Juzblue: And I updated again today! How good those it get?

Necroblade: I'll keep up my work if you keep reviewing. :P I'm so lucky school's almost over.

The-power-of-love: I didn't say you had to update right now. :P Just said I'm looking forward to the moment you do.

TrueRomantic: The other former rangers will surely make an appearance, I can tell you that. Maybe not all, but Tommy and Kim will surely. And about Ashley sitting it out, sure she could say getting rid of pregnancy fat, but her baby was born too early and my Andros is way to overprotective of her right now to let her do that. :P

Jenny: Of course your reviews are satisfactory, you reached the 4 kB today. Please don't cry, you know we all love you. I don't care your reviews hardly tell me anything about what you think of my story, your willingness to beta-read AND review tells me enough and you blabbing is always able to put a smile on my face, even when I'm down. About men never saying that stuff, I DIDN'T, that was Zhane and Zhane can only talk from his point of view. There was some true stuff in there, but since he doesn't know how Aurora and Ray feel, he just made up a lot to make Chaitlin feel better. I love smilies too. Maybe my Andros' will wasn't broken because of Aurora, who knows.

Ghostwriter: Glad you like it. Catch ya on the flip side.

LucyE: I don't think I'll let my rangers hide their identity, it's much easier if others can know and it wouldn't be hard to guess since their parents were rangers too.

Melissa/GreenDayfan1: Were you by any change hyper when you wrote that review? You're on 4 kB with your review now, you falling back. :( I always imagine Zhane making a great dad, funny, but serious when he needs to be. Yeah, Mack and Aurora are cute together, but they're doomed to have some problems in their future. :P The longer the review the happier I am.

Phantom Rogue: I think a lot of my other readers are hitting themselves for not seeing the obvious colours Aurora was going to be, if you keep something simple and obvious, mostly people will forget that option exists too.

It Was Just The Beginning

Chapter 3

The rangers spun around to see a new monster. He was dressed in a dentist outfit, but looked almost human – save for the large drill he led menacingly in his hands.

"You wouldn't happen to have any holes in your teeth now would you?" He asked, followed by a maniacal laughter.

"We're not scared of you." Ray yelled, though inwardly he trembled slightly.

"I wouldn't be so sure about that." The monster replied.

Aurora looked at her teammates and saw Megan was softly shaking, trying not to run. Eshla was standing next to her, a hand on her little sister's shoulder.

"Megan is afraid of the dentist." She answered Aurora's silent question when she noticed Aurora looking.

Aurora let out a quiet sigh.

"Anyone else?"

No one answered.

"Good."

Suddenly the monster charged at Megan, its drill raised. Megan froze, her eyes wide as she watched the drill.

"Twin blade!" Two voices cried as the monster brought its drill down.

Mere inches from impact the drill stopped, hitting the crossed blades of Dakota's and Kayla's weapons instead.

"Cancer sabre." Aurora said softly, her sabre appearing in her hand.

She raised her weapon as she charged, slashing the monster's back. He roared in pain and spun around, going for Aurora only to be blown off course by a beam of water. Aurora looked in the direction the water had come from and saw Dymphna's sparkling eyes behind the mask of her robes.

"High pressured water gun." Dymphna told her, a grin obvious in her voice.

The monster got back to its feet and charged at Megan once again, but got caught in a bubble and was lifted off the ground, rising higher and higher.

"Gotta love that bubble gun." Murtagh laughed, chortling at the monster's expense.

A bit too early though, for the monster used its drill to break the bubble and came crashing down to earth. The moment his feet hit the ground, however, two disks hit him, slashing across the chest. The disks returned to where they came from and Ray caught them, throwing them again, but this time the monster dodged and again went for Megan, who still hadn't moved from her spot.

This went on for a long time until the monster was summoned back.

"To base, NOW!" Aurora ordered, anger in her voice.

The rangers teleported away, but Aurora stayed and turned to Mack.

"Sorry, but our afternoon together is off."

Mack walked over to her and hugged her.

"The Earth is more important." He assured her. "Go to your team."

Aurora hesitated and looked him in the eye.

"Wanna come?"

"What!"

"Wanna come with me? At least then we'll be able to be together and if this doesn't take to long, we might still have time for the Surf Spot or the park, but we'll never be able to catch a movie now."

"Sure."

Aurora smiled, took his hand and teleported away. Once at the NASADA base she turned to Mack again.

"You go in, I have something to take care off, I'll be right there."

Mack nodded and went in. The rangers were talking – though they had demorphed. As he scanned the room he found Ray hadn't mingled with his teammates and just listened to them an unreadable expression on his face. Without too much thought, Mack walked over to the boy. Ray silently greeted him, but kept his eyes on his teammates, focusing on their conversation.

"She sounded totally pissed," Kayla said quietly.

"But it's not Megan's fault! She just can't help it!" Reese half yelled.

That went on for a while until the doors of the room opened again and Aurora appeared, a face of stone.

"Megan, a word please." She said, standing in the door-opening.

"You can't punish her for having a fear, Aurora!" Eshla said angrily, her eyes narrowing.

"Megan." Aurora said, ignoring Eshla.

Megan hung her head and slowly walked over to Aurora, following her out of the room.

"I swear, if Megan returns crying, Aurora is dead. Who does she think she is?" Eshla growled.

"Our leader?" Abigail tried.

"Well, I say we need to vote who's our leader. It's unfair to us to just point one out." Reese hissed.

"I say Chaitlin should be out leader again." Anlon stated, his voice heavy with disappointment at Aurora.

The other rangers, with the exception of Chaitlin, Kayla, and Dakota, made sounds of agreement.

"I hope you know what your doing, Rora." Mack heard Ray mutter beside him and he couldn't help but agreeing.

A/N: Hope you liked it. Review.