Power Rangers in Space
Andros/Zhane (main)
FRT/PG-13
My version of KO-35 and it's fall. I may have been mistaken about a few of the details, but that is what artistic license is for. Andros/Zhane slash, Kai/Raja het, other couples to be announced.
Chapter Two
3 Mars sign
Zhane immediately ran out to the field and got into formation. Eri, Raja, Kai, and Nala followed and took their places behind him. In unison the team, minus their leader, changed into their alter-egos, the Power Rangers of KO-35.
Ecliptor attacked with a team with a group of three other monsters/minions. As the rest of the team focused of the minions, Birdeye, Cateye, and Tigereye, Zhane focused on Ecliptor. It didn't take long before he was joined by Andros, already suited up and prepared for battle. As the duo attacked, Zhane focusing on Ecliptor's back while Andros kept his attention on the front, they slowly wore down the powerful general.
Eri and Raja focused on bringing down Tigereye, the fiercest of the three, while Nala set her weapons on the agile Birdeye. Kai focused on wrestling with Cateye and it's poisoned claws. Motioning for Raja to keep their monster busy, Eri did a quick biological scan on the three minions. He already knew, from multiple different attempts, that Ecliptor could not be successfully scanned. The data tended to blow up the Megaship's computers.
What he did find however, was that the three minions all had the same weak spot, the back of their necks. Shouting for the other rangers to restrain their monsters, Eri executed all three minions concurrently. Then the four rangers turned their attentions to the scene playing out in front of them.
Andros and Zhane had sufficiently weakened Ecliptor with their synchronized attacks and were now jointly attacking him with their weapons. Realizing that his minions were gone and that the other rangers could join their leaders at any time forced Ecliptor to make a rather hasty retreat from the colony.
Shaking his head at his enemy's cowardice, Andros powered down. Zhane and the other rangers did the same and waited for their leader's orders.
"Since you all did so well in the battle today, I am canceling all of our exercises for the rest of the evening. Good job. Zordon would be pleased. You are all dismissed, except for you Eri; you I need to talk to." Everyone, with the exception of Zhane, Andros and, of coarse, Eri quickly left the clearing.
"Eri, it was smart of you to scan for their weaknesses. Now Commander Raab will have even more knowledge about Dark Spector's forces. Again, good job."
"My thanks sir, but, with all due respect ment, I think that we are purposely being sent weak, flawed, monsters to deal with." With that both Andros and Zhane stopped walking. Andros was speechless and very glad that Zhane was there to ask the questions that he could not.
"Why do you think that?"
"Three reasons, sir" Eri started, turning to face the two men. "Reason one: Space. Dark Spector needs more space for more powerful, more perfect, monsters. How better to dispose of old, flawed, models then to have us destroy them for him?
"This leads me to my second point. What if he knows that we report these monsters to Commander Raab, and what if he knows that Raab reports directly to Zordon? All that are on the reports are the weak monsters-"
"And Zordon, Raab, and the Alliance get lax in their security. They think that is all Dark Spector is capable of." Zhane finished for Eri
"There's more. We can't scan Ecliptor, but what is stopping him from scanning us as we battle? Our suits are not. I have scanned them numerous time to detect injuries or find a weak spot after a battle. What stops him from scanning our weapons and suits?"
"Nothing." Andros answered, realizing the gravity of the situation. "Thank you Eri for telling us this. Rest assured I will inform both Commander Raab and Zordon himself of this dilemma. It would be best however if you were present for both conferences. Now, unless you have anything else, you are dismissed. Good evening."
Eri shook his head no and promptly left the two friends alone to discuss what they had just learned. Stretching forcefully, Andros exhaled loudly before giving into gravity and falling onto Zhane, toppling both of them into the grass. Zhane reached up and wrapped his arms around his friend's chest, holding him gently. The pair was silent for quite awhile.
"What do we do now?" Although Andros's question had been posed to the stars in the sky, Zhane answered it anyway.
"We live, and when it is needed, we fight." Tuning his head so that it was laying on the grass, next to Zhane's, Andros stared into his friend's silver eyes as if they held the universe in them, and to Zhane they did. All Andros saw was a refection of himself in his friend's eyes, but to Zhane, who's life revolved around the friend whom he'd grown to love, Andros was the universe.
"It's the fighting part that frightens me." Andros whispered to his friend before opening up his mind for Zhane to access. To them this was the purest, most intimate form of contact. Neither one could keep any secrets, no matter how small, from the other. They lay there, on the soft grass, staring into each other's minds until the sun sunk far into horizon and the avalons began to sing. Only then did the two men rise and start to head for the city, completely unaware of the coming danger.
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