Jenny: The battle will be in the next chapter, I promise. Just have to set the scene first.

Ashley Hammond/Astro Yellow: Not really sure how he could block Zhane out of his memory, it just seems like something Andros would do.

Disclaimer: As much as I would like for it to be, Power Rangers is not my creation.

Ch. 4 Return of Silver

Andros was sitting quietly on the Bridge, waiting for his teammates to return. They had told him they had some business to take care of on Earth but he couldn't go. When he heard lockers slam in the Hanger Bay he quickly went to greet them. He stopped short when he saw a new boy standing with them. Suddenly, a wall collapsed in his mind and he remembered all the times he had spent with Zhane. The support Zhane had given him when he had told him about Karone and Zhane telling him that it wasn't his fault.

"Zhane?" he questioned, as his throat closed.

"Yeah, Andros, it's me," Zhane replied, praying that Andros would forgive him for not coming to visit and would allow him back in his life.

"Why did you leave me!" Andros screamed. "You all promised you would come visit me!" Although he had been expecting the outburst, Zhane shrank back at his friend's words.

"Andros," he began, trying to pacify his friend's raging temper, "we were going to come but my aunt wouldn't allow me to and your father has gotten even worse. He takes out his anger on your mom now, that's why she couldn't ever come." At the mere mention of his father Andros broke down in tears and fell to the floor. Zhane rushed over and kneeled beside his friend, pulling him into his arms. "It's okay." He noticed that the other rangers were staring at them but ignored them since he figured Andros had yet to tell them everything about his family. They had told him what the psychiatrist had told them but she had left out many of the details just saying that Andros had been blamed for many things that he couldn't do anything about.

After about five minutes Bryce led the other rangers out of the room and left them alone. Zhane was glad that someone had finally taken the hint. He knew that they had tried very hard to include Andros in their group but truth be told they were just so much older that Andros couldn't find it in his heart to let them get close.

"Zhane?" Andros questioned thirty minutes later. "I'm sorry that I yelled at you. I just wish you would have been here instead of back home. I've needed someone to talk to and you haven't been here."

"I'm sorry too," he replied, pulling himself away from the smaller boy. "I should have called and explained things to you. You're okay now, right?" Andros nodded and the two went to find the other rangers.

The next day Dark Specter attacked KO-35, not giving the rangers a real opportunity to train Zhane but they knew he would learn fast. When they arrived the monster immediately went after Andros and Zhane, knowing that they were the weakest links. Andros was thrown into a tree, knocking him unconscious and Zhane was thrown on the ground near-by.

"Zhane!" Bryce yelled. "You get Andros Back to the ship and let DECA check him." Zhane did what he was told and within seconds was teleported into the Medical Bay on the Megaship.

"DECA," he began staring worriedly at his pale friend who was bleeding from the cuts he had received, "what's wrong with him."

"He has a severe concussion, a broken arm, and several cuts which need to be bandaged," she replied immediately. Zhane quickly pulled the bandages out of the cabinet and began wrapping his friend's injuries as the older rangers teleported into the room. At their arrival Zhane quickly filled them in on what was wrong and they waited for Andros to wake up.

Five years passed and the attacks began to increase in difficulty as well as frequency. Zhane, now seventeen, had been a great addition to the team, helping Andros, now fifteen, get through his tough times and he had quickly picked up on many of the moves they had been using in battle. It was after one of these intense battles that they finally realized what they were really fighting for, the existence of KO-35.

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