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Ch. 28 Back to the Fight

It had been two months since the sextuplets had been brought home from the hospital. They had been quiet a handful for the first couple of weeks but had soon fallen into a routine. The other rangers had been quiet a help stepping in for Andros and Ashley when they got to tired. At the moment all the babies were asleep and the rangers were gathered on the Bridge, enjoying the peaceful moment. It didn't last for long as the alarms started going off and the rangers quickly jumped to their feet.

"DECA," Andros began, "what's going on?"

"There is a monster attacking Angel Groove," the AI answered. "The babies are also awake."

"Okay," Andros started, pacing back and forth, trying to formulate a plan, "Ashley you stay up here with the kids and we'll go down to fight." Suddenly, he felt a tingling in his mind much like what he had felt both the day Karone had been kidnaped and the day Zhane had been hurt. "Wait, Karone and Zhane you stay up here too. If we need any back up we'll call."

'Andros,' Ashley began in his mind, the worry evident in her voice, 'what's going on?'

'Ashley,' he began trying to keep the fear out of his voice and failing miserably, 'I have a feeling that they're going to try to get the babies or you. As soon as we leave I want you to go to the engine room and hide in the healing chamber. I'll come and get you as soon as we get back.' Ashley nodded and Zhane could tell that it would be a bad idea for him to ask why Andros had ordered both him and Karone to stay behind too.

Andros pulled Ashley into a hug and kissed her, reluctant to let her go. When he finally did he, Carlos, Cassie, and T.J. headed to the Work Bay and headed down to Earth. As soon as they were gone Ashley led them to the sextuplets nursery and they all pushed a crib with two children to the healing chamber.

"Ashley?" Zhane asked quietly, careful not to wake the babies. "Why are we hiding in here?"

"Andros said he thinks that they'll try to take our children from us and wanted us to wait in here until he gets back," she explained as she picked Brytan up out of the crib. "I think this is the only undetectable room on the ship."

Meanwhile, on Earth, the other rangers were having a very hard time getting any hits in on the new monster Dark Specter had sent to attack. They were getting beat back into a corner when Darkonda showed up.

"Enough!" he yelled at the monster and the Quantrons protecting it. "Go back to the Dark Fortress! This is my battle now!" The monster and Quantrons did as they were told and Darkonda turned back towards the rangers. "Poor Red Ranger," he began, walking closer to them, "do you really think you can keep them safe by leaving them on your ship? I'm personally going to get all of your children and kill them all in front of you and then I'll kill that little Yellow Ranger of yours." T.J. and Carlos quickly placed a hand on each side of Andros when they saw him clenching his fist.

"You'll never get a hand on any one else I care about, Darkonda!" he screamed, breaking free of his friends' hold and rushing at the monster. Darkonda was caught off guard by the attack but quickly recovered.

"So Red Ranger," he mocked, "you think you can protect them all? I've already got three of them." He snapped his fingers and in a flash Aidan, Cestra, and Michelle appeared beside him, restrained by Quantrons. By now the other rangers had rejoined Andros and this time refused to let him run at Darkonda.

"Let them go!" Andros yelled, fighting hard against his friends' grasp. "It's me you want!" Before he could break free again they teleported back up to the ship. "Why did you do that!" Anything else that he might have said was cut off by the sound of crying as Ashley, Zhane, and Karone entered the room and shortly behind them Aidan, Cestra, and Michelle. "How did you get here?"

"We were never captured, Andros," Aidan explained. "Darkonda came and burned down the house and tried to get us but we were able to escape."

"So, it was just a hologram?" he asked and the other rangers nodded.

"What was a hologram?" Ashley asked stepping forward.

"Darkonda showed them to me and I thought he really had them," he explained, looking down at his face. "I'm sorry," he whispered, intending it for the rangers who had went down with him. "I just don't want anything to happen to anyone here, but especially not to them." He held out his arms to Ashley and she passed him Tyran. "I love them all so much and I couldn't stand the thought of anything happening to them."

"Don't worry," T.J. stated, "we won't let anything happen to them."

The rest of the day Andros, Ashley, Aidan, Cestra, Michelle, and the sextuplets spent time together. Michelle couldn't believe that Andros had named one of them after her but he had explained that they acted so much alike that he couldn't help it. Although they were all sure they could've spent the rest of their lives in a simple moment like this it was short lived as Darkonda attacked once again.

This time all the rangers went leaving Aidan, Cestra, and Michelle to watch over their nieces and nephews. Little did they know there was already an enemy on board, just waiting for the perfect opportunity to snatch the sextuplets. They had placed the babies back into the nursery and were now watching the battle from the Bridge. Not noticing DECA's sudden silence they were unaware when the sextuplets disappeared.

Meanwhile, down on Earth, Darkonda called back his troops, looking straight at Andros and said, "You're too late." The meaning behind his words hit Andros hard and he teleported them back to the Megaship immediately.

A/N: Please Review! I won't be able to update for at least three days because I'm having dental surgery, sorry.