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When It Rains…

Chapter 10 - Plan

"Please tell me we have a location," Ashley moaned as she entered the jump bay.

"Not yet," Karone said sympathetically.

"It has been four nights," Ashley groaned. "I cannot stand sleeping with that thing much longer."

"I do have a rather drastic idea," Carlos offered.

"Being?" T.J. asked.

"We go to Vega 3. We know that Rissai is helping Garthon, maybe we can find some clues there."

"It's worth a shot," Zhane said.

"And there haven't been any monster attacks since Andros left," Karone said.

"DECA?" T.J. called. "Set a course for Vega 3, hyperrush 8."


"It looks exactly the same," Ashley murmured.

"Yeah," Jeff said, cutting away at some branches.

"Everyone remember," T.J. called from up ahead, "don't even say the w-word."

"I'm trying not even to think it," Karone muttered, "I would really prefer not to have any other lives under my belt."

"Yeah," Zhane agreed, helping her over a fallen tree.

Quite a while later they managed to find the clearing and fall a great distance.

"I am- oh, it's you," Rissai fumed. "I suppose you want to make a wish."

"Well, we would, except you're evil," Carlos murmured.

"Yes, I am aren't I? And it only took you three lives to figure it out. Bravo."

"Sarcasm is not appreciated," Karone sighed.

"Where is Andros?" Ashley asked angrily.

"And what are you up to with Garthon?" Jeff demanded.

"How should I know? And, revenge."

"Revenge on who?"

"All of you, well, Garthon only wants revenge on the Infinity Ranger, but I convinced him that the best way to do that was to torture his little sister. Any other stupid questions?"

"Where is Garthon?" Zhane asked.

"I don't know."

"But you can find out," Carlos said. "Shreefang is your creature, she'll come if you call."

"I do not have to do anything for you," Rissai said impatiently. "My job is to grant the wish of whoever awakens me, nothing more. Now," she turned to Carlos, "is there anything you would like to wish for?"

"Not a word," Jeff warned. "She'll take anything you say as a wish."

"He's right, but fortunately, I'm telepathic."

Carlos' eyes widened and suddenly he and the others were standing on the bridge of the MegaShip.

"What did you wish for?" Jeff asked worriedly.

"I'm not sure," Carlos said. "I thought of so many things and-"

"Guys!" Karone cried. "Where's Ashley?"

"Uh oh," Carlos said.


Ashley slowly looked around. She was in a dark room. At one end was a throne with a rather handsome man lounging in it. A few feet to his left was Shreefang and to his right was a toady-looking man who Ashley assumed was a toady. But none of them concerned her. The only person in the room she cared about, was Andros.

She was in his arms in an instant and it felt like they had been apart for months rather than days.

"Thank you," she heard him say over her shoulder. "Thank you for bringing her back to me."

"No," came the dark answer in a voice that sent shivers up her spine, "thank Rissai, she is the one who did this."

"I will," Andros said, gently stroking Ashley's hair. Something in the way he spoke made Ashley more frightened than anything she had seen thus far.


Ch'heeka blew into the Terix system so fast that any readings would show nothing but a slight blip that the computer would read as an error in its own sensors.

She quickly pulled behind the asteroid that Phantom had indicated in his last communiqué to her. She opened a channel with his ship, sure he was already here despite the fact that she couldn't see him.

"Your girlfriend is sure?" she asked out of the blue.

"Yes," Cassie answered, "I'm sure."

"Oh, you must be the infamous Pink Ranger," Ch'heeka said, looking the girl over. "It's my pleasure."

"I'm sure," Cassie said. "From Phantom's description I'm sure we'll get along just fine."

"I hope so." Ch'heeka was only slightly surprised. She had assumed that Phantom's girlfriend was beautiful, but she had not expected stunning. This boded well for Ch'heeka's own plans to visit the Milky Way when things were over here. When she realized that the Ranger had caught her staring she quickly said, "I am only hoping that the men in your galaxy are as attractive as the women seem to be."

"Thank you," Cassie said, a blush rising to her cheeks.

"Here is the plan," Phantom said, coming up behind the girl. "The two of us will teleport directly to the planet, my ship can cloak our teleport signal. We will search for Zordon while you approach the planet as a trader. Keep them busy with negotiations until we give you the signal. You'll come pick us up and hopefully we will be able to get back here and out of the system before Dark Specter figures things out enough to send his velocifighters after us."

"Hopefully," Ch'heeka muttered.

"Do you have a better plan?" Phantom asked.

"Actually, no. Good luck."

"You too," Cassie said as the link was broken.

Ch'heeka didn't even register a slight rise in power as the two teleported three astronomical units away. "Let's do it," she said under her breath and hurriedly pulled away from the asteroid.


"You wished my sister to Andros?" Jeff cried.

"I didn't know what to wish! All I could think was that the reason we were here was so that Ashley and Andros could be happy, finally."

Jeff groaned and turned away.

"We have to find Garthon," T.J. said practically.

"And how are we going to do that?" Zhane asked. "We have absolutely no leads."

"What about the mountain?" Karone asked after a moment of thought.

"What mountain?" Jeff asked.

"The mountain where you fought him. There may still be some latent power signature there. We could track its flow and find out where all his power is now."

"We could?" Carlos asked.

"Yeah, it shouldn't be that hard. But, we may have to enter an alternate dimension where time moves differently so…," she let it hang.

"We should call on some help," Zhane said, "just in case the planet comes under attack."

"Pretty much, yeah."

"Okay, DECA, set a course for Earth, hyperrush 9," T.J. ordered. "Everyone get some rest, we'll need it."


"Where are we?" Ashley asked.

"We are in Garthon's secret base of operations," Andros answered, obviously not too concerned with the answer as he combed through Ashley's hair with his fingers. The two were seated in his bedchamber, which he had been kindly given after arriving several days earlier.

"Well, that narrows it down."

"What is wrong? Aren't you happy?" Andros asked, dropping his hands to look at her. She turned to meet his gaze.

"No, and I can't see how you can be. We are in this horrible room, everyone outside that door wants us dead!"

"No they don't. Garthon simply wants to hurt Jeff, we are perfectly safe."

"You don't think that a great way to hurt Jeff would be to hurt his little sister?"

Andros' eyes flashed and Ashley felt a tremor move through the room. "No. He is only keeping you away from Jeff, not letting him know where you are. He wouldn't hurt you."

"How do you know?" Ashley ranted, rising to her feet and pacing the room. "How do you know that once Jeff arrives, because he will, Garthon won't draw and quarter me right in front of him just to see his reaction?"

"What does 'draw and quarter' mean?"

Ashley let out an unintelligible yell and fell back on the bed. "What did they do to you?" she asked, her voice small and weary.

"What do you mean?" Andros asked, lying down next to her and brushing the hair away from her face.

"Nothing," Ashley said sadly. After a few moments she sat up once more, a mischievous smile on her face. "Andros?" she asked sweetly. "You never did get around to teaching me any telekinesis."


"So," Carlos said, hugging his coat closer to himself, "what are we looking for?"

"We're not looking for anything exactly," Karone called over the wind. "We're trying to find the location of the interdimensional breach."

"Why didn't you say so?" Jeff called back. "It's in the temple. Come on!"

Jeff slowly led the shivering T.J., Carlos, and Karone to the center of the village, while Zhane walked behind at a leisurely pace. "I don't know what the problem is with you guys, it's barely cold," Zhane called ahead.

"Two years in a cryo tube sure give you some weird tolerances to cold," Carlos said.

"Yeah," T.J. laughed.

"Where is everyone?" Karone called.

"Well," Jeff called back, "they're either inside because of the storm, or they all left. With Garthon gone they don't have anything to guard. Here," he pushed open the door of the temple, "let's get inside."

"Welcome! It has been far too long Infinity Ranger!"

"Garthon," Jeff breathed. "But- that's not possible!"

"We checked the energy readings from this part of the planet before we teleported down, there was no way we could have missed all this dark energy," T.J. said.

"True, except I'm pulling my energy directly from the pocket dimension, rather than pulling it all through at once. That way you cannot detect me. Now, come in, we have much to discuss."