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Ch. 10 Plans for the Future

Morning came early for Andros and Tommy but both knew that this would be a very important day. After they had settled their differences the night before they had agreed that they would spend today planning a way to get Zordon back. All the rangers slowly made their way to the Work Bay, all looking like they had gotten very little sleep after the showdown between the two Red Rangers. The children carried into the room looked the same as their parents but none of them would stay in bed after their parents were up.

"So," Tommy began as he sat down with breakfast for him, Kimberly, and Collier, "we're going to start planning after breakfast."

"Yeah," Andros answered, rearranging the children on his lap. "But I have a date for lunch, so you may have to do a little planning without me." Tommy nodded and they ate their breakfast mostly in silence. Once they had all finished Andros helped carry all the children to the Observatory so they could play and then returned to the Bridge. "Okay, does anyone have any suggestions?"

"I think we should go in with a group," Jason suggested as he looked around the room. "Maybe if there are more of us there they won't be able to stop all of us."

"But, what about Earth?" T.J. questioned, looking at the two men that had been at each other's throats the night before.

"We'll have a group to protect Earth and another to go after Zordon," Andros explained, but Ashley noticed that he avoid making eye contact with her.

"And who's going after Zordon?" she asked, questioning his authority. He looked at her then silently pleading for her to let it drop but she refused. "You're not going by yourself."

"What!" everyone else yelled.

"Of course he's not going alone," Karone added from somewhere behind him. He turned to look at her but wasn't surprised by the amount of emotion in her eyes.

"Look," Jason interrupted, sensing that this meeting was about to take a turn for the worst, "why don't we all take a break and then we'll see if we can come up with a real plan?" He shot a pointed look at Andros, daring him to do anything before they discussed this matter further.

"Fine," Andros replied, turning and practically running off the Bridge.

"Why does he want to do everything himself?" Tommy asked before anyone else had a chance to leave.

"He feels that he has something to prove," Zhane answered simply. "He had to get Karone back to prove to his parents he deserved their love, but he had to do it alone. And now he feels that he needs to prove his worth to you, all of you. He feels that he's let you down and the only way to change it is to save Zordon himself."

"I'll go talk to him," Tommy stated, surprising everyone but Ashley and Kimberly. As he turned the corner out of the Bridge he was surprised to see Andros just sitting there. "You know you don't have to prove anything to us. We know that you've done your best and that's all we want."

"I know," the younger man whispered. "It's just I'm so tired of Darkonda beating me and every time I turn around there he is hurting someone else close to me."

"Listen," he began, forcing Andros to look at him, "you go and have fun with your sister and when you come back we'll come up with a real plan that we can actually do without losing anyone, okay?" Andros nodded and went off in the direction of the Simu-Deck. Tommy returned to the Bridge to find everyone arguing about something. "HOLD IT!" he yelled and everyone looked over to him. "What's going on?"

"I finally figured out that you're right," Jason stated, "these rangers aren't worth anything. They can barely take care of themselves."

"At least we're trying to do something," Zhane responded.

"Wait," Tommy began, "I was wrong. They've been doing everything that they can. If half of what's happened to them would've happened to us I don't know what we would've done. We're all on the same team here and no matter what we have to stick together." Everyone apologized and finally began some strategic planning.

Meanwhile, Andros had told Michelle that he had an errand to run before they had lunch and he had managed to sneak past the Bridge while everyone was fighting. Little did he know someone was already well aware of his plan.

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