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Reunited or Truly Gone

Everyone just stands there in shock as they look at the girl standing in front of them.

Cassie looks like she was about to cry.

"Ashley?"

The girl nods.

Cassie runs over to her and hugs her.

Ashley hugs back before gasping in pain.

Cassie jumps back to examine her, then she spots Ash's arm.

"Ash your arm is bleeding!"

Ashley looks over at her arm and shrugs her other hand was lying on her stomach.

"I'm not going to faint from that."

Carlos walks over and puts a hand on her shoulder.

"You still need to get medical attention."

Ash glares at him.

"I should be asking how you guys have powers."

Cassie jumps in not looking to happy.

"That's a question for after your better."

Cass puts a hand on uninjured arm and pulls her along.

Once Ash stumbles Cassie stops.

"What's wrong Ashley?"

"I'm just a little dizzy."

TJ finally speaks "You probably lost a lot of blood from that cut on your arm. Let's go now."

Ash shakes her head and looks down at the hand on her stomach.

"I think this one might be making me dizzy."

She removes her hand to reveal a bloody wound made by a knife seen threw her shirt.

Before anyone spoke Ash took one step forward and collapsed.

Lucky TJ ran over and caught her before she hit the ground.

"Ashley!" yelps Cassie.

"We need to get her to the medical bay."

Carlos looks over at Andros who put his wrist up to his mouth and presses a button.

"DECA, seven to medical bay including Ashley Hammond."

Just then the world became sparkles for the rangers.

Once the medical bay became still around them, Zhane, Karone, and Andros powered down.

Karone runs over to the cabinets looking for something.

"Put her on the bed TJ." She orders.

He does what he is told and backs up and let the Keorvan's work because they were practically born and grew up as doctors as well as rangers.

Andros grabs a scanner and starts scanning Ash.

"She's fainted from loss of blood. No organs are damaged. The wound his pretty deep it might take about three weeks to heal, four weeks to heal properly. She should be fine; it depends on how soon we can stop the bleeding and sew her up. She does have other injuries but we'll worry about those later."

The other rangers nod.

Zhane grabs a wet wash cloth and begins working on the arm cut.

Karone walks over and hands a cloth to Andros.

She put the rest of the stuff she was carrying on the table next to the bed and faces Ash.

"Cassie, can you…?"

Cassie looks at Karone's expression understanding.

"Oh."

Karone nods as Cassie walks over quickly and reaches around her and pulls up Ash's shirt all the way up to her chest.

Knowing Karone she would have wanted permission to expose someone.

Karone goes back to work helping Andros clean the cut.

Once Ashley has two cuts were stitches and patches up Zhane attaches a heart beat monitor to her.

The monitor showed that Ash's pulse was slower than normal.

Karone sighs and looks at her friends.

"That's all we can do. Now we just have to wait and see if she'll wake up."

Everyone nods as Andros walks around Carlos out the door.

Cassie looks after him then at Ash.

"I'll go talk to him." says Karone.

Cass nods.

Karone puts a hand on her shoulder.

"Don't forget to have faith. Remember I want to meet this girl. Zhane too after you told him that she has a way with pranks. Andros he just isn't into new people and you know that."

Cass laughs as Karone turns and walks out the door and down the hall, up the lift until she reaches the bridge.

Karone stops as she saw Andros sitting in his seat starring at the seat next to him.

The seat next to him is sometimes occupied Karone but it's suppose to be the seat for the teams yellow ranger.

"Andros, are you okay?"

Andros didn't reply he just shakes his head once.

Karone looks at her brother's posture and laughs as she walks over to him and sat in the chair he has been staring at.

"Why are you sad Mister Boss?" trying to get him to smile

Andros mutters softly "Her"

Karone leans back in the chair

"You know I can't help you if you keep your mind separate from mine or at least talk to me."

He chuckled.

"Ashley. I don't think I'll be able to handle another one of them. Even the way they described her, she's like another you!"

"Hey!"

Karone leans over and swats at his shoulder but misses as he moves.

She leans back and looks at his face.

"It's not just that is it?"

"No. They're going to want me to give her the yellow morpher and I don't know if she's right for it. I'll have to tell them then they'll be upset and I don't want to deal with them. Do we really know her? She looks well um…"

"Innocent?" Karone adds in quietly.

"Yes Karone she looks so innocent, just so innocent, a trait that won't help you in combat."

"We saw her fight today. She's really good even without a morpher. This wouldn't be about her saving your life would it?"

Andros turns around "Maybe."

"Why don't you get to know her and then decide?"

Andros looks up and shrugs.

"Okay I guess but I'm not going to try to hard!"

Karone stands up and pats Andros on the back.

"Well I'm going to the medical bay I really want to meet her."

Andros smiles and stands up to follow when the intercom comes on.

"Ashley's waking up!"

Karone looks at her brother as he waves her away she turns and runs down the hall like a little girl chasing a bunny.

Andros chuckles at the sight of his sister.

Meanwhile, in the medical bay, Zhane is sitting by the door half sleep.

Carlos and TJ are at the foot of the bed and Cassie is sitting right next to Ashley holding her hand.

After about fifteen minutes Cassie feels something move when she looks up she saw Ashley stirring.

"Guys, Ashley!"

Zhane wakes up and presses the intercom button and speaks into in, but the Earth Rangers didn't catch it, they were focused on the girl in the bed.

"Huh where am I?"

"Ashley, its Cassie you're on the Megaship you're in the medical bay. You fainted from blood loss."

Ashley's eyes flutter open as she looks at Cassie.

Once her eyes focus, Ashley sits up quickly and throws her arms around Cassie.

"Cassie you okay!"

"Of course I am, you on the other hand."

"I'm fine now."

"Never do anything like that again Ashley. I don't care about that anymore just that you are okay." TJ orders sternly.

"TJ, Carlos!"

The boys walk over and both give Ash a big group hug pulling Cassie in with them.

Ashley giggles at their pathetic hugging strategy.

Suddenly something beeps from behind the guys pulling them apart.

Cassie jumps up, walks over, and grabs something or rather someone.

"Ashley there is someone that really wants to meet you."

Ash's eyebrow lifts in concern for her best friend.

Then Cassie comes back over pulling Karone with her.

"This is Karone she is the purple ranger. Once the chamber was destroyed we found out the Zordon was captured and we went to help and find new powers. We went into space on the NASA shuttle and we were kind of pulled into their ship. A lot of other things happened that doesn't really matter now and they gave us the Astro Morphers."

Karone looks at Cassie and puts her hand out to Ashley.

"Cassie has told me much about you recently and I'm touched at what you did for your friends. I believe they couldn't do any better in choosing you are a best friend and I hope one day we can get to know each other and become that close."

Ashley didn't take Karone's hand but smiles.

"You're sweet and what I did is nothing. I didn't even have to think twice about doing it, and about the friend thing how about we start right now?"

Ashley opens her arms for a hug.

Karone comes over and hugs her when a boyish laugh broke them apart.

"You two are definitely one of a pair!"

Karone doesn't smile but glares at the person Ash couldn't see.

"This would be Zhane, he is our Silver Ranger. He admires you because he was told you have a thing for pranks!"

"Hey I don't admire her Karone."

Ashley laughs.

Then Zhane walks over to her and holds out his hand.

Ash looks at his hand and reaches out to shake it when she grabs his wrist and twist his palm up showing a hand buzzer and shakes her head.

"You should work on you prank methods and I don't think the gel in your blonde hair is going to distract any girl, trust me I've tried."

"So what do you do to get you pranks to work?"

"I don't think you will be about to do it."

"What makes you think that missy?"

"Unless you are gay and are willing to wear a mini skirt with a crop top I don't think you'll be able to pull it off."

The guys in the room laugh at the shock on Zhane's face.

Cassie walks over to Ash and smiles.

"I think there are some people wanting to see you."

"Who?"

"Do you think that were the only ones that missed you?"

Ash shrugs when the door opens and Tommy, Kat, Tanya, and Adam pile into the room.

"Ashley your okay!"

Ash is attacked with hugs from Tanya and Kat

"I missed you two guys!"

Once the girls were done Tommy and Adam comes over and each pulls her close and whispered how much the missed her and steps back.

Her smile fades when she thought of something.

Then Karone's morpher beeps as she looks at it and grins as if she won a million dollars.

"There's actually one more surprise waiting for you that just got here."

Everyone looks at her in confusion and then at the door as it opens.

Justin walks in looking at the floor.

"What do you guys need. Andros messaged me saying that you guys had a something special for me."

Carlos and TJ steps out of the way so if Justin looks up he can see Ashley.

"Well if you look up you'd see." says Tommy

Justin looks up and the pain on his face disappears once he saw Ashley into joy.

"Ashley!"

Justin runs over to the bed and jumps into Ashley's awaiting arms as she pulls him as close as she possibly could.

"Justin!" She cries, tears falling down her cheeks.

Karone and Zhane look at each other with big smiles on their faces.

The Justin they have always known was gone and a cheerful boy with a real smile lying in his place not letting go of Ash.

Justin finally let go to look at Ash when who bent down and kisses him on the forehead and pulls him to sit next to her.

Karone smiles.

"Well I think I've got something for you from everyone here."

Ashley looks up and smiles but that smile disappears when she sees Karone wave her hand, purple sparkles flying from them and a yellow bouquet appears in her hands.

"I'm a witch just to let you know!"

Ashley nods slightly frightened.

Cassie pipes in as Karone puts the flowers on the nightstand.

"I'm glad everything is back to, well, somewhat normal."

Everyone nods and smiles as Karone wonders.

Andros called the others down and also called Justin and told him that there was a surprise. Why would my brother do that? Is there something about Ashley that had changed him? Is he trying to be kind to her? Oh my goodness! My brother's trying to make Ashley not think badly of him! Something about her has done something to my brother... What is it?

R&R Hope you enjoyed it!

AshlenH