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Rejections and Farwell's
Ashley is asleep in the medical bay.
Earlier everyone had noticed Ash drifting to sleep so they quietly left the room.
Everyone walked up to the bridge to see Andros working on some paper work.
Karone sees him first and turns to Cassie and asks "Cass why don't we go to the store so we can get Ashley something and leave the boys alone."
"Sure let me go get my purse and jacket."
Karone nods as Cassie walks out of the bridge.
Once Karone turns back around Andros has gotten up and started to walk over to them with a worried look on his face.
"Justin, why don't you go with the girls?"Andros asks gently.
"Ewe! What do you take me for? I hate shopping!"
Karone sees Andros's face and tries to help him.
"Justin it will be fun we'll go to the arcade and to the computer store if you'd like."
"Why me? Why not them?" Justin says pointing at the others just watching the argument.
Andros shakes his head in defeat.
"Never mind Justin I just wanted to talk to the rest of the team alone but it doesn't matter."
Kat looks at Tommy and asks Andros
"What's wrong Andros?"
Andros sighs "I know you guys really want Ashley to be our Yellow Ranger."
Everyone was nodding focusing on Andros speaking and didn't notice Cassie walk back in.
TJ nods "Yeah it would be nice."
Andros continues "But I don't believe she is right for the morpher."
"What!"
Everyone turns to see Cassie standing in the doorway her purse and jacket on the floor as if she dropped them in shock.
Cassie marches up to Andros pointing her finger at him.
"What do you mean she's not right for the morpher? Didn't you see her today? She saved our lives, especially yours. Ashley is one of the most focused rangers I have ever met. Ashley is the most loyal person on Earth. She is one of the best leader I have ever met, she keep us strong and together. She saved our lives from that explosion. How can you say she's not right for the morpher?"
Everyone including Andros was shocked at Cassie's outburst.
When all of a sudden the Megaship gave a big lurch.
"What was that!" screams Kat as the megaship gave another jump.
Andros runs towards his station and starts pressing multiple buttons while the others try to keep their ground.
Kat falls and Tommy catches her by her waist and helps her stay up.
"Andros what is happening it feels like we are falling out of space?" yells TJ
Andros yells back "That's because we are!"
Cassie looks at Karone and both of the girls let out a big scream.
Their scream covered an alarm coming from the medical bay.
Meanwhile in the medical bay, Ashley wakes up at the jerking on the ship.
"What's going on?" She asks.
"The ship is having technical difficulties." replied DECA.
"Okay who's there?"
"My name is DECA I am the on-board computer system I speak over…"
"Not now DECA! What do you mean technical difficulties and don't try not to scare me?"
"The ship is falling out of space."
Ashley looks at the blinking light in complete shock.
Ash shakes her head and asks "Is anyone else doing anything to fix it?"
"Andros is but he won't listen to me when I say the damage is physical not computer."
DECA sounds a little offended.
Suddenly Ashley hears two girls scream.
Ash swings her legs over edge of the bed and yanks off the heart beat monitor chords making a blaring noise.
"DECA turn that off!" commands Ashley
"I cannot, you are not allowed to leave the bay!"
"Well the ship is falling out of space and I'm not good with relaxing during an earthquake so tell me where the problem and I'll fix it with your help."
The noise stops and DECA speaks again.
"It's in the engine room follow the hallways then turn left and it's the end room on your left."
Ashley runs in the direction told and comes to a door that was open but it was smoky and sparkly inside.
"DECA tell me what to do!"
"There is a chord by the ceiling inside that is sparking because it's not plugged in all the way. That chord controls the ships gravitational pull towards a planet."
"I see it!"
Ashley climbs the ladders and shields her eyes from the sparks flying her way.
Once she reaches the landing and jumps the railing standing facing the chord and her back against the railing.
Ash looks around and sees a pipe connected to the ceiling right next to the sparks and she jumps her hands grabbing a hold of the pipe.
As she swings forward kicks at the chord and swing at it a couple more times and finally lets go of the pipe and flies forward kicking the chord one last time clicking it back into place and flipping backwards landing on the balls of her feet on the floor below.
Finally the sparks stopped and the ship comes to a halt.
"Good job Ashley the ship is fixed. You should head back to the medical bay you might have stretched your stitches. I'll let the others now right now what you did."
"Wait I want to! I want to see the surprise on Cassie and Zhane's face where do I go?"
A brief pause caught Ashley's attention but disappears when DECA tells her how to get to the bridge.
Once Ash is close to the doors of the bridge she hears voices so she hangs back for a minute.
First she notices Cassie's voice "Now that problem is fixed. I need to go back to ripping Andros into pieces."
"I'm sorry Cassie but I don't think she's right for the morpher."
Ashley walks onto the bridge unseen and sees that Cassie about to rip some boy's head off.
That when Ashley speaks jokingly, as she leans on the wall.
"You should really check your chording ever two thousand miles."
Everyone turns and sees her; Cassie smiles runs and hugs her friend.
"What did you do now; you are supposed to be sleeping!"
"How do you now I did anything, and it's really hard to sleep when you feel like our in the middle of an earthquake."
Justin smiles and asks "You're not going to tell us what you did, are you?"
Ashley's nods and watches him as he walks towards Carlos's station and hits a button bringing another video onto the screen.
The video was her fixing the pipe in the engine room.
Ashley shakes her head as the video finishes, Zhane and Andros look over at her in shock.
"I also heard you guys talking in here a minute ago."
Cassie flinches and shoots a glare at Andros who didn't even notice.
"I'm sorry; don't be mad at me Ash. I would give it to you if weren't for the strict butt over there."
Ashley confuses everyone with a laugh.
"I'm not mad at you, him, or anyone."
Cassie tilts her head to the side.
Ashley looks at Andros with a serious look on her face that impressed him.
"That why he's a good leader. He's not going to give me the morpher because I don't deserve it."
Carlos and TJ were about to open their mouths to argue when Ash puts a finger up to silence them.
"I did something stupid in his eyes and I don't regret it. I saved a leader and that always is a turn off point for most of them. Maybe this whole explosion, then being captured and tortured thing is telling me it's time for me to hang up my position as a ranger! I believe it's time I go back home now I miss my family who I think believes I'm dead."
She turns towards Cassie and hugs her she also hands her something to Cass.
"They might be in pieces but I found them they all broke when the chamber was destroyed. I was surprised to see their shape next to mine but I thought you guys might want them."
Ash had handed her a small box, where she held it nobody knows, and inside was some of the piece of all the turbo Rangers' Morphers.
Once Ash hugs everyone even the former rangers which everyone probably forgot about them, she shocks everyone.
Ashley walks towards Andros and held out her hand.
"You must be the strict leader Andros, right?"
Andros nods and shakes her hand and profiles her, she does the same.
Ashley lets go of his hand and steps back.
She smiles as she looks into his eyes until he spoke "I thought you had blue eyes?"
"Contacts, I don't trust my own eyes half the time, so I hide them. They'll be blue again soon, instead of muggy brown."
Andros nods.
Ashley smiles again and takes a quick look at his hair and looks back at his face.
"I think it's time for me to go."
She starts walking towards the center of the room.
Cassie speaks before she leaves.
"Call me every day!"
"I will, and by the why, Andros, cute hair."
Suddenly a round of yellow sparkles surrounded her and she disappears.
Zhane elbows Andros in the gut smiling at him.
"You go dude!"
R&R Hope you enjoyed it!
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