TA/N: Ashley Hammond's Story. Her life during Turbo, Space, the team up, and what really happened between her and Andros after the power?
Chapter 4- Ashley's Ambitions
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It was around 05:00 am in the morning. Ashley was on the phone with her husband, Andros.
"Ash, he's doing good." Andros informed. He knew his wife hated being away from their 10 year old son.
Ashley sighed. "I know this is my break away from it all, but I still miss him."
Andros laughed. "He's ten. He doesn't always need his mommy all the time. You know, Alexander tells me how much he hates when you give him those long kisses goodbye at school. He's easily embarrassed."
"Well excuse me, he's growing up too fast." She said. "I want him to know I'm proud, and he's a big boy."
"I don't get long kisses goodbye anymore." Andros grumbled.
Ashley giggled. "If I'm not mistaken, I gave you a very good, long goodbye, before I left."
He cleared his throat. "Alex is doing great, right now he's on the simudeck. I think Zhane is with him."
"Please, tell Zhane not to take out your sister's Astro Glider." The former yellow Space ranger advised. "We know hers is all high tech, it comes with lasers, and a built in DECA, but she's already upset with him."
"Uh oh, what did he do now?" The red Space ranger asked.
"He shrunk her favorite bikini."
"That's good. I need to give Zhane a high four or well, um, is it a high six?" Andros was still confused with human customs.
"High five? And why?"
"Karone doesn't need to show off her stomach, legs, and who ha's." He replied. The mental picture disgusted him.
"Who ha's?" His wife repeated. "Have you been hanging out with the Reds too much?" She knew they all came up with their own terminology.
"I need to go. Work summons me." Andros said. His wife sighed. "I love you."
"I love you too. Give Alex my love. Give him a lot of it, okay?"
He hated when she babied their son. "Okay." Andros said. "Bye.
"Bye." Ashley hung up. She looked around the suite. Everyone was still sleeping, but she was wide awake. "Why is it every time Trini cures me of a hangover, I feel like I got injected with 10 Red Bulls?" She said out loud. Ashley tip toed to her room. She dressed into some workout clothes, and she went to the downstairs gym to workout. Before she left, she grabbed her IPod, so she could get into the zone while exercising.
As Ashley, went to the gym, there were a lot of things on her mind: her husband, son, and her cheerleading squad. She was brought out of her reverie by a man.
"I know you." The husky man, who looked around her age, said.
Ashley looked at him up and down. She had never seen this man in her life. He looked about 260 pounds, 5'9, Hispanic, with black hair and brown eyes. "I don't believe we've ever met. Sorry." She continued walking to the gym.
He followed her. "I was there in Angel Grove." He clarified. "You're the Yellow Space Ranger!" He got excited. "Wow, you look great after all these years."
The former yellow mentally kicked herself. She should've never revealed her identity all those years ago. "Thanks. Well I gotta go." She ran to the gym and closed the door. Last night, no one recognized her because of her former ranger status. Maybe, they did, she wasn't sure. After all, she was drunk.
The husky man wasn't discouraged. "How did it feel wearing spandex? How come there's never been an overweight ranger?" He yelled through the door window.
Ashley smiled small, put on her headphones, and started up her IPod. She went to work out. Hopefully, the guy would leave. Her thoughts drifted to what happened in her life up until now.
(Ashley's Thinking)
Growing up, I never thought my life would turn out this way. My ambition in life was to be a cheerleader. Maybe a cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers. I never expected to be a ranger, I expected I'd get married and be a mother, but never to I guess, alien.
After Tanya Sloan chose me to be her replacement, I was a little nervous. I gladly accepted the position, don't get me wrong, but still it was a lot to take on. I'm a teenager, I wanted to do what teenagers do, date, have fun, cheerlead, find out more about myself. I did not want to have the weight of the world on my soldiers. What if we failed? That would be a major disaster.
At least I had the greatest teammates: TJ, the tough, leader, Cassie, the sweet, wannabe rockstar, Carlos, the nice, caring, soccer player, and Justin, the brains behind everything. Our mentor, Dimitria, she was beautiful, but her cryptic-question, talking always bothered me. How can I not think that? Have I not found what she truly meant behind her questions?
Becoming a ranger, it changed me. I don't think I'm as girly as I used to be. I mean, I took shop class in high school. Dad had always been good with cars, so I decided to give it a try. I felt like I came out of my shell during my junior year of high school. I kinda had a crush on Carlos, but I never admitted it. It was nice of him to walk to me to my house a couple of times though.
After the fall of Eltar, our Turbo powers failed. Then the Power Chamber was attacked. TJ and Carlos convince us to head into space. It was hard to leave Justin behind, but he got to stay on Earth with his family. It's what he's always wanted, but he'll always be my little brother. However, our mission was important. We understood how important Zordon is to the ranger world, and that's what pushed us to fight harder. That's when my goal of being a cheerleader for a football team changed. My new goal was to save planet Earth and the universe.
I've never been on a space craft before, but that was only the beginning. That's when my first encounter with Andros happened. At the start, he was very mysterious. Similar to what Mia has said about her boyfriend, Jayden. Must be something with the Red rangers, huh? It took him awhile, but he accepted us as his team. To this day, I still get made fun of for my first encounter of Andros. How was I supposed to know he was human? We just landed on some distant planet!
During my first month as a Space ranger, I noticed Carlos had shown an interest in me. Maybe it was wrong of us to act like a couple in front of my grandma. After my Grandma found out we were faking it, she insisted we dated. That gave Carlos an idea.
"What should we do this weekend?" Carlos asked me. We were at the Surf Spot, and we were catching up on homework. Being a ranger, school kinda had to be on the backburner. Plus, traveling between Earth and Space was a challenge.
I shrugged. "What is everyone else doing?"
Carlos looked at me. "Ash, I was thinking me and you can do something on our own."
I smiled at him, but I was wondering if he wanted something more. "Carlos, are you trying to ask me on a date?"
He nodded. "Yeah, I think your Grandma is right. We have potential, don't you think?"
I saw Cassie and TJ trying to teach Andros how to play poker. There was attraction between Cassie and TJ. It took time for her to get over the Phantom Ranger, but she found who she's meant to be with. Andros made eye contact with me, and I waved at him.
Carlos saw the exchange. "You like Andros though."
"Carlos, you're a great friend." I admitted. "I really do think I'm having feelings for Andros."
"He's cold, kind of mysterious, how can you be with a Karovian though?" Carlos' emotionless demeanor came out.
I sighed. "Carlos, I thought we understood the value of teamwork. How could you say that about Andros? We don't know him."
"You're right, we don't know him." He said.
"We should be friends." I got up from my spot and headed over to our other teammates. Of course, I fell right in front of them. Andros kindly held out his hand for me. I smiled and took it.
Carlos knew I was serious. It was never brought up again. Carlos sometimes would hint he didn't like me and Andros being together, but it never affected our job as a ranger.
Then, my birthday happened. Even though Andros doesn't celebrate birthdays on KO-35, the present he got me was real sweet. I was surprised, and Cassie knew that Andros liked me. I didn't believe her. On my birthday, Astronema, who was later found out to be Karone, kidnapped me. She exchanged places with moi. I'll let you know now, fighting Andros is tough. I think it's in his and Karone's blood to fight. Karone is a tough opponent as well. After he found I was the real Ashley, we were able to defeat the Body Switcher. I had a talk with Cassie after the battle.
We were in the Megaship, and in our quarters.
"Cass, do you really think Andros likes me?"
She nodded. "Why, you don't think he does?"
"Yeah, I mean having Carlos as my pretend boyfriend, almost killing him as Astronema, what if there is another girl out there?"
"First of all, your reasons are pretty whack." She bluntly said. I furrowed my brows. "The whole thing with Carlos was a ruse. What happened as Astronema, she switched bodies with you. You-"
"But it's the mental picture of 'me'-" I stressed the quotation marks around me. "-fighting him."
"Who cares? There are plenty of girls out there that can kick ass. Tanya does it to Adam. Trini, Kim, and Aisha also can kick some male butt as well!"
"I'm from Earth, he's from KO-35, how could we make it work?"
"What's with the insecurities all of a sudden?" She placed her hands on her hips.
I shrugged. I honestly had no clue why I was feeling like this. "I don't know."
Cassie went to my dresser. She picked up the present from Andros. "This." She pointed at it. "Tells me he cares for you." She gave it to me. I smiled at her. "Now, if you excuse me I have to see TJ. We have to work out battle plans."
"AKA make out like there's no tomorrow?"
She glared at me. "Shut up!" She walked out.
I giggled. I looked at the present again. A few days later, I realized I wasn't the only one insecure about our feelings. Andros was red with envy when Zhane started to teach me how to-
(Ashley's Snapped Out her Thinking)
Ashley stopped working out. She noticed there were 10 more people standing outside the door. She heard the husky man. "That's the Yellow Space ranger!" He kept waving at her. The tourists were taking pictures of her.
The former space ranger rolled her eyes. "What was I thinking revealing myself?" She quietly said. After learning about telekinesis from Andros, Zhane, and Karone; Ashley learned a little bit of telepathy too. She hoped Karone would be able to understand her, and she quickly closed her eyes.
"Get down to the gym, Karone. I need you to get these people away from me. Don't bring Cassie either."
Ashley opened up her eyes. Karone was quick, and she listened very intently. The former yellow continued her working out and thinking.
(Ashley's Thoughts)
-where was I again? That's right, I learned telekinesis from Zhane. I had no clue Andros could get so jealous of me. I mean, seriously, do Karovians even have that type of emotion? Either way, it happened, but Zhane wasn't trying to get close to me. Apparently, there was someone else, who was also close to Andros, Zhane had his eyes on. I thought it was interesting, Zhane liked someone else. After the battle on that day, Andros and I went to watch Halley's Comet. We were watching it, and we had a talk.
"Why do you think I would like Zhane?"
Andros shrugged. "I don't know. I just thought since you guys were spending a lot of time together."
I smiled at his observation. "It's funny, after my birthday, I had a talk with Cassie, and I thought you didn't like me.
"What?" He was surprised.
"I guess it was my insecurities."
"You weren't the only one." We both watched as the comet went by.
"Can comets act like shooting stars?"
He smiled. "Why don't you find out?"
I made a wish, and I should've known he could read minds also. After I made my wish, he kissed me. I deepened it. For an alien, or well not so alien, he really was a good kisser. I blushed profusely after that kiss. It reinforced his feelings for me, and I felt strongly attached to Andros after that.
A couple of weeks later, I noticed Zhane had been acting weird. Kind of like he was in love. There was no way he was in love with me. Maybe Cassie? No, TJ would kill him. Maybe it was a fellow Kerovian? I walked to his room, and I saw there was a picture on his dresser. I gasped. It was a picture of Astronema. He saw me.
"Ash!" He whined.
"Our villain; and you love her?"
"It's more than that." He said as he stared at the picture. "She's not all evil." At that point, we had no clue how right he was. He told me about what happened, and how mad she was about the date he bailed out on.
"You bailed out on the date?" I giggled.
He shook his head. "I fell asleep, then that monster, how was I supposed to know?"
"Poor Zhane, at first I thought you were in love with Cassie."
Zhane got pale. "You know TJ would kick my ass."
I laughed. "Have you told Andros?"
He shook his head. "No, should I?"
"Na, we will leave that between us." I confided.
Zhane blew out a breath of relief.
When we found out Astronema was Karone, Andros' lost sister, I can't lie, I was a little bit wary of bringing her on the ship. I wasn't sure if she could be trusted, but as Andros' girlfriend, I had faith in him. He wanted his twin sister on board with us, he had been without her for a long time. One day, I was battling Quatrons on the simudeck. Karone had a talk with me.
She was watching me fight. "Are you in love with my brother?"
I stopped. "DECA turn off the action." I turned to Karone.
"Turning off action." DECA informed.
"I care about him a lot." I said. I was only 18 at the time. I didn't know what love was. If it felt like how I was feeling, then maybe, yes, I was in love with Andros at the time. "When I first met him, he was really a loner." She nodded at me. "Why?"
"From what I remembered, he's always been like that. We are both kind of like that. It could be from what happened to our parents, or because of what happened when I got kidnapped." She explained. "Maybe it could be from the battle I've been causing. But, after everything I've done to all of you, he still wanted me to be here, why?"
"That's something you should be asking Andros." I looked at her and noticed the guilty expression on her face. "Hey, we know you were kidnapped, and I know you feel bad for everything, but there is good in everyone."
"No wonder my brother has taken a liking to you." She smiled small at me. "It's nice to see Andros like this. I hope we can be, um-"
"Friends?" I supplied.
She nodded. "Bye." She walked off. There was something sad I felt about Karone.
It probably had to do with Zhane not being present. He helped the citizens of KO-35. The silver space ranger and her never got to spend time together while she was on the ship. She was taken by Elipticor and brainwashed again. Her fighting became more ruthless. There was no more Karone, she was again, Astronema, Princess of Evil. The Psycho rangers were created, Cassie and I were pinned against each other, Silvy, Carlos' friend, blackmailed him after she learned his identity. I couldn't tell you how scared I was of the Psycho rangers, I really thought it was the end of us.
The final battle with Karone, who became the Queen of Evil, changed everything. It was a two day battle. The first day, Zhane lost his zord. We demorphed because we became so weak. Andros had left that night to talk to his sister. The citizens of Angel Grove gave up on the rangers. The following morning, Astronema demanded we show ourselves to her. How could we? One of the cardinal rules as a ranger was to keep our identity a secret. The citizens stuck up for us, so Cassie, TJ, Zhane, Carlos, and I decided to show who were. We morphed in front of everyone. We battled hard, but Andros battled the hardest. He fought for his sister, and to get Zordon out of there. But that wasn't the case, Zordon demanded for Andros to destroy his tube. Andros couldn't do it, and he landed a devastating blow towards his sister. That's when he did it. The evil was gone, but it was a heavy cost. Zordon was gone.
Andros and I were almost separated. I couldn't live on KO-35. He made a choice, he decided to come back with us to Earth. Not only him, but Karone and Zhane did as well. They were finally together.
After we landed on Earth, we went to the memorial for Zordon. Zordon's 12 were there. Jason, Kim, and Tommy were ready to pounce on Andros.
"I should kill you!" Jason went to attack, but Bill, Zack, Adam, and Rocky held him back.
Andros shook his head. "He demanded that I do it."
"Why did you listen?" Tears were coming down Kim's face.
"He wanted it, if there was any other way, then I wouldn't have done it." Andros replied. I held his hand to support him.
Tommy's eyes had been green the whole entire time. He glared at Andros with fury. "How could you? After everything he has done? If it wasn't for him, there wouldn't be Power Rangers." His eyes went back to brown. "You, wouldn't have been one."
Karone defended Andros. "I'm sorry." All the former rangers turned to her. "If I wasn't brainwashed, if I wasn't deemed the Queen or Princess of Evil, then none of this would've happened. Zordon kept trying to make me see the good again, but I couldn't." She started crying. Andros came up to her.
Andros hated to see his sister crying. "Put yourself in my shoes." He calmly stated. "If you were asked by Zordon, your mentor, father figure, the well, respected man we all know." They all looked at him. "I'm saying that because he was all of that to me, maybe more, if he asked you to break his tube for all of humanity, could you have told him no?"
After that, we spent our time in silence respecting the man and the legacy he began. I understood why the former rangers were upset, but I'm sure they couldn't have done what Andros did.
(Ashley's Thoughts Stopped)
There was more commotion outside. Ashley took off her headphones. She looked outside. There were even more people crowded out the door. Cassie was getting bombarded by people.
"Look!" The husky man, who she found out, was named Edgar, pointed at Cassie. "It's the pink Space ranger!"
Kat walked through one of the walls. "Hey, Ash." She nonchalantly greeted. The former pink Zeo was in her workout clothes.
"Ugh. I told Karone not to send Cassie. I just needed Karone." Ashley upped the speed of the treadmill.
"Well, Karone thought you said get Cassie down there." Kat said as she began to use the elliptical machine. "A few more girls are coming. We decided to work out after all the drinking we did."
Cassie, Karone, Syd and Emily finally came through the doors. Ashley saw all of them. "Karone, I said don't get Cassie." She hissed.
Karone shrugged. "So, I heard wrong." Her machine of choice was the treadmill near her sister in law.
Syd used her powers to lock the door. "For someone who could read people's minds, you did a bad job."
"I agree with Sydney!" Ashley said.
"We should've never revealed we were rangers." Cassie muttered. She went to the yoga mats. "That guy practically overran me. I really wanted to chuck him through a slot machine."
"It was Zordon's number one rule." Kat reiterated. "Never reveal your identity." Zordon's 12 always kept reminding the Space rangers they should've never done that.
Emily was stretching. "Ashley, how long have you been down here?" She had noticed her fellow yellow was gone.
"Not long, maybe half an hour." Ashley kept working out. "That stupid guy realized who I was and stalked the door like he was a bodyguard."
"More like paparazzi." Syd said. She went to the cycles. "There must've been 30 people by the door."
Ashley put her headphones back on. "Don't bother me, I'm thinking." The girls respected her, and they nodded.
(Ashley's Thinking…. Again)
After being a ranger, my next ambition was to be a fashion designer. I went to school for it. Sadly, Andros had to go back to KO-35. We started a long distance relationship. It was hard, and we made it work for about six months.
We broke up because it got harder trying to be with someone on a different planet. On top of that, Andros was still involved with the ranger life. That was something I honestly couldn't handle. I've witnessed, even been a part of the battles in space, it's a dangerous universe out there. The break up was hard on both of us, but in the end it made us stronger. I was a firm believer, if we break up, and then somehow made it back together, we were meant to be. I believe other female rangers believe in that saying.
Six months after our break up, Alpha 6 sent us the distress call for the Psycho Rangers' return, we immediately got on the ship. I took up the power of the Yellow Space ranger once again. The team up between Space and Lost Galaxy was a somewhat bittersweet one. Andros and I were reunited. The love between us was still there.
"Hey, Ash." Andros said. We were on Terra Venture, just walking around.
I smiled at him. "Hey, Andros. How's Karone and Zhane?"
"They're good. Marriage, as you call it on Earth, is happening between them."
"Really? Wow, that's great." I looked at him. "And, what's been going on with you?"
I saw he took a deep breath. He grabbed for my hand. I still felt a spark. "I've missed you."
"I've missed you too." I confessed. He smiled at me. "I understand why we broke up but-" He immediately kissed me. The not so unsociable guy made the first move. I couldn't have been happier. I kissed him back.
Cassie, TJ, Carlos, Leo and Kendrix had walked in on us.
"It's about damn time!" TJ yelled.
Cassie smacked his arm. "Way to ruin their reunion, Babe." She rolled her eyes.
Andros and I parted. We blushed, and he grabbed my hand. We walked to our friends.
Somehow, Psycho Pink was revived. She read the mind of Kendrix, and they went to get the Savage Sword. The pink Galaxy ranger sacrificed herself. With the defeat of the Psycho rangers, we lost Kendrix, or we thought we did. We had to leave, there was a mission on Earth we needed to complete.
Cassie was feeling depressed about what happened on Terra Venture. She came over to my apartment, a couple of days after the team up.
"Cass, she did what she felt was right." I comforted her.
Cassie had tears in her eyes. "I should've helped her."
"How? From what you said and what we saw, your Astro morpher was destroyed. She was morphed, and she still didn't survive." I placed my hand on her knee. "You would've been gone."
"But my spirit would still have said bye to you guys." Cassie exclaimed.
"I don't know what you are going through, but you know, she didn't die in vain. She did it to destroy the sword."
Cassie nodded in understanding.
Andros came in the room. "You know, TJ is worried about you." He came to sit down with me.
"I know, he's been telling me." She said.
I went to grab her a cup of water. "When we're older, we can have more adult drinks." She giggled for the first time since we came back from Terra Venture. It was nice to see that smile on her face.
"I don't get it." Andros furrowed his brows. I didn't explain it to him.
My career as a fashion designer didn't pan out. I was okay with that, and after that happened, I spent time with Andros, Zhane, and Karone on KO-35. Karone became a sister. We've been really close since her time as Astronema. Andros couldn't be happier. He values us as the two most important women in his life. Zhane and Karone were happily married. Sometimes, it was weird for Andros to see his best friend and sister married, but he's accepted it.
When Andros proposed to me, I was shocked, but I told him we needed to meet my parents. At that point, he hadn't met them yet. That was a day to remember. We were eating dinner at my parent's house.
I was sitting next to Andros, my parents were on opposite sides of the table. My 16 year old brother, and my Grandma were sitting on the opposite side of me and Andros. Grandma smiled at us. After the whole Carlos fiasco, she realized she was wrong. Andros really was the one for me.
After Andros admitted he was from a distant planet, the shock wore in. Once it was gone, my Dad spoke up. "So, Andros." My Dad nervously started. "Where exactly is KO-35?"
Andros took a bite of his mashed potatoes. "It's-"
"In between KO-34 and KO-36, Daddy." I anxiously replied. I'm not sure why I interrupted, but I was thinking it would make things less tense between them. Things weren't really tense though. Maybe I was feeling nervous?
Dad smiled at me. "Pumpkin, I think I was asking Andros." He pointed at him with a fork.
My smile faltered. Andros placed a hand on my knee and looked at me. "Ash, I can talk to your Dad." He turned his attention to my dad. "Mr. Hammond, the Karoven Outpost is in the universe. It is located near the Milky Way, but not exactly in the Milky Way. We orbit around Aquitar, Mirinoi, and Onyx. Even though, we, the good guys, aren't welcome on Onyx."
Mommy smiled. "So, is it by the moon?"
Grandma noticed there was a ring on my finger. "Are you going to be my grandson in law?"
"What?" Dad spit out his drink.
"Cool, Andros can you dye my hair like yours?" Joey, my brother, asked. He thought it would bring him the ladies.
I blushed. "Now, Daddy, I've been with Andros for a while. I love him, he asked me, and I accepted."
"This is the first time, I've met him though!" My Dad practically yelled.
"Mr. Hammond, I love your daughter. I don't mean any harm by trying to marry her." Andros said.
"Ashley, this is wonderful news!" My mom gushed. She got up. "We got to plan everything, your dress, the caterers, where are we going to have it." I saw her leave.
"Joey, Mom, can you please leave? I need to talk to Ashley and Andros." My Dad directed.
"Go easy on them." Grandma requested. Joey stayed because he wanted to see the encounter.
Grandma smacked his head. "What?" She grabbed him by the collar. Her and my brother walked out.
My dad sighed. "Andros, no disrespect to you, but this is the first time I've met you."
"Dad." He looked at me. "I love Andros, I've been in love with him since I first met him. It's been two years, I know I want to be with him for the rest of my life."
"Ashley, you are 19, you don't know what you want!"
Andros felt uncomfortable. We didn't have this problem because his parents were deceased. I wasn't going to back down though. This is what I wanted. Regardless of what he thought, I want to be with Andros.
"How can you say that to me? I was a God damn power ranger for two years. I had to come back and forth between Earth and space to protect the universe. I've lived a life that most 19 year olds couldn't handle. No matter what, who stuck by my side doing the same? Andros. That's who. Daddy, please." I begged. He looked at me with a defeated look on his face. "Please, give us the blessing."
He looked at Andros. My fiancé nodded. "You two aren't having sex are you?"
"What's that?" Andros asked.
I looked at him. "What? You don't know what sex is?"
"No, I've never done it." My Dad brightened up at his comment.
"It's a bad thing, anyways, son." My Dad held out his hand for him. Andros cautiously took it.
I rolled my eyes. My next goal, tell or show Andros what sex is.
From that point, Andros became a part of the family. A year later we married. Shortly after that, I got pregnant with Alexander. He figured out what sex was, and well, he's what you call an undercover freak. Just thinking about his skills makes me a very happy woman. Anyways, he almost missed out on the birth of our son because of that stupid Forever Red mission.
"Where the hell is Andros?" I yelled at Cassie. She was holding my hand, I almost broke it.
"Nurse!" She barked. Cassie glared at me. "I need an x-ray for my hand."The nurse nodded.
"I thought they were going to be done." I said.
"You aren't the only one." She called TJ again.
"Ashley, we need to get you in a room now." The Doctor said.
"My husband's not here though."
My doctor shook his head. "This baby is coming."
I screamed in fury.
"Oh hell no!" Cassie yelled.
"What?" I frantically asked. Her yelling made me think something happened to Andros or TJ.
Cassie shook her head. "You broke my nail."
"Bitch!" I screamed in agony. All she cared about was a nail. As for me, I've been in labor for 6 hours now, my idiotic husband decided to fight on the moon- I needed to kill Mr. Multicolored ranger by the way, the pain was really unbearable, I've been carrying a Goddamn baby for the past 8 months, and all she cared about was a nail. "You should shove that nail up your-"
"Ash!" Andros came running down the hall. I sighed a breath of relief. "You really think I was going to forget about this?"
"At this point I didn't know what to think." I told him.
18 hours later, Alexander Andros Hammond, he took my last name since Andros didn't have one, was born. He was 7 pounds 6 oz., 25", he already had the dual toned hair going on too. Zhane and Karone are the Godparents. The other set of Godparents are TJ and Cassie.
I spent 3 years taking care of Alex before I chose to go back to work. I decided to be a cheerleading coach. I love my job. Some of the former rangers' daughters, and a son, are on my team. They're amazing.
Alex has telekinesis powers like his Dad. He's perfected them, and he's already training to be the next Red Space ranger. I couldn't be any prouder. He is mine and Andros' motivation to provide him a better life in this world. He doesn't mine living on both the Astro Megaship and in our condo in Angel Grove. If anything, he is more unique because of his two cultures. The girls in his class don't seem to mind.
As I have pointed out before, my goal in life was to be a cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers, now, my ambition in life is to provide for my son and husband. I couldn't be happier.
(Ashley Finally Stopped Thinking)
"Are you done thinking?" Kat questioned Andros' wife.
Ashley took out hear headphones and turned off the machine. "Yeah. Woo, that was a long workout."
"Let me guess, thinking about Andros and Alex?" Syd asked as she, Cassie and Emily did their garland pose and slowly extended themselves into dolphin pose. After the cycling, she decided to do yoga.
"I miss them." She replied.
Karone was still jogging. "Did you talk to my brother?" She asked as she panted.
Ashley went to sit down for a bit. "Yeah, I told him not to let Zhane take your glider out, you are still mad at your husband."
"I'm not still mad. I'm a little upset." Karone smartly retorted.
Kat giggled. "You are Zhane have the weirdest relationship, I swear."
"Like you are your hubby?" She shot back at Kat.
"Hey, me and my husband are happy okay." Kat stopped working out.
"We should all head upstairs before they send the search party after us." Cassie got their attention. She looked out the door. People were still out there. "Ugh, how are we going to get out now?"
Emily looked. "Is this how it always is when Cassie and Ashley come out?"
"Not usually." Karone said. "It becomes kind of suspicious when Dana and Kelsey are with them though."
"Well, I need to get up to the room." Kat said. The former pink smirked. "Bye!" She walked through one of the other walls.
"Bitch!" They all muttered except for Emily. She wasn't one for cussing.
Karone and Cassie put their hands on their hips. "It's not like we are being held captive." Cassie said.
"Or, you're stuck in a giant wedding cake that houses tears of crying brides." Emily added. All the former rangers looked at her. She laughed and told them the story.
"Dayu must be a wench." Karone noted. "But, she's still not bad as me."
Syd used her supernatural ability to release the hold on the door. She noticed other people were trying to get into the room. "On three, we run out." They nodded. "1, 2, 3." They all ran out the room, but bumped into some of the people trying to work out. The former rangers stumbled a bit, but ran out.
"Look!" Edgar yelled. "There they go." He began to run after them.
"Karone do something!" Ashley yelled.
There wasn't time or a way to be secretive to do something. Thirty people were chasing the former rangers.
"I wish we could still teleport." Cassie murmured.
Ashley stopped. She turned to their followers. "We aren't even rangers anymore. Just stop following us!"
"But you saved the world." A woman said.
Cassie smiled. "That was a long time ago. We are just on vacation, and we want a break. So if you'd excuse us. We gotta go."
"Are you ladies rangers too?" Another guy in the crowd looked at Karone, Syd, and Emily.
"I'm just a country girl." Emily replied. She played stupid. "I don't know what the power rangers are."
The crowd yelled information at her about the power rangers. People yelled about Mighty Morphin, Zeo, Galaxy. They talked about Zords, and the colors of each ranger. Where the sightings of rangers have been, it was a madhouse.
"Wow." Emily acted like she hadn't heard of them before. "Well, bye!" She ran to the elevators.
Cassie, Syd, Karone, and Ashley were now stuck. How were they going to get out now? For ten minutes, the girls were hassled with questions. They saw Tori. With her finger, water was spilled on the floor. She signaled for the girls to come forward. The former rangers did, and the crowd tried to follow, but they had slipped on the water. The ones that didn't had fallen on top of people.
"You are a life savior." Syd gratefully praised Tori.
The former Blue ranger laughed. "So, I've been told. Emily let me know you guys needed help. How was your guys' workout?" They were all in the elevators.
"Great, until that mob of people were stalking the door." Cassie answered.
"What are the plans for today?" Karone asked Tori. They had been gone for an hour or so. Something must've been thought of.
"Well, we are going to get ready, and then head down for brunch. After that, I believe we are heading to the mall." She informed.
After a couple of minutes, they got off on their floor.
"That's great, I need to shower." Ashley smelled her armpit. The girls looked at her disgustingly. "What?"
They just laughed at her. Once they got in the suite, they noticed almost everyone was up. There were 29 girls, and two big showers. How was this going to go?
A/N: The next chapter will be Tori Hanson.