Chapter 3: Earth Tour Part 2

Disclaimer: I wish I owned the Power Rangers…but unfortunately I don't!

A/N: Okay, here's chapter 3. This part will be only about Ashley and Zhane. In the next chapter, Andros' POV will be there again. I hope you enjoy this chapter as I did while writing. I can't help it, but I like this pairing a lot! Have fun and…review:)

Review Responses:

Star Fata: Thanks, yeah Jeff is very protective of her! This chapter there'll be no thoughts of Andros, but next chapter there will. Hope you like it anyway!

Ashley Hammond Astro Yellow: Zhane hasn't got a little brain! He just act like he has a little one, but he's pretty smart if you ask me. Well, your in Ireland right now so I hope you'll review when you come back. Have fun there and come back safe and healthy!

Phantom Rogue: Thank you very much! I really like Zhane so I payed very much attention to him in PRIS. And not only because he looks cute ;) Yeah poor Andros, he will suffer more and more in the next chapters, more him that he is charakter in my fic…evilgrin. Yeah! I saw that too in Shell Shocked! He was so jealous…poor guy.

Jainasolo18: Thanks! That's a very big compliment:D Hope you'll enjoy this one too.

Sango A.R: This soon enough? I worked very hard on, hadn't had much time the last weeks.

Darkhonda: Thanks mate :) I love Zhane too, he's such a handsome clown! Thank you very much for the sweet review, have fun reading this one!

Ashley drove to the centre of Angel Grove. She wanted to show Zhane the nicest places in the city.

Zhane was looking out of the window fascinated. "Ash, what are those?" he asked when Ashley had to stop in front of the traffic lights.

She couldn't hide a grin.

"Those things are called traffic lights. Because of them, the cars don't crash on another. When the light is green, one row cars may go first." She explained.

"See?" she asked when 'their' light jumped to green and they drove away again.

Zhane nodded, still fascinated by the idea of traffic lights.

Soon, they were in the city and Ashley managed to find a parking place. Zhane got out of the car and looked around, to the traffic, to the buildings, to the people.

Ashley closed the car and walked to him. "First," she said, dragging him along with her, "I wanna show you the mall. The mall starts over there" she pointed. "There are a lot of different shops in there, and also cafés and lunchrooms. I spend a lot of time in there" she grinned.

"I'm sure you spend most of the time in the clothing shops?" Zhane joked.

Ashley give him a soft shove. "What makes you think that?" she asked innocently.

"Well…" Zhane said, thinking about what to say. "You're a girl! And most of the girls love shopping. At least, I think there's pretty much no difference between Earth and KO-35 about the subject girls and shopping" he smirked.

"Besides," he continued, glancing sideways at the pretty brunette who was walking next to him, "You wear very nice clothes. Clothes that really match you"

Ashley felt butterflies in her stomach. Normally, she wasn't quickly affected by a guy's compliments, but Zhane seemed so sincere, he seemed so natural in giving them, that she just melted.

"Thank you. I'm taking design classes at school and I wanna be a fashion designer in the future" she told the blue-eyed boy.

"I'm sure you'll do a great job, I mean, you definitely got style" Zhane answered.

They walked through several clothing shops for an hour. Ashley managed to buy some civilian clothes for Zhane, cause he hadn't got any on the mega ship. His outfit he was wearing today, he borrowed from Carlos, Andros and TJ.

Unlike Carlos and TJ, who Ashley and Cassie had forced to come with them on many shopping sprees, Zhane actually seemed to like shopping. Well, he definitely loved the attention he was getting.

After their shopping event, they walked to Ashley's car again and drove away.

"So, that was fun! What's next?" Zhane asked Ashley, while he was playing with the radio, zapping from station to station, pumping up and lowering down the volume.

"Well…my first plan was to show you my school, but since that's boring and you can see the anytime, I decided against it. I've got something much more fun in mind." She said mysteriously.

Zhane's blue eyes lit up like a child who was promised a cookie. "What what what? Tell me Ash!" he begged.

But Ashley stopped the car. "This" she pointed.

They were standing in front of Mysteryland, an amusement park which consisted of area's with different theme's, like Western, Fairy Tale and much more. Ashley came here for the first time with Carlos, a year ago.

Ashley parked the car and they walked into the car. She grabbed Zhane's arm.

"You're gonna love this, thrust me!" she whispered in his ear.

Man…Zhane thought. Today couldn't get any better. He was alive again, had his best friend back, was still the mighty silver ranger and now, he was walking on this amazing fun planet with a girl next to him that was most probably the cutest and hottest one of Angel Grove.

Yup, he thought smiling, life couldn't get any better.

He'd already noticed in the few houres that he had spend with Ashley, that she wasn't just a cute girl with nice looks. Oh no, she was smart, funny, caring and optimistic. They did had a lot in coomon.

Zhane was ripped away from his lovely thoughts when suddenly, Ashley shrieked:

"ohhhh Candy apples! Ohw Zhane Zhane Zhane!" She jumped up and down and shook on his arm. "You have to taste them!"

10 minutes later, he was walking through the park, arm in arm with Ashley and an apple with chocolate on it in his mouth.

Ashley couldn't supress a giggle, Zhane's mouth was covered with chocolate.

"There you go" she said, whiping away the chocolate after Zhane finished his apple.

Zhane laughed. "Well, your laughing at me, but you haven't seen your own mouth!" he pointed to Ashley's lips, which were covered with chocolate too, and whiped it away softly.

Ashley almost shuddered at his gentle touch.

They walked throught the park. Suddenly, Ashley stood still in the middle of the path, her hand covering her mouth in shock and a stunned look on her face.

"What? What's wrong?" Zhane asked concerned.

Ashley shook her head. " I totally forgot! Saturday is Halloween!" she said, pointing to the pumpkin decorations.

The next five minutes, she was busy explaining to Zhane everything about the tradition, the candy and the costumes.

"Sounds fun!" Zhane said enthousiastically. He was always in for a party!

"It is! I have to go shopping costumes with Cassie tomorrow! Another excuse to go to the mall" Ashley smiled satisfied.

It was a wonderful afternoon, they tried several attractions like the Bumper cars and Watersplash. Zhane loved it all. They ate cotoncandy's, ducked into several photocabins and they even rode a fake rodeobull.

Ashley was almost lying on the ground with laughter when Zhane was kicked of the 'bull'.

Walking out of the saloon, Ashley and Zhane were still laughing like idiots. Ashley held her stomach and Zhane had tears in his eyes.

"Ash, your face when you fell of that thing, it was worth a picture" Zhane laughed and imitated her.

Ashley shriekend with laughter and gasped for breath.

Before they knew it, they were standing in front of the Cobra, a giant rollercoaster that went upside down and inside out many times.

"Wooooooooow!" Zhane said with wide opened eyes, when they stood there looking at the Cobra.

"Wanna try?" Ashley teased.

"Do you dare?" Zhane teased back

"Is that a challenge?" Ashley asked, an evil grin on her face.

"Oh yeah!" Zhane grinned back.

15 minutes later, they were sitting in the rollercoaster train, waiting for the ride of their lives.

"Are you scared?" Zhane asked Ashley, when the Cobra-employee had fastened the protection bracket.

"Never" Ashley said determinend.

Zhane didn't knew what happend, but the next thing he knew, he was hanging upside down, screaming even harder than Ashley did.

5 minutes later, a trembling Ashley leaded a slight green coloured Zhane out of Mysteryland.

"You ok?" asked Ashley concerned, laying a hand on his arm.

"Yyyeahh…" Zhane stuttered. "Tttthatt wasss sssscarrrrry" he said, cluthcing his hands in front of his stomach.

Ashley sighted and put an comforting arm around his shoulders. "I'm so sorry Zhane..I should never have challenged you to go in that thing…I didn't knew it was that scary, cause I never dared to try it but still…"

Her babbling was stopped by Zhane, who layed a finger on her lips. Ashley blushed and looked into Zhane's eyes.

"Ssssshh" he said. "I challenged you remember? And it was fun!" he grinned and swayed a little.

Ashley catched him. "Come on, I know the best medicin for you" she smiled and walked him to the car. After she helped Zhane in the car, she took place on the drivers seat and drove away.

"Oooohw" Zhane moaned as the car started moving.

"Listen, I'm gonna drive as carefully and slowly as possible ok? And just say it when you want me to stop" Ashley said.

Zhane nodded. He had to supress a smile. Okay, he knew he was evil. Very evil. Yes, he was a bit sick after their Cobra ride, but it wasn't as bad as he acted. He was just very curious how Ashley would react if he was about to throw up.

The girls he'd dated on KO-35 ran away screaming when he was sick (or pretended to be), but Ashley didn't. Ashley took care of him. Somehow, the throwing up thing seemed the ultimate test to figure out if he liked the girl.

When he thought about it, Ashley wasn't like his former dates. Most of his former dates were fun for one or two dates, but couldn't interest him any longer. They were nice and beautiful, but nothing more. And Ashley, well, she could interest him for a long, long time…

Zhane sighted.

Ashley parked the car. "How are you feeling?" she asked, looking at him with her concerning, warm brown eyes.

"Better, I guess" he admitted with a small smile.

"Well, this will help you to feel 100 again!" she teased when they got out of the car. "A nice walk in the park!"

An hour later, Zhane was feeling totally fine again. He and Ashley talked about school, KO-35, being a ranger and their teammates.

Now, they were sitting on a bench in the middle of the park, looking out over the lake.

"It's beautiful here" Zhane said.

"Yes it is. This is my favorite spot in the park" Ashley told him. "I always come here if I have to think about stuff"

"Well, where do you have to think about right now?" Zhane asked her.

"About where are we going to have dinner presently" Ashley joked.

"No, serious…" Zhane said, looking at her intensely.

"About how it's possible to fall in love with someone you only know for one day" Ashley said softly, looking away from the handsome blond haired guy next to her.

"I was thinking the same thing" Zhane replied, his voice filled with warmth and love. He put his hands around Ashley's face, forcing her to look into his eyes.

Ashley wrapped her hands around his neck and their faces came closer and closer and their lips eventually touched each other in a gentle kiss. After some time, their kisses became more passionately.

Zhane's tongue found his way into Ashley's mouth, feeling her, tasting her. Ashley ran her fingers through Zhane's blond spikes. When they stopped, they both looked to another with a smile on their faces.

Ashley suddenly felt the cold wind and shivered. Zhane noticed it, and put his arms around her. Ashley curled up en snuggled closer into his strong embrace.

The park was empty, expect for Ashley and Zhane and an old couple with their dog, who watched the young couple smiling. It reminded them of their selves, many years ago.

Zhane sat there, with Ashley in his arms, totally content and happy, watching the sun go down.

A/N Don't be lazy and review! Please:)