Disclaimer: Don't own 'em, sadly, cause if I did, face smashing would have been a must!
Chapter 1
The three former Turbo Rangers emerged from the shuttle onto a strange ship. They slowly looked around trying to figure where they were and how they were going to get out of there, "We should stick together. Let's try and find the control room of this thing so we can get out of here. We've still got a mission." TJ took the lead and made sure his team stayed focused.
Cassie was close behind TJ, "I think the control room is probably on an upper deck towards the middle of the ship." TJ nodded and led the team towards the middle of the ship hoping to find some sort of ladder or lift.
They crept along the corridor when suddenly Carlos said, "Hey that looks like a lift type thing over there." TJ, Cassie, and Carlos ran over to it just as it opened and a man in a red suit stepped out.
Andros stopped and dropped into a defensive stance as soon as he saw the three strangers standing on his spaceship. Before any of them could recover from the shock of his appearance, Andros attacked the dark skinned one wearing red in the front. Andros was mildly surprised when the red one was able to defend himself against Andros' attacks. The girl in pink and man in green tried to jump in and tried to stop Andros, but he easily threw them across the corridor and put the red one to the floor and ran down the corridor.
TJ shook his head and quickly picked himself up off the floor, "You guys alright?" Cassie and Carlos nodded and got to their feet as well.
"C'mon" Cassie said, "I think our best chance of getting any answers just ran that way." Cassie took off after Andros with the boys close behind.
The Turbo rangers were only able to just barely catch glimpses of the figure in red, but they continued to run after him. They skidded to a halt as the doors of the lift closed on the figure. TJ found a ladder on the far side of the lift doors and said, "C'mon lets go!"
TJ started to climb when Carlos stopped him, "Wait! Let's see which floor it stops at… okay level 5, up 2 levels."
Andros entered the bridge and set about trying to contain these people in one spot so he could deal with them on his own time frame. Unfortunately the strangers didn't agree with Andros' thinking because they burst onto the bridge only a second later, this time prepared if he launched an attack. Andros faced them; tense and waiting for an opening to take them down and detain them.
TJ decided to speak before the person attacked again, "Look, we don't know how we got on your ship, but we're not here to attack you or take your ship." When the person didn't answer TJ continued, "We're rangers from earth. We took off into space when Divatox destroyed our headquarters, took Zordon, and our yellow ranger. We were looking for them when your ship docked ours. We're only looking for a refuel if you can spare it."
Andros looks at the earth rangers and decided the fastest way to get rid of them was to cooperate, "Power down… My name is Andros. I'm an astro ranger. I'll give you the fuel you need, and then you can go. Deca refuel the shuttle immediately… It should be a few minutes, you can return to your shuttle and leave."
Andros took the rangers to their shuttle, and once the door closed he rounded and glared at Deca, "Is it refueled?" the eye blinked once, "Good. I'll deal with you docking the shuttle without my authorization later." Deca remained silent.
Andros returned to the bridge, retrieved the clothes for the girl Ashley, and returned to the med bay. When he opened the doors, Ashley was still asleep, so he left the clothes within eye line and left. As soon as he stepped into the corridor Deca said, "Andros, your presence is needed on the bridge."
"I'm on my way." Andros couldn't think what it could be, but it couldn't be good, so he ran to the Megalift. When he emerged from the lift onto the bridge Andros saw the terran rangers ship get shot down by a velocifighter, and it was crash landing on the nearest planet. "Deca what do you want me to do about this?"
"As a ranger it is your duty to protect those under attack and without protection." The AI stated.
"But they said they're rangers, they can handle themselves. I've got other stuff to do." Andros was definitely not in the mood to rush to the rescue of rangers perfectly capable of defending themselves.
"You are incorrect. When Divatox destroyed their headquarters and took Zordon, it is my theory that their morphers were destroyed as well. Leaving them defenseless against a quantron attack. Therefore it is your duty to help them." There was distinctly accusatory tone in Deca's voice.
Andros sighed, "Well fuck me… fine. Alter course and enter atmo, we'll go in first with megalasers to thin the quantron numbers first."
The Turbo rangers weren't having much luck with the quantrons. There seemed to be just too many of them, "We can't hold out much longer. Without our morphers we can't access the power." Cassie's strength was fading fast, and didn't know how much longer she could keep fighting. Carlos and TJ didn't seem to be faring any better. All three rangers fell back side-by-side in an attempt to catch their breath.
"Ok guys we can't give up now. We need to beat these guys so we can get out of here and find Ashley and Zordon." TJ rallied his teammates in hopes they could find the strength somewhere to beat these noisy walking trashcans.
"Right! Let's do it! For Ashley." Carlos got ready to rush back into a seemingly impossible situation. But before they could attack the quantrons began running in the opposite direction. "What the…?"
Andros steered the Megaship down towards the fleeing quantrons and gave the order, "Fire the megalasers!" Andros smiled as the lasers mowed down the quantrons, but then the ship shuddered violently. "Deca! What's happening?"
"We appear to be under attack from the Dark Fortress." Andros' fingers flew over the console trying to maintain as much of the shields as possible when the ship bucked him over the console and across the bridge, "The engines are failing and we are going to have to make an emergency landing." Not five seconds after Deca said this did the ship crash into the dusty surface of the planet.
As Andros picked himself up off of the floor of the Megaship and started running towards the hatch yelling, "Let's Rocket!" Transformed, Andros burst through the hanger door and jumped into the fray.
Once the Turbo rangers turned and saw the ship flying low and firing lasers and they dug deeper than they ever did before and attacked the walking tin cans with renewed vigor. But when the ship got hit twice and crashed landed, the team deflated a little. But they would never stop fighting, and they were heartened when they saw the red Astro ranger run out of the ship and jump right into battle.
Andros threw punch after punch, and delivered kick after kick into the closest quantrons he could find for five minutes before he heard a familiar voice, "Red Ranger!" Andros turned and found Astronema walking toward him, parting the proverbial red sea of remaining quantrons as she went.
"Red ranger, you took my toy, and I want it back!" Astronema stomped her foot like a petulant child where she stood 10 feet away from Andros.
"Awww, poor baby. Too bad can't help you on that count. You'll just have to make do smacking around Ecliptor and your little rust buckets." Andros was stalling her in hopes of getting enough of an opening to make his move. He decided acting sooner rather than later was his best course of action. He drew his Astro blaster and fired, but only grazed Astronema's arm.
Astronema fumed, "Oh you are so gonna pay for that!" Astronema grabbed her staff and shot a lightening bolt the red ranger's way. Unfortunately he was faster than her magic and was able to roll out of the way in time. Astronema screamed in frustration and fired again, this time Andros was caught off guard and the blast caught him in his right side.
Andros grunted and stood up clutching his side, but still pointing his blaster squarely at Astronema.
The Turbo rangers saw the red Astro ranger take the hit in the side. They finished off the remaining quantrons near them and ran over and stood in front of the red Astro ranger so he could catch his breath.
"Oh how cute, looks like the red ranger has terrans to protect him. Oh even better their failed terran rangers." Astronema clapped and laughed.
"Piss off butt-ugly wig queen. What did you do fall, trip, and get beat on by the ugly stick?" Cassie was in no mood for grape head's attitude. In Cassie's experienced estimation today was distinctly a bad day.
"Humph." Astronema fluffed her fabulous hair and decided it wasn't worth it today. She was always up for hurting the red ranger, but now that these twerps were in the way, it seemed to take the wind out of her sails. "Whatever. I'm so over this." With those eloquent parting words Astronema zapped out with what was left of her quantrons.
The Turbo rangers sagged with exhaustion. TJ turned to Andros, the ranger had powered down and who seemed little worse for wear, "Look man you have the best timing. We really appreciate you sweeping in and lending a very friendly hand."
"Yeah well it's my job as a ranger." Andros was short. Now he had to fix his ship, dump the girl, and get back to his search.
Carlos could tell this guy Andros was less than thrilled with the situation he found himself in, "Hey, I know you busted up your ship helping us out. We'll help you get it back in the air, and what can't be taken care of here we can certainly get fixed on Earth. We know all the right people for this kind of stuff. Besides we'll be able to get our shuttle fixed."
Andros really didn't want to have to deal with these people anymore. They were chatty and nosy, a combination he really despised. But if accepting their offer would get him back on course faster, well he could suffer through it, "Fine. First let's take care of our injuries. We'll only work slower injured."
Andros led the Turbo ranger team into the Megaship towards the med bay. He opened the door, and remembered that Ashley had been on board when the ship had crashed. He almost hoped that she hadn't been hurt anymore than she already was. What he saw when opened the door was astonishing. The med bay was a huge mess; everything had flown off the shelf, all over the floor, and there was Ashley, dressed and standing with her back to them.
Ashley turned when she heard the door open, "What the hell happened?"
The Turbo rangers were a step behind Andros, but the second Cassie heard that voice she knew it was Ashley, but didn't believe it till she stepped into the med bay doorway and saw her best friend standing there, alive. Cassie exploded, "Oh my GOD!!! Ashley!"
Author's Note: Okay, so I so wanted to crank out this chapter quicker, but it proved way more difficult than I thought. But here it is in all its glory. Tell me what you think!! Pretty please! Btw, thanks for the review-y love from the last chapter.
AN 2: I just wanted to let you all know that I will try to get as much of this story done before I go abroad to Europe for the semester. I swear I will finish this story over the summer, but there will a hiatus before its done, that I'm sure of. Just wanted to let y'all know.
Shiny love!