Disclaimer: As much as I would like for it to be, Power Rangers is not my creation.
Star Fata: Hope you like this one.
Slytherin-Angel44: Yeah it is sad. Andros is meant to be with Ashley but his relationship with Akako will continue for a little longer.
Jessica01: They're not safe for long.
Ch. 16 Losing Faith
The year went on for what seemed like forever for the seven rangers. Attacks on the Academy became an everyday thing. The students there that weren't rangers quickly left with their parents, hoping that maybe the attacks would be less somewhere else, and then the attacks stopped. Andros knew, now from experience, that this meant Dark Specter was planning something big and he had a strange feeling in the pit of his stomach. He put it of as nerves, telling himself that his team would be able to take whatever Dark Specter threw at them but deep down he knew it was a lie.
Months passed without so much as a Quantron attack and the rangers finally began to let themselves relax, all except for Andros. His parents had decided to take them all out on a fun-filled day hoping that their youngest son would have some fun again. It was on this fun-filled day that their lives came crashing down. It had started out fine and they were having fun. Even Andros was beginning to join in, chasing his brothers and sisters, little did they know they were being watched. From high above the planet Dark Specter looked on at the almost perfect sight. All the rangers were present but somehow it just didn't seem like destroying the rangers without making them suffer was unfair so he set his sights on a new target, the parents of five of them, maybe even kidnap the youngest one, she shouldn't be much trouble. As he formulated his plan up above, Andros' strange feeling was resurfacing.
"Are you okay?" Zhane asked when Andros suddenly stopped playing with them.
"I just have a weird feeling," he answered. "Something bad's going to happen." Just as the words left his mouth there were explosions all around them. They all fell to the ground, momentarily shocked. When they recovered the rangers ran to protect Zel, Katerina, and Kilee. "Are you three okay?" He noticed that Kilee had a nasty cut on her forehead and he took action. "DECA, teleport Kilee to the Med Bay immediately." He turned to his parents and added, "You should go too."
"No," Zel stated, "we're going to help you." Andros knew better than to argue with his parents and quickly joined the fight with the other rangers. Zel and Katerina also joined in the fight. While they were older they had also been raised in the Ranger Academy and had learned to fight while there. Watching them fight from the distance was a shadow, waiting for the perfect time to execute its master's orders. From above Dark Specter watched with a growing smile. Soon he would have all the control over the rangers, they would be pawns in his hands and he would use them to destroy their planet as well as each other.
"Don't worry about the little girl," he commanded the shadow. "We'll let them keep her for now." The shadow advanced waiting for its command to attack. "Just a little longer." Dark Specter had to laugh at the sight. The rangers were fighting their hearts out and all the while it was a simple shadow that was going to be their downfall. He waited until it seemed Zel and Katerina were worn down from the fight, knowing that the rangers were paying little attention to the action behind them. "Now!" The shadow lurched out from behind a nearby tree and quickly knocked out both adults. It drug them into a pile of bushes before the rangers could notice their disappearance and teleported them back to its master's ship. "Well done, now return to the darkness. Now all we have to do is wait."
The rangers looked around in shock as the monsters and minions around them simply disappeared. They demorphed and then turned around to find Zel and Katerina missing. Andros began to panic; he had told them that they should go with Kilee. He had known they didn't belong in the fight and now they were probably in danger because of him.
"Andros," Karone began, trying to ease her brother's worries, "I bet they just went to the Megaship to check on Kilee. Come on, let's go see." Andros nodded and although he didn't agree with his sister he prayed that she was right, he didn't want to cause anyone else to lose their parents. When they arrived on the ship Kilee was beginning to wake up but there was no sign of their parents.
"Mommy?" Kilee asked as she slowly opened her eyes.
"It's me, Kilee," Andros whispered as he drew the covers back over her small form. "Why don't you go back to sleep and I'll go get mom, okay?" She nodded, her eyes already closed and she was quickly on her way back to dreamland. He signaled for them to leave the room. "DECA, tell us when she wakes up." The AI blinked at his request but other wise stayed quiet. The rangers headed for the Bridge and began searching for traces of Zel and Katerina.
"I've got them," Akako announced a little over an hour later, "but something's not right."
"What is it?" Andros questioned as he and his siblings gathered around her.
"I'm not detecting any life signatures," she whispered. It didn't take anything more to send the siblings to find their parents. They rushed to the park where Akako had located them and saw a shadow over their parents.
"Leave them alone!" Andros screamed, running towards them. When he got closer he could see the paleness of his parents' faces and he began to feel sick. The shadow only laughed and disappeared as Andros dropped to his knees along side his parents. "Dad? Mom? Please wake up." Tears were now pouring down his face as his siblings came forward and pulled him away. He fought their grasp at first but soon gave in to his ill feeling and began throwing up. His brothers help him up while Karone held back his hair. While they all felt the same as he did they knew it would hit him the hardest.
"Let's get back to the ship," Zarkin commanded, glancing over his shoulder once more at his parents' bodies.
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