Disclaimer: As much as I would like for it to be, Power Rangers is not my creation.

Ch. 1 Stolen

"And we have a boy," Dr. Alden Karovan stated as he allowed his brother, Ajax, to cut his son's umbilical cord. "He looks a little smaller than his sister but he's okay."

"How's it feel to be an uncle?" Bella questioned while holding her daughter.

"Probably not as good as being a father," he replied, smiling at his twin brother, "but it'll do for now." He stared at the small bundles of joy for a minute longer before adding, "Andros and Karone, right?" His brother and sister-in-law nodded and he wrote it on their cards. They were interrupted as a nurse rushed into the room.

"Doctor," she stated, "you're needed in the NICU."

"Okay," he replied, glancing back at his niece and nephew. "Make sure they get down to the nursery and get their bracelets." The nurse nodded but secretly had plans of her own.

Once he had left the room she explained, "I should be getting them down to the nursery." Ajax and Bella nodded, not really trusting this stranger with their children, but if she worked with Alden she had to be good. As she wheeled them out of the room in their respected cribs she didn't pay attention to the cards in the corner of their baskets one which said boy and the other girl. She rolled them through the door of the nursery and told the nurses there that they were needed for an emergency in the NICU. Once they had left she hurriedly placed clothes on both babies and headed for the exit, making sure to avoid all the security cameras in the halls.

"It's about time," Diana's husband, Duncan Breen nagged as his wife emerged from the hospital. Just then Andros and Karone began fussing and Diana looked at them helplessly. "Well, you're the expert, what do we do?"

"I think their wet," she stated as she felt the moisture through their clothes.

"This one's a girl," Duncan informed as he attempted to change Karone. "I thought you said it was two boys."

"I'm sure it was," Diana defended. "This must be the wrong baby." She took Karone from her husband and put the diaper on herself. "What do we do with her? We only need the boy."

"Just lay her out there," her husband ordered. "Someone will find her. Now, hurry up before someone finds out their missing." Diana did as she was told, lying Karone a safe distance from the car and got back in the car.

"Are you sure we'll get the money?" Duncan questioned her.

"All we have to do is send the ransom note," she answered, "and we'll get the money." Little did they know they had snatched the wrong baby.

Ten minutes had passed since the nurses and Dr. Karovan had been falsely sent to the NICU and they all came back to the nursery. Upon seeing the two empty cribs, Alden felt his heart drop.

"Everyone!" he yelled, effectively grabbing everyone's attention. "We have two missing babies. I want everyone here to start searching for them, I'll go tell their parents." With a heavy heart he headed back towards Bella's room, not at all sure how he was going to tell them this news.

"What is it?" Ajax demanded as his brother came into the room. He knew that look it wasn't good. "What's wrong with them?"

"I hate to tell you this," he began and both parents felt their heart begin to break, "the nurse that ran in here was evidently a fake. She kidnapped them."

"Correction," a security guard stated from the doorway, "one of them." Ajax rushed over and pulled the baby from his arms and looked at it.

"It's Karone," he whispered. He handed her to his brother, knowing that he would take the best care of her and not let her out of his sight.

"We'll find him I promise," Alden stated as he placed a hand on his brother's shoulder.

"Why would someone want our baby boy?" Bella asked, tears pouring down her face.

"I don't know, baby," he answered, "but we'll find him." He felt her nod against his shoulder and she slowly drifted off to sleep. Alden kissed the top of her head gently and looked down at his daughter. "You will know your brother, I promise. We'll get him back and you two will become anything you want to be. I won't let someone tear this family apart." He placed his now sleeping daughter in his wife's arms and watched over them as they slept.

Meanwhile, on the other side of KO-35, Diana and Duncan had just arrived at their run down apartment with Andros.

"Just throw the kid down in the crib," Duncan ordered. "I don't want him interrupting my television time. His Mommy and Daddy will give us the money in a couple hours anyway." Diana did as she was told, secretly hoping that this little boy wouldn't be with them any longer than necessary. She returned to the living room, not surprised to see her husband already drinking a beer and she hoped that the baby boy upstairs would remain asleep until they got the ransom money for she knew what would happen to him.

Back at the hospital Alden returned with some fairly good news, "We watched the surveillance video over and over and were finally able to spot them. We blew up their pictures and have the police out looking for them and Andros. We also have their license plate number and the police are running down the owners." He saw both Bella and Karone were asleep and hoped that they would be able to make it through this ordeal. It was going to a rough road but hopefully it would go quickly.

"Please bring him back to us," Ajax whispered, careful of his sleeping wife and daughter. "She can't live without him." Alden only nodded, silently promising his brother once again that he would bring his son back.

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