This is a rewrite of another story called "A Taste of Poison Paradise" by Vaelaa. Anyway, Power Rangers belongs to uh- not me? I own some of the plot (until they go to Ernie's) and maybe a few minor characters. Anyway, this chapter will include flashbacks and no ranger action except mentions of episodes. Note the point of time is that Astronema arrived instead of Zedd. Aside from the flashbacks, this chapter takes place the day after Astra's arrival. Also, for plot purposes, the gold Zeo crystal will be part of the original crystal and the pink crystal will be black.

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Early in the morning, Tommy and Astronema had decided what to do with the Zeo crystal. Tommy had decided to get back to sleep while she went to her throne. "Princess Astronema, I have finished preparing the Zeo Crystal. It had to be separated into six pieces, each having their own color: Black, Blue, Gold, Green, Red, and Yellow. I can fuse it with anything. What would you like me to fuse each piece with?" Finster said.

"Hmm. Can you fuse two pieces to one item?" Finster nodded. "Fuse the green and gold crystals to my fiance's morpher and the red one to his zord. Fuse the black one to my staff. Next, fuse the yellow one to Goldar's sword. Finally, fuse the blue one to your machine. That way the monsters and putties it makes are supercharged." Astronema decided. Finster nodded. "Also, go get everyone but Squatt and Baboo. It's time to say the plans." Astronema went to wake up Tommy before the two returned.

"Scorpina, you and Ecliptor will attack tomorrow at noon. However, for this plan to work, avoid property destruction." Tommy said. The two nodded. "What about me?" Goldar asked. "You will leave your sword with Finster along with my fiance's morpher and my staff. He will be supercharging it using a piece of the Zeo crystal." Goldar nodded excitedly. "Also Finster, make sure you make a few putties before working."

As the four left, Tommy and Astronema headed back to their room. "Remember how we met?" Tommy nodded. "It was the day I had my first fight with the Power rangers."

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After his first fight as the green ranger

Tommy and Goldar were on a plant called Onyx, near a tavern owned by the Dark Empire. "Only one human is welcome here, so you might wanna morph." Tommy nodded. "Dragonzord!" He called. "Remember Rita said no drinking." Tommy nodded. "I will need to walk with you inside." Goldar said. The green ranger nodded again before the two entered. "What Power ranger dares enter the Midnight Tavern?" A guard said.

Tommy rolled his eyes beneath his helmet but stayed quiet. "Rygog, calm down. He's with me." Goldar said. "So you betrayed the Empire?" Rygog said. "No, he works with me under Rita Repulsa. He's an evil ranger. And if you want him to prove it, he'll demorph in front of you." "I suppose I could take him morphed or not." Tommy muttered before speaking up. "Power down. Now, if any of you verbally doubt my allegiance then I will show you why you fear the pathetic goody-two shoes." He said before pushing Rygog out of the way.

He decided to look around. Goldar turned to look for his wife, who they had come to invite. "Hey, over here." A female said, gesturing to her table. When he sat down, the fellow human smiled. "So what's your name?"

"Tommy Oliver." He answered. "I'm Astronema." The girl replied. Tommy smirked. "So why did the princess of darkness ask the Green Dragon ranger to join her?" "Well, I saw an Evil ranger which has never existed before. And then he turned out to be a handsome human, the only other human to join the Dark Empire."

"On Earth they have all these false rumors about how cute and beautiful the celebrities are, yet nobody has any rumors about how beautiful the real beauty is." She blushed.

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Present time

"And I remember when you suggested this brilliant plan to me." He said, kissing her briefly on the lips. "Which was also the moment you proposed." She replied.

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The same day that the green ranger had grown giant

"So I have a plan. The rangers suspect it's an evil spell, right?" Astronema asked. Tommy nodded. "It's supposed to make me loyal to Rita. It turns out her spells don't last, so now she's paying me." "Why don't you find a way to charade as one of the good guys?" She suggested. Tommy nodded thoughtfully. "And then you'll come for me with an army, right?" She nodded.

"However, we'll have to stay out of contact." Astronema said sadly. He pulled out a ring. "Will you marry me when the charade ends?" She kissed him on the lips in response.

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Present

"Say, the rangers hangout at this really cool place. Wanna check it out?" He asked. She nodded. "Let's ruin their personal lives too." She said with a smile. "And this is part of why I love you."

"Ai yi yi yi yi." Alpha said. "What is it, Alpha?" Trini said with a tired voice, they hadn't slept all night. "Tommy and Astronema are in Angel Grove." he answered.

"Where?" Jason jumped on his feet and went closer to the viewing globe. He was suspecting that they were attacking something. But then he saw the couple drinking juices in the youth center. They were smiling and talking like they did nothing wrong! That made the rangers furious! How could they! How can somebody be so evil! Somebody that they knew! Or thought they knew anyway.

Tommy and Astronema came to Ernie's. They were wearing normal clothes, of course, Astronema was wearing a simple black dress and her blond hair was in the bun. Tommy was guiding her around, showing her the favorite place of the rangers. He had to admit that he liked to train here too and Ernie had the best juices ever. He sat with Astronema and Ernie came to them.

"Tommy! I haven't seen you in a while." Ernie said with a smile. "Yeah, I had a lot of things to do lately. Ernie, meet Astra, she is my old friend." He introduced her and looked at Ernie.

"Nice to meet you Astra, beautiful name you have." He said with a smile. "Tommy, do you know where the rest are?" Ernie asked, a little bit worried about the rest of the kids that he liked. He didn't see Kimberly, Jason, Trini, Zach, and Billy almost as long as he hadn't seen Tommy.

"I don't know. We kinda fell out. They became quite weird, Kimberly lately was involved in some fight, I heard that she had some scars on her face." Tommy said with false concern. "I wanted to help them, but they didn't want my help." Tommy sighed. "In fact, me and Kim even broke up."

"It's not your fault Tommy." Astra said and took his hand that was on the table as Ernie winced.

"I can't believe-" Ernie started to say that, but then the cavalry arrived. Kimberly ran first to Tommy and she pushed him strongly, that he fell from the chair. Ernie looked at her with shock, when he saw her scars and the black eye patch.

"Where are they!" She shouted at him, Jason was trying to calm her down, they shouldn't be fighting here! Among civilians. Tommy fell on the floor and looked at Rangers with false shock and unbelief.

"What?" Tommy shook his head and Astronema helped him get up. "Don't lie to me, where are they!" Kimberly was furious and heartbroken, the deadliest mix. Tommy wanted to say something, to answer and pretend to be nice, but then Ernie reacted.

"Get out Kimberly, and if your friends are going to brawl in my place, they should leave too." He said with an uneasy voice. He loved those children, but now he couldn't recognize them! So full of anger and hatred, they just attacked Tommy, their friend! Astra hugged Tommy and sent a victorious smirk to the rangers. The Rangers team was so shocked that they didn't know what to do for a moment, but then Kimberly broke the silence.

"Fine. We will catch up later." She hissed, she didn't help with saving the rest of her image among the people in the Juice Bar.

"Ernie, we are sorry, but this-" Jason was trying to save the situation when Kimberly turned on her heels and left the bar. But Ernie didn't listen to him, he just left to the other customers. Jason looked at Tommy, who was looking victorious. They stared at each other for a while, but then Billy and Zach managed to pull Jason out of there. Tommy looked at Astra and sighed.

"I really don't know what happened to them." He rubbed his hair. "Yeah, me too. I'm so sorry Tommy." She said with a voice full of concern.

"Thanks, and thanks to you too Ernie." He answered with a smile and he left with Astra.

At the same time, somewhere in Angel Grove, Kimberly was screaming. "Can you believe him! He kidnaps our families and then he pretends to be the good guy! I can't believe I ever liked him."

"Kimberly, I know this is hard, but you need to calm down, you can't attack him in his unmorphed form in the middle of the town, you can be arrested." Jason was trying to calm her down, but it was pointless. She had too much of it inside her.

"Fine, so I will wait until he is alone and I will kill him!" she hissed and she ran away from her friends. She needed to find her mother. 'The Rangers will save her' echoed in her head. She had never felt so powerless and she hated that! Tommy already won over them! He has Trini, Jason and Billy's coins. Only her and Zach are active power rangers.

"Kimberly, wait!" Jason was trying to stop her and ran after her, but she lost him quite quickly. Trini, Billy, and Zach looked at each other.

"We should return to the Command Center and try to locate our parents." Trini decided, seeing Jason run off. The boys only nodded their heads and they looked for a safe spot to teleport themselves to Zordon and Alpha.

Tommy and Astra were laying in their bed after last night's celebration of taking the Zeo Crystal. It was so easy, that it was so unbelievable that nobody managed to do it before them. Finster was already working on it. That creature was a genius, Rita had never seen his true potential. They didn't make the same mistake as she did.

"Good morning. Everything seems to be going as it was planned." Astra said. Tommy smiled, still having his eyes closed.

"What do we have planned to do today?" She asked with a smile. "I'm going to school. You can go with me if you like." Tommy said with a smile. "You know, you will pretend to be a new girl in school." he added and looked at her.

"New girl who stole you from Kimberly." She giggled.

"No, no. I dumped her for you when she started to get into fights. Who knows what Kimberly is doing now, maybe she's started to do drugs?" Tommy laughed a little bit. He enjoyed rumors about his old friends since Kimberly lost her eye and attacked him in the Youth Centre. Astra laughed too.

At the same time, Trini was pacing nervously around her room. She didn't sleep last night after Zordon explained to them what power she gave to Tommy and Astronema. She saw that look in Jason's eyes. He tried not to judge her but there it was. They won't trust you anymore.

She was telling herself that she had no other choice, but was that true? She cursed under her breath when she heard the sound of the alarm, she turned it off and went to prepare herself for school. It was the last thing she wanted to do, but still, she decided that she had to.

Kimberly rose up early. She went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror, she took off the eyepatch and looked at herself. At her ugly scar in the place where one of her beautiful eyes was once. Tips of her fingers touched it. Billy's technology helped to regenerate tissue, but still, it was not enough. He couldn't help her with the loss of the eye or completely heal all her wounds. She was once the most beautiful girl in school. Who was she now? She heard the new gossips about her after the fight in the youth center. Who was she? Beautiful gymnastic? Drug dealer? Criminal? Warrior? Yeah. Warrior.

Jason didn't sleep well either. How could he, when his team was falling to pieces? Tommy was an addition to the team, but he had grown on them. Losing him to the dark side was terrible, true. But seeing how it was affecting the other Rangers was even worse. Kimberly was heartbroken at first, now she was cold. He remembered the girl that he knew a few weeks ago. Funny, happy, glowing. Now she is gone. Then Trini, Tommy just used her for his purpose, to gain more power. Jason saw guilt in Trini's eyes when Zordon explained to them what the Zeo Crystal is and what Tommy can do with it. She just asked to teleport her out of the command center. He wanted to stop her, he should stop her but he was angry. Not at her exactly, he was angry at himself, that he didn't notice anything before. That he allowed this mess to happen.

There was still Billy and Zack, but it was just a matter of time until this would affect them too. Their parents were taken too. And there was him of course.

All his friendship with Tommy was a lie. He never saw him as a friend. It was only a play. How could he know that other rangers won't betray him either?

Billy spent all night in the Command center, trying to figure out how to get access to the Dark Fortress, maybe they could find a loop in the defenses and find a way to free their parents and maybe the stolen Zeo Crystal. The pressure on his shoulders was cosmic. Everything depended on him... normally Trini would be here to help him, but now... she had her own problems on her mind.

"Billy, you should go home. Rest." Alpha suggested with a worried voice. "It is dawn." He added.

"No, I have to finish this." Billy only murmured, scanning the Dark Fortress once more.

Zack slept like always. It seemed that he was not affected by the past events. At all. No worries about his parents. No worries about his teammates. Nothing. He woke up like he would wake up every other day and looked in the window. He felt nothing and he didn't even think about it, that he should feel something about Tommy's betrayal or Trini giving him the Zeo Crystal. But he felt nothing. He hasn't felt anything since Tommy's betrayal.

School lived his own life. Without worries about the future of the universe. Normal students didn't know about the Green Ranger's betrayal, about the new dark forces. For them the most important thing in the world was the next science test or the new girl in school.

Trini, Zack, Jason, and Kimberly meet as always on the yard before entering the building. They didn't say anything. Not even a simple 'hi'. Nobody questioned that Billy was not there. They entered in silence. Passing through other students. They saw some of them looking at them strangely. Then, they noticed Tommy and Astronema talking and giggling with other students.

The blood boiled in Jason's body. As he moved closer, the other students moved away after they saw his furious expression. But not too far away as they wanted to see the argument between the former best friends.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Jason hissed with anger. "I'm attending this school, the same as you." Tommy shrugged. "We both do actually. Jason, meet Astra Smith. She is a new student." Tommy added with a smile.

Jason looked at the blond girl at Tommy's side. He didn't recognize her before. It was Astronema... he didn't recognize her without armor and the wig.

"What is this, another one of your plays? What are you trying to accomplish Tommy?" Jason asked, trying not to kill them both in the middle of the school hall. "Where are our parents?" He whispered through clenched teeth.

"What I am trying to accomplish is you leaving Astra and I alone. Haven't you hurt me enough?" He answered with a little anger in his voice. Jason didn't know what he was talking about, then he realized that probably the whole school was looking at them. They saw Jason as this bad one. Tommy sighed and left with Astronema. The show was over. It was the same thing that he fell for in the Youth Center. Tommy and Astronema didn't only try to destroy them as Power Rangers but also destroy their normal lives. And he was good at it. No one wanted to talk with them. People were turning away from them, teachers looked suspicious at them. Who knows what Tommy has said about them. It was a horrible mess. And it was just about to become worse.

They heard the familiar sound of communicators and Billy's voice telling them to come back to the command center.