Captured Again – The Transdimensional Archives

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</HEAD><BODY leftMargin=15 rightMargin=15 MARGINHEIGHT="15" MARGINWIDTH="15"> <CENTER> </CENTER> DISCLAIMER: Andros, TJ, Carlos, Ashley, Cassie, Zhane & all other PR characters are not mine. The only characters that are mine are the monsters and Phantom 2 whom I had decided to name...(Hey why am I telling you this?!) that will be making very short appearance later in this seriesJ. (If you would like to use them please let me know.) Power Rangers are the property of Saban Entertainment & Fox Network and Keri is the property of Starhawk. I'm not making any profit off this story. Someone else will also be writing under another name so don't be surprised if you see the continuation of this story that is under that name, for the series is still the same. Captured Again By SpaceRanger Andros James stepped on to the bridge finding his brother already up and working. Beside him was Ashley Hammond the Yellow Astro Ranger. He nodded at the peaceful scene, his brother could not have found a better person to complement his withdrawn attitude. Andros turned and smiled. "Morning." He said. It was then he noticed the reddish-gold ring on Ashley's finger; Andros James frowned at him although he knew his brother couldn't see it. "Good Morning, Andros, Ashley," he replied, "Andros, may I speak to you alone." His brother nodded, Ashley turned and waved at them before turning back to her controls. <center>~*~</center> As soon as the lift slid closed his brother demorphed into his original self. "Andros, I know you did not just do what I think you did." Andros immediately knew what his brother was concern about. "You know the side effects to it why?!" "It was time." Andros said quietly. "I felt it." Andros James sighed. "You know as well as I do that when it is time, there is no stopping it." Andros James nodded reluctantly. "It is a feeling I know only too well," his brother replied. Then he put his hand on his shoulder. "Take care of yourself Andros and don't forget to tell Zhane about this so he can take over. I need to go back to Eltar." "I know." Andros said smiling. "Thank you my brother." Andros James smiled back and touched his ruby changing back to the Phantom Ranger. "That's what brothers are for." Andros James replied. "Deck Six." Andros said. <center>~*~</center> "Are you sure?!" Zhane yelped. Ashley frowned and turned to face her husband-to-be and his best friend. The two were conversing telepathically and Zhane had just let it slip and talked out loud and mentally. "Zhane pip down." Ashley said. "T.J., Cassie, and Carlos well be woken up." "Sorry." Zhane said sheepishly. A wave of pain flow through her and she groaned with agony, Andros was at her side the instant she fell to the deck. "Ashley are you okay?" Those same words from her dream coming from the Andros shocked her. "It was you..." Ashley whispered before pain came crashing back to her. <center>~*~</center> Zhane had managed to convince him to go down to the now deserted beach and as he walked along he felt the burning sensation again in his blood. He closed his eyes and summoned his training effectively stomping the fire into ember. Andros sensed danger behind him and he ducked. Orange fire blasted at him. Andros reached for his morpher and swore mentally when he realized that he did not bring it with him. "Hello Ranger." A familiar evil voice said. "You're coming with me." Andros then felt something hit his head and blackness enveloped him. <center>~*~</center> Zhane sat by Ashley's side as she slept. He knew that he didn't have to, but with Andros down on Earth, relaxing, it was the least he could do for him. "No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ashley's voice cried out. Zhane quickly shook her awake. "Ash, are you alright?" Zhane asked worriedly. Ashley opened her eyes and Zhane could see fear and disbelief in them. "What's wrong Ash?" "Andros has been captured by Darkonda." Zhane's eyes widened with disbelief. "Deca is this true?" Zhane asked turning toward the camera. "I am no longer detecting Andros on Earth." Deca replied. Zhane swore under his breath. "Dammit," Ashley swore out loud half-heartily. "Not again Andros, not again." Zhane sighed. "Deca inform the others and Phantom of what has happened." "Yes Zhane." Deca replied "Ashley, how are you feeling?" Zhane asked. Ashley frowned at his question. "I'm okay." She replied Zhane sighed again. "No I'm serious Ash," Zhane said. "How are you feeling?" "Well my head hurts a little but other then that I feel fine. "Andros must have been hit on the head then." He muttered out loud. "How did you know that?" Ashley asked with surprise on her face. "I don't care what Andros says. You have the right to know." Zhane said. "You and Andros are linked together so you are able to see what he sees and he can see what you see." "How?" She asked. "Um...Your ring Andros gave you." Zhane mumbled "What?!" Ashley said wide eye her right hand went to the red and gold ring in her left hand. <center>~*~</center> "Everyone has their own special ring on KO-35." Zhane explained. "I got mine after I had bonded with Kerone and it's still at my house waiting for the right moment to ask her. But Andros' ring was very strange. Ever since I was about 4 in Kerovan years I could remember him having it. He keeps it hidden from everyone. I had just happened to stumble upon it when I was searching for my books. He told me about his dream and made me swear not to tell anyone. When I asked him how he got it without being bonded, he told me he didn't know, and that my guess was as good as his." Ashley stared at him she reached into her shirt, pulled out a tiny and thin case that she had hidden in a pocket she had sewed into her yellow tank top, and remove the ring she had hidden there and handed it to Zhane. Zhane stared at the ring in his hand with wide eyes and stared at her and from her to the ring. "I've always had mine too." Ashley said quietly. "This is more serious then I thought." Zhane said with detectable fear in his voice. Then he handed her back her ring. "Hold on to this ring Ash and don't lose it." Ashley nodded at him as she watched him walk out of the medical bay. <center>~*~</center> "Are you certain?" Phantom demanded to know. Zhane nodded his head. "Ashley just showed it to me. Andros don't have much time." "What's going on? Other then the fact that Andros was captured?" Cassie asked coming into the room. "We have to get him back quickly. I will teleport you to my ship when you are ready." "Wait, I don't know what's going on but I'm going to." "But..." Phantom started to say. "Let her come Phantom. Ashley is her best friend and I don't think you want to let Phantom go alone, do you?" Cassie shook her head. Phantom hesitated before answering, warily, "Alright but hurry Andros don't have much time. I will debrief you when you are on board. Phantom out." <center>~*~</center> Andros James turned, looking around in bewilderment. He had transmitted the coordinates to the bridge of his ship but somehow ended up in the control room. The sound of teleportation made him turn around to see the other Rangers. "Why the Control Room?" He asked. "We run the ship using the Battlelizer controlled by Andros." Ashley replied quietly. Andros James stared at them wide eye, sure the ship was more advanced and had the power to autopilot the ship but to keep the Delta Megaship running on autopilot constantly was ridiculous not to mention unheard of. "You didn't, after all, leave us any instruction manual on how to run this ship." Cassie pointed out, "Nor were you around to ask." Andros James nodded in understanding. "Ashley, may I borrow your morpher?" Andros James asked. He took his ruby from it's place and place it in it's correct position. The he took Ashley's morpher and placed it in a different container. "What are you doing?" Ashley asked. "In order to get to Andros without being detected we need the Delta Megaship's artificial intelligence on-line." Andros James explained as the red beam of the scanning ray turned green. "Why couldn't we have used your star fighter?" Zhane asked puzzled. "My star fighter is small and cannot hold this many people. Two is the maximum number it can hold." "Scan done, identity confirmed, I am Keri, fluent in over four thousand forms of communications and capable of navigating ninety percent of the known universe. I am responsible for the everyday operation of all vital systems on this ship. How may I be of service?" "Keri, would you transfer us to the bridge?" Andros James asked as he removed his ruby from it's the container and handing Ashley hers. Within a few seconds Andros James found himself on the bridge. "Keri scan for the Dark Fortress," Zhane said. "The Dark Fortress has been located in the Kerova System." Andros James wrinkled his brow. "What in the universe are they doing there?" He asked. Suddenly Ashley screamed. Andros James spun around and caught her. "And what is she doing to them?" "Ashley can you hear me?" Zhane asked. Ashley nodded. "What do you see Ashley?" "Andros is laying on the ground and watching Ecliptor and Darkonda fight each other." Andros James slammed his fist into the palm of his hand. Zhane looked at him grimly. "Let's do it," Andros James growled, "Keri lift off. Input EM cloak." <center>~*~</center> Andros laid, unmoving, on the ground where Darkonda had dumped him when Ecliptor had came out. Sparks flew on to him and he gritted his teeth daring not to scream. Then Darkonda exploded. Ecliptor turned and looked at him. For a long moment the two stared at each other before Ecliptor moved toward him. Then he picked him up and carried him over his shoulder and began walking steadily like he weighed nothing at all. For a moment there Andros felt a familiar presence in his mind before it flickered and disappeared. Ecliptor laid him gently on the ground near a river and put his hand on his forhead. "Humph," Ecliptor grunted as he began washing away the dirt and gravel from Andros' wounds. "Can you talk?" Andros focused on Ecliptor hoping he could get his message. *No, I can't and thanks.* "Humph," Ecliptor grunted again. "It's no problem, I wanted a piece of Darkonda anyway." *You're telepathic?!* Andros exclaimed. "No I'm not, I can only pick up what you want me to hear," If Ecliptor could roll his eyes he would right then he would, Andros thought to himself as he watched him wash his wounds. "There," Ecliptor said bandaging the last of his wounds. "You should be okay now. Try not to be by yourself next time, you were lucky that you hadn't had your morpher on or Darkonda would have destroyed it." *Thanks Ecliptor.* Andros thought at him sleepily. "So how is it with you and the Yellow Ranger?" Ecliptor teased. If Andros could right then, he would have widened his eyes and blush with embarrassment at Ecliptor's comment. *Was I that obvious?* Andros thought sheepishly. "Only to me, Astronama thinks badly of you two for wherever you go Ashley's always right behind you. She considers her as your bodyguard but I knew better." Andros laughed mentally. Then he closed his eyes. *Thanks." <center>~*~</center> Andros James felt Ashley grip his arm. Andros turned to look at his brother's girlfriend. "Ecliptor has destroyed Darkonda and is healing Andros." Andros James blinked. " He's What?!" Zhane exclaimed. "Ecliptor is tending to Andros's wound." Suddenly Ashley became wide eye and blushed. "Ecliptor knew." Ashley said still blushing. "He knew what?" Cassie asked. "Ecliptor just asked Andros quote "'how is it with you and the Yellow Ranger?'" Andros James blinked again and grinned. "I think I know where it is." Cassie piped up from her console. "You found it?" Zhane asked wide-eyed. Cassie nodded and stepped away from the console allowing them to see what she had found. "Bingo!" Zhane said grinning. "Let's go get it." "Right!" They said. <center>~*~</center> When Andros awoke he spotted Ecliptor sitting cross-legged in front of him. As he turned his head to look around he saw a glint of a sword sticking out. "Ecliptor duck!" Andros called hoarsely. Ecliptor ducked and smoke filed the air and Andros blinked quickly to clear his vision. Someone knocked him over his head again and he blacked out. When he at last awoke he found his vision blurry and reach up to rub his eyes. It was then he realized that he was chained to a wall. His vision finally cleared up and he found himself in a dungeon. He looked around and saw Quantrons at his cell he sighed quietly in his mind as he drifted off into sleep. <center>~*~</center> There was a knock on her door and she rubbed her eyes sleepily struggling to wake up. "Come in," She called yawning. Her door slid open reveling Phantom in his armor. "Hey Andros James, what's up?" "I must return to Eltar," Andros James said. "I am going to be in the cryogenic tube for a few days. Phantom 2 will take my place." "What's your replacement's name?" She asked yawning. "He is a one-eighth Kerovan but mostly Eltarian and is called Hugo." "Hugo's that guard at Dimitria's home isn't he? And you *did* tell Cassie didn't you?" Ashley said yawning yet again. Andros James nodded. The two friends sat in silence. "Well," Ashley said smiling, "Take care of yourself okay?" "I will, good-bye Ashley, tell Cassie I'll be back soon." Ashley nodded still smiling. Then in a flash of dark maroon Andros James disappeared. Ashley smacked her forehead in mock-disgust. "I forgot to ask him again!" Suddenly, the alarm rang Ashley sighed as she tossed her blanket aside. "What is it Deca?" "There is a monster in Stone Canyon." Ashley rolled her eyes. "Can this day get any worse?" <center>~*~</center> You know the drill, tell me what you think!