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Not What We Expected (Power Rangers in Space)
Summary: The team has an unexpected visitor at lunch.
Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me, but instead to Saban. This takes place during "Countdown to Destruction, part 2" (written by Judd Lynn), part of a series detailing the events and aftermath of the two-parter.
This is the nineteenth of the "Destruction... and after" series of stories and was written December 11, 1998.
Not What We Expected
by Estirose
copyright 1998
Ashley was surprised to see Karone join her for lunch in the Angel Grove High cafeteria. Karone, of course, wasn't a student, and last Ashley checked, she was supposed to be on the Megaship, learning more about the home world she couldn't remember from her brother and Zhane.
Karone was grasping a Megaship dish in her hands, which had to mean that she had come straight from the Megaship. She probably didn't know that people brought their meals in bags or got them from the cafeteria staff. They'd have to tell her about that sometime, except it had never occured to Ashley to tell her. Karone wasn't going to show up at Angel Grove High.
"Are you okay?" Ashley asked, aware that the other three were soon to join them and wanting to get anything private out of the way.
Karone sighed and shrugged. "I just needed to get away for a while. I mean, I like Zhane, and it's nice getting to know my brother again, but... it's like my brother is too much the goody-two-shoes."
Ashley smiled. "He's not quite that bad."
"To you, maybe. I was raised to think that was a *bad* thing. Loving, caring, good, bleech! Ecliptor taught me well."
"What did change your mind?" Ashley asked, suddenly curious.
"I'd accepted that the world was against me, except for Ecliptor and Dark Spectre. And then I found out that Ecliptor had not told me, and worse yet, lied to me about my brother. No matter what I told Ecliptor about staying evil for his sake, I just couldn't. I had to be with the brother that I thought dead."
"And you think that he's too good for his own good."
Karone managed a smile. "He seems that way, sometimes, to me. I keep telling myself that he's just not exactly what I expected."
Ashley grinned. "He's not exactly what I expected, either. But after I got to know him...."
"And you liked him. I think I like him too. Just not quite enough to be with him right now."
"I know, I know," Karone replied. "Just not right now."
With that, she bit into a piece of fruit and was silent.
-end
Disclaimer: None of the characters belong to me, but instead to Saban. This takes place during "Countdown to Destruction, part 2" (written by Judd Lynn), part of a series detailing the events and aftermath of the two-parter.
This is the nineteenth of the "Destruction... and after" series of stories and was written December 11, 1998.
Not What We Expected
by Estirose
copyright 1998
Ashley was surprised to see Karone join her for lunch in the Angel Grove High cafeteria. Karone, of course, wasn't a student, and last Ashley checked, she was supposed to be on the Megaship, learning more about the home world she couldn't remember from her brother and Zhane.
Karone was grasping a Megaship dish in her hands, which had to mean that she had come straight from the Megaship. She probably didn't know that people brought their meals in bags or got them from the cafeteria staff. They'd have to tell her about that sometime, except it had never occured to Ashley to tell her. Karone wasn't going to show up at Angel Grove High.
"Are you okay?" Ashley asked, aware that the other three were soon to join them and wanting to get anything private out of the way.
Karone sighed and shrugged. "I just needed to get away for a while. I mean, I like Zhane, and it's nice getting to know my brother again, but... it's like my brother is too much the goody-two-shoes."
Ashley smiled. "He's not quite that bad."
"To you, maybe. I was raised to think that was a *bad* thing. Loving, caring, good, bleech! Ecliptor taught me well."
"What did change your mind?" Ashley asked, suddenly curious.
"I'd accepted that the world was against me, except for Ecliptor and Dark Spectre. And then I found out that Ecliptor had not told me, and worse yet, lied to me about my brother. No matter what I told Ecliptor about staying evil for his sake, I just couldn't. I had to be with the brother that I thought dead."
"And you think that he's too good for his own good."
Karone managed a smile. "He seems that way, sometimes, to me. I keep telling myself that he's just not exactly what I expected."
Ashley grinned. "He's not exactly what I expected, either. But after I got to know him...."
"And you liked him. I think I like him too. Just not quite enough to be with him right now."
"I know, I know," Karone replied. "Just not right now."
With that, she bit into a piece of fruit and was silent.
-end