In my story Karone's natural hair color is blonde with tiny blue streaks, and she was kidnapped when she was 7 years old which in the story is 10 years later.

Zhane was mentioned but he didn't wake up. This is set in the final scenes of 'Countdown to Destruction'.

On the Dark Fortress, Andros was involved in a severe battle with

Astronema. She was about to deliver the final blow to her brother. He

picked up his Spiral Saber and blocked her shot. It reflected and hit

her. She dropped to the ground, still.

"Karone? No!" Andros went to his sister's side. She had no pulse, and

wasn't breathing.

Ecliptor chose that moment to walk in. "Astronema! My sweet princess,

you were like a daughter to me." He turned towards the Red Ranger in

hate. "You will pay for this!"

Andros fought with Ecliptor, the agony of losing his sister giving him

strength.

"Andros, you must destroy my energy tube!" Zordon commanded.

Andros brought his Saber down on the tube. It shattered, sending a

Brilliant white light out into the universe. On the Dark Fortress Ecliptor turned to dust. On Triforia, all the evil beings were turned to dust except Zedd and Rita. They were turned into ordinary humans. On Aquitar, the same happened with Divatox. On Earth, the Quantrons vanished and the Rangers were demorphed. They all looked around in wonder.

In the midst of the congratulations from the people of Angel Grove, Cassie pulled Ashley over to the side.

"Any word?" she asked.

Ashley shook her head sadly. "I don't think he's coming back."

Just then the Dark Fortress started to land on Earth. Everyone looked in shock as the plank extended. Andros walked down, carrying a still Astronema in

his arms. He set her down with her head in his lap and rocks her back and forth, tears streaming down his face. The rangers gather around them.

"I killed her," Andros mumbled, "I killed her. No! She isn't dead! She can't be. I couldn't have killed her. She can't be dead." Andros said, and the rangers looked on with sympathy, while the citizens of Angel Grove stood in confusion and watched.

"Why is he crying over the enemy?" some people asked

"Why did he bring her down here?" other people asked.

"What is going on?" more people asked.

Andros looked up at Ashley and asked, "Why? Why did this have to happen now?"

Ashley shook her head softly and said, "I don't know why. I don't know why she was kidnapped, why she turned out to be your enemy, or why this had to happen. But I do know everything is done for a reason. Maybe it's to teach us not to take our lives for granted."

"But why her? Why couldn't it have been me instead?" Andros asked. He continues to sob for a few minutes then he looked up at the sky as if speaking to someone higher than him, like a god. "Why? Why did it have to be like this? Why did it have to be her? She deserved to live. Let Karone Live! Please don't take her!" He yelled.

TJ who was standing by walked up to him.

"Andros, it's over. She's gone." TJ told him sadly.

"No it isn't." Andros yelled at TJ. "I won't give up! She wouldn't give up on me."

Now more of the citizens of Angel Grove were becoming uncomfortable and still confused. One rude man shouted at the rangers. "What is going on here? Why is he crying? Because he killed the enemy? That is the point of war."

Andros heard the remark and was trying to calm himself down but his fists were clenched tightly into fists. He walked over to the man and looked him in the eye, with a fierceness that scared the man. "You have no idea what war is. War is watching your planet destroyed and not being able to do a thing to help because your friend, who sacrificed his life to save yours, is in cryogenic- status and may never wake up. War is seeing your teammates killed in front of your eyes. WAR is having to leave your family to save yourself. You haven't seen war. This invasion was a paper cut compared to what happened to my planet. Do know the reason why I was crying? How would you react if by trying to stay alive you had to killed your sister?" Andros yelled at the man. All the citizens of Angel Grove stood in shock.

TJ and Carlos saw Andros was about to loose control so they went and pulled him away from the man, who scurried off very fast.

While Andros was yelling and screaming at the man Karone seemed to be transforming. The red hair turned blonde with tiny blue streaks, and the implant disappeared, leaving no scar. The body suit of tubes vanished leaving her warrior outfit, which consisted of slick black leather and silver armor. She sat up in confusion, but then she saw her brother and friends.

"Andros!" Karone jumped up and ran to her brother to hug him.

"Karone." Andros said softly as he hugged her tightly.

"Um… Andros you know I love you but I got to breathe!" Karone gasped.

"Sorry." Andros muttered but still hugged her but not as hard. When they separated Karone looked around and then up at Andros questionably.

"Andros, what are we doing on Earth? Shouldn't we be in the Mega ship? What's going on?" she asked.

"You don't remember. Try really hard. You have to remember by yourself." Andros said.

Karone closed her eyes to try to remember. "I remember going to the Dark Fortress to try to stop the Asteroid. There was a noise behind me. I turned and I saw Ecliptor. But it wasn't Ecliptor; he had metal implants on him. He called me Astronema. I asked him what they did to him and he said the same that was to be done to me…" Karone stopped, and opened her eyes as realization hit her. "No. No that couldn't have happened to me. Andros, please tell me it isn't true." She asked, as she looked to her brother with tears in her blue eyes.

"I'm sorry Karone," Andros said.

"I hurt more people didn't I." She asked, but then corrected her self. "What am I talking about. Of course I hurt people that's what Astronema did. But then again what am I saying, I am Astronema. Well maybe our personalities are completely different, and so are our hairstyles. And my clothing tastes are a lot better than hers are but…" Karone trailed off as she saw the rangers, and all the citizens of Angel Grove staring at her. "What? So I start to babble when I get upset."

Ashley ran over to Karone and hugged her. "Oh man have I missed you so much!" Ashley said to Karone. "We have a lot of gossip to catch up on, girl." She continued with a smile.

"I can't wait." Karone said with a smile. Just then Cassie, TJ, and Carlos came over to Karone and hugged her.

"Karone you look great." Carlos said

"Yeah. And you still have us five, annoying friends to put up with." TJ said with a smile.

"Yeah girl. But what's with the hair?" Cassie asked.

"This is my natural hair color. Just like that is Andros'" Karone said a she pointed to her brother. "You don't like it? Well I can change it. What color: red, blue, blonde, brown, black, purple, or green? What do you think?" Karone asked and when she said the color her hair changed that color.

"How did you do that? You still have magic left?" Carlos asked awed.

"Not much. I can change my appearance and that's about it. That stupid old block of Lava, Dark Specter took most of it away. What a minute what happened to Dark Specter?" Karone asked.

"Darkonda killed Dark Specter and himself. Also Zordon sacrificed himself, and destroyed all evil in the universe." Andros said quietly not knowing how she would react. And her reaction surprised him…

She laughed, and jumped up and down in a little girl manner, singing "I'm free, I'm free I'm free, free, free!" Karone sang.

"I can't believe it. No more torture. No more murder, and no more ASTRONEMA! I can finally be my self and I can finally be with you guys, and not have to worry." Karone said and then hugged her friends.

The rangers all laughed at her cheerful attitude. Just then there was a white teleportation light. As soon as the light dimmed the rangers saw Alpha 6 standing there.

"Over here Alpha!" TJ said while waving his arms to signal him.

Alpha walked over to the rangers and Karone.

"Alpha!" Karone said and hugged him. "It's so good to see you."

"You to Karone." Alpha said.

"What brings you down to Earth's surface Alpha?" Carlos asked.

"I wanted to see Karone and make sure you guys are okay." Alpha replied.

"Guys, uh…why are all these people staring at us?" Karone asked. "There not staring at me are they?" she continued self-consciously.

"Well I guess we should introduce you, Alpha and Andros. They don't know who you are." Cassie said to Karone.

They all turned to the citizens of Angel Grove.

"People of Angel Grove. You already know the latest generation of Earth Power Rangers. I am Andros of KO-35, the leader and the Red Ranger. This is Alpha 6, our volunteered helper, and my sister Karone, she will also be the Purple Space Ranger." Andros said.

"What?" Karone asked shocked.

"We were both destined to be rangers as kids. You were going to be purple or yellow. But yellow never really was your color." Andros said with a smile. He reached into a pocket of his uniform and pulled out a morpher and communicator, and he handed them to Karone.

Karone shook her head, and pushed them back at Andros. "I can't take them. Look at the pain I've caused. Look at the people I hurt. A power ranger is supposed to help people, not hurt them. Lets face it I'm still the enemy. No matter how you look at it. I may not want to hurt people now, but I have in the past." Karone said with tears streaming down her face. She looked around. "Look at these people. See what I've done to them. They can't forgive me. I can't forgive myself. So you will have to find yourself another purple ranger, because I don't deserve the honor. I lost the honor when I was kidnapped 10 years ago. You and your teammates trusted me, and when I tried to help you it turned out to hurt you worse." Karone said with tears.

"Karone it wasn't your fault you were kidnapped, and it wasn't your fault you were raised by evil." Andros said.

"True. But even though I wanted to be a Power Ranger when I was little, I was told they killed my family. My life might not be the way it was planned to be but I had a wonderful childhood. I had everything I could dream of: a place to live, food, clothes, someone to play with, someone to do things with me, some one to teach me how to live a great life. Ecliptor taught me everything he knew. He wasn't evil he was loyal. He tried to hurt you because he thought you would hurt me. He was my only friend for a long time. He showed me how to love, how to protect myself, and how to care that you were my brother. He made me realize that you were telling the truth and how to accept it. He might have worked for Dark Specter but he was NOT a cold-blooded killer. He was the sweetest, most loving person I could have asked to raise me. Dark Specter was the one to erase all kindness in me. " Karone said to her brother. "I would love the chance to make up for my mistakes but I don't know how to do that."

"If you take the morpher from your brother then you will have the chance you wish for." A deep voice said. Everyone looked around and people backed away from the black and green creature that was standing near them. "Do not worry. I mean you no harm." The creature said.

As the people parted the rangers saw who the creature was. It was Ecliptor.

As Karone saw him she smiled.

"Ecliptor." She said softly.

"Yes my princess. It is I." Ecliptor said.

"I thought you were killed." Karone said.

"No. Zordon revised me, like you. I was given a second chance. I hope everyone will forgive me, and give me an opportunity to right my wrongs. I apologize to anyone I hurt." Ecliptor said truthfully.

Karone smiled. "I forgive you Ecliptor." She said and gave him a hug. "I don't know what I'd do without you."

"Nor would I know what to do either." Ecliptor said.

"Oh! You have to meet some people!" Karone said happily as she and Ecliptor separated. She pulled him over to the Rangers. "Ecliptor, I want you to meet my brother Andros, and his teammates."

"Welcome back Ecliptor. I'm glad to see you without all those implants." Andros said and extended his hand.

"Yes, Red Ranger. As am I." Ecliptor said as he shook Andros' hand.

"It's Andros." Andros said with a smile. Ecliptor nodded with a small smile.

"Karone. You should take your brother's offer, it is they only way to make up for your mistakes. We both have many. If your brother, and his team approve it, I would like to go with you to redeem myself as well." Ecliptor asked.

Andros nodded. "If you are as great as Karone said it would be an honor to have you travel with us." He said.

"Thank you, Andros." Ecliptor said. Then when he looked at the other rangers he saw Alpha. "Alpha, I do hope you will forgive me for threatening to turn you into a million transistor radios." He said.

"It's okay. You weren't yourself." Alpha said.

"Hey guys. How about we go get something to eat. All this fighting made me hungry. Lets go to Mega-ship and get some grub." Cassie said.

"Yeah! Let's go. I'm starving." Karone said. The rangers teleported away.