Chapter 1 – Prologue

Astronema had had many 'adventures' as you could call them. Her early life after she was kidnapped by Darkonda was spent in a dojo prison under the stern but strangely caring guidance and supervision of Ecliptor, being trained by him in many of the martial arts of the galaxy, having military tactics and discipline hammered into her, though harsh lessons and examples of cruelty to destroy her innocence and leave her numb to the horror around her. She was subjected to some of the most horrific tortures, both physical and mental to shock her mind into shutting down, so they could enter into its weakened thoughts their own programming, slowly over ten years turning her to the side of evil.

By the time she left after ten years at the age of 14, she was completely different from when she went in.

A once happy, sensitive, caring young child had been transformed into a young woman who knew how to look for weaknesses in an enemies defences, how to demoralise a population and beat someone she hated into the ground with words as well as with her hands and feet. Gone was the golden hair that looked like a mix of the purest gold and pure sunshine reflecting the former joy of the girl, now replaced with an ever changing array of colours as diverse as the alien species that filled the galaxy.

For the next two years she worked as a general in Dark Specter's army; enslaving a planet's people, destroying entire armies at the whims of her lava monster master. Her true past as Karone forgotten and replaced with fake memories of the death of her family at the hands of her past heroes the Power Rangers. So convinced was she by the manufactured phantoms that she set out to kill every Power Ranger she could find.

The only bright spark in this dark mind was the thoughts of her brother, who although she couldn't fully remember still acted as an anchor, keeping what good had survived the evil conditioning alive.

And that good sometimes came through in her deeds; she wouldn't hurt a child or kill unnecessarily. And it sometimes formed doubts in her mind as to whether she was doing the right thing or not.

But she quickly quieted those thoughts. She knew that if Dark Spector found out that she was having doubts, that she would be 'reprogrammed' with cybernetic implants to take away all feeling from her and that was something she really was scared of.

But all the same she had killed. Six times personally to be precise. All the others times done by soldiers under her command, and secretly she felt so guilty all the time about the. She wanted to stop but, she had no where to go. As a general and the Princess of Evil no one would show her any forgiveness or give her a chance. But she still felt the imagined blood on her hands, covering that guilt with a illusionary confidence and evil persona.

Six Power Rangers had died by her hand. Not a team of rangers, but six separate warriors who although put up a good fight were no match for her skill and powers that she had learnt from her days under Ecliptor's tutelage. And she took their morphers and zords to a secret place of her own, where she could make sure that they could never be used by the forces of evil. A place that only she knew about and kept to herself.

It was the least she could do after all she'd done. Lying to the UAE (United Alliance of Evil) that they had bee destroyed, adding to her own legend as the Ranger Killer. For that she became inline to become the Queen of Evil.

And that was the day she feared.