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Ashley's relatives
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- relatives of Ashley Hammond
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Ashley wasn't into cars,
but she'd taken an auto shop class at Angel
Grove since her dad was really great with cars and didn't think
girls should work on them; she had taken the class to prove she could do
it.
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While the teens waited
for more Psycho Ranger attacks, Ashley was in a phone booth in a plaza downtown,
talking with a family member while trying to figure out what to get her
dad for his birthday; she'd already tried the hardware store but hadn't
known what to get, and she rejected the family member's suggestion of a
tie.
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Ashley's grandmother
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- Ashley's intrusive yet well-intentioned matchmaking grandmother
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Ashley was reading a
book on a bench in the park when a taxi
drove up nearby; her grandmother, inside, first looked at Ashley through some mini-binoculars, then got out,
walked up a bit, and threw a manilla envelope of files at her.
Ashley caught the packet
with excellent reflexes, and she was delighted to realize her
grandmother was there.
Ashley's grandmother,
referred to in this guide as "Mrs. Hammond" for simplicity, said the
packet was Ashley's future husband.
Mrs. Hammond took Ashley
into the cab, swatting Ashley's behind before
she got in.
Later at the Surf Spot
bar, Mrs. Hammond showed an unenthused Ashley
photos of various young men, with Adelle
looking at the pictures.
Not happy with her grandmother's attempts to set
her up, Ashley had had enough when Mrs. Hammond
mentioned kids; Ashley insisted she was too
young to need a husband, but Mrs.
Hammond cheerfully thought otherwise.
When Carlos walked up,
Ashley took his arm, introducing Carlos as her boyfriend; when Carlos and Adelle were
confused, Ashley stepped on Carlos's foot to make him play along, then told
her grandmother they'd been dating for a year.
As Mrs. Hammond, pleased, was feeling Carlos's arm, his communicator on his opposite arm went off
with its warble sound, and she clamored to get a look at it.
Carlos suddenly said he
was thirsty, so Ashley had her grandmother
order some drinks while she and Carlos rushed
off into a side hallway.
After the two teens had
answered their call in the secluded hallway, Ashley called, "Let's do it!", and they were
holding out their right arms in preparation to morph when Mrs. Hammond sweetly came in
to ask what they wanted.
Soon, the two teens had
somehow gotten away from Mrs. Hammond to morph and join the others.
When the teens were
later in the park, Mrs. Hammond rushed
up to take the supposed couple's picture, having been looking for them;
Carlos explained that Ashley had always been one one of his best
friends, but that they weren't really dating.
Mrs. Hammond was shocked but then realized that
they really did like each other and could go on their first date.
On their date later, the other three teens and Mrs. Hammond watched from the bushes
with mini-binoculars as Ashley and Carlos rode a merry-go-round with matching
atrocious shirts provided by Mrs. Hammond.
Pleased, Mrs. Hammond called Ashley on a cell phone to ask what they were
talking about; Ashley merely replied "stuff,"
and said they were about done since they were starved.
On their date, Carlos
and Ashley seemed to be happy with one another
but tired of Mrs. Hammond's interference.
Over the phone, Mrs. Hammond told Ashley to hold Carlos's
hand, and she did, annoyed at her grandmother.
Later in the Surf
Spot, Adelle unamusedly served Ashley and Carlos a
milkshake with two straws and gave Ashley a
note from Mrs. Hammond telling her to share the drink with him.
Watching nearby, Mrs. Hammond was delighted, and
the three other teens sat with her and laughed.
Ashley and Carlos were still sick of Mrs. Hammond's meddling,
but they smiled faintly and drank together.
When the teens' communicators went off, making them look at
their wrists, Mrs. Hammond asked, "What are those things?!" and
wanted to see one.
As the five teens
prepared to leave together, the ground suddenly rumbled, making people
run from the Surf Spot, and Ashley brought her grandmother along.
A cloud of alien termites from the ground flew over
the teens and Mrs. Hammond briefly, then flew
away and instantly completely devoured a very large building in the
distance, perhaps a hospital.
Ashley told her
grandmother to go home at that she'd meet her later, but Mrs. Hammond,
frightened, wouldn't go anywhere without her granddaughter; Andros told her it wasn't safe to stay, and Ashley led her grandmother away while the other teens rushed off in another direction.
Ashley took her
grandmother through a rubble-filled area where people were running in
the opposite direction, and when her communicator went off, Ashley hung back for a second to answer it behind
some rubble while her grandmother looked ahead.
After Alpha's call, Ashley told her grandmother to find a safe place
while she went back, but Mrs. Hammond whined to come along.
Ashley firmly told her
grandmother she loved her, but she was smothering her and that she had
to stop telling her what to do.
A police officer told Ashley and Mrs. Hammond they needed to clear the
area; Ashley left, telling her grandmother to
go with the police, but Mrs. Hammond, thinking Ashley was in trouble, struggled with the officer
and then flipped him onto the ground and drove off with his car,
promising to bring it back.
Speeding around the plaza in her stolen police car, Mrs. Hammond spotted the Yellow Ranger running in front
of her path in the distance, and gasped, "Wow, it's the Yellow Power Ranger!"
Soon, as Termitus approached the downed Yellow Ranger in the plaza
while the others were down nearby, Mrs. Hammond sped up in her stolen police car, growling, "Time to show this monster
what a tough grandma can do!"
Mrs. Hammond struck Termitus with the speeding car,
then once she'd turned and screeched to a stop, she growled, "You mess
with the Power Rangers, you're messing
with me too!"
As Termitus got up and told her she
was biting off more than she could chew, Mrs. Hammond retorted, "Oh, you
think so, huh? We'll see!" and raced toward him again.
Termitus
blasted the car with his eyebeams, making it swerve out of control as
Mrs. Hammond was apparently unable to find the brake pedal with her
foot.
Shouting after the car, Yellow Ranger cried out, "Oh
no! Grandma!"
As the car continued to swerve, Yellow Ranger shouted, "Hit the
brakes, grandma! Stop!"
After the police car had
smashed through some bins, Yellow Ranger leapt through the
air and caught onto the passenger side of the car, telling Mrs. Hammond,
"Don't worry! I'll help you!"
Yellow
Ranger told Mrs. Hammond to hit the brakes, and she replied, in
panic, that she was trying.
Yellow
Ranger planted her feet down on the pavement, her feet letting off a
continuous stream of sparks as she ineffectively attempted to slow the
car.
The panicking Mrs. Hammond finally found the
pedal with her foot and stopped the car just before it would've hit the
wall beside some steps.
After rolling over the car's hood to the driver's
side window, Yellow Ranger
spoke, "Gran--! I mean, ma'am! Are you okay?"; Mrs. Hammond felt
guilty for always messing things up even though she only wanted to help.
Her voice intonations sounding very much like Ashley, Yellow Ranger told Mrs. Hammond
she hadn't messed things up, but rather she'd prevented the monster from
having them for lunch; grateful for the compliment, Mrs. Hammond only
wished her granddaughter felt that way.
Yellow
Ranger told Mrs. Hammond, "I have a grandma just like you, and I
just discovered I wouldn't want her any other way."; Mrs. Hammond,
pleased, told Yellow Ranger
to go on, as her friends needed her.
As Yellow
Ranger ran off, Mrs. Hammond told her to tell her grandmother she
was a lucky lady.
Outside the Surf Spot
another day, the teens brought Mrs. Hammond's
bags out to a taxi.
Ashley felt like she'd
let her grandmother down, but Mrs. Hammond was with Adelle walking out, making a list of the things Adelle liked in a man (she mentioned appetite,
loving a man who appreciated good cooking).
Ashley hoped her
grandmother could come back soon and apologized about the husband thing
not working out, but Mrs. Hammond said with friends like hers, she
didn't need one... yet.
Mrs. Hammond said goodbye to all of the teens and Adelle, then
asked the taxi driver if he was married; the teens and Adelle said
goodbye and waved happily as she drove off.
Adelle called out to
Mrs. Hammond to tell her not to forget that appetite.
"Ashley's relatives."
Updated 4/8/05.
Edited by Joe Rovang. Content owned by Disney, used without permission.