This story is a continuation of the story present in Old Friend, New Threats.

Adam was more than a little anxious. He knew he should watching the NASADA officer's explanation to do if there's an external hardware failure but his mind was drifting elsewhere, towards the strange land of dreams-

"What do you think?" Tanya asked.

"Huh?"

The Yellow Ranger frowned and shook her head. "You haven't heard a word I said have you?"

Adam felt the blood rush to his face. "Do you want me to lie?"

Tanya sighed, "I was saying-"

"I'm here!" Hayley exclaimed as she pushed the doors open. Her face was pinkish and sweaty. It looked as if she had been running. "Sorry I'm late, I ran a quick diagnostic on the Dino Zords."

"It's alright," the engineer said, "I was just going over plan delta."

"Oh, external engine failure," she said coolly. "I read the entire manual last night."

The man seemed more impressed then he was willing to show her. "Well, that's good for you."

He proceeded to continue his speech, most of which Adam completely ignored.

"Is everyone ready?" The man asked. "Because once this ship takes off it won't stop until you reach Mirinoi."

Nobody had any objections.

Adam took another look at the ship before going in. It was actually amazing that it was built by the government. It didn't quite have the same feel as a Zord but it was something close.

"So we're sure this thing can make it through the wormhole right?" Rocky asked. "I mean as long as we don't explode I'll be good. I just figured it would be good to check."

The man seemed annoyed. "This is the most advanced spacecraft we've ever designed or manufactured."

"Yeah but I've seen better machines built by a five-foot robot and a head floating in a fish tank," Rocky mumbled.

The five all entered the ship and were greeted with a large metal table with five chairs and a primitive hologram projector.

Hayley walked past the four other crew members and went straight to the control room.

"I'm gonna go check out my room," Rocky said with a sideways smile. "I hope they remembered my waterbed request."

Adam sat in the Command chair and looked over the white table. "I feel like Captain Kirk."

"Who?" Tori asked.

"Excuse you?" Adam asked with a comically wide open mouth.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Tanya laughed, "I didn't realize you were that young."

Tori did seem to catch the negativity in Tanya's voice. Or at least she was really good at pretending not to.

"Liftoff in five minutes," Hayley said from the intercom.

"Did she really need to say that?" Tori asked with a slight grin.

"Hayley won't admit it but she's actually having fun," Adam replied with a grin of his own.

"Oh my god guys!" Rocky exclaimed and he ran into the room. "Each one of our rooms has a fully stuffed mini fridge." Rocky beamed with a level of excitement only obtainable from the promise of a full stomach. Unfortunately for Rocky, his buzz didn't last long, because he fell hard onto his butt as the ship took off.

Adam and Tanya both laughed at the expensive of their goofy friend as the ship stabilized.

"I still can't believe this," Tanya said, looking out as the ground grew farther away.

"What do you mean?" Adam said, "This isn't our first time in space."

"I don't mean that. I mean Kat,"

"Oh yeah," Rocky said, "That's pretty crazy. I mean, she went to go live on a totally different planet and didn't even tell us. I didn't think their breakup was that rough."

The acknowledgment of Tommy and Kat's former relationship seemed to force a heavy tension over the group. Up until that point nobody had really talked about it, at least not together like this.

"I mean, does anyone even know what happened?" Adam asked.

Everyone shook their head.

"Well," Tanya said after a few moments. "Kat sent me a really vague letter a year after we graduated."

Everyone leaned in and mutually displayed a sort of, "Well why didn't you tell us?" expression.

"Don't leave us hanging," Rocky said, "Tell us what she said."

Tanya chewed on her for a few moments and rolled her eyes across the room, "Well it's all a bit fuzzy now," she tried to explain.

"It's alright," Adam said, placing his hand softly on her shoulders. "Just tell us everything you remember."

"She said something about having doubts, though she didn't say why or what they were about."

Tanya paused for a few more minutes before saying, "She also said she was looking for a new start. At the time I thought she was talking about going back to Australia, but I guess she went a little further than that."

"No kidding," Rocky muttered.

By then the ship was already well past Earth's orbit, and the blue orb was steadily getting farther.

"They say that getting to Mirinoi won't even take that long in this bad boy," Rocky said after a while.

"Yeah," Adam agreed, "I mean it's no teleportation but it's still years ahead of what I had assumed we'd be at."

Again an awkward silence filled the entire room.

This might prove to be a longer trip then Adam had assumed.

A/N: So here we are again, after another hiatus I'm back on track. Expect a chapter a week, maybe two if I'm productive.