Disclaimer: No Rangers owned by me.
A/N: This is the Blue Ranger's part of the Rainbow Brotherhood. It's about after they leave the Rangers and they're all different. Although, I may have killed off the Astro Rangers, I'm not sure yet...
The day Billy left the Rangers wasn't the day he'd put aside his morpher with its missing power coin. It was the day he and Cestria had informed the Rangers of his plans to stay. He had been terrified and excited, because he didn't want to let his friends down, but it was time, and more than time, for him to find his own path. Not as a Ranger, but as a scientist and here on Aquitar, he was able to work with other scientists and chase all the things that fascinated him. At first, it was hard, Billy found himself shoving his morpher in his back pocket, or clasping his communicator on his bear wrist. When the Ranger alarms went off, he was often hard pressed to stay out of the way, to be a civilian and not a Ranger.
However, Cestria was there to put the morpher back, and to switch his communicator with a more advanced Aquitian version. When he heard the alarms and the call for the Rangers, his science team was there to remind him that he wasn't a Ranger anymore. Two months later, when his friends invited him to see Tanya for his birthday, Billy was struck by how different they were. No longer Rangers, they were, one and all, calmer than they had been, but with the razor awareness that was beginning to dull for him. In his memory, Cestria reminded him that they had only been civilians again for a few days, a week at most now.
After that visit and with it the sudden realization that he was, in fact, not a Ranger anymore; having gone so far as to formally relinquish his place as Senior Blue to Justin in a quiet ceremony. This was brought home when he made the choice to exchange his vows with Cestria. When he was making his list of things to do so that he could live the required six months in isolation, he didn't even think of contacting anyone until Rocky sent him a message telling him about the birth of his triplet boys. Knowing that Rocky would understand, he sent a congratulatory message and added in his own pending vows and the six month seclusion required on Aquitar.
Six months in a small ocean pod taught Billy a lot, about himself as a scientist, about Cestria and her mystical nature, and how their life together would go. When they emerged, he was even more surprised to find his Rangers, Jason, Kim, Trini and Zack, waiting to witness the formal swearing. When he was told that Tommy was, in fact, in college and unable to attend due to it being midterms, he was struck again by how different his life was to theirs.
When Taylor and Nereid were adopted, Taylor from Aquitar and Nereid from Javor, Billy was happy. He was a scientist with a mystical partner and two beautiful children and he spent his days working on projects for the Aquitian Rangers with a team of other scientists that understood him. Did he miss Earth and his friends? Of a certainty, but they came to see him often enough and he did get to see his dad every once in a while. Life was just how Billy had always imagined it.
