AN: I want to explain some things about this story, before it gets started, just to let you know a lot of the facts. Tommy and Kimberly never broke up in the world that exists before this story. She did move out to Miami and train, but eventually came back to California, with no harm done to their relationship. Zack, Trini, and Jason did go to the Peace Conference and Jason did return as he did in the series. Billy does go to Aquitar, for only a short period, then he returns to Earth, which I think goes away from the series, you can correct me if I am wrong on that point. Other than mentions of those instances, this story does not have anything to do with any particular ranger series, other than the characters involved. I hope that you'll enjoy it all.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Power Rangers, I wish I did, but that is why I am sitting here writing my stories, instead of in California bringing in the bucks for television scripts.
The Adventure Begins
There are some mysteries of the Earth that are never meant to be solved by anyone. They were never meant to be uncovered by mere mortals and their obstacles were not supposed to be tackled for eons to come. One of those mysteries is the famed Bermuda Triangle and what is really lies in the watery depths. For a group of unfortunate adults, they ventured into the triangle, knowing of past disappearances, but they were still carefree and hoping for a good day in the in the triangle. They did not very well expect that they would become this secret's next victims.
However, these were no ordinary adults that ventured in to the Bermuda Triangle on the day in question, they had seen well beyond their years as teenagers. In years past, they had, almost singled-handedly, defeated Lord Zedd, brought the end to the fabled Machine Empire, and even taken on a creature known as Divatox and won the battle. They were former Power Rangers. What more could one want to enter the triangle on that day? What more could they be challenged by that they had never experienced? What more problems could they have happen to them, with their horrible luck? And were they the ones who would finally be able to unlock the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle and make it out of there, alive?
"Tommy! Come on, you'll miss the boat if you don't hurry up!" Kim yelled, excitedly, as her husband lagged behind on the edge of the peer, looking at her as if she was going crazy. She wanted to go sailing in the Bermuda Triangle and that did not make him the least bit happy. It actually made him feel fairly sickened and he was sure that it had nothing to do with the sailing and everything to do with the location. He had agreed to come here on vacation, but he had never thought that they would get the crazy idea to sail into the Bermuda Triangle.
"Kim, are you sure you don't want to rethink this sweetie? Maybe we could go to the beach for the afternoon," Tommy said, as his other friends joined her in glaring down at him. Well, at least he had tried to get himself out of this mess. He knew that he couldn't be the only one to not go on the trip, so he had to take the chance and see where it got him. That still didn't make him comfortable, but it would be absolutely fine, somehow. "Fine, have it your way."
"It's not like some sort of monster is just going to jump out of the water and attack us. Those days are over and they have been for a long time, Tommy. This is going to be just as harmless as everything else we have ever done," Jason said, jokingly, as Tommy begrudgingly boarded the boat. He had a bad feeling about all of this, a really bad feeling.
"No Jason, we just have absolutely no idea what might come after us out there. I'd rather take the monsters, any day, any time," Tommy said, as Kim just shook her head.
Tommy was definitely the most paranoid out of all of them, but they didn't really blame him too much for it. He had had more people taken away from him than anyone else while in the duty of a ranger and the feeling would stick with him for the rest of his life.
"Tommy, calm down. We're just going to be gone for a few hours and then we'll come back, like usual," Trini said, as Kim nodded a conformation behind her, although that didn't make him feel any better at all.
"Yeah, that's what Gilligan thought when he went on a three hour tour. Look where that landed him," Tommy said sarcastically, as a few of them laughed at his remark. Tommy was not the only leery one among the group, Billy was just as nervous about their excursion. He just didn't think it wise to mention it to the others. He couldn't handle the looks that Tommy had just endured. He had never been built of that sort of stuff, so lucky for him Tommy had said something and endured their questions, in a far better fashion than he would have managed.
"Don't be so pessimistic," Kim said as she sat down next to him and he situated his arm around her.
"I just have a bad feeling about this," Tommy said as Kim shook her head again. He always had a bad feeling about one thing or another and it was more likely to be nothing than it was to be an actual problem.
"Enjoy yourself, Tommy. It's not every day that we all get together and go on vacation for a couple of weeks," Trini said with a smile, that Tommy forcibly returned.
She was right, though. They saw less and less of each other nowadays, what with their jobs and living in different parts of the country. He had to admit that he had been looking forward to this and he was having a good time, until they got on this boat. He just hated the feeling that he got about the water here and all of the legends didn't help him any. He had learned to respect legends during his ranger days. He had been part of enough of them to understand that they had some sort of truth in them, even if you had to look a long way to find it and wait for Billy or Trini to explain it to you.
"I have been enjoying myself. I just don't think this is a good idea," Tommy said, as Trini gave him a look and then stripped down to her bathing suit. She was going to get some sun while she was out here and she was sure that Kim was going to do the same thing. Maybe the sight of Kim in a bikini would, somehow, cheer him up and make him forget his worries.
"How's school?" Jason asked, trying to pick a subject that would get Tommy's mind off of this bad feeling that he had.
"Wonderful," Tommy said, again sarcastic.
He had had the year from hell the year before and it was a miracle that he had been rehired, but that was more because of Kim than anyone else. She coached and they knew that they were not going to find another coach like her anywhere, so they took their chances on him, at least that was how he viewed it.
Kim claimed he was a good teacher. He was not so sure; especially after some of the tantrums, he had been ready to throw at some of his classes. Thank goodness he had been trained to restrain his anger or he would have been fired within the first week there. Some of those kids made him turn into a man that he had never thought he would be.
"Bad question, right?" Zack said with a smile as Tommy nodded his head yes. "Man, you are the only one of us that is still uptight about lots of crap that you should have left behind in high school. Tommy, you have to just relax about your life. That is what these two weeks are about, relaxing."
"I have been relaxing, but its just today and this place," Tommy said, as Billy nodded in agreement and Trini swooped in on him.
"Whoa, you agree with him? You agree that we shouldn't be out here, at all?" Trini asked, as Billy nodded his head and suddenly Jason had set the boat on autopilot and walked over to where they were sitting.
It was one thing for the ever paranoid Tommy to say that he didn't like the idea of going out there today, but Billy was a different story. He looked at the facts and there must have been something about the facts that upset him a great deal for him to be uncomfortable here as well.
"Yes, the geological positioning that we are currently in is known for bizarre disappearances and while I was on Aquitar, they questioned me about the Bermuda Triangle. That is not a mere coincidence, they know something that we do not about this sector of the universe," Billy said, as Zack shook his head.
"You need to do the same thing Billy and relax. Nothing is going to happen to us, hell, we haven't been attacked in five years, I call that a miracle in itself, don't you?" Zack asked, as the others nodded, but Billy and Tommy still were not convinced.
This was not the right place for them to be. Anyone else could come out here and they would probably be fine, but they, as rangers, knew too much about this world and several others for that matter. They had done too much and that almost made them vulnerable and they were vulnerable to things that no one else would ever have to deal with. That was why the idea of going into the Bermuda Triangle willingly was absolutely absurd to them. It was almost as if they were tempting it to take them as its next victim.
"That is a miracle, but we do not go out looking for tribulations and I am afraid that is what we have inadvertently done today by setting foot on this boat and charting its course for the heart of the triangle," Billy said, as the four of them glared over at them.
"The two of you are crazy. It's official now," Kim said with a smile as Tommy shook his head.
"I wish that I was crazy, Kim. Then I wouldn't feel like this," Tommy said, as the wind suddenly picked up and the four skeptics, stared over at Tommy and Billy, who looked as if they had been expecting this very thing to happen sometime today.
"Looks like we're just going to have to call it a day early," Jason said, in a falsely chipper voice and he then headed towards the steering wheel, which was still steering of its own accordance. He grabbed the wheel and tried to turn it back towards shore, but it would not allow him to, so he yanked it again. It continued to go in the direction that it was headed and that was when he became scared. The boat was no longer under their control; something else was controlling it.
"Wheel isn't turning, is it?" Tommy asked bluntly, as Trini and Kim were still staring out at the choppy water and then turned back to see what Jason would say to him.
"No, it's not," Jason said soberly and the six of them all took in a deep breath. They were in for it, whether they liked that or not, they were going to be tried again. "I guess we should have stayed on the island today."
"I'm not going to say I told you so, yet," Tommy said, as he looked out over the water and then went to put an arm around Kim.
"This is not good," Billy murmured as they looked over at him. They could tell that much without him saying it aloud. "We are heading directly for the middle of the Triangle. We'll be lucky to make it through to the other side with the fuel reserves that we have left."
"Billy, it was a full tank when we left the docks. We ought to be fine for a few more hours," Jason said, as Billy nodded his head that was correct. The boat would continue to coast on for a few more hours, he was fairly sure of that, but they might not make it those hours aboard the ship.
"I'm not worried about the next few hours, Jason. I'm worried about what will happen to us when we reach the heart of the triangle," Billy said, as Trini and Kimberly exchanged a glance. This was beginning to sound like one of their missions and they didn't want to think of that. Their ranger days were behind them and they would be fine, they'd get to the other side and then someone would come get them, that's all it would take.
"We should get in the cabin," Jason said, as a wave crashed over the side of the boat and they looked over at him. "It's safer in there."
"I wouldn't be so sure about that," Zack said, as he pointed to the bow of the ship and Jason noticed that it was well below the stern and it hit him that the underside of the boat was filling with water. The last thing that he needed to do was to let the water from the surface in as well.
"What are we going to do?" Kim asked, as she tried to move her feet, but she noticed that they seemed to be stuck to the floor of the boat.
"We are going down with the ship. If I am correct, none of us can move, can we?" Billy asked, as he had tried to move as well and found that his feet were stuck fast to the ship. It seemed that the Triangle wanted them, wanted them to be taken into it. They didn't have a choice about the matter. The triangle always got exactly what it wanted.
"There has to be more to it than this," Trini said as she grabbed Billy's hand and he gave hers a reassuringly squeeze. "We can't just die because we can't get off the ship."
"There is more than this, Trini. The Bermuda Triangle wants us, for some reason, and it is going to get what it wants. I'll see you on the other side. I'm sure that we are all going to pass out soon," Billy said, as the water was now around his neck and his feet were still not moving from the floor of the ship. He took a deep breath and held it, not knowing where or when he was going to awake next.
AN: Tell me how you like it and I'll have the next chapter out soon.