Hi everyone, had ideas bouncing around my head and written some of them down but most stories didn't come to completion. Hopefully writing this down here will motivate me to finish it. Anyway, it's rated M for some course language potentially violence and shady scenes. I have a rough idea on how this will end but comment and review :-)

I don't own Power Rangers. Hope you guys enjoy it!

Kai grabbed her wetsuit from her van with a sigh. She could hear the distressed whistles from the dolphins even from the cliff. She was in the office with the injured baby seahorse her mum saved a week ago when the calls came. She had drove down to the beach immediately. Her mother had drilled into her – duty comes first. Of course, the dolphin had to call when her mother was called to an emergency overseas and left Kai in charge of all the rescuing. Kai winced at her train of thoughts. She wasn't complaining about helping the sea creatures, just that they could have called her maybe 5 seconds later. She finally gotten the baby seahorse to trust her and was working on getting several pieces of plastic stuck in a tricky position in the seahorse's body.

Kai finally wiggled into her wetsuit and stepped out into the waves. She hesitated a moment, which she hated herself for, and lifted her finger to the pendant on her neck. The pendant has mysterious powers, giving the wearer unheard of abilities in the water. She had witness and experienced it firsthand. But she knew it did not give that power to just anybody, and hence the moment of hesitation. She should not have doubts. The stone chose her, just like it chose her mother, and her grandmother and many generations before. Kai took a deep breath and plunge into the sea. As she swam towards the ocean, she felt a warmth in the pendant against her throat, filling her with strength, unmatched, she knew, to any Olympic swimmer. Before long, two dolphins were beside her, nudging her with their fins. They chittered at Kai to follow them, before diving down to the sea. Kai took a deep breath and followed them. Halfway, Kai couldn't hold it any longer and took a deep breath, finding that of course, she could breathe underwater. No matter how many times she did it, it was still weird and unnerving.

Turns out, there were more dolphins in the depths, circling around one. Its tail was caught in a fishing line. Asking the other dolphins for more space to work, she surveyed the damage as she sent calming thoughts to the dolphin. Luckily, the hook was embedded in the rocks, not the tail. But the dolphin managed to somehow tangle up itself in one straight fishing line. Upon closer inspection, she winced inwardly. In the dolphin's moment of panic, parts of the dolphin's tail were rubbed raw from the trashing. It also seemed to have slammed into the wall of rocks right next to it. Cuts and abrasions clearly marked one side of its body. Blood dripped down the dolphin's flank as the dolphin trash, more feebly now. But with each movement, the line dug deeper into the flesh. Kai grimaced, knowing it was not going to be an easy job.

After a solid hour of untangling, cajoling and a mad rush to get her medical supply, Kai was faced with enthusiastic headbutts from the dolphins. The dolphin she saved rubbed against her affectionately.

'Please we careful from now on ok?' Kai patted the dolphin on the nose.

The dolphins gave her squeaks of agreement, making promises they certainly cannot keep, not with the rise in marine pollution. Realizing her exact position, she decided to pay her dear friend a visit. After 5 minutes of swimming, and picking up tons of trash along the way she reached a lot metal door, hidden in a crevice in the seabed, large enough for one person to squeeze into. The metal door gave a small beep, sensing the blue pendant on her neck. It slid open and Kai stepped into a small room. The door closed behind her with a soft click. A moment later, Kai's ears popped as the water in the room was flushed out. After dumping her load of trash into the chute (where a machine separates out and sort the recyclables), She stepped into the small chamber, one of seven, connected to the room. The showers turned, on blasting her with cool, freshwater. She wringed the saltwater out of her long, blonde hair, wincing as her fingers caught on a few knots. A blast of warm air buffeted her following the water, drying her completely. Or almost completely. Kai grabbed a towel on the way out.

She was greeted by a boy with an unruly mop of curly, brown hair. Freckles dotted his face, which was twisted into a scowl.

'Heyya Scott.' Kai grinned, tussling his hair.

'Why does no one ever use the main entrance?' Scott whined, ducking under Kai's offending hand. 'Whats the point of inventing and building that?'

'Sorry boyyo, the elevator's great, but I was out at sea just now. Helped a dolphin.' Scott's face turned dark at the news. He did not like to hear about animals getting injured, and he absolutely hates humans who litters irresponsibly. For a boy of 12 years, he was amazingly mature in his thinking.

For a boy of 12 years, he is also an absolute genius. Kai met Scott 3 years ago, at a marine conservation conference their mums were attending. Kai knew all the other kids because the same few scientists attend the various marine conservation events all the time. But the kid sitting in the corner who came in with Dr. Fraser was new. Kai didn't even know Dr. Fraser had a kid. While the other kids ignored the boy, Kai bought an ice pop and offered it to the boy. Turns out, the Scott stayed with his dad until he went missing a year ago, hence he moved in with Dr. Fraser. Kai thought he was an ordinary boy until the moment he caught a glimpse of the yellow stone – Riptide Crystal, he called it. Scott told Kai of the myth the entire afternoon and from there, they roped in Dare who had the yellow Crystal and decided to build a base, one where they can search the rest of the Crystals. So far, they had only managed to find the Red one, on top of Kai's and Dare's.

Kai hated Dare. His full name is Frederick but he insists on Dare. Kai can see no link from Frederick and Dare, but Dare insisted that there is – Fre-DARE-rick. He was a big show off ever since he was a kid. Full marks, scholarship. Yeah, whatever. But he did come in handy. He, and his dad, were the ones who did more of the heavy lifting when building the base. His parents and Kai's mum provided the money while Scott provided the blueprints and ideas. Dare was surprisingly good at electrical wirings.

'Oh hey Kai, you're leaving for Uni tomorrow right?' Scott asked.

'Yea, it's literally a 10 minutes' drive in the city,' Kai finished toweling her hair. 'You make me sound like I'm going away forever.'

'Yes yes but you're going to be staying in dorm there right?' Scott waved his hand. 'All incoming freshmen have to stay in their dorms for their first year.'

'Did you just quote the school's letter of enrolment?' Kai asked.

'Anyway, you'll probably be busy for the first week for orientation or whatever meeting pretty girls and you won't be back till next week so have fun and could I have your pendant? Mum is out of town for I don't know how long so I got some time here. I'll probably expand the aquarium wing so you can start bringing down the bigger injured animals.' Scott ignored her question.

'Wait back up, what? You need my pendant?' Kai stopped poking at Scott's trinkets on the lab table and turned to look at him.

'Stop touching that, it's my invention.' Scott scooped up a watch-like object from Kai's hands. 'But yeah, I need the pendant. Just for a week, I'll return it to you after. Come out, you trust me, right?'

Kai hesitated a moment, rubbing her pendant. It's not that she doesn't trust Scott. But her mum entrusted her with the pendant. Looking at Scott's big puppy dog eyes, she sighed and unclasped her necklace.

'Please don't destroy it.' Kai passed the necklace to Scott.

'Of course not!' Scott grinned, placing her necklace next to Dare's yellow bracelet.

'Wait Dare has already given you his Crystal?' Kai raised her eyebrow. Dare was even more protective of his leather bracelet than Kai is.

'Yep.' Scott replied, offering no other explanation.

Kai shrugged, turning into the aquarium. It currently only holds one gigantic tank, big enough to fit a shark. She walked pass a couple of smaller tanks with a couple of different species – corals, giant clams and one tank with a female and male Hawksbill turtle. Dare and his family has been trying to breed endangered animals, starting with the smaller animals and hoping to eventually help the bigger animals like penguins, seals and whales. He brought his specimens down to the base because his family lab has not enough space for his experiments, especially ones who needed more space. Kai releases the animals she found after they are deemed healthy, so she did not really need the space in the aquarium. That is, all animals except for one who comes back to her all the time.

'Hey Belle,' Kai smiled at the baby dolphin ever present in the large aquarium.

'Hi nice human, can we play today?' With a start, Kai realized she could still communicate with the dolphin even without her pendant. She was pleasantly surprised. She didn't consider it before but she supposed the Crystal's power stayed with her even though she had taken it off.

'Not today, Belle,' Kai frowned. 'School's starting tomorrow. I'm going to live in the dorms there now, so I won't be coming by as much.'

'Human don't want me?' Belle gave Kai a puppy eyed look. Kai groaned. Of all things to learn from Scott.

'No! Of course not!' Kai exclaimed. 'I love you, Belle. But really, you need to go and find a wild pod. It's not healthy for you to stay here in the aquarium.'

Belle harrumphed and swam away. Kai found Belle a few months ago as a baby trapped in a ghost net and nearly drowned. She brought her to the newly built aquarium in the base as it was the nearest place with medical supplies. When Kai and Scott tried to let her out (Scott took his father's diving gear. It was a whole other argument), Belle just followed Kai around and nearly died a second time when the entrance chamber was drained of the water. As a last resort Scott built an entrance in the aquarium tank that connects to the ocean and slowly, Belle learnt to use it. She goes out to hunt but frequently comes back to the aquarium. Neither Kai, Scott or Dare had been successful in coaxing her to join a wild pod.

Kai reentered the main room with a sigh.

'Belle's still here?' Scott asked without looking up from whatever he was building.

'Yeap. What are you doing anyway?' Kai inquired. 'And what on Earth is this machine?'

'Nothing, just a haunch.' Scott replied, still glued to his work. 'And that machine is going to help me with with my blueprints. Who else is going to do all the heavy lifting? Me? Anyway, that reminds me. The machine already helped me shift the main entrance to Sea Breeze Café in Eagle Coast University. If you ever need to run or something just find a trident symbol.'

'Wait what? You shifted the main entrance? What if I had tried to use the main entrance just now?' Kai had long gave up on keeping up with Scott's chatter, or any 12 year old boy for that matter.

'You never use it anyway.' Scott shrugged.

Kai rolled her eyes. It was true, she guessed. 'Anyway I gotta go now, I haven't really finished packing. And I still need to help that seahorse before leaving.'

'Bye,' Scott waved his hand, his back still facing Kai.