A.N: Next chapter. Again, warning. Some blood and gore and death of rangers! Ratings may change!

Aquatic Darkness

Chapter 02

The Plan

Lucas groaned, rolling to his side in the debris. It had been hours since all of them had passed out. His eyes fluttered open slowly and he sat up. He was the second to last to wake, he looked over to see Jen groaning and holding her head. The Blue Time Force ranger pushed himself onto his feet and gave his partner a hand. The two stood up and glanced around, only to see Cam trying to get the main computer to work.

"Turn on!" Cam yelled, hitting the side, "Why wont you work?"

"Maybe you have to plug it in." Dustin spoke up. He was sitting in the corner next to the wall with Merrick. Cam shot him a look of frustration and turned his attention back to the screen. "Sorry. Just trying to lighten up the mood."

"How long have we been out?" Jen rubbed her temple and looked over to see Kim and Adam by the door.

"For a while." Adam responded, trying to find a way to pry the door open, "We've all been out for a while."

"The door is jam." Kim added, "We are kind of stuck in here."

Cam groaned as he slammed his fist onto the console, "I give up." He sighed, "This computer won't operate unless we reset the main breaker."

"The main breaker?" Lucas made his way over, "Where's it located."

"On the 1st floor of Building B. We are in sector C, floor 5." Cam adjusted his glasses a bit, "If we can get the door open then we can make are way there."

"Then what?" Merrick crossed his arms. "This wasn't just some ordinary underwater earthquake."

"I'm going to agree with the long hair dude." Adam responded, "Maybe it was an attack."

"Did you bring your morphers?" Merrick looked over at the Time Force Rangers. Everyone froze and shot a look over at them.

"No." Jen muttered, "I didn't think we need it."

"Translation." Lucas smirked, "We were about to miss our time flight."

"Wait?" Dustin snapped his fingers, "You guys are rangers also? Cam and I are also!"

Lucas pulled out his gun and made his way to the door. Checking the lock, he opened fired, letting the bullets fly. The door sparked and finally the switch to open the door triggered. It activated and started to slide up when the power quickly faded and it stopped halfway.

"It's half way open." Lucas put his gun away, "We should be able to pull this up. Give me a hand, Adam."

Adam nodded and gave him a hand to lift the door up. They heaved and with their final strength, lifted the door open all the way. The lights above the door sparked and flashed, causing them to step back. "Whoa." Kim covered her face from the flare, "Come on, what are we waiting for."

She bursted out of the door and stepped in a pool of blood. She screamed and took a few steps back, pressing her body against the wall. She looked down the hall and screamed, covering her mouth. Adam and the others came running out, stopping and standing frozen. Dead bodies were scattered everywhere, pressed against the wall and laying in the middle of the floor. Blood was dripping down the ceiling and coming together in large pools. "What the hell happened?" Kim screamed, freaking out and grabbing a hold of Adam.

Merrick casually walked out and bent down to inspect the bodies. He noticed some bite marks and scratching. He looked up at them. "It looks they been attacked by humans." He said, pointing at a few of the teeth marks at the edge of a large gash, "Someone was trying to eat them."

"How could you be so calm!" Kim scowled, "This is gross!"

Jen pulled out her handgun and made sure it was completely loaded. She was gross out and the whole place was sickening but she kept her composure. "This wont be easier then we had planned on it being."

Lucas checked his gun and nodded, "We have to keep moving. Cam, point us the way."

"Wait. Wait." Kim broke away from Adam and made her way to Lucas, "You don't actually want to continue on. Do you?" She pointed at the bodies, "Whatever caused them all to die must still be out there."

"Uh dude." Dustin scratched his head, "Yeah, this is gross and all but I don't understand why this is happening."

"That's why we need to reset that breaker. The computer can give me the readings of everything that just happened." He explained, "The gas that leaked into the hotel gave off strange readings and the only computer that is capable of reading that is the one in the room." He pointed behind him. "So the faster we can do this the faster we can figure out everything that is happening."

"Fine." Jen nodded, "We are not to stop till we get there." She looked at everyone, "Understood?"

Everyone nodded and they slowly started to make their way down the hall and towards the long journey 3 floors below them.

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Sky, Syd and Z had been stuck in the room for hours. They had been waiting till it was completely safe before even trying to make an attempt at opening the door. Sky had put on his blue S.P.D uniform, getting ready to embrace himself for anything that happened. Syd and Z remain in their civilian forms still. The girls had been sitting on the couches staying quiet.

"I think we should leave now." Sky suggested, "I'm tired of waiting."

Syd stood up and shook her head, "You heard those screams out there. It really freaked me out."

"But Sky is right." Z interjected, "We can't just sit here forever. Were seven hundred miles under water with no morpher and no way back to the future." She stated, "We got to at least take a few steps out of the room to see what is going on."

Sky made his way to his suitcase and opened it up. Throwing out his clothes, he pulled out a silver handgun and inspected it. Syd bolted towards him and went wide-eye. "How did you bring that?"

Sky smirked, "There's more then one way to get pass a few metal detectors." He grinned, "Besides I always come prepare."

Z shook her head and made her way to the door. Hitting it, the door didn't respond. She turned to Syd and muttered. "Can you give me a hand."

Syd walked over and pulled out a small piece of iron ore. "Fist of Iron." She screamed. She smashed through the door, breaking it off. Letting her hand phase back to normal, the three stepped out into a similar hall with the same results as the one that Cam and the gang had stepped out of. Blood dripped, bodies hung from the sides. Legs were in one place and arms were in others. Syd was about to scream when Sky placed his hand over mouth to muffle it. Syd panicked, kicking away from him and screaming her head off. She slipped and fell in some blood, covering her body.

"Ew!" She scrambled to her feet, "Ew! Ew!" She stood up and stripped her shirt off, revealing her white tang top. "What the hell is going on."

Z ran her hands across her face and just closed her eyes, "This too gross. Sky, what do you think happened?"

He shook his head, "I don't know and I don't plan on sticking around to find out." He waved his hand, "Come on."

Syd just kept her hand over her mouth to just muffle her complaints. She followed the other two as they slowly made their way down the hall. Syd avoided as many of the body parts that were laying around as she can. Sky stopped at the end of the hall and heard the sound of screeching metal. Readying his weapon, he waited silently as the screeching got louder. A middle age man was dragging one of the emergency axe against the ground. He came around the corner, starring right at the three. His face was bloody, and his wounds were oozing with blood. He had a sinister look on his face as he raised his axe.

"Heh. Heh. Heh." He laughed, "Gaaaaah!" He screamed as he charged straight towards them.

"Put your weapon down!" Sky shouted, "I said put it down." The man didn't stop. Sky fired a few rounds in the guys head and he fell back.

"I can't believe you just shot him." Syd hide behind him, "Is he dead?"

"He obviously was insane." Sky lowered his weapon, "Though none of this is making sense." The crazed man that was thought to be dead stirred to life one more. He slowly stood back up grabbed his axe, swinging it straight at Sky. The Blue S.P.D Officer moved out of the way and kicked the man back. He fired a few more rounds in the head and caused it to go flying back. "Come on. We have to keep going."

"But." Z just looked down at it, "It moved again. After you shot it. It doesn't make sense." She quickly ran past it and chased after Sky, with Syd a few seconds behind.

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Cam and the others were running down the halls. They kept passing dead bodies and destroyed machinery that were sprawled out everywhere. They climbed over a fallen service car and down the stairs. Jen lead them down towards the 3rd level and into the Restaurant Level. The area was dark and completely obscured. The tables were turned over and the windows were broken in. Glass was shattered everywhere with evidence of blood on each of the pieces.

"What is that stench?" Kim waved her hand in front of her face as she glanced around. They walked into one of the restaurants. Brushing past a bunch of broken tables, they began to hear moaning.

Jen and Lucas raised their weapons and kept their alert up. Another crazed tourist came walking out holding a knife. Lucas aimed the gun with one hand, standing sideway, staying calm. Then a second person came out. A third. A fourth and soon seven tourists, with blood all over their bodies came slowly dragging their bodies towards them.

"What the?" Dustin got into a fighting position, "I don't know about you but I don't think this is the welcome committee."

"Freeze!" Jen screamed out, "Time Force Officers. Drop your weapons."

The killers didn't comply. Jen began to fire a few rounds into them. Some fell back and then continued walking. As if they had will of their own. "It's not working!" Lucas aimed his gun and fired. "They aren't dying."

One of the crazed killers tried to swipe at Kim with a knife. She ducked and kicked the guy back, knocking the knife out of her hand. The man lunged forward, bitting the side of her arm. "Jesus!" She screamed, smashing her face across it's face before holding her wound. "That fvcking thing bite me."

Lucas pushed her back and fired a round into the freak. "No use using martial arts." He called out. Dustin flipped backwards and picked up a chair, throwing it at them.

"I don't like this." He shouted, "Come on. We should get out of here."

"For once." Cam looked over at him, "I agree."

Jen fired another round and pushed everyone to run. Kim stumbled a bit, the thing took quit a chunk out of her arm. The crazed freaks chased after them, one of them threw the knife and into Kim's leg. She fell, Jen stopped to help her. "Are you all right?" She fired a few bullets back at them, "Jesus."

"I hate this vacation." Kim sneered. She looked over to see the door to the kitchen bust down and more of them crazed humans walking out. They were surrounded. Merrick took a few shorts step back and next to Adam, glancing at him.

"What now?" Adam asked, "I'm not exactly in the mood to die."

Merrick picked up a wooden chair and smashed off the leg. Picking up the wooden stake, he threw it into one of their heads and turned to Jen. "Come on Jen!" He screamed, he rarely showed emotions for this time it was pouring out, "We can't just stand here."

"I-I can't run." Kim pulled the knife out of her leg. The blood seeped down her skin and onto her sock. "Oh god it hurts."

"Were clearing a path." Lucas ordered, "Were heading out of this restaurant and towards the security office. We can get more weapons there."

A sudden roar caught there attention. The crazed humans stopped and looked around. Suddenly a furry type creature came smashing through a door and into the dinning room. It had huge yellow eyes and long claws. The brown fur shook as it growled. It was huge, almost like a bear but bigger and a lot nastier. "What is that?" Adam took a step back, "Shoot."

"Come on!" Jen waved her hand, "Run!"

The seven them bolted past the crazed freaks. The creature tackled one of the insane humans and ripped its head off with his long teeth. They were massive, curling up and above their upper lip. It howled as it smashed through the others and chased the rangers down. The seven rangers bursted out of the restaurant and into the long balcony hall strip that lead people from one side to the other. Passing restaurants, after restaurants, the creature roared.

"I can't keep running." Kim started to slow down, "My leg!"

She stumbled and the others stopped to turn. "Kim!" Adam screamed, "Look out!" The creature jumped in the air and she spun around. Her hair half buried her face as she was tackled into the ground. In seconds, the creature took his large claws and gashed her across the face. He began to shred her to pieces.

"No!" Jen screamed out, firing a few rounds and taking a few steps forward, "Get off of her you bitch!"

The bullets went flying into the creature, causing blood to ooze of its fur. The creature roared, biting Kim's arm off and flinging it against the wall. Its yellow eyes glared at Jen as it crept towards her. Lucas shot forward and began firing a few rounds of his own. The bear creature jumped into the air and straight towards them.

Jen pushed Lucas into the wall and dived to the ground as the creature missed them. Dustin and the others took a few steps back and watched in the distant as Jen rolled back onto her feet. She fired a few bullets to keep his attention and avoiding it to chase after the others. With luck, the creature spun around and chased right after her. Jen, breathing heavily, looked over at the rail and then to Lucas who was resting against the wall. He nodded to her and she grinned. Standing up, she stood in the middle of the walk way and waited patiently. The creature picked up speed and leapt into the air. Jen twisted her body and ran towards the rail of the balcony and jumped off it, using as much body force to back flip herself right over the creature. Lucas threw his gun into the air and Jen came flying down onto of the creature with both guns in each hand. Aiming at the head, she began to fire hails of bullets into it, screaming at the top of her lungs. The creature landed onto the ground, coming to a halt and sending her flying back into the air. Rolling onto the ground, she came to a halt back on her knees and continued to fire. The creature wavered before falling to the ground dead. It took one last breath before remaining still.

Lucas stood up and sighed in relief, "That was a close one."

Jen walked forward and tossed him his gun, "Were almost out of ammo. Let's hope we don't run into anymore of these things."

"Kim." Adam turned away. Jen stopped and looked at him.

"There's nothing we can do. I'm sorry." She whispered, "We have to keep moving."

"First crazed humans then these mutated creatures." He grew angry, "We better get some freaking answers, Cam." He shot him a look.

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Sky, Syd and Z wondered around the hall. They were on the 2nd floor of Section B. They found some stairs and was about to make they're way when Joel came flying out of a broom closet. Sky aimed his gun right at him.

"Don't shoot!" He screamed, "I'm alive!"

Sky hesitated but lowered his weapon, "A survivor eh?" He made his way over, "Are you all right?"

"Do I look all right?" He scoffed. His clothes dirty and he was missing his hat. "Everyone started to kill each other so I hid in this freaking closet."

"Were trying to find our way out of here." Z explained, "Do you know your way around?"

"Do I?" He just nodded, "Yeah. I work here." He spoke, "Names Joel."

"Sky." Sky responded, "This is Syd and Z. Tell us how we should get out of here."

"We can check the security office. They might have a working computer."

"But power is out." Syd reminded him.

Joel grinned, "The security system is run on a back up generator." He informed them, "It's our best bet."

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Jen and the others had finally made it to the security room. She unlocked it with a key and entered in. The lights in the room flickered but remain on. Everyone filed right in and she closed the door and locked it. Lucas made his way to the computer to check for any operational cameras. "Every camera has been taken out." He sighed, "It's useless."

Dustin looked around, "How is there lights in here?"

"We run on a backup generator." Jen explained, "If someone tried to cut the power, we still have full view of each sector. Its an emergency backup plan, basically." She made her way over to one of the giant lockers and opened it. Pulling out two extra handguns, she tossed one to Merrick and Adam. Reaching back into the locker, she pulled out a third handgun and a rifle. "This is all we have for weapons in this room."

She handed Dustin the rifle. "Dude. Sweet."

"It's not a toy." She glared at him, "Don't aim it at something you shouldn't."

"I'm aware of that." He rolled his eyes, "But were set."

Cam moved Lucas aside and pulled out the keyboard, "I think I can hack into the main frame in my office and send a direct feedback on some of the cameras before they went out."

"You can do that?" Merrick arched his brows, placing his gun in his pocket, "Impressive."

Cam hit a few key strokes and hacked into the network. He adjusted his glasses and found the system data that he needed. The door began to rattle and everyone stopped and turn their attention to it. Each one aiming their gun at the door, remained silent. The door flung open and Sky and his crew came bursting in.

"Don't shoot!" Cam shouted, noticing Joel. Syd closed the door and walked into the room farther. "Joel. You're still alive."

"Who are they?" Merrick glanced at Joel. Cam turned back to the computer and began to hack away again.

Joel introduced them. Pointing to each one of them, "Sky. Syd and Z. They're survivors."

"S.P.D Officers." Jen walked up and noticed the uniforms, "Hmm." He looked at the symbols and design of Sky's clothes, "2022?"

"25." Sky corrected him, "And how do you know?"

"We know about you Rangers." Lucas grinned, sitting in the chair, "We know all of you." He looked around, "Coming from the year 3000 does have its advantage."

"Did you bring your morphers?" Jen asked.

Syd shook her head, "No."

"So noone has morphers." Adam groaned, "How the hell are we all rangers yet we don't have morphers."

"Uh dude." Dustin scratched his head, "Ex-Ranger."

"I got it!" Cam exclaimed. He hit the enter button. Everyone gathered around and watched the replay of the footage on a camera. Tourists were hit by the strange green gas. Soon after they started to slaughter each other. People began to go crazy and smashing themselves into walls and into each other. The footage died and Cam changed to another camera. This time it was too the animal zoo. Gas was released in the vent and the animals, like humans, began to go mad with sanity. Even some of them slowly started to change and mutate but the camera went out before they could see the whole thing.

"That gas." Z looked at everyone, "It's having some sort of effect on everything here."

"That explains that freaking creature that killed Kim." Adam muttered, "None of this makes any sense though."

"I still need my computer." Cam responded, "So we need to still make our way to the breaker."

"I think we should go to the escape pods." Sky suggested, "Instead of wasting our time here."

Joel rolled his eyes and shook his head, "No. It wouldn't work. The power was disabled to the doors. We wouldn't be able to get into them." He responded, "And the main generator is in the bottom floor. The basement."

"Has anyone heard from Chad?" Cam spoke up, "He was down there."

Joel sighed, bitting his lips, "No word man."

"We can't go to the escape pod yet." Jen protested, "There still could be survivors."

"Not our problem." Sky snapped at her. She turned and glared, walking up towards him.

She just laughed in his face, "Well it is now." She sneered back, "We are going to see if there are more survivors."

"I kind of need the computer in my room anyway to unlock the escape pods." Cam weakly laughed, "Security reasons. I didn't get a chance to deactivate them when everything happened."

"We'll find survivors on the way." Merrick added his opinion in. Everyone turned to him. "We'll take one group and head to the Computer Breaker and send another down the basement to kick the power online through the rest of the system."

"Fine." Sky rolled his eyes, "I'm heading to the basement."

"And I'm heading to the breaker." Jen turned away, "I don't need to deal with snobby officers."

"Look in the mirror babe." Sky rolled his eyes. "Who's going with me?"

Syd nodded. Joel and Adam took a step forward also. "We'll go with you too." Adam cocked his gun. "And I know how to rest the generator." Joel added in.

"Im going too." Lucas turned to Jen, "Im sure you can handle everything. Right?"

She just smiled, "I can try." She looked over at Dustin, Merrick, Cam and Z. She went to the locker and grabbed two walkie talkies, shoving one into Sky's hand. "Use this if you run into trouble."

"Trust me I wont." He shot back. "Let's get going guys." He turned to open the door to leave. The others in his group followed out and everyone was set with a plan.

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End Chapter. Below is information on who is going with who and who has what weapon.

Group A
Destinations: Basement
Members
Sky - Handgun
Syd - Armless
Lucas - Handgun
Adam - Handgun
Joel - Armless

Group B
Destination: Main Breaker Room
Members
Jen - Handgun
Cam - Armless
Z - Armless
Merrick - Handgun
Dustin - Rifle