A/N: Here's chapter three of OO. I hope you like it. And if you didn't know already, then some of you DT-Kaylee fans a little surprise waiting for you!
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"It's a waste of manpower," Will complained for the umpteenth time that day as the Rangers were out in the beautiful city of San Angeles. Mack was holding a book in his hand that his father had asked him to retrieve. "Why would Andrew send all six of us to grab a single book when I'm perfectly capable of doing it myself?"
"Ego much?" Kaylee whispered to the other girls, who nodded.
"Think of it as a field trip," Rose explained to the Black Ranger.
"Yeah, if there's one thing I know about my dad, he's got a reason for everything!" Mack smiled.
"Then why the hell won't he answer me whenever I ask him why he can't get his own damn lemonade?" Kaylee asked.
"Hey guys!" Dax called as he hopped up onto the base of a fountain and did a handstand. "Check this out!"
He took a few steps on his hands, and flipped back onto his feet.
"That was awesome!" Ronny smiled.
Instead of cheering his friend on, Will stopped suddenly and put his fingers to his hear, letting his friend know he was picking up a noise in the distance. Before anyone could ask him what was wrong, he disappeared.
"Hey!" Ronny frowned, catching up with Will.
"Did you just save that dude?" Kaylee asked, watching the man walk away. He had been falling from a building, and without warning, Will morphed and saved him from turning into a mancake.
"What's the big idea of running off without us?" Rose asked.
"Sorry guys, But I'm used to working alone," Will smiled, as if it was nothing. "What can I say? I'm a one man show."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"Oh, good, you're back," Andrew smiled, holding a book in his hands. It was identical to the one the Rangers brought back. "While using the satellites to comb the ocean floor, I think I found something of interest."
"That's the same book!" Will frowned. "You sent us to get a book you already had?"
Hartford looked down at the book and laughed. "I thought I misplaced it. Thanks anyways, good job."
"So what did you find out, dad?" Mack asked as his father put both books down on a table and moved onto the computer.
"Atlantis?" Rose asked, hoping he would say yes.
"I'm not entirely sure," Hartford explained. "But I think so. Look at this. If the telemetry is correct, then these ruins are over ten thousand years old!"
"So what?" Ronny frowned. "My socks are that old!"
Kaylee held her hand to her nose and frowned. "She's right... they are."
"You know this how?" Will teased.
"You don't share a room with her and her lucky socks," Kaylee reminded the Black Rangers. "In a house with twenty-something bathrooms... you'd think there would be enough rooms for each of us... but no... Yellow and green have to bunk together."
"Atlantis was the domain of Neptune, god of the sea," Rose announced, bringing the others back to the original topic.
"And a possible resting place for one of the jewels. I'm getting a very faint jewel signature here," Hartford smiled.
"Looks like we're going swimming!" Dax smiled.
"I'll go alone; it'll be much faster!" Will announced.
"Hey, no way hot-shot!" Ronny frowned. "I'm coming too!"
"Enough. You'll all go together," Hartford ordered, handing Kaylee some water proof bandages. "It's dangerous out there, Will. You'll need your team... especially this one."
Hartford pointed to Kaylee, who smiled at Will, teasing him.
"If you find something down there, use your tracker's sensory program to source the jewels. I'll fuel the SHARC and the flight plan is programmed into the mainframe. Stick to the flight plan; you don't want Flurious of Moltor following you."
"Hey, Hartford, this Atlantis place... it isn't in an underwater cave right?" Kaylee asked before leaving.
"It's ancient ruins, buried in the water," Hartford explained. "I would be surprised if there were no caves."
Kaylee's blood froze. Spencer noticed and tried to point it out to Hartford, but the younger man was ignorant.
"Make sure you check every cave for the jewel, Kaylee!"
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Inside the SHARC, Kaylee was fiddling with everything she could reach as she, Rose, Dax and Mack sat in the back, with Ronny and Will up front driving.
"You okay, Kayl?" Rose asked.
Kaylee looked up and shook her head. "I hate caves..."
"Why?" Mack asked, stuffing a sandwich in his mouth.
"Tight spaces, small rooms, crowed places... all those things..."
"Claustrophobia?" Rose asked. Kaylee nodded, her shaky hand reaching in her back pocket. There was a small zwop noise before a blue and white piece of plastic was pulled out. Kaylee blew up the plastic, and the Rangers saw it was a duck. Kaylee held it close to her. She knew she wasn't going to be able to bring Ducky with her because she wouldn't be able to stay underwater with him, if the pressure didn't pop him before he could reach the surface.
"I'm not used to people telling me 'no'," Will's voice came from the front, catching the attention of the people in the back.
"Well get used to it," Ronny answered. "No."
Will gave Ronny an innocent look, trying to get her to change her mind. Ronny tried not to cave in, and held her ground. "No."
Will sighed before reaching for the controls and turning off the autopilot.
"WILL!" Ronny yelled as she, and the others, were pushed against the back of their seats from the high speed. Normally she would enjoy the speed, and danger, but right now was not the time, and she knew it.
"We are now free to fly the world!" Will smiled.
"Deviating from flight plan."
"Oh this is such a bad idea," Ronny frowned, hearing the computer's voice over the intercom.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"We're all going to die!" Kaylee yelled, seeing the SHARC was about to crash.
"Enough is enough Will!" Ronny frowned, grabbing a control. She pulled the belly of the SHARC up. Instead of landing nose first like they would have done if Will was driving, they landed on the belly, sliding on the sands before stopping.
"Land!" Kaylee yelled, jumping out of the vehicle and kissing the sand. Rose and Mack looked down at her in disgust. "When dating someone who has the element of earth, like I do water, you eat a lot of dirt."
Dax was stumbling as he walked up to Will. "Next time you want to take a detour, you might want to tell the rest of us."
Will rolled his eyes, putting a hand to his ear as he put the tracker to his mouth. "Spencer, send the zords."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Will, Ronny, Kaylee and Rose were in the sub Driver, Rose's Zord, underwater. The four Rangers were fully morphed. Each of them had different reactions to the mission. Rose was focused and on task, Ronny was distract by anything and everything. Will was trying to lead the team and Kaylee was one step away from curling up in a corner. She had to leave Ducky in the SHARC so she was on her own.
The headlights of the Zord shone on some ruins, catching Ronny's attention.
"Hey, we must be getting close!"
"There it is! Good job, Rose! I'll take it from here," Will smiled, reaching out for the steering wheel. Rose frowned under her helmet and slapped his hand away.
"Uh, nobody drives my Zord!"
"Okay, have it your way," Will sighed.
"I'll engage the hydro claws," Rose announced.
Ronny laughed, putting a hand on Will's shoulder. "See, Rose knows."
"Rose knows books," Will scoffed, brushing Ronny's hand away. "I know adventure!"
"Be careful guys," Mack's voice rang from the speaker box. "Those ruins are ten thousand years old."
"You don't want to upset Neptune, the god of the sea!" Dax said.
"Great, so not only are they caves, but old, breakable caves..." Kaylee whispered.
Rose stopped her Zord just before the entrance of Atlantis.
"I guess it's up to me," Will smiled, heading for the door.
"Um, unless you want to die from the pressure squeezing the air out of your lungs, you're going to have to take me along," Kaylee reminded the Black Ranger, though she did not want to leave the roomy Zord.
"Will, take Ronny with you as well," Mack instructed. "Just in case something goes wrong."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
"See Kayl, this isn't so bad," Ronny smiled as she, Will and Kaylee swam in the ocean, to Atlantis. They found the entrance and surfaced inside a cave. "Never mind."
Will was first out of the water, pulling himself up onto the solid ground before helping Ronny out. While he looked around, Ronny helped Kaylee out of the water.
"Think of it as a roomy cave," Ronny smiled. She then took a few steps away from Kaylee, so that it looked like there was more room then there actually was.
"Activating head lamp!" the three said, turning on the head lamp on their helmets. Ronny noticed how close she was to the side of the cave, and every once in a while a rock would stick out and scratch her arm, but Kaylee wasn't freaking out as much, so it was worth the slight pain.
"Incredible!" Ronny smiled in awe, looking around at the ruins. "It looks like..."
She interrupted herself by screaming when she realised she woke up a family of bats. The creatures fly above and around the three Rangers, causing Kaylee t have a panic attack. She wasn't paying any attention to where she was going, and her hand accidentally hit a secret button on a wall. A door opened, and she fell into another, wide open, room.
"Kayl!" Will and Ronny called, running into the room to join their friend.
"Whoa!" Ronny smiled, looking around. Where are we?"
The room had rock walls, and was still small enough to scare Kaylee, but it was big enough to calm her down. In the middle of it was a platform with a small column on it.
"Looks like we found the temple," Will smiled.
"Good, can we go home?" Kaylee asked.
Ronny smiled at the girl, and then hopped up on the dais. "Hey, check this out! It's gotta be important."
She reached out to the column and twisted a knob. Suddenly, purple flames shot out of the month of several statues in the room.
"Ronny!" Will yelled, jumping on top of the yellow Ranger, protecting her from the flames. Kaylee couldn't help but giggle.
"First red and pink, now Black and yellow?"
"Shut up and turn this off!" Will yelled. Kaylee frowned and teleported to the middle of the room, where all the flames stopped short of reaching the center. She looked at the column, that turned out to be a trap, and kicked it, destroying the top.
"Hey, it worked!" she smiled.
"Nice job!" Ronny called as Will got off her. She looked at the statue and smiled. "It has something inside!"
"It looks like a puzzle!" Will stated.
"Thank you captain obvious," Kaylee frowned.
"Shouldn't you be curled up in a corner?" Will snapped. He hated working on a team, especially one with a hyperactive yellow and a claustrophobic green.
Ronny slapped the Black Ranger on the back of the head before scanning the puzzle. "Well, it's not a jewel."
"I could have told you that," Will frowned.
"Let's ask Rose how to solve it!" Ronny suggested, grabbing her tracker. Will put his hand on hers, stopping her from calling the other female Ranger.
"Come on!" he sighed. "I crack safes! I can solve a puzzle without consulting the Braniac!"
Will played around with the puzzle before he found what he thought was the picture. There was a soft glow before the room started to shake.
"Whoa! What happened?" Will asked.
"You triggered something!" Ronny answered.
Two stone hands came out from the walls and grabbed all three Rangers. For Kaylee, the room started to spin as her vision blurred and she passed out.
Will noticed that the most experienced Ranger on the team had lost consciousness and yelled. "This is not good!"
Ronny found a way to get back at his little comment earlier. "I could have told you that!"
Suddenly, Mack's Zord arrived and grabbed all three Rangers, dumping them in the back of his truck and driving away. Kaylee woke up in the dirt and frowned.
She was about to say something, before the back of the dump truck was lifted, dumping the Rangers, and a pile of dirt, out.
Will's head was first to come out of the dirt. He heard Dax yell something as he and Rose joined the four Rangers by Mack's Zord.
"Will, Ronny, Kay, you guys alright?" Mack asked.
"Yeah, I had it under control!" Will yelled. He saw Ronny and Kaylee poke their heads out of the dirt and helped them out. There wasn't enough room on the pile for all three of them to stand, so he had to support them both with his hand.
"Oh really?" Dax frowned. "If that's control, I would hate to see trouble!"
Will turned to the older Ranger, letting go of Ronny and Kaylee. The yellow Ranger went rolling down one side of the hill and stopped when Mack caught her, while the green Ranger rolled down the other side and landed in the water.
"Dax, I've been doing this sort of thing for years!" Will reminded him. He bumped into Dax's shoulder as he walked away. "So, things don't always go as expected. You have to be ready to improvise."
Ronny stood up and ran to Will. "Improvise? Is that what you call nearly killing all three of us because you didn't want help? Never mind giving Kaylee a freaking panic attack."
"So what about the jewel?" Kaylee asked, splashing around in the water, happy to be back in open air. "We obviously didn't find it."
"I think we can assume the temple is booby-trapped," Rose stated. "We should go together."
"We're going back?" Kaylee frowned, dropping her arms to the side.
Will ran for the entrance that Mack made with his Zord, with Ronny right behind him.
"Guys!" Kaylee yelled, taking back her position as leader now that her head was back on straight. "Wait up!"
Past the booby-trapped room and through a small door, all six Rangers found an even bigger room. On one side, where the rangers were standing, was a ledge, connected to the other side by a small rock bridge, created naturally.
"Unbelievable!" Ronny exclaimed, her voice echoing. "Bet this is where echoes were invented!"
"You okay in here Kayl?" Mack asked, looking at the blonde Ranger. Kaylee nodded, feeling a lot more comfortable in the big room.
Ronny walked over to the ledge and looked down at the lava flowing. "It's a long way down."
"At least I'm not afraid of heights," Kaylee smiled.
Will was looking ahead, on the other side of the cave. He spotted a glowing gem and ran across the bridge, with Ronny right behind him.
"Will, hold on!" she called after him. Suddenly, the ground under Will's feet gave away. The Black Ranger would have plummeted to his death, had he not grabbed onto what was left of the stone bridge.
Ronny, who was already next to him, on the side on the bridge that didn't collapse, grabbed onto him, and started helping him back up. When he was finally up, the two walked back to their friends.
"Now how do we get to the other side?" Dax asked, before feeling Kaylee's hand on his shoulder. Next thing he knew, he was on the other side of the cave, with green smoke surrounding him as zwop echoed through the cave.
Before the others could recover from the zwopping, Kaylee was already distracted by what looked to be a glowing cocoon in the wall.
"It's so pretty!" she giggled, reaching out to poke it.
"Kayl, scan it," Rose suggested. Kaylee nodded and pulled out her tracker.
"Eighty-six!" Kaylee smiled. "That's a high reading!"
"I could have told you that," Will frowned.
"Shouldn't you be off on a solo mission or something?" Kaylee snapped.
"Just grab it, Kaylee," Mack laughed. Kaylee reached out, but before she could grab the cocoon, it jumped off the wall and flew over Rangers' heads.
Once it got over the lava, the cocoon cloned itself. Each one of them hung in midair.
"This won't be so hard," Will smiled. "All I have to do is figure out which is the real..."
"This is just like my book!" Mack exclaimed, walking up to the edge. "The Baron's Betrayal! I bet it's a chain reaction!"
Before Will could stop him, Mack reached out to the closest cocoon and pushed it into the next one. In a matter of seconds, and a few explosions later, only one cocoon was left.
"That's cool!" Dax smiled.
"I don't believe it, Mack!" Will frowned. "I was figuring out what to do!"
"Sorry, Will, but you're not the only person on this team," Mack reminded the Black Ranger.
"Maybe I should be!" Will yelled, swinging out his arms. He accidentally hit Ronny in the back, causing her to lose her balance.
The Yellow Ranger was standing on the edge of the cliff, and soon found herself falling. Will's eyes widened as he watched his friend plummet to the ground.
"RONNY!" he yelled.
In the heat of the moment, he jumped after her, thinking he could catch up with her. But there was no way he could fall fast enough to reach the yellow Ranger.
"Stupid..." Kaylee mumbled, jumping over the edge.
ZWOP!
Kaylee appeared beside Ronny and grabbed her with one arm before...
ZWOP!
She appeared beside Will and grabbed him with her other arm.
ZWOP!
Kaylee teleported next to the cocoon and grabbed it.
ZWOP!
She, Will and Ronny landed on the other side of the cave, safe and sound.
"You guys are cramping my style!" Will yelled, snatching the cocoon from Kaylee and walking off. "I'll open the cocoon... ALONE!"
"Will," Ronny sighed, going after him, but a hand on her shoulder stopped her.
"Seriously, what do you see in him?" Kaylee asked. She powered down and smiled at the race car driver. "I'll talk to him... I've dealt with his kind before."
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
Kaylee walked into a smaller cave, where Will was banging the cocoon against a rock, trying to open it. She shuddered as she entered, but tried to push her fears away.
"You can't save the universe all by yourself," she told the black Ranger.
"Watch me," Will frowned, slamming the cocoon even harder against the rock. Unfortunately, he hit it a bit too hard, and the cocoon slipped out from his hands and fell over the edge. Will, who didn't learn from last time, jumped over the edge to catch it. This time, he did, and caught a rock sticking out from the side of the cliff. Sadly, he only had one hand to pull himself up, seeing as the other was holding the cocoon.
"Give me the cocoon!" Kaylee yelled, extending her hand out to Will. "Then I'll pull you up!"
"No, I can do it!" Will yelled back, trying to pull himself up with one arm.
Knowing that even if Will did drop, she could still save him, Kaylee sat down and crossed her arms. "Okay, go on."
Will tried to grab the ledge with his other hand, but almost lost the cocoon. He was officially stuck, with no way up.
"Alright... help," Will sighed, giving in and handing the cocoon to Kaylee. She grabbed it and tossed it over her shoulder before helping Will up.
-----Operation-Overdrive-----
When the Rangers got home, everyone was talking while walking through the base.
"How'd it go?" Andrew asked, seeing the team brought back a cocoon.
"Great, we found Atlantis and brought back a cocoon with massive sensory readings!" Rose exclaimed, excitement shining in her eyes.
"Great!" Hartford smiled. "We'll keep Atlantis to ourselves for its own protection. Uh... Will, any problems along the way?"
The Rangers didn't know this, but Spencer was actually the man who had fallen off the building earlier that morning. He reported back to Hartford when the Rangers were gone, and told him all about Will's lack of teamwork.
"We had some problems but, uh, we sorted them out," Mack smiled, putting a hand on Will's shoulder.
"Glad to hear it," Hartford said. "Now, let's see what you found."
Will smiled and handed the cocoon to Rose. "Mind doing the honours?"
Rose smiled back; happy Will finally learned to work as a team. "That's what I'm here for. One powerful jewel coming up!"
Just like that, Rose popped the cocoon open. Will's eyes widened and Kaylee had to choke back a laugh at his expense.
Inside the cocoon was not a jewel, but a scroll. Rose frowned, handing it to Kaylee, knowing she was a ninja and knew a lot more about scrolls than she did.
"That's not a jewel!" Dax sighed. "What a rip off!"
"The next piece of the puzzle," Kaylee smiled.