"Kimberly!" The voice of her friend called out to her through the opening of the cave. "If you can hear me, give me a sign that you are still alive!"
In the cave, Kimberly tilted her head up and gasped for air. Water dripped down her face while she floats in the water. She sucked in some air, and with a strong voice, "Naruto! We are fine! We landed in the water..." Turning her head, Kimberly studied the others. "And no one is harmed."
"I don't care about those idiots about how they feel or what their situations are. What I do care about is what they pulled you into. Once I get you out and give you some dry clothes, I take you out to dinner." Her blood rushed towards her face and Kimberly blushed slightly at how much her friend cared about her. She splashed water on her face to cool down and noticed not the dark looks Jason sends her.
Next, to her, Trini glared up at the hole above her. "And what about me, Fishcake!"
"What do you mean?" Came the not so innocent reply from above, and Trini could swear that she could hear quiet laughter from him.
Her eyebrow started to twitch in annoyance, and she glared up towards the light. "You exactly know what I bloody meant, Fishcake! Did you just shove me in the same category like them?" Her voice echoes off the wall, and she angrily pointed at the people that caused her to land wet in the water.
"Uhm..." Billy interrupted. "If I could recall, you all jumped after me..." He gulped nervously when a pair of angered, dark eyes landed on him. "Don't mind me, forget that I ever had said anything."
Trini turned her attention back towards the hole above her, and she scowled when hearing his amused voice. "I would not dare to do anything like that to you, Trini, you know that." Laughter bounced off the walls of the cave. "Maybe if you stop glaring at me like that..."
Kimberly and the others shared a surprised look when she heard her friend point out the girl's expression which had turned to one of surprise. "...I will go out of my way to get you some dry clothes too, take you out with Kimberly and me for a late dinner. So, Spitfire, what do you say?"
"Your boyfriend is pretty quick with adding a girl to his relationship, especially after our rough night..." Trini said in a whisper, which made Jason glare intensify at the thought of his crush doing the deed with Naruto.
"...And the morning after there was no catfight which made me think you were friends. I only know the most beautiful girl of Angel Grove High, and I would like to know the Tomboyish girl with the sharp tongue." Trini heard the voice of Kimberly's friend, and she narrowed her eyes at the light above her.
Trini Kwan turned her attention towards Kimberly and lifted a brow. "You are not dating him?"
Kimberly's blood rushed towards her cheeks which blossomed a healthy pink. She sunk a bit underwater to cool herself down, and in loo of answer, she shook her head. "Right, do you then mind if I join you?" Another shake which made Trini smirk.
"Fine, Fishcake! Your girlfriend doesn't mind if I join your outings, but you pay for everything!" Her voice bounces off of the walls of the cave, and Trini had a Cheshire smile on her face.
"I… I, fine!" Trini smile only grew, and she could imagine him crying. "Just wipe off that Cheshire smile and we are Golden," For the second time everyone turned out confused at how the boy could read her expression while not even being present. "Good girl, Trini, and Kimberly stay safe and I will be back soon."
Jason glare melted with the hope that the boy finally left. He wonders if his crush had done the deed now with the Naruto, and the ex-quarterback hoped surely not. Yet, he had spotted a faint blush on his crush face, and that alone made him dislike his rival more. "Hey, guys… look at us!" Looking up once hearing Billy's voice, Jason noticed that everyone in the group had light around them of different colors.
"Whoa! I'm black!" Jason turns his head towards the person who had just shouted. It was Zack who is surrounded by black light. "No! You are not!" Again, Jason turns his head, and this time it was a more familiar voice. That of his comrade, Billy, who held an indignant expression while being surrounded by blue light. "Yes, I am," This time, he could hear the clear smugness in Zack's voice. Now the former quarterback became curious and wondered which color his crush got. Quickly his eyes searched for Kimberly, and Jason must confess that pink suite her very good. And out of the corner of his eyes, he noticed Trini bathing in the color of yellow.
Zack grinned mischievously and glanced at the others. "Anyone knows how deep this cave is?" He questioned the others, at which the boy got headshakes. "No one knows," here his grin only grew. "Let's do something crazy, guys. We blew yesterday a part of the mines and gained strange crystals that gave us superpowers, and now we jumped into a cave. I bet my lunch for tomorrow that we will find something crazy."
"I think that is not a good idea, guys," Kimberly added her own thoughts of actions. "We can better stay at one place until Naruto comes back to get us out."
'Why is she only thinking about him… the newbie of Angel Grove!' Jason thought darkly. 'She is popular, just like me… or I was before the whole prank misadventure. But what makes him so special?!' He turned his attention towards the girl in front of him, who is surrounded by bright pink light. 'The star quarterback and the most popular girl should have dated one another. Girls were standing in line to become my girlfriend, with the exception of her, but now she has only eyes for him.'
"Yo mate, Trini and I will already move towards the bottom." Zack was heard in the distance of his mind. As for Jason, all his attention was focused on the girl in front of him, who did not give him any attention.
'What must I do to get her attention on me? Especially now, with me being a nobody with losing my position in the football team.' His thoughts moved. 'What makes this Naruto… so special?'
A gasp of air cut through his thoughts when Zack and Trini resurfaced. The boy, Zack grinned like a lunatic and his eyes brightened and almost lightened the whole cave if it could give light. "Guys! At the bottom of the cave is a barrier that we could move through!"
"Its something I had never seen before..." Trini voiced out, unsure if what she had seen was true.
"Let's check it out!" Zack claimed, his enthusiasm was overwhelming.
"No! Absolutely not!" Kimberly shouts out. "Don't you think it strange? A barrier you said is underwater where you can move through. A barrier that keeps water outside while it let you through… doesn't call for some cautious approach?!"
"Hey you," Jason turned towards Zack who obviously called out to him. "Yea… you, Jason is your name right?" Here the former quarterback nodded. "You look strong, do you think that the two of us can drag the girl towards the bottom?" A grin appeared on his face and Scott already moved forward through the water. "I knew that you would not let me hang,"
"Stop! Guys… don't do this… stop! Stooop!" Kimberly cried out while moving back from the two boys. Yet that was in fain when they managed to catch her and dragged her through the water and towards the bottom. Before the girl knew it, she was through the barrier and landed with a thud on the ground with the boys landing next to her. "You bitches!" She shouts in anger when she crawled up to her feet and then kicked both boys against their sensitive spots. "This falls under the category of Kidnapping! Something like this crazy person, I had expected such an action from him," she pointed with her thumb at Zack who grinned stupidly despite being in pain while holding his jewels. "But not from you! A prank against the school by placing a cow in the gym, fine. Boys will be boys, but forcing a girl to an unknown place is far behind a prank. Besides… do not think that I haven't seen your dark," here she quotes with her fingers. "Look you have thrown at either my friend, Naruto or when I mentioned him."
Jason grimaced through the pain that flashed through his family jewels. It seems that she has caught his looks at her or that bastard. Groaning painfully as he pushed himself in an Indian seated position. "Yo… You're wrong..."
"Am I wrong? How can I be wrong, Mr. Scott?" Kimberly's voice climbed in volume, her hands on her hips. Her eyebrows scrunched together and her eyes flashed dangerously, warning the boy to choose his words carefully.
"Guys..." Billy stepped bravely between them, not that he felt brave at all. But at this moment, unlike the others, the young boy had seen something that makes him almost speechless. "Guys… seriously, you must see this..."
"What!" Kimberly almost growled while keeping her eyes fixed on the boy who lay on the ground. "Don't you see that I'm dressing down this idiot, Cranston."
"I'm serious..." Billy spoke in a soft, weak voice, and almost folded in when the dark piercing eyes of Kimberly fixed on him.
Kimberly narrowed her eyes to mere slits and was planning to retort when her eyes looked past Billy Cranston and took in what the other boy had seen. Because behind Billy is a path carved out of the rock, but there at the ending of the cave … a small part of a strange object was visible. "No way…!"
Trini stepped forward, standing next to Kimberly and rapidly blinked with her eyes. The sight of what she is seeing was something not from this world. "Is that a..."
"Hell yea..." Zack burst out in joy. Dancing like a maniac around the group while rubbing his eyes, and pinching himself several times in the cheek. A manic grin spread across his face and before anyone could stop him. Zack rushed off towards the alien object. "...I told you we would find something! We just found a..."
Jason who sighed in relieve that Kimberly had stopped shouting at him, could not help to stare in stunning disbelieve of what was hidden in the cave in front of them. "A spaceship… here… under Angel's Grove… is a Spaceship!"
"We'll become famous!" The voice of Zack bounced off the walls of the cave which spurred the others to follow him. Not knowing that this discovery would change their lives and those of others. Especially for Earth...
AN
I want to thank those who leave behind positive reviews and personal messages. My apologies that this took so long, and that this is such a short chapter. I found it pretty hard to write this chapter, despite it being short. My first idea was to introduce Rita Repulsa, so I wrote a few pages until I scrapped that because it didn't felt right.
I then started to write this chapter, again I stumbled against a few problems. Namely Jason Scott, Kimberly and Naruto. I can promise you that it was much worse than now. I actually hope that I didn't ruin it, but I wanted to point out about Jason crush on Kimberly which makes the boy feel emotions of Jealousy. Jealousy can do what I believe awaken some negative emotions, especially if you do not get your crush attention.
It's no bash against Jason, but after watching so many American tv-series were the quarterback are asholes. Or someone who could fit in those shoes, for example Flash from Spiderman was a big asshole. So, yeah...
As for Naruto's reaction, he feared for his friend. And sorry that they didn't have much screentime. But I can promise that the next chapter will be much longer and that Zordon and Rita will be introduced.
