Power Rangers Kiryu Force

Thank You Boom

"All right. Let's take her down." Grace ordered.

"Dive the ship. Make depth 150." Bowman relayed to the crew.

The Gotengo began its descent into the depths as the shining form of Mothra faded from view as darkness engulfed all.

The silence which enveloped the crew was palpable. Sasha could swear it was getting harder to breathe, and not from the increasing pressure of the ocean around the sub.

Charlie to keep herself occupied, was scouring files once again searching for anything she could about Ghidorah, Rodan, Mothra, and Godzilla. Even the smallest hint would help.

Serizawa, meanwhile, looked at his pocket watch.

"What time is it?" Billy asked, hoping to cut the tension.

"... Time to get a new watch," Serizawa replied.

Tyler smirked.

Serizawa chuckled quietly.

Suddenly, the Gotengo began to tremble and shake violently causing the electronics to jitter.

"Status of the ship!" Grace demanded.

"Some sort of vortex, Captain!" Bowman replied. "It's dragging us! 1,600 feet until impact!"

The Gotengo was indeed being pulled into an underwater maelstrom and sucked down further into the depths of the ocean. As it was tossed this way and that, spinning round and round the crew all took to their seats as their bodies felt the G Forces of the sub being tossed around like a rag doll. Several crew members lost their dinner, and Tyler felt like his stomach was being pushed up against his rib cage as the rangers held tight to their own seat's safety belts. Charlie seated and strapped in next to him, grabbed his hand as they both struggled to remain conscious against the increasing G Forces.

"800 feet!" Bowman called, his voice unsteady from his own struggle for consciousness.

"Emergency Blow!... 200 feet! 100 feet! 25!" Bowman called.

"Brace for impa-" Grace began as a massive thundering THUD shook the vessel.

...

Deep beneath the waves, the Gotengo sat on the edge of a sheer under water precipice. The force of the vortex no longer threw the vessel around, but the subtle, almost gentle caress of the remnants of that vortex's influence could still be felt brushing past the hull.

"Status report!" Grace called.

"Can't fix our position, sir! The GPS is down! But inertial says we're... 600 miles from departure." Bowman replied.

"That can't be." Angela replied.

"I knew it man! The vortex was a tunnel into the Hollow Earth!" Billy exclaimed excitedly, his mild buzz from earlier having since worn off. "It's a subterranean tunnel system that wraps around the entire planet and connects various areas of it like a bit highway!"

The Gotengo's exterior lights flickered to life, and the sub was pushed forward by the engines and gently eased off the edge of the precipice.

"Doctor?" Grace asked.

"Launch the probes." Serizawa said.

A few moments later, the probes were launched from the sub. Small, drone-like underwater scouts controlled via Billy's station and those nearest him. And as they took off, their feeds came back remarkably crystal clear despite where they were.

Below the probes was uneven terrain, scarred and barren as if life had once lived here but since been wiped out. Despite being under water, it looked bone dry. Subaquatic stalagmites rising from the ground occasionally emerged from the gloom forcing the probes to go around. Small coral reefs, miniature caves and crevices everywhere. It was truly a new and unexplored world for modern science.