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'''Writing credits:''' [[John Nowak]]

'''Written:''' 1998

'''First released:'''

'''Title reference:''' An important flashback scene takes place under a bridge.

'''Part of series:''' First [[John Nowak#The Nowakverse|Nowakverse]] story, followed by ''[[Icarus]]'' and ''[[Sovereign]]''.

'''Length:''' 31,356 words (the complete work); 24 chapters

'''[[Rating]]:''' PG ([[Dr. Indy]]: Some violence, intense situations in the PG level)

==Synopsis==
The [[Rescue Rangers]] are watched by an unseen nemesis who calls herself the Gray Mouse and who is looking for revenge on one of the Rangers. <font color="white">The danger in which they find themselves is revealed when they discover that a shipwreck rescue mission to which they are called was nothing but a trap—like the sinking rodent ship, they are attacked by a submarine. Soon they find themselves as targets in the vengeance plans of said Gray Mouse who is no-one else than Gadget's long-lost albino twin sister Widget. While she even tries to deal with Fat Cat to accomplish her plans, and while Monty's memories help the other Rangers find out the truth about the Hackwrench sisters' past, Gadget makes her own plans to turn everything around and have her own revenge on Widget with drastic measures.</font> (Spoilers blanked)

==Important Characters==
===Canonical===
The [[Rescue Rangers]]

[[Geegaw Hackwrench]]

[[Fat Cat]]

[[Spunky]]

[[Foxglove]]

===Original===
[[Widget Hackwrench]]

[[Kapitänleutnant Jürgen Jürgen]]

[[The Albacore crew]] <!--You might want to divide this into single characters, be it in the list, be it only in articles.-->

[[Sarah Hackwrench]] (mentioned)

[[Dr. Skinner]]

==Devices==
===Canonical===
The [[Ranger Plane]]

The [[Ranger Wing]]

===Original===
SRV [[Albacore]]

RMS [[Minuscule]]

The [[Darned Nearly Recoilless Rifle]]

[[Gadget's torpedo]]

The [[Ceiling Crawling Suctionmobile]]

The [[Exterminator]]

==Trivia==
''Under The Bridge'' is still the only case of a Rescue Rangers fan fiction story which has been [[MSTings of Rescue Rangers fan fiction|MSTed]] by the story's author himself. John Nowak wrote [[MiSTed: Under the Bridge|the MSTing]] [[John Nowak & Matt Plotecher|together with Matt Plotecher]].

Chapter 2 reveals that Widget stockpiled lots of [[Applause stuffed toys|Gadget plushies]] from Walt Disney World which she destroys as a surrogate for the real Gadget by crushing them in a hydraulic press. There isn't any explanation as to why these items exist in the Nowakverse in the first place.

==Goofs==
Gadget's father, Geegaw, is mentioned dying in "an air race accident", while in the next story, [[Icarus]], he's told to have died in a crash during test flight. According to Mr. Nowak, it happened because he didn't intend to write "Icarus" while writing "Under the Bridge", and when he had to change the circumstances of Geegaw's death later, it was too late to change "Under the Bridge".

==Awards==

[[Plato Awards]]: '''Best Original Female Character''' for Widget Hackwrench

==External Links==
[http://home.att.net/~john_w_nowak/Under_the_Bridge.txt Under the Bridge] at [[Dale's Rescue Ranger page]]

[http://foxglove.cdrrhq.ru/jnowak/thebridge.html Under the Bridge] at the [[Foxglove Feature]]<!--I chose these as a replacement for the RRDB for now.-->

Russian translation of [http://www.cdrr.ru/texts/dgm/ub.shtml Under the Bridge] by [[Gyrotank (fan)|Gyrotank]] at the [[Russian CDRR Portal]] (web-page)

Russian translation of [http://www.cdrrhq.ru/forum/download/file.php?id=818 Under the Bridge] by Gyrotank at the [[Russian CDRR Headquarters]] (.zip archive file with .pdf, 712 KB)

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[[Category:Fan fiction]]