Power Rangers Super Samurai is owned by Saban and Nickelodeon, and Ghest (first seen in my fanfiction story Ranger Ghest) and other Morphozoid characters are created by me. This story takes place in normal Super Samurai continuity, after Serrator's death but before Lauren arrived. This story is meant as a follow-up to Ranger Ghest, even though the crossover idea may seem similar to the Clash of the Red Rangers TV movie. Look up Ranger Ghest, and you'll see it was written first. And if you haven't read it yet, Ghest is pronounced "Geest" and his first name Fries is "Frees".
Our story begins on Vancouver Island in Western Canada, on another world.
"Everybody down on the ground! Open up all the money-storing machines, and don't get in our way!"
A large warehouse department store is being robbed by the super-powered fugitives known as Bonecrusher and Sidewinder. They move from one checkout station to another, holding up the cash register upside down and dumping the money into their large sacks. Like I said, this is another world. A world without Power Rangers. But not without heroes.
The pair get hit suddenly by a shower of energy blasts from above. The innocent store shoppers and employees take advantage of the distraction to move toward the exits. Sidewinder drops the sack of money and looks up at the source.
"It's Ghest and Angel" Sidewinder shouts to his companion. "Now what do we do?"
"Don't get soft on me" she responds. "They haven't even begun to see my strength. I'll crush them both, and you get away with the money."
"Good idea" Sidewinder answers, before taking off, on foot, to the opposite end of the store.
"Idiot!" Bonecrusher calls after him. 'I didn't say get away with the money yet!"
The female in golden armour rolls her eyes (through her helmet) at the man in orange wearing the black helmet and the golden chest plate displaying a carved letter G.
"Looks like we know who wears the pants in their relationship" Angel jokes.
"No kidding. You go pick him off, and I'll deal with miss sunshine here."
Angel flies on ahead using the very wings of her namesake as Ghest hovers down to circle Bonecrusher. She throws one of the cash registers at him, but he fires a heat blast from his hand to intercept it and swoops in further. Bonecrusher then rips out the sign post next to the checkout desk and swings it around like a bat. Ghest is too close now to change direction, so he brings his arms forward on instinct to take the hit. He pushes the sign post forward, and in the brief instance it hangs in the air, speaks the words "Blades of fury". Ghest uses this verbal command to mentally control the decorative spikes on his suit's gloves, shifting them upwards into offensive blades. He slices the post to pieces and hovers backwards, releasing more heat blasts at Bonecrusher. She is inconvenienced, but her hide is tough enough to withstand serious harm. Sidewinder looks over his shoulder and stops running when he doesn't see Angel in pursuit. Suddenly, he is being lifted into the air from behind. He drops the sack of money.
"The cash! What are you doing here?" Sidewinder shouts in panic.
"Were you expecting me to carry you with my feet?" Angel replies. "The name's Angel, not Bird."
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"I am stronger than you!" Bonecrusher shrieks as she throws a punch at Ghest.
He catches her arm and holds it still. "Are you? Perhaps. But I have other talents. Like speed."
He drags her by the arm into the air. "And flight. Now here's where we part ways."
He throws her forward in the air. Angel flies Sidewinder closer to their starting point, and releases him from her grip. The two criminals collide with each other, and drop to the ground. Bonecrusher is knocked out completely, but Sidewinder is awake enough to release a metal coil from his wrist in the direction of the fallen money. Ghest sees this and races the coil to retrieve the money himself. He flies fast enough to intercept the coil with a heat blast. All taken care of, until he notices that Sidewinder's other coil from his opposite hand was released and has now wrapped around Ghest's leg.
"Oh no."
Ghest lowers himself to the ground and falls to his knee. The coil is draining the energy from his body, but that isn't the worst of it. The worst is that when Sidewinder uses this trick on someone with superpowers, he also drains them from his victim, and into himself. Before Angel can react Sidewinder catches her off guard with heat blasts, and starts to fly. Ghest uses his remaining strength to pry the coil off of his leg. Without direct contact, the effects will wear off, but not long enough to prevent Sidewinder from escaping. He picks up the sack of money and flies higher until a strange energy discharge sends him back to the ground. Ghest and Angel catch up.
"What's happening to me?" Sidewinder wonders aloud. He turns to Ghest. "What's this stuff doing to me?" More energy erupts from him and he cries out in pain, holding his sides.
"If I would care to guess, I'd say you activated my suit's teleportation powers. It hurts now because you aren't used to it, but soon the energy will form a portal to somewhere else far away. Do exactly as I say, and you'll be fine."
Sidewinder smirks. "Dream on, pal. I'm letting this portal thing come, and take me so far from here you'll never arrest me."
"That's exactly what will happen to you" Ghest explains. "The power you're unleashing could quite possibly send you to another dimension. You could be sent somewhere beyond your scope and imagination. And once your hold on my power wears off, you won't have any way back."
Sidewinder's face turns to a look of fear. "Huh? What do I do?"
"Quickly, you have to concentrate on expelling the energy from your body. You'll be free, and I'll get it back." Ghest gets ready to run as soon as Sidewinder is separate from the energy portal.
"Please be careful, honey" Angel says to him.
"Don't worry, Laura. I have to collect this energy back into my body where it won't cause any harm. No matter where it might send me, I know how to find my way back."
He takes off running and jumps directly into the center of the energy and absorbs it until both it and he disappear into thin air.
When Ghest is next able to gather himself together, he is no longer in costume he is simply wearing the regular street clothes he had on as Fries Mahoghan before being summoned to the department store. He finds himself landed behind a bush in what appears to be an ordinary park.
"All right. Looks like I might not have left my own world after all."
He brushes himself off and explores his surroundings.
"Once I find out for sure where I am, I'll take the quickest way back-"
He is interrupted by the sight of a gang of red skinned and baggy clothes-wearing Moogers, roving around scaring civilians.
"Who are they?"
Two Moogers start to tear the bush apart and get in Fries' face. He pushes them down and gets noticed by the others. Two more approach, and Fries punches them back. Another rushes in to get a hit and Fries flies over his head and lands behind him, kicking him away.
"You guys don't look like robots" Fries rationalizes "but I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm in the world of the Power Rangers again. There's one way to be sure."
His body is enveloped in the costume of Ghest once more. He continues to fight off the Moogers, waiting for someone to call him an "orange ranger", but the Moogers don't speak English or even in actual words. Someone else who does, however, is watching from a nearby tree. This man draped in a white coat is observing this battle while also keeping his focus split to the sword in his hand.
"This one is no ranger" Deker muses, "nor is he Nighlok. He does not belong here."
Unbeknownst to Ghest, some red mist escapes from the edge where the park connects with the sidewalk. It changes into two solid forms while Ghest is still fighting.
"Shouldn't take too much longer to send these guys packing."
"ROOOOOAAAARRR!"
"Roar?"
He turns around to see two Spitfangs, armless Nighlok creatures with huge dinosaur heads. That shoot fireballs.
He braces for the impact of the fireball that has already been fired off in his direction. In an instant, it is struck down by the Red Samurai Ranger's spin sword. As rangers of other colours appear to deal with the remaining Moogers, Ghest extends his hand to the red ranger. He takes it, and shakes his hand.
"I knew I'd run into you guys", Ghest tells him. "Nice new suits, Ranger Red."
The red ranger is puzzled. "Ranger Red? You know Ranger Red?"
"You're not Scott?" Ghest asks him in equal confusion.
"No. I'm the Red Samurai Ranger" he responds.
"Well I'm Ghest, and luckily I've been through this before. Let's finish fighting the bad guys, and then we can get to introductions."
"Agreed."
"I have seen enough for now", Deker decides. "I have no desire to confront the rangers yet again, unless it is the duel that will end my curse. If the Red Ranger is not worthy of defeating me, perhaps this stranger is."
He teleports away.