Coolhacker1025, in association with TV-Nihon, Toei of Japan, and Bandai of Japan
hereby (unofficially) present
Power Rangers: Pirate Squadron
(standard disclaimers apply. The subs that I've based this on are the property of TV-Nihon, and are downloadable at www[dot]tvnihon[dot]com . The Super Sentai series is owned by Toei/Bandai, and Power Rangers is owned by Saban Entertainment and Nickelodeon. This fiction is based on the 35th Super Sentai, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.)
Prologue:
The day had finally come. The evil Galactic Mull Empire, under the command of Prince Krieg Gill and his father Emperor Aktos Gill, had decided to invade Earth. Fortunately, there was advance warning given by Red Hero I, a warrior whose job it was to protect Earth as part of the Super Sentai. He, as the chief Red Warrior on the Earth, was able to recall all of the remaining Sentai Heroes and Power Rangers. However, many of the powers were lost. Sensing that he would need every person available, he called upon the Heavens, and they sent down the Spirits of the Lost Ranger Powers. The count is now at 200 Sentai and Ranger Heroes.
Once the Rangers get to the Invasion Site, they find it to be overrun by beings wearing metal suits.
"These are the Metalmen," Red I told the assembled Heroes. "They are the advance forces of the Galactic Empire. They must be defeated if Earth is to be saved!"
Soon, the air was full of karate yells and other motivational calls as the Warriors started to fight the Metalmen. Each team called upon the Special Power of their team, using it to defeat the enemy. Swords were cutting down Metalmen like knives cut through melted butter. Laser Weapons were blasting Metalmen left and right. The problem was that there were just too many of them. Finally, the Warriors managed to defeat the Metalmen, but there was a new problem. A fleet of Imperial vessels had entered the Earth's atmosphere. Red I had to make a decision quickly. He found the only thing that would work a couple of seconds later.
"Warriors! We must combine our powers to defeat these monsters! To protect Earth, you must use all of your power," he yelled to the assembled crew. They all started to charge their energies and directed it at the Imperial Vessels, which were quickly destroyed. The resulting shockwave created a large explosion on the battlefield, and when the smoke cleared, all the warriors had fallen out of their Morph. Red I surveyed the scene and knew that they had all permanently lost their powers. As everyone was walking away, Red I was heard to say, "I, the guardian of this Earth, Leader of the Power Rangers, have failed."
Chapter One—A couple of years later
The last few years had not yielded any new invasion attempts from the Empire, but that was about to change. The Prince had a fleet of vessels moving towards Earth, but saw something that displeased him greatly. He saw the Pirate Space Galleon, the vessel of the Pirates descended from the Red Pirate Gang.
On board the Galleon, the crew was sitting in the main room. It consists of two males (wearing green and blue), two females (wearing yellow and pink) and a mechanical bird. In the middle of the room is a throne-like chair with a single occupant (wearing red). The mechanical bird, who was fluttering around madly, started to get excited.
"I sense it! I sense it!" Navi the bird said. "It's Sol-III! The Galaxy's Greatest Treasure is Here!"
The guy with the green hair and jacket on, who is named Don, walked up to the bird saying, "Really?"
He pushed a couple of buttons, and a picture of the Earth came up on the viewscreen. The girl with the pink walks up. She seems to be less of a pirate than the rest of them and more refined. Her clothing suggests that she was Royalty before.
"What a lovely planet," commented Mai, the former princess. "The people here must live comfortably."
The other girl, Alexis, seems to be more of a tomboy than Mai. As she starts to speak, she most definitely sounds 'rougher' than Mai.
"That's the usual commentary that you would expect from Mai! A commentary about the living conditions of the natives of this planet." She paused, taking a good look at the viewscreen. "What I see is a giant jewel."
"That is the usual type of commentary that we'd expect from you, Mai," said Alexis, turning to face the other woman. "All you think about is jewels and money."
Joe, the blue-jacketed man, who is the Captain's First Mate, walks over to a chest on a table and opens it. "Who cares about that? What we want is on that planet," he said. The box was filled with keys, representations of the fallen warriors. "We want the greatest treasure in the galaxy, and these keys will help us get it."
"You're just acting cool, Joe!" responded Mai. "I bet that Mr Joe is secretly excited about visiting this planet."
On the other side of the room, Don, wearing green, was complaining. "Is it really on this backwater planet?" he asked. "They haven't even figured out space travel yet, and the Treasure is supposedly here? It's said to be worth as much as the whole galaxy!"
The man sitting next to the chest, the man wearing red, finally speaks up. "Of course it is there," Captain Marvellous said confidently. "All we have to do is find it. Fortunately for me, half the fun is finding the treasure."
Just then, alarms started blazing all over the ship, and Navi started shouting "Oh, no, Oh, no!" Immediately, Don went over to one of the consoles, and pressed a couple of buttons. The viewscreen changed from a shot of the Earth to a shot of an Invasion Fleet from the Empire.
Panicking, Don shouted, "Oh, no! This is bad! This is very B-A-D! They found us!"
Crossing his arms across his chest, Joe, remaining calm, turned to his Captain for orders. He also gave his opinion. "What should we do, Captain? If we foul this up, we could have a massive problem on our hands." The captain just got up coolly, saying, "We just have to make sure that it goes well, then, don't we?"
"That's what we're going to do? Attack a fleet at this range?" asked Don, still the only crew member in a panic.
Holding up a Red Pirate Key, Marvellous responded, "That's what pirates do," as he transformed into Ranger Red. He quickly made his way to the main deck. On the main enemy vessel, one of the henchmen was looking over a large stack of wanted posters.
"So, it is the Wanted Pirates, huh?" said the villain, continuing to examine the reward papers. He turns to his crew. "Crush them so that I, I mean we, can collect the reward! Together, these fools are worth 30 million units of Earth currency! That's 6.75 million of our currency!"
The villains started to fire their weapons at the Galleon. The Pirates returned fire, turned hard to starboard, and fired some more. This manoeuvre, being fairly successful, destroyed most of the enemy vessels. However, the remaining vessels decided to concentrate their fire on the Galleon, which caused a large explosion. Out of the explosion, emerged the Pirate Megazord, which quickly dispatched the rest of the ships. Once the final ship was destroyed, the Pirates demorphed and set course for Earth.
"From here, it's a straight shot to Earth!" commented Alexis.
"Hopefully the treasure is really there," said Don.
With an annoyed tone in his voice, for he had just answered the question a couple of minutes previous, the Captain said, "Of course it is there."
The pirates took the Galleon to a part of the Earth called 'California,' where they piloted the ship through the numerous skyscrapers. Finally, the crew found a suitable landing spot, and sent down the anchor and the rappelling cables onto the top of a building. After sliding down the ropes, the crew looked at the rather large crowd that had showed up, and Marvellous pulled out a bullhorn.
"Hello, Earthlings! I am Captain Marvellous, head of the Pirate Squadron." he announced to the crowd, which was beginning to talk amongst itself about the things that the Captain had said. "This planet has the Greatest Treasure in the galaxy, and I'd like for you to give it to me."
The muttering in the crowd got more intense as the crowd started to ask things like, "Did he say pirates" and "Does a 'Greatest Treasure in the Galaxy' truly exist?"
Alexis took the bullhorn away from Marvellous, and said, "There is no use in hiding it, people of Earth!"
Shaking her head in disgust at her colleague's rough tactics, Mai took the bullhorn saying, "You really shouldn't treat them like that, Alexis." Turning to the crowd, she said, "I wish thee fair tidings, Earthling Commoners. How art thou?" Alexis turned to a crowd member, and asked, "Hey, you there! Do you know anything?"
Taken aback at being addressed by this self-proclaimed pirate, he made a gesture that was clearly supposed to say, "Who, me?" Mai gestured back, "Yes, you!" and the person said, "I very deeply apologise, but I have no clue what you are talking about."
The commoner turned to the crowd behind him. "I don't think anyone here knows about it, ma'am."
As one the crowd responded, "Right."
Joe turned to Marvellous, "Do you think that this is some sort of massive cover-up?"
"Perhaps they really don't know it is here. We will stay a while and investigate."
"That isn't what I was told," said Joe.
As Don shook Alexis, he said, "I told you it wasn't here," earning him a punch in the stomach from Alexis, who then asked, "What shall we do, mon capitaine?"
"We will go eat," Marvellous stated, earning surprised reactions from the rest of the crew. Don stated the obvious problem.
"We don't have any of this planet's currency! I'm sure that they don't take Imperial Zagins here" he stated. Marvellous looked over at Alexis.
"Alexis, we need a ring," he stated simply.
Meanwhile, on the spaceship Gigantic Horse, flagship of the Mull Empire, Prince Krieg Gil, along with his two closest advisers, Cyborg Bari, Chief of Staff General Tost, and Technical Officer Hallu were discussing the invasion plans.
"Bari. Hallu. Are the preparations for the invasion of Earth ready?" the Prince asked.
"Ja, mein Herr!" replied Bari. "We have your favourite Commander on standby, my Lord. He is the one that is the most viscous and cold-blooded of all your Commanders."
"And I," butted in Hallu, "Have developed the ultimate weapon, majesté. I would love to see your face, full of joy, when you see it in action.
"Let's not hold back, then. Show them the power of the Galactic Mull Empire!" stated the Prince.
Together, Bari and Hallu stated, "Oui, Majesté. What about the pirates?"
"There is no need to worry about them," stated Krieg Gil. "Pirates are mere flies compared to our Empire!"
General Tost spoke up for the first time. "If you underestimate them, it may not be good."
"You DARE TO DEFY ME?" screamed the Prince. "I am the son of His Majesty, the Emperor, and you will obey my commands." Turning to the helmsman, he yelled "Full Speed Ahead, It's Time to Conquer Earth!"
Inside an up-scale jewellery shop, Marvellous and Alexis are standing in front of a counter. On the other side, an older gentleman is looking at a ring through an inspection microscope.
"This is amazing," the salesperson said. "This is one of the best pieces that I have ever seen!" He walks over to a calculator and starts pushing buttons. When he is finished, he says, "I will give you $129,000 for the ring."
As they were walking down the street, Alexis was lecturing Marvellous. "That was my ring that you pawned. I hope you know that it was just a loan, and that you had better pay me back with interest!"
A little behind them, Don and Joe were walking, commenting on the conversation ahead of them. "He has no intentions of paying her back, does he?" whispered Don to Joe.
In a rather odd way, Joe just said, "He's a carefree guy."
Marvellous looked around at all of the shops. "This is a pretty nice planet. There should be good food here."
Catching up to Marvellous, Don said, "We should go to an expensive restaurant and have a fabulous meal!"
This didn't seem to be what Marvellous wanted. He soon spotted a small café, called "Bulkmeiers." They decided to walk into the building. On one side of the café, there was a large cafeteria-like eating area, and off to the side, there was a workout area, similar to the Juice Bar in the original Power Rangers series.
"Why this place?" asked Don.
"It looked interesting," stated Marvellous, to which Mai replied, "A taste of the commoner's lifestyle can be very interesting. A very good experience."
Alexis muttered that it was ridiculous, while Joe whispered to Marvellous, "How are we going to find that Treasure?"
"Don't be in such a hurry," said Marvellous. "We have plenty of time to find it, and finding it is half of the fun."
The waiter, a very obese man, came and took their order. A couple of minutes later, the whole establishment started to shake, causing Alexis' money to start flying everywhere. The waiter quickly panicked. "Oh, no! It's the big one!" The Rangers saw the barman, a thin man, running in sync with the waiter, who had looked out the window, and started to run the other way, yelling "MONSTERS!"
Marvellous looked out the window and saw huge numbers of Metalmen. Once again, Marvellous saw a huge spaceship in the sky, attacking the city. A piece of debris, a sign that said, "ANGEL GROVE-20 mi/38 km" came flying by, nearly hitting Marvellous in the head.
"Oh no!" exclaimed Don. "It's the Empire's Flagship! We must have only fought off the advance troops earlier! If they're here, it means that they're serious about conquering this planet."
As Don was saying this, a laser blast from the monster blew up a building, causing a teacher and her students to come running out. The teacher is trying to reassure the students, but the monster has other ideas. He walked over to the children, cornering them.
"There is no use in running! There is no place to run! You will perish!" the monster said. "Now, beg for mercy, and some of your students may live. Beg, beg me!"
The teacher was unable to vocalise anything, but was mouthing, "Please kill me and leave the students alone!"
Watching this, Joe asked, "What should we do?"
Alexis replied, "I hate to say this, but this planet may have no future."
"It would be just another part of the Empire's territory" shot back Joe.
"Just like our home planet. We would not want that to happen to another planet," commented Mai, using her Royal Language. Marvellous looked around. When he sees the monster threatening the children and their teacher, he steps into action saying, "I don't like it," as he takes out his laser gun.
Just as the monster was about to shoot the teacher, Blasts from the Pirate Blasters hit him in the back. Giving a terrible yell, he turned around to see the Pirate Rangers walking coolly towards him.
"You are the wanted pirates! What the heck do you think that you are doing?" the monster exclaimed.
"Who knows, Dummkopf?"
"You are just looking for treasure!" the monster said back. "I am feeling in a good mood, so if you just leave, I will forget that I saw you."
"Be quiet, idiot," yelled Alexis.
"You are the one who is going to disappear!" said Joe.
"Threatening children?" asked Mai. "That's unforgivable. I do not wish to listen to what you have to say."
Following up, Don said, "Me neither. I hate guys like you!"
The monster chuckled. "Are you out of your minds? We are the Mull Space Empire! Do you realise what happens to those who defy us?"
Coolly, Marvellous responded with, "Yes, we do. But...it's the plank for those I dislike!" With this, he pulled out his Change-Phone, with his Ranger Key from his pocket. All of the rest of the Rangers did the same, and shouted in unison, "It's Morphing Time!"
From there, they did their poses as they suited up. Red transformed first and said, moving his hand from right to left across his face, "Ranger Red."
Blue was next, putting his hand on his helmet as if to take it off, saying "Ranger Blue."
Yellow followed up with a three finger gesture with her thumb, pointer and middle fingers across her face opposite Red, saying, "Ranger Yellow."
Next was Green who, as if miming taking his pants down, yelled, "Ranger Green."
Finally, putting her hand over her heart and then extending in a clear gesture of goodwill was Pink, who yelled, "Ranger Pink."
The whole team yells, "We are... Power Rangers: Pirate Squadron!"
Marvellous and the team immediately started to shoot at the Metalmen, who are easily cut down. The teacher and the children come out of their hiding place to more directly observe the action.
"Can it be?" the teacher asked. "Can it be a new Super Hero Team fighting to save the Earth?" The children, being too young to remember the Power Rangers, had no idea what their teacher was talking about.
The Rangers start to battle with the Metalmen. Every so often, the team would switch weapons so that a team-mate could use a double-weapon technique. After a couple of minutes, the Rangers decided that they need a different type of power, so they hit their belt buckles and out emerged keys of the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers (except White, Green, and Armoured Red). The Rangers inserted the keys into their Morphers and yelled, "It's Morphing Time!" After they became gender-correct doubles of their Mighty Morphing counterparts, they yelled, "Mighty Morphing Power Rangers!" This gives them the boost that they need, as they pulled out the Power Weapons. The weapons were most effective against the Metalmen, which could not stand up against the Power Sword, Power Bow, Power Axe, and Power Lance.
One of the children asked the teacher, "Ms Hart, who are they?"
"It's nearly impossible, but those are the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, children. The first team of Rangers to defend California from the Forces of Evil," said the teacher, Ms Hart. "I knew some of the Rangers when I was in school."
"Really? Cool!" said some of the students.
"That was quite a show," said the monster. "But I grow tired of it. Auf Wiedersehen, Rangers!" The monster started to shoot grenades at the Rangers, which exploded, causing them to turn back into Pirate Rangers. They attack the monster with their swords until Captain Marvellous got it cornered.
"We will show you what we do to those who threaten children," Marvellous said. Turning to his team, he said, "Let's finish him off!" to which all the others responded, "Right!"
The team put their keys into their guns and swords, and yelled "Final Wave" which caused their powered up swords to fly towards the monster, destroying it. As it exploded, the team turned around so that the explosion was behind them. They unmorphed, and started walking back to the Galleon.
"We've done it now!" said Alexis.
"What?" said Don with worry in his face.
"The Empire will surely regard us as enemies now, even if they hadn't before," replied Alexis.
With his usual confidence, Marvellous just states, "That is correct."
As he turned, he saw the teacher with her students standing behind them.
"Thank you for Saving us Rangers!" said the children.
"You are truly heroes, we thank you" said Ms. Hart. "My friends would be proud that they left the planet in these hands."
Looking uncomfortable, Captain Marvellous started to walk away, saying, "There really is no need to thank us, woman. We're Space Pirates from one of the Lost Colonies. We just came for the treasure."
Looking confused, the teacher decided to ask the Captain a question. "Why did you fight them, then?"
"Because 1) It is unforgivable to attack defenceless children, and 2) I was mad because I didn't get to eat my lunch."
He walked off into the distance heading towards the ship. When they got back, they found that the Mull Space Empire had increased their bounties. Marvellous was now worth 3 million Zagins, 2 million for Joe, 1 million for Mai, 750k for Alexis, and 100 Zagin for Don. Don was very displeased. What the Rangers did not know is that someone else had been watching their fight, a young man who had wanted to be a Ranger for so many years, every since the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers.
A/N:
Mai is pronounced My
Uniforms:
Captain Marvellous: Wearing a Red Jacket with eagles on the lapels
Joe: Wearing a Blue Jacket with oak leafs on the lapels
Alexis: Yellow Jacket with Oak Leafs (Gold)
Mai: Regal Dress, near the heart are Lieutenant's bars
Don: Green Hair, black shirt, green tie, with ensigns bars
