Disclaimer: Abaranger is property of Toei Company. The characters Doyle and Roxton are mine.


Ranru was somewhere, which appeared to be the middle of nowhere. 'Nowhere' appeared to be at a riverbed, in a prehistoric landscape, where huge dinosaurs were roaming, and plants that existed back then were growing. It was a place that was completely unfamiliar to her, but she didn't appear to care much about being there, almost as though she wanted to be there. She turned to look at her companion. A guy in red and dark-blue clothes, wearing a hood that kept his eyes in a shade. She smiled when she saw him.

"Akakuro-kun..." she whispered.

"I told you my name's Doyle." the guy, Doyle, replied.

"I know." Ranru said, "But I like calling you Akakuro."

Doyle, who can never bring himself to be angry with her, smiled as he approached her.

"What is this place?" Ranry asked.

"It's Roxton's favorite hangout." Doyle explained, "It's where he even spent the remainder of his life."

Ranru appeared saddened when she heard that, but she cheered up soon enough: "So he shared this with you just for me."

That's when she realized two things. Doyle spoke as though they were in present time, while the area was definitely prehistoric, and upon the mention of Roxton, Ranru noticed that Doyle was missing his Dino-Brace, through which Roxton speaks. Something wasn't right about any of this. She realized this must be a dream, but even if so, then how could she possibly know about this place?

Rarnu woke up in her room, feeling some light weight lying on her. She looked, to see someone's arm wrapped around her. She shot up out of her bed at the sight of that, screaming, which immediately woke up the person who lay with her, Doyle.

"What are you doing?" she asked him.

Doyle was shocked to hear her shout at him like this. So shocked, he couldn't bring out a word.

Roxton decided to answer for him: "He just nee..."

"I didn't ask you!" she interrupted.

Everyone else who was in the house entered her room.

"What's going on here?" Ryouga asked.

"He just tried to abuse me!" Ranru shouted.

Doyle was, if possible, even more shocked, which rendered him even more speechless.

"Is that so?" Ryouga sounded surprised.

"With his primitive mind, it wouldn't surprise me." Yukito mentioned.

"Why would you do such a thing?" Emiri asked him.

When Doyle heard all these accusations, he didn't know what to say or how to react. Why would they start saying these things? How can they easily believe such things? And more importantly, how can Ranru even start thinking about him like this? This became all a little too much for him to handle. He couldn't bring out another word, even if he wanted to.

"What is it? Lost your tongue?" Emiri asked him.

Doyle looked at Ranru, who had this angry expression on her face, which he had never seen before, not even when they first met. At the time, she knew he didn't want to harm her, so why would she think that now? He turned away from her, to look at the window. At that moment, he knew what he had to do. He ran to the window, jumped out before anyone could try to stop him, landed on the ground with ease and ran off.

"Let's get out, he can't go that far." Ryouga suggested.

"Actually, he can." Nakadai suddenly decided to say, "Even if you jump through the window to save time, you're still wasting it."

Everyone realized he was right. He was made to be stronger than them, so there was no possible way they could tail him, even if they tried.