"It's so good to go outside and walk the streets of Toyama and not have to worry about someone trying to kill us off." Ryo remarked.
"Yeah. It's amazing that none of Saban's lackeys have tried their luck at being the first to defeat us."
Rowen added.
"Well duh! They're running scared! They know what happens when they cross us!" Kento remarked.
"By the way guys, where's Hariel and the Forgotten Souls? And while I'm on the subject, where's the title screen?" Sai asked.
"Yeah, it should be out by now. And the Forgotten Souls are back at the mansion practicing." Sage replied.
Just then, Ryo and the guys spotted one KAWAII girl riding towards them on a bike.
"Hello nurse!" Sage said.
"I haven't seen a girl around here in ages!" Kento said.
"Me neither." Sai added.
"She's probably an idiot, considering she looks that gorgeous, don't you think so Ryo?" Rowen asked.
Ryo stood speechless.
"Ryo?"
"Hi there." she said with a very pretty voice.
"H...hi." Ryo stammered.
"Hi." The Ronins said.
"I'm Sakura. And you are?"
"I...I'm..." Ryo tried to say.
"His name's Ryo." Sage said. "And I'm Sage, that's Sai with the light brown hair, and the blue haired guy with the headband is Rowen, and the big guy's Kento."
"Pleased to meet you." she said.
"We're doomed." Anubis said, a few feet away.
"Why?" Kale asked.
"Look." Anubis said, pointing to the scene a few feet away.
"So, Ryo of the Wildfire's with a girl." Sekhmet said.
"Yes, but without a chaperone." Dais reminded him.
"The nerve of those teenagers!" Sekhmet shouted.
"Don't they have any common sense?" Kale added.
"What is this dimension coming to?" Anubis asked.
"What's with those guys?" Sakura asked.
"Oh don't mind them. They haven't been with a girl since the fifteenth century." Sage said.
"Yeah right and the next thing you're gonna tell me is that you're five fantastic battle armored samurai with super powered fighting skills and weapons to wield against this tyranny?"
The Ronins stood as if they'd seen a ghost. The Warlords looked at each other as if to say, "How'd she know?"
"Why are you guys staring at me like that? It was only a joke." Sakura said.
At that moment the Ronins and Warlords breathed a sigh of relief.
"Can...can we walk you home?" Ryo asked, still in sheer shock.
"Earth to Ryo! Remember the evil corporate businessman and his minions who have devoted their lives to ripping off sentai, writing cartoon theme songs, and getting rid of us or making us politically correct in every way, whichever comes first?" Rowen reminded him.
"Huh?" Sakura asked, confused.
"Don't mind him. We've been under a lot of stress lately. We'd be honored to walk you home." Sage said.
"We would?" Sai asked.
Kento elbowed him.
"Oh we would!"
"Cool." Sakura said.
With that she got off her bike and walked it off with the Ronins.
"Now what do we do?" Kale asked.
"They seem to have forgotten about the impending threat on our lives, but we have not." Anubis said.
"But wasn't that the idea of this whole excursion?" Kale asked.
"True. But the four of us and the Forgotten Souls can't do it alone." Dais said.
"Right, we need their White Neo Armors." Sekhmet said.
"So what do we do?" Kale asked.
"We spy on them."
A few minutes later the group had arrived back at Sakura's apartment.
"Do you live here all by yourself?" Sage asked.
"Of course not. I don't have that kind of money. I share it with friends." she explained.
"Will we like them?" Sai asked.
"Yeah...you'll like them." Sakura said carefully.
She unlocked the door. Nearby, Dais had them enveloped in an illusion.
"Please don't be a trap please don't be a trap." Anubis was praying.
"Please don't be the Senshi please don't be the Senshi again." Kale was praying.
"Please don't have yoroi, please don't have yoroi." Sekhmet was praying.
"Please don't have them be Megumi Hayashibara* groupies, please don't have them be Megumi Hayashibara groupies." Dais was praying.
The Ronins and Sakura walked into the room. It was pretty nice considering the size. A stereo in one corner of the room was playing Get Along, and Sakura's roomies were lounging around. One was watching a video of Sailor Moon, another was reading, another was eating, and yet another was trying quite badly to hide a small crystal.
Apparently all the Warlord's fears save one had come true.
Rowen walked over to the girl who was reading and introduced himself.
"Pleased to meet you. I'm Ayame."
She was dressed almost completely in different shades of blue, with shorts and a T-shirt.
Sage, thinking she might have similar interests, moved toward the girl who had succeeded in hiding her small crystal, and was moving toward him.
"I'm Sage."
"I'm Suiren." she said.
"Do you want to talk?" they said almost completely in sync.
Apparently he was making a pass at her and she was doing the same. She was dressed very similar to Ayame due to the fact she was dressed almost completely in shades of green.
Sai walked over and sat on the couch next to the girl who was there, and she was dressed in purple. He introduced himself and she did the same, saying her name was Ran. They found out they were both big Sailor Mercury and Neptune fans and got enthralled in a big discussion.
Kento grabbed some chips and joined the other girl, who's name was Yuri, and was wearing orange. He introduced himself and remarked that it was good that his best friend was such a good cook.
"Really? Ran over there is our resident culinary artist." she said.
"Huh?" Kento asked.
"She's a cook." Ayame and Rowen said together.
"We're doomed." Anubis said as he listened through a glass on the other side of the door.
"Yes. Those girls are exactly like the Ronins! You are right, this is a trap." Dais added.
"How is it a trap?" Kale asked.
"One, the only thing that's different between them and the Ronins is that they're girls. Second, with the exception of two, they wear clothes that are the same color as the Ronin's original armor!" Sekhmet said as he peered through the peephole.
"And," he added, "they fulfilled all our fears!"
"You're right Sekhmet. They are Hayashibara groupies, one likes the Sailor Senshi, the Ronins are interested in them, so it's a trap, and if that crystal's what I thought it was, they have yoroi like us!" Anubis said.
"So what do we do?" Kale asked.
"Simple. We see what the Ronins are doing, and follow them." Anubis said.
Inside...
"Hey, I've got an idea! Why don't we take you fine ladies out for dinner?" Sage suggested.
"Dinner?" Kento and Yuri asked together.
"Sounds great!" Ryo said.
"What are we waiting for? Let's get going!" Kento shouted.
Before the Warlords could move away from the door, Kento opened it and they fell into a pile before them.
"Were you guys spying on us?" Ryo asked.
The Warlords went into a spree of no's, of course nots, and you know us's.
"If you say you weren't, you weren't." Ryo said.
With that he and the others stepped over the Warlords and walked off.
"Good, he bought it!" Dais said.
"I'm getting bored! When are we gonna kick some butt?" Sekhmet asked.
"Hopefully soon. But we must move fast and get on the roof of their vehicle." Anubis explained.
"Why don't I just fly us there with my Kale Copter?" Kale suggested.
"Kale, you're brilliant!" Anubis said.
Kale summoned his armor and the Warlords grabbed on, and they flew out the window after the girls van..
Inside, Ran pulled out a tape and placed it in the tape player. Almost immediately Midnight Blue began playing.
"You girls have a thing for Megumi Hayashibara." Ryo said.
"She's our favorite seiyuu, and singer." Sakura explained.
"Ever heard of Tamao Satou?" Rowen asked.
All the girls looked at him with malcontent, and the other Ronins looked like they were about to kill him.
"We absolutely, positively, HATE her!" Suiren explained.
"Rowen, we're over the whole Tamao fiasco. Destonus made reference to her a few billion times." Sai said.
"You girls are lucky. We had to meet her." Kento said.
"And ugh, work with her." Sage shuddered.
"Huh?" Yuri asked.
"We had to work on the set of Ohranger." Ryo lied.
"We were their stunt doubles." Rowen added.
"But Ryo, didn't we..." Kento started to say.
"ix nay on the attlingbay!" Ryo shouted.
Finally to save the Ronins from further embarrassment and possible revealing of their deep dark secret, they had reached the restaurant.
The meal went pretty smoothly, but of course the Warlords were still spying on them the whole time.
After the meal our heroes, their dates, and the Warlords walked out.
"Thank you." Ayame said.
"Don't mention it." Sage said.
"Well it's getting late. We should get home. See you later Ryo."
She moved her lips closer to Ryo, and he was doing the same. Anubis was getting ready to kill them both, so the other three had to hold him back.
Before they could kiss they were snapped back to reality by a nearby explosion!
"What was that?" Ryo wondered.
"Uh oh. We've got trouble." Anubis said.
"Sakura, you better get home. Now." Ryo shouted.
With that she and her companions drove off.
A convoy of flying beings began approaching, and began firing energy bolts at the Ronins and Warlords, who quickly donned their sub-armor and began dodging the shots.
"You'll have to do better than that!" Kento shouted.
"Well well well. If it isn't the famous Ronin Warriors." Goku said.
"Goku? As in the Goku from Dragon Ball Z?" Sage asked.
He, Vegeta, Piccolo, Tien, Chiaotzu, Yamcha, and Krillin showed up.
"The very same. You all must die!" Goku shouted.
"Why us?" Sai asked.
"Because you killed Saban!" Vegeta added.
"FUNimation lost the cash Saban was forking over to them, because you had to go kill him and all his minions!" Piccolo shouted.
"He secured us a decent time slot! Even though we were forced to go on at six AM...That's beside the point! We're on for a whole hour, which is longer than you ever were!" Tien shouted.
"But aren't we still in 30 minute installments?" Chiaotzu asked.
"You weren't supposed to tell them!" Vegeta shouted.
"Getting back to our problem with you, because we lost funding, we had to dig up some serious cash to get Trunks over to the US and hire him a voice actor!" Yamcha shouted.
"Who's Trunks?" Kento asked.
"I'm Trunks." a voice said.
Another warrior joined them in the air.
"Enough talk. Prepare to be blasted into another dimension!" Vegeta said.
"What?" Goku asked.
"I mean, you're all gonna die!" Vegeta shouted.
"Oh."
"I don't think so! Armor of White Neo Wildfire! Tao Jin Jin!"
"Armor of White Neo Hardrock! Tao Gi Gi!"
"Armor of White Neo Strata! Tao Inochi Inochi!"
"Armor of White Neo Halo! Tao Chi Chi!"
"Armor of White Neo Torrent! Tao Shin Shin!"
"Armor of Cruelty! Tao Chu!"
"Armor of Corruption! Tao Ko!"
"Armor of Venom! Tao Tei!"
"Armor of Illusion! Tao Nin!"
"Stock footage. I hate it." Vegeta said as the Ronins and Warlords powered up into their armor.
"Takes too long to kill them." Trunks added.
The Forgotten Souls appeared.
"Are you ready now?" Vegeta asked, growing impatient.
"Yeah!" Ryo shouted.
"Good." Vegeta said, thinking of ways to crush them beneath his heel.
"You guys better leave while you still can, because you're gonna suffer the same fate as everyone else who crossed us!" Kento shouted.
"Bring it on fat boy." Vegeta said.
"Iron Rock Crusher!"
A ton of rocks flew at Vegeta, who promptly flurry punched them into dust.
"Is that the best you can do?" Vegeta taunted.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaah!" Kento screamed as he charged Vegeta, who had landed. He quickly teleported directly behind Kento and nailed him with a kick in the back, sending him flying.
Up in the air, Piccolo was attempting to remove all his weighted clothing.
"Say good-bye greenie." Rowen said as the Earth appeared behind him. "Arrow Shock...wave!"
The blast slammed into Piccolo, who laughed maniacally.
"You call that an attack? Allow me to show you how it's done." he said deviously.
With a flourish he pointed his right arm at Rowen.
"Special Beam Cannon...Fire!"
The energy bolt screamed at Rowen, who was calculating angles, and was about to double check them, but Piccolo's attack was too close.
"Have to risk it. Arrow Shock...wave!" he shouted, nailing Piccolo's blast. While it did not hit it's sender, it slammed into Goku, pissing him off.
Dais meanwhile was tangling with the three-eyed terror that was Tien.
"You are no match for me." Dais said.
He used his illusionary powers to multiply.
"Nice trick. I can do it better though." Tien said.
Crossing his arms, he concentrated.
"Multi Form!" he shouted, making five copies of himself.
The Tienshinan Convention promptly nailed the Daises.
"That hurt." Dais shouted. He brandished his extensor blades. "Web of...Decept"
Chiaotzu blasted Dais, canceling out his attack.
"Now it's my turn."
Tien let an energy bolt loose at Dais, sending him flying.
Krillin took aim at Sai, but Sai grabbed him with his man-catcher and slammed him into the ground.
"No one hurts my friends and lives!" Goku shouted.
"Kakorott, please. It's not worth it to call on the full extent of our Saiyan powers on weaklings like them." Vegeta said.
"Who you calling weak? That does it!" Ryo placed his swords hilt to hilt.
"Oh, I'm really scared." Vegeta said.
"Flare Up...Now!" Ryo screamed.
Vegeta went flying.
"All right Ryo!" Kento shouted.
"Yeah, you really showed him!" Rowen added.
"That's what fools get when they mess with Ryo of the White Neo Wildfire!" Anubis shouted, with emphasis on the White and Neo.
"That's it!" Vegeta shouted.
"Here we go." Piccolo said.
"Run!" Goku shouted.
Every last warrior except for Vegita took cover.
"I think we're in trouble." Anubis said as the Warlords took cover as well.
"Get down!" Hariel shouted as his team took cover as well.
"Let's finish him off! Flare Up...Now!" Ryo shouted.
"Iron Rock Crusher!"
"Arrow Shock...wave!"
"Thunder...Bolt Cut!"
"Super Wave Smasher!"
The attacks slammed into Vegeta, which only made him madder.
"No one blasts Vegeta and lives! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" he screamed.
A gold light erupted from him and his hair turned gold to match it.
"I think we're in trouble guys." Ryo said.
"More than you know." Vegeta said as he manifested a big ass energy bolt and sent it screaming into the Ronins. They went flying and the blast took out a few city blocks in the process.
The Warlords managed to get up.
"What do we do now?" Anubis said.
"I suggest we run for it!" Kale shouted.
"No! We should stay and fight!" Sekhmet shouted.
"There is only one thing to do." Dais said.
"Right. Call for help." Anubis said.
"Right." The others replied.
"KAYURA!" The Warlords shouted desperately.
Kayura appeared in her battle mode. Trunks stepped up.
"THIS is your reinforcement?" he laughed.
"Obviously you've never dealt with Lady Kayura." she replied.
The Warlords began chanting her name.
"No woman has ever fought me and won." he replied.
"Then it pleases me to be the first! Prepare..."
"WE KNOW WE KNOW! To feel the cry of the night from your Starlight Swords." The Ronins, Warlords, and Forgotten Souls mumbled in unison.
"Everyone's a critic." Kayura said. She swung her blades, which trailed bursts of water, which then formed a wall of water. A snake of water flew off into blackness, and points of energy appeared.
"Star Sword Scream!" she shouted, sending energy bolts raining down on Trunks, nailing him.
"All right Kayura!" Anubis shouted.
"You show that twerp who's boss!" Kale added.
They then began chanting her name again.
"Will you four cut that out?" she asked.
"That does it." Trunks said.
"Bring it on little man." Kayura said.
"No one crosses a Saiyan and lives to tell about it!" Trunks shouted.
Various Dragonball characters remarked that they had. Which angered Trunks even more and he went Super Saiyan as well. He sent a powerful energy bolt slamming into her, but Kayura changed into the Ancient and used the staff to send it back at him, knocking him for a loop.
Then a devious little plan popped into his head. He powered down from Super Saiyan Level 1.
"Let's get him Warlords! Quake With Fear!" Anubis shouted.
"Black Lightning Slash!"
"Snake...Fang...Strike!"
"Web of Deception!"
"Star Sword Scream!"
The five attacks flew towards Trunks, who had a gleam in his eye. A nanosecond before the attacks hit him he went SSJ3, and held up his forearm, breaking Anubis, Sekhmet's, and Dais' weapons.
"Ooh, did I break your precious little weapons?" he taunted.
"Luminance from the Heavens!" Saber Strike screamed.
The blast slammed into Trunks, rocking his world and causing him to power down. This severely ticked off Vegeta.
"How DARE you attack my son!" Vegeta screamed.
"Oh, he's your son!" Anubis said. "Did you know that Dais?"
"No, how about you Sekhmet?"
"Never crossed my mind. Kale did you know?"
Kale nodded.
"And you didn't tell us?" Kayura shouted.
"AAAH! Enough of this small talk! Now it's time to die! Say good-bye to this world!" he screamed.
Before Sekhmet could scream plagiarism Vegeta went SSJ3 and began generating one magnanimous energy bolt while Hariel prepared Dark Inferno's pylons for a counter.
Simultaneously Vege and Hariel fired at each other. The two blasts streaked at each other in extreme slow motion, collided, and one big explosion went off, destroying more of the city and burying the Ronins, Warlords, and Forgotten Souls under a ton of rubble. Vegita took the opportunity to begin laughing maniacally.
To Be Continued...
*Editor's note: The woman that Dais is referring to is a well known Seiyuu and singer. Her roles include Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evanglion, Lime I believe from Super Marionette J, Himeko from the Sailor Moon S movie, and the infamous Lina Inverse of Slayers fame. If you want more info, e-mail me.