~Guess who's back? Back again. I am back. Tell you-~
Balance: Choi Choi Choi, a singer, AND an author? You can do it all, can't you Highness?
Nice try Balance, but I'm not giving you the disclaimer. I promise you'll get your chance soon.
Anyway, hey everybody, sorry I've been AWOL for a bit, (subsequently, I HATE having the flu) but HOLY CRIMINENTLY did Power Rangers blow up. I mean, Hasbro, Go-Busters -OHMYGOD where do I even START? But for now, Kyuuranger is my primary focus, and I am finally ready to show myself again!
Special shout out to my sensei GreyKing, thanks so much for the feedback, and for helping me improve. Oh! And I also want to shout out to my first ever reviewers and favorites/followers, D.N.S. Akira, PrettyRecklessLaura, and TwilightKingA5L. Thanks so much for the review and favorites, and I hope you enjoy what's to come!
Anyway, this episode was one, in particular, I had fun with the concepts since it, as you probably guessed, introduced everybody's favorite thieving duo, Balance, and Naaga Rei! Speaking of which, I think its time to get down to business. Naaga, if you please?
Naaga: Little 'Highness' King does not own anything except her original characters. We hope you enjoy.
Uchuu Sentai Kyuuranger
Amagawa Prism
After the whole JugJug incident, the Kyuurangers made the news within hours across the system, as well as bounties of 10 million of the local currency-pongi-each, something Kingston was elated over, as it established the team's credibility against Jack Matter.
As well as her own, but that was for personal reasons.
Anyway, after the three new editions had oriented into the troops, they then spent the next few hours settling in, with the outsider also accommodating herself to her new lifestyle.
Orion-Gou itself (or rather himself, but that was for later), was a marvel of color and technology, far more than when Kingston saw it in the show. Currently, she was navigating to find her new quarters and was now standing outside the door of her new room. And after entering in the keycode, Kingston was both shocked and awed by the discovery.
Inside the dorm was, much to her surprise, her room! Her bed, some of her posters, and even her new keyblades hanging right above her bed. But she also noticed the differences, as if her room was modified and remodeled to fit the Kyuuranger aesthetic. The walls were white, and the room itself was substantially larger, appearing almost sphere-like in shape. There was also a much more massive window in the center, overlooking the galaxy with a window seat.
But what caught Kingston's attention the most was a white desk that seemed worn by time, which she used to create her customs. Said customs were displayed on top next to her travel bag of supplies, along with her source of creativity: a leather-worn journal filled to the brim with the designs of her different kyuutama given to her as a birthday present.
"Holy CRAP! Am I glad to see you!" she exclaimed as she scooped up the journal and spun around, happy to see she still had some memento of home with her, besides her creations of course.
"Oi! Kingston! You in there, grr?" Came Garu's voice outside as the doors slid open, revealing the wolfman in the position of seemingly about to knock on the automatic sliding , Garu wasn't made out to be the smartest of the Kyuurangers, but at least, in this case, the scenario could've been chalked up to not being used to having so much technology in his surroundings.
Although it was reasonably apparent that Garu was glad his fur hid his blush.
Kingston decided to spare the blue Kyuuranger the embarrassment anyway. "Hey Alpha. What's up?"
Clearing his throat, Garu continued with his reasons for the visit. "Umm, the robot lady's calling us back for a meeting. Some kinda debrief about Jack Matter I think? Anyway, it's in that main room, you comin'?"
And this led to a somewhat awkward walk back to the bridge, the travel bag now slung over Kingston's shoulder, and Garu seemingly wanted to ask the young girl about something, albeit begrudgingly. He finally seemed to muster up the courage when he finally choked out, "Hey, Kingston? Why do call me Alpha?"
Turning her head, Kingston then went into thought for a moment, before replying, "Well, I guess it just seems to suit you, at least in my opinion. Is there a problem with it?" At this, Garu's hetero eyes went glassy again with his reply, "Well, actually, its what Fang used to call me."
It took a moment to process what he had said before it finally clicked in Kingston's mind, and she immediately started to backtrack. "Oh my god, Garu, I am SO sorry. I didn't mean to-"
"Whoa whoa whoa, easy there, grr! It's alright. I don't mind it all that much." The young girl paused, surprised by his response. "Wait, y-you don't?"
"Nah. When I think about it, you kinda remind me of her. Hope you don't mind, grr." As he said this, Garu seemed almost bashful, though Kingston knew his pride would never allow him to admit it. So instead of replying, she merely smiled and slung her arm around his shoulder (albeit barely, he was relatively taller than her) as they trekked to the bridge.
She was just glad that she hadn't crossed a line and was able to make the wolfman smile, comforted by the knowledge that not everything in his past was nothing but a scar.
Now, the crew was situated in the bridge as Raptor was preparing her presentation, with the outsider watching from the railings.
"This is the organizational structure of Jack Matter," explained Raptor as her pointer swung towards the holographic pyramid of the Jack Matter feeding chain, with each tier becoming less and less crowded with the fodder, while the top level only had a black hole and a question mark.
"At the bottom, we have the Daikaan, then the Karo who govern the 88 constellation systems. And ruling them all, at the top..." and Raptor paused, (supposedly for dramatic effect), before continuing. "Is the Shogun, Don Armage."
However, Lucky, with his slight obliviousness, pronounced it as 'Dame Organ.'
"Dude, that wasn't even close," said Kingston, slightly annoyed at how he managed to screw up such a simple name. Raptor was much of a similar mindset, frustratingly asking the both of them to pay attention.
If the first 3 Kyuurangers were a little skeptical about the new addition, Raptor doubled that, as she didn't like having any unknown variables causing havoc on her (uncle)/ship. Lucky also fit into that category, but less so as he annoyed her more so that he just seemed like that much of an idiot to her with him solely relying on luck as Lucky did, and as he had proven, caused plenty of trouble along the way.
Spada then tried to defuse the situation, warning Raptor that she'll get wrinkles if she's mad, which promptly earned him a whack on the head by her pointer. He stumbled back, Hammy comforting him, while Champ laughed heartily before explaining her attitude.
"Raptor's Orion-Gou's pilot," explained Champ. "She's an android from the planet Rebellion."
"No shit," muttered Kingston under her breath as Raptor gave a salute. "And despite how I look, I'm from-"
"The Okami System, we know Garu. Hate to break it to you Alpha, but it's kinda obvious," Kingston said while chuckling with Hammy. Said ninja then started relaying the systems the other Kyuurangers were from, saying that the Kyuurangers were the 'shining star' representatives from all over the universe, with Lucky joining in with the Shishi system.
This then prompted Spada to turn to the whit Kyuuranger, "What about you Kingston? Where are you from?"
Once again, all eyes were on her, with Lucky and Hammy matching Spada's look of curiosity, though slightly less matured. Raptor looked with impatience at yet another interruption and Champ, while always looking stoic, crossed his arms in the way of saying 'yes, why don't you try to talk your way out of this one.'
But Kingston, also remembering Raptor's temper came into play during her briefings, tried to dodge any more questions. "Um, I don't know if now is the best time. And anyway, I told you guys I'm from the Milky Way system. But anyway, why don't we let Raptor finish, wouldn't want her to break her pointer after all," before looking at said android, who was indeed close to losing her temper and taking it out on all of them.
Raptor then took a deep breath, just barely collecting herself before continuing. "The Jack Matter has conquered nearly all of the universe. The only known method of resistance is the 9 Kyuurangers. In other words, it falls to you!"
Lucky, taking the news with optimism, interprets the situation as, "So that means we've got four left! We just need to find them right?" as he jumps into the red center chair and plays with the darts on the side table while watching the hologram of the universe.
Spada, ever the voice of reason tries to calm Lucky back down, "Finding them won't be as simple as you make it sound. We've got the whole universe to look through for just four people."
Champ then turns his glowing green eyes back to the young outsider, adding, "Well, maybe little Ms. Claire Voyant over here can just tell us where they are now and spare us the time and trouble."
But Kingston, smirking, replies, "Sorry big guy, but I can't help you there. While I do know things like that, I only know what occurs when they show up, not where they are currently. What I can do is provide info right before or as an event happens to prevent more casualties. Think of me less as a crystal ball and more like an early warning system, sound fair?"
Champ, while his face doesn't change much, looked slightly embarrassed and stopped harassing her, while Raptor and the other 3 looked at her with what seemed like they were impressed by her behavior. Lucky, meanwhile, was still staring at the hologram with interest.
"I wonder where the next guy is...?" wondered. Kingston, looking up, warned Raptor to duck right before Lucky threw the dart straight at the hologram, landing and zooming in on a silver mechanical planet.
Spada, recognizing it, called it planet Jigama."Yosha Lucky! It's close too. I'm gonna go bring them in!" exclaimed Lucky before rushing out.
The white Kyuuranger, remembering who get introduced this episode and not wanting to get left behind, called out, "Oi! Lucky! Wait up!" before grabbing her bag and rushing out to join the lucky pilot.
Now, both were in the cockpit of Shishi Voyager, with Prism standing behind and along for the ride.
"Just you wait!" exclaimed Shishi Red before flying out the docking bay.
"Wait, Lucky, watch out for-!," but the warning came too late as the Voyager whacked the top of Orion-Gou's head. And while Lucky sheepishly apologized for the turbulence, Prism couldn't help but wonder if she would've been better off with the others.
Too late now, she thought, so she mentally prepared herself for the day to come.
Episode 2: The Heroic Thieves?!
It wasn't long before the duo landed on Jigama, with its massive rings floating above the surface. Now they were both observing and soaking in every detail they could find, Lucky reading an info pamphlet about the planet.
"Let's see, 'Planet Jigama. A wealthy industrial world!' What a cool planet!" exclaimed Lucky as a hovercar flew right over his head. Kingston, while also amazed, was watching and listening for a particular thief. But her attention was pulled away by Lucky, who smiled at her.
He was glad that someone else believed in his luck enough to come with him, and was also ecstatic to learn more about the mysterious young Kyuuranger as time went on. But before he could ask her if she knew anything about the planet or if there were any other Kyuurangers, the duo suddenly heard what sounded like cheering.
"Hey hey hey hey, come and catch us if you can!" The two followed the voice to find, surprisingly, two other people riding on what looked like hoverboards over a small lake. There were also Indavers riding on jet skis towards the two borders, seemingly intent on catching them.
But before any of them get the chance, the strangers then jump away and land on the solid ground before one of them, what looked like a golden robot, pull out a switch of some kind and activates it. The switch turns out to be a bomb, blowing out a bridge that crashed right on top of the troops of jet skis.
The strangers then started celebrating, with the robot cheering and the other, a man in a gray suit and silver hair, following along in a dance of sorts. "Sup! You're looking at a pair of first-rate stars! Snatching what's yours so that it can be ours! We're the BN Thieves! Enjoy your scars! Appreciate the treasure, buddies!" The robot then held up what looked like a tiny golden pyramid before giving a mock salute.
Lucky, immediately excited, shouted, "Yosha Lucky! We found them! Come on Kingston!" before dashing towards the two thieves, Kingston close behind to keep up, while also secretly excited to meet two of her favorite Kyuurangers.
"You guys are Kyuurangers right?" asked Lucky after approaching the two, but the thieves only looked at each other in confusion.
Kingston sighed and added, "I'm sorry about him, he can be a bit abrupt. Is there anywhere we can talk?"
After going to a diner close by, the two thieves, Balance and Naaga, explained that they were stealing a treasure from Jack Matter while they were on the planet. But as they were describing how they weren't Kyuurangers to Lucky, Kingston had her eye on a wanted poster of their team, with a reward of 60 million pongi total.
"That's so weird! I was positive it was you guys!" Lucky replied to the duo, pulling Kingston's attention back towards the conversation. Naaga was keeping an eye on the young girl and her movements, while Balance seemed more focused on another topic.
"Don't sweat it you two. But I bet this is some fate...Hey! Kingston, Lucky, you two wanna be our friends?" asked Balance, coming around to sit with the two Kyuurangers. Naaga, however, looked slightly confused, testing the word 'friends' out, having never heard Balance say it before.
"See, we're good thieves," explained Balance, giving a sort of innocent gesture to the two of them."We only steal from Jack Matter." Kingston smirked to herself, knowing the con Balance was trying to play but decided to let the story play out for now. Lucky, however, was entirely convinced and immediately jumped on board with being their friends.
Kingston, playing along, also agreed, "Sounds good to me!" before turning to the other of the duo. "Is that alright with you, Naaga?"
Naaga, while not showing much, seemed slightly taken aback at the question, not used to being asked when Balance was usually the primary focus of attention, before replying, "I suppose, but Balance, what are friends?"
This prompted Balance to pull the silver-haired man to side, probably telling him to play along. "Does your friend not want us to join?" asked Lucky.
"Naaga's not against anything baby! He's from the Hebitsukai System, so he's a little short on emotions," explained Balance.
"Hebitsukai? What's that system like?" asked Kingston.
"Well you see, a long time ago, his people got rid of emotions to eliminate all conflict. Crazy right?" said Balance, with Naaga giving a soft smile. Lucky immediately thought it sounded fresh and exciting, while Kingston gave the man a kind smile, as a way to show understanding and willingness.
"Anyway," interrupted the gold lifeform, "we wanna get into that Jack Matter ship and steal this jewel. You two wanna jump in?" asked Balance before pulling out a picture of an aqua medium sized rock.
"You got it. Kingston, you in?" Kingston responded by pretending to think for a second, before turning to face Naaga with a smile.
"Sure, what's the worst that could happen?
After paying for the meal, the quartet stated heading towards the Jack Matter base. But before anything else, Kingston turned and saw the rest of their team. "Hey, Lucky, look who's here!" called the young girl before pointing towards the group.
Said Kyuurangers were now approaching the quartet, with Garu carrying another case and Hammy looking a bit annoyed, Spada trying in vain to calm her down. Lucky, excited that the others would come for them, started dragging his new friends over to introduce them.
"Hey, guys! Glad to see you made it! This is Balance and Naaga." Balance then asked who these fine folks were.
"Well, these guys are the Kyuurangers. Garu, Hammy, Spada, and Champ. They're our friends," said Kingston, with each member giving a little wave while Naaga recognized the term 'friend' again as he looked at the group.
"Pleasure to meet you!" exclaimed Balance. "But I'm afraid these two are working with us for the day." But before any of them (Lucky) misinterpreted and made the situation worse, Kingston tried to defuse the tension.
"Don't worry guys, its nothing. It-"
"It is not 'nothing'! You two out to know better than to run off like that," scolded Hammy. "Who knows what other kinds of trouble you'll get into?"
"Ah, I wouldn't worry about it Hammy," said Garu, before handing the case to Lucky. "Here, you guys take the spare blasters; we'll meet up later. Just make sure you contact us if there's trouble, got it?" asked the wolfman to Kingston, who nodded before the other three started leaving.
"You got it Alpha. Oh! And before I forget, if you see a guy named Eridrone, don't fight him! He's a lot tougher than the other guys! I'll contact you later, good luck!" she called before dashing to catch up to the others, leaving her crew with confused looks.
She finally caught up just as Balance went up ahead to look for a point of entry and the two humanoids hid behind a few beams. But it was during this break that Naaga decided to answer some of his questions, starting with, "What are friends?"
Lucky answered first, thinking for a moment before replying, "If I had to explain it to you... It's like you and Balance!"
This didn't seem to hold the answer he wanted as Naaga replied, "Friends decide important matters for you?"
Kingston, feigning surprise, answered, "Not at all, in fact, it's the opposite." Naaga seemed surprised by the response despite not showing much, with Lucky adding, "Yeah. You gotta decide what you wanna do, yourself. Friends are the guys who help you make it happen," before asking Naaga what it was he wanted.
Naaga answered, "I want to gain emotions." Both seemed happy with the answer and resolved to help Naaga with his goal too, Kingston adding that they're glad to help a friend before Balance came back with a way in and the heist was on.
After sneaking in, beeping sirens started sounding off, while Lucky, of course, found a bright red button and pushed it before anyone else could warn him not to. Said switch then opened up three hangars and alerted several Indavers to their break-in. Lucky took this well, excited to start fighting off troops, while Kingston just shook her head and prepared her Kyuutama
'Shishi/Amagawa Kyuutama! SAY! THE CHANGE!' And after blasting into their suits, the fight was on. After the initial shock wore off, the troops immediately went after their new enemies, shooting and swinging their swords wildly at them.
"Lucky! I'll draw them off, you three go on ahead!" yelled Prism as she knocked an Indaver off his feet.
"Gotcha! Come on guys, let's go!" shouted Lucky as the trio started climbing upwards. Prism was able to hold her own slightly better than before, but her combat skills still left much to be desired. Before she was able to finish off the last of the troops, Prism failed to notice one Indaver aim for her and shoot, managing to hit her leg.
"OWWW! What the- Ok, that's it!" yelled Prism before aiming her blaster and knocking the offending trooper out of commission. But the damage had been done, and Prism didn't want to risk being overwhelmed with an injury, so after heaving a sigh, she fired off a circle of shots before limping off, hiding in a hallway before demorphing.
"Ok Kingston, let's evaluate here. You're injured, don't know where your teammates are, and you have no navigation in an enemy base. Way to blow your first mission, polok."
After checking the wound and thanking her lucky stars (ha) that there wasn't a bullet lodged in, her blaster chimed, surprising her, and she heard Raptor calling, "-wait, wait I'm getting something. Kingston, do you read me?"
"Raptor! Oh, boy am I glad to hear you. How did- ow ow oww," Kingston complained as her leg spazzed in pain. "How did the fight go? Did you guys see Eridrone? And please tell me you didn't fight him."
Champ jumped in at this, "Yeah we saw him alright, and I hate to admit it kid, but you weren't kidding. He mopped the floor with us, and we didn't exactly make it without a few scrapes."
Kingston sighed, biting back the pain before asking, "Alright, well, at least now you know, that's better than nothing. Are you guys gonna be ok?"
Raptor decided to steer the conversation back on track, "They are fine, and currently should be the least of your worries. Where are you? We haven't heard back from you or Lucky for hours."
Kingston decided just to spit it out and get it over. "Ah well, that might have something to do with the fact that Lucky and I split up in the Jack Matter base and I got injured while the Daikaan captured him and Naaga."
"WHAT!" This was pretty much everyone yelling, mostly Garu with Spada throwing in another 'Mamma mia!'
After moving her blaster away from her almost ruptured eardrums, she replied, "Guys, please, they're already on the lookout, and I would appreciate not being sold out. Now look, I know this looks bad, but Balance is still on the loose. I find him, we find Naaga and Lucky, and everything will be-"
"Don't you dare say everything will be 'just fine,' young lady! You've got some serious explaining to do later!" exclaimed Hammy, also none too happy with what was happening.
"Ok ok, Hammy, I know. But I think we can both agree now isn't the best time. Now, Balance said they were on their way to pick up the jewel, so..." and after hearing another troop approaching, she cut herself off before taking a peek. And as luck would have it, it was the troop that was leading the golden robot straight to his 'reward' for turning in Lucky. "Treasure room it is."
Raptor did not seem pleased. "Did she just say- Kingston! This is no time to be thinking about treasure while Lucky and an innocent are in danger!"
"No, Raptor, that's where Balance is heading. I've gotta catch up. I know I have a lot to make up for and I will explain everything as best I can, but for right now, I've gotta go. Lucky and I will contact you later, I promise! Prism out."
"Wait, Ki-!" but the android was abruptly cut off by the blaster turning off before the young girl took in her plan, however short term it was.
"Ok, Little King, now or never." And with that, as quickly and quietly as she could, Kingston started limpidly tailing Balance to the treasure room.
After finally reaching the treasure room, Balance, now carrying the case he lifted from Lucky, snatched the gem almost immediately before zapping the guards. "Thanks for leading me here!" he said smugly before something else caught his eye: A small purple velvet bag.
"Choi Choi Choi, what else do we have here?" he asked before reaching for the bag. He failed to notice one of the guards climbing back up and aiming its gun at him-
"Balance!" before Kingston promptly shot it back down and limped over to him.
"Hey, Kingston! I was wondering where you ran off to in this maze. Hey lookie, found you a treasure too. Hope it makes up for the- whoa! What happened to you?" he asked when he took a look at her leg.
"One of them pulled off a lucky shot. Speaking of, where are Lucky and Naaga?" Balance, thinking quickly, decided to dodge for now.
"Uh well, I think we should worry about that leg of yours. Here, let's put this away for now and get you some first aid, huh?" Balance then took Kingston's travel bag and after dropping the velvet sack in started helping the young girl walk.
After a while, the two walked through what felt like the tenth room already before finding the missing members. "Alright, all we gotta do is blow this coop and-" however Balance didn't finish as he turned his head and stopped. Kingston looked at what he was and was shocked. There, dangling by a chain over what looked like molten metal, were Lucky and Naaga, both of which struggling much to the entertainment of the Daikaan, a big fat Egyptian looking monster.
"Oh my god, Balance, we gotta help them!" she exclaimed before collapsing on her bad leg, quickly realizing that she couldn't pull this off herself.
Balance didn't seem to notice at first, quietly remarking to himself, "You always did want your emotions, didn't you Naaga?"
And after shaking out of his thoughts, he turned towards the young girl and formulated a plan.
"Hey Kingston, you think you're up for a rescue mission?"
"Start the countdown!" exclaimed the Daikaan, gleefully ready to kill his prisoners and claim his reward. "5! 4! 3! 2! 1! Time to claim that 10 million pongi!" before pulling the lever to drop them. However, nothing happened, and he wondered if it had broken before hearing a voice say, "Hey everybody! Sorry for the wait!"
Everyone turned and saw, to the surprise of all, Balance at the controls, with wires connecting it to his arm. "Since I'm a mechanical lifeform, I can control other machines! Yo, Kingston! Let's go!" he yelled before grabbing his prizes and jumping off the railing.
"*Tarzan yell* WHOOOHOOO!" Lucky and Naaga turned to this voice and saw Kingston swinging on another chain and heading right towards them. And in the span of a few seconds, Balance latched onto the chain, the two of them snatched Lucky and Naaga out of the air and set them free after landing.
"Boys, do something! Don't let them escape!" the Daikaan yelled before sicking his grunts. Luckily, the thieves, thinking quickly, fought back, with Naaga stepping forward and making his eyes turn snake-like. This, in turn, caused the grunts freeze in their tracks with similar red and silver snake eyes appearing before Balance puls out more wires in his arm and whips them, shocking the guards into submission, much to Lucky's shock.
He wasn't given much time to process this, however, due to Kingston tackling him in a bear hug. "Are you alright?" she asked Lucky and Naaga. "You two had me worried sick!"
Thankfully, both of them replied that they were okay and unharmed for the most part before Naaga asked, "Balance, Kingston. Why?
Kingston smiled, "I told you, Buddy. I'm always ready to help my friends," while Balance added, "I'm after the best loot in the universe. You want emotions. I figure if we team up with these two, we can both get what we want!" to which Lucky happily confirmed.
Naaga, having had enough of these monsters, then angrily proclaimed, "Jack Matter, we will defeat you!" with the three watching him thrilled he had gained a new emotion.
"Oh, I love it! Look how angry he is! Naaga, that's what it means to be mad!" said Balance while shaking the gem towards him.
"Congrats Naaga," said Kingston before hugging him as well. However, before he could react, the gem started glowing. And much to everyone's surprise, two silver and gold kyuutamas appeared in its place, with Balance and Naaga snatching them out of the air in wonder.
"Alright, now let's do this!" exclaimed Kingston.
But Balance pointed at her injury and asked, "Whoa whoa little lady, you sure you're clear to fight with that limper of yours?"
"Don't worry about me; the suit should help. Lucky, you ready?"
"You bet! Let's go, Balance, Naaga!" And with a 'Mawaslide!', it was time.
Shishi/Tenbin/Hebitsukai/Amagawa Kyuutama! SAY! THE CHANGE!
With a 'Star Change!' the four then transformed into their Kyuuranger suits. Balance's gold suit had more mechanical armor parts to it with his joints still exposed, and his visor was showing scales, while Naaga's looked more humanoid with snake patterns going down his sides and a snake as his visor.
"Super Star! Shishi Red!"
"Trick Star! Tenbin Gold!"
"Silent Star! Hebitsukai Silver!"
"Shooting Star! Amagawa Prism!"
"The nine ultimate saviors! Uchuu Sentai Kyuuranger!~"
The Daikaan was shocked at the presence of 4 Kyuurangers instead of one and immediately sent his minions after them.
"Alright, time to test your luck!"
The fight was almost immediately taken outside, with Balance ad Kingston resorting mostly to using their blasters before Lucky then told Balance about how to make the Kyu weapons. After trying Kyu Sword out for a bit, he then decided to switch to the lighter crossbow mode and return to long range, turning out to be an excellent shot. Naaga, meanwhile, was testing out the Kyu Sickle while watching Prism's back and allowing her to take a breather.
"Thanks, Naaga. What about you though?" Prism asked.
His response made her grin from ear to ear: "Friends are always ready to help each other. And you are my friend."
Their heart to heart was cut short, however, by the Daikaan, who was now swinging his tail around to knock them into submission for the more abundant reward. Naaga, wasting no time, started wailing on them and, through almost no effort, managed to pin him down long enough for Balance to slide over and nail a clean shot at point blank right in his stomach.
"That was awesome!" said Lucky as he helped Prism walk over. "Now, let's finish this together!"
Pushing the kyuutamas back twice activated the 'All-Star Crash!' efficiently blasting enough power to destroy him finally.
"Good Luck!"
"Oh, right, Lucky! let's call the others and go Megazord, we still have the base left," said Prism as she started leaning on Naaga.
Lucky complied, with the others coming to form Kyurenn-Oh. Unfortunately, the Daikaan wasn't done yet as he grew giant, much to the shock of all but Prism (of course). The base also started rocketing off and flying around, making their goal that much more difficult. None of them were familiar with dealing with giant enemies yet either, so the Egyptian Daikaan was able to whack them around with ease.
The trio, wanting to help, decide to jump in on the party. "Kingston will be riding with me," Naaga declared before both pushed their kyuutamas out and their new ships rang out: 'Hebitsukai/Tenbin Voyager!'
The two were able to lodge safely into their surprisingly humanoid twin mechs and make quick work of the Daikaan's tricks, but Kyuurrenn-Oh took a blast meant for them in the process. This caused the two to get the idea of swapping the limbs, and after pulling out Hammy and Spada from their sockets, the thieves locked in as a snakehead and shield attachments.
Thanks to the help of the BN Thieves, Kyuurenn-Oh was able to launch the Daikaan into the air and destroy it along with its base, the team finally claiming a victory
"We're gonna take the universe back!"
After returning to the ship, the thieves were oriented into the crew while Spada and Hammy gave Kingston a bandage for her leg. Thankfully, it was only grazed and would heal with time and a little help from Spada's healing herbs, though they were none too pleased with Kingston for being so reckless during the mission.
Fortunately, Champ and Garu saved her from a lecture. Champ claimed it was payback for the Eridrone warning while Garu ruffled her hair in thanks. Nevertheless, she promised to be more careful from now on.
Now, the thieves were being suited, with Balance coming in and flaunting his new paint job while Naaga tested his new jacket. He looked on with shock before shouting, "It looks good!"
"Naaga, you're not supposed to be shocked. Anywho, Kingston and Lucky say you're quite the crowd; it'll be a blast working with ya, I'm sure." However, Hammy started laughing at his 'new' paint job, much to his irritation.
"You'll get used to it, you know what they say, curry tastes better as leftovers," Spada commented, with Balance happily agreeing and Hammy thinking it over.
"So now we've got two more Kyuurangers," observed Garu. "You two are something else," he said to the red and white rangers.
"I seriously doubt that kind of luck can continue," replied Raptor. She seemed slightly less irritated towards the two after their efforts, though not by much. "There's still two left. Everyone, please do your best in the search."
"Alright! Leave it to my luck!"
Later on, after everyone had left the briefing, Kingston sat alone on the bridge, drawing in her notebook for some new design ideas. So she was a little surprised when Naaga walked in on her. "Hello, Kingston."
"Oh! Naaga! Hi, um sorry, I didn't expect to see you," she replied before positioning herself towards him and smiled. "What's up?"
"I wanted to ask you about your...abilities in battle." At this, Kingston tilted her head before asking, "How do you mean?"
"From what Raptor has told me, every Kyuuranger has an ability used as a Kyuuranger. I have my paralysis, Hammy has her invisibility, so I am curious as to what yours may be so I may better prepare for battle with it in mind."
This seemed to fit Naaga as his species looked like the type to keep all options in mind before finding solutions, so Kingston was happy to oblige. "Well, speed is my main power, when I'm able to use it to its full potential anyway. But another ability I have is one I call 'Refraction.' Whenever I 'bond' to certain kyuutama, I'm able to copy and reflect their powers whenever I want, kind of like how a prism bends and refracts light."
Naaga seemed thoughtful at this. "I see. That seems very powerful to handle."
"Well, there are some drawbacks. As I said, I can only use the powers of kyuutamas I bond with, no more, no less. I can't amplify what's already there, only copy it. And I can copy powers, but I can't copy physical attributes, like for example, if I'm using your paralysis ability, I can make people freeze as you can, but I can't turn my eyes into snake eyes. A huge part of my abilities is the distribution of power, how it's used, when, et cetera."
"I see. And these abilities, are they common in your species?"
Kingston seemed to rattle for a second before finally replying, "Umm, no. It's not even common in my dimension. And before you ask," she said as Naaga looked about to say something. "I'm not from this world. Universe? Um, in any case, I'm not from here. Its a long and convoluted story and I'm honestly not sure if you'll even believe me since it's not like anyone else here has. But anyway, no, my species don't have any natural powers like say yours or Hammy's. In fact, now that I think about it..." she trailed off before flipping through her notebook. She found the page she was looking for about her kyuutama before reading the bio for it.
"How did I forget about this?"
"About what?" asked Naaga, walking up to look over her shoulder at her notes.
"Well, for starters, thank you for reminding me about this, Naaga. This is the most critical part of Prism's powers. Don't know how I forgot about this. Must've just slipped my mind with everything that's happened recently. When I was initially creating the kyuutama, I thought the power would be too much for the power flow of the suit to handle. So I made it that whoever bonds to the kyuutama also has the abilities bond to their DNA so any abilities can be used in and out of the suit. Think of it as a power conduit."
"So, as time goes on, you will be able to bond with other kyuutama and use their abilities whenever you want?"
"That's the gist of it, yep. And I have no idea how I'll handle it," she replied before sighing and placing her head in her hands.
Naaga seemed to think about that for a moment before smiling softly and replying, "Friends are ready to help each other. It is my decision that I will help you with your powers whenever you need me."
Kingston was taken aback by Naaga's kindness before smiling with tears in her eyes. "And I've decided that I will help you learn the ins and outs of emotions whenever you need me too," before hugging him. And for the first time, Naaga hugged back, happy to have a new friend, teammate and emotion mentor.
Neither of them was aware, however, of the notebook flipping back to the page Kingston was previously on, revealing a new kyuutama, and a name above it.
'Kitsune Kyuutama!'
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