The crystal oddly enough attached to none of their armors.
"What? The crystal didn't work?" Ryo wondered.
"It must be because we have the White Neo powers. The crystals were designed to attach to our original armor." Sage deduced.
"But why did it not attach to ours?" Anubis wondered.
"Perhaps with all the enhancements Kinjiro made, it changed the frequency of our armor." Dais thought.
"But who's crystal do we have?" Kento wondered.
Kayura took the crystal.
"It is the crystal of Crystónin Torrent. It flew towards Sai, but it could not attach to his new armor."
"Great. Then that means those Sabanians have Ryo's, Sekhmet's, mine, and Anubis'" Kento said.
"But they also have ours." Dais, Kale, Sage, and Rowen said.
"Yeah, but they can't do much damage with those."; Kento responded.
Dais and the others prepared to clobber Kento for insulting them, but Kayura stopped them.
"We are wasting time. We must find the Crystals." Kayura said.
"But what about the portal?" Ryo asked.
"We'll worry about the portal. You worry about getting that armor back." Hariel said.
While Hariel and the Forgotten Souls set up camp around the portal that Badamon had escaped through, which had since closed.
"But how are we going to follow them, if we don't know where they teleported to?" Ryo wondered.
At that point Sai's crystal began glowing.
"I think it's trying to tell us where to go!" Sai said.
Kayura quickly created an energy bubble around the Ronins and Warlords and began guiding it using Sai's directions given to him by the crystal. At last they arrived on a large rock quarry.
"This is where they are?" Ryo wondered.
Suddenly Andros stepped out, clad in an armor similar to Ryo's.
"Well, we know who has Crystónin Wildfire." Kento said as he prepared for a fight.
"I don't wish to fight you...now. But I'm sure they do. Quantrons! Destroy them in the name of Saban!" Andros ordered.
Strange Silver beings bearing large blades appeared and charged our heroes. Andros subsequently vanished using more cheap special effects.
"Let's destroy these guys! Flare Up...Now!" Ryo shouted.
The flames fanned out, but failed to phase their metallic opponents. One put up his strange shield, and bounced the attack right back at them.
"Whoa! Shuki really did his homework on us!" Kento shouted.
Rowen went airborne and aimed his bow, but one of the Quantrons leapt into the air and knocked him back to Earth.
"They really planned this fight well! There's no water for me to control!" Sai said.
"That's not a problem for me! Justice!" Kento said.
His virtue appeared on his forehead, and he whacked one of the Quantrons with his super strength. However, when he punched, he went flying in the other direction. Sekhmet activated his six arm ability and prepared to go ginsu on the Quantrons, but they promptly disarmed him and tackled him.
"Quake With Fear!" Anubis shouted, plunging his kama into the ground, which entangled the Quantrons.
"That takes care of that problem." Anubis said.
They somehow broke out and knocked down Anubis. Dais prepared to use his attack, but they also nailed him.
"These guys are good!" Sage said as he too was knocked down.
"Too good!" Ryo added as he fell to the Quantrons.
The Ronins and Warlords were mostly unconscious now. All that remained to do battle was Kale. He readied his sword, knowing full well that none of his powers could save him. The other sure-kills and powers had proved useless against them, but what about his powers of weather... Kale had no time to experiment when he too was knocked down by the Quantrons. They stood there, the bright sunlight reflecting off their chrome plated bodies. Andros returned.
"Yes! The mighty Ronin Warriors have been defeated!"
Up on a nearby cliff, a figure stood in silhouette. He had been watching this whole battle. He now pulled out his cellular and made a phone call.
"Professor...This is Yuusaku. I think I found the missing equipment, but there seems to be some others that need help. I'll see what I can do."
"Very good Yuusaku. We'll continue to track you from here."
Yuusaku ended the transmission. Knowing full well the Ronins would probably be destroyed in seconds by the Red Lightstar Ranger, he quickly pushed some buttons on his phone.
Back on the ground, Andros summoned his weapon so that he could perform brain surgery on Ryo when he was nailed by energy bolts!
"What is going on?" Andros said.
Suddenly he got a glimpse of the shooter...
"I'm outta here! Quantrons, destroy him!"
Andros left, leaving this mysterious warrior to do battle with the Quantrons. He was dressed in a silver spandex suit, and had a large weapon strapped to his arm. He charged at the Quantrons, shooting them, then when he was in range, he changed his weapon to a sword and slashed. The Quantrons, briefly phased, got up and charged this strange warrior once more. But he simply pushed more buttons on his phone, causing a strange flying board to come to him, which he converted to a motorcycle, and opened fire on the Quantrons, destroying them. He then ran over to the recovering Ronins.
"I can see Saban wants you dead as well. Any enemy of Saban's is certainly a friend of mine." he said.
"Who are you?" Ryo asked weakly.
The warrior in silver powered down.
"My name is Yuusaku, and I work for INET."
Sage meanwhile had recovered and recharged the others.
"We're the Ronin Warriors. I'm Ryo, the big guy there is Kento, the one with blue hair is Rowen, that's Sage in green there, and that's Sai over there in the light blue."
Anubis and the Warlords removed their helmets, powering down as well.
"I'm Anubis, that's Kale, that's Sekhmet, and the one with one eye is Dais."
"Andros and his friends will be back any minute. We better get out of here."
Yuusaku promptly pulled out his cellular and pushed a few buttons, which transformed him back into the warrior called Mega Silver. He then summoned his vehicle, Mega Winger, and with it our heroes went airborne.
"So...how'd you guys get mixed up with Saban?" he asked.
"He wants to make us politically correct in every way." Ryo explained.
"I know the feeling. For months the rest of the crew at INET and myself tried to keep Saban and his evil ways from our high-tech attack vehicles and special suits that are derived from my own. We kept him at bay, but eventually he got his hands on them and attempted to break through our tamper resistant programming. However, when he did, he asked five teenage friends of ours to bring them to him. They never returned."
"Sounds very familiar." Anubis said. "Go on."
"Anyway," Mega Silver went on, "my boss got a call from someone named Dappu, who said that his champions had also gone to see you know who, and didn't come back. So they got to talking, and I was sent to the U.S. to investigate the disappearance of our team, and Dappu's."
"So you stumbled across us on your way." Ryo said.
"Exactly. I had a feeling you were on Saban's list of people to corrupt."
At that moment the ship shook with tremendous force!
"Kento, did you fall down?" Sage said.
"I'm not that heavy!" Kento protested.
Then, the ship shook again, knocking Kento down!
"See! I was knocked down by the shock!" Kento shouted.
"He's right. You didn't cause it the first time either. Someone's shooting at us!" Mega Silver deduced.
The pilot and passengers heard the sound of wind, and a small purple aircraft flew overhead.
"Uh oh. The Beetleborgs!" Ryo shouted.
Suddenly the ship stopped moving!
"Something's grabbed us!" Rowen shouted.
The ship was violently tossed around due to outside movements, making everyone fly all over the place, except for Rowen of course, who was levitating. Mega Silver opened the outer door, and Rowen peeked out.
"I just found out what's got us. It's a huge beetle!"
Suddenly another huge Beetle thing appeared in front of them!
"Two? Oh now we're in trouble." Ryo said.
Down on the ground, Drew, the Chromium Gold Beetleborg stood, wielding both the Astral Sword and the Astral Ax.
"This doesn't look good guys." Rowen said.