Kasumi ran as fast as she could to avoid the alien that came after her. It was a stocky but tall creature, full of dark green scales. His face looked like a cat except for the pronounced brow and the thick, pale green ridge on top of it. The two yellow discs on each side of its head vibrated for every sound made by him. He wore black-gold armor and swung a sword that had several blades entwined with each other, spikes jutting off every blade.
Kasumi was scared of the creature, who announced itself as Dalvinian Emperor Dagorna when it arrived to Earth just a few minutes earlier. Just as he introduced himself as Earth's conqueror, he slashed at the nearest person, killing him instantly. He rampaged through Kasumi's town, causing more death and destruction. It was around then a little girl ran into him, crying. Dagorna took one look at the child and raised his sword to attack her. Thinking fast Kasumi, who was nearby, took a piece of debris and chucked it at his head.
Dagnora looked up after it hit him, uninjured and now looking at Kasumi with malice.
"You dare to strike me?" he whispered.
So Kasumi ran and did not stop. She heard Dagorna getting closer to her and prayed he'd tire out soon. Trying to go through an empty warehouse was when she ran into a group of Dagorna's attack force. They were smaller than Dagorna but they had the same dark green feline-lizard face. They wore billowy purple shirts and pants with silver wrist and shin guards as well as a silver helmet that exposed their face. They grabbed her, impeding her escape.
"Give me a clear shot Gumpers or die with her." Dagorna shouted.
The Gumpers threw Kasumi to the ground and backed away. Kasumi didn't have enough time before Dagorna's sword was held to her throat.
"The rest of this planet will learn by your example to not show anything less than respect towards me." Dagorna growled.
"Yeah, I wouldn't count on that." Kasumi said, steadying her voice as best she could. "It'll probably take a few thousand more than that."
Dagorna snarled and raised his sword to strike her down.
Kasumi was only spared by laser blasts hitting Dagnora.
Kasumi turned with Dagnora to see a young Japanese woman holding a gun at the lizard alien.
Yoko breathed a sigh of relief. Too much blood had been shed by Dagorna in the short time he was here. Every life not taken was a victory in itself.
Yoko's companions came running up beside her.
"I heard you had excellent jumping ability but I never guessed you could've done that." Sokichi said, not out of breath despite the distance he had to run to catch up.
"Yeah, he didn't waste time smashing, so I couldn't wait." Yoko said.
"Good." Doggie said.
The six Rangers turned towards Kasumi and Dagorna.
"Who the heck are you guys?" Dagorna growled. Kasumi smiled, as she knew.
"You'll know soon enough." Yoko said.
With that, the six of them transformed.
Tsuyoshi turned on the spot and was instantly clothed in a red jumpsuit with a thick yellow "v" shape on his chest, separated by a silver stripe in the middle. He wore white gloves and boots as well as a black belt with a thick silver, backwards "z" shaped buckle with lights and knobs attached. On his head he wore a red helmet, with a blue sideways hourglass shape serving as his visor and a silver stripe dividing the helmet that covered his mouth. The forehead was marked with a "1" with eagle wings. His suit was complete with a red and white cape and a high collar.
"Akarenger!" Tsuyoshi said.
Sokichi sniffed the white flower in his pocket and jumped very high, almost like he was flying. When he came back down, he was in an all-white jumpsuit save for the upside down triangle shaped rainbows on his chest, glove and boot cuffs, and serving as his visor. He held his baton ready for attack. He wore a long red cape, the only Ranger beside Tsuyoshi to wear one.
"BIG ONE!" Sokichi said.
"ChangePhoenix!" Mai said as she pressed a button on her Change Brace.
With that, light from her changer enveloped her. The light disappeared, leaving Mai covered in a pink jumpsuit, save for the white tank top shape on her top and white legs and arms. Her white gloves and boots were cuffed in gold, with gold also edging the Changeman badge on her chest. Her helmet was pink saved for the area covering her jaw, with yellow lines outlining her silver mouthpiece, black visor, and the rounded protrusions that covered the helmet's audio system. A stylized phoenix on a yellow patch on her forehead completed her helmet.
"Choriki Henshin!" Shohei said, connecting the two pieces of his Power Brace.
A green grid-outline surrounded him tightly, with a suit enveloping from his feet upwards. It was green, save for his boots, gloves, and white area on his shoulders, upper chest and upper back. Each of these white parts had a thick gold edge with symbols and hieroglyphics from the civilization of (Yoko would later learn) Pangea in them. His helmet was simply green and round, a black rectangle as a visor and molded green lips the only changes in color and shape.
"OhGreen!" Shohei said.
"Emergency! DekaMaster!" Doggie said, clicking the top button on his Master License.
Bright particles flowed from space and surrounded Doggie. The glow dissipated with a black suit with shiny blue highlights left on Doggie. A thick suit piece, with a red outline "100' molded on it, covered his chest. A red line ran down each leg, ending at the blue cuff of his boot. Each finger on his finger was tipped with a blue piece. His helmet was surprisingly human shaped, with only molded dog ears suggesting who was looking through the black visor. A red diamond-shaped police light flickered on and off, a siren blaring from each.
"Cutting 100s of villains down." Doggie said. "The Guard Dog of Hell. DekaMaster!"
It was then Yoko's turn. She turned a dial on her Morphin Brace. A clear orange, sunglasses-shaped, piece popped from it and unfolded itself.
IT'S MORPHIN TIME
Green data streams and data circles surrounded Yoko, soon tightening around her to form a suit of black leathery pants, a zippered yellow and silver jacket of the same material, yellow gloves and boots with black cuffs (the gloves shorter than her companions'), black straps for each shoulder, and a yellow helmet with an outline of a rabbit on her forehead and long bumps on the top for its ears. Her eyes were not covered by any visor. She held her changer to her face so the orange sunglasses shaped had a path to her eyes.
"Let's Morphin!" Yoko said. At that, more green data shot from the orange piece and became a shiny yellow visor for her helmet.
"Yellow Buster!"
And with that, all the Rangers were morphed and ready to fight.
"Rangers." Akaranger said. "Ready…"
"Go!" the others shouted with him.
The six Rangers came charging at Dagorna and his Gumpers, OhGreen taking a moment to move Kasumi to a safe place as she was too stunned at the proceedings. With her safe, OhGreen ran to a squad of Gumpers. His Square Crushers, green and silvers hatchets, appeared in balls of lights to his hands. He chopped several Gumper heads, knocking them down and causing them to explode. When he didn't swing a Crusher, he'd connect his fist to the villains, knocking them down. A Gumper who tried to jump OhGreen from behind got a high kick into its chest in midair from his would-be prey.
Yellow Buster ran through the crowd of Gumpers, slashing at them with her Sougan Blade. When a few got too close, she jumped forty feet onto a scaffold. She fixed her Ichigan Buster from its camera mode and took a flying backwards leap. As she fell in an arc, Yellow Buster shot at several Gumpers, including a few that were attacking Big One. Big One gave a nod of thanks as Yellow Buster finished her fall taking out five more Gumpers by stretching out her limbs. She got up. The Gumpers did not.
Big One, for his part, was fencing with some of the Gumpers who had swords. A few dodges, and a few swipes, and six Gumpers were already down for the count. That was when Big One noticed several of the Gumpers had long purple devices that he suspected were rifles. That was confirmed when they started shooting. Big One ran and performed several flips to avoid the blasts. A rope hanging on a beam gave Big One an idea. He grabbed the rope and swung himself around the warehouse and back towards the Gumpers attacking him. He swung so fast that the Gumpers had a second at most to react. None of them reacted in time. Big One slashed his Big Baton through them, let go of the rope and flipped head over heels before landing gracefully, explosions signaling the end of the Gumpers behind him.
Of course, there were still plenty of Gumpers to keep ChangePhoenix busy. She used her military training and did not waste a shot as she shot her Change Sword (gun mode) at each Gumper. Converting her weapon into a sword and shield, she ran and shot while swing her sword at every Gumper she passed. When she reached a wall, she turned and looked to see a group of the lizards monsters. Using the power of Earthforce, she shot a ball of fire that formed itself into the shape of a phoenix and sent it to the Gumpers. Only slight scorch marls were left.
Akarenger attacked with his sword, taking down as many Gumpers as he could. However, he soon became overwhelmed by their numbers. He managed to drive them back but he sensed an attack from behind was eminent. He turned and raised his sword in defense… and hitting his sword against a familiar one already in place to take the swing. The silver sword was familiar because he only knew one sword that had a silver hilt shaped like a dog.
"Thanks DekaMaster." Akaranger said as DekaMaster slashed at the Gumper with the D-Sword Vega.
Akarenger and DekaMaster stood back to back, attacking the Gumpers while covering each other's blind spots. Due to their experience together, extending to even before S.P.D. became a presense on Earth, Akarenger and DekaMaster was able to guess the other's next move and compensated for it. Soon, the Gumpers were destroyed. Akarenger looked around to see how his teammates were doing. Seeing the very few remaining Gumpers being destroyed by the Rangers, Akarenger breathed a sigh of relief.
"Aka!" DekaMaster yelled.