Back at the unknown location, the Dark Armored Man was making one finishing touch to what he was working on. By assembling some very selective remains of most of the previous Torinoids and Giganoids, he created what he believed to be the ultimate monster ever. A smile crept on his face as he was about to release it onto Japan.
"Don't worry, Abarangers!" he whispered, although he knew that he couldn't be heard, "I will succeed with my plans! And there's nothing that can stop me!
Meanwhile, Ptera had returned Ranru, along with the dark guy, to the Dino-house. With the help of her comrades, she was able to take off his coat and lay him down in their own emergency room. Nakadai had examined him, but he could make only one conclusion.
"He's asleep." he said, "Looks to me like he hasn't slept in a while."
"Are you sure?" Ranru sounded more than concerned.
"Yes!?" Nakadai replied, questionningly, "Why?"
"Because he... I don't know..." Ranru began, but something kept her from saying anything.
"What exactly happened back there?" Asuka became impatient to know this.
"I... he took off his Dino-brace and..." Ranru began, "... and that's when he fainted!"
Not one person in the room understood this entirely.
"Are you saying that this guy can't take it off without fainting?" Yukito started, "That's a little weird."
"Wait!" Ranru remembered something else, "I was taking off mine first, and he tried to stop me! It's like he was afraid of something! But when he saw nothing happened he took off his, and..."
"That's when he fainted?" Emeri asked.
"That's when he started to get weak, yes!" Ranru answered.
"It sounds to me..." Ryouga started, "... that his Dino-brace somehow keeps him alive, and thought the same thing goes for us."
"But how?" Mahoro couldn't understand, "Those Dino-braces never did such things!"
"Maybe yours didn't." Yukito said flatly, "But perhaps this one wasn't made by Dino-Earthlings."
"So you mean..." Mahoro suddenly wondered, "... this one can do anything?"
"That man in the Dark Armor could recreate it, as well as bring back two dead people." Yukito answered, "We don't know what else he can do, or the things he makes!"
"Well, as long as we don't know anything for sure about this guy yet..." Nakadai started, "... he's still a danger to us all! We must take certain precautions!"
"What does that mean?" Ranru sounded more concerned than ever.
"He's right." Asuka agreed, "We don't know what he'll do when he wakes up. We need to keep him restrai..."
"NO!!!" Ranru suddenly jumped up.
"What?" Asuka was surprised, as was everyone else, "After what he's done, you're..."
"I don't care!" Ranru couldn't be convinced otherwise, "I can't let you do anything to him!"
Nakadai laughed: "I don't believe this. You're suffering from Stockholm Syndrome!"
Particulary the people from Dino-Earth had never heard of this, so Mahoro asked him: "What's Stockholm Syndrome?"
"It means that she has bonded with her captor!" Nakadai explained.
"How can you get bonded with someone who captured you?" Mahoro couldn't understand.
"I don't really blame her." Mai suddenly started, "He looks kinda cute!"
"Mai-chan!" Ryouga suddenly had to step in between, "It's not safe to be near him!"
"He's asleep!" Mai reasoned, "What can he do?"
"Not much!" Emeri assured her, as she suddenly held up some hand-cuffs, "Not if I can help it!"
Before Ranru could say anything, Emeri was allready on her way to the the dark guy.
"Wait!" Ranru started anyway, "If you do that, he'll never trust us!"
"And if we don't, he can attack us!" Ryouga reasoned, "We have no other option."
"Why do you carry those around anyway?" Mai asked.
As Emeri cuffed the dark guy's hands to the bed, she answered to Mai: "I'll explain when you're older."
Yukito did not know how she should feel about this: "I have given up on understanding her long ago."
"Look!" she told everuone, "As long as I keep the keys, nothing will happen!"
She put it in her left pocket, knowing for sure that nobody can reach there that easilly.
Not too long after this, Yatsudenwani entered the room.
"Is that him?" he asked, "Is he the one that..."
Nobody needed to hear the rest of his sentence to know what he was talking about, so Asuka said: "Yeas, he is."
Yatsudenwani did not hesitate to charge at the dark guy. Luckely for the latter, Ranru could jump in between: "No! Don't!"
"But he just took you away!" Yatsudenwani reasoned, "I can't..."
"Please don't attack him!" Ranru asked him, "Please don't... for me."
He didn't entirely understood why she'd defend him, but agreed anyway: "Aiai! I won't do anyhting to him! Only because you're asking me!"
Suddenly, the alarm sounded.
"The man in the Dark Armor?" Asuka wondered.
Allready, Emeri had started to look for the emergency: "It's weird! It's like all things are happening at once! Look!"
everybody looked at the screens. It looked like people were being turned into plants, perfumes, and lots of other things. Either that, or people started to wear colorful wigs, or having plants grow out of their heads. In other words, everything that the Abarangers had witnessed happening before is happening again.
"What's happening?" Ryouga asked.
"This is!" Emeri answered, as she showed them the screen upon which one giant monster was shown. Everyone knew what this monster was, but neither one had enough courage to say it out loud.
"Let's go and stop it!" Ryouga told everyone, as he lead the way out of the house.
His fellow Abarangers followed, but Ranru stayed behind for another second, and asked everyone: "Please, take care of him!"
"Don't worry!" Yatsudenwani replied, "I'll guard him with my life!"
Ranru smiled faintly, after which she ran out of the house too.