A/N: I'm sorry that it's a little short, but I've been so busy. Like, you have no idea. Anyway, enjoy!

"You sure we can take all of them on?" Luka pants, dodging a kick from Go-On Silver only to receive a blow from Gosei Knight. She uses her Gokai sabre to deflect another one of Gosei Knight's and MegaSilver's hits while kicking Go-On Silver in the torso.

"Yeah, we got this," Marvelous shoots back, using his sabre to fight off MagiShine and AbareKiller at once, while kicking out at Shinken Gold who had crept up behind them.

"Two Gokai, ten of mine...hmmm, they seem laughingly outnumbered," taunts Basco, reveling in the closeness of his victory.

Luka flips over MegaSilver's head and notices the Gallon far in the distance, almost out of her line of sight. Good. They're safe that way. Luka isn't really an affectionate person, but when it comes to her comrades…her friends…her family, she shows it in such a way that everyone knows not to mess with them.

Except Basco, apparently.

She's grown closer with them. And she won't let anyone touch them. She won't let anyone treat them that way again. Never again.

She takes a hit to the back of her leg from Bouken Silver and goes down on one knee but flashes her sabre up to stop it and Gosei Knight from stabbing her in the head. She rolls over and sweeps her leg under Bouken Silver and KibaRanger, knocking them to the ground and gets up, stepping to the right and barely missing MeagSilver's jab to her head. She grabs its weapon and turns it on her opponent, making it slice at Go-On Silver, which causes it to stumble backwards.

Chancing a glance at Marvelous, she sees he's doing just fine with his five opponents. True, he's used to fighting many enemies at once but this is beyond anything they've ever faced. It's ten against two, five against one, the odds had never been worse.

But they're Gokai pirates. They can handle it.

Right?

"I think we should change this up a little bit," Marvelous calls out. He holds up a key while ducking under Shinken Gold's sword. Luka sees it's the Gekiranger key and she smiles and nods at him. It's time to make things interesting.

She takes out her own key and inserts it into her Mobirite.

"Gokai Change!" They both yell out.

"GaoRed!" Marvelous transforms in a whirlwind of red.

"GaoYellow!" A new feeling of power floods her insides, licking its way through her body all the way to her heart. She sees Marvelous, as GaoRed, using his Lion Fang to knock down AbareKiller. She smiles slightly until taking a hit from Gosei Silver.

"Crap!" She realizes she herself is under attack and jumps over Bouken Silver's spear, taking out her Eagle Sword. "You're going to get it this time!"

Thye exchange blows as the other keys try to intervene. She slices down KibaRanger only to be confronted with welt from Go-On Silver. Over the sound of metal hitting metal, she hears Marvelous cry out and turns he head slightly.

"Watch it Marvelous!" Luka warns, seeing Shinken Gold creeping up on him when his back is turned. He looks over his shoulder, still locked in a sword battle with GaoSilver and Go-On Gold and ducks, making Shinken Gold ram his blade into the others. Marvelous doesn't thank her but nods and resumes fighting.

Luka smiles to herself as she deflects another few hits. They can do this. They can get away. They can win.

Or at least she thought this until she gets a blast to the back that knocks her over. The pain is overwhelming and dimming all other thoughts as she pries her eyes open to see through her helmet.

The blast had come from…MagiShine?

"But that's not fair…" she murmurs. It wasn't even a hit from one of the ones she was fighting. She looks down at her sprawled body to find the blast had changed her back to GokaiYellow. She presses her palms into the dirt, trying to get up. With one hand, she takes out her sabre but Go-On Silver kicks it from her fingers, hitting her hand in the process. The yellow Gokaiger can almost hear the heavy sounds of bones cracking and tries to suppress the flash of pain spreading throughout her. She looks around to find her sabre and gun had been swept from her hands and lay dormant a few feet away. Luka reaches out a hand only to find MegaSilver step on her wrist. She hisses in a breath.

Marvelous had looked up to see MagiShine fire up and shoot, but the hit hadn't been for him, he realized. It was for Luka.

The blast happened in slow motion but too fast for him to call out a warning. He can just watch as it makes its way towards her, unaware and hits her square in the back, causing her to fall over. Still morphed changed, but morphed, and now at the mercy of five keys that are all baring down on her. And she's not getting up.

When he sees MegaSilver step on her hand, it's the last straw.

He takes his Lion Fang and shoots all the keys around him, giving him a moment to get away. Soon enough, by the time the smoke clears, he's already at Luka's side, his weapons up, ready to defend her.

"Huh…" she says, looking up at him, still dazed from that last shot. He quickly duels with MegaSilver and shoves him backwards off Luka. He then helps her up, while she's rubbing her wrist. The pain is still hot and throbbing but she steels herself to ignore it. He immediately removes his hand from her shoulder, still not sure of his feelings and not wanting to hint at something that might come to nothing.

It's happened too much.

"You okay?" he asks, handing her her sabe. She nods, picking up her gun.

"Yeah. But that wasn't fair!" Marvelous nods, knowing how backwards Basco usually is about fighting fair. He hates it.

"I know. Let's just defeat them anyway, okay?" Marvelous takes out another key, ready for a change. "Zyuranger!"

Luka nods and takes out her own. "Zyuranger!" Once again, they have changed and different rangers stand in their place. Marvelous presses his back against her, two pirates ready to take on the ten keys. He feels her head bounce up and down. He feels his own adrenaline pounding through his veins, ready to just defeat the keys and meet back up with his crew. His comrades.

His…family?