Super Sentai vs Super Sentai – Another
Author's Note: Ooh, very sorry for this real late reply. I dunno, the writer's block is pretty high and job was pretty demanding. But for the moment, I will be taking care of this fic. So... enjoy this chapter?
CHAPTER 10: Black of the Nightmare
In the villains' headquarters, the villains were in the meeting hall, being promised by Lamie that she would show her work, the very first Dora Monster she'd create. "Heh… can't wait with what she'll come up with." Kiros commented, tapping on the table with one of his finger while his other hand is put on his chin.
"This had better be a strong one!" Gasha Dokuro slammed his fist on the table instead.
"Calm yourself. It is basic that people learn." Abrellar tried to make the situation calm, "Whatever mistakes she commits, we'll make it up… for now. But should she instead not learn from failures… I will…"
"Will what?" Suddenly, the door opened and Lamie entered. Behind her was a slender woman with wings.
"So you're back, Lamie. This is the monster you spoke about?" Shibolena asked, looking at the monster, which seemed to be based on a naked woman with bat wings, and some black lines acting like cloth. Although her face was humanlike, there was some scars that made her look a bit monstrous, but still looked attractive to humans.
"Yep! This is Dora Succubus!" Lamie introduced, but in a sudden, the monster suddenly got near Kiros. "Hey, come back here!"
"Well, hello… handsome." The Dora Succubus suddenly started flirting, "Got some free time for the night?"
"Hello too, beautiful. What's for the night?" Kiros was too happy to comply.
"Well let's just say it'll be a passionate, intensive night…" Dora Succubus continued flirting… until Lamie herself pulled her ears away, "Owie! That was mean, Miss Lamie!"
"Idiot, do you want to instead suck Kiros' life force up? ! He's our ally!" Lamie scolded, wondering if something went wrong in Dora Succubus' creation. 'Or that part ends up too successful…'
"All right… can we continue?" Shibolena asked, "So what does she do?"
"As the legends say, a succubus would enter a man's dream and suck the life force out of them. Dora Succubus is just like that… except she'd not target just men… women are also fair play on her…" Lamie explained, but while doing that, it seemed that the Dora Succubus was on the verge of hugging her. As a result, she backhanded her in annoyance, "Your target is supposed to be those humans, not any of us!"
"Hey, that sounds really powerful. The humans won't see it coming!" Gasha Dokuro said, "Just make sure that her first targets are those Super Sentai!"
"Of course." Lamie said nodded. However, Abrellar was the first to raise an objection.
"Then how do you suppose she enters the minds of men? Do you suppose she goes invisible for it?"
"Ah… that." Lamie's expression froze. This was the cause of one of her inexperiences, "I haven't thought of that."
"Ah, man! And I thought it was gonna be an invincible one!" Kiros lamented, although he was quick to make a sly face, "It's still hot, though."
"Well, in that case we can remedy it with something like a medium." Shibolena offered as she stood up, "Come with me, Lamie. We'll have to modify your monster a little with Nejirejia technology."
"Very well then." Lamie said as she walked away along with Shibolena. Abrellar only looked at the two walking away, there was some expectation within him.
"Then do your job well, ladies."
In Bonds, the Super Sentai was doing their normal daily activity. Takeru and Mei this time trained together. Hoji was scanning through the database of Alienizers, while Chisato still had some activity with her college and recently just came back. "Yo!" She greeted.
"Welcome back, Chisato." Takeru, who was just on a break on the training with Mei, greeted her, "How's college?"
"Doing fine, thanks!" Chisato answered, "Though, well I could use some research about criminals. It's the topic of the lecture today."
"Well, that can't be helped." Suddenly Hoji said as he got up from his seat, "Go ahead, use the database for the moment."
"Wow! Thanks, Hoji!" Chisato replied as she stepped to the chair, but suddenly stopped a bit as she saw Hoji just standing there, "Uh, what? You're gonna supervise me? No I don't use the nets for stuffs like…"
"I'm not thinking like that." Hoji shot back, still looking stern, "I'm just saying… er… I'll guide you through the database. Answer questions you don't get about it… things like that."
"That's so kind of you." Chisato nodded as she finally sat down and teasingly said, "Well shall we, Hoji-sensei?"
"Don't call me 'sensei'." Hoji reminded as eventually he helped Chisato in navigating through the database, while both Takeru and Mei just watched.
"I suppose this is an improvement." Takeru noted, "Hoji before would be much colder. It surprises me that people developed that quick."
"He just don't want to show weakness so easily, but he is a kind person." Mei commented, reminded with the several times she interacted with Hoji and sometimes becoming the receiving end of his sudden generosity, "I've known…"
"Really, Mei. He was rough to you, remember?" Takeru noted, remembering the earlier moments when Hoji was heavily disbelieving on Mei.
"Misunderstandings happen, Takeru. But you also straightened him up, so you got my thanks as well." Mei commented, smiling. But it was quick to fade and her face returned to a normal expression as she looked around, "Have you seen Jiraiya today?"
"Yeah, come to think of it I haven't seen him…" Takeru commented, and wondered about the ninja's whereabouts, "Wanna go check?" Mei just nodded and they left both Hoji and Chisato to work on together while they went to look for Jiraiya, and stumbled upon the recreation room…
And from the outside, it was like the light wasn't even lit. It was already night. 'Did he have some sort of early sleep?' Takeru wondered as he got nearer to the door… and suddenly…
"BOOOOMMM!"
"Whoa!" Both Takeru and Mei was taken aback with such loud that they accidentally pushed the door open, and revealed that Jiraiya was watching an action movie.
"Oh yeah! Awesome!" Jiraiya cheered at how the action hero made a huge explosion on the enemy base, ending the movie. At that point, he realized that both Takeru and Mei just accidentally opened the door, "Hey what's wrong?"
"That was some loud stuff…" Takeru said, getting up and scratching his ears, "What are you doing, Jiraiya?"
"Watching movies." Jiraiya stated shortly as Mei was looking through the movies that he owned, in form of DVD.
"Wow…" Mei looked in awe, "It came in different types! Last time I knew, they used something of a black square tape or something..."
"Oh, must be the VHS. Well technology marched on, Chisato kinda explained to me." Jiraiya answered, remembering about how Chisato told him about DVD players. And luckily, the Bonds' recreation room did have a DVD player for watching movies.
"Yeah, this looks more advanced than what I used to see back then..." Takeru defended, as he was mostly used in watching movies through the theater. Just then he noticed, "Where did you get this much?"
"Ah, there was a generous customer when I ran my crepe stand." Jiraiya said, remembering what he did in the morning. There was a female customer who bought a lot of his crepe and not only paid him handsomely, also gave a bunch of movie DVDs to him, "She gave these to me and so far these were good!"
"Wow… maybe if there's a romantic one, I'd like to watch!" Mei hoped. In the last battle with Bandora, she did want to watch something romantic, maybe along with the other Zyurangers. However, at that time duty called and she had to prioritize her duty as the Princess of the Risha tribe over her need like a normal girl of her age, so she was mostly concentrating in fighting.
"Oh, I know something even more exciting than that." Jiraiya suddenly grinned, piquing Takeru's interest, "In fact… why don't you invite Hoji and Chisato to enjoy this together? The five of us, movie night!"
"Yeah, sure." Takeru nodded, before asking, "So… what movie will it be?"
It turned out to be a horror movie. The movie revolved about a cursed video tape, which have seen light and popularity since 1998, but this was a new version. All five watched the movie intently… until the movie truly ends. As Jiraiya turned on the light once more, and the watching took place at night… it turned out that the only one remaining sitting down straight in place were just Hoji and Jiraiya.
"That's it, really?" Hoji said in a deadpan tone, "It was a decent rip off. But not enough to scare me. Watched the original many times, I'm used to skipping sleep back in the days." It reminded him of the days before he became an SPD member, him and his friends watching the original horror story, pissing on their pants and skipping sleep. Further rewatching and he became more familiar with it to be unaffected. Unfortunately, however… the same couldn't be said to the girls. "Get off my hand, Mei. Movie's over."
"B-but i-i-it was s-s-so scary…!" Mei stated, shivering as she spoke, "I don't know if I can sleep tonight!"
"Sleep in one bed with Chisato, hugging each other. Problem solved." Hoji stated once more, "Seriously, Mei. It's just fiction!"
"I…" Chisato, who was at the time holding on Jiraiya's hand, "I've heard of that upcoming stuff, movie like this… called Ring or something. I just haven't watched that and only heard it was super scary… Now you probably just confirmed it…!" She then said in a sarcastic tone while still being scared, "Thanks a lot, guys…"
"Yeah, heard it came out in 1998." Hoji stated, as he looked at Jiraiya who still kept a cool face. "Not scared either, Jiraiya?"
"… Oh! Of course not!" Jiraiya suddenly said, surprised that he's being called. "Of course I'm not scared at all. I mean, that was obviously based on a Youkai that the Kakurangers usually fought! What's it called… Yes, the Onryou."
"On… ryou?" Chisato then asked, perhaps Jiraiya knew more.
"It's a spirit of vengeance, simple as that." Jiraiya gave a short answer, "Well, Daimaou never unleashed that kind of monster, but I'm sure there's one Youkai like that from his Corps."
"Uh-huh…" Hoji noted until he looked around, "Where did Takeru go?"
It was just then they realized that Takeru was gone from their sight. This scared Mei more and tightened her hug on Hoji, "Oh no! Perhaps he… he…!"
"Damn it, Mei!" Hoji said, "I told you, it's fiction! Won't happen in reality! Now get your hug off me!"
"Wait." Jiraiya then put his hand near his ears. He felt like he heard some sort of sound of gnashing teeth. Suddenly, he jumped out behind the couch they're sitting at… and said, "Oh, so there you are!"
"Huh?" Chisato then got up and followed Jiraiya at looking behind the couch… and found Takeru curling himself up and holding his head, completely scared, "My God! Takeru, so you're scared? !"
"It's just fiction, it's just fiction, it's just fiction, it's just fiction, it's just fiction, it's just fiction, it's just fiction…!" Takeru continued to say such thing as if trying to ensure himself that everything's going to be all right.
"Don't worry about it too much, Takeru. The movie's over…" Chisato tried to ensure him, even though she's also scared.
"Well I guess that was natural, for someone who came from the eighties to be scared." Hoji commented as he also got up, "But that's why it's called 'horror story'. It doesn't sell if it doesn't scare people."
"I have fought lots of Doggler Monsters bravely, even ghost-based…" Takeru commented as he got up and faced Jiraiya, "And none came close to this! Jiraiya, you picked a good one!" He tried to smile as big as he can, trying to congratulate Jiraiya for his keen eye in movie-picking.
"Eh heh…" Jiraiya laughed a little as he smiled, but then he walked away while stating something that would strike fear to even Takeru… "Then good luck sleeping."
At those words, Takeru froze, unable to give a retort. It looked like he'll have to spend the night either sleepless or haunted…
In the next morning, at the Bonds dining room…
Takeru entered, rather hazy with his sleep, while Hoji was already there, reading newspaper, as he didn't only depend on the database for daily information. "Slept well, Takeru?"
"O… of course I did!" Takeru protested, "I-I'm not…"
"Well at least you're awake. Breakfast will be ready soon." Hoji replied, looking at the toaster nearby that would get the breads toasted and ready.
"Say, where are the rest?" Takeru wondered as there are only two of them.
"Must've been asleep…" Hoji gave a short answer.
"We better wait so we can have breakfast together." Takeru said, noticing that there are five plates for them to eat.
However, after minutes of waiting, the three never came. Even Hoji grew weary, "What now, they're too scared to get up?"
"Jiraiya was pretty brave back then, that can't be his reason." Takeru said as he got up, "I'll take a look."
It didn't take long for Takeru to just take several steps, and he's hearing some ladies talking. "Wake… please…!"
'Huh? What are they talking about?' Takeru said as he headed to the ladies room… and found out that the door's open, and Mei and Chisato weren't even seen. "Wha? !"
"Come on, Jiraiya! Wake up! It's morning already!" Chisato's voice could be heard and Takeru headed off to the source… Jiraiya's room. Mei and Chisato were there, and they were trying to wake him up.
"Takeru! Something weird's going on to Jiraiya!" Mei approached him, "He… he just refuses to get up!"
"Really? Maybe he's tired…" Takeru tried to pass it off, until he realized that both girls have been doing physical contacts with Jiraiya. It'd be absurd if he didn't wake up through that, "Wait, this seems off… why isn't he waking up when he's touched?"
"That I don't know!" Mei answered, "I've got a bad feeling about this. It's like this is not a natural sleep…"
"But we certainly haven't fought any monsters yesterday…" Chisato muttered, "Maybe Hoji knows something. Perhaps there's some Alienizer who's drugging something!"
"Right, that should be a good idea." Takeru said as he moved away, "Come on, let's go." Nodding, the two girls followed Takeru, hoping that Hoji might find some answer.
But to their shock, they found out that Hoji has fallen asleep as well, on the dining table no less. "My God…!" Takeru uttered in shock, looking at what transpired.
"Hoji, not you too! Wake up!" Chisato tried to wake Hoji up to no avail. It started to make her wonder, "Did someone poison his food?"
"Can't be true." Takeru shook his head, looking at the toasted bread in front of Hoji. It was still untouched. "He hasn't even taken a bite. Mei may be right… there may be something unnatural behind this. I'll have to investigate."
"I'm coming with you, Takeru." Mei said, holding Hoji's forehead and feeling something strange within, "I don't know, but somehow I felt some sort of familiar force behind this…"
"Very well. Here, you eat this." Takeru said as he offered Hoji's bread to Mei.
"Eh? ! At times like this? !" Mei was shocked seeing Takeru being so carefree even in this time of crisis. However, she finally understood as he explained why.
"You can't conduct proper investigation if your stomach is empty! You haven't eaten breakfast today, have you? We can eat while we walk, no need to run."
"Wait, what about me?" Chisato then asked, feeling that she'd be left behind. Takeru then looked at both Hoji, and Jiraiya's room and then he looked at her.
"Chisato… you stay." Takeru ordered, "Someone needs to guard this base while we're away. With two of us fallen to something weird like this…"
"Okay, you don't need to say anymore." Chisato nodded as she understood her task, "I'll guard this base. Come back safely."
"No worries." Takeru said as he grabbed the toast that was supposed to be his. "Let's go, Mei!" As she nodded, both of them headed towards the teleporter and headed to the surface, beginning their investigation.
In the same time, Jiraiya woke up in a slightly weird dimension. It was quite empty. "Huh…? Where am I?" He muttered. Looking around, nobody was there. In a sudden, however, there was a loud sound of thunder. He usually wasn't scared, but the sound was so loud, he had to cover his ears. 'Ugh, so loud…!' As he covered his ears, he suddenly realized something. 'Wait… last I remembered, I was asleep for the night. If this is a dream, I should've awakened! Something's wrong here…"
Just as he looked around, he saw a shade of a woman in kimono. Her pale face caught the attention of Jiraiya. "Who're you?" He looked at her. She didn't look like any of the youkai, but she still emitted an air of mystery. She just moved away, away from Jiraiya's sight. "Wait!" He followed her. The woman may be suspicious, but this was the only way for him to get any information of what was going on around him.
He ran and ran, chasing for the woman throughout the foggy dimension. As he ran, he suddenly heard a loud sound of door closing. "Wha…? !" Jiraiya looked behind and he saw that there was a closed door and upon inspection, it's like he's drawn into some sort of house. The surrounding was even darker than normal. "Nah… can't be some sort of haunted house… right?" He smiled sheepishly as he walked forward.
He opened one door and saw the woman, looking behind him. "Ah, there you are." Jiraiya greeted, "I was wondering… where am I?"
There was no response. But as the woman turned, she no longer had the woman's face. Instead, it was of a skull devoid of flesh. Jiraiya was in complete shock as the skeletal lady grabbed him and pinned him to the ground, shrieking and laughing hysterically as her arms was put on him and tried to rip him apart. "I… I'm not dying here!" Jiraiya yelled as he struggled and wrestled with the skeletal lady and eventually kicked her away, letting her get up.
Unfortunately for Jiraiya, the woman is a persistent one. No matter how many times Jiraiya felled her, she always got back up. "Well, in that case, there's this one trick I can do…" Jiraiya said as he grabbed something from his ninja garb. A bomb. He immediately threw it to the skeletal lady.
BOOM!
The skeletal lady exploded, only her bones remain. "Ha, serves you right…" Jiraiya taunted a bit… until his taunt turned into terror once more as suddenly her bones gathered once more, forming her again, "Oh, you've got to be kidding me!" Jiraiya exclaimed as he fought further. Just then he remembered something.
'There are a lot of these in those movies!' He thought, remembering that in the movie, there were skeletal ghosts like this, of course, not including the infamous string-haired ghosts, 'If that was in the movie, I could laugh at it, but these…!'
As such, fear started to creep on Jiraiya as his movement started to falter. He started to become unable to completely dodge some attacks, causing him to be cut here and there with the skeleton's claws.
And just then, someone tapped his shoulders from behind. "Yes?" Jiraiya turned behind and suddenly… the string-haired ghost lady from the previous movie was in front of him. From whatever's visible from her mouth, it seemed that she was grinning madly. Fear completely took over Jiraiya as he exclaimed as loud as he can…
"OH MY GOOOODDD!"
"So, any ideas?" Takeru asked as he walked together with Mei through the streets. It seemed peaceful, but they knew something was amiss.
"Jiraiya used to run a crepe stand, right?" Mei noticed, "Maybe we should go into where he usually hung out, selling crepes."
"Sounds good…" Takeru said, but his movement was halted when he looked at one of the televisions in a nearby store. It was supposed to air the local channel of Japan and at the time, it should be news time by NHK. However… the table where the newscaster usually sat and read the news were empty. "What? What's happening in NHK? This is supposed to be the time for morning news."
Out of curiosity, Takeru instead entered the store. "Ah, wait, Takeru!" Mei entered together with him, but to her shock… the store was completely empty. Not even the owners were there, "No way… yesterday even at the morning, this store should be ready… What…"
"Excuse me…" A male child's voice called out, "Brother and sister… are you buying something?"
"Ah! No, not really, I'm sorry." Takeru answered as he approached the young boy, "You must be a hard working boy. Keep it up."
"Oh, not really… My father usually ran this store." The boy explained, as he suddenly hung his head low, "But for some reason, today he just refused to wake up… and so did Mom…"
"Refused to wake up…!" Mei was shocked hearing it, it was the same symptom that befell on both Hoji and Jiraiya, "Was it just… today?"
"Yes… But it's weird… This store is usually crowded. Why is it that it's empty now?" The boy said in a sad tone, "Maybe I'm not."
"No, no, you're doing a good job." Mei tried to cheer him up, "There's something wrong going on around here, but don't' worry. Sis will take care of it."
"Thank you, sis!" The boy greeted, smiling.
"Not to worry, 'Bro' will also take care of it." Takeru also butted in, reassuring the boy further, "Be a good boy, OK? Your parents will be proud!" With that, the two left the store, with new information in their minds.
"So I guess that means those two aren't the only victims." Takeru noted, "It's a widespread disease or something. But what can cause it?"
"Eh?" Mei then spotted something. A woman selling a bunch of movies. On the stand she's selling, there was a plank writing, 'Original movies for sale!'. "Takeru? That woman… she looks a bit suspicious…"
"Huh? Yeah, she's selling something original… on street?" Takeru muttered, "Why didn't she try to sell in a more respectable place? Anyway, this is worth asking." Both of them then approached the woman. "Hello, young lady."
"Ah! Customers!" The woman said, "Finally a customer! I haven't had one since morning…"
"You were open very early? You're a hard working woman." Takeru commented. While doing that, Mei then looked at the movies she's selling, in form of DVDs. However, when she looked at one of the DVDs, she felt something very ominous. 'What is… this familiar feeling… Ooh, now I get it…!'
Mei suddenly took one of the DVDs… and then snapped it in two. "My God! What are you…!" The woman shrieked in terror.
"Mei! What in the world…!" Takeru tried to reprimand her, but suddenly, even his Aura felt an evil energy emanating from the broken DVD. "What is this…!"
"The moment I touched the DVD was the moment I knew something was wrong… Miss." Mei said boldly, staring at the woman, "I should've recognized that face quicker. Why don't you just show your true self… Lamie!"
"Heh…!" The woman suddenly grinned and as she spun, she revealed her true self… as Mei predicted, her nemesis Lamie. "I see your instinct is still as sharp as ever, Princess of Risha Tribe…"
"You…!" Takeru also recognized the woman, recalling that she did appear alongside Kiros and the rest in the past, "So… Jiraiya must've been tricked by you! What have you done? !"
"Oh, I just gave him my movie," Lamie nonchalantly answered, "As of the effect, you'll see soon enough. Golems!" Snapping her finger, she summoned a lot of Golems. "This'll be your grave."
"Tch…!" Takeru was about to transform, but the Golems were quicker to strike at them, causing him and Mei to defend themselves without transforming. "They really don't let up…!"
And it didn't take long for Lamie to leap in and kicked Takeru on the face, knocking him down. She raised her sword upwards and pushed it down with extreme speed, attempting to slash, Takeru, until her hand was shot with an arrow, causing her to stagger, enabling Takeru to back flip and took a good range. "You always get in my way, do you, Mei?" Lamie said in annoyance, looking at the one who shot the arrow… Mei.
"What you're doing is inexcusable." Mei retorted, "Now you will tell me how to wake those people up!"
"Hah! Wake up? After they were inflicted with the curse of Dora Succubus? ! Dream on!" Lamie said with confidence, "If she likes them, she would play with them as she sucked on their life force, if not, they'll be left to die by her minions in the world of dream."
"Dora Succubus…? ! Dream…!" Takeru gritted his teeth hearing such tale, "You monster, I guess I should expect no less from the likes of you."
"And the medium you used to suck them into the dream world you spoke of… were these DVDs?" Mei added, "Lamie, how could you!"
"How could I indeed." Lamie said as she stared at her rival, "It's all for my reunion. My reunion would come soon if I destroy you Super Sentai…"
"Reunion? What are you talking about?" Takeru asked, not really getting what she meant.
"Simple. When I kill you, I would reunite with Bandora-sama, my dear Grifforzer and my child!" Lamie said as she sounded really heartfelt and desperate, "How dare you get in the way between a mother and her child! You're all nothing but hypocrites!"
"You have a child? !" Takeru was shocked hearing it, and surprisingly, so did Mei. After all, Lamie gave birth in the prison she was sent by the Zyurangers, so she had no idea.
"Lamie… I'll be honest." Mei suddenly lowered her bow, once again her voice softened, "I feel sorry for you. You were probably forcefully separated from your family by either Abrellar or Rufecil's power. You have my sympathy. If I can, I would like to help you…"
"Well, I'm glad you understand, Mei." Lamie said as she approached her, and suddenly prepared for a quick strike, "Well we can start with your death!"
"Mei!" Takeru yelled as Lamie was about to land a hit… but only to find out that Mei already blocked it with her bow.
"But if this is your method of reuniting with them…! By ruining many people's lives in your path…! Destroying them in dreams where they were supposed to think of happy things…!" Mei said, this time, her voice becoming angrier, "Then rather than helping you, I would instead stop you!"
"Grr…!" Lamie gritted her teeth hearing such refusal. She pushed further, but Mei instead moved her bow aside, causing her to stumble forward. Using this chance, she swung her bow in a circular path, swatting Lamie aside, as she quickly got into her Dino Buckler and in instant…
"DINO BUCKLER!"
She transformed into Ptera Ranger, and immediately prepared to shoot at Lamie with her Ptera Arrow. The arrow was shot, and Lamie could only block it with her sword, but the pain was still inflicted to her arm that held the sword. "You…!" Lamie was about to strike again, until…
"AURA MASK!"
Takeru has quickly transformed into Red Mask and shot Lamie down with the Laser Magnum. "I agree with Mei… you do look sympathetic. But your method is really questionable, that's why we will stop you."
"Stop me, then!" Lamie said as she got up, "I'm far from done!"
Thus began another bout of fighting between the two Sentai warriors and Lamie. Despite her seemingly noble intentions, both Red Mask and Ptera Ranger wouldn't let her go further, as it would spell doom to the humanity.
"Heh heh…" Watching the fight from afar, Shibolena couldn't help but chuckle. "They don't even realize that they're too late."
"Too late?" Gasha Dokuro said, curiously, "They're still putting up a fight!"
"Of course you won't realize, since for the night you were soundly sleeping." Shibolena said once more as a smirk formed within her lips. "They're already cursed… The moment they watched that video Lamie brought to them!"
After several bouts of fighting, however, both Red Mask and Ptera Ranger felt that their movements became slower as they were struck with fatigue. "My body…!" Ptera Ranger, in particular, was slowed down in a most crucial moment that Lamie was able to hit her and knocked her down.
"Hahaha. The time has come for me to bid you farewell, and leave you all to your deaths." Lamie said as she stepped back, "Dora Succubus, the rest is yours."
"Dora Succubus…? ! Where is that? !" Red Mask asked although his body was also faltering.
"Oh you'll be meeting her soon enough…" Lamie said… "You signed the contract last night after all! Hahaha!" With that, in a gust of wind, she vanished. In the meantime, Red Mask and Ptera Ranger's bodies continued to falter as they end up de-transformed.
"Last night…! No… it couldn't be…!" Takeru suddenly came to the realization of what just happened and what the 'contract' meant, "That movie Jiraiya brought! We all watched it together, which means, we've all been cursed…!"
"Oh no…!" Mei was frightened hearing it, "We better get back quick! Maybe Chisato can help…"
Both Takeru and Mei helped each other to stand as they struggled to head back to Bonds. Seconds by seconds, their bodies continued to falter further, as if getting them to fall asleep already.
"Chisato!" Upon arriving at Bonds, Takeru called out, but there was no response.
"Chisato!" Mei also continued to call as they headed to the dining room. On there, however, they were shocked to saw that just like Hoji and Jiraiya, Chisato has also fallen asleep. "Oh no…! We're… too… late…!" As Mei uttered such words, she finally also succumbed and fell asleep, with Takeru catching her body.
"Mei…? ! Hey, wake up!" Takeru tried to wake her up, but it did nothing. Eventually, he didn't even have enough power to lift her up as he put her to the ground as he struggled to stand on his own feet.
'Don't fail me here, my Aura power…!' Takeru thought, concentrating and hoping his Aura power would keep him awake. But alas, the force was too strong and eventually he couldn't stay awake and fell asleep too.
'Damn… is this it…?'
"Hiiii!" Jiraiya was shivering. Nobody was seeing him except these ghosts. He was too overcame with fear. When everyone was watching, he was good enough to hide all his fears, but in truth, he probably would run away from the room instead of hiding behind the couch like Takeru. As a result, the ghosts were free to lay beatdown to him, to the point that he's bleeding in many places. "No… not here…! I… I'm not afraid of you, go away…!"
Until eventually a shadow suddenly swept in and took Jiraiya away. It entered a room together with him as Jiraiya eventually was able to look at his savior. A woman with red hair and very revealing clothes. "Um… thanks." Jiraiya said, in gratitude.
"Oh no problem." The woman also spoke in perfect English. In fact, she used a Scottish accent, to make her sound more seductive, "Can't let you handsome guy die after all."
"Um… your name?" Jiraiya asked, "And… please, put on more clothes… It's… very distracting…"
"Oh, don't worry…" The woman said, "This is my usual attire. But nevermind that, let's have some fun…"
"Fun?" Jiraiya asked, curious with what she meant 'fun', "But what about those…" As much as Jiraiya was scared, he was also worried, if they would prey on another. He feared that he couldn't protect them.
"Oh no worries. They probably would find another playmate… like you." The woman continued, "But don't worry… you're my playmate now."
"W… what…?" Jiraiya said as the woman suddenly touched his clothes and attempted to undress him, but Jiraiya grabbed it quick enough, "Please, not like that. I'm… chaste."
"Oh, don't be such a bore. I like you very much…" The woman continued to invite Jiraiya further. At that point, suddenly there were a lot of screams heard from the room's window.
"OK, hold up. Let me check what's happening outside…" Jiraiya said as he headed to the window. To his horror, he saw the very ghosts that attacked him, now bringing friends and attacking his friends. "Oh my God… Takeru…! Hoji…! Mei…! Chisato…!"
"OK, are you done?" The woman suddenly said, looking at the window as well, "Oh, they'll do just fine. Look, they're resisting even more than you."
Deep down, Jiraiya felt ashamed. His friends were able to resist fears, but he didn't quite when alone. He spent a year battling Japanese equivalent of these, but faltered when similar things confronted him. But when he looked at the battle, he saw the other thing. Takeru and the rest were resisting, but they're still losing the battle. Something must be done. 'But I… no… this isn't time to falter. They're just the same as the Youkai Corps. I don't need to fear…! Now… wait a minute…!'
He looked at the woman. Even when he's a child and living in America, aside of training with Master Gali, he used to read some western folklore as well as the demons residing there. And he did find one thing that the woman is very similar with.
"Nice try, Succubus!" Jiraiya said as he performed a clean roundhouse kick straight on the face.
THWAK!
The woman fell to the ground with the mighty force of the kick, as well as being surprised that Jiraiya would do that. 'Wow, I can't believe I still remembered that kick from that movie from year 1972 about two legendary martial artist from across the globe duking it out!'
"Ugh… How… how can you do this to me…!" The woman whined as she rubbed her face, which started to look less human, "And Succubus? How…"
"Yeah, you really did good in bringing out my fear in dream world." Jiraiya said, hopping a little while he faced her, "But no more cowardly Jiraiya! Enter Jiraiya the Brave!"
"You little… and I liked you so much…" The woman said as she eventually revealed her true form, that of Dora Succubus, "Regardless, I WILL suck the life force out of you! Your friends are next!" She then ran forward, approaching Jiraiya. But he only dodged most of its attacks. "What's the matter…? In MY world, there's no way you can transform! You can't kill me… Wha…!"
"Heh, I don't need it." Jiraiya's overwhelming courage was very painful to bear as it staggered her. Dora Succubus' world did have one weakness, if someone overcame their fear, the power within would be lost and it would weaken the Dora Succubus' strength. "I'll destroy you myself here if necessary! HWAA-TAA!" Jiraiya leapt and launched a flying kick straight onto Dora Succubus' face.
At that moment, it felt like the world was crumbling as a flash of light enveloped the whole world.
When Dora Succubus fell, she instead fell in an open field. "Ah…? ! This… this is not my world anymore…!"
"Huh? Well, I guess it's good to be back…" Jiraiya noted as he looked around… and found not just Takeru and the rest, but also many people who were also cursed. "Everyone!"
"Ugh… wha…" Takeru said, scratching his head, "Huh? Last time I remembered fighting monsters in some weird dimension…"
"What a long nightmare…" Hoji said until he looked at Dora Succubus, "Wait, I've seen that creature flashing in my nightmare… So, that was the cause!"
"So this must be the Dora Succubus Lamie was talking about!" Mei said as she got up, "But first off… Jiraiya?"
"Before that 'first off', get the civilians out first!" Jiraiya reprimanded the others.
"Ah… right! Everyone, please get out and leave this to us!" Chisato said as she and the rest drove the civilians away, who were already scared with what Dora Succubus was like.
"Jiraiya, those movies you brought cursed us with her curse." Takeru explained, "If anyone saw that movie from the CD, it would force us enter the dream."
"Oh, so that's how. And she probably plans to kill us in that dream." Jiraiya noted, "Unforgivable! Let's go, guys!"
"OK!" The other four nodded as they prepared to transform.
"AURA MASK!"
"EMERGENCY! DEKARANGER! FACE ON!"
"DINO BUCKLER!"
"SUPER HENGE! DORON CHANGER!"
"INSTALL! MEGARANGER!"
And the five transformed and ready to do battle, facing the queen of dream world.
"Red Mask!"
"Pursue mysterious cases! Deka Blue!"
"Ptera Ranger! Mei!"
"Ninja Black! Jiraiya!"
"Mega Yellow!"
"Even though we are from the different time and team…" Red Mask began, in which Ninja Black followed, "We are still united as one!"
"We are…! SUPER SENTAI!"
"You… traitor!" Dora Succubus screamed as she snapped her fingers. Much to everyone's surprise, the creatures that appeared in the dream world, including the skeleton ghost and the long haired ghost appeared instead of Golems.
"Eek! It's them!" Mega Yellow, in surprise, shrieked, "What are they doing here, I thought they're dream world exclusive? !"
"Heh! This kind of illusionary trick is child's play." Ninja Black said as he threw several smoke bombs to the monsters. Once the fog cleared, there were none of those creatures, but mere Golems.
"Golems in disguise? !" Ptera Ranger said, "Well, that was surprising."
"You fail at being a Kunoichi… monster!" Ninja Black taunted.
"Well, I guess that's enough show-off." Deka Blue said, loading his D-Sniper, "Let's get down to beating them off!"
"Right, my fists are getting itchy anyway." Red Mask said as the five rushed to the Golems and fought them off together.
However, behind them, Dora Succubus was watching intently. 'Hah… they thought I'm only strong in my Dream World. I'll show you… why they call me a Succubus…'
She suddenly blew a kiss, which formed a heart shape. It was thrown to the fighting Super Sentai… and hit Red Mask from behind. "Now then, my chosen boy… fight for me, will you?"
In a sudden, Red Mask then punched Ninja Black on the face. "Takeru! What the…!" Deka Blue protested, but he instead was blocked.
"Takeru! Get a hold of yourself! That's a friend!" Mega Yellow yelled, but Red Mask continued the beating on both Deka Blue and Ninja Black.
"Ah hah hah!" Dora Succubus laughed, looking at how friends fight each other, "You see… he is now my slave!"
"I knew it, if I heard of the name 'Succubus'!" Ptera Ranger said, realizing what happened, "The Dora Succubus… it's one of Bandora's ancient monsters used to mesmerize men and women to her wills! But how did Lamie…"
"Men… and women? !" Mega Yellow was surprised hearing that, "That means… this monster is a bi? !"
"Indeed! And I need something to entertain me than just boys fighting… Catfight will do fine too!" Dora Succubus then attempted to blow another kiss, "Come to mama…"
"No you don't!" Ptera Ranger said as she shot an arrow to the Dora Succubus, but it was too late, even though the arrow hit her. The blow was shot to Ptera Ranger. However… it was rejected and reflected.
"Grr…! You Risha Tribe and your silly holy protection!" Dora Succubus said in annoyance, but then she grinned, "But still, I got my replacement."
"Eh?" As Ptera Ranger wondered, she was attacked by Mega Yellow, "My God! Chisato!"
"Dance, puppets! Dance!" Dora Succubus was just sitting down as she watched boys fighting boys and girls fighting each other, "With stuffs like these, who needs Golems?"
"Damn! What a tricky monster!" Deka Blue said as he blocked Red Mask's Masky Blade. At this moment, Ninja Black noticed something on Dora Succubus.
"Hey! I've got an idea. You need to distract her!" Ninja Black said.
"But how? ! Takeru is quite the distraction!" Deka Blue said as he blocked yet another strike.
"Just trust me!" Ninja Black said as he threw a smoke bomb and suddenly vanished.
"Hey, Jiraiya!" Deka Blue called out. However, regardless, he decided to trust Ninja Black in planning. But, he still had his doubts. All he did was defense. He could never raise his weapon against a fellow Sentai warrior. The same goes to Ptera Ranger.
However, after moments of fighting, suddenly both Red Mask and Mega Yellow stopped and struggled, clutching their heads.
"Takeru!"
"Chisato!"
"Hoji… the hell are you… doing? ! Don't just stand there, attack!" Red Mask struggled as he said.
"Attack you? ! Are you joking? !" Deka Blue yelled.
"Trust… Jiraiya…! Attack her…!" Red Mask continued to speak.
"Yeah… and leave you to whack me from behind." Deka Blue sarcastically answered, "No, that doesn't sound so good."
"You can… disable us…" Mega Yellow spoke, also struggling, "Hurry…!"
"Disable… I see!" Ptera Ranger said as she got a clue and pulled her bow, "Sorry, Chisato!" As she said that, she shot Mega Yellow on the leg.
"Mei, what are you…!" Deka Blue nearly protested, until he finally realized… perhaps this was the only way. He raised his sniper and also shot Red Mask on the leg.
"G… good…" Red Mask said slowly, "The rest… is yours…!"
"I'll make sure that doesn't go in vain. Whatever Jiraiya is planning, we better don't let it go waste." Deka Blue said as he closed in to Ptera Ranger, "Are you ready, Mei?"
"I'm ready as ever." As Ptera Ranger took aim with her bow, so did Deka Blue with his sniper. In the mean time, Dora Succubus got up and yelled.
"What kind of show is that! And it was getting interesting! Continue!"
"Shut up." Deka Blue said as he shot the sniper… towards Dora Succubus' wings.
"Ptera Arrow!" Ptera Ranger then shot her arrow to Dora Succubus, but not on the chest, but on her legs.
"AARGH! Damn you… are you underestimating me? !" Dora Succubus protested, feeling as if she's been shown some form of mercy.
"Actually, we're respecting the wish of our friend." Deka Blue said as suddenly the ground behind Dora Succubus erupted and she felt like flying… or to be precise, she was kicked from the ground so high by Ninja Black and he quickly grabbed her from behind, as she was unable to maneuver with her wounded wings.
"Ninpo: Izuna Otoshi!" As Ninja Black said, he dove down to the ground spinning around and heads first, trying to drop Dora Succubus' head to the ground. And on the ground where he was headed… was his Kakuremaru, pointed upwards, as if it was to be impaled to Dora Succubus' head.
"RRRAAAHHH!" Dora Succubus screamed as the blade was stuck onto her head. The immense pain was too much for her, but she has yet to explode, although she's stuck with her legs on the top and her head on the ground. However, as Ninja Black landed on his feet, he was ready for another attack.
"Ninpo: Rock Fall!" As Ninja Black recited, boulders fell to Dora Succubus, hitting her from above and impaling her further to the Kakuremaru. With that, the pain finally reached its peak and Dora Succubus exploded.
And as she exploded, the spell inflicting her victims were lifted as Red Mask and Mega Yellow regained their senses. "Uh… what…" Red Mask said as he eventually de-morphed back to Takeru, "Whew… guess it worked- OW!"
"Takeru!" As the others also de-morphed, Hoji approached Takeru while Mei approached Chisato, "You OK?"
"I'm fine, really…" Takeru said, smiling, "Broke my legs several times when I trained Karate, this is fine for me."
"Well that's to you! I never had any Karate training!" Chisato protested as she also held her leg and cringed in pain, "Oww… even if it's for the greater good, it still hurts like hell…"
"Don't worry, Chisato! I'll patch you up just fine!" Mei tried to reassure her, feeling responsible that she shot her legs, "I mean… it's not that bad, but patching it up may hurt a little…"
"Yeah. For now, case complete." Jiraiya approached them, already carrying his Kakuremaru. After all, the blade was made of enough powerful metal that it could withstand explosions. "I guess this is where I should say… Super Cool. Perfect?"
"H-hey!" Hoji protested as Jiraiya not only stole his catch phrase, but he uttered it in good English. But he didn't continue and instead put quite a smile, "Well at least you did good in this plan, so I guess I can let it slide."
"Yeah, no hard feelings." Jiraiya said. "Let's get back to Bonds, though. If you want to rest, I still got a bunch of movies that's refreshing for us to watch."
"Just not horror this time, okay?" Mei said. Jiraiya nodded as they help each other carrying the wounded and walk away.
"You didn't buy that from any suspicious people like that horror movie before, did you?" Takeru asked, remembering how they got into this mess in the first place.
"Huh?" Jiraiya asked, still a little confused in what he meant. Takeru then had to explain on how Dora Succubus managed to curse them into the Dream World, using DVDs as the medium for her to contract who got to enter her world. "Oh! That! Don't worry, this one I rented from a good store."
"Well at least that's good…" Hoji commented.
"Also, you guys…" Jiraiya suddenly had his voice become solemn, "I gotta confess something."
"Confess about what?" Chisato asked.
"You know…" Jiraiya knew he's like throwing himself into a pit of vipers but he had to be honest, "When we watched that horror movie… I was scared. Maybe even more scared than you, Takeru."
"Well, then you did a great job in covering it. Sometimes, it's a very important thing to hide your fear." Takeru said, knowing that it's a battle tactic to not let enemies know that he's under the effect of fear.
"I know, but sometimes…" Jiraiya said, "You gotta be honest and admit your feeling rather than denying it. I guess that's why I could overcome that Succubus."
"Well in the end, it's a good lesson to be learned, right?" Chisato tried to soften the situation up, and as they continued to walk to the city where the Bonds are located, they continued to talk about various subjects.
Perhaps fear sometimes are best left hidden, but so long as you accept even fear into your emotions, you would be even more powerful. Acknowledge, but never sink deep into your fear! Keep up fighting, Super Sentai!
To be continued…
Author's note: Well that's Jiraiya's filler chapter. Don't complain on why I made up the Izuna Otoshi ninpo, even if the Kakurangers never show it, it's so common and famous between many ninja in video games I can't help but to include. Oh and if you're wondering how the Roundhouse Kick goes for Jiraiya, go youtube 'Way of the Dragon' and witness how Chuck Norris did it to Bruce Lee. I got the inspiration of the roundhouse from that.
Well aside of that, there'd be one more filler and probably ANOTHER ship tease next chapter. So stay tuned!