Ch 12: A Once in a Lifetime Subdimension

Author's note: I think I was crazy when I did this. :P

Dropping by at the Ruins

Ryuuji, Youko, Usada, Gorisaki and J visited the ruins at the Teleportation Research Facility at Dainan District. There's a newly built Enetron tank which was enough for teleporting. The massive hole which was occupied by the said facility before was still there. Employees from the EMC which were not restricted to scientists and researchers alone were absorbed in their own worlds. As Ryuuji et al looked around, they spotted Hiromu, Nick, Morishita-san and Nakamura-san in their own tent beside the crater. Each (except Nick) had their own laptops running on software that analyzes subdimensions.

"Busy as always, huh?" Ryuuji asked unreservedly.

Hiromu nodded. Ryuuji wondered why Hiromu was both manually calculating and using the software at the same time whereas Morishita-san and Nakamura-san were beginning to research on something else.

"Nakamura-san," Youko said, pointing on her friend's laptop, "is that Sakurada-san?"

Nakamura-san smiled at her and nodded. Apparently, Hiromu asked her to find a classified research by his father. Ryuuji looked at Morishita-san's screen and found an article about galaxy formation. Eyes growing big, Ryuuji looked at Hiromu and exclaimed, "Masaka, you're not attempting something, aren't you?"

Finished already with his calculations, Hiromu dropped his pencil and pointed his screen, "according to my calculations, this software will receive a signal depicting a new subdimension in three seconds. San-ni-ichi."

The three laptops gave an alarm and a new subdimension was detected.

"This was among the classified researches by my father but he wasn't able to continue it because of Vaglass. He didn't live to see this subdimension as well, because this subdimension only appears once in every 500 years." Hiromu said.

"Hiromu-san thought that the galaxy formation had something to do about it," Morishita-san added.

"but how about markers?" J the buddyroid asked.

"Ryuuji!" Gorisaki exclaimed, "it's time that we test the machine that we invented!" Gorisaki was referring to the machine with the same time and space transcending ability as the time-machine that the gokaigers received from the timerangers.

"it's worth at try" Ryuuji said, his eyes glowing. Hiromu and Youko nodded at him freely.

Introducing Neko-tan!

Morishita-san and Nakamura-san had to be left at the ruins because only those who had the vaccine program may teleport freely. Hiromu, Ryuuji, Youko and their buddyroids can survive the teleportation better because of Ryuuji's new buster machine that had both time and space transcending abilities. Ryuuji called his first generation buster machine from his morphin brace and in just three minutes the machine appeared.

"tadaa!" Ryuuji said, moving his hands to welcome the buster machine that was as small as RH-03, "neko-tan!". Ryuuji's first generation buster machine was inspired by a black and white cat. It was in its 'animal mode'.

"kawaii!" Youko and Nakamura-san cried.

"souka! Cats are believed to be traveling in secret dimensions!" Hiromu said, "that was an excellent idea Ryuu-san!"

Ryuu-san couldn't hide his excitement, so as Hiromu and Youko. Together with their buddyroids, they entered inside NT-00. It was spacious inside, with couches and control pads everywhere. They were welcomed by a cat buddyroid (or Neko-tan) who was as small as a cat in real life. It seemed to be executing fondness at Usada.

"kawaii Neko-tan!" Youko exclaimed and the cat buddyroid purred.

"Seems small, isn't he?" Hiromu asked. Youko and Usada shot him with glaring stares.

Ryuuji took the seat at the cockpit while the others were seated at the couch. Neko-tan positioned himself to where Ryuuji was and extended his paws. Ryuuji took Neko-tan's paws and moved them forward. The NT-00 made a purring sound and was vanished from Morishita-san and Nakamura-san's eyes.

Trouble at the Subdimension

NT-00 landed successfully at the targeted subdimension. Hiromu et al moved outside NT-00 and studied their environment carefully. Its resemblance with the country side was genuine and each land and water type was represented. The subdimension may look peaceful, but the gobusters preferred to be more cautious by bringing their weapons with them.

Using their sougan (binoculars), they took pictures of every surrounding that absorbed their interests. They did this for 30 minutes. They only have 30 minutes remaining before NT-00 will lose his enetron.

"I detect an army" J said, looking around. J's senses had never failed and everyone had their full trust in him. This trust alone made them anxious. What kind of army was it? Could it be a reigning virus in the subdimension?

An army sporting black tights appeared. The gobusters thought they looked familiar with the funny sound that they're producing. "shockers!" Hiromu said. The dai shockers were known to be scattered in any place or time because they can teleport by themselves. They were the sworn enemies of the Kamen Riders. The gobusters had encountered these shockers when they fought alongside the riders and super sentai.

There's only one thing to do in this particular moment. The gobusters readied an arm containing their morphin brace while J took out his own transformer.

IT'S MORPHIN TIME! A protective barrier surrounded the gobusters.

They said together, "let's morphin!" and their visors completed their get-up.

"I've been missing this a lot!" Ryuuji said while flexing his arms in the air.

At Redbuster's signal, they all crouched down.

BUSTERS READY…GO!

The shockers and the gobusters met at the center. Bluebuster gathered the shockers in one arm while Yellowbuster tossed herself in the air to collect the others to her attention. Redbuster used his superhuman speed while throwing punches at the shockers simultaneously. J was still J, fighting his best even without his partner, Jin-san. Nick took his famous tennis rocket and swatted at the heads of the shockers. Gorisaki and Usada hurried to get NT-00.

The shockers seemed to be getting more reinforcements. The gobusters used their sougan blades and ichigan busters to eliminate more enemies. However, more shockers keep appearing and time was running out for them.

IT'S TIME FOR BUSTER!

The gobusters thought that their final attack may at least distract or eliminate a huge number from the shockers' growing army. Wave particles from the busters eradicated a massive population and the gobusters hurried as Usada, Gorisaki and Nick vanished inside NT-00. From the NT-00, Neko-tan used his furball missiles to abolish the enemies.

Bluebuster was the first to go inside to prepare the teleportation process. J was at NT-00's chute, firing away as Redbuster and Yellowbuster fought the shockers surrounding NT-00.

Ryuuji yelled, "Hiromu, Youko-chan, hurry up! Just grab any part of NT-00 and we could go home!".

Using her powerful jump, Yellowbuster grabbed Redbuster by the hand and she pulled herself (and himself) to the top of NT-00's body. They fired back at the shockers as the teleportation process began.

During teleportation process, those injected with the vaccine program may not use their superhuman powers to protect themselves—otherwise, it'll affect their program. They can't be hit by anything either. But Yellowbuster saw a shocker that was about to fire at them. In the last second of the teleportation process, Yellowbuster used her body to shield Redbuster from the attack. A green barrier surrounded them and they all vanished.

And the problem with Youko is…

They all returned successfully at the ruins. The time at the subdimension and on earth seemed to be different. Even if they just spent an hour at the subdimension, it was already equivalent to seven hours passed in Japan time. It was already 6 in the evening and only Nakamura-san and Morishita-san were left waiting for them.

The others emerged out from NT-00 while Hiromu carried Youko to the ground. Youko was unconscious and Hiromu shook her apprehensively with one arm while the other arm supported her back. Nakamura-san was almost going to cry. Morishita-san put an arm to comfort her.

"Pull yourself together, Youko!" Usada said. Ryuuji crouched beside Hiromu and shook Youko as well.

"Youko-chan, wake up!" Ryuuji said frantically while tugging at Youko's arm.

At last, the unconscious body stirred. Youko opened her eyes slowly.

"Ryuu-san? Usada?" Youko muttered, her smile short.

They all heaved a sigh of relief.

Youko looked at the one who was supporting her back. Her eyes growing big, she pushed Hiromu away from her. Hiromu was taken aback with his eyebrows raised.

"Nani-yo?!" she said tensely, "who are you?!".

Hiromu looked at Ryuuji overanxiously. He turned his gaze back at Youko, his eyes suddenly giving a hint of fear.

"Youko-chan's vaccine program…" Ryuuji said worriedly, never finishing the sentence that he had just started.

Author's note: Looks like Youko had a selective amnesia because of the attack she had absorbed during the teleportation process.