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Chapter 12: The Zangyack Strike Back

High in the lower atmosphere of New Famille, millions of Zangyack ships and starfighters have surrounded the planet. The ships are serving as a blockade to prevent any and all ships from escaping New Famille while the fighters will be heading down to the planet's surface to obliterate everything. Other craft have begun landing Gormin, who's mission is to hunt down every living thing on New Famille and kill them. But most importantly of all, Grand Duchess Marina herself aboard the lead ship. She and Prime Minister Marces wanted to oversee the destruction of New Famille and the deaths of the Gokaigers themselves. They were currently in the bridge of the Gigant Horse Mach II waiting to for their forces to be in position. The Gigant Horse Mach II is a red version of the original Gigant Horse only three times the size. Once they were, Marces turned from the main control panel to speak to the Grand Duchess, who was sitting at the central command module, much like her nephew did when he faced the space pirates. "All units are in attack position now maim." said Marces.

"Very good." replied Marina. The Grand Duchess then got on the intercom to issue the attack. "To all Zangyack, today we take our revenge. So no mercy to the worms that have collected themselves to this planet but most importantly, bring me the heads of the Gokaigers. They will pay for leading this insurrection and for the murders of our Zangyack brothers and sisters." With there orders clear, all the remaining Gormin began to make their way down to New Famille.

Down on the planet, all New Famille troops and pilots are scrambling to their positions to defend their new home. In the capital, Joe and Don have already transformed and were directing all civilians to the caves so that they can take shelter. As the last group have been escorted down to the caves, Luka and Gai showed up, transformed and ready to help out, but there was something off about them. "Where have you two been?" asked Joe angrily not noticing what was off about the two at first. "Are you two focused?"

"Of course we are." replied Luka. "Why? What's wrong?" Gai and Luka turned to each other and found that in their rush to rejoin the others, that they had mixed up their Ranger Keys. Gai he transformed into a male GokaiYellow and Luka had transformed into a female GokaiSilver. The two quickly excahnged Ranger Keys and changed into their correct Ranger forms. Once Gai and Luka were finally ready, Don rejoined his teammates and the four began to make their way to the front line. "Have you made contact with either Marvelous or Ahim?" asked Joe to Don.

"Yes, Marvelous said that he and Ahim were down by the lake together and that they are returning as we speak." said Don.

"What were they doing down there?" asked Gai.

"I think we all know what they were doing." said Luka.

"Damn." said Gai "Talk about bad timing."

"That doesn't matter right now." said Joe. "They can confess their love for each other later. All that matters is that we keep the Gormin away form the civilians and out of the city if possible." As Joe was spelling out his strategy, Mai joined the four and began to walk with them. "Mai, are the turrets set?" asked Joe.

"Yes, all anti-aircraft and ground turrets are on stand by." said Mai. "Father has also taken four of our best pilots to the GokaiGalleon and will be launching Gokai-Oh shortly." Right before Mai could say more, Commander Mordo come up from behind the five and informed them about the status of the troopes.

"All troops are armed and at the ready. They are just waiting for the Queens commanded." said Mordo.

"Well the Queen isn't here right now." said Joe.

"Yes she is. Look." said Mai pointing out in the distance. Indeed, Marvelous and Ahim have returned. They have changed into their Megaranger counterparts and came in flying in on the Gliders. Once they were close enough, the pair jumped off the Gliders and returned to their normal Ranger forms once they touched ground.

"Sorry for my absence." apologized Ahim. "Is everyone ready?"

"Yes maim." said Mordo. "We are just awaiting your orders."

"Good." said Ahim. "Tell all fighters to launch and to engage the Zangyack fighters as soon as they have a lock on them."

"Yes maim!" said Mordo with a salute. Before he left, Gai stopped Mordo for a quick second. Gai placed the TimeFire key into his phone and summoned GouZyuDrill. Gai then gave Commander Mordo, the TimeFire key along with the DragonRanger and the AbareKiller keys and wished him good luck with the counter attack. As Mordo boarded GouZyuDrill, the warning alarm rang out again. This time alerting New Famille that the Zangyach were now just a few miles away from the capital. Once he was situated, Mordo hit the thrusters to full power and rocketed away, ready to face the invaders. Soon enough, the entirety of the New Famille's space forces were airborne and quickly caught up to Mordo. As soon as the two factions were within targeting range from each other, the Zangyack and the New Famille forces engaged in a hellacious dogfight that spread all across the skies of New Famille. The Zangyach out numbered the New Famille fighters in the beginning but once General Ozi joined the fight in Gokai-Oh, the odds were more then evened out.

As the battle above New Famille raged on, the battle on the ground was about to begin. Legions of Gormin marched all over New Famille, hunting for its inhabitants. And every time the Zangyack soldiers got close to one of the settlements, they were blasted by New Famille soldiers that were stationed in their turrets. With permission to shot on sight, the various members of New Famille's Army unloaded their payload on the Gormin. With fire arms ranging from gatling guns to rocket launchers, the soldiers of New Famille were able to blow away many Gormin long before they were even able to attack anyone. And when they did manage to engage their enemies the Gormin Soldiers quickly found themselves overwhelmed by ferocity of the Army of New Famille, despite numbering in the billions. All over New Famille it was the same for the Gormin. Weather they were fighting humans, Kapakanons, Kumakry or what ever else, the Gormin were getting their asses headed to them in the early rounds of this battle. It was even worse for the ones that were attacking the would be capital city of New Famille. Why was it worse? Because those Gormin had the unfortunate honor of fighting and falling to the Gokaigers.

Once the Gormin were close enough to be out of range of the turrets, the Gokaigers lead the charge against the Zangyack soldiers. Using their blasters first, the Gokaigers and their army gunned down about a dozen Gormin each before meeting them in the middle and engaging the villains with their blades. As the the battle on the ground began to heat up, the New Famille cruisers, gunships and capital ships began to launch and join the fight up in space. There ascension into space wasn't easy through as several Zangyack fighter squadrons broke away from the dog fight and began targeting the New Famille ships. That first the New Famille ships were getting pummeled by the fighter's laser fire but they quickly received aid in the form of the Gokai Gallon and GouZyuDrill. Once they had cleared away most of the fighters, General Ozi ordered all of Blue and Green Squadrons to accompany the New Famille ships up into space. Several members of the other squadrons went with them. With in seconds, the New Famille fleet with their fighter escort were in New Famille's atmosphere and they were quickly met by the Zangyack. Almost immediately, the Zangyack warships unloaded a barrage of missiles and rockets at the New Famille ships. The New Famille ships and fighters were able to shoot down most of the missiles and rockets but there were a good few that broke through the laser fire and hit a few of the New Famille ships. None of the ships were destroyed or at the least, disabled but the damage was done. Those missiles and rockets hit some critical spots on those few New Famille ships which cased them to have to fall back as the rest of the New Famille fleet rocketed onward to engage the Zangyack fleet. Several Zangyack ships and star fighters met the New Famille ships in the middle and engaged the New Famille fleet.

Grand Dutchess Marina watch on as the battle raged on, displeased with the little progress the Zangyack forces have made. "This is not going as planned." said the Grand Duchess angrily. "Marces, is it charged yet!?" barked Marina.

"Not yet, milady." said the Prime Minister.

"Well make it charge faster!" cried Marina as she slumped back into her chair frustrated at how difficult concurring a planet actually is.

Back down on the planet, the Gokaigers and their army were at beginning to lose ground against the Zangyack. The Gormin and Sugormin have been singling out the Kumakray and slowly taking them out of the equation. Though few have been killed, more then half the Kumakray soldiers have been injured are being carried away by their brethren so that they could hopefully be saved. The Kumakray have been to backbone of the New Famille Army and the Gokaigers are feeling the lose. But they weren't going to take this sitting down. The Gokaigers rallied their troops and started to push the Gormin back. As the battle continued, the body count on both sides rose to the six digit mark. For every Gormin that fell at the hands of a New Famille soldier, a member of the New Famille Army fell at the hands of a Gormin. But slowly and surely, the Gokaigers were turning the tide of the battle in their favor. And we will take our first look at this progress with Gai. Gai has, as I speak, saved the life of one of his soldiers by stabbing a Gormin Soldier through the chest with his Gokai Spear. The soldier was down on his back and the Gormin was about to cave in his skull with it's weapon when Gai intervened. Once the soldier squwormed out of the way, Gai tossed the Gormin overhead into a group of other Gormin. As a squad of New Famille soldiers began blasting the downed Gormin Gai initiated a Gokai Change. "Ohranger!" cried the Gokai Cellular as Gai became King Ranger. Once fully changed, Gai summoned the King Stick and fired a flurry of Energy Orbs which wiped out two dozen Gormin. Gai then used King Ranger's super speed and slashed another fourteen Gormin with the King Stick's blade. "Gokai Change!" cried Gai, inserting another Ranger Key into his phone while still running. "Megaranger!" cried the Cellular turning Gai into MegaSilver. Using the Silver Blazer in gun mode, Gai blasted another thirteen Gormin and then used it's blade to cut down a Sugormin. After cutting down the Sugormin, Gai stopped dead in his tracks and engaged a squad of Gormin. "Gingaman!" cried Gai's phone as he changed into Kuro Kishi. But Gai wasn't the only one to change into a member of the Seijuu Sentai. Luka changed into GingaYellow as she jumped in to help her fiancee cut up the Gormin. After cutting down ten Gormin appease, Luka and Gai used their respective counterparts finishing moves, the Thunder Sweep and Black Chop to wipeout the rest. Once that squad of Gormin blew up, another squad came rushing in ready to fight the pair.

"Gokai Change!" cried the Luka and Gai as they rushed towards the incoming Zangyack. "RyuJyuKen!" cried their phones turning them into Rio and Mele. With the power of their Confrontation Chi, Luka and Gai made quick work the Gormin. As a quartet of Sugormin approached the two they were stopped when they heard a pair of voices cry out, "Gokai Change!" "Goseiger!" cried their Mobirates as Marvelous and Ahim flew in, turning into the Skick duo. Ahim blasted one of the Sugormin with the Skick Shot while Marvelous slashed another with the Skick Sword. As the one Ahim shot flew backwards, the other two Sugormin tried to attack Marvelous and Ahim. However, they were cut off by Luka and Gai and were sent flying back with a pair of flying thrust kicks. As those two Sugormin flew back to were the one Ahim shot landed, the one who was still fighting Marvelous took a swing at the captain. Marvelous dodged the punch and stabbed the Sugormin in the side of it's torso. As the Sugormin wrenched down in pain, Ahim went up to the Sugormin, put the Skick shot right up to it's face and blew it's head off. The other three Sugormin got back up but weren't given the chance to continue the fight as Marvelous and Ahim formed the Skick Buster, Gai summoned the RinLion and Luka summoned the RinChameleon and blew the three Zangyack soldiers away.

After the three Sugormin exploded, three more squads of Gormin came running through the flames of their fallen comrades, ready to fight the four pirates. "Gokai Change!" cried the four, ready to take on the next batch of Zangyack troops. "Kyoryuger!" cried the phones, changing Marvelous into KyoryuGray, Ahim into KyoryuCyan, Luka into KyoryuViolet and Gai into KyoryuSilver. Gai started off by blowing one squad back with an Air-Busting Punch. Next, Ahim summoned the KyoryuCyan's Spirit Hammer and slammed it to the ground sending the Gormin flying into the air. Luka then used the Gaburu Cannon to blast the helpless Gormin as they came down. As for the third squad of Gormin, Marvelous wiped them out with KyoryuGray's finisher, the Furious Breakthrough. After those three squads fell, another squad of Gormin came charging in ready to fight the Gokaigers. "Goggle V" came the voice of the Kaizoku Sentai's phones from the distance and getting closer. It was Joe and Don. They had changed into their Goggle V counterparts and used the Goggle Sabers to cut the squad down. Once that squad was disposed of, two more squads came in to attack the pirates. One from the front and one from the rear. "Gokai Change!" cried the six pirates as they split up to fight the villains. "Boukenger!" cried Gai's Gokai Cellular as he changed into BoukenSilver while counter attacking the rear charging squad. "Denziman!" cried the Mobirates as the core five turned into the Denshi Sentai to fight the Gormin squad coming from the front. The five main Gokaigers drew the Denzi Sticks, jumped into the air and proformed the Denzi Lightning Fall and took out fifteen Gormin. As the main five continued to combat their share of the Gormin, Gai was busy taking the second squad. First he shot a few with the Sagasniper and then, converted BoukenSilver's weapon to Sagaspear and took out the rest with the Sagaslash and Sagastrike. Once Gai had wiped out that squad of Gormin, he went to help his teammates who were now fighting another squad of Gormin. "Ninninger!" cried Gai's phone as he changed into StarNinger. As Gai engaged the new squad of Gormin, the other Gokaigers changed into another team themselves. "Changeman!" cried the phones transforming the main five into the Dengeki Sentai. While Gai was taking a more hands on approch with the Gormin, the main five decided to use Changeman's bazooka weapons and blast the Zangyack soldiers. When there were only a few Gormin left, the main five Gokaigers formed the Power Bazooka and blast away half of the Gormin. Gai did away with the rest by preforming StarNinger's Ninja Slash. With that current group of Gormin disposed of, the Gokaigers retunred to their normal forms and took a quick breather. And it was a very quick breather as more Gormin soldiers came marching in ready to fight.

"Damn!" said Luka, breathing heavy. "It's like there's no end to them."

"What do we do?" asked Don.

"What we've been doing." said Marvelous, straightening himself up while drawing a Red Ranger Key from his belt buckle.

"We continue to teach the Zangyack that no one messes with our planet." said Ahim, drawing a White Ranger Key from hers. The others lined up along side the two, drew similar Ranger Keys and all six called out "Gokai Change!" as they inserted the keys into their phones. "Zyuohger!" cried the phones as six large, pixelated cubes encapsulated the Gokaigers as the sound of jungle drums came out of the phones along with a Tarzan yell. The cubes then closed in on the Gokaigers and changed the pirates from the neck down in plain body spandex. Joe and Don's spandex were a lighter shade of their normal colors. The only real change in color was for Ahim, who was now in plain white spandex and Gai, who was now wearing plain black spandex. Soon enough, the portraits of animal's faces appeared on the Gokaiger's chest. An eagle appeared on Marvelous' chest while a shark appeared on Joe's. Luka had a lion's face on her chest, Don had an elephant on his and Ahim had a tiger's face on hers. Gai had three faces appear on his chest. The first was a crocodile that appeared on the right side of Gai's chest, turning everything from Gai's right collar bone to all the way down to his right glove an orangey-gold color. The next face was a wolf that appeared on the left side of Gai's chest. Gai's chest from his left colloar bone to his left glove was turned to silver. Finally, a rhinoceros' face appeared at the center of Gai's chest, which remained black. The transformation sequence ended once the Zyuohger helmets formed around the Gokaiger's heads. "Dobutsu Sentai…" began Marvelous, "Zyuohger!" cried all six. After completeing the roll call, several squads of New Famille soldiers formed up behind the Gokaigers, ready to aid the pirates with the incoming Gormin. Once the Gokaiger drew the Zyuohger respective weapons, they all cried out. "For the universe!" before leading the charge at their enemies.