Disclaimer: "Abaranger" is owned by Toei Company. The characters "Doyle" and "Roxton" are mine.

Another-Earth

Life appeared to be going it's easy way in the Dino-House. Everybody who lived and/or worked there, had their reasons to smile, or at the very least to be somewhat happy. All but one of them. A guy, wearing his usual dark blue coat and hood, which obscured his eyes. One of the happier, and possibly the happiest of them all, the yellow girl Ranru, noticed just how sad he appeared. She sat with him and talked to him.

"Come on, don't you ever smile?" she asked him.

Somewhat nervous, as he always is when talking to her, he answered: "I still don't see any reason to do so."

"There doesn't need to be any reason." Ranru tried to convince him, "If you can't smile, than what are you fighting for?"

He didn't know any answer to that, but he for some reason didn't want to give any either.

"You'd better watch what you're doing." the white guy, Nakadai, started, "If you keep being such pessimist, you'd become depressed at a point. Do you know where depression leads to, Doyle?"

The dark guy, Doyle, sighed: "If I did, you probably wouldn't be asking me, right?"

"Darkness." the red guy, Ryouga answered.

"That wasn't how I wanted to put it." Nakadai told Ryouga.

"But that's basicly it, right?" Ryouga kept raving on.

"But you can't expect him to just change, only because you want him to." the blue guy, Yukito, figured, "It was bad enough when you expected that much of me."

"Well, I'd hate to see him turning into what I was." Nakadai reasoned.

Doyle began leaning on his left arm, when suddenly his bracelet, Roxton, spoke: "These people don't know when to give up, do they?"

"That's right!" Ranru answered, "Remember? We're heroes, we can never give up."

Doyle suddenly had enough of them: "I really need to be alone right now."

He got up to leave the house. Ranru pulled on his arm, but he pulled it free and walked out of the house. Ranru still tried to stop him by calling his name, or how she always called him: "Akakuro-kun."

"Leave him be." Yukito told her, "It may be best for him to be alone like this.

"But... how am I supposed to just..." Ranru couldn't take this in.

That's when the black guy, Asuka, decided to talk: "Only when one is alone, he may realize how much he really needs friends like us."

"Or a very close one like you." Nakadai remarked.

Doyle had made it to an abandoned building. The same building where he once held Ranru captive. It's the one place that has most emotional value to him, as this was the first time he was with somebody he wanted to be with.

"Well, if I can be blunt..." Roxton started to talk, "... maybe you should just let Ranru do what she wants to do."

"Do you think I don't want to spend time with her?" Doyle asked him, "Do you think I don't want to have anything to do with her? But... every time she starts talking, her friends need to interfere. I... it's just too much to handle. You should understand that by now."

"But why don't you just tell them that?" Roxton suggested, "Tell them to leave the two of you alone."

"I can't." Doyle answered, "What am I supposed to tell them when I ask this?"

"Would it really be such a drama to just tell everyone how you feel? It's not like they don't know it already." Roxton reasoned.

Doyle sighed very deeply, but not out of boredom, but out of frustration: "You make it all sound so easy. If I just wasn't..."

"Maybe if you'd just sit down for a moment." Roxton suggested, "Think about what I just said."

At the Dino-House, the alarm started to blare. They pressed the hidden button that would reveal all the hidden computers, with which they could check out what's causing the alarm.

"What's going on?" Asuka asked.

Ranru did a quick check, and came to the following conclusion: "A portal just opened."

"Really?" Ryouga looked surprised.

"Somebody from Dino-Earth is trying to get here?" Asuka asked her.

"No." Ranru answered, "It's reading isn't the same. It's a different portal."

"Never mind what it is." Yukito cut in, "Where is it now?"

Ranru pressed a few more buttons to find that out, and when she did, she froze for a moment, before she whispered: "Oh no."

"What? What's the problem?" Ryouga asked her.

"Akakuro-kun." was all she said, as she quickly made her leave.

"What? What's the problem with Doyle?" Ryouga called after her.

"Isn't that obvious?" Nakadai pointed to the screen, "Look where it is."

That's when everybody recognized it too. They all realized where they had to go.

Meanwhile, Doyle was sitting down, leaning against the wall. He was sitting in the same place where he sat that one time, while Ranru was sitting at the pole. At the pole, however, he noticed a shadow, which was weird as he didn't see anything in the light that would create a shadow. After a few seconds, it started to take a more solid form, with more following shortly.

"No time to just sit and think now." Doyle remarked, as he pressed the apropriate buttons on his bracelt and changed into Abaredevil. He fought these shadows, but there appeared to be no end to them.

"Where do these things keep coming from?" Abaredevil wondered.

"How should I know?" Roxton answered, "I don't know everything."

Nearly had one of these things pinned him down, but something shot this one. Abaredevil saw this, then looked around to find the one that did this. He saw Ranru, who was changed into Abareyellow. He felt relieved to see her. And when he did, these creatures started to back off a little.

"They're backing away?" Roxton noticed.

"Happy to see me?" Abareyellow asked him.

"More than you can imagine." Abaredevil replied.

"That's it." Roxton figured it out.

"What is?" Abaredevil asked him.

But that's when the creatures found it in them again to keep fighting.

"Alright!" Ryouga, now Abared, cheered, "You saved some for us."

"This should be easy." Nakadai, now Abarekiller, stated.

"Let's send these things back to where they came from." Asuka, or Abareblack, said.

"Weird things they are." Yukito, or Abareblue, remarked.

While everyone was fighting them, Roxton told Abaredevil: "Ryouga said that were going into darkness, and then these things showed themselves."

"So?" Abaredevil questioned.

"But then they backed off when Ranru's appearance made you happy." Roxton explained, "It's like these things react to your state of emotion."

"Well then, when I stop feeling this bad these things will stop coming." Abaredevil reasoned.

"Should be the case." Roxton answered.

"That's reassuring." Abaredevil remarked.

After some time, these things were defeated. But shortly after their defeat, another one made it's appearance. This one was much larger, purple and horned. When it saw the six of them, it caused an electrical storm, in an attempt to attack them. Abaredevil didn't hesitate to allow Roxton to be more than just a bracelet, but allowing himself to take Roxton's actual form. That of the Blast-Dragon.

"We'd better help him too." Abared said to Abareblack.

"I'm on it." Abareblack replied, "Brachio. Come forth."

A giant Brachiosaurus looking creature, Brachio, came, saying: "Three, two, one, let's go on."

Out of him came the three other Blast-Dragons, Tyranno, Kera, and Ptera. Merging with Abared, Abareblue and Abareyellow, they combined into Abaren-Oh. While this was going on, Roxton took his humanoid form. And once both giants were formed, they fought this Behemoth. Aberen-Oh used his finisher, but the Behemoth was still standing. Roxton then scratched it more, before using his own finisher, and the Behemoth was gone.

Back into their civillian forms, Ryouga tried to make his point to Doyle: "So, you see now what happens when you shut us out?"

Hearing him, Doyle turned his back on them.

"Now you've done it." Ranru whined, but she approached him anyway.

"Akakuro-kun." she talked to him and he turned to look at her, "I... I hate to see you all alone all the time. Maybe... could you just take me to one of these places you always go to?"

Doyle thought about it, then said: "How about here?"

"Here?" Ranru questioned, "Are you sure?"

"Well, then you won't need us anymore, would you!?" Nakadai remarked, as he motioned to the others to leave.

THE END