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Chapter 21: The Great Key Card Hunt Begins
Tommy couldn't believe what Gai was holding in his hand. He remembered kicking the Zyusouken away from Burai but he had no idea that he had kicked to where Gai and the Phantom Ranger would stumble upon it. "How is that still here?" asked the paleontologist with a stunned expression on his face. "Shouldn't that disappear once Burai power's down?"
Gai shook his head. "No. The Zyurangers always carry their Legendary Weapons, even in civilian form. The Zyusouken is no different. At least now we won't have to worry about Burai-san summoning Dragon Caesar."
"Well, that's one bright side." Said the Phantom Ranger. "But why is Burai acting like this? I thought he was a hero."
"He is." Said Gai. "You see, when Burai-san worked for Bandora, he had an ego. Well, his ego problem was mostly do to the Sword of Hellfriede but in the beginning he was very proud and arrogant."
"So you think that Burai is still under Shandor's influence?" asked Tommy.
Gai's response was a single nodded. "It wouldn't surprise me." Said the silver pirate. "Burai-san even rebelled against Bandora while he-" Gai was cut off by the crackling sound of an electrical spark. The three heroes turned to where the sound originated from and saw several more sparks bursting out of thin air. After about a dozen more sparks flew out, a dimensional portal opened up. About ten seconds after the portal opened, a navy colored RV with a large yellow stripe and two smaller stripes of the same color came rolling through the portal. Once the portal closed, a familiar young man poked his head out of the passenger window.
"Dr. Oliver, Phantom Ranger, Gai." Cried Noah. The RV rolled up along side the heroes and came to a complete stop. A moment later, a young man with curly dark hair, wearing a black zip up hoodie and blue jeans, opened the front door. He was followed by two young women. One girl was a brunette wearing a white shirt under a denim jacket and pink thermal pants, and the other girl had blonde hair and was wearing a yellow shirt under a black leather jacket and black pants.
"Hey guys." Said the young man. "Dr. O," began the young man after looking at Tommy in his condition "what happened to you?"
"We'll talk about it later." Said Tommy. "Right now, I want to now what you guys were able to get here and…" looking at the RV "how you got this across to cross over from our universe to this one."
"Why don't we talk inside." Said the blonde haired girl. "We have a lot of ground to make."
Before the heroes all entered the RV, the three young people realized that there was someone among the three that they didn't know. "Are you…" began the brunette "one of the Super Sentai Rangers?"
"Yes." Answered Gai. "I am Ikari Gai. GokaiSilver."
"GokaiSilver?" repeated the young man. "Wait, aren't you the guy that had the mental breakdown?
Gai blushed as he nodded. "Are you all Power Rangers?" asked the silver pirate.
"Yes." Answered the blonde haired girl. "I'm Gia, the Yellow Megaforce Ranger. This is Jake," introducing the young man "the Black Megaforce Ranger."
"And I'm Emma," began the brunette "the Pink Megaforce Ranger."
"Pleased to meet you. Let's get along." Said Gai while bowing.
With the introductions concluded, the six heroes all boarded the RV. Once the heroes were settled in, the RV began rolling down the road. You see, Machalcon landed near a back road several miles away from Abukuma-do. As for how the Megaforce Rangers were able to dimensional jump right to where Tommy, Gai and the Phantom Ranger were was all thanks to Billy. He used the tracking devices in the hero's communicators to find their location. Billy, with Ethan and Noah's help, was also able to improve on the device they used to send the Phantom and Tommy to the Sentai universe to send the Megaforce through in the RV. They hadn't perfected sending vehicles through, which is why Tommy and the Phantom didn't enter the Sentai universe inside of the airship.
The RV, much like the airship, was a mobilized command center complete with a super computer, Radar tracking system and a full arsenal. The Phantom Ranger went up to the driver's area. The driver stopped the RV momentarily too allow the Phantom Ranger to switch places with him. Noah left with the driver so he could introduce him to Gai. The driver was a young fair skinned man with dark hair. He was wearing blue jeans and a red T-Shirt under a black leather jacket. This was Troy, the Red Megaforce Ranger.
"It's nice to meet you." Said Gai shaking Troy's hand.
"Nice to meet you too." Said Troy. "But I thought there were more of you guys."
Before Gai could answer, Billy appeared on the monitor of the super computer. "Tommy!" Said the scientist with a relieved smile on his face.
"Tommy?" Said a women's voice chiming in. The very next second a beautiful fair skinned brunette appeared next to Billy. Once she saw that Tommy was all right, she placed a hand over her heart and let out a sign of relief. "Thank God."
"Hey honey." Said Tommy. He then turned to Gai and waved the silver pirate over to him. "Kim, I want you to meet Ikari Gai, Super Sentai's GokaiSilver. Gai, allow me to introduce you to my wife, Kimberly. The original Pink Ranger in our universe."
Gai bowed to Kimberly and Kimberly smiled at the young warrior. After introductions were out of the way, Kimberly took a better look at her husband and noticed that Tommy was pretty banged up. "Are you okay?" asked Kimberly with concerned eyes.
"Yeah." answered Tommy. "It's a long story."
"Well, we're all ears." Said Billy. And so Tommy would bring the seven rangers up to speed. He told his American comrades about how he and the Phantom Ranger barely escaped the airship before it exploded and how the other two-dozen Sentai were sent off to other dimensions to collect key cards that would take them to the Quest Master's space station. Tommy also explained that the reason he looked like he just gotten out of a fight was literally because he had just gotten out of a fight.
"You fought your Green Ranger counterpart." Said an amazed Jake.
"Yeah," said Tommy "and he can put up one hell of a fight."
"But wait," began Troy "if he's no longer helping Shandor, then why did he attack you guys?"
Before Tommy and/or Gai could give him an answer, the Phantom Ranger slammed on the breaks of the RV. The sudden stopped sent all the heroes flying to the floor.
"Yo Phantom, what's the deal?" asked Jake.
Gai went up to the driver's area to see what the matter is. However, once Gai looked out of the windshield, his mouth dropped open and began pointing his finger at what caused the Phantom Ranger to make the sudden stop.
"What is it G-" began Tommy but was cut off when Gai went bulldozing through the Power Rangers to get to the RV's door.
"What was that about?" asked Gia as Gai went running out of the door. The six rangers followed Gai outside and were later joined by the Phantom after he put the RV in park. When the rangers came to the front of the RV, they saw now that the reason the Phantom Ranger slammed on the breaks was because a man came out of the woods and was nearly run over.
"Y-y-y-y" said Gai trying to find his words as he continued to point at the man. The man had jet-black hair and was wearing a loose fitting red shirt. He was also wearing white pants with long black boots.
"Is he okay?" asked Emma.
"I didn't hit him." Answered the Phantom Ranger.
"Well, that and Gai. He saw this guy and now he's acting weird." Said Emma.
Gai's actions made Tommy remember the other night when he first met the Sentai heroes. "Gai." Said Tommy walking over to the young hero. "Do you know this person?"
Gai turned to Tommy and began nodding with a big smile on his face. "This…this" Gai began but was too excited to make a coherent sentence. Then the man decided to introduce himself.
"Hello, I am Yamato Tribe Prince Geki. Zyuranger's…"
"TyrannoRanger!" cried Gai excitedly. Geki nodded and gave a half smile to the young pirate.
"TyrannoRanger?" said Gia.
"If I remember what Gai told us correctly, I think he is the Sentai equivalent to the Mighty Morphin Red Ranger." Said Tommy about Geki. "Is there something we can help you with?"
"Yes," answered Geki "it's about my brother."
"Brother?" said the Phantom.
"Burai-san." Said Gai turning to the Power Rangers. "Burai-san is Geki-san's older brother."
"Yes and I am looking for him." Added Geki. "And from what my sources have told me, you guys know what happened to him."
"You could say that." Said a sheepish Tommy. Geki looked at the paleontologist with great curiosity. "Listen, we have a lot of ground to cover, so if you please let's continue this conversation in the RV."
As Tommy usurers everyone back into the RV, we journey back up to the Quest Master's space station. Shandor didn't know that the Megaforce Rangers had arrived in the Sentai Universe as he was not watching his monitors. He was instead, lost in thought. The thought of how not just one but two of the warriors he had resurrected could have broken free from his control. It just didn't make any sense, Shandor went over the resurrection process over and over and he did everything right. There was no way that Magis and Burai could have broken free from his control. Just then, the light in the space station went out and a green light came blazing through. A terrible moan filled the station as the light faded away. Shandor was confused at first but soon recognized the light and what it meant. Shandor went running to where the light originated. Once he got there, Shandor saw Calculeschimedes kneeling over a woman.
"Where am I?" asked the woman.
"Right now you are several miles above the Earth's atmosphere Milady." Answered Calculeschimedes. Now you are maybe wondering Calculeschimedes means by milady. Well, the thing is Calculeschimedes had monitored the resurrection ceremony Shandor preformed on the dead Sentai and after several hours of researching, was able to successfully repeat the process himself. And the first person the Gaiark Executive decided to bring back to life was Gairak Water Pollution Minister Kegalesia.
"Calculeschimedes!" cried an outraged Shandor. Calculeschimedes looked up with a start. "What is the meaning of this?"
"Shandor." Said Calculeschimedes. "Please, allow me to explain."
"Please do." Said an angry Shandor. "First of all, you can tell me who this woman is."
"Indeed." Said Calculeschimedes. "Allow me to introduce the newly resurrected Gaiark Water Pollution Minister Kegalesia."
"Gaiark?" said Shandor. "Impossible, there is no way you could have brought a machine back to life."
"But I was able too." Said Calculeschimedes. "You see, Lady Kegalesia is no ordinary Gaiark. She is a biomechanical machine and since the resurrection spell is able to rebuild the body of the person being resurrected, bringing back Lady Kegalesia was rather easy."
"Th-thank you Calculeschimedes." Said a shivering Kegalesia. "But, som-something feels wr-wrong, Ojaru."
Calculeschimedes looked down at the minister with great confusion. It was only then that the executive realized that Kegalesia was naked. And what was more surprising was that she didn't have any metal parts attached to her. Kegalesia was curled up in a ball and looked like she would if she was disguised as a human. After Shandor told a Viper to bring a scanning device and check our Kegalesia with it, all in the room were shocked to find out the Calculeschimedes had accidentally turned the Gaiark Minister into a human being.
"Hu-hu-human?" Said a modified Kegalesia. "How di-did that ha-ha-happen, Ojaru?"
"I don't know," said Shandor "but right now I'm curious as to how you are not under Calculeschimedes' control."
"Simple." Answered Calculeschimedes. "I was able to complete the resurrection process without the part of the incantation that takes over the will of the individual."
Shandor looked at the Gaiark with widened eyes. "What do you mean you left out part of the incantation? The spell won't work unless the whole spell is utilized."
"Well, I was able to find a way to do so." Replied Calculeschimedes. "I could show you if you like." Shandor started to think about Calculeschimedes' offer and it wasn't long before a sinister smile crossed the Quest Master's face. Shandor then ordered a Viper to take Kegalesia somewhere to get dressed so that he and Calculeschimedes could speak in private.
With both sides welcoming their new arrivals, the Sentai that have been scattered throughout the muti-dimensions have begun their search for the card keys. Since the Gold and Black heroes already know where their card is in Grapple World, they called Vic McCloud and he sent a limo to take the four to the arena where they will have to wrestle. Over in Ninja World, the three pinks and Miu followed their GPS to a tower fortress that was swarming with Vipers dressed in samurai armor. The girls had scouted out the entire area and have now regrouped to formulate a plan. They were all perched up in a tree some hundred yards away.
"So, did anyone find an opening that we can exploit?" asked Mako. The other three warriors all shook their heads. "Damn. Then it looks like we're going to have to wait till night to go after that key."
"Well, it makes sense since we're suppose to be ninjas." Said Miu.
"Do you think these swords can cut through that armor the Vipers have on?" asked Eri examining her sword.
"The armor maybe thick but it's not impenetrable." Said Mako trying to boost the pink angel's spirits.
"Well, if these swords won't do the job then there could be a way for us to obtain some other weapons." Said Ahim.
"Other weapons?" said Miu.
"Yes. While I was looking for a way over the fortress wall, I saw that several of the Vipers were camped outside and that they had a variety of weapons at their disposal." Explained the princess.
"That's a very good idea Ahim." Complemented Mako. And so, it was agreed among the four ladies that they would first raid the Viper's campsite for weapons and then sneak into the fortress come nightfall.
Speaking of ladies, the four yellows began their journey towards the key card in 8-Bit World. Though it should be noted that their adventure hasn't exactly started out the way they would have liked it to. As they were following the GPS, the four yellows came across a squad of Vipers and engaged the serpents. During the fight, the girls discovered that while in 8-Bit World, their jumping ability had doubled if not tripled and they had no control over it at first. In one instance, Kotoha jumped up and hit her head against a floating block. A red mushroom with white spots popped out of the block and landed on Luka. As soon as the mushroom touched Luka, the yellow pirate grow to about three times her normal size. Everyone was startled by this turn of events but none were as startled as Luka who fell backwards when she took a step and nearly stepped on Saki. The ground shook as Luka landed which caused Moune to fall forward onto a red flower with a yellow center. Like Luka and the mushroom, once Moune touched the flower, the yellow angel went through a change. Only instead of growing, Moune's hat and T-shirt turned white and her overalls turn red. Moune didn't know what to make of this once she stood up but discovered that she could now throw fireballs. She discovered this ability while brushing herself off and accidentally through a fireball at Kotoha's foot. The yellow samurai began running around screaming and hopping around on one foot with Saki trying to put out the flames with Moune trying to help while also repeating how sorry she was.
As we leave the Yellow Sentai in their dishevelment, we venture off to Pirate World where we find that Magis is mixing up a drink of some sort to help Don get over seasickness. You would think that since Don lives on a ship he wouldn't get sick on a boat. But you have to remember that a spaceship wouldn't rock as much as a sea going vassal would. And it is for this reason that the green pirate has spent a good portion of this voyage upchucking. As for the other greens, Chiaki was serving as navigator telling Hanto where to steer the ship. As the greens were sailing to where their key card was, the blues were on their way to their key card on horseback. Before they left town, Renn, Ryunosuke, Hyde and Joe were all given items from a near by gipsy camp that would add them in their quest for the key card of Ghost World. And of course, their hunch was correct and the four blues were on their way to the fore mentioned castle to retrieve the key.
With their allies all preparing for what challenges awaited them, the Red Sentai were discussing their game plan in the cockpit of their stolen spaceship. It should be noted that they had long shaken the authorities off and have been flying in hyperspace ever sense they received the coordinates of where the key card they would have to retrieve in Galaxy World. As the reds continued their conversation, Takeru saw that Sosuke was looking at the white key card and yet starring off into space.
"You okay?" asked Takeru.
"Hm," said Sosuke coming out of his trance. "Oh, it's nothing. I was just, thinking…"
"About Miu." Said Alata. Sosuke nodded.
"Don't worry, you'll be with her again soon enough." Said Marvelous. He then turned to Takeru. "And I'm sure Mako's just fine too."
"I don't doubt it." Said Takeru. "It's just…" Takeru was cut off by a beeping sound. The beeping indicated that the reds were finally coming up on the planet the key card was on and Marvelous began to take the ship out of hyperspace. Once the ship was out of hyperspace, the four reds saw that they were now in the atmosphere of a large purple planet. Then all of a sudden, the ship started to shake violently.
"What's going on?" asked Alata.
"I don't know!" cried Marvelous who was trying to get the ship back under his control. It soon became clear to Marvelous that the ship was caught in a tractor beam and that whoever was in possession of the key card was expecting them.
I know that this is a crappy place to end a chapter but this is where the chapter ends. I'm sorry if this seemed a little abridged but it has been a while since I updated the story and really want to start focusing on the adventures themselves. Anyway, I thank you for your patients and I hope you continue to enjoy this story.