Sorry this chapter took so long to get out. I was distracted with some real world stuff but I'm back and it'll hopefully won't be another two in a half months in between chapters. Anyway, thank you for being patient and please continue to support NYC.

Chapter 25: Strike of the Beautiful Ninjas

As twilight begins to descend upon Ninja World, Ahim leads Mako, Miu and Eri through the treetops to the location of the Shogun Viper's camp. The four ninja clad heroines leapt from branch to branch doing their best not to disturb a thing. The four heroines had spent the entire day practicing the two most important things in a ninja's arsenal, stealth and speed. If they were to retrieve the key card and return home, the three Pinks and Miu will have to be as silent as they can possibly be to avoid the armada of Shogun Vipers that awaited them. Ahim guided her fellow Sentai to the southern most region of the compound. Once the four had reached the campsite, they perched themselves on the fifteenth highest branch of a tall oak.

After steadying themselves on some sturdy limbs, the four heroines pulled back some of the branches and began to study the campsite. Looking down at the crimson colored tents, the ladies estimated that the camp could house two maybe even three hundred Shogun Vipers. And if that wasn't going to be difficult, there were Shogun Vipers armed with bows and arrows positioned at the top of the wall facing the camp. To make matters worse, according to Eri, who had been tracing the key card's signal from the GPS, the GPS was located somewhere in the tallest tower of the compound and was most likely located at the very top of the tower. The four heroines didn't have a clue as to how they were going to pull this off but they needed to make a plan and needed to make it fast.

"Okay," began Mako "we came here to pick up some extra weapons. Ahim-cham, do you have any idea of which tent would be used as the storage space?"

Ahim looked down with a frown. "I am sorry. I do not know." said the princess in a very sheepish tone.

"It's okay Ahim." Said Miu, softness resonating from her voice. "The only way to find out where the Vipers are keeping their weapons would be to go down their and search through every tent."

"Mou." moaned Eri in a low whisper "that's going to take up a lot of time."

"It can't be helped." Said Mako with a sigh. "The best we can do is wait until it's completely dark. At least then we may have a better chance at getting into the fortress undetected."

As the three pinks and Miu sat themselves on the branches of the oak waiting for the sun to completely set, we journey back to Human World and catch up with the Power Rangers. On board the new RV, Tommy, Gai and the Mega Force Rangers were all telling Geki of the Zyurangers about Power Rangers, the Quest Master and the current predicament the Go-Ongers, Shinkengers, Goseigers and Gokaigers are in. As for the Phantom Ranger, he was driving the RV to a place that he and all the other Rangers would be safe from Shandor for the time being.

When the seven heroes finished filling Geki into everything that had occurred up to this point, a grave expression crossed the TyrannoRanger's face. "This is more serious then we thought." Said Geki.

"We?" asked Troy.

"Yes. The other Zyurangers and myself." Explained Geki. "When it was discovered that Nii-san was summoned to the Earth, the five of us decided to split up and search all of Japan if we had to, to find out where he was."

"Nii-san?" said a confused Jake. "I thought DragonRanger's name was Burai."

"It is." Said Gai. "Here in Japan a younger sibling would call their older brother "nii" or their older sister "nee" as a show of respect. Jake then nodded to show that he now understood the costume.

"Anyway," began Geki getting back to the matter at hand "we Zyurangers have spent the last two days searching for Nii-san and up until now we had no leads to where he is or what happened to him." Geki then turned his attention towards Gai. "GokaiSilver-chan, you said that you were able to take the Zyusouken from my brother."

"Well, we didn't exactly take it from Burai-san." Said Gai as he retrieved the Zyusouken from the inside of his jacket. "What really happened was what Tommy-san said. Tommy-san was able to disarm Burai-san during their duel and I found it laying outside of the cave Phantom-san and I were in to retrieve this." Gai held up the silver key card all the other heroes to see.

"Is this thing really going to take us up to Shandor's Space Station?" asked Emma.

"Well, once we have all of them in this dimension, yes." Said Tommy.

"How many key cards are there?" asked Gia.

"There are nine in total." Said Tommy. "So far we have two of…" then it suddenly hit Tommy. "What happened to the first key?" Tommy asked Gai.

Gai didn't understand what Tommy was talking about at first but once he realized what Tommy was getting at, the young pirate jumped to his feet like he was just struck by lightning. "WE DON'T HAVE THE FIRST KEY!" Gai yelled out in terror.

All the other heroes looked on at Gai in disbelief. "What do you mean you guys don't have the first key card?" asked Jake.

"You see what happened was…" Gai began but stopped suddenly. Gai's mind flashed back to when Calculeschimedes appeared at Mt. Tsukuba and in his peripheral vision, an image of Sosuke in putting the white key card in his pants pocket. "Sosuke-san has it." Gai said coming back to reality.

"Are you sure?" asked Tommy.

"I'm positive." Answered Gai. "Sosuke-san has the first key card."

"Well, there's only one way to find out." Said Noah. "You gave all the other Sentai communicators, right?" Noah asked Tommy.

"Yes." Answered Tommy. "And we were able to talk them after we got separated."

"Good. I'll try to get a lock on Sosuke's signal and we'll see if he does have the key card." Said Noah.

"And I will contact my comrades and tell them where they can meet up with us." Said Geki.

As this motley group of heroes tries to get in contact with the Red Sentai, we return to Ninja World where night has finally fallen and the four brave young women have begun to climb down the oak tree they were sitting in. Once they were on the ground, the heroines placed their masks over their mouths and split up into two groups. Ahim and Mako going to the left, Miu and Eri going to the right. The for Sentai kept low as they advanced on the Shogun Viper's camp. Slowly but surely, the pairs made it to two tents and climbed on top of them. The strategy of the four is to go around the camp from tops of all the tents and poke holes through the tents with there swords to see if the Shogun Vipers have any spare weapons laying around. It was also decided among the four that Mako and Ahim would check the outer rim of the camp and Miu and Eri would investigate the inner sanctum. This of course was no easy task. There was at least one Shogun Viper stationed a the entrance to every tent and the tents themselves were set up four feet apart from each other making things just a little more difficult for our heroines. But the four young women met this challenge head on and leaped from tent to tent without hesitation, leaping from one tent to another.

The four didn't have much success in the beginning of their hunt but they pressed on with get tenacity. As Mako and Ahim made their way around the camp's outer rim, Mako and Eri made their way into the inner part. The Skick angel and the Lovely Sensation stayed one tent apart from each other to double their efforts. Every time they came across an ordinary tent, they would turn to each other and shake their heads and would move on to the next tent. Eventually the two came to the very center of the camp and saw the bulk of the Shogun Viper army. The center of the campsite was a wide fifty-yard circle with the Shogun Vipers sitting in groups of about two-dozen all over the place. In the very center of this ring was a large bonfire that was surrounded by nine Shogun Vipers who were cooking wild bores or some other kind of livestock the snakes had killed in a hunt earlier that evening. Miu and Eri could only look away in disgust as the serpents ripped the carcasses of their prey to shreds.

"Eri." Whispered Miu as she waved the angel over to her. Eri took caution not to draw attention from any of the Shogun Vipers as she leaped over to Miu's tent. "I think we should stay together from here on out."

"Yes." Nodded Eri. "We would stand a better chance against the Vipers if we're discovered."

"Miu, Eri." Said a soft voice from behind the two. Miu and Eri turned around to find Mako crouching behind the tent's arch. The two ninjas acknowledged the lady samurai and crawled up and over the tarp to meet Mako on the other side.

"What's up?" whispered Eri.

"Ahim-chan and I have found the weapon's tent." Whispered Mako.

"Really? Where?" Asked Eri in an excited whisper. "But where is Ahim?"

"She's back at the tent." Said Mako. "Follow me and be careful. There are more Vipers over by the weapon's tent." Miu and Eri nodded at the lady samurai as they followed her from tent top to tent top.

As Mako lead the Eri and Miu to the weapon's tent, the two would be ninjas saw that ShinkenPink was right about there being more Shogun Vipers roaming the camp grounds. About six rows of tents away from the fest was another open area full of Vipers. Only these Vipers weren't in Shogun garb. These snakes were the blacksmiths of the army, forging the various weapons for the samurai snakes. The load clings of hammers striking steel echoed made it easy for the three Sentai to scurry across the tents virtually undetected. However, the tent that the three heroines were heading to was directly behind the blacksmiths and to make things worse, Vipers were constantly walking in and out of the tent storing the new forged weapons.

Though it took a little extra time, by staying at least three tents away from the blacksmith Vipers, Mako, Miu and Eri were eventually able to meet up with Ahim who had been waiting for Mako to return with Eri and Miu on the far side of the weapon's tent. The weapon's tent was about five times wider then the other tents and housed a variety of samurai style weapons. Ahim, who had been surveying the inside of the tent from a hole she cut into the tapestry, has been looking for a good place for the ninjas to slip into the tent undetected.

"Ahim-chan." Said Mako. "Is there anyway we can get in from along the sides?"

Ahim shook her head. "No. The only clear openings are by the front of the tent."

"And that would bring us too close to the Vipers." Said Eri. Ahim responded with a nod. Before the four heroines could begin to contemplate their next move there was a loud commotion arose from the other side of the tent. Eri ran up to the top of her tent to get a better look. Apparently two Vipers who were carrying spears had crashed into each other, which not only caused them to fall backwards but also caused them to drop the pile of spears they were both carrying. Being naturally violent, the two Vipers lashed out at each other and began whipping each other all over the place. This lead to the serpents knocking over Vipers and other freshly made weapons and soon enough a brawl ensued between all the Blacksmith Vipers. Excited, Eri slid down the tapestry to the other ladies.

"What's going on Eri?" asked Miu.

"The Vipers are fighting with one another." Said Eri in a gitty whisper. "This is our chance."

"Alright then," began Mako as she unsheathed her sword "let's go." Mako plunged her blade into the tapestry and made a long cut creating a hole big enough for the four ninja to slip into. After re-sheathing her sword, Mako jumped through down the hole she create followed closely by the others. Once they were in the tent, the four heroines saw entire tables and racks full of weapons. Swords, axes, spears, bows and arrows, you name it, the blacksmiths made it. The Sentai heroines knew that the Vipers would not be fighting for too much longer so the four made their chooses and made them fast. Mako chose a Naginata, a traditional Japanese blade weapon. The Naginata is a spear like weapon designed for long-range combat with its 30cm blade attached to a even longer pole. For Miu, her weapon of chose was a Kusarigama. The Kusarigama is kama (sickle) with a long kusari (metal chain) attached to it and a fundo (iron weight) attached to the other end. Eri picked a Yumi as her new weapon. The Yumi is a type of archery bow that comes in various different lengths and the bow that Eri picked was about 90cm long. The arrows that are used with the Yumi not only also come in different lengths but also different verities. The type of arrows Eri chose were the 221cm Namisun. The quiver she took carried seventy of these arrows. And Ahim picked the Kanabo as her weapon. The Kanabo is a devastating club made out of heavy wood and covered with iron spikes. A single blow from this club could easily shatter bones. The Kanabo is also a weapon from Japanese myth and is most commonly associated with the oni. With their new weapons in hand, the four lady ninjas moved to the back of the tent and crawled under the tapestry. Once all four were outside, they ran back to the forest and back up the trees.

After climbing up a good twenty feet up, the Sentai heroines made their way to the west wall of the fortress. Once the four made it to the west wall, the heroines saw that this section of the fortress wasn't as well lit as the others. The four also saw that there was also one archer currently at post and he was walking back and forth surveying the forest with great care.

"What do you all think?" asked Eri.

"I think this could be a trap." Said Ahim.

"Well, we don't have much of a chose and we have very little time." Mako pointed out. "Miu, do you think that you can hook your kama to the wall?"

"I can try." Replied Miu. Miu waited until the archer was a good distance down the left side of the wall before she unraveled the Kusarigama. After she gave herself enough slack, Miu tossed the kama to the wall. As the blade came down, it cut through and hooked itself into the stone. Miu then gave the chain two good tugs before turning to Mako and giving her a thumbs up.

"Okay, you three stay here." Said Mako. "Eri wait three seconds after I cross, then shoot the archer."

"But-"

"Trust me." Said Mako cutting Eri off. Eri didn't want to fight with Mako so she just nodded and took and arrow out of her quiver. After instructing Miu to hold the chain firmly, Mako hopped up onto the chain and began to tight rope walk across it. Using the Naginata to help her balance, Mako damn near ran across the chain and to the wall. Once she was on the other side, Mako silently leaped off the chain and onto the walkway behind the wall. Mako crouched down into the shadows of the wall and made sure to hide the blade of the Naginata so that it wouldn't give off a glare in the moon light.

Once Mako was behind the wall, Eri took aim at the archer and readied her Yumi to fire. She did as Mako instructed her to do. Eri counted to herself 1…2…3 and on three, she released the Namisun. The arrow sailed silently from Eri's bow all the way to the archer's neck. Just as the serpent was about was about to give out a death moan, Mako sprang out of the darkness and covered the snakes mouth to muffle the sound. The Samurai Lady also cradled the dying Viper carefully to the floor, this way the entire fortress wouldn't be alerted to there presence. Once the Viper was fully dead, Mako stood up and waved to the other heroines to cross over.

Ahim was the next to cross. By copying Mako's method, the princess was able to cross over with ease. In an effort to save time, Eri grabbed Miu from behind the waste and spread her angel wings. With a few silent flaps of her wings, Eri was able to bring both herself and Miu over the wall safely and unseen.

After Miu freed the kama from the wall, the four ninjas jumped down from the walkway and started to make their way to the tower that housed the key card. The inside of the fortress was a maze of houses and bunkers that housed even more Shogun Vipers. Torches and lanterns were lit in almost every corner of the fortress making it nearly impossible for the four Sentai to slip into the shadows. However there were things such as carts and barrels and that the Sentai could hide behind and there were even some dark patches here and there that made it possible for the ninjas to hide as well. Though these conveniences would indeed help our four heroines, there were still a good number of Shogun Vipers roaming about the fortress so the four knew that they had to tread with great caution. One false move and the entire Shogun Viper army will be upon them.

The four ladies kept low and as far out of sight as possible for a good long while on their journey to the tower. Unfortunately for them the closer they got to where they had to go, the more Shogun Vipers there were on patrol. But even with the increasing number for Shoguns the Sentai stuck to their plan and everything was going swimmingly until one incident nearly gave them away. This little mishap happened when Ahim accidentally bumped into a Shogun Viper. Though keep in mind, that Ahim wasn't being careless at all. What happened was right when Ahim found a nice shady place to hide, a Shogun Viper just so happened to turn the corner the shady place was at when Ahim got their and the princess hit the samurai snake with a sudden thud that knocked Ahim on her rear. The Shogun Viper didn't know what hit him but once he got his bearings he started to rapidly look for whatever hit him. Once he looked down and found Ahim looking up right back at him, the snake opened its mouth to let out a cry but was silenced almost instantaneously by Mako. Having observed the incident unfold, Mako quickly took up her Naginata, sprang towards the Shogun Viper and with one mighty swipe, Mako decapitated the serpent before a sound could escape its mouth. As the Viper's now headless corpse fall backwards, Miu popped out from out of nowhere and caught the body preventing it from creating any noise. As for the Viper's head, it rolled forward after Mako cut it off of the Viper and right onto Ahim's lap. As soon as the head land on Ahim, the Gokai princess instantly forgot the situation she was in and let out a blood curdling scream. The scream would have echoed out and alerted the fortress if Eri didn't come up from behind Ahim and placed both hands over GokaiPink's mouth. After hiding the Viper's body, Miu and Mako both took one Ahim's hands into their own hands and began to sooth her. All the while Ahim was fidgeting and actually knocked the Viper's head off her lap and to the side and out of site.

"Ahim-chan, it okay. The head is off of you now." Said Miu as she Mako and Eri helped the startled princess to her feet. After taking a few deep breaths, the hysterical Ahim was finally able to relax and regain her composer.

"I'm sorry everyone." Said Ahim hanger her head.

"It wasn't your fault Ahim." Said Eri. "We all just need to be a little extra careful, that's all."

"Yes." Added Mako as she placed her hand under Ahim's chin and raised her head up so now Ahim was looking at Mako. "And as long as we continue to look out for one another, we'll make it to the tower and back to Human World."

With a little sniffle, Ahim gave a little smile under her mask and nodded to her fellow Sentai. With the incident behind the four continued to make their way to the central tower of the fortress. After about another twenty minutes of sneaking about, the four Sentai heroines finally found themselves just thirty yards away from entrance to the tower that housed their key card. As the four were about to advance, several bells and gongs began to ring throughout the fortress. Startled by the sudden commotion, the heroines knew that they have been discovered, but what was it that gave them away. Remember that brawl that started between the Blacksmith Vipers? Well once it ended the blacksmiths went back to work and one Viper decided to do and inventory check. Instead of finding out that a few weapons had been taken, the Viper found the hole that Mako cut into the tapestry. The Viper ran out of the weapon's tent and alerted the rest of the Vipers. And of course when word reached the Vipers in the fortress, they sounded the alarm. Now that they know that they have been discovered, the four heroines decided to screw the sneaking around and bolted for the tower door. They were in luck as there were no Shoguns around to interfere with their progress and the four were able to pass through the tower door with no trouble what so ever.

There was no light inside the tower. From every direct the four ninjas looked there was nothing but darkness. All of a sudden a brilliant light spread throughout the tower and the heroines found themselves standing on a wood floor, dead center in tower. As the four looked around, they saw a long stair case leading to the next level. Looking up, the ladies observed that there was no ceiling directly above them, just an open space. In fact, for all thirty floors of the tower there was no ceiling save for the ceiling separating the twenty-ninth floor from the thirtieth. Just then, several doors opened from all around the four heroines and a hoard of Shogun Vipers came in and formed a ring around the ladies. As the Vipers pointed the swords and spears at the four, the Sentai heroines circled up themselves standing back to back to each other. And then, you know who made his presence known.

"Well hello ladies." Said the Quest Master. "I must say that your chose of wardrobe is a little…provocative."

"What do you mean?" asked a confused Eri.

"What, did you think I had anything to do with the way you are dressed?" asked a surprised Shandor. "Oh, no, no, no. I maybe a lot of things but I am not a pervert." The faces of the four heroines turned a deep red with embarrassment and frustration. "Now then," continued Shandor "you are smart girls. So you pretty much realize that the key card you are looking for is on the top floor of the tower. Now, if you get past the Vipers and get to the twenty-ninth floor you'll find that there are no stairs that lead to the thirtieth. But there is however, four ropes for each of you to use to climb to the top. Good luck."

With the Quest Master' departing words, the four heroines turned their attention to the Shogun Vipers. They four raised their weapons expected the samurai snakes to attack them but no. The Vipers were just standing there looking at them. The heroines were confused by this. From the expressions on the snakes faces, mouths open and ogling eyes, it almost seemed as if the Vipers were…Ho-ly crap. It suddenly hit the heroines. The Vipers were looking at the four ninjas with lust in their eyes. Mako, Miu, Eri and Ahim couldn't believe it. Never in their careers as Sentai warriors has an enemy ever done such a thing to them. And then it happened. One Shogun Viper went walking right up to Ahim staring right at her chest. The Viper had his hand outstretched wanting to touch her breast. When Ahim realized what the Viper's intentions were, a rage like she never knew overwhelmed her and she clobbered the Viper over the head with her Kanabo.

This act influenced the other heroines to unleashed hell upon the Shogun Vipers. Mako leaped into the air and cut the heads off of three Vipers with her Naginata creating an opening for the heroines to run up the stairs. As the heroines ran past the Vipers, it was only then that the samurai snakes remembered what they were suppose to be doing and gave chase to the Sentai. Try as they might, the Vipers were unable to stop the heroines from advancing up the tower. Every time they got close to one of the heroines, they would be overcome with lust and leave themselves wide open for the heroines to kill them. Even though they were offended by the way the Vipers would gawk at them, the four heroines couldn't deny that their inability to control their desire made thing all the easier for them. Before they knew it, the Sentai heroines had made it to the twenty-ninth floor of the tower. Just as the Quest Master stated, there were four ropes dangling from the ceiling in a square formation and right above the ropes was a square hole that lead to the next floor. The heroines each took a corner and readied themselves to jump for the ropes. After looking down at the twenty-eight story plunge that a waited them if they miss the ropes, they four ladies took a deep breath and made their leap. Time seemingly stood still as the four heroines flew for the ropes. After what seemed like an hour of hang time, the four made it to their respective ropes and hung on tightly to them. After the four breathed a sigh of relief, they proceeded to climb to the thirtieth floor. Once they reached the top, the four helped each other up the hole. After all four ladies were on the thirtieth floor, they found a door to the hole. After the ninjas flipped the door closed they found that there was a lock to the door that would further insure that the Shogun Vipers couldn't follow them up.

Once the Sentai ladies had locked the door, they began to look for the key card. The thirtieth floor of the tower was dimly lit by several small candles and the only object that the four could see was a statue of a shishi.

"Do you think the statue has the key card?" asked Miu.

"Only one way to find out." Said Eri.

As the four made their way to the statue, a laser beam came flying out of the shishi's mouth. That bolt seemed to be aimed directly at Mako as she was just barely able to avoid the shot. As Mako and the others rolled out of the statue's line of fire, the shishi exploded and when the dust settled, Ozora Tenkaru revealed himself to the ninja pistol in hand.

"Ozora Tenkaru!" cried Mako.

"That's right." Said the Gedoshu. "And I've come for your head Shinkenger." The catfish then took out a paper lantern. To the disbelief of the heroines, the Pink Key Card they were after was tapped to front of Tenkaru's lantern. "I do believe that the four of you came here for this right." The heroines did not answer but just simply glared at the gunman. "Well then, if you want this key card, then you have to take it from me." Said Tenkaru with an evil grin.

Then all of a sudden, Mako took up her Naginata and began swinging it over the candles. The breeze Mako was creating by doing this was blowing out the candles making the dimly lit room darker then before. The other heroines immediately caught on to what Mako was doing and began to assist ShinkenPink in blowing out the candles. Before, Tenkaru could get a shot off, the Sentai had extinguished all of the candles in room and now Tenkaru was standing in the rubble of the statue in complete darkness. Well, it wasn't complete darkness as Tenkaru still had his lantern. But he didn't have the lantern for much longer. In the darkness, Eri fired a Namisun at Tenkaru's hand. The arrow pierced the Gedoshu's wrist and causing him to drop the lantern. Before the lantern hit the floor, Mako dove with outstretched hands and grabbed the lantern. Once the lantern was in her possession, Mako took the key card and place it in her robs. Tenkaru couldn't tell which of the heroines had passed him but didn't get a chance to find out. As soon as Mako passed out of site, Miu hurled the fundo at Tenkaru and nailed him right between the eyes. Before the Gedoshu knew what hit him, Ahim came up from behind the catfish and struck him in the back of the head with her Kanabo. With Tenkaru completely dazed, Miu sprang out of the shadows and sliced Tenkaru's pistol in half with her kama.

Everything was going great for the Sentai. They had their key card and had Ozora Tenkaru on the ropes. But then all of a sudden, there came a strange noise from outside. The heroines didn't know what the noise was but it sounded like sparks of electricity. And that's exactly what was happening outside the tower. Spark of electricity were just sparking up from out of thin air. A few moments later, a portal opened right outside the tower. From out of that portal came a spaceship followed by a smaller golden starfighter. The Red Sentai have left Galaxy World and have just entered Ninja World with General Raider in hot pursuit. Marvelous had absolutely no time to react and before he or anyone else knew it, the Red's spaceship crashed right into the tower.

Again, I'm sorry it's been so long between updates. I hope this was worth the wait and I'll try to get the next few chapters out more sooner then later.