Episode 25: Return! Ancient Heroes!

Opening Theme: Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger

Who's excited for the Shout! Factory release of Zyuranger in the U.S? Let me know!

Five Heroes from 170 Million years ago have awoken in the present day.

When Hikaru and his five rescuers finally stopped moving, they were deep in the forest. As Hikaru flopped down on a log to rest, he said "Thanks for the help back there, you really saved my butt. Who are you guys anyway?"

The only girl among them sat down next to him, replying "My name is Mei, Princess of the Risha Tribe." Mei then gestured to her companions, first to a boy in yellow.

"That's the Knight of Daim, Boi."

Boi nodded and said "Nice to meet you."

"The one in blue is Etof Knight Dan."

Dan raised his hand and replied with "Sup."

"The tall one is Sharma Knight Goushi."

Goushi stood up, about as tall as a small tree by Hikaru's reckoning, and said "I hope we can get along."

"And lastly is our leader, Yamato Tribe Prince Geki."

Geki, whose arms had been crossed over his chest, brought a hand forward to shake Hikaru's hand, saying "I'm glad we've met someone else in this world that's not trying to kill us."

Hikaru took Geki's hand, chuckling as he did so. "I agree, it's nice. My name's Hikaru Raido."

"And I am Ultraman Taro." the Strium Brace chimed in, making Mei and Dan jump, with Dan shouting "Who said that!?"

"Oh, sorry about that." Hikaru chuckled as he lifted his left arm, adding "The brace said that, he's alive."

HIkaru's five new companions gathered around him as the Strium Brace continued. "My apologies, I forgot that I'm in a form that would startle most humans. Let me get into a different form." The Strium Brace glowed for a moment, turning into a ball of light that traveled a few feet before expanding to the size of a full grown man. And the light faded to reveal what appeared to be just that, wearing a blue uniform with red highlights.

Hikaru nearly lost it when he saw that, barely controlling his laughter at the sight, blurting out "Taro, what's with the getup?"

Taro grinned and replied "This is the form of a human host I once had by the name of Kotaro Higashi, but let's stick to my name, shall we?"

XXX

Alien Valkie slowly came to awareness, feeling that someone was poking him in the face. As his eyes lite up, as he had no eyelids, he saw that the culprit was the one whom he had joined forces with.

"Why are you taking a nap?" Furabijo inquired, a small whiteboard under her arm..

"I wasn't napping," Valkie replied as he sat up, rubbing his head where he got struck by Lamie's boomerang, "I got knocked out by a lucky hit."

"A lucky hit, huh?" Furabijo mumbled as she started writing on the board. "Very interesting."

"Hey, what are you writing!?" Valike hissed as had stood up and tried to grab the board.

"None of your business, moron." She pouted as she whipped it out of his reach, sticking her tongue out at him.

Valkie would have pressed the matter, but another thought occured to him. "Those stupid guys that attacked me are going to pay for it!"

"What guys?" Furabijo perked up, interested. "Did one of them look like a griffon, the other a scorpion-lady?"

"Yeah, why?" he asked, concerened.

A wild smile spread across Furabijo's face. "They owe me a little payback."

Another thought occured to the space fisherman just then. "Hey, where's that guy you had with you? The silver one?"

Furabijo pouted again, saying "He said that he won't join us agian until he has a reason too."

"How long will that be?"

"Until he can kill the sun, or something like that."

"What?"

"I don't get it either. Let's just go."

"Show me what you wrote first."

"No!"

"Give it!"

"Boom!"

"Yeaaaaahhh!"

XXX

A group of Golems stalked through the tree's, their limited intelligence focused only on the task that they had been ordered to carry out- find and kill their enemies. If they were searching for a normal group of humans, the task would be easy.

These were no ordinary humans, however.

The leaves of a tree were disturbed, distracting one golem from its group. Any disturbance was one to be investigated, so it walked over to where the sound originated.

None of it's fellows noticed this unfortunate individual being yanked up the tree.

Or the next one.

Or the one after that.

The last Golem in the group never noticed it was alone. All that mattered was its mission. As it moved to investigate a noise, fate had already decided that failure was in it's very near future.

XXX

"Well that was fun." Hikaru said to himself as he climbed down the tree, the remains of the golem he took out still up in the branches as the ancient warriors, and Taro did the same.

"Yeah, being something out of a horror movie, taking out golems one by one, is quite cathartic." Dan chuckled as he leaned against the tree he was in moments ago.

"We need to keep moving, though."Geki said as he and Mei joined the others. "Who knows when Bandora will send another group of golems after us."

Mei nodded in agreement, adding "We won't be able to stay hidden forever, so let's go."

Taro was about to say something when he noticed something behind them.

"Look out!" he shouted as he tackled Hikaru to the ground, their companions dodging to the side as he did so.

They landed on the ground just as a stream of green energy flew over their heads, blasting a nearby rock to smithereens.

As they picked themselves up, the figure Taro noticed steped out of the shadows. His body was silver, he carried a blood red sword, and around his waist was a black belt with a green stone of some kind in the center.

"Who are you?!" Goushi demanded.

The figure examend his sword for a moment before replying. "I am the Golgom's Century King, Shadow Moon."

"Shadow Moon?" Taro inquired.

Shadow Moon raised his blade. "This talk is meaningless. Surrender or die. Those are your choices."

Hikaru's companions gathered together, with Boi hissing "We'll pass on both, thanks!"

"Everyone," Geki said, turning to his allies, "Transform!"

"Yeah!" They replied.

In unison, the five of them reached for the buckles of their belts and pulled them off, revealing the medals that were contained in them, thrusting them forward and turning them, the five of them called out in unison.

"Dino Buckler!"

Thier Dino Bucklers opened and let out a bright light, which wrapped around the five heroes, leaving them wearing multi colored suits.

"Tyrannoranger, Geki!"

"Mamothranger, Goushi!"

"Triceraranger, Dan!"

"Tigerranger, Boi!"

"Peteraranger, Mei!"

"Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger!"

"Zyuranger?" Hikaru and Taro inquired in unison.

"Everyone, let's go!" Tyrannoranger called as he and the other Zyurangers rushed forward to face their foe.

Shadow Moon did not move from his spot. He simply raised his hand and said, "Bring it."

Ending Theme: Bouken Shite Rappapi-ya!