Episode 10: I've Got a Spell on Blue
Centuries ago in Japan, Nighlok monsters invaded Japan, but samurai warriors defeated them with power symbols passed down from parent to child. Today the evil Nighlok have risen once again and plan to flood the Earth. Luckily a new generation of heroes stand in their way they are the Power Rangers Samurai.
The Rangers were all gathered outside as Samurai Red and Spoiler Blue squared off.
"Alright now give me all you got!"
"Are you sure?" Red said with concern.
"Of course! Joe-sempai taught me this technique, and you have learned it from me. There's no way you could have mastered in in this short a time." Blue shifting into a familiar stance, "Besides..." her Gokai saber coming up a diagonal angle, "...I'm not holding back."
Red nodded sliding into the same stance, their blades beginning to glow.
"She's got mad skills!" Mike smirks. As they each make the first slash, "I'm impressed."
"Yes Jayden's one of the best that's ever been." Ji coos.
"I was talking about Nicole," Mike says looking oddly at Ji, "She's right up there with Jayden."
And then the cross was completed, the energies tore up the ground between then as they collided, fighting for dominance.
"She's so graceful with a sword," Emily purrs.
Ji nods enthusiastically, "Yes, Jayden always had that quality, even as a child."
Emily gave Ji the same look as Mike, "I meant Nicole."
Ji looking over confused.
"Nicole's technique is better," Mia (Samurai) comments.
"They are both excellent..." Ji begins moving to adress the gathered with the fight at his back just as Jayden's cross slash overpowers Nicole's sending her tumbeling through air, carried by the cross slash as it blows the west fence into splinters and sends Nicole hurtling into the trees.
"Nicole!"
"Ane-san!"
"Gooooooo-Busters!"
As the dust settled Red Buster emerged from the rubble with Nicole held by her shoulders. The others rushing toward them, Jayden at the forefront.
"Nicole I'm so sorry, Are you alright."
She waved a hand dismissively, "You have been practicing in secret haven't you Jayden?"
He smiled sheepishly and looked away, "I didn't want to disappoint you."
"Are you alright Ane-san?"
Nicole smiled to Mia, "I'm fine, thanks to you and Red Buster's super speed." as she unwrapped her arm and dusted herself off, "Just surprised. It's not like I ever expected to beat a swordsman at sword-fighting just not this soon."
"That was still amazing," Kevin added. "Where did you learn it again?"
"Indirectly from watching Joe and his Sempai Sid, Then directly from Joe sometime after I crash landed in the middle of the Gokaigers lives. But I was never a swordsman, I've always been more skill with a staff."
"You're still pretty impressive with a sword and gun," Jayden notes.
She chuckles but is interrupted as the main door open and a wore looking but battle focused figure emerges into the scene.
"Lauren!"
"Big Sis!"
"You're back!"
Her gaze sweeps the destruction of the west fence with horror, "What happened, Nighloks?"
"You look beat," Doc notes, making his way over to her, and leading back toward the inside, "Let's get you to bed, I'll explain everything."
She brushing him of but stumbles from wariness, "I'll be fine, but it looks like a bomb hit the west wall, what are you all waiting for, that Nighlok has to be stopped!"
Jayden flusters, scratching the back of his head, "S-Sorry that was my new technique?"
"W-What?" Lauren chokes on her words as she looks over the destruction, "A new t-technique?"
"Courtesy of Ane-san's training." Mia beams.
Lauren stumbles as she walks out her gaze drifting to take in the full scope of the destruction, 'Such power.' the back to Nicole as Doc and Jayden moved to lead her back inside, 'With such power on our side maybe we can still defeat Xandred after all?' She paused once more before looking back to Nicole, 'Thank you.'
"What are you doing here Decker," Xandred demanded, "You expect a reward for saving Dayu? Is that it?"
"Harumph!" Dayu scoffs, pointing accusingly at Decker, "I didn't need saving."
"This isn't about her," he answers bluntly, "I wanna go after Red Ranger, new leader of the Samurai. But I'm not looking to interfere with any of your plans."
"Do what you will," Xandred paces over, "My head is pounding, I can only deal with one headache at a time."
"Hummm," Decker says turning to face Xandred "I see your still suffering from when the last Red Ranger sealed you down here."
"I will make everyone of those Samurai Rangers pay fro my pain!" Xandred grumbles as he returns to his spot on the floor to rest, "When we make the Sansu River overflow I'm make sure every one of them sink to the bottom."
"And the Pirate Rangers?"
"I couldn't care less who destroys them."
"One less Ranger to deal with eh Master?" Nicole purrs.
"Exactly."
"So you ave nothing else planned," Decker confirms.
"No!"
"Oh ah oh, he answered you! Now go!"
"Alright," Decker says turning for the exit, "Rest well Master Xandred and I shall continue my quest without worry."
"I'm the star around here Decker!" a new Nighlok saunters onto the junk, "Get lost."
'Madimot!' Nicole mentally gasped, inching her way over toward Xandred.
"Madimot! You're all talk!" Octoroo chides.
"Shut up squid lip! I brought you a present that's bigger and badder then Decker! Oh ah oh, don't believe me, take a look!" The new Nighlok guides Octoroo and the others to the side a Decker takes his leave.
"No Decker, don't leave," Octoroo protests, "Wait!"
"Bye bye!" Madimot heading back to the side to show off his gift, "You'll forget all about that rogue when you look outside."
"I can't believe it," Dayu says in shock as she joins Octoroo looking out, Nicole coming over to join them shortly. "Is that what I think it is?"
"It sure is! I've got the Red Ranger's long lost Tiger Zord."
Nicole bends over to whisper into Octoroo's ear, "Keep a close eye on that one. If he can turn the Tiger Zord how long before he tries to make Master Xandred his pet?"
"Oh ah oh!"
"Hey what are you two whispering about!"
Nicole waves a hand dismissively as she heads to the edge, "Just how stale the air in here is getting. I'll check back in later Master," A scowl on her face as she glares at Madimot, "When the air is a bit more pleasant."
"A Samurai need to face his fears Spike," Bulk explains as he walks with Spike and a group of other hikers through the woods. "Nature is our friend!" he pauses to smell a branch.
As he releases it and walks on the branch snapping back to hit Spike in the face, knocking him over.
"But I'm scared of bears," Spike whimpers.
"I don't think bears live in this neck of the woods," Bulk says annoyed as Spike spins around with his air horn and nearly blasts a fellow hiker with it, "Loose the bear spr-"
"CHAN-CHAN-BARA CHAN-BARA. Samurai Sentai SHINKENJAA ap..." Nicole spins from around a tree, her singing broking mid line as she spies Bulk and Spike, "Oh hey guys!"
"Nicole!" Bulk says with surprise as Spike looks on with awe. "What are you doing out here?"
'She sings like an angel!'
Before she could answer several hikers began to scream as Madimot sauntered through the woods, "Trying to cut him off at the pass."
"M-Monster!" Spike shrieked.
"Bulk! Spike!" She looked back fiercely as she took out her Gokai Touch, "Make sure the people get to safety. Gokai Change!"
"You got it!" Bulk grabs Spikes collar and he quickly runs toward the other fleeing hikers.
"Goooooookaiger!"
"Well, well what do we have here?"
Spoiler gave a bored stretch as she turned her back to Madimot, looking back over her shoulder and mock yawning, "Your worst nightmare. Gokai Spoiler...Blue Style!"
"Only one? I'm insulted!"
"I'm more then you can handle!" She spins back around, "Gokai Change!"
"Hurrrrricanger!"
As Madimot snaps his whip she back flips over him landing in a high branch as Hurricane Blue, her Sonic Megaphone, "And One! And Two! And Work those legs! Feel the burn!" she cheers into it her amplified voice lifting Madimot up before dropping him ungracefully back to the dirt.
"Why you!"
"Gokai Change!"
"Gaooooooranger!"
Before launching herself with her Shark Cutters in a quick diving slash.
"Nicole!" Samurai Red cam up behind her, a hand on her shoulder as she landed and his team arrived, "We're here!"
"No!" she growled shoving them back, "Stay back, this is the one I told you about. Keep moving, keep your distance or he will take control of your mind like he did the Tiger Zord!"
"What?!"
"Huh?"
"No way!"
"Ah my reputation precedes me," Madimot smirks as he cracks his whip the Tiger Zord appearing above the trees behind him. "Yes, when the previous Red Ranger sealed Master Xandred the Tiger Zord fell into a crevice where I found him and..."
"Final Wave!"
"What!" Madimot had to roll quickly to dodge Blue Spoilers finisher attack and came up in quite a mood, "Will you let me finish my story!"
Gokai Gun fire was his answer as Spoiler Blue growled, "No."
"Blasted Ranger!" Madimot fired a blast, forcing Spoiler on the defensive as she shoved Jayden out of the way taking the full brunt.
"No!"
"Nicole!"
Dropping to her knees, Jayden moving cautiously over to her, "Nicole?"
To which she answers with Gokai Gun fire at point blank sending Jayden stumbling back as she gets back to her feet.
"I've tamed a new pet," Madimot taunts, "And I shall call her Blue, now sick um!" cracking his whip for emphasis as Nicole readies her Gokai Saber and charges. Samurais Green and Pink.
Quickly dodging her slashes Green meet blade with blade, trying to force Nicole to drop hers, "Come on Nicole, snap out of it!"
She answers his pleas with Gokai Gun Fire and point blank in her free hand, forcing Mike to roll back and hold his side.
"She's under mind control," Pink surmises as she gets Nicole's sword arm wrapped in hers to restrain it and kicks the Gokai Gun out of her free hand before Nicole gets her arm free and slashes Pink deep, making her drop to her knees.
"Hey Stop it!" Yellow calls, drawing her attention as she reclaims her Gokai Gun and charges at Yellow, Blue and Red.
Red leaps, using Spoiler's back as a spring board as he moves for Madimot.
"A rabble rouser eh? One Red Ranger puppet coming up!"
"Symbol Power!"
Under different circumstances that might have worked but Nicole, even under the spell, was well aware of course of things and fired her Gokai Gun behind her, forcing Jayden to make a quick dive as the mind control blast hit the symbol kicking up a wall of dust.
"Nice shot Blue!" Madimot laughed as all eyes were tuned to the dust as it settled.
Samurai Red relaxed his stance, resting his sword on his shoulder.
Madimot laughs, "Two down, four to go!"
"No!"
"Not Jayden too!"
Blue and Red pacing calmly over to Madimot as they awaited further orders.
Madimot sighed, "Looks like luck is on your side Rangers, because I'm drying out." He put a hand on each Ranger's shoulders with a laugh, "Blue, Red, go wait with Tiggy."
"As you wish, Master." The two said together as blue sheathed his blade and red summoned a smoke screen to cover their escape.
"This isn't good," Ji explains to Kevin as the Rangers return sans Jayden and Nicole, "it's going to be hard to break the spell on the Tiger Zord, Jayden, and Nicole."
The crash of plates and Doc's stunned expression says worlds as he stand in hall, "W-What happened to Nicole-san?" Violet, Los Dark, Mia, Marvelous, and Jealoushitto all emerging soon after.
"Madimot caught her and Jayden in a mind control attack."
"Not again," Doc's voice dropping to a whisper as he nearly ran out if Violet and Marvelous did not stop him. "Let me go! I promised them! I promised! Let me go!"
"Calm down Doc-san," Violet cut in, "Running off half cocked isn't going to save Her Highness."
"What's going on?" Kevin asks confused.
"Some time ago," Mia explains, "We were all under the control of Zangyack, turned into their weapons, however eventually Doc-sama was able to free us..."
"But I promised myself to never let that happen again, not to myself, not to my comrades," Doc's tone cut with an odd firmness not often seen in the pacifistic engineer as he pulled himself from Violet grip and glared back daggers at him, "How can you be so calm! Her Highness has been captured again, turned against us, again, why aren't you furious!?"
"Because charging in isn't going to save her. But between our combined intellects we should be able to find a means to break the spell, come on Doc-san we have work to do."
Doc took a deep breath as Violet pulled him away, closing his eyes and clenching his fists tighter, his tone evening out, "Y-You're right."
Madimot grunts as he pulls himself onto the junk, "I told you I'm the best! Am I good or what?"
"So Spoiler and the Red Ranger are in the palms of your hand," Xandred rising, "Good, then you can have the Red Ranger undo the seal."
"Oh ah oh, that's a brilliant idea Master Xandred! You heard the Master Madimot, as soon as you rehydrate go back and order the Red Ranger to break the seal."
Madimot bowed to Master Xandred, "Of course! Consider it done! And when you are free perhaps there will be a seat at your right hand for your loyal servant, hummmm?"
"We will see."
Madimot smirked before turning to head back to the water, Octoroo watching him until he was gone before making his way over to the master, "Oh ah oh, Master our new friend said Madimot had eyes on your title, and I think she was right. If he controls a zord and two Rangers, one of which controls the Sealing Symbol what is to stop him from turning the Red Ranger against you to finish the job?"
"Hummmm," Dayu muses, "He has a point."
"Humm perhaps you are right Octoroo, When I surface for Madimot to break the seal I want you to keep a close eye on him, at the first sign of betrayal step in and destroy him."
"Oh ah oh, as you command Master."
"So," Decker wanders the forest in thought, "Master Xandred doesn't know the truth about the Sealing Power. Good that means he's stay out of my way." before drawing his blade to stare long into hits jagged edge, "Uramasa my trusty sword, if I can't finally find a worthy opponent and bring them to their knees, then what's the point in being immortal?"
Sheathing his blade he take it from his back to his hand as a violet flame envelopes him transforming him into the form of a man as he continues his path onward.
In a construction yard the people flee as Madimot strides in, Red and Spoiler Blue behind him, "Yes, run humans, from my Red and Blue menaces."
The sky darkening as the ground trembles as Xandred and Octoroo are soon to emerge.
As the Gap Sensor blares The Samurai Rangers run onto the scene, Mike quickly glancing around, "Mentor where's Doc and Violet?"
"They went on ahead."
"Are you kidding me? What about Nicole and Jayden. The Nighlok will force them to attack them."
"They'll get themselves killed," Emily worries.
"Hopefully that won't happen, but it is a Ranger's duty to protect the people, they may have no choice."
"There's always a choice! This is bogus!"
"Have faith in your friends Mike." Ji says calmly moving back to monitor the sensor as the rest of Gokaiger watch from the hall.
"Mike we have to help help them," Mia (Samurai) reminds, glancing over to the Gokaigers, "Marvelous and his friends are counting on us as well."
The four quick to run out, the Gokaigers right on their tail leaving Ji alone to only look back and hope.
"Well well well, what do we have here? More puppets for my show?" Madimot taunts as Doc and Violet arrive.
"Enough with the small fries," Xandred growls, "Madimot order the Red Ranger to break the seal. Set me free!"
"What!"
"No!"
"Impossible!"
The rest of the Samurai, followed close by the Gokaigers, exclaim as they arrive a moment later.
"But of course Master Xandred," Madimot crack his whip, "Red, do us all a favor and break Xandred Seal."
"Oh ah oh! And hurry, the Master is already starting to dry."
Red draws his sword, slipping on a secret disc.
"No!"
"Jayden!"
"You can't!"
And in one swift strike cut deep into Spoiler who drops to her knees, as Red quickly lifts her onto his shoulder and fireman carries her over to the others, delivering her to the arms of Doc and Violet.
"Ugh," Spoiler groans as she demorphs beside Jayden, "what did I," she gaze shifts to Madimot and then back to the Ranger and she bends over and starts to retch, horror in her eyes, as Jayden turns back to Xandred, "Oh no, not again."
"How!" Madimot demands.
"It was all a ruse." Jayden explains, "I evaded Nicole's attack at the last second and my Resist Symbol held. But I took a chance you wouldn't be able to tell in the confusion and so played alone. All so I could get close enough to use the Resist Symbol to free Nicole." Then he smirked as he looked to Xandred, "Even if I was under Madimot's control I wouldn't be able to do as you asked, the Sealing Symbol was created to seal you, not unseal you, there IS no way to break it."
"RED RANGER!" Xandred howled, the ground and every crevice in the area erupting as an army of Moogers erupted from the netherworld as Octoroo held back his arm.
"Oh ah oh! Master we need to return NOW to the netherworld before you dry out completely!"
Xandred growled but did as told, his gaze hard on the Rangers as the sky cleared, "One day Rangers I will return and you WILL ALL PAY!"
"Oh ah oh! Moogers! Madimot! Finish the job!"
"As they were surrounded Doc offered his hand to a still shaken Nicole, "Ready to get some payback Nicole-san?"
She still trembled as she stood and took out her Gokai Touch, "I...I don't know..."
"It's ok ane-san, we're here for you." Mia said softly offering the Gold Spoiler key to her, "Here."
"Mia-san?"
"It's yours originally," She smiled taking out the Pink Spoiler, "I can use this one."
Nicole still trembled slightly but regardless the two teams formed a line, "R-Ready?"
"Ready!" Two teams of Rangers chimed in together.
"Go! Go! Samurai!"
"Gokai Change!"
"Goooooookaiger!"
"Red! Samurai Ranger Ready!"
"Blue! Samurai Ranger Ready!"
"Green! Samurai Ranger Ready!"
"Yellow! Samurai Ranger Ready!"
"Pink! Samurai Ranger Ready!"
"Spoiler Pink!"
"Spoiler Gold!"
"Gokai Red!"
"Gokai Green!"
"Gokai Light!"
"Gokai Violet!"
"Gokai Navy!"
"Power Rangers! Samurai!"
"Kaizoku Sentai..."
"Uchuu Teikoku Sentai..."
"Gokaiger!"
"Rangers Together! Samurai Forever!"
"Let's make it extremely showy!"
The morphing grid hemorrhages releasing and explosion of power and a tower of smoke behind each Ranger in their color as they charge into the fray.
'Well this doesn't look good,' Madimot muses as he watches 12 ranges tear through his forces and quickly he makes for a tactical retreat to the netherworld.
Nicole spies this, and growls, breaking formation as she peruses, one Ranger easily lost in the chaos of the war as she reaches her chest and leaps into the crevice after Madimot.
"Phew that was close," Madimot drops to the sands of the Sansu with a relived sigh.
"You didn't really think you could escape me did you!"
"Madimot turns to see Master Xandred standing right behind him, drawing his sword.
"M-Master?! W-What are you doing!"
Xandred falls back into a familiar stance, his blade glowing, "Making sure you will never, ever, hurt anyone else ever again...Cross Slash!"
The attack, amplified by Xandred Imposing Form and natural strength churns up the river and obliterates Madimot as the Junk in the distance churns on the rough seas. Only for Madimot to return a moment later a giant.
"Ha! Let's see you beat me now Master Xandred," His voice bellowing across the Sansu, enough that the true Xandred is able to hear it at the bottom of the sanzu. Nicole smirks, and a moment later she matches his size, but in her Nighlok form.
Her gaze drifts to the junk, "You would dare betray our Master? Then you MUST DIE!"
Nicole splits off into a series of clones, counting five of her in total, with four of them holding Madimot in place, fear growing in his eyes as she shifts back into a familiar stance.
"Wait! Wait! No!"
"Cross Slash!"
In one final strike Madimot is obliterated, exhausted Nicole shrinks down to normal size before passing out of consciousness, her limp body sinking to the bottom of the Sansu.
