Power Rangers Nebula
AN: SEX! Thank you, now that I have your collective attention, there's something important I need to bring up to you all. Over the past two to three years, I've been keeping my eye out on a plagiarist on the site who steals stories belonging to other users under multiple accounts. I myself am one of his victims. Beforehand he went by a pen name ending in vanmatre. Now he's back, under the name Jeremy Rhodes. How do I know this? First, he always steals the same stories, usually Yu-Gi-Oh GX/ 5d's, Digimon, Pokemon, and Fairy Tail stories. Second he always says he adopted it from such and such a user. Third, I reviewed a story of his asking if it was vanmatre, he deleted the story I reviewed, blocked my account, then reposted the stolen story. So keep an eye out on this guy, he lies and you could be next.
Chapter 2: Welcome to the Nexus
The Nexus was a gigantic space station, making several skyscrapers dwarf in comparison. From what Jaden had been told, it was partially modeled after Terra Venture, the space colony that once held the Lost Galaxy Rangers. It was a cool gun metal grey color with a large flat top instead of a domed city. Presently however, Jaden and the others had another problem to deal with.
"His brother?" Alexis asked horrified for the fourth time.
"Again, yes," Naofumi said annoyed.
"So I apparently need to ask this, really I do," Kaiba began annoyed. "What's stopping you from just going over and using that giant attack Mega Whatever, to just step on Chaoticon?"
"Three reasons, first of which is I promised Kotaro I'd bring his brother back," Jaden said honestly. "Second is he's on Ryuuchi's world, third and most importantly, it's protected by a near indestructible energy barrier, preventing us from entering their world."
"I approve of the third reason more than the other two," Kaiba admitted.
"Then how you getting in?" Hassleberry asked concerned.
"We actually have the solution to that, want to see?" Ryusei asked excited.
"Yes," Kaiba said practically jumping out of his seat. All of this ranger tech was absolutely fascinating, plus the monsters, weapons, and vehicles would be great inspiration for future Duel Monster Cards.
Ryusei chuckled happily at that. "Follow me,"
Ryusei lead the adults out, while Jaden decided to go to the cafeteria, only to be blocked by Alexis. "Oh no, you're still in big trouble,"
Jaden sighed exhausted. "Let me guess, you guys want in, all of you?"
"Uh, yeah!" Chazz said excitedly.
"And this is the exact reason why I didn't tell anyone of you this," Jaden sighed annoyed. "I didn't want you guys getting involved."
"But, why?" Syrus demanded. "We've helped you dozens of times before,"
"Yeah, with a card game, not actual hand to hand combat," Jaden said firmly. "Yu has a giant ghost thing he can summon, Metabee's armed to the teeth with weapons, Akame's menacing, Yuki's part wolf, Al does his whole Alchemy thing, Alibaba knows how to work a sword, and Naofumi's got his shield,"
"Thank you kindly," Naofumi said prideful.
"It's true," Akame agreed.
"He's not wrong," Al admitted.
"I do what I can," Yuki admitted sheepishly.
"Hey what about me?" Sakura asked annoyed.
"You're already dead, so I don't really have to worry if you get stabbed in the chest too much," Jaden reminded flatly.
"You, you know what, that's a good point," Sakura reluctantly admitted.
"But still, we can," Alexis began, only for Jaden's gaze to meet her own. He was being firm about this, something Alexis never saw in Jaden. But worse yet, he was afraid, afraid of losing them.
"Alright then, but maybe we could help out on the ship?" Hassleberry offered.
"We get attacked, often, so no," Jaden said flatly.
"More so often then you think too," Jaden shuddered at the tone. He turned to see a rather stern man dressed in a government official like business suit.
"Kurasuma, hey, what's up?" Jaden asked sheepishly.
"The amount of times you've lost your morph orb, guess what that means?" Kurasuma asked half rhetorically, half seriously.
"More training," Jaden bowed his head in defeat.
"Move it," Kurasuma ordered.
As Kurasuma and Jaden moved out of the room, everyone was shocked to see Kotaro walk up again. With a smirk, the group walked into the hallway. "You can't stay out of trouble?" Alexis said with a smile, bending down to the boy. Just then, someone poked her, hard. "Ow,"
"You villain, stay away from Kotaro!" Another three year old said. It was a black haired kid holding a small blue plastic sword. Behind him was a girl holding a giraffe plushy, and a pair of blonde twins, one smiling one frowning on the verge of tears.
"Evil," The smiling twin said.
"Evil," The frowning twin said.
"No, Alexis friend," Kotaro said firmly.
The lead boy looked confused. "No, she is the monster,"
"Taka, no," The girl said, taking the sword away. "If Kotaro says this lady is a friend, then she is a friend,"
"Taka, did you take the other out on an unauthorized field trip again?" Sakura asked, noticing the kids.
"Taka followed Kotaro," The girl said, "Then we followed Taka,"
"This is why you're our favorite Kirin," Naofumi said with a smile. "Hey Takuma, Kazuma," He was implying the smiling twin, then the frowning twin.
"Taka, what have we said about mistreating guests?" Both Atticus and Hassleberry's eyes then lit up. It was a woman with apple red hair clad in a simple blue medieval like dress. "You should know better by now,"
"She is the monster!" Taka shouted grabbing his toy back, then waving his sword again.
"This wouldn't have anything to do with the fact Alexis is Kotaro's newest crush would it?" Yuki asked with a smirk. Tears then began to flow from Taka.
"Oh dear, he's getting fussy again," The lady said grabbing the toddler.
"See you later Shirayuki," Naofumi said with a smile. It was here he noticed Atticus's look and couldn't resist. "Say hi to that boyfriend of yours too, would you?" This crushed the duo's hearts.
"Sure, I get that a lot," Shirayuki said with a smile. The toddlers then followed as Taka cried into Shirayuki's chest.
"You had to crush my dreams so easily?" Atticus said dryly.
"It's better this way, come on commissary on me, I'm starving," Naofumi said dryly. "We can wait for Jaden then we can figure out what to do with you guys,"
"Great idea," Yuki said.
"But Jaden said," Syrus began.
"He's just being overprotective, personally, I say we keep you guys around," Naofumi said with a smile.
Naofumi led the team through the halls of the space ship, only to see two strange creatures, one of which had a golf club. It was a small green humanoid frog with a white stomach that had a yellow star on it. The only form of clothing it wore was a yellow cap with a red star. He was standing on the railing to better hold the golf club, prepared to hit the golf ball bellow.
The other person was a human girl in a white dress with blue rings at the hem of the skirt. However what the newcomers were shocked with was her blue hair. It wasn't the color that bothered them, but how it was styled. Her hair had been converted into eight squid like tentacles. They actually looked like they were moving around, it was actually kinda scary looking. Coupled together with the fact her white hat looked like a squid helped complete the look.
"Squid Girl, Keroro, what are you two doing?" Yuki asked annoyed.
"Hush human," Squid Girl said angered. "I got a week of chores riding on this bet,"
"Human?" Chazz asked confused.
"She's a rare species of squid from her home dimension, everything a squid can do, she can do," Yuki explained. "We keep her around to keep an eye on Squid Girl, apparently she wanted to conquer the surface,"
"Why?" Syrus asked confused.
"Now wait just a kraken minute human, don't pretend like you don't know," Squid Girl said crossly, her hands on her hips. "It's because of your species polluting the sea is the reason for my ink-vasion,"
"Yeah, this backfired because she didn't know anything about the surface world, thinking there were only about 10,000 people total," Sakura said with a sigh. "I still have to explain what a helicopter is,"
Squid Girl adopted a confused looked. "Halo chopper?"
"And the frog here?" Chazz said, poking Keroro.
"Kero, kero, kero," The frog said with a sinister chuckle. "I pekoponian, am the great Sergeant Keroro!" He adopted a salute.
"He's an invader that sucks at his job," Al said bluntly.
"They don't need to know that!" Keroro said quickly.
"What, you're easily distracted by gunpla," Yuki reminded.
"Now what are you two doing?" Hassleberry asked confused, bringing up a good point.
"This, fore!" Keroro hit the ball, as it bounced down the stairs. As it stopped, a certain red haired bitch slipped on it, tossing her bucket into the air, dumping onto her, landing on her butt.
"Yes, Squid Girl must do all my chores for a week now!" Keroro said with a happy cheer. Squid Girl however adopted an angry pout for losing the bet.
"You bet on whether or not she'd fall?" Atticus asked astonished. Just how bad was this girl?
"Hey Bitch, you missed a spot!" Naofumi shouted happily with a smile.
"You going to eat her?" Syrus asked Filo.
"Filo doesn't eat garbage," Filo said dryly.
"I hate you all!" Bitch shouted angrily. "You're just lucky I have to put up with this for one more day,"
"You're right, we're sorry," Sakura said, then turned to Squid Girl. "Open fire!" Squid Girl then shot a powerful spray of ink out of her mouth, covering Bitch, and what she had just cleaned.
"Get back to work," Akame chimed in, then turned to Squid Girl. "That goes for you too,"
"I HATE YOU!" Bitch shouted infuriatingly, shaking the ink off.
"The feelings mutual!" Naofumi shouted back.
"Should we feel bad for her?" Syrus asked confused at the joy everyone else was having at someone else's misery.
"From what I was told, no," Atticus admitted concerned.
"Come on, I'm starving," Akame said, a slight trail of drool coming down her mouth.
"Sure, just where would the training hall be anyway?" Alexis asked confused.
"I'll show you later, Jaden's training now, we don't need him distracted," Akame said honestly. "He's technically the weakest among us, so he likes to go further with his training then the rest of us,"
As the group walked through the hallways, Chazz noticed Aladdin staring at him. "You got a problem runt?"
"No, those little guys around you are just funny," Aladdin said with a smile.
"Wait, you can see me?" Ojama Yellow asked in his spirit form. Aladdin nodded.
"Good God, there will be no living with this," Chazz thought annoyed.
The commissary was with no other way to sum it up, gigantic. There had to be hundreds if not thousands of beings. Some of the wait staff Alexis and the others noticed were Medabots same as ArcBeetle, although as different types. The whole room looked like a giant food court with multiple levels.
"Cool," Syrus said with a smile.
"There you are Squid Girl," Everyone turned to see an older girl with short red hair walk over. "It's your shift anyway, we're really understaffed at the moment with everyone on break," Squid Girl sighed annoyed, then nodded.
"Hey Eiko, can we get some drinks for Jaden's crew here and ourselves?" Sakura said with a smile.
"So you guys came from that bottomless pit's world?" Eiko said with a smile.
"That's Jaden alright, you know they canceled installing a garbage disposal because of him," Syrus pointed out.
"I can easily see that," Eiko said with a smirk.
Kaiba and the other adults were led to the hanger, where the zords and other vehicles were held. The Gold Libra and Silver Ophiuchus Zords were both of similar builds. Instead of having an orb attached to the back, these two zords were humanoid robots to the point where the orbs were in the chest cavity. The Libra zord had two plates attached to each hand giving it the aperance of a weight scale. The Ophiuchus zord had more snake themed limbs, but it was evident the limbs would combine into a giant python themed head. The Scorpio Zord was an orange scorpion with a large blue arrowhead attached to the end of the tail. Various space shuttle like vehicles of all colors were placed throughout the hanger. The adults were lead to a giant cannon apparatus. It was black with silver highlights. On the back, despite its size, used four ports for Spatial orbs, one of which was taken. It was a pale pearl colored orb number 54.
Say hello to the Crux Cannon, the ultimate weapon of the Crimson Ranger," Ryusei said with a smirk.
"It's, beautiful," Kaiba admitted with an awe struck tone.
"Yes, yes, she is," Ryusei said with a smirk. "Unlike most of our weapons that use one Spatial Orb at a time, this baby needs four simultaneously, specifically the four that make up the Southern Crux constellation,"
"But I only see the one," Fontaine pointed out.
"Yes, safety precaution, the Crimson Ranger cast three of them out of his dimension, which itself is protected by a separate trio of orbs," Ryusei said honestly.
"And one of the orbs that powers this cannon is where the Crimson Ranger comes from?" Crowler asked, trying to make heads or tails of this.
Ryusei nodded, then pulled out another yellow orb. Unlike the others, this one was incredibly faded, almost like it was dead. "This is the Pyxis orb, with it, we can find anything in the multiverse, it just needs a month to recharge between uses,"
Meanwhile, on Kotaro's world, Chaoticon sat on his throne annoyed. Annoyed that once again those meddlesome Power Rangers had slipped through his fingers, destroyed another of his Field Commanders, and interfered with his plans. He was situated at his castle, a large menacing metal skull like structure that took up most of where the Tokyo of this dimension used to be. The throne room itself was dark, with regal purple rugs and the tapestries that held his symbol.
At his left was a red female octopus like alien. She was clad in silver and blue armor with a grey filter like apparatus attached to her mouth. Covering her brown boots and various spots all over her body were barnacles. This was one of Chaoticon's loyal warriors, Rinasrita, a warrior capable of coming back to life as many times as needed.
At his right was a human clade in gold and blue armor, in his hand was an enchanted tome. His hair was silver and his eyes hid behind a pair of larger glasses. Mere millimeters away from his right eye was a long scar caused by Naofumi in a previous battle. This was Kyo Ethnina a person from a dimension that crossed over into Melromarc, and he formerly held the title of the Book Hero.
An assortment of Glitches walked in a thin green monster, who was thrown into the room hard. He was green with black and gold armor with a lotus like head. "Sagittario, refresh my memory, did you not say you would deal with these rangers without hassle?" Chaoticon asked rhetorically.
"Apologies sir," Sagittario said quickly, practically jumping to a kneeling position. "These rangers, they're just harder to deal with than originally anticipated,"
"Be that as it may, Head Tactic Commander," Chaoticon said with a bored expression. "I've sent out a little incentive to ensure the defeat of the rangers, the Commander who destroys them will have your job,"
"W-what?" Sagittario asked astonished. "Sir, I can destroy them!"
"Then get to it useless," Rinasrita ordered with an Italian accent.
"So, uh, did I come at a bad time?" Another monster asked nervously. It was a tall grey, blue, and purple skeleton like alien with an arrowhead like hood.
"Sagittario I do believe you know Naval Lieutenant Shados correct?" Chaoticon smirked. "He's put in the resume to destroy the rangers at their base," He then turned to the skeleton. "I expect results,"
"Yes sir," The monster nodded, before heading out with his crew, leaving Sagittario speechless.
"But, but sir!" Sagittario began horrified.
"Enough!" Chaoticon bellowed, tossing an energy sphere at the armored alien. "If you want to keep your job, I'd highly recommend you get results!"
"Yes, your grace!" Saggittario said panicking as he scrambled out of the room.
"It's fun to watch him squirm," Kyo pointed out. Rinasrita nodded with a light chuckle.
"Yes it is," Chaoticon agreed.
About an hour later, Jaden tiredly walked into the commissary, with a noteworthy bulge in his jacket pocket. He sighed exasperatedly seeing his friends getting chummy with the other rangers. This was what he was afraid of, getting them caught in the crossfire. "So anyone tell any embarrassing stories about me?"
"No not yet," Alexis chuckled, only to see the lump in Jaden's pocket shift around as if something alive was in it.
"Oh right, I almost stepped on Mi-kun on the way over," Jaden pulled out what was in his pocket. It was a mummy, wrapped up tight, and roughly the same size as a hamster. Gently, Jaden placed the little thing onto the table. "Little bugger was looking for Sora, so I figured he'd be here,"
"That's not a mummy, that's a gerbil covered in toilet paper," Chazz said rudely. Just then, a small stream poured out of Mi-kun's eyes and into Chazz's lap.
"You need to apologize," Sakura said firmly.
"No chance," Chazz declared, grabbing a large handful of napkins for his now soaking pants. Mi-kun then walked over to Chazz, who put a menu up in his path. What surprised everyone was that Mi-kun then proceeded to knock on the menu as if it were a door.
"Too cute," Alexis said with a slight chuckle. Then her expression turned serious. "So how did you get involved with all of this Jaden?"
"Now that is a story worth telling, originally it was me, Al, Akame, and Yuki that were chosen to be the rangers." Jaden said with a smile.
-Flashback two months ago-
Jaden was lazing around his house, his parents were, well he wasn't even sure where they were right now. He was just finished reheating the pizza in the microwave and decided to eat outside. Jaden sat himself down on the patio when he looked up at the night sky and saw something he was never expecting to see, the Leo Constellation. Had Jaden paid better attention in class, he would know that the constellation in question wasn't seeable from Japan. But that wasn't the problem, the nine stars that made up the constellation were glowing a bright red color. They then blasted a scarlet energy beam right at Jaden's body. When the light died down, Jaden seemed unharmed, but now he had a red orb with a silver base in his hand.
"Well, this is far from the weirdest thing that happened to me," Jaden commented offhandedly. But bizarrely enough, Jaden also felt strange, not strange as in sick, or when he lost the ability to see his duel monsters cards, strange as in better.
Shrugging, Jaden decided to go back inside. What he was unaware of was three other constellations lit up too.
The next day, Jaden found himself walking through town on his way to the arcade. There was a small Duel Monsters tournament going on, so he decided to compete to keep his skills sharp. For some bizarre reason, he took the orb with him. Not that he was surprised, Jaden flew through the tournament, making his way to the final match. However everyone noticed one guy in particular had a great deal of luck. His name was Alberto Ryuga, and he was originally a Duel Academy instructor who was fired the year before Jaden had started. Jaden heard the rumors during his first year at Duel Academy, where he stole cards from students he beat. Being the rumors said that Crowler was the one who caught Ryuga, many students didn't believe him. He was a tall man with black hair which had a white stripe through it. His bifocals made him look more intimidating than usual. His good luck charm was a large metallic ring on his left hand. The luck as it turned out, was his opponents' duel disk were shutting down mid battle. Some of their spell or trap cards just stopped working, but no one could figure out how.
"So you used to be a Duel Academy teacher huh?" Jaden asked his opponent on the platform. "Small world, I'm presently the best duelist there,"
"How, you're still a Slifer?" Ryuga demanded.
"You're about to find out, now GET YOUR GAME ON!" Jaden declared.
"How much of a chance do you think this Jaden has?" One spectator asked rhetorically.
"Doubtful, my duel disk just stopped working right mid-game," A second spectator and contestant answered. Among those in the crowd was someone wearing a full body cloak, and kept to the back.
The duel went on smoothly Jaden was presently losing with 2500 Life points to Ryuga's 3000. Jaden had one card face down, while Ryuga had none. Each player had four cards in their hand.
"Now Wildheart, slash apart his Hyper Hammerhead!" The tribal warrior obeyed and swung its sword against the defense position dinosaur. "I'll throw down another facedown and call it a turn."
"Not bad Mr. Yuki, but not good enough," Ryuga said with a dark smirk, pushing his glasses up his nose with his left hand. "For it's my move," He drew and smirked victoriously.
"I start this turn by playing Graceful Charity, so I draw three cards, and discard two," Jaden noticed one of the cards his opponent discarded was a monster.
"Now I banish both my Hyper Hammerhead and the Giant Rex I just discarded to special summon Ultimate Conductor Tyranno (LV 10 3500/3200)." Now knowing Hassleberry for the past year, Jaden had seen powerful dinosaur type monsters before, but this was a whole new beast. It was a giant, muscular black and red scaled beast with blue flames coming off its body.
"Scary," Jaden couldn't help but admit.
"And he's the least of your worries for when I remove it from the game, I can summon Giant Rex to the field in attack mode, with an additional 200 attack points." (LV 4 2000/1200-2200/1200) The monster summoned was more of a spinosaur with orange and green scales, but a threat none the less. "And while we're at it, I summon my Sabersaur in attack mode (LV 4 1900/500)." The second monster was a bladed red triceratops.
"Now, Giant Rex attack Wildheart!" The beast effortlessly ripped Wildheart apart.
(JLP: 1800)
"Now Conductor Tyranno, attack with Conductive Rampage!" Ryuga ordered.
"I play my trap, Elemental Mirage!" Jaden ordered, only to find his duel disk unresponsive.
"Too late boy," Ryuga thought villainously. "My ring is more than a fashion statement, it emits a unique electromagnetic signature that I can set to block either spell or trap cards to fit the situation."
"My, my, best duelist at the prestigious Duel Academy, and you can't keep your duel disk in working order?" Ryuga said tauntingly.
"Whelp, plan B," Jaden said quickly, startling Ryuga a moment. "Go Flute of Summoning Kuriboh, now I can special summon my best buddy, Winged Kuriboh.(LV1 300/200)" The winged furball took to the field in defense mode, taking the attack.
"Bad move boy, when my Tyranno destroys a monster in defense mode, you take 1000 points in damage." Ryuga sneered. Kuriboh vanished in a blue flame.
(JLP: 800)
"You lose Slifer," Ryuga smirked.
"Not this turn I don't, when he's destroyed Winged Kuriboh prevents me from taking damage for the rest of the turn." Jaden's comment put a massive damper on Ryuga's good mood. "You know, Crowler had the same look on his face when I beat him in the entrance exams,"
"YOU BEAT CROWLER!" Ryuga demanded horrified.
"Hey Kotaro, what, hey?" Jaden said annoyed as he was interrupted. Kotaro had begun climbing up Jaden's jeans and sat on his lap. The other day care kids had arrived as well. "I'm telling my friends a story here,"
"Sorry Jay," A woman said almost as dully as Kotaro. She had dark tanned skin with pink and black hair. In her arms were two more infants.
"It's cool Rose," Jaden said honestly. "So what's up?"
"Chiu," Kotaro pointed to the opened door.
"Wait, wasn't she on the same mission as Metabee and Yu?" Sakura asked worried. It was here, the doors leading into the commissary opened up.
"Miss Hasegawa!" A younger male voice called out. Four people walked through the door. The first was a tall teen girl with dark brown hair in a burgundy school uniform. Her infuriated eyes were concealed behind a rather large pair of glasses. Behind her was a girl wearing the same uniform as the first girl. Her orange hair was tied into pigtail with clips decorated with bells. Next to her was a 10 year old boy in a business suit with red spikey hair. Strangely he had a mystic staff bigger than he was. The final person was wearing a yellow and black militaristic like firefighter outfit. Strangely he was also barefoot.
"Taka, did you try to flush one of Chisame's Chiu dresses down the toilet again?" Yuki asked worried.
"No, Ayaka never gave me my cookie last time," Taka answered.
"Let's go see what happened?" Jaden picked up Kotaro, who now wore Mi-kun on his head. The group walked over to the adjacent table where Chisame sat down at.
"Shinra, Negi, Asuna, what happened?" Jaden asked worried.
"That dumb a-I mean butt Rintaro happened again," The fireman said noticing the kids and adopted a nervous smile.
"Of course he did, that numbskull still doesn't get it that we don't want him on the team," Sakura said with an exasperate sigh.
"Who's Rintaro?" Chazz demanded rudely.
"Uh Jaden," The young boy asked confused. "Who are they?"
"Friends of mine from my dimension Negi, they and several teachers alongside Seto Kaiba himself are here," Jaden answered. "This is Chazz, Alexis, Hassleberry, Atticus, and my best buddy Syrus."
"I thought you didn't want them here?" The bell girl asked confused.
"My bad luck Asuna, all there is too it," Jaden answered with a sigh.
"So I reiterate my question, who's Rintaro?" Chazz demanded.
"A kid from Ikki and Metabee's world, he's good sure, but way too destructive," Shinra explained.
"We finally found those glitch medals, and that little twerp had to show up when we didn't need him too, and boom, everything went up in smoke!" Chisame raged as Eiko brought over her drink.
"Translation?" Atticus asked worried.
"You know that coin Sakura put into Arcbeetle to activate him?" Naofumi asked, getting a nod out of those unaware. "Same thing except mass produced versions by Chaoticon's forces to make Medabots loyal to only him,"
"Ah, no wonder you're upset," Alexis said understandingly.
"Oh dang, how are Metabee and Yu doing?" Jaden asked worriedly.
"Bug," Kotaro said pointing to another door. Out came two more people and a medabot. The first was a young kid, roughly 12 years old wearing a red Japanese button up shirt, while his black hair was tied back into a spiked pony tail. The second was a tall teen wearing an ordinary button up white shirt. He had a blank look on his face and had short silver hair. Attached to his pocket watch in his jeans was the silver morph orb.
The Medabot was a short gold, white, black, and blue streamline kabuto beetle like robot with green eyes. Its horns were two gun barrels connected to the stock. Both of his wrists had two large laser barrels attached to them, however the left forearm had a groove embedded into it which would perfectly fit the Nebula Morpher. It had blue streaks at its rib area, upper legs, and shoulders. At each shoulder was a black barrel with a red ring at the end of it.
"Hey, Ikki, Yu, Metabee," Jaden greeted. "How bad?"
"A few scraps and bruises, but nothing to worry about," Yu answered bluntly. "So, I take it dropping out of Duel Academy backfired?"
"Big time," Jaden admitted.
"You've got the worst luck some time Jay, you know that right?" Metabee asked with a chuckle.
"Metabee, that's rude," Ikki reprimanded.
"So, finish your story Jay, of how you became a ranger," Syrus said excitedly.
"I never heard it before," Negi pointed out. Everyone else got excited to hear the rest of the story.
"Tell it, tell it," Aladdin begged getting excited.
"Alright, alright," Jaden sat back down as those present circled him. "So I'm staring down one of the strongest monsters I've ever seen,"
"Make your next move you Slifer Slacker," Ryuga ordered.
"Alright Teach, just remember, you asked," Jaden drew his next card. "I play Pot of Greed, which allows me to draw two more cards," As Jaden drew his eyes momentarily flashed red.
"Weird trick of light," Ryuga mumbled to himself, pushing his glasses up to switch his ring to spell cards.
Jaden looked at the two cards and smiled. "Remember a few turns ago when I played Card Trooper and sent those three cards to the graveyard?" Jaden asked rhetorically. "Among those three were my Elemental Hero Neos and Neo Spacian Dark Panther,"
"You're telling me this why?" Ryuga demanded.
"This why, I play Miracle Contact, with it I can take Neos in my grave, and any of his Neo Spacian compadres and summon a fusion monster by shuffling them back into my deck." Much to Ryuga's surprise, Jaden's duel disk worked just fine. "So now I contact fuse my Dark Panther and my Neos to create Elemental Hero Dark Neos (LV 7 2500/2000)." The new monster was a black and white version of Neos with wings, a wider helmet, and claws attached to his hands.
"Now since I've got one of Neos's fusion forms out and about, I can play Double Hero Attack, with it, I can special summon any Elemental Hero Fusion Monster right here and now, no Polymerization or Fusion Materials required," Jaden said with a smile as a bright light started glowing on Jaden's field.
"This can't be good," Ryuga said angered. He kept trying to short out Jaden's duel disk with little response.
"And then you called Ememenal Hero Tempest right?" Taka interrupted, getting excited.
"Not this time, I had a different hero in mind," Jaden answered as Taka pouted. "Look I know Tempest is your favorite, but he's not always the answer to my problems,"
"Meet Elemental Hero Shining Flare Wingman (LV 8 2500/2100)." Jaden summoned an incredibly bright armored figure with green skin and blue armor.
"Pitiful," Ryuga sneered.
"I take it you aren't familiar with Shining Flare Wingman's special ability, he gets 300 attack points for every Elemental Hero in my Graveyard, and fortunately for me, I have five right now, meaning," Jaden said with a smile.
"Meaning 1500 more attack points for your Wingman," Ryuga said darkly. "But no matter, I activate my Ultimate Conductor Tyranno's second ability, by destroying my Giant Rex, I can force every monster on your field to defense mode,"
"Uh, you kinda can't," Jaden said with a mischievous smile, getting Ryuga's attention. "When I summoned Dark Neos, I activated his special ability, which negates one monster's effect on the field, so take a guess who?"
"NO!" Ryuga shouted horrified.
"Oh yeah, go Shining Flare Wingman, attack with Solar Flare!" Jaden ordered his monster with 4000 Attack points. "And FYI, when Shining Flare Wingman sends a monster to the graveyard, you take damage equal to its attack points,"
Shining Flare Wingman shot a powerful ball of light at Ultimate Conductor Tyranno, destroying it and depleting Ryuga's life points.
"That's, game?" Jaden asked confused. It was here a powerful electric surge rushed through Ryuga's body. When the shock ended, Ryuga was singed and passed out onto the ground, his ring still sparking.
"Wait, wait, he cheated and you still won?" Asuna asked amazed.
"That's our Jaden," Syrus answered.
"Lame brained faker professor had it coming," Chazz smirked, taking a drink of his soda.
"He's a dumb-dumb," Taka said. Kotaro nodded in agreement.
"Dumb-dumb," Takuma agreed with his usual smile.
"Dummy," Kazuma said, tears flowing.
"Yeah, the police arrested him for using an EMP ring he got off the black market," Jaden admitted sheepishly. "It malfunctioned during the match that's how he got electrocuted."
"There's a black market for a card game?" Chisame asked astonished.
"You'd be surprised, then," Jaden continued.
Jaden was surprised to see the barbecued remains of Ryuga hauled off in the back of the police wagon. Jaden however sat onto the side of the street, holding his trophy. "That was so weird, how did his ring malfunction like it did when I dueled and nobody else's?" Just then, Jaden's eyes glowed red once again.
"Wow, where'd that come from?" He asked amazed. Just then, a stray piano rolled down the street at full speed, narrowly missing Jaden.
"Wow talk about luck," Jaden said absolutely amazed.
Just then, a bizarre assortment of blast nailed Jaden in the back, strangely he felt less pain then he should have. When he turned, Jaden saw a trio of robots run up behind him, blasters armed. "NOT GOOD!" Jaden immediately tried to run, but his back hurt too badly from being hit. Those nearby ran away afraid, and the police had already left.
One robot got right next to Jaden, and held its weapon up high, intent on killing Jaden. As Jaden braced himself for what was to come, the cloaked figure from before attacked the machine. In his hand was a purple and gold cane with a dragon themed ornament on top with a handle behind it. Using it like a sword, the cloaked being quickly reduced two out of the three to scrap. He then raised the handle back, converting the cane into a rifle.
"Dude, thanks," Jaden said with a slight strain. Just then, the cloaked being grabbed Jaden by the wrist and pulled him away.
"This way hurry," Jaden's savior ordered, as the red duelist struggled to keep up. When they got far enough away, Jaden was allowed to breathe again. "What, is going, on?" He begged during breaths.
The cloaked figure then took off his hood, revealing he was a humanoid dragon. "Do you still have the orb?"
"Orb, what?" Jaden began, only to pull out the plastic thing in question. "This thing?"
"Yeah, that thing," The dragon said firmly. Just then, a squad of about sixty other robots ran over.
"Lovely, RANGERS!" The dragon ordered. Just then, three strangely dressed people showed up, one blue, one black, one green. The blue one was wolf themed clad in suede, while the green and black rangers were clad in an armored spandex. Each had a wrist mounted blaster attached to their left arms.
The green one was the smallest out of the three, and the fastest. She quickly struck down the machines. The black bull one was the strongest, and effortlessly lifted three over his head. The blue one had claws on her hands, and slashed apart the machines with her clawed gloves.
"Cool," Jaden couldn't help but admit.
"Not for long rangers!" A nasally voice ordered. It was another monster. This one was a green, white, black, and red Flatwood alien themed with a double sided club.
"Lovely, an Invadanoid, rangers, go nuts," The dragon ordered.
"Yes sir," The trio responded. The Invadanoid's weapon glowed with power as he repositioned it, firing a barrage of energy blasts from one end. The dragon then took Jaden by the wrist and led him away. The rangers then blocked the barrage of energy blasts.
"So, I feel the need to ask this, really I do," Jaden said, getting afraid. "But what the hell is going on here and who are you guys?"
"Short version, you've been chosen to help save the multiverse from a psychotic ghost," The dragon explained, pulling him far enough away. "I am Commander Ryusei of the resistance, and those are three out of the nine power rangers, with you being the fourth member we've found,"
"Ah, so business as usual for me," Jaden said understandingly. "So, now what?"
"You gotta morph," The dragon ordered, pulling out a steel briefcase. Inside was another wrist mounted blaster. "This is a Nebula Morpher, put the orb on it, move it around like a joystick and shout: UNITE THE COSMOS!"
"Why Unite the Cosmos?" Jaden asked confused, adjusting the morpher onto his right arm.
"It sounds cool," Ryusei said honestly.
"He didn't say that," Hassleberry deadpanned.
"No he did, he says weird stuff like that all the time," Yu answered. "I didn't need to be there to know that,"
"Alright then," Jaden added the orb to the morpher.
"IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!" Ryusei shouted excitedly. Jaden looked at him oddly. "It's what other rangers have said before, just roll with it,"
Jaden shrugged, then felt an incredibly amazing wave of energy flow within his body. "UNITE THE COSMOS?" A wave of red energy rushed over Jaden's body as he morphed into the red ranger. Jaden looked down at his morphed form, turned around a bit, then looked up. "Cool,"
"Indeed," Ryusei agreed.
The Invadanoid then noticed Jaden had become the red ranger. "Oh no you don't!" He quickly ran past the other three rangers to attack Jaden. With new found strength, Jaden grabbed onto the alien and locked him into place.
"If anyone would mind doing something to help me, now would be a good time!" Jaden cried out.
The green ranger agreed and pulled out a red triggered grip. She flipped it upside down, and a blue rapier blade appeared from it. She took the green orb from her own morpher and placed it onto the grip.
"Shadow Constellation Pierce!" The attack nailed the Invadanoid in its back, reducing it to nothing.
"Cool, thanks," Jaden said with a sigh of relief. "So apparently we're a team or something?"
"That's the general idea," The big guy said. "I'm Alphonse by the way,"
"Jaden," The red ranger introduced.
Jaden's story was then interrupted by an alarm going off, followed by red flashing lights. Ritsu's voice was then heard throughout the ship. "ALL RANGERS, REPORT TO THE BRIDGE, ENEMY FIGHTERS INCOMING!" This caused everyone to show signs of panic in one way or another.
"It never ends, let's rock and roll rangers," Jaden ordered. The other eight nodded in agreement. "Syrus, you and the others take the kids to the daycare room, we have defense shelters there,"
"We're on in Commander," Hassleberry said with a smile.
The rangers ran off to the Bridge, where Ryusei and the other adults were stationed. The room was a multileveled area with several computers of all kinds were stationed and one creature or another was stationed at it. To one side of the room was nine elevator tubes designed to take one straight to the hanger.
"Took you all long enough," Ryusei joked. "In all seriousness, we have a command ship en route too." The Command Ship in question was a giant red and silver drill tipped Moai looking contraption with the top having two giant clock gears. It was also distributing several small silver UFO like vessels, each had the paint scheme to one of the Glitch designs.
"Marvelous, somebody tell me the zords are ready," Jaden said annoyed.
"I wish," Ryusei said in an equal tone.
"Wait, what?" Kaiba demanded confused.
"The zords run on so much power, we're still recharging them from our fight with Knighterror," Yuki explained.
"Plan B then, how are the Vectors?" Yu asked.
"Charlotte?" Ryusei asked, turning to one of the techs. It was a blond teen wearing a white, red, and black military outfit.
"There's good to go!" She said with a thick French accent.
"Well then rangers, what do you say?" Ryusei chuckled.
"IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!" The eight said in unison, summoning their Nebula Morphers. "UNITE THE COSMOS!"
-Morphing Sequence-
Jaden was in a jungle, the constellation for Leo in front of him. Throwing in some trick moves, Jaden ran through it, each star added a piece of armored spandex like material on. It was red, black and silver with a silver belt, which had a buckle big enough to hold another orb, and white gloves. Jaden's orb crashed into his body, attaching where his heart was, adding a star like logo. The last star attached to his head, creating a red helmet with a roaring lion like visor. "King of the Celestial Jungle: Red Leo Ranger!"
Yuki was next, running through the forest on all fours into the constellation of Lupus. Each star added a different part to her armored form, although the material looked more like suede fur than spandex, and clawed gloves and boots. As the visor attached, it looked more like a howling wolf. "Hunter of the Grand Forest: Blue Lupus Ranger!"
Metabee was placed onto an assembly line. He was pushed down it at incredible speeds. When he reached a station, a star belonging to the Libra Constellation was added on, giving him a more humanoid build. It ended with a helmet with a scale themed visor apart of it. Each basket represented his eyes. "Gadget of the Galactic Factory: Gold Libra Ranger!"
Al was in a wresting ring, he ran backwards and used the ropes to slingshot himself into the Taurus Constellation. The black armor he wore over his already armored form seemed to make his muscles look bigger than already where. He jumped and slammed his fist into the final star, adding a helmet with a bull horned visor. "Champion of the Divine Ring: Black Taurus Ranger!"
Yu found himself in a dark grassy field, his eyes now glowing silver. With the Ophiuchus Constellation before him, Yu attacked it. Each star added a silver outfit to his body, as he did, his body twisted like a snake. To complete the transformation, Yu was given a helmet with a curled snake visor. "Venom of the Universal Serpent: Silver Ophiuchus Ranger!"
From the shadow of a bamboo forest, Akame slashed the green stars of the Chameleon constellation. Each slash added more to her form fitting armor with mini skirt. As she finished, Akame was given a helmet with a spiral on the top of the visor, and two on each side of her head like hair buns. "Assassin of the Cosmic Guild: Green Chameleon Ranger!"
Sakura was given a pair of pink feathered wings, and flew into the Aquila Constellation. Each star added a piece of her outfit, ending with a helmet with a visor of an eagle midflight. She landed center stage on a concert platform. "Songstress of the Astro Stage: Pink Aquila Ranger!"
Finally, Naofumi swam through a current of water, into the Dorado constellation. Each adding a new piece of yellow armor, ending with a fish like visor helmet. Including on this helmet's visor was a black protrusion like a swordfish's nose. "Blade of the Meteor Sea: Yellow Dorado Ranger!"
-End Morphing Sequence-
"Rangers ready," The eight said in unison.
"Go get 'em," Ryusei ordered. The rangers nodded. The eight ran to the elevator tubes to be sent to the hanger, each stepped inside and were shot down. However:
"KURURU YOU ASS HOLE!" Sakura bellowed angered. The doors had been closed at just the right time, catching Sakura between her back and wings.
"Ku ku ku," One of the computer techs snickered. It was another frog, the same species as Keroro, who was curry yellow colored and had large glasses with a swirl design.
"I got it," Charlotte, the user next to him said with an annoyed sigh. She grabbed Kururu and threw him against the glass window in front of them all. She then turned to his computer and opened the door for Sakura.
"Thank you," Sakura said grateful. The pink ranger soon joined the others in the hanger. The Vectors were nine arrowhead shaped space fighters modeled in grey, and each had a series of stripes going along each side to match the nine rangers.
"Alright everybody, let's do this, hopefully, we don't need the zords this time," Jaden ordered as he was strapped into the cockpit.
"Wishful thinking Jay, we all know that's not going to happen," Metabee said over the commlink.
"Especially with my luck," Jaden groaned annoyed. The Vectors flew out, intent on destroying the fleet.
From the daycare room, the Duel Academy Students could only look on in awe as Jaden and the other rangers began destroying the enemy UFOs with lasers from a nearby monitor. The daycare room was a rather bright room perfect for the little kids. From what Alexis and the others were told, the kids' parents were on the ship, working throughout the vessel like they normally would. Strangely there were also handmade ranger and duel monster plushies. Not only those of the Nebula Rangers, but past teams as well. The Duel Monster ones, Syrus had noticed were all though of cards Jaden owned, including cards he kept as spares. Negi told them they were made by a friend of Yu and Naoto's named Kanji.
"Never saw him so good before," Chazz admitted. It was actually kind of cool seeing the rangers blast away at the UFOs.
"Yup, he always funny," Filo said with a smile. "It just like when Master met Jaden,"
"Master, you mean Naofumi right?" Atticus asked confused. Filo nodded.
"Filo met Jaden the first day he became a Power Ranger," Filo said with a smile. "Jaden's first mission was to find master who had become a ranger the same time."
Naofumi and his traveling companions Raphtalia, Filo, and Melty had tiredly walked through the mountain exhausted beyond belief. It had been about a day since, Raphtalia had dealt with her former slave owner, and now the quartet were heading towards the border in hopes of reaching the Queen in hopes of clearing Naofumi's name.
"Master Naofumi, is something wrong?" Raphtalia asked concerned.
"Kinda," He said, exhausted beyond belief. "Last night, this showed up in my hand," Naofumi then pulled out the yellow orb he had gotten last night.
"Wow, it's so pretty," Melty admitted amazed. "I've never seen anything like it,"
"Neither have I, and it just showed up clean out of nowhere," Naofumi admitted.
"Did it do something with your shield?" Raphtalia asked concerned.
That was actually a good point, one Naofumi didn't consider. Naofumi quickly summoned his skill tree and saw something odd. It was an additional ability called Morphing Grid Boost, which added 15% boost to all skills and something called Soul Saber to his weapons list.
"Soul saber?" Naofumi questioned. A yellow energy construct then appeared out of the legendary shield like a sword grip. Reluctantly, Naofumi slowly reached for it with his left hand. It felt real between his fingers, so he pulled it out. Sure enough, much to everyone's surprise the shield hero had drawn a large yellow energy sword. Naofumi then walked over to the mountain side and swung it, creating a large slash mark in the mountain.
"Unbelievable, I've never heard of one of the Cardinal Heroes using another weapon besides their chosen one," Melty said astonished.
"It looks great master," Raphtalia forced herself to say.
"This changes nothing between us Raphtalia," Naofumi assured her. Allowing the demi human to take a long sigh of relief, the quartet decided to keep going.
"HEY, HEY!" A voice called out. Everyone turned to see a small team of four run up, a kid in a red jacket with brown and orange hair, a girl in a black outfit , an adult teen in a red coat, and a girl in a black sundress.
"Who are these people Master?" Raphtalia asked confused. "Friends of yours?"
"No, but they are wearing clothes like I did when I first got here?" Naofumi said suspiciously.
"Hey, bandit looking guy," The red jacket wearer said getting Naofumi annoyed. "You haven't seen a weird yellow version of this thing have you?" He held up a red version of the orb Naofumi now had.
"Where'd you get that?" Naofumi demanded.
"Easy man," The jacket wearer said admitably annoyed. "Believe it or not, the stars themselves gave it to us," His three companions each showed a different colored orb, one green, one blue, one black. "I'm Jaden, this is Al, Akame, and Yuki, and we kind of need you to come with us,"
"Come with?" Raphtalia demanded, drawing her sword.
"You can come too if you want," Jaden said honestly.
After a lengthy explanation, Naofumi only had one thing to say. "Bullcrap," Jaden and the others were taken back by that. "You expect me to believe that some ghost took control over multiple realities and I have to be the one to save you all?"
"You'd be one of nine main forces, but no we won't be doing this alone," Alphonse said firmly.
"Kuriboh, what's up?" Jaden asked his duel spirit friend, not that anyone else could see it. Filo however noticed something was wrong and looked up. Both Jaden and Filo got scared.
"AL, WE NEED A CAVE NOW!" Jaden ordered horrified.
"What?" Al asked confused.
"Did Kuriboh say something?" Yuki sighed annoyed, thinking Jaden was seeing things.
"HE DID, WE NEED TO HIDE NOW MASTER!" Filo ordered frightened.
"What?" Naofumi asked horrified.
"He's not kidding!" Akame shouted, pointing upwards. Everyone saw a massive energy blast coming down on them.
"AL!" Jaden ordered.
Alphonse quickly slapped his hands together, then put them to the canyon wall. His alchemy powers then created a massive opening in the rock formation, allowing the party of eight to run inside quickly. The attack then slammed into the path they were on, just as the team made it inside. The force was so great, it pushed everyone deeper into the cave.
"Well, that hurt," Jaden groaned. "Sound off, who's alive?" He got a series of seven groans signaling they were ok, for now. "Good, now what was that?"
"Judgement," Melty said frightened. "An incredibly powerful attack that requires a staggering amount of Mana to cast,"
"So, who casted it?" Raphtalia asked drawing her sword.
"I think we're going to find out," Jaden turned to Akame. She nodded knowing what Jaden was talking about. The team of seven slowly walked out of the cave, to be greeted to an army of religiously dressed people situated on the adjacent walkway. Leading the army was a pope, he kept a calm demeanor as he clapped his hands.
"This guy?" Naofumi asked surprised.
"You know him?" Yuki asked confused.
"A little bit, yes," Naofumi admitted concerned. "You helped me out in town, but you usually kept to the side,"
"Yes, and you continue to stray from God's graces," The Pope said angered. "It is the will of God that you heathens perish this day!"
"Pope Balmus, explain yourself!" Melty demanded confused.
"The Royal Family has been a thorn in my side for far too long!" Balmus declared. "That is why I pushed that foolish father of yours to summon all four Cardinal Heroes at once, but those summoned were imposters!" One of his followers then pulled out a golden rod with a spear tip. "The Sword Hero brought forth a plague, The Bow Hero has caused rebellions, the Spear hero has turned a blind eye to the horrors of the first princess," The pope then took the weapon in question and swung it a bit. "And you Shield Devil, the crimes you've committed are too numerous to list," A bright glare then covered his glasses. "Which is why you murdered the other three heroes, then dealt with by my righteous fury,"
"That's the Replica Holy Weapon, with it he can summon the powers of all four Cardinal Weapons," Melty realized astonished. "It's not as powerful as the real ones, but it is just as threatening,"
"So wild guess, and I'm just asking because I'm new in town," Jaden said shaking his head. "You've got plans to take the throne for yourself or are doing the whole puppet government routine?"
"You dare to mock me heathen?" Balmus demanded infuriated.
"No dumbass, he's stalling," Naofumi said with a smirk. "In case you haven't noticed we're down a member!"
"She perished in Judgement!" Balmus called out.
"No," Akame said, reappearing behind the pope, startling him. "I can turn invisible and I'm really fast," Akame punched the man in his face, which caused Balmus to stumble a bit, and let go of the replica weapon.
"Good call," Naofumi told Jaden.
"I go to school to play a TCG professionally, I picked up some strategy," Jaden said with a smile. He then noticed something off. "Kind of weird his goons haven't made a move,"
"He must be enchanting them, uniting their mana, it would be the only way he could have cast Judgement before," Melty brought up.
"So, why can't I kill him again?" Akame asked bringing Balmus over, the replica weapon in her hand.
"He's got crimes to answer for, he can't if he's dead, otherwise I would have said yes," Jaden answered honestly.
"You, you heathens dare to touch me?" Balmus demanded, struggling against Akame's grip. "I am the Pope of the Church of Three Her-URK!" At this point, Alphonse switched to his armored form and slammed his armored fist into Balmus's face, knocking him out and shattering his glasses in the same blow.
"My, my Melty you've picked up quiet the interesting assortment of friends," A female voice said amused. Melty smiled turning to see.
"MOTHER!" Melty cried out in joy. The Queen had arrived with a small army of purple cloaked ninja like warriors. Queen Mirellia herself was clad in a royal looking armor with tied up purple hair.
"Your highness," Yuki and the other rangers bowed respectfully.
"So, you want him?" Alphonse offered, implying Balmus.
The forces the Queen brought with then started rounding up the other Three Heroes church members. The ride back to the castle gave Jaden and the others the time to bring Queen Mirellia up to speed about why they needed Naofumi. The queen was reluctant being Naofumi was essential, and shown in recent battles, to be the best warrior against the Waves of Calamity. These were essentially tears in reality which waves of enemies would attack the kingdoms. From what she explained, the peace treaty between Melromarc and the other three countries stated only one hero per country, and that for safety reasons only one hero could be summoned at a time. Apparently, Balmus went behind everyone's back while her majesty was negotiating in a neighboring country, convincing King Aultcray to summon all four at once, despite the risks. Malty, Melty's big sister and formerly next in line to the throne planed everything about Naofumi's public image, making him sound like a rapist and a demon.
"One question, what's your husband got against the Shield Hero anyway?" Jaden asked confused. "The way the Holy wacko was talking, your daughter screwing with Naofumi was planned before he even got to your castle,"
"That's a good point," Naofumi admitted reluctantly.
With a heavy sigh, Mirellia nodded. "I knew this would one day come back to haunt me, it is because of his parents and sister, they were slain by demi humans,"
"And because the Shield Hero is practically a god to demis, father decided to discredit the Shield Hero as revenge?" Melty asked horrified. Mirellia was silent for a moment, before nodding.
"Ouch, I know some wounds don't ever heal right, but that's just pushing it," Jaden admitted.
"You are wise beyond your years Red Ranger," The queen said honestly.
"I am never going to hear that again," Jaden said with a smirk. "So, this is me just thinking out loud, why don't we run it by Commander Ryusei and have some of the crew of the Nexus show up when needed for these waves?"
"I know several state Alchemist who would love to jump at the chance to help out," Alphonse admitted.
"Night Raid could help too," Akame said.
"A reasonable negotiation," The Queen admitted after a moment of silence. Just then, several thunderbolts began to rain down from above.
"AIR STRIKE SHIELD!" Naofumi raised the legendary shield high, then summoned several shields made of pure wind to block the onslaught of attacks.
"My, my shield hero, you're every bit as impressive as I was led to believe," A voice sneered darkly. In front of the gates to the capital stood a small army of Glitches ready to attack. The other three Cardinal Heroes and their parties were held captive as was King Aultcray, beaten badly. Leading the charge was a gold and black armored villain with spikes covering his head and arms wielding a black and silver sword. "I am Boltshido, emissary of the great Lord Chaoticon!" The leader introduced.
"And I am Queen Mirellia Q. Melromarc, what nonsense is this demon?" The Queen ordered angered.
"I come not to fight, all evidence to the contrary, they only forced by hand," Boltshido said offhandedly. "I come merely to offer a deal to the Shield Hero, one he will not refuse,"
"What makes you think I'd make a deal with you?" Naofumi demanded, switching to the Shield of Wrath, causing Raphtalia and Filo to panic a bit.
"Because I know you Shield Hero, you can deny it all you want, but you still hold some loyalty to this realm, present company excluded," Boltshido sneered, turning specifically to Malty. "You are to join Chaoticon's army, in exchange I will not kill any of the other heroes!"
"DO IT SHIELD DEVIL, SO I WILL BE RID OF YOU FOREVER!" Aultcray bellowed angered.
"Wait, you'll kill them if I don't join?" Naofumi asked confused. "Not much of a threat,"
"Oh no, I know you hate these three morons, but they are still the Heroes of Legend," The gold armored monster then walked past Motoyasu, Ren, and Itsuki. "And I happen to know that should any of the Four Cardinal Heroes perish, regardless of how, the time between the Waves of Calamity decreases, so should all three of these idiots die here and now," Boltshido summoned his sword. "The next wave will be here tomorrow afternoon,"
"WHAT?" Everyone shouted horrified.
"What's it going to be?" Boltshido demanded, pointing his sword at Naofumi.
Naofumi was silent for a moment, and looked at the pleading face of Raphtalia. He knew that because of the bounty the King had created to kill the Shield Hero's party, there wasn't nearly enough manpower in the capital alone to deal with the waves immediately. And across Melromarc could be even worse.
"We pick plan B, kick your butt six ways to Sunday and save the day!" Jaden declared.
"Wait what?" Naofumi demanded horrified.
"AL!" Jaden ordered. Al slapped his open palms to the ground, creating a massive trench that swallowed Boltshido and several of his forces were caught in it.
"I forgot you can do that," Naofumi admitted impressed. "So, what's the plan?"
"We morph, fight bad guy, and look awesome doing it," Jaden removed a Nebula Morpher from his bag. "You in?"
"Well, you've been more honest that King Trash so why the hell not?" Naofumi admitted, slightly reluctantly. Jaden and his friends seemed to genuinely want to help. "So how does this thing work?"
"Like this," Jaden said with a smile.
"So, what the holy hell was all that?" Ren asked amazed.
"No idea, I'm just glad they showed up when they did," Itsuki admitted.
"UNITE THE COSMOS!" A flash of green, blue, red, black, and yellow erupted morphing the rangers.
"Good god, what the hell is on my visor?" Naofumi demanded, poking the protrusion.
"I think your swordfish themed," Yuki offered.
"Lightning!" Jaden pointed to Boltshido's attacks. The barrage of lightning bolts shot up from the trench.
"Race ya!" Yuki jumped down first, followed by Alphonse and Akame.
"After you," Naofumi insisted.
"You're too kind!" Jaden joked. The duo of remaining rangers jumped in after them.
"Wow, I just had a total flashback to those Tokusatu shows I watched growing up," Ren said, standing up from the Glitches and their attack.
"I know right," Itsuki chuckled.
"Seal this hole at once!" Aultcray ordered. "We will be rid of the Shie-!" That was all the king got to as a gigantic spiked glacier covered him and the remaining Glitches.
"You will not harm the rangers!" The Queen ordered, finishing casting the spell. "Especially you eldest daughter!"
"But, but mama!" Malty begged, only for the Shadows to put her into chains.
"Now then," Mirellia began, only to realize. "Where is the spear hero?"
"Damn you Naofumi!" Motoyasu shouted, spear ready. The rangers were presently dealing with Boltshido and his Glitches. Boltshido, having noticed him, swung his sword, shooting a bolt of lightning, aimed right at the legendary spear. The weapon in question acted like a lightning rod, the shocked the Spear hero so badly he passed out.
"Wow, what a moron," Chazz said annoyed.
"Spear Dummy always stupid, he called Filo fat!" Filo shouted angered.
"How rude of him," Alexis said crossly.
"Loving this," Naofumi said, parrying with a Glitch using his Nebula Blade. Each ranger had summoned a Nebula weapon to fight the army. Much to his surprise, Raphtalia had appeared, and began parrying with Boltshido.
"Girl you couldn't have come at a better time," Jaden said happily, then slashed a Glitch. "Someone put some distance between her and Boltshido!"
"What?" Raphtalia demanded. Al then backed her up, slamming his fist into the gold armored being, then paired with him using his ax.
"Listen, it's not that I don't want your help, but I could use a quick favor," Jaden said quickly to Raphtalia. "Our commander Ryusei said all of Chaoticon's upper forces carry around this weird black box with gold writing on it, go steal it, and we'll keep him occupied. Raphtalia nodded, then ran off, seeing the box attached to Boltshido's belt. "Everyone, keep the lady protected!"
"Should we do something about this to help them?" Melty asked confused.
"Not at the moment no," Queen Mirella said honestly. "I wish to see these rangers in battle," It was the deal she made with Jaden, should he be telling the truth, this would be a perfect opportunity to gage their strength.
Using both her claw weapon and her own claws, Yuki slashed away at several Glitches. Akame quickly defended her by kicking away one that got too close. Jaden and Naofumi found themselves back to back, slashing away at the Glitches around them.
"You're screwing with me, this is your first fight?" Naofumi asked amazed.
"Nope, not even remotely," Jaden struggled against several Glitches. "According to the dragon that gave me the morpher, the Morphing Grid is the answer to everything,"
"He doesn't know, does he?" Naofumi asked dryly.
"All evidence points to yes," Jaden said in the same tone.
Raphtalia quickly grabbed the black box, and jumped away. "MY BLACK BOX!" Boltshido bellowed horrified.
"Thanks Raphtalia, now how about we end this?" Naofumi said, putting his morph orb on the second port of the Nebula Weapon. "Wait, how the hell do I know how to do this?"
"From what I've been told, it's the Morphing Grid, and it's better not to question it," Jaden admitted reluctantly as he and the other rangers repeated the motion. "Don't feel bad, it's my first day at this too,"
"All together everyone!" Yuki called out.
"CONSTELLATION WAVE!" All five rangers swung their weapons, releasing a powerful energy slash each. The attacks converged and created a multicolored shockwave, destroying Boltshido.
"If you want something done right!" Shados groaned seeing the Rangers destroy another Glitch ship, pulling a level inside the cockpit of the Command Ship. The larger gear shifted to the back as the smaller gear and Moai head shifted upwards creating a drill tipped arm, as a second arm was revealed. The lower portion of the ship became legs. The head of this behemoth was spiked with a long red visor.
"Guys, tell me the zords are ready!" Jaden begged.
"Only the Red, Gold, Silver, Pink are, wait hold on," Ryusei began, only to see something. "Blue zord is good to go, you got your limbs Jaden," From one side of the Nexus, a launch bay door opened up, revealing the hanger. The five zords in question then shot out at incredible speeds.
"I got arm this time!" Yuki called out.
"You just had an arm," Sakura called out.
"Dibs on the other side!" Metabee called out.
"Fine, let's do this," Jaden, Sakura, Metabee, Yuki, and Yu's Vectors then flew over the cockpits of their respective zords. In a wave of energy, the five were then transferred into the cockpits.
"Activate, Nebula Megazord!" Like before, the Leo zord's arms rotated, exposing shoulders. The Aquila Zord and Ophiuchus Zord then folded up, becoming legs, Sakura was the left leg, and Yu was the right. Yuki's zord then became the right arm, while Metabee's became the left, folding up to create a twin plated shield. To complete the transformation, The Leo zord's head rotated around 90 degrees and the jaw dropped down. "NEBULA MEGAZORD ONLINE!" The five orbs then lit up in sequence, signaling it was complete.
"Activate Battlefield mode!" Ryusei ordered.
"Coming up," One nameless tech replied. "Gravity field initiated,"
A large boom was then heard from the ceiling. "Um, what?" Kaiba demanded.
"Yeah, we can turn the roof of the Nexus to one giant battlefield for the Megazord, it's super reinforced then so you don't have to worry about a blast coming through it," Ryusei explained. "This way in case we need the Megazord in space we don't have to worry about it blowing off into space.
"I can understand that," Shepard admitted.
The Command Ship charged at the Megazord, which raised its arms. "Time to die rangers!"
"So, why did I need to get this box thing?" Raphtalia asked confused, holding up the black box. Malty and her father had been pulled away by the Shadows, intent on dealing overdue punishment. Motoyasu was still unconscious from the lightning attack.
"Search me," Jaden admitted. "Our boss just said no,"
"Bullcrap," A man from Itsuki's party said angered. He was a tall, intimidating man clad in knight armor and had a large bushy moustache. He rudely grabbed the black box, which he crushed within his hands. "Like I'm just going to believe the words of some demi lo-!" That was as far as he got to with his rant when a wave of energy emerged from the black box.
Just then, several gusts of black energy shot out of it and flew to Boltshido's corpse. He then sat up quickly and roared. "TIME FOR A JUMP START!" He shouted, growing to incredible heights.
"Ah good reason why not too," Naofumi admitted.
"Want to run away screaming?" Yuki asked calmly.
"Ladies first," Jaden said. Everyone screamed bloody murder as they all dispersed from the electric attacks Boltshido launched.
Just then, the morph orbs attached to the rangers' morphers began to glow brightly.
"So, I'm not the only one who suddenly knows what to do right?" Al asked rhetorically.
"Not even close," Naofumi smirked.
"What are those idiots thinking?" Itsuki demanded infuriatingly.
"WE NEED NEBULA ZORD POWER NOW!" The five called out, summoning the Nebula Zords. The five vehicles were summoned to do battle, and fired a concentrated energy blast at Boltshido.
"Now this is more like it!" Yuki cheered at the helm of the Lupus Zord.
"Rangers, did I call at a bad time?" Ryusei asked over the comms.
"We met our zords," Jaden said excitedly.
"Oh, good, they showed up, nice," Ryusei said sheepishly.
"You didn't have a way to combat giants did you?" Naofumi demanded.
"Only because I keep getting out voted for an orbital death ray apart of the Nexus, I want one damn it," Ryusei pouted. "You better form the Megazord and take that sparkplug down."
"What's a megazord?" Yuki asked interested.
"Giant attack robot," Ryusei said bluntly.
"Go on," Jaden said amused. The five zords then flew upwards as the head on Jaden's zord rotated around. The Dorado and Chameleon zords attached to the lion zord's rotated paws, becoming arms. This configuration then flew over and slashed Boltshido's giant form. The Taurus Zord and Lupus Zord folded up, becoming the legs of this gestalt.
"NEBULA MEGAZORD ONLINE!" The five rangers said in unison as the orbs lit up.
"Dude, Motoyasu's missing this," Itsuki chuckled.
"I know," Ren smirked.
The megazord and Boltshido charged at one another, neither wanting to give the other the victory. "I've failed his grace once, I won't do it again!"
"Sorry sparky, but we really don't like you," Jaden said as the Nebula Megazord slashed at Boltshido who tried to block with his sword. Instead it split in two against the Dorado Zord's blade.
"Rangers, I've gone over the schematics for the Nebula Zords, and I've figured out how you can end this," Ryusei said over the coms. "It's called a Meteor Breaker, a powerful finishing move depending on which Zord is where, the only problem is it burns off way too much power of the five zords in use."
"I say do it," Alphonse added.
"Let's not disappoint," Jaden declared. "NEBULA MEGAZORD, um, SHOOTING STAR SLASH?" Jaden offered. The orbs of the five zords then created an energy surge that converged at the Dorado Zord's blade, doubling it in length.
"I'm going to enjoy this more than I should," Naofumi said darkly, as he moved the controls. The Megazord then swung its arm, destroying Boltshido.
"Incredible," Queen Melromarc finally admitted, having been struck silent seeing the zords.
"That's it, that's all it took to beat their first monster?" Chazz demanded incredulously.
"Uh huh," Filo said with a smile. "Then the stupid king and evil Princess were taken to a trial, so Malty was given a special slave seal that would electrocute her every time she lied,"
"How often did that happen?" Atticus asked, having a good idea who Malty was.
"All but one, when she was asked if she knew the Pope was planning on overthrowing the Queen," Filo answered. "But instead of killing them, Master got stupid king's name changed to Trash,"
"And wild guess, Malty became Bitch?" Alexis asked, realizing who this Malty was.
Filo nodded again. "That's one of her names, we're not supposed to say the other one around the kids,"
"Oh this is going to be good," Chazz snickered venomously. It was here, The Nebula Megazord's orbs lit up once again on the Monitor.
"NEBULA MEGAZORD, BLUE MOON BUZZSAW!" The disks of the Libra Zord spun around as they entered the jaw of the Lupus Zord. The wolf mech then empowered the gold zord, doubling it in size, and threw in a blue bladed aura. The Megazord pulled it's arm back and thrusted it forward, allowing the Libra disk saws to be thrown forward, slicing the Command Ship right down the middle.
"There goes my promotion!" Shados declared, as he blew up with his ship, and cursed himself for forgetting his own black box.
"MISSION COMPLETE!" The eight rangers declared in unison.
Back at Duel Academy about an hour later, the staff, Kaiba, students, most of the day care kids, plus a few stray others had returned to the island, in the same place they were teleported up from. The stray others were Negi, Asuna, Chisame, and one other. He was a taller teen with spikey brown hair. This was Tatsumi, a member of Night Raid from Akame's world.
"Jaden," Jesse said, running up with several others, surprised to see the red ranger was among the group. "I thought you were dropping out,"
"Kaiba and Sheppard worked it out with my commander, I'm staying at Duel Academy for my final year," Jaden said with a smile. "These guys are here as extra security in case Chaoticon makes another move towards the Sacred Beasts," He then turned to Kotaro and his friends. "These buggers are here to give Rose a break,"
"How?" Axel demanded.
"I'd put it to my luck powers, but," Jaden began, only to be interrupted by the West Academy Student.
"I meant how did a loser like you get such powers?" Axel demanded.
"The Morphing Grid, that's the answer to everything apparently," Jaden said dryly. "Look I get it, I'm not the best choice for a ranger, but believe me, there have been worse, far worse," From the files Jaden studied on past ranger teams one stood out among all others, Trek from the planet Xybria.
"That's not an answer!" Axel shouted.
"Well it's the only one you're getting," Jaden shrugged off. Remember of when he met the other rangers on the Nexus.
"Dude, that's got to be hollow, no pun intended," Jaden admitted, seeing Al's armored form for the first time. He and the other rangers, alongside Al's brother Edward, and their friend Winry, were situated in the nearby hallway, getting their bearing together.
"No comment," Yuki said with an equal tone.
"You should have seen my grandmother's reaction when Al first turned human after bonding to the black orb," Winry, longtime friend of the Elric Brothers said. "She wouldn't let him leave the table for 12 hours, no joke, we clocked it.
Just then, Colonel Roy Mustang, one of the higher ups of Al's home country, could be heard bellowing throughout the ship. "I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!" Everyone jumped. "THAT BOY, TEAM LEADER, HOW OUTRAGEOUS!"
"I've proven Mustang wrong before, and I can do it again," Jaden thought darkly. "I just know this, fighting Chaoticon from now on, isn't going to be easy,"
Next Time on Power Rangers Nebula: Robattle Free for All. The Rangers jet off to Metabee's home world to deal with Glutton, an arms dealer of Chaoticon's forces who's taken control over several Medabots. In doing so, Jaden recalls how Metabee joined the team.
And done with chapter 2, finally. Wow, did this take me too long. Anyways, I hope everyone is holding up with this COVID-19 lockdown best they can. Now before I go, here's a quick ranger to sentai counterpart list for you all in this chapter for villains.
Chaoticon: Don Armage
Glitches: Indavers
Invadanoids: Tsuyoindavers
Rinsarita: Madakko
Sagittario: Eriedrone
Boltshido: Jupitarian, a character exclusive to the Wii Video Game, Super Sentai Battle Cross
Shados: Los Dark from Gokaiger
Command Ship: Moraimar
So, leave a review, and I'll see you next time.