One decision or action, no matter how tiny, can shape the way things develop. In the world we are about to see, just like in the world you know, the Nezire Beast Rose Nezire, under the command of Shibolena, captured an entire church full of children and begun to transform them into its offspring. And in both this universe and the regular one, one girl, Ruri, managed to escape with Shibolena giving chase and finding a cake intended for Ruri, baked by an older girl, in the process. What happens next is where our story diverges.
Little Ruri had run for what seemed to a child like miles from the church. She didn't quite understand why all the other kids had turned into human flowers, but her instincts had told her it was bad. So, she had run as fast as she could, in the direction of her house. But, she got as far as the park before she tripped on the ground. Ruri looked around, seeing the park covered with roses. After what she had seen, it was incredibly eerie. Ruri wouldn't become a rose. She wouldn't. She had a promise to keep.
"Ruri!" Ruri was snapped from her reverie by the familiar face of Chisato, the girl who had taken her picture for a magazine a few days ago and had more recently baked her a cake for her birthday. She was running forward, carrying said cake.
Ruri picked herself up off the ground, a smile forming on her face. "Chisato!", she cried with joy.
Chisato came over to Ruri, crouching down to place the cake on the ground. "Are you okay?", she asked.
"Chisato!", Ruri said, with some worry, causing the older woman's face to squint. "I was scared! They turned all my friends into… into roses!" She crouched down to cry on Chisato's shoulder.
"You're alright now.", Chisato assured her. "Don't worry." As Ruri nodded, the woman who appeared to her as Chisato blew a kiss at her, which caused the little girl to lose all expression. She then pulled out a small wine glass full of a red liquid. "Now then, why don't you drink this water. It'll calm you down."
Mere moments ago, Ruri would've reacted with fear at the sight of this water, knowing full well what it did to her friends and what it would do to her. But, having been stripped of her ability to think antithetically to Nezireja's cause, Ruri instead nodded. "Yes, Lady Shibolena." Laughing, Shibolena discarded the disguise and handed the glass to Ruri, who gulped it down in one. Petals then grew out of Ruri's head, as her skin turned green, her hands grew thorns and her legs turned into vines. In a few seconds, the magic trick was complete. Ruri was gone, replaced by a Petite Rose Nezire.
Shibolena didn't care that the child was now feeling pain throughout her body, she was too happy that the plan had succeeded. "Now then, all I need to do is remove any remaining obstacles to my success.", she commented.
"Ruri!" Shibolena looked up to see the woman that she had copied, who had apparently run onto the scene.
Her reaction to this development was far from annoyed however. Instead, Shibolena was nothing short of cordial. "Oh. I need to thank you." She said as she got up. "Your form was very useful to me in getting this girl to lower her defences." She then allowed her latest work to be seen clearly by her older sister figure.
"You witch!", the girl declared. "You won't get away with this."
Shibolena was intrigued. "You're but a human, yet you stand against Shibolena, Dr. Hinelar's greatest creation. I admire your confidence.", she said sincerely.
But to her surprise, the human girl didn't back down. Instead, she seemed to get angrier, charging into battle. Shibolena however pooled all of her power to blow her into a nearby tree. She then had vines lift the girl into the air, rocking her up and down. This still did little to dissuade the other girl, who reached for something on her wrist. "You're going to pay.", she declared. "You're definitely going to pay! Install!"
As Shibolena watched on, she was shocked to see a familiar yellow-coloured uniform appear on her quarry, who now escaped from the vines easily, trying to go in for an attack, only to be blocked and tripped. "You - -", Shibolena realised, as she stared down her old enemy Mega Yellow. "That girl from before… you're part of Megaranger?" But her confused reaction soon gave way to a smile, thinking about how she could exploit this.
"Never mind about that!", Mega Yellow declared. "The point is, I'm going to make you pay!" She clenched her fist in front of her face as she said this, before reaching for the firearm in her holster. Shibolena, trying to sell the illusion she was trying to create for her new plan, Drew her own sword, adorned with a rose that controlled the Petite Rose Nezires. Mega Yellow fired, but Shibolena deflected all the shots, so that neither of them received damage.
"This is a pointless fight.", Shibolena warned. "Shouldn't you be more concerned about your friends?" Mega Yellow reacted with confusion to this. And that was all Shibolena needed to blow her a kiss, allowing the other girl's head to fall down. "Now then, who do you serve, Mega Yellow?"
There were a few seconds with no response, before Mega Yellow raised her head. "I live only to protect…" a few more seconds of silence and then "the glory of Nezirejia.", the words came out of Mega Yellow's mouth.
Shibolena smiled at her handiwork, before speaking into her rose. "Rose Nezire, there's been a change in plans. Pretend to be defeated and withdraw as quickly as possible."
Sure enough, following a few minutes of rehearsing dialogue between the master and her new servant, Shibolena's new plan was in effect, as a call came through on Mega Yellow's communication frequency. "Mega Yellow, we've defeated that Nezire Beast fairly easily. Bibidevi didn't show up for once, so we're on our way to you."
Shibolena recognised the voice as Mega Red, sensing that he and the others would soon be here. So she went straight to the script. "Things went poorly today. But now I know your secret identity." She allowed herself to fake a touch of disappointment in her voice. After all, while she did have a spy in the ranks of Megaranger now, she had to abandon a potentially devastating plan to turn all of Earth's children into flowers to do so. Though both would likely allow her some time to enjoy her games. "The next time we meet will be your final-."
She was interrupted, as Mega Yellow's mental scan had led her to anticipate, a hologram of Mega Yellow's human appearance, Chisato Jougasaki, created by Mega Blue, Shun Namiki, running forward. "Megaranger!" The hologram said with a smile on her face. "Megaranger! Thanks for saving me!" The real Mega Yellow seemed to react with confusion to this.
"Was I mistaken?", Shibolena gasped, faking shock. She thought that if she was a real human, she might win one of the meaningless titles they bestowed upon actors every year to inflate their egos. "I'll be back.", she said as she teleported out.
"Mega Yellow." Mega Yellow turned to see the others approaching. "We looked all over, but couldn't find Ruri anywhere."
"She's okay.", Mega Yellow claimed. "I made sure she was taken home." Like all good lies, this one contained a degree of truth. Ruri was okay - given that the spell placed over her held long enough for the process to become irreversible - and she had been taken home - her new home, in the Nezire Dimension. "Now then, shall we go?", she asked as she reverted to Chisato. She had a smiling face, but with her newfound loyalty to Nezirejia, any feelings she expressed were about as real as the chance of Kenta actively getting a 100 on an exam.
"Okay." The others all nodded and undid their transformations, walking off with her. As they did so, Koichiro noticed the bag that Chisato had been carrying the cake in lying on the ground nearby. But he quickly dismissed it. If Ruri really had gone home, she likely would've taken the cake with her.
And back in the Nezire Dimension, Dr. Hinelar wasn't entirely happy with Shibolena. "You fool!", he exploded. "Why did you withdraw? Rose Nezire had Megaranger's defeat in her hands."
"I have decided on a new plan.", Shibolena explained. "I have not only discovered Mega Yellow's identity, but I have brought her under our control. She will act as our spy to discover all of the humans' secrets and possible defences."
"Destroying our enemies by using one of their own.", Yugande surmised. "How ingenious. Megaranger won't take the inevitable and seeming betrayal from one of their cherished friends very well."
"Indeed.", Shibolena nodded. "But I'd give her time to adapt to her new role as one of us before engaging in anything too drastic. After all, any good predator likes to play with their food."