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Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger
GokaiShadow
Chapter 2
Sam sighed as she followed Doc back into the main room of the Gokai Galion. "Well?" Marvellous asked as he sat on his chair, looking at the GokaiShadow key with interest
"According to every one of my tests there is no mental damage." Doc explained
"So she is just plain crazy?" the captain said in curiosity and intrigue
"No I am not!" Sam snapped "I have come up with a perfectly reasonable explanation for what's going on!"
"Well, let's here it some other time." The Red Gokaiger said as he stood back up "I need to get some sleep."
"Speaking of that, where am I suppose to sleep?" the new GokaiShadow asked as she tilted her head slightly in confusion
"There's an empty room just next to Luka's." Marvellous said, shrugging "Sleep there."
"Fine." Sam sighed as she walked away down a hallway that had a yellow and pink strip next to the doorframe, signifying which way there rooms where.
"Night!" Doc called after her and she just half-heartedly waved back to him
After finding the room the girl was shocked when she opened the door.
Inside was her bedroom!
Her single bed with plain black sheets, her Gokaiger poster on the wall, her white dresser and cubed… it was all there! Even the pile of cloths that was her pyjamas which she had just chucked on the floor this morning was there!
But, at the same time, it wasn't her room.
It was larger, the walls where a light grey instead of soft cream, there was a door to a personal bathroom and there was her Customization Table with her half—finished Ranger Keys, as well as a stack of paper with some having concept art for future projects or designs that she was trying to perfect but most of it was blank and, standing almost proudly in the middle of the table was 16 Ranger keys… two red Rangers and a red bike-like headed machine, three blue rangers although one was a light cyan, a blue gorilla like figure, a yellow ranger, a yellow rabbit-like figure, a green ranger, a green frog like creature, a black ranger, a pink ranger, a gold ranger, a silver ranger and a gold and silver beetle machine. They where the Ranger Keys of Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters, there Buddyroids and Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger.
Sam squealed as she ran to the table, grabbed the keys and held them close to her chest "Oh, I am so glad that you guys are here! This'll be awesome!" that's when she looked at the case again and thought not just of the box-wrist-device but those clear keys "But what are those Key's for?" she thought in confusion, knowing she never made them before…
(Next day)
"Those Zangyack bastards!" Doc grumbles as he looks at the Galleon's main monitor.
"They've set up a base of operations between the moon and the Earth." Sam says emerging from the back room "That's what you were going to say right?"
Doc is silent, Sam turning to Luka next before she can speak, "And yes they intend to stick around. But then so do you guys. You want your 'Greatest Treasure in the Universe' right?"
"Tch." Luka says in annoyance
Marvellous grabs Sam's collar turning her around to face him, "If you know so much then where is the treasure!" he demands.
Sam falls silent, "I..." she pauses and Marvellous lets go and walks to Navi asking the same question. Sam moves to the dinner table.
Ahim sits down next to her, putting a comforting arm around her shoulder, her voice low, "Do you know?"
Sam falls silent as Navi flies about and eventually spits out a prophecy before falling over from the bonk to his head, "A person in black clothes will tell you something very useful."
Sam nods her head, "It's not that simple,." her glance turning to Navi, "The truth is that there are several factors in play." mentally adding 'Not the least of which being if you short cut to the end you could wipe out the past 34 Super Sentai teams without knowing. And while in the show you only needed the Red Ranger keys for the door you needed all of them, including the 6th ranger keys for the prize, and all the Greater Powers unlocked. But how do I say all that.'
But his silence had gotten Marvellous' attention, and by extension the others, "What do you know, spit it out."
Sam sighs, "If you follow Navi's advice you're not going to find the treasure or even one of the puzzle pieces you need for the treasure. But the outing will bring you to the attention of the person who will provide a piece in the next episode... Like I said complicated."
Luka punched his arm again, "Tch, just tell us where all the pieces are then!"
"I can't! There in the care of people you haven't met and I only know where they will even show up, not where they are NOW. And that's not even getting into finding Basc..."
"Basco!" Marvellous was seeing red, roughly grabbing Sam by the collar and holding her up to eye level, "What does Basco have to do with this!?"
"Basco?" Doc says confused.
Sam begins to sweat as Marvellous glares daggers at him, "Basco has a number of Ranger Keys you'll need. But like the other things I only know where he is when he makes his debut not where in the galaxy he is now!"
Marvellous roughly tosses Sam to the ground, "Come on then. Show us to this person in black we need to meet to get the attention of this OTHER person in black who has what we need."
Ahim and Doc both helping Sam to stand, "I am sorry, Marvellous isn't normally like this." Ahim apologizes.
Sam nods, "It's ok. I shouldn't have mentioned... well... you know." and sighs "I wish I could be more help but I only know how things should have happened if I never wound up here... however that happened."
"Tch." Luka dismisses "Not much of a psychic are you."
Later on the ground the six look around a throughway with lots of people walking about, Ahim the first to comment "Looks like this is the first major place where humans gather."
"A person in black... A person in black..." Doc muses looking around.
"Is the person around here Ms. Psychic?" Marvellous says condescendingly.
"I can't see him yet." Sam admitted, looking around in confusion
The rest of the Gokaiger's all point out a person in black and Marvellous sighs, "Which one is it."
Sam rubs the bridge of her nose, "Hold on a second, too many subtitles from all these extra's talking."
"Eh?" The five look confused at her.
Sam sighs, "I suppose I'm not speaking English to you guys either?"
"English? No you're speaking Japanese." Joe says annoyed.
Sam sighs "More trans-dimensional weirdness, Anyway I hear you guys all speaking in Japanese but I'm not very proficient in it so I have to read the subtitles at the bottom of my vision line. And right now there's a few dozen conversations all fighting for position. It's overwhelming."
Ahim moves over wrapping her coat around Sam and leading her to some steps, "Please have a seat Ms. Sam."
Sam nods as the rest of the Gokaiger's look around, a stampede of men in black suit nearly knocking over Luka and Don. "Oh come on!" Luka protests as she elbows Don, "They are all wearing black."
"Excuse me!" a new voice calls.
Sam looks up to see a young man on a bicycle arrive, and perks up, "That's him!"
"Eh?" Luka, Joe, Don, and Marvellous look to Sam with a confused gaze as it tracks to the boy.
"That kid?" Joe comments in disbelief.
"You're the space pirates right?"
"What if we are?" Marvellous calls back.
"I know about it! I know about the greatest treasure in the galaxy."
The core Gokaiger's turn and look at the boy Luka smiling wide, "He's wearing black. Maybe...?!"
Then they all turn to Sam who nods her head, all but Ahim running over to the boy. In short turn the seven of them are walking along the docks. "You space pirates are amazing!" the boy exclaims.
"You saw us before?"
"I saw you transforming into various Super Sentai teams!"
"Super Sentai." Luka comments "There's that word again."
"You don't know?" the boy says confused, "GoRanger, Shinkenger, MagiRanger... they are Earth's legendary heroes."
"JAPAN'S versions of the Legendary Heroes!" Sam interrupts out of habit, "America has Power Rangers."
"Eh?" Everyone, including the boy says in confusion.
Sam sighs, "I'll explain later."
"Do you mean these?" Marvellous says reaching into his jacket and taking out the keys for GoRed, MagiRed, and ShinkenRed.
"So this power belongs to the ones who had been protecting his planet?" Ahim says looking between the boy and Sam.
"So..." Marvellous steps closer, "Where's the treasure?"
"Eh... uhh..." the boy set his bike's stand down as he approaches Marvellous, "Ah before that, Mr Marvellous..."
Sam moves quickly toward the boy, "Hold on a minute he's going to..." but she is too slow as Marvellous turns his attention to Sam the boy lunges but Marvellous is still faster putting the boy in a head lock.
"You didn't think I'd be that easy to trick, did you?"
As Marvellous releases the boy he hurries off, "Like I'd know anything about the greatest treasure, idiot!" he yelled and rides off.
"But you were easy to trick." Joe chides.
Sam runs her hand down her face is disbelief as Marvellous checks his pockets, pulling out a Mobirate, but not his own… it was Sam's custom Mobirate! "He's going to get himself killed!" Sam protests as she runs after. "He wants to be a hero and is going to use your Mobirate and ShinkenRed key to fight Zangack!"
Once more Sam get a collective "Eh!?" of confusion from the others.
"You disgrace the name Captain Marvellous." Joe chides.
"I'll keelhaul him!" Marvellous says running after.
"You mustn't keelhaul him!" Ahim protests as she run after, Sam in short pursuit.
A short distance away Marvellous comes to a stop and looks back, "Why are you following me?"
"She's worried your going to keep to your word and hurt the child, right Ahim?" Sam interjects.
She nods. "Listen You!" Marvellous says annoyed, "Just who do you think I am!?"
Sam smiles, "He's not going to hurt the kid, Right Marvellous."
"More psychic nonsense? If you know so much why didn't you stop him? Hell if you knew I wasn't going to hurt him why are you following?"
"If you'll recall I did warn you."
"Tch."
"And like I said he going to try and take on Zangyack alone. And I know you're going to find him first I just hope his delay wont get the kid killed." Sam says running ahead, "Come on."
"Tch."
After a short run Sam notices the boy, Marvellous cutting ahead as he vault the rail and lands in front of the boy, "Hey you...give those back."
The boy has the ShinkenRed key and Marvellous Mobirate, and he hold them both close to his chest. "No! It's not like you guys plan to protect Earth anyway do you!"
"Hey that's not fair," Sam protests, "Captain Marvellous is a good man... er... alien."
"Tch. Just return what is mine."
"This originally belonged to Earth! It should be used to protect it!" the boy protests. "I'm never giving it back!"
"I don't care if it was Earth's in the past, it belongs to me now!"
"Yeah kid give um back." Sam argues, "There more at stake then just Earth, and Marvellous need those."
Marvellous turns sideways to the boy, "The person who saved my life trusted me with those."
Sam's voice drops to a whisper, "AkaRed."
"I need it to keep my promise." Marvellous adds.
"That's not my problem." The boy's gaze turns downward before looking back up with the key an Mobirate in his hands, "I also have reason for wanting this power to fight Zangyack."
"You're going to get killed trying kid," Sam protests.
"What do you know, lady!" the boy argues, "Your not Super Sentai or one of the Space Pirates! You're just some old hag!"
"Enough!" Marvellous cuts the boy off as Ahim comforts Sam who drops to her knees as if struck by a mortal blow as Marvellous turns his back to the boy, "Why do you want to fight so badly?"
"Grandpa... was killed in the Legendary Great War." Marvellous' gaze turns down and away "He died protecting me."
"And he would want you to live, not throw your life away on a suicidal mission!" Sam squeaks out.
Marvellous stands there in thought as his mind reflects back to a time in the near past, atop a crane, surrounded by Gormin, a time when a mysterious man in red...AkaRed passes of a treasure box full of Ranger Keys and the safety of Navi as he goes off to fight the Gormin and Sugormin and give Marvellous a way to escape.
"I don't want to see it any more..." the boys works take Marvellous out of his memory, "... seeing people around me getting killed."
Sam tenses and looks to Marvellous with a terror stricken face, "Marvellous please you need to give me back my Mobirate, NOW! People are going to die."
Marvellous looks from the boy to Sam just as the air is filled with noise and drop ships filled with Gormin appear. "Tch." Marvellous remarks as he tosses Sam the GokaiShadow and Mobirate as she suddenly bolts off.
"Gokai Change!" she yelled as she ran towards the people
"GOOOOOOOKAIGER!" the Mobirate called as three black X's and a single black V where fired from the device before they slammed onto Sam, changing her into GokaiShadow.
Not to far away several Gormin and their leader, a green tentacle gun armed monster appear and start opening fire. But Shadow arrives just in the nick of time, drawing her Custom-Gokai Sabre and redirecting most the attacks. The other's hitting her, places like between her shoulder and elbow on her left arm, her right hip and just below her ribs. But she still stood there, proud and calm, after the assault was finished. Ready for a second attack "Get to safety." Shadow demand before throwing herself in the path of a second set of rounds. A lucky shot knocked her sabre from her hand, causing her to take the rest herself directly and, eventually, the blasts stopped so she allowed herself to fell to her knees Demorphing just as the boy, Marvellous, Ahim, Luka, Doc, and Joe arrive, her clothes dirty and torn and several cuts and bruises across her body as she lie on the ground panting. "I... did it."
"How cruel." Ahim comments as a Gormin is about to strike down a civilian.
The boy looks from Sam to Marvellous a moment who simply says "Go."
And with a quick Gokai Change to ShinkenRed the boy charges into the fray.
Marvellous calling after, "If you win you can keep them, if you loose you get nothing."
"Marvellous that's obviously preposterous." Ahim protests but Marvellous is already in moving running to Sam's side and helping her to stand, Ahim Gokai Changes quickly and watches their backs as they move away, the boy putting up a good fight again the Gormin.
"Tch, You're not impressing me Sam." Marvellous smirks, "What kind of pirate are you to be taken down that quickly to Gormin."
"I wasn't fighting the Gormin." Sam panted as she motions to the fleeing civilians, "Something needed to keep them from shooting innocent unarmed civilians."
Marvellous' eyes go wide as the rest of the Gokaiger's arrive taking Sam's Mobirate as he, Joe, Doc, and Luka all Gokai Change just as the boy charges the monster and is quickly knocked aside. "Looks like you don't know your place."
The monster proceeds to knock the boy around, Sam holding her chest in pain as her eyes grow wide in pain, "You have to..."
"Let him prove himself." Red says calmly as the Gokaiger's mop up the rest of the Gormin.
The monster backhanded the boy to the edge of a building, "N… No you don't understand he's going to..."
With a back hand the monster sends the boy flying into a building, Sam forcing herself to her feet as she charges forward catching the boy before he hits the ground, but her battered body collapses under his weight just as he demorphs.
"Fool!" the monster says as he takes the long way away.
Ahim is the first of the Gokaiger's to reach the two but the others are not far behind, "Are you ok?"
"It's no use..." the boy says defeated, "...I'm not strong enough. I can't protect earth."
Marvellous bends down and picks up the Mobirate and key, "You understand now? If you want to protect it, then find a different way to protect it."
"How?"
"Don't be a spoiled child. Figure that out yourself." Marvellous says as he starts to walk away, "Hey! Is this planet worth protecting?"
"It is. I swear it!"
"Which part of it?"
"All of it." The boy and Sam say together.
"If your Pirates..." the boy says getting his fire back "… then figure that out for yourselves!"
"I see..." Marvellous smiles, as do the other core Gokaiger's in turn. Before he turns to Sam, "Doc can fix you right up after we fish some business... let's go."
Leading the charge Marvellous and the core Gokaiger's run off to finish off the monster as the boy helps Sam to stand, "Thank you for saving me."
"I'd be more thankful if I had some painkillers, strong pain killers." Sam winces.
"Come on, I can help you to the hospital."
Some time later as the Gokai Galleon flies through the sky Doc peers out the window to the setting sun. "This Planet's sun is pretty, isn't it?"
"Yes." Ahim responds simply.
"I wonder what happened to that boy," Luka wonders as she takes a seat across from the recently bandaged Sam.
"He'll be fine, now... I think..." A smile crossing her lips a moment, "Who knows maybe one of the people we saved was his parents which means things are only better off for him... at least he didn't have to see more people die."
"Captain Marvellous said he'd keelhaul him..." Ahim comments "... but he was actually looking out for him."
"I'm not sure with him." Joe sighs.
"Aren't you imposing your assumption on him?" Luka counters.
"Oh?" Ahim flusters, "Erm…"
Sam smiles, "Trust me Ahim your have it right on the nose."
She smiles as Doc wonders looking to Sam, "So the clue about the person in black, did we do it right?"
"Don't see how the real person in black couldn't have seen all that... I think we're good... we're one step closer to the Greatest Treasure in the Universe."
"Hey!" Luka looks suddenly at Sam "Why did you pick the name GokaiShadow anyway?"
"That's simple." Sam smiled "Black is my favourite colour, but GokaiBlack was too on-the-nose for my taste. Also, GokaiShadow's one of the Gokaiger Super Modes I created except it's the base form, doesn't have a Super-Gokaiger form and isn't as strong. So it's a Shadow of those forms."
"Super-Gokaiger form?" Joe asked slightly more interested now
"Yea, and I was going created keys for them next week" Sam nodded "They, and GokaiShadow, where my first creations but GokaiShadow was my first key and I'm still adding to their design so I never created keys for them."
"You're really determined about this whole 'I'm from a world where you're all TV character's' thing." Luka smirked
'Thinking about it, I doubt that those Key's would work in there Mobirate's.' Sam thought 'I had to make the sound. Well, what can you do?'
There's chapter two.
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