WANRING: This is the Chapter where the yuri/ femslash starts getting heavier.

Disclaimer: I do not own Super Sentai.

Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger

GokaiShadow

Chapter 4

"Hello?" Sam asked, noticing she had appeared in an area that seemed deprived of light yet she could see as clear as day "Is anyone here? Hello?"

"Time… …" a voice from deep in the darkness called

"Hello?" Sam asked again

"Time…" the voice said again

"Who's there?" Sam asked, taking a step back

"Time…" the voice said again as a figure appeared from the darkness. It looked like AkaRed but it a black suit, the Roman 35 badge and belt buckle had changed into a skull, he wore a cloak over his costume that was slightly ripped, his visor was red and it looked like there where a few white cracks and where AkaRed had flames coming off his visor this figure had nothing but all over the main suit there where small rips revealing nothing inside, except at certain points some white was seen

"W… Who… What… are you?" Sam asked nervously as she began to walk towards the person cautiously

"Time…" the figure said as it raised its left hand, which had been hidden by the cloak, to a skeleton hand. Thee hand then seemed to disconnect from its body and grow larger as it flew towards Sam extremely fast. She didn't even get a chance to blink let alone scream before the bony extremity was already wrapped around her, crushing her… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …

Sam gasped as she opened her eyes. She then noticed a purple visor only inches from her face. So she did the only reasonable thing someone in her position would do. She screamed "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" MagiSlayer screamed as she fell back

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sam screamed

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" MagiSlayer screamed

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHH!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHH!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"AAAAA…" Sam started screaming again but stopped herself. After taking a deep breath she asked "Why are you here?"

"I was asleep in my Key when I heard you muttering in your sleep. So released myself and came to see what was wrong. Then you screamed. Then I screamed. Then you screamed. Then I screamed. Then…"

"I get it." Sam interrupted with a look

"Sorry." Slayer shrugged "What's the matter?"

"Just a nightmare. I can't even remember it anymore. Although I doubt I could get to sleep though."

"Oh, want to talk?" the humanoid Great Power of the MagiRanger suggested

"Sure." Sam then looked into the purple visor and asked "Are you just energy under there or something or do you have a human form?"

"Yea, I have a human form."

"Can I see it?"

"And, why would you want to see it?" Slayer asked cheekily. Sam could almost imagine the smirk

"Just do it." Sam shot back before smirking "Otherwise you might be punished."

"Fine." Slayer shot back as her body glowed purple for a second and in her place was a woman with black shoulder length black hair and bright purple hair. She was wearing black and purple robes. She was also wearing purple eye shadow and lipstick "What do you think?"

"Taking the purple a bit far, don't ya think?" Sam asked with a smirk

"Shut up." The human-formed Slayer pouted as she playfully punched Sam in the arm "But, really, what do you think?"

"I think you are very beautiful." Sam smiled

"Thank you." Slayer said. The two then lay on there backs, just talking the night away until they eventually fell asleep

"Stupid sun…" Sam growled as she woke again, this time actually in the morning. Sitting up she noticed MagiSlayer's key next to her and smiled, slipping the key into her jacket pocket. When she entered the dinning room she saw Marvellous sitting in his chair and looking at a hand full of Ranger Keys while also eating some cereal that was in a bowl next to him "Morning."

"Morning." Marvellous said form his chair "Doc left some food for you on the table."

"Thanks." Sam smiled as she sat down "What are you doing today?"

"Testing key sets, to see what Grand Powers we can unlock." The captain responded

"Wont work." Sam said after swallowing a mouth full of toast "Only when the keys glow will you have a grand power... unless you take after Basco and tear the power from one of the Living members of the former Sentai team."

"Basco!" A dangerous growl escaped Marvellous' lips. "Where is he?!"

"Not on Earth yet. So no great Powers are lost yet. But..."

"But?"

"When he does arrive he works fast, he steals 3 great powers and almost gets his fourth when you both go after the Gingaman power." Sam looks down and away, "I'm not sure that, even with my knowledge, we can out manoeuvre him. That stupid trumpet of hiss gives him a seriously unfair edge."

"Trumpet?"

"Yea, he's got this funky trumpet that he can insert Ranger Keys into. And when he does he can use it and to turn any keys he has or has stolen into Ranger Clones, mindless but no less powerful constructs of the Ranger's the keys represent he even..." she cuts herself short.

"Even what?!"

"It's not important, when the time comes we either cut him off at the pass or... we fail and we won't even be able to stop him anyway because he'll have our Gokaiger Keys."

Marvellous falls silent as he takes out his own GokaiRed key trying to imagine how he could loose it and just want Basco could do with it. "Thank you Sam."

"Marvellous!" Luka calls out, "What took you so long?"

"We've been waiting." Joe comments flatly.

Sam's eyes go wide, "No, no, no, no, NO! I almost forgot!"

"Forgot what?" Doc says with worry.

"Are we getting a new Grand Power today?" Luka wonders in slight anticipation

"No today is a filler episode, mostly just a way to give MagiDragon some more practice, but the Action Commander they send down today. He's a master swordsman."

Joe smiles, "Bring it on."

"I'm with Blue-boy!" MagiSlayer's voice called from Sam's pocket as it glowed lightly

"That's not what has me worried. You see After you fail to unlock any more Grand Powers in the bridge and Marvellous sends Joe and Ahim out to get groceries the Action Commander get's your attention buy slicing buildings in half. He slaughters hundreds of people just to show off!"

A look of abject disgust crosses the faces of the Gokaiger's as Marvellous drags Sam to the bridge sitting her down in Luka's chair, the others following suite a moment later, "Where is he?"

As Joe took his seat his voice was a low whisper, "A monster such as him does not deserve the title Master Swordsman."

"You won't get any argument from me." Sam muses before looking over at Luka, "Though kinda surprised you two don't spare more, you both duel wield swords."

"Eh." Joe says casually, "Luka is more of a fan of the sword dance while I prefer a more classic duel."

"Hard left around that sky rise!" Sam Calls out as the Gokai Galleon turns hard just in time to intercept a wave of energy that was about to hit the sky rise behind them. "Damn he's just starting... Gokai Change!"

"GOOOOOOOKAIGER!"

On the ground the Action Commander jumps at the sudden intercept of his attack by the GokaiGalleon, and is caught by even more of a surprise When GokaiShadow knocks into him and they tumble for a bit, as Shadow rolls free the rest of the Gokaiger's land, helping her stand.

"You!" the Action Commander points at them, "You're the Pirates worth 3 million Zagins?"

Red humphs as they give their roll call. "GokaiRed!"

"GokaiBlue!"

"GokaiYellow!"

"GokaiGreen!"

"GokaiPink!"

"GokaiShadow!"

"Kaizoku Sentai... Gokaiger!"

Shadow walks forwards as she points accusingly at the Action Commander, "Give up now we won't let you kill innocent people just to show off you 'skills.' You can't run. You can't hide..." Shadows voice dropped to a dark deep tone, "...I know what you're going to do before you do! And I won't let you kill any more innocent people!" Suddenly charging forward Shadow cut and shot her way through the Gormin as she tore her way towards the Action Commander. No one noticed a light black energy falling from her limbs and sword like dust as she ploughed through the grunts

"She's really fired up to day." Yellow said leaning on her knee.

Blue just gave a rough growl and followed in behind Shadow. Red shrugged as he shot of a few warning shots, "Let's make it showy!" before leading the rest into the fray.

Shadow closed in on the Action Commander and swung wide, he deflected it with a laugh "Pathetic." spinning around behind her to plant his foot against her back and send her sprawling only to turn around and find his blade met by Blue's.

"You'll have to forgive her, she's a rookie." Blue chuckled, "I on the other hand..."

"Are less then nothing!" The Action Commander taunted as he deflected Joe's blade and spun around to knock Shadow on her ass again. "I expected better from the space pirates vaunted swordsman."

Both leap taking the fight to an empty parking garage where the Action Commander spun away to readjust his angle, "Not bad. But you're still not good enough! It's like you have no swordsmanship whatsoever."

"What?!"

"I don't know who taught you the basics..." The Action Commander taunts, "...but he must have been pretty incompetent."

"Joe was trained by Sid Bamick you blow hard!" Shadow charges in with a high to low swing only to be kicked onto her back again, "One of the greatest Swordsmen to ever live. You can do this Joe; don't let him get into your head."

"Harumph." The Action Commander huffs as he back off, "It is time I got serious."

"No!" Shadow's voice was hushed as she gripped her blade tightly as the Action Commander made a wide arc with his sword, a ring of blades taking form as she came up behind him passing Blue her sword, "Don't let your guard down."

And then the swords came flying at them, even with two swords Joe was having trouble keeping them at bay, only Shadow's twin pistols kept them standing. Then the main blade sot out toward them, and Only Shadow's quick action pulling Joe into a dive kept him from being skewered. "Novice." The Action Commander taunted as the rest of the Gokaiger's arrived, "Six at once? Just the kind of thinking you'd expect from weaklings."

Shadow lowered her head and whispered, "He has a point."

"I don't want to hear that after you sent all those Gormin at us!" Yellow argued.

"I don't have time to waste on you guys." The Action Commander said sheathing his sword.

"Trying to run?" Red started to charge after only for Blue's voice to cut him short.

"Stop!" Blue said demorphing, "I'll fight him... by myself!"

Pink watches the serious look on Joe's face with concern before moving to Shadow and helping her to stand, "Sam, will you help me get the groceries?"

She looks at Pink a moment as she demorphs, "Is now really the best time?"

Ahim nods and demorphs herself, "After a fight like that a good meal is just what everyone needs."

Sam shrugs, "I suppose."

"Sam, is Joe going to be alright?" Ahim asked as they walked away, her voice low as the others disappear from sight.

Sam glances back, "Oh I see, you wanted to get me alone." Ahim nodded. Sam sighs, "To be honest no. He's probably headed to the forest to practice his sword skills for the rematch. Though at least this time he isn't suffering head trauma."

"What!?"

"In the original timeline I wasn't there to knock him out of the way of the final attack, he took it full on and went off to face that...monster...with some serious injuries, at least I spared him that so he can fight in his top form."

"We should stop him!" Ahim protested.

"Why? Zodomas may be an amoral psychopath but he has a point six on one isn't fair, and I know for a fact he will face Joe alone in the end. Instead of trying to talk Joe out of this, and you and I both know that's not gonna happen we should be giving him our full support." Ahim looks thoughtful as they walk on in silence.

Back on the Galleon Doc chipper voice calls out, "Thanks for waiting!" as he and Ahim enter with plates of food and set them down on the table.

"To be more precise, you did not wait long, correct?" Ahim smiles with her tray in hand as Luka, Marvellous, and Sam take seats. "I really admire Doc's efficiency."

Sam pauses a moment as Doc and Ahim finish setting out 6 plates, "Speaking of... there is something I need Doc to help me with regarding a few things of mine. But after the meal."

"O… Okay." He says nervously.

"We need to stop this!" Navi protested "Things are only going to get worse if we keep getting in the Zangyack's way!"

"He was going to kill hundreds of people to SHOW OFF!" Sam hisses, "We did the right thing, before looking over to Marvellous, r… right?"

Marvellous shrugs as Ahim notices Joe not at his seat, "Oh? Where's Joe?"

"He's out." Luka says plainly.

"Training, like I said," Sam adds, but looks at the plate with a concerned look, "Still... you should bring him his meal Ahim. He'll need the energy."

Ahim nods, her eyes never leaving Joe's empty seat as they eat and is the first to finish and the first to leave, making her way to a bamboo forest where Joe stands in the centre of a web of ropes, as he cuts each a blade flies toward him, fast and faster he flies, some he blocks, some make their mark and she can only watch in horror lest she get cut down till all the blades are gone before she runs to his side. "Joe!"

"Go away!"

"Why are you doing this?"

"To beat him. I was overwhelmed by the number of swords before... but... I can't rely on Sam to be at my back."

Ahim nods, "She said as much... She also said you need to keep your energy up."

"What!?"

Ahim presses a paper bag into Joe's hands as she starts to wrap his cuts, "You need to keep your energy up... Still I can't believe this... If you say you lost because of numbers... then two people are better then one... and six people fighting together are better then two, right?"

Joe and Ahim hold their gaze a long while before he turns around, "It's none of your business."

"None of my business? Are we not comrades?"

"Please go. I don't have time to talk to you." Silently Ahim walks off, but leaves the meal behind.

Back on the Galleon a heartbroken Ahim approaches Marvellous, "He told me to leave him alone. What does he mean?"

"He's telling us not to fight that Zangyack bastard." Marvellous laughs.

"Why?! We're Joe's comrades, aren't we?"

"There's more to being comrades than doing things together, right?" Marvellous says as he rises from his chair to stand cross armed behind Ahim.

"Then..." She turn toward Marvellous with confusion, "...what is the point of having comrades? I do not understand!"

Sam ran after Ahim with Luka hot on her heels, the three girls meeting up in the crows nest. "I know Luka will tell you her story." Sam opens, "On why she thinks Joe obsesses with swords. And she's right."

"What?!" Both girls look to her curiously.

She slides to the floor pulling her knees close to her chest, "It really is beautiful up here." she whispers looking up to see Luka and Ahim kneeling by her, "Joe had one of the greatest Swordsmen train him but in the end... well It wouldn't be right to spill his personal secrets but needless to say something happened, something bad. When Joe is alone he's serious about fighting, it not just about pride its deeper then that, right Luka?"

Luka nods, "So when he asked me to leave his alone I did as he requested... because we're comrades. If he wants to be alone, I'm sure he has a reason for it."

Sam nods, "Besides... even when you're alone... you're never without your comrades... there always with you." Sam tapped her chest, "... In here."

"She's right there Miss Pinkey." MagiSlayer said as she materialised behind the three "I am the warrior for of MagiDragon, the combination of the powers and feelings of MagiBlue, MagiGreen, MagiYellow and MagiPink. I also have MagiRed's energy thanks to me being the MagiRanger Great Power. In a way I am the child of the five. And I know that they are always with me."

Ahim nods "I suppose."

"Don't worry about it Ahim. Besides…" Sam says as she wraps an arm around both Luka and Ahim "… as the girls of the team we've gotta stick together."

"She's right there." Luka nodded

"Especially since normally the girls are the weakest members of the team are the weakest power wise." MagiSlayer nodded

"Yea, there normally just eye candy." Sam nodded

"Well I am not being eye candy!" Luka huffed

"Really? Because I really like this piece of eye candy." Sam smirked at Luka "But really, we can be more then eye candy, I've realised something about this team right now."

"What is it?" Ahim asked curiously

"We have two sets of a good three fighter team. The guys have a good swordsman, Joe, and we have Luka. The guys have a guns man in Doc while we have the same thing with you Ahim. And then there is Marvellous who is good with both swords and guns and so am I. We have two full sets in a team. If we train together, work out a strategy that the three of us can use and perfect our teamwork, we would be able to easily take down the boys even if they work together." Sam explained before shrugging and saying off handily "Which is unlikely. I mean, while we are all a team, all we do normally do our own thing and only help when the others get knocked down. For example, if there was an enemy who has a weak point in their back we would all just try to attack it by ourselves instead of organising an attack pattern to distract the enemy and give the best person for the job to get a direct hit."

"You're right." Luka said with a smile but then she frowned realising there flaw

"But we won't fall into that trap." Slayer smirked "With Sam here we can fix the team's large flaws."

"Which is mainly everyone's lack of knowledge of Super Sentai." Sam explained

"What do you mean?" Ahim asked curiously

"You do not even know the name of most of the teams you use!" Sam said in annoyance as if it was obvious "How can you use the Keys properly if you don't even know their names! If you want a whole team change you have to show the keys to each other. It's not very efficient. However if you just say 'OhRanger' and everyone knows which team it is you can do it effortlessly!"

"And if you use the wrong team because you don't understand them properly we could get killed." Slayer added

"Whoa." Luka said, realising what Sam meant "We need a lot more training then I thought."

"Don't worry; we'll start after we finish this episode." Sam smiled. The others just nodded

"Man, you would make a great leader Sam." Slayer noted

"Don't you mean WO-man?" Sam joked "No I wouldn't. I'll leave that to Marvellous. However I wouldn't mind being the team's… not trainer but more along the lines of pointing out how the team can improve. What's that called?"

"Advisor?" Ahim asked

"Yes! Advisor!" Sam smiled

"I could talk to Marvellous about that later." Luka shrugged

"That would be great! Thanks Luka!" Sam said, hugging the girl tighter. The four continued talking for an hour before they return to the Galleon where the four of them pass out together on the couch under one large blanket with Sam between Ahim and Luka and Slayer was on there laps, although Slayer returned to her Ranger Key form during the night.

"They've appeared! They've appeared!" Navi announces some time later, waking the four up. Slayer returning to her Ranger form as they all turned to look at Navi "At point M720 Zangyack has appeared!" Waking suddenly Ahim extracts herself from between the girls as she rushes out. "What to do?" Navi panics, flying around in circles "What to do? If it were you, what would you do?" MagiSlayer, Luka and Sam all watched her run off, knowing what she was going to do.

On the ground Joe walks confidently toward the same point, until Ahim appears in his path. He pauses only a moment before walking past her, but as he passes she grabs his jacket forcing him to stop. As Joe looks back Ahim reaches into her jacket and pulls out her Gokai Sabre offering it to him. Joe pauses turning to look at her, "You're ok with this?"

Ahim shakes her head, "I don't know. But... since we're comrades..."

Joe smirks and takes the Sabre, a twitch of a smile on his face "I see." Stabbing his make shift one into the ground.

As Joe walks off Ahim watches with silent concern, following after a moment a Joe reaches the meeting point and the two Swordsmen stare each other down. "So you have come, greenhorn." The Action Commander smirked

"This time for sure..." Joe announces confidently, spinning the swords in his hand confidently "… I will cut you down!"

The Action Commander huffs and reaches for his sword "Just try it." Joe tosses his blades into the air to free up his hands as he Gokai Changes and then catches them as they fall before the two swordsmen charge at each other. Blades clash as Ahim arrives and hides behind a rock to watch. But as Zodomas prepares his deadly technique Joe is equally prepared, deflecting each blade as they come still Zodomas laughs. "Where are they?" he growls under his breath as his technique reaches its end.

"If you're looking for your Gormin lackeys…" GokaiShadow arrives with Red, Yellow, Green and MagiSlayer "… I told Marvellous how you were planning to ambush him as he countered your technique... and well... we just couldn't have that."

Ahim gasps as she transformed, "Do you have no honour!?"

As more Gormin appeared Zodomas laughed, "You fool! There is no right or wrong in a duel! Only winning matters! In this galaxy only guys capable of this will win."

"Yeah I'm gonna say... NO! ESPECIALLY with GokaiShadow around to keep things fair, I told you I know what sick twisted things you and your bosses are planning even before you do!"

"Call me a cheater!" Zodomas protests, "When you have a spy among our ranks?!"

Shadow scoffs, "Spy? Please you're just that transparent."

The other Gokaiger's gather up as Joe and Zodomas continue to trade blades.

"I got an idea." Shadow smirked as she pulled out some Ranger Keys and threw them to the group "Meet your successors. Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters."

The group just shrugged before they called "Gokai Change!"

"GOOOOOOOOOOOO-BUSTERS!"

The group stood there in the new Gokai Change, Marvellous as RedBuster, Luka as YellowBuster, Doc was using BeetBuster, Ahim was a skirt variation of StagBuster and Sam was using a skirted BlueBuster "Buster's ready…" Sam said as she crossed her arms in front of her near her knees with her wrists crossed "… GO!" she called as she slammed her wrists together and charged the others quickly following.

The group quickly discovered the extra abilities that the Go-Buster's posses and used them to mope up the Gormin.

"Why is everyone?" StagBuster/Ahim wonders

"We are comrades, of course we were worried." BeetBuster/Don responds

"But being worried is important. It shows you care, but you need to respect you teammate's decisions and support them. Which is why we're here to help." Sam smirked. And then, with a quick change to DekaRanger again Shadow using the Blue ranger, getting the key from Luka, they finish of the Sugormin. "Like for example I know you had Insarn give you a new ability when you learned that Joe practiced duel sword." Shadow comments as she tosses her sword to GokaiBlue just in time for him to uses the 3 swords to try and fend off a surge of sword spears that where firing from Zodomas' torso but it is still not enough as Joe is sent flying.

"It's about time we finished this." Zodomas gloats

"He just needs more." GokaiRed says tossing his sword to Blue. "Joe! Catch!"

"The rental fee is going to be huge." Yellow jokes as she tosses hers.

"You're doing my next ten shopping duties!" Green adds as he tosses his own sword.

Getting back to his feet Blue spins around catching all 3 blades, "The next three times is more then plenty." he counters as he stands, 3 blades in each hand.

"What? Six Sword style?! You'll never win with such a clownish behaviour." Zodomas argues as he unleashes his attack again.

But Joe is a whirlwind of blades and quickly dispatches all the blades in turn forcing Zodomas to back away in disbelieve. "The Finisher!" Blue announces as he calls forth six Ranger Keys from his buckle; HuricaneBlue, GingaBlue, MagiBlue, ShinkenBlue, GosieBlue and lastly GaoBlue.

"FINAL WAVE!"

"Six-Sword Style... Blue Slash!" And with a call out of all 6 teams and a summoning of the 6 Blue Rangers contained within the key Zodomas is cut to ribbons by HuricaneBlue, GingaBlue, MagiBlue, ShinkenBlue, GosieBlue, GaoBlue and last but not least, Gokai Blue himself, and collapses.

"I shouldn't have to tell you guys what comes next." Shadow says walking off, waving behind her "I'm gonna get some lunch while you make it showy with Gokai-Oh!"

"Okay!" The girls nod as Red calls up the Galleon just as Zodomas grows along with 3 Sugormin.

"See ya." MagiSlayer waved before she pulled out her Key from inside her and held it to the sky "MAGIDRAGON!" she yelled and she was surrounded by light, morphing into the black and red dragon Mech

After the battle Joe arrives in the main area carrying a cake, ""Please eat."

A surprised look crosses the crew as they turn to see the thank you cake. As Sam turns to get up Ahim pushes her down, "Please rest that foot, I'll get you a slice."

"Looks like Joe isn't the only one who has thanks to give."

The others chuckle, Joe making his way over to her as he rests a hand on her shoulder, "If not for you his cheating might have cost me my life."

Sam forces a laugh, "H… Hey what are Comrades for...r-right?"

"Joe-san," Ahim says walking over to him to which he quickly turns away.

"Don't look at me, just eat."

Ahim smiles turning to the galley, "I'll make some tea." But not before wiping some frosting from Joe's nose and licking it off her finger making Joe smile.

Some time later Doc meets with Sam behind closed doors "What is your concern?"

"I don't understand how my Key's are working here, especially since they are just toys where I come from. Can you scan them, try to figure it out?" Sam asked as she handed him the MagiNightmare key "Please?"

"S… Sure." Doc nodded "Do you have any others besides this? Just so I can compare results."

"Here." Sam said as she gave him an orange Boukenger key, an orange Go-Onger key, a navy blue Go-On Wings key and a black Super-GekiRanger key that was themed after a bat "The blue key is one I finished today. The others are older."

"Thank you Sam." Doc nodded as he walked away

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