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Fantaji Sentai Questinger
Roll 2: The Hard Decisions
A Dark Castle
A dark castle could be seen in the middle of a dark forest. Yamblins could be seen coming out of the castle by the thousands marching towards wherever they're needed. Inside the castle in a dark room 4 figures could be seen gathered around the table all sitting in chairs.
One in black armor with wings sticking out from them and his face covered by a helmet slammed his hand down on the table. His voice echoed his rage "Dammit Vrefaris what is this about the heroes returning."
The man he spoke to sat at the head of the table, he was clearly in charge with the nicest chair looking like a throne. His face covered by a hood and his body covered in robes.
He laughed slightly "Apparently Igritorn they appeared from the other world and defeated a trope of Yamblins and their sergeant."
The figure in the leather armor with purple skin and white hair sighed "While this is a slight annoyance they shouldn't pose any trouble to us." The last figure also wearing robes but had his hood down revealing long dirty blonde hair smiled "Really, you say that Uvubras but did you know that Valanthe Naïlo is one of them?"
Uvubras smiled at the man's statement "No I didn't but thank you for telling me Hereth this is going to be fun now."
Growing impatient at their masters silence Igritorn yelled once more "It matters not who is apart of the heroes all that matters is that they're dealt with."
Vrefaris put his hand up signaling his general to stop screaming "Calm yourself Igritorn, all of you calm down and continue your operations as you usually do." Hereth raised an eyebrow "Oh, I take it you don't consider them a threat?"
Vrefaris shook his head "No I just have recruited someone to deal with it for us." At that the door opened and a demon girl walked in with long horns, red skin and wearing a simple bikini top and long skirt. Vrefaris beckoned her to come in "Ah Malin we were just discussing the one you were bringing to me."
Malin the tiefling smiled "Don't worry master I brought the one you requested." She stepped aside to reveal a cloaked figure following behind her as the other generals sat in silence curious what their leaders plans were.
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Tsukishima General High School
It had been a couple of days since their first adventure into Kataryuko and since then the Questingers had been training with Remlin to become better fighters, or well Yukishi and Yuto were. Now he was explaining the functions of the QuestinDice to them as Yuto looked on eager to listen as Yukishi and Valanthe looked at their mentor listening but not as intently.
Remlin was busy explaining what one function did "You see if you roll this number it'll activate a special elemental attack, for example Yukishi yours would be fire."
Yukishi nodded "Hey that's cool and all but do you mind if we ask you a few questions now that we've been here a couple of days." Remlin nodded "Well I don't see why not."
Yukishi nodded "Right well if Sebion is such a big threat, why not just destroy the book?" For this question Valanthe slapped him on the back of the head "Because that wouldn't just kill Sebion you idiot, it'd kill all the innocent people too."
Yukishi rubbed the back of his head "Ow, well I figured you could just transport them all here."
Remlin thought for a moment before responding "That's not an unreasonable question Yukishi, you see there's a couple of factors. 1st because the spell I use isn't strong enough to teleport more than 10 people max and even for me that's pushing it. 2nd, because there's too many people in Kataryuko that'd be too many trips and Sebion would catch on eventually."
Remlin held up the book and pointed to it "And 3rd, because even though Kataryuko is contained in a book it's still connected to this world, destroy it and it could destroy your world as well." Yukishi rubbed the back of his head "Right I suppose that's a pretty good reason why."
As his friend quieted down Yuto now raised his hand and asked a question "Remlin, I was wondering why only change your last names, shouldn't you be trying to hide your identities better?"
At this question Remlin laughed "Well you'd think so but I'm not worried as no one besides myself and the original heroes know the spell to travel the worlds."
Yuto nodded but asked another question "But aren't you worried about humans catching on?" Remlin shook his head "No as long as we can hide Valanthe's elven features we're fine, you humans today name your kids such weird things that no one really questions it."
Yuto nodded again and fell silent as Remlin looked at both of them "Now let me ask you something since we're being honest, why were you two so willing to jump into this right away? After all I could've been lying to you."
Yukishi shrugged "I mean I know I'm not a skilled D&D player but I could tell you were being honest and I'm not gonna turn someone down when they need my help." Remlin raised an eyebrow "Oh really is that it?" Yukishi nodded "Yea, I guess I could just feel I could trust you."
Remlin nodded "And what about you Yuto?" Yuto laughed nervously "Well I've always been a D&D nerd so someone telling me I could live it sounded cool, sure I wasn't sure at first but if Yukishi was willing to do it then so was I." Remlin smiled "I see the bonds of friendship helped conquer your fears, always maintain that bond it'll help you on your journey."
Valanthe yawned seemingly reminding them she was in the room "Right as thrilling as this is, it's getting late and people will start to question why we're at school so late if we keep this up."
Remlin checked the clock on the wall and frowned "Right that's true so I guess we're done today, tomorrow I'll show you how to pilot your figures and maybe how to combine them." Yukishi jumped up "Right that sounds awesome."
He gathered his things quickly and left the classroom excited at the prospect of piloting a giant robot. As he turned the corner he came face to face with some Kendo players who simply smiled at him. One of them greeted him "Yo Souji where you been, hope you didn't quit on us?" Another one laughed "Nah he didn't quit he got kicked off the team for defending a nerd."
Yukishi clenched a fist "I'd appreciate it if you didn't call my best friend a nerd." The third student smiled "Fine, Coach Hido is working on getting your ban lifted but we heard you joined that little nerd club."
Yukishi shook his head not wanting to deal with them and pushed past them trying to ignore all their jeers at him. He continued on home, trying to get the thoughts of being on the Kendo team again out of his mind. As he left, though none of them were aware Valanthe had seen the whole thing.
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*The Opening theme begins, Silhouette by Kana-Boon*
Instrumentals are heard as a guitar begins as several characters flash on the screen starting with Yukishi before going through several characters before the screen breaks revealing a book called The Legend of Kataryuko. The book opens showing several scenes like the armies of Sebion, the 6 heroes and finally the worlds splitting before the book gets halfway through and it reveals the logo Fantaji Sentai Questinger.
Isse no se de fumikomu gōrain bokura wa, Nanimo nanimo mada shiranu
Yukishi is shown walking the halls of school before transferring into a village dressed in fighter gear.
Issen koete furikaeruto mō nai bokura wa Nanimo nanimo mada shiranu
Yuto is shown being laughed at in the halls before going over to a village where people are shown to be asking him questions appreciating him, now flashing to Valanthe who is shown to be overlooking a village.
Udatte udatte udatteku Kirameku ase ga koboreru no sa
Remnil is shown giving the teens their Questinchangers behind them appearing Will Masters staring at them giving them a cold look as they prepare to morph.
Oboetenai koto mo takusan attadarou
The Questingers appear fully morphed leaping from a book into the world of Kataryuko going head first into some monsters fighting them off.
Daremo kare mo shiruetto
The three stop to look at each other before going to fight a tougher looking monster as a team.
Daiji ni shitai mono motte otona ni naru nda
The humanoid zords appear with each of them charging into battle before flashing to the mecha
Don'na toki mo hanasazu ni
A scene of Will Masters laughing creating monsters as a silhouette of the Questingers fight them
Mamori tsudzukeyou soshitara itsu no hi ni ka
A brief flash of Remlin casting a spell before the Questingers all begin to charge up attacks
Nanimo kamo o waraeru-sa
The attacks merge striking the screen leaving a bright light
Hirari to hirari to matteru Konoha ga tonde yuku
Finally Valanthe is shown standing alone as Yukishi and Yuto arrive and offer their hands to her as brief scenes play brief flashes of her amongst a dark army, the three walking away as a 20 sided dice rolls on the ground ending the scene cutting out before the dice finishes rolling
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Souji Household
Yukishi arrived home, his mind weighing heavy about the news that he could possibly rejoin the Kendo team. Isn't that what he wanted? He wasn't smart and knew athletics were his future. But he couldn't abandon the Questingers, that'd be selfish of him.
But still they had only just started Remlin could probably find someone new. As he unlocked the door to his house he wasn't expecting to find Coach Hido on the other side about the exit himself. He smiled at Yukishi "Oh Yukishi nice to see you, I was just chatting with your dad."
Coach Hido had been best friends with his dad since middle school and they were even roommates in college so he was used to seeing him over. Yukishi nodded "Oh hi Mr. Hido how are you?"
The two were now talking outside and the door had been closed so his parents wouldn't hear their conversation. Mr. Hido looked at him "I've been fine, so I was wondering what's this I hear about you joining some nerdy club?" Yukishi frowned "It's a Dungeon and Dragons club and my friend Yuto convinced me to join."
Mr. Hido sighed "Yuto? You mean that kid that got you kicked off the team in the first place, you still hangout with him?" Yukishi nodded "I've known him since we were little so yeah I still hangout with him."
Yukishi hated where this was going, Mr. Hido was a nice enough guy but he was a jock through and through not liking people he considered nerds, and that included Yuto. Mr. Hido nodded "Right well I think I might have convinced the principal to let you back onto the team again, so why don't you come by tomorrow and we'll get you into practice."
Yukishi frowned "Uh I'm busy tomorrow." Mr. Hido wasn't taking no for an answer though "Just come by and see how you feel." With that he said a quick goodbye and left leaving Yukishi conflicted as his mind drifted back to a couple of months ago, and the incident that got him banned from the team in the first place.
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A few months ago
Yukishi walked down the hallway of the school, Kendo equipment in hand ready to enjoy a practice and maybe show off why he was the team captain. He was on cloud 9, he was the best Kendo player in school, he had lots of great friends and even better every girl fought for the title of being his girlfriend.
For a second year student in high school life couldn't be better. As he walked into the gym he heard someone screaming "C'mon please leave me alone." Yukishi arrived to see his best friend Yuto, being beaten by some of his teammates.
Yuto wasn't exactly what one would describe as cool and he usually ended up getting bullied but seeing his own teammates doing it made his blood boil. He could hear them snickering "You talked down to us after we asked you for some tutoring, this is the price you pay."
Yuto cried between punches "You didn't ask for tutoring you wanted me to do your homework for you." One of the members snarled at him "And you called us gorillas under your breath."
Yuto shook his head "I didn't I swear." Before they could land another punch Yukishi yelled at them "What the hell is going on here!" His teammates turned to him, scared at seeing their captain angry "Oh hey cap, when did you get here?"
Yukishi looked at them as Yuto struggled to get up and ran to Yukishi. The ringleader of it all responded "Oh uh well you see we asked for some tutoring and he said no." Yukishi still angry raised an eyebrow "So you decided to beat him up?" The ringleader laughed nervously "Uh well no he insulted us too."
Yukishi looked at Yuto "Yuto is that true?" Yuto shook his head and the ringleaders eyes widened upon hearing his name. Yukishi constantly tried to get Yuto into their group and told the team about him a lot. He tried to save themselves "Oh this is the Yuto you go on about we had no idea."
Yukishi walked forward to him, "No I think you did, and you want to know what else I think you were looking for an excuse to beat him up." The ringleader shook his head "No, I swear we didn't" Yukishi smiled hiding his rage "Well you know what?" The ringleader gulped "Uh what?"
Yukishi gave him the most murderous glare he could muster "I think I just found an excuse to kick your ass." Before anyone knew what hit them Yukishi threw a punch at the ringleaders face sending him to the ground. All he could see was red as he pinned his teammate down and began to punch him harder and harder.
Punch after punch he delivered as he heard faint cries of people yelling at him to stop. Finally he felt someone pull him off the poor teen as he looked up to see an angry Coach Hido "What the hell is going on here."
Yukishi coming to his senses practically screamed "They were beating up my best friend, no one beats up my best friend!" Coach Hido shook his head, "The only I see getting beaten up is the one on the ground, c'mon we're going to the principal's office." He dragged Yukishi away as everyone looked on clearly scared of the rage Yukishi had let out.
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Present Day
After that incident, Yukishi was suspended for a week and permanently banned from all athletics. Yuto felt terrible and visited him every day vowing to help him get his grades up since sports were no longer in his future. Mr. Hido forgave him eventually after realizing how much he was needed on the team.
The other kids never got any consequences and since then everyone in school treated him like a delinquent. They were all afraid of the rage he had when he hurt his teammate and truth be told he didn't know where it came from either. Still he screwed up his future and he hated that.
Now he was being offered a second chance and as he went sat on his bed, he couldn't help but wonder which was more important, Kendo or the Questingers?
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Tsukishima General High School
Yukishi arrived in the gym after school just practice was getting set up. He was only going to be their for a few minutes just to let Coach Hido he wouldn't rejoin the team. As he walked in called to him "Hey Yukishi is back!"
He waved to them as he walked to Coach Hido. His coach noticed him and smiled "Ah Yukishi came to watch right?" Yukishi shook his head "Listen coach I really can't stay."
Coach Hido waved him off "Oh come on a few practice matches what's the harm?" Yukishi supposed that a few practice matches couldn't hurt, after all Remlin wasn't gonna start yet.
Yukishi nodded "Alright fine a couple of practice matches then I gotta go." Coach Hido led him over to get set up, time flew by as Yukishi became more distracted failing to hear his phone going off from calls to Yuto.
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Yukishi finally noticed the time and realizing he was late began to run towards Remlin's classroom. As he burst through the door he arrived to see them all packing up. Remlin looked to see him, "Oh Yukishi finally decided to arrive."
Yukishi bent down to catch his breath "Remlin I'm so sorry I got distracted and I didn't have my phone on me." Remlin raised an eyebrow "Distracted by what exactly?" Before he could reply, Valanthe answered for him "Probably Kendo." Yukishi looked at the blonde "How do you know?"
Valanthe sighed "Because I heard you in the hallway yesterday." Yukishi frowned "Ok so I may have been offered by coach to get back onto the Kendo team but I swear I was gonna tell them no." Valanthe scoffed "Until they offered to let you into one of their practices right?"
Yukishi shook his head "Ok so I maybe was at the practice but I'm not me rejoining." Valanthe picked up her bag and walked past him, "You need to decide what's important, some stupid sport or saving two worlds." With that she walked out of the room followed by Yuto who flashed him a worried glance before walking out leaving Yukishi with Remlin.
Remlin looked at Yukishi "Yukishi look I don't blame you for wanting to do something you put your life into, but you're QuestinRed and we need, Kataryuko needs and your teammates need you." Yukishi looked at his feat knowing the old wizard was right, "I know but Kendo is my future and I don't want to give that up."
Remlin frowned "Well unfortunately if you don't help us you may not have a future in general." He walked out of the room leaving Yukishi alone with his thoughts.
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Souji Household
That night Yukishi sat alone in his living room thinking about what Remlin had said. He continued to think when the light came in one and his father came into the room. His dad sat down on the chair across looking at his son "Evening son, everything ok?"
Yukishi shook his head "No I'm kind of conflicted right now." His dad looked at him "Oh really why?" Yukishi sighed "Dad what would you do if you had to choose between your own future or everyone else's."
His Dad thought for a moment "Well there would be a part of me that'd care about myself first, but that'd be selfish of me because I know that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."
Yukishi nodded "So you'd choose your everyone's futures even if you want to choose your own?" His dad nodded "I'd like to think so but who knows what I would do if I ever actually encountered the situation, everyone is different when they're under pressure and I guess you'd have to decide if you want to handle the pressure or not."
Yukishi nodded seeing his father's points, he couldn't be selfish even if he wanted to be, he could handle the pressure. He smiled "Right well I'm gonna go to bed, thanks for the talk Dad."
His father nodded as Yukishi headed for bed, he knew tomorrow he would tell Coach Hido he couldn't rejoin. He had decided what his priority was and would stick to it till the end.
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Kataryuko
After school Valanthe and Yuto headed into Kataryuko without Yukishi. Yuto insisted they wait for Yukishi confident his best friend would show up. But Valanthe opted to not wait for him, thinking she had figured him out completely.
As they walked all of a sudden they were interrupted by Yamblins and a golem. The Golem looked at them and laughed "Stop right there Questinger's it's time for you to die."
Valanthe looked at him and sneered "You're Cragstion, what are you doing here I heard you stay in colder climates." Cragstion laughed "Usually I do, but my masters gave me the order to kill you so hear I am." He looked at them and frowned "Isn't there supposed to be three of you though?"
Valanthe shook her head and brought up her Questinchanger "Nope just two of us." Yuto brought out his changer as well "Questinchanger" The two put their Questindice into the changer
"Rogue"
"Wizard"
As the two brought the changers up to transform it announced
"D20" it began to play some music that sounded like a lute and other older instruments
The two pushed the buttons before running at the enemies "Questinchange" The changer cried out as the two were bathed in black and blue light
Dive in! Lurking in the shadows! (Questinranger!) Rogue Classssss!
Dive in! Knowledge is power! (Questinranger!) Wizard Classssss!
The two emerged ready to fight the Yamblins and their leader. Valanthe didn't waste any time and brought out her daggers "GearDaggers" She cleared out some of the Yamblins and charged at the Golem who shot some vines at her as she dodged. Yuto meanwhile was using his staff to defeat the remaining Yamblins.
He soon defeated them and joined Valanthe in attacking the monster who didn't seem to have any problems fighting them. Soon though he growled "I'm tired of this game" He glowed and soon before the two knew what was happening they were trapped inside boulder like prisons. Cragstion laughed "Now time to finish you off."
Before he could however a figure appeared and kicked him breaking his concentration and freeing the other two. Yuto looked up at their savior "Yukishi!" Yukishi smiled at them "Yo, Remlin said you guys left without me that's not nice I just had to talk to my coach real quick."
Valanthe crossed her arms "Made you choice then?" Yukishi nodded "As much as I want to be selfish, I know I can't in this situation I agreed to be a Questinger and I intend to be." He brought up his changer "QUESTINCHANGER" He put his QuestinDice into his changer.
"D20" It began to play the same standby music as before.
He pushed the button as he stood in the middle of his two teammates "QUESTINCHANGE" He was bathed in a red light.
Dive in! Fight for glory! (Questinranger!) Fighter Classssss!
QuestinRed emerged as Cragstion stood there confused "Hold on now there really is three of you?" QuestinRed nodded "Yup you better get ready because we aren't messing around now"
He posed beginning the team role call "The Brave Fighter, QuestinRed" QuestinBlue followed next "The Intelligent Wizard, QuestinBlue" Finally QuestinBlack posed as well "Sly Rogue, QuestinBlack"
The three changed poses as they posed together "The Legendary Heroes who'll save the world one roll at a time, FANTAJI SENTAI QUESTINGER" QuestinRed pointed at Cragstion "Now let the quest begin." The three wasted no time as QuestinRed brought out his sword to attack "GearSword"
The three tried to do what they could but the combination of his boulders and vines made it hard to do anything. As they struggled QuestinBlue remembered something "Wait Valanthe you said he lived in colder climates right?" QuestinBlack nodded "Yes why?"
QuestinBlue nodded "So maybe he's weak to fire, Yukishi we'll draw his attention use that thing Remlin told us about." QuestinRed nodded and held up his Changer pushing it once "D1" He got ready as his sword began to heat up and became shrouded in flames.
QuestinBlue and QuestinBlack both launched their finishers at Cragstion "Wizard/Rogue: Critical Blow" Cragstion used boulders to bat them away as he didn't notice Red coming from the side "Fighter: Blazing Critical Blow" He made sword cuts into Cragstion as the fire consumed him causing him to explode.
Red turned around and posed "Monster vanquished" As the three regrouped Blue nearly hugged Red "Yukishi I knew you wouldn't leave us."
Red shook his head "Nah, but Coach Hido wasn't happy when I gave him the news." Before the conversation could continue, they heard a laugh. They turned to see a demon standing next to Cragstion's remains.
Black expressed shock at who it was "That's Malin a general of Sebion." Malin laughed as she dropped a potion onto the remains "This soldier hasn't done his duty yet so it's time for him to rise again."
The potion dripped onto the remains and they glowed before Cragstion came back to life now much, much bigger than before. The Questinger's stood back to see this as QuestinRed looked at the now giant Golem "Oh crap, what do we do?" Black slapped the back of his "We use our figures and form QuestinOh"
QuestinRed rubbed the back of his head "I missed that lesson so I guess I'll wing." The three tapped their QuestinDice in causing to announce "D15, Summon Figures" Soon three humanoid appeared colored red, blue and black. The three jumped into them as QuestinRed settled into the controls "FighterFigure ready to go."
QuestinBlue got into his as well "WizardFigure is ready to do what we can." QuestinBlack said nothing as she settled into the RogueFigure. Red being the impulsive one he was,tried to attack Cragstion the sword he had but was knocked back by boulders "Sorry that won't work this time."
He landed back with the other two as Black expressed an annoyance at "I said we need to combine you idiot." Red laughed nervously as they pressed the buttons again "D15, Figures Combine" The three figures glowed and split apart, with red becoming the body, black becoming the arms and blue becoming the legs.
The three Questingers were teleported into their new cockpit now sitting on what looked like thrones. The three announced together "Gattai Complete! Awaken QuestinOh! Red Initiative!"
Cragstion laughed at this "You can do whatever you want, you won't beat me." The three began controlling QuestinOh as it charged at Cragstion and brought out it's weapon a three bladed sword "QuestinBlade"
QuestinOh charged at Cragstion laying in slash after slash. He tried to use vines to attack but the blade was too powerful and cut through it. The three stood up Gear weapons in hand as QuestinRed announced "Time to finish this." The sword began to glow and catch fire as they announced "QuestinOh: Final Critical Strike"
The blade made three cuts into Cragstion before making one final cutting him in half. Cragstion had no words left as he exploded. QuestinOh powered down as the three announced "Quest Complete"
As the Questingers now departed the battlefield, from a distance Malin could be seen watching with the cloaked figure from before. She smiled at him and rubbed his chest a bit "Have you seen all that you need to?"
The figure nodded before taking off his hood to reveal a teenage boy with blonde hair and eyes that looked dead. He simply smiled as he watched QuestinOh teleport away.
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Tsukishima General High School
The three teens had left Kataryuko and were now back in the classroom. Yukishi bowed to Remlin "Remlin I'm sorry for having my doubt, I promise I'm a Questinger till the end."
Remlin nodded "While I appreciate the apology Yukishi, you should be apologizing to your teammates too not just me." Yukishi nodded before turning to his teammates "Yuto, Valanthe I'm sorry I let you guys down."
Yuto shrugged "Aw it's ok I knew you'd come through like you usually do." Valanthe frowned before walking up and punching Yukishi in the gut "If you ever think of abandoning Kataryuko or Remlin again I will kill you."
Yukishi fell over in pain as he weakly replied "Right message received." This caused Remlin and Yuto to laugh as at the end of the day everything was better and they had gained a new powerful weapon in QuestinOh.
To Be Continued!
Next Time on Fantaji Sentai Questinger!
The same teen who was with Malin is in Remlin's class
"My name is Will Masters I'll be joining your club."
Yuto is seen nearly crying
"Dammit why am I so useless"
Valanthe is comforting Yuto
"You need to learn to rely on yourself not that idiot."
Mythos is seen standing victorious as scenes from the episode play
QuestinBlue: Woah looks like Hikaru and Apollo worked out their partnership but now it seems like they both got sibling problems to deal with.
The Questingers pose on QuestinOh as scenes are played from the episode
Apollo: So the Red one figured his stuff out and came through in the end, not bad and they got a robot now too.
Mythos and the Questingers are seen in a white room overlooking both a temple and a forrest posing
All: SUPERHERO TEAM! SEE YOU NEXT QUEST
