I don't own Power Rangers or Cardfight! Vanguard as it belongs to Toei, and Bushiroad respectively. OC's belong to LovingGinger30, ThePurpleArcher24, Stormasius, TriassicDragonRanger, Mike singh, RedRanger2.3, and me. Now then since this is a big battle with one of the generals...Let's Make It Extremely Showy!
Universe Red: Morgana Ravens.
Universe Blue: Nora Riley.
Universe Yellow: Kathy Ravens.
Universe Green: Drew Matthews.
Universe Gray: Charles Brown.
Universe Purple: Francesca "Frankie" Donaldson.
Universe Silver/Bronze: Cody Barnes.
=UNIVERSE=
After a brief bout with Dark Buster and Charles leaving afterwards the rest of the rangers were suddenly and without warning attacked from behind as something had been watching them the whole time.
"It's certainly been a while rangers. I mean last time I saw you there was only three of you." A familiar voice to three of the rangers spoke as they got up.
"T-That can't be..." Nora started as she along with Kathy and Morgana recognized the voice as well.
"Who is this guy?" Frankie asked as they got up and turned around to face the monster that had suddenly showed up.
It was a familiar cybernetic dragon humanoid creature, but he was very much upgraded compared to last time. The armor that composed his body was now gold and he had deep purple and red lines running in a criss cross pattern across the pitch black sphere in his chest and visor that he had for eyes. It was also much smoother while the spikes on his dragon head were much longer and sharper while there were two sets of metallic wings with thrusters built into them. The final thing to not was that a large futuristic triple barrel gun replaced the entire left arm.
Morgana was a bit surprised yet got in a battle ready stance "...You're Glueball aren't you?" She asked.
The dragon aims at them and fires seeming to aim at Nora "What do you think? After all I was the first you destroyed, and it was by your lousy blue ranger no less." He spoke.
"Defiantly Glueball. Looks like he was rebuilt and improved upon." Kathy says after they managed to dodge the attack.
"Okay then. Let's step it up everyone!" Morgana told them and they nod.
++READY!++
++SET!++
"Star Change!/Dragon Ascent!" The rangers called out.
[Morphing Sequence]
Kathy was covered in blue black stars as a similar colored bodysuit covered her body except for her head. Next a set of yellow gold stars covered her chest as a similar colored sleeveless armored vest formed as did the emblem they wore on it. A combination of blue-black and yellow gold starts formed around her arms as blue black gloves formed while over them was a set of yellow gold arm guards securing them in place, and yellow gold stars formed a set of high heeled boots while a familiar silver belt held a yellow gold skirt in place. The last thing to form was her helmet which was the same yellow gold as a majority of the suit, and was in a sleek knight style with a curved visor while four red gems making a diamond shape was above it. Her weapon Blaster Blade was the last thing that appeared to her.
[End Morphing Sequence]
"Soul of the Apocalypse Dragon! Universe Red!"
"Soul of the Aurora Songstress! Universe Blue!"
"Soul of the Warrior of Light! Universe Yellow!"
"Soul of the Rindo Musketeer! Universe Green!"
"Soul of the Time Tiger! Universe Purple!"
"Soul of the Genesis Dragon! Universe Silver!"
"Champions of the Earth! The Ultimate Saviors! Power Rangers...Universe!" The six called out together, and Glueball takes aim and fires at them.
Kathy was the first to charge forward swinging her weapon with every intention of cutting Glueball down.
As this happened Morgana looked to the others "Drew, Nora, and Frankie give her a hand. Cody I need you with me." She spoke to him
He nods "Okay, but what for?" He asked.
"Glueball here might be stronger, but he probably has the same old tricks. He's just a distraction." Morgana says already having an idea what was going on which Cody quickly picked up.
"Charles. He's alone now which could mean..." He started before nodding, and both took off as the rest served to distract Glueball.
Drew summoned his rapier and stuck at Glueball along with Kathy as Nora summoned her secondary weapon in gun mode and Frankie summoned her own blaster and they let loose several blasts.
Glueball's focus went to them as he sent several blasts at the two and knocked Drew and Kathy away with it's other claw
Kathy noticed they were gone and looked to Nora "Nora your up. What should we do?" Kathy asked.
Nora thought a few seconds and brought out her Zeroth Globe "We keep him here while they go after Charles. So we should use these." She says and the rest follow suit.
++READY!++
++SET!++
"Zeroth Change!" The four called out morphing in Zeroth from as Frankie and Drew were first to strike with their respective weapons. Kathy and Nora were next Nora piercing the midsection with her spear and lifted the dragon up and tossed him.
Glueball got up "Well well. I see you all have gotten pretty strong. Yet I wonder why you bother with..." He started, but was punched across the face by Kathy who had a feeling what he was going to try to do.
The rest looked at her in surprise "Will you just shut up! Yes I may have betrayed them! Yes I betrayed Link Joker! Fact is though that I've had enough talking about it. I'm done with it, and so are they. They've accepted me for me!" Kathy says and Glueball gets up.
Kathy looks back to the rest "Guys if you'd please. I...I'd like to handle this guy myself." She asked them.
Nora was about to protest when Drew put a hand on her shoulder and shakes his head "Alright. You got it Kathy." Frankie said as they headed away.
Glueball huffs "You doing this alone? I thought that your leader got on your gray ranger for working alone." He said.
Under her helmet Kathy smirked and rolled her eyes "Yeah it's true we work best as a team, and that Morgana got on Charles for going in solo, but more often then not sometimes we got to handle things solo." She says as she returns to her base suit and summons both Blaster Blade, and Blaster Dark to her hands.
Glueball shot at her with his blaster, but the energy is cut in half and misses it's target. Kathy then begins walking forward cutting and slicing every shot into half's, thirds, and fourths as she went.
Glueball began backing away as Kathy now ran straight at him, and by some unknown force it seemed that the Universe Globe was pulled back twice.
++F-F-FINISHER!++
Blaster Dark vanished as Blaster Blade became engulfed in a familiar light as it became solid around it like magic and went on for an incredible distance.
"Immeasurable Blade!" Kathy brought the blade down cutting Glueball right down the middle, and he explodes nothing being left behind.
"Checkmate." Kathy says and looks back giving a thumbs up to the others.
The three were surprised at her as Frankie was the first to go to Kathy and pats her on the shoulder "Nice job Kathy." she says.
"Yeah. You did great. I still am surprised you actually punched him." Drew said.
Kathy glances away "He was going to try and play mind games. I didn't like what he was trying." Kathy said.
Nora nods "He may be handled, but we should head back to HQ. Morgana and Cody can handle the situation with Dark Buster and Charles." Nora says softly having heard what Morgana was talking about.
"You sure that's a good idea? I mean...I think we should help if we can." Drew said.
"Nah. Between Morgana, Cody, and Charles they got the guy handled." Frankie says with a smirk as they all teleport back to HQ.
=UNIVERSE=
Charles was tossed back hard as Dark Buster had picked him up and threw him back.
"Hmph. I thought with how smart you are that you would have seen this plan coming. I must have been wrong in my calculations." Dark Buster replied.
Charles got up "Oh shut up you hunk of junk. Had enough of a rough day already." Charles said and grabs his Zeroth Globe.
++READY!++
++SET!++
"Zeroth Change!" He morphs and instantly starts blasting away with his dual guns and runs in closing the distance.
Dark Buster blocked the shots with his large arms before taking a swing at the approaching ranger. Charles drops both guns and manages to catch the large fist with both of his hands.
"N-Nice try." Charles taunts, but is then promptly punched yet again from the other fist and hits a wall before slumping to the ground.
Dark Buster steps forward and promptly stomps on the guns Charles dropped "Great...Okay time for extra measures." Charles says and calls on his Universe Globe.
++READY!++
++SET!++
"Star Change!" He called out morphing into base form, and pounds the large red gloves/fists he instantly went into instead of his sword.
The two charged at each other as the two were now just pounding away trading blow for blow. Yet Dark Buster was fine while Charles was slowly starting to wear out from the constant exchange of blows.
"Ha!" Dark Buster shouts landing a blow to the side of Charles head sending him flying and cancelling his morph.
"Ugh...Okay fighting a fighting machine was probably not a good idea." Charles muttered as Dark Buster was scanned the weapon that Charles had used against him.
Something about them seemed familiar in the far portions of his memory banks as the image of a powerful humanoid machine clad in crimson with similar fists.
Before anything else could be recalled a program engaged as it shut down his memory banks completely, and engaged him into full combat mode.
"Objective must be completed. Terminate ranger and claim Universe Globe for King Glendios." Dark Buster said, and Charles recognized this kind of razor sharp killing focus.
"This is just like with Ramiel. He seemed hesitant to attack me as if he was recalling something. Now he's focused on getting rid of me." Charles thought getting up, and had to dodge a swift attack as Dark Buster closed the distance to try and strike him.
Dark Buster continued to attack not giving Charles a chance to morph as he grit his teeth "Okay this isn't good." He muttered, and tried to keep dodging yet was wearing out quick before he started taking blow after blow.
Dark Buster raised his fist, but was blasted by two large bursts of energy "You okay Charles?" Morgana asked as she and Cody in bronze form ran over.
"Not really. That thing is a battling machine, and is acting like Ramiel did. That thing Kathy told us about must have activated." Charles says as Morgana nods
Cody lets off a few more shots as Dark Buster was getting up "Any ideas?" Cody asked.
Charles gets up as Morgana nods "Yeah I got one. Time to give something a test run." She says and grabs off the side of her belt the rebirth morphor.
Charles morphed back himself as Morgana taps the top revealing the screen and buttons as small sparks of red black energy flew off of it.
++READY!++
Morgana taps each button in sequence.
++SET!++
"Rebirth Change!" Morgana shouts.
[Rebirth Morphing Sequence]
Morgana stood on the moon as crimson flames engulf her whole body burn her entire ranger suit away as a deep red-pink bodysuit replaced it completely. The section around the neck was purple and gold while it was a deep blue around the stomach with a yellow gold streak going up it. Red and black Link Joker energy then covered her in a cocoon yet would soon fade away. The first part to be revealed was Morgana's new helmet which was in two sections as the lower section was black and had a silver mouth-guard and gold lining while the upper part was gold with small wing like designs coming off the side and etchings while the visor was red pink. On the shoulders she wore rounded black segmented pauldrons with gold lining and on the inside were their while similar segmented gloves were on her hands.
Next to be revealed was the boots which was a high heeled and brighter red-pink color with yellow-gold designs. The upper legs were covered in the same segmented armor as her gloves. Around her waist was a gold belt and two large blasters hung from her hips. The last thing to be revealed the upper body of the suit as a primarily red-pink breastplate was shown and had deep blue diamond design on the lower part of the suit as yellow gold lines ran along it. Two sets of small red-pink wings with yellow-white on the inside sections were on her back, and two golden blades were strapped to her back.
[End Morphing Sequence]
"Rebirth Red Battlizer, Online!" Morgana called out.
Charles glanced to Morgana, and sighs "Hey. Sorry about earlier." he says.
Morgana dodged an oncoming attack "Not right now Charles, but if you are that sorry then start acting like a teammate. Though let's just try and immobilize him." Morgana said to him and he nods.
"Right. If we can immobilize or even shut him down maybe Ahsha can fix his however he was reprogrammed." Charles said.
Cody nods "If worse comes to worse though we'll have to destroy Dark Buster." He says as he had been told about what had happened with Ramiel.
They nods as Morgana draws the golden blades off her back and charges forward meeting Dark Buster head on as Charles does the same swing his broadsword.
Dark Buster sidesteps them and his fist flashes as he quickly charged energy and delivered a powerful punch. Charles got in front of Morgana and blocked it just in time.
Cody let loose several energy shots from his gunblade at the machine at this point "Ahsha we're in a battle. Need you to run a check on Dark Buster and see if they're is anything we can do to shut him down." Morgana says into her morphor.
"Right on it Morgana. I'll tell you once I come up with something, but until then you need to keep him battling." Ahsha tells them all.
"Right. We'll try not to get ourselves killed." Charles said as the communication ended.
Charles swung his sword trying to keep the battle machine back, but it didn't hesitate and ran right in as Charles sword cut right into the robotic arm becoming lodged in it. Dark Buster jabbed his clawed fist knocking Charles away.
Dark Buster then removed the sword from it's arm before throwing it away as Cody and Morgana began firing at the machine.
Dark Buster's eyes flashed, and it moved avoiding them "Remove target objectives from obstacles. Determining best solution..." Dark Buster said voice monotone.
"I thought he already had a solution." Cody said as Dark Buster flashed again.
"Solution reached...deploying battle barrier, and activating installed detonation system. Alerting Vanishers to location." Dark Buster says as the machine flashes and deploys a transparent blue force field around them.
"Installed detonation system. I don't like the sounds of that." Charles said.
"I think it means it has a self destruct system." Morgana interprets.
"And intends to take itself and us out with it." Cody added on now nervous.
Morgana's mophor goes off as Ahsha reestablished communication "I've got a solution to both of your problems I think. Like many of the battleroids on Cray he has a complex CPU running him, and if you overheat it he will shut down and all of his functions will as well." Ahsha told them.
"So we hit him with all we got?" Charles asked.
"It's more complicated with that. I predict his CPU will overheat and shut him down only when he is on the verge of being destroyed. So don't actually destroy him." Ahsha said calmly.
They understood that Ahsha was telling them to push Dark Buster hard, draw out the battle, and then push him to the point he'd shut down.
Morgana put back the blaster on her hip then drew her other blade off her back and charged forward with Charles who called on his gloves.
Charles came in first swinging which Dark Buster met head on with his own fist. Dark Buster then grabbed and threw him away, but failed to see Morgana coming and was struck with her twin blades.
Dark Buster didn't move as he charged energy into both fists and dove forward energy covering him as he tackled Morgana and propelled back his leg boosters activating. He started punching Morgana as he flew towards the nearest building within the barrier.
Cody saw this and ran catching up and jumped on Dark Buster's back. He aimed the gunblade at a leg booster and fired bringing them all down.
Morgana was let go upon the crash and she rolled out from under Dark Buster as Cody got off, and Charles returned.
"Two minutes remaining." Dark Buster chimes as he charged right at them.
"Split up. Charles switch out to you blaster!" Morgana instructed returning both swords to their position on her back, and drew the blasters on her hips.
All three managed to dodge as Charles switched out to his blaster and let loose shot after shot along with Cody, but was also having to dodge as Dark Buster seemed to remain focused on Charles.
Morgana was a small distance away charging up both of her blasters as was locked on to Dark Buster.
Morgana then let loose two large blasts of fiery energy which hit Dark Buster knocking him into the side of a building. A part of it fell revealing that their was some young kids in the building, and they saw that they were all scared as they were on a field trip not expecting this to happen at all. Morgana even noticed that a child a few years older was on the other side of the barrier pounding at it and screaming possibly as one of the younger kids on their side was leaning against it crying.
The three jumped into action and tackle Dark Buster away from the building "Red. We need to end this now. Not much time left, and we've pushed him pretty hard." Charles said and Morgana nods.
"Gray, Bronze. Let's end this." She says to them tapping the screen of the Rebirth Morphor and the other two tapped their globes back.
++F-F-FINISHER!/G-G-GRAND FINALE!++
"Rage of The Kaiser!/Zeroth End!/Eternal Flame Re-birth!" The three called out as Cody was first.
The multiple colored ball of energy was released from Zeroth End and struck first and hard. Charles was next as he stabbed his enemy multiple times before striking them down hard with his broadsword.
As if by a psychic power Morgana's blades and wings came off her back as the blades locked on to the top of each blaster, and then each set of wings locked on to the sides. Morgana aimed up into the air and pulled down the triggers charging them with power, and two balls of fire began to form at the end. When they were as big as bowling balls she brought down and aimed at Dark Buster letting go of the triggers. Crimson, black, and red energy like flames shot out and struck the machine.
Morgana's was the last to connect, and when it cleared Dark Buster was still there, critically damaged, and most importantly shut down. The countdown stopped, and the barrier down made them apparent as heard the children reuniting with their fellow students and teachers.
In particular she noticed two children reuniting as they were probably siblings. Morgana turned to the two and got the silent message for them to take Dark Buster back alone. They teleported out as Morgana approached the two.
"Hey are you two okay?" Morgana asked.
The younger one nods "Y-Yeah. We are now thanks to you. Thank you!" The little girl said.
The older one looks to her "What she said. I was so scared when my little sis got stuck in that with her friends." the older girl said.
Morgana nods in understanding as the little girl was looking at her excited "It was soooo scary, but at the same time so exciting! Seeing you fight was amazing." the little girl said giggling as her older sister rolled her eyes.
Morgana was surprised by this as the older one laughs "Yeah she's one of the many fans who look up to you." the older one said.
"O-Oh I see. So who's your favorite?" Morgana asked the little girl as she was smiling under her helmet.
The little girl thought "Yellow! She really inspiring since she's probably only a few years older than me. She also works really well with all of you, but especially you miss red ranger." the little girl said.
Morgana felt a small blush at this then looks around "Well...since it's just us, and if you swear you can keep a secret I can tell you both something personal." She says and kids nod.
Morgana brought them both close "The reason me and yellow work so well together...well yellow is my little sister." She whispered and both looked at her in surprise.
The older one was the first to recover before smiling "Guess that explains. Personally you all are doing well, and I am more than thankful you saved my little sis." She says then looks to her.
"Now then let's go. The rest of our classes are waiting for us." She says and takes the little girl's hand and both walk away. Morgana teleports out seconds later to HQ.
=UNIVERSE=
When Morgana returned Ahsha was inspecting Dark Buster and lets out a sigh of relief "It seems that the idea worked, and now Frankie might be able to get to work on removing the corrupt programming." Ahsha said as said girl nods.
"I can handle that. I mean some of my inventions require knowing some programming." She said.
Charles nods then sighs "Sorry about being a jerk guys it's just well...I've always had these feelings about certain things." He said.
Drew picked up on this quick "This has something to do with Kathy beating you in training right?" He asked and Charles nods.
"You see me being an orphan I've always felt like I've needed to prove myself as the best. Losing has always made me feel like I was failing, and getting beaten by Kathy just made me angry at myself." Charles told them.
Morgana nods and listens "Why do you feel like you need to prove yourself though? I mean your pretty talented as you've shown." Morgana told him.
"Because if I don't then...then I just feel like I'm useless or that I'll be replaced." He said as Morgana realized something.
"...Does this extend into other things? Like say why you so adamant your right in an argument?" She asked and Charles sighs.
"Sound like you've caught on to me huh? Yeah...that's true." Charles said.
The group listened to this "That actually...explains a lot. Especially why you two always fought." Kathy says as she knew about the two having constantly fought before both were expelled from Sol Academy years ago.
"Yep. Neither could back down and admit they were wrong." Drew says and this get's a friendly chuckle out of the whole group.
Frankie started to get to work on removing the programming from Dark Buster as Ahsha was showing designs of Dark Buster's original body.
"Hey for now on how about we just agree, and try to talk with one another from now on. Sound good?" Morgana asked and Charles nods.
He then looked to Kathy "By the way umm...nice job Kit-Kat. You got me good." He says giving a Kathy a thumbs up from their spar that had happened and offers a fist bump which she returns as does the rest.
Nora though hums as she was getting a strange feeling about something.
=UNIVERSE=
Up on Link Joker's main ship the girl just hung in her chains focusing "Just stay calm. They can't do anything to me. Just need a little more time." She muttered to herself.
"Link Joker doesn't even realize what he actually is. I must get out of here, to Earth, and my brother." She thought to herself.
That's the end of Episode 28, and that is it for Dark Buster who is going to be worked on and returned to what he once was. We also learned more about Charles, and I gave Morgana a scene of interacting with some of the civilians who they save sometimes. Speaking of which my dear readers I am wondering who is your favorite Universe Ranger and why? Anyways it seems like the girl being held captive has been thinking about her secret, and is thinking of how to break out of the ship. Anyways I hope that you all enjoyed this chapter, and until next time this has been decode9!