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 without further ado...Let's Make It Showy!
Universe Blue: Nora Riley.
Universe Green: Drew Matthews.
Universe Gray: Charles Brown.
Universe Silver/Bronze: Cody Barnes.
=UNIVERSE=
It was a new day in Milky Way, and at the Riley residence Nora stretches as she wakes up for the day. She brushed her bottle blond hair and noticed it's length which she sighs "I should consider getting a hair cut." She thought.
Her father was currently at work, and busier than ever since he had finally gotten the promotion he had worked so hard to get. While it did make Nora happy for her father she was sad that she was now left alone for far longer.
Though she also knew from Ahsha and Ramiel that Macha was working things out with Charles to make Minerva actually exist. Ahsha AKA Ashley was also spreading the word among border students that her 'daughter' had gone back to her school overseas after a few started asking about where she went.
"I wish mom was here, but her own job is more dangerous than dad being a bank manager." She thought and sighed. She did see her mother often even after her parents had divorced, and it had not been long after the incident that made Nora a shut in.
Thinking about that though just made her angry, but then she takes in a breath before letting it out "Don't think about it. Besides there are better things to think about, and prepare for." Nora tells herself and giggles as she was preparing a brand new cosplay video.
Nora went to the front door grabbing the morning paper and mail before bringing it in, and she stopped a moment thinking she saw a camera flash. Nervous she closed the door locking it.
After bringing in the mail their was a knock on Nora's door, and opening it she saw Charles, Drew, Cody, and Minerva "Hey Nora. How you doing?" Charles said with a grin.
Nora smiled "Hi guys. You can come in." She said and lets them in before shutting and locking the door.
Cody noticed this "Umm...is everything alright Nora? You seem nervous." Cody asked her.
Nora bit her lip "Well...I think I've been seeing strange things. It's making me really nervous." Nora told them.
Minerva cocks her head to the side "Strange things? Like what?" She asked.
"Well there's yesterday. I thought someone was following me, but it was just a couple animals." Nora tells them.
"Wouldn't blame you there. This towns got a number of furry critters running about." Drew said.
"Then just before you all came I thought I saw a camera flash." Nora then tells them.
"Maybe the sun was reflecting off something?" Charles suggested and Nora sighed.
"I don't know, but your probably right." Nora said with a sigh.
Nora then smiled "So why are you guys here? Though if I had to guess it has something to do with Minerva right?" Nora asked and Charles nods.
"I showed her a few of your cosplay videos and she's interested. She also is wandering what anime is so I figured better to show than tell. You have the biggest collection I know of so figured maybe you might let us watch a few." Charles explained.
"I was hoping to help out a bit. I know your next video is a big one." Drew explained himself.
"I-I just didn't want to be left out. So I hope you don't mind I came along." Cody told her.
Nora nods in understanding to them all "You guys can look around and watch a few, and I actually could use some help setting things up Drew." Nora told him.
Both of them headed towards her room while the rest of the guys plus Minerva found a few things to watch. It would be hours later till they finished, and when Drew and Nora came down the guys were asleep while Minerva was still watching, and cheering on a character.
Hearing them come down Minerva looked over and smiled "Hey Drew, Nora. How did the video go over?" Minerva asked curious.
Nora smiled "It went over very well. I think my fans will really love it." Nora said.
Drew nods grinning "Yep. People really love you as Star." Drew said to her.
Nora blushed at the compliment "Being Star is a release for me Drew. Being her allows me to just be and act however I want to truly be." She said.
Drew raised an eyebrow at this then came to a conclusion "You don't just act like Star for the camera though. You do it when you have to put on the suit." Drew says as Nora looks away.
"I...I do. I mean Star is so much more cool, outgoing, and capable than plain old me." Nora muttered.
Minerva and Drew looked at one another before looking back to Nora "Nora your acting like you and Star are two different people, but your not." He says.
Nora huffs "That's not true. I...I'm a coward that's still afraid to face to outside world, I'm clingy because you guys are my only friends, and I'm scared of..." She started then stopped.
"Scared of what?" Drew asked and Nora backs away to the stairs.
"N-Nothing. You guys can spend the night. Talk to you tomorrow." Nora said and rushed upstairs a click being heard from her room.
The two currently awake sighed "Should we trying asking again tomorrow?" Minerva asked concerned.
Drew shakes his head "I get the feeling even if we asked that nothing would change. Though she's wrong. After all it was Nora that was chosen, and not Star." He says.
"I thought you said their one and the same." Minerva pointed out.
"I did, but she doesn't see it like that. She may have taken the first steps, but she's still scared to take anymore." He says and yawns.
"I'll sleep on the chair. You sleep with them." He says going over to the chair and leaning it back he soon falls asleep as does Minerva.
=UNIVERSE=
Hours passed, and upstairs Nora had fallen into a deep sleep as the window outside her room opened. Someone came in as went to her bed, and the person grinned to themselves and moves the hair from her head before kissing her forehead.
"Don't worry my love we will be together soon. Soon it will just be us my precious Star." A teenage male voice said before slipping out as he heard someone coming.
The window silently clicked as outside Charles messed with the door and finally opened it before peaking in to check on Nora. He just wanted to make sure that his friend was okay as he was now awake and planned to surprise them all by making breakfast. He kept the door cracked opened as he headed back down.
Minerva was downstairs and lets out a small yawn starting to wake up, and when she did she thought she saw someone clad in black come down the drain pipe and ran off. She thought this odd, but decided to talk about it later as her brother came down to which she decided to help him out cooking.
About a half hour later they finished as the smell of freshly baked pancakes, waffles, bacon, and eggs traveled through the house waking everyone up. They gathered in the kitchen as Charles and Minerva finished setting up the plates and other tableware.
Charles grinned "Hey you guys morning." He said as everyone sat down.
Nora was surprised "You and Minerva cooked all this?" She asked.
Charles nodded "Mainly me though. I had to learn to cook for myself after all." he said.
Cody took the first bite, but then began eating more "Wow. Your a pretty good cook Charles." He complimented as Charles just shrugs.
"I'm passable. Not all that impressive really." Charles said.
Minerva raised an eyebrow "Modesty? I haven't know you that long, but that's certainly new to you big brother." Minerva said.
The group laughs at this and continues eating as Minerva then recalled what she saw "Oh umm...tell me is it normal for a dark clothed person to be seen coming down those drain pipes?" She asked them to which they all looked at her confused.
"What are you talking about Minerva?" Cody asked.
"Well there was some boy coming down the drain pipe near Nora's room this morning. He then ran off." Minerva said as Nora paled.
"W-W-What!" She says nervous and then felt something on her forehead to which she touches it and brings it down seeing lipstick.
"S-Someone's b-been in my room! Someone k-kissed me!" Nora shouts as she was starting to panic and breath frantically.
Charles got up and rushed over "Deep breaths Nora. In through the mouth and out through the nose." He instructed calmly trying to help her.
The rest looked at one another unsure what to do for a moment. Cody got up and grabbed her a glass of water while Drew went and grabbed the trash can because she looked ready to empty her stomach from just the thought of someone in her room. Minerva got up and decided to check out Nora's room for anything.
After about ten minutes Minerva returned as the guys had eased Nora a little and Minerva signals them over.
"You find out anything little sis?" Charles asked.
"Well...I know the locks inside her window was broken. So he had to get in from the outside before breaking them on the inside." Minerva explained to them.
Drew shivered "He even left his mark on Nora. She's pretty scared." He said.
"I think this leads some credibility to how she's been feeling lately." Cody said reminding them of how Nora felt like someone had been following or was after her.
The rest nod "I think for now we need to consider that we need to stick by her. Make sure she's safe. I'm also suggesting this because well...with how she's been lately she needs to know that we care." Drew told them.
"Right, but what if there's a..." Minerva started, but then the rangers morphers beeped getting all fives attention.
"...Never mind." She finished with a sigh.
Nora got up ready to go and help, but was stopped by Charles "Whoa there! Your not going out with us in your condition Nora." He says.
"But!" Nora tries to say as Charles again stops her.
"Your pretty much made yourself sick from that panic attack, and you'd just get yourself hurt. Please can you let us take care of this?" He asked her.
Nora sighs and nods taking out her morpher and hands it to Cody "Just in case. I might be tempted to follow you if I know where you all are." She told them.
"Thanks Nora. No worries we'll all be back soon, and you have Minerva here for company." Drew said as Minerva nodded grinning to Nora.
"We can play some games if you'd like." Minerva said to her.
The guys all ran out not knowing that Nora's house was being watched.
"Hehehehehe. Perfect. All those uncouth brutes are gone, and the dainty little one couldn't do anything." The boy from earlier said taking out a picture of Nora in one of her outfits and kisses it.
"The time has finally come my precious Star. We can finally be together." He says and heads towards the house.
=UNIVERSE=
The creature appearing downtown was another cybernetic dragon standing on two legs. It's front silver chest piece had yellow slits that looked like eyes and metal protrusions going around the stomach area in a circle. The signature red black rings of Link Joker were around the wrists while two extra large rings floated behind it with a single smaller thick one behind each shoulder.
"So what's this one?" Charles asked.
The morpher beeped "According to the data Kathy gave us that I finally decoded that is a Link Joker assault unit called Nebula Lord." Macha told them.
"It's one of there more powerful one's what I recall." Ramiel spoke as well.
"Thank you Macha, Ramiel. We'll try to handle this one quick." Drew said as each of them take out one.
++READY!++
++SET!++
"Star Change!/Zeroth Change!/Dragon Ascent!" The three called out as Drew was in his base form, Charles in zeroth form, and Cody turned bronze.
Charles kept his distance as he let loose shot after shot while Drew circled trying to find kinks in the armor.
Nebula raised an arm as the ring pulsed and it created a whip of energy which it then struck with knocking them away including Charles because of the whip's incredible length.
Before Charles could recover he was grabbed and slammed into the ground by the energy whip which Nebula then solidified and shot at the other two.
Charles rolled out of the way sensing something was coming and avoided an energy axe that it formed. Nebula raised it's axe again to strike, but was struck hard in the side as Cody and Drew came in kicking from one side toppling Nebula.
Charles got up and nods in thanks before switching back to his base suit with gloves ready while Drew switched out to his cannon and Cody went into Silver as he separated his bow into blades.
Charles ran at the monster and the two attacked one another fists clashing "Charles get out of the way!" Drew called out.
Charles rolled onto the ground dodging as Drew let loose a widespread blast from the cannon. This forced a roar out of the dragon as it growled and the rings floating behind it's back and shoulders glow before energy needles start flying at them.
The three barely dodge the attack "So Drew got an idea yet?" Charles asked.
"Me! Why are you asking me?!" Drew said.
"Well Morgana and Kathy aren't here, and we left Nora behind to rest so that makes you the next in command." Charles said and crossed his arms activating the shields on the gloves blocking a blast from Nebula.
Drew bit his lip as he knew they needed an idea and quick "Okay we need to rush it. Hit it hard and fast to break it." He told them.
Cody nods "Not the best plan, but still at least it's a plan." He says as the three of them charged with Drew turning into Zeroth Green as they all struck at once.
Nebula retaliated by creating a shock wave of energy pushing them away. Charles charged right back in as the gloves vanished and he called back in his broadsword and swung down hard across the chest.
Energy began leaking out of Nebula, and it howls with anger as all the rings glow with energy as it was surrounded by a red-black aura. It started firing multiple blasts from it's fingertips at them.
Drew summoned his Universe Shield and used it to protect them from the blasts as the green energy barrier protected them "He's got to have to let up sometime. When he does I'm going in." Charles said.
Drew nods "One good blow from you two should end it." He said as Charles switched into his Zeroth Form again.
Eventually Nebula started to lessen as it's aura was starting to vanish "Now!" Drew said and let down the shield.
++F-F-FINISHER!/Z-Z-ZEROTH FINISHER!++
"Star Emperor's Judgement!/Genesis Dragon Drive!" Cody pulled back as far as could on the bow creating a large energy bolt. He let it go as when did it multiplied into several smaller energy bolts which combined with the blasts from Charles blasters.
The two attacks hit right on destroying Nebula Lord.
The group let out a collective sigh at finishing up the battle, and took off finding a place to cancel their morph.
"After fighting that big guy this one was a bit easier. You think they're running out of the tougher monsters?" Charles asked.
Drew shakes his head "I don't think so." She says
As they started heading back Charles got a text from Nora and opened it freezing "Charles? Is everything okay?" Cody asked.
Charles showed them the text "Get back here ASAP! We have a Code Void! P.S. This is Minerva." It read.
Seeing this the three guys started running back as quick as they possibly could.
=UNIVERSE=
When they got back entering Nora's home they were surprised seeing that it was messy like their had been a fight and their was several broken objects and many things were scattered about.
Minerva ran up to them hugging Charles and crying "C-Came out of nowhere...g-g-gun...t-took her...s-shot..." Minerva said as they were only able to make out what she said between sobs.
Though they did notice their was a small pool of blood on the ground and paled "Drew call the police. Minerva what exactly happened?" Charles asked as he and Cody took her to a chair to sit down.
Minerva was still teary eyed as she took in a breath preparing to tell them what exactly had happened while they had been gone.
This is where Episode 35 has to end for now, and it is ending on a much darker note. Nora has been kidnapped, Minerva was attacked, and apparently someone has been shot...this isn't good. Well don't worry as soon enough what happened while the guys are gone will be explained, and we will check up on Nora. Anyways until next time this has been your friendly fanfiction writer decode9!