Okay, I realize having the Gokaigers assassinate a couple of Zangyack officials and talking about slaves of the Zangyack wishing they were dead was pretty dark but understand, this story is about them overthrowing the Zangyack Empire so it was somewhat necessary. So with that being said, I'm going to do my best to lighten it up a bit. And now, please enjoy…
Chapter 2: A New Home
When we last saw the Gokaigers, Gai flew GouJyuDrill through a wormhole in time and space to escape the Zangyack Empire. Of course, the real question isn't where the Gokaigers ran off to but when. Before we get into that, it should be noted that GouJyuDrill not only has the ability to travel through time, but could travel to any place in the known universe, provided that the pilot puts in the correct coordinates. It should also be noted that when time traveling in GouJyuDrill, the amount of time that passes, either forward or backwards, that the time traveled is measured by Earth's time. So when Gai programmed GouJyuDrill to travel through time, he set the mech to go twenty-four hours Earth's time into the future. However, even through the Gokaigers have not physically been in the universe for twenty-four hours, for the Kaizoku Sentai it was only for a few seconds. And even though the Gokaigers have traveled several hundred lightyears away from Zangyack Prime, they were able to reach their destination in literary no time at all.
Speaking of which, the Gokaigers are just now leaving the wormhole and have re-entered the universe. As the wormhole opened, GouZyuDrill flew out and began to fly right towards and astroid field. This astroid field was once a planet called Terria. Terria was a peaceful world that resembled Earth, lush and green with vast oceans. Of course that was before the Zangyack came and, as with so many planets before it, was completely obliterated. Now the Terrian race is all but extinct and have spread to the far reaches of the universe to find a new home. As for what was once Terria, the shattered rocks that was once the planet had largely stayed were the planet once was and continues to follow the same orbit around their sun. Like other planets that have been destroyed in the name of the Zangyack Empire, the astroid field has been named the Terria Graveyard. The Zangyack themselves name the planets they destroy this as a reminder of their power.
GouZyuDrill flew straight into the heart of the Terria Graveyard and onboard, the Gokaigers believed that they were all alone. But this wasn't the case. There was another ship floating among the astroids and the people on board were wanting for the Gokaigers to return. The ship wasn't really much of a ship but more of a shuttle. It was grey in color and was about as long as the Gokai Gallon's mast. "Are you sure that is them?" asked the radar operator to the captain.
"Yes." answered the captain. "That is definitely one of their machines. Let us wait until they make contact with the Gokai Gallon. Then, we will inform the General that we have found the Gokaigers." Right as the captain said that, Marvelous used his Mobilate to contact Navi and the Gokai parrot deactivated the Gokai Gallon's cloaking devise. Within seconds, one of the astroids disappeared and the Gokai Gallon appeared in it's place. You see, some time before our current adventure, Don had created and set up a cloaking devise to help the Gokaigers hide from the Zangyack Empire. Now you may be asking yourselves, "Why would the Gokaigers need a cloaking device when they were able to avoid the Zangyack by staying wide in the open for so many years before?" Well, let's just say that killing off a few members of the Zangyack royal family only increased the number of pressers and fighting them off on a near constant basis would tire anyone out so a cloaking device comes in handy to when the pirates want a little peace and quite. "There it is!" exclaimed the captain upon seeing the Gokai Gallon. Without further hesitation, the captain got on her communicator and called for her General. Who are these people and who is their General? We will learn all of that soon enough. Right now, let us rejoin the Gokaigers and see what they are up to next.
Once GouZyuDrill was a couple of feet away from the Gallon, the Gokaigers departed from the three-in-one mech and boarded their home ship. Gai was the last to exit GouZyuDrill and once he was onboard the Gallon, he inserted the TimeFire key, pressed the button with TimeFire's face on it three times and sent his mech back to the future. Once they were all safely inboard the Gokai Gallon, the Kaizoku Sentai returned to their normal forms and entered the common room and began to unwind from the battle. "I am so happy to see all of you back here safely." said Navi. "So, did you steal all of the Zangyack's treasure?"
"It was a complete success." said Marvelous hanging up his coat.
"But I'm not so sure that this was the smartest move though." said Don. "Yes, we took a huge chunk of the Zangyack's wealth but it's not like they are totally depleted."
"Doc's right." said Joe. "The Zangyack Empire still has many more mines and treasuries across the universe."
"But none bigger then at their home planet." said Marvelous sitting down in his chair. "Besides, I think they'll be a little too busy with repairs to try and bother us again."
"Are you really sure about that though, Marvelous-san?" asked Gai. "The Zangyack still have millions upon millions of Gormin left and-"
"And we will destroy them all if they even think about messing with us." said Luka embracing Gai and giving him a quick kiss. "Need I remind you, that we have the powers of every Sentai Ranger in our little chest and all of their Greater Powers as well."
"But that still doesn't mean that we are invincible." added Ahim. "We were very lucky this time. Next time-"
"Next time will be next time." said Marvelous. "Right now, let's get dinner started. I don't know about the rest of you but I'm starving."
"Shocking." said Joe with a small grin.
Right as Don and Ahim turned to go into the kitchen, the Gokia Gallon's censors began to ring.
"What is it?" asked Luka as she and the others turned to computer monitor.
Don took to the controls and pulled up the image of what set off the alarm. "It's a ship." said the Don, stunned to see that they have been discovered. Indeed it was a ship. The ship was lavender in color and had the royal crest of it's home planet on both sides. This ship easily dwarfed the Gokai Gallon in size as it was four times the size of the Gallon. It was a grand vessel with
"Is it the Zangyack?" asked Gai.
"It can't be." began Marvelous "We traveled one day into the future and left no trace of-"
"That is not a Zangyack ship." said Ahim. Everyone turned to the princess and saw that her eyes had shot wide open. "It can not be." said Ahim as she turned and ran towards the nearest window as to ensure that her eyes weren't deceiving her.
Before any of the others could ask Ahim what was wrong, everyone's attention was drawn back to the monitor and a voice began to come from it's speakers. It was the General that the captain had spoken of before. He was trying to make contact with the Gokaigers. "This is the Saber of Famille to the Gokai Gallon. Do you read me?"
"That voice." said Ahim. "Put him on screen." asked the princess in an excited tone.
"But Ahim-"
"Please Doc-san." said Ahim cutting off Don. Don looked over to Marvelous and once the captain nodded, Don established contact with the ship and the General was brought up on the screen via video. The General was and older man, within his mid-50's and had wrinkles around his eye and forehead. He wore a black regal looking uniform that was similar to what General on earth would were durning the 19th century.
"Uncle!" cried Ahim as a wide grin crossed her face.
"Uncle?" repeated the rest of the crew in shock and confusion.
"Ahim-chan," said the General smiling back at his niece, "thank goodness that we finally found you. With your permission Captain, I would like to board your vessel."
"Y-yeah," began Marvelous "come on in." Once the transmission ended, the Kaizoku Sentai and Navi rushed to the window to see what would happen next. Within a matter of a few minutes, a shuttle similar to the one that spotted the Gallon emerged from the Saber of Famille and made it's way towards the Gokai Gallon. Once it was within a few feet of the Gallon, a tunnel extended from the shuttle and connected to the Gallon. About two minutes later, the General and a couple of guards entered the common room.
"Uncle Ozi!" cried Ahim as she ran into her uncle's arms.
"Ahim-chan." exclaimed General Ozi as he embraced his long lost niece. Ozi then pulled away from Ahim to take a better look at her. "Let me look at you. I think you have gotten taller since last I have seen you." said the General placed his hand on Ahim's head. Ozi then turned his attention to the other Gokaigers. "Thank you for taking care of my niece." said Ozi as he bowed to the pirates along with the guards.
"You're welcome." said Marvelous. "But how did you find us. We did everything we could to stay hidden."
"Believe me, we know." replied the General. "All that matters to me is that we have finally found you and I can finally take Ahim-chan back home."
Ahim turned and looked upon her uncle in confusion. "Home?" said Ahim. "But uncle, Famille was destroyed."
"Yes." said the General turning to his niece. "Our home world was decimated by the Zangyack. However, we were able to find a planet to settle down on and over the past several years, we were able to gather up most of our scattered people."
"You have." said Don. "That's amazing."
"But wait." said Marvelous. "You said you were taking Ahim with you." The other Gokaigers looked at their captain the surprised looks on their faces. It wasn't that his question was weird but the look on his face is was stunned them. Marvelous normally doesn't express emotions beyond confidence or cockiness and the only times he does were when he was angry. But for some reason, he look as though he had just been sucker punched. Would Marvelous act this way if any of his crew were to leave? Or does he simple view Ahim in a different light then the others? I guess we will have to continue to follow the pirates to find out.
"Yes." answered General Ozi. "But you shouldn't worry. You are all invited to come and live on New Famille with us."
"New Famille?" said Gai.
"Well, my troops and I were the first ones to make a settlement on the planet." answered the General. "And since it was uninhabited before our arrival, we saw no harm in claiming the world for ourselves and name it after our old home."
"And you want us to come and settle down on the planet with you." said Joe.
"Yes." replied Ozi. "New Famille is quite large. Larger then the original Famille for a matter of fact. After we established our first village, my men and I set out to find more of our fellow Famillians and as time went on, the word began to circulate throughout the universe of our new found hame and soon enough, people from other worlds the Zangyack had destroyed came to us looking for a new home."
"And naturally, you couldn't turn any of them away." said Luka.
"Precisely." answered the General. "And I can imagine that the six of you have formed a very tightly nit bond with each other, so I wouldn't dare think of separating Ahim-chan from any of you."
Marvelous let out a small sigh of relief after hearing this news. The captain thought he did it small enough so that no one would notice but unbeknownst to him, the only person that didn't notice his sigh was Ahim. Which for the other Gokaigers is not surprising as they all knew that Marvelous has harbored feelings for the princess for a long time now and that the same could be said for Ahim. The four had found it quite humorous that Marvelous and Ahim were oblivious to each others feelings when it was so easy to see. As time went on, Joe, Luka, Don, Gai and even Navi wanted to see the two hook up but felt that they should open up to each other naturally so they stayed out of the matter. But has no real weight on this story. Or will it?
Anyway, back onboard the Gokai Gallon, the Gokaigers were making preparations to follow General Ozi's ship back to New Famille. As for the General himself, he remained on the Gallon to talk to Ahim so that they could catch up on what they have been doing in the time they were apart. During their little chat, Ahim told her uncle about how she and her team went to Earth in search of the Greatest Treasure in the Universe and all the people they met that had impacted their lives while they were there. She also spoke of the adventure the six of them had two years prior when they returned to Earth to celebrate the New Year and how they met heroes from an alternate universe and helped them stop a madman from taking over the planet with three other Sentai teams. Ozi was impressed with all that Ahim had to tell him but almost fell off his seat when Ahim told him of their most recent adventure. "The six of you really did rob the Zangyack' treasury!" cried the General.
"Yes." said Ahim. "But what do you mean by really?"
"Need you forget my niece, that news has the tendency to travel fast." explained Ozi. "Your little exploit has made the front page of every newspaper in the universe."
"But I take it that the Zangyack Empire are trying to keep it quite." said Ahim.
"Do you blame them?" asked Ozi. "If you were the ruler of the greatest Empire in the entire universe and had gone unopposed for eons would you want everyone to know that you can be as vulnerable as the rest of us?" Before Ahim could answer, Marvelous called called over the intercom and alerted everyone onboard the Gallon that they were now approaching New Famille. Ahim and the other Gokaigers rushed over to the computer monitor to take their first glance at what Ozi is hoping will be their new home. As New Famille came up on the monitor, the pirates could see that the planet was roughly five hundred times the size of Earth. Unlike the Earth however, New Famille was mostly green with about seven large bodies of water scattered throughout the planet and all seven of these bodies of water were as wide all of the Earths oceans combined. As the Gokai Gallon got closer to the planet, the Gokaigers rushed towards the windows to get a better look of the world. The closer the Gallon got to the planet's surface, the Kaizoku Sentai could really begin to see the true beauty of New Famille. From the high red mountains to the rich green fields, it was an aw inspiring sight to behold. Eventually, the Gokai Gallon followed the Saber of Famille to a clearing where it appears as if the inhabitants of the planet had began construction of a city. Once they were around the outskirts of the city, the Saber of Famille and the Gokai Gallon came to a stop and settled gently on the ground. Once the ships powered down, a large crowd assembled around the vessels and began to cheer for the Gokaigers as they began to exit the Gallon.
"I could get used to this." said Don as a smile began to form across his face. Once all six pirates and Navi had left the Gallon, a troop of guards surrounded them and stood at the ready.
"What's with these guys?" asked Marvelous aloud.
"They are your royal escorts." answered Ozi. "Gokaigers. My brother's daughter. Welcome to New Famille."
I intended for this chapter to be a little longer but I figure that this is a good place to leave off for right now. Keep an eye open for the next chapter, I'll try to get it up soon.
