Chapter 4: The Attack on Balka
After several weeks of deliberation, the Gokaigers and the army of New Famille have mobilized and are now orbiting the first planet housing one of the Zangyack's seven major storage facilities. The first of these planets was a little planet called Balka. It is a small orb in the middle of no where about the size of the Earth's moon. Balka had very little vegetation but there was enough to provide oxygen for it's inhabitants the Balkans. The Balkans are a small gangly humanoid species that crawls on all fours. Gray in color, the Balkans look terrifying but are really a peaceful, gentle race of herbivores that wouldn't harm a fly. Which made it all the easier for the Zangyack to set camp on Balka. In fact, as soon as the Gormin Soldiers first pointed their guns at inhabitants, the easily skittish Balkans burrowed underground and hid from the Zangyack. You see, the Balkans are famous throughout their part of the universe for their burrowing as they can create rich and fertile soil and are ofter employed by numerous farmers to come off world and fertilize their crops. And it is this burrowing skill that the Gokaigers are hoping to use to their advantage.
Despite Balka being the back water planet as previously mentioned, the Zangyack Empire have taken great lengths to protect their storage facility. First of all, the Zangyack buried the facility deep with in Balka's asthenosphere and the enterance to the facility was heavily guarded by Gormin and Sugormin soldiers. However, in their arrogance, that was all the defence the Zangyack had given this one facility. The facility itself was besically one giantic hole in the ground with vertually no one guarding the treasure within. There wasn't even a Action Commander over looking the facility. This all seemed too good to be true to the Gokaigers. But after going over the reports over and over again with Dora, it appears that Balka is going to be the easiest of the seven heists. As of for right now, Ahim, Mai and Dora are pleading their case to the Balkan's chiefs in hopes that they will help in their cause. For the other Gokaigers, they were waiting for the three to return with one of the commanders.
"Commander Mordo." said Marvelous to the leader of the Kapakanon army. The Gokaigers and the entire Army of New Famille were stationed about three hundred miles away from the facility.
"Yes Captain." said Mordo.
"Do us a favor and save a couple of Gormin for us."
Mordo looked at Marvelous with a confused look on his face. "You want us to spear a couple of soldiers?"
"If you wouldn't mind." said Marvelous.
"Marvelous you can't be serious." said Don.
"Well why do we have to have to do the easy stuff?" whined Luka. "Why can't Marvelous, Joe and I fight the Gormin with the army and you three steal the treasure?"
"We went over this dearest." said Gai as he began rubbing Luka's shoulders. "If only half of us are seen fighting against the Zangyack with an entire army then they will get suspicious."
"Not to mention the fact that we would be at a tactical disadvantage down their." added Don.
"We've had our fair share of tactical disadvantages." pointed out Marvelous
"True, but we never had squad after squad of Gormin raining down on us before." responded Gai.
As Luka gave a slight moan in agreement with the two, one of Commander Mordo's Lieutenants came over with a report from the scouts. "Commander." said the Lieutenant with a salute.
"At ease." said Mordo. "So what do the scouts report."
"Sir, the scouts report that there are at least fifty thousand Gormin guarding the entrance of the facility." said the Lieutenant.
"What kind of weapons are they packing?" asked Marvelous.
"Nothing but the standard weapons sir." answered the Lieutenant.
"Really?" said Mordo.
"Yes sir. As a matter of fact, the Gormin are just simply lounging about." said the Lieutenant.
"My apologies Captain." said Mordo turning to Marvelous. "But it seems like there will be very little chance that there will be any Gormin back when you return from the facility." Mordo then turned his attention back towards his Lieutenant. "And what of the neighboring world?"
"Planet Ogama is far more heavily guarded sir." Said the Lieutenant. "An estimated three hundred warships are in orbit."
"Three hundred warship!" said Marvelous in surprise.
"That isn't all, the base that is houses the treasury is armed with a very powerful planetary laser cannon. As long as that laser is operational we have no hope of landing our troops on the Ogama."
"You let us pirates worry about that laser cannon." said Marvelous. "But first things first, let take the treasure in this facility and then we'll talk about Ogama."
Morro and the Lieutenant nodded in agreement and once Mordo dismissed him, the Lieutenant saluted both Mordo and Marvelous and then made his way back to his battalion. As the Lieutenant made his leave, Marvelous, Mordo and the other Gokaigers noticed Ahim returning to the camp sight with Dora and Mai close behind. "What did the Balkans say?" asked Marvelous once the trio had rejoined the group.
Ahim looked up to the captain and smiled. "The Balkans said that they will help us in our cause."
"Good." said Marvelous. "How did you get them to go along with this?"
"The promise of getting the Zangyack off their planet was all the incentive that the Balkan's needed." answered Dora.
"Also, we are going to be moving the entire Balkan population over to New Famille." added Mai.
"We are?" asked Don.
"Well yes." began Mai "What do you think will happen to them went the Zangyack grand fleet come and investigate what happened here?"
"So are we good to go?" asked Marvelous.
"Yes." answered Ahim. "Commander Mordo, you may take the armada out and advance on the Zangyack."
"Yes your highness." said Mordo bowing to the Queen. Mordo then mounted a Saiemma, a Rhinoceros like creature with three large horns on it's snout and a hide as thick as any Sentai mech and drew his saber. After giving his steed a slight kick to the side, Mordo road off to rally the others. As Mordo road into the distance, Dora turned to the Gokaigers and made a request.
"Your majesty," began Dora to Ahim.
"Yes Dora-san?" asked the queen.
"If it were possible, can I take some of the gold from this facility?" asked Dora.
"You want some the money." said Marvelous.
"Yes."
"What for?" asked Joe.
"I was going over the blue prints to the Gokai Gallon and the other mechs as well as read Ikari-san's Super Sentai Encyclopedia and I believe that I can created some new robots for the six of you." answered Dora.
"Really!" exclaimed Gai almost knocking Luka over in the process. "Oh, I'm sorry Luka." said Gai turning to Luka and bowing. Luka glared at Gai for a quick moment but then just smiled and shook her head at him. "So, Dora-san," continued Gai "you really think that you can create new robots for us?"
"I do indeed." siad Dora. "With Don-san's help we can have them up and ready within a few weeks."
"But it's going to be expensive." said Luka.
"Of course." said Dora.
The Gokaigers took a moment to look at each other and when they silently came to a agreement, Ahim spoke for the pirates. "Very well Dora-san. You may take the necessary expenses for your project."
"Thank you your majesty." said Dora bowing to the queen.
As Dora turned around to make her way back to the Gokai Gallon, Joe noticed that Mai was sitting on a near by boulder and was sharpening her sword. "What do you think you're doing?" asked Joe.
Mai looked up to the blue pirate with a confused look on her face. "What are you talking about?"
"You're not actually going to fight are you?"
"What else would I be here for?" answered Mai.
Joe looked at Mai in bewilderment for a second before turning to the queen. "Ahim." Ahim then walked over to Joe and Mai to see what the matter was. "You can't seriously be letting your cousin participate in the battle."
"And why not." said Mai standing up now. "You have no problem sending Ahim-chan or Luka-chan into battle so why am I different."
"Because I know that Ahim and Luka are capible fighters." answered Joe. "And besides, I trained them."
"Well, my father trained me and I've be practicing my swordsmanship everyday sence I first picked up a blade."
"Practicing against dumbies and people that won't intenionally hurt you is nothing like the real thing." said Joe. "The Gormin will not hesitate to kill you if they get the chance."
"Okay then…" began Mai lifting her blade to Joe "I'll prove myself to you."
"We don't have time for this." said Marvelous now joining the conversation and trying to get Joe and Mai back to focus.
"No it's okay Marvelous." began Joe as he drew his Gokai Saber. "This will only take a only take a few seconds."
Seeing what was about to happen, Don, Luka and Gai ran over to observe the duel. The three pirates tried to get between the two but Marvelous told them to stay where they were. Joe and Mai bowed and took to a ready stance. Joe placed his left hand behind his back as Mai placed her left foot forward and raised her blade over her head. After starring each other day for a few seconds, the two lunged at one another. As their blades clashed in the middle, Mai grabbed Joe's wrist with her free hand and moved has arm aside. Once Joe's sword hand was out of the way, Mai moved in and kneed Joe in the ribs. As Joe keeled over, Mai swung her leg over Joe's shoulder and rolled forward putting the Blue Pirate in a cross arm breaker. As she began to arch her back off the ground, Mai lifted her left leg up and placed her sword onto Joe's throat before resting her leg on top of the blade. Once her sword was on Joe's neck, Mai began prying Joe's Gokai Saber from his hand. Joe tried to lift Mai's blade off of his neck but Mai put her right foot at the crook of Joe's arm preventing him from properly using it to push her leg off. Joe resisted Mai's attempt to take his blade as best as he could but Mai pried Joe's fingers from his Gokai Saber one by one until it was finally free. Once Mai had possession of Joe' sword, she rolled backward, releasing her arm breaker and jumped back to her feet, pointing both blades at Joe. As Mai advanced on him, Joe just laid on the ground in disbelief that he had been defeated so quickly by someone with seemingly little fighting experience on the field. Joe felt humiliated, defeated, humbled and for some weird reason, aroused. As Mai was standing above Joe with both swords pointed at him, she suddenly flipped the Gokai Saber around so that she was now holding the blade and the handle was now facing Joe. "Your sword, Master Gibken." said the Lieutenant with a stern look on her face. After looking back and forth between Mai and his Saber, Joe took the handle of his sword and began to rise to his feet. "Do you still doubt my skills, Master Gibken?" asked Mai. Joe, still flabbergasted over what just happened couldn't bring himself to speak, so all he did was shake his head to show thatt he no longer doubted her. "Good." said Mai sheathing her sword. "Now if you will excuse me I must join Commander Mordo and make ready for our attack. Ahim-chan, everyone." Mai bowed to her cousin, Dora and the other Gokaigers before turning around and began making her way to the army. As she walked away, Joe couldn't help but stair at her, especially her butt and it moved back and forth in her dress pants.
"Pretty sweet, huh?" said Luka now standing beside Joe and noticing what he was looking at.
"Wh-what? What?" said Joe breaking out of his trance, embarrassed that he had been caught staring at Mai's rear end.
"Joe-san." said Ahim surprised at Joe. This was the first time she had ever seen Joe break his normally stoic character and oggle a woman.
"Well, this has all been fun but we have business to attend to." said Dora.
"Right." began Marvelous. "That gold isn't going to rob itself. And besides…" pause Marvelous turning to Joe and giving a semi-mockingly smile "you can ask Mai for a rematch afterwards. After all, you did seem to be enjoying yourself." Marvelous then gave Joe a playful slap on the back and chuckled a little as he walked towards where the Balkans were going to meet them. Luka also began to chuckle slightly as walked back to Gai who had a confused look on his face as he didn't notice that Joe was checking out Mai. Don gave Joe a small grin as he and Ahim turned around and, along with Gai with Luka on his arm, began to follow Marvelous to the rendezvous point. After letting out a large sigh, Joe began to follow his teammates towards the rendezvous point while muttering to himself on how neither Marvelous or Luka were going live what just happened to him down for quite foreseeable future.
Now we jump over to the location of the storage facility. Because, as stated before, Balka was such an uneventful planet that the Gormin soldiers pretty much spent all of their time either shooting craps, getting drunk or doing both. So to say they were completely caught by surprise when they heard a loud rumbling noise growing closer and closer would be among the greatest of understatements. When the Army of New Famille reached their targets, the Gormin soldiers began to scurry about like insects whose hiding place had just been turned over. Commander Mordo and his squad of mounted Kapakanons mowing down Gormin left and right with their lances. If the Gormin did manage to dodge the lances of the Kapakanons they were either gored or trampled by the Saiemma. And let's not forget the Kumakry warriors. The mighty bear creatures didn't need mounts. No, the Kumakry are fast and deadly enough all on their own. If they weren't gunning down Gormin after Gormin with their massive blasters, then the Kumakry were slashing, cutting and pounding the Zangyack foot soldiers into piles of bolts and mangled metal. Some Kumakry were beating down the Gormin the old fashioned way. Using nothing but their teeth and their own bare paws (no pun intended), the Kumakry were literally ripping the Gormin to shreds. Some of these Kumakry were double teaming Gormin by taking one by the top and bottom and ripping them apart from the torso. Mai especially was giving the Gormin hell. She started off on a Saiemma of her own, shooting one Gormin after another with her side arm. After a while, Mai drew her sword and leaped from her Saiemma and began fighting the Gormin on foot. Mai started by vertically cutting a Gormin in half on her way down from her steed. Once on the ground, Mai began cutting down any and all Gormin that got in her way. At one point, one of the more sober Gormin charged her, but Mai impaled him through the chest with her sword. As another Gormin approached her from behind, Mai, as quick as a flash, pulledd her blade out of the Gormin she just killed, spun aroundd and beheaded her would be attacker.
More and more Gormin fell to the New Famille forces as the battle raged on. Gormin were being killed so fast that the few hundred that were in the facility had no choice but to abandon the treasure and head for the surface to reenforce their brothers. This was the moment the Gokaigers had been waiting for. Just as the last Gormin was out of site, the Balkans punched a great hole into the roof of the facility and the pirates, now transformed, jumped down to the treasure room below one by one. There would be a group of Balkans waiting for the Gokaigers underneath the cavern floor once the pirates are ready to go. Once all six pirates were on the ground, Marvelous, Joe, Don, Luka and Ahim formed a defensive ring around Gai, just in case there were any stragglers from the troop of Gormin that had just left. "Alright Gai, now!" ordered Marvelous. Gai nodded and inserted the MagiShine key into his GokaiCellular. In a flash, Gai became MagiShine and just like with Castle Zangyack, Gai removed the top of the MagiLamp and all the treasure began to be sucked into lamp. Within a matter of minutes, every piece of gold, silver and jewelry was within the confines of the MagiLamp. "Good work Gai." said Marvelous as Gai changed back to his normal ranger form. "Now let's get out of here."
"Going so soon?" said a sleepily but threatening sounding voice from within the cavern. "Why…you are all just in time for supper." The Gokaigers spun around to find were the voice had originated from. First they looked high but once they looked to the ground, Don spotted a large orange create with black stripes, a white underbelly, great claws and massive teeth, rubbing its eyes and getting up to its feet.
"It's a Toraraiser!" cried Don. Toraraisers are tiger like beings about the size of the Kumakry only more humanoid and with less endurance. What the Toraraisers lack in endurance, they make up in speed and their reflexes make them masters of counter attacking their opponents. The Toraraisers are also fierce, sadistic animals that enjoy toying around with their prey before killing them. Toraraisers are also very proud creatures and if an extreme level of pain is inflicted upon them, they will enter a berserker mode. This is when the Toraraisers are at their most dangerous as they begin to ignore the pain and thrash about recklessly. These are the traits that make the Toraraisers the Zangyack Empire's go to people for security.
"So you must be the pirates that I've here so much about." said the Torarasier before letting out a huge yawn. "How nice of you to so willingly come to me. And right when I was beginning to think I would starve to death."
"Starve?" asked Ahim aloud.
"Oh yes," began the Toraraiser "The Zangyack sent me here to gobble up any of those tasty little Balkans if they came creeping about around in here. But I haven't smelt one of those delicious little morsels in ages. And now…" the Toraraiser pause as he began to look upon the Gokaigers with a greedy glare "the six of you have so willingly wandered into my domaine."
"Well, sorry to disappoint you," began Luka "but we're no one's dinner. As a matter of fact, we were just on our way out."
"No." said the Toraraiser. "It is I who am sorry to disappoint you. Once you enter the domaine of a Toraraiser, you do not leave unless he gives you permission to do so."
"Well, you clearly no nothing about pirates." said Gai. "We do as we please. So stand down or be destroyed."
The Toraraiser let out a long, cold laugh in response to Gai's threat. "Thank you for that. I haven't laughed like that in a long time." The Toraraiser then licked his lips and gave the Gokaigers a sinister smile. "Now, be good little victims and scatter. It will make this so much more fun…for me. The Toraraiser then got down on all fours and pounced at the pirates.
As soon as the Toraraiser was in the air, the core five Gokaigers opened fire upon the beast with their Gokai Guns. Despite being airborne, the Toraraiser was able to twist his body around the bullets and dodge every one of the Gokaigers' shots. Once the Toraraiser was close enough, he swiped fiercey at the pirates. The Gokaigers all jumped out of the way of his claws, all except Gai who merely ducked under the tiger beast and jabbed his Gokai Spear into the side the Toraraiser's ribcage. The Toraraiser let out a cry of pain but quickly recovered and grabbed Gai by the neck and started to lift him off the ground. Gai began to twist his spear in an attempt to make the Toraraiser let him go but all it did was make the tiger even madder. Seeing Gai in danger, Luka, Don and Ahim began firing upon the Toraraiser's back. After enduring several shots to the back, the Toraraiser finally released Gai and turned his attention back to the other pirates. Gai removed his spear from the beast's ribs and slashed at him. The Toraraiser saw the spear coming from the corner of his eye and dodged it. Marvelous and Joe then jumped in swinging their swords but the Toraraiser backflipped over the two pirates attack. Once he landed, the Torarasier was now standing with Joe, Gai and Marvelous in front of him and Don, Ahim and Luka behind him. Before the Toraraiser could pick a group of three to attack, the Gokaigers took out and inserted Ranger Keys into their phones and let out a "Gokai Change!" "Dairanger!" cried the phones and the symbol of the Gosei Sentai emerged and touched the pirates' chest. The Gokaigers caught the Toraraiser completely off guard with their Gokai Change. The great beast had never seen anything like it before. Taking advantage of the opening, the core Gokaigers used through the Dairangers' Dairinkens at their enemy. Quickly coming back to his senses, the Toraraiser did a corkscrew flip to dodge the Dairinkens. As soon as the Toraraiser landed on his feet, Gai lunged in and used Byakkoshinken to stab the Toraraiser in the same spot in the beast's ribcage he had jabbed his Gokai Spear into earlier. As the Toraraiser cried out in pain again, the other Gokigers lunged in and stabbed the tigerman's with the Dairen Rods. As the Toraraiser cried out in pain once again, he entered that berserker mode his species goes into when they fell and extreme amount of pain and began thrashing at the pirates with the Dairanger's weapons still in him. The Gokaigers tried with all their might to keep the Toraraiser under control but the tiger thrashed so hard that he shook the pirates off of him and sent all six Kaizoku Sentai members flying across the cavern. As soon as the Uokaigers hit the cavern floor, they inserted another set of Ranger Keys and cried out "Gokai Change!" once again. "Boukenger!" cried the phones as the symbol of the Gogo Sentai emerged and touched the pirates' chests. As the Dairanger's weapons vanished from the Toraraiser's torso, the core Gokaigers began shooting the beast with the Survi-Busters in Snipper Mode while Gai shot him with the Sagasnipper. Despite hitting the Toraraiser about a dozen times apiece, the beast didn't fall nor did he feel a thing. The Toraraiser merely let out a vicious roar that shook the foundations of the cavern before resuming his attack on the pirates. The Toraraiser lunged at Ahim first but the Queen was able to roll out of the tigerman's way. As soon as Ahim was out of harm's way, the pirates regrouped and staired down the Toraraiser as he growled at them.
"What do we do now?" asked Don. "We've hit landed some good shots on him but he still won't go down."
"Then we just have to hit him harder." said Marvelous taking out a black and red Ranger Key. "Let's go!" cried Marvelous flipping his key open as the others pulled out other keys.
"Gokai Change!" cried the six pirates as they changed into a third set of heroes. Only this time, they each became a hero from a different team. "Magiranger!" cried Marvelous' phone as he changed into Wolzard Fire. "Kakuranger!" cried Joe's phone as he became Ninjaman. "Demon Hunter!" cried Luka's phone as she turned into Zeek-Jeanne. "Goseiger!" cried Don's phone as he became GoseiGreen. "Shinkenger!" cried Ahim's phone as she turned into Princess ShinkenRed. "Kyoryuger!" cried Gai"s phone as he changed into KyoryuSilver.
"More changes?" said the Toraraiser through his teeth. "Doesn't matter. I will still rip you all apart and feast upon your flesh!" The Toraraiser let out a mighty roar as he pounced at the pirates. Joe drew Ninjaman's Ninja Sword and lunged at the Toraraiser. As the two met in the middle, the Toraraiser sank his claws into Joe. Or so the Toraraiser thought. As the Toraraiser slammed the first mate to the ground, Joe turned into a straw dummy, naturally confusing the Toraraiser. Taking advantage of this, Marvelous, Gai, Ahim and Luka all ran in and slashed the Toraraiser with the WolSaber, Zeek Sword, Shinkenmaru and Feather Edge respectively. Once they passed by, Don summoned GoseiGreen's personal weapon the Seasick Sabers and joined them together to form a double edged sword. With the two blades as one, Don rushed in and cut the beast ten times. The Toraraiser lunged at Don as he cried out in a psychotic rage-filled pain as the green pirate summersaulted over him. As soon as Don was out of the way, Joe reappeared by popping up from the cavern floor and slashed the Toraraiser a dozen times. As Joe moved out of the way, Luka took the Zeek Gun and fired a flame stream at Ahim, who had equipped the Shinkenmaru with the Shishi Disk, spun the disk and combined the flames of the Zeek Gun and the the flames with the Mojikara. Him then sent the flames over to Marvelous who combined them with Wolzard Fire's power. "Zazado!" cried Marvelous as he opened the Jagon Shield and fired the three flames at the Toraraiser. The Toraraiser yelled out and cursed at the Gokaigers as he was engulfed by the three fires. Even though the flames burnt him nearly to the bone, the Toraraiser still wasn't done fighting yet, so Don took out a Gosei Card, inserted it into GoseiGreen's Tensouder and sent a flurry of blizzard wind at the beast. Now with the Torarasier nearly frozen, Gai ran in and hit the Torarasier with the the second KyoryuSilver's signature attack, the Ori: Kuretsu (Air-Busting) Punch. The punch sent the Toraraiser flying up to the top of the cavern with such force, that the roof began to cave in. Sensing the tremors from the roof above, the Balkans that were waiting for the Gokaigers underneath the cavern floor sprang up and ushered the pirates into the tunnels they had made.
The soldiers on the planet's surface felt the rumbling of the facility caving in from under them. They all began to look around to see where rumbling was coming from, when the entrance to the facility collapsed in onto itself. The Army of New Famille began to worry about the Gokaigers until the pirates came bursting out of the ground with the Balkans behind them. As the pirates composed themselves, they noticed that their forces had completely wiped out the Gormin soldiers. "Ahim-chan!" cried Mai with a sigh of relief. "What happened down their? What caused the cave in?"
"We, uh, ran into a little trouble down in the facility." said Ahim.
Before Mai could ask what the trouble was, a loud cracking sound came from where the entrance to the Zangyack's facility once was. As the cracking grow louder, until the Toraraiser burst through the rocks. The Toraraiser, now even more crazier then before and covered head to toe in burns. "YOU DAMNED BASTARDS!" yelled the Toraraiser. "DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN HIDE FROM ME!"
Commander Mordo signaled to his troops to attack the Toraraiser but Marvelous told them to stay where they were. "Something you need understand about pirates," began Marvelous as the other Gokaigers lined up beside him "we don't hide…" Marvelous then drew a red Ranger Key from his belt buckle. "We rampage!" The other Gokaigers took out their Ranger Keys and along side their captain, they all let out a "Gokai Change!" and inserted the keys into their phones. "Ninninger!" cried the phones as a song began to play from them. "Nin-Nin-Nin, Nin-Nin-Nin-Ninja!" played the song in repetition as throwing stars, the size of the Gokaiger's helmets came flying out of the phones. Then a second set of throwing stars, this time the size of the Gokaigers from the neck down, came out and started to float in front of the pirates. The throwing stars then moved towards the Gokaigers and as the passed through the core five, cried out "Aka-Ja! Ao-Ja! Ki-Ja! Shiro-Ja! Momo-Ja! Ninja!" As for Gai, a large golden star appeared from beneath him and rose up crying out "Starninger! WOW!" Once the Gokaigers were dressed in the Ninninger's suits, the first set of throwing stars came and once they touched the Gokaiger's faces, they turned into the Ninninger's helmets and the transformation was complete. Because their was no Green Ranger on the Ninningers, Don became a male version of Shironinger. "Shuriken Sentai!" began Marvelous "NINNINGER!" cried all six.
Now that the Gokaigers were the Ninningers, the Toraraiser crouched down on all fours again and ran towards the pirates. The core five Gokaigers ran towards the beast and once they were close enough, jumped over the Toraraiser, drew the Gama Gama Guns and began to blast their enemy in the back as they flipped around in the air. As the Toraraiser got back to his feet and began to cry out in more pain, Gai came running in and began cutting the Toraraiser with the Star Sword-Gun. After five cuts, the Toraraiser swung wildlyy at Gai with his right claw but Gai merely rolled out of the way, turned the Sword-Gun around so that it was now in Gun Mode began shooting the beast. As Gai was shooting the Toraraiser, Ahim jumped over Gai's head with the Karakuri Hengen in Bow Mode and fired several blue arrows at the Torariaser. As the Toraraiser stumbled backwards, Luka came running in from the Toraraiser's left side with the Karakuri Hengen in Claw Mode and Don came running in from the beast's right side with the Karakuri Hengen in Sword Mode and the two slashed the tiger creature as the zig-zagged around one another. Once Don and Luka had passed by, Marvelous and Joe jumped into the fry armed with the Ichibantou and swung them with fierce preseason. Despite his many injuries, the Toraraiser was able to dodge most of their swipes and was eventually counter attack, causing Joe and Marvelous to jump out of the away. Once they landed, Marvelous equipped his Ichibantou with a Goton Shuriken and spunn it. "Shuriken Ninpo! Kaen no Jutsu!" cried the captain as fire flow from his sword and burnt the Toraraiser. Luka and Ahim were the next to use the Goton Shurikens and readied themselves to attack their foe. "Shuriken Ninpo!" they both cried. "Ki no Jutsu!" cried Luka sending a flurry of leaves from her sword. "Tsuchi no Jitsu!" cried Ahim firing a ton of rocks from her sword.
"Joe-san." said Gai as the Toraraiser got pummeled with rocks and leaves. "Let's combine our attacks as well." Joe nodded and equipped a Goton Shuriken to his Ichibantou while Gai equipped the Star Sword-Gun with the Furai Shuriken. "Shuriken Ninpo! Mizu no Jutsu!" cried Joe shooting a jet stream of water at the Toraraiser. With the Toraraiser all wet now, Gai cried out "Kaminari Majikku!" and sent out several bolts of lightning at the Toraraiser and electrocuted him. The Toraraiser was all but defeated now but Don still wanted to contribute to the attack and so armed his Ichibantou with a Goton Shuriken and readied himself to attack. "Shuriken Ninpo! Kin no Jutsu!" cried the green pirate as he tried attacking the Toraraiser with the Gold attack. But instead, "BAM!" Don ended up dropping a large golden pot on his own head.
"What was that?" asked Luka with a confused tone in her voice.
"Give me a break," wined Don "we never used these before."
"It doesn't matter." said Marvelous. "Let's finish this guy off."
With that said, Gai flipped the Furai Shuriken to Wind Mode and cried out "Shuriken Ninpo! Kaze no Jutsu!" and sent out a powerfully tornado from the Star Sword-Gun. The tornado lifted the Toraraiser into the air and the core five Gokaigers activated the Finisher Mode on the Ichibantou. "Kyōdai Nin Retsu Zan!" cried the five as they jumped into the tornado and slashed the Toraraiser for the last five times. Once the Gokaigers leapt out of the tornado, the tornado slammed the Toraraiser down and he died in a big fiery explosion. Exhausted from the fight, the Gokaigers powered down to normal as they sat down.
"And you were worried that your job would be boring." said Commander Mordo as he approached Marvelous. Marvelous let out a small laugh as the Commander sat down beside him. "Did you get the treasure?"
"Yes." said Marvelous. "We got it. How long were you guys waiting for us."
"We actually had just finished up the last of the Gormin when you all emerged from underneath us." said Mai.
"Okay then," began Marvelous "sense we all just finished the warm up round, let's take a small break and then figure out how to take the facility on Ogama." Marvelous then turned to Ahim. "Is that okay with you, your Highness?"
Him just smiled at the captain. "Yes. That will be lovely."
Sorry this took so long. Hopefully I will get the next chapter out quicker.
