Chapter 9: The Final Facility Part 1
The time has come. After months and months of fighting, the New Famille Army have finally begun their final campaign of raiding the Zangyack Empire's treasuries. The Gokaigers and their army had easily blew through the last two facilities and are now in route to planet Karamindo to take on the last of the Zangyack's armed forces. But this fight will prove to be the hardest of all of them as the Army of New Famille have to attack on two fronts. On land and in space. The reason why the Gokaigers and their army have to do this is because the facility on Karamindo is protected by an energy shield that is generated and beamed down to the planet from a space station that stayed above the facility at all times. The space station was long and tower like with a hanger bay located right in the middle of it that opened on both ends. The space station is under the command of the Zangyack Empire's last Action Commander, Xeromaru. Xeromaru was a cyborg, much like Joe's late mentor Sid Bamick/Barizorg, and just like everyone else that the Zangyack turned into cyborgs, Xeromaru is cold, emotionless and ruthless to the core. The Action Commander resembled Long in his armored breast form except that he had a spider motif instead of a dragon. He also had a large abdomen that he used to produce webs to capture and imprison unsuspecting victims. With half a million starships and a few million star fighters protecting the station in space and millions of more Gormin, Sugormin and Toraraiser guarding the facility on Karamindo, the Zangyack were dead set on preventing the Army of New Famille from getting the last of the Zangyack's treasure. To make matters more difficult for out heroes, the space station was armed with a super laser that was powerful enough to destroy a United States Aircraft Carrier with a single blast.
Unfortunately for the Zangyack, the Army of New Famille, as stated before, has only grown larger and stronger with each and every victory they had accumulated over the Zangyank. With ships and soldiers ranging in the millions, the Army of New Famille is ready and are, as I speak, coming out of lightspeed and are readying themselves for battle. For this battle, the Gokaigers decided to brake in the Kaizo Fighters and gave General Ozi command of the Gokai Gallon. Four officers were aboard the Gallon with Ozi just in case they needed to form Gokai-Oh. As for the rest of the army, there was a grand total of one million capital ships, five million star cruisers and an near uncountable number of star fighters. Among them, were the three thousand fighters that were smaller versions of the Kaizo Fighters. These fighters were the Gokaigers personal fighter squadrons and each pirate had command over five hundred pilots all designated under their respective colors. Is this overkill? Yes. But it is not like the Zangyack ever cared about the immeasurable number of people they killed, so sorry to all you Zangyack sympathizers out there. They had this coming.
"All bombers are in position sir." said Commander Mordo. Mordo was put in command of all the bomber squadrons. The bombers had a special mission for this attack.
"Then proceed with the operation." replied Marvelous. Once he cleared to proceed, Mordo lead all the bomber ships down to Karamindo and began bombard the Zangyack forces on the planet's surface. The New Famille Army's plan for the battle on the ground was to first bomb all the Gormin and other Zangyack forces to hell and then land their troops on the planet by the facility to and wait for the shield to be deactivated. The ground forces are to lead by Mai, who has now been promoted to Commander. As soon as Mordo and his bombers had made their run, devistating thousands of Zangyack soldiers, the New Famille landing shuttles touched ground about a mile away form the facility and began to unload the many, many warriors and vehicles that were ready to take the final facility. Despite suffering great loses from the bombing run, the surviving Gormin, Sugormin and Toraraiser brushed themselves, took a defensive formation and braced themselves for what was heading their way.
As the battle was merely beginning on Karamindo, the battle above the planet was intensifying. Even though the Army of New Famille had the element of surprise on their side, Xeromaru was anticipating their attack and had his fleet form three lines of defense to protect the space station. The first line consisted of the star fighters, the second line was made up of the battle cruisers and other smaller ships and the third line was formed by all of the capital ships. While this was a good idea on Xeromaru's part, the Action Commander severely underestimated the number of ships the Army of New Famille would be attacking with and our heroes easily blow through the Zangyack's first line and have already made it half way through the second line.
"Watch yourself Doc! You've got two on your tail." said Luka seeing two Zangyack fighters right on Don's six.
"I see them." replied Don. Don reached for a switch that was just over head and flipped it. The switch activated the rear laser cannons that all six Kaizo Fighters were equipped with for just such an occasion. The two Zangyack fighters did not expect this and were quickly turned into space dust.
"Good job, Don-san." said Gai.
"Thanks." said Don. "Gai, there's a Zangyack cruiser straight ahead of you."
"I copy." said Gai. "Ahim-san, Joe-san!"
"Got it." said Joe flying in on Gai's right wing.
"I copy." said Ahim flying in on Gai's left wing. Together, the three pirates fired a stream of proton beams at Zangyack cruiser and blew it apart. As the three flew past the fireball that used to be the Zangyack cruiser, several Zangyack fighters flew in from behind an began to attack the three. In responce to this, the pirates broke formation to divide the attackers. The plan worked, but unfortunatly for Ahim, she got the bulk of the enemy fighters. Seeing this, Luka flew in and began picking Zangyack fighters apart with her laser cannons. "Watch out Luka-san!" cried Ahim as she dispatched a bomb form her Fighter. Luka hidded Ahim's warning and broke away just as the bomb detonated and destroyed all the Zangyack fighters that were following Ahim.
"That takes care of them." said Luka confindently.
"Don't get cocky Luka." said Marvelous. "Everyone form up! we're breaking through to the thrid line."
"Right!" cried the five pirates as they turned their fighters around to fly to the front of their fleet. Right as Joe, Don, Ahim, Gai and Luka had rejoined Marvelous, General Ozi had driven the Gokai Gallon's mast into the side of a Zangyack cruiser and sliced it half, making a clear path to the Zangyack capital ships. Right as the Army of New Famille was forming up to attack the Zangyack's third line, Xeromaru ordered his men on the space station to fire the super laser at the nearest ship. In no time, the super laser was primed, set and fired at a Kapakanonian capital ship. With in seconds, the Kapakanonian ship completely blown away by the super laser.
"Bastards!" cried Marvelous. In his rage, the red pirates broke away form the others and set his targeting computer to target the super laser. Once he had a lock on the laser, Marvelous fired a pair as Turbo Plasma Missiles that zoomed right past the Zangyack capital ships right towards the space station. Once the missiles hit, there was a large green flash of light that shook the near by capital ships with it's sheer force. When the light faded, Marvelous was shocked to see that the super laser was not only still in tacked but was undamaged as well. As it turns out, the space station has a very powerful ray shield protecting it that is strong enough to repel the fire power of all the New Famille ships for days if it came to it.
"Damn it, Marvelous!" yelled Don. "You know those take twenty-four hour to change."
"I didn't know it'd have a shield." said Marvelous. "So now what?"
"Well, there's got to be a weak point we can exploit." said Joe. And as if right on cue, the space station opened up it's hangers and unleashed it's reserve star fighter squadron.
"Doc?" asked Marvelous
"Give me a second." said Don. After a brief scan, Don discovered that the space staion's shield was down around both ends of the hanger bay but wouldn't be down for long. "Well, if we're going to do what I think we're going to do then we better hurry. That shield won't be down for much longer."
"Then let's do it." said Marvelous. "General Ozi, we leave the rest to you. Everyone, fire the Flash Grenades." Obeing Marvelous' order, the Gokaigers formed up and fired a seires of small white balls of light. Once the balls were within a few feet from the Zangyack's thrid line, they exploded into a single gigantic ray of light that blinded the Zangyack forces. With the enemy distracted, the Gokaigers punched the thrusters of their Kaizo Fighters up to full speed and the six pirates zoomed right for the hanger bay. As you may expect, there were several Zangyack fighters that got in their way so the Gokaigers just blow them all away as approched the space station. Just as the shield was about to close, the Gokaigers formed up in a single line with Marvelous leading the way followed by Joe then Gai, Don, Ahim and finally Luka. One by one, the Gokaigers entered the space station and ejected from their fighters as soon as they were inside.
As soon as Luka's Kaizo Fighter left the station, the Gormin soildiers that were stationed there (no pun intended) engaged the Gokaigers and attempted to capture them. But the Kaizoku Sentai would have none of it. The pirates drew their blades and cut down every Zangyack soldier in the hanger bay. Right before the last Gormin soldier was cut down, he triggered the alarm stations alarm and back up immediately began to make their way towards the hanger bay. "Alright Doc, we don't have much time." said Marvelous. "This entire station is going to be on top of us in a few minutes at best."
"I'll only need a few minutes." said Don. Don then took out his Gokai Gun and blast the windows of the hanger's commander center open. Don then leapt up along with Gai and Luka who went with Don to provide back up if he needed it. Just as they thought, there were a few Gormin soldiers in the commander center and the three pirates blasted the Gormin dead. "Okay," began Don "let's see where that shield generator is." Don pulled out a small black handheld device that he and Dora invented and plugged it into the nearest computer terminal. The device, once plugged in, can download the schematics to the space station almost immediately and produce a 3D rendering of the station.
"We should also take out that Super Laser while we're at it." said Luka.
"Good idea." said Don.
"Hurry up you guys." said Joe. "The Gormin will be here anytime now." Just then the doors to the rest of the space station opened up and several squads of Gormin and Sugormin began to file into the hanger.
"You're on fire today, Joe." said Marvelous sarcastically. "Doc!"
"Done!" cried Don unplugging the device form the terminal. "Let's go!"
Don, Luka and Gai all leapt from the command center and rejoined their team. Right as the Gormin and Sugormin were beginning to surround them, the Gokaigers drew Ranger Keys form their belts and let out a "Gokai Change!" "Kakuranger!" Cried the phones as the pirates became the Ninja Sentai. Since Kakuranger have no Sixth Ranger, Gai turn into Ninjaman. Using Kakuranger's blinding Ninja speed, the Gokaigers cut down dozens of Gormin and a few Sugormin to boot. Once only a few Zangyack soldiers were left, the Gokaigers decide to do another Gokai Change. "Gaoranger!" cried the phones as the Gokaigers became the Hyakujuu Sentai. In these forms, the Gokaigers took out the remaining Zangyack forces. First with Marvelous and Gai blasting the Gormin and Sugormin with the Falcon Summoner and Gao Hustler Rod in Sniper Mode receptively. This was followed up by Luka swooping in and cutting down two Sugormin with the Eagle Sword, followed up by taking down three more Gormin with the Feather Cutters. The rest of the Gormin were destroied by Ahim, Don and Joe who used the Tiger Baton, Bison Axe and Shark Cutters respectively. With only three Sugormin left, the Gokaigers combined the Goaranger's weapons and formed the Evil-Crushing Hundred-Beast Sword. Gai converted the Gao Hustler Rod to Breaker Mode and prepared the Laser Pool. With the combined power of both finishing attacks, the three Sugormin fell to the floor and exploded.
"Okay Doc, what did you get?" asked Marvelous. Don then pulled out the device and activated the 3D map feature to show the other Gokaigers where they needed to go to not only destroy the shield generator but also the Super Laser. "The Super Laser too?" asked Marvelous.
"Yes." said Luka. "I'd be a good idea to take that down as well."
Just then, the entire space station began to rattle. Then a loud zapping noise came echoing from the outside. The Gokaigers turned to look out of the hang and saw the Super Laser blow apart another one of their ships. "Okay, that's a very good idea." said Marvelous. "But how takes care of what?" The Gokaigers paused for a moment. How would they split up. Then all of a sudden, Gai had an idea. The Goakigers would play a quick round of Janken to decide the split up. Losers would take the shield generator. Winners would take the Super Laser. "Ready guys?" asked Gai as the Gokaigers circled up. "Janken Pyon!"
Yeah, this is a weird way to end a chapter but I figured you guys have waited long enough. The battle will conclude in the next chapter.
