Chapter 14: Desperate Measures Part 2

When Merina pulled the trigger this time, the cannons unloaded a flurry of of white lasers. The lasers came raining down to New Famille making large creators in its beautiful surface. The first place Merina targeted was right where the Gokaigers were fighting. None of the Gokaigers were hit by the laser beams, but the shockwaves forced them to power down to their normal forms as they were all sent flying. After crashing to the ground, the six pirates quickly shook off their daze, got back to their feet. Within moments, Marvelous, Joe, Luka, Don and Gai found each other but couldn't see a sign of Ahim. Then, under the many explosions, the five pirates heard a heart wrenching scream. "MAI-CHAN!" The five pirates turned to where the scream came from and saw Ahim, a few yards away, crouching down, holding Mai in her arms. Ahim, despite her panic and the chaos around her, was shaking Mai as gently as she could to try a rouse her. Marvelous, Joe, Don, Luka and Gai ran towards the two, their hearts sinking in despair.

"MAI!" cried Joe once he was at his lover's side. Upon closer look, Joe and the others could see Mai's uniform was turn up by the laser blast , but most importantly, that Mai wasn't breathing and that there were small patches of blood all around her body that were slowly beginning to grow. "Mai, please wake up!" cried Joe, as an all too familiar pain returned. Joe then placed his hand on the back of Mai head and was shocked to feel that it was wet. Pulling his hand back, Joe was horrified to see that it was covered in blood. "No!" cried Joe as his eyes swelled up. "NO!"

As the tears began to run down the faces of Ahim and Joe, Don took Mai's hand and placed his index and middle fingers on her wrist. "She has a pulse." cried Don urgently. "It's faint but she still has one."

"We have to get her out of here." Said Marvelous. It was at this moment that Marvelous and the rest of the Gokaigers noticed the horror taking place around them. All of a sudden, Mai's injuries seemed minor in comparison to what they were seeing. The laser beams were literally cutting their soldiers apart if they weren't being completely disintegrated. The agonizing screams echoed from all around the pirates like a quire from hell and the air was poisoned by the smell of their burning flesh. Before any of the pirates could lose their lunches, Luka spotted an object approaching them in the distance. It was the Gokai Galleon. General Ozi was coming in low, ziging and zaging past the laser beams. When the Galleon was close enough, Joe took Mai from Ahim and carried her aboard the Galleon with the others close behind. Once everyone was on board, Joe took Mai down to the medical wing and with Don's help, hooked her up to the life support systems. Marvelous went up to the cockpit and relieved Ozi of the helm. When the General asked about his daughter, Marvelous couldn't lie to him and told Ozi what had happened. Ozi rushed down to the medical wing, almost knocking down some of his men.

As the chaos continued out side, Ahim slumped down on the sofa, trembling from the with fear and concern for Mai and all the soldiers that are dying left and right out in the mayhem. "Ahim," said Luka as she sat down next to the queen "it'll be okay."

"How?" asked Ahim looking up at Luka, tears streaming down her face. "How can we turn things around. People are dying Luka-san and there is nothing we can do to stop it."

"Maybe the rest of you can't" thought Gai as he looked down at the Ranger Key chest. "But maybe…"

"Your highness!" said one of the four pilots that helped General Ozi control Gokai-Oh earlier during the battle. "We need your orders maim. What do we do?" Ahim looked up at the young pilot. She could see that while the young man was trying to maintain a strong posture, his eyes gave away his fear and desperation. Ahim could tell that all the pilot's hopes were hanging on what she was about to say to him. "Maim?"

Ahim took a deep breath, wiped her eyes and stood up. She remembered, in that moment, that as bad as things were right now, she is still queen of New Famille and that there were billions more that are relying on her and the other Gokaigers to protect them. So, swalowing the lump in her throat, Ahim told the pilot, "Get on the radio and tell every able body to retreat to the caverns and to save everyone that they can." The pilot gave a quick bow, then made his way to the cockpit to give the queen's order.

"So what then?" asked Luka. "What are we going to do once we're in the caverns?"

"The Zangyack will not risk destroying the entire planet." said Ahim. "Not if they want to take back their treasure. Are now, we need to fall back and think of a way we can take down that laser weapon. If we all work together…" Ahim turned to where Gai was standing only to find that he wasn't there anymore. "Gai-san?" Ahim began looking around the entire living room but found no trace of Gai. "Gai-san?!"

"Gai?" called Luka. "Gai?" Luka looked all around for Gai. Then she looked down at Marvelous' chair. "AHIM!" cried Luka as a cold chill ran down her spine.

"What is it.?" asked Ahim.

"Look!" said Luka pointing down at the chair. Ahim examined the chair and didn't find anything wrong with it. She then looked all around the vicinity of the chair and noticed that there was indeed something missing. "The chest with the Ranger Key! It's missing!" After exchanging looks, Ahim and Luka ran to the cockpit. "Marvelous-san!" cried Ahim.

"What is it?" asked Marvelous as he turned his attention to Ahim and Luka.

"Gai's missing." said Luka. "And he took the Ranger Key chest with him."

"What?!" cried Marvelous. "Why would he do that?"

"Do you remember what Doc-san and Dora-san said about Gai's true power?" asked Ahim.

"Yeah." answered Marvelous. Then his eyes flew open as wide as they could go. "No!" said Marvelous, realizing what Gai was up to. Marvelous then activated the Gokai Galleons tracking systems in order locate Gai. But just as they were about to locate Gai, a laser blast came dangerously close to hitting the Galleon and Marvelous had to swerve out of the way to avoid it.

While the Galleon was dodging stream upon stream of laser blasts, Gai had placed the Ranger Key chest down and opened it. "All my Super Sentai seniors and juniors." began Gai as he spoke to the chest. "Please, I need all of your power. In order to protect the new found peace me and the other Gokaigers have created here. I need the power of your combined strength to defeat the Zangyack once and for all." Gai then closed his eyes, placed both hands on the side of the chest and began to concentrate. In a matter of seconds, all the Ranger Keys began to glow and began flying out of the chest. Gai then flipped his Gokai Cellular open and held it up into the air. One by one, the Ranger Keys flew into the Cellular, forming a bright golden ball. When the last Ranger Key entered his phone, Gai closed the flip and yelled out "GOKAI CHANGE!" "Super Sentai!" cried the Gokai Cellular as it released a blinding flash of light that could be seen for miles across New Famille. The light shot straight up into the sky and blinded Merina, causing her to drop the trigger to the lasers. Soon enough, the light faded away and in it's place, a gigantic human shaped figure, curled up in a ball, was floating in the air.

Back on the Gokai Galleon, Joe and Don ran into the cockpit, having left Mai in Ozi's care and were nearly blinded by Gai's light. "What the hell was that?" asked Joe as he and Don entered. No one answered. Marvelous, Ahim and Luka were starring at the monitor in shock and horror at what Gai had turned into. Confused, Don and Joe turned their attention to the monitor to see what their crew mates were looking at. "WOW!" cried Joe taking a step back Don's jaw dropped. "What is that thing?"

"Gai." answered Marvelous.

"Gai." repeated a confused Don.

"This is Gai-san's true power." said Ahim.

Joe and Don didn't understand what Ahim meant at first. Then their eyes flew open wide. "You mean," began Don "that Gai…"

"Combined all the Ranger Keys." said Luka, her lip quivering.

Suddenly, the figure began to open up. First, Gai's feet touched the ground. Then, he began to stand up. Every soldier, Zangyack and New Famille stood in frightened amazement at the colossal Ranger that stretched out to the sky. When Gai was fully erect, he stood nearly as tall as DaiRyuJin. This new Ranger form of Gai's was translucent with no color, though it had a silver glow to it. His new suit wasn't made of material, but made out of pure energy. His "helmet" had no face or visor and their was a bright ball of light illuminating at the center of the form's chest. That ball, was were Gai was. He didn't grow into this form, he became the heart of it. The energy of all the Ranger Keys was flowing through Gai, causing his hair to stand on end and his eyes to glow white. Gai then reached his hand into the air, ready to announce his new form to the world. "SUPER SENTAI-" bellowed Gai, voice in a deep baritone roar "KAMI-SAMA!"

Back up on the Gigant Horse Mach II, Marina was being helped back up to her feet. "What the hell was that?" asked the angry Grand Duchess. Not wanting to infuriate Merina more, the Gormin on the bridge quickly pulled the image of Gai's new Ranger form on the monitor. "What in the world?" said Marina. "Marces!"

"I-it appears to be one of the pirates Grand Duchess." said a stunned Marces.

"One of the piraites?! Since when can they grow so large?" asked Merina. "It dosen't matter. Let us see how he likes this." Merina pick up the trigger and sent the targeting system to aim for Gai. As soon as she had a lock on him, Merina pressed the button and fired upon guy. Once the lasers began raining down on Gai, the now Sentai God did nothing to block the blasts. In fact, the lasers didn't appear to be bothering Gai at all. Compared to Gai, the lasers were as small as raindrops. Seeing that her attack had no effect on Gai, Merina increased the power of the lasers to fifty percent. When the cannons ready, Merina fired again. This time, the beams were fired as a continuous stream and were much larger in size. At fifty percent power, the beams have the power to blow away almost half of a New Famille sized planet in one shot. But instead, the beams hit Gai square in the chest. Like before, the beams didn't hurt Gai, but they did get his attention as he looked up at the Gigant Horse Mach II while the beams were still raining down on him. In an upward fanning motion, Gai raised his right hand and smacked the beams away, forcing the Gigant Horse Mach II to rotate upward. After making a full three hundred and sixty degree rotation, the crew of the Gigant Horse Mach II were able to stabilize the ship. "Okay," began Merina "if that's the way you want to play, then let us take in up an notch." And with that, Merina set the cannons to full power and fired the lasers at Gai. The full force of the lasers rocked the ship as they flew from the cannons. This time, the lasers shone with a light a bright as an atomic bomb explosion. As the lasers approached the planet, the entirety of New Famille was rocking to its core. Everyone on the ground, New Famillian and Zangyack, dived to the ground, bracing themselves for impact. Even the Gokai Galleon was shaking like a maraca. Marvelous had to fight his own ship with everything he had. As for Gai, all he did was stand his ground until the laser beams were about to strike him. Right when they were within arms reach, Gai reached out and grabbed the beams, stopping them in their tracks. Gai then raised he arms up and whipped them down, sending the flow of the lasers back up to the Gigant Horse Mach II. Once they reached the cannons, the cannons were ripped off of ship. As the beams faded away, all Grand Duchess Merina could do was stand in shock and horror at the power she was now facing. "Get us out of here! GET US OUT OF HERE!" Merina. Within seconds, the Gormin on the bridge turned the Gigant Horse Mach II around, activated the light speed engines and warped its way back to Zangyack Prime.

Back on the Gokai Galleon, the Gokaigers looked on in silence. That was until Don let out a tiny "Whoa."

"Incredible." added Joe.

"Yes," began Marvelous "but how much longer can Gai keep this up?"

"Gai." said Luka weakly as a tear ran down her face. As Ahim took Luka's hand to comfort her, Gai began his counter attack against the Zangyack. First, Gai raised his left hand and by combining the powers of Magiranger, Hurricanger, Shinkenger and Gingaman to create a super storm that engolfed the entire planet. You see, Gai had mentally connected himself to New Famille and now knows where all the remaining Gormin and aimed his storm right for them. With another wave of his hands, the skies opened up, unleashing hell upon the Zangyack soldiers. Lightning, fire and hail the size of bowling balls rained down on the Gormin along with multiple tornandos, forcing them to scatter. The Gormin tried to find places to shelter themselves form the storm, but there was no hiding from Gai. Just when the Zangyack soldiers thought they were safe, the ground would open up and swallow them whole. For the Gormin near the oceans, Gai summoned massive tidal waves that wiped them out and dragged them down to the depths. As the storm raged on, the last remaining Zangyack starfighters tried to attack Gai. They never got the chance as Gai summoned all the GekiBeast to take them out. In a matter of minutes, there were no Gormin left alive on New Famille. With his enemies wiped out, Gai called back GekiBeast and ended the storm. All that was left of the Zangyack forces were the capital ships hovering in the lower atmosphere.

Before heading up to confront the last of the Zangyack, looked on the battle scared surface of New Famille and raised his right hand. A stream of rainbow colored light shot out of his hand and spread throughout the planet. As the light touched ground, the light began healing the planet, closing up the massive creators and restoring life to the burnt planets and trees. Once the planet was fully restored, Gai flew up to the lower atmosphere to end the battle. However, once Gai was in attack range, he began to feel a sharp pain surge through his entire body. The immense power of the Sentai God form was final beginning to take its tole on him. Knowing that he had little time left, Gai used his power to pull all the remaining Zangyack ships into him. Once he had all the ships, he unleashed an energy attack similar to the one the first thirty-four Super Sentai unleashed to end the Legendary War. In one blinding flash, the last of the Zangyack fleet was destroyed. Word soon spread of the Zangyack's defeat but no one was celebrating. Too many soldiers had been lost and the ones that were not injured began searching through all the bodies for survivors. As for the Gokaigers, they began scanning the lower atmosphere for Gai, But there was no sign of him.