I don't own Power Rangers or Future Card Buddyfight as they are the property of Toei and Bushiroad respectively. The OC's belong to LovingGinger30, ThePurpleArcher24, Stormasius, RedRanger2.3, Mike singh, and me. New chapter initalizing...and it's set! Let's Make It Showy!

Xross Red: Katharine "Kathy" Ravens.

Xross Gold: Jasiri Rebecca "JR" Watson.

Xross Blue: Victor "Vic" Everest.

Xross Green: Kairi Nakamura.

Xross Yellow: Hayden Shaw.

=XROSSFORCE=

It was another school day as JR, and Hayden were partnered up in gym class for the exercises they had to do that day. JR remained silent as she didn't want to talk to Hayden, and it was the same with Hayden though the only time they talked was to let the other know they had to switch off.

Hayden sighed as he was thinking about a few things "Still need to apologize to Kathy about what happened. She's got her own ends to meet, and I've got me. I mean I'd be angry to if a friend nearly cost me my job." He thought and then glanced over to JR.

"It's been a long time since we've actually talked. It's been almost three years..." He thought as he let's out a sigh looking down memories hitting him.

[Flashback]

A ten year old Hayden was in one of the more posh neighborhood's of Aibo City, and hard at work with his odd job service he does. Though he wasn't working alone as he tapped his foot waiting for someone.

"Where is she? She's going to..." Hayden started muttering to herself.

"Morning Hayden!" A female voice shouts out, and Hayden turns smiling as a seven soon to be eight year old Jasiri came running up to him. The two were very close as they had been friends for a long time, and the two understood each other pretty well.

Hayden only had his mother who was an overworked waitress, and it was the main reason he did the odd jobs he did. Jasiri while her family was well off much of her parents focus when they were around always went to the older siblings so while Jasiri was only eight she knew how to take care of herself. Though Hayden knew if anyone asked Jasiri would say that her favorite sibling was Angelica AKA Angel with her oldest brother right behind that.

"About time you showed up Jasiri." Hayden says as the girl puffs her cheeks.

"You know I hate being called by my first name." She says sticking her tounge out at Hayden.

"Fine fine Rebecca. Still you sure you want to help?" Hayden asks a smile on his face.

Jasiri nods as the two went to the house, and began doing the job that they were contacted for as JR racked the leaves, Hayden went through organizing the small garage, and then both went inside doing the inside work.

By the time they finished the family returned, and upon seeing their job was done the two were payed quite a bit for what they did.

"Are you heading home?" Jasiri asked Hayden, and he nods.

"Yeah. Mom's going to worry if I don't get home soon. I also plan on drawing some more." He says and Jasiri smiles looking at him.

"Can I see your next drawing? Please?" She asked.

Hayden laughed a little "Sure thing. I'll show you at school tomorrow." He says and takes off towards his home.

Though it would be this day that things would change for Hayden as when he was on his way home he noticed some kids his age and a bit older with spray paint tagging the sides of a building.

This had been the day Hayden had his run in with the rising street gang known as Cobra. It was also the start of things going sour between himself and Jasiri.

Months would pass as Hayden got more involved with them, and he was a bit more rebellious. He also starting ditching Jasiri to hang out with his Cobra buddies more, and he got quite the thrill running from the police and successfully evading them.

To him he finally had what he desired most...freedom, and nothing and no one was going to stop him from keeping his freedom.

One day though he had messed up bad evading the police, and he went to the one place he could hide as he slipped into Jasiri's home.

"Hayden? What are you doing here?" A now 11 soon to be 12 Jasiri asked as the 14 year old Hayden sighed in relief seeing it was only Jasiri.

"Hiding. Me and the rest may have bitten off more than we could chew." He said.

Jasiri blinked surprised "You got caught tagging?! That's the only reason why you came..." Jasiri says disappointed.

"Yeah. Now please let me hide here Jasiri." He begged.

The younger girl went quite before shaking her head "No." She told him.

Hayden growled "Excuse me? I'm in a pinch here, and your refusing to let me, your friend keep a low profile here?" He states.

Jasiri nods "You did something wrong, and you'll face the consequences." She said.

"I could get into some serious trouble for this! More so than any other time Jasiri!" Hayden said as the younger girl shrugged.

"Then it's your own fault. I'm sorry Hayden even though your my friend I can't hide you here." She says, and opens the door to flag down the police that were searching the area.

Before she could step out Hayden pulled her in, and out of anger at being betrayed as well as possibly being turned in Hayden pushed her to the wall slamming a fist next to her head "Fine I'll go, but if I hear sirens following after me then I'll know who ratted on me. If I hear whispers at school about anything like this then not even your friends will know what will happen." He warned and sneaks out the door.

As for Jasiri she slumped to the ground, and started sobbing wondering to herself why Hayden would act like this. It was this moment that Jasiri had decided that if Hayden were to threaten her like that then maybe they shouldn't be friends. She went to her room to comfort herself, and prepare herself for a field trip tomorrow as she and Angelica's class would be taking a field trip to Milky Way.

[Flashback End]

"Hey it's your turn now blockhead." JR said to getting his attention as it was his turn in the exercise they were doing.

As they were working on it Hayden glanced to her "Hey JR...umm...you know maybe you should let up on Kathy a bit. I mean she's just getting a handle on being a leader." He suggested as JR snorts.

"Then she needs to get a handle on it and fast. Then again I'm not surprised your trying to support her." She replied rolling her eyes as Hayden stopped.

"Excuse me? That suppose to mean something?" He asked her as JR shrugged.

"Nothing. You just seem to like weak minded girls who are easy to manipulate and bend to your will. You'll probably have her under your control in no time so it will be you we'll be following, and not her." JR says to him.

Hayden glared before smirking "Oh you mean like you and three years ago? If I recall you were a scared little girl in front of me." He said before he could stop himself as JR stiffens.

"Why you..." JR growled as that event had scared her, and the following months after her birthday things had gone severely downhill for her. She blamed her encounter with Hayden that night for everything that had followed.

"Hey you two! Stop the jabbering and get back to the exercises!" The gym teacher yelled at the two as JR just shot Hayden a glare as the two got back to the exercises.

Across the gym Kathy was with Kairi and Vic as she lets out a sigh seeing them looking ready to tear each other apart again "Hey you two have know them longer, and have gone to school her longer..." She states and both nod.

"Are they always like this?" Kathy then asked.

"Since I've come here yes they've been like this." Kairi said.

"Yeah. I've been coming here for almost five years now, and well...they actually use to be pretty good friends from what I heard." Vic said to her.

"What changed?" Kathy wondered aloud.

"No clue. Just know that when Hayden started becoming more of a troublemaker the two drifted apart. A few rumors say something happened three years ago that broke their friendship." Vic told her.

Kathy sighed shaking her head a bit, and she then headed out to grab a drink from the fountain. Her phone then beeped as she got a chat alert from a friend who checked out a lead on someone.

Sun Deity: Dead end on my part. If that person had been there then no one is speaking.

Blade Girl: It's okay. Thank you for your help anyways Miss Goddess.

Sun Deity: I said please not to call me that. It's already enough Tsukyomi calls me that as a joke.

Blade Girl: Right. Anyways I'm guessing your pretty dry on leads now?

Sun Deity: Yeah. At least in the town I'm in right now. If things keep going like this I may need to hop over and talk to a fellow detective and his friend.

Blade Girl: You know jumping dimensions is pretty hard, but well if anyone can do it now without putting a strain on things it's you.

Sun Deity: You know flattery will get you nowhere.

Blade Girl: Maybe, but it's true. Plus your also seeing a fellow rider so that's always a plus.

Sun Deity: Yeah. Well I better get going to my next job, and maybe a new lead. Talk to you later Kathy.

Kathy put her phone up, and prepared to head back to class when her watch went off alerting them to a disturbance.

"Seriously?" Kathy muttered, and ran out yet didn't get far as the ground shakes and the sky outside turns dark. Taking that as a turn for the worst Kathy ran out of the school the others soon to follow escaping the class.

=XROSSFORCE=

In the city the sky darkened and lightning poured out of the dark clouds as something was emerging from it. It looked to be a giant cybernetic skull that bore a white face and red eyes. The face and horns sticking out were primarily white while the rest was red and black as six thick long crimson wires with large blades for tips emerged from the sides.

"Okay. Who or what is that?" Vic said the rest in agreement, but Kathy could suddenly feel nothing except pure and utter anger at the floating skull like thing.

"Honestly I don't care. It's obviously an enemy so let's get right to it!" Kathy said as the rest not in agreement.

++XROSS LOCK!++

"Xross Up!" They all declared morphing, and almost instantly Vic and Kairi called their guns and started blasting at it.

"Let's get up somewhere high. We need to get on it if we're going to defeat it." Kathy said to Hayden and JR who glanced at each other before JR huffed.

"I'll find my own way on to it thank you." She says taking off before Kathy could stop her.

"Same. Don't need the rest thinking I'm manipulating you or anything." Hayden said and takes off as well.

Kathy groaned as she took off "Blue, Green going to need a little more time than might originally. Gold and Yellow took off on me." she spoke.

"We'll try. This thing has more than just those blades though. It's got some pretty impressive tech. We'll need to talk to Van about checking it out after we handle it." Vic said to her.

Kathy turned off her communication on her morpher and takes off running into the nearest building people were evacuating from "Excuse me! Pardon me!" She says running past people.

She eventually headed towards the stairs, and pulled on the door yet it was locked "...Okay plan B it is then." She says with a groan going to the elevator.

It eventually opened, and there was a group of people and kids in it, and she squeezed in "Uhh...hi? Don't mind me. Just need to get to the roof." She says and presses the button to take her up to the highest floor possible.

"Well I guess it could be worse." She thought heading up.

Meanwhile outside JR was trying to fly up towards the strange creature after having called on her wings and staff yet she had a problem. That being the fact that Hayden had grabbed hold of her legs, and was unintentionally slowing her down.

"Seriously can't you catch your own ride!" JR yelled in anger her flight pattern unsteady as she directed them towards a building.

"And let you hog all the action? Oh no way am I letting that happen!" He said as they crash landed on the building as the wings were damaged.

JR looked at them then to Hayden with a growl "Oh well thanks Hayden. Now we're both grounded!" She shouts.

"Well maybe if you weren't paying attention to me, and focused on flying us there then we wouldn't be!" He retorts.

"Well excuse me if I don't want a self centered idiot hitching a ride!" JR says voice cold glaring under her helmet.

Hayden was doing the same under his "Well with you it's probably better to do than ask. You know since you care about yourself more than others, and you just proved it saying that!" Hayden said.

"And you just proved my own statement right that your a self centered idiot! Didn't see you suggest that one of the others hitch a ride with me which would probably be better!" JR says hands clenched into fists.

Hayden growled then turned "You know what I got no time to argue with you about this. We've both probably got Red pretty steamed so if you want to throw a temper tantrum fine! I'm heading for that big headed robot." He says and run jumping to another rooftop looking to be going towards the construction site.

JR grit her teeth, and started jumping from rooftop to rooftop trying to get somewhere close enough to get on it and start attacking it.

As she did she saw Kathy was doing the same, and upon noticing JR she huffed "Was wondering where you went. You know you both could have stuck around to listen to my plan." Kathy said.

JR rolled her eyes under her helmet "Right. Whatever you say Red." She says.

Kathy's hands clenched and she takes in a breath before letting it out "Look. I get you and Yellow have issues, but if it's going to get in the way of saving the city and the civilians you got two options." She said to her.

"Oh? What would that be?" JR asked raising an eyebrow under her helmet.

"First you can both stuff the stupid pride of yours, and talk things out. Or second you and Yellow can both continue this behavior which will become a hindrance to the team, and have your morphers possibly taken." Kathy told her as JR stiffens.

"You wouldn't do that! You know these only work for us!" JR tells her.

"They work for you because you are a reincarnation of a being from Legend World. Neil is as well, and I'm pretty sure their may be more reincarnations about than Van let's on." Kathy says.

JR grit her teeth and Kathy sighed "Look I don't know your's and Yellow's history, but this...the two of you constantly clashing needs to stop. Talk things out, and see what you both can do. Things might not be as you once thought Gold." She says as the two finally got to a roof close enough to the floating skull.

The two jumped on it and Kathy summoned her weapon and started to bash away as JR tried to blast it. Neither were having any kind of effect, and the blasts from Vic and Kairi on the ground were barely making a dent.

Kathy cursed under her breath dismissing her weapon as she tapped her morpher the Xross Burner appearing in her open hand as did JR. The two tried to see if the energy flames affected it, but they were simply repelled off it.

"This is getting us nowhere." Kathy muttered as a shout was heard as Hayden goes flying through the air, and slams his fist into the face of the machine making it shake. The vibrations nearly shook Kathy and JR off as he got on.

"Hello ladies. Sorry took a bit." He says grinning under his helmet.

"What were you thinking! You nearly just knocked us off!" JR yells at him and Kathy grits her teeth and before the two could start arguing again she bashed their helmeted heads together.

"That's enough! Either focus on the fight or leave now! Got it?!" Kathy snapped at them, and both went silent.

"Red. Got some good news. Me and Neil finished some new Xross Gear, and it should be able to help out here." Judith's voice came out on the morpher.

"Send it over. Need all the help can get right now." Kathy says, and seconds later the new gear appeared in her hand.

What appeared in her hand was a slender white gun like weapon yet where the barrel would was was a slightly large silver metal tip and it was shaped like a top. Locked on to the top was a yellow Drive and there was a thick handle with a hand guard in front of it. The drive looked like it could be pulled back, and the front with the metal tip could be extended.

Not knowing what it does Kathy pointed it away, and pulled back the trigger as the metal tip spun and glows gathering energy from the drive as the yellow gold energy spun around it forming a energy like cone in the shape of a drill.

Kathy grinned and got an idea "I'm going to drill a few holes. When I give the signal I want the two of you to shoot it with the Blaster Xrossbow." She says as she starting drilling a large hole where she was.

She then moved making more holes as the two looked at one another as JR summoned the Blaster Xrossbow, and the two held it.

The two were silent, but both wanted to say something yet both were a bit nervous to say anything.

"Hey umm...after this..." Hayden said, and JR sighs.

"Yeah. We need to talk." She added on in understanding.

Hayden nods "Yeah. I...I really want to fix things between us." He muttered to himself as they waited for the signal from Kathy. Eventually they heard a sharp whistle.

"Blaster Xrossbow Fire!" The two pulled the trigger as the blast started an internal destruction, and the machine started falling to the ground. Luckily nothing was hit, and the three managed to keep themselves on, and were okay if not shaken up from the fall.

=XROSSFORCE=

Much later after school ended for the day the group was all gathered up in Hanger 3, and the training room currently was being used to deconstruct and anyalaze the strange machine. Yet there was a number of questions the group had as three of them had different reactions to seeing the machine.

"So find out anything in particular about this machine?" Vic asked as Judith came out, and she shakes her head.

"Besides it being made out of some pretty advance tech possibly stolen from Cray no." She told them.

Van and Neil came out next, and the group look to him "Hmm...someone is obviously sending a message. Especially with how this machine was designed." He says.

"Really? What's the design got to do with anything?" Vic asked.

Van sat down "...Seeing as Kathy is now here I think it's time I told you about one parallel world in particular. So please sit down." He told them as they all sat down including Neil.

"All the parallel worlds while separated are also connected. I've been to many of them when I was Drum. Though one of the greatest disasters to fall upon them before the emergence of Yamigedo was The Lost War." He continued.

All of them felt a 'tug' at there memories "The Lost War saw many known parallel worlds working together to fight against a world that has since lost it's name." Van told them.

Kathy thought about this as she recalled a creature in her mind "Their leader was gathering minus power making them stronger, but none knew why they sought this strength or why they started the war." Van kept going.

"So what happened to this unknown world?" Vic asked.

"Well several deities gathered, and upon discussion it was decided they would use their power to seal this world. Yet there was a big problem as their leader, and the most powerful creature of this unnamed world was a deity himself so he could easily unseal them." Van spoke.

"So someone was sealed with the deity..." Kathy then spoke as images flashed in her head as did Kairi, and JR.

Van nods "They needed someone who could fight him. Someone who's power could constantly evolve through combat." He said as each understood.

"Gargantua Dragon." Hayden says as Van nods.

"Garga and there deity Vanity would be locked in combat for years until both faded from existence as their bodies finally gave out." Van said as he could only really guess the last part and glanced towards the room the machine was in.

"That machine is based off Vanity Husk Destroyer at it's weakest. The deity of the Lost World." He finished.

"Wait. So are you trying to say what I think your trying to say?" Vic asked, and Van nods.

"Whoever made this machine knows of Vanity in great detail. They know his powers, his combat abilities, and everything else he can do. The only one who knows Vanity so well is well..." Van started.

"Vanity himself. Or in this case Vanity's reincarnation." Judith finished.

"..." The whole group was silent considering this as Kathy had a feeling she knew just exactly who Vanity was after.

"This...isn't over Garga...we both will be back...and when I come back I will be sure to make you feel my pain." The voice of Vanity echoed in Kathy's mind as she recalled the final worlds he had told her as Gargantua Dragon.

As the group dispersed and left JR went up to Hayden "Hey umm...want to come over to my house? Maybe we can...no. We have to talk, and I think my home might be a more comfortable place to talk." JR said.

Hayden cracked a smile "Sure. It's been a really long time." He said, and the two teleport out.

And that's a wrap for Episode 9 of Xross Force! They got a new weapon in their hands as the Xross Drill gave them just the hand they needed against Mecha Vanity. Speaking of which it seems like Vanity's reincarnation was perhaps the one to cause trouble this time around instead of the Hundred Demons Army. Yet are they working separately or are they perhaps working together? As for JR and Hayden our two look to be willing to try and make up for their rough past with one another. Well then until the next time I see you all this has been your friendly fanfiction author decode9!