Power Rangers Samurai vs. Ronin Warriors
Act 2: The Swordsman in White
An unconscious Sakura was carried into the house and placed comfortably on the dojo floor, while the others gathered in the living room. Everyone was eager to find out several things, amongst them: Who was this man? Why had he sent the letter? And why was it so important to keep her from transforming?
"Let's start at the beginning. Why did you send that letter to me, Mr. Tennomi?" Jayden asked. "And why are there no records of you when we checked?"
Lauren posed the question to Navcase in Japanese, who replied his answer back to her in Japanese, which Lauren then translated to the group in English.
"He says that there are no records of the Tennomi because he is the last one. How he's still alive and kicking is a story in itself. As for why he sent the letter, our clan, the Shiba, was vassals to his clan, the Tennomi. He's asking for our help along those lines for you and your vassals…" She indicated the other Samurai Rangers; "to help him with a problem that we are familiar with."
"The Nighlok." Jayden replied simply.
"The Nighlok?" I thought we took care of those guys?!" Mike exclaimed.
"Someone apparently decided to wake them up again." Lauren explained.
Navcase said something to Lauren, who replied to the others, "He says Moogers busted someone out of prison."
Everyone in the room gasped.
"Why would they do that?" Mia wondered.
"The Nighloks are more interested in causing harm to humans than breaking them out of jail last I checked." Kevin added.
"So how powerful is Sleeping Beauty?" Antonio asked.
"Shogun Mode powerful."
There was another gasp in shock.
"If she's that powerful, then why does she need us?" Mike asked.
"Because we have experience fighting the Nighlok, something she and her allies don't. Plus, if whomever the Nighloks broke out of prison is who they think it is, we'll need their help." Lauren explained.
"Who would that be?" Jayden asked.
"Someone who might be able to resurrect…"
Lauren's reply was cut off by the alarm going off. Ji rushed to the table, the surface of which became a map that indicated where a breach between the Netherworld and the human one was.
"Let's go, everyone. We might get some answers from the Nighloks." Jayden said.
Everyone except Ji, including Lauren and Navcase, raced outside, pulled out their Samuraizers, and drew the character for "horse" in the air, which turned into one. Everyone leaped on one, Navcase riding with Lauren, as they headed off to battle.
Arriving downtown dressed in their civilian clothes, they spotted a group of Moogers causing trouble, destroying property and threatening people as they ran away past the gathered heroes, who were clearly out of their minds in their opinion.
"Hey, Moogers!" Mike called out. This drew their attention.
"Long time no see!"
"Let's morph quickly, who knows what they may have done to them."
"Samuraizer, Go Go Samurai!" The group called, drawing their respective elemental kanji in front of them and then flicked it to turn it around, which then came back on to them as their Ranger suits came on. Antonio called out, "Samurai Morpher, Gold Power!" and then texted the kanji for "light."
""Red Samurai Ranger, Ready!" Jayden and Lauren called out.
"Blue Samurai Ranger, Ready!" Added Kevin.
"Pink Samurai Ranger, Ready!" Mia declared.
"Green Samurai Ranger, Ready!" Mike declared.
"Yellow Samurai Ranger, Ready!" Emily called out.
"Gold Samurai Ranger, Ready!" Antonio declared.
"Rangers Together," Jayden and Lauren declared.
"Samurai Forever!" They called in unison.
The Rangers charged down towards the Moogers with swords drawn; swords began to clash, and Moogers fell one by one. But whenever one fell, it seemed that two more took its place. Navcase had the endurance, as well as a rune katana and the sword he got from Rajei, but the foot soldiers would get up, or more would show up.
"Time for some crowd control." Jayden answered, removing a disc from his belt buckle, placing it on the hilt of his sword and spinning it. Doing this turned his Spin Sword into a giant red zanbatou.
"Fire Smasher!" He declared as he whipped the blade in a wide arc, knocking down many Moogers at a time. Lauren followed suit and joined her brother in the attack.
"Hydro Bow!" Kevin called out, leaping through the air and launching a flurry of arrows at even more Moogers.
"Forest Spear!" Mike added, bringing out his special weapon and taking it to the Moogers as well.
"Earth Slicer!" Emily called out, throwing her weapon towards a group of Moogers and cutting them down as well.
"Sky Fan!" Mia added, fighting her way through another horde.
Dozens upon dozens of the foot soldiers fell in a shower of sparks and exploded around the Rangers, only to reveal that Antonio, having a special weapon as his primary weapon, had not caused similar results.
"Hey, guys? A little help over here!"
Removing his cape, Navcase took off like a bullet, tearing into Antonio's problem and carving them up like sushi before his cape touched the ground.
"Hey, thanks, man." Antonio answered.
Navcase nodded in reply and headed to take out more Moogers.
"There's too many!" Emily cried out as she tried to stop even more, which seemed to come out of the dimensional gap faster than the Rangers and Navcase could dispatch them.
Moogers with rifles appeared and started to take pot shots at the gathered heroes, knocking them back in an explosion of sparks. Navcase managed to avoid it and came crashing down on top of them with one of his special techniques.
This bought Jayden enough time to switch his Fire Smasher into its cannon mode and for the five of them to load their discs into it. The combined Mojikara wiped out another large group of them, but every special attack they used was draining it rapidly.
If matters could not get any worse than they already were, Giant Moogers appeared next to attack the city.
"I'll handle them. You guys have your hands full with these guys." Lauren replied, producing the Black Box. Inserting a special disk, she was clad in a white overcoat that appeared over her Ranger suit. She then took the Black Box and attached it to her sword, and inserted another Disc that called in the BullZord which she then boarded to fight off the Giant Moogers.
Meanwhile, back on the ground, the remaining heroes still had a small army of Moogers to contend with in the meantime.
"Now what?" Mike asked.
"Sword Specials. Follow my lead." Jayden replied, adding his red disc to the bottom of his Spin Sword. The others followed suit.
"Blazing Strike!"
"Dragon Splash!"
"Forest Vortex!"
"Seismic Swing!"
"Airway!"
With several swings of their swords, even more Moogers were vaporized.
"Hrmm…they seem to have sure-kills like the Ronin…but not as powerful." Navcase thought to himself.
No sooner did these get destroyed, more showed up!
"MORE?!" Mike exclaimed in disbelief. "You've got to be kidding me!"
"Focus! We can beat them!" Jayden shouted in encouragement.
"We're running low on Symbol Power!" Emily reported.
"She's right! The more attacks we unleash, the weaker we get!" Kevin added.
"What about the other guy?" Antonio asked as he continued to chop down Moogers.
"I'll ask him." Mia said.
"Wait, you speak Japanese?" Emily said in disbelief.
"Yeah. I AM Japanese. What did you think I was?" Mia asked.
"I dunno half Korean half Chinese, something like that?" Mike surmised, only to be whacked upside the head by Emily.
Rolling her eyes under her helmet, Mia hurriedly explained the situation to Navcase and asked if he had anything else he could try since they were running out of power.
Navcase drew his wakizashi.
"Envelop, Kurosaki." He said to the blade. The blade of the sword seemed to be surrounded in murky blackness, and a similar cape appeared on his shoulders. He took a swipe with his sword, at which point the blade behaved more like a whip than a sword as it cleaved a bunch of Moogers down the middle.
"I wonder where he got that thing." Kevin wondered.
"Doesn't matter, he's taking care of business!" Mike exclaimed.
Out of the rift, along with more Moogers, came a monster with a large club.
"I don't remember that Nighlok…" Jayden commented.
It attacked, causing large red humanoids to appear on the male rangers, which immediately started crying and at the same time pinning them to the ground.
"What are these things?" Kevin wondered as he struggled under the weight.
Lauren, who had finished with the giants, came back down to the ground to observe the predicament.
"Aka-Oniko," Lauren concluded. "I read about these things. Guys, you need to make them happy again to lighten the load!"
"Easier said than done sis!" Jayden answered.
"I will handle this." Navcase explained.
He proceeded to go up to each one and made a funny face at them, which immediately got them to laugh, and the male Rangers could finally stand again.
"Don't let him use that club of his! That's how he makes them." Lauren explained.
"Consider it taken care of. Hiten Mitsurugi Ryuu…" Navcase answered, going into a stance, and then taking off so fast, he broke the sound barrier.
"KUZU RYU SEN!" Navcase declared, hitting the weapon with his sword with nine separate strikes that appeared to be all at the same time.
"MY WEAPON! CURSE YOU SWORDSMAN IN WHITE!" The monster shouted. "YOU'RE ALL FINISHED!"
"No, you're the one who's finished," Lauren answered, taking her fire disc and placing it in the Black Box.
"SUPER BLAZING STRIKE!" She called out, nailing the monster with a wave of fire that caused it to explode.
With this, the Red things vanished as suddenly as they appeared.
"Well, that's a relief." Mike replied, happy to be rid of it.
"No time to rest, time for round two." Jayden replied, pointing to the now giant monster.
"Let's not take any chances." Kevin advised.
To that end, all their Zords were summoned and combined into the Samurai Gigazord.
"Shogun Mode! Power of the Ancestors!" Lauren added, inserting the Shogun disc into her belt buckle and powering up even more.
Each Ranger pulled out their Samuraizer and proceeded to draw the kanji for each of their Zords. Where Lauren and Jayden shared Zords, they both drew the same kanji. All this calligraphy done, the Rangers called out, "Symbol Power! Ultimate Combination!" Firing a blast from the cannon on top of the Gigazord's head, this vaporized the monster in one blow.
"Samurai Rangers, Victory is ours." Jayden declared.
"Let's get home! I'm starving!" Mike shouted.
"Is Mia cooking dinner?" Lauren asked.
"Probably." Jayden answered hesitantly, not sure if Lauren remembered that Mia cooked actual food now and didn't just throw a ton of ingredients and Spin Sword-chopped veggies into a pan and pronounced it dinner.
"Well, I brought plenty of fish for her to use!" Antonio chimed in.
Navcase asked a question of Antonio, who of course had no clue what he was saying as they headed home.
"He wants to know if you know how to make sushi." Mia translated.
"Of course not! I'm a fisherman, not a sushi chef!"
Meanwhile, at the Airport…
"Are you sure this will work?" A young man dressed in red answered as they walked through the terminal.
"Of course my lord! This is a brilliant idea!" Replied a boy, who was wearing a blue coat.
A reddish-haired young man in a green coat was half walking with, half dragging a sleepy-headed young lady in yellow.
"Are you sure your 'student' is going to meet us at the airport?" He asked.
"Of course!" The boy in blue replied.
"Mako-san, what exactly did this man do for us again?" Another young girl asked the one in pink, who seemed very uncomfortable with the civilian clothes she was wearing.
"Ryu saved him from a monster, and he demanded that Ryu teach him the ways of the samurai…" a young lady in pink answered.
"SHISHO!" A man in a business suit shouted, holding a sign that read in Japanese "Ikenami Ryunosuke and Friends."
"MISTER BROWN! It's so good to see you again!" The boy in blue exclaimed, dropping his bags and heading towards the man.
"Takeru, are you all right?" The woman in pink asked the young man in Red.
"My…foot."
Apparently in his haste he had dropped his bags on his foot.
"TONO! I'M SO SORRY! I'LL DO ANYTHING YOU ASK TO REDEEM MYSELF!"
"That won't be necessary Ryunosuke…just get this bag off my foot…"
This brings this chapter to a close…