Power Rangers Samurai vs. Ronin Warriors
Chapter 10: The Magician with Pink Pants.
At Mr. Brown's, the other Shinkengers had come out of the house to see what had happened.
"Takeru, who's this guy?" Chiaki asked.
"He's a wizard!" Kotoha exclaimed.
"Like the Ozu?" Mako asked, referring to the Magirangers.
"Not quite. I use rings to perform magic. They draw their powers from creatures. Well, I do draw power from a creature, but it's a long story. I suppose I have enough mana for one little trick. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Haruto Souma."
Placing a ring with a handprint on his right hand, he placed his hand over a similar one on his belt buckle. It announced, "Driver On, Please!"
He then placed a red ring on his left hand, pushed a button to change the orientation of the hand on his belt, and scanned it, which announced, "Flame, Please! Hi Hi Hi-Hi-Hi!" Creating a magic seal that passed over him from right to left, turning him into a black suited man with a red helmet similar to the ring he was wearing.
"Also known as, Kamen Rider Wizard."
"Magic?" Kotoha asked, as if Haruto's transformation was lost on her.
"Yes." Haruto replied.
"For real?" Kotoha asked.
"Seriously, it's the real thing!" Haruto insisted.
"Then I guess it's SHOWTIME!" Chiaki exclaimed.
Haruto did not seem to like this joke, as he put on a yellow ring on his right hand and scanned it on his Driver, announcing "Big, Please!" creating a magic circle, which he stuck his hand through, making his arm gigantic, which he used to pick up Chiaki and drop him in the pool.
"Another Rider?" Ryunosuke wondered as he fished Chiaki out of the pool.
"Do you know someone named Kouta, Haruto-san?" Kotoha asked.
"Kouta Kazuraba? Yes. I met him in this strange Sengoku period where Riders were champions and there was one that would bow down to no one."
"Did you meet Ieyasu or anyone else?" Ryunosuke asked.
"I met that world's Ieyasu. Seeing that my Bujin counterpart served him, I offered to help out."
Back in the Netherworld…
"OCTOROO!" The man in orange bellowed, as Moogers rushed to bring him more sake to curb his anger. His anger also seemed to create more Moogers.
"Ooh-ah-oo! What can I do for you!?"
"There better be more Nighloks in that river, or I'm going to have calamari with my sake!"
Looking outside, there was still the gang of Grinders refining the Sanzu water into a gas to release on Corinth. With Cog out of commission, the man in orange figured Cog wouldn't mind if he used it for his own purposes.
"We still have that Sanzu Gas, correct?"
"Ooh-ah-ooh! That we do!"
"I'll have my associate whip up some kind of dispensing mechanism for it. Then I want you to dispatch Moogers throughout the city to key spots to place them. Although we'll need some kind of distraction or diversion to keep the Rangers busy while we set them up. The problem is I have no idea if we have any more Nighlok to utilize, and I'm not sure how willing Venjix will be to let him use his designs. We are also a long way off from me being powerful enough to bring back your boss and try and invade the Mortal World again. But fortunately, time is one thing we do have on our side."
Back in Panorama, a very visible Enter was busy looking for a place to cause trouble.
"I do not know why Majeste gave the Mademoiselle the day off, but I suppose I can cause trouble without her." He said to himself.
Spotting a power shovel, Enter attached his sticky pad to it swiped a card on his laptop and said, "Metavirus; kaziru; Install." The machine turned into the Shovelroid as it announced itself.
Meanwhile, after Kotoha had forced Haruto to show her what all his rings did, it occurred to the Shinkengers that all they'd fed him was donuts and letting Mako near a kitchen was the worst thing they could do, so they took him out to eat.
"So, Haruto, I know you're a Rider, but have you met any other Sentai members?" Chiaki asked.
"A few. There was this happy guy who insisted I call him King, there was a pirate who insisted that I give him my autograph…" Haruto began.
"Gai-san?" Kotoha asked, her eyes brightening.
"Yes, how'd you know?"
"We just bumped into him a while ago." Mako explained.
"Do you know the Go-Busters?" Kaoru asked.
"Yes." Haruto replied. "A little quirky with those weak points of theirs, but a good team nonetheless."
Suddenly Kaoru's Shoudouphone rang.
"The Energy Management Center? Why would they be calling? Hello, yes this is the Princess. Enertron spike? How can there be an Enertron spike here in Panorama? Yes, we'll try and look into it, but you should send the Go-Busters just in case."
"What was that all about Mother?" Takeru asked.
"That was Morishita-san from the Energy Management Center. He says there was an Enertron spike here in Panorama." She replied.
"But there's no Enertron here at all." Ryunosuke shouted in disbelief.
"That may be true, but Enter and Escape have been lurking around town lately. Are Hiromu and the others coming to look into it?" Takeru asked.
"Yes, but it will take them some time to get here, so anything we can do in the meantime would be great."
Back at the Center, the five Go-Busters stood before Kuroki's desk.
"As you may have heard, there was an Enertron spike detected in Panorama City. We know there are no towers there, so it has to be Vaglass. Nakamura, any sign of a Megazord?"
From her desk littered with figurines, the bespectacled Megazord tracker looked up from her screen towards the director.
"Not yet sir, wait! Megazord detected! Estimated time of arrival in Panorama…5 hours and 30 minutes!"
"Thank you Nakamura." Kuroki said, turning again to the Go-Busters.
"Your Special Mission: Go to Panorama City, destroy the Metaroid and Megazord."
"Roger!" They replied, making a thumbs up across their chests.
Hiromu hopped on Nick, while everyone else hopped into an EMC SUV and drove off to an EMC run airfield where a plane would take them to Panorama. Ryuji led the way due to Nick's terrible sense of direction.
Back in Panorama, with lunch hastily cut short and being the only ones who knew about Enter's actions so far, the Shinkengers and Haruto headed outside.
"Now, if I was a Metaroid, where would I be…?" Chiaki thought.
"That's a great strategy, but they come in all shapes and sizes." Mako reminded him.
"Well in general they terrorize the city, so all we need to do is look for a crowd of people running in terror…" Ryunosuke began.
As if on cue, a crowd of people running in terror from a shovel monster and some Buglars raced by!
"I think we found it." Haruto replied matter-of-factly.
"Our weapons are not so good against machines, so we will handle the Buglars. Haruto, can you deal with the monster?"
"I'll give it a shot."
Out came the Shodouphones, and Haruto engaged his WizarDriver and put it into standby mode as he donned a red ring and lowered its visor. The WizarDriver chanted Shabadoobi Touch Henshin as the Shinkengers called out "Ippitsu Shoujou!" And drew their kanji, at which point Haruto placed his left hand over the touch pad which announced, "Flame, Please! Hi Hi Hi-Hi-Hi!"
The Shinkengers went through their roll call and Takeru announced, "Going Forth!" As Haruto added, "Now, it's Showtime!"
Haruto placed the Psychic Lover Magic ring on his right hand, scanned it, and the Driver remarkably announced, "Very Nice! Psychic Lover! The Best!" A magical seal appeared, and the band emerged from it. Samurai Sentai Shinkenger began to be played as the Samurai began attacking the Buglars. Haruto launched into the Metaroid with a series of kicks, and then sword slashes after using his Connect Ring to bring forth his WizarSwordGun. He focused his ring's power and struck with flaming kicks, but it failed to make much of a dent in the Metaroid.
"Tough one, aren't you? Well, let's try this!" Haruto exclaimed, changing the ruby ring for a topaz ring and scanned it, causing the Driver to announce, "Land, Please! Dododo Dododon, Don Dododon!"
The Metaroid fired at Haruto, but he used his Defend Ring to put up a wall of stone to protect him, and returned fire with his gun, but the silver bullets meant for Phantoms had little effect against metal targets.
Kotoha, who was watching out of the corner of her eye, shouted to him, "Haruto-san! Use your green coat!"
"My green coat? Oh! My green coat!" Haruto exclaimed, confused by Kotoha's suggestion at first but finally getting what she meant. Donning an emerald ring and then scanning it, his Driver announced, "Hurricane, Dragon: Byu-Byu, Byu-Byu-Byu-Byu!"
Figuring that Kotoha wanted him to use Hurricane Dragon because electric attacks might work well against a mechanical enemy, Haruto scanned his Thunder ring, then held it out as a magic circle appeared and a green electrified dragon's head came out and struck the monster.
"The Finale!" Haruto proclaimed, scanning his Special ring. This caused dragon wings to appear out of his back, as he used the Thunder ring again, and then flew in circles around the Metaroid, nailing it with an electrically charged cyclone that was sure to destroy the machine. Haruto set down and dismissed his wings, sighing in relief as Shovelroid parts fell around him.
But to Haruto's surprised, it put itself back together again as it repeated "Shovelroid" over and over again until it was reassembled!
"Humph. You didn't learn your lesson, did you? I guess you need some more punishment!" Haruto said, activating his Land Dragon ring. He activated his Gravity ring, and slammed the Shovelroid into the ground a few times, and then donned his Special ring once again, summoning his claws, and launched into some powerful swipes which once again caused an explosion, but it again pulled itself together.
The Shinkengers meanwhile had destroyed the Buglars and noticed Haruto's trouble.
"What's wrong Haruto? I thought you Riders were supposed to be tougher than we are." Chiaki commented, only to get whacked upside the head by Mako.
"I'm not sure. Every time I take this guy out he gets back up again." Haruto explained.
Enter, noticing that the Buglars were gone, decided to dispatch some more to keep the Shinkengers busy, leaving Haruto with an annoyingly undefeatable Shovelroid.
"Okay, it's Drago Time!" Haruto declared, bringing out the Drago Timer and setting to the yellow spot. Pressing down on the thumb, it started ticking away as Land Dragon Haruto hacked away at it. As the timer reached each of the other colors, Haruto pressed the thumb again, calling in Flame, Water, and Hurricane versions of himself to help fight.
"Wow! There's four of him!" Kotoha exclaimed as she fought more Buglars, which for some reason Enter increased their number again. The Dragons summoned their Drago parts and struck with Dragon Formation, but it shrugged it off.
"This is not good." Haruto said to himself as a flurry of energy arrows and energy bullets struck the Shovelroid.
"Haruto! Long time no see!" Kouta exclaimed as he in Jimber Lemon and Micchi in Grape Arms showed up to help.
"Looks like you got some upgrades. Want to try hitting him together?" Haruto asked.
"Sure! This is our Stage now!" Kouta declared activating Kachidoki Arms while Micchi switched to Kiwi and Haruto went to All Dragon.
The Kachidoki Lockseed was attached to the DJ Gun, and Kouta let loose with the Kachidoki Charge, Micchi depressed the sword on his Driver three times and struck with the Arms itself, and Haruto finally hit with Strike Dragon, summoning a giant magic seal, striking the monster with mana dragons and then a powerful kick, hoping that this time the attacks would work. They did, for a short while, only for the same thing to happen again!
"That's not possible!" Kouta exclaimed.
"Welcome to my fight." Haruto explained.
"Only one thing left to try." Haruto said, reaching for his belt ring when energy bolts struck the Metaroid!
"Don't look at me, I didn't do it!" Kouta explained.
"Merde." Enter swore.
"Go-Busters? What are you doing here?" Haruto asked.
"We got word that someone made a Metaroid here. Looks like you found it." Ryuji answered.
"Yes, Kouta, Micchi and I have tried to destroy it several times, but it keeps reassembling itself." Haruto explained.
The five Go-Busters looked at themselves with worried looks. The core three aimed their Ichigan Blasters at the Shovelroid, turned the zoom to activate Special Buster, and opened fire, while Jin and J let loose with crossed slashes after Boosting Up for Buster. The Metaroid took the hits and reeled back, but was not destroyed.
"Just how many times did you destroy this thing?" Jin demanded to know.
"Four, I think." Haruto answered.
A call came through from the EMC and Hiromu answered it.
"Megazord's here!" Nakamura's voice answered from the other end.
"Jin-san, could you take care of it? We'll finish this guy off." Ryuji explained.
"No problem. J!"
"Right! Activating my Marker System!"
Out of the sub dimension came Jin and J's Buster Machines, which quickly joined up into Buster Hercules. Noting the bulkiness, Takeru and the Shinkengers decided to give them some backup and called in the Origami.
"Looks like it's going to take everything." Hiromu observed, as the three summoned their Custom Visors, attached them to the Morphin Braces, which announced, "Are You Ready?" Their Buddyroids replied that they were, they pressed both transformation buttons, which caused it to proclaim, "It's Morphin Time! Powered Custom!" And then Hiromu, Ryuji and Yoko called out "Powered Morphin!" And this summoned their battle armor.
Hiromu struck with his Volcanic Attack, creating a ring which he went through, becoming an energy cheetah and striking, while Ryuji's fist became one of Gorisaki's and he decked the Metaroid, followed up by a kick from Yoko. To make sure that this was the last time they faced the Metaroid, out came the Lio Attaché and it was combined with the Ichigan Buster, declaring, "It's Time for Buster!" And Hiromu fired, finishing it off for good.
"Enemy Down." Hiromu called back to the Center.
With the Shinkengers pinning the Shovelroid, Jin called out, "Hercules Crisis!" And he opened fire, destroying the Megazord as well.
"Shut…" Jin started to say, before J interrupted by saying, "Shutdown Complete!"
"J, I was going to say it!"
"Whew!" Haruto sighed.
"Mou! I'm hungry!" Yoko complained.
"It looks like there's a restaurant right there." Ryuji observed.
"But we just went there for lunch….never mind…" Mako said hopelessly as the Go-Busters, Shinkengers, and Haruto started to head in that direction, but Kouta's phone went off, and he and Micchi had to take a rain check.
"So, what are you guys going to do about Enter?" Takeru asked as they sat down.
"Well, it's too much for us to keep flying here and back every time he makes a Metaroid." Ryuji explained.
"The Go-Ongers are here in town. Maybe you could make some kind of Buster Soul with Renn and Hiroto so that they can take out Metaroids?" Mako suggested.
"That's an idea. I'll ask Gorisaki." Ryuji replied.
"Why don't you just loan us that briefcase gun?" Chiaki asked, after Mako whacked him upside the head for being a tad rude.
"We could do that." Jin thought.
"Jin-san! Then how are we going to take out Metaroids if Powered Custom isn't enough?"
"We're going to be here for a little while if I'm to help the Go-Ongers make Buster Souls." Jin answered. "Besides, I don't think they're going to break it."
"I will take responsibility for its safe return." Kaoru volunteered.
"See, it's settled. The Princess is pretty reliable. I just wish we could figure out what Enter's doing here." Jin said.
"It makes no sense. There's no Enertron here. I cannot think of one reason why Vaglass would want to take this city over." Ryuji mused.
"Maybe he followed us?" Yoko suggested.
"But he should have followed us back home afterwards." Hiromu pointed out.
"Oh! Enertron! I almost forgot about that!" Jin exclaimed.
"All our Machines, our Buddyroids, run on Enertron, and you just now remember that we should have brought more?" Hiromu asked.
"Hold on Hiromu, I know some friends of ours who can help with that." Yoko replied.
Later, on the Gokai Galleon, Gai was happily showing his latest autograph acquisition to Ahim and Don.
"It took me so long, but I finally got Gentaro Kisaragi's autograph!" Gai said proudly.
"Oh look! He even drew a little Chibi Fourze!" Ahim pointed out.
"What's that it's saying? 'Uchū Kitā?" Don wondered.
"He did the secret handshake and everything with me! Actually it's pronounced…" Gai explained, going into the proper stance and then exclaiming,
"UCHUU KITAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Gai was promptly hit in the face with a pillow.
"AH MOU! Some people are trying to sleep over here, dumbass!" Luka shouted, who was trying to take a nap, at least until Gai decided to do his best Gentaro impression. Just then, his Gokai Cellular rang and he answered it.
"Hello! This is Go…Gai." He started to say, and then getting the look of death by Luka convinced him to not use his sentai title with dramatic effect. "Oh, Yoko-chan! You want us to stop by the Energy Management Center to pick up some Enertron for you? I suppose we can do that, right Marvelous?"
Marvelous, sitting in his chair and overhearing Gai's side of the conversation rose with his trademark swagger and called to Navi.
"Bird! Set a course for the Energy Management Center."
This was greeted by a very angry Navi pecking away at him.
"Mou! Don't call me 'Bird'!"
"I can't believe Mai took our Drivers Micchi!" Kouta said in frustration.
"I'm sure she had a good reason, Kouta-san. You know she wants us to focus on the Finals."
"That may be true, but I think it's because she thinks Suiren and I are going out. We're not!"
Suddenly, both Beat Riders were struck by balls and disappeared…
This brings this Chapter to a close…