Power Rangers Samurai vs. Ronin Warriors
Act 12: The Monochromatic Space Riders.
Bones the Nighlok provided by Dash Master 48.
Another day dawned brightly in Panorama as the early birds amongst the Samurai were out and about with their morning routines. At Mr. Brown's the Shinkengers had also begun to rise to the sound and smells of cooking, which in their case was not a good thing, so they all rushed to the kitchen only to find Haruto in a chef's outfit making breakfast.
"Haruto-san, you can cook?" Kotoha asked.
"No, but I have a ring for that."
"Something smells good in here!" Kousuke exclaimed, poking his head into the kitchen. "Oh, hey Haruto. Ya using that ring I brought ya from Wajima-san?"
"Yes, I would put this one in the useful pile. " Haruto replied.
"It's much safer than letting Neesan cook," Chiaki replied, who as usual received a whack in the head.
Moaning was heard, as a pajama-clad and bleary-eyed Kaoru walked in.
"You all right Kaoru?" Mako asked.
"Not really. I didn't sleep well last night."
"Well, Kotoha and I are going out to the pool after breakfast, if you want to take a nap out there you're welcome to."
"That would be a good idea. Haruto-san?" Kaoru asked.
"Yes, Princess?" Haruto asked.
"Could you knock me out by the pool?" Kaoru asked.
"I'd be happy to," Haruto replied.
"EHHHHHHHH!?" Kotoha exclaimed wordlessly, as the wheels began turning in her head of a more sinister meaning behind Kaoru's request, such as him hitting her with a baseball bat.
"Kotoha, I think she means with his Sleep Ring," Mako explained. Kotoha breathed a sigh of relief.
Some time later, as Mako read through a cooking magazine and Kotoha borrowed Kaoru's iPod, the Princess herself, with the Lio Attaché by her side, snored away as the Sleep Ring worked its…well, magic.
"Hime-sama's really loud…" Kotoha commented.
"Haruto says it's a side effect of the magic," Mako explained.
All was going well poolside as Haruto, Takeru, and Ryu sparred to keep their skills up, Kousuke was headed back to the Mayonnaise Convention, while Chiaki kept the girls company, until the Lio Attaché announced that it had detected an Enertron Spike!
"I thought things were a little quiet," Mako said to herself as she brought out her Shoudouphone.
"Hey, Mako, who ya gonna call? The Go-Busters?" Chiaki replied.
Mako contemplated hitting him for his stupid joke, but Haruto called time on the sparring, activated his Excite Ring, and threw Chiaki in the pool.
Inside the Ginjiro, Jin's phone began to ring, but before he could get to it, J answered it.
"Hello. This is Beet J Stag. By the way, the 'J' stands for…" he began to say before Jin took it back.
"Hi, this is Jin. What's up?" He asked.
"Jin-san, that briefcase you gave us says there's an Enertron spike, but we don't know where it is," Mako explained.
"I'll give Kuro-rin a call and have him figure out where it is, plus how long it'll be before a Megazord shows up. Don't worry your kanji-covered heads; we'll take care of it." Jin replied before hanging up.
At the Team Gaim suite, Kouta was up to no good.
"Kouta-san, I don't think this is such a good idea…" Micchi replied nervously.
"We're fine; all the girls are down at the pool. That's plenty of time for me to find our Drivers." Kouta replied.
"That's true Kouta-san, but I don't think Mai-san will appreciate you going through her drawers," Micchi answered.
Kouta began to deliberately but carefully go through Mai's clothing, including her underwear drawer before he exclaimed with happiness.
"You find them?" Micchi asked.
"No, I found something else, though."
"Um, Kouta-san, now might not be the right time to share it…" Micchi said carefully.
"C'mon Micchi, even you'd be surprised to find out Mai's a size…she's right behind me isn't she."
Kouta turned around nervously to find Mai with her arms crossed, looking very angry, and finding Kouta red handed with one of her bras in his hand.
"KOUTA!" Mai shouted so loudly the entire city heard it, and the two Beat Riders ran for their lives in hopes that getting as far from Mai as possible would extend them.
Just when they thought they were far enough away, beams of energy hit both of them…
Back at the Shiba House, the Gap alarm went off as the Samurai, She-Ronin, and Seishi gathered around the table.
"This is very strange. There are two breaches." Ji explained.
"Maybe there's two Nighloks at once?" Kevin suggested.
"It's possible, but probably very unlikely," Ji explained.
"One might be a diversion to get us to split up," Lauren interjected.
"With Navcase, Sakura, and Suiren, that brings us up to an even ten versus just seven, but it could be a trap as well," Jayden said.
"Sakura, you mentioned the Shinkenger before. Could they take one of the contacts while Jayden and the others take the other?" Ji asked.
"Worth a shot. The three of us can stay here until we have a clearer picture, and then put more muscle behind whichever group finds the Nighlok." Sakura said.
"Let's go for it," Jayden replied.
Back at Mr. Brown's, Mako had just started to doze off when her phone rang again.
"Hello…? Oh, hi Sakura. There's a pair of breaches, and you want us to check out one of them?"
Takeru came over to listen in.
"Takeru, the Samurai are tracking two breaches, and they want us to go after one," Mako explained.
"Ask them which one they want us to take, and we will go forth."
"But what about Hime-sama?" Kotoha asked, pointing to Kaoru.
"I'll stay here with Sleepin' Beauty until she wakes up, then we'll come join ya." Kousuke volunteered.
"We'll call Genta on the way," Takeru explained.
Meanwhile, at the Ginjiro, BOMPER started to exclaim that she'd detected something crossing over!
"Gaiark? I thought we destroyed all of them?" Renn exclaimed.
"Bom Bom! I don't think it's Gaiark, but the signature is very similar."
"We should investigate," Hiroto suggested.
"Bom Bom! I've got another one!"
"We'll have to split up." Renn mused.
"I'll take Miu and go after one of them if you and the other Go-Ongers take the other."
"Are you two going to be fine going into the unknown all by yourself?" Renn asked.
"I hate to admit it, but you're right. Let's call that Wizard fellow; maybe he can get those other Riders to back us up."
As the Bosozoku Sentai Shinkenger sped off for the coordinates Sakura had passed along, Haruto's phone rang.
"Hiroto? Yes, this is Haruto; sure I'll give Gaim and Ryugen a call and get back to you."
Haruto dialed Kouta's number, but to no avail. He called Hiroto back with a plan B.
"Hiroto, it's Haruto again. I couldn't reach them, but there are two other guys I know who might help. Just be warned, one of them's kind of crazy."
Arriving on the scene and putting away/dismissing their bikes, Haruto and the others spotted lots of Moogers, but apparently no Nighlok.
"Well, looks like we got the short end of the stick," Chiaki complained.
"It still looks like there's a lot of Nanashi Renjuu down there," Ryunosuke observed.
"Mako, Kotoha, please lead the civilians away first and then come join us," Takeru instructed.
"Kotoha, pick a color, red, blue, green, or yellow," Haruto asked.
"Ehh?" Kotoha asked.
"Just pick one!" Haruto insisted.
"Umm…Green?" Kotoha answered.
"Green it is!" Haruto exclaimed.
Haruto activated his driver, and then flipped the hand to the left, while the Shinkengers pulled out their Shodouphones.
"Ippitsu Shoujou!" The Shinkengers shouted, drawing their respective kanji and then flipping them with a whack of their hands, transforming them.
"Henshin!" Haruto exclaimed, flipping the faceplate on his ring down and then scanned it on his Driver, which announced, "Hurricane…Please! Fu-Fu Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu-Fu!"
"Shinken Red, Shiba Takeru."
"The Same! Blue! Ikenami Ryunosuke!"
"The same! Pink! Shiraishi Mako!"
"The Same! Green! Tani Chiaki!"
"The Same! Yellow! Hanaori Kotoha!"
"The…Same…huff puff…Gold! Umemori Genta!" He shouted as he got there just in time for roll call.
"Kamen Rider Wizard! Souma Haruto!" He shouted, getting into the spirit.
"The Samurai Sentai authorized by Providence!" Takeru shouted.
"Shinkenger!" The vassals finished.
"Going Forth!" Takeru declared.
"Now, it's Showtime!" Haruto added.
The Shinkengers and Haruto charged the Moogers with Shinkenmaru drawn and silver bullets flying while the Shinken Girls led the civilians to safety.
Meanwhile, the Samurai had arrived at their coordinates, the good news was they found a Nighlok, the bad news was there flesh colored puddles on the ground.
"Um, Jay? You're probably not going to believe me, but I think those might have been people."
"Ew! Gross!" Emily exclaimed.
"You can say that again," Mia replied.
"Right you are Ranger! My beams take people's bones away, turning them into puddles! You're next!" The skeletal monster declared.
"We'll take a rain check on that," Jayden answered.
The Samurai transformed and charged the Nighlok and his Mooger friends.
Elsewhere in town, Sousuke and the Go-Ongers snuck up on a group of Grinders which seemed to be patrolling around some kind of tank.
"What do you think Renn?" Sousuke asked.
"Whatever they're guarding, it can't be good. We should destroy it." Renn suggested.
"Good idea."
"Um, guys?" Saki asked.
The boys turned around to find out that they'd been found out by the Grinders! Out came the Mantan Rods and the fight was on…
Finally, the Go-On Wings reached their destination, sneaking in a bit more carefully than the Go-Ongers, but Miu accidentally sneezed during the infiltration, attracting the Grinders' attention.
"Sorry Ani." Miu apologized.
"It's okay, Miu."
Hiroto flipped the first switch on the Rocket Dagger, which declared, "Mission One" and emitted a blast of flame that took down a group of Grinders, but there were plenty more where that came from.
Miu flipped the second switch on hers, which declared, "Mission Two" and fired a mist that froze a group, which was followed up by the announcement of "Mission Four" from Hiroto's who slashed and finished them off. But again, there were many more where that came from. Being that they were machines, both of them activated Mission Three and slashed with their Lightning Daggers, taking out a bunch more.
"Ani, our partners," Miu suggested.
The two used Mission Six to rocket themselves a safe distance away and were ready to open fire with Jetras and Toripter when they heard…
"RIDER DOUBLE ROCKET DRLL KICK!"
The two Wings watched as an orange blur flew down and slammed into a group of Grinders!
A blue ball of light landed nearby and turned into a warrior in a black suit, wearing a blue helmet with a bad cowlick. He flipped a switch on his gauntlet, and then placed his finger in a groove on it, which caused the gauntlet to proclaim, "Saturn! Okay, Saturn!" He then sent Saturn-shaped projectiles flying at more of the Grinders.
The blue and black warrior, along with another man in a white spacesuit with a space shuttle for a head headed over to the now-shocked Wings.
"Yo! We're Haruto's buds." The white one explained.
"Ani, we forgot something!"
"Oh right." Hiroto suddenly remembered.
The four gathered struck poses.
"Break The Limit. Go-On Gold!"
"Sparkling World! Go-On Silver!"
"UCHUU KITAAAAAAAAA! Kamen Rider Fourze! Let's settle this once and for all!" The white spaceman declared as he tucked his limbs in, and then exploded outward to form an x with his body.
"Kamen Rider Meteor! I will decide your fate!" His companion declared.
"Go -On Wings!" The two called, doing a back flip and then landing. "Take Off!"
After the two had landed, Fourze extended his hand to both Wings and performed his trademark handshake with them.
"There, now we're buds too. Let's go get these guys!" Fourze declared.
Meteor charged in, exclaiming "Hwacha!" As he tore into the Grinders, Hiroto followed his lead, using Mission Three.
"That's right, Electricity!" Fourze exclaimed, inserting his Elec Switch and switching it on, turning his body gold and giving him a rod. He began whacking the Grinders with it, only to notice Miu had gotten into some trouble.
"Hey, Silver Lady! Get clear!" Fourze exclaimed, as Miu went skyward and Fourze activated his Launcher Switch, firing missiles into the Grinders.
"Hey, Gold Guy! You want me to break that thing?" Fourze asked.
"Find out what's in it first!" Hiroto called back as he continued to fight the Grinder threat with Meteor.
Fourze activated his Camera Switch to take a closer look at the situation.
"Yo! Gold Guy!"
"My name is Hiroto! Stop calling me Gold Guy!" He shot back.
"There's some kind of gas in here!" Fourze explained.
"I wouldn't break it. Can you get it out of here?"
"Of course!"
Fourze activated his S-1 Switch, turning him into Rocket States, and then got underneath it and blasted off, ripping the tank from its moorings and blasted it skyward into space. Once there, he used his Stamper Switch to place the Space Kamen Rider Club Logo on it, and then hightailed it away and back to Earth as it exploded fifteen seconds later.
"Let's finish these guys off!" Fourze exclaimed, breaking out the big guns and activating Magnet States. Meteor used the Meteor Storm Switch.
"Kamen Rider Meteor Storm! My fate will deliver a storm!" He declared.
"Wing Booster! Attention!" The Wings declared.
Meteor Storm released the fan blade on top of his weapon, and initiated the Meteor Storm Punisher, while Fourze removed the cannons from his shoulders, combining them into a giant magnet, then flipping a cover and pushing a button, causing the cannons to charge up.
"Rider Super Electromagnetic Bomber!" Fourze declared, firing off the cannons, which struck the Grinders and being machines, enveloped them, and then compressed them until they imploded.
This was followed up by the Wings firing their partner spirits at the remaining Grinders, finishing them off.
"Go-On Wings! Touch Down!" Hiroto and Miu declared as Fourze and Meteor Storm struck poses.
Back with the Shinkengers and Haruto, Moogers were dropping very quickly between the seven of them. Elemental Sword Dances were taking out groups at a time, and Hurricane Slashes from Haruto were dealing with more.
"Let's end this. Rekka Daizantou, Ozutsu Mode!" Takeru declared, readying the launcher. Elemental discs were loaded.
"I'll go first!" Haruto said, scanning his Kick Strike Ring.
Going into a series of flips as he approached, he went skyward and delivered a literal Hurricane Kick to a group of them. Genta charged in at another group and carved them up with Hyakumai Oroshi. The other Shinkengers finally fired off the Kabuto Gorindan, finishing off the Moogers.
"Whew!" Haruto sighed.
"Don't relax just yet Haruto; it looks like there are more of them." Mako pointed out, as more Moogers emerged through the gap between worlds.
"Haruto, what's your friend's number, just in case…" Takeru asked.
Just then, the Wings received a call from their Go-Onger counterparts, just as Fourze received a call from Takeru!
"Sure, we're done here. We're on our way." Hiroto replied. "Miu, get the Engine Casts."
The briefcase was summoned, and Hiroto reached for Toripter when Miu suggested that it might be safer with Hiromu around for both of them to take Jetras to the Go-Ongers.
"Yo! You're a bud of Haruto's? We'll have to shake hands then, but we'll help you out first!"
Meteor turned back into a ball of light and flew off, while Fourze went back to Rocket States and blasted off.
"You do know where we're going, right?" Meteor asked Fourze.
"Nope! I forgot to find that out!"
Meteor sighed and contacted Gavan's ship to ask for directions.
At a fresh fruit café in Zawame City, a man in a Hawaiian shirt was running around like a madman trying to fill orders and serve his customers. At the same time, he was wondering why his two best employees had to be at a dance completion, and the only remaining one was more interested in her phone and taking breaks than helping customers.
In a back room, Enter was busy meeting with several people. One was wearing a bowler hat, another in a business suit, another in a lab coat, and a fourth in a very fancy outfit.
"I've called you all here for a similar reason. The city of Panorama has a significant Rider problem, and I would like you to help me deal with it." Enter explained.
"Sure, we could help you out, but what's in it for us?" The man in the bowler asked.
"Well, one of the Riders does have a Driver that runs on magic…"
The man in the lab coat's eyes brightened as if Christmas had come early this year.
"A Driver, that runs on magic? I would love the opportunity to take that apart!"
"There are also a pair of demigoddesses that are working with the Riders. " Enter explained.
"Demigoddesses? Hrm….this would be an excellent opportunity to test my skills. And after I'm finished with them, Professor Ryouma can dissect them." The woman mused.
"Also, I keep running into this orange samurai…"
At this comment, the man in the fancy outfit spoke up.
"Kazuraba's there? Okay, I'm in."
"Well if everyone else is going, I might as well tag along." The man in the bowler replied.
"Merci. This should make things in Panorama much more interesting. " Enter said with a smile.
Elsewhere in the city, Hiromu, Ryuji, and Yoko were searching for the Metaroid based on Morishita-san's coordinates. Hiromu was on Nick hoping to cover ground faster, while the other two were on foot.
"Yoko, anything?" Hiromu said into his Morphin Brace.
"No, not yet. You find it?" Yoko asked.
"Negative. But it has to be around here somewhere. Ryuji, you find it?" Hiromu asked.
"Still searching, no luck yet." He replied.
Unfortunately, blocking his path was an old pal.
"Hello, Blue Buster. Up for a spar?" Escape asked.
"I don't have time to play with you," Ryuji replied, bringing out his Powered Custom visor and attaching it to the Morphin Brace.
"Are you Ready?" It called out. Gorisaki checked in with an okay, so Ryuji pushed both transformation buttons, causing the Brace to declare, "It's Morphin Time! Powered Custom!"
"Powered Morphin!" Ryuji shouted, going into Powered Custom.
Elsewhere in the city, Yoko bumped into Hiromu, who had gone into statue mode. Nick was currently trying to get him to snap out of it. Unfortunately, the street Hiromu was on had a chicken restaurant with a giant neon chicken out front.
"Hey, Hiromu! Snap out of it!" Nick pleaded.
"Mou! Not now!" Yoko complained as she had a visual on the nearby Metaroid. This one was red in color and had a flamethrower equipped.
"Only one way for me to handle this by myself." Yoko thought aloud as she went Powered Custom herself.
Meanwhile, the Shinkengers minus Kaoru were still at work trying to stop the massive amount of Moogers trying to destroy them. They had cleared the second wave that had come out of the gap between worlds by using their special weapons with some help from Haruto, but a third wave had shown up.
"How's everyone's Mojikara?" Takeru asked.
"I'm okay, my lord!" Ryunosuke replied.
"I'm still in it," Mako added.
"It'll take more than that to take me out of this fight!" Chiaki declared.
"I'm good Tono-sama!" Kotoha exclaimed.
"I'm okay too Take-chan!" Genta finished.
"Haruto?"
"I'm good, Takeru."
"What I would like to know is why Mother has not shown up yet…" Takeru wondered.
Back at Mr. Brown's, the effects of Haruto's Sleep Ring had finally worn off, and Kaoru had started to wake up. Feeling refreshed, she looked around expecting to find her companions, but they had apparently left to go fight presumably. In the chair next to her, Kousuke had apparently gotten bored waiting for Kaoru to wake up and had fallen asleep himself. It was true that he probably knew where the others were, but Kaoru felt like having a little fun with him before she woke him up. Out came the brush tip as Kaoru eyed the sleeping Kousuke with a smirk…
Meanwhile, at the other Sanzu Gas dispenser, the Go-Ongers were busy trying to take out Grinders, or as they referred to them, Ugatz. With a Mantan Gun in one hand and his Road Saber in the other, Sousuke was doing his best to whittle down the horde.
"Cover us!" Gunpei called out as he and Hanto brought their weapons together. While Saki used her Racing Bullet to annoy the robots temporarily, Birca's spirit charged out from their team cannon, shouting in Italian and wiping out a bunch.
Sousuke brought out the Kankan Bar in the hopes that they could get rid of more, but Renn cautioned, "Sousuke, wait! It hasn't been working right lately!"
"What do you mean?"
"You'll just have to see for yourself."
Wondering what could be wrong, he loaded the Ancient Engine Souls into both his Mantan Gun and the Kankan Bar and combined them, aimed them at a group of Grinders, and fired. Instead of the spirits of the Ancient Engines, the spirits of a certain train powered by imagination came out. On board, Sentai people in blue, green, yellow and pink were waving, and a certain red-suited man with an engineer hat was sticking his head out the window of the locomotive, declaring, "I can see…your last stop!"
"I see what you mean," Sousuke replied after the spectacle was over. "Shouldn't those guys be kids again by now?"
"Renn, what's in this thing?" Saki asked as she took down a few more Grinders.
"Whatever it is, it can't be good. But we have to stop these guys first before we can even think about destroying it."
Unfortunately for Renn's plan, more Grinders appeared!
"What do we do now?" Saki asked.
Missiles hit the Grinders, as Hiroto and Miu showed up to help.
"Don't break that thing. It's full of gas made from Sanzu Water. " Hiroto explained. "There's too many Ugatz here. We won't be able to take them all out, even with us helping."
"But what can we do to get away?" Sousuke asked.
"Easy. Sousuke, Renn, and Saki form their cannon and fire and then withdraw after Gunpei and Hanto fire theirs. After they fire, we will fire our Wing Boosters and then flee as well."
Cannons were formed, Engine Souls were loaded, Bus-On, followed by Carrigator, and then Toripter and Jum-Bowhale fired off, and the Go-Ongers and Wings withdrew back to the Ginjiro. Miu reminded the depressed Go-Ongers that at least one of them was destroyed, and they would have to replace it if they wanted whatever plan they had to work.
Luckily back with the Metaroid, Hiromu had managed to snap out of it and was helping Yoko deal with the Burneroid.
"We faced this guy before. He should be no trouble for us." Hiromu replied.
"That was before; this is now," Yoko replied, going skyward and then unleashing a series of kicks onto it, which sent it reeling back.
Hiromu formed his Ichigan Buster and turned the zoom, causing it to declare, "It's Time for Special Buster" which finished it off.
"It's so much easier when other people don't interfere with Metaroids before we get there," Hiromu commented.
"Hiromu! Haruto and Kouta were just trying to help!" Nick said in their defense.
Just then a call came through on their Braces.
"Help! Ryuji's fighting Escape and he's getting close to overheating!" Gorisaki wailed.
"We're on our way," Hiromu replied, hopping on Nick with Yoko and speeding off.
Elsewhere, the seven Samurai Rangers had their hands full with Bones, as they dodged his beams which had turned civilians, as well as two Beat Riders, into flesh puddles. Trying to dodge beams, attack the monster, and keep the pesky Moogers at bay was a tall order. Jayden's plan was to have Kevin use the Shark Disc for some extra punch and have him, Mike, Emily, and Mia concentrate on the Moogers, while he used the Black Box, Lauren used Shogun Mode, and with Antonio's help, concentrated on the monster. So far, that seemed to be working, as the Mooger ranks were thinning and reinforcements seemed to be decreasing (when in reality, they were being thrown behind the effort to destroy the Shinkengers)
"Let's finish this guy!" Jayden declared, as he brought out the Bullzooka and attached his Spin Sword equipped with the Black Box to it to make it the Super Bullzooka. Lauren meanwhile readied Fire Smasher Cannon Mode as Antonio struck with a Barracuda Bite to buy the others time to get ready. The attacks were unleashed, Bones went down, and the civilians returned to normal. Of course, that meant it was time for the second life. The Samurai Megazord, Claw Battlezord, and Bull Megazord were brought out, and the giant robot fight was on.
As giant robots and giant skeletons stomped around, an astronomical number of Moogers had forced the Shinkengers to resort to their special weapon attacks, which drained Mojikara more than just attacking with them.
"Take a breather, guys. I'm going to tag in and give you a chance to try and recover." Haruto explained. A blonde man, a four-member male band, and a bunch of girls with Drivers on their waists had all shown up.
"Flame...Dragon! Bou Bou Bou Bou Bou!" The WizarDriver announced as Haruto went into Flame Dragon. He then used his Connect Ring to bring in the Drago Timer, which announced, "Drago Time!" As he attached it to his forearm, and then "Set Up!" As he turned it to the red portion of the wheel, and finally, "Start!", as he depressed the thumb, starting the countdown.
"Now, it's Sho-Time!" Haruto declared.
"Ehh?" Kotoha exclaimed. "I thought you already said that Haruto-san?"
"He did, little lady! What he means is…Maji ka? Maji de? Maji da Showtime!" The blonde man explained, breaking into Haruto's theme song.
Fired up by Sho from Golden Bomber, Haruto tore into the Moogers, depressing the thumb three more times as the color wheel ticked around to summon Water Dragon, Hurricane Dragon, and Land Dragon.
"Chōīne! Blizzard! Saikō!" Water Dragon's Driver declared as he froze a bunch of Moogers, as Land Dragon with his Drago Hell Claws equipped slashed them away. Hurricane Dragon used his Thunder Ring to vaporize another group of Moogers and then used his Copy Ring to give himself another WizarSwordGun.
"Wow! Look at the Haruto go!" Kotoha exclaimed.
"Only the Red one is Haruto, Kotoha," Mako exclaimed.
The Drago Timer announced "Final Time!" and the other three Dragons summoned their Drago parts and unleashed Dragon Four-mation on the Moogers, hitting them with fire breath, hurricanes, a whack of the Drago Tail, and swipes from the Drago Hell Claws.
Haruto let out another sigh as hopefully, this was it for the Moogers. But that was before Enter appeared, with several Armored Riders flanking him.
"Enter?!" Takeru exclaimed in disbelief. "Why aren't you fighting the Busters?" He asked.
"The Mademoiselle is busy with them right now. But perhaps you can entertain my friends here."
"Kazuraba's not here. I'm sitting this one out." The Banana-themed Armored Rider declared, walking off, presumably to find Kouta and take him out.
"Ooh! The one with the Magic Driver! Marika, you amuse yourself with the spandex people. The Ring Mage is mine." The one with the Lemon Energy Lockseed declared.
"Aw man, you took all the good targets!" The Cherry themed Armored Rider complained.
Haruto spun the wheel on the Drago Timer around for a second Final Time, and then scanned it on his Driver, as he went into All Dragon and flew towards Duke.
Takeru wasted no time going into Super Shinken Red and heading for Marika to protect his vassals. Genta tried to deal with Sigurd by himself, but he was beaten back.
"This guy is tough!' Genta exclaimed.
To keep the vassals occupied, Enter sent some Buglars in. Still tired, and the Mojikara still recovering, they did their best. Genta joined the fight against the Buglars as well, while Takeru attempted to hold off Marika.
"Look Mako-san! A meteor!" Kotoha exclaimed, forgetting she was in the middle of a battle and pointed to the sky.
"Kotoha! Focus! There's no way you could see a meteor during the day!" Mako told her.
"But I did see a meteor!" She insisted.
"A meteor? That must mean…" Haruto said as he fought with Duke.
A blue ball of energy landed, as Kamen Rider Meteor arrived on the scene, used Saturn again and gave Marika something to think about.
"What took you so long?" Haruto asked.
"Gentaro got lost. We had to call Shelly for directions." Meteor explained.
"You know Shelly?! She's my space twin!" Kotoha explained.
As everyone tried to make sense of what Kotoha just said, a cry of "RIDER DOUBLE ROCKET PUNCH!" was heard.
Fourze arrived and crashed into the Buglars, causing them to explode.
"Are you aliens?" Kotoha asked.
"No, we're Riders! I'm Fourze, and this is Meteor! We're Haruto's buds!" Fourze explained.
"Haruto-san, you have friends in space?"
"No Kotoha, they're from Earth! They just look like aliens!" Haruto explained, while at the same time trying to fend off Duke. He used Strike Dragon on him, but it was not enough. Haruto tried to scan his Infinity Ring, but he did not have enough mana to activate it.
"Oh, Shit," Haruto swore.
"Ah, so your Driver runs on magic from its wearer! This is interesting!" Duke exclaimed as he readied his Sonic Arrow to shish kabob poor Haruto when a motorcycle revving was heard, Kousuke leaped off of it and tackled Haruto to the ground as the shot missed. Kaoru screeched to a stop and rushed over to help Genta and the other Shinkengers.
"Mayonnaise! It's about time you got here! What happened to your face?" Haruto asked, as there were all sorts of drawings on Kousuke's face. Mako and Kotoha started to giggle.
"Hey, Kaoru? You do that? Gimme five Princess!" Chiaki exclaimed as he high-fived Kaoru for her prank on Kousuke.
Haruto powered down to basic Flame, which was all he had mana for.
"I'll help Ryunosuke and the others. I'm low on mana; can you take care of this guy for me?" Haruto asked.
"Hey! RIDER CHIPS is here! Sure I will, even though I can't eat these guys, I'm itching for a fight after my nap!"
Haruto and the others decided not to pry as Kousuke changed into Beast.
"Um, it's…um…I got it! Butt Kicking Time!" Kousuke declared, bringing out the Dice Saber and charging at Duke as RIDER CHIPS broke into BEASTBITE.
"Hey! Cherry Guy! Let's settle this man to man!" Fourze declared as he headed for Sigurd, turning gold as he assumed Elec States.
Takeru received a call from Jin, telling them the Megazord had arrived, but they had to go back up Hiromu and the others against Escape. In the meantime, could they stall the Megazord until they could deal with it?
"Go. I'll deal with her." Meteor said as he charged at Marika.
"We will try." Takeru declared, as he boarded the Ushii Origami, Kaoru went with the vassals in Shinken-Oh, and Genta called in Ebi and joined up with Shinken-Oh to form Daikai Shinken-Oh.
"I suppose I'll go see how the Mademoiselle is doing…" Enter said to himself as he teleported away.
Hiromu and Yoko arrived on the scene just in time. Ryuji was not quite full berserk yet, but he was getting very irritated with Escape as she laughed while dodging his attacks. Ryuji responded by throwing a chunk of pavement at her and shouted like a madman.
"He's gone berserk. Yoko, can you try to get him near a hydrant or some other water source to cool him down? I'll try and keep Escape busy." Hiromu asked.
"I'll try," Yoko replied.
Hiromu brought out his Powered Custom visor as well and powered up, and then, with Sougan Blade in one hand and Ichigan Buster in the other, he charged Escape while Yoko tried to get Ryuji to go the other way. Due to his current berserk state, he knocked Yoko away, but fortunately, she was caught by a just arriving Jin and J.
"What took you guys so long?" She asked.
"We had to use the subway," J explained.
"How's he doing?" Jin asked.
"He's going crazy, but he's not critical yet," Yoko explained.
"Well, that cooling system I installed on Gorisaki is doing its job. But it won't keep him cooler for long. We've got to get him cooled down right away."
A berserk Ryuji was going after Escape, and even trying to destroy Hiromu because he got in the way. Jin spotted a water fountain nearby that just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
"I've got an idea. Can you two try and help Hiromu with Escape while I distract Ryuji?" Jin asked.
"We will do our best," J said, answering for both him and Yoko before she could answer herself.
"Hey! Ryuji-chan! Your robot designs suck!" Jin called teasingly.
This somehow got Ryuji's attention, who then charged like, well, a madman towards Jin and the water fountain.
"Is he nuts?" Hiromu asked.
Just before Ryuji could strike Jin, he flipped over his head and kicked Ryuji into the fountain, causing a geyser of steam to shoot into the air and Ryuji to regain his senses.
"Jin-san, are my robot designs really that bad?" Ryuji asked his mentor.
"Good to have you back, Ryuji. Now let's finish this chick off."
The five Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters lined up.
"Red Buster!"
"Blue Buster!"
"Yellow Buster!"
"Beet Buster!"
"Stag Buster!"
"Busters Ready? Go!" Hiromu declared, as they charged, activating their finishers as they closed the distance.
Energy slashes from Beet and Stag, followed by a giant punch from Ryuji, kicks to the head from Yoko, and a Volcanic Attack from Hiromu was enough to convince Escape that this would not be her day and she teleported away.
"Oh, crap! J! We've got to help the Shinkengers!"
"Right! Activating my Marker System!"
As Jin and J hurried to help the Shinkengers, their counterparts were busy with Bones. Shotgun blasts and Gatling attacks, along with finishers from the other two giant robots were not enough, so the call was made to go into Claw Armor Megazord and try a Double Katana Slash.
"Let's try the Battle Cannon," Jayden suggested.
The auxiliary Zords formed together, and the Samurai opened fire, but Bones was still kicking.
"Enough's enough. Samurai Gigazord!" Jayden ordered.
All their mecha combined into a gigantic monstrosity, kanji for all their Folding Zords were drawn, and a massive energy blast, boosted by Lauren still being in Shogun Mode, took down Bones.
"Samurai Rangers, victory is ours." Jayden and Lauren replied.
Meanwhile, their counterparts were busy stalling. Being that their opponent was mechanical; their finishing attacks were having little to no effect. When DaiKai Shinken-Oh failed, being that their job was to stall, Ryunosuke suggested that they simply annoy the Burnerzord by continuing to change forms.
"Not a bad idea!" Genta replied, being that DaiKaiOh had four right off the bat.
With Daikai-Oh in its default "East" configuration, he let loose with Ebibasami Honte Gaeshi.
Next, he spun the wheel to switch it into its "South" configuration, as it declared, "Nan to? Minami!"
Genta struck the Burnerzord with its twin katana using Ebigantana Daimyō Oroshi. It then tried to burn Genta, so he quickly switched over to "West," using its fan to block the fire attack as it declared, "Osshā! Nishi!"
"As Haruto would say, it's time for the finale!" Genta declared, spinning the wheel to "North," bringing in the Ika Origami and having it combine with DaiKaiOh, as it declared, "Kita kita kita kitā!"
"Ika DaiKaiOh, Armed under Providence!" Genta proclaimed. "Yarrika tokkan!" He declared, stabbing the enemy robot with his Ika Spear.
"Our turn!" Ryunosuke called out, as they performed Samurai Busou with Kabuto, Kajiki, and Tora one by one, attacking the Burnerzord themselves.
"Hey, Boss! I want in on this too!" Daigoyou asked.
"Okay!" Genta called out.
Daigoyou merged with all but the Shishi Origami to form Shinken Daigoyou and attacked with Jitte Itchokusen.
Back on the ground, the fighting between Fourze, Meteor, and Beast against the three New Generation Riders was intense. Fourze placed the Elec Switch into the slot on Billy the Rod, and three warning alarms sounded as it declared, "Limit Break!" he plugged the cable into the right plug, and jammed the weapon into the ground, declaring, "Rider Ten Billion Bolt Burst!", greatly disorienting Sigurd but buying time for him to switch to the top plug and fire off the Rider Ten Billion Volt Shoot and slash with the Rider Ten Billon Volt Break.
"Okay Gold boy, let's see what you do with this!" Sigurd declared, loading his opened Energy Lockseed into his Sonic Arrow and firing a full power attack at Fourze, who dodged and switched into Fire States.
He inserted the Switch into the Hee-Hackgun, and two klaxons sounded as it declared "Limit Break!"
"Rider Exploding Shoot!" Fourze declared as the weapon gathered up thermal energy around him and then released it at Sigurd, knocking him away.
"Okay, time for Cosmic!" Fourze declared, inserting the Cosmic States Switch and turning it on, arming him with a strange rocket sword. "My friendship will take on the universe!"
He installed the Claw Switch onto the Module, which caused his Driver to proclaim the Switch's name and "On!" in a choir voice, which caused a three-pronged blade to strike at Sigurd. He then switched his weapon from Boost Mode into Sword Mode, and inserted the Cosmic Switch into the bottom of it, causing low-toned klaxons to sound and for it to announce, "Limit Break!".
"Rider Super Galaxy Finish!" Fourze declared, knocking Sigurd out of henshin and causing him to scramble away.
"Ryuusei, I'm going to help out the Shinkengers with this new Switch!" Fourze explained, activating his new Maximize Astroswitch.
"Gentaro! Wait!"
Surprisingly, instead of making Fourze into a giant, he vanished from sight!
"Haruto, use your familiars. He's got to be around here somewhere." Meteor explained.
Haruto did, and a short time later, Garuda flew up to Haruto's face with Fourze on its back.
"Good work Garuda! Now, why is Fourze small?" Haruto wondered.
"I was wondering the same thing!"
Although he was quite busy with Marika at the moment, Meteor explained in between arrow volleys that Gentaro had grabbed the two new Astroswitches, Maximize, and Minimize, before Kengo had finished testing them.
"They have a fifty percent chance of doing the opposite of what they were supposed to do," Meteor explained.
"So maybe I should try the other one to make me bigger?" Fourze thought.
"No!" Meteor called as he dodged another attack from Marika. "If it works as advertised we'll need microscopes to find you! Fortunately, the effects of the backfire wear off in three hours."
The situation resolved, Meteor went back to fighting with Marika, but she was keeping her distance, keeping him from using his martial arts skills on her and only allowing him one way to fight back which she could easily defend against. Seeing that he was getting frustrated with being on the defense the entire fight, Beast called out,
"Hey! Wanna trade?"
"That would probably be very advantageous at the moment."
"Whatever! Here I come!" Beast declared.
Duke, surprised at the handoff, was now at the mercy of Meteor as he placed his Astroswitch into his Meteor Galaxy, causing it to declare, "Limit Break, Okay!" He then struck Duke with a series of fast hard jabs in the Starlight Shower attack, causing all his punches to look like comets.
"Time to finish this." Meteor declared, going into Meteor Storm again and making his declaration that his fate would deliver a storm, who was about to strike at Duke in his new form when a blonde haired woman in white appeared to all assembled, warning Meteor and Beast not to kill the New Generation Riders.
"Well, that kills some of the fun, but okay!" Beast declared as he used his Chameleon Mantle's tongue to strike at the distant Marika and then spun the wheel on his sword, stopping it with his ring, only for it to come up…
"A Two?" Beast exclaimed in disbelief.
Two mana constructed chameleons appeared and tried in vain to attack Marika, who quickly dispatched them with her bow.
"Oh, that's it! Time for Hyper!" Beast declared, donning his Hyper Ring and turning it in his belt, transforming him into his gaudy blue and gold form. Bringing out the Mirage Magnum, he fired at her a few times normally before opening the lion's mouth on the Hyper Ring and sticking it in the back, causing it to announce "Hyper! Magnum Strike!"
Chimera emerged from the gun and circled Beast Hyper, before slamming into his back and coming out as a spirit blast, which was enough to knock Marika out of her henshin and send her packing as well. Meanwhile, Meteor inserted his Meteor Switch back into his Driver, and then placed the Meteor Storm Switch on the top of his staff, and initiated the Meteor Storm Strike, which rather than destroying Duke, it simply knocked him out of henshin as well and all the New Generation Riders fled to fight another day.
"Whew!" Haruto sighed, now that the battle was finally over for now.
After trying all their forms, the Shinkengers were out of options and on the ropes with the Burnerzord, but fortunately for them, Jin and J finally showed up in Buster Hercules and unleashed Hercules Crisis to destroy the Burnerzord.
"Shutdown Complete!" Jin and J declared.
Takeru was about to utter his catchphrase, but he nodded to Genta, who led the Shinkengers in the victory clap.
"This brings this chapter to a close!" Takeru said afterward.
Several hours later, back at Mr. Brown's, Fourze, back to his original size and in his civilian form as Gentaro Kisaragi, performed his trademark friendship handshake with all the Shinkengers.
"There! We're all buds now!"
"Do you really have to go back to Japan already?" Kotoha asked.
"Yeah, we could use the extra help." Chiaki insisted.
"I wish we could stay, but Tomoko-chan and Yuki would worry if we were gone too long. Let's get going, Gentaro." Ryuusei, also known as Kamen Rider Meteor, explained.
Ryuusei placed the Meteor Switch into his Meteor Driver, pulled a trigger back in the center, causing the Driver to announce, "Meteor Ready?" and played funky disco music. Meanwhile, Gentaro had flipped four switches, causing the Driver to count down "3, 2, 1!" When the countdown finished, they both shouted "Henshin!" and Gentaro moved the Enter Lever and raised his right arm to the sky, as they transformed into Fourze in Rocket States and Meteor.
"You might want to stand back." Ryuusei cautioned as the mages and samurai took several steps back before Gentaro blasted off with a cry of "Uchuu Kitaaaaaaaaa!" As Ryuusei sighed and turned into his meteor form and flew off as well.
"Bye Gentaro! Bye Ryuusei! Come to Kyoto if you get a chance!" Kotoha called after them.
All the Shinkengers' and mages' stomachs growled, but Haruto was ready.
"I should have just enough mana to use this." He said, turning on his Driver and removing an orange ring with a crossed knife and fork outline.
"Cooking! Please!" the Driver announced, turning Haruto into a chef.
Everyone headed inside to see what Chef Haruto would cook up for them, while Genta whipped up some sushi to tide them over.
Meanwhile, Kaito Kumon was wandering the city, looking for Kouta when he spotted Enter in front of him.
"Bonjour, Monsieur Banane." Enter said.
"Get out of my way. I'm only interested in Kazuraba." Kaito answered.
"I see. Let's have a duel. If you win, you can do whatever you want. But if I win, you have to do whatever I ask as long as you're here."
"Fine."
"Oh, there's one catch. You won't be dueling against me. You'll be dueling with the Mademoiselle." Enter explained as Escape showed up.
"Enter, is he any good?" She asked.
"Let's find out, shall we?"
"This is Gog." She replied, kissing one of her guns. "And this is Magog." She replied, kissing the other. "And I am Escape. I'm pretty good." She finished before turning into her battle form.
Kaito produced an apple-themed Lockseed from his coat.
"I've been meaning to try this one out. I suppose now's as good a time as any. He opened the lock, causing it to proclaim, "Ringo!" as a Crack un-zippered above his head.
"Henshin!" He called out, making a series of arm motions and then locking it into his belt, which declared, "Lock On!", and played a European trumpet fanfare.
He then depressed the blade on his Sengoku Driver, causing it to call out, "Come On! Ringo Arms! Might of Sword and Shield!" An apple descended to his shoulders and then opened up, forming red armor on him, arming him with a shield with a sword in it.
[A/N: This isn't the same Ringo Arms he gets in the series that starts to turn him into an Inves, and he later destroys. You'll see where he gets this one at the start of Chapter 13.]
This brings this Chapter to a close…