In order to conquer the multiverse, Kugai Kudo, founder of the Black Bohdi Tree pulled miscellaneous heroes from across the multiverse and placed them in randomised teams in order to maximise their combat data that could be recorded and defeat their allies once his invasion began. But his 10th and final experiment lineup proved far too much of a wildcard in the end, with Kugai's ambitions being thwarted before they could begin. All the people he had abducted were returned to their normal lives, all memory of their adventures in his world vanquished from their minds. We will now tell a few of these stories, to ensure that they are not forgotten.

This exploit will focus on Team 7, composed of Gai Yuuki - Choujin Sentai Jetman's Black Condor, Kwon Juyong - Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Brave's KyoryuRed, Takumi Inui - Kamen Rider Faiz, Mayu Inamori - Kamen Rider Mage, Ray Bramasakti- Satria Garuda Bima-X and Jikuu Senshi Spielban. Their enemies were Gray of the Dimensional Party Vyram, Deizarus, leader of the Neo-Deboss, Saeko Kageyama the Lobster Orphnoch, the Medusa Phantom, Iron Mask of VUDO, alias Evil Torga and General Deathzero of the Waller Empire. While Spielban's partner Diana was also part of the experiment, this takes place before she joined it.

It was a dark and stormy night in the house of Satsuko Michinaga. She was in the midst of performing a seance with a hired mystic, so that she could speak to her lost son, who had walked out of her house and died in a road accident soon after, several years ago tonight. "Tomo!", she said, desperation entering her voice. "I beg of you. Please speak to me." The psychic she had hired continued his chanting, seemingly stopping to gasp. "What, what is it?"

"I sense… a powerful presence.", the man wheezed out. "Something is in this room with us, and yet it isn't."

"Could it be?", Satsuko gasped. "Could my Tomo have come back to me, after all these decades?"

"No!", the man said, losing his expression, as he knocked the old woman against the wall, shattering her neck on impact. Medusa then undid the transformation magic that she had cast on herself before approaching a small, cymbal-banging monkey on a shelf. "We've called forth a powerful evil spirit that, if given true form, could destroy all of our enemies." She held up the monkey, causing a swirling mass of dark energy to enter it, causing its eyes to glow red. "And now, we just need to make this into a veritable body to unleash its power."

Then her ally Gray appeared, carrying a Bio-Dimension Bug. "I can handle that aspect.", he stated. "And assure that we will also have full control of the evil."

"I won't allow it!" Explosion, Now! Medusa and Gray were blown backwards, the monkey knocked from their hands and out the window. They turned to see that one of their enemies had appeared, namely Mayu. "I thought I smelled you around here, Medusa."

"I don't have time to mess around with you.", Medusa snarled. "Gray, find that toy."

"Alright.", Gray nodded before turning transparent and walking through the wall, while Medusa engaged in battle with Mayu. But as he looked around, it was too dark for him to identify anything, beyond a large shape moving off into the he bushes. Logic dictated that whoever this person was, they had taken the monkey toy with them when they had fled. He turned and re-entered the house. "The toy has been taken away."

"What?", Medusa said as she knocked Mayu back. "In that case, we need to chase down and recover it. This can wait." She said that last part while eying Mayu. "Looks like our bonding is on hold, Nee-chan." Having said that, Medusa and Gray then disappeared from the scene, leaving behind a confused Mayu.

"If that toy falls into the hands of an unwitting person, let alone Medusa and her allies, it could be a disaster.", Mayu realised. She took out her phone and began sending messages to the others.

As for the person who had taken the toy, while nobody gave him a second glance, due to his fairly normal appearance, was far from a normal person. His name was Agias, an agent of Dark Bo who was tasked with ensuring that the experiment was still ongoing with both sides. Now, he was taking what would otherwise be a fairly brief and easily thwarted scheme by the antagonists and trying to expand on the results by placing it where both sides would take their time to find it, allowing the evil spirit to commit acts of chaos for as long as it could. To this end, he went into a charity shop, placing it on the counter. "I'd like to donate this, please.", he said to the lady at the counter. "I hope it's not too much bother."

"Oh no.", the lady assured him. "We're always happy to take donations, at any time." Agias nodded at this and then handed over the monkey. He proceeded to wave the lady off as he passed a man in a leather jacket on the way in.

"Stage one is underway.", Agias thought. "Now, I can begin my plan for dominance."

And at an ordinary suburban house within Tokyo, a birthday party was being held for a young girl. "Happy Birthday, Sumire!", the crowd said as she was blowing out the candles on the cake.

The first to give the girl her present was her mother's boyfriend Kunio. "Hey kiddo, I picked this up on the way back from the airport.", he said to her. "I hope you don't mind the suddenness, Hikari." He had addressed this to his girlfriend.

"No, not at all.", was Hikari's response. "I'm just glad you made it back."

"Wow, amazing!", Sumire cried out with joy as she beheld the unwrapped gift - a cymbal banging monkey. "Did you get this from overseas, Onii-san?"

"No, I actually picked it up at a charity shop.", was Kunio's answer. "It was in the Ushiku area."

"It's amazing.", Sumire stated as she began banging the monkey's cymbals together multiple times.

"That's nice, Sumi-chan.", Hikari said as she went into the kitchen to get the cake knife. But once she entered the room, she saw that the plants lining the windows had begun to wilt, despite being watered earlier that day. As her daughter carelessly played with the toy monkey, none of the guests noticed a fly dropping suddenly from the air onto a mat.

Out in the town, the 5 other heroes had been informed of the missing toy from Mayu and had embarked on a search for it. Now, Takumi was checking a charity shop he had come across and went over to the cashier. "Excuse me, can you help me look for something?"

"Oh, that's no problem.", the lady assured him. "We've got quite a few items here for you to peruse, what exactly is it you're looking for?"

"Well, it's kind of a strange request.", Takumi answered her. He then held up a crude sketch of the monkey that Mayu had provided, based off memory. "I'm looking for a toy monkey, that looked like this. Have you seen anything like it?"

The woman thought about it for barely a second. "Now that you mention it, a creepy looking person did bring in something that looks like it yesterday. What's its value? Is it stolen?"

"You could say that.", came the reply from Takumi. "Do you still have it?"

"No, it sold not long after.", the woman answered him. "By a guy in a black jacket with slicked hair. He didn't give a name."

"Blast it.", Takumi growled. "Did he say why he was buying it?"

"Something about a girlfriend in Minato Ward.", was the lady's response. "Her daughter had a birthday upcoming and he wanted to give it to her. Look, if it will help, I can show you the CCTV of this guy."

"That would be of great help.", Takumi said sincerely. "Thank you."

At Dark Bo's headquarters, the founder entered Agias' chamber as he was looking up information on the Gunpad from the World of the Dark Spark War and the PhaseRiser from a future universe of the Neo-Frontier Universe. "Agias, I would like to discuss your conduct recently."

"Oh?", Agias asked, feigning ignorance.

"You know that our members are not supposed to interfere with the experiments.", the founder scolded him. "And yet, you did so by stealing and selling that toy. Why?"

"A simple matter of trying to improve results.", was the answer Agias gave. "After all, surely a longer more interesting challenge than a one and done fight to the death is more interesting for our results, isn't it?"

The founder merely hesitated, before growling in frustration. "Regrettably, you have a point." He then turned to leave. "But be warned. If you continue to interfere so brazenly, then I won't hesitate to instigate the appropriate punishment."

As the door closed behind him, Agias laughed slightly. "You fool. I can easily hide the time it takes to usurp you. All I need is a certain weapon. One I'm sure the subjects can provide."

Back at Hikari's house, days had passed since the birthday party. And in that time, while the monkey that Kunio had brought her daughter had quickly faded from Sumire's attention, Hikari still heard its cymbals banging from time to time. And every time she did, Hikari noticed that something died soon afterwards. Most recently, Sumire's goldfish had seemingly died of over feeding, despite not eating in a while. Now, Hikari was returning from a trip to the greengrocer's around the street corner to pick up some food, when she heard the sound of the monkey banging its cymbals again. Then she noticed smoke coming from the basement of her house. "Is that… fire?", she gasped, before rushing into the house, after fumbling with the keys.

"Mama, what's going on?", a panicking Sumire cried as she came running. Hikari didn't answer, instead continuing to dash towards her target.

Sure enough, within the basement, the family's cat was caught in a gas fire, caused by a lamp spontaneously lighting itself and then falling to the floor. And with the large amounts of oil-based paint in the room, fire quickly spread. The cat tried clawing it's way out of the room, but it was to no avail. Eventually, Hikari was able to open the door, but too late to save the poor cat. "No.", she said softly as she beheld the dead form of their pet.

"Where's Nyanko?", Sumire asked, innocently as the flames started to die down.

Hikari felt compelled to use the old "sent to a farm" lie, but here, it just felt dishonest. "I'm sorry, Sumi-chan.", Hikari answered her daughter solemnly. "She's dead." But what Hikari didn't tell her daughter was that she now had an idea what was causing their misfortune. And she was going to get rid of it.

Elsewhere, Gai had followed the lead that Takumi provided, showing him an image of the idiot who had brought this cursed toy giving everyone grief. To that end, he was staking out the Minato Ward to find the guy. After 3 days with no luck, he managed to see him going down the street. "Finally.", Gai thought to hismelf as he went over to the guy. "Hey, you!"

"What do you want?", the guy asked. "If you don't mind, I'm going to see one of my girlfriends right now."

"Don't try and play the-.", Gai stopped as he realised what the man had said. "Did you say 'girlfriends' plural?"

"Of course I did.", the man laughed. "I might as well tell you, now that you've stumbled upon it. I'm a con man. I'm pulling the moves on at least 6 different women, one of them overseas. His one's a little special, in that she has a kid. I've had way more success with her simply by buttering up the little brat. And with all of her pets dying lately, I can play the sympathy card."

"You bastard!", Gai growled, as he punched the now laughing Kunio - if that was his real name - in the face. "What did you do with the monkey?"

"Oh, I gave it to that brat. She's probably forgotten about it by now.", the man mocked him. "But if you must know, she lives at…"

But before he could finish, the evil spirit, sensing that it was in danger, used parts of its essence that had rubbed off on the man after he had carried it all the way here, to possess him, overwriting his mind, reducing him to a snarling beast, who threw Gai off of his body. "Where did that come from?" Gai didn't get an answer, as the spirit's new body breathed steam from its mouth, that blew him backwards. The man then threw his pursuer back using telekinetic energy from his hand. "There's some kind of evil power in this guy. Could it be he has the demon's power?"

The possessed man then growled, before dissolving into red energy and flying away, with Gai giving chase. From the side, Saeko observed the events with a smile. "How interesting." She then took out the Kaixa Phone, using it to call her allies. "I've located our current prize."

Meanwhile, Hikari had grabbed the monkey and was now dashing to the car, having blocked its cymbals with a cotton ball. "I'll be out for a while.", she called out to her neighbour Gozo. "Take care of Sumire for me." She clambered into the car, dashing off into the he street like the devil was after her. Which, in a way, it was. She drove all the way out to a quarry, where she picked up the monkey, preparing to throw it. "See you in hell, you -!"

But before Hikari could throw it away, a hand grabbed onto hers, pulling it down. It was that of Kunio, who took hold of the monkey. "Finally, I am whole once more." Both Kunio and the monkey had their eyes glow red, before they merged into a large simian beast, with prominent fangs, similar red eyes and shurikens in its paws. "And now, I shall destroy you.", having spoke with Kunio's voice, before combing its two arms, before launching an energy burst at Hikari.

"Cross Changer!" Gai transformed, leaping in the way of the blast to take it. He was buffeted, but quickly stood up. "Miss, get out of here!", he urged Hikari, who nodded and complied. "Alright, time to get rid of you." He pulled his Bringer Sword out, leaping forward to deliver a slash to the creature, which failed to do much damage it couldn't instantly heal. The creature then brought one of its weapons down on him.

Connect, Now! Mayu and Takumi appeared from a portal to observe the fight. "Looks like Gai's lead was on the money.", Mayu noted. "Let's go." She scanned a ring against her belt, transforming it. Driver On, Now!

"Right.", Takumi said as he took out his Faiz Phone and dialled 5-5-5. Standing By!

"Henshin!", the two of them said as they finished their transformations. Complete!/Change, Now! "Let's go." The two fo them charged in to fight, drawing their respective swords, the Faiz Edge and the WizarSwordGun, using them to block the monkey creature's cymbals, before slashing at it.

Then the Gran Nazca, Spielban's mothership appeared above the scene, which was observed by Agias. "Right on schedule.", he commented as he pointed a stranger looking gun-like device, firing a shot at the ship, which left no visible damage. But it had achieved exactly what Agias was hoping for.

Then the other members of their team - Spielban, Juyong and Ray - all leapt out of the ship, inisitsting their own transformations. "Kesshou!"

"Kyoryu Change!" Gabugaburincho! Guntyra! Juyong spun the barrel, started samba dancing in mid air, before pointing the Gabugaburevolver again. "Fire!"

Ray was the last to initiate his transformation. "Henshin!" With all three fully transformed, they ran in and delivered slashes to the demon monkey. "Looks like we haven't missed much."

"Exactly, you're right here in time for the fun.", Gai assured them, as he summoned his Wing Gauntlet. "We need to stop this thing from causing too much damage. Which means stopping his arms."

"I see.", Juyong nodded, loading a Zyudenchi into his Gabugaburevolver. Gabugaburincho! Taekwondontus! He spun the barrel, imbuing himself with the power of one of the Brave Guardians. Vamola Mucho! Using his newly granted martial arts skill, Juyong and Gai launched punches at the monkey, that dislocated its arms. "Alright, let's finish it." Juyong combing his Gabugabucaliber with his Gabugaburevolver to create the Gabugaburu Cannon, which he pumped twice. Vamola Mucho! "Zyuden Brave Finish!"

Gai then combined his two firearms into one, which he fired. "Smash Bomber!" /span/p

Ray then summoned Helios to unleash his own full power attack. "Garuda Inferno!"

Mayu pressed her Change Ring against her weapon. Slash Strike!

Spielban converted his sword into this Twin Blade mode. "Arc Impulse!"

Start Up! Takumi shifted to his Axel Form, running in at full speed to attack the creature. Exceed Charge! 3, 2, 1, Time Out! The last of these hits was enough to fully wound the creature, causing it to fall backwards and explode. "Alright, we did it."

With the monkey and then man that had comprised the demon returned to normal, the dark energy floated away, to a point it was collected by Deizarus. "So this is what this fuss has all been about. It must be really powerful."

And down in the quarry, Gai stood over the unconscious scam artist. "We'll take this guy down to the police.", he said. "I'm sure if they search his house, they'll find some dirt on him."

"And we have a new home for that toy monkey, with that woman.", Mayu added. "Once we tell her the crisis has passed, of course. All in all, a perfect ending."

However, in a secluded location, Agias had finished the construction of a new device. "Now, the real fun is about to begin.", he laughed to himself.

Next time on Before the Fractures: Which team will it be?