Ep. 5: I Fought the Law
Episode(s) Adapted: Judgment Pirates (ジャッジメント·パイレーツ)
The Galleon was flying through the air. The rangers were all inside, Doc was preparing lunch, Vivi was setting the table Joe was doing sit-ups, Marvelous was sitting in his chair, napping, & Robin was reading the intergalactic newspaper. She was looking rather impressed at it & chuckling.
"What is it?" Joe asked, stopping his sit-ups.
"Our bounties have gone through the roof!" she said. "It used to be 3,300,100 Woolongs for all five of us, but now it's 6,751,000!"
"Oh my, that's quite a sum," Vivi said as Doc & her ran over to them.
"That's amazing!" Navi said.
"Jeez, how can you be so casual about it?" Doc asked. "They'll be going after us even harder now!"
"I say, come what may," Marvelous said, getting up. "Hey, bird," he got an apple from the table & took a bite. "Do some predicting."
"Quit calling me 'bird'! Let's look to the future for treasure!" he said, then flew up in the air. "Gather yourselves round and listen…" he then flew right up & bashed his head on the ceiling. "Here we go! 'If there's something you wish to find, maybe you should report it to the police…' That's it!"
"The police?" they all asked. Marvelous took another bite from his apple.
"Is it really a good idea for pirates to go to the police?" Robin asked as they walked on a sidewalk.
"Well, this planet isn't under Armada authority yet, so they probably won't arrest us, but…It's definitely weird," Joe said.
"You think Navi just threw something out there because he had no idea?" Robin asked.
"But he was right about the man in black & red…eventually," Doc said as he looked back at her & they stopped for a sec. "It's worth a try…Huh?" he said as he looked forward again & saw that Marvelous was already just outside the Police station. "What's the rush!?" he asked.
Marvelous walked into the station, then up to the front desk.
"Can I ask you something?" he asked the woman at the desk.
"Yes, how may I help you?" she asked.
"I'm looking for the Greatest Treasure in the Galaxy…"
"You're the guy in these posters!" she said, looking down at one on her desk, pointing to it. He saw it. "Somebody!" she yelled, then the camera panned in front of an officer several feet away with shades on, seeing his S.P.D. logo on the front of his jacket.
"Pardon me…" he said, walking up to Marvelous. "On Earth, there's a custom that when you come to the police for the first time, you put your hands up like this," he said, holding his hands in front of him, close together.
"Like this?" Marvelous asked, imitating him.
"Yup, just like that," he said, slapping some handcuffs on him.
"What's this about?" Marvelous asked.
"Captain Marvelous…?" he said, picking up the poster.
"Yeah, who are you?" Marvelous asked.
"Officer 'Doggie' Cruger, Space Patrol Delta. You are under arrest for acts of piracy in several galaxies," he said, holding up a Delta Morpher-type phone. The rest of the cops stood around them & the other rangers looked on.
"'SPD'…The space police, huh? You guys are so desperate for funding that you'd go for the Armada's bounty?" Marvelous asked.
"Don't even ensinuate such a thing. Why would we cooperate with them? More importantly, I recommend you all turn yourselves in," Cruger said.
Doc hid behind Joe as he looked towards them. Marvelous looked back & gave them a nod.
"That's how it's gonna be, eh?" Robin said as she punched her fist against the palm of her other hand. "Now! Run!" she yelled & they ran out of there as fast as they could.
"After them! Don't let them escape!" one of the officers said.
"Stop where you are!" Cruger said, then Marvelous kicked him away, then started fighting against the other officers using his feet to attack while evading regularly. "See ya, police dude," he said, then ran out the door.
Cruger quickly ran out the other side. Marvelous ran in between two trains to get away. He then stopped & looked all around, then got shot at.
"Great, more of them…" he said, then ran more.
Cruger kicked him back & he fell on to the ground. Marvelous looked up. Cruger then took off a mask device & transformed back into what he normally looked like. He then held up the phone again.
"As I said before, I am an officer of Space Patrol Delta, Anubis 'Doggie' Cruger."
"You're from the planet Sirius, aren't you?" Marvelous said as he got up. "Funny, I thought its population got wiped out years ago by the Trubians."
"All but one; me."
"Ah. You tracked me down pretty quick. That's gotta be one sharp nose you've got."
"I don't really care for praise when it comes from pirates," Cruger said, holding a blaster at him. Marvelous then kicked it away.
Cruger then took out his sword & started swinging at Marvelous. Marvelous evaded his swings. They then ran into a warehouse.
"What are the space police doing here on Earth? I thought you guys never got involved with planets that couldn't even get passed warp speed…" Marvelous asked as he evaded Cruger's swings.
"Wouldn't you like to know…" Cruger said as he swung.
"Yeah, I would, actually. Hence why I asked."
"Maybe I'll explain later while you're being interrogated."
"Heh, we'll see," Marvelous said, then saw an opening in one of Cruger's strikes.
As he swung down after holding his sword up, Marvelous quickly held up his hands in the sword's path, but he stopped before the strike could go through the cuffs.
"Nice try," Cruger said, grabbing Marvelous' sleeve & gave him a good jab in the stomach for good measure. He reached into his jacket pocket. "I'm confiscating this," he said after swiping Marvelous' Mobirate.
"I'm having a bit of trouble remembering what I did to get on the space police's bad side…"
"You can save it for your interrogation," they heard voices & feet stomping.
"X-Borgs?" Marvelous said, confused.
"Move!" Cruger said, dragging him to behind some crates.
The Commander took a tarp off of a device, then started typing on the console, uncloaking a missile silo.
"Prince Vekar, the subterranean missiles are ready," he said into a communicator. "We will proceed with their activation."
"Subterranean missiles?" Cruger asked quietly.
The Commander typed a command into the console & the silo sunk into an underground lift.
"Watch & learn, Earthlings!" Vekar said as we see the Gigant Horse. "Every major city on your world will be destroyed in one fell swoop!"
"Those missiles cost a lot of money to make…" Levira said. "If you waste them, you'll be in trouble," she said, firmly grasping an X-Borg's neck.
"There's no need to worry," the commander said. "In two hours, these missiles will be launched all over the world," he said, typing.
"Cybax, from the Trubian Empire. He's a member of them, whose capture's been authorized for multiple acts of planetary devastation. It seems as though he's on loan to Vekar from Grumm," Cruger said, after seeing the readout on the Morpher.
"What're you gonna do, police dog?" Marvelous asked. "Don't you think that guy's a bigger priority than I am?"
"Stay where you are. I have to get at that console…"
Marvelous' Mobirate rang.
"Who's there!?" the Commander yelled, then shot at them.
"Jeez, talk about a bad time to call," Marvelous said after they evaded the shots.
"Oh, a space police officer & a pirate with a bounty? Strange companions…"
"Cybax, from the Trubians, I'm taking you in for conspiracy to commit planetary terro—" Cruger started, but got shot in the shoulder.
"Take me in, if you think you can. X-Borgs!" the Commander said, then the X-Borgs started running towards them.
"Nothing, I'm afraid. Marvelous isn't answering," Vivi said back on the ship.
"I doubt they'd be able to catch him with the kind of manpower they had, but…" Joe said.
"Doc, see if you can track him," Robin said.
"Got it!" Doc said, going to the console & typing.
"Hey! Take these cuffs off!" Marvelous said as they fought the X-Borgs.
"No chance!" Cruger said.
"You're one unreasonable dog!" he yelled, fighting off another one. The Commander then shot at him & he recoiled from the blast as it hit the ground in front of him.
"I'll get rid of both of you!" he said, aiming.
Cruger then ran in front of Marvelous & used his swords to fend off the blasts, then used the explosions around them to get away..
"They got away?"
They walked into a parking garage.
"This is a real mess you've dragged me into," Marvelous said as they stopped. "You've gotta go shut down those missiles, right? If you take these off, & give me my Mobirate back,…maybe I'll help you out."
"Don't be stupid! I can't trust some pirate. You stay put."
"Do you really think that's gonna happen?"
"Run if you want, but the cuffs stay on. And after I stop those missiles, I'll come after you. Into the next dimension if I have to," he said, then walked off.
Marvelous then waked up to the nearest wall & kicked it in frustration. He then saw a trail of purple liquid, then remembered back to the fight. Cruger took a blast to the side as he defended him.
"Over there!" Doc yelled as they ran near the trains from earlier. They were stopped by Bruisers.
"No one enters this area," one of them said.
"The Armada!?" Vivi asked.
"I thought Marvelous was on the run from SPD…" Robin said.
"That's right. I wonder what's going on," Doc said.
"It means we're caught up in another mess," Joe said.
They all got their keys & flipped them up, then their morphers.
"It's Morphin Time!"
"Pirate Crew!"
They drew their weapons & charged.
Cruger got to a scaffold above the missiles & looked down on the Commander & X-Borgs.
"If I can destroy that thing, that'll stop those missiles," he said as the timer beeped.
00:45
"45 minutes left…" he said, but then felt a sharp pain in his side. More purple liquid dripped down on to the Commander's head, then shot at him, causing Cruger to fall to the ground below.
"You don't learn, do you? Let me put you out of your misery," he said, aiming his blaster.
Marvelous came in & grabbed on to a chain, sliding all the way to the Commander, then kicked him away. The Commander then shot & hit a support beam down from the ceiling.
"Get up!" he yelled & helped Cruger up. They ran out of there as the debris came down behind them, blocking the path.
X-Borgs were getting thrown into boxes & barrels.
Joe came into frame, lashing a few. Doc was generally avoiding them, but then slashed a few, jumped down from where he was, & shot another one. Vivi dealt with a few of her own, slashing & shooting them. Robin also dealt with some by doing the same.
"Aw, man. This is getting old," she said as some more were lining up. She then got a key from her belt buckle & the others followed suit.
"Power Switch!"
"RPM!"
The X-Borgs & Bruisers charged in.
"Turbo Cannon!" Joe said & shot some.
Robin kicked a few, then burned one with the wheel on her arm.
"Zip Charger!" she said & launched it off her arm, taking out some more.
Doc jumped up with the axe & smashed it on the ground.
"Turbo Axe!" he said, taking more out with its energy wave.
Vivi fought off some more.
"Here it comes!" she said, jumping in the air. "Rocket Blaster!" she yelled, then shot them while jumping over them.
They all lined up, then got 4 more keys out.
"Power Switch!"
"Star Force!"
Joe fought some more X-Borgs.
"You're in the way," he sad, then did some flying kicks at them.
"Whoopsie daisy…" Robin said, then pounded some with her fists.
Doc then took some on with a broom next to a car…yeah.
"Master Stroke: Broom-Blade!" he said, then took them down & shook the broom to the camera while doing a karate yell.
Vivi dealt with her own by doing a series of punches & kicks.
They then all lined up, put a fist in the other hand, then held their arms to their left sides.
"Ki-Power ha!" they all said, then fired the blast, taking care of the remaining X-Borgs.
"Let's hurry," Joe said as the sun was beginning to set.
"Right!"
"Hey, wait up!"
Marvelous helped Cruger walk through a hallway of a building.
"Why'd you save me—?" Cruger asked.
"I owed you one," Marvelous answered.
"Owed me—?"
"If you hadn't've protected me, you wouldn't've gotten hurt. You're a pretty nice guy, for a cop," he said, then sat Cruger down.
"I was just doing my duty as an officer of the law, but you should know, you're going to regret not running. You'll be hunted by the Armada & the space police…There's no way you can escape."
"Like I care. We've traveled through the entire universe & stuck by our codes of honor. If it's to protect that honor, we'll fight all newcomers. Even if people have brand us as pirates, &…even if the entire universe turns against us."
"Did you save me because of that sense of honor?"
"I dunno about that…Anyways, it's your turn to stay put."
"Hold it!" Cruger stood up & walked over to him, then unlocked his cuffs. "There…"
"So, a cop's gonna put his faith in a pirate?" Marvelous asked, twisting his wrist in his hand.
"I'm not putting my faith in a pirate…" he said, taking out the Mobirate. "I'm counting on his ironic sense of honor."
Marvelous grabbed it.
"Don't blame me if you end up regretting this…" he said, taking it, then ran the other way.
00:01
"We're approaching the launch time!" the Commander said. "Soon, every major city on this planet will be obliterated!"
"You sure about that?" Marvelous said, walking in.
The X-Borgs & Commander lined up.
"There's only one minute left! You've got no time to stop it!"
"Oh, I've got plenty of time," he said, taking out his key & Mobirate.
"It's Morphin Time!"
"Pirate Crew!"
He drew his sabre & charged in, then slashed several X-Borgs. He took out some, then drew his blaster & shot a few more, then got on top of one, shooting more, then jumped up & slashed that one. He faced the Commander.
"Impossible!" the Commander said, then charged. Marvelous held him off with his weapons. He then held up his blaster.
"Wait outside, will ya?" he said, blasting him out the door into the night.
The timer beeped & he shot the console, using some percussive maintenance on it to shut the missiles down.
"Curse you!" the Commander said as Marvelous came out of the warehouse.
"Marvelous!" Robin said as they'd caught up with him.
"So you're alive?" Joe asked.
"Yeah, a goody two-shoes space cop helped me out."
"I'm the one who got help…" Cruger said as he came out. "From a goody two-shoes space pirate."
"Huh!?" Doc asked.
"You'll pay…you'll pay for this!"
"We can talk later," Marvelous said as they lined up. "Let's teach this guy a lesson."
"Pirate Crew Red!"
"Pirate Crew Blue!"
"Pirate Crew Yellow!"
"Pirate Crew Green!"
"Pirate Crew Pink!"
"Power Rangers…Pirate Crew!"
They drew their weapons.
"Let's make it showy!"
They charged in. The Commander charged at them. Joe & Doc slashed at him, then Robin & Vivi did, knocking him back.
"How dare you!"
"Got something special for you," Marvelous said, then flipped his belt buckle, getting a key.
"Power Switch!"
"SPD!"
They walked towards the Commander as the instrumental of the SPD theme kicked in.
The commander charged in, taking on Robin & Vivi first, who were fighting with the Deltamax Strikers' rod modes.
"Here we go!" Robin said & she charged in, striking him some more, then did a backflip & kicked him.
Vivi came in & continued her slashes. She jumped over him & slashed.
Doc & Joe came in with their Strikers & slashed him themselves. Doc then took the Striker & jumped while shooting him. the Commander then shot at Joe, who dashed backwards. Using his own Striker, he shot the Commander from several feet back, who tumbled over from the recoil.
Marvelous then came running in with the Delta Blasters as the Commander shot at him. He jumped in the air as the explosions hit the ground, then shot at the Commander. He then started fighting the Commander by trying to punch him with the Blasters in his hands. As the Commander tried to shoot him, he caught his arms, then kicked him away. He then twirled the Blaster in his right hand.
"One side!" he said, then ran up to the Commander & kicked him away on to the ground. "Let's polish him off."
"SPD Blast!" they all said, then fired energy shots at the Commander, finishing him off. They turned away from the explosion & transformed back to normal.
"Excellent teamwork," Cruger said as he came up to them. "But where'd you get those suits & weapons?" they all took off their helmets.
"What do you mean? They're SPD's," Doc said.
"Not any model I've seen."
"Hmm," Doc said, thinking. "Are you sure?"
"Yes. Actually, now that I think about it, there were blueprints for SPD suit prototypes that did look like that that I saw back at headquarters' lab where I got my disguise mask."
"Maybe they're from the future…?" Doc said.
"Could they be? I mean, the Time Force rangers were from the year 3000, so maybe…" he said, thinking.
"Curse them, curse them, curse them!" Vekar said, bopping an X-Borg on the head a few times. "Levira!" she picked up the maximizer trigger.
"As you wish, sir," she said, firing it.
The Commander grew big & the rangers & Cruger turned around to look.
"Well then... I guess I'll have to use the missiles myself!" he said, smashing through the warehouse roof & getting them.
"These guys never learn…" Marvelous said & they put their helmets back on, then he got his Mobirate & punched in the code.
5-5-0-1
"Zords Combine!" they said as the sequence started. "Megazord, ready!"
"Here we go!" Marvelous yelled, spinning his wheel.
The Megazord came out of the sky & tried to get the missiles away from the Commander.
"You mustn't use in such dangerous weapons!" Vivi said as they struggled, then twisted her wheel, causing the Commander to recoil backwards as they got the missiles.
"You can have these back!" Marvelous yelled as they threw the missiles into space at the Armada ships, exploding many of them.
"Curse them!" Vekar said, hitting & kicking a few X-Borgs in his rage.
"Your excellency, you're behaving unseemly!" Damaras said, trying to restrain him.
"Silence!"
"Pirates!" Cruger yelled to them. the Megazord turned a bit to face him. "I've figured it out! The powers are from the future. I read a report about them once. I'm apart of the future SPD team! You should be able to use it now, SPD's ultimate power!" he said & the keys jumped out at them.
"They're glowing…" Vivi said.
"A new power, huh? Sounds like fun!" Marvelous said, flipping the key up & inserting it into the wheel.
"Ranger Key, set!" they all said, turning the keys. Out from the openings of the Megazord came the SPD attachments.
"Megazord, SPD form, ready!"
The Commander started to get up. Marvelous spun his wheel & launched the zord.
"Launch Delta Runner!"
"A giant police car!" Doc asked, standing up.
"Yes! It's lovely!" Vivi said.
"Yeah, sweet!" Robin said, slapping the wheel in front of her.
The Commander fired at it, but it avoided the shots, then jumped up on to the side of a building & drove up it & turned around when the skyscraper ended & shot lasers at him. The Commander was blown backwards.
"How'd you like that?" Marvelous said, one arm around his wheel.
The Delta Runner returned to the Megazord & it twirled the laser cannons, then aimed them. The Commander got back up & started to run whilst shooting at them.
"Let's give him both barrels!" Marvelous said, twisting his wheel.
The Megazord started running & shooting at the Commander. As the Commander started to shoot again, the rangers were shown struggling to keep up. The Megazord then jumped up, floated to the side, & shot at the Commander. After they stopped, they jumped in the air.
"Chew on this!" the Commander said, then kicked a building in the air at them.
They shot through the building with the barrels, then him. The Megazord then twirled the barrels once more, then closed the openings.
"Let's finish him off!" Marvelous said, then twisted his key in the wheel.
"Let's Go! SPD Full Blast!" they all said & the openings opened, revealing the parts & they shot at the Commander. They continued until he finally fell down & exploded. The Megazord took its victory pose.
Marvelous & Joe were helping Cruger walk back to the station.
"So, you read a report about your future team?" Joe asked.
"Yes. It was something the higher-ups wanted me to look at. Several different instances of me from over a decade ago & a few years ago. I wanted to find out about it, then we saw one of the times you transformed into a team with the SPD logo on the suits & I came here to investigate."
"Looks like you got your answer."
"So, Cruger, why is SPD on Earth anyways?" Marvelous asked.
"We've been helping Earth's governments prepare for alien arrivals. In fact, we have small labs with teams doing experiments right now to see how the various things that happen on this planet do. Unfortunately, most of the aliens that come here muddy the waters of integration & set back our talks by months. Just when we're about to seal the deal, as it were, someone has to come & ruin it. Just as we're about to send a team to deal with the criminals, a new team of Rangers has dealt with them. Perhaps, in an alternate timeline, things have gone differently."
"Wait, every time? Man, your negotiators must suck," Marvelous said, chuckling at the thought.
"I don't think you're in any position to crack jokes."
"Hey, I'm on my way to a death sentence. Let me at least make this at least a little bit humorous."
"So, what are you guys trying to do to get integration on the way?"
"We've already begun having Earth's scientists set up Enetron tanks in select cities on this planet."
"Enetron? Isn't that an extremely experimental form of energy?" Doc asked.
"Yes, but we believe this planet's in need of something, considering it's current forms of energy. We've even begun a training program for new recruits from Earth to be enlisted in our ranks. Soon enough, we'll, hopefully, have our own team of rangers to help out," he said as they stopped outside of the side of the station.
"Well, hope it works out for ya," Marvelous said.
"Wait, stop," Cruger said & they stopped. "Set me against that wall right there," they did. "Listen, I'll set the record straight. You guys just get out of here."
"What?"
"Get out of here. If you get back to your ship now & get out of New Tech City, we can't do anything to stop you. Earth isn't under our jurisdiction yet, so, unless I was to actually arrest you in person, you aren't in any trouble."
"Really?"
"Yeah. Don't give me a chance to change my mind. Go!" he said.
Marvelous punched in the numbers into his Mobirate.
5-5-0-1
"Red Galleon!"
"You'll get us off the hook?"
"I'll try. Just remember, you're all under multiple counts of piracy until further notice."
"Yeah, we know. You won't do anything about it though."
The Galleon's ropes came down.
"Oh yeah? Why's that?"
"Because we're Earth's best shot at surviving this invasion & you'd do your best to let us go free!" Marvelous said, then they grabbed the ropes from the Galleon & were pulled up.
Cruger chuckled to himself. He then put his disguise mask back on to look human again & proceeded to walk to the station's door.
END