Warning: This chapter contain some scenes of violence, torture to be specific.
Disclaimer: I don't own Super Sentai, but if I do, I would make Akibaranger official (They deserve :D )
"Who gave him the right to hurt Gai like that?" Luka said, with an angry look and clenched fists.
"This is part of Ken's style. What he did to Gai is nothing compared to what he did to a lot of innocents lives." Joe said, with a cold voice tone.
"Do you know him?" Don questioned, curious.
"Yes, he worked with Zangyack alongside with me and Sid-sempai. But he stayed with them… he is the kind of guy of fells pleasure in and torturing and in killing."
"This means Gai-san is in danger! We must save him before getting killed." Ahim put her hands in her chest in worry.
"But how do we will get the Ranger Keys? I mean, Gai is the only who knows where the past heroes are, how do we ask the keys to them in time?" Don asked to Marvelous, almost in panic.
"We won't ask them." Marvelous said, calm as ever. "I have a plan."
Everyone became quiet while Marvelous told them his plan.
That place were very dark and very silent, but Gai didn't feel lonely there. Ken is always with him… torturing him.
"Let's start…" Ken said, with a lot of desire. It's like torturing is what keeps him alive.
His sword slashed Gai in the chest, making a cross sign. Out of all of Ken's slashes, this one injured Gai at most. But Gai won't fight back. He lost his strength. He gave up and accepted all the pain.
"You know this is all you fault, don't you?" Ken said, while pointed his sword to Gai's face. "But tomorrow will be a good day, I'll kill you comrades and take their Ranger Keys."
"Don't think of laying a finger on my friends!" Gai ordered, finally trying to get rid of his chains and fight Ken.
"So be a good friend and get killed by me!" Ken shouted, kicking Gai in the neck, making him hit the wall.
Ken left, with Gai almost unconscious. He coughed just to see blood coming from his mouth. He got hurt many times but this is the first time he coughed blood. He was getting tired of that pain, he probably won't leave that place alive.
He just wanted the nightmare to end. He wanted to be killed already.
The Gokaigers spent the rest of the day planning what they should do. So in the other day they were ready to encounter Ken to free Gai of that hell and rescue him still alive. Marvelous was holding a treasure chest, ready to start the plan.
"You guys already know what to do. Joe and I will encounter Ken and you three will go to the planned place." Marvelous said, with his cool attitude, to Luka, Don and Ahim.
The trio nodded as Marvelous and Joe left. Luka was about to left as well when she felt Ahim grabbing her hand.
"I think this isn't the right time to say this. But I think you should consider saying to Gai-san about your feelings." Ahim said, with a rare serious look.
"I already said I don't like him, nor he likes me." Luka freed of Ahim's hand and started to walk.
"I'm just saying that he is in a real danger and maybe there is a chance that we couldn't find him alive. I just think you should have a chance to-"
"Please don't tell me… don't tell me he could be dead. I can't… I can't lost someone important to me again…" Luka was sobbing, trying hard to not cry.
Ahim did not understand at first but then she remembered that Luka had a younger sister who she couldn't save. Luka really wants to save someone important this time. She doesn't want to hear that there is a chance he couldn't be save.
"Aren't you two coming?" Don asked, seeing the girls far behind him.
"Yes, we are." Ahim put her shoulder on Luka, comforting her. She didn't know what should do but she wanted to say that the things will be fine. Luka nodded as the duo reached Don.
It's been a while since Ken was gone so Gai tried to sleep at least a little to escape of this hell he is suffering, but when he was almost falling asleep, Ken appeared. He approached Gai, picking in his face, with his sharp nails hurting the little boy's face.
"I'm going to kill your beloved teammates, Dinoryuu will be watching you." Ken said before leaving the place.
The only thing Gai could do was cry. He can't do anything do help his friends, he don't have any strength anymore and knowing how Ken is he will probably successfully kill his friends and later kill him. Why Ken just go and kill him fist? Gai just couldn't understand. If was to be killed, he wanted be killed already, he couldn't stand anymore.
"You stupid creature… kill me." Gai used what was left of his voice to talk to Dinoryuu.
"Why should I do this? Your cry is so good to see." He replied.
"I can't stand this anymore… please… kill me." Gai implored, crying.
Dinoryuu laughed seeing how Gai was imploring to be killed. To him, the young boy's despair sounded like music to his ears. But he agreed to that, killing is also something he loves to do. He prepared to shot the same beam to knocked Gai down before, but now more powerful, he just needed to more time to charge. Gai sighed, finally he will be free of this nightmare.
But when Dinoryuu was about to shot the beam, he was hit in the back.
"We won't let you hurt Gai anymore." A feminine voice said, she stepped forward and, in front of the little light the place had, Gai could recognize as Luka, transformed as GokaiYellow. She was accompanied by Don and Ahim, transformed as GokaiGreen and GokaiPink respectively and both of three was holding their Gokai Guns.
"You stupid. You shouldn't appear here when I was about to kill this boy. Now I'll kill you." Dinoryuu said as he moved forward of the three Gokaigers.
Luka switched her Gokai Gun with Don's Gokai Sabre so she could move forward to Dinoryuu slashing him while Don avoided him by shooting him. Ahim went to Gai's side and cut his chains with her Gokai Sabre. Gai only could watch and cheer that his friends do a better job than him.
Ahim put Gai in a safe place and joined Don and Luka in the fight. She slashed and shoot some times, before Don jump into Dinoryuu's head and start to hit many times with his guns. That made the creature unable to see or move, which gave liberty to Luka to slash him many times, until he fell unable to move, so the trio could use their Ranger Keys in their Gokai Sabers and finish Dinoryuu off with Final Wave as their weapons announced the attack.
After finish they went straight to Gai's direction.
"Luka-san, Don-san, Ahim-san… you are all here… for real… I can't believe I'm seeing your faces." Gai cried and hugged the trio. "I thought I'd never see you all again."
"Don't worry Gai-san, we are here and we won't leave anymore." Ahim said, hugging him back.
"They won't hurt you anymore." Don added, hugging him as well.
Luka couldn't think in any comforting words, just wanted to hug him in that moment.
Meanwhile Marvelous and Joe arrived to the place they marked to encounter with Ken. Minutes after Ken appeared completely alone and holding his sword.
"Where are my treasure?" Ken asked, with an evil smile in his face.
"It's here." Marvelous opened his Treasure Chest, full of Ranger Keys. All the 199 are there. "Now where is Gai?"
"First the Ranger Keys, or you will never find your friend anymore."
Marvelous sighed as he moved forward to Ken to hand over the keys. Ken picked up the keys just to throw the chest away which made both Marvelous and Joe in shock.
"This is not what I wanted from you." Ken protested in anger. "I think you all don't care about the life of your friend."
Marvelous and Joe gave a little smile which made Ken confused. Then he was shot in the back. Turning around he saw Luka, Don and Ahim with their Gokai Guns pointed to him. Marvelous and Joe also pointed their weapons to Ken.
"Stop if your stupid death threats. Gai is safe now." Luka taunted.
"Don't think you can fool pirates. Now we won't have any mercy of you." Marvelous added.
The team was about to fight when Ken laughed hard in front of everyone. "You still will give me what I want. And this time I hope you gave me the right thing." He said to Marvelous before leave, without do anything to anyone, which made the Gokaigers very confused.
After everyone arrived in GokaiGalleon Ahim checked Gai's wounds, he was terribly injured, some wounds were deep and just for some miracle he didn't have broken bones. While Ahim put some bandages in Gai's body Navi flew to him, both were emotionally happy to see each other.
"I still don't understand why Ken left so easily. And how he noticed our Ranger Keys were fake?" Joe wondered, after making some crunches.
"That guy is just a fucking perfectionist." Marvelous said. "Well, I'll buy something to eat, we are all hungry. I'll bring something special to Gai."
"Then I'm going too." Joe followed Marvelous, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I finished to take care of Gai-san's wounds so I'm going too." Ahim said, smiling. "Hakase-san, come with me?"
"M-Me? But how about Gai?" Don asked, confused.
"Luka-san will take care of him. So let's go, come." Ahim take Don's hand and left, winking to Luka.
The entire quartet left, leaving Gai and Luka alone. They were awkwardly in silence, they simply could not say a word, it don't come out. Just after a while Luka finally managed to break the silence.
"Why… why you did that?" She asked, with an extremely low voice tone. "Why you risked your life like that? You said you wanted to fight together with us so why?"
"I know I said that but when I saw you in danger my body just moved by his own." He answered, smiling a bit.
"If you weren't so injured I'd beat you so hard." Luka said, with eyes full of tears. "You don't know how much I was worried about you. You are such a reckless guy. If you had died then I… then I… would probably…"
Luka went straight to Gai's arms in a hug, crying. Even thought that pained a little bit he didn't care at all, he was shocked to see how much Luka cared about him, he didn't even think she cared about him. That was the first time he saw his friend shedding tears and he finally understood that inside a powerful girl was an also fragile girl who cares about people.
"Luka-san, don't cry. I'll try my max to don't make you cry anymore" Gai smiled, wiping her tears.
They looked to each other for a while, when Gai placed his lips on Luka's. He didn't know why he did that, he just wanted. He probably will take a beating for doing this but he didn't care. Part of Luka wanted to hit Gai but she doesn't want to fight with her feelings anymore. She just wanted to enjoy the moment.
"You all forgot I'm here." Navi said flying around the couple, but they didn't notice.
Making their way to found some food, Ahim decided to start a conversation with Don in order to keep him distracted. Marvelous in other hand was lost in thoughts, which was keeping him behind the two pirates.
"Is something bothering you?" Joe asked, interrupting Marvelous' thoughts.
"Nothing in particular…" He said, calm as ever. "I was just thinking about how it was bringing Gai back."
"I knew you are worried about him after all."
Marvelous just smiled. As Joe predicted, he is someone who cares and will always care about his comrades' safety.
"Caring about someone. I always feel like that." Joe smiled, putting his hand at Marvelous' shoulder before joining Don and Ahim.
Marvelous was left, confused.
I know Dinoryuu is such a stupid name but I such so much to give name to things .
I hope you all have enjoyed this chapter, the Luka/Gai scenes and the little Marv/Joe scene in the end :D
See you later!