High above the Earth, inside the head ship of the Zangyack fleet, the four people in charge of the fleet were gathered on the bridge.
"Lord Oiles Gill," Insarn began, "We've monitored the Gokai Galleon going to the other side of the planet, Ahim De Famille disembarking and the Galleon heading back to Japan."
"Then this perfect opportunity to destroy the last of the Famille royals," Oiles Gill said loudly while waving his right arm around. Then he held his chin in his hand. "But how? You remember the last time we tried launching an overt attack against the entire planet."
They had tried attacking the whole planet at once shortly before they found out about the presence of the Gokaigers on Earth, but were repelled by a joint counter attack from G3 and S.P.D. Since then, they pulled back and decided to focus on less obvious attacks based in Japan in the hopes of destroying the Gokaigers.
"I believe I have a solution, Lord Oiles Gill," Damaras spoke up. "We will send one of our banished commanders to deal with the Famille woman."
"If they've been banished, then why would they take orders from us?" Oiles Gill asked.
"That's what we call our black ops division," Insarn explained. "Officially, they along with many gormin and zugormin have been banished from the empire. Unofficially, they still serve us but in ways that can't be traced back to the empire."
"I knew that," Oiles Gill lied, not fooling any of his subordinates for even a second. Of course, they would never let him know that.
"And I have the perfect one in mind," Damaras said. "Banished Action Commander Sonar. He was the commander in charge of destroying the Famille kingdom and I'm sure he'll be eager to finish his work."
"Excellent," Insarn said. "It'll look like he's tying up some loose ends. We won't have to worry about possible reprisals from G3 and S.P.D."
"Dispatch him at once," Oiles Gill commanded.
"Yes boss," Barizorg said with a bow.
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Illana and Ahim went to the mall after Ahim had changed into some clothes Illana was letting her borrow. The two of them went around the mall and visited the various shops. Ahim was enjoying the chance to experience common earth life. She was also taking note of how Americans treated shopping differently from the Japanese.
The two reunited friends were enjoying themselves greatly. Their good times came to end when they heard the sound of stores being ransacked. They were on the second level and looked towards the disturbance. Ahim recognized gormin committing the act. She knew they must have followed her to America and were causing havoc to lure her out. She also knew that she couldn't let the Americans suffer because the Zangyack were looking for her.
"I need to take care of this," Ahim said as she gave Illana the shopping bags she was carrying and took out her mobirate and her personal ranger key. "Gokai Change."
Ahim put the key into a keyhole on the mobirate, turned the key and held it out in front of her. The top part of the mobirate split apart and resembled two crossed swords.
"Goooooookaiger," the mobirate cried out as three Xs and a V passed over Ahim as she was transformed into a pink pirate themed costume with a pirate built into the helmet, a black visor and a pink skirt.
Taking out some of these gormin quickly will give me a great advantage, Ahim thought as she jumped over the railing, pressed a button on her belt buckle and pulled out a different ranger key. "Gokai change," she said as she inserted the key into her mobirate.
"Huuuuuuuuricanger," the mobirate cried out as Ahim landed on the mall's floor. She was now wearing a costume with a dark blue top and skirt with chainmail on the arms and legs. The costume had gold trimmings on the shin guards, gauntlets, helmet and shoulder pads. The helmet also had two small, gold arms reminiscent of those on a stag beetle and a staff strapped to the back.
Ahim jumped into the air and quickly streaked across the area, slashing gormin with her staff. She stopped after a few seconds and left about a dozen disabled gormin in her wake.
Three zugormin formed a firing line in front of Ahim and shot energy spheres at her. She split her staff into an octagon with an energy shield in the center and blocked the blasts. The force sent her back a bit, but she all right.
"Chou Ninppo," Ahim said as she lowered the shield, "Fang Lightning." Two streaks of blue lightning came from her horn and hit two of the zugormin, with leftover energy striking the third. They fell to the ground.
A group of gormin gathered behind Ahim and opened fire, launching the top of their clubs like missles. Ahim turned to face the attack and a gold robot flew in front of her and put up an energy shield to block it.
"Is that you, Illana?" Ahim asked. She knew Illana had a golden robotic armor, but this was her first time seeing it.
"That's right," Illana answered, her voice sounding slightly different through the armor. "I'm not going to let you deal with this alone." The Corrus armor's sensors detected several nearby enemies and Illana looked to see several zugormin on the second level preparing to open fire. Illana fired the armor's laser moved it over the group, stopping them.
Ahim jumped up and launched herself off of Corrus's shoulder towards the gormin whose attack Illana blocked. She then pulled out another ranger key and put it in her mobirate.
"Chaaaaaaaangeman," the mobirate cried out as Ahim was transformed into a pink and white costume with an energy blaster holstered on her left hip. While still in the air, Ahim pulled the blaster out and shot at the gormin.
Ahim landed on the ground and pulled out a part of the blaster that unfolded into a small shield. She also gripped the barrel as a long blade emerged. She slashed at some of the gormin while others tried to attack her. She blocked the attacks with the small shield and slashed them as well. Meanwhile, Illana started blasting the other forces with her laser.
A powerful sonic blast was shot at Illana from directly above her. She couldn't raise her shield in time and the blast sent her to the ground, creating a large dent. Her attacker dropped down next to her. He was a blue humanoid wearing silver armor with a symbol of a sound wave in the center. He had a silver helmet with a small tuning fork on it and was wielding a staff with a bigger tuning fork on the end.
"What a most fortuitous development," Banished Action Commander Sonar said as he looked down at the Corus armor, knowing who was inside it. He placed the tuning fork on his staff next to the armor and sent out a sonic pulse that disabled at it. "When I'm done killing the last of the Famille royals, I can bring you to General Modula for a handsome reward."
Ahim finished with the gormin and saw Illana incapacitated. Even worse, she recognized the one standing above her as Action Commander Sonar, the one who led the Zangyack force that destroyed her kingdom.
And now he's followed me to Earth, Ahim thought, endangering the Earthlings just to lure me out and now attacking Illana. Ahim prided herself on not being a vengeful person, but she was considering making an exception for Sonar.
Sonar pointed the tuning fork on his staff at Ahim as the one on his helmet began vibrating. The effect transferred to his staff and he fired a powerful sonic blast at Ahim. Ahim leapt to the side to dodge the blast. She was hurt a little bit and reverted to her Gokai Pink costume. The blast was so powerful that a grazing hit would still do damage.
Meanwhile, Illana was frantic inside her armor. She couldn't move at all and she couldn't exit it because the mechanism for recalling the armor had also been disabled. And while she sat helpless, her friend was dealing this fiend on her own.
But there was a silver lining to all this: she had heard Sonar's comment about General Modula. She finally knew who was behind the coup that had taken so much from her and her kingdom. She had no idea beside that who General Modula was, but she was hoping that Lance and Octus were more better informed than her.