Pikatwig: So… the day this will be released, August 12th, will be the day that Ninja Steel finally airs another episode after having been on hiatus since March. …*looks to a picture of the Power Rangers movie* ...stop airing the TV show that mainly targets little kids for a movie your target audience can't go to see. Brilliant move there, Saban.
KKD: Hey, I'm no marketing guy, but I'm sure that two properties of current relevance competing for attention and subsequent merchandise, even in the same company, would be bad for business.
Pikatwig: ...k. Anyway, few other things to comment on in rapid succession. The day this was began, August 5th, a few things occurred. First off, I saw a few episodes of the new Cartoon Network show, 'Ok KO, Let's Be Heroes'. It's pretty good. Oh, and you'll get a kick out of this. One of the two VAs for KO, yes that is seriously his name, is Stephanie Nadolny. AKA, original voice actor for the lead of Ryu Sphere.
KKD: Wow… she's done a lot over the many years she's worked, and is known as one of the first voices for Young-Teen Gohan. Surprised she's involved in that.
Pikatwig: Heck, it's her first non-anime role.
KKD: Wow...
Pikatwig: Next, the sounds for the Doctor Mighty XX Gashat have been revealed. ...originally, I thought the people doing the singing for the Gashat were Emu's actor and Parad's actor. Then I learned it was the actor for Kiriya and Dan who did it. ...certainly surprising.
KKD: Huh… I did not call that one.
Pikatwig: And Japan has unvealed something for Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon… a new form for Lycanroc, Dusk form.
KKD: I think I saw that somewhere, and from what I can tell… it's just a recolor of Lycanroc's Day Form.
Pikatwig: Has elements from its night form mixed in. Also… my guess as to why this was revealed… in the anime, Ash's Rockruff is due to evolve soon. Olivia has the day Lycanroc and Gladion has the night Lycanroc. Ash's Rockruff will most likely turn into the Dusk form.
KKD: I see…
Pikatwig: So… all that I wanted to get out of the way now. Anything you wanna say?
KKD: ...No, I think I'm ok for now.
Pikatwig: Alright, let's begin.
Disclaimers: Neither Pikatwig nor KKD Silver own the rights to anything used in here except for any original content within. The rest belong to Saban Brands, Toei, NamcoBandai, and their respective owners.
Hoku returned outside his house and headed on in, seeing Karone was working on making dinner.
"Oh, hi Hoku. How was your day?" she asked.
"...it was good…" he began, "Hey, um… I was just doing some stuff today and then… transformed."
However, Karone just gave Hoku a confused glance.
"...into something red…"
She simply gave im another confused look.
"...I did, really!" he yelled.
Karone still gave her son a confused look before he headed for his room. Karone simply continued to work on cooking, but then...
=LEO STAR SPHERE!=
"Huh?" she blinked.
=SAY THE CHANGE!=
Hearing this, Karone walked over to Hoku's room and opened the door. She then saw the Red Star Defender Ranger standing in the room and looking over his suit before he turned to look at her.
"...this was what I was trying to get at. Cool, huh?" Red smiled, but Karone was silent, "...you processing this still?"
Karone gave a simple nod in response.
"Alright, fair."
"...just so you know, we're having chicken tonight," she informed.
"Ok." Red nodded as he gave her a thumbs up before she left.
(Theme Song: Go, Fly, Win, by Ron Wasserman)
When you need a hero to protect the place you live
Fighting Monsters all around who try to get within
Awesome power, no surrender, Rangers never fall.
Look to the sky as they arrive, when you hear this ca~ll~...
Go! Power Ranger!
Fly! Power Ranger!
Win! Power Ranger
Here we go!
Go! Power Ranger!
Fly! Power Ranger!
Win! Power Ranger!
Here we go!
Power Rangers Star Defenders
Episode 02: The Rebellion Base
"So… you're a Power Ranger now," Karone commented as Hoku sat down across from her, having set his Comet Morpher and the Leo Star Sphere on the table between them.
"Yea… I am," he responded, "I got chosen by this sphere here."
Karone gave a nod in response, showing she was understanding what her son meant. They both began to eat before she noticed that Hoku was looking at an empty seat.
"...was dad a Power Ranger?" Hoku curiously asked.
"Yeah, he was," she nodded, "And quite the Ranger he was, too."
"Were you on the same team?"
"Mm-hmm," she nodded.
Hoku gave a small nod in response as he resumed eating, not quite sure how to continue the conversation just yet.
"I'm sure he'd be proud of you being a Ranger," Karone smiled, "I know I am."
"Yeah…" he nodded, "...now I can finally make the stars smile as bright as your smile."
Karone simply giggled at this, happy to know her son was able to fulfill that wish.
-There are five of these new Rangers?- Insidior growled, talking to Sagittarrow via a hologram as the general stood in his command ship,-...Sagittarrow… do you remember what you told me when we originally learned that there was a rebellion, but no Rangers?-
"Of course. 'When the New United Alliance of Evil's operations are targeted on an ongoing basis, it could signify more than the theft of a few crates; it could signify the spark of rebellion. Next time they make a move, we'll be waiting for them… to snuff out that spark before it catches fire'. Why?"
-That spark has gotten bigger…-
"We are making preparations to deal with them as we speak-"
-ENOUGH DELAYS!-Insidior shouted, his eyes glowing red as the burst of rage was enough to launch the general into a nearby wall, even though it was just a hologram -SiniSting has been working on using their communication to locate their base. When he gives you that result, which will be within the next day of Sirius time, you must go there, destroy that base, destroy the Commander, the Power Rangers, and claim the Star Spheres. Do you understand?-
"A-At once, Lord Insidior!" Sagittarrow nodded and bowed before the higher general cut the connection.
-So… we have the child of Astronema as a Power Ranger…- Bullbot began as he looked over their databanks on Astronema, -Are you guys sure that's good?-
-The Star Spheres don't make mistakes.- Theta reminded.
"I honestly think the Taurus Star Sphere choosing him was a mistake, but whatever," Connie shrugged.
-I just said the Star Spheres don't make mistakes.-
"I was just saying my opinion…"
-Oh. My mistake,- Theta apologized, -Regardless, the Commander has ordered we send somebody down to teach Hokulele about how to use the Comet Morpher. I have determined the best possible person for that task is Connie.-
"Wait, what?! Why me?!" Connie yelled.
-You are human, just like he is. It is very likely that you would be the best tutor to make sure he understands the morphing technology. Be sure to take the hologram emitter to make sure you aren't seen while you train with him.-
Connie growled in annoyance a bit as she just grabbed the item and glared at Theta, "You owe me big time!"
-Have fun, cutie,- Bullbot stated.
"Shut up!" Connie yelled as she teleported off.
Connie arrived on Mirinoi and walked over to the forests where her Comet Morpher had tracked Hoku's Star Sphere to, "Well… this is the place. Strange that he doesn't live in Terra Venture, but whatever."
The girl in green was about to knock on the door when she remembered who his mother was. She nervously took out her Chameleon Star Sphere and had it in her hand as she knocked on the door.
"Coming!" she heard a voice answer from behind the door as Karone opened the door, "Hello."
"Uh… hi…" Connie nervously responded.
Karone looked at Connie for a moment before seeing the Comet Morpher, "Oh, you must be one of Hoku's teammates, right?"
"...yeah."
"Come on in," Karone smiled as she motioned for Connie to walk in.
Connie did so and saw the house was completely made of wood and tile, much less high tech than what she was expecting, and the only high tech things in the house was in the kitchen and the living room. She took note of these things as Hoku was cleaning some dishes, "Hey."
"Oh?" he blinked as he turned to Connie, "Hi Connie."
She was silent for a moment, ready to snark at him again, but didn't do so, 'For all I know… insulting him could bring on his mom's wrath. …I'd better keep my cool as long as she's nearby…'
"What brings you by?" Hoku asked as he finished up with the last dish and put it into the dryer.
"Oh. The Commander told Theta to send me to teach you how to use the Morpher…" she informed.
"Ok," Hoku nodded as he headed to his room to go get it.
"So, you new to Mirinoi, Connie?" Karone inquired.
"...yeah. This is my first time on this planet," Connie informed, "I was born on Earth."
"So was Hoku, actually," Karone informed, "His name is actually from a term from the Hawaiian islands."
"Hokulele is 'shooting star', right?"
"Yea," Karone nodded, "He was my own little shooting star in this crazy universe, shining a light even as the universe grew darker."
The girl in green simply gave a small smile in response to that, 'For a former evil queen… she's surprisingly really nice. She must be really good at either hiding her old persona or forgetting it completely. ...still, I feel kind of sorry for her for her having given birth to that doofus. He's a neat doofus, but a doofus nonetheless.'
"Ready," Hoku smiled as he walked out with his Morpher and the Star Sphere.
"Ok, follow me," she told him as she walked outside.
"Why?"
Connie wordlessly set down the hologram generator and the area outside the house now looked like the inside of the spaceship the Star Defender Rangers used.
"Huh? What's this?" Hoku asked.
"Hologram technology. It was given to the Rebellion by your uncle," Connie informed, "We can train pretty much anywhere anytime."
"Wow…" Hoku gawked as he looked around.
"And even better, unless somebody is looking to where the hologram is projecting, they can't see it."
"That sounds pretty cool…"
"Now then, let's begin," Connie smiled, "So, alone, your Morpher acts as a communicator and the teleporter if you're unable to contact anybody."
"Your pilot did talk out of my Morpher the other day…"
"You press the clear segment in order to initiate contact. You press it twice to initiate a teleport. It has a limited range, so it can't be used to go back to a spaceship," Connie continued, "You can only return to the spaceship we use as our base of operations away from the main base if we're still in orbit. Otherwise, you gotta summon a Zord."
Hoku gave a nod in response.
"The other features can be accessed when you insert a Star Sphere, either a morphing one like your Leo and my Chameleon, or with a skill Sphere that can enhance your abilities or do other things."
"Alright…" Hoku nodded.
"A forward motion, as you know, morphs you into a Ranger," Connie spoke as she put in her Star Sphere without the spin, "Also note, the Star Sphere won't activate anything unless you do the spin motion."
"Why not?"
"I don't know," Connie admitted, "My guess is that it's a sort of failsafe. Regardless, I'll show you the other capabilities, but nothing will actually happen when I move the Star Sphere since it's like this."
"Noted," Hoku stated.
Connie then titled the Star Sphere backwards.
=SAY THE ATTACK!=
"This will typically activate a finishing move with your morphing Star Sphere or activate the ability of whatever skill Star Sphere you insert, and those abilities can range from enhancing a natural ability to summoning an object. Speaking of summoning..." Connie explained before tilting the sphere leftwards.
=SAY THE SUMMONING!=
"Tilting it to the left allows you to summon your Zord, which is usually the best means of escape if things get too hairy or if we need to fight much larger foes as you may have noticed back on Sirius."
"You went where now?" Karone spoke up, revealing she was watching the two.
"He bumped into us while we were on a mission and we accidentally teleported him off our ship when we found out he was on it," Connie quickly lied, "I deeply apologize for that.
"Ok…" Karone nodded
"Nice save," Hoku whispered.
Connie just nodded in response before turning back to her morpher and tilting it to the right.
=SAY THE COMBINATION!=
"This was a recent discovery for us since we couldn't do it before, but as you know, this allows our zords to combine and form our Megazord, the formations vary depending on what Zords are where when this is activated," she informed, "For instance, my Zord was initially the left arm, but if my Zord were closer to one of the legs, it'd go there instead."
"Talk about a lot of combinations," Hoku commented.
"Some past teams have had different Zords form different arms, but the fact you can mix and match to whatever whim is certainly new," Karone commented.
"Now then, the most important part that you need to make sure you always remember," Connie informed, "The Morphing call and pose. If you don't say the correct phrase or do the right pose prior to pulling the trigger to activate the morph, then it won't work."
"Gotcha. So, what's the first step to the morph? Just wanna make sure I got all the steps right,"
"Ok, hang on," Connie stated as she took out her Star Sphere, "First off, you need to spin the Star Sphere, like so."
She spun the Star Sphere so the picture within it was completed.
"Ok… I got that part."
"Next you load it in, do the forward tilt, and say 'Star Defender', or 'Star Defenders' if there's more than one of you, flip the grip, and then comes the rest of the posing. This can be complicated or easy to forget at times, so listen and watch carefully."
Hoku nodded in response.
"So after you make the call of 'Star Defender' or 'Star Defenders' and flipping the grip, you spin your arms like this," she began rotating her arms above her head from her left to her right before bending her knees with the morpher aimed at the ground, "Don't forget to make sure you and your morpher face the ground at first, and once you're ready, say 'Awaken' before pulling the trigger. This you have more free reign over as you can aim it anywhere. Typically it's aimed at the ground, but if you aim it in front of you, the resulting star to start the morph can give you an added barrier to protect you from incoming attacks before you're ready. But once you pull the trigger, the transformation will start. Got all that?"
"Think so," Hoku nodded, "Alright… think we can demonstrate it for my mom?"
"I'll go first," Connie said as she took the Star Sphere out of her morpher and stood ready, "Star Spin."
She properly spun the Star Sphere before setting it into her Comet Morpher.
=CHAMELEON STAR SPHERE!=
Connie then quickly tilted the sphere forward and prepared the grip.
=SAY THE CHANGE!=
"Star Defender..." she began before rotating around, "Awaken!"
Aiming her morpher to the ground, she pulled the morphing trigger, causing the star from before to appear and then it was followed by the constellation before the suit formed over Connie and the image on her Star Sphere forming her helmet.
"Green… Star Defender Ranger!" she yelled.
"Nice job," Karone smiled, "That's quite the transformation and pretty flashy."
"Thank you," Green smiled.
"Guess it's time for me to test this out," Hoku smirked before preparing his Star Sphere, "Star Spin!"
=LEO STAR SPHERE!=
=SAY THE CHANGE!=
"Star Defender!" Hoku declared after he pulled the trigger handle, posed like Green did before and smiled widely, "AWAKEN!"
He then morphed into the Red Ranger and posed a bit, "Red… Star Defender Ranger!"
"Not bad, for a newbie," Green admitted.
"Very well done, Hoku," Karone smiled and clapped, "You were also really impressive, Connie."
"Wow… thank you," Green smiled.
"Thanks a lot, Connie," Red added.
Green simply nodded a bit before her Morpher beeped a bit, "Oh. Theta, something wrong?"
-I detected an enemy ship entering Mirinoi orbit. The other Rangers are already on their way.-
"Ok," Green nodded.
"Good luck," Karone told her son.
"Thanks mom," Red smiled.
The duo was about to head off, but Green stopped, "Oh! Right! I gotta bring Hoku to Eltar to meet the commander. It ok?"
"Yeah," Karone nodded.
"Just making sure," she responded as she took the hologram emitter and hurried off with Red.
"Thanks for the lesson. I hope we can become great teammates and friends in the future."
"Teammates, certainly I don't have much of a choice there. Friends? That's stretching it a bit, rookie."
Red simply shrugged a bit before they both moved their Star Spheres leftwards.
=SAY THE SUMMONING!=
The two were soon surrounded by the giant versions of their Star Spheres, which hovered up and attached onto their flying zords.
The five Zords arrived at Terra Venture where they saw the enemy robot starting to attack the city with the locals.
"Let's move guys!" Red yelled as he moved the Star Sphere rightwards.
=SAY THE COMBINATION!=
The Leo Star Zord transformed like it did before, and the Lupus Zord attached as the left leg again, but the Taurus Zord became the right arm, the Dorado Zord the left arm, and the Chameleon Zord the right leg.
=STAR DEFENDER MEGAZORD!=
"Is that a Megazord?!" somebody yelled as they saw the Megazord stare off the enemy robot.
The crowds got into a bit of an uproar at the sight of the Megazord staring down the robot.
"So what's going on here?" Red checked with his team.
"An Advanced Invaker's trying to get a promotion by using one of the Conquest Bots to try and drain the planet of energy for the NUAE to power their equipment," Yellow explained.
Red simply growled a bit as the Megazord rushed in, the red, silver, and black Conquest Bot tried to slam down on the Megazord, only for the Taurus arm to block the attack before Yellow shoved the Dorado arm out to slash at the giant machine a couple times.
"Let's switch things back to the default," Yellow suggested before Red nodded and the Megazord assumed default formation.
"Think it's time you try out one of the skill Star Spheres, rookie," Green suggested.
"How do I do that?" Red asked.
"Idiot…" Green muttered.
"Excuse me? You didn't tell me how to do it!"
Green was about to respond, but realized that he was right. She sighed quickly before tapping her Comet Morpher.
"Theta? Quick rundown on the Star Sphere summoning and the skill Spheres for the rookie?" Green sighed.
-Roger. As you heard, Star Spheres come in both Morph and Skill varieties. We have a majority of the Skill Spheres at the HQ, so just tap your buckle and tell us what you need for this situation. In this case, I'll send you a Sphere that'll give you a defensive boost,- Theta informed, -Once I send it, you can pull it out from your buckle.-
"Ok," Red nodded as his buckle had a small flash and he took out a light blue Star Sphere with a design of a shield with a star in the middle.
-This is the Star Sphere with the power of the Scutum constellation, granting you a force field of sorts.- Theta informed.
"Great. Just what we need," Red grinned, "Star Spin!"
"Incoming electro blast!" Blue shouted as Red set in the new sphere.
=SCUTUM STAR SPHERE!=
"Now to tilt back…" Red muttered, tilting the sphere backwards.
=SAY THE ATTACK!=
The Conquest Bot suddenly launched purple lightning at the Megazord, but Red's cockpit changed to match the Scutum Star Sphere as a shield of energy appeared in front of the Megazord to block the attack. Then it spun the blast back off before spinning right into the Conquest Bot, the Advanced Invaker screaming in pain as the bot exploded.
"The universe will know the name of the Star Defenders!" Red smiled.
The five Rangers were teleported back to the ship and their Zords headed off.
"So… what was Red's mom like?" Yellow asked as Red looked around the ship a bit.
"Honestly? She was pretty dang nice," Green admitted, "I feel sorry that she gave birth to that doofus there, but she was a nice lady."
-Really?- Black blinked.
"Yea, shocking, I know. But she really does seem to have been purified of any evil after the Z-Wave," Green whispered.
"You still live with your folks?" Blue asked.
"Just my mom, really. I don't know where my dad is," Red admitted.
"Maybe he's doing his duties as a Ranger, assuming he is a Ranger," Blue guessed.
-So, are we able to head for the Rebellion HQ?- Theta asked.
"His mom said it was fine if we head to Eltar."
-Good.-
"I still can't believe I'm going to be going to Eltar! I'll actually see where the great Zordon used to live. This is gonna be so exciting! Oh! Can I take pictures to show my mom? I'll bet she'll want to see it!"
-Momma's boy…- Black muttered.
"Hey!"
-Commander, we're on our way.- Theta informed
-Excellent!-
As they said this, the ship began to take off.
-Initiating warp drive.- Theta smiled.
"Oh no…" Green muttered as the warp drive activated without any time for any of the Rangers to grab onto something.
Unknown to them, SiniSting watched as he managed to trace the signal of the communication between the ship and the Rangers…
The group arrived at the moon-like planetoid and began to go into orbit before Hoku, Doggie, Connie, Bullbot and Mako were teleported to the surface of the planet.
"Wow…" Hoku gawked, "It looks amazing…"
Doggie nervously looked around as numerous different species roamed around, uneased by the multiple species around him at first as the five soon arrived at the main building, which looked like a statue of a man with long curly hair, a massive beard and mustache, holding up a large club, and around his waist that poked out of the ground was a sort of belt which, from above, had nine hangar doors with various colors and designs on them, but only five had those matching each of the Star Defender Rangers and their zords.
"Come on you two," Connie told Hoku and Doggie as she guided them in, "Hi Theta 18."
-Hello,- a robot that looked almost just like the Theta on their ship responded.
"Uh… isn't she on the ship?" Hoku blinked in confusion.
"Theta is a much more mass-produced model than the Alpha series of robots, and each has their own codename. Our Theta is called 'Theta Nep' because she was first activated on the planet known as Neptune," Mako explained as he walked by a machine that dispensed water, using it to fill up the headphones on his neck to supply fresh water, "Good water…"
"Uh..?" Hoku blinked a bit.
"I come from a planet that is pretty much covered in water and while my race can breathe air, we need to breathe water like fish in order to survive," Mako explained.
"Oh," Hoku nodded.
"Hi Commander Shou," Connie greeted the dragon as he approached the team.
"Hello Power Rangers!" Shou greeted as he bowed to the team, the three who were already Rangers bowing back out of respect as Doggie and Hoku stared a bit, "The name's Shou Stellar, Commander of the Rebellion against the NUAE."
"You're a dragon…?" Hoku questioned.
"Yes, I am," he confirmed, "Is there a problem with that?"
"No. I just couldn't tell."
"It's a pleasure to meet you in person Hoku, Doggie," Shou smiled, patting Hoku on the head, "Another child of a past Power Ranger is on our side."
"There are other children of past Rangers here?" Hoku blinked.
"Indeed," Shou nodded, "Though, they don't say who their parents are out of fear they may get hurt. Makes sense seeing that status makes them big targets of the NUAE."
"Can we at least know who they are amongst us?"
"Well…" Shou started as Connie looked nervous while Hoku and Doggie simply continued to look at the commander, "...I can't tell you due to respecting the wishes of that person."
Hoku and Doggie nearly fell over in response.
"But if they wish to tell you, I'm sure you'll find out." Shou smiled.
"So… uh… can I take some pictures of this place? I kinda wanted to show my mom the place that I'll be spending a decent chunk of my time at."
"As long as it's not anything in here, it's ok," Shou nodded.
Hoku smiled and walked on off with a camera in tow.
"...there's somebody here who's the child of a past Power Ranger?" Mako blinked.
"I'm not permitted to inform even you who that person is, Mako," Shou informed.
The others simply sighed while Connie simply mouthed 'thank you' to the commander.
"I thought we had blown up Eltar…" Sagittarow commented, "How in the galaxy did it survive?"
"The Rebellion must've used some sort of cloaking technology," Skullstal figured, "I've gathered our forces, some of our most powerful bounty hunters, and all of our Conquest Bots to ensure that the base can not be used ever again."
Hoku began to snap pictures as he was given the tour of the planet alongside Doggie by another Theta. The two looked amazed at how technologically advanced the planet looked with flying cars above, tall skyscrapers reaching for miles, and numerous ships that resembled the Astro Megaship and Terra Venture.
"This is incredible," Hoku stated in amazement as he took pics, "I can't wait to see everything that this base has to offer."
Before they could go further, an alarm blared in the main station.
"What's going on?" Doggie asked.
-Numerous space ships passing through the area nearby the planet. They are approaching at a rapid pace; we need to simply remain calm. We are sending recon ships to investigate.-
A loud explosion then occurred and the cloaking device that surrounded Eltar had fallen, revealing thousands upon thousands of NUAE ships.
"Oh no…" Doggie gulped.
Inakers were dumped down onto the planet's surface in several waves. Some people quickly grabbed blasters and began to fire at them, some began to flee, and others simply stared in fear.
-Power Rangers, defend the people! Everybody else, begin evacuation plan delta!- Commander Shou quickly yelled.
"Looks like we gotta hurry. Come on!" Hoku shouted as he and the other four Rangers prepared their Star Spheres.
=LEO/LUPUS/TAURUS/CHAMAELEON/DORADO STAR SPHERE!=
=SAY THE CHANGE!=
"Star Defenders awaken!" they all yelled as they quickly fired the shots and morphed.
"Red…" the Red Ranger began as he kicked at some foes, "Star Defender Ranger!"
"Blue…" the Blue Ranger began as he summoned his weapon, which had the axe blade connected to the front and folded up to look like claws, "Star Defender Ranger!"
-Black…- the Black Ranger yelled as he rammed into some Invakers like a football player, -Star Defender Ranger!-
"Green…" the Green Ranger began as she turned invisible and then kicked some foes before turning visible again, "Star Defender Ranger!"
"Yellow…" the Yellow Ranger added in, slashing up Invakers with his Star Saber and stabbing them with his helmet's 'nose', "Star Defender Ranger!"
The five Rangers continued to battle the Invakers and Advanced Invakers as they headed over, but soon saw enemy space ships begin to attack their ships.
"Rangers! Go fight those ships!" Shou yelled.
"...what do you want us to do? Fight the guys on the ground or the guys in space?" Red quickly asked.
"Three of you in space, two of you on the ground!" Shou yelled as he got back into the main base.
"...Yellow, Black and Blue in space, me and Green down here," Red shrugged.
"Works for me," Yellow and Blue shrugged.
-I have a problem with this plan. Why do you get to stay down here with the cutie?- Black demanded to know.
"STOP CALLING ME THAT!" Green snapped.
"That's why," Red informed.
The other trio simply nodded as they quickly tilted their Star Spheres leftwards.
=SAY THE SUMMONING!=
=LUPUS/TAURUS/DORADO STAR ZORD!=
The three were soon in their cockpits as the Star Zords emerged from the belt around the Orion-like statue and took off into space with the three Rangers. Red and Green continued to slash and kick off the Invakers as two Advanced Invakers grabbed onto Green.
"Hey! Let her go!" Red yelled as he jumped into the air and slashed at the Advanced Inavkers, "You ok?"
"Yea… didn't need you to save me, but… thanks I guess," she shrugged as she saw a squid monster roam over, cackling insanely as he lashed out at the other Rebellion forces, "What the…?"
"Gimme some cover and I'll strike him," Red told Green as he rushed over to the squid, leaving Green to fire her Comet Morpher to distracted the monster.
"Stupid Power Rangers think you can save this universe?!" the monster yelled, laughing as he tried to lash at Red, the Ranger slashing away before Green managed to land a few shots on him, "None can stop the younger brother of Skullstal, Spacid!"
"This guy's tougher than he looks," Red noted.
"Brother of a general in Dark Specter's forces, yea I would think he'd be tough," Green commented, "But I think we can handle."
Red nodded as Green summoned her Star Rapier and rushed in with him to attack as fast as they could.
Up in space, the trio of Zords continued to cover the escaping ships, blasting laser fire at the incoming NUAE ships as the Dorado Star Zord charged through a few of the weaker ones. However, some ships had managed to get through and damage ships on the side of the Rebellion.
-Attention Rebellion,- SiniSting began via an intercom on his ship, -Your time defying the New United Alliance of Evil is over. We have you surrounded, and you cannot escape. However, if you surrender, those who do will be allowed a trial. Those who resist will be destroyed alongside the Power Rangers.-
-Will those guys ever shut up?- Black groaned.
"Don't give them an inch!" Blue snapped as his Zord spun into another NUAE ship, shredding it up and allowing for more ships to get by and engage their warps to flee, "Keep going! Don't let the general's words deter you and you go and survive!"
"You heard the canine, troops! Hurry and get out of here!"
"I got an idea!" Red stated, "Do you have the ability to turn your thing into a sword?"
"Yeah…" she nodded as she rearranged her weapon into the Star Sword.
"Let's hit this guy with a double Galaxy!"
Green looked at him and shrugged before they inserted their Star Spheres into the backs of their swords.
=GALAXY!=
"REGULUS/ALPHA CHAMELEONTIS… SLASH!"
The red slash and green slash turned into an X shape and the slash was sent flying at the space squid monster. He tried to block with an electrical blast, but the slash blasted through his electric burst and collided with him.
"No! This cannot be! I cannot be defeated by you puny rebels!" he yelled in anguish before blowing up.
"And that handles that," Red smirked before his morpher gave a small beep, "Yes?"
-We're gonna need you in space. Our flagship is about to get out of here, but we need the Megazord to distract the enemy!- their Theta informed.
"Ok," Red nodded.
=SAY THE SUMMONING!=
=LEO/CHAMELEON STAR ZORD!=
The two Rangers quickly took to their incoming zords and headed into orbit.
"All five Power Rangers…" SiniSting laughed, "I'm going to deal with them."
"How?" Sagittarow inquired.
"Ship, convert to Megazord form."
With that, the black, blue and silver ship twisted around and transformed into a robot, the right arm equipped with a lance, the left equipped with a gatling gun, and the head having seven hexagonal green eyes with a grey mouthpiece.
"Since when did you have this?!"
SiniSting was silent in response.
"Megazord, from now!" Red yelled as he pulled the Star Sphere on his Morpher.
=SAY THE COMBINATION!=
With that, the Leo Star Zord transformed as the Lupus and Chamaeleon Star Zords attached to become the arms while the Dorado and Taurus Star Zords attached to form the legs, the cockpits lighting up in order of Blue, Green, Black, Yellow and Red.
=STAR DEFENDER MEGAZORD!=
SiniSting gave a smirk as he had his Zord fly in to engage the Megazod.
Unknown to the enemy forces, the station where Commander Shou was started to take off, showing it was the Rebellion Flagship. The vessel took off and soared quickly into the air, despite the large size, before it engaged warp drive and got away.
-Guys, it's our turn.- Theta told the Rangers as their ship pulled above the Megazord, revealing to look similar to the AstroMegaship with the exception of it being silver, black and yellow. The Rangers teleported out of the Megazord, the Zords quickly teleporting away, and then the Ranger ship engaged warp drive.
"They got away!" Sagittarow yelled in anger.
"We'll get them next time. For now, we actually make sure this planet blows up!" SiniSting stated.
Onboard the Rangers' ship, Theta sighed as the Rangers walked in, all helmetless, as they began to gather their thoughts.
"Well… are we going to another base?" Connie inquired.
-No,- Theta sighed, -I was only given enough time to gather some of the Star Spheres, a data drive with something the Commander said was important, and you guys. He didn't tell me what base to go to.-
"Well we need to go somewhere," Connie commented.
"Let's worry about that in a bit. Let's see what Star Spheres we have right now," Mako suggested.
Theta gave a nod as she set down a Star Sphere with the Bootes constellation, one with the Telescopium constellation, one with the Cancer constellation, one with the Pisces constellation, the Scutum Star Sphere, a Star Sphere with the Gemini constellation, one with the Aries constellation, one with the Pegasus constellation, one with an arrow on it to represent Sagittarius, one with the Virgo constellation on it, one with the Lepus constellation on it, one with what looked to be a small lion on it for Leo Minor, and a pink one that seemed to look like a goggle-wearing spiky haired character.
"We have Bootes, Telescopium, Cancer, Pisces, Scutum, Gemini, Aries, Pegasus, Sagittarius, Virgo, Lepus, Leo Minor, and the star cluster where Mirinoi is," he commented as he picked up the last one, "So… what does this one do?"
"We have no idea," Connie informed, "We've never been able to get that one to work."
"Well… let's try it," Hoku smiled, "Star Spin."
However, the Star Sphere would not even turn.
"Huh?" he blinked as he attempted to get it to spin, "It won't spin…"
"See?" Connie scoffed.
-It's as if we need to find where it came from, or even the Lost Galaxy to get that to work,- Bullbot added sarcastically, hefting a large weight over his shoulder, -Still… that's 18 including our five morphing Star Spheres out of like… 90 or something like that?-
-These were the only ones I could get on the rush out, Dumbot.-
"It's better than nothing. Maybe the Commander got the others before the fire got too much for the soup," Mako suggested.
The group sat in silence as Theta began to analyze the data drive, -Huh. It's a coat to mask the energy signature of Star Spheres. …I don't know if that's good or not.-
"Assuming that they used our Star Sphere energy signatures to track us, it's good," Connie commented, "My dad's a pal with a scientist, so I can get him to give us what we need to make it."
"So… what should we do apart from that?" Doggie asked.
-The commander simply said to find the remaining four Rangers. In the meantime, I can cloak our ship when we land to hide the energy signatures. The less we get the NUAE on our backs the better,- Theta informed as she resumed looking at the warp energy, -Question is… where do we go?-
Hoku thought for a moment before he smiled, "I have an idea."
"Hey, mom," Hoku called out as he returned home, now demorphed, "Is it okay if some pals of mine stay here a little while?"
"I don't see why not. As long as they don't cause any trouble," Karone figured as Hoku let the other four Rangers in, "Mind introducing me?"
"Well you already know Connie, but these are Bullbot, Doggie and Mako, our Black, Blue and Yellow Rangers respectively."
Karone gave a smile to the three, but Bullbot, Doggie and Mako didn't step into the house. Connie gave a small sigh as she summoned her Star Rapier, loaded in her unspun Star Shere and used the extending lasso to drag the three in.
"HEY!- they gasped before being yanked inside, Bullbot in particular looking very nervous to the point of trembling.
"She's nice you guys…" she whispered.
Karone giggled at the sight of the three before checking through the kitchen to grab some things, including a bottle of water.
"Would you like some fresh water, Mako?" Karone offered
"Very much, ma'am," Mako nodded.
Hoku simply smiled a bit at his group of friends, even as his mom helped refresh Mako's water headphones, allowing the amphibious man to sigh with relief.
"So clean…" Mako smiled.
The ex-Power Ranger simply looked to the five for a moment before smiling a bit, "Humans. Aliens. Robots. United…"
"Yep," Hoku nodded, "It's interesting to see this hodgepodge of people."
Everybody simply nodded in response to this.
Evening had soon rolled around and the other four members of the team had found places to sleep for the night. Connie was on the living room couch, Bullbot was near the TV in the living room, Mako was in the bathtub, and Doggie was in the corner of Hoku's room. Hoku himself was laying in bed as he looked out the window, inspecting the Star Sphere that had Mirinoi's star cluster in it. He looked out the window before seeing a star blink out of existence.
"Poor Eltar…" he muttered to himself, feeling it to be a shame how the home of the being whose energy created the Z Wave was just destroyed. The Star Sphere in his hand glowed for a moment before a small spec of energy floated off of it, "...our cluster is now without a star…"
Meanwhile, on the planet of Triforia, another Power Ranger was looking through a telescope as the NUAE had finished blowing up Elar. The Gold Zeo Ranger simply walked over to this other Ranger and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Phantom Ranger, I'm sorry…" the Gold Zeo Ranger apologized.
The ranger in black simply sighed as he turned to see the Triforian Ranger and simply sat down in sadness.
Pikatwig: Well… that was a second episode.
KKD: It was a rather bittersweet episode I'd think.
Pikatwig: We did get introduced to the Commander of the Rebellion, who is indeed Shou Ronpou's counterpart. AKA, KKD's… second favorite Sentai Senshi after Torin.
KKD: Yea, he's definitely a cool one, and I'm glad we got him in somehow. And we learned more about Theta, even showing off the fact that, yes, there are multiple models of her around just like there were multiple Alphas. And we even get the previews of more Star Spheres. But then we got the elephant in the room: Space Ikadevil and the Ex-Aid Kyuutama making an appearance here. Care to explain the thought process, Pika?
Pikatwig: I was watching the team-up between them in Space 7 and decided to include it as means of having the Rangers fight something on the ground, and the Ex-Aid Kyuutama being the cluster of stars where both Mirinoi and Eltar are… yeah… we never learned where they were in relation to the Earth, so I figured 'why not'. As for why the Shocker monster is related to one of the generals… similar motif and that's it.
KKD: I see. Still, clever use of those. I'm sure even Saban would've tried to steer clear of those since they didn't have much connection with the Rangers and more with Riders. But who knows how they will work here.
Pikatwig: Heck, the Ex-Aid Kyuutama was only given out with a magazine.
KKD: More exposure sounds cool to me.
Pikatwig: So… one thing I do wanna comment on, since I just found this out. Champ, the Sentai counterpart of Bullbot, is voiced by the same guy who voices Solid Snake in Japan.
KKD: That was kind of a surprise for me, personally.
Pikatwig: I guess we may now imagine David Hayter as Bullbot and Jason Griffith as Doggie.
KKD: Funny, but works. Either way, this was another fun chapter to write and hopefully we'll get more of this out there for you guys.
Pikatwig: And we also get an appearance of the Gold Zeo Ranger and the Phantom Ranger. Not sure about the former, but we will be seeing the latter in the future.
KKD: Yea, glad we could make sure you guys get some acknowledgement about them.
Pikatwig: Now, the robot that SiniSting used. It's actually one of the Boujinma from Power Rangers Dino Force Brave/Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger Brave, the Korean sequel to Kyoryuger.
KKD: I'm honestly not sure if Saban will get the rights to use that thing, but it's better we keep it a possibility for us as we try to adapt Sentai footage into our original idea as best as we can.
Pikatwig: Tyler's actor did post an April Fool's Day joke that Dino Force Brave would be adapted into a third season of Dino Charge.
KKD: Yea… but I'll bet the image was photoshopped.
Pikatwig: It was. Still, given how the Rangers pointlessly kept saying they're 'Dino Supercharge', it makes you wonder if Dino Force Brave was made before we got to Dino Charge, it would've been adapted into the season's second half.
KKD: Oh boy… that would've been pretty dumb had that been the case.
Pikatwig: Heh. Speaking of these things makes me imagine a Korean sequel to Kyuuranger. *begins to think of that before KKD quickly swatted away the thought bubble* Hey!
KKD: I'm not risking that, man. We already got a poorly done sequel to Kyoryuger, don't even think of how Korea could botch up a sequel to Kyuuranger!
Pikatwig: *gains an annoyed look* ...Dino Hope.
*KKD curled into a fetal position*
Camera Guy: Uh…
Pikatwig: I think he has PTSD to Kyoryuger vs. Go-Buster.
Off-Screen Guy: Dang… that Super Sentai Vs. Month must've been hard on him.
*Pikatwig scooted the GigaGaburevolver to KKD and he stood back up. KKD then slapped him in response*
Pikatwig: Had that coming.
KKD: You bet you did.
Pikatwig: ...onto favorite parts.
KKD: Hmm… that's a tricky one. I mean I liked the early bits where we adapted the transformation lesson for Hoku and Connie, and even got us some a lot of intense stuff near the end with the Escape from Eltar.
Pikatwig: Same, but I also liked the parts with the other four rangers interacting with Karone. That was just funny.
KKD: Yea, it was. And speaking of the others, Pika reminded me of something that might've subconsciously been an inspiration for Mako. Y'know how he has those water headphones for him to breathe on dry land? That was actually a thing used by a shark in the old Cartoon Network show "My Gym Partner's a Monkey".
Pikatwig: I actually had a feeling that was the case and asked him about it.
KKD: Yea, and I forgot about the show, but the idea just… it just came to me.
Pikatwig: One last thing to mention, the 'Let's Star Change' special was released the day we began this. It covers the extra three Rangers from Kyuuranger. Just wanted to mention that.
KKD: Right. Anyway, keep your eyes peel for the next episode of Star Defenders. Hope you all enjoyed. *salutes* Jaa ne.
Pikatwig: Just Live More