Special Mission 12: Do You Like to Dress Up?
"Rapid Accent," The Yellow Buster calls from the controls of RH-03 as she raises higher, locking weapons onto the enemy Megazord.
"Roger rabbit!" Usada confirms as Yoko takes a firm pull of his control stick ears.
"Rapid Descent!" Yoko orders next as she dives fast and opens fire, the Megazord starts to explode Simulation Complete flashing on her view screen before shutting down.
"Alright," Yoko pours some candy into her palm and pops it into her mouth, her face a mask of determination, "One more time."
"Yooooo-ko," Usanda moans softly, worriedly, and a bit annoyed, "Can't we stop?"
"No, we can't!"
"Mou," Usada moans, "But didn't you promise Hanna-"
"Here we go!" Yoko snaps as she slips her helmet back on.
"She's still at it," Hiromu notes as he enters the command room where a hologram display was patched into RH-03 to monitor the situation and communicate if need be.
"This is already her 20th try," Ryuji notes calmly, arms crossed and head tilted in indifference, after all he had know Yoko, see her grow, saw how pig headed she was, over the last 13 years, while Hiromu only had the last few months to get to know her.
"She said she wanted to shorten her timing," Hanna adds, a hint of concern in her somewhat digitized voice.
"Excessive training leads to muscle fatigue and a loose in efficiency," Ladybug adds clinically.
"Guess she was pretty upset about being blown away," Hiromu notes.
"Looks like she hates to lose," Cheeda Nick scoffs, "She'd be a good match for you Hiromu."
Ryuji and Miho suppress a chuckle at the remark.
"But if she wasn't blown away she never would have found, and saved us." Hanna notes. "So in the end it was a good thing, r-right?"
"Wasn't she supposed to do something with you today Ms. Hanna?" Miho nods, tilting her head curiously, "speaking of which, what does Yoko-chan do on her day off?"
The latter comment getting a curious look from Nick and Hiromu, as the blue gorilla Buddyroid Gorisaki Bananna answered, "Either training or sleeping...since she hates to study."
"Eh? She doesn't do anything for fun?"
"She doesn't, really," Ryuji nods.
"She's only 16 years old, right?" Miho asks with mind confusion and surprise.
"My Majesté Messiah," enter stands before his master inside his communication chamber, only the giant digital skull and a void of raw data and digital information around them. "The operation is proceeding smoothly."
"Piece of me...lost...find it!" the monstrous head roared in his normal only semi lucid state, but as mad as the digital life for Messiah may have seen it was still more then powerful enough to lash out and destroy Enter, Sub space, or any combination there of.
"Qué?" Enter smirked curiously, "What of our new power? We have the design, the rare metal, and the Enetron, the only thing lacking that can't be found in sub-space is-"
Enter's pod shook violently as Messiah raged, "Find it...lost piece! Find it!"
"We received a warning from the Megazord development factory," Commander Kuroki addressed the busters, which included Hana and Ladybug, as Miho brought up some images of what appeared to be a pink geode on the table display.
"This is what the Vaglass will probably target next," Miho explained, "To manufacture a Megazord, this is something they don't have in the subdimension."
"A Crystal?" Yoko says confused, absently rubbing a bandaged arm while sipping on a juice carton.
"It's the crystal used in a Megazord's camera eye," Miho explains.
"It's a rare crystal that doesn't occur in this country," the Commander stands, walking toward them. "In three days, this crystal will arrive in Japan."
"Some new defense project?" Hanna inquires.
"It's for a press conference for a Hong Kong Movie," Toru explains as the Commander nodded and moved over toward his station, "Apparently they're the personal belongings of the starlet."
"This I your special mission:" the Commander moved to the Busters, "Protect the crystal and the starlet from the Vaglass."
In unison Ryuji, Hiromu, and Yoko brought up their arms with a thumbs up and spoke together, "Roger!"
"Absolutely not!" Ladybug pulls Yoko off to the side, "You just gave blood, you need to take it easy for at least the next hour. And absolutely no strenuous work for the next 48 hours.
"Mou! But I gave the blood to you!" Yoko protests, "You said you needed a transfusion from a O blood type with the Vaccine Program!"
"S-Sorry about that, I-We should have taken into any account your active duty status," Hanna coughs nervously.
Hiromu smiles as separates the two, "All we are doing is observing, looking for the Metaroid, once it appears Ryuji and I will handle it, no need to worry yourself Hanna-chan."
"A-Alright," Hanna and Ladybug say together. "But at the first sign of combat Yoko needs to evacuate."
"Ah mou!"
"This is the starlet," Toru interrupts, bring up new footage, "this is a Photo of Angie Sue."
Turning back to the table all four gasp as a photo of Yoko comes up on the display, all but Yoko taking a double take between the picture and their fellow Buster.
"Doesn't she look exactly like..." Ryuji says first, voice hushed, "Yoko-chan?"
"I don't see any resemblance, personally," Usada comments plainly as Yoko tilts her head curiously.
N.C. 2012. The massive energy source, Enetron, is the foundation of city functions. After it are the Vaglass, a threat to humanity. The Go-Busters are youths entrusted with special missions to fight and protect the people.
Busters ready, Goooooooo!
"Good morning," a pair of women exchanged pleasantries next to a pair of men who were checking over documents and setting up glass tables a Ryuji exited the adjacent restaurant in a black vest and dress clothes.
After a quick look around he rose his Morphin' brace to his lips and spoke softly into it with the speaker to his ear.
"Call Mode."
"I'm in position. How are things with you, Hiromu?"
A short distance away a clown selling balloons spoke into his own Brace, "I'm okay. What about you Yoko?"
"I have the perfect view," She responded professionally from atop a building as she took a bit of some of a candy bar. Ryuji and the restaurant patio he was working on the ground level just behind her, "No Vaglass is getting by me."
"The movie magazine interview is starting," As a black sedan pulled up Yoko took photos with her transforming camera, the Ichigan Buster as a young woman who could be her twin exited the sedan and talk for a moment with an older gentleman, "I have confirmation on the crystals being in the earrings."
"Roger that." Hiromu and Ryuji confirmed over the coms.
"Something doesn't feel right with this mission," Hanna broke into the communication, "I've been reviewing the photos and it those earrings are far too small to make a good camera eye."
"As rare as the crystal is Enter would have to make due with whatever is available," Ryuji adds, before pausing, eyes wide in shock, "M-Miss Hanna, are you on sight."
"Roger that!"
"But you're a non combatant!"
"And Yoko should be on a medical break," Ladybug inserts, while Hanna laughs, "Besides, we have tricks of our own."
Taking her hand away from her ear a young woman businesswoman with brown hair and matching eyes walks right past conference stage with a smile, just missing as Enter slips up toward the podium just a few steps behind her.
"Movies are Très bien! So gaudy and full of passionnant." Enter struts confidently as he slides into the main chair and leans into the microphone, "So let me introduce you. Here comes the star of the century!"
"Metavirus," Prancing over to the projector he slaps a clear pad onto one side, glowing circuit lines spreading out from it as he draws a green card and swipes it along the reader on the side of his laptop, "Utsusu. Install."
"Co-o-pi-ro-i-de. Co-o-pi-ro-i-de. Co-o-pi-ro-i-de."
"Sha," the new Metaroid exclaims as he takes form, "Sha Sha! Sha sha."
"Here's your Earl Gey," ryuji sets a fancy cup before the starlet who smiles as she looks to him.
"Do jeh." She thanks him in Cantonese, as Ryuji has a flash of Yoko superimposed over Angi, his mind trying to process that these were two separate people, and giving his quite the hard time of it.
"Please enjoy it," Ryuji chokes on his words as he quickly takes his leave and quickly raises his Morphiin' Brace to his mouth.
"Call Mode."
"This is no trivial thing," his confidence wavers, "the resemblance is uncanny."
"Don't waste your time talking about that!" Yoko shouts back, "Focus on the mission!"
"Irregular Enetron Usage at Point R-024 in the Rinto district," Toru alerts from the command room, "It's near you guys."
All four turning their gaze outward, faces full of concern.
"I've detected an enemy Megazord in transit," Miho adds "Type Alpha, time till completion..."
"Eh?" She pauses, as her screen process the data and she looks at it confused,"4 hours, 33 minutes and 20 seconds," then looks over to the Commander, "that's a long time, isn't it?"
The Commander say nothing but tilts his head curiously.
"It won't finish teleporting till after 3 p.m." Yoko smiles confidently, "Piece of cake!"
"Don't let your guard down," Hanna once more cuts in.
Hiromu nods, "He's definitely after it."
"Wait a moment," peering through her Ichigan Buster Yoko gasps as she gets a reading, "it's nearby! The Metaroid is there!"
"Leave this one to me," Hanna breaks into a run, "You three stay on mission!"
"But Hanna-chan."
"Shaaaa~" the Metaroid chortles as he spies a young woman in his lense running toward his position, "Fukusha sha!"
"Sha!"
And then suddenly becomes her.
"I've lost the signal," Ladybug skids to a halt, looking around, not even registering her own twin as she smirks, adjusts her purse, and saunters on past.
"Fukusha sha!" the Metaroid chuckles softly as she jogs her way back toward the event space.
"I've lost the signal as well," Yoko confirms with worry, "The Vaglass is gone."
"What?"
"What's going on?"
Hanna growls looking around panicky, "Metaroids don't just vanish."
"I don't know!" Yoko and Hanna growl in unison.
"It just disappeared," Yoko repeats urgently as she double checks the viewfinder of her Ichigan Buster.
"I'I'm sorry," Hanna adds her own insecurities to the mix, "I wanted to protect Yoko and failed big time!"
Ryuji and Hiromu listen silently as the Metaroid walks right past the later and approaching Angie's lunch interview, and Ryuji. Discarding her purse she leaps the picket fence and sprints toward Angie.
"Sha sha sha! It's mine sha!"
Ryuji is quicker however, grabbing Angi before the Metaroid can take her ears, and sprinting her to her feet as she starts running away with her, Hiromu, intercepting and facing off with the woman.
"Sha sha sha!" The Metaroid chats as she kicks and lunches Hiromu simply guarding, "is she Vaglass?"
"There's no Vaglass signal coming from her!"
"But this strength isn't human!" Hiromu comments as he is kicked back, and is caught by an identical woman. Instincts kick in as he elbows her in the stomach and then back hands a fist into her face, making her stumble back and given him an opening to get free only for the first one to renew her assault. "Now there's two of them."
"What?!"
"Sha sha!" the Metaroid smirks as she renews her assault, but Hiromu uses his super speed to dodge launching into a split attack between the two women.
"Wait! Wait! Hold up!" Hanna throws up her arms in protest but Hiromu isn't having it as he draws his Ichigan Blaster and opens fire on both.
"Sha shaaaaa!" the Metaroid and Hanna crash into each other and roll along the ground both of them taking their true forms, "That hurt sha!"
"Hanna?!" Hiromu backs off shocked as the Metaroid wraps his arms around her and starts to back off, "No sudden shocks sha!"
"The Metaroid just took Ladybug!" Yoko yells into her come, "They were both disguised as the same person!"
"Damn freak stole my face," Hanna growls as she pounds on the Metaroids body as he throws her over his shoulder, huffing off with one hand on his side.
"Why didn't you tell us you could look human?" Hiromu calls after as the Metaroid falls on his face, which also pins Ladybugs legs under him.
"My stomach hurt's sha."
"Is now really the time?" Hanna/Ladybug snaps as the Busters arrive together.
"It had no Vaglass signal, h-how?" Yoko adds.
"We'll figure it all out later. Let's go!"
"It's Morphin' Time!"
"Let's Morphin'!"
Sha shaaaa!" the Metaroid gets to his feet, as Hanna rolls away, coming up to her knees and holding her chest as she breaths heavily as the Buster finish Morphin'
"Red Buster!"
Blue Bluster!"
"Remember Yoko!" Ladybug shouts, Hanna's heavy breathing interlaced with her clinical calmness in an odd interplay. "Take it easy."
"I'm FINE!" Yoko growls, annoyed as she strikes her signature pose, "Yellow Buster!"
"Busters readyyyyyyyy…."
"GO!"
"This is all out fault!" Hanna and Ladybug say together as the Busters engage with combination punches, slides, and sweep kicks.
"He's not very tough," Red buster taunts as the other two step up next to him, Yellow cracking her knuckles.
"Isn't that nice, sometimes?" Blue jokes.
"Looks like running is my best option!"
"Don't run!" Yellow shots as the Buster, and Ladybug, give chase.
Taking the lead the Metaroid comes across a business man, quickly sizing him up, "Oh a handsome man! Fukusha!"
"Yoooooko slow down," Ladybug calls after the bust as they pull to a stop.
"It's gone," Blue notes as a civilian walks past them.
"No way," Yellow Buster says in disbelief, and she scans the area with her camera, "But it has nowhere to run!"
Hiromu tilts his head curiously.
"Yoko!" Ladybug explains as the Yellow Buster collapses, bur is caught by the Mediroid.
"B-Battery's drained," she says weakly as the trio demorphed, her trembling hand reaching for one of her pouches.
"Didn't you eat before joining us?" Hiromu asks.
Yoko nods, as Ladybug pulls off her chest plate, affixing it to Yoko's chest, and exposing some of the secondary expanding plates and raw circuits under it while the monitoring screen flips up on the plate attached to Yoko's chest.
"All my fault," Hanna admonishes herself, "If I hadn't..."
"Vitals are weak but not in danger," Ladybug explains as she plucks some candy from one of Yoko's pouches and slips it into her mouth just as she winces.
"That stings!" Yoko winces, glaring up to Ladybug as she tried to rub her chest but the vitality plate prevents her, "What do you just do? That REALLY stings."
"Hydration and nutrition levels down, elevated adrenaline levels, I had to act quickly and administer food and water to your system along with something to level out the adrenaline," Ladybug explains.
"It's part of the system that keeps me alive," Hana continues, "Ladybug used it to off set your weakness."
"O-Oh..." Yoko looks down at her new chest piece curiously, before her face twists in alarm and she tries to pull it free, "Don't you need this to live? Take it back! Take it back!"
"Don't worry," Hanna chuckles softly, "While that might have been true a month ago, hell a week ago. While I am still too weak to leave the care of Ladybug the steady stream of Enetron, real food, processed into a mush as it is, and limited sunlight have all improved things considerably. I can survive without one of Ladybug's medical systems, right now you need it more then me."
Yoko smiles, slowly pushing to her feet, "T-thanks."
"Where did you put the projector?"
"Oh right..."
Tracing the walkway above the interview spot Hiromu takes notes of an exchange tween two men at the spot below, the first man smacking the second gently with a handful of papers as she looks at a stand that is curiously barren.
"A Metaroid that imitates being human and hides it's Vaglass signal?" Yoko looks back to the others curiously, still wearing Ladybug's medical plate on her chest, and still scratching a bit at it. However the plate is now resting under her jacket, which was sipped halfway open to give it more room to breath, while her normal undershirt was also missing, meaning the plate was now directly hugging her bare chest.
"Probably?" Hiromu confirms.
"Then earlier..." Ryuji muses as he reflects back on the civilian they passed when the lost the Metaroid.
"What a nuisance," Ryuji adds.
"We won't be able to protect her if there were a crowd." Hiromu concludes as he moves to the overlook to peer down to the interview spot, "That's definitely what it's going to do. The next time it attacks..."
"...will be during the press conference," Yoko finishes.
"It tricked us!" Hanna growls, punching her palm in frustration, "And it used my face to do it too."
"Ah mou, you should have just told us you could do that!" Yoko admonishes.
Hanna nods, shame in her voice, "I-I'm sorry, I just wanted to show you guys...show Yoko, that I was an asset."
"Me? Why me?" Yoko asks curiously.
"You probably think I'm silly...but..." Hanna pauses a moment, measuring her words, "Yoko was the one who saved me, and was my first human contact in 13 years...I….I...just wanted to pay back her kindness."
Yoko smiles, voice cracking, "H-Hanna-can you-"
"Wait," Ryuji cuts in suddenly, alarm in his voice.
"Ah mou! Don't interrupt me!"
"What time was the press conference again?" he continued, worry building.
"3 o'clock," Hiromu sighs.
"So the enemy Megazord will appear during the press conference?!" Yoko gasps.
"Excuse me," Hiromu leads the others into Angie and her managers office where they were looking over the script for the evening.
Seeing the men who saved her standing there Angie nodded silently, giving them permission to speak freely.
"The Vaglass is after the crystals. Please cancel the press conference."
"Cancel?!" The manager laughed in disbelief as he stood and shook his glasses at the Buster, "Don't be ridiculous."
"Listen!" Hiromu urged, "There will be no press conference if the Metaroid shows up!"
"But isn't it your guys' job to protect that?"
"The future of the world is at stake!"
"It is the same for me," Angie interrupts softly, "my dream depends on this movie."
Her words striking a chord as the Busters all look to her with silence.
"My dream is to be a world-famous actress. That's why I can't cancel this."
"And your willing to put not just your own life, but the lives of everyone in the city at risk to see that dream realized?" Hanna steps forward and takes Angie's hands softly, "I have a dream too but if I had to choose between putting that dream off for an hour or a day or putting the lives of hundreds, thousands, millions, of people at risk I would gladly set it aside."
This gives her pauses as Ryuji steps up next and Yoko silently fumes, "How about taking off the crystals for the press conference?"
"No! No!" the manager protests, "the crystals are an important theme in the movie!"
"You people," finally having enough Yoko tears off her glasses and storms forward, "are saying that stuff is more important then the world?!"
"Eh? Eh?" the Manager leans closer to Yoko then pulls her down toward Angie with a wide grin on his face, giving the two girls an up close and personal look at each other, and each looked as shocked as the other to see their twin, "They're the same!"
"That...stuff?" Angie says softly, a hint of anger in her voice, "How can you say such a horrible thing?"
"Eh? Horrible?"
"Don't you have any dreams?"
"Dreams?" Yoko answers with a hint of confusion.
"These are mementos of my mom," Angie says softly as she takes off one of her earrings. Her voice shaking slightly, "My mom was a world-famous actress. That's why I want to be an actress like my mom. I don't want to miss this chance."
Yoko fell silent, unsure how to answer as Angie bowed low, "Please."
"But..." Yoko and Hanna say together.
Ryuji steps in, a hand on each Yoko and Hanna's shoulders, "I have an idea."
"Eh?" Angie lifts up, a sting of hope in her voice.
"An idea?" Hiromu moves closer to hear the idea better.
"If they're in disguise..." Ryuji smiles, "...then why don't we disguise ourselves too?"
Yoko and Hanna tilt their heads in confusion.
"The Vaglass will probably attack during the press conference," Ryuji explained to command as the Busters road the glass elevator to the ground level, "to counter that, we will use Yoko-chan to draw out the Metaroid."
"How will you handle the enemy Megazord?" The commander asks.
"Hiromu will be on standby in Ace. Do I have your permission?"
"I understand," The commander measured the options and then gently nodded, "Operation approved."
"Are you worried?" Gorisaki turned to Usada.
"I'm not worried at all," Usada shook his head, "It's Yoko, after all."
As Ryuji doubled checked his notes Yoko stood on guard, her mind drifting back to her conversation with Angie.
'Don't you have any dreams? My mom was a world-famous actress. That's why I want to be an actress like my mom. I don't want to miss this chance.'
"Mother..." Yoko spoke softly, resisting the urge to bit her lip as her mind flashed back to a time long ago, of a woman who's face she could barely remember, to an age she could barely remember. "I don't really remember her."
"Yoko-chan?" Hanna calls, from the stairs, Ryuji just beside her, "something wrong?"
"No. Nothing."
"Yoko-chan's mother was sent into the subdimension 13 years ago, right?" Miho look to Usada and the other Buddyroids with an uneasy look about her, "She's been constantly training since then?"
"It's to defeat the Vaglass," Usada says calmly, a hint of pride in his voice, "She had the right stuff."
"But she's just a normal girl."
"That's right!" Usada confirms with pride, "Usada, Ryuji, the commander, and everyone in the E.M.C. raised her with love! She's a normal girl!"
"I'm returning to base," Hiromu Approaches the other Busters, "So please take care of things here."
"Sure."
"Hey, Hiromu." Yoko calls after, some urgency in her voice.
"Eh?"
"Do you have any dreams?"
"Dreams?" Hiromu ask curiously as Ryuji tilts his head and Hanna looks away.
"What about you Yoko?"
"Eh?" she looks confused, "...defeat the Vaglass."
"That's no dream," Hiromu says plainly as Hanna starts to walk off.
"Hiromu! Hey!" Ryuji protests.
"It's okay, Ryuu-san," Yoko pulls him back gently. "You're right. That's no dream, is it?"
"Right," Hiromu nods, "Defeating the Vaglass is no dream or wish."
"You can't call something you have to do a dream," Yoko says with growing confidence.
Hiromu nods silently as Ryuji smiles, "But...when it's all over..." his gaze moving from Hiomu, to Yoko, to the retreating Hanna, who pauses as he spies her. "when the Vaglass are defeated..."
Ryuji smiles as he pats Yoko's head, "...I hope you find a dream."
Yoko pauses smiling as she looks over to Hanna, "Hanna-chan...what's your dream."
Hanna's voice cracks as she keeps walking, "W-we should focus on the task at hand."
"A-Alright," Yoko nods, a bit off put by Hanna's unusual coldness, which only seam the make the metal plate over her chest feel heavier.
In Angie's suite Yoko is dressed up in a red Chinese dress, hunched forward as she touches up her blush and other makeup when Angie softly slips in, and bends in close to share the mirror with her, a hint of awe in her voice.
"Yoko-chan. You really look just like me."
"Don't worry," Yoko smiles, "After drawing the Metaroid away to a place where no one will get hurt, you'' get your spot back."
"That's not it..." Angi gaps and steps away, walking around to face Yoko, "I felt like I said too much earlier, so I came to apologize."
"It's alright, this press conference is important for you."
"But..." Angie tries to interrupt.
"I might have never thought about my dre-"
Yoko pauses her mind flashing back to earlier with Hanna
'Hanna-chan...what's your dream.'
'W-we should focus on the task at hand.'
"Yoko-chan?" Angie tilts her head curiously.
Yoko smiles, and picks up her previous train of thought, her voice starting to trail, "...ams. The only thing on my mind was defeat the Vaglass."
Smiling she reaches for the eye shadow, only to turn it in her hand curiously as she dabs it on her lids and tilts her head with curious confusion.
"I'll do it for you," Angie smiles as she takes a seat next to Yoko and plucks the brush from her hand. "Close your eyes. Isn't it hard? You're just a normal girl like me. How can you fight?"
"I choose to fight of my own free will," as Angie finishes Yoko opens her eyes with a smile, "in order to protect yours and others dreams..I will definitely defeat the Vaglass."
"Thank you," Angie smiles.
"Same here," Yoko returns the compliment, "Thanks for doing my make-up."
A soft knock at the door brings the moment to a close as Ryuji announces, "It's time."
"I'm off."
"Yoko goes disguised as Angie to the press conference to be the bait," Hanna reflects as she stands on the same roof Yoko had earlier, "Hiromu will intercept the Megazord when it appears. Ryuji will back up Yoko when the Metaroid appears. When it is safe then the real Angie will come out of hiding to finish the conference."
"And us?" Ladybug asks, "What is our role in this?"
Hanna's voice cracks, "to stay out of their way."
"Are you sure? We cou-"
"We've caused enough chaos for one day."
"A-alright," Ladybug trembles, "if that is what you wish."
Mission Start!
"Now let me introduce you," the announcer speak into the microphone, Yoko standing just off to the side, waiting for her cue, "The starlet, Angie Sue!"
Stepping out onto the stage Yoko scans the audience, looking for anyone suspicious while Buster Ace prepares for launch and Miho and the command staff count down the arrival of the Megazord.
"CB-01, launch!"
"Time until the enemy Megazord's transmission, is complete..." Miho begins the count ans Red Buster and Buster Ace ride the elevator up to their personal escape hatch.
Five
Four
Three
Two
One
"It's coming."
Dropping out of the sky the enemy Megazord lands with thud, kicking up hundred of feet of dirt and debris but Buster Ace is already in motion launching itself into the air and hurling it's sword like a javelin that makes the Megazord stumble and fall. Back on it's fee it immediately counter with a barrage of energy blasts for it's chest as Red Buster opens coms to the base.
"Please teleport me another Buster Sword!"
Once armed Buster Ace goes in for the attack, drawing sparks but as the Megazord back away it starts to glow and then, just like it's smaller brother it makes a copy, pitting Ace versus Ace, both armed with their own Buster Sword.
"It can even copy Ace," Hiromu drops back into his seal with an exhausted sigh, he was afraid of this possibility.
What's more Copy!Ace seemed far stronger then the original, Hiromu tried to block but the Copy just powered through delivering a savage slash across Ace's torso and them flipped over him over an over head slash putting the real Ace on the defensive.
"This is bad," Nick asses, "should we call for help?"
"Nah," Hiromu answers with confidence, "No need."
"but this will be a tough battle."
"I'll make my stand here!" Hiromu taps Nick's head and they charge forward.
Yoko stood her position, cameras flashing when suddenly a figure started to move toward her, started to lung, a scruffy looking man in a beanie and greenish-grey vest.
"Sha sha!"
"That's it, it's coming!" Ryuji warns into his Morphin' Brace as the Copyroid charges Yoko.
"It's mine sha!"
Yoko glares as she takes a ready stance and pivots around on her food delivering a fierce kick to the Copyroid's head and knock him aside the reporters fumbling over each other as Yoko scratches as her chest, and the plate still hidden under it, and moves to face off with the Copyroid as his disguise fails and he stands up.
Charging toward the Copyroid Yoko goes in with a series of punches and kick including a standing split kick, as cameras flash, Ryuji continue to advise though his Morphin' Brace. "Good lead it outside."
"Everyone," the manager address the reporters, "this is just part of the attraction. Please calm yourselves."
Moving to defend the Manager Yoko uses her body as a shield and in the tussle one of her earring is knocked off, scrabbling the Copyroid grabs it.
"Damn!"
"Alright sha!" the Copyright taunts, "I'll take this sha! Now for the other one!"
"Get back!" Yoko shoves the manager and then evade the Copyroid a bit more before using her power to leap up onto a high over pass.
"Wow!" The Copyroid exclaims lewdly, "Shutter chance."
"No you don't!"
Two voice hiss in unison as The Copyroid is hammer by twin flying kick, dropping the earring in his hand and sending him rolling. Yoko and Hanna standing back.
"I'm taking it back!" Yoko scowls, "these are are full of Angie's memories!"
The Copyroid swings but both girls duck it and deliver double punch to the Metaroid's stomach, "As your doctor I must insist you bow out of this fight."
"W-What no way!"
"Listen Yoko," Hanna says softly as she takes to offensive, "He dropped it, now get it back and get out of here. Leave this shutter bug to us."
"But you're not..." Yoko was already starting to feel light headed, vision starting to blur just as she felt a pinch on her chest and got an injection of nutrients, "Mou! Fine!"
Snatching up the other Earring Yoko pumped her legs and using her Rabbit Leap left the scene, just as Enter arrived.
"Bonjour Mademoiselle," Enter smirked, "And just who are you."
Hanna and Ladybug growled as one as Ryuji came up beside her, "Yoko got away, and everything is back to normal back there, now you need to get out of here."
Back at the conference the real Angie Sue steps out to applause as Yoko Watches for a high perch, while popping a handful of candy in her mouth, a smile forming, as she unclips the earrings and stares down at them in her hands.
"No!" Hanna growls as she hods out a hand to stop Ryuji from advancing, "No more running. I'm tired of running."
"Are you sure now is the right time Master Hanna," Ladybug cautious, "Your body is still."
Hanna growls, shaking her head, "It's time to show Yoko-chan, Jin-sempai, everyone I'm not some delicate flower that needs protecting."
"Hanna-chan?" Ryuji looks at her curiously as Enter tilts his in curiosity as well.
A leg section opens, reveal a strange pad, after folding out some sun glasses and bending the handle it takes the shape of some kind of strange gun with a key pad molded in, "It's time the world learns this flower has thones."
"It's Morphin' Time!"
"Que?" Enter says curiously as Hanna raises the glasses to her eyes.
"Let's Morphin'"
A digital ring forms at her feet and rises up, parts of her armor seeming to vanish, other parts seeming to move and change, until a new Buster stands where Hanna once did, her suit mostly black with metallic white/platinum, rose-copper, and pink and a large round backpack resting behind her.
"Lady Buster!"
Enter just smiled, Ryuji stood in shock for a moment longer before he morphed beside her, "Blue Buster!"
"Busters Reaaaaaady..."
"GO!"
And then to prove the backpack was more then just for show Ladybuster's pack opened up revealing translucent wings and thrusters that she used to lunch herself toward the Metaroid as Ryuji ran beside her.
"I will copy you sha!"
Dropping the Metaroid on his back with a clothesline Ryuji held him for a moment, "No illegal copying, please."
While taking to the air, Ladybuster dropped down with a diving drill kick as Ryuji rolled out of the way.
"Damn you," Copyroid growled as he got back to his feet and faced Ladybuster, starting to glow.
"Watch out!" Blue warned, running to push her out of the way before there were two Ladybusters.
Nothing happened.
"Sha sha?"
Ladybuster smirked, leaning on her hip, "My technology is just a little to complicated for a simple copy!"
Enter rose a brow curiously as he watch, 'Is she the lost piece of Messiah?'
While Distracted by Ladybuster however Ryuji wrapped his legs around the Metaroids arms and dropped him again, breaking the copy arm just as Ladybuster summoned a steering wheel that she then turned into a sword to deliver a series of slashes that put the Metaroid on his back again, the two buster standing side by side and Blue assembled his final weapon and Ladybuster took aim with her gun.
"It's time for Special Buster!"
"Boost up for Buster!"
"Copy failure sha," the Metaroid squeaked out last as it fell to the ground and exploded.
"Enemy..." Ryuji announced.
"Metavirus..." Hanna/Ladybug proclaimed.
"...Eliminated."
"..Excised."
With the Metaroid dealt with Ryuji and Yoko were able to join up with Hiromu and with Go-Buster Oh defeat the Megazord shortly there after, while enter took his leave and Ladybuster powered down collapsing onto her back short of breath.
"You heart is in no shape to fight like that Master, you know that."
"I know, I know," Hanna sighs, a hidden smirk still forming, "But you have to admit...felt good to be of use."
After a moment Ladybug responded, "Yes Master, it was."
"So you can project a holographic human form, and have your own Buster gear," the commander narrowed his eyes at Hanna once everyone was back to base, "any other secrets your hiding?"
"S-Secrets?" Hanna laughs nervously, "n-not really."
"Stop picking on her," Yoko stuck out her tongue as she threw an arm around Hanna/Ladybug with a smile. "We won today and Enter didn't get Angie's earrings, that's all that matters."
Yoko pauses, taking a deep breath, smiling, "We protected her dream."
"Yeah...dreams," Hanna's voice once more became detached.
"Smile! Smile!" Yoko drew the corners of her mouth up, "Come on you have to tell us your dream."
Hanna sighs.
"Yooooko," Usada admonished her, "don't make Hanna tell you her dream if she doesn't want to."
"N-No...It's okay..." her voice cracking, "It's just...it's nothing special...kind of silly even."
"No dream is silly, all dreams have worth," the commander chimes in.
"O-Okay," Hanna takes a long breath and her hands start to tremble as she looks at them. "My dream is...what I want is..."
She took another long breath, "I want a family...a life of my own."
Everyone just looked confused.
"You want kids?" Miho questions.
"W-What?" Hanna's jumped in surprise, "No!" and shook her head violently, "Yes," then hung it and sighed, "Kinda...I guess? It's hard to explain."
"Let me Master."
"O-Okay Ladybug." Hanna sighs, "You would probably do a better job anyway."
Ladybug nods, "To understand the Master's dream you have to understand how we found her."
Hanna sighs.
"13 years ago when the lab was sucked into subspace Master Jin was in a separate section then the others. As the wall shook and the place seemed like it would be his tomb he found Master Hanna, unconscious on the floor."
"I must have hit my head because I lost all my memories, my name, my education, even my ability to speak. Thanks heavens breathing is an autonomic function as is fear I probably would have forgotten that as well."
No one said anything, no one dared to.
"Master Jin was not unscathed either, but where as Master Jin could not move Master Hanna could not think. And Master Jin knew time was not on their side, without food and water a human dies after 3 days. But unable to move himself Master Jin had to rely on Master Hanna and the incomplete Buddyroid he was building at the time."
"I did not understand a word he spoke but somehow he manged to teach me enough to be his hand, and even though each day hunger and thirst threatened to spell my doom Jin-sempai was able to build the core of Ladybug and put me inside, rejuvenating and re-energizing me while he himself retreated to a coffin of his that could sustain his immobile body. Once I was one with Ladybug though it was my job to the heavy lifting and for the next 13 years I became Jen-sempai's hands and legs, while at the same time being retrained in everything from simple Japanese to Buddyroid maintenance. Until the opportunity present itself and Master Jin sent me out to attempt a breech into this world. To send me home."
"So Jin-sempai is alive?" Ryuji wonders.
"If he's alive then our parents," Yoko adds excitedly.
Ladybug shakes her head, "Don't get your hopes up, it was quite the challenge for Master Hanna to survive and to return home, and in our 13 years we saw no other soul other then Master Jin."
The Buster all nod, understanding unwilling to press the issue, they all missed their parents and wanted to know more but they could all tell how painful these memories were for their new friend so remained quiet.
Hanna gave a small laugh, "You know Jin-sempai called me Hanna as a joke, since I had no name of my own. And I was so fragile, like a child, like a flower. It always bothered me, but it was the closest thing I had to an identity. I doubt now that I'll ever get my memories back, and all I have know is the last 13 years in sub space you yeah...that's my dream. If I can't reclaim my past I'd like a future, a family. Something to call my own."
Everyone was silent, the room becoming oppressive, it was hard living these past 13 years after watching your own parents sucked into sub space, but at least they had each other, and their memories of their parents from before the incident but to only know the incident, to only know hunger, pain, and fear for 13 years. It was hard to process.
"I-m tired," Hanna stands slowly "I'm going to go rest. Morphin' takes a toll on my body."
Everyone nodded as Hanna sloughed off, Ryuji spinning his wheels trying to find something to life everyone's spirits.
"Oh," he said suddenly causing Hanna to pause, "Angie send us an e-mail."
Ryuji turned the laptop toward Yoko and Hanna, who both stopped and looked closer.
"I can't read English," Yoko admitted, causes the boys and buddyroids to face fault, while Hanna stared at the screen, "Seems familiar but I can't read it either, Jin-sempai only taught me the basic, enough to understand mechanical and electrical blueprints, he didn't...he didn't have the time to teach me to read generally."
Ryuji sighed, this wasn't helping and decided to read it himself, "Thanks for protecting it, and take a look at this."
A link was included that Ryuji opened, which laded a video if Yoko's fight with the Copyroid around all the reporters.
"It says it's very popular on the net," Usada explains.
"Guess the movie will definitely be a worldwide hit," Hiromu jokes.
"That's great," Gorisaki adds.
"Yoko," Nick teases, "Maybe you should be an actress."
"No way," Yoko smiled widely, "That'd be embarrassing."
"Yeah Yoko could never do that," Usada teased, "no way," before quickly rolling away, "I'm out of here."
Yoko turned in anger gave chase, "Usada! Stop!"
"No way!"
But it worked bringing a smile to Hirmu, Ryuji, and even Hanna as Yoko chased Usada around the room.
