Super Sentai vs Super Sentai
Author's note: Well excuse me if there are some awkward wordings. English isn't exactly my first language, so there's bound to be things like that. But thanks for following this story, and I have a surprise for you Sentai fans. This might end up weird, but... just read it.
PREVIOUSLY ON CHAPTER 3
Shiba Takeru, otherwise known as Shinken Red, was transported to a different world, seemingly to the past time. Through the book 'History of Super Sentai', he has met up two previous sentai warriors, Hama Youhei, otherwise known as Blue Turbo of the Turborangers, as well as Momozono Miki, known as Goggle Pink of the Goggle Five. As he tried to discover what the meaning of the time he's in was, several shadowy figures have begun their move…
ACT 4: The Dead Hero Returns
At night, a shady figure approached a graveyard. The figure was humanoid, but he sported a pair of huge-horns, similar to a giant goat. Adorned on his forehead is a blood red jewel and he also possessed a mean looking thick gray beard on his jaws. A skull necklace was equipped on his neck. On his hand was a huge, mean scythe that could reap the heads of many bears in one swing. However, the scythe wasn't quite used. Instead, he was chanting a spell.
"O Warrior, thy death ignoble, yearning for vengeance upon the world... Now arise and serve me, Hades Goat, your new master…!"
Pentagrams were formed as the creature, Shinigami Goat, channeled his energy through it and struck the ground where the grave was located. Nature didn't react well with the disturbance of powers, as thunders struck the ground and the winds getting uneasy.
"Rise from your grave… Black Condor… Yuuki Gai…!"
With the exclamation, Hades Goat thrusted his hand forward, through the pentagram, unleashing a bolt of energy to the grave near him. The diamond on his forehead also shone brightly, channeling its power to the bolt. Shortly after, a hand rose from the ground…
In the morning, both Takeru and Youhei walked across the road alongside Miki, having been dragged into her normal activity of patrolling, the thing she used to do all the time when she actively fought the Deathdark. Since for the day they had nothing to do, they complied. Thankfully for them, Miki didn't ask to patrol the whole nation, but merely just around the area where they live.
"Patrolling… ugh, don't you have anything better to do?" Youhei complained after they have circled around the area about five times, catching his breath.
"Don't complain, it's for the good of many people." Miki replied back, "We don't know when Deathdark would strike. Or whoever your enemies are."
"Gedoushuu." Takeru corrected.
"Ah, right. And, Youhei, yours would be…"
"Bouma."
Takeru's fatigue slowly started to latch on him as he walked. He'd never walked this long for the whole afternoon. "Did you really do this everyday, back then?"
"Yes." Miki just answered shortly, "It's tiresome, but we have to do it, once in awhile."
"I suppose this is how you do works back then, no automated system or such to take care of where your enemy comes up." Takeru commented, comparing with how he used to run things fighting the Gedoushuu. Whenever they appear, the Shiba House receiver would give out the exact location of the Gedoushuu activity so the samurai team would go right through there. Compared to the more senior warriors, he's had such luxury, and now he had to go through lots of hardships in the old ages.
Not that he's complaining. He may be the Lord of the Shiba House, but he hated being treated like a pampered lord. Even if both Youhei and Miki were not his vassals, he'd still treat them with utmost respect and never show a weak side…
"Actually, the Future Science Lab used to give us the general area where the Deathdark may cause trouble, so we can focus in that one particular area." Miki corrected Takeru's assumption of her being workaholic, "We're not doing this on all of Japan everyday."
"Why don't you contact them, then?" Youhei asked before Takeru could ask about where her former teammates were.
After a short silence, Miki gave an answer, "I couldn't contact them. I wonder what could've happened to everyone…"
"You're not alone in this." Youhei assured her, tapping her shoulder, "I couldn't contact my friends who could've been a great help in times like this. I guess Takeru experiences the same too."
"Yes." Takeru nodded, "I guess you… can count on us as friends for now."
"Thank you." Feeling reassured, Miki answered with a smile. It would seem that even without her previous friends, she was already surrounded with wonderful people who'd help her even though they just met for a short while.
Suddenly, another scream is heard. "Hey, it's coming from that stadium!" Youhei pointed at the source of the scream, which is a stadium.
"Thank goodness we are on the move. Come on!" Miki immediately ran off to the direction. Without much choice, Takeru and Youhei followed.
Reaching the main stadium, however, they find many baseball players being harassed by weird soldiers. "There they are… They're not the Gedoushuu though." Takeru commented as the soldiers were clad in black, not scaled humanoid creatures like the Nanashi Renjuu.
"Neither are the Bouma." Youhei added, as the men also lack the Wular soldiers' masks.
"Those can't be Deathdark. What are they?" Miki observed and knew that they're no Deathdark's spotmen, these soldiers only sported few red spots on the face.
However, at one point, she witnessed one of the soldiers cold bloodedly slash a staggering young player. Unable to witnessing it any further, Miki leapt to the player's safety and managed to grab the blade of the soldier. However, its ferocity surprised her as it tried to dive the blade right to her body, with full killing intent.
'What tenacity…!' Miki tried to unarm the blade, but she had never faced such soldier with killing intent. Thankfully for her, Youhei managed to kick it from the back, while Takeru had already been busy fighting over the leftovers. Soon enough, the three fought off the rest of the soldiers and were victorious.
"This is horrible…" Miki said, recalling the soldier's killing intent. "I have fought the Deathdark, but… never once their soldiers had such killing intent."
"So those Spotmen you fought… they never had such killing intents previously?" Takeru asked, as he sheathed his Shinkenmaru.
"They usually intend to cause harm using science." Miki explained, "But when they fought against us, they… really have no killing intent, they just wanted to disable us. Unlike these soldiers…"
"Agreed…" Youhei added, "These soldiers… even the Bouma soldiers pale in comparison of their ferocity!"
'I don't think it's that simple.' Takeru thought, recalling how the soldiers he fought had a rather unnatural aura coming out from their body.
"You did well, surviving against those Grinam Soldiers!" A booming voice suddenly was heard behind them. When Takeru looked back, he saw the Hades Goat standing atop of a stage post.
"Who are you? !" As Takeru asked, the Hades Goat leapt down to the ground.
"I am Hades Goat, proud Bio Dimensional Beast of the Vyram!"
"Vyram? That's something I've never heard of." Youhei commented, "Man, more and more weird groups coming up!"
'Wait, Vyrams… I think I've heard that one…' Takeru recalled once more about the History of Super Sentai. The Vyrams were one of the groups that threatened the Earth, but were stopped by the Jetman force.
"Shiba Takeru… Hama Youhei… Momozono Miki… You three fought well…" Hades Goat said, clapping his hand, "For that, let me tell you a story. All creatures would die eventually. Some died like how they wanted, be they in peace for common, weak humans, or some didn't die like how they wanted. A warrior, denied of his chance of dying in the blaze of glory, instead dying due to sickness, or a random person accidentally killed him outside the battlefield…"
"What the hell was that all about?" Youhei asked, "I'm really not in the mood for riddles now. Get to the point!"
"Did you notice the Grinam soldiers you fought just before?" Hades Goat then revealed the name of the soldiers of Vyram, "Those were soldiers imbued by the roaring souls of those whose way of death unfitting of their life. They roar for vengeance… vengeance on life that denied them the glorious death as they wanted!"
'So that's why…!' Takeru finally came to a conclusion of the soldiers' ferocity. The soldiers might've recognized his immense power and had such fierce killing intent against someone like him, even if he might be too powerful. 'They thought if I get killed by mere cannon fodder-types like those Nanashi Renjuu, it would give them satisfaction of other people sharing their disgraceful death… That's one way to go to increase one's ferocity…'
"So cruel…" Miki commented sadly, though her tone of voice quickly changed to anger, "But, no matter how people died… you have no right to disturb their rest and toy around with their souls and feelings! I won't forgive you!"
"Tough talk…" Hades Goat beckoned as he raised his free hand "But how will you survive… when you fight against someone on your own size!"
As he snapped his finger, a figure walked to confront the three. It was a 30 years old man with brown suit and fingerless gloves, as well as a bracer. For some reason, his eyes were unnaturally red colored.
"Now who's this?" Youhei asked.
"Meet your fellow warrior from the land of the dead… Yuuki Gai!" Hades Goat introduced the man as he simply was covered in purple aura, eventually turning him into a black-themed Sentai warrior, "Otherwise known as… Black Condor!"
"What? !" Youhei was surprised to see a black warrior, now serving a monster. Takeru was also shocked. According to the history book, Black Condor was one of the Jetmen who defeated the Vyrams, but how did he fall into the hands of the enemy?
Before he could even think about it, Black Condor already was in front of Youhei and gave him a punch that knocked him off. Then, he turned towards Miki and while she managed to dodge several of his attacks, he managed to kick her on the side, knocking her away. Takeru attacked him from the side using his Shinkenmaru, but Black Condor pulled away his signature sword from the Jetmen, the Bringer Sword, and blocked Takeru's slash, before parrying it away, then kicking him on the stomach and knocking him away with a hook.
"Takeru!" Both Youhei and Miki came to Takeru, helping him to get up.
"Ugh, damn… We have no choice. Let's do it." Takeru, catching his breath, prepared his Shodophone as both Youhei and Miki nodded in agreement.
"SHODOPHONE! IPPITSU SOUJOU!"
"BLUE TURBO!"
"GOGGLE PINK!"
After transforming, the three fought against Black Condor, three on one. However, he was an extraordinary warrior that even when the three of them were fighting against him at once; never once did he back down.
"What are you doing? ! You called yourself an ally of justice? !"
"Please, you're just being used!"
"You should be ashamed of yourself…"
Even though Blue Turbo, Goggle Pink and Shinken Red tried to reason him, Black Condor wasted no word. Instead, he only roared in rage as he attacked the other Sentai warriors viciously. Eventually, he knocked all of them away using his Bringer Sword.
"Damn it, he's tough!" Blue Turbo lamented.
"Hahaha… very good, Black Condor! Kill your fellow warriors! Make them feel your rage!" Hades Goat cheered as he was moving his hands around as in a spell dance. His blood red diamond suddenly shone.
"That…!" Goggle Pink took notice on the red diamond, but before she could think any further, Black Condor unveiled another of the Jetmen's arsenals, the Bird Blaster. He also combined it with yet another Jetmen arsenal, the Beak Smasher. Shooting thrice, the Smash Bomber attack was unleashed towards the three Sentai Warriors, knocking them away and turned them back into human forms.
"Perfect! Kill them!" Hades Goat ordered, once again his diamond shining and Black Condor moved forward for the ultimate finishing blow. However, Takeru managed to use the Shodo Phone to strike the kanji 'Smoke', which created a cloud of smoke that allowed him to escape with Youhei and Miki.
Though Black Condor tried to pursue them, Hades Goat suddenly gave him another order, "Stop, for now. It looks like more than just fighting is needed to destroy them. We need… a bait."
Just then, an elementary school girl passed without really noticing the unusual sight, too caught up in heading to school and thinking what she would learn there. "Perfect…" As Hades Goat muttered, the girl noticed what fate had in store for her, and screamed in terror, but it was too late…
Quickly relocating themselves into the Shiba House, where many medical tools were present; Takeru, Youhei and Miki tended to their wounds in the main hall.
"Ouch! Don't touch there! It hurts, you know!" Youhei jerked away as Miki tried to bandage his chest with white bandages.
"Please calm down; this isn't going to hurt much!" She insisted as she grabbed his arm and circled the bandage around it, much to his screams, "Even Takeru didn't scream as much as you did! Geez…"
In the meantime, Takeru, who had been bandaged on the forehead and shoulders, took the History of Super Sentai book. 'Maybe with this we can know why that Hades Goat is able to control this Black Condor…'
He skimmed through the book to the Jetman section, remembering that the group was the one responsible destroying the Vyram. Setting his sights to Yuuki Gai, the identity of Black Condor, Takeru began reading his history.
"Ah, what is that you're reading?" A sudden question from Miki, who had never saw the book at all, bolted Takeru out of his deep thoughts.
"This? It's kind of a long story." Takeru tried to keep his answer short, as he had to get back on investigating the Jetmen, "To make it short, this is a book containing informations of warriors called 'Super Sentai'. Which includes us."
"Really? Where did you get that, then?" Miki suddenly asked as she felt a little suspicious on a book recording such thing.
"I don't know. When I arrived here, the book was here all along." Takeru answered as he set his sights back to the book.
"Next time we meet, can we defeat him?" Youhei pondered as he got up and stretched his arms out to check whether the sting of the wound still hurt, "He could take the three of us together, after all."
"It must be a strong brainwashing." Miki pointed, "I won't believe that a warrior like him would give in to evil permanently."
"I know that. But how? If he's that powerful…? Besides…" Youhei hung his head low, remembering the recent battle with Black Condor, "All right, I admit… I held back."
"What?" Miki asked in surprise.
"I don't know. He's just a fellow Sentai warrior, not on my team. But that alone… I feel like that's why I couldn't bring myself to fight him with full force." Youhei admitted, "I mean, even when we're in a different team, we should be fighting side by side, not each other!"
"Yes. I feel the same way." Miki nodded as she answered, "Both of us and Takeru fought under different teams, yet we were able to fight for the common good, protecting the innocents. It should've been no different for him. But why did he-"
"I know the reason why." Takeru suddenly said, getting up and closing the history book. Approaching both Youhei and Miki, he said, "This book has explained why he could be brainwashed. Try to recall how that Hades Goat controls his victims."
"Those were soldiers imbued by the roaring souls of those whose way of death unfitting of their life. They roar for vengeance… vengeance on life that denied them the glorious death as they wanted!"
"Denied of glorious death…?" Youhei muttered then asked, "You're saying that this Black Condor once died an ignoble death?"
"Exactly." Takeru nodded, "According to the book; three years after the Vyrams were defeated by the Jetman, which Yuuki Gai; the identity of Black Condor; is a member of… he was apparently stabbed by a random, human mugger and died due to the wounds."
"Ugh, that stinks." Youhei commented at the prospect, "Surviving the brutalities of those Vyrams, only to die by a random mugger…?"
"That's life anyway." Miki crossed her arm as she thought about how Gai died, "I know that death can come in any form, though this is one of the more unfortunate deaths that could happen to him."
"And that is why Hades Goat could bring him back and control him." Takeru concluded, "I don't know if he denies this or not, but I feel that Gai also had a very small regret that of all things on how he died, it had to be a death unbefitting of a Sentai warrior like him…"
Just then, a small crystal ball was suddenly thrown to the main hall, going through Youhei, though he managed to dodge it. "What the hell is this?"
"You had better come to Tenka Hill, quick!" The voice of Hades Goat suddenly rang from the crystal ball, "Otherwise… this girl gets it!" And from the crystal ball, a sobbing of a girl was heard. She was desperate to get a help, but none would help them.
"We can't let her suffer like this! We should go, Takeru!" Miki urged at Takeru, unable to stand on the girl's sobbing.
"Wait, what if it's a trap?" Youhei protested, knowing that this challenge was way too suspicious. "There's no way he'd make it this simple! We're risking ourselves!"
"And we'd let that girl die? !" Miki scoffed back, her voice slightly getting angry, "I never thought…"
"Don't look at me like that! Of course I'm also worried about that girl!" Youhei answered back, "But, if it's a trap and we're disabled thanks to it, more people would suffer and they have no other people to save them from peril!"
"Ah… I'm sorry." Miki realized that she snapped without thinking much. Although her heart urged her to save the girl quickly, she was thinking to do a reckless thing that endangered the three. Eventually, she turned towards Takeru, "Takeru. What do you think?"
Takeru took both Youhei and Miki's stand on the case firmly. An innocent girl was in danger, but this is a very obvious trap that could destroy them forever. But it's not like they had other choices. Time was running out.
"Trap or not, we have to go." Takeru answered, surprising Youhei. "I know you make valid points, Youhei. But we are really running out of options. For now we'll just have to face whatever tricks he's throwing at us."
"Okay, I understand."
"All right, let's move out." Takeru said as he walked away, heading towards the designated place, the Tenka Hills.
As Youhei also moved out, Miki suddenly recalled something from the battle with Black Condor. Whenever the red diamond on Hades Goat's forehead shone, that was when Black Condor got more vicious in battle. 'Maybe that diamond…'
"Miki, what are you waiting for? Let's go!" Youhei reminded her as he wasn't far enough.
"Ah, sorry about that. Let's go." Miki said as she followed both boys.
At the Tenka Hill, Takeru, Youhei and Miki tried to search for an unusual sight and a girl in distress, even if they do not know how she looked like. Thankfully for them, Miki managed to hear the girl's sobbing and they located the girl, tied on a post.
"Help me…!" The girl sobbed.
"Hang in there. We'll save you!" Miki tried to reassure the girl, but suddenly, both Hades Goat and Black Condor walked in from the girl's behind.
"So you came, just as I expected." Hades Goat gloated, "This time, you're dead… With Black Condor killing you, you will be filled with despair over being killed by a fellow fighter of justice, and soon, you shall be joining my ranks…"
"That's far enough… Vyram." Takeru stated as he pulled his Shodo Phone, "We will defeat you, no matter what it takes."
"No matter what it takes?" Hades Goat said, raising his scythe, "What if I say, 'Morph and this girl dies'?"
"What? !" Youhei watched in shock as Hades Goat suddenly moved the scythe's blade to the girl's neck and threatened to lop it off, the girl was clearly getting really scared.
"NO! HELP ME!"
"You rotten…!" Youhei cursed as he worried on the girl's safety.
"That being said, this is where you will die! Get him!" Hades Goat commanded and thus Black Condor leapt to battle, fighting against Takeru, Youhei and Miki while they're not transforming if they want the girl to live.
Despite their wounds, Takeru fought the best he could against Black Condor, clashing his Shinkenmaru with the Bringer Sword. Both Youhei and Miki also helped out in attacking. But, three humans against a Sentai Warrior was still too much for them.
Eventually, Miki was knocked away with a punch. The punch was powerful enough that it sent her rolling sideways to the ground. After she stopped, she didn't move.
"Miki!" Out of concern, Youhei tried to approach her, but he was intercepted by Black Condor who flipped him to the ground and punched him on the stomach. Then, he drew the Bringer Sword and struck Takeru, who blocked with his Shinkenmaru.
"You…!" Takeru said as he once clashed blades with Black Condor, "You may have suffered an ignoble death… But for you to be used by a monster like this…! That is a fate even worse than ignoble death!"
All of a sudden, Black Condor felt a bit of a tingle on his head, which caused him to loosen his grip on the sword a little, enabling Takeru to parry him. However, he quickly got back to his battle stance and attacked Takeru even if he wasn't using a sword.
"Damn, what went wrong? ! It's like he…" Hades Goat noticed the abnormal reaction of Black Condor. However, he then noticed Miki, lying down on the ground. "Heh heh, at least that guy does a good job anyway. One of my victims, confirmed."
With that, the Hades Goat leapt down the cliff he's standing at and approached Miki. When he got near her, he raised his scythe, preparing to strike on her neck…
"Now!" And it was that time suddenly Miki opened her eyes, quickly sprang upwards with only her hands touching the ground, pushing it with all her might and bolted her legs upwards, kicking his arm where he gripped the scythe. Taken in by surprise, Hades Goat didn't have time to repel her surprise attack and the kick pushed his arm that he stabbed his red diamond with his scythe. As the red diamond on Hades Goat's forehead was stabbed by the scythe, it was destroyed on sight.
"DAMN IIIITT!" Hades Goat cursed as the destroyed red diamond was the source where he kept the enslaved souls. With it destroyed, all the souls he enslaved were released and were able to enter the afterlife. Black Condor also suddenly stopped from fighting and screamed, clutching his head as he collapsed down and de-morphed to his human form.
"You did it!" Youhei congratulated Miki as she approached him and Takeru after she let the girl free. "How did you figure it out?"
"I took a glimpse of his forehead and I figured that it may have something to do with his power." Miki said, "I never thought it's his power source."
"Those orbs..." Takeru said, looking at the energy orbs coming out from the destroyed red diamonds, "Perhaps those were the souls of warriors enslaved by him, now free to go to afterlife, never again abused by him."
"You're right. I feel glad for them…" Miki smiled at knowing that no more souls will be misused. Until suddenly, she noticed Gai lying on the ground, "Ah! What about him?"
"Ah, right! He was resurrected by the Hades Goat." Youhei added, "So maybe he now-"
Before Youhei could finish his sentence, suddenly Gai tried to get up, shocking the three at how he's able to live. His eyes also returned to normal.
"Urrgh… where am I…?" He muttered, trying to get back on his feet, "It's like a huge nightmare…" He looked at his arms, tried to touch them and noticed that they were real. To his surprise, his Cross Changer bracelet was still on his hand, and he still felt the Birdonic Aura running through him. 'I'm alive… and in full control! It's not a dream! Wow… But how did I get here…?'
Suddenly, he remembered what happened in the last moments of his previous life…
Three years after the defeat of the Vyram, Gai learnt on how to live a normal, honest life. He's gotten himself a new job as a businessman, and his company was going steady. His fellow Jetmen went their own separate ways. Ooishi Raita ran the farm of his dream along with his childhood friend as his wife. Hayasaka Ako, against all odds for her tomboyish attitude and off-tune music skills, softened up and ended up as an idol singer. Rokumeikan Kaori, Gai's former crush and love, accepted her role as the heiress of the Rokumeikan Enterprises Empire on her own terms and soon after would inherit her parents' fortune. Lastly, his best bud Tendou Ryuu resumed his duties in the Sky Force, continuing to protect humans from various dangers even though he no longer needed to rely on Birdonic energies.
Just then, he received news that both Ryuu and Kaori were to be married, thus Gai thought that he'd give them his blessings. Though, when he bought the flowers to congratulate them, he saw a mugger mugging a lady. Overcame with his new sense of justice, he stopped and reprimanded the mugger for his crimes, only for the mugger to stab him from behind. He made it to the wedding, hid the fact that he got stabbed from Ryuu and smoked one last cigarette before he passed away. At least he was content seeing both his friends happy…
He was buried. But that rest was eventually disturbed by Hades Goat, who brought him back from the dead due to his method of death and a small tingle of discontent of his death; even though he hid it well from the others… He fought as Hades Goat's pawn, but now he's freed…
"Oh, so that's how it is…" Gai nodded as he looked at the Hades Goat angrily, "Hey, you! Do you realize what you've done? ! This is supposed to be a happy moment for me, given the chance to live again! How dare you ruin it by brainwashing me!"
"Damn… I can't… control him anymore…!" Hades Goat said as he struggled against his wounds, 'I haven't controlled him for long… So he's thrown back to the world of living as a result of the diamond's destruction'
"Unforgivable… Before I contact the rest, there's something I gotta do." Gai took steps forward, not noticing that Takeru, Youhei and Miki were behind him, in awe of a man coming back from the dead. Putting his hand forward, he then yelled,
"CROSS CHANGER!"
With that, he turned into Black Condor. "D… damn!" Hades Goat was shocked, seeing his 'pawn' now turning against him.
"I'll kick your ass, now!" Black Condor yelled as he ran towards the Hades Goat. In fear, he summoned more Grinam Soldiers.
While he tried to fend them off, Takeru, Youhei and Miki transformed and fended off the soldiers alongside him. "Wha… who the hell are you guys?" Black Condor was confused, as his memories of being controlled was kind of blur.
"Shinken Red." Shinken Red said as he nonchalantly slashed an approaching Grinam soldier.
"Blue Turbo." Blue Turbo introduced himself while body-slamming a Grinam Soldier.
"Goggle Pink." Goggle Pink said, knocking several Grinam soldiers down with the Pink Dia Baton.
"Well, whatever, then. Don't get in my way." Black Condor scoffed, acting tough again, "Between me and that creep… it's personal."
"All right, suit yourself." Shinken Red replied as he slashed even more Grinam soldiers.
Without the souls empowering them, the Grinam soldiers lost a lot of power driven with vengeance. With that, Shinken Red, Blue Turbo and Goggle Pink made a short work towards the many Grinam soldiers summoned by Hades Goat.
Meanwhile, Black Condor fought against Hades Goat all by himself. Despite Hades Goat's energy bolt and scythes, his determination caused him to pull through and repel all of Hades Goat's attacks. After several bouts of fighting, he noticed that there's something on his crotch.
"Hey that's… the Bio Dimensional Bug. There you are…" Black Condor commented, as he prepared his other arsenal, "I'll save myself fighting your meddlesome giant version with this then. WING GAUNTLET!"
With that, Black Condor ran towards the Hades Goat, the beast preparing to intercept the attack from his upper body. However, when Black Condor got close, instead, he kicked him on the crotch, stunning him.
"Take that…" Black Condor said as he prepared his fist, then he started punching the Hades Goat's crotch many times, "AND THAT! AND THAT! AND THAT! AND THAT! AND THAT! AND THAT!"
The flurry of punches to the crotch was too much for Hades Goat to handle as he collapsed down, unable to move any further. Black Condor used this chance to draw his Bringer Sword and leapt to the sky.
"CONDOR FINISH!"
With one cleave, Black Condor destroyed the Hades Goat, down to the Bio Dimensional Bug that came with him, disabling it to grow on giant size.
"Incredible…" Blue Turbo commented at Black Condor's prowess of single-handedly destroying the monster.
'He's as strong as the history decreed…' Shinken Red thought, remembering what he read back then. "At any rate… this brings this chapter to a close."
As the sun sets, Gai stood at the nearby cliff, looking at the sky. 'I never thought I'd breathe in this world again. This is really a miracle.'
"Gai." Takeru called as he, Youhei and Miki approached him.
"And you are?" Gai was confused as he didn't recall their human forms.
"Shiba Takeru. I'm that Shinken Red." Takeru answered, followed by Youhei and Miki.
"Hama Youhei. Blue Turbo."
"Momozono Miki. Goggle Pink."
"Heh, so… you're all some sort of Jetman knockoffs?" Gai snarked, noting at how unfamiliar the codenames were to him.
"What did you say? !" Youhei was slightly pissed off at Gai's snarking, though Miki managed to hold him off from snapping back at Gai.
"Well, you may call that. We're similar warriors." Takeru explained, "So… what are you going to do now?"
"Me? Well, of course I'm going to enjoy this new life." Gai answered, "I got friends to call, meet, and I got some other things I gotta do…"
"I've got some things I want to discuss with you, so…" Takeru tried to pull him to a question, but suddenly Gai glared at him.
"Listen up, brat…" he menaced, "I don't want to mess with trivial things that has nothing to do with me, especially with some unknown people that I don't know I can trust. Do it with someone else!" With that, he scoffed and walked away.
"Takeru, aren't you going to stop him?" Miki asked, worrying at Gai's rebellious behavior, "He may be…"
"No. Let him do what he likes for now. We cannot force people to trust us that instant." Takeru said, looking at Gai who walked away. However, in a sudden, Gai stopped on his tracks and turned his face to Takeru. While he didn't remember clearly moments when he was brainwashed, his fight with Takeru was the one he remembered the most, especially after Takeru reminded him something.
"You may have suffered an ignoble death… But for you to be used by a monster like this…! That is a fate even worse than ignoble death!"
"Still, you're a pretty good fighter, I'll give you that." He complimented, "I'd love to fight you again, in a friendlier term."
"Heh. Sure, we'll see about that…" Takeru noted with a smile on his face as Gai just nonchalantly left. As he also walked away in a different direction, towards his home in the world, the Shiba House, he said "We're done here. Let's go back and investigate what's happening in this world back on our homes."
A Sentai Warrior returned from the realm of the dead, though he struck out on his own. However, another faction defeated by the Sentai team, the Vyram, has also emerged. Once again the mystery thickened, and perhaps soon, an explanation would be provided for these warriors to understand what in the world is going on…
Super Sentai vs Super Sentai… will continue at Act 5.
Author's note: And there you have it, guys. Gai is back and kickin'! Well it'll be quite awhile until I update, since I'm still working on the next chapter, but hopefully it won't be for long. I hope you enjoy this chapter for now.