Super Sentai vs Super Sentai
Author's Note: I'm back, guys. Well, updates may be a bit slow, but please bear with me. I realized that even if this is sort of 'filler'-ish, it's taking up a lot of words. But... let's see if this is still going strong...
PREVIOUSLY ON CHAPTER 5
This is an alternate world where people from various timelines are taken to live here for whatever reasons unknown. Here, five warriors from different Super Sentai teams; Shiba Takeru/Shinken Red of the Shinkenger, Yuuki Gai/Black Condor of the Jetman, Hama Youhei/Blue Turbo of the Turboranger, Nagisa Sayaka/Change Mermaid of the Changeman, and Momozono Miki/Goggle Pink of the Goggle Five; have gathered together, to find the mystery behind this universe and stop an ancient evil known as Rufecil. However, several of their old enemies have also gathered to eliminate them. They stand strong to uncover the mystery and fight to defend justice and protect the innocents!
ACT 6: The Allegiance of Black
In the sky soars the Kizuna, the ship left behind by Professor Akihiro to the Super Sentai. As of the current, it continued to monitor the world, but more specifically Japan, since it was a popular target for any villains to strike. Inside, the Super Sentai lived their life, as friends, teaming up to protect the world. And as at that time, they were honing their fighting skills, by sparring. Thankfully, the ship came prepared with several training gi and hakama, which they used.
"An opening!" Just as Sayaka dodged a kick from Miki, she immediately approached her and put her hand in front of Miki's neck, as if trying to chop, leaving her unable to move. "Heh… looks like I win."
"Looks like I let my guard down. I lost." Miki admitted defeat as she offered her hand for a handshake over Sayaka's victory, "You're really good, Sayaka."
"Ah, don't mind that. You're also strong, Miki." Sayaka replied, shaking her hand together, "Maybe we should do this again…"
"GAH!" Their happy moment was interrupted with a yell from Youhei, who was sparring with Gai on the other side. He was thrown down to the floor after an actual punch hit him straight on the face.
"Man, you're slow." Gai scoffed, looking at Youhei, whose face was bruised.
"Youhei! Are you okay? !" Miki ran to Youhei, trying to wash away the bruises he got from Gai.
"Tch… That was low…" Youhei muttered as he remembered that before he punched him, Gai stomped on his feet, lowering his guard and leaving him open for a clean strike, especially on the face.
"Gai, what was that for? !" Sayaka angrily confronted Gai at his actions, "I thought you two agreed that in the spar, you're not supposed to…"
"Don't give me that!" Gai protested, "Listen here, I was just using one of the sure ways to win, no more, no less! It's a viable strategy!"
"Perhaps that could be used at the enemy," Miki also stood up as she approached Gai, "But why would you do that to a friend? !"
"Friend? Are you that quick to call a stranger a friend?" Gai rebuked back at both women, "Look, we just met in a short time, do you expect me to trust you guys that easily?"
"Gai, if you do not trust us, then how are we going to find the key together?" Youhei eventually was able to stand and also protested, "Aren't we friends?"
"That's enough." Takeru, who was watching the argument unfold, finally stood up, "Gai, learn to accept. We have to fight together, if we want to have a chance to return to our universes."
"Kid, you talk kinda big…" Gai glared at Takeru in disgust. Obviously, he was very annoyed that a boy around 10 years younger than him was ordering him around. And not a close one either, "Why don't we settle this in a fight, huh?"
"What? !" Youhei then grabbed Gai by his collar angrily, obviously angry at his attitude, "This is our leader! Are you trying to pick a fight?"
"Fine, I accept." Despite the protest, Takeru moved forward, ready to accept the challenge.
"Hoo, you got guts. Wanna make a bet?" Gai clenched his fist at the approaching Takeru, "If I win, I'm taking over. How's that sound?"
"Gai, you went too far! Stop this at once!" Miki also warned him, but Takeru just nodded at that.
"Just so you know, I… never really considered myself your leader. It was Akihiro who designated me." Takeru stated, "So you do what you like when you win."
"Heh. That's the spirit." Gai said, taking a fighting stance. Just when Takeru tried to take his stance, suddenly Gai stopped him, "Hey, I heard you're a samurai or sorts. Why don't you bring your weapon too? I'll take you on with that!"
"And you'll fight bare-handed?" Sayaka questioned Gai's method, "I worry about your safety for that."
"Very well." Takeru's answer surprised anyone as he stepped away to the training room's corner, picking up a shinai before coming back and taking a stance, "If you want it that way…"
"Well I'd prefer you to fight with a real sword, but whatever, that'll do." Gai resumed taking his fighting stance as he beckoned Takeru, "C'mere!"
With that, both Takeru and Gai fought. Despite Takeru wielding a weapon, Gai was able to hold his own, occasionally grabbing Takeru's shinai with both hands and tried to attack, but Takeru was always able to keep his balance and defended from Gai's attacks. Youhei, Sayaka and Miki were only able to watch as the furious battle continued on, slowly getting as if they're fighting for real.
Just as both once again moved to strike each other, Gai suddenly did the unexpected. As Takeru prepared to strike him with an overhead attack, Gai quickly put his hand on Takeru's crotch and lightly squeezed it, unnerving Takeru slightly for Gai to take him down with a swift headbutt.
"Takeru!" Youhei, Sayaka and Miki approached Takeru who was lying on the ground.
"Ha! Looks like I win!" Gai triumphantly said as he looked down at Takeru, "So don't get overly cocky next time, boy!"
"You… squeezed…" Takeru grunted as he remembered such embarrassing moment, but he kept his mouth shut.
"That was cheating, Takeru! Are you gonna let that be? !" Youhei protested at Takeru's indifference, which suddenly annoyed Gai.
"You pamper him too much!" He yelled, "So you'd wag your tail for this one… spoiled brat?"
"Gai!" Sayaka tried to reprimand him, but Gai didn't stop.
"I read his history. A Samurai Lord of one House, leading a bunch of vassals. So, what are we, your slaves? !" He continued to press down Takeru, "I'm NOT your slave, and never will be, boy! I got my own pride to carry, and that ain't being a slave!"
"I never…" Takeru shook his head at the response, before suddenly Miki stepped forward and slapped Gai straight on his face.
"That was rude!" Miki angrily said at him, "It's true that he used to be a Lord, but Takeru considered us here as friends! Why can't you try to be more sincere? ! And you're supposed to be 29 years old? !"
"Agh, what am I, a babysitter? !" Gai's frustration reached his peak, looking at the four younger people going against him, as he moved to the training room's door to exit, "I'm outta here!"
"Where are you going?" Youhei asked.
"Geez, what's with the angry voice? I'm just taking a stroll down there." As Gai said, he truly left the room.
"You're not going to stop him, Takeru?" Sayaka asked as she helped Takeru get up. However, he only shook his head in return.
"We'll leave him be for awhile." Takeru said, "He's going to need time to accept things here." He recalled that Gai just returned from the dead, and was now amongst unknown people to him. Unlike some people, some couldn't trust strangers that easily.
"Takeru… do you trust him?" Youhei suddenly asked, "He doesn't seem to be the type that you can trust. He fights dirty, doesn't like being in a team… I just kinda predict that he might betray us someday."
"As much as I think he's kind of suspicious… I want to." Takeru said, "Let's just give him time until he accepts us."
"I agree." Sayaka nodded, looking at the door where Gai exited the room, "I think he's just confused…"
Gai rode through the street with his motorcycle, which he previously parked in his old hideout, a small house near a factory. In his mind, he was really annoyed, 'They think they're so high, even when they're less experienced in how this world works. This world doesn't work as happy as they thought!'. He was reminded with just how harsh his fight as a Jetman, the Vyram was ruthless and merciless, every fights were always a fight to risk their lives on.
'That Youhei… what was he thinking, everyone's gonna play fair? !' Gai was still annoyed at how Youhei reacted from their previous fight. He knew that such cheat maneuver was unnecessary, but he did it anyway, just to test how willing they were to step lowly when necessary, but he didn't. 'If they're thinking that Takeru could replace Ryuu, that's where they're wrong! I don't trust someone so weak and cocky who wouldn't expect unfair plays like that… Well, okay, Ryuu sometimes is like that, but he's different!'
Unknown to Gai, however, him traveling alone was spotted by Radiguet and his company. They relocated themselves in a hidden palace, where they meet in a black room in the same vein as the Vyram's Vylock. Inside there was a crystal orb where they could witness any events in any places. In which, they focused on Gai storming off alone.
"That Black Condor, he thinks he can handle things alone…" Radiguet growled, looking at Gai, "But, this is a perfect opportunity."
"What do you mean by that?" Ahames asked, rather unfamiliar with Gai's nature, "Is it time to strike him while he's alone?"
"Not just that." Radiguet explained, moving away from the orb, "Up until now, when we fight those pesky Sentai… all we concentrated was trying to cause havoc to those lowly humans. That was why we lost."
"I'm not interested in those weak humans, though." Juzou replied, stroking his sword Uramasa, which was mysteriously brought back to existence, "Though if this Black Condor is that powerful as rumored, I'd be happy to let his sword clash with Uramasa."
"I'm not done, so you should just shut your mouth, Gedoushuu!" Radiguet snapped back at Juzou's persistence, before regaining his composure, "Although you do make a point. If we are to win, we must change our strategy."
"I understand your point, Radiguet." Mazurka nodded, "So what you're saying is that we must now focus on destroying those Sentai warriors first."
"Exactly!" Radiguet answered with a high, confident voice, "We must break them into pieces first. Only after that, conquest of the universe would be like taking a candy from a little kid!"
"Impressive way of thinking." Jarmin also added, "This might be worth a shot if we are to win. We overlooked the obvious obstacle between our goal, this time we must eliminate that obstacle first."
"Certainly, our chance has presented itself." Ahames gave another look to the orb, and saw Gai this time eating, "One warrior is alone. We should destroy them one by one, as quickly as possible, before he calls in his friends."
"For Black Condor's case, I know a better idea. Take a look at his face." Radiguet said, pointing to the orb, to which most of the villains tried to have a look at Gai's face. Indeed, he looked rather annoyed, "I would surmise that he might have gotten a falling out with his team. He's not teamed with the Jetmen that he trusted, I know that he'll mistrust them, being the lone wolf he is."
"If it's about persuading him to betray the team, Radiguet…" Jarmin stepped up, "I know someone who could help us in this endeavor. Leave this to me." With that, she stepped away, leaving the villains in that one room, with Radiguet looking at her.
"I know how quick you fell against those Turborangers, you had better not fail."
As Gai was done eating, he continued driving down the road, bored. Until eventually he heard a scream nearby, in which he immediately approached the source. There, he witnessed a certain Bouma monster, shaped like a gate opening, in which it let out a bunch of decaying Wular soldiers.
"Wait a minute!" Gai, driven with his original sense of justice, confronted the Bouma, and just as it looked to him, he leapt and delivered a leaping kick, knocking it away and disrupting it, closing the gate on his body. Gai then looked at the remaining innocents and gestured at them so they move away, "Now. Run!"
"Damn you…! You dare interrupt me? !" The Bouma growled, "You are going to pay for that… Open the Gate…!" With that, the Bouma spread his arms and suddenly the gate on his body opened and more decayed Wular soldiers appeared. "Witness the power of Gate Bouma! I've come with some guests from Hell…"
"Bouma…?" Gai remembered at who Youhei's enemies were, but he didn't mind about it too much, "Bah, whoever you are, I'll just beat you down!" With it, Gai started fighting the Wular soldiers. However, the decayed Wular soldiers seemed to refuse to be taken down forever. 'Oh, crap.' Eventually, they managed to surround Gai and take him down. They ganged up on him and tried to bite him. Until…
"CROSS CHANGER!"
Quickly activating his Cross Changer, Gai morphed into the Black Condor and drove away all the Wular soldiers that surrounded him. Gate Bouma only retaliated with opening the gate formed on his body, which unleashed a stream of flame, which Black Condor quickly dodged, but he was caught by surprise when in a split second, the gate unleashed several meteorite balls on fire which hit and wounded him.
"Gah! What the hell…!" Black Condor tried to get up and get back to fighting position. However, just as he got up, he was suddenly attacked from behind by Jarmin. "You…!"
"Hello there, Black Condor…" Jarmin greeted him with a sly smile as she summoned more Wular soldiers to her aid. "You look troubled."
"You were there back then…" Black Condor recalled the last time the villains gathered, as he recalled that Jarmin was there, "Who the hell are you?"
"I am the Bouma Princess Jarmin." Jarmin greeted," And I've come not to fight, but to offer you something."
"Like hell I'm going to listen to someone who's in cahoots with that bastard Radiguet!" Black Condor roughly replied as he ran forward to Jarmin, his Bringer Sword ready to slash her. However, Jarmin simply lashed her whip and had it wrapped around his body, immobilizing him. As if it wasn't enough, the Gate Bouma opened his gate, unleashing one jet black hand that would belong to the demons from the depths of hell themselves, and the hand choked Black Condor from behind. "Gegh…!"
"I may be working under Radiguet, but my loyalty is to the Bouma tribe only." Jarmin assured him, "If the time was right and he serves me no purpose, I will kill him."
"What? !"
"Well, now you'd listen." Jarmin then began her explanation, "This Gate Bouma actually are made of two parts: One is the Back Gate, the one you saw over here, his job is to unleash creatures or things from the other side."
'So that's why he could unleash dead soldiers or meteors…'
"The second one is Open Gate… which could send people from this side, to the other side." Jarmin finished her explanation, "Understand where I'm going at?"
"Urgh… I don't give… a… damn…!" Black Condor was still struggling at the hand of demon which came out from the gate that choked him.
"You will, once I reveal this… What do you say if the Open Gate Bouma… sends you to your proper universe?" Jarmin's revelation stunned Black Condor. Was it for real? That he could go home and be done with those strangers he didn't give a damn about?
"What…? !"
"Yes! You could say good bye to those so called 'friends' of yours and reunite with your true allies… You'd stand more chance against us when you have trust in your disposal, don't you?" Jarmin goaded him as she approached him, "All you need to do is just to sell out these so-called friends, then I will let Open Gate Bouma take you home, where you true friends await. Know that you're the only Jetman here, none of the Jetmen will come to help you in this world."
Black Condor was silent hearing this. He certainly did get sick with those 'new allies' he didn't trust, dragging him to a team he didn't get along with, a team that didn't show him respect despite him being much older than them. He really preferred to be back to the Jetmen, and fight alongside them. Besides, Jarmin already said that her loyalty wasn't truly on Radiguet, and he wasn't sure that she's not completely untrustworthy.
'Maybe this is for the best…'
"Before I give you an answer…" Black Condor still struggled as he tried to say, "Get… these things… off me!". As he said that, he gathered all the Birdonic power inside him, which garnered him a lot of strength, which he used to break away Jarmin's whip binding on him as well as getting the demonic hand choke off him, all while unveiling the wings from his Jetman suit.
"TURBO LASER!"
"CHANGE SWORD!"
Reinforcements shortly arrived in form of Blue Turbo and Change Mermaid shooting the surrounding Wular soldiers with their sidearm guns.
"Damn!" Jarmin cursed at the reinforcements, but before she could retaliate, Goggle Pink already leapt to her and struck her with her Pink Dia Baton. In the meantime, Shinken Red also leapt towards the Exit Gate Bouma and slashed him several times with Shinkenmaru.
"This is not over yet, remember this!" Jarmin exclaimed once more as she gestured to the Exit Gate Bouma, who suddenly let out a thick smoke to the team, disrupting their sight and the Bouma used the chance to escape.
"Black! You okay? !" Blue Turbo approached Black Condor as the latter coughed up due to the choke. However, he just shoved him off.
"No need to bother me, I'm fine!"
"You can't do that! Look at those wounds!" Goggle Pink also showed her worry, "It must be treated quickly or…"
"Or what?" Black Condor just gave the cold shoulder, "So what if I…" Before he could finish his sentence, he collapsed due to fatigue, reverting back to Gai.
"Gai!" Change Mermaid called him out, touching his forehead. But she sighed shortly after, "Looks like he's just tired."
"That's good. We should bring him back." Shinken Red said as he demorphed back into civilian form, as does the rest of the Sentai.
"Ugh… where…" As Gai woke up, he realized that he's inside the sick bay of Kizuna, his body bandaged on his shoulders and stomach, "Infirmary?"
"Oh, awake already?" To Gai's surprise, he found Takeru sitting on a nearby chair, waiting for him personally, "You should thank Sayaka and Miki for nursing you to this point."
"OK, that's it, I'm outta… Urgh!" Gai tried to get up, but his wound prevented him from doing it, "Damn…!"
"You shouldn't move. You're not in a good shape." Takeru warned him.
"Okay, fine. So what do you want?" Gai threw himself back to the bed, frustrated.
"I know you think of us nuisance. I can already see that you don't trust us, at all." Takeru said.
"So you do realize." Gai added, "I hate pampered brats like you."
"Call me what you like. Perhaps you are right about the 'pampered' part." Takeru surprisingly agreed, which even shocked Gai. "I lived my life holed in the Shiba House, with almost everything prepared for me. Well, some of them I have to attain by myself, but overall, me being a 'pampered brat' kind of fits."
"What are you trying to say, huh?" Gai asked.
"I realized when you fought dirty back then, it was… something that we needed." Takeru continued, "Youhei was mad at first, but when I explained it, he calmed down."
"Wow, as if you could read mind. What are you, a psychic samurai?" Gai snarked at him, "Don't tell me mind-reading is one of your abilities?"
"No. It's just… my instinct." Takeru continued, "I realized that you are just the person who'd go into some questionable territories… which is sometimes needed in battle against evil."
"So that's true." Gai chuckled hearing it, "So in the end, you see me as a 'slave' who'd do questionable things, which will be good for your endeavors, huh?"
"I don't." Takeru surprised Gai with his words. Even Gai could sense that Takeru was very sincere on his words, "You're still my senior as a Sentai Warrior, and you're older than us all. I'd never treat you like a slave."
"Well well…" Gai still tried to maintain his cocky attitude, "Then what of the rest of your former allies, huh, Young Master?"
"Don't call me that." Takeru replied back at him, "They're… vassals. They served me, yes. But I never treated them like slaves; I treat them like an equal… human being. And I intend to do the same to you, and the rest."
"The same goes to Youhei, Miki and Sayaka." Takeru continued, "Akihiro might have picked me as the 'leader', but I never took it as 'I'm superior to you all, so I can order you around as I like.' I trust that all of you are great warriors that preceded me. The rest thinks the same as well. That's why I…" Before Takeru could continue, he realized that Gai was already fast asleep. 'Well, I said my piece of mind. The rest is up to him.'
As Jarmin returned to the other villains, she was greeted by Mazurka, "So you have returned, Bouma. I take that you do not have other intentions, especially on what you said earlier."
"Rest assured." Jarmin said, "We gather here for one purpose: The destruction of the Super Sentai. I promise you that I can put aside all my bitterness, if it means they get destroyed."
"So, what you're saying is… all that was just an act?" Juzou tried to make sure.
"Of course." Jarmin nodded, but the instant she did that, several thunderbolts were shot down to her surrounding, causing her, Mazurka and Juzou to take defensive position. When the dust cleared, Radiguet and Ahames were already standing there.
"I will take your word for it, Bouma." Radiguet stated, "Because any moment that you double-cross us, I will kill you myself. And it will be a slow, painful death. The same goes to you all!"
"Yes, sir!" Both Jarmin and Mazurka bowed down in obedience. But Juzou just stood there, showing his defiance.
"Lower your head!" Ahames scolded Juzou as she also fired her own thunder bolts to him. However, he stood still.
"I told you, I'm here on my own accord. I bow down to no one." Juzou replied coldly, "The reason why I'm here is because it's more beneficial to me."
"Heh. Normally I'd kill ungrateful bastards like you, Gedoushuu." Radiguet said as he approached Juzou, his sword ready to strike on his neck anytime. However, even he knew that Juzou held his hand near Uramasa and could deflect Radiguet's attack anytime he wanted to, and it might end in a long-drawn out fight that drained unnecessary energy, "But it's as you said. You're here because it's beneficial not just to you, but to us as well."
"We shouldn't waste time for this." Ahames stated, looking at Jarmin, "Jarmin, what about the second phase of this so-called 'plan' of yours?"
"All we need is to wait for the Super Sentai to answer to our challenge." Jarmin said, but the moment they looked at the orb where they could view the world, they saw Takeru, Gai, Youhei, Sayaka and Miki already locating themselves to the hills that was designated as a challenge point.
"There they are…"
The Sentai warriors arrived at the designated valley, being issued a challenge by Jarmin.
"That Jarmin…" Youhei cursed, "What is she up to now? !"
"You seem rather hateful when the topic is about Jarmin." Miki noted at Youhei's restlessness. He's been like that since Jarmin showed herself along with the other villains, everytime they talked or described Jarmin, Youhei was filled with a certain rage, "Did she do anything to you?"
"Well, she…" Youhei almost answered, but he quickly dismissed it, "Look, she's a Bouma, and I've been fighting the Bouma for that one year, of course I'd be mad about her! She's quite the pain in the ass, let me tell you…"
As Miki looked at Youhei, she grew increasingly worried at his sudden fit of rage. 'You're hiding something. I just know it.' She thought.
In the meantime, however, Sayaka also noticed that Gai looked rather strange and uneasy. 'Gai…' she thought, remembering the incident at the sparring, where she clearly disapproved his below-the-belt method, along with everyone else. She, too, feared a betrayal, but she wanted to believe that Gai was deep down a good person and a Sentai warrior that has proven his courage and sense of justice.
"Here it comes." Just as Takeru said that, the Exit Gate Bouma arrived along with several Wular soldiers.
"Hahaha! I've been waiting for you, Super Sentai." He said, "I've got a big surprise for you. A lot of people wanted to meet you! You're that famous!"
"Famous?" Youhei said, "Though, coming from a Bouma like you, I don't think I can take it easily!"
"Forget about that for now, we transform!" Takeru said as he signaled the rest to transform.
"SHODO PHONE! IPPITSU SOUJOU!"
"BLUE TURBO!"
"LET'S CHANGE! CHANGE MERMAID!"
"GOGGLE PINK!"
Just then, everyone except Gai transformed. On the other hand, he's just silent.
"Gai, what are you doing? !" Takeru urged him, "Transform now!"
"… Oh! Right." Gai suddenly came back to his senses and eventually shouted, "CROSS CHANGER!" He then turned into Black Condor.
"Is he just being absent minded for the day?" Goggle Pink asked, noting Black Condor's strange attitude.
"I don't know, but I hope it doesn't turn out bad." Change Mermaid tried to reassure her, until suddenly Exit Gate Bouma ordered the Wular soldiers to attack.
"Not these again …" Shinken Red calmly said, thinking that the Bouma just wasted his time on weak soldiers, "If you have a trump card, you had better open them now." With that, he sliced several of the soldiers, followed with the rest of the warriors.
Eventually, after the Sentai warriors defeated the soldiers, Exit Gate Bouma spread his hands and shouted, his gate opening, as he shouted, "May the gates of Hell open! And from there… spirits of vengeance who yearns vengeance against justice… COME FORTH!"
As the sky suddenly turned black and thunders entered the gate, it suddenly let out five spirits, which materialized into several Ayakashis fought by the Shinkengers beforehand.
"What are those things? !" Blue Turbo exclaimed, as he never saw any of those monsters before.
"Ayakashi… those who belong to the Gedoushuu." Shinken Red said as he prepared his Shinkenmaru, "Defend yourselves."
The warriors fought the Ayakashi brought back to life. However, as they were not in their first lives, they were not as powerful as before. "Shinkenmaru, Kaen no Mai!" Eventually, with one strike, Shinken Red destroyed them all with his technique.
"Tch, that technique hasn't been perfected yet…!" Exit Gate Bouma cursed, "But I still have much more tricks up to my sleeve!"
With that, he chanted the same words and from it, came out many Bouma monsters. The team finished them off again, and then the Exit Gate Bouma repeated it again, this time unleashing many Mozoos to fight against them. When that failed, he unleashed dead Space Beasts from the Space Graveyard to fight them. Unfortunately for the Sentai Warriors, the fight started to drain their stamina.
"Just how much spirits does he have in his body?" Change Mermaid wondered, catching her breath due to her fatigue.
"Infinite! There is no way you can win!" The Bouma taunted them, which threw the team into confusion.
"Ugh… this doesn't look good…" Goggle Pink said, worried on what they would face. All the time, Black Condor was silent.
'Damn it! What am I gonna do for this one? !' He thought, thinking back on the prospect of being beaten in this very place. He certainly didn't want to die again after cheating death. Clearly, looking at the team falling just like this disappointed him. He thought they'd be stronger than this. 'Man, and I thought they'd have much more to offer…'
Just then, as he looked back, he saw a similar Bouma monster like the one they fought.
"What? ! Is this a double? !" Blue Turbo said in shock.
'That… that must be the Open Gate Bouma…!' Black Condor recalled Jarmin's story about the Gate Bouma siblings. If it was true, then with it, he could say good bye to this world, just like he wanted! 'Damn, about time!' In a sudden, Black Condor suddenly ran towards the Open Gate Bouma, who ran away "Wait!"
"Black Condor? !" Shinken Red was shocked at how Black Condor ran off alone, 'Is he trying to fight that double before it causes any more trouble?' "Follow him!" He then told the rest to follow Black Condor, but suddenly, several small explosions occurred in front of them, and Jarmin jumped there.
"You'll go no further, Sentai." She beckoned, preparing her whip.
"Jarmin…!" Blue Turbo growled looking at her. Due to being in front of him, Goggle Pink looked behind, worried at Blue Turbo's anger. However, this enabled her to see what the Exit Gate Bouma tried to do, which was once again opening the gate and unleashing three demonic hands.
"Watch out!" Goggle Pink shoved away Blue Turbo, causing her to be choked and lifted up. The other two hands targeted Shinken Red and Change Mermaid, lifting them upwards.
"Guys!" Blue Turbo shouted in worry on what happened to his friends, but then he was whipped from behind by Jarmin. She then wrapped her whip around his neck and threw him to the ground, then stomped his head with her foot.
"Well, it's been awhile, Turboranger. I haven't forgotten all the pain you've caused to me and the Bouma tribe." Jarmin taunted, planting her foot further on Blue Turbo's head.
"Jarmin…! You…!"
"I wonder what will make you feel further pain?" Jarmin taunted further, "Is it… seeing your friends hurt?" With her other hand, she gestured with the Exit Gate Bouma, which summoned several boulders from the hellfire itself, thrown onto Shinken Red, Change Mermaid and Goggle Pink. And with them choked and lifted, they had no way to dodge.
"Stop it…!" Blue Turbo struggled to let go, but Jarmin only replied by tightening the wrap of her whip on his neck, causing him more pain.
"Or was it about innocent people being hurt?" She gestured further and Exit Gate Bouma once again unleashed the boulders of hellfire, but this time, he aimed to the direction of a city, wreaking havoc as he unleashed a lot of boulders.
"The townspeople…!" Change Mermaid said, struggling on the choke, "We have to help them!"
"It's no use! The town will turn into a living hell!" Jarmin taunted further, but since her attention was not directed to him, Blue Turbo grabbed her other leg and tripped her. Both quickly got back on their feet.
"As if we'd let you!" He shouted, preparing his other weapon, "J-Gun!" He then shot towards Jarmin, although she dodged. He then tried to shoot the Exit Gate Bouma several times, but just as he shot, the demon hand holding Shinken Red, Change Mermaid and Goggle Pink suddenly moved, blocking the way between the shot and the Bouma, hurting them in process as well as morphing them back to civilian form. "Oh no…!"
"I think 'hurting your friends' causes you pain further. Suits me just fine." Jarmin said triumphantly, seeing how Blue Turbo has shot his own friend, "Did you remember last time you tried hurting your friend?"
"What…? !" With the word 'hurting friend', Blue Turbo was suddenly reminded the last time he was brainwashed by a Bouma monster and was forced to attack his leader Red Turbo, hurting him in process. "That time…!"
"Need I remind you on who tried to control you? Bell Chime Bouma, wasn't it?" Jarmin reminded him again, and his anger started to swell up, "You truly loved her, didn't you?"
"Don't you dare talk about Rin!" Blue Turbo angrily yelled, stunning even his allies, "You bastard… you killed her out of cold blood! She… she could've gotten a life of peace… yet you…!"
'Rin…?' Takeru wondered, having never heard that name before.
'Is she someone from Youhei's past? Lover perhaps?' Sayaka also thought, seeing Blue Turbo's anger, 'It's like he loved a monster. Perhaps there are some sympathetic Bouma, just like the Space Beasts out there…'
"Yes, I killed her. What of it?" Jarmin taunted, "Let me tell you something. You may think me eliminating her race and causing her so much pain before killing her was just a way to punish traitors. But, there's one more reason why I did it…"
"Don't… say it…!" Miki tried to stop Jarmin from talking further. It was just her feeling, but she guessed that what Jarmin would say could send Blue Turbo off the hedge. But it was no use.
"It's because I know you fell in love and was on the way to redeem her." Jarmin said, her voice slowly getting ecstatic the more she said it, "That is why I trampled it and see you go off the hedge, powerless to stop her from dying and even you couldn't get back at me! That look of despair… Heh heh heh… It… it was such a delight!"
"You… You… YOOOOUUUU!" Blue Turbo couldn't hold his anger anymore and ran towards Jarmin, trying to beat her down to a pulp. However, she just simply dodged and severely whipped him, reverting him to civilian form in process. Then, she stomped at his chest.
"Yes, that angered, yet helpless look… from one of those blasted Turborangers… nothing delights me as much as this!" Jarmin triumphantly said, "You can't do anything further, other than succumbing to anger…!"
"Bastard…!" Youhei could only curse, as even though he tried to kick her from behind using his feet, his strength had been drained and she could withstand it.
"And you know what? There's one more thing that I'm sure it could cause you pain." The next words that Jarmin uttered shocked the whole team, "Betrayal."
"Betrayal…? !" Youhei this time was completely surprised.
"A traitor… amongst us…? !" Takeru didn't want to believe it either, but this one was very surprising.
"Yes… Have you noticed why someone as strong as Black Condor didn't even return to help you?" Jarmin asked.
"He's fighting his battle… against the other monster…!" Miki gave the only answer she could. However, Jarmin only laughed in response.
"That monster cannot fight. Open Gate Bouma… his only purpose is to open the gate for the people around him to be transported to another world! And now… Black Condor is going to leave you to die!" Jarmin said, leaving the other Sentai warriors in utter shock.
"He sold us out? !" Youhei said in both surprise and anger, shocked that there was a traitor in the team.
"NO!" Miki said, never wanting to believe it.
"Gai… why… why did you do this? ! We trusted you… was it all a lie?" Sayaka lamented at the apparent betrayal. However, only Takeru was silent.
"What's wrong… Shinken Red?" Jarmin goaded at Takeru on this betrayal, "Are you at loss of words at your ally's betrayal?"
"… No. I believe in him."
Black Condor witnessed as the Open Gate Bouma gathered its power to open the gate leading to his universe. Finally, he could return to the only team he trusted… the Jetmen. However, he felt somewhat uneasy about the events.
'Okay, I'm going to come back… why do I feel this uneasy…?'
His mind flew back to what he could remember when he fought against Shinken Red, despite being brainwashed by the Vyram. He fought well, almost as good as his old leader and buddy Red Hawk. He hated to admit it, but for someone far too junior as a Sentai Warrior, Shinken Red was a pretty good fighter.
'Okay, he's a good fighter, but that's not enough to win my trust! Besides, his so-called friends…'
He then remembered how Youhei tried to assure that they're friends, even when he was being cheated on him, as well as worrying about his health when the team rescued him. As well as both Sayaka and Miki for worrying about him and nursing them. He then tried to stroke his cheek, the same cheek that Miki slapped. He hated to admit it, but he knew that he went kind of too far to call Takeru a pampered brat. If he was a pampered brat, he'd be worse than Kaori before she matured into the woman he used to truly love.
"Akihiro might have picked me as the 'leader', but I never took it as 'I'm superior to you all, so I can order you around as I like.' I trust that all of you are great warriors that preceded me. The rest thinks the same as well."
Although he was asleep at that time, his ears were still aware at that time. He heard what Takeru said, and he realized that Takeru wasn't lying. He was actually sincere to put up with him.
'Damn… why now? Being the oldest of the bunch, I was just throwing tantrum thinking that I don't belong there… they accepted me. What am I thinking…?'
"Gate open…!" Open Gate Bouma declared as his gate revealed a view to the where he originated world. There, he saw his world, seemingly peaceful. He was having doubt whether he should return or not.
Just then, he saw several hellfire boulders, thrown to the sky by the Exit Gate Bouma from afar, heading to the city. "… Damn!" Black Condor was tempted to go over and try and help the citizens, once again feeling that even though this was an alternate universe, the humans there were just as real as those in the real world. What he saw next cemented his decision.
When he saw the people walking peacefully on the real world's view, he saw several people suddenly vanishing without any trace while screaming in pain. 'What the… wait a minute, does this mean… any harms done to the people in this world, the people in the real world will feel it too? !'
"What took you so long? Hurry up and get in!" Open Gate Bouma tempted him further. Black Condor was silent as he walked slowly, as if trying to jump to the gate…
Only to shoot the opened gate with his Bird Blaster at point blank, causing him to fall over, his gate closed.
"WHAT? You didn't want to go back? !"
"I changed my mind." Black Condor coolly replied, "I think I'd rather stay here awhile, kicking some monster's ass to prevent people in the real life to die just because they die here!"
"Wait up! You would dare to attack a defenseless monster like me? ! I… I can't fight!" Open Gate Bouma pleaded, trying to appeal for mercy.
"Oh really, you can't fight? That's too bad then…" Black Condor suddenly stopped on his tracks and put his Bird Blaster back to his pocket. However, he suddenly said excitedly as he slowly ran to the Open Gate Bouma while holding his Bringer Sword, "Because I'm not some honor-bound sissy who'd concern myself in attacking those who just pretend to be defenseless!"
"CONDOR FINISH!"
With one clean slice, Black Condor destroyed the Open Gate Bouma. He then ran to the direction where he came from.
'Wait for me, guys!'
"He may run away… but we… we always wait for him." Takeru stated boldly in front of Jarmin, "No matter what he does… he is… our friend!"
"Loudmouthed as always, before your death." Jarmin said as she commanded the Exit Gate Bouma, "Kill them!"
"Outta my way, nimrods!"
Just then, Black Condor swoop down, with his Jet Wings activated, slashing through Jarmin, and eventually he flew off to cut down the devil hands that choked Takeru, Sayaka and Miki, releasing them.
"Gai…!" Sayaka called him gratefully, "You're back… Thank goodness…"
"Yo." Black Condor only gave the team a small hand wave in return, "There's a lot of things I'd like to say, but… For now, I'm back."
"You're still here? !" Jarmin said in disbelief, "Why? ! I thought you wish to…"
"On second thought, I think I'd get along great with these guys." Black Condor said, full of cockiness and confidence, "Too bad for you, Bouma! I just whupped that other monster's ass while you're not looking!"
"Whoa. Again with killing a monster alone? !" Youhei said in awe, remembering how he single-handedly destroyed a Vyram alone, "That's incredible!"
"My brother… died…? !" Exit Gate Bouma realized what's going on. However, his voice suddenly became cold, "Then again, he's just a weakling of a brother. I'll not miss him. Don't get too cocky just because you single-handedly killed him! Even ants could do that!"
"Even so, he was still your brother…!" Miki said, before she turned to Jarmin, "You! You take enjoyment in people's suffering for no good reason. I do not know who this 'Rin' that Youhei spoke about is, but I am very sure that she is a special person to him." Youhei was shocked at Miki's speech for him, "And for you to delightfully take her life away… I'll never forgive you!"
"Miki. That's… too long." Takeru said nonchalantly as he gathered near Youhei, Sayaka and Miki.
"Huh? Really?" Miki suddenly asked in a playful but confused tone, "I thought I had a longer one towards Deathdark…"
"OK, OK, save it for later." Takeru said, preparing his Shodo Phone, "Let's go."
"OK!"
"SHODO PHONE! IPPITSU SOUJOU!"
"BLUE TURBO!"
"LET'S CHANGE! CHANGE MERMAID!"
"GOGGLE PINK!"
With that, the four transformed again. Black Condor then jumped near them and the five Sentai Warriors were together.
"Damn you all…!" Exit Gate Bouma growled as the Sentai Warriors prepared themselves.
"Shinken Red! Shiba Takeru."
"Black Condor!"
"Blue Turbo!"
"Change Mermaid!"
"Goggle Pink!"
As both finished their roll calls, Black Condor was the one to start the rousing speech, "Even though we are from the different time and team…"
"We are still united as one!" Shinken Red finished as the team stroke their pose.
"We are… SUPER SENTAI!"
"Tch… the mission has failed at this rate." Jarmin said in annoyance, as she failed to make Gai defect and completely sell his team out, "Exit Gate Bouma. I'll leave this to you." After issuing the command, she jumped away, leaving the scene. The Bouma summoned a lot of Wular Soldiers as they attacked the Super Sentai, but the team retaliated.
Eventually, the Exit Gate Bouma tried to summon more boulders of hell. One thing he didn't realize however was that his brother's presence empowered his supplies behind his gate, causing this series of boulders to be smaller and weaker. A red spot located at the skull-emblem on the top of the gate was also spotted.
"Wow, was that easy or what? Compared to the last time." Blue Turbo commented on how slow the boulders became.
"Don't mess with me!" The Exit Gate Bouma unleashed more boulders, but it was slow, once again.
"This is our chance!" Change Mermaid then prepared her sidearm, "Aim for the red spot down there!"
"You mean that's its weak point?" Black Condor said, "OK! Blue, you shoot him there! Mermaid, let's shoot those boulders to give him an opening."
"OK!" Both nodded as they prepared their guns.
"Bird Blaster!"
"Change Sword!"
With the command, Black Condor and Change Mermaid shot down the slowed down boulders, destroying them, shocking him and giving Blue Turbo to load his J-Gun and shoot him on the red spot on the skull emblem on the gate, wounding it fatally.
Meanwhile, Shinken Red and Goggle Pink stood back to back, surrounded by Wular soldiers. As both fought on their sides, suddenly Goggle Pink asked, "Red, do you remember what we discussed back then?"
"What discussion?" Shinken Red asked, while slashing a Wular soldier that tried to sneak behind him. Until the thought dawned on him, "The 'combination' attack?"
"Yes. Let's try to put our strength together!" Goggle Pink said as she beat down a Wular soldier on the head with her baton, "I wanted to try one method I never used with my Pink Ribbon…"
"Well, never know till you try." Shinken Red said, putting the disc on his Shinkenmaru and spinning it, covering the sword in flames. In the same time, Goggle Pink prepared her Pink Ribbon.
"PINK SENPUU!"
Spinning the ribbon around her body, she created a strong gust of wind to the enemies surrounding her, accompanied with some deadly petals of flowers. In the same time, Shinken Red began his attack.
"Shinkenmaru. KAEN NO MAI!"
With one horizontal strike, he unleashed a wave of flame that attacks the enemy. The gust of wind and the petals did not hinder the flames, in fact, as the petals burn, it caused more damage to the enemies and the wind made the flames even stronger and spread faster, quickly eliminating the Wular soldiers in a short time.
"Great! It's a success!" Goggle Pink said excitedly, seeing that the combination worked without a hitch.
"Not until we destroyed him." Shinken Red said, as Goggle Pink followed him running to Black Condor, Blue Turbo and Change Mermaid, who just finished hitting the Exit Gate Bouma on the weak spot. "Let's finish this."
"OK!" As the team confirmed their readiness to destroy the staggering Exit Gate Bouma, they concentrated all their firepower to him.
"PINK DOUBLE RIBBON!" Once again, Goggle Pink started with the Pink Double Ribbon to bind the Exit Gate Bouma. "DOUBLE RIBBON SPARK!" Then she electrocuted it.
This time, however, both Blue Turbo and Change Mermaid stood beside Goggle Pink for their next attack…
"J-MACHINE GUN!"
"MERMAID TYPHOON WAVE!"
Exit Gate Bouma soon found himself barraged with magic bullets and a freezing wave from both. Which opened up a chance for Black Condor and Shinken Red, now already wielding the Rekka Daizantou to run forward for the attack.
"OK, let's support them in their attack! Stand strong, everyone!" Blue Turbo said, telling the girls to stop. He then switched places with Goggle Pink, positioning himself on the center, and then turned to both Red and Black, "Guys, now! Jump on us!"
"OK!" Both Shinken Red and Black Condor confirmed as they both leapt. Shinken Red landed at Blue Turbo's right shoulder and Goggle Pink's left before jumping again from it, while Black Condor used Blue Turbo's left shoulder and Change Mermaid's right shoulder. As they descended, their swords were ready to strike.
"CONDOR FINISH!"
"Rekka Daizantou: HYAKKA RYOURAN!"
With both slashing, the Exit Gate Bouma was finally destroyed. However, Shinken Red was not that quick to conclude the battle. "You're not done? Usually you said 'This brings the chapter to a close' or something like that…" Goggle Pink asked on this one occasion.
"Something just bothered me… Blue." Shinken Red then turned to Blue Turbo, "Do the Bouma monsters have any way to enlarge themselves?" He was reminded that the last time the Shield Bouma was defeated, that it didn't enlarge themselves, unlike the Gedoushuu that possessed a second life. On the other hand, he's also confused why that one Ayakashi he fought didn't use their second life, unless that was a really weak Ayakashi.
"Well… usually one of the Bouma leaders would use their power to enlarge them. Which means…" Before Blue Turbo could explain, suddenly Jarmin made an entrance again, "Speak of the devil."
"Ha ha ha… You may be able to combine your power on the ground." Jarmin said confidently, "But how will you be able to defeat a giant enemy? !" With it, she opened her mouth, trying to unleash the power that usually enlarged Bouma monsters.
However, she was unable to unleash anything. At all.
"What? ! How… how could this be? !" Jarmin cursed at this sudden turn of events, as if she was unable to summon any of her enlarging power. "Damn!" Without a choice, she could only retreat.
"What…?" Blue Turbo said in confusion, "Did she just call it quit and not bother with the enlarging?"
"Oh, well." Shinken Red said, glad that the ordeal was over, "This brings the chapter to a close."
As the team returned to Kizuna, Gai explained what he just witnessed, which shocked the team.
"What? !" Youhei was in disbelief hearing Gai's explanation, "You're saying that… what happened to the people in this world, the people in our world will experience it?"
"Yeah." Gai nodded, "I know you're not gonna believe this. But that's what I saw. If people die here, they vanish in the real world. It's just the same as if they die."
"This is distressing." Miki added, "It would mean that we have to do our best to prevent casualties, so people in the real world wouldn't have to suffer."
"Indeed." Sayaka nodded in agreement, "We have to fight. Protecting the people in this world means protecting the people in our world. This… is not a nightmare, but reality."
"That's true… but…" Takeru said as he approached Gai, "At first… I'm glad that you chose to stay by us."
"Yeah. Sorry about that." Gai said, his face somewhat slightly ashamed, "What Jarmin said was true, I tried to sell you out. I know that was very selfish of me, but it won't happen again. This is where I belong."
"Well said, Gai! I'm glad you finally decided to be with us!" Youhei said, "With you on the team, we'll be invincible!"
"Yeah, it's my duty after all to look after you bratty kids so you don't fall after all!" Gai laughed in response, trying to sound like the cool old guy amongst the team, realizing that the team was around twenty years old and when he died, he was 29, so he was technically the oldest of the team.
"Gai… we're depending on you." Miki said before noticing a red mark on Gai's cheek, "And, uh… I'm sorry if that slap was too hard on you."
"Ah, never mind that! It's just a normal bruise!" Gai chuckled, scratching his head in response.
"Besides, even if you apologize, that was very rude of you, so you deserved it!" Sayaka added. Soon, the team once again returned into friendly banter. Even if Gai was far older than them, he felt kind of young again surrounded with these wonderful friends and swore that until he finished his battle here, he would hold back all his desire to return to the Jetmen.
"Youhei, wait." That night, Miki suddenly approached Youhei before he retired himself to his room in the apartment.
"Yeah, what is it, Miki?"
"I learnt why you were so angry at Jarmin." Miki recalled on how Youhei lost control of his emotions when he faced Jarmin last time, "This 'Rin'. I wonder if she's your girlfriend or something?"
"She's… well, she's not my girlfriend." Youhei said, "She's actually a Bouma tribe member."
"What? !" Miki was shocked. How did Youhei sympathize with a fellow monster? Up until the defeat of Deathdark, none of the monsters she faced were in any way sympathetic, "I never realized that…"
"It may be different in the Deathdark, but in Bouma, some monsters aren't that bad." Youhei continued.
"Rin… we had an experience together. She reminded me of someone dear to me, so I swore that I'd help her. In fact, I learnt that she was actually being forced to fight by Jarmin, her fellow tribesmen were used as a hostage to goad her to fight. To preserve her people, she was forced to control my mind, forcing me to fight my allies. Thank goodness they snapped me back to my senses and stopped the spell. I was worried, she'd feel horrible after all this. When I saw her, I only saw how glad she was to learn that I was okay… And that was the time Jarmin suddenly appeared and in front of her… she destroyed all her sealed tribesmen… and cold bloodedly killed her."
"How cruel…" Miki uttered sadly, hearing Youhei's story.
"At that time, I felt completely angry. All that I had in mind was to make Jarmin pay, but even she was too strong at that time. Just as she repelled me, she enlarged Rin and forced me and my allies to kill her to release her from her anguish." As Youhei continued, his voice began to tremble, "She may be at peace and I might have moved on, but… to this day… that event remains as my greatest failure. I… I couldn't save her… And the fact that Jarmin just said making me like that was her delight just riled me up even more…!"
"That's… enough." Miki suddenly reached Youhei's face, wiping away one tear that fell from his eyes after retelling the story, "I'm sure that you will not fail next time. So please… don't fall into anger like that. It could endanger your life… And I won't have that."
Youhei looked at Miki and suddenly realized that there's another tear that rolled to her cheek from her eye. Hearing the tale touched her heart and she felt sad over Rin's fate. "I'll see you tomorrow morning. Good night." As Miki said that, she walked away, before even Youhei could return the favor and wiped away her tender tear.
"Miki…"
Meanwhile, at Gai's room, he was just done changing his clothes to just his sleeping shirt. Recalling what happened for the day, he laid himself down to his bed. 'Well… this has been quite the day. I wonder if Ryuu and the others are okay…' Remembering his experiences with his friends, Gai was getting ready to sleep, 'For the day where we can reunite and laugh together again, I'll fight. Until then… guess I'll just laugh with these guys.'
Just shortly after he closed his eyes, however, he heard a beeping. It was from his Corresponder. "Huh? Wait, does this mean…!" Excited, he bolted up from his bed and reached out his Corresponder, hoping that he finally was called by his fellow Jetmen, and that all Jarmin said was a lie.
"Hey, Ryuu! It's me! Gai! I'm alive!"
"Uh… Gai?" To his shock, it was a female's voice, and not from any of his fellow female Jetmen. "It's me, Sayaka."
"Oh…" Gai was disappointed at first, but he suddenly changed his mind when he realized something, "How are you able to contact me with my Corresponder, again?" As far as he knew, the Corresponder can only be used with other Corresponder. And he was pretty sure that none of his new allies had that.
"Well, I noticed that too. That's why I borrowed it this afternoon." Sayaka answered, "I took notice on the design and I decided that I could modify it so it responds to our own communicators as well. In short, Takeru's Shodo Phone, Youhei's Turbo Brace, Miki's Goggle Brace and my Change Brace. At first I also tried looking at your Cross Changer, but it doesn't seem to be able to be used for communications, so I used the other one instead."
"Oh, is that so…" Gai said, "… Wait a minute! Why did you try to mess with my Cross Changer, huh? ! What if I can't transform anymore? !"
"Hey, no harms done. I just took a look and scanned it a bit before deciding that I can't do that, so your Cross Changer is not modified." Sayaka tried to explain, "Besides, now that we can speak like this, it means that the modification is a success!"
"Oh, yeah. Good for you then."
"Gai. With this customized communication system, it should be easier to communicate in case we're separated." Sayaka said, "Let's do our best. For this world, and for our world as well."
"Yeah, let's." As Gai said that, Sayaka cut off the line and Gai was able to sleep.
Knowing that he now belonged to the team, Gai hardened his will to fight to protect the people and what he believed in. The bonds of the Super Sentai grew stronger today. But even bonds alone could not defeat the nefarious alliance under Radiguet. Don't lose, Super Sentai! Fight! Super Sentai!
Super Sentai vs Super Sentai… will continue at Act 7
Author's note: I hope I kinda nailed Gai's character well. But then again, by the end of Jetman, he's changed for good, so maybe it's all right. At any rate, thus concludes the 6th chapter. I hope you like it. See you later!