Super Sentai vs Super Sentai
Author's note: Well the new's chapter is here. And just so you to know, the chapter's title has nothing to do with Mel Gibson's movie about Jesus Christ, just so you know.
ACT 9: The Passion of Blue
The afternoon at Shinkou University started with a sudden attack from the Spotmen. A lot of them seemed to attack female college students. There was no Mozoo in sight, but these troops were enough to terrorize the students.
At one point, however, one female freshman tripped and fell to the ground. This freshman was a girl of childish mind, and quite the nerd, possessing interest in things that not many normal girls liked. As such, she was usually shunned by her friends, and when she tripped, not many took notice of her and left her. Betrayed, the girl screamed in fear and cried as a Spotman attempted to attack her. "Yuka… Aaah…!" In her cry, she called out the only friend that she had.
"NO! IKU!" At least, however, her only friend Yuka, tried to save her, but the other Spotmen got in the way.
Until suddenly, a bag was thrown to the Spotman attacking Iku, knocking him out. When they looked, they found out that the one who threw the bag was… Youhei. "Deathdark's Spotmen, huh…" He said, approaching slowly as the attention was directed to him, "You know my policy? 'Never make a girl cry. Anyone who makes a girl cry deserves one hell of a beating.' You just made my female friend cry. So I hope you're ready for some beating!"
With that, Youhei threw himself to battle all the Spotmen. With his strength and continual physical training even after graduating high school, he's more than able to keep up with the Spotmen, punching and knocking them away. After he's taken down several Spotmen, the rest retreated.
"Hey, Iku. Are you OK?" Youhei said, offering his hand to the nerdy girl, who nodded and grabbed his hand as she got up. When her friend arrived, she was stunned, seeing Youhei's effort.
"Youhei… you…" Yuka said slowly, but she was stopped.
"I'm fine. Moreover, I'm glad that you're all OK…" Youhei's sentence was stopped as suddenly, every single girl on the scene started surrounding him, grateful and awestruck with his spirit and bravery saving them all.
"Hama-kun, you're awesome!"
"I love you, Sempai!"
"Thank you so much!"
"Whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on, easy there…" Youhei tried to reason himself, "I mean, I don't mean to save just one. I just can't stand seeing ladies unprotected, so…" But the girls won't stop surrounding him and asking him out.
"Let's go out together!"
"You're my hero!"
Thankfully, he heard a ringing from his concealed Turbo Bracer. So he had an excuse to run off. "Well, you see, I got an appointment with someone today, so I'll see you tomorrow! Later!" With it, he quickly picked up his bag and ran off, not noticing the happy faces of all girls that he saved, all of them entranced with both his bravery and his good look.
At that time, however, Mazurka was posing as a normal woman passing by. When she noticed how Youhei saved most girls, she grinned. 'I see that women gave you strength, Hama Youhei. In that case…'
"You cheeky little bastard!" Gai teased as he slapped Youhei's back, when he finally arrived at Kizuna's computer room, answering the call, "You still had time to be the lady charmer while in college, huh? Well, not like I didn't do that either when I'm younger…"
"Why thank you for the compliment." Youhei answered, "Though if I picked a girl, I'd stay loyal to her. Not unlike someone who had a record to flirt on any girl he comes across."
"What did you say?" This irritated Gai a bit that he tried to punch Youhei, but was stopped when Takeru tapped his shoulder from behind.
"OK, you cut it out now." Takeru said, before turning to Youhei, "Youhei… you were lucky there was no Mozoo amongst them. Next time, you might not be so lucky, so be careful."
"Well, sorry about that, Takeru." Youhei said in a laid back tone, "It's just that when I see girls in trouble, I just had an extra urge to save them."
"Was that just to impress them?" Sayaka asked, not impressed with his apparent bravado, "Don't even think to try to do it to me or Miki, it's not going to work." She feared that Youhei might develop a girl-chasing habit like her old friend Shou Hayate, who even though was a dependable man, his girl-chasing habit sometimes could get annoying.
"Oh come on!" Youhei insisted, "I'm more concerned about the girls' safety! I just can't stand seeing them crying for help! My policy is 'Never make a girl cry. Anyone who makes a girl cry deserves one hell of a beating'. That also goes into the territory of terrorizing girls, so anyone try to harm them, I'll let them eat my fist."
"Wow…" Miki was enthralled hearing Youhei's determination, which in turn got his attention.
"Whoa, so you do understand my feeling, don't you, Miki?"
"That was a wonderful way of thinking, Youhei… but..." Miki suddenly asked, "What if it's suddenly a man who needs help?"
"Uh… of course I'll help too!" Youhei hastily answered, "Bottom line is, I can't stand evil being done to any other. Even though I like women more, I'll still give equal treatment to both genders."
"Yeah, that's one talk all right." Gai snarked, hearing Youhei's bravado, "You better keep at it, boy, or you're gonna regret it!"
"Well, if you'll excuse me." Youhei said, as he headed to the teleporter room, "I promised to hang around with my friends for some pool game."
"Right, I'm done with what I'm going to say." Takeru said, "Just be careful next time. Ambushes could happen."
"Uh huh." Youhei nodded.
"Pool, huh. Been awhile since I played that." Gai said, "Give me the address. I'll wait for you there for a game. That OK?"
"That's OK," Youhei said, "Just no smoking. My friends can't tolerate that."
"Tch, fine." Gai sighed at that fact. Usually, he'd still smoke no matter what, but as he spent his time fighting the Vyram along with the Jetmen, he had developed some sort of conscience on when to smoke or when he shouldn't.
As both boys went off, Sayaka then turned to Takeru, "That's all you want to say to them, right?"
"Yes" Takeru nodded.
"Great! I promised Miki that we'll go shopping together now." Sayaka said happily, as Miki also nodded with a smile, "But since that would leave this ship unattended… Takeru, will you please watch over this ship?"
Takeru was silent hearing it. 'Since when am I this ship's guard dog?' Is what he's going to say, but he couldn't bring himself to say it to both girls.
"Silence means yes, isn't it?" Sayaka said, "Then you agreed. Come on, Miki, let's have some fun!"
"See you later, Takeru!" Miki waved to Takeru as she followed Sayaka to the teleporter, leaving him alone in this ship.
'And off they go, leaving me all alone… Oh well, if something happens to this ship, we might not be able to return to our timelines… Might as well.'
When Youhei was on the way home, he came upon a stand where a woman was selling a certain body lotion.
"To all good men here! We're having a sale for the cake today! Only 18 yens! First buyer gets a discount!"
'Well this should be a good snack before playing…' Youhei thought, looking at the woman. He then put his hand on his pocket, reaching his wallet to check how much money he had left. Counting up, a smile then was formed near him, 'All right! Perfect!'
"S'cuse me, ma'am!" Youhei called the woman out, "I'll buy one, if you please!"
"Thank you, young man," The woman nodded, "Since you're the first buyer, you only have to pay 15 yens."
"Really? Thanks!" Youhei said as he handed down the money, "Thanks, ma'am!" As he bowed down in gratitude, he ran off to home. 'I'll have a bite later at home!'
Unknown to Youhei, however, the woman suddenly formed a sly smile once he left.
Just as Youhei finished taking a bath in his apartment and dressed up casually, he then took a look on the cake, before grabbing it and eating it.
'Wow, this tastes good! How come that woman wasn't able to sell some more?' Youhei thought as he munched on his cake. Just then, he looked at the clock. 'It's time. A good man always comes in time.' With that, he eventually went out.
As he eventually went outside the apartment, however, he bumped into both Sayaka and Miki. "Oh, um… hi." Youhei said, suddenly feeling nervous, "Where… are you going?".
"Ah, hi, Youhei!" Sayaka greeted, "We're just on our way to a shopping spree. Maybe you'd like to come along to carry our bought goods?"
"Oh come on, you know I… I…" Suddenly Youhei couldn't get himself to speak normally to the girls, "I… got other… things to do."
"Uh, are you okay, Youhei?" Miki asked, suddenly her face showed worry, "You don't seem to be feeling well, stuttering like that."
"Ah, no no… Actually I… I gotta go. Later!" Youhei then walked away in a hurry, leaving both girls in confusion.
"Strange." Sayaka said, noticing, "I thought Youhei was quite the girl chaser? This doesn't look like that Youhei that bravely told his story about saving girls."
"I noticed too." Miki also said seriously, "If he stutters like that in front of girls, they find him freaky. Or was it all just a lie?"
As Youhei walked, he couldn't stop thinking why he felt very nervous, 'Damn, what's happening to me? I've never been that nervous to girls in situations like that!' As he walked the street, he began to even feel more nervous as more women were walking on the street. The more he looked at them, coincidental or not, he started to feel more and more nervous.
Eventually, he reached the pool center. Looking around, he noticed that none of his friends made it. 'Guess I'm the first to go…' Just as he thought that, he noticed a familiar motorcycle parked there. It was Gai's. 'Dang, he beat me to it.'
Youhei entered and found Gai already playing on a pool table. "Yo! You're late." Gai greeted.
"You alone?" Youhei asked, suddenly his nerve relaxed again.
"Hah, well I thought I'd be alone." Gai said, moving away from the pool table, "But then, some of my old female friends called and they'd like to play. So, they'll be here soon enough."
"Oh… right." Sensing that a girl would come sent a sudden chill on Youhei, 'What the? Do I need to see the psychologist? Why do I get goosebumps on hearing about women?'
Just then, the door opened and two of Gai's female friends arrived.
"Gai!" One of them called.
"It's been awhile! Why didn't you call!?"
"Well, uh, I forgot…" Gai answered. He didn't want to reveal the truth about him actually being stabbed to death and he has risen from his grave. Looking at Youhei, he then tried to change the subject, "Anyway, that guy over there is my friend Youhei…"
"How do you do… my, you're a cute boy!" The obviously older women started getting close to Youhei as all of the sudden, he started to get really nervous.
'Pull it together, pull it together, pull it together…!' He tried to chant to make himself feel calmer, but he couldn't.
"Wow, you've got quite the handsome face too…" Gai's friends continued to tease and the moment she flirtuously touched Youhei's face… something happened inside him.
It was like his world shattered. He couldn't see anything clear. All he saw was him being in a certain dimension where even the landscape didn't look clear, it was like he was just standing on an empty black field. Surrounding him, however, were huge women. At first they looked pretty and little… then all of the sudden, their clothes shredded and they suddenly became bigger, and their faces mutated into something… not very human. While they kept their humanoid head, their faces were another story. Their eyes were bulged out and their mouth grew into a disproportionate size, along with their teeth. Their noses turned quite long, resembling a bird's beak, and overall, didn't look too human. Their skins started showing signs that they'd rot. The mere sight terrified Youhei that all he could do was just fall on his butt on the ground, frozen in horror. And as he did that, all the big women jumped towards him and eventually they ganged up on him, pulling each of his limbs trying to get him to be their plaything. A really sharp chill stung him when the women touched him. And judging from their sharp teeth, they seem more eager to eat him…
"NOOOO!" Youhei suddenly screamed in reality, which surprised Gai and his two friends.
"Whoa…" Gai said in shock, "Hey, Youhei… you okay?"
"I… I…" Youhei tried to say something, but when he looked at Gai's two friends, he felt as if he was seeing those horrible women again, "AAH!" he screamed, quickly backing away. He didn't exactly remember why, but for some reason, he started to fear the women.
"What's wrong?" The woman asked, "We're not here to…"
"Stay away, stay away, stay away!" Youhei suddenly started shouting in fear, telling the two women to get away. Since they didn't understand what's going on, they only tried to approach him more, which didn't do any good to his psyche and he eventually ran off exiting the house, while screaming, "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
"What the…" Gai was in shock of what happened, "Sorry, but I'm going away for a bit!" Saying that, he bid farewell to his two friends and ran off chasing Youhei.
"Damn, where did he go?" The first thing Gai did was heading to Youhei's apartment. His room was empty.
"NOOO!" A familiar scream was heard, and when Gai turned around, it was Youhei, this time being chased by both Sayaka and Miki who were done with their shopping.
"Stop and calm down a bit, Youhei! It's us!" Miki shouted, trying to call him, but that fell on deaf ears. Thankfully for him, Gai blocked his path.
"Gai!" Sayaka called, and noticed that Youhei felt calmer, "Wow, he feels calmer near you. When we approached him, he was freaking out…"
"Gai…" Youhei caught his breath after running for quite some time.
"What the hell is wrong with you, man!?" Gai wouldn't have such thing and instead yelled at him, "You said you like chasing girls! Then why are you running away from them!?"
"I… I don't know…" Youhei said, "The moment they get close to me, the moment I see them… I… I don't know, but I'm getting scared…!"
"What!?" Gai, Sayaka and Miki suddenly said in the same time, hearing the girl-chaser Youhei stating that now he's scared of women. When both women came near him, however, Youhei returned to his fear and started running off like crazy again.
"NOOO!"
Instinctively, Miki suddenly walked forward. "Miki, where are you going?" Sayaka asked.
"Follow him, of course!" She gave the only answer she had in mind.
"That's not going to do anything, Miki." Gai tried to dissuade her, "You know he's scared to women now, including you!"
"I know. But I just can't leave him be like that!" Miki insisted as she eventually ran off alone.
"Geez, she didn't listen…" Gai commented as Sayaka reached out the Change Brace.
"At any rate, we better tell Takeru about this situation…"
As she chased Youhei, Miki tried to conceal her presence with hiding behind trees whenever possible. However, since there were women everywhere on the street, it didn't do any good to Youhei's fear.
At one point, however, someone dragged Youhei to an alley. Eventually, he came out again… but with a beautiful woman near him.
'What…? Did he cure himself or…?' Miki was even surprised at the scene. But somehow, she felt like she had seen the woman somewhere. 'Could it be…!' She suddenly remembered about her enemy Mazurka, who was as much as a disguise mistress as she was. She then thought that perhaps Mazurka put a spell on Youhei so he feared women… except herself. 'I'll not let that!'
"Prepare yourself!" Miki suddenly yelled as she leapt and tried to kick the woman. The second Miki attacked, Youhei returned to his fear of women and ran off screaming as Miki attacked the woman.
"Damn, wait!" The woman said as she blocked off Miki's attack.
"I know it's you, Mazurka!" Miki ignored all of the woman's warning and continued to attack, "You will tell me what you did to Youhei, now!" With that, she managed to throw the woman to the ground.
"Mazurka…?" The woman suddenly said, and before Miki could raise her fist telling her to shut up again, she suddenly let out a rather masculine voice, "Who do you think you're talking to!?"
"What? What's that voice!?" Miki was shocked hearing that voice. Eventually the woman stood up and reached her head with one hand and the other hand to the pocket. From her pocket, she let out a handkerchief and started wiping her face, while her other hand pulled the hairs and revealed that it was a wig. When she stopped wiping her face, Miki realized who this person was and was in utter shock. Words couldn't express how she was feeling, looking at the person.
"T… Takeru!?"
"Yeah, it's me." Takeru, having just out of his guise, said, "That was really silly…"
"You actually fooled me!" Miki said, giggling and trying to hold her laughter, remembering their latest adventure which ended with the girls making the boys cross dress, "I can't believe you took that cross dressing lesson we had previously so seriously!"
"You're wrong!" Takeru vehemently protested, "It wasn't my idea. Gai and Sayaka made me do it."
"Oh." Miki said, disappointed with how Takeru wasn't enthusiastic enough, "Still, you looked fabulous on that drag! Maybe you should do it more often."
"Oh, quiet." Takeru said in annoyance while still wiping whatever make-ups remained on his face, "Still, I thought it would do good in finding out what happened to Youhei, so I have to do it, like it or not…"
"So? What do you find from this experience?" Miki asked seriously, knowing that the time for jokes were over.
"What he feared was being around someone possessing women's genes." Takeru said, "If we are to find out the clues behind this, we can't use cross-dressers anymore."
"But then, he'd just run off if a woman approaches him…" Miki added while thinking of a way to solve this. The line of thinking was cut short when she saw Youhei being thrown off to the ground, being attacked by a Mozoo. "Oh no!"
"Miki, you stay back." Takeru said, preventing her to run and help Youhei, "Your presence would just freak him out. Concentrate on evacuating the innocent people!"
"Persistent bastard...!" Youhei cursed as he fought the Mozoo. For some reason, however, he didn't feel enthusiastic as before. As if he lost a certain drive that would usually give him the push to reach for victory.
"What's wrong? Can you not defeat me, the one and only… Frog Mozoo…!" The frog-like Mozoo boasted, "If you're not, then I am off to find a suitable princess… Or you'd like to be one for me?"
"Like hell!" Youhei said angrily as he gathered all the courage he got and transformed, "BLUE TURBO!"
He tried fighting the Mozoo, but since he felt a bit less enthusiastic than usual, his attack came off weaker than usual, thus Frog Mozoo could block all of them. "Damn it!"
"Oh, are you done? Hurry up, the ladies are waiting!" Frog Mozoo beckoned. However, when he looked up, he saw Shinken Red already leaping and trying to slash him. "Oh no you don't!" Activating a button on its engine located in the center of his body, the Mozoo's body started to enlarge in a circle, and its skin became hard enough to deflect the Shinkenmaru.
"Takeru!" Blue Turbo called out.
"I'm fine." Shinken Red said as he get up, "That's some tough skin…"
"Of course! All close range attacks are rendered useless with this skin!" Frog Mozoo boasted, even revealing his weakness.
"Really? Then long range attacks would do. If you must know, Blue Turbo's power lies on long range attacks!" Blue Turbo said as he whipped out both his Turbo Laser and J-Gun. "Now eat this!" With that, he shot down the Frog Mozoo. Despite damaged, however, he's far from destroyed.
"Nice shot. But!" As Frog Mozoo said that, he opened his mouth and let out a long tongue. But instead of attacking Shinken Red and Blue Turbo, it instead grabbed several girls and put them as his own hostages, "Now can you shoot me? You'll risk on hitting the hostages…"
"Tch… But I know you can do this, Youhei…" Shinken Red said and turned to Blue Turbo, but was shocked at his reaction, "Youhei?"
"Women… oh no…!" Once again, Blue Turbo was overcome with his fear against women. Dropping both his weapons and falling down on a sitting position, he slowly crawled backwards, "No…!"
"Help me…!" The women begged, but Blue Turbo's reaction wasn't as they expected.
"NOOOOO!" He then started screaming and crawling away backwards. Looking at that, Shinken Red planted his face on one of his hand in disappointment.
'Youhei, you…'
In the meantime, Miki was doing her best evacuating every civilian from the vicinity. However, when she was evacuating, she saw a woman, the same woman that sold Youhei the cake. "Miss, please hurry this way to safety!" Miki said, trying to help her escape. However, the woman just laughed.
"Heh heh… It's just as planned…" The woman said.
"Just as planned…?" Miki suddenly realized who the woman was, "Wait, you're…!"
She was too late, however. The woman suddenly swung her arm, slapping her and made her fall to the ground. As the woman spun around, she revealed her true identity…
"Mazurka…!" Miki muttered.
"It's been awhile, Momozono Miki…" Mazurka said.
"But you destroyed yourself back then!" Miki exclaimed, remembering the last time Mazurka fell in battle. Infused with new powers that could render her invisible, she managed to sneak into the Goggle Five's base, but found out that she was being used as a human bomb to be discarded soon. Rather than being discarded, Mazurka instead blew herself up by her own will, destroying the base. As it stood now, she was standing there, "Who saved you in the last minute?"
"As if I'd tell you!" Mazurka shoved the question away, and instead showed her the scene of Frog Mozoo taking women hostage and in the same time struck Blue Turbo in fear, "Now look… that is your new friend. Once a girl-magnet, now he feared them…"
"What did you do to him!?" Miki asked angrily, until Mazurka pulled out a cake. The same small cake that Youhei bought.
"This cake! I specifically baked them with a special ingredient…" She said, "One special ingredient that would slowly make him nervous around women and when the time comes… he would completely develop a gynophobia, a fear on women! I thought I'd share this to your other male friends… and I got one. And this is just the beginning…"
"Tell me the cure of that, Mazurka!" Miki shouted in anger.
"You won't live to learn that!" As Mazurka said that, she pointed her baton, creating a energy bolts to blast the ground, trying to hit Miki. However…
"GOGGLE PINK!"
In the middle of explosion, Miki managed to transform and shortly after engaged in a fight against Mazurka.
Meanwhile, as Blue Turbo was struck in fear, it was up to Shinken Red to fight the Mozoo. However, the combination of Frog Mozoo's strong skin and the hostage made him unable to make any progress.
'Damn, if there's no hostage…' He thought.
"I guess it's time you say your prayer." Frog Mozoo said, "And after this, I'll have fun with these ladies…"
"Noooo!" Both the women and Blue Turbo screamed, both scared, but while the women were scared of the Mozoo, he was scared of them instead.
"CHANGE SWORD!"
"BIRD BLASTER!"
From behind the Mozoo, however, suddenly reinforcements arrive in form of both Black Condor and Change Mermaid. The hostages were released, but the Mozoo was far from finished.
"That's good shooting me, but I'm tougher than I look!" Frog Mozoo continued to say.
"Dang!" Black Condor cursed at that, but seeing Blue Turbo still cowering in fear, now because Change Mermaid was around, he was pissed off and approached him, "Youhei! Get up, damn it! The enemy is in front of us!"
"No…! Women… women…! Get them away from me…!" Blue Turbo continued to whimper, which in turn infuriated Black Condor.
"Why you little brat…!" He then tried to punch Blue Turbo as hard as he can with his Wing Gauntlet on. However, Change Mermaid stopped him.
"Gai, stop that!"
"Let me go, Sayaka!" Black Condor insisted, "He's not going to understand if I don't smack him hard!"
"No it won't do anything! I'll just move away!" Change Mermaid said as she pointed to where Goggle Pink fought against Mazurka, "Look, Miki could use some help…!" With that, Change Mermaid started running over to her, but in the same time, Frog Mozoo suddenly opened his mouth.
"You're open! Bubble Bomb!" He yelled as he pulled several bombs from his huge mouth and threw them to Change Mermaid.
"AAAGH!" She yelled as the bomb hit her directly and gave her quite a severe wound. She fell over to the ground, nearly running out of energy.
"Sayaka!" Realizing what happened to Change Mermaid, Goggle Pink stopped her attacks to Mazurka and approached her, checking if she's okay. At that moment, Mazurka jumped and got herself near the Mozoo.
"That's it for today, Frog Mozoo!" She commanded the Mozoo to retreat and then turned to the five, "Remember this, Super Sentai… The terror I would give to this world and you will commence soon!" With that, both of them escaped.
While everyone returned to Kizuna, Youhei did not come as he already ran off in fear, and they had to tend to Sayaka quickly inside the infirmary.
"Don't die, Sayaka… Please don't die…!" Miki begged, tending to Sayaka's wounds, as this reminded her of her early battles where she was fatally hit with a bomb, severely wounded and extremely worried her allies, fearing that she would die. She was deeply saddened that Sayaka was suffering the same fate as her.
"So now we know he ate something that caused him to fear women." Takeru said, noting on how Miki previously explained what Mazurka said, 'Since they made the ingredient themselves, there's no way we can develop a cure, especially in a short time…'
"Well do you have any plans to get rid of that?" Gai asked in annoyance. The sight of the current Youhei pissed him off to no end.
"Not that I can think of…" Takeru answered with regret.
After several times going around, eventually Gai couldn't take it anymore and he tried to exit the infirmary. "Gai! Where are you going?" Miki asked, surprised at what Gai would do.
"I'm bringing him here." Gai said, "He's going to have MY therapy, whether he like it or not!" He then opened the door of the infirmary and exited the room immediately.
"He's up to something." Takeru noted, looking at Gai before turning back to Miki, "But you shouldn't worry about it. Taking care of Sayaka is your top priority." Miki nodded at Takeru's words and continued tending to the unconscious Sayaka.
Meanwhile, Youhei was catching his breath in a nearby garden. He couldn't believe what he had done, deserting his friends out of fear. "Damn…! Damn it all!" He cursed, "Why am I now scared with women…!? I enjoyed their company and now… now…!"
Out of frustration, he walked away. "I'd wish I can like women, but my body… it's like my body is telling me to fear them…" Youhei muttered as he ran through the street. However, suddenly he heard screams of men screaming. "What the…!"
When Youhei approached the source, he found the Frog Mozoo terrorizing several men. However, the Mozoo suddenly opened its mouth and unleashed a gas to the men. And when the gas subsided, the man was no more. In his place was instead a woman, which made Youhei freaked out. "No no no NOOO!"
"Well would you look at that…!" Back in the villains' dimension, Mazurka showed to the rest of the villains how the Frog Mozoo did his job, using his gas to turn men into women, "With the Frog Mozoo's gas, men will turn into women. And soon, there will be no future for humanity since there cannot be a marriage with the same gender!"
"Excellent, Mazurka…" Ahames complimented at the sight, "This is quite the intricate plan…"
"Foolish woman, what are you doing!?" Radiguet scolded at Mazurka, looking at how she did her job, "You never learn from your mistakes, do you… This plan of yours is a failure!"
"What do you mean by that!?" Mazurka protested.
"Isn't it obvious?" Juzou this time even backed Radiguet up, "Your aim was to cause terror on humanity. How many times has it failed when you fought those Goggle Five?"
"As much as I don't like you, you make valid points, Gedoushuu." Radiguet added, "If you want to succeed, you should strive to cause suffering and anguish not to the humanity first, but to those who protect them, the Super Sentai! Once they fall, the rest of humanity will follow easily!"
"I wasn't even finished!" Mazurka said before continuing, "This is why I gave Blue Turbo that cake with that ingredient I found… If he fears women, then Frog Mozoo's ability would cause even more terrors to him. This will disrupt his power, making him easier to destroy!"
"I see…" Jarmin nodded, seeing how Mazurka put her insight, "So… your true aim was to destroy Blue Turbo, rather than just turning men into women for no reason."
"Heh. All right, I changed my mind. Continue to do so." Radiguet said, "But remember… once Blue Turbo is finished thanks to your scheme, do the same to Shinken Red and Black Condor!"
"Speaking of Black Condor…" Mazurka said as the crystal screen showed that Gai has come to Youhei's aid, "There he is…"
However, the next act surprised even the villains. Instead of helping Youhei, Gai punched him to the gut, knocking him unconscious. He then carried Youhei on his shoulder and ran off.
"What was he doing?" Mazurka was in shock on that sight.
"He's up to something…" Juzou noticed as he looked at the screen.
Meanwhile, back at Kizuna, both Takeru and Miki were still attending at Sayaka. "So, how is she?" Takeru asked.
"I think she just needs rest as of now." Miki said as she gave a relieved look, "Thank goodness she's safe…"
"Well that's good, then!" Suddenly Gai, who just arrived, said, "In that case, you'd be available for my plan."
"Gai?"
"That monster is out in town again. We have to take care of it." Gai said, before he turned to Miki, "But first, Miki… you come with me."
"Eh? What is it?" Miki was confused in what Gai was planning, but without giving him any chance to protest, Gai grabbed her arm and dragged her out.
"Just shut up and go along with my plan!"
"Wait a minute, Gai…!"
Gai took Miki to an empty room whereas Youhei was there, unconscious and his ankle is tied to an iron ball. The sight horrified Miki. "Youhei! Are you okay!? Who did this to you!?"
"I did." Gai nonchalantly answered.
"What!? Gai!? How could you!?" Miki angrily retorted at him, "Do you realize what you've done!?"
"I know what I'm doing girl. This is why I need you." Gai sternly answered, "Stay close to him. Do it until he's no longer freaking out to women. I gave him the iron ball just so he won't escape."
"What?" Miki was shocked hearing that, "So… I have to make him freak out a lot by staying close to him?"
"Listen, if he wants to get rid of that fear, he has to tackle it head on!" Gai said, "Otherwise, I don't know what else we can do about him. He's not fit to fight this way."
Hearing Gai's explanation, Miki was completely silent. She realized that Youhei was somehow suffering with his sudden fear with women. If she could help just a bit, she'd do it. But she wasn't sure if Gai's method would work out.
"So, are you in, or not? His fate depends on you." Gai gave one final question.
"I understand, Gai." After much silence, Miki nodded and answered, "I'll do my best to help him."
"Good. We're counting on you." Gai nodded with a smile, handing down a key, "If he ever returns to normal, you can use this key to remove the iron ball" As he left the room, he was heard shouting, "All right, Takeru! I'm ready! Let's go kick some butt!"
In the meantime, Frog Mozoo has continued his rampage. However, that was put to halt when both Takeru and Gai barred his path.
"That's far enough, Mozoo."
"You wanna get in my way!?" Frog Mozoo said, "Or you want to be turned into a woman!?"
"Sorry, but I'm fine with my gender." Gai said, "So I'll just say that I want… to kick you in the ass."
"That's enough chatter." Takeru said as he prepared the Shodo Phone, "Let's go."
"OK!" Gai gave a thumbs up as he put his hand on his Cross Changer.
"IPPITSU SOUJOU!"
"CROSS CHANGER!"
Both transformed and in the same time, Frog Mozoo summoned a bunch of Spotmen to assist him. "Let's go!" Shinken Red said as he and Black Condor ran to the incoming enemy and prepared to attack.
Back in Kizuna, as Youhei woke up and saw Miki in front of him, he immediately was overcame with his fear and tried to run off, but the iron ball chained on him made him fall flat to the ground, unable to move further.
"No! Noo! Don't come! Someone… someone help me!" He screamed and screamed in fear. Miki could look at him with sadness in her eyes. To see one who would welcome and attract girls and protect them, now the one he was supposed to protect ends up becoming his subject of fear.
'This is sad… But… I can't just stand here doing nothing. I have to try.' Miki then tried approaching him, trying to call him, "Youhei…"
"AAAHH!" He ignored her and instead continued to cower in fear as he has reached the corner of the room, "Don't… don't…!"
"There's in no need to fear… It's me, Miki. Remember?" She tried to say the words in the sweetest, most caring way possible, but it did both of them no good.
"Oh God, please help me…!" Youhei continued to mutter in fear and his voice was terribly shaking. His face had been consumed in fear that he looked like someone who just saw thousands of ghosts.
"There's no one who's going to hurt you… It's just your imagination that women are scary…" Miki continued, "You used to like women, right? Then why…"
"NO! Don't do it…! Stay away, monster, stay away!" Youhei screamed. In his eyes, it's not like he's facing Miki. He was instead seeing the same huge women that he saw after seeing Gai's friends. He wasn't like this before, but apparently, the infection of that fear has gone far enough that he's been hallucinating like this
Eventually, Miki couldn't stand it anymore.
"Youhei… YOU IDIOT!"
She immediately gave him a hard slap on the face, in which he was silent. What he thought was the huge woman in his vision would instead grab and try to eat him. Instead, what he got was a slap.
"What has happened to you!?" Miki yelled at him, "You were so full of passion… full of determination to protect women… Now look at what you're doing! Sayaka tried to help you out, and now she's hurt because of it! Isn't she your friend too!? Are you really okay with indirectly hurting your friend!?"
Youhei was completely silent.
"You said when you see girls in trouble, you had an urge to save them! Or was it all just a lie!? You've fought Jarmin of the Bouma tribe. If that's how you act with women, how are you going to defeat her before she defeats you first!? You're such a brave person before, now all I see is just a coward! That's why… that's why…"
As Miki continued to yell at him, her voice started to shaken and tears rolled from her eyes. Slowly, she approached his body and circled her arms around him, hugging him "I… I don't want to see you like this forever…! Please wake up…!" She said, tightening her hug as she sobbed, burying her face on his chest.
"… Mi… ki…" Youhei muttered. Her words touched his heart, and it reminded him all the troubles he went through being a Turboranger. He has fought a lot of dangers and faced them all bravely. Now he feared women… But Miki's words reminded him that he could be brave if he wanted to. Even if his body has been damaged, he'd still go on if he wanted to achieve something. It's just then he realized that he wasn't even trying. He gave in that easily to his fears developed from his body.
'Never make a girl cry. Anyone who makes a girl cry deserves one hell of a beating.'
He remembered his policy that he even boasted to his new friends. He felt like a huge hypocrite, boasting that he'd never make a girl cry. And now, he just made Miki cry out of her worry to him. And on the top of that, he just heard that Sayaka was hurt because of him. He realized that rather than protecting women, he was only hurting them, and that was not the usual him at all.
At that time, he thought touching any of the women out there would really send him chills. But now, even though she was still seeing Miki as one of the huge women in his imagination, only that the women also hugged him, he didn't feel any chill, but instead warmth.
'Is it just all my imagination that I'm trapped at…?' He thought, 'In that case… I have to give it a shot…!'
He slowly raised his hand and then touched the huge woman in his imagination, hugging it too. At that moment, all his imagination about women shattered and he found himself back in his reality, his arm was nearly hugging Miki.
"Not a chill…" Youhei muttered, realizing that he was no longer nervous, "It's just my imagination after all…"
"Youhei…!" Miki exclaimed, looking at his face.
"Miki? My God, your face is all wet…" Youhei said, noticing the tears that were soaking her face, "Oh dear, don't tell me I… I made you cry, didn't I?"
"Thank goodness…! I'm so glad you're back to normal, Youhei…!" Miki instead gave him a warm, tight hug in return, "Welcome back…"
"It's true…" Youhei said, "That voice… it was definitely your voice, right? Telling me to get a hold of myself… So… if you didn't try to call me out strongly… I might still be stuck in that dreadful imagination. Thank you, Miki…" In gratitude, he also hugged her, 'Still, I made you cry. I deserve to be beaten up for that.'
"It's all right, Youhei…" Miki said as both released their hugs, "As long as you're okay…"
"Oh! I remember now!" Youhei suddenly realized as he got up, "I knew that there was a Mozoo rampaging in the town!"
"Ah, that." Miki also got up, finally managing her voice to calm down, "Takeru and Gai has already fought them off. Let's go help them!"
"Right!" Youhei enthusiastically said as he tried to run, only to forget that his feet were still attached to the iron ball and as a result, he fell flat on his face to the ground, "Ouch…"
"Oh, right. I haven't removed this ball that Gai put to you." Miki said as she pulled the key Gai gave to her and tried removing it.
'Damn it, that Gai…!' Youhei thought in annoyance. After his feet were free, he opened the door as he and Miki exited the room. Outside, they found Sayaka already gotten up from her bed and struggling to leave and help Takeru and Gai, despite her wounds. "Sayaka…!"
"Youhei…! You're all right…!" Sayaka noticed as he was no longer nervous or freaking out while looking at her.
"Yeah, I'm OK now. Thanks to Miki…" Youhei said, "I'm sorry. Because of me, you…"
"It's all right. I also felt better now." Sayaka reassured him, "Come on, let's go help Takeru and Gai…"
"Right." As Youhei nodded, the three headed to the teleporter room to join up with their two friends.
"So how many Spotmen have you felled, Takeru?" Black Condor asked as he slashed a Spotman down with his Bringer Sword, "This one's my twentieth!"
"You take counts on that?" Shinken Red asked as he also slashed another.
"Just answer the question!" Black Condor said as he stabbed his Bringer Sword to a Spotman's groin.
"About the same as you, I guess." Shinken Red nonchalantly answered.
"Guess we're even." Black Condor said as he turned his attention to the Frog Mozoo, "But only I can harm him as it stands now. Looks like I win…"
'Since when has this become a competition?' Shinken Red thought as Black Condor blasted the Frog Mozoo several times with his Bird Blaster. However, the Frog Mozoo still stood.
"Don't underestimate my regenerative ability!" He said, "As long as I'm on the ground, I can always recover all my lost power in a quick moment!"
"What!?" Both men realized that this might be harder than they thought. Then, Frog Mozoo blasted them off with his Bubble Bomb from his mouth, making them fall to the ground. "Damn…!"
"This is it!" Frog Mozoo said as he opened his mouth, "I'll turn you into a woman! Not even your suit can protect you from this!"
It looked hopeless for both Shinken Red and Black Condor. It looked like they couldn't dodge it and would end up spending the rest of their lives as a woman. Until…
Suddenly, the Frog Mozoo's mouth was blasted off from afar. Then a small sword was thrown to its mouth, damaging it further. "What!?" As he looked at he direction, he found out that Blue Turbo, Change Mermaid and Goggle Pink have already arrived.
"Blue Turbo is here!" Blue Turbo stated with confidence.
"Youhei…!" Shinken Red said, looking at his reinforcement, "Looks like you got over it…"
"All right! It works!" Black Condor said, noticing that Blue Turbo was completely calmed down even when surrounded with two women.
"You! You still want to take me on!? Know your weakness!" Frog Mozoo said cockily.
"Don't you have eyes?" Blue Turbo said, still maintaining his cool, "Now women don't scare me anymore!"
"In fact, I know why I wasn't really doing well against you…" He still continued to talk, "One of my drives in battle is to protect women. When I lost that, of course I wasn't fighting well. Now, I've faced my fear, and you're in for a whooping in the butt! Prepare to taste the power of a Turboranger!"
"Youhei… too long." Shinken Red commented as he moved forward, Shinkenmaru ready on hand, "Let's just get on with it."
"RIGHT!" The four Super Sentai warriors nodded as they stood in line.
"Damn, who do you think you are that you can beat me!?" Frog Mozoo beckoned, still pretty confident on his own strength.
"Shinken Red! Shiba Takeru."
"Black Condor!"
"Blue Turbo!"
"Change Mermaid!"
"Goggle Pink!"
For this time, Blue was the one to start "Even though we are from different times and teams…"
"We are still united as one!" And Shinken Red finished as everyone followed,
"We are… SUPER SENTAI!"
"Impertinence! You can't beat me!" Frog Mozoo shouted as he summoned more Spotmen, "Get them!"
"GO FOR IT!" This time, Blue Turbo was the one to lead the charge and ran forward first, with his J-Gun in one hand and his Turbo Laser on the other. Running through the horde of Spotmen, he showed an incredible use of both of his guns, shooting precisely to each Spotmen that got in his way and kept on pressing forward. While the rest were also fighting the Spotmen, none even charged headlong like Blue Turbo, showing quite of his recovered passion.
"You're next!" Just when Blue Turbo got in front of Frog Mozoo, he shot him down with both his guns, damaging him quite severely even with his enlarged body skill on.
"Bastard…!" Frog Mozoo cursed, but he suddenly unleashed his tongue, which grabbed a nearby woman and used her as a hostage, "I got you now! Scared or not, you can't act freely now!"
"You dirty little…!" Blue Turbo cursed, but with the woman in danger, he felt more inclined to save her. Which then Frog Mozoo staggered a bit after he was shot. As Blue Turbo was the most expert in long-range shooting, his shot has more effect than other guns. "Now!" Looking at that, he shot exactly at Frog Mozoo's face, which was exposed open, making him free the woman. Blue Turbo then used the chance to grab his tongue and throw him away. Then, he turned to the woman, "Please run now!" The woman nodded and ran off as he commanded.
"Damn… damn you!" Frog Mozoo continued to curse as the rest of the team gathered to Blue Turbo.
"Hey, I remember now…" Black Condor suddenly said, "He'll regenerate fast if he's on the ground. I guess if we want to beat him, we have to destroy him while he's being tossed upwards."
"Now that's one trouble we have to fend off." Change Mermaid also noted, "I hope someone is strong enough to throw him off like that."
"We can manage that." Shinken Red said as he turned to the rest and explained the plan to eliminate the Mozoo, "I'm counting on you guys. This is it."
"All right, here we go!" Goggle Pink nodded as she looked at the Frog Mozoo having trouble to get up. She then unleashed her attack.
"PINK HEART HYPNOSIS!"
She then unleashed and covered Frog Mozoo with pink hearts which stunned the Frog Mozoo. Then she started talking with a sweet voice.
"All right, now calm down and relax a bit…"
Against his will, Frog Mozoo started to make his body feel relaxed. Afterwards, Blue Turbo ran to him and pulled his tongue. Grabbing on it, he started swinging the Mozoo with much ease thanks to him being stuck in relaxation stance.
"Okay, girls! Here!" With that, Blue Turbo yelled and threw the Mozoo to both Goggle Pink and Change Mermaid.
"OK!" They both retaliated by kicking the Mozoo away, to the next person, "Gai! You're next!"
"Right on! Wing Gauntlet!" Black Condor said and set his Wing Gauntlet on one of his hand. With all his might, he punched the thrown Mozoo to… "Go for it, Takeru!"
"Rekka Daizantou!" Quickly inserting the disk in his Shinkenmaru, Shinken Red turned his sword to the zanbatou mode. However, instead of slashing him, he let the Frog Mozoo hit on the Zanbatou's blunt side. Focusing all his strength and Mojikara, Shinken Red swung upwards, throwing the Mozoo to the air. "The finishing blow. Youhei!"
"Leave it to me! J-Machine Gun!" With that, Blue Turbo combined both his guns and aimed at the falling Frog Mozoo. "And don't get back down here, you monster!" With that, he shot a barrage of bullets that shred through Frog Mozoo's skins and eventually destroying him airborne. "VICTORY!" Blue Turbo exclaimed happily as he put a V Sign on his hand.
"Impressive!" Change Mermaid praised at Blue Turbo's tenacity as Shinken Red was just glad that his ally has recovered.
"This brings this chapter to a close."
As the sun set, Youhei was just standing near the river, recalling what he had done for the day. Approaching him was Miki. "Feeling okay now?"
"I guess I am…" Youhei said, "I'm thankful that you woke me up and… I'm sorry. I made you cry."
"Please don't mind about that," Miki smiled at him, "Besides, my words alone weren't enough. I knew it."
"Huh? What do you mean?" Youhei was confused at Miki's remark.
"It's just that… if I only said that and you have no will to recover, it would be useless and you'll still be stuck in fear." She explained, "In the end… it was you who saved yourself."
"Don't put it that way, you deserved the credits for that!" Youhei also smiled at her, "If it wasn't for your words, I wouldn't be able to find the courage to face my fear. For that I…" Suddenly, Youhei took Miki's hands and held it tightly, "Thank you very much."
"Youhei…" Miki was completely stunned hearing that. For a moment, their eyes meet… until suddenly she saw something behind him, "Shouldn't you do something about those?"
"Wha?" When Youhei looked back, he saw a lot of girls running towards him, "Ah right! Hi, girls!"
Calling out his names, the girls surrounded and chatted with him. Apparently, they were also worried about Youhei, as when he was in the fearful state, he also avoided them like crazy and it surprised them. Now that he's okay, they could gather with him. And Youhei didn't feel any fear anymore. Miki only left, heading towards Takeru, Gai and Sayaka who were watching on the side.
"Well, all's well, I suppose." Takeru said.
"Yep, Youhei is back to his usual girl-magnet self." Sayaka also added while nodding.
"Sure you're not jealous, Miki?" Gai suddenly teased, in which Miki raised her voice.
"What was that about, Gai!? I'm just glad he's back to normal and be with his friends again! I'll have you know that I have no intention on stealing him from any of his girlfriends he had from his timeline."
"But Sayaka told me you were crying over him!" Gai continued to tease her.
"Geez, is it that bad to worry over a friend's welfare!?" Miki insisted, but then Sayaka interrupted them.
"Wait, who is that man!?" She pointed at one man, a rather effeminate one at that, approaching Youhei.
"My hero!" The effeminate man said, turning Youhei's face blue, "You… you're my savior!"
"Uh… do I know you, sir?" Youhei asked, starting to back away.
"I know! You have the same voice… as the one who saved me from that nasty monster!" The man said, "I was turned into a woman thanks to that creep, and now I'm back… but still, my adoration for my savior is always pure and true!"
"Look, I think you got the wrong man here…" Youhei tried to excuse himself, but the effeminate man still approached him, "Wait, wait, I'll have you know that I'm a straight guy! Now don't get the wrong idea, I'm glad that you're OK and I really appreciate on where you swing, but… but…"
"Hug me, my hero!" The effeminate man spread his arm and ran, trying to embrace Youhei, which now considerably freaked him out.
"Wait, wait! Don't come near me! I mean, personal space, personal space!" Youhei put his hands forward as he backed down, trying to tell him to shove off, but it didn't do anything, "NOOO!" There was only one thing he could do… to run away, while the effeminate man gave chase. The girls that previously surrounded him, obviously realized what's going on and ran to chase the man, but the man was quicker, although Youhei was fortunately quicker.
"What was… that about?" Takeru asked in confusion.
"Oh, perhaps it was one of the men turned woman by that Mozoo." Miki noted, "Now that he's dead, everyone is back to normal."
"Must be bad luck if the one Youhei saved was actually someone interested in the same gender…" Sayaka also said, sheepishly giggling, "Poor Youhei."
"Speaking of genders…" Gai said as he reached his pocket, "The photos are done!"
"Photos?" Miki asked in curiosity, "What's that about?"
"These photos. Should be a good memory for Takeru…" Gai said, showing both Sayaka and Miki the portraits, which turned out to be portraits of him being dressed up in various clothes in their previous attempt to make him cross-dress.
"Hey, now this is just too much…" Takeru protested, as he approached the three in annoyance, "Give it to me now!"
"Then take it, if you can!" Gai said as he handed several of the portraits to Sayaka and Miki, and they agreed to play along. Putting the portraits inside their pockets, they split up, avoiding Takeru.
"Cut this crap at once!" Takeru yelled at the three as he gave chase, "Sayaka! Miki! Gai!"
Thanks to the efforts of his friends, Youhei managed to overcome the curse that caused him to fear the ones he wanted to protect and returned with his passion intact. However, as they speak, the villains won't just sit idly. Keep on moving! Fight! Super Sentai!
Super Sentai vs Super Sentai… will continue at Act 10
Author's note: That's quite the chapter... tensions here and there. I do hope you enjoy, though perhaps in the future chapter, things might get a little bit more serious. Who knows... Oh, and to those who are wondering my stances of pairing... I don't plan to include romantic pairs (do I need to stress this out further?), so if you are thinking that Youhei and Miki got a wee bit too close... well you don't need to worry about them being romantically interested, they're not gonna hook up! It's just deep friendship, that's all. Just want to make that one clear.
So while waiting for the next chapter, send in the reviews and constructive criticisms! See ya!
Author's note in 2020: After how the recent years at the tail end of 2020, I noticed that the end joke MIGHT not fly well into the ears of many readers here. I apologize if this offends you, this does not represent on how I view certain people. You're all wonderful humans deserving of love. Once again, I'm sorry!