Super Sentai vs Super Sentai
Author's note: Whew! A very long hiatus, I must say! But I hope I haven't lost my touch yet. Well, here it is. A new 'filler' or sorts which got them to get some weapons.
ACT 14: The Replacement
In the dimension of the villains, Doldora was showing her newest creation to Radiguet and the other. A machine similar to the machine that she used in the past to combine two Galactic Warriors into one, though this one has a different feel than the other.
"What is this?" Mazurka asked, as she never thought that such technology existed within the lore of Deathdark.
"This is our key to victory." Doldora said, "Last time, I was able to combine two Galactic Warriors, but I realized that with people like you all, Galactic Warriors won't be the only repertoire, and my old machine could only take Galactic Warriors. But now… it's different!"
"Get to the point already." Radiguet reprimanded her, "The more we listen to your explanation, the more time we wasted for precious times to kill those Super Sentai. Just show a result."
"Very well. Rafflessiarugin, come!" Doldora called out and suddenly, a Galactic Warrior formed of a giant flower, a corpse flower, appeared before her.
"Did you call me, Professor Doldora? Or is it time?" Rafflessiarugin, the creature, said.
"Yes. Could you please stand over there?" Doldora said as she pointed to one of the tubes of the machine.
"As you say." Obeying her command, Rafflessiarugin stood on the pointed tube.
"Very well, the other one…" Doldora then eyed at Juzou, who nodded and stepped back. Shortly after, he came back, dragging an Ayakashi formed like a weasel dog covered with beans to the front of Doldora.
"This is the guy you want, right?" Juzou asked.
"Ah yes… what is he called again? Kuchitogou?" Doldora asked again as Juzou nodded.
"Ugh… so… hungry…" The Ayakashi noted as it struggled to get up.
"Not to worry. Once you're done with this, you will be able to eat a lot of foods… and have much more skills in your repertoire." Doldora said as she used her new strength thanks to being fused with her loyal servant Saza and threw the Ayakashi to the other tube of the machine. As she stepped to the main control, she smirked, "Now… let the fusion begin."
"Fuse…? !" As Doldora pressed the activate button and the machine started to work, Jarmin asked, "Are you saying that you're crossing two different creatures into one…? !"
"Yes. And this is just the beginning." Doldora said, "You will see more surprises in the future…!" Just then, the machine stopped, let out some steam and from it came the result of the fusion… A weasel-like creature with flower petals on its neck as well as having a very fat stomach and huge mouth, and its body is also covered with beans. "And it's done. The combination of Galactic Warrior Rafflessiarugin and Ayakashi Kuchitogou!"
"And… what is it called?" Mazurka then gave a question which put the rest of the villains in silence.
"I am reborn, and thus I have a new name!" The creature then yelled, "I am… Kutoussiarugin!"
"That's too long…" Juzou commented, ironically echoing the word that his rival used to spout a lot.
"It's after already cutting down the names of both creatures." Radiguet added, "But I don't care! Show me what you can do then, Kutoussiarugin! And especially… target those Super Sentai!"
"Leave it to me!" Kutoussiarugin said and ran off, leaving. Doldora then attempted to follow him as well.
"Where are you going?" Jarmin then stopped Doldora, asking what she is planning.
"Oh, I'm supervising it." Doldora answered, "Besides, there's another thing that may catch that Super Sentai in surprise…"
In the ship Kizuna, both Takeru and Youhei were using the training hall to further hone their skills, Youhei was using the gym tools provided there, while Takeru just preferred to hone his sword skills using the shinai and wooden dummy. Gai was absent as he decided to play around with some girls for refreshments.
"Youhei." Takeru said after he was done with beating the wooden dummy several times, "Any idea where the girls are? They're not training…"
"Oh, that." Youhei said just as he put down one of the weights he was lifting, "Miki told me that they'd like to cook…"
"C… cook…?" Suddenly Takeru gulped. When Sayaka was around, it was usually her who cooked their foods, he never saw Miki cooking. With that, there's one thing he feared, remembering how the cooking of one of his vassals, Shiraishi Mako, could turn out… 'I hope her cooking could be edible…'
"Huh? Hey, you don't seem to be excited." Youhei told him off, "You should have no worries with Miki. She said she learned from Sayaka and is very excited to do it. It should be of no problem."
"Well, if you say so, Youhei…" Takeru then nodded, smiling, "At least, we'll be safe…"
"But, on the other hand, Remi…" Youhei's next words, however, sent Takeru back to chill, "I just… can't gauge her cooking skills yet. But I hope she does fine."
"… Let's hope so." Takeru made a short comment before continuing with his practice.
And in the kitchen of Kizuna, Miki was carefully cutting out the dried meats for the meals, "Just like this… and… OK!" She uttered lowly as she finished cutting and put them in the cooking pot, "This should be great. She taught me this…" Miki recalled one of the last time she was helped in cooking, by Sayaka. At first she didn't do a very good job, but overall, she got to learn the hang of it and was able to cook well. It's just that she never had anyone else other than Sayaka taste her cooking. This would be her first time.
"So, Remi, how are you going…" Miki turned around to see her friend Remi, who was also cooking on her own, except that she was in a big trouble instead.
"Oh my god, it's burning! Oh my god, it's burning…!" Remi panicked as she put down the flames that were burning her frying pan with some water. She was too busy cutting up her own vegetables, and at first wasn't even doing a good job at it, but then she instead ignored that she already put her eggs onto the frying pan and it was burned. "Damn, I know housework isn't exactly my best forte…" Remi sighed as she pulled away the frying pan. She usually depended on her big sister Kazumi for such tasks, but when she saw Miki trying to cook, she decided that she wanted to give it a shot. As expected, she had a disastrous failure. Thinking that it's a failed attempt to cook, she attempted to toss them all away to the trash can.
However, before she could do it, Miki managed to stop her, "No. Don't."
"But it's a failure!" Remi insisted.
"How are you going to get better if you keep running away from failures?" Miki reminded her, "You can use this failed one as a reminder of in what parts you failed, and use it to improve in the future, right?"
"Really?" Remi asked.
"I was once like you too, in the same thing as well. Cooking!" Miki said, recalling the last time she had a failure in cooking along with Sayaka. "But, whenever I failed, my friend would taste my failed cooking anyway and told me where I went wrong. And I was able to fix my mistakes from there. Here, let me try yours." Afterwards, Miki cut down some of Remi's egg, especially the white one and ate it.
"So, how bad was it?" Remi asked as Miki tried munching it and she saw her making a face that could only express one thing: That she was struggling to endure such bad taste.
"Well, as you said… it is bad, as it's overcooked. But you can get better." Miki assured her.
"You're… 18 years old, right?" Remi then asked, not believing that someone of Miki's age was capable of acting like someone of her age or older.
"Huh? Yeah, I'm 18 years old." Miki answered, "But does it matter? I'm just doing my best…"
"Nah, never mind." Remi said, wondering that for someone at her age, Miki was very mature, it was like she's almost as mature as her elder siblings, "Anyway, I'll start over again! This time I'll make sure it'll be better!" Afterwards, she started preparing more food, her confidence restored.
"Do your best, Remi!" Miki smiled as she eventually watched over to her own cooking.
As eventually the time for lunch has come, Miki was finished with her meal first and she served it to both Takeru and Youhei. It was a stew that has several vegetables and meats, boiled. "Whoa, this looks great." Youhei commented, "And it smells good too!"
"Really? I don't think I was close with what she could do…" Miki said, humbling herself, never wanting to sound superior to Sayaka.
"No, I'm serious. You really got it good." Youhei tried assuring her, "It was like her cooking…"
"Okay, I'd say you had better cut the chatter for now and we eat." Takeru said as he took several of the vegetables with his chopsticks and put it on his bowl.
"Right! Let's eat!"Youhei then also did the same, except he took the meat. After a bit of munching the meat and the rice, he could finally say what he thought of it, "Whoa, this is delicious!"
"Sure that's not just a silly praise?" Takeru asked, noticing that Youhei was a girl-chaser, thus might meant that as a cheap way to tease Miki.
"No, I'm serious. This is really well done!" Youhei stated, "You try it too, Takeru!"
"Uh… all right." Takeru said, quickly putting some of the rice and the vegetables to his mouth.
"So, how was it, Takeru?" Miki asked after she noticed that Takeru went silent after wards.
"This… this…" Takeru said slowly, before finally giving his opinion, "… is very good, actually." He was glad that Miki was able to cook well, as at least he recognized that she had it better than the Kurokos.
"Ah, thanks for the compliment, Takeru." Miki smiled hearing it. She was glad that she didn't give any of her new friends her cooking result before Sayaka said it's okay.
"Sorry I'm late!" Just then, Remi came out from the kitchen, carrying her pan, which had several vegetables minced together with the eggs. However, as she has ways to go before she could be a competent cook, of course it looked horrible.
"Oh… my. What's this…?" Youhei said in doubts, looking at how the pan let out much gas upwards.
'And I thought Mako was the only one with bad cooking taste…?' Takeru felt very similar with such cooking style, 'Is this even edible…?'
"Ah, it's something I just cooked." Remi said, "I know it's lacking a lot so please eat it!"
"With pleasure!" Suddenly, Gai arrived there, after just coming home from his 'date'. However, all he heard was Remi's words of 'please eat it', not the one where she stated that her food was lacking.
"Gai! Since when…?" Miki asked.
"I just got here." Gai answered as he put Remi's dish onto his bowl, without having looked at it more carefully as he was really hungry, "And I didn't even get to eat yet…! Oh well, I guess this will do. You cooked this, Remi?"
"Whoa, Gai, you'd like to eat it?" Remi said happily, "I'm so happy!"
"Ah well. Let's eat!" Gai said as he started munching the food.
The moment he got it on his mouth however, that was the moment he suddenly felt something strange on his mouth. It was like his mouth was burning. Like that one time his soul was sent to Hell and burnt away. Except that all the hot fires of Hell were concentrated on his tongue, lips and overall, everything inside his mouth.
"PFAAH! HOT! WATER! WATER!" Gai gasped as he had to spit all the foods, unable to swallow it. Afterwards, he ran to the nearby refrigator to get some cold water and it took him several bottles until he was able to calm down a bit.
'That poor guy…' Takeru and Youhei thought as he looked at the frantic guy, and somehow was glad that he didn't take a bite yet.
"Oh my… Looks like I screwed up… Maybe on the pepper?" Remi wondered, as she recalled she did put up a lot of peppers in her meal.
"There shouldn't be too many peppers for foods like that…" Miki noted.
Just as Gai recovered from the really hot food, only then he took a closer look at how Remi cooked her meal. "Just this… and the taste are like… Damn it, are you trying to kill us? !" He then angrily lashed out to Remi. He knew she was a woman, but this incident has completely pissed him off so much.
"Look, I told you I was lacking in this cooking!" Remi protested, as she didn't take being mouthed off like that.
"You call this cooking? !" Gai then pointed out to Remi's piece of work, "You know you should serve this to those Grinam soldiers, or Radiguet, that'll be a good weapon!"
"Gai, I tried my best!" Remi insisted, "I'm trying to know where did I go wrong…!"
"Well, all of it!" Gai said. "And I thought, this may be comparable to what Sayaka…"
"Is that it…?" Remi said, both saddened and angry, "Am I just…"
"Gai!" Miki reprimanded Gai before things got rougher, "You'll have to excuse Remi! She said homemaking isn't really her forte!"
"Tch…" Gai scoffed off, annoyed, before the alarm suddenly rang off again.
"We can talk about this later." Takeru said, getting up, along with Youhei, "Let's go. There's trouble." That was the only thing the five could agree about as they headed out to the computer screen, witnessed Kutoussiarugin rampaging on the innocents, and then headed to Kizuna's teleporters and warped down to the Earth.
Meanwhile, the city has been thrown into chaos thanks to Kutoussiarugin. He threw beans to people and once the people was hit, the bean would stuck and when Kutoussiarugin opened his mouth, all the people with the beans would be sucked into his mouth and swallowed. Alongside him are both Batzler soldiers and Nanashi Renjuu wreaking havoc everywhere, such as holding down humans so they couldn't dodge the bean, thus making their devouring inevitable
"Hehehe! I'll never be hungry again!" Kutoussiarugin exclaimed happily, caressing to his fat body, "And if that Super Sentai doesn't come… that just means more food for me!"
"Wait!" However, his moment was cut short when eventually a voice rang behind him. Turning behind, he saw the Super Sentai standing, ready to stop whatever plan he had.
"That's far enough, Ged—" Takeru suddenly stopped, when he realized that he was not facing a full Gedoushuu, nor a full Galactic Warrior, "What are you?"
"There you are, Super Sentai! Surprised with how I looked?" Kutoussiarugin said, "I am Kutoussiarugin! An Ayakashi and Galactic Warrior combined in one roll!"
"It's like that time…!" Youhei recalled the last time they fought such thing, when Ahames combined a Space Beast with a Bouma monster. This time, it would seem the fusion came off cleaner and more perfect, "Two species… into one…!"
"No way, since when…? !" Remi was equally shocked at hearing it, since she didn't know that it was possible for Zone to combine the two species as far as she could remember.
"Bah, we shouldn't get ourselves distracted with it!" Gai exclaimed bravely, "Combination or not, it's still a monster, and we can still kick its ass! Let's go!"
"Get them!" Unfortunately for Gai, Kutoussiarugin commanded his men first that they attack before the Super Sentai had a chance to transform, causing them to defend themselves with just their bare skills.
As the fight went on, Gai found himself getting a little bit too overwhelmed to fight normally against two types of enemies at once. Thus, he resorted to his usual method… when a Batzler soldier and a Nanashi soldier tried to attack him, he kicked the Nanashi on the groin, while he squeezed the Batzler soldier's groin before headbutting it. "How 'bout that? !"
"Hey!" Remi, who just kicked away a Batzler soldier on the face, noticed Gai's fighting style and was a bit miffed with it, "Squeezing groins? ! Even if it's against guys, that's gross!"
"Oh shut up, don't you lecture me on my style!" Gai shot back at her, "I am doing fine on my own!"
"Tch… jerk." Remi scoffed off as she fought off any of the Batzlers that came to her. However, when she looked at it… Takeru, Youhei and Miki were quite busy on their own. It wasn't quite like when she fought alongside her siblings. She didn't quite feel the wonderful teamwork that she and her family used to have. 'Sayaka, huh…' Remi recalled the name that Gai mentioned during lunch, as well as the portrait that she used to find Takeru previously. There was a girl in white on that picture.
'Perhaps I'm…'
"All right, an opening!" Takeru signaled as the five gathered to each other, "Let's go." As Takeru said that the five nodded…
"Oh, I won't let you!" Kutoussiarugin yelled as he pulled off several of the beans he had on his stomach, "Take this! Psychic Bean!" As he yelled that, he threw the beans towards the team.
"IPPITSU SOUJOU!"
"BLUE TURBO!"
"GOGGLE PINK!"
"CROSS CHANGER!"
"FIVE YELL—"
Unfortunately for Remi, while the rest was uninterrupted during their changing, as in, the beans did not hit them and as a result, their transformation went off without a hitch, she was directly hit with one of them, knocking her away.
"Remi!" Goggle Pink tried approaching her, making sure that she's okay.
"Jackpot!" Kutoussiarugin clapped happily, "Not only the Fiveman gets it, but also she gets the biggest one!"
"What did you just say…? !" Blue Turbo asked angrily, until suddenly he heard Remi screaming!
"AAAAHH!"
"Remi, what's wrong…? !" Goggle Pink was trying to calm Remi down, who were keeping her distance. Her face was in quite a mess, containing anxiety, doubts and sadness.
"Stay away from me…!" Remi yelled further, "You don't trust me at all…! Why do I have to deal with people like you? !"
"What? !" Black Condor was shocked with what she said, "Look, this is no time for joke, you know!"
"Ahahahaha!" Kutoussiarugin laughed looking at that, "Do you know what it's called 'Psychic Bean'? Because it would create chaos within human's psyche!"
"You bastard…!" Were the only words that came from the angry Blue Turbo and Black Condor. In the meantime, however, Remi's psychology started to get worse again.
"Ah… AAAAHH!" She started yelling and ran off, in fear.
"Remi, wait!" Goggle Pink tried to chase after her, but Kutoussiarugin threw another set of explosive beans towards her, barring her path and forcing her to face him.
"Hahaha… After that Fiveman… I hope this time I hit…" As Kutoussiarugin prepared to throw another set of beans, he then glared at Shinken Red, "You, Shinkenger!"
"You'll never hit me…!" Shinken Red said as he prepared his Shinkenmaru.
"Right! Here we…!" Before Kutoussiarugin could throw another set, however, he was kicked by someone else from behind. "Ow! What the…" Before he could protest on the kicker, he was surprised by the one who committed it, "Professor Doldora? !"
"Kutoussiarugin… After you hit one with your bean, you're supposed to do THAT." Doldora pressed, pointing her stick towards him, "Now get to that! I'll take care of these people!"
"Yes, Professor!" Kutoussiarugin bowed before running off, "Fiveman, I'm coming…!"
"He's going after Remi!" Shinken Red said as he attempted to give chase… However, Doldora blasted his path, forcing him to focus his attention to him.
"How do you do, Super Sentai…" Doldora said cockily, "I am the Galactic Scientist Doldora of the Zone Empire."
"Then I suppose… you're the leader of these Galactic Warriors." Goggle Pink noted, "And you're helping Radiguet?"
"Radiguet? Help? Perhaps, but I prefer convenient ally." Doldora said as she brandished her whip, "At first I hated doing dirty jobs like this, but for now, a change would be nice."
"Oh, shut up!" Black Condor didn't want to hear further and immediately ran to attack her with the Wing Gauntlet. However, Doldora did not dodge. Instead, she just blocked the attack easily, "Wha? !" In one swing, Doldora managed to push Black Condor away. When Blue Turbo tried shooting him, she just jumped and kicked him on the face. When Goggle Pink tried to bind her using the Pink Ribbon, Doldora just grabbed the ribbon easily and threw her off. And finally, when Shinken Red tried attacking with the Shinkenmaru, she just clashed with it using her stick, only to quickly feint it and blasted him from behind.
"Strong…! So this is the power of Zone…!" Blue Turbo lamented.
'Incredible…' Doldora thought, realizing her power, 'I feel that I am as strong and agile as Saza… my brains and her brawns… we do make a perfect combination.'
"Huh? Where's Gai?" Goggle Pink suddenly noted and realized that Black Condor wasn't around.
"Damn, he's running away? !" Blue Turbo said in frustration that their ally threw off the fight.
"No, I don't think he's running." Shinken Red said as he prepared for another strike, "I suppose he just have another… business. For now, we'll have to make due without him!"
"OK!" As Blue Turbo and Goggle Pink nodded, they prepared to attack Doldora again…
In the meantime, Black Condor did try to pursue Remi. His pursuit ended up taking him to a certain woods, which seemed to have been abandoned.
'Damn where the hell is she…?' He thought as he continued to search. Until eventually, he heard a sound of a girl from afar. Except that the sound made it sounded like a girl sobbing. 'Sobbing? That's a new low…' He continued further as he searched further.
Eventually, he did found Remi, and as the sounds confirmed, she was terribly shaking in fear, sitting down behind a tree and sobbing. "I'm scared… Brothers… Sister… where are you…?"
'Man, this is pathetic…' Black Condor thought as he de-morphed and then approached her, "Oi, Remi. What the hell are you doing here?"
"What do you want?" Remi's voice suddenly turned very sour. Completely lacking of the enthusiasm and the trust she usually showed.
"We still got a fight to finish." Gai said to her, grabbing her arm, "Come on, let's go resume kicking some ass!"
"Don't touch me!" Remi moved her arm away from Gai's and tried avoiding her, "If you don't trust me at all, then stay away!"
"Don't trust? ! You kidding me? !" Gai said angrily and tried reaching for her arm again, "I said the battle ain't over yet! Let's finish this!"
"No!" Remi insisted, continuing to stay away from Gai.
"Hey, come back here!" Gai then tried to chase the fleeing Remi, "Where did you get the idea about you not being trusted? !" The chase continued until eventually Remi tripped and fell down to the ground, "Oh, gotcha now!" Gai exclaimed as he closed towards Remi.
"AAAAHHH!" Remi suddenly screamed, surprising Gai. But it seemed that she wasn't screaming at him. It was like she's screaming on something else…
"Huh…?" Gai looked behind, and suddenly saw the Kutoussiarugin as he spread his arm, "Wha? !"
"Too late for you!" The monster exclaimed happily, "Don't worry, I can handle two people at once! HAA!" With one big yell, he tried absorbing the surrounding air, and in a moment, Gai and Remi felt like they were sucked in.
"D… damn it!" Gai realized that at this rate it would be too late. But when he looked at Remi who was still extremely scared, he immediately ran to her and held her tight, "Okay, don't let go! Urrgh…!" As he held Remi tight while she was still frantically screaming, Gai tried to resist further to the monster's attempt to devour them, but it was too late. Both of them were absorbed into the monster's mouth and were eaten.
"Hahahaha! Two down, three to go!" Kutoussiarugin said as he tapped on his stomach several times as he walked away.
Meanwhile, the fight against Doldora didn't end quite well for Shinken Red, Blue Turbo and Goggle Pink. None really knew how to deal with her, thus her attacks seemed rather unpredictable, and that she combined her own trickery and her absorbed underling's strength, making her a powerful fighter as much as she was a cunning one.
"Ah, there he is…" Doldora said as she spotted Kutoussiarugin walking towards them, lightly tapping his stomach, "I suppose he got them all right."
"What? !" Shinken Red couldn't believe it. If his hunch was right, then she might be talking about the defeat of both Gai and Remi.
"Pipe down." As Doldora said that, she moved her stick, creating an energy chain that ended up binding him along with Blue Turbo and Goggle Pink together.
"Damn it! Can't move!" Blue Turbo realized as he couldn't budge and the three were stuck.
"Well, you should be joining them soon." Doldora said, "Kutoussiarugin's other ability, other than psychological screw… is the ability to consume and eat you all."
"So you're saying that Gai and Remi…!" Goggle Pink said in disbelief, not wanting to believe that the two were eaten.
"Yes. They're inside his stomach!" Doldora said triumphantly.
"Ugh… So… we're to be beaten like this…!" Shinken Red lamented as he couldn't get free either. And as he looked at the Kutoussiarugin, the creature was opening his mouth…
When Gai woke up, he realized that he was inside Kutoussiarugin's digestion system. It was rather a mess, as it looked like an insect-eating plant's digestion system, but had a huge interior, similar to an animal's. "Damn it…" he cursed as he searched through the place where he's located as. Thankfully for him, Remi was nearby so the first thing he thought was waking her up, "Hey… Remi. Get up."
"Ah…" Remi soon woke up, but her psychological state was still quite a mess, thus she kept a bitter face to Gai, "Stay away from me!"
"This crap again…" Gai was really annoyed at the reaction, "Cut it out already!" He was trying to chase her again, but Remi staggered and fell down once more. It seemed that thanks to her previous fall, her legs were wounded.
"Ouch…" She yelped in pain, holding her leg.
"Agh, damn it. Of all things…" Gai then noticed his sleeve. It was quite torn thanks to the impact of being sucked into the monster's body. He tore it down and used it to bandage Remi's leg.
"Why did you do this…?" Remi asked, still doubtful.
"Isn't it obvious? !" Gai replied loudly, "You're an ally that we trust!"
"No, you don't!" Remi denied it, "You just think of me as a replacement, right? ! That's why you could never trust me fully! Unlike…"
"Y… you…!" Gai was shaking. He raised his fist, attempting to slap Remi for being so foolish, but he backed down in a sec, and suddenly circled his arm around her, tightly hugging her, "You're an idiot, you know that? ! What makes you think that you're just some inferior replacement of Sayaka? !"
"Eh?" Remi finally calmed down, being hugged with Gai. It felt a bit empty, but somehow calming that she was declared to be not a replacement as she thought.
"Listen up!" Gai continued, "You may be a different warrior, your cooking sucks, you're a tomboy… but more importantly… you saved the team during the biggest crisis!" He recalled the very last moments when they shortly met Remi after losing Sayaka; and meeting her enabled them to reunite and snap Takeru, who was thoroughly distraught at the loss of Sayaka, back into shape. "Wasn't that enough for us to trust you? ! You're you, not some stupid replacement! Say that stupid thing about 'We don't trust you' again in front of me, I dare you! No, I TRIPLE dare you!"
Remi was silent hearing it. She looked at Gai. The obnoxious and rebellious Sentai warrior. For this once, there's nothing but seriousness in his eyes. It's not about flirting girls. It's about getting points across. And in his rare moment of seriousness, Remi could feel some sort of warm feeling. Something… brotherly. Similar to what she felt around her brothers. "Gai…" At that point, Remi realized that she was not acting like herself. Something happened to her.
"I'm sorry!" She returned the hug and then cried on Gai's chest. She was getting all the wrong idea on him and the team and she felt completely guilty. Of course, there was still some of the psychological bean in effect, which made her cry like that. Gai only hugged her in return. It felt like he was a big brother, a far cry from his loner self, though he admitted that had it not been his interaction with the Jetmen and the current team, he would still be the loner type and couldn't accomplish this.
Just then, he noticed something on Remi's back. It was shining and moving. "Remi, hold up a bit." Gai said sternly. He then raised his fist and performed a hand chop towards the shining something on Remi's back. The shining thing suddenly popped out and flung itself onto the ground. It was a small bean, but it had small legs, moving around.
"Eh?" The moment the creature was flung from Remi to the ground, Remi suddenly stopped crying, "What am I doing here… AH!" In shock, she pushed Gai away, "Are you trying to take advantage of me? !"
"Youch… Well, at least you're back to normal now." Gai said as he got up and approached the creature. It was a slow moving creature so he caught it easily, "Looks like that bean produced this thing inside your body to mess up with your psyche."
"Really?" Remi said, before she turned angry in return, "This little creep! How dare it makes me a… a paranoid, sniveling crybaby! Why I ought to…" She approached it angrily and attempted to grab it from Gai, intending to squish it beneath her own foot. However, Gai decided otherwise.
"Hold up, do you know where this is?" Gai said, "We're inside his body. What do you say if we fight fire… with fire?"
"Hm… hey, that sounds like a good idea!" Remi smiled happily, knowing what Gai intended to do. Next to them is a pool of water, which must mean Kutoussiarugin's digestion system. Then, they threw the creature into the water as it drowned into the system.
In a sudden, there was a quake. It seemed like the psychological effect is affecting the creature on the outside. "Whoa whoa whoa!" Gai nearly lost his balance and fell to the digestion system, but Remi managed to hold him and pull him away from danger. "Man that was close. Thanks."
"OK. Now we're even." Remi said back to him. Just then, as the ground quaked, the water from the digestion system suddenly unleashed several items… three pieces of armor as well as a gun.
"Hey this is…" Gai recognized the gun, "The Beak Smasher! So this guy ate it…! Good thing it's still functional."
"Shoulder Guard, Arm Shields, Power Leggers… And they're colored yellow? How come…" Remi recognized the armor set. It was the elements of the Five Tector, "But I guess I'll complain later why it's here rather than with my family…"
"If that monster is suffering psychological problem, I think his body would be affected." Gai commented, "If we wanna get out, we better do it now. You ready?"
"I'm ready!" Remi nodded, as she knew what Gai meant.
"CROSS CHANGER!"
"FIVE YELLOW!"
As they transformed, they prepared their new equipments. Black Condor took aim of the Beak Smasher upwards and shot it, creating a hole from the ceiling.
"Five Tector!" As Five Yellow yelled, the armor set responded and equipped themselves into her body, creating an armored version of herself. She then took a leap upwards to the hole created by the shot, tackling through everything that stood before her, while Black Condor spread his wings and took flight, following Five Yellow.
"Aah! P… Professor? !" Kutoussiarugin suddenly acted weird, "They must have some trick while restrained like that! Be careful, Professor!"
"What are you talking about? !" Doldora said in disbelief, as the three restrained Sentai warriors were also confused, "They're completely harmless! Come on, consume them already!"
"I wonder if they taste good… Oh, no!" Kutoussiarugin suddenly whimpered, "Last time I ate, it tastes horrible! I don't want to!"
"Oh, for the love of…!" Doldora was angered and was about to punish the creature with some blasts, but the creature suddenly held his stomach in pain, rolling on the ground, until suddenly there was an explosion on his mouth, and from it, came out both Black Condor and Five Yellow.
"Wha…? !" Doldora was surprised and caught off guard, as Black Condor pulled his Bird Blaster and shot her on the hand, making her release her stick, thus releasing Shinken Red, Blue Turbo and Goggle Pink from the restrain.
"Gai! Remi!" Blue Turbo said as he got up.
"Thank goodness, you're safe!" Goggle Pink followed.
"That…" Shinken Red noticed at Five Yellow's armor, "Is that some sort of Super Mode?"
"Well, you can say that." Five Yellow giggled as she nodded to remove the armors for now, "You're not the only one who can do things like that too, you know!" Just then, she finally noticed Doldora standing before them, "Wha… you're alive, Doldora? !"
"So I suppose you just noticed…" Doldora greeted, "I'm different from the 'only cunning' Doldora you know before…"
"Only cunning?" Five Yellow was not sure what she meant.
"As in, not only she is dangerously smart." Blue Turbo explained, "She's now also a strong fighter. What a dangerous combo."
'What? !' Five Yellow couldn't believe it. The last time she remembered about Doldora, she heard that the beast Vulgyre had her combined with her bodyguard Saza into a monster. However, she was now restored, 'Which means… this is like fighting someone with the brain and body of Doldora, and the might of Saza? !'
"Unfortunately, I'm done today." Doldora said as she turned back, "I expect you to finish this job, Kutoussiarugin. I have a lot of researches to do." As she smirked, she then teleported away.
"Wait, don't leave me here!" Kutoussiarugin suddenly begged, "Please, I'm scared!"
"What's with this guy now?" Goggle Pink was confused at the action of the monster, "Last time, he was all confident…"
"Heh! Let's just say he's now having a taste of his own medicine." Black Condor said confidently.
"Well, no matter. We still have to finish this." Shinken Red said as he took position, followed by the rest…
"Shinken Red! Shiba Takeru."
"Blue Turbo!"
"Goggle Pink!"
"Black Condor!"
"Five Yellow!"
"We are… Super Sentai!"
"Aaah! Help! Help!" As Kutoussiarugin yelled for help, more Batzler soldiers along with Nanashi Renjuu appeared to block their path.
"You know, I feel kinda dirty, trouncing on a coward like that…" Blue Turbo commented.
"Serves him right to make me a coward before!" Five Yellow yelled as she charged headlong first, "Here we go!"
"Right!" As Shinken Red nodded, he gestured the rest to fight against the waves of enemies.
"Aaah! Stay away!" Kutoussiarugin yelled, trying to run away and threw some bean bombs to the team. The team managed to dodge them, except Five Yellow, who once again summoned the Five Tector and then proceeded to swat away most of the bombs directed to her.
"Not gonna work this time, monster!" She said as she leapt and kicked the monster on the face. She then approached him.
"Now…" She clenched her fist, "This is for eating me!" She then punched the monster on the face, "And this is for eating Gai!" Then she punched him again. And as she punctuated more words, she continued punching it, "And this is for shooting me with that bomb! And this is for making me a paranoid girl! And this is for making me a sniveling, cowardly crybaby!"
"AAAAHHH!" As he was punched for the last one, the monster ended up crying. But that didn't fool the Super Sentai. They knew such monsters would usually end up using crocodile tears anyway, and that he wasn't even sorry for what he did.
"Well, let's finish this…" Shinken Red said as he put on the Super Disc into the Inroumaru.
"Super Disc"
As Five Yellow unequipped her Five Tector, she used another of her arsenal, "Melody Tact!" With that, she bound the monster with it and made it stand up, followed by Goggle Pink, Blue Turbo and Shinken Red to execute their attacks.
"Ribbon Shower!"
"J-Machine Gun!"
"Super Shinkenmaru. Shin Kaen no Mai!"
The attacks hit the monster greatly, but being a combined monster, it was tougher than usual, thus still alive.
"My turn now! And I got a new toy to show as well!" Black Condor said as he unleashed both his Beak Smasher and Bird Blaster. He then combined them into a new gun and yelled out, "Eat this! Smash Bomber!" With that, he shot an extremely powerful bullet that eventually destroys the monster for good.
"I've never seen such thing…" Goggle Pink said, amazed, "Where did you find it?"
"Same place as she found her armor." Black Condor said, pointing to Five Yellow, "Inside that monster's stomach."
"Heh… Guess there is a benefit for you getting eaten after all." Blue Turbo made a comment, which ticked Five Yellow off.
"What? ! So you're happy we're eaten? !" She said angrily, "Why don't you try getting eaten once? !"
As the light argument continued, Shinken Red just sighed and uttered lowly.
"This brings this chapter to a close…"
At the end of the battle, Takeru was invited by Miki who went shopping for food after her school time was over. She intended to help Remi further in cooking, and since Takeru had nothing else to do, he decided to tag along. Youhei had an extra activity in his college so he'd be home late, while Gai, like usual, traveled alone to have his kind of fun.
"You think she's improving in cooking?" Takeru asked as they walked, going to the Shiba House as they couldn't afford to teleport in front of public.
"Oh definitely." Miki smiled, "It's human to improve after all."
"Heh. Well, regardless…" Takeru continued, "She's still one of us. That will not change. Even if one day we get Sayaka back… I'll never throw her away."
"That's for sure." Miki nodded, "I can't wait till we get back there."
Eventually they arrived at the household, and found both Youhei and Gai there as well. "Yo." Gai greeted.
"Youhei! Gai!" Miki called back, approaching them, "Since when did you get here?"
"Huh, we're just done with our activities. So we came." Youhei said, "This is a safe spot to go to Kizuna after all."
"Well, since we're here… let's go." Takeru said, "Miki said she's cooking again, and Remi has been improving…"
"Ha! Very well, I'll be the judge whether she's improved or not." Gai said confidently with a smile, before Takeru typed several letters on his Shodo Phone, which activated the teleportation beam of Kizuna.
Except when they arrived there… the ship was in quite a wreck. The floor was dirty, some items weren't placed as where it was…
"What the…" Takeru uttered in shock, looking at the messed up ship.
"Did Remi adopt a cat and it's chasing a mouse wildly while she sleeps?" Youhei wondered, realizing that pretty much Remi was the one at the ship.
"Oh my God, what do I do…" Miki suddenly heard a voice coming from the ship's kitchen and decided to head there, followed by the boys. There, she did find Remi, slumped over on the ground with a mop nearby. And like the other room, the kitchen was also in quite a complete mess… soaps and waters were everywhere. But thankfully, there hasn't been any broken glasses.
"Remi?" Miki called out softly.
"I knew I'm never good at housekeeping…" Remi sighed.
"Huh? !" Gai said in shock approaching Remi, "You know you're no good at housekeeping and yet you still did that? ! You know what kind of mess you've turned this place into!"
"I know, but…!" Remi protested, "I thought I'd like to improve the things where I lacked… Looks like I still have a long way to go…"
"That's right, Remi." Miki tried to cheer her, "Just like cooking, you can also improve in housekeeping. I'll help you later too."
"Really, Miki?" Remi got her spirits back with such words, "Thanks!"
"Well… but as for now" Miki then turned to the boys, "I'm afraid that before we can eat, we'll have to clean this ship up first."
"Heh? ! This is a pretty big ship, you know!" Youhei said, and then he held his stomach, "My poor stomach…"
"Anyone who slacks off in this gets no dinner." Takeru said as he grabbed a nearby mop and started cleaning the mess Remi made.
"What did you just say? !" Gai was annoyed at Takeru's attitude in that, "You can't just decide like that…!"
"I agree with Takeru." Miki said, smiling naughtily and picked up another mop, "I'm not cooking for those who's lazy enough to not help each other." At that point, both Youhei and Gai had to agree that they had better help out otherwise they could starve for the night. In a short moment, the team started cleaning the ship.
As they started cleaning, Remi could feel that they do trust her and sincerely wanted to help as well. She could feel that she would form a great bond with this team. Continue to develop this bond and you will be successful in your quest! Fight! Super Sentai!
Super Sentai vs Super Sentai… will continue at Act 15
Author's note: Phew! Had quite a bit writer's block to get off from that, but I guess I'm done with that block! So I guess Gai got his Beak Smasher back, while Remi got her Five Tector back. Next chapter may have some serious issues, however, so I suppose you should brace yourself... for some epic or perhaps rough chapter. Well... see ya!