Super Sentai vs Super Sentai
Author's note: Again, I apologize for the very long delay. There's been some writer's block, and I ended up not making this a two-part epic. But still, there's a continuation for it, which you'll find in the end, so I hope that makes it up. Enjoy!
ACT 15: The Vengeful Monster
In the villains' dimension, Jarmin was waiting in front of the monster-combining machine. On her hand was a gun. After her departure, the stray Bouma warriors Yamimaru and Kirika took charge of the place where they left behind. They went to revive many Bouma tribe monsters which caused trouble to the Turborangers. And now, Jarmin had stumbled upon one of its remnants. A gun… used by the gunner monster Gunman Bouma. When Mazurka spotted her carrying it, she had asked her to wait for her in front of the machine brought by Doldora. And there she was.
Eventually, Mazurka did come, carrying a bottle containing a figure of a DNA. "I kept you, didn't I." She asked, "I've brought it."
"What is that?" Jarmin asked, not aware of what it is.
"This is a DNA of a fallen creation of Deathdark." Mazurka explained, "When I saw you carrying a gun, I was reminded of one of the monsters that could've given trouble to the Goggle V. And it's using a gun. I'm wondering if Doldora's machine could be used to bring back elements of the dead."
"So basically, you want to see if we could revive our monsters as a combined one." Jarmin asked, "That's a sound idea. We should give it a shot." Both women then put the tube of DNA and the gun on both machine entries. Before they could activate it, however, someone entered. "Who's there? !"
"It's me." It was actually Juzou. On his hand was a black stone, "Are you planning to combine something?"
"Yes. Why do you ask?" Mazurka asked, before suddenly Juzou threw the stone to her.
"Use that. I'm curious." He said, "I found this somewhere in the Sanzu River. That Shitari said it's something called 'Stone of Vengeance', but he lacked the power to make use of it, nor could he feed it to any of the Ayakashi. Perhaps it could be used with a tool like this. I'm curious in what it could create."
"Very well then. We'll see how it happens." Jarmin complied as she put the stone near the gun. Afterwards, she activated the machine.
As the machine was running, eventually it attracted the attention of Radiguet and Doldora as they entered. "What's the meaning of this? !" He asked.
"Why, do you ask?" Mazurka said, "I am of the Dark Science Empire Deathdark! It is obvious that I will experiment with a lot of things!"
"And… this would do good against those Sentai?" Doldora asked.
"I'm personally curious at what would happen, but I'd say this could be worth a shot." Jarmin said, "Even if what we had was just remnants of some dead monsters." At that time, the machine suddenly finished operating and the result door opened… Revealing a masked monster with Bouma mask, carrying one long, normal revolver, and one special revolver. Two shoulder guns were mounted on his shoulders. And behind his black-white stripped body are full of spikes of a porcupine. Atop of his head, a cowboy hat. "Success!"
"Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo has arrived!" The monster introduced himself.
"Gunman-Porcupine… Bouzoo…?" Radiguet was confused with the name, "Explain what he can do!"
"It's simple." Mazurka explained, "He's created out of the DNA of our past monster Porcupine Mozoo. An expert in marksmanship and planning, armed with the Needle Gun, its bullets were capable of penetrating through the suit of a Sentai Warrior, as proven with how he put the Goggle V into a pinch."
"And he's combined with…?" Curious, Doldora continued.
"A Bouma marksman monster called… Gunman Bouma." Jarmin said, "I didn't witness how he fought. But from what I could gather… this monster is also expert marksmanship, unmatched in gun fights. In fact, from what I heard, had it not been due to an interference of a normal human who wrecked his gun… he would've destroyed the Turborangers."
"I see. So, you combined two of your greatest marksmen, to create the ultimate marksman that would destroy the Super Sentai." Juzou concluded, "I'm not interested in long range, but this could be fun to watch."
"Curse you…! Turboranger…! Goggle V…!" Suddenly, the Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo started cursing, its head was filled with nothing but anger, "RRRAAAGGHH!" In a scream, he ran off.
"You couldn't even control him." Radiguet said, mockingly, "You think he can take down the Super Sentai? !"
"Oh, so that must be it. It's as they said." Juzou commented, "The Stone of Vengeance amplifies the desire of vengeance. Perhaps both monsters didn't take defeats well…"
"We should see how this monster works." Jarmin said as she stepped forward, "Shall we go, Mazurka?"
"Yes." Mazurka nodded as she prepared to go, "Besides, I need to give him 'that' as well."
For the morning at the Sunday, Takeru spent his time training back in the House of Shiba. Especially remembering how they were facing even stronger opponents, his drive to train was higher, especially the brutality as shown by Radiguet.
'I can't let them win…! At all cost…!'
To eventually reunite with the rest of the Shinkengers also became one of his main goals. He had to survive until all that. As he was taking a break, he looked at the sky… when suddenly; a falcon seemed to be flying in the sky.
"A falcon… hm…" Takeru muttered, looking at how the bird spread its majestic wings. But then he realized one thing… Falcons usually did not fly around cities and the Shiba House was located at the city. Takeru felt like something is off with that falcon.
'What was that supposed to mean…?'
In the meantime, Youhei was riding on a small motorcycle that he once used during the tenure as a Turboranger. He was headed to a green field on the request of Miki, who was riding on his back, to help her with a school assignment of art. She just needed to take a photograph of scenery, and then use it to draw a painting of nature using the photo. They could've just teleported, but Youhei just decided to take her with a motorcycle.
"The winds are pretty strong…" Miki commented as she was holding Youhei from behind.
"Heh, this is the first time you ever ride a motorcycle?" Youhei asked.
"Probably." Miki answered, as she knew that even as Goggle Pink, the only vehicle she rode was four-wheeled vehicles such as jeeps or cars.
"Well, now this is what it's like to ride a motorcycle." Youhei added, smiling, "You like it?"
"Well, it's pretty fun!" Miki answered back, also smiling.
"Right! Hold on tighter, since I'm gonna speed up!" As Youhei said that, he increased the speed as they rode through the road…
Once they arrived at the field, Miki took the time to get a lot of fresh airs. "Beautiful…" She commented at the green field and the blue sky that surrounded her, "Well, this is going to make quite the great materials for art!" Taking on the camera, she started taking portraits here and there, with full of enthusiasm and joy.
From behind, Youhei just watched, sitting down on the grasses, looking at her enjoying herself. 'Well, it should be for her good.' Somehow, Youhei noticed that she might be just putting up a façade of being cheerful and strong, to comply with the abrupt death of her mother, but seeing her act like that, he felt like she had completely move over that and was looking for the future.
He then spread his hand as he lay on the grasses, looking at the blue sky. "The sky's great." He muttered, "This is the kind of sky that we have to protect…" Too encaptivated with the sky, he didn't realize that his hand touched something unnatural. "Huh? What's this?" When he picked it up, he realized it's a small mirror, shaped like a heart, colored in pink.
"What's a small mirror doing in here?" Youhei wondered, "Who discarded such a fine mirror?"
"Youhei! I'm done!" Miki called as she approached Youhei, "I managed to get some nice scenery and pictures along the way. Thank you for taking me here."
"Ah, think nothing of it…" Youhei said as he got up on his feet, "Well… do you want to stay a bit longer? This is a great place to relax, after all."
"As much as I'd love to, I got things to do, so…" Miki was about to deny the chance. She wanted to get back home and do her assignment. But then, she noticed the mirror on Youhei's hand, "Eh? What's that? A mirror?"
"Oh! Uh, I… found it." Youhei answered as he showed the mirror, "I don't know what kind of person would discard something like this…"
"Wait, I know this mirror…" Miki recognized the mirror, as she knew she once held it in the battle against Deathdark, "This is the Pink Mirror! What is it doing here?" She exclaimed as she looked at it from Youhei's hand, "I can't believe it's found here… No wonder it wasn't together with my other tools…"
"Oh, so it was one of your weapons?" Youhei asked, "So what does it do?"
"Well, it… just deflects light?" Miki answered.
"Doesn't seem to have many uses, does it?" Youhei gave a nonchalant comment, but Miki glared at him as a response of that.
"Don't belittle it!" She reprimanded him, "This mirror once saved my team. It may not have many uses, but it's not useless!"
"Hey, I didn't mean to say it's useless!" He then tried to defend himself, "Okay, so maybe it would come in handy sometimes…"
"Well, if you have nothing more to say, then let's get going." Miki just walked past him and put on the helmet first. "Or you'd rather me leave you alone here."
"Hey! Wait! You don't have the license or experience for that!" Youhei hurried to the motorcycle and equipped his helmet. But then, he heard a small giggle coming from Miki behind him.
"Just kidding." She said, holding him as he started the motorcycle. Youhei sighed as he prepared to drive.
"Right… then let's go."
Eventually as they went home, they went across the Kourakuen Stadium once more… and were stopped when they heard screams of people from there. "Probably a monster. We better investigate!" Youhei suggested as he put down his helmet and ran off. Miki followed suit once she put down her helmet.
Inside the amusement park, the Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo, assisted with Wular soldiers and Spotmen were indeed wreaking havoc. "This used to be those blasted Goggle V's hideout! I'll stain it with blood!" He shouted as he started blasting off with his gun, shooting many people down. In short, the place instantly erupted in chaos once the monster entered.
"CHESTO!"
However, the monster was interrupted by one flying kick from Youhei, while Miki was busy leading everyone else out. "Damn, who the hell…!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo restored his balance and saw who did it… and was shocked. "You…! Turboranger!" When he looked at Miki, he was equally furious "And you…! Goggle V!"
"Huh?" Youhei was puzzled at the monster's rage, "Have we… met?"
"You destroyed me!" The monster shot back, "Or at least… you destroyed parts of me!"
"Destroyed you?" Miki was equally puzzled, "We haven't fought monsters such as… wait a minute…!" One look at the spikes and the guns made Miki recall of a past event, "Are you… made out of a dead Mozoo…? !"
"Of course! I am Gunman-Porcupine Mozoo! Made out of Gunman Bouma and Porcupine Mozoo!" The monster replied, "Turboranger… Goggle V…! I'll have my revenge!"
"C… crap." Youhei gulped, hearing the part about the monster being made of Gunman Bouma.
"What's wrong?" Miki asked, "It's unusual for you to be like this!"
"Well, last time, we only defeated that Gunman Bouma… because of luck and outside interference…!" Youhei recalled. His past encounter with the Gunman Bouma was really bad. Once, he tried to have a gunfight with him, and he was completely beaten. And then, someone stole his Blue Turbo power, and he was taken captive instead. When his friends came to rescue him, the Gunman Bouma instead took his friends down with his mad gun skills. It wasn't until the thief of power ran back to him, having found his own courage and messed with the Bouma's gun, causing it to backfire that eventually the Turborangers were able to turn the table. But now… in this case, it looked there'd be no outside interference for the monster, "If he's a combined monster… was it a monster excelling in marksmanship that's combined with him?"
"Porcupine Mozoo?" Miki tried to recall about the Porcupine Mozoo. Last time, it was a crack shot, able to hit anyone in a terrifying accuracy, and it managed to wound the leader of the Goggle V, Goggle Red badly, even when he already transformed, and then the rest of the Goggles followed. It wasn't until his weakness, his reload timing, was exposed by Goggle Red that the Goggle V could turn the table, "Well, yes. He's good at shooting."
"Oh great…" Youhei uttered, before suddenly the Wular soldiers and Spotmen started attacking the two, and they had to retaliate.
"It's no time for that!" Miki said as she kicked a Spotman away, "We better transform for now!"
"OK, I contacted them, they should be here soon!" Youhei said as he tripped a Wular soldier while contacting Takeru and the rest, "Let's go! BLUE TURBO!"
"GOGGLE PINK!"
As such, the two transformed and managed to take out most of the soldiers attacking them. However, when the dust of battle cleared, Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo was nowhere to be seen.
"Huh? Did he run away?" Blue Turbo looked around in confusion. The enemy was indeed gone… Suddenly, however, an eerie voice was heard.
"Trying to run…? In an open field…?" The voice confused the two, but suddenly, a sound of a gun being shot was heard. In a short moment, suddenly a steel needle was planted onto Blue Turbo's back, causing an explosion and wounding him greatly.
"GAAH!"
"Youhei!" Goggle Pink approached him and tried to help him to get up, "Are you all right?"
"My back…! Damn it, it hurts…!" Blue Turbo tried clutching his back.
"Let's try hiding, for now! I'll try to locate him!" Goggle Pink said as she carried him away. 'He's trying to play sniper…! But if that's the case, he should be hiding in a similar place…!'
After locating Blue Turbo in the hallway leading to the stadium, Goggle Pink tried using one of her powers of far sight… "Goggle Eye!" With it, her sight was lengthened and she was able to see through what's on the direction where the bullet came from. However… the Mozoo wasn't even there. "It moved…? !"
"Over here!" Suddenly when Goggle Pink looked sideways, Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo already set to snipe her, and his bullet this time hit her on the shoulder area.
"Kyaah!" She screamed as she fell rolling on the ground, 'This is even worse than before…! The shooting power has increased!'
"Miki…!" This time it's Blue Turbo's turn to be worried at Goggle Pink. As they both coped to their injuries, the monster approached them.
"Heh heh heh… I will have my revenge…" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said as suddenly, his guns transformed… into shotguns. He pointed at them, as they were too wounded to move.
"Damn… it's no use…!" Blue Turbo lamented, but at that time, suddenly, the monster was blasted from behind and in a quick moment, it was knocked away by a huge sword. It turned out that Shinken Red, Black Condor and Five Yellow have arrived to help them, "Takeru…!"
"Sorry we're late." Shinken Red replied, as he and the rest helped them get up.
"Careful, guys." Goggle Pink warned, "This monster is a remarkable shooter!"
"Don't worry about that!" Five Yellow tried to assure her as she tried shooting him once more with her Five Blaster, "We got him under cont—" The moment she said that, suddenly Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo shot with his shotgun, straight to Five Yellow's hand, knocking her Five Blaster away, "Ow!"
"Damn it! He's serious!" Black Condor declared as they went back into fighting more Spotmen and Wular soldiers sent out by the monster.
"Everybody watch out, he might find a blind spot and shoot us when not careful!" Shinken Red said as he slashed down several soldiers.
As the monster witnessed the Super Sentai fighting, he was suddenly approached by two women… Jarmin and Mazurka.
"So how did it go?" Jarmin asked.
"Those pesky wannabes got in the way of mine against that Turboranger and Goggle V!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo complained, "I'll destroy them later, but those two comes first!"
"Why don't you just destroy them in how you should've done it in the past?" Jarmin offered, triggering the Bouma part of his past, "Didn't you went on a standoff against Blue Turbo? You got interrupted before you could finish him off."
"Eh? Ah yes… that time…" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said, recalling that time he overwhelmed Blue Turbo alone, "I'll get him to repeat that again! Then that's where my revenge against the Turboranger is complete!"
"Well, you should separate him, then." Mazurka said, "While at it, why don't you use Goggle Pink as a hostage for him? Seeing him die because of her before sending her off would be a great way for your vengeance against the Goggle V, am I right?"
"Ah yes, that'll be good!" The monster agreed to such a vile plan.
"Well, here's the thing to put off those 'wannabes'." As Mazurka said, she handed down another rifle… "This is the Radiation Rifle. It would drain their power dry that they couldn't transform. You can use it to anyone you want. Also… Goggle Pink has a low endurance."
"Perfect!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo took the rifle and started aiming, as the two evil women went away, probably to hide their presence. However, he was unaware that there's someone hiding behind the scenes, listening to them…
As he took aim, he shot a beam of light towards Shinken Red. When he realized what was coming to him, he's too late and was hit. "Aargh!" The light got into his body and delivered him great pain. The pain was too much that he's drained of his power, and de-morphed as a result.
"Takeru!" Goggle Pink realized what has happened and approached the weakened Takeru, who was on the ground.
"Damn… I feel weak…!" Takeru said, clutching his chest.
"Haha! This Radiation Gun sure is great!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo boasted as he took aim once more, "Now bathe in the light and you shall be as powerless as a bug!"
"Light…?" As Goggle Pink noticed, she knew that her mirror would come in handy. "Not if I can help it! Pink Mirror!" She unleashed her mirror and as he shot the light ray to the gun, she used the mirror to absorb and deflect the light somewhere else. "How about that?"
"Well… you could deflect lights… But how about this?" The monster then took aim at Blue Turbo, who was throwing away many Wular soldiers.
"Ah! Youhei!" Goggle Pink instinctively rushed towards Blue Turbo and tried to protect him from the Radiation Gun… except…
"Just kidding, actually I'll just do normal shots!" As such, Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo quickly switched from the Radiation Gun to the Needle Gun, already reloaded and only needed to be shot, and quickly shot at her arm.
"AH!" Goggle Pink was caught by surprise through that feint and the needle bullet hit her arm, making her throw the mirror away. The monster continued with several quick shots with the Needle Gun, also some coming from his shoulder cannons. "AAAH!" All of them severely hit her in the body, causing great explosions on her suit, finally causing her to de-morph not due to the radiation, but due to great damage, combined with her already low constitution.
"Miki!" Blue Turbo tried to tend for her, but the Spotmen and Wular soldiers got in his way. Before he could reach her, however, Jarmin used her energy whip to entangle Miki and dragged her to the side of the enemy, handing her to Mazurka who eventually held her on the neck. "Damn it…! Let her go!"
"No." Jarmin's answer was simple, and she followed up by blasting off Blue Turbo using an energy blast from her mouth.
"I won't let you…!" Takeru said as he prepared to transform once more, even when he's lying on the ground… "Ippitsu Sou…" Before he could even finish, however, there was an explosion around him, as if preventing him to transform, "GAAH!"
"Takeru!" Black Condor and Five Yellow approached him after witnessing what just transpired.
"Bastard! The hell did you just do? !" Black Condor said angrily as he prepared his Bird Blaster. However, Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo reacted quicker and shot his hand, knocking his Bird Blaster down. In a quick movement, he then shot him using his Radiation Gun, causing him to de-morph as well, "What…? !"
"You'll pay for that!" Five Yellow said as she ran towards Mazurka, "Let go of Miki!"
Mazurka retaliated by merely sending out her baton, which generated lightning that tried to strike Five Yellow. She skillfully dodged it, and tried to jump, but Jarmin quickly used her whip to entangle her and throw her down to the ground. And shortly after, Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo shot her right with the Radiation Gun, de-morphing her, and then kicking her away, to the de-morphed Takeru and Gai.
"Guys…!" Blue Turbo was the only one remaining and morphed. "What have you done to them…!"
"Behold, Blue Turbo…!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said, "This is the Radiation Gun. The radiation would affect you Super Sentai that you will never transform…! Combined with my marksmanship that you couldn't defeat single-handedly, do you really think you can defeat me? !"
"What…? !" Takeru, Gai and Remi said in unison hearing that. This reminded them how Takeru was not allowed to transform. Not to mention, even their powers were drained that they were having trouble to get up.
"Then why don't you shoot me with it? !" Blue Turbo asked.
"Your tomb has been set up, Blue Turbo." Jarmin said, "You had better come alone to the abandoned factory… what was it called again…"
"Kizukara-cho. Factory point 64." Mazurka said completed, "The cures of the Radiation Gun is there, you can win it by defeating Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo in a gun fight… But if you do not come at midnight by that time… Not only you'll never get the cure, you can say good bye to Momozono Miki… forever!" As she said that, she tightened the hold on Miki's neck, hurting her.
"Stop it!" Blue Turbo begged, "She's…"
"Got nothing on this, you wanna say? !" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo replied by shooting him once more with his Needle Gun, knocking him down, "This is my revenge against the Turborangers and Goggle V! To say that she's got nothing on this…! Bull crap!"
"Youhei, don't worry about me!" Miki tried to assure him while still being held, "You can do it! You can defeat him!"
"But I…" Blue Turbo was completely speechless. Last time, he couldn't defeat the Gunman Bouma by himself, but now he had to defeat the monster which possessed part of it, alone, with no backup, and there were huge risk if he lost…!
"I'll be fine! Listen, he has a weakn…" Before Miki could finish, however, Mazurka punched her on the gut, rendering her unconscious.
"Silence!" Mazurka said as she turned towards Blue Turbo next, "Remember… Blue Turbo… Hama Youhei… Come at the designated place by midnight… or else you'll never see her again…" With that, she and the rest of her allies moved away, taking the unconscious Miki with them.
"Wait…! Miki!" Blue Turbo tried to reach out, but he fell on his knees, sustaining most of his wounds as he eventually de-morphed. When he looked at his other friends in pain, he could only curse at his powerlessness, "Damn it…!"
The team wasn't in good shape, as they gathered in Kizuna. Takeru, Gai and Remi were deprived of their ability to transform, Miki was kidnapped, and pretty much only Youhei was in the best condition to fight. But…
"And you know the biggest problem is?" Youhei said, "Last time, we beat him through… luck! At this rate, he'll know how to fix that luck, it won't work again…"
"Well, that certainly is true…" Takeru recalled as he sat down, still powerless. Youhei told him how the Turborangers defeated the Gunman Bouma, and now he knew such thing wouldn't happen twice.
"Then what do we do…? At this rate, we might not be able to fight anymore… and Miki…!" Remi was horrified at the prospect of what the enemies would do to Miki.
"Well, at any rate, Youhei… It's up to you now." Takeru said, "The deal said you should go alone. We'll think of a way to help you, but you'll have to hold on."
"How? !" Youhei asked, there was nervousness and worry, "You know last time and now, he still floored me with his marksmanship skills!" He was clearly stressed. He knew that Miki got caught because of her trying to protect him from the Radiation Gun. In his hand was the Pink Mirror, the only thing Miki left behind. He could only look at it in regret, "It's my fault… Miki…"
"Hey. Youhei." Suddenly Youhei found Gai standing in front of him.
"Gai? You feel healthy already?" Youhei asked.
"My body is still weak like hell, but still…" He looked down, as his fist was clenched, "I still have enough strength… for THIS!" And in a sudden, Gai punched Youhei on the face, knocking him to the ground.
"Gai? !" Both Takeru and Remi yelled out in unison, seeing what Gai just did.
"What was that for? !" Youhei asked, rubbing his cheek.
"I don't know, but I've been seeing people going into 'sissy pussy' mode as of late. First Takeru… then Remi… now your turn, Youhei? !" Gai said, angrily, "Cut this crap already! I'm not in this team just to see you going sissy over things like this!"
"Gai… you know I'm not lying when I said I couldn't beat that Bouma?" Youhei said, "And now, he's fused with a Mozoo with similar skills, he's getting even better! If I can't beat him back then and now… how…?"
"Well… so what? !" Gai scolded him back, "You don't care about Miki? ! As a fellow woman-lover, I am thoroughly disappointed with this hypocrisy!" As he said that, he slammed his fist on the table.
"Now that I think of it… Gai is right…" Remi noted, understanding what he said, before turning to Youhei, "Youhei, you're the only one who can do this. You have to save Miki, and get the cure for us so we can help you!"
"But I couldn't beat that guy…" Youhei lamented, "Before and recently… He still beat me down easily…"
"You never know until you train, and then try again!" Remi tried to lift his spirits, "You still have time until midnight. Miki is depending on you, you don't want to disappoint her, right? That's why you have to win!"
"But I can't…"
"Youhei." Then it was Takeru's turn, and he was rather cold in his words, "If you really think you can't do this, you can go ahead… and quit."
"Wait, what makes you say that?" Youhei asked in what Takeru meant.
"You'll live, of course. But as a result, Miki would die. Then Radiguet and the others would pick on us when we were powerless, and have us dead. Furthermore, you'll never meet your fellow Turborangers again as you are stuck in this bizarre world. Alone, without any help, it'll be a matter of time until Radiguet finds you, and kills you too." Takeru explained, shocking Youhei, "Well… which will it be? Do you want to run away? Or do you want to fight?"
"Takeru…" Remi uttered, worried with Takeru's sudden cold voice.
"I…" On the other hand, Youhei was utterly shocked with Takeru's words. He realized he was being a coward who couldn't recognize that it was human to improve. And most importantly… Miki… He didn't realize, but he was the closest with her amongst this new team. He knew she was a senior in terms of fighting evil as a Super Sentai, but she felt like a little sister to him. She kept a strong face after her mother's death, but he knew somewhere inside she's still hurting over it. He started remembering what she has done to him; sharing his pain over the loss of the innocent Bell Chime Bouma that he failed to protect, snapping him out of his trance of woman-fearing… and even lighter ones when she asked him to accompany her playing with children.
And he's trying run away from her when she needed him the most.
Just then, he was reminded last time he was poisoned and put to near death. His friend went through a lot just to snatch the antidote and get him cured, fearless of many hardships and possibilities of failures all just to save him. Now it's his turn… He had to do it, or else Miki would end up like the Bell Chime Bouma.
"I'll fight." Youhei said, with full determination as he stood up, "There's a lot at stake and I must not run away from this… Thanks, guys… I needed that."
"Well, at least you're getting a hold of yourself." Gai said in satisfaction, "Don't disappoint us, then."
"There should be some facilities for shooting practice in the training room." Remi noted, "You can use it to improve yourself for the battle night."
"Thanks. I better go do train now." Youhei nodded as he left the room, "There's no time… Hold on, Miki… guys…"
"Well, all up to him, huh." Gai said, sighing, "And here we are, sitting with nothing to do."
"There's not much choice either in this time…" Takeru said as he clutches his stomach; the radiation not only disabling his ability to transform, but also administering him some pain, "All we can do for now is trust on Youhei…"
"Ugh…" At the afternoon before night as the sky went dark, when Miki was awake, she found herself in a predicatement. She was sitting down on a chair, with her hands bent behind her and bound to the chair, and her ankles were also tied. 'What's happening to me…?' Her vision was still blur as she couldn't get a clear view on what's transpiring her. 'Ah…! I remember…!' Memories of her being shot down and captured flew back to her mind and she now knew what happened. 'How embarrassing… To be captured like this…'
"I see you're awake…" A familiar voice rang near her. It was none other than Mazurka herself, "This time, there won't be such incidents like that time you escaped…" She was reminded last time, as even while restrained, Miki was still able to escape the devilish diary book made by Deathdark.
"In that case…" Miki then made a snarky comeback, "Why just tie me up like this? You know I would get away eventually…" And as a return of that, she received a slap on the face by Mazurka. "Ugh…"
"Silence!" The dark lady with motorcycle helmet exclaimed, "Our mistake last time was that we didn't put enough securities to make sure you stay in place!"
"Indeed… Look around you, for starter." Jarmin, who was next to her said, and as Miki witnessed, the whole building have been surrounded by many spotmen wielding guns, and Wular soldiers wielding bows and arrows, "Anything funny and they will take your life."
Miki was silent a bit hearing it, until she spoke, "Why did you bother kidnapping me at all? Why not just be done with it and end my life already?"
"That's a good question… but you still have other purposes." Jarmin said as she saw the monster, Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo entered the building itself, "As said, you and the cure for the Radiation Gun would be our hostage. Next… I guess he could explain."
"You killed my half back then…" Gunman-Porcupine said, his voice was filled with malice, "And that's how I shall take my revenge. First I'll let you see Blue Turbo die being killed by me… and then you're next! That would be my vengeance!"
"Did you really think you can do it?" Miki said bravely and confidently, "Youhei is not as weak as you think… he will defeat you. You'd be best not get too cocky."
"Hah! That's some talk!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said, also showing confidence, "He couldn't defeat my Bouma-half back then, and the Turborangers were helpless, until there was that luck-based interference, but this time it won't happen! With my Mozoo half increasing my marksmanship, you think he stand a chance? ! Not even after he trained for a hundred years!"
Miki only clenched her bound hands as a result, disgusted with this monster's overconfidence. But then, she remembered something. The Porcupine Mozoo had a weakness in terms of reloading the Needle Gun. If it was carried over to the creation of the monster, Youhei could take advantage of it and he'd win. "You…" Miki wanted to say something, but she quickly bit her lips before she could reveal anything else.
"What was that you're saying?" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo threatened as he got his face up close to Miki's.
"You… will never get away for this." Miki instead came up with a 'lie'. She was actually about to say something about his Mozoo half's weakness, but she decided to keep it a surprise.
"Heh, why don't you just enjoy a preview of what would come?" As Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said, suddenly a shooting-target figure of Blue Turbo rose up. He then reloaded his Needle Gun and shot it, perfectly onto the target's head and the whole figure exploded. "So how was that? ! That would be the eventual fate of Blue Turbo, and you'll get the front seat of witnessing it!"
Miki didn't care, however. She noticed that she was right, the monster carried over the Mozoo-half's weakness… the reloading time. 'Good… now it's up to Youhei… whether he can do it or not…'
In a sudden, however, a certain ruckus was heard outside. And suddenly, a wounded Spotman entered, "There's a thief…! The cure…!"
"Thief? !" Mazurka said, surprised, "What does he look like and how did he beat you up? !"
"It's a Red warrior!" The Spotman said.
"What did you say? !" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said as he then grabbed Miki on the neck and pointed a revolver on her head, "In that case, they went against the deal! As promised, I'll kill her! Too bad about the front-seat."
'Red warrior…? ! Was that Takeru…?' Miki was equally shocked hearing it, 'Takeru… why did you do this…? !'
"Red warrior? Well, what's on his helmet?" Jarmin asked again. She has taken quite a notice in Shinken Red's head design, so he'd know if it's just some wannabe or not.
"It's… like a bird's head!" The answer shocked pretty much everyone. It certainly wasn't Shinken Red.
"Bird head…? ! That was supposed to be Black Condor's!" Jarmin corrected.
Suddenly, Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo lowered his gun from Miki's head and released his grab on her neck, "Fine, I changed my mind. If the deal hasn't been crossed, better go along with the original plan."
"Grr…" As Mazurka growled, she then beat the reporting Spotman with her stick, and sent out shocking blasts to it, her stick had been enhanced by the technology of Vyram so it would also serve as a long range weapon. After the blast, the Spotman completely vanished.
"That's cruel! It was one of your men!" Miki protested at Mazurka's newest level of cruelty, "Mazurka, you weren't like this when we fought back then! What did Radiguet tell you…" Before she could finish, however, Mazurka once again silenced her with a slap on her cheek, "Aah!"
"Silence! Don't tell me what to do!" Mazurka said as she turned towards Jarmin, "We'd better catch this thief now! Let's go!"
Jarmin nodded and gathered several Wular soldiers and Spotmen, before turning to Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo, "You stay here and deal with Blue Turbo when he arrives."
"Yes, ma'am." As Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo nodded, the two women and the gathered soldiers ran off, to pursue this 'thief'…
It was nearing night, the time of showdown. Youhei has finished his training and he's ready. Accompanied only by Remi, he teleported down to a place near the designated warehouse so he did not attract a lot of attention.
"Well, here it is." Youhei said, cracking his knuckles, "About time I show him the results of my training."
"Go for it, Youhei. You can do it!" Remi cheered, "I hope you'll save Miki…"
"Of course, or else I won't call myself a man!" Youhei assured her, as he held the Pink Mirror that Miki left behind, "I promise… on this mirror." After he put the mirror inside his clothes, he started walking, "I'll be back with her! I promise!"
"Good luck!" Remi waved away until he was out of sight. Just then, she started looking around.
"So… what does he want that he needs me to be here… at a time like this?"
Remi recalled, beforehand, when she picked up some water for Takeru and Gai's medications, he witnessed the Kizuna receiving a message, telling one of them to meet someone called 'RF' in that designated place. She decided to comply to that, and there she was…
Just then, a man approached her. He was carrying a box. "Huh? Who're you?" Remi asked, as this man looked a little suspicious despite looking rather ordinary. He's wearing a weird bracelet similar to Miki's and wore red jacket and black clothes and pants.
"I'm that 'RF'." The man answered, "Hm, so it wasn't Takeru…"
"You know Takeru?" Remi asked, puzzled with his statement, "But if you have a message for him, I can relay it…"
"Very good, I'll leave this to you." The man said as he handed down the box to Remi. To her surprise, it wasn't that heavy, "Now go. They need you." As he said that, he then ran, leaving Remi alone.
"Hey, wait! Stop being so cryptic!" Remi called out, but the man did not respond. Without any other choice, she pressed a certain button that allowed her to teleport back to the Kizuna.
As Youhei eventually entered the warehouse, he came across the Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo, who stood there along with a bound Miki. "Miki…!" Youhei called, as Miki replied by calling his name as well.
"Right on time…" The monster said, "If you're late on even a second, I would've shot her dead on the head."
"You do that…" Youhei said angrily as he reached out his Turbo Bracer, "And that'll be the thing you regret the most in life! BLUE TURBO!" With that, he morphed, "Now let's get this over with, monster!"
"Brave words…!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said as he stepped to the center of the building. Both just stared as they walked around… with Blue Turbo preparing his Turbo Laser, and the monster with his revolver.
'Youhei…' Miki could only pray that the fight would shift on his favor, rather than the monster's.
In a quick moment, both raised their guns and shot out… and Blue Turbo was on the losing side, being shot on the arm and ended up throwing down the gun from his hand. "Damn it!" He cursed as he dropped on the ground.
"Heh heh…" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo cockily said, "You were no better than last time."
"Urrrgh…" Blue Turbo just kept silent as he expected the monster to just get near him. And when he did… "That's what you think!" In instant, he rose up and tackled the monster to the ground. Clenching his fist and choking on his neck, Blue Turbo found himself in an advantage, "You may be good at marksmanship. But you can't handle close-range combat! And that's where your downfall would be!"
"Urgh… ah…!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo coughed a bit, trying to speak, "Too bad… we are prepared for that…!"
"Kyaaa!" In instant, he heard sounds of explosions and Miki screaming. When he looked above, he saw some Spotmen, carrying several shock guns, shooting them to near Miki, causing those explosions. This action forced Blue Turbo to stop choking the monster as he kicked him out.
"See? There are rules to be followed…" He boasted, "And any misconduct, then you will see her in pieces!"
"B… bastard…!" Blue Turbo cursed as he got up, picking up his fallen Turbo Laser again. 'So this is why they got Miki captive…! To cover his weakness of close-range combat? !' At this point, he was pissed enough at the cowardice that he immediately combined his gun into his personal weapon, the J-Gun.
As Miki watched the two once again squaring off, she started summing up what was happening… 'That's a dirty trick…! Using me as leverage so his weak area won't be exposed…!' Even though she was in pain, she struggled within her bonds, showing her disgust at the actions taken to keep her friend down, 'But he still got another weak point, that's for sure…! Youhei, until then, please hold on…! But at any rate, these bonds are so tight, it's hurting my body…!'
"Ha! No matter how powerful the gun is…" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo boasted, "It's useless when you're less skilled than I am!" As he said that, he reloaded his Needle Gun and then shot Blue Turbo's other arm with it, before he could even shoot back.
"GAH!" Blue Turbo collapsed again, the pain was really stinging his body "Damn it…!"
"Youhei…!" Miki called out, in worry on how long he could stay.
"You know, I realized one thing…" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said, "If I shoot you Super Sentai with many shots from the Needle Gun like this… I could destroy you immediately! So I don't need to use the Radiation Gun on you! You'd better get ready, Turboranger… because you shall embrace death soon!" As he finished talking, he prepared his Needle Gun once more.
And it was at that time Miki then started yelling, "Youhei! This is your chance! He has a weakness!"
"Eh?" Blue Turbo was puzzled, hearing it.
"Damn, do something about it!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo suddenly lost his cool and ordered the soldiers to do something to Miki.
"When he reloads…" Miki's attempt to give hint of the weakness, she was interrupted when the Wular soldiers clamped her mouth, preventing her to talk further. Furthermore, one of the Spotmen pulled out a piece of black cloth and circled it on her mouth, effectively gagging her, "Tnn Nnnng gghh!"
"Wha…?" Of course all was too late for Blue Turbo to get what she meant, when eventually he was shot down again.
"Well, that's a close one." Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said, sighing, "But no worries. No more voice supports for you! The only way for you to win is to outwit me in skill!" As soon as he finished saying that, he started sending a barrage of Needle Gun shots to Blue Turbo, each shots wounding him further.
'Is this how I am going to end…? All my training just before… for naught…?' Blue Turbo said as he continued to take on more and more Needle Gun shots to his body. His body felt very numb at this point, he could've given up now. But then, he looked at Miki, who showed a very worried face, struggling against her bonds and continued to call him, even though she has been gagged. It gave him the drive to keep going. 'Not yet…! I can't fall here, not until I save her… and retrieve the cure for the rest…! But what do I do… At this rate, my skill…!'
At this moment, he was reminded at the last coherent words Miki could give. 'Wait… weakness? Reload? Perhaps… there's something I can do when he reload his gun… is it the Needle Gun? Looks like I have to check on him… but… How long can my body take?" At that point, Blue Turbo was reminded… he probably was the toughest of the Turborangers, and had the most physical strength. Why, he probably was the only one who could single-handedly pick up and swing a Bouma monster. Besides, during his school days, he was quite into sports and at least while he's got bad grades on a lot of things, sports isn't one of them, giving him quite the physique.
'All right, I've got to do this! Let's see how long I can hold on…!' As Blue Turbo got up, he slapped both of his cheeks with his hands, showing his determination and prepared himself for another shoot-out, all while observing what the monster would do…
Back in Kizuna, on the other hand, Remi finally arrived with the box she got from RF, along with a bottle of water. "Sorry I'm late!" She said, although she had to make a slightly unpleasant face, as the pain caused by the radiation started to catch up to her..
"Took you kinda long! I was getting thirsty!" Gai commented, and then noted that she was carrying a box, "What's that you got?"
"Well, it's from some guy who seems to know Takeru…" Remi said as she looked at Takeru, "He called himself 'RF'".
"Must be some sort of code name…" Takeru replied, "Can you give me that box?"
"Okay." Remi said as she handed down the box for Takeru to open. Inside the box was three bottles filled with yellow liquid, and a letter. He then started reading.
"I've taken this from the monster's hideout. This is the cure for your problem of being unable to transform. Just drink it to take effect. Now go help your friends. Regards, 'RF'"
And on the end of the letter was… a sign of a falcon. "Huh…? A falcon…? I think this might be telling me something…" Takeru muttered.
"Wait, that's a cure? ! Bingo!" Remi exclaimed happily, "Takeru, let's use it so we can help Youhei and Miki!"
"Wait up." Gai stopped, "What if it's a lie? What if it's a trap set up by Mazurka and Jarmin?"
"Let's trust it. This is the only way we had for now." Takeru said as he opened one of the bottles and drank it. He did feel something happening within his body, the pain subsiding from him.
"So, how does it taste?" Remi asked.
"Bitter." Takeru noted, "Though I've had worse… Now step back" Afterwards, he then took his Shodo Phone, "Shodo Phone… Ippitsu Soujou!" As he stated so, he attempted to write the Kanji of 'Fire', and… he succeeded. He transformed into Shinken Red without a hitch.
"Wow! It worked!" Remi said happily, before turning towards Gai, "See? It worked!"
"All right, all right!" Gai said, giving up in the discussion, "Let's just get this over with and save those two. Just in time I say good bye to this annoying stomach pain…"
As such, the two drank the liquid as well and prepared to transform as well…
"CROSS CHANGER!"
"FIVE YELLOW!"
And they succeeded. Now with the team restored, Shinken Red turned towards his two allies, "Let's go."
"OK!"
'Stop it! Stop it!' On the other hand, Miki was utterly horrified with the pain that Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo inflicted towards Blue Turbo. The Turboranger has been shot for about ten times on the body with the Needle Gun. And she couldn't do anything except either futilely struggling from her bonds, letting out muffled screams, begging for the brutality to stop, 'Youhei, that's enough…! I don't want you to die for me…!' Her face was in the verge of tears, as it was getting too much to her to view such brutality and hearing her friend's screams of pain. "Nnnnggghh…"
"Heh! With this one shot, I am one step completing my vengeance…" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said as he approached Blue Turbo who was lying on the ground, still holding his J-Gun, "Say good bye… Turboranger…!"
And as soon as he started reloading the Needle Gun… "Now!" Suddenly Blue Turbo faced upwards and quickly aimed to the gun. Thanks to the training he did in Kizuna, he was able to react quicker and shot down the arm of the monster.
"What? ! How did you… figure out…!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo was shocked at the revelation, while Miki was relieved witnessing it.
'You did it…! You figured out his weakness!'
"Heh… You thought gagging Miki could prevent your weakness to be exposed." Blue Turbo said as he slowly got up, "But you're too late! Just with the word 'reload', I knew you had a flaw in reloading… it takes time! That's why I took my time getting hit with all those Needle Gun bullets! To approximate how long is your reloading time! And yes… my training did pay off!"
"Not bad…!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said as he held his shot arm, "But still, I am not done yet! In fact…" As he said that, he suddenly drew his Radiation Gun, "I still have another ace up my sleeve! This is your end!" With that, he shot the Radiation Gun again, directly hitting Blue Turbo on the chest.
"GAAH!"
"MMMNNGGHH!"
As he screamed in pain, so did Miki, in sadness. He was hit with the very thing that disabled the other Super Sentai. At that rate, he's done for. She could only close her eyes in defeat…
Until she felt like a force passing through her. When she opened her eyes, she saw the beam of the Radiation Gun passing through her, and even cut through the ropes that bound her body to the chair, cutting it down and leaving her with just hands and feet bound. Luckily for her, the beam went to a mirror, which was made of reflective glass, and such, the beam was bounced back to the monster, hitting him.
"GAAAHH!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo screamed in pain as he looked at the soldiers, who dodged the beam out of terror. "You were supposed to take the hit for me! What are you doing? !" With that, he screamed and drew his revolvers, shooting down the Wular soldiers and Spotmen surrounding him.
Taking chance and risk of this, Miki suddenly jumped in front of the crossfire, revealing her bound hands to the monster's shooting. And when she fell down, she rolled over to a safe place, tripping down several soldiers while dodging some of his shots. The monster was in quite a rage that he forgot Miki was there and concentrated more on shooting down the soldiers. When the monster was busy shooting in rage, she tried struggling a bit, and ended up breaking the ropes that bound her hands.
'It worked! One of the stray shots must've hit the rope a little, enough to break free…!' Miki thought as she removed the gag on her mouth and untied her legs, 'That was very risky, though. One miss, and I'm the one who's dead…'
"Well, shouldn't it about time for you to stop shooting?" Blue Turbo asked, which brought the monster's shooting spree to an end.
"Huh? Oh!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo said as he looked at Blue Turbo, "How did you reflect that? ! That's impossible!"
"Yeah, I thought that was impossible, but…" Blue Turbo then looked at one of the torn parts of his suit, and then pulled something from it… The Pink Mirror, "This mirror from Miki saved me before it hits my body, I suppose."
"Moreover, it let me free." Suddenly, the monster's shocked as Miki was able to speak, and was instead fighting off waves of soldiers without transforming yet, "Your desire of vengeance… I'll never let it break us!"
"Miki! You're safe!" Blue Turbo called out, "Transform now!"
"OK! GOGGLE PINK!"
As such, she transformed, and took the side with Blue Turbo, preparing to fight. "Damn you, Turboranger and Goggle Five! I'll crush you!" As the monster said, he ordered the soldiers to attack the two, and thus they began fighting back-to-back, defeating most of the soldiers that dare come to them.
In the meantime, Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo smirked as he prepared his Radiation Gun and tried shooting them again… but when he tried to shoot, it did nothing. "What? !" He was flabbergasted, probably realizing that he ruined the gun when he was hit with that beam itself. "You got lucky, punks!"
"Perhaps it is luck…" Blue Turbo said as he threw a Wular soldier to Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo, "But this luck was no outer factor! It was because of my trust with Miki that I could avoid being hit with your Radiation Gun! And of course, my training did pay off along with Miki's advice so I could react quickly to your reloading flaw!"
"Yes. And you underestimated Youhei's toughness, so he could hold on being hit with your Needle Gun!" Goggle Pink added, "In other words, your mistake was to claim that we humans never try to improve! You were overconfident with your boost of skills by being combined, but you stay on your power level, thus Youhei could outwit you when he improves!"
"Shut up! Don't you lecture me!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo yelled, "And in case you haven't noticed, Needle Gun and Radiation Gun aren't my only arsenal!" With that, he suddenly whipped out a gatling gun and then started gunning them down…
And suddenly, it was all blocked by the arriving Shinken Red, who used his Rekka Daizantou to block the bullets.
"Takeru? !" Blue Turbo was surprised, "S… since when…? ! But I haven't gotten the…"
"Someone gave it to me and the rest." Shinken Red answered, as eventually, Black Condor also arrived by using Jet Wings to glide to the center of the building, followed with Five Yellow, plowing her way through the soldiers to reunite with the rest.
"Youhei, you did it!" Five Yellow said happily as she looked at both Blue Turbo and Goggle Pink. They just nodded in return.
"Huh? This monster's alone?" Black Condor noted, "Where are those two damn women?"
"Mazurka and Jarmin?" Goggle Pink wondered, "I haven't seen them after they chased that 'thief'… wait, so the thief gave you the cure…? !"
"So, that's what that 'RF' is…" Five Yellow concluded, "He stole the cure from them…!"
"RF?" Blue Turbo asked, confused on who that is.
"Talk about that later." Shinken Red said as he unsummoned the Rekka Daizantou, "We've got business to finish…"
"OK!" The rest nodded as they lined up.
"Shinken Red! Shiba Takeru."
"Blue Turbo!"
"Goggle Pink!"
"Black Condor!"
"Five Yellow!"
"We are… Super Sentai!"
"Kill'em all!" Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo commanded angrily as the Wular Soldiers and Spotmen ran to attack them. And thus, once again the Super Sentai started fighting them.
"He might've been weakened by being hit with the Radiation Gun!" Goggle Pink noted to Five Yellow when she kicked a Wular soldier away.
"Oh really? May be worth a shot!" Five Yellow nodded as she noted that the monster started to get uneasy.
"Damn you! I'll destroy you all!" As he yelled, his shoulder cannon fired out several cannon balls that set the building on fire, collapsing it. However, the Super Sentai managed to get out in time.
"I'll need a distraction…" Goggle Pink uttered.
"I'll provide it…" Shinken Red said as he put the Shishi Disc into his Shinkenmaru, as he saw Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo walking out from the debris of the building.
"Shinkenmaru: Kaen no Mai!"
With one swing, he let out a wave of fire to the monster, damaging it further. At that time, both Blue Turbo and Black Condor stood tall and let both Goggle Pink and Five Yellow jump from their shoulders.
"Pink Ribbon!"
"Melody Tact!"
And thus, they unleashed their whip-like ribbon weapon and had them wrapped on the monster's shoulder cannons, before pulling it away. Due to being weakened by the Radiation Gun, the cannons were torn from his shoulders. "GAAH!"
"You like some gun actions, huh?" Blue Turbo said, "I say we end this with a BANG."
"Heh! I can see that too…" Black Condor said as the two boys prepared their special guns…
"J-Machine Gun!"
"Smash Bomber!"
Then, the monster was rained with a barrage of shots from the J-Machine Gun, followed with one big bullet from the Smash Bomber, causing him some great explosion. However, he was not fully destroyed yet.
"Leave the finisher to me!" Goggle Pink volunteered, as she desired some payback for keeping her a hostage for his plans, "Pink Dia Baton!" Unleashing her baton, she leapt to the monster and thrusted it to the monster's stomach, impaling it before pulling it off as the monster collapsed and an explosion occurred.
"Wow! That's incredible, Miki!" Five Yellow cheered, witnessing at how she was able to finish it.
"I've never done that before. Single-handedly executing the finishing blow…" Goggle Pink replied, without flaunting herself, "Whew…"
"Well it doesn't quite matter. What matters is that both of you are okay." Shinken Red said as the five turned away. "This brings this chapter to a close…"
"Super Sentaaaaaiii!" However, the thought was dispelled when a familiar voice was heard from behind. It turned out, Gunman-Porcupine Bouzoo was still alive, and he used his last strengths to run to them and preparing for another lounge while screaming.
"What the, he's still alive? !" Black Condor said as the five prepared to fight again…
Until suddenly, a red shadow arrived and suddenly sliced the monster open with a sword, destroying it. "Wha…" Blue Turbo said in awe as the monster exploded once again.
'It's like a second life for the Gedoushuu… but it doesn't grow…?' Shinken Red wondered as the red shadow slowly became visible due to the moonlight… "Who're you?"
The reveal of the shadow surprised the team as it revealed a red Sentai warrior similar with them. Its head uses a falcon head design.
"Another red warrior…?" Goggle Pink uttered.
"Ryuu… wait, you're not Ryuu." Black Condor uttered, "I know Red Hawk's helmet isn't like that! Who the hell are you? !"
The warrior only stayed silent, before he ran off. "Wait!" Five Yellow tried to call him, but then she was stopped when she heard a sound of someone falling over. It turned out that Blue Turbo collapsed, due to the fatigue he received fighting the monster, and de-morphed as a result. The rest also followed suit.
"Youhei!" Miki called out, as she held him on his arms, "Wake up! You can't do this…! It's… it's my fault…"
"Hmm…" Takeru just put his hand on Youhei's forehead and concluded, "You're overreacting, Miki. He's fine, he just needs rest…"
"Oh… really." Miki sighed in relief as the team eventually teleported back to Kizuna.
"What? ! Who is this man? !" Back in the dimension, Radiguet was shocked with the revelation of a new Red warrior.
"It's that thief…!" Jarmin cursed, reminded with the one they're chasing, "He kept us away that long…!"
"Tch, if only we weren't distracted by him, we would've destroyed both Goggle Pink and Blue Turbo!" Mazurka cursed as well, but she and Jarmin were met with lightning blasts from Radiguet.
"If anything, it's probably your fault that they got away! Worthless rats!" Radiguet scolded.
"It wasn't Five Red, if I recall…" Doldora noted, when she looked at the man, "Though that bird motif… Radiguet, you know this man?"
"If that was Red Hawk, I would've recognized!" Radiguet said, "But still, perhaps I should pay this man a visit…"
"He's got a good sword play." Juzou commented as he got up as well, "Let's see if he can please Uramasa this way…"
"Ergh…" When Youhei woke up, he felt quite a pain on his body, "Where am I…"
"Thank goodness you're awake, Youhei…" It was Miki who greeted him, "You're in the infirmary of Kizuna."
"Oh yeah…" Youhei noted, "The better 'thank goodness' is that you're safe, Miki."
"What are you talking about? !" Suddenly Miki raised her voice and started scolding him, "You could've given me a heart attack back then! Why did you take that much damage on your own? ! You could've died, you know? ! What were you thinking? !"
"H… hey, I had no choice on gauging his 'weakness' at that state, you know!" Youhei protested, "Besides, I could've used my toughness as well, if you know what I mean!"
"It still scared me!" Miki said, even on the verge of genuine tears, "If you were dead by then… it'll be my fault…! That's why… please don't scare me like that, Youhei!"
"All right, all right… I'm sorry, Miki." Youhei said, holding her on the shoulders, "I'll try not to be reckless again."
"Youhei…" Miki uttered, trying to hold her tears.
"S-stop that, or I'd feel compelled to beat myself up for making you cry twice!" Youhei pleaded as he looked at Miki's face.
"I… I'm not crying!" Miki protested, "I'm just happy that you're all right…"
"If anything, you saved me with that mirror." Youhei added, "So, smile about it! It's not something to be sad about!" At those words, Miki tried to smile…
And then the moment was interrupted when Gai and Remi entered. "Miki, how is Youhei—AH!" Remi's greeting was interrupted with the sight of Youhei holding Miki on the shoulders, as they both let go.
"Dang, should've brought a camera!" Gai joked, "This would be the next big thing after Takeru cross-dressing!"
"Gai! You do that, and I'll… ACK!" Youhei tried to protest on whatever Gai was planning, but the wounds opened up and he ended up clutching it in pain.
"A-at any rate, you should concentrate on getting better yourself, Youhei. Okay?" Miki tried to make a compromise as she put Youhei back to the bed. Just then she noticed something, "Um… where's Takeru?"
"Don't know." Gai replied, "Said he's got another 'investigation'. What is he, a 'Samurai Detective'?"
"It might be about that 'RF'…" Remi noted, wondering what Takeru was doing…
In his room, Takeru was wondering about that lone Red warrior. 'So I am not the only Red warrior here… How...? Who is he…?' Just then, something dawned upon him…
The warrior had a falcon design for the head.
He used the codename 'RF'.
When he got the cure, there was a falcon picture on it.
And the falcon picture was… something he saw.
'That falcon back then in the Shiba House... Could it be…!' As Takeru thought, he then reached out for the book 'History of Super Sentai' and browsed through the pages about Super Sentai with motifs based on animals. And eventually, he found something that matched the red warrior. 'It's just as I suspected… this man is…'
'Choujuu Sentai Liveman's Red Falcon… Amamiya Yuusuke!'
What was another Red Warrior doing in this timeline, when Takeru already existed? Why would Red Falcon of the Liveman show himself up, and what was his purpose? These questions bore heavily within Takeru's mind, as the next day came to light… This is a mysterious case, but fight on, Super Sentai! You may uncover the meaning behind this phenomenon soon!
Super Sentai vs Super Sentai… will continue at Act 16
Author's note: And there we go. There's some teases within Youhei and Miki, but I assure you, they're just friends and that's it! Though surprisingly, there IS a new series introduced... Liveman! Though, this is not the older Yuusuke that appears in Gaoranger vs Super Sentai, this is more of the younger Yuusuke after the events of Liveman. Although... he won't be a permanent member, but he might occasionally help out at times. Especially next episode... find out later!
Although this one series might enter a little hiatus until I finish Liveman (almost there...). But then, what are the other fic is for? Well, stay tuned!