Super Sentai vs Super Sentai
Author's note: And I'm back with a new chapter. Yes we know Sayaka is back. But we got a new (and possibly final) warrior! Also, yeah, this is a multi-parter, so it's not finished on the chapter. Anyway, just enjoy
ACT 17: The Might of Green
Sayaka's head felt rather fuzzy. Her memories rather blur, all she could remember was that at one point of time, she and her allies were fighting a monster threat and she ended up separated with the rest and captured here. However, there were only two things she recognized from those allies… they're neither of the Changeman, or the new allies she found afterwards. She wanted to wonder where she was, but was unable to when suddenly she felt like her face was being smacked aside.
"Haven't you had enough sleep?" A familiar female voice called her out. She immediately recognized to whom that voice belonged to.
"Ahames…!" Sayaka called out, in front of her was the mad white haired Queen Ahames. She swung her wand on her again, and Sayaka attempted to dodge, but then she ended up getting hit, her body not moving. As she realized, her hands were slightly raised and her wrists chained to two pillars standing beside her. And so were her ankles, chained together, making her unable to move. She looked around and found herself in some sort of black dimension, it most likely belonged to a castle, but it was too dark she could only see several gas from the ground.
"You really had the guts to follow me here in the first place." Ahames closed her head on Sayaka's as she continued to taunt, "And this is where you ended up… helplessly chained here as my prisoner."
"Not moving for the kill already, Ahames?" Sayaka instead gave a sarcastic comment, "I didn't know that the Gozma doesn't have a 'take no prisoner' policy."
"You really want to die, do you? !" It riled Ahames up as she beat Sayaka once again with her wand, "Such is what happens to those who get too high on themselves! You were lucky last time, but no more…"
"Even if I survived with luck, I have no regrets on what I did." Sayaka continued to give a stalwart stance, remembering why she ended up here, in this land even weirder than before. She volunteered to enter a black hole that was sucking things from the Earth into it, and closed it, separating with her friends. But in exchange, she ended up in this weird world where she did meet several people and fought with them to stop Ahames' plans, but she ended up captured.
"Spare me all those 'My friend will rescue me' nonsense. What can one man do?" Ahames taunted further.
"He's not the only one." Sayaka noted, "I have more…"
"Them? Hah! They're not coming!" Ahames continued, "But we're getting a little off-topic here. Now then, I'll tell you why I won't send you to your death immediately." She then put her wand on her shoulder, "Where is it? The 'Tears of Mermaid'!"
"Thrown away to the sea, where it belonged." Sayaka shot back at her, "Even if I have it, I'll never give it to you."
"Why you…!" Ahames wanted to smack her again, but suddenly a male voice stopped her.
"Lying is a bad thing to do… Nagisa Sayaka." A male with black turban-like hat and black robe carrying a staff suddenly appeared. Sayaka could only gasp at the man, it was the first time she saw him.
"You… You are…"
"As you have heard… the one and only, Mess Empire's Great Doctor… Lee Keflen!" The man introduced himself, "Did you really think that there is a lie that can get past me?"
"What…?" Sayaka was surprised. It seemed that this Keflen was able to see through her ruse. However, she had no time to react as suddenly he grabbed a necklace she wore recently. "Ah? !"
"Fear not, I have no interest with your body. However…" As Keflen said that, he pulled his hand away, pulling the necklace away from her. It seemed to have a golden liquid-formed crystal in it, "No matter how you hide it… No matter how you coat it… You cannot deceive my eyes…!" As such, Keflen unleashed a beam towards the golden crystal, but rather than destroying it, it instead changed its color, into a light blue sapphire one, "This is the one and only, Tear of Mermaid!"
"Oh no…!" Sayaka gasped as she realized that her ruse had been revealed. However what she experienced next was that she was punched hard on the stomach by Ahames as she slowly lost consciousness.
"You impress me with your intelligence, Lee Keflen." Ahames said, looking at the Doctor herself, "Pray tell, what would you have done with the Tear?"
"It's a Beast Warrior that I am creating. This Tear was its only missing component." Keflen said, "I'm done with the woman. Do what you like to her."
"Good!" As Ahames said that, she snapped the chains binding Sayaka, causing her to fall down. She picked her up and said, "He who dwells in the Devil's Library will be most pleased."
As Ahames left carrying Sayaka away, Keflen then turned back as suddenly a glass piano along with several tubes rose from the ground. "Ah… My Gene Synthesizer, it's been awhile hasn't it." Keflen said, reminiscing the days he used to utilize the Synthesizer, creating various Beast Warriors to fight against Mess Empire's enemies. After putting the Tear of Mermaid in one of the tubes, while the rest had been filled with weird creatures, Keflen started 'playing' the piano as energies gather to the tubes, gathering into one big energy field… creating a monster with fish-like tail and fish fins surrounding it.
"You are born! Beast Warrior The Marmoss! Now… go out there and crush my enemies! Especially HIM…"
In the meantime, Takeru, Youhei, Miki, Gai and Remi went through the portal, holding each other themselves. However, the ride wasn't a pleasant one. There were thunders that struck throughout the path they flew in and they eventually ended up being struck with one of them, forcing them to let go of their grip by instinct and they ended up separated…
Youhei himself fell into a huge body of water. When he resurfaced, he looked around realized something. 'Whoa, this is like I'm thrown into the middle of the sea…' He looked further, and lucky him, he could spot something. 'All right, land! And it's not too far, about 10 minutes swimming! Good thing I'm quite the swimmer, this should be OK!'
He then started swimming, until suddenly he heard a certain scream. "Aaah! Help…! Can't… swim…!" It was a female voice… all too familiar for him.
"Miki? !" Youhei looked around and finally saw Miki, about to drown. She was located further from the land, he'd further himself from the land that way. However, he wouldn't abandon her. "Hang in there, Miki!"
While Miki was trying to get her head to the surface, she couldn't really do it well. For some reason, she couldn't swim even when she's little, this was why she was quite vulnerable in the water, that some Deathdark Spotmen attempted to drag her underwater and she couldn't do a thing until her friend bailed her out. And even when she was thrown into the sea thanks to a monster attack, she could make it to the ground because her friends were there. And when that time her fellow Goggle Five joined in a boy in a swimming pool, she only took the sidelines, because she knew she couldn't swim.
But at this time, she had no say about this, she's tossed in the middle of a sea. She started losing her air until she saw a figure swimming onto her. "Y-Youhei…" She muttered, as much as she could from underwater. When she looked on the other side, however, she felt like there was an ominous presence, but it was too late for her to confirm what it was, when she eventually lost her consciousness.
"Miki!" Youhei called out again, finally grabbing her and resurfaced. However, she already was unconscious. "Hey, get up! Miki!" He tried waking her up to no avail, until he realized that she was unconscious. 'Okay, guess I'll just have to carry her.' Carrying Miki on his shoulder, Youhei had to swim with all his might to get to the land. It was heavier than swimming by himself, but he was confident with his own stamina.
It's only 5 minutes swimming, but suddenly Youhei felt weird. 'Is it just me or… There's something weird behind me?' He then looked behind and to his shock… there was a pointy thing getting near him. "Oh crap…" He realized what that could mean… shark. And it's coming to him.
Youhei mustered all his might to swim further, but the shark only got closer and closer. 'Damn it! At this rate…' He put more efforts in his swimming, while still carrying Miki and distancing himself further to the shark. However, the shark seemed to get even closer as it swam quite fast.
Thankfully after minutes of swimming, the shark suddenly changed sides… it seemed to realize that it has neared the land, and decided against further chases. With it, Youhei didn't need to hurry as he reached the shore and managed to stand with his two feet, bringing Miki to the ground. 'That was close… If it wanted, it could've gone to shore. Lucky us.'
The sun was covered with clouds partially, but it was still quite the warm day. It still wouldn't be enough to tan people, but Youhei still felt kind of hot. "All wet here…" He commented as he opened his outer clothes, only leaving his undergarments alone, lest that his wet clothes proved to be hazardous for his own health.
After bringing Miki under a tree for shades, Youhei came to a realization. Miki was also wet, and if she kept wearing her wet clothes, her health would be in danger. But he felt really weird, was it ethical to undress a young girl like her? When he looked at Miki, he could imagine himself… her opening her eyes when he's undressing her… and then she screamed, slapping him and left him alone, her trust forever destroyed…
'No. Just… no.' In the end, Youhei decided against it, 'But how do I make Miki realize what may happen if she continues being wet like this?' He began to dread if he was truly cornered, that he had to do it and risk his trust being destroyed. In the end, he had to make due and put his palms onto her stomach… and pushed, getting a lot of water outside her body.
Luckily for him, it didn't take long for Miki to regain consciousness. "Uh…" She muttered, "Youhei?"
"Whew! Thank goodness you're safe." Youhei answered, glad that she got her consciousness back, "And uh… sorry about…"
"Where is this place? And why do I feel so…" Miki attempted to get up, but Youhei interrupted her.
"First, I want you to understand I seriously do not mean anything at all. It's just that… Look, I really don't want to sound like a pervert, but…"
"Is it because my clothes are all wet and you are worried I might contract some sort of disease? I know that already, as if I couldn't see you already in your undergarments." Miki said as she slowly got back to her feet. "All right, I'll just do the same." She walked towards a nearby bush, but stopped momentarily to look at Youhei, "But if you ever dare to peek…"
"I won't!" Youhei quickly shot back and made a gesture of making a promise, with both his palms pressed together, "Cross my heart and hope to die!"
Miki sighed, ambiguously in either relief or trying to keep her guard up just in case, and went inside the bush, and Youhei knew better to turn aside and even put his hands to cover his eyes. It took awhile, but even sometimes, it was very tempting of him to try and take a peek…
And Miki sure took quite some of her time.
"Uh… are you do-" As Youhei stated. However, he noticed a certain sound. Thankfully for him, it didn't come from the place Miki went to, but this did make him suspicious about this place. 'Can't let my guard down…'
"Yes, I'm done." Miki's answer couldn't come quick enough, and she really was just wearing her undergarments, just like him. "Why did you suddenly stop in your sentence?"
"Uh… nothing. Typical suspicion that there may be danger lurking nearby." Youhei quickly answered on that, while Miki nodded.
"I felt that too." She continued, "That said, this looks like a rather deserted island and last I remembered, we're in the middle of the sea. Youhei, don't tell me…"
"Yeah. I didn't know you cannot swim." Youhei stated, "Want me to teach you about it? Doesn't have to be now, but maybe next time."
"Sorry for the trouble, but I'll decline the offer for now." Miki said as she saw her clothes being put on a branch, and the remaining water heated by the sun, "Where did you put your-" Miki wanted to ask where Youhei put his clothes, but quickly stopped when he pointed that in another place. "Oh."
"Hope Takeru and the others are fine too." Youhei added, looking up, "As does Sayaka. Once the clothes are dry enough, we better go look for them."
"Yeah." Miki nodded. At that point, both could only wait under the shades, waiting until their clothes were dry. However, she gave one look to Youhei. "Hey…"
"Yes?"
"Thank you for the save at sea."
At one point after waiting for several minutes, Youhei tried holding on his clothes, and realized it wasn't completely dry. "Not yet." He shook his head, "We still have to wait for a little…" His words were suddenly interrupted when he saw Miki suddenly jumping and attempting to kick, "Whoa, hey! What gives…!"
It turned out that she was instead kicking an insectiod-like soldier who was trying to attack Youhei from behind. "We got company." As Miki said that, she saw that even more insectiod soldiers were approaching them.
"It's like the one in the vision…!" Youhei added, noticing that they looked similar to the soldiers they saw before entering the portal. And judging from the suspicions he felt just before, "And I bet they're waiting for a time for ambush. Took them long enough!"
"I'd say they may be the ones capturing Sayaka. How dare they…" Miki muttered as she prepared her fighting stance and for some reason her face reddened, "And they even attacked us in this kind of condition when we're without clothes!"
"Mind you, I don't like fighting while showing off my underwear, but..." Youhei said as he took fighting stance, and his face also reddened. He was about to transform, but the insectiods made the first move, forcing him to defend himself. "Damn!"
"Careful, Youhei!" Miki also retaliated as she began fighting the soldiers, as did Youhei.
Unfortunately for Remi, she was stranded alone, in the middle of a forest. When she looked around, she just felt that something weird was going on within her. "Huh? Guys! Where are you?" She called out, but there was no response. Sighing and resigning to the fact that she was alone at that point, Remi walked away.
It didn't take long for her to find something odd, however. She spotted the bushes moving. 'What's that, I wonder? Animals?' She decided to check out the bushes. But then, she suddenly sensed something that was very wrong. She suddenly felt like something stung her from behind. "Ouch! Mosquito?" She thought, until she turned behind and saw a bunch of people carrying blunt weaponries and looking at her in a hostile look. They weren't wearing normal wearings, they were like tribesmen.
"Got you now, monster!" One tribesman yelled, "You're not tricking us any longer!"
"Monster? Hey, I'll have you know I'm one hundred percent human!" Remi protested, but it seemed that the tribesmen weren't even fazed.
"Same protest we heard every day! Get her!" The tribesmen commanded and thus they attacked, forcing Remi to defend herself. She was more than capable to do so as she jumped and flipped around, dodging the attacks of the tribesmen as she tried to minimize her attacks as much as possible.
"Look, I just arrived here!" She protested, blocking several club strikes and shoving them away, "How do I trick people like y—" Unfortunately as she said that, she felt something stinging her head. As a result, she was kicked from the side, pushing her a bit, 'What? ! My body isn't responding like normally…!" It was then she realized that she might've been drugged with that sting. When she looked at one of the tribesmen, she saw that he's carrying a blowgun. 'Oh that must be it… Ack!' When she saw that, she felt something blunt hitting her on the head, dropping her to the ground and knocking her unconscious.
'Everyone…'
Takeru and Gai, on the other hand, were thrown into a mountainous area. Takeru was up first when he saw Gai unconscious, lying on a rock. "Gai. Hey, get up." Takeru called out, and it didn't take long for Gai to be awake.
"Ouch my head…" Gai muttered as he held on his head. He then looked around, "Huh? Where's the rest?"
"Looks like we got separated." Takeru said as Gai jumped away from the rock, standing on the similar ground.
"Ah, damn it." Gai put his fists together in annoyance, "Oh well, guess we just gotta look for them. Especially Sayaka. Even if it's just the two of us."
"Sayaka…" Takeru was reminded on last time he went on a despair bout because of letting Sayaka sacrifice herself. This time, it was like fate was giving him a second chance, "I'm not gonna miss this chance. I'll save her."
"Uh huh." Gai nodded as they walked together, and lightly tapped on Takeru's arm, "And don't you dare go through that despairing crap again. Or else I'll smack your skull to the rock till you get up."
"Heh… you really are different from how you're described from the book." Takeru then commented, reminded with the History of Super Sentai book where Gai was actually listed as rebellious and did not take orders very well. He was becoming like a big brother figure at this rate.
"Does that book say a lot about me?" Gai said, before smirking, "So what did it say about me? That I'm a handsome devil?"
"That… and you've got issues with orders and authority, a cocky lone wolf, all around not very pleasant…" Takeru continued, making Gai's face not really happy, "But I don't see most of that here."
"Heh!" Gai just scoffed, trying to hide his embarrassment, "People change, kid. And you know what?" He then turned to Takeru, his face rarely forming a trusting smile, something he'd share to his closest friend, "I credit that to my fellow Jetmen… and you. And I hope you don't misuse this trust I gave by whining about things that are out of your control."
Takeru returned the smile, acknowledging Gai's trust on him. However, when they reached the cliff where they would go down to the shores area, they found something… a fish-tailed monster. It's facing to the sea, not even recognizing that two men were approaching it. "What's that, a Bio Dimensional Beast?" Takeru asked, "I didn't know Radiguet made it here."
"No, not a Bio Dimensional Beast." Gai whispered, "Or maybe it's an Ayakashi?"
"Not that either…" Takeru said as eventually remembered something. If Ahames was in this realm, then the only other option for that beast was… "A Space Beast… it's been awhile."
But as soon as Takeru said that, suddenly red insectiod soldiers appeared in front of them, ready to attack. "I take that back. Space Beasts usually come with Hidrer soldiers." Takeru noted. However, at that point, the monster then leapt to the sea, leaving them.
"Wait a minute!" Gai tried to give chase, but the soldiers barred his path and he was forced to fight them along with Takeru.
As Takeru slashed upon soldiers to soldiers, they suddenly shot out acidic liquid as Takeru dodged it. An unfortunate bird was instead hit with the liquid and in a short moment it disappeared. "What? !" Takeru was shocked at the revelation and became even more aware to defend himself.
'Red insect-like soldiers, acid that makes living creatures vanish… Could it be…'
In the meantime, Gai was annoyed at looking how the soldiers give out a lot of acids. "Annoying bastards!" He yelled as he grabbed one of the soldiers, kneed it on the stomach before grabbing its head… and smacked it to a nearby soldier's crotch. Once the soldier whose crotch got hit keeled in pain, Gai instead welcomed it with an uppercut. 'Whew! After all that time I got hit with that, felt kinda good to return the favor to other bad guys!' He thought as he continued fighting.
The fight still continued, until suddenly when Takeru was about to slash one of the soldiers, he heard someone yelling and a figure suddenly kicked the soldier before Takeru could get a clean cut. "You…" Takeru saw a man in green and black outfit, wearing a headband.
"Zolors! Face me!" He yelled out as he attracted most of the soldiers, the Zolors. His fist power was extreme that even as the Zolors surrounded him, he managed to punch them all out, breaking away from the surrounding.
It didn't take long until most of the Zolors were defeated and what remained of it ran off. The man looked at Takeru and Gai and greeted, "You guys OK?"
"Fine, as you can see." Takeru answered, "What are they? You're awfully familiar in facing them."
"Ah, that." The man said, coughing up, "They're Zolors. Soldiers of the Mess Empire. I know, since I spent a whole year fighting them with my friends."
"Mess Empire?" Gai asked, "So you got some experience, huh. Lemme guess, there are remnants?"
"Yeah… Remnants." The man said until he realized something, "Right! Forgot to introduce myself!" He then put his hand forward and introduced himself, "The name's Dai."
"Dai?" Gai asked, "No surnames?"
"Surnames?" Dai was confused, thinking about what it could mean. 'Oh yeah… the name after the name you're called for. Family names. Man, I haven't found my true family yet to claim my own surname…'
"Dai…" Takeru muttered, recognizing who this man was. He was also part of one of the Super Sentai teams, in particular the Choushinsei Flashman, yet another of his seniors. His alter ego was Green Flash. 'Green… wait, what? Could it be that he's the last one from the prophesized colors?' He was reminded with the phrase he read in the database. 'Seven colors to defeat the enemy… Seven colors to lead the way…' However, he decided to not act suspicious for the moment and instead shook Dai's hand, "I'm Takeru… Shiba Takeru."
"Yuuki Gai." Gai also added, putting his hand above the handshake.
"Takeru? Gai?" Dai wondered a little, until he realized something, "Wow! You really are like she said!"
"Like who said?" Takeru asked.
"Sayaka told me a lot about her friends, and I think two of them had your name!" Dai explained, "You're really her friend, aren't you?"
"You know Sayaka?" Gai suddenly gets fired up as he closed in with Dai, "Where is she? Last I saw she was captured!"
"Okay, okay… just try to calm down…" Dai said, trying to calm Gai down.
"It'll get nowhere if we stick here." Takeru suggested, "Let's move."
"Alliance between Gozma and Mess?" As they walked down, Takeru continued to talk with Dai to inquire what happened.
"Yeah. Didn't want to believe it, but I never thought Mess would be back." Dai said, remembering just how shocked he was when he saw the Mess Empire returned. He tried to contact his allies Jin, Bun, Sara and Lou in their respective planets in the Flash Stars, but he couldn't do it, as if they weren't there and he was stranded in a weird world, not even in his home Green Star. His body has been once again counting the days when the Anti-Flash Phenomenon would kick in once more and destroy his body. And it was even worse that a similar force named 'Gozma' was suddenly giving their hand to the remnants of Mess.
"Do the remnants of Mess have a leader?" Gai asked. Knowing how the enemies of Super Sentai return with at least one leader figure, he'd like to know if Mess also had one.
"Yeah, saw a familiar face. Lee Keflen…" Dai answered, recalling about his encounter with the Great Doctor, "Of all people… him?"
"What is wrong with him?" Takeru asked, "Is he a fearful fighter to you?"
"No, he doesn't really fight mostly. But his main forte is that of his resourcefulness…" Dai gave his answer, "As well as his ability to create monsters… Beast Warriors. Just like that one which jumped to the sea, I was tracking that monster down."
'In other words, kind of like Hone no Shitari…' It reminded Takeru as one of the leaders of Gedoushuu, one who didn't take as much actions as the others like Juzou or Akumarou, but was as much resourceful and dangerous. "So that monster was a Beast Warrior. How long have you been defending yourself?"
"For quite a week, I suppose." Dai recalled, "Around that time, the Gozma appeared, and so did Sayaka. She helped me and my allies quell the combination of Mess and Gozma until we got separated…" He then lightly held his head, "Guh, my head is a bit achy. I don't know, but it's like there are some other details I missed or I got wrong…"
"Well… then thanks." Takeru then tapped on Dai's shoulder, "For taking care of our friend."
"Yeah. She used to tell me about you a lot." Dai recalled on how Sayaka told him about her allies. "If I remember right, you have two more friends, don't you?"
"Yep." Gai nodded, but then they heard familiar voices. The voices of Zolors, beating sounds as well as battle grunts of two familiar people, "I'd say you'd be meeting them both."
"Great! Let's go save them from those Zolors!" Dai said as he ran off to the source of the voice, followed by Takeru and Gai…
"Youhei! Miki! You guys OK? !" When Takeru could spot the two, still fighting Zolors, except they have yet to put their clothes on. In which Takeru stopped whatever he's doing and couldn't help but yell, "What is wrong with you, fighting in your underwears? !"
"Look, I can explain after we finish these creeps off!" Youhei said as he smacked a Zolors in the face with an elbow strike, "So give us a hand!"
"Just stop distracting us, okay? !" Gai said as he leapt to action and attacked some Zolors, followed by Takeru.
Dai also rushed in to start attacking the Zolors. However, when he got near Miki, he was visibly stunned as he didn't know what to do on Miki in such condition, yet to be clothed, "Uh… uh…" He stuttered, confused. A Zolors soldier took this advantage and tried to leap onto him, but Miki was quick enough to kick it away.
"You shouldn't just stand there!" Miki reprimanded him, which snapped Dai back to his senses.
"Okay, okay! I'll deal with the enemies here!" Dai retorted, looking away, "Just… put some clothes on!"
"All right, let me check!" Miki nodded as he left Dai to fight further advancing Zolors, going to the branch where her clothes were hung. As she held it, she smiled, knowing something, "It's dry! Youhei! We can get dressed and fight to our fullest now!"
"Awesome!" Youhei exclaimed as he turned towards Takeru, "Cover me a bit, Takeru! I'll stop being a distraction!"
"Who's distracted by you?" Takeru gave a snappy remark before he nodded, "OK, just leave this to me." He then turned towards Gai, "Gai, a little help here?"
"Sure!" Gai nodded as Takeru, along with Gai and Dai circled around, covering both Youhei and Miki as they get dressed back. Once that was done, the two joined in repelling the Zolors until they all retreated.
"So, these are your two friends as Sayaka described." Dai noted as they were all continuing to walk into the woods, trying to visit where he used to hang around this week, where the Gozma-Mess alliance concentrated their attacks.
"Yep, we're great friends." Youhei added, "I'm Hama Youhei. And this is…"
"Momozono Miki." Miki continued, "Nice to meet you, Dai."
"Me too. From the look of it, looks like you are as good as she described." Dai answered with a smile on his face, and eventually they spotted a gate. "All right, here we are! The Starre Tribe settlement!"
"Starre Tribe?" Takeru asked. This was something new to him.
"I just helped out in defending them from the alliance's attacks." Dai said, "It's not too modern, but it can't be helped, when the world's state is like this." He then ran forward, greeting the gatekeeper, "Hey! I'm back!"
"Dai! You returned!" The gatekeeper said as he saw the other four also returning, "And you brought guests too?"
"Yeah." Dai nodded, "All's good here? No attacks while I'm gone?"
"No, these days are just fine. Though…" The gatekeeper said, as he suddenly got a rather cheery face, "I think one of our guys just came in and claimed they captured The Chloros."
"The Chloros?" Dai thought, thinking back. 'Didn't it get destroyed just recently?'
"The… what?" Youhei asked, not understanding what 'Chloros' was.
"Oh, I mean, it's a Beast Warrior." Dai answered, "They usually is named with 'The' in front of their names."
"So, you're saying these villagers captured a monster on their own?" Gai asked, not believing it so easily.
"They must be one force to be reckoned with if that's the case." Miki tried to stay positive and said as such.
"Just 'captured'? As in you have no means to destroy it?" Takeru said as he looked forward, "Interesting. Let's take a look."
"Okay, just have to make sure after all." Dai said as he turned towards the Gatekeeper, "Show me the way, where you held it."
The gatekeeper nodded and escorted Takeru and the rest to a house where sounds of men were heard. "They're holding it here."
"Okay, then… Pardon the intrusion…" Takeru said as he entered with the rest… only to see the house filled with the same tribesmen that attacked Remi… and on the center of it was Remi, tied on a post with her hands behind it, and her mouth was even gagged. "Remi? !"
"Nnngh! Mmmgh!" Remi tried to plead for help on Takeru, knowing that he'll set things straight. But when she saw Dai, she was slightly silent for a bit, as if recognizing the face. 'Where have I seen that face again?'
"Sorry we'll have to restrain her like this." One of the tribesmen said at Gai who looked at him with really angry eyes, "If this was really The Chloros in disguise, then it'll be able to use sweet words to seduce us."
"'Disguise' my ass, you punk!" Gai yelled out, cracking his knuckles as he grabbed the man on the collar on his tribal suit, "That is our friend over there! You want me kick your sorry ass for this? !"
"What's the meaning of this, Dai? !" Miki also asked out to Dai, "Why is Remi…"
"Hey, I didn't know what transpired! I thought this…" Dai tried to explain before he took a deep breath, "Okay. Now let's try to take this calmly. So you say this woman is The Chloros in disguise. Is that it?"
"Yes." The tribesman answered, "We know if we're wrong, we'd have done some unfair treatment to this young lady. But we can't be too sure. We have yet to hear the news about the Beast Warriors' fall and…"
"Well, that settles it. I understand now." Dai then clapped his hand, "I do remember that before returning here, I and the rest have destroyed The Chloros."
"In other words…" Youhei added, "You guys just hadn't heard the news of its destruction, so you thought it disguised as The Chloros."
"Is that so…" The tribesman said, shocked that they captured a wrong person. He and the rest turned towards Remi and bowed their heads low in shame, "We apologize!"
"Now that's over it, good." Takeru said as he drew his Shinkenmaru and cut down the ropes tying Remi.
"Remi, are you okay?" Miki approached her as Remi was removing the gag on her mouth on her own.
"Whew!" Remi sighed, glad that the gag has been away from her mouth. It stunk, "Well aside of my wrists getting a bit achy due to getting tied up, I'm fine. Nothing big." She looked at the tribesmen, who still hung their heads low, and said cheerfully, "Hey, no biggie! Raise your head, I'm not holding anything about this!"
"So you have another friend?" Dai approached Takeru and asked, as Takeru just nodded.
"A trusted friend nonetheless." Takeru answered.
"Hey, sorry about this misunderstanding." Dai approached Remi and offered his hand for handshake, "I'm Dai. Who're you?"
"Hoshikawa Remi. Nice to meet…" Remi was about to finish her sentence until she and the rest heard a yell, "… you. What was that sound?"
"Let's just check." Takeru answered as he walked forward, "If my hunch is right, then it's either a Space Beast or a Beast Warrior."
The team, along with Dai ran forward and did see the gates being under attack by Zolors… leading them was The Marmoss, the same Beast Warrior that Takeru and Gai saw.
"It's that thing…!" Gai said, cracking his knuckles, "I'd like to know what it's like to fight one."
"You're pretty daring." Dai said, "But Beast Warriors are usually stronger than…"
"It's what we faced every day." Takeru said as he stepped forward, together with his teammates and prepared his Shodo Phone, "Let's go."
"OK!"
"Ippitsu Soujou!"
"Blue Turbo!"
"Goggle Pink!"
"Cross Changer!"
"Five Yellow!"
Thus the five transformed, in front of Dai and the Starre tribesmen. "Whoa… just like Sayaka, I suppose."
"Eh?" Five Yellow asked, still not aware who Dai was, "What do you mean?"
"It means, as a friend of Sayaka, I cannot leave it like this. I'll not just sit in the corner watching you when I can help fight this Beast Warrior!" Dai exclaimed as he moved forward… He put his hand on a cross, and as he swung it from up to down and put his brace forward, he yelled, "Prism Flash!"
In a sudden, Dai was lined with light and wore a mechanical green-white suit, with a green-white helmet. "Shut Goggle!" The helmet on his head closed his eyes with a black visor as his transformation was complete and he exclaimed his new form, "Green Flash!"
Green Flash's entrance shocked most of the team, with the exception of Shinken Red, who had guessed his identity. "No way… you're another Super Sentai warrior?" Black Condor said, as he didn't know about the presence of a Green warrior in his team.
"Yep. I am part of the group who used to take down the Mess Empire, Choushinsei Flashman." Green Flash answered, before he saw the Zolors advancing, "But enough talk for the moment, the enemy comes!"
"Got it! Let's go!" As Goggle Pink exclaimed, the rest of the team, including Green Flash advanced forward, attacking the Zolors and Beast Warrior The Marmoss. Once again, Green Flash's inherent might dealt a crippling blow to the Zolors as every time they had him surrounded, he would shove them away like it was nothing.
The Super Sentai team remained strong as they fended off a lot of Zolors soldiers. As things got rougher, however, they knew it might not be wise to let the Starre Tribe watch. "Everyone run! We'll take care of this!" Five Yellow said to them, but they just stood there, as they were stunned with her concern, even after she was wronged by them, "Just hurry!"
As the people ran off finally, the Super Sentai continued fighting, even if the fight took them to a plains area and eventually, it was The Marmoss' turn. The team tried attacking it, but it possessed quite the fin that their attacks did not matter much. However, the team kept going on, until eventually The Marmoss leapt backwards, as if swimming in the sky, and opened its mouth, blasting off the Super Sentai. However, it proved to be a distraction as a familiar cry was heard.
"HARD WALL!"
In a sudden, a transparent wall forming a square surrounded the Super Sentai in a rather wide radius. "What? !" Green Flash was shocked, it was the first time he saw such technique.
"Hard Wall? I know that voice…" As Shinken Red beckoned, a figure entered and stood next to The Marmoss… "Ahames…! It's been awhile."
"Super Sentai… to think that I'd meet you again." Ahames noted, "But I'm glad, because this'll be the last time."
"You think we'll go down that easily? !" Blue Turbo exclaimed.
"Sayaka… where is Sayaka? !" Goggle Pink asked out, "What have you done to her? !"
"Oh, her? The accursed Changeman will soon perish… within the Devil Library in our castle." Ahames said, smirking.
"Devil Library?" Five Yellow asked. She didn't know this person, but if she was held with such contempt, she knew it's a bad one.
"Within the Library lies a creature so deadly that she would die." Ahames exclaimed, "I no longer have any use of her, except to send her to Hell for what she and the Changeman did to me!"
"You damned woman!" Black Condor clenched his fist, "We WILL get out of here and kick your ass, that I swear!"
"Really now, don't get too high of yourself." Ahames said and turned towards The Marmoss, "The Marmoss, do it!"
The Marmoss suddenly leapt up. Atop of the Hard Wall was an invincible ceiling. Seeing that, Shinken Red muttered. "Well there goes the plan to just jump above the wall." But then he saw The Marmoss opening its mouth… and unleashed a waterfall to the ground.
"You're turning this into a drowning pit?" Blue Turbo said, "Have you run out ideas so much that you'd resort to this thing?"
"Wait a sec, Youhei!" Five Yellow suddenly tapped his shoulder and pointed below, "If this is a drowning pit, then it sure fills up fast!" When Blue Turbo looked down, he realized that it only took about 10 seconds for the water to fill up to their knees.
"Crap!" Black Condor realized what was going on and hurried to the side as he prepared something. "Wing Gauntlet!" He then attempted to punch on the wall, but the Hard Wall was indestructible even with his punch.
"Fool!" Ahames said, "You cannot break the Hard Wall like that!" She smirked, the only thing that could destroy the Wall was the Changeman's Power Bazooka after it was imbued with the Earth Force. And now, there was nothing they could do to break through. The Super Sentai couldn't do anything but to get themselves drowning and floating in the water.
"Miki, hold tight to me!" Blue Turbo suddenly yelled to Goggle Pink.
"Eh?" She was confused on what he'd do.
"Hurry, or do you want to drown? !" Blue Turbo's yell made Goggle Pink realize her inability to swim. Thankfully, they're close so she held him on the hand and as the room started getting filled, he tried his best to get them both having their heads on air.
"All right, The Marmoss… stop right there." Before the 'room' was completely full, however, Ahames suddenly commanded the Beast Warrior to stop.
"Showing mercy, all of a sudden? !" Green Flash exclaimed.
"No. This is where The Marmoss will show you his ultimate strength…" Ahames said as she commanded further, "Now, The Marmoss! Unleash your strength!"
The Marmoss then spat several fins to the water. All of the sudden, the water began to shine in several color. "I've got a bad feeling about this…" Five Yellow muttered. Until suddenly he looked at the side, and instinctively screamed "AAAH!"
"What's with the scream… What? !" Blue Turbo asked what happened, but when he looked at the side, he realized what's going on… a shark fin approaching them.
"How is this possible? !" Goggle Pink added, identifying what it was as it just leapt and nearly consumed the team. Thankfully, she was still holding on Blue Turbo so she was safe, "A great white shark? !"
"Okay, let's try calming down now!" Five Yellow tried to calm things down, "If we handle this together, we can… Aaah!" Suddenly she felt something grabbing her ankles and she was dragged down to the water. Something sticky held onto her and when she realized it, there was a giant octopus underground dragging her. Not only on her ankles, her arms were also quickly wrapped with the tentacles.
"Hold on! Remi!" Green Flash tried diving and trying to save Five Yellow. However, right in front of him was something also equally fearful… a crocodile. A saltwater crocodile to be exact. And for such species, it swam surprisingly well in a huge body of water like the one they're at. 'Oh no!' Too late, its jaws quickly chomped onto Green Flash's arm and it dragged him underwater. The arm wouldn't survive if it wasn't for his training at Green Star and his transformed state, but the crocodile showed no mercy and continued to roll with him on the water, in hopes that it would drown him.
At one point, while Blue Turbo swam while carrying Goggle Pink to avoid the shark, the shark leapt again and while he dodged, it separated him with her. "Miki!" Blue Turbo called out as the separated Goggle Pink ended up drowning. However, this was suddenly used by the shark to eventually grab Blue Turbo by biting him on the arm and dragged him around the water
'Youhei…!' Goggle Pink saw the shark got onto Blue Turbo, but she couldn't even swim to get near him. As if that was the end of her troubles as another creature approached her… a bigger-than-usual electric eel. It instantly generated electricity that shocked her underwater.
"Damn it! What the hell…?" Black Condor wondered what was going on until he felt like something moving… He felt as if his body was being bitten in many places. Then it dawned to him what happened when he realized what suddenly leapt to his face, biting it… Piranhas. "Whoaa!" Struggling to get them off, Black Condor quickly ended up being drowned as well.
"What's the meaning of this? !" Shinken Red yelled out to Ahames.
"Hahah… The Marmoss has the power to conjure killer creatures that reside within the water." Ahames yelled out, "So I hope you now enjoy your watery hell!"
"What…" Shinken Red was about to say more, but then he felt a sudden rush that he's being pushed upwards. When he realized it, he was being swallowed by an orca, while smaller than usual, still no pushover as it managed to grab him on the stomach area. "Tch…!" Instinctively, Shinken Red put out the Inroumaru and managed to activate it.
"Super Disc"
It made him tougher and able to withstand the orca's jaws, but even the orca was dragging him to underwater while trying to crush his bones. "Damn!"
"Good bye, Super Sentai. It is not Radiguet that killed you, but I, Ahames!" Ahames said triumphantly as she gestured to The Marmoss, telling him to leave with her. She then left the Super Sentai while laughing.
'Damn it! This is not where I fall… and so are the rest!' Green Flash thought as he continued to wrestle upon the death roll of the saltwater crocodile. The situation was pretty bad, an orca attacking Shinken Red, a great white shark attacking Blue Turbo, a giant electric eel attacking Goggle Pink, tons of piranhas attacking Black Condor and a giant octopus attacking Five Yellow, and him, a saltwater crocodile. 'It's just that we're caught by surprise. We'll live to fight another day and defeat both Lee Keflen and that Ahames…! Sayaka said they're strong, I have to believe it! For that… for that I cannot lose here!'
Concentrating his strength, Green Flash then activated his specialized weapon, "Prism Kaiser!" His hands, after bathed with the light from his forehead was suddenly covered with crystal knuckles, one that proved too much for the crocodile as it eventually released its grip. In retaliation, he punched the crocodile, tossing it to near the Hard Wall. He swam down to the ground, as he neared the Hard Wall.
As Ahames left, the Hard Wall became weaker. 'I'd better try it now, maybe it will work.' As Green Flash thought, he gathered all his strength to his fist, and punched it several times "Super Piston!" After being punched several times, combined with its weakened state due to Ahames leaving and not really taking care of it, it broke away and the water were spread away to the ground.
The creatures summoned through the water ended up severely weakened as the water was their source of power, enabling the Super Sentai to escape their grips, and eventually the creature dissipated. "Is everyone OK? !" Green Flash called as the team was huffing, fatigued and wounded.
"Guess… we'll manage." Shinken Red said, already out of his Super Mode. "For now."
"We've taken too big a damage, Takeru…" Goggle Pink said, "If we continue on like this…"
"You don't need to tell me…" Shinken Red stated, "We'll need rest."
"What? ! And admit defeat? !" Black Condor retorted.
"I didn't say that…" Shinken Red then corrected as he got up, holding his stomach, "Next time… we won't lose. But for now, Miki's right, we have to recover our strength."
"Good enough… but where?" Five Yellow asked.
"We can return to the Starre Tribe settlement for rest." Green Flash suggested, "In there, we can also discuss future plans for the assault to save Sayaka."
"Yeah, that works just fine." Blue Turbo nodded as everyone has gotten up and walked to the direction of the Starre Tribe settlement, some helping each other to walk as the damage was quite severe.
When Sayaka could open her eyes, she found herself inside a rather huge hall. 'Is this that… 'Devil Library' Ahames talked about?' She thought as she looked around. She tried moving her arm, but suddenly found out that her arms were locked behind her. In fact, she found her wrists chained together and her body chained to her body, and so was her ankles, all while she's leaning to a wall, kneeling. "Ugh…" She moved a little, trying to feel something on her wrists… Thankfully, she found her Change Brace still on her arms.
'Still this doesn't mean I can use this for transformation or communication. Way to give false hopes, Ahames.' Sayaka thought, annoyed. However, she wasn't going to just kneel there and wait. 'If Ahames was right, there's something residing here. Before it awakes, I need to do something…!'
Sayaka then tried to do her best to stand up in that condition. She eventually did and hopped around the room, hoping to find something of value, that could probably break her bonds. But thus far, she found nothing.
True to its name, the Devil Library housed a lot of books. Sayaka couldn't help but be awed with the amount of books. But she knew books wouldn't help her this time. She only tried to look for a sharp or powerful object to break her free…
But one shelf suddenly caught her interest.
"Eh?" Sayaka muttered as she looked at one book inside a shelf, "Anti-Flash Phenomenon?" She remembered about Dai telling her about his condition, that his condition made his body that he couldn't stay in Earth for more than a year, or he'll die. 'Maybe if I get this… I can use the knowledge inside to help him.'
With determination, Sayaka hopped onto the bookshelf and tried putting that book out. Thankfully, the height of the location was enough for her bound hands to grab it and she managed to grab it.
But before she could pull it out, however… There was a loud, creaking sound. Sayaka was shocked and she looked around. "Who's there…? !" As she called, she noticed a central door, which didn't lead to the exit, was opening. And as a pair of hands appeared, sound of chain rattling was heard and a big eye was seen. Sayaka was shocked… did she awaken that 'creature' which Ahames spoke about…?
The team was in quite a pinch. Takeru and the rest were forced to recuperate to their wounds, but in the same time, Sayaka was helpless to face this new mysterious resident of the Devil Library. This is a time of crisis, but always believe that Super Sentai will get through it! Good luck! Survive, Super Sentai!
Super Sentai vs Super Sentai… will continue at Act 18
Author's note: Yep this arc will continue on the next arc. And as you would've guessed, there's the last member (probably) team, Dai AKA Green Flash from Choushinsei Flashman (and the enemy representative is Lee Keflen, so excuse him if he's not going to the battlefield directly, like usual). But next chapter, will everything be all right with the Super Sentai? What plan will they come up with and will they save Sayaka? Tune in in the closing of this arc that looked like have been going on since Act 15! Stay tuned!