Intermission 1: Courage! Prehistoric Moxie! Love!
Elsewhere, quite far from Springdale, things were looking much more sunny. Sure, winter was bound to bring it's chilling breeze as well, but things looked bright in the town of St. Peantusburg. Every corner of the place was decked with holiday cheer, then again it tended to start before October was in full swing here.
Sitting in an office in an unmarked facility of the southern district were two young women, one of them seeming to be asking the other some questions in an interview. Amongst them were typical treats of the area, hot drinks, donuts, caramel salted peanuts. The usual.
"So, could you tell me a bit about yourself?" The first woman asked, being a blonde haired scientist with a rather intrigued look on her face.
The other woman, having reddish brown hair, grey-ish blue eyes, and attire of a red, blue, and yellow color scheme accented by white diamonds and a black shirt encrusted with a golden dinosaur themed emblem. She also donned a belt with an odd buckle, giving a very 1990's flair to it.
"Well I'm pretty sure you know from my intern application to apply as an assistant paranormal researcher, I'm Katherine Noha, but just call me Kiara Noha. Not only is it easier, but people always get it mixed up with the spelling with a C, it's about as nightmarish as a herd of sheep climbing a tower. " The brown haired woman, Kiara, introduced herself. "As for me, Professor Lily Francy, well, you got something quite unnatural in store from the likes of me."
"I see, could you go on then?" The other woman, Francy, questioned Kiara.
"Of course! I was originally from Springdale, kinda long ways from here, but I could always see a lot of strange spirits doing strange spirit things. I wasn't bound to be the only one, I'm positive! Even my best friend at the time, well, I was given this by them!" Kiara went on, standing up and showing off her strange belt. "This may seem like a normal Dino Buckler from Kohryu Sentai Zyuranger, or as it's called here, a Power Morpher. But it's more than meets the eye!"
There was a latch on the front of Kiara's Dino Buckler, and once revealed it was the usual red and white design, however the center was replaced by a golden watch like frame with eight lights, the center of the watch having a design consisting of four whips: Purple, Blue, Pink, and Green.
"Behold! The device called the Yokai Timeless Dream!" Kiara shouted, holding the buckle in one hand. "Impressed? But wait, that isn't all! Hold on lemme find the thing you gave me with my application..."
Fumbling in her pockets, Kiara pulled out a single medal with a loud "There you are!", inserting into the core. A small jingle played as lights lit up on the device.
"It's Charming Time!" The device jingled, playing a short catchy tune as from a pink light was summoned a completely white, rather blank feline yokai by Kiara's side.
"Massaranyan!" The white cat, Massaranyan introduced itself. Francy was rather impressed by the display before her.
"So, it seems you do have the ways with the Yokai. You may be of a great help in my paranormal research." Francy commented, smiling a little. "If I may ask, who gave you such a device?"
"Oh the Yokai Timeless Dream? An old pal of mine, we go way back, his name was Dinoshi. Let me tell you, we where like best friends, but one day, his medal stopped working, and then after that, disappeared..." Kiara said, seeming longing. "That was about ten years ago now, when Magiranger was airing and leaks of Bokunger where showing in magazines. I remember it all so well now...I want to find them again..."
"I see, so you're looking for someone as well..." Francy commented to herself. She quickly regained her composure. "Anyways, I believe the feline you have with you has great potential, and I may have the key to unlocking it..."
"Wait really?!" Kiara yelled in shock. "I mean, I wasn't expecting someone to have this kind of mad technology."
"Well, it's more of something I'd wish to test, and Massaranyan is the perfect fit since they're rather blank from the looks of it." Francy responded with a shrug.
"I'm down with whatever you're doing, so long as it isn't particularly cruel and unusual to anyone involved." Kiara responded, sounding much more enthused.
"Excellent, this way now." Francy beckoned forth, Kiara and Massaranyan following the scientist.
The three came into a small closed off section of the laboratory, revealing what Kiara would best describe as an extra large VR arcade machine from her best knowledge. Probably modified to do more questionable science things.
"So this device, if a yokai is particularly blank so to speak, they can be driven with new power." Francy explained, as the other two looked curious. "However, it's been tricky to work with, since it's hard finding something with the right wavelengths, but Massaranyan seems perfect."
"In short, Massaranyan has to get in and just like that they're a strong, hopefully more flashy kitty just like that?" Kiara asked, raising an eyebrow in curiosity. "Great! Let's take this for a run!"
"As you may wish, if you can get it to work. I will warn you even I haven't been able to get it working..." Francy huffed, as Kiara was more than willing to mess with highly dangerous science equipment.
Looking over the control panel, Kiara saw a spot that was a perfect fit for Massaranyan's medal, sliding it in. Something seemed to have clicked with power. A disc drive opened up as Massaranyan was standing in the machine seeming unphased. Kiara looked around in a bag she carried with her here, finding a neatly packed CD. Kiara hesitated for a moment, truly wondering if it was worth it. She didn't have many other yokai, this could end well or really badly...
Without any further delays, Kiara inserted the disc, standing back. The disc was accepted, seeming to charge with power. Kiara looked back down at her CD case to realize something was well, wrong.
"Oh no...this isn't the disc you gave me to try out..." Kiara said, looking worried. Francy looked just as worried as Kiara.
"What on earth did you put on that other disc, then?" Francy asked absolutely worried.
"Well...There are a few ISO files containing some games from the early 2000's, one a party game from a highly loved series, another a platformer crossed with a mon game and lots of eggs and chickens. Another was a ROM for a game that had an interesting solar powered cartridge that really played a huge role in the game. Also I think an opening and an episode or two from a long running tokusatsu series, this season focusing on duality and detectives..." Kiara explained, as the machine got hotter and hotter and Kiara began to really step away now. "Basically backups of a lot of things for the long ride here."
"So what you're saying is your backups of video games and television shows?" Francy asked.
"Yep, but I think it's doing something at least." Kiara commented. "I mean, do you hear that loud squealing sound? It sounds like the strongest tea is ready."
From the sheer amount of power, Massaranyan's medal cracked, breaking off into two pieces as a powerful light bursted out of it. The two pieces of Massaranyan's medal son reformed into two, new medals. In fact, the entire machine exploded, and while no one was thankfully harmed, something else was there. Instead of one feline yokai, it was now two.
"Who are you two?" Kiara asked, shocked at what she was seeing.
Once the smoke cleared, the two felines were much more noticeable. One was fiery and energetic, donning a pallette of red and yellow and had a big red scarf and a white muzzle that looked like a rising sun. The other was more mellow and quiet, being mostly yellow, green, and with hints of blue, donning a blue violet scarf with a white muzzle that looked like a crescent moon.
"Of the Brave tribe, I am none other the incandescent tom of the daytime, Solarnyan!" The sunny cat, Solarnyan introduced himself.
"Hailing from the Eerie tribe, I am the dazzling queen of the nighttime, Lunarnyan!" The lunar cat, Lunarnyan introduced herself as well.
"It's like all my dreams are being made a reality." Kiara gasped, looking before the duo of nyans. They quickly picked up their medals and handed them both to Kiara.
"Oh yeah, these, you should use them to call us up any time." Solarnyan said, handing Kiara his medal.
"Indeed, you don't seem to have very many yokai." Lunarnyan added in, giving Kiara a weird look.
"Ahaha...yeah you're right. I have two other medals, but that's about it, really." Kiara sheepishly responded. "I should have kept up with my medals more when I was younger."
Before the two could carry on further, there was a rather loud crashing, explosive sound. From how loud it was, it couldn't be too far from here!
"Were we expecting thunder and lightning today!?" Kiara yelped, taking an odd pose from how startled she was by the sudden crashing noise. "Things looked real sunny out when I got here, not a cloud in the sky!"
"Kiara, this means only one thing." Francy said, looking dramatic.
"Yeah, what?" Kiara asked.
"This has to be the work of a yokai!" Francy dramatically concluded.
"You're right, we gotta check this out before something really bad happens!" Kiara responded, looking at Solarnyan and Lunarnyan. "I hope you two are ready for a test run, because here we go!"
With Kiara's words, she and her two felines were out the door, ready to bust whatever was causing trouble today.
Once the summoner and her two felines had set forth, destruction was quite obvious right from the get go. Several small structures had been knocked over or crushed, as in the center of it all were two, rather strong looking yokai.
The two causing the destruction was a T Rex yokai, wearing a striped shirt as he stomped around, yelling "Destroy!". His opponent was a really ripped shark man yokai, donning flashy wrestle attire. Despite being a bit smaller than the T Rex, he was still able to put up quite the fight.
"Alright, it seems we gotta put the stop to one of them..." Kiara commented, trying to stay a safe distance from the ongoing fight.
Little did she notice a little voice pipe up behind Kiara, Solarnyan, and Lunarnyan.
"Hey, you can see what's going on, right?" A rather shy voice piped up, revealing to be a yokai hiding from the destruction as well. From the looks of it, she couldn't have been older than six, dressed very nicely with messy white-ish blue hair and shy orange eyes. Behind her were tiny black bat wings and a tiny tail with a red-violet whisp at the end.
"Yeah of course, I'm still working on my dramatic introduction, but I fight for what's right." Kiara assured, giving a legit smile to the kid.
"Okay good, just don't hurt mister D-Rex okay?" The little girl yokai asked so sweetly and sincerely. "He's my closest friend..."
"You got it! I don't have any powers, but I'll be sure you and your friend are safe, okay?" Kiara said, giving a thumbs up to the little yokai girl. She and her two Nyans busted onto the scene, enough to get the two strong yokai to stop what they were doing.
"Eh?" The shark yokai said, stopping dead in his tracks.
"Who is this?" The T-Rex yokai added in, stopping to look off at the dramatic summoner's entrance.
"I got the thundering dino guts of justice, wisdom, courage, hope, and love! I may not transform, but fighting for justice for day or night, I am Kiara Noha, just some person who can see the spirits and looks cool while doing so!" Kiara introduced herself, doing dramatic poses as Solarnyan and Lunarnyan joined in. "Now, Vamola! Let's go bravely!"
"What a flashy introduction..." The shark themed yokai commented, before picking up the T-Rex and flinging him off to the side. "If it's a fight you want, it's a fight you'll get from none other than the reigning champion of Yokai World Wrestling Entertainment, The Shark!"
With Kiara's battle cry and call to action from The Shark, she and the nyan duo began trying to focus on said shark.
"I don't know who started this fight, but I'm here to fight back!" Solarnyan said, ready to fight.
"Nor do I really care what caused such a spat, all that matters is we're here to stop you from causing more destruction!" Lunarnyan added, taking up her stance as well.
"Alright you two, work together now!" Kiara yelled, giving orders to the two nyans.
Solarnyan was a bit more direct with his attacks, diving in head on to The Shark with his tiny yet furious paws. Whereas Lunarnyan kept more of a distance, occasionally firing a chunk of ice if things got a bit too rough for Solarnyan.
"Listen, I didn't know we were tag teaming here!" The Shark yelled at the two felines, trying to keep up with both of their attacking shenanigans.
"Too bad! This is how we roll, together as one duo!" Solarnyan said back, somehow countering The Shark's huge punches with his swiftness and tiny yet furious punches.
"We were one feline previously, you know. Our sync is something to be feared!" Lunarnyan added, sending another hurl of ice at The Shark.
"I've had enough with you pesky felines!" The Shark yelled in frustration, flinging Solarnyan over to where the T Rex yokai, D-Rex was.
"Solarnyan! D-Rex, I think that was his name!?" Kiara yelled in shock and horror. Lunarnyan tried to keep her shtick going against The Shark.
"It's really tricky to fend this over muscled sea creature at bay! Me and Solarnyan are only truly powerful when we combine our efforts!" Lunarnyan explained, trying to keep things up. "The sun can not live without the moon and vise versa, after all!"
"Nuts...Rats..." Kiara muttered to herself, then suddenly seeing something that caught her eye. It gave her an idea, as if she remembered something from long ago.
"Lunarnyan! Try and keep The Shark distracted, I got an idea that's going to help us!" Kiara yelled, as Lunarnyan nodded.
What had caught Kiara's eye was a peaceful cart selling Hot Dogs. If Kiara could recall correctly, hot dogs were always a huge hit with just about everyone. Plus they were good and the cart was right there. It couldn't hurt, right?
"Hello, how may I help you today?" The person running the Hotdog cart said, looking less than amused to be wearing a hot dog suit, as Kiara fumbled through her pockets.
"Yes hello can I have a Premium Special Hot Dog?" Kiara asked, fumbling in her pockets for some cash.
"One Premium Special Hot Dog? Got it, coming right up." The hot dog man said, working on getting the extra strong hot dog ready. Kiara kept looking back, hoping the destruction between The Shark and Lunarnyan wouldn't get between her and her hot dog.
"Alright your hot dog is ready, that will be eight dollars." The hot dog clerk said, as Kiara slammed a ten dollar bill on the cart and grabbed the Premium Special Hot Dog and ran.
"Keep the change! And thanks!" Kiara thanked, running as fast as she could to where D-Rex and Solarnyan were, still recovering from getting the smack down by none other than The Shark himself.
"Gonna give D-Rex a good Hot Dog!" Kiara hummed to herself, getting closer and closer to D-Rex and Solarnyan.
The fight between the pro wrestling shark and the moon themed cat got fairly intense as Kiara whisked by the two of them facing off. In fact, it got so intense, it caused Kiara to trip up only mere feet away from D-Rex.
"My Hot Dog!" Kiara yelled in horror, as the hot dog unceremoniously flung out of Kiara's hands.
However, by some miracle, the hot dog flung at such an angle that is landed right in D-Rex's mouth. Once the dinosaur got a single second of juicy flavoring of that hot dog, he was right back up on his feet again!
D-Rex let out a mighty roar like any T-Rex should, approaching near Kiara.
"Now that I am back on my feet, I can toss this shark out like it's nothing. But first, I'd like you to have this." D-Rex thanked, handing Kiara something. How he managed to carry it was a complete and total mystery. But, what was given to Kiara was a small yellow and black, dinosaur themed blaster, which Kiara recognized as being the Gaburivolver. However, there was a place on the side just above the handle that had a circular placement.
"That is the Yokai Blaster Type Prehistoric. Remove the core from your belt and you will be able to use it's function well!" D-Rex explained, as Kiara nodded. The dream core clicked right off of the belt clip with a press of a button and a turn, being easily inserted into the blaster. Once the core was in, power began to charge. Assuming it required medals, Kiara inserted Solarnyan's medal, as the blaster's core shined with a red light.
"Brave power, activating Blaster Del Sol!" The programed voice in the blaster announced, as Kiara took a stance.
"It's time to taste the power of the sun!" Kiara yelled triumphantly, firing her blaster. Large, powerful blasts of pure light.
"Hey, it ain't in the rules to bring a gun to a wrestling match!" The Shark commented, trying to avoid Kiara's sharp shooting to suplex her. But before he could do so, D-Rex ran up to the Shark.
"Stamping Destroyer!" D-Rex yelled, going on such a stamping rampage at The Shark it just about sent him flying. Once The Shark was flung, he disappeared with a sparkle into the horizon.
"That was so cool!" Kiara commented, before slowing down and thinking for a moment. "But, how did you know I not only had the Yokai Timeless Dream, but also had a peripheral for it ready to go?"
"It's simple really summoner, or should I say, Kiara..." D-Rex said, it suddenly hitting Kiara.
"Wait are you saying you're my old pal my old wing man Dinoshi?" Kiara gasped, as D-Rex nodded. Kiara instantly gave the big T-rex the biggest hug she could.
"Dude! It's been so long, you have no idea how much I missed you!" Kiara cried, stopping herself before she got too emotional over their reunion. "Could you crash course me on what happened?"
"Well, one day I found an old piece of amber when I was wondering around, I wasn't sure were it came from, but once I touched it, something awakened within me and I was no longer Dinoshi, but D-Rex." D-Rex explained. "Then despite my destructive powers I was chosen to be a hero and well, that occupied a lot of my time. I could never give you my updated medal."
"I see, and woah, being a hero!? Tell me more about it! You know I love my some hero action!" Kiara asked, leaning in with an incredibly excited expression on her face.
"I was chosen to be a member of the hero team Super Seed, and despite it only being seven years ago, I'm still given the title of Rookie hero." D-Rex explained. "It's one of two hero groups, the other being the Anti-Heroes, Tempest Pride. Though something's made them go completely off the radar, which has left a lil friend of mine in a bit of a mess..."
D-Rex approached to were Kiara and her nyan duo originally entered from, as the shy girl yokai peeked out from behind, her wings perking up.
"It's alright to come on out now Sophie, nobody's gonna hurt you." D-Rex said as the tiny girl, Sophie, slowly walked out.
"Oh Sophie, that's your name? You're so adorable. Anyways, I don't think I introduced myself, I'm Kiara Noha." Kiara properly introduced herself. "That is, if you didn't hear my flashy introduction."
"Heh, she's a pretty sweet girl, a good kid overall." D-Rex added, making more a motion to be leaving. "Now we should be getting you home now, yeah?"
Sophie remained quiet for a little bit, slowly stepping away.
"I don't want to go home..." Sohpie muttered, causing D-Rex to have a shocked look. "Everyone's so fed up with each other, it isn't like how it used to be..."
"I know your mom and your dad aren't having the best time with each other, but they would both be worried about you. I was sent to find you, after all..." D-Rex said, Sophie still shaking her head.
"But...I don't want to have to take a side..." Sophie responded, quietly and on the verge of tears. Kiara, having not done much in this situation, got an idea and stepped in.
"I'll look after Sophie, until this entire mess gets sorted out. You can probably peacefully talk it out with her parents, like semi long term babysitting. I'll pitch in by trying to figure out how to sort out such a mess. Kid shouldn't have to listen to constant bickering or be forced to pick a side." Kiara suggested, as Sophie clung to Kiara's leg.
"Can I stay with her?" Sohpie asked. "She did help not only me but you out too..."
"Sure thing, I mean it's been awhile since me and Kiara caught up, nor do I recognize those cats she had with her." D-Rex said, suddenly remembering to hand Kiara his medal. "Before I forget, you should have this."
"Ah! Thanks, I've been wanting this for a while now." Kiara said, holding the medal. "You can crash at my place, but you aren't big enough to fit in my room any more. Luckily it's a garage apartment so you should be able to crash in the garage just fine. I don't exactly have a car..."
"Oh really? That's nice, I've needed somewhere other than under a tree. Hotel rooms and apartments in New Yoma City are just too small." D-Rex responded.
"Yeah, now let's get home now. Just remember to contact kid's parents, I don't want a bunch of strong yokai to think I kidnapped a kid." Kiara commented, as she and her fellow yokai started to make their ways back home for the day, a rather wild day having concluded. Yet somehow, it only felt like the beginning...