Shinobiryu Sentai Dininger the Movie Chapter 5: Big Boss Bonanza, a super sentai fanfic

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Much of the city was in ruins.

Golem Soldiers, Low-ranked Ninja Magerappas, Abioma Troopers, Zorimas, and Hitokarage and Jukkarage rampaged through the streets as their colossal masters gleefully destroyed everything in sight.

And worst of all, this self-proclaimed leader of humanity was refusing to cooperate.

"Sir, please, you have to evacuate immediately-" a Youkalien of the Futakuchu-onna tribe named Kuchi tried to say. Like most of her tribe, she was ravishingly beautiful, her buxom figure clad in high-tech samurai power armor which also resembled a military uniform, complete with several badges and medals over her left breast, green skin, and purple hair with a lock hanging over one eye and a body length ponytail which also served as a second mouth. She wielded a plasma naginata in one hand.

"No! I know what this is! You're just trying to trick us into leaving so you can enslave us again!" Donyoku Nanishibo shouted, red in the face. "We won't be fooled!"

The inhabitants of Tāito rallying behind him cheered him on, and those who didn't nervously did so after being glared at by several rather large, thuggish-looking individuals scattered throughout the crowd.

"What? That's ridiculous!" Kuchi protested. "We're just trying to help you-"

"Which is what you people said when you invaded us and forced us into abject and humiliating slavery!" Nanishibo bellowed, willfully overlooking the fact that his slavery hadn't been even remotely arduous, and his master had more or less left him to his own devices and been irritated by his increasing recalcitrance but never really did anything about it.

That may have been a mistake.

"Yes, but we are actually, legitimately trying to help you now-" Kuchi started.

"Aha! Then you admit you were lying about trying to help us before!" Nanishibo crowed, his blind and/or coerced followers jeering.

"What? No, that's not what I'm saying-" Kuchi protested.

"This is all just another trick, isn't it? To try and deceive us into leaving our homes so that we'll be forced under your Hegemon's thumb again without her having to break the promise she made to our hero – and my close personal friend - Justine!" He declared, dramatically pointing to a crude, makeshift statue of Justine they'd raised in a nearby square. "And, by the way, I find it HIGHLY suspicious that your tyrannical dictator CLAIMS she has no idea where she is!"

"But she doesn't, she just vanished-" Kuchi protested.

"A LIKELY STORY!" Nanishibo bellowed, the crowd roaring in fury behind him.

Kuchi, eye twitching, pointed at the skyline, at the giant monsters making their way towards them. "Sir, your ward is about to be hit by a MASSIVE monster attack! If we don't get you out of here, they will kill you!"

"A likely story!" Nanishibo yelled again.

"What are you talking about, you can see them right there-"

"Illusions! Trickery! Nothing more! And I bet those turncoat Diningers are in on it!" Nanishibo shouted.

"Down with the Diningers!" A ragged cheer rose from the crowd, with only a little prompting.

Kuchi put her face in her hands. "Why are you people like this."

"My lady, what should we do?" An anxious Uchuhage asked.

She gritted her teeth, both the ones in her mouth and the ones in her hair. "If we try to force them to leave, they'll try and fight back and hurt themselves, only giving the Children of Bakano and our other detractors more fuel against us and our beloved Hegemon. We have no choice but to stay and fight. No matter how frustrating these allegedly 'free' slaves are, it is our duty to protect them, even if it costs us all our lives." She sighed. "I'd hoped to wait a bit longer to journey to the Nine Heavens, but it is what it is. I hope my fiancés will understand."

Screaming started when a large pack of goons emerged from around the corner and charged towards them, murder in their eyes. (Those who had eyes, anyway.)

"Stand firm, all of you!" Nanishibo bellowed to his terrified followers. "It's just a trick! We will not run! We will not be fooled!" He declared, very quickly retreating to the back of the mob, surrounded by his bodyguards, the only people who looked like they had actual weapons as well as the knowledge to use them.

"Dammit… HOLD THE LINE! DON'T LET A SINGLE ONE THROUGH!" Kuchi shouted, powering up her weapon.

She and her soldiers quickly formed a defensive line in front of the humans, some of whom were starting to get antsy and wonder if hey, maybe this wasn't a trick at all and maybe they should consider leaving, except Mr. Nanishibo and his goons were behind them with very nasty-looking weapons and nobody particularly wanted to try squeezing past them.

Suddenly, more screams rang out, and Kuchi cursed her luck as even more monsters emerged from another street, these once Druidrones. "Dammit… Is this really it?"

And then, to her surprise, the Druidrones attacked… The other soldiers. "Wait, what?"

"Apologies for the delay."

Startled, Kuchi immediately pointed her halberd at the newcomer, a mysterious red monster. "Who are you?!"

"I am Eras," the entity said, unafraid of the glowing weapon pointed at her chest. "And I'm here to help." She glanced up. "And I'm not the only one."

Kuchi, her soldiers, and the humans looked up as several massive shadows passed over them.

The Youkalien smiled in relief. Reinforcements had arrived.

"Die! Die! Die! Wahahaha!" Kai cackled, trying to crush as many fleeing people as he could beneath his mecha's feet.

Dai-Satan shrieked.

"Shut up, you're not the boss of me!"

Dai-Satan shrieked.

"So what if you revived me that one time? That doesn't mean I owe you anything!"

Dai-Satan shrieked.

"Shut up! You're ugly and nobody likes you!"

Dai-Satan looked rather put out at this.

"It seems that dying hasn't taught you any manners, brat!"

"What? Zyurangers?!" Kai yelled furiously as Ultimate Daizyujin advanced towards them. "You're still alive? I hate you! I hate you I hate you I hate you! Die! SATAN MISSILES!"

His mecha fired a volley of missiles at Ultimate Daizyujin, explosions and sparks flying, but the dinosaur God continued advancing. Dai-Satan opened his mouth and blasted white smoke at the Zyuranger's ultimate robot, actually pushing it back somewhat.

"Hey, no fair, why are you stronger than me? Cut that out!" Kai whined, trying to hit the devil with his arm blades, but Dai-Satan was floating too high in the air for him to reach. "Get down here!"

"Geez, he really doesn't play well with others, does he? Tell me I was never that bad, mom!"

"Of course not, you always played very well with others! Sometimes a little too well."

"What? More of you? No fair!" Kai whined as Tyrajonin charged at him, Akira riding on her head. "And more T-Rexes? I hate T-Rexes! Hate hate hate them!"

"How could you possibly say that? Tyrannosaurs are awesome!" An indignant Akira protested.

"Absolutely, best dinosaur, hands down," Geki agreed from inside Ultimate Daizyujin's cockpit.

"Geki, you're only saying that because you're incredibly biased, what with being Prince of the tribe favored by Guardian Beast Tyrannosaurus at all," an exasperated Dan pointed out.

"We weren't just favored by Tyrannosaurus! Dragon Caesar favored us too," Burai reminded him.

"And why is it that the Yamato Tribe got two Guardian Beasts again?" Goushi complained.

"Because we're awesome," Burai said humbly.

"Look, if Tyrannosaurs weren't objectively the best dinosaur, then how come the leader of every dinosaur Sentai is Tyrannosaurus-themed?" Geki asked smugly.

"Hey, why do we call them by their modern names, anyway? Why do we have the same names for the dinosaurs now that we did millions of years ago? I mean, Latin didn't even exist back then," Boi wondered.

"Neither does Japanese, but we all spoke it," Mei pointed out. "But yeah, that is odd. Why do you suppose it's like that?"

Ultimate Daizyujin roared.

"Oh, your names are so powerful they reverberate throughout the ages so they're the same no matter what the era? I guess that makes sense," Dan said.

"But what about the Japanese?" Mei pressed.

Ultimate Daizyujin roared.

"You don't know either? Come on!"

"Hey, are we forgetting something-" Boi began, only for them all to cry out as Dai-Satan blasted them with lightning vision.

"Die T-Rex! Die die die!" Kai screamed, wildly flailing his arm blades about to try and hit Tyrajonin and Akira, who bounded about with much more agility than you'd expect something her size, Tyrajonin occasionally hitting him with bursts of flame while Akira parried his much larger swords with her own.

"Why do you hate tyrannosaurs so much anyway? What did they ever do you?" Akira asked, blocking an arm blade with her sword, sparks flying, her dinpo blazing to power her up.

"One killed me millions of years ago!" Kai shouted.

"… Oh. I hadn't realized… I'm so sorry-" Akira stammered.

"And all because I smashed her eggs! Stupid dinosaur!" Kai yelled.

Tyrajonin and Akira stiffened.

"You… You smashed…" Tyrajonin snarled, trembling with rage.

"Thank you," Akira said softly.

"For what?!" Kai demanded.

There was a flash of gold, and his arm blade shattered.

"For giving me no reason to hold back or take any pity on you," Akira, her dinpo fully gold, said calmly.

Tyrajonin roared and surged forward, grabbing Dora Talos's wounded arm by the wrist and digging her teeth in hard. "Hey! Leggo you stupid lizard!" Kai shrieked, trying to stab her with his other sword.

Akira leapt off of her mother's head and onto Dora Talos's arm, running up its length, driving her sword into his surface and dragging it behind her, small explosions erupting along its length as she went.

"Hey! Get off! I don't want your cooties!" Kai screeched, trying to crush her with his mecha's free hand.

Akira charged energy into her sword and dodged Kai's slap, driving her blade into the mecha's wrist and slashing through with all her might, severing the appendage. "I'm going to give you a lot worse than that before I'm done with you!" Akira yelled, leaping into the air as Tyrajonin jerked her head to the side, ripping Kai's right arm off at the shoulder.

"No! GET AWAY! DIE DIE DIE!" Kai screamed. "SATAN BEAM!"

Dora Talos's eyes lit up and fired an incredibly powerful twin beam at Akira. In response, Akira charged more energy into her sword, turning it into a blade of shining golden dinpo. "Tyrant… CUTTER!"

She brought her sword down, cleaving the beams in twain, and burying the blade right between the mecha's eyes, causing Kai to shriek and flinch back as the sword pierced his cockpit, only inches away from skewering him. Kai screamed and wailed in terror.

"Playtime is over-" Akira started, only to cry out when she was blasted away by a bolt of lightning, flinging her off of Dora Talos and smashing her into a nearby building.

"Akira!" Tyrajonin cried in horror.

Dai-Satan shrieked as he descended, electricity crackling around his eyes as he prepared to finish Akira off…

When suddenly a meteor shot down from the sky and slammed into the side of his head, sending him spinning wildly out of control, some of his spiky hair broken. More meteorites rained down, bombarding both him and Kai, who cried out.

"A meteor shower? Who is behind this?!" Burai demanded.

"Wait… I recognize those meteorites," Tyrajonin gasped. "Asteroibotchi?!"

"That's right!" The asteroid-themed Youkalien warrior shouted triumphantly from atop a nearby building. "Kind of funny, isn't it? Dinosaurs were supposed to have been wiped out by a meteor, and here I am using them to help you!"

"You really expect us to believe that Youkaliens would help us?" Geki asked skeptically. "How gullible do you think we are?"

"Of course I would! That's why we came to this planet in the first place, to help humanity!" Asteroibotchi insisted. "Akira can vouch for me, she knows I'm on the level, right Akira?"

Akira, who had managed to remove herself from the building, stared at him, ignoring her mother's anxious nuzzles.

"… Akira?" Asteroibotchi asked, confused and uneasy.

"… He is not our enemy," Akira said finally. "For now."

Asteroibotchi gave her a confused and hurt look at this.

"EVERYONE DIES! SATAN BEAM!"

Dai-Satan shrieked.

A powerful twin laser and lightning blast shot towards the heroic dinosaurs.

"Not so fast! GRAND BANISHER!" The Zyurangers shouted, firing a massive barrage of firepower from Ultimate Daizyujin.

Tyrajonin roared and opened her mouth, exhaling a superhot stream of fire.

The four beams clashed against each other, pushing back and forth against one another without any clear victor.

"A tie? We can't have that! Akira, want to help me break this?" Asteroibotchi asked hopefully.

"… Sure."

"Great! Here we go! Meteor Bomb!" Asteroibotchi raised his arms over his head, generating a massive meteorite crackling with energy. With a grunt, he hurled it high into the air. Akira crouched down then launched herself skywards, raising her sword over her head as she charged it with power.

"Once again… Tyrant Cutter!"

She brought Tyrant's Fang down in a single chop, cutting the meteorite in half and causing it to explode into a swarm of smaller, but no less powerful meteorites which rained down on Kai and Dai-Satan, the projectiles glomming onto their bodies, flashing a few times, and exploding spectacularly.

As they cried in agony, their power failed, allowing the Grand Banisher and superheated fire breath to engulf them, causing them to vanish in a massive explosion.

Akira, Tyrajonin, and Ultimate Daizyujin all roared triumphantly. Asteroibotchi, not wanting to feel left out, yelled very loudly as well.

The Evil Will bellowed as he rampaged about in Tau Zant's ultimate body, raining down lightning and fire. "My dreams of remaking the universe in my image may be ruined forever… But I can still destroy this planet and all who call it home!"

"HU…RRI…CAAAANE!"

"What-"

And that's when he got a very large ball to the face. "Ow! What the-"

A power ballad echoed throughout the city, several buildings lowering into the ground to let an absolutely colossal mecha, a giant mechanical mammoth with multiple smaller machines attached to it, roll through. Revolver Tenrai Senpuujin had arrived!

"Evil Will! We never got the chance to use this against you last time… Which means it will be just that much more satisfactory to finish you with this, our ultimate combination!" Yousuke declared.

"Fools… You think that machine will be enough to defeat me?" The Evil Will scoffed.

"On its own? Maybe not, but we're here too!"

Tricerajonin burst out of the ground, horns spinning, and drove its drills into the Evil Will's chest, causing him to howl in pain. Kenji leapt off of his mentor's head, reared back his arm, then thrust a drill punch into one of the Evil Will's eyes. "I think you have something in your eye!" He quipped.

"You… Wretch! How dare you?!" The Evil Will demanded, furiously swatting him away. He then grabbed Tricerajonin by the horns, gritting his teeth as the drills ground against his hands, and flung him away, smashing him into a building.

"MAMMOTH BEAM ATTACK!"

The Evil Will grunted as Revolver Tenrai Senpuujin fired blue energy beams from the cannons on its front legs. He raised his arms to protect himself, and the colossal mecha proceeded to send another volley of Mechanical Balls rolling down the street towards him. Snarling, the Evil Will took a step back to get better footing…

Only for the ground to suddenly cave-in beneath his foot courtesy of Tricerajonin digging a tunnel beneath him, causing him to sink into a pothole up to his ankle. Startled, he struggled to regain his balance, only to inadvertently step on one of the many balls, slip, and fall flat on his face, the other balls slamming into him repeatedly.

"FORWARD!" The Hurricanegers, Gouraigers, and Shurikenger shouted, and the mecha trumpeted like an elephant – or mammoth – before speeding forwards, launching off of a conveniently placed piece of broken building like a ramp and landing on top of the Evil Will, the villain howling in pain as he was crushed beneath its weight and its tires revved on his back.

"How… You were not nearly this strong the last time!" The Evil Will cried out.

"It's been 20 years," Ikkou scoffed. "Did you really think we would allow our skills to atrophy?"

"When our three schools stand together, nothing can stop us!" Nanami bragged.

"It's over, father, just like the last time you were beaten!" Tenkai declared.

"Father… Then you are… The Sacred Will?!" The Evil Will exclaimed in disbelief.

"My name is Tenkai," Shurikenger declared. "And I have turned your legacy of evil into one of JUSTICE!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOT JUSTICE!" the Evil Will wailed.

"Time to go two for two," Kenji said, revving his drill horns. "Triple Drill Break!"

Surrounded in blue dinpo, he spun down the street towards the pinned Evil Will, a Triceratops energy construct forming around him.

"No… You… DON'T!" The Evil Will grunted, managing to pull an arm free and point it at the much smaller human, charging an energy blast.

However, before it could fire, a very small armored figure with a very big sword shot down from the sky and drove the blade into the back of his hand, pinning his palm to the ground. "GO!" Jani shouted, twisting her sword and eliciting a howl of pain from the Evil Will.

That howl got a lot louder when a high-speed Kenji drilled into his eye, causing it to burst.

Kenji kept on going, burrowing through flesh and organs and some sort of stuff he thought was made from concentrated evil before erupting from the Evil Will's foot (and not, thankfully, somewhere else).

The Evil Will screamed long and loud…

And abruptly fell silent, his form collapsing.

The numerous auxiliary Shinobi Machines on Revolver Tenrai Senpuujin's body cheered triumphantly.

"Nice job, Kenji!" Tricerajonin congratulated his student, emerging from the ground. "And thanks to you as well, Jani! What are you doing here?"

"Why wouldn't I be here? This district is under our protection," Jani pointed out. "Her Divinity ordered us to help repel these monsters. Whatever you may think of us, we really do just want to help, even if our definitions of that may vary."

"… Well… Thanks," Kenji said, giving her a nod. "I know things are a bit… Iffy between us right now, but… I appreciate the assist."

"We may be adversaries, but I don't really believe that means we have to be enemies," Jani said seriously. "We've been friendly enough in the past, can't we go back to that?"

Kenji frowned. "Unfortunately, I don't think it's as simple as that."

Dezmogvalace cackled malevolently, spewing gray-black smoke from his head which spread out to envelop the area in darkness. "Say goodbye to your sun for the last time, humans… Once I am finished, your planet will suffer from another 200 Days of Darkness, and all life shall finally be extinguished-"

There was a great shriek, and a tornado of yellow wind raced across the sky, blowing the darkness away. "What?!"

There was another shriek, and something descended from the sun, its winged form obscured by the light. An arrow of light streaked down from the heavens and pierced the Divine Maliform's eye, causing it to bellow in fury. "My eye! Who dares-"

"FLYING DRILL SPIN!"

Taking advantage of Dezmogvalace's blindness, Grand AbarenOh drove its left arm drill into the titanic being's chest, sparks flying as it ground against his body.

"Are we hurting him? I can't tell!" Ranru asked in frustration from the mecha's cockpit.

"The last time we tried a drill attack on him, it didn't even scratch," Yukito reminded her.

"Yes, but this time you have something you didn't before: me," Mikoto bragged. "And that alone will make the difference! Come on, TopGaler!"

"Tyrannosaurus!" Ryoga added.

"Triceratops!" Shouted Yukito.

"Pteranodon!" Ranru cried.

"Oh, and Stegoslidon, too!" Ryoga remembered at the last minute.

"Glad to see I'm not being taken for granted," Stegoslidon grunted.

"Ryoga! You can count on us!" Tyrannosaurus bellowed.

"Let's give everything we got!" Pteranodon shrieked.

"Hmmph, so long as you remember that Mikoto and I are doing all the heavy lifting!" TopGaler snorted.

Dynasaurs and Abarangers cried out, powering the combined mecha up with the strength of their Dino Guts, causing the drill to glow brightly and start spinning faster.

Dezmogvalace grunted, then laughed as he reached out and grabbed the drill with one hand, not seeming to notice as it ground against his palm. "Pointless! The last time you defeated this form, I was nothing more than lingering impulses! But now I have my full faculties about me… And you will not find me so easily defeated!"

"He thinks last time was easy?!" Ranru asked in disbelief.

"Then perhaps I can help even the odds! Ground Inferno!" Asuka cried as he drove his Dino Thruster into the ground, causing the earth beneath Dezmogvalace's feet to tremble, crack, and shift. "And then… Flame Inferno!"

The fractured ground collapsed, lava bursting out to engulf Dezmogvalace up to his ankles, the Divine Maliform crying out in pain and surprise, loosening his grip on the drill.

"Thanks, Asuka! We'll take it from here!" Ryoga said as the mecha grabbed one of the Ramphogold axes in its free hand and prepared to bury it in Dezmogvalace's face…

Only for it to be blasted out of its grip by green lightning from the eldritch horror's eye. "I think not!"

His chest lit up, unleashing a massive gigantic red laser beam which blasted Grand AbarenOh away, smashing it through several buildings and nearly causing the mecha to come apart.

Asuka gasped. "No!"

"You only barely defeated me the last time, if I recall correctly," Dezmogvalace said, channeling green lightning in front of his face. "And even then, I came very close to killing you. Let's see if I can do the job properly this time, yes?"

He prepared to unleash the lightning blast…

When another arrow shot down from the sky and pierced the mass of energy, causing it to explode in Dezmogvalace's face. He shouted in pain, staggering backwards and nearly toppling over. "What?!"

A winged shadow swooped over him as Pterajonin descended, flapping above Grand AbarenOh, buildings trembling and glass shattering from her wing beats. "I'm afraid that they are not the only dinosaurs you will be fighting this day, Dezmogvalace," Pterajonin squawked.

"We of the Shinobiryu tribe know how to rampage as well!" Sora declared, another arrow ready in his bow.

"Oh my! She's pretty!" Triceratops gushed.

"Ha, guess I'm not the only sexy yellow pterodactyl around here anymore!" Pteranodon laughed.

"My wings are still stronger," TopGaler grumbled.

Pterajonin blinked. "You think I'm sexy?"

"Sensei! You're not Akira!" Sora chided his mentor and mother figure.

"It's been a long time, okay! Not since Petra's father! A Shinobiryu has NEEDS!" Pterajonin said defensively.

"This is not a conversation I ever thought I'd be having with you," Sora groaned as the Abarangers exchanged confused looks. "Although, I do have an idea now… TopGaler, you claimed your wings are stronger? Care to put that to the test?"

"With pleasure!" The biomechanical Tupuxuara cackled, Grand AbarenOh's wings beginning to flap, generating very strong gusts of wind.

"So, are you just going to let this happen, or…?" Yukito asked Mikoto.

Mikoto nodded. "Yes, I want to see where this game is going."

Dezmogvalace scoffed as he was buffeted by the wind. "A little breeze? Do you really think that will stop me?"

"A 'breeze' weaker than that was enough to wipe an entire city off the face of Dino Earth!" TopGaler bragged.

"Is that something you should be bragging about?" Stegoslidon wondered.

"Sensei, your turn!" Sora said.

"Very well." Pterajonin said flapping her wings as well, blasting Dezmogvalace with waves of yellow wind, sparks beginning to fly from his body.

Still the alien horror laughed. "All you're doing is cooling me off! If you want to do that, you should've brought BakurenOh!"

"We would, except they're DEAD!" Ryoga declared. "Also, they would never work with us anyway because they're evil."

"Ryoga, he knows that, he was just taunting us," Ranru informed him.

"Oh, right."

"Two gales may not be enough… So how about three? Storm Inferno!" Asuka cried, driving his Dino Thruster into the ground and generating a massive tornado, the other two windstorms combining with it to blast Dezmogvalace with hurricane-force wind.

"Hey, why do you call those infernos, anyway? Doesn't that really only apply to the fire one?" Ranru asked Asuka.

"I… Don't actually know," he admitted.

Dezmogvalace grunted in surprise as the much stronger winds buffeted him now. He was forced to take one step back, then another. Realizing he was losing ground, he quickly drove his spear into the ground to keep from getting pushed back further, and slowly, step-by-step, began fighting against the wind and moving towards them once more. "A splendid effort. I seem to have underestimated you," he admitted, gathering power for another super lightning attack. "I won't do it again."

"Dammit… Even with all of us, it's not enough?" A frustrated Yukito growled.

"You know, in hindsight, I'm starting to wonder if I should've gone with the Hurricanegers instead, this would work a lot better with them," Sora admitted. "And Kenji would've done better with you guys anyway since he and Tricerajonin also have a drill thing."

"Oh, now you tell us!" Shouted an exasperated Tyrannosaurus.

"Wait, why would it have worked better with the Hurricanegers?" Asked a confused Ryoga.

"Because they have a wind/storm theme," Yukito replied.

"What? I thought they were ninjas," Ryoga protested.

"Yes, wind/storm-themed ninjas," Yukito informed him.

"It's in the name, you idiot," Mikoto sneered.

"Oh. Huh. Somehow I failed to notice that," Ryoga admitted.

"Seriously? We teamed up with them!" Said an exasperated Ranru.

"Yeah, one time, over 20 years ago!" Ryoga pointed out. "Against an extremely forgettable villain!"

"Fair," she conceded.

"Sensei, can't we give it anymore?" Sora asked.

"I'm doing all I can," she grunted.

"As much as I hate to admit it, so am I," TopGaler reluctantly admitted.

Sora sighed in frustration. "Dammit! If we had just a little more…"

"Then maybe I can help?"

And suddenly, a fourth gust of wind joined the others, the windstorm bombarding Dezmogvalace growing even stronger.

"Tengun?!" Sora asked in amazement as the tengu Youkalien hovered beside him, flapping her wings and fans and generating a new source of wind. "You're here to help… Did Kyukogo send you?"

"Yeah! But I would've helped anyway, unless she expressly forbade it of course," Tengun explained. "I know that you and I will probably never come together… But that doesn't mean I can't think of you as a friend, and friends help each other, right!" She hesitated. "That is… We are friends, right?"

"The situation between our sides has gotten more complicated lately… But you saved my life once, and I'll never forget that. I'm your friend if you're mine!" He assured her, to her relief.

"No… This wind… I will not… I will not be bested by WIND!" Dezmogvalace roared, clutching tightly to his spear to keep from being flung back by the storm, but despite his best efforts, his grip seemed to be slipping.

Sora and Tengun both noticed instantly. "Think we can dislodge him?" Sora asked, drawing his bow.

Tengun laughed as she cocked her gun. "No contest!"

They both fired the same time, an arrow and energy bullet streaking forth from their weapons, spinning around each other as they got carried in the wind before striking one of Dezmogvalace's fingers at the same time. He yelped, reflexively moving it…

And completely losing his hold on the spear, wailing as the wind blew him off his feet and slammed him into a building.

"NOW!" Sora and Tengun shouted.

"Brachiosaurus, you know what to do!" Asuka cried to his partner as he leapt into the cockpit of Grand AbarenOh to join his companions.

Brachiosaurus, who, as always, had been standing on the sidelines contributing absolutely nothing to the battle, declared, "Any challenge we slash and bite our ways through! With that said, let the games begin!" As he bent over, resting his head on the ground while lifting his tail into the air.

"DYNASAUR DEATHBLOW! FULL THROTTLE GRAND RAMPAGE!"

Grand AbarenOh slid down Brachiosaurus's tail and was launched back into the air with a flick of his head, drawing its Ramphogold axes and slashing at Dezmogvalace repeatedly, hurled its weapons into his chest, then threw the dorsal spine on its helmet into the Divine Maliform's eye.

Dezmogvalace bellowed in agony. "Damn you… DAMN YOU, ABARANGERS!"

And with that, he was engulfed in a tremendous explosion as Grand AbarenOh dramatically posed with its back to him.

"… We were here too. Rude," Tengun complained.

"So, you've come, Kyoryugers," Deboss said calmly, now in his giant form as the immense Gigant Kyoryuzin approached him. "I knew it would only be a matter of time. And this time, your entire team chooses to face me, instead of a single man. Do you think so little of your odds this time around?"

"We are not afraid of you," Utsusemimaru said.

"And hey, maybe we're all just a bit annoyed that King got to have you all to himself the last time while all the rest of us could do was sing," Nobuharu joked, though it didn't sound entirely like a joke.

"I said I was sorry," Daigo muttered.

"Deboss, this time we shall defeat you so thoroughly you will never be revived again!" Dantetsu declared.

"Until the next time there's a mega crossover and someone brings him back to pad their numbers," Ian pointed out.

"… Yes. That," Dantetsua grumbled.

"So, even you admit that any victory you have over me is ultimately fleeting?" Deboss asked in amusement.

"It doesn't matter how many times you come back, we or someone like us will always be there to put you back in the ground," Ian said.

"Maybe so… Or perhaps it's your turn to be put in the ground," Deboss said cruelly. "TRANSCENDENTERFLY HAMMER!"

He charged energy into his butterfly wings which formed a violet butterfly before him, which he struck with his staff, sending it fluttering at Gigant Kyoryuzin.

"Not this time! GIGANT SHOT!" Ian cried, the mecha firing numerous supercharged shots from Parasagun on its left shoulder, causing the butterfly to spectacularly explode before it could reach them.

Without warning, a tremendously powerful blast of green energy shot through the conflagration and struck Gigant Kyoryuzin, the Kyoryugers crying out as the mecha was forced back, sparks flying and small explosions bursting across his body. Deboss charged forwards, his staff crackling with energy, and swung it at the mecha. Gigant Kyoryuzin quickly blocked it with its Bragio Zakutor Ax, sparks flying as the weapons clashed against each other, and thrust its left arm drill into his chest, the space God grunting as it ground into his chest.

"This… Is as nothing!" He grunted, pressing his free hand against the mecha's chest and gathering power.

"But is this? SUPER ZYUDEN GIGANT FULL BREASTER!" The Kyoryugers shouted as Gigant Kyoryuzin's chest lit up and fired a massive seven-pronged beam of Brave energy from all 23 Zyudenryu and Guardians powering the mecha, hitting Deboss at point-blank range, causing both of them to be engulfed in a tremendous explosion.

Both of them were flung back from the blast, wreathed in flames, hitting the ground hard enough to shake the city. Unfortunately, Deboss got to his feet first, charged his staff, and kept it trained on Gigant Kyoryuzin, firing another very powerful green laser at the mecha, pinning it to the ground and causing more explosions to rock its form as the 10 Braves in its cockpit were flung about, screaming. "Have you forgotten? The first time I was defeated, 13 of your precious Zyudenryu died, one was rendered comatose, and the dinosaurs went extinct. The second time, I was only beaten because I was weakened by the Planetary Melody. All subsequent times I came back I have not been revived at full strength. But this time? This time, you shall see why I effortlessly destroyed so many planets before being stymied by yours! My creator shall be avenged!"

"Your loyalty is admirable, and the fact that your creator cared enough about you to come to Earth to avenge you and finish the job you started speaks volumes about his care for his creations. Even so, you no longer have a place in this world… And so I shall be gratified to see you rejoin him!"

"What-" Deboss started just before Ankylojonin swung his tail into the back of his ankle, breaking it.

Deboss cried out in pain and fell to one knee, his beam going wild, cutting a swath through the city but no longer inflicting continuous damage to Gigant Kyoryuzin.

"You guys all right?" Juro asked from atop her mentor's head.

"We've had worse," Souji assured her.

"We have?" Wondered an incredulous Shinya.

"Thanks for the save!" Yuko cheered, please to see another ankylosaurus girl, even if she was the wrong color.

"Yeah, you broke his ankleosaurus just in time!" Nobuharu guffawed, causing everyone to groan.

"Shinobiryu… I remember your ancestors… When so many of your kind banded together to stop me or the other beings who came to destroy your world, you ran and hid. I suppose you aren't the cowards they were?" Deboss sneered as he rose to his feet, already mending the damage to his ankle.

"Call them cowards if you will, but the ancestors saw the signs and knew that even should good prevail, the surface would no longer be hospitable to our kind. So yes, we ran. We hid. And we survived. And now, millions of years later, we have the chance to do what our ancestors could not and fight the beings responsible for the end of our era," Ankylojonin said bravely.

"If you really wanted to do that, then you would have helped the Kyoryugers back in 2014," Deboss said dismissively, raising his staff. "Your ancestors were smart to hide from me. Clearly you did not inherit their wisdom."

"GIGANT SLASHER!"

Gigant Kyoryuzin charged at him, green energy crackling around its ax. Without looking, Deboss lifted a hand and caught the axe in his palm. "Pointless!"

He brought his staff down…

And Jiro caught it on her shield, a green ankylosaurus shell energy construct forming over it. To Deboss's astonishment, while Jiro's legs buckled, she did not bend, cords standing out on her muscular body as she managed to hold him back…one-handed.

"How…how are you doing this?!" he cried in disbelief.

Ankylojonin chuckled. "We didn't just cower in our hiding places deep beneath the Earth, Deboss. We trained and honed our skills. Which is why we ankylosauruses…"

"Are UNBREAKABLE!" Jiro shouted, her construct shield exploding in a tremendous green blast which shattered Deboss's staff.

"Why don't I ever get to be as cool as that?" Yuko complained.

"What are you talking about, you've got that Inspiriting Hammer attack!" Nobuharu quipped, much to everyone's frustration.

"It doesn't work on giant monsters!" She complained.

"Have you ever tried?" Utsusemimaru asked.

Yuko paused. "Well, no… But in my defense, I'm on the reserve team, so it's not like you guys let me fight that much in the first place!"

"You never asked, we would be more than happy to let you or the others fight with us more often," Amy told her.

"Oh," Yuko said, pleasantly surprised. "Okay then."

Stunned by the destruction of his staff, Deboss lost his grip on the ax, which cleaved through his hand and cut deeply into his chest, causing him to cry out and stumble back…

"DOSUKOI!"

Sangan struck the same ankle Ankylojonin had hit earlier with a powerful palm thrust, shattering it again and causing Deboss to lose his balance and topple over backwards, landing right on top of Ankylojonin's very thick, very spiny back.

It hurt both of them, one significantly more than the other.

"Sangan! What are you doing here?" The surprised Jiro exclaimed.

"Doing my part to help! After all, we can't conquer this planet if someone else destroys it first!" He quipped. When she glared at him, he hurriedly said, "Seriously though, the Hegemon ordered us to help. And even if she hadn't, I probably would have anyway. I know you may not want us to conquer this planet, but please believe that none of us wants to see anyone get hurt either!"

"… That much I can't believe," Jiro admitted, relaxing. "Thank you for your help."

"Alright everyone, let's finish this with the Gigant Cannon!" Yayoi suggested as the groaning Deboss staggered to his feet.

"Right! Assume Gigant Formation!" Daigo commanded.

The back of the mecha detached and propped itself in front of Gigant Kyoryuzin, flanked by the other Zyudenryu. Gigant Kyoryuzin grabbed the hidden handles on the sides and it flipped open.

"YOU'LL BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU HEAR! GIGANT GATHERINCHO AND GABURINCHO!"

"SUPER ZYUDEN ALL GIGANT EXPLOSION!" The 10 Braves shouted.

"No… I will not lose again!" Deboss snarled, gathering his power. "Dinosaurs, humans, all of you shall go extinct!"

He spread his arms, opened his mouth, and to everyone's astonishment, began to sing. Waves of darkness blasted out from him, causing everyone to scream and clutch their ears, dark power surging forth and clashing against the tremendous energy blast fired from the Gigant Cannon.

"It's… The dark melody!" Utsusemimaru gasped.

"It sounds an awful lot like that song Candelira is always singing?" A confused Souji observed.

"It sounds much better when she does it," Nobuharu said quickly.

"Everyone, our only hope is to call upon the Planetary Melody," Dantetsu informed them.

"So, to save the world, we need to basically sing our theme song again," an annoyed Ian pointed out.

"Well, at least Daigo is here this time," Amy observed. "Instead of ditching all of us to run off and try to kill Deboss himself."

"I said I was sorry!"

"Forget it! Let's just sing!" Shinya said in exasperation.

And sing they did, and it did indeed sound like their theme song.

Jiro, Sangan, and a Ankylojonin looked on in wonder as the ground beneath Gigant Kyoryuzin and the Zyudenryu began glowing gold, the mecha beginning to glow as well, energy surging around the Gigant Cannon and vastly increasing the output of the blast it was putting out.

The singing was pretty good too.

Unfortunately, while the strengthened energy beam pushed even harder against Deboss, it still wasn't quite enough to drown out his evil song, the darkness only continuing to surge and grow, gradually pushing back against the Kyoryugers.

"It's not enough… Can we do something?" Jiro asked her sensei.

Ankylojonin shook his head. "The dark melody is anathema to terrestrial life. If we try to get close to him while he's singing, we'll die before we are in attack range."

"Then perhaps what they need is help from a professional singer?"

They looked up in surprise as TobaSpino approached, someone who looked an awful lot like Deathryuger on its head. Except it wasn't Deathryuger at all, but-

"MEEKO!" Daigo cried in delight.

"Daigo, don't stop singing!" Ian snapped.

"You stopped singing too," Daigo protested.

"It doesn't matter who stopped first, both of you keep singing! And yes, I'm aware that includes me as well!" Dantetsu snapped.

"Let's see if my own song can help!" Mikoto (no relation to the other Mikoto) cried, beginning to sing that ancient melody, Dino Soul.

And…

Wow.

Oh, wow.

The Kyoryugers were pretty good singers, yes, but they weren't professionals like Mikoto was, and the difference was as stark as night and day. As her magical song echoed through the air, the light of the land grew even brighter and stronger, more colors adding to the energy being fired by the Gigant Cannon as its output increased exponentially, slamming hard into Deboss's dark melody…

But it still wasn't enough. As was mentioned previously, the Kyoryugers weren't professionals, and they lacked neither the stamina nor the range Mikoto had. Their voices were starting to get hoarse, their volume diminishing. If something didn't change, and soon, they might still be overwhelmed.

"Is there really nothing we can do?" A frustrated Jiro demanded.

"What if we sing as well?" Sangan suggested. "Well, you would have to sing, I've been expressly forbidden by the Hegemon to never sing again since the last time I performed at the princess's birthday party."

Jiro cringed. "How badly?"

"I made them cry," Sangan said miserably. "Her Divinity nearly executed me. She would've been in her right to."

Jiro sighed. "Unfortunately, I'm tone deaf. Sensei?"

Ankylojonin looked uncomfortable.

"Sensei?"

Ankylojonin sighed. "It looks like I have no other choice… This is a part of my past I thought well behind me once I ascended to my current rank as leader of the Ankylosaurus tribe. But… Desperate times."

He opened his mouth, took a deep breath…

And Jiro experienced rapture.

A pure, golden note echoed through the air, followed by another, and another.

The most beautiful voice she'd ever heard filled her ears, gold and green dinpo swirling around her, the ground beneath their feet turning into a shining field of light. After a moment of shocked silence, the Kyoryugers and Mikoto started singing again in earnest, their voices blending together with Ankylojonin's own, the beam from the Gigant Cannon turning into a shaft of pure, immaculate light which shattered Deboss's dark aura and enveloped the destroyer of worlds completely.

A single tear ran down his cheek, a joyous expression on his face as he was swallowed up by the light.

Jiro stared at Ankylojonin in disbelief as the last note faded from his throat. Sangan, sobbing profusely, burst into applause. "Sensei… Why didn't you tell me you could sing like that?!"

"There's a lot you don't know about me, Jiro," Ankylojonin said shyly.

"Cease prancing about!" Gengetsu Kibaoni snarled, viciously swinging his naginata through the air as he tried to strike Raptorjonin and Mozu, who were indeed using their incredible speed and agility to dash all over the place, leaving pink afterimages in their wake as they slashed at him with their blades, leaving dozens of small, but deep cuts all over his body.

"Sorry, but prancing about is how Raptor tribe fights!" Mozu boasted, swinging through the air using her kusarigama, flying beneath one of Gengetsu's swings and striking him in the armpit several times before landing on her sensei's head.

"Harlots! Do you really think your attacks can penetrate my armor?" Gengetsu roared, raising his naginata and summoning bolts of dark lightning from the air which struck the ground all around him, Raptorjonin nimbly dodging every blast. "They are naught but scratches! I barely even felt a thing!"

"I see then that you have never heard of the death of a thousand cuts," Raptorjonin commented as she zigzagged through the lightning field. "A single cut may not do much damage, true…"

"But when one becomes more…" Mozu continued.

They slid beneath his legs, lashing out with their blades at the armor on one of his shins. At first, it didn't seem to do anything…

And then the armor, having already been damaged repeatedly from similar attacks, shattered. "What?!"

"Then over time, it adds up in a big way!" Sensei and student cried triumphantly.

"Congratulations. You've broken one piece of armor," Gengetsu grunted in irritation. "You still have dozens more to go, and I'm not sure either of you are quite as durable. Way of the Supreme Fang – Asura!"

He swept his naginata through the air, dozens of phantom hands materializing and launching themselves at Raptorjonin. The Shinobiryu master quickly started running, using her speed to dodge and evade the phantasmal punches, the fists smashing into buildings, the ground, or deflected by swings of Mozu's kusarigama.

"Sensei, he has a point," Mozu admitted reluctantly. "I'm not sure we can beat him on our own."

"True, but we can buy time until someone else can assist us," Raptorjonin replied. "Although… Where on Earth are the Niningers? They should have been here already!"

As if on cue, Gekiatsu Dai-Oh dropped down from the sky, making a dramatic pose. "We have arrived!" The Niningers declared.

"We would've been here sooner, but Takaharu got us lost," an irritated Yakumo said.

"I did not!" Takaharu insisted, absolutely wrong.

"Where's Gengetsu?" Nagi asked.

"Behind you," Raptorjonin and Mozu said.

There was an awkward pause, and Gekiatsu Dai-Oh turned around to face the Youkai warlord.

"Oh, there he is," an embarrassed Fuuka realized.

Gengetsu grinned. "Niningers… It has been far too long! Now, at last, I shall have my revenge!"

"I don't know how you came back-" Takaharu started.

"What are you talking about? We absolutely know how he came back, he was revived by the same dark magic as the other villains rampaging about," Kasumi pointed out.

"But we'll defeat you again, just like we did last time, our mortal enemy… Masakage Tsugomori!"

There was a pause. Everyone stared at Takaharu in disbelief.

"What," Gengetsu said.

"Takaharu, that's not Masakage, but Gengetsu, our greatest enemy," Kenji said slowly.

Takaharu nodded. "Right! Juza Yumihari!"

"That's… That's not… What?" Kenji sputtered.

"Takaharu, Juza Yumihari came back a few weeks ago, you helped kill him," an exasperated Yakumo said.

"Don't be silly, Yakumo, I think I'd remember if I killed Mangetsu recently!" Takaharu laughed.

Gengetsu stared. "Was… Was he always this stupid?"

"He's… Been getting a lot worse lately…" An uncomfortable Fuuka said.

"What are you talking about, I'm just fine!" Takaharu insisted. "Now come on, let's take out Ariake no Kata quickly, just like last time!"

"GEKIATSU DAI FEVER!"

The barrels on Gekiatsu Dai-Oh's chest began to spin, firing the Niningers like colorful bullets, the six ninjas crying out as they drew back their swords to strike…

And Gengetsu twirled his naginata in front of him, deflecting the ninjas and sending them flying all over the place. With nobody piloting it, Gekiatsu Dai-Oh powered down.

After a moment, a rather disappointed Gengetsu asked, "Was that it?"

Mozu facepalmed. "I hate them. So much."

"I thought you and Fuuka got along very well," Raptorjonin pointed out.

"I can like individuals while still hating the group," Mozu pointed out.

"Well hopefully, we won't be as much of a disappointment!"

"What? Who are you?!" a confused Gengetsu demanded as King Dino Knight Rex descended, landing next to Raptorjonin.

"We are the Kishiryu Sentai Ryusoulgers!" Koh declared. "Witness our chivalry!"

"Another Sentai? Why are you fighting me? Shouldn't you be fighting with your own reborn nemesis?" Gengetsu asked, still confused.

"We would, but she's reformed now," Melt said.

Gengetsu blinked. "Wait, that's an option?"

"It is. Why, do you want to try it?" Asuna asked.

"Well… Maybe…" Gengetsu trailed off.

"Wait, is he actually-" Oto wondered.

"Wait for it," her brother Canalo warned her.

"NOT!" Gengetsu shouted, powering up his naginata. "Way of the Supreme Fang – Hundred Demons Illusion!"

A pair of massive jaws appeared in front of him which burst into hundreds of dark fangs which flew towards the mecha…

Only to be frozen solid. "What?!"

"Was… Was that us?" A confused Towa wondered.

"I didn't do anything," Banba told him.

It started snowing. Mozu looked up in wonder as a snowflake landed in her palm and a cool wind breezed across her cheek. "This snow… I KNOW this snow! It's-"

"What is happening?!" Gengetsu declared angrily as the ground around him started freezing, ice creeping up his feet. He tried smashing it with his naginata, but the ice kept reforming, his weapon beginning to freeze as well.

Two beautiful women calmly glided down the street towards Gengetsu, hand-in-hand, looking almost as if they were skating on the ice which seems to spread out from them in every direction. "We're just helping you cool out," Yukinojo giggled.

"You do seem as if you need to chill," Setpen agreed.

"Hi, Mozu!" The Kisei sisters called to their girlfriend, winking and blowing her an icy kiss which froze against her cheek, causing her to swoon and almost pass out on her teacher's head from the gay.

"Those puns are terrible," Raptorjonin said bluntly.

"Who are you two?" Melt asked suspiciously. "Aren't you Youkaliens? Why are you helping us?"

"Her Divinity commanded it, of course!" Yukinojo said.

"But of course, we just had to come see our favorite concubine," Setpen added. "We haven't been able to spend nearly as much time together lately as we would like."

Mozu babbled incoherently on top of Raptorjonin's head, causing the Shinobiryu to sigh.

"I do not know who you Yuki-onna whores think you are, but I will not be-" Gengetsu began to bellow, only for Setpen to snap her fingers, instantly flash freezing him.

"You will not speak to my sister that way," she said coolly.

"She's so cool," Mozu gushed, causing Raptorjonin to groan.

"So… Do we… Do we do something now, or…?" A confused Koh asked.

"We could… Finish him I guess?" Asuna suggested doubtfully.

"Hey! Is it okay if we finish him, or do you guys want this?" Towa called down. "We wouldn't want to be kill-stealers!"

Raptorjonin glanced down at Mozu, who had rushed down to meet the sisters and was being petted and cooed over and melting into a deliriously happily lesbian puddle while making gay raptor noises. "You might as well," she grunted, feeling a stab of envy.

It had been centuries. Why wasn't she over this?

She still missed Tyrajonin.

"Okay, thanks!" Koh said.

Beams of water, ice, and fire streaked from the heads of Mosa Rex, Pterardon, and Tyramigo, blasting Gengetsu into space. Moving at faster than light speeds, the mecha caught up to the frozen warlord.

"KING DINO KNIGHT REX BIG BANG EVOLUTION!"

QUE BOM!

Manifestations of all the Kishiryu appeared in an evolution-style line before firing a decet of energy beams, slamming Gengetsu into the side of the moon and causing him to explode spectacularly.

They also made quite a lot of astronomers very angry.

Raptorjonin squinted at the sky. "I'm sure that was very impressive, except we couldn't see any of it."

"I did!" Video Camera Marrsk announced from atop a nearby building, startling her. "I got the whole thing! All the other fights, too!"

"Have you been here the whole time?" Raptorjonin asked in surprise, impressed.

"Well of course we have been!" Bae huffed. "SOMEONE'S gotta report on all this!"

"Fair enough," Raptorjonin admitted, frowning when she noticed Video Camera Marrsk was now focusing his lens on the increasingly amorous Mozu and Kisei sisters. "I don't believe the viewing public needs to see that."

"Oh, don't worry, this is just for me," Video Camera Marrsk assured her.

"Excuse me-"

"We're back!" Takaharu shouted as he and the rest of the Niningers rolled back into view in Ha-Oh Shurikenjin. "Where's Raizo Gabi?"

Everyone groaned.

Kuchi sighed in relief as the last Golem fell, the street littered with remains from the dozens of foot soldiers she, her soldiers, and their unexpected new allies had vanquished. The human civilians cheered, while Nanishibo tried to find a way to spin it so this was all his doing. "Finally," she said, glancing at the skyline and seeing numerous mecha, but not a single monster. "We've won."

And that's when the ground shook, the skies darkened, and a sensation of absolute evil came crashing down on her, leaving her gasping for breath, her emotions flaring out of control as far too much negative energy filled the air, intrusive thoughts of bloodshed and violence creeping unwanted into her mind.

"I believe you have spoken prematurely," Eras said ominously as Nanishibo immediately started blaming the Youkaliens for everything once more while a gruesome death's head formed in the black clouds above them.

"What… Is this presence?" Geki wondered, startled. "Not even Dai-Satan…!"

"Ohhh… Oh boy… I don't feel so good," Asteroibotchi moaned, clutching his head.

Akira glared up into the skull looming over them, sensing it – or rather, the intelligence commanding it – was glaring right back at her. "Deathbringer," she hissed, golden dinpo blazing up.

"Wow. That looks even freakier than when all my hatred came out of me when you purified my armor," a disturbed Nada, who was back from the dead because nobody stays dead in this line of work, commented.

"Oh no… What's going to happen now?" Jiro wondered anxiously.

"We are not afraid of you, Dark Doctor Mavro!" Takaharu shouted futilely at the skull.

"You don't speak for all of us," Tsumuji whimpered.

In response, the skull opened its mouth and laughed, thick black smoke falling from its jaws and spreading across the ground, corroding everything it touched, leaving anyone unlucky enough to breathe it in coughing and spitting up blood at best, outright dropping dead or suddenly getting filled with homicidal rage at worst. All the Youkaliens present immediately tried to get as far away from the miasma as possible, sensing that even with their charms of protection against evil, if any of that got on them, something very bad would happen.

"N-no… I don't… I don't want to go bad again…" Yukinojo whimpered in terror, Mozu and Setpen hugging her tightly as Raptorjonin lifted them high above the darkness.

"You won't," Mozu promised, glaring furiously up at the enshrouded sky. "We won't let it happen again."

And that's when the dead rose.

Everyone looked on in horror as Dora Talos, Dai-Satan, the Evil Will, Dezmogavalace, and Deboss all got up, their bodies glowing with a dark aura as the miasma was absorbed into their skin. Cracks spread across their bodies, and then all their flesh just seemed to flake off, leaving grotesque, skeletal versions of themselves in their place, while Dai-Satan went the extra mile and grew a body to become a skeletal version of his Ultimate form.

"Wait, hang on, Dora Talos is a robot, how can it have a skeleton?" Asked the confused Dan. "And I'm not certain it even makes sense for the Evil Will, Dezmogavalace, or Deboss to have skeletons since one is possessing the corpse of an arthropod and the other two are alien horrors whose biology has no correlation with our own!"

"Dan? Don't question it," his comrade Goushi told him.

"Well, this looks bad, but at least Gengetsu didn't come back-" Video Camera World said optimistically, only for the skeleton of the Youkai warlord to come crashing down nearby. "Oh come on!"

"Have I taught you nothing?!" Bae yelled, slapping him.

"Oh no, it's Gillmarda!" Takaharu cried.

"Dad? I need to be straight with me. Did you drop Takaharu on his head when he was a baby?" An exasperated Fuuka asked.

"No, of course not!" Tsumuji insisted. "Your mother did. And your grandfather that one time when he thought the best way to test to see if he had strong Nintality was to throw him out the window."

Fuuka sighed. "Yeah, that checks out."

"You threw him out a window as a baby?!" Kenji asked incredulously.

"It should have worked," Yoshitaka grumbled. "My father did it to me."

"Yes, and you killed him," Yakumo pointed out.

Yoshitaka considered this. "… You know, I never drew a connection before now."

"At least your dad never did that to you," Luna told Yoshiharu.

"That would require him to actually remember I exist," Yoshiharu said bitterly.

"Hey, why is there a kid here?" Takaharu asked in confusion.

Yoshiharu glared at him hatefully.

"Are you and I the only men in our family who've never had their sons want to kill them?" A disturbed Tsumuji asked his father.

"We… Might be," a concerned and horrified Yoshitaka admitted. "Okay, yeah, I think I'm starting to glean why our family is so unpopular among other ninjas."

"Looks like we're doing this again," a frustrated Akira grunted, clutching her sword. "All right, everyone ready for round two?"

Her teammates and the Shinobiryu responded in the affirmative, though some of them sounded more tired and frustrated than others.

"All right. Let's-"