Epic 33: Iiiit's a Hero!!

Epic 33: Iiiit's a Hero!!

“Symbol Power: Teleport!” Princess Shinken Red, or a reasonable copy there of, wrote the kanji and the wall of smoke erupted around her and the rest of the Gokaigers.

“Sugo?!” Sugokai Blue said confused as the smoke was parted and no one was there, “Where did they go.”

“Y-Your Highnesses?” Insarn's voice cracked as she dropped to her knees.

“Sugo?” Sugokai Red said confused.

Insarn clenched her fists as she got to her feet, “What have I done?” then her thoughts shifted and her demeanor bespoke fear, “The True Heir!”

Before her thoughts could go further the recently created Hybrids spread out starting to rampage, all except the Newtype which stood pointing his cannon arm at Sugokai Red.

“Violet Stand down,” Insarn said firmly as she turned her attention to the Sugokaigers, “The rest of you destroy those Hybrids! Command Override Violet Hope 1-9-9-3, Priority 1. For the New Zangyack Empire!”

The Sugokaigers tensed, before lowering their weapons, “Sugo.” Then turned toward the rampaging Hybrids, “For the New Zangyack Empire!” before charging off.

Damarz Gil was not happy, Insarn had defected and taken the Sugokiagers. On the main monitor he watched the fateful battle play over and over again. To add insult to injury her intricate knowledge of their technology meant any one of the war ships in orbit could be the Violet Hope, if it wasn't simply hiding on Earth, “I do not want to eat.”

“But Your Highness,” The Damaras part of him spoke, motioning to the banquet of food before them, “At least take a bite. Our body won't last.”

“Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!” Damarz tantrums as Warz took over, leaping to his feet, “Can't you understand how I feel?! When will we be able to take over Earth?!”

“Do not worry, Warz Gil-sama,” Barizorg said plainly as he entered the bridge with a new Action Commander in tow. “I have summoned the new Action Commander.” before steeping aside to present his new warrior, “His name is Zacura.”

“Please leave it to me!” Zacura announced as he steeped toward the food, “Just watch!”

Taking a deep inhale the food rose from their plates and into the large mouth of Zacura, who wiped his large mouth agreeably, “Piece of cake!”

“With Zacura's bottomless stomach, he can suck up all of Earth's food. Then the Earthlings should be easy to conquer.”

“Alright! That's good!” Damarz cheered just as his stomach growled loudly, “oh no...” his attention drawn to it then back to, “Zacura, return that food!”

“Eh?!”

“At least a melon...?” he pleaded.

“I can't!” the Action Commander cackled.

Insarn sat at the helm of the Violet Hope staring at the main screen, Gokai Violet standing at her side, “It's not your fault.”

“You and I both know that isn't true. The Defusion Magnum should not have weakened them that much. My miss calculations forced Her Highness to pull that Teleport move and clearly she was in no shape to do such a thing, she could be anywhere in the universe now.”

“And she will find a way back, I am sure, she returned from the dead in the Gokaiger's hour of need, I have faith she will find a way back to Earth from wherever she landed, we simply need to hold down the fort until she does.”

“Sugo!” Sugokai Green announced as he looked back from navigation, “Insarn we have detected a transport, Damarz Gil has sent down a new Action Commander!”

Insarn looks focused to the screen, “Which one?”

“Sugo! Bringing it up on the main screen now.”

The screen lit up with a technical scan and data on Zacura as Insarn shoved up to her feet, “Violet, with me, the rest of you monitor the battle!”

“Sugo!”

Insarn and Violet quickly left the bridge and walked the hall until they entered the main lab, “You're planing to use that, aren't you?”

“If ever there was a time for it, now is it.” Insarn said solemnly as she moved to a panel on a far wall, typing in a code on the wall control as the panel emblazoned with the Zangyack Crest slid slowly open.

“It's over Zacura, I will not let you devour the earth Her Highnesses cherish so much!” Insarn arrived with the Violet to the opening of Gokai gunfire.

“Insarn-sama? Nani?! What are you doing here?”

“Putting an end to Warz Gil's insane plans for Earth and ushering in the age of the New Zangyack Empire!” Violet answered.

“You would betray Warz Gil-sama,” Zacura gasped turning away a moment, “Oh well. You can die with the rest of the humans. With just two you're no match for me!” before charging in.

“Go-kai Change!” Insarn howled as she drew out a new Mobirate.
“Gooooooooooooooookaiger!”

And the new, improved Uchuu Teikoku Sentai Gokai Pink was born!

However Zacura was no slouch when it came to a fight, dodging their sabers as he made his own attacks until he has knocked them all back laughing all the while, “The finisher!”

“Final Wave!”

And was sent rolling, smoke still rolling off him as he got back to his feet as the Sugokaigers arrived.

“Who are you guys!”

“Sugo,” Sugokai Red scoffed, “Sugokai Red!”
“Sugokai Blue!”
“Sugokai Yellow!”
“Sugokai Green!”
“Sugokai Pink!”
“Gokai Violet!”
“Gokai Pink!”

“Uchuu Teikoku Sentai Gokaiger!”

“Sugo, it looked like you could use a hand Insarn-sama,” Sugokai Green explained, “So we came.”

“Thank you, now...let's quickly defeat him!”

“More of them?!”

“One more Final Wave should do it.” Sugokai Red surmises as he raises his Gokai Gun.

Only to be blasted back alongside the others by a lighting attack from Zacura's eyes, “Damn you!” Zacura announces, “Take this!” before he began to drum his stomach, “Pon! Pon! Pon poooon!”

“Watch out!” Pink says throwing herself in the way and knocking the others aside as she is hammered with the regurgitated food of Zacura, demorphs, looses hold of her Mobirate and is launched into some discarded boxes and trash.

“Oh, what a waste.” Zacura chuckles as Insarn get's back to her feet, tossing garbage and boxes off her just in time to see Zacura open his mouth wide and begin to inhale, “Let's eat it up again!”

Insarn's eyes wide as she starts to pat herself down, horrified at the thought that was becoming far too real.

“I sure ate a lot!” Zacura say patting his belly contently, “Guess I'll go for now. Bye Bye.” Then turns to run off.

“Wait! Give it back!” Insarn says dropping to her knees in defeat, “My Mobirate!”
“Huh?”
“Sugo?”
“Mobirate?”

“Come on, come on...” Insarn begs as she listens intently to Violet's Mobirate, “...find it!”
“This is the Mobirate voicemail service. The cellular you are trying to call...”

Before she closes it in frustration, handing the Mobirate back to Violet, “Just as I thought, the signal can't get through Zacura's stomach.”

“So we can't locate his position?”

Insarn sighs, “No.”

“Sugo, then we just wait for him to show himself and get it back then.”

Insarn sighs as she drops into her seat in defeat, “Some hero I turned out to be.”

“Just leave it to us,” Violet explains.

Insarn sighs, “It's not the same, this was my big chance to start making up for everything I've done as part of the Old Empire to Earth...” she pushes up to her feet as she wanders off, “I need some air...”

“Insarn-sama....” Violet watches worried as she wanders off the bridge.

Basco looked up to the abandoned Gokai Galleon with a smirk, “Your making this too easy Marvey-chan,” Before leaping up to the deck and walking toward the interior door, “Not that I'm complaining.”

“Uki!”

Only to have to fend off Gokai gunfire from Sally.

“Still bitter Sally?”

“Uki!” she fires another warning shot.

“Tch. Gokai Change!”
“Gooooooookaiger?”

Gokai Killer charged fending off Sally's shots with his Gokai Saber.

“Basco!” Navi protests, “Go! Go! You're not welcome!”

A warning shot knocks Navi off his perch. But a flash of light catches him off guard and as he looks back he is blind sided by the Navi Ranger, the fight quickly moving out to the deck.

“My Mobirate...” On Earth Insarn wanders in a funk, another of her devices, similar to the transformation device of Liveman, disguising her as a human woman, “What'll I do?!”

Not watching where she is going a man on a bike crashes into her as she comes around a corner, and they both crash to the ground.

“Hey, you!” The man gets to his feet quick rushing over to Insarn to hell her up, “Are you okay?!”

“Ah, I'm fine,” she groans as she turns to look to her helper, and tenses, “R-Ryuu Ranger?! TenKaSei Ryou-sama?!”

“I-I am,” he nods surprised, “But how did you know that?”

'I can't tell him I'm the one who kidnapped him for the Dark Sentai Legend Keys Project,' Insarn sweats as she glances away.

“Anyway...” Ryou returns his attention to Insarn, looking for injuries, “...are you hurt?”

“N-No,” Quickly she jumps to her feet and stretches, “See, I'm fine!”

Ryou grabs her arm as he notices the device, “Ah Liveman! That's how you know me, I'm sorry I didn't recognize you Megumi-san! Wow you look great!”
'He thinks I'm Blue Dolphin from Liveman?' Insarn flusters as she looks away, “I-I'm not Megumi...actually...” she slouches as she taps the device and resumes her normal form...

“I-Insarn!” Ryou jumps to his feet backing up as he takes a fighting pose.

“Wait! Wait! WAIT!” she throws up her hands defensively, “I've changed, I left Zangyack, I'm Pink of the New Gokaigers! I'm trying to make amends!”

Ryou relaxes as she reactivates her human form before slumping to the ground, “Although...right now...I can't transform.”

Gokai Killer chuckled as he demorphed, casually kicking a badly wounded Sally over the side of the Gokai Galleon as Navi, back in his original form, lies prone on the ground.

“You're lucky I need you to unlock the Greatest Treasure in the Universe.”

Before moving back to the cabin as he moves to the treasure chest, opening it slowly and basking in the glow of the Ranger Keys inside before he takes out his trumpet.

“I see,” Ryou sighs as he sets out some gyoza for Insarn at his restaurant. “So you have been working undercover all this time and then this Action Commander Zacura took your Mobirate.”

“Yes,” she nods, “It was such a shock.”

“For now, just cheer up.” he says joining Insarn, “Here. I cooked these gyoza. I'm trying to make the best gyoza in the world.”

“I....don't deserve such hospitality after all I have done. This was my chance to start making amends for everything I have done to you and the other Super Sentai Sempai...I could be a real hero...like you...but...”

“But?”

“If I can't transform into New Gokai Pink...then I'm no longer a hero. It makes me feel so...sad...”

“Don't you think that's a bit wrong?” Ryou leans back as he looks skyward.

“Ryou-chan!” the door opens as an older man enters with a couple others.
“Hello...”

“About tomorrow's bazaar...”

“Yo, Masa-san!” Ryou nods jumping to his feet to address the trio before turning back to Insarn, “Their workers in this shopping district. We'll be done soon. Can you wait a bit?”

“Ah no. It's okay!” Insarn hurriedly jumps to her feet. “I'm going.” before bowing a moment and turning toward the exit, “Pardon me.” Nearly bumping into Masa on her way out, “Sorry.”
“Hello.”

Leaving Insarn to wander the night streets alone, her gaze lifting to the stars, 'Sorry Your Highnesses, I...I've failed you.”

“We must locate Insarn-sama's Mobirate!” Violet orders to Pink and Green and the controls of the Violet Hope.

“Sugo? Can't she just make another?” Sugokai Red wonders.

“Sure she could but the Gokai Pink Key is not as easy to reproduce. Besides this goes deeper then hardware,” Violet places a hand on his heart, “Right now she feels like she let down Her Highnesses, this was her big chance to make up for all her sins and it was whisked away...I...It's hard to understand...if you are just a machine.”

“Sugo?” Yellow says confused, “Aren't you just a machine?”

Violet nods, “Yes...that is true...but my CPU is patterned on her mind, so I can understand how she feels.”

“Sugo,” Sugokai blue says plainly, “We'll just have to retrieve it for her then.”

“SUGO!” Green announces, “I have a signal!”

“Let's go!”

“I'll be taking all these eggplants!”  Zacura shouts as he runs into an eggplant farm the workers running off, taunting them. “Now you can't cook fried eggplant of mabou nasu!”

Turning to the plants he take a big breath and sucks them all off the vines and into his stomach patting it with delight. “Delicious!”
“Found you!” Sugokai Red, leading Pink and Green, shouts as they charge onto the field.

“I don't have time to deal with you guys!” Zacura comments as he turns making a break for it.

“Final Wave!”

“Hold it!” Violet interrupts as he arrives with Blue and Yellow the five all charging their Gokai Guns, “Don't fire!”

Giving Zacura the opening he needs to escape.

“Sugo!” Yellow protests, “Now look you let him escape.”

“We need to do this tenderly, if we use the Final Wave and blow him up we may inadvertently destroy Insarn-Sama Gokai Gear!”

“Sugo!”

“Split up and chase him!” Red orders.

“Okay.”
“Sure.”

“I sure ate up!” Zacura is already finishing up a fish market's entire display save for a single specimen, “But of course, I can't eat the fugu.”

“Zacura!” Blue and Yellow arrive a moment later.

“Too late!” But just miss him before he teleports away.

“Pan paka pan!” Zacura cheers as he clears out a bakery, “Thanks for the meal!”

And sees Pink and Green, “Over here!” taunting them before teleporting out.

“Sugo!”

“That was scary,” A customer at a conveyer diner comments after they were just cleaned out as Insarn enters.

“Oh no! This place too?!” before she pauses in thought, “wait...”

Just as Red and Violet run in, “Sugo!”

“Red, Violet.”

“We're too late?” Violet wonders.

“I'm sorry,” Insarn bows, “thanks for doing this for me.”

“Sugo, no need to thank us, we are just doing our job.”

Insarn nods, tightening her hands into fists, “And it's about time I started doing mine.” Before turning and running off.

“Sugo?”

'I may not be able to fight like a Gokaiger, but I'll be damned if I let Zacura attack Ryou-sama...'

Insarn arrives just as the Bazaar is being set up, her breath short as Ryou smiles.

“Ah glad you could make it Insarn-san.”

“Is this the bazaar?”

“Yeah. We all gather here. It's a customary event for our shopping district. And it goes without saying that I'm making gyoza.”

Insarn slaps the Gyoza from his hand angrily, “Gyoza again! Listen you need to get out of here,” before turning back to the group and shouting, “All of you, Zacura...” she pauses shaking her head, “Zangyack is coming, you all need to leave before...”

“I'm here!”  Zacura announces before sucking all the food into his stomach, a squad of Gormin with him, “Thanks for the meal!”

“Zangyack!”
“Zacura!”

“Gormin, get them! Get them!”

Insarn clenches her fists as the Gormin start to beat up the other vendors, before charging in, summoning her Gokai Gun and Saber from the Violet Hope and cutting through the forces to free the vendors, “Run!”

Ryou smiles before joining the fray and giving the two an opening as the Gormin regroup, “It's just like I said. I probably can't save the world, but...” a Gormin charges only to be knocked down with a backhand, as Ryou start to unbutton his chef's shirt, “I'm not so old to just overlook the enemy right in front of me.” before throwing up his dress shirt and jacket and he take his battle posture. “RyuuRanger! TenKaSei Ryou! Shining in the heavens are five stars! Gosei Sentai! DaiRanger!”

“Let's go!” Before charging in.

'Don't you think that's a bit wrong.' Ryou's word ring in Insarn's mind as she watches. “It's not the Mobirate that makes me a hero...” her hand moving to her chest, as she looks down at it, “...the Mobirate let me transform, but...” her mind speeding back to one of the first meeting with Her Highness Nicole.

'You're living breathing beings,' tears rolling from her cheeks, 'I don't want to have to kill you...please...give up this insane quest!'
Then her mind shifts to the Violet Hope, a playback off Nicole's daring leap to save Los Dark from the death of his Dark Gokai Oh and the Ghost Ship, 'Why would she risk her life for an enemy?'

'Because, that is what Her Highness does.' Violet answers, 'As much as we may want her to stay safe to lead the new empire she can not, she needs to save everyone...'

'Insarn-san!' Ryou calls out as he knocks several Gormin down again.

She nods as she strides toward him, “I remembered. What's most important. I wanted to become a hero...to honor someone important to me!”

Ryou smiles.

“It's not weather I can transform or not because...Mobirate or not...”

Insarn turns to face Zacura and his forces, “I am Uchuu Teikoku Sentai's tenth member! Insarn! Also know as...” she pauses shifting into her own pose, “Goooooookai Pink!”

“Get them!”

The Gormin charge, and she charges with Ryou at her side, the two charging in as they quickly dispatch the Gormin.

“Sugormin!”

The two launching into a flying kick only to be countered by a block from the Sugormin's arms.

“Final Wave!”

Insarn charges her two weapons preparing to fire.

“Wait! Wait!” Zacura protests, patting his stomach, “You could destroy your precious Mobirate!”

Insarn smirks, “Like I care...Gokai Scramble!”

She fires, the blasts decimating the Sugormin and sending Zacura flying, “I am Action Commander Insarn of the New Zangyack Empire...”

She closes the distance in an instant the rest of the team arriving a moment later charging their own Gokai Weapons.

“Are you sure about this Insarn-sama?” Violet wonders.

Insarn's voice get's low as Ryou joins them, Transformed to Gokai Dai Legend Red as he charges for his own final attack, “I'm sure...”
“Final Wave!”

“Wait! Wait!” Zacura scrambles to his feet “You'll destroy it for sure.”

Insarn smirks, “I can make another one.”

“Gokai Blast AND Slash!”

However Zacura death is only temporary as Barizorg takes over Insarn's position and enlarges him.

“Leave this to us,” Violet say as he pats Insarn's shoulder.

She nods as Violet Hope Oh and Zangyack Gokai Oh appear Ryou turning to Insarn as he pats her shoulder, “You have already started the path to wiping away your sins.”

Insarn smiling, “Thanks....that means a lot...especially from you.”

With a laugh he leads her away, “Car to lend me a hand making more Goyza?”

“For the Bazaar?”

Ryou shakes his head, “For your friends, they'll be starving after a battle like that.”

Insarn laughs, “They don't eat!”

“They don't eat?”

She shakes her head with a smile, “Their robots, I built them.”

Ryou laughs, “Ohhhhhh! Well then for the Bazaar!”

Insarn laughs, the two walking off.