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drunkenpandaren) wrote2010-07-06 11:14 am
drunkenpandaren) wrote2010-07-06 11:14 am
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It Could Always Be Worse SPD to JF 2/?
Woo more of it. And no, this isn't the last part of SPD to JF. Not even close.
Ring Ring.
Tommy groaned as he curled up into a ball. No one was at the house, really.
Ring Ring Ring.
Okay that was getting annoying.
Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring.
Groaning, Tommy rolled over and picked up the phone, focusing bleary vision on the caller ID. Cam?
“This had better be important to be calling me at…” Tommy squinted at the digital readout. “Three forty seven in the morning.”
“Is it really that late? I didn’t think it was.” Replied Cam blithely, and Tommy could hear the clacking of fingers on a keyboard.
“Do you ever clockwatch?” Cam grunted in the negative. “Fine. What is it?”
“I got a call from a friend of mine, a fellow martial arts instructor.”
“Are we talking normal arts or…?”
“The Order of the Claw, the Pai Zhao. You’ve visited their temple with me once. It’s not as big an order as the Ninja Temples, but what it lacks in expansion it makes up for in quality. In any case, the friend of mine, RJ, he asked me to get in touch with someone who was up to date on the latest Ranger technologies.”
“Are we looking at an attack?” asked Tommy, rolling onto his back. “Or signs of an impending one?”
“Half prophesy, half I’ve got a bad feeling about this. RJ’s hunches are usually spot on.” Admitted Cam. “It was one of the more infuriating things about him. In any case, he knew that the Ninja academies had a Ranger program though officially we’re discontinued.”
“Ah. Well, I’ll cobble together some stuff. Can you email or fax me his design specifications and set up a meeting to talk with this RJ guy?”
“Not a problem, I’ve already zipped the folder up. It’ll be big though.” A beat. “You’re not using that silly gmail email address are you?”
“I’ll have you know that drtommyoliver at gmail dot com is still viable,” groused Tommy. “good night Cam.”
“I’ve been going over the notes,” said Hayley that morning. “There’s a lot of design aspects I’ll have to touch on with other people to make these ‘Solar Morphers’ that RJ wants done up.”
Fate poured her cereal. “What’s the problem?”
“Well, for one, the mechanics will have to be highly compressed,” said Hayley. “And function as a conduit for a Ranger transformation as well as have communication capability in a closed radio system.”
“… That’s a lot of things to put into a pair of sunglasses.” Said Tommy, frying up some eggs. “You think we can at least hit up Wes for some of those nice communication sunglasses they have with the Silver Guardians?”
“We’ll have to start there,” admitted Hayley. “Cam’s coming over and he’s bringing the RJ guy. He’ll be here in an hour or three.” She clicked through the information and scowled. “Oh well that’s just unfair…”
“What’s wrong?” asked Wendi, biting into her toast.
“Oh nothing save for RJ making a note about Animal Spirits and how they need to be utilized as a catalyst in the morphing process.” Groused Hayley.
“Animal Spirits… are they Grid Animals at least?” asked Tommy.
“Not even. Lion, Tiger, Jaguar.” Hayley would have headdesked if it meant not for spilling her coffee.
“Oh my,” said Fate, trying not to put too much of a point on the joke. Wendi snickered.
“I get it, it’s all Kung Fu,” said Tommy as RJ wound down from his demonstration.
“Fast, sleek, hard hitting,” added Cam in agreement. “Gear to reflect the traditional weaponry as well.”
“So which means we’re probably looking for a full body design,” mused Hayley. “Any ideas?”
“I kinda have one,” said RJ as he swept sweat-mottled hair from his face. “That daughter of yours Fate right? She’s got that neat looking bodysuit. Why not make it a single tone, full body with matching gloves in the same style?”
All eyes turned to Fate who blushed. “You mean my barrier jacket?”
“Yeah, but without the cape,” said RJ. “Markings too, to designate the design of the animal spirits too.”
“That could work, though it’ll involve cutting down a LOT of usual gear, but I doubt you’ll want blasters,” mused Cam. “Then again, Ninja Storm didn’t need guns either.”
“The biofield tie ins though will require some doing. Cam why don’t you get Dr. Rawlings on the phone and Tommy, why don’t you call Jason and see if he can’t lend us the Sword of Power to make the grid connection.” Said Hayley.
Then turning to Fate, she said, “Can you call your sister and ask them to send Shari over too? We’ll need some help.”
“Yuuno what’s that?” inquired Chrono as the young archeologist poured over the contents of a box.
“It’s a crystal, about yay big, with ancient Sumarian written on it,” said Yuuno.
And then he turned the statement over in his head and eased away from the box. Chrono blinked in surprise. “What’s with the reaction?”
“Oh it’s something that living on Earth taught me,” said Yuuno calmly as he eased the box closed with a stick. “Warning signs for Impending Doom. One, it’s a crystal. Two, it’s got writing in ancient dead languages, possibly incomplete. And thirdly, it was shipped to Silver Hills without any regard for safety or personal handling.”
“You’re being ridiculous,” said Chrono as he marched over and opened the box.
The crystal.
Stared.
Back.
At. Him.
When the world went purple, Yuuno sighed. “I told you so…”
“I hate time travel,” said Wes, ducking his head as he ducked behind a car. “Especially when it brings evil rangers from a possible future!”
Jen gave him a long-suffering glare and Eric snickered. Katie cleared her throat. “Can we get back to kicking butt?”
An explosion rocked their cover as Trip and Lucas scrambled into hiding. “Tell that to them!” exclaimed Trip, peeking over the car cover at the three evil rangers that were storming through Silver Hills.
Their outfits were reminiscent of the SPD prototypes, but that’s where the similarities ended. Their helmets stylized like the Psycho Rangers with powerful looking armor outlining R2, R3, R4 and R5 in yellow, black, pink and white, they all carried staves that were hybrid reminiscent of Mid-Childa mages.
“Okay, we’re Time Force. We can handle this, right?” said Katie. “Let’s get out there and kick their butts!”
“You got it. I’ve radioed in for backup too.” Added Eric. “Both Ranger and divisions. Let’s do this!”
“Time for Time Force!”
“Quantum Power!”
“Evil Rangers.” Tommy facepalmed and his expression under his Zeo Helmet was nothing short of pained. “How could this get worse?”
That’s when R2 tackled him and stood over with a familiar device. “Oh boy…”
“Hello father,” sneered the voice of his little girl, Fate as she raised her Riot Blaster. “Mother says hello in hell.”
WHAM. R2 went flying as Fate lowered Bardiche, heaving angrily, having Thunder Smashered her across the battlefield.
“GET AWAY FROM MY FATHER!”
“Go Fate-chan go!” exclaimed Nanoha cheerily as Fate fought her evil older counterpart before she was tackled by R4. R3 was involved with Hayate and she was cackling maniacally. Vivio wasn’t there of course, but Alyssa from Wild Force had stepped in to help, and Trent had been repowered for this fight. Trent had already gone to Super Dino Mode to boot.
“In hindsight this is my fault,” said Chrono and everyone glared at him. “Yuuno?”
“Suuuuure. You’re coming with me. Ready?” drawled Yuuno. Chrono looked pained. “HEY. It was your fault you looked INTO THE CRYSTAL.”
“Excuse me WHAT?” demanded Jen. “You were responsible for this? Admiral!”
Chrono coughed. “Can we get back to business?”
“Yeah they’re getting back up,” said Trip.
“Ready?” insisted Yuuno and Chrono sighed, pulling out Durandall and jacking it into a similar device.
[Riot 1 Standby Ready – LET’S ROCK!] roared the first device.
[Riot Enforcer Standby Ready – All Set My Master!] boomed the hybrid Durandall and morpher.
“Setup Cartridge! SPD EMERGENCY!” chorused the men as they were clothed in SPD Riot Ranger uniforms.
“SPD Riot 1 Red!”
“SPD Enforcer!”
“So we’ve got the Riot Rangers in custody,” said Carter, Lightspeed coming in for relief efforts from the devastated Silver Hills. “The city is thrashed though.”
“Fortunately now we can start building New Tech,” said Jen, pleased with herself. “a little before schedule but SPD needs to be founded.”
“We’ve checked them for brainwashing and control, and discovered that they were under the mental influence of some kind of being called the Magnificence,” said Shari as she stood there next to Lindy who also had been called in for efforts. “They can’t say what the Magnificence is, only that it ran rampant across these rookie SPD Rangers.”
“So now what? With the crystal broken we can’t send them home,” said Trip.
“… Why not adopt? They are your kids after all Tommy,” said Eric with a smug grin.
Tommy felt faint for the second time today, and this time he did fall over.
“I look stupid,” groused the older Fate as she looked at her blue eyes and blue hair. She had done her hair up in a big ponytail topped with a ribbon but she wore a sullen expression on her face. “Blue is definitely not my color.”
“Oh I don’t know about that Fate-chan,” snickered Nanoha, the brown haired girl having chopped her hair short. “You look good the way you are~!” and she groped her lover.
“Nanohaaaaaa!”
“You two should stop making with the frisky in the room,” sneered Hayate, the silver haired girl shaking her head. And then her expression turned fiendish as she groped Nanoha. “Not without me!”
“You guys are so weird,” groused Vivio, the platinum haired Saint Kaiser rolling her dual-toned eyes.
Little Nanoha stared at the display. “Am… I really like that?”
Fate whimpered. “I… hope not. I mean, not as public but…”
Alicia pouted. “I don’t like this.” Vivio looked at her curiously. “I mean, everyone has an evil counterpart but me!”
“Actually there’s a reason for that,” said the older Hayate. Little kidlets blinked curiously. “You never noticed that there was no R1?”
Alicia felt the Impending Sense of Doom hit. Of course it had to be the last moment as there was an explosion and a giant battle zord rising in the distance emblazoned with R1 across it. “Oh…”
“Pooh, Alicia-chan’s still under the Magnificence’s control,” sighed older Nanoha with disgust.
As the group rushed out, little Hayate wondered something. “So if she’s Riot 1, then what happened to Yuuno-kun?”
“We missed one,” said Jen as Silver Hills was once again rocked by a giant attack vehicle. “Which one is it?”
“Riot 1, Alicia.” Said big Nanoha. “You’ll need our help, Riot 1’s zord attack vehicle is way more powerful than the mechs of today, and of 3000 AD.”
Lucas grinned. “I’m sure we can arrange something.”
“You guys ready?” exclaimed Wes as he raised his arm.
“Time For Time Force!”
“SPD Riot Enforcer!”
As the group rushed into battle, older Vivio noticed something. “Where’d the kids go?”
“You sure this is a good idea?” asked little Fate as she and the girls crawled through a rickety vent.
“Due to what our older selves told us, there’s a powerful zord hidden here,” said Hayate reasonably, the pair crawling through the vents. “Vivio-chan are you holding up okay?”
“I’m fine!” exclaimed the six year old. “I’m just glad I can help.”
“Wait, this place right there is fragile. Raising Heart can you detect anything?”
[Detecting faint levels of Morphin Grid energy.] reported Raising Heart.
[As am I.] said Bardiche.
“Let’s go then. They’ll need our help.”
“WHOO!” exclaimed Trip. “We’re getting rocked here Wes!”
“Tell me something I don’t know,” grunted Wes as he hauled the Time Force Megazord upright. “One mecha vs four of us. I don’t know if I should feel ashamed that it’s kicking our butts or what.”
The Rescue Megazord was already pulling itself upright as the Q-Rex charged in, snarling loudly, biting the arm of the Riot 1 Attack Vehicle. The Riot 1 slammed it’s fist into the Q-Rex and it went sprawling. From behind however, a half-completed Riot Megazord kicked it in the butt because it had no arms or torso, the remaining limbs shooting it repeatedly.
“Damn this zord wasn’t built; it was poured!” exclaimed Kelsey.
“Die-cast construction,” puffed big Nanoha as she hauled her zord upright from where it was kicked. “It’s a new art.”
“You’re kidding me,” groaned Dana.
“I don’t think so,” grumbled Carter. “I used to play with Die-cast toys as a kid. They were IMPOSSIBLE to break.”
“Hot Wheels?” inquired Eric and Carter grunted in the affirmative. “Heh, so did I actually.”
“Can you two childhood nerds focus?” snapped Vivio.
“Hey now, we’re your elders,” whined Wes playfully despite the epic butt-kicking their zords were taking.
Quite suddenly a giant fist came out of nowhere and slammed into the Riot 1, throwing it to the ground as a ancient zord stomped into view. “Hi everyone!” chirped the pilots as one and the others expressions fell.
“What. The. Heck.” Said Tommy, driving the newly repaired Super Zeo Zord V.
“Hi Uncle Tommy!” chirped Alicia as she and the others pulled the Shogun Megazord’s sword out from its sheath. “Can we come and play too?”
“This is the weirdest experience in the known universe…” sighed Yuuno as he looked at the assembled Rangers, including the newly de-brainwashed Riot Squad Rangers. “How are we going to solve this problem?’
“Well clones aren’t exactly the big problem and they look different enough,” said Tommy, shaking his head. “What does the TSAB say?”
“They foamed about the temporal problems, but other than that,” sighed Chrono, shrugging. “Mom thinks this is awesome.”
Alicia played with her older selves black hair. “I like black hair,” she said decisively.
“In any case,” said Carter, “I think the worst we’ll do is some community service. Silver Hills is in desperate need of repairs.”
“Agreed,” said Jen. “You girls knocked it down, so you get to help repair it.”
“Awwwww!” chorused the future Rangers.
“So what I don’t get is what happened to Yuuno-kun,” said Nanoha as the little girls had decided to get to know their older selves.
“Oh, I can answer that,” said older Vivio, holding up her hand. “You see SPD, that’s the organization we work for in the future, Space Patrol Delta, in any case, in the future it’s run by a bird who then had a subordinate who was a dog and then B-squad stepped in when A-squad went awol and we were kidnapped and brainwashed although A-squad worked with Grumm willingly which opens up a whole can of worms at any rate. In any case, the bird was promoted and the dog, Anubis was promoted to head of SPD and then Sky, B-squad’s member got promoted and then Yuuno who was part of SPD already got promoted to second in command since Kat Manx was working for the head office and then Bridge got promoted to Red.”
“… sounds good to me!” exclaimed Hayate as the little girls and even the older selves puzzled that out.
Vivio hid a smirk under her soda cup.
“Hey I just got news,” said Cam as he walked into the house that evening. “I got the Solar Morphers finished!”
“About time!” exclaimed Tommy, looking up from his newspaper.
“Can we try them on?” inquired Wendi, a little put out that she and her other sisters were left out of the last few major battles.
“Sure, but you can’t use them anyhow,” chuckled Cam as he handed them their morphers and Wendi along with Fate and Nanoha played with the sunglasses, making martial arts poses. “RJ apologizes to the entire team about the job done so we get to play with normal Ranger morphers.”
“Bet Hayley loved that,” laughed Tommy. “Was it easier to do?”
Cam nodded and opened the suitcase he carried, displaying the huge white and orange morpher and tiny bracelet, and the purple colored device shaped like a wolf head.
“Purple?” inquired Nanoha, looking at it as she handed back the sunglasses.
“Purple. Seems that’s the color of his Animal Spirit,” said Cam in the affirmative.
“Huh, there hasn’t been a purple Ranger in, well, ever,” said Tommy. “Come to think about it, it’s the only color of the grid we never touched.”
“Well he’ll be the first,” said Cam with a smirk.
“Hello mom,” said Fate as she opened the door to Kimberly who carried a casserole dish with her and Vivio clinging to her legs. “Hey Vi.”
“Hi,” said Vivio shyly.
“Thought you girls needed a hot meal for once,” said Kim with a little grin as she entered the shared apartment that the Rangers had set up for the dimensionally and temporally displaced SPD Riot Rangers. “This is a nice place.”
“Hayate’s an interior decorator,” replied Fate as she let in Kim. “You know mom I can’t get over the fact you haven’t married father yet.”
Kim blushed. “Well it’s been a long time in coming, but we can’t rush things. It’s been a long time since we’ve both dated each other.”
“Steal his shirt,” suggested Fate with a little grin.
“Oh hey Auntie,” said Alicia, sticking her black haired head into the room. “Is that your famous casserole?”
“Yep, fresh out of the oven no less,” said Kim as Vivio scampered up to Hayate and the silver haired girl allowed her leap onto her lap. “Where’s Vivio?”
“She’s out at the moment, something to do about shopping,” said Hayate.
“Oh I’m sorry,” said Vivio as she bumped into a cart at the local supermarket.
“No, it’s perfectly okay,” said the woman with an Australian accent. She then noticed Vivio’s nearly all-white outfit and smirked. “Must be hard to keep stains out.”
“Like you wouldn’t believe,” groaned the girl as she noticed the other woman’s pink shirt.
There was an awkward pause. And the Vivio ventured “SPD Riot Ranger Five.”
“Zeo Ranger One Pink.” The woman smiled. “I didn’t think I’d meet another Ranger for a while. Katherine Hillard.”
“Vivio Hart.”
Kat blinked. “Hart as in…?”
“Kimberly. She’s my adopted mother.”
“Small world. She gave me my powers originally.”
Vivio grinned. “So what kind of dirt do you have on dad?”
“Dad? You mean… Tommy?” ventured Kat.
“Yeah, but they’re not married yet. Time Travel WHEEEEE.”
“Whoa, surge in the morphin grid,” remarked Hayley as she was running a routine scan of the California area. Why California? Ley Lines. Really. “Looks like… Pink Zeo Energy?”
Calling Tommy downstairs, Tommy looked over Hayley’s shoulder. “Pink Zeo. Kat’s back in town?”
“Well, adjacent town, Silver Hills to be exact. Looks like there’s another grid signature. It’s SPD Riot 5.”
“Oh man, what are they doing?”
“Fighting Troobians.”
“… troobians?”
“We can’t take you anywhere can we?” demanded Eric as he joined the party of robot attackers.
“Looks like Grumm started early with his party boys,” puffed Vivio as she threw one over her shoulder. “This is just an advance scouting party though!”
“At least we can handle ourselves,” replied Kat as she fought just as easily against the troobian mechs. “Time Force right?”
“Yeah, but just me. I’m on break,” said Eric. “I can handle a few measly grunts.”
“Hey now Uncle Eric, stop flirting. What’ll aunt Taylor say?” teased Vivio.
“I would think aunt Taylor would say none of your business,” snarked back Eric as he smashed one in the face.
Ring Ring.
Tommy groaned as he curled up into a ball. No one was at the house, really.
Ring Ring Ring.
Okay that was getting annoying.
Ring Ring Ring Ring Ring.
Groaning, Tommy rolled over and picked up the phone, focusing bleary vision on the caller ID. Cam?
“This had better be important to be calling me at…” Tommy squinted at the digital readout. “Three forty seven in the morning.”
“Is it really that late? I didn’t think it was.” Replied Cam blithely, and Tommy could hear the clacking of fingers on a keyboard.
“Do you ever clockwatch?” Cam grunted in the negative. “Fine. What is it?”
“I got a call from a friend of mine, a fellow martial arts instructor.”
“Are we talking normal arts or…?”
“The Order of the Claw, the Pai Zhao. You’ve visited their temple with me once. It’s not as big an order as the Ninja Temples, but what it lacks in expansion it makes up for in quality. In any case, the friend of mine, RJ, he asked me to get in touch with someone who was up to date on the latest Ranger technologies.”
“Are we looking at an attack?” asked Tommy, rolling onto his back. “Or signs of an impending one?”
“Half prophesy, half I’ve got a bad feeling about this. RJ’s hunches are usually spot on.” Admitted Cam. “It was one of the more infuriating things about him. In any case, he knew that the Ninja academies had a Ranger program though officially we’re discontinued.”
“Ah. Well, I’ll cobble together some stuff. Can you email or fax me his design specifications and set up a meeting to talk with this RJ guy?”
“Not a problem, I’ve already zipped the folder up. It’ll be big though.” A beat. “You’re not using that silly gmail email address are you?”
“I’ll have you know that drtommyoliver at gmail dot com is still viable,” groused Tommy. “good night Cam.”
“I’ve been going over the notes,” said Hayley that morning. “There’s a lot of design aspects I’ll have to touch on with other people to make these ‘Solar Morphers’ that RJ wants done up.”
Fate poured her cereal. “What’s the problem?”
“Well, for one, the mechanics will have to be highly compressed,” said Hayley. “And function as a conduit for a Ranger transformation as well as have communication capability in a closed radio system.”
“… That’s a lot of things to put into a pair of sunglasses.” Said Tommy, frying up some eggs. “You think we can at least hit up Wes for some of those nice communication sunglasses they have with the Silver Guardians?”
“We’ll have to start there,” admitted Hayley. “Cam’s coming over and he’s bringing the RJ guy. He’ll be here in an hour or three.” She clicked through the information and scowled. “Oh well that’s just unfair…”
“What’s wrong?” asked Wendi, biting into her toast.
“Oh nothing save for RJ making a note about Animal Spirits and how they need to be utilized as a catalyst in the morphing process.” Groused Hayley.
“Animal Spirits… are they Grid Animals at least?” asked Tommy.
“Not even. Lion, Tiger, Jaguar.” Hayley would have headdesked if it meant not for spilling her coffee.
“Oh my,” said Fate, trying not to put too much of a point on the joke. Wendi snickered.
“I get it, it’s all Kung Fu,” said Tommy as RJ wound down from his demonstration.
“Fast, sleek, hard hitting,” added Cam in agreement. “Gear to reflect the traditional weaponry as well.”
“So which means we’re probably looking for a full body design,” mused Hayley. “Any ideas?”
“I kinda have one,” said RJ as he swept sweat-mottled hair from his face. “That daughter of yours Fate right? She’s got that neat looking bodysuit. Why not make it a single tone, full body with matching gloves in the same style?”
All eyes turned to Fate who blushed. “You mean my barrier jacket?”
“Yeah, but without the cape,” said RJ. “Markings too, to designate the design of the animal spirits too.”
“That could work, though it’ll involve cutting down a LOT of usual gear, but I doubt you’ll want blasters,” mused Cam. “Then again, Ninja Storm didn’t need guns either.”
“The biofield tie ins though will require some doing. Cam why don’t you get Dr. Rawlings on the phone and Tommy, why don’t you call Jason and see if he can’t lend us the Sword of Power to make the grid connection.” Said Hayley.
Then turning to Fate, she said, “Can you call your sister and ask them to send Shari over too? We’ll need some help.”
“Yuuno what’s that?” inquired Chrono as the young archeologist poured over the contents of a box.
“It’s a crystal, about yay big, with ancient Sumarian written on it,” said Yuuno.
And then he turned the statement over in his head and eased away from the box. Chrono blinked in surprise. “What’s with the reaction?”
“Oh it’s something that living on Earth taught me,” said Yuuno calmly as he eased the box closed with a stick. “Warning signs for Impending Doom. One, it’s a crystal. Two, it’s got writing in ancient dead languages, possibly incomplete. And thirdly, it was shipped to Silver Hills without any regard for safety or personal handling.”
“You’re being ridiculous,” said Chrono as he marched over and opened the box.
The crystal.
Stared.
Back.
At. Him.
When the world went purple, Yuuno sighed. “I told you so…”
“I hate time travel,” said Wes, ducking his head as he ducked behind a car. “Especially when it brings evil rangers from a possible future!”
Jen gave him a long-suffering glare and Eric snickered. Katie cleared her throat. “Can we get back to kicking butt?”
An explosion rocked their cover as Trip and Lucas scrambled into hiding. “Tell that to them!” exclaimed Trip, peeking over the car cover at the three evil rangers that were storming through Silver Hills.
Their outfits were reminiscent of the SPD prototypes, but that’s where the similarities ended. Their helmets stylized like the Psycho Rangers with powerful looking armor outlining R2, R3, R4 and R5 in yellow, black, pink and white, they all carried staves that were hybrid reminiscent of Mid-Childa mages.
“Okay, we’re Time Force. We can handle this, right?” said Katie. “Let’s get out there and kick their butts!”
“You got it. I’ve radioed in for backup too.” Added Eric. “Both Ranger and divisions. Let’s do this!”
“Time for Time Force!”
“Quantum Power!”
“Evil Rangers.” Tommy facepalmed and his expression under his Zeo Helmet was nothing short of pained. “How could this get worse?”
That’s when R2 tackled him and stood over with a familiar device. “Oh boy…”
“Hello father,” sneered the voice of his little girl, Fate as she raised her Riot Blaster. “Mother says hello in hell.”
WHAM. R2 went flying as Fate lowered Bardiche, heaving angrily, having Thunder Smashered her across the battlefield.
“GET AWAY FROM MY FATHER!”
“Go Fate-chan go!” exclaimed Nanoha cheerily as Fate fought her evil older counterpart before she was tackled by R4. R3 was involved with Hayate and she was cackling maniacally. Vivio wasn’t there of course, but Alyssa from Wild Force had stepped in to help, and Trent had been repowered for this fight. Trent had already gone to Super Dino Mode to boot.
“In hindsight this is my fault,” said Chrono and everyone glared at him. “Yuuno?”
“Suuuuure. You’re coming with me. Ready?” drawled Yuuno. Chrono looked pained. “HEY. It was your fault you looked INTO THE CRYSTAL.”
“Excuse me WHAT?” demanded Jen. “You were responsible for this? Admiral!”
Chrono coughed. “Can we get back to business?”
“Yeah they’re getting back up,” said Trip.
“Ready?” insisted Yuuno and Chrono sighed, pulling out Durandall and jacking it into a similar device.
[Riot 1 Standby Ready – LET’S ROCK!] roared the first device.
[Riot Enforcer Standby Ready – All Set My Master!] boomed the hybrid Durandall and morpher.
“Setup Cartridge! SPD EMERGENCY!” chorused the men as they were clothed in SPD Riot Ranger uniforms.
“SPD Riot 1 Red!”
“SPD Enforcer!”
“So we’ve got the Riot Rangers in custody,” said Carter, Lightspeed coming in for relief efforts from the devastated Silver Hills. “The city is thrashed though.”
“Fortunately now we can start building New Tech,” said Jen, pleased with herself. “a little before schedule but SPD needs to be founded.”
“We’ve checked them for brainwashing and control, and discovered that they were under the mental influence of some kind of being called the Magnificence,” said Shari as she stood there next to Lindy who also had been called in for efforts. “They can’t say what the Magnificence is, only that it ran rampant across these rookie SPD Rangers.”
“So now what? With the crystal broken we can’t send them home,” said Trip.
“… Why not adopt? They are your kids after all Tommy,” said Eric with a smug grin.
Tommy felt faint for the second time today, and this time he did fall over.
“I look stupid,” groused the older Fate as she looked at her blue eyes and blue hair. She had done her hair up in a big ponytail topped with a ribbon but she wore a sullen expression on her face. “Blue is definitely not my color.”
“Oh I don’t know about that Fate-chan,” snickered Nanoha, the brown haired girl having chopped her hair short. “You look good the way you are~!” and she groped her lover.
“Nanohaaaaaa!”
“You two should stop making with the frisky in the room,” sneered Hayate, the silver haired girl shaking her head. And then her expression turned fiendish as she groped Nanoha. “Not without me!”
“You guys are so weird,” groused Vivio, the platinum haired Saint Kaiser rolling her dual-toned eyes.
Little Nanoha stared at the display. “Am… I really like that?”
Fate whimpered. “I… hope not. I mean, not as public but…”
Alicia pouted. “I don’t like this.” Vivio looked at her curiously. “I mean, everyone has an evil counterpart but me!”
“Actually there’s a reason for that,” said the older Hayate. Little kidlets blinked curiously. “You never noticed that there was no R1?”
Alicia felt the Impending Sense of Doom hit. Of course it had to be the last moment as there was an explosion and a giant battle zord rising in the distance emblazoned with R1 across it. “Oh…”
“Pooh, Alicia-chan’s still under the Magnificence’s control,” sighed older Nanoha with disgust.
As the group rushed out, little Hayate wondered something. “So if she’s Riot 1, then what happened to Yuuno-kun?”
“We missed one,” said Jen as Silver Hills was once again rocked by a giant attack vehicle. “Which one is it?”
“Riot 1, Alicia.” Said big Nanoha. “You’ll need our help, Riot 1’s zord attack vehicle is way more powerful than the mechs of today, and of 3000 AD.”
Lucas grinned. “I’m sure we can arrange something.”
“You guys ready?” exclaimed Wes as he raised his arm.
“Time For Time Force!”
“SPD Riot Enforcer!”
As the group rushed into battle, older Vivio noticed something. “Where’d the kids go?”
“You sure this is a good idea?” asked little Fate as she and the girls crawled through a rickety vent.
“Due to what our older selves told us, there’s a powerful zord hidden here,” said Hayate reasonably, the pair crawling through the vents. “Vivio-chan are you holding up okay?”
“I’m fine!” exclaimed the six year old. “I’m just glad I can help.”
“Wait, this place right there is fragile. Raising Heart can you detect anything?”
[Detecting faint levels of Morphin Grid energy.] reported Raising Heart.
[As am I.] said Bardiche.
“Let’s go then. They’ll need our help.”
“WHOO!” exclaimed Trip. “We’re getting rocked here Wes!”
“Tell me something I don’t know,” grunted Wes as he hauled the Time Force Megazord upright. “One mecha vs four of us. I don’t know if I should feel ashamed that it’s kicking our butts or what.”
The Rescue Megazord was already pulling itself upright as the Q-Rex charged in, snarling loudly, biting the arm of the Riot 1 Attack Vehicle. The Riot 1 slammed it’s fist into the Q-Rex and it went sprawling. From behind however, a half-completed Riot Megazord kicked it in the butt because it had no arms or torso, the remaining limbs shooting it repeatedly.
“Damn this zord wasn’t built; it was poured!” exclaimed Kelsey.
“Die-cast construction,” puffed big Nanoha as she hauled her zord upright from where it was kicked. “It’s a new art.”
“You’re kidding me,” groaned Dana.
“I don’t think so,” grumbled Carter. “I used to play with Die-cast toys as a kid. They were IMPOSSIBLE to break.”
“Hot Wheels?” inquired Eric and Carter grunted in the affirmative. “Heh, so did I actually.”
“Can you two childhood nerds focus?” snapped Vivio.
“Hey now, we’re your elders,” whined Wes playfully despite the epic butt-kicking their zords were taking.
Quite suddenly a giant fist came out of nowhere and slammed into the Riot 1, throwing it to the ground as a ancient zord stomped into view. “Hi everyone!” chirped the pilots as one and the others expressions fell.
“What. The. Heck.” Said Tommy, driving the newly repaired Super Zeo Zord V.
“Hi Uncle Tommy!” chirped Alicia as she and the others pulled the Shogun Megazord’s sword out from its sheath. “Can we come and play too?”
“This is the weirdest experience in the known universe…” sighed Yuuno as he looked at the assembled Rangers, including the newly de-brainwashed Riot Squad Rangers. “How are we going to solve this problem?’
“Well clones aren’t exactly the big problem and they look different enough,” said Tommy, shaking his head. “What does the TSAB say?”
“They foamed about the temporal problems, but other than that,” sighed Chrono, shrugging. “Mom thinks this is awesome.”
Alicia played with her older selves black hair. “I like black hair,” she said decisively.
“In any case,” said Carter, “I think the worst we’ll do is some community service. Silver Hills is in desperate need of repairs.”
“Agreed,” said Jen. “You girls knocked it down, so you get to help repair it.”
“Awwwww!” chorused the future Rangers.
“So what I don’t get is what happened to Yuuno-kun,” said Nanoha as the little girls had decided to get to know their older selves.
“Oh, I can answer that,” said older Vivio, holding up her hand. “You see SPD, that’s the organization we work for in the future, Space Patrol Delta, in any case, in the future it’s run by a bird who then had a subordinate who was a dog and then B-squad stepped in when A-squad went awol and we were kidnapped and brainwashed although A-squad worked with Grumm willingly which opens up a whole can of worms at any rate. In any case, the bird was promoted and the dog, Anubis was promoted to head of SPD and then Sky, B-squad’s member got promoted and then Yuuno who was part of SPD already got promoted to second in command since Kat Manx was working for the head office and then Bridge got promoted to Red.”
“… sounds good to me!” exclaimed Hayate as the little girls and even the older selves puzzled that out.
Vivio hid a smirk under her soda cup.
“Hey I just got news,” said Cam as he walked into the house that evening. “I got the Solar Morphers finished!”
“About time!” exclaimed Tommy, looking up from his newspaper.
“Can we try them on?” inquired Wendi, a little put out that she and her other sisters were left out of the last few major battles.
“Sure, but you can’t use them anyhow,” chuckled Cam as he handed them their morphers and Wendi along with Fate and Nanoha played with the sunglasses, making martial arts poses. “RJ apologizes to the entire team about the job done so we get to play with normal Ranger morphers.”
“Bet Hayley loved that,” laughed Tommy. “Was it easier to do?”
Cam nodded and opened the suitcase he carried, displaying the huge white and orange morpher and tiny bracelet, and the purple colored device shaped like a wolf head.
“Purple?” inquired Nanoha, looking at it as she handed back the sunglasses.
“Purple. Seems that’s the color of his Animal Spirit,” said Cam in the affirmative.
“Huh, there hasn’t been a purple Ranger in, well, ever,” said Tommy. “Come to think about it, it’s the only color of the grid we never touched.”
“Well he’ll be the first,” said Cam with a smirk.
“Hello mom,” said Fate as she opened the door to Kimberly who carried a casserole dish with her and Vivio clinging to her legs. “Hey Vi.”
“Hi,” said Vivio shyly.
“Thought you girls needed a hot meal for once,” said Kim with a little grin as she entered the shared apartment that the Rangers had set up for the dimensionally and temporally displaced SPD Riot Rangers. “This is a nice place.”
“Hayate’s an interior decorator,” replied Fate as she let in Kim. “You know mom I can’t get over the fact you haven’t married father yet.”
Kim blushed. “Well it’s been a long time in coming, but we can’t rush things. It’s been a long time since we’ve both dated each other.”
“Steal his shirt,” suggested Fate with a little grin.
“Oh hey Auntie,” said Alicia, sticking her black haired head into the room. “Is that your famous casserole?”
“Yep, fresh out of the oven no less,” said Kim as Vivio scampered up to Hayate and the silver haired girl allowed her leap onto her lap. “Where’s Vivio?”
“She’s out at the moment, something to do about shopping,” said Hayate.
“Oh I’m sorry,” said Vivio as she bumped into a cart at the local supermarket.
“No, it’s perfectly okay,” said the woman with an Australian accent. She then noticed Vivio’s nearly all-white outfit and smirked. “Must be hard to keep stains out.”
“Like you wouldn’t believe,” groaned the girl as she noticed the other woman’s pink shirt.
There was an awkward pause. And the Vivio ventured “SPD Riot Ranger Five.”
“Zeo Ranger One Pink.” The woman smiled. “I didn’t think I’d meet another Ranger for a while. Katherine Hillard.”
“Vivio Hart.”
Kat blinked. “Hart as in…?”
“Kimberly. She’s my adopted mother.”
“Small world. She gave me my powers originally.”
Vivio grinned. “So what kind of dirt do you have on dad?”
“Dad? You mean… Tommy?” ventured Kat.
“Yeah, but they’re not married yet. Time Travel WHEEEEE.”
“Whoa, surge in the morphin grid,” remarked Hayley as she was running a routine scan of the California area. Why California? Ley Lines. Really. “Looks like… Pink Zeo Energy?”
Calling Tommy downstairs, Tommy looked over Hayley’s shoulder. “Pink Zeo. Kat’s back in town?”
“Well, adjacent town, Silver Hills to be exact. Looks like there’s another grid signature. It’s SPD Riot 5.”
“Oh man, what are they doing?”
“Fighting Troobians.”
“… troobians?”
“We can’t take you anywhere can we?” demanded Eric as he joined the party of robot attackers.
“Looks like Grumm started early with his party boys,” puffed Vivio as she threw one over her shoulder. “This is just an advance scouting party though!”
“At least we can handle ourselves,” replied Kat as she fought just as easily against the troobian mechs. “Time Force right?”
“Yeah, but just me. I’m on break,” said Eric. “I can handle a few measly grunts.”
“Hey now Uncle Eric, stop flirting. What’ll aunt Taylor say?” teased Vivio.
“I would think aunt Taylor would say none of your business,” snarked back Eric as he smashed one in the face.
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“Will you people hurry it up?” snarked Lothor. “And you, Shinkenger people! Follow the Rangers lead! I don’t have all day. I’m missing my nap.”
Takeru understandably looked put out as Sensei shrugged apologetically. “READY!” yelled Tommy and he was answered by a chorus of stances.
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