A free day. A day to walk in the park, breathe in the early summer air, listen to the birds. A time to wear a light white shirt, a black one over it. Jasmine sighs happily and sits down on a bench overlooking the well-manicured bushes and a path down to the water's edge. Around the park in the distance rise the city skyscrapers, dusted with pollution. Yet here one can pretend there isn't any. Jasmine has closed her eyes to enjoy the place and opens them. Then a woman says softly, "It's lovely, isn't it?" "Eh?" wonders Jasmine. She looks down and realizes there's a woman standing on the path near the water. An artist dressed in lilac and white with a light easel set up. The woman continues, "The sky, too." Strangely pensive she adds, "The green... the city also. This place." Jasmine has gotten to her feet and stares down curiously. At last the strange woman looks directly at her. "Everyone is happy." Jasmine comes down, agreeing with her. "Would you show me your picture?" With a soft sound of amusement the woman indicates sure. Jasmine, however, is not prepared for what she sees. Flames. A skyscraper twisted, the buildings with bits torn out and all the windows gone, desolate in a burning wind. In that wind is a face of flame, and a distant vortex in the sky. Only the park seems fine, turned golden and yellow by the firelight. Jasmine bites her lip and stares at the artist, who says vaguely that it's beatiful, and without fear. Then she comments, "Just like you. Really beautiful." She stares into Jasmine's eyes. Then she says something that sounds vaguely like "You look good enough to eat", and reaches out to brush the backs of her fingers along Jasmine's cheek. Jasmine looks mesmerized, until their bare skins touch and her mind is filled with a vision of explosion and fire, and something in the flames, a woman in armor, and screams so many people screaming perhaps Umeko's voice among them. Gasping with shock, she pulls herself away from the strange woman, colliding with the easel which falls to the path, the terrifying painting so very visible. Jasmine gasps and lifts her gaze, but the woman is gone. Shaken, Jasmine stares around. "That woman... is an Alienizer," she says numbly. And then a crow calls loudly. Jasmine whirls and looks up to find the sky is rolling with black clouds.

A skyscraper explodes! "Poyong!" hollars a very happy someone. A green and brown blur is bouncing its way through the city, careless of the destruction left in its wake. It crushes a car it bounces off just before that explodes, small damage when other impacts destroy buildings. Eventually it lands among the black columns of a park, and the other four Dekaranger catch up with it at last. They call on it to stop and Umeko yells it's under arrest. He, for this one is male, turns to face them. Yellow and orange eyes, green skin banded with silver, heavy red dreadlocks. It is a massive creature. "What's with you?" he asks innocently. "I'm just out lookin' for my li'l sister!" He is Bongoburin of Riparshia Star. "Then you'd better come to Deka Base!" Ban shouts. But Bongoburin leaps into the sky and lands back in front of them. Angrily, they fire only to have him catch their shots and reflect those back at them. The four fall in explosions.

Jasmine searches the wooded park for the mysterious woman. She tracks her into an area when the leaves of the trees create a fine canopy above,and finds a young man lying on the ground. She tries to wake him, but he is so still and fear grips her. Then she realizes he is only the first. The forest floor beyond is littered with bodies. Are they dead? I don't know yet. And then someone falls behind her and she whips around. The woman, the Alienizer, walks calmly between the trees. She doesn't look at Jasmine until our woman leaps to her feet and demands, "What have you done to all these people?!" Now the woman does look at her, face quiet. "I'm Space-police! Answer me!" Jasmine snaps, pulling out her badge. At that, the woman smiles. The air around her shifts with violet mist and light. In a moment, her clothing transforms into light armor, silver black and lilac. Her face is accented by a blood-red mark outlined in blue-black. Not that she didn't already have an idea, but Jasmine is still startled and lowers her badge. The woman is Succubus (Sakyubasu) of Riparshia Star. "Tell me your name," she says. Or it could be "give me your life." She licks her lips with a long, coppery forked tongue courtesy of CG. Jasmine's eyes blaze. "You shouldn't eat so much, you'll get fat," she snaps. She changes into her armor, which does not impress Succubus. Actually, it seems to amuse her. In response, Succubus manifests a helmet and the two charge to battle. Jasmine finds herself overmatched, though the other woman does flinch when she fires on her. But then Succubus flies in at Jasmine, cutting her down. Up a tree she goes and laughs for joy at the fallen human. Jasmine fires again and Succubus leaps down at her, evading the shot. Jasmine gets kicked around, though not so badly as to stop her fighting. At least until Succubus aims a blast of violet energy pooled from the armor on both shoulders at her. This blast knocks Jasmine from her uniform and she cries out in pain as she hits the leafy ground. In her civvies and sufficiently frightened, she finds Succubus approaching with a gliding stride. Jasmine's face is bruised, the skin scraped and when Succubus grabs her throat she can only struggle, clutching at the alien woman's gloved hand. Succubus amuses herself by quick-walking Jasmine into a tree and puts her blade to our girl's throat. But Jasmine recovers and tells her defiantly, "If you're going to eat me and cut me up, then auntie hear my last words." Amused by her defiance, Succubus says she doesn't want to wipe out Jasmine. She shuts down her helmet and we see that her eyes are wide with a clear lack of any sanity. "I want you to come with me." "What, as your carry-out lunch?" Jasmine accuses. "Oh, no. Not at all. I want us to be friends." She leans in with interest. Jasmine keeps still and replies, "Only one problem with that. I'm a cop. I arrest those who commit crimes. Don't you know that?" She remains defiant, and that seems to only increase Succubus' interest. The alien woman draws back to look at her. "That's good." Jasmine brushes her hair back into place, badly shaken and angry. "That's if you survive." Then she slams out her hand, covering Jasmine's mouth and nose but then her hand slips slightly down, allowing our girl to breath. "You're an esper. That's how you knew about me." Succubus' madness flows and swirls. "Can you see? I've been to 79 stars... always destroyed." Jasmine can see, all right, her mind filling with flames. Succubus making kill after kill in the fires of Hell. Laughing for the sheer joy of it. Jasmine is frozen with terror, fire overwhelming her thoughts but still Succubus' voice wanders through the screams. "So why is it I've come to want you?" A world, caught like a jewel in space, explode violently. Surely Earth. "Perhaps if you're my companion, I won't destory this world." The visions fade and only these two women see each other. "I'll give you a little time to answer me," Succubus says, and with the mood change of the mad, throws Jasmine down and turns expressionlessly away. Jasmine takes a second to recover, look around in wide-eyed panic, but Succubus is gone. The forest seems to have lightened a bit with her absence. Jasmine starts to stand, then sinks down again, weak with shock and panting.

The others are still engaged in battle with Bongoburin, who is one tough customer. He has powerful fists and he punches his way through them, ultimately disrupting their armor and laying them out helpless on the cement. Their bruises are a match for Jasmine's and, like her, they are for the moment unable to get to their feet. "You can't stop me!" he tells them cheerfully, then bends his knees for another massive leap. Or is it? Wincing in agony, they stare at him. The buckle on his belt glimmers with light. Just as he is about to take off, the belt puts out a square hologram in which is Succubus' image. "Where are you, big bro'?" she asks him impatiently. She scolds him for playing around, they've got work to do. "Right, I'm coming now!" he says after her image is gone. He bids them later with a remark to the effect that they are alive, and whirls to bounce away. This time he does not destroy as he bounces, for he has a destination in mind. "Where's he going?" gasps Hoji. "Who was that who called him?" wonders Umeko. Sen grates out, "We can't stop him, he's too strong." But Ban, teeth bared, snarls "We'll see what happens next time!" He manages to get to his feet, though he's swaying pretty wildly. He calls his determination and the others take heart from him.

Deka Base. Jasmine sits with the others, clasping her hands in a gesture revealing her pain and alarm. Kruger is explaining about their enemies. "The male is Bongoburin, the female is Succubus. There are three of them, he is the middle and she is the youngest." What he says next makes Ban hopeful, but that turns out to be a mistake he's made by mininterpreting. Hoji scolds him and clarifies the danger. Sen clarifies about the pursuit of these unusually dangerous Alienizer, that the Elite teams have been responsible. Ban asks Kruger who says they are "The Hell's Three-siblings." And they have a long trail of dead worlds behind them. They've destroyed 79 worlds. Something about them searching for something. Jasmine suddenly gasps in horrified memory. The words she's heard through the flames in her mind. Succubus saying "If you're my companion, I won't destroy this world. I'll give you a little time to answer me." Trembling, Jasmine bites her lip. "Hold on," Ban says urgently to Kruger, "Three siblings? You mean there's one more?" Kruger confirms that there's still Blitz, who is the most powerful of the trio. "Eh?" the others yelp. He explains a little about what Succubus does and how it relates to Blitz and fireworks. "So has he come?" Umeko asks. I guess they don't have any pictures of him, since he usually arrives when it's too late for anyone to film.... Kruger sends them off.

They go dashing down the stairs, Ban at the fore. Jasmine trails behind and then says, "Wait." Startled, they halt and turn to her. Looking agonized she says, "We don't have the power to judge them." "WHAT are you talking about, Jasmine?" Umeko counters in confusion. Jasmine says painfully, "Earth is going to burn...." They stare at her in dismay and she adds, "There's only one way to stop it. I have to go join Succubus." She swallows before continuing, "Then Earth will be spared." Hoji protests that this is hardly the proper reaction to criminals, Jasmine! Sen adds quietly that this is unreasonable. "You promised to protect!" "Yeah!" adds Umeko anxiously. Jasmine won't look at them. Ban bolts up a few steps. "What's up? This isn't like you!" he snaps anxiously. She turns to them with frustration. "You all can't see what she's really like!" She turns away from them. "I saw. She's killed so many people. She's destroyed stars. She'll destroy this world!" and Jasmine clutches her head, still remembering the horror of Succubus' mind. And her words are alarming the others, Umeko's shoulders start to sag. Ban, seeing them becoming disheartened, moves anxiously to counter that. "Hey, no don't worry!" he leaps up the stairs to Jasmine. "We'll beat them!" he slaps his hand encouragingly against her shoulders. She pulls her head from her hands and looks back at him, mustering a pained smile. But it's clear she doesn't really believe it.

Succubus is looking quietly thoughtful when Bongoburin arrives with a joyful cry. He bounces off a tall tower and lands beside her. "Hi!" he greets her. She leans her weight on her left leg, arm bent against her hip. "Big bro, you're late!" she scolds him. "Hey, I was looking for you!" he protests, then turns to look at the tall building. "Oooh, is this the tower you found? It's a good one!" he praises her. "Let me have a taste!" he turns to go at it, but she wags a finger at him and says "Don't you dare." Pacing a bit, she says that they have to wait a bit for their back(up?). But some of their work can start right now. She holds up a remote device. "God Pounder," she summons. And a huge mech drops from the sky. Red, with clawed toes, a fanged mouth designed into its chest. Immense fists and blue power centers on both shoulders and chest. It is one powerful looking machine.

Kruger quickly relays its coordinates to the team and sends out the Deka Machines. The Dekabase also appears to be rumbling that direction. Our heroes get out of their regular cars in order to board. Jasmine goes more slowly than the others, still biting her lip.

Bongoburin is very excited. Soon they can call in their big brother. But for now, Succubus has boarded God Pounder. The mighty machine walks to a point just before two skyscrapers and looks down. Pulling levers, Succubus starts a function. The blue power-centers on its shoulders glow and send out beams of light that assemble into a strange, clawed machine as tall as the tower she's chosen. She is unaware that they are being observed. Agent Aburera recognizes the mecha as that of the Hell's Three Siblings. "Well! If the three of them are here, this world's going to be destroyed. I guess my work here is over..." he says with considerable satisfaction. He heads away.

Our heroes are also there, hiding behind a tall building in the Dekarobo, observing the lay of the land. God Pounder takes a step back from the strange object it's created. Jasmine utters a small whimper of horror, understanding what the thing is for. It will start the fireworks. Hoji announces a plan of attack, and the others nod their heads except for Jasmine, who suddenly gasps and starts hitting buttons, levers and switches in her cockpit. Before the others know what's happening, Deka Robo is on the move in response to her commands. "Jasmine?!" yelps Umeko. But Jasmine only has eyes, ears and awareness for Succubus, shouting that she won't let them destroy Earth. She comes in firing. God Pounder doesn't seem to really be affected by the impact of the bullets, but Succubus moves it to protect the machine they've made. Jasmine tries to run God Pounder down. The others struggle to get control but fail. When God Pounder starts firing, Jasmine makes Dekarobo dive and roll, firing back. She screams in rage when the shots are simply blocked, so she sends Dekarobo into an attacking leap and strikes down with the Judgement Sword. God Pounder catches the blade in both fists and uses it to control Dekarobo's balance, which stuns Jasmine. A hard punch to Dekarobo's chest knocks them down, the impact causing a shock. Succubus comments with mild amusement and Jasmine snarls "Not yet!" She sends power through the chest plate which glows bright red, and fires the Signal Canon. God Pounder knocks the shots aside and back to them. Succubus calls to her brother to set the Fireworks on and contact their eldest brother. "Right, Succubus!" Bongoburin agrees with a salute. "I'm not letting you do that!" snarls Jasmine. Ban and the others are screaming into her ears, trying to get some input into the proceedings. Their shouts finally reach her and she whimpers an apology, realizing what she's been doing. This allows them to help at last, and work with her to get Dekarobo back to its feet. But Bongoburin has bounced to the top of the machine his sister had set up. He pounds his fists together in delight. He holds some sort of trigger device. "Hold it!" shouts Ban, and they head Dekarobo for the device, Judgement Sword out. God Pounder moves to intercept. They strike and she counters, forcing them back with punch after punch to the robot's chest. Bongoburin prepares to hit the trigger. "Three... two... o -- hold on!" he suddenly realizes his position is really a bad one for this. He could be destroyed when the machine activates. "Boyooong!" he cries, bouncing to the nearby tower his sister had chosen. He lands, turns and starts the countdown again. "Three, two, one!" he crows. Umeko hears and cries "Oh no!" and something else which may or may not have anything to do with Bongoburin losing his train of thought. "Um... I forgot," he puzzles, what is he to do next? "STOP!" shouts Jasmine. But thank heavens, before Bongoburin can hit the switch, a black and blue blur hits him. The trigger is knocked to the ground far below. Kruger has arrived in his Deka Master armor. "Boss!" gasps Jasmine in relief. "Leave this one to me," he tells them. Bongoburin is annoyed. "What're you?" Well, he is number 100, Deka Master, the Watchdog of Hell. "Huh?" asks Bongoburin. Deka Master draws his blade, Bongoburin pounds his chest, and they charge at each other. But for once, Kruger is up against a match for him. What Bongoburin lacks in intellect is made up for by sheer physical power. Kruger's blade doesn't scratch his hide because he seems to be made of rubber. Kruger's strikes simply bounce off of him. Dismayed, Kruger is at a loss. Desperate, he tries a straightforward slash at Bongoburin's head. Bongoburin tries to catch the blade between his fists but misses. That doesn't really matter, though. His head is so thick the blade only stings. A lot. "Hey! That hurt!" protests the annoyed alien. And he starts punching. His raw power gets through Kruger's guard. Chest punches, jabbing with shoulder blades. Kruger's falls painfully and rolls. The Dekaranger don't have time to worry about him, though. God Pounder knocks the Judgement Blade from their hands. They flinch back at it leaps at them, diving for their feet and yanking, sending the Dekarobo crashing again onto its back. The kids are jolted painfully. But that isn't the end for, like her brother, Succubus goes for the chest, punching and punching. Hoji frantically tries to use the Gyro Blaster, but she takes that out with the next punch and hits even harder on the chest. The repeated blows are having devastating effect, sending electrical feedback and causing explosions in the cockpits. Our heroes are blasted from their armor, battered and scorched. Jasmine shields her eyes and realizes in agony that they can't beat Succubus. She can hear her teammates screaming as each punch causes electric shocks to hit them. They don't even have time to unbuckle their belts and flee. "Stop!" Jasmine screams. She braves the pain to reach for the clasps. Succubus is pulling back to deliver the final blow when she finds Jasmine standing there with arms spread wide, right where she would hit. She stops. "Oh. It's you," she says with interest. "I remember what you said," Jasmine tries painfully, lowering her hands. "Are you going to be my companion?" Succubus asks. Jasmine nods and starts to step forward. The others tear up onto the flashing light, Hoji gets to her first. "Don't do it, Jasmine!" he cries. The light bath their faces in red. She tells him, them, "There's no there choice. I have to." Hoji nearly whimpers and looks down. Sen opens his mouth, then closes it not knowing what to say. They all gaze down. She starts forward again only to find Ban blocking her way. Lower lip stubbornly out he says earnestly, "This won't bring peace." When she looks pained he shouts that she can't give up her life like this. "Ban..!" she starts to counter, but he won't shut up. He believes in her, he grabs her arms and shakes her, trying to stop her from giving up. The others, bolstered by his unflaggin determination, brighten and take steps towards her, for they believe in her, too. They nod, eyes shining. She lifts her gaze to meet Ban's, eyes full of pain. But there is a brilliant flare of light from God Pounder's eyes above them. They whirl and cover their eyes, but the light overwhelms them.

Yellow blurs blackness blurs to white. Seeing double, most awful when what you're seeing is the enemy. Jasmine lies limp, still very dazed. Her eyes are glazed. Succubus reaches down to caress her cheek. Coming to her senses, Jasmine gasps and flinches in terror. "What a good girl you are," Succubus says softly. "You understand, now?" and she stands, Jasmine automatically lifting her head to follow. Now we see the others lie sprawled a few meters away, unmoving. "There is no way to resist us." Jasmine sits up, then whirls to see her friends. Sen is flat on his face. Ban lies on his back. Umeko is half-curled but largely on her face, and Hoji is on his face beside her. For the moment she cannot see if they are breathing. "Well... come." Jasmine turns to find Succubus holding out a hand for her to take. As much as it hurts, she lowers her head and then forces herself to reach up. Succubus pulls her to her feet with a pleased smile. And Ban regains consciousness in time to see this. He struggles to get up even as the others start to wake, too. They react with horror as they see Succubus leading Jasmine away. She passes a pleased smile in their direction. But before they've gone more than two steps, Jasmine balks. Succubus looks back at her with an inquiring sound, but Jasmine's eyes are hard with determination. She pulls her hand free and whirls around bringing that very hand to give the other woman a sharp smack. The surprise mostly, I think, staggers Succubus. The other Dekaranger start to scramble to their feet. "What are you doing?" Succubus snarls. Half-hysterical, Jasmine makes a statement about who she is and what she does and her belief that they can stop the Hell's Trio. This only makes Succubus raise her head and glower. The others, Sen in the lead, announce that they, too, believe. They charge to Jasmine's side, much to her relief. "Idiots. Idiots!" says Succubus. "If you aren't my friend, then you get no mercy." Jasmine replies, "That's what I want." Ban at her side snarls that they will show their power, and Jasmine nods firm agreement. She calls for them to go into their armor. The five transform and Jasmine leads the attack. Succubus snorts with contempt, closes her helmet over her face and leaps. She mocks that she's too strong, heading straight for the skies. But above her Ban sneers back. The other four were prepared for this while her attention was on Jasmine. They fire down at her, blowing her out of the sky and straight to where Jasmine is waiting to leap up and strike. Succubus lands painfully, but she is still under attack. Jasmine hits her with a string of bombs. The five land bravely.

Up atop a building, the fight is still on between Bongoburin and Deka Master. Like the others, Kruger is starting to have an effect and Bongoburin is rather surprised. "Why are you still fighting me?" he protests. Kruger points out that they aren't going to let him burn the world, and uses a ferocious attack, the Tornado Slash, which Bongoburin runs straight into. The attack knocks him flying, to land on the cement near his sister who calls out to him. Now all six Dekaranger are there to fight. "What do you think or our power?" Jasmine challenges them. Bongoburin holds position slightly in front of Succubus, but the pair are frightened now and stick close together. Succubus steps back and her heel kicks something. She looks down to find that fortune has put the trigger at her feet. She snatchs it up. "Big Brother!" she says as she presses the trigger. They have no time to stop her. They gasps and Jasmine reaches out a preventative hand, but it is too late. The great canon (for that is what it is) fires a brilliant burst of light into space. Fireworks fill the emptiness beyond Earth's atmosphere. "Oh no!" gasp the boys. Jasmine hangs her head in despair, but Kruger sets a reassuring hand on her shoulder. "We can still pass Judgement on these two," he points out. That certainly brightens her up. She gets the fond duty, identifying them and holding them in her Judgement field. There really is no question, it falls on the red X, and she calls in Murphy. The bazooka comes into their hand and Jasmine calls the commands to fire. As the powerful double bolt bears down on them, Bongoburin and Succubus cringe back. The world flares white around them. But then Jasmine gasps, for this light holds far longer than normal. For the blast has been caught and controlled by the newcomer. He clenches the power in his fist and wipes it out. He is massive, heavily armored. Powerful. The Dekaranger scatter a bit and stare at him in shock. Red eyes, red lightning marks on his face. A heavy-metal theme for him. "Big Brother!" gasps Succubus, to be echoed by Bongoburin. He stands between his younger siblings and the Dekaranger six. "I am the Space-Death, Blitz. I have come to bring terror and darkness to this world." His siblings step to his back. The Dekaranger regard him with small gasps of terror. He sweeps out his weapon and sends a tremendous blast at them. They fall and some even bounce. When they get back to their feet, staggering, He aims a blaster of some kind. And then he fires again, repeating shots which tear them down in agony.

With the team out of commission, it is Swan who must give us the final word this episode. "Well! Isn't this with Succubus pretty awful?" She rolls her head at us and asks "What is with this Blitz, anyway?" Marching across the room she says, "But it's all right. The Dekaranger won't be beaten. It's about justice!"

Episode. 22 Fullthrottle Elite
The heroes are gathered at their table, but I don't see Kruger. Ban is heading this meeting, driven by rage and pain. They face someone with Murphy-Bazooka, and Ban shouts a protest about something into his badge. My guess is they've taken out Bongoburin. But Blitz and Succubus have their own enemy to contend with. The arrival of the man in white and blue with yellow trimming. Dekabreak, who has a funky way of talking. We know at some point our heroes will be fighting Bongoburin and getting punched around. Ban will fire with his double-guns. The girls will battle Succubus. Doggie Kruger in the Deka Master armor will go up against Blitz. And Dekbrake will also fight Blitz at high speeds. The Dekarobo will go up against a giant-sized Bongoburin. And you, too, can send in a postcard to win a kids outfit for Dekaranger.

The boys aren't fairing well either, for Bongoburin's deadly silver fists rain pain upon them. He punches Sen and Hoji back, sending them rolling with the wind knocked out of them. Ban leaps protectively in front of the pair and starts firing with both of his guns. Bongoburin closes his arms in front of his chest and face. The bullets impact harmlessly. Ban spins and keeps firing, but the situation doesn't improve. Sen and Hoji are back on their feet behind him as the smoke rises from his spent weapons. Bongoburin parts his arms and the bullets fall like rain to the ground at his feet. Hoji utters a gasp of dismay to accompany Sen's shock. "Did you forget? You can't hurt me!" Bongoburin laughs. Then he charges forward - er... well, his feet slip in the pool of bullets and he falls on his right shoulder with a yelp of pain. He gets up complaining that they put those little balls all over, and an angry Hoji snarls back, "YOU did it!" Annoyed, Bongoburin bounces high and comes down hard right in front of them (they stood and watched, so really it was their own fault). He starts punching at Sen and Hoji, as Ban is behind him. Ban kicks, but already Bongoburin is turning and smashes him down.

Kruger is sent rolling speedily across the cement. The exhaustion is starting to show as he tries to get back up. Blitz is relentless, heavy blade swinging. Kruger barely parries one strike but is vulnerable to the next. When he tries to get in a blow, Blitz spins under his swing and hits him in the chest again.

Succubus catches Jasmine's neck and pulls her in. "You can't have any effect however you try," she says amusedly. "Since you didn't want to be my friend, there's nothing you can do." "Jasmine!" Umeko yelps and leaps to attack, but Succubus cuts her down with barely a glance and kicks Jasmine in the ribs. A strike sends our yellow-clad officer tumbling. "Jasmine!" calls Kruger. But the three enemies, though in seperate places, are as one. All three put out powerful, final strikes. Succubus' is a violet X of light which engulfs the girls. Blitz's is a blue-white streak of power which hits Kruger's upper chest. Bongoburin's are powerful, sparking explosions which take down the three boys. Everyone goes flying in flaming blasts. They land painfully in close proximity with each other, and their three enemies stand together. Blitz announces that this star is going to become a paradise of terror. Then with amusement he adds, "We will teach the ignorant masses what it means to be useless and eaten (maybe)." He turns and starts to walk away. Startled, Bongoburin asks, "Big Bro, aren't you going to finish them off?" "Oh, I want the terror to build up slowly," Blitz replies. "It'll be all the sweeter when I eat it." He licks his fingertips in an all-too nasty rapacious gesture. Bonguburin does a little bounce, "Right! You're clever, big bro!" Succubus, who has shut down her helmet, laughs affectionately. She tosses a final remark about eating over her shoulder, and follows her brothers away. After a few steps, they ripple and vanish. And our six battered heroes slowly begin to pull themselves to their feet. Kruger says grimly something about where they've gone and that they're very, very powerful. The others make soft little dismayed noises, and Ban more shrilly utters a snarl and punches the cement beneath him.

They haven't gone that far, actually. Bongoburin is repeatedly singing "Boyong!" as they approach the tower Succubus likes. "Bro, over here!" Bongo calls. "Here?" Blitz asks thoughtfully. "Isn't it a nice place?" Succubus sort of shrugs at their surroundings. He doesn't answer, but instead lifts the jagged blade. A bright light flares at the tip, framed neatly by the tall tower. He starts moving his hand slowly in front of him and speaks in tongues (hahah) like a wizard intoning a spell. In fact that might very well be what he is doing. "Armufenargenton!" he repeats again and again. Succubus reaches out her hand to join his actions, and so does Bongoburin. When their voices join his, a strange symbol appears around them, not quite under their feet is is blue light. They are at the center of a magic circle, eldritch symbols appear. A triangle, the pointed end towards the tower. Two balls of blue against each angle. The light flares violet and roars up from, largely, the tip of his blade. It coils out and engulfs the tower's top, changing it to a new form. A great eye, the pupil like a massive red and white target. Four turrets and a central tower, and sweetly elegant in a menacing way. With a pleased snort, Blitz strides towards it, his siblings trailing after him. Strange symbols decorate the interior, golden shapes like gears sit atop at least eight white pillars. The eye also in what seems to be a gear, designed into a triangle sitting behind a throne. The room inside has black walls. As per tradition, the floor is obscured by rolling, white mist. Blitz confidently settles into the throne. And then who comes walking through the mist but a large group of Anaroids. Puzzled, Bongoburin and Succubus look at the intruders, who stop at attention and seem to salute. The two in the lead are carrying metal briefcases. Blitz says amusedly, "It's Aburera." The Anaroids seem to utter an affirmative noise. His creations having broke the ground for him, he steps forward and they part like a wave. "I've come as you asked," Aburera says. The two lead Anaroids kneel and open their cases. Blitz seems to say he thinks Aburera was too afraid not to come. Aburera neither confirms nor denies. There is business to get down to. Succubus comes over to one case and takes out a blue ball with a concentric ring, that which becomes a Battsuroid. She considers it with a pleased sigh and turns her sparkling gaze to her eldest brother. Blitz turns his to Aburera. "I'm not paying for this." Aburera snorts and looks to his Anaroids. "You really think nothing of the Space Police," he says amusedly. "Oh, not nothing," counters Blitz. "I'm just playing it cool." Aburera turns away and says, "I'll certainly be happy to see the end of this." Blitz leans forward slightly and says something in a teasing tone, which causes Aburera to turn back and utter a laughing snort, then salute him jauntily before sweeping his cape around and leaving the building. The Anaroid close ranks behind him, staying where they've been assigned. Blitz gets to his feet and roars, "Now, we shall turn this world into a world of HELL!" The Anaroids obediantly cheer. "The terror of these people will provide us with the greatest energy!" crows Blitz, and they again cheer him. Again the bit about the world and terror. An army of yes-men must be addicting. Succubus smirks. Blitz calls on his little brother, who is off to carry out his part of the plan.

Swan wears computer goggles, we see the reverse side of the data that is coming through to her. She parts the goggles and sighs, looking down on the battered, scorched machine in the repair bay. Ban's vehicle. The machines are pulling off shells to get at the more delicate insides.

Kruger is with the others in the main office, talking about Blitz and the other two. The horrors of their being here. "Every star they've ever attacked has been destroyed. More than a hundred Special Police have died trying to stop them." Hoji, face ashen, looks down. "And now they've come here." Sen utters a pained, "We have zero percent chance of beating them." Hoji stares at him with wide eyes and he adds a soft, "I think." Umeko ducks her chin into her palms and Jasmine looks utterly bereft as the other girl says, "Even with the Boss beside us, we couldn't stop them." Ban looks around at each of them, and bites the insides of his cheeks stubbornly. Then he pushes himself up. "Don't you all fall into despair!" he tells them sternly. He adds a bit about justice and its fierce punch, swinging his arms with determination. They respond to his passionate encouragement, a smile breaking like light across Jasmine's face. She stands to join him. "I second Ban! Let's go!" she say cheerfully. Hoji pulls out of his funk, pushing to stand up, too. "Justice will win!" Sen says, on his feet and smiling too. Umeko grins and agrees with them, "We'll go and punch 'em out!" Ban nods and smiles in relief. Kruger, too, nods proudly at them. And then there is the beeping from his badge. Someone tells Kruger that there's a signal and he turns to see as it blooms on the viewscreen. They see a red and white eagle-type alien in a uniform as proud, if not more heavily decorated, as Kruger's. "Admiral!" Kruger gasps, on his feet and saluting in an instant. Hoji and the others follow suit quick as they can. His is Numa 0, of Horus Star. The Commander-in-Chief of the Space Police. "It's been a long time, Kruger," he says respectfully. Kruger replies with a salutatious bow. Getting straight down to business, Numa 0's call is about the Hell's Three. It seems, he explains, that they've been gathering data for years on the three, and have been training specialists for just this purpose. They've got one, and they're sending him to Earth. Kruger and the others utter small gasps of relief. And Ban can imagine row of men and women in white with black trim, training hard. Some are non-humans. Training hard in martial arts, Shourinji Kempo. "He's been in training for fifteen years," Numa 0 continues, "He's originally from Earth." And he's putting this man in Kruger's hands. He ends the communication and they salute. Hoji turns to the others with relief. "He's a fifteen year veteran," he comments happily. Umeko is overjoyed. So is Sen. And then Kruger's badge signals again. "What's happened?" he answers it. The man on the other end gives the coordinates of a building at a certain point, except that it's being eaten up by one of the aliens. They all go wide-eyed and Kruger whirls to send them off.

Bongoburin all right, and there's not much left of the building. He's munching a wall down to the bones. "One building down!" he crows when he's finished. Our heroes are rapidly approaching when they receive a signal from someone with a strangely young voice. "All you Dekaranger," he starts right away. Jasmine and Ban glance at each other with surprise. "Tell me where you are." There is only sound, and a startled Jasmine signals back, "Who are you?" "I'm the specialist," he replies. They grin broadly and Ban says "Yeah we just heard about you!" "Eh?" asks the other, surprised. Ban continues, "But we're all right. We can handle just one of them no problem. Justice will prevail!" Jasmine utters a pleased agreeing sound. The man on the other end repeats the words in bewilderment, "Justice... will prevail?" A bit puzzled by his tone they look at the speaker and Ban asks, "What's the matter?" He answers, "Oh, nothing. But I'll be there soon. Wait a bit, please." "Roger!" Ban says cheerfully. Our team continues on its way.

Bongoburin is at a wharf, deciding happily what to attack next. There the Dekaranger confront him, yelling at him to stop. "Ooh, you've come again!" he laughs. "We can beat you ourselves!" Ban snaps at him, and the others are only too happy to follow his lead. Together they charge forward. When he swings, each in turn ducks and tumbles under his strikes. Sen kicks him and he kicks back, he gets in a punch at Jasmine. Hoji and Ban kick from behind but Bongo's already turned around. He strikes at them and they dive around but he whirls and hits them the next time. Umeko gets in a punch only to get caught between his fists. He grasps her head, whirls her and then tosses her over his head. She lands on her back, only slightly winded as the others gather around her. "You fools!" he mocks them. "Have you forgotten that you can't hurt me?" "We aren't going to attack the same way," Hoji says confidently. They are pulling out their guns and all five start firing, Hoji first. Bongo simply leaps out of the path of their bullets. He kicks Ban in the head, sending our boy tumbling. Hoji tries but gets punched around, Sen gets his legs knocked out from under him, then Bongo slams him in the chest with both enormous fists before he gets up only to be punched away. Hoji comes in to get punched back next. He lands rolling and is back on his feet with a gasp. Bongo pounds his chest, enjoying himself thoroughly. Then he lowers his head and charges, butting into Hoji and sending him flying into the water. Jasmine and Umeko try to strike as one with their rapiers, he pins the blades under his arms and spins them before letting go so they tumble to the cement. Umeko comes back in to get knocked down, with Jasmine rapidly following. He punches them both at once and they go flying. Hoji comes back out of the water with a vengeance. Bongo utters a startled noise at his appearance and is hit by several shots. He's actually hurt and waves his arms. Hoji lands amidst the girls and Ban. They assemble together and Ban is about to lead another attack when he notices that Sen is missing. Sen had paused in mid-battle to upturn himself against a stack of recycled metal blocks and process what he's seen. He's figured something out that way! On his feet again he tells the others "Guys, in the mouth!!" "Mouth?" repeats Jasmine. "In?" adds Umeko. Nodding, Sen charges over to them and explains that he figures the mouth must be a soft point, though Bongo's hide seems impervious. "Ooh!" says Umeko, and Ban yelps a delighted "That's right!" "Oh?" says Bongo. "Well you aren't getting anything in my mouth." He closes his fists in front of his face. Umeko minces cheerfully forward. "Hi, Bongoburin!" she calls cheerfully and waves at him. Automatically he opens his arms to wave back calling, "Hi!" and opening his mouth wide. Jasmine takes that opportunity, hauling out tow black rings between her fingers and throwing them quickly into his mouth. He closes it automatically and seems to swallow. A moment later they explode, staggering him. Flames and smoke are visible between his teeth. He falls on his back, kicking at the sharp pain. Ban quickly calls, "Murphy! Keybone!" and has that out for their robot dog. Murphy leaps for it, reconfigures into bazooka mode. They get ready to fire. Bongo is back on his feet, doing a little outraged dance because of his sore mouth. On the stairs of a nearby building are Blitz and Succubus, enjoying all this. She says amusedly, "They're going to be all the more afraid." Blitz gives a pleased snort. "Target lock!" Ban announces. Then his badge gives an urgent beeping and he answers it aggravatedly. "I'm in this city," says that voice firmly. "In Tokyo?" asks Ban, then remembering business says happily, "We're about to finish off Bongoburin!" "But I told you to wait!" scolds the other man. Startled, they all turn to look at Ban's badge. "In order to protect, don't fire." They are all stunned, standing up. Furious, Ban yells "What do you mean by that?!" Bongo, hearing the conversation, starts to charge them saying, "Hold on there!" "There's no time to explain," the other man is saying. "Bongoburin - " "Can't talk now!" shouts Ban, for Bongo has reached them and they have to dodge his punches. He beats them back. Ban manages to recover his feet and swings the bazooka around to fire into Bongoburin's fanged face. "Finish you!" snarls Ban, and fires. The bolt turns Bongoburin's head into a ball of flame, recoil and impact sending both of them in opposite directions. The flame soon disappears into Bongo's mouth, and he fetches up against the clamping jaws of a construction machine. Above, Succubus grins. "Aaaaaaah, they did it. Stupid idiots." Blitz laughs. Ban is on his feet and pleased. But Bongoburin is on his feets too and utters a roar. Blue-white lightning crackles along his chest. "Look what you've done!" he growls at them. Stunned at his communication and standing up after that bolt, Ban gasps. Something about his throat and becoming giant. Uh huh, for now he rapidfire expands in green light. And when this is over, at his feet the stunned Dekaranger gather and stare up. Bongo seems to be angry about having been made giant, though it's kind of hard to tell. At that moment they are signalled again by the other man who continues where he left off, "He'll get giant, you see." "HE DID!" Ban shouts back. "You should have told us!" "I tried but you cut me off," the other calmly points out. Ban snarls with frustration and glares up at Bongo. Fortunately this allows him to see Bongo's enormous foot coming down at them. They dive and roll out of its path. Ban is spitting with fury, but still has his badge out and open. Hoji closes his hand around it and calls Swan to send the Deka Machines. "But I'm not finished with the repairs yet!" Swan answers him in dismay. They all cry out in despair. Bongo chooses this moment to slam his great fists down on an aged building which shatters under the impact. The Dekaranger stumble to avoid the falling debris, and Ban ends up knocked over by some. With a furious snarl, he sits up again and starts firing wildly. Fortunately, Bongo is an awfully big target now. Blitz and Succubus still watching, and she's getting a little bored at the stupidity of these Special Police. Bongo responds to the annoying blasts by sending out bolts of green flame from his mouth. Blitz is equally amused, he turns away with his sister, ignoring the uneven struggle behind them. Laughing, they start to walk away. Bracing himself, Bongo puts an enormous blast down at the Dekaranger. They are sent flying and land hard on their backs. Kruger calls Swan to get the base in order. She starts the sequence immediately. It rolls along, and Kruger changes into his armor and calls the others. He starts the transformation sequence to make Dekabase Robo. The base shifts into standing postion and the other join him in the cockpit. Powered up, the cover rolls back to reveal its head. Bongo is not impressed by the robot towering over him. He leaps and bounces off it, shaking the whole thing. He lands behind them, which they notice but not fast enough to stop him from blasting them with green bolts of power. They're getting badly staggered, they just don't have the speed or mobility to deal with him. "What can we do?!" cries Umeko as the base lurches. "I don't know!" Jasmine yells back. Ban shouts out that "Justice will win!" and hears the answering voice becoming familiar, "There you go again. Could you stop saying that?" "WHAT?!" snarls Ban. "And get that robot out of my way!" the voice says more urgently. There is a machine tearing towards them, an enormous motorbike, fine white and blue. "It's him again, what's with you?" Ban snaps into the communicator. But then he hears the sirens blaring and lifts his gaze. Bongo looks around, too. "You're in the way!" the voice repeats. Kruger suddenly shouts, "Down!" and the Dekabase Robo bends its head. The motorcycle leaps over them, by a very narrow clearance. It goes high and lands solidly, tearing down the road. They straighten up and stare. And this new arrival catches Blitz and Succubus' rather startled attention. "What's that?" she asks. It is the Dekabike. It is actually one fine, slender machine. Giant machine. And now it reconfigures into a humanoid mode. This machine is fast, extremely reactive and flexible. The pilot calls "Build up, Dekabike Robo!" Blue, with white and red. Hoji stutters its name and Ban begins to realize this machine isn't run of the mill. Bongo hasn't really caught on, though, and says "You think you can beat me?" He leaps to the attack. He punches at the robot's chest and its light go bright red as he is repelled. He bounces back, startled, falling. He gets back to his feet protesting, "What's that body made of, it's hard!" But the pilot responds by putting a sharp blade out of the right hand, and another from the left. He starts forward at Bongo. The double-blades out, he charges. A slash to the shoulder, then the arm, the Bikerobo spins. "Sonic Boom!" calls the pilot and sweeps the blades up. He means that, for the air ripples with invisible energy that hits and lifts Bongo off of his feet, spinning him before he falls to the road. The Bikerobo looks down at him, while the Dekabase Robo stares down at it. Ban utters a stunned, "That's great!" Dekabikerobo crosses its blades now, "Visor on!" and a red visor comes down in front of its face. "Lightning form (maybe lightning). The wheel on the chest starts to whirl, its legs come together so that the other wheel becomes whole and spins, too. The arms go wide with the blades out (is there really that much space between the sides of the road? I guess so) and the Bikerobo lifts off the ground then down, tearing forward on those wheels, the brush of metal raising yellow sparks all around, the CG so cleverly done it's hard to be really, really sure. It rolls straight at Bongo and then takes to the air, driver calling "Full charge!" spinning the machine which drops down on Bongo. Something-Tornado, and energy strips slice and dice Bongo. He is unable to defend himself. The Bikerobo lands and reconverts to regular robot form, ready for another attack. Its visor goes up, and the blades are crossed in front of it. "Get you!" says the pilot/driver. Yes, he has, for Bongo is going up in a stream of white sparks and smoke. He finally falls on his face and explodes. Succubus utters a stunned gasp, taking a step forward. "Big brother!" she cries. Blitz clenches his fist and growls in fury. Then he gasps. For the pilot of the Deka Bike Robot is coming out to greet them with a cry. He lands a few meters in front of them and they glower fiercely at him. The Dekaranger come to get a close look at the battle, and at him.

On his wrist is a strange, blue and silver device with a black handle folded against its side. His uniform base color is white, with blue all over and golden lining. Aesthetics-wise, the design leads to an extremely stream-lined impression, even the helmet is sweet. Like most of them these days, he is a man with no obvious meat on his bones, or muscles visible under the skin-tight uniform. *mournful sob*

An outraged Succubus, voice tight with tears, demands to know what he is. He answers in tones that are rather bizarre, explaining that he's here to stop the terror and darkness. He is Dekabreak. "Dekabreak," murmers Ban in amazing. But Blitz takes a step forward, "Ah, that golden badge. It's a special license." "That's what I am," replies Break. Blitz snorts contemptuously. "Not good enough." He turns suddenly and starts firing his triple-barrel gun. Break reaches for the device on his wrist as the smoke begins to rise. He is engulfed in a growing cloud and the Dekaranger gasp their dismay. Succubus and Blitz snort smug pleasure. They are ahead of themselves, though. For he simply walks out of the disappating smoke, left hand up and both closed into fists. "WHAT?!" startles Blitz. Break opens his right fist and the bullets Blitz had fired fall like rain to his feet. He utters his own snort at their shock, and the narrator rewinds to show us what had happened. He had stood there and caught each bullet in that left hand. For when Blitz started firing, he'd quickly pulled out the handle on his device and gotten it started. It charged up instantly, super energy feeding into the channels built into his glove. He'd closed the handle and... well, you know. Hoji shakes his head and says quietly, "Incredible." Sen utters and admiring, "He's just too good." Blitz and Succubus glare and snarl in fury. Break challenges Blitz, who obligingly tries to fire again. But Break is too fast and bolts in, grabbing the gun and kicking Blitz in the gut. He manages a kick to the back of the knee, forcing Blitz down, but either lets go or the enemy somehow gets up and swings wildly. Break punches him back and he falls on the stairs. "Big brother!" cries Succubus, leaping to his side to make certain he's all right. Break uses the bracelet again, this time in Electro Fist mode. Blitz is up and snarling, but it is already too late, for a wave of white energy heads for him and his sister. They are hit badly and fall painfully. "He did it!" crows Umeko. Jasmine is impressed by the er... punch. But before he can continue the attack, a furious Blitz yells that this world will soon go to Hell. He and his sister teleport away. "Wait!" Ban yells and leads the others in a charge. But Dekabreak puts out his hand to stop them, and they stumble to a halt. He turns his head to look at them and says sternly, "It'd be useless for you to go." Satisfied that they're stopped, he lowers his hand. "WHAT?!" snarls Ban. But Dekabreak does not answer him and starts to walk away. "Hold it, you!" Ban snarls and starts to charge after him. Sen and Umeko grab hold of his arms to calm him down. "Just wait," Umeko says softly. Dekabreak walks towards the bridge for cars to cross over another road. He stops and looks around, then presses a button on his wrist device. His armor shuts down in a blaze of light. The man revealed is a slim youngster, and if he's been training for fifteen years, he must have been about five when he started. He wears a white uniform with blue bars and markings. SPD is written in gold letters along his left thigh. Eyes squinting against the bright sunlight, he seems somewhat amazed. "So this is Earth," he says warmly. Then a shrieked "HEY!" from Ban charging towards him makes him turn his head. The others have dropped their armor, too. The others trail behind a practically spitting Ban, who is not pleased with Break's having "gotten in OUR way!" It is all too obvious we have a difference of perspective here, for to him they were in his way. Ban seems to think he has to spell out the obvious snarling, "I'm mad!" In English the other replies, "Nonsense," flooring Ban and then reverting to his somewhat odd Japanese while Ban stutters. "Aren't you embarrassed about saying 'Justice will triumph' like that?" Ban gives an exasperated sigh and looks away. Break thinks he's made his point, but this only last half a second when Ban blows up and lunges at him growling, "What do you mean by that?!" Umeko and Sen are just in time to keep Ban from punching the newcomer. It seems that he's managed to annoy more than just Ban, for Jasmine is glowering at him and says, "That's a speech." Hoji takes a deep breath and steps forward. "You're the expert," he wants some clarification. With a friendly smile Break replies, "I'm Tekkan Aira. Just call me Tetsu." He looks over at where Sen and Umeko are clinging to the still-struggling Ban. Ban stops and straightens up, eyes blazing. Umeko stares and murmers, "He's so young." So young, but very confident as he tells them that they'll have to leave the Hell's Three to him from here on. "I want you to sit this one out so you don't get in my way." He seems to direct that comment particularly to Ban, but even Hoji is starting to lose his temper. Ban, however, goes off like a small bomb and Sen and Umeko struggle to hold onto the writhing man. He manages to shove them off and launches himself at Tekkan, winding his fists into the young man's lapels and driving him back. A bit slow on the mark, Hoji and Jasmine leap to pull him off. They manage to wrench him back, and Tekkan manages to keep his feet though he hadn't once resorted to any physical action against Ban. While the other four have to pin Ban, Tekkan wipes his collar off and straightens his uniform. Ban kicks and struggles in his teammates' arms. And the remaining two of the Hell's Three have gone to their base, with fury for the man who had destroyed Bongoburin. Tekkan, hair mussed out of place by Ban's fury, finishes patting his uniform down. Ban will probably never regain control of his temper....

Kruger is explaining about the scenes in which we saw all those people in special martial arts training. The training that produced Tekkan Aira, and yet made him without any visible muscles. He's calm in his seat, with Hoji at his side, who is not too happy because he doesn't have a gold badge.

Episode. 23 Brave Emotion
Jogging through the base, and Ban seems to have given up trying to throttle Tekkan for trying to out-jog him. The whole team wants to be let in on this battle, and having all five of them continually in his face seems to begin to rattle him. Tetsu finally tells them to disband. They are shocked and outraged. But you can't stop them from going into their armor and fighting, even if Blitz trashes them cruelly. Ban protests this strike to his feelings, something Tetsu seems to have trouble grasping. He has his own motorbike to ride into battle.He arrives and changes into armor with a cry of "Emergency, Dekabreak!" He stands in front of the rest of them, everyone in armor, presumably confronting their enemies. It seems they'll come together, likely about midway through the episode. Dekarobo will ride the Dekabike. Tetsu will fight a crown of Anaroid, which he is liable to make short work of at his speeds. Pretty soon the rest of the team, a bit battered, will stand protectively between him and the enemy.

The five Dekaranger stand sullenly in front of Kruger's deks. Ban especially glowers at the new boy. Umeko considers him with lips pouting. Jasmine keeps hers in a thin line. Hoji's expression is more resentful than anything else. Sen's eyebrows climb his forehead. They're pretty united in the end opinion. Sen rolls his eyes and sighs to himself as the new boy speaks. He is introducing himself to Kruger, tall and straight and oh SO thin. He is enthused, but keeping it under control. When Kruger stands up and offers him his hand, introducing himself, the boy's mouth drops open and he very nearly bounces. "You're Commander Kruger?! I've heard all about you! You're Hell's Watchdog!!" He is shaking Kruger's hand reverently. Conveniently forgetting their reaction to that news, the Dekaranger all roll their eyes. Remembering himself, the boy, Tekkan, stands at attention again. "I'll only be here a short time (taking care of the Hell's Three remaining two). I'm honored to meet you." He bows deeply. Ban has reached the end of his patience, though. "Hey, specialist," he grates through bared teeth. The new boy turns a glance towards him with veiled irritation. "What's wrong with saying justice will triumph?" He suddenly stalks over. "We've always beat the bad guys!" With a tried smile, Tekkan replies, "It's a relief not to be needed, then." "No way!" snarls Ban. He continues to snarl impatiently, then Tekkan counters with a calm, "I did tell you to wait." Unable to come up with a good reply to that, Ban shifts from foot to foot. Then the other adds that he doesn't need the Special Police. Before Ban can leap on him, Umeko shoves him aside and turns indignant fury to "Boss!! Is this guy REALLY the specialist?" Jasmine puts in her two cents, "The Space Police said he'd been in training for fifteen years but, I mean from the looks of him..." she trails off. Not bothered at all, Kruger answers, "Yes, he's about the same age as all of you." "Eh?" they all exclaim and turn startled gazes to the subject of their conversation. Pacing around the patiently standing Tekkan, Kruger explains, "His parents were murdered by Alienizer when he was very small," and goes on to say that the Space Police raised him. They are considering what to say to this when he is signalled again. It is Numa 0. He addresses Kruger immediately about the situation and says he wants Tekkan to captain the mission. The Dekaranger react predictably. Hoji starts to protest, but Numa 0 simply says to do what he says, and cuts off contact. Ban, in a fury, punches the table. Feeling just as put out, Hoji sits down on the edge, arms folded across his chest so he can sulk. Sen, with great self control, clears his throat, steps up onto the dias and asks "Well, Tetsu, what do you want us to do?" Pleased with the question, Tetsu responds, "Yes, actually it'd be good if you did nothing." When they all stare at him incredulously he ponders, "How do you say it frankly in Earth-talk? Um..." swats a fist into his palm in realization, "You'll get in the way." Hoji stiffens and glares. Sen's lips twist and he gives the boy a quiet stare. Jasmine and Umeko bite back responses, but Ban blows up. He springs to attack when firm "Stop this!" from Kruger halts him in his tracks. He wavers a moment, glaring, but gives a frustrated snarl. Tekkan, thinking he can make it easier on them, reassures them that it'll only be for a little while and they should enjoy the vacation. They don't look pleased at all.

The remaining two Hell's Siblings are hanging in their tower. Blitz seems to be deep in thought, sitting on his throne. Succubus has gotten bored. "What now, brother?" she asks, pacing. Then it occurs to her that he has perhaps been frightened, and she teases him mischievously about it. This startles him out of his thoughts and he gapes at her angrily. She looks contrite. He does not attack, instead gets to his feet and starts away. Startled, she asks where he is going. He replies that he is going out to the place again, to face that fellow.

The Deka Bike specs are on the screen, and slender fingers are typing away. They are Swan's. Tekkan is near her, watching with pleased delight and he thanks her for doing the maintenance on his bike. She smiles and shakes her head, dismissing it. "No trouble. I've already finished repairing Deka Robo." She wanders off from her desk, while he stands there a moment, mouth hanging open. Finally he says in awe, "You're really good at your work!" When she goes to sit at another console, he moves after her, praising the perfection of her work. Glancing around her office, he wonders if she isn't uncomfortable working in such tight confines. Suddenly he clasps his hands together and offers hopefully, "Why don't you come join my mechanic staff?" She doesn't look at him, but grins and chuckles lightly. "Oh, that's sweet, but I really like working in a small office." Her eyes twinkle as she works the controls in front of her. Startled, he lowers his hands and asks tentatively, "Really?" "Really truly!" she answers cheerfully. His puzzled expression becomes a wince as we hear a grunting noise, then he looks down. Murphy is gnawing on his ankle and growling. Tekkan kneels down slowly and gently strokes the mechanical dog's nose and jaw. Murphy whines in surprised pleasure. Tekkan asks over his shoulder, "Do you think Earth's Dekaranger are really... fit?" "Hmm? Why do you ask?" Swan counters. He gathers himself to his feet importantly and folding his arms explains, "They believe that what they say will help them fight. It's not like that's useful, after all!" he glances over his shoulder, fully expecting a professional like her to agree with him. She turns from her work at last and regards him with gentle kindness. "They do, don't they? But..." and her but surprises him, so he listens intently. She chooses her words with a thoughtful hum. "Have you ever loved someone?" Flummoxed, he gapes at her. She clarifies, "It's like magic, you see. When you think about the person you love, you are all the stronger." Tekkan, confused but trying to grasp what she's telling him, considers it intently. She turns back to her work with an added, "It's the same thing." But then the base alarms go off and someone announces that the enemy is back. Tekkan charges off, Swan watching him go. As he races down the hall, Ban overtakes him. Tekkan firmly says to stay out of it. Ban doesn't look at him but growls that his feelings should be taken into account. Tekkan comes to a quick halt. "You can't let your emotions be involved," he says. "That's wrong!" Ban pouts back, swinging to confront him. Tekkan lectures, things he's probably been told all of his life. That your emotions can't be let interfere in a battle. Ban, a bundle of emotion if ever there was one, can't stand that. Becoming slightly exasperated, says something like he's not going to talk about that. But the delay has allowed the other Dekaranger to catch up to them. "You think that, too?" Tekkan asks sternly. They nod at him. Ban glares, vindicated by their support. This is not something Tekkan is impressed be. Finally he says coldly, "As of this moment, the Dekaranger are dissolved." "Dissolved?!" squawks Ban, but he is talking to the air, for Tekkan has bolted on to do his job, gets to his mecha. He hits the power button and it whines as its energy builds. The gate opens in front of him. Helmet on, sirens blaring, he kicks the starter pedal and the stand swings up in front of the big wheel. "Machine Boxer, go!" he shouts. Now we get to the annoying thing. Since the Machine Boxer is a) not real b) not possible and c) the actor probably couldn't ride one if it was we enter the realm of game graphics, where nothing is quite natural and often very unlpleasant when mixed in with true things. The single-wheeled vehicle tears out of the garage into the sunlight. It overtakes a minivan, and the child in the passenger seat is truly impressed by the imaginary vehicle. We switch to real images for a second, just his head and his hand on a handle. Back to pathetic computer interfacing as it rounds a corner. It goes down a long, bare road with cars parked along the side, looking too big for the canvas it's been set upon. In the distance, a fair-sized block of the city is on fire.

It's Blitz, of course, blasting office buildings to flaming pieces with her tri-barrelled weapon. Terrified people, a rather small group considering but they don't have enough extras, run right into Succubus. They skid to a halt at the lovely woman in front of them, and she smiles cruelly. Her eyes fill with dazzling yellow fire as winds blow her hair willy-nilly. Their life-energy is sucked form them, and every person crumples. Very happy, Succubus licks her lips with that purple, forked CG tongue. Nearby, Blitz laughs with delight. Succubus comes over to him and comments with drunken pleasure, "Terror makes life energy exceptionally tasty!" Enjoying her pleasure, Blitz cheerfully says he'll destroy everything, and she giggles. But then a police siren splits the air. They look up, Succubus' smile vanishing, as the CG man and funny motorcycle leap down into the parking lot, spin to a rapid halt without leaving a trace of mark on the cement, and park. Back to real people, to the scrawny boy. "This is as far as you go," he tells them, taking off his glasses. Blitz amusedly replies, "Ah, the Specialist. Have you come to die?" Tekkan dismounts and puts aside his helmet. "Who'll do it?" Tekkan answers coldy. When Succubus tries to taunt him about something to do with terror, he snorts and wags a finger at them. "Nonsense," he replies. "I have never felt fear in a battle." Succubus smirks and points out that he's never faced them before. He counters that fear is for the criminals. And he raises his wrist and cries, "Emergency, Dekabreak!" etc armor, blahblah. He's Dekabreak and he's here to stop the terror. In come a small army of Zen - er, Anaroids. He turns and says something about Accel Pro, and beats his way through them while Blitz and Succubus watch with interest. He uses the Fire Fist function and destroys the remaining Anaroids, only to find a trio of Battsuroids firing on him. He dives and rolls. This means their blasts hit the base of a tall chimney which falls towards him. Seeing this, he calls on the "Power Fist," which gives him the strength to brace himself against the impact of the falling chimney, and heave it into the air to smash the Battsuroids. This pretty well demolishes the chimney, too. He's pleased his calculations worked out so well. He turns around just in time to get a chestful of Succubus' foot. The impact sends him flying. He collides wonderfully with a building's concrete wall, which caves under the impact. Succubus is just congratulating herself when she sees him leap out of the hole. He rolls and breakdances his way to a manly smug pose *snore* to the shock of Blitz and Succubus. "How - " startles Blitz. But Succubus tears by him to fight. Without getting up, Dekabreak kicks her back, He manages to hold her off for a moment with just his booted feet, an exercise in arrogance. He kicks her rolling back to her brother's feet. Break charges forward, but Blitz is ready for him. He's fast, though. He punches Blitz back and is able to face Succubus in almost the same moment. He's sounding slightly breathy as he counters her and gets a bit of space to use his handy weapon again. This attack he calls the "Lightning Fist" and revs up the engine. Then he's punching at high speeds and she in unable to counter him. She starts to fall, and he switches modes to "Electro Fist." He punches the ground and sends a powerful electric shock at the two. They are hit pretty badly and fall. But they get up again pretty quickly. Succubus charges in to fight and Break punches her hard in the gut. And while they're so close together, Blitz raises his hand to the skies and calls up the power. Suddenly, the two are caught within a magical symbol forming on the ground. Succubus is terrified. "Wait, brother!" she screams. He isn't waiting. He calls down the thunder upon them. She screams as the magical symbol glows golden, and lightning bolts rain down upon their heads. Dekabreak cries out too as he is caught in the blast.

They are sent flying and land heavily on their backs. Dekabreak gets to his feet and turns, only to find his opponent is in a bad way. Succubus' helmet is gone, her weapon lies under her wrist, and blue lightning crackles along the back of her head. Her head falls and she lies motionless. Stunned, Break starts to straighten up. But before he quite gets there, Blitz attacks. This time, he gets through for Break's guard has been broken. Tekkan manages to hold Blitz' blade braced on his glove for a moment and hisses, "You blasted your little sister?" Blitz snorts and replies that their family can take it. He strikes again and kicks, knocking Break down. And now he will deliver the final blow, while the boy is unable to defend himself. A whimper escapes Tekkan as the blow whistles down, but then a red blur collides with him, pulling him from its path. Together, he and Red tumble along the cement. Yes, Ban has pulled Tekkan's fat out of the fryer this time. Blitz only has time for a startled noise before Umeko, Jasmine, Sen and Hoji flip in to fight. They land at Ban's side, all gathered protectively in front of Tekkan, who isn't quite able to get up. Ban slams a fist into his hand and looks down at the stunned boy. "Of course we came!" he answers a question only thought. Hoji adds, "We'll show you what 'Justice will triumph' means." Umeko adds that they'll make it happen. Jasmine snaps, "We are the protectors of this star!!" Halfway to his feet, the confused Tekkan says sternly, "You are unreasonable!" Sen replies with equal sternness, "We'll show you how unreasonable we are, little Specialist." Tekkan can only watch from one knee in shock as the five prepare to fight. "Let's go, guys!" calls Ban, and the five charge screaming into Blitz' fire. Sen and Hoji leap first to kick Blitz, who tosses them off. They land calmly on their feet, not worried at all. Umeko and Jasmine are next, leaping off of Sen and Hoji's shoulders. They strike with their blades, which he blocks and attacks them, but they dodge and roll to avoid his strikes. Ban leaps in next, avoiding getting hit, and despite himself he has to be impressed by the balance of their team-fighting. "But they're still unreasable!" he gasps, "just not strong enough!" For Blitz gets a good kick in to Ban's gut just then, and manages to slash him away. The team keeps circling him, and all of his blows are glancing because they are just fast enough most of the time, but he does manage to force them tumbling away from him, Ban leaping to guard them while they're down. Back on their feet together, and he fires a blast from his hand at them. They are hit pretty hard and fall. He laughs as they writhe. Tekkan struggles the rest of the way to his feet. He has to fight, somehow. But they are also straightening up, and he hasn't quite recovered enough to join them. Ban howls happily that Justice will definitely triumph. Startled by him saying that again, Tekkan gasps. Blitz is suitably unimpressed. "You fools," he says, "I'll finish you off now." And he raises his hand. He calls down the energy and the five are caught within the magical field. They look around in surprise at the golden rain of light surrounding them. Tekkan frantically yells at them to get out of it. Blitz calls the lightning too quickly, though, and the bolts hit home on the five. They scream as the circle becomes a fireball. The backlash of the flames sends Tekkan tumbling. He lands rolling to a halt. Getting halfway up, he has the shock of his life. Caught in the circle, golden lightning still striking inside, the five are on their feet and still struggling, snarling. Ban starts it, shouting, "We aren't defeated!" The others echo him, a pair at a time. Tekkan can't believe what he's seeing. "Those suits, how can they stand up to that kind of punishment?" He remembers, then, some of what Swan had said about how love can make you capable beyond your normal bounds.

Inside the circle, the Dekaranger brace and center themselves with enraged cries. He watches and touches his bracelet in wonder, understanding at last that what they have most of is fighting spirit. And suddenly they throw their arms wide, shattering the circle that had held them. "Folly!" gasps a stunned Blitz. But they move aggressively into fighting positions, he being the sole focus of their rage. And perhaps, just once, it is Blitz who is afraid. They charge at him, but he is still fast and strong. He counters, but soon they get past his guard. Ban manages to wrench his blade away and send it flying. He punches hard into Blitz' gut, hurting him. Sen and Hoji tear forward and cut with their blades. Blitz is staggered. Tekkan has forgotten his previous assessment and is cheering in the background. "Fantastic!" he yelps. "You're wonderful!" He is totally in awe. The five leap as one, rolling in the air. They kick Blitz in the chest and he is knocked away, rolling. "You did it!" Tekkan cries and races over to them to gush in his astonishment. He starts to plead to join them, but Ban doesn't need him to say it. He is welcome. But Blitz is not pleased. Getting back to his feet, smoke rising from his heavy body, he intends to keep fighting. Ban quickly urges Tekkan to judge him. "Roger!" Tekkan says, and moves forward. A quick list of murder, and a multitude of stars destroyed, and Tekkan opens the judgement field. Delete, of course, and Ban will fire the Hybrid Magnum in conjunction with Tekkan's Big Hammer to deliver the final blow. Blitz is caught in the gun's blast, held immobile for Tekkan's fisted strike. The impact destroys him. "DID IT!" cry the Dekaranger. They charge forward. Ban pretty much leaps onto Tekkan to tousle and rough him up affectionately, hogging the chance to play. Umeko whaps him with her hip. Jasmine points out that, indeed, justice has triumphed. But a strange sound behind her gets her attention. Succubus is back on her feet, holding an injured arm and looking at them with death in her eyes. She can barely stand, but that doesn't stop her malevolence. She gasps out, "You'll be destroyed." Then she opens her mouth and out goes a bolt of red fire. They brace for impact, but it streaks around them a few times before going on to the scorched cement marking where Blitz was killed. It forms a flaming, red magical circle. Succubus sinks to her knees, fading. "Big brother," she says wetly, "I give you all of my life energy, so you can destroy these people" and something else before she burns to dust in purple fire, laughing with insanity. Some people sure don't take losing well, eh?

But her work is done, for the fire coalesces and Blitz stands there again, hale and strong. Not to mention pissed off. Umeko wails, "How did this happen?" to which he replies that they should remember he'd sworn to destroy this world. He opens his arms and the ground behind him erupts, releasing the enormous mecha his sister used to pilot. He leaps up and boards it, and then it hurtles over them, jetting into the city. "He's getting away!" one protests. Ban calls Swan for the Dekamachines. Tekkan quickly calls and asks her for his machine, too. With a cheerful smile, she sends them out. Our heroes form the Dekarobo and race after the escaping enemy. Tekkan pulls up beside them, getting a startled gasp from Ban, and apologetically expects to get there first. Ban, however, is quicker than Tekkan expects. He makes a quick grab, and Tekkan is stunned to find the Dekarobo boarding his mecha. They are on and seated before he catches on. "What are you doing?!" he cries in outraged confusion. Ban calls back, "We're going with you!" They rev the engine, and speed out. "Biking Dekaranger Robo!" cheers Ban. Getting into the spirit of things, Tekkan says that this is a bit messy. Jasmine agrees and Umeko apologizes. Sen eventually says someone had to give up. Ban is happy and enjoying piloting the enormous combination. They are closing on the enemy. Blitz is rather startled to see them. Umeko calls through the speakers for him to stop and he sneers. Jasmine comments that it's as though he thinks one doesn't need police. But Ben revs the engine again and gets them in front of the other, yelling at him to stop. He knocks them by and tears into the middles of several office buildings, which he shoots down to make a barrier. But he's misjudged, for the barrier has an enormous hole where the skyscrapers lean against each other. It also allows him to fire straight at them. Tekkan is nervous, but Ban sends the bike straight through the hole, and they tear up a considerable amount of the road skidding to a halt and spinning, taking the mecha down. But Blitz gets it back up quickly and starts firing. They weave through the shots, charging up their energy to full power. And as he blasts them, they bear down on him, returning blast for blast until they pass, and the mighty red mecha goes up in flames. And it's over.

Tekkan calls them his seniors and thanks them warmly for fighting with him. Ban is amazed to hear that from him. He continues to praise them, and they are rather sheepish and half-humble about it. Then he apologizes for earlier and Ban says it's all forgotten. "Mission complete!" he crows. Tekkan adds that they've saved the Megalopolis of Japan (?) and Ban stutters, "Hey, don't you know - " standing up and clonking his head on the roof of his cockpit. Tekkan claps a hand over his mouth to keep from bursting out laughing, but only can hold it an instant as Ban's "OUCH!" sets the others off.

Swan and Kruger have their heads together over some specs. Hoji wanders over to the others to ask if Tetsu's gone back already. "I guess so," Umeko says. Sen spins his pen in his fingers and comments, "Well, a specialist has got to be busy, you know." Hoji makes a soft agreeing sound. Ban sticks his lower lip out and says pensively, "You know, I think I miss him a little." A tray of mugs goes past his head. "Here's coffee for you," says a young voice. Ban accepts his with hearty thanks. The boys reach without really looking, and thus don't notice that the person who brought their coffee is none other than Tetsu, until his uniform registers in their distraction and they all look up with startled noises from mouths full of coffee. Ban is so shocked he spits his coffee on the floor. Hoji chokes on his and ends up with it in his nose and Sen barely manages to avoid a similar fate. "Tetsu!" shrieks Ban. "Yes?" Tetsu asks innocently from in front of the girls. Umeko gasps, "You didn't go back?" in delight. Kruger and Swan, who knew all along, are all smiles (presumably for Kruger, anyway). When Tetsu smiles and nods, Jasmine comments, "What a surprise," but welcoming. Kruger calmly explains, "Tetsu's going to stay on Earth for a while." "Eh?!" the other gasp. "Oh, see," says Tetsu, handing off the coffee to Jasmine and heading over to the two, "It's just I didn't want to leave Miss Swan." He makes a play to put his arm around her shoulder, and she ducks smoothly to avoid it. She tells them the truth, he's been assigned by the commander to Earth to learn more about being a police officer. She stays close to Kruger, making her alliance clear. "Oh really, is that so?" Ban asks, trotting forward. "Yes, senior!" Tetsu says happily, coming to stand in front of him. "I want to learn all kinds of things. Please teach me about this world!" Ban is very happy to take on this role. "So I'll always be your senior," he says smugly. "Oh, that's nonsense," Tetsu replies with an ear-splitting smile. Ban plays that his feet have been knocked out from under him. As the group gathers at the table, Swan laughs and says "This looks fun, eh Doogie?" and comments that the five of them will be good for that boy. He makes an agreeing noise. Ban is getting tempermental again, the others are ignoring it, and Tetsu is again telling him it's nonsense. When he holds out a small, square white towel, Ban grabs him, pulls him down to the main floor with the others and twines their feet and arms to immobilize him. Tetsu manages to balance against him and prevent getting thrown on the floor, but Ban cheats and digs his fingers playfully into Tetsu's ribs. Tetsu turns out to be extremely ticklish but won't give up, calling "That's nonsense!" We finally see what the dispute is about as Sen patiently ignores the struggling pair and uses the white towel to clean up the coffee Ban had spat on the floor.

We are introduced by Tetsu himself to his equipment. The BraceThrottle, which allows him to transform, pass Judgement, and the Throttle Master gives him all manner of extra power. While he is posing, Ban leaps up from behind him and tackles him. This time Tetsu is ready and manages to spin him away with a shout of "Nonsense! Why are you always so energetic, senior?" then turns and runs as Ban charges after him.

Episode. 24 Cutey Negotiator
Kill me now. Er, never mind that. Tetsu gets himself taken hostage by an alien who lookis like a .. um.. well. Kind of like a tiki. Umeko ends up being the negotiator, coming in all very childlike. Whatever she said causes Tetsu to yelp with shock. The mad alien has a bomb. "You are weak!" he accuses from above. Umeko holds a bomb, Tetsu sitting on the floor behind her and she complains at whatever the enemy has asked her to do. The group is together, and Umeko looks very pleased with herself. They fight Anaroids, Umkeo showing herself quite well. And you can purchase their original CD or be one of thirty who could win it.

In the main room, Kruger shows the other four what they're picking up. A strange alien leading a crew of Anaroids down a road. As he's speaking, Umeko comes in, off balance and upset. Hoji scolds, "You're late, Umeko." "I'm sorry," she whines, "But Tetsu - " she breaks off and covers her blushing cheeks with her hands while Sen, who puffs out a breath at her excuse, puzzles, "I haven't seen Tetsu yet today." At that moment a signal comes through and Tetsu, all business, is telling them he's eaded for the scene of the crime. Umeko fumes angrily, but Jasmine calmly notes he certainly is a specialist. We get the same scenes as before with him computer-riding the improbable motor-unicycle, passing the same van. Past the Morinaga building and he leaves the bike, sneaks through a park to get a look at the situation. There he sees the crowd of Anaroids using assorted tools to back and break things. He uses his Brace-Throttle to take a reading. The alien of the weak seems to be dressed in buckskins. Tan, with blue and red trimming. His head is large and heavy, a bit like a mask. Which it is, but lets pretend it's really an alien. Of Barisu Star, and his name is Attika Arupachi. Tetsu reads the data and tilts his head, puzzled. "Barisian, Arupachi. Hmm, never heard of him." He considers the alien thoughtfully. "He's never been a criminal before." Well, Tetsu heads out into the action. "Barisian!" he calls. Arupachi, who's headed up some stairs, wheels to look at him and so do the Anaroids. Now that he's got their attention, he changes into his armor. "Emergency, Dekabreak!" His speach about stopping evil, a bit of grandstanding, and he kicks into battle with the Anaroids. He gets above them and uses the Fire Fist to destroy many, jumps back down and uses Tornado Fist to discombobulate others. Lovely wind it calls up. And then the annoyed alien calls to him. Startled, he wheels and looks up. The angry alien utters a snarl and pulls out a round, gray balls with many blunt spines. Tetsu takes one look and identifies it with fright, "A Graviton Bomb!!" The alien snarls, "Don't obey me! I won't set off this bomb!!" "Eh?" asks a confused Tetsu. With a snicker, Arupachi the alien sends out a tentacle which wraps around Tetsu. Then he hits him with a powerful electric shock. His armor is disrupted and shuts down while he cries out in startled pain. With him helpless, Arupachi reels him in and gets a good hold on him. "Tetsu!" we hear a cry. It is Ban, he and the others have arrived. Tetsu tries to call out to them, but Arupachi is already dragging him off into the building. They race in pursuit. They have him cornered and start to change into their armor when Tetsu says with respectful urgency, "Wait a moment, seniors!" they obey instantly and blink at him. Hooking his thumb over his shoulder he says, "This guy's got a terrible bomb!" To make sure they understand, Arupachi snickers again and holds up the bomb, pointing at it. "What?!" snarls Ban. The alien indicats Tetsu and says, "I'm not going to guarantee this guy's life!" triumphantly. His point made, he turns around and opens the door behind him, dragging Tetsu along into the next room. "Wait!" shrieks Ban, and leads the others in a charge as the door closes. He slams into it and struggles with the nob, but it won't turn.

Back at base, Swan reports on the bomb. Yup, it is a big one, all right. And it has a timer, too. Alarmed by the data she's given him, Kruger signals the others and tells them they'll have to send in a negotiator. Hoji's starts to say that he's going when Umeko declares, "I'll go." They react quite understandably. "EH?" and Ban says scoldingly, "Umeko, can you really do it?" Umeko is happily telling him sure she can, about bargaining and negotiating and seems quite pleased with herself. Jasmine expresses a certain lack of confidence in her abilities in this field. Hoji sighs and leans against the walkway barrier. He asks a pouting Umeko what is the first rule of negotiating for a hostage's life. She confidently tells him she can be a negotiator. The others all are pretty much of one mind in that they don't feel she can do it. Kruger suddenly pipes in through the communicator. "Umeko, you do it." "EEEH?!" squawks Ban. Umeko grins and pumps her fist in victory.

In the meantime, Swan has the Deka Base in Crawler formation and is announcing the danger through the loudspeakers. People are evactuating, boarding Deka Base. Pretty soon, this entire part of the town is devoid of life. A wind blows a tumbleweed across an empty walkway. Wait, that's not a real tumbleweed! It's Agent Aburera in disguise! "Doradoian Gorudomu, can you hear me?" he says calmly. "As planned, the humans are gone from the city." "It was a promise. And now I want that suitcase and all the Anaroids." He gives the coordinates in that speech, then laughs.

Tetsu struggles against the firm hold of Arupachi's tentacle, when his Brace Throttle speaks to him. It's Hoji, stating confidently that a hostage negotiator is headed in. "Hostage negotiator?" Tetsu repeats nervously. And then we see Umeko riding in on a cart of some kind. She calls out, "Excuse me!" Instead of using her nickname she announces, "Hostage negotiator Koume Kodou is here. She hops off the cart at the end of its tracks and grins happily. Tetsu reacts with a sort of exasperated frustration. "Umeko-san!" Arupachi responds by whipping out another tentacle, grabbing her up and holding her in mid-air. "Oh stop it stop it stop it!" she protests. Tetsu tries to override her saying, "Don't say stop it, that's not how you negotiate!" Arupachi lets her drop and she lands painfully on her hip. But she pulls herself together and looks at Arupachi. "This isn't what it looks like," she says. Tetsu's mouth drops open and he stares at the alien. Startled, Arupachi shuffles again. He says almost to himself, "She's sweet. This might help." Umeko is on her feet and strides over to the pile of boxes between them. "Mr Criminal, we have to talk," she says kindly. He starts twitching and we realize he's doing a kind of American Indian-like dance. A bit annoyed, Umeko says, "What's the matter?" then adds. "Don't say anything." He comes to a halt, hand anxiously over his mouth, and turns to look at her. She asks in confusion, "This Alienizer doesn't want to hurt the Earth?" Tetsu, still quite confused, says he can't seem to get through to the alien but that he thinks there's one more here. Suddenly, the poor alien's stomach makes a loud growling, and he nervously pats it. Umeko chuckles, "Ah, you've an empty stomach." He turns sheepishly away from her and answers, "No, it's not empty." The growling starts again and Umeko chuckles, "That's really strong. That I can tell." And she pulls a goodie out of her pocket. Arupachi wheels and stares, then stares a lot more. Umeko is reaching all about her uniform, pulling treats from several hidden pockets. He gasps as the pile gets bigger and bigger. Cookies, chocolate... other things. She's got quite the stash, even pulling one out from a hidden pocket behind her neck. "Well," she says confidently, "you don't have to hold back. Eat, eat!" and offers him some of the candy. He stares longingly, but hangs back. When she makes the offer again, he hesitantly reaches out and then withdraws his hand. A bit exasperated she says, "Okay, if you're not going to eat it, I will." She starts tearing the wrapping off of one treat. He very hesitantly sends out one tentacle for a goodie. Umeko swats it and says, "Stop that!" He hesitantly shuffles closer, tentacle wavering until she finally grabs it firmly. "I said stop it," she scolds him. "I'm not giving any to you." Suddenly with relief he says, "I'm not taking any!" and he gives her a slight shock through the tentacle, then snatches up one of the cookies. He eats it and then says ecstatically, "This tastes horrible! It's really horrible!" Annoyed, Umeko says "If it tastes all that horrible, why are you eating it?" as he takes bites. And then her eyes widen in realization. She thinks aloud, "You're on an empty stomach, but you say you're not... it's delicious, you say horrible... ah!" and she stares with bright eyes as he wipes the crumbs from his mouth. "Horrible!" he rhapsodizes. "I've got it!" she whispers, turning away. Tetsu is watching her anxiously and asks, "What's the matter? Umeko-san?" She lifts her gaze and says, "I think I've figured it out." She turns back to Arupachi and asks him gently, "You don't have a problem?" He raises his head and demands, "Don't you give me my son back!!" Her eyes widen and she asks, "Your child?" He elaborates angrily, "My child... was not taken by the Earth police! But I don't want him back!!" Umeko crows, "That's it!" to the stunned Tetsu. "His people say things the opposite way!" Tetsu responds uncertainly, "Reverse-speaking-er?" Umeko is trying to explain something to Arupachi, having a little trouble figuring out how to phrase things that mean the opposite. She's trying to make certain she understands and he replies, "That's not it!" which further confuses Tetsu, who looks helplessly to Umeko. She smiles reassuringly at him. So she signals the others. Sen, Ban and Jasmine hover over Hoji's shoulders as he listens to her report. "His son's name is Barusian Arupachi Junior." "You did it, Umeko!" cheers Ban. Kruger says they'll find him in the Alienizer database right away. "You need to make sure that bomb is safely secure." Umeko looks at the thing in Arupachi's hands and nods agreement. She asks Arupachi tentatively "What has your son done to get arrested - er - not arrested?" He turns from her and says gravely, "My child is not gentle. He's not a really good child." She flips it back to the true meaning for an Earth person. "You son is gentle. He's a really good boy." Arupachi says gruffly, "Why he hasn't been arrested, I just...." Umeko says firmly, "But what if they can't find your son?" Then she tries, "Arupachi, look at me!" Of course he turns and faces away from her, closing and covering her eyes. Catching herself she says, "Oh, not that. I mean..." but the opportunity has presented itself. She tugs boxes out of the way and goes into the small shelter he's made himself. "Umeko-san!" Tetsu yelps in worry. She ignores him and strides over to stand right behind Arupachi. "Don't look at me," she demands. When he doesn't respond, she sets her hand on his shoulder and turns him around. She waits until he hesitantly lowers his hand and opens his eyes. She gazes deep into his eyes and says, "Arupachi, I am a person you can't believe in. I'm not going to get your son back to you. I do not promise!" He gasps when she says this, and begs "You're lying?!" She replies firmly, "Yes, I'm lying! Now, don't give me the bomb." Relieved, he nods. Trusting in her, he takes the bomb and holds it between them to give to her. She accepts it and they nod to each other. "Okay, so where's the activating switch?" she whispers, moving away from him. He tells her, "Push there," indicating the red button at the top of the bomb. "Okay!" she says, what she's learned already slipping her mind instantly. She firmly presses the button, activating the bomb. "AAAH!" shrieks Tetsu. "AAAAAAH!" Arupachi also shrieks. And the bomb announces, to Umeko's horror, that they have sixty minutes. Umeko stutters, "But you said push!" Tetsu, now understandably rattled, screams, "No he said don't touch it!!!" Arupachi is in a panic himself. "This is not bad! That is NOT A BOMB!!" Umeko whimpers, "Oh right! It's the opposite!" She takes a good look at the readout. "Oh man, the bomb'll go off in fifty-nine minutes!!" Now she starts running about whimpering, "What do I do? How can I shut it off?!" while Tetsu desperately struggles in the tentacle still wrapped around him. "Can't you stop it?" she begs Arupachi. But he's got himself together and lost a considerable amount of faith in her. "I don't need the key to turn it off!" he cries. She uncertainly grasp, "Don't need?" He clarifies, "My son doesn't have the key!" She quickly opens her badge and calls home. "Boss, you gotta hurry and get Arupachi Junior!" Kruger calmly tells her, "He hasn't been detained on Earth." And then Swan shakes her head at him and he sighs. "We've contacted other Space Police, but he isn't registered as an Alienizer." Umeko stares at her badge in disbelief. "What the - " she slaps it closed and turns to Arupachi. "You're son wasn't arrested by Earth police!" realizing her mistake, she quickly rephrases. "Um, it doesn't seem to be!" Furious he snaps back, "You are telling the truth!" Just in case she hasn't caught on, a wide-eyed Tetsu clarifies, "He says that's a lie." Arupachi angrily slaps Umeko with his electric tentacle and catches the falling bomb in his hands. He turns his back on her angrily. She frantically comes to him, "It's true, believe - oh no. DON'T believe me! Don't let us have the bomb!" He growls, "I won't give up the bomb until I don't get my son back. Until then, I'm definitely giving it!" Tetsu swiftly translates "I'll give up the bomb when I get my son back. I'm keeping it until then." Sypathetic but strained, Umeko says "Arupachi," softly. Fifty-five minutes left. She is signaled on her badge. Ban is calling her and shouts, "There's no time, you've got to get away from the bomb!" "No!" she shouts back.

When the other four race into the area they go into change-mode right away, but Umeko races up and shoves, first at Hoji yelling, "Stop!!" "Let go, Umeko!" he shouts back. Practically in tears she sobs, "No! You can't!" The distress brings them to a halt, they will listen to her as she clings to Hoji's arm just in case he starts trying to change again. She tells them they have to fight to help Arupachi Junior. They eye the bereft father suspiciously. "His life is in danger!" she tells them urgently. Ban snarls, "And there's nothing we can do! His son has NOT been arrested by Earth police!" Hoji firmly tells her that there is no choice. She closes her eyes and then gazes up at him pleadingly. "But I promised. As the hostage negotiator. I promised we'd get his son back to him." (or something like that) Tetsu anxiously breaks in, "Wait a minute, everyone!" They all look at him. He explains that Umeko found the heart of this Alienizer for his sake. They have to do this for Umeko. "Tetsu?" she says his name uncertainly. And then turns back to the others. "We have to find Arupachi's son and save his life!" Sen sighs and puts his hands on his hips. The others can't really argue with her, though they are clearly troubled. Arupachi holds onto the bomb for dear life. Then a strange sound echoes in the room and Sen turns alertly. The boxes are trembling. Curious, Ban asks, "What's up, Sen-chan?" "Shhh!" Sen hushes him. "Everyone be quiet. Something strange is going on." He frowns, hands still on his hips. "Something underground... nearby." They all look down curiously. He continues to think aloud, "Why? What's the significance of these coordinates? Why make sure no one was here?" Frustrated, he heads for the wall and upends himself. He lets his gaze wander. One of the candy bars Umeko has put atop a box slips off the side, light reflecting golden off of it as it falls. "That's it!" crows Sen.

He signals base and asks Swan about what building is at this point. Swan calls up the data at once and in a moment is able to tell him that very near where they are is "Bank of Earth." Sen calmly tells the others that all this was to clear out the area so as to allow the bank to get robbed. Hoji realizes and says it, "Arupachi was just a distraction to keep us from noticing." Jasmine agrees. And Umeko is furious. "A criminal who uses the bond between parent and child to further his dirty deeds! That's unforgivable!" "Right, let's go!" Hoji orders. Off they charge. "Hey!" yelps Tetsu. He wants to dash after them, but Arupachi reels him back in and says coldy, wagging a finger, "You... I'm letting go." Tetsu grumbles, "That means you're not," and glowers.

Sure enough, under the Bank of Earth, a drill has punched through the wall of the vault. Anaroids are charging about a vast room full of golden bars, which they are loading up to cart away on forklifts into wheelbarrows which they then head for, I don't know, where ever. We hear an evil cackle and see Arupachi Junior. He has been tied up against a support ang gagged. He tries to free himself, as his captor howls with laughter in front of him. "Your father sure made my work easy!" he chortles. And hanging around Arupachi Junior's neck is the all-important key. He's planning on doing this again sometime. But the Dekaranger are upon them. Umeko shouts, "Don't give that child back!" Arupachi Junior gasps. "Huh?" asks the amused Gorudomu. Jasmine calmly says, "This guy's a Doradoian. They don't speak in reverse." "Oh, right," Umeko accepts that. "You give that child back!!" she shouts. She continues with a little speach about Arupachi. Gorudomu stands with hands akimbo and is amused. He sends the Anaroids to attack. Our heroes at last can change into their armor. They start firing, and speak their all important lines as they do so. Though surrounded, they are confident and easily take down the Anaroids. Umeko fences! Gorudomu is dismayed to find them already in front of him, and no more Anaroids to hold them back. Umeko takes command and calls for formation F-4. They obey happily, flipping into action. Jasmine and Ban strike first, kicking Gorudomu back. Sen and Hoji are next, they punch him back. Then the four join hands making a base for Umeko to launch herself off. She gets him a good one, sending him tumbling and goes to the tall alien boys. "It's all right - not anymore," she says, reassuring him as she pulls his bonds off. The team assembles protectively around them. Gorudomu is rather annoyed, and he pulls out a remote, hitting a button quickly. The drill above them starts spinning viciously and they back up. "Later!" he mocks them and runs off. "Hold on!" screams Ban. They start to charge in pursuit when something comes between them. Falling rubble from the foundation walls. "This way everyone!" calls Umeko, dragging Arupachi Junior with her. They make it out of the building into the sunlit day. The crashing continues, as Terrible Terror 2 smashes its way up into the city streets. But before it can attack the group a siren splits the air. The Deka Bike rolls in and knocks Terrible Terror off its feet. Umeko opens her badge. "Tetsu?" she asks. He explains that he'd learned from watching Umeko, and had managed to communicate with Arupachi. He changes his mecha to Deka Bike Robo mode. Out come the deadly blades and he faces Terrible Terror's whirling drills. They fight. Umeko turns to Arupachi Junior and tells him to hide and keep down. Unfortunately she's in the wrong mode and, misunderstanding her, he starts to frolic. Quickly catching herself, Umeko shouts a command he understands that gets him to stand as still as possible, and she calls the others to follow her. They are ready, and now she summons the Deka Machines. They board and form the Dekaranger Robo. Dekabike is getting a bit friend, but when they arrive Gorudomu is overconfident and charges them, only to find the two robots fighting in tandem are no easy mark. Umeko passes judgement on him for kidnapping, extortion, and who knows what eles. But he's got the delete mark, and she and Tetsu acknowledge it. Tetsu using the Tornado attack, which destroys Terrible Terror. The end. For him, anyway. Tetsu says cheerfully, "And it's mission complete!" Umeko stretches lithely, delighted that next she can get in the tub.

So, Umeko and Tetsu bring Arupachi out into the light of day. "We're not getting your son back to you," she reassures him cheerfully. He is balking and she has to shove him along. He clutches the bomb anxiously and stops, then turns and upon seeing you-know-who utters a cry of joy. The other four Dekaranger are with Junior, and present him to his father dramatically. He seems very happy. Both of them are dancing for joy, the Dekaranger watching with relief. Arupache turns to Umeko, "No thank you very much!" he crows, and races to meet his son, tossing the bomb flying without care. "Stupid son!" he yells. "Horrible Father!" the boy yells back with joy. "I wasn't worried about you!" "I really, really hate you Father!" Laughing so hard they almost sound like they're weeping, they let their tentacles wriggle and touch, exchangign electric shocks of joy. They hug each other tight, yelling awful things which of course are the opposite. The Dekaranger slap hands in celebration. Ban laughs, "They're so happy and have such happy faces but it's hard to understand them!" "I'm so glad," says Umeko. And then someone's mechanical voice announces, "There's one minute to detonation." With squawks of terror they turn and see the bomb lying there, reading 58 seconds!! Tetsu yelps, "I forgot about that!" They tear over to the bomb in a panic, Umeko snatches it up and they urge her to hurry. They dash over to the reuinited father and son, struggling to get them to untagle their tentacles and shut down the bomb. This gets Sen, Hoji and Ban each shocked before they manage to get the problem across and Jasmine drags Junior over to shut off the bomb.

"Girls in trouble, Dekaranger!" But instead of going straight into the song, they introduce the Deka Bike. Tetsu speaks, explaining how his seniors board and they become the "Riding Dekaranger Robo." And gosh aren't they fast? And the Bike also has a Robot mode. He is contentedly explaining this from the sanctuary of the bubble bath. "Ah, this is so refreshing," he says contentedly. Someone else is much less content. Umeko pounds on the door again. "Hey!!! After work I'm the first one who gets the bath!!" she shouts.

Episode. 25 Witness Grandma
In the woods, the Dekaranger have to deal with a little, wizened pink alien woman with enormous eyes. She wears an dull colored kimono. A young girl, possibly a nurse, twines her arms around Sen's waist and tells him he can't go. He laughs in the outdoors. The girl hugging him steps out of the camera range and the little old lady alien steps in to hug him, to his dismay. Or are they one person? Sen stnads next to Testru, who stands next to a fallen human-seeming body. Umeko is behind Tetsu, Ban behind her, and Hoji is whispering in Jasmine's ear behind Sen. The fierce little old lady alien is watching events from h9iding, a ruby where the third eye traditionally is. The Dekaranger are in a cave where two pale candles are burning and Sen explains something to them. He tries to protect the little old lady and get her out of the line of fire. He pilots his mecha. He fights Anaroids out of armor.

An ad for the movie. The man playing a human face for the villains is, by the way, the man who played the skeleton demon from Kakuranger.

The woods are lovely, thick with green at this time of year. There is a young girl picking her way through them. She wears blue coveralls and a white tea shirt. She has a book open and suddenly utters a delighted "Ah!" She bends down to carefully touch a spray of pale purple flowers. She smiles with mature warmth as she compares them with the illustration in her book. Suddenly she hears a male voice crying out in bewildered pain. Alertly she stands, and we see she also carries a woven basket. Across the clearing there is a small day-cottage. A man is staggering down the short stairs, writhing in pain. He falls to his knees and we hear a faint, distant deep laughter under his sounds. The girl hides behind the ineffectual shelter of a young tree, watching wide-eyed. She stiffens up with a small sound and suddenly her face changes. Her eyes become enormous, irises tiny their color green, heavily wrinkled purple skin surrounds the eyes. She can see a sparlking, blue and purple energy trying to get into the man. It is the Spiritian, Byooi. As she watches, it suddenly dives into his mouth. He drops like a puppet, and the alien's laugh echoes. The girl, her face looking normal and human again, gasps in distress. "That's - " she stutters, and the shound was a mistake. For the man hears her and turns quickly. He looks straight at her. Sanely, she flees. "Saw you," he growls and coils to his feet. He takes off after her, running so fast his body blurs.

Sen, crossing a footbridge over the river with his gun held cautiously at ready, hears the girl's scream of fright. He races to answer it. Past a small house and onto a field where the girl nearly runs into him. "Help me!" she cries. She dives behind him and clings to his waist. Before he can ask anything, her pursuer comes leaping at Sen, arms spread wide. He hits and the girl has already leapt away herself, as the two men roll on the green grass. Focused on Sen, the man leaps and gets him in a head lock, but there is less plan than mayhem in his fighting. Sen pulls loose relatively easily, then the man tries to throttle him. A cry gets his attention, though. Tetsu is springing into the fray feet first. He kicks the man off of Sen. "This guy's the Alienizer?" he asks uncertainly, staring at the fellow who's back on his feet, clutching the arm Tetsu had kicked and looking murderous. "Oh, it's the Space Police," he growls, then bolts away, diving down. "Wait!" shouts Tetsu. He and Sen charge after the man. Well, he does. Sen remembers the girl and leaves it to Tetsu, swinging around, holstering his gun and jogging over to wher she huddles behind the brush. "Are you all right?" he asks gently, bending down beside her. She nods, uttering a soft confirming noise, her face a picture of distress. Tetsu is jogging back to them. "Ah, he's escaped!" he grumbles. Sen's badge goes off, and he stands up straight to answer it. Umeko calls shrilly, "Guys, come quickly! There's a man down!" Surprised, they look at each other.

It is indeed the man they'd been fighting. He lies too still. Umeko kneels beside him, staring at his face. Hoji gets there first and asks "What happened?" "He came and just collapsed," she answers. She lifts her gaze to his as Jasmine, Sen and Tetsu get there and says, "I think something's strange's happened to his life!" Hoji stands up and turns to "Jasmine, can you get through to this guy?" She nods professionally. Removing her right glove, she kneels down and places her bare hand on his torso. There is a moment where everything turns monochrome then a bright flash, and she falls backwards with a sound of pain. Sen catches her quickly. "What's wrong?" he asks anxiously. Someone, I think Hoji, says her name anxiously. She pulls herself back together and says shakily, "It's like weakness killed him. But there's nothing to read. Nothing on the Alienizer. Very disturbed, they look around. They'll have to try another day. A rustling in the brush catches their attention and they whirl, hands going to their guns. It is only Ban. He grumbles that he couldn't find the monster, it hasn't been a giant. He looks down at the body in surprise and asks, "What happened?" looking to Hoji for answers. However, the answers are going to come from somewhere else. From the girl. She pops out from behind a tree and asks them how long they'll be searching. They all turn and stare at her in surprise. "Who are you?" Ban asks. She smiles and her face changes, to be followed rapidly by her body. The image of the girl gives way to a heavily wrinkled, pink skinned alien with enormous eyes. White hair is thick like cotton around a crest on her head. She weares white cloth with golden-brown lining and leans on a cane. They react automatically, all of them have their guns trained on her. "What's this, what's this?" she says scoldingly, and makes her way towards them. "I thought Earth people were kind and considerate to little old ladies!" She swats Sen's hand with her cane scoldingly and he lowers his weapon, wincing and shaking out the sharp pain. He holsters his gun asking, "Why is this man dead?" She makes a considering noise and moves past them to get a look at the body. She kneels down and exlpains, "I saw this man's body get taken by a Spritian." The others have also holstered their weapons and watch curiously. Umeko asks, "Spiritian?" The old woman nods gravely. "Earth people's eyes can't see it," she explains. Then she looks up into Umeko's gaze, "But I can see." Sen takes a step closer to her and asks tentatively, "So, you can help us find the Spritian?" She shakes her head and says, "No." Levering herself to her feet, she moves away as they watch her, standing close together. "I can only see when he's entering or leaving the body." Then she introduces herself, "I am a Shinoian, my name is Hakutaku. I'm a Doctor of Herbal Medicine." The Dekaranger glance uncertainly at each other, and then Sen asks softly, "Ms. Hakutaku, could you work with us, please?" Surprised, she turns around and assumes again her guise as a young girl. "So, you can keep me safe while I assist you?" She grins broadly at them, looking adorable, and Sen can't help but chuckle in response, though his shoulders sag.

Back at base, the team is assembled in ops. Swan is explaining about the cannister in the alien ship. "This is the Spritian's cockpit. They need this, because they are a lifeform of pure gas." The hologram winks out. Kruger takes up the explanation. "This Spiritian is Byooi. Spritians don't normally enter human bodies. He's the only one who does it, allowing him to commit crimes with impunity." The hologram has been replaced with one of a Spiritian, a mass of blue and white gas, with two red points that are highlighted as organs. Umeko leans forward anxiously, "Ms. Hakutaku said she has a methos of detecting him." Ban leaps on it, eyes bright and looks to Sen, "What's that method?" Kruger also turns to Sen, wanting him to find that out. "Roger!" Sen replies brightly.

A door slides back in its red frame. The label on the wall outside says "Protection Room." Sen comes in to where Hakutaku is lyign on her back, reading her book and sometimes rubbing her knee. He goes over to her and asks, "Ms. Hakutaku, I've come to ask, could you please tell us how to detect Byooi?" She slaps her book closed, turns to him and presumably makes a funny face "Beeh!" she says, then rolls away from him. "I'm not teeeellling," she mocks. Annoyed, he asks her "Why not?" She makes a remark about them being too something and gets out of the bed. He stands up and backs as she aggressively approaches and scolds him that they spend too much time inside, they don't get out and work in the world. Just for pointers, she punches him in the gut. Doubled over and getting rather frustrated, he finds she's switched back to the human-girl illusion. "Get on out there, and I'll teach you. She elbows him, but this time he's ready and only winces. She's already whirled back into her true form. Presses against him telling him aliens get this, and continues meandering the room. Sen is gritting his teeth when he sees something flash outside behind the smoked window. "Look out!" he screams even as he grabs her and dives for the floor. Just in time, too, for the window shatters under a shot meant to kill her. "What was that?" she gasps. Keeping his body protectively over hers, Sen sits up. "Just maybe - " but we don't hear him complete the sentence. For what he's done is bundle her into his police car and is driving away from Deka Base at high speeds. As he drives he explains that the Deka Base isn't safe, for Byooi is clearly inside one of his friends. Hakutaku nervously clutches her cane. "But who..?" he wonders. He thinks back to when the possessed man dove away from them. Tetsu had dashed in pursuit and been lost to sight, it could be him. But Umeko had been beside the body by herself, so it could be her. Umeko had touched the body, Byooi could have gone into her then. And of course Ban had arrived on the scene last of all, out of sight for quite some time so he was also a possibility. Then of course there'd been that time when another alien had switched bodies with Hoji, and he had also been alone... "I just don't know," murmurs Sen. He suddenly hits the Breaks. There is something on the side of the car... but that may have no significance.

A computer in the base, and a message being sent in an alien language. It appears on the inside of Aburera's helmet and he reads with interest. He's being asked to go after the Shinnoian. He's quite willing. It seems Sen is taking her back where they found her, the wooded park. He drives the car, still fretting. She listens patiently to what he says and then tells him, "The place I'm hiding is near here. No one knows abou - " she's cut off when there is an explosion in front of them. Sen cries out and starts weaving the car to avoid the explosions going off. Eventually they are forced to a halt and Sen rolls out, turning to call her. Then he sees to his horror that there is something on the left lower side of the car. A tracking device! He wrenches it off. "Oh, that explains it," he hisses. Hakutaku hobbles over and looks over his shoulder. "What's that?" He doesn't get a chance to answer her, for a crowd of Anaroids come leaping into the area to fight. He tells her quickly to go and hide. She has no problem with that. "I'll leave it to you!" The Anaroids charge him, while Hakutaku hides behind a caterpillar machine. He doesn't switch into armor, no, but he does his best to stop them hitting him. A Battsuroid joins the battle, firing on him. He cries out in pain and falls. It turns out there are two more, and Sen scrambles back to his feet, furious. Now he changes into his armor t