First Ranger Key

[sumofallreds]

[Video of a very familiar pirate ship appears, showing someone very different than Gai. He's busy at the console, typing away.]

Urgh. How does Doc remember this complicated sequence for the radar?

[He types some more, his face looking more and more frustrated as he does so. Finally he slams his hand down on the console, looking up at the screen...and noticing the ducks for the first time. He'll look confused for a second, as this is quite new. He'll start thinking about how the hell this happened.]

It can't be from me. Doc wouldn't pull pranks like this, and Luka doesn't have the technical know-how TO pull it. Joe and Ahim are out of the question....

[And then his face goes as red as his coat.]

GAI! GET YOUR BUTT UP HERE AND EXPLAIN THIS!

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[boostup4beetbuster]

[Jin is busy looking down at his plans for the Great Go-Buster and doesn't realize the community is up.]

Oi, who's barking orders at my army of techs...

[Now he looks up.]

Oh. Hi.

[sumofallreds]

[Marvelous will look cock-eyed at the man on his screen.]

Is this your doing? I don't take kindly to my ship being hacked.

[boostup4beetbuster]

No, and trust me, it's not the best time for me. Trying to put together a Megazord, and the rest of my team's in trouble out there. [He looks at another screen.] Oi, Ryuji! Your deepest desire is for me to do what to you?

Anyway, I'm Jin. Beet Buster, part of the 36th Super Sentai. Guessing by the pirate ship and the red that you're Marvelous?

[sumofallreds]

36th? What kind of nonsense is this?

[He may not now much, but he knows there's no other teams fighting Zangyack right now.]

If you are, then how are we talking? You'd obviously have to be from the future, and you don't look like a TimeRanger to me.

[boostup4beetbuster]

Yeah, we're from 2012 Neo AD. So I guess a little after you, or maybe toward the tail end of what you're doing? I'm kind of shaky on anything between now and 1999.

The community pulls all that time travel stuff and alternate worlds and everything. You should talk to your man Gai. We've already met.

[sumofallreds]

I don't really know your planet's calendar anyway.

[And likely won't care to learn it to be honest.]

Oh I plan to. He's the first one I want to talk to about...this.

[He'll gesture at the screen. Hopefully Jin will take it.]

[boostup4beetbuster]

Yeah, sounds like things got messy about 12 years ago. Missed that one.

Anyway, go easy on the kid. He didn't put this on the computer--it shows up on its own. Although, now with two of you guys on, I wonder how long it'll be before the rest of you guys get access.

[sumofallreds]

If you're referring to Zangyack...yeah. It's a mess all right.

He's still a newbie. Gotta put him through the paces, no matter the situation.

[boostup4beetbuster]

Our planet's been under constant attack since the '70s. It's hard to tell what's messier.

Gotcha. Yeah, he'll learn eventually. I know I've got to be tough on J.

[sumofallreds]

Well, I'm pretty sure Zangyack has the upper hand in messes, having made the previous Sentai give up their powers to stop them.

J?

[boostup4beetbuster]

Heard about that. Definitely counts as a mess.

He's my Buddyroid. First robotic Sentai...no, wait, there was that other guy. Anyway, he's an egotist, but he's a good fighter.

[juicy_egotist]

And there is nothing I know that isn't about me!

[Standing in front of Jin right now kthnx.]

[boostup4beetbuster]

Damnit J!

[He's just going to try to push you out of the way now.]

[sumofallreds]

[Marvelous is about to comment when the robotic beetle-man shows up.]

Seems like a pain in the ass to keep around if he's doing THAT kind of thing.

[Suddenly Gai doesn't seem so bad...]

[juicy_egotist]

Standing in front of Jin is what I was programmed for. [And he's pushed out of the way.]

[boostup4beetbuster]

J, I need to see these blueprints! Go do something useful!

[sumofallreds]

And I'm sure you're taking your programming too literally.

[He feels like giving J a whack himself.]

[boostup4beetbuster]

Y'know, I program him to have an interesting flaw, and he goes and just stands in front of me all the time. Can I at least get him doing that in battle or something?

[sumofallreds]

You purposefully put a flaw in his programming? You couldn't have just...made him click like a bug or something?

[boostup4beetbuster]

[He shrugs.]

Keeps him interesting. What's the point of having something that's perfect and perfectly predictable?

[sumofallreds]

If that's your idea of 'interesting'...I think you need to go over the definition again...

[boostup4beetbuster]

Just trust me on this--I'm a genius.

[sumofallreds]

[Oh look. The cock-eyed look is back.]

Riiiiggghhhhtttt.

[boostup4beetbuster]

Well, look what I just put together.

[He pushes the screen up.]



I call it...

[juicy_egotist]

Great Go-Buster!