Prove Yourself
"uhh..."
Zero suimin, who just became a ranger, arrived at the location of their soon to be base of the [Idealigers]
"How many floors this building has again?"
He asked the young girl, shira asumi, as she also stared at the huge building in infront of them.
"I think its about 150 floors..."
"Huh?!"
His eyes widden in shock. Such huge building have what floors now?!
"You serious? Like, actually 150 floors?!"
She nodded. She too, was unsure if it is actually 150 floors but the media says so otherwise.
"Why not see it for ourselves?"
"A O okay!"
...
Zero and shira walk side by side as they step in. Their first thought? Big.
The first floor is already this big, how about the other floors upstairs? Its not gonna be mantion inside a building right?
Zero, having a strange watch which is his morpher, asked one of the staff at the receptionist.
"Uh... How do we find miss lithra again?"
"Hm?"
The receptionist who was busy, look up and eyed the boy in front of her. She thought they were messing around so she asked him.
"Do you have an appointment scheduled? If not, please comeback. She is currently busy about something and aren't being allowed to be disturbed."
"Huh? But—"
Shira, sensing his social skills, sighed. She knows he can't handle things like this, that's why she was here.
"Um, excuse me. We did make an appointment. Here's the letter."
Yesterday, after the fight, lithra hand shira a letter and said she only have to give this to the receptionist and everything will be okay.
Since miss lithra noticed zero not being a sociable person, she handed the responsibility of talking to his childhood friend, shira.
So naturally, she followed what miss lithra said and gave the receptionist the letter that she gave.
Seeing the letter on her hand, the receptionist widden her eyes. The letter have a stamp that miss lithra personally has. Meaning, if she has this, then that person is to be handled carefully and respectfully.
That's one of the rules inside this company.
"Right this way!"
The receptionist bow and immediately show them the way.
"Uh..."
Zero, not getting anything since shira was the only informed about this, scratch the back of his head and follow the already walking shira behind her.
...
It took about fifteen minutes to barely arrived at miss lithra's personal office. The receptionist knocked carefully and notify her.
"Miss lithra, one of your visitors are here."
Yes, if a person who has this letter come here, the staff always calls them visitors. Hence, why she said visitors earlier.
"Let them come in~"
A seductive yet alluring voice replied, signing for the childhood friends to come in.
"Please come in."
The receptionist open the door and bow. Once they were inside, the receptionist gently closed the door behind them and leave.
Inside, the two were greeted by a very neatly, and tightly clean office. No mess, no misplaced objects.
Miss lithra is currently sitting on her office chair when she slowly turn around.
"Uh... Yo?"
Zero akwardly greeted miss lithra. His the only one who could talk this way as she and zero are teammates who defend the earth from evil forces like invaders.
"My~ How are you, mr. Leader~?"
"Um... Can we not call me that? I mean, yeah I have the color of the leader but I don't have any qualifications of being a leader you know?"
She giggles.
"Take a seat, please. And as for doubting yourself, why not prove yourself wrong~?"
"Huh? What do you mean?"
Zero asked as the two of them sat on one of the couch. These couches are probably more expensive than the house they are living.
Shira let the two converse as she scout around, looking for anything she recognised.
"What do I mean~? Why of course~ By recruiting the rest of the team~"
"Huh?"
A sweat slide down on the right side of his face as he was confuse. To prove himself by recruiting people?
"That's right~ If you think you're not suitable for the role of the leader, why not recruit the rest of the team~ See if you could even manage to fill every spot~ If so, then you proven yourself wrong~"
"Ah... I see... Or not! What do you mean I have to recruit the rest of the team?! I thought that was your job?!"
"Hm~"
She gracefully put her hand on her chin as she started to think. While thinking, she voice out her concern.
"You see~ For 200 years, not a single one is worthy of inheriting the idealiger morpher~"
"Except yesterday~ One of the idealiger morphers glowed red~ Indicating the boy in front of me that time, YOU, were worthy~ And since you resonate with the red Idealiger morpher, it means you have the idealistic of being a leader~"
"Right... Right... So?"
"Why not I let you handle the choice of picking the rest of the members~ Mr. Leader~"
She pulled out a huge black case and roughly put them on her table. Zero opened it and inside were four other idealiger morpher like the one on his wrisk.
Above each morpher is their assigned colors.
Blue with two pens.
Yellow with three pens.
Green with four pens.
And lastly pink, with five pens embedded beside its color.
The number and color indicates the order or number and color of each memebers that it will soon receives.
But one thing is, zero isn't a very sociable guy. Plus, his just a highschool student. Where is he supposed to get the rest of team from? He wouldn't just casually meet them while strolling now will he?
Matter of fact, he wish it to be that way. So he wouldn't have to deal with this.
"Well... I guess I'll find a way..."
*Beep* *beep* *beep*
The three stand in suprise as alarms blurted on her office. The thing is, it is only on her office and not on the rest of the building. Meaning, something bad is currently happening.
"This is bad."
Miss lithra's tone were worried and concern. Since the alarm is only inside her office, this means its Idealiger stuff and not her company.
"Boy, your up."
"Mhm!"
He nodded, and immediately leave her office.
"You and I stay here, shira. Let him prove himself. After all, to be a leader, is to be the strongest, the bravest, and the person who wouldn't give up. Plus, I'll step in if he couldn't handle it."
"Right..."
She nodded solemnly. She was worried about zero, after all his alone this time. Will he be able to defeat and defend the earth alone this time? Or will he fail and miss lithra have to step in?
That, we will have to know.
...
"Cra! Cra! Cra! Cra!"
An invader, who has the appearance similar to a crab except it has six other pinched instead of two plus three legs attached below its lower body.
It was horrendous, terrifying even.
We can see people panicking around, didn't know what to do when the two pincher of the monster produces some kind of sticky glue that sticked people's feet on the ground. Making escape futile as the monster slowly closing in towards those civilians who were trapped by the sticky glue.
"Cra! Cra! Cra! That bastard is right! There are so many substances I can use to refill my glue! Cra! Cra! Cra!"
The monster laugh as one of its pincher about to stab a citizen.
"Enough!"
[Idealizaaaaaa-TION!!!]
Zero's body glowed midair and immediately changed into his idealiger suit.
"Ha!"
Then, he pulled out his [Idealist Sword]
[Slash—ON]
And hastily slash the crab invader in a vertical line which made the monster flew to the side, hitting a wall.
"Ahhh!! You! You!! How dare you slash that stupid thing at my pinchers!! Hate!! I hate you!!!"
The crab monster screech in pain and anger as it launch itself on zero. Having just landed, he was caught off guard and got slashed six times by the pinchers, causing him to jump back in pain and landed roughly on the ground.
"Argh... Damn it..."
He slowly stand up and grabbed his idealist blaster
[Shoot—ON]
And aim it towards the crab monster, who looked ready to receive any attacks he throws at it.
"Eat this, you crab whatever invader!!"
He fired ten times before stopping, looking at whatever damage he dealt with. But upon seeing it, the crab's pincher actually grabbed each bullets. Not only stopping it, but also was about to send it back.
"Wha—"
He couldn't react and was subjected into ten bullets that the crab reflected and was shot on evey direction.
"Ahh!..."
He was thrown back again for the second time. But this time, he landed barely on his feet. Clutching his chest where the bullets targeted.
"Tch..."
On the tower/building, lithra and shira were watching the fight on a hologram on her desk. It was a disk like device that could capture anything.
And right now, it was capture zero's struggles.
"What's wrong with him?... It feels like he's—"
"Distracted."
Miss lithra finished her thought as she analyzed the footage in front of her. She can see zero was hesitating, or were distracted about something. She could tell he was still bothered about what she said earlier.
"To prove yourself, huh?"
She muttered quietly as the two of them continue to watch zero's struggle.
"Damn it..."
Back on the battle, zero is currently defending himself with his idealist sword from the onslaught of the crab monster's six pinchers.
One to the right, one to the left, two the bottom, and two upward. He was blocking at every direction where the pinchers at while grunting. The force behind each slash were strong, and zero just got his idealiger morpher yesterday and still wasn't used to its powers.
"How can I defeat this thing..."
His idealist sword and his idealist blaster is useless in front of this crab monster. First, any slash he give is met with a tough shell plus six pinchers. Then any blasts he fire is met by an unnatural reflexes, stopping them before it could hit it.
"Think, zero! Think!... Use your imagination!... How can I defeat this stupid annoying crab!..."
He pushed the crab back and jumped back to creatensome space between them.
"Cra! Cra! Cra! Is that all you got? I thought the warriors of this planet is much more than this?"
An irk mark appeared above his helmet as he was mocked by an ugly crab like monster.
"You're mocking me?"
[Shoot—ON]
[Slash—ON]
He pulled out his idealist sword and blaster and combined both of them. That's right, that is what he was missing. Combining both of his weapon to create something new. Something that is effective against this crab monster.
[Ideaaa—LISTIC!!!]
Another strange but same voice appeared as both his idealist sword and blaster glowed. It slowly merged into one before the light vanishes.
What greeted zero is a something new, even for miss lithra who widden her eyes.
The idealist blaster stayed the same, but this time, there are two small blade pointed out on each side and a long blade below it.
Meaning, the idealist blaster were on top of the idealist sword, glued, with an additional of two small blades on each side.
[Idealist—Emerged!]
"Enough fooling around! I'll end you this time!!"
He grabbed the now merged weapons and aimed it at the crab monster, who took the same stance earlier when he first aim his idealist blaster. Thinking it has the same fire power as the last.
"Cra! Cra! Cra! You think this will stop me, the great crab lord?!"
"Shut it and eat this!!"
He pulled out some kind of futuristic pen from his watch and inserted it on a keyhole present at the back of the gun.
[Confirmed.]
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[Initiating Fire]
"Fire!!!"
He pulled the trigger as he shouted and a huge energy blast came out from the blaster. Then, as if not that was not enough, he grabbed the helm of the sword and send out two energy slashed right after.
"Huh? What kind of attack is that—"
Before the crab monster could react, the energy blast tore through his chest and the two energy slash behind it slashed six of his pincheds each. Disarming him effectively while also tearing his chest apart and created a massive hole.
Zero turn around as the explosion errupted while the merged weapons return to normal.
"Huff... Huff..."
Since he received many attacks, he was slightly injured and exhausted. After all, despite having his idealiger suit, he didn't have much mastery as with miss lithra, who shaken off any kinds of attacks.
"Rahhh!!!"
As if on cue, the crab monster is now big. It screeched a loud scream and started to destroy its surrounding buildings one by one. Creating a massive chaos in the city.
"Damn it... I hate when they do that..."
He tap the same icon he tapped yesterday and the weird voice rang again.
[Initiating Robo Idealism]
[Gooooo Mega—Reddd!!!]
A portal appeared behind him and with that, the same red tank slowly emerged. It dropped roughly on the ground, creating a massive dust around it as zero hop towards the now open door.
Inside, he quickly sat back and focus at the crab monster who is still continue destroying buildings after buildings.
"Hey crab shit!"
He grabbed a lever and pulled it upward before stepping on the gas paddle. He wore a grin, clearly provoking the crab monster or maybe grabbing his attention.
And that it did.
The crab invader stopped destroying things as it slowly turn its body towards the huge red tank behind it.
[Red Energizer: Absolute Fire Shot]
He didn't waste time and immediately used the same attack that destroyed the monster yesterday.
He sure this is enough to kill it yet he didn't expect what happens next. The crab monster started to dig and
Vanished?
"Huh? Where did it go?"
He look around, nothing. No movement nor he didn't sense anything. He
"Escape?..."
...
"Damn that stupid crab... Why and how did it even escape?!"
Furious, he barged in on miss lithra's office as he sat. Frustrated and irritated, he didn't expect the monster to actually escape despite being in the gigantic form.
He recalls every time the sentai rangers encounter monsters in big forms, they always defeat them. Yet the situation right now, its annoying and concerning.
"Calm down zero... Maybe you would catch it next time..."
"My~ What's on your mind boy~?"
He snapped, looking at miss lithra with a confuse expression.
"What do you mean?"
She giggles.
"Don't play with me boy~ I saw it earlier~ When you're fighting that invader, you were not focused~ Hence why it almost beaten you~"
He try to recall it and sighed. She was right, he was absent-minded at that time and wasn't focus on the invader.
"Its just... I was thinking on how to recruit the rest of the team."
"Hm~? So that's what bugging you boy~"
She giggles again, which irked zero.
"You see, somethings are meant to be search while sometimes it will search for you~"
"Huh?! What does that even—"
Shira shoved his face back and let out an excited squick.
"Kyaa!!! That was a cool qoute miss lithra!! That's my qoute starting today!!"
Miss lithra enjoyed the fondness she was having by shira while also enjoying the annoyed and confused emotions she's getting from zero.
"Seriously..."
Always dealing with shira's fangirling shenanigans, zero usually doesn't bother with type of situations but its an exception right now. After all, lives are steak here.
"Moving on"
Zero interrupts shira as she was about to enter fangirl state again.
"That crab monster."
"Crab invader~"
"Monster is much more easier word! Ahem. Anyway, that crab monster is something else. I thought I could instantly kill it by using what I used to kill the monster yesterday. Yet strangely enough, it feels like it knows I'll use that attack immediately. Plus, the way it fight, its more effective than yesterday."
"Probably because they can also gather information like us humans~"
"What?"
He look straight at her which made her wiggle both of her shoulders cutely.
"Staring mr like that is embarrassing you know~?"
Ignoring her comment, he pressed on at what he just heard.
"Do you mean it was able to gather information about me?"
She stopped, nodding, then go back messing zero again.
"Yes~ That's also how it goes when I first started this~ After defeating my first ever invader, the next one seems to somehow know everything I throw at it and barely defeated it~"
"Are you serious?... This is..."
"But~"
She added, snapping zero out of concern as she explain more.
"You will get used to it~ After all, we still need four more member~ Even if the difficulty rises, as long as you have other people watching your back, you all will be able to defeat it no matter what~"
He stared at her. Really stared. Then, sighed. He sighed because she was right. In every sentai ranger, in every team, they always got each other's back and defeated every monster or villains they encounter.
Even if some of that were defeat at first try, at the end of the day, nothing ends at first try.
This conversation made him realized.
He finally realized what it is like to be the leader. That is to ensure each member got their back. To ensure he acted as the glue that sticked the group she was about to create.
And an idea on who he should recruit.
The corner of his mouth slowly raise before turning into blown smirk.
"I get it now lithra. I finally realized it."
Hearing this made miss lithra smiled. The brat finally—no, the boy finally understood it. She was relieved, knowing she can easily pass the torch to the boy in front of her.
From here on out, she'll only support the team at the back. She'll only be usedul if the team needs help that needed her concern. She'll only be of used if she was necessary.
"My~ Took you long enough~"
She looked at the newly opened teenager boy standing in front of her and smile. A genuine full blown smile.
"Mr. Leader~"
Zero immediately rush towards the door and dapped his now red stripe jacket that indicates what color he is while also blending in to the background.
"I'll headout! I know where that stupid crab monster will pop up if it actually have similarities with its original!"
"My~"
"If you're wrong, lives will be sacrificed so you better be sure about that!"
He stopped, turn his head to look at her and smirked.
"When it comes to intuition, I never lose against you."
Before stepping out and gently close the door.
"Wha?! That stupid idiot!!"
Shira, who was left behind with miss lithra, stomping her foot out of frustration by the last comment zero made.
"My~ You two really are meant to be~"
"Miss lithra! Don't ever EVER pair me up with that guy! EVER!"
She was complaining about being shipped with zero yet failed to notice the huge blush on her face and subtle shaking from excitement.
But of course, our miss lithra notices this but didn't comment on it. Let them realized it themselves. Plus, the drama that will uphold will surely be entertaining for her in the future.
...
About 100 meters from the city where shira and zero are, the ground started to shake. The peace that the animals were having shattered as the ground beside a massive pond burst. What came out is a familiar fella.
The crab monster.
"Cra! Cra! Cra! That stupid human! Did he think I would just willingly tank that attack? Hell no! Of course I'm gonna dodge while also escaping! Cra! Cra! Cr—"
"You sure did!"
A sudden small voice interrupted the crab monster's laugh, which made it froze. That voice, it knows it too well. After all, he just heard this few minutes ago after he escape.
"How?! How did you find me?!"
It was zero. Standing below the oversized crab monster, he smirked as he pointed his idealist blaster at his now overgrown eyes.
"You're a crab. And crab likes places that are moisture and are abundant with food sources. Just like those fishes beside you."
"Huh?! You predicted where I will be resurfacing just because of me being a crab?! How disrespectful! How impudent! I hate you human! I hate you!!!"
The crab monster started to tantrum, which made zero unable to balance for a second before adjusting his body to blanace it out.
"Ready!"
He pull his arm where his morpher are and spin the disk facing him before tapping the opposite icon from the megazord.
The watch glow before a strange yet enthusiastic that seems familiar shouted on the background.
[Idealizaaaaaa-TION!!!]
A familiar hologram appeared in front of him as he put his left foot in front of him. The hologram, sensing his movements, obediently stick to him one by one. Starting from head to his feet, slowly putting his red idealiger ranger suit.
"Idealist sentai, Idealiger: Red!"
He shouted, just created a similar catch phrase that every sentai ranger usually use after transforming.
Of course, not forgetting the cool explosion behind him as he pose in a martial art like pose before something explode behind him with a smoke that have the same color as his assigned one.
"I'm not done yet!"
He tapped the megazord icon on his morpher and a sudden but similar enthusiastic voice rang.
[Initiating Robo Idealism]
[Gooooo Mega—Reddd!!!]
A huge purple portal opened behind him as a huge red tank fall from it. The design is something that came out from the future and look much more advanced the tank this generation has.
The door open with a hiss as smoke come out. Indicating for him to hop on.
"Let's do this!"
After arriving inside, he didn't hesitate and immediately sat down, pull the lever upward, and step on the gas padel.
"You're not escaping this time crab bastard!"
"Cra! Cra! Cra! You think you can stop me human?! Stupid!"
As if repeating the same thing, the monster was about to dig down when the end of the nuzzle from the red tank suddenly planted itself on the ground as zero stopped.
Thinking he gave up, the crab monster even flash him with a mock smile. Saying he failed again.
What he didn't know is that this time, instead of burying underground, the ground itself bury him. That's right, a sudden red beam erupted from its feet. Having caught off guard, the crab monster naturally got hit as it was threw off to the side and roughly landed on the ground.
"Ha! You think I'll fall for that trick to times? It seems like you're the dumbass here!"
Seeing the crab monster unguarded, he quickly push his tank forward, seizing this golden opportunity to kill it.
[Red Energizer: Skirk Piercers]
The nuzzle of the red tank slowly turn into an end of a long spear that extends 30 meters long of its original length. The end is so sharp that you can feel oxygen were being affected. That's how sharp that end of the spear is.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!!"
He let out the loudest battle cry he have yet done, and maximise the speed of the red tank as it goes 1000 mph.
"Cra?!"
The crab monster, having recovered from the earlier assault, it saw the red tank a little bit too late as it pierced through where the heart assumingly was.
"Huff... Huff... Huff..."
Sweat pour down his nervous face as he slowly let go of the lever and the gas puddle. In front of him was the monster, getting its own 'heart' pierced right through.
"That was..."
He grumbles as he slowly stand up, supporting himself on the chair as he walk out of his megazord.
"Maybe in your next life, try to learn not to underestimate the humans you hated the most. After all, there are no impossible unless they are set at zero."
His body glow as his ranger suit was removed and replaced by what he was wearing pre-transformed.
His eyes couldn't keep up as his body slowly fall to the ground.
Another day
Another monster
Another down.
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To be continued
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