Personnel File 22: The Pirates and the Bat
Another day another chaotic situation that the SPD found itself in. Sky Gear, or Sora as she liked to be called, pretty much knew it would be like this time to time with all the Displaced mishaps that happened before, but this rapidfire shot of crazy was a bit much.
“This one I don’t mind though, that pre-battle call was pretty amazing and he was pretty strong.” muttered out loud Sora as she walked.
She then noticed that someone was going to go around the corner so she waited a moment before noticing that it was the Displaced and… a steamwork parrot? That confusion caused her to lean forward and make a fumble into the pair accidently, “Curse me and my analytical nature!”
“Whoa, you okay there?” Gai asked, helping Sora to her hooves, “gotta watch where you’re going, kid.”
Sora look irritated at Gai, “I may be young compared to you, but age 29 isn’t a kid!”
Gai raised his hands in surrender, “sorry, you look younger than me so I assumed you were one of the staff’s kids, and I’m 20 by the way.”
“Okay I think we should just go back to the beginning and start over, I’m Sky Gear or Sora. A simple Trooper of Squad B here at SPD, You’re the Silver Pirate aboard the Grand Red Galleon, right?”
Gai chuckled, “yeah, that’s me. Gai Ikari, the Silver Scourge. Captain of the Gokai Galleon and wanted for 500,000 bits by my last estimate.” He held out a hand.
Sora let a smile go onto her face as she shook Gai’s hand, “‘Enemy’ of all Equestria?”
“Only to the evil space empire currently occupying it.”
“... Hold on, Bits is a universal currency?”
“No, Zangyack tends to offer rewards in local currency, encourages the locals and doesn’t cost them a thing since they captured the entire Equestrian Treasury… which I’ve mostly stolen back by now.”
“If our initial scans of your ship are anything to go by, it has the ability to turn into a giant robot, it’s dealt enough damage that would require the rest of the treasury to be used for repairs, right?” She then looked up at Gai’s companion, “Oh and who is this?”
“I’m Navi!” she squawked from Gai’s shoulder.
“She’s the Galleon’s resident navigator, as well as the first member of my crew.” Gai explained, patting the clockwork parrot on the head, “and as for costs: the Galleon’s a very durable ship, and I have other things to pay your boss with. My Equestria will need the bits to rebuild, after all.”
“It’s good to meet you then Navi.” said Sora with a smile before looking over the steamwork parts before making a flap with her wings, “Hmm… she’s quite sturdy and has quite a fews parts I wouldn’t know what function they would have, must have been quite the being the one who built her.”
“From what I understand, she runs on perpetual motion, and her AI can predict the future to some degree.”
“I’m pretty amazing, aren’t I?” Navi said, small puffs of steam escaping from her beak.
“Don’t get a big head, Navi. You only tell it in cryptic riddles after all.” Gai scolded.
“Magic and science does what they do, or maybe the creator is subtle or just an ass.” stated Sora before wondering the last part.
“I wouldn’t know, I don’t have any memories before meeting Gai.” Navi said.
“Pretty sure that meeting would be quite chaotic.” said Sora with a snicker before shaking her head, “So what are you two doing around here?”
“Looking for R&D, I’ve got… plans for a certain set of spandex-clad fighters...” Gai said, a sly grin on his face.
“IT’S NOT SPANDEX!!!” a voice roared from somewhere in the building.
“He’s really got to get over that, people will call it spandex. So you’re going to plan an exercise for your crew?” asked Sora.
“Nope, Imma torment the A-scrubs a bit,” Gai leaned in, “wanna help?”
“If it can challenge their wit and maybe knock a bit of ego off of Red SPD I’m all for it.” grinned Sora before pointing a direction, “Let’s talk as we walk, this way to R&D.”
“Excellent...” Gai said darkly, wringing his hands like a saturday morning cartoon villain, “come, minions! To work!”
“Wait hold up! If you go left you’d go to the wrong side of the building!”
“Come this way, minions! THIS way to work!” Gai said, turning an about-face and going down the other hallway.
Sora sighed as she followed after Gai a smile on her face before she turned to Navi, “Is he always like this?”
“Only when he’s having fun, if he were serious, well...” Navi trailed off.
“Let’s just stick to fun, though I do wonder if he wouldn’t mind checking some of the personalized suits I’ve made… you two know a bit more about the Ranger suits right?”
“Gai wrote an encyclopedia on all the Super Sentai thus far, so I’d say so!” Navi chirped, landing on Sora’s shoulder.
“I’ll be sure to ask for a copy when all the scheming is done.”
“So welcome to R&D, palace of technology… and chaos… and parties for some reason.” stated Sora before looking around for someone of the R&D team and not actually finding anyone, “Everyone must have found something to test elsewhere, I’ll help where I can while they're away. Captain Gai.”
“Excellent… PINKIE!!!” Gai called.
“You rang?” The local party pony said, popping out from inside a test tube.
“I have a… special request for you, I need enough confetti cannons to cover three Manehattan blocks in red and orange confetti.”
Pinkie Pie saluted before disappearing inside the test tube again.
“Hold on Pinkie, could you not reappear from something breakable, we don’t want that incident happening again.” stated Sora out, completely unfazed by the appearance and disappearance of said pony.
“Sorry!” Pinkie’s voice echoed from the test tube.
Gai clapped his hands, “Now then, to work! How much do you know about remote-controlled explosives?”
Sora walked up to a shelf and took out a book and showed it to Gai, it was titled ‘Bombs And How to Explosively Construct Them’, “I’ve got some knowledge of them, team doesn’t let me make them though, something about not wanting to cause harm to villains?”
“Well, this time they will be directed at a very overconfident prismatic pegasus, can you make it so that they can be diffused by a simple button press? The ‘explosive’ being a transmitter to the confetti cannons of course.”
Sora took a moment before heading to some scrap and gathering some components which included a keyboard, “You want to customize the devices?”
“Can the ‘bomb’ pop open and reveal a chibified Gokai Silver?”
“Sure, I’ll need Pinkie to go over and do some custom jobs for the doll, but the box and stuff and transmitters can be easily reused from the components and jack-in-boxes that Steam wanted to use to construct a Olive Thrower.” said Sora as she got to work already into the construction of the ‘Bombs’
“Excellent,” Gai said, clapping his hands together, “if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be using this terminal to craft the virtual love child of HIV and Ebola!”
Pulling out a key and the Gokai Cellular, he inserted the key and shouted, “Gokai Change!”
MEEEEEEEGARANGER!!!!
Standing in Gai’s place was a silvery figure with a black dome head and a computer-like circuit panels on his chest. The figure turned to one of the many computer lab terminals and placed his hand on the monitor.
The computer flashed to life, streams of code scrolling past on both the monitor and the dome-like display on Gai’s helmet.
Sora blinked at the change and almost went back to work before noticing the sound of the mock alarm going off, “He bypassed the alarm but made the mock alarm trigger… I don’t know what that suit does, but it’s quite powerful to interface with the crystal network of SPD… hold on, aren’t R&D androids suppose to appear after the mock altar activates?”
“01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101000 01110101 01110010 01110100 01110011 00100000 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100001 00100001 00100001” screamed Gai, twitching as more lines of code appeared over his eyes.
“And not replying normally means it’s up to me to take care of the androids, great.” muttered Sora as she stepped up and saw faceless crystal golems walk in, “Lower grade series, great.” She pulled out her badge, “Morph mode.”
She was about to equip her suit when she noticed the golems slump before reactivating and walking over to her work place and start working on the ‘Bombs’, “Really powerful…” was all Sora muttered before placing back her badge and getting back to work.
“That’s the Denji Sentai’s sixth member: Mega Silver. That computer brain isn’t anything to sniff at.” Navi said, setting down on the work table.
“Mega Silver… sounds cool.” muttered Sora before sighing, “Sadly for us, morphing is restricted to A squad, the rest of us are allowed to, but need to go through quite some paperwork afterwards, making it not worth the hassle.”
“Is that the reason you’re helping Gai?”
“Well he’s challenging our strength by attacking the system and Rainbow Dash. We either become stronger because we failed or we’re strong enough to endure, Gai isn’t going to end lives of innocents willingly, so I’ll go with anything he wants for this challenge.” explained Sora.
“I see...” Navi muttered, before looking to the still squirming Gai.
“01001111 01010111 00100001 00100000 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100000 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100000 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100000 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100000 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100000 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100000 01001111 01010111 00100001 00100000” He screamed.
“Though that does sound and look, very painful.”
“...It probably is.”
“And done, now all we need are the things we need a Pinkie for.” stated Sora as she looked worryingly at Gai, who was slumped on the floor with smoke curling from his ears, clutching a flash drive.
Suddenly, he sprung up, “Excellent… PINKIE!!!”
“Here!” Pinkie Pie called, appearing out of the barrel of a highly experimental weapons prototype.
“PINKIE, OUT OF THE CHICKEN CANNON MK 3!”
“Sorry!” She said, reappearing out of one of the ‘Bombs’.
Sora could only sigh and pat the mare on the head, “Just be careful, I worry that you might injure yourself if you do such things. Keep yourself just appearing from doors that appear out of nowhere, the ceiling or floor on this room for now. Okay?”
Pinkie Pie saluted, before turning to Gai, “I’ve set up those confetti cannons you asked for! All they need is to be synced with the transmitters!” she said happily before turning back to Sora, “aaaand here’s the stuff you were going to ask me for!” she said, handing the objects to her.
“Thank you Pinkie. Oh and I’ll eat the cupcake you gave to me when I can.” Said Sora with a smile as she placed the objects besides the cupcake which wasn’t there a moment ago, much like the one in Gai’s hand.
“No problemo! Now to preserve continuity...” Pinkie said, putting on a pair of shades and holding up a pen-like object, “please look at this little red dot for me.”
“Do we have to Pinkie?” asked Sora, her goggles on as she was tinkering.
“Yes! The future of this Displaced fic demands it!” she said, grabbing both Gai and Sora’s heads and forcibly drawing them towards the pen-like object, “say cheese!” she cried before pushing the button on the side, a blinding white flash permeating the room, “I was never here, you guys did all the setup yourselves.” Pinkie said in a hypnotic voice before diving into a hole that opened up under her.
Sora held her head for a moment before looking around noticing the cupcakes, “Huh… I guess Pinkie went by without me noticing. Anyway, we’re done with everything… I’m drawing a blank on how we got the dolls again.”
“I think we just got flashed, and not in the ‘don’t ask don’t tell’ way.” Gai groaned, holding his head, “01100001 01110010 01100111 01101000 00100000 01101101 01111001 00100000 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 00101110 00101110 00101110” he muttered, before shaking his head again to rid himself of the various lines of code that still swam before his vision.
Taking a bite of the oddly plain looking cupcake, Sora just shrugged before looking at the ‘bombs’, “So where do you want to place these?”
“I can handle that much myself, did most of the planning beforehand anyway.” Gai said, rubbing the bridge of his nose.
“Well you’re going to do this in Manehattan, maybe you should take some looks at a map of the area before deciding where to place them. Differences between worlds are possible.” suggested Sora.
“Did that while I was frying my brain, thanks.”
“Should have asked me to just have given you access to that level of clearance, saved you some headache. Unless said headache is making you learn how to think faster.”
“Said headache was caused by crafting a virus that’s capable of instantly hacking any system it’s put into… while hopefully keeping it from infecting my thought process.” Gai took a swig from his hip flask, seemingly recovering from his headache with the power of alcohol.
“Fermented Rice… that’s a new one.” said Sora as she smelt the content of the flask despite not closing the distance between the two, “Ah right… I was hoping you could check a suit of mine…”
“Shoot.”
“So um just transform here?”
“I don’t see why not.” Gai said, putting his flask away, Navi flying to his shoulder, “unless you wanna go somewhere more private?”
Navi smacked him.
“Well here goes.” Sora changed the mode of her badge to morph, before with her right hand to throw it up in the air, “SPD Emergency.” She then caught it with her left hand and pressed the top button which forced the badge open then Sora called in synch with the device, “It’s morphing time.”
She then closed her badge as a silver belt constructed on her waist and slid the device in place in the belt buckle before her whole body shined white. A Deep purple suit started to appear as a black zero with a white inside appeared on the chest area before segmenting the suit with lines of silver separating her stomach level and chest as a device manifested on the back which looked like a pair of small air tanks with between them a metal panel where ruby shimmered with magical heat and fire. Slim silver gauntlets appeared on the suits hands while a pair of bat-winged shoulder pads appeared on the shoulders. Finally the helmet appeared looking simple and a recolor of the normal SPD suit before the sides altered to look more like bat ears.
She cut down slanted with right hand while taking a step forward with her right foot as she shouting out, “SPD Violet Echo Trooper!” she then cut right horizontally with her right hand and stepped forward her left foot before sticking out her left arm horizontally while her right hanged a bit away from her hip, “Echoing hope and despair, Judgement has Come!” her helmet's sirens blared as behind her a purple explosion went off.
“... I automatically said my pre-battle line, this is embarrassing…” was all Sora said as she slumped.
“Why are you embarrassed!?” Gai exclaimed, taking Sora by the shoulders, “the pre-fight line is what makes the fighter! You can’t just enter a fight unannounced! Now, one more time with feeling!”
“Yes sir!” said Sora now grinning before doing her rollcall once more, but this time at the end a pulse of hot air and killing intent was added after the explosion, “That was awesome… never actually put that much feeling those lines.”
Gai clapped his hands, “excellent! That’s how it’s done!” He pulled out the Gokai Silver key, “but I can’t let myself be outdone by my kouhai, now can I?”
“Here we go again...” Navi muttered, flying to a safe distance.
Gai inserted the key into the Gokai Cellular and crossed his arms over his chest, “Gokai Change!” He shouted before thrusting the Cellular up and forward, a silver light enveloping him.
GOOOOOOOKAIGER!!!! A mysterious voice announced, as if crying the news to the world.
“The Pirate Clad in Shining Silver: Gokai Silver!” Gai cried, swinging his Gokai Spear around in an arc as a silver-flamed explosion rocked the lab behind him.
“Awesome…” stated Sora and it was quite easy to see she was grinning underneath her mask.
“GAI!!!! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU NOT TO DO THAT INDOORS!?” Navi screeched, smacking Gai’s helmet with her wings, “JUST LOOK WHAT YOU DID TO THE LAB, YOU IDIOT!!!”
“Just some scorches… I don’t see the problem…” said Sora as she partially tilted her head.
Navi let out the robotic equivalent of a disgruntled sigh, gesturing to the smoking hole behind a sheepish Gai that had enveloped several of R&D’s projects… including the chicken cannon.
“That happens pretty much every week.” said the thestral with nod, “But I guess we’ll go to a test room so I can show the well... Ability of this suit, if you want to see it that is?”
“I’d love to!” Gai said, grinning under his helmet.
“I’m done...” Navi moaned.
Looking around at the padded room, Sora felt a bit odd with only Gai, Navi and her in the room. Shaking her head she concentrated on the system, steam escaping all the small vents on the suit.
Feeling enough control, she looked up at the training dummy she had set up, before making her gauntlets change and become clawed. She then dashed forward and made stayed in the air using the steam to drive her forward, “Steam Hell Slashing!”
Sora dashed right through the training dummy before making the claws retract as large amount of claw gashes and heat burns appeared on the dummy. “Man… I’ve seen the other just using the baton and then hitting the thing into two sliced pieces…”
“Don’t worry too much about it, from what I’ve seen so far, you’re suit is more suited to a roguelike assassination fighting style.” Gai said, walking towards her, “that being said, would you like to learn a new move I think you’d be able to pull off?”
“I’d love to!” said Sora as her wings which were hindered by the back attachment came out of the suit and wiggled uselessly behind her.
Gai chucked, “alright, simmer down there. Step back a bit for me.”
Using the steam network, Sora hovered a bit backwards.
Gai faced the dummy, stepping into a stance where the head of the Gokai spear was facing down towards his front leg, with a breath, a field of shadow extended in a circle around him, reaching the dummy and surrounding it in a field of crackling blue electricity.
“Gokai Revenant!” Gai shouted, before suddenly appearing on the other side of the dummy.
“Speed exceeding SPD 1. Energy beyond what I can see with basic analysis… what power…” muttered Sora before letting out an ‘eep!’ as the dummy seemingly exploded into shreds of it’s own volition.
“Gokai Revenant, a finisher that tears your opponent to shreds using the injuries they’ve already sustained.” Gai explained, “needless to say, it’s not a move cops would typically use.”
“The moment I get into such a suit is a moment that things start going to worse, sometimes Cops and Guards have to kill for the sake of safety of others. I’m willing to do that, besides I’m never going to be strong enough to save everyone, so I’ll save who I can.”
“Well said, but that’s exactly why you need to get stronger, isn’t it? Heroes are selfish, they have to have all the civilian lives spared before they can feel satisfied.” Gai said, lowering his spear, “but don’t be so willing to kill so easily, it's one thing to say that, taking a life is another thing entirely.”
“I’ve heard as much from many of my seniors, but for now I’ll try to do what I can to help the world… if the event presents itself, I’ll decide then how I will act. Because I can’t now, since then is then and now is now.” said Sora while looking at the roof.
Gai grinned under his helmet, “excellent answer, ready to learn the secret?”
“Beyond; practice practice and more practice?” asked a joking Sora as she looked Gai in the eyes.
“Nope, the secret is ‘mercy’.”
“Mercy for those who deserve it, or mercy for the world for being so cruel?”
“Mercy for those that suffer by your hand.”
“Guess I can grant them that, mercy from anymore pain and honor I can grant them. I give it all when fighting for my Pride as a Fighter, use everything and fight with all your might.”
“Start by taking a deep breath and closing your eyes, try to expand your senses beyond that of your body.”
Doing as such, Sora expanded her senses and the feeling of wind and heat surrounding her within this room started to come to her and bit for bit something beyond the room which was too vague to actually pinpoint for her sense.
“Excellent, now try and reach out a little further, as far as you can. Focus on my voice.”
Chaos… so much chaos of the forest, then order and harmony a bit beyond that and beyond that the feeling of home, she took it all in while still using her ears to listen to now.
“Do you sense me at the fringes of your mind?”
“Partially… I think, I feel… a powerful energy and a ring holding it back.”
“Imagine a tether between yourself and that energy.”
“A tether… a line… a thread.” muttered out Sora as she tried to do it, not knowing the the web she was weaving was doing it’s job.
“Focus Sora, you’re spreading yourself too thin.” Gai said, loosening his limiter to make his own beacon brighter.
“Focus Focus… Chaos… Order… Harmony… Focus.” muttered Sora as her sense went crazy taking in everything more and more, before dulling out and then reigniting only on Gai.
“Excellent, now, draw your consciousness towards me as fast as you can.”
“Consciousness?” asked Sora, her voice sounding a bit different now she was in this different state.
“Everything you perceive as ‘you’. Send it hurtling down the tether until you feel it reaching me.”
The mare took another deep breath and did as Gai asked, it was hard but bit by bit she could feel something happening.
“Now… let your body follow through.” Gai said, snapping Sora out of her trance.
She realized that she had become somewhat detached from her body, she was currently looking at her mortal coil from Gai’s point of view.
Suddenly, her body vanished and the next moment, she found herself looking at Gai, considerably closer than she was before. She was so very glad that she was wearing her suit since she was blushing heavily, but underneath it all she was giggling and giddy, “I did it, I did it!” she then hugged Gai.
“It’ll only get easier with practice,” Gai said, struggling a bit to breathe under the thestral’s rib-cracking hug, rapidly tapping her arm.
Sora backed off and noticed a bit of spark that noted damage on Gai’s suit, “Um… sorry?”
“It’s fine,” Gai said, waving it off, “part of this move is the field that debuffs your opponent’s defenses.”
“What did my field look like?” asked Sora since she herself hadn’t noticed it.
“Almost the same as mine, but the electric field was violet.”
“Odd… thought maybe it would a wind or fire field since I’m more versed into those than electric, but oh well, it was shocking nonetheless.” Sora then laughed, “Yeah that was bad.”
“Terrible.”
“... it’s been 30 minutes!?” stated Sora suddenly, “It felt like it was a lot less!”
“To be fair… it took me about twice as long to finally establish a location long enough for my first flash step.” Gai said, rubbing the back of his helmet.
“Well I guess I had luck then, but I’ll train all the same.” said Sora before demorphing by taking out her badge from her buckle, her face still stuck in a smile, “Now let’s get the prep of the city done with, oh I know of an exhibit in the museum which has tons of naked statues!”
Gai demorphed and grinned evilly at his partner in crime, “I like the way you think, my apprentice.”
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Fetch is pretty much over it. That voice is a recording. ;)
It is very hard to do R&D when the R&D labs keeps getting wrecked.
YEEEEESSSSS LET THE SHIPPERS SHIP...
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Sorry about that Fetch, but I can easily say that atleast it wasn't a total wipe out, that would have been terrible.
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Hmm... I think Gai has got this odd magnatism that makes him attractive to those with wings.
7396644 with any luck the destroyed lab will slow down the rate of people entering med bay. And what's this I'm hearing about a version 3 to that damned chicken gun?