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Within the realm of nightmares a storm has brewed. Lightning flashes across the sky as rain pours down on the world like a waterfall, wind whipping through stronger than any tornado or aircraft. In the center of the storm sits the ominous Nightmare Castle, it occupied by the realm’s queen Jung Moroi.

Inside of the castle, Jung walks through one of the hallways, her trusty knight Rasion by her side. As they walk through the castle, they converse about the more recent affairs they have had to face.

“Tcchh those pesky Dreamrangers. Time after time they’ve been able to thwart me. I send down wraiths to that pesky world of theirs on a daily basis, hoping that they’ll slip up and be defeated. But does that ever happen? No, they just win as always. I send out the biggest wraith I could conjure up, but they still defeat it, and even get a new play thing in the process. I even send out those darling Musashi brothers with the powers of my realm. They did indeed came the closest, but even they have been bested recently. I just don’t get it, why can’t I beat them!” Jung speaks aloud, the raising of her voice causing nearby glass and clay objects to burst into pieces.

“It does appear that they get stronger with every battle they partake in. Unfortunately it appears that even in their current states, we could beat them down all we want, even kill them if need be, but the power of their kingdom is keeping them strong, and making them stronger with every passing moment. There is nothing we can do unless we attack the Dreaming and take out Morpheus.” Raison explains to his queen.

“You know what it is don’t you? I haven’t used enough force. If I wanted to I could wipe out that entire planet in the blink of an eye. I could have my army take over the planet and slaughter the Dreamrangers in the process.”

“Then why not do so my queen?”

“Because, as much as it makes sense to do so, I can’t bring myself to do it. There would be no fun in doing it. I want dear old Morpheus to watch as I take down his strongest of warriors. I want him to watch on as his only hope of defeating me fades away with those miserable little twerps. I simply want him to feel as much pain as possible before I deliver the final blow.” Jung explains, a smirk taking over her face as she does so, he gold pupil shimmering with glee.

“I understand my lady.” Raison replies as the two continue to walk along the hallways.

“Although, I do admit I could fight back quite hard. In fact I believe I shall. Our friends down there know what I am capable of, however I don’t think I’ve shown them enough of my power. I believe it is due time I give them a challenge that is sure to trip them up.”

“Shall I inform the workers to begin on your plan?”

“No need Raison. I believe I’ll work on this one myself. In the meantime, do keep on the lookout for an opportunity to make an especially wonderful wraith. Those two strapping young men of mine still have some healing to do before I throw them back out there. Is that understood Raison?” Jung asks as she comes to a stop, she turning her head to look over at her loyal subject.

“Understood lord Moroi.”

“Perfect.” Jung replies with a smile that goes ear to ear.

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In a world in which dreams reign supreme and bring joy to many, a dimension filled with all the world's nightmares look to take over the dream world, and are doing so by attacking civilians within the real world. To combat this, the ruler of this kingdom of dreams to combat the evils of the nightmares. These three will fight for the future of both their kingdom, and of Earth. These warriors are....

Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger!

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Thirteenth Dream: Lost and Found! Track Down the Cellular!

“Aimi, why exactly am I here again?” Keiji asks as he walks next to Aimi.

“Because I needed some muscle.” She explains to him with a smile.

Keiji rolls his eyes as he continues to walk with her, his hands filled with bags. The two walk down the street, people passing by them with faces painted of glee and joy from their own shopping or simply being with loved ones.

“Yes, but I’m not really needed am I? I’ve seen you carry more than when you come home sometimes.”

“So?”

“So then why do you need me to carry this stuff when you’re clearly capable of doing it yourself? And why do you buy so much anyways? I thought women in this part of the world were supposed to shop modestly and not buy as much?” Keiji asks of his companion, looking down at her with a look of confusion and frustration.

“Firstly because I just felt like having help today. Besides, don’t you like spending time with me? Secondly some girls are like that. I’m not like most girls though.” Aimi responds, her head tilted to the side as she looks up at him, her face a canvas showing glee as well as annoyance.

“You’re not kidding. You’re the only female I’ve come across who can buy bags full of clothing and games in one shopping spree. Also it’s not that I don’t enjoy it, I simply don’t care for it.” Keiji replies to her, explaining his feelings on the matter.

“Uh! Meanie!” Aimi shoots back, she slapping Keiji’s arm.

The two continue walking around the shopping center, Keiji’s hands, as well as Aimi’s becomes filled more as time passes. As they walk out of a store, two girls bump into them. Before Keiji can speak up to them, the girls notice and Aimi and speak to her.

“Aimi!”

“Hm?” Aimi looks over to the girls after picking up one of her bags. “Oh, Noriko, Chiaki!” Aimi proclaims happily, she smiling at the sight of her two friends.

“What are you doing here?” Chiaki asks her friend.

“Oh just doing a little shopping. I wanted to get some new clothes to fit the upcoming season. Plus I wanted to pick up something I pre-ordered.” She explains to the two as Keiji stands off to the side, his face showing a combination of boredom and tiredness.

After the three talk for a couple of minutes, Noriko looks over at Keiji.

“Who’s that Aimi?” She asks after Keiji looks over at her.

“Oh, that’s Keiji. He’s uh, a friend of mine.” Aimi responds, she nodding her head to go along with her answer.

“Are you two dating?” Chiaki asks.

Aimi’s cheeks turn pink a little at her friend’s question. She laughs and rubs her head a bit before answering back. “Oh no! It’s nothing like that at all! He’s just a regular old friend.”

“He looks so much older than the boys at school.” Noriko exclaims.
“What’s with that scar on his face?” Chiaka asks of Aimi, she point at the scar that runs along Keiji’s face.

“Oh that? He got that in a fight. He’s a bit of a scrapper.” Aimi explains, she sighing inside of her head in relief of coming up with the explanation quickly, she not wanting to blow Keiji’s cover.

“He’s an older man and he gets into fights? Aimi I’m not sure you should be with him.” Chiaki responds, Noriko nodding her head in agreement.

“We aren’t going out!” Aimi shoots back.

“If you say so. We’ll see you later; we’re going to the café to get a drink.” Noriko tells Aimi.

“Oh alright.” Aimi responds.

“So we’ll leave you with your ‘friend’ and talk to you later. Bye!” Chiaka says as she and Noriko walk away, they giggling some as they look over at Keiji one last time.

“Your friends are weird.” Keiji proclaims as he walks over to Aimi. “Why did they think I was your boyfriend?”

“It’s just what we teenage girls do.” Aimi explains.

“Uh huh.”

Aimi giggles some before looking up at Keiji. “Let’s go home.”

“Please.”

Aimi walks into her house, she being greeted by her mother, father, and brother as she does so. Once up in her room, she sets her bags down and walks over to her closer, opening it and then opening the door inside of it. Once opened, Aimi walks through the door and into the Dreamranger’s apartment, Keiji handing her the bags immediately.

“My work here is done.” He proclaims after giving Aimi the bags, he then walking over to the couch and sitting down.

“Was it that tiring to do Keiji?” Aimi asks of the mystical warrior.

“It sure did bore me.” Keiji responds, Syuri and Paige looking on from the kitchen area of the apartment.

“Well I’m sorry for wanting to spend time with you.”

“I think it’s more like you’re sorry to using me as a personal bell boy.”

“Whatever.” Aimi says, she blowing some hair out of her face.

Syuri and Paige look at each other, they giving the other a shrug before carrying on with their own business. After a moment though, a phone goes off, Aimi and Syuri checking their respective ones to see who got the call. Syuri then flips her Dream Cellular open.

“Hello? Mhm. I see. Well we’ll get right on it.” Syuri speaks into the cell phone to answer the person on the other line.

“Where are we going this time?” Keiji asks as he looks over to Syuri.

“To a market strangely enough. A wraith broke out inside of it and is causing a wreck all over the damn place.” Syuri explains as she, Keiji and Paige walk to where they are standing in a circle.

“Well then, I do believe it’s time to go.” Paige exclaims with a smile.

“Yup.” Syuri replies, she forming a smirk of her own.

Paige takes out her Dream Cellular, Syuri already holding her own cellular. Keiji reaches into his jacket pocket to pull his own Dream Cellular out, however he feels nothing. His eyes widen a bit as he grabs nothing but the pocket itself. Keiji searches his other jacket pocket to only find nothing, a search of his pants pockets turning up the same result.

“Shit.”

“What is it?” Paige asks.

“I’ve lost my Dream Cellular.” Keiji replies, his voice starting to shake in anger at himself.

“What? Keiji you know how serious this is right?” Syuri asks of her comrade as she steps up to him, her face nearly against his.

“Of course I know Syuri!”

“So he can’t transform. What’s the big deal?” Aimi questions.

“Aimi the Dream Cellulars don’t just let us transform. They help give us our powers when we are not in our suits. Losing one is a big deal as anybody who holds it has the ability to do anything they so desire with it. Think of it as a magic wand combined with a magic lamp.” Paige explains to her young friend.

“Oh…that is bad.” Aimi answers.

“Yeah, and now numb skull here lost his.” Syuri says angered, she walking away from Keiji.

“Maybe it fell out of your pocket when Noriko and Chiaki bumped into us? It could still be in the shopping center somewhere!” Aimi exclaims.

“You better damn hope it is. Aimi, Keiji, get your asses back to that center and find the Dream Cellualr. Paige and I can take care of the wraith. No ifs and or buts. Do it!” Syuri commands the two before she and Paige vanish into thin air.

Keiji then looks over at Aimi, his eyes filled with anger and a bit of despair. Aimi nods her head as she looks at him, her own eyes becoming filled with sadness.

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Aimi and Keiji burst through the doors of the shopping center, they stopping to catch their breath due to running all the way there. As they catch their breath the two of them look around as people walk around the building, the sounds of people walking, talking, and various noises fill their ears.

“We need to find the Dream Cellular as fast as possible. I have to get back to Syuri and Paige and help them with the wraith.” Keiji proclaims in a commanding voice.

“I’ll check near the store where Chiaki and Noriko bumped into us.” Aimi responds.

“Good. I’ll search around the rest of this place. If it isn’t where you think it is, do the same as I am. We have to find it. We’ll meet up at that fountain in the middle of the center.”

“Okay!”

The two then run off in the opposite directions, they working their way through the sea of people. Each of their heads filled with thoughts of determination to find the cellular. Aimi wanting to find it from a sense of responsibility of causing it to become loss, Keiji wanting to find it so that he can return to his comrades as fast as he possibly can.

Across town Syuri and Paige run into the market, it filled with people running around and screaming, every last one of them bursting towards the door as the two fighters enter through them. Syuri and Paige move around the people, they looking for the wraith responsible for the attack. After doing so for a minute, they soon spot what they came for. Standing in the middle of a pile of shelving units stands a wraith, its form resembling that of deformed gold bar.

“What the hell?” Syuri shouts out over the commotion.

“How the heck did a gold bar turn into a wraith?” Paige shouts back equally confused.

As the two contemplate where it comes from, Syuri notices a little girl sitting near her. The girl sits with her legs pushed against her chest, her face covered in tears. Syuri bends down to the girl, placing her hands against the girl’s shoulders to try and comfort her.

“It’ll be alright, we’re going to take care of the monster.” She tells the girl.

“It’s my fault!” The girl says through her tears.

“What? How is it your fault?” Syuri asks of her.

“Mama was checking out and said that she wasn’t sure how’d we be able to make it through with so little money. I got scared and started thinking about how we’ll end up on the streets and die without any money. That’s when the monster showed up.” The girl explains, she looking up to look at Syuri.

That explains it Syuri thinks to herself.

“Honey where is your mama?”

The girl begins shrieking even more at Syuri’s words, she then burying her face against her knees. Syuri’s lips twitch to form a snarl, her fist clenching around her Dream Cellular. Syuri stands up and walks over to Paige, Paige looking at her in concern.

“You ready?” Syuri asks of her fellow warrior.

“Yes.” Paige replies with a nod.

The two of them then run forward right towards the wraith, it looking at them as they do so. After calling out the transformation phrase, a flash of light occurs, Paige and Syuri wearing their respective suits and wielding their weapons as it fades. As they get closer to their target, Syuri lets out a battle cry, the two then slamming into the wraith.

At the shopping center, Aimi runs around like a maniac in search of Keiji’s Dream Cellular. She goes back to every store the two went to, asking the employees inside if they saw the phone, she looking inside the dressing rooms of the stores that have them, she even looking outside of the stores. When she doesn’t find it in any of those stores, she starts going into all of the other ones, she searching every nook and cranny of the place in hopes of finding it. Some of the store clerks present her with a bin of phones they found that people left behind, but none of them are the Dream Cellular. After having this experience for the third time, Aimi releases a breathless sigh as she jogs out of the building.

“This is impossible! We’re never going to find it!” She thinks to herself, she then running off down towards another area of the building.

Back at the market, Syuri and Paige slam the edges of their weapons against the chest of the wraith, they using all of their combined force to push it into a wall, the weight of the wraith and strength of their push propelling them through the wall and into a stock room. Once inside of it, the wraith lets out cry of frustration, it throwing its arms outwards causing the two Dreamrangers to fly off to the sides, they each slamming into a pallet stacked with either boxes of cans.

Paige gets to her feet first, she resting her Dream Shooter against her left arm sideways, she then unleashing a volley of energy blasts towards the gold wraith. The pink energy blasts slam into the wraith’s body, however they have no effect on him, he standing just as he was before being attacked.

“Oh great, this one is tough.” Paige says in a whining fashion.

The golden monster then rushes her like it was a football player, he slamming his shoulder into her chest. The force of the blow sends Paige flying back into a wall, it cracking around her before she falls to the floor. She makes it up to her knees, only to discover the wraith standing over her. It lets out a fearsome roar as it raises one of its legs up, it aiming its foot directly at Paige’s head.

Before the monster can attack Paige again, Syuri appears behind it. With a scream of rage she throws her sword holding arm forward, she slamming the blade down and across the wraith’s back. When the blade leaves its body though, it the monster remains undamaged and unmarked, Syuri cursing inside of her helmet as she sees this. The beast then turns around to face her, it bring its arm backwards and downwards ready to strike.

“Oh shit…” Syuri mutters.

The wraith throws its arm upwards, its fist slamming into Syuri’s jaw in a powerful uppercut. The strength behind the attack so powerful, that it sends Syuri flying up to the ceiling, her head slamming through the roof of the building, gravity soon causing her to return to the ground, hard. As she slams against the ground, the wraith kicks her way into a nearby steel post, the impact causing a rib to break within her body, Syuri crying out in response. As she looks up, she sighs as the beast runs towards her, it dragging Paige by her head to use as a weapon.

Keiji sits on the edge of the fountain, his hands pressed up against his chin. After some time passes Aimi walks over to him, she taking a seat next to him.

“No luck huh?”

“Of course not.” Keiji replies almost sarcastically.

“Me either. I looked all over this damn place but couldn’t find the thing either way.” Aimi adds in, she sighing after finishing her sentence.

“You’d think it would be easy trying to find a simple flip phone considering you all tend to use those big bulky ones now a days.” Keiji muses with a small smirk.

“Yeah. Keiji.”

“What is it?”

“I’m sorry.” Aimi says, she looking over at Keiji who in return looks at her.

“Why?” He responds confused.

“Well if it wasn’t for me wanting to come shopping, I wouldn’t have dragged you around. If it wasn’t for me doing that, then we Chiaki and Noriko wouldn’t have bumped into us and caused you to lose the Dream Cellular. It’s all my fault.” Aimi explains, she tearing up a little while talking.

“Aimi it isn’t your fault, you can’t control who we walk into, or who walks into us.”

“But I’m the one who brought you here. If you weren’t here, then you’d still have the Dream Cellular.” Aimi retorts.

“Look, maybe I shouldn’t have jumped down your throat about that. You only wanted to spend time with me correct? Am I upset that you tend to use me as nothing more than a pack mule? Yes. But you must enjoy my company to bring me out with you, even if it’s just to carry stuff. So for that, I’m truly sorry.” Keiji replies, he patting and rubbing Aimi’s back with a small smile.

“Ahhhh you were nice for once.”

“Shut up you little brat.” Keiji shoots back jokingly.

As the two chuckle at their words, Noriko runs up to them.

“Aimi, Aimi’s friend!”

“Noriko, what is it?”

“I’ve been looking all over the place for you.” Noriko replies to Aimi.
“How come?”

Noriko then smiles, she holding her hand out, Keiji’s Dream Cellular resting in her palm. The shock of seeing it brings the two up to their feet, Keiji taking it from Noriko’s hand almost instantly.

“Where…where did you get this?” Keiji asks stunned.

“Well after we left you two Chiaki thought it would be a good idea to invite you both to have drinks with us. When we walked back to the store, you two were already gone. Right before we left, I noticed the phone. I remember bumping into you and figured it was yours.” Noriko explains to Keiji, the two staring at each other right in the eyes.

“Noriko, thank you for finding this, and for returning it to me.” Keiji says, his voice filled with gratefulness.

“No problem!” Noriko replies with a bright smile. She then runs away from the two, giving them a wave. After she is out of their sight, Aimi turns to look at Keiji, she finding him no longer there.

“I hate it when they do that.” She says under her breath, she pouting afterwards.

Across town at the market, Syuri and Paige fly through a wall, the tumbling into the road behind the market. As they lie on the ground in pain, the golden wraith walks out of the store, it roaring loudly enough to sound like a lion. The two warriors stare over at it as they slowly begin to stand up, the pain causing them to only make it up to one foot, they kneeling in pain.

“I hate my job sometimes.” Syuri says to her teammate.

“You’re preaching to the choir on that one Miss Syuri.” Paige responds.

The two eventually make it to their feet, they panting from using up their strength to do so. Once to their feet, the monster lets out another roar before it begins to run towards them. Paige and Syuri pull their bodies back, ready for the impact of the latest attack.

But the attack does not come. Keiji already in his suit appears in a blue blur, he standing between the wraith and his teammates, his first firmly planted in the chest of the creature.

“Keiji!” Paige shouts out.

“Tssk tssk tskk, can’t you two do anything without me?”

“Keep talking wise guy. AT least we don’t lose our changers.” Syuri shoots back, a smirk forming across her lips behind her helmet.

Keiji chuckles a little. In the blink of an eye, he brings his arm back and throws it forward again, his fist slamming into the gut of the creature. The blow sends it back a couple of feet, it seeming to not have caused any damage. After a moment though, the gut of the golden bar begins to crack and form a spider web, it crying out in terror.

“I’m ready for a nap so could we wrap this up now?” Keiji asks of his two friends.

“It would be my pleasure.” Paige responds.

As the three start to walk towards the wraith, they stop when a giant black circle moves against the ground. The rangers watch as it stops underneath the feet of the golden monster. Shadows burst out of the circle and cling to the monster, it bringing it up into the sky. In an explosion of red and purple, the shadows fly away from the wraith, it now giant in size, and stomping around like a wild animal, it crushing everything in its path.

“Dream Ruler time?” Keiji questions.

“Definitely Dream Ruler time.” Syuri answers.

"DREAM RULER, DESCEND!"

The sky then turns a blue like white color, a portal opening up as the Dream Mechs flying out of it. As they fly out, the Nightmarerangers watch as Syuri jumps into the Dream Fighter, Keiji into the Dream Tank, and Paige into her Dream Trailer. The three fly around a bit, they then shouting out the code for the robot mode.

“DREAM GATTAI!”

Keiji's Dream Tank then skids and drifts to a stop, the internal breaks kicking in. The tank then flips upwards as the treads pull them self down to connect with the leg kibble. The front part of the tank then flips out to form the feet. The cockpit then moves up a bit, forming the lower torso, it standing in the sky proudly.

The Dream Fighter that Syuri pilots continues to fly through the sky, and even in between some buildings. It then bursts upwards into the sky, spinning wildly as it flips it's self down from it's fuselage. It then spirals down, locking into position with the cockpit of the tank, the torso now fully formed. The wings then fold inwards, forming the back piece of the mecha.

Paige's trailer then splits itself in two, it shooting out a bit of contents. The trailer then splits again, two pieces flying off towards the leg portion of the tank. They fly down, and then shoot up, sliding onto the feet and leg portion of the tank up to the thigh, forming the final pieces of the legs. Two big portions of the trailer then shoot sideways, locking into the side of the stealth fighter to form the shoulders. Once it does so, a panel opens up in each part, the arms, and then hands shooting out. Finally, the contents it ejected begins to fall down towards it. As it does so, the Dream Fighter opens up a panel of it's own, the head of the mecha sliding up. The contents then slam down onto the head, completing it and forming a helmet, and thus completing Dream Ruler.

The three warriors who now sit in the cockpit of the robo in the middle of the torso fly their giant champion down to the ground, making sure it lands a few feet away from the gigantic wraith, they facing it head on. Dream Ruler's eyes then flash on, they a reddish yellow.

The two giant beings then crash into one another, both the wraith and Dream Ruler throwing out punches like clockwork, each blow landing against its intended target. They continue to trade blows, the robo having the advantage of being able to hit a few high kicks. On an attempt though, the gold monster grabs hold of the robo’s leg, it flinging it into a nearby clutter of buildings. As Dream Ruler slams into them, sparks shoot out of its body, the buildings collapsing with ease, the rangers shaking around in the cockpit.

“Did this thing really just cause us to destroy all of those buildings?" Syuri asks angered.

“It appears so.” Paige speaks back.

“Mind if I handle this one Syuri?”

“Go right ahead Keiji.”

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Keiji gets Dream Ruler up to its feet, he then slamming his finger down on a button, the effect causing Dream Ruler to burst forward towards the wraith. As it continues to run towards the giant monster, Keiji brings the robot’s right arm back in a punch like position, he ready to strike the opponent. Once the robo is right in front of the golden wraith, Keiji slams Dream Ruler’s fist right into the chest of its target, it going straight through to rest inside the middle of its body. Ruler’s fist then retracts into its body, Keiji grinning as this occurs.

“DREAM BUSTER SPECIAL!”

Keiji then unleashes a blast of energy directly into the core of the monster, he then pulling Dream Ruler back to a safe distance away from the wraith. Syuri, Keiji and Paige watch on as the wraith twitches about for a minute, it then exploding into gold pieces, the pieces soon exploding into nothing but dust. Inside of the cockpit, Paige claps her hands as Syuri and Keiji watch on with a smile.

The four walk down a road near a park, they conversing as the sun begins to set. The orange light from the sun shining down upon the group of friends, and fighters, it signaling the end of another day of fighting. Their faces showing multiple smiles and expression of happiness.
As they walk along the road more, the sound of a phone going of starts up. Aimi checks her phone, she discovering that it was not her’s that went off. Keiji and Paige check their Dream Cellular’s, the end result being the same as Aimi’s check. Syuri goes to check her own cell, but finds that her Dream Cellular is not in the pocket she keeps it in. She checks the other pocket of her jacket, she coming up with nothing.

Syuri then looks over at her teammates, her face one of shock and fear. Keiji then smirks ear to ear, he removing Syuri’s Dream Cellular from his back pocket. As he does this, Paige and Aimi start to giggle. Syuri’s face turns to one of feared shock, to one of anger, her mouth twitching.

“Keiji…you bastard!”

Keiji then vanishes into thin air with a blue blur, Syuri following after him, Paige then joining in on the pursuit. Aimi looks up at the sky at the colored blurs that represent her friends, she shaking her head.

“And they call me a child.”

She laughs to herself as she walks away, leaving the Dreamrangers to fight amongst each other.

...To be continued

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