The Nightmarerangers have made their presence known to all. The Dreamrangers are determined to defeat their new foes, but can they do it after getting beat the first time?

Next time on Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger: The two teams clash in their second bout. Who will come out on top? And who are these two men? The Nightmarerangers will be revealed!

Next time, Tenth Dream: Shock! Nightmarish Confrontation!

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"Tune in next time for a huge announcement!" Aimi says as she pops up, she smiling warmly while giving a double V for victory sign with her hands.

The group arrives in an area of homes, people screaming and running about amid the chaos. The three push through the people, urging them to safety as well as trying to find whatever caused this. While wiggling through the citizens, more explosions occur causing houses to blow into pieces. The suburban area which was once prosperous has now become a warzone, the sight and sounds of this bringing Paige to tears.

Eventually they arrive at the center of chaos, any sorrow their eyes had immediately turning to pure anger. Standing in the middle of a road with people running for dear life and screaming bloody murder stands the Nightmarerangers. They soon pick up on the arrival of their counterparts, they slowly turning to face them.

“Welcome to the party Dreamrangers.”

“I hope you find the venue acceptable.”

“You bastards! How could you attack these innocent people!” Keiji shouts at the two, he pushing past Paige and Syuri to be closer to the evil ones.
Syuri pushes past Keiji, she clutching her Dream Cellular. Keiji and Paige notice this, they drawing their changers out as well.

“I am going to make you shit heads pay.” She proclaims as she initializes her morphing sequence, Paige and Keiji taking suit.

“It looks like they want to play with us after all.”

“Indeed it does.”

“DREAMSCAPE! OPEN!”

With the words spoken, the three change into their suits, weapons already brandished. They then disappear in a flash, reappearing seconds later in front of the Nightmarerangers, their attack blocked. White laughs as he clamps his hands down against Paige’s Dream Shooter and Keiji’s Dream Trident. Red blocks with both his swords as Syuri leans in to try and force her attack through. Nightmare Red does the same to defend. The two then slam their helmets against each other, releasing a fierce battle cry.

“Do you really think you can beat us?” Red Nightmare asks his female opponent, the two moving circularly around the area deadlocked against each other.

“Heh, of course I can.”

“In your dreams Dreamranger.”

“Heh…I’m going to make that dream a reality!”


As the two continue pressing against other to continue to out power the other, Keiji and Paige continue to try and double team Black Nightmare. The fiend is too fast for them though as he dodges every shot they take. Black then jumps into the air, removing his sickle swords from his back. Black Nightmare lands behind them, he spinning around immediately and cutting into the legs of Keiji and Paige, sending them down to the ground. He leaps up again after running towards Paige, he slamming his feet into her stomach as he lands, causing her to scream out in pain. He leaps off of her, he falling towards Keiji to repeat the action. The blue ranger is quick enough to act though, he rolling to the side causing Black Nightmare to land on the ground, cracking it a bit. Keiji then reacts immediately, he plunging the Dream Trident into the calf of Black Nightmare.

“GAHHH! YOU FUCKER!” He shouts out. Black then drops to his knees, slamming the tips of each sickle into Keiji’s chest. He then drags them diagonally across the area letting sparks jump and crackle from the attack.

As Keiji cries out in pain with Black Nightmare laughing at it, he fails to notice Paige charging a blast at him. When he hears the sound of energy gathering he turns his head to see what is happening. As he meets Paige’s gaze she releases the bow on the Dream Shooter, releasing a giant ball of pink energy at the enemy.

Black moves out of the way, he bringing one of his blades into the energy ball causing it to burst into pieces. Paige then lets out a little snicker, this attracting the attention of the evil ranger. He then cries out in pain as the individual energy shots slam into him, the force causing him to stagger back some, allowing Keiji to escape over to Paige.

“Nice shot there”

“Heheh, why thank you” Paige responds gleefully.

Their interaction is halted though as they feel a presence behind them. Before they can turn around to investigate, they feel a sharp pain in their backs, the source being Black Nightmare’s knees driving into them. He then flips away, he slamming his blades into the ground as he lands. This action causes the ground to rumble, Keiji and Paige then being assaulted viciously by black lightning over and over. Once the lightning has stopped, The black devil runs up to them, he sending them flying away into a car via a double dropkick.

As Black continues his assault on the two Dreamrangers, Syuri and Red continue to duke it out, they trading blows as if they were slamming in attacks on a game, they blocking each attack the other delivers. Syuri then goes for a kick to his groin, but the Nightmareranger is quick enough to catch her foot with one of his hooks. Syuri then laughs some as he propels herself upwards and over him, she landing a blow with her blade along his back. After Syuri has rolled away some, she switches the Dream Blade into its gun mode, she delivering six quick shots to Red’s body. Red Nightmare staggers some but vanishes afterwards.

“You’re pretty good.” His voice echoes around Syuri.

Syuri looks for him for a couple of moments, her search ending as he bursts from the ground, he delivering an uppercut right up against her chin. Red then proceeds to land repeated kicks to Syuri’s chest, he finishing up this combo with a spinning attack which causes his swords to slam into her side. The force of the impact sending Syuri flying into her teammates, they collapsing into one pile. The two Nightmarerangers regroup a few feet away from the fallen heroes.

“But you’re simply not good enough.” The Red ranger proclaims.

As the Dreamrangers struggle to get up, Black Nightmare looks over at his partner.

“Shall we finish this?”

“Heh…yeah, let us end this bout with something to really leave an impression on our friends the Dreamrangers.”

The two then crouch back some as the fighters of Morpheus watch. Red Nightmare moves his arms back to where the two hooks of his blades are locked together, red and black energy beginning to form around them as well as himself, he growling as he charges dark energy. As he does so, Black Nightmare holds both of his sickle blades in his left hand as he crouches down more, white and black energy forming around him and his weapon just like his partner. The two continue to gather energy, the Dreamrangers trying to crawl away or even stand.

“NIGHTMARE RAZOR WIND!” The two fighters shout out.

They then push their bodies forward and release their weapons, they spinning violently towards the group of Dreamrangers. After a while the blades slam into each other, forming a circular almost cyclone blade of black, white, and red energy, lightning cackling around it. The attack then slams viciously into the Dreamrangers, the impact sending them flying into the air as well as causing the area around them to burst in an explosion, the grounds, trees, and nearby cars exploding with them, leaving a good sized crater where they once laid.

The weapons of the Nightmarerangers soon return to them, they placing them on their backs. The two then turn to walk away, the Dreamrangers slamming into the ground as they do so. The three forcefully are changed out of their suits due to the attack and impact of landing on the ground. The three lay there a broken and bloody mess, the red liquid oozing out of their skin profusely.

The Nightmarerangers start to walk away, their ears being filled with the sounds of agony they brought upon the civilians and the rangers. As they continue to walk, Syuri makes her way out of the crater; she soon followed by her teammates. With what little strength she has left, she lets out a scream towards the men who have brought her into this condition.

“J J JUST WAIT YOU TWO!”

The two men then stop.

“What is it you pathetic woman?” Black Nightmare asks annoyed.

“I I WANT TO KNOW…WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TWO!” Syuri screams at the Nightmarerangers, her voice hoarse but filled to the core with anger, her two comrades looking on.

“Why should we tell you?”

Keiji manages to make it onto his knees a bit, he supporting himself with his bloodied hand being placed on the ground. He then speaks up, his voice hoarse and pain filled. “Shouldn’t we get to know the names of our assailants? Or do you two not have enough honor to do that!”

The Nightmarerangers go deathly still at Keiji’s words, Black Nightmare clenching his fists violently in reaction. The two then look at each other, giving a slight nod to the other. They then relax their arms, their suits exploding in black energy. With their suits gone, the two men are revealed. Each one wearing a kimono of the same base color and design, pure black with Red featuring red design work, White featuring white coloring. Nightmare Red is tall, his hair long and tied up into a slight ponytail. Nightmare White has short yet long hair, his head wrapped in a white headband. The two then turn around to face the Dreamrangers, revealing their faces. The three look on in shock, they seeing how young the two look, with Red having some lines along his eyes. After minutes of silence, the two speak up.

“Red Nightmare, Kusunaki Musashi.”

“Black Nightmare, Jūbei Musashi.”

After speaking their names, the two men who by their names are brothers, vanish in their usual burst of red and black lightning. The Dreamrangers slowly stand up, each one supporting each as best they can. They look where their foes once stood, Paige eventually speaking out.

“They..they are brothers?”

“I guess so.” Keiji responds.

“But who exactly are these two Musashi brothers?” Syuri throws in, the wind blowing her hair to the side, her face covered in blood nearly. The three then stand there as the sun sets, they pondering about who exactly Kusunaki and Jūbei Musashi are.


“Kusunaki Musashi and Jūbei Musashi?” Edogawa asks.

“Yes. That’s what Syuri said before she passed out.” Aimi explains.

As Aimi sits in front of the computer reporting to Edogawa, she recalls how she came to learn the names of the two new rangers. The group came limping into the apartment, each member covered in blood and dirt, a part of Paige’s bone sticking out of her leg. As Aimi attended to the three of them, Syuri divulged the names of the Nightmarerangers, she then passing out.

Aimi then snaps her head forward at the sound of Dr. Edogawa’s voice, she seemingly had spaced out while remembering the past events. “Yes?” She asks the doctor.

“I was trying to get your attention.”

“Oh…sorry.”

The doctor smiles a bit before he speaks. “It’s alright Aimi. The names don’t bring about any memories or anything that should be alarming to me. However that doesn’t mean we don’t have a record of them somewhere. I’ll have to check our archives and see I come up with. Whenever I have anything for you, I’ll let the four of you know.”

“Alright then.” Aimi responds, she moving her head in a nodding fashion to signify she understands.

“Until then, make those three stay put. I’m sure it’s going to take them a while to heal. I don’t care if they threaten you; you make them stay as much as you can. Understood?” Edogawa asks his human acquaintance.

“Good. Until then, so long.”

“Good day.”

In the Nightmare Realm, all is going well within it. Especially up in the castle that sits in the middle of the hellish world. Within her throne room, Jung Moroi stares down at her new soldiers lovingly as she sits atop her throne. She curls strands of her hair around one of her fingers’, her gold pupils shining in her black eyes. The Nightmarerangers kneel down before her, their ears being filled with her words.

“Jūbei, Kusunaki, my boys you did wonderful today. Not only did you bang up those annoying Dreamrangers, but you sent enough fear into those pitiful humans to fuel some strong nightmares. It was a good day indeed, and it is all thanks to you two.” She says smoothly at them, her mouth grinning ear to ear.

“We are happy to please you our queen. For it is our duty to make your vision come true.” Kusunaki proclaims, he keeping his head bowed respectfully as he speaks to his lord.

“We fight for both our honor and for your name. You have our word that we will not disappoint you in the mission you have given us.” Jūbei adds in.

“Oh I am sure you two will not. That is why I recruited you after all. I needed men who would give it their all, fighting like each battle was their last. Then again, that’s part of your life code isn’t it? It does not matter though! For you fight for me now. You two will make my dream come true of conquering the Dream Kingdom.”

“Of course we will Lord Moroi.” Kusunaki says, he smiling afterwards.

“When shall we strike at the Dreamrangers again?” Jūbei asks

“Hmmm..let us give them time to heal. After all, I want them killed at their strongest. It makes it all the more satisfying that they fall when they’re in top shape. Plus, I’m sure it would deal a huge blow to that king of theirs.”

Both of the evil rangers stand up, they facing their queen directly.

“As you wish our lady.” They say in unison, the word bringing a smile to Jung’s face.

After a couple of weeks have passed, the rangers were in almost full shape again. They being in enough shape to join Aimi for an old timers festival. While everybody there was dressed in traditional clothing such as kimonos, Keiji and Syuri decided to wear their uniforms, only Paige wearing a traditional kimono. The three walk around aimlessly, bored to their wits end.

“Why are we here again?” Syuri asks of her comrades, her hands resting against the back of her head as they walked along the streets.

“Because Miss Aimi asked us to join her. She thought it would be fun for us to learn more about the culture.” Paige responds, she walking alongside Syuri as Keiji lags behind.

“But she left us to go off with her friends.” Keiji throws in.

“Exactly, why should we stay?” Syuri says in response to Keiji.

“Because it would be rude to do so. Besides, she may want to catch up with us later.”

“Whatever.” Syuri responds to her eager teammate.

“Besides, I’m enjoying myself! I only studied Japanese culture briefly; I never got to learn about it fully. And this way I get to learn and experience it!” Paige goes on to say, she smiling brightly.

“Well enjoy it all you want, we’re bored.” Keiji states as he points to himself and Syuri.

The three continue to walk along, Keiji eventually warming up some after spending some time at a weapons dealer. Syuri stays behind the two, she smiling some as she watches Paige having fun. The people stop to ask her questions and take her picture, she allowing them to do so with great glee. The sight of seeing her comrade having this much fun able to make Syuri appreciate Aimi’s weird actions with them more. Paige loses some excitement though, she being groped repeatedly upon her rear by several men. After the seventh does so, she grabs hold of their hand and tosses them to the ground. She simply smiles at him as she proceeds to walk on him to head into a different path, Syuri and Keiji chuckling behind her.

The three exit a restaurant around mid noon, they stretching their arms in a bit of tiredness from eating. The group continues to walk along, Syuri and Keiji now in front of Paige. After walking for a bit more, Paige feels a forceful hand slamming onto her shoulder. She snarls some, getting Syuri and Keiji’s attention, they turning around to see what happened.

“Look pervert. I’m tired of being felt u….” Paige starts, she turning around to face her groper. However she is brought to silence, as are Syuri and Keiji as she sees who grabbed her. The three look in shock as Kusunaki and Jūbei stand there, Jūbei’s hand clenched against Paige’s shoulder.

“You!” Keiji proclaims, he and Syuri stepping forward , they ready to duke it out with the two Nightmarerangers. Before they can start anything though, Kusunaki reveals his hand, a trigged resting in it.

“Come with us, or this whole festival is going to continue in Heaven.” Kusunaki says softly, his voice calm but filled with an edge.

Paige, Syuri, and Keiji look at each other, they eventually nodding at each other and then at the Nightmarerangers. The two take the point of the group, they walking forward through the crowd, the Dreamrangers reluctantly following. As they walk along, they keep their eyes set on the warriors of Jung Moroi, they ready to act if they try anything in their current setting.

Aimi laughs with her friends, she holding a camera and taking pictures of them, herself, and some of the things she finds interesting. As she and her friends leave a milk bar, she notices the rangers walking along, two men dressed in black leading them along. Aimi notices the expressions on her friends are set in stone and show pure anger. After they leave her field of vision, she excuses herself from her friends, she running after Keiji, Syuri, and Paige. As she runs, her head puts together that the two men are the Musashi brothers, she worried about what is about to happen.

After walking for a solid hour, the five stop after arriving in the middle of a forest. Kusunaki and Jūbei walk off some before returning to face the rangers, the three holding clutching their henshin devices.

“My my, the kiddies want to play right away.” Jūbei says tauntingly.

“You’re damn right we do.” Paige replies, her voice low and anger filled, her eyes the same.

“We don’t take to kindly to people threatening an entire festival filled with innocent civilians.” Syuri adds in.

“If only they knew..” Kusanaki begins.

“If only we knew what?” Keiji asks.

“Oh, it’s of no concern to you. Now then, shall we start?” Kusanaki asks of his rivals.

“Why of course.” Syuris returns as she and her comrades transform into the Dreamranger suits.

The Musanashi brothers then raise their arms, each wrist equipped with a brace. They hold their left wrists towards themselves to where the fronts of the devices are point at them. They then raise their arms to where they are diagonally above their respective left arms.

“NIGHTMARE GATE!” The two shout, bringing their right arms down against the left, the braces striking against each other. The two brothers then move their left arms upright and their rights pointing towards it, a key sliding out from the right brace.

*Cue Nightmareranger theme*

“OPEN!” They conclude, throwing their right arms forward, they key sliding into an open slot in the left brace.

The area around the five turns pitch black, lightning slamming down everywhere. The rangers look around as this happens, their eyes becoming locked on the two as they are struck by red and black lightning. When they are visible again, they have their backs turned to the rangers, they in their suits but without helmet.

“Destroying evil in a blaze from within the darkness.” Kusanaki says, he then spins around, he crossing his arms against his chest. “Kusanaki Musashi, Red Nightmare!” After stating his name, a burst of red lightning strikes his head forming his helmet.

“Destroying evil viciously from within the darkness.” Jūbei states, he following his words by spinning around to face the Dreamrangers, his arms out to the side some in an aggressive manner. “Jūbei Musashi, Black Nightmare!” White lightning falls upon his head, it leaving his body soon, Jūbei’s helmet now on him.

“Using the power of the shadows to defeat all who stand in our way!” Jūbei starts.

“Sending them down in pure fear!” Kusanaki finishes.

“Shingai Gundan Nightmareranger!” The two shout at once, they throwing their arms forward, the left laying over the right, both hands spread open.

The Dreamrangers slowly move around the area, the now suited Nightmarerangers doing the same. The three then huddle close together, Syuri speak to them.

“We’ve been outmatched on the ground so far.”

“No shit Sherlock.”

“What do we do then?”

“Simple, we put the ball in our court.”

As Keiji and Paige look at Syuri confused, she stands up straight throwing her arm into the air.

“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 Nightmarerangers then flash up onto a hill, they looking up at the giant known as Dream Ruler. As they do so, Syuri smirks behind her helmet, she calling out to the two.

“Let’s see you two beat us now!”

“Why brother, it seems they think they have us in check.” Jūbei says to his older brother smugly.

“Indeed.”

“Shall we show them how wrong they are?”

Kusanaki smiles widely behind his helmet at his brother’s question. “Why of course.”

The Dreamrangers look down at their opponents, unable to hear them speaking. They then witness the Nightmarerangers spreading their arms out to the side, their voices then being clearly audible to the three.

“NIGHTMARE RULER!” They begin, Red and Black then throwing one arm up into the air, the other to the ground. “RISE!”

The Nightmarerangers have made it clear who they are. But this isn't phasing the Syuri and gang, as they strike back with their ultimate weapon. But it seems as if the Musashi brothers have one of their own!

Next time on Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger: The Nightmarerangers summon forth their own mecha in the form of Nightmare Ruler, they ready to collide with that of the Dreamrangers'. What will happen when the rulers of dreams and nightmares clash!?

Next time, Eleventh Dream: From the Abyss, Rise of the Dark Ruler!

And now for a special announcement from Dreamranger creator XW1n5t0nX!

Greetings to all fans of the program. I hope you're enjoying it so far. 10 episodes in is a good accomplishment, as it shows dedication to writing it and wanting to entertain you all. The last one I wrote ended after 3, and one didn't even get a full episode written, only half. But I am dedicated to bringing you best in regards to Dreamranger.

Which leads me to my announcements!

First on the menu is something juicy. When it comes to something you create over the inter, promotion is a big thing. It gets you views, fans, and in a friend of mine's case, sex (I'm not even joking about this, he got laid in RL over a video he made). So it is greatly important to promote yourself at any given point, regardless of what you have created. It's how you survive and get your product attention.

So with that, I am proud to announce that starting with episode 21 of Dreamranger, Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger will not only be shown on Tokunation, but will make the jump and become a product of the wonderful site FanFiction.com! The series will be posted both here, and on FF. Along with this, my upcoming series Kamen Rider Daigen will be on both sites as well, with Daigen's first two episodes being combined into a movie special for the new home. Along with that, the FanFiction version will be UNCUT. There's a scene to graphic for Tokunation and had to be cut to not get me in trouble. But on FF, you all will get the episode (in this case movie) raw and uncut! That's twice the XWX toku for all of you!

Well I do believe that is al...wait a moment, I said announcements. Silly me, how could I forget the biggest one?

Coming soon: Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger - The Movie!

Aimi walks through the forest, she climbing over fallen tree branches as she works her way through it. She was venturing out into these woods as she was concerned for her friends in the Dreamrangers. When she last saw them, they were being led away by two men dressed in black kimonos. The look she saw on all three members of the heroic team told her that something was terribly wrong. She left her friends and decided to follow the group, but they moved to quickly and alas she lost them.
Fear for her friends is what drove her to do this, she not giving up till she finds the three. Along her way she rips her kimono some, she getting cut a few times along her arms and legs from the environment around her.

However she presses on, she knowing how important it is to locate those five. If her assumption was true, then the two men who led the Dreamrangers away were the Nightmarerangers, she curious to see them and see how powerful they are.

Eventually, Aimi comes to the top of a hill overlooking a clearing. She falls onto her back to catch her breath, she smiling as she feels the sun shining down on her fully and not in spots as it did throughout the forest. When she stands up, she sees that Dream Ruler, the robot of her comrades is out. Aimi quickly looks around for a wraith but sees none. She soon looks over to another hill, she getting her first glimpse of the Nightmarerangers. As she spots them, she seems them pointing an arm at the ground and one to the sky, her ears becoming filled with their voices.

“NIGHTMARE RULER! RISE!”

“Nightmare Ruler?” Aimi asks herself aloud.

After their shouting out, the area around all six people becomes as dark as night, the clouds becoming an ominous hue of black, purple and green, the ground becoming foggy. The ground then begins to glow dark red, it soon splitting open in a wide circle before the giant known as Dream Ruler. Inside the cockpit, the Dreamrangers look on in shock as two mechas fly out from the hole, one a red dragon roaring to the high heavens. The other mecha is that of a regular robot, it colored black and white just like its pilot. As the two beasts fly into the sky, Red Nightmare and Black Nightmare jump into the air, they flipping as they ride the air over to their respective mechs, they then phasing down into them.


After flying high enough, the robot spins it’s body around to face Dream Ruler. It’s head then folds down into it’s body, the dragon then wrapping it’s body around the robot, it placing it’s front claws to two back of itself to reveal two connection points.

The head of Nightmare Dragon then folds itself down onto the chest of Nightmare Warrior, Nightmare Ruler’s head then sliding up to reveal itself. The wings of the dragon then spread outwards against the back of the now almost complete giant robot. Nightmare Dragon’s legs then separate themselves from the dragon’s body, the sliding into the connection points that rest where Nightmare Warrior’s legs use to be. The talons of the feet raise up, two robotic legs then sliding out form where they use to be. The dragon’s tail then shoots off of Nightmare Dragon’s body, it flying over to, and then connecting to the right arm of the robot, thus completing Nightmare Ruler, it's eyes glowing dark red.

“W what is that thing!” Keiji questions, his voice filled with fear.

“This my dear Dreamrangers is our special friend. Behold, Nightmare Ruler!” Kuzunaki informs them.

“N Nightmare Ruler?” Syuri questions.

“Now, prepare to die!” Black Nightmare shouts out as Nightmare Ruler launches forward.

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The tail of Nightmare Dragon which is now acting as a blade for Nightmare Ruler slashes into the torso of Dream Ruler, sparks flying out from impact. As the robo of Morpheus turns it’s back from the strike, the Musashi brothers deliver another blow to it, sliding the bladed tail straight down against the back of Dream Ruler. As the strike causes an earthquake like effect with the cockpit, Paige shouts out to her teammates.

“Guys, we need to bring out the Dream Beams!”

“I’m on it!” Syuri shouts back, she pushing a button to her left hand side.

Dream Ruler then delivers an elbow strike to the abdomen of Nightmare Ruler, the blow sending it back some. Dream Ruler then turns around to face it’s foe, it’s hands retracting into it’s body, two beams of golden light then shooting out of the empty spaces to form bladed weapons.

“Take this you little pricks!” Syuri shouts towards her enemy.

The group then swings the right arm of their robo down towards the opponent’s neck. The nightmarish brothers react quickly though, they blocking with their arm blade. Nightmare Ruler then delivers a punch to the left hip of Dream Ruler, it following it up with a punch to the side of it’s body. The Dream Rulers do not all back though, they then countering with a Muay Thai kick to Nightmare Ruler’s left side, the blow strong enough to but some space between the giant robots.

With enough space between them now, Keiji pilots the mecha to bring it’s left arm down towards Nightmare’s legs. As The Nightmarerangers block the blow, Dream Ruler then punches into chest of Nightmare Ruler, piercing it some with it’s beam energy blade.

“Nice shot rangers. Too bad it’s the closest you’ll get to putting that thing in our body!” Jūbei shouts out from their cockpit.

The two then throw their robot’s arms up into the air to shrug Dream Ruler’s away. The evil mecha then flies up into the air, it waving it’s left hand in a mocking manner to the Dreamrangers. Syuri grins beneath her helmet as she flies Dream Ruler up into the sky, making an immediate slash attack towards the enemy. Nightmare Ruler blocks the attack, it then deliver one of it’s own as the beast kicks Dream Ruler into a nearby mountain, the force of the robot slamming into it causing the mountain to crumble. The three heroes pick themselves up slowly.

“Damn, that thing is strong.” Keiji says to his female comrades.

“Indeed. We’ve only landed a couple of blows while it has dominated us.” Paige throws in concerningly.

“Any ideas you two?” Syuri asks?

"We could try shooting at it. Maybe it would give ourselves some form of an advantage if we can keep it farther away from else.” Keiji suggest.

“It would give us more room to perform the Dream Rush.” Paige states, adding onto Keiji’s words.

“It’s worth a shot.” Syuri ends with.

The group retracts the blades of Dream Ruler, only for two medium sized cannon like barrels to slide out. They then begin firing repeatedly up to the hovering Nightmare Ruler. Kuzunaki reacts quickly though, the wings of Nightmare Dragon flinging themselves around the body of the robot, acting as a shield. With the wings in place, the blasts deflect off of them, they flying into the nearby environment. In their cockpit, the two brothers laugh at the efforts of their foes.

“You must give it to them brother, they sure are the persistent type.” Jūbei says.

“That is true. I do tire of this though.”

“Shall we end them then?”

“We may as well put them into submission.” Nightmare Red replies.

The wings of the dragon fling back to as they were. The Musashi brothers then bring Nightmare Ruler’s bladed arm back as it crouches some, as if ready to sprint off. As they do this, the blade begins to glow with black energy, Nightmare Dragon’s mouth which is attached to the center of the body of the robot opening, red energy forming around it.

“Uh oh!” Keiji shouts out.

“Paige, Keiji, brace yourselves!”

The Nightmarerangers go to unleash their attack, but stop suddenly. The dream fighters noticing this look on curiously. Nightmare Ruler flies down to the ground, it turning it’s back to the Dreamrangers. As the three watch this puzzled, the reasoning comes very clear. As they look off to the side, they see a giant wasp like creature buzzing towards them.

“I guess Jung wanted to give us an active day.” Keiji comments.

“I suppose so.” Paige responds.

“I hate Saturdays..” Syuri mumbles to herself.

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The wasp wraith slams into Dream Ruler, the robo grabbing hold of it and throwing it and the wraith down to the ground, the two rolling away. As the two beings roll along the earth, the Dreamrangers hang on tight within their cockpit so that they won’t fly about it. This couple song comes to a part of the forest near a river. The two beings stand up, Paige noticing that they left a trail of fallen and broken trees in their wake.

The wasp then flies up to the mecha, it assaulting it with a barrage of strikes from it’s claw like hands. As the claws strike the metal, sparks shoot out some. The rangers fight back quickly though, as for every hit they take, they deliver a punch of their own. The two giant beings trades blows continuously, the two forcing each other back eventually by the power behind their blows.

The last blow sends Dream Ruler sliding back towards a nearby farm, just barely missing it. The three look on as the wasp gets up from the last blow it received, it injured but seemingly not as beaten down as most of their enemies have been.

“Seems like Jung Wanted to give us a real challenge this time.” Keiji says aloud.

“Yeah, this wraith is stronger than the ones we’ve fought in a past. The others were strong, but not this tough.” Paige continues on for him.

“We haven’t been challenged this much by a wraith since our first fight with Dream Ruler.”

“It’s quite the fast bug isn’t it?”

“Yeah. We may be fast but it’s out moving Dream Ruler here like nothing.”

“Not to mention it’s striking us pretty rough to.” Syuri adds in to the
conversation. “We need to take care of this thing fast and get back to those two punks.”

“What do you suggest Syuri?” Paige asks her commander.

“Hmmm, that stinger is what is giving us trouble, perhaps we should take that out of the equation.”

“Sounds like a plan. Get rid of the stinger and then take care of the rest.” Keiji concludes.


Syuri nods her head before pushing a button. The left hand of Dream Ruler retracts into it’s body, it being replaced by the familiar golden blade of energy. As this occurs, the wasp buzzes in anger, it flapping it’s wings violently, it ready to assault the team. As it proceeds to burst off towards them, the Dreamrangers pilot Dream Ruler to partake in the same movement, the two giants flying towards each other. As they get closer, Dream Ruler raises it’s bladed arm up in a position ready to strike.
The two pass each other in the blink of an eye, sliding away from each other, turning around as they do so to where they eventually are locked on the other’s eyes. As it stares down it’s mechanical friend, the wraith’s stinger begins sliding down some, it eventually off of the wasp’s body. Once it does so, the creature lets out a loud buzzing screech, purple blood gushing from the now amputated stinger.

“Let’s end this sucker!” Paige announces. After she does so, Syuri and Keiji laugh at her optimism and sudden burst of adrenaline.

“This one sure seems eager for once.” Syuri says, shaking her head playfully as she continues to chuckle.

The right hand of Dream Ruler retracts as it becomes replaced with one of the cannons. Dream Ruler then flies up into the air, it unleashing a giant blast of energy down towards the wraith. The robo then falls down to the ground, it slamming the energy blade against the earth, it causing gold energy to shoot through the earth towards the enemy, it splitting the ground as it does so. The wasp has no time to react, the energy from the ground tearing the beats in two, the two halves then being blasted to dust by the giant ball of energy, purple blood splattering over the area.

As the Dream Ruler’s hands slide back out from it’s arms, the robot flies down to the ground again. The rangers having no chance to brace themselves fly around the cockpit as the mecha falls, they smashing into everything as they fly about. Once seated back at their positions, they bring Dream Ruler up to it’s feet, they coming face to face with Nightmare Ruler.

“We hope you three enjoyed that little break from our fight.”

“Because now we’re going to end it.”

Nightmare Ruler then forces it’s right foot into the gut of Dream Ruler, sending the giant robot flying into a nearby water tower, the tower crashing to the ground and flooding the area immediately. As the rangers get ready to launch an attack, they become distracted as the Nightmarerangers head up into the sky.

Just like before, Nightmare Ruler crouches down and brings it’s bladed arm back, black energy once again forming around it. Nightmare Dragon opens it’s mouth again as well, red energy forming inside of it’s mouth.
“Don’t tell me…” Keiji begins.

“Get ready for a hell of a ride.” Syuri replies.

“NIGHTMARE RULER, ABYSSAL NIGHTMARE BURST!”

Nightmare Ruler then throws it’s arm out diagnollay towards the mecha of the dream kingdom, the black energy flying off the blade, it taking the form of a sharply curved blast. After the black energy is fired off, Nightmare Dragon releases the energy it had stockpiled, a fiery ball of red energy flying out from it’s mouth. The ball of energy slams into the curved energy blade, it propelling it forward faster.

The two energy masses slam into the middle of Dream Ruler, causing an immediate explosion. The cockpit explodes in a rain of sparks and flying wires, the shock wave flinging the Dreamrangers through the mecha and down into the forest. The three slam down against broken trees, they still in their suits. As they look up to Dream Ruler, they watch it split into their respective mechas, they rushing back through a portal and into the dream kingdom.

The rangers slowly stand up, they walking away slowly from where they landed. After a while, they reach the river where they did battle with the wasp wraith. However their escape is interrupted, their ears becoming filled with the laughter of two men. They look across the river, Red Nightmare and Black Nightmare, they standing on a small incline.

“Miss us?” Black Nightmare asks mockingly.

The three Dreamrangers stare coldly towards the Musashi brothers, the two laughing at what they have put their enemies through. Syuri clenches her fists tightly, her face coiled in anger beneath her helmet.

...To be continued

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The ruler of the abyss and giant warrior of Jung's kingdom Nightmare Ruler has sent Dream Ruler, the champion of Morpheus back to the dream kingdom. With the Dreamrangers hurting from this fight, and still carrying the bruises from their previous ones, can they survive another assault by the Nightmarerangers?

Next time on Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger: The two groups of rangers face off in another battle. The five give it their all, and in return are captured in all!

Next time, Twelfth Dream: Collision! Captured Brawl!

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Coming soon: Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger - The Movie!

The tail of Nightmare Dragon which is now acting as a blade for Nightmare Ruler slashes into the torso of Dream Ruler, sparks flying out from impact. As the robo of Morpheus turns it’s back from the strike, the Musashi brothers deliver another blow to it, sliding the bladed tail straight down against the back of Dream Ruler. Dream Ruler then delivers an elbow strike to the abdomen of Nightmare Ruler, the blow sending it back some. Dream Ruler then turns around to face it’s foe, it’s hands retracting into it’s body, two beams of golden light then shooting out of the empty spaces to form bladed weapons. The group then swings the right arm of their robo down towards the opponent’s neck. The nightmarish brothers react quickly though, they blocking with their arm blade. Nightmare Ruler then delivers a punch to the left hip of Dream Ruler, it following it up with a punch to the side of it’s body. The Dream Rulers do not all back though, they then countering with a Muay Thai kick to Nightmare Ruler’s left side, the blow strong enough to but some space between the giant robots. With enough space between them now, Keiji pilots the mecha to bring it’s left arm down towards Nightmare’s legs. As The Nightmarerangers block the blow, Dream Ruler then punches into chest of Nightmare Ruler, piercing it some with it’s beam energy blade. The two then throw their robot’s arms up into the air to shrug Dream Ruler’s away. The evil mecha then flies up into the air, it waving it’s left hand in a mocking manner to the Dreamrangers. Syuri grins beneath her helmet as she flies Dream Ruler up into the sky, making an immediate slash attack towards the enemy. Nightmare Ruler blocks the attack, it then deliver one of it’s own as the beast kicks Dream Ruler into a nearby mountain, the force of the robot slamming into it causing the mountain to crumble.

The wings of the dragon fling back to as they were. The Musashi brothers then bring Nightmare Ruler’s bladed arm back as it crouches some, as if ready to sprint off. As they do this, the blade begins to glow with black energy, Nightmare Dragon’s mouth which is attached to the center of the body of the robot opening, red energy forming around it.

“NIGHTMARE RULER, ABYSSAL NIGHTMARE BURST!”

Nightmare Ruler then throws it’s arm out diagonally towards the mecha of the dream kingdom, the black energy flying off the blade, it taking the form of a sharply curved blast. After the black energy is fired off, Nightmare Dragon releases the energy it had stockpiled, a fiery ball of red energy flying out from it’s mouth. The ball of energy slams into the curved energy blade, it propelling it forward faster.

The two energy masses slam into the middle of Dream Ruler, causing an immediate explosion. The cockpit explodes in a rain of sparks and flying wires, the shock wave flinging the Dreamrangers through the mecha and down into the forest. The three slam down against broken trees, they still in their suits. As they look up to Dream Ruler, they watch it split into their respective mechas, they rushing back through a portal and into the dream kingdom.

The rangers slowly stand up, they walking away slowly from where they landed. After a while, they reach the river where they did battle with the wasp wraith. However their escape is interrupted, their ears becoming filled with the laughter of two men. They look across the river, Red Nightmare and Black Nightmare, they standing on a small incline.

“Miss us?” Black Nightmare asks mockingly.

The three Dreamrangers stare coldly towards the Musashi brothers, the two laughing at what they have put their enemies through. Syuri clenches her fists tightly, her face coiled in anger beneath her helmet.

The three then charge towards the lake, each one letting out a thunderous battle cry. As they get about half way to the other side, Red and Black Nightmare flash down to the spot, the Dreamrangers slamming head on with them. Keiji and Paige begin assaulting Kuzunaki with fist after fist, he blocking every one, he eventually getting sent to the ground by a sweeping kick courtesy of Paige. As he lays in the water, Keiji jumps into the air some he looking to slam his leg against the head of the Nightmareranger. Red Nightmare rolls out of the way though, Keiji slamming into the lake. Kuzunaki then jumps up to his feet as Paige rushes up to him. He grabs hold of her arm and flings her over his head, he slamming her down onto the ground. Paige’s grip is tight though, she bringing Kuzunaki down with her. As he slowly makes it up to his feet he notices a shadow overtaking him. As he looks up he sees Keiji in the air, he about ready to land upon him.

Black Nightmare misses Syuri with a dive attack of his own, she stepping to the side and upon his landing, pushes him away. The two then begin trading kicks back and forth fiercely, eventually causing the other to flip around, leaving them back to back. The two spin around crying out, they looking to hit the other with a punch. The two clenched fists slam into each other, Syuri’s gaze deadlocked on Jūbei, his gaze deadlocked on her.

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Aimi crawls over a fallen tree, her face covered in dirt, it featuring a few cuts from the impact the brawl she witnessed had on the area. He hands, arms, and legs featuring some cuts and bruises as well, he kimono almost tatter near her feet, part of the left sleeve nearly ripped off. She walks around the wrecked forest, she looking for her friends.

“God I hope those three are alright. Those Nightmarerangers seem really strong. Not to mention they have their own mecha. That thing looked powerful. Plus they had to deal with a wraith! Oiiii, I really hope I find them in one piece!”

As Aimi continues to walk around the forest, she comes witness to more of the destruction the five rangers and wraith caused. Along with the environment bearing nearly decimated, she comes to see animals, slain in the heated battle. Aimi’s eyes become filled with tears as she looks at these poor creatures, her stomach tightening in ache, she even vomiting at some points. While aware the rangers were trying to protect the citizens in the city, she can’t help but hate them for the destruction they caused to the forest, both to the environment and the animals.

She continues to make her way through the devastation, she eventually seeing light that she assumes will lead her out of the forest. She smiles at the thought of being able to get out of the forest, she beginning to run towards the light. When Aimi passes through it, she comes onto the side of a lake, she relishing the sunlight. She immediately runs over to the lake and goes down onto her knees, she splashing water all over her face.

“Ahhhhhhhhhh much better” She says smiling from the cool feeling of the water against her skin.

Her peacefulness becomes interrupted however when she hears people crying out. She looks over to her right, she seeing the Dreamrangers clashing against the Nightmarerangers. Afraid of being seen, Aimi rushes over to a fallen branch near the forest, it big enough to hide her well, but allow her to see what is going on. As she watches the fight, she remembers she has her camera with her. Aimi takes it off of her wrist, she pointing it toward the two enemy groups and beginning to take pictures of the encounter.

Syuri and Jūbei continue beating each other back and forth, each one managing to both land and take blows. Syuri goes for a roundhouse kick to the head, Black Nightmare ducking down to the ground. As Dream White’s leg swings above him, he whips out his Night Sickles, he swiping at Syuri’s leg that is still on the ground. She notices this and in an act to dodge the blow, flips her body forward and up, she avoiding the blade. Once her legs come back together, she reaches down and grabs Jūbei by the neck, her hands clenched tightly against it. As she falls to the ground, she pulls down on Black Nightmare’s neck, she force slamming his head down against the ground, and even into it a bit.

Syuri then rolls away quickly, she summoning forth her Dream Blade. After a while Jūbei gets off of the ground, he walking dizzily some. Dream White cries out and runs towards him. The Musashi boy has enough clarity though to see the oncoming attack, he side stepping out of the way. As Syuri runs past him some, he sinks the blade of one of his sickles into her right leg, it bringing her down to the ground in agonizing pain. As she lies on her stomach crying out, Jūbei takes advantage, he plunging the other blade into her back. He runs it along to near her waist before he rips it out, the suit tearing and sparks flying out everywhere, some blood fountaining out as well, Syuri screaming loudly in pain.

“Not so tough are you now you little bitch!” Black Nightmare commands down at his foe, he delivering a rough kick to her side, the blow sending her rolling away from him.

“SYURI!” Paige cries out, she being silenced shortly afterwards by a boot to the head, it sending her flying off down the lake some.

“Pay attention unless you want to die!” Kuzunaki shouts out at Paige.

As he turns around, he is met by Keiji crying out like a warrior, he plunging the Dream Trident into a thigh of his opponent, blood shooting out. Kuzunaki groans a bit but then begins to laugh, the reaction causing Keiji to tilt his head, his face becoming painted in fear.

“Who the hell are you guys?!”

“We’re simply your worst nightmares come true.” Red Nightmare replies. He then brings the butts of both Nightmare Hooks against the sides of Keiji’s head. Keiji lets go of his weapon in response, he walking backwards in pain.

Kuzunaki then transfers one of his blades into his other hand, he using his now free hand to remove the Dream Trident from his leg, groaning as he does so. After he removes it he tosses it to the side, returning the Nightmare Hook to its hand. Kuzunaki then runs towards Dream Blue, he leaping into the air right before he reaches him. Right as he begins to fall down to Earth, he crosses both swords into an X form. His feet hit the ground; he posed down in a crouch, his head down and arms out thus uncrossing the blades. When he tilts his head up an explosion goes off against Keiji’s suit. The blast causes Keiji to scream out horribly as his body reacts violently to the attack. An X ripped into his suit so deeply that it almost has revealed his flesh, sparks going off everywhere as a red spot grows in size against his chest.

As he chuckles at the blow he has dealt to the Dreamranger, he fails to notice that Paige has fired off a volley of shots from her Dream Blaster. When Kuzunaki turns around to head towards Paige downstream, the energy blasts slam into his body, he crying out in pain as he is assaulted by him. After the blasts have vanished, he staggers forward some, he not expecting that the girl would be able to impact him so much, part of his burnt a little. Paige then appears at his back, she screaming as she slashes down towards him. The edge of her Dream Shoots slashes across Kuzunaki’s back sparks flying out and getting another cry of pain out of him. He reacts almost instantly, spinning around quickly and slamming the back of his fist against the side of Paige’s head, the impact sending her flying away in a spiral formation, she eventually slamming side first against a large rock.

From her hiding place, Aimi watches on in shock and in utter terror, her body drenched in sweat. She stops takings pictures for minutes, her entire face red as tears fall against her face like a rainstorm. She slowly speaks to herself, her voice hoarse and almost a whisper.

“They…they’re g g going to k k k kill each other!”

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Syuri slams down to the ground, she doing so after being struck by a slash of energy from Black Nightmare’s blade. A she lands she writhes in pain, she having landed on her back, blood continuing to work it’s way out of the wound Black Nightmare had caused earlier. With a scream Jūbei leaps into the air, he looking to land feet first on Dream White’s chest. She still has enough strength left though, for as Jūbei is about to land she kicks out with both legs, they slamming into his chest. With a bit of force and momentum Syuri launches Black Nightmare into the air, he landing behind her some, her unluckily landing face first against a rock.

“Gahhh!” He cries out as he clutches at his helmet as he rolls away from the rock. A small crack appearing in the left eye portion of his visor.

Before he can stand up though, Syuri is on him like a hawk. With her Dream Blade wielded, she cries out ferociously as she begins striking down against Jūbei repeatedly, he able to block every strike with his Night Sickles. She brings the blade down against the blades again, she attempting to force it down into his body. The Nightmareranger is able to hold her off though, he throwing her off of him. Jūbei then rushes to Syuri after she stands up, he crossing his sickles in readiness for an attack. He uncrosses them as he stops in front of Dream White; however he only cuts air as Syuri throws herself down to the ground. As quick as a cat she switches her weapon into it’s gun mode, she getting off multiple shots that slam into Black Nightmare’s chest, the force of the blasts driving him back a bit, this allowing Syuri to get to her feet without being assaulted.

“You’re pretty swift there Dream White.” Jūbei says to Syuri.”

“You’re pretty strong Black Nightmare.” She shoots back.

“Too bad it’s a talent about to be lost!”

Jūbei crosses his blades in an X position as he jumps into the sky, he flipping himself frontwards. Right as he lands on the ground, he uncrosses his blades calling out:

“BLACK CROSS SAVAGERY!”

After calling out the name of his attack, black energy bursts from his Night Sickles as he uncrosses them, the energy taking the form of an X. The X shaped dark energy slams into Syuri’s body, cutting through her suit and causing small explosions against it, sparks flying out as a result. The force of the attack sends the white Dreamranger flying into the air only to slam face first against the ground.

Black Nightmare chuckles as he walks towards his fallen opponent, he wishing to check to make sure he has subdued her. Once he is at Syuri, he begins slamming his foot against the back of her head, driving it into the ground. He continues to chuckling and looks down at his prey, he being met with a beam of white and gold energy that is shooting out form the Dream Blade’s barrel. The beam’s end which has formed into the shape of a star slams into his chest, sending the evil ranger flying far off until he slams against the ground, he rolling for a bit before being stopped by slamming into a tree.

“It’s going to take more than a letter to put me down.” Syuri says as she stands up slowly, her body shaking from the punishment she has taken so far, she gazing down at Jūbei with eyes full of coldness.

“Heh…I guess so.” Jūbei responds as he climbs to his feet. He and Syuri then burst into flashes of white and Black, the two colliding as they flash back and forth around the area.

Paige lies on the ground shaking in pain, she clutching at the right side of her body, blood oozing through her suit into her hand, the wound being causing from slamming against the rock which she was laying next to. As she felt her side, she could feel a few broken bones, each touch causing her to whimper some. Dream Pink does not have much down time though as Red Nightmare’s hand grabs hold of her shoulder, he lifting her into the air till he was looking up at her, both Night Hooks being held in his right hand.

“Well well well, it seems that the pink warrior is all out of fight.” Kusunaki says mocking to Paige, he moving his hand from her shoulder to her neck, clutching at it tightly.

“I I’m not done y yet!” Paige cries out in response, she kicking her feet into his mid section to try and force him to let go of her. However her kicks seem to have no effect on the man, he continuing to hold her.

“Really now? Well even if you have some fire still lit inside, it’s about to be extinguished.” Red Nightmare answers as he tightens the hold he has on her neck.

He then grips down on both Night Hooks tightly, he bringing his arm back into position to where the blades are right in front of where her heart would be. As Paige watches this she beings whimpering in utter fear, she continuing her assault on the Nightmareranger’s chest with her feet, they still having no effect on him.

“Goodnight Dream Pink, have a nice sleep!” Kusunaki shouts out as he throws his arm towards Paige’s heart.

“You bastard!” Keiji’s voice cries out.

Kusunaki halts his attack on Paige at the voice of the blue ranger. Kusunaki turns his head towards where he heard the voice, but becomes acquainted to the Dream Trident, Keiji slamming the rod part of it into Red Nightmare’s neck. Kusunaki cries out in pain from the blow, he dropping Paige as a result of it. Paige limps away to stand next to Keiji as the evil ranger staggers back some.

“Keiji you saved my neck.”

“Both figuratively and literally.” Keiji replies, his words getting a chuckle out of Paige.

Paige summons her Dream Shooter once more, the two rangers watching as Kuzunaki stops staggering about and locks his sights on them.

“Think you can take another attack from him?”

“I’m pretty sure I can.”

“Good. Paige I want you to try and get off your final attack on him. When he counters it and attacks you, I’ll finish him off with mine. That sound like a plan?” Keiji asks of his comrade, he looking down at her as he speaks.

“Yeah, it’s a plan.” Paige responds as she looks up at him, she smiling beneath her helmet as she nods at him.

“Then let’s do it!”

Paige lets out a battle cry as she rushes towards the Musashi that dons the color of red, she aiming her Dream Shooter at him. He watches as she does so, he smirking beneath his helmet.

“Bring it!”

The pink Dreamranger then pulls her left arm back in a position that lets her fire the weapon off. As she does this, the barrels on the mystical weapon begin shining in bright magenta. As they continue to shine, large cone like energy structures from around them, they glowing brighter and brighter as the energy gathers more.

“RAPID DREAM BURST!” Paige cries out, release her hand from the grasp she had it in.

Once her hand opens, the cone like energy structures blast off from the barrels, rapid blasts of energy shots firing out of the barrels and slamming into the cones, propelling them forward faster. As the attack nears him Kusunaki begins to laugh, he standing there as if nothing was going to happen. The energy blast reaches his position, slamming into his being like a missile slamming into a building. As the attack collides, an explosion of magenta and gold energy shoots off.

Paige stands there shocked that the attack collided with it’s target. Beneath her helmet she smiles brightly at the thought of putting an end to Red Nightmare. However her smile fades quickly as a now all too familiar voice shouts out.

“RED STRIKING FANG!”

Through the smoke brought on by Paige’s attack shines dark red light, it breaking through the smoke to show Red Nightmare spinning around, his hook blades attached to each other with red lightning sparking around it. Kusunaki stops spinning as his blades whip through the air, the lighting speeding off of the weapon towards Paige. The lightning strikes Paige quickly, it numbing her body down into a near paralysis state. As her body becomes unable to move, a jagged wave of dark red and black energy slams into her being, it causing an immediate explosion against her suit, the blow sending her flying high into the air, she eventually slamming right side first into the river.

Kusunaki stands there relaxing from his attack. His relaxation though comes to a screeching hault, he spinning himself around his an attack cry is called out.

“TRIPLE TWISTING DREAM!” Keiji shouts out at the top of his lungs.

Cyclones of blue energy spin rapidly around the three blades of the Dream Trident as Keiji flies through the air. The Dreamranger flies right up to the Nightareranger and slams the blades into his enemy. The cyclones ripe ferociously against his suit, they eventually spinning enough and gathering enough energy to burst in an explosion of blue. The explosion shoots Kusunaki away from Keiji, his suit burnt and torn from the attack. After flying through the air for a bit, Kusunaki slams down into the river, rolling downstream a bit.

As he slowly gets up to his feet, Jūbei falls down next to him, he landing face first in the water. Kusuanki goes down to his knees, he taking hold of his brother gently and helping him up to his feet.

“Jūbei are you alright?”

“Yeah I’m fine. That white bitch is stronger than I expected.” Jūbei replies to his brother.

The two men stare downstream, their eyes filled with the now reunited Dreamrangers, the white and blue ones helping the one clad in pink up to her feet.

“Nice fall Paige.”

“Oh shut up Syuri.” Paige responds with a slight chuckle.

Keiji then reports to Syuri. “We’ve hit them with everything we have and they still won’t go down.”

“Trust me, I’m aware of that.” She replies as she stares down the two Nightmarerangers.

“Dear brother, shall we deliver the final blow?” Jūbei asks of his sibling.

“We don’t have much of a choice.” Kusunaki replies.

The two men stare at each other, they eventually nodding at each other. They then crouch back in unison, they taking the pose the Drearamngers have seen before.

“They’re going for the finish!” Paige shouts out as she and her friends watch the two brothers gathering energy for their final attack.

“Oh yeah? Well so are we! Keiji, Paige, Dream Cannon!” Syuri commands.

Paige lays the Dream Shooter out sideways in the air. Keiji then places his trident on the top side of the handle. Syuri then flips the blade of her weapon back up to be in the hybrid form of the Dream Blade back up to lay against the barrel of her blaster. She then places it on the bottom of the handle of the Dream Shooter. Syuri then takes hold of the handle of the DreamShooter. Keiji and Paige grabbing hold of her shoulders'.

“You guys ready?!” Syuri shouts out to her teammates.

“Yes!” They both respond.

“Jūbei ready?!” Kusunaki asks of his brother.”

“As always!” He responds.

"DREAM CANNON, BLAST OFF!!" The three rangers shout, Syuri slamming her hand against the trigger on the handle of the DreamShooter.

As she does so, a torrent of blue, pink, and white energy shoots out of all three weapons, it combining into a stream like ball of energy with lightning around it, it racing like a speeding train towards the Nightmarerangers.

“NIGHTMARE RAZOR WIND!” Kusunaki and Jūbei cry out in unison.

They then push their bodies forward and release their weapons, they spinning violently towards the group of Dreamrangers. After a while the blades slam into each other, forming a circular almost cyclone blade of black, white, and red energy, lightning cackling around it. The blades tear through the air, they heading on a collision course with the attack the Dreamrangers shot off.

The two attacks slam into each other viciously like colliding cars. Each attack power struggles against the other, the Nightmarerangers’ attack pushing towards the Dreamrangers at some points, the Dreamrangers’ attack pushing towards the Nightmarerangers at some points. As the two energy attacks fight against the other, they begin glowing intensely, multi colored lighting slamming down to the ground around it and the two ranger teams. After minutes of struggling against each other, the two energy attacks combine into a multi colored energy sphere, it exploding immediately upon creation. As it explodes, it sends out a giant shockwave of multicolored energy out in all directions, it tearing through the environment. The shockwave soon slams into both the Dreamrangers and the Nightmarerangers, causing immediate explosions upon collision, the blast force rocketing the rangers into the air and back into the forest.

The Dreamrangers fall back down to the ground, the slamming down against tree branch after tree branch until they meet the ground, they land face first. As they hit the ground they immediately are forcefully detransformed, the lack of suits revealing their civilian forms. They shake against the ground in pain struggling to stand up, their bodies a broken, dirtied, bruised, and bloody mess, not one inch of their clothing has been torn and blown away, their skin covered in wounds. Syuri’s jacket has been blown away, it laying beside in her a tattered shape. Paige’s jacket has met the same fate, her shirt underneath almost destroyed as well, bits of her bra and even some of her breasts showing. Keiji’s jacket has escaped being destroyed, however his pants have been torn into shreds, they now resembling shorts more then anything.

As they continue to try and get up, Syuri and Keiji look up from the ground ahead of them. What they turns their bloodied faces white, as both Kusunaki and are standing a few feet away from them, their clothes tattered and torn as well, both of their chests showing as the upper parts of their kimonos are now laying against the lower portions of it, their skin equally bruised, dirtied, and bloodied.

“You…you’ve got to be shitting me.” Syuri stutters out in agony.

“T they won’t…they won’t fucking stay down!” Keiji adds in.

Jūbei then begins to walk towards the Dreamrangers, he having a slight limp to his walk. Kusunaki then throws on arm out in front of his brother, motioning for him to stop.

“No little brother. Let us leave and fight another day.” He instructs to Jūbei.

“Fine.” Jūbei replies, the two Musashi brothers then disappearing in a burst of red and black lightning.

The Dreamrangers continue to lay there in utter pain and agony. After what seems like hours though, Syuri looks up and notices Aimi running towards them.

“You guys!” She shouts out, she going immediately to her knees once she reaches the three.

“Aimi, what are you doing here?” Paige asks.

“I followed you guys to make sure you were okay. I saw everything, and even took some photos of the fight.” She responds, she holding up her camera.

“Heh…you have a thing for danger don’t you Aimi?” Syuri asks.

“I guess I have a thing for making sure you three are okay.” Aimi shoots back with a grin, she getting laughter from the three rangers, she soon joining in.

Later at Aimi’s house and inside the Dreamranger’s apartment, Aimi sits in front of the laptop, her hair wet and her forehead bandaged from fallout from the fight from earlier.

“Thank you for the photographs Aimi. These should help us get some information on those two Musashi boys. Now if only we had one of them not in their suits.” Dr. Edogawa says.

“I’m sorry I couldn’t get any. I got to the fight after they had transformed.” Aimi replies, her voice a bit hoarse.

“It’s fine. I’m just happy you and the others are alright.”

“I’m fine but I don’t know about them. I think they’ll be out of commission for a little bit.” Aimi states to the dream doctor.

“Makes enough sense going by what you told me of their condition.” He replies.

“Yeah…”

“Anyways, thank you once more for the photos. We’ll keep a close eye on your area while those three heal. If anything happens while they’re out of work, we’ll take care of it. Just make sure they rest.” Edogawa instructs the young female.

“Yes sir.” Aimi responds.

Edogawa gives a nod and salute before ending the call. After it has ended, Aimi stands up and walks back into her room, Syuri, Keiji, and Paige laying on the floor of the room asleep all bandaged up. Aimi stands there watching them sleep, her eyes becoming filled with tears at their condition.

“You guys..” She whispers softly.

...To be continued

The fighters of Morpheus have healed up and are back in action. But it seems that one of them may still be sitting on the sidelines!

Next time on Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger: After a trip out with Aimi, Keiji loses his Dream Cellular, his device used to turning into a Dreamranger, as well as device that gives it's user access to some of the Dreamranger powers. With Keiji still hurting from the fight with the Nightmarerangers, and a wraith on the attack it's up to Aimi to find the Dream Cellular before it's too late!

Next time, Thirteenth Dream: Lost and Found! Track Down the Cellular!

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Coming soon: Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger - The Movie!

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.


“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.


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.”


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.

Another wraith down with dozens more to go. But it seems that the rangers may be about to embark on their most dangerous mission yet!

Next time on Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger: Jung unleashes her recent plan, plunging a nine year old artist into a deep fear, she torturing her night after night with nightmares, they beginning to work their way into her artwork. When Aimi discovers her passed out, the Dreamrangers move out, they venturing into the girl's dreams to save her. But will they survive the descent into one's nightmarish mind?

Next time, Fourteenth Dream: Enter the Dream, Mission to Return Dreams!

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Coming soon: Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger - The Movie!

Aimi walks down the road in Nakano, the ward of Tokyo in which she lives. Within her arms she cradles a bag of groceries, she just coming back from doing some shopping for her mother. As she walks down the street in her neighborhood, the neighbors greet her whether they are old or young. Like a respectable girl is taught, she greets them in return with a smile, she opting for a bow of the head instead of her full body due to carrying the bag.

While walking out of the street and into a nearby park, Aimi begins to think about her life. She thinks about her friends, her family, teachers, boys that hold her interest, boys that have confessed to her, and many other people. She thinks about what university to go to since starting next year, she will now be a senior, almost ready for the world. But while Aimi does think of these things, her mind always wanders back towards the Dreamrangers. Since meeting them her life has certainly gotten busier. From them living inside of her closet, to constantly fighting, saving her, and even herself having to play nurse for them. It always making her laugh that the three mystical power wielding warriors never seem to be able to heal themselves up. But they have had rough battles, none proving more strenuous then the ones against the Nightmarerangers. The thought of those two sending a shot of fear running through her body. But through it all, Aimi knows that her meeting these three have definitely proven to be an influence on her life. She’s seen their personalities and has come to take bits of theirs’ and make them her own. Syuri teaching her to be tougher and not take any nonsense, Keiji imparting strength on her, and Paige is teaching her how to be an all around nicer person. In total, the Dreamrangers have affected her life immensely, and she is sure they will continue to do so.

Aimi walks into a playground area, it being a few blocks away from home, Aimi release a sigh of relief. Once home, she’ll be able to relax in a nice bath before sitting down to a good meal. As she makes her way through the park she looks to the side, she noticing a girl walking about with bulging eyes, her face pale as parchment. After staring at the girl for a while Aimi recognizes her, her then saying her name aloud.

“Asami?”

Asami does not respond to Aimi, she continuing to wonder about the playground. She soon begins to stagger some, her body falling forwards before returning to an upright position. As Aimi watches, Asami walks over to a slide and begins to climb up the ladder to the top. Halfway there though Asami slips, her body beginning to fall downwards. Her body leans back and reveals a horrified face, her hands slipping off of the ladder and adding to her fall.

When she hits the ground and does not move, Aimi drops the bag and rushes over to her. She takes Asami in her arms and calls out to her, she trying her hardest to wake her up.

“Asami-chan! Asami-chan! Asami-chan!” She repeats over and over, the girl never responding to her, only staring at the sky with those bulging eyes, they filled with a fear that takes Aimi’s breath away. When she looks up, Aimi sees nothing, her head soon lowering to look down at Asami.

”Asami-chan, what have you seen to make you like this?” Aimi questions within her head.

Aimi then stands up slowly while keeping Asami in her arms. She then runs out of the playground and into the street, she pumping her legs with all her might as she heads towards Asami’s home. While running, Aimi pleads for her to be alright with all of her might, she tearing up a bit as she looks down at Asami every so often.


Inside Asami’s house, she lies in her bed; she still passed out from the fall she took in the playground. Below her room on the first floor, Aimi and Asami’s mother sit on a couch next to each other, a tray containing two cups of tea sitting atop a coffee table. Aimi’s bag of groceries sitting on the floor next to the table, she having to run back to the park to receive them after bringing Asami home.

“Aimi thank you for bringing Asami home. Who knows what would have happened if she was left there. Some pervert could have taken her!”

“It’s no problem Misses Kobayashi. I was walking home and I saw her wondering around in the playground. She tried to climb up to the top of the slide but she ended up slipping a falling off.” Aimi explains, she smiling modestly.

“You’re an angel Aimi. Your parents raised you very well.” Asami’s mother replies as she picks up her cup of tea, she taking a sip of it after speaking, she placing it above her lap afterwards.

“I did notice though before and after she fell, she had this expression on her face. It was like she had seen a ghost or something.” Aimi continues.
“That doesn’t surprise me.” The mother says.

Taken aback a bit, Aimi tilts her head to the side as she vocalizes a question. “Why do you say that?”

Misses Kobayashi takes a few more sips from her tea before placing the cup down on the tray. After doing so, she sighs some and takes a small breath, she folding her hands across her lap.

“Aimi you know how Asami is an artist correct?”

“Of course! The whole neighborhood does.” Aimi responds.

“Then you know that she has that big exhibition soon right?” Misses Kobayasahi asks, Aimi answering with a nod of the head in a manner that says yes. After her response, the mother starts to speak again. “Well a few weeks ago Asami began to have nightmares. At first we thought they were just regular old nightmares like every child has. Well as the week went on, they become more frequent, they so bad that Asami even wet the bed a few times. My husband and I figured that she must just be nervous about the exhibition, and the stress is causing her nightmares. But then it got…frightening.”

“What do you mean frightening?” Aimi asks, she understanding everything Asami’s mother has said up until this point.

“They became so frequent and so bad that we started to hear her screaming at the top of her lungs. We’d wake her up, but she’d keep screaming. But then all of a sudden her art became very, morbid. She always draws such nice pictures, but since having these nightmares her artwork is nothing but grotesque images that comes straight out of a nightmare. Their either of demons, corpses, bloodied pieces of house wear or clothing, they’re just disturbing. We took her to a psychologist, but even he doesn’t know what she’s wrong. Now she doesn’t even talk. She’s either asleep and having nightmares, or awake and either drawing those morbid pictures or walking around as if she’s in a coma. I’m at my wit’s end. I just don’t know what to do!” Asami’s mother explains, tears welling up and pouring down her cheeks as she carries on. Once she finishes speaking, she buries her face in both of her hands’, the sound of her sobbing echoing in Aimi’s ears, she herself weeping a little. Aimi then leans over and wraps her arms around Misses Kobayashi, bringing her into a hug, the mother soon wrapping her arms around the teenager counseling her.

As the two women embrace each other, a thought pops into Aimi’s head. After a few minutes Aimi pulls away, she staring at Asami’s mother, her red teary eyes staring back.

“Misses Kobayashi, I have some friends who do work pertaining to dreams. I’m sure I could get them to take a look at Asami and maybe even monitor as she sleeps!” Aimi explains as her lips form a bright smile filled with hopefulness.

“R really?!” The mother asks stunned.

“Yes! I’ll talk to them later today and get back to you when something can be set up!” Aimi tells her hostess.

“Oh Aimi, you truly are an angel!” Misses Kobayashi exclaims before the two women lock in another embrace.

Later that night, Aimi stands at the kitchen counter inside the Dreamranger’s apartment. As she explains the situation, Syuri, Paige, and Keiji sit on the couch, they taking in all of the information being given. After Aimi finishes telling the story, Syuri stands up and folds her arms across her chest, she walking around the living room area of the apartment, she sinking into deep thought.

“So what do you guys think?” Aimi asks after a while.

Syuri continues to walk around the room, she eventually speaking while continuing to move. “Hmmm. That certainly is a strange case. It doesn’t sound to strange though. Children can often have nightmares that can cause trauma mentally. It could be she dreamt up something really haunting, or a repressed memory of something bad that happened worked itself into her dream. So it isn’t too strange.”

“That is true, but that doesn’t explain why it increased in volume. It seems odd that if a person is having the same nightmare image for image that the person having it would get extremely upset after being just a little scared.” Keiji adds on, his voice soft but stern as he speaks.

“Not to mention that while stress can cause bad dreams and insomnia, it shouldn’t be able to create a nightmare this big. Plus unless she isn’t going to sleep, it wouldn’t cause her to become pale and have her eyes bulged out.” Paiges throws into the conversation.

A silence fills the room as the four continue to think the situation out. Eventually Aimi speaks up, her words bringing Syuri’s walking to a stop.

“Could it…be a wraith?”

Syuri stands there silent and still, her eyes as intense as her thinking process. Keiji, Paige, and Aimi stare at her as she continues to think, their eyes locked on her form. After minutes of a silence you could cut with a knife, the leader of the heroic team vocalizes her opinion, her voice coming out smooth yet a little icy.

“It has to be. There is no other reason that the girl would be having nightmares so extreme in content to cause her this much trauma. Not even psychopathic criminals can produce nightmares this strong.”

“But if it is a result of Jung and thus a wraith, why haven’t we seen one by now?” Paige asks in a confused manner, Keiji joining her with a soft ‘hmph’.

“The only explanation is that somehow Jung was able to implant a wraith inside her head. If it’s in there it could cause more destruction then a regular one can. Aimi said this Asami is an artist correct? The wraith could be causing her so much pain with the nightmares that Asami is not only drawing out what she sees, but also possibly creating more wraiths.” Syuri explains grimly.

After minutes of silence, Aimi squeaks up. “If there is a wraith inside of Asami’s mind, how would you three get rid of it?”

“It’s simple; we going into her mind ourselves. Go in, track the thing down, eliminate it and get out.” Keiji answers.

“You can do that?” Aimi questions shocked.

“Well of course. Why do you think we’re called the Dreamrangers Miss Aimi?” Paige replies with a smile.

“Aimi, contact the mother. We’ll go over tomorrow night and track this piece of shit down.” Syuri orders to her human comrade.

“Yes mam!” Aimi responds before whipping out her cell phone. As she talks to Asami’s mother through it, the three rangers look at each other before giving a small nod of the head, they united in what they most do.

The following night the group of four arrives at the front door of Asami’s house, her mother and father greeting them. The group walks in and converse for a bit, Syuri and gang heading up to Asami’s room after a few minutes. Aimi and the parents look at each other, the face of Asami’s mother filled with as much grief and fear as it was yesterday, Asami’s father looking calm with eyes that could make anybody melt to tears.

“Don’t worry, Asami will be perfectly fine. Those three are the best people in the world who could help her.” Aimi explains to the two, her voice slow and soft.

“Can we really trust them to help our little girl?” The father asks suddenly, his voice cracking a bit due to how many emotions he is keeping bottled up inside.

“I give you my word that they will help her. I would trust them with my life.” Aimi says, she following it up in her head with “I have haven’t I.”

After sitting with Asami’s parents for an hour and having desert with them, Aimi makes her way up the stairs and to Asami’s room. When she enters it she finds the three waiting for her, Asami fast asleep behind them. Syuri then steps forward towards Aimi, her face as serious as one could be.

“Okay, Asami is asleep now. Once we are in her mind and thus dreams, we will be there for however long this takes. It is critical that nobody disturbs her once we are inside.” She explains.

“How come?” Aimi asks.

“We can only enter a person’s dream if they are asleep. If we’re in there and she wakes up, no matter the cause, we’ll be stuck in there until she falls asleep again. If this wraith is haunting her so bad that he can affect her when she’s awake, then we may be in serious trouble. No matter how loud she screams, no matter how hard she flails, and no matter how much you or her parents want to wake her up, you cannot let it happen. Understood?” Syuri explains carefully to Aimi, the ranger wanting to make sure that her human counterpart understands how serious the situation goes.

“I understand you crystal clear Syuri.” Aimi responds, her face becoming as serious as Syuri’s, her eyes as sharp as well, the sudden seriousness getting a small smirk from Syuri.

“Good.” She answers as the three walk towards Asami. Before fully there though, Syuri turns around and faces Aimi. “Oh Aimi, one more thing.”

“What is it?”

Syuri throws her arm forward towards the teenager, she tossing something her way. Aimi catches the object and looks down at it. Before her eyes she takes in a bottle of sleeping pills, the bottle of a fairly medium sized. Her eyes widen in shock, she lifting her head to stare at Syuri.

“Whatever it takes to keep her asleep.” Syuri says in an almost grim tone, Aimi responding with a nod.

Syuri then joins her comrades at Asami’s bedside, all three looking down at the child. Keiji proceeds to then place his hand palm side down over Asami’s body, Paige soon placing her hand over his, Syuri laying her hand over Paige’s. As they stand there they close their eyes, a light beginning to emanate from their hands and slowly their bodies. After minutes of this, the three warriors then turn into balls of light, each light featuring the respective color of the ranger they represent. The balls of light then fly at Asami’s head, they flying straight into it.

When the three are gone Aimi looks around Asami’s room, the walls covered with her artwork, the floor and some shelves lined with books, toys, and some CDs and DVDs, a TV sitting on two stacked crates next to her desk. Aimi smiles as she looks at Asami’s room, her smile growing as she watches Asami sleep. Her head turns down though, the smile fading when she looks at the bottle of pills again, she beginning to hate the mission at hand, for to save this child, she must also allow her to go through such immense pain.


Syuri, Keiji, and Paige walk in an open green field, a slight breeze blowing their hair back as it does to the grass. The three look around as they walk, everything seeming calm and blissful within Asami’s dream for now. The scenery strange to them for a young girl, especially considering that there is nobody in it so far except for them. However with Asami being an artist, it isn’t that strange to them.

The three walk on, the scenery starting to morph into another as they do so. While it changes, the three stop and stay close to each other, they watching carefully as to not miss anything important. After a moment the new dream is in place, the three no longer in a field of green, but at a sea of blue, and a pale beach accompanying it. As they stand there and look at the sea, a sun beginning to set against the reflection of the water, Syuri speaks up, issuing a warning that also doubles as a command.

“Well I think it’s safe to say she is dreaming now and apparently quite actively. I know we have a wraith to find, and that we have a bit of limited time, but we need to stick together. If we split up, who knows what will happen. We could get lost in here. Got it?”

“Got it.” Keiji and Paige answer simultaneously. Syuri nods her head in improvement, the three then walking down the beach along the sea, like the field devoid of anybody or anything.

Outside of Asami’s head, Aimi sits on the floor beside her. Within her hands she holds a book, she lifting her head up from it’s pages every now and then to check on Asami. When she sees that all is well, her eyes return to the book, she engulfing herself in something to keep him from worrying about Asami or her friends. It was now a little after midnight and Asami’s parents were now sleeping downstairs; they cuddled up to each other on the couch. Everyone but Aimi was asleep, she feeling a bit of tiredness herself. She closes the book and lays it on the floor and picks up a remote for the television, she turning it on and putting the volume on low, she keeping herself up with the sounds and images coming from the electrical box.

Inside of Asami’s dream, the group of three walk down a street covered with the blanket of night, the only source of light being street lights. As they make their way down the streets, they notice Pugs and cats hanging all around it, the Pugs barking away as the cats move swiftly and seamlessly around, it almost creating the illusion of them dancing. While walking, Paige begins to talk.

“It seems weird that Asami hasn’t had a regular dream yet. All we’ve seen so far is mostly scenery, this being the first time we’ve seen other living beings.”

“It doesn’t surprise me. She is an artist after all. I’d think her mind would be filled with still images.” Keiji says, his eyes moving side to side on the lookout for anything suspicious.

“I suppose so. But still, you would think we’d come across an actual dream by now.” Paige returns, she reaching down to pet a cat that has walked over to her and rubbed its head against her ankle.

Keiji laughs a bit as he watches Paige’s action. “Does it really matter if she has an actual dream?”

“Well we are looking for a wraith that’s causing her nightmares. So I would say yes.” Paige retorts.

“How do you know it’s an actual nightmare? If we’re just seeing 95% still images, the wraith could just be showing her still images of horrific scenes. Just up how many she sees in a constant fashion and she’d easily become freaked out.” Keiji explains a slight hint of annoyance in his voice at Paige’s persistence.

“Hey, you two in the peanut gallery, we have a wraith to find. So how you two just do you job looking for it and shut the-“Syuri starts to go off on the two, she being cut off as the area begins to shake.

The three stop walking and back up into each other, forming a slight triangular circle to where they each can see the environment. The shaking quickly intensifies the violence of it equal to that of the strongest earthquake one could imagine. As it carries on, all of the animals that occupied the street begin barking and meowing at the top of their lungs as they bolt in all different directions. While the shaking carries on, the scene begins to slant and slowly turn on it’s side a bit, the rangers falling down and slamming into a parked car that is now situated below them. Along with the shaking and slanting, all color melts away, it being replaced with a dark tinted combo of blue and red, flashes of other bright colors popping like firecrackers.

“I think we’ve entered one of the nightmares now!” Keiji shouts out as he slowly stand sup.

“No shit Sherlock.” Syuri retorts as she joins Keiji in standing on top of the car.

In the real world Asami begisn flailing and squirming about, she starts to moan as if she’s in pain, the volume of the moans growing as the seconds pass. Aimi’s ears register her moaning and she jumps up to her feet, she rushing over to Asami’s side. Aimi takes hold of one of Asami’s hands, she gripping onto it tightly in an attempt to help calm down.

“Asami-chan! Asami-chan please calm down! It’s only a bad dream! Think of something nice and dream of pleasant things!” Aimi shouts out to Asami. The words do not reach Asami though, she continuing to moan and flail about.

Inside the dream world Syuri, Paige, and Keiji bolt through a forest, the trees around them falling down at a rapid pace, some nearly missing the group of heroes. They leap over tress already fallen down as well as rocks as they make their way through the forest, they trying to escape it before being crushed to death.

“This is getting intense as all damn hell!” Keiji shouts out to his teammates.

“You’re telling me!” Paige shouts back, she leaping over a fallen tree before rolling away from it in a ninja roll like fashion.

The three continue running forward, it becoming harder to see anything as the trees in front of them lean downwards to block them from seeing farther ahead, as well as in an attempt to block their route. Syuri and gang close their eyes and cry out as they run straight into the barricade of trees, they bursting through the like a truck driving through a house. They make it through to the other side, their faces and hands scratched up and their clothing torn some.

The three continue running forward at top speed, they still propelled by momentum from their sprint through the barricade of trees. They run so fat with their eyes set forward so intensely that they fail to notice a river right in front of them. As the group runs into it, the river turns pitch black, the water vanishing. The heroes then let our screams as the foundation underneath them vanishes, they falling down into a black abyss, they flailing their arms in an attempt to grab onto anything to keep them from falling. There is nothing though, only emptiness. The abyss so black that the three can no longer see each other, they only able to hear the screams of one another.

Their fall comes to an abrupt end as their bodies slam into the ground. As they moan in pain, the abyss above them closes and their new environment turns into a sphere like room. The blackness slowly starts to dissolve away, revealing that the room is colored purple and green, white splotches splattered in a few spots. Paige, Syuri, and Keiji slowly stand up, Keiji arching his back forward, Syuri stretching out her arms, and Paige rubbing her behind.

“What is this place?” Paige asks, she as confused as the rest of her team.

“Why this is your grave my friends. An unmarked one at that. For this is where you shall sspend the rest of your very brief days.” A familiar voice states.

The three turn to face the same side of the room, Jung Moroi’s face appearing on the wall in front of them. She stares at with a smirk, her visible eye shooting daggers at the team of heroes, her gold pupil gleaming.

“Jung!” Keiji growls out.

“I should have known.” Syuri mutters under her breath.

“Indeed you should have Miss Miyamoto. But I suppose we all lose our heads every now in then when we dream.” Jung exclaims, she producing a chuckle afterwards.

Syuri brushes some dirt off of her skirt as she gives Jung a stare equal to that of deaths, her eyes gleaming with anger. “So, what’s the plan this time your royal bitchness?”

“My my the mouth on that one. You should be a girl and have some manners.”

“Shut the hell up Moroi! Why the hell are you here and torturing this girl!?” Keiji explodes.

Jung scoffs at Keiji, her smirk fading. “Morpheus sure does like raising some rude fighters doesn’t he? No matter, I wanted to drop by and let you three know of your doomed fate anyways.”

“Then out with it!” Syuri shouts.

“Oh alright. No patience either. You see my friends this young girl is quite the artist. From what I monitored of her she seems to be quite famous. So I figured I’d simply give her a good old fashioned series of nightmares that are so bad that it’ll influence her artwork. She’ll draw such grisly and morbid images that it’ll strike fear in all who see them. And as we know, my little wraiths are born out of fear. She draws gruesome images, I get my wraiths. But there is quite more to this whole production, and I’m quite proud of this one. I could have picked any artist really that was famous, but yet I picked her. Care to know why? I found out that she lives quite close to that lovely little kitten you three hang out with. I figured that if I plagued this girl with nightmares so bad that it affects her everyday life, eventually she’ll cross paths with your little friend. Knowing that she’d eventually find out about her having nightmares, I knew she’d come to you. You’d charge in here like the great warriors you are and play white knight.

But as we all know, you three can only come and go if she’s asleep. If she’s awake then you three are stuck here. And that my dear Dreamrangers is where my dream gets fun. I implanted a wraith inside of her mind so that it could force her into having nightmares, doozies at that. Nightmares so bad that it wouldn’t be out of the question for the girl to go into quite a state, one so bad that it would take waking her up to calm her down.”

“Y you don’t mean?” Paige stutters out.

“Oh I do. Bring your fools in here and then give this poor soul the most intense nightmares my little mind and pet can come up with. Ones so strong that she’ll be forced into waking up. And since this has been going on for a while, her parents wouldn’t dare let her sleep for a while, they’d keep her up. This resulting in you three being trapped in here and becoming chow for my wraith. Oh and you want to know what the kicker is? The pills you gave the girl are almost out. While you fell down that abyss I upped the nightmares so much, that your little friend was forced to go through almost the entire bottle to keep the girl asleep. I’d say you only have a few left.

Well then, that was quite a lot to say. I think I shall retire to my realm now and leave you all for my pet. Tootaloo rangers.” Jung explains with a smile that would put the Cheshire cat to shame. After finishing her plan, she begins cackling maniacally as he face vanishes from the wall, she leaving the Dreamrangers brewing in intense anger.

The three then hear a gargling noise behind them, they whipping their bodies around to see what is causing the noise. The ground bubbles and sinks down some as a figure rises from it, it being black head to toe. It opens it’s mouth open to reveal it’s fang like teeth, it’s eyes sunken in, little red pupils shining out some. It stares at Syuri and the others, it producing a snarl like laugh.

The three look at the creature head on, their faces as serious as they have ever been. As they stare down their latest opponent, Keiji speaks up, her smirking a little at his words.

“Hey, you guys feel like indulging in some anger management?”

“Gladly.” Syuri replies.

Syuri raises her arm up, she holding her hand in a snapping position. She then snaps her fingers, a bright gold light emanating from the three as she does so. When the light fades away, the three stand there in their Dreamranger suits. They lock eyes with the wraith clad in black through their visors, the area around them shaking some still, screams from the outside working their way into the way room. The four beings soon let out individual cries of battle, they then charging towards each other at a break neck pace.

Inside Asami’s room, Aimi looks down at the girl as she screams and flails about, her flailing now more violent than ever, the girl even throwing herself up and down against the bed repeatedly, her head slamming down hard against her pillow. Outside of the room, Asami’s parents sit against the wall, their faces as pale as white can be, their faces painted with utter crushing despair. They would help their daughter if they could, but they were asked to not enter the room per Syuri’s request, she not wanting them in there and possibly waking Asami up, thus ending their “evaluation” of her.

Aimi looks into the bottle of sleeping pills she was given, she only having three left, Asami’s night terrors so bad that it was taking up more then one to get her to sleep. Aimi curses the three in her head, she hating them for forcing her to put Asami through this. Aimi takes a pill out and puts it down Asami’s mouth, she then rubbing it down her neck and into her body.

The Dreamrangers throws hits back and forth with the wraith, it seeming to always dodge every one of them. The wraith though continues to smack the rangers around as if it was nothing, his blows so strong that the heroes go flying into the walls of the room, it seeming to get hotter and hotter. Syuri and Paige attempt to double team the nightmarish being, but it simply waves its arm to the side, it using it’s mental ability to send Paige slamming into a wall, Syuri then crashing into Paige.

Keiji watches this and in reaction clenches his fists tightly. He then lets out a roar as he runs towards the wraith, he bringing his arm back in a position to punch his enemy. The wraith simply cackles though, it throwing it’s head down to looks at the ground. Right as Keiji is about to reach his target, the floor comes alive and grabs his ankles with gooey deformed hands. Keiji moves about trying to free himself, but is not able to, the hands then dragging him down into the floor, he screaming all the while.

Paige and Syuri look on shocked at what has just unfolded. In the blink of an eye Keiji has been dragged down into God knows where. As the wraith looks at the spot where Keiji use to stand, it producing another snarl like laugh while doing so, Paige screams as vanishes from sight. She appears again behind the wraith, she throwing her leg upwards, she looking to slam it into the neck of the enemy. The wraith suddenly vanishes, it appear a second later behind Paige. It snarls as it grabs hold of Paige by the chest and abdomen, it then flying up into the ceiling with her.

Syuri runs to the spot where the creature once stood with her friend and comrade, she dumbfounded by how the wraith can be this powerful. Before she can think of what to do, the walls of the room move inwards quickly, they slamming into Syuri, she screaming out in pain as the crush her slowly. The room then shoots out in all directions and explodes, Syuri disappearing with it.

Syuri slowly opens her eyes, she seeing nothing but a white floor, she laying face first against it. Slowly she makes it up onto all fours, she seeing that she has been forced out of her Dreamranger suit by the explosion. After a few more minutes she is up to her feet, her body as broken, bruised, and slightly bloody as always. With her area now fully visible to her, her jaw drops at what she sees. For Syuri is no longer in any room, forest, street, sea, or field. She now stands in complete and utter whiteness. She turns around in a panicked state, she trying to figure out where she is exactly within her head. However she finds nothing except white, white everywhere. Syuri’s eyes tear up some and she clenches her fists, she throwing her head up to what would usually be a sky or ceiling, she letting out a loud, agonizing scream.

What started out as simple mission to help relieve a girl of terrible nightmares has turned into a very hellish situation for the Dreamrangers. Separated, beaten, and running out of time, what are they to do?

Next time on Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger: The Dreamrangers continue to fight against the wraith inside of Asami's head, Syuri searching high and low for her fellow comrades. But time is not on their side as the nightmares are getting stronger and stronger, and Asami's parents are close to breaking down and waking her up. To add insult to injury, Aimi is almost out of sleeping pills, meaning that sooner or latter Asami will wake up. Can the Dreamrangers defeat the wraith, cure Asami of her nightmares, and make it out of her dreams before time runs out?

Next time, Fifteenth Dream: Escape the Nightmare, Return to Reality!

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Shinjiku, a ward that never seems to sleep has finally fallen under a deep sleep. A mysterious man has begun wreaking havoc on the ward and it's cities, and while this happens the residents start dropping like flies, they falling into deep comas.

A school trip that was suppose to be fun has now turned into an all out war. It's up to Syuri, Keiji, Paige, Aimi, and Dr. Edogawa to take down this unknown assailant and cure the people of their comas. For if they don't, the nightmarish queen Jung Moroi may just finally take control of Japan!

Coming soon: Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger: Shinjuku Nocturne – The Movie!

The three then hear a gargling noise behind them, they whipping their bodies around to see what is causing the noise. The ground bubbles and sinks down some as a figure rises from it, it being black head to toe. It opens it’s mouth open to reveal it’s fang like teeth, it’s eyes sunken in, little red pupils shining out some. It stares at Syuri and the others, it producing a snarl like laugh.

Inside Asami’s room, Aimi looks down at the girl as she screams and flails about, her flailing now more violent than ever, the girl even throwing herself up and down against the bed repeatedly, her head slamming down hard against her pillow. Outside of the room, Asami’s parents sit against the wall, their faces as pale as white can be, their faces painted with utter crushing despair. They would help their daughter if they could, but they were asked to not enter the room per Syuri’s request, she not wanting them in there and possibly waking Asami up, thus ending their “evaluation” of her.

Aimi looks into the bottle of sleeping pills she was given, she only having three left, Asami’s night terrors so bad that it was taking up more then one to get her to sleep. Aimi curses the three in her head, she hating them for forcing her to put Asami through this. Aimi takes a pill out and puts it down Asami’s mouth, she then rubbing it down her neck and into her body.

The Dreamrangers throw hits back and forth with the wraith, it seeming to always dodge every one of them. The wraith though continues to smack the rangers around as if it was nothing, his blows so strong that the heroes go flying into the walls of the room, it seeming to get hotter and hotter. Syuri and Paige attempt to double team the nightmarish being, but it simply waves its arm to the side, it using it’s mental ability to send Paige slamming into a wall, Syuri then crashing into Paige.

Keiji watches this and in reaction clenches his fists tightly. He then lets out a roar as he runs towards the wraith, he bringing his arm back in a position to punch his enemy. The wraith simply cackles though, it throwing it’s head down to looks at the ground. Right as Keiji is about to reach his target, the floor comes alive and grabs his ankles with gooey deformed hands. Keiji moves about trying to free himself, but is not able to, the hands then dragging him down into the floor, he screaming all the while.

Paige and Syuri look on shocked at what has just unfolded. In the blink of an eye Keiji has been dragged down into God knows where. As the wraith looks at the spot where Keiji use to stand, it producing another snarl like laugh while doing so, Paige screams as vanishes from sight. She appears again behind the wraith, she throwing her leg upwards, she looking to slam it into the neck of the enemy. The wraith suddenly vanishes, it appear a second later behind Paige. It snarls as it grabs hold of Paige by the chest and abdomen, it then flying up into the ceiling with her.

Syuri runs to the spot where the creature once stood with her friend and comrade, she dumbfounded by how the wraith can be this powerful. Before she can think of what to do, the walls of the room move inwards quickly, they slamming into Syuri, she screaming out in pain as the crush her slowly. The room then shoots out in all directions and explodes, Syuri disappearing with it.

Syuri slowly opens her eyes, she seeing nothing but a white floor, she laying face first against it. Slowly she makes it up onto all fours, she seeing that she has been forced out of her Dreamranger suit by the explosion. After a few more minutes she is up to her feet, her body as broken, bruised, and slightly bloody as always. With her area now fully visible to her, her jaw drops at what she sees. For Syuri is no longer in any room, forest, street, sea, or field. She now stands in complete and utter whiteness. She turns around in a panicked state, she trying to figure out where she is exactly within her head. However she finds nothing except white, white everywhere. Syuri’s eyes tear up some and she clenches her fists, she throwing her head up to what would usually be a sky or ceiling, she letting out a loud, agonizing scream.


Syuri stands in the middle of the arena in which her most recent fight was held in, she looking out through the visor of her helmet at all of the walls, the ceiling, and the floor of it. For not too long ago had her friends been taken prisoner by the room itself, and thus by the dreams of the child they were in. She was sure it wasn’t because the child woke up, if that was the case she, her friends, the wraith, and the dream itself would have vanished into thin air, only to be seen again if the girl dreamt about it again. No, the wraith itself had taken hold of her friends; they now lost in the dreams of the sleeping girl. Where they were she did not know, only that she needed to find them as quickly as possible.

As Syuri thought of what she should do next, the mind of the child seemed to grant mercy upon her. The room in which the fight had broken out melted away, Syuri demorphing back into her civilian state, she finding it unnecessary to remain in her suit. The scene taken in by her eyes turns from a bubbling mess of a room into a rocky road with mountains behind it. Syuri walks over to the edge of the road, below her quite a ways down being a small beach like area with a large river, people close to Aimi’s age partying. The sight of seeing such festivity brings a bit of a smile to her face.

From out of nowhere a gust of wind slams into Syuri’s back, it catching her off guard completely and sending her flying over the edge of the cliff due its strength. After being pushed over the edge Syuri finds herself falling down through the sky almost as if she was in slow motion, the destination being that of the river when her fall is over. While continuing to fall Syuri looks at the river, it beginning to glow and shimmer with light. Her eyes widen at the sight of this, she clueless as to why this was happening. However the answer is not important, all that is important is that she is falling, the journey coming to an end as her body slams down into the river, she slowly sinking down into the river face first, her eyes blinking rapidly before slowly closing.

Aimi lies in the bed with Asami, one of her arms wrapped around the small child. Aimi remembered that when she would have bad dreams as a child that her mother would crawl into bed with her, she staying with her until she had fallen into a peaceful sleep. She thought if she lay with Asami she would calm down like she did with her mother a child. It seemed to have worked, Asami now sleeping peacefully. She knowing though that it wasn’t bound to last, for at any minute a new nightmare could start up and send her into frenzy. Even more worrisome was that it was nearly morning, 5:25 AM to be exact. Aimi was told that Asami’s alarm goes off every day at 7:00, meaning that her friends only had close to an hour and a half left to take care of the wraith.

As Aimi’s eyes start to flutter some, they sore from being up so late, Asami starts to moan a bit, an indication that she may be about to have another nightmare. Aimi snaps to attention, she moving closer to be against Asami, trying to comfort her as much as possible. She wasn’t sure what was taking the Dreamrangers so long, but she was filled with fear that this night may not end well at all, and could in fact become a true nightmare.

Light shines against Paige’s face, it so strong that it forces her to slowly open her eyes, she then covering them immediately with a hand so that her eyes are not burnt away. As she shields her eyes from the sun she looks around, she seeing nothing but flowers of various shapes, sizes, and types. She then slowly sits up and due to being out of the sun’s rays uncovers her eyes, she realizing that she is sitting in a field filled with flowers. The sight of this brings a smile to her face, the scene in which she sits being utterly perfect to her, it filled with so much beauty.

A pink butterfly flies over to Paige as she continues to sit in the field, she instinctively holding out a hand with her index finger pointed out, the butterfly landing on it and staying there. Her smile grows as this occurs, the butterfly flapping its wigs as it sits against her finger. Like a command was given, hundreds of butterflies fly over to Paige, she smiling widely and even laughing some as they all fly around her, she believing this to be a scene straight out of a movie. While they fly around her, Paige notices that there is a wasp among them. She bats an eye at it though, she too enthralled by the majesty of the butterflies to care.

Paige starts to bat an eye though as all of the butterflies turn into wasps, each one buzzing angrily as they fly around her in frenzy. Paige looks around as her facial expression turns to one of shock, it soon becoming one of terror as she feels one stinging the back of her neck. With that, the wasps turn into a sting ball of chaos, each one sinking their stingers into every open area of her body. Her legs, hands, neck, and face all becoming victim to their attack. As they continually sting her, Paige’s body begins to swell up, it becoming bigger and bigger. Soon her body is an inflated mass of red puffed up skin, her clothes enlarging with her. The sun then moves down to where Paige is once again staring right into it, the light so bright that it slowly burns her eyes away, they melting down her face. Once her eyes have melted, a wasp delivers a sting that causes her body to explode, bits of clothing and flesh flying across the field. Where she once sat now lays a pink butterfly, its wings broken off of it’s body.

Keiji walks down a dark corridor, a few candles placed against the walls to aid him somewhat in where he is going, the flames creating a slight ambiance to the tight corridor. As he walks along the path, her hears a small sound akin to the voice of a young child, he using that as a guide of where to go, he venturing in any direction he believes the noise to be coming from. Whenever he passes a candle, its light goes away, the darkness trying to take him in. Keiji keeps moving on though, he not letting the darkness catch up to him.

As Keiji walks around more, the voice gets more audible, it slowly gaining in volume with every step he takes. Slowly Keiji goes from a walk to a run; the now clearly audible and loud voice of the young girl drawing him like a lighthouse draws in ships at sea. He continues to run more and more, he finally hitting a dead end. But it isn’t a true dead end, for instead of a wall sits a door. Keiji stares at the door confused until the voice starts up again, it coming from the other side of the door.

Keiji grabs hold of the doorknob, he looking down at it with eyes filled with confusion and worry, he almost afraid of what lies beyond the door. He takes a deep breath though and slowly turns the knob to the right, he then pushing it open. Once the door is open Keiji is met with a white light that is almost blinding. He shields his eyes, but it still isn’t enough to fully shield him from the light. Keiji then sighs and takes another deep breath before walking through the doorway, the door closing behind him.

He stands there in the light, he unable to see anything from how bright it is. All he has is his ears, he focusing as hard as he can to pick up any sound to give him an idea of where to venture next. Keiji though soon feels a hand come down against his shoulder gently, it pressing the material of his jacket down against his skin. As he feels this, a familiar voice works its way into his ears and brain.

“Keiji?” Syuri says softly.


After taking in Syuri’s voice Keiji turns around and unshields his eyes, they then becoming filled with the image of his teammates. Along with them comes a new backdrop, he no longer in a blinding white room but in a black one. While it is pitch black, the three remain fully visible to each other, almost as if they were radiating light.

“Syuri…Paige.” Keiji says, his mouth forming a small smile at the sight of his friends.

“Yes Keiji, those are indeed are names.” Paige responds with a gleeful smile.

“It’s great to see you again too.” He shoots back sarcastically with a small chuckle.

“Right back at you tiger.” Syuri finishes off with a wink.

“What happened to you guys? Is the wraith gone?” Keiji asks in succession.

“Well after you got dragged down into God knows anywhere, Paige and I tried to fight back. Unfortunately he took hold of Paige and made off with her.” Syuri explains.

“I ended up waking up in a field, but the wraith wasn’t around. I don’t really remember anything from when we disappeared. I guess it just left me there and ran off.” Paige throws in.

“I stayed in the room until melted away. I then got pushed off of a cliff and fell into a river. When I came to, I was standing in that bright room. After a little bit I found Paige and then you.” Syuri continues.

“While I was in the field I was attacked by wasps until I exploded. I woke up in here after Miss Syuri kept kicking me in the side with her foot.” Paige states, she giving Syuri a bit of a dirty look.

“Hey calling your name didn’t work. So I went with a more forceful technique.”

“Yeah well your little technique bruised a rib I think.” Paige throws back.

The three then laugh all at once, they enjoying their reunion in a fashion that one could say is typical of them. After they laugh for a bit, Syuri turns to Keiji again, she speaking up and questioning him.

“So Keiji, what about you? What happened after you got dragged down through that crap?”

“Well I came to lying in a corridor lit by candles. I started walking down it without a single clue of where I was going. Then I heard this voice, it was like that of a little girl. So I ended up following the voice until I found a door. When I walked through it, I was in the room you two seemed to be in as well. Other than that, I’m not really sure.” Keiji explains as he crosses his arms.

“Do you think this is the work of Asami or of the wraith?” Paige asks of her comrades.

“I wouldn’t know who to put it on. Asami has put us into some really random places while we’ve been here, so I wouldn’t put it past her to dream up what we went through. On the other hand, that wraith could be behind it also. We know Jung wants to trap us in here, so maybe this is the wraith’s way of making sure we don’t escape.” Syuri thinks aloud, he teammates watching her as she speaks, they hanging onto every word.

“But it seems like each of the experiences we had after being separated was meant to bring us all together. Why would the wraith want to do that? We’d be able to work as a squad again and either track it down quicker, or vacate Asami’s dreams. No, I think it was Asami who did this. Maybe she’s aware of our presence and is trying to lend us a hand.” Keiji rambles on.

“Speaking of Asami, how much longer do you think we have?” Paige asks of the two.

“Not much longer would be my guess. I say we double our combined efforts and track down that little pest as quickly as possible. The faster we find it, the faster we can eliminate it.” Syuri replies.

Keiji moves to where his back is to the women, his eyes widening a bit with a smirk becoming painted across his lips. As he speaks his voice oozes with ironic delight. “Guys, mission complete.”

Syuri and Paige then move to see what Keiji is looking at, all three now face to face with the wraith from before, it snarling and snickering at the three. All three Dreamrangers then share the same smirk that Keiji had once he laid eyes upon the beast.

“Well then, this makes our job supremely easy.” Syuri states with pure joy in her cold tone, he eyes shooting daggers towards the enemy.
“Round 2, ding ding.” Paige says as she rings an imaginary bell.

White, pink, and blue light surrounds the three and flies onto their bodies, it forming their respective suits. Once clad in them, the three then spin around in unison, only stopping to look straight at this creature in front of them.

"Providing a shield from all nightmares to let dreams flourish. Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger!"

The blackened beast then snickers some more as it disappears in a flash. The three rangers stand in a circle of sorts, they waiting for the beast. It comes from below, it bursting out through the ground, it ready to attack. The rangers were ready too though, Keiji and Paige whipping around and delivering twin punches to it’s stomach, the impact sending it staggering towards Syuri. Syuri then moves out of the way a bit before delivering a kick to the side of it’s head, she following up with a jumping spin kick that sends it flying off some.

It soon stands up with the heroes staring it down. The beast then starts laughing crazily, the rangers now curious to it’s joy. It soon becomes apparent as it slams its fists together, the area around them flashing rapidly with different nightmarish images of violence, perversion, and many more twisted images. Along with the almost strobe like assault of images comes a shaking equivalent to an earthquake, the four struggling to hold their ground.

“Don’t tell me…”

“It’s being a sore loser!”

“It’s trying to wake Asami up and take us with it!”

In the real world Aimi stands over Asami, the child flailing about as she was earlier, but this time even more violently, and loudly. She screams as if she was being stabbed slowly, her eyes flickering open and shut as if she was about to wake up. The sight of this child’s torture breaking Aimi down until she is a sobbing mess. Along with that, Asami’s parents seem to have been disturbed as well, they banging away on the door to their daughter’s bedroom, they demanding to be let in.

Aimi moves like a cat and locks the door, preventing the two adults from entering.

“LET US IN!” The father shouts commandingly.

“PLEASE LET US IN AIMI, LET US SEE OUR BABY!” Her mother follows up.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t! I was told to not let you two in until they were done!” Aimi shouts back, she obviously upset from what was happening to Asami.

“PLEASE AIMI PLEASE! ASAMI! ASAMI!” The mother continues to shout as she pleads with the teenager, the teenager sitting against the door as she clasps her hands against her head as she continues to cry crazily.

“Syuri, Keiji, Paige, hurry up, please hurry up!”

Inside of Asami’s mind the three continue to fight the wraith fiercely, each warrior wielding their signature weapons, the wraith’s arms now in the form of two axes. While they fight the world around them starts to shake even more violently, the imagery of the nightmares flickering through it all. Along with this the environment begins to crack and break away, white light shining where part of the environment once was.

“The kid is starting to wake up!” Keiji shouts out to his fellow fighters.

“No shit Sherlock!” Syuri shouts back.

Keiji then goes to stab his Dream Trident through the wraith’s mid section. It is too quick and dodges the attack, it delivering one of it’s own, it’s right arm slashing upwards, the axe blade tearing into Keiji’s suit. With a cry of pain Keiji goes flying across the arena, he heading straight through one of the voids that have started appearing. Syuri blocks a strike from the wraith, she then noticing Keiji.

“KEIJI!” She cries out, she then vanishing into thin air.

Right as Keiji is about to make a connection with the void, Syuri appears and slams into in to him in a tackle like fashion. The two fall to the ground and roll away from the void. Once out of harm’s way Keiji picks his head up and turn to look at Syuri.

“Thanks.”

“It’s what I do.” Syuri answers with a chuckle.

Paige soon joins the two as she lands back first on the ground, her helmet sparking from where she was the receiver of a ferocious punch.

“This thing just won’t stay down!”

“We’ve noticed.”

“Any ideas?”

“Well considering we need something to put it in it’s place, as well as do it quick as shit so we can get out of here, I’d suggest the DreamCannon.” Keiji replies to his commander’s question.

“That would be fine with me.” Paige follows up.

“Then let’s pick our sorry asses up and use it!” Syuri shouts at the two, the three then jumping to their feet.


The wraith then watches on as the heroes of Morpheus put their weapons together, Paige it out sideways in the air. Keiji then placing his trident on the top side of the handle. Syuri then flips the blade back up to lay against the barrel of her blaster. She places it on the bottom of the handle. Syuri then takes hold of the handle of the DreamShooter. Keiji and Paige grabbing hold of her shoulders'. Once the weapon is complete and the three are aligned to unleash their ultimate attack the wraith lets out a fierce roar as the dream continues to break away as Asami begins to awaken, the creature running towards the three.

"DreamCannon, BLAST OFF!" The three rangers shout, Syuri slamming her hand against the trigger on the handle of the DreamShooter.

Once she does so, a torrent of blue, pink, and white energy shoots out of all three weapons, it combining into a stream like ball of energy with lightning around it. The wraith and the ball of energy fly towards each other, they on an obvious collision course, the Dreamrangers only hoping that this attack will work.

The ball then flies into the creature, it coming out of it on the other side. The attack seems to have not phased the wraith at all, the three standing there in utter shock and fear at what has happened. The black wraith runs right up to them but stops suddenly. Syuri, Keiji, and Paige then stare on as it’s body begins to bubble and contort, it then exploding into pieces, the DreamCannon’s attack simply taking longer to effect the enemy than normal. They let out a cry of happiness as one.

“DAMMIT! GODDAMMIT!” Jung shouts out in her throne room. “Those fucking Dreamrangers foiled another one of my plans. And now they’re going to escape. Dammit, fucking dammit!” She screams, her voice so loud and suddenly high pitched that it breaks the windows of the rooms throughout the castle and even some of the other buildings in the nightmare realm.

The three rangers then stand as one, the dream nearly gone, they only standing on a small piece of blackness.

“Let’s get the hell out of here!” Keiji shouts out.

“Like now!” Paige follows up.

“Then off we go! Sayonara you shithead wraith and nightmare!” Syuri finishes.

The three then place their hands together as the land they stand on begins to crack. Their individual colors of light then shine around them as bright as the sun shining on a new day. The lights flinging the three off right as the place where they stood vanishes into thin air, thus signaling the end of the dream and that of Asami’s waking up.

Asami’s body jerks upwards into a sitting position, her body drenched in sweat. Aimi rushes over to her as she sits up. Right after Asami sits up white, pink, and blue lights shine around her, the Dreamrangers flying out of her body and tumbling to the floor, they rolling against it before slamming against a dresser. The three lay there in their civilian forms, they rubbing at their bodies in pain.

“Damn that was a close one.” Keiji murmurs as he rubs the back of his head.

“YOU GUYS!” Aimi shouts over to her friends.

“Oh, hey there Aimi.” Syuri replies as Aimi and Asami stare at the group of heroes.

At that moment Asami’s door bursts open, her father slamming into it shoulder first, he and her mother bursting into the room. Once inside of the room the two look around it, their eyes taking in Aimi, Keiji, Syuri, Paige, and finally Asami. At the sight of her parents, Asami shouts their names in relieved joy.

“MAMA! PAPA!”

She jumps out of the bed and runs into her parents, she hugging their knees tightly in tears. In response to this, both the mother and father move down to join her in one big hug, all three of them in tears. Aimi and the rangers watch on, each one smiling brightly at the image before them, Paige and Aimi in tears from the sight. After a bit, the mother looks over to Syuri and gang.

“Is she going to be okay?”

“Oh her? Yeah, she’ll be fine.” Syuri says as she walks over to the huddled group, she moving down onto her knees as she speaks warmly, she giving Asami a warm smile. Asami returns the smile and latches onto Syuri in a hug, the white warrior hugging her back as everybody watches on.

After leaving Asami’s house after they were treated to breakfast, the Dreamrangers and Aimi walk into the ranger’s apartment, each one equally tired.

“I’m glad that’s over.” Paige states.

“Me too. Hopefully Asami can sleep in peace now and go about her normal day.” Keiji adds in, his words getting a smile out of everybody.

A ringing then begins to come out of the laptop on the coffee table, it alerting the group to a call. They slowly make their way over to it, Aimi and Paige sitting on the couch, Syuri and Keiji on the floor. Syuri answers the call, Dr. Edogawa appearing on the screen, he looking excited, tired, and a little scared. The mix of emotions painted across his face causes Syuri to furrow her brow a bit.

“What is it doc?” She asks.

“Syuri, Keiji, Paige, I got it!” He shouts to them.

“Got what?” Syuri responds.

“I got them! I know who they are! I know exactly who the Musashi brothers are!”

With Asami now safe from the clutches of Jung Moroi, it's time the rangers return their attention to their greatest threat; the Nightmarerangers. And now they know all about them!

Next time on Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger: Dr. Edogawa reveals to Syuri, Keiji, and Paige the history of both Musashi boys, the story bringing shock to the group, and even more fear. And while the tale of the two brothers is being told, they themselves declare their intentions to kill the Dreamrangers once and fall all.

Next time, Sixteenth Dream: Revealed, The Tale of the Musashi Devils!

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Shinjiku, a ward that never seems to sleep has finally fallen under a deep sleep. A mysterious man has begun wreaking havoc on the ward and it's cities, and while this happens the residents start dropping like flies, they falling into deep comas.

A school trip that was suppose to be fun has now turned into an all out war. It's up to Syuri, Keiji, Paige, Aimi, and Dr. Edogawa to take down this unknown assailant and cure the people of their comas. For if they don't, the nightmarish queen Jung Moroi may just finally take control of Japan!

Coming soon: Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger: Shinjuku Nocturne – The Movie!

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Check page one for the official artwork of the queen herself Jung Moroi!

Lighting slams down against the ground all over a quarry. Before the three Dreamrangers can register the event, they are repeatedly struck by black flashes, they being slashed at with blades, as well as punched and kick. The frequency of hits causing them to drop their weapon, they screaming out as they are hit.

The attacks stop, the rangers standing there, their suits sparking, they blackened by the blows. However before they can do anything, a wave of black and red energy entwined with lightning slams into the three, causing an explosion. The force of the blow and explosion sends the three high into the air, they flailing about as the scream in agony. They slam against the ground, their bodies twisting and contorting in agony. The force of the impact so powerful that it forces them to change back into their regular forms, their bodies blackened, each ranger’s face bleeding, as well as their hands. Their clothes torn to shreds some, revealing even more damage.

They look ahead, trying to see through the smoke, they determined to see who did this. Keiji and Paige don’t last though, and pass out shortly. Syuri stays conscious long after to see the smoke clear. As it clears, and she takes in the image in front of her, her eyes widen in horror. Before her stand two men, suited in armor similar to their own, but darker in color, and with more armament. Syuri tries to speak, but her body gives out, she slipping into unconsciousness. As she does so, the men vanish in a burst of black light

“Who…who are you!”

After a moment, the voice of the one clad in red appears, he answering Syuri’s question.

“Shingai Gundan Nightmareranger.”

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The two then crouch back some as the fighters of Morpheus watch. Red Nightmare moves his arms back to where the two hooks of his blades are locked together, red and black energy beginning to form around them as well as himself, he growling as he charges dark energy. As he does so, Black Nightmare holds both of his sickle blades in his left hand as he crouches down more, white and black energy forming around him and his weapon just like his partner. The two continue to gather energy, the Dreamrangers trying to crawl away or even stand.

“NIGHTMARE RAZOR WIND!” The two fighters shout out.

They then push their bodies forward and release their weapons, they spinning violently towards the group of Dreamrangers. After a while the blades slam into each other, forming a circular almost cyclone blade of black, white, and red energy, lightning cackling around it. The attack then slams viciously into the Dreamrangers, the impact sending them flying into the air as well as causing the area around them to burst in an explosion, the grounds, trees, and nearby cars exploding with them, leaving a good sized crater where they once laid.

The weapons of the Nightmarerangers soon return to them, they placing them on their backs. The two then turn to walk away, the Dreamrangers slamming into the ground as they do so. The three forcefully are changed out of their suits due to the attack and impact of landing on the ground. The three lay there a broken and bloody mess, the red liquid oozing out of their skin profusely.

The Nightmarerangers start to walk away, their ears being filled with the sounds of agony they brought upon the civilians and the rangers. As they continue to walk, Syuri makes her way out of the crater; she soon followed by her teammates. With what little strength she has left, she lets out a scream towards the men who have brought her into this condition.

“J J JUST WAIT YOU TWO!”

The two men then stop.

“What is it you pathetic woman?” Black Nightmare asks annoyed.

“I I WANT TO KNOW…WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TWO!” Syuri screams at the Nightmarerangers, her voice hoarse but filled to the core with anger, her two comrades looking on.

“Why should we tell you?”

Keiji manages to make it onto his knees a bit, he supporting himself with his bloodied hand being placed on the ground. He then speaks up, his voice hoarse and pain filled. “Shouldn’t we get to know the names of our assailants? Or do you two not have enough honor to do that!”

The Nightmarerangers go deathly still at Keiji’s words, Black Nightmare clenching his fists violently in reaction. The two then look at each other, giving a slight nod to the other. They then relax their arms, their suits exploding in black energy. With their suits gone, the two men are revealed. Each one wearing a kimono of the same base color and design, pure black with Red featuring red design work, White featuring white coloring. Nightmare Red is tall, his hair long and tied up into a slight ponytail. Nightmare White has short yet long hair, his head wrapped in a white headband. The two then turn around to face the Dreamrangers, revealing their faces. The three look on in shock, they seeing how young the two look, with Red having some lines along his eyes. After minutes of silence, the two speak up.

“Red Nightmare, Kusunaki Musashi.”

“Black Nightmare, Jūbei Musashi.”

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They then witness the Nightmarerangers spreading their arms out to the side, their voices then being clearly audible to the three.

“NIGHTMARE RULER!” They begin, Red and Black then throwing one arm up into the air, the other to the ground. “RISE!”

After their shouting out, the area becomes as dark as night, the clouds becoming an ominous hue of black, purple and green, the ground becoming foggy. The ground then begins to glow dark red, it soon splitting open in a wide circle before the giant known as Dream Ruler. Inside the cockpit, the Dreamrangers look on in shock as two mechas fly out from the hole, one a red dragon roaring to the high heavens. The other mecha is that of a regular robot, it colored black and white just like its pilot. As the two beasts fly into the sky, Red Nightmare and Black Nightmare jump into the air, they flipping as they ride the air over to their respective mechs, they then phasing down into them.

After flying high enough, the robot spins its body around to face Dream Ruler. Its head then folds down into it’s body, the dragon then wrapping it’s body around the robot, it placing it’s front claws to two back of itself to reveal two connection points.

The head of Nightmare Dragon then folds itself down onto the chest of Nightmare Warrior, Nightmare Ruler’s head then sliding up to reveal itself. The wings of the dragon then spread outwards against the back of the now almost complete giant robot. Nightmare Dragon’s legs then separate themselves from the dragon’s body, the sliding into the connection points that rest where Nightmare Warrior’s legs use to be. The talons of the feet raise up, two robotic legs then sliding out form where they use to be. The dragon’s tail then shoots off of Nightmare Dragon’s body, it flying over to, and then connecting to the right arm of the robot, thus completing Nightmare Ruler, it's eyes glowing dark red.

“W what is that thing?!” Keiji questions, his voice filled with fear.

“This my dear Dreamrangers is our special friend. Behold, Nightmare Ruler!” Kuzunaki informs them.

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"DREAMCANNON, BLAST OFF!!" The three rangers shout, Syuri slamming her hand against the trigger on the handle of the DreamShooter.

As she does so, a torrent of blue, pink, and white energy shoots out of all three weapons, it combining into a stream like ball of energy with lightning around it, it racing like a speeding train towards the Nightmarerangers.

“NIGHTMARE RAZOR WIND!” Kusunaki and Jūbei cry out in unison.

They then push their bodies forward and release their weapons, they spinning violently towards the group of Dreamrangers. After a while the blades slam into each other, forming a circular almost cyclone blade of black, white, and red energy, lightning cackling around it. The blades tear through the air, they heading on a collision course with the attack the Dreamrangers shot off.

The two attacks slam into each other viciously like colliding cars. Each attack power struggles against the other, the Nightmarerangers’ attack pushing towards the Dreamrangers at some points, the Dreamrangers’ attack pushing towards the Nightmarerangers at some points. As the two energy attacks fight against the other, they begin glowing intensely, multi colored lighting slamming down to the ground around it and the two ranger teams. After minutes of struggling against each other, the two energy attacks combine into a multi colored energy sphere, it exploding immediately upon creation. As it explodes, it sends out a giant shockwave of multicolored energy out in all directions, it tearing through the environment. The shockwave soon slams into both the Dreamrangers and the Nightmarerangers, causing immediate explosions upon collision.

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“Syuri, Keiji, Paige, I got it!” He shouts to them.

“Got what?” Syuri responds.

“I got them! I know who they are! I know exactly who the Musashi brothers are!”

At the sound of what the good doctor has just said, the eyes of Syuri, Keiji, Paige, and Aimi widen, each one then forming a face filled with serious, they leaning in a bit to show that they are fully ready for the information about to come.


“Get on with it then doc. What’s the scoop on those bastards?” Syuri commands, her voice as stern and cold as ever, it having a bit of anger to it from the subjects of the conversation.

“Are you sure you guys are ready for this? It’s a long story.” Edogawa asks of his fighters, he wanting to prepare them for the time they were about to spend to learn of their strongest foes.

“Of course we are.” Kieji responds in a manner that comes off as very aggressive. Though to everybody, it is understandable due to the situation.

“The Nightmarerangers have proven to be our strongest adversaries. Perhaps if we knew about them we’d be able to formulate a way to fight back against them. Maybe even get a win over them.” Paige explains, she trying to make sense of how dire the information the doctor holds could be.

Dr. Edogawa looks down and off to the side, he contemplating whether or not he should tell the Dreamrangers or not. Syuri then moves closer to the computer some, her action catching the rangers and Aimi off guard. Feeling eyes staring at him Edogawa lifts his head up to look at Syuri, her facial expression one of quietness. When she speaks to him, her voice becomes smooth and soothing, a hint of desperateness in it.

“Dr. Edogawa, please tell us about them. We don’t need to know, we have to know.”

Edogawa releases a sigh before taking a deep breath. When he releases it he nods his head towards his audience.

“Alright, I’ll tell you all then.”

The Dreamrangers and Aimi nod their heads in response, each one sitting as comfortably as they can for the story they were about to hear. The room stays quiet for minutes, the only sound audible being a clock ticking and tocking. Eventually Edogawa speaks up, his voice steady and serious.

“Kusunaki and Jūbei Musashi were born in 1735, they being descendents of the legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi. They, along with their parents lived with a small city that was occupied by other Musashi clan members, with the city itself being in the Kyoto region. As the two brothers grew older they were trained by their father to be samurai, just like most of the men in the city and clan. By the time they were 15 they were touted as being some of the best warriors within the clan.

When they were 20 they helped bring the clan to the forefront, so much so that the emperor hired the Musashi clan to train his royal army, and even brought some of them in to be members of the army itself, the brothers being scouted as being generals. The Miyamoto clan while small became recognized within the nation with this news. They of course had rivals in other clans, but no clan that went head on with the Musashis came out alive. The brothers themselves gained a reputation of being the deadliest men on the battlefield, it almost as if they had thrown away their humanity to fight as hard as they did. They soon gained the nickname of the Musashi Devils due to this. With the clan being hired by the emperor, and their reputation growing by the day, Kusanaki, Jūbei, and the Musashi clan itself was on the forefront of becoming one of the most dominating clans in Japanese history.


However, a tragedy soon befell the clan almost as if it was from a Greek Tragedy. In the middle of the night in fall, the brothers woke up to screams that they had only heard when they had killed somebody. The two immediately went to investigate, they finding everybody within the clan slaughtered. Fearing for the life of their parents, they returned to their home and ran through the place, hoping they’d find their mother and father still alive. The brothers found them alive, but upon seeing them, the parents were slaughtered before their eyes. The killer then vanished into the night, the brothers unable to track them.

When it came to trying to figure out who did it, they came to the conclusion that it was the Harunobu clan that committed the act. They were the clan that was originally suppose to work for the emperor, and so the brothers assumed that this was their way of paying the Musashis back, as well as try to retake what was originally theirs. Specifically, they believed it was a samurai named Ekei Harunobu who did it. Rumors were circulating that he was trained in the art of ninjitsu, Kusunaki and Jūbei believing that it must have been him due to how quickly the assailant vanished.

A few nights later, Jūbei and Kusunaki stormed into a Harunobu ran city where Ekei was living. In that one night the two young men lived up to their reputation of being devils, they brutally wiping out every Harunobu clansman they found, they even butchering the children they found as their own young Musashi members were. They soon came to Ekei’s home, they outdoing themselves with how monsterous their slaying was. The two burnt Ekei’s daughters alive and forced the mother to eat the remains before forcing her to commit hara-kiri. Under the idea that Ekei was hiding somewhere, the brothers set fire to the city, virtually wiping it off the map.

The emperor soon found out about this and summoned the two to his palace. The two were then shocked when they arrested upon being sighted. The emperor informed them that at the time of the Musashi massacre, Ekei Harunobu was with him in court and thus could not have committed the attack. Ekei then told the brothers that his clan would have never performed such an atrocity over losing their spot. He felt dishonored, but knew that attacking the Musashi clan would truly dishonor him in the eyes of his emperor and would have been killed for attacking a governmental family at that point.

Due to the nature of the crime, and because of the fact that they had virtually wiped out an important city to the government, Kusunaki and Jūbei Musashi were executed a week later in the imperial city in front of a crowd, their remains later burned, just like they burned the city they attacked.”

By the time Edogawa had finished the tale it was now night. Syuri, Keiji, Paige, and Aimi sat there in silence, their faces conveying shock at the horror they had just heard. Keiji soon became the first to speak after Edogawa had finished his voice shaky and filled with confusion and fear.
“W wait a minute. If they were killed, then how come they’ve been here, kicking our asses?”

“I wondered about that as well. However it is my opinion that Jung has probably brought them back to life for the purposes of using them against you. It isn’t fully out of the realm of possibilities; after all, Jung has revived the dead before.” The doctor explains.

“But why send them after us? If she wanted to defeat us with a powerful force, then she could have easily created one. So what would be the point in bringing two dead samurai back from the dead?” Paige questions, she like the rest of the team confused now as to the reason for the Musashis being here.

“Agreed. They even said they wanted to kill us. I know we hear that all the time, but the way they said it was almost like it was their lifelong mission to do so.” Syuri throws in.

“Jung is the only one who knows. And I find it doubtful that she’d be willing to tell us. All we know for now is their history and that they want to eliminate you all.” Aimi chimes in, her voice calm but chilling in it’s delivery.

“Indeed, and perhaps that is even more fearful then their history. Killers with no motive is all the more frightening, especially in the case of these two.” Dr. Edogawa explains. The four in the apartment then lean back some in an attempt to relax, their minds now filled with images of what Kusunaki and Jūbei had done not only to them, but to an entire clan.


The Nightmare realm illuminates with repeated strikes of lightning, an acidic rain pouring down on the inhabitants of it. Like many a stormy day, the castle sits in the middle of this hellish world, it standing in the middle of the chaos. Also like many days, Jung Moroi sits in her throne room. The queen of nightmares sits there with her two warriors Kusunaki and Jūbei Musashi kneeling at her feet, her loyal servant Raison standing behind them.

Jung stares down at her strongest fighters, she grinning ear to ear, her visible eye gleaming with ecstatic delight.

“You boys truly are the only ones I can rely on to put the hurting on those annoying Dreamrangers. True other wraiths have come close to doing the deed, but none ever more closely then you two. Sure they took a bit out of you in your last encounter, but from what my scouts told me you two were still standing while they way laying broken and beaten. Jūbei, Kusunaki, I truly love you from the bottom of my heart.” Jung states to her two warriors, her voice as seductive and icy as it usually is when she is speaking to the young men.

“We are pleased to have made you happy Lord Moroi.” Kusunaki replies, his head like his brother’s bowed as they continue to kneel towards their queen.

“It is truly an honor to serve you.” Jūbei adds in to the words of his brother.

“You two flatter me so much. But it isn’t hard to see why. After all, I am the one responsible for your resurrection.”

“And we are still truly grateful for that.” Kusunaki answers to his queen.

“As you should be. For if I had not revived you, and then you could not exact your revenge. That Morpheus may come off as a divine and heavenly being that would never hurt a fly, but it’s only an act. He’s truly a bastard of a being. Who else would order his soldiers to wipe out an entire clan just because there was nothing better to do? Morpheus is the one who sent the Dreamrangers down to Earth to slaughter your beloved family. He had nothing to gain by doing it. He did it because he could; it’s as simple as that.” Jung carries on, her voice becoming more serious and hatred filled as she continues to speak to the two brothers.

“Do not fret Lord Moroi. We’ll show him how weak his precious Dreamrangers are. We will show him that nobody can escape punishment and that everybody must pay for what sins they commit. We will make he who is stronger than God weep with sorrow as we destroy his most precious things!” Jūbei states in an almost sadistic manner, the glee in his voice even sending a shiver through Jung’s body.

“That’s what I want to hear! That’s what I love to hear you say my young Jūbei! Make Morpheus and the Dreamrangers pay for their sins!”

“Gladly.” Kusunaki replies, a smirk finding it’s way painted across his lips.

“You two are now fully healed from your last encounter with those wretched souls. The time to strike is now! They’re coming off of a grueling battle and are weakened by it. Go now Kusunaki, Jūbei! Go now and kill the Dreamrangers!” Jung shouts at the young men.

“YES LORD MOROI!” They shout back in unison. The brothers then stand up and storm out of the throne room.

“Perfect.” Jung says coolly after the two have left.

The two brothers stand in the hallway outside of the throne room, they staring at each other with a gleeful delight.

“Shall we strike now as she suggested?” Jūbei asks of his brother.

“But of course. Jūbei my brother, we shall end this right now and avenge our family. We will show those pathetic ‘heroes’ why we are called the Musashi Devils.” Kusunaki replies.

“This is going to be so much fun.” Jūbei shoots back with a grin.

“Oh yes, yes it will.” Kusunaki tells his brother, the two then grinning and laughing simultaneously.

The sun fully rises into the sky, it signaling that of a new day. As its light shines across Nakano it peeks into the living quarters of the Dreamrangers. The three fighters and Aimi sit in the living room, they never having gone to sleep since their conversation with Edogawa. They tried to go to sleep, but the images of the Nightmarerangers doing the dastardly things they did made it impossible to sleep for long. Everyone decided to stay up in the living room together. Anybody barely talked, everybody keeping to themselves and ingesting the news in whatever way they decided to do so.

The group stayed this way as the minutes passed and the hours came and went. Nobody seemed willing to speak. At twelve PM a ball of fire crashed through the window of the Dreamranger’s apartment, the sound of breaking glass getting everybody’s attention. Keiji and Syuri jumped to their feet and rushed to where the ball of fire landed, they stomping on it ferociously to put it out, Aimi and Paige watching on. After a couple minutes of slamming their feet against the flames, the fire died out.
Paige and Aimi walked over to see what damage was done, they first looking at Keiji and Syuri to see if they were hurt. When their eyes fell upon their comrades’ faces they saw fury in them. The two girls then looked down at the ground, the floor burnt as one would expect. However the burn mark was special, it made to display a message after being put out.

“Meet us in the outskirts of the forest. If you are not here in thirty minutes, then all of Nakano dies.”

It was clear who the message was from, and thus who hurled the ball of fire into the apartment. Syuri, Keiji, and Paige moved at once towards the window, they ready to deploy and take care of the Nightmarerangers, hopefully once and for all.

“Wait!” Aimi calls out to her friends, they stopping at the sound of her voice.

The three stand still, their backs to Aimi. She looks at them in silence, she finding it hard to talk all of a sudden, tears beginning to roll down her face.

“Aimi.” Syuri’s voice appears, it flowing it’s way through Aimi’s head. The rangers do not turn to look at Aimi, they keeping their backs to her. Syuri scoffs though before speaking again, her voice in it’s usual sarcastically warm tone. “Make us something good for dinner.”

Aimi, blindsided by Syuri’s words begins to laugh a bit, she eventually stopping to reply. “I’ll make you all a nice pork dish.”

“Perfect.” Syuri says, she and the others then vanishing into thin air, they leaving Aimi with her thoughts.

Kusunkai and Jūbei stand in the desert like environment of the forest outskirts, they surrounded by mountains and dirt. They keep their eyes focused forward, they waiting for their opponents to arrive and enter the arena of combat. The wind is present, it blowing the hair of the two young men into their face as well as some dirt, it the only sound audible in this place.

At one to 12:30, the eyes of the Nightmarerangers become a bit wider and fiercer, they set upon the Syuri, Keiji, and Paige as they walk into the area. They walk until they stand across from the two evil fighters, they apart enough for there to be a good sized piece of the desert like environment to be between them. The two sides keep their eyes locked on the other, the stares so sharp that they could cut through a tank. The adversaries continue to stare at each other, waiting for the first move, the wind howling as it blows through the area.

All has been revealed and the challenge his been made. It is time to finish this once and for all. The ultimate battle of good versus evil begins! Dreamranger VS Nightmareranger!

Next time on Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger: Now knowing the history behind the Musashi brothers, and having been called out by the brothers themselves, the Dreamrangers go off to confront the two. Now in the same arena of battle, the two teams clash in a battle that is sure to truly prove which rangers are the best. Those who fight for Morpheus, or those who fight for Jung Moroi?

Next time, Seventeenth Dream: Collision, The Battle Begins!

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Shinjiku, a ward that never seems to sleep has finally fallen under a deep sleep. A mysterious man has begun wreaking havoc on the ward and it's cities, and while this happens the residents start dropping like flies, they falling into deep comas.

A school trip that was suppose to be fun has now turned into an all out war. It's up to Syuri, Keiji, Paige, Aimi, and Dr. Edogawa to take down this unknown assailant and cure the people of their comas. For if they don't, the nightmarish queen Jung Moroi may just finally take control of Japan!

Coming soon: Ikiryō Sentai Dreamranger: Shinjuku Nocturne – The Movie!