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Jung Moroi walks around her throne room, shadows following her every move. As she walks, she ponders every move she’s made in her war against the Dream Kingdom. She also thinks about how the warriors of Morpheus, the Dreamrangers have stopped everything she has done to try and plunge the world into an everlasting nightmare. Truly they are a bigger pest then she could have ever thought.

Jung’s loyal servant Raison steps up to her, his arms crossed behind his back in a regal fashion. The evil queen walks past him several times before stopping to face him.

“Raison, these pesky rangers are proving to be way too much of a pest thing they should be. They’re like a cockroach. They simply won’t die.”

“I know my lady. But fear not, we have the advantage now.”

Jung’s lips curl into a smirk filled with glee, and even pleasure.

“That is true. We hold the power now, and I’m not afraid to use it.”

“Our creationists have put together the monster as you requested. It was finished several hours ago, and is ready for the field.” Raison explains to the queen that he serves so well.

“Good.”

Jung walks over to a window, looking out over her realm. The realm which while she did not create, she has brought into it’s full glory, caring for it almost like one tends to a plant. She runs her fingers along the wall as she looks over her kingdom.

“I assume they are ready as well?” She asks suddenly.

“Why of course.” Raison answers almost immediately.

Jung then looks over at her knight, her palm open, shadows spiraling around it in the shape of a sphere. She smiles widely, her eyes glistening like a cat.

“Then let the fun begin.”

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

Ikiryō Sentai DreamRanger!

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Eighth Dream: Twin Destruction!

The three defenders of the Dream Realm and impromptu defenders of the Earth sit on a bench in a mall. Their faces painted with the feeling of being bored and tired. As they sit there, they watch Aimi hopping store to store, shopping to her heart’s content. In her bored state, Paige leans into Keiji some. Keiji who was nearly asleep, awakes from this, his jump like reaction causing Paige to fall off the bench. Keiji quickly turns around, and realizes what happened. He smiles some, helping Paige onto the bench some. Syuri simply sits there, a hand placed against her cheek, she seemingly spaced out from the world.

After hours have passed, Aimi skips over to the three, her hands filled with shopping bags.

“Don’t you guys just love the mall? You can find almost anything you could ever want here!”

She finishes her sentence; it filled with peppiness and glee. When she looks down at her companions, her facial expression turns to one of slight rage, as all but Keiji is asleep, they using him as a human pillow.

“Guys!” She shouts down at them

Paige and Syuri slowly wake up from their nap. They rub at their eyes before noticing Aimi standing in front of them.

“Oh, hey.” Paige mumbles out in her still tired state.

“Guys, you didn’t have to sit here while I shopped. You could have walked around…or come shopping with me!”

“Aimi, why would we want to possibly walk around this place for hours on end while you shop?” Syuri asks, confused by why Aimi is taking such pride in this outing.

“You don’t just walk around. You could shop!”

The three look up at her, blinking some. Aimi looks down at them, she realizing that while the three could have possibly been humans once, that they come from a different world, where shopping isn’t needed.

“Oh yeah, I forgot. You guys have magical powers which let you get or make anything you want.”

“Bingo.” Keiji shoots back.

Aimi sighs some. “Well, I’m done. Would you please carry some of these?” She waves her hands around, indicating that she needs assistance with her bags.

“I guess it wouldn’t kill us.” Keiji says, he standing up slowly.

Before he can take the bags though, the three’s cellular’s go off. They snap out of their daze immediately, Paige whipping hers’ out quicker than the others. Keiji and Syuri rush over to her to listen in on the conversation, causing AImi to drop the bags she was about to hand Keiji.

“Yes chief? I see. Alright. Alright. Yes, yes, yes. Okay.” Paige then hangs up the Dream Cellular.

“Another one?” Syuri questions unenergeticly.
“Mhm.”

“Sorry Aimi, guess you’re on your own.” Keiji tells her as the three run off, leaving her to pick up her mess.

“Freaking wraiths…” She mumbles to herself.

The three rangers arrive at a rock quarry. When they get there, they discover two wraiths, each look identical to the other. The wraiths have the form of a jackal. They snarl at the warriors, they jumping around like fleas, they ready to strike first.

“Two of them?” Keiji asks in shock.

“It appears so. And they don’t look like they want to wait.” Paige responds.
Syuri’s Dream Cellular flies out of her pocket and into her hand in a flash of movement.

“Then let’s not keep them waiting.”

The other two bring out their respective phones. They all flip open in unison, with each ranger punching in the henshin code. They bring their arms back at once, ready to transform and fight.

“DREAMSCAPE!” They shout as one, throwing their arms forward as to point the transformation devices at their enemies. “OPEN!”

The area turns pitch black, the ranger’s glowing. Three, individually colored tubes appear in front of them. The tubes slam into the rangers, forming their suits. Then, in an explosion of golden light, their helmets appear, causing the area to return to normal.

Paige, who is now in her pink suit spins around some throwing one arm out to the side in a sideways fashion, she holding the other up in the air.

"Protecting dreams like the angels of lore. Paige Williams, Dream Pink!"

"Fighting like with the spirit of a mighty warrior. Keiji Ito, Dream Blue!" Keiji cries out spinning his arms around, he stopping and standing in a martial arts like pose.

Syuri then brings her feet together to stand sideways, she pointing an arm out towards the enemy. "Serving the light to defeat the darkness. Syuri Miyamoto, Dream White!"

The three then spin themselves around like a top, only stopping when they are directly look at the two nightmares.

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

The five then charges at each other. Before they collide though, the jackals split to the sides, causing the rangers to run past them. Before they can get a lock on the enemy positions, the two appear in a blur, slashing the three away a few feet, they landing on the ground. The rangers get up, watching the two jackals running around like maniacs.

“Paige, you and me will take on one. Keiji, you get the other.” Syuri commands.

The two nod in understanding. Keiji then rushes off towards one of the creatures, spearing it down a rocky hill. As it’s brother looks at the event, Syuri and Paige come at it from the sides, connecting with twin kicks to the head, making the monster stagger back some. The monster rushes them however, delivering multiple punches to the two, eventually sending them back with a whip of it’s tail. The two roll to a stop, slowly getting up from the pain they received. They look at each other, and nod at once. Syuri dashes forward, sliding to a stop until she was on all fours. As the monsters looks on, puzzled, Paige runs up to Syuri, and uses her as a springboard, launching herself into the air. She lands on the monster in a kick form, sending it flying down the hill.

Keiji continues to duke it out with the Jackal’s twin, they trading blows continuously. The monster has some advantage though, it using it’s speed to land more strikes against Keiji, leaving him clutching at his side some in pain. The beast then throws itself against the blue ranger, it biting into his shoulder. Keiji cries out in pain, he trying to force the monster off.

The monster then flips away, it then charging at Keiji again. He’s in the know now though, and smirks underneath his helmet. Once the monster is close enough to him, he uppercuts it straight into the air. He then vanishes, reappearing besides the wraith, slamming his elbow into his side. The impact of the blow causes the nightmare to fly away in a spiral pattern, it landing next to it’s brother.

As the two monsters stand up, the Dreamrangers reunite, standing a couple of feet away from them.

“They may be fast, but they sure are stupid.” Paige speaks up, laughing afterwards.

“Indeed. Let’s put these miserable beings out of their existence.” Keiji says.

“Gladly.”

The three then summon their signature weapons. With them in hand, the monsters shriek on in wonderment and rage, they starting to make their way towards the group. After a couple of moments, forming their ultimate weapon; the DreamCannon. They aim it right at their opponents, they currently rushing towards them.

“DREAMCANNON, BLAST OFF!” The heroes shout in unison.

Before the three can pull the trigger, lighting slams down against the ground all over the quarry. The monsters confused stop, running off. Before the three 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 uncounciousness. As she does so, the men vanish in a burst of black light.

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Syuri’s eyes slowly open. Her vision, while blurry, returns to her and after a couple of minutes, she can see clearly again. She tries to sit up, but her body becomes victim to a great surge of pain, it emanating from her stomach. Aimi rushes over to her, hearing Syuri cry out some.

“Syuri! Just sit still.” She tells to her wounded friend.

“Wha what happened?” Syuri asks her voice soft and filled with pain.

“I guess whatever wraith you fought did a real number on you. Thank God Edogawa called me. He detected you guys were unconsciousness and out of power I guess. He called me with your locations. I borrowed my dad’s car and brought you guys home.” Aimi explains.
Syuri smirks some.

“Heh, good old Edogawa.”

“Syuri, what type of wraith did this? I’ve seen you guys get hurt, but never this badly.”

Syuri sits there in silence against the couch. She looks in front of her, noticing Keiji and Paige lying on the ground. They appear to be sleeping. Syuri then sighs some, she looking down at the ground.

“It wasn’t a wraith. The wraiths we fought were fiersome, but they couldn’t and didn’t do this.”

“Then who did it?”

“I don’t know who they are. But I remember after the attack ended, I saw two men. They were dressed in more armored suits like our own.”

“There are more rangers?” Aimi asks, shocked by Syuri’s statement.

“It appears so.”

Aimi looks down at Syuri, for once seeing pain on her face, and what she believes to be despair. She frowns before walking away from her. She picks up her purse and heads to the door.

“I’m going out to get you guys some more medicine. Stay here.”
Syuri looks over at Aimi, giving her a small nod. Aimi returns the nod, she proceeding to then exit the rangers’ apartment.

Hours pass on end, each of the rangers waking up from sleep every now and then, only to fall back into it’s clutches moments later. As they sleep, each one dreams about the attack that put them into this condition. However, only Syuri thinks about the two armor clad men, she clutching her fists in her sleep from the anger she feels. She clutches them so hard that her hands begin to bleed.

More hours pass. The three slowly awaken, hearing the familiar sound of their Dream Cellulars going off. Syuri notices that the devices are on their kitchen counter. Through the pain, she manages to stand up, slowly walking into the kitchen and to the counter. She picks her cellular up, placing it against her ear.

“S syuri here.”

“Syuri! God you sound terrible!” Edogawa’s voice rings through the phone.

“Put a s sock in it. What is it?”

“Those wraiths you were fighting against earlier have returned. However…”

“Out with it doc.” Syuri shouts into the cellular.

“They split up, and one of them has Aimi.”

Syuri’s eyes widen as she hears this, she nearly dropping her phone. Edogawa tells her all of the information that he feels she needs for this, including where the two monsters are. He hangs up after wishing them luck and to not push themselves too hard.

Syuri slips the device into a pocket in her skirt, she not going for her jacket, only heading to the door.

“What is it Syuri?” Keiji asks worried.

“Those twin nightmares have appeared. One of them has Aimi.”

“O o oh my!” Paige proclaims in a worried tone.

“Yeah. You two, go take care of the one near the electrical plant. I’ll get Aimi.”

“Syuri..” Keiji starts.

“Don’t you dare question me. Just go out and take care of it Keiji.” Syuri commands, shouting it out at her two fighters. She then vanishes in the blink of an eye, leaving the pink and blue warrior stunned.

In the rock quarry, the jackal wraith snorts and cowls, it racing around Aimi, she trapped in the creature’s continual running around of her. If she tries to escape, she’ll die. As she stands there, slowly sinking down to her knees, tears stream down her face.

She is saved though, as the wraith flies back some. Aimi looks over, seeing Syuri in her ranger suit, she clutching her Dream Blade in it’s gun form tightly. She mouths her name, but Syuri shoots her a gaze through her helmet, it strong enough to keep the teenager silent. The monster looks at the white clad fighter, growling loudly, it soon running towards her at break neck speed. Syuri smiles some, she rushing at the beast in response.

Up town at the electrical plant, the wraith’s twin is putting up a strong fight against Keiji and Paige. It smacks and throws them around like rag dolls, with the rangers only getting in a few hits. The two then get thrown into a power box, sending an electrical current through their body. They cry out in pain, their suits sparking some from the power overload. They fall onto the ground, looking at the monster as it cackals, preparing to strike.

“K Keiji…what are we gonna do?” Paige asks her teammate hoarsely.

“Well, I have an idea..”

“What is it?”

Keiji slowly stands up, he then summoning forth his Dream Trident.

“Paige, I want you to charge at that thing and let it get a good hold of you. When you see me above you, use whatever strength you have left and get away unless you want to get destroyed.” Keiji explains tiredly, he clutching at his shoulder.

Paige remains silent, her response being to stand up. She then cries out loudly, she proceeding to run straight at the beast, Keiji then running to a nearby wall. Paige slams into the monster, she allowing it to clutch on to her. It then starts biting away at her neck and shoulder, she sitting through the pain, though she does cry out.

After minutes of this, she looks up some, she noticing that Keiji is high up above them.

“NOW!” He shouts down, gaining the monster’s attention.

Paige screams as loud as she can, she using as much of her strength as she can to knee the monster in it’s stomach. This loosens it’s hold on her, allowing her to run away. It looks back up at Keiji, who has moved to where he has let go of his weapon, and is above it. He brings a leg back, before he slams his foot down on the trident, it sending it spiraling down like a tornado. The trident as it spins becomes wrapped in a cyclone of blue energy. It eventually slams straight through the wraith, causing it to explode on impact as Keiji lands on his next clumsily next to Paige. Paige clutches onto his left shoulder, the two watching the fire caused by the explosion.

At the quarry, Syuri and her wraith go back and forth violently. Syuri landing in some slashes with her blade, the wraith landing hits with it’s claws and tail, it even managing to bite her every so often. The two then strike each other so hard that the send each other flying back, Syuri landing near Aimi.

“SYURI!” She cries out.

Syuri slowly gets to her feet, she then switching the Dream Blade into it’s gun mode.

“I’ve about had it today of getting knocked onto my ass. So I think it’s time I send this bastard right down to Hell, where it, and its bloody queen belong!” Syuri shouts out towards herself, the jackal, and Aimi. Aimi looking on in disbelief.

The jackal then howls before rushing towards the two women. Finally it gets right up in front of Syuri, it raising a clawed hand, it looking to decapitate her. But in a flash of movement, Syuri kicks the beast to the side some. She then lets out a battle cry before flipping backwards repeatedly, releasing a relentless barrage of blasts from her gun into the monster. As she lands on the ground a good bit away from it, she pulls down on the trigger hard, releasing a single beam of white and gold energy. The beam cuts through the wraith, it cleaving it in two, it exploding afterwards. Aimi watching, eyes wide, crying in confusion, sadness, and joy.

Syuri then slowly makes her way over to Aimi, helping her up.

“Syuri..”

“Don’t. It’s become a second job to save your butt. No need to thank me.”

“But to do what you did while injured.” Aimi explains.

“I’ve fought in worst shape.” Syuri shoots back, laughing afterwards.

Keiji and Paige, still in uniform run over to the two girls.

“Is everything good here?” Paige asks, looking at the dirtied Aimi, and the battle damaged Syuri.

“Of course. And what about your pest?”

“It’s joining it’s brother in the afterlife.” Keiji responds.

“Good.”

The four chuckle some, but their laughter comes to a short end. Black, red, and even white lightning strike all around the group, they quickly putting AImi to the ground for protection. This lightning continues for minutes, eventually stopping. Once stopped, the three come face to back with the two suited men. Syuri remains quiet, Keiji, Paige, and Aimi looking at the two in disbelief.
As they stand and watch, the two turn around, staring the rangers dead on.

They then remove from their backs their weapons. Red holding to hook blades, they misshaped giving off a very medieval yet cyberpunkish look. The one clad in white holding two sickle like short swords, they fashioned the same as Red’s swords. The three rangers slowly walk forward, summoning their weapons. The two men then smirk behind their helmets, they then charging forward at the Dream Kingdom’s fighters.

...To be continued

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