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Timeranger Case File 24: Yellow and Sometimes Blue 30/07/2000

We open at Tomorrow Research, where Domon gets another email from his not-really-a-love-interest Honami, who recently prayed for him at a shrine to traffic safety (aka, the Carranger museum). He?s prevented from replying by a cleaning job. Elsewhere, Dolnero releases the Assaulter Borg, who was serving a 10 year sentence for a random rampage. And for some reason, Dolnero decides to put Gien in charge of managing his conduct.

As it turns out, Honami is at the place the Timerangers are cleaning, taking pictures of a politician running for election. The two groups notice each other and turn away nervously, with the heroes hiding their Chrono Changers, because they don?t realise she knows their faces, before leaving separately while she?s debating how to approach Ayase (who she thinks is TimeYellow). As luck would have it, Honami falls off her bike and breaks her ankle in front of Ayase?s van, requiring him to give her a lift (even as he insists she should go to a hospital). Her attempts at conversation go about as well as a conversation with Ayase can go, with her trying to get him to confess.

Ayase: Why am I babysitting Domon?s fan?

They then just happen to run into Borg, with Ayase giving the others an emergency call, before hastily exiting his van before it gets exploded. The others arrive and begin cutting through the Zenits, with Domon getting clingy when he learns that Ayase is with Honami. As Borg grumbles about how he hates the job he?s been given, Ayase bandages Honami?s ankle and tries to reassure her that TimeYellow will come? as Borg shoots in their direction while stating his desire to move from assault to murder.

Ayase escorts Honami through the ruined city, with her realising he might not be TimeYellow based on his grip. With little option, Ayase decides to equip? only to realise he lost his Chrono Changers in the explosion. So he instead acts as a distraction, Foghting Borg hand to hand, even if he does get overpowered. It?s then that Domon appears, seemingly confirming Honami?s fan theory, and giving Ayase a chance to get away. Elsewhere, the other three take care of the remaining Zenits, with Tatsuya getting more use out of the Assault Vector. But then they get overwhelmed by a second wave, much larger than the first. As Ayase retraces his steps, Domon begins to lose to Borg, with the latter wrecking a house to bring him out. Honami is distraught, until she sees Ayase run past and calls out "TimeYellow". This distracts Borg long enough for Ayase to find his Changer when Tatsuya calls it, and for Domon to recover and counterattack. But Honami is blasted into near unconsciousness, as she?s glad he?s ok.

Domon sets his unconscious pen pal aside before engaging Borg once again. Ayase hen joins in, who the pair using Accel Stop to hit Borg at high speeds. He then removes his seal to trigger a Rebound, with the others arriving in time to trigger a giant battle.

The Timerangers form Alpha to fight Borg, using the Virtual Boomerang technique to let Time Shadow use the Jiku Sword. They then combine into Shadow Alpha, which tanks Borg?s attacks, before using the Virtual Net and Blizzard Slash to recapture the criminal.

But despite this, there?s still 7 minutes left in the episode counting credits, so we cut to Honami being escorted away on Domon?s back into the sunset. Meanwhile, Dolnero uses his human disguise from a few episodes ago to buy all of Ooyama Town and sell it to a big shot CEO, with the profit being used for Dolnero?s real goal this week: using the destruction to buy the land for cheap and sell it off. Back with the heroes, Sion realises that Domon never replied to Honami, but he?s now not so sure about involving himself with her, and decides to go and hand out fliers. Ayase realises what might be happening, while Domon notes he?s not keen to get serious, since he?ll have to return to the 30th Century someday, and she?ll never see him again, to which Sion gives him a pep talk about valuing the time they have now. Elsewhere, Honami realises that if TimeYellow?s stopped sending emails, she might?ve been getting too close, though she has a strange feeling. The episode ends with the pair walking past each other.

Next time: The heroes confront each other, both figuratively and literally, in Timeranger Case File 25: Broken Trust.

Final thoughts: This was a pretty fast paced episode, but that?s not to the detriment of the episode. I?m finally feeling something for Honami, even if it is the starcrossed lovers plot after a fashion.