TV-PG                    Gourmet Night presents...

                        ALIEN TASK FORCE TOTANRANGER
                       (uchuujin sentai totaanrenjaa)

                                  Episode 12
                                 "Friendship"

"This is insane."  TotanRed said, countering the attacks of his opponent.  "We
need to-- augh!"
  ViroSupreme immediantly threw his opponent against the TotanLoader's side.
  "Drake, are you alright?"  TotanBlue asked.
  "I'll be fine."  TotanRed responded with a grunt.
  "Not for long."  ViroSupreme said, as he began to enlarge to a larger size.
  "Great, now what?"  TotanRed asked.
  "So long, Rangers.  Bad knowing ya!"  The monster grunted.
  "Let's do it!"  TotanBlue said.  "TotanDrivers ready:  Fire One and Two!"
  Suddenly two comets (one blue, one bright red, flashed across the sky and
landed in the middle of the city, transforming back into the Blue and Pink
TotanDrivers.
  TotanBlue appeared in his cockpit, which resembled his old one, though this
one was chock-full of touch-sensitive light paneling.
  "Azure Automaton, online!"  He yelled.
  TotanPink landed in her identical cockpit.
  "Crimson Crusader, online!"  She yelled.
  The two robots struck defensive poses and began to circle around
ViroSupreme.

-+-

Mounted on his VikingBike, TotanGreen streaked past the other road-based
vehicles.  He wasn't too sure how fast he was going, but he didn't care.  His
navigational control computer was showing his target's exact location, and his
proximity to it.
  _I'm coming, Jess._  He thought to himself, half-hoping that she could hear
his thoughts.  _Hang tough._

-+-

Back in the abandoned warehouse, Jessica had woken up from her forced
drug-enforced sleep.  Gorggily, she sat on her chained heels and tried to get
her mind back into her present situation.
  "My lord!"  DragonDogi yelled.  "We have a security breach in sector 3!"
  "What?"  The shadow being asked.  "Send out the Chromiums!"
  A small number of the enhanced Vinadiums saluted then headed out through one
of the doors.

In the third sector, JT's Vikingbike continued to accelerate as he neared his
target.
  "There's got to be a way to get through here."  JT said.  Suddenly, his
visor sprouted to life as he saw a schematic of his bike, some parts sliding
in front, and a schematic of spiral surfer, sideways, and the two attaching at
the front.  The letters 'V I K I N G S P I R A L' typed themselves out on top.
  "Allright!"  JT yelled as the two items of hardware attached together in
reality.  The Spiral Surfer began rotating as a drill and cut through the wall
of the warehouse, bringing the bike inside.
  "JT!"  Jessica yelled.
  "Chromiums, get him!"  Dragondogi shouted.
  The Chromiums began their attack, but JT leaped off his cycle and managed to
punch them head-on.
  Meanwhile, Jessica took advantage of the interruption to sort-of kick her
guard Chromium and release the keys from it's hand.  She then shut her eyes
and concentrated hard.  Some kind of pyrotechnic bursts erupted and fused the
locks.  Then she managed to break the locks easily.  She then grabbed the keys
and undid her ankles.
  "The girl is escaping!"  Phantom-Shadow growled.  "Get her!"
  Jessica had teamed up with JT and they finally managed to beat off the
oncoming Chromiums, albeit temporarily.
  "How did you do that?"  JT asked.
  "I'll tell you later."  Jessica said.  "But for now it's... morphing time...
I can't believe I said that."
  2-0-7-4.
  "Yhaa!  TotanYellow!"
  "Get them!  The Elven must not be allowed to escape!"  DragonDogi yelled.
  "We're outta here!"  TotanGreen said, and then two teleported through the
air as sparks of energy.

-+-

The Blue and Pink automatons landed two equal punches against ViroSupreme's
body armour, but he instead deflected those and shot energy bolts from his
eyes. striking each in the chest.
  "This isn't going so well."  TotanBlue said.
  "Gee, ya think?"
  "We need help."
  Suddenly the Green and Yellow automatons appeared in mid-leap and landed two
more punches, then swiftly kicked it into the crotch.
  ViroSupreme growled as it was kciked back, and the four Totan Automatons
struck battle poses in the city.
  "Yeah-ha!"  TotanRed said, cheering the automatons on from the cockpit of
the TotanLoader.  "Cool stuff, guys!"
  "Thanks, man."  TotanBlue said from his cockpit.
  The four robots started an attack pattern.  The first two ran ahead, each
wielding giant-size versions of their normal weapons.  Then after taking a
swipe each, the other two ran forward, lept into the air, and gave an
airborne-swipe against the monster.
  ViroSupreme growled again as he tried to regain himself.  Once that had been
accomplished, he growled and dashed forward, using special arm-mounted claws,
managing to erupt sparks from the machines.
  "Firing Accelasors!"  TotanRed announced, pulling a lever.  The cannons
mounted atop the special tank fired forth and erupted small sparks on
ViroSupreme's armour.
  "You think THAT can stop me?"  ViroSupreme laughed.  "Ha HA!  Surrender the
elven to ME and I might spare you and your mechanical toys."
  "What's he talking about?"  TotanBlue asked.
  "We'll tell you later."  TotanYellow and TotanGreen said simultaneously.
  "I'll be back!"  ViroSupreme warned, then dissipated into thin air.
  "Way to go, guys."  Titanred said through the cockpit.  "Now we've got some
talking to do."

-+-

In the larger loading bay upon the Shadow Syndicate vessel, the creatures were
surveying the new project.  Several Chromiums and Vinadiums were working
together, building large battilion armour, which was suspended in human-like
formation.
  "Progress on the new EnhanSupreme armour is almost complete, my lords."
Matchmorou reported.
  "Excellent."  Phantom-Shadow said.  "With this new armour and our now
enhanced armies at our disposal, we shall be able to destroy those meddling
TotanRangers once and for all.

-+-

Eventually, some time later that evening, the five Rangers, sitting around in
Drake's bedroom, were finally getting some answers to their questions.
  "Sooo... by definition... you're an... elf?"  Drake asked.
  "Sorta."  Jessica said.  "Elven.  It's kinda like an elf."
  "My girlfirend is an elf."  JT said emotionlessly, staring forward.
  "Yeah."  Jessica said.  "What's so odd about that?"
  "An elf..."  Still no change in emotion.
  "Well, what did you expect elves to be?  Little people with sharp pointy
ears and wings, sitting on rocks and playing shucked-out makeshift flutes?"
  "Well... kinda."  Matt said.
  "I was thinking kinda like toymakers."  Drake said.  "Y'know, the Santa
Claus kind of thing, y'know?"
  "You guys are crazy."  Jessica laughed as she held one of the pillows.
"There are a couple of elves on this planet, y'know."
  "So... you have powers?"  kary asked.
  "In a sense.  Some low-level telekenesis and pyrotechnics."  Jessica said.
"Nothing big."
  "More than what we've got."  Matt said.
  "But they figured it out."  Drake said.
  "Yeah, and they'll be trying to siphon my powers."  Jessica said.
  "We won't let that happen."  JT said, putting his arm around her.
  "Aw, that's sweet."  Drake sighed.  "But we have those new Totanmachines on
our side."
  "Let's hope that'll be enough."  Matt said.
  "Yeah, they have new minions, a new leader, and a VERY powerful Virus on
their side."  kary said.
  "And our extra Ranger's power is still diminishing."  Matt added in.
  "I like these odds."  Drake said.  "Bring 'em on."

                T O    B E    C O N T I N U E D . . .

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These  stories  are Copyright (c) 1997 - 1998 Gourmet Night and Chris Neumann.
The  characters  and  events depicted  in  this  series  are  fictional.   Any
similarity to actual persons,    living or dead,  is purely co-incidental  and
unintentional,  unless otherwise indicated.   This series is in no way related
to Saban, Toei, Asahi-TV, or the "super-sentai" series.
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