Five Star Squadron Dairanger: Vol 1: The Five Stars. Chapter Six

The center of the Mall.

Steve wondered what he was doing here, the last thing he wanted to do besides keep an eye on these people. He wasn’t too fond of Angela, since she was his superior officer in the ROTC. Lola he thought was a little annoying at times even though he thought it was funny whenever she got on Li’s nerves. Mishelle, on the other hand he thought was someone who was very cool and earned her reputation of being someone who would always do the right thing. As to his idea of following after his harebrained stunt went into action; he found some major flaws with it, but at the same time it was one way to keep an eye on the three of them at close range.

His involvement with Li, Nancy, and Nick began a few weeks ago when he ran into some strange looking creature that tried to make short work of him and Nick while they were testing some car he was working on in Santa Ana. Tommy’s older sister, Tonya was also there when it all went down and she watched how the two of them managed to fight it off. That was when she revealed to them that they were chosen to be combat more like them. Since then there had not been that much action, until today.  He still wondered about why they would have to watch over Mishelle, Lola, and as Steve called Angela, ‘Commodore Crabby’.

Angela stopped in the center of the mall, standing still for a long time oblivious to the people or the band that was playing nearby her as she silently kept back her tears from at the way she had just ran into Li. It was not the reunion she hoped for, but she did not think that he would be such an ass.

“That was not how I wanted it to go.” Angela said as Mishelle stopped beside her, “I did not want to walk out of there.”

Mishelle took a deep breath and said, “Maybe he did not want to hurt by letting you know he was here and then he would just have to leave.”

“I know that he has been through a lot lately, but at least I thought he would have told me he was coming out here.” Angela said.

Steve may have not liked Angela Steele that much but he did feel bad as he watched her feel hurt by how she was by Li telling her that he wasn’t sure if he was going to stay. For years he watched those two play games with each other on their own feelings; and he was really sick and tired of it.

Personally he would have loved to hit Li for what he said, which also made him decide to go against how he felt and say something, “You do know how hard it is for him to be out here right now, don’t you? It wasn’t that long ago that he watched the people he loved and cared about die as he stood there and couldn’t do a damn thing about it. I am sure being out here is tough for him too, and that as much as I am sure he is happy to see you; I don’t think he wants you to be too close because he might be afraid to lose you too.”

Angela opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by the sound of the young man with the band singing his song, at first she was about to pay it no mind but she couldn’t as she heard the man’s voice begin to sing in a foreign language that she immediately recognized as Japanese:

Suki Desu Suki Desu Kokoro kara, aishite imasuyoto, amai kotoba no urani ha hitori garashino samishisa ga atta….

Steve slowly turned around to face the band as he heard those words being sung, he remembered what Nick had told him about the incident at the beach with Amika and how that there was a Japanese song being sung before the creature attacked them. He looked around the center of the mall and saw that there were groups of people surrounding the band listening to the song that he was singing. He slowly looked back towards the three women who were with him and felt his heart beating fast as he knew that they were now in the middle of something bad.

“Steve, are you okay?” Mishelle asked immediately knowing that something was not right with her friend.

Before Steve could react, the sounds of people screaming filled the mall, the people inside started to panic and run in different directions, he tried to see what exactly was going on, but he found himself being thrown back by a brown and white blur hitting him from behind and landing near the JC Penny’s entrance. A little dazed and confused he could not tell what really was going on, but he knew that he was definitely needed in this situation.

With a flick of his wrist he pulled out his Aurachanger and prepared to activate it, he was nervous and with every right to be but he put that aside since he knew that he was chosen to do this and screamed, “Kiryoku Tenshin!!!”

Mishelle stood in front of Angela and Lola, not sure what she was going to do but she knew that she had to find a way to help get as many people out of the mall as quick as possible.

“Angela!” Mishelle screamed, “You and Lola help get as many people as you can out of here before that thing tries to get anyone else!”

“What about you?!” Angela asked, knowing where this was all going.

“I’m trying to buy you some time to do your job!” Mishelle said grabbing a metal pole and heading towards where the people were screaming.

Angela and Lola immediately rushed towards a small group of children huddled in a corner crying for their parents to come for them. They did not see anyone rushing towards them to help, but knew that they had to protect them as long as they could.

Lola grabbed one of the children who was crying uncontrollably and did her best to soothe them while they looked for a way to escape from the mall, “How far are we from the car?”

Angela screamed, “We can’t put all these kids in the car, we got find someplace safe until help arrives.”

“But what about that thing?” Lola asked.

“We have no choice we got to head somewhere before…” Angela started but was stopped midsentence as she felt the air escape from her lungs and her body being lifted off the ground. She took a look back and saw that the tentacle had grabbed her. She took a look back and saw another tentacle nearby, but this one had an opening at the end of it, with sharp razor teeth. She tried to break free before this thing would try to kill her; she struggled and screamed, doing her best to fight back, but it was not having any effect. She closed her eyes hoping that her death would be quick, but instead of being pulled in, she felt herself being dropped onto the ground.

“Ang, are you all right?” Lola asked checking on her friend.

“Yeah, what just happened?” Angela asked when she saw Lola pointing to two figures standing in front of them, a man and a woman.

Both figures wore helmets which had different symbols on them. The one in the pink had what looked like a firebird on the front, while the one in the yellow had what appeared to be a Kirin. They both wore white vests with gold trim but pink one had a skirt that continued with hers, and each had a symbol on their left breast which was a circle with a line split vertically in the middle with five colors on one half, and on the other what appeared to be a “D”.

“You are not going any further!” The yellow figure said.

“I can’t believe it.” The band member said transforming back into his human guise of Dansaku and looked excited at the fact that these two people were confronting him, “Well I have always wanted to go up against Dai Warriors.”

“Then this is definitely your lucky day!” Another warrior dressed in blue with the same kind of costume as the yellow and pink fighters appeared with some type of pistol in his hand pointed at Dansaku.

“Kirin, I want you to take that group of people to safety while we deal with this guy.” The pink one said to the yellow before she summoned forth a weapon that looked like a bo-staff and charged after the Gorma with the blue one following; leaving the Yellow one to take the other two to safety.

“You got it!!” The yellow one, Kirin said as he helped Angela up and motioned for her, Lola and the children to follow him.