[rl with Marvelous and Kaitou. And an elephant]

[boostup4beetbuster]

[Don't even ASK how Jin managed it, but he'd successfully managed to get an elephant aboard the Gokai Galleon. No, really--don't ask. Apparently it was a "trade secret." But still, he and the elephant were aboard, and now that part 1 of the mission was accomplished, it was onto step 2: taking out his Morphin Blaster and calling up both Kaitou and Marvelous.]

Hey. We've got an elephant in the room we need to talk about.

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[sumofallreds]

Even if the phone hadn't been hint enough, Marvelous could hear the thudding on his ship. Managing to keep his crew at bay, he slinks up to the deck.

"You do realize the point of oneupsmanship means you don't DOWNGRADE, right?"

He doesn't look any less annoyed though.

[of_many_treasures]

The world rippled as Kaitou arrived, pausing to look at the Elephant. "Kuroko Peanut right?" he inquired.

"So what's up?"

[boostup4beetbuster]

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Jin answered. "This is clearly an elephant in the room."

After leaving that in the air for a moment, he continued, "But really, there's something I've been trying to figure out how to tell the both of you for a while, and if I don't say it soon, it'll probably blow up in my face."

[sumofallreds]

"So...lame wordplay."

Marvelous rolls his eyes and takes a lean on the railing, throwing a salute to Kaitou.

"So...what's so damn explosive?"

[of_many_treasures]

"I'm curious too. Because there's a lot of things that's already gone a lot wrong in my angle," remarked Kaitou with a grunt.

"But please indulge."

[boostup4beetbuster]

"Well, this has to do with you guys. And Tsukasa, who isn't exactly here right now for me to yell at."

Jin leaned against the elephant. "Guess I don't have to tell you guys about Dai Shocker or the Zangyack, but did either one of you ever consider what'd happen if they teamed up?"

[sumofallreds]

"Anyone that teams up with Zangyack is automatically bad news. So I'm guessing this is worse."

[of_many_treasures]

Kaitou folded his arms. "I'm guessing this is leading to what I'm thinking where it's leading to..."

[boostup4beetbuster]

"Bingo," Jin answered. "Marvelous gets the dubious honor of heading up the all-new Dai Zangyack while Tsukasa takes over Dai Shocker. Dai Zangyack attacks Riders, Dai Shocker attacks Sentai.

"Thing is, though, it's meant to be an infiltration mission. One that backfires horribly, thanks to Dai-chan here."

[sumofallreds]

"I'm really hoping that's not MY idea."

Ew...bad taste in his mouth SO bad right now.

[of_many_treasures]

"Tsukasa. He always does this sort of thing, even after his stint as Great Leader." Kaitou groaned as he rubbed his forehead. "Tell me he didn't completely fuck everything up."

"... he fucked everything up didn't he?"

[boostup4beetbuster]

"Well, what he and Marvelous have is a failure to communicate--not with each other, but with everybody else. So the minute Kaitou found out that everyone was attacked as a setup, he lost it and attacked everybody."

He held up two fingers. "Which brings me to point 2: Big Machine."

[sumofallreds]

"I'm gonna go ahead and assume it has something to do with 'keeping cover' or some stupid nonsense that I'd only agree to in an emergency..."

He'll look over at Kaitou as if to say 'you'd really do something like that?'

[of_many_treasures]

Kaitou considered it, and admitted, "If I was incredibly betrayed and hurt, yes I would attack everyone."

"But enough of that. What about Big Machine?"

[boostup4beetbuster]

"Which is basically the impression I got the fifteen times I tried and failed to tell you and the one time I got you drunk," he said, rubbing the back of his head.

"It's a combination of the Zangyack flagship and the Crisis Fortress. Turns into a humongous mech--and this is coming from someone who makes them for a living. It is also awesome as hell and would really scare the crap out of both sets of bad guys, so I really don't want to have to hear about it getting Sentai Rider Drill Kicked into bits, you know?"

[sumofallreds]

"Ok...they must've REALLY upgraded the Gigant Horse...cause last time I checked it didn't do that."

And now he's giving Jin the 'you're a MORON' look.

[of_many_treasures]

"...." Kaitou had a speculative look on his face. "You wouldn't have brought up Big Machine if you didn't mean for me, or us, to do something about it, right?"

[boostup4beetbuster]

"Gentlemen, what do you think of pulling off the single greatest act of piracy RIGHT IN FRONT of two of the most dangerous organizations in the universe?"

[sumofallreds]

"If you're about to propose what I think you are...tell me there's also some kind of remodeling involved to rub it in."

Being a mecha otaku is one thing: if it means doing something to rub salt into Zangyack's wounds is quite another.

[of_many_treasures]

"I'm up for it too, as long as I don't need to change my outfit to do it into Tsukasa's silly jumpsuit," added Kaitou.

[boostup4beetbuster]

"Do whatever you guys think is necessary. Unfortunately, I didn't get J out of Hyperspace before then, so this is your mission."