Pikatwig: And thus we're gonna be working on this a bit more.

KKD: Yea. And for once, I don't have anything else to add. I mean, it's just that we're working on this again, and that's it. Nothing else.

Pikatwig: And thus, do the disclaimers.

DISCLAIMERS: We don't own anything in this story except for any OC characters we come up with along with any other ideas we'd have in store for it. The rest of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and Super Sentai in general belong to Toei, Bandai, and their respective owners.

It was a normal day, with the sun rising for the morning, as someone was in the kitchen preparing breakfast. That someone was Yoko, who was skillfully making sushi with her ShinkenGold weapon.

"Now this breakfast… will be amazing," Yoko giggled, as she finished some sushi and started work on some ramen to go with it.

From the look of it, Yoko was even more skilled making the ramen than she was making the sushi. She simply gave it all hard work, and smiled, rubbing some sweat off of her head.

"Finished… and just enough for everyone, too," she smiled, as she put her saber away.

"So… who made breakfast?" Takeru asked Jii as the Kurokos brought in breakfast.

"I have no idea, Tono-sama," Jii admitted, as everyone gave some nervousness at the food. Yoko gave a tiny smiled and began to eat her food happily.

"What's got you so happy?" Takeshi asked Yoko.

"Tasty food," she smiled.

Ai gave a look at her sushi and ramen and nervously ate them, before she smiled happily. She then began to eat her food in joy.

"Mmmm… oishi!" she smiled before the others took a nibble, and soon joined in, happily eating the food provided.

They all soon finished their food in joy, all smiling happily.

"I'm glad you all liked my food," Yoko giggled.

"Wait… you made this?" Takeshi gawked at Yoko, who smiled proudly.

'Odd thing is… the ramen was better than the sushi… man, that's kinda like how Genta was good at making curry rice,' Takeru thought.

"Wow… this was amazing," Kotoha smiled.

"It sure was," Eri agreed.

Pikatwig Entertainment Presents

In association with KKD Studios

Chan-Chan-Bara Chanbara! (Chan-Chan-Bara Chanbara!) *The scene then transitions to a scroll with six symbols, being the kanji for fire, water, earth, heaven, wood and light.*

Chan-Bara-Bara Chanbara! (Chan-Bara-Bara Chanbara!) *The shot then changes to a black background, and focuses on ShinkenRed, who is female and she unsheathed her sword.*

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger *The shot then has the Shinkenger logo appear*

Appare! (Splendid!) *Some new kanji is added to it, becoming the title for the story*

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger: Next Gen

Nagare, nagare (Time keeps on flowing) *A shot from when the original Shinkengers defeated Dokuko Chimtsuri is shown, and then the scene shifts to a calendar*

Mukashi wa ima (The past becomes now) *The date the final battle occurred on is shown, and then many pages of the calander are torn out, showing time has passed, and it shows the current year, being 2025*

Nihon no SPIRITS mezamete yuku (The spirits of Japan start awakening) *The shot then changes to show the new ShinkenRed, Shiba Ai, first daughter of Takeru and Kotoha.*

Miseru shinken (chanbara, chanbara!) (Exhibiting seriousness (chanbara, chanbara!)) *The other Shinkengers of Ai's generation are soon seen with their parents handing them the katanas they each used, the first two being the new ShinkenBlue and ShinkenPink, Ikenami Sakurai, and a male, Shiraishi Takeshi*

Nametara kiken (chanbara, chanbara!) (It is dangerous if you downplay it (chanbara, chanbara!)) *The next three, the new ShinkenGreen Tani Souji, the next Shinken Yellow, Shiba Eri, and the second ShinkenGold, Umemori Yoko are handed their blades*

Suki wo misetara asu wa nai ze (If you show an opening, there will be no tomorrow) *The new Shinkengers are all shown eating sushi at a sushi place owned by the original ShinkenGold*

Ippitsu Soujou, tenkagomen! (One Stroke, Imperial Report, authorized by Divine Providence!) *The shot then changes to show a crevice leading to the Sanzu River, where the boat is still floating.*

Hakushu no arashi, shin'uchi toujou! (In a storm of applause, the main stars appear!) *The scene shifts back to the surface where the new Shinkengers draw their kanji in the air before transforming into the new Shinkengers, Red, Yellow, and Gold being female, and Blue, Green, and Pink being male.*

Hanafubuki KIRARI (Cherry blossoms fall in a flash) *Takeshi was planting some flowers on the lawn of his home.*

Iza, yuke, SAMURAI (Now it's time to go, Samurai) *Souji slashed at a training dummy with his blade, and dusted it off.*

Sono inochi wo mamoru tame (In order to protect those lives) *Sakurai was laying around playing a video game before standing up*

KIRIKIRI MAIMAI (Cut, cut, dance, dance) *After a quick moment with Ai, Eri, and Yoko (ate some sushi, the six Shinkengers summoned their Origami, which turned into animal mode.*

Saigo ni BANZAI (In the end, say "banzai!") *The Origami then combined into their Mecha forms, Shinken-Oh and DaiKaiOh in North Mode.*

Kotoba no POWER bakuhatsu suru (The power of the words will explode) *The two mecha attacked, causing an explosion to occur behind them.*

Let's bushidou (let's bushidou) (Let's bushido (let's bushido)) *Takeru and the other original Shinkengers all look up at the mech, all smiling at the good work their kids had done.*

Shoubu shiyou (shoubu shiyou) (Let's take this challenge (let's take this challenge)) *The new Shinkengers then walked ahead, ready to take on the day.*

Samurai Sentai Shinkenger! *Ai and Eri then turn to each-other and high five, before the other four Shinkengers joined in the highfive.*

Appare! (Splendid!) *The scene ends with the suited Shinkengers posing with their blades, and Shinken-Oh and DaiKaiOh posing right behind them.*

Act 3: Tora Torment

"Why does Eri get the bathroom first?" Sakurai complained.

"She has to take a bath, and she takes a long time in there, too," Ai explained.

After the Shinkengers got cleaned up, the were practicing writing kanji to perfect their use of mojikara.

"And boom!" Ai smirked, as a smoke floated off of the paper.

"Impressive work, Ai-sama," Jii complimented, seeing she perfected her fire spell, which was put out before the fire got too out of control.

Next was Souji, who made a flower grow, and he smiled. "My Mojikara is at an all time high."

Eri was next, as she worked on the kanji for rock, which literally turned into a rock and landed on Sakurai's foot, with several of the Shinkengers laughing.

Takeshi paused and did a symbol for wind, which blew past him and onto Yoko, making her giggle at the feeling of the wind passing by her.

"This is a lot of fun," Yoko giggled. "Thanks a lot Take-kun, you rock,"

"Thanks," Takeshi smiled as they all turned to Sakurai, who was had made five attempts at drawing the kanji for splash, and… he failed each time.

"I don't get it!" he groaned annoyed.

"The symbol is incorrect and the order of the strokes is out of order," Jii informed.

"Well how'm I supposed to know the correct order?" Sakurai asked.

"Study," Souji informed, as they saw Eri was doing something with the rocks she had created. She looked at her work for a minute, before it looked like the kanji for earth made out of rocks.

"Ta-da," she smiled, which made Ai playfully giggle, they all gawked as Takeru and Kotoha looked at their youngest daughter with smiles.

"Eri-chan, nice work," Kotoha giggled, going over to her daughter with a smile. Ai gave a glance to her sister and simply inhaled and exhaled.

"Uh… you alright, Tono-sama?" Takeshi asked.

"Yes… I'm fine," she informed.

"So… the ones with the most powerful Mojikara are…" Kotoha started, as she simply held out paper with each Shinkenger's symbols, she moved away the ones of Gold, Pink and Blue. "Green, Red and Yellow."

"Yosha!" Ai and Eri cheered while Souji remained humble.

The three all gave a glance over to a small box that had a small lock on it, holding out a key, Takeru opened it up, showing a white disk white had the black image of a tiger's head all around it.

"Wait… I thought you gave me that disk," Ai asked.

"You only had a practice disc, Ai," Takeru told her.

She took it out, and turned around to see the kanji for "practice" written on the back of it.

"...How'd I not see that?" she wondered. "So what are we doing anyhow?"

"Now… this disk is a special Origami Disk," Takeru informed.

"Special how?" Eri asked.

"It will allow one to summon the Tora Origami," Kotoha informed.

"Sugoi!" the Shiba girls gawked.

"Now, based on your skill with Mojikara, we will determine who will be in control of the Tora Origami," Takeru replied as he took out the disc, "Souji… you have enough Mojikara to use this… but… you're unfortunately lacking something… and I can't quite put my finger on it."

"Which leaves just Ai and Eri," Kotoha added.

"Well Onee-chan, I think it's great to get control of the Tora Origami, but only one of us can do it, right?"

"Yea Eri. I say, we have a battle. One round, only our Shinkenmarus," Ai told her.

Thus, the two girls stood ready with their blades, Eri being rather nervous under her kendo armor, while Ai had a cocky look on her face. Thus, the battle began, Ai rushing in and attacking with her blade, which Eri managed to block, with the two girls simply doing what they were good at, Ai at attacking, while Eri was doing mostly blocking.

"Here I go!" Eri shouted running forward, with her blade raised over her head, but when she got by her older sister, Ai simply put her hand out and stopped Eri by her helmet.

"That the best you got?" Ai scoffed, before Eri twirled around and began to strike her sister, easily knocking Ai down to the ground, much to everyone's shock and surprise.

"Whoa…" Takeshi and Yoko gawked as Takeru stepped in to stop the match.

"Eri wins, and is now the pilot of the Tora Origami," Takeru declared.

"You gotta be kidding me. Eri gets to pilot the Tora Origami?! She's just a kid; it was a fluke. Why does she get to pilot it?!" Ai ranted.

"Well you challenged her to a fight and-" Sakurai began when Ai interrupted him.

"Shut. It!"

"Okay, sorry… just answering your question."

"I can't believe I get to pilot the Kitty Origami," Eri giggled in the bathtub, simply happy as she played with her ducky.

"Tora Origami," Kotoha corrected watching as her youngest daughter was squeaky her ducky.

"Gomen," Eri replied, but still giggled before singing as she connected her first rubber ducky to a group of rubber ducks the same size, continuing to play while scrubbing her hair.

'Why does that look so familiar…?' Kotoha wondered, who just shrugged it off as she watched her youngest daughter play happily with her ducks.

"Yosh…" Yellow giggled later, as she arrived at an open field to practice with the new Origami. "Here we go, come on out Kitty Origami!"

Thus, she attached the disc to her sword before spinning it, summoning the white and black-striped tiger with red eyes, silver drill-like legs, and gold tail and feet.

"Uh… that's the Tora Origami," Souji corrected Yellow, who shrugged and got into the tiger mech, seeing the cockpit looked very much like the Shinken-Oh cockpit, and her own (which was just her stand in the same background), but the stand now may have looked like hers with the main color being white, and the only yellow on it being the circle in the front, with the area behind the golden barriers being white as well… which made it initially blinding to her, but she gave a giggle as she put her Shinkenmaru into the command console.

"Yosh, ikuzo Kitty Origami," she smiled, as she attempted to move the Tora throughout the field, however, the others simply saw it as having the Origami making ridiculous leaps and bounds over the various hills, and it looked like she was going a little too fast.

"She can't control that stupid thing!" Ai groaned. "Ippitsu Soujou!"

She then drew the kanji for big and got her Shishi Origami going, soon joined by the Ryu, Kuma and Kame Origamis.

"Wait! How the heck am I going to get up there with them?" Gold wondered before she looked down to see DaiGoyo in her right hand.

"What am I? Invisible?!" DaiGoyou asked.

"Oh. DUH!" she responded before using her SushiChanger to turn DaiGoyo to the same size as the other Origamis, with the lower body part turning into the legs, and the blade part splitting into the arms, and thus DaiGoyo then tried to help try and stop the Tora Origami.

"ERI! STOP THAT TIGER! YOU'RE OUT OF CONTROL!" Red shouted in the Shishi Origami.

She didn't say a word as she was scared out of her mind of the Origami, hyperventilating as she struggled to regain control until DaiGoyou, in a robotic form, managed to get in front of the tiger and held it down to keep it from moving anywhere. After a moment, the Origami stopped, and then it disappeared, with Yellow being put down onto the ground, panting.

"ERI! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" Red shouted angrily.

"G-Gomen, Onee-chan… I… I thought I could control the Kitty, but…" Yellow whimpered, when suddenly, Red slapped her, and took the Tora Disk off of her Shinkenmaru.

"I knew it was a fluke with you winning that match. You're too young to control the Tora Origami, you can't take it seriously, and furthermore, you let the Origami go out of control! ...I'm telling Otou-san and Okaa-san about this… you won't be the pilot of the Tora Origami now," Red responded before walking away with the Tora Disk.

"Are you okay Eri?" Gold asked.

"She yelled at me…" Yellow whimpered.

"Oh boy… I got a bad feeling about this," Pink gulped.

Later that day, Eri had shut herself in her room and didn't come out. All she did was cry and cry in her room the whole time, only stopping when she heard a knock on the door.

"W-w-what? Onee-chan… if you want to yell at me more… g-g-g-go ahead," she whimpered.

"Eri-chan. It's me, Okaa-san," the person behind the door informed. Eri opened the door and saw it was her mom, when she saw this, Eri just hugged her mom and continued to sob, "Relax, Eri-chan."

"I let you down… I let Otou-san down… I… I… I let Onee-chan down…" she sobbed.

"...Eri-chan… you didn't let anyone down."

"She just… lost control?" Takeru asked.

"Hai," Ai nodded, "She summoned it fairly easily, managing to call it forth and hop inside. But the moment she took off, the Origami just ran all over the place. I took the disk from her after we managed to stop the Origami."

Takeru just eyed the disk in confusion. "Alright… did anything else happen?"

"She ended up slapping Eri-sama out of anger," Souji informed.

"You did what now?" Takeru asked.

"Souji!" Ai groaned annoyed.

"Please leave. I wish to talk with my oldest daughter alone," Takeru told the other Shinkengers, who just bowed before leaving the room. "...Why in the WORLD?! Would you slap your sister like that?! Is it because you were jealous that she earned the right to control the Tora Origami and you didn't?! Jealousy is a destructive emotion."

"I was not jealous! She made that Origami go on a rampage!" Ai responded.

"Shiba Ai, I am very disappointed in you for such behavior," Takeru sighed before taking Ai's Shodophone away, "As of this moment, you're grounded for the next 3 weeks!"

"And that means…?" Ai asked in confusion.

"You cannot leave this mansion, you are not permitted to play any games, and you are banned from transforming into a Shinkenger," Takeru told her.

"WHAT?! Are you serious?! The team is toast without me! I'm their leader!" Ai shouted.

"Go to your room. Your mother and I will discuss if there will be any further punishment," Takeru told her.

Much to her annoyance, Ai complied and left for her room, and slammed her door closed. Takeru let out an annoyed sigh, before pondering what could've made the Tora Origami go out of control.

Back on the Sanzu River, sitting on the boat was a rabbit like kaijin holding a fishing pole, and on the end was a tag, with a mirrored version of the kanji for 'rampage' on it.

"So tell me… what is this Ayakashi supposed to do?" Phoerock asked Shinkorou after taking a gulp of sake.

"This Ayakashi, Usasher, has the ability to use something like the Shinkenger's Mojikara to control human beings… or in this case, an Origami," Shinkorou informed.

"I've managed to sneak this 'rampage' kanji onto the Tora Origami, and the River's been risin', due to the distrust between the Shiba Family," Usasher chuckled.

"Is Eri okay?" Takeru asked, as Kotoha walked out of Eri's room.

"She's calmed down a little, and I gave her some ice for that mark," Kotoha informed. "Where did she get that mark anyway? It's not going to have any sort of damage on her, but I want to know where it came from."

"That mark? ...I think it's because of Ai… Souji informed me that out of anger and jealousy, Ai slapped her younger sister," Takeru informed.

"She did what?" Kotoha asked. "She is in so much trouble…"

"I already grounded her," Takeru informed, "She's not even permitted to transform until further notice."

"...that's a good punishment. But… Eri feels like she let us all down," Kotoha informed, causing Takeru to sigh.

"Let me talk to her," Takeru requested, causing Kotoha to nod before he walked over to Eri's room, and knocked on the door.

"...what?" Eri asked.

"It's Otou-san. Can I come in?" Takeru asked, as Eri opened the door, and he walked in, seeing that Eri was holding an ice pack up to her cheek.

The young Shinkenger let out a sigh, and reached for her Shodophone. "I'm sorry I let you down Otou-san…"

"Eri-chan… you didn't let me down. If anyone, it was your sister," Takeru informed, handing her back her Shodophone.

"I don't know what happened… I just couldn't control the Kitty Origami," Eru sighed.

"Not the time to correct her on it," Takeru noted to himself, "How about we try and see why?"

"...I'm scared… why don't you let someone else try?" Eri responded.

"Look… I know you have that inferiority complex and all… but you have the best skills out of all the Shinkengers now to control the Origami."

"... okay," she nodded. "But… you'll be there to keep me safe, right?"

"I'll do what I can to help you, Eri," Takeru assured.

"Alrighty…"

Later, they tried again, but the Tora Origami was still out of control, which was starting to make Eri more scared, fearing to even try to control the Origami, before she fell asleep.

"Hmm… the Tame Mojikara didn't work… what is happening?" Takeru wondered, before he turned the disk around to see the kanji for rampage on the back of the disk, "Nani? When did that get there?"

"This symbol means rampage…" Kotoha noted. "But… I don't think any of them know this symbol…"

"Then who could've made this?" Takeru wondered.

Both Shinkengers began to think, and one memory rang in Kotoha's mind, from when the previous set of Shinkengers first encountered the Tora Origami, it was under a sort of mind control.

Eri was trying to work on controlling the Tora Origami, but it flung her out, sending her helmet flying off, and leaving her with an injured leg.

"Itai…" she winced in pain before looking up to see her father, mother, and sister giving her glares of either disappointment or annoyance. "I'll… keep trying…"

"That was your last chance," Takeru told her, taking the disc from her and handing it to Ai, "You've obviously got no true skill in controlling such a powerful Origami, and as such, your sister will take control. At least she's more responsible."

"Eri-chan… I'm very disappointed in you," Kotoha sighed, "You aren't worthy of being the new ShinkenYellow."

"But… but… but…"

"Oh, shut up, already, will ya? I knew Otou-san and Okaa-san should've gotten me a different vassal, because you are useless," Ai groaned, slipping the Tora Disk over her Shinkenmaru.

"Otou-san! Okaa-san!" Eri panted, waking up, panting a bit to calm down from her panicked state, looking around a bit, "...Oh… nightmare… but… it was right… I'm the youngest… and probably the biggest burden… but I'm not gonna let some Origami beat me…"

And so, she sat up and actually grabbed her gear, including the Tora Disk that was left with her before heading outside and summoning the Origami again to try and tame it.

Hours soon passed, and every attempt Eri tried to get the Origami under her control didn't work. But this didn't stop her as she continued to control it throughout the night, unaware of what was going on.

"Can't… fail… can't let… Okaa-san… Otou-san… and Onee-chan down…" she said in pain and drowsiness, before she collapsed on the ground, falling asleep.

As she was asleep, Takeru and Kotoha walked up to her, seeing their asleep daughter.

"She's as hard working as you were," Kotoha giggled, picking Eri up.

"She has your never-give-up spirit," Takeru added, picking up the Shinkenmaru and examining the disk again, seeing that part of the symbol had faded, "Hmm… looks like she's started to free the Tora Origami…"

"Okaa-san… I… didn't fail…" Eri muttered in her sleep. "...did I?"

"...No Eri-chan… you're winning. Kitty-chan was having a bad day…" Kotoha began to tell her daughter.

In the dream world, Eri had just gotten thrown out of the Origami again, and was before her mother, but it was just her this time.

"...your perseverance is helping Kitty-chan return to normal," Kotoha told her, the real Kotoha's message being conveyed to her daughter through this dream counterpart, "Never give up, okay?"

"...okay," she nodded.

Takeru just smiled, before looking at Ai's Shodophone in thought.

"...Maybe I was too harsh on her… not for her slapping Eri, but… for taking away her Shodophone," Takeru thought out loud.

"Maybe… we should talk with her in the morning…" Kotoha figured.

"Look… maybe I was a bit jealous… but… I was more angry that Eri couldn't control the Origami," Ai explained to her parents the following morning.

"I see… Ai… I'm sorry… I shouldn't have lashed out so hard at you last night," Takeru apologized, "You're still in trouble for hitting your sister… but maybe I should… decrease the punishment a bit…"

"Huh?" Ai gawked, a bit confused, as her dad gave her back her Shodophone.

"You can return to being ShinkenRed… but you have to apologize to your sister, and are still not allowed to leave the Mansion, unless it's to deal with the Gedoshu," Takeru told her.

"That's easy…" Ai smiled. "Hey… I'm sorry for yelling at you… I was just really upset, and… a bit jealous,"

"It's okay. Come here," Takeru smiled, pulling his oldest daughter into a hug, who just accepted the hug with a bit of a smile.

"Boss… we have a small problem," Usasher informed.

"How small?" Pheorock asked.

"I think those Shinkengers are about to free the Tora Origami…"

"WHAT?! " Shinkorou demanded.

"I'm not sure how, but that Yellow Shinkenger's persistent attempts are beginning to weaken my hold over the Origami," Usasher clarified.

"Well then… send the Giant Nanashi to deal with the others and get that tiger under our control!"

"...Okaa-san… is Kitty-chan healing?" Eri asked, looking drained.

"Yes. He's doing much better, but you won't be able to help Kitty-chan much more if you don't rest," Kotoha told Eri, as Eri hadn't had much sleep. The seven year old simply toppled over, and was caught by her mother, "Well… I should've seen that coming."

She picked up her daughter's Shinkenmaru, before taking her back to her bedroom and putting her down to get some sleep.

"How's it going?" Takeru asked Kotoha, who simply showed him the Tora Origami Disk, with the rampage symbol almost completely gone.

"Her efforts are going very well. But the poor things exhausted," Kotoha sighed, seeing her daughter was fast asleep, looking like she wasn't going to wake up any time soon. Takeru took the disk and simply gave a smile at it.

"We have great kids, you know that?" Takeru asked with a smile.

"Yea… I know," Kotoha smiled, before sighing. "There are times where I wish… you know what happened prior to the Great Legend War… didn't happen, so Eri wouldn't have to bear this burden, you know?"

"I understand, Kotoha… but no matter how much we don't like it… we can't change the past," Takeru told her.

She gave a nod, before hugging Takeru with a smile. "You always know the right things to say."

"I try."

A few days had passed, and Eri was back to work trying to help the Tora Origami, with Ai and the others watching their youngest member work hard.

"I hafta ask… why do we have a little kid working with us?" Sakurai asked. "All of us, but her, are either 11 or 12."

"I have no idea," Takeshi shrugged.

"Otou-san and Okaa-san wouldn't steer us wrong, that much I'll admit. And… she was the only one who could take those powers," Ai told her vassals.

"...huh?" came a response from the others. Finally Eri smiled and walked over to her sister and their allies.

"I… did it…" she smiled, showing the disk was now lacking the rampage symbol.

"Way to go, Nee-chan," Ai smiled, hugging her sister. "And… I'm sorry for slapping you… I was just upset."

"It's… fine… hey Yoko… can I have some of your ramen and sushi… I'm really hungry," Eri asked.

"Ryoukai! I'll get to it right away!" Yoko smiled, about to rush off to prepare the food when gaint versions of the Nanashi appeared.

All of the Shinkengers stood ready, but Eri looked like she would collapse any moment. "Onee-chan… minna…. ikuzo."

"You sure you can still keep going after all you've been through?" Souji asked Eri.

"I'm good… ikuzo, Ippitsu Soujou!"

"Ikkan Kenjou!"

Thus, all six turned into Shinkenger form, and summoned in the Origami, with ShinkenGold bringing in DaiGoyo.

"Samurai Gattai!"

"Shinken-Oh, tenkatōitsu!"

"DaiGoyo Daihenge!"

With that, Shinken-Oh was formed alongside the giant-sized Daigoyo.

"So… don't you have anymore Origami from your dad?" Blue asked Gold.

"...Uh… Dad hasn't taught me how to work them..." she responded.

"Focus you guys! Nanashi incoming!" Red shouted as the two mecha were forced to attack the giant Nanashi, with DaiGoyo doing punches and Shinken-Oh doing slash attacks.

However, as the group were still new to using the mecha to take down such large numbers of foes, they were surrounded, and the Nanashi quickly slashed back, unarming Shinken-Oh, while managing to injury DaiGoyo's arms.

"Shinken-Oh! DaiGoyo! Minna, what do we do?" Pink said in worry.

Yellow just struggled to stand before looking in the distance, seeing the Tora Origami still standing where she last left it, and then she got an idea. "Minna, I'm gonna try something. Think you can distract the bad guys for me?"

"We'll try, Nee-chan," Red panted, as Shinken-Oh rushed forward, using the Saru Origami to hold the Nanashi off, letting Yellow jump into the Tora Origami.

"Yohsa, ikuze Kitty-chan!" Yellow smiled, getting the Origami moving, managing to use it to drill through the Nanashi, with Yellow giggling in joy. "Minna! I remembered a trick Otou-san told me about. Samurai Buso!"

With Shinken-Oh removing the Samurai helmet, the Tora Origami shifted it's body around before becoming a sort of backpack with four drills that attached to Shinken-Oh's back, the tail attaching as a circular crest on the tiger head before it became the new helmet of Shinken-Oh.

"Tora Shinken-Oh, tenkamusō!"

"Suge!" Blue, Green and Pink gawked,

"Nice work, Nee-chan," Red complimented, with the combined cockpit now having Yellow's control stand from the Tora Origami.

"Wow… two big kitties on this mech," Yellow giggled. "Ikuzo Kitty Shinken-Oh!"

"It's To-" Green started, when Red covered where his mouth would be on the helmet.

"...don't bother," Red sighed.

Green just sighed as well before they worked together, with Tora Shinken-Oh's new drill pack, easily knocking the Nanashi down, with DaiGoyo kicking them to death. This managed to make the numbers decrease rapidly, with the new Shinkengers all happy.

"Let's finish it together! Tora Drill Totsugeki!" Yellow announced, spinning her Shinkenmaru as Tora Shinken-Oh lowered it's head, causing the drills to spin as it charged forward, managing to destroy all of the Nanashi. "Uh… can I say it sis?"

"Go ahead," Red nodded.

"This brings this chapter, to a close,"

"Man, you got that Origami to listen to you, that was amazing," Takeshi chuckled.

"It sure was! I didn't think you had it in ya," Sakurai added.

"Thanks, it means so much that you all had so much confidence in me," Eri sighed, sarcastically.

"We're dead serious, Eri. It was amazing how you pulled it off, not to mention how you were able to pulled off the Samurai Buso," Ai replied.

"This calls for a celebration! I'll make my special sushi and ramen for everyone!" Yoko smiled.

"Thanks. But… think you can hold it off until later Yoko-chan? I'm gonna be rewarding myself for hard work," Eri giggled.

"How so?" Ai asked.

"By taking a nice, long, warm, cozy, fun, and long bath," Eri giggled, causing the boys to look a bit confused while Ai and Yoko smiled with a slight giggle along with Eri.

"She's using all of the hot water!" Sakurai shouted angrily, having been washing his hands with nothing but cold water.

"Having lived with her, I have some advice for all of you," Ai started, as her vassals approached. "Deal with it."

"Uh… does that mean none of us will EVER have any hot water?" Takeshi asked.

"Dunno," Ai shrugged.

"Oh boy…" Souji and Yoko sighed.

"Can you believe it? I was able to tame the Kitty Origami and managed to pull off a Samurai Buso, Okaa-san!" Eri giggled, having her mother by her, like usual.

"I know, you did a really great job Eri-chan. You really earned this bath," Kotoha giggled.

"Hai…" Eri smiled, relaxing with her duckies.

'She worked so long and hard to rid the Tora Origami of the Mojikara on it… I'm really proud of her' Kotoha thought to herself.

"I got a kitty," Eri sung, playing with her duckies, "Don't worry, he's a good kitty, and he's an Origami. Kitty-chan,"

Kotoha couldn't help but giggle as her daughter continued to enjoy her bath, and her daughter's singing voice.

'She's got a great voice… she's just an adorable little girl,' Kotoha smiled in thought.

"Eri… stay seven for as long as you can…" Kotoha giggled.

"I will," Eri smiled, as she played with her ducks, making them swim about while talking to them.

Jikai, Next Gen Shinkenger

Takeshi: People keep calling me pink boy! I'm getting sick and tired of that!

Yoko: I think you're amazing Take-san.

Takeru: An Ayakashi that makes people fall in love?

Eri: Takeshi-san… Yoko-chan, we need you!

Takeshi: Be glad to, but I'm in a bit of a jam myself right now!

?: Use this Disk!

Act 4: The Flying Swordfish

Pikatwig: And that is that.

KKD: Took a while for us to finish it up, and I apologize for that.

Pikatwig: It's cool, you've simply been fried.

KKD: No kidding, seeing for the most part I've been in charge of 3 chapters in a row. As such, I'm actually feeling winded from all the toku… did I actually say that out loud?

Pikatwig: Oh yea… you did.

KKD: Man… I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm actually looking forward to something not so action oriented… like one of our Animal Crossing stories. But before I get wound in that, why don't we mention our favorite parts for this story?

Pikatwig: It was Eri simply enjoying her victory bath. I just found it really cute.

KKD: While that was cute, and all her scenes remind me of Umeko from Dekaranger years before, I think my favorite parts include her persevering through to get the Tora Origami back to normal. That's one tough little girl if I ever did see one.

Pikatwig: Remember she is seven, and the team's youngest member.

KKD: True…

Pikatwig: And thus, we end this off. Just Live More.

KKD: Jaa ne.