FOLGORE RANGERS ROLL CALL

[Sunwoo]

Rangers, at arms! To the armory, and make haste! You must arm yourselves with the Folcore Armor of Many Arms! Then, you must use your arms to disarm the armaments of Horita Repulsa's Armored Armed Army!

How many arms do we have again?

[Shin]

Hey look, another incompetent villain! Breezy Shadowpants!

[Breezy Kanzaki]

Hey look, another amazingly awesome yet incompetent villain! Breezy Shadowpants!

I approve of this picture, but not the name. Anyway:

There, much better

Edited May 21, 2012 by shadowbreeze64

[ZemZem]

How many arms do we have again?

I have one hidden under my shirt. It's a birth defect, of some sort...

[eclipse]

Bite me.

[Sunwoo]

Part 2 of the Sharlow story. Now finished.

"AAAAHHHH!"

"KYAAAAAA!"

"AARRRRGGHHH!"

"WHEEEEEE!"

The screams of the four male Folgores rang through the night as they were launched one by one in the direction of the Drafting Den -- flying at such speeds so that their surroundings were all but a blur. Several seconds passed, before they began losing altitude, falling towards the ground.

"This is gonna hurt," Shin muttered, crossing his arms in front of his face. "Guys ... it's cursin' time! FOLGORE RED -- CORPLE POWER!"

"FOLGORE BLUE -- NAME-CHANGING POWER!"

"FOLGORE BLACK -- ENGLISH MAJOR POWER!"

"FOLGORE GREEN -- LUCKY POWER!"

A flash of their respective colors later, the Folgores had transformed into their super-powered selves -- and just in time, too. Shin, Darros, Banzai, and Harpoon hit the ground right as they finished morphing, rolling for a short distance until the momentum wore off.

"Ow," Darros complained. "My back ... so sore ..."

"Refa-5 has quite a powerful throw," Banzai grumbled, brushing himself off. "I should know, because I am an English major."

"That was fun!" Harpoon exclaimed, jumping to his feet. "Let's do it again!"

"We don't have time for that!" Shin snapped. "The Drafting Den is still at least five minutes from here! Refa-5 only got us halfway there! Let's go, Folgores! Move!"

And so, nearly five minutes of running went by before the four reached the Drafting Den. Panting and gasping for breath, the Folgores looked up to see Horita standing on the roof of the Drafting Den, Sharlow's berserk staff clenched tightly in his hands. It appeared as if they had made it right on time to thwart their enemy's plans.

"Ha ...! I don't ... think so ... Horita Repulsa!" Shin gasped, doubled over even as he pointed at his foe. "I won't ... let you use ... Sharlow's ... powers!"

"We will ... stop you!" Darros wheezed out, holding onto Banzai's shoulder for support.

"The Folgore Rangers? Here?" Horita snarled. "Camdar, you incompetent fool! What did you do this time?!"

"I don't know, master!" Camdar protested, from where he was standing behind a tree. He hadn't hidden himself very well, his wings were clearly visible even if the rest of his body was not.

Shin laughed. "Your lackey is truly incompetent, Horita," he crowed. "Don't you know that he himself practically told us of your plans?"

"Camdar keeps a diary!" Harpoon teased.

"Yes, and he foolishly made some of the contents visible to us," Banzai finished. "It was simply a matter of time until we arrived. I should know, because I am an English major."

"WHAT!?" Horita glared at his lackey, the fury clear on his face. "Camdar, you've really done it now!"

"But master! I was merely hacking into Folgore Red's files as you ordered me to!" Camdar growled. It was too early in the morning for him to even pretend to be competent and he just wanted to be asleep. But no ... his master just had to put his plan into motion that night.

"You ... you were hacking into my computer?" Shin looked a little pale.

"None of your excuses!" Horita shouted. "I don't care for them! No more keeping diaries, Camdar, ever! Do I make myself clear?" Breathing deeply to calm himself, he then turned to his enemies. "No matter ... even if Camdar is incompetent, you are too late to stop me. I shall berserk the denizens of Serenes Forest into being my servants!" Horita raised Sharlow's berserk staff over his head, prepared to unleash it's power.

"We have to stop him!" Darros yelled.

And then, coming from out of nowhere, a throwing knife struck Horita squarely in the hand and made him drop Sharlow's staff. Growling, Horita turned in the direction that the knife had come from and saw that the two remaining Folgores were present. Imp was the one who had thrown the knife. A half-asleep Boron was standing beside her.

"How'd you two get here so fast?" Harpoon asked as the Folgores assembled together.

"Boron drove," Imp said, withdrawing another knife from her belt. "Didn't take us long once I managed to wake her up."

"Are we not forgetting something important?" Banzai interrupted just then.

"Sharlow's staff!" Shin cried out. "We have to grab it before Horita can use its powers!"

"Ugh! Camdar! Find it!" Horita ordered, attempting to find a way off the roof. "Find it now!"

"I have it here, master!" Camdar held up Sharlow's staff, waving it wildly in the air. "What should I do with it?"

"Get him!" Harpoon and Boron shouted, running at Camdar.

"You fool! Throw it to me, quick!" Horita bellowed.

Camdar drew his arm back, prepared to throw the staff to his master, but not before Harpoon and Boron tackled him to the ground. The berserk staff went flying from his hand, but not high enough. Shin snatched it out of the air, laughing triumphantly, but then was knocked unconscious when Horita threw a roof tile at his head.

"Hey! That's mean!" Imp yelled, throwing a knife at Horita. "Take that!"

Horita was barely able to avoid the dagger as it sailed past him, but he lost his balance in the process and nearly fell off the roof. He clung to the spire mounted on the rooftop to avoid tumbling from it, pulling himself to his feet slowly. Meanwhile, Camdar somehow managed to escape Boron and Harpoon's grasps and picked up the staff again, throwing it to Horita.

"I don't think so!" Banzai produced a volume of the complete works of Shakespeare from behind his back and threw it at Sharlow's staff, making it go off-course.

"Got it!" Darros cheered, catching the staff by its gem. "Come on, guys, let's get out of here, now! Harpoon and Imp, get Shin!"

"Right!" The two Folgores did so, each supporting one of their leader's arms with their shoulders. "Which way do we go?" Harpoon asked, while Imp struggled to regain her balance.

"Banzai and I'll clear the way!" Boron replied, charging up an attack. It was then that she -- and the other Folgores -- noticed that they were surrounded by random henchmen that Horita had summoned just then. "... Or not."

"How did we not notice this?" Banzai hissed to Darros, who was looking dumbstruck. "As an English major, I suspect that something is afoul!"

"Hahaha ... I have you surrounded," Horita gloated. "Now, I will make this easy for you. Give me the staff, and I won't have to send my minions to attack you."

"We're not stupid, Horita, if we give you the staff you'll just use its powers to take over Serenes Forest," Imp retorted.

"We'll fight you, no matter what!" Darros agreed.

"So be it," Horita snarled. "Henchmen, attack --"

"NOT SO FAST!"

The angry shout startled everyone into jumping back a foot or two. Imp and Harpoon lost their balance and fell on the ground, both of them still supporting Shin, but the impact was enough to bring Folgore Red back to consciousness. Standing in the distance, an absolutely furious look on her face, was Tangerine -- the almighty administrator of Serenes Forest.

"Uh-oh ... it's Tangerine," Boron muttered.

Banzai shot her a dry look. "We are all well aware of that," he said.

Tangerine, who was dressed in her pajamas and half-awake at that, stormed over to where the Folgores and Horita were standing. "Do you have any idea what time it is?!" she shrieked. "It's three-thirty in the morning! People are complaining about all the noise you are making!" She turned to Horita, eyes aflame. "I should've known that you had something to do with this! I don't know what you're up to at this time in the morning, but GO HOME!"

Horita glowered back at her, but didn't rise to challenge her. "Camdar, let us leave," he said. "I'll be back for you Folgores ... in the morning!" With a dramatic swish of his cape, he recalled all of his henchmen and headed back to the Buttlair.

"Wait for me, master!" Camdar ran after him, his wings slowing him down even as he did.

"Ha! See you later, Horita and Camdar!" Harpoon sang.

"And you!" Tangerine spun around to face the Folgores. "As for you ..."

"But ... Horita stole Sharlow's berserk staff and was going to use the power of Sharlow to take over Serenes Forest," Imp interrupted her. "We couldn't do nothing!"

"We have it here, see?" Darros held it up.

Shin rubbed his head and groaned. "It's our duty to stop Horita Repulsa!" he said. "No need to thank us!"

Tangerine glared at them all, but grabbed the staff out of Darros' hands. "Give me that. I'll put it back in our weaponry storage, where it belongs. I'll let you off with a simple warm for all this disruption, but I won't be so nice about it next time. And now ... go to sleep, all of you."

"You heard her," Harpoon grumbled, as Tangerine began walking away from them. "Let's all get some sleep."

"Hahaha ... and so, another victory for the Folgore Rangers!" Shin exclaimed. "Let us return to our beds for some well-deserved rest!"

The others muttered their agreements, said their goodbyes, and headed back to their respective homes.

Edited May 22, 2012 by Folgore Yellow

[Jotaro Kujo]

Part 2 of my latest chapter.

Zeddmare had the Folgore Rangers surrounded. Harpoon spread his lucky items all around the Folgore Zord, hoping that they'd do something.

"Luck? I spit on your luck!" Zeddmare bellowed, as he smashed his Zord into the Folgore Zord, sending it flying into space.

"We need a boost, and our forward inertia will propel us to Earth eventually!" Boron said. "But what is strong enough to get the Folgore Zord to move now that we're in space? Refa-5 can't exactly give us a push when there's nothing for him to push off of." Everyone was silent as the enemies started closing in. Impy suddenly perked up, and practically shoved Doku out of the pilot's seat.

"I have an idea! Gurren Lagann is a Shonen, right? That means we can use Spiral Energy to get us home! but the problem with that is, when I run out, I'm going to be pretty much done. You can't force Spiral Energy, or else you get really sick...But there's no time for that! We gotta go!" A core drill appeared around her neck, and a little hole for it appeared inside the Zord. She took it off of her neck and put it into the hole. "Folgore Zord, spin on!" She said, all while giving it a hard, manly twist. there was a bright flash of green light that vaporized the first wave of the enemies coming for them. The Zord then rocketed off, faster than Zeddmare or anyone else could go. "The thing is, Spiral Energy is so powerful, I think I can only use this for 10 seconds!" They kept zooming, for 10 seconds, until the engine suddenly started sputtering. Impy was fortifying herself with the Spiral Energy, but it wasn't enough to boost the time limit. Blood started to trickle out of her nose, and she looked like she was about to puke.

"Impy, that's enough! you're going to completely burn yourself out at this rate!" Doku said, trying to get ehr to give up the controls.

"But we aren't even halfway there yet!" She protested. The Spiral Energy gauge was fluctuating, quickly draining. It wasn't long until all of the Spiral Energy was gone, and the Core Drill disappeared. Impy slumped over. "I could only get you about halfway...I'm sorry guys. It feels like I'm losing consciousness too...Later, everyone." She completely blacked out.

"No!!!" Doku said, gently taking her off of the controls.

"We can't do anything about it now. Besides, it looks like Zeddmare will catch up to us in a few minutes. Looks like we don't have enough inertia to outrun them." Bonsai said. "So, what do we do now?" Doku stopped to think. He kept thinking until Zeddmare showed up, but he had nothing to show for it.

"Are you done running away?" Zeddmare asked. There was a high level of irritation in his voice. Doku turned around the Zord, so it was facing Zeddmare and his armada.

"Looks like we have no choice but to fight!" Doku said.

"Are you crazy?!" Darros protested. "There's only one of us, and there's like, a million of them! We'll get killed!"

"Correction: there's eight of us." Doku said defiantly.

"Really, with Impy out cold, that makes seven. You don't need to be a math major to know that." Bonsai chimed in. Doku rubbed his temples.

"Ok then, there's seven of us. What I'll do is I'll eject everyone's normal Zords and we'll fight that way! 13th brought up his Zord even after the engine was taken out of the Folgore Zord, I think, so we should be able to fight that way!" Doku said. He turned to Refa-5. "Refa-5, take the cookie and go in Impy's Zord, and keep her safe. Keep her away from the fight so nobody gets hurt. Especially the cookie."

"Will do." Refa-5 said, as he grabbed the cookie and sat next to Impy, so he'd appear in her Zord. Doku pressed a big red button and everyone's Zords were ejected. 13th's car appeared. Bonsai's Zord appeared as a giant copy of one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, Boron's Zord appeared as an atom, Harpoon appeared as a 4-leaf-clover, Darros appeared as a name plate that kept switching around, Impy's appeared as a giant Shonen Jump magazine, and Doku's appeared as none other than Parco Folgore, the grandfather of the Folgore Rangers.

"All right Folgore Rangers, let's boogie!" Doku said, before starting to charge into the mass of enemy battleships. Everyone started to do the same. Boron saw that she had a periodic table of elements as a part of her controls, and decided to test it out. She pressed Oxygen.

"You have released oxygen into space." a computer in her Zord said. She wondered what good that would do, but she saw it when an enemy ship opened fire on her Zord. The shots from the enemy were superheated, and as a result, ignited the oxygen field she had sprayed in front of her and blew it up.

"All right!" Boron said, releasing oxygen all over her area, creating a dangerous minefield for anyone who dared to mess with her. 13th had a different approach to taking out enemies. He was ramming his Zord into them, and hoping that they would become disabled/blow up. His tactic was working for the most part. However, they were still horribly outnumbered.

"Go my minions! Attack! Slaughter them all! HAHAHAHAHAAH!" Zeddmare was commanding. All of Zeddmare's forces were starting to open fire all at once. Harpoon created a giant horseshoe and started clubbing enemies. He then threw it like a boomerang and took out a straight line of forces. Bonsai appeared right next to him, and started reciting Juliet's most well-known soliloquy. It became a text wall that he used as a shield, as he threw text bricks at his attackers. Darros used his newfound powers to create a duplicate of him with a different name, and then they teamed up, back to back, obliterating anyone that got near. Amidst all of the explosions of all of the small enemies, Doku still hadn't found out how to use his power. He was just throwing every enemy he encountered around.

"Come on, where are my powers?" He asked, banging on the controls of his Zord. Zeddmare laughed.

"What's the matter? You don't have any powers? Aww, what a shame! I guess you'll be easy to destroy then!" Zeddmare's Zord floated over to Doku's Zord.

"Curse you, Zeddmare!" Doku cursed. Boron looked over and saw Doku engaging Zeddmare in a battle. She opened up a comminucae channel to him.

"Doku, what are you doing?! You can't take him on your own!" She shouted. She didn't notice that she was floating too close to one of her oxygen pockets, and it ignited, blowing her up. "AAARGH!" She screamed, as she was thrown backwards.

"Boron, are you all right?" Harpoon asked over communications.

"Yeah, I'm all right, just shaken. Look, Doku's in trouble! We need to go back and help him, everyone!" She replied, gunning it over to Doku. She was blocked by a squadron. "Out of my way!" She said, before firing some lightning out of her Zord, blowing them up. She was met with more. Darros had finished up with multiple enemies, and made his clone disappear. When he did, he was attacked in the back.

"YAAARGH!" He cried out. It was clear that after the first wave, the Folgore Rangers weren't in a position to keep up the offense. They were losing momentum quickly, getting beaten back. Some of the enemies saw that Impy's Zord was doing nothing, and they went to attack her, prompting the Rangers to go and defend her, where they were led into a trap. There were explosions everywhere, but admist the flames of the explosions, they were still there, heavily damaged, but still able to fight.

"You're a monster, Zeddmare!" Doku shouted.

"I know!" He replied with a maniacal laugh before ramming his Zord into Doku's. He pressed the attack, beating Folgore Red back every change he got. Refa-5 was helpless and could only watch from the window of Impy's Zord, hopeful that everyone would be ok, but he wasn't too sure. the term 'Strength in numbers' definitely applied here.

"How did we start losing?!" Bonsai shouted, still trying to brick his enemies with sonnets.

"I don't know, but we can't stop here!" Darros replied, throwing an enemy off of Bonsai. "Now we need to get stronger!"

"I don't see how!" 13th shouted while plowing through enemies. "They just keep coming! It's impossible! We're going to lose!" he added.

"Don't say that! We'll get through this, we always do!" Harpoon said, impaling an enemy with a lucky rabbit's foot. "We'll never lose, because we're the Folgore Rangers, right?" Doku heard everyone's conversation over the communications channels. He could hear the screams of his friends as they were being tossed around like ragdolls. It didn't help that he, too, was getting jostled around. Impy's comm went on. It was Refa-5.

"Everyone, you can't just give up here! We came too far to just give up! I know that I'm not in a position to talk right now, since I can't fight, but you were doing so well! I know you guys can do this, and so can you! We have a job to do and that means we have to see it through to the end! We can't just lose! that's not how the Folgore Rangers work and you know this! Get out there! Curse everything! Boogie your way to a win! There's no other path to take than the path to victory! Come on Folgore Rangers, boogie on!" He said triumphantly. Doku had enough. He threw Zeddmare off of him.

"Refa-5, you're right! We need to stop getting beaten up! We're better than this! Let's show them what the Folgore Rangers are made of! Your leader, Folgore Red, will take you into battle, and we're going to come out of it alive, you hear?!" Just then, a bright red light flashed inside his Zord. A small panel opened up and there was a big red button that said 'Activate Boogie power'. He pressed it, and Parco Folgore's boogie song started playing, filtering through the communications and actively synching up everyone's Zords.

"Folgore Rangers, attack!" Doku commanded, and everyone started fighting again. The difference was incredible. Though still fighting on their own, they were much more coordinated with their attacks, and they were doing a lot more damage. Zeddmare watched as his forces thinned out.

"No...How dare you! How dare you!!!" he bellowed, before charging Boron. He ran into an oxygen field and blew up. "ARGH! I won't stop! I took Saku's cookie from her, and I will take it back and eat it! It's mine, I tell you, mine!!!" His attacks started getting a little more frantic. He went to rush Impy's Zord, when eh was blocked by Doku. Doku grabbed Zeddmare's Zord and started dancing with him! However, this dance wasn't any kind of dance. As Doku was spinning Zeddmare around and around, he was also slamming the Zord into the other enemy ships, causing them to explode.

"Wow! this is spectacular!" Refa-5 exclaimed, before turning to the still unconscious Impy. "I really wish you could see this." Doku kept spinning Zeddmare around.

"Stop...I'm going to be sick if you keep this up!" Zeddmare shouted. He was sounding pretty sick. he pushed Doku off of him, and started adding the rest of the enemy ships to his Zord, making it bigger. "I refuse to lose to the likes of you!" He started firing laser beams at the Rangers.

"Folgores, let's take this down! Let's become the Folgore Zord!" the Folgores did as they were told. They weren't as big as Zeddmare's improved Zord, however.

"Bwahahahaha! Didn't you forget that we stripped your Folgore Zord of your cursing engine?! You're dead in the water like that!" Zeddmare exclaimed, going in for a kill shot, Doku, however, had another plan. The Thrusters fired and propelled the Folgore Zord straight into its attacker. "Argh-What?" Zeddmare asked, reeling back from the attack.

"Spinning around wasn't to dance with you, Zeddmare! It was to take your engine! I didn't know that you were going to merge with the others, so I guess you still have engines, but now we're on better ground!" He kept attacking. Zeddmare grabbed the Folgore Zord, smashed it with his Zord's knee, and then threw it. The impact threw Impy around, and she woke up.

"Look who finally decided to join the party." Bonsai said.

"Impy! How are you feeling?" 13th asked.

"I'm feeling fired up! Let's fight!" She replied. Zeddmare attacked them again.

"Gaining your eigth member won't help you at all! you're still going to lose!" Zeddmare said, impaling the Folgore Zord with a saber.

"That's where you're wrong, Zeddmare! Everyone, let's combine our powers and defeat Zeddmare!" Doku said. "EAT THIS! It's our super combination of everything Folgore Rangers attack! Self-proclaimed leader power!"

"Science power!" Boron added.

"Bad driving skills power!" 13th chirped.

"English major power!" Bonsai chimed in.

"Luck power!" Harpoon cheered.

"Name changing power!" Darros hollered.

"And Shonen power! Together it creates-" Impy said, before everyone finished her sentence in unison.

"THE FOLGORE RANGERS GIGA BOOGIE FINISHER!!!" Text bricks started pelting Zeddmare's Zord as the Folgore Zord split into two. The second, unmanned Zord started spewing chemicals that created explosions that would put Michael Bay to shame, as the primary one started shooting horseshoes. It then went Super Saiyan and recklessly drove into Zeddmare's Zord, then grabbed it and started to boogie, spinning it around and around and around.

"No! Stop...! I'll get sick!" Zeddmare almost pleaded. He had too much pride to do that though. He was swung and let go, and he kept spinning and spinning all the way back to the buttlair. "Mark my words, Folgore Rangers, I will return, and when I do, I will destroy you all! If you think that my rage is bad now, just wait until I retur-BLARGH!!!"

"It's finally over..." Harpoon said.

"Yay, now I can eat Saku's cookie-I mean, we will return it to her! Let's go back!" Doku said happily.

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Back at the juice bar, Crash and Marth were nowhere to be seen, presumably kicked out. Saku was still there, looking around anxiously for the Rangers. When she saw them, she ran over to them.

"There you guys are! How was it? were you all successful?" She asked. Doku reluctantly handed the cookie over to her. "My cookie!" she was so happy. "thank you, all of you, for bringing it back. It's not in one piece anymore, but that's all right!"

"Are you sure? I can restore the cookie back to the way it was before Zeddmare took it." Impy chimed in, preparing her Shonen powers.

"I'm sure, because now I can share it with all of you, because I'm so happy that you got it back!" She said, reaching in the bag and handing everyone a piece. they all got a glass of milk, and enjoyed the cookie with everyone's company. Eliedon was watching them from his place in Impy's house.

"Yep, another job well done. I salute you, Folgore Rangers. You've earned this break." He said.

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Back at the buttlair, Zeddmare was laying in his bed, still sore from his defeat. Camdar came in with a bowl of soup.

"Here Lord Zeddmare, I brought you some soup! I made it out of a can, and I followed the instructions, so there's no way that I could have messed it up." he put it in a tray and gave it to Zeddmare.

"Thank you Camdar, that was surprisingly...not incompetent of you." He said, hesitantly eating a spoonful. It actually tasted good.

"You're welcome Lord Zeddmare! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go take care of Horita. I tried making soup from scratch fro him, but I gave him food poisoning so he's getting sick everywhere. That's why I made you soup from a can." he went to leave, but he tripped over his untied shoelaces. He scurried out.

"Stupid Folgore Rangers, I'll be back. Mark my words..." He said menacingly.

[Elieson]

How many arms do we have again?

Many!.

[CT075]

yesssss gurren lagann

[MacLovin]

Where's Horito Revolto?

Also, 10/10 for the stories, made me rofl

[Frosty]

Needs some Freezing dinosaur action paired with me fanboyishly exploding all over the place like a living frag grenade.

Edited May 21, 2012 by Frostbite

[Shin]

Part 3 of the Apoceclipse!

"I am Shojor, fabulous emo-bang'd ninja robot." Shojor announced, despite Darros already knowing who he wass. "I shall assist you, I have many weapons... most of which are hair-driers."

Darros wasn't sure what to make of it, help was good but could it really defeat the nightmare created by the Apoceclipse?

"Eliedon, I don't mean to be ungrateful, but do you have anybody else who could help? Even with Shojor, the odds are still heavily in Horita's favour." he pipped up. Eliedon on the other hand was facing away from him shouting at someone about eating their vegetables. He quickly turned, ready to answer Darros' question.

"Ah yes, I have two other rangers that I haven't bothered telling you about... they are Folgore Orange and Folgore Purple." he answered, his massive head bobbing up and down in his tube.

"Yaranaika! You can't mean those two! ZM and Narshen, they were the worst candidates you selected! You were even considering Crash and Marth instead of them!" Refa-5 complained, he felt that their addition to the team would detract from his own screentime, and thus his paycheck. Eliedon seemed adamant in his decision.

"Do not worry, they have been going through special training! I made them both read the Folgore Rangers information leaflet, they should be more than qualified." Eliedon reassured. Darros was uncertain on how good they would be either. If the main Folgore Rangers were this incompetent, he didn't even want to think about how bad Orange and Purple would be.

"Darros, go now with Shojor. Orange and Purple will follow you." Eliedon commanded. "I will send you now...."

Eliedon began to glow, his monocle sparking with energy.

"ABRA-KA-MONOCLE!" he shouted.

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Darros and Shojor had reappeared in the evil evil-place where Apoceclipse had transported them all. The fighting was stil going on and things were not looking good.

Doku was struggling against his three opponents, he was unable to dodge Ringman's attacks and Raticate kept on scoring critical hits on him. There was only so many times "Iron Man Folgore" could revive him. Boron had fallen fast asleep, with her clock-based opponent dancing menacingly around her. Banzai was busy lecturing the Frenchman about English, but he had made no progress. Harpoon was also having trouble, his brother had convinced him that he needed to scrub the floor or he'd get grounded.

Timp had been hit the worst. She was literally at her mind's end, curled up on the floor.

"So... ugly... Jotaro... fangirl... dying..." she cried, gasping for breath between sobs.

13th was merely standing there, looking at his watch. Darros wasn't amused.

"Hey, 13th! Why didn't you help any of them?" Darros shouted, upset to see his comrades in such bad shape. 13th looked at him, and gave a sigh.

"Darros, I only have plot convenience powers. I'm afraid that I can only do things that facilitate the plot, and today the plot is you saving the day." he explained, his power being particularly stupid in Darros' eyes. Another thing had occurred to him. What were Camdar and Apoceclipse doing?

He looked over to see Camdar putting Apoceclipse upright again, cursing her bad design.

"Why on earth did Horita make you without arms? Surely it's a basic necessity!" he raged, even his incompetence saw the flaws in her design.

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Back in Timp's greenhouse, Eliedon was conferring with Refa-5.

"Refa-5, you did remember to charge Shojor, didn't you?" he asked

"Yaranaika! Uh... I think I may have forgotten." Refa-5 lied. In truth, he had unplugged Shojor so he could use the microwave. Why a robot needed to use the microwave was beyond anyone.

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"I've had enough waiting, I'm going in!" announced Shojor, his hands flipped back from his wrists, revealing two high power energy consuming hairdriers.

He charged forwards, melting Sharlow's candy cane. Sharlow burst into tears and ran away through a non-existent exit. He continued, headbutting Ringman in the face. With only one opponent, Doku could handle himself. He tossed Raticate into the Alarm-clock monster, causing it to explode. The explosion was loud enough to wake Boron up. She got up quickly, rubbing her eyes.

"It's lunchtime already? Oh... I can fight now!" she yawned, joining Doku in beating up the Frenchman.

Shojor leapt through the air, landing on top of the hideous Jotaro. With some quick hairstyling action, he transformed him back into his former fangirl-scream-inducing self. Happy with his new appearance, Jotaro left the sceen. Timp got up off of the ground, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"Aw... you didn't need to make him leave." she said disappointedly. She went over to Harpoon's brother and did what any girl as violent as her would do. She punched him in the face, causing him to run away crying. Harpoon stood up, putting away his toothbrush.

"Eh? I'm probably going to get grounded for that, but thanks anyway." he sighed. His brother was guaranteed to tell on him.

Camdar had just finished up-righting Apoceclipse, who was laughing somewhere in her own world. He turned to face the rangers, seeing that all his minions had been defeated! He started to foam from his mouth and ears, unable to cope with defeat.

"No!!! How on earth did you beat them all! I followed Horita's plans exactly! No... wait... I forgot to watch all of them!" he screamed, foam still streaming from his ears. "This is your fault!"

He pushed Apoceclipse over. With a sudden TEE-HEE, all the minions vanished. Apoceclipse also vanished, returning to the Buttlair. The evil shadowy nasty mean place Apoceclipse had created had vanished. Camdar was outnumbered.

"Hah! I can defeat all 8 of you!" he bragged, hoping that Horita would do something to help him. Whether it had been a mistake, or an act of mercy, lightning shot down onto Camdar. He began to grow taller, and bigger in general.

"Yes! I have waited for this day to come. I am now tall enough to go on roller coasters! But first, I shall destroy you!" he laughed.

"Bring it on, I shall aid the rang-..." Shojor started, collapsing before he could finish his sentence. Refa-5's actions had left him nearly completely drained, and the last fight had finished off his reserves. Doku shook his fist in the air, cursing as usual.

"Curse you, Refa-5! This is your doing, I can tell!" he raged.

It didn't look good for the rangers. A giant Camdar might actually pose a threat, now he was powerful enough not to rely on mooks. Suddenly, two figured jumped out from public toilets. They were Folgore Orange and Folgore Purple. Taking silly poses, they called out;

"FOLGORE ORANGE! POWER OF BEING ON STANDBY!"

"FOLGORE PURPLE! POWER OF BEING... hey you stole my line!... uh ... POWER OF BEING ALSO ON STANDBY!"

With 9 rangers to fight against Camdar, they might have a chance... but could they do it?

[a.f.k.a. Howard Hughes]

[eclipse]

Horace is my dad and Cam's my big brother? BRING IT~!

[Sunwoo]

Lolol! Nice, Doku! Orange and Purple finally make an appearance, and Darros (sort of) saves the day! Oh, and 13th is apparently useless. Loool.

Also, the trend of our FR base changing locations in Imp's house continues. This time, it's in her greenhouse! (I call the nonexistent wine cellar!)

Edited May 22, 2012 by Folgore Yellow

[a.f.k.a. Howard Hughes]

Waaaaaaaaaaait a second. If I was just conviniently at Imp's place, does that make me her hair dryer?

[ZemZem]

Hahahaha, yes. THAT'S THE POWER OF BEING ON STANDBY.

[CT075]

i can't write

[spoiler=RADMAC]Serenes Forest was peaceful. Horita was preoccupied with his latest draft experiment (that had been secretly given to him by the Folgores), too busy to deal with taking over a new land and his foes. Zeddmare was… well, he was somewhat nonexistent.

Camdar had a niggling feeling in the back of his mind that was- no, wait, that was the feeling of him smacking his head into a wall. Backwards. ((Editor’s note: no we don’t know how that works but we had a deadline to meet and the author was stubborn OKAY))

“Aha! Putting the Leg Ring on Sharlow was a BRILLIANT idea, I’ll use it against- no, shoot, don’t do- NOOOOOOOOOO…”

It seemed that all was not well in Horita’s secret underwater base on the moon. Before Camdar could hide, however, Horita stormed out of his room.

“Camdar! What have you done? I asked you to give me a version of FE42 that wouldn’t possibly fail, but all that’s happened was RNG-SCREWAGE! How are you going to explain this?”

Camdar could only stutter.

“B-but, master, my hacking never fails! It-it-it-“

Horita was having none of it.

“Blast it, you’re just radiating incompetence and it’s affecting my drafting! Go take out that Corplemobile we stole from the Folgores and get shot down or something! Just- just LEAVE!”

The lackey could take a hint. Camdar hightailed it out of there, tripping over a chair and hitting his head on the doorframe (Horita just stared, somewhat curious as to how he managed that, as the top of the door was several feet above Camdar’s head).

---

In Serenes Forest, the Folgore Rangers were taking a bit of a break. The gang had split up, believing that Horita would be too occupied by Doku’s new draft scheme to do anything for a while. Banzai, the intellectual, had decided to take his vacation to a land far from the forest. Harpoon had decided to tag along for plot purposes.

“Now, as you can see, this land is quite luscious. Look there, see how pulchritudinous that topiary is.”

Banzai paused. The blank look in Harpoon’s eyes showed his complete lack of understanding.

“I said, the nature here is quite beautiful. Bear with me here, I’m an English major.”

Just then, an explosion sounded nearby; it sounded vaguely contrived and unlikely. It could only be one person; nobody else could be that incompetent.

“Sonofa- how did I miss a 1%!? My strategy was flawless!!!”

Banzai and Harpoon glanced at each other. That was Camdar’s voice. Not too much later, what appeared to be a massive Rescue staff crashed into the ground.

“Dammit… If only it had worked, we could have teleported anywhere!”

Camdar struggled from the wreckage. His wings were ruffled, and he was as short as ever. Harpoon and Banzai just stared; Harpoon even started laughing. Unnoticed by all three, the staff began glowing.

“Pff- ahahaha! How did you manage to- just-…”

Harpoon couldn’t even manage a full sentence. Banzai helped him out.

“The query my colleague wishes to put to you is this: ‘How exactly does one crush himself with his own rescue staff?’ This I know, because I am an English Major.”

“Y- Folgores! You! I’ll defeat you this time! I’ll-”

The air was lit up by a flash as the rescue staff summoned ten minions before fizzling out of existence. Camdar took advantage of his good luck.

“Attack, you fools, attack! Now!”

Neither of the Folgores would just let that happen, however; it took them less than a second to activate their powers.

“FOLGORE GREEN, POWER OF AMAZING COINCIDENCE!”

“FOLGORE BLACK, POWER OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE!”

The two posed for a full minute; it was just bad form to interrupt a transformation sequence. It wasn’t long before all the minions lay defeated. Camdar was livid.

“But- how- what-…”

It appeared that there was only one choice. Camdar pulled out a sword and charged Folgore Green.

“I have 98% hit on you, you must die! Don’t forget, I’m on the blue side, the blue side always wins! You see, I am unbeatable!”

Folgore Green effortlessly stepped out of the way.

“You fool! The RNG is on my side! Take this! 1% critical attaaaaaack!”

The strike sent Camdar sprawling. Only then did Green notice… “Wait, why am I on the red side? I’m Folgore Green, not Folgore Red…”

Black pondered for a moment. “It appears that it is due to a form of laziness on the part of somebody… My English Major powers are unable to divine who.” ((Editor’s note: IT’S NOT US, IT’S NOT US SHOOT THE AUTHOR DON’T SHOOT US))

The two were about to untransform when the ground started rumbling. Something seemed to be… off. Camdar, lying on the floor, glanced around nervously. “Uh… what’s happening?”

Folgore Black was quick to respond. “My English Major powers inform me that this is a story-critical event of great magnitude! Something is about to happen!”

Before he could elaborate further, Camdar was struck by a falling branch ((Editor’s note: there are no trees nearby, the author has instructed us to inform you that the branch was drawn towards the spectacle by sheer incompetence)) and was knocked unconscious. The shaking abruptly stopped.

Beat.

Folgore Green let out a relieved sigh.

“Well, guess not, huh? Your English Major powers only work on well-written stories, or something.”

Black was about to make a scathing retort but he was interrupted.

“Foolish Folgores. You thought me long gone, you thought me a legend. But now, I have returned!”

The booming voice died away dramatically… there was nobody around to hear it. Green and Black glanced around for the source of the voice, seeing… Camdar? The villain was a good two feet taller, and his wings had repaired themselves. Not to mention, everything just seemed more… evil; anybody else would have commented that he no longer had an aura of failure. Green, as always, was quick to the punch.

“Camdar? What’s up with your voice, something’s different about you.”

The scoundrel who was definitely not Camdar replied.

“I am not Camdar, I am Radmac! Camdar is a blithering fool, but I am not so incompetent! I shall dispose of you now, and then take over Serenes!”

The two Folgores laughed.

“We’ll defeat you, as we always have before!” scoffed Green.

“You shall be comprehensively dealt with for interrupting what would otherwise have been an extensive educational experience,” commented Black.

Green lashed out first. “Alright, let’s do this quick- 1% critical strike, one more time!” He lunged at Radmac, the light of a critical hit dancing around his blade. Just as soon, however, the blade of Green’s sword disappeared in a puff of smoke. Radmac laughed.

“Long have I slept, observing you… but now, I have woken, and I have mastered each of your weaknesses! Take this! Power of life hacking!”

Green went pale as he realized that his strength stat was now 0. His attack bounced off Radmac’s chest like a paper airplane.

“My turn, now.”

Radmac tossed Green aside. Green barely managed to use his good luck to find a soft landing place, but the impact still knocked him unconscious.

Black was unimpressed.

“I do not agree with such brutish pursuits; my liberal arts powers shall bewilder you into submission.”

He took out his pen and began shouting random phrases in Latin. Each time, a lightning bolt struck the ground near Radmac; the villain was unfazed. Radmac responded in kind.

“你没有鸡巴! 冚家拎!”

Black was puzzled. His English Major powers were unable to process the foreign-sounding language.

“That sound is unfamiliar to my ears. Perhaps you might-”

Radmac frowned, that was supposed to work.

“No matter. You won’t be able to escape this one.”

A swish of his wings, and a plot hole opened up next to Folgore Black.

“No- You can’t do this to me… But… Occam’s Razor- Bandits- But… NOOOOOOOOOO…!!!!!”

Black screamed as he was swallowed by the plot hole, his English Major powers going haywire. Radmac had one last taunt before it closed.

“Looks like you won’t be able to solve this one… By the time you finish that 11,000 word essay, I’ll have defeated the rest of you and take over your precious Serenes Forest!”

With the first two Folgores taken care of, Radmac flew off towards the main forest. There was work to be done.

[Sunwoo]

i can't write

I think it's pretty well-written. Apparently, we can all write better than we thought we could. :P

[Freohr Datia]

I think Radmac must've written that story x3 His writing seems equal to Zeddmare's writing, if not better! =O Since I can't fully rememember Night's =3

[General Horace]

radmac for top tier

[MacLovin]

I call vineyard

[Sunwoo]

Folgore Rangers draft thread has been updated. Scores up to chapter 17 are now up.

[MacLovin]

Waaaaaaaaaaait a second. If I was just conviniently at Imp's place, does that make me her hair dryer?

I look forward to the day you humiliatingly defeat Camdar when he drops you into water, while you happen to be plugged in.

Edited May 23, 2012 by Folgore Green

[a.f.k.a. Howard Hughes]

I prefer to give him detailed explanation of how much his hair sucks