voice + action for Murderess;

[gokai_red]

[Immediately after the mayhem on the 3rd.

Very soon, Marvelous is marching across the deck, book out.]

So, Draco, you think that earthquake was just a little strong, too?

Alright, no screwing around! We won't find out anything by just sitting on our asses. And I sure as hell don't want to have something coming for me.

Murderess! We're setting out. If you don't want to, you've got until we're pushed off to jump onto the island.

Frankly, I'm not gonna hold it against you.

We're not going to attack, unless we have to. Someone needs to look into what the hell's going on out there, and I guess that's us for now, unless anyone else is coming along. We look first hand, then we can actually make a choice on what to do besides sitting here and waiting for something to come to us.

So... let's go.

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[gokai_red]

Killed the Prince, killed the Emperor- [he counts them off on his fingers as he goes] -and then whatever was left hanging around of the royal family as they came for us later on. But when the Emperor hit Earth, he brought the majority of his fleet with him.

[He smirks.] Killing his brat of a son made him a little mad.

[He waves a hand.]

But that just let us blow up most of it in one fell swoop.

[He taps his chin for a moment.]

There's always these kind of guys, but Zangyack was definitely the biggest. Right now, it's just the people they subjugated trying to pick up the pieces. Us searching for treasures they might've kept underfoot.

Hell, last I was there, Earth already had this new army called "Vagras" trying to stir up trouble. [He smirks, just lightly.] But a new Sentai, at the same time.

It kind of manages to even itself out. Zangyack was just different.

[thethundersaid]

[Yes, the story is larger in physical scale, but he recognizes the pattern. Part of him wants to ask: and does it end when the next army is defeated? (And another, older, more insidious, I hope you left no one behind.)

But that is no concern of his, really, when he has his own world and his own endings to return to. He turns his attention instead to the terminology Marvelous uses, eyebrow lifting when he considers 'searching for treasures' and the earlier words that made it sound like fighting this emperor had been more happenstance than deliberate.]

Looting doesn't sound like the sort of thing people who take on empires do. Was that not your purpose in your world?

[gokai_red]

[Well, Sasuke certainly read that a lot better than some folks did back home, Marvelous realizes.]

I was recruited to the Red Pirates originally to be a thorn in the Zangyack's side, and search for the greatest treasure in the universe. Mostly the treasure, but then I formed the Gokaigers, and...

[He tilts his head back and forth for a couple moments. He's not usually this up front about it unless the situation called otherwise, but...]

That changed. We could have run once we got it, probably. We didn't.

[thethundersaid]

[Huh -- so pirating is actually Marvelous's career. It makes sense why he was chosen to take the position of captain after that other pirate had gone, now, instead of Sasuke's assumption that it had been some combination of loudness and having that type of character.

Which is not to say that Marvelous isn't that type of character, as his explanation makes clear.]

There are times when running is no longer an option. [His voice is cool, a statement of fact, but he's reassessing the captain of the crew he only reluctantly considers 'his'.]

[gokai_red]

Turns out, that's most of the time.

[He answers pretty quick.]

You won't solve much by running, typically.

[thethundersaid]

[From combat or conflict, Sasuke agrees, but there have been things in his life -- people -- whom he's left behind, and he's not so blind as to imagine that he wasn't running from Konohagakure to some extent. He's run before, and he's lived the low, crawling life his brother once demanded of him, so long as he was alive.

But Itachi's plans have fallen through in as many ways as they could, and even trying to leave Konoha behind him has failed, if only because no one could have expected idiots to remain idiots as long as his former teammate has.]

The shinobi world is much like yours, except no one has actually succeeded in becoming the controlling power yet. [Not for lack of trying.]

This world seems ... complacent, in comparison. Maybe they prefer simply listening to their navy.

[gokai_red]

It'd sure explain why this Navy didn't seem ready for dealing with folks like us, anyway. Or... a whole lot of resistance, in general.

[thethundersaid]

They're terrified by us, but then they apparently have to live with this Davy Jones person and this witch.

... or maybe that's why they think everything we do is witchcraft. [His tone is still deeply unimpressed: he'd have assumed that having it on this world would have inured its military and civilians to seeing magic (or anything similar to it) used.]

[gokai_red]

Maybe. That actually makes some sense, especially if this Witch was really dormant for as long as it seems. That stuff becomes legend, which scares the shit out of people when they see folks coming in throwing fire and jumping over buildings.

And I've not seen an inch of this Davy Jones' hide since we arrived.

[thethundersaid]

[It makes sense, in a weird way; even more immediate stories have a way of growing in the retelling until all the facts grow twisted and nothing but the underlying fear remains.

Davy Jones, though ...]

The girl I spoke to who saw him said he was a -- [What were the exact words?] -- 'huge grumpy ghost pirate guy'. Gibbs has one in his world, too, and some other people besides. The thing in common seems to be the ocean in some way.

... also, Gibbs said he had tentacles on his face.

[gokai_red]

[A long, thoughtful pause.]

I killed a guy who looked like that, once.

[thethundersaid]

... is this a common thing in other worlds?

[What if there's some kind of octopus sage thing in his own? Sasuke doesn't really want to think about it -- as if Kabuto's snake sennin weren't ridiculous enough.]

Was this person also a sea god ... thing?

[gokai_red]

Pretty common.

Dunno, though, I think he was a... demon? Sort of? Maybe.

He was another Sentai team's enemy, we just did 'em a favor by putting him out of their misery.

[thethundersaid]

[At this rate, there probably is an octopus sage. There's already an octopus jinchuuriki, though as far as he's aware the eight-tails' bijuu doesn't sprout tentacles from any part of his body. Small blessings.]

How did you kill him? He wasn't also a ghost, was he?

[gokai_red]

Don't really know that much about him, that was the Shinkengers' bag.

But how we killed him was pretty simple.

We blew him up.

[thethundersaid]

[He has to wonder if a ghost could actually be hurt with an explosion, but shrugs in the end -- if they need to fight this world's Davy Jones, he'll find a way to kill whatever-it-was somehow.]

That should work for most things.

[gokai_red]

[He just laughs sort of knowingly.]

Hasn't steered me wrong yet!

[thethundersaid]

Do we have explosives on board? [It's a natural progression of logic, Sasuke eyeing the cabins reserved for storage dubiously. He doesn't remember seeing anything when he'd rifled through for potential weapons.]

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[gokai_red]

Not enough.

[Implying this needs to be changed.]

Still, don't always need them to do that.

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[thethundersaid]

You have long-range attacks, correct?

We could use them in conjunction with the cannon on board and what explosives we do have.