Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-33528506-20180722225632/@comment-26892768-20180726020706

(Yeet)

(Thankfully I already know how to start because I looked through the previous part)

Elsewhere, in the middle of the arena...

Kairi Yano slowly opens his eyes and yawns, brushing his blonde hair away from his eyes...or rather, his mask. That's his first warning that's something is off, as he immediately looks down at himself and finds that he's wearing his phantom theif outfit (which is clearly not fit for the outdoors, but then again, it's usually not fit for ninety percent of the environments he uses it in). It's snazzy and all - and not stuffy like one would expect; he has to do all sorts of acrobatics in this outfit - but it definitely wasn't what he went to sleep with. The second warning that something is off is when he realizes that there's something on his throat. A small disc that, when he tries, he can't get off.

"What the hell..." Kairi trails off when he starts speaking. Mainly because he's speaking ''English. ''With his own voice and an appropriate Japanese accent, yes, but still English. English that for some reason he now understands. Sure, Kairi knows a few words in English, but he isn't fluent in it at all...and yet he's talking like it's his second language. Definitely has something to do with the disc. Either a piece of the Lupin Collection or...something else. He doesn't want to know what it might be if it's something else, so until he gets a mirror, he's going with a piece of the Lupin Collection.

And then Kairi notices the two others with him beginning to stir. That marks either the fourth or fifth time an alarm's ringing in his head. He's starting to get annoyed with it.

Cybersix groans, pulling herself up. Almost immediately, she notices the difference in her surroundings. Hard not to, really. The day before had been a long day teaching as her male alter ego and having to get her class working through a particularly extensive project, followed by a long night foiling one of Jose's plans involving lending out his minions to various mafia groups and then having them commit several attacks ''at once. ''Cybersix finds that days like those are the times she really appreciates Data-7. But, needless to say, as soon as she got back to her apartment, she'd just collapsed on the bed right then and there because she was completely wiped out both mentally and physically.

Waking up in the middle of nowhere is not improving her mood.

Cybersix takes note of her surroundings. A pile of supplies in the middle - seems like some people have already taken some - and two people in her immediate area. One is a blonde man of asian descent wearing a red tuxedo suit, a red mask that covers his eyes, and a top hat with a red band around it. He also doesn't look much older than some of the senior high school student she teaches, and has what looks like some kind of small disc with a speaker on his throat. The other is a teenage girl with pink hair and green eyes in a white dress, black gloves and boots, and a pink scarf that's been tied into two ends. She also seems to be waking up at the moment.

Jinmay wakes up from her nap - well, technically it isn't a nap; she's a robot, but she just thinks of them as naps anyway - and almost immediately notices the change in her surroundings. Her first instinct is to get to her radio and contact the Hyperforce, but she finds that her radio isn't there. With that, she takes a look at the other two. A guy in a fancy red suit, and a woman in a black jumpsuit with a black and red cape and a rather stylish hat, the tip of her black bangs peaking out from under it. For some reason, Jinmay's mind goes to Sun Riders. Maybe the lady showed up in an episode at one point...Jinmay makes a mental note to ask Chiro about it when she got out of here.

For a few moments, there's silence. Then Cybersix speaks up.

"Who are you?" She asks Kairi, her tone firm, but not harsh. She's fairly sure he's in the same situation as herself and the teenager at the moment, but at the same time...he was already up by the time she got up. For all Cybersix knows, this man could be the instigator of this whole thing.

Kairi takes in the question. Seems the disc allows him to understand other people's English, too. Convenient. He grins. "Well, that's one way to break the ice, isn't it?"

He turns around, stretching a bit. Cybersix is reminded of the more laid-back yet smug students in her classes, and needless to say, she doesn't like Kairi's attitude. "Still, makes sense. Figures that word about us wouldn't reach America, you know?"

Cybersix raises an eyebrow. Jinmay is just confused in general - America? And what is this guy's accent? She takes a vocal sample and quickly runs it through her database, and quickly finds a match. Japan - a country of the planet of Earth, populated by humans, who happen to be very similar to the natives of Shuggazoom. Judging by how the woman next to her doesn't seem that confused by the mention of America and more confused about what he's talking about in general, Jinmay wagers that she's probably human too.

"But I guess you can say..." Kairi turns back to face the two, smoothly pulling out a white gun and a small red jet. "I'm one of those theives everyone's talking about."

He slides the jet onto the side of the gun. "Red!"

Cybersix tenses - she's not entirely sure what the guy's going to pull, and the teenager is in the line of fire. Jinmay...isn't as concerned as Cybersix is; she's just more confused.

Kairi turns the dial on the top of the jet. "0! 1! 0!  Masqueraise!"

He points his gun to the side. "Kaitou Change!"

Kairi then proceeds to fire out...a symbol made of energy, looking like a top hat mixed with a V. Cybersix and Jinmay are equally confused by this development - especially when the symbol goes into Kairi, making him glow.

 " L u p i n r a n g e r ~ ! " 

When the glow fades, Kairi is standing in a suit of red and black armor, a helmet covering his head with a red top hat as the visor. Cybersix is just baffled. She's not a scientist by any stretch, but she knows a bit more than the average person might, knowing a science teacher personally and having done her own research on her own time. So, that said, she's positive that whatever just happened should've been impossible. Just - ''how? Jinmay, on the other hand, is less confused about what just happened - she's seen Chiro go into his hyper form after all; this is not the first time she's witnessed someone create a suit meant for combat out of thin air - but she's more confused about how ''he's able to do it in the first place. Was that gun powered by the Power Primate or some similar force? If so, how did he manage to channel it through that gun?

Kairi - or rather, LupinRed at the moment, turns around, pointing his gun to the sky. "Now, if you'll excuse me..."

He prepares himself. "Ready...get set..."

LupinRed pulls the trigger of the gun. The result is a burst of sparks, followed by a trail of smoke. LupinRed looks at his fun in confusion. "...eh?"

The other two are naturally confused about what LupinRed was trying to do there - and he can't blame them. Not like it'd be easy to explain that what was supposed to happen was that his Dial Fighter would fly off his gun, grow until it reached the size of an actual jet, and thus provide a means of escape. Thing is, LupinRed is starting to get more concerned about who, exactly, brought him here - not only did they know his actual identity, not only did they have either a piece of the Lupin Collection or something else to conveniently place on his throat so that way he could talk to the others in a language they understood and so that he could understand them in return, not only did they manage to change him into his phantom theif outfit without once waking him up, they also managed to mess with the VS Changer so that way it couldn't fire off any VS Vehicles as a potential means of escape. He needs to figure out who did this and why - and to do that, he'll need to survive out here. He'd normally try to help the civillians as well, but...they'd only slow him down. At least this isn't Japan, right?

LupinRed turns to the two. "Well, time for plan B."

He promptly grabs a device attatched to the belt on his armor and fires off a grappling hook, aiming it so that it wraps around the supplies. Before either of the other two realize what's going on, Lupin Red slides between them and just grabs whatever supplies he can with one arm without looking.

He gets up and looks at the two ladies. "Good luck, and adieu~!"

LupinRed uses his free hand to fire off another grappling hook, and then swings into the distance.

Cybersix, however, is less concerned about the stunt LupinRed just pulled and is more concerned about his cargo. Specifically, the glowing green tubes he happened to grab.

Sustenance. The mysterious, dangerous substance Cybersix needs to survive, and also happens to be rather dangerous. She knows what the stuff can do besides sustain her. And LupinRed just stole the only Sustenance she'll likely see for several miles.

Naturally, Cybersix runs after him.

Jinmay just stands there in confusion. LupinRed actually seemed like a pretty chill guy up until he randomly and without warning stole a bunch of supplies and headed off on a grappling hook. She's less concerned about the supplies themselves - she doesn't need to eat, and she has plenty of built-in weapons - and is more concerned about the why.

Activating the jets in her feet, Jinmay flies after LupinRed. She's getting that answer.