Choujin Sentai Jetman
The Revived Empress (1x17)
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The girls are out shopping for bathing suits. The boys have come with and are practically collapsing with boredom. Kaori sees one suit she likes and shows it to Ako, who says it's sexy, so the other girl immediately puts it back. Gai, fed up, suddenly grabs Kaori and drags her into the nearest elevator, with the others in hot pursuit. Inside the elevator, Gai says to Kaori, "Did you know that a man is like a wolf?" which sets her into nervous giggles. She leans into the wall as far from him as she can get. The conversation descends into cheap insults about Ryu. She says he is a strong man, and Gai says no he's crazy. She tells Gai that he is too bad, too wild for her.
In the meantime, Lyta is panicky on the other elevator. Ako is going on about how romantic it was, the way Gai dragged Kaori off. Lyta tries to explain how he feels about Kaori, something inbetween romantic love and brotherly love. Ryu is sympathetic, while Ako looks somewhat confused.
An asteroid is falling through fields of color towards Earth. Radiege, innocently standing against a pillar while Grey seems to be playing chess with himself, is suddenly wracked with convulsions as bio-lighting plays over his body. He knows what's coming. The asteroid hits Earth outside of Tokyo, causing a blackout and stranding our heroes in their elevators.
Eventually the blackout is over. Both elevators arrive at the floor they were going to, Lyta rushes out, catches Kaori's shoulders and says, "Are you okay? He didn't hurt you?!" Gai is furious at the suggestion and a fight might have ensued but for Ryu's intervention, and Chokan's call to go to where the asteroid crashed.
Radiege arrives at the crash site and hears a familiar voice speaking from inside the asteroid. He raises his sword to smash the thing, when the Jetman arrive. "We might've known YOU were behind this!" Ryu accuses him.
"Get out of here, this is none of your concern!" he snarls back at them. But then the asteroid splits, and a tall woman in white stands there. She looks at Radiege and smiles. Then she sees the Jetman and blasts them.
On the Vyram ship, she takes the throne reserved for the winner of their challenge with the Jetman. Mariah protests as the three males kneel in front of the woman and Radiege snaps that Mariah is too young to know, but this woman is their queen. The queen tells her own tale, of the destruction of the Vyram home world to gigantic crystals and her overthrow and imprisonment within the asteroid. But she has found a new power source. She is going to birth an offspring. Radiege eyes the "fruit", wanting the power for himself, somehow. But the queen needs something else. She needs to feed her baby on pain and suffering. So she peers at the human world through any reflective surface and begins choosing random targets. A blast from the jewel on her head, and her victims begin to writhe in agony, screaming as their very bones pulse with agony.
The Jetman find the queen wandering about blasting people, and they challenge her. She is having a fine time trouncing them until she knocks them out of their costume. Seeing Kaori, she aims a blast and fires. Gai dives in front and takes the blast himself. As he screams and convulses in sheer agony, Radiege arrives, blasts the Jetman and takes the queen back to the Vyram ship. She sits back in the throne and he kneels and kisses her hand in a very courtly gesture. She smiles and tells him it's cute. Unfortunately, Radiege has reached the end of his rope with this. In a fury he attacks her. She turns the attack with ease, deeply outraged and demands to know the meaning of this. He says, "Your time is OVER! Die!" and things like that. The others hide behind a pillar to watch the battle.
The queen transforms into her "real" I guess, form. A really ugly fanged creature. Actually, it's obvious she and Radiege are of the same kind. Her power sharp and high, she simply snatches up Radiege in an energy field. Spinning him, she folds his mind and folds it until he is crushed in blackness, empty of memory and thought. She says, "You hate humans so much. Now you shall be helpless among them." She drops him onto black stones. When the mist clears, Radiege's armor is gone and a very handsome human man lies unconscious upon a rocky beach.
The Jetman drag Gai to the infirmary. On the way, a crystal erupts out of his wrist. This is a continuing process, and once they GET him to the infirmary, they can't keep him there as he realizes, this is just going to continue and there is NOTHING his friends can do to help him. He runs, Kaori on his heels for she knows this would not have happened to him if he hadn't tried to save her.
