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estirose

At the very least, it's going to be a long time. I don't think she'd be able to get him to give up. He'd want his Cellular back. Or just say so to stall for time so that he can be found. I think he wants to break the headboard that he's attached to. And he would try to explain that it's too late, that he's already a criminal in the eyes of the galactic empire that he's trying to overthrow.

Marvelous might be amused, after he figures out that it is Gai's aunt's house. He doesn't know who the woman is, all he knows is that someone told him that Gai isn't going to be a pirate anymore.

From:

reka

And that he chose to be a wanted pirate with full knowledge of the consequences. Possibly a bit too quickly and enthusiastically, but he did think about it. I think.

From:

estirose

Yes. He knew what he was doing. He knows what danger he's gotten himself into. And he needs to rejoin his ship, thanks.

(And maybe he can talk his way out of this without needing to be rescued by his Captain.)

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reka

I suppose it depends on how tolerant of her nephew's eccentricities she is? And how used to them. She might react differently if she's dealt with him rushing into danger rashly before.
The getting hit by a truck thing was probably just the one that got him particularly hurt.

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estirose

I see him getting into his share of scrapes, and eyerollingly so because he seems to have never grown up and realized that heroing is dangerous. She's scared that he will get himself killed trying to reform his 'team', or something else.

Oddly enough, she might cling tighter given that he has gotten himself into this situation with the Empire. He's on Earth. He's safe as long as he doesn't have his Cellular and isn't running towards danger.

(And if she's not careful, she'll have a pirate captain kicking her door down if Gai doesn't convince her to let him go.)

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reka

Except for the fact Zangyack wants to conquer Earth and he has not been shy about showing his face. And mentioning his name.

Yes, and Marvelous is likely to have no qualms about wrecking her door.

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estirose

Yes. He's kind of gone past the point of no return. But she's in denial; she figures everything will be all right if she keeps him safe. And once he realizes it's not meant to be, it'll be easier. And if he's right about the pirates being/becoming good guys, then they can damn well save the world, and without him.

And she hasn't quite realized that Rangers protect their own, and that Gai's teammates once walked into a warehouse with guns blazing and swords out to rescue a teammate. Oops. She'll be lucky if her door is the only thing she'll have to replace.

From:

reka

Maybe they'll just really wreck her door. And everything else that's keeping Gai from leaving. And her handcuffs, of course.

In what kind of place does she live? Because I'm really amused by imagining the crew storming a small apartment.

From:

estirose

Five pirates storming a small apartment would be rather funny. I see her having a very small house, and, being more like her nephew than she thinks, running towards her living room when Marvelous destroys her front door. He's not amused.

Gai figures it's a rescue, but was rather hoping he didn't need one.

From:

estirose

She was feeding her nephew Gai dinner when there was a boom. He suddenly grinned, and she hoped this didn't make him think he was going anywhere. He was still stubbornly insisting that he had a team, but she knew that, given time, he'd understand. Understand that he was more valuable than anything else, that he couldn't keep trying to get himself killed by running into the face of traffic and battling intergalactic bad guys.

Besides, there was no way that they could have found him without that device, and that device had been left in a flowerbed with instruction on where it was. If they were as good as Gai said they were, they would leave him alone and find another to risk his life. Just as long as it wasn't Gai.

"Stay here," she said, realizing that he wasn't going anywhere after a second's thought.She rushed towards her front door to find that she had no front door anymore, at least not a whole one. There was a young man in a red longcoat, four others behind him, two wielding swords and the other two guns. Hanako found her eyes drawn towards the young woman in the frilly white-and-pink dress holding a gun as if it fitted naturally in her hand and realized that this group of strangers had to be the pirates that her nephew had associated himself with. Gai had shown her the pictures, after all, even before he'd gotten the crazy idea to join them.

"Where's Gai?" the young man in the longcoat asked, demanded, and she drew herself up. She would protect her nephew even from his own so-called team.

She looked at him, straight in the eyes. "You can't have him." She didn't know how they'd found this place, but she wasn't going to give him up to that life.

"Up here, Marvelous-san!" her nephew called. Obviously she should have gagged him, but she hadn't anticipated this.

"Listen," she said, aware that there were guns pointed at her, and people with sharp swords backing them up. "Gai doesn't belong with you and your life. He's an ordinary boy." As long as she stood between them and Gai, her nephew was safe.

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reka

Auntmuse is a bit more like Gai than she realizes, although her drive is much more protective than heroic. Do you know how she's related to him?

How familiar is Gai with the layout of the house?

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estirose

(sadly, or maybe not so sadly, I seem to be developing a fic)

Auntmuse is his mother's sister. I know that she's been involved in stuff that's not really official, and that she's seen death.

Gai knows the house decently, though perhaps not every single nook and cranny. He can easily figure out, for example, of where he is in the house and where his Captain is, relatively speaking.

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reka

What kind of thing do you mean by "not official?" Armed civilian group or something? And does Gai know about it?

Well, a fic would be interesting for me to read, but I hope you aren't bothered by it.

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estirose

I haven't gotten all of the details, but I think she was involved in some undercover jobs for a while, in support. She's not a fighter, but she's been on the front line far more than she wanted to be. (This is possibly why she owns handcuffs and things like that.)

Gai doesn't know about this, of course. She might drop some hints, but I don't think he can imagine some of the stuff she went through.

From:

reka

He's distracted by heroes, anyway. Flashy color-coded posing heroes. Why would he notice these things?

And thought that she should've gagged her nephew. She's done something like this before.

From:

estirose

She's kidnapped one or two people. Or helped hold them. She's decent at that, but there's no way she's taking on five armed space pirates.

Of course, this is something that she wouldn't really spill, just warn him about being over-enthusiastic and over-heroic.

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reka

Does she say anything that would reveal that she's his aunt, or would that be up to Gai?

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estirose

She might mention it, but it's Gai that'll probably keep her from dying by furious pirate captain.

If she had her way, she'd grab Gai and run, but she realizes that it's not going to work. If they found Gai once, they'd find him again.

From:

reka

Or at least furious pirate captain wanting to kill her. Maybe Ahim would do something.

From:

estirose

Ahim probably would, and Marvelous would listen. Hopefully.

At the very least he'd want to get his crew member out of there.

From:

estirose

And I seem to have managed a fic out of this. :)

From:

reka

I enjoyed it. :) I hope it was satisfying to write.

From:

estirose

At least it's out of my system. :)

(Though hopefully Aunt Hanako doesn't cause problems with the ending. If she tells the police that Marvelous & co kidnapped Gai....)

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reka

It depends on a few things, I think: how much she trusts law enforcement, for one. And how much she wants to draw attention to herself and/or the crew. I think it would be unwise to report that, since an investigation could easily show that she drugged and handcuffed her nephew.

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estirose

And she would be careful about that, I think. Of course, the police might also wonder why Marv destroyed her front door and took off with Gai.

I have this image of her telling them that her nephew's a Gokaiger and his crewmates had thought she was kidnapping him by accident. Oops.