You Just Need to Use Your Imagination~ [Back-dated to a few days before the Ball]

[lunchleader]

Hi, everyone!

[Right's a mix of nerves and excitement, because he's finally gonna help fix things, in his mind.]

So, my name's Right. Some of you may have met me before, and I think I owe everyone an explanation. I think some of you saw me like this when we were in Sarmatia, right?

[Everyone will see a live-stream image of what appears to be a cell phone, and a photo of several young adults. The older form of Right is clearly visible in the middle, wearing a red jersey jacket. Then, the phone is lowered, and the 'feed' shifts to reveal the younger form of Right staring into a mirror.]

Well...this is the real me. And I know this is kinda confusing everyone, so I guess I should explain a few things.

[The visual feed cuts off, but he continues to talk.]

It started over a year ago, back home at Subarugahama. My hometown has a Star Festival, where everyone draws out their wishes on lanterns and line them up on the steps leading up to the local shrine. Well, me and my four best friends had a Secret Base outside of town, and we wanted to view the stars together during that night. It was a tough decision for me, since I really love looking up at the stars, but also really love the festival food as well.

Anyway. It was on that night that my town got swallowed up by Darkness. Everyone got swallowed up as well...except me and my friends. That's because we got really strong Imagination, and the Darkness that showed up is very weak to that. So we ended up escaping, and wound up on the Rainbow Line - a train company that literally runs on everyone's Imagination. The President of the Rainbow Line asked us if we could help them fight against the Darkness, which was actually caused by the Shadow Line - an evil group of monsters made up of Shadows formed from everyone's negative feelings. We said yes, and the President used his gignormous Imagination to turn us all into adults.

Only...we were so shocked from being suddenly adults that we actually forgot nearly everything except our names, and that we were childhood friends. But we still got our stuff from the President, so we still agreed to become the heroes against the Shadow Line - The Victorious Imagination, Ressha Sentai ToQger! I'm ToQ #1, by the way.

So, we just traveled on the Shadow Line, trying to regain our memories and to find our hometown again. Along the way, we befriended a Shadow Monster who turned good. We adopted him as a friend and team member, and even gave him a new name - Nijino Akira. We won a ton of battles, freed a lot of towns from the Shadow Line, and had lots of fun along the way, exploring Japan and tasting all the delicious local food... But it wasn't always fun and games. The battle started getting harder, especially when Zed started showing up.

--Oh, yeah, that's right. Zed's the leader of the Shadow Line. He's their Emperor of Darkness, and the main guy who actually had his castle setup right over our hometown. That's why we couldn't find it for the longest time - not until last Christmas, when the Imagination of the world was so strong that it drew the castle out into the real world from the Darkness. That's when we saw our Secret Base right outside it, and we knew that it was our hometown.

But Zed wouldn't give it up. He didn't want to. In fact, he wanted to swallow up all the Light and keep it for himself. Including me. He also ate me whole, and it wasn't for Gritta, another Shadow he had eaten earlier, pushing me out? I wouldn't be here. So, in order to save our hometown, we had to destroy the castle and him. Toughest fight of our lives...but we did it! We whipped his ass and freed everyone.

And because we did that, we got to go back to being kids again. At least until the Trumps dragged me into this mess with all you guys. Still can't figure out how they only let me be an adult when we were in Sarmatia, though... Buuuut that's about it.

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

Zed. Calm your tits. It's not like some of us hadn't already figured out you were the real-life equivalent of a kid's show baddie anyway.

[whydoyoushine]

But I don't want to hear Right's side of it! And to have him broadcasting it at anyone who didn't figure it out!

...and what do you mean, kids' show?

[thornsofmalkav]

I mean, your life is kind of like something they'd make into a show for children. Like, I could totally see you fighting the Care Bears.

[whydoyoushine]

A what bear?

[thornsofmalkav]

A Care Bear. Little pastel cartoon bears, fighting the powers of darkness with feelings and magic stomach tattoos.

[whydoyoushine]

...that sounds horrible.

[thornsofmalkav]

See. You'd totally fight them.

[whydoyoushine]

They don't sound like they need to be fought, they sound like they need to be eradicated.

[thornsofmalkav]

Well, if we end up going to a children's cartoon universe, you can go do that.

[whydoyoushine]

...sure, sounds like a plan.

[He's still a little mystified at all of this.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Enjoy storming Care-a-lot!

[whydoyoushine]

Oh, believe me. When I find it, I will.

[thornsofmalkav]

It's on top of clouds. Like, they have the strange ability to walk on clouds and they built their city on some. I dunno which cloud in particular, though.

Are you going to sack the Forest of Feelings too? That's where their cousins live.

[whydoyoushine]

Figures. That's the sort of stupid thing Imagination lets you do...

And sure, swallowing that up in darkness might be good for a laugh.