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High-voltage rock'n roll heroes. Right to left: Shigeki, Hideki, Satsuki, Tatsumi and Lisa.

"Rocking spirits will never die! Kouden Sentai Rock'nger!"

Kouden Sentai Rock'nger (High-Voltage Squadron Rock'nger) is a Super Sentai fanfic by Andy LA.

Cruising through solar systems and leaving a trail of conquest and destruction, the Technological Empire Psychotronia makes it to Earth, aiming to seize the planet, assimilate its data and then destroy it. However, unbeknownst to them, they have been trailed by a survivor of one of the previously destroyed planets, AKG-KT5M, a humanoid robot whose body serves as repository to the powers of the only fighting force to ever stand up to them before: the Rock'ngers.

Even though they had been killed in action, AKG-KT5M gathers their powers and, faking her own deactivation, uses most of her power reserves to create a shield strong enough to resist the explosion of her homeworld, Cygnus X1. After drifting on the cosmic dust cloud that the planet had become, she regains awareness and trails the invaders, hoping to find warriors able to become the next Rock'ngers... Who just so happened to inhabit Earth, and were not exactly warriors: two high school students and a college freshman, later joined by two other high schoolers. Due to them being musicians in the same rock band, their brain waves matched the previous Rock'ngers very closely, and so they were drafted right as Psychotronia started attacking Earth. Now, as the new Rock'ngers these three (later five) youngsters fight to ward off Psychotronia, dealing with teenage life and keeping their band together in the process.

The fic did exist at one point, in a Brazilian tokusatsu-centered message board (and, therefore, was in Portuguese), and was recovered following a server crash, but a second crash wiped out the board (possibly for good this time), so it's back to unpublished status. The author does not intend on giving up, though, and is currently doing some rewrites (having kept backups of the story) before figuring out where to host it.

The Rock'ngers

• Shigeki Kawakami / Guitar Red: Leader of the team. Lead guitarist of hi/VOLT. Hot-Blooded, as is standard fare for heroes, and a bit of an Idiot Hero. Always keeps a promise until the end.
• Satsuki Kirishima / Bass Yellow: The Lancer. Bassist, and former vocalist. A childhood friend of Shigeki, and a tough-as-nails Tomboy, though she has a soft spot for...
• Hideki Otani / Rhythm Blue: The Smart Guy. Rhythm guitarist. A student at Waseda University, Shigeki and Satsuki formed the band with him as their club activity, when they first met one year ago.
• Tatsumi Shirai / Drum Black: The Big Guy. Drummer. A transfer student from Fukuoka, who happens to be a skateboarding delinquent. Despite his harsh exterior, he has a staunch sense of loyalty. Becomes Vitriolic Best Buds with Shigeki over time.
• Lisa Shinohara / Vocal Pink: The Heart. Vocalist. She seems to be a bit of a ditz, but only plays the part; more because she thinks it's cute than as some form of Obfuscating Stupidity. Seems to be half-American, judging by her level of fluency, but no one knows for sure. Her true identity is Alichain, a cyborg sleeper agent of Psychotronia disguised as a human. However, the ghost in the machine seems to be stronger...
• Kumiko Yoshimine / Keyboard Pink: The Sixth Ranger. Keyboardist. A Shrinking Violet Teen Genius from Tokyo, she joins the team after Lisa's involuntary departure. Once Lisa is brought back, she becomes Silver Keys and joins the band.

Allies

• AKG-KT5M: The team's mentor. Everyone just shorthands her name to "Aki". Due to her looking like just a regular girl wearing a suit of armor, the others can easily pass her off as an acquaintance by putting enough clothes on her (or a cosplay addict, if she's not wearing anything), despite her obvious inhuman stiffness.
• Hinako Takayama: Shigeki and Satsuki's homeroom teacher. She eventually finds out about their heroic forays, but chooses not to tell anyone. The Rock'ngers find out she knows their secret when she helps bring Lisa back.

Technological Empire Psychotronia

• Supreme Deity Computergod: The Big Bad. A mainframe who gained sentience ages ago, in a distant galaxy, and started its conquering campaign from there. Seeks to consume the entire universe and remake it on his image.
• Incursion Commander Neoknight: The Dragon. A robotic entity clad in black armor, which makes him look like a cross between a medieval knight and a Space Marine. Has glowing eyes that can be seen through the helmet visor's grates. Gradually starts becoming The Rival to Guitar Red.
• Destruction Expert Detharika: Shades of a Brute (given her aggressiveness). A gynoid whose specialty is, well, destruction. And she loves what she does.
• Tactical Operator ASX: The Evil Genius. It feeds the Psychotronia information on the planets they are aiming to consume, as well as projecting and programming the Annihilation Agents.
• Infiltration Operative Alichain: Usually sent by Psychotronia as a spy to the planets to be conquered in order to assess and evaluate threats to her masters. Her current cover is Lisa Shinohara, a.k.a. Vocal Pink.
• Machineheads: The Mecha-Mooks.

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Recurring Super Sentai tropes include:

• All Your Powers Combined: Jam Session, an attack only possible when the team of five is assembled.
• By the Power of Grayskull!: "Rock'n Change!"
• Calling Your Attacks
• Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
• Combination Attack: As mentioned above, Jam Session.
• Finishing Move: Destroyer Cannon, a BFG that uses their combined weapons, much like the Zyurangers' Howling Cannon.
• Humongous Mecha: The Rock'n Warrior. The bad guys also use one right off the bat in Track 3, prompting the use of the good guys's HM, and leading to Make My Monster Grow while giving the trope's usage an explanation.
  • Combining Mecha: It is formed by three mecha: the Motor Runner (a motorbike), the Tour Hauler (a van), and the Highway Star (a convertible automobile). These are later joined by Silver Keys' Jet Liner, which can combine with the Rock'n Warrior to form the Rock'n King (yes, modeled after that King).
• In the Name of the Moon: Words in italics are those said in Gratuitous English:
  Shigeki: "Fighting in a blaze of glory! Guitar Red!"
  Satsuki: "Going on to our own tune! Bass Yellow!"
  Hideki: "We will never surrender! Rhythm Blue!"
  Tatsumi: "Even if we fall, we'll stand up again! Drum Black!"
  Lisa: "For a sweet rockin' world! Vocal Pink!"
  Kumiko: "Battling for justice for all! Silver Keys!"

  Shigeki: "Rocking spirits will never die! Kouden Sentai..."

  All: "Rock'nger!"
• Magical Foreign Words
• Make My Monster Grow: The Monsters of the Week here follow a principle similar to the Bikkurium in Go-Onger: they are all programmed with a sub-routine which is triggered as soon as their destruction is imminent. It triggers an explosive component filled with nanobots, and the ensuing blast serves as a catalyst for these nanobots to rapidly expand and restructure the monster's original shape on a larger scale.
• Motif: Rock and roll and many of the things it entails.
  • There's also school and teenage life thrown into the mix. So it's prone to Slice of Life moments.
• Mythology Gag: The whole thing about school and teenage life above is a deliberate throwback to Kousoku Sentai Turboranger and Denji Sentai Megaranger, down to the color scheme (Sixth Ranger included in the latter case).
  • Also, the villains mix elements of the Baranoia and the Vaglass.
• "On the Next Episode of..." Catch-Phrase: "Let's Rock'n!"
• Regular Caller: Mostly Aki, though Hideki did give a danger alert to his teammates once in Track 5 since he was close by and had taken the initiative.
• Robot Buddy: Aki.
• Supervillain Lair: The Death Angel, Psychotronia's ship stealthily parked on the Earth's orbit.
• Theme Music Power-Up
• Transformation Trinket: The Rock'n Bracers, breaking the cellphone trend (even though Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters beat them to the punch).
• Two Girls to a Team: Since Lisa joins the team.

Specific tropes include:

• Adorkable: Hideki. He sometimes gets pretty overboard with his geekiness (like when he first transforms), though not to Nobuo Akagi-like extremes.
• An Asskicking Christmas: Track 9.
• Beach Episode: Track 23, where the gang travels to Shirahama.
• City of Adventure: Subverted. While the focus of Psychotronia's attacks is Tokyo, only one (later two) of the heroes lives there because he attends college there. The other four all live in Saitama, which is about one hour away from Tokyo by train. They only manage to get there in time to fight the monsters because Aki has built-in teleporting capabilities (which are also built into their morphers).
• Club Stub: At the start of the series, Shigeki and Satsuki are the only members of the Rock Club at their school, and thus, are facing closure. They are saved when Tatsumi and Lisa join the club.
• Darker and Edgier: Invoked with the Darkengers, who are meant to look the part in comparison to the Rock'ngers. They even have the names to show for it (BloodRed, ToxicYellow, NightBlue, DeathBlack and... RosePink).
• Dating Catwoman: In Track 21, Kumiko falls in love with a guy who turns out to be one of the Darkengers, DeathBlack. She is disheartened when she learns of this, and as much as she tries to get him off her mind, she cannot. Also falls under All Girls Want Bad Boys, considering she's a Shrinking Violet.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Satsuki hates to be called "Satchan". Yet Shigeki keeps doing it anyway, just to rile her up. When Lisa learns of this she settles for "Saski-chan", which doesn't annoy her.
  • An interesting version is that Tatsumi thinks everyone calling Hideki "Hidekun" in this, but the nicknamed party doesn't mind.
• Expospeak Gag: Used when Hideki finds a way to defeat a monster with springs for arms. He gives a drawn-out and technical explanation about how he kept backing off, forcing the monster to stretch her arms to the limit, until they came back to hit her at full force. Only Lisa manages to understand him.
• Face–Heel Turn: Track 14 reveals that Lisa was a sleeper agent for Psychotronia, and she is captured to be programmed back into being Alichain. She doesn't get back to being a face until Track 20.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: The entire reason why the Sixth Ranger is a girl is to enforce this trope.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Lisa's consciousness surfaces from within Alichain long enough for her to tell her teammates to kill her in order to end her curse. Tatsumi ends up doing it, but she gets better - and back to being good again.
• Hidden Depths: Satsuki is a Sailor Moon fan.
  • Tatsumi is incredibly good with cooking.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: The episodes are designated as "Tracks", and each of them is the name of an album or song.
• Insignificant Little Blue Planet: At the very beginning, Detharika questions the validity of attacking Earth instead of anything bigger (and possibly "more promising"). She quickly changes her mind once she sees how much havoc she can wreak on Earth.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tatsumi takes a while to warm up to his new comrades (and only even tries at Lisa's insistence), preferring to go off on his own (he just isn't an Ineffectual Loner, though, because of Lisa, who had been living with him for a while). Of course, this comes back to bite him on Track 10.
• Lampshade Hanging: We finally get an explanation why the bad guys target specifically Japan: because of the Japanese high tech, which would allow Psychotronia to set up a permanent base there, and because they studied up enough on the Kaiju Defense Force to know they wouldn't strike first, and to know how to overpower them.
• Like Brother and Sister: Tatsumi and Lisa's dynamic revolves around this. She even calls him "Aniki". It's also the reason why he's hit the hardest with The Reveal that Lisa is Alichain.
• Musical Assassin: All of the Rock'ngers, since their weapons are weapon-instrument hybrids, and their personal attacks (Weapon Specials) involve them playing the instrument part of the weapon to stun the enemy or power up the weapon itself (as in 11).
• The Power of Rock: Duh.
• The Psycho Rangers: The Kage Sentai Darkenger, which are a rival rock band used by Psychotronia for their own means.
• Ridiculously Human Robot: It's a bit of a stretch, but Aki does show human-like reactions from time to time. It is hinted also that she's gradually developing emotions as well. We later learn that Lisa has been one all along, too.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Satsuki is dressed in a yukata in Track 24, and looks absolutely stunning in it. As noted, she isn't ugly; she just has little to no vanity.
• Shout-Out: In Track 14, Lisa wears an outfit very reminiscent of Perona's, sans the crown and cape. This is promptly lampshaded by Hideki.
  • Kumiko's surname comes from the Flaming Lips' album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. She was actually supposed to be named "Yoshimi", but the author felt there were too many names ended in "I" already.
• Shrinking Violet: Kumiko, except as Silver Keys. Lisa puts up this front at school so as to not draw attention to her, but give her a mic and it promptly falls apart.
• Subliminal Seduction: The entire plot of Track 22 revolves around Psychotronia fabricating an Idol Singer whose songs drive their listeners into shunning the outside world for her.
• Textual Celebrity Resemblance: An early draft of an episode stated that Satsuki's dad looked like "a Japanese version of Stephen Chow". This was removed from a revision due to being beside the point, but Word of God says the description still fits.
• Three Plus Two: Drum Black and Vocal Pink first appear in Track 5 (even though they have Early-Bird Cameos before that). Tatsumi and Lisa are first shown in the following episode. And the one after, they join the team.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Satsuki and Lisa.
  • That being said, Satsuki is a Tomboy with a Girly Streak, since she likes Magical Girl anime and fills out a yukata very nicely.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Lampshaded by the Monster of the Week in Track 2 after the roll call:
  Stop fooling around and fight!
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: Rather subtle. Being from Fukuoka, Tatsumi normally speaks in a Hakata accent, whose main expression mark is using to instead of ka to mark a question (which is Woolseyed to the interjection "huh?", as in "What're you doing there, huh?"), as well as a number of other things.
• X Meets Y: Super Sentai meets BECK (with dashes of K-On!).

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