Soul Bird
Referred to as the "Gao Heart", Soul Bird (ソウルバード, Souru Bādo?) is special creature that can increase the power of the Gaorangers' Power Animal combinations, excluding Gao Hunter. Originally, Tetomu performed a ritual to turn Kage Mushroom into the Gao Egg (ガオの卵, Gao no Tamago?) that then hatched into a small blue bird that Kakeru named Piyochan (ピヨちゃん, Piyochan?). During the battle against Shuten, Piyochan matured into the Soul Bird to heal the Power Animals and help the Gaorangers defeat Shuten. Since then the Soul Bird has been used as the cockpit in the formations, at the command "Soul Drive, Gao King!" or "Gao Muscle!". When used with Gao King, Animal Heart is upgraded to Super Animal Heart, where the blast attack is not only shot from the Power Animal's mouths, but from a cannon inside the Soul Bird as well. In the Gaoranger Vs. Super Sentai Movie, Super Animal Heart was enhanced by the power from the giant robots of the previous Sentai teams during the battle against Rakushaasa.
When the Vase Org had transported Gao King and Gao Hunter into another dimension, a feather from Piyo escaped and became Yo, an evil, red-eyed version of Piyo, while in place of the trapped Piyo, a pure good Pi was left. Eventually, Tetomu convinced Yo to help the Gaorangers and become the Soul Bird and Gao Muscle Striker was formed for the first time. After the Vase Org was defeated, the two Soul Birds became one again.
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