I don't own Buzz Lightyear

Star Command was in chaos during one of the regular meetings that the galactic president had commander Nebula and three other Rangers fell in the line of duty so now they had to figure out who would take over Nebula's command and also deal with the Ranger that no longer had a team since the three Rangers had been Lightyear, Nova, and Booster and the remaining member of the team was XR so yeah he was dealing with the loss of both his team and the commander who he considered his father

"what now we've lost the commander our best Ranger and two rookies that served under him in one blow"

"wait is the galactic president alright?"

"I honestly don't know"

XR speaks up

"the president is fine, while my team was distracting the hornets my job was to get her to safety and get her to safety I did"

"why would they trust a robot in the first place?"

"hey, this robot is a space Ranger just like the rest of you and the reason I was chosen was because due to the fact that the building was pretty much surrounded I was the only one who had the capabilities to make sure she got to safety while my team made the distraction"

well a few days later they met their new commander and he almost shut XR down if not for the fact that the president was there to oversee the transfer and told him that if he so much as touched him he would be fired

"but what if I need to…"

"she means figuratively sir not literarily"

"oh yes ma'am"

"good because that Ranger saved my life and possibly the entire galactic alliance by doing so"

"I understand madam president no one will do anything to Ranger XR while I am in command of this station"

"good now than I have a meeting to attend though I do wish I could attend the funeral for four fine Rangers"

and with that she leaves the station the new commander does something not many people were expecting though to be honest it really shouldn't of been a surprise since he was still new to the station if not to star command

"ok I need two things done, one I need someone to make the preparations for the funeral for the four Rangers we just lost and for another I need a debriefing on how this station works so that I'm ready should anything happen to threaten this station"

and so while XR gives the commander the debriefing with two others three others get the preparations done for the funeral and once the debriefing was over they held the little funeral since there was no body of any of them they had to do with speeches for all three from those that knew them and that was basically XR and those that had served under Nebula and then the new commander had a few things to say

"I'm not commander Nebula and I won't pretend to be either but I will do my best to keep what he had going alive"

well what no one knew was that the funeral was a bit presumptuous since the four Rangers were not dead they were just changed into another life form

"well this could complicate things"

"you think Lightyear"

"sir you're alive we thought you were destroyed when the blast hit you"

"no I was turned into a crab like creature same as you three"

"ok not to put a damper on things but how are we going to get back to the station and reverse this?"

"maybe we can do what you and Buzz tried to do last time we were changed into a creature Mira get to the station and get to the science lab maybe they might have a way to help us"

"not a bad idea Booster except last time Mira and I could fly the shuttle albeit very awkwardly but we could still fly it this time that's not possible"

well suddenly they were fired at by fellow Rangers because they didn't know it but their uniforms were ruined and they were standing right in front of them so naturally the Rangers could only think one thing even if they had been at the station the last time something like this had occurred

"we're being fired at by our fellow Rangers what do we do commander?"

"I suggest a tactical retreat for now"

and that's exactly what they do but just as they are about to leave they find themselves in front of the galactic president and the Rangers stopped shooting not wanting to risk hurting her

"what is going on in here?"

"madam president step away from the creatures"

"what for?"

"they're part of the reason we lost four of our finest Rangers"

"I have a question weren't all of them hit by a blast?"

that makes them stop and think

"you know now that I think about it she's right they were hit by a blast of some sort of green ray"

"you're right but if that's the case than…"

they all stand down instantly and walk over to them

"it's good to know you guys aren't dead"

"hey I wonder if they could write down what we should do next"

they actually manage to do so but unfortunately the other Rangers that weren't currently crab like creatures didn't like the plan for one reason, the four Rangers they had found to be alive still wanted to be considered dead for the time being

"no offense commander Nebula, Rangers but we just had a funeral for you guys why wouldn't we want the news that you're alive to be known and you back to your old selves?"

Buzz explains to them that they wouldn't know the first thing about how to reverse the affects of the ray plus they didn't know what it was that Zurg was planning in the first place so it was just best to be considered dead still until they knew more about what Zurg was planning plus if even Zurg thought they were dead it might give them the upper hand on protecting the galaxy by being there in crab form to fight him

"no offense but what are you going to do, pinch him?"

all four nod yes

"oh"

"no offense but Zurg is tougher than pinching"

"wait how are you four even going to get close to him after all four large crabs are kinda obvious"

well they all look at each other and then Buzz thinks about shrinking to the size of a regular crab and he goes to that size and the others quickly follow suit

"well I think that answers my question"

they get back to a size that they could write with and Buzz suggests staying with the president for the moment so that they could continue to protect her

"that's not such a bad idea actually let's go for it"

"so think we can manage to act like the four of them are still dead?"

"we're gonna have to otherwise we're doomed"

and so a few weeks later there was a big conference that a lot of Rangers had to attend since there was an increase in security due to a lot of dignitaries and no one knew that there were four supposedly dead Rangers there as well a lot smaller than expected and also still crabs but definitely close to the president as she was their priority along with a few other Rangers that were not in on the secret of them being alive