Warning: The usual applies, what ain't mine, ain't mine. Oh, and yes, the Anteater is a parody of both a certain comedian, and a certain cartoon character who was NOT voiced by the comedian, but made to sound like him.
Power Rangers Mana Warriors
Episode 11: The Bikers and the Anteater
The Spaceship
"I found a way to create another staff," said Talia. "I need a big snake."
"Is that not what Lord Zedd did?" asked Riki-Tiki-Kali.
"Yes, it is, except that I shall do what he never could do," she explained. "I shall conquer the Earth!"
"I know what snake you want, it is found in a place the locals call Brazil."
"Then that is where I shall head. But I need to create a distraction. BRAWL, CHOPPER, FRONT AND CENTER!"
The two henchmen entered. "Yes boss?" asked Chopper.
"You will go to Earth, you will get a gang with you, and you will terrorize village after village on motorcycles. Go wild, smash, grab, terrorize, steal, loot, plunder, destroy!"
"That's what we do best," commented Brawl.
"Go down. Get the gang the Burly Boyz, they have motorcycles. Also send down three Androids on speeders."
She turned to Riki-Tiki-Kali. "As for you, I need you to create a monster, in case the bikers should fail. Something with claws."
"I know the monster you have in mind, Rani!" She teleported out.
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Guatamala
The six Rangers, in their unmorphed states, were working with a local group to build village houses and construct a well. Since the locals spoke Spanish and a Maya dialect, Maria was the interpreter.
"They say they are very thankful," said Maria, as Seann, Kakuti, and Jerara were raising the final wall of the last building.
"One thing gets me," said Durgha. "Someone has been awfully quiet."
"Yes," said Niu, as she plugged in a generator. "Nothing for a week, what gives?"
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Somewhere in Brazil
A peaceful town had its peace shattered by a lone brick tossed through the windows of a general store. A group of ugly aliens with big mouths and leather jackets yelled, and then they fired their guns that were attached to their bikes.
"TIME FOR SOME ULTRA-VIOLENCE!" shouted Brawl, as he jumped out of his sidecar and began hitting innocent bystanders with his cane. A few local tough men came out to stop them, but they were stopped. A man even aimed his rifle at them, but it was blasted out of his hands by a laser blast from one of the bikes.
"Let's move on," suggested the Burly leader.
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Elsewhere, Talia had set her own staff down on the ground, and noticed an anaconda. She picked it up, and it hissed. She straightened it out, and chanted. It started to glow, and then it turned into a metallic staff with a Z at the end. She began chanting, and held up her other staff. There was a flash, and they merged. Her old staff now had a metal Z encircled by the ring. "I have the power," she said.
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In the same country, deep in a jungle, Riki-Tiki-Kali was sitting down while playing the tables. A giant anteater wandered into her view. An ornate symbol glowing in green appeared beneath him. He started to glow. Riki-Tiki-Kali chanted. The anteater grew and then mutated. It was now standing on its hind legs, and wearing a 70's style suit with an open-necked shirt, and a fedora on his head.
"Yes, yes, I'm here already," he said, with a Jackie Mason accent. "So what am I to do?"
"You shall wait for now, until you are needed, then you will destroy the Power Rangers!"
"Phooey, I want to do it now."
"You will wait, that is an honor!"
"Oy, don't get your dress in a knot, I'll wait, and then I'll kick their tuches! But what is there to do? Eat?"
"Then eat."
"Eat she says. With a schnozzle like this, I can only catch ants and spaghetti. Ok, I realize I'm a little bigger now, but still, it ain't easy bein' an anteater!"
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Guatamala
The Rangers were eating at a local restaurant. They were just finishing their pastries for desert. Darius was with them. A beep sounded.
"Yes?" said Darius. He nodded. "You have to go to Brazil, I'll cover the bill. First, go see Fetu!"
The Rangers knew what that meant. They found a secluded spot outside, and teleported.
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The Star Chamber
The Rangers landed in the chamber. "There is terrible news," said Fetu. The Viewing Globe showed the carnage that was being repeated in rural Brazil.
"How do we stop them?" asked Niu. "If they keep going around and around, where do we teleport?"
"There's what I was doing a few days ago," said Durgha. "Zotio said there'd be days like these, so I worked on a surprise for all of us."
"What is it?" asked Maria.
"The answer is THIS!" replied Fetu, as she pushed some buttons. A wall opened up to reveal six motorcycles. "These are the Manacycles." Each one was colored differently, and had a head attached to the front, corresponding to the Ranger that drove it. There was a Lioncycle, a Dingocycle, a Quetzalcycle, a Turtlecycle, a Stagcycle, and a Tigercycle. "I used some of my powers to infuse these with the power of mana, and they can link with your powers. I wish there was time for training, but now is the time for action. They will be sent along shortly. It's MORPHIN' TIME!"
"BLUE STAG!"
"GREEN TURTLE!"
"YELLOW QUETZAL!"
"ORANGE DINGO!"
"RED LION!"
"WHITE TIGER!"
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Brazil, along a Local Highway
The Rangers appeared, just in time to see a group of Burly Boyz zoom past them. Their Manacycles appeared. They jumped onto them, and started them up. They began racing along the highway. Soon they came up to some Burly Boyz, and blasted them from behind. They flew off their motorcycles, and lay on the sides of the road. Then they came upon two motorcycles with Burly Boyz on them, and Androids in the sidecars. The Androids rotated their heads, and fired blasts.
"ONCOMING!" warned White. They were hit by some of the blasts, and had scorch-marks on their suits to prove it. "It's a good thing these bikes were built for combat!" Her Tigercycle opened its mouth, and a charge built up. It fired a white blast, destroying one of the motorcycles. Its sidecar skidded off to the side.
Red charge up his lion-cycle, and a stream of red energy destroyed the other cycle.
"This is too easy," said Blue. Just then they were ambushed from behind by more Burly Boyz.
"Off the road, Rangers, or we'll blast you!"
"No," spoke Saba to White, "hold me up, and face me towards them, we'll blast them!" White did so.
"Don't make me laugh, that is a sword. You don't bring a sword to a gunfight!"
Saba's eyes blasted at the bikers, destroying a couple of their bikes and even hitting a couple of them.
"You were saying?" asked Saba.
Soon the Rangers came to an impromptu roadblock. Thrashers and Bikers were waiting on the other side, some with guns ready. The Rangers made their bikes jumped, and they hit the soldiers on the other side. They came to a town, and Bikers ambushed them from side roads. The Rangers were shaken by blasts, and other Bikers tried to bump into them, but they were fought off. Finally they came upon the leader of the Burly Boyz, along with Chopper and Brawl. They were riding a combined "H-formation" bike, with the Burly leader and Chopper riding the bikes on the sides, and Brawl in the sidecar in the middle. A mini-gun opened fire, and the Rangers went to the sides.
"Arming missile," said Orange. A missile fired at the side, throwing out the three. The Burly leader produced a heavy gun. Brawl set his cane to 'chuck mode. Chopper had a sword.
"My appy-polly-logies," said Brawl. "I must oobivat you!"
"Never," said Yellow, as she clashed against him, using her club. She was hit with a couple of well-aimed blows.
"Surrender, devotchka!" He swung at her again, but missed. She tripped him.
Chopper dueled against Green, and didn't have an advantage, until his blade started to glow, and he fired energy from it.
"You want a fancy blade?" asked White. She threw Saba at him, hitting him and making him drop his blade.
Red and Blue took on the Burly leader, who fired blasts at them. They jumped to different sides, and came at him in an inverted V formation.
Blue shouted "STAG CHARGE," lowering his head.
Red shouted "Lion Rush," and did the same thing, with his hands in front of him, with claws appearing. The two pummeled the leader, who collapsed and them exploded. Chopper and Brawl retreated.
People peered through windows and doorways, and then cheered loudly.
"We did it," said Green.
"Don't be so certain, yutzes!" The Anteater appeared. "They sent me here to kill you, that's what they did!"
"You…you look like an aardvark," said White.
"Aardvark? AARDVARK? Aardvark schmardvark, I'm an anteater, you schmendrick! Oy, it ant easy bein' an ainteater, I tell ya!"
"What?" asked Blue.
"You knew very well what I meant, Ranger!"
"You're finished," shouted Blue.
"We will prevail," added Green.
"We are Power Rangers," added Yellow.
"End of the line," added Orange.
"So surrender," added Red.
"Because we will triumph," finished White.
"Soyrender? Soyrender, she says! What do I look like, a hippie? You have to fight me!" He held his hands in front of him, and claws came out. "So you're gonna fight? If you're gonna fight, fight already, don't stand here like a bunch of schmucks!"
"Be careful what you wish for," warned Red.
"Wish on THIS!" He held his hands outward, and then fired his claws as though they were missiles. "If only I could chomp on a candycane-colored chimney. Oy, I'd finally get some iron in my diet." He then armed and fired his claws again, knocking them all down. "What did you expect, some flashing red lights?"
White dashed towards him. He aimed his snout, and a long tongue shot out and grabbed he. She was held and shaken. She tried to reach Saba, but the tongue held her arms in place to prevent that.
"Let her go," demanded Orange.
"Soitenly!" He slashed her with his claws, and then rapidly unrolled her, sending her at Orange. "Well what did you expect?"
The rest of the rangers prepared to attack. The Anteater sprayed sticky liquid from his snout, immobilizing the Rangers.
"It's hard to move," said Yellow.
"That's kind of the idea," said the Anteater.
"I may be able to cut you free," said Saba. White was able to reach him, and with the head aimed, Saba was able to shoot eyebeams to cut the liquid off them.
"Phooey! That makes me ANGRY! I'll moider you!" He ran at hem with his claws extended and slashed them. He turned around, and poked with a blade that came out of his snout. "Pretty impressive, eh? That's the problem with monsters today, most of them don't have this."
"Perseverance pays off," commented Green.
"But having the right weapon pays off even more!" He straightened his snout. He fired rapid-fire bullets at everyone as though his snout was a machine gun.
A group of Thrashers appeared. "So, what do you want us to do?" asked one.
"I just want you to sit on your tuches and yodel! No, putzes, I want you to fight the Rangers!"
The Thrashers all charged. The Rangers whipped out their guns and fired, holding them off. White was doing likewise by channeling energy into balls and launching them "Street-Fighter" style.
"Pyramid Formation," said Blue. The Rangers, except White, formed a pyramid, and pointed their guns at the middle. They fired, and the projectile appeared. It was launched, and Saba fired his eye-beams at the orb, encasing it in white. It crashed into the Anteater, sending him backwards. "Let's finish him!"
"Do me a favor and BLOW already!" The Anteater blew compressed air through his snout, knocking the Rangers out of formation and onto the ground. White charged him, and once again he used his tongue, but she had Saba ready, and slashed the tongue. "Oww, oww, enough already! That hoits!" Dodonga appeared. "Finally. Well don't just stand there, you nudnik, you think this is some show? Am I a coicus attraction? MAKE WITH THE GRENADE ALREADY!"
"Sorry, Rangers, you know the drill," said the slave.
"What, you trying to schmooze with them? THROW IT!" He began stomping. Dodonga meekly threw the grenade. It exploded, and a vent of steam made him grow. "Ah! I am now the big Anteater in town! Hold still, so I can nosh on ya!" He bent forward, and whipped out his tongue. He was able to grab all of the Rangers, except for the White. "I don't care whether or not they're kosher, they can't cause any more grief!"
"TIGERZORD!" shouted White, holding up her right hand. The Tigerzord came running onto the battlefield, and White leapt into the cockpit. "TIGERZORD, POWER UP!" It growled in reply. She plunged Saba into the slot. "ENGAGE WARRIOR MODE!" It transformed into the warrior mode.
"You musn't destroy him while the Rangers are inside," warned Saba.
"What am I to do?" asked White.
"Hold him off. If nessescary, use a water attack, but wait until the right moment!"
"How will they get out?"
"Patience, Durgha, patience!" The Anteater charged with his claws. Tigerzord held him off with its sword.
"You have a lot of chutzpah to continue fighting. Soon you'll be joinng your friends, you momellah momzer!" shouted the Anteater.
"Don't be so certain, Aardvark!" shouted White.
"It's anteater, ANTEATER! Oy, you're such a yutz! And the Rangers can't help you, I wonder how anyone can escape my stomach!"
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Inside the Anteater's Stomach
"Great, just what I always wanted to be," said Yellow sarcastically, "lunch!"
"Well, we can't leave here undigested," said Orange. "The bad news is, acid is starting to seep in, and even with our suits, we can't resist the hydrochloric acid forever!"
"How else could we get out?"
"Why don't we give him indigestion?" suggested Green.
"And at the same time, blast away at the stomach lining," added Orange.
"Prepare your blasters," ordered Blue. They all did. "FIRE!" They blasted in different directions. At first nothing happened, but then smoke filled the room, and holes were starting to form.
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Outside
The Anteater fired claws at the Tigerzord. "We can't last forever," said White.
"You won't have to, LOOK!" said Saba. The Anteater was starting to turn red, and smoke was rising. He was blindly flailing his hands and feet. "Perhaps the shock of water will force him to vomit out our friends!"
White grabbed the orb marked "Water" in Sanskrit, and tossed it into the chute. A mixture of frigid water and ice erupted from the mouth of the tiger's head.
"Oy, what do I look like, a Popsicle?" screamed the Anteater. "I'm feeling nauseous, I think I'm going to brech!" He shot all of the Rangers out of his snout. As soon as they were out, before they even landed, they called upon their Manazords. Then they teleported into them. "Anybody got a hot water bottle?"
"Seann here, have Stag, will fight!"
"Niu here, Turtle is powered up, Anteater's powered down!"
"Maria in the Quetzal. The only thing he will eat is his defeat!"
"Jerara in the dingo. Stomach upset will be the least of his worries!"
"Kakuti in the Lion, heart of the warrior, defeat of the Anteater!"
"Let's bring it together," suggested Seann. They combined into the Mana Megazord.
Meanwhile, Dodonga looked up at the Anteater, and focused. Green pieces of energy flowed from his ears and eyes at the Anteater.
"I don't know why, but I feel great again!" He sprayed mucous from his snout at the Megazord, entangling it. He launched claws at the Megazord, damaging it. He then jumped up, pointed his tail downwards, and his leggs up. He began spinning rapidly, moving towards the Megazord, slashing with its claws and feet. "Just remember, Rangers, I ain't your bubby's monster!" He kept spinning. "I'll break open this can, and then nosh on gefilte Ranger!"
"Power's down to forty," said Orange.
"But he cut us free," said Green.
"We should combine," said White, through the intercom, "ride the Tiger!"
The Megazord jumped onto the back of the Tigerzord, and the tail/sword teleported into the left hand of the Mana Megazord. The Mana Blade appeared in the other.
"Coises! Don't you Rangers ever give up?"
"NEVER!" shouted the Rangers in unison from the Megazord's cockpit. The Tiger ran up to the Anteater, and just as he was about to whip with his tongue, leapt to the side, while the Megazord slashed with both swords charged. The combination came back, again with the swords.
Lightning crackled around the Anteater. "Coises!" Phooey! I have a splitting headache. Anyone got a magic wand and a moon palace?" He fell backwards. "Oy Gevalt! I'm farklempt. Here I am, a powerful monster, and I'm defeated by the Rangers like this. Phooey! You'll pay for this, Rangers!" He then exploded.
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Guatamala, that evening
Seann ran up to Maria. "Maria, there's something I want to tell you," began Seann.
"Yes?" started Maria.
"I…I…I love you."
"I like you too."
The two hugged.
Niu saw this, and began to cry. But she tried not to. "He chose who he did," she told herself.
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The Spaceship
"Something drastic has to be done," said Riki-Tiki-Kali. "I suggest that we infuse powers into someone worthy on Earth."
"But who?" asked Talia.
"There is a group of hate-filled people on Earth, currently in jail. They are considered among the most dangerous, and the most demented. With power infused into them, and the Siulo slaves, they could become even more powerful!"
"Give the slaves to them?"
"Yes. That way, we can call General Taurus here!"
"I don't like that idea," said General Mayhem. "General Taurus is a puffed up idiot who doesn't know a thing about combat, and babysitting those slaves has made him softer."
"You don't have to like it," said Talia, "YOU JUST HAVE TO DO IT!"
"Yes Ma'am," he replied. Then he spoke softly to himself. "But I'm still better than Taurus!"
Author's Notes: Well, that was an interesting chapter. I decided that the Tigerzord would have more powers than it did before. Also, the Anteater is a funny monster. Chances are, he'll be back. Also, things get darker next chapter. Much darker. The demise of the Anteater was the demise of an easier time for the Rangers. A group of evil terrorists will be set free by Talia's forces. However, the Rangers will be distracted, because the Order of the Destiny Star will play another card. Someone who is dear to Zotio and Fetu will be part of a trap.