Laurie wanted some new threads, it wasn't because hiss blue and white striped shirt, jeans and wooden sandals were bad or anything, he just felt like it was time for a little change. However he was in a bit of a pickle, at one point in the past he had seemingly worn every type of outfit before; from formal to armoured, in a robe or completely naked if not for a pair of underpants. The only way he could get something different would be to wear something drastic and brand new.

"I see you have the racoon pretty costume accessory.." spoke Josh thoughtfully whilst stroking a non-existent beard upon his chin.
"Yeah, but I don't use it much…" replied Laurie confusingly. He had just brought together Renshin and Josh who he admired for making very diverse outfits in the past and requested a new outfit from either of them. "What are you suggesting?" he continued "That I don't need a new outfit and I just wear this all day instead of something? How will I use other accessories?"
"It'd be best with the accessory but you could use it with anything…" said Josh grinning to himself at his idea "I would make a Metal Racoon. Racoon helmet the armored all over. Could be the armor design or a robot – a Robot Racoon."
"That's ridiculous!" burst Laurie with a scoff "Why does it have to be a racoon? Are you implying racoons are important to me or something?"
"Spirit animal…!" mumbled Renshin in an excited murmur
"You said you wanted something different!" exclaimed the offended Josh "And that hasn't been done before!
"Well make it a cool animal then, not just one to match an accessory. What about a red fox? That's my favourite animal – or a Lion I like those too."
"You want Fox armor then?"
"No."
"Why even give me other suggestions then, Laurie?!"
"I just don't want another armored skin is all! ..Wait, where'd Renshin go?" Renshin had mysteriously vanished whilst Josh and Laurie squabbled and had contributed very little to the conversation regardless. Josh sighed and shrugged "Well I'm gonna head off, got some skins of my own to make that I know exactly what I want."
"Wait!" beckoned Laurie "You still haven't helped me come up with an idea!" Josh continued down the Guild room steps and flicked his hand back loosely
"I'll make whatever – you just give me the basis for it, all right?" Laurie couldn't argue with that logic, and with that said his farewells.

Laurie was quite busy over the next few days with redecorating his room, taking on some special Megaforce missions and re-inviting old guild members who had left the guild then changed their minds and wanted to come back – Lots of taxing stuff. But when he was finally free for an obscurely late hour when he should be going to bed he organised a meet up once again with Renshin and Josh to come up with skin ideas. Josh had sounded grumpy over the phone and Laurie was worried about meeting up face to face now – He knew Josh had explicitly told him to come up with his own idea, he must be mad about that. But Laurie had no choice, he just couldn't think of anything at all. Laurie stood under the eastern tree in the guildroom waiting for the two to arrive, but it was dark and motionless with an ominous feeling in the air. A deserted guildroom wasn't that uncommon, especially at this hour.
'What's ominous about it?' thought Laurie 'is it really deserted…or is there something…?'
CLANG!
A loud metallic noise from the eastern-most platform directly behind Laurie boomed out of nowhere. Reacting instantly Laurie hid behind the tree so as not to be seen by the mystery invader.
CLANG!
A second loud noise boomed from the same direction. Laurie peeked out quietly to see who had arrived
"Successfully breached the Lunar Guildroom." Said a woman's voice from inside a bright pink spacesuit. She was tapping where her ear would be through her pink helmet and black visor "Thanks for the dropoff, Red."
"Are you sure it's deserted?" said the maker of the second loud clang, a taller man in an identical blue spacesuit.
"Well we don't know for certain," replied the woman "but this hour is usually never busy in general, right?"

The Spacesuits, the bright colours, Laurie knew exactly who these people were – The Val Omusa Unit, formerly a rogue and small organisation known as "The Omusa Unit" but had since been bought out by the Val Sharks and now serving under them. Laurie recalled a story he heard once the only Fabrico, familiar with advanced space technology and weaponry had defeated the members of the Omusa unit,
"Individually, of course" he had added "All at once is impossible – and they have a secret battle tactic when they're all together too…"
"Why do we have to do this?" said the Pink Omusa's whiny voice pulling Laurie back into the present "We don't even get to kill anyone."
"Our orders are to destroy Lunar's base of operations – without a guildroom bigger groups of guild members can never meet up privately." Said Blue Omusa
"Yeah, I already knew that," replied Pink Omusa with a heavy dose of sassiness "I meant why do we have to follow orders?"
"Well the pay and instruction is coming from that black haired guy who looks like Laurie Moon – the guild leader of Lunar right?"
'My Anti?!' thought Laurie stifiling a gasp out loud. Anti-Laurie was a doppleganger who Laurie and some Lunar members encountered at a derelict beach shack who had possessed Lunar members and declared to destroy the guild from the inside. 'He's resurfaced! Of course he's behind the attack!'
"But he would've got his orders from Ponse," continued Blue Omusa wistfully "Ponse from that Masked guy or Colonel Murder and either of those from the top man in charge: Dangerous Bob, right?" Laurie couldn't believe how far back this order of Lunar's guildroom being blown up went, and how small Anti-Laurie's role was in the whole organisation of the Val Sharks.
"True…" muttered Omusa Pink spitefully "Well, I just hate serving the Val Sharks, why can't we be a free unit again?" Omusa Blue's helmet covered his face, but the slow turn of his head toward Omusa Pink portrayed discontent.
"You know why, Black sold our expertise to them in order for constant expenses so we can maintain…" Blue stopped and looked directly at Laurie who jumped out of his skin and hid well behind the tree. "I've been saying too much, Pink. We have a witness. My scanner detects a lifeform behind that tree." Laurie's heart was racing now
"Just shoot at it and set it on fire or something, we're destroying the base anyway." Said Omusa Pink casually
"S-Stop!" cried Laurie unwillingly revealing himself with arms held high in surrender
"WELL, WELL, WELL!" screeched Pink Omusa in a sickly sweet voice all of a sudden "If it isn't Mr. Moon!"
"Enough with the voice…" muttered Blue Omusa "You always do that stupid voice around other people, that's not even how you normally sound."
"It's my villain voice..!" hissed Pink Omusa sounding suspiciously like she did earlier "It strikes fear into the enemy..!"
"It strikes fear into me." Moaned Blue Omusa. "Uh oh, we lost him." Learning from Renshin's disappearance the other day when he and Josh were squabbling Laurie had equally taking the opportunity to vanish from view.
"Wh-Where did he go?!" whined Pink Omusa
"How should I know?"
"This is all your fault!"
"No! What! No it's yours! That stupid voice got me distracted!" Pink and Blue Omusa advanced cautiously on the tree, they couldn't detect any life from around it on their scanners. Blue Omusa raised his laser gun and the two orbited around the base of the tree. Truth be it, Laurie wasn't far at all, he was hidden inside the leaves atop the tree with his hand pressed hard against his mouth. If only the Omusas had looked up whilst scanning they would have noticed him. Where were Josh and Renshin who were supposed to be here not five minutes ago? It wouldn't be long now until the Omusa's spotted him, he was vulnerable, a target waiting to be shot at up in the tree. Holding his breath he closed his eyes terrified and unwilling. If he just closed his eyes then he couldn't see anything and nothing would happen...That's how it works right?