Zoorangers

by Bionichute

When a group of mysterious creatures start wreaking havoc across Zootopia, Nick and Judy find themselves thrust into a legacy of heroes they never knew about, and must use new powers in order to save not only the city, but their whole universe. Features numbers of characters from across Super Sentai history. (Updates whenever I finish an episode)

35. Episode 34 - Seeing Yellow

Episode 34 – Seeing Yellow

A few months ago…

The fennec let out a snore. It was around midnight, and he was passed out in the front of his van. He had been busy looking for a new job, hoping to make his life a little bit better and not just mooch off of Nick for the rest of his life.

It made him feel sick, having to live off of someone. At least before they had worked together, instead of just the fox doing all the work.

He had passed out after a long day, a car magazine hanging loosely in his paws, and his shirt off. Suddenly, there was a loud banging noise.

His ear twitched in response, and he sputtered in his sleep, but he didn't respond.

The banging got louder.

After a moment, Finnick dropped the magazine, and rubbed his eyes. He sat up from the seat, and the banging suddenly started up again, shocking him awake.

"Augh, WHO IS IT!?" He shouted, hopping down from the seat and heading to the back of the van. He quickly put on his black and red shirt, and kicked the door open.

There was nobody there.

He glanced around, confused. Who would come to his van in the middle of the night?

Who would come to his van, period? Well, aside from Nick.

He glanced around the alleyway he had parked in, there was definitely nobody there. He couldn't even get a smell, and there was no evidence of anyone being there.

Aside from a peculiar briefcase that sat on the ground.

He hopped down from the back of the van, and examined it. Completely silver, with a black handle. It had a strange marking on it, shaped like a V. He tapped it with his foot, and nothing happened.

The fennec groaned, before climbing back into his van. He grabbed his baseball bat, and slid the handle under the briefcase's handle, lifting it up and placing it in the van.

Personal experience had told him that opening a mysterious briefcase probably wasn't a good idea. He circled around it, examining it some more. He couldn't hear anything, so it wasn't a time bomb.

He let out a tired sigh, and pushed the briefcase into the corner of the van. He'd figure out what to do with it tomorrow.

---

Present day…

"So, I see your plan went… a little bust." Enter mocked as Long passed by in the cavern of the base.

The dragon warrior hadn't been out of his quarters for nearly a full month. Enter hadn't even had time to mock him before he secluded himself.

"Indeed, it did." Long said, stopping in his tracks. "And it also seems like out little game is over."

Enter let out a small "tch". He had wanted to figure out something to do with that Savage character, but his destruction made that hope an impossibility.

"I doubt you could've come up with anything to do with him." Long admitted. "He was a little hard to work with."

"Seems like you're the one who's harder to work with." Enter retorted. "What with you betraying him and leaving him in captivity to follow your own plans."

"I feel like its obvious I'm not the type of guy you can trust." Long said. "Now, if you excuse me, I have work to do."

Enter raised an eyebrow, and looked back at Long as he started to walk away. "Work?" He asked, intrigued. "What kind of work?"

"Nothing." Long replied. "Just a little something I've been planning."

"Hopefully it goes better than your last plan…" Enter muttered.

There was a sudden booming throughout the base.

"ENTER" Cried the voice of The Omnipotence. "YOU ARE CHOSEN. COME TO THE MAIN HALL IMMEDIATELY"

He sighed in relief as he started down the cavern. It had felt like he hadn't done anything in ages, it'd be nice to have a bit of fun for a while.

He stepped into the main hall, the massive pillar still glowing red. "What is it, le maître?" Enter asked, though he knew what it was already. It was the polite thing to do.

"CAUSE CHAOS" The Omnipotence boomed. "KYUEMON AND YABAIBA PUT UP A SPIRITED EFFORT LAST TIME, BUT I REQUIRE MORE CHAOS ENERGY IN A MORE EFFICIENT MANNER"

"Efficiency is my middle name." Enter said with a chuckle. Red data particles started to surround him, before he transformed into his cheetah disguise. He gave a bow, and teleported off.

---

"So, you stopped a zombie apocalypse and nobody noticed?" Finnick asked with a chuckle. He was sitting in the front seat of the van.

"Yes, I did." Nick replied from the back of the van. "This was last week, it was on the news."

The fox had arrived at Finnic's van, almost impromptu. Aside from a brief call a few days ago, there was basically no warning. Apparently, he wanted to play catch-up, since he hadn't seen the fennec that much for the last few months. It kind of reminded Finn of the old days, but it was also kind of just annoying for him to be here.

He didn't entirely mind the company, but he was hoping to spend his day off… alone.

"Uh huh, yeah." Finnick said, rolling his eyes. "You super hero types always go through weird shit like that?" He bluntly asked.

"Yes, yes we do." Nick said. "That was probably one of the least insane thing's that's happened to us, I never even told you about the time me and Judy swapped bodies…"

The fennec burst out laughing. "WHAT!?" He blurted out after his fit of laughter. "HOW'D THAT EVEN HAPPEN!?"

"There was lightning involved, and-"

"Oh man, that must've been HILARIOUS!" He continued. "Li'l bunny Nicky!"

"Oh, so you believe that, but you don't believe in the zombies." Nick said. "Of course."

"I'll believe anything if it has you getting horribly embarrassed." The fennec continued. "Any other embarrassing things you have to tell me?"

"Not that I want to say aloud." The fox scoffed. He then let out a sigh. "Listen, Finn, let's not talk about me anymore, what have YOU been doing?"

"Working."

"And?"

"That's basically it." He continued. "Been working at Buggaburger the last couple months, you know?"

"I know that." Nick said. "I'm the one who helped you get the job interview. I want to know what you've done OUTSIDE of work. Have you gotten any new friends, gone out and done anything, you know?"

"Nope." He said, pretty bluntly, and sounding a bit saddened. "Just been going to work, and then sleeping."

"That… that sounds terrible." Nick admitted, sitting down on the mattress that lined the van's back.

"It's called getting a service job, Nicky." Finnick continued. "Your first job was being an officer, there's a big difference between that and flipping burgers."

"Hey, it gets boring on the force some days." Nick said. "I mean, not recently, but…"

"You're a super hero, Nick." Finnick scoffed. "Of course your life is more interesting, it comes with the territory."

"Hey, I wasn't expecting to become a super hero." Nick said. "It just kind of happened, and it felt like the right thing to do."

"I'm not trying to shame you for it, man." Finnick said. "We just have really different lives right now. You've got all these new mammals in your life, I'm still trying to work up to having a house. I think it might just be better if we stop trying to keep this friendship alive right now."

"Finn, I'm not going to abandon anyone else again." Nick said, getting back up. "We've been friends since middle school, I can't just leave you."

"Just leave me until you clean up this whole monster business, alright?" He said. "I just want to get my own life sorted out before I get into anything else, got it?"

Nick sighed. "Alright." He muttered. "Guess I'll be heading off, I have work to do-"

He paused for a moment as he spotted something in the back corner of the van. A silver briefcase. He hadn't noticed it when he came in.

"Hey, Finn, heading out of town for a bit?" Nick joked as he tried to lift the briefcase up. It was remarkably heavy, and he quickly had to put it back down.

"What?" Finnick looked back, and spotted the briefcase. "Oh yeah, that thing. Weird story."

Nick started to examine the briefcase as the fennec went on. "Kind of just showed up a few months back, thought it might've been a bomb, but it hasn't gone off yet. Wouldn't suggest opening it, though."

Nick looked over it, it seemed very familiar. He then noticed something, a very peculiar V-shaped marking.

Wait a second.

This was exactly like the briefcase he and Judy got when they first became Zoorangers.

He steadily moved his paws to the latches, and slowly lifted them. He carefully opened the lid, trying not to make any noise. He looked into the case.

There was a blank Zoolizer, just like the ones they had.

He slowly shut it, without Finnick noticing. "So, this just, uh, showed up one day?" He asked, a bit nervous.

"Yeah."

"Guess I better leave it here." Nick said, standing back up, still sounding a bit shaken. "Hey, I have to… go. Right now."

"Yeah, you said something about work, right?" The fennec asked. "Probably don't want to make your girlfriend upset."

"Right, yeah!" He said, giving a double thumbs-up. "I'll see you soon, bye Finn!"

The fox quickly burst out of the van, and ran down the alleyway. Finnick got up, and watched, a bit confused, as the fox ran off.

"What a weirdo."

---

"You're kidding me." Judy said, unamused at what the fox had just told her.

"I am absolutely not kidding you." Nick responded.

Max casually walked into the room, not hearing what the two were talking about. Judy sat on the couch, looking livid, while Nick paced around in front of her, looking more worried.

"How could HE be the last member of our team?" She sighed, smacking her paw into her face.

"Look, I'm just as confused as you are, I don't-"

"Did I miss something?" max asked as he walked into the living room. "Something super important about the last member of our team? Did you guys leave me out of that?"

"We were going to tell you once we sorted this all out." Judy explained. "This is kind of personal for Nick."

"Its personal for both of us." Nick corrected. "But yeah, we found our last member."

"Cool, who is it?" Max asked, cheerfully.

"It's uh…" Nick paused and cleared his throat. "…My old partner, Finnick."

Max blinked a few times, out of confusion. Not confusion out of the actual statement, but confusion of why they hadn't told him. "I've met Finnick, guys." He continued with a small laugh. "Why didn't you let me join in on this?"

"There's a lot more going on than that." Nick continued. "Me and Judy were about to talk about if he should be our new member."

"Personally, I don't think he should." Judy said. "He's a violent hobo, basically, I don't really think he'll be able to help us that much hero-ing wise." She quickly let out a sigh. "But if its who AkaRed chose, then I guess there isn't much we can do, right?"

"Yeah, that red god guy chose you two, and that worked out pretty well, right/" Max said.

"Well, I don't want him to join at all!" Nick said. "He's got a lot going on right now, and he could get in some serious trouble if this takes over his life." The fox then quickly glanced at Judy. "But on the other paw, I think he'd make a valued member of the team. Little guy's got a lot of strength in there."

"Okay, you have a point there too, Nick." Max admitted. The wolf started to pace around for a few moments, thinking of something. "Why don't we just let him test the powers out?" Max suggested.

"What does that mean?" Judy asked. "You mean, like, a trial run?"

"Yeah, let him have the powers for a mission, and see what he thinks after." The wolf continued. "That way, Finnick can figure it out himself."

"I guess that could work." Judy said. "Having him here for a day couldn't harm any of us, right?"

"Yeah, especially not on his day off." Nick said. "I'll call him up."

The fox quickly pulled out his phone, and started to dial the fennec's number. "Why the hell are you calling me, Nick?" Finnick responded almost instantly after he picked up.

"I need you to come over to my… my place." Nick said.

"Jesus fuck, you were just here an hour ago!" Finnick yelled. "Why should I come over to your place!?"

"Its an emergency, Finn." Nick said, rubbing his forehead. "I just need you here as soon as possible, got it?"

"Ugh, fine." The fennec growled over the phone. "I hate that I'm such a pushover for you. Be there in thirty minutes."

"Alright, see yo-" Finnick hung up before the fox could finish. He slipped the phone back in his pocket. "Okay, hopefully everything goes well, and Finnick doesn't decide to bash our faces in."

"Has anybody told him that his voice is terrifying?" Max asked, letting go of his pulled down ears. "Because it is."

"Yeah, he gets that a lot." Nick said, before turning to Judy. "Surprised you haven't said anything about it, Ms. Sensitivity."

"I lived in a house with four-hundred other bunnies, I can handle loud." She said.

---

"Let's do this quickly before the cops show up." The adolescent weasel said to his friends. "Hand me one of those."

The teenage rhino with him quickly tossed over a spray can, which the weasel caught. It was nearly as large as him, however, but he could still spray it.

"You guys sure we should be doing this?" A nervous leopard asked as the other two shook their spray cans.

"Don't be a loser." The rhino said, quickly starting to spray something on the wall of the abandoned building in front of them. "We just have to finish before anyone reports us."

"Yeah, but I'm still not really sure-"

"Bonjour, my friends!"

The three screamed as they turned to face a fully-grown cheetah. It looked a bit odd, with completely tan fur and a strange pair of goggles resting on its head.

"Oh, hello there, sir!" The weasel said. "We were, uh, just, not, doing anything right here!"

"Please don't report us." The leopard pleaded. "My mom will kill me."

"Don't worry, I won't report you three." The cheetah said. "I'm a bit of a troublemaker myself. Toss me one of those cans, and I'll show you what I can do."

The rhino glanced down at the weasel, who quickly motioned his head, suggesting the rhino follow along with it. He took a gulp, and tossed the spray can over.

"Ooh, magnifique." The cheetah said as he caught the can. He quickly held up something that looked like a credit card, and jabbed it into the can.

It started to glow as he tossed it to the ground. The three teens started to back off as the can somehow shifted and transformed.

The spray can's new form revealed itself. Its body was covered in strange, random patterns, which seemed to form into an eye searing mess of primary colors, purple, and gunmetal steel. The patterns were broken up by the steel linings on its chest, inner legs, inner arms, and neck, the rest of it covered in the mishmash of colors.

Despite its body being overall humanoid shaped, its head was bizarre. An elongated tube of a neck that ended at a stump of a head, the only things resembling facial features being two split visors, and a blue jewel in the middle of its forehead. On both sides of the head were two spray can sprayers, each coming out at a sideways angle.

The monster's chest had an odd V-shaped insignia on it, and its shoulders had two spray can bodies coming out of them. Two hoses seemed to connect them and the head together as well. Its arms were fairly simple, but its left one had a large device strapped around its wrist. The device seemed to be an oversized spray can itself, with a tube at the end for more precise spraying. It was connected by a joint, allowing it to move down and not get in the way of the monster's hand. The can itself was also covered in the same color mishmash, and had some odd writing on the side.

The monster's legs moved down into full leg armor at the knees, which splayed out at bronze ends. The feet were of a similar shade of silver, but had small dotting of color over them. The feet also had large, thin spikes at its toes.

"Yo yo yo, Sprayroid Two in da house!" In shouted. The teenage mammals screamed again, and quickly ran off. "Aw man, didn't get to show those homies my talents!"

"Sprayroid Two." Enter said, causing the monster to spin around.

"Hey, if it ain't my homie, Enter!" He said. "Hows life been treating you the last few years?"

"I don't really care enough to tell you." Enter followed. "But you have a mission to do, got it?"

"Oh, yessir!" The monster said, quickly giving a salute. "Whaddya want me to do?"

"Just do what you do best." The cheetah explained. "Cause some trouble with your… special skills."

"Oh, you mean I get to go tag some places?" He asked, excitedly. "Count me in, I am totes down for that!"

"Can you please stop talking like that." Enter groaned.

"Talk like what?"

---

Thirty minutes had passed, and like Finnick had said, he was there. The van pulled up to the house, and he got out. The fennec examined the place. Pretty white-collar from the outside, not the kind of place he'd expect Nick to buy.

As he walked up the driveway, the door opened and Nick came running out. "What kind of emergency is this?" Finnick asked as he walked up.

"A very important one." Nick said. He glanced over at the van. "We need that briefcase."

The fennec glared at him. "Did you snoop around in my stuff?"

"What? No, of course I didn't!" The fox nervously said with a chuckle.

"Then how do you know this involves that briefcase?"

"I just… I know, alright?"

The two headed over to the van, Finnick hopping into the back and lifting the briefcase up. It was nearly as large as his entire body, it was amazing he could even lift it, the fennec didn't even seem to be having any trouble as he hopped back down from the back of the truck.

"How are you actually managing to lift that thing?" Nick asked as Finnick used his back to close the van doors.

"I'm a lot more fit than you are, Nicky." He chuckled. "Maybe I you bothered going to the gym, you'd be able to lift things that aren't lighter than paper."

Nick grunted in response, and they walked back up to the house.

"So, this your place?" Finnick asked.

"Technically it is a place where I am living." Nick answered. "Bit it isn't 'my place'."

"Wait, so you're mooching off someone?" The fennec chuckled as he hopped up the stairs. "AGAIN!?"

"Yes, because I haven't had any financial income over the last few months, I have been forced to go entirely off the good will of one of my friends." Nick explained. "It isn't mooching when someone offers."

"IT TOTALLY IS!"

Nick tried to ignore the laughing fennec as he jumped up to grab the doorknob, and then pushed it open.

The two walked in, Finnick still laughing. "Didn't know Finnick liked our jokes that much." Judy said as they entered the living room.

"He doesn't, he just thinks my misery is hilarious." Nick replied.

Finnick quickly calmed down, and got a grumpier expression on his face as he looked around, dropping the briefcase to the carpeted floor, handle pointing towards the couch. "So, the hell do you guys want me for?" he asked. "Doesn't seem like an emergency to me."

"It isn't technically an emergency." Max replied, the wolf sat on the couch next to Judy. "But we do need you here."

"Hold it, you the guy who owns this place?" Finnick asked, interrupting Max before he could continue.

"Uh, yeah, I own the building."

Finnick started to laugh again, much to the fox's annoyance. "You seriously live with your whole superhero team!?" He laughed. "What are you guys, the Super Roomies!?"

"You can see why I don't want him joining." Judy whispered to max, who gave a quick nod.

"Finn, can you please stop for a second?" Nick asked politely.

The fennec stifled his laughter for a moment. "Yeah, sorry, this whole thing's just too great."

"Okay, now that you aren't going to laugh for another thirty seconds," Nick started, walking to the other side of the breifcase. "I need you to open that briefcase."

"You snooped at my stuff, didn't you?" Finnick asked as he walked up to the briefcase.

"I did, yes."

The fennec groaned, before unlatching the briefcase. Judy and Max got down from the couch, and watched as he opened it.

"Oh my god." Judy said, not really believing her eyes.

"You've got to be kidding me." Nick muttered.

"Hell's this?" Finnick let out.

Inside the briefcase was, like Nick had managed to catch a brief glimpse of before, a blank Zoolizer placed in a black foam mesh to keep it safe. Oval shaped and completely greyed out, waiting for someone to wear it so it could take shape.

Unfortunately, this one seemed far too big to fit on Finnick's tiny wrists.

"Seriously, what the hell is this?" Finnick repeated, lifting the wrist device out of the black mesh. He had to use both of his paws in order to do so.

"It's a lot larger than the other ones." Max said.

"What other ones?" Finnick asked, obviously very confused. "Can someone explain to me what the hell's going on!?"

"So, Finn, as it turns out…" Nick paused, and rubbed his paws together, the fennec shooting him a glare. He spent a few seconds trying to find a good way to ease him into the knowledge of being a Zooranger.

"You're a Zooranger now." Judy bluntly finished, a smug look on her face. She shot a quick look at Nick, telling him she definitely did that on purpose.

"Excuse me?" The fennec said, waving the device around. Suddenly, a grin crept across his muzzle. "Oh, I get it, this is some kind of prank, right?" He said, walking away, from the three, still carrying the Zoolizer.

"What? No it isn't-"

"Yeah, good attempt on you, Nick." Finnick interrupted. "Just because its been years since you pulled one on me doesn't mean I don't know how to read them."

"Finnick, seriously, this isn't a prank-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, 'not a prank, this is serious', you don't think I've heard that a hundred times from you?" He continued. "What, were you just expecting me to put this thing on my wrist," He said, quickly placing it against his left wrist. "Then what, snakes would pop out of it or-"

Suddenly, the wrist strap wrapped around his wrist, buckling it tightly.

"What the hell!?"

The Zoolizer started to glow, and there was a burst of yellow light throughout the entire house. It shined out the windows, like a star had exploded inside the house, strong enough that it was clear even in the broad daylight.

When it cleared, the four were all dazed by the light. Finnick rubbed his paws against his eyes, managing to get them to settle back to normal. "Oh, I got it, some kind of light show." He groaned. "You know I'm sensitive to light, Nick."

"We ALL ARE!" He shouted. The fennec noticed that all three were trying to steady their eyes as well.

"This isn't a prank, Finnick!" Judy shouted as she finished rubbing her eyes. "Look at your wrist!"

"What are you-" The fennec lifted his wrist up and looked at it. The device was directly attached to his wrist now, and had shrunken considerably in size to become more proportional with the rest of his arm. The design had changed as well, it now resembling somewhat of a fennec face with a nose-shaped button.

"Welcome to the Zoorangers." Nick groaned. "I was going to try and ease you into this, but Ms. Smartrabbit here decided to be clever."

"You're not exactly the kind of mammal who can 'ease' someone into something." Judy replied. "I just did what I had to, to speed things along."

"What, so I'm actually one of your super hero team guys now?" Finnick asked, in disbelief. "This isn't a prank?"

"No, this is very serious." Nick said. "We were going to ask if you actually wanted to join us first, but I guess its too late for that."

"Whaddya mean 'too late'?" he asked, starting to sound a bit panicked. That wasn't an emotional state Nick had heard Finnick in a lot. "Can't I just take this thing off?"

He started to tug at the device, and then tried to play with the strap, in a desperate attempt to get it off of his arm. "WHY ISN'T IT COMING OFF!?"

"They don't come off." Judy stated. "You need modifications to do that, and we don't have anyone here right now that can do that."

"So, I'm just stuck with this thing forever!?" He shouted.

"Looks like it!" She said, smugly.

"Judy, you're acting like a real jerk right now." Max whispered.

"Eh, guy deserves at least a bit of this." She replied, shrugging.

"You're scary sometimes."

"Alright, so, Finn." Nick started. He quickly grabbed the fennec by the shoulder, and moved him over to the couch. "Just sit down for a moment, and we can talk about all of this."

"Yeah, just relax for a bit." Max said.

The fnnec nodded, and hopped up on the couch, laying down on it. Nick hopped up after, and was quickly followed by Judy. Max moved behind the couch, and looked over the back of it.

"We're going to have to tell you EXACTLY what's going on." Judy said, Nick nodding in agreement.

"This is slightly bigger than just us being super heroes." Nick started. "What we actually are now goes back a lot longer."

"Basically, we're sort of a branch off of another group of super heroes from an alternate universe." Max stated. "Well, actually a bunch of other super hero teams."

"Let me handle this." Nick said. He cleared his throat, and took a deep breath. "Basically, there's another universe where these superheroes called the Super Sentai protect the world from monsters, and a bunch of their past villains have been revived somehow, and we were tasked to become our own team in order to fight against them and protect the world."

Finnick turned to glare at him.

"Everything I said was completely true."

"Yeah, it is, sorry to drop all that on you at once." Judy said.

"I wasn't told any of this when I joined." Max said. "That's what a god told them when they met with him. You forgot to mention that, Nick."

"I left that part out on purpose, Max." Nick groaned.

"So…" Finnick said, sitting up. "I'm supposed to help you guys fight against monsters and protect the world, or whatever?"

"Yeah, pretty much." Judy said.

"What if I… don't want to?" The fennec asked. "What if I just want to go home and sleep?"

"Too late for that now, buddy." Nick said. "Like Carrots said, that thing doesn't come off once you put it on." He paused for a moment. "But if you REALLY don't want to do it, we can try and figure something out."

"Yeah, just give it one day." Max suggested. "If you don't want to, we can just not bug you about it after."

The fennec groaned. He wasn't getting out of this one without at least an attempt at this super hero thing. "Fine." He grunted, sitting up. "But I have no idea how to work this thing."

"We can guide you through that." Judy said. "Step one, if you want to transform into your superhero form, you need to say 'zoo on' and then press the button on your Zoolizer."

"The Zoolizer is the wrist thing." Nick continued.

"Alright, if I'm going to do this, might as well try it out." He groaned, before hopping off the couch. He walked towards the middle of the room, and placed his paw on the button. He hesitated for a moment. Did he really want to do this? Did he even have a choice at this point? The fennec gritted his teeth.

"Zoo on?"

He pressed the button in, causing two large ears to fold out from the Zoolizer, as well as causing the eyes to open up and light up a bright yellow. There was a flash of light, a lot weaker than the one before.

A second passed, and Finnick had transformed into ZooYellow.

His suit was nearly the same as the other Zooranger outfits, the same markings and such, but it was done in yellow rather than in blue, red, or silver. The suit even covered his puffy tail. The largest change was the helmet, specifically designed to fit around his head, and even covered his ears, still letting them move around.

"This is weird as shit." Yellow said as he moved around in the suit. "What is this stuff made out of?"

"We're, uh, not entirely sure." Nick answered.

"But it gets comfortable after a while, trust us." Judy said.

He let out a small groan.

"Alright, we should probably go over some basics first." Nick said, hopping down from the couch. "You know, combat training and such."

"I know how to beat people up, Nick." Yellow said.

"Yeah, but this gets a lot more complicated than that, like-"

There was a sudden horrible loud beeping noise all four Zoolizers, shocking all of them "AUGH, WHAT IS THAT!?" Yellow shouted, pulling his ears down. "And why am I thinking about… central park?" He finished as the beeping subsided.

"Monster alert!" Judy said, hopping down from the couch as well.

"What she means is that that's what happens when we get a monster alert." Nick said. "And when that happens, it sends you a telepathic message that tells you where the monster is attacking."

"This sounds like it gets very annoying, very quickly." Yellow groaned.

"Oh, it is definitely annoying." Nick said. He quickly grabbed Yellow by the arm, and started to drag him out. "We'll have to go over the basics when we get there."

The fennec groaned as they all headed out of the house.

What in the world had he gotten himself into?

---

"Aw, man, there's like, nothing else to tag 'round here!" The monster said as it walked through the park. It looked around, examining its work, a number of multi-color squiggles drawn across the grass, trees, benches, rocks, any surface that could possibly be drawn on.

"Still do good work though!" It bragged to itself. "Maybe I should head out of here and go cause some more of a ruckus somewhere else!"

"Stop!"

The monster spun around, and watched as the Zoorangers drove in on their motorbikes. Blue was carrying Yellow on her bike, while Silver was riding on Red's. They skidded to a halt, Red and Silver getting off quickly, while Blue helped Yellow down from it.

"Those things are great!" Yellow said, finally a bit enthused about something. "But you guys suck at actually driving the, do you even have your license?"

"No, we don't." Blue said. "We were just kind of given them, hard to get your license when that happens."

"Maybe I should check out some of the specs on these babies." Yellow said, running a paw over the Usagider.

"You can fawn over the bikes later, got it?" Red said. "We have to fight a monster!"

Yellow turned to look at the monster. "Are all the guys you fight as ugly as this?" He asked.

"UGLY!?" The monster shouted.

"Yeah, but usually they're not as much of eyesore as this guy is." Blue stated.

"EYESORE!?" The monster shouted again. "You guys have no idea who you're talkin' 'bout, I'm the master of art in the underworld, I'm the greatest graffiti artist in the monster kingdom! I AM SPRAYROID TWO!"

"'Two'?" Blue said, confused. "We've never fought a Sprayroid ONE!"

"Oh, then, uh…" The monster paused for a moment. "Just call me Sprayroid, then."

Blue shook her head. "Red, teach our new teammate how to use his stuff, Silver and I will handle the monster for now." She ordered. Nick gave a quick nod, and the two dashed into the monster, starting to fight him.

Before he started talking to the fennec, Red glanced around, spotting an add assortment of multicolored squiggles on the ground. It was in the middle of the grass, but seemed to be flat like pavement. He placed a paw on it, it felt like pavement too.

He shook it off, and got back up. "Alright, ready to learn about your new powers, Yellow?" Red asked.

"Hell are you calling me 'Yellow' for?" The fennec said.

"From what I can tell, we actually can't call each other by our actual names unless something extreme happens." Red said. "Try it."

"Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to me, Nick."

"…Never mind, then."

Red looked back at the fight. Blue and Silver leaped into the fight, the rabbit attempted to slash at the garish monster with her knives, while the wolf went in for a side swipe with his rapier. The monster managed to block Blue's attack, but was slashed by Silver. It unfortunately seemed to recover fairly quickly, and kicked Silver away.

"Okay, let's do this fast." Red said, turning back to Yellow.

"Yeah, those two look like they're gonna get killed." Yellow said bluntly. "This thing come with any weapons?"

"Uh, it should." Red said, scratching the back of his head. "We got weapons with ours."

"Well, I don't see any pockets, so where the hell do you keep 'em?"

"I… I dunno, usually we just… think about a weapon, and then it shows up?" Red said, trying to explain. When he said it out loud, he realized how it made no sense at all. "Listen, just try to… pull something out from behind your back."

"Uh, okay." The fennec said, really not sure how that would work. He awkwardly reached behind his back, and thought of a weapon.

Surprisingly, there was something there.

He quickly pulled it out from behind him. It was a large club of some kind, yellow in color, and with a baseball bat like handle for him to grip onto. It was shaped, oddly enough, exactly like his tail, and even stranger, was twice as tall as Yellow was himself, being nearly the same size as Red.

"Whoa."

"How the hell are you carrying that thing?" Red asked.

"I dunno, I don't care." Yellow said, quickly slamming the club into the ground, turning up dirt with a surprising amount of force. "Haha, yeah, this is what I want."

"Yo, your friends ever gonna come join this party?" The monster asked as it spun out of the way of dual swipes from the two Zoorangers. "It's getting pretty boring! Its like being trapped in an art gallery," Sprayroid continued as Silver jumped in for another swipe, before the monster clonked him on the head with his spray can. "So DULL, no PIZZAZZ!"

"You want some 'pizzazz'!?" Yellow shouted as he ran into the battle. The monster turned to face him, watching as the fennec leaped into the air. "HERE'S SOME GODDAN PIZZAZZ!"

Yellow quickly swung his club into the monster's chest, causing it to stumble back as he hit the ground. He leaped back up again, swinging the club upwards into the monster's chest. The force of the hit launched the monster up into the air, as the fennec hit the ground again. As soon as he hit the ground, he leaped back up into the air, and slammed the club back down on the monster, sending it careening into the ground, leaving a crack in the dirt.

The monster let out a groan as Yellow hit the ground again. "Hey, maybe this whole thing isn't that bad." The fennec chuckled to himself, pounding the club into his other paw.

"Wow, that was pretty amazing, Yellow!" Silver said, walking up to the fennec.

"Yeah, seems like you're enjoying yourself too!" Blue continued. "Sure you don't want to work with us?"

"Ehh, maybe-"

"YOU JERKS!"

The three turned back to the monster, who had gotten up from its crash. Its body seemed to be considerably beaten, gas of some kind seeming to leak out of some wounds. "I'm going to get repairs, and once I do, you guys will be utterly humiliated! JUST YOU WATCH!"

Sprayroid grabbed onto its spray can, and started to spray it in the air, creating a cloud around him, which quickly vanished alongside the monster.

"Good job, there, Finn!" Nick said as he walked up and untransformed, Judy and Max quickly following. The fennec looked back and forth at them.

"How the hell do you get out of this thing?" Yellow asked.

"You just gotta hit the button again." Nick explained. Finnick did so, and quickly turned back to normal.

"So, now what do you guys normally do?" He asked. "Monster got away, so do we chase after it, or do we sit around on our asses until something else happens?"

"Usually the later." Nick said.

"That's not true, Nick." Judy said. "Usually there's something else going on at the same time, like we'll get a call from Clawhauser and-"

Before she could even finish, her phone went off. She pulled it out, and saw it was Clawhauser. "Huh." She muttered as she answered it.

The cheetah's face appeared on the phone's screen, standing not behind his desk, but near the witness room by the looks of things. "Oh, hey guys, we need you at the station for some-"

"There is NO WAY this is police regulation!" A voice from off camera yelled, very clearly Emily's.

"Well, this isn't normal police business, of course you two are in charge!" Yelled another voice, definitely Bogo's.

"We need you here-" Clawhauser tried to continue.

"How the hell are we supposed to handle something like this!?" Emily shouted again. "OH GOD, IT'S EVERYWHERE!"

"Sir, Ma'am, whatever, can you please come down from the ceiling." Said a third voice, this one Henry's.

Clawhauser opened his mouth to say something, but was quickly interrupted by Bogo. "CLAWHAUSER! GET THOSE THREE ON THE LINE!"

"I'm trying, chief, but you keep interrupting!" He shouted back, though nowhere near as forceful as Bogo's yell. He turned back to the screen. "Please get here as soon as possible, we're in a heap of trouble." He quickly hung up.

The four remained silent, and left in obvious confusion, for a moment.

"So, we should, probably head to the station now, huh?" Nick said. Judy and Max nodded.

"Excuse me?" Finnick said. "I'm not going to the police station, sorry."

"Seriously, Finn?" Nick said with a sigh. "You won't be arrested, we'll make sure of it."

"We can't actually make sure of that." Judy quickly added, causing the fox to slump for a second.

He pulled himself back up, and ran his paw over his head. "Listen, if you're going to work with us, and I'm not saying you will, you should probably meet our other two members."

"It just makes sense." Max followed. "Can't have a full team if we don't all know each other."

"Mmmmmmmfine." Finnick let out. "I'll go to the station, but if I end up getting throw in the slammer, its all your fault, got it?"

"Yes, we got it."

---

The four arrived at the station soon after the call. "Okay, Finn, just act natural." Nick said. "And I don't mean act like yourself, I mean try to be as nice as you possibly can."

"That's a very high bar, Nicky." Finnick replied as they walked into the station.

"Yeah, I know, but please try."

As soon as they walked in, they were greeted by Clawhauser, who was sitting at his desk. "Oh, hey guys!" He said, in his usually cheerful way. "Glad you made it here so fast, the chief needs you in…" He paused as he spotted Finnick. "Hey, have I met you before?"

"Yeah, I've been arrested a few times." Finnick replied.

"Good going, Finn." Nick said.

"You're friends with Nick?" clawhauser asked, a bit excitedly. "How long have you known each other?"

"Schoolyard friends." Finn said. He turned to Nick. "You work with this guy?"

"Yes, we do work with him, it isn't a big deal." Nick sighed.

"Anyway!" Judy started, clapping her paws together. "Bogo wants to see us? Trouble happening somewhere, right?"

"Oh, yeah, at the witness room." Ben said. "It's, uh… There's definitely something happening there!" He finished, sounding a bit scared.

"Alright, we'll head there ASAP." Judy said, and the four continued on.

"Feels weird to be in here and, y'know, not be under arrest." Finnick said.

"Yeah, take's a few months before you get used to it." Nick replied.

They quickly arrived outside the witness room, a rather large room at the back of the building. Bogo stood outside the door, while Emily and Henry sat on a pair of chairs just outside.

The hyena was covered in what looked like green goo, and looked absolutely miserable. Henry, however, had what looked like ink splattered across his face. Bogo just looked completely livid.

"Oh, thank god you three are here." Bogo said, before pausing. "Though I see you've brought a fourth."

"Yo." Finnick said, giving a quick wave.

Emily glanced over at the fennec. "Finnick? That you?" She asked.

He looked at the two, and squinted. "Seriously?" He continued, elbowing Nick. "Didn't tell me these two were your other teammates."

"Wait, you guys know each other?" Nick asked, confused.

"Yeah, we-"

"Excuse me." Bogo snorted. "Why did you bring a criminal into the station?"

"Oh, as it turns out," Judy started. "He's kind of the las member of our team."

Bogo shot her a glare, before sighing. "I don't care, but this is police business." He started. "So you need to go wait in the lobby."

"Got it." Finnick said. It was clear he didn't want to be there. "See you guys after whatever the hell you're doing is over!" He continued before walking off.

The fennec walked back to the lobby, and let out a sigh. He was feeling very conflicted about this whole thing. On one hand, becoming a superhero could very well help him get his life back on track, and potentially let him get a place to sleep that isn't a van in the middle of the alleyway.

But he wasn't sure if he actually wanted to help. He'd be doing this entirely for his own selfish motives, which probably wouldn't end up going over well with the bunny cop – and in turn, not going over well with Nick.

Despite what he had said earlier, Finnick did want to try and continue the friendship between the two of them. He had been friends with Nick for years, and it would feel wrong to just leave him like that, even if it would probably be good for the both of them.

Clawhauser watched as the fennec paced around the lobby, muttering to himself. "You want some privacy?" He asked.

"What?" Finnick asked, snapping out of his thoughts. He shook his head. "Yeah, I need somewhere quiet."

"I don't think there's anyone in the break room right now." Clawhauser said, pointing over to a door on the other side of the room. "You can go there, if you want."

"Oh, uh, thanks." Finnick said. He wasn't exactly sure how to treat that kind of kindness, but he headed into the room anyway.

He started to pace around, more conflicted thought running through his head. He just wanted to figure out his own life, but nothing really seemed to be clicking in place. What if he just didn't have anywhere to go once Nick left? What if helping him was his only real purpose? What if…

The fennec's thoughts were interrupted by his phone going off, playing a brief heavy guitar riff. He looked at the number.

It was his boss.

He cautiously answered it. "Hello, Mr. McElroy." Finnick said, timidly. A tone he rarely, if ever put up.

"Finnegan, get your tiny little behind over here!" The manager shouted, his voice gruff.

"But sir, it's my day off, can't I just-"

"We're short staffed right now!" He continued to shout. "Lucile got in an accident, something about a can of paint, so she couldn't show up. You're the only one having a day off today, so I need you to get here NOW!"

"Sir, I'm in the middle of something important, alright?" Finnick said. "Give me three hours, and I'll be there."

"Ugh, fine." He groaned. "But if you aren't here by then, you're FIRED!"

The phone hung up, and the fennec slumped his head to the side.

What a day.

---

"Alright, now that he's gone…" Bogo started, looking down at the three Zoorangers. "I suppose you three would like to know what's going on."

"That's be very appreciated, yes." Nick said, glancing at the dirtied SPD officers.

"What happened to you guys?" Max asked, a bit concerned.

"That's something you're going to have to see for yourself…" Emily groaned, placing a paw to her face.

"Yeah, we can't really… describe what happened." Henry continued.

"Well, I hate the sound of this already." Nick said.

"Um, I'd at least like to go in there expecting something." Judy said. "You guys being quiet about it is a bit… distressing."

"We're all in a bit of distress right now." Bogo sighed, before opening the door to the witness room. An unholy stench creeped out from it.

"OH GOD!" Max yelled. He dry-heaved for a moment. "Excuse me!" The wolf quickly ran off, most likely to puke somewhere.

"Oh GOD, what is that?!" Judy yelled, clenching her nose as well.

"It'll clear up in a moment." Bogo said. A few seconds passed, and the smell went away, though the two's eyes were still watering.

"What could even make something that terrible smelling?" Nick managed to choke out.

"See for yourself."

The two walked in, and both their ears popped up. What was in the witness room was… definitely something else.

It was a host of… creatures? One looked like a pile of green goo with two odd stylized eyes. Another was some kind of cephalopod, clinging to the ceiling, though it had an odd, rounded head unlike a real octopus. There was also some kind of tin robot, a floating eye with wings, and an odd, floating skeleton with a bovine-esque skull and horns.

They stared at the group for a moment.

"Hey, no staring, please!" The skeleton said in a very light female voice. "We know this is weird, but its still uncomfortable."

"Sorry, I think the fumes are making me hallucinate." Nick said with a chuckle.

"You're not hallucinating, Wilde." Bogo said.

"Who are they?" Judy asked. "Why do they look like that?"

"We're just normal mammals, you gotta believe us!" The robot said in a fairly normal male voice, though it sounded like it was coming out of a speaker.

"Yeah!" The octopus said in a VERY masculine voice, before it dropped to the ground. "This weirdo monster attacked us and turned us into these things!"

"Did the monster look like a paint-by-numbers done by a colorblind mole?" Nick asked.

The transformed mammals started nodding and letting out affirmative noises.

"Yeah, we've definitely seen that guy running around."

"You guys just need to stay here for right now." Judy said. "We'll figure out how to get you all back to normal, don't worry."

"Thank you, Ms. Hopps." The skeleton said.

The two exited the room, Bogo closing the door behind them. "You two have any bright ideas?" He asked.

"Why are you asking us, aren't you the chief?" Nick replied.

"I'm not the one who deals with evil monsters all the time, now am I?"

"Okay, true."

"What I would recommend," Judy started. "Is putting on a full alert for the monster." She finished "I'll try to draw up a sketch, and you can send out a full report."

"Sounds like a plan." Bogo said with a sigh. "I have an order for you now, as well."

"Is it 'go and find the monster and beat them up'?" Nick guessed.

Bogo let out a snort.

---

"Sorry, but that smell was just… terrible." Max apologized as he followed Judy, Nick, Emily, and Henry back out into the lobby. "I couldn't even make out what it was, just that I never want to smell it again."

Around forty minutes had passed, and Max had only come back from his bathroom escapades. They had already called on the alert, and were now planning on heading out to deal with the monster itself.

"Max, it's fine, don't let it get to you." Judy said. She turned back to Emily and Henry. "You guys sure you don't want to come with us to track down the monster?" She asked.

"Yeah, I just want to have a shower." Emily groaned.

"But we have a new member, remember?" Nick said. "Don't you guys wanna work as a full team?"

"I'd rather not work with Finnick." Emily grunted.

"Good luck on finding the monster." Henry said, the two walking off.

"Hm." Nick let out, before glancing around. Finnick wasn't around, even though he had been told to wait in the lobby. He looked up at the cheetah behind the desk, who was playing something on his phone. "Hey Spots, you know where that little fennec went?"

"Oh, he looked like he needed somewhere to think, so I told him he could use the break room." Clawhauser explained, looking up from the phone. "Please don't tell Bogo."

"Don't worry, we won't." Judy said with a chuckle. "Even though that totally goes against business ethics, but whatever…" She muttered to herself.

The three headed into the break room, and spotted the fennec sitting on one of the large couches, arms crossed.

"Hey, Finn!" Nick called over to him. "We're going monster hunting, you coming with us, or are you gonna sit here all day?"

Finnick let out a small growl, before hopping down from the couch. "Alright, but let's make this quick, got it?" He continued to growl as they headed out of the break room.

The fox paused for a second as they left the break room. "Can you guys go wait outside for a moment?" He asked, turning to Judy and Max. "I want to talk with Finnick for a moment."

"Sure, you two have your privacy." Max said.

"I'd rather not know what you two are going to talk about, so, yeah." Judy followed. The two quickly walked out of the building. Clawhauser put his earbuds in, to give them full privacy.

"How do you know Emily and Henry?" Nick asked.

"We met in prison." Finnick said, bluntly.

Nick placed his paw to his forehead. "When were you in prison?" He sighed.

"The time I played patsy for you when one of your dumb schemes blew up in you muzzle." The fennec growled. "Remember that?"

"Uh…"

"It was eight years ago, Nick."

"I had a lot of dumb scheme blow up in my muzzle, you have to be specific."

"The pencil one."

"Oh, yeah, that one." He muttered. "Did I ever apologize for that, or…?"

"You never did." Finnick followed. "But I met them back then. Seems like we had something in common in knowing you."

"They don't seem especially keen on working with you," Nick continued. "So what exactly happened?"

"We got into a fight." He explained.

"Was it about me?" Nick asked.

"No, not everything is about you, Nick." Finnick growled. "It was with that Clawbick guy. To be fair, I was the one who started it."

"Okay, yeah, that explains it." Nick muttered. "Kind of a shame, I thought we could all, y'know, work together for once."

"Nick, you're the only mammal who doesn't hate being around me." Finnick said.

Before he could continue, the Zoolizers started to buzz. Monster attack.

"Oh, hey, guess we didn't have to go monster hunting after all." The fox said, defusing the conversation. "Let's head out."

Finnick sighed, and then begrudgingly followed the fox out of the building.

---

"Ah, the perfect place to tag!' the monster said, shaking the can attached to its arm. It was at the dock, where there were tons of empty and abandoned places to spray his art on. He walked up to a warehouse, and started to spray some paint squiggles on it, and in a few seconds producing a squiggly lined mess of colors.

"Mwah!" The monster said, doing its best to feign a kiss. "A true piece of artwork, none matched in the entire world!"

"Yikes, you really think that?" Said a voice. The monster spun around, seeing the four Zoorangers. "Because from what I can tell, you've just been putting that everywhere." Red continued.

"Yeah, not exactly 'artistic' when you keep doing the same thing over and over again, huh?" Blue followed up with a laugh.

Sprayroid growled. "How dare you make fun of my art! I'll show you all my art of PAIN!"

"Doesn't sound like it has much artistry to it!" Silver finished, pulling out his weapon alongside Blue and Red.

"Christ, do you guys do this EVERY time?" Yellow asked.

"Uh, yeah, witty banter is a big part of this." Silver replied, stepping out of his battle stance.

"You call that 'witty'?"

"This isn't time for arguing about jokes!" Blue shouted, quickly stamping her foot. "We have a monster to defeat, and civilians to save!"

Red, Blue, and Silver rushed in, Yellow hesitating for a moment, before pulling his club out and running in as well. Red and Blue leaped in first, the fox jumping up to slash at the monster, who quickly managed to block his blade with the spray can.

Blue slid in, directly after the two started to clash, and went under the monster's legs. She dragged her knives across its heels, causing it to let out a screech of pain. Red kicked off of the monster's spray can and up into the air, kicking the robot in the head, before kicking off again and landing on the ground.

The monster let out a growl, Silver and Yellow standing back as Red and Blue continued to fight. "You gonna do anything, or do you just want to watch?" The fennec asked, resting on his large club.

"Actually, I was thinking that you and I could do something!" Silver said. "Wanna go for a team attack?"

"Uh, I guess…?"

"Great, just hold still then." Silver continued. He quickly spun the guard of his rapier around, and then whipped it forward, causing a rope of energy to fling from it and wrap around Yellow's legs.

"Whoa, hey, what are you-"

The fennec was then abruptly flung into the air, clinging desperately onto his club. "YOU COULD'VE WARNED ME!" He shouted down.

"Oh, sorry!" Silver shouted back up. "I'm going to fling you back down at the monster, and you'll hit it with your club, got it?"

"WHAT!?"

Before he could object any more, the wolf tugged his sword, causing the whip to lash back down towards the ground. Yellow let out a scream, before he raised his club, and slammed it over the unsuspecting monster's head.

There was a sudden explosion of dust as he collided with the Sprayroid.

"Oh, whoops." Silver said, the whip retracting back into his blade, no one attached to it. "Maybe I swung it a bit too hard."

He ran towards the dust, which quickly cleared, revealing all four of them laying in cracked rubble. The monster and Yellow were face down, while Red and Blue were trying to get back up.

"Dude, I'm so sorry!" Silver shouted, helping the fennec back up. "I should've told you in advance! It's just that, usually when I work with someone, they get what I want to do."

"Well, I'm obviously not one of them!" Yellow shouted.

"Could've given us a warning too!" Blue shouted as her and Red got back up.

"AUGH, I'LL MAKE ALL OF YOU PAY!" The monster shouted, suddenly bursting from the ground. "You want to mock me, huh!? WELL, let's just see how YOU handle being the subjects of my CARICATURE PERIOD!"

The spray can moved up, and into the monster's hand, before he quickly aimed it at the crouching Silver. He quickly pushed Yellow out of the way as the monster started to spray him. A cloud of paint covered Silver. "You like collecting stuff, huh!?" The monster shouted as he painted. "Let's see how YOU like being collected!"

The smoke cleared, revealing a small, grey wolf plush toy. It quickly tipped over. "Oh COME ON!" Yelled Silver from inside the toy, his voice much higher pitched than normal.

"What the hell!?" Yellow shouted.

"So that's how it does it!" Blue said. "Yellow, make sure he doesn't get you!"

"I am already way ahead of that!" The fennec yelled back, preparing to run off. Before he did, he glanced back at the plush toy laying there, and then up at the monster, who was quickly approaching him.

Making a split decision, Yellow dashed past the monster, attempting to make a run for the plush. The monster quickly stepped in front of him, and attempted to spray him. Yellow quickly put up his club, the size of it blocking him from the spray.

"Gah, what!?" The monster grunted in frustration. Yellow opened his eyes, noticing that the club of his club had turned into the brush of a paint brush. The handle, however, remained the same.

Yellow jumped up, and jabbed the robot in the stomach with the hilt, before hitting the ground and running off, grabbing the plush. The two quickly went behind a nearby warehouse.

"Doesn't matter if one gets away!" Sprayroid chuckled, turning to Red and Blue. "I still have two commission spots open!"

"Just try us!" Blue shouted, twirling her daggers. She quickly dashed up to the monster, and leaped up to slash the monster.

"JUDY, NO!"

Before she could land a hit, the robot sprayed her in midair. "You put yourself pretty high sometimes huh?" The monster said as it painted. "Well, let's make it literal!"

The smoke from the spray quickly cleared, revealing a tiny blue bird. "What the-!?" It let out, before nearly falling to the ground. The bird started to rapidly flap its wings, trying to keep itself in the air.

Sprayroid attempted to swat at the bird, but it quickly zipped out of the way, and back over to Red. "Well, that could've gone better." Judy, the now bird, said.

"Don't worry, I'll figure out how to get things back to normal." Nick said. "Uh, hopefully."

"Please try, I don't want to be eating worms for the rest of my life."

"HEY!" Red shouted, stepping forward. "TIN CAN!"

The monster flared at him, before letting out a chuckle.

"Turn my friends back to normal, or I'll make you pay!" The fox growled.

"Sorry, don't know how to!" The monster laughed. "I don't give refunds, what you see is what you get, and if you want to complain about it, take it to Boss Enter!"

Red let out a growl, before dashing forward. "Nick, you idiot!" Judy the bird shouted. "You know how this is going to end!"

Red ignored her, and leaped up, trying to slash at the monster. It quickly stepped out of his way, and kicked him in the stomach as he landed. Before the fox could do anything else, Sprayroid started to spray him.

"You're a slimy guy!" The monster said as the cloud engulfed the fox. "A cheater, a liar, a big enough liar to keep something from your own friends! Can't think of anything more perfect for you!"

The cloud cleared, revealing a rather large red and green snake.

"This ssssssssucks." Nick the snake let out, his tongue flapping along with his 's'.

"Hah, I can't believe it!" The monster said. "I beat the Zoorangers! Gotta tell my homie Enter about this!"

"Haven't beaten all of us, wannabe." Yellow said from behind the warehouse. He just needed a plan to save them all, obviously. Shouldn't be that hard.

Okay, yeah, it'd be very hard.

He glanced down at his club-turned-paintbrush. If it was normal, then he could definitely pull a plan off without a hitch. He just needed to figure out HOW to turn it back to normal.

"Ugh, this whole thing sucks!" Max the plush toy complained. "I can't even smell anything, my nose feels all plugged up!"

Almost instinctively, Yellow sniffed the air, catching a faint smell of something. Paint? Well, obviously, the monster was a painter, after all that spraying, of course there would be…

An idea suddenly popped into his head. Could it work? He'd need to try it, and to do that he'd need a distraction.

"Alright, wolfy, I got a plan."

"I'm sure I'll be SUPER helpful." The plush wolf said sarcastically in his squeaky voice.

"You will, actually." Yellow said, picking up the plush toy.

"Hey, what are you-?"

The fennec quickly ran out. "HEY, DADA-HEAD!" Yellow yelled, catching the monster's attention. "CATCH!"

He quickly flung the plush toy at the monster. It flew into his face, the monster clutching at the toy and screaming. "AHHHH! WHAT IS THIS!? IT'S ATTACKING ME!"

Yellow quickly ran off towards the dock's edge. The bird and snake looked up as the monster fumbled around with the plush toy, holding it to his face, but still not realizing what was actually happening.

"Okay, thissss guy issss terrible." Nick the snake said. "How did we lose to this guy?"

"I think Finnick was trying to tell us something!" Judy the bird said, fluttering over to the snake. "This guy does suck, maybe we can take advantage of that!"

"Not like thissss we aren't."

"Look how well Max is doing, and he can't even move!" Judy pointed out. "Let's try to use these forms to our advantage!"

"Oh, I got it!" Nick said. He quickly jutted forward, wrapping around one of the monster's legs. "Go for his head, Carrotssss!"

"That nickname is super not appropriate right now, but I will!" She said, before fluttering up and landing on top of the monster's head. She started to peck down on it.

"Ow!" The monster let out, finally letting go of the plush, which fell to the ground. "Stop pecking me, bird!"

Nick quickly stretched out his body, wrapping it around the struggling monster's other leg, and then quickly wrapping back around to the first leg. The monster's legs pulled in, causing him to fall over, Judy fluttering off before it hit the ground.

Nick slithered off the monster as it thrashed around on the ground. It quickly got up, towering over the three transformed Zoorangers, though Max couldn't notice because he was face first in the ground. "Obviously, I didn't go FAR ENOUGH!" Sprayroid growled. "I'll have to move on to my SCULPTING PERIOD!"

He pointed his spray can at the two, before someone yelled out.

"I BET YOUR SCULPTURES ARE AS UGLY AS YOUR PAINTINGS!"

The monster turned around, watching as Yellow leaped up. He prepared to swing his club, which had returned to normal somehow, and swung it into the monster's face, knocking him into the air.

The monster flipped into the air, and then crashed back into the ground. It let out a groan as it got up. "Alright, I've had enough of this!" Sprayroid said. "You guys are stuck like that, and I have more work to do, peace!" The monster sprayed a cloud of paint in front of itself, before disappearing.

"Good riddance." Yellow muttered.

"He's right, though." Judy said, perching on Nick the snake's head.

"Ow, your talons are sharp."

"Oh, sorry." She apologized. "But yeah, we're stuck like this. There's no way we can stop him unless we get back to normal."

"Lucky for you two, I found the way." Finnick said, untransforming. "You guys did notice I turned my club back to normal, right?"

"I didn't!" Max said, face still in the dirt. "I can't move!"

"I noticed that." Nick said. "How'd you manage that?"

"Like this."

Finnick quickly grabbed onto the snake's tail, before twirling him around in the air, and flinging him off towards the sea. Nick splashed into the water.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Judy shouted, before pecking at Finnick's head. "He doesn't have any arms, he can't swim like that!"

"Just watch, bluebird!" Finnick said, before running over to the edge of the dock. Judy followed, and the two watched as bubbles started to rise from the water.

A second later, Nick, back to being a fox, though utterly soaked, broke through the surface. "Why the hell'd you do that, Finn!?" The fox shouted.

"Check it, Nicky!" Finnick yelled down. "You're back to your foxy self!"

Nick raised an arm as he paddled, seeing that he had returned to normal. "Oh, wow!" The fox let out, before swimming over to a nearby ladder and climbing out.

"So, we just need to get wet, and we'll return to normal?" Judy said.

"Yep." Finnick said. "Found it out because I could smell wet paint. He painted you guys up, so obviously we just had to wash you!"

"Wow, that's a really clever idea, Finnick!" Judy admitted. "Now if you excuse me, I have to go take a bird bath!" She flapped out over to the water before, taking a dive. A second after the bird broke the water, Judy the rabbit rose through the surface.

"I'll go get Max." Nick said as Judy climbed back up.

A minute later, the three of them were back to normal, but absolutely wet.

"So, am I a valued member of the team yet?" Finnick chuckled.

"Oh, definitely." Judy muttered. She pulled out her phone, hopefully it still worked. "I need to tell Clawhauser about this, I didn't realize we'd be able to help those poor mammals so soon!" She quickly dialed a number, thankfully it was still working.

"Hey, Judy!" Clawhauser greeted. "You guys beat the monster yet?"

"Not yet, but we managed to figure out how to cure all the victims!" She explained. "Just s[ray them with some water, they should all go back to normal after that!"

"Is that why you're all wet?" The cheetah asked. He let out a gasp. "Did the monster attack you guys too?"

"Uh, yeah." She admitted, a bit embarrassed.

"Judy got turned into a cut little birdy." Nick joked, walking up and patting her on the head,

"Shut it!" She snapped. "Least I didn't get turned into a snake!"

"Wow, sounds like you guys went through a lot!" Ben said. "I'll tell Emily and Henry, they should be able to get something together! See ya!"

He quickly hung up, and the rabbit let out a sight of relief.

"I'm glad we got that sorted out." She said. "But we still need to find that monster. I suggest we go patrol the city and see if anything comes up."

"Sounds like a plan." Max said. "Always good to stay vigilant, right?"

"Yeah, I can't go." Finnick said.

"Seriously, Finn?" Nick sighed.

"Turns out someone didn't show up for work today, and I need to take their place." He explained. "I gotta be there soon, or else I'll lose my job."

"We have to do this together, Finnick!" Judy started. "We're a team now, which means we all have to work together."

"Yeah, and your boss will probably understand if you were late because you saved the city!" Max followed. "Only someone unreasonable would say that was a bad excuse!"

"No, I really think I should be going to work right now." Finnick continued, backing away from them.

"Finn, please." Nick said. "We're supposed to be a team now. You seemed like you were enjoying it, too. So, why don't you just come along with us for the rest of the day."

"Mmmmmfiiine." The fennec said, though he very clearly didn't want to. "Let's get this stupid thing over with."

---

"Enter, man, you didn't tell me how tough those Zoorangers were!" Sprayroid complained. He had met up with Enter in the back alley of a building.

"They aren't that tough." The faux-cheetah said. "Maybe you're just too weak."

"I hardly think so!" The monster scoffed. "How is four against one a fair deal!?"

Enter raised his eyebrow. "Four…?"

"Yeah, there were only four of them, guess they were missing a member." The monster said.

"Where any of them pink or green?" The cheetah asked, stepping forward.

"I know my colors, and there was only a blue one, a red one, a yellow one, and a grey one."

"Silver."

"Silver and grey aren't the same color?"

Enter let out another "tch". "They got ANOTHER new member?" He whispered to himself. "How did they manage that so fast?"

"What was that?"

"Nothing." Enter said. "So, you said you wanted some upgrades?"

"Yeah, I need to be strong enough to bring some PAIN-by-numbers to them!" Sprayroid said. "You got anything for me?"

"Yes, I do." Enter said, holding up a Chaos Badge between his digits. He quickly flung it into the monster's chest, causing it to transform.

The monster quickly gained a bit more bulk, before its large head split directly in half, the two tubes on its neck disconnecting for a moment. The two halves started to move around the monster's body. One half moved onto the monster's back, growing into a larger canister with the same multicolor motif as the rest of its body, but broken up by a blue crystal on its back, a remnant of its previous head. Two tubes burst from both sides of the canister, and connected directly to the monster's arms.

The other half moved to the monster's other arm, and quickly formed into a large cannon of some kind on the underside of the arm. It was attached similarly to the spray can on the robot's other arm. The cannon retained the multicolor pattern, and while most of it was large and cigar shaped, it ended at a point similar to a regular paint sprayer.

The two heads also revealed a new head inside of it. This was a functionally more normal head, with a large, V-shaped crest over its forehead, marked by four black dots. Under the crest was a black visor, and a mouth plate. The rest of the head similarly followed the monster's multicolor color scheme. The symbol on its chest quickly changed to that of the Chaos Symbol.

"Wow!" The monster shouted, rotating its new head. "This feels great, I feel like I could paint the entire city red, or blue, or yellow, or whatever color I want!"

"Well, why don't you get to it then." Enter growled. An idea quickly popped into his head. "There should be some Zoorangers patrolling this part of the city. Why don't you go show them your new power?"

"Ooooh, sounds like fun!" Sprayroid said, before running off. "Gonna go paint them black and blue!"

Enter thought for a moment, letting out a groan of thought. "Another one. This could be…" A smile creeped across his digital muzzle.

"Interesting."

---

"So, we cleaned everyone at the station up, what are we doing now?" Emily asked, double checking with her partner. They were driving around the city in the repaired truck. The vehicle had taken around a month and a bit to fully fix, but the mecha mode would take even longer to fix. Emily was just glad to not be walking around.

"We need to find if anyone else was attacked." Henry explained. "There could be more mammals that didn't show up. And while we're out here, we can try and take out the monster, too."

"Hmm, yeah." She replied, holding up a squirt bottle. "I'm amazed at how terrible this weakness is. But now that we know it, there's no way it can cause any more trouble. Right?"

The bull nodded.

Henry glared at a monitor on the control panel for a moment. "Hm, radar's saying there's something going on at a nearby park."

"Think we should check it out?" The hyena asked, sitting back up from her slouch. "I say 'yes'."

"It might just be another error, but its better to be safe than sorry." He said.

The truck pulled down a nearby road, and headed into a dusty Savanna Square park. They drove into it, and parked, before getting out.

There was a single figure standing in the park, and the two approached it. "Wow, boss was right, you two WERE really close by!" The creature said, stepping forward.

"Is that the monster?" Pink asked Green as they flicked their armor on, just in case.

"Looks like it." Green said. "Might've gotten an upgrade."

"You're damn right I got an upgrade!" Chaos Sprayroid said, stepping towards them. "Now I can… um, do more things!"

"You don't even know, do you?" Pink asked, crossing her arms. "Why is every single one of you guys an idiot?"

"Well, the only way to improve your art," The monster started holding up his cannon arm. "IS TO TRY IT!"

He lowered the cannon, and fired a compressed burst of paint in the SPD's direction. The two quickly moved out of the way as the burst of paint splattered onto the grass, turning it into a multi-color paved road.

"Well, that's not good for the environment." Green said, pulling out his cannon. He quickly fired it at the monster, but Chaos Sprayroid started to spray the can on his arm in the direction of the energy blast. A cloud formed around it, before a beach ball bounced down to the ground.

"Wow, now I can transform things besides people!" The monster laughed, kicking the beach ball away.

"Ugh, that's going to get obnoxious." Pink said, before rushing at the monster. Green quickly followed behind her, going for a melee strike on the monster.

The hyena attempted to pistol whip the monster, but it ducked out of the way. It then spun around as her attack missed, and knocked her down with the large canister on its back. Green quickly followed up, trying to slam his cannon down onto the monster, but it held up its own cannon, blocking the strike. The spray can robot then quickly kneed the bull in his stomach, causing him to stumble back.

"Man, I thought you'd guys at least be kinda fun to fight." The monster said, spinning its head around. But I guess I was wrong. Maybe I just need to lighten your moods a bit! Oh, I know!"

"Hell does that mean?" Pink asked, watching as the monster started to skip across the field, stopping at the truck.

"DON'T TOUCH THE TRUCK!" Green yelled, slamming his hoof into the ground and almost instantly rising back to his feet.

"Look how drab this thing is!" The robot sighed. "Let's see, I could go for something fun, or… Hmmm…"

Green quickly started to charge at the monster, causing it to turn around. The robot let out a blast of air from its cannon, directly in the bull's direction, launching him off.

"Henry, NO!" Pink yelled, scrambling to her feet. She rushed over to the bull, and noticed he wasn't covered in any paint. "What the…?"

"Hey, don't want to be wasting any paint outside the canvas!" The monster said. "I got more important things to draw!"

He started to spray it, much to Green's dismay. In a few seconds, the cloud cleared, revealing a small three-wheeled vehicle, distinctly police issue, but only large enough to fit a smaller mammal. Green let out a loud groan.

"I decided to go for a metaphor involving the uselessness of the police, and how small their impact can be when they're trying to do good!" The monster explained. "Man, that was fun, but I think I need a bigger canvas!" The Metalroid looked around, noticing all of the buildings, drab and lifeless. "Oh, I know, why don't I just use this WHOLE CITY as my canvas? See you chumps later!" The monster gave a quick wave, before spraying a cloud in front of itself, vanishing a moment later.

Henry unfolded his armor, and let out a heavy sigh as he walked over to the truck. "Just disgraceful." He muttered, looking at the puny thing.

"Hey, don't worry, Horns!" Emily said, her armor folding up as she walked over to him, giving a quick smack on the back. She held up the spray bottle. "We got a quick fix, remember?"

She sprayed the former-truck, but it just seemed to cause it to get wet. "Hm." She groaned, before attempting to spray it more.

"It's not working, Em." Henry sighed.

"But it worked like, twenty minutes ago!" She growled, spraying the vehicle from every possible angle. She quickly let out a groan of frustration, and threw the spray bottle to the ground.

"Guess that was one of its upgrades." Henry said. "Permanent paint."

"We should probably tell the others." Emily suggested. She glanced down at the tiny vehicle. "Think you can lift that? We might need it later."

Henry effortlessly lifted the vehicle up with one hoof, and even tossed it up a few times. "Is this really a police vehicle?" He asked. "It's kind of pathetic looking."

"Yeah, looks like something a meter maid would ride around in." Emily chuckled.

---

"You guys spot anything yet?" Blue asked as the four looked over the sides of a tall building. They had been on the lookout for Sprayroid for the last while, but hadn't managed to find anything.

"No, not yet." Red said. "Think it'd be a bit easier to find this guy making a mess, huh?"

"Not really." Yellow quickly added in. "Guy's got the personality of a graffiti artist, they tend to lay pretty low from the law most of the time."

"Yellow makes a good point." Silver said. "Maybe we need to be looking somewhere a bit more on the downlow than in the middle of downtown."

"Well, I just kind of guessed that a monster would attack downtown if it was trying to get attention." Blue said, a bit upset at herself. "But that sounds like a decent plan, we should go check out the savanna slums."

"Sounds like a plan." Red followed up, stretching his back out. "Ugh, still feel wiggly from that whole snake thing…"

Suddenly, Judy's phone rang up. It was Clawhauser's number, but it wasn't Ben who answered.

"Yo, A-Squad." Emily said, her face popping up on the screen. She was outside the police station by the looks of things.

"Oh, hey Emily." Blue said. Red quickly sprinted over, Silver and Yellow following a bit behind. "Are you calling me from Clawhauser's phone…?"

"Yeah, guy let me use it." She explained. "I left my phone in the car, and… well, that's why I'm calling you guys."

"Finnick knows a few things about cars." Red pointed out. "Maybe he can help you out if there's still some bugs going on."

"There wasn't a breakdown, Nick." Emily sighed. "We got attacked by the monster, and it kind of turned our car into, well…"

She turned the camera around, showing the dinky little vehicle, Henry standing next to it. The bull gave a quick wave before Emily turned the camera back on herself.

"…Yeah."

"Hey, wasn't that one of those three-wheeled joke mobiles you were riding around on when we first met?" Red said, elbowing Blue in the shoulder.

"Ugh, don't remind me." She shuddered. "You guys managed to turn everyone back to normal with the water, right? Why isn't that working on the truck?"

"Barksy got an upgrade by the looks of things." The hyena explained. "Stuff's permanent now, water doesn't work."

"Apparently he can transform a lot more than just mammals now, too." Henry said from off camera.

"Yeah, there's that too."

"Well, that's a terrible problem." Silver said. "Guess we better take care of him soon before he does any major damage, right?"

Red and Blue nodded. "We'll get on it." Blue said. "You two should go to the lab and try to see if there's a cure. It is still paint, it should have some way to take it off."

"Will do." Emily concluded. "Adios."

Blue slipped her phone back into her costume as it hung up. "Alright, sounds like things might get a bit… weird." She started. "We should still head over to the slums, Yellow's hunch sounds like a good place to start."

"Can we make this quick?" Yellow said. "I still have places to be, you know."

"Yeah, we'll make this as quick as possible, don't worry." Red said. "Let's just go make sure this guy doesn't turn anyone else into a reptile."

---

"Maybe we should've expected this." Red said as they entered the slums.

Or, what was previously the slums.

The entire place seemed to have been transformed, buildings had become nonsensical, abstract shapes, some even twisting around themselves to create spires. The streets had been turned into shifting masses of colors, while sidewalks had flared up into walls, and lampposts into hanging chains. The place was at least a lot brighter, as everything was a different color, unlike the shades of greys and browns it had been before.

"He did all of THIS!?" Blue yelled, looking at the nightmarish landscape. "I hate to say it, but this might be the strongest monster we've fought so far."

"At least the most confusing monster." Red quickly added. "We had to fight Long, remember?"

"Yeah, and there were those fox and rabbit monsters you guys got turned into." Silver continued.

"Okay, maybe I'm overreacting." She said. "But this guy isn't a joke!"

"So, is this what you guys do every week?" Yellow asked. "Get involved in some bizarre shit involving a monster?"

"Yeah, basically." Red said. "Usually a lot less weird than this."

There were suddenly loud stomping noises, and the Zoorangers glanced down the street. A herd of bizarre looking monsters were running down the street.

"Oh god, the hell are those?!" Yellow yelled, pulling his club out. Silver quickly followed, pulling his blade out as well.

"Whoa, wait!" Blue said, waving her arms. "I think those are just normal mammals!"

"Oh thank god, it's the Zoorangers!" One of the creatures shouted. It looked like a tornado of fire, with several skeletal limbs flying around it. Its head was a bird skull with eyes still in the sockets, and stuck out of the middle of the tornado. It had a completely normal voice, which made the whole thing a lot weirder.

"You need to help us!" Another one said in a female voice, this one resembling a large spider, but with only six legs. "This monster appeared from nowhere and started turning everyone in these… things!"

"We know what happened to all of you." Blue said. "Head to the police station, you'll all be safe there."

The crowd of creatures quickly ran off, leaving the four behind.

"Yeah, this has been a WHOLE lot weirder than most of our adventures." Red continued.

"Okay, yeah, I can see why." Yellow admitted.

"HEY!" A voice suddenly shouted. The four looked back, and watched as Chaos Sprayroid ran down the street. "Get back here, I need to pose you all for my ultimate art piece!" He noticed the Zoorangers. "UGH! You spoilsports again."

"Yeah, and we're feeling pretty critical." Red started. "And we're going to rip your art to shreds!"

"Nice one." Yellow said, quickly fist bumping the fox.

"Hmm, I need to do something… special for you four." The monster said to itself. "I know, why don't you deal with my fans while I ponder over it?"

He snapped his fingers, causing a crowd of Buglers to appear in a burst of data particles. The monster started to spray at the air above them, the cloud clearing to reveal a bunch of weapons, which quickly fell down into most of the Bugler's hands.

The weapons included swords, blasters, spears, any kind of deadly thing you could imagine, and some of the Buglers were even dual wielding.

"My fans love my work so much, they'll defend me from any critics!" Sprayroid said, thrusting his hand forward. "ATTACK!"

The Buglers let out beeps, before charging at the Zoorangers. "You guys take on fifty guys that often?" Yellow asked.

"Yeah, very often." Red said, pulling out his sword. "Happens like, once a week."

"Sounds like a pain."

The four charged into battle with the monsters, swinging their own weapons as they destroyed the Buglers. A Bugler with a spear charged at Yellow, and attempted to jab it into him, but the fennec dodged it fairly easily, before smashing its edge with his club. The spear shattered, leaving the mechanical minion stunned, and letting Yellow jump up and clobber it in the face with his club. Its head flew off, and collided into another Bugler, knocking it out as well.

The fennec jumped up again as another Bugler, this one with a gun, attempted to shoot him from behind. Yellow tossed the club at it, punching directly through the robot's chest.

"Wow, didn't realize just how tough this baby was!" The fennec chuckled as he picked the club back up.

Red and Blue tag teamed the Buglers, the rabbit leaping off the fox's head and firing at the Buglers from midair, taking out a large amount in one motion. Red pulled out the Vickscannon, and fired several shots into the Buglers as well, taking out more of them.

"Hey, why do you guys get guns!?" Yellow shouted, noticing the two's weapons.

"Oh, we got them really early on!" Blue said. "I think you might have to earn yours!"

"Yeah, you'll get one soon enough!" Red added, firing a shot from the Vickscannon.

Silver sliced through another Bugler as he ran over to Yellow, ducking down to whisper in his ear. "Actually, I never got a gun, so you might just not get one either."

"Oh, come on, seriously?" Yellow said. "Sounds like a buncha bullshit to me."

Meanwhile, Sprayroid continued to think, letting his minions do the fighting. "Ah, I think I got it!" He said, rubbing his hands together. "Time for me to get in there, and deliver my artistic punishment to them!"

He turned to the battle, there were only a few Buglers left, and started to walk into it. He spotted the rabbit and the fox, both having just managed to clear out the monsters near them. "Hah, perfect!"

He prepared his cannon, and shot several balls of paint at them. The two quickly noticed, and both leaped out of the way, letting the paint hit the ground, and fuse with the swirling mass underneath them.

"Stand still!" Sprayroid shouted. "I can't work with moving canvases!"

He rushed in, and quickly attempted to stomp down on Red, who rolled out of the way, and slashed in robot in the back of the leg with his sword. The Metalroid let out a yelp of pain as it started to hop around on one foot.

Blue ran around the monster while it was distracted, leaping up and kicking the canister on its back. The robot tumbled to the ground, unable to get up due to the weight of its back.

"Wow, this guy's kind of a pushover." Blue said, a bit surprised.

"I find its easier to fight when you're not carrying heavy baggage." Red added.

"Grah, stupid animals!" Sprayroid grunted. It slammed its cannon arm into the ground, before firing. The burst of paint caused the monster to be flung up and regain its footing. "I've been trying to think of something suitable for you two." He started, turning to them.

"I don't think any of your 'art' would suit us." Blue said.

"Yeah, we only like GOOD art." Red snarkily followed up.

The monster started to let out a frustrated growl, but quickly calmed itself. "So, I finally came up with something, and you two are REALLY gonna feel the pain now!"

The monster paused for a moment.

"Hm, should've said 'feel the paint'…"

The two looked at each other, and then leaped up, kicking the monster in the stomach and causing it to be pushed back. "Oh, right, fight!" It said, snapped out of its thoughts. It raised the cannon to the sky, and started to spray a stream of paint from it. The paint started to solidify, turning into a large blade.

Yellow looked over as the monster, Red, and Blue started to fight. He glanced around, the robots had been taken care of, so he should probably go help them.

"Yo, wolfy, wanna go help those two?" He asked Silver.

"Uh, obviously, yeah." The wolf replied.

The two quickly rushed in, Silver leaping in front of the two and blocking a swing from the monster's blade with his rapier. Yellow rushed in from behind, jumping onto the monsters back and slamming the club down onto its noggin.

"OWTCH!" It let out, stumbling back. Silver quickly kicked it in the stomach, the Fennec leaping off as the monster stumbled back.

"Alright, Yellow, Silver!" Red cheered, jumping up and giving the wolf a quick high-four, and then fist bumping Yellow.

"That was great, Yellow!" Blue complimented. "With all of us here, there's no way this guy can beat us!"

The monster started to laugh, interrupting their early victory. "DON'T UNDERESTIMATE THE GENUIS OF AN ARTIST!" It screeched, before slamming its cannon directly into the ground, the nozzle of it seeming to plug into the swirling colors.

"Hell's he doing…?" Yellow asked, before the ground started to shake.

Suddenly, two large, multi-colored hands rose from the ground, consisting of the same swirling colors as the rest of the ground. Before the Zoorangers could react, they lunged at Red and Blue, clutching them in their grasp.

"Hey, let go of them!" Silver shouted, spinning his sword to Sun Mode. He fired a fireball at the hand carrying Red, but it seemed to quickly morph out of the way.

The hands started to slide across the ground, and over to Sprayroid. They then started melting back into the ground, trapping Blue and Red by their feet.

"Ugh, such an ordeal!" The monster said, bringing his cannon up from the ground, which was dripping a bit of paint from the nozzle. "But you know what they say, great art comes through great pain!" He paused for a moment. "Should I have said 'paint' there, or…" He quickly shook it off. "Whatever, just get this done quick!"

The monster started to spray them with his spray can arm. "GUYS, NO!" Silver shouted, he was unable to reach them before the monster started painting.

"So, you guys are playing Sentai, right?" The monster said to its two victims, both of them letting out annoyed grunts from within the clouds. "But you guys sure don't LOOK like Sentai, and I fought a Sentai before! I really need to correct your designs, you know?"

The clouds started to grow bigger, roughly around the same size as Sprayroid himself. "Like, whoever designed you guys, whoever designed this world… like, talk about saccharine Disney crap! Yeesh, no style to it!"

"Viola, behold, the new ZooRed and ZooBlue!" The monster finally cried as it stopped spraying.

The clouds quickly parted, revealing… Well, definitely not a fox and a rabbit.

It was two humans, both wearing costumes that looked exactly like the ones Red and Blue wore, except designed to fit around the human body. The biggest changes were the helmets, and Blue's outfit now having a skirt. The helmets now only sported slight references to the animals, the red one's helmet now having sharp points that curved from the mid point of the helmet, and the blue one having softer, rounded points coming from the same place.

The red one was slightly taller than the blue one, who came up to around his shoulder. The red one was also a lot broader and more muscular than the blue one as well. The blue human was thinner, and had a bit of a curve to her.

"Oh god!" The human dressed it red shouted, staring at itself. He stumbled a bit, both their feet being freed. "The hell did you do to us!?"

"Updated you!" The monster said, clutching its hands together. "Man, the fanartists are gonna FREAK OUT about this!" It laughed.

Blue stumbled a bit, not used to the body she was now in. "Ugh, this feels really weird." She groaned.

"Boop!" Sprayroid raised his hand, and pushed on Blue's helmet. The former rabbit was slightly shorter than the monster, and due to her lack of control, was easily pushed to the ground. "Beep!" The monster let out again, gently kicking Red in the leg, causing him to fall over as well.

"Guess I'll be seeing you two later!" The monster laughed. "I have an entire city to remake in my image, come find me when you're a step above crawling!" The monster started laughing again as it sprayed a cloud in front of itself, which quickly vanished.

"Okay, question." Finnick started, untransforming. "What the hell did he turn them into?"

"Uh, they're called 'Humans', I think?" Max said, also untransforming. "They're the main species in the alternate world the monsters come from."

"Okay, that doesn't make sense, but whatever."

The two quickly ran up to them, Max attempting to help both of them up, due to him being the only one of their size now.

"Easy does it!" Max said as he helped Judy to her now very small feet.

"How do those human guys even use these things!?" She growled, looking down at her feet. She spotted the skirt. "Wait a second, what the heck's this!?" She said, pulling it down.

"It's a skirt, Carrots." Nick added, stretching his arms out. "You know, those things you hate wearing."

"I know what it is!" She shouted. She also quickly noticed small lumps on her chest. "Wait, are these-"

"Okay, now this is just getting awkward." Max quickly interrupted.

"Yeah, I don't really wanna hear about your bodies anymore." Finnick said, obviously fairly grossed out just looking at them. "They're gross enough out here, I don't want to hear about how it feels."

Nick took an unsteady fist step, and nearly tripped over, due to not having his tail anymore. "Yeah, how the heck do those guys walk around like this?" He questioned. "No tails mean no balance, right?"

"Not every mammal uses their tail for balancing, Nick." Judy said, taking her own first step forward. It went over slightly better than Nick's though she still nearly tripped.

"Okay, we're heading back to my place now." Max said. "And we're walking there, because if you guys can't figure out how to walk, then there's no way we can do anything."

"Yeah." Judy said. "Maybe we can find a cure, too! Maybe the water trick just doesn't work on vehicles!"

"Probably getting your hopes up a bit too much, Carrots." Nick said. "But, anything's worth a shot."

"Ugh, just watching you two move around is grossing me out." Finnick sputtered.

---

"Okay, maybe we should try salt next." Max suggested, tossing the bottle of cleaner away. It landed in a pile of other cleaning supplies, none of which had worked to clean Nick and Judy up.

"What!?" Judy said. "Why salt?!"

"I dunno, I just have to try it." Max stated. "This could have a really simple weakness that we just haven't found out yet."

"We've tried everything else that removes stains, why would salt work?" Nick asked.

"I just have to try!"

The wolf stormed off into the kitchen, leaving the two alone with Finnick.

"So, can you guys get out of those costumes, or are you just stuck?" The fennec asked.

"Uh, we haven't tried yet." Judy said, looking at her wrist. The Zoolizer hadn't changed, so it should be able to work, right.

"Hey, if this works, maybe we'll find out what humans actually look like, huh?" Nick suggested.

"True, they have only shown up wearing costumes…" Judy noted, putting one of her fingers on the button. "Here goes nothing."

She pressed the button, but nothing happened.

"Well, there goes that plan." Nick said, crossing his legs and leaning back into the couch.

"SALT!"

Max suddenly appeared behind them, sprinkling salt from a shaker down onto the two. "SAAAAAAAALT!" He continued to shout.

"WHY ARE YOU YELLING!?" Judy yelled back, brushing the salt off of her.

"I thought yelling might help." He said, ceasing to shake the shaker any more. "All that did was get salt all over my couch."

"Yeah, and who's idea was that?" Nick replied, a bit agitated.

Finnick let out a small groan. He really needed to get out of here, quick. His three hours were almost up, and work was a half hour away from here. He needed to sneak out without them noticing.

"So, what do your new bodies feel like?" Finnick asked, hoping to distract them.

"What?" Judy quickly said, before looking at herself. "It feels… tight?

"I can feel some of the stuff going on under the suit." Nick added. "Like, ugh, mostly dull teeth. How do prey eat things with these?"

"We don't eat meat, so we don't really have a use for canines." Judy added. She quickly felt around the inside of her mouth with her tongue. "There are canines here, though, they seem really sharp."

"Also, what the hell are these supposed to be?" Nick continued, holding up his hands, and sticking out what looked like somewhat degenerative digits.

"I learned about some of that in school." Max said. "Scientists say those digits were supposed to help grip onto things, but I never really had any trouble grabbing things."

"Yeah, they just seem kind of useless." Judy continued, stretching them up and down.

"Is there any fur under there?" Max asked, curious.

"Ugh, that's the worst part." Judy said. "There's no fur, just skin. It feels weird, like the suit's gripping to me."

"I can feel some fur on the top of my head." Nick said. "But nothing else."

Before they could continue talking about the gross implications of their bodies, Finnick got up from the floor, and started to slowly move towards the door. It seemed nobody had noticed him get up, so he shrugged, leaped up to grab the doorknob, and left.

"Yeah, and whats with these feet?" Judy said, holding her legs up.

"You're really getting upset about the feet, aren't you?" Nick questioned.

"I can't help it when the feet are defining part of my species!" She snapped.

There was a sudden buzzing noise. Judy reached behind her, and pulled out her phone, which was remarkably tiny in her new hands. "It's, uh, Ben, I think?" She said, trying to read the small text. She carefully pressed on the answer button.

It opened the standard call screen, it looked like the phone's camera wasn't working. "Hey, Judy, that you?" Ben asked on the other side.

"Yeah, its me." She said. "Kind of."

"Oh, okay, well we kind of need HEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLP!"

He quickly hung up.

"Well, that is not a good sign at all." Nick said, getting up and nearly stumbling over. "Think we can even DO anything in these bodies?"

"We have to at least try." Judy said, also getting up. "Let's get going, guys!"

Nick and Max nodded, the former fox looking down to wear Finnick was. "Ready to go Finn-"

He glanced around.

"Where'd Finnick go?"

The other two looked around as well. He seemed to have vanished.

"Probably ran off." Max suggested. "He might've gone back to work."

"Ugh, we'll have to call him later." Judy said, shaking her head. "Let's just go help out Ben."

The three quickly headed outside, Nick and Judy summoning up their bikes. Thankfully, the ZooTags seemed to still work.

Unfortunately, the bikes were far too small for them now.

"So, its just gonna be like this from now on, huh?" Nick sighed.

"The one part of this body I was enjoying was being tall, but now its just being a nuisance." Judy said, tapping her foot.

"You know, I can just drive you two." Max suggested.

---

A few minutes later, Max's car pulled up to the police station. Or, at least, what the police station had been turned into.

"Great, he got here, too." Nick said as they got out of the car. The station had been transformed into another sort of abstract shape, still somewhat resembling the shape of the station itself, but twisted into a featureless blue form.

Judy glanced around at the sky. It looked like the police station wasn't the only part of the city that had been hit while they were trying to sort everything out. The surrounding buildings, and any she could see in the skyline, had been transformed into the abstract shapes as well, and even the sky had started to become an unnatural color.

The sun had also gained a face, which was very uncomfortable.

"So, everyone's in there?" Judy said, turning back to the station. "How are we supposed to get in when there's no entrances?"

"I got an idea!" Max said, transforming into ZooSilver. "I'll use Eclipse Mode to cut through the walls!"

"Can you actually do that?"

"I can sure as hell try!"

The wolf walked up the steps, but seemed to be walking in one place. He glanced down, the stairs were moving along with him. "Oh, come on." He quickly leaped up into the air, and landed in front of the building. "Yeah, that's not gonna work on me." He scoffed.

Silver turned to the transformed building, and spun his sword's guard around, switching it to Eclipse Mode. Everything went still for a moment, and he started to rapidly jab into the sides of the blue building, creating an arch shaped carving. They were slightly deeper than he expected them to be, but there was definitely an inside to it.

Time resumed.

"Well, I managed to make a few cuts through it." Silver said. "But I might need to do some more work before I can make an exit."

"Alright, take your time." Nick said. "We don't really have anywhere to go right now."

"Oh, but time's something you DEFINITELY lack!"

The three turned to face the street. Chaos Sprayroid had appeared out of nowhere. "Are you trying to mess with my art?" It said. "Sorry, not gonna happen! BUGLERS!"

He waved his arms again, causing another swarm of buglers to appear in front of him. "Take care of them!" The robot commanded. "I have more work to do, so see you guys NEVER!"

The monster vanished in a puff of smoke as the Buglers charged forwards.

"Guys, I still need time to work on this!" Silver said, quickly switching to Moon Mode. He straightened the whip out, and jabbed it into one of the holes, and started carving. "I need you to back me up!"

"Not sure we can!" Judy admitted, one of the Buglers running up and hitting her with its shield weapon. She stumbled back awkwardly, before trying to kick one. The odd balance of the new body caused her to start hopping on one foot from the kick, before falling over.

Nick was having about as well of a time, as he attempted to scratch one of the Buglers, only for his hands to just rub across its metal skin. Then monster then pushed him back as well. "Yeah, these bodies aren't particularly good at fighting!" He yelled.

"Then call up Finnick!" Silver shouted.

"Alright, good idea." Nick said. He quickly rolled over onto his stomach, managing to trip over a Bugler, and pulled out his phone. He quickly dialed Finnick's number. Well, as best he could with his new, large fingers.

---

Finnick pulled the van up to the Buggaburger, and got out. He had changed into his humiliating looking uniform, and went in the back way. The inside of the "restaurant" smelled like grease and broken dreams.

"The HELL WERE YOU DOING!?"

He glanced down to see his manager, a small shrew. "You're thirty minutes late than what we agreed on, Finnigan!" The shrew yelled, his voice distressingly deep.

"Yeah, I know." Finnick said. "But I was busy doing something."

"I bet you were busy LOAFING AROUND!" The shrew yelled again. "I let you off ONCE, but now you've gone far enough!"

"Mr. McElroy, I'm telling the truth." Finnick said, though he knew it wasn't going to get anywhere. Telling him what he was actually doing would probably just get him fired quicker.

"I was, uh, busy trying to save the city."

The shrew laughed, before turning serious again. "Good one, but I ain't falling for that." He growled.

"But I'm serious, I was!" Finnick said again. "I know it's hard to believe, but-"

"Oooh, no, no, no, NO!" McElroy said. "I'm not letting another excuse pass me by! You're FIRED!"

FInnick felt like screaming, but he knew it wasn't a good idea to. He simply took off his uniform, mostly just coveralls, and dropped it to the ground before heading out.

He stepped back into the van, and started to pound his head into the steering wheel, a loud honk punctuating every slam. He tried to let out a scream, but it just came out as a frustrated sigh. He turned the car on, and drove out of the parking lot.

For a few minutes, he was just driving around aimlessly, before he parked in a back alley. The fennec leaned back in his seat, and let out another annoyed, frustrated sigh.

Then his phone rang.

"WHAT IS IT!?" He finally yelled, after answering it.

"Whoa, hey, Finn!" Nick said on the other side. He dropped the phone down onto the control panel, not wanting to look at the fox's face. He would've done the same if it was just his normal face, too.

"Hey, we could really use your help right now." Nick said. "We're kind of- ugh, kind of in a little trouble!"

"I'm not going to help you." Finnick said, remarkably bluntly.

"Oh, come on, seriously!?" Nick shouted. "There are innocent lives in danger here, and we can't do anything without you!"

Finnick thought for a moment, more conflict going on in his head. It was the "right thing" to do, and he could go and scold Nick and his friends if he went… But he also just felt like wallowing in his misery, and not helping them would make a much better statement… But he could also let out some frustration out on some of the bad guys… And Nick seemed to be in trouble…

"MMMmmmmmmFINE!" He shouted. "I'll be there in a few."

"Oh thank GOD." Nick said, before hanging up.

Finnick quickly pulled out of the alleyway, and drove off.

---

The van pulled up next to the transformed station, and Finnick glanced around a bit. He shook off the odd sights, before noticing Nick and Judy fighting the monsters, still a fairly huge crowd. He let out a sigh, and got out of the vehicle, transforming into ZooYellow.

The fennec ran in, club ready to strike, and leaped up, smacking a number of Buglers, which were destroyed instantly by the impacts. "Have you two SERIOUSLY not been able to defeat a SINGLE ONE of these bozos!?" Yellow yelled at the two.

"No, we haven't!" Judy shouted, shielding from an attack by one of the robot monsters.

"Yeah, we don't exactly know how to USE these things!" Nick added, quickly kneeing on of the Buglers in the stomach, which seemed to work as it stumbled off. "These things are the most useless, watered-down mammals I've seen! There's absolutely nothing dangerous about them!"

"Yeah, I can tell!" Yellow said, quickly smacking another Bugler in the legs, knocking them off at the knees. The monster balanced on its stump legs for a moment, before Yellow jumped up and slammed its head in. "Why don't you guys just use your weapons, then?"

"Oh, yeah, good idea!" Judy said. Strange she hadn't thought of it, might've been because of all the weird things going on.

She quickly pulled out her knives… but they were remarkably small in her new hands. She tried to pull out her blasters, but those were way too small as well. "Come ON!"

Nick pulled out his sword, which was now more of a knife, and then pulled out his cannon. The cannon was way too large for his normal body, but in this new one, it seemed to fit moderately well!

"Alright, that's what I'm talking about!" He said, before firing at the monsters, still carrying the Vickscannon in both hands. It was definitely much easier to move around with like that.

Judy glanced over as Nick fired the cannon at the monsters, wiping some of them out. "Hm, if his became MORE proportional, then…"

She quickly pulled out a white ZooTag, it being even tinier between her fingers, and plugged it into the Zoolizer.

"TRAINING THE WILD!
CUTTING THE JUNGLE!
POTSURI! ZUBARI!
WILD AXE!"

The wild axe appeared in her hands, fitting a lot more comfortably into them. She quickly slashed at one of the monsters, chopping it in half.

The three started to work through the monsters as Silver sliced through wall. "Just a bit more!" He said.

"Well, we're almost out of guys to beat up, so take your time!" Yellow said, launching another monster away with his club.

In a moment, the rest of the Buglers had been defeated, and Silver still wasn't through cutting the wall open.

"This is VERY difficult, alright!?" He shouted as the three stared at him, judgementally.

"So, Finn," Nick started, looking down at the fennec. "You sounded a bit, uh, angry when I called you. What's up?"

Finnick quickly untransformed, and started to pace back and forth in front of both of them "What happened?" He said, stopping in place. He scowled at them. "You assholes got me FIRED from my JOB!" He shouted.

"Oh god." Judy quietly said.

Nick was left a bit speechless.

"You know how hard it was to GET that job!?" He continued. "I can barely be employed below minimum wage, thanks to longlegs here!"

"Nick, I'm sorry, I-"

"'Sorry' isn't going to cut it this time, Nicky!" Finnick continued to yell. "For most of my life I've put up with your bullshit, and now I'm in the garbage thanks to it! I should've never agreed to anything you said, I could've been a mechanic or something!"

"Finnick, we didn't realize that-"

"Oh, you fuckin' knew." The fennec interrupted. "You just thought you could work your own lives around mine! Well guess what? Not everyone gets payed to save the world! Not everyone has a house to go back to, or someone they love to see every night! I don't ever want to see you two again, got it!?"

Finnick quickly stormed off, leaving the two of them completely stunned.

Nick fell to the ground, and clutched at his head. "God, what have I done?"

"It wasn't your fault, Nick." Judy said, sitting down next to him. "We all tried to push this on him when we shouldn't have."

"No, not just that." Nick said, solemnly. "He's right about me dragging him down, we did a lot of illegal things over the years, no wonder he couldn't get a decent job."

"Alright, I managed to cut it open!" Silver suddenly shouted, turning back to the two. He glanced around. "Hey, where'd-?"

"Seriously?" Judy said as they got up.

They quickly ran up the stairs, and rammed into the chunk that Silver had carved out, knocking it down to the ground. The inside was a hallow blue box, with everyone that had been in the station before, including the transformed mammals they had sent there earlier, standing in the middle of it.

"Everyone!" Judy shouted, motioning to the hole. "Make your way out through here!"

The mammals, of all shapes and sizes, complied, all heading out through the hole. However, Emily, Henry, and a small mole walked up to them. Henry was carrying the transformed vehicle on his shoulders.

"Thank god you guys showed up-" Emily started, before stopping and glancing at Nick and Judy. "Hell happened to you two?"

"Long story, basically the monster managed to transform us." Judy quickly said.

"Yeesh, really ugly forms he gave you guys." She continued. "But we think we're getting close to something, right?" She said, looking down at the mole.

"Oh, yes!" The mole said, one of the forensic scientists at the station. "Thanks to those poor mammals that you sent here, I was nearly able to figure out a way to cure everyone!"

"Hey, that's great!" Nick said. "What is it?"

"I wasn't able to finish it." The mole continued. "The whole building turned into this before I could."

"Yeah," Henry started. "But we have an idea of what we need, so we're gonna go looking for it."

"You three need to keep the rest of the city safe, got it?" Emily said. "You know, the important stuff."

She gave a quick wave, before the three headed off.

"I don't think we CAN protect the city at this rate…" Judy said. "We don't know how to use these bodies; how can we protect anyone when we have no fine motor control?"

"Obviously, you just gotta get it working!" Max suggested, untransforming. "We'll head back to my place, and you guys can start training!"

"Yeah, not sure we have enough time for that, Max." Nick said.

"Well, we have until another monster alert, so we should get on it quick, right?"

"Ugh, fine." Nick let out.

"Come on, cheer up." Judy said, attempting to gently elbow him, but instead jutting him in the ribs. "A little training never hurt anyone!"

"Yeah, whatever."

---

Should he have been that blunt with them?

Finnick paced around the back of his van, thinking about what he had done. It was a gut reaction, he could've probably handle it better… But it was also how he felt. How was he supposed to do anything with Nick tying him down? It was just a big problem he couldn't figure out.

The fennec let out a sigh, and glanced at the device on his wrist. He had to admit that he liked it, but he also didn't feel like he deserved to be a superhero. Nick was a better mammal than he ever was, so why did whatever god deity give it to him, specifically.

"How am I gonna pay for gas?" He said, his thoughts quickly shifting again. Too many things running through his head. He couldn't keep track of all the things going on at once.

He took a deep breath.

He had gotten his feelings off his chest, and he didn't need to worry about it anymore. He probably shouldn't worry about the city either, Nick and Judy would figure it out eventually, right? Then he could just ignore all this and go back to trying to find a job.

He let the breath out.

"Alright, feeling better." He said to himself. "Wonder if there's any places looking for jobs now. Hopefully there's a newspaper stand that hasn't been turned into, I dunno, a tree or some shit."

He hopped back into the front of the van, glancing at the phone still next to his seat. He shook his head, and drove off.

---

"So, is this better or worse than being a snake?" Max asked, watching as Nick and Judy stretched their bodies out.

"Well, I had less parts to move around when I was a snake." Nick said, stretching his back out. "I think I'm starting to get the hang of it, at least."

"Same here." Judy said, the former rabbit performing a few sit-ups. "Maybe we will be ready before the next time the monster attacks!"

"I might not actually hate this." Nick admitted.

"What?" Judy said stopping her sit-ups. "Yeah, we're getting used to this, but I still hate being in here."

"Well, that's you, Carrots." Nick said.

A few minutes passed as they continued trying to adjust to their bodies. "Do you think I should apologize to Finnick?" Nick asked.

"When all this is over, yeah." Judy said. "We have a lot going on right now, and he probably isn't in the mood for an impromptu call."

"Well, I know that." He said. "But I'm a bit worried about the next fight. What if it still goes bad, should I try and call him up when that happens?"

"I don't know, honestly." Judy admitted. "You should let him decide what to do, you know?"

Nick let out a sigh.

Max continued to watch for the next while as they performed their stretches, getting acquainted with their new bodies. Suddenly, his nose picked something up. A familiar smell, something he had been smelling the entire day.

Paint.

"Uh, guys?" He said, starting to panic. "I think we need to get out of here."

"What?" Nick said, getting up from a push-up.

"Yeah, we're in the middle of something, why are you panicking?" Judy asked.

"I think the monster's here."

The two glanced at each other, and then all three ran outside. They were too late.

The entire city had been transformed, the only normal thing remaining being Max's house. As they exited, they saw Sprayroid standing outside.

"Hello, art studies!" It said cheerfully. "How do you like my masterpiece? I call it, 'The Art of Zootopia'!"

"We're going to beat you, you hack fraud." Nick threatened. "We've been working at figuring out our new bodies, and we're ready to take you on!"

"Oh, sure." The monster said, sounding like it was rolling its eyes.

Max quickly transformed into ZooSilver, and the three of them ran at him. Red pulled out the Vickscannon, and fired a few volleys, but the monster quickly transformed the fireballs into bubbles, which floated upwards. The former fox growled, as best he could, anyway, and pulled out his tiny sword. He rushed at the monster, but he effortlessly smacked it out of his hand, before punching him right in the face.

Blue summoned the Wild Axe yet again, and attempted to chop at the monster. She still managed to be slightly unsteady, Sprayroid backing away from every swing with ease. After a few swings, the former bunny started to lose her breath, and let go of the axe. She started to try and kick Sprayroid, but her kicks were a bit choppier than normal, letting it dodge them effortlessly. After a few kicks, the robot grabbed onto her leg, and twisted it, causing her to fall to the ground.

"Alright, you might be able to take them on, but you can't do that to me!" Silver said, weapon drawn.

"Okay, yeah, that's a bit of an error." The monster admitted. "But I still doubt you can take me on by yourself!"

Silver quickly rushed in, and swung his blade at the monster, who blocked it with his cannon. It quickly pushed him back, causing the wolf to stumble, and then take a blast of compressed air to his stomach, launching him off.

"Hah, I can't believe this!" Sprayroid cheered. "I managed to beat the Zoorangers! I'm going to go down as the greatest in history!"

"NO!" Blue shouted, pounding her fist on the multicolored ground. She slowly climbed back up to her feet, and glared at the monster. "WE WON'T GIVE UP! WE'RE GOING TO STOP YOU!"

"Yeah!" Red followed, also getting up. "We aren't going to let you cause any more of this chaos!"

Silver got up as well, shaking off the blast. "We're the Zoorangers, we're here to defeat scum like you!" He said. "And that's what we'll do!"

"Oh my god, you three are so stubborn." The monster muttered. "How can you make good art when you overexert yourselves like this? Maybe you should just relax and let me do my job!"

The three charged in, attempting to strike at the monster with everything they had, all at the same time. Red managed to get in a punch, knocking the robot back, before Blue delivered a few kicks to the monster as well. Silver quickly leaped in and slashed at the monster as well, causing it to fly off and hit the ground.

"Alright, maybe I… underestimated you!" Sprayroid said as it got up. "Now its time to take this a bit more seriously myself!"

He started to fire a stream of paint from his cannon, propelling himself into the air. The spray can monster started to doodle in midair with its other arm, creating a cloud, which cleared to reveal very large missiles.

"FIRE!" he shouted, waving his hand forward. The missiles fired off, and hit the three before they could react. There was a massive explosion, and the three fell to the ground. "Oh, I'm not done yet!" He started to spray his can again, creating a cloud directly above the recovering Zoorangers.

Red quickly pulled out his phone, and started to dial a number. He glanced back up at the cloud. It cleared to reveal a large, iron ball. It fell down on top of them, before vanishing. The phone was flung out of his hand, landing right in front of him.

The monster lowered itself to the ground, and stepped towards them. "See, you can't beat me when I can make whatever I want!" It bragged. "You're just a bunch of worms, I'm like a god!"

He let out a laugh as the phone started to ring. Red started to reach out for it.

---

"Ugh, nothing." Finnick said as he drove throughout the twisted world. He'd been driving for around twenty minutes, and hadn't found a single place where he could get a newspaper. He knew they were obsolete, but all he wanted was the wanted ads.

"Maybe I should've done this after all this cleared up." The fennec said to himself as he looked at the abstract buildings and roads. He parked the car along what he hoped was the side of the road. It wasn't like anyone was driving, anyway, every other car he had seen had been turned into some kind of smoke producing device.

Suddenly, there was a ringing from beside him. He picked up the phone, and groaned as he saw it was Nick's number.

He probably wanted to get him to do something. Probably fight the monster. Well, he wasn't going to do that anymore, so there wasn't any point in asking. But the fennec guessed he needed to rub it in just a bit more.

"Yo, Nick, if you're asking me to do something, I'm not going to." He opened, tossing the phone to the other seat. "I don't care what kind of problems you're having, you gotta handle them yourself from now on."

"Finn…" Said a weak voice from the phone. It was fairly faint. "Help…"

Finnick sat up, and looked at the phone.

Suddenly, a voice that wasn't Nick's started talking. "Oooooh, what's this?" The voice said. Finnick looked just in time to see Sprayroid's face. "Aw, you were trying to call for your little friend's help? What'd he do, abandon you?" The monster mocked.

"I didn't abandon them!" Finnick shouted, hopping over to the other seat and picking the phone up. Sprayroid was visibly startled by the sudden action.

"Well, it certainly looks like you abandoned them!" He said, showing the Zoorangers piled up, all of them injured.

"I… I…" Finnick let out. He quickly spotted Max's house in the background. He hopped back to the driver's seat, and placed the phone on his lap as he started it up.

"I doubt there's anything you could do anyway, little guy." The monster continued. "Especially not by yourself! If you were here, maybe they would've stood a chance against me!"

Finnick let out a growl, and tossed the phone into the back of the truck.

---

"Hah!" Sprayroid laughed, dropping the phone to the ground. "Looks like your little rat friend couldn't handle being told the truth!" He continued. "Now to finish you three off for good!"

"Finnick…" Red sighed. "He wouldn't abandon us, would he?" He quietly asked.

"I wouldn't be surprised." Blue admitted. "We should've never asked him to join…"

"We can get out of this without him!" Silver said, helping himself up with his sword. "I'll make sure we save everyone, and that Finnick won't have to worry about us!"

"Oh shut up." The monster said, smacking Silver back to the ground with his cannon. "You positive types are SO annoying! Don't you realize what I've done?"

He postured towards the city behind him. "I've made this city what it TRULY represents! The world is a dark place full of nonsense and chaos, so let everything be that! It's a true appreciation of the world around us, don't you see!?" He turned back to them, all three slightly managing to recover. "This world is better than yours! It IS what the world is! Don't you get it!?"

"Ugh, artists." Red muttered, nearly managing to get up. "You gotta attach meaning to EVERYTHING, don't you?"

"Well yeah, that's what being an artist-"

The monster was quickly interrupted by a honk. He turned to look down the road, a red van coming directly for him.

"Aw, pop art."

The truck smashed into the monster, and came to a halt as Sprayroid was flung out of the way. Finnick quickly hopped out of the truck, and ran over to the injured Zoorangers.

"Finn, you actually came to help?" Red asked, genuinely surprised.

"Yeah, of course I did." He said, like Nick just asked an incredibly dumb question. "I might hate you an incredible amount right now, but I can't just leave you guys to die, right?"

"That's very noble of you, Finnick." Blue said, the three managing to finally get up.

"Yeah, whatever." He said, before transforming into ZooYellow. "Now, we gonna kick this guy's ass, or are we just gonna talk all day!?"

"Hah!" The monster laughed as it got up. "You STILL can't beat me!" It taunted. "I've still got the power to create anything I want; how do you expect to top that!?"

"I dunno, but we have to try!" Red said.

The four dashed into battle. Silver and Yellow took up arms first, going for a direct attack. The monster quickly formed a blade of paint from its cannon, and intercepted Silver's attempted strike. Yellow slid by, whacking the monster in the legs with his club, causing it to trip over.

The Metalroid quickly, but awkwardly, rolled out of the way as Silver went for a slash, and then slashed at the wolf with his own sword.

Blue quickly summoned up the Wild Axe, while Red pulled out a golden ZooTag, and plugged it in.

"JAN JA NIN!
ROCK N ROLL
DROP N ROLL!
SOLAR FLARE SABER!"

The sword appeared in his hand, much more proportional than it usually was. "Hey, check it out, this thing's like an actual sword now!" He said, swinging it about.

"Hope you can use it as an actual sword." Blue said, before the two rushed in.

Silver and Yellow got out of the way as Red and Blue quickly struck the monster with their weapons. He blocked them with his own paint sword, but the two continued to push him backwards. "Ack!" It yelled, before the two stopped pushing, leaving him a bit confused. The two then struck simultaneously with their weapons, causing the monster to fly off and crash into an abstract house shape.

"How!?" The monster yelled, wobbling forward. "You two are supposed to be weaker in those bodies…!"

"Fancy what a little training will get you, huh?" Blue said, spinning her arm.

"GRRRRAH!" The monster shouted. "I WON'T LET THIS MOCKERY CONTINUE! TIME FOR AN UPGRADE!"

The monster started to spray in front of itself, but this time, instead of vanishing, it had changed completely.

It was now mostly grey, with a multicolored V-shaped mark on its chest that resembled that of its forehead crest from before, but with the Chaos Emblem in the middle of it. It also had broader, grey shoulders, that led to larger arms, one equipped with the spray can, the other equipped with the cannon, except with the cannon replacing the entire arm.

It had a broader grey body as well, which continued down from the shoulders. Its upper legs were white, and lead to large armored boots and kneepads. Finally, the head resembled the monster's first form now, being longer and oddly shaped as it jutted out from the V shape, with two canisters coming out of its head. The large canister still remained on its head.

"CHAOS SPRAYROID! MEGA MODE!" It yelled in a much deeper voice. "Prepare to be ERASED!"

Paint started to build up in its cannon, before it pointed it at the Zoorangers. They dodged out of the way as a massive blast of paint fired towards them. It fired out like a beam, striking at Max's house. As it finished firing, large abstract formations started to jut out from the ground it had fired above, and Max's house was quickly overcome by black spikes.

"HEY!" Silver shouted. "You know how much that house COST!?"

"NOT AS MUCH AS YOUR LIFE!" The monster screeched, before painting something with its spray can. A swarm of miniature missiles appeared from the cloud, and fired in random directions, before all of them quickly homed in on the Zoorangers. He quickly made another swipe with the spray can, this time four large orbs of electricity appearing in front of him. They started to home in on the Zoorangers as well.

"Okay, I think he might be getting serious." Red said.

The four attempted to dodge out of the way of the many, many dangerous missiles and the electric orbs, but despite their best efforts, the missiles struck them, and the orbs shocked them.

The monster let out a mechanical laugh as it approached the weakened Zoorangers. "You can't win!" It roared. "I am the master of reality itself! There's no way to defeat me!"

There was another honk.

"Oh you have GOT to be kidding me-"

The monster was quickly rammed by a large armored vehicle, which skid to a halt in front of the four injured Rangers. It was the SPD truck!

"Yo, somebody call for an antidote?" Pink said, getting out of the truck alongside Green. She quickly held up a bottle of clear liquid, and shook it around.

"Wait, you guys actually managed to figure something out?" Blue said, shocked.

"Yeah, we thought we were going to have to beat that thing ourselves!" Red added, with a bit of a nervous laugh.

"Turns out, we just needed some solvent to cure you guys." Green explained. "We managed to get it at a store before he transformed it."

"Yeah, turns out his weakness was just laying around the entire time." Pink added with an amused scoff.

"WHAT!?" The monster shouted. "There's NO WAY that will work!"

Pink nonchalantly twisted the lid off, and splashed some of it on Blue. Her body seemed to have started being eaten away at, disappearing rapidly until her normal rabbit self was left hanging in the air. She quickly dropped to the ground.

"NO!" The monster yelled as Pink splashed some on Red, turning him back to normal as well.

"Hey, and watch this." She said, dumping the rest of it onto the ground. The solvent started to eat through the paint rapidly, covering across the street, across hills, across basically everything, even the sky! Everything had been returned to normal!

"HOW DID THAT EVEN WORK!?" The monster yelled, it being the only thing not to be turned to normal. "GRAH, I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR MAKING ALL MY EFFORT GO TO WASTE!"

"Wow, I feel great!" Blue said, stretching out her old body. "I don't even feel like I've been hurt at all!"

"Yeah, me neither!" Red said as well, flicking his tail around. "Maybe all the damage he did just hurt those fake bodies, and not our real ones."

"Still hurt us a hell of a lot!" Yellow added.

"Yeah, we are in remarkable amounts of pain." Silver continued.

"Well, I guess you guys won't be joining us in the final fight, then?" Red joked.

"Like HELL I won't!" Yellow said, stepping forward. "I have some serious stress to work off, and that trash artist is perfect."

"I'm not going to miss out on this either!" Silver said enthusiastically. He motioned to the other five. "Look at us, we're a full team now! I'm not gonna miss out on our first full team battle!"

"What's he talking about?" Yellow whispered to Red.

"Nerd things."

The six of them quickly nodded, and rushed in to fight the monster. Silver and Green went in first, followed quickly by Pink and Yellow. The first two attacked, Silver slashing the monster with his sword, and Green heading in with a hefty punch to its shoulder. The punch caused Sprayroid to start spinning around, letting Pink quickly pistol whip him back and fire her lasers at him a few times. Yellow quickly jumped up and leaped off of her, smashing the monster over the head with his club.

Blue and Red ran in after this, both leaping up and slashing the monster with their oversized sword and axe. The slashes came out in an X shape, leaving a scar across the robot's V mark, making it now look like it had six points.

"AUGH!" The monster yelled as it reeled back. "I can still win this!" He said.

"No, you can't." Blue said, bluntly. "Stop lying to yourself."

"Yeah, and you need to accept that your art isn't that great either." Red followed.

"MY ART IS BETTER THAN DAVINCI!" It shouted, before firing several quick blasts of paint at the six. They got out of the way as the paint hit the ground, leaving splotches.

"Guess he's getting a bit out of touch with his artistry!" Silver said, noticing the paint splotches. "I think this is the time to take him out!"

"Alright, team!" Blue said, standing proudly. "One last run, and then we take this sucker out for good!"

The rest of the team nodded, and started the attack.

Green walked up first, and quickly fired several blasts at the monster, explosions rising from the ground around it. The bull motioned towards Yellow, who quickly ran up to him, before Blue, Red, Silver, and Pink made their moves. Pink and Red moved in first, Red pulling out his normal sword, and whipping it at the monster wrapping him around in its wire. Pink started to unload her blasters into the monster as she ran up, before kicking him in the opposite direction the sword had wrapped around it.

The monster span around, and red pulled the sword back, causing it to spin around even faster, becoming a blur. Blue and Silver ran in, Blue pulling out her blades. Silver ran to the other side as she leaped up, the two starting to rapidly slash the monster. It stopped spinning around, standing in place for a moment before its body started to crack.

The two backed off as Green approached. He held Yellow in one of his hooves, and quickly tossed him up into the air. The fennec pulled out his club, and started to spin around in midair. He dropped down onto the monster's head, his club smacking it perfectly on the cranium. The head was crushed by this, before springing back up as Yellow jumped off.

"What? Huh?" It let out, before its body collapsed. The armor it had created dropped to the ground and turned back into paint, revealing the monster's original form.

The monster stumbled back as the six gathered, clearly terrified.

"Let's take this guy out!" Blue said, as her, Red, and Silver tossing their weapons into the air to form the Zookaiser. Pink and Green moved in nex to them, preparing their own weapons to fire alongside them.

"Whoa, hey, what about me?" Yellow asked, tapping Red on the shoulder. "Where the hell's this bulky thing supposed to go?" He continued, pointing at the club.

"Uhhh, Silver is the one who knows about this kind of stuff, ask him." The fox said.

The fennec let out a grunt and shook his head, dragging the club around the front of the Zookaiser. He paused to look at the barrel of the weapon, and then back at the club.

Idea!

He quickly plugged the club into the barrel of the gun, it seeming to fit perfectly, and even with a click. He hopped up onto the weapon. "Alright, FIRE!" He commanded.

The two shrugged, and fired the Zookaiser, Pink and green firing their own weapons alongside them.

The bazooka fired out the club, which was quickly surrounded by red, blue, and silver energies. Green and Pink's blasts quickly combined with it as well, forming a ball of energy that swirled with red, blue, silver, green, pink, and yellow colors.

"So… so many colors!" The monster yelled as the blast hit him. It expanded out, forming a faint outline of what looked like the globe, before in retracted inwards, barely covering the monster, and exploded into a shower of lights.

The club fell down from the sky, alongside an empty spray can, and a Chaos Badge. The six let out a sigh of relief.

"MAN, that was wild, wasn't it?" Red said. "Couldn't have done it without my pal here!" He continued, planting his paw down on Yellow's head and rubbing it.

The fennec swatted it away. "Actually, pretty sure I just made things more difficult for everyone."

"Yeah, but you saved us twice." Red continued.

"Hey, hey!" Blue said, clapping her paws. "Do we have to do this every time? We aren't done yet!"

"Oh. Right. Yeah." Red muttered. He looked down at Yellow, and pulled something out. "So, you got one of these?" He said as he showed him the red ZooTag.

"Uh, no, I don't." He said.

"Well, guess you aren't getting in on the fun today!" Red said.

The three turned as a pulse of energy flew through the air, and they watched as the Chaos Badge flew off into the horizon, forming Chaos Sprayroid in the distance.

"NOW MY ART IS EVEN BIGGER THAN EVER!" It yelled.

"Not exactly what I'd call 'fun'." Yellow said.

"Honestly, it is pretty fun." Blue admitted. She glanced over at Silver. "You ready to go, Silv?"

"Uh, actually, I'll be there in a bit." The wolf said. "Just give me a minute."

"Well, I'm not sure we can take this thing on without you, but we don't have any time to argue, so…"

They quickly summoned up ZooRobo, and stomped towards the monster. "Hah, now you two really are alone!" It shouted, quickly thrusting its spray can at them.

The monster started to spray, causing chains to fly from the cloud. ZooRobo quickly attempted to slash the chains away, but they continued to fly out. After a few slashes, the chains quickly wrapped around ZooRobo, binding it in place.

"Now I can destroy you guys for good!" The monster laughed, paint spraying out of its cannon, and quickly forming a sword. He attempted to jab it directly into the mecha's head, but was interrupted by something tapping him on the back.

"What the-?"

The Metalroid spun around, coming eye to eye with ZooKami.

"Yo." Said a voice from it, very clearly not Silver's.

The mech delivered a solid punch to the monster's face, causing it to become dizzy. ZooKami then stepped over to ZooRobo, and sliced through the chains, freeing ZooRobo.

"Thanks, Silver!" Blue said from inside.

"Not the wolf, bunny." Said the voice.

"Finnick?" Red said, surprised. "How did you-"

"Kid let me borrow it for a bit." The fennec explained. "Test drive thing, I guess. Element of surprise there, too."

"You seem to have to figured out the controls pretty quickly!" Blue said with a chuckle.

"Yeah, it's just like driving a car." Yellow said, before pausing. "Except it isn't, at all."

The monster shook its head, but it still seemed to be recovering from the punch. "Quick, we need to take out that canister!" Blue said. "Use ZooKuma, it should be able to cut through it!"

Red nodded, and quickly plugged the yellow ZooTag in.

"BAN BAN BOOM!
GIRI GIRI!
CUTTING THROUGH!
ZOOKUMA!"

The bear mech appeared, and fused with ZooRobo into Kuma Mode. The robot bared its claws, before slashing one of them at the monster's canister, ripping a massive hole in it. The paint inside started to flow out, and the monster finally recovered.

"WHAT!?" It shouted, bending down to look at the ground. "NO! My paint, my glorious paint!"

Zookami quickly walked forwards, and kicked the robot in the face, knocking him up. The mech them slashed at him with his sword, the monster powerless to do anything.

"Alright, you guys finish him off, I'm not really sure how that works." Yellow said.

"Got it." Blue replied.

The mech raised one of its claws into the air. Energy gathered around the claws, before they extended upwards into the sky, higher than even Yellow could see, and he was inside a fourty story tall robot.

ZooRobo brought the claw down, slicing directly through the monster. The claws retracted, causing the monster to spark and stumble forwards.

"Maybe…" The monster started. "Maybe my art wasn't good? Maybe I was just a hack… A hack like BANKSYYYYYYYYY!" It cried, before exploding.

The mechs disappeared, and the three showed back up on in front of Max's house. They untransformed. "You did a good job, Finnick." Blue said, holding out her paw. Reluctantly, Finnick shook it.

"I was just doing what I felt I needed to, y'know?" He replied, a bit bashful.

"So, whaddya say, pal?" Nick asked. "You wanna join us?"

Finnick thought for a moment. "Well, I'm-"

There was a sudden sound, like lightning streaking from the heavens. A red bolt had struck from the sky, and lingered for a moment, casting the area in a red aura.

The six stood there, shocked as it seemed to form into a crack on the air. "Uh, what's going on?" Finnick asked, confused and scared.

"Uh, I'm not really sure." Judy mumbled.

The crack straightened out, before expanding out into a hole. A figure started to walk out from it. A figure clad in red.

"Wait, is that…?" Red started, a bit shocked.

"AkaRed?"

The portal closed, and the sky returned to normal, revealing the red figure of AkaRed. "Holy smokes!" Max said, running up to the deity. "You're so cool looking!"

"Thank you." AKaRed said, remaining stoic.

"Is this that… god guy you mentioned?" Emily asked as she and Henry carefully walked up.

"Yeah, he's a pretty decent guy." Nick said. "How's everything going for you in that void, Reddy?"

"I've been working hard at protecting my universe." He explained. "But I received notification that your third member had been found. I decided to come myself and christen him."

"'Christen me'?" Finnick said, a bit confused. "What does that mean."

"It's like knighting." Nick explained. "Or if you mean the word, it means-"

"I know what the word means!" Finnick shouted.

"All of you stand back." AkaRed said. The other five followed the orders, leaving Finnick standing in front of the imposing red entity.

Finnick started to sweat as AkaRed looked down on him.

"Finnigan Zerdana, are you ready to join Zyumen Sentai Zooranger?"

Finnick paused for a moment. He picked up the sound of laughing from the group. "His name is Finnigan…?" Nick said quietly. Finnick shot him a glare, and returned to looking at AkaRed.

He took a deep breath.

"No."

AkaRed glanced down, a bit shocked. Everyone else reached in surprise as well, Nick specifically being the most confused.

"Listen, I… I don't think I can do this." He continued. "Not with where I'm at. I can't do the two lives thing, it'll just end up bad like it did today." He turned to look at Nick, Judy, and Max. "I enjoyed it, though, don't get me wrong. It was the first time in a while I've felt… alive. But I need to focus on getting myself out of this pit first."

There was a pause. Finnick hoped he hadn't said the wrong thing.

"Very well." AkaRed said. "It is your choice. I only choose those who are willing to join the cause. I understand your reasonings, Finnigan, and respect them. But I must do one thing before I leave…"

AkaRed raised his hand, causing Finnick's paw to move up as well, against his own will. The strap of the Zoolizer came off, and in a flash, returned to its much larger size from before. The Zoolizer floated back to AkaRed's hand, and he walked over to Nick and Judy.

He kneeled down, and held it out. "Take care of this." He said, Judy grabbing it. "Find someone who wishes to become a Zooranger. Someone of both daring bravery and courageous spirit. But make sure it doesn't fall into the hands of anyone dark. The Zoolizers hold great power, and in the wrong hands can be used for malicious things."

"So, you want us to figure out who to make the new ZooYellow?" Judy asked.

AkaRed nodded. "But you only have one chance at this." He stated. "I was able to reverse its genetic coding once, but I will not do so again. Farewell."

AkaRed flicked his cape, and vanished with another flash of red light.

"That was… weird." Emily said. "I feel kinda sick."

"What do you think the sociological implications of both gods and alternate dimensions means?" Henry asked the hyena, who shot him an unamused glance.

"So, guess I'm not joining you guys." Finnick said, walking up to Nick, Judy, and Max.

"It's fine." Judy said. "It was your choice, and I feel you made it well."

"Yeah, I don't really want my best pal getting too stressed out." Nick said, quickly flicking one of the fennec's large ears. "Might get a migraine."

"You know, I might have forgiven you guys slightly…" He started, sounding fairly modest. He quickly glared at Nick. "But you still got me fired."

"Finnigan, can't we let bygones be bygones?" Nick said sarcastically, clutching his paws together.

The fennec's eyes twitched. "Don't call me that again."

"Sorry, Finnigan." The fox continued.

"You know that 'slight forgiveness'?" He said. "Gone now."

He quickly grabbed Nick by the muzzle, and flung him into the ground, before stepping on his back and locking his arm. "Ow, stop it!" Nick cried in pain.

"Listen, Wilde, you're going to help me get a job during the next week, or I'll make sure you never use your yap again." The fennec threatened.

"Alright, alright!" Nick cried, Finnick quickly getting off his back.

"So, can I just say something?" Max started. The three looked up at him. "How are we going to find someone of 'daring bravery' and 'courageous spirit'?"

"Hey, what do you think this city is, a hive of scum and villainy?" Finnick said with a chuckle. "I'm sure you can find someone like that, the city's massive!"

"Finnick's right." Judy started. "We just need to look carefully, and we'll find someone. It might just take time."

"Oooh, maybe we can work out a scheme of some sort!" Nick suggested. "Like… like a talent show! 'Zootopia's Next Top Zooranger'!"

"That's a terrible idea, Nick." Judy said, Max nodding in agreement.

"You guys have no artistic vision!"

"Don't talk to me about art for the next three months." Judy quickly snapped.

"Yo, I'm gonna head out now." Finnick said. "Gonna find some wanted ads, and we can get started on find me a job tomorrow, dig?"

"Fine." Nick sighed.

In a few minutes, the SPD and Finnick had moved on, and the Zoorangers were left back in Max's house. It was starting to get late, and the sun had gone down.

"Nick, can I ask you something?" Judy started, turning to the fox next to her on the couch. They were alone, since Max had gone up to have a shower.

"Sure, what is it?" The fox said as he plopped another blueberry into his mouth.

"I've been around you and Finnick before, but he seemed to be acting… different." She started. "Did you two… have something in the past?"

Nick quickly started choking on the blueberry, before spitting it out. "Whaaat? Are you suggesting that me and Finn were…?"

She nodded.

"No, no, no, it was nothing like that!" He said. "We've just known each other a long time, its nothing."

The fox was heavily blushing at this point, Judy could see right through him.

"Its fine, you know." She said. "Everyone experiments, I just wanted to know."

"I… don't really want to talk about it." Nick said, his tone dropping.

"That's fine too.' She said, before pausing. "Sorry if I made you uncomfortable."

The fox quickly hopped down from the couch without saying anything, and headed to the basement door.

"It's alright."

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"N'est-ce pas merveilleux?" Enter, back in his humanoid form, yelled as he entered the chamber. "The chaos I caused back there was second to none!"

"Indeed, it was." Kyuemon said, with a bit of a sigh.

"I liked that monster!" Yabaiba said, leaning back in his chair. "Reminded me of me!" The chair quickly tipped over, bringing the Org to the ground as well.

Enter walked over to the table, and slammed his hands down on it. "But, unfortunately, we have a new problem."

The villains looked at the table, which flicked on to reveal a picture of ZooYellow.

"They're gained another member." Enter said.

"We saw." Long said, clearly not interested in the conversation. "And I thought five were annoying."

"I hope they don't get any more." Sambash added. "Six is my limit, no more, no less, y'know."

"Hah, I managed to take on seven Rangers!" Yogostein bragged. "Though, I did die a bit after they joined."

"I've handled six before." Kyuemon said with a scoff. He turned to Enter, who had his hand to his chin. "What are your thoughts, Enter?"

"Oh, I just find this simply…"

"Très intéressant."

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Wow sorry for this one being late. I actually expected this one to be shorter than the last, but it kind of ended up being way longer, so you get a longer episode for the delay at least!

The whole concept of Finnick both joining and leaving the team was something I had since early stages of development. I've always tried to throw in some elements of deconstruction alongside some of the parody and drama, and I felt that it worked well for Finnick.

Sprayroid (Two)'s Chaos Form is a reference to Sprayroid (One)'s design, with some added things, obviously. The Mega Mode was, if you couldn't guess by the name, based on the Megazords from Go-Busters, specifically combing the two Sprayzords together. It was also a bit of a last-minute inclusion, but I liked it.

Hopefully some of the visualization doesn't get that confusing here. I mean, it's meant to be confusing, but I don't want anyone getting lost, you know? Also, taking another break (yeah I know), but by the time I'm back, I'm going to be aiming for THREE episodes a month! I plan to reach the final arc by the end of the year!

Oh yeah, doesn't the full team here have a pretty familiar color set?

Next time, his fangs sparkle, a tooth for a tooth! His claws growl, an eye for an eye!