Ho-Hum and the Alien Visitation
A Hyperdimension Neptunia Fan Fiction
by Derald Snyder
Chapter 29- Rangers at the Zoo
*Leanbox Basilicom, Hallway*
"Okay, okay, I think we should stop," Peach Macintosh grunted, sweat dripping down her brow as she panted with exertion.
"Huh? But I can keep going!" Tekken insisted, also sweaty with a few bruises.
"No, we- we need to take a break before we seriously hurt each other," Peach insisted. (Not to mention your groans of enjoyment every time I landed a hard hit... masochist much?!) Just then, Chika ran into the room, looking distressed. "Chika, what's up?"
"There's been an attack at the zoo!" Chika cried. "That Dogoo Man and Kuma set the captive Tenga free, and now they're wreaking havoc!"
"My Kuma?!" Tekken gasped. "Th-that bad bear! I'm gonna have to teach him a lesson!" She started to run off, only for Peach to grab her shoulder.
"Whoa, hold it... there's a way we can get there far faster," Peach said. "Chika, get that teleporter ready!"
"Right away!" Chika nodded, running off.
"You have a teleporter?!" Tekken asked.
"You know who MAGES. is?" Getting a nod, Peach continued, "Yeah, she made that thing... it allows us to warp anywhere in the city. Speaking of which..." Pulling out her myPhone, she dialed a number from her contact list... "A-Mac! Is Nisa with you? ...Great! Listen, there's trouble happening at the zoo, and we'll need all the help we can get! So get your Morphers and haul butt! Okay, thanks! Bye." Hanging up, she explained, "My half-brother and his girlfriend, we're all part of a special-forces group, so to speak. Anyway, let's get up to the teleporter!"
"Okay!" Tekken agreed, the two heading up to where the teleporter was stored.
"Chika! We ready to roll?" Peach said to her co-worker.
"It's all ready to go!" Chika nodded. "Tekken, you'll go first. "When I say 'now', jump and do a forward-flip."
"But why?" Tekken pondered.
"Because otherwise, you'll fall down a foot or so and maybe sprain your ankle," Peach explained. "Minor glitch that MAGES. couldn't iron out..."
"Okay, Tekken, stand here, please," Chika instructed, the martial artist doing as ordered. "And... now!" Tekken jumped and did a forward-flip, vanishing in a flash of light. "Alright, we're next!"
"OK then!" Peach said, pulling out her Armor Morpher.
"It's Armor Time!"
"WHITE GORILLA!"
"BLACK RAVEN!"
In a bright flash, the duo were morphed and gone!
*Leanbox City Zoo*
"Oof!" Tekken grunted as she fell on her rear end. "Guess I didn't stick the landing..." Getting up, she saw two flashes of light, discharging Peach and Chika, now clad in full body armor! "Oh wow, a-are those y-your special forces outfits?"
"Something like that," Peach nodded. "Okay, let's go find Kuma and Dogoo Man!"
"Right!" Tekken and Chika agreed.
Fortunately, they weren't hard to find, assisting the Tenga in torturing the zoo workers and letting the less-dangerous animals (monkeys, lemurs, and elephants to name a few)out of confinement! "Stop right there, Ho-Hum!" White Gorilla called out, the trio standing atop a brick wall divider.
"Caww! It's the Armored Rangers, caww!" the Tenga gasped in recognition.
"Hey, I remember you two!" Dogoo Man said, having a worker in a one-armed headlock. However, Kuma had his back to the heroes, growling at a few terrified wrokers that were backed against the wall!
"KUMA!" Tekken yelled, the bear turning and doing a double-take, allowing the workers to escape!
"(Ahhh! M-M-M-M-Master?!)" Kuma roared in surprise.
"Kuma, you've been a bad bear!" Tekken pointed. "How could you fall in with terrorists?! Did they promise a year's supply of honey or something?!"
"(W-wait, Master! I-i-it's not what it looks like, I swear!)" Kuma frantically shook his head and waved his paws.
"I don't really care what it looks like!" Tekken cracked her fists menacingly. "Looks like your old training partner needs to teach you a new lesson!" With that, she jumped down and took her karate stance!
"Okay then! I'll handle Dogoo Man, Chika, you take care of the Tenga!" Peach ordered, jumping down in front of the blue muscleman.
"Roger that!" Black Raven concurred, equipping her spear as she joined the others.
"I've been waiting for a rematch!" Dogoo Man said as he released his hostage, the zoo worker swiftly scrambling to safety! "Saying muscles aren't everything... I'll make you eat those words! And your helmet, too!"
"Not likely, blue freak!" White Gorilla shot back, rushing forward as she and her opponent pulled back their fists... but she feinted to the side at the last moment, Dogoo Man's punch whiffing as she kicked him in the knee joint, knocking him off balance and allowing the Ranger wrap her arm around his neck and slam him to the ground! However, Dogoo Man managed to grab Peach's leg and toss her head over heels!
Meanwhile, Kuma was taking a defensive posture, blocking and parrying Tekken's punches as best as he was able... Seeing an opening, he smacked her away with a butt-bump, before jumping back to get a little distance between them. "(Please, Master! I'm not evil! You have to listen!)"
"You helped strip an Oracle naked and humiliated her!" Tekken yelled back. "You need to be punished! Raijin Fist!" She charged forward and slammed Kuma with an electrically-charged uppercut, knocking the bear on his back!
While Peach and Tekken fought, Chika was doing her best to fend off the Tenga, having taken a few blows, but managing to shrug them off thanks to her armor. "Sylhet Spear!" she intoned, the bird-men scattering away from the giant spear that was summoned!
"That won't work! We know your tricks, caww!" the Tenga taunted, attempting to dogpile on Black Raven, only for her to use her spear as a pole-vault to jump over them and escape! She then unleashed a Rainy Ratnapura on the group, causing many of them to yelp in pain as they again scattered.
"You say you know my tricks, but you're all far too predictable yourself!" Chika asserted, parrying a few attacks with her spear. (That being said, I could use a little assistance- thirteen against one is a bit much, even if they are just cannon fodder...!) She instinctively backed up a few steps as a few Tenga took flight to attack her from the air...
But then they were blasted out of the sky with explosive ammo! The group turned to see two more Armored Rangers ride up on a motorcycle! "Yellow Tiger and Blue Falcon are here!" they declared, dismounting and taking their battle stances, the latter brandishing her Prinny Gun.
"Uh-oh! More Rangers!" the Tenga cried in panic.
"Get outta here, birds!" Dogoo Man ordered as he grappled with Peach. "We'll cover for ya!" He promptly grabbed White Gorilla around the waist and hurled her through the air, the ranger crashing atop Blue Falcon as the Tenga took wing and fled into the sky!
"Agh, you're heavy, Peach!" Nisa complained.
"You won't get away so easily!" Chika yelled as the tip of her spear glowed green. "Inbetween- OOF!" she was interrupted as Kuma suddenly tackled her from behind, forcing her to the ground! Fortunately for her, the grizzly was soon kicked off her by Tekken, but it was too late- the Tenga were already out of range.
"Okay, time to get outta here!" Dogoo Man said as he ran for the main gate, Kuma quickly righting himself and dashing to catch up...
"Oh no you don't!" White Gorilla cried as she made a long leap after them, managing to tackle Kuma, who crashed into the corner of a brick wall and toppled over unconscious! Dogoo Man tried to go back for him, only for Tekken to rush in and hit him with a Fujin Fist uppercut, the resulting tornado catapulting Dogoo Man into a twinkle in the sky!
"Whoa, sweet!" Yellow Tiger said as he ran up next to Tekken. "That was awesome, ma'am!"
"Eh-heh-heh, I didn't think I'd send him that far," Tekken blushed in mild embarrassment. "I thought he'd just fly over the wall and be knocked out..."
"Well, at least we caught one of them," Peach pointed out. "Now where do we lock up this big lug where he can't escape?"
"Well, surely the zoo has a spare cage we can put him in," Chika supplied. "In the meantime, we should help the workers get the escaped animals back in their confinements..."
"Alright, you, Nisa and A-Mac help the workers, Tekken and I'll drag Kuma into a cage where we can interrogate him," Peach ordered.
"Right! Roger that! Okay!" The three Armored Rangers went off...
*Ho-Hum HQ*
"Gaaaaahhhh! I'm sooooorrrrryyyy!" Dogoo Man screamed as he shocked with several thousand volts!
"You have failed me, Dogoo Man!" Overlord Momus raged. "I explicitly ordered you to get in, free the Tenga, and get out! But because of your idiocy, we've lost Kuma! And not even to the CPU, but to the Armored Rangers! I expected better of you!" He then stopped the current, allowing the muscleman to slide bonelessly to the ground.
"To be fair, those Rangers aren't exactly pushovers, meow," BlackGatomon pointed out. "Especially the white one, she could give a CPU a run for her money..."
"The blue one's pretty dangerous too, caww!" One of the original Tenga spoke up. "She killed several of us during our last battle in the stadium, caww!"
"We do not speak of that incident," BlackGatomon growled in a tone of voice more befitting of her evolved forms. "So what now, meow?"
"I need to consult with Dr. Pop," Momus said, turning and storming off...
*To be continued...*