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)

23. Episode 22 - Lost Thoughts

Episode 22 – Lost Thoughts

"This is the last place."

The Org looked at the door. This was the last room he had to clean before the entire base was spotless, and he could go back to causing trouble. Unfortunately, there was a bit of a conflict.

On the door was a very clearly marked "DO NOT ENTER" sign. But he needed to enter so he could clean. But the boss might get angry with him if he did. But he needed to. But he…

He shook the thought off. If he wanted to get back to doing things he wanted to do, he'd have to enter. The Omnipotence wouldn't really care, right? Of course not, he was just doing what he was supposed to.

Yabaiba picked up the mop, and reached for the door's steel handle. He twisted it, and slid the door open. Surprisingly, it wasn't locked. He carefully walked into the room. It was small and dark, the only light being a red glow coming from the machines in it.

Surrounding the room were tubes, each with a body in them. They all looked similar, but he couldn't place any features. In the middle of the room was a computer screen, similar to the table from the main room. He carefully poked it, causing an image to display.

It looked like blueprints for… something. Something mechanical. The Orgs were never really that great with technology, but he could tell that it was something big. He poked at the screen again, seemingly activating another tube at the very back of the room.

This one also had a body in it. But… it was different from the rest. It looked like…

"Oh, Org Master help me."

He quickly dashed out of the room, shutting the door behind him. He was definitely not supposed to see that.

Maybe the boss didn't notice? Its not like he could see him enter the room, this was out of the way of his chamber!

"YABAIBA"

The Omnipotence's voice echoed throughout the base, he sounded furious. "I'll be there in a minute, boss!" Yabaiba said, though he wasn't sure if anyone could hear him.

The Org moved as fast as his legs could carry him. He zoomed into the main hall, The Omnipotence's tube pulsing red. Definitely angry.

Yabaiba fell to his knees. "Please sir, it was an accident, I didn't mean to see anything!" He pleaded, entirely honest. "Please don't kill me!"

The Omnipotence let out another roar, sending a wave of pain through the Org's head. "GET OUT OF HERE" It yelled. "DESTROY THE CITY, OR ELSE I WILL DESTROY YOU"

Another shock of pain went through Yabaiba. "Alright, I'll go destroy the city!" He yelled. The pain quickly subsided, and he rose back to his feet. He didn't exactly have a plan, though.

"Yeesh, what'd you do to get him so upset?"

Yabaiba turned to look at the hanging cage in the corner of the room. "Hey, you!" He started, walking over to it. "Uh, what's your name again?"

"Bellwether." The sheep in the cage said.

"You're supposed to help us, right?" The Org asked, grabbing onto the bars. "Think you can help me think up a way to get rid of those ranger guys?"

"Uh, sure?" She said, a bit unsure. "If you can get me some food."

"Great!" Yabaiba yelled, clapping his hands. "What do you got?"

"Well, the best way to break up a team is to break their bonds." She started. "Maybe you should find a way to break them up?"

"Break them up, huh?" Yabaiba started, putting a hand to his chin. "I feel like I remember something like that…"

"That's it!"

Yabaiba let out a cheer, and clapped his hands. "I'm a genius, I know just the Org to get rid of them!" He quickly ran off, leaving the sheep behind.

"Hey!" She yelled as the Org left. "You didn't get me anything to eat!"

---

"Oh my god, Nick!"

"What?"

Judy stomped out of the bathroom. She was wearing rubber gloves, and held a large clump of fur in each paw. "You're leaving fur all over the place, can't you just clean up for once!?" She had spent the last two hours attempting to clean up the bathroom, specifically the fox's vast amounts of fur.

"Carrots, it's shedding season." He said, getting up and scratching his neck. "I can't exactly help it."

"And shedding season somehow means you can't clean up after yourself?" She asked,

"Oh, its not like you're any better." He grunted. "You still have fur, and you leave a trail of it too!"

"At least I make sure to UNCLOG THE BATHTUB AFTER I USE IT!" She chucked the wet fur to the ground in rage.

"Well, I don't chew all the good pencils, now do I?" The fox retorted. Judy glared at him. "Oh yeah, you don't clean those up."

"They're still perfectly good pencils!" She said.

"They have your germs on them, Fluff." He said, poking her in the nose. "I don't even want to touch them."

"Well, at least I clean my room!" She yelled. "You only clean when the inspector comes!"

"I help out around the place all the time, why should my personal space follow your weird obsessive rabbit rules?"

"Because we're living in the same space, and we need to co-exist!" She said.

"Well, what if I don't want to co-exist?" Nick said. "What if I just want to do my own thing?"

"God, you're so stubborn!" She yelled. "I wish I never met you!"

She cringed as the words came out. She didn't mean it, she was just incredibly frustrated. She could tell that Nick was hurt by it as well.

Before she could say anything, their Zoolizers went off.

"We'll talk about this later." Nick said, obviously upset.

---

The three rangers met up in the middle of a canal, near the harbor district. "This should be the place." Silver said as they headed into the middle of an open area. It was quiet, and there didn't really seem to be any sign of anyone, monsters or otherwise.

"Maybe you can pick something up, Blue." Red suggested. It was then followed up in a much ruder tone. "Maybe a pencil sharpener."

The rabbit let out a sigh, and shook her head.

"Rough morning, I take it?" Silver said, turning to the two. There was some awkward silence. "Well, try not to let it get in the way of this. This is about a lot more than just you two."

The two looked at each other. Blue looked from behind her visor, she could tell that the fox was glaring at her. She had really wished she had thought before she had spoken. They both let out a sigh, and nodded. They really shouldn't be fighting each other right now, they had a-

"HEY, IDIOTS!"

The three turned towards a warehouse. On top of it was Yabaiba, who gave a quick wave. "How's everything going?" He asked, in a bizarrely polite matter. "I just spent two months cleaning!"

There was silence. Nick gave a shrug. "And…?"

The Org thought for a moment. "Oh yeah, and I'm here to finally destroy you both!" He looked at Silver for a second. "Hey, he's new."

Silver gave a wave. "Yeah, I'm ZooSilver." The other two rangers gave him a glare. "What? I never got to introduce myself to him until now."

There was more awkward silence. "I forgot what was going to happen next." Yabaiba said.

"UGH, SERIOUSLY!?"

The three turned to watch the opening of a large crate burst open, revealing a monster. The monster's head was a bit lopsided, and resembled a traffic light in shape. The resemblance continued into its three eyes, one green, one yellow, and one red.

Like most of the Org monster they had fought, its head was covered in horns. Its body was mostly sleek and silver, broken up only by bits of brown, as well as more red, green, and yellow lights. On its chest was a crosswalk sign, both displaying a mammal walking and stopping. Out of the side of its head hung several wire-like strands.

"Oh yeah, that's what was gonna happen!" Yabaiba continued. "Signal Org here is going to destroy you all! Ciao!" He gave another wave, and vanished into a puddle of green slime.

"That's right, I'm gonna put a STOP to your heroism!" The monster said, walking towards them. It stopped to give a quick laugh. "Get it?"

"That was like one of your jokes." Blue said to her red counterpart. The rabbit winced. It had come out almost automatically, intended as playful banter rather than an insult.

"Oh, come on, now you're insulting my jokes?"

"NOT NOW!" Silver yelled, getting the two's attention.

"Prepare to face my three secret techniques!" The monster said. It motioned towards its red eye. "Red beam! TOTAL DESTRUCTION!"

Energy began to gather in the eye, and quickly fired out as a laser. The three leaped out of the way as the laser hit the ground, causing a massive explosion. When it cleared, a massive hole had been formed in the concrete.

"Boy, that might be a problem." Red said as the three got up.

They all rushed at the monster at the same time. Silver leaped in first, slashing at the monster rapidly. The first few slashes managed to hit, but the monster backed off, and swung the cords hanging from it's head at the wolf, wrapping his blade up.

Blue leaped in next, quickly followed by Red. The two dealt out blows to the monster from both sides, causing the cords to unwrap. Silver jabbed the sword into the monster, sending it flying.

The monster crawled back up to its feet "I don't mean to be YELLOW, but that really hurt, jerks!"

"Oh god, this is just gonna be his entire thing, isn't it?" Red said, sounding a bit worried.

The monster motioned towards its red eye again, and fired out another beam. This one just barely missed, sending the three flying. Blue flew back into the pavement, Red into the edge of the canal, and Silver into the wall of a warehouse.

"You guys suck at this traffic safety stuff!" The monster shouted as the rangers got back to their feet. "Don't you know you only cross when the light's green? Right now, it's YELLOW! Movement control!"

The monster motioned towards its yellow eye, and fired out another laser, this one towards Silver. It struck the dazed wolf, causing him to jerk around, seemingly in pain.

"What's… happening!?" He grunted out. His body was moving on its own. It prepped his sword, and dashed at Red.

He swung his blade at him in a rather blunt way, unlike his usual style. Red quickly raised his own sword to block it. "What the hell are you doing!?"

"I can't control my body!"

Silver continued to slam his sword down on the fox, who quickly ducked, dodged, and blocked his way out of their path.

"Blue, I could use some help!" Red shouted as he locked blades with Silver.

She gave a nod, and looked at the monster. It was doing some kind of dance, which it might have been using to control the wolf. She dashed at the traffic light Org, and leaped into the air, delivering a swift quick to its mid-section.

The monster fell and tumbled onto its back, letting out a whine.

Silver stopped for a moment, and then pulled his sword back. He stretched his arm out. "I can move again!" He gave a thumbs-up to the rabbit. "Thanks, Blue!"

"No problem!" She said back.

"Gah, stupid rabbit!" The monster let out, rising to its feet. "Prepare to feel the RED-hot wrath of my rage!" It shot a laser from its red eye again, just barely missing Blue. Fire and sparks burst up from the ground.

"JUDY!"

Red ran up to her. She was hurt, the fox helping her back to her feet. "Thanks, Nick." She said.

"No problem." He said back.

"Now I got you fools RED handed!" The monster yelled. It shot another red laser, downing both of the rangers. "I'm going to use my ultimate technique to destroy you both!"

"NO!" Silver yelled, rushing over. The monster shot out another yellow beam, striking the wolf. His body suddenly stopped moving completely, leaving him paused mid run.

"Jaywalking is illegal!" The monster said. "I thought you were cops!" It laughed for a second. "Well, one of you might not be by the time I'm done!"

It loomed over the two, its green eye starting to glow. "Green beam! MIND WIPE!"

Both of the mammal's ears jutted up at the sound of that. Thinking quickly, Blue pulled out a dagger, and threw it into the monster's eye.

"No, what have you done!?" The traffic light beast yelled as its eye began to sputter and spark with electricity.

There was a massive explosion of green light. As it emerged, Silver felt himself able to move again. But he was too late, his friends flew above him, and crashed into the ground. The explosion cleared, and the monster had vanished.

Max untransformed, and rushed to the two. They had also untransformed as well, and had also been knocked unconscious. He felt their pulses, they were both still alive, thankfully.

He shook his head in relief and amusement. "How many times am I gonna have to let you guys crash at my place?" He asked.

"Hopefully nothing weird will happen this time."

---

Max had set up a similar situation to the one from before. The "body swapping incident" as he lovingly referred to it. The big difference was that he had put Judy on the couch downstairs, and Nick upstairs. Didn't really have a reason for why he did, but he thought it was funny.

It wasn't actually that funny.

The wolf paced around the living room, waiting for one of them to get up and say something. Hopefully something like "That was a good nap, let's go fight the monster!", and not something weird.

After a few hours, the resting rabbit began to stir. He quickly ran over to her as she got up. "Ugh, anyone get the license plate of the truck that hit me?" She asked, in a weak voice.

He helped her off the couch. "Glad you're alright, Judy."

"Thanks, Wolford." She said, stretching out. After a minute, she popped up straight, and placed her paws on her hips. "Alright, time to get back to work!"

Max pumped his fist. It seemed like everything was normal. Now all they had to do was wait for Nick-

"Because I have a suspect to find!"

Everything that could droop down on Max's body drooped. Great. Just once he'd like something not weird to happen.

The rabbit prepared to dash out the door, but Max quickly gripped her by the shoulders. Gently, of course.

"Hey!" She said, struggling. "Let go!"

"Sorry, Jude, you aren't going anywhere until I ask you a few things." Wolford said.

"'Jude'?" She let out as the wolf picked her up. "What are you, my dad?"

"It's a friendly nickname." Max said. "Because we're friends."

He placed the rabbit back on the couch. "How can we be friends already, I've only been working for one day."

Max placed his paws on her shoulders, as delicately as he could. "What day is it?" He asked.

"March fifth, twenty sixteen." She said, confidently.

"Alright." He didn't want to put this too bluntly, so he hesitated for a moment. A few more questions would probably be a good way to go into it. "Who's this suspect you're looking for?"

"Nick Piberius Wilde." She stated, in a way he'd never heard her say his name. It was more business sounding, and it made him uncomfortable. "He has some connection to the missing mammals case, and I need to find him."

Max brought his paws away from her, and placed them together. "What were you doing before you woke up?"

"Uh, I was looking at the Otterton case file, and then…" She placed a paw to her forehead. "I can't remember anything after that."

Max placed his paw to his chin, and nodded to himself. Definitely a case of amnesia. And if she had amnesia, then that meant Nick had amnesia. The wolf stood up straight. "Nick's upstairs."

Judy glared at him. "Why do you have a conman in your house?"

He ran a claw through his fur. "I can explain everything simply, and quickly." He stated. "I just need you to stay right there."

"Uh, alright?"

Max gave her two thumbs up, and then ran upstairs. As he headed up, he was really, REALLY hoping that the fox was still asleep. He opened the door to the bedroom.

Nick was gone.

He gritted his teeth so hard they nearly cracked.

He looked around the room. A window had been opened. He must have thought he was trapped somewhere and escaped. Who knows how long ago that was.

"Problem problem problem problem!" He chanted as he raced down the stairs. His anxiety was starting to flare up.

"Let me guess, he got away?" Judy asked, a rather smug look on her face. "That's what you get for keeping a fox in the house."

The wolf fell silent, and walked over to the couch. He kneeled down and looked Judy right in the eyes, causing her nose to twitch.

"You and Nick helped solve a conspiracy that nearly destroyed the city, and have been working as partners at the ZPD for over three years."

There was silence for a minute. Maybe this had jogged her memory.

"Is this a prank?" She got up and looked around. "Is Clawhauser going to jump out and say surprise? Is this what you do to new recruits?"

Max clutched onto the sides of his head. "Oh my god."

"I'm out of here, I have a case to solve." She started towards the door. Max quickly rushed in front of it, blocking her.

"Alright, you can go find Nick." He said. "But I'm coming with you, and I'm not letting you out of my sight."

"What? Why?"

"Because you and Nick aren't yourselves right now, and I…" he took a deep breath and calmed down. "I know I sound crazy…"

"You really do."

"But, this is important." He stressed. "If someone finds Nick right now, he… he could be in big trouble."

"Well, he's in big trouble if I find him too!" Judy said.

"Alright, let's just go look for him." Max said, rubbing his temples. "Where do you think he'd be?"

"If he's trying to hustle something, then he's probably gone to Jumbeaux's." She said. "That's where he was yesterday."

"Good place as any to start." He shrugged. "Come on, let's go."

As they left, he was wondering if he should have told her about the whole super hero thing.

---

Where was he?

He was sitting at the edge of a canal, looking out into the ocean. Or lake. Didn't matter, he needed to figure where he was and…

Wait, who was he?

No matter how hard he thought, he couldn't remember anything. Not anything that could have happened, or even a name.

Everything had gone… blank.

Above the wall behind him, there were three figures looking down. A group of kids, each one examining the silent monster in fear and awe.

"What do we do?" Asked one of the kids, a young giraffe. "Should we call the police?"

"We should call the Zoo Rangers!" Another kid said, a lion cub. "They could kick this guy's butt."

"Do the Zoo Rangers have a phone number?"

"I think we should talk to it." Said the last kid, a beaver. The two other kids turned to look at him, confused. "He's just sitting there, not doing anything. Maybe he's a nice monster?"

"There's no such thing as a nice monster, Marty." The lion cub said, the giraffe nodded in agreement.

"Well, I'm gonna try." The beaver said, running off towards the canal stairs.

"He's gonna get himself killed."

The two watched as the beaver ran up to the monster, and tapped it on the shoulder. It turned to him. "Oh, hello." It said. "Do you know where I am?"

"You're at the harbour." Marty said.

"Oh, alright." It paused for a moment. "What's a harbour?"

"It's a place where boats come in."

"Oooohhh."

"Why are you sitting here if you don't know where you are?"

"I'm not sure." It said. "I woke up here, I can't remember a thing."

"That sucks." Marty sat down next to the monster. "Like, you can't remember anything?"

"Not a single thing." It said. "Especially not why my eye hurts."

He looked up at the monster. One of its three eyes, which looked like they were made of glass, had been shattered by something. "Maybe me and my friends can help you find out who you are?"

"Your friends?" It said, turning to the beaver. "What are those?"

"Friends are others you like being around." He said. "My friends are right up there."

The monster turned to look up, seeing the giraffe and the lion, who both ducked down behind the edge. "Those are your… friends?" It asked, turning back to the beaver.

He nodded. "Come on, I'll introduce you to them!"

They both got up, Marty leading the monster up to where the other kids were. "That's Henry," He said, pointing to the giraffe. "And that's George." He pointed to the lion.

The monster gave a wave. "Hello, its nice to meet you, friends!"

"We're gonna help him figure out who he is!" Marty said.

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" George asked. "He is kind of a…"

"What if he…" Henry started, trailing off a bit. "You know?"

"I don't think he'll do that." Marty said. "He seems nice."

"Well, if we want to help him remember stuff, then we should probably go back home." George suggested. "We can start there."

"Maybe we could figure out his name first!" Henry said.

The three kids, along with the monster, rushed off.

---

"Alright, Wilde, retrace your steps."

Yesterday, he had done his usual business, the paw-psicle stand deal. Then, he made fun of the rabbit that he managed to hustle. And then, he went back home.

He wasn't sure how all that ended with him waking up in a stranger's house.

After breaking out of what he could only assume was a kidnapper's place, he quickly made his way to Sahara Square. If anyone knew what had happened, it would be Finnick. Well, hopefully he would know.

He knocked on the back of the van. The door creaked open, Finnick's grumpy head poking through. "Hey, Finn!" He started. "Did we do something weird last night, because-"

"Nick, didn't I tell you not to come over today?" The fennec growled.

"What?" Nick said, confused. "I come over every day, we have a job to do, remember?"

The fennec glared at him. "Are you off your meds?"

"You know I don't have any medication, Finn."

"Then why did you go on about it for three weeks that one time?" He asked. "If you aren't taking them, your therapist's gonna get upset."

"I don't have a therapist either, Finn."

"Okay, now I know you're off your meds." He slammed the door shut.

"What are you even talking about?" Nick shouted. "You aren't going to get your share today if you don't help out!"

The fennec popped his head out the window. "Seriously, what the hell are you talking about?" He yelled.

Nick stomped over to the window. "You know, the job we do every day, for the last twenty years?" He looked at Finnick. He was wearing a suit, something he had never seen Finnick wear. "What are you wearing?"

"Alright, now I think you've just gone crazy." Finnick said. "Is this a relapse thing? Because I can tell you one thing, Wilde." He leaned out and slapped the fox on his muzzle. "Don't give up what you've got going on here. It isn't worth it."

"What are you talking about?"

"Ugh, forget it." He said. "I don't have time to deal with your crazy ass right now. I have an interview to get to."

"An interview?" The van started up, and pulled out of the alley, before driving away. "FINE!" The fox yelled as it left. "I don't need you for this! I don't need anyone!"

He let out a loud groan. Great, how was he supposed to pull off the adorable child hustle now? Well, thanks to that bunny cop, he did have one place that might still serve him.

He hated repeating stores though, and this would definitely be more difficult.

---

"This is the place!" Judy said as they walked up to the ice cream parlor.

"I know very well that it's the place." Max said, a bit frustrated. "It says 'Jumbeaux's' right there on the sign."

"Boy, you're awfully testy." She said as they stood outside the store.

"I usually get testy when everything is going wrong." Max said. "If anything you don't understand happens, just ignore it and I'll explain it later."

"Uh, alright?"

The two walked in, it didn't look like Nick was there. "We'll wait for a bit." Max whispered. "He could show up at any time." Judy nodded in response as they headed towards a table.

"Well, if it isn't Officer Hopps."

Judy stopped in place and looked up at the counter, seeing the owner of the store. "Heeeey."

"Listen, I just wanted to say how, uh…" The elephant paused for a moment. "Sorry I am for how I treated your partner and you a couple years back."

She stopped to listen, her nose twitching at the words.

"You set a good example a while back." He continued. "I've decided to be a bit more lenient with my customers, if you can't tell."

She looked around. There were definitely more predators than when she was there last. In fact, there were predators period. Last time it had just mostly been elephants and a few other prey species.

"Uh… thanks." She said, heading off to the table Max was seated at.

"So?" He started as she climbed up onto the seat. "Do you believe me now?"

She paced back and forth on the cushioned seat. "If that much time has passed, why don't I remember it?" She asked.

"Amnesia."

"Seriously?" Judy said, stopping. "I thought that was just a thing sitcoms did when they wanted a clip show."

"It's a real phenomenon." The wolf said, shrugging.

"How did I get it?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'd tell you, but right now is not a good time." He glanced around. Way too many mammals around, he couldn't just blurt it out in front of her.

"Also, what's this thing on my wrist?" She held out the Zoolizer. "I've been pressing the button on it and nothing happens. Is it some kind of smart watch, or…?"

"That's another thing I'll have to tell you later."

Judy's ears jolted up as the store door opened, the bell ringing. They both looked, seeing the amnesiac fox walk through the door.

"What a coincidence, Nicholas Wilde's here too." The elephant said.

"That's right, I'm…" He paused for a moment. "Wait how do you know my name?" He said, walking up to the counter.

"Please, everyone knows your name."

"That's not gonna be good for business." The fox whispered. He cleared his throat. "I'll have one jumbo pop, please."

"One jumbo pop, coming up."

"Now I know I just-" The fox paused. He had a whole thing planned to convince the elephant into giving him one. And now he was just doing it, without a hassle. "Wait what?"

"Listen, Wilde," The elephant said as he picked out a large red popsicle from the display stand with his trunk. "I know we had a bit of a rough exchange awhile ago, but I'm a changed pachyderm."

He lowered the popsicle down into the fox's very surprised face. He caught the popsicle, and stumbled back. "Well, I guess I'll see you later!"

"Hang on, your partners waiting for you over there." The elephant said, pointing towards Judy and Max's table. "You're not just gonna leave them, are you?"

"P-partner?" He mumbled. "Uh, sure, yeah."

He walked over to the seat, eyes widening as he spotted Judy. "What are you-" He almost blurted out, before the wolf on the other side of her grabbed his muzzle.

Max shushed the fox. "Don't say anything, you'll look weird." The wolf lifted the massive popsicle onto the table in front of them, and skootched over. He aggressively motioned for the fox to come up, which he did.

"So, this your boyfriend, rabbit?" Nick asked, the rabbit sticking her tongue out at him

Max tried not to burst into laughter at this. It came out as a loud snort. He cleared his throat. "No, you, me, and Judy all work at the ZPD together."

"Oooh." It took a moment for what Max had said to fully process. "Wait, what!?"

"Check your wallet."

The fox fumbled a bit, eventually pulling out his wallet. As soon as he opened it, the glittering sight of a police badge hit his vision. His name was under it.

"Is this some kind of joke?"

"I don't think it is." Judy said, placing her arms on the table. "Wolford here says we both have amnesia, and everything's pointing to him being… right."

"Well, how do you know he's right?" Nick asked. "Do you know him? Is he trustworthy?"

"At the moment, he's more trustworthy than you are, popsicle hustler." She responded.

The two glared at each other. He needed more evidence, maybe something more visual. His ears perked up. The wolf held a paw out to the fox. "Give me your phone."

"What?"

"Do it, or I'll tell the manager what you were going to use this popsicle for."

Judy chuckled as the fox's expression turned sour. He dropped the phone into Max's paw, who opened up the photo app. He placed the phone down on the table.

"You two have been working together on the force for three years now." He said, scrolling through a number of photos. Some of them contained the fox, in solo selfies. Most of them had him and Judy, wearing police uniforms, casual clothes, there was even a large set of vacation photos.

The fox looked at them, slack jawed. Judy was also surprised at how close they seemed. "You two are one of the best teams in the precinct." Max continued. "I don't think I've ever seen partners as close as you two."

There was silence for a few minutes. Neither one was sure what to say.

The wolf quickly lifted the phone off the table as he noticed juice starting to cover the table. "Oh, yeah, probably not the best place to put a giant popsicle."

"Seems pretty obvious to me, Wolfsbane." Nick said, with a bit of a laugh.

"Glad to see you still have that one."

Judy's ears jolted up again as the door bell rang again. "Uh, I have a question." She said, ducking down a bit.

"What?"

"Was there some kind of nuclear spill in the time I forgot?"

The two predators looked out from their seat. Standing in the middle of the room was Yabaiba, alongside a few Orgettes. Everyone's eyes were turned to him.

"Anyone here see a monster?" He asked, looking around. "Besides me and my friends here, of course. He's all silver, bunch of horns, traffic light for a face…"

Well, this could be a problem.

---

A short while after the three had found the monster, they returned to George's place. He had a treehouse in his back yard, a perfect place to keep the monster while they figure out what to do.

"Have you guys come up with a name yet?"

"I was thinking 'Blinkers'," The giraffe said.

"That's an awful name for a monster." The lion cub snapped back. "He should be named something cool, like 'Zelgar the Oblitenialator'!"

"That's too scary." The beaver said. "He's nice, so he needs a name that doesn't sound like a super villain."

"It's a cool name." The lion huffed.

"Oh, can I have a say?" The monster said. It was taking up most of the space in the treehouse. "I was thinking something like 'Signal', maybe?"

"How about 'Ziggy'?" Marty suggested.

"Oh, I like that one!" He said, standing up. His horns poked right through the top of the treehouse's roof.

"Oh man, how am I gonna explain that to my dad?" George yelled.

"Oops, sorry!"

"Hold it, Zig!" Henry said, standing up. "You can't leave, we had a lot of trouble sneaking you in here!"

Marty nodded. "If anyone sees you, you might be hurt."

"Or worse." George started. "The government could get called, and they could perform horrible experiments on him."

"Stop trying to scare him, George." Marty yelled. "Alright, Zig, we're gonna go see if we can find out where you came from."

The other two kids nodded. "You need to stay right here." Henry said. "We don't want the police taking you away."

"Or the government." The lion cub whispered as the three left.

"Alright then!" The monster said. "I'll see you guys later! Man, what good 'friends'. I wish I could do something for them."

He watched from the entrance of the treehouse, seeing the three kids run across the lawn. They stopped at the sidewalk, waiting for cars to pass.

"Augh, no!" Ziggy yelled. "Use the crosswalk, that's too dangerous!"

The lion cub and giraffe ran across the street first, Marty hesitating for a moment. The monster looked to the side, there was a truck coming and the beaver didn't seem to notice.

He quickly bolted up, poking holes through the ceiling again. "OH NO!"

The beaver started to run across the street, but tripped and fell to the ground.

"AUGH!"

The monster quickly rushed out of the treehouse, smashing through its front wall. He hit the ground running, crashing through the fence at the front of the lawn. He slid in front of the fallen beaver, and spread his arms out.

"STOP!"

His middle eye shot out a burst of light at the truck, which almost instantly ground to a halt. It was only a few inches away from the monster and his beaver friend.

"Holy smokes!" Yelled George from the other side of the street. Him and Henry ran up to their friend.

"You alright?" Henry asked.

Marty quickly got up, mouth agape. "Zig, you just saved my life!"

"I did?" The monster looked back and forth for a moment. "I did! Wow, I actually helped someone!" The lights on his chest began to flicker on and off rapidly. "I feel something, something I don't feel like I've felt in my whole life."

"I feel happy!"

The monster danced around, laughing. It scooped the three kids into its arms, giving them a hug. "Come on, let's go help out some more!"

The four dashed off down the street, all of them cheering.

The driver of the truck, a bear, stepped out, and scratched his head. "What the heck was that?"

---

There was lots of screaming and trampling as the parlor was evacuated. Within a few seconds, the only mammals left there were the manager, and our three heroes.

"Ugh, animals." Yabaiba said, marching up to the counter. "Always an annoyance, know what I mean?"

The elephant glared at him for a moment.

"What the hell is that thing?" Nick asked quietly, making sure Yabaiba didn't hear them.

"It looks like some kind of clown." Judy followed up.

"I can explain everything, we just need to get out of here first." Max said, hunching down.

"So, trunky," Yabaiba started, rubbing his hands together. "Think you can get me one of those big bowls of ice cream?

"No." He pointed down with his trunk. "Read the sign, buddy. 'We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone', and right now," He smacked the monster in the face with his trunk. "'Anyone' is YOU. So, get out!"

Yabaiba rubbed the side of his face, the Orgettes behind him letting out a low gurgle of shock. "You don't know who you're messing with, pachy-paunch." He pulled out a dagger, and jabbed it into the counter. "I'm the clown Duke of the Orgs, Yabaiba!"

He snapped his fingers, causing the Orgettes to close in. "And if I don't get the largest bowl of ice cream you have, there will be hell to pay."

"This guy's an idiot." Nick said, rolling his eyes.

"Alright, now's the time." Max said quietly, getting up. He motioned at the other two, telling them to stay put.

"Does there seem to be a problem here, sir?" He started, paw rested on the table.

"Yeah, this guy won't give me any ice cream!" Yabaiba yelled.

"Well, do you have any money?"

"Money?" The Org patted himself down. "Uh, no, I think I left my wallet back in the cave…"

"And you do realize that threatening someone with a knife is a crime, right?" Max continued. He pulled out his wallet and flashed his police badge. "I'm afraid I'm going to have you arrested." He slowly moved his paw across the table.

"What?" Yabaiba said, the Orgettes seeming just as confused. "Well, how about I just go, and we can forget all about this, alright officer?"

"Right now, I think you need to…" The wolf quickly picked up the melted popsicle in both paws, and tossed it towards the monster with all his strength. "FREEZE!"

The popsicle flew into the monsters, knocking the entire group down. The popsicle was planted directly on Yabaiba's face.

"RUN!" The wolf yelled at the elephant. He gave a nod, and headed for the back door. Max turned back to Nick and Judy. "Us too, I have a lot of things to explain!"

The two nodded, and quickly leaped out of their seats, rushing towards the door.

"GET THIS THING OFF ME!" The Duke Org yelled. He quickly pushed it off, but he was now covered in red juice. "Ugh, I can feel it under my head!" He groaned. He stuck his juice covered finger into his mouth. "Oh, this is actually pretty good."

The monster quickly shook his head, and pointed towards the exit. "GET THEM!"

The three mammals dashed into a nearby alley. Max poked his head out over a dumpster, making sure nobody was coming.

"Alright, should be safe." He said.

"That was terrifying!" Nick yelled. "What was that!?"

"Alright, so." Max turned to them with a bit of a grimace. "I was hoping to tell you guys this in a bit of a less… tense situation, but…"

"Tell us what?" Judy asked.

He sighed, and ran a paw through his fur. "God, you guys aren't going to believe me unless I show you." He shrugged. "So, might as well!"

He held out his arm, which ad a device similar to the ones on their wrist. He brought it closer it, and pinched the back of the device, causing it to emit a wolf howl. He held the arm out again, and pinched the front shut.

"ZOO ON!"

There was a flash of light, and in front of them stood Wolford, who was wearing a shiny metallic full body suit, with a helmet perfectly fit for his head. He brought a gloved paw towards the sky. "WARRIOR OF THE ECLIPSE!" He spun around, striking a pose. "ZOOSILVER!"

He postured towards the two slacked jawed mammals. "Impressive, right?" He said. "Now you guys try it. Just slap that button on your wrists, and say 'Zoo On'."

The two looked at each other, and then examined the devices on their wrist. "Well, here goes nothing." Judy said, getting a glare from the fox.

"Zoo on!"

She slapped the button, and there was a burst of blue light, nearly knocking the fox away. The light faded, and Judy was now in a suit similar to the one Wolford was wearing, except entirely blue, and more fit to her rabbit proportions.

"Holy cheese and crackers!" She yelled, looking herself over. "This is amazing!"

"I know!" Max said. "Man, I'd love to feel the rush of morphing for the first time again."

"Excuse me!" Nick yelled. "What the hell is going on!?"

"Well, in the time you guys forgot, you also became super heroes who fight evil monsters and protect the city." Max quickly explained. "That make sense?"

"NO!"

"Listen, Nick." Judy started. "I believe in Max, and there is a monster that wants to hurt people. We need to work together just this once, Nick."

"Also, if you don't," Max started. "That monster is going to kill you."

The fox groaned and rolled his eyes. "I'm just doing this for myself, alright?" He snapped. He let out a low whine as he looked at the device.

"Zoo on."

He pressed the button in, and was overcome with a red light. It faded, revealing the fox in a similar suit, but more fox shaped.

He stretched out a bit. "Wow, it feels like all my muscles just loosened." He said. "This does feel pretty nice."

"Alright, now let's head out there and fend those guys off!" Max said, pulling out a sword.

"Yeah, how do we do that?" Nick asked. "I have literally no combat training."

"You do, but you don't remember it." Max said. "Amnesia, remember? Anyways, you'll be fine, just follow your instincts!"

The two looked at each other, and shrugged, before following the wolf out of the alley. They stepped out, and immediately spotted the monster, who in turn spotted them.

"Oh great, you guys are still alive?" He said, a bit distraught. "I thought Signal Org killed you. Speaking of which, have any of you seen him?"

"Why would we tell you anything… horn face?" Blue blurted out, trying to come up with an impromptu insult.

"Why thank you!" Yabaiba said, running his hand across his horn.

"Still not good at insults, even with super powers, huh?" Red joked.

"Shut it, fox."

Silver rolled his eyes. "Now's not the time to be fighting, we have bigger fish to fry."

"ORGETTES!" Yabaiba thrust his arm forward. "GET THEM!"

The platoon of Orgettes that had been following Yabaiba around hobbled forward, patting their heads as they did so.

"Alright, you guys ready?" Silver asked. "This is the easy stuff."

Blue shrugged, and quickly ran to fight the monsters, leaving the other two behind. "Wait, no!" Silver yelled. "We have to work as a…"

She rushed into a small group of the Orgettes, leaping into the air and delivering a swift kick to one of their faces, knocking it to the ground. She hit the ground, and immediately leaped up, roundhouse kicking a number of them in the face.

"WOO!" She yelled, raising her arms in triumph. "I feel like I've been doing this for years!"

"Wow, didn't know she was that athletic." Red said.

"Why don't you go try it?" Silver said, nudging the fox forward. He sighed, and awkwardly ran towards another group of monsters.

"Hey!" He said, as the much taller monster looked down at him. "So, I guess I'm supposed to fight you? I'm not really much of a fighter, but-"

One of the green monsters let out a gurgling screech, and raised its club to the sky. The fox yelped and held his paws out as it brought the club down. It clashed against something.

He opened his eyes, and in his paws, was a sword, blocking the club. "What the!?"

"Use it!" Silver yelled. The fox followed the instructions, and pushed the club away. He began slashing rapidly, and awkwardly, through the monsters. They stumbled back, and melted into green goo.

"Ugh, that's just gross." Red said.

"Oh man!" Blue let out, running over to the fox. "Where'd you get that?"

"Uh, I dunno, it just kind of showed up."

A few more Orgettes leaped into battle, surprising the two. Silver leaped in and cleaved through them with his blade. "They're mentally activated." He said, turning to the two. "You just need to think about having a weapon, and then they'll pop out."

Blue closed her eyes, and almost instinctively pulled out a pair of carrot-shaped daggers. "Wow!" She said, before looking at them closer. "…Why do they look like carrots?"

"That is your name, isn't it?" Red joked. He received the hilt of one of the daggers slamming into his gut in return.

"I think it's just a weird theming thing." Silver explained. "But we don't have time to get into that right now."

"Yeah, you guys have a much larger problem to deal with!"

They turned to face Yabaiba, who gave a double handed wave at them. He quickly drew his own daggers, and strolled forward.

"Ugh, he's really creepy." Blue said, shuddering a bit. Red nodded.

"You know, he's not as creepy once you get to know him." Silver said.

"Hey, I'm creepy!" The Org yelled, offended. "I'm a clown, clowns are like, creepy ninety percent of the time!"

"He has a point." Red said.

"No, you're just kind of an incompetent idiot from what I've seen" Silver retorted.

"Oh, I'll show you incompetent!"

Yabaiba rushed forward, slashing at Silver, who dodged out of the way. The two started clashing blades, until Yabaiba managed to knock Silver away. He quickly turned to the other two rangers, and brandished his daggers at them.

Suddenly, with a flick of his wrist, the Org was now carrying many knives.

"Duke Org Trick, Knife Toss Special!"

"What?"

He quickly began tossing the knifes at them, as fast as gunshots. The two ran out of the way, the knives creating a trail behind them. Thinking quickly, blue tossed her own daggers at the monster, who quickly scooped them out of the air and threw them back as its own weapon.

"Oh, that went well!" Red jeered.

"I need a gun or something!" Blue yelled over to Silver. "Do you have one of those?"

"You guys have guns!" He yelled back, trying to get up. "It's the same thing as the weapons!"

The rabbit quickly whipped out a pair of guns, and aimed them at the monster as they ran. She rapidly fired, knocking Yabaiba out of his concentration.

"Oooh, I wanna try that!" Red said. He quickly pulled out a massive cannon, which he could somehow hold without any effort.

"Holy smoked carrots!" Blue let out, seeing the massive thing.

The fox pulled the trigger, launching a massive blast of fire at the Org. There was an explosion as it clashed, knocking it down.

"Augh, that's hot!" The monster yelled, standing up. "You guys are acting weird, like, weirder than I act!" It said, pointing at them. "Oh, by the way, have you seen Signal Org anywhere? Lost that guy when I sent him to kill you."

They stared at him, blank.

"Ooooooohhhh." The clown let out. "You guys lost your memories. That was one of his powers."

"There it is, right from the horse's mouth." Red said. "Guess we do have amnesia."

"Maybe I shouldn't have said anything."

"Well, if you're looking for that monster," Silver said. "Then you better find him before its too late."

"Whaddya mean by that, wolfy?" Yabaiba asked, tilting his head.

"That Org was caught in the same blast that erased these guy's memories." Silver explained. "I'm not sure, but it's entirely likely he's running around not knowing who he is anymore."

Yabaiba paused, and thought for a moment. "Yikes, that's bad!" He yelled. He gave a quick salute. "Catch you guys later this episode, I got some stuff to do!" He quickly jolted off down the street.

"What was that last bit about?" Red asked.

"Sometimes you just don't question the things those monsters say." Silver replied with a sigh. He untransformed. "Alright, we need to get your memories back, ASAP. We're going back to your apartment."

"I don't think we can all fit in the apartment." Blue said.

"You guys have a bigger apartment."

"Oh, that's nice." Red said. "Wait, what?"

"You also live together."

The two looked at each other, shocked.

"Okay, first things first." Red started. "How do we get out of these things?"

---

"It is now safe to cross the street!"

The monster pointed towards the crosswalk, motioning the nearby kids to pass. "And remember!" The monster yelled out as the group crossed. "Always look both ways before crossing, no matter what!"

"Is this guy seriously your friend?" Asked a bear cub.

"He's kind of scary." Said his sister.

"Don't worry, he's super cool!" The beaver assured. "He saved my life a while ago, he really likes helping people across streets."

"That's weird, but cool."

"Hey, he's our friend too." The lion cub grumbled.

"Hey, this isn't about attention, George." Henry said, slapping him on the back of the head. "Can't you just be cool for a bit?"

The lion stuck his tongue out at the giraffe, who slapped him again. "Hey, hey!" The monster said, walking over. "You guys don't need to fight, everything's fine! Now, if someone was disobeying traffic laws, that'd be something to get angry over!"

"What happened to your eye?" Asked the bear, staring at the monster's shattered, green eye.

"You know, I have no idea!" Ziggy said. "I woke up like that, and it really stung! But, what's in the past is in the past, it doesn't bother me anymore!"

"You've only been awake for like five hours, dude." George said.

"Well, it's still the past, isn't it?" The monster laughed. "Hey, who wants to go play a ball throwing game at the park over there?" He motioned towards the park on the other side of the sidewalk. "I can show you all how cool I really am!"

The kids shrugged. "Sounds fun." The bear said, his sister nodding.

"Alright, let's get to it!" The group headed across the sidewalk, stopping at the crosswalk. "But remember, always use the crosswalk, look both ways, and only cross when the light's green!"

"You've say that at every crosswalk." George said, sounding a bit annoyed.

"Well, I just don't want my friends to get hurt." Ziggy explained as they crossed.

The group made it to the park. Marty pulled out a ball from his backpack, and the five began tossing it around.

However, from a nearby bush, they were being spied on.

"This is bad!" Yabaiba said, peeking out just over the leaves. "He's lost his memory, and is playing with children, and not killing them! That's not what an Org does!"

He rubbed his chin, before reeling back a bit as a branch poked the side of his face. "Looks like I'm going to have to get a bit more serious." He tried to quickly pop out of the bush, but he seemed to be stuck.

"Great."

---

"Alright, here's your apartment!" Max said, opening the door.

"Wow!" Judy exclaimed. "Its way bigger than my old one!" She looked around. "Wait, there are two bedrooms…?"

"I said you guys lived together." The wolf said. "Doesn't mean you sleep in the same room."

"I wouldn't want to sleep ten feet from her." Nick said, crossing his arms.

"Oh my god." Max said, slapping his face. "You have to accept this eventually, Nick. You can't stay in the past forever."

"Well, what if I like the past better?" He said, falling onto the couch. "What if I like my life how I remember it right now?"

"I know that's entirely false." Max said.

"Yeah, your denial of it makes it seem like you don't actually like it." Judy followed up.

"Well, aren't you a moralizer?" The fox said, rolling around to face the couch.

Max sighed. "You two just look around. Maybe something here will trigger your memories."

Judy began to look around, while Nick stayed on the couch, absolutely silent and still. She puttered through the room, picking up things, going through books that were piled around. After around ten minutes she stepped back up to the wolf.

"Sorry, nothing's coming back to me." She said, a bit solemnly.

"Thought that would work…" Max said, rubbing his chin. He sighed. "Guess I'm going to have to drop the big bombshell."

"Wait, you mean us being super heroes… isn't the biggest bombshell you've got?" Judy asked. She was a bit scared.

"Get Nick up too, I really want to see his reaction to this." Max said. The rabbit gave a quick shrug, and walked over to the fox.

"I know you're awake, Nick." She said, shoving him a bit.

"Alright, I'll listen to whatever the wolfpack guy says." He groaned, sitting up. "Just as long as I get to get out of here after."

The wolf rolled his eyes. Hopefully, after this, his memories would come back and his attitude would be gone. Well, mostly gone.

"Alright, are you two sitting down?" He said.

"Well, I'm sitting down." Nick said, being a smartass.

"Its… it's a metaphor." The wolf grabbed the brim of his snout and let out a groan. "ALRIGHT!" You two!"

He pointed towards them, startling the mammals.

"YOU TWO!"

The braced themselves.

"ARE DATING!"

They stared at him, confused.

"You're dating each other!" He quickly revised. "You two are dating!"

"WHAT!?"

"I don't even like her!" The fox yelled. "Why would we be dating!?"

"What do my parents think?" Judy questioned. "Would they even be alright with this!?"

Suddenly, her head began to hurt, as she dropped to her knees. She clutched at it, grunting in pain. Memories started to flood back into her head, memories of her and Nick. Them solving crimes, spending time together, everything had suddenly come back to her in a brief moment.

Suddenly she burst back up. "I REMEMBER EVERYTHING!" She cheered.

"Oh thank god, I thought that wouldn't work." The wolf sighed. He looked over at the fox. "How you feeling?"

"Can't remember a thing." He said, pretty simply. "Now, if you excuse me…" he hopped from the couch, and started to walk away. Suddenly, there was a loud buzzing noise coming from the device on his wrist.

"A monster attack, now?" Silver groaned.

"You guys can go deal with it, I don't want any part of this monster stuff." The fox said as he neared the door.

"Wait, you can't…" The wolf felt a paw on his leg. He looked down at Judy.

"Just let him go." She sighed. "He's always been stubborn, and if this is what he wants to do…"

Max sighed. "Can't make him."

The fox paused at the door, hearing them talk. He felt a paw on his shoulder.

"Nick, since I might not have a chance to say this to you again, and even though you don't remember…" She took a breath. "I'm sorry for this morning. I was just frustrated."

Nick fell silent, and pushed her paw off his shoulder, and stormed away down the hall.

The rabbit took a deep breath, and let it out. "Come on, we have a monster to take care of."

---

"Alright, you stupid kids!" Yabaiba yelled, approaching the group of terrified children. "If you don't get out of my way this instant, then I'm going to have to murder you all!"

"Stay back!" The much friendlier monster said, stepping forward. "Get out of here, you creep! Don't hurt these kids!"

"I don't want to hurt them," The Duke Org said, pointing towards the traffic light creature. "I want YOU to hurt them!"

"Why would I hurt them!?"

"Hmm, guess you have forgotten." Yabaiba said quietly to himself. "Oh well, guess we're going to do this the hard way." The clown pulled out a shell, and thrust it up into the air, spewing slime all around him. The slime quickly slithered and formed into a small platoon of Orgettes.

"Augh, what are those things!?" Yelled the lion cub. Ziggy moved in front of them, shielding the kids from the monsters as they approached.

"Hold it right there!"

Everyone turned to the street, seeing the two Zoorangers run up. "If you touch a hair on those kid's heads, your jaw'll be even looser than before!" Silver growled.

"Hey, I haven't hurt any kids yet!" Yabaiba said. "So, you can't scold me over anything."

"Saying you're going to murder children isn't good either!" Blue yelled.

"Hey, where's your third guy?" The Org asked. "He chicken out?"

"He's… busy." Blue lied. She quickly drew her daggers, and pointed them at the monster. "But we can take you on ourselves!"

"Yeah, you aren't a problem." Silver followed up. "You're just a comic relief character, you aren't even as funny without your other half. Probably wouldn't even be that funny with her"

"What did you just say!?" The org stepped forward, pushing an absent minded Orgette out of his way. "How dare you."

"Why's he freaking out?" Blue asked.

"Well, I might've just…"

"You can't just insult Tsue Tsue like that!" He growled, brandishing his knives. "I'm going to cut you to ribbons!"

"I think I just insulted his dead girlfriend, yeah."

Yabaiba rushed at them, leaping into an aerial strike. The two leaped out of the way as he brought his daggers down, but the Org quickly tossed the daggers towards both of them. They plunged onto their sides before they could react, a massive burst of sparks flying off as they fell to the ground.

The Org pulled out another pair of knives. "Let's see, which of you should I gut first?" He thought for a moment, with an exaggerated head tilt. "I know, I'll kill the wolf who's ruined everything!"

He skipped over to the fallen wolf, and leaned down. "You know, I knew a pesky wolf that ruined everything before you." He said. "He was a lot more trouble, though."

The Org raised a knife, preparing to jab it in to the fallen ranger. There was a sudden blast, knocking the blade out of his hand. He waved his hand in pain, and looked over. Blue was standing, and had her blasters drawn.

"Well, guess you're both pains." He said. He snapped his fingers, and pointed at the rabbit. "Orgettes, get her!"

"Oh, cheese and crackers."

The group of Orgettes started towards her, patting their heads. "That should distract her while I cut you limb from limb." Yabaiba said.

He quickly spun around, blocking the wolf's blade with his knives. "You think you're pretty slick, don't you, moon boy?" The Duke Org taunted. "Well, I don't think you and your friend can handle this without red tail here!"

Silver let out a growl, and quickly swung the blade again, only for Yabaiba to block again. Blue blasted at the Orgettes with her blasters as they closed in.

"Face it, you guys are done for!"

---

The fox strolled down the hill, right next to a large, stone bridge. It was old, and most mammals didn't think anything of it when they crossed. And that was when they did cross, this part of the city hadn't been lived in for years.

But he payed attention to it. To the fox, it was his home.

Or, it was.

He walked under the bridge, and ran his claws across the stone surface. In his mind, he had been there just the day before, but it had actually been years.

It looked like it had been years too, in that it seemed no one had come around in a long time. It hadn't changed, it was exactly like he remembered.

Living under the bridge was technically not illegal, but Nick liked to make sure he wasn't found. While scoping out easy living locations, he had discovered a hollow part of the bridge, perfect for keeping a stash of objects when he needed to leave. It was behind a loose brick, around halfway through it.

He searched for a good few minutes. He couldn't find it. The brick had been repaired at some point. He let out a sigh. Despite it looking exactly the same, the bridge had changed. Everything had changed.

He fell to the ground, dirt kicking up around him. His phone started to ring.

"Hello?" He said, answering it.

"Hey, Nick." It was Finnick. "Just wanted to check in and see if you're still acting crazy."

"I mean, depends on how you look at it." He said, a bit solemn.

"I don't understand, but you sound more like yourself." The fennec said. "Anyway, I just wanted to call and let you know I got the job."

"The job?"

"Yeah, the job at McPawnalds." He continued. "I've been talking to you about it for like, two weeks?"

"Oh, yeah." Nick lied. It didn't seem like something Finnick would do. He had always been anti-establishment. "Sorry, can you just… remind me why you wanted a job?"

"You're the guy who convinced me, remember?" The fennec answered. "I mean, I really don't want to keep mooching off you either, but you were right."

"About what?"

"Change, man." Finnick said. "You changed yourself, changed it for the better. You have a respectable career, and a girlfriend. I don't have anything but a van. But, y'know, maybe I can change that, too."

There was silence.

"You okay there?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." He said. "I just need to think about some stuff."

"Alright, I'll let you be then."

The fox placed the phone on his chest. Everything had changed, nothing was like he remembered it. His home, his friends, his life, it was all different. He was stuck in the past. He looked at the phone, and opened the photo app. He scrolled through the photos from a few years back.

His first day during police work, the second day, the third day. He took so many photos, each of them with her. With Judy. He saw their first vacation, the first day in the apartment, the first day they became heroes.

In every photo, he looked happy. He looked happier than he had ever been before.

"God, I'm such an idiot." He said, getting up.

He needed to find her.

---

Silver continued to spar with Duke Org, who was surprisingly swift. The Org gracefully blocked each strike Silver tried to put into him, each time resulting in a clang against his knives.

"You know, I'm not usually this strong." Yabaiba said, pushing the wolf back with his blades.

"I know, that's what's pissing me off." Silver grunted.

He leaped in again, the Org once again managing to block.

With Blue, the action was a bit less tedious. She leaped up into the air, and delivered a flurry of blasts to the Orgettes, knocking most of them down. This didn't kill them though, the Orgs seemed a bit stronger than usual.

"Alright, enough of this!" She yelled, pulling out a ZooTag.

"LET'S MORPHIN'!
GET FIGHTIN'!
DON DON BAM!
BUSTER BOXERS!"

The boxing gloves appeared on her paws. The rabbit rapidly punched the monsters in front of her, causing a burst of green goo to fly across the park. "I'm sure sanitation can deal with that." She said to herself.

"What the!?" Yabaiba yelled, catching the Orgettes being destroyed. Silver used this chance, delivering a series of blows to the Duke Org. he flew back, and crashed into the ground, kicking up dust. He quickly sprang up. "You guys think I didn't come prepared for this?"

He pulled out two more of the shells, and threw them up into the air. The slime from them hit the ground, summoning up even more of the minions.

"Because I did!" He yelled. "I came SUPER prepared for this!"

The army of slimy ogres rushed at the two, nearly completely surrounding and swarming them. "Now if you excuse me," Yabaiba continued, closing in on the amnesiac org. "I have a monster to bring back!"

"Hold it right there, you one horned snake!"

"Oh great, this again?" Yabaiba turned around, seeing Zoored. He had somehow gotten past the army of Orgettes without being noticed. "Oh look, the whole gang's here, guess it's time to put on a big show!"

Without a word, Red pulled out the Vickscannon, and began rapidly blasting the Org. The blasts hit, covering the monster with soot and burns. He wobbled for a second, and passed out.

"Okay, that worked somehow." Red said to himself. He turned to his two teammates, who were surrounded by the monsters. "Okay, I need something to help them." He smacked his head a few times. "Maybe I have some other weapons."

He thought to himself, "I need something different". He quickly, instinctively, pulled out two small objects. One was red and marked with a sword, the other was yellow marked with a claw.

He looked at them for a second, and then to his wrist. It felt like he had done this before. He probably had, but couldn't remember.

"So, I guess I just…" He uneasily slid the red object into the device.

"JAN JA NIN!
ROCK N ROLL
DROP N ROLL!
SOLAR FLARE SABER!"

Without warning, a massive sword appeared in the fox's paws, causing him to nearly fall over. "Holy shit!" He yelled, trying to get his balance back. "This thing's heavier than my emotional baggage!"

He dropped the sword to the ground, and using all of his strength, began to whip it around. He felt like he was in the hammer throw event. He abruptly stopped, causing a wave of energy to burst from the sword, which flew towards the monsters.

In a few seconds, there was a massive explosion of slime.

The two groaned as they wiped slime off of their suits. "Great, now I got Org guts all over my shiny suit." Silver muttered.

Blue's ears perked up as she spotted Red. She quickly ran over and hugged the fox, surprising and nearly crushing him.

"I knew you'd remember eventually!" She said, letting go of him.

"Well, I…" He paused. Blue's ears drooped. "I haven't."

"Then… why did you come back?"

"Because I don't have anything left." He said, frankly. "Everything I remember being normal is gone, I have nowhere else left to go. Even if I never remember anything…" He paused for a moment, and placed his paws on her shoulders. "Maybe we can make new memories. Maybe we can recapture whatever we had. Please."

She nodded. "Its your choice, and if you want to keep doing this…"

"Then there's nothing we'll do to stop you." Silver chimed in.

"Uh, hey!"

The three turned around, Yabaiba had risen back up. "If you guys want to continue your meaningful conversation, I'm gonna go get my monster back."

"Kids, run!" The traffic light monster said, motioning for the kids to, well, run. "Get out of here, I'll protect you!"

The kids nodded, and ran off farther into the park.

He put up his fists, lacking any other sort of weapon, as Yabaiba approached. He attempted to bunch the Duke Org, but Yabaiba swiftly scraped his daggers across the monster's skin.

"Stop that, Yabaiba!" Blue yelled, before firing her blasters at the Org. In a swift motion, he slashed the blasts out of the sky with his daggers.

"Seriously, this is important!" He yelled back. "I don't need you three furries getting in my way!" He leaned back, energy seeming to gather in his horn. His head thrust forward, shooting a bolt of energy at the three. There was a massive explosion, and the rangers fell to the ground.

"Wow, didn't even know I could do that." The Duke Org said to himself. He turned back to the cowering monster.

"What do you want with me!?"

"I just want you to go back!" Yabaiba yelled. "How are you supposed to be useful when you're acting all goody good?"

"What?"

"C'mon, I know you can remember." Yabaiba said, leaning uncomfortably close to the monster's face. "Signal Org."

The monster stepped back as it heard the words. Electricity began to spark from its head as he clutched at it. "I remember!" The monster shouted, in pain.

"Great to have you back." Yabaiba said. "Ready to go destroy some rangers?"

"NO!" The monster shot a beam out of its red eye, launching Yabaiba back and onto the ground.

"What are you doing!?" Yabaiba yelled as he got up. "You can't hurt me, I'm your master!"

"You're not my master anymore!" Signal Org yelled. "I don't want to hurt anyone again, I like helping out! It makes me feel good!"

Red crawled up, feeling a burst of energy as the monster said those words.

"I want to change, I don't want to be the old Signal Org!"

Yabaiba laughed for a moment, which quickly turned into a groan. "You're starting to sound like that goddamn grill!" He quickly tossed his daggers into the monster's chest, knocking it to the ground.

He stomped on the monster, and kneeled down as it struggled. "Change? You can't change! Orgs are meant to destroy, cause havoc!" He stated. "Nobody really changes, even if they think they have. The old them is always buried deep inside, waiting to get out."

He pulled out a small red object, a Chaos Badge.

"Lemme show you some real change."

He jabbed the badge into the monster's red eye, and quickly stepped off as the monster rose back up.

The monster grunted in pain as its body began to change. Its head twisted around, going from horizontal to vertical, the red eye now on top. The shattered green eye grew, forming into a cracked smile. The creature's horns shifted as well, now more aligned with its new, taller head. A second pair of wires burst from the other side of its body, with both of them growing longer. Its entire body turned a shiny black and a sickly looking yellow, as the crossing signs on its chest became more angular, taking up most of its torso.

"CHAOS SIGNAL ORG!" It roared.

"There we go, that's much better." Yabaiba said. "Now, lets get to…"

"You…"

He turned to see Red, who had risen from the ground, though standing a bit uneasy. His other two partners still laid on the ground, not unconscious, but incredibly weakened.

"You monster." The fox growled, attempting to step forward.

"I see one of you is ready to fight!" Yabaiba chirped. "Alright, Siggy, let's-"

"DON'T INTERRUPT ME!"

The fox's voice had suddenly grown incredibly harsh, a glow coming from his visor. The yell had shocked both of the monsters. "You can't just do that. He wanted to change. He wanted to become better. And you just TOOK THAT AWAY FROM HIM!?" The fox was practically roaring in anger, louder than he had ever been before.

"Oh no." Blue said, trying to get up. Silver understood what was going on, and tried to get up as well.

"YOU ALMOST TOOK THAT AWAY FROM ME!" Red yelled. A dark glow emitted from him. "I'm not going to let you do that to anyone else!"

"Oh no, oh no, oh NO!"

"SAVAGE ON"

There was a pulse of energy, knocking everyone nearby back. The thing standing where Red was made a hissing sound as the smoke from the blast cleared. The hiss quickly turned into laughter.

"Ohhh, it feels good to be back!"

The fox monster quickly bent over in a physically impossible way, the sound of bones cracking as it did. It glared as the two rangers with its glowing eyes and let out a laugh. "Bet you guys missed me, huh?" It said, before quickly snapping back up. "Man, feels like I've been locked in there for months!"

"We haven't missed you at all, Savage." Silver said, both rangers prepping their weapons.

"Relaaaax." He said. "No need to get violent, yet. The amazing insecure fox wants me to slaughter the clown, so we're basically on the same side."

"I don't trust him." Silver whispered.

"I do." Blue said, a bit disgusted. "The guy… monster… whatever, is pretty true to his word."

"The rabbit gets it!" Savage shouted. "As long as I get to kill someone, I'll do whatever."

"Alright, Savage." Blue sighed. "You take Yabaiba, we'll handle the monster."

"Yabaiba's the clown, right?" He asked, before laughing. "Aw who cares, I was just gonna kill the clown anyway."

"I don't really like all this talk about killing me!" Yabaiba shouted. "I kicked your butts a few minutes ago, I can kick them again!"

Savage laughed again. "Good luck."

He lunged at the clown, leaping many feet through the air and gripping directly onto him. The savage fox dug his claws into the Org's skin as they started to tumble around. He quickly pushed off of Yabaiba, and delivered a few sweeping slashes, knocking him back.

The Org dashed forward, attempting to swipe at the fox with both of his blades. Savage quickly grabbed onto them, and ripped them from his hands. "You know, weapons are so dull." Savage said, tossing the knives away. "I like to fight with pure strength."

"I don't know if I can deal with this." The Org whispered to himself.

The two other rangers stepped up to the newly revitalized traffic light monster. Upon spotting them, it let out a growl, its top two eyes rapidly flashing.

"Well, at least we don't have to worry about the memory wipe." Silver said, pointing towards the shattered mouth of the creature. "The green light was destroyed."

"Yeah, least we won't have to do that again." Blue sighed in relief.

The monster thrust its arms forward, causing the wires coming out of its shoulders to lift into the air. They jolted forward, rapidly jabbing into the ground. The two quickly weaved around as the wires struck forward.

The monster turned towards Silver, its wires suddenly jutting forward again. Silver quickly spun the guard of his sword.

"HOT SHINE ECLIPSE"

Time slowed down, the wolf quickly jabbing his sword forward rapidly as the wires approached. Time resumed, and the wires suddenly fell to the ground, having been sliced to pieces.

"Well, that's that out of the way!" Blue yelled, as the exhausted wolf pumped his fist. She drew her blasters, and fired into the monster's side. It let out another roar, its red eye beginning to glow intensely.

It quickly spun around, rapidly firing out blasts at them. This created a circle of explosions, launching the two into the air before they crashed into the dirt.

The Org clenched its fists, causing the cut wires to quickly regrow.

"Great." Silver groaned.

Savage leaped into the air, slashing at Yabaiba's chest again. The Org fell onto his back, starting to crawl away as the fox approached. "Stay back!" He shouted, delivering a kick to the fox's head.

Savage seemed completely unfazed as the foot struck. He gave a bit of an annoyed groan, before shoving it out of the way. The monstrous fox leaped up, and crashed down onto Yabaiba's chest, leaning down and glaring at him with a smile.

"Smile, clown."

Savage bared his claws, and began jabbing them into the Org's body. He writhed in pain as goo began to seep from the wounds. The Org let out a yelp of pain, before pushing the fox off of him.

"You're crazy!" He shouted, clutching his chest. "If you want an actual fight, go find Long, that guy's a toughie! See ya!" The Org melted into a pile of ooze, and vanished.

"Long, huh?" He said to himself. "Well, it is almost time, and I'll need someone to fight when it happens…" He laughed and turned to the other rangers, who were still fighting the traffic light monster. "The clown got away, so I'm gonna duck out now! See you all next week!"

"What!?"

There was a burst of dark light from Savage, who quickly fell back to the ground, reverting to ZooRed. "Ugh, that was an awful headache." He said as he got up. He spotted the two, struggling as the Signal Org continued to attack them with its wires. "Hold on guys, I'm coming!"

He pulled out the yellow ZooTag, and stuck it into the Zoolizer.

"ICH NI
SAN SHI
GO GO GO!
RACING CLAWS!"

The claws appeared on his paws, and he dashed towards the monster's wires. In a red flash, he was gripping both sets of wires.

"Don't mess with my family!"

Using his strength, the fox started whipping the monster around in a circle. After a few cycles, he flung the monster up into the air. The claws started to glow, as he swung them rapidly above his head, launching out a flurry of laser slashes.

The monster exploded, a traffic light crashing into the ground a moment later. "Red, you saved us!" Blue shouted, running up and punching him in the side. "Good job!"

"Hey, wouldn't be the first time, Carrots." He said with a laugh.

She laughed back, before realizing something. "Wait, how do you…"

"I got my memories back!" He said. "It must've happened when Savage took over… Anyway, guess that heartfelt speech to you was pretty pointless, huh?"

"It meant a lot to me." She said.

"Well, I'm just glad you got them back." Silver said, butting in a bit. "Because I really did not want to explain how to pilot a giant robot to someone."

"Yeah, that could've been a disaster." Red said. "Guess its time to do the robot thing, right?"

A small, red object on the ground floated up into the sky, and off into the horizon. In a burst of light, the monster reappeared, its eyes rapidly blinking in anger.

"Yeah, I guess it is." Blue said as the three pulled out their mecha summoning equipment.

In a flash, ZooRobo and ZooKami appeared in front of the beast, which let out another roar. "Least he can't make any more puns." Red said.

"There's a bright side to everything." Blue responded, jokingly.

The two mechs stepped forward, brandishing their weapons. The monster's red eye started to glow as it held out its hand, motioning for them to stop. The two robots glanced at each other, and continued forward.

The monster's yellow eye started to glow, and fired a beam into ZooKami, causing it to freeze. "Oh great, this again!" Silver yelled, watching as the controls started to move on their own.

ZooKami slashed its blade at ZooRobo suddenly, causing the combo mech to stumble back in a fire of sparks.

"What the hell, Max!?" Red shouted.

"He's controlling ZooKami!" Silver responded. "I can't do anything right now!"

ZooKami slashed its blade again, crashing into ZooRobo's own fox tail blade. ZooRobo knocked the sword back, and punched the wolf robot in the mechanical gut, knocking it back a bit. "The only way we can do this is to destroy the monster's eye!" Blue said.

"I think I got the thing for that." Red said, pulling out a golden Zootag.

"BANG BANG
BOOM BOOM!
IT'S RODEO TIME!
ZOOBISON!"

The bison mech appeared, and flipped around, forming into armor for ZooRobo. "ZOOROBO, BISON MODE!"

The robot aimed its blasters towards the charging ZooKami, and fired directly at it, knocking the robot to the ground. "HEY!" Silver yelled from inside. "I'm still in here, you know!"

"Sorry Max!" Blue shouted. The robot turned to the Org, who looked up from the struggling ZooKami.

They aimed the blasters directly towards the monster's eyes, and fired. The blasts caused two massive explosions on the Org's face, knocking it back. When the smoke cleared, they could see that both of its eyes had been shattered.

ZooKami stopped struggling, and got up from the ground. "Thanks for that." Silver said. "Not the knocking me down part, that hurt a lot."

"Hey we said we were sorry." Red said back.

The monster got back up, but it looked rather uneasy. It seemed to be blinded, feeling around at nothing, and not even facing the mechs themselves.

"Alright, let's finish this." Blue said.

ZooRobo brought its guns together, causing them to gather energy at their tips.

"BISON RAMMING SHOT!"

The blasters fired out the burst of energy, which formed into a bison's head. It charged through the back of the monster, and out the other side. The monster let out one final roar as it fell to the ground and exploded.

"That was zootastic." Red said.

The three reappeared in the park. "Man, it's good to have you back, Red." Silver said, placing a paw on his head, which the fox swiped away. "Thought you left for good."

"Why would I want to give up all this?" He said. "I got everything I need here."

"You're not just saying that because you get a bed, are you?"

"Might be part of it."

The three prepared to untransform, only for a small voice from behind to yell out.

"WHY DID YOU DO THAT!?"

They turned to look, seeing a small beaver child, his eyes watering. "Why did you do that?" He repeated, much more softly.

"Did… what?" Blue asked.

"You killed my friend."

The three clenched their teeth behind their masks. Oh yeah, the monster did make a speech about that, didn't it?

"Well, we…" Blue started, trying to think up a reason. "We had to."

"Why!?"

"Because he was going to destroy the city." Red stated. "He could've hurt a lot of innocents."

"Why did you have to kill him!?" The beaver yelled. "Couldn't you just talk to him? He was my friend, he was nice and helpful!"

"Well-"

"I thought you were super heroes!" He yelled. The child burst out crying, and ran off.

"Well." Red said, plainly. "I think we just scarred a child for life."

---

"So, do you remember it?"

She turned to the fox. They were sitting on the couch, mostly resting after the long, terrible day. "What do you mean?"

"Do you remember everything after we lost out memories?" He asked. "Because I do."

"I do too."

"That was terrible, huh?" He said, slouching down a bit. "It was like my mind was caged up, begging to be let out. Then suddenly it just came back. It was like a light was turned on."

"Huh."

"But I learned something incredibly important." He continued. She looked at him, and he looked back at her, giving a smile.

"I need you, Carrots."

She snickered at how sincere he sounded.

"No, seriously." He said. "You're my grounding, without you, I'd still be that jerk living under a bridge. The confox that everyone hated, the mammal who locked everyone out. I'm thankful I'm not that mammal anymore."

"You're awfully introspective today." She said, a bit surprised.

"There's been a lot of stuff going on, you know?" He said. "Not even just the monster and super hero stuff. I haven't had a lot of time to think, but I feel like I'm coming close to a personal breakthrough."

"Is this about that family stuff?" She asked. "I think that's a bit weird."

"I've never really had a family, Judy." He said.

"Your missing dad, yeah." She said. "But you still have your mom."

"That's not what I mean." He said with a bit of a laugh. "I've never felt like I belonged anywhere until this all started." He paused. "Well, there was… never mind."

"What?" She asked. "You keeping another secret from me?"

He popped up. "That's a story for a later time, Carrots." He quickly wrapped his arms around her, much to her shock. "What's in the past is in the past, and I'm here for the present."

She smiled, and returned the hug. They stayed like that for a good few minutes.

She wouldn't trade this for anything in the world.

---

"I'm really not sure how you keep bungling things up so bad, Yabaiba." Sambash said with a chuckle. "The boss man's really upset at you."

"What!?" The Org yelled in surprise. "What'd I do? I did what he told me to, even if it didn't go that great!"

"Why don't you ask him?" The biker monster said, placing his feet up on the table.

"Hey, master guy!" He shouted up to the tube. "Are you angry at me?"

A burst of energy knocked both Yabaiba and Sambash to the ground.

"I AM COMPLETELY FURIOUS"

"W-why?"

There was silence. "DO YOU SERIOUSLY NOT REMEMBER"

"Uhhh." The Duke Org thought for a moment. "I just remember cleaning, and then getting yelled at, and then the rest of the day. Or, the last five hours at least?"

"What, do you have short term memory or something!?" Sambash yelled as he got up, slapping the Org on the back of the head.

"Yeah, actually, I do!" Yabaiba said. "Its super personal so don't bring it up!"

"Oh, uh, sorry."

Yabaiba started to walk away, before quickly turning back to Sambash. "Hey, do you know where Long is? I need to tell him something."

"Uh…"

"LONG IS AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN" The Omnipotence announced.

"Oh, thank you, sir… master… boss!" The Org ran off.

"I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE RESURRECTED URA"

The Org climbed up the mountain for a good half hour, until he eventually made it to the top. On the top of the mountain was Long, just as the Omnipotence had said. He seemed to be practicing, training.

"Hey, Long, old buddy old pal!"

The armored warrior quickly glanced at Yabaiba, the intensity nearly knocking him back down the mountain.

"Well, I just wanted to tell you some… important news." He said, tapping his fingers together.

"Spit it out before I use you as a training dummy."

"Well, I was fighting this weirdo earlier, real savage beast type guy."

"Was he a fox or a rabbit?"

"He was a fox." Yabaiba said. "Yeah he was super strong and I almost died. But I might have told him about you? So, you might want to…"

"You told him about me?" Long said, turning to Yabaiba. "What did you say?"

"I just told him you were a good fighter." The org said. "But he's strong and I just thought you might like to know."

"Oh, Yabaiba, my stupid friend." Long placed an armored mitt on the Org's shoulder. "You've done the only useful thing I've seen from you."

"Uh, thanks?"

Long let go, and turned to look across the city skyline. "Oh yeah, there was something else I wanted to tell you." Yabaiba quickly interjected. Now he was starting to get annoying. "But, I can't remember it, so I guess I'll just… let you be."

"Smart idea." Long said as the Org quickly ran off. He clenched his fist. "Soon, Savage will be in my grasp."

---

The goat hurried into the lab. "Well?" He shouted, startling the personnel. "How's everything coming?"

"Well, its…" Leopold paused for a moment. "Everything's going great!" He gave two thumbs up, but sounded uneasy.

"Wonderful!" Herder sounded. "I want to see the new weapons."

Leopold clapped his paws. "I'll be with you in a moment, chief."

He quickly ran off, and started a conversation with a group of scientists at the far side of the room. It was a good five minutes before he came back.

"Follow me, and I'll show you our other two prototype weapons." The leopard said, motioning for Herder to follow.

He brought the goat up to a table, two objects placed on it. One was a small, pistol shaped gun. It resembled the large cannon from the previous week, only a lot smaller, and with an actual handle. The other object was sword-shaped. In fact, it was basically just a sword, with a completely rounded guard, and a blade that didn't appear to be sharp at all.

"Here they are." Leopold said. He still sounded a bit wary, which Herder had picked up on. "Here's the more portable version of the Anti-Matter Blaster." He picked up the gun and showed it to the goat. "It's weaker, but a lot more precise."

He picked up the sword next. "This is the Anti-Matter Blade." He started, swinging it around. "It can cut through anything, or at least any form of matter that exists on Earth."

"Fascinating." Herder said. "Show me them in action."

"Um, well…"

The goat glared at the leopard. "What's wrong, doctor?" He asked. "Are you keeping something from me?"

Leopold let out a deep breath. "Sir… chief, the coin, the coin you found, it…"

"It what?"

"It ran out of power."

"WHAT!?"

"I'm so sorry!" He said, sounding absolutely desperate. "We needed to test weapons, so we used it a lot, and it just fizzled out the other day. We don't know how to recharge it, and the only way to continue is if there were more of them."

"Where am I supposed to get more of them!?" Herder yelled. "I don't even know where the first one came from!"

"I'm sorry sir, but without the coin, we can't… We can't go on to the last part of the project."

Herder stomped the ground with his hoof, and let out an angry snarl. He started to storm away. "Be thankful this technically isn't your fault, Leopold!" He shouted. "Or else you'd be out of here in under a SECOND!"

The door slammed. Leopold began to wobble back and forth. Another scientist, a rhino, stomped up to him to hold him up as he collapsed. "I'm so tired…"

---

I don't think I've ever seen a series do an amnesia episode in a way it should be done other than Gaoranger. Amnesia plots should be about character development and exploring how a character works, not an excuse for clipshows.

Anyway, this is one I'm not super happy about, but I still like it. Its mainly just that I don't feel I got enough comedy out of it, but whatever. I also feel like maybe the message is a bit hamstrung? I still got the point across, and explored a bit into Nick's character. Trust me, all of this is going somewhere.

Also hey, the Power Rangers movie was great, so that's fun.

Next time, media coverage, and the plot starts to go forward. Finally.