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)

32. Episode 31 - Day in the Life

Episode 31: Day in the Life

"Ugh, what a day."

The three officers opened the door to the main hall of the lab, their armor quickly folding up into their belts. "Hopefully nothing else comes up." Emily continued as she stretched out.

For the last two weeks, the SPD had been fighting against the sudden influx of crime caused by the police officer strike. They had been the only officers on duty, and as Clawbick's mere presence noted, they weren't even real officers of the law.

The day hadn't been anymore busy than usual, but the stress of it all was starting to weigh on them. Well it was starting to take its toll on Emily and Henry, Clawbick had been on his terrifying A-game the whole two weeks.

Leopold quickly ran into the room from the hall at the end of the room. He was holding a remote control in is paw. "Clawbick, you know you're not supposed to harm anyone!" He shouted, though he sounded a bit nervous.

"You think I give a shit?" He snapped.

"No, but if you keep at it I'll have to up the voltage." The leopard continued, still nervous. "And you know that neither of us want to do that."

Clawbick's flaring expression didn't change at the threat.

The leopard let out another sigh. "Anyway, Herder called, he said that you need to get to work on capturing the Zoorangers." Leopold continued.

Throughout the last two weeks, they had also gotten into lots of fights with the Zoorangers, who also seemed to be fighting against the criminals they had been going after. Each time they had managed to escape.

"Listen, I know the old goat's impatient," Emily started up. "But this isn't really a good time to go after them, we have a lot more to deal with now."

"I-I know." Leopold said. "I was just giving the message Herder sent me. He's getting impatient, even more so than he usually is."

"If we find an opportunity, we'll take it." Henry followed up.

"Yeah, I'm sure we'll be able to handle them soon enough." Emily said with a bit of a smirk. She turned to Clawbick to ask something, but the lion quickly stepped away from the group. "Dave?"

"I'm going." He said. "See you guys in the morning." He walked down the hall, his footsteps audible in the silence.

"What's up with him?" Leopold asked.

"The Zooranger stuff, probably." Henry said. "Most likely angry at how he keeps failing to beat them."

"I wouldn't worry about it." Emily said. "This would be more of a problem if he didn't have that… thing on him."

"It's a tame collar." Leopold said. "Scrapped pacification devices. I feel horrible just using them."

"I wouldn't." Henry followed. "We'd be risking lives if he didn't have that collar."

"We've been doing our best to keep him in check, but you've done a lot more for us, Leo." Emily said.

Leopold looked at her for a second, and shook his head. "It feels weird to be complimented. Thanks."

"Really? You're a smart guy, Leo, I'm surprised that you don't get more credit." Emily continued, circling him and slapping him on the back.

"Wish my boss thought of me like that."

Emily stepped away from him for a moment. "Just keep up the good work, amigo." She said to him. "Me and Horns are exhausted, we're heading to bed now."

Henry gave a nod, and the two started to walk off down the hall as well. "Uh, thank you!" Leopold yelled down. "I'll try to!"

---

Their room wasn't much to look at. It could barely qualify as a bedroom, though, the walls and floor were grey concrete, with two matching bunkbeds at either side of the enclosed space. There was barely enough room for the two of them to move around. There were only a few furnishings besides that, Henry's bunk having a bedside table, and a closet in the corner of the room with all their clothes in it.

There were no windows, either, the only light source being a ceiling light, which was currently off, and a small lamp on Henry's bedside table. Without it on, there would be absolutely no light in the room, which is how they had gotten used to sleeping for the most part.

Emily was laying on her bunk, attempting to relax, while Henry was laying on his, the frame bending a bit as he read a book. "What the hell is up with that Herder guy?" The hyena suddenly blurted out. "The guy's a slave driver."

"Cut him a bit of slack, Em." Henry said, shutting the book and placing it on his bedside table. "You know what happened to him, you should relate a bit."

"Yeah, but the guy hasn't lifted a finger to help us." She continued, rolling over to face the bull. "If he wants revenge on them that bad, he should do something about it himself instead of just yell at us."

"He's old, he would've if he had been younger." Henry continued.

"She sighed. "Yeah. But I don't think that excuses our treatment."

Henry tilted his head, and rose an eyebrow.

"We're living in a dark room away from the rest of society, and are treated like dirt." She continued. "We're basically just prisoners that are called police officers for marketing reasons."

"A lot of things are like prison." Henry said. "The prison of the mind, the prison of self, the prison of existence…"

"No, I mean this is literally like a prison." She said, getting up. She walked over to the door and tried to open it, to no avail. "The door locks after everyone leaves, we're basically stuck here."

"Alright, fair point."

She crawled back into bed. "I know we joined to keep an eye on Dave, but I at least expected us to be treated decently." Emily said, a bit somber. "We were doing better before we took this job…"

"Hey, speaking of Dave, where is he?" Henry asked. "He hasn't been sleeping in his bunk for days."

"Hopefully he isn't doing anything stupid." Emily said, rolling over again. "But knowing him, he probably is."

"You going to sleep now?" Henry asked.

Emily let out an affirmative grunt.

The bull flicked the lamp off, plunging them into darkness.

---

Clawbick slammed his fist against the wall, and started pacing around the room. "Why can't I defeat that goddamn fox!?" He shouted. The lion glanced up at the tube with the creature inside, right as an electrical current went through it.

He paused for a few seconds to wait for the shock to pass through the creature before continuing. "Damn thing keeps getting away even when I have the advantage! What does Nicky have that I don't!?" Clawbick ranted. "I just want to wrap my claws around that fox's neck and squeeze the life out." He mimicked strangling someone as he continued. "I need to get revenge on the traitorous scum."

He started to pace around the room again. "And that Herder guy, wanting me to 'catch them' and not murder them right where they stand." He complained, scratching at the collar on his neck. "He has no business ordering me around like that. If I wasn't working for him, I'd have killed him by now."

There was another pause between electric shocks.

"And this fuckin' collar, I hate it." He continued to gripe. "Every time I get used to the shock, they just up the voltage. Thing feels even more like a prison than the prison did." He said, stopping for a moment. "At least I had respect in prison."

He glanced back up at the tube as another electric shock went through it. The lion sighed and glanced down. "You probably can't even hear me in there, can you?"

The lion sat down on the ground, and slowly shut his eyes.

"Sheesh, you really underestimate me, huh?"

Clawbick's eyes burst open, and he scrambled to his feet. He looked around, there was nobody around, where did that voice come from? "Up here, bud." It said. The lion grabbed onto his head, it was coming from inside his head.

He looked up, back at the monster in the tube. It was… talking to him, somehow. He could tell, it had a glint in its eyes, and a toothy smile had creeped across its crystalline muzzle.

"You're… talking to me?" Clawbick stuttered. "How-"

"Through the energy, buddo!" The voice said. "Every time I transferred some of my energy into your fancy sword, a bit of it got into you. There's enough of me in you to make a direct link between our minds."

"Wait, slow down." Clawbick said. "Who are you?"

"Name's Savage, David." The voice said. Before Clawbick could reply, it interrupted him. "Yeah, I know your name, I know everything about you. I know everything about everyone. Before you ask how, it's a long story."

"Alright… Savage." He said. "What's your deal? Why are you talking to me?"

"You and I are kindred spirits, David. We both like violence a whole lot." Savage said. "And as it turns out, you and I seem to have a bit of a common goal."

"What is it?"

"Capturing the Zoorangers, duh." Savage said mockingly. "What other goal do you have in your life besides that?"

Clawbick groaned, this Savage guy was already getting on his nerves. "Why do you want to capture them?"

"Well, I have a bit of revenge I need to inflict on a CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL, and bringing all three of them here would definitely bring him out." Savage explained. "Then I'd kill all four of them. And anyone else in the room. Besides you, of course."

"Oooh, now you're speaking my language." Clawbick chuckled. "Guessing you need someone like me to handle this, since you're stuck in a tube, right?"

"Exactly. Once you get them here, I need you to break me out."

"How am I supposed to do that?" Clawbick asked. "That glass is basically indestructible, and there's no way they'd let me near the powerful stuff."

"I already know how we're going to do it, I wouldn't be talking to you if I didn't have a plan." Savage followed up. Clawbick rolled his eyes at the monster's patronizing attitude. "But we don't have to worry about that yet, its better to wait until everyone is here."

"What makes you think I can even do this? I don't exactly have the best track record."

"Tomorrow is a Monday, you'll be seeing plenty of those three."

Clawbick's ears twitched as a grin crawled across his face. "I'll have them here by tomorrow." He said, before sitting down. "Now if you excuse me, I have to sleep."

"Wait, before you do…"

Clawbick's ears perked up, despite them not hearing anything.

"To seal the deal, once I get my revenge, I'll let you kill Nick Wilde yourself."

"Sounds like a plan." Clawbick chuckled in reply.

---

There was an alarm bell ringing into their concrete bunker. It had been going off almost every day for the last few weeks, so the two officers had become remarkably accustomed to it, but it usually never rung this early. The hyena and bull climbed out of their beds, Emily rubbing her eyes.

"Dios mío, what time is it?" Emily groaned.

"About five AM." Henry replied. He seemed perfectly rested, even though they had gotten the same amount of sleep, which wasn't a lot. "Guess I won't get to do my exercises this morning." The bull mumbled.

"How do you even live like this?" Emily asked, getting out of bed.

The alarm went off again, which was basically a way of telling them to hurry up. The two slipped into new clothes, and grabbed their belts, before running to the main hall.

As they ran down the hallway, Clawbick quickly slipped past, going back into the bunker. Emily stopped for a moment to look back, but quickly continued on.

The two arrived in the main hall, the truck having been prepared for them already. "Okay," Leopold started through their communicators. "We've got a monster attack at the Savannah Central Department of Motor Vehicles." He explained. "Its… kind of scary looking."

"They're all scary looking, doc." Henry said. "Least, to you."

"True…"

Clawbick walked down the hall, dressed in what looked like the same clothes, a black jacket, red shirt, and jeans, but noticeably cleaner. "Alright doc, got any other info?" He asked

"Yes, the Zoorangers are already fighting the monster." Leopold continued.

"Well, that's all I need to know." Clawbick chuckled. "Let's get going."

---

The truck pulled outside of the DMV's parking lot, and the three officers hopped out of the armored vehicle. The three watched the fight raging in the middle of the lot.

Aside from the three Zoorangers wrecking the place, there was the monster. It resembled an insect, looking specifically like a mantis. However, its face was strange, looking like nothing any of them had seen before, but especially creepy, with a very apparent grin. The sides of its head also seemed to have mantis eyes, but it already had more normal eyes on its face. There were also a pair of antenna poking from his forehead.

The rest of the monster resembled a mantis as well, with a very lanky body. It seemed to wear a black jacket as well, which trailed off at the end into coattails that resembled an abdomen. Its arms seemed relatively normal, just clad in the sleeves of the jacket, but ended in green hands with sharp nails. On each arm was a large blade, shaped like a mantis' sickle. Small spikes poked out of the monster's shoulders as well.

The monster's lower body was bare, as it didn't even seem to have pants on. It only had a pair of boots on, with nothing to really note.

"That thing is ugly." Emily said. "Let's go squish it."

The three pressed the buttons on their belts, causing the armor to cover them. They quickly rushed into the battlefield.

"Oh, that's just great!" Red shouted. The fox was in the middle of clashing with the monster, and quickly knocked it back as he spotted the three officers. "Of all the times for you guys to show up!"

"Listen, Wilde, we're just doing our jobs!" Officer Pink shouted. She quickly pulled out her pistols, and shot at the monster.

It let out a quick whimper as the blasts hit, tossing the mantis monster across the room and into a car. It stumbled back forwards. "Hey, you guys could at least let me say my na-"

Before the monster could finish, Blue and Silver leaped out from behind the car. Silver slashed the monster directly in the chest, knocking it back into the car, while Blue fired several blasts from her guns as she fell.

Both of them hit the ground on their feet, and quickly turned to face the three SPD officers. "Let us deal with this ourselves!" Blue shouted. "You'll just be causing more trouble if you-"

The monster quickly pushed the two to the side and stepped forwards. "Let me introduce myself first, assholes!" The mantis monster shouted. "I am Mandiger, one of Sambash's cohorts, and I will be the one to destroy you all!"

"You already gave us that speech." Red said, quickly running up and slashing at the monster with his claws. "You don't have to repeat yourself!"

Mandiger stumbled back, and let out a growl. "I was introducing myself to the new guys!" He yelled, before glancing back at the three SPD officers. "You guys friends or somethin'?"

"Far from it." Clawbick growled as he pulled out his sword. "And you're gonna be the next thing they put on the Buggaburger menu."

Clawbick quickly leaped at the monster, his sword starting to glow green. The monster cowered for a second, but Red leaped in and blocked the sword with his own. "Oh, there is absolutely no way I'm letting you kill this guy!"

"Why not?" Clawbick asked, mockingly. "You afraid I might kill whoever's in there?"

"Yes, actually, I am!"

Red thrust the blade up, knocking Clawbick's sword out of the way. The fox quickly pulled out his cannon, and fired at the lion, launching him across the parking lot. He skidded across theground, but quickly got back up. He turned to look at Pink and Green. "Well, you two gonna do anything worthwhile!?"

"Oh, sorry." Green said, before aiming his cannon at the monster. He fired a blast, which Silver jumped into, launching him back into the monster anyway.

"Seriously?" Red asked, Blue quickly hopping over.

"Well you said we can't let them hurt him…" Silver muttered as he got up from Mandiger. "So…"

"That was stupid and reckless, but it worked." Blue said. "Don't do it again."

"Got it."

Mandiger suddenly burst upwards, knocking the three of them away. "I WON'T BE TREATED LIKE THIS!" He shouted. The mantis quickly grabbed onto his blades, and pulled them out of his arms, revealing small handles. "Watch my sick technique!"

A line of green energy appeared between the handles on the blades, which quickly formed into a chain that connected them. Mandiger tossed one of the blades up into the air, and grabbed the chain, starting to spin it around in a circle.

He launched to towards the three SPD officers, the chain seeming to grow much longer as it flew towards them. They all leaped out of the way as the blade flew towards them and cleaved its way into the ground.

Pink rolled across the ground ad came to a halt, firing her blasters at the monster rapidly. Effortlessly, Mandiger started to spin the other end of the chain as the other side reeled in, blocking the other shots.

The Zoorangers quickly got up, and attempted to attack the mantis monster with their own weapons. Mandiger fully reeled in the other blade however, and began to whip it forwards rapidly, knocking all three of them away. At the same time, Pink and Green opened fire from either side, Mandiger using the other side of the chain again to block their attacks.

"I'm a lot stronger than I look!" Mandiger shouted. "And I can get even stronger, too!"

He placed the two blades together, grabbing onto both of their handles with one hand, and the chain with the other. The weapon began to glow green, transforming into a large, green scythe. He lashed it forwards, launching the three Zoorangers across the lot and right next to the SPD officers.

"You guys are jokes." Clawbick mocked as the three got up. Red let out a small growl in response. "Let me show you how a real killer handles this."

"Wait, you can't-"

Clawbick kicked the rabbit back to the ground before she could continue, and ran his armored paw against the blade. As it passed over, an eerie green glow began to emanate from it. He started to step closer to the monster.

"Hah, what's a lime-flavored knife gonna do against me?" Mandiger mocked. "Just try it, bucko!"

Clawbick smiled behind his mask, before rushing up to the monster. He slashed through him once, a trail of green energy travelling through the air. Mandiger attempted to block, but the blade went right through his scythe. The monster was launched back at incredible speeds, crashing through multiple cars, which in turn were launched into the air.

Clawbick started to move forward as the cars crashed into the ground in front of him. "WAIT!" Red shouted, causing the lion to turn around. The fox was already running at him. He leaped into the air before the lion could react, and smacked him directly in the face with his sword.

"You aren't touching him!" Red shouted as the lion steadied himself.

"You're really into this hero thing, huh, Nicky?" Clawbick laughed. "Alright, let's see if you've gotten any better."

"Excuse me?" Red said with a laugh. "Last time we fought, I kicked your ass."

"Not gonna happen this time!"

Nick leaped up and clashed blades with the armored lion, using the sword strike's momentum to help propel him into the air. He landed on top of Clawbick's head, and attempted to jump off, but the lion quickly grabbed him and swung the fox into the ground.

"Okay we need to stop this." Blue said, Silver giving a nod.

"We're with you guys this time." Officer Green said, stepping forwards. "The monster is more of a problem than their bickering."

The four rushed up to the fight. Emily and Henry grabbed onto Clawbick's shoulders and pulled him back away from Red, while Blue and Silver eased Red back slightly.

"Hey, let go!" Clawbick shouted, breaking from Emily's grasp and quickly elbowing her in the stomach before pulling his other arm from Henry's grasp.

"Jesus Christ, Dave!" Emily sputtered, before quickly pistol whipping him in the side of the head. "We have more important things to do than feed your fucking inane rivalry!"

"Yeah, if that monster gets away-" Blue tried to explain, but was interrupted by the sound of a motor revving up.

All six of them turned towards the sound, which was coming from a black chopper… which Mandiger was riding on. He gave a quick wave. "See you suckers later, I have mischief to make!"

With that, the motorcycle roared off out of the DMV parking lot, and down the street.

"Look what just happened because of you two!" Silver shouted, smacking himself at the side of his head. "You just let the monster get away!"

Red pounded on his head a few times. "God damn it, I keep screwing this up." He mumbled.

Clawbick glared at Nick as the fox was distracted. He was going to kill the fox right there and then, and get it over with. With a single attack, he could do it and get this nuisance out of his life for good.

"No, stop!"

"What!?" Clawbick blurted out, glancing around.

"Neither of us said anything." Emily said.

"Shut it." The lion snapped back.

"Yo, I can still talk to you al the way out there." The voice was Savage's, it was still in his head. "I know you really, REALLY want to kill the fox, but keep him alive for now, I can't get my revenge if even one of them is killed."

"But we need to defeat them if we want to catch them." Clawbick thought in reply.

"It's best to wait it out, then." Savage continued. "Wait until they're all exhausted, and THEN defeat them! It's simple strategy."

"Alright, got it." He said aloud. He turned to his two team members. "Message from the chief, we're gonna go chase after that thing now."

"Finally, you're making some sense." Emily sighed. The three then quickly ran off to the armored truck, and sped off in it, leaving the three Zoorangers behind.

"Oh god." Red said. "We… we can't let them get to the monster first." He continued to sputter out. "We can't let them kill…"

"We won't, Nick." Judy assured. "We're heroes, that's what we do."

---

They had been driving for around half an hour, nothing relating to the monster showing up for that entire time. Emily tapped her foot against the truck's floor in thought as they continued to drive around the city almost aimlessly.

There was something strange going on with Clawbick. Despite her initially being glad about his surprisingly sensible judgement to follow the chief's orders… something was wrong with it.

If orders from the chief had come in, they would have ALL gotten it and not just him. She could easily chalk it off to him coming up with it himself, but his responses and mannerisms did seem like he was talking to someone…

"What the hell is going on, Dave?" She blurted out. The lion visibly twitched from the front seat of the vehicle. "Who were you talking to at the parking lot?"

"The chief." He answered, rather flatly.

"You know that's a bullshit excuse." She snapped back. "We would've gotten the message too, but we didn't."

"She's right." Henry quickly followed. "You very clearly were talking to someone, though."

"Who I was talking to is none of your goddamn business." Clawbick said, surprisingly calm. "We're doing our jobs right now, so you don't have to butt into things unrelated to that."

Emily tried to form a rebuttal, but it was fairly obviously Clawbick would have none of it. He was always stubborn like that, but it had seemed to be getting worse lately. She could only imagine what would happen if he wasn't kept under constant check.

There was a sudden beeping noise, followed by a red light blinking on and off. Leopold started to talk through the speakers.

"Monster report!" He stammered. "Down at the, uh, Savannah Central Bike Park, get there as fast as you can!"

"We're near there." Henry said. "It should only take us a few minutes."

"It'll take us even less if I floor it." Clawbick said, doing just that. The sudden burst forward nearly knocked the other officers off their seats.

"You could at least warn us before you do something stupid!" Emily shouted.

The lion scoffed. "When have I ever done that?"

---

The truck zoomed through the grass, and attempted to skid to a halt, but it seemed it was going to fast. The truck slid across the grass, and crashed into a dirt lump, covering the truck in it. The three of them were flung around inside of the vehicle, only protected because of their armor.

"Oh, dios mio." Emily muttered as she got up, shaking her head. "Did you just crash into the track!?"

"Okay, I will admit…" Clawbick started as he climbed up to the steering wheel. "That was a pretty stupid move."

Emily and Henry glanced at each other, and shook their heads. The three then got out of the track, and glanced around. It consisted mostly of dirt, like most biking tracks, with several lumps of dirt serving as ramps. There were a few bikes scattered around the area, and they managed to catch a handful of cyclists running off from the track as well.

The sound of a motorcycle sounded through the air. They turned towards where it was coming from, and watched as Mandiger flew off one of the hills, an explosion of dirt flying from behind him as he swung his chain blade in the air.

The motorcycle crashed to the ground, and the monster turned to them. "Oh, so you yobs are here now?" It said. "Man, I was hoping to have a bit more fun before you showed up."

"Well, ciclista bicho, we weren't going to let you have that fun anyway!" Officer Pink said, pulling out her pistols. "We're gonna squish you-"

They were interrupted by more motor noises. The three turned around, the Zoorangers had arrived on their weird looking bikes. The three of them skidded to a halt as well, right next to the SPD officers. Silver was riding on the back of Red's bike. "Alright, you guys got the plan, right?" Blue asked, seeming to ignore the three enemies next to them.

"Unfortunately." Silver muttered. Blue gave him a quick glance. "I mean, yeah, I know what to do." He quickly hopped off the bike, causing it to visibly tilt a bit.

"You know, if you don't get a ride of your own, this thing is going to break." Red said.

"I can't just drive my car around." Silver said. "I don't even have a car now!"

"Shut it, and let's deal with the monster before the SPD get here." Blue snapped.

"Uh, 'scuse us?"

The three of them turned to face the three SPD officers. "I don't like being talked about like I'm not here." Clawbick growled.

"How the hell did we miss them?" Red asked.

"Silver!" Blue shouted. "Time to do the plan!"

"Oh, right, yeah!" He stammered, before pulling out his sword and pointing it towards the three. He turned his head back to the other Zoorangers. "You guys handle the monster, right?"

Blue gave a nod, and they started the cycles back up again, driving them towards the cycling track itself. Mandiger took quick notice of this, and started his bike, starting to drive down the track. The two other Zoorangers quickly started to follow him around the track, attempting to catch up.

Clawbick chuckled for a moment as Silver stepped closer, still brandishing his blade. "Do you really think you can take all three of us on at once?"

"Uh, not really." Silver admitted. "But I can at least give my friends some extra time to deal with the monster!"

"You still really believe that we'll kill whoever's in there?" Emily asked. "You know how stupid that is, right?"

"Yeah, but its true, and I can't let you kill anyone." Silver dashed forwards, and slashed at the three of them. Clawbick, using his quick reflexes, blocked the slash with his blade. Green and Pink stepped forwards, and fired at Silver multiple times, launching him off.

"Okay, that was a dumb idea…" Silver muttered as he got back up. He quickly spun the guard around, switching his sword to Sun Mode. He thrust it forwards, firing off several fireballs at them.

Green and Pink were showered in the fire, but Clawbick slashed at each fireball that came near him, and started to slowly walk towards the wolf.

Silver flicked the guard around again, switching it to Moon mode. He lashed the blade's laser whip it forwards, attempting to strike at Clawbick. The lion simply slashes at the whip each time it tried to hit him.

Clawbick struck another lash of the whip, but moved it in a way that the whip wrapped around the blade. The lion grabbed onto a loose end of the whip as Silver tried to pull it back. The sword started to glow green, and with a tiny bit of struggle, sliced through the energy whip.

The rest of the whip fizzled out, leaving Silver stunned. "Well, that's a new one."

Pink and Green quickly stepped out from behind Clawbick, and started to fire rapidly. With barely any time to respond, Silver started to swing his sword around, attempting to block the fire. He managed to block a few shots, but a handful of the blasts hit him, knocking him across the field.

The wolf crashed and rolled across the ground, picking up grass and dirt as he did. "Man, this is going even worse than I thought it would." He muttered as he rose to his knees.

"And it's gonna get worse!"

He glanced up, and quickly dodged out of the way as Clawbick brought his sword down to the ground, cleaving a chunk out of it. "Em, Henry, you two gonna sit there or are you gonna do something!?" Clawbick growled as he pulled his sword out from the ground.

"Right, we're on it." Green said, stepping forwards. Pink paused for a moment, before following behind him.

The two dashed over to the wolf. Pink attempted to pistol whip him with one of her guns, which the wolf quickly blocked. However, she quickly pointed the other at his stomach, and fired, knocking him back.

This left Silver open, letting Green step in and swing his cannon at the wolf. He barely managed to duck under it. "Whoa, that's not how you use that thing!" He shouted as he rose up during a pause.

Wordlessly, Henry swung it at Silver's legs, which the wolf jumped over. The bull quickly pulled the cannon over his shoulder and fired it at silver before the wolf could even hit the ground. He was flung all the way back to the bike track, crashing into one of the dirt ramps.

The bull quickly stomped over, and pressed the cannon against Silver's body. IT was nearly the size of the wolf's entire body, keeping him firmly in place. "I'll keep him locked here." He said. "You guys go deal with the monster and the other two."

Clawbick and Pink gave quick nods, and ran over to the side of the bike track. Green looked back down at Silver, and leaned down, the cannon pressing even more into him as the bull rested his arm on it. This seemed to be an unintentional move.

"You know how much easier it would be to just let us do this, right?" Henry asked. "We can get rid of these monsters a lot faster than you and your friends can."

"You just want us to take the easy way out?" Silver sputtered.

"No, I want you to take the sensible way out." The bull followed. "If you left the city to us, you could all go live normal lives somewhere else."

"If we did that, you'd end up killing mammals!" Silver tried to shout, pounding his fist on the side of the dirt mound. "We're officers, we can't let you do something like that!"

"You still don't have any evidence that we will kill anyone." Henry said, leaning in a bit more. "How do you know you aren't wrong about it?"

"I… I don't." Silver admitted. "But we can't let the possibility pass, we WILL prevent you from killing anyone!"

The bull paused for a moment, glancing over at the track. "You three seem especially adamant on protecting this monster. What's the deal?" He asked.

"I don't know everything, but its personal for Nick." The wolf answered. He grunted. "I need to help protect my friends, you understand that, right?"

"You have a good heart, Maxwell." Henry said, with a bit of a sigh. "I wish we could solve this peacefully."

"I do too." Silver admitted. "But you're the one with a psycho on your team."

Red and Blue had chased after Mandiger a few minutes prior, and had managed to catch up with the monster as it zoomed around the track. The two bikes moved in on both sides of the mantis monster's bike.

He glanced from side to side, not seeming to notice the two heroes next to him for a moment. Mandiger then quickly noticed, and let out a shrill shriek. "How did you two catch up so fast!?" He yelled.

"You know these bikes are magic or something, right?" Red said. "You're just riding a normal bike!"

"Augh, curse my quick getaway strategy!" The monster yelled.

"Get off the bike, and we can handle this normally!" Blue shouted as the three of them made a turn.

"NEVER!" Mandiger quickly pulled out his scythe, and slashed at Blue's bike. She quickly pulled away as the scythe started to scrape at the ground.

Red's bike then moved in closer, the fox pulling out his blade, and slashing at the side of Mandiger. The mantis started to tip over, but quickly readjusted himself. "Keep your segmented eyes on the road, bugboy!"

"Grr, I'll need to think of a way to deal with both of you bozos!" Mandiger shouted, before quickly realizing something. "Oh yeah, I have these!"

The mantis pulled his scythe up from the ground, letting Blue move back into a closer position. The scythe started to glow green, and flow into Mandiger's body, the large blades reforming on his arms. "There, much better!"

Without warning, he slashed at the two bikes at the same time, causing the two to quickly break before their bikes could crash. They watched as Mandiger rode off a nearby dirt mound. "Asshole could've scratched the point!" Red joked.

"Not joke time, Red." Blue said. "We gotta catch up with him, right now!"

Red sighed. "Can I just say, I'm really glad you're taking this seriously." He admitted.

"I'm taking this as seriously as I normally do." Blue said as she started up her bike. "But I know what you mean, I know you don't want the SPD to get him."

The fox nodded, and started his motorbike. Before either of them could make a move, Mandiger zoomed past them, having made a full lap around the track. He slashed at them with his blades again, but barely missed.

"Okay, I've had enough of this." Blue said, before the two drove off.

They hit the dirt track after flying off the mound, and were right behind Mandiger. The mantis looked back and growled. "Can't you two just let me have some fun!?"

"Not when your 'fun' involves hitting people with scythes!" Blue shouted back. She quickly pulled out her blasters, and started to fire at the monster's bike.

One of the shots hit, causing the bike to teeter for a moment. "Guns? Two can play at that game!" Mandiger reached for something at his waist, and quickly aimed it behind his head.

The loud firing shot very clearly identified it as a gun. The sound caused both of them to lose control of their bikes for a moment, nearly spinning out.

"Holy shit, he's got a gun!" Red yelled as he scrambled to get control of the bike. "Where did he-!?"

"Don't ask me!" Blue interrupted.

Mandiger proceeded to fire several more shots from the gun, obviously in random directions as he kept his eyes on the road. The two Zoorangers ducked and swerved around the randomly fired shots.

"We can't get close to him like this." Red said. "If we did, he'd shoot us point blank."

"Which means we need to get rid of the gun, right?" Blue replied. She thought for a second. "Red, move your bike next to mine!"

The fox glanced at the rabbit, and shrugged. He moved the bike over next to hers, a few inches between them. "Alright, what now?"

"Move it CLOSER!"

Red looked down at the space, there was barely anything between them. "Carrots, I-"

"Christ, Nick, just do it!"

He nudged the bike over slightly, so that the handlebars were practically touching at that point. Or they would be if they were on the same level. "NOW what!?"

"Grab hold of my bars!" She said, standing up on the bike. "Just hold it steady for a moment!"

"Judy, this is crazy!"

She glanced at him, and the fox sighed. Red grabbed onto one of his own handlebars, and quickly reached down to grab one of Blue's trying to keep it steady as bes as he could.

"Just need one shot to get this over with!" She said, holding one of her blasters. She held it in both paws, and steadied it as best as she could. It was pointed directly towards the monster's gun, hopefully the blast would hit…

She fired it, the blast zooming across the track and smacking the mantis monster directly in his hand. He let out a screech as the pistol flew out from his green hands.

"YES!" Blue shouted, hopping down onto her bike seat. She nudged Red's paw, causing him to let go.

"Ugh, I'm going to have a cramp tonight." The fox groaned as he circled his shoulder around.

"Alright, now we can get up close and deal with him for real!" Blue said, before pointing forwards. The two bikes moved forwards, very quickly catching up with the monster's bike. The three of them started to clash with their bladed weapons, attempting to knock each other off their bikes.

However, things were happening off the track as well.

Clawbick and Pink had been watching the entire ordeal, waiting for a good moment to attack the monster.

Pink sighed for a moment, before putting her pistol back in the holster. "I can't shoot at any of them, they're going too fast." She said as the three bikers zoomed past. "I could end up hitting Nick or Judy, and Herder would be pissed at that."

'Savage would be pissed too.' Clawbick thought to himself. 'But if I want to get all this done, I have to be a bit reckless… but I would probably be reckless anyway."

He looked over to the grass behind Pink. He noticed something glinting in the sun, something metal. "Jackpot." He let out, before running over to it.

"Dave?" Pink said as the lion ran past. She watched as he picked the object up. "Dave, what is that?"

"It's called a gun, Em." Clawbick said. "The monster dropped it a minute ago." He flicked the chamber open to check out the bullet supply. To his surprise, despite Mandiger firing what seemed like a full chamber, the gun had a full six bullets in it. "Huh, infinite ammo." He muttered. Too bad he'd only need one shot.

"Dave, are you an idiot?" Pink asked. "You heard me, they're too close together and going too fast to shoot the monster!"

The lion quickly pointed the pistol at her, digit on the trigger. She backed up ins hock, Green catching this as well and nearly getting up to stop him before anything happened. The lion pulled the gun back, and let out a laugh. "Who said I was going to shoot the monster?"

"What!? You can't-"

Clawbick pointed the gun at the track, and waited for them to pass around again. A moment before they passed, he aimed the gun towards and fired.

The shot hit Red's bike, causing a chain reaction that knocked all three of them over. Red's bike toppled onto Mandiger's the imbalance knocking the mantis onto Blue's bike, all three of them ending up in a pile.

"I…" Pink was stunned for a second. "I can't believe you thought of something that clever."

Clawbick held the smoking gun up, and turned his head to her. "This still has bullets in it. I could show you something REALLY clever." He said, in a very threatening tone, making it clear what he meant.

"Uh, n-no, just forget I said anything." She finished, before looking back at Green. "Hey, we got them all, you can let go of the wolf now!"

Green looked down at Silver. "How you feeling?" He asked.

"Still hurting all over." Silver said, rather bluntly.

"Good, that should keep you there for a bit." Green said, lifting the cannon off him. The wolf let out a groan as the pressure was relieved.

The bull stomped over to the pile of bikes, the three victims crawling out from it. Almost instantly, Blue and Red pulled out their weapons, aiming them at the mantis monster.

"Gulp!" The monster let out, before turning around. The SPD officers had also pulled out their weapons. "Yelp!"

"Alright, you two stand down." Clawbick growled as he stepped onto one of the bikes, pointing his blade at Red. "Let us handle this monster and we'll go easy on you."

"Like hell." Red snapped.

"Fine, I guess we'll just have to-" The sound of a motor started to permeate through the air. The five of them started to look around the field, there wasn't any bikes around. "The hell is that coming from?" Clawbick asked.

"Oh, look in the sky!" Mandiger said. "Its my boss!"

"What!?" Blue said, before looking up herself. "Oh no, not now!"

The rest of them looked up, watching the bizarre sight of a flying motorcycle, propelled by what looked like some kind of anti-gravity device, lowered towards the ground. On it was Sambash, who got off of the bike, and shook his head in mandiger's direction.

"I leave you alone for an hour and a half, and you already get your ass kicked, good job." Sambash said as he approached them.

"I'm sorry, boss!" Mandiger said. "I didn't expect five of these guys to come after me!"

"Alright, whatever." Sambash scoffed. He glanced at the three SPD officers. "So, you guys are those… police guys, right? The ones that are hunting monsters?"

"Yeah, and who the hell are you?" Clawbick asked, stepping off the bikes and walking up to the biker monster.

"Name's Sambash, Gun Boss Sambash." He said. Quickly pulling out a pair of twin pistols. "And you guys are dead meat."

He quickly fired shots at the three SPD officers, sparks flying off of them as all three were flung backwards and into the dirt track. Clawbick let out a growl as he climbed back up to his feet. "The HELL WAS THAT!?" He yelled.

"That… that actually hurt…" Pink said, trying to feel for a wound. Fortunately, the armor still protected her for the most part. "Aren't these supposed to stop bullets?"

"I'm pretty sure they are." Green said as the two got to their feet. "He has to be using something other than bullets."

"Nope, these are standard caliber bullets." Sambash said, flicking the chamber open, and then closing it.

"Man, you're so cool, boss!" Mandiger complimented.

Sambash shot him a look. "No compliments."

"Oh, alright." The mantis monster said.

The biker monster quickly fired more shots at the SPD officers, which seemed to cause around the same level of damage to them as they fell and stumbled to the ground. Sambash stomped over, and stomped down on Clawbick's chest.

"You guys killed a monster in one hit?" Sambash laughed, grinding his foot down. "I don't buy that; you guys are jokes."

Blue looked over at Red, who was looking rather relaxed. "Red, we need to help them." She said.

"Can we at least let him kill Clawbick first?" He asked.

"What!? No!" She shouted. "We can't let anyone die today!"

Red sighed, and the two pulled out their weapons. "Whoa, hold it there!" Mandiger quickly pulled out his scythe and spun around, slashing at the ground in front of the Zoorangers. "You guys aren't going anywhere!"

He attempted to slash at them again, but Blue quickly leaped up and landed on the scythe, before performing another hop and kicking the monster in the face. He stumbled back, and the two headed towards Sambash.

Blue quickly opened fire on the monster, her shots causing him to flinch. "Jeez, can't you two just let me be for once?" Sambash sighed. Without looking at them, he started to fire his gun in their direction. The two dodged the bullets, and leaped up, slashing at Sambash with their bladed weapons.

The biker monster toppled over, but turned into a roll. The SPD officers quickly got up, and drew their weapons as well. "God you guys are a pain." Sambash groaned. He dropped one of his guns to the ground, and placed his free hand on the other gun's hammer.

He started to rapidly fire, shooting a ridiculous number of bullets in a row. The five of them attempted to dodge the incoming fire, but a few shots managed to land. Clawbick ran his paw over his blade as he dodged another bullet, causing it to glow green.

The lion rushed at the monster, and proceeded to slash at him with his powered-up sword. While the slash did manage to hit, it only seemed to barely phase Sambash. "Oh, that actually kind of hurt." Sambash said, only slightly shocked. "Not a lot, though." He brought the gun directly to Clawbick's face, and fired, launching the lion across the field.

"Hah, these bozos should know they can't take on Sambash!" Mandiger said, hopping up next to Sambash, who pushed him back a little. "These chumps aren't worth our time, right boss?"

Sambash looked at his five opponents. The Zoorangers seemed tired, while the SPD guys were obviously inexperienced. He shook his head. "Yeah, not worth the time." He said. He pointed over towards the crashed bikes. "Get your bike, we're gonna go do something that's actually useful."

"Oooh, a bike rampage? I'm down with that!" Mandiger chimed, quickly running over and picking the bike back up. He hopped on the chopper and started to rev it up.

Sambash placed his fingers to his nonexistent mouth, and whistled. The flying bike flew towards him, and quickly shifted to a grounded bike, the wheels flipping around. The two quickly drove off on their bikes, leaving the Zoorangers and SPD behind.

Clawbick let out a growl as he climbed back up. "What the hell just happened!?"

"I think we just lost, Dave." Green said. "I know it's a new experience for you."

The lion clenched his paws together. "Wait until I find that asshole, I'll rip him to shreds!"

Blue glanced at the fox, and motioned towards the dirt mound where Silver was located. He gave a quick nod and the two of them snuck over to help the wolf.

"I'm really not sure if that's a good idea." Pink said to Clawbick. "He managed to pierce our armor with normal bullets, I don't even think that's physically possible."

"A flying motorcycle isn't possible either, Em." Green replied.

"Our job is to hunt monsters, right?" Clawbick asked, though it was obviously a rhetorical one. "So, we go and murder that son of a bitch right now!"

"You can't do that."

The three officers turned to face the Zoorangers. Silver was standing up, though he still looked weakened, and was partially helped up by Red. "Oh, is there someone in THAT monster too?" Clawbick mockingly asked.

"No." Blue continued. "You CAN'T defeat him. We can't even defeat him right now, you're utterly outclassed." Pink and Green glanced at each other, the hyena feeling at where one of the bullets hit.

"That sounds like a lot of shit, rabbit." Clawbick growled. "You're just trying to save your skin, aren't you?"

"Jesus, Clawbick, can't you listen to reason for once in your life!?" red snapped. "That guy was a general, he's one of the six strongest monsters we've fought."

"You three and your boss don't even know what you're up against." Silver coughed. "No matter how powerful you are, you can't defeat all the monsters. It's impossible."

"Shut it, wolf." Clawbick said, stepping forward. "So, you guys think you're smarter than us, huh? Well, just what are we fighting against?"

"You're fighting against monsters from an alternate universe." Blue said, bluntly. "Demons, overlords, and monsters that have terrorized a world completely unlike our own. If you get rid of us, it isn't just the city that's doomed, it'll be the entire world."

"You're attempting to fight gods with peashooters, basically." Red added. "You can't win."

"You're just bluffing." Clawbick said, ignoring his teammates. Pink was starting to shake a bit, and Green had fallen even more silent than usual.

Emily usually wasn't afraid of most things. She'd handled things in her life that would leave most mammals ruined. She was strong. But a fear she didn't know she had creeped over her, the fear of god.

The Zoorangers didn't seem to be bluffing, their tone was absolutely dead serious. Had they gotten in over their heads with this? How could they handle god level terrors? She took a deep breath and tried to calm down.

"Em?" Green whispered. "You alright?"

"Yeah, I'm… fine." She lied.

"But we could do something together." Blue continued. "If all of us work together, we could take them all down!" She turned to Red. "I know you have objections, obviously."

The fox let out a small growl.

"But we don't have to work together for too long." She continued.

"Yeah, we have the same goal." Silver followed. "Let's try and do this for just one day, alright?"

Clawbick opened his mouth to say something vulgar, but he was interrupted by the voice in his head.

"Hold it, trigger happy!" Savage yelled from inside his mind. "I appreciate you wanting to kill them right here and now, but this is a really good opportunity for us!"

"How so?" Clawbick thought.

"Look at them, they're already weak." He followed. "A bit more action like this, especially up against a general, and they'll be easy to capture! Just play along for now, and we can get this whole thing done in no time."

Clawbick quickly shut his mouth, and cleared his throat. "So, you want to work with us?"

"Really, it's more like you working with us." Red added in an aggravatingly smug way.

Behind the mask, Clawbick's eye twitched, but he tried to regain what little composure he has. "Fine, we can let you come with us." He said through clenched teeth.

"What?"

"What!?"

"Excuse me?"

"What?"

"WHAT!?"

All five of the others looked at him. "Stop staring, I already feel paranoid most of the time." Clawbick said, crossing his arms.

"Sorry, I just thought I heard you say…" Red started, before pausing for a moment. He placed a paw to his chin, and stepped away from Silver, causing the wolf to nearly topple over. "I thought you just said you WANTED help?"

"Yeah, want help, sure."

Pink leaned overto Green. "He's acting weird. I think something's up."

"Em, he isn't acting weird, he's acting normal." Green replied. "Which means something is DEFINITELY up."

"Well, we accept your offer." Blue said, before pausing for a moment. "Mostly because our bikes are completely wrecked."

"I dunno, I think they could still work." Red said, turning to face the two collapsed bikes. They very quickly exploded. "Welp, there goes that."

"Wait, does that mean we get to ride in the cool truck?" Silver asked.

"I guessssssss…" The lion mumbled. He was hating this entire idea already, but it would be worth it.

"There's enough room in there for all of us." Green said. "You three will have to share a seat, though."

"We've had to share a lot recently." Blue sighed.

The six of them quickly climbed into the truck, and sped off.

---

The truck rattled around as they drove around the city, looking for the monster. The awkward silence within the truck was so think you could cut through it with a knife.

The Zoorangers were seated on one side of the truck, all huddled up on a seat. It was very clearly not meant for more than two mammals, but the three managed to sit on it fairly comfortably, Red and Blue sitting on either side of Silver. The other side of the truck had Pink and Green, who were much more uncomfortable, with the bull taking up most of the seat.

It took around ten minutes for someone to break the ice.

"What's with all the panelling and stuff in here?" Silver asked. He had been glancing around the truck for the entirety of that previous ten minutes.

"What?" Green replied.

"There's panelling all over the place." Silver said, pointing at the walls of the truck. "It looks like its suppose fold up or something."

"That's uh, confidential." Pink followed. "You'll figure it out soon enough."

"That isn't ominous." Red said sarcastically, crossing his legs.

"Since we're trapped here for a bit, how about we spend some time, uh, trying to get to know each other?" Blue started.

There was a collective silence in response.

"Well, alright." She sighed, slumping back in her seat. "Just trying to strike up a conversation…"

"We don't exactly like talking." Pink said. "Well, most of the time. If you caught Horns here in a good mood, he'd talk your ear off about whatever book he's reading." She elbowed the bull and let out a small chuckle.

"Really?" Blue said, ears perking up. "I didn't think you'd like books."

"I mostly read philosophy books." He said, seemingly a bit nervous.

"That's really neat!" Blue said, sincerely. "You really can't judge a book by its cover. No pun intended."

"Yeah, Henry's a pretty good guy." Red said. "He's smart too, talked me out of some stupid stuff during my time with you guys."

"You guys probably have a lot of stories to tell, right?" Silver asked the three.

"Yeah, but they aren't exactly… fun stories." Pink said. "More violent than you'd want."

"Oh, yeah. Gang stuff." Silver said, his mood shot.

There was more silence for a moment, before Emily spoke up. "Do… do you think you could tell us more about these monsters?" She asked.

"Why do you want to know?" Red asked, a bit suspicious at the question.

"I… I don't know, I just want to know." She stuttered nervously. "You said something about… alternate dimensions?"

"Yeah, that'd take a lot longer to explain than the rest of this car ride." Blue said. "Basically, they come from another universe, and want to destroy the city for… some reason."

"Bad guys and their vague plans, hm?" Green chuckled. "Feels like what I'd expect from guys who look like bugs."

"There's definitely a purpose, we just… don't know what it is." Blue said. "There's something big at work here, but that's another can of worms."

"You guys done talking back there?" Clawbick spoke up from the front of the truck. "It's getting annoying."

"'Scuse us for trying to pass the time!" Red snapped. "Its not like there's much else to do right now, we're just waiting for things to buzz."

With that, the Zooranger's Zoolizers let out a loud beeping noise. At the exact same moment, Leopold called over the SPD's communicators.

"Hey, we have a LOT of monsters attacking downtown!" Leopold said, sounding worried. "We need you guys there stat!"

"Alright, we'll be there in a few minutes." Pink said. "the monster's are-"

"Attacking downtown, we know." Red said.

"How do you know where they are?" The hyena asked.

"Oh, these little devices on our wrists transmit the location directly into our brains." Silver said cheerfully.

"We get our calls from our base." Green said.

"Seems pretty efficient if they were only a few seconds behind ours." Blue said. "Who tells you all this stuff? Is it that Herder guy?"

"Oh please, as if Herder would care." Pink laughed. "We get called by Dr. Leopold, he's the guy who built all our weapons and stuff."

"Wow, he designed all of your gear?" Blue said, shocked. "That's pretty advanced stuff, he must be pretty smart."

"He is," Pink started. "But he's also a nervous wreck."

"Definitely Herder's fault." Green followed.

"Yeah, Herder's really abusive to the guy, watching it whenever he comes over makes me…" The hyena clenched her paw.

"So this Herder guy just isn't nice at all, is he?" Red said. He quickly mumbled something else out. "No wonder he got Clawbick…"

"Heard that, Wilde." Clawbick said. "I could very easily crash this car and kill you all instantly, but I won't."

"You know that would also kill US, right?" Pink said.

"Yeah, that's why I said 'you all'."

"Welcome to working with David Clawbick." Green said, sarcastically.

The truck jerked to the side swiftly, nearly causing the SPD officers to fall off their seats, and the Zoorangers to slam their heads into the side of the truck.

"Whoops." Clawbick muttered.

---

The truck skid to a halt in the middle of a large plaza downtown. The area was surrounded by buildings on most sides, and required them driving through the sidewalk in order to actually get to it.

"You know, if I was the officer here, you'd be arrested dangerous driving right now." Blue said as the truck stopped.

"Bite me, rabbit." The lion said, pressing a button on the dash panel. The cockpit opened up, and he quickly hopped out. This was followed by the side doors opening upas well, the Zoorangers and SPD officers quickly getting out as well.

As soon as they stepped out, they noticed the massive amount of pirate monsters surrounding the place. They were breaking windows, running around, and yelling in gibberish.

"The hell are these things?" Clawbick asked, looking at the goofy creatures.

"Yartots." Blue said. "They're, uh, pirates."

"Not hard to figure out rabbit."

"Yikes, they're just trashing the place, huh?" Red said, looking around. "Wonder where their bosses are?"

As soon as Red finished, the sound of motors revving sounded through the air. Down two of the four lanes into the plaza drove down Mandiger and Sambash, both still on their bikes. They parked on the other side of the plaza, and got off their bikes.

"Well, I was wondering when you guys'd show up." Sambash said, spinning one of his guns around before holstering it.

"Want me to deal with 'em, boss?" Mandiger asked. "I'd love to crush their faces in!"

"Nah, rather not get our hands dirty." Sambash said. He snapped his fingers, catching the attention of the Yartots. "Yo, Yartots!" He yelled, pointing at the six. "Crush those suckers!"

The pirate minions let out a collective sound of affirmative gibberish, and started to gather up into a small army. "Okay, I'm liking this." Clawbick chuckled to himself. "At least I'll get to kill something today."

"Good thing its nothing important." Red said. "Ready to keelhaul these jolly rogers?"

"I am," Blue started. "But only if you stop making pirate jokes."

"I like the pirate jokes." Silver muttered.

The six of them dashed into the crowd of monsters, Red and Clawbick opening by effortlessly slashing through a number of them, orange sand bursting through the air as they did. Red leaped up in the air to slash through more of them, Clawbick hacking through more of them in what seemed like a rage, nearly hitting Red as he came back to the ground.

"Hey, we're supposed to be working together right now!" The fox said. "Can you at least act like it!?"

"Okay, that was a complete accident, seriously." Clawbick said.

"If you even think of backstabbing me at any point, this partnership is over." Red growled.

"Fine, whatever."

"You wanna get this over with as quick as possible, I know, so let's do that by working together." Red suggested. "Hold out your sword."

"Uh, 'kay?" Clawbick held his sword out flat. The fox leaped up and hopped on top of it. "Now what?"

"Just spin it around!"

The lion sighed, and started to spin around in place. The Yartots, being idiots, moved into the blade, destroying them. "Alright…" Red started. "STOP!"

Clawbick stopped in place, Red using the momentum from the spin to launch himself through the air. He rapidly slashed at the monsters as he flew, clearing out a massive column of them.

"Okay, that was impressive, Nicky." Clawbick said with a chuckle.

"Thanks, but never call me that again."

Blue and Pink teamed up as well to take care of some more Yartots. The hyena blocked a sword slash with her pistol, and pushed it back, quickly smacking the pirate back in the face. "Ugh, these guys are really gross." She bemoaned as she shook some sand residue off the pistol.

"You guys haven't had to deal with the Orgs." Blue laughed, kicking a Yartot away and then firing at it. "Those guys are the grossest."

Pink quickly fired at a few other Yartots, headshotting them and making them burst into sand instantly. "You guys have to deal with hordes like this all the time?" She asked.

"Oh yeah, all the time!" Blue said as she hopped up onto a Yartot's head, quickly slashing at the others around it with her daggers. 'Well, actually, it happens a lot less often than you'd expect."

"Let's try to clean these guys up quick, right?" Pink said. Blue gave a quick nod, and jumped off of the Yartot's head, firing at it with her blaster, before landing on top of Pink's head. "What the hell-?"

"I'll take the far ones, you take the close ones!" Blue said, sounding it out like an order.

"Uncomfortable, but not bad thinking, Hopps!" Pink chuckled, before following her orders. The two quickly cleaned out a large number of the Yartots in only a few moments.

"Wow, check out everyone else!" Silver said, taking a glance at the rest of the rangers' battles. He was quickly pulled back into the fight by a Yartot attempting to strike with him with his cutlass, which the wolf barely blocked. "Maybe we could do something like that?"

"How?" Green asked, kicking a Yartot away with one of his feet, before slamming a row of them with his cannon. "The other four share weapons, we couldn't be farther apart from a team-up."

"Well, then we just gotta get creative!" Silver shouted, jabbing through the Yartot with his rapier. He started to mutter to himself as he slashed through more of them "Oh, I know!" he blurted out, quickly switching the blade to Moon Mode.

'What are you planning?" The bull asked. He turned around just in time to find out.

The wolf lashed at a large group of Yartots, the whip wrapping around them. He then pulled on the sword, and tossed the group up into the air. "Oh, I get it!" Green said, sounding a bit surprised. He aimed the bazooka at the group, and fired, destroying all of them in a single blow.

"Glad you caught what I was going for!" Silver said, lashing at another group of Yartots. "If you didn't those guys would've been landing on our heads!"

"They'd probably die from the fall." Green said, Silver laughing in response.

After a few minutes, the army of Yartots had been completely wiped out, clearing the plaza of all monsters besides Sambash and Mandiger.

"What!?" Mandiger shouted stepping forward. "That was like, three hundred Yartots, how did you six defeat them all!?"

"Teamwork!" Blue shouted, raising a fist in the air. There was a bit of awkward silence from both sides, the rabbit slowly lowering her fist back down.

"I was expecting you guys to be fighting, but I guess y'all are too smart for me." Sambash said with a chuckle. "Now you want to fight us, right?"

"You know it brandy-breath!" Red shouted. "We're going to kick your segmented butts!"

"Usually I love fighting, but today it just seems a bit… I dunno, boring?" Sambash said with a sigh. He placed his hand to his head, presumably in thought.

"Boss, you alright?" Mandiger asked. "Its not like you to pass up a fight!"

"Aha!" The biker boss let out. "How about, instead of a fight, we settle this in a different way?"

The six rangers looked at each other. "What exactly does that mean?" Blue asked.

"Instead of beating each other up, we can settle this with a competition." Sambash explained. "How about a race? We've got a lot of city, and you guys've got heavy vehicles, right?"

"I mean, I guess…" Blue started. "But-"

"And the clencher!" Sambash said, posing dramatically. "Whoever wins the race will get to kill whoever they choose!"

"That's awfully suspicious-"

"Mandiger here will be entering on my behalf." Sambash said, slapping the monster on the back.

"E-excuse me!?" Mandiger said, fearfully. "I didn't agree to this!"

"I'm your boss so shut it and do what I say." Sambash growled. We need two more teams to make this worth anything, so who's gonna enter?"

Clawbick glanced around for a moment, and stepped ofrwards. "I'll do it, getting a chance to kill that thing myself is good enough."

"Then I enter too!" Red said, stepping forward as well.

The lion glanced down at the fox, and the two glared at each other. "That was a short-lived alliance, wasn't it?" He joked.

"I'm not letting you anywhere near that monster, got it?" Red followed.

"Oh my GOD, you two!" Blue shouted. They both turned to face her, watching her shake her head. "You guys know this is a trap, right?"

"Well, yeah, but-"

"No buts!" She snapped, interrupting the fox. "We can do this a lot faster if we just work together, don't be impulsive and-"

"I can do whatever I want, rabbit." Clawbick said as he started to stroll off towards the armored truck. "We're doing this race whether you want to or not."

Blue clenched her fists and let out a frustrated grunt. "I hate that guy." She muttered.

"I do too, and that's why I have to do this." Red said. "I'll win the race, defeat the monster, and then we can get on with our lives."

"Again, it's a trap, I think Sambash has made it so neither of you can win." Blue explained. "Why would he bring us out here and decide not to fight us."

"I know it's a trap, Judy, you just… you have to trust me on this."

She sighed. "Fine, whatever."

"Boss, are you sure about this?" Mandiger asked, nervously. "I don't know if I can actually beat any of these guys!"

"You totally can, dude." Sambash said, smacking him on the back. "I've had this planned out all day, there's no way you can lose…" He paused, and pulled a Chaos Badge out. "Especially when we have this."

He spun Mandiger around, and jabbed the Chaos Badge into the back of his jacket. The monster began to spasm as the badge absorbed into his skin, the emblem of chaos appearing on the back of the jacket. The jacket itself was the first thing to change, gaining more padding, as well as more spikes, specifically around the collar, waist and arm regions. The abdomen-shaped part of his jacket seemed to crease upwards, growing slightly shorter as well.

Mandiger's body changed slightly as well, growing a tiny bit larger than before, more muscles forming in his otherwise lanky body. His neck stretched out, giving him a sudden hunch, which the jacket quickly conformed to. The scythes on his arms grew sharper and straighter, with even more serrated edges on them. Finally, the mantis eyes on the side of his head grew more pointed, and a pair of sunglasses formed on the monster's face.

"VRRRROOOOM!" Mandiger yelled out. "CHAOS MANDIGER IS HERE TO SCHOOL YOU LOSERS, HAH HAH!" His confidence quickly faded. "Wait, I still only have a normal motorbike, and they got real fancy ones, what am I-?"

"I got that covered too." Sambash said, walking the mantis monster over towards the biker monster's own bike.

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"Hurry up, you scallywags, the race starts in ten minutes!" Sambash yelled. For the past hour, the Yartots had been setting things up for the race. It had taken them a long while, and the sun had already gone down.

The six rangers watched as a quartet of Yartots dragged out a flat-screen TV and placed it on a fold-out table. After they placed it on the table, they quickly ran off, bringing in two much smaller TVs soon after.

"What exactly is this all for?" Blue asked Sambash, who was standing distressingly near them.

"Well, how are we gonna enjoy the race if nobody's filming it?" The monster explained. "I'm just being courteous. Also there's probably gonna be some good wipe-outs, gotta catch those on film, too."

More Yartots showed up, each carrying an extension cord. They plugged each cord into each other, and then into a power strip, which they then plugged the TVs into. There was a sudden electrical surge throughout the cords, electrocuting the Yartots and vaporizing them instantly.

"Real competent company you keep." Pink said snidely.

"Shut it." Sambash said, before clapping his hands. "How the cameras coming along!?"

There was a number of Yartots grouped around, one turning to Sambash and giving the "okay" sign with his fingers. The crowd dispersed, revealing five wooden rowboats. Three Yartots hopped into each, one grabbing the paddles, and the other two holding cameras.

The six rangers stared at the boats for a second. The rower Yartots started to row, somehow propelling the boats into the air, where they flew off above the buildings.

"Huh." Green let out. "Now I've seen everything."

Shortly after, the TV screens flicked on, showing several different shots of the nearby city.

"ALRIGHT, PREPERATIONS SET!" Sambash yelled. He spun around and pointed at Red and Clawbick. "You two, get your vehicles, and get to the starting line," He pointed over towards one of the exits of the plaza, which had been marked with a large checkered flag. "I'll explain the rules when you get there."

"Alright, you ready to do this?" Clawbick asked, in a rather threatening manner. "You're gonna get your ass kicked, Nicky."

"There's gonna be an ass kicked, but it won't be mine, Dave." Red said, pulling out a ZooTag. He plugged it in, summoning the Kitsunaider. He hopped on the bike, and drove over to the starting line, where Chaos Mandiger was waiting for them.

Clawbick let out a laugh as he headed for the truck.

"Do all your adventures get this weird?" Pink asked.

"Yeah, but this is actually normal compared to last week." Blue said with a sigh.

"What happened?"

"We sang karaoke and fought a bottle wizard." Silver said, matter-of-factly. "I've been around for a while and nothing as weird as that happened before then."

"Huh." Pink let out, unable to really find anything else to say.

The engine of the truck rumbled as the vehicle passed by them, and headed towards the starting line. It parked, taking up most of the size of the exit. "Alright, let's get this started!" Mandiger yelled, revving the bike's engine.

"We gotta lay some ground rules first." Sambash said, walking in front of the racers. "First off, the Yartots have blocked off every exit that isn't on the course, so just stay on the path and everything should go smoothly. First to the end wins." He started. "Second, if you break past any of the barriers, you're disqualified."

"Are there any other rules?" Red asked.

"Nope, everything else is free game." Sambash said, with a quick chuckle at the end. He walked off to the side, and pointed one of his pistols up in the air. "On three!" He shouted.

"ONE!"

The sound of motors revving filled the plaza, the four other rangers looking on in anticipation.

"TWOOOOOOO!"

Red glanced over at the monster on the bike, and then at the massive truck. This wasn't an entirely fair trade-off.

"THREE!"

Sambash fired his gun, and the three zoomed off down the road. As they exited the view from the plaza, the four rangers turned to look at the monitors. The screens showed several different angles, a few above shots, and some peculiar side shots that didn't seem possible to make from those flying boats.

Sambash walked over holding a folding chair. He opened it, and sat down. "This is gonna be fun." He said. "My bet's on Mandiger."

"Yeah right, Nick will win." Silver said. "There's no way he can't win."

"Well, he might lose, but I trust him." Blue said. She turned to the SPD officers. "You guys are rooting for Clawbick, right?"

"If he was here, the answer would be yes." Green said.

"Yeah, we're kind of hoping he gets his ass kicked here." Pink followed. "We don't like him either, you know."

"Wait, so I'm the only one NOT betting on the fox!?" Sambash said. "That's really lame."

They watched the screen.

The bikes and the truck drove through the street, for the first few minutes it seemed fine. Mandiger and Red were in the lead for the most part, though Clawbick's truck was only slightly behind the both of them.

"This'll be easy." Red said to himself as he inched past Mandiger's bike. "As long as I keep up this pace, I should be able to win in a flash."

There was a sudden crash from the buildings above them. Heavy objects suddenly started to fall from the sky. TVs, couches, office desks, tons of things that would kill you on impact at that height falling from the sky.

Red swerved around a few of the objects, slowing him down significantly. "Hah, loser!" Mandiger shouted as he passed. The wheels of his bike flipped up, and started to glow blue. The bike then jetted up into the sky, well above any potential harm.

Blue looked back at Sambash. "You're cheating!" She yelled. "You're sabotaging them!"

"Not cheating, rabbit." Sambash said, flicking the rabbit in her nose. "I gave two rules, and this breaks none of them!"

"That's just-!" She let out a groan, before placing her paw to her helmet. "Red, Sambash is cheating."

"Yeah, I can kind of tell, Carrots." Red said, attempting to swerve through a couch and a smashed lamp. He glanced behind him, watching as Clawbick's truck seemed to just roll over the obstacles.

"If he's cheating, then you can cheat too!" Blue said into the communicator. Sambash gave her a quick glance. "Use your weapons, shoot him down!"

"Damn, should've made these rules less lenient." Sambash muttered. "But this'll be interesting at least."

Red gave a nod to no one, and quickly pulled out the Vickscannon. He aimed it at some falling debris, vaporizing them and keeping the road clean. The fox accelerated, and drove closer to the flying bike riding mantis monster.

He aimed the cannon upwards, and fired a few shots at Mandiger. "Whoa!" The mantis let out as one nearly grazed his bike. "Looks like I'll have to get serious too!" He laughed.

The mantis slashed one of his blades down towards Red's bike, shooting out a slash of energy. The fox swerved to avoid it, the bike nearly tipping over because of the massive cannon he was carrying. "Ugh, this thing isn't very practical." Red said to himself.

Another laser slash came from above, nearly hitting Red. He couldn't turn anymore or else the bike would fall over. He had to think of something quick. Oh yeah, gun.

He fired several more shots at the flying bike, which quickly dodged all of them. While this wasn't remarkably effective, it did give Red some extra time to center himself again. He quickly glanced back, Clawbick was still remaining at the same distance, not doing anything. He had to be up to something.

But he couldn't let that distract him for long, Mandiger was still his biggest threat at the moment. He zoomed forwards, directly under the mantis monster. He aimed up, and fired, hitting the bike on the bottom, causing it to spin out and start to fall towards the ground.

"Ah crud!" The monster yelled, trying to rev the motor again. The bike sputtered, and then started to rise back up into the air.

"No you don't!"

Mandiger glanced down, watching as a blade suddenly flew up, nearly hitting him in the face. The blade twisted around in the air for a second, the only thing keeping it afloat being a small wire. It then slashed at the bike's back tire, causing it to spin around.

The wheel flicked back into normal wheel position, shutting off the anti-gravity device in it. The bike started to float slowly down to the ground. "Oh, come on!" The mantis monster shouted as the bike's back wheel hit the ground.

"Hey, care to spar for a second?' Red asked, his bike moving closer to Mandiger's. His blade retracted back to the hilt, and he slashed at the monster. Mandiger quickly blocked the blade with his own, the two entering a quick fight.

The two clashed for a few minutes, Mandiger occasionally kicking the side of the bike to try and activate the anti-grav wheel. After a few strikes, Red got a call through his communicator.

"Nick, watch out!" Blue said.

"What do you think I'm doing, Blue!?" Red shouted, ducking under one of Mandiger's swipes, and returning it with a slash of his own.

"No, I mean WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU!"

The fox quickly glanced back.

"Ohhh fu-"

A missile flew through the air, crashing into the ground next to the two bikes and causing debris from the ground to fly through the air.

"The hell was that!?" Mandiger shouted, looking back himself.

Clawbick's armored truck has somehow gotten even more imposing. The slope on the front of the truck had opened up to reveal a missile pod, and two large chain guns had appeared on the sides of it as well.

"The hell is he doing!?" Pink shouted at the screen. "Those are supposed to be for emergencies, not for a dumb race!"

"He probably wants to get rid of both of them at the same time." Green suggested.

"I have to say, this is definitely more exciting than it was at the start." Silver said.

"Oh, definitely." Sambash followed with a laugh.

The truck fired more missiles at the two bikes, all of them just barely missing. He was definitely missing on purpose, Nick thought to himself. He was still waiting for something to happen before he went all out on this attack.

"Gah, this is too much for me!" Mandiger shouted. The slits on the back of his jacket opened up, revealing black transparent wings. They started to flutter rapidly, somehow lifting the bike back up into the air. "See you suckers later!"

The chain guns on the truck tilted upwards, and started to fire at the mantis. The truck shifted over on the road, trying and catch the bug in between the two guns. "Whoa, watch it!" Mandiger shouted.

A missile suddenly shot from the pod, striking the bike in the back. The exhaust pipe exploded, launching the bug forwards, before it crashed into the ground in an explosion.

"Oh god." Red muttered to himself. He was trying to kill the both of them, wasn't he? The fox froze in fear for a second, granting the lion enough time to shoot one of the Kitsunaider's wheels, causing it to spin out.

"Well, I say we have a winner." Sambash said. "Too bad nobody here was rooting for him." He quickly clapped his hands. "Alright, boys, cut the cameras, we don't have to see any more."

The TV screens quickly cut out, leaving the four in silence. "I hope Nick's alright." Silver said.

"I do too." Blue muttered.

They heard the roar of an engine, as the truck zoomed passed the finish line, and stopped. The missile pod closed, and the chain guns folded back into the roof of the truck. The cockpit opened, and Clawbick hopped out.

"Whew, that was a rush, huh?" He said, wiping off his armor despite there being no dust. He quickly turned to Sambash. "So, who do I get to kill?"

"They'll be here in a second." Sambash said. With that, the flying rowboats returned, and parked onto the ground.

Red and Mandiger were in two of them. Mandiger climbed out, grunting in frustration at his loss. "You owe me a bike." Sambash said, slapping him on the back of the head.

Red, however, was silent as he climbed out of the boat.

"So, you get to kill either Mandiger, or this fox." Sambash explained. The four other rangers watched on in anticipation as Clawbick examined the two of them.

"Just get it over with." Red said. "I know you want to kill me."

"Oh, I would love to kill you right now, Nicky." Clawbick said, walking over to him. He knelt down and looked the masked fox in his face. "I would love to kill you on this spot, as your friends watch. I'd love to do that, but unfortunately, I can't."

Red's ears perked up in confusion as the lion got back up. "But I WOULD love to cause you as much misery as I possibly can." Clawbick continued, walking up to Mandiger. He glanced back over at the fox. "You and whoever's inside this monster have a past together, right? How would you feel if I killed him?"

Before Red could even answer, Clawbick raised his sword, preparing to strike down the monster.

Suddenly, multiple gun shots hit him, knocking Clawbick over.

"That's enough of this." Sambash said with a sigh. "Man, that plan went south. I had it all set up for Mandiger to win, but nope, you had missiles. Oh well, now we'll just have to kill you both."

"Oh, right!" Chaos Mandiger said. He pulled the blades off of his wrists, a green line forming between the two. They connected, forming a double-ended scythe.

Clawbick got up and pulled out his blade, Red quickly following up. The fox quickly rushed up to the mantis monster, and entered locked combat with his scythe, leaping up in the air rapidly to attempt a strike.

Sambash fired his bullets at the lion, which Clawbick attempted to block with his blade. The bullets bounced off, but also pushed him back a bit. "Shit, how is this guy doing this?" Clawbick muttered. "You can't just make bullets stronger…"

"Don't worry, Red, we're coming!"

The lion looked over, watching as Silver and Blue leaped into the fray. Silver helped Red attack Mandiger, while Blue distracted Sambash for a moment, allowing Clawbick to run off.

He grouped up with the other two SPD officers, who hadn't entered combat yet. "Should we go in there and help them?" Pink asked. "It seems like the right thing to do…"

"No, I hate to admit it, but the rabbit was right." Clawbick admitted, shamefully. "There's absolutely no way we can take on that general guy. I think we'll need to use it."

"But you just wasted a lot of energy on your little weapon stunt back there." Green said. "There's no way we can power it without going back to get a recharge."

"No, I have a way, just follow me."

The three ran back over to the truck, and quickly got inside. Clawbick climbed into the cockpit, while Pink and Green sat on the two seats in the back. "Where's the power source?" Clawbick asked.

"Somewhere above where we are right now." Green said.

Clawbick climbed into the back, and opened a panel between where the two were sitting. There was a miniature engine, powered by Cell Medals. The lion pulled out his blade.

"Dave, what are you-?"

Before Pink could finish, the lion jabbed the blade into the engine. There was a sudden pulse f green energy throughout the truck, it somehow instantly starting up. "How did that even work!?" Pink asked. She glanced at green, who gave a shrug.

"Alright, now we're ready to go." Clawbick started as he climbed back into the cockpit. "Initiating formation sequence." Clawbick said as he pushed at several buttons on the control panels. The two seats at the side of the truck folded upwards, pointing Pink and Green towards the front of the vehicle. Panels started to fold around them, shifting into two control panels for the both of them.

"Arm one, ready." Pink said.

"Arm two, ready." Green followed.

Clawbick pressed some more buttons on the control panel. The vehicle seemed to rise up into the air, while also folding in as well. The cockpit folded inwards, putting Clawbick right next to his two comrades.

From the outside, the truck's change had become incredibly apparent. The five outside looked at it as it folded into a slope like shape, wheels still on the bottom, serving as support, and two massive arms coming out of the side, the chain guns acting as hands.

"Yo, check it out!" Clawbick said through the vehicle's loudspeaker. "We call this the SPD Mech, it's our ultimate weapon!"

One of the arms pointed towards Sambash, and started firing at him. The flurry of bullets seemed to be too much for him, with the final shot launching the biker monster through the air and into a nearb7y building.

"The hell…?" Sambash whispered to himself. He shook the hit off. "YARTOTS, GET THAT THING!"

Another army of Yartots started swarming out of the buildings around them, charging towards the massive robot. The other arm opened fire, clearing out a large chunk of them in a few seconds. As the arm focused on firing at the Yartots on one side, the other arm was busy smashing the pirate monsters to dust.

And while that was going on, the main body itself was turning around, trying to keep locked on to Sambash. The missile pod opened up, and started to rain missiles down onto him, destroying part of the building he was standing next to.

Sambash emerged from the blast, clearly very injured. "This went south WAY TOO FAST!" He shouted. He snapped his fingers, but his bike didn't seem to come to him. "Right, shit, gonna have to come back for it."

He quickly ran over to one of the wooden boats, and quickly rowed off into the air.

"Boss, wait for me!" Mandiger shouted, taking to the air himself.

The Zoorangers could only look on stunned as the entire Yartot army had been wiped out faster than even they could manage, leaving the ground covered in orange residue. "I didn't know they had something like this." Silver said. "Gonna be honest, it's kind of awesome."

"Okay, we really can't focus on how actually cool this is until after we defeat that monster OurSELVES!" Red shouted. "LOOK!"

He pointed towards Chaos Mandiger, who was flying through the air, attempting to avoid the SPD's fire. "Hold on, don't shoot me!" He said. "I've got a very delicate exoskeleton!"

The mech stopped its fire. "Alright then, if you don't want to be shot at," Clawbick started. "Then we'll just do THIS!"

One of the arms swung at Mandiger, smacking him down to the ground. The chain gun arm pulled away, revealing the monster's batted body crushed alongside the pavement. The mech moved both of its chain guns at the monster, preparing to unload everything.

"Oh god, they're going to kill him!" Blue shouted. "I need to think of something quick! Nick, do you have any ideas?"

"Yeah, I got one." Red said, before bolting off towards the remains of the monster.

"Nick, what the hell are you doing!?"

The fox stopped in front of Mandiger's crushed body, and spread his arms out. He was blocking any shots that could be fired at the monster. "You can't kill me, Dave!" He shouted. "I know you want to, but you can't! Come out here and talk to me!"

The mech paused for a moment. There was a minute of agonizing silence as they waited for something to happen. The mech suddenly backed up, and folded back into its truck form. The cockpit opened, and Clawbick hopped out.

"Talk, huh?" He said. "About what?"

"I want to make a deal." Red said with a sigh.

Clawbick raised an eyebrow.

"If you let us destroy this monster, we'll…" He paused. "We'll turn ourselves in."

"Excuse me?"

"Yeah, excuse me!?" Blue shouted, hopping over. "We can't just turn ourselves in, Nick!"

"Yeah, who's going to protect the city if we're locked up?" Silver asked.

"I don't know." Red said bluntly. "But we're supposed to protect others, and if we keep fighting more mammals will just be harmed."

"But-"

"If we keep trying to run away, then nothing will be accomplished. Things will just get worse." Red interrupted. "You should know that better than anyone, Carrots."

She paused, and let out a sigh. "Alright, as leader, I say we all agree to the deal."

"I'm still against it, but whatever." Silver muttered. "But it's to protect someone, so its alright."

"I never said I accepted this deal." Clawbick growled. "I should just kill all four of your right here and-"

"Hold it, Clawsy!" The voice in his head yelled. "This is a great idea, they're letting you take them in! It's an easy win, just let them take care of this lame monster and we'll have won!"

Clawbick sighed. "Fine, I accept your deal. "Just get to killing that monster."

"Alright." Red sighed. He motioned for the other two to take a step back from Mandiger's body. He pulled out the Vickscannon, and plugged a ZooTag into it.

The cannon fired a massive fireball which exploded on contact with the monster. Out of it flew a sloth, and a Chaos Badge.

Red ran up to the unconscious sloth, and checked to see if he was alright. "Thank god they didn't kill you, Flash." He whispered to himself.

Clawbick's attention was drawn from that scene to the Chaos Badge, which started to glow, and flew off into the distance, forming the massive Chaos Mandiger on the horizon.

"YOU ALL BETTER SAY YOUR PRAYERS!" It roared.

"We're going to have to deal with this too." Red said. "I don't think your robot can handle a fifty-story giant."

Clawbick grunted in response, and headed back over to the truck. He didn't even watch as they summoned up their mechs, an infernal amount of metallic clanking and stomping sounding soon after.

Five minutes passed as Clawbick waited for them to finish. He heard the crashing of blades, gunfire, and the monster seeming to yell at nobody in particular. It had gone like this with every monster the Zoorangers had fought, and it was getting boring to just be a spectator.

The end of the fight was signified by Mandiger yelling out "I'VE REACHED MY FINISH LINE!" before an explosion was heard. After that, there was more mechanical clanking and then the sound of someone landing.

"Alright, we dealt with the monster." Nick said as he untransformed. Judy and Max followed along with him as they walked to the back of the truck.

"Ugh, finally." Clawbick moaned as he followed them. The back of the truck opened up, the three Zoorangers being greeted by Pink and Green, who quickly snapped handcuffs onto them. The three climbed aboard, and Clawbick headed back to the cockpit.

The truck drove off shortly after.

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Cliffhanger time again!

I don't have much to note here, but the idea of a n episode from the SPD's perspective was floating around my head as soon as the idea for them came to me. It's mostly a way to get some more characterization out of them, and I think I succeeded at that.

I also mostly based Mandiger off of his Power Rangers counterpart rather than take his dowsing based powers from Gingaman. I'm not entirely sure if this episode works well, but we're nearing the end of the arc guys.

Next time, a lot of plot threads are solved, and the arc concludes with a bang.