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)

43. Episode 42 - Life of Machines

Episode 42 – Life of Machines

"Now stopping, now stopping!"

The train skidded to a halt on the grass, tracks appearing in front of it as it moved ahead. With a whistle, it stopped completely. The door slid open, as a being clad in white and pink stepped out of the cart.

"Thank you for the ride." She said, giving a quick bow.

"Always a pleasure," The rabbit-headed man said as he looked out the doorway. "Especially when its for someone important like you."

"'Important', yeah." Said the monkey puppet on his hand.

"Shush."

"I'm not that important." The other figure said. "I'm just doing what anyone would do, you know?"

"What anyone would do, if they had a big robot with them!" The puppet continued.

"Alright, now you better shut your trap." The pink-clad figure said, raising a fist. The puppet promptly clamped its mouth shut.

"Speaking of," The rabbit-headed man said. "Your friend should be in trolley five. It's the really big one."

She looked off down the rest of the train. Sure enough, the fifth cart was a massive one, larger than even the rest of the already slightly oversized train itself by a large margin. "Thank you." She said. "I'll go get her ready right now."

"Good luck hiding that thing!" The puppet said with a laugh. She shot a glare at it, and it clamped its mouth shut once more.

The Pink Ranger skipped over to the large trolley. She placed a hand on it, and then noticed a normal sized ladder that lead up to a normal sized doorway. She climbed it up and opened the door slowly.

"Alright, it's time for us to go!" She said as she entered. The cart was pitch black, and her voice bounced off the walls. Something felt off.

She looked around but couldn't seem to sense anything. "Hello?" She cried out.

"Gingat!?"

---

Glass shattered as a large fist flew into the window of a jewelry store. The entire plate had broken with that single punch, and the three hooligans that had caused it laughed as they walked in through the broken windows.

"Alright, grab any JEWELS." Sambash said as he and his cronies walked through the glass and into the store. "No pearls or gold, just jewels."

"Uh, okay boss." One of the monsters said. It was a large, muscular insectoid creature, with two large horns jutting from the top of its head. Mostly red in color, and with a heavily plated body. Its forearms were clad in leather belts, while its feet were wrapped in spiked anklets.

"Just follow the orders, idiot." The other monster said. It looked similar, except mostly blue, and with only a single horn jutting out from its forehead. A sharp spike stuck out from his back as well. It stood slightly taller than its counterpart as well, and had the reverse of the decorations, spikes on the forearms, belts on the legs.

"Torbador, Tagredor, shut it." Sambash snapped. "Seriously, I brought you back because I thought you could work together but guess I'm a goddamn idiot for thinking that!"

"Sorry!" Both of the beetle monsters said. They quickly rushed into the store and started to shatter glass with their fists.

Jewelry was picked up, and tossed all over the place, onto the floor, and into a large brown sack that they had brought along. Only jewels and gemstones went into the bag, everything else went onto the floor.

After a few minutes, everything had been ruined.

"Alright, I'd call that a good haul!" Sambash said as the three hopped out of the broken window. A heavy satchel was slung over his shoulder.

"Yeah, we got to break a lot of stuff!" Tagredor said, with a chuckle.

The three walked out into the night-lit city streets. "Now, with any luck…" Sambash whispered. "We won't have any MORE interruptions-"

"Excuse me!" A small voice called out from behind them. The three monsters froze in place, and the gradually turned around.

Behind them was a small wildcat, standing up to around Sambash's knee. She was dressed in a pink, white, and black dress, small enough to fit such a small animal. Her eyes were a bright orange, unusually, and while it was hard to make out in the middle of the night, something seemed off about her fur color.

Sambash, however, didn't care.

He quickly pulled his gun with his free hand, and aimed it at the cat, who had no reaction. "The hell are you supposed to be?"

The cat opened her mouth for a second. "I'm…" She said, thinking. "I don't know!" She finished, chipperly.

The two beetle monsters looked at each other, confused, as Sambash lowered his gun and shook his head in disbelief. "These animals get dumber by the second." He grumbled, before flicking his gun back up. "Listen, furball, you're interrupting something important, now scram before I blow a hole through your head."

Shockingly, the cat instead walked towards Sambash. "Can you help me?" She said, seeming to ignore the previous threat. "I need to find a place… but I can't remember where it is."

"Didn't you hear me!?" Sambash shouted, frustrated. "I will KILL YOU, if you don't BACK OFF!"

"HOLD IT!" A voice shouted. Several laser shots fired at the three monsters, knocking them back from the wildcat.

ZooBlue and ZooRed ran into the fight, Blue aiming her blasters at them. "Damn it!" Sambash shouted. "Can't believe we got distracted!"

"And now you're backed into a corner!" Red shouted, pulling out his sword.

"I'll get the civilian out of here, you deal with the monsters for a bit." Blue said. The fox nodded, and then quickly leaped towards the monsters, bringing his blade down.

Torbador and Tagredor quickly stepped in front of their boss and rose their arms up, crossing them in the process. The sword clanked between their massive muscles, and they, in tandem, flicked their arms forwards, launching Red backwards.

"Only way to get to the boss is to go through us!" Tagredor shouted as the two stomped forward. Red recollected himself, and then looked back at Blue for a moment.

"No, seriously, you need to get out of here!" The rabbit said to the cat.

"Why?" She asked in return, tilting her head, curious.

"Because its dangerous!" Blue said, for probably the fifth time.

"Blue!" Red shouted over. "I could use some help!"

She glanced at the cat, and then back to her partner, and then back at the civilian. She quickly rushed over, and leaped into the air, performing a jumping kick directly into Torbador, knocking the rhino beetle monster back a bit. He bumped into his brother, causing them to stumble about and then fall down.

The rabbit helped the fox back up to his feet, and the two readied their weapons.

Sambash let out an exasperated sigh, and then held up his gun. He quickly fired a few shots off, directly in the cat's direction. The shots struck at the ground around her, smoking rising up into the air.

"NO!" Blue shouted.

Red and her quickly rushed over to where the cat was. As they rushed over, Sambash quickly pulled Torbador up, who in turn helped his red brotherup. "Let's get out of here while they're distracted." Sambash ordered.

The three quickly made a run for it.

The two Zoorangers ran towards the smoke cloud as it cleared. The wildcat was standing in the middle of it, completely unharmed, and completely unphased.

"Are you alright?" Blue asked, a bit panicked.

"I think the answer to that is a 'yes'." Red said, glancing over the cat briefly. "Nothing hit her."

"What?" Blue said, surprised. "Then that means-"

The two quickly looked back, only to find that Sambash and his cronies had vanished. They both sighed. "That's the third night in a row." Red said, rubbing his paw against his forehead.

"We better see if we can catch up with him." Blue said.

"Probably going to go as well as the last three nights too."

Blue then turned to the wildcat. "You better head home, it's dangerous out at night."

"Okay!" The cat said. She watched as the two heroes ran off, and then stood in silence, alone, for a brief moment.

"Where is my home…?"

---

Judy let out a yawn as she got out of bed. She sat up, and looked at Nick, who was sleeping next to her. He had somehow taken away most of the blankets in his sleep, which was annoying.

The two hadn't done a good job trying to catch Sambash last night. They were up for several hours trying to hunt him and his minions down but weren't able to catch up. As such, they were tired and had terrible sleeps. Well, at least she did.

Even worse, thy still had to go to work.

She quickly slipped on a morning robe and headed out to the main room. After around a half hour of waking up, she finally felt ready to get the day started. Though, Nick still wasn't up. She took one more sip of her morning coffee before getting up off the couch and heading towards the bedroom.

Before she could make it, however, the building suddenly shook. It wasn't like an earthquake, more like something very large had bumped into it.

"What in the-?" She muttered, before the bedroom door opened up.

Nick walked out, and let out a yawn, showing off his teeth. "What the hell was that?" He said, groggily.

"I have no idea." The rabbit said. There was suddenly a knock at the door, but before either could answer it, it swung open, revealing the landlord, a very miffed looking sheep.

He let out a long snort as he stepped into apartment. "So, which one of you owns the giant robot?" He asked, glaring at Nick.

"Uh, excuse me?" Nick asked, confused. "We haven't done anything with our giant robots in a week."

The sheep quickly snapped forwards, grabbing nick by his neck and dragging him towards the window. The landlord flicked it open, and then shoved the fox's head out.

His eyes widened as he caught a glimpse of a large red thing standing out in the street. Cars were honking as the robot, on all fours, seemed to plod around carefully, actively not trying to step on any of them.

"What the-?" The fox said, before the sheep quickly dragged him back inside.

"Giant fox robot, fox superhero." The sheep said. "I've been getting complaints about that thing all morning, so you better find a way to get rid of it SOON!"

The sheep quickly stormed out of the apartment. Judy turned to give a confused look to Nick. "What the hell is happening, Nick?" She asked.

"Well, uh…" He said, rubbing the back of his neck. "Somehow, ZooKitsune managed to show up without me doing anything. And it's currently outside and standing in the middle of the street."

She glared at him for a moment. "Seriously?" She said, flatly. "We have to go to work in an hour, we can't be dealing with this right now."

"Well, if we don't do something… we probably won't have a roof over our head anymore." The fox said. The rabbit let out a sigh.

A few moments later, the two were dressed in their uniforms and standing out in the middle of the street. The massive robotic fox took up nearly the entire width of the road and was blocking a number of cars. Thankfully, it had seemed like no one had gotten hurt during all of this. It had quickly noticed the two and was looking down intently at them.

"So, any ideas?" Nick asked.

"Yeah, its your giant robot, you deal with it." She said, a bit smug.

The fox wasn't sure what he expected.

He stepped forwards and looked up at the massive machine, directly into its glowing eyes. "HEY!" Nick shouted up. The fox mech quickly lowered its head to the ground, glaring at Nick, and nearly touching him with its massive metallic nose.

"Uh…" The fox let out, nervously. "Can you go back to wherever you came from now?" He asked.

The fox robot simply bumped its nose directly into the fox, knocking him to the ground. He quickly got back up. "No, seriously, I need you to go away for a bit!" Nick continued. "We can't deal with this kind of stuff right now, alright?"

The fox mech tilted its head, obviously confused. Nick let out a sigh. "Alright, this isn't working."

"Good job, hustler." Judy said, sarcastically. "But we do need to at least get him off the road before we head out."

"You hear that?" Nick shouted. "We need you to GET. OFF. THE ROAD." The fox mech glared at him for a moment, before Nick quickly pointed over to an alleyway across the street. It was probably JUST large enough to keep the robot out of the way.

It seemed to understand the motion at least… though it took him pointing at the alleyway a few more times for it to register. The robot slowly backed into the alley, its body scraping against the sides of the buildings, before it laid down, head resting on its robotic paws.

The fox let out a sigh of relief. "Alright, that's going to be a pain." He groaned, rubbing at his temples. "Not like we already don't have enough to worry about…"

"Speaking of," Judy started. "Rollcall is in thirty minutes."

"Right, we should probably get going." Nick said. It was around a 20-minute drive to the station, so they didn't have a whole lot of time left. The fox just hoped that ZooKitsune wouldn't do anything stupid while they were at work.

As the two headed off, the giant mechanical fox looked on. It quickly stood up as they rounded a corner, and then started to plod along, following them.

---

"Hah, look at all the loot we've gotten!" Sambash gloated as he lifted up a pile of gemstones in each of his hands.

"Its great, boss!" Tagredor said, attempting to grab one of the jewels himself. Torbador quickly slapped his hand, stopping him.

"How much more do we need for the Big Finish?" Torbador then asked. "You have a massive pile back in your quarters already, boss."

"Honestly, I don't know how many we need." Sambash said, dropping the gems, and then placing his foot on the table. "But I will still need a lot of them, and we ARE pirates, right? This is kinda our thing. Besides, need to keep the boss happy somehow."

The two monsters nodded along. However, all three were unaware as Enter walked into the room, the floating skull of Savage following behind him.

"Is he gloating about his stupid gems again?" Savage said. "I thought you got enough gems for him."

"Greed is a confusing emotion." Enter said with a sigh. "Once you have something, you never have enough of it."

"Hey, I have ears you know!" Sambash shouted over, only turning his head slightly. "I know this looks like a helmet, but it isn't."

Enter smirked as he walked farther into the room, right up next to Sambash. He felts at some of the jewels, picking up an especially red one. "Why, exactly, are you collecting these things?" The android asked. "They're cluttering the base, and you've done nothing but steal them for the last few outings."

"I have my reasons." Sambash said, removing his leg from the table. "I'm calling it 'Operation: Big Finish'."

"Ooh, an operation name, fancy." Savage joked.

"Color me interested." Enter said, dropping the gem back to the table. "What exactly is this… Big Finish?"

"Oh, its gonna be great!" Tagredor said. "We're going to go under the city, and then use the gems to reviv-"

Sambash quickly pulled out his gun and shot at Tagredor. The bullet bounced off of him but had enough impact to knock the stag beetle to the ground. The bullet quickly flew into a large lump in the wall, causing a small crack.

"Its. A. Surprise." Sambash said, glaring at the monster as his brother helped him back up. "And it's gonna be a good one, trust me."

"Secrets, secrets, secrets," Savage started. "No one trusts each other here, huh?"

Enter looked at the skull for a moment. "Well, I have some business to attend to." Enter said. "I'll let you and your material gems be for now."

"Love you too, chiphead." Sambash retorted. He looked over at the beetle monsters, and then slammed his fist down on the table. "Alright, today's the last heist." He said. "We have a pretty big one, we're going to be stealing the La Runa amber from the natural history museum."

"That sounds important!" Tagredor said, enthusiastically.

"It's the largest pure piece of amber ever found in this universe." Sambash said. "If we steal it, we'll have the ultimate conductor for our plan."

"How can a stone play music?" The stag beetle asked. His brother quickly whapped him in the face.

"You idiot, he means an energy conductor." Torbador corrected. "We'll need it to harness the energy we'll need."

"Hornhead's got it right." Sambash said. "This is the key part of the operation. Unfortunately, the place is pretty heavily guarded."

"Can't we just smash them?" Tagredor asked.

"Yeah, but not without getting attention." Sambash said. "And we already have enough of that. If the Zoorangers figure out what we're doing before we pull this off, we'll be in a hell of a lot of trouble."

"So, we're gonna rob the place tonight, when no one is around, right?" Torbador asked

"Got it." Sambash said, pointing at the monster. "So, just a few hours left until we take the gem…"

"And turn this city to dust."

---

While the two hadn't missed rollcall, they were immediately sent to Bogo's office for a brief chat. Nick sat in his chair, a bit impatient, and flicking his tail back and forth rapidly.

"We should be out there trying to find those crooks." He said, frustrated. "Why does Bogo even need to see us?"

"He probably wants to know our progress on the case." Judy replied. "I'm a bit nervous too, Nick, but don't worry about it too much."

He grunted in response.

The door slammed open, as Bogo walked into the office. He silently walked to his seat, and then sat down, glaring at the two officers. There was an awkward silence for a moment.

"I see you two haven't made much progress in the last few days." Bogo said. "A bunch of monster thieves go around stealing jewels, and you two, expert monster hunters, can't seem to get them."

"It's a bit more complex than that, sir." Judy started. "Last time we had to deal with something like this, the monster wasn't that strong…"

"Now we're dealing with two body-building bugs and a general." Nick finished. "This isn't exactly something we can deal with that quickly, especially when you put Wolford on another case…"

"Well, luckily for you, Wolford has been taken off that case for the moment." Bogo said. "I had expected you to do this yourself, but it looks like you'll need help, like always."

"We'll deal with them the next time they attack, we swear." Judy said, standing up on her seat. "If we have everyone on our side, it'll be easy."

"Yes, probably." Bogo said. "But, there's another thing that I need to talk to you two about."

"And that would be…?" Judy said, before glancing at Nick. Both of them were confused and a bit worried, because they had absolutely no idea what Bogo was going to bring up.

The buffalo took a deep breath. "The next time you want to bring your giant robot here, don't." He said, trying to hide his anger, and not very well at that.

"What?" The both of them let out, even more confused.

A moment later, and the two were back in the lobby, running to the door. As soon as they stepped outside, they saw the giant fox mech, sitting in the parking lot. Judy's ears drooped down, while the fox just let out another sigh.

He stepped towards the robot and let out a yell. "BAD!" He shouted. "BAD GIANT ROBOT!"

The mech's ears drooped down at this.

"What are we supposed to do with him?" Judy asked. "Hunting down Sambash is important, but if we don't find a way to get ZooKitsune somewhere out of the way, then we'll be in even more trouble."

Nick let out a groan. "Try to see if Bogo can let us go home and try to figure all this out." He asked.

"Good idea, having our own space will probably help." The rabbit said, before rushing off back into the station.

Nick looked back up at the mech, its ears still drooping. "What's going on with you?" He asked. "How did you even show up? I haven't even touched my Zoolizer since last night." He briefly looked at the device on his wrist, checking to see if there was anything in the slot, but there obviously wasn't.

The fox thought for a moment. "Hm, maybe I can try this…" He said, pulling out the red ZooTag. He quickly plugged it into the Zoolizer.

"TONDEMONAI!"

"Of course."

---

"Alright, Saya, think." The pink figure said, tapping on her helmet. "How hard is it to find a three-story tall space cat?" Apparently, the answer to her question was "very hard".

She had been searching all over the city for a hint of her partner, but she couldn't find anything. She had snuck around on the rooftops in order to avoid being seen, didn't want to cause too much of a fuss, though there probably would have already been a fuss if Gingat had somehow ended up in the city.

The Ranger was standing on top of a building at the moment, in fact. She had decided to take a break for a short bit, and sat down on the flat roof, legs crossed. It had been around seven or so hours since she had gotten there, and all she had done was search, resting for a bit wouldn't be a bad idea.

She sat there for a moment, before being startled by something.

"Hello!" A cheery voice said from behind her. She quickly sprung to her feet with cat-like reflexes and turned to face the voice.

It was a small wildcat, wearing a white and black dress. Not a nominally strange character… aside from the fact that her fur was entirely pink, and her eyes a piercing yellow-orange. Saya hadn't been there for that long, so this could have been a fashion statement, but it did remind her of something. Though, this was still definitely strange.

"Who are you?" She asked, politely. "And, uh, how did you get up here?"

"I don't know!" The wildcat said, presumably responding to the second question.

There was a bit of awkward silence for a moment. "You don't look like everyone else here." The wildcat said.

"I'm, uh, not from around town." Saya said.

"Oh." The cat responded, disappointed. "Then you can't help me find help?"

"Help?" Saya responded, a bit shocked. "What do you need help with?"

"Well, I think I'm supposed to be meeting someone somewhere…" The wildcat said, crossing her arms. "But I can't remember where."

"Oh, well…" The Ranger started. "I don't really know if I can help you there. Have you tried going to the police?"

"Police?" The cat said, ears popping up. "That sounds familiar…"

"I have directions to the station." Saya continued, pulling out a slip of paper. "I don't really know if I'll need them, so maybe you can take it?"

"Ooh, that'd be nice!" The cat said, clapping her paws together. Saya kneeled down and handed the paper to the cat. Written on it were several different street names, and directions to follow.

"Think you can get there yourself?" Saya asked. The cat nodded in response. "Alright, let's get you down from here."

The Ranger lifted the cat into the air, and then jumped down to the ground. She placed the cat back on the ground. "Oh, by the way," Saya started. "You wouldn't have happened to see a, say, giant cat walking around? Giant sized, maybe mechanical?"

The cat thought for a moment. "I saw a big thing like that walking around earlier." She tilted her head. "Are there a lot of those? Did you lose yours?"

"I... I did, yes." Saya answered. "Thank you for your help, I'll look around for her."

There was another awkward silence as the cat simply looked up at Saya, and then squinted. "I feel like I know something about you." She said, cryptically.

Now it was starting to get a bit creepy.

"Well, uh, you remind me of someone I know, too." She replied. "I'll tell her about it when I find her."

"Alright!" The cat said. "Hope you find your big robot friend!" She said, before running off.

That was certainly strange. Everything going on was strange, but the way the cat had acted, and suddenly appeared… It was just very strange, and a tad uncomfortable.

"I should just get going." She said, rubbing the side of her helmet. She then quickly leaped off.

---

"So, finally off that cheese case?" Emily joked as she elbowed the wolf right in the ribs. Her, Henry, and Max were all in the break room, with the wolf in the middle of pouring some coffee.

"Yeah, thank god for that." Max said. "I get they needed my nose, but I don't know if I'll be smelling anything BESIDES cheese for the next week…"

"Why would an otter even want to steal cheese?" Henry asked from the couch. "That's just nonsense."

"Yeah that's just stupid." Emily said as she grabbed the coffee pot and poured her own cup. She took a slow sip. "So, uh, how's everything been going?"

"Alright, I guess." Max replied. "Haven't really gotten much done lately besides work, though."

"Anything else that's been going on?" She followed. "You know, with you and Delgato?"

"Ohh, I get it." Max said, a bit unamused. "No, we haven't gotten that far, its just been short dates, you know."

"What? No, idiot." Emily snapped. "I was just wondering how your dates have gone."

"OH." Max said, ears popping up. He quickly gulped some of his coffee down. "They've been going alright, we've already been partners on the force for a while, so we know each other pretty well."

There was silence for a quick moment.

"I'm glad everyone's been taking this so well." The wolf said. "I was really worried about coming out…"

"You're our friend, man." The hyena said. "Just because you're gay doesn't change that."

"Bi." Max corrected. "I'm bi."

"Same difference."

Henry quickly got up off the sofa. "You think those two got rid of the giant fox mech yet?" He asked.

"Hopefully." Emily said. "Nobody's been able to get out of the parking lot all day because of that thing."

"Hey, don't be too mean to it." Max said. "There's probably something going on, its one of those weekly plot things."

The two looked at him.

"You're looking at me like weird stuff doesn't happen on a weekly basis."

A short while later, the three exited the break room, and started chatting as they walked to the lobby. "So, you guys are stuck on patrol for the rest of the day?" Max asked.

"Yeah, it kinda sucks." Emily said. "Wish we could and do something exciting."

"Maybe it's a good thing to have downtime for a while." Henry replied. "Don't want to get too overworked."

The three soon entered the lobby, and as they passed Clawhauser's desk, he shouted to them. "Hey, guys!" He said. The three turned to him.

"Is this about another concert?" Max asked.

"No, this is about an assignment." The cheetah said. "A few minutes ago, someone came in asking for help, but they were a bit weird. I asked Bogo what to do, and he said you three were the only ones who were free that have experience with weird."

"I mean, that's fair enough." Max said.

The three quickly headed to the witness room. Inside was sat a wildcat, with pink fur and gleaming yellow eyes. "Oh, hello!" She said as they entered. "Are you going to help me?"

"Uh, yeah, we guess?" Emily said, shrugging.

The three sat down at a table across from the wildcat. She started to explain her problem to them.

"So, I'm supposed to be finding someone somewhere in the city, but I don't know where or who." She said.

"Why did you plan a meeting with someone you don't know?" Max asked. The wildcat shrugged.

"I can't really remember anything." She said. "I woke up in a field, and just knew that I had to find someone. But other than that, I don't know anything else."

The three quickly glanced at each other. This was definitely an odd case, and that wasn't even including the cat's rather odd choice of furdye. "Uh, it's a bit hard to help when we don't know anything else." Max said. "Can you at least give us your name?"

"I don't know my name." The wildcat said.

"Of course she doesn't." Emily sighed, placing her paw on her forehead in frustration.

"Well, there goes checking the files." Max muttered.

"We could always try to get a DNA test, figure all this out from that." Henry suggested.

"Good idea." Max said, before looking at the cat. "Mind if we take some of your fur?"

Emily quickly slapped the wolf on the back of the head. "Idiota, do you know how long a DNA test takes?" She said. "If she needs to meet with someone, this is urgent! A DNA test takes a day and a half here!"

"So, what are you suggesting we do?" Max asked.

"Well, if she has amnesia, we can just take her around the city." She said. "Something might jog her memory. Hopefully."

"We don't have anything else to go on, so…" The wolf started shrugging. "You mind going on a tour of the city with us, Kat?"

"'Kat'?" Everyone else in the room said, either confused or surprised.

"Well, we need something to call her." Max said. "It seems appropriate enough. Besides, she kind of reminds me of someone from TV."

Emily let out another sigh.

---

The fox and rabbit had shortly returned to their apartment after the events at the station, and quickly hunkered down to come up with a plan to deal with both their problems at once.

Or more specifically, Judy was trying to solve the theft problem, Nick was trying to solve the giant robot problem.

"Got anything yet, Carrots?" Nick asked from the window as the rabbit paced around the living room.

"Its hard to come up with a plan when you don't have any details." The rabbit said, frustrated. "I just need some kind of clue to where Sambash and his creepy crawly goons are going to attack next."

She looked over at Nick, who was, in turn, looking out the window. She quickly walked over, and stared at the fox mech across the street, laying down in the alleyway.

"I feel like there's something going on with all this." Nick said, calmly, albeit sounding a bit sad. He turned to look at the rabbit. "That doesn't sound weird, does it?"

"After all we've been through, I know this has to mean something." Judy replied. There was a brief pause as the two looked out at the robot again. "Here's an idea," She started. "How about I do some research on precious gems, and you go out and try to, I dunno, talk with ZooKitsune somehow?"

"You know how unlikely that is to work?" Nick said.

"Better than you just standing here sulking."

"Fair enough."

Nick quickly headed out, putting on a coat for the cold weather. Judy plopped herself on the couch and pulled out her phone, flicking through as many articles she could find about recent gemstone discoveries.

The fox crossed the street, and walked up to the massive, eye-catching mech. Its mechanical front paws were roughly twice the size of his own body, and it towered above him, even while laying down. He hadn't really seen the fox mech since their earliest days of being superheroes.

"Hey, bud." The fox said gently, placing his paw on ZooKitsune's. "Sorry for yelling at you earlier."

The mech let out a snort through its large nose, which was visible as giant clouds of smoke. Nick quickly climbed his way up the paw, and then sat down on the hard surface.

"I wasn't trying to be mean, I was just frustrated. I just want to know what's going on." He said. "Why you just… showed up out of nowhere."

The fox mech slid its head across the ground and shot a glowing stare at the fox. It opened its mouth, letting out a metallic growl.

"No need to go there." Nick said. "I'm just trying to be friendly, alright? I don't mean that I want you to go away forever, but… I don't know how to put this right, I just want you to go back to wherever you go when we don't summon you."

The fox mech continued to glare at him, making the real fox a bit uncomfortable. "Or, just stay here until we figure out HOW to do that?" Nick quickly followed. "Not trying to be rude, don't worry."

It growled again, and Nick simply shrugged in response. "I wish you and I could talk, directly." He said with a sigh. "That would make this a lot simpler, huh?" The fox's ears jolted up. "That's it, isn't it?"

The fox mech's ears jolted up as well.

"You want to tell me something, right?" Nick said, getting a bit excited. "There's… something important that you need to tell me, but… language barriers."

The fox quickly hopped off the mech's paw as it sat up, and quickly nodded its head. "Then I just need to figure out how to do that!" Nick said, enthusiastic. His enthusiasm quickly faltered. "Uh, but I have no idea where to start looking, or what to do, so that's a problem."

The fox mech laid back down, zooming down at a pace fast enough to cause a small earthquake.

"NICK!" A voice shouted from across the street. The fox looked up, seeing Judy at the window. "I FOUND SOMETHING!"

"That's my que." Nick said. He placed a paw on the mech. "Don't worry, we'll figure something out soon enough."

ZooKitsune let out a small whimper in response.

Nick quickly rushed over to the building, and into the apartment. "Have a nice chat with your robo-fox?" Judy asked as the fox walked in.

"I think I figured something out." He said. "ZooKitsune wants to tell me something important, but he can't because he can't talk."

"So, we need to find a way to get you and him to talk." Judy said, flatly. "Uh huh. Let's focus on something a bit more manageable, first."

"You found something important?" Nick asked, as he walked over to the rabbit.

She pulled out her phone, which was displaying an article called "Massive Piece of Amber Unearthed! Largest in History!"

"This piece of amber is almost two tons, and guess where its being displayed?" Judy asked.

"Uh, Natural History Museum in this very city?"

"Bingo." She replied. "I don't know if he'll be going after it soon, but he WILL go for it at some point."

"So that's his plan." Nick said, pounding his fist into his paw. "He wants to revive the dinosaurs."

Judy opened her mouth to reply, but it hung there for a second. "You know, as far as we know, that's entirely accurate."

"Just joking around, Carrots." He said. "So, we're gonna go and guard the museum until something happens?"

"Yeah, as much as I really hate that place." The rabbit said through gritted teeth. "Seriously, how many terrible things have happened to us at that place? It's crazy!"

"How many ancient evil artifacts are there too, right?" Nick followed up, with a chuckle.

"Technically there was only one, but I get what you mean." Judy sighed. "I'll phone up the others and tell them to meet us there. You go get the cruiser ready."

"Got it, chief." The fox jokingly said, with a faux-salute. He quickly headed for the door.

"Oh, one more thing!" The rabbit said in the middle of dialing.

"Yes?"

"Can you try to get ZooKitsune to STAY here this time?"

---

"You remember anything yet, Kat?" Max asked the wildcat. The four were walking around the city at random, hoping for anything to jog the cat's memory. The city was large enough, and she had to have come from somewhere. Right now, they were in the middle of the shopping district.

"Not really." Kat said, bluntly.

"You know this cat, sir?" Emily asked a nearby passing moose. She pointed towards Kat, hoping for something.

"Uh, nope, never seen anything like her in my life." The moose said. "With that fur color, I would've remembered."

Emily let out a sigh as she met with the other three. "That's about seventy people asked this far." She said. "And nothing, only comments about her fur."

"The city has a population of over three million, Em, of course we're not getting anything from just seventy mammals." Henry said, a bit annoyed.

"She hasn't remembered anything from looking around, either." Max followed. "I feel like we should've gotten anything by now…"

"I don't really like this place." Kat said. "Its too crowded, too big."

"Looks like she isn't taking to the city very well." Henry replied. He quickly raised an eyebrow. "Hey, how about we take her to the forest park? She might be more at home there."

"Are you really sure that will work?" Emily said.

"Forest?" Kat quickly said, interrupting the hyena. She seemed to be excited by the word alone. "That sounds like a fun place!"

"Okay, maybe it will." The hyena said with a shrug.

Soon after, the three were back in the police cruiser, and driving over to the heavily forested park. It was a park that was kept completely natural and preserved, thanks to the fact it helped as both a calming area for certain types of mammals, and a marketable tourist trap.

Emily and Kat were sitting in the back seat of the car. "You sure you don't remember anything?" She asked the wildcat.

"Nope." She said. Emily sighed in response. "Well, actually, there was something."

Everyone's ears popped up, prepared to hear what the cat was going to say.

"I remember a train." She said. "And I remember getting off a train. That's it."

Everyone's ears dropped down in slight disappointment. "So, you remember what a train is," The bull started. "But not what a forest is?"

"Yep!"

"Well, if definitely means she came from out of town." Max said. "We just don't know WHERE she comes from, which… doesn't help."

"Do you at least know what the train looked like?" Emily asked, hopeful.

"It was…" The cat paused for a moment as she put her claw to her chin. "Very dark".

"Okay, that's not helping." Emily said.

Eventually the four arrived just outside the forested park. "WOW!" Kat shouted, looking up at the tall trees. "They're so BIG! I wish I was that big."

They headed into the forest and took in the relaxing atmosphere of the place. "I should come here more often." Max said as he sat down on the grass. "It makes me feel like I'm at home."

"I prefer more open spaces." Emily said, clearly a bit uncomfortable.

"I like places I can actually walk around in without bumping into anything." Henry said, his horns barely touching two trees next to him.

"I LOVE THIS PLACE!" Kat said as she zipped around the forest rapidly, destroying the calm. "It reminds me of my home!"

"Home?" Max said, quickly jolting to his feet. "You remember your home?"

"Uh." The cat said, pausing. "Kinda? It's a bit fuzzy, but it looks like… this place." She said. "Except there's more mountains."

"Interesting." Henry said. "That doesn't really match up with anywhere near us."

"You must come from pretty far away, huh?" Max said to the cat. "You remember anything else?"

"I remember…" She started, closing her eyes. "I remember darkness, and then bright lights. Little ones all around me. And my friends were there, and then…" Her eyes popped open, and she looked around. "That's it."

"Your friends?" Emily asked, kneeling down. "Do you remember anything about them?"

"There was… a lion, and a wolf, and… two others." She said. "Its all a blur, but I feel like something's… super duper wrong."

"That's both vague and very bad sounding." Max said. "You guys think there might be something weirder than we thought going on here?"

"When is it ever NOT weirder than we expect?" Emily said.

Max's phone started to buzz. He quickly flicked it on and answered the call. "Hey, Max, how's it going?" Judy said from the other side. "You busy right now?"

"Well, yeah, Emily, Henry and I are pretty busy with a case-"

"Oh, all three of you are there?" She said. "Saves me a few calls. What case are you on? This isn't related to the cheese thing, is it?"

"No, we'll go over what's happening later." Max said. "Why are you calling, anyway?"

"Well, I thiiink that I figured out where Sambash and his monsters are planning on attacking next… or soon." She explained. "Think you can give the case a break and come over to the natural history museum?"

"Uh, yeah, sure." Max said with a shrug. "We might take a bit, but, you know, we'll be there."

"Great!" Judy said. "See you soon!"

She hung up, and the wolf looked at the other mammals. "You know, I was kind of hoping we'd get to keep NOT fighting monsters for a bit." Emily said, bluntly.

"Well, we're a team, she's our leader…" Max said. "Let's head back to the car, I'll drop Kat off at my place and we can head off."

"Ooh, what's your place like?" Kat asked excitedly as they headed towards the park's exit, clapping her paws together.

"Probably not a place you'll like." Max said. "But I need to ask you one thing."

"Please don't touch any of my toys."

---

"Alright, just got done talking with the curator." Judy said as she stepped out of the museum. "He says its better if we wait out here and not disturb any visitors."

"Yeah, lot of visitors." Nick said sarcastically, as he sat on the steps. The rabbit walked over and hovered over him. His ears were flat, meaning he wasn't in the best of moods.

"Guessing you're thinking about something?" She asked.

"Yeah, just about ZooKitsune, how we're going to talk to him…"

"So, you were actually serious about wanting to talk to ZooKitsune?" Judy said in disbelief.

"I am absolutely serious, yes." The fox said, crossing his arms. "I mean, we don't really have anything else to go on right now, so it's a better theory than… nothing."

"I mean, yeah, but…" She paused for a moment. "Usually I'm the one who comes up with ideas like that."

"Yeah, weird slash bad ideas are usually your thing." Nick said, causing the rabbit to roll her eyes. "But, I dunno, I felt a connection with that big guy. Might just be my imagination, but I feel like he wants to talk to me."

"He is your robot, Nick." Judy said. "Obviously you have some sort of emotional connection. You also have bigger emotional blocks than I do, so maybe that has something to do with it?"

"You think it might be worried about me?" Nick asked with a chuckle. "Why would it be worried? There's nothing bad going on right now. Aside from, you know, the obvious criminal issue."

"Mmmm hmmmm, suuuuure." Judy said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" The fox let out, but he was quickly interrupted by a car horn. The two looked up to see a police cruiser, with max in the driver's seat. He waved out the window, before him and the SPD officers got out of the car.

"That was quick." Judy said.

"Police sirens help a lot." Max said. "Cut out a lot of traffic issues."

"Isn't that misconduct, or something?" Nick asked.

"Technically it is police business so… I guess not." Judy said, though she was stretching a bit. "Everyone better get ready; the monsters could be showing up soon."

A few hours passed, and the sun was starting to come down. All of the museum workers had left, and the moon was already high in the star filled sky. All five of them were bored out of their minds.

"Looks like this idea was a bust." Emily said as she got up from the steps. "And my phone's almost dead, so we better get going…"

"Just give me a bit longer, alright?" Judy said. "They're thieves, they'd steal from here at night, that's what makes sense."

"That's an understandable point," Henry started as he got up as well. "But its already nine-thirty, and we STILL have work tomorrow."

"Yeah, and I kind of have a guest over at my house." Max said, getting a bit antsy. "It's been a while, and I should probably check in…"

"We were out chasing those three until two in the morning." Nick said. "Now you get to know how we've felt the last few days."

"Oh, what feeling is that?" Laughed a sinister voice. "Lots of pain? Disappointment and anger?"

The five quickly turned to the museum's entrance way. Standing there was Sambash and his two beetle cronies, flanking him on both sides.

"Hah, I was right!" Judy said, leaping to her feet. "I knew you'd come here to steal that amber, Sambash!"

"So, what?" The biker monster said with a chuckle. "We'll just squash you and bust into the place no problem!"

"Not if we have anything to say about it!" Nick said. The five quickly transformed and prepared their weapons.

"Torbador, Tagredor, crush them." Sambash ordered.

"Got it, boss!" The stag beetle said, pounding at its chest. The rhino beetle just gave an affirmative grunt, and the two rushed towards the Zoorangers.

Blue and Red leaped in first, Blue heading for Torbador and Red going for Tagredor. The rabbit leaped up and delivered a quick kick to the rhino beetle monster, causing it to stumble back, but it then fired a laser from its horn, knocking her back Red kept his distance from the stag beetle monster, and fired a few blasts from the Vickscannon. The blasts hit the monster, but it barely stopped it as it rushed forwards and scooped the fox into a crushing bear hug.

Silver, Green, and Pink leaped in next, Silver quickly dashing past both of the monsters and slashing at them with his blade. This knocked Red from Tagredor's grasp and caused Torbador to stumble before he could follow up his attack on Blue. Green and Pink rapidly fired their blasters at the two monsters.

"That was pretty reckless!" Silver shouted at the fox and rabbit.

"Guess we just want to finish this." Red said as he pulled out his sword, leaped up, and slashed at Tagredor. The monster was sent stumbling back.

Torbador quickly turned towards Silver and let out a growl. "You'll pay for that, pipsqueak."

The beetle monster quickly fired out a barrage of lasers from its horn, directly in the wolf's direction. He quickly blocked a few with his blade, but a few exploded into sparks at his feet.

Pink quickly rushed at the rhino beetle, performing a thrusting kick to the monster's back. It stumbled forward, but still seemed to be barely hurt.

"Blue, help me with a follow up!" The hyena said. The rabbit quickly leaped over, and as the monster turned around, they both unleashed rapid laser fire onto it. The shots all connected, but it barely seemed to phase the massive beast.

"Probably not how you expected that to go, huh?" Blue said nervously as the monster started to stomp towards them.

"Yeah, I was expecting more… hurting." Emily answered. "Hell is this guy made of?"

"Beetles have very tough exoskeletons!" Silver shouted over. "You'll need to hit him with something tougher!" He quickly leaped off towards the recovering Tagredor.

The wolf quickly brought his blade down on the stag beetle, who let out a roar before backhanding him. Red quickly leaped back as Tagredor approached, but Green quickly ran in and smacked the monster with his cannon. This seemed to cause some actual damage, as the monster clutched at its face.

"Something tougher, huh?" Blue said, quickly pulling out a white ZooTag. She quickly plugged it in.

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

The large axe appeared in the rabbit's paws. She quickly tossed it up into the air, and then leaped up. She grabbed the handle, and then slammed it down on the rhino beetle monster, slicing directly through its middle. Smoke bellowed off of its body as it stumbled back, this time clearly in pain.

"God, you guys are losers." Sambash said as he walked into the fight. He quickly lifted his gun up and unloaded several shots in the directions of the Zoorangers, rapidly slapping the hammer to shoot as fast as possible.

The five quickly started to dodge the flying bullets, with Blue slamming her axe into the ground to use as a makeshift shield. Some of the bullets hit Tagredor and Torbador as well, causing them to bounce off their thick carapaces and fly around even more erratically.

Green stopped from his run, and then fired a large shot from his cannon at Sambash. The biker monster was struck by it directly, having been lost in his flurry of gun fire, and was knocked to the ground.

"Boss!" Tagredor shouted. Him and his brother quickly ran over to Sambash and helped him back up to his feet, but the biker monster shoved them away immediately after.

Sambash let out a growl, and then started to shoot even more rapidly. The two beetles joined in as well, firing lasers rapidly from their horns. The four other Zoorangers continued to scatter as bullets and lasers flew, while Blue hid behind her large weapon.

"Got any ideas?!" Red shouted at their leader as he leaped up to avoid a red laser.

"Give me a sec!" The rabbit replied, glancing around, trying to formulate a plan. She quickly got up, and then kicked her axe out of the ground, catching it as it came back down. "Got it! Everyone, over here!"

"I think getting in one place will just make us easier to shoot at!" Pink shouted, as a bullet flew by, barely missing her.

"That's just something we'll have to risk!" The rabbit shouted. The five quickly gathered directly across from the three monsters.

"The hell are you idiots doing?" Sambash questioned.

"Wish we knew that ourselves!" Red replied.

Blue quickly threw her axe up into the air. "When it comes back down, everyone shoot the axe!" She ordered, pulling out her blasters. The three of the four quickly prepared their guns, while Silver quickly fumbled to set his sword to Sun Mode.

"…What?" Sambash said, a bit surprised.

The axe fell back down a few feet in front of the Zoorangers. All five of them fired at it at once, the force of the blast causing it to launch forwards at incredible speeds. It zoomed past them, causing an explosion that launched the monsters forward.

"Somehow that worked!" Blue cheered, raising her fists up.

"You just got lucky!" Sambash growled as he and his monsters got back to their feet. "Tagredor, Torbador, show these meddlers your 'brotherly love'!"

The two monsters closed in on each other, and then pressed their fists together. Their horns started to glow, before energy crackled from them. It gathered at their fists, turning green. They then flung the energy ball towards the Zoorangers, who leaped out of the way as it hit the ground. The ground burst into a massive explosion, which still managed to scatter the Zoorangers.

A massive hole had been carved out by the energy ball, rubble strewn about around it. The five beaten Zoorangers struggled to get back up as Sambash and his goons headed towards the museum.

"Now if you chumps will excuse me," Sambash started as he walked past Blue. "I have a museum to rob."

"Hold it, Barban scum!"

The three monsters turned around and were suddenly pelted with a barrage of pink energy arrows. Blue quickly scrambled to her feet thanks to this distraction and dashed off to help her friends.

"Another goddamn nuisance!?" Sambash shouted as the smoke from the projectiles cleared up. He instantly froze as he saw who had fired them.

Standing a few meters away was another Sentai Ranger. She was female, definitely, wearing an almost entirely pink and white outfit. The midsection, gloves, and boots of her outfit were entirely white, with a black zigzag design at the cuffs of the gloves and boots, with the midsection having the design circle around it until petering off at the back and cover most of her body. Her sleeves, legs, and skirt were completely pink. There was also a pink stripe on the midsection, separating another white stripe which hosted a large V-shaped symbol in the middle.

Her helmet, however, had an oval shaped visor, and a feline-like face directly above that, marked with orange eyes. Two silver spikes jutted up off the sides of the helmet, stylized to look like ears. She also had a silver mouthpiece, and two silver bits off to the sides of the helmet. There was also a holster to her hip, which held a small dagger.

Sambash let out a snort, which then turned into a laugh. "You okay, boss?" Torbador asked, worried.

"I guess it was only a matter of time before one of them showed up." Sambash said, regaining himself. He lifted his head back up and glared directly at the Sentai Ranger. "So, you come here to stop me, Gingaman?"

"I took a sacred oath to fight against you pirate goons!" The pink Ranger shouted. She drew out a weapon, shaped like a bow and arrow with two metallic parts at the end, colored pink and yellow in the middle. She pulled back on the air, and then fired out a burst of energy arrows towards Sambash.

He quickly shot the arrows out of the sky. "Go get the amber." He ordered to his minions. "I'll deal with this pest."

The two beetles turned around, preparing to head into the museum, only to be met by the Zoorangers.

"Surpriiiiiise." Red let out, before all of them drew their weapons.

Sambash stepped forwards, ignoring the sounds of fighting suddenly coming from behind him. He raised his gun towards the ranger, who in turned prepped her bow.

"GingaPink, right?" He asked. "I remember you from back when. Not as much of a pain as your red friend, but still a pain."

GingaPink quickly drew her dagger, Sambash in turn aiming his gun at her. The two started to circle around each other, looking for an opening. "You gonna say anything?" Sambash asked, gun still pointed. "No snappy retorts? No insults? I gave you a perfectly good opening."

"I, uh…" She said, a bit nervously. Before she could finish, she rushed at the monster, who quickly unloaded fire on her. She swiped the bullets away with her dagger, before leaping up and slashing down on Sambash.

The biker monster quickly raised his gun, blocking the strike. "You what?" Sambash said, starting to get irritated.

"Honestly, I don't really remember you." GingaPink said. Sambash suddenly froze at this. Seeing the opportunity, the pink Ranger quickly swatted the gun out of his hand and slashed at him several times.

Sambash stumbled back from the strikes, but simply seemed stunned. "How can you NOT remember me?" Sambash growled. "You remember my name at least, right?"

"San-Something, right?" GingaPink guessed. "Its been twenty years, a lot of things have happened between then and now."

The biker monster clutched his fists together as he started to let out an angry yell. "Your kind ruined my life multiple times over, and you just forget it!?" He screamed, utterly furious. It was a bit startling to everyone around.

The Zoorangers, who were in the middle of combat with the two larger monsters, had stopped fighting. In fact, the monsters themselves were taken aback by their normally relaxed boss suddenly bursting into a rage.

Torbador, who had his grip locked around the neck of Green, let go, and headed over to Sambash. Tagredor, who was in the midst of blocking sword swipes from Red and Silver, pushed the two aside and headed over as well.

"Boss, think about your blood pressure!" Torbador yelled, worried.

"I'll kill you all!" Sambash screamed again. "I'll make sure you remember my name during your dying breath!"

The two beetle monsters gripped onto their boss' shoulders. "Hold on, Boss!" Tagredor said. "If you go in like this, you'll get killed again!"

"GRAHHH"

"What in the world is going on?" Blue asked as the Zoorangers regrouped. They watched as GingaPink stared on, confused, as the monsters tried to hold back their leader.

"I dunno, maybe she insulted his outfit." Red joked.

Sambash broke free of the two monsters' grasp, and then rushed at GingaPink. He attempted to throw a punch at her, but he stumbled as she stepped out of the way.

"Seriously?" She said. "You could at least send Tagredor and Torbador at me."

Sambash let out a laugh. "You… remember THEM!?" He shouted. "YOU REMEMBER THEM!?"

Without warning, Sambash suddenly pulled two guns out of nowhere, and spun around. He rapidly fired at GingaPink, causing her to fly back. He then turned to the Zoorangers and prepared to unload on them.

The monster was suddenly knocked from his trance as the ground began to shake.

"What the-?"

"Oh no…" Red let out, slapping his paw against his helmet.

ZooKitsune suddenly jumped up over a building, and then crashed down in front of the museum. It glared down at Sambash, who stood there, paralyzed. It let out a roar, and then sent him flying into the museum's wall with a swat of its metallic paw.

"BOSS!" Tagredor shouted as the two beetle monsters rushed over. They quickly grabbed him from the rubble, Tagredor lifting him up onto his shoulder.

Torbador turned to the Rangers. "Your pet might have stopped Boss' plan right now, but we'll be back, even stronger than before!" The two then leaped up into the air, their backs unfolding into wings, as they took off into the sky.

"Well, that was something." Max said as they untransformed.

Judy quickly rushed over to the injured GingaPink. "Are you alright, ma'am?" She asked as she tried to help her up.

"I'm fine." GingaPink said, though with a pained groan. "I've taken worse hits than that."

A moment later, the five had helped GingaPink over to the steps of the museum. "So, you're another one of those guys from the other universe?" Emily asked.

"Yeah, I am." GingaPink said, glancing at all of them. "My name is Saya."

"You can fill us in about whatever your team did back at our apartment." Nick said.

"Alright, then lets get going-" Saya tried to say as she got up. She let out a grunt before falling back to the step. "Maybe he got me worse than I thought…"

"Max, Henry," Judy started, turning to the two. "Help us bring Saya over to ZooKitsune, we can ride back to the apartment on him."

"Actually," Max started, rubbing the back of his neck. "As much as I would love to, and I would, I kind of have a, uh, 'case' going on back at my house."

"You're the last guy I'd expect to make up an excuse to miss this." Nick said.

"It's not an excuse." Henry said. "We had to drop off a, uh… character, at Max's house before we came here."

"I'll help carry her." Emily said. "Let Max go back to his house and deal with what he needs to."

Max started to run back to his car, but quickly turned around for a moment. "I'll see you later, Pink Ranger!" He shouted.

"That wolf seems a bit odd." Saya said.

"He's a really big fan of your work." Nick followed.

---

A short while later, the five had arrived back at the apartment. Saya was sitting on the couch next to Judy, relaxing in order to help the pain go away. "Thank you for your hospitality." She said to the rabbit.

"Helping others is what we do." Judy replied.

"And fight monsters." Nick said from the kitchen. "We also do that."

The pink ranger let out a laugh. "All this is making me feel a bit… nostalgic." She said. "Its been years since I had to do this."

"What was your team like?" Emily asked as she leaned over the couch. "You look like you kinda had an animal motif, goin' by the helmet."

"Star Beast Sentai, Gingaman." She said. "That was our team name. We came from a civilization hidden from the rest of our world and were sworn to a family oath to protect the planet from the space pirate crew Barban. Just as our ancestors had done eons ago." She continued. "We used our elemental magic to defeat them, along with help from our Star Beasts, giant mythical animals from space.

"Whoa, whoa." Nick said as he walked back into the living room, holding a cup of coffee. "So, your world has killer robots, ninjas, alternate dimensions, mystic kung-fu, demons, magical hidden villages, AND space animals? Are you all sure you even come from the same place, because all of this seems very incongruent."

"Nick has a point." Henry said. "From everything I've heard, a lot of your world doesn't seem to match up with what others have said about it."

"I'm pretty sure it's the same world?" Saya said, tilting her head, as if she wasn't sure of it herself. "I mean, I met at least a few of the other teams you guys have met, back when we saved the world from those aliens…"

"Of course." Nick said, before sipping some of his coffee.

"You had to leave your home and go into a world you didn't recognize in order to help it?" Judy asked. "Sounds a bit similar to everything going on recently."

Saya nodded. "In a way, yeah." She said. "But that's what being a hero is about, protecting lives no matter how much they know them."

The rabbit nodded in response and fell quiet for a moment. "So, uh, you were saying something about space animals?"

"Oh, right!" Saya said. "The Star Beasts were incredible, and some of our best friends…" Saya froze for a moment, before getting back to her feet. "Oh no, I completely forgot!"

"Forgot about what?" Emily asked.

"When I came here, I brought my Star Beast, Gingat, with me." She started to explain. "But when I got here, she… vanished."

"We've handled missing mammals before." Judy said. "We can probably find her with enough effort."

"Well, you'd think that, considering she's several stories tall." Saya said. "Actually, they were our giant robot, they could shift between organic and robotic forms."

"Wait, the Star Beasts are giant robots?!" Nick said, surprised. "That just brings up MORE questions."

"Yeah, like 'how did you lose a giant cat'?" Emily followed.

"Like I said, she disappeared." Saya reiterated. "And if we don't find her… I'm afraid that something bad will happen."

Judy quickly hopped off the couch. "I know one bad thing that will happen if we don't find Gingat," She started. "We won't get the next mech upgrade, which will in turn lead to us likely losing the giant monster fight and the city being destroyed."

"That's a problem, yeah." Nick said. He quickly fell silent, and then looked over at the rabbit. "Do you think that has anything to do with…?"

"Oh, maybe." Judy said.

"What are you talking about?" Saya asked.

"Well, ever since this morning, we've been having a bit of trouble with one of our own robots." Judy explained. "The one that helped us get you back here, it hasn't really wanted to… leave."

"That's definitely a bit strange." Saya said, before thinking for a moment. "Has Nick tried talking to it?"

"I have, but it's a robot." He said. "It can't exactly talk back to me."

"Hmm…" Saya said, placing her gloved hand to her chin. "If its behaving like this, then it isn't entirely robotic, at least not emotionally. Our Star Beasts were partly robotic, but they could think and feel like us too."

"That's a decent point." Henry said. "If it were completely a machine, then it wouldn't have shown up."

"So, probably something weird going on." Emily said with a shrug.

"This is just great." Nick said with a disgruntled sigh. "We got robbers to deal with, a rogue robot, and a missing space cat. How are we supposed to juggle all that at once?"

"Well, at the very least, the monsters probably won't be doing anything until Sambash calms down…" Judy started, before being interrupted.

"Sambash, that was it!" Saya shouted. "I had it on the tip of my tongue!"

"Uh, well, I say we can handle things until the next attack." The rabbit continued. "We just need to split things up a bit. I'll stay here and keep on alert, Nick can go and try to talk to ZooKitsune, and then Em, Henry, and Saya can go and track down Gingat."

"Oh, so you're going to stay here and relax while all of us go and do important things." Nick said, sarcastically.

"I'm going to call into Clawhauser and tell him to keep an alert on anything weird, then we can pre-empt the theft if they get spotted." She explained. "And while he's doing that, I'll try to figure out what he's planning on doing with the amber." Judy then shot a smug grin at the fox.

"Still less work than the rest of us." Emily muttered, before the rabbit shot a glare at her.

"Well, let's head out Ms. Saya." Henry said. "We have a lot of city to cover."

Saya nodded, and the three quickly headed out, leaving Judy and Nick alone. "How exactly am I supposed to talk to ZooKitsune?" The fox asked. "I already tried, and it didn't work out that great…"

"I have no idea." Judy said, patting the fox on the back. "But you have to try something. Or else…"

"Or else the landlord will get angry, yeah yeah." Nick said.

"That's a bigger problem than it seems, Nick."

"Trust me, I know."

---

A chair flew through the darkened cavern, crashing into the cave walls and shattering. A loud growl uttered from the opposite direction. It was an incredibly pissed off Sambash, attempting to let his anger out.

"How the hell can she not remember ME!?" He shouted, before flinging another chair through the air. "I'm the goddamn frontman of Barban! I'm their fuckin' intergalactic MASCOT!"

"Boss, if I may say something…" Torbador said, trying to get the attention of the raging Sambash. "Maybe she doesn't remember you because you got defeated first?"

"Yeah, you were picked at random, weren't you?" Tagredor followed.

Sambash quickly opened fire at the two causing them to fall to the ground. "Don't you DARE remind me of that embarrassment!" He yelled, stomping over to the two beetles.

"S-sorry!" They both stammered as they got up.

The three were unaware of Enter and Savage looking in from a nearby entrance. "Look at those idiots." Savage laughed. "He should really focus that anger into something productive, like killing the Zoorangers."

Silently, Enter walked into the room, the floating skull following behind him. "What the hell do you want, chiphead?" Sambash asked.

"Just to offer some advice." Enter replied.

"Advice?" Sambash said, surprised. "What kind?"

Enter walked over to the two beetle monsters. "Well, you have two powerful monsters here already," He started. "But imagine what you could do with two Chaos monsters."

"Hah, like I didn't think of that already." Sambash scoffed. He then paused for a moment, looking a bit unsteady. "Keep goin'."

"Your current emotional state is clearly not well enough to get the jewel, and you're just slightly under the amount of Chaos Energy needed for two badges…" Enter said.

"So, you're saying I should get those two bozos to cause some unwarranted destruction, and then destroy the whole place with both of them at max strength?" Sambash asked. Enter nodded in response.

"I like it."

The biker monster then went over and picked one of the chairs back up and sat on it. "Maybe I need a break anyway. Been busy the last while."

"Yeah, that's it boss." Torbador said. "You relax, we'll go cause a ruckus."

"Maybe that will help you feel better!" Tagredor followed.

"Get the fuck out of here, you're just making me angrier."

The two beetle monsters rushed off through the exit, while Enter walked off into the tunnel hallways. "Hell are you helping him for?" Savage whispered angrily. "This whole thing's gonna go up in flames if anybody but us defeats the Zoorangers!"

Enter chuckled, while looking at the device on his wrist. "I just need to perform an experiment." He said. "An odd thing happened a while ago, and I feel it might be useful to our plan."

"You and your long cons." Savage growled. "Can't we just go and get this over with? We're strong enough!"

"If we do this wrong we're even deader than we already are." Enter said, calmly. "So follow along with what the Omnipotence is saying."

"Ugh, fine." Savage growled. "But we better pull this off soon."

"We'll do it when everything is set." Enter said. "Which is… sooner than one would expect…"

---

"Alright, so I know we've had some difficulties in the past," Nick started. "But I really need you to talk to me. We need to sort this all out, alright?"

The giant robotic fox leaned down, glaring at the real fox. It let out a metallic noise, and then tapped its paw to the ground.

"Alright, totally don't understand what that means." Nick said, moving in closer to the mech. "Can't you just give me a clue? Like, anything would help at this point."

The fox mech quickly tapped Nick with its nose, knocking him back. "I know you want to tell me something, but WHAT do you want to tell me?" Nick shouted. "There isn't that much that you're telling me by just hitting me!"

The fox mech shook its head in response.

"Okay, I understood that." Nick responded. His ears popped up. "Alright, I know what we can do!" He said, tail twitching. "We'll do gestures! I'll ask a yes or no question, you nod or shake your head if you understand. Understand?"

The fox mech nodded.

"Alright, now we're getting somewhere." The fox thought for a moment. "Alright, lets try to clarify something first. You ARE here to talk to me, right? I'm not getting that wrong?"

A nod.

"And you need to tell me something important?"

Another nod.

"Alright, something important…" Nick muttered to himself. What would a robot know that would be important? The only thing he could think of was some kind of malfunction. "Is this something about ZooRobo? Maybe some kind of… internal thing?"

The mech shook its head.

"Oh… kay." Nick muttered. Just as he thought he was actually getting somewhere. "Is this something related to… the villains? Did you get some info on them, somehow?"

Another no.

"Not that either…" He continued to think for a moment. "I have no idea what you want to talk to me about." He said, sounding a bit defeated. "I mean, what else would be that important?"

Again, the mech nudged Nick with its large metal nose.

"Okay, stop that." He said, before his phone started to ring. "Carrots?" He said as he answered it.

"Yeah," The rabbit started. "Ben found some info on the Growler feed. Those two beetle monsters were seen earlier… without their boss."

"That's weird." He replied. "Think they're up to something?"

"Its entirely possible." She said. "I'll call up everyone else and we'll head out to stop whatever they're planning."

"Terrible timing, I was about to have a breakthrough with the big guy out here." Nick sighed. "Guess it can't be helped, though."

He gave one last turn to the robot. "You, stay here, no interfering this time, got it?" The mech lowered its head, and the fox headed off.

As Nick ran off, the mech let out a metallic whimper, and shook its head again.

---

Max opened the door to his house, bracing for the worst. He let out a sigh of relief as everything seemed to be in place.

"Kat, I'm back!" He called out as he stepped through the door. "Sorry it took me so long, traffic was a nightmare." There wasn't any response. "Kat?" He said again, hoping for something. Maybe it wasn't the best idea to leave a mentally damaged individual at his house, but it wasn't like he had much of a choice.

The wolf started to check around the house, going into every room and making a quick look around to check that the wildcat wasn't hiding anywhere. Eventually he found her, in a place he didn't really expect.

It was his toy- er, collection room, where he had stored all of his figures from over the years. The pink-furred cat was sitting in the middle of a pile of his toys, which it seemed she had randomly plucked from the shelves that she could reach.

"Seriously?" The wolf exasperatedly said as he walked in. "I told you not to touch my stuff!"

He started to pick some of the figures up, but then realized that she hadn't reacted at all. "You alright?" Max asked as he put some of the toys back on the shelves. He looked over at her, and noticed that she was holding a figure, and staring at it in silence.

It was the Galaxy Megazord from Zoo Rangers Lost Galaxy. It was very old at this point. The wolf bent down next to the cat and tried to get her attention.

"You like that toy?" He asked. "Be careful with it, it's really valuable… to me, at least."

"I've seen this before." Kat muttered, playing with the left arm. The wolf was shocked by this, another of her memories seemed to have surfaced. Now was the perfect time to try and solve this mystery.

"You've seen it before?" Max said, more intense. "Do you remember where you saw it? A store, a room, anywhere?"

"I don't know." She replied, her voice more subdued than it had been before. "I've been looking at it for hours, but I can't place it. It feels… close."

"Hm." Max said, standing up. "So, you've seen the toy before… or maybe just the design…?" He muttered to himself. He glanced back down at the cat. "Do you remember watching any TV, anything like that?"

Kat shook her head in response.

The wolf let out a sigh. "Help me put some of that stuff back, and we can get back to trying to figure out who you are." He said, picking up a few more of the figures on the ground.

Kat nodded slowly, and then placed the Megazord back on the shelf, where she had gotten it from. The two went downstairs shortly after.

"You don't remember anything else?" Max asked as he drank some coffee.

"Not really." Kat said, seated on the couch.

"I'll help you find out what happened, don't worry." Max said, gently. "That's what I do."

"You remind me of someone." Kat said, though she sounded a bit unsure of her own words. "But I can't remember…"

Suddenly, Max's phone started to ring. He quickly answered it.

"Hey, Max." Judy said on the other side. "How's everything going?"

"Fine, still trying to work on this case." He explained. "Any updates on the situation?"

"Yeah," She said. "The two beetle guys were spotted downtown. I'll send you the location and we can meet up, hopefully before anything too bad happens."

The wolf nodded. "I'll meet you there." He said, before hanging up. He looked over at Kat, who was looking back at him. "Uh, I have to go do some… police work. Sorry, but I'm gonna have to-"

"I wanna go with you!" Kat said, climbing to the top of the couch. "I don't want to be left alone again…"

Max opened his mouth to reject the offer, but it just hung there for a second. He then let out a sigh, he was such a pushover. "Alright, you can come with me, but you have to stay in the car once we get there. Its too dangerous for someone like you."

Kat nodded as her tail flicked. "I can't wait to see what police do!" She said.

"I, uh… yeah, sure."

---

Emily, Henry, and Saya walked through the downtown streets, looking for something, anything, that could point towards the direction of the Star Beast. Unfortunately, and surprisingly, nothing had come up.

"How does nobody have any information on a five-story tall cat?" Emily growled, frustrated. "Like, come on, its like missing one of those giant robot fights, you'd think that would be impossible."

"I don't know." Saya said with a sigh. "I have no idea where she could have gone, I just wish I had some kind of clue…"

Henry looked at the hyena and the human, who were both obviously frustrated. "How about we take a break?" The bull suggested.

"Probably a good idea." Saya replied. The three quickly moved towards a bench, Emily and Saya sitting on it while Henry stood behind it.

"This city is very nice." Saya said. "It's a lot nicer than our world is."

"We haven't really heard anything about your world." Emily said, leaning back into the bench. "We get vague references, but nothing actually interesting."

"I would love to learn about this alternate world." Henry said. "Alternate timelines were only a theory, but now I have contact with someone from one, it would be nice to learn the differences."

"Its actually not that different." Saya said. "We have our cities, our cars, our own politics and media… in fact, some of the media here is, uh, very similar to what we have at home. But there's one particular thing I've noticed that's different…"

"What would that be?" Emily asked.

"The air is a lot cleaner." She said. "In my world, we pump smoke into the air without any real regard for the environment, which has harmed it to dangerous levels. I want to know how you guys keep this massive place so clean."

"Well, we used to use gasoline, coal, and oil around a century ago." Henry started to explain. "But then we switched over to electric, solar, and wind when the war ended, and the world leaders realized how much damage it had caused."

"Yeah, they're still renovating parts of the city after that decision." Emily followed. "The only mammals that can tell you how everything was back then are really old now."

"Interesting." Saya said. "Its funny how our worlds can be so similar in a lot of ways, but then be so different in smaller ways."

"I know, right?" Henry said. "I'm assuming that you guys didn't have a war like we did-"

Before the bull could continue, Emily's cellphone started to ring. She answered it, Judy appearing on the screen. "Oh, what's up Jude?" She greeted.

"Monster attack downtown." The rabbit said, bluntly. She seemed to be in a bit of a hurry, as she quickly set the phone down and rushed off camera. "The beetle monsters, minus their boss, were spotted around there." She finished from off camera.

"Alright, we're downtown already so we can probably-"

"Actually, I want you all to continue looking for Gingat." Judy said as she entered back into the camera's view. She was wearing a coat. "Like I said earlier, there could be a lot of problems if we don't find her, and I think Nick, Max, and I can take them without Sambash there-"

"OK." Emily said with a sigh. "We'll just keep at what we were doing, totally not going to be pointless."

Saya quickly stood up. "Sorry, Judy." She said. "But I'm going to request that we join up with you three."

Judy picked up the phone, looking a bit curious at the response.

"We're not having any luck getting anywhere near close to finding Gingat." Saya continued. "And I can't just go on my way with the knowledge that innocent lives could be hurt, and even worse that I could have protected them. We're going to be going, no matter your orders."

The rabbit smiled. "Man, you guys are so cool." She said. "But you just had to tell me you weren't having any luck, there's absolutely no issue with you coming to fight. I was just trying to think practical."

"Oh…" Saya said, rubbing the back of her head. "Right, got you. We'll meet up with you in a bit."

"Alright, sending the location… You guys try to intercept them. See you soon." The rabbit quickly hung up.

"Alright!" Emily said. "I was going crazy with all the walking we've been doing all day."

"What have you two been doing?" Saya asked, inquisitively.

"Been trying to help out this… strange mammal that showed up and asked us for help." Henry explained. "Its not a big deal, we have Max taking care of her right now."

"Hmmm…" Saya said, thinking about something. "Alright, let's get going."

---

Lasers spewed forth from the two monsters, firing directly into the buildings and roads around them. Explosions erupted as helpless innocent mammals ran off in terror. "Time to build up some of that Chaos Energy." Torbador said as the remaining mammals vanished from sight.

"Alright!" Tagredor cheered, before pausing. "…Uh, how are we supposed to do that?"

Torbador slapped his younger brother in the back. "We just need to destroy things, cause chaos. Its in the name, you moron."

"Oh, right."

Tagredor quickly stomped over to a nearby building, and winded up a punch. He slammed his fist directly into the wall, causing it to shatter, and for a part fo the building to start slumping down. It quickly crumbled to rubble as he walked off.

"Effective, but crude, little bro." Torbador said, pulling out a large but otherwise normal looking sledgehammer. "Let me show you how destruction is really done."

The rhino beetle slammed to hammer into the ground, causing large cracks to sprout off from where it hit. Steam started to burst from the cracks, before the ground partly collapsed in on itself.

"Stop, Barban!" Someone shouted out. The two monsters quickly turned around to spot GingaPink, alongside the pink and green SPD Officers.

"We're here to stop your destruction!" GingaPink said.

The two monsters laughed in response. "You couldn't even stop us when all six of you were together," Torbador stated. "How do you expect to defeat us with just three of you wimps?"

"We might not be able to BEAT you…" Pink started, holding up her blaster. "But we sure as hell can STOP you."

Quickly, the hyena and bull unloaded their fire on the two monsters, causing explosions to burst around them. GingaPink quickly followed, dashing through the smoke and leaping into the air, directly over Tagredor.

She thrust herself downwards, and then slashed at the monster's face with her hands. The stag beetle monster grunted in pain, before GingaPink unleashed a kick that knocked the monster back.

Torbador noticed, and immediately attempted to bring the sledgehammer down onto GingaPink. She dodged out of the way, before thrusting her hand into the monster's chest, knocking him back. The smoke quickly cleared after this.

Torbador then found himself caught by surprise, as Green quickly whapped him in the face with his cannon. Pink then dashed in, making a few running shots at the rhino beetle before leaping up and delivering a quick kick to the recovering Tagredor's face.

"You're just getting lucky!" Torbador grumbled. "But prepare to face our ultimate power once more!"

The two beetle monsters regrouped quickly, and then pounded their fists together, preparing their energy attack once again. Before they could finish, however, a fireball flew in from above, striking them and knocking them out of the attack.

Red and Blue, in their Solar and Lunar forms, fell from above, crashing into the street triumphantly.

"Nice, took you two a lot less time to get here than I thought it would." Pink said.

The four mammals and the hero from another world struck a pose as the two monsters recovered from the strike. "These guys are being a real pain!" Tagredor said, punching his palm. "I think we should use THOSE, bro!"

"A good idea, for once." Torbador said, pulling out a handful of golden coins. He tossed them into the air, and a small army of Yartots fell shortly after. Torbador then stepped forward. "Now we'll show you not to mess with the beetle bros.!" He brought his sledgehammer up and struck the ground. A crack formed and moved under the Yartots and towards the Zoorangers and company.

The five quickly leaped out of the way as the crack reached them, and a large chunk of the concrete collapsed. "We need to stop these guys before they cause any more damage to this small block!" Blue said. "Em, Henry, deal with those footsoldiers, we'll handle the monsters!"

"Do you think there's a reason why we keep getting assigned to small fry duty?" Pink asked her bull friend. He shook his head in response, before they both raced into the crowd of pirate monsters.

"Bet I can deal with that dumb one." Red said to himself as he eyed Tagredor. The fox leaped towards Tagredor and extended his staff towards the monster. It struck the stag beetle in the chest, before the monster simply let out a small grunt and grabbed onto the staff.

With his grip on the staff, he quickly started to slam the fox into the ground rapidly. The bug monster let out a laugh as he lifted the fox back into the air. "How do you like that, vertebrae?" The monster taunted.

"I actually don't really like my bugs mashed," Red said, a bit weakly. "I actually prefer them broiled."

The monster let out a confused grunt as he looked back down at the staff. A flame was starting to flicker at the edge, before it suddenly burst into a blast of fire, knocking the beetle back while keeping Red in the air. The fox then spun around, flinging several more fireballs at the monster, before he landed back on the ground.

Blue and GingaPink headed for Torbador. "I don't remember these guys being this tough." GingaPink said.

"Well, let's just show them how much stronger we are!" Blue replied. The two rushed forwards, GingaPink drawing her blade, and leaped as they tried to attack the rhino beetle. He responded by smashing them both with his hammer, knocking them both to the ground.

The rabbit recollected herself. "Okay, that didn't go well." She muttered.

"I think I have an idea." GingaPink said as she helped the rabbit up. "We just need to hit him with something stronger."

"Well, I'm already in my super form, so I'm at my strongest, so…"

"Let me rephrase that." GingaPink said, before she pulled out a large object. It was a large, cylindrical object, silver and pink on either side, but connected with a pink handle in the middle. It looked like a large baton of some kind and was at least half the size of GingaPink herself. "I'M going to hit him with something stronger! Beast Attack Rod!"

She twirled the large weapon around on its handle, before dashing forward and striking at Torbador. It and the sledgehammer clashed. Seeing a chance, Blue dashed forwards and jumped in between the two, striking at the monster with her blades. This caused the rhino beetle to stumble back and allowed GingaPink to strike him directly in the face with the large weapon.

The beetle monster was flung back by the attack and rolled across the ground. As he got up, GingaPink pushed the two ends of the rod weapon inwards, shrinking it down slightly. She then slung it onto her shoulder and unleashed a flurry of pink energy blasts from the hole on one side.

"Wow, that thing's awesome!" Blue said, surprised.

"Oh, you haven't even seen the half of it!" GingaPink replied with a laugh.

The beetle monster let out a roar as the smoke cleared. "You think that little thing would be enough to take me out!?" He growled as he stomped towards the two.

"I mean, honestly, not really." GingaPink said.

The monster approached them but was suddenly interrupted by the sound of screeching tires. Everyone, including the Yartots, turned to look over at a car. Max quickly got out of the driver's seat, before whispering something to someone inside.

He then ran into the fight without a word, quickly transforming into ZooSilver, and then further shifting into his Rampage Mode. The jetpack turned on, bursting him through the air as he instantly sliced through the Yartots in a single motion, causing them all to burst into sand.

"I guess that's why they stopped using those guys so often." Red muttered to himself.

Silver then took off directly into the sky, unleashing a shower of laser blasts down below… nearly hitting his teammates as well as the monsters. He then landed back down and struck a pose.

"Yeesh, don't have to go that far for a big entrance." Pink scoffed, trying to ignore a large scorchmark right next to where she was standing.

"Oh, gosh, sorry!" Silver said. "Just trying to make this cool for someone in the audience."

"Hah, looks like all six of you punks are here!" Tagredor said. "Let's finish them off, bro!"

"Hold off for a second, little bro." Torbador said. "We didn't come here to beat them, remember? We just need to do a bit more, and then…"

The rhino beetle monster quickly unleashed a flurry of lasers from his horn, firing it seemingly randomly into nearby buildings, the ground, and the Rangers. Silver quickly dashed forwards and delivered a punch with his large claw directly to the rhino beetle, knocking him out of the attack. The wolf quickly spun around and unloaded a laser blast from his arm cannon, this time directly at Tagredor. The monster was flung back by the blast, directly into the rubble it had created earlier.

"Nice show stealing." Red said sarcastically.

"Hey, I just got here, I had to do SOMETHING cool!"

Torbador let out an angered grunt. "Alright, I think that's enough." He muttered, before unfurling his wings. He quickly fluttered over to his unconscious brother, and then lifted him off.

The Rangers watched as the monsters flew away. "So, what was that all about?" Max asked as he untransformed, alongside the rest of his teammates.

"Wish we knew." Nick said with a shrug. "Just seemed like they were destroying things."

"Maybe it was a diversion?" Emily suggested. "Maybe Sambash is attacking the museum right now!"

"No, then we would have gotten an alert." Judy said. "That was just… strange."

"Wowee!" Yelled a chipper voice from behind them. The six turned around to see Kat, running up to them. "That was really cool!" She said.

"Hey, you're that cat from earlier." Saya said. "I guess you found your way to the police station, huh?"

"I sure did!" Kat said. "And I met Max there, he's been helping me out."

"Oh, is this your 'case'?" Nick said with a chuckle.

"Its not very funny, Nick." Max said, crossing his arms. "Kat here lost her memory, and Em, Henry, and I were trying to help her get them back."

"Lotta go we did there." Emily muttered.

"Wait, you know Ms. GingaPink?" Max said, catching up to what Kat had said.

"We met this morning, when I first arrived." Saya said. "I gave her directions to the police station. Also don't call me that."

"Saya was super nice!" Kat said. "She reminds me of someone, but I can't remember who…"

Judy looked back and forth at the cat and the human. "Hmm." She let out. "We're heading back to the apartment now." She said. "Max, you and Kat are coming with us too."

"Uh, okay." Max said. "You think you can solve her problem?"

"I'm not sure… But I feel like I might."

---

Tagredor was quickly flung through the entrance to the base, crashing on the ground with a thud. Torbador quickly flew in after and landed back on the ground. "Boss, we're back!" He said as Tagredor got back up.

"Well you two took your sweet time on that." Sambash said from a nearby chair. "At least you managed to get enough energy out of that. Weirdest thing, it had a major spike after you finished fighting the Zoorangers. Probably not important."

"Wait, you watched us?" Tagredor asked, surprised.

"Yeah, this table thing has a TV on it." Sambash clarified. "We used it like, once, because we have better things to do usually."

"The upgrades, boss." Torbador reminded him.

"Right!" Sambash said as he got up from the chair, holding two Chaos Badges. "Two supercharged monsters, this'll give those furry freaks a good run for their money!"

He quickly chucked one of the Chaos Badges at Tagredor, and then the other at Torbador. They both plunged into their chests, and then were quickly absorbed. "HRRGAH! This feels incredible!" Tagredor roared as he started to glow a bright red.

"With this power, no one can stop us!" Torbador yelled triumphantly as he instead started to glow blue

However, something strange happened soon after. The two turned completely red and blue, and then started to slowly slide together. As their energies came in contact, the energy started to turn purple "What the hell is happening?" Sambash said, confused.

The energy continued to fuse together, now forming into a single shape. It had a similar shape to the brothers, but almost fusing their stances together, making it large and bulky, but still standing tall. Its arms were proportionately large as well, and the armbands now had a mix of the spikes and leather straps. The same went for the legs, which bulked up as well in order to match the new monster's height.

The monster's head seemed to mix the two brothers' features as well, combining the single horn of the rhino beetle, which pointed up and forward, more pronounced, with the pincers of a stag. The monster's shoulders mostly seemed similar to Torbador's, but now with three spikes protruding from the tops of them.

The energy faded, revealing the monster in full. It retained the brown and yellow coloring that the brothers had, but instead of red or blue, it was now marked mostly with purple. Its face combined the mad grin of Tagredor with the cruel eyes of Torbador. As a final change, two smaller arms burst from the monster's sides, looking similar to its larger arms, including the leather bands.

"TORBAGREDOR!" The monster roared, shaking the cave. The new creature was nearly double Sambash's height and left him speechless.

"Damn." He said. "Didn't expect that."

"Alright, boss." The new combined beetle monster said. "Let's go take that amber and destroy this city!"

Sambash quickly shook off his surprise. "Yeah, and with a monster like you, no one can defeat us!"

The two quickly left, leaving behind something neither was aware of. Enter stepped out from a hallway, giving a light chuckle.

"Tres bien." He said to himself. "Looks like it wasn't a fluke after all."

"What are you talking about?" The skull of Savage said.

"Remember the night you gained your first body?" The android asked. "Remember the monster there?"

"The thing that looked like a fox and a rabbit?" Savage said.

"That was a fusion of two different monsters." Enter continued. "I wasn't sure if that was something long managed to pull off, or if it was a side effect of the Chaos Badges… but the latter seems most likely."

"I don't get what that has to do with anything." Savage said.

Enter wagged his finger back and forth in front of the skull's face. "It will be absolutely invaluable, trust me."

---

The six heroes, and their guest, had arrived back at the apartment only a short while after the fight. Four of the six sat around the couch, with Kat standing by the window and gazing out of it curiously. At the moment, Judy and Saya were locked up in the bedroom, having a conversation that nobody else was allowed to hear.

"What do you think they're talking about?" Emily asked as she leaned forward over the back of the couch.

"Probably something about all the weirdness going on." Nick said. He was sat on the couch. "I mean, today's been really crazy."

"Yeah, and not just for you." Max said, also from the couch. "I really want to help Kat, but… nothing about this is really making sense. She said she recognized one of my Zoo Rangers toys, which is impossible since she seems too young to have been around when the series was airing."

"Have you thought it over?" Henry asked from behind the couch. "There's a lot more possibilities to why she could be remembering it."

"I asked her everything that… made sense." Max followed.

Max continued to talk, and Nick zoned out for a moment as he focused on Kat. She was nearly leaning out the window, attempting to look at something. He leaned over to Max and whispered. "She probably shouldn't be doing that, right?"

"What?" Max said, confused, before glancing over at Kat. He let out a yelp before rushing over and pulling the wildcat back from the window. "That's really dangerous, if you fell out the window you could've died."

"Hey!" She yelled, breaking from the wolf's grasp. "You just interrupted us. That was really RUDE, Max."

"Oh, sorry, I- wait, 'us'?"

"I was talking to the big fox over there." Kat said, pointing out the window. At that, Nick quickly got up and ran over.

"Big fox, you mean, like a big… robot fox?" He asked her. The wildcat nodded. The fox quickly gripped her shoulders. "Did he say anything? Anything important?"

"We were just talking about how nice the sky is." Kat said. "She never really gets to see it, usually only when its dark."

"That's definitely weird." Emily muttered as she got up from her slouch. "So, Kat can just talk to robots?"

"You did talk to it, right?" Nick asked. "You're not just imagining it?"

The wildcat shook her head. "It was all really clear."

"What's going on?" Judy asked, confused, as she came out of the bedroom with Saya.

"I think we just hit a bombshell." Emily said.

"Kat says that she was talking to ZooKitsune." Nick followed.

Judy looked at Saya. "You think…?" She asked.

The Sentai Ranger rubbed her helmet. "It does make it a bit more… obvious."

"You gonna tell us what you two were talking about, or are you just going to stay cryptic?" Emily asked, frustrated.

"Well, Judy came up with a theory about something that's been going on, and if Kat was talking to another robot, then it might prove it…" Saya said.

Before either of them could continue, Judy's phone started to ring. "Uh oh…" She muttered, before answering it. Clawhauser appeared on the screen. "Hey Ben, got some monster news for us?"

"Yeah, I do." The cheetah replied. "Two monsters were seen heading in the direction of the museum."

"Must be Sambash trying to steal that amber again." The rabbit said. "But only two monsters…?"

"Guess the big guy is too scared to show his face again." Nick joked. "Just send the henchmen in, don't have to deal with anything."

"No, one of the monsters matches up with Sambash's description." Clawhauser said. "But the second one… it looks… scary."

"Hmm." The rabbit let out as she started to tap her foot. "Thanks for the info, Ben, see you later." She quickly hung up and placed the phone on the coffee table. "Definitely something weird going on."

"Doesn't matter what's going on," Saya started. "We need to go and stop him before he gets that amber."

"Alright," Nick said, clapping his paws together. "Let's head out-"

"Not you, Nick." Judy said. "You're staying here, and getting help from Kat?"

"What?" The fox let out.

"Ooh, I get to help someone?" Kat said, cheerfully. "With what?"

"You're going to help Nick talk to the big fox outside." Judy explained. "As soon as you get that figured out, meet us at the museum."

The fox let out a sigh and crossed his arms as the rest of the heroes left. He knew this was important, but it was starting to get a bit irritating.

"Alright, Dye Accident, lets get going."

"Dye accident?" Kat replied, confused.

"It's… It's a nickname."

"But isn't Nick your name?"

The fox let out a sigh. "Lets just go."

---

The massive beetle monster followed behind the much smaller biker monster as they strode into the museum's courtyard. "Alright, big guy, let's get this done with."

The monster stomped towards the museum's entrance and pulled back its fist. He launched a heavy punch, knocking the wall and doors away and leaving a large hole in the front.

"Heh, nice job." Sambash said as he walked into the hall. He glanced around, attempting to spot the amber. "Now, where the hell is that thing…?"

"Nowhere near your dirty mitts, Barban!"

Sambash let out a sigh and turned around alongside the monster. The Zoorangers, featuring GingaPink, had appeared in the courtyard.

"Still can't remember my name, Gingaman?" Sambash said with some restrained anger.

"Oh, I remember your name, Sambash," GingaPink started as she stepped forwards. "But you don't deserve to be called by any name."

Sambash growled. "Handle them, Torbagredor."

"Yes, boss." The monster said as it stomped towards them. It towered all five of them, including Green.

"You know, Ben was right." Pink said. "That thing is definitely scary."

"See you noticed my big friend here!" Sambash said, twirling his gun around. "He's got the strength of two Chaos monsters, so good luck taking him down!"

Blue's ears twitched. "Two Chaos monsters…?"

The monster let out a growl, before energy started to appear between its four horns. It then launched out a purple laser beam, which struck into the ground and started to dash towards the Rangers. The five quickly scattered as the beam reached them, before it started to follow Blue's trail.

"We'll get him off your tail!" Silver shouted as he pulled out his blade. Him and Pink gathered, and then proceeded to fire fireballs and lasers at the monster. It quickly raised its arm, protecting itself from the blasts.

"His armor's too thick!" Pink shouted, frustrated.

"Then let me handle it." Green said as he stepped forward. He aimed his cannon at the monster, and then rapidly fired several shots. He attempted to fire at the monster's horn, but it quickly lifted its arm to block the shots. It did, however, let out a few grunts of pain.

Blue, with the laser still following her, quickly dashed over to GingaPink. "Saya, you have to go after Sambash!" She said as she zipped by.

"I can't just leave you guys to fight this… thing." GingaPink said as the laser passed by her.

"We have everything under control!" The rabbit assured her as she ran by, this time in the opposite direction. "But if he gets his paws on that amber, who knows what he'll do!"

"…Alright, I got it." She said. "But let me try something first."

She quickly leaped into the air, avoiding the laser, and landed next to Green. "Hey, I have an idea." She said to the bull. The Gingaman quickly pulled out the Beast Attack Rod, in its staff mode. "Strike the horn while I'm distracting him, got it?"

The bull nodded. "Good plan."

GingaPink quickly leaped over and struck at the monster's leg. It let out a yell of pain before attempting to kick at her. The feline warrior quickly backflipped back, and then shifted the rod into its bazooka mode. She fired a few rounds at the monster's body.

The beetle monster attempted to strike at the Sentai Ranger, leaving its horn open for Green to fire at. "Wait!" Silver said before he could fire. "Let me and Em join in. Just in case."

"More power never hurts." Pink said.

"Alright, then fire already!" Green shouted. The three fired their weapons simultaneously, all three hitting the horn and causing an explosion.

The beam stopped as it let out a roar of pain. GingaPink gave the three a nod, and then quickly ran off to the large hole in the museum.

"Alright!" Blue said as she gathered with her teammates. "Let's really show this big lug what we're capable of!"

The four drew their weapons as Torbagredor let out another deep growl and stomped forwards.

---

The fox and the wildcat stood in front of the large mechanical fox, which was still sitting in its alleyway.

"Just checking, but you're certain you can talk to it?" Nick asked.

Kat nodded in response. "I'll tell you what she says next."

ZooKitsune then let out a mechanical whine. "She just said 'I'm glad you're here to help us'." Kat said.

"And you're absolutely certain that's what it said?" Nick asked, yet again. The robot fox stomped its paw down in front of him and let out a burst of steam from its nose. It looked incredibly angry, and the fox was not prepared for the anger of something one-hundred times his size. "Okay, okay, she can hear you, I got it."

Nick looked at the wildcat for a moment. "How exactly are you able to talk to it?" He asked, glancing back up at the massive robot fox.

"I dunno, just can." She replied with a shrug. "I'm guessing you can't?"

"No, that's a problem we've been having all day." The fox continued. "ZooKitsune showed up, and it wants to tell me something, but its also causing us some trouble since its… really big."

"You keep calling her an 'It'." Kat said.

"It's a robot, how else am I supposed to refer to it?"

"She's not just a robot." Kat said. "She's a living thing. If she wasn't, then how would I be able to talk to her?"

"I…" Nick paused for a moment, thinking about something. He then turned back to ZooKitsune. "I'm sorry for calling you an 'It'."

ZooKitsune leaned down, and gently bumped the top of the fox's head with the tip of its nose.

"Alright, lets get this whole thing over with so I can go to the fight." Nick started. "Translate what she's saying, Kat!"

Kat looked up as the mecha let out another metallic whine. "I can't." She said.

"Excuse me?"

"She said that me just translating what she wants to tell you would be pointless." The wildcat continued. "You need to talk to her yourself. Sorry."

"Seriously?" Nick said, exasperatedly. He quickly ran his paw across his snout.

"I can still help you!" Kat said. "I can help you learn how to talk to her!"

"And how are we supposed to do that?" The fox asked.

"You've already started by acknowledging that she's a thinking thing!" Kat said, grabbing onto the fox's arm. "You just have to go further! You need to talk to her soul!"

"Uh huh." Nick said, pulling his arm away. "How do I do that?"

"Well, I think we should start by getting you two closer together." Kat said.

"Closer, huh?" Nick said, thinking for a moment. "I think I know how to do that."

---

Blue drew her dual daggers, and then leaped forward, the other Zoorangers following behind her, their weapons drawn as well. The rabbit dashed underneath the monster's legs, rapidly slashing at them… to no effect.

Silver and Pink moved to the monster's sides and unleashed their attacks there. Silver swiped with his sword, while Pink fired her blaster. Still nothing happened.

Finally, Green ran forwards and jumped up, slamming his cannon into the monster's stomach. He bounced off and fell to the ground.

"Idiots." The monster boomed. "I have double the carapace as my previous forms, none of your attacks can even scratch me!"

"Not even this one!?" Blue shouted from behind the monster as she quickly plugged in a white ZooTag. The Wild Axe suddenly appeared in her paws, before she leaped forwards and slashed at the monster's leg with it. It had seemed to cut through, but the monster didn't react at all. Instead, it simply kicked the rabbit away.

Energy started to gather in its horn, before it started to blast purple energy blasts at the mammals surrounding it.

The four quickly dodged the rapid-fire blasts, the earth bursting up into the air as they struck the ground.

"Uh, I think we're in some trouble!" Silver said as he leaped out of the way of another blast. "How are we supposed to defeat a monster we can't hurt?"

"Why don't you just go into your super forms?" Pink suggested. "That could probably beat this thing!"

"I can't go into the super mode unless Red is here!" Blue said. "But Silver, you can probably do it, right?"

"Uh, I can try!"

Silver quickly transformed into his Rampage mode after dodging another blast. He flew up into the air and prepared to strike with his claw. He burst forwards at incredible speeds, scratching his claw against the monster's side. This managed to leave an actual, visible wound… unfortunately, the monster still didn't react.

"What?" Silver let out, confused. "You should be in a lot of pain right now!"

Without a word, the monster smacked Silver to the ground with one of his gigantic arms, creating a wolf shaped crater in the pavement.

Silver let out a groan as the other Zoorangers looked on. "Seriously!?" Pink shouted.

Meanwhile, in the museum itself, GingaPink was chasing after Sambash. He had lead her directly into the museum's mineral section, which was dimly lit, with glimmers of precious stones and crystals to light it up slightly.

"Sambash!" GingaPink shouted as she looked around the area. "Where are you!?"

"Over here!" The pirate shouted from across the hall. She turned to him and saw that he was holding the massive chunk of amber in his hand and a gun in the other.

"Put the amber and the gun down." GingaPink said, quickly aiming her bow at him.

Sambash laughed. "Have you figured out what I'm planning to do with this yet?" He said, tossing the amber up and then catching it.

"…Not really." GingaPink said. "I've had a lot of things going on, your thieving isn't high on my priorities list."

Sambash growled. "Whatever. At least you remembered my goddamn name."

"You know how petulant you sound when you complain about that?" GingaPink said, not moving her bow away from him. "Its been twenty years, of course I needed to jog my memory about you. You were the first general we beat, and none of us besides Red were even there when you died."

Sambash let out another growl, before pointing his gun directly at her. He fired off multiple shots, and in return GingaPink fired several bolts from her bow. The bullets and energy bolts collided in the air, creating a large explosion.

GingaPink ran towards Sambash as the smoke cleared, pulling out her dagger. She struck at the monster with the blade, but he blocked it with his gun. He quickly pushed her back before pushing the gun directly into her stomach.

However, the cat warrior quickly performed a flip, knocking Sambash back and to the ground. In the process, he dropped the amber, causing it to slide across the smooth museum floor. As GingaPink finished the flip, she pulled out her bow and fired several more shots at the biker monster as he attempted to get up.

The bolts struck, knocking Sambash back. He let out an angry grunt as he glanced around. "Looks like I'm gonna have to get serious here." He muttered as he pulled out a second gun.

"You ever see my gun tricks?" The biker monster suddenly asked.

GingaPink froze for a moment. "…What?"

"Here's an example!" Sambash started as he spun the two guns around. He quickly crossed his arms, both of them pointing forwards, and then fired a shot from both of his guns. The bullets flew, seemingly going directly passed GingaPink.

"Okay, that was-" She started before being interrupted. Sambash quickly rushed forwards and kicked the distracted Gingaman, launching her back. As she fell back, the two bullets he had previously fired bounced off nearby walls, aiming them right towards where GingaPink now was.

The two bullets struck her, causing a mass of sparks to erupt. Sambash quickly scooped up the chunk of amber and headed towards the exit.

"Augh, didn't think he'd be that clever." GingaPink admitted to herself. She quickly chased after the Barban boss, back out into the courtyard.

Things still weren't going well. After the time she had been in there, Torbagredor only had a few scratches, and didn't even seem to be slowing down. The Zoorangers themselves were starting to get a bit tired from the fight.

"You guys alright!?" GingaPink shouted out.

"We're… just fine." Blue said, obviously out of breath. She quickly leaped back as the monster attempted to swing one of its massive arms at her, just barely missing.

"Fine except for the fact we can't hurt this guy!" Pink followed up.

"Yo, big guy!" Sambash yelled. GingaPink turned towards him, the monster was standing a decent way from the battle, with the amber still over his arm. "I got the amber, we can get out of here!"

"Not until I squash these guys!" Torbagredor roared. "Watch me take care of 'em, boss!"

Sambash chuckled. "Fine, looks like you're doing well on your own!" He said, before twirling his gun around. "Let me join in on the fun!"

He quickly unloaded a few shots around the battleground, directly at the Rangers' feet. "This is getting insane!" Silver yelled as he flew up into the air. "Nothing we're doing is even making this guy flinch!"

"I know!" Blue shouted desperately as she dodged a few bullets. "Without Red here, we can't get to our full strength… I need to call him up, cover me!" She quickly ordered.

"No you don't, little rat…" Sambash started, pointing his gun at the rabbit. A sudden bolt of pink energy flew into view, and struck the gun right out of his hand. "What-!?"

He glanced over to GingaPink, who gave a sly wave.

"Damn you, Gingaman…" The monster muttered as he walked over to pick the gun up. He looked at the amber in his hands as he picked the weapon up. "…But when I'm done here, I'll finally get my revenge!"

---

"Can't get much closer to the robot than being inside it!" Nick said as he dropped down through ZooKitsune's cockpit entrance. He glanced back up at Kat, who was looking down into it. "Need some help?"

She shook her head. "No thanks, I can handle this." She replied. She then jumped into the cockpit, landing on her feet gracefully.

"Just like a cat." Nick chuckled. He then glanced around the cockpit, before hopping into the control seat. "Alright, so we're as absolutely close as we can get to ZooKitsune." He continued. "Now what?"

"Wow!" Kat said, seemingly ignoring the fox as she glanced around the room. "This place is so cool! Is this what its like to BE in one of these big robots?"

"You've seen these robots before?" He asked.

"Not these ones." She replied. "But I remember something like them… kinda."

"Well, we can figure that out later, we've got other things to worry about." Nick said. "How do I talk to her?"

"Oh, right." She said, before placing a paw on Nick's arm. "You need to concentrate, clear your mind."

"Alright." Nick said, before attempting to do that. "Wait, how do you know how to do this stuff, anyway?"

"Like I said, I just can." She said. "Its like… I dunno, I have some kind of connection. Now, get back to concentrating."

"Sorry." The fox muttered. He shut his eyes and tried to empty his mind.

"You need to do this too." Kat whispered to ZooKitsune. "Your minds should be able to link together, and then you'll be able to talk."

It felt like ten minutes had passed for Nick. It was hard to keep his mind empty. He was worried about a lot of things at the moment. His friends, mostly. Where they alright without them? How would he know if they weren't?

He then abruptly let out a loud yipe as pain shot through him.

"I said clear your mind!" Kat said, pulling at the fox's ears. "I know you're thinking about things, you keep making faces."

"Jeeze…" Nick said as she let go. He rubbed his ear, and then tried to concentrate again.

He breathed, in and out. In and out. He tried to focus on nothing but the blackness of his own eyelids. Eventually, something would have to click, right?

More minutes passed, and nothing seemed to happen. He let out a sigh. "Kat, this isn't working." He said as he opened his eyes. "Maybe we need to-"

He paused as he looked around. He was now suddenly in the middle of a red void, filled with red smoke.

"Ugh, finally, you're awake." Said a female voice. It was both unfamiliar, and… familiar.

"What!?" Nick said, starting to panic a bit. He glanced around and couldn't see anyone. "Who said that?"

"Me, duh." Said a figure as it stepped out of the shadows. It was ZooKitsune, only around the same size as Nick, though still on all fours.

"Oh." Nick said as the two locked eyes. "You're shorter than I expected."

"Hah hah." The mech said. "This is just a mental projection, would you have really liked it if I showed up and was five stories tall?"

"Point." The fox said. He was genuinely shocked at how… quick-witted this mech was. "So, you… you wanted to tell me something, right?"

"Actually, first I want to congratulate you on doing this." The mech said in response. "You managed to get help from a complete stranger without ever doubting her."

"I… huh, I did." Nick muttered. He was usually not that trusting towards others… especially if it was someone who could've very easily stabbed him in the back.

"You also had the strength to do this yourself, even with a bit of help." ZooKitsune continued. "You used your own mind to lock with mine, and that shows a lot of strength. I also appreciated how quickly you thought of me as a living creature."

"I mean, I know how something like that feels." He said with a sigh. "But, what's the important message you want to tell me?"

"Well, that was part of it." ZooKitsune continued. "I have a mental link with you, and I can tell you've been a bit down and out recently. I wanted to tell you that there's nothing that you should worry about. You're at the absolute best you've ever been, and you shouldn't want to give that up."

"…Thanks." Nick said. That was definitely something he needed to here after some recent events. "But… is that it?"

"Hah, I wouldn't have made a big stink about this if I didn't have something else." ZooKitsune said. "So, me and the mecha-rabbit are born from this planet's energy. We have a sort of direct connection with it. But, recently… something's been… messing with that connection."

"What kind of 'something?" Nick asked.

"Something more powerful than anything else you or I have seen." ZooKitsune continued. "I think it might be… the true evil force behind all this."

"The Omnipotence." Nick said to himself. "So, he's doing something to the planet, then?"

"No." She replied. "This energy was ALWAYS here. Its far older than even our own. Whatever the Omnipotence is, its something that has always been connected to the planet. And it might be something connected to you."

"What?" Nick sputtered out. "H-how…?"

"In the energy that I sensed, there was something similar to your energy." ZooKitsune explained. "I don't know how, but it was strange."

There was a brief pause as Nick reflected on this. "You need to go now." The mech said. "Please, be careful."

"Wait, I need to ask you something before I go." Nick said.

"Why did you choose that voice?"

The mech glared back at him, before everything suddenly went black.

Suddenly, Nick opened his eyes again and jolted up. He looked around rapidly, before letting out a sigh of relief. He was back in the cockpit.

"Did you talk to her?" Kat asked as she helped him out of the seat.

"Yeah, I did." He said.

"What did you learn?"

"Uh, a lot of personal stuff." He said. "Inner-strength lessons, you know."

"That was it?" Kat said, sounding a bit disappointed. Nick just nodded in response.

Right after another brief silence, his phone started to ring. He pulled it out of his pocket and answered it. "NICK!" Judy yelled from the other side of the phone. She was in her Zooranger form at this moment.

"Hey, Carrots, how's everything going over there?" He asked.

"Terrible!" She said. "The monster's too strong to beat with just the five of us, you need to get over here ASAP!"

"Alright, I'll be over there in a moment." He said, before being interrupted by the rabbit.

"Did you manage to talk to ZooKitsune?"

"I did, I think it went well." He said. "Not really the time or place to ask about that, though."

"Fair enough."

The fox quickly hung up the phone and slipped it back into his pockets. He then placed a paw on the control panel. "You ready to go, girl? We have to get to the museum."

There was a rumbling as the mech started to move. It quickly broke out into a dash, heading directly for the museum.

---

A few minutes had passed since Blue had called up her partner. She had leaped back into the fight and attempted to do any damage to the giant beetle monster, but like all previous attempts, nothing was seeming to wear the monster out.

GingaPink shot several bolts from her bow, directly into the monster's back. Torbagredor quickly spun around, attempting to hit her with his massive fist, but she backflipped out of the way.

Pink and Green then followed up, firing more shots into the monster's back. Keeping it distracted for as long as possible was their best chance of getting out of this at the moment. Silver then followed up as the monster turned around to blast the two with its laser horn, swooping in and deflecting the laser blasts with his large claw weapon, and finally following up with a few shots from his gun arm directly at the monster's face.

Blue then dashed under the monster and attempted to slash at its feet as it stomped forwards to try and attack Silver. At this point, there were deep cuts in the feet, but not enough to really do any damage… though they were starting to annoy the bug.

"How long until Nick gets here!?" Pink shouted as she fired a few more shots.

"I dunno, it could take him a long while!" Blue responded as she slashed at the monster's feet again. "Depends on how he's travelling!"

Sambash, however, watched on, seated on the large piece of amber. He occasionally fired a few shots to annoy the Zoorangers, but it was starting to get boring.

"Man, they sure are good at dodging him." He muttered. "But I really can't handle stalemates, I hope something interesting happens soon."

As he finished saying that, the ground started to shake. Everyone froze as it happened. It stopped, and then shook again. And then again, this time stronger. The biker monster stood up and looked into the distance.

"Aw, shit."

ZooKitsune leaped into the front of the museum, tearing through the ground as it did. It quickly lowered its head, letting a red figure leap out. It was Red, already in his transformed state.

"Cavalry's arrived!" He yelled as he hit the ground.

"That was faster than I thought!" Blue said, elbowing the fox in the side. She then pulled out her moon-shaped ZooTag. "Ready to go?"

"Absolutely."

The two then transformed into their Solar and Lunar forms, brandishing their weapons as they struck a pose. Silver quickly flew in and joined in on the pose.

"Nice, now we can DEFINITELY take this guy down!" Silver stated.

"Hang on!" GingaPink said as she ran up to them. "Have room for one more?"

"Excuse me?" Red said, a bit confused. GingaPink just gave a giggle.

"ROAR, GALACTIC LIGHT!"

She then quickly pulled out her sword, revealing the full blade. She then clawed at the ground for a moment, before raising the sword to the sky. She then thrust her arm up while pulling the sword down, and then clenched it into a fist.

A golden light started to cover her, moving to her upper arm where it formed a gold armlet punctuated by a bright green gem. The energy then formed around her waist, transforming into a golden belt with a green V marked on it. In addition, she gained a claw-like weapon on her left hand, colored pink and with various golden markings. Finally, her sword itself changed, the blade becoming longer and thinner, and gaining an ornate golden hilt embedded with red and green gems. It had also gained two bracers, one going down and covering the hand, and the other on the opposite side going up. The final decoration was a carving of Gingat's face in the center of the blade.

"RADIANT BEAST ARMOR!"

Unbeknownst to the four, a small wildcat was climbing out of the large robot at the moment. As she saw the Gingaman enter her super form, memories started to flood back.

"Wow, that's incredible!" Silver said, admiring the Ranger.

"Did you three really think you're the only one who gets a super form?" GingaPink said, tilting her head.

"I mean, we haven't seen it from anyone else, so…" Blue started.

"So, she gets to have an upgrade and we don't." Pink scoffed. "How come we're always left behind?"

"I don't know, Em." Green said. "Wanna sit back and watch them beat him up?"

"Oh, definitely."

The four powered-up Rangers rushed forwards, preparing to attack Torbagredor. Blue leaped up and dashed through the air, cutting right through the monster with her blades. Red quickly followed up by extending his rod weapon and jabbing the monster rapidly in the face as he was caught off guard.

Silver and GingaPink went next, the feline-themed warrior rapidly slicing at the monster's legs as Red finished his assault. Silver, meanwhile, flew up into the air and then rapidly fired down beams from his gun arm, making them rain down on the monster.

The combined beetle monster gave out an annoyed grunt, before letting out a roar, which knocked the three grounded Rangers off their feet, and the airborne Ranger out of the sky. The monster then fired out a laser beam from its horns, spinning around in order to sweep the Rangers away.

Blue, Rad, and GingaPink jumped out of the way of the beam, while Silver hit the ground after Torbagredor had swept past where he landed. The wolf quickly got back up to his feet, and then flew directly into the monster's back, delivering a powerful punch with his claw arm, launching it forward and to the ground.

The monster tried to push itself up but was quickly met with a kick to the face from Blue. This barely seemed to phase it, as it continued to get back to its feet. "What the hell is this guy made of?" Red asked, before firing a flurry of fireballs into the monster's back.

"Even in our super modes, we've only managed to make a few dents!" Silver said. "We need to figure out some way to hurt this thing!"

Blue quickly glanced at the monster. "Alright, I need you guys to back me up on something!" She said. "Saya, you're with me!"

GingaPink tilted her head, before running over to the rabbit. "What exactly do you have in mind?"

"Have your sword ready?" Blue asked.

"Uh, yeah." GingaPink replied. "What does that-"

"Just follow my lead!" Blue finished, scraping her blades together.

She then dashed forwards, GingaPink quickly running after her. The rabbit leaped up and slashed at the monster's side. "You take the other side!" Blue shouted at GingaPink. "Red, Silver, distract him for us!"

"Got it!" Silver said.

"What's she even trying to do?" Red asked as he watched GingaPink jump up and slice at the opposite side of the monster.

"I dunno, but Blue usually has something planned." Silver replied. "So, we should probably follow along."

Red nodded, and the two proceeded to fire at the monster. It let out another growl as it turned to the two other Rangers, leaving Blue and GingaPink alone for the moment.

"Alright, here's what we're going to do now." Blue started. "We just need to cut him on the front and on the back. I'll take the front, you take the back."

"We'll need to get really lucky to land anything on him." GingaPink replied. "Especially if we want to hurt him."

"Well, right now, I don't want to hurt him." Blue said. "Now, let's go! Leave as big a scratch on him as you can!"

Blue then dashed forwards again, sliding under the monster's legs, and then launching herself up with her strong legs. She pulled out her sword and tried to dig it into the monster's carapace as deep as she could. The strength of her jump launched her directly up to the monster's face, which she kicked off of.

Behind the monster, GingaPink had already followed. Without Blue's powerful rabbit legs, she was going to have to do something else to get a good slice in on the monster. She jumped up, and clawed into the monster's back, flinging herself up part of the monster's back. As she reached the top of the monster, she backflipped, and then slammed her sword down, slicing through the middle of the beast's back and to the ground.

The monster let out a roar, this time in pain. "Alright, we got him!" Blue said as everyone gathered near her. "Alright, time for the next phase. Let's just hope we're lucky."

"Lucky about what?" GingaPink asked. To the surprise of everyone, Blue transformed back to her basic Ranger form, in turn causing Red to do the same thing.

"Hey, what gives?" Red said, shocked. "How are we supposed to beat him without our super forms?"

"Saya, give me that crossbow weapon!" Blue said as she twirled her own daggers in her paws.

"Uh, why do you-" She was interrupted as the two pairs of weapons started to glow. Blue gave a nod, and then tossed her blades into the air. The Gingaman followed, tossing the crossbow into the air as well. The three weapons merged together, and then formed into something completely new.

It was a long ribbon-like whip. The handle was simple, being pink and having a standard looking guard on it. The whip itself was flat like a ribbon and alternated between dark pink and light squares along its length. At the end of the ribbon was a large, claw shaped blade, similar to the shape of the crossbow that made up part of it.

"Alright, this is even better than I thought!" Blue said. "Let's call it… the Galactic Claw Whip!"

"How is a whip going to help us?" Red asked, a bit annoyed and confused.

"See those markings that we made on Torbagredor?" Blue asked, pointing at the monster. Red looked over, seeing the large markings that had been cut into the monster's chest. Its sides also had large cuts in them as well, and in both cuts, flesh could be seen.

"Oh, I get it!" Silver said. "She's going to use the whip's claw to dig into the monster's skin, and then use that to weaken it!"

"Got it!" Blue replied. "And once its weakened enough, we can finish it off!"

"That's a really roundabout way of doing this." The pink armored hyena said from afar. "Could've just used the swords."

"With the whip's added length, using it cuts out all the danger of trying to get in close with a blade." Green replied to Pink.

Blue quickly stepped forward and lashed the whip forward. The ribbon extended out well past its previous length, and struck Torbagredor right in the chest scar, plunging directly into its flesh. The monster let out a roar.

The rabbit then pulled the whip back, causing it to retract. She made a quick motion with her paw, signalling the others to attack. Red readied his blade as he rushed in along with Silver and GingaPink.

"You two don't get to sit this one out!" Blue shouted over to the SPD officers.

"Well, it was a nice break while it lasted." Pink said as she got up. The two prepared their blasters.

"This didn't work before, don't expect it to work again!" The beetle monster roared. "I'll crush you flat!"

"Not this time!" Blue said as she lashed the whip forward again. It extended out and wrapped itself around Torbagredor's leg. She then gave a quick pull, causing the monster to fall onto its back. "Alright guys, attack the weak spots!"

Silver started to slash at the large cut on the monster's side, while Green and Pink fired their weapons at the cut on the opposite side. Red and GingaPink leaped up onto the monster's chest and plunged their swords into the wound. The combined pain caused the beetle monster to let out a roar, knocking all of them away.

The Rangers all gathered as the monster got back to its feet. "Alright, I say its time we finish this guy." GingaPink said.

"That means its time for the super finisher!" Blue declared. "Ready to go, Saya?"

GingaPink nodded. Blue then lashed the whip forwards, plunging it back into the monster's chest. Saya then hopped up onto the rope, balancing carefully. The whip suddenly straightened out, looking like it was about to snap.

"Galactic Launcher, Ginga Edition!" Blue said, before the whip suddenly pulled itself in, launching the two towards the giant monster. They were flung at incredibly high speeds and performed a double kick which seemed to go right through the monster. Torbagredor let out a roar of pain, before exploding into a massive cloud of fire.

"Nice!" Blue said, hopping up to give GingaPink a high five. The Rangers then watched as the smoke cleared, revealing two unconscious wolves, one grey and one white.

The six then turned back to Sambash who was still sitting on the amber piece, near the edge of the museum. "Well, looks like you beat him." The biker monster said as he stood up and picked the amber back up. "Shame, was hoping he'd smash you guys up some more, but we can't have everything."

"Give it up, Barban." GingaPink said, threateningly. "Give back the amber, and we'll let you go."

"Oh, sure." Sambash said. He then quickly raised a finger. "But aren't you guys forgetting something?"

A sudden red blur sped through the air, which was then followed by another similar red blur. The six Rangers watched as the blurs combined and then burst into a massive red explosion, reforming Torbagredor in the distance, now even more giant and with no wounds.

"Oh, damn it." Red muttered as the monster let out a roar.

"What's it gonna be, Zoorangers?" Sambash started. "Take me down and get the amber, or beat the giant monster and save the city? Either way, I win."

Blue glared at the monster for a moment. "Emily, Henry, go get those two wolves somewhere safe, we're gonna go finish that monster off."

"Come on, we can take Sam-" Pink started, before Blue turned to glare at her. "Alright, fine."

"We can't seriously be letting him go." Red said as he watched Sambash walk off.

"We can stop him later, we need to deal with this NOW." Blue said. She then turned to GingaPink. She held up the new whip weapon, which started to glow and then separated into Blue's blades and GingaPink's crossbow, alongside a new pink ZooTag. "Take your weapon. Go talk to Kat, see if she's remembered anything yet."

GingaPink gave a nod, and took the crossbow out of the rabbit's paws..

"She's over there." Red said in response, pointing over to ZooKitsune. "Alright, Blue, call up your mech and we can get this over with."

"Hey, don't leave me out of this!" Silver followed.

The two quickly summoned up ZooSagi and ZooKami. The fox and rabbit mechs fused together into ZooRobo, while the wolf mech quickly transformed into ZooOkami, both of them crashing into the ground outside the city.

Sambash looked on as he walked off, giving a light chuckle.

The monster let out a roar as it charged at the two mechs. They quickly held the monster back with their bodies, keeping it from getting any closer to the city. After a moment, Torbagredor pushed the two mechs back with enough force to knock both of them to the ground.

"Yikes, this guy is still strong!" Red said as both of the mechs got up.

"Well, that just means we have to put more muscle into it!" Blue replied. The two mechs stomped forwards, swords drawn, and started to slash at the monster.

Unfortunately, barely any damage seemed to have been caused, as the monster smacked ZooOkami back with a single punch.

"I think we should fuse together!" Silver said. "We might be able to take him on then."

"Just hold on." Blue ordered. "We just need to hold out for a tiny bit longer."

"Uh, okay." Red said. "You got something planned?"

"You know it."

The monster let out another roar, before it shot a laser burst from its horns. The lasers struck at the two mecha's feet, causing smoke and sparks to erupt. In response, ZooOkami stomped forwards, preparing to attack with its blade.

As the mech lifted its blade up to swing it at the monster, the beetle quickly gripped onto its metallic arm with one of its own massive arms. It then grabbed the other arm, and lifted the mech into the air, before throwing it off into the field.

The mecha crashed and rolled across the ground. "Uggh…" Silver let out as it finally stopped. "I'm not feeling that great right now…"

The monster then proceeded to stomp towards the red and blue mecha, preparing to attack.

Meanwhile, back on the ground, Saya was looking for the mysterious pink wildcat. After a bit of searching, she had found the cat sitting out in front of the museum's gates. She was huddled up by the stone gates, ears drooping.

"Are you alright?" Saya asked, kneeling down.

"I remembered everything once you transformed." She said.

Saya paused, and then sat down next to the cat. "Me and Judy had assumed that something like that would trigger it." She said. "I suppose are assumptions were right."

"For what its worth, I had a lot of fun down here." The wildcat said with a chuckle. "I liked to talk, to look someone else in the eyes, to have someone really care about me."

"I've always cared about you." Saya said, patting the cat on the head. "You know that."

The cat giggled. "I know, but I felt like I was treated like a normal animal, and not some kind of super hero." She continued. "It was nice to experience what life is like for you, Saya, even if it was just one day."

The cat stood up, and looked off into the horizon, watching the beetle monster and giant mech fight. "They're going to need our help." Saya said as she stood up as well.

"I know." The wildcat said with a sigh. She then turned to look at the Gingaman. "When all this is done, can you tell Nick that I'm proud of him, and Max that I'll miss him?"

Saya nodded.

The cat took a deep breath and closed her eyes. After a moment, they burst open, now completely orange. She then started to glow with a pink energy, before suddenly flying off into the sky. This was quickly followed by a spectacular pink explosion, and a much larger figure falling down.

A massive wildcat crashed into the ground, planted on all fours and covered in pink fur. It had glowing orange eyes, and paler pink skin. Unlike other giant objects used by Sentai Rangers, this one seemed to be mostly organic. The massive cat let out a growl, before GingaPink leaped up onto it.

"Alright, Gingat, let's go teach Barban a lesson!" GingaPink yelled. The cat then charged forwards, bounding through the city until it reached the outskirts.

"What was that?" Emily asked, her and Henry having just caught the entire event.

"Uh, don't ask me." Henry said with a sigh and a shrug.

The massive cat leaped into the field as ZooRobo and Torbagredor locked themselves in combat, the robot's blade to the monster's wrist. Gingat let out a roar as it leaped forward and tackled the monster in the side, knocking it down.

"Yes!" Blue shouted, pumping her fist.

"What the heck is that?" Red asked. "Looks like a big pink, rat."

"That's Gingat." Blue said. "You know, the robot we were looking for earlier?"

The fox paused for a moment. "Wait, why did it just show up now?" He asked, confused.

"We can talk about that later." Blue said. "Right now, we're gonna combine and beat the crud out of this guy!"

Gingat suddenly started to glow, and then transformed into a glowing ball of light. It flew at ZooRobo and merged into it. Inside, the cockpits shifted around as a third one rose up from below. The new platform was pink and had a large silver and pink cylindrical station on it, which in turn had a large silver spike jutting up from its middle. GingaPink stood in front of it, and then glanced around.

"Hey, you got anything there that could maybe plug into a slot on your thing?" Red asked.

"Uhh." The feline warrior said. She pulled out a small, pink, rectangular object, and spotted a hole that matched it on the cylinder. "Yeah, I think I do!" She quickly plugged the ZooTag in.

"GIN GA GIN GIN!
FASTER THAN LIGHT!
KIRA KIRA VICTORY!
ZOONEKO!"

A new mech suddenly materialized. This one was feline shaped, and entirely pink. It was far more mechanical looking than Gingat had previously been, matching with the other mechs that they had gotten. It had the large ears that Gingat had previously had but was more svelte and looked more agile.

It let out a growl, before dashing forwards at the monster as it got back up, seemingly cutting right through it. The beetle monster fell back to the ground, groaning in pain as the cat mech reappeared behind him. It then leaped up into the air, and suddenly split in two. ZooRobo started to shift around as the new mech flew towards it.

The insides of the mech's body folded out to reveal panels that unfurled to reveal a large cat head. The two halves of the body then started to fold around each other, legs crunching into the hollowed-out section. Panels started to fold over the two chunks, turning them into arms, ending with what was previously the cat's head as hands.

The arms and chest piece connected, the later of which quickly opened up to reveal a pink facemask resembling a knight's helmet, complete with a pink plume. The mech smashed its fists together and then struck a pose.

"ZOOROBO, NEKO MODE!"

"You think something like that is going to be enough to beat me!?" The monster roared. "You couldn't even defeat me with your weapons, and you think you can beat me just by punching me!?"

"Yeah, I think its pretty safe to say we can." Blue said.

The monster was shocked by the response, and unable to reply. It let out a roar, and then charged forwards, aiming to pummel the mecha.

Just as it tried to throw a punch at the mech, ZooRobo ducked under the punch and quickly moved to the side, causing the monster to miss. Torbagredor was left confused and open for attack. The mech quickly jabbed its fists forward, punching at the monster's sides with incredible speed.

After just a moment of punching, there was a loud crack, and the beetle monster let out a screech of pain as it stumbled backwards. It inspected its side, noticing that a large crack had formed in its carapace.

"What!? How could this-!?" The monster said in disbelief. "How could you do this to me!?"

"Looks like he needs to PUNCH in more often!" Red joked.

"Speaking of punching in, how about we punch out?" GingaPink said, cracking her knuckles.

The mech dashed forwards and uppercut the monster in the chin. It then followed by unleashing a barrage of lightning fast punches as soon as the monster went into the air. It then punched with both fists, launching the beetle up even more.

"METEOR GALACTIC PUNCH!"

The mech rushed forwards, and then launched itself into the air with an uppercut. It grazed past the airborne monster, causing it to spin around. As ZooRobo passed, it kicked off the monster, launching the beetle back to the ground and sending itself up more. It then raised its fist, gathering pink energy in them, before flying downwards. It collided with the monster, causing a massive explosion to erupt.

Left standing was ZooRobo, who struck a pose.

"Nature, protected!"

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"So, wait, Kat was actually the Gingat we were looking for the whole time?" Max asked as the six waited in the outskirts of the city. The massive Gingat sat patiently, looking up towards the stars.

"Yeah, me and Saya guessed earlier that something like that was happening." Judy said. "We didn't want to tell you guys because it would have gotten weird."

"Fair enough." Nick said. "But… how did that even happen to her? You can't just lose that much weight in a single interdimensional travel, right?"

"It could have something to do with the dimensional transit." Henry started. "We've only seen the Rangers from the other world bring inorganic objects over, and Gingat there is partially organic, right?"

"Yeah, she has an armored mechanical form." Saya said. "But we only use it when me and my team combine our Star Beasts."

"What if the transfer caused some kind of disruption in reality that caused her to transform like that?" Henry suggested.

"I've seen things like that in comic books and stuff." Max said. "Everything's pretty strange lately, so that could be likely."

"Wait, so does that mean that you guys would transform if you got brought here without your suits?" Emily asked Saya.

"…Listen, I have no idea, and I don't really want to know." The Gingaman responded.

A whistle sounded in the air, and the six turned to look up at the stars. The Rainbow Line had arrived and stopped in front of them. It had a massive box cart on it. The door on the passenger cart slid open, which was then followed by a massive grate sliding up on the box cart.

"I guess this is goodbye." Saya said to the others. She turned to look at Max. "Gingat wanted me to tell you that she liked how nice you treated her."

"R-really?" The wolf said, shocked. "Can you tell her… thanks?"

"I think she can hear you." Saya said with a giggle. She then turned to Nick. "And she wanted to tell you that she's proud of what you did today."

"Uh, yeah." The fox let out. "I appreciated her help."

Saya and Gingat headed for the train. She gave a quick wave to the five as the door closed, while Gingat let out a meow.

The train sped off into the night sky, and then vanished with a flash of light.

"We're gonna head back home now." Emily said, sounding tired. "Today was exhausting."

"I'm heading back too." Max said. "See you two tomorrow."

The three headed off, leaving the fox and rabbit behind in the field. "So, you managed to talk to ZooKitsune, right?" Judy asked as she turned to the fox. "What did it tell you?"

"Uh, mostly just self assuring statements." Nick said as he rubbed the back of his neck. Judy gave him an odd look. "But it said something about our big bad." He quickly added.

"Really?" She said, surprised. "How does a mech know about our villain?"

"Something about being connected to the planet's energy." Nick said. "I dunno, but the interesting part is that our bad guy ISN'T from another universe!"

"What!?"

"Yeah, apparently whatever is behind this has been from our world this entire time!" The fox continued.

"That raises a LOT of questions." The rabbit said, placing her paw to her chin. "How could something powerful enough to break through dimensions have existed here without anyone noticing…? Did it say anything else?"

"Well, she…" The fox paused in thought for a moment. "No, didn't say anything else."

"But you just started to-"

"I remembered wrong." He said. "I know nothing else."

"Alright." The rabbit said with a shrug. "I'm gonna have to do some serious investigating when we get home…"

The fox let out a sigh. Hopefully the other detail that he was told had nothing to do with this.

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Yogostein sifted through a large pile of gemstones on the table. He let out a grumble as he lifted up what looked like a pearl. "Bah, idiot Sambash…" He muttered as he examined it. "'Oh, I only need real gems, can you sort the fake ones out for me?'" He continued in a whiny voice. "Should have said that earlier, I could have come up with something to help!"

He wouldn't have been as upset if it wasn't three in the morning and he wasn't even halfway through the pile.

He looked at the pearl very closely. "Fake." He said, before tossing it behind him. A much larger pile of gems laid behind the mechanical monster, consisting only of fake gemstones. Very profitable if they sold them on the black market, but otherwise worthless to Sambash's big plan. The pearl bounced off a large lump in the wall before falling into the pile.

"Gotta say though, guy can come up with a showstopping plan when he sets his mind to it." Yogostein said. "Hope he can actually pull it off!"

Yogostein pulled out a large sapphire and looked at it. "Definitely real." He said after only a moment. He pushed it over to a much smaller pile. Next was a large chunk of diamond. "Fake." He said almost instantly. "How do you fake a big chunk like this?"

He tossed it behind him, where it hit the large lump. The size of the fake diamond caused the wall to crack. Yogostein was unaware of this and was shocked as something crashed down behind him.

"What the hell?" The robot said as he turned around. His jaw dropped as he saw what had fallen.

A golden figure, emitting a large amount of light.

The figure got to its feet as its stretched its arms and neck. "Took long enough." It said, before turning to Yogostein.

"L-L-L-L-L-L-L…" The robot stammered.

The figure let out a laugh as it stepped forwards. "Let me finish that for you."

"Long is back."

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This episode took me three months to write and its probably not that great for all that wait, sorry. I'll try to get the next one out faster, since its going to be prrrrettty easy.

That's right, next episode is a clip show.