"Professor Nimnul!" Chip and Dale gasped.
"So who's this guy?" Scooby asked. His teeth already chattering in fear.
"He's a crazed scientist who's always trying to take over the world with some zany over the top and often convoluted invention," Chip explained.
"Good thing for us he's just so bad at it," Dale laughed.
"So he's just like Dr. Drakken," Rufus concluded.
"Hey, don't clump me in with that imbecile!" Nimnul protested.
"What you can understand us? Humans aren't suppose to understand animal speech!" the heroic animals gasped, while the evil animals all snickered.
"Yes that's true," Nimnul chuckled. "A long time ago, what seemed like another lifetime, I couldn't understand animals. But then during one of my most brilliant invention that would allow me to transport myself through telephone wires..."
"Hey that's the one where our bodies got switched!" Dale interrupted.
"Yes," Nimnul confirmed with a hint of annoyance. "Anyway, that was when my head got switched with that of disgusting fly!"
"Hey, Zipper is not disgusting!" Chip and Dale protested.
Ignoring them Nimnul continued, "Even after I got switched back, I must have still retained some of that fly's DNA because I could still understand animals!" he ranted. "At first I thought I was going mad, but then I realized that it was a blessing in disguise. I soon learned that there, just like humans, there are criminal animals all over the world. Animals that I was able to bribe to assist me in my latest scheme to take over the world!" Nimnul gloated.
"And that would be?" Rufus asked. One thing he learned fighting with Kim Possible is that villains tend to spoil their own plans by bragging it to the heroes.
"Well you've seen phase one, where I used the Stun Bomb on the entire populace." Nimnul boasted. "Phase two is where me and my animal allies go steal all the gold around the world. Phase three I wake up all the people and since I have all the gold, for them to name me the king of the world, and if they don't comply, I will put them back to sleep."
"That my get you to rule the earth," Chip agreed. "But what did you promise them?" Chip pointing to all the other animals.
"Not much, I get to rule the humans, and they get whatever it is they want. Fat Cat wanted to control the fish market, Blowhole want's control of the seas, Quackor just wants to destroy some lab own this Dexter kid. What's up with that?" Nimnul shrugged. "And so on and so forth."
At this point, the heroic animals started to grin at each other. It was obvious to everyone except to Nimnul that his so called allies were playing him. There's no way they would let him rule the world while they only get scraps. All they needed to do was to get them to reveal their true intentions and the infighting among the villains will begin.
"Really, Fat Cat? You're doing all of this just to become a fish salesman. If that's all you wanted, I know of a few grocery stores who are hiring." Dale teased.
"Hey Blowhole, doesn't that mean fatso over there will be munching up your subjects." Buck mocked pointing to Fat Cat.
"My Professor Pericles, you certainly have fallen, going from the mastermind of the original Mystery Inc. to this guy's stooge." Scooby laughed.
"Hey Quackor, your mother is a bird!" Bullet yelled.
"Okay, what's your point?" Quackor not getting the insult since her mother is literally a bird.
"I believe that they are attempting to provoke us into revealing our malicious intentions in an attempt to get us to betray one another, hence giving them the advantage to thwarting us." Professor Pericles mused.
"Huh?" they all said since they couldn't understand all the fancy words the old parrot was saying.
"Enough chit chatting!" Red Squirrel grunted in frustration. "Let's just destroy them now so that I can get back to planning on back stabbing all of you!" The other villainous animals all voiced in agreement. Seeing no other way out of this, all the heroic animals prepared for battle.
Knowing that she's the only one who can handle a super powered duck, Bullet immediately dived at Quackor to keep her away from her friends. Buck started chasing after the Red Squirrel determined to capture his long time foe. Blowhole activated his deadly laser equipped on his segway, which Hamster 2 countered pulling out his own laser he just made out of parts he scavenged from Drakken's lab. Chip, Dale, and Rufus were doing their signature run around, getting the large animals like Fat Cat and his gang to crash into the other animals like the Fluffy Bunch. Scooby chased around Pericles, still miffed how the bird made fools of him and his friends. Brain, Masked Dog, and Snowy were playing cat and dog against the S.F.F.A.T.L. While Chim-Chim and Zebra Donkey were performing various gymnastics to either swing around their foes or to flip over them before attacking. Leaving only Courage to face off against Nimnul himself!
Not wanting to be the weak link, Courage put up a brave face against the mad scientist hoping to bluff him. He even sprayed some cream into his mouth to make it look like he's gone mad. Where he got the can of cream is question best left unanswered. Thankfully his bluff worked as Nimnul started cowering in fear of the little pink dog. But then it all started to go down hill.
"Hey watch it!" they heard Rufus scream. That's when all the trouble started. Due to the fact that they've never worked with Rufus before, Chip and Dale couldn't coordinate with him and they ended up crashing into each other as well.
"BOUNCY BALL of JUSTICE!" Masked Dog screamed turning his body into a ball. Suppressing the urge to 'fetch' him, Brain used him as a bowling ball and knocked down the S.F.F.A.T.L. in a strike. Unfortunately, Brain wasn't paying attention and accidentally sent Masked Dog rolling into Chim-Chim and Zebra Donkey as well.
"I've got you now!" Buck declared fighting the Red Squirrel. Wanting to finish off his foe with style, Buck opted to use his signature cork screw. But he over jumped it a bit and hit Bullet instead. Quackor took advantage of this fortuitous situation and grabbed both Bullet and Buck and hurled them straight into a wall.
Hamster 2 was still engaged with Blowhole, blasting each other with what ever weapon they had. Though where Hamster 2 was keeping all of his weapons is never made clear. As luck would have it Blowhole's segway started to malfunction due to his flipper hitting the wrong button. Seeing his chance, Hamster 2 took aim and fired his laser straight at Blowhole. Regaining control of his segway, Blowhole manage to activated his personal shield just in time to deflecting the laser blast and send it flying at Scooby who had just caught Pericles in his mouth.
Realizing that the heroes were falling apart, Nimnul regain his courage and began attacking Courage! Seeing all of his friends losing to the mean and scary looking villains, not to mention all the villains surrounding him, Courage couldn't help but to start screaming uncontrollably while running in circles out of sheer panic. Catching everyone's attention. In fact he screamed so loudly that his tongue ripped out of his mouth and landed on the floor for everyone to see. "Ew gross!" everyone gagged. Courage then took a minute to pick up his dismembered tongue and reattach it in his mouth. He then shrugged at everyone hinting that this sort of thing happens to him a lot. "Ugh, why?" "I'm going to be sick!" "Can't unsee that!" they all choked, some even starting to hurl.
"And I thought I was a coward," Scooby commented. While he's not shy about admitting his flaws, Scooby has never screamed so loudly that any of his body parts came off.
Seeing everyone distracted by that disturbing display, and not really being bothered by it since she's seen worst done to monsters, Bullet flew as fast as she could and rescued Captain Contradiction from his bindings!
"Stop her!" Nimnul ordered still trying to keep himself from regurgitating.
"Bring it!" Buck challenged ready for round two.
"No, there's too many of them, we've got to get this man to safety!" Scooby said.
As much as Buck hates to run from a fight, he's enough of a military man/penguin to know when retreat is the better part of valor. "Fine," he said as he coughed up some smoke bombs to cover their escape.
"They're gone!" Nimnul snarled as the smoke cleared with no sign of the animal heroes or Contradiction. "Find them and bring them back here, dead or alive! Preferably dead!" Nimnul ordered.
"Excuse me boss, but I think that is a bad idea." Pericles advised.
"Who asked you?" Nimnul snapped. He always hated being countermanded.
"If we divide up our forces, then our defenses will be weakened. We already know that they will return for the Stun Bomb, so it is prudent that we protect it at all cost. Remember my dear doctor, the best offense is a good defense." Pericles advised.
Nimnul considered this very carefully. "Alright, but we are not taking any chances. We're moving the Stun Bomb to my other lab."
"Excellent idea," Pericles grinned.
Meanwhile in a cave about a half a mile from the lair. The Ranger Plane was landing at the camp that the animals were making. Chip and Dale went back for it since there was no way they were going to leave it in enemy territory. "What the heck was that all about? I've seen better teamwork from mongooses and cobras, and those guys hate each other!" Buck ranted at his teammates.
"Right and I guess you cork screwing me was part of your team strategy?" Bullet shot back using air quotes.
"They've got a point though. What is with you guys zipping like that. You should have zagged." Rufus said.
"Hey our zipping has always worked. It was your zagging that messed us up." Chip argued.
"At least you guys didn't get rolled over like a bowling pin," Chim-Chim complained.
"Yeah dudes what's up with that?" Zebra Donkey agreed.
"Lay off, there was no way of us knowing that you would have been in the line of fire." Snowy defended.
"Just like dogs to stick together and leave the rest of us fend for ourselves." Hamster 2 snorted. He's always had a bad history with dogs.
"Hey as I recall, it was your ray gun that zapped me!" Scooby pointed out.
Over to the side, Captain Contradiction sat quietly plugging his ears. He did not know what the animals were saying, but he had enough of all the noise they were making. "QUIET!" he screamed. Soon all the animals were silent. "Look I don't know what's going on here, and I'm not really sure if you guys can understand me at all, but I have a job to do. Whatever grievances you have with each other is not important right now. The important thing is that we have to stop that madman and his pets. Now I know I can't do this alone, I'm going to need your help. The only question is are you willing to put aside your differences and work with me?" Contradiction asked no pleaded.
"He's right," Scooby said sadly. "Look I know that we are not really a team but look at us. Rescue Rangers, Military Penguins, Secret Agents, Luchador, Mystery Inc. I don't know you all on a personal level, but I've seen enough to know that we are all talented individuals. Some of us have even saved the world from time to time. Now I know we all came together through various circumstance and have different motives for being here, but there is one thing that we have in common. We don't want the bad guys to win. And if they can pull together for this, then we can as well. What do you say? Can we all be a team for at this mission at least?" Scooby holding his paw out.
The animals all looked at each other hesitantly, not sure of what to do. "Alright I'm in," Buck said placing his flipper on Scooby's paw.
"Me too," Brain said placing his paw on theirs as well.
"I'd be ashamed to call myself a Powerpuff if I didn't," Bullet said extending her paw.
"I will follow as per the code of masked wrestling," Masked Dog adding his paw.
"As a reporter I definitely want to be in the center of all the action," Snowy joked putting in his paw.
"I've traveled with you guys this far, might as well see the ending performance." Zebra Donkey placing his hoof in.
"Well I don't want that Dr. Blowhard showing me up," Hamster 2 said getting riled up.
"If helping you guys will help Ron and Kim, then I'm in." Rufus pledged.
"I don't know if I'll be much help, but I've got to save Muriel." Courage said with determination.
"What about you two?" Scooby asked the last two remaining members.
"Come on Chip, let's join the team." Dale said eagerly.
"Well if you guys are serious about becoming a team, then we should at least look the part." Chip said as he headed towards the Ranger Plane. Opening he trunk he pulled out all the fedora hats he had stored in there.
"You know I always wondered why you never seem to lose your hat on our missions," Dale commented.
Ignoring his friend, Chip proceeded to hand out his hats to his companions. "I know that the probably won't fit some of you, but I think this will work as our uniforms." Chip said. As expected a chipmunk size hat did look ridiculous on some of the larger animals, but none of them seemed to mind. All except for one who didn't receive a hat.
"I guess I don't need one," Dale sulked. Even though he understands why Chip won't give him one, he still felt bad about being left out.
"Here Dale, you've earned it." Chip said proudly placing a fedora on his longtime friend's head.
"Sweet, does this mean I get to lead the Rescue Rangers as well?" Dale joked.
"Yeah, in your dreams." Chip laughed pulling Dale's hat over his eyes.
"Alright guys, now that we have our uniforms, it's time for us to make plans." Scooby said getting everyone back in focus.
Off to the side, Contradiction watched proudly as the animals started working together. And he couldn't help but be amused by their new fashion statement. "Animals in fedoras. Now that's a crazy idea." he chuckled placing the tiny fedora the chipmunk gave him on his head.