Episode 24-"Reality Bytes"

Dateline:Central NJ University. Vin was walking along the campus. At the same time, a group of students were practicing poses in an intramural karate class. Vin heard the twelve students yell. He took a glance at the class as he was reminded of his aikido classes he had taken during high school, reminising his sensei showing him to do his kata.

As he watched fascinatingly, he saw a familiar face instructing the others.

After the session, Vin yelled out, "Hey! Sensei Luciano!"

"Vin? Vin Henderson! Long time no see!" Anthony Luciano was Vin's sensei and fencing coach for his old high school Woodside. They get together at the cafeteria.

"It's good to see you staying out of trouble, Vin.." said Anthony. Most of your fellow students didn't make it through college. Despite that, they are working.. It was a rough area I was teaching, after all.."

"Blame my parents..." Vin said. "You may say because of them, despite the surroundings, my family and I was able to get out of the hood in one piece..Don't worry, sensei..at least there's someone else who appreciated you getting in their lives..How long have you been teaching Intramural Karate on campus?"

"At least two weeks now..I'm actually preparing for this major Aikido tournament in L.A. that's about to happen in a month, so I'll possibly even get a chance to perform as a stuntman or bodyguard in Hollywood."

"You, Sensei? What's your ultimate goal, to become the next Steven Seagal, or Jet Li, or even Steve James?"

"I have a cousin in Westwood who does this stuff for a living..Even if he's used as an extra playing a tough guy or something.." continued Anthony.

"That's cool..Hope everything works out.." said Vin.

A little later, Vin arrives back at Alex's faculty office, where the other four team members were hanging out. "What's happening, people?"

"Nada, leader man.."said Nick. "Same old same old.." mid-terms coming up and all that.. Don't you ever study?"

"Took care of that.." said Vin. "..in between free period..I just have to get ready for this paper on Filmmaking I soon, maybe tomorrow.." As soon as Vin completed his response, an alarm went off on the Scanrangers communicators.

"What's the matter, Rosewood?" said Alex.

MAYHEM's on the attack! This time it's downtown Leewood Park!"

"Everyone! Scramble!" said Alex.

"RIGHT!" said the five.

The team teleport to the center of town. Meanwhile, a hand grabbed an innocent civilian and threw him towards a park bench. Then, a tail electrocuted another.On the other side of the park stood Ug as he walked through the MAYHEM vortex.

"Heh heh heh heh!" the general laughed. That's it, KuroSkeeter! Continue to press the attack! Smash anyhting that gets in your way! KuroSkeeter was the most recent created CyberCreature, which had an armored shell on top of its robotic body. The monster's head was shaped like a mosquito, with a much longer stinger.

Suddenly, KuroSkeeter was hit by an energy blast! It came from the combined might of the ScanLasers wielded by the movie task force!

"Hey, Ug-ly!" shouted GreenScanner. "What's wrong? Ran out of muscle bound maroons to play with? Now that you're bugging out!"

Blast you, Scanrangers! You'll be the ones who'll be bugging, as you Earthlings would say..KuroSkeeter! Take care of them!" Ug teleports through the vortex.

"I'm itching to get my hands on you Scumrangers!" said KuroSkeeter. I hear that you Earthlings are swarming with potential hosts! And speaking of swarms.." The cybercreature calls up a swarm of mosquitoes to attack the team!

"Mosquitoes! Millions of them!" YellowScanner cried as he and the others tried to swat them away.

"How?" said PinkScanner. "This isn't their season!"

"They're nibbling through my bodysuit!" cried RedScanner. "I can't seem to get them off me!"

"Sorry, Scanrangers..I didn't properly introduce you to my RoboSkeeters..They were programmed to eat anything that tasted like humans! They flew in for a long flight, and they are very, very hungry!" continued KuroSkeeter.

BlueScanner noticed KuroSkeeter humming as the robotic insects continued their assault. "Guys! Let me try something!" B.C. then summons up his Comedy Film Energy. He becomes one with the high pitched scream of Lou Costello once more, "AAABBOTTTT!" The scream disrupts the cybercreature's control of its RoboSkeeters, as they fall helplessly to the ground.

"What? My RoboSkeeters! You'll all pay for that!" said Kuroskeeter.

Yellow rushes in to attack before the monster recovers. "WARP SPEED SMASH!" Kunio punches KuroSkeeter in his face! Green follows with his "DISC LAUNCHER!", shooting his explosive DVD's. Pink follows through with her "FILM SPLICER SHIELD!", smashing the cybercreature's face also. Red then goes to his finishing move. Twisting his Swashbuckler Sword, he calls up his "ABARENBO ATTACK!" Vin then strikes Kuroskeeter down with the "ABARENBO SLASH!" The cybercreature armored metallic body began exploding, about to go down.

"CONFOUND THOSE SCANRANGERS!" cried Ug. "BYTE!" The metal spider went down the vortex, on its way to the fallen monster to enlarge it.

Yellow noticed Byte was on its way to charge up KuroSkeeter. "Not this time, you traitor!" Kunio referred to his former stolen science project.

"Huh?" said Byte.

Using his FilmBlade as a baseball bat, Kunio swats Byte back up into space, through the vortex, and back onto Nebultopia. "POW! DEEP TO LEFT CENTER! THAT BALL IS GOING, GOING, YOU CAN TELL THAT ONE GOODBYE!" Mikey then imitates an applauding crowd. "AAAAAAAAHHHHH! AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!"

"Good move, YellowScanner! You taught that spider what for!" said Blue.

"Ahh, me public! Now, now, no autographs, please.." replied Mikey. The others laugh together with him. "Hey! The monster's gone!"

"Probably crawled home to Mommy Blackorg..Ha ha!" laughed Red.

And back in Nebultopia..

Blackorg zaps General Ug alongside the wall. "UG! YOU STUPID EXCUSE FOR A WARLORD!!" he shouted. "HOW CAN YOU PERMIT THOSE SCANRANGERS TO DEFEAT YOU?!?"

"M-my Lord! B-but it wasn't my fault..I.."

"SILENCE! Everything I have seen is the same!" Blackorg then displays a screen showing Ug, Vixen, and Key various cybercreatures they sent to conquer the earth, and yet each time thwarted by the Scanrangers. "Had it not been for that pompous fool Benedict, I would have replaced all of you a long time ago! It is high time that you use the stolen power against those children..starting right now!!" With a wave of his hand, he blasts his henchmen with a force bolt at each of their brains. For a few moments, they lain unconscious. With another wave of the dark master's hand, he awakens them.

There was a difference in each of the three. Anark Key, instead of his usual leather jacket, was armed with red armor with spiked shoulder pads, with a faux eyelash under his left eye, like one of the gang members from 'A Clockwork Orange.'

Vixen didn't have much of a change, except she was also dressed in leather armor like Xena. Ug's helmet was different, with longer horns and a much gruesome samurai type face.

"And now..my MAYHEM captains..not only I've spared your pathetic lives..I have awakened your new Dark Energy, the same way you, Key, used against the Scanrangers, can do it again! Vixen, you enjoy playing with human males for your own pleasure..Use those wiles to manipulate their minds! As for you Ug, I shall increase your brain power for warfare! Now, the time has come to strike!" Blackorg then walks over to the injured KuroSkeeter and takes a piece of his broken cyberchip. He then plucks one of Byte's legs, and molds the two parts in a ball, creating another robotic insect, similar to Byte.

"Yes, my lord!!" said Ug with KuroSkeeter kowtowing to the master. Byte, with one leg missing now, hops up the dark master's arm.

"But Lord Blackorg..What about me? What can I do?"

"Byte! You know well not to question my motives..After your failed attempts to finish those Scanrangers..you are very close to serving your purpose! I have no use for an incompetent experiment!" As Blackorg continues, Byte recalls being beaten by his original creator, YellowScanner via his sword. The word 'traitor' echoes through his tiny nerdy brain..

Back on campus, Vin's sensei was just driving off the CJU parking lot onto the road. As he drove about a half mile, something got in his way. "LOOK OUT!" Anthony cried as he swerved his car. It then went into a ditch.

"HEY! Are you crazy? Trying to jump out into the street like that? I'll-" Anthony was surprised to see KuroSkeeter, now rebuilt, and then was grabbed by his neck. The monster then lifted him up, about to strangle him.

Act two

Unable to get a footing to defend himself, Anthony was about to lose consciousness, until..

"HYAAHH!" KuroSkeeter had been kicked in the face by Vin, who heard his teacher was in grave danger. "Sensei! Sensei! Are you all right?"

"I'm better..Vin..Thanks!"

"You better get out of here, Sensei! Go get help! I'll hold them off!" Vin hoped to get Anthony away to give himself an advantage by transforming to RedScanner.

"No way! That thing snuck me! The two of us together can take him!"

Vin was about to debate the issue, yet it would jeopardize his secret identity. "Hope the others come quickly..I could probably take that cybercreature by myself, but for now, I need to buy some time.." Anthony and Vin kicked KuroSkeeter, but this time, the monster blocked the kick and slapped them both aside.

"You hurt my stinger! You're not nice!" said KuroSkeeter. "Not nice at all!"

"Well, this next punch's gonna make you float like a butterfly!" As Vin was about to strike KuroSkeeter, an energy chain snagged Vin's arm. He was then dragged to the side.

"Just like your kind ought to be dressed up in..It fits you well!" Anark Key made his appearance, in his new powered up form. He lifts up the bounded Vin. "You know what? It's time you got taken out like the rest of the trash!" Key tosses Vin inside a dumpster.

"Vin!" shouted Anthony. "Hang in there!" Vin's sensei ran towards Vin to save him. He then hesitated, and found himself back in his gym. "W-What's going on?" he questioned. Anthony saw one of his old girlfriends approach him. "Nancy?" She came in with workout clothes on and without a word, asked him to come hither.

"I want to apologize to you, Tony.." said the woman. "I want to put things right.." She puts his hand on his shoulder, and then..zaps him into unconsciousness! 'Nancy' was actually Vixen, using her telepathic/empathic powers against him.

"Oh, yes! All too easy.." Vixen grinned. "Perhaps I could use you for my own harem up in Nebultopia..You are indeed very strong..Mmmm.." Vixen then looks up and sees the other four Scanrangers ascend to the battle.

"Ah, nice of all of you to drop in..." continued the now-powered up warrior woman. "It is time to finish what we've originally started..to end your miserable lives!"

"Talk is cheap..Vixen.." replied Pink.

"Get them, KuroSkeeter!" demanded Ug. The cybercreature was about to use its RoboSkeeter attack again. Blue was about to call on his 'Costello Cry' once more, but Anark Key caught him by surprise, and gagged him. Although B.C. didn't have an open helmet, Key's gag was powerful enough to mentally quiet him and neutralized his Film Energy powers. The RoboSkeeters attacked the other rangers once again.

Out of the blue, another energy blast hit KuroSkeeter. This time, it came from one other-SilverScanner and his MagnumSilver blaster!

Vin wakes from unconsciousness as his sensei was still out cold, which gave him the opportunity to transform. "I'll get you out of this, Sensei! LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! REDSCANNER!"

"The game's over, MAYHEM! We're gonna squash your little pest, then we'll squash your evil plans!" Vin shouts in defiance. The others join Red in full sentai pose. "SOLDIERS OF THE SILVER SCREEN! MOVIE TASK FORCE-SCANRANGER!"

"Yeah, whatever!" said Key. "Our new powers are more than enough to stop you! Now we'll.." Key somehow loses his energy and nothing happens. He couldn't use his energy chains! Vixen and Ug were powered down also. "What happened? Our energies are gone!"

Blackorg responds back at base. "Your energy is gone, fools, because you used it so quickly and rapidly. The power I give you is only used once, at most three times per battle!" Now it will be another time which I shall permit you to use it!"

"Your luck will not last long, Scanrangers! We'll get you next time!" shouted Vixen. She and the two captains teleport from the battle.

"W-Why you..you!" cried KuroSkeeter, wounded during the battle.. "I'll..

"You! You! You're going down for the count, needle nose!" said Red. "CAMZOOKA!" The weapon materialzes as the others hold it over their shoulders and arms itself to target the cybercreature. "Set the focus! Fire!" The Camzooka easily takes out KuroSkeeter.

Anthony was helped out of the dumpster by Yellow. "W-Where's Vin?" "If you're talking about that guy in the red and white jacket, I saw him run off to hide..I'm pretty sure he's safe..I'd be scared too, if I saw an alien from way. way out to attack me!" said Yellow. Silver then assisted Anthony back to the campus.

No sooner that the karate instructor was gone, Blackorg teleported onto the battle scene, walking towards the Scanrangers. The evil one was furious, with his right fist clenched and holding his Metalstaff in his left hand as he was about to fight!

"Blackorg!!" said Red. "So, you want a piece of the action, too? Well, let's get it on!"

"Fool! I have no time to deal with you as yet!" he replied. "I shall destroy you when the time will be indeed convienient.For now, I shall let you suffer! Activate! KillerByte!"

Within the workings of the cybercreature, the robotic insect implanted within KuroSkeeter began to hum, and it began to poke the monster's mechanisms from the inside! KillerByte expanded its spiked legs within the cybercreature's oil bloodstream. With a loud cry, the monster explodes, and grows gigantic! Our heroes are taken aback!

"KuroSkeeter! Take care of these children!" Blackorg teleports.

In custom, the rangers shout for their mecha. "BOX OFFICE SMASHERS!" They teleport to their machines as Red gave the call once more to the others, "BOX OFFICE FORMATION! BLOCKBUSTER!" They combine, and the mighty Scanranger robo prepares for battle once again!

"ACTIVATE CINE VORTEX!" BlockBuster and KuroSkeeter teleport to another dimension in order to keep the humans from harm. They grapple, and BlockBuster applies a judo throw to KuroSkeeter. The monster then activates his RoboSkeeters once more. BlockBuster was being eaten alive by the mecha bugs. A laser blast came suddenly from SilverScanner in WideScreener, knocking KuroSkeeter off balance!

"It's Silver!" said Green. "Thanks!"

"Don't mention it..You should've called me!" Takeshi then bails out and shouts, "SILVERSCANNER! J MODE!" He enlarges himself and then flies off, with WideScreener over him.

"ARMOR UP! SUPERSCREENER!" The parts of WideScreener split into armor, fitting on Silver as he prepares to help BlockBuster.

"Don't worry, hero!" said KuroSkeeter. "I've got enough bugs for everyone! Have some, Scanranger!" The RoboSkeeters started to chew on SilverScanner even as they continue their assault on BlockBuster!

Back at Cape Paramount Base, Alex, Dr. Markby, and Sarita ponder our heroes fate. "What can we do?" asked the worried doc.

"I don't know, Ben.." replied Alex. "I really don't know.."

Not far away, Byte witnessed the cybercreature having the upper hand. He actually was hidden under KuroSkeeter's armor and was able to stay in the battle. "Gee..all that time I tried to win favor with Lord Blackorg, and they still disrespected me..I am somebody, too, even if I do have a very annoying voice.. Maybe if I apologize to Kunio-san..maybe I might put things right..That'll be my apology to him.." He quickly dashes to the window cockpit of BlockBuster.

"Listen! Kunio-san! Scanrangers!" Byte said. "I know how to stop that swarm!

'Byte? What are you doing here? Trying to rub in our defeat?"

"No! No! Blackorg didn't want me anymore! It's my fault I got you all into this! Please! Let me put it right!" Byte then bounced onto the enlarged KuroSkeeter and inside the control area where the RoboSkeeters were launched. "This must be the energy source.." he thought. "Now what would happen if I pushed that blue button?" He does so, and the RoboSkeeters dropped to the ground. "Now, what about that red button here?" He presses it, and the other robotic insects self-destructed, exploding until there were none left for KuroSkeeter to call out. The explosion also severely damaged KuroSkeeter, leaving him powerless!

"Now's our chance, guys!" said Red. "PSI-TEK WAVE!" BlockBuster using its telekinetic power to lift KuroSkeeter Into the air.

Back on Nebultopia.."My Lord!" said Vixen. "Look! Byte is sabotaging the cybercreature!"

"What? How dare he!! I had the Scanrangers defeated! BYTE! HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME! YOU SHALL PAY DEARLY FOR THIS!" The dark lord then sent a beam at Byte, attempting to electrocute him. Byte kept on destroying KuroSkeeter from inside despite the pain.

"I just wanted to put things right, Kunio..Destroy the monster! Don't worry about me! Do it! Finish it off! Do it now!"

Yellow was surprised at this. The same science experiment he used but stolen was acting human.. Red yelled to Kunio. "Yellow! It's your call!"

"Kunio-san!" yelled Byte through the pain.

Yellow, with a lump in his throat, whispered.."Do it."

Red then sighed. "All right then, BLOCKBUSTER ENERGIZE!" The robot powered up, and flew towards KuroSkeeter.

The rangers shouted the final attack. "BLOCKBUSTER BOMB!" Byte saw the blinding light. "How cool..I'm gonna become one with the universe! Thank you, Scanrangers!" Byte snickered his annoying laugh, then was blinded by the bright comet as the bomb surrounded KuroSkeeter, disintergrating the monster!

Blackorg was upset. "Blast you, traitor! The world would've certainly been ours if it haven't been for your interference! No matter.." Blackorg holds up another KillerByte, since they're all mass-produced by himself personally. "A pity that your sacrifice to save those humans was all for naught.." The overlord laughs.

Back on earth after the battle, the rangers were back in civilian form. Kunio then saw a shell of Byte, totally destroyed. He sighs as he picked it up.

"I don't get it.." said Takeshi. "What's the big deal? Why are you feeling pity about an annoying robot who helped MAYHEM in battle?"

Mikey replied, "That annoying robot saved our lives, if you will recall, and it was a part of me.. Even people can see the error of their ways and change. Byte just wanted to feel part of something. Blackorg happened to put him in the wrong crowd, yet he learned too late."

"You're right, Kunio-san..I guess the robot showed that... he did the right thing in the end.." Mikey then walked ahead of the others as he was about to bury Byte respectfully.

To be continued...

In our next Scanranger adventure, Toni gets injured as the battle for earth continues! To thwart Vixen from her newest sinister plan, Vin, Nick, and Mikey go undercover..with one little catch-In order to stop the warrior woman, they must dress in drag!

B.C.:(talking to Alex) You're right, helping these three like this is going to be a drag!(Nick then once again smacks B.C. in the back of his head) What?!?

Next time on Movie Task Force Scanranger-Episode 25

"To Ching Chow, Thanks For Everything-Catwoman"

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