Episode 34-"From Here To Fraternity"

Special guest stars-Danger Woman and The Phantom Highlander!

Another day, another class to go for Vin. He runs into one of his classmates.

"Hey, Tyrone.What's going on? Everything's all right, man?"

"Yeah, bro, I guess so..It's just that I've been here at CNJ a couple of semesters..I'm trying to find the right crowd to hang with, but it seems like I don't feel wanted." Tyrone Walker was also a Physical therapy major like Vin, yet he had very little family. Since he was an only child, and his parents passed on on an early age, it seems he had very little conversation with others except for Vin, who befriended him in one of his other classes.

The conversation was interrupted by a group of Greek pledges stomping to the beat, preparing themselves to join their exclusive group. "There it is, Vin..The 'O-Dogs'..I wouldn't mind at all to get involved with these homies."

"Omega Alpha Omega?" said Vin. "I don't know, dude..They go great community service for Leewood Park, no doubt..but their boot camp is rough..At the same time, it's a positive way of building up self-esteem."

"That's all right, you know what I'm saying? I just might go ahead and check this out..What about you, Vin?" asked Tyrone.

"Fraternities don't interest me.. I've got all the self esteem in practicing my aikido skills..Almost close to a third degree Black Belt.."

Back in Nebultopia.. Colonel Trilobyte continue to rebuke the MAYHEM captains for their recent failure. Anark Key tumbles on the floor, bruised and singed by the stand-in leader.

Trilobyte picks Key up by his shirt. "I..am..losing..patience with you, Key! Can you not create a creature that can best these Scanranger children with very little trouble?"

Vixen then intervenes. "Lord Trilobyte..Obviously the Scanrangers are in close proximity to the school..Perhaps Professor Fox can make an appearance to mess up the minds of the campus students."

"And how do you intend to brainwash these students?"

Vixen holds up a copy of the Crusader Chronicle. Pointing to the various fraternity and sorority ads encouraging the campus to sign up for these clubs, she specifically shows Ug, Key, and Trilobyte her ad. "I took the liberty of infiltrating a fraternity, a secret society not unlike the Americans with the so called 'Skulls' club." At the same time, a new cybercreature steps up to bow before Trilobyte, KuroDoberman, then bowing to Vixen.

"KuroDoberman will be perfect for our demonic fraternity.." continued the evil henchwoman. "I'll also have Andy Roy & Cyrus to assist him as well."

"I shall not fail you, Lord Trilobyte..Lady Vixen.." said KuroDoberman.

And back on Earth, a very familiar ally picked up a warning from above.."Whoa..My Danger Sense is ringing again..Trouble on the horizon again..It's good for me, since I haven't seen action for a few weeks..The Scanrangers gonna need some assistance again from yours truly.." Danger Woman dashes upstate north to join in the future battle!

Over at Mt. Columbia Catacombs, the team was in a very intriging dilemma. "I hate to say this, team, but your individual mecha is going in for some last minute repairs..." said Dr. Markby.

"Hey, wait a minute, Doc! You mean our Hollywood Vehicles are going through a thousand mile check-up?" said Nick.

"This is crazy.." said B.C. "For the first time in sentai history..Our robot's out of commission because it needs an oil change?"

"It's important, B.C." said Dr. Markby. Something's disrupting the flux of Film Energy running through these machines..Hopefully we'll find out before MAYHEM attempts to attack again..In the meantime, the Box-Office-Smashers are still ready in case of any emergency.."

"You're also telling me WideScreener needs to be fixed as well?" said Takeshi. "What do I get in case of any dire consequence?"

"I'm glad you asked me that, Takeshi.." said the good doctor. "Kunio and I have been working on some new wheels to accomodate the Scanranger's Bijou Bikes. Step in this car, please.I'm about to take you for a little ride."

Takeshi does so, but not before Dr. Markby gets out of the car. There was a humming and vibrating sound surrounding the silver teammate.

"Nan da? What the-? What's up with the car?" Takeshi felt his legs shackled, but still able to manuever and control the gas and brake pedals, as was his arms.

"Now, Takeshi, tell the car to start!" said Dr. Markby.

"Hasshin!" The car drives off onto the road. Markby and the rest of the team gather to his console and watch Takeshi drive. The new wheels head out to an obstacle course, as out of nowhere, a pair of cybercreatures(actually decoys, came out to attack!

"Now, Takeshi, make the car transform!" said Dr. Markby. It does so, and suddenly his new ride became his outer armor, similar to the Mospeada mecha armor.(veritech Cyclone), but in a mini compact car form.

"Fascinating.." thought Takeshi. "Now I have wheels of my own.."

"I still have to work out the bugs on your vehicle, Takeshi." said Dr. Markby. "You'll be the first to know once I get a few more research videos and DVD's to align the car to your liking.."

Meanwhile, Vin's friend, Tyrone was already in the heart of his pledging to the Omega Alpha's. The pledgemaster, whom the Omegas called 'Dark Playa' led him and three other freshmen pledges stepping in rhythm. They all wore lavender colored sweatshirts.With a chant similiar to the Winkies, the personal guards of the Wicked Witch of the West, going 'OOO AAAOO OOOHH OHH!', while Dark Playa wore black.

"MEGA OMEGAS! FRONT AND CENTER!"

Tyrone and the pledges stood in attention military style. "SIR YES SIR!"

"My girl's waiting for me upstairs..Keep on stepping until I get back..ONCE MORE, WHO ARE YOU?"

"THE PULSE POUNDING PLEDGES OF OMEGA ALPHA OMEGA, SIR!

Vixen, now posing as Professor Fox, makes her way through campus, witnesses various sororities and fraternities in their pledge drive to recruit new members.

“So this is how other campus kids get involved..I read about an incident where a club like this participated in an event where the frat kids got highly intoxicated and were banned from the school, ruining the club’s reputation, and I could do the same here without anyone knowing about it..” Vixen saw the Omega Alpha Omega’s pledgemaster over at his table talking with a couple of girls.

“A very devastatingly handsome man, Oh, yes! KuroDoberman could certainly use him for our next great plan!”

Later,'Dark Playa' then went up the steps, heading on his way to the dorm room. He leans on the corner wall about a few steps from his room. All of a sudden, he was gagged behind by two thugs. Seconds later, he appears again. Yet there was a difference in Dark Playa's walk as he turned back to the CJU cafeteria. "This body is very athletic and strong, just the way you like it, Lady Vixen.. It shall serve me well." he said.

"Excellent.." said the commander. "Now it's time to do some pledge poisoning..Oh yes!" Vixen, PB Floyd, and Cyrus Borg stood side by side with another copy of the Mega Omega pledgemaster, now bound and gagged from hand to foot.

"Now if you excuse me, I'll leave the three of you alone to get acquainted with each other.." As the villainess left the room, she transforms her warrior wear into a purple business suit, donning her guise as Professor Fox.

'Dark Playa' could do nothing but mumble and curse the cyberguards under the tightened gag. "So you think you're a tough guy, eh? That's nothing after we soften you up in a little while!" said Floyd.

A little later, Carmen and Toni approach the Scanranger leader in the Campus Center.

“So what do I owe the pleasure of talking to two pretty teammates?” said Vin.

“Nothing really important, Vin, but we thought we’d commend you on helping that guy to get involved in some college activities..” said Toni.

“No big deal..Anyone could’ve done that. Tyrone could’ve joined the International Students Club, or the ‘Crusader Chronicle’. That would have been enough, too..” Vin then notices ‘Dark Playa’ walk by with his pledges, yet they all had a very glazed look in their eyes.

“I’ll see you two later..I need to talk to this guy for a second..” said Vin.

He followed the frat guys down the corridor. “Something’s not right about Ty’s pledgemaster..He’s been acting strange.like some alien had taken over him..One of the OAO pledges turned to Vin, exposing his face in a split-second, revealing himself as Andy Roy!

“It’s one of Vixen’s bodyguards! That means she must be close by! But what does she want with a fraternity?” Vin closely follows the cybercreature posing as ‘Dark Playa’ to a darkened hallway. “I better check this out..If Tyrone’s under Vixen’s influence, then-”

Without warning-Vin was struck behind by Vixen’s sword blast! Down for the count, she and KuroDoberman plan their next move.

“Mmmm, a handsome, but nosy fellow..Do you know what happens to handsome and nosy fellows?” said Vixen, back in her warrior clad uniform.

“I know..We put him through my initiation period, as these poor humans had survived..and to make sure that he becomes part of the O-Dogs, we’ll put him on a straight leash for awhile..” KuroDoberman then uses a hot firebrand with the MAYHEM emblem on Vin’s leg. “His will is mine to obey! With this branded Scanranger, he shall submit his life only to me!! Hah!”

The next day at CJU, Toni, B.C., and Carmen hang out with Kunio at the Crusader Campus Center cafeteria.

“So you’re saying that Sailor Moon’s now made live action, too, Mikey?” said Toni.

“The rumors are true..The question remains is that will that evil owner renew his plans to bring it here to the States in his own way?”

“I heard about it, too! The horror! The horror! I saw the pilot online recently, and I thought I was going to hurl!” said Carmen.

Nick and Takeshi arrive at the table. “Hey, guys! Have you seen Vin recently? He was supposed to meet us earlier at the gym.”

“No, not since last night..” said Toni. “I thought he was hanging out with his friend..He was saying that the guy wanted someone to be with to get him involved with some campus activities.” The gang finish up and went on their way out the campus center.

Suddenly, as they were about to depart, they heard a ruckus near the Science hall. The five investigate, and witness the Omega Alpha pledges terrorizing the students,even starting a food fight. In addition, each one, including Vin’s friend Tyrone, were possessed and had a Greek paddle in their hand, bashing and/or spanking their classmates. The six of them had the same MAYHEM emblem branded on their leg.

“What the blazes is going on? I know these guys are pledging, but this is going too far!”

“I don’t know, Takeshi, but this is not campus behavior! What’s this, anyway, a remake of ‘Animal House’?” said Nick.

“Looks like we’ve stepped on the set of ‘Higher Learning’..” said Carmen.

“I have no idea, but I’m going to find out..” said Takeshi. He dashes back to the campus center to search for the one called 'Dark Playa'.

At once, the ‘O-Dogs’ set their sights on the four remaining rangers and began to leap and attack them!

The four remaining rangers attempted to fight, but showed restraint being that the Omega Alphas was controlled against their will. Tyrone, under Vixen’s spell, swung his paddle, and whacked B.C., sending him flying. The other five pledges followed suit with the others, hitting them with their paddles.

Meanwhile, Takeshi was searching for the pledgemaster ‘Dark Playa’ when he heard a groaning sound near a dorm room. He put his ear near the door. "“Sounds like I’ve found our man!” he said. Takeshi kicked down the door and proceeded to untie ‘Dark Playa’ and get him to safety.

“Excellent, my O-Dogs! Now, proceed to wreak havoc against the other students! Anyone who interferes shall be spanked into submission! Now go!” KuroDoberman barked, blowing his special mind-controling whistle.

“I haven’t forgotten about you four! I want to introduce to you one of my newest recruits! FRONT AND CENTER, DOGGY! WHO ARE YOU?”

“I AM THE PULSE POUNDING PADDLE WHACKING PLAYA CALLED CHOCOLATE THUNDER, SIR!” the recruit replied.

The team was stunned to see Vin under KuroDoberman’s control, with a MAYHEM emblem on his leg.

Act Two

“Chocolate Thunder?” replied Nick. “You’re not Darryl Dawkins!”

“Vin! What are you doing? Snap out of it! We’re your friends!” said Toni.

“Chocolate Thunder! Show them the folly of defiance!” the cybercreature commanded. Vin leapt into the air and attacked his teammates! He waved his personal paddle like a fan and blew away Toni, Nick, and B.C. He then tackled Carmen.

“Vin, no! Don’t do this!” Vin pushed Carmen to the ground and was about to bludgeon her to death. He grinned evilly. Carmen crawled backwards in an attempt to escape.

‘Don’t do this, Vin..Please! You’re one of us! This is not you! You’re your own person! No one else can control you! Remember!”

“Remember, Vin..Remember who you are..” Vin had the paddle raised high but he couldn’t deliver the fatal blow. A part of his consciousness began to rise, fighting the side that was controlling him. He screamed at the top of his lungs and dropped the paddle.

“Vin?” Carmen was hesitant to approach him, for fear of him grabbing her and possibly strangling her.

“Carmen? Wh-what happened to me?”

“You’re all right! You’re back to normal!” Carmen’s response was a big hug.

“Why, ‘C-Lo’. I didn’t know you cared..” joked Vin.

“Blast you! How could break my control? No one can resist the power of my pledgemaster whistle!” said KuroDoberman.

In a blur, B.C. zoomed to snatch the whistle from the cybercreature.

Takeshi swiftly joins the five rangers after freeing the pledgemaster. “Thanks for the save, guys! Why don’t we make MAYHEM go through our own initiation?” said Vin.

Nick replied,“Ready, guys! Let’s do this! “LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! SCANRANGER!”

“HENSHIN! EIGACHANGER!” shouted Takeshi.

“SOLDIERS OF THE SILVER SCREEN! MOVIE TASK FORCE-SCANRANGER!”

“KINKS! ANDY! CYRUS! ATTACK!” cried Vixen. The foot soldiers leaped from the Nebultopia vortex and ran towards the heroes.

The team sped into action, with FilmBlades in hand. Green dueled with two foot soldiers, jumping on top of one, ricocheted off a tree, and slashed them both. Pink and Blue threw a Kink each over their shoulder, punching one in the chest. With the two behind each other, he turned Pink around and slid her underneath, clipping a soldier, brought her back up, knocking out two more. Silver did his part using his SabreMagnum, cutting a Kink down to size, and then switching his weapon to SilverMagnum to take out Vixen’s two cyberguards. Red raised his FilmBlade up and applied a cross cut on another Kink as well. Yellow dueled Vixen sword to sword, still miffed after her previous defeats. The evil woman punched Yellow in the stomach, then backslapped Carmen. Vixen followed with a ‘Beauti-Bolt’ in electric ground shock mode to stun her.

KuroDoberman sped towards the rangers, and bounded with his hind legs to attack. With his Greek paddle in hand, he swings at the team, first brushing off Blue, then Green, then Silver, and Yellow. He then hit Pink with his paddle on her backside.

“The Scumrangers are dog pounded!” he said.

Yet the monster blocked the shot with the paddle. “Nice try, dog..but have you forgotten I’m the pledge master here? You need to learn some manners!”

KuroDoberman gloated to the fact he could control the Scanranger leader. He was completely enthralled that the cybercreature did not notice a wired microphone coming his way. Like an anvil, the mike hit KuroDoberman square on the back of his head!

“Grrr! WHO DID THAT!”

The dog-faced monster looked up, and found a spandex-clad and caped heroine posed on the top of the building. “It’ll take only a wolf in cheap clothing to take advantage of my friends, especially RedScanner! And I will not forgive spanking of any kind on this campus or anywhere else!”

“CURSE YOU WOMAN! WHO ARE YOU?”

“I am Danger Woman! Sentai Ally to those in need! I’m here to right wrongs and to lock up stray dogs back in the kennel! And that means you! In the name of the zoo-going-”

“Ahh, shaddup!” answered KuroDoberman, responding in kind with his laser brand, shooting at DW. That gave Vin a break, since he could only concentrate on one target at a time. Clenching his fist, now that their sentai ally bought him some time to recover, he races with his Cinerama Cutlass in hand to slash KuroDoberman from the back. The sudden attack released the paddle in the air. In response, Red with a couple of swordstrokes, destroys the demonic paddle. The MAYHEM brand on RedScanner’s leg disappears forever. In return, the Omega Alpha Omega pledges were free from the monster’s spell.

“No! Impossible! My paddle’s been destroyed!” said the cybercreature. “I’ll destroy you all!” As Red were about to defend himself and DW, KuroDoberman was blindsided by something else-another sword, which belonged to-

“Phantom Highlander! All right!” said DW.

“As always-where there’s Danger Woman, there’s gotta be Phantom Highlander!” said Red.

“It’s not over yet, biscuit breath! It’s enough that you’re terrorizing these poor innocent humans, but when you disrupt my Danger Woman’s entrance line, that means you’ve got to go!!” PH, with Red both attack with their swords, PH’s destroying KuroDoberman’s laser brand, and RedScanner’s Cutlass began powering up, using his Action Film Energy, becoming one with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and summoning up the power of Aragorn.

“CUTLASS CRASH!” The pure white energy of the Cinerama Cutlass was too much for KuroDoberman to handle, now weakened by PH’s and Red’s swashbuckling might! The other rangers recover and join the three heroes. “Ready to put this cybercreature to that big dog pound in the sky. guys?” said Red.

“You know it!” said Green. The team called for the ‘CAMZOOKA!’

The crosshairs were locked onto the cybercreature, as he whimpered like a typical puppy. “SET THE FOCUS! FIRE!” KuroDoberman then went kaboom in all its glory!

In the process, not far away, Vixen gave the call. “KILLERBYTE! ACTIVATE!” The spider-like parasite awakened into KuroDoberman’s oil bloodstream, and immediately rejuvenated its body parts, then rapidly towering over the eight heroes!

The Scanranger crew was about to call out BlockBuster and WideScreener when immediately a high-pitched siren disrupted them. Danger Woman and Phantom Highlander ran inside one of the buildings.

“AAAHH!” That whistle! It’s blowing out my eardrums!” said Yellow. KuroDoberman’s high-pitched dog whistle had the rangers, the entire campus, and Leewood Park at his mercy! The sound went even as far as Mt. Columbia!

“That demon’s got a bigger set of pipes than you do, DW!” said PH. “What can we do?”

"There’s only one way, sweetheart!” DM remembers the gift Professor Alex gave them for Christmas a couple of years ago when the Scanrangers were in dire straits against MAYHEM.

"Excellent idea! Let’s do it!” said PH. They raised their hands up high and shouted, “DANGER DY NA MO! PHANTOM SLINGSHOT! LAUNCH!”

From her hidden headquarters, the mecha was launched, as Danger Woman and Phantom Highlander jumped into their cockpits.

"What’s this? It can’t be! Even that accursed Danger Woman got a robot!” Vixen was stunned. She anticipated the Scanrangers calling out their mecha to counterattack her cybercreature, but with their allies pulling out a trump card, the warrior woman was in for a rude awakening. “KuroDoberman! Destroy them! Destroy them both!"

The two robots confront the giant KuroDoberman, still blowing the whistle. The rangers attempt to buy the two some time by distracting the monster as well.

“We’ve got to try to stall that dog, guys! I know it’s hard, but DW’s depending on us!” said Pink.

“Right! Let’s bring our weapons together!” The Scanrangers each pull out their Film weapons, Red’s Cinerama Cutlass, Blue’s Speed-Bo Staff, Pink’s Movie Splicer Shield, Green’s Disc Launcher, Yellow’s Valkyrie Vancer, and Silver’s MagnumSaber. They form the CineMasher once again!

“Aim for that blasted giant whistle!” said Red. They all shout, “ACTIVATE CINEMASHER! BY DELUXE!” The combined arsenal zoomed up to the whistle, and on impact, destroys it!

“NO!” cried Vixen.

The Danger Dy Na Mo then landed a punch at the cybercreature, and the Slingshot follows with a kick in his chest. KuroDoberman retaliates with its laser brand.

Dy Na Mo uses her tractor beam to put KuroDoberman in place. Her mecha opens up, displaying a giant sub-woofer. “Time to face the music, dog! SUPER DANGER KARAOKE MICROPHONE!” She loads in a CD and begins to sing a very popular Baha Men song.

The amplified tune was too much for the cybercreature to bear. “That music! Too much to bear! I CAN’T STAND IT! STOP IT! STOP!”

“The Scanrangers helped us by smashing that whistle to pieces! Let’s finish this, DW!” said the Phantom.

“Right! Let’s unite! The Dy Na Mo leaped into the air, as does the Slingshot. PH’s mecha separates and attaches onto DM’s mecha, now towers over the monster.

“I don’t know about you, but it looks like for once, we’ve been upstaged!”said Blue.

“PERFECT! ULTIMATE DANGER DY NA MO!” the two allies shout. KuroDoberman ran towards the combined gestalt, which gave it the opportunity to call up..

“DY NA MO SUPER SINGING SWORD!” Riding on a beam of light, which was similar to a bed of sheet music, they surf and with one sword stroke, slashes through the monster, and seconds later, KuroDoberman falls and explodes!

"Let that be a lesson to you, you Dyno-Mutt!" said DW. Never, ever interrupt my lines again! Once more, in the name of the zoo-going children of the world, you've just been punished!"

The Scanrangers cheer them on and go to congratulate the duo.

“Thanks, DW!” said Green. “We couldn’t have done it without you!”

“Hey! Dy Na Mo! Slingshot! Thanks a lot!” said Blue. Silver and Red nod with approval.

“It was our pleasure! You know to call us again anytime!” said the Scanranger ally, turning to Yellow. “By the way, say hello to the first YellowScanner for me!”

“You know about him?”

“Of course..Kunio has a story to tell you about how we joined up to defeat MAYHEM before! PH and I have got to go now..So long!” Danger Woman and the Phantom Highlander ride their mecha into the horizon.

The next evening, Vin and the gang watch his friend Tyrone get down in a special ‘stepping show’ during halftime at the basketball game. After the show, Vin goes to see him. “I believe congrats are in order, my brother..”

“Thanks, bro..It was well worth the hard work..I’m glad you were able to talk me out of joining that other demonic frat..It disappeared without a trace after the Scanrangers exposed it.”

“The Scanrangers, huh? Good for them..At least someone’s being a watchdog looking over the morals of this campus.”

“Yo, Vin..Whatever you do, let’s not mention ‘dog’ for awhile..I’m getting some bad dreams about some Doberman or rotweiller attacking me and the fellows, know what I’m saying?”

“My fault, Ty..Don’t do anything I wouldn’t do..”

“You know I will, Vin Man..you know I will..”

To be continued...

In our next Scanranger adventure, the team takes some time off to unwind and relax. They look back on the great victories and even some small setbacks that molded them into the team they are now..

Next time on Movie Task Force Scanranger-Episode 35

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