Episode seven-"Kunio's Excellent Adventure in Babysitting"

In the cafeteria, Kunio finishes up his breakfast as he looks through the current issue of the Crusader Chronicle for a campus event update.

"Hmmm..let's see.." he said. "Trip to see 'Bring in the Noise, Bring on the Funk'..'The Music Man' is playing in town..and the 'Awesome Anime Festival' today..TODAY?!! Omigosh! I almost forgot about that!"

"Hey, Mikey!" called Nick as he enters. "You didn't forget about the festival, did you? They're going to be playing the new, updated Speed Racer from Japan, Gundam, Sailor Moon, and the newest Dragonball Z movie out! It's gonna be hot!"

"Yeah, man.. I can hardly wait myself.. Meet me back at the dorm in about an hour or so.." said Kunio. And later, Kunio double-checks his schedule, and.."AIIEEE! I forgot that I was supposed to baby-sit my sister's niece today! I can't take her to the festival, and I can't break a promise to her either! Blast it! I'm stuck!"

After the sentence, the doorbell rings, and it was Kunio's older sister Mari with her 5 year old daughter, Kay. "Hey, little brother, how are you? Are you ready to play with Uncle Mikey today, Kay?"

"Oh, great.." Kunio thought to himself. "It's bad enough that she's spoiling the girl, now she's starting to dress like her mother.."

"Uhh, yeah! Let's have a blast, Kay-Kay!" said Kunio. " I'm going to be at the hair salon for a couple of hours. Don't forget about taking her to the zoo as you promised.." said Mari.

"Not only that.." Kunio continued to mumble. "I've got to spend my entire weekend cash flow to take her to the zoo..In addition to souvenirs, candy, popcorn, etc. I'm going to be broke at day's end.." Kunio sees his sister off.

The other Scanrangers enter in. "Are you ready, Kunio?" said Vin. "Sorry, guys.." said Kunio. "I won't be able to make it.."

"Why not, dude?" asked Vin. Kunio points to his five year old niece. "What? You're a daddy, and you didn't tell us? What else have you been hiding?" joked Nick. "Get a grip, Nick.. That's Kay..She's my niece.." continued Kunio. "I forgot that I was babysitting her for my sister today while she gets her hair done.."

"So why not bring her to the film festival with us?" asked Toni.

"Think about it, Toni..Cartoons in our day and age plus hyperactive child..plus the 'Pokemon' incident a few months back..Not a good combination."

"Oh, I get it..can't take any chances, huh?"

"I'm stuck with a five year old spoiled princess, and I have only enough money for the weekend.." Kunio mumbled to himself. "..and its all going to be blown in two or three hours...Unless I can save my money and go someplace else cheap here in Leewood Park..or even watch some videos here to keep her occupied.Then again, I'll be neglecting a child..can't do that.."

"Hey, Kay! How about watching Aladdin on the VCR here?"

"No! No! Uncle Mikey! You promised me the zoo!"

"Oh, all right! The Leewood Park Zoo it is!" Kunio sighed.

Meanwhile, high above the Earth on the fortress stronghold satellite Nebultopia, MAYHEM once again plots a plan to take over the planet.

"My Lord.." said Commander Vixen. "I assure you... the Earth's zoo is a perfect breeding ground to wreak havoc on the humans..With these pills, I can induce any deadly predator to do our bidding, and with our MAYHEM science, we can alter them with our cybernetics and robotic technology, spreading panic in those cities. I've sent my cyberbodyguards to plant those pills in the zoo down in that city above us.. The first mammal or creature that eats it will be used for the next attack."

Blackorg looks at her passively and replied, "For your sake, my lovely Vixen, it'd better work!"

Cut back to the zoo, where Kunio and Kay run around the different sections of the park(with Kay outrunning poor Kunio as he tries to keep up with her). They run through the North American animal section, then to the exotic birds, and finally, to Reptile World. "Kay!" cried Kunio. "Uncle Mikey's tired! Are you sure you don't want to sit down for a moment?" "I wanna see the snakes! I wanna see the snakes!" she said.

"Snakes..sure..for once I can see the real ones instead of MAYHEM for at least one day.." Inside Reptile World, however, one of Vixen's cyberbodyguards, PB Floyd, was posing as a zookeeper. The cyborg model plants one of the MAYHEM growth pills into the snake pit. Floyd then walks out quickly, waiting for the pill to take effect.."Miss Vixen..." he called in his communicator. "One of the snakes have eaten the pill.."

"Ohhh,yes!" she said. "Which one was it?"

"I believe it was an anaconda or python.. one of the bigger snakes, ma'am.."

"Excellent, honey..They'll do.."

Floyd bumps rudely into Kunio, knocking him on the ground. As Floyd walks away, not stopping, Kunio cried, "You're excused! See, Kay, see how rude that man was? He didn't even say "Excuse me!" Suddenly afterward, the people inside Reptile World run out in a mad panic.

"What's going on here?" Kunio asked the security guard.

"An anaconda's on the loose! I'm trying to call the authorities to take care of it right now!"

"Hey! Do me a favor!" said Kunio. "I'm a specialist on snakes! Watch my niece for a second! I'm going to investigate!"

"But, sir! You can't-" cried the guard.

Kunio looks around the displays and sees the floor covered with snakes. No further than that, he looks up and sees..

"Another CyberCreature?!" sighed Kunio. "Geez..I can't catch a break!" Yes, it was another MAYHEM monster. Vixen used her bodyguards to plant the pills in different animals. The first pill that came in contact was an anaconda..the pill was fused in with MAYHEM cybernetics, making the creature part reptile and part machine..Hence, Kunio meets KuroAnaconda!

KuroAnaconda strikes by stretching its snake arms and binds Kunio. The monster throws him out of Reptile World. The CyberCreature grabs him again, throwing Kunio into a bear pit. In mid air, he transforms shouting, "CAMERA! ACTION! YELLOWSCANNER!"YellowScanner leaps out of the pit charges at the monster. KuroAnaconda then uses its snake hands again to spit out more poisonous snakes. With his FilmBlade, Kunio slices them before they reach him.

"All wrapped up in your work there, honey?" Vixen cries out to Yellow.

"Vixen! I knew I saw something slimy here in town!"

"You're too late, Scanranger.." Vixen continued, "The pills my MAYHEM cyberbodyguards planted willenable me to control and to create more CyberCreatures to take over your city., I know that you want to stop me, but since you've entered the serpent's lair, all I can say is 'Anaconda to my parlor, said the spider to the fly'..Ha! Ha! Ha!" Vixen then teleports away.

"Valkyrie Vancher!" Yellow cried as he launches his missiles at KuroAnaconda. However, the monster swallows the missile and launches it back at him, hitting him on impact. Yellow transforms back into Kunio after the hit. The monster snake runs away, as the security guard watching Kay is knocked out,sprays a knockout mist at Kay, putting her to sleep, and kidnapping her.

Kunio runs after KuroAnaconda, but the monster disappears. He goes back to the fallen guard. "I'm sorry.." said the guard. "I tried to stop it, but it was too swift.."

"Blast it!" said Kunio. "What am I going to tell the guys? Worse, what am I going to tell my sister?"

"Hey, Mikey! Are you all right?" called B.C. as the rest of the Scanrangers join their teammate.

"I'm okay, but my niece isn't.. Another CyberCreature attacked and kidnapped her...My sister will have my hide if she finds her missing.."

"I think we should split up.." said Vin. "This way we'll cover the whole perimeter of the zoo..Mikey, backtrack your steps over at Reptile World again.. Toni,search near the exotic bird section..Nick, Look through the African Animal section..B.C.,check out the Asian animal section, the Bengal Tigers-"

"And bears! Oh my!" finished B.C. Nick slaps him on the back of the head again. B.C. replies, "What?!"

"I'll go through the North American animal section.." said Vin. "If you see the monster, give a holler.." The rangers search through the different sections of the park, calling for Kay.

Down below in the zoo sewers, KuroAnaconda grabs one of its many victims hanging upside down, and squeezes one of the guards to death. Then it slowly opens its mouth to swallow him whole. Kay is still out from the mist, and is unaware that the cybercreature is setting its sights on her to become its next meal.

Act two

Now that the zoo had been abandoned, the rangers continue their search. Kunio notices some shedded snakeskin near the scene of the kidnapping. "Of course, Kunio thought. "Snakes hate cold weather, and since the temperature dropped an hour ago, they need warm air, and that means it had to go underground!" He then opens up a manhole, using his augmented strength, and goes under. He finds more snakeskin in the sewer, and to his horror he finds the other victims of the cybercreature, either strangled to death, or was swallowed and regurgitated.

"Please, God..Don't let Kay die.." Kunio thought. "I'm sorry that I didn't want to babysit her in the first place..She just wanted to have a good time with her uncle. He finds Kay, hanging in a dark corner.

"Kay! Kay!" Kunio runs to her, waking her up. "Thank heaven you're all right! Did the monster hurt you?"

"No.." she said.

"Now, come on," Kunio continued. "Let's get you washed up and go home." At once, a giant anaconda attacks and grabs Kunio by its coils, attempting to crush him to death! "Uncle Mikey! Uncle Mikey!" cried Kay.

"This snake has a grip that can put a vise to shame!" said Kunio. "Can't reach my FilmBrace..no way to transform!" But before he loses consciousness, a sharp object strikes the snake's head, and lets Kunio loose. It was Red's FilmBlade! The other four Scanrangers join Kunio as the giant snake turns back into KuroAnaconda..

"Are you all right?" said Red. "I'm almost crushed to death by a giant serpent, and you ask I'm all right?!" said Kunio sarcasticly. "Figure it out for yourself!"

"Enough talk, guys!" said Red. "Mikey, transform!"

"With pleasure!!! LIGHTS! CAMERA! ACTION! YELLOWSCANNER!"

"Pink! Green! Get Kay and the others to safety!" said Yellow. "I've got a serious score to settle with the serpent!" Red and Yellow attack with their FilmBlades, striking the snake. Blue shouts, "Speed-Bo Staff!" propelling the snakes KuroAnaconda spits at him. Yellow races to smash the cybercreature fast and hard, venting his rage on it.

"You like picking on innocent little girls, don't you? Try picking on someone your own size!!!"

Yellow then summons up his film energy, calling up the power of Ryu(from the Street Fighter II anime and movie-)becoming one with it. He strikes mercilessly at the monster, then uses one of Ryu's famous moves, uppercutting the creature. "SHO RYU KEN!" Yellow shouts. As he hits the monster, it flies up and out of the sewer up to the ground above.

"Ready to finish this?" said Red. "FilmBlades, everyone!" The FilmBlades are charged up with pure energy, becoming energy whips as each member snag on the cybercreature's arms, legs, and neck.

"PAN-SCAN-SHOCKER!" the rangers shout out as the whips zap KuroAnaconda, destroying it.

"Curse those Scumrangers!" cried Vixen. "I need to start something big..BYTE!"

Byte, the cybernetic spider jumps through the portal to the remains of the cybercreature.."Never fear, my slimy sweet..Help is here!" Byte cackles and pours his Kuronium energy into the monster, and enlarges it to a giant KuroAnaconda!

Scanranger swiftly summons up their backup. "ROLL OUT! HOLLYWOOD VEHICLES!" As the five mecha come from their different landing docks, Red gives the command to combine them.

"Let's play connect five! SUPERIMPOSE! THUNDER DOLBY THX!"

The mecha come together as the HV's merge together into Thunder Dolby, forming the Scanranger's mighty robot once again!

Thunder Dolby charges after the giant cybercreature and lands a few blows on the face, knocking it down. Yellow gives the call to activate the 'Sphinx Knuckle'. "SPHINX KNUCKLE!!!" he cried as Dolby's fist rockets toward KuroAnaconda, decking the monster. The creature gets up and launches its poison snakes again and jams the limbs on the robot, making it unable to move. KuroAnaconda knocks Dolby down, and transforming into snake mode, it coils up the bounded robot. The creature proceeds to crush Dolby and swallows it whole, and succeeds!

Seconds later, using its Sea Cutters on Dolby's left leg, it rips its leg on KuroAnaconda's side and forcing the monster to regurgitate the robot. As it does so, the cybercreature returns to its creature mode.

"Iiichh! Gross!" said Pink. "Bleahhh! We've been slimed!" said Blue. "So this monster wants to get down and dirty, huh?" said Red. "Well, so will we! GREAT EDITOR SWORD!"

KuroAnaconda, despite its wounds charges at Dolby. As before, the mighty robot zooms toward the monster, spinning like a film reel. "FINAL CUT!!" the task force shouts. As the Great Editor Sword slices through the cybercreature, the monster falls one final time and explodes. Thunder Dolby THX once again wins the day.

A little later, the crew rushed back to Kunio's dorm, and Kunio puts little Kay to sleep. "I'm glad that's over with.." said Kunio. Mari enters in. "So, how was my little angel today?"

"Uhhh..very quiet..." replied Kunio. "I took Kay to the zoo, as promised..and as you can see, she's all tuckered out.."

Kay wakes up, and runs to her mother. "Mommy! Mommy! Guess what happened? There was this big, big giant snake that tried to get us, and Uncle Mikey saved me!"

"He did?" said Mari.

"Yeah!" continued Kay. "Uncle Mikey helped me, and he called the Power Rangers to beat up the bad snake and destroyed it!"

The five Scanrangers cringed and gagged as Vin replied, "The Power Rangers?!?" "I tell you, we just get no respect!" said B.C. doing his Rodney Dangerfield impression, pulling his collar.

"Well, honey, guess what? Mommy's got a surprise for you.." said Mari. "We're going to see Sailor Moon on campus today!"

"Yay!" Kay responded. "You mean the 'Awesome Anime Festival' didn't start yet?" said Kunio.

"No, man.." said Nick. "The Campus Cinema Club said that the films didn't arrive until an hour or so ago.."

"EXCELLENT!" said Kunio. "I didn't miss it after all! Well, guys, c'mon! What are we waiting for? Let's go!!!"

Kunio, this time with Kay in tow, runs with his niece to the campus movie theatre with the other four rangers and his sister behind them. Things had worked out for the better, Kunio thought. The entire day wasn't wasn't a total loss, and in the process, Mr. Mikimoto had gotten closer to his little niece.

To be continued...

In our next Scanranger adventure, B.C. has to clear another student's name after being accused of theft on the campus. He battles Anark Key's newest cybercreature. The newest monster discovers a flaw in BlueScanner that can possibly finish him! What is it?

Next-Movie Task Force Scanranger-Episode Eight

"Gangsta's Paradise Lost"

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