A Blankety Mess (Transcript)

This is the fourth episode of Traffic Squadron: Roadranger.

Here we are outside the grocery store where we left off last chapter. We see a couple of tents that were set up right outside. Inside these tents are the Velocity Star Gang members, Brakenstein, Tige, and Graphite. Tige was the first to wake up. He went over to the store to see if it was open, but saw the "Closed" sign was up.

Tige: Hmmm. Not quite open yet.

He then went over to the tents to see if his buddies were awake.

Tige: Hey, are you two awake?

There was no response.

Tige: (A little louder) Are you awake?

Still no response.

Tige: (Very loud) Are you awake?!

Just then, the tents toppled offer covering both Brakenstein and Graphite. They managed to get the tent covers off themselves.

Graphite: Well we are awake now!

Brakenstein: What is it that you want, Tige?

Tige: Just wanted to let you two know that the store isn't open yet.

Brakenstein: Oh yeah? Well, we need for it to be open. What are the hours on the store?

Tige went back over to the store doors and read the open hours.

Tige: They say 8 A.M. to 10 P.M.

Brakenstein: Well, what time is it now?

Graphite: (Checks his scanners) It says it is 7:45 A.M. That means that we just need to wait 15 more minutes before the store opens.

Tige: 15 minutes? I'm not sure I can wait that long.

Graphite: What do you suppose we do?

Brakenstein: We could just go back to sleep for 15 more minutes.

Graphite: That's a good idea. (Goes back into sleep mode)

Tige: We can't sleep over the time of waiting for them to open. We'll just have to wait even though I won't like it.

So Tige stayed by the door while he waited. Up in the Velocity Star ship, Warhog had seen what had happened with the tents.

Warhog: While those three are waiting for the store to open, I have the perfect idea on who to send down.

Eaglette: Who is that, Warhog?

Warhog: I'm going to send down Bansheet.

Eaglette: Bansheet? That monster that can cover things up with her sheets?

Warhog: That's her. Bansheet, come in here.

Soon, a monster that was covered in mostly purple sheets with a dark red belt, a blue cloth hanging over it, and some pink sheets on her shoulders had shown up.

Bansheet: Yes, sir?

Warhog: Go down to Earth and put your blanket sheets over the Roadrangers.

Bansheet: Yes, sir.

And she headed out. Over at the Roadranger's base, Speedstar was speaking with the Roadrangers.

Speedstar: Roadrangers, are you may know, the Velocity Star Gang may soon have their Velocity Bars all ready. So we need to be prepared. There is a special feature in your Roadranger vehicles.

Jack: A special feature?

Dale: What sort of feature?

Speedstar: It is the ability to combine them all together to make one giant fighting robot.

Benji: You mean like the one we were fighting against when training earlier?

Speedstar: Yes, except this one is one you'll get to control and is used to fight against giant monsters.

Vicky: Hey, that sounds handy.

Speedstar: It is. Now, let's see if we can form it. Out to the training field.

Out in the training field, all the Roadrangers were in their Road Vehicles and were all transformed.

Speedstar: Are you all set, Roadrangers?

All: Yes, Speedstar.

Speedstar: Good. For this first step, Dale's motorcycle can become the legs.

Dale: The legs? That's neat.

Speedstar: And he will then combine with Benji, who's Humvee becomes the lower body.

Benji: Alright. Let's get to it.

Dale: Leg formation. (Pushes a button, which makes his motorcycle transform into a pair of legs) Whoa. This is interesting.

Benji: Lower body formation. (Pushes a button, which makes his Humvee combine with Dale's motorcycle, which were the legs)

Speedstar: Next, Kristy will be combine in with her race car. She'll be the upper body and head.

Kristy: Wow. The head. That's quite a good place for me.

Dale: Yeah, since you are the "Head" of the Roadrangers. Pun intended.

Kristy: Head formation. (Pushes a button, which had a head form from the race car, then it attaches to Benji and Dale's robots)

Suddenly, Kristy, Benji, and Dale's seats became moving until they ended up in another room of seats. Kristy was in the front row at the center, Benji was to her left, and Dale was at the back row to the way right.

Kristy: What has happened? We're in a new room.

Benji: What is this about, Speedstar?

Speedstar: This is the control room for the robot, but before we can have it standing up, we need Jack and Vicky to join up with you. They will become the arms.

Jack: Alright.

Vicky & Jack: Arm formation!

They pushed their buttons and their vehicles became arms, attaching to the rest of the robot. They in turn ended up in the same new control room. Jack was to Kristy's right while Vicky was in the second row behind Benji.

Vicky: So this is the control room?

Jack: Quite nice, I must say.

Speedstar: Now to stand your robot.

The robot then stood up on it's legs.

Kristy: Wow. So, we've now gotten bigger.

Speedstar: Roadrangers, I present to you Roadranger Robo.

Benji: So, are we going to be fighting something with this?

Speedstar: You'll be fighting against the monsters sent down by the Velocity Star gang when they grow giant. For now, to warm you up, you'll be fighting against the training robot.

The training robot then showed up.

Kristy: Alright. Let's go to it.

Roadranger Robo then went towards the giant training robot as it began battling against it. First the robot knocked Roadranger Robo to the ground.

Roadrangers: Whoa.

Jack: We need to get our heads in the game.

Kristy: Let's stand back up and show this robot who's boss.

Roadranger stood back up and went towards the robot and began punching at it. The robot tried fighting back, but didn't do so well.

Vicky: Ha. That was too easy.

Speedstar: That's because I had the robot set to easy. Now we'll go for medium. (Uses a device to have the robot be set to medium fighting mode)

The robot then had a blaster set up and fired at Roadranger Robo. When it hit it, Roadranger Robo couldn't move.

Kristy: Hey, our controls aren't working.

Dale: We're stuck.

Speedstar: Don't worry, it just lasts for a short while. You'll need to figure out how to avoid those blasts.

Roadranger Robo was then unfrozen.

Kristy: OK, we're in full control again.

But then the robot fired another blast, but the Roadrangers were ready this time and moved out of the way. Then they went over and knocked the blaster out of the robots hand and knocked it over.

Vicky: Alright. We knocked that piece of junk over.

Speedstar: Hey, don't call it a piece of junk. It's just doing it's job. It won't actually destroy you, it's just made for training purposes. Now we should get to hard mode.

But then, he got a signal coming in indicating that a monster had been sent down.

Speedstar: Wait, we can't do that right now. There's a real threat right now.

Kristy: We'll have to do this training later?

Jack: Looks like it, Kris.

Benji: Let's head down and see what this monster is doing.

Kristy: Right. Let's go.

They hurried down to the ground and headed on out into the field. Meanwhile, up in the Velocity Star ship, Brakenstein, Tige, and Graphite had just arrived back.

Warhog: Ah. It's about time you got back. Did you get the last ingrident for the Velocity Bars?

Brakenstein: We sure have, and we're ready to to make the bars. It will take us a while to make them.

Warhog: Just be sure they're made soon enough. I've sent Bansheet down to capture the Roadrangers in her blankets and she'll be needing to grow giant in case she is to fail on the ground.

Tige: You mean falls down on the ground?

Brakenstein: No, he means fails at normal size when she's not giant.

Tige: Oh.

Warhog: Hopefully she'll get the Roadrangers defeated quick enough she won't need the Velocity bar.

Down on Earth, Bansheet was waiting for the Roadrangers. While she was waiting, she began putting blankets over inanimate objects. They began flying towards citizens in the city. There was one citizen who was having to face off against flying fish.

Male Monkey: Look out, flying fish! Ah! (Tries covering himself)

Another citizen was getting bumped into by flying furniture.

Male Hippo: I told these people that furniture was out to get us. They all thought I was crazy before.

(Flashbacks to this hippo man walking and then running into his dresser)

Male Hippo: Ow! Hey, dresser! Don't hurt me like that.

Hippo Daughter: Dad, you crashed into it.

(Present day)

Male Hippo: But now who's the crazy one?

Then, the Roadrangers finally showed up.

Bansheet: Ah, good to see you all here, Roadrangers. Let me introduce myself. I am Bansheet. The blanket keeper of the Velocity Star Gang.

Kristy: Do you mind, we were in the middle of training.

Bansheet: Hey, we don't run on the same schedule as you do.

Jack: Actually, we don't run under any schedule, we just go out in emergencies.

Benji: Like for instance, right now!

Bansheet: Well, now that you are here, time to put my blanket sheets to work.

Bansheet then threw some blankets over some vehicles and they began driving towards the Roadrangers.

Kristy: Whoa. Look out.

Kristy, Dale, and Benji jumped to one side while Vicky and Jack jumped to the other side as the vehicles drove towards them.

Kristy: I think that in order to fight vehicles, we need to use vehicles. Speedstar, send in the Roadranger Cycles.

Speedstar: Roadranger Cycles, coming up!

The Roadranger Cycles then arrived and the Roadrangers got onto them. They they drove towards the attacking vehicles.

Kristy: Let's fire the Roadranger Blasters at the vehicles and see if we can get those blankets off.

The Roadrangers got their blasters all ready and fired at the vehicles. They were able to get the blankets off and the blankets flew off.

Bansheet: No, not my beautiful blankets.

Dale: It worked.

Kristy: Now to do the same for the other items as well.

Bansheet: I don't think so. Watch this. (Throws a blanket at Benji and Dale)

Benji: Oh no. (Covers his face)

Dale: Ah! (Covers his face)

Benji: Huh? I'm not covered in a blanket.

Dale: Me neither. Hah, you missed us.

Jack: Uh, guys. I don't think Bansheet was aiming to get you.

Benji: What do you mean? (Looks at his motorcycle to see that it's covered in a blanket) Oh no.

Dale: Mine got covered into a blanket, too.

Then, both motorcycles drove away real quickly with Benji and Dale both on them.

Both: Whoa!

Kristy: Guys.

Jack: Oh no.

Bansheet: It looks like you three are all that I'll have to deal with.

The remaining Roadrangers got off their cycles.

Kristy: Well you can't make us go far away like our friends.

Jack: Not if we're not on them.

Bansheet: But I can still do this. (Uses a blanket rope and wraps Jack up in them)

Jack: Ah!

Bansheet: (Begins tossing Jack up and down)

Jack: Ow! (Hits the ground) Ow! (Hits the ground) Ow! (Hits the ground) Ow! (Hits the ground)

Bansheet then began swinging Jack in the air.

Jack: Whoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoawhoa!

Bansheet: Round and round Road Blue goes, where he lands, nobody knows. (Lets go)

Jack: AAAAH!

Kristy: I got you, Jack. (Runs over and grabs Jack and he lands)

Jack: Phew. Nice catch, Kristy.

Vicky: Guys, Bansheet got away.

Kristy: I think the better thing to do first is figure out where Benji and Dale went. We may need to split into two groups. Vicky, you go search for Benji and Dale. Jack and I will try to locate Bansheet.

Vicky: Oh dear. I wonder where they could be? I know, maybe Speedstar will have an idea. I'll go back to him.

And Vicky hurried away. Far away, Benji and Dale were going really really far.

Benji: Where exactly are these cycles taking us?

Dale: Maybe we should jump off of them, Benji?

Benji: If we do that, they'll just run off and we'll lose them.

Dale: Well, if you have a good plan for when we drive off the cliff, then I trust you.

Benji: What?

Benji looked ahead and saw that they were heading towards a cliff.

Benji: Oh no! Quick, Dale. Jump off!

Dale: But Benji,

Benji: Just do it. (Jumps)

Dale: OK. It was nice knowing you, Roadranger cycle! (Jumps off)

Both Benji and Dale watched as their cycles went cover to the cliff, but then they stopped right at the edge.

Benji: Huh?

Dale: They just stopped? That makes no sense.

Then, both cycles turned around towards them.

Dale: What are they doing now?

Benji: I don't know. But we better blast the blankets off before they do anything terrible.

They aimed their blasters at the cycles, but after they fired, they flew into the air.

Dale: Hey, they just floated!

The two rangers kept firing in the air, but the cycles were too quick for them.

Benji: They're just too fast.

Meanwhile, Vicky arrived back at the base.

Vicky: (Removes her helmet) Speedstar, I need you to help locate Dale and Benji. Bansheet put blankets over their cycles and they ran away with them.

Speedstar: Let's see if the screen can locate them.

Speedstar had the screen turned on, and it showed Benji and Dale fighting against their cycles floating in the air.

Speedstar: It appears they've traveled to the canyon outside of town. My guess is that their cycles were attepting to drive them off the cliff, but they jumped off before they could do that.

Vicky: That was smart of them, even if that risked losing their cycled. I'm going to hurry and help them.

Speedstar: What about Kristy and Jack?

Vicky: They're searching for Bansheet. Kristy ordered for me to find Benji and Dale.

Speedstar: Then you must hurry to the canyon and do what you can to help them.

Vicky: Right away. (Puts her helmet on and gets on her cycle)

Out in the city, Kristy and Jack were searching for Bansheet.

Kristy: Bansheet should be here somewhere. But where exactly?

Jack: At least we know that she can use blankets to cover any inanimate objects. So we just need to find something like that.

Kristy then thought she did find something like that. It was a truck that was covered up in a tarp.

Kristy: Wait, what about this?

Jack: Well, it's a truck covered in a tarp. It could be under Bansheet's control. But it's not attacking us right now.

Kristy: Maybe it's waiting for us to drop our guard and then run into us.

Jack: All the other objects that Bansheet covered in a blanket attacked us right away.

Kristy: Just to be sure, let's see if we can find this truck's owner.

They then went over to the grocery store that was close by and spoke to the grocer.

Kristy: Excuse me, sir. We are Road Red and Blue of the Roadrangers, and we were wondering, is this your truck?

Male Weasel Grocer: Yes it is my truck.

Jack: Any reason why there's a tarp over it?

Male Weasel Grocer: Oh, that's to surprise my wife and kids. I just bought it today and I figured I'd surprise them with it. Our old truck was old and rusty and I figured it was time to buy a new one.

Jack: That's a relief, we just wanted to be sure it wasn't covered up by a magic tarp that would cause it to attack us.

Kristy: The Velocity Star gang sent down a monster that is able to do something like that. We just wanted to be sure your truck wasn't one of them. Take care, citizen.

Kristy and Jack went around searching for Bansheet for a while. But anytime they found something that was under a blanket, they were told that it was for a different reason from being one of Bansheet's tarps.

Kristy: It's no use. None of these objects is something that Bansheet has taken control over.

Jack: We can't give up. Heroes do not do that.

Just then, a tarp fell down onto Jack.

Kristy: Uh oh. Jack, that tarp isn't processioning you, is it?

But then, Jack began attacking Kristy.

Kristy: Hey, stop it. Oh no, it is controlling you!

Bansheet then appeared.

Bansheet: That is right, Road Red. Your friend will now fight you as long as that tarp is over his body.

Kristy: Then I'll just have to pull it off.

Kristy tries to pull the tarp off, but Jack kept blocking her off.

Kristy: Jack, stop doing this. I'm your friend, Kristy. Please remember.

But Jack didn't stop. He even grabbed Kristy and flipped her over.

Kristy: Oof!

Meanwhile, Vicky managed to find Benji and Dale as they were trying to fire at their possessed motorcycles.

Vicky: Oh boy. It looks like they're proceeding to attacking them now. Don't worry guys. (Gets out a blaster and blasts the tarps off of them motorcycles, causing them to land on the ground)

Benji: H-how did those tarps come off them.

Dale: Benji, look. Vicky's come to save us.

Benji: Good timing, Vicky.

Vicky: Thank you very much.

Dale: Where are Kristy and Jack?

Vicky: They went to find Bansheet. She got away as soon as you two left.

Benji: Then we better hurry and help them.

Just then, they got a call on their communicators.

Kristy's Voice: Guys, I need assistance. Jack has been covered in a tarp and I need help getting the tarp off him. I tried getting it off myself, but he's just too quick for me to get it off him.

Vicky: Don't worry, Kristy. I found Benji and Dale and their problem has been taken care of.

Benji: We'll be right over.

The three rangers got on their cycles and drove off. Back with Kristy, she was still fighting against Jack.

Kristy: Jack, you must get control over yourself.

Bansheet: It's no use, Road Red. Road Blue is my puppet now.

Benji: Not for long.

Bansheet looked to see Benji, Dale, and Vicky drive in on their motorcycles and fired blasts at Jack, knocking the tarp off of him.

Jack: Ah. I'm free.

Bansheet: No. My precious puppet.

Kristy: Good to have you back, Jack.

Jack: Thanks, Kristy.

Kristy: Now to show this blanket messer.

All five rangers got their blasters ready and had them charged up.

Bansheet: Uh oh.

Kristy: Blasters all charged up. Fire!

They then blasted at Bansheet.

Bansheet: AAAH! (Falls to the ground) That was some blast.

Then, Brakenstein showed up with a green-colored bar in his hand.

Brakenstein: Here, Bansheet. I've just finished with the Velocity bars. Eat this and grow giant and crush the Roadrangers.

Bansheet: Gladly. (Grabs the Velocity bar, eats it, and then grows giant)

Kristy: Whoa.

Jack: She just ate that and grew big.

Speedstar: Now is the time for Roadranger Robo to come into action.

Kristy: Right. Let's go.

The Roadranger Vehicles arrived and the Roadrangers got on board them.

Kristy: Let's go, Roadranger Robo. (Pushes the button)

(A split screen of the other four Roadrangers push their buttons is shown, then, the transformation sequence of Roadranger robo is shown where the Humvee attaches to the race car, then the motorcycle forms the legs and connects to the Humvee, then the arms are attached, then the robot stands up and the head is then formed)

Roadrangers: Roadranger Robo!

Kristy: This is our first real battle guys.

Speedstar: That is right. The training robot just fought you to train you and would never destroy you, but this is different. This is the real deal. So don't expect this to be as easy.

Kristy: Got it, Speedstar.

Roadranger Robo then went towards Bansheet.

Bansheet: Time for some blanket attacks. (Throws a blanket onto a building)

Jack: Uh oh, that building has been covered in a blanket.

Then, the building began to move.

Benji: Uh oh. It's coming for us.

Vicky: Remember, there are people in that building, so we don't want to destroy it.

Kristy: You got that right.

The building then crashed into Roadranger Robo, knocking it to the ground.

Bansheet: It looks like buildings will be working for the Velocity Star Gang now.

Roadranger Robo stood back up and the went toward Bansheet and gave a few punches at her.

Bansheet: AAH!

Then, Roadranger Robo knocked Bansheet down to the ground. Then the building came towards Roadranger robo again, but the Roadrangers were prepared and they quickly grabbed the blanket off of it and it stopped.

Kristy: Now to wrap things up.

Roadranger Robo then used the blanket to wrap Bansheet up.

Bansheet: Oh. This is embarrassing. Getting wrapped up in my own blanket.

Kristy: Roadranger Sword!

A sword then appeared in Roadranger Robo's hand. Then, Roadranger Robo zipped quickly toward Bansheet.

Kristy: Roadranger Robo-

All: Final Strike!

Roadranger Robo spun in a circle, then struck at Bansheet.

Bansheet: AAAH! Should've taken cover! (Falls and explodes)

Kristy: The Roadrangers win this round!

Roadranger Robo then grabbed the building that attacked them before, and carried it back to where it was before. Upon setting it down, there were people that came out of the top of the building that cheered for the Roadrangers.

Dale: It's a good thing nobody was hurt during that.

Jack: I bet it was scary for those people to have to be instead of a moving building.

Benji: Luckily, we didn't have to destroy the building. I'd feel bad about it if we did.

Vicky: Me, too.

Up in the Velocity Star Ship....

Warhog: So Bansheet has failed us, has she?

Brakenstein: Do not worry, sir. We've got plenty more monsters that can defeat the Roadrangers. In the meantime, I'll be sure to have plenty of Velocity bars made so we don't run out.

Warhog: That is good. Let's hope the next monster doesn't fail us.

Later, at the Roadranger's base, the boys were playing a game of cards.

Dale: Got any fives, Benji?

Benji: Go fish. Jack, any fours?

Jack: Go fish. Dale, any sevens?

Dale: Go fish.

As they were playing their game, two blanket-covered figures, one red, and the other white, approached them.

Dale: Do you have any ones, Jack.

Jack: (Gives him the card)

Dale: (Puts down his match)

The blanket-covered figures then came in. The red one was behind Jack and the white one was behind Dale. Benji then noticed them.

Benji: Uh, guys.

Jack: What?

Benji: Behind you!

Just then, the blanket covered figured grabbed them.

Jack: Ah! There's still some blanket covered figures!

Dale: Quick, we must get them off these people.

The blanket-covered figures then started giggling as they let go.

Red Blanket Figure: (It's OK, guys)

The blanket figures removed their blankets to reveal Kristy and Vicky.

Kristy: It's us.

Vicky: Kristy just got this funny idea to come in and prank you, boys.

Dale: Phew. What a relief.

Jack: We really thought that we missed some blankets after defeating Bansheet.

Speedstar: I can assure you that there is no more trouble with Bansheet. Upon her defeat, all of her blankets had been destroyed.

Benji: That's good.

Kristy: We did pretty well during our first battle with Roadranger Robo, didn't we?

Speedstar: You sure have. But Bansheet was just the first monster Roadranger Robo has battled against. There will be more difficult monsters to come in the future, so be prepared for that.

Kristy: We will, Speedstar.

At last, Roadranger Robo is an active fighting robot and went through it's first battle against a real monster. The Velocity Star Gang are still a threat to the Earth, but with the Roadrangers by our side, we shall not have to fear.

To be continued...