A Rock & A Hard Place (Transcript)

This is the 37th episode of Traffic Squadron: Roadranger.

One day, on the Velocity Star Ship, some motorjacks and some other monsters were working around a large stone slab. They were working very tiredly.

Motorjack 1: Uh, how long have we been working for?

Motorjack 2: We've been working for hours.

Motorjack 3: No, it's been days.

Brakenstein: Um, it's been four days.

Graphite: And with no rest. Master Tigian has really been working hard.

Brakenstein: Maybe we should let them take a break.

Tigian: No!

Brakenstein: But sir, they've been working for four days nonstop.

Tigian: And they'll continue to work until it's all done.

Just then, a raccoon with red eyes and a black coat came in.

Racruel: Hey, you, you heard him! (Uses a whip with a rock to make the workers work faster)

Motorjacks: AAAH!

And they began working faster.

Brakenstein: Oh, Racruel can make them work faster. Why didn't we think of that.

Tigian: I actually did. I asked him earlier to help out.

Graphite: Why didn't you ask him earlier?

Tigian: I didn't realize he could help out until just a few minutes ago.

The work began going faster. Racruel kept on whipping the motorjacks and monsters.

Racruel: Faster! Faster!

Motorjack 1: Ow! Hey!

Motorjack 4: I'm working as fast as I can.

Racruel: Well, it's not good enough. Try harder! (Whips again)

Time Card: Three Days Later

The statue had it's legs beginning to show. The motorjacks were feeling exhausting. But Racruel was still beating on them.

Tigian: Alright. You can stop, Racruel. I think they need a break.

Racruel: (Sighs) Alright. I guess I can let you all take a break.

Then, all the motorjacks and monsters left to take a break.

Racruel: I've been having the most fun in my whole life for the past three days.

Tigian: Well, I've got a better job for you, Racruel.

Racruel: A better job? Great. What is it?

Tigian: I need you to go and destroy the Roadrangers.

Racruel: The Roadrangers? Those heroes on Earth that everybody is saying they wish to defeat?

Tigian: That's them.

Racruel: I was thinking of just whipping those motorjacks and monsters for the rest of my life. Or at least until that statue is done, but OK.

Tigian: When they're out of the way, we'll be able to take the Earth for ourselves, and then build a new empire there. Hahahaha.

Down on Earth, Dale and Vicky were on their way to the opening of a new music store.

Vicky: This is so exciting. I've been waiting for this new music store the open up. I've been watching to get some nice new CDs with songs I'd heard on the radio.

Dale: I want to see if they have songs from the Buggles. I've always listened to their songs on ZooTube. Until some dumb company decided to block them for copyright when they don't have the rights to those songs.

Vicky: Oh yeah. I found that company to be annoying. Why is it that so many people think they can get away with taking down videos they don't own?

Dale: If you think that's dumb, there are some people who can get away with getting innocent people falsely accused of taking down videos.

Vicky: Did somebody do that with you?

Dale: Yeah.

Vicky: People really shouldn't believe something just because somebody says it.

Dale: At least he eventually realized his mistake.

Vicky: How did he realize his mistake?

Dale: He actually told other people to block my account. Then I reported him, and the website gave him a warning.

Vicky: How do you know he got a warning?

Dale: He made a post about it.

They soon entered the music shop and looked at the row of music CDs.

Dale: Hey, they have them. Man, it's been years since I've heard these songs. It's great that I'll be able to listen to them again. If only I could use them in music videos online without worrying about the copyright nonsense.

Vicky: (Looking behind the CDs) And they've got the songs I was looking for!

Dale: Do you know the bands who played those songs?

Vicky: No. I just recognize the songs from the lyrics.

They went to the checkout desk and paid for the CDs. As they left the shop, they heard some glass breaking and citizens screaming.

Dale: What was that?

Vicky: We better go and check.

They rushed to see what was the matter. They could see some windows getting smashed by Racruel.

Vicky: Is this some everyday criminal vandalizing the place?

Dale: Looks to be.

Racruel: I'm not. I'm working for the great Tigian! I've been sent to destroy the Roadrangers!

Dale: Oh dear. We better take care of this real quickly, Vicky.

Vicky: Only the two of us?

Dale: We've got no choice. Let's go.

Both: Road Changer! (They transformed into Road Green and White)

Racruel: Hey, you're the Roadrangers!

Vicky: You got that right.

Vicky and Dale began fighting against Racruel, but he hit them with his rock on a stick.

Vicky: (Gets hit) AAAAH!

Dale: (Gets hit AAAAH!

Vicky then jumped over Racruel and grabbed him by the tail.

Racruel: Huh?

Vicky then pulled on his tail and swung him into the air. However, the rock then swung towards Vicky's face.

Vicky: AAAH!

Vicky closed her eyes, but to her surprise, the rock didn't hit her in the face, but she did hear a breaking sound.

Vicky: (Opens her eyes) Huh? Why didn't I get hurt? (She looks to see her shopping bag on the ground with some CDs shattered) NOOOOO! My CD's!

Dale: Oh dear. I'm so sorry about that, Vicky.

Vicky: I've been saving up for them for weeks! At least I got the receipt so I can get some replacements later.

Racruel: (Gets up) Ugh. Huh? (Sees Vicky kneeling to the ground) What's the matter, Road White?

Dale: Don't bother her!

Racruel: Not bother her, huh? Well, I think that's what I'm going to do.

Racruel then charged for Vicky, but Dale got in his way.

Dale: Don't you lay a hand on her!

Racruel then attempt to hit Dale with his rock, but Dale grabbed the rock in his hand.

Racruel: Oh, that was a mistake, Road Green!

Dale: Oh yeah? How?

Racruel: (Throws Dale over himself)

Dale: Whoa! (Lands on the ground, letting go of the rock) Ow!

Racruel: That's how.

Dale: I thought that would save Vicky from getting hit.

Racruel: I can see that her CDs broke earlier. While I didn't mean to break then, I think that's a good way to make your Roadrangers miserable. So, I'll break your CDs.

But before Racruel could do anything to Dale, he was hit by some blasters.

Racruel: Huh?

Then, Kristy, Ace, Jack, and Benji came in (Already morphed).

Kristy: Dale, Vicky, are you alright?

Dale: We're alright.

Vicky: But this monster broke my new CD's.

Dale: And he was about to break my own.

Benji: Oh. Sorry to hear that.

Jack: You won't have to worry about facing this monster on your own anymore.

Racruel: Whether I'm facing two Roadrangers or six, I am determined to please my master!

Then, Racruel swung his rock towards the Roadrangers.

Kristy: Blast the rock, guys!

Kristy, Ace, Jack, and Benji then used their blasters at the rock, making it explode!

Racruel: AAAH! My rock! How dare you!

Ace: Alright. Now we should take you down easy.

Racruel: I need to get out of here! This isn't over, Roadrangers! (Vanishes away)

Kristy: He's gone.

Ace: Vicky, we're real sorry about what had just happened with your new CDs.

Vicky: (Sniff) Thanks, guys. I still have the receipt, so I'll just go back to the shop and tell the store owner what happened.

Benji: We'll go with you. Let's go.

Up in the Velocity Star Ship, Racruel told Tigian about what happened.

Racruel: I managed to make Road White miserable by breaking her CDs, and I almost did the same thing to Road Green, but then the others showed up and broke my rock.

Brakenstein: Oh dear?

Graphite: That's a real stone breaker.

Tigian: What do you expect me to do to help you?

Racruel: I need to have a much stronger rock.

Tigian: A much stronger rock? How can a rock be stronger than...another rock?

Racruel: Try making a rock that is bigger than the one I had before.

Brakenstein: Um, you can't make a rock, they just sort of happen.

Graphite: I think the word you are looking for is find a bigger rock.

Racruel: But where do rocks come from?

Tigian: Um...Asteroids are rocks. I think we need to get an asteroid.

Graphite: As if that will go well. We tried getting that purple asteroid that gave Road Violet his powers.

Tigian: Wait, the moon is full of rocks. Let's go to the moon to find some rocks.

Brakenstein: Are you sure the moon is the best place to go? I mean, that's where a blue wolf lives. And he's on the Roadrangers' side.

Tigian: Well, he can't be on both sides of the moon. We'll go to the darker side of the moon. He won't know we even arrived.

Graphite: I suppose that's a good idea.

So, the villains traveled to the darker side of the moon.

Brakenstein: Whoa, it really is dark on this side of the moon.

Graphite: Why exactly is it dark other here, and lighter on the other side of the moon?

Brakenstein: Because the brighter side of the moon gets it's light from the sun.

Graphite: It does? I thought the moon had it's own light.

Brakenstein: Nope. That light you see on the moon is actually light from the sun. Without the sun, the whole moon would be as dark as this side of the moon is. The sun doesn't shine on this side of the moon.

Tigian: It doesn't at this time of day, though. But thankfully, that wolf guy is on the other side. Let's find Racruel a new bigger rock to help him beat the Roadrangers.

The villains searched for a while, they found all sorts of rocks, but they didn't think the rocks were the right sizes.

Brakenstein: Wait, what about this one? (Points to a very large rock)

Graphite: (Goes to pick it up, but couldn't) ERGH! This one is too heavy.

Tigian: Graphite is right, Brake. We need a rock smaller than that. There's no way Racruel will be able to lift this rock up.

Brakenstein: I guess you're rock-er, right.

But then, they saw two big glowing red eyes above them.

Tigian: Uh oh! They're on to us!

Brakenstein: Let's get out of here!

And they hurried away before the thing with red eyes could catch them. Later on Earth, Vicky and her friends just left the music shop.

Vicky: It was nice of that store owner to give me replacement CDs.

Ace: That must have been terrible for you to lose those CDs, wasn't it?

Vicky: Yeah. When I woke up this morning, I was expecting a day of getting the CDs, and then going home to list to them. I wasn't expecting a monster to attack.

Kristy: We better get your CDs home before another monster attack happens.

Jack: If that monster got away, he's likely to come back later today.

Benji: Or the next day.

Dale: Sometimes a few months like that Bancho Biker dude did. I'm going to get my CDs home for safe keeping as well. While I work on a plan to defeat those copyright abusers on the internet.

Jack: Yeah. They were quite annoying. I remember there was this group called RMG blocking off music videos using some, but not all of the songs from my favorite childhood TV show.

Dale: RMG?

Jack: Runner Music Group! I actually looked up on the wiki of that show, and I found no information about this company.

Ace: What do you think you will do about those companies?

Jack: Well, RMG eventually stopped with their copyright blocking, at least for the songs from that show. But they continued doing the same for songs from other companies. I'm wondering if the owner of the songs from the show sued them or something?

Kristy: I don't think it's in your place to do the same, Dale.

Dale: You're probably right. But something must be done. I have a movie planned that uses a lot of songs from this band, but as long as this copyright company is on the lose, I can't upload my movie.

Benji: You could if you just changed the songs.

Dale: But these songs are not replaceable in my opinion. And the movie wouldn't be the same if I changed the songs.

Later, at Dale's house, Dale was listening to the music from his favorite band while he was writing a-

(Cuts to a screen that says "This video contains content that is owned by GMG (Galaxy Music Group), who has blocked it on copyright grounds.")

Hey! Excuse me a moment. (Walks away) Unblock the story right now! What? The music in this episode doesn't belong to you! No it doesn't! Don't lie to me! URGH! You can't get away with this forever! (Walks back) Excuse me a moment. There, we've muted the music track. So the story should continue now.

(The screen then cuts back to Dale)

As I was saying, Dale was listening to the music from his favorite band, which we can't play until we get GMG out of the way, while working on a plan to put a stop to this music band.

Dale: Hmmmm. That should do it. "Reads the later, dear Galaxy Music Group, what is wrong with you? You don't own the rights to the songs from the Buggles. These songs should be public domain because that band broke up years ago. I know that there is still a company that owns the songs, but I know for a fact that it is not you..." Hold on. Maybe instead of writing a letter to GMG, I should write to the actual company to tell them that something must be done. (Crumbles up the paper he had and tosses it into the trash, then gets a new paper and begins to write) Dear....

Meanwhile, up in the Velocity Star Ship, Graphite just came into the room with a large wrecking ball.

Graphite: Here you go, Racruel. Your new wrecking ball.

Racruel: A wrecking ball?

Graphite: A large steel ball that no blasters can ever destroy.

Racruel: Ummm, I don't quite believe you.

Graphite then fired a blast from his hand, and instead of destroying the wrecking ball, the shot reflected off of the ball and hit a motorjack instead.

Motorjack: AAAAH!

Graphite: You see? The Roadrangers do not stand a chance against you.

Racruel: Ah. This will work well. Thank you, Graphite.

Tigian: But what about when we're making those motorjacks working on my statue? That wrecking ball could destroy the statue.

Brakenstein: Too bad we didn't pick up a smaller rock on the moon. We'd go back there, but that thing could get us.

Tigian: So you're scared of a giant robot wolf?

Brakenstein: Uh....yeah.

Tigian: We'll come up with a solution to to the statue later. Right now, defeating the Roadrangers is more important. Now, Racruel, go.

Racruel: Yes sir.

Then, Racruel had left. By then, Dale had just finished his letter.

Dale: There we go. Now to send it off. Prepare for this Galaxy Music Group, you are going down!

But then, he got a call from Speedstar.

Speedstar: Dale, Racruel is back out. You better hurry and help the other Roadrangers. But be careful. He's got a wrecking ball with him.

Dale: A wrecking ball? Uh, OK. I'll be careful, Speedstar. Road Changer! (Transforms into Road Green)

Dale then headed out, meanwhile, the other Roadrangers were fighting against Racruel, and were knocked all over the place.

Kristy: (Gets hit by the wrecking ball and gets thrown into a crate of melons) AAAH!

Vicky: (Gets hit and falls into a crate of stinky cheese) AAAAH! (Sniffs the cheese) Eww! Stinky cheese. I love cheese, but this smell is just awful!

Benji: (Gets knocked into a fruit stand)

Jack: (Gets knocked into a lettuce stand)

Ace: (Gets knocked into a car)

Dale then showed up.

Dale: Guys, I'm here. Speedstar just called me about the monster.

Jack: We tried firing at his wrecking ball, but the blast just reflected.

Kristy: We all tried firing at it, but it didn't work.

Benji: And we think it's because we didn't all fire together since there were just five of us.

Dale: I don't think the wrecking ball will be destroyed from any number of blasts.

Racruel: That's what I told them.

Jack: And he's been bashing us around ever since.

Dale: I think I have an idea.

Racruel: Do you want to fight against me, Road Green?

Dale: Gladly!

Dale then fired his blaster at Racruel's wrecking ball, and like before, it just reflected off the ball.

Benji: Dale, didn't you say that the blasts don't work?

Dale: Wait for it.

The blast reflected off a window, then a mirror, then a windshield, then finally, it hit Racruel in the back.

Racruel: AAAH! (Drops his wrecking back, then it rolls down the street) Hey, come back here.

The ball then rolled into an open manhole. Racruel tried grabbing the stick, but the stick fell down into the hole before he could grab it.

Racruel: No! No! NOOOOOOOO!

Kristy: Aha! You don't have a weapon to mess with anymore. Now, guys. Let's use the Road Blaster.

They got the Road Blaster and aimed it at Racruel.

Kristy: Ready...

All: Fire!

They then fired at hit Racruel.

Racruel: AAAAH!

Kristy: Good work, guys. Especially you, Dale.

Dale: Thanks, Kristy.

Racruel: ERGH! Now it's time for me to grow giant. (Eats and Velocity Bar and grows giant size)

Dale: Let's get Costrain Robo and beat this coon.

Kristy: Right. Costrain Locos! Launch!

The Costrain Locos then showed up and Costrain Robo was formed.

Racruel: Hahahaha. Is that robot supposed to scare me?

Dale: What? You're not scared? You should be!

Costrain Robo then began fighting against Racruel, and for a while, Racruel sppeared to be getting beaten.

Vicky: He seems to be getting weak.

Benji: And he wasn't this easy on the ground.

Jack: Be careful guys, he could have a trick up his sleave.

Then, Costrain Robo was caught up into chains.

Kristy: Oh no. We're stuck.

Jack: That Racruel must have set this up.

Racruel: You got that right.

Then, Road Copter arrived and fired blasts at Racruel.

Racruel: AAAH! I didn't count on Road Copter.

Ace: Form Copter Robo.

Copter Robo was then formed and began battling Racruel. Copter Robo used it's blades against him.

Racruel: AAAH! Those are sharp.

While Racruel was distracted, Copter Robo tried breaking the chains on Costrain Robo.

Ace: Ergh. These chains are not breaking.

Vicky: How will we be able to stop Racruel?

Kristy: We'll need to use Roadranger Robo for this one. Let's go.

So the Roadrangers left Costrain Robo and came back with Roadranger Robo.

Racruel: How many robots do you have? It doesn't matter. I've got another trick up my sleeve. (Gets out some sparkling sticks and threw them at Roadranger Robo and Copter Robo.

Roadrangers: AAAH!

Then, Roadranger Robo fell over.

Dale: Oh no. The legs are not working.

Vicky: My arm isn't working either.

Jack: Nor is mine.

Kristy: Oh no.

Benji: What'll we do now?

Ace: I can't even move Copter Robo. It must have gotten too stunned to even more.

Racruel: Now to tear your robots apart!

Dale: Wait, what did he say?

Vicky: Tear our robots apart?

Dale: That's it. Guys, let's try combining the Costrain Locos with Roadranger Robo.

Jack: Wait, we can do that?

Kristy: It's worth a try. Let's do it.

Then, Roadranger Robo disassembled and the Roadrangers except Kristy went into their Costrain Locos and split into the individual locos. Then, Costrain Tank, Shunter, Fe, and Trolley combined with the base of Roadranger Robo.

Dale: So, we've just made Costrain Roadranger Robo.

Benji: Clever name, Dale.

Racruel: What? I didn't think you could do a thing like that.

Dale: Oh we're full of surprises, you cruel raccoon.

Racruel: ERGH! I'll show you! (Throws shocking sticks)

Jack: Not this time!

Costrain Roadranger Robo then grabbed both sticks and threw them back at Racruel.

Racruel: AAAH!

Benji: Engine blasters!

Then, Costrain Roadranger Robo had the engine blasters in it's hands.

Racruel: Uh...Oh no.

Roadrangers: Engine Blasters!

Then, they fired their engine blasters at Racruel.

Racruel: AAAH! And the statue wasn't finished yet. (Falls down and explodes)

Vicky: We did it.

Dale: Yeah.

Kristy: It's thanks to you, Dale. You came up with such a good idea.

Jack: Do you think we can do the same thing in reverse?

Benji: Since when would we need to? I don't think we'll even do something like this again.

Vicky: Probably.

Up in the Velocity Star Ship, work on the statue continued. But it was going really slowly.

Tigian: I just cannot believe even Racruel has failed me.

Brakenstein: But at least work is still going on. So it's not a total loss.

Tigian: I should hope not. But still, work is not going to go as fast. It'll probably be a new year by the time it gets finished.

Graphite: We'll work as hard as we can, sir.

Tigian: You better!

Later on, Dale mailed his letter.

Dale: There we go. The letter has been sent.

Vicky: Do you think they'll really respond?

Dale: The worst that could happen is that they don't respond. Besides, a friend of ours from that agency wrote a letter to a company about making a space-themed series in two years, and they wrote back to him saying that they will consider the idea in the future.

Benji: A space series? That's something I'd like to see.

Kristy: Sure would be.

Title Card: A few days later.

Dale: (Opens his mailbox and gets a letter out) Ah, they wrote back. (Reads it) Dear Dale, you don't need to worry about them anymore. We've already filed a lawsuit and they're not going to bother you if you upload our songs on the internet. Do remember that this will also help support us as we are paid money off of those videos. (Stops reading) And I can never understand why some people complain about their videos getting a content ID claim, even when that doesn't block or remove their videos.

To be continued...