How the Cookie Crumbles (Transcript)

This is the 38th episode of Nature Squadron: Fangranger.

It was wintertime, and quite a lot of snow had fallen onto the ground. When it snowed, it often blocks off the roads. This meant that school would have to be closed. While school had been closed, the Fangrangers thankfully were still able to visit each other. Everybody had gathered at Ted's house and were all in the kitchen.

Ted: I'm glad you could all come over on this snowy day.

Denny: It is no problem for me, Ted. When school is closed for the snow, I may as well make the most of my free time.

Lucky: Same here. So why are we all in the kitchen?

Ted: Well, it is because I'd like to make some winter cookies.

Ollie: Cookies? Sounds good to me.

Claire: Are we making these cookies for any particular reason?

Ted: I just thought that it would be great to bake these cookies with my friends. Besides, I have all sorts of ingredients that we could put into the cookies. You can make any sort of cookies that you like.

Lucky: How about chocolate?

Ted: You mean chocolate chip?

Lucky: No, I mean chocolate. Like the cookie itself is chocolate.

Becky: I never heard of a cookie that was chocolate itself.

Lucky: I've had them before. And I even know how to make them. Do you have any chocolate?

Ted: Well, I have chocolate chips.

Lucky: I don't think that will be enough. How about chocolate bars?

Ted: I...don't think I have any, Lucky. Sorry.

Lucky: That's alright. I am sure I can get some from the store. Shall I go and get some?

Ted: If you have the time.

Lucky: We've got all day, don't we. We have plenty of time.

Ted: Alright then.

And Lucky headed on out.

Bernie: Chocolate cookies that aren't just chocolate chips? This I have to see.

Claire: What are some other ingredients you have, Ted?

Ted: I've got honey, marshmallows, almonds, oatmeal, peanut butter, and raisins.

Becky: That sounds great, Ted. You thought of everything.

Claire: Well, almost everything since Lucky wanted chocolate, and the chocolate chips were not enough for him.

Bernie: I'm sure that when Lucky gets back, he can make the chocolate cookies that he wants.

Denny: I figured that Ted would have honey since he is a bear.

Lucky had arrived at the grocery store to buy some chocolate bars.

Lucky: Hmm. I wonder if there is anything else that you can put into cookies? I didn't check to see what else Ted had. But maybe I can find some other great things to add to the cookies.

He went over to the aisle where the chocolate was and got two bars of it. Then, he thought of something.

Lucky: I think I know of another great thing to add to cookies. Cinnamon. I'll go and get some of that, too.

He then headed off to the aisle where the cinnamon was sold and got a bottle of it. He then wondered what else to get. Over in Verminator's lair, Beakster had just arrived with a tray of cookies.

Beakster: Hey, fellas. Since it is a snow day, I decided on baking some cookies.

Verminator: Cookies?

Decepto: Well, they do look pretty good. Don't you think?

Fangulee: I think they do.

Verminator, Decepto, and Fangulee each took a cookie from the tray and started eating.

Verminator: (Makes a sick-looking face) Mmm!

Decepto: (Makes a disgusted face) Eh...

Fangulee: (Makes a sour-looking face) Uh...

Beakster: (Watches in shock as the other villains each spit out their cookies off-screen)

Verminator: What did you put in these cookies, Beakster?

Beakster: Worms and birdseed.

Other Villains: EWW!

Verminator: Those have to be the worst things to put into cookies!

Beakster: I think they are the best thing to put into cookies! (Takes a bite of one of his own cookies and is shown to like them) Mmmm.

Fangulee: Of course you like them. You're a bird.

Decepto: But the rest of us are not! I bet if Sheba was here, she'd beat the living feathers off of you!

Verminator: I bet that is exactly what she would do.

Beakster: I decided to bake these cookies because just about everybody is making them today as school is out because of the snow.

Verminator: Hey, that gives me an idea for a monster we could create. Beakster, do you have any cookie dough left?

Beakster: I can make more cookie dough as I still have plenty of ingredients left.

Verminator: Great. Get to work making the dough. But do not add birdseed or worms. Just have them be plain cookies.

Beakster: You got it, Verminator.

So Beakster headed to the other room and got to work making more cookie dough. Soon, he had finished it and was about to pour the dough out onto a tray to make individual cookies when Decepto came in and stopped him.

Decepto: Hold it, Beakster.

Beakster: What?

Decepto: Remember what the boss wanted.

Beakster: Oh right. I forgot that this dough wasn't made for making cookies.

Decepto grabbed the mixing bowl and headed to his lab. He was about to use his magic words when Beakster came in.

Beakster: Hold on, Decepto.

Decepto: What is it, Beakster?

Beakster: I spoke to the boss and suggested adding some icing, peppermint, and candy canes to the monster as well and he agreed to it.

Decepto: Are those icing, peppermint, or candy cane cookies?

Beakster: You can put icing onto cookies. But I've never heard of peppermint or candy cane cookies. I am not sure if they would even be any good anyway. But, I think they would work well for our monster.

Decepto: Well, if Verminator approves of it, then I suppose I can accept.

Beakster put the candy canes and peppermint candy into the cookie dough mixing bowl, and then took a knife and spread the icing into the bowl.

Beakster: Even though there are no worms or birdseed, this dough looks good enough to eat.

Decepto: Well it isn't for eating, it is for making a monster. Shall I get on with it now?

Beakster: By all means.

And he backed up to give Decepto some room.

Decepto: Mookie, nookie, pookie, give me a monstrous cookie! (Waves his wand and the cookie dough turns into a wolf-like monster cookie with candy cane and peppermint accents)

Beakster: Huh. He looks much like a wolf.

Decepto: I guess he's like a ginger wolf. Hey, that is what we shall call him. But there is another ability that I would like to give to him.

Beakster: What would that be, Decepto?

Decepto: Let's just say that he will have a helping paw.

Beakster: Huh. Alright. I suppose.

Over at the grocery store, Lucky was wrapping up his grocery shopping and headed over to the self-checkout since all of the manual checkout lines were busy. Lucky didn't mind that. He preferred the self-checkout since he thought that it took quicker.

Lucky: Now that I have all of these ingredients, I am certain we'll have plenty of cookie varieties.

As he was checking out, he saw some people running outside. They were getting chased by flying candy canes.

Lucky: What is going on?

He then saw Gingerwolf outside.

Gingerwolf: Come on. Have a taste of my candy canes!

Lucky: Oh dear!

Lucky hurried to check out everything as quickly as he could, then hurried out of the store and on his way back to Ted's house to tell the others about Gingerwolf. Over at Ted's house, the others were working on their cookies. Ted was mixing his cookie dough for a bit, then he grabbed a bottle of honey and squirted it into the bowl.

Ted: These will be the best honey cookies I've ever baked.

Denny: And these will be the best raisin cookies I've ever baked.

Becky: Let's not claim which cookies will be the best, shall we? This isn't a competition.

Denny: I just wanted to say they'll be the best in my opinion. I wasn't saying that you guys had to agree with me.

Just then, Lucky arrived back. Bernie could tell he looked distressed.

Bernie: Is something the matter, Lucky? You didn't have any trouble finding the chocolate, did you?

Lucky: Not at all. But that is not why I am feeling distressed. As I was leaving the store, I saw a monster that looked like a wolf made of gingerbread firing candy canes.

Ollie: Sounds like Verminator has been baking cookies of his own.

Ted: It looks like we'll have to put our mixing bowls into the refrigerator. I just hope there will be enough room.

Lucky: At least I didn't start making my cookies yet.

Claire: So we only need to store six bowls.

Ted opened the refrigerator door and every Fangranger who had a bowl put theirs into the fridge. They then all headed outside and transformed.

All: Nature Fang Change! (All transformed into their ranger forms)

They then headed to the grocery store. Outside the grocery store, Gingerwolf was still tossing his candy canes at the civilians.

Gingerwolf: How can I get you if you keep moving about? I guess I'll have to use my freeze howl.

And that was just what he did. He first used his freeze howl at an old oryx man who was carrying a couple of grocery sacks. Then he used his freeze howl at a possum lady, then at an alligator man, then at a hippo lady. It was at that moment the Fangrangers arrived.

Ollie: Oh dear. I think these citizens were so scared of the monster, they ended up freezing in fear.

Gingerwolf: They didn't freeze from fear, they froze from my freeze howl. And now I shall do my next dirty deed.

He then swung his claws at the oryx man, scratching him. By doing so, it broke the ice.

Oryx Man: Oww! (Covers his scratch)

Claire: That's really dirty to scratch somebody when they can't stop you!

Bernie: At least he is free.

Becky: I don't think it is that easy, Bernie.

Gingerwolf: You bet it isn't Whitey!

At that moment, the oryx man began to turn into a were-ginger wolf himself.

Ted: Oh no! Look what has happened!

Gingerwolf: And there is more to come! (Swipes his claw at the possum lady)

Possum Lady: (Begins to turn into a were-ginger wolf)

Both the oryx and possum began walking toward the Fangrangers with their claws ready to scratch at the Fangrangers. Right as they were about to scratch at Ted, Ted jumped over them and onto the ice block with the alligator stuck inside.

Ted: I'm not letting you have this one. (Swings his claw at the ice, breaking it)

But Ted only broke the ice. He didn't scratch the alligator. But even if he had, it wouldn't have been as bad.

Male Alligator: What happened?

Ted: Hurry away before you become like them! (Points to the possum and oryx)

Male Alligator: Oh my!

And he hurried away.

Becky: I've got the other one. (Fires her Carrot Blasters at the ice holding the hippo lady, breaking the ice) Hurry away, ma'am!

And the hippo lady did hurry away. Denny and Ollie were holding off the oryx man who was trying to scratch at the both of them.

Denny: Careful that you don't get scratched by them.

Ollie: Easier said than done. (Narrowly avoid a scratch on the face) But how can we fight them? They're just citizens.

Bernie and Claire were trying to keep the possum lady from scratching them, too.

Claire: (Grabs the claw of the possum lady) Hey, is it me, or do these claws look like they're made out of candy canes?

Bernie: (Grabs the other claw) I think you're right, Claire. They do look like candy canes. You don't suppose...

Claire: Only one way to find out. (Gets her sword and slowly trims the candy cane claws down until the claws were all gone on one hand) That's one!

At that moment, the possum lady began slowly turning back to normal.

Possum Lady: Huh? What is happening? (Notices her other arm) Hey! My arm! And it's...HOWL...moving on its own! And...HOWL...What's happening.

Bernie: I think it is working. But I don't think my Sonic Hooters can trim the other hand's claws.

Claire: No problem. Just let me at it. (Uses her sword to trim the other claws down)

Possum Lady: (Reverts back to normal all the way) Oh. That is so much better. Thank you, Fang Gold.

Claire: Just doing my job. Now hurry away, ma'am.

And the possum lady did hurry away.

Gingerwolf: What? That cannot be!

Ted: Good work, Claire. I think my Bear Claws can do the same for the oryx man.

Denny: I've got you covered, Ted. (Uses his Monkey Whip to wrap the oryx man up) There you go, Ted.

Ted proceeded towards Denny, but then some icing covered Ted's visor.

Ted: Hey! I cannot see!

Gingerwolf: That's cause I used my icing barf to impair your vision.

Ted: (Tries to whip the icing off his visor) Hey, this icing won't come off!

Lucky: (Jump kicks Gingerwolf down to the ground, then runs over to Ted) Ted, give me your Bear Claws. I'll try to help the old oryx.

Ted: But I can't even see you with this icing over my visor.

Lucky: I'm right next to you.

Ted: (Turns away from Lucky) OK. Here. (Holds out his Bear Claws)

Lucky: Other way, Ted.

Ted: (Turns around to face Lucky) Oh. Sorry. Here. (Hands his Bear Claws to Lucky)

Lucky: (Takes them)

Gingerwolf was beginning to get up.

Gingerwolf: I won't let anybody help that man out. (Uses his tail to create a cookie dough ball with chocolate chip spikes and rows it over to Lucky)

Bernie: Not this time! (Uses her Sonic Hooters to make the cookie dough ball shake until it breaks into tiny pieces)

Bernie was about to distract Gingerwolf long enough for Lucky to use Ted's Bear Claws to trim the old oryx man's candy cane claws down until he was back to normal.

Old Oryx Man: Oh what happened.

Lucky: Just hurry to safety while we get this monster put out of the way.

Old Oryx Man: Thanks, Fangrangers. (Hurries away)

Bernie: If trimming the were-ginger wolves' candy cane claws was able to break the spell put upon them, maybe doing the same for Gingerwolf will do the same.

Gingerwolf: Oh yeah? Just try that!

Gingerwolf then attempted to swing his candy cane claws at Bernie, but Lucky and Denny grabbed each of his arms while Ollie grabbed hold of his tail.

Gingerwolf: Hey, let go of my tail. (Tries to move it, but it ends up breaking out)

Ollie: Whoa! That was unexpected.

Lucky handed Denny one of Ted's Bear Claws.

Lucky: You trim that hand and I'll trim this one, Denny.

Both Denny and Lucky began to trim at Gingerwolf's claws. When that happened, the icing on Ted's visor melted away.

Ted: Hey, I can see again!

Ollie: (Still holding Gingerwolf's detached tail) Well, without his tail, he can't make any more cookie dough balls.

But much to everyone's surprise, the tail grew back.

Gingerwolf: I can regenerate any part of my body. Except for my claws.

Becky: Then you can't make anymore were-ginger wolves.

Gingerwolf: Maybe not, but I do have some friends to assist me!

He opened his mouth and out came a peppermint and a candy cane. They looked like an ordinary peppermint and candy cane, which confused the Fangrangers.

Ollie: Uh, what do they do?

Then suddenly, the peppermint and candy cane grew larger and then each gained a set of arms and legs. The peppermint got a single eye in the center of his face while the candy cane got a set of evil-looking yellow eyes, a nose, and a mouth.

Gingerwolf: These are my buddies, Peppermint Punk and Candy Cane Bane.

Lucky: Two more monsters?

Bernie: Like one wasn't bad enough!

Peppermint Punk: Have some peppermints! (Throws some peppermints all around town)

The peppermints went all over town. Sasha and Milly were walking when one of Peppermint Punk's peppermints landed in front of Milly's feet.

Milly: Hey, what is this? (Picks it up)

Sasha: That looks like a peppermint candy, Milly.

Milly: Oh boy. Candy. (Puts the peppermint in her mouth and eats it) Mmmm.

But then, Milly suddenly froze over.

Sasha: Ah! Milly!

Over with the Fangrangers, Peppermint Punk then turned into a big peppermint wheel and began to roll toward the Fangrangers.

Ted: Whoa! Watch out!

They jumped to the side as Peppermint Punk rolled through them.

Denny: Phew. That was too close.

But then, Peppermint Punk turned around and rolled towards them.

Lucky: Uh oh! He's rolling back!

Gingerwolf: It looks like Peppermint Punk has them distracted. Go around and use your powers, Candy Cane Bane.

Candy Cane Bane: Will do, Gingerwolf.

And he headed away while Gingerwolf had vanished away. No matter where the Fangrangers ran off to, Peppermint Punk always followed them.

Ollie: He rolls towards us no matter which direction we go in.

Claire: Wait, there are seven of us and only one of him.

Ted: Claire is right. Guys, let's split up.

And they all split up and went in different directions. Peppermint Punk decided to chase after Becky.

Becky: Oh why did he have to choose to run after me?

She turned around and used her Carrot Blasters to blast at Peppermint Punk, but only a few scratches were made and did not stop him.

Becky: Oh dear. That is no good.

Peppermint Punk nearly crashed into Becky only for her to jump onto a dumpster and causing Peppermint Punk to crash into the dumpster and broke into pieces.

Becky: Huh. So his weakness was just crashing into something?

The other Fangrangers arrived and saw all of Peppermint Punk's shards. Denny picked one up.

Denny: Do you think he'll re-materialize?

Ted: Maybe we should break the shards into even smaller shards to make sure that doesn't happen.

Becky: I don't know if that will work since I tried firing my Carrot Blasters at him (gets down from the dumpster) but it just made scratches.

Ollie: We'll see about that. (Gets out his Mega Blaster) Stand back, guys.

Everybody stood back as Ollie fired his Mega Blaster at Peppermint Punk, leaving nothing left.

Claire: That's one monster down.

Ted: But we still have another two to take care of.

And they hurried off the begin the search, as they were searching around the city they kept on coming across some people who were trapped in frozen ice blocks. Some of the blocks were in the normal clear color while others had red and white stripes resembling candy canes.

Becky: Whoa. Take a look at all of these people.

Ollie: Yeah. They are all frozen.

Bernie: But some of them are in ice blocks with red and white stripes, like candy canes.

Lucky: Guys, over there! It's Milly!

They ran over to Milly's frozen ice block.

Denny: Gingerwolf must have frozen her, too.

Just then, Sasha showed up with a bucket of hot water.

Sasha: Don't worry, Milly. I have a bucket of hot water to melt the ice with. Oh, hello Fangrangers. I wasn't expecting to see you.

Ted: Well there was a monster attack, so why wouldn't we be here?

Lucky: We're actually dealing with three monsters. Well, two now since...

Becky: Since I had one of them chase me to a dumpster and it broke into pieces upon collision.

Sasha: Well if only two monsters are left, that shouldn't be too much of a problem. My friend, Milly found a peppermint on the ground and she ate it. When she did, she froze up.

Denny: So that was what those peppermints Peppermint Punk threw did!

Sasha: After my friend froze, I hurried back to my house to get some hot water to melt the ice with.

Claire: Why do I get the feeling it won't work as well as regular ice?

Sasha: Only one way to find out.

Sasha swung her bucket, but no water came out. Leaving her confused. She tried again, but the water still didn't come out.

Sasha: What's the matter? (Puts her wing into the bucket to find that it was frozen) Oh, come on! Did it freeze up?

Ted: The cold weather must have frozen it pretty quickly.

Sasha: I'm going to go back to my house and try aga-(Gets grabbed by some red and white striped tentacles, then gets frozen in a block of a red and white striped-ice block)

Candy Cane Bane: You won't be beating my ice, you'll be joining your friend in being frozen!

Ted: We managed to defeat your buddy, Peppermint Punk.

Claire: And you will be next!

Candy Cane Bane: Oh yeah? (Swings his tentacle at Claire)

Claire: (Swings her sword at the tentacle and slices it off) Ha!

But more tentacles began appearing and Claire kept on slicing them!

Claire: I'll do this all day if I need to! (Continues slicing the tentacles)

Candy Cane Bane: You'll have to give in eventually, Goldie!

While Claire was busy slicing at Candy Cane Bane's infinite tentacles, Becky and Bernie used their weapons to attack him from the back.

Candy Cane Bane: AAAH! (Falls down, but then gets back up) You'll pay for that!

He then summoned a large candy cane and grabbed it. Then he began to swing it around the Fangrangers. They managed to duck as the cane nearly hit them.

Candy Cane Bane: Around and around, my candy cane goes. Where it lands, right on your nose! (Makes an attempt at hitting Lucky in the nose with the cane)

Lucky: (Grabs the front of the cane) Oh no you don't!

Candy Cane Bane then moved Lucky from side to side.

Lucky: (Moves from side to side) Whoa! Oh! Oh!

Then, Denny grabbed hold of the cane, then Ted, then Claire, then Ollie, then Bernie, and then Becky. With all seven Fangrangers holding onto the cane, Candy Cane Bane wasn't able to move it from side to side anymore, and then with one last effort, the candy cane broke in half like a real candy cane.

Candy Cane Bane: No! My candy cane!

Then, all of the Fangrangers ran over to Candy Cane Bane and pushed him to the ground.

Candy Cane Bane: Hey! That isn't nice!

Ted: Neither is freezing people!

They then all grabbed Candy Cane Bane from his legs.

Ted: Becky, if Peppermint Punk broke into pieces from hitting a dumpster, do you suppose the same will happen with Candy Cane Bane?

Becky: Only one way to find out.

Ted: Guys, swing Candy Cane Bane as hard as you cane-er can and when I count to three, let him go.

They all began to swing the monster around and around and around. Then Ted gave the signal.

Ted: One, two, three!

And with that, they all let go and swung Candy Cane Bane towards a brick way and upon impact, he shattered into tiny pieces.

Lucky: It worked! Good thinking, Ted!

Ted: Now all that is left is Gingerwolf. I wonder where he could be?

Denny: Well, you won't need to wonder for very long. Look!

They looked to see Gingerwolf had already grown giant.

Gingerwolf: You may have beaten my buddies, but the ice won't melt until I'm out of the picture!

Ted: We can take care of that! Let's summon the Nature Fang Beasts!

The Nature Fang beasts were then summoned and the Fangrangers got into the cockpits.

Ted: (From Nature Fang Bear's cockpit) Ollie, you and Nature Fang Otter first wear him down, then the rest of us will come in for the kill.

Ollie: (From Nature Fang Otter's cockpit) Got it, Ted. You heard him, Nature Fang Otter!

Nature Fang Otter then charged for Gingerwolf.

Gingerwolf: Have some cookie dough balls, Otty! (Creates cookie dough balls and rolls them over to Nature Fang Otter)

Nature Fang Otter: (Grabs it and tossed it at Gingerwolf's head)

Gingerwolf: (Has his head stuck in the cookie dough ball) Hey! I can't see!

Then, NatureFangTigerOh stepped in.

(Cuts to NatureFangTigerOh's cockpit)

Ted: NatureFangTigerOh...

All: Final Blast!

NatureFangTigerOh: (Fires at Gingerwolf)

Gingerwolf: (Gets hit) AAAH! (His face is shown to be freed from the cookie dough ball) I guess this cookie has crumbled! (Falls and explodes)

At that moment, all of the ice blocks melted and the citizens were freed.

Sasha: Ah. I'm freed!

Milly: I'm freed, too!

Sasha: I did try to help melt the ice on you, Milly. But my hot water froze on my way back.

Milly: That's alright, Sasha. At least you tried.

Later at Ted's house, the Fangrangers had just finished baking their cookies. Lucky was the last to finish baking his cookies.

Lucky: My cookies are all ready.

His cookies were all brown since he used chocolate for his cookies.

Ted: Wow. Those do look pretty good, Lucky.

Bernie: You know, with so many cookies, what do you think we'll do with them all?

Claire: Maybe we could have them at a New Year's Eve party.

Becky: Hey, I like that idea.

Denny: Me, too.

Ollie: I just wonder if 2023 will be much better than 2022?

Ted: If we can just defeat Verminator for good, it just might be.

Lucky: Here is to a much better new year. Anyway, if you guys want to, you can try one of my chocolate cookies.

Ollie: We can?

Lucky: (nods)

Each of the other Fangrangers took a bite of one of Lucky's cookies.

Becky: Hey, this is quite amazing.

Bernie: Yeah. I'm glad you made these, Lucky.

Lucky: (smiles)

Over in Verminator's lair, Beakster was working on something.

Beakster: Hopefully with this machine I've been working on, I should be able to get rid of the Fangrangers once and for all. Then Verminator can rule the world and I will be rid of my fear of getting caught by the police. (The robot is shown to resemble Verminator)

To be continued...