//------------------------------// // Jungle Jam // Story: Equestria Ninja Girls of Star Command // by Mister V //------------------------------// The next day, Fluttershy, Shini, and Mina were enjoying a nice quiet morning in Fluttershy's room. "What a beautiful morning." Mina said. "I feel as if today will be a good day." Fluttershy added. "One that's just as full of suprises as yesterday." Shini finished. "I'm impressed that April managed to catch up with Gravitina and give her a headache. That was fun to see." Just then, they heard a voice on the intercom. "Fluttershy, Shini, and Mina to the briefing room please." It said. The three girls then met Commander Nebula and Team Lightyear in the briefing room, who explained explained the situation to them. Apperantly, some space rangers were helping Dr. Osma patrol the planet of Karn when they were attacked by something big, green and furious, following a meteor shower that entered tha planet's atmosphere. "The three of you are to investigate this big, green and furious thing while Team Lightyear checks out the meteors." "Well, you guys have fun on Planet Death." XR said as he began to leave. "If you need me, I'll be on Muhambus Vl." "Right behind you, Amigo." Booster said following XR. "Nice try, you two are coming too." Mira said. "That's right." Buzz added. "Anyway, while we go prepare the shuttle, you three go to the library down on Capital Planet and stock up on the wild life of Karn." Fluttershy, Shini, and Mina nodded. And when they went to the library, they were suprised to learn that there was an entire section based on Karn wildlife. "My, there sure are a lot of books about Karn's wildlife." Mina said. "How are we going to look over them all?" "One book at the time." A voice said. The group turned to see a photocopier/fax machine with one tread, thin arms, and a head similar to XR's, but red, and with smaller, beady eyes, one of which is yellow and larger than the other. "That's how I do it. The name's XL, nice to meet ya." "It's nice to meet you too, XL." Fluttershy said before shaking the little robot's hand. Shini then noticed his head and had to ask an important question. "Are you by any chance related to XR?" Shini asked. "Yeah, he's my brother." XL answered in embarressment. "How's that work?" Shini asked. "Well, I was originally created by the LGMs to be the first robotic Space Ranger, but due to his violent and destructive personality, Commander Nebula gave the order to have the me deactivated." XL began. "All information regarding the creation and development of me was later placed into the XL file, which was made accessible only to Commander Nebula himself. This event was what led to Nebula's prejudice against robots and the idea of a robot ranger in particular, though like XR after him the LGMs got permission to build him by sneaking the authorization form in with one of their vacation requests, which he would often sign without looking. Some time after the creation of XR and the formation of Team Lightyear, Evil Emperor Zurg reactivated me to help him destroy Star Command. I had every intent to take revenge upon Nebula for shutting him down. Prior to facing Commander Nebula, I proceeded to steal state-of-the-art robot parts from both Star Command and other robotic facilities across the galaxy. His heists soon caught the attention of Star Command, who then deployed Team Lightyear to catch the culprit. I soon revealed himself to the team. After some digging, Buzz and XR soon learned from Commander Nebula of my origins at Star Command. Later on, I soon broke into Star Command and kidnapped the Commander, imprisoning him in a cage beneath a field of lasers within the robot's asteroid home. Here he revealed his intentions to his "father" to claim revenge on him. Team Lightyear, however, was able to mount a rescue by pursuing my asteroid base, successfully breaking through its primary defenses. Seeing that his enemies were about to break through, I started to lower the laser grid onto Nebula with the intent of using it to kill him. When Team Lightyear eventually entered the heart of my lair, most of its members were incapacitated by the robot's weapons, with XR notably being torn to pieces. Fortunately, Buzz was not captured, and was able to reassemble XR so he could plug into a computer terminal and activate all the robot parts lying around, commanding them to attack me. As they did, I was knocked down, and the traps that held Mira Nova, Booster, and Commander Nebula were deactivated. Furious after being defeated by XR, I examined their blueprints and determined that only one component appeared to be different between them: XR possessed an "AFD." Believing the component to be the cause of his defeat, I captured XR and removed it, installing it in himself. Later, he captured XR again after his "younger brother" took a delivery job in hopes of being able to obtain a replacement. XR ended up bringing me the final component for his latest evil invention, a dangerously modified version of a Star Command g-force trainer. I put XR in the machine and set it running, capturing the rest of Team Lightyear when they arrived to rescue their friend. However, the investigations of XR's teammates led to a surprise revelation: AFD stood for Air-Freshening Device, installed by the LGMs due to their dislike of how XR smelled. Realizing that he had not lost a vital component, XR threw several coins out as he was being propelled by the g-force machine, destroying it and damaging me. I later hired Torque to bring me a special component on Tradeworld, which allowed him to upgrade himself with more powerful robotic limbs. Though I initially posed a considerable threat to Team Lightyear, I was defeated yet again when Booster Munchapper, who under the influence of Jo-Adian Bunzel Fever, ripped me apart after mistaking him for a Bunzel. After being ripped apart and hearing Booster shout "Bunzel!" a few times, I asked, "Why does he keep saying that?" Some time later, I formed an alliance with NOS-4-A2, the two of us had infiltrated Star Command and captured Ty Parsec in order to turn him into Wirewolf. The first stage of their plan complete, we traveled to Planet Z, where we succeeded in ousting Zurg and taking over. However, I began to get an inkling of my lesser role in the alliance, as NOS-4-A2 was quick to claim dominion over Zurg's fortress. I then fulfilled his primary task, creating a machine that would spread Ty's affliction to other organic beings, providing NOS-4-A2 with a virtually unlimited food supply. Sensing his increasing lack of use to NOS-4-A2 as anything but another meal, I volunteered to hunt down Buzz and XR, who managed to help him see the error of his ways. Returning to his original purpose, I helped defeat NOS-4-A2 and undo their evil plans. Subsequently, his head was attached to a copying machine and he was allowed to rejoin the Star Command staff, despite Nebula's unease at the notion." "Well, were going to need all these books for mission on the planet Karn." Fluttershy said. "All of them?" XL said in shock. "I don't think you'll carry them all." "Maybe." Fluttershy said. "But I think I may have an idea." Shortly after, the four of them returned to Star Command, with XL carrying a large pile of books with a pieced together body containing parts from several different robots, all connected to a huge body, giving him an intimidating look. Naturally, Commander Nebula was not pleased. "XL, WHO GAVE YOU AUTHORIZATION TO HAVE YOUR BODY BACK?!" He asked in rage. "I did, sir." Fluttershy said. "I needed some books on Karn wildlife and XL offered to carry them for me." "That explains the bill we got for the library card." Commander Nebula said. "Sir, I promise I'll use this body to protect Fluttershy." XL said in confidence. "I asked the LGMs to disable the more dangerous weapons." Fluttershy added. "At best, I could at least burn someone's skin or stun them." XL said. "Alright, XL I'm putting you under Fluttershy's command." Commander Nebula ordered. "Yes, sir." XL said with a salute. Soon, everyone was onboard and on their way to Karn. Along the way, Team Lightyear explained details of the situation to the team, told them about Dr. Osma and the many adventures they had with her. Then, Mira felt a bit of concern for XL. "You do still have some offensive capabilities, right?" She asked. "A lot of my more lethal weapons were deactivated, but I can still fight." XL answered. "Why do you ask?" "Because I have a feeling, we're about to get into a real fight." Mira answered. Perhapes she was right, for durning all this, the last of fiery balls crash down upon Karn, revealing itself to be a small robot with green eyes. "Filthy, filthy, filthy." The robot said. "Not to worry, Carebot is online." The team soon arrives at planet Karn. When they stepped foot on the planet, they were met by Dr. Osma, who was informed that they would be coming. “What been going on here, Doctor?” Buzz asked “Poachers again?” “If it was the case, my animals wouldn't be still on planet or on ice.” Osma said before showing the group some of the animals encased in ice. “At least they're still alive.” Fluttershy said in assurance. “How do you know that?” Osma asked in doubt. Fluttershy the turned to his giant robot bodyguard. “XL.” She said. “Right, Sarge.” XL said before handing Fluttershy the scan he took. “According to these readings, the animals seem to be in a form of stasis.” Fluttershy said. “Vitals are slow, but steady.” “Let me see that.” Osma said before reviewing the scans. “This is bad. Some of my animals can't handle these readings for too long. We got to get them freed.” “And we will.” Buzz said. “And while we do that, we can figure out what's causing this.” The group then began to follow the trail of frozen bodies, thawing the animals out of their icy prisons along the way. It took a little while, but soon, the found the cause of the mess, for in the middle of a clearing, there was a huge swarm of little robots, coming in and out of a huge metallic ant hill. “Care-Bots?” Mira asked in surprise. “What are Care-Bots?” Pinkie asked in confusion “Little robots that were suppose to keep their ship spic and span.” Mira explained. “But they went haywire and froze their creators, because they pegged organics as being the source of the ship's messes. Team Lightyear boarded the ship to attempt to pull it over for speed violations, and were almost frozen by the Care-Bots. We managed to free the crew and jettisoned most of the Care-Bots into space, where they are quite happy because space is "the ultimate cleanliness."” “Nothing to worry about, though.” Buzz said in assurance. “One good blast will deal with them.” Buzz then blasted one of the Care-Bots, but the laser was just absorbed into the metal, shocking the entire group. “Something is not right. These robots couldn't take a single shot from our lasers. Someone helped them on planet.” “But we can’t just walk in.” Raph said. “We’ll be encased in ice.” “I think I got an idea.” Donnie said. “My hologuiser will turn us into Care-Bots. We just need to sneak in, find out who’s in charge in there, and take them down.” “That might work.” Leo said. “Let’s do it.” They transform into Care-Bots and snuck inside the metal ant hill. For a while, things seemed to be going well, until they reached the center of the hive, where they say a dinosaur like alien wearing Cajun clothes. “That guy does not look like he’s from around here.” Sunset said. “You’re right.” The reptilian alien said before ordering the Care-Bots to deactivate the hologuise tech, revealing our heroes real forms. “I’m not.” “How did you do that?” Donnie asked in shock. “And who are you?” “You can call me, Troy Reximus.” The alien said with a sadistic grin. "I'm Zurg's new power house. In case your wondering how that happened it all started sometime ago." The scene then changed to show Zurg blowing his top. "Brain Pod 34 escaped?!" Zurg asked in rage. "Yes, but we've already hired a bounty hunter" Grub explained. "WHO?!" Zurg asked before a voice answered that question. "Me." Zurg and the Grub turned to see Troy Reximus walk into the room. "Did you bring a resume?" Zurg asked in curiosity. ?: Here's my resume. Troy then lifted up a blaster and pointed it at Zurg's face. "Guts and strength..." Zurg said. "I LOVE IT! Forget being a bounty hunter, your my new muscle man. What's your name." "My name's Troy Reximus." He said as the scene changed back to the present day. "And you came to Karn because...?" Osma asked. "I just liked to cause a little trouble where I go." Troy said. “You're asking for this, lizard lips." Raph said. "Bring it on, shell head." Troy said. The heroes then launched an all out attack on Troy and his Care-Bots. The Care-Bots laser absorbing armor made them impossible to destroy, so all they could do is knock them away, temporally stunning them. Then Mina discovered that knocking them into the metal spikes on the walls makes them puncture their armor, destroying them. The rest of the group noticed this and decided to use this information to their advantage. The group did the same thing to all of Care-Bots, but there are just too many to get rid off. So Fluttershy decided to call some of the local animals for backup, which they provided graciously, in return for saving them. And before long, all the Care-Bots were completely taken out, and Troy Reximus tried to escape, only to get caught in a giant spiderweb. Soon, Troy was loaded onto a ship with the scrapped Care-Bots and the rest of the animals were free. “Thanks for all your help today.” Osma said in gratitude. “You guys have really saved my animals from being iced.” “Anytime, Dr.Osma.” Buzz said. “Oh, and Fluttershy?” Osma added. “If you ever need a summer job, just give me a call.” "Oh, well thank you, Dr. Osma." Fluttershy said. Later, The LGMS were caring the scrapped remains of the Care-Bots past the cells. Troy Reximus was getting pieces of web off of his body, Gravitina was rubbing her head, trying to num the pain after April caught up to her, Torque's head was still spinning in circles as he's still unable to see straight, maybe even spit a tooth out, NOS-4-A2 was still short circuiting from his wounds, And the Evil Buzz was rubbing his bare face while frequently being launched into the ceiling by his Ex-girlfriend. The LGMs then put the robo remains into the garbage disposal unit, unaware that a surviving Care-bot head transmits the data it recorded back to Zurg.