Mighty Morphin' Pony Rangers

The teleportation magic Twilight had found in her wristwatch had landed them back in the same part of campus where they had crash-landed in the first place, and sans uniforms.

"Woo!" Rainbow yelled, "That was awesome! Did you see us all out there, kicking flank.

"Yeah, that was lots of fun," Pinkie joined in, "I hope we get to fight whatever those things were again soon."

"Something tells me we will," Twilight said before feeling her wrist begin to buzz. Looking at her watch, she pressed a button, and a picture of Celestia appeared on the face.

"Good work, my little ponies," Celestia said, "I knew you all would be able to unlock the magic."

"Princess," Applejack spoke up, "just who was that big guy in the armor? And those smaller creatures?"

"He goes by the name Barbarus. He is Constellarous' muscle and the leader of his foot-soldiers, though I don't know what he calls them."

"So what's next princess," Twilight asked eagerly.

"I'm glad you asked. There are many things that you six must understand in order to keep up your disguises here in the human world. For instance, you will be living and sleeping on-campus, and yes, you will have to go to school."

"Aw, man," Rainbow moaned.

"I know, but rest assured, I think you will each like your classes very much," she turned her head slightly, "Spike, you can send them now.

A second later, a bag sat at the feet of each of the six, each color-coded to their uniform color. Rainbow, AJ, Twilight, and Pinkie had backpacks, while Rarity and Fluttershy were now the owners of large shoulder bags.

"These are basically the human equivalent to saddlebags," Celestia continued to explain, "inside you will find everything you will need. Your schedules, your room numbers, and other assorted things found in the human world that I think would help you."

All of them started digging around their bags. Rarity was the first to pull out something interesting, a thin, plastic, card with various numbers engraved on the front.

"What is this, princess?"

"That, Rarity, is called a credit card. Humans use it to pay for things when they don't have money with them. You each have one. Don't go overboard, but everything is covered, you all won't want for a thing."

Rarity quickly placed her card in the clutch purse that she had found inside her bag.

"And what about this weird rectangle," Rainbow wondered, fishing out a black flip phone from her backpack.

"That is called a cellular phone, or cell phone for short. Humans use it to communicate with each other from vast distances. You each have one, with your own number and the numbers of the others pre-programmed. Use it whenever you please."

"Princess, why does the top of my schedule say my name is Skylar Sparkle," Twilight asked, perplexed.

"Well, to be quite honest, your pony names won't fit here in the human world, so I have given each of you a more human name."

They each read them off in turn.

"Skylar Sparkle."

"Rachel Dash."

"Anne Jane Apple. Well at least y'all can still call me AJ."

"Rebecca Belle."

"Fiona Shy."

"Diane Pie. I guess I already had a human name, hee-hee."

"Yes," Celestia continued again, "well I would suggest finding your dorm rooms and getting familiar with campus. There are still two days before the school year truly starts, so you have plenty of time."

"Got it, princess," Twilight nodded.

"And be on the lookout for Barbarus. I will contact you if I come across anything strange that I think you need to check out."

"Roger that, princess," Rainbow said, impatient again, "let's go girls."

The six traveled back on campus, making sure to take it slow as to get used to their new bodies. As they walked, they noticed two things. First, there were many, many guys staring at them. And second, that they heard more than one person say something about "The battle" or "Six fighters".

Eventually, after finding a map of campus, they found the dormitory they were looking for. The name "Hillcrest" didn't seem to make much sense, since they weren't on a hill, but who were they to argue about it. They walked inside and quickly found the rooms. Incidentally, Hillcrest was one of the nicer dorms on campus. The dorm rooms were laid out where there was a kitchen and common living space, but each of the three people that each room held had a separate bedroom, complete with closet, desk, and nightstand. Twilight, Rarity, and Fluttershy were together in Room 109, while Pinkie, Rainbow, and AJ were together in Room 110, just across the hall.

Once inside the rooms, Rarity again was the first to discover something, her room was already made up, as if someone else was supposed to be living there. The bed was made, and the closet was filled with clothes that Rarity found well within her taste. Checking with the others, they discovered the same thing in all their rooms. Seems Celestia had thought of everything.

"Well girls," Twilight said, "what do you think we should do?"

"Ah don't know 'bout y'all," AJ answered, "but Ah'm mighty hungry after that fight. We should go find somethin' to eat."

"I'm with you, AJ," Rainbow responded.

"Then let's go," Pinkie said, jumping a little into the air.

*-*-*-*-*

Meanwhile, in a space between dimensions, Barbarus had returned and was trying to explain the situation.

"I'm telling you, there were six of them, just out of nowhere. If they hadn't showed up, you would already have control of the planet."

"I don't care for your excuses," the dark-cloaked figure Barbarus was addressing said, not turning to face the large warrior.

"But you have to understand, it wasn't my fault."

"I don't care--," the figure started, but then he turned aroud, revealing an older man with graying skin whose eyes were dark and full of light at the same time, "Wait...six of them...were they perhaps, color-coded."

"Now that you mention it, yeah. Each one of them was wearing a uniform of a different color, red, orange, yellow, blue, purple, and white. Why?"

"Celestia," the cloaked man said, his voice dripping with venom.

"Who?"

"The co-ruler of Equestria! The next world on our universe-domination list. She must have sent them."

"I don't follow, my lord."

"Celestia had in her possession a very powerful force called the Elements of Harmony. There are six elements, and they are often coordinated by the colors of the rainbow. These six you saw must be the holders of those elements. Which means Celestia knows I'm here, which means she's a step ahead of me. We have to destroy those six at all costs!"

"Yes, my lord. But how do you suppose we do that?"

"Go back and engage them again. Now that I know what I'm looking for, I will observe the battle. They are not of this world, Barbarus. Celestia must have them disguised among the humans. We must either figure out which ones they are or destroy all the humans trying. Do you understand me?"

"Yes, my lord."

"Good, now go back down to Earth, and double the regiment of Stars. The second battle won't be as easy as the first."

*-*-*-*-*

The six former ponies had found their way to a restaurant just off-campus, and had begun to eat. Fortunately for them, it isn't hard to find vegetarian options in Southern California. Unfortunately, they didn't get as much time as they would like to enjoy their food before they heard a scream of terror and saw many people running for their lives.

"What in tarnation," AJ asked.

"C'mon girls," Twilight answered, "we gotta check it out."

"But what about our food," Rainbow complained.

"Later. Let's go!"

The ran out of the eatery to be met with a rush of people. And they didn't have to look very far to see what had caused it. Standing in the middle of the street, flanked by numerous of those scrawny black-clad beings, was Barbarus.

"Come on out," he yelled, "I know you'll show up, so come out already!"

"Well what are we waiting for," Rainbow said, moving for her morpher. But Twilight grabbed her arm.

"Not here in the open," the princess said, pointing toward an alleyway, "over there."

They made their way between buildings and initiated their morphing sequence.

"Ready! Power of Harmony! Go!"

"Loyal Red!"

"Honest Orange!"

"Kind Yellow!"

"Laughing Blue!"

"Generous Violet!"

"Magical White!"

After a few seconds, the six emerged back on the street, decked out, staring down Barbarus and his minions.

"Ah, there you are," he said, "Ready for round two!"

"You're not," Rainbow said, making a charge for him. As she did this, the others noticed something. Rainbow was moving really fast, like as fast as she could fly as a pegasus, even leaving a red streak behind her. She zipped and dodged around multiple minions before making a lunge for Barbarus himself, one that he barely dodged.

The others quickly sprung into action. As before, AJ was taking out opponents left and right, Rarity and Twilight were holding their own, and Pinkie was being Pinkie. At one point, she decided to use a lampost as her personal exercise pole, grabbing onto it and twirling around it, stepping on minion after minion to make herself go around and around the pole. Fluttershy was still playing more keep-away than fighting, but in this urban environment, she was using her newly-found athletic abilities more advantageously, such as jumping into a tree and coming down on two minions with a double kick.

Though it took longer than their first fight today, eventually the Six made work of the footsoldiers, leaving only Barbarus standing in their path. Swiftly, he pointed his sword to the sky in an attempt to teleport away. Rainbow saw this and made a beeline toward him, once again moving at blazing speed. However, he was just a split second faster, disappearing from the street a mere blink of the eye before Rainbow would have made it their.

Once again, the people who witnessed the event gave a stirring round of applause, intercut with various cheers and hollers. This time, Rainbow didn't try to unmask herself, instead waiting for Twilight to once again teleport them away.

This time the teleportation landed them on the behind Hillcrest, once again demorphed. Fortunately, like before, there was no one around to witness them beaming in.

"Another job well done," Twilight proudly said.

"Yeah," Pinkie concurred, "and it was so cool to see Dashie move like that."

"That's true. I wouldn't think you'd be able to move that fast as a human."

"Perhaps it has something to do with the outfit, darling," Rarity guessed, "who knows what kind of magic Celestia put in these watches."

The girls walked around to the front of the dorm, as there wasn't a door in the back. However, just before they walked inside, Pinkie stopped dead in her tracks.

"Twitchy...tail?" she said quietly before quickly grabbing Rarity, who was directly in front of her, and pulling her back, just in time to see a bucket full of dirty water come crashing down.

Looking up, they saw a window washer sitting on a kind of scaffolding with a very concerned expression on his face.

"Sorry about that, miss," he called.

"No problem," Pinkie replied, "no harm, no foul."

The girls continued inside and down the hall to where their rooms were.

"Pinkie," Rarity asked, "how did you know that was going to happen?"

"My Pinkie Sense, of course," she answered as if it was nothing, "Though it did feel kind of weird to have a twitchy tail when I don't have a tail."

"Your Pinkie Sense works here?" Twilight asked, flummoxed.

"I guess so. Hey, that could explain about Dashie."

"What about me," Rainbow said, stopping in her tracks.

"How you were able to move so fast. I mean, you can fly really fast in Equestria, maybe it's just natural that you can run really fast here, suit or no suit."

"We'll have to test that theory out," Twilight mused, "If each of us has some kind of gift held over from Equestria to this universe, it would be a big help in our fight against Constellarous."