Power Rangers: Guardians of Harmony

Chapters

Guardians of Harmony pt1
Guardians of Harmony pt2
The Team Unites
The Power of Love
Trust In Me
System Error
Knowledge is Power
Mirror Mirror
Honey I Shrunk the Rangers
The Baltimare Gala
The Thundering Hero
Magnetic Attraction
Smoke in Your Eyes
Do You Dig It
Ultimate Justice Punch
Suck it Up
Rangers in the Big Apple
Flight of the Phoenix
It's All In The Cards
Protectors of Right, Ready to Fight
Intro 2
Intro

Guardians of Harmony pt1

Equestria, a land of magic, friendship and the ponies who wield it.

But this land has not always known peace. Long before the evil of Sombra, Tirek, Discord and Nightmare Moon there was an evil known as Darklight.

Darklight was an evil Unicorn who wished to rule over the ponies of Equestria and built up an army of evil to do battle, however there was one thing that could stop him.

They were the Guardian Elements. Ten magical gems that embody the greatest traits of a hero, which when bonded to a worthy pony granted them unbelievable power which they used to protect Equestria from Darklight's evil...until.

The castle of the Royal Pony Sisters was in ruin.

Darklight's army had attacked without warning, overwhelming the guard and causing much destruction.

In one of the remaining corridors a figure rushed through, in an attempt to escape the evil that sort his precious cargo. Finally the figure turned into a room and shut the door, before stepping into the light revealing himself as a unicorn with grey fur, white mane, tail and beard wearing a blue star patterned hat and cloak. This was Starswirl the Bearded, greatest living wizard and keeper of the famous Guardian Elements.

"No time to waste," Starswirl said as he took something out of his cloak and placed it on a nearby table, "can't let him get even one of these."

In that second the door opened, causing the Unicorn to spin around into a battle stance, until he saw it was his students. The Royal Pony Sisters, Celestia and Luna rushed in.

"Teacher," Celestia said, "what do we do?"

"This battle is lost," Starswirl said, "but the war can still be won. All we must do is find new Guardians."

"But Darklight's surprise attack wiped out the Guardians," Luna said, "we barely managed to retrieve the Elements in time."

"I know," Starswirl said. He looked back at the table where a rolled up piece of cloth sat, which he unravelled revealing its content. Ten hexagonal cylinders made out of different coloured crystals shone in the incoming moonlight, giving off a powerful magic aura. These were the Guardian Elements, which the evil Darklight now seeked in a hope of gaining ultimate power.

"We must escape with them," Starswirl said, "if we can find ponies to bond with them then Darklight can still be stopped."

"Your not going anywhere!" The wall of the room suddenly exploded, causing the three ponies to be sent flying into the opposite one. Once they had their bearings they looked up and gasped at who they saw.

Four ponies stepped into the room. The first one on the left was an earth pony with dark blue fur, wearing metal armour. A single cog for a Cutie Mark

The second was a female unicorn, with rouge coloured fur and mane. Her Cutie Mark being a heart broken into four pieces

The third was a bright red unicorn with scars covering his body. His Cutie Mark being a bloodied sword

Finally the leader of the group was a unicorn with black fur and tail. His head was concealed by a metal helmet covering all but his horn and eyes. His Cutie Mark was a black sun. This was the pony responsible for all the pain and destruction that fell upon Equestria, Darklight.

"Starswirl," Darklight said, "you have something of mine."

"The Elements belong to no one," Starswirl replied as he stood up.

"Wrong," the red unicorn said, "they will belong to master Darklight."

"Get them," Darklight ordered, making the three others attack as the good ponies fought back. Luna slammed horns with the female Unicorn.

"Give up Heart Breaker," she said, "you know your brother cannot win."

"We'll see," Heart Breaker replied.

Celestia stood off against the earth pony, who had pulled out an axe and was swinging it around. "As clumsy as ever Cogs," Celestia said.

"Quiet," Cogs said.

Starswirl and the red unicorn were firing spell after spell at each other, trying to hit the other.

Meanwhile Darklight was watching, only to notice something on one of the remaining tables. Looking over he saw the Guardian Elements sitting there, practically begging him to take them. "Finally," he said stepping over to them.

Seeing this Starswirl gasped and instead of firing a spell at the red Unicorn, he shot one at Darklight. However in his hast the spell missed the pony and instead hit the table, flipping it over and sending the Elements flying. Everypony froze, as they saw the ten crystals fly through the air and towards something only three of them knew about. A mirror with a purple boarder stood there, as the Elements drew closer to it the evil ponies expected them to smash through it but instead, they all seemed to phase through it like the glass was water and were gone.

"My Elements!" Darklight screamed.

"I'll get them," the red unicorn yelled as he ran up and into the mirror, disappearing like the Elements.

"Doomy!" Heart Breaker screamed.

"Come on!" Darklight yelled as he, Heart and Cogs ran towards the mirror.

Starswirl knew he need to stop them and know only one way to do it. He fired a spell which struck the mirror, causing it to spark as the three ponies ran through it and were gone.

"We must follow," Luna yelled running towards the mirror, but found it was now only a normal mirror.

"There is nothing we can do," Starswirl said, "my magic caused the mirror's power to weaken. It will take some time before the portal regains enough magic to forge a connection."

"But Darklight," Celestia said.

"My spell also caused the portal to temporally disconnect to that world," Starswirl explained, "hopefully Darklight and his cronies are lost between the dimensions forever."

"So what now?" Luna asked.

"When the portal reopens I will journey to the other world and find the Elements," he explained, "hopefully they fall into the right hands."

1000 years later.

It was summer time in Canterlot City and everyone was enjoying their time off from school.

In the cafe called Sugarcube Corner, seven teens had just walked in to enjoy a day of relaxing.

"I'll get the drinks," Twilight Sparkle said moving over to the counter and giving her order. As she waited two teen girls stepped up next to her. Lyra Heartstrings and Sweetie Drop looked over at her and smiled.

"Hey Twilight," Lyra said.

"Hey," Twilight said, "you doing anything special today."

"We on the School Support team," Sweetie replied, "you know helping with events they use it for and cleaning up."

"It's a great way to get extra credit," Lyra said

"Oh yeah," Twilight said, "I though about joining but after the year I've had I thought it best to just relax."

"We don't blame you," Sweetie said, remembering the events of the Friendship Games and Camp Everfree.

Twilight nodded as the seven drinks were placed in front of her. "I'm afraid we're out of trays dear," Mrs Cake said.

"That's okay," Twilight said. As Mrs Cake turned away Twilight quickly looked around and then held up her hands as the small gem around her neck began to glow, along with the cups which floated up.

"That's cheating," Sweetie Drops joked seeing her use magic.

Twilight shrugged and turned to walk away, only to feel herself bump into someone causing her focus to drop and the drinks to fall. Moving quick she managed to magically catch five of them, while whoever she had hit manged to catch the other two.

"I'm starting to think I'm magnetised or something," Twilight looked up to see Flash Sentry standing there with a goofy grin on his face.

"Sorry about that," Twilight said as she levitated the cups out of his hands.

"It's fine," Flash said before heading to the counter as Twilight returned to her friends.

Meanwhile across town a large green pickup had just arrived outside a store, as a pair of teens stepped out.

"Thanks for the ride Sandelwood," the shorter of the two teens said.

"No problem dude," Sandelwood said, "happy to help. So what exactly you here for Micro?"

"There's a new converter chip I need to finish my latest device," Micro replied, "with it I'll be able to detect alien signals form a hundred thousand miles away."

"Righteous," Sandelwood said.

Micro nodded as he headed into the store, only for someone coming out of the store to run into him and knock him over.

"You okay?" Sandelwood asked as he ran over and helped the glasses wearing teen up.

"I'm fine Sandel," Micro replied.

"What where your going half pint," the guy he had walked into said. They couldn't see his face as he was covered in a hat and trench coat.

"What was that dudes problem?" Sandel asked.

"I don't know."

The man continued walking until he turned into an alleyway, were he took out and something from his coat. "Finally!" he said, "finally I have what I need." The thing he had pulled out of his coat was a device of sorts. What it did was unclear, but as he installed new parts into it the lights on the top began to flash as an antenna folded out. "The transmitter is working," he said "soon he will arrive." In that second he was consumed by a red mist, which caused his body to shift and change before disappearing. In the man's place was a humanoid creature with bright red fur, and large spikes covering his body. "Time to send the signal," he pressed the button on his device causing it to begin beeping.

Back in Sugarcube Corner, Twilight's talking dog Spike began whining. "What's that annoying noise?"

"What noise?" Twilight asked him.

"It's coming from..." he got down off the couch and followed the noise to Twilight's bag, "here!"

Everyone was puzzled as Twilight went into her bag and pulled out some sort of sciency gizmo, which was beeping.

"What is that thing?" Rainbow asked.

"After what happened at camp I rebuilt the detector I used to track magic," Twilight explained, "but it's not suppose to go off around any of us."

"Maybe it's picking up another magic signature," Sunset said.

"But where?" Rarity asked.

"Hang on," Twilight went into her bag and pulled out a laptop which she plugged her machine into. "I wrote a program to help pin point energy readings if I detect them," she explained as the laptop switched to a map screen with two dots. "There, there's two readings. One's in the forest outside of town and the other's in that old quarry."

"And let me guess," Rainbow said, "we're going to investigate."

"This could be why we have these gems," Sunset said, "we need to find out."

"So which one do we go to first?" Applejack asked.

"We'll split up," Sunset replied, "Twilight and I will head to the forest while you, Rainbow and Pinkie head to the quarry. Fluttershy and Rarity, you stay here in case one of us calls for help."

"Okay," Fluttershy said.

"Then what are we waiting for?" Rainbow said, "let's go."

Meanwhile in the forest Sunset and Twilight were heading to, a sudden bolt of lightning struck the ground. In the bolts wake a figure appeared. It was humanoid but not human, looking more like a giant rabbit. On each of its hands were a trio of foot long claws and a metal collar was around its neck. The creature took in its surroundings and began walking, "time to find me an Element."

Back in town Micro and Sandelwood were in his truck as Micro fitted the chip he had just bought into a device similar to the one Twilight had.

"You sure this'll work?" Sandel asked.

"Trust me," Micro replied, "I've done the calculations. This thing will pick up any signal strong enough to break through the atmosphere, meaning they can only be of alien origin."

"But what about the ones heading to satellites?" Sandel asked.

"I'll be able to tell if it's of human origin and ignore them," Micro said as his machine came to life and started beeping.

"Is it working?" Sandel asked.

"Not just working," Micro replied, "but it's actually picked up a signal."

"Really?"

"Really," he replied, "it's coming from...west, that's out of town."

"Then let's go," Sandel replied, kicking his truck into gear.

A little while later Twilight, Sunset and Spike showed up at the forest while following Twilight's scanner.

"Finding anything?" Sunset asked her.

"No," Twilight replied, "it's like whatever it picked up before has died down."

"It's possible whatever magic you detected was reacting to something else," Sunset said.

"You think that's possible?" Twilight asked.

"To be honest," Sunset said, "I'm still not sure how magic works here. That kind of thing is possible in Equestria so it might also work here but."

"Well my nose isn't picking up anything," Spike said, "not even a squirrel."

"Maybe if we go further in," Twilight said. They were about to start moving again...until-

SNAP!

The girls and dog suddenly drew concerned at the sound of a twig snapping under something.

"What was that?" Twilight asked shakily.

"I don't know," Sunset replied, "but it sounds like it came from over there." She pointed towards a hill where the trees were more bushed together blocking whatever was behind it from view.

Suddenly another snap made them flinch, being louder then before.

"It's getting closer," Twilight whispered.

"Don't worry," Sunset replied, "we can handle this."

"We can?" Spike asked shaking on the ground.

The sound of foot steps could be heard, drawing closer and closer and making the girls more and more scared. Finally whoever or whatever it was broke through the trees revealing themselves to be...

"Flash?" Sunset asked seeing the blue haired teen rocker step out.

"Sunset," Flash replied, "Twilight. What are you two doing here?"

"We could ask you the same question," Twilight replied. "What are you doing here?"

"I come out to these woods sometimes," Flash replied patting a tree, "sentimental reasons."

"Oh," Twilight said.

"So do I get to know what your doing here?" Flash asked.

"We're kind of searching for magic," Sunset replied sheepishly.

"My scanner picked up on something," Twilight agreed showing the device, "but so far we haven't found anything."

"Magic huh?" Flash asked.

Twilight nodded but realised something. "Did you say you go into these woods a lot?"

"Yeah," he replied.

"So you know them well?"

"Yeah,"

"Then is there anyplace around that might hold some kind of...rumours or legends?"

"Good points," Sunset said, "if this is Equestrian Magic then it might have managed to get a few tall tales said about it. So are there anything like that here?"

Flash looked to be in thought for a moment, until a look of realisation dawned upon him. "There is one place."

"Could you take us there?" Twilight asked.

"Sure," he said, "follow me."

Flash took the deeper into the forest, where they came across a wall made out of many different sized rocks.

"What's a wall doing in the woods?" Sunset asked.

"Stories talk of a power dwelling within it," Flash replied, "and that the ancient people built a circle of stone to keep it hidden."

"How does a three foot stone wall keep something hidden?" Spike asked.

"Because these aren't regular stones," Twilight said, "their giving off some kind of magnetic force."

"That might be why we're having a hard time locating the magic," Sunset said, "if we're right and something did cause the magic to flare up passed the point where the stones can't hide them then dropped down again."

"I guess," Twilight said turning to Flash. "So what's in there?"

"Not sure," he replied, "I never passed this wall. It always felt forbidden."

"Well we need to get in there," Twilight said as she began to pull herself over the wall.

"Are you sure this is a good idea?" Flash asked.

"How else are we going to find out what it is?" Twilight finally made it over, and as soon as she did her scanner went ballistic as it picked up a reading. "I've got it," she said.

Sunset and Spike climbed over the wall, leaving Flash as the last one.

"You don't have to do this," Sunset told him.

Flash remained silent for a moment, Sunset then noticed him place a hand onto one of his jacket pockets, before sighing and jumping over the wall.

"If I get brainwashed again?"

"You'll be fine," she said with a laugh.

They went further in, following Twilight's scanner until they finally found the main source. That source was some sort of stone pile, which none of them could understand.

"What is this thing?" Spike asked.

"I'm not sure," Twilight replied, "but it's to symmetrical to be a natural phenomenon so it has to be man made."

"I think," Flash replied, "it's some kind of...tomb."

"Look at this," they heard Sunset say. They rushed around the other side and found it was open.

The rocks on the ground appeared to have been shattered by something, causing the opening to be revealed but inside was nothing.

"What happened here?" Twilight asked.

"It matters not!" they all spun around and gasped at what they saw. Standing several feet away, was a six foot humanoid rabbit with grey fur and long claws.

"What is that thing?" Flash asked.

"I don't know," Sunset said.

"So it's not Equestrian?" Twilight asked.

"If it is I never saw one."

"The names Crushclaw," the creature said, "and if you don't want that to be the last name you ever hear then I'd suggest moving out of my way." The three humans and one dog remained frozen for a second, "times up." The creature named Crushclaw's claws began to glow as it swiped them through the air, which fired off shock waves that cut through the trees as they flew towards the humans.

Survival instincts kicking in, Flash grabbed the girls by the shoulder and managed to pull them down as the blast flew over their head.

"That was close," he said once they were safe.

"Thanks," Twilight said as they got up.

"I don't know that thing is," Sunset said, "but I get the feeling it is not one of the good guys."

"You won't be dodging another one of these attack," Crushclaw said as he charged up another blast.

"Er Twilight," Flash said, "right now would really be a good time to pony up."

"I can't," Twilight said, "not without the others." It was true, as she had tried before but aside from levitation she couldn't perform any other sort of magic without all six of the gems being near her.

"Then we have to run," Flash said.

"We can't," Sunset said, "whatever that thing is we can't let it get whatever magic is here."

"Well then," Flash said as he picked up a fallen branch, "looks like we're fighting this thing."

Crushclaw fired another blast but this time Twilight was ready and used her magic to lift the cut down trees in front of them, acting as a shield. Once the attacks were finished the logs dropped as Flash and Sunset charged forwards with sticks in hand.

"That's what your gonna fight me with?" he asked, as he blocked the attack by Flash and dodged a strike by Sunset. "How stupid are you?" Twilight then threw some of the shattered rocks at him, but he simply slashed through them. "I've had enough of you," he said as he kicked Flash and Sunset aside before throwing a blast at Twilight and knocking her away.

With the humans dealt with Crushclaw walked over to the tomb, examining it. "Yes," he said as he walked around to the still whole side of the rock pile, "it's here."

"Hey!" Crushclaw turned to see Flash running at him, before he jumped into the air and threw a kick at him. Taken by surprise Crushclaw was pushed back a few feet, allowing Flash to get between him and the tomb.

"Out of my way," he said.

"No," Flash said.

"Then you leave me no choice," the monster said as he threw another cutting blast at Flash, who ducked out of the way allowing the attack to hit the stone tomb. Suddenly the rock face began to crack from the blast, as some kind of red light seeped through, before to stone crumbled revealing a small chamber with something inside.

It was a hexagonal cylinder made out of some kind of red crystal.

"The Element!" Crushclaw said.

"Element?" Sunset repeated. He could not mean an Element of Harmony. There were only six and they were all safely in Equestria. If it was not an Element of Harmony, then what could it be?

"It's mine," the monster said as he saw Flash stand back up, "out of my way!"

"Not happening," Flash said as he took a battle stance, "I might not know what that thing is but I know I can't let you have it."

"I'm warning you!"

"You don't scare me," Flash said standing firm.

"So be it," Crushclaw said as he charged up his claws and fired another blast at Flash.

This time Flash didn't try to duck, or block, or even close his eyes as the attack drew closer. He stood firm, refusing to move.

"FLASH!" Sunset screamed.

"GET OUT OF THERE!" Twilight hollered.

Flash remained still, but just as the blast was about to hit him. The red crystal exploded with light, before shooting out of the tomb and flying infront of Flash. Once there a force field of some kind formed around the teen, which the attack struck and then bounced off, sending it flying back towards Crushclaw.

"WHAT!?" the monster asked as he was struck by his own attack and sent flying several feet away.

"What's happening?" Flash asked as he held out his hand which the crystal slowly dropped into. As soon as his hand enclosed around it, the gem gave off a surge of red energy which spread all around Flash.

Not sure what was happening, Flash was suddenly bombarded by images of different ponies. Each one wore a similar armour around their bodies, and then finally Flash saw a vision of a scarlet winged lizard. Finally the images stopped as the energy around his body faded.

"Flash!" he looked around and saw Sunset and Twilight run up to him, "what just happened?"

"I have no idea," Flash said. Suddenly something appeared in Flash's hand, which was a gun made out of stone. "What's this?" he asked until he noticed a small opening at the top of the gun, the right shape and size for the crystal to fit in. "I wonder," slowly he placed the gem into the slot, causing energy to stream around the gun and the rock coating crumbled to dust revealing a red and black metallic form. It had a mainly red coating with black being on the neck, handle and cover of the slot the crystal was in. In the centre of the gun was a small rotating barrel.

"What is that thing?" Spike asked having returned from his hiding spot.

"Not sure," Flash replied, before he could really think about it his hand went to the barrel and gently spun it. The second he did that a lazor blast shot out of the gun, flying passed Twilight's shoulder and blasting a treetop.

"Watch it with that thing," Sunset told him as they stepped away.

"Sorry," he replied, "I've never used this thing before."

"RRRAAARRR!"

Their attention suddenly returned to the now standing Crushclaw.

"You'll pay for that," He said charging his claws.

Instincts kicking in, Flash spun the barrel of the gun though much harder this time. Doing so caused red energy to surge around the barrel and the rest of the gun, which Flash pointed at the monster and pulled the trigger. As soon as he did a burst of red energy shot out the gun, which suddenly reshaped into the form of a giant red lizard head that flew towards Crushclaw.

"What in the?" the monster said before dodging out of the way, before the head did a one eighty and flew back towards the humans.

"Look out!" Flash yelled pushing the girls out of the way, as the head opened its mouth and then bit down on him before exploding in a burst of red light.

"FLASH!" Twilight and Sunset screamed, but then gasped when the light faded and they saw what they saw.

Standing in Flash's place was a figure in red. The man wore a full body suit that was mainly red, but with white around the shoulders which traced down towards the chest forming a white triangle along with white arms and boots. On his chest was an upside down pentagon, that had a carving of a horned lizard's head on it. On his head was a red helmet, with a black visor in the shape of an upside down triangle.

"Flash?" Twilight asked the suited figure, who turned towards her.

The figure looked down at himself. "Wow," Flash's voice came from the figure, "look at me."

"What is this?" Sunset asked.

"I have no idea," Flash replied, "but for some reason I feel a rush of power surging through me."

"It must be the magic," Twilight said, as if agreeing with her, her scanner began beeping once she pointed it at Flash.

"I can use magic now?" the teen asked.

"You think a costume change will save you?" Crushclaw screamed, as he charged towards them.

The girls took a battle stance, but Flash held his hands up. "I got this," he said before charging towards the monster. As Crushclaw went to swipe the suited teen, he used his new found power to leap over the monster causing it to miss and lose balance. Taking this opening, Flash did a roundhouse which knocked the monster off its feet.

"He's good," Twilight said sounding impressed.

Once Crushclaw was up he began swiping at Flash, who dodged or blocked the attacks before delivering some quick jabs to the monsters chest.

"The Element is giving him power," the creature said before Flash used a leg sweep to knock him down again.

With his foe down Flash ran over to the girls. "Did you see that?"

"You kicked his butt," Spike cheered.

"Whatever this magic is," Sunset said, "it's really given you incredible new power."

"I wonder what else I can do?" Before Flash could even try and find out, something new caught their attention.

"RRRRRAAAAAOOOOORRRRR!"

A loud roar filled the air, making the four of them turn and gasp at what they saw. It was a robot, a red robot in the shape of a bulky humanoid with a large lizard like head and tail with white wings on its back. Its chest and lower jaw were also white and it had a horn one the end of its snout, along with with back of its head. The robot was rushing through the trees towards them.

"What is that thing?" Flash asked.

"It looks like a...dragon!" Twilight said before they were forced to jump out of the way, for fear of being crushed beneath its colossal foot.

As Flash hit the ground he was consumed by red light, which faded revealing him back in his everyday clothes. Looking up he saw the robot continue its charge towards Crushclaw, who was just as surprised as them.

"The Dragon Zord," the monster said, before he suddenly found himself right infront of it. "You don't scare me," he said, but his statement was forgotten when the robot dragon spun around a swiped its tail at him, sending him flying away without much effort.

With the monster gone, the Dragon Zord turned back around and stared at the humans, or more accurately it stared at Flash. The two shared a look for several seconds before the robot turned a left, disappearing into the woods from which it came.

Once it was gone, the four got up and got their bearings. Spike was the one to brake the silence.

"What was that thing?" He asked.

"I don't know," Twilight said, "but it helped us."

"That doesn't necessarily mean it's on our side," Sunset said.

Flash meanwhile was looking down at the red crystal that had saved him. He didn't know what it was, but he felt like he was meant to have it somehow. "I get the feeling," Flash said, "that I just stepped into something big."

Author's Note

So that was the first chapter.

A few things to explain since I'm not a great describer.

The Ranger Suits are based on Hikari Sentai Maskman, with the differences being the S will be replaced by the head of the ranger's Zord and they'll have large rectangular belt buckles

For Flash's Zord, it's a red version of ExVeemon as a robot.

As for the Morpher. Think of a red and black Nerf Stockade.

Guardians of Harmony pt2

We find ourselves back in the forest with Flash and the girls after their little encounter. They were all looking at the mysterious crystal Flash had found before, but had no idea what it was.

"So what is this thing?" Flash asked holding the crystal to the light.

"I don't know," Sunset replied also looking at it in wonder, "that monster called it an Element."

"That sounds familiar," Flash said, "isn't that what Princess Twilight first came here to get after you stole it...no offence."

"None...taken."

"So that's what this is?" Twilight asked, "one of those Elements of Harmony."

"No," Sunset replied, "this is different."

"Excuse me," they looked down at Spike. "As interesting a topic this is, could we maybe discuss it somewhere other then the monster and robot infested forest?"

"He's got a point," Flash said, "come on I'll give you guys a lift back to town."

"We'd better check up on the others," Twilight said pulling out her cellphone only to groan. "No reception."

"I'm sure they'll be fine," Sunset told her.

Meanwhile Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie had just arrived at the quarry.

"Man that took forever," Rainbow moaned.

"We don't all have super speed ya know," Applejack said.

"Clearly," she replied.

"So what are we looking for?" Pinkie asked spinning around as she looked around the quarry.

"Not sure," Applejack replied, "anything out of the ordinary."

Suddenly they heard something. Voices coming from over a ridge, which the three followed until they came over and found a pair of teens standing in the middle of the place.

"I'm telling you the signal was coming from here," Micro said.

"Well I don't see anything," Sandel replied.

"Well obviously," Micro almost yelled.

"Guys!" Applejack called getting the boy's attention.

"Applejack?" Micro said.

"What are you doing here?" Sandel asked.

"Following a magical source," Pinkie blurted out.

"Magic?" Micro said, "not aliens?"

"Aliens?" the girls asked.

"I built a transmitter to pick up alien signals," Micro said showing the device he'd built, "when I turned it on it picked up something coming from here."

"Hey that looks like Twilight's do hickey," Rainbow said.

"Twilight has one?" Micro asked.

"But hers picks up on magic," Applejack replied, "you must've accidently set yours to do the same."

"Oh," Micro said before smiling, "awesome!"

"We could find any magic we want," Sandel said.

As the two began celebrating, Rainbow took this opportunity to snag Micro's scanner.

"Hey!" he said.

"So this thing can detect magic?" Rainbow asked shaking the device around until Micro snatched it back.

"It was until a short while ago," he said, "we were following the signal when it suddenly went dead."

"Well then fix it," Rainbow told him.

"It's not broken," he replied, "what it was picking up is the problem. Whatever magic it found's energy level must have gone bellow my scanners detection range, because I designed this thing perfectly."

"Is that so," a voice caught their attention, "then I'll be taking it." They turned around and gasped at what they saw. It was a humanoid creature with bright red fur, large spikes covering his body and a monstrous looking face.

"What is that thing?" Sandal asked.

"I don't know," Micro replied as he hid behind him, "but I hope he's a vegetarian."

"You two go hide," Applejack ordered as the boys ran over to a rock pail to hide behind.

"Puny humans," the creature said, "you don't know who your dealing with." He held a clawed hand up to his shoulder and grabbed one of the longer spikes, which seemed to naturally disconnect as he held it up like a sword.

"I got this," Rainbow said as her gem glowed and she ran towards the creature at high speed. Once she reached him she began running in a circle, creating a dust cloud around him. However the creature held up its sword infront of its face and held still, before swiping the blade around. Doing so caught Rainbow by the feet, causing her to trip and with a yelp went rolling back towards her friends.

"You okay?" Applejack asked.

"Lucky shot," Rainbow said.

"I don't think so," Applejack said, "it looked like he predicted you foot location even at top speed." She stepped forwards towards a large boulder, as her gem glowed allowing her to lift it up and then throw it at the creature.

"Pathetic," the creature said as his used his blade to slash through the rock, causing the pieces to miss him.

"Flan sake," Applejack said before Pinkie jumped forwards.

"Try this," she said as she pulled a pack of sprinkles out and opened them. Taking a handful she threw it at the creature, before they exploded creating a cloud of smoke. However the creature didn't seem phased by the explosion and as the cloud passed it just stood there.

"Really?" he asked

"Pooy," she said

"None of our magic works on this thing," Applejack said.

"My turn!" the creature said as it raised it sword and smashed the ground, causing a crack to to travel forwards towards the teens before the ground beneath them exploded sending them flying away. "Pathetic human," the creature said stepping towards them, passing Sandel and Micro's hiding place.

"We need to do something," Sandelwood said.

"Like what?" Micro asked.

"Anything," he replied.

Micro looked around and then noticed something on the ground near them. It was an old generator and some over pieces of metal, which suddenly gave him an idea. "I might have a way," he said, "come on."

The creature drew closer to the girls her heard something and turned to see the boys. "What are you two wimps up to?" he asked turning towards them.

"No," Rainbow called out, "guys get away."

Seeing the creature draw closer to them and Micro still doing whatever he need to do, Sandel knew he had to slow this thing down. Grabbing a three foot long pole off the ground, he held it up like a sword and pointed towards the creature. "Keep working little buddy," he said, "I got your back."

"Don't make me laugh," it said as it swung it sword at him.

Using the pipe he managed to block the attack and push the creature back a bit, before swinging it towards the creature. This went on for a couple seconds with the two trading blows and jumping around, that eventually the creature now had its back to Micro who finally finished what he was doing.

"I'm ready," he said, "try and hold him still."

Sandel nodded and as the creature brought its sword down he held up the pipe to block, using all his strength he tried to keep it in the same place.

"Give it up," the creature said.

"No way," he replied, "MICRO!"

At that second Micro acted, using some jumper cables connected to the generator he clicked them onto the monsters spiked shoulders. Doing so caused the electricity the generator made to surge through the cables, into the creatures body electrifying it.

"AAAAAARRRRRRR!" The creature screamed as it flailed around and even accidently threw its sword at the rock the boys had been hiding behind, cutting through it.

"Alright little buddy," Sandel said, "great work."

"You too," he said. Suddenly his detector started beeping after detecting something, "What?" He asked as he pointed the device at the rock the sword was inside.

Part of the rock suddenly broke away revealing two glowing objects inside. They were two hexagonal crystal cylinders of different colours, one green and the other yellow. Suddenly the two crystals flew out of the rock towards the boys before circling around them, the yellow one around Micro and the green one around Sandal, and then floated into their hands. As soon as they took hold of them green and yellow energy surged around them, as they were bombarded by images of ponies in similar armours before they saw images of giant animals. Micro saw an image of a lion eagle hybrid, while Sandal saw a giant wolf. As soon as that happened it was over and the energy disappeared.

"What happened?" Micro asked.

"Not sure," Sandel replied

"Guys," they turned to see the girls run up to them. "Are you okay," Rainbow asked.

"We're fine," Micro said.

"Not for long!" they all turned to see the creature had gotten the leads off and was back on the attack. "Give me the Elements!" He swung his sword.

Without thinking, Sandel jumped forwards and held up the pipe to block. That moment the crystal in his hand glowed and sent energy into the pipe, causing it to explode with light. When it died down Sandal wasn't holding a pipe, but a strange looking sword in the shape of a cutlass with a green handle and silver blade. AN

With this new weapon Sandel was able to push the creature back, before quickly dealing a few slashes to it knocking it down.

"Let's get out of here," Micro yelled making everyone agree.

Before the creature could get up the five of them ran off, following the boys to Sandel's truck.

"Get back here!" the creature said giving chase as they reached the truck.

The girls jumped onto the back while the boys hoped in the front and kicked the vehicle into life. With the monster inches away from them the truck's wheels spun and they zoomed away.

"NO!" the creature yelled seeing the Elements drive away.

Meanwhile Flash, Twilight and Sunset were in his car, racing back to town. Twilight was next to Flash examining something Flash had given to her, a journal.

"So this was your dads?" she asked flipping through it.

"Yeah," Flash said, "I found it while ago but didn't think anything of it until it mentioned that forest."

"There are a lot of scripture recordings in here," Twilight said, "what do they mean?"

"No clue," Flash said.

"Why don't you ask him?" Sunset asked

Flash frowned at the question. "He disappeared," he explained, "in that forest actually. He'd heard rumours of bizarre sightings by hikers and went in to investigate. He never came out."

"Oh," Twilight and Sunset said.

"Search teams went looking for him, but all they could find was that book." Flash sighed, "I was in that forest looking for clues. I thought the journal might help me, but I the only entry I could read was something about a monster."

"Like the one you just fought?" Spike asked.

"No," Flash replied grabbing the book in one hand and flipping it to a page with a funny sketching of a humanoid creature with spikes coming off its body. "This one."

"Creepy," Spike said.

Suddenly Twilight's cellphone rang. "Finally," she said seeing the signal was back. She answered and put the phone to here ear, only to have to push it away when she heard.

"TWILIGHT!" Rainbow's voice screamed.

"I'm here Rainbow," she replied, "I'm putting you speaker." She pressed the button.

"You will not believe what just happened to us," she said.

The three shared a glance and had a feeling they could guess. "You were attacked by a monster?" Sunset asked.

The phone was silent for several seconds, until Applejack spoke. "How'd you guess?"

"The same thing happened to us," Flash said.

"Flash?" Applejack said, "what are you doing there."

"We meet him in the forest," Sunset replied, "now what exactly happened?"

The girls explained it to them, they were quite surprised to learn about Micro and Sandel's experience, and by the end they were amazed.

"This can't be a coincidence," Sunset said.

"We should meet up to really discuss it," Twilight said.

"Where should we meet up?" Flash asked before he suddenly felt something from his pocket. Reaching in there he pulled out the Element as it glowed.

"Now what's it doing?" Sunset asked.

Meanwhile the same thing was happening with Micro and Sandel's Elements. A second later the three gems flashed causing the holders to suddenly find themselves seeing images of Canterlot High.

"If you wish to find the answers you seek then come here."

It was over before it had really begun.

"Are you okay," Twilight asked.

Flash looked down at the phone and spoke, "did you guy-"

"Just hear a creepy voice while being shown the school?" Micro finished, "yeah we did."

"I guess we know where we're going then," he said.

"It could be a trap," Sunset said.

"Even if it is I'll still learn something," he replied, "I'm going."

"Then we're going to," Twilight said.

"We'll meet you guys there," Rainbow said.

"Right."

Back at the quarry the monster was slashing at the rocks.

"There must be more Elements here," it said as it chipped away at the rocks.

Suddenly from out of no where a bolt of lightning appeared from out of no where and struck the creature, making it vanish into thin air.

For the creature it was a simple flash of light, that caused his vision to shift from looking at a rock to suddenly being in a metallic room. "What?" he said looking around.

"As surprisible as ever I see," the creature looked around and saw a figure in dark blue armour with cog designs on attached to it.

"Who are you?" he asked raising his sword.

Before the other could answer, a mechanical door opened and. "DOOMY!" they both looked around to see a rouge feminine creature with hearts attached around her body. The creature ran towards him and threw her arms around him.

"Only one being I know calls me that," the creature named Doomy said, "Heart Breaker?"

"That's right," she said.

"Then you must be," he looked over to the armoured being.

"Long time no see."

"Cogs?" he asked, "but if you two are here then."

"DOOM! It's about time you showed up," a voice from the door said.

Doom spun around to see a being with black scaly skin covered in metal armour around its chest, arms, legs and head.

"Master Darklight," Doom said kneeling down.

"Raise Doom Raizer," Darklight said, "it has been a long thousand years."

"Indeed," Doom said, "I would have contacted you but magic is limited in this world. I had to wait until the technology advanced enough for me to create a beacon you could detect.

"And the Elements?"

"Scattered," Doom replied, "even after a thousand years I have been unable to find one."

Darklight growled and turned back to the door. "Walk with me."

They travelled through many corridor.

"What is this?" Doom asked looking around the place.

"When Starswirl disrupted the portal it sent the three of us into another dimension," Darklight said. "For a thousand years we travelled the multiverse trying to find out way here and along the way we...acquired certain things, including this ship."

"Wait," he said, "are you saying?"

Darklight pointed towards a nearby window. Doom moved over to it and just as he thought, he was looking down at the planet. They were in space.

"I took this ship as the spoils of battle against another multiverse traveller," Darklight said, "he was on the hunt for some entity he feared. When I defeated him I took everything, including his cargo." They turned a corner and found themselves now walking down a hallway filled with jail cells. Inside each jail cell was a mysterious monster. "The most dangerous being to infect the multiverse at my command."

"They'll listen to you?"

"They have no choice," he said, "each is equipped with a control collar that depowers them and will destroy them at the flip of a switch."

Suddenly from down the hallway came Crushclaw followed by thin creatures covered in black cloaks, with black hoods over their heads and black masks covering the faces.

"And those thing?"

"Shades," Darklight replied, "mindless drones that follow any order."

"Master Darklight," Crushclaw said, "I'm ready to return to the planet. I'll get you an Element this time."

"You'd better," Darklight said, "if you fail me again I'll throw you in the worst cell I can find."

"But if I bring you one you'll agree to set me free?"

"Only if you bring me one," Darklight said.

"I won't fail you," with that Crushclaw and the Shades headed towards the room they had just come out of.

The teens all met up outside the school. They had texted Rarity and Fluttershy to meet them there and soon the ten were standing at the entrance of the building.

"So do we just go in," Fluttershy asked, "or what?"

"It is open to the public," Flash said as he pushed the doors open.

They stepped inside but nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

"So where to now?" Rainbow asked.

Sunset turned to the boys. "Your the ones who saw the visions so what now?"

Flash, Micro and Sandel shared a glance before pulling out the crystals which then began to glow. Suddenly the three of them began running down the halls. "Where are you going?" Twilight said as they ran after them

"The Elements are pulling us in this direction," Flash said.

"Well tell it to pull slower," Rainbow said.

They continued running until they found themselves staring at a blank wall.

"Is this it?" Rarity asked.

"There has to be something," Flash said holding out his hand. As soon as he touched it the Element began to glow again and suddenly Flash's hand went straight through the wall like water. "WHAT THE!?" he asked.

"Ghost wall!" Pinkie screamed.

"Flash," Twilight said cautiously.

Before she could say anything else Flash suddenly jumped right through the wall.

"FLASH!" they said.

"For crying out loud," Sunset said before she and Twilight ran towards the wall and went through it. Pretty soon all of them ran through the wall.

Everything was dark as they travelled through whatever room they were in. "Where are we?" Micro asked.

"Not sure," Flash said.

Suddenly lights flickered on revealing the room to be a circular construct with what looked like a lab in its centre.

"What is this place?" Applejack asked.

"I don't know," Twilight said walking around the tables, "but look at this equipment."

"Hey look," they all turned to Sandelwood, who was staring at one of the walls. Built into the wall was a small indent with five rows of white crystal stalagmite and stalactites, two of which had crystals stuck between them. These crystal looked just like the boy's only one was light blue and the other pink.

The boys took out their crystals and held them up to compare. "They look just like ours," Micro said before the gem suddenly flew out of his loose grip and flew into the centre row between the blue and pink one.

Flash and Sandel let theirs go and they flew into the two remaining rows, Flash's on the far left and Sandel's on the far right. "What are these things?" Flash asked.

"They are Guardian Elements."

Everybody spun back around and gasped at what they saw. An old man with grey hair and long beard, wearing a blue hat and robe with stars on stood in the middle of the room. In his grasp was a wooden staff.

Flash rushed to the front of the group and took a battle stance. "Who are you?"

"Please do not worry," the man said, "I mean you no harm. I am known as Starswirl."

"Starswirl the Bearded?" Sunset asked, "but he died a thousand years ago."

"Or so you believe," Starswirl said, "in fact I simply travelled to this world to search for the Elements."

"Look," Flash said, "I've had a long day. So could we cut the backstory and get on with the exposition."

"I'm afraid not," Starswirl said as he waved his staff, creating a cloud which viewed images." A thousand years ago a great battle took place in Equestria, and the only thing that could stop it were the ten Guardian Elements. The evil Darklight sought the Elements but in the final battle they were thrown into a portal I believe some of you are familiar with."

"The mirror?" Sunset asked.

"Indeed," he said, "Darklight and his minions tried to follow but I managed to use that to trap them in another dimension...until now."

"But what does this have to do with us?" Sandel asked.

"Each Element represents a trait required in a guardian, who is worthy of using their powers for good. The three of you have bonded with one because you hold in your hearts the trait they represent, and you are not the only ones."

Suddenly form another room walked out four other people they all recognised.

"Principle Celestia," Sunset said, "Vice-Principle Luna?"

"Lyra," Twilight continued, "Sweetie?"

"Hey there," Lyra said.

"Welcome," Sweetie agreed.

Principle Celestia stepped towards the boys. "Flash," she said, "you bravery in the face of unparalleled danger has proven you worthy of the red Element of Courage." She moved over to Micro. "Your sharp mind and quick thinking, makes you the perfect choice for the yellow Element of Knowledge Micro." Finally she turned to Sandel. "And Sandelwood; your strength, both physical and spiritual, allowed the Element of Will to see your worth."

The boys all blushed hearing the praise.

"The three of you along with Ms Heartstrings and Drops are now capable of doing amazing things with them," Luna said.

"This is nuts," Flash said, "I mean I know magic is real and all but it still feels like a dream."

Celestia turned to Lyra and Sweetie. "Show them," she said, as the two girls stepped forwards and held out their hands. Suddenly the blue and pink Elements flew out of the crystal beds and into their hands. "We helped Starswirl track down Lyra after she bonded to her Element and together we found Sweetie." The girls opened up their hands as mist came out of their Elements and took forms. The blue one in Lyra's took the form of a blue snake like creature, while Sweetie's became a pink cat like creature.

"Welcome to the team," Sweetie said.

"You're now officially Power Rangers," Lyra said.

"Power what?" Micro asked.

"The Guardian Elements will only bond to someone of a true heart," Starswirl said, "the fact that they have prove your worth."

"Five Elements have been found," Luna explained, "but five more are still lost." She pointed towards the other wall where an empty crystal bed stood. "You must use your powers to find them before they fall into evil hands."

"You mean like that thing we fought in the woods?" Twilight asked.

"Or the quarry?" Rainbow said.

"They were only foot soldier," Starswirl said, "the true evil will soon arrive. I felt a tremor in the space time continuum this day, signalling that Darklight has found his way here. The Elements felt this and have chosen you to fight this evil."

Suddenly an alarm went off catching their attention. In the centro of the room a table with a glass top lit up and projected a hologram of a map of the area. Celestia and Luna moved over to it, "more magical emissions," Luna said, "same area you found the Element of Courage in Flash."

"You'd better check it out," Celestia said.

Everyone turned to the boys, who still looked unsure.

"Flash," the teen turned to Twilight, "what you did in the forest wasn't an accident."

"She's right," Sunset said, "maybe this is what you were meant to be."

"And you two were pretty amazing as well," Applejack told Micro and Sandel.

"You did okay," Rainbow said, "compared to me of course."

The boys shared a glance, before nodding and turning back. "We're in!"

"Then we'd better get going," Lyra said as she and Sweetie moved over to the crystal beds and picked up something below them. Five pads holding three robotic cylinders of the Elements colours. Grabbing the blue ones Lyra commented, "don't forget your Magi-Chargers."

Sweetie took the pink ones and the two ran towards the wall the teens had originally entered form and phased through it.

"Come on," Micro said, taking the yellow Magi-Chargers and holding out his hand for the his Element to return to him. Sandel did the same but when Flash attempted it the Element of Courage remained, flickering as it did.

Celestia moved over to a computer and scanned it. "Something's interfering with the Elements power flow," she explained.

"Flash," Starswirl said, "you must stay."

Flash turned to the others who looked saddened, but he nodded to them to go. They agreed and ran through the wall.

Not much later the four teens were rushing through the woods looking for the source of the magic, when they suddenly felt the earth shake bellow them.

"What is that?" Sweetie asked.

Suddenly an explosion drew their attention to a nearby mountain, which had exploded revealing the mechanised dragon Flash and the others had met earlier.

"That's the Dragon Zord," Lyra said making everyone gasp.

Suddenly the Dragon Zord turned and used its white wings to take flight. "It's heading back to town," Micro said

Back at the base Flash and everyone else was watching what the Rangers had seen.

"When someone bonds to their Element their Zord awakens," Celestia explained.

"That thing is my...Zord?" Flash asked.

"Yes," Luna said, "and it's draining your Element for power."

"Most Zords take time to fully awaken," Starswirl said, "but yours seems particularly impatient."

"It looks like its heading to the city," Twilight said.

"You will need to tame the Zord in order to keep everyone safe," Starswirl explained.

They moved over to the crystal beds and Celestia took the Magi-Chargers and handed them to Flash. "These are Magi-Charger, which we use to make channelling the Elements powers easier. They'll charge your weapons and morph you into battle mode."

"I get to morph?" Flash asked, "again...awesome."

"Indeed," Celestia said with a smirk as she handed the Chargers to him, "but be careful."

"Tell the others to meet me at the city," Flash said as he held out his hand and his Element flew into his hand before he rushed back through the wall.

Meanwhile in the city a bolt of lightning struck the ground and in its wake was Crushclaw and a small army of Shades, each equipped with large daggers. "I'll cut this town to ribbons and take the Elements from the severed fingers," Crushclaw said before launching a cutting blast that went straight through a nearby building.

"RRRRRAAAAAOOOOORRRRR!"

Crushclaw turned to see the Dragon Zord charging towards him. "You again," he said, "not this time you overgrown lizard." He pointed his claws at the robot and fired a electric blast that struck it, making it cry in pain before falling down. "Just like Cogs said it would do," he said.

"HEY!" they turned to see Flash running down the street, stopping a few feet away from them.

"Oh it's you," Crushclaw said, "I hope you came to give back the Element."

"You mean," Flash pulled out the crystal, "this Element?" Before the monster could say anything Flash threw the Element at the Zord, causing it to spark magic around the robot re-energising it. Now awake the Zord stood back up and looked down at Flash, as they both stared at each other Flash smiled as he held up his hand and the Zord placed its nose on it. "You weren't rampaging," he said, "you just sensed these guys and wanted to stop them." The Zord roared in response which Flash understood as agreement. "Your just a big softy," he said, "I think I'll call you Drago."

"Don't think because your toy robot is back up you can win," Crushclaw said. "Shades! Merge and form Shadzilla." Several Shades bunched up and were surrounded by shadows which soon took the form of a giant black reptile.

"Let's do this Drago," Flash said pulling out his Magi-Charger.

"It's Morphin Time! Magi-Charger, ready!" He clicked the button on the cylinder as the blaster reappeared in his hand. He placed the charger in the slot and closed it.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Energised!" Flash yelled as he spun the barrel, before pointing the weapon to the sky. "Unleash the Power!"

He pulled the trigger and it fired the dragon head which flew around him, before returning and biting down on him in an explosion of light. when the light faded, Flash was shown to be back in the red suit he had been in before.

"Wow," he said looking at himself, "I bet this is what it's like to pony up." Drago roared in response. "Okay bud," he said as he opened the container on his belt buckle where the rest of his Chargers were, "let's check out you battle mode. Magi-Charger, ready." He clicked the button before throwing it at the Zord. The Charger then grew ten times its size before slotting into Drago's mouth

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Yeah," Flash said, "go Drago." The Zord charged towards the Shadzilla.

"Destroy him!" Crushclaw order the remaining Shades, causing them to run at the red suited teen.

"Bring it!" Flash replied running at them.

While Drago and Shadzilla battled, Flash engaged the Shades. He sent punches and kicks at any one he could reach, while dodging or blocking their attack. "Down you go," he said sweep kicking one before back flipping to dodge another, "how do you like that?" Deciding to kick it up some more Flash called on one of his new weapons, as a red version of the cutlass Sandel had used appeared. "Spirit Sabre," with one large swing he cut through several Shades at once.

"You worm," Crushclaw yelled running at him, claws raised, only to be blocked by Flash's sabre.

"Is my Element a little to tough for ya?" he asked before slashing the monster.

"You'll never defeat me alone," Crushclaw said once he'd regained balance.

"Who said anything about being alone?" Flash asked.

Suddenly Crushclaw was blaster by a flurry of lazor fire, causing him to turn and see the four other teens run down the street and stand next to Flash.

"Flash!" Micro said.

"Better late then never," Flash said.

"Your looking good," Sandel said.

"Thanks," he replied.

"Five humans?" Crushclaw said, "it doesn't matter. I'll destroy all of you."

"We'll see about that," Lyra said as the four of them stepped forwards, "it's Morphin Time!" The four of them held up their Magi-Chargers and clicked them. The blaster appeared in each of their hands and as if by instinct they placed the chargers in the slot.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Energise!" They yelled spinning the barrel, before pointing them to the sky. "Unleash the Power!" They all pulled the triggers and four different heads flew out and bit down on them, decking them out in matching outfits. The only difference were the colours, the girls having skirts, the pentagon on the chests had different creatures on them and their visors were different shapes.

Lyra's was an oval with a triangular section cut out the top. Micro's was an upside down trapezium. Sweetie's was a heart shape. And finally Sandal's was a squared with triangles cut out the top and bottom.

The five rangers all looked at each other and cheered.

"We look great together," Sweetie said.

"We sure do," Flash said stepping forwards

"Who are you guys?" Crushclaw asked them

"We'll tell you," Flash said as they struck a pose.

Flash: Element of Courage...Power Ranger, RED!

Lyra: Element of Trust...Power Ranger, BLUE!

Micro: Element of Knowledge...Power Ranger, YELLOW!

Sweetie: Element of Love...Power Ranger, PINK!

Sandelwood: Element of Will...Power Ranger, GREEN!

All: Protectors of right, ready to fight!

Flash: Power Rangers!

All: GUARDIANS!

In that second an explosion occurred behind them.

"Get them!" Crushclaw ordered the remainder of the Shades who attack.

"Let's do this," Flash said as they to charged.

Lyra reached them first and showed off her fighting style, using some kind of dance rhythm to dodge before delivering her own attacks of kicks and punches. "That all you got?" she asked before throwing a round house at them, "don't make me laugh."

Micro wasn't has lucky, mainly dodging the attacks but not throwing any of his own. "This is nuts," he said before he remembered, "I have weapons." He pulled out his blaster and then began firing, hitting the Shades with perfect aim. "Just like a video game," he said as he continued fighting.

Sweetie was jumping around dodging the attacks, though her dodges were more precise as the attacks she dodged went off hitting another Shade. "To bad, so sad." She pulled out her own blaster and shot down several more.

"Spirit Sabre!" Sandel said slashing through several Shades. He then hit a button on it, causing a compartment to flip open. Opening his belt he pulled out a Magi-Charger and clicked it, before placing it in the slot and shutting it.

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Power...Slash!" He spun around and cut down the most of remainder of the Shades. "Righteous."

Meanwhile Flash and Crushclaw continued their own fight. "I'll finish you off myself," he said grabbing the monster and throwing it to the ground.

"Not if I finish you first," Crushclaw replied getting up and slashing at the ranger.

"Just try it," he said giving off two, three four hits to the stomach. Just then he saw the Dragon Zord grab the Shadzilla in both claws, "go Drago!"

The Zord flapped its wings at took off, taking the monster with it. It then began doing backwards circles picking up speed, before finally throwing the monster towards the ground. With a loud crash the Shadzilla hit the ground and was destroyed.

"Alright!" Flash said holding his blaster, "now it's your turn."

"Like that'll happen!"

Flash went to his belt and pulled out a Magi-Charger, which he placed in the blasters slot.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Morphin Blaster," Flash said as he spun the barrel before aiming the gun at the monster, "Final Strike!" He pulled the trigger and fired off a blast, that took the form of Drago's head, which flew towards Crushclaw.

"NOOO!" he yelled as the attack struck him, biting down on him and causing an explosion. Meanwhile Flash spun around as the explosion highlighted his bad assery.

"Guardian Rangers," Flash said, "victory is ours."

The rest of the Rangers ran towards him.

"Flash," Sweetie said patting him on the shoulder, "you did great."

"For a beginner," Lyra said as she crossed her arms.

"Thanks," Flash said before looking up at his Zord, "and thank you Drago."

The Dragon Zord roared in agreement.

After the battle the Rangers returned to the school, all cheering for their victory.

"You were awesome with that blaster," Sandel told Micro.

"What about you with that sword," Micro replied.

"You were all amazing," Twilight told them.

"Indeed," Starswirl said, "but this was only a battle. The war is far from over."

"Well bring them on," Flash said, "cause we'll be ready."

"I'm glad to hear it," Celestia said, "but remember that your identity as Rangers must remain a secret. Should this information fall into the wrong hands then who knows what could happen."

The Rangers nodded in agreement.

"As soon as the other five Elements are discovered," Starswirl said, "I will return to Equestria and your world will be safe."

"And in the mean time," Rainbow said, "we'll help you."

"That's right," Sunset said, "we're all in this together. No matter what happens."

Back on his space ship Darklight strode down the halls of his cells. "So you bunch of hideous monsters," he said, "which of you has what it takes to destroy a Power Ranger?"

Author's Note

And we have chapter two. Hope you enjoyed it and sorry if the fights weren't that good.

AN: think of the Super Mega Sabre, but with the ranger's colours in place of red instead of a key slot is a slot to place the charges.

The Team Unites

On Darklight's ship Heart Breaker and Doom Raizer were walking through the cells, trying to decide which monster they should release in an attempt of taking the Ranger's Elements.

"What about this one?" Doom asked pointing out a monster in one of the cells.

"Weak," Heart said.

"This one?" Doom asked pointing to another.

"Wimpy."

"Then how about this one?" he asked pointing to another.

"Don't make me laugh."

"You know," Doom said, "this would go a lot easier if you actually told me what each of them did."

"This is boring," Heart said obviously not hearing what he had said, "why don't we forget picking a monster and go down to earth for a romantic walk."

"We have a job to do," Doom said, "where's Cogs? He'll actually be useful."

"Cog's busy," they both turned to see Darklight walking up to them. "He's working on something for me, but in the meantime have you two picked an monster to attack with?"

"I would if someone told what each of them did," Doom said.

"Enough of this," Darklight said before turning to a monster in a cell. It was a giant humanoid turtle monster with green skin and an orange shell. "Shellblast!"

"M...M...Me?" the giant turtle asked.

"Yes you," Darklight said, "you want your freedom don't you?"

"Oh course," Shellblast said, "but I don't want to end up like Crushclaw."

"Crushclaw was weak," Darklight said, "your strong."

"No I'm not," he said shaking before he suddenly retracted his body into his shell, which then shrank to the size of a normal turtle.

"That's his power?" Doom said, "it's useless."

"Maybe," Darklight said, "unless..."

It was another normal day in the city, with the only acceptation being news of a new team of heroes who saved the city from alien attack.

Meanwhile Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy arrived at school. They along with their friends and the new Rangers had all been signed up to the School Support Team, as a cover for coming to the school everyday to help with the Rangers.

The two stepped inside and made their way towards the empty wall. Without even a seconds thought they walked right up to it and phased through, finding themselves in the Command Centre. "Morning," Rainbow said when she saw her friends.

Twilight and Sunset were in the lab area with Celestia and Luna, while Pinkie and Rarity were sitting on some seats watching Flash, Micro and Sandel. The three boys had their Elements in hand and had magic surrounding them, coming from Starswirl's staff as he was muttering something under his breath.

"What's happening?" Rainbow asked.

"Starswirl said he needed to do a little fine tuning to the boys," Rarity replied.

Finally the magic ceased and the boys were released, each looking slightly dizzy. "Head rush," Flash said trying to regain his balance.

"Don't worry," they turned to see Lyra and Sweetie walking in from another room, both wearing aprons. "It only lasts a few minutes...half hour tops."

"Is it done?" Celestia asked walking over from the lab.

"Indeed," Starswirl said, "the boys are in perfect order."

"You talk like we're a bunch of toys," Micro said.

"This is serious," Luna said, "we have to be sure there weren't any complications during the bonding."

"And we had to make sure the enchantments were all working," Celestia agreed.

"What enchantments?" Pinkie asked.

Starswirl explained. "When an Element bonds to a being, they infuse them with certain magics to improve there abilities as Guardians. These magics form enchantments that as you've seen improve the users physical strength as well as reduce how long it take to recover from injury."

"And then there's the one enchantment Starswirl had to neutralise," Lyra said.

"Which is?" Flash asked, wondering what they would want to get rid of.

"Immortality," Starswirl said. "Finding worthy Guardians isn't as easy as you'd think, so in order to make sure there was always somepony able to protect Equestria the Elements would stop the one bonded to them from ageing. If left as you were, the three of you would have remained how you are now forever."

"And that's a bad thing?" Flash asked.

"We don't know how long it'll take to find the rest of the Elements," Luna said. "If it takes years and you lot don't age in that time, it could have drawn suspicion."

"I guess you got a point," Sandel said.

"Besides," Sweetie said, "eternal youth isn't all it's cracked up to be."

"Whatever do you mean?" Rarity asked, "it sounds delightful."

"It isn't," Sweetie replied, "trust me."

"What do you mean?" Fluttershy asked.

"Sweetie Drop bonded to her Element in nineteen twenty five," Celestia explained, "during the American Prohibition. Because of that she stopped ageing and didn't die."

"But wait," Micro said, "doesn't that make her-"

"A hundred and nine," Sweetie answered.

Everyone's jaws dropped at that.

"Surprise," she said sheepishly.

"But," Twilight said, "That would mean you've lived through the Depression, World War Two and who knows what else."

"Yeap," Sweetie replied.

"Man," Sandel said, "history class must be a cake walk for you."

"Pretty much," she said.

"And in all that time you never learned to properly bake a cake," Flash said. He still got teased for what happened during the Friendship Games, but Sweetie just rolled her eyes.

At that moment, Applejack walked into the room, wearing the same apron as Sweetie and Lyra. "Morning y'all."

"Just in time," Celestia said, "it's about time to get to work." She took out a box and handed it to Flash, who opened it to find a bunch of aprons.

"I thought the School Support thing was just a cover," Rainbow said.

"It won't be much of a cover if people show up and your not doing it," Luna said.

"Rats," Rainbow said, pulling an apron out with everyone else.

As Micro put on his apron, his vision glanced over to a nearby table where an open book was laying. That book happened to be open on a page with the image of a creature on it, which the spectacled teen recognised. "Whose book is this?" he asked holding it up.

Everyone turned to see him. "It's mine," Flash said, walking over and taking it. "Well actually it's my dads."

"The creature on that page," Micro said pointing to it, "that's the one that attacked us in the quarry."

This caught everyone's attention, making them rush over to see.

"He's right," Rainbow said.

"Yeah," Sandel said, "I should know. I was so close to that thing, I could smell its breath."

"That is Doom Raizer," they all looked at Starswirl, "he is Darklight's right hand and was the only one that was able to get through the portal before I disabled it."

"So he's been here for a thousand years?" Flash asked, "and my dad must have encountered him."

Before anything else could be asked, an alarm went off and the holotable activated showing a map. Sunset rushed to the device and started tapping away.

"Do you even know what your doing?" Rainbow asked.

"Twilight and I have been studying this equipment thoroughly," Sunset replied, "we got the basic idea."

"So?" Flash asked.

"Magic energy signatures," she said, "coming from the park."

"It must be Darklight," Lyra said.

"Let's go," Flash said before the five Rangers rushed out of the Command Centre.

A little while later the Rangers were rushing through the park on route to the coordinates Sunset had sent them.

"Over here," Micro said up front as they finally made it to the area. "This is the spot where the signal came from."

"They can't have gotten far," Flash said only for the hairs on the back of his neck to rise at the sense of danger.

At that moment lazor blasts went off, narrowly missing the teens who were forced to shield themselves.

"Well well well," they all looked over at a wooded area of the park, where a small army of Shades walked out lead by a pair of monsters. One was rouge coloured with hearts covering her body, while the other wore dark blue armour with cogs attached. "What do we have here? A group of humans who think their something special."

"Who's this oversized Valentines gift?" Lyra asked.

"Names Heart Breaker," she said, "my associate here is Cogs."

What are you doing here?" Sandel asked them.

"We're here for a meet a greet," Heart said, "allow me to introduce the one who will grant your slow and painful demise. The ultimate unicorn and future ruler of the multiverse...Darklight." In that second a bolt of lightning struck the ground between the two faction, and in its wake stood the one the Rangers assumed was Darklight.

"Well well well," he said growling, "these are the Rangers who destroyed my monster?"

"Power Rangers," Sweetie declared making the monsters laugh.

In that moment Micro spotted something a ways back at the tree line. Patting Flash's shoulder he pointed as said, "Doom, right there."

Flash followed his direction and sure enough there was the creature from his fathers journal. He saw Doom glance at Darklight, before giving some kind of hand gesture which the villain nodded to before the spiky monster stepped back into the forest.

"As I was saying," Darklight said, "you the trouble makers who stole my Elements."

"The Elements belong to no one," a voice spoke out from nowhere. Seconds later there was a puff of smoke, revealing Starswirl in its wake.

"Starswirl," Darklight growled.

"Especially not to you," Starswirl continued.

"My dear old friend," Darklight said, "you thought you could stop me by throwing me into another universe. Big mistake! I travelled all over the multiverse, dominating my way from world to world in my search of the Elements. Over time I amassed an army of the strongest monsters from each world. In trying to stop me you only made me stronger and soon I will have my Elements."

"The Rangers posses the powers of the Guardian Elements," Starswirl said, "the greatest magic of Equestria flows through them. If you try to take the Elements, you will only know you destruction." And with that Starswirl disappeared in a puff of smoke, leaving the five Rangers to face the monsters alone.

"Starswirl?" Micro called out hopefully, but no reply.

"It's cool," Sandelwood said, "we got this...I think."

"Not so tough without your precious wizard to back you up," Cogs said, raising his axe.

"Let's finish this," Darklight said as they readied for battle.

"It's Morphin Time!" Lyra said, as she and three other Rangers took out their Magi-Chargers. However one Ranger was still staring off into space. "Flash!" she called, getting his attention and seeing what was happening took out his own.

"Magi-Chargers!" He called out holding his out.

"Ready!" the others said doing the same.

At that moment Darklight held up his clawed hand, as electricity surged through them and fired off magic blasts that caused explosions around the Rangers. "ENERGISE!" They yelled before being consumed by the explosions.

"YAY!" Heart Breaker said with a skip, "you destroyed them."

"Think again!" They looked back to see the smoke clear and five brightly coloured Power Rangers rush out towards them

"ATTACK!" Darklight ordered.

The two sides collided, doing battle with each other.

Micro was the first in holding his blaster and firing off, hitting Shades with perfect precision. Until Cogs showed up, swinging his axe at him. "What's with the distance attacks?" he asked the ranger, "to scared to face me head on. I guess you really are yellow."

"Not scared," Micro shot back dodging an attack and firing off a few rounds, "just don't want to get to close encase your smell knocks me out."

"Oh I'll knock you out alright," Cogs said slamming Micro with his axe, "out of orbit!" The force of the attack sent Micro flying up and then crashing several feet away, De-Morphing him.

"Hold on little buddy," Sandel said jumping in with his Spirit Sabre. The two traded blows for a few moments until Sandel slashed downwards at Cogs, who used his axe to block and forcing the sword to bounce of and knock Sandel off balance. Cogs used that moment to punch the Ranger and send him flying, De-Morphing as he landed.

Meanwhile Lyra and Sweetie where fighting against Heart Breaker, who had summoned a giant staff with a heart shaped hook on the end. "Silly Rangers," she said, "thinking you can take me on."

"Don't underestimate us," Lyra said swinging her Spirit Sabre, which Heart blocked with her staff before disarming Lyra of her Sabre.

"We're stronger then you think," Sweetie said, firing her blaster but Heart grabbed Lyra and pulled her infront of her.

"Hey," Lyra said only to be hit by Sweetie's blast.

"Oh no," Sweetie said, "sorry."

"Here," Heart said pushing Lyra away before slashing her with her staff. The force of which sent the girl flying away, De-Morphing her as she crashed into the ground.

"Lyra," Sweetie said, "you'll pay for that." She pulled out her Spirit Sabre and charged, only for Heart Breaker to use her staff to block and then she spun around and smashed the girl in the back of the legs, tripping her up. With Sweetie on the ground the rouge monster used her staff as a golf club, to smash the girl away and De-Morphing her.

Finally Flash and Darklight were fighting each other. "Man and I thought Equestria only had good looking villains," Flash said as he threw a punch at Darklight who blocked, "at least Sunset and the sirens were nice to look at while they tried to conquer the world."

"We'll see who the better looking one is when I'm done with you," Darklight said as he grabbed Flash by the arm and threw him through a nearby tree. The force of which caused him to De-Morph. "Pathetic," he said looking over the beaten humans, "I'm giving you one hour. Hand over the Elements by then, or I'll unleash every monster I have on this pathetic rock." In that second a lightning bolt struck the ground, with them disappearing in its wake.

With the monsters gone, the five Rangers regrouped all holding the aching parts of them.

"One hour before an alien invasion?" Sweetie said, "what do we do."

"We need to get back to the base and come up with a plan," Lyra said. Four of them began rushing back to their cars, but one remained still.

"Flash?" Sweetie asked, seeing the teen looking off at the tree line.

"Darklight and Doom were signalling to each other," Flash said, "I'm going to see if I can find something out."

"Did you not here about the possible alien invasion?" Lyra asked, "we need to get back to the base."

"It doesn't take five people to go to one place," Flash said before running off, "I'll be back in an hour."

"FLASH!" Lyra yelled.

"Come on," Micro said, "we'll just have to do it without him."

"Yeah," Sandel said. The four rangers returned to his truck and drove off, unaware that something new was latched onto the underside.

Meanwhile Flash was trekking through the trees, looking for Doom.

Finally he found him, calmly walking through it. Flash made sure to stay hidden for fear of being seen, until he accidentally stepped on a twig.

Doom stopped and spun around, now facing the tree Flash was behind. Doom then reach up to his shoulder and removed his spike blade as he neared the tree.

Panicking, Flash had his blaster ready for a fight.

"DOOM!" they both froze at Darklight's voice, as the monster stepped out of the treeline, "get over here."

"Master Darklight," Doom said, "is your plan on schedule?"

"Yes," Darklight said, "the rangers were so distracted by us that they didn't realise Shellblast had hidden on one of their vehicles. Once they show him the location of their base, we'll storm the place and take their Elements."

"And they believed that threat about the monsters being unleashed?" Doom said.

"Of course," Darklight replied, "foolish humans. I can control two, maybe three, monsters but if they were all unleashed then even I would have trouble."

"Then we just wait," Doom said.

"Indeed," Darklight said as the two worked off, unaware that they had just revealed their whole plan to Flash.

"Their gonna destroy our base," Flash said, "and everyone along with it." He took out his phone and tried calling, but had no signal. With no other option, Flash rushed back through the forest to his car.

Back at the base the Rangers were explaining what had happened and what Darklight threatened to do.

"We can't give him the Elements," Lyra said.

"But we can't let the city be overrun either," Micro said.

"We didn't stand a chance against Darklight and his cronies," Sandel said.

"Which is why we're here," Sunset said from the lab.

"You find a way to help?" Sweetie asked.

"We think so," Twilight said as she pulled five new Magi-Chargers out of one of the devices.

"Very impressive," Starswirl said from behind her, "you made five perfect Magi-Chargers on your first try."

"And with them we should be able to match those creeps powers," Twilight said handing them out

"What are they?" Lyra asked.

"Sunset and I wrote a code for five new weapons," Twilight explained.

"Once fuelled with magic," Sunset continued, "the Magi-Chargers will give that code physical form. We call it Magitech."

"Sound perfect," Micro said taking his.

"If only Flash hadn't gone off," Lyra said.

"You and I both know Flash isn't the type of guy to abandon his friends without reason," Sunset said.

At that moment Sunset's phone went off. Answering it she listened.

"Sunset," she heard.

"Flash?" Sunset replied before putting on speaker, "what's up."

"Yeah," Lyra said, "how'd you little hike in the woods go?"

"Lyra," Flash tried to say but the teen butted in.

"You know we're suppose to be a team right? Teammates don't go off on their own."

"Would you just listen for two seconds," Flash said, "your all in danger!"

"What are you talking about?" Sweetie asked.

"It was a trick," Flash replied, "Darklight isn't realising his monsters. He had one follow you guys back to the base."

"WHAT?" Everyone yelled.

"He's hidden on Sandel's truck," Flash replied, "hurry before he gets the info to Darklight."

"Come on," Lyra yelled. The four teens ran out the room, holding out their hands to take their Elements with them.

Meanwhile outside the school Sandel's truck was in the parking lot. Suddenly a small Turtle shell fell off from underneath, before growing until Shellblast came out and stared up at the building. "This must be where their secret base is," he said, "once I get to the spot Darklight told me to go to and tell him where to go I'll be free."

"Think again," he suddenly spun around to see Flash's car skidding to a stop infront of him. Flash jumped out of his car and ran over towards the giant turtle, "your not going anywhere shell-head."

"Oh no," the monster said, "please don't hurt me."

"That depends," Flash said, "you still gonna tell Darklight where are base is."

"I have to," Shellblast replied, "or he'll destroy me."

"Then we got a problem," Flash said.

"I won't be stopped," Shellblast said, "Shades appear." From out of the shadows came a horde of the hooded figures, brandishing their daggers as they charged at Flash.

With no time to morph, Flash was forced to fight single handed. Pulling out his blaster he fired off a few round into the ones with daggers, whilst he round housed a few others and punching one in the face, sending it flying back into others.

"You won't find me so easy," Shellblast said as he charged and swung its fins around trying to slap or slash at Flash.

Flash managed to dodge the attacks, but as he fired his blaster the monster spun around and caused the attacks to bounce off his shell. "To bad," Shellblast said spinning around and slapping Flash, the force sending him flying off and crashing into the side of his car. "Once I finish you and take your Elements, Darklight will finally free me." He raised his fin ready to strike, only for four shots to appear out of nowhere and strike at his feet. The explosion caused the monster to fly off away from Flash and crash into the ground a few feet away. "WHAT THE!?"

"Flash!" Lyra, Micro, Sweetie and Sandel appeared be Flash's side, "you okay?" Sweetie asked.

"I'm fine," Flash said, "perfect timing by the way."

"So is that the monster who knows how to get to the base?" Micro asked looking at Shellblast.

"Yeah it is," Flash said.

"Flash," Lyra said, "I'm sorry about what I said before."

"It's fine," Flash said, "I shouldn't have left like that anyway."

Lyra smiled and nodded. "So we gonna take this thing out?"

"Yeah," Flash said.

"Then here," Lyra said holding out a red Magi-Charger, "special gift from Twilight and Sunset. They managed to make some new gear for us."

"Perfect," Flash said taking it.

As Shellblast finally managed to get up, the blast had knocked him on his shell, he looked up and saw the five rangers standing there. "This can't be good."

"It won't be," Flash said, "for you." He held up his Magi-Charger. "It's Morphin Time! Magi-Chargers."

"Ready," The other four said, holding out their own. With a click the devices shined, as they placed them in their Morphin Blasters.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Energise!" They yelled spinning the barrel, "Unleash the Power!" They all pulled the triggers and five different heads flew out and bit down on them, decking them out in their Ranger Suits.

"Power Rangers," Flash called out as they posed and said together. "GUARDIANS!"

"You don't scare me," Shellblast said, but his voice sounded scared.

"Well let's see if these new toys can do that," Flash said as they placed their new Magi-Chargers into their blasters.

"Magitech!" They all yelled spinning the barrel, "Online!" The fired the blasters and out came the heads again, only instead of biting on their bodies they bit the rangers arms. There was a flash of light and when it died down, the rangers were shown holding their new weapons.

"That's not good," Shellblast said.

"I got this," Sandel said as he charged forward, brandishing his new weapon. It was a green instrument in the shape of a wolves head, which he held in one hand with two cone like blades coming out of the mouth. "Fenrir Fang," he said holding it up with his sword, "Spirit Sabre. Spiral Slash," he jumped up and spun in a circle with his arms straight. Doing this caused his weapons to slash at Shellblast, sending it back slightly.

"Why you," the monster said as he leaped forwards to smash Sandel, but Sweetie jumped in the way and held up her new weapon.

It was a pink hexagon shape, with a cats face on it. "Sphinx Shield, block." The attack bounced off, causing Shellblast to lose balance allowing Sweetie to spin around a deal a kick to him.

Shellblast was thrown back, but managed to regain his composure only to realise he was now in Micro's line of sight.

The Yellow Ranger's new weapon was a yellow device in the shape of a birds head, with a blaster barrel coming out the beak. "Griffon Shooter," he said holding it up in his right hand, with his Morphin Blaster in the other. "Morphin Blaster...Duel Shot." The two weapons fired off one after the other, causing Shellblast to be continuously struck.

When the blasts finally ceased Shellblast was severely damaged.

"I'm up next," Lyra yelled as she charged. Her new weapon was a long blue tube shape, with a curved blade on one end and a snake head on the other. "Serpent Staff," she yelled swinging the bladed end slashing the monster who fell back. She then spun the staff around as the snake head opened, and then caught one of Shellblast's fins in its mouth with locked shut. "Alley-oop," she said as she pulled on the staff and sent the monster over her head, just as the snakes mouth opened, throwing Shellblast into the air. "He's all yours Flash."

"Thanks," Flash said as he prepared his own weapon. A large red instrument in the shape of Drago's head, being mainly red with a white jaw with a slot in the back for Flash's right hand. "Dragon Breaker," he yelled as he leaped up to the same spot as Shellblast in midair, "Head Smash!" With all his might, Flash punched Shellblast with the Dragon Breaker sending him crashing back into the ground and causing an explosion.

Up in space we find Darklight sitting on a throne in the main area of his ship. He had just located Shellblast, only to find he had been defeated.

"Useless reptile," Darklight said before turning to another screen, "Cogs!"

"Master," Cogs said appearing on screen.

"Is the new weapon ready?" Darklight asked.

"I just finished the fine tuning," Cogs said, "we're ready at your instruction."

"Then do it," Darklight said standing up and pointing at Shellblast on screen. "Fire the Gigatisor!"

A Shade nodded and ran other to a console before slamming a big red button.

On the outside of the ship a slot opened, before a mechanical arm folded out with a satellite dish on its end. Once at full length, the dish began to spark before firing a red beam at the earth.

Back with the rangers, they were cheering at their victory.

Suddenly the red beam shot out of the sky and struck the point Shellblast had fallen, causing a massive explosion of energy.

"What's happening?" Micro asked. The rangers all looked at where the beam hit and gasped seeing Shellblast, only he was now over ten stories high.

"How'd you like me now?" Shellblast's voice boomed.

"What just happened?" Sandel asked.

"We'll worry about that later," Flash said. He went to his belt and pulled out his Magi-Charger. "Magi-Charger ready," he said clicking it before he threw it in the air, "summon Dragon Zord!"

The Charger flew through the air, growing ten times its origanal size, towards the mountain top where it found its way into the Dragon Zord's mouth.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The Zord's eye opened and the next think everyone knew, it smashed out the top of the mountain and flew towards town.

Shellblast meanwhile was getting used to his new proportions and was ready to squash the rangers, when he suddenly heard a loud noise.

"RRRRRAAAAAOOOOORRRRR!"

He looked over to see the Dragon Zord charging towards him. "Not that," Shellblast said before being smashed by the Zord.

"Get him Drago," Flash cheered his Zord on.

"Hey," Lyra said, "why should you get all the fun?"

"Your not the only one with a Zord you know," Sweetie said.

The girls went to their belt and each pulled out a Magi-Charger. "Magi-Chargers," they said clicking them before throwing them in the air.

"Summon, Sea-Serpent Zord!"

"Summon, Sphinx Zord!"

The two Chargers flew through the air, growing as they did so, before flying off in different directions.

Lyra's Charger flew to the ocean and dived beneath the water, into the mouth of something.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The creatures eyes opened. A second later it broke the water's surface, revealing it to be a giant blue robot snake. It had three sections, the first one being a long rope like appendage with a snake head on the end. The second part was in the middle, being a blue cube like shape while the last part was similar to the first, only instead of a head it had a fish tail on the end

Sweetie's Charger flew into a desert area, diving into a quicksand pit to a cavern hidden beneath where it landed in the mouth of another creature.

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The creatures eyes opened, before it smashed out of the sand. It was a giant pink robotic cat, with white wings and a cuboid rear.

Back in the city Drago and Shellblast continued fighting, but Shellblast's shell was protecting it from the Zord's more powerful attacks.

But then as he spun around to protect against a punch, he was suddenly struck by a long tail like weapon which knocked him back.

The Sea-Serpent and Sphinx Zords had arrived and stood besides Drago, ready to fight.

"Alright," Flash said before he got a beep in his helmet, signalling a call. Accessing it his vision was filled by an image of Sunset.

"Flash," she said, "we just finished analysing the Zord's schematics and we think it's possible for your three Zords to combined into one."

"You mean like some kind of...Megazord?" Flash asked.

"If that's what you wanna call it then fine," Sunset replied.

"Awesome," he said cutting the call, "you guys hear that?"

"We heard," Lyra said, "so our Zords can combine?"

"That's the plan," Flash said before turning to the three giant robots. "Activate Guardian Megazord...Sphinx-Serpent Formation!"

The Dragon Zord roared as it turned towards the other Zords before the three opened their mouths. Their Magi-Chargers flew out with the Sea-Serpents and Sphinx's Chargers going into Drago's.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

It bit down on the first Charger before it flew out and was replace with second Charger.

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

It bit down on the second Charger before it flew out again and the last Charger flew in.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

ZORDS COMBINED!

The Dragon Zord's chest opened up, allowing its arms to fold in and be replaced by two plug like nubs before its chest closed back into place. Its wings then folded up, becoming shoulder pads while its tail detached and its legs extended.

The Sea-Serpent's tail detached from the cube part, while the Sphinx's head detached and it legs, wings and tail folded in. Doing so revealed slots in their rears which the then connected to the plugs on the Dragon, Sea-Serpent on the right and Sphinx on the left. The two Zords folded downwards becoming the new arms of the Megazord, as a hand folded out of where the Sphinx's head had detached.

The Dragon's neck split in half, with that back folding backwards and the front and head folding down onto its chest while its snout horn retracted inwards. A warriors head appeared from out of its neck.

The two tails linked together as the snake head grabbed hold, forming a sword with the Dragon's tail as the blade and Sea-Serpent's tail as the handle. While the Sphinx's head folded out a handle in the back, which the Megazord grabbed in its hand making a shield.

GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, SPHINX-SERPENT FORMATION...READY!

"Righteous," Sandel said.

"The Guardian Megazord," Micro said in wonder.

Inside the Megazord's cockpit the three rangers appeared, standing on coloured podiums. Flash was in the centre, with Lyra to his right and Sweetie to his left. On the right side of their podiums were triangular pillars, with a slot in the centre.

"Wow," they said looking around. "We're inside the Megazord," Flash said, "you girls ready?"

"Oh yeah," they replied.

Taking their Morphin Blasters, they placed them in the pillar's slot. "Battle Mode, ENGAGE!"

"Let's do this thing," Flash said.

Outside the Megazord, Shellblast looked worried at the sight of his new more powerful opponent. "I can't let them win," he said as he charged and waved his fins around, but the Megazord held up the Sphinx head to block.

The Rangers moved in perfect unison, their movements controlling the Megazord. "Tail Sabre!" they said, swinging their right arms down.

The Megazord mimicked the Ranger's movements, slashing its sword down on the giant turtle.

This continued, with Shellblast trying to attack only to have them be blocked before getting slashed.

"Hope your ready," Flash said, "because your about to be shell shocked. You two ready?"

"Always," Lyra said.

"Let's do this," Sweetie said.

The three Rangers moved and spoke in perfect sync. "Dragon Zord...Final Strike!"

The Dragon's head flipped up and opened its mouth, as flames formed within. The fire shot out of its mouth and flew towards Shellblast, who was quickly consumed.

"I can't take the heat," the monster said before collapsing to the ground and exploding.

"Guardian Rangers," Flash said, "victory is ours."

"NO!" Darklight yelled as he watched the Rangers victory, "how did my plan fail?"

"Those humans are smarter then we thought," Doom said.

"It matters not," Darklight said, "they will soon fall to me and when they do I'll take their Elements and rule the multiverse."

After the battle the Rangers returned to school.

They were currently working in the cafeteria, sweeping the floors.

"This bites," Rainbow said, "we're not even Rangers. Why do we have to do this?"

"It's called team work," Flash said, "and if today taught me anything, it's that team work is the most important thing."

"Well said Flash," Celestia said as she, Luna, Twilight, Rarity and Sunset walked in. Rarity was carrying five boxes.

"We've got a little gift for the five of you," Twilight said.

"What?" Lyra said, "those new weapons and Megazord where enough to fill ten Christmas's and a birthday."

"Well here's something else," Rarity said, "to celebrate you guys working together as a team." She held out the boxes which the Rangers took, each taking the one of their own colours, and placed them on a table before opening.

Inside each one was a jacket, which looked like Flash's only instead of black they were their Ranger colours with white lines and on the back was the same pentagon shape with their Zord emblems.

"Awesome," Flash said taking his out.

"We figured since your a team you should dress in matching jackets," Sunset said.

They all nodded before placing theirs on. Flash and Sandelwood kept theirs open while Micro and the girls zipped theirs up.

Once it was done the five of them stood in a line, waiting for comments.

"How do we look?" Flash asked.

They all smiled and nodded, Twilight being to one to speak up. "Like a team."

Author's Note

Hope the pacing was a little better. I'm trying to keep the chapters from getting to long.

Hope you enjoyed the Megazord and Micro and Sandel's Zords will show up soon.

Next Time: character growth.

The Power of Love

-May 12th, 1925-

-New York-

In a quite part of the city of New York, a little house stood on the corner of the street. This was the home of the future Pink Ranger, Miss Sweetie Drops.

Ms Drops had just woken up, and after putting on her favourite dress she headed downstairs. She expected the house to be empty, with her brother at work and she hadn't seen her father in weeks. Her mother unfortunately was no longer with them.

As she entered the kitchen she gasped at what she saw. "DADDY!" she yelled running to her father and throwing her arms around him.

"Hello Princess," he said.

"You finished you undercover work?" Sweetie asked. Her father, Hard Case, was a member of the police force who were tasked with stopping the bootleggers from shipping alcohol into the city.

"Not exactly," he said, "I managed to get away for a few hours. I just had to see you."

"I've missed you too daddy," she said.

"I also wanted to give you something," he said. He went into his pocket and pulled out a rectangular black box. "I promised your mother I would give you this when you were old enough."

"What is it?" she asked in wonder.

"Open it and find out," he said handing it to her.

Sweetie took the box and opened it. Inside was a small pink crystal.

"It's been passed down to the women in our family for generations," Hard Case said, "and now it's yours."

"Thank you daddy," throwing her arms around him for a hug.

It would have been the perfect moment, if not for-

BANG!

Sweetie shot up in her bed at the sound.

BANG!

It went again.

Sweetie got out of bed and threw on her new Ranger Jacket, before leaving her room, down a hallway and through some doors leading into the Command Centre. There she saw the Mane Seven and the male Rangers crowded around something.

"What's going on?" she cried out catching their attention.

"Oh hey Sweetie," Flash said, "when did you get here?"

"I live here," she replied, "and what's with the loud banging?"

"Sorry," Sunset said, "that was us."

"Sunset and Twilight were testing out our new gear," Micro said, "check out the Magicycles."

They all moved, revealing a quintet of dirt bikes which were each a combination of black and one of the Ranger's colours and had their Zord's heads on the front.

"Amazing," Sweetie said getting a closer look.

"Four stroke, twin turbo exhaust with a nort to sixty in two point five seconds," Sunset listed off. "They have a top speed of just over a hundred miles an hour, with all terrain performance and high powered blasters in the front."

"Sounds great," Sweetie said as she got on hers. The seat was very comfortable.

"That's not all," Twilight said, "wait until you check out Burst Mode."

"Burst Mode?" Sweetie asked.

"With the Magicycles you can activate a high powered burst attack, which doubles the bikes high speed and charges at the enemy while unleashing an energy blast."

"That sounds a little dangerous," Sweetie said, "even with our Ranger Suits."

"Oh don't worry," Sunset said, "Burst Mode also activates a defensive shield to protect you."

"Here," Twilight said, "let me show you." She went over to the Sweetie and pressed a button on the console, which coursed the eyes on the cat to glow before the bike changed. It soon shifted into a bulkier bike, which closed up and locked Sweetie inside. AN

Sweetie suddenly found herself inside the capsule, in complete darkness. "WHAT?" she said looking around but couldn't see anything and could barely move inside, causing her to panic. "GET ME OUT!"

Outside the bike the Rangers heard this and became confused.

It was at this moment that Lyra arrived. When she heard Sweetie and saw the Magicycle, she quickly put two and two together. "What are you guys doing!?" she almost yelled as she rushed towards the bike and opened it up.

Once freed, Sweetie literally jumped out of the bike and into Lyra's arms. She shook horribly.

"What's wrong with her?" Sandel asked.

"She has claustrophobia," Lyra replied.

"What?" Rainbow asked.

"A fear of enclosed spaces," Fluttershy answered.

"Oh," Rainbow and the others replied.

"Sorry," Flash said, "we didn't know. I mean it's not like we can read-" Flash stopped himself before his gaze slowly shifted to Sunset, "never mind."

"It's okay guys," Sweetie said as she got up, "I just really don't like tight spaces."

"But you wear a closed helmet when your morphed?" Micro asked.

"Which I can see out of," Sweetie said, "but if I can't see what's going on around me I start to-" that thought alone caused her to hyperventilate. It wasn't until Pinkie pulled a paper bag out of her hair, giving it to her that she managed to calm down. "Sorry guys," she said once she was done, "but I don't think I can use the Burst Mode."

"But you might need it," Sandal said, "don't worry. We can help you overcome this."

"He's right," Fluttershy said, "I've had to deal with many fears and I think I have a few ways to help you overcome them."

"Like what?" Sweetie asked sounding a little wherry.

"It's all about slowly pushing the limits of your comfort zones," Sandal explained, "slowly increasing it until it's no longer a problem. It's called immersion therapy."

"Isn't that what they did to that guy in A Clockwork Orange?" Flash asked.

"That's Aversion Therapy," Sandel said in a dead pan before turning back to Sweetie. "What do ya say?"

Sweetie didn't look comfortable. "You really think you can help?"

"With time," Fluttershy said, "yes."

"Okay then," Sweetie said, "let's do this."

And with the the three left the Command Centre.

"I really hope they can help her," Twilight said.

"I can't believe Sweetie was so scared like that," Flash said.

"Not everyone's Mr No Fear you know," Lyra said,

"I'm not fearless, " Flash said, "I just don't let my fears control me."

"Not everyone can overcome what they fear as easily as you Flash," everyone turned to see Starswirl appear out of no where. "For many our irrational fears are something we must deal with our whole life, and even for the few who have overcome them they never truly go away."

"I guess," Flash said.

Before they could say anything else, an alert sounded making them head over to the Holotable.

"Darklight?" Micro asked.

"No," Sunset said, "it seems our sensors are picking up something."

"What is it?" Applejack asked.

"I think..." Twilight said, "it's a Zord."

"Zord?" Micro asked.

"Either yours or Sandel's" she explained, "the readings are the same as when the Dragon Zord awakened."

"You will most likely be able to call upon it soon," Starswirl said.

"Awesome," Micro said, "I'll be in the driving seat next time there's a Zord battle."

Meanwhile up in space on Darklight's ship.

Doom Raizer stepped onto the bridge with another monster. It was a funny looking monster with a cone shaped head and on each arm it had a round shield with a spiral pattern.

Darklight looked over at the two and got up out of his throne. "What's he doing here?"

"Cogs filled me in on what your creatures can do," Doom said, "and when I heard about Warper here I had an idea."

"I'll capture the Rangers for ya," Warper said, "deactivate my control collar and I'll use my Warp Disks to transport them someplace they can't escape."

"Very well," Darklight said as he turned to a Shade and nodded his head.

Seconds later the light on the black collar around his neck changed from red to blue. "I've turned off the power suppressor," Darklight explained, "but I'll only deactivate the destruction feature when you bring me the Elements."

"I won't fail you," Warper said before he headed off towards the transporter room.

"He'd better not disappoint," Darklight warned Doom.

"I assure you he won't fail," Doom replied.

"Says the one who couldn't find a single Element in a thousand years," Darklight said.

"Now now brother dear," Heart Breaker said as she jumped between them, "don't blame Doomy for that."

"Stop calling me that," Doom said.

Back on Earth, Fluttershy and Sandal were beginning Sweetie immersion therapy.

"You ready?" Fluttershy asked as Sandal opened the door of a supply closet.

"I don't know about this," Sweetie said.

"Don't worry," Sandal said, "We'll only keep you in there for ten seconds this time."

"Baby steps," Fluttershy said.

"Okay," Sweetie said. She stepped into the closet as Sandal closed the door behind her.

"Just breath," Fluttershy said from behind it.

"Relax," Sandel said.

Unfortunately Sweetie wasn't doing any of that. Her breathing began to become staggered and her heartbeat was a mile a minute. Suddenly her mind began flashing images and sounds to the forefront, as she threw her hands over her ears as the sound of banging assaulted her.

Finally the door opened and she felt herself fall backwards.

"How did that feel?" Fluttershy asked.

"Okay," Sweetie lied. That was horrible.

"Great," Sandal said as he picked her up, "then let's try for fifteen."

"WAIT!" she screamed but was thrown back in the closet before it was slammed shut.

"She'll be fine," he said as he mentally counted, but lost count when he heard a loud buzzing sound.

"What's that?" Fluttershy asked.

"Not sure," he said, "sounds kind of like our blasters." The second he said that he realised what was happening, before the door was blown apart and the two thrown on their backs. Looking up they saw Sweetie Drops, panting, with her Morphin Blaster in hand. "Okay," Sandal said, "I guess we can take a brake."

A little while later the three sitting on the front steps of the school, juice drinks in hand.

"I'm sorry," Sweetie said to the still smouldering duo, "but I can't help it. Whenever I'm in a situation like that."

"Maybe if we knew more about your fear," Sandal said, "then we could determine the best way to fight it."

"He's right," Fluttershy said, "when did you first develop your fear."

"I remember the exact day," Sweetie said before she reached into her jacket and pulled out her Element of Love. "It was the same day I got this."

"Really?" Sandel asked. Come to think of it, neither of them knew how she or Lyra got their Elements.

"May twelfth," Sweetie said, "nineteen twenty five. My father was an undercover officer, working to bring down the Mob trying to bring illegal alcohol into New York. One day he came home and gave me this, saying it had been passed down in our family for generations. Then it happened."

Sweetie and Hard Case were running through the house, trying to escape the onslaught of bullets being fired into their home.

"What do we do?" Sweetie asked in a panic.

"In here," Hard told his daughter as he pulled her into the family library. Rushing over to a picture of him, Sweetie, her brother and mother, he pulled it forwards on a hing to reveal a safe hidden behind it. "Get in," he ordered as he unlocked the safe and opened it.

Sweetie quickly jumped in, but then noticed there wasn't room for the two of them. "But we can't both fit in here?" she told him.

"I know," Hard said, "I love you princess." With that he slammed the safe shut, re-locking it and returning the portrait into place.

Inside the safe, Sweetie was panicking at the thought of her daddy facing those horrible people alone. Suddenly loud banging could be heard from the other side, terrifying her.

"After that day, every time I'm somewhere like that safe my mind flashes back to that day."

Both Sandal and Fluttershy had tears in their eyes after the story.

"That's so horrible," Fluttershy said.

"I'm over it," Sweetie said, "except when I'm in an enclosed space."

"Listen Sweetie," Sandal said, but in that moment they were almost hit by a flurry of lazor blasts.

"WHAT'S HAPPENING!?" Fluttershy asked.

"Finally found you," they look over to see Warper walking up to them. He only had one of his Warp Disks on.

"Is that?" Fluttershy asked.

"One of Darklight's goons no doubt," Sweetie said as she and Sandal got into a fighting stance.

"Surprise!" Warper said as he threw his last disk at the. It landed on the ground at their feet, confusing them, until the disk glowed black and expanded until it was a giant black hole which the three of them fell through.

The three teens felt themselves fall a good distance, until finally they travelled through another black hole which shot them out into a cave like location. They felt themselves hit the ground hard.

"Owe!" Sweetie yelped as she hit a rock. Once the pain dulled she looked around, "where are we?"

"No idea," Sandal said as he looked around, "but I'd like to know how we got here."

"I brought you here," Warper's voice came out of the black hole before he flew threw it and landed on the ground. The black hole reduced back to a disk which he then caught.

"What are you going to do with us?" Sweetie asked.

"Once I catch the rest of your friends," Warper said, "I'll be taking your Elements."

"Like we'd let that happen," Sandal said.

"You got no choice hippy boy," Warper said, "I'll see you all later." With that he threw his shield on the ground, which opened another vortex for him to jump through before it vanished.

Back at school everyone was looking to see how Sweetie's treatment was going, but couldn't find them anywhere.

Flash, Applejack and Lyra arrived back in the Command Centre, "their not in the gym."

"Their not in the library," Rarity said as she and Micro returned.

"What about the the cafeteria?" Twilight asked turning to Rainbow and Pinkie.

"Oh," Rainbow said as they hid something behind their backs, "no didn't find them."

"No no no," Pinkie agreed though her voice was muffled by something in her mouth.

"I'm sure their fine," Sunset said, "but if it makes you guys feel any better I'll do a scan for their Element's magic signature." She went to the holotable, where she began typing but the more she did so the more she frowned. "That's odd, I'm not picking up their signals."

"But our sensors are powerful enough to pick them up in space?" Lyra said, "I don't like the sound of this."

"Me neither," Flash said, "let's head out and try and find them."

"Use the Magicycles," Twilight told him, "their scanners will help you cover more ground."

The three Rangers nodded and headed out.

Back in the cave the two Rangers and Fluttershy were looking around for anything they could use to escape.

Sweetie had her phone held up, but the cave was blocking the signal so she gave up and put it back in her pocket.

"Anything?" Fluttershy asked as she moved over to her.

"No," Sweetie said, "I can't get through."

"Hey girls!" Sandal's voice called out, "over here!"

The girls rushed over to where he was standing and saw he had found a small opening. "Is that?" Fluttershy asked.

"A tunnel," Sandal replied, "not very big but I can see light at the end of it."

Sweetie pulled out her phone and placed in in the opening, but still no signal. "Rats!"

"We'll need to get further out," Fluttershy said.

"I'm to big to fit through it," Sandel said, "but you to should be fine."

"In...in there?" Sweetie asked sounding nervous.

"Sweetie," Sandal said, "you can do this."

"I...I don't know."

"You have to," Fluttershy said "not only will we escape but that's one less Element in that monster's trap."

"Come on Sweetie," Sandal said, "I'll hoist you up."

Sweetie looked at the tunnel and felt her heart begin to pound. She knew that she needed to do this, but fear was still beginning to consume.

"I'll be there with you," Fluttershy assured her.

Looking at her, seeing the kindness in her eyes made some of the fear begin to fade. "Okay," she said. She moved over to Sandal, who helped lift her up and into the tunnel followed by Fluttershy.

Meanwhile the rest of the Rangers were racing through town on their Magicycles, but even with the scanners they hadn't found anything.

"Nothing on the west side," Flash said over the com.

"North side too," Micro replied.

"South too," Lyra said.

"How you guys doing?" Flash asked when he switched it to the base.

"Still nothing," Sunset replied.

"Hold on," Twilight said, "I might have something."

"What?" Lyra asked.

"I back tracked our sensors to the last time the had Sweetie and Sandal's energy signatures, and from it I found there was a huge magical energy spike before they disappeared."

"One of Darklight's monsters you think?" Micro asked.

"I'd hate to say it," Twilight said, "but yes I think it is."

"Then it's extra important we find them," Flash said.

Sweetie and Fluttershy were crawling through the tunnel, but they were moving incredibly slowly.

"Are you okay up there?" Fluttershy asked from behind.

"I think so," Sweetie asked, but even now her heart was still pounding. Suddenly there was a small rumble below them and Sweetie's body froze up. "WHAT WAS THAT!?" She screamed.

"It's nothing," Sandal's voice called out.

"No," she said, "I can feel it. The caves gonna collapse."

"No it's not," Fluttershy tried to reassure her, but Sweetie was already gone.

Sweetie was hiding in the safe as the sound of gunfire echoed through the metal.

Sweetie pulled her hands over ears and tried drowning out the sound. She then began singing a song her mother would always sing to her when she was scared, while closer her eyes and picturing her family. Suddenly something in her pocket began to glow, catching her attention. Going into her pocket she pulled out the crystal her father had given her and looking it over she suddenly felt a rush of energy, before seeing visions of multiple ponies in pink armour before seeing the image of a cat like creature.

Sweetie's eyes opened. She had never seen that part before, since she had always gotten out of the space by then. Suddenly she felt her fears begin to fade away, as she realised something. Her father had given up his life to save her, but would he if could see her now. Her father had loved her and she loved him and that was how the Element had bonded to her.

"Sweetie?" Fluttershy asked, "are you still with us?"

"Yeah," She said, "I'm fine." She began crawling forwards once again, faster then before until she found herself squinting at as the sunlight filled her eyes when she pulled herself out of the tunnel and into a rocky landscape. Turning around to help Fluttershy out she sighed and fell to her knees.

"You okay?" Fluttershy asked.

"I think so," Sweetie replied.

Fluttershy nodded but then something caught her eyes and made her gasp, "Sweetie."

Sweetie looked up and gasped seeing a horde of Shades not to far off. Quickly getting up she stepped infront of Fluttershy, "go hide."

Fluttershy nodded and ran off, while Sweetie pulled out her gear. "Magi-Charger," she clicked it and placed it inside her Morphin Blaster

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!"

"Energise!" She said spinning the barrel, before throwing the blaster up. "Unleash the Power!" She fired the blaster and unleashed her Zord's head, which flew around and bit down on her. The light faded revealing the Pink Guardian Ranger, Spirit Sabre and Sphinx Shield in hand.

Charging towards the horde she began fighting the Shades, blocking their attack before slashing at them. This went on for a while, though she would shift her weapon from sabre to blaster to mow down a few of the larger clusters as a distance. Eventually the Shades were dispatched.

"I bet your proud of yourself," she turned around to see Warper standing a ways off, "escaping my trap like you did. I'll just have to take your Element myself."

"We'll see about that," she said as she aimed her blaster and fired at the monster.

"Warp Disks," Warper said as his shields flew in front of him and created small vortexes. Sweetie's blast flew inside the first vortex and then out the other, redirecting them at Sweetie who barely had time to hold up he shield and was knocked back.

"Oh no" Fluttershy said from her spot among the rocks.

As Sweetie tried to pull herself up, Warper drew closer. "When your back in that cave, I'll make sure you never make it out." He threw his shields at Sweetie, intending to trap her again, but at that moment they were blasted back at the monster who caught them. "WHAT!?"

Sweetie looked up and saw Flash, Lyra and Micro suddenly fly over one the the rock formations on their Magicycles, firing lazor blasts out of the front.

"Guys!" Sweetie cheered seeing them as they rode over to her.

"Sweetie," Lyra said pulling her into a hug, "your okay."

"I am," Sweetie said, "but Sandalwood's still in the cave."

"We know," Micro said, "Sunset guessed as much when your signal reappeared here."

They all looked over at Warper, who had just recovered from the surprise attack. "Perfect," he said, "all five Rangers to capture."

"Be careful," Sweetie said, "this guy's tricky. He'll send back anything we throw at him."

"Got it," Flash said, "alright guys...let's Rev It Up!" The three Rangers kicked their bikes into gear and raced towards Warper, as they began firing at him.

"Warp Disks," Warper called out as his shields flew around him and caught the blasts, sending them back at the Rangers who barely managed to dodge."

"Sweetie was right," Flash said, "this guy is tricky."

"Flash," the Ranger heard Twilight over his com, "we've been studying this guy during his fight with Sweetie. We think there's a way you can brake through those wormholes he's creating."

"Great," Flash said, "how?"

"If you drive into one of them and activate Burst Mode," Twilight explained, "the magical surge will overload the wormhole and cut the connection to the other one. You'll be able to smash right through it."

"Alright," Flash said, "you heard her guys."

"Right," Micro said.

"We'll lay down some cover fire for you," Lyra said.

"Got it," Flash said as he stopped infront of Warper.

"What do we have here?" Warper asked.

"Ever played chicken freak," Flash said, "Burst Mode...Energise!" His bike shifted into the more bulky with a giant dragon on the front. He revved it into high gear as he shot forwards as his friends fired at Warper who used his shields to block the attacks. "Power Strike!" Flash said as the bike shut and accelerated forwards.

"I don't think so," Warper said as he moved one of his shields towards him but as Flash entered it, the Magicycle burst into full power causing the vortex to somehow glitch and suddenly Flash felt himself hit something which shattered. "WHAT!?" Warper said when he saw Flash blasted out of one of his shields, before he was suddenly smashed by a powerful attack.

Flash pulled himself to a stop as the Magicycle returned to normal.

"Alright," Micro, Lyra and Sweetie cheered, seeing Warper get struck like that.

Up in space Darklight wasn't to happy at seeing what had happen.

"Doom," he said, "your full proof plan doesn't appear to be going well."

"It's not over yet," Doom said before turning to a Shade. "Fire the Gigatisor."

The Shade nodded and ran other to a console before slamming a big red button.

On the outside of the ship the slot opened, as the mechanical arm folded out. Once at full length, the dish began to spark before firing a red beam at the planet.

Back on earth the beam struck Warper as he was getting up. An explosion of energy occurred, and in its wake was the giant Warper.

Jumping off their bikes the Rangers grouped up. "Let's Zord up," Flash said as he and the girls took out their Magi-Chargers.

"Magi-Chargers," they said in unison as they clicked the buttons before throwing them in the air, "summons Zords!"

MAGI-CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zords activated and emerged from their hiding spots, before rushing to their Rangers aid.

"Activate Guardian Megazord," the three said, "Sphinx-Serpent Formation."

ZORDS COMBINED!

The three Zords linked together as the Rangers teleported into the cockpit, placed their blasters in the slots and readied themselves for battle.

GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, SPHINX-SERPENT FORMATION...READY!

"Let's do this," Flash said as the three of them commanded the Megazord charged forwards Warper, who held up his one remaining shield to block.

"I might not be able to use my Warp Disks," Warper said, "but I can still beat you." He blocked an attack by the Tail Sabre and pushed it away, before using the rounded edge of the shield to slash at the Megazord.

"He's blocking everything we throw at him," Lyra said.

"What do we do?" Sweetie asked.

"I don't know," Flash replied, "unless." He went to his com, "Micro."

"I'm here," the Yellow Ranger replied.

"Try calling your Zord," Flash explained, "maybe it's awake."

"Alright," Micro said. He disconnected the com and went to his belt, pulling out a Magi-Charger. "Let's do this," he said as he clicked the button, "summon Griffon Zord."

The Charger flew through the air, growing as it did so, before flying off into a nearby mountain area. It arrived at a deep canyon, where it flew into the mouth of a creature.

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The creature opened its eyes. Seconds later it flew out the canyon, revealing a yellow Zord with a similar design to the Sphinx but had a birds head and white wings.

Back at the battle field Warper continued to smash the Megazord. "At this rate your Elements will be mine." But then his attention was caught be the sound of a loud bird squawk, before he was suddenly blasted by something.

The Griffon Zord flew towards them, firing lazors from the tips of its wings.

"Now's our chance," Sweetie said.

"Right," Flash agreed, "activate Guardian Megazord, Griffon-Serpent Formation!"

The Griffon Charger flew out of the Zord's mouth as the Dragon's head folded up and opened its mouth, releasing its Charger which was quickly replaced.

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

ZORDS COMBINED!

When its Charger flew back in the Griffon Zord reformed. Its legs folded in as its wings spun around so they were pointing forwards. The Sphinx detached as the Griffon took its place, the cube like rear connecting to the Dragon and becoming the new left arm.

GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, GRIFFON-SERPENT FORMATION...READY!

Micro appeared in the cockpit to the left of Sweetie, looking around in amazement. "Wow," he said.

"Quick Sphinx," Sweetie called to her Zord, "go save Sandal." The Sphinx Zord turned and rushed over to the caves and used its large claws to slash at the rock, ripping through it.

Sandal had started getting worried about the girls, until he felt a strong shaking around him. Suddenly the wall next to him broke apart as the Sphinx Zord appeared and gazed down at him.

"Righteous," he said before jumping up and onto its head.

When the Sphinx returned to the surface, the rest of the Rangers sighed in relief seeing Sandel alright.

"Let's finish this," Sweetie said.

"Right," the others said as they returned their gaze to Warper.

"You think an accessory change can beat me," Warper said.

"Let's find out," Flash said as the Rangers moved in sync.

"Tail Sabre," they swung their blade down at the monster, but Warper held up his shield and blocked it.

"Pathetic," Warper said.

"Don't be so sure," Sweetie said, "with your shield raised against our sword, what's protecting you from our blaster?"

"Griffon Zord," Micro said, "fire!"

The Megazord raised its other arm and stuck the blaster wings into Warper's body, before firing a flurry of lazor fire that sent the monster flying onto his back with his shield being thrown away.

"Now's our chance to finish this," Sweetie said.

The Rangers moved and spoke in sync again. "Griffon Zord, Dragon Fire Blast!"

The Dragon's head flipped up and opened its mouth, as flames formed within. The fire shot out of its mouth, before the Griffon Zord was aimed at the fireball and stuck it. The blast combined with the fire to create a flaming arrow like attack which flew at the monster and struck him through the chest.

"I've been warped," were his last words before falling to his doom as he exploded.

The Rangers cheered seeing another monster fall. Sweetie fell to her knees from exhaustion.

"Guardian Rangers," she said, "victory is ours."

A little later everyone returned to the Command Centre, where Celestia and Luna came to check that Sweetie, Sandal and Fluttershy hadn't been injured in anyway due being locked in a cave.

"A few scraps," Luna said, "but all in all you're fine."

"Thanks," Sandal said before turning to Sweetie, "and thank you for saving me."

"It was nothing," Sweetie said, "I realised in that tunnel that even though I'm scared, I can't let that stop me from protecting the people I love. That's why the Element of Love bonded to me, because I have the strength to do it."

"Indeed you do," Celestia said, "you certainly have changed since we first found you."

"I spent so long on my own," Sweetie said, "when I realised I'd stopped ageing I knew I couldn't stay in the same place. I kept moving from place to place, knowing I'd have to one day leave it again. I guess I forgot what it felt like to love someone, but I remember now and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world."

Everyone smiled hearing this, Sweetie really was a great person. Being able to overcome her fears just to help the people she loved, amazing.

"Hey," Pinkie said, "you know what this calls for?"

"Let me guess," Sweetie said.

"A PARTY!" Everyone screamed, before laughing and heading out to get something sweet to eat.

Author's Note

Hope you enjoyed Sweetie's back story.

AN: Think of the Capsular Cycles from Lost Galaxy.

Trust In Me

We open up at Canterlot High, where the Rangers and their friends were busy cleaning. The gym had been used for a charity auction the previous night and it was their job to put everything back and make it ready for the next function it was needed for.

"This bites," Rainbow said, mop in hand, "I should be playing soccer in the park, not mopping floors."

"Oh don't be such a baby," Rarity said and Pinkie passed her, boxes in hand, "someone has to do it."

"That's right," they turned to see Lyra and Sweetie walking in with more mops, "this is how we divert suspicion from what we're really doing."

"So how come the others aren't helping?" Rainbow asked.

"Flash and Sandal are cleaning the cafeteria," Lyra said, "and Micro is helping Twilight and Sunset."

Twilight and Sunset were in the Command Centre, working in the lab with Micro a few feet away. He had his Morphin Blaster in hand, which had several wires sticking out of it and was connected to the computers.

"Okay," Twilight said, "you ready?"

"I guess," Micro said.

"Then let her rip," Sunset said.

"Magi-Charger," Micro said, holding out his Charger before clicking the button and placing it in the blaster.

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

He spun the barrel and aimed it at a target station a few feet away. "Morphin Blaster, fire!" He pulled the trigger and fired a few shots into the target.

The girl's computers began to beep as the data was recorded.

"So the blaster's just directing the blast," Sunset said, "and it's the Charger that actually makes it."

"So you think the design we have will work?" Twilight asked.

"It should," Sunset said, "we just need to take into account the amount of power that'll be unleashed and adjust them accordingly."

Back with the others they were continuing to clean.

"Where do we keep the floor wax?" Applejack asked the group.

"Supply cupboard in the arts department," Lyra said.

"Thanks," Applejack said

"How do we sort this recycling?" Pinkie asked Rarity, six trash bags in her hands.

"Main supply room," Lyra said, "you'll find some coloured bins. Plastic in the red one, metals in the blue one and everything else in the yellow one."

"Thanks," the girls said as they left to get them.

"Your on fire this morning Lyra," Sweetie said.

"Thanks," Lyra replied, "but I've been doing this so long it's just natural."

Suddenly the doors opened and someone walked into the room.

Looking up Lyra and Sweetie's eyes went wide seeing Octavia Melody walk in. "Hey Octy," Lyra said, "what brings you here in the summer time?"

"I was actually looking for you," Octavia said, "I heard you were on the school support team."

"So what can I do for you?" Lyra asked.

"I require your harp skills," Octavia said, "my orchestra group are preforming a big concert but our harpist has broken their hand."

"And you want me to fill in?" Lyra asked in amazement.

"I've heard you play," Octavia said, "and you'll definitely good enough to keep up with us. So what do you say?"

"Of course I'll join," Lyra said, "performing in an orchestra like this has been my dream."

"Excellent," Octavia said.

Meanwhile up in space on Darklight's ship, Doom Raizer was walking through the halls looking for his master. Behind him walked a monster that looked mainly robotic, with black armour and large speakers on his shoulders.

"Where is master Darklight?" Doom asked.

"If your looking for my brother," Doom turned to see Heart Breaker step out into the corridor, "he's with Cogs getting fixed."

"Fixed?" Doom asked.

"Haven't you noticed my brothers armour?"

"What about them?"

"We spent a thousand years roaming the multiverse, of course we'd run into trouble. In several battles my brother sustained injuries that would have been fatal if not for Cogs, who built him some life support armour. That red Ranger managed to pull a lucky punch during their last fight and caused as small malfunction in the armour, so now Cogs has to repair it."

"I see," Doom said, "then I won't trouble him for now."

"Got another plan to destroy those pesky Rangers?" Heart asked.

"Ever hear of the saying, the best offence is a good defence?" Doom asked, "well Boombox hear can create a sound barrier that the Rangers won't have a hope of getting through."

"I'll get you those Elements," Boombox said, his voice sounding with an echo

"I see," Heart said, "I'd say that's a good plan. In place of my brother I give you permission to send this monster down to earth."

"Who says your in charge?" Doom asked.

"Do you want to wait for my brother," Heart said, "I'm sure he'll be all to happy with how you wasted time."

"Fine," Doom said, before turning to Boombox. "Get down there, but if you fail then I'll turn you into a washing machine."

"Right," the robot said before turning to leave.

Once he was gone, Heart grabbed Doom by the arm. "Since I did a favour for you, you can do one for me." And with that she pulled him into another room.

Back on earth Lyra and Octavia had just arrived at the concert hall.

"Wow," Lyra said as she spun around the place.

"Impressive," Octavia said, "is it not?"

"It's incredible," Lyra said.

"Glad you like it," the girls turned around and saw a man with gray skin, black woollen jumper and beret walk up to them. "Is this the girl you were talking about Ms Melody?"

"Yes Maestro," Octavia said before turning to Lyra, "this is our conductor. Musical Score."

"It's nice to meet you," Lyra said.

"Well I hope your as good as Ms Melody here says you are," Score said, "why not come up and show us what you've got?" He gestured to a large harp sitting on a stage, where several other musicians were sitting.

Lyra nodded, before she placed her bag on a chair and walked up on stage as everyone else got down and sat in the seats. Sitting at the harp she made sure everything was in order before she started plucking at the strings, creating a musical symphony that spread across the audience. She played the piece perfectly, not missing a single note and by the time she'd finished everyone stood up and cheered.

"Marvellous," Score said as he clapped.

"Thank you," Lyra said.

"Indeed you are perfect for my orchestra," Score said before turning to the rest of the musicians. "Okay everyone, let's get to work."

Everyone got into place, readying their instruments. "Let's start with an old favourite," Score said, "Beethoven's fifth symphony."

Back at Canterlot High the rest of the Rangers had finished their work and were now in the Command Centre training.

Flash and Sandal were sparing with their Spirit Sabres, while Micro and Sweetie were on the shooting range.

Sunset, Twilight and the principles were still working in the lab, while the rest of the girls were either watching the Rangers or doing their own thing.

"B-3," Fluttershy said to Rainbow.

"Miss," Rainbow said.

"So Lyra's gonna play for Octavia's orchestra?" Flash asked after deflecting a slash from Sandal.

"Yeap," Sweetie said as she fired her blaster, "it's been her dream ever since she was a little girl apparently."

"Well good for her," Celestia said.

Suddenly an alarm sounded and the holotable activated. Luna rushed over to it and started typing, "magical energy readings down town."

"Let's go," Flash said as the four Rangers grabbed their jackets and headed out.

"We'll call Lyra," Celestia said.

Lyra's phone went off, but the sound of it was drowned out by the music she and the rest of the orchestra were playing.

In town the place was in disarray as Shades attacked the people and Boombox walked down the streets.

"This should drive those Rangers out," Boombox said as he pointed to a building and fired a concussive sound wave from the speakers on his shoulders. The blast flew at the building and caused it to crumble.

"Hey!" Boombox turned to see the four Power Rangers running up to them

"Finally decided to show up I see," Boombox said before noticing something. "Hey," he said, "I thought there was suppose to be five of you."

"Where's Lyra?" Flash asked looking around.

"She didn't pick up her phone," Celestia said over the com, "you'll have to fight him without her until she shows up."

"You heard her," Flash said, "let's do this."

"Bring it," Boombox said, "Shades attack."

"Magitech," the Rangers called out as they unleashed their weapons and attacked the Shades.

"One," Flash said as he punched a Shade with his Dragon Breaker, "two," he punched another, "three," he punched one into a large group of them. He then pulled out his Morphin Blaster and fired at several others, as a Shade ran up and tried to stab him with its dagger only for Flash to grab its wrist and then shot it. "Too easy."

"Man," Micro said as he shot down several Shades with his blasters, "you'd think they'd try something a little different." He spun around and blasted most of his opponents down.

"I know," Sweetie said as she blocked an attack with her Sphinx Shield before slashing the Shades away, "I mean why bother using something you know won't work."

"Maybe they want to fail," Sandal joked as he slashed at several Shades with his Sabre and Fenrir Fang.

Very soon the Shades were all dispatched and all that was left was Boombox.

"You won't find me so easy to beat," the robot said.

"We'll see about that," Flash said as they charged at him.

"Sound Crash!" Boombox yelled as he fired his sound waves out of his shoulders, which flew towards the Rangers.

"Look out!" Micro yelled as the four leaped out of the way, as the sonic blast struck were they had been standing and ripped the ground apart.

"This guys got some kick," Sandel said as they picked themselves up.

"Well so do we," Flash said before they pulled out their blasters.

"Magi-Chargers!" they said as they clicked the button before placing them in the slots, "Morphin Blasters, fire!" They fired four magical blasts at Boombox.

"Sound Barrier!" the robot yelled as he fired another sound wave, only this one formed a wall of solid sound which the blasts bounced off.

"What?" Flash said.

"To bad," Boombox yelled, "Sound Crash!" He fired another blast, which struck the Rangers and sent them flying back and into a nearby wall.

As she picked herself up, Sweetie noticed an alley way which gave her an idea.

"Keep on him," Flash said as he, Micro and Sandal continued firing at Boombox.

"Sound Barrier!" the robot said he fired off his defence attack. They continued on firing but the blasts didn't even dent the force field. "Pathetic," Boombox said, "nothing can penetrate my shield."

"We'll see about that," Boombox looked behind him and gasped seeing the Pink Ranger jump out of another alley. "FIRE!" She fired her blaster and hit Boombox's speakers, causing them to explode.

"NO!" Boombox said as he was knocked back.

"Got him," Flash said as the Rangers regrouped.

Boombox picked himself up and saw his speakers sparking, before he turned to the Rangers. "Don't think you've seen the last of me," he said, "I'll be back to get you. With that a lightning bolt struck him and he vanished in its wake.

"He got away," Sandal moaned.

"We'll get him next time," Flash said.

"But how?" Micro asked, "not one of our attacks broke through that barrier."

"And I doubt he'll fall for the same trick twice," Sweetie said.

"If only Lyra had been here," Flash sad.

Back on Darklight's ship Doom was throwing Boombox around in a rage.

"I gave you the chance at freedom," Doom said, "but instead you embarrass me by losing."

"I almost had them," Boombox said.

"Almost doesn't cut it," Doom said as he raised his sword, "but this will."

"What's going on here!?" everyone turned to see Darklight and Cogs enter the room.

"Master Darklight," Doom said, "I'm sorry but this monster has failed to accomplish the mission I sent him out on."

"How so?" Darklight asked.

"I was under the impression that his sonic force field was impervious," Doom said, "but it seems I was mistaken."

"My Sound Barrier is impervious," Boombox said, "but I can only create ones infront of me. That pink Ranger snuck up behind me while I was defending against the others, even with an unbreakable shield it was still four against one."

"He was doing quite well," Heart Breaker told her brother, "with a little work from Cogs I'm sure he'd stand a chance against the Rangers."

Darklight looked like he was considering it and after a few moments, he nodded. "Very well," he said turning to his mechanic, "see what you can do."

"Yes Master Darklight," Cogs said before he and Boombox left.

"I'm sure that with Cogs' help," Doom said, "Boombox will be able to defeat the Rangers."

"He'd better," Darklight said as he sat in his throne.

Back on earth the Rangers had returned to the Command Centre and were reviewing their battle against Boombox.

"Ouch," Rainbow said when she saw the footage of the Rangers getting blasted, "that looks like it hurt."

"It did," Sandal said, "and the worse thing is that almost none of our attacks hit him."

"Yeah," Micro said, "he created some kind of sonic force field."

"Sound at a high enough volume can form a solid force," Twilight said, "but being able to repel your attacks in still incredible."

"The good news though," Sweetie said, "it looks like he can only fire them in one direction."

"But Darklight will know this," Flash said, "and he's probably working on fixing that before he send the creature out again. We need to find a way to bust through that shield."

"But how?" Micro asked, "I doubt even Burst Mode could break through it."

"And that's were we come in," Sunset said from the lab.

"You got something?" Flash asked.

"Yeap," Sunset said as she pulled out a new black Magi-Charger. "I give you the Guardian Buster."

"Guardian Buster?" the Rangers said as Flash took the Charger.

"Using the data we gathered on your Morphin Blasters," Twilight said, "we were able to design a weapon that can combined five magic energies into a single, concentrated blast."

"That sounds perfect," Sweetie said.

"Yes but," Sunset interjected, "it's so powerful It'll need five different magic energy sources in order to activate."

"Meaning all five Rangers need to be there to use it," Flash guessed.

"Yes," Sunset said.

In that moment someone shot through the entrance of the the base, making everyone turn to see Lyra. "Oh my god are you okay?" Lyra asked, "I came as soon as I got your messages."

"Really," Flash said, "then where were you when we were getting our behinds handed to us by the deranged cousin of Vinyl's car."

"I'm sorry," Lyra said, "I couldn't hear my phone over the music."

"It's okay Lyra," Celestia said, "but from now on keep it one vibrate and on your person at all times."

"Of course," Lyra said, "and I am sorry. I promise I'll be there when you need me."

"Good," Celestia said.

With that Lyra turned to leave the base.

"Now where're you going?" Flash asked.

"Back to practice," Lyra said, "there's a big performance tonight and I need to be ready for it." And with that she left.

"I can't believe her," Flash said, "that maniac speaker system's out there and she's off practising for a concert."

"You can't expect her to put her life on hold," Rarity said, "this is her dream."

"There are times when duty comes before our own wants and desires," everyone turned to see Starswirl enter the room. "As Guardians, it is not our choice to protect others, but our responsibility. Lyra knew this going into being a Power Ranger and she chose to take that responsibility. Had she not wanted to, I would have unbounded her from the Element."

"You can do that?" Micro asked.

"Yes," Starswirl said, "but Lyra chose not to unbound herself and accept the burden of being the Blue Ranger of Trust."

"Yeah," Flash said, "trust. Excuse me for having trouble putting my trust in someone who'd rather go play the harp then help save the world."

Celestia frowned at this. "Long ago Ms Heartstrings proved she had the power to instil great trust to those around her."

Everyone looked to her, intrigued by what she had to say.

"It happened long ago," Celestia explained.

We find Lyra at the coast on holiday with her family. She was at the pier, playing her hand harp and enjoying the cool sea breeze.

When suddenly, a scream filled the air.

Getting up off her seat she looked around and gasped at what she saw.

Over by some rocky cliffs a little girl was hanging off the side of the rocks, looking like she was about to fall. Lyra quickly ran over there and over the rocks towards the edge.

"Help me!" the girl screamed as she began to lose her grip.

"Hold on," Lyra said as she leaned over the edge and tried to grab her, but she couldn't reach her. Pulling herself up she quickly tried to think of something, before her gaze drifted to her harp and an idea came to her. Taking it and leaning back over the edge, she held out the harp towards the girl. "Grab my harp and I'll pull you up," Lyra instructed her.

The girl looked up at Lyra and saw the Harp, which she tried to reach but was still a few inches short. "I can't reach it."

"Your going to have to jump," Lyra told her.

"I can't," the girl said, "I'll fall."

"No you won't," Lyra said, "you can do this."

The girl looked into Lyra's eyes and as soon as their gaze met, the girl suddenly felt like she could do it. "Okay," she said.

"At a girl," Lyra said, "now on three. one...two...THREE!" on three the girl let go of the cliff and leaped up off the rock, grabbing the harp and wrapping her arms around it. "You got it," Lyra cheered as she slowly began to pull the harp and girl up. Finally the girl was back over the edge and out of danger.

"TABITHA!" they both turned to see a man and a woman, obviously the girls parents, running up to them. "Oh Tabitha," the woman cried as she grabbed her daughter and pulled her into a hug, "what were you thinking."

"I saw something," Tabitha said, "I leaned over to get it and fell."

"What was so important that you'd risk your life to get it," the man asked.

Tabitha held out her hand and opened it revealing a light blue crystal in it.

"What is that?" the woman asked.

"Never seen anything like it," the man said before turning to Lyra. "Thank you for saving our daughter."

"It's fine," Lyra said.

"Excuse me," Tabitha said as she held out the crystal, "you can have this."

"What?"

"I want you to have it," she explained, "as a thank you."

"Well then," Lyra said as she reached out to take it, "I promise to take good care of it." Tabitha placed the jewel in Lyra's hand and the second it touched her skin, blue energy surged around her as she was bombarded by images of different ponies in light blue armour before finally seeing the image of a giant blue snake.

"So that's how Lyra got her Element," Micro said.

"Lyra not only has incredible trust in others," Celestia explained, "but she can also instil that trust into them and increase their confidence. Not long after we found her and brought her here"

"Wow," Sweetie said, "it was so easy for her. I had to wait over ninety years."

Everyone laughed hearing this.

"Trust me," Celestia said, "Lyra makes mistakes like anyone does but in the end she'll be there when you need her.

Lyra was at the concert hall, as the band prepared for their big performance that night.

"Alright," Musical Score said, "places everybody."

They all got into place and picked up their instruments. Meanwhile Lyra turned her phone onto vibrate mode and was about to place it in her pocket, when Score noticed her.

"Ms Heartstrings," he called, "phones off and in your bag please."

"But I need to keep it on," Lyra said, "I might get an important call."

"I'm sorry but those are the rules," Score said. "You either follow them or I'll have to ask you to leave."

Lyra sighed and looked down at her phone, before she placed it in her bag.

"Very good," Score said, "now let's get on with preparing for tonight's performance."

Everyone began playing.

Back in town everyone was enjoying their day, until a lighting bolt struck the ground and in its wake came Boombox.

"I'm back!" he yelled before unleashing his Sound Crash attack.

Back at the base the holotable activated and caught the Ranger's attention.

"Another magic spike," Twilight said.

"Looks like the toy robot's back," Flash said.

"You guys better get going," Sunset said, "we'll try and get in touch with Lyra."

"Our Magicycles will get us there faster," Micro said.

"Then lets roll out."

Lyra and the band were taking a break and in that time she rushed over to her bag to check her phone, only to breathe a sigh of relief seeing no new messages. However, in that second her phone buzzed and she quickly answered.

"Lyra," Celestia said, "that monsters back."

Lyra sighed. "Okay," she said, "I'll be there." She hung up and began to make her way out of the concert hall.

"Ms Heartstrings," she turned to see Score and Octavia standing on stage, looking at her. "We still have three hours of rehearsals."

"I'm sorry," Lyra said, "but something's come up. I have to go."

"You leave now I can't allow you to perform tonight," Score said, "and I'd have to ask you to leave the orchestra."

Lyra's heart began to hurt. This was her dream, but was she willing to risk her friends to achieve it?

Back in town Boombox was having a blast, literally, as he made a disaster zone out of the place.

"This is the most fun I've had in a century," Boombox said.

"Well your play time's over," the robot turned to see the four Rangers racing down the street on their Magicycles. They each fired the lazors from bikes.

"Sound Barrier!" Boombox yelled as his newly repaired speakers created the shield of sound waves, which the blasts bounced off.

"Looks like they managed to fix him up," Micro said.

"Then lets see if we can't find an opening in his defence," Flash said, "circle him and fire." The Rangers kicked their bikes back into gear and zoomed towards the monster.

"Sound Crash!" he fired off his sonic blasts, which the Rangers were able to maneuver around as Micro and Sweetie shot passed him and came to a skidding halt.

Now the four of them were on four different sides of Boombox, and each had their Morphin Blasters pointed at him. "Fire at will," Flash yelled as they all pulled the trigger and released the blast.

"Sorry," Boombox said, "but my name's not will. Ultimate Sound Barrier!" The backs of his speakers opened, revealing new ones which fired the sound waves. Doing so now created a sound bubble, which now shielded Boombox completely and caused the blasts to bounce off.

"What!?" Flash yelled.

"But he didn't do that last time," Sweetie said.

"Looks like they gave him a tune up," Micro said.

"Now what do we do?" Sandal said.

"I'll tell you what," Boombox said, "you get destroyed!" He fired his Sound Crash attack from both sides, aiming willy nilly as the Rangers tried to avoid them. One stray blast manage to the front wheel of Sweetie's Magicycle, sending her flying off and crashing into a wall which de-morphed her. "One down," Boombox said as he fired again, this time hitting the building above Micro and sending debris down. The yellow Ranger tried to dodge them but was hit and sent swerving out of control, flying off his bike and de-morphing. "That's two."

"And you won't get a third," he heard Sandal say as he turned to see the green Ranger charging at him with his Spirit Sabre.

Boombox let rip another sonic blast, aimed at the ground which caused it to explode and hit Sandal's bike, making it swerve off and throw the Ranger from it. Sandal crashed into the ground and de-morphed. "You were saying?" Boombox said.

"Not good," Flash said looking at his team, "no choice. I gotta try Burst Mode." He flipped the switch and called out, "Burst Mode...Energise!" His bike shifted into the more bulky with a giant dragon on the front. He revved it into high gear as he shot forwards towards Boombox, picking up speed.

"Ultimate Sound Barrier!" the robot unleashed the sound bubble as the bike drew closer. Finally the high speed object struck the bubble and for a few moments it looked like it would break through, but instead the bike exploded and sent Flash flying back with a yell as he de-morphed. Boombox laughed as he looked around at the fallen Rangers, "victory is mine. I'm just one attack away from my freedom." He moved over to Sweetie Drops, who was sitting against the wall she'd crashed into. "I still owe you for the surprise attack," he said as his speakers prepared to destroy her.

"SWEETIE!" The boys yelled as they tried to pull themselves up.

"So long Pink Ranger," Boombox said, before he was suddenly struck by a flurry of lazor fire and flying away.

"Not happening rust bucket," everyone turned to see Lyra, rangered up, come flying in on her Magicycle. She skipped to a stop between her friends and the monster, before dismounting her bike and running over to Sweetie as she de-morphed. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Sweetie said, "I knew you'd come."

"Right on time too," Lyra said as she helped her up.

"A few minutes sooner wouldn't have hurt."

Everyone managed to pick themselves up and regroup.

"Nice to see you here," Flash said.

"Just don't give me the third degree," Lyra said.

"I wasn't," Flash said, "I am glad your here."

"You should be," Lyra said as they turned to Boombox, "because now this guys chances just went from unlikely to impossible."

Boombox managed to pick himself up and looked over at the Rangers. "Five," he said looking them over, "it doesn't matter if there were five hundred of you. Nothing can beat me."

"We'll see about that," Lyra said, "it's Morphin Time! Magi-Chargers."

"Ready!" the team said as they held out their Chargers and clicked the buttons.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Energise!" They yelled spinning the barrel before pointing them in the air, "Unleash the Power!" They all pulled the triggers and five different heads flew out and bit down on them, decking them out in their Ranger Suits.

"Power Rangers," Lyra called out as they posed and said together. "GUARDIANS!"

"You finished?" Boombox asked as he readied himself.

"Our only hope is the Guardian Buster," Micro said.

"But Sunset said we need five Rangers to use it," Flash said.

"Er, hello." Lyra waved at him.

"Right," Flash said before pulling out the Charger he'd got from Sunset. "Magi-Charger," he clicked the button and threw it in the air, "Guardian Buster, activate." The Charger flew into the air before disappearing in a flash of light, replaced with a new weapon.

It was a larger version of the Ranger's Morphin Blaster. Black in colour with white streaks leading down the barrel to the trigger.

Flash grabbed the weapon and cocked the forend and in doing so opened up five compartments, four on the side and one at the top of the handle.

"Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded." When Flash placed his into the compartment and shut it, the white streaks changed to red.

GUARDIAN BUSTER...RED CHARGE!

The weapon began to buzz as it charged up, and was ready to fire.

Flash aimed the weapon at Boombox, as Lyra and Micro placed their hands on his shoulders and Sandal and Sweetie did so to them. "Guardian Buster, Dragon Blast...FIRE!" Flash pulled the trigger and a single powerful blast shot out, which morphed into the shape of the Dragon Zord's head as it flew at Boombox.

"Ultimate Sound Barrier!" the monster said as he created his sound bubble, just as the attack stuck. They were at a stand still for several seconds until finally the blast began to push through the shield and struck Boombox. "Impossible!" Boombox yelled as he was consumed by the attack and blasted back.

"Alright," the Rangers cheered.

Back on the ship, Doom was none to please at seeing the monster he'd chosen be beaten again.

"All that work," Cogs said.

"It's not over yet," Doom said as he turned to a Shade, "fire the Gigatisor!" the Shade nodded and ran over to the button and hit it, releasing the growing machine which fired.

Back on earth the red beam struck the ground and caused and explosion. In its wake was left a giant Boombox.

"My music just hit the big time," he said, flexing his new larger body.

"We need the Zords," Flash said as he, Lyra and Micro pulled out their Magi-Chargers. "Summon Zords!" They threw them into the air.

MAGI-CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zords activated and emerged from their hiding spots, before rushing to their Rangers aid.

"Activate Guardian Megazord," the three said, "Griffon-Serpent Formation."

ZORDS COMBINED...GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, GRIFFON-SERPENT FORMATION...READY!

The Rangers teleported into the cockpit, with Sandal looking around in amazement. "Wow."

"Pretty cool huh?" Flash said before they placed their blasters into the slots and readied themselves for battle.

The two robots faced off against each other.

"Super Sound Crash!" Boombox yelled as he fired off his sonic blast, which the Megazord barely dodged.

"Griffon Zord fire," Micro ordered as his Zord shot its lazors.

"Super Sound Barrier," the robot unleashed its super sized force field.

"We can't break through," Sweetie said.

"What do we do?" Micro asked.

"There's one thing we could try," Lyra said before turning to Sandal, "maybe your Zord can help."

"Are you sure?" Sandal asked.

"What do we have to lose," Lyra said, "trust me."

Sandal looked at her for a few seconds before nodding, and pulling out his Magi-Charger. "Here goes," he said clicking and throwing it, "summon Fenrir Zord!"

The Charger flew through the air, growing as it did so, before flying off into a nearby forest area. It arrived in the thickest part, where it flew into the mouth of a creature.

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The creature opened its eyes. Seconds later it slashed its way out of the forest, revealing itself as a giant robotic wolf with a design similar to the Sphinx. It's tail was a long semi-circle shaped blade.

Back at the battle field Boombox continued to blast the Megazord. "Looks like your swan song's playing," he said as he charged up his speakers.

"We're in trouble," Micro said.

"Look," Lyra suddenly yelled, pointing towards the top of some buildings. The Fenrir Zord leaped from roof to roof, before leaping at Boombox and spinning in a circle allowing its tail to slash the back of the robot.

"ARRR!" Boombox yelled as he looked behind him at the Zord.

"Now's our chance," Lyra yelled."

"Right," Flash agreed, "activate Guardian Megazord, Fenrir-Griffon Formation!"

The Fenrir-Charger flew out of the Zord's mouth as the Dragon's head folded up and opened its mouth, releasing its Charger which was quickly replaced.

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED...ZORDS COMBINED!

When its Charger flew back in the Fenrir Zord's tail detached, which it grabbed in its mouth. The Sea-Serpent Zord detached as the Fenrir took its place, the cube like rear connecting to the Dragon and becoming the new right arm.

GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, FENRIR-GRIFFON FORMATION...READY!

"Now what?" Boombox asked.

"Now we're gonna cut your music career short," Lyra said.

"Fenrir Zord," Sandal called out, "Fang Blade." The Megazord swiped the bladed arm at Boombox, who didn't have time to call up its shield. With the monster dazed they took this chance to fire off a few shots from the Griffon, damaging the monster even more.

"Aim for the speakers," Flash ordered, the Rangers doing so and managing to hit them several times and causing them to spark.

"No," Boombox yelled. He tried to activate them but they were now duds.

"Let's finish this guy," Lyra said.

"Right," the other agreed. They all moved and spoke in sync, calling out their final attack. "Griffon Zord...Fenrir Zord, Blast Cutter!"

The Megazord's two arms began to glow. It raised its Griffon arm and charged up a blast which it fired, before spinning around and swinging the Fenrir arm around to fire an energy slash which struck the griffon blast and accelerating it towards Boombox.

"WAIT!" Boombox yelled before he was struck by the attack, which exploded on impact. "Looks like there'll be no encore for me," he said before collapsing in an explosion.

"Guardian Rangers," Flash yelled, "victory is ours."

The Rangers all cheered at their victory over Boombox.

Later on the Rangers were back at Canterlot High.

Lyra and Octavia were sitting at a table talking, though the others didn't know what about.

Finally they stood up off the table and hugged each other before Octavia turned to leave and Lyra returned to them.

"Well?" Sweetie asked.

"I resigned from the orchestra," Lyra said.

"We're sorry Lyra," Twilight said.

"It's alright," she replied, "I just have to many responsibilities right now. I'll get another chance, but for now I'm need here."

Everyone cheered hearing that. As Power Rangers the five of them would need to give up a lot of things, but they all knew it was for the right reasons.

Author's Note

Hope you liked Lyra's backstory.

The Guardian Buster scene is similar to the Super Mega Cannon.

System Error

The sun was just rising at Canterlot High. On the back field we find Lyra, decked out in her school PE kit, running around the track. Once she reached a hurdle she leaped over it using both hands, but when she reached the next on she only used one hand and on the last she didn't use any, doing one large jump to go flying over it. However, when she landed she lost her balance and went rolling down the track.

"Darn it," she said as she picked herself up. She walked over to a bench where her bag rested and grabbed a water bottle, which she took a swig from before pouring on her head to cool herself down.

Meanwhile up on Darklight's ship we see Heart Breaker had just strolled onto the bridge, looking miserable.

Noticing this Darklight turned to his sister. "What's the matter with you?"

"I'm bored," she replied in a whinny voice, "all we ever do around here is come up with plans to destroy the Rangers and get their Elements, then watch as that plan fails. I want to do something else."

"If your so bored then go make yourself useful," Darklight said, "go and think up a plan to get me an Element."

"Haven't you been listening," Heart Breaker said before turning and walking back out the room, just as Cogs and Doom were walking in.

"Hey," Cogs said as she pushed passed him.

"What's the matter with her?" Doom asked Darklight.

"She's just being a whinny child," Darklight said, "don't pay her any attention."

Heart Breaker was stomping through the ships corridors, moaning about her brother.

"That oversized meathead," she said, "how does he expect me to get an Element?"

"Psst," she stopped and looked over at where the sound had come from and found she was actually near the prison cells. Inside one of the cells was a white machine monster, with a computer screen for a head and on his arms were a pair of odd looking contraptions.

"What do you want Gigabyte?" Heart asked the monster.

"You want to destroy the Rangers and get their Elements," Gigabyte said, "well I have a way to do that."

"Oh please," Heart said, "what plan could your out of date software possibly come up with to destroy the Rangers?"

"Let me out of here and I'll show you," Gigabyte replied, "plus we can cause some major havoc until we find them."

Now that sounded like fun to Heart Breaker.

Later that day we find Flash and Lyra in the Command Centre. Lyra was practising with her Spirit Sabre, blocking against tennis balls that were being fired at her. Meanwhile Flash was gently strumming his guitar with his feet up on the table.

Lyra had just blocked the third ball when Flash accidently plucked the wrong string, causing his guitar to give off a horrid sound that distracted Lyra enough to miss the ball and get hit dead centre of the face. "Ow," she said holding her nose as she turned to Flash, "do you mind?"

Flash looked up from his guitar and give her a puzzled look. "Mind what?"

"We're suppose to be training right now," Lyra told him, "this isn't band practise."

"I am training," Flash told her as he put his instrument down and got up, "I'm in the middle of coming up with a new move."

"Well the last time I checked," Lyra replied, "coming up with new moves usually requires doing said moves."

"I'm still trying to visualise how I'm gonna do the move," Flash told her

"Man you two sure started early today," they both looked around and saw the rest of the Rangers and the Mane Seven had arrived at the Command Centre.

"Started what early?" Lyra asked.

"Arguing," Micro replied, "you usually don't start until after lunch at the earliest."

"Yeah," Sweetie said, "what's it this time."

"I was just trying to tell this lazy lump of flesh that playing his guitar do not count as training," Lyra told them.

"And I was telling this bossy know it all, that I don't intend to waste energy practising a technique I haven't fully figured out yet."

Flash and Lyra glares at each other and the others could swear they saw lightning flash between them, like in an anime.

"Look do you guys mind taking a break from the ego battle for a moment?" Sunset asked.

"Yeah," Twilight said, "we got something we wanted to show you guys."

"What is it?" Sandal asked.

Twilight didn't reply and instead pulled a box out of her backpack, which she placed on the table. Before anyone could say or ask anything, Twilight opened the box and flipped it around. "I give you, our new Wrist Communicators." Inside the box were twelve watch like devices, but instead of a miniature clock it had a square box like device with two buttons on them, a red and a blue one.

"New communicators?" Flash asked as he took one.

"We figured since you guys are always at risk of being targeted or captured," Twilight explained, "we'd build a quicker and easier way of communication instead of our phones."

"Their signal strength is three times that of the phone networks," Sunset told them. "Just press the blue button to open a channel to speak, and press it again when you want to close it."

"What about the red button?" Micro asked as he took one.

"That's for emergencies," Twilight said, "pressing it will send out an emergency warning beacon for us to pick up and get your location."

"So if we're ever under attack and don't have time to call for help," Lyra guessed.

"This'll help you out," Sunset finished.

"This sounds perfect," Sweetie said as she put one on.

"Let's just hope Flash's doesn't short out from the fumes all that hair gel gives off," Lyra said.

"What was that?" Flash asked with a glare.

"You heard me," she said.

"That's enough you two," Rainbow said getting in between them with her arms out.

"I agree," Rarity said, "if you must squabble then do it somewhere else."

"Preferably someplace you can get us all lunch," Sunset said, "making those communicators wasn't easy."

"Right," the two said before heading out.

"Man," Sandal said once they were gone, "are those two ever gonna learn to work together?"

"I've heard that squabbles between teammates is natural and all," Applejack said, "but those two take it to a whole next level of the apple tree."

"I'm starting to wonder if they can even be on the same team," Rarity said.

"The fact that the Elements chose them proves that they can," everyone turned to see Starswirl had appeared in the room.

"What do you mean?" Micro asked.

"To bond with an Element," Starswirl explained, "one must posses great amounts of the Elements characteristic, but that is not all that is needed. When the Elements bonded to you, it searched your soul for the qualities needed to work as an effective part of the team, so the fact that the Elements bonded to any of you means not only are you worthy of being Guardians together, but in fact you are destined to be."

"So Flash and Lyra are capable of being on a team?" Rainbow asked.

"They have already proven that in previous battles," Starswirl replied, "though they may argue, it is when times are tough that they will put their differences aside to work together."

"I just hope their arguing doesn't effect them during a battle," Twilight said.

"Maybe it would be prudent to have them work closer together," Starswirl said, "the more they are around one another the more they'll see how similar they are."

"Well I guess getting our lunches in a good start," Sunset said.

Not much later we find Flash and Lyra stepping out of the store. Flash was buried under a mountain of bags, while Lyra had a single small bag in one hand and a popsicle in the other.

"Why am I carrying everything?" Flash asked with a strained voice.

"Your suppose to be the big tough man," Lyra said with a smirk as she sucked on the popsicle.

"Yay," Flash said sarcastically, "what is with you today?"

"Nothing," Lyra said.

"Yeah right," Flash said.

Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep

Before either of them could say anything else, a beeping coming from their wrists caught their attention. Looking down at them they found their new communicators giving off the sound, and remembering how they worked they pressed the blue button.

"Guys," Twilight's voice called out, "we just detected a magic signal near your location. The others are on their way."

"On it," Flash and Lyra said before glaring at each other. They closed the call and both headed off towards the co-ordinates they'd been given.

The town was in chaos. Every piece of electronic machinery was going haywire such as ATMs firing out money like a cannon, sprinkler systems going off and car alarms ringing nonstop.

At the centre of the chaos were Heart Breaker and Gigabyte, who were having a blast watching the insanity.

"You were right Gigabyte," Heart said, "this is fun."

"And I'm only getting warmed up," Gigabyte replied, "now the real fun begins."

"What you got planned?" Heart asked him.

"How about we give the traffic announcer something to really talk about," Gigabyte said as he turned to an intersection were many different traffic lights could be seen. Holding up his left arm the device on it activated and shot a long cable, which flew towards one of the lights and attached itself. Seconds passed when suddenly the lights all began to spark, before they all switched to green.

This of course, did not end well. In seconds the cars began to either crash into each other or into something else trying to avoid a collision.

One little girl at a crossing saw the little green man and began to skip across, but a loud honking caused her to freeze as she saw a six wheeler speeding towards her. She couldn't move as she watched the giant vehicle draw closer and closer, unable to slow down enough to stop from hitting her.

Suddenly she felt someone grab her and then yanked her out of the way, causing the truck to barely miss them as they were thrown from the pavement. "You okay," she looked up to see Flash looking down at her, having been the one to save her. When she nodded he smiled, "okay then go get to safety." She nodded again and rushed off.

"Oh," Heart Breaker moaned, "you couldn't have been one second later?" Suddenly she and Gigabyte found themselves in the mists of a flurry of lazor fire, causing them to turn and see Lyra standing a ways off with her blaster in hand.

"Only two Rangers?" Gigabyte asked.

"count yourself lucky," Heart replied, "two Rangers will be easier to beat then five."

"It's only gonna take one Ranger to stop you," Lyra told them, "and that would be me."

"Hey," Flash said as he rushed over to stand next to her, "you forget who's also here?"

"Oow," Heart said, "quarrels in the ranks."

The two shared a glance, but were drawn out of it by the sound of their friends.

"Guys," they heard Micro yell as they arrived and now stood together.

"Just in time," Lyra said.

"You think a few extra Rangers will scare me," Gigabyte said.

"We'll see if you say that after we destroy you," Flash said.

"How's he suppose to say anything after we destroy him?" Lyra countered him.

"That's the point," Flash replied.

"GUYS!" the three other Rangers yelled to the two.

"Right," Flash said, "Magi-Chargers."

"Ready!" The other four said as they clicked the button and placed them in their Morphin Blasters.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Oh yeah," Flash said once they were morphed up, "now we're all charged up."

"You don't scare me," Gigabyte said, "who'd you think you are?"

Flash: Element of Courage...Power Ranger, RED!

Lyra: Element of Trust...Power Ranger, BLUE!

Micro: Element of Knowledge...Power Ranger, YELLOW!

Sweetie: Element of Love...Power Ranger, PINK!

Sandalwood: Element of Will...Power Ranger, GREEN!

All: Protectors of right, ready to fight!

Flash: Power Rangers!

All: GUARDIANS!

"Shades appear," Heart said as the horde of the hooded figures emerged from out of the shadows, brandishing their daggers as they charged at the Rangers.

"Magitech!" The Rangers unleashed their own weapons and charged at the monsters.

"Excuse me," Micro yelled as he leaped past the first wave of Shades and used his two blasters, firing in rapid succession to take the monsters down. "That was a blast."

"Hope you don't mind if I cut in," Sandal said as he slashed them away with his blades.

Meanwhile Sweetie and Heart Breaker were fighting it out.

"This is it for you you pink bimbo," Heart said as she swung her heart shaped hook at the Ranger.

"Oh," Sweetie said, "would you please look who's talking?" She blocked the hook with her shield, before pushing up and making the monster stumble backwards allowing the pink Ranger to fire off a few kicks to her.

"Ow," Heart said as she was hit by Sweetie's feet, "this isn't fun anymore. I'm out of here, Gigabyte you finish them off." With that she was struck by the telebolt, which warped her away.

"Hey," Sweetie said.

Meanwhile Gigabyte was doing as he was told and intended to destroy the Rangers, which might be easier then he had thought since he was fighting Flash and Lyra.

"Your mine," they both said as they charged at the monster.

"Power Cord," Gigabyte yelled as he launched the cable out of his left arm, which he fired at Flash who had dodge out of the way. Lyra continued on and swung her Serpent Staff at the monster, but he retracted his cable and then relaunched it at her, causing her to have to block allowing Gigabyte to grab the staff and throw her away.

"Wow," Lyra said, losing her footing and accidently swinging her staff back which struck a charging Flash in the legs, tripping him up.

"Hey!" he said as he stumbled, "watch it."

"You watch it," Lyra said, "you ran into my weapon." She pulled out her Morphin Blaster and aimed it at Gigabyte, but in that moment Flash charged forwards.

"Dragon Breaker," he yelled, "Head Smash." He threw the dragon head shaped weapon at Gigabyte and smashed into him, but this allowed Gigabyte to wrap his cable around it and his arm to keep hold of Flash.

"Out of the way," Lyra told him.

"I can't," Flash replied back.

Lyra couldn't risk taking the shot with him so close. She tried moving around but Gigabyte saw this coming and moved in tandem with her, keeping Flash between them.

"Darklight should have realised the perfect weapon against you Rangers," he said with a laugh, "each other."

"Let me go," Flash said trying to pull his arm free.

"Not likely," Gigabyte said, however in that moment he found himself being blasted from behind. This caused him to loosen his grip on Flash, who managed to pull his arm free and then smash the monster away.

"Hold on guys," hearing Sweetie's voice, the two Rangers looked around to see their friends rushing up to them.

Gigabyte managed to get up and saw the rest of the Rangers rushing to red and blue. "This is my only chance," he said as he pointed his right arm at the three as the device on it activated and a blaster barrel folded out.

Flash noticed this and turned to the others. "Guys watch out!"

The three turned to Gigabyte, but it was to late. "Digitiser, fire!" A square green energy wave was shot out the blaster barrel, which struck the Rangers and encased them in a square energy field.

"What's happening?" Sandal asked.

"Nothing good," Micro said.

Suddenly the energy field began to shrink, along with the Rangers who cried out as the field disappeared along with them and the energy was sucked into Gigabyte's device.

"GUYS!" Flash and Lyra yelled in horror.

the device on Gigabytes arm beeped, before a slot on the back opened, releasing a green floppy disc like card, followed by a yellow one and then a pink one. "Yes!" the monster cried as he held the discs up, "I got them."

"What did you do to them?" Lyra called out.

"I just digitised your friends," Gigabyte replied, "and once I give them to Darklight I'll be free."

Realising what he was about to do, Lyra aimed her blaster at the hand holding the discs and fired at the monster. The blast struck Gigabyte, causing the discs to go flying out of his hand just as the telebolt struck him and teleported him away.

With the monster gone, Flash and Lyra de-morphed and ran over to where the discs had landed.

"Oh no," Lyra said as she dropped to her knees and picked up the pink disc.

"Guys," Flash said as he took the green and yellow ones.

Up on Darklight's ship Darklight wasn't very happy.

"You dare take one of my monsters without my consent!" he yelled at Heart Breaker.

"I was only doing what you told me to do," she replied, not looking to happy at being yelled at.

"I told you to come up with a plan to destroy the Rangers," Darklight said, "not go out and cause havoc just to have some fun."

"I was luring the Rangers out," Heart told him, "and it worked.

"Even after a thousand years," Doom said to Cogs from the sidelines, "it still amazes me how Heart Breaker can talk back to Darklight."

"Being his sister gives her that privileged," Cogs replied.

In that second the bridge's doors opened and Gigabyte stepped in, causing Darklight to direct his anger at him.

"And you," he said stomping over to him, "you piece of outdated scrap metal. How dare you deceive my sister into thinking you could defeat the Rangers." One of his hands sparked with electricity, "give me one good reason why I shouldn't destroy you right now?"

"But I did defeat the Rangers," Gigabyte said as he fell to his knees.

"I find that hard to believe," Darklight replied.

"It's true," Gigabyte said, "I used my Digitiser to transform three of the Rangers into data cards."

Hearing this Darklight removed the electricity and stepped back. "Is that so, where are these data cards?"

"The Rangers got them away from me," Gigabyte said, "but! Only I can change them back. We can use that, because the Rangers value each other. I'll agree to return the Rangers to normal in exchange for the Elements."

Darklight thought about this for a moment, and nodded. "Very well. Draw the Rangers out again and if you can, change the last two into data cards, Five Rangers to save will give Starswirl more of an incentive to give up the Elements."

"Yes master," Gigabyte said as he turned and rushed back out the ship.

With him gone, Darklight turned to Heart Breaker. "He'd better not fail, or it's your head for letting him out."

"Right," Heart said.

Flash and Lyra had rushed back to the Command Centre as fast as they could and now Twilight, Sunset and the principles were studying the data cards.

"Please tell me their all right," Lyra asked Sunset, who just sighed.

"We just don't know," she told her, "we've never seen anything like this."

"By the looks of it," Twilight said, "they appear to be fine."

"That's good," Flash said, "so do you think you can change them back?"

Twilight just frowned. "I'm sorry, but like Sunset said this isn't like anything we've ever seen. We have no clue how this even works, let alone how to change them back."

Both Lyra and Flash frowned hearing this, before Lyra turned to Flash looking anger. "This is all your FAULT!"

"My fault!" Flash yelled, "what makes you think this is my fault?"

"If you hadn't gotten in my way I would have had a clear shot at that monster," Lyra told him, "but instead you went and got caught meaning our friends had to save your sorry butt and this happened."

"Well if you hadn't tripped me up," Flash said, "I would have been faster in launching my attack and he wouldn't have caught me."

"That enough you two," Luna said, stepping in between the two. "We were watching that fight and your both to blame. If you had been working together this would have never happened, and the only way your gonna stop that monster is together."

The two glared at each other.

"Now do you two think you can actually work together, yes or no?"

They continued to stare at each other for several seconds, until Flash turned away and walked towards the exit. He grabbed his guitar and walked out.

"Figures," Lyra said.

"This rivalry between you two has gotta stop," Rarity said.

"Hey I'm not the one with the problem," Lyra said.

"Both of ya'h are the problem," Applejack told her.

"You know now that I think of it," Rainbow said, "you've been riding Flash's tail ever since he and the boys joined the team."

"Yeah," Sunset said, "why is that?"

Lyra didn't look happy at being called out. "Maybe," she said, "it's the fact that I'm the most senior member of this team yet somehow he managed to weasel his way into being team leader."

Everyone's eyes went wide hearing that. "So that's it," Twilight said, "your jealous."

Lyra froze and turned to look her dead in the eyes. "Listen here," she said, "I'm not jealous. I just hate the fact that the others choose to follow him, despite me having way more experience then anyone else."

"Isn't that the exact definition of being jealous?" Pinkie asked.

"So you hate the fact that Flash is leader?" Sunset said, "but that's not really his fault."

"How is it not?" Lyra asked.

"Flash didn't ask to be the leader," Rarity told her, "it just sort of naturally happened."

"And let's face it," Twilight said, "he's been doing a pretty good job of it."

"Oh yeah," Lyra said, "real good job. Our friends have been turned into floppy discs and what does he do? Go play his guitar," she heard Sunset chuckle causing her to look at the bacon haired girl. "What's so funny?"

"The thing is," Sunset told her, "the fact that he took his guitar means he's super focused on saving the others."

"What?"

"Flash's brain works best when he plays," Sunset said, "he's able to block everything else out of his head and can think at lightspeed."

"Your kidding?" Lyra asked deadpan.

"If you've ever done homework with him you'd see," Sunset told her, "whenever he gets stuck on a problem he plays his guitar and several minutes later he has the answer."

"Many different people focus in their own way," Celestia told her, "as a musician I'd think you'd understand that more then anyone."

Lyra was silent after hearing that.

Meanwhile Flash was sitting on the hood of his car, playing a random song as he tried to think up a way to stop Gigabyte and save his friends.

As he played the facts flew through his head. Darklight wanted the Elements, meaning he'd need to take them from the Rangers, but when Gigabyte digitised his friends he would have also digitised the Elements. No doubt the plan was to digitise them and then return to the ship, which meant Gigabyte had to have a way to restore them to normal, but how.

An image flew into the forefront of his head. The device he had used before, the Digitiser, it had to have a reverse setting. So if Flash could get it away from the monster he could save his friends. The only problem was where was Gigabyte going to strike next?

Gigabyte could control machines and he wanted to draw out the Rangers, so he'd need to put people in danger. Where was the most populated place, with lots of machines in it? That's it!"

Flash stopped playing and jumped off his car, before getting in and kicking it into gear and driving off.

Back at the Command Centre, Lyra was alone practising against the ball machine but she wasn't doing very well and was unable to deflect a single shot.

After being hit for the eighth time she finally gave up, switched off the machine, and sat down.

Feeling someone sit down next to her she turned to see Starswirl. "Your lack of focus worries me."

"Just having an off day," she replied.

"Quite off," Starswirl replied, "for you to hide your true thoughts from me."

"It's Flash," she told him.

"Your beginning to doubt your opinions about him," Starswirl guessed, "or are you still wondering why the others chose him over you as leader?"

Lyra's silence confirmed his answer.

"Tell me Lyra," Starswirl said, "what do you think makes a good leader? Experience or something more."

Lyra wasn't sure how to answer.

"The fact is a leader must understand every aspect of their team," Starswirl told her, "in order to best utilise their abilities. You want to know why the others follow him, because Flash knows them."

"I know them," Lyra replied.

"Do you though? You've hung out with Sweetie perhaps, but what about Micro or Sandal? Before even being Rangers Flash did spend time with them, got to know them and understand them. You want to now why Flash is the leader, because he's been working to become the leader, even though he didn't realise it."

With that Starswirl got up and left, leaving a silent Lyra. She remained that way for a while, until her focus was broken by the sound of Flash's voice.

"Guys," he went catching her attention, "I've found the monster."

How? Lyra rushed over to the console and opened a channel. "Flash, were are you?"

"I'm at the mall."

Gigabyte was causing major havoc at the mall, with everybody running as fast as they could away.

"This'll bring the Rangers out for sure," Gigabyte said.

"HEY!" the monster turned around and saw Flash rushing towards him.

"You got here quicker then expected," he said.

"I had a hunch you'd show up here," Flash said as he pulled out his blaster. "Energise!" He said as he span the barrel and ran forwards, before firing his weapon. "Unleash the Power!" In a flash of light he was in his Rangers suit, Dragon Breaker at the ready.

"Bring it Ranger," Gigabyte yelled as he launched his cable at the red Ranger, but Flash managed to dodge and grab it in his Dragon Breaker.

"It's brought," he said as he yanked the cord and threw Gigabyte up. "Dragon Breaker," he yelled as he jumped up and threw a punch at the monster, "Head Smash."

"Hey!" Gigabyte yelled as he felt himself be smashed into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust in the process.

"Gotcha," Flash said as he landed.

"Think again!" From the dust the monsters cable flew out and wrapped itself around Flash, trapping him.

"Hey," Flash said as he struggled.

"Let's see how you like being smashed into the ground," Gigabyte said as he lifted Flash up into the arm and then slammed him into the ground. Then he did the same only he now threw Flash into a wall and then into another, before throwing him into the ground again.

"Owe," Flash said as he felt the cable uncoil from him.

"Now to Digitise you," Gigabyte said as he aimed the device at Flash, "goodbye red Ranger!" In that second however, he was bombarded by a flurry of lazor fire.

"Hold on Flash," the red Ranger looked up and saw a rangered up Lyra come flying in one her Magicycle. She parked and ran over to him, helping him up

"Good timing," Flash said once he was on his feet.

"So what's the plan?" Lyra asked.

"We need to get that Digitiser," Flash said, "it's gotta have a reverse function."

"Got it," Lyra said, "good thing I brought the discs." She pulled out her Serpent Staff as Flash readied his Dragon Breaker.

"Okay," Flash said before they both said in unison, "let's do this!" They charged towards Gigabyte, who fired off his cable but Flash blocked with his weapon allowing Lyra to pole volt over him.

"Try fighting from two different sides," Lyra said as she slashed him with her staffs blade, causing the monster to turn to her allowing Flash to smash him in the back.

"This isn't fair," Gigabyte said as he tried to defend.

"Who said we'd play fair?" Flash said after blocking his attack, allowing Lyra to swipe him.

"To save our friends," Lyra said, "we'll do whatever we need to." She then saw an opening and spun her staff around, before using the snake head to latch onto the monsters right arm. "Now Flash!"

"On it," Flash said as he pulled out his Spirit Sabre and swung it down, slicing the Digitiser off of Gigabyte.

"No," the monster yelled before being thrown away.

Flash grabbed the Digitiser and looked it over. It only had two buttons, one red one and another that looked like a light switch. "I bet if we switch this," he said flicking the switch, "it'll turn our friends back."

"Then let's do it," Lyra said holding out the discs.

They placed them in the device as the compartment opened. Once loaded Flash held out the device and pressed the last button, making the square energy shot out. Seconds later three forms appeared inside, revealing Micro, Sweetie and Sandal.

"Er," Sweetie said as she held her head, "what happened?"

"No idea," Sandal replied.

"I'm gonna be tasting ones and zeroes for a week," Micro said.

"Guys," Lyra cheered seeing them, "your all right."

"You won't be for long," they looked up to see Gigabyte back in his feet.

"Alright guys," Flash said, "what'd you say with finish this?"

"Right," the four said.

"Magi-Charger," Flash said holding out the device before clicking the button and throwing it in the air, "Guardian Buster, activate." In a flash of light the Guardian Buster appeared, allowing the red Ranger to catch it and pull the forend.

"Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded." Lyra placed hers into the main compartment and shut it, the white streaks changing to blue.

GUARDIAN BUSTER...BLUE CHARGE!

As the weapon charged, the Ranger took their positions. "Guardian Buster, Sea-Serpent Blast...FIRE!" Flash pulled the trigger and a single powerful blast shot out, which morphed into the shape of the Sea-Serpent Zord's head as it flew at Gigabyte, Just before it hit him, the head spun around him with a trail of water following it. This effect created a whirlpool like creation which sucked Gigabyte up. The monster spun at high speed before flying out of the top and through the air, before he crashed into a nearby window and smashed through it and out the building.

Up on Darklight's ship, they were watching the battle and Heart Breaker was getting nervous.

"It's not over yet," she said as she turned to a Shade, "Fire the Gigatisor!" The Shade nodded and ran over to the button and hit it, releasing the growing machine which fired.

Back on earth the Rangers ran outside in time to see the red beam strike the ground and cause an explosion. In its wake was left a giant Gigabyte.

"It's Zord time," Flash said.

"We're gonna need a large blade and a shield," Lyra told the others.

Sweetie and Sandal nodded, before they and Flash pulled out their Magi-Chargers. "Summon Zords!" They threw them into the air.

MAGI-CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zords activated and emerged from their hiding spots, before rushing to their Rangers aid.

"Activate Guardian Megazord," the five said, "Fenrir-Sphinx Formation."

ZORDS COMBINED...GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, FENRIR-SPHINX FORMATION...READY!

The Rangers teleported into the cockpit and placed their blasters in the slot.

"Let's do this," Flash said.

The two mechanised giants squared off, with Gigabyte making the first move. "Power Cord!" he launched his cable at the Megazord, whipping at it but the Megazord used its shield to block. Eventually Gigabyte managed to get passed the strike the Megazord down.

"We gotta take that thing out," Micro said as they steadied themselves.

"I'm on it," Flash said.

The Megazord stood back up and lowered its shield, readying itself.

"Giving up I see," Gigabyte said as he unleashed his cable and slammed it down towards the Megazord.

"Wait," Flash said as it got closer and closer, "NOW!"

The Megazord side stepped and dodged the cable, which stuck itself in the ground.

"Now Sandal," Flash said.

"Fenrir Zord," Sandal called out, "Fang Blade." The Megazord raised the Fenrir Zord arm as slashed it down, cutting through the cable.

"My Power Cord," Gigabyte yelled.

"He's defenceless," Sweetie said.

"Right," Flash agreed, "let's crash this computer."

The five of them moved and spoke in sync. "Dragon Zord...Final Strike!" The Dragon's head flipped up and quickly launched its fireball attack at the giant computer monster, consuming him in the inferno.

"System error," Gigabyte yelled as he was burned, before finally collapsing in a great explosion.

"Guardian Rangers," Flash said, "victory is ours."

The Rangers all cheered at their defeat of Gigabyte.

Heart Breaker was not so cheerful.

"No," she moaned.

"I warned you what would happen," Darklight told her, "go to your room. Your confined to barracks until further notice."

Heart frowned before turning and stomping her way out of the room.

"Another monster lost," Darklight said as he sat on his throne. However in that moment one of his computers started beeping. "What's going on?" He asked Cogs, who was at the computers.

"It's a signal of some kind," Cogs said, "could it be?"

"What?" Doom asked.

"It's Gigabyte," Cogs replied, "he must have sent a backup copy of his programming into our system."

"What does that mean?" Darklight asked.

"It means we may be able to bring him back."

Later on earth we find Lyra back on the track, ready for another run. Suddenly she felt something be placed on the bench next to her, making her look up to see Flash had just put his sports bag there.

"Don't mind if I join you do ya?"

"No," she said, "and...I'm sorry."

"Sorry for what?" Flash asked.

"The way I've been treating you," she replied, "I was wrong." She looked embarrassed about something, but sighed and began to explain. "When I first became a Ranger I thought when we found others I'd be the one to teach them everything, and I accepted that, but when you showed up and took to it like it was nothing I felt cheated. I realise now that being the leader isn't just a matter of experience and I'm sorry."

"It's okay," Flash said, "I never really wanted to be the leader anyway."

"But your meant to," Lyra told him, "I guess it was your destiny."

"Maybe," Flash said, "but I've still got a long way to go." He looked down at her and smiled, "think you can teach me a few things?"

They both laughed before getting up and heading to the track.

"Ready?" she asked him.

"Ready!" with that they shot off the starting block and began running.

A team has many different roles. And whether your the leader, or just another member, your an important part of it. All that matters is finding your place.

Author's Note

Let's thank Godslittleprincess for this chapter. I hadn't even noticed I had Flash and Lyra at odds until she mentioned it.

Knowledge is Power

Today we find ourselves back at the quarry Sandalwood and Micro Chips had found their Elements.

"So this is were the Elements were buried?" Flash asked pointing to the broken stone.

"Yeah," Micro said, "Doom's sword flew into it and broke the rock free. Then they flew out and came to us."

"Explain to me again why we're even here?" Sweetie asked.

"Sunset told us to get info on every spot we've found an Element so far," Micro explained. "She thinks she and Twilight can maybe triangulate the location of the five remaining Elements, using that data."

"Okay," Sweetie said, "now can someone who actually speaks human explain it to me." She and the other three Rangers all laughed at that.

"Hardy har haaar," Micro replied as he scanned the area with his scanner. Once he was done he went to his communicator. "No Element signatures here," he said.

"That's everything," Sunset's voice replied, "you guys head back."

"Well this was a waste of time," Sandal said as they trudged back to his and Flash's cars.

"I have to agree," Micro said, "the last five Elements could be anywhere by now. If the Element of Love found its way to New York, then who knows where the others ended up."

"To bad that scanner thing of yours is so small," Lyra said obviously joking, "you could just scan the whole planet."

At that moment Micro froze, an idea surging through his head.

"What's up?" Flash asked, looking back and seeing Micro just standing there.

"I'm not sure," Micro said, "but I might have an idea."

Up on Darklight's ship, Heart Breaker was walking through the corridors after finally being release from barrack confinement.

Right now she was looking for a way to get back into the brothers good graces after the Gigabyte incident. Stepping onto the bridge she was meet by Cogs, working at one of the computer terminals. "Hey Cogs," she said mimicking a cartoon character from a show she'd watched while grounded, "whatcha doin?"

"After the last battle we received a transmission," Cogs replied, "its possible we can revive the monster you destroyed."

"Sounds great," Heart replied.

"So what are you doing out?" Cogs said, "I'd think you'd try and stay out of trouble for a while."

"That's just it," Heart said, "I need to prove myself to him. If I don't he'll never take me seriously again."

"Well I wish I could help," Cogs said, "but as you can see I got my work cut out for me."

"Yeah," Heart said, "I guess."

Meanwhile back on earth, Micro had just returned to the base where Twilight and Sunset where working.

"This is nuts," Sunset said as her computer beeped, "I thought if we triangulated the areas where Elements had been found we could get a hint on where to look for the others but."

"Nothing," Twilight said as she took of her glasses and wiped her tired eyes.

"No luck huh?" Micro asked.

"Nothing," Sunset said, "looks like we'll be relying on dumb luck to find them."

"Not necessarily," Micro said, getting their attention.

"What do you mean?" Twilight asked.

"I had an idea," Micro said as he pulled out his scanner. "The fact is that in a thousand years those Elements could have gotten anywhere on earth, so our best shot at finding them would be to scan the entire world for the Element's unique energy signatures."

"But that would be impossible," Sunset told him.

"Not if we redesigned our two energy scanners into one super powered scanner-"

"And link them up to a satellite system," Twilight caught on.

"We wouldn't be able to scan the whole planet," Micro said, "but we'd be able to scan a much larger area."

"That," Sunset said, "is brilliant."

"Well I am the Element of Knowledge," Micro said as he and Twilight pulled out their scanners and put them on the table alongside each other. "Now we just need to take them apart and rebuild them."

"Allow me," Twilight said as her gemstone began to glow. The two devices rose up and slowly began deconstructing, before being gently set upon the table piece by piece until they were a neatly organised set of bits and bobs.

"Okay," Micro said, "that's cool."

"Then what do you say we get to work?" Sunset asked, getting a nod from the other.

The Next Day

When the rest of the Rangers, Mane Seven and principles arrived at the Command Centre that morning, the first thing they saw was Twilight, Sunset and Micro sleeping on the desks of the lab.

"Someone was busy," Flash said.

"They were working right into the night," Sweetie told them, "even when I went to bed."

"Allow me," Rainbow said as she crept over to the three and pulled out her phone. A quick search and she had a video of a air horn loaded, with the volume at max. She placed the phone next to the three and pressed play, before quickly moving away.

The phone let out the air horn sound, causing the three to wake up with a scream.

"We're under attack!" Micro screamed as he pulled out his blaster and accidently let out a shot.

Everyone kneeled down as the blast flew overhead, bouncing off the walls until it finally stopped.

With it over everyone looked up at Micro. "Sorry," he said sheepishly.

"It's fine," Flash said as he glared towards Rainbow, who smiled back.

"Sorry," she said.

"So," Lyra said wanting to change the subject quickly, "what is it you guys were working on?"

Sunset, Twilight and Micro all smiled before they moved over to the table where a new device was sitting. It was a laptop sized machine with many different buttons and a small satellite dish attached.

"What's this?" Flash asked.

"We call it," Twilight said, "the E-Tector."

"We managed to rebuild our scanners into this super scanner," Sunset said. "By linking it to the satellite network we can scan a large area for the unique energy signature of the five remaining Elements."

"Meaning we can possible locate the Elements in almost no time at all," Luna said.

"Exactly," Micro said.

"Amazing," Celestia said.

"Well what are we waiting for?" Flash said, "lets boot this thing up and find an Element."

"Alright," Micro said as he kneeled down and typed something into the device, "first things first we need to do is type in the co-ordinates of the area we want to search."

"Lets try the surrounding area first," Twilight suggested, "there might still be an Element around here."

"Got it," Micro said as he pressed a few buttons and suddenly the E-Tector activated and the dish slowly rose up on an extendable arm. The device began beeping.

"Is that good?" Sandal asked.

"Its linking up to the satellite," Micro said, "if there's an Element around here we'll find it."

Meanwhile up in space, Cogs and Heart Breaker were on the main bridge of their ship when their computer started beeping.

"What's happening?" Heart asked.

"We're picking up a stray signal," Cogs said as he went to the computer and started typing away. "It looks like the Rangers are hacking into a satellite system and we're accidently piggybacking off it."

"What are they up to?" Heart asked rushing up besides him.

"They must be looking for the Elements," Cogs said, "and it looks like they found something."

Barely five minutes after activating the E-Tector, they had gotten a hit.

"Found something?" Lyra asked.

"Possibly," Twilight said, "give us a second to follow the signal." They typed away for a few seconds and eventually, "got it."

"So where is it?" Sweetie asked.

"It looks like," Sunset said before her eyes went wide, "the same forest Flash found the Element of Courage."

"There's another Element there?" Flash asked.

"It's possible," Micro said, "mine and Sandal's Elements were right next to each other."

"I've got the co-ordinates," Twilight said, "Flash you know this forest. What's this area?" Flash moved over to her computer and looked at the screen, which showed an area he knew.

"That's Barrier Falls," Flash said, "it's a large waterfall on the edge of the woods."

"You'd better go take a look," Celestia told them.

"Right," the Ranger said together.

A little while later we find the Rangers in the forest on route to where the waterfall was suppose to be.

"How much further?" Lyra asked Flash.

"If I remember it correctly," Flash replied, "it should be just over this hill."

"Yeah," Sweetie said, "I hear the water." Indeed there was a sound of rushing water and as they reached the top of the hill they saw it.

A large waterfall flowing down a cliff face into a large pond.

"This is it," Flash said, "the water flows into this pond, which feeds an underground spring.

"Let's hope we can figure out if there's an Element here," Lyra said.

"No problem," Micro said as he pulled something out of his pocket, "the girls and I managed to build this portable scanner with the parts left over."

"That's great," Flash said.

"Yeah but it only has about a hundred foot range."

"Better get closer then," Sandal said.

They quickly moved over towards the falls, as the scanner began to beep. "It's picking something up," Micro told them as he moved the device around, tracking the signal. Finally he determined the signal was strongest when pointed directly at the falls. "I think the Elements behind the falls."

"You mean there's some kind of cave?" Lyra asked.

"Only one way to find out," Flash said as they moved closer to the falls to take a closer look.

However.

"SURPRISE!" In that moment something leaped out of the falls, over the Rangers heads and landed a few feet away from them. It was a horde of Shades along with a weird looking monster, that was mainly dark green and had different coloured spiral patterns on its body. On its chest was some kind of wheel device, with different markings around it and an upwards pointing arrow in the middle and it carried a staff with a triangular crystal on it.

The Rangers looked at him with raised eyes. "Who's this clown?" Sweetie asked.

"The names Brainwave," the monster said, "sent to finish you off." With that he and the Shades charged at the Rangers, who intern got into a fighting stance.

The two sides met and Sandal and Flash found themselves fighting Brainwave, while the rest dealt with the Shades.

"How did they know to come here?" Lyra asked as she round housed a pair of them.

"I don't know," Flash said as he dodged a swing from the monsters staff, before grabbing it and pulling the monster close. "How did you?"

"You should really learn to be careful when playing with your toys," Brainwave replied, confusing everyone but Micro.

"My E-Tector," he said kicking away a Shade, "they must have hacked into the network."

"Bingo," the monster said as he swung his staff and sent Flash flying, before swinging it at Sandal. "You messed up and I got the prize."

As Flash got up he ran back towards the monster and green Ranger. "We can't let him get away with the Element."

Micro managed to beat his group of Shades and then pulled out his scanner, but when he pointed it at the monster it showed nothing. "He doesn't have an Element."

"Maybe not," Brainwave said, "but I got the next best thing." He threw Flash and Sandal away and then turned to Micro. "Let's play a game," he said as he put his hand on the wheel on his chest, "Hypno Dial!" He span in around and for a few moments it spun until it finally stopped, with the arrow pointing at an image of a red angry looking face. "Looks like we're going with rage again," he said as the crystal on his staff glowed before firing a red beam towards Micro.

"Micro watch out," Sandal said as he jumped up and pushed Micro out of the way, only to be hit by the beam instead. Seconds past and he finally opened his eyes, only for them to be glowing red

"SANDAL!" Micro said.

"What did you do to him?" Flash asked Brainwave.

"You'll find out," Brainwave replied, "and he's the least of your worries."

Micro rushed over to Sandal, who was just standing there. "Sandal are you okay?" he asked.

Sandal didn't say anything and instead, turned to Micro and unexpectedly threw a punch towards him which Micro barely dodged.

"What the?" Micro asked.

"Have fun fighting your friend," Brainwave said before rushing away.

"Sandal," Flash said rushing over to him, but the green Ranger responded with a swift kick sending him back. "What's wrong with you."

Sweetie and Lyra had just finished taking down the remaining Shades and turned to the boys. "What are they doing?" Sweetie asked.

"Whatever it is," Lyra said, "it can't be good." They rushed towards them, only to be attacked by Sandal.

"Sandal stop," Sweetie said.

"This isn't you," Lyra said but the two were both grabbed by him and thrown away.

"Sweetie, Lyra," Flash called out, seeing them hit the ground. "Okay that's it," he said as he rushed towards Sandal, "I hate to do this but." He leaped up and sent his strongest kick into Sandal's chest, sending him flying back and slamming into the ground hitting his head. Flash turned back to his friends and kneeled down to help them up while asking, "you all okay?"

"We're fine," Lyra said, "but what about Sandal?"

Suddenly a moan caught their attention, making them look to see Sandal getting up and holding his head. "What happened?"

"You okay now?" Flash asked as he helped him up.

"I think so," Sandal said.

"What happened to you?" Micro asked.

"No idea," Sandal said, "I just remember getting hit by that monster and then everything went fuzzy. I just remember being really angry for some reason."

"We'd better get you back to base to get checked out," Sweetie said.

Suddenly however the ground began to shake. "Now what?" Flash asked but got his answer when something else flew out the falls, only instead of a monster this was a...Zord. It was a giant robotic lion like creature, mainly orange in colour with a red mane. It had orange bat like wings and a long scorpion like tail.

"What is that thing?" Sweetie asked.

"If my mythology is right," Lyra replied, "it's a...manticore!"

"A Manticore Zord?" Flash asked.

In that second the Zord looked down at them and growled, before swinging its long tail towards them.

"Look out," Flash said before they jumped out of the way, just as the tail came down.

Once at a safe distance, they turned back to see the Manticore Zord turn back and walk through the falls into the cave behind it.

"What...just...happened?" Micro asked.

The Rangers had returned to the Command Centre and explained what had happened.

Sandal had an odd looking device strapped to his head, scanning his brain.

"I am reading some weird residual energies," Twilight said, "but I can't detect any lasting harm.

"So I'm alright?" Sandal asked.

"Whatever spell you were under," Sunset explained, "knocking your head most have cured it."

Meanwhile the rest of the group were with Starswirl, discussing the Manticore Zord.

"If a Zord is awake," Lyra said, "then that means another Element bonded to someone."

"That is correct," Starswirl said, "but the question is which one."

"Simple enough to figure out," Flash said as he strummed his guitar, "our Zords are the same colour as our Ranger suits, which are the same could as our Elements. So since the Manticore was mostly orange the question we gotta ask is, which Element is orange?" They all turned to Starswirl.

"The Element of Adventure," he replied, "which will bond to someone who is willing to go anywhere and do anything to do what is needed. Usually the Guardian of Adventure worked as the teams scout, going passed enemy lines to gather information needed."

"So," Sweetie said, "that means there's an orange Ranger out there?"

"Yes," Starswirl said, "but he may not know we exist, or has chosen not to join us yet. What worries me more is the Manticore Zord, which shouldn't have attacked us."

It was at this moment that Sandal and the girls came up to them, giving Flash a thought. "Hey, that monster said something about using rage again. Maybe before we arrived he did to the Zord what he did to Sandal."

"If that monster can induce rage then it would make sense," Starswirl said, "the question now is how to brake his control."

"Give us some time," Twilight said, "once we've finished analysing the data on Sandal's brain scan we'll see what we can do."

Micro meanwhile had been incredibly quiet during this conversation, which did not go unnoticed.

"Micro," Rarity said, "are you alright?"

Everyone turned to see Micro's sullen expression.

"It's my fault," Micro said, "the Manticore Zord got bewitched because I didn't think to encrypt the E-Tector's signal. I'm such an idiot."

"This isn't your fault bro," Sandal said.

"Yes it is," Micro said, "the device was my idea and now we've lost a potential ally because I didn't think." Before anyone could say anything else, Micro got up and left.

"Poor guy," Rainbow said.

"What he needs is a pick me up party," Pinkie said.

"I don't think that's such a good idea," Applejack said.

"He just needs time to cool down," Sunset said.

"Maybe," Rarity said.

Up on Darklight's ship Brainwave had just returned.

"I did what you asked me," he told Heart when he stepped onto the bridge.

"Excellent," Heart said, "once that Zord gets angry enough it'll start attacking anything in sight. The Rangers will never destroy one of their own and won't stand a chance."

"It'll take a little time to grow," Brainwave said, "that Zord's the biggest thing I've ever hypnotised."

"Then we'd better make sure the Rangers don't find a way to reverse it," Heart said.

Back at Canterlot High we find Micro sulking on the roof.

"So this is where you were hiding," he turned to see Rarity standing at the entrance of the roof, arms crossed.

"I'm not hiding," he said.

"Clearly," Rarity said as she strode over to him and sat down next to him, "you know just sitting around like this isn't going to help anybody."

"What do you suggest I do?" he asked, "I'm the reason we're in this mess."

"You make it sound like your the one who put a spell on the Manticore Zord," Rarity told him. "You made a mistake, so what? Everyone makes a mistake, but what matters is how you deal with it."

"What are you talking about?" Micro asked.

"I'm saying that yes you made a mistake, but just sitting here mopping won't solve it. If you want to fix what's happened, then fix it. Making mistakes is okay, but not trying to fix that mistake is another mistake."

Micro remained silent as Rarity stood back up, brushed herself off and headed back to the door.

"Think about it."

Now alone, Micro thought about what Rarity had told him and nodded. He wouldn't just give up, he'd fix this.

Micro arrived in the Command Centre and found it empty, which he was glad for.

Moving over to the computers he began typing away until he found the data on Sandal's brain scan.

"Time to get to work," he said.

All through the night Micro worked, analysing the data and trying to find a way to undo it. Unlike Sandal they couldn't knock the Zord on the head, meaning they needed a way to reverse the spell from afar. Finally, after many hours of analysis, Micro finally came up with the solution.

Going over to where they kept them, Micro pulled out a blank Magi-Charger which was white in colour. Returning to the computer he placed it in the programmer, before activating it. Seconds passed as the data flowed into the device, making it begin to change until finally the process was complete.

Taking the Charger out Micro marvelled in what he had accomplished. The Magi-Charger was now the same shade of green as the monster, and contained the data needed to allow it to mimic its brain control ability.

Charger in hand Micro headed out back to the falls, but as he stepped out of the school.

"Going somewhere?" he turned to see his teammates standing a ways off.

"I was just-"

"Going to save the Manticore Zord," Flash finished, "well its not happening."

Micro frowned at this.

"We're not letting you go off on your own on a suicide mission," Flash continued before his frown changed to a smile, "with our help you stand a chance."

Micro smiled hearing this and rushed over to the rest of his team as they headed out.

The sun was just beginning to rise as the Rangers made it back to the area and soon found themselves back at the falls.

"So what's the plan?" Sandal asked.

"Find the Manticore Zord," Micro explained as he pulled out his new Charger, "then use the Hypno Charger to reverse the brainwashing."

"That's not gonna be easy," Sweetie told him.

"I know," Micro said, "but I have to try."

"You won't even get the chance to do it!" They all turned to see Brainwave, Heart Breaker and a horde of Shades stepping out of the forest area.

"You guys," Flash growled.

"We figured you'd show up," Heart said, "we're not letting you get to that Zord."

"We'll see about that," Micro said as he stepped forwards, "we'll destroy you then cure the Zord." He and the Rangers pulled out their gear, "Magi-Chargers."

"Ready" the rest of the team said. They clicked their Chargers and placed them in the Morphin Blasters.

Once charged the Rangers span the barrel of the blasters. "Energise!" They yelled before pointing them in the air, "Unleash the Power!" They all pulled the triggers and five different heads flew out and bit down on them, decking them out in their Ranger Suits.

"Bring it," Brainwave said, "Shades attack!"

The horde charged forward, but suddenly the ground began to shake.

"Oh no," Micro said as he turned to the falls and saw the Manticore leap out. The Zord began charging forwards, past the Rangers and towards the city.

"Yes," Brainwave said, "my rage has fully infected the Zord. It'll destroy the whole city."

"Micro," Flash ordered, "we'll handle these guys. You stop the Zord."

"But-"

"GO!"

"Alright," Micro said as the ran in the direction of the Zord.

"Stop him!" Heart ordered the Shades.

"I don't think so," Flash said as he and the others charged forwards. "Magitech!" they called on their weapons and attacked the monsters.

Meanwhile Micro was in pursuit of the Zord.

"Magi-Charger," he said pressing the button before throwing it, "summon Griffon Zord!"

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The Charger flew to the Zord and powered it up, allowing the Zord to activate and fly to its Ranger.

"Griffon," he called out seeing it, "we need to stop the Manticore before it reaches the city."

The Griffon squawked in response, before letting out a flurry of lazor fire to stop the Manticore in its tracks.

"Here goes nothing," he said as he pulled out the new Charger and placed it in his blaster.

HYPNO CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Fire," he pulled the trigger and the blaster let out a green energy wave which struck the angered Zord. "Listen to me Manticore." he called out, "you need to wake up."

The Manticore in that moment swung its tail towards Micro, forcing him to stop firing and jump out of the way. The Griffon Zord charged towards the Manticore and began clawing at it, keeping its focus away from its Ranger

"No," Micro said getting up, "its not strong enough. I need to get closer."

Meanwhile the rest of the Rangers were battling Brainwave and Heart Breaker.

"You don't honestly think your puny little friend can cure my hex do you?" Brainwave asked Flash as they locked weapons.

"Of course I do," Flash said breaking away, "he may be small, but he's anything but puny." He managed to throw a punch at the monster.

Meanwhile Lyra and Sweetie were fighting Heart Breaker.

"Silly Rangers," the monster said swinging her hook, "don't know when to give up."

"We can say the same thing about you," Sweetie said as he swung her Spirit Sabre at her.

"You can't win," Lyra said as she slashed at her with her staff, "so stop trying."

"We'll see about that," Heart said.

Sandal meanwhile was dealing with the Shades. "This isn't good," he said, "we need to help Micro."

"He's got it covered," Flash said.

Covered may have been too strong a word. As the Manticore and Griffon Zords battled, Micro tried to get closer but couldn't find an opening to use the Charger.

Eventually the Manticore swung its tail around and used it to grab hold of the Griffon, before spinning it in a circle several times and letting go send the yellow Zord flying.

"Not good," Micro said when the Manticore turned to him, "only one chance." The Manticore swung its tail down and almost hit Micro, but the yellow Ranger jumped up and latched himself onto the tail. The Zord retracted its tail and swung it around, trying to dislodge the Ranger, but instead Micro leaped off and landed on the Zords head.

"Last chance," he said as he aimed the blaster, "Manticore WAKE UP!" He fired and the green beam which struck the Zord and began overriding the brainwashing. The Zord thrashed around but Micro did everything in his power to remain atop it, as the beam continued to do its work.

"RRRRRAAAAAOOOOORRRRR!"

The Manticore let out a great roar as the Hypno Charger finished its job. It came to a sudden halt, the force of which finally dislodged Micro and sent him flying off, before its eyes suddenly changed colour from red the bright green.

Micro quickly span around and looked up at the Zord, which in turn stared down at him. "Er...nice Zord," he said in fear hoping his plan had worked.

"RRRRRAAAAAOOOOORRRRR!"

The Manticore roared again, only this time it did something else. Micro's blaster glowed, catching his attention, making him pick it up and open the the compartment where the Hypno Charger sat. Taking it out he saw the Charger glow, before a sudden flash of light caused it to change into a light orange Charger with the image of a Manticore on it.

"Is this?" Micro asked looking back up at the Zord, who nodded before it turned and left. "Thank you," he called out.

Back with the other Rangers, they weren't doing so well.

Brainwave was proving to be a much more difficult opponent. "That all you got," he said as he smashed his staff into Flash, sending him flying off.

"Flash," Sandal said having beaten the Shades he rushed over to Flash.

"Our only hope is the Guardian Buster," Flash said as he got up.

"But we'd need Micro," Sandal said.

"To bad," Heart said as she slashed Lyra and Sweetie into the air.

"Girls!" Flash called out as he and Sandal rushed over and managed to grab the two, cushioning their fall.

"To easy," Heart said as she met up with Brainwave. "Give them another taste of your hypnotic power."

"Right," Brainwave said as he went to his wheel, "Hypno Dial!" He spun it and it landed on a green symbol. "Hatred," he said, "one of my favourites." He pointed his staff at the Rangers.

"Oh no," Flash said.

As Brainwave was about to fire, he and Heart found themselves in a flurry of lazor fire. "WHAT!?"

The Rangers turned to the source and saw Micro riding atop his Zord, which had fired the blasts.

"Not this time Brainwave," Micro said before leaping down and landing next to the Rangers.

"Micro," Sandal said, "your alright."

"Better then alright," Micro said as he held up the newly modelled Charger, "check it out."

"That's awesome," Flash said.

"You saved the Manticore," Sweetie said.

"I sure did," Micro said before turning to Brainwave, "now to make sure something like that never happens again."

"Magi-Charger!" Flash said as he held up the device and clicked the button, "Ready. Guardian Buster, activate." He threw the Charger in the air before it transformed into the super weapon, which he caught and activated.

Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded." Micro placed his into the main compartment and shut it, the white streaks changing to yellow.

GUARDIAN BUSTER...YELLOW CHARGE!

"This doesn't look good," Heart said as she ran away.

As the weapon charged, the Ranger took their positions. "Guardian Buster, Griffon Blast...FIRE!" Flash pulled the trigger and a single powerful blast shot out, which morphed into the shape of the Griffon Zord's head as it flew at Brainwave. Just before it hit him, the head spun around him with a trail of wind following it. This effect created a tornado which sucked Brainwave up. The monster spun at high speed before flying out of the top and through the air, before he crashed into the ground right on his chest which destroyed the Hypno Dial.

"NO!" he called out as he went picked himself up.

Up in space, Cogs had been watching the whole thing.

"This is bad," he said, "there's only one way to salvage this situation." He turned to a Shade, "fire the Gigatisor." The Shade nodded and ran over to the button and hit it, releasing the growing machine which fired.

Back on earth the Rangers saw the red beam of light strike where Brainwave had landed, causing an explosion. In its wake was left a giant Brainwave.

"Griffon Zord!" Micro ordered. His Zord began firing at the monster.

"We can help," Flash said as he and Lyra pulled out their Magi-Chargers. "Summon Zords!" They threw them into the air.

MAGI-CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zords activated and emerged from their hiding spots, before rushing to the Griffon Zord's aid.

"Activate Guardian Megazord," the five said, "Griffon-Serpent Formation."

ZORDS COMBINED...GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, GRIFFON-SERPENT FORMATION...READY!

The Rangers teleported into the cockpit and placed their blasters in the slots.

"Let's do this," Flash said.

The Megazord and monster began their battle.

"Try this," Brainwave said as he swung his staff at the Megazord, but it blocked with the Tail Sabre.

"Well you try this," Micro said, "Griffon Zord blast!" He Zord let rip a flurry of lazor fire, which hit the monster.

"Hey," he called out as he was struck.

"Not so tough without your wheel are ya?" Flash said.

"You think so?" Brainwave said, "well that wasn't my only trick." He held up his staff as it shone.

"What's happening?" Sweetie asked.

"I don't know," Lyra said.

They soon got their answer when they saw a second Brainwave appear besides the first, and then a third.

"No way," Sandal said.

"It's some kind of trick," Flash said, "we gotta blast them all."

The Megazord fired off at the three of them, but the lazors just went through them all.

"No way," Flash said but at that moment two of the Brainwaves disappeared as the last struck the Megazord with its staff.

"That's it," Micro said figuring it out, "he must have been move super fast and all we were seeing were the afterimages."

"So we gotta get him to hold still?" Sandal guessed.

"But how?" Sweetie asked.

Suddenly an idea came into Micro's head, before he pulled out the orange Charger. "Hope this works," he said as he clicked the button and then threw the Charger, "summon Manticore Zord!"

The Charger flew through the air, growing as it did so, before flying off towards the waterfall which it went through and into the Manticore Zord's mouth.

MANTICORE CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The creature opened its eyes. Seconds later it shot out of the waterfall and towards the battle.

"Here it comes," Micro said seeing the Zord.

The Manticore charged at Brainwave and then spun around, slashing it with its tail and knocking him down.

"Now's our chance," Flash said.

"Right," Micro agreed. "Activate Guardian Megazord, Manti-Griffon Formation!"

The Manticore Charger flew out of the Zord's mouth as the Dragon's head folded up and opened its mouth, releasing its Charger which was quickly replaced.

MANTICORE CHARGER...ENGAGED...ZORDS COMBINED!

When its Charger flew back in the Manticore's head rotated back until a new slot appeared. As the Sea-Serpent Zord detached the Manticore took its place, it's round mane becoming a new shoulder which connected to the Dragon. The Manticore's legs folded in and a hand appeared under the tail, which now acted as a whip like weapon.

GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, MANTI-GRIFFON FORMATION...READY!

The Ranger felt the power of their new Megazord and was impressed.

"That won't scare me," Brainwave said as he duplicated himself again.

"Not this time," Flash said, "Manticore Tail Whip." The Megazord swung the tail towards Brainwave, cutting through the fakes until it hooked around the real one.

"What!?" Brainwave said as he struggled the break free.

"Griffon Zord Fire!" Micro yelled as his Zord fired, hitting the tied up monster.

"No fair," Brainwave yelled.

"Let's finish this," Flash said as they all moved and spoke in sync, calling out their final attack. "Manticore Tail Swipe!"

The Megazord spun around, lifting the monster into the air before letting him go flying. Then it swung the Manticore tail and let it rip, sending it flying towards Brainwave before it impaled it.

"Not fighting these Rangers should have been a no brainer," were the monsters last words before exploding.

"Oh yeah," the Rangers cheered, as Micro turned to the Manticore Zord.

"Thanks," he said to it as it growled back in agreement. "Guardian Rangers," he said, "victory is ours."

Up in space Heart tried to sneak through the ship in a hope of avoiding Darklight.

"HEART BREAKER!" to late.

Darklight strode down the hallway towards her.

"Hey bro," she said.

"Don't you hey bro me," Darklight said, "once again you go behind my back and cause one of my monster to get destroyed."

"I almost had them," Heart said.

"Almost does't cut it," he said as he threw her to the ground, "if I find you sneaking behind my back again you won't like the outcome." And with that he left, leaving Heart to wallow in her own misery.

Back at the Command Centre Twilight and Sunset were scanning the new Manticore Charger.

"Amazing," Twilight said, "the Zord linked it to its own power source."

"It could come in real handy in the future," Sunset said.

"I'll say," Flash said, "did you see how powerful Manti-Griffon Formation was?"

"It was impressive," Lyra said.

Meanwhile Micro was busy with his E-Tector which was hooked up to one of the computers. "And with that," he said as he unplugged it, "the E-Tector is encoded. No more piggybacking for them."

"Now we can use it safely?" Rarity asked.

"Yeah," Micro replied, "and by the way. Thanks for the pep talk before."

"We're a team," Rarity told him with a smile, "that's what teammates do." With that she turned and walked over to the others, leaving Micro to blush.

"We still have much work to do," Starswirl said, "we now know there is a sixth Ranger out there somewhere. If Darklight finds him before us, it'll put him in grave danger."

"We'll find him," Flash said, "and when we do he'll be sure to join us."

"Who wouldn't want to join this team?" Sweetie said.

The Rangers had added a new ally to their ranks in the Manticore Zord. But knowing there's an Orange Ranger out there, they must continue their mission with great hast.

Author's Note

So now we got a new Zord.

For those of you wondering why I chose orange, here's a few things.

One: the Manticore Zord is based on the one from the show.

Two: ORANGE IS MY FAVOURITE COLOUR.

Mirror Mirror

Up on Darklight's ship, Doom and Cogs were busy overlooking the footage of Heart Breaker's failed attempt to defeat the Rangers.

"This means there are six Rangers out there," he said once it finished. "The Elements of Courage, Trust, Knowledge, Love, Willpower and Adventure are taken, but I still have a chance at finding the other four."

"But how do we find them?" Cogs asked, "the Rangers will have made sure we can't hack into their signal by now."

"You said the Rangers have a device that can scan large areas of the planet," Doom said. "If we get our hands on it, we can rebuild it into the ships main computer and then scan the whole planet."

"And how exactly do you intend to do that?" Cogs asked, "the Rangers aren't just going to hand the device over...or maybe they will."

"You have a plan?" Doom asked.

"I do," Cogs replied before turning and heading towards the cell block.

"This better be good," Doom said as he followed.

Today we find the Rangers in Canterlot Park.

Lyra and Sweetie were enjoying the scenery, with Sweetie taking pictures on her digital camera.

Meanwhile Micro was goose stepping around the place, his eyes glued to a laptop in his hands, while Sandal was following him as he carried the E-Tector.

And finally we have Flash, who was sitting in a large tree with his father's journal in hand.

Dear Dad.

Flash wrote. Ever since becoming a Ranger he'd been recording his adventures, so that one day he'd get to tell his dad about his time as a Ranger.

Today is July the twenty second. Being A Ranger is great, despite the many hardships we face. Sure it's not easy, but with the team we have we can do anything.

Flash looked over at the girls.

"Hey," Lyra whispered, "I think that's a Twin Tallied Blue Bird."

"It is," Sweetie said as she took the picture.

Sweetie is so energetic and full of life, which is even more amazing considering she's over a hundred years old. She cares so much about the people around her.

Lyra and I might have started off at odds, but I know I can trust her to be there when needed. She's taught me a lot about what it means to lead the team and be a Ranger.

He turned to the boys.

"Right about...here," Micro said as he pointed to a spot on the ground.

"Got it," Sandal said as he placed the E-Tector on the ground, "so tell me again why we're here."

"When I encoded the E-Tector I had to reset its settings, so it disconnected from the satellite." Micro began typing into the device, "the satellite's in an awkward position right now. This is the best place to reestablish the signal."

"Oh," Sandal said, "righteous."

Micro's big brain can really come in handy when we need it. The guy's basically a computer, only this one's a crack shot with a blaster.

And then there's Sandal. He's always willing to help no matter what we need, even if he doesn't understand it.

Then there's the ones who aren't Rangers, but are just as important.

"We're all set," Micro said into his communicator.

"Roger," Twilight's voice replied, "beginning link up now."

"Got it," Micro said.

Twilight and Sunset's skills with technomagic have saved our hides a bunch of times. You'd really be impressed.

"Sync up starting."

I miss you dad. It's hard to believe you've been gone for ten years now, but finally I have a lead. I don't know what Doom Raizer has to do with it, but I'll find out.

Suddenly his writing was cut short when his communicator went off. Closing his book he opened the channel, Twilight had installed holographic abilities to their coms if they wanted to use them, and Twilight and Sunset appeared. "What's up?" he asked.

"Flash," Twilight's called out, "we just detected a magical energy surge in your area."

This got everyone's attention. "Where?" Flash asked as he jumped down from the tree.

"We're not sure," Sunset replied, "we just picked it up in you vicinity."

"They must be after the E-Tector," Micro said.

"Shut it down and let's get out of here," Flash ordered as he grabbed his bag.

Lyra and Sweetie rushed over to them. "Flash," Lyra said, "you take the E-Tector while we comb the area."

"Got it," Flash said as he picked the device back up.

"Here," Sandal said holding out his keys, "go warm it up."

"Right," Flash took them and rushed back to where they'd parked Sandal's truck. Once there he placed the E-Tector into a special metal briefcase, which he then closed and locked before hoping into the drivers seat and starting the engine.

Not five seconds later the Rangers, now suited up, rushed out of the trees. Blue, Yellow and Pink jumped into the back, while Green sat next to a very confused Flash. "Are we morphing?"

The green Ranger replied by putting his finger to his lip and then pointed forwards.

"Okay," Flash said, "I'll get us out of here." Flash hit the gas and soon they were driving out of the park and onto the dirt road, they'd originally taken that lead back to town. Once at a safe distance from the place, Flash turned back to his team mates. "The E-Tector is safe now, you can de-morph." The Rangers remained silent, which concerned Flash, but at that moment the truck started making funny noises before smoke began venting from the engine. "What the?" Flash asked as he parked, "give me a second."

He got out and moved over to the trucks hood. "When'd you last get this thing checked Sandal?" No answer came back as Flash opened it and fanned away the smoke. Looking inside he saw several wires from the vehicle's cooling system appeared to be snapped. "How'd this happen?" Flash asked as he looked them over.

Suddenly his communicator went off and opening the channel it displayed Sandal.

"Dude!" he said, "what gives, why'd you take my ride?"

"What are you taking about?" Flash asked.

"You just left us," Sandal replied.

"No I didn't," Flash looked around the car to see Sandal now standing at the back of the truck, "I'm looking right...at...you." It was then that Flash noticed a single key difference between the Sandal he was with, and the Sandal on his communicator. The communicator Sandal wasn't morphed.

"Surprise red Ranger!" Flash spun around and suddenly found himself in a flurry of lazor fire which sent him flying off the road.

When Flash pulled himself up, his eyes went wide at who he saw.

"Just as planned," Cogs said as he moved over to the truck where pink Ranger had opened the case and pulled out the E-Tector. Next to him were some Shades and a monster made of dark blue metal, with a mirror for a face and on his stomach. On each arm was a round shield with mirrors on the front. "Nice work Reflector."

"It wasn't easy," the monster said as he turned to the Rangers, "these fakes weren't easy to make from the video footage." At that moment the four Rangers suddenly evaporated into thin air.

"Fake Rangers huh?" Flash said as he stood at a distance from them, "well now your facing a real one."

"One Ranger doesn't scare me," Cogs said, "get him Reflector." The monster charged and Flash, who in tern went into a battle stance as it drew closer. Finally they met and Flash tried to deal a few punches to the monster, but it just raised its shield and blocked them.

"There's no way your getting passed my shields," Reflector said.

Flash knew he was right, so instead he jumped back to a close distance and pulled out his blaster. "Then I'll go through it," he said as he span the barrel and fired off a few rounds at Reflector.

"Dark Reflection!" the monster held up one of his shield which glowed, as the blasts struck it and then went inside. He then held up his other shield which glowed before firing the same amount of lazors at Flash, which struck the red Ranger sending him flying off into a ditch.

"Nicely done," Cogs said.

"My mirror shields can absorb any attack thrown at them and send it back with twice the power," Reflector told him.

"We have their device," Cogs said, "now let's get out of here. Shades, make sure the red Ranger doesn't follow us."

The Shades nodded and went into the area where Flash had landed, but he was nowhere to be found.

Flash had gotten himself out of their line of sight after getting blasted.

He'd taken refuge in the trees, as he tried to recover from the blast but being unmorphed hadn't helped with that. "Guys," he called out trying his communicator, but the device just sparked and had obviously been damaged from the fight. Noticing the Shades drawing closer, Flash was forced to continue his escape.

One hour later.

After being abandoned the rest of the Rangers had used their Magicycles to get back to the base, where the rest of the gang were scanning the area for Flash's signal.

"Anything?" Lyra asked once they'd returned.

"Nothing," Twilight replied, "I've even tried calling him but nothing's working."

"His signal isn't showing up," Sunset replied, "I don't like this."

"I'm also scanning the city for any magical energy surges," Luna said, "just encase."

"When I talked to him," Sandal said, "Flash seemed to think he was with us."

"Whoever he was with," Sweetie said, "they were fooling him."

"We need to find him," Micro said.

"And the E-Tector," Starswirl said, "if Darklight ever managed to get his hands on it, then that would put the rest of the Elements in great danger."

"Got something," Luna called out at that moment, "city complex down town."

"Let's go," Lyra said as they rushed out the base.

"We need to find Flash," Twilight said, "if he's been hurt that makes him an easy target."

"Relax," Sunset told her, "Flash is tougher then you think."

Flash had finally managed to evade the Shades, who had finished their pursuit of him. His Element's magic had healed most of his injuries, leaving him almost back to full strength.

"Is anyone there?" Flash said trying his communicator again, but it was still not working. "Okay," he said, "let's try this old school." He went into his pocket and pulled out his phone, but couldn't get a signal. "Oh give me a break," he said before putting it away. "I need to get the E-Tector back."

He took out a Magi-Charger. "Magicycle, Rev It Up!" He clicked it and then threw it.

MAGICYCLE CHARGER...ENGAGED!

In a flash of light the Charger disappeared, replaced by the red bike with a dragon head. "Energise," Flash called out as he jumped into the air and in a flash of light, he was suited up and landed on the bike which he kicked into gear and shot off.

Meanwhile up on his ship, Darklight was speaking to Cogs through their communications channel.

"It's going just as I planned sir," Cogs said, "we have the Ranger's tracking device."

"That's good news Cogs," Darklight said, "now bring it to me and we'll use it to find the four remaining Elements. Once we do, the Rangers won't stand a chance against us and their Elements will be mine."

"I'm afraid I can't yet sir," Cogs said.

"What do you mean?"

"When the Rangers encoded the device, they reset it so it doesn't have the Elements energy signatures. The only way we can get it is if we reconnect it to the satellite they used, then the readings will reset."

"Very well," Darklight said, "do it but be quick. The Rangers will obviously try and get their machine back."

"I'll have Reflector keep an eye out."

"And I'll send Doom Raizer down to assist."

Meanwhile the Rangers were searching through the town where Luna had detected the magic surges.

"Anything?" Lyra asked.

"Nothing out of the ordinary," Micro replied.

"Me neither," Sweetie agreed.

"Zip," Sandal said.

"There has to be something," Lyra said.

"Looking for someone?" The Ranger spun around a gasped seeing Reflector standing a few feet away.

"Yeah," Sandal said once he'd recovered, "and it looks like we found him."

"You've found more then just one," Reflector said.

"What's he talking about?" Micro asked.

"Who cares," Lyra said, "let's just take him out. Magi-Charger!"

"Ready!" The Rangers activated their chargers and placed them in their blasters before spinning the barrels. "Energise...Unleash the Power." They pulled the trigger and fired off the blasters, causing them to be consumed by the light and suited up.

"Just what I was waiting for," Reflector said as his stomach mirror began to glow. One by one the Ranger's images appeared, before four lights shot out of the mirror and hit the ground as they took form. Finally the light faded revealing four new Rangers, identical to the origanal.

"What the?" Lyra said.

"Fake Rangers?" Sweetie asked.

"That must be how they tricked Flash," Micro guessed.

"Then let's pay them back," Sandal said.

"Mirror Rangers!" Reflector ordered, "attack!" The four fakes charged at the originals.

"Let's take these fakes," Lyra said as they charged forwards.

"Magitech!" they called on their weapons and made contact.

"Too easy," Sweetie commented as she blocked her copies punch with her shield, before slashing it down with her Spirit Sabre.

"Tell me about it," Micro said as he fired his Griffon Shooter at his copy, causing it to be sent flying back.

"You can copy the look," Sandal said as he slashed his with his Fenrir Fang.

"But you can't copy the skills," Lyra finished as she grabbed her fake in her staffs mouth and threw it into a nearby building.

The four Mirror Rangers didn't stand a chance and were quickly dispatched, allowing the Rangers to turn their attention back to Reflector.

"Give it up," Sweetie said, "you can throw a hundred fakes at us and we'll take them down."

"Is that so?" Reflector said, "that was only the first batch." In that second his stomach mirror glowed again and the process repeated, creating four new Mirror Rangers but these ones had copies of the Ranger's weapons.

"You had to say it didn't you?" Micro asked.

"This could go on forever," Lyra said as the new Mirror Rangers attacked, matching them move for move.

While his monster kept the Rangers busy, Cogs was busy trying to reconnect the E-Tector to the satellite in a hopes of retrieving the data needed to find the Elements.

"Cogs," the armoured monster turned to see Doom had arrived, "how's it going?"

"This is harder then I thought," Cogs said, "these humans are smarter then they look. It's still going to take me time to figure out the proper procedure needed to reestablish a link with the satellite, which is almost out of range to connect to."

"This is time we don't have," Doom said, "our sensors picked up the red Ranger arriving in town. If he joins up with the rest of his team, they might be able to defeat Reflector and come after you."

"Then you'd better make sure he doesn't join up with them."

"Right," Doom said before turning to leave.

True to what had been said, Flash was racing through town on his way back to Canterlot High.

It was at this moment he finally managed to get through to the others, as Twilight's face appeared in the corner of his visor. "FLASH!" she called out seeing him, "we were so worried."

"I'm fine," he replied, "but Cogs has the E-Tector. They fooled me-"

"With fake Rangers," Twilight butted in, "we know. The others are fighting them now, but they need your help."

"Send me the co-ordinates," Flash instructed.

"Already done."

Flash's visor buzzed with a GPS of the town, showing the area he needed to get to. "Got them," Flash replied, "tell them I'm almost there." However in that moment, he suddenly found himself being attacked by lightning which struck the road infront causing him to swerve. "WOW!" He yelled as he evaded.

"Your not going anywhere Ranger," Flash looked ahead and saw Doom Raizer standing there ready to fight him.

"It's him," Flash said.

"Flash?" Twilight called out, "what's wrong?"

"Gonna have to call you back," Flash said as he closed the channel and pulled his bike to a stop.

"So we finally meet," Doom said.

"I hoped we would," Flash replied as he got off his bike, "I've got some questions for you."

"My apologies for not caring," Doom said, "I'm only here to destroy you." And with that he charged forwards, swinging his sword towards the red Ranger.

"Magitech!" Flash called upon his Dragon Breaker to block the weapon, before pulling out his Spirit Sabre to slash as the monster who jumped away. As Doom charged once again Flash did the same, forgetting about his teammates.

Said teammates were beginning to grow wherry as they continued to fight themselves.

"Try this," Lyra said as she knocked her clone's Serpent Staff out of its hands, before using her staffs blade to slash it down.

"This takes self abuse to a whole new level," Sandal said as he traded blows with himself before finally getting passed the replicant Fenrir Fang and stabbing the fake.

Micro was having quite a trying time as he was forced to dodge his clones blasts. "Man that's annoying," he said before pulling out his Spirit Sabre, "hope this works." He charged towards his fake, who fired at him, while shooting his Griffon Shooter which hit the clone's blasts to cancel them out. Once close enough he swiped the fakes blaster out of its hands and then slashed it down. "I'm more then just a crack shot."

"Nice one Micro," Sweetie said as she and her copy seemed to move in perfect sync, as one slashed the other with their sabre while the other blocked with the shield. "Surprise," she said before throwing a kick at the fake, knocking its shield out of its hands, allowing her to then slash it down.

"You Rangers can't do this forever," Reflector said, "but I can." Once again his stomach mirror glowed, before releasing the four lights which took Ranger form once again.

"Oh come on," Lyra said.

"If this keeps up we'll run out of steam," Sandal said.

The Mirror Rangers charged towards them, forcing them to defend.

"We need to destroy his mirror," Micro said as he dodged a blast, "no mirror no fakes."

"But how?" Sweetie asked while blocking a sword strike, "we kind of have our hands full."

"We need Flash," Lyra said.

Flash at this moment was a little busy.

He and Doom were battling each other, clashing swords with one another. Whenever it seemed like on had the upper hand, the other would even it up somehow. Finally the two looked horns and were inches away from each other.

"Tell what you did to him!" Flash yelled.

"Did to who?" Doom asked.

"My dad," Flash said as he pushed the monster away, "you met him once. Ten years ago in the forest outside of town, my dad went in looking for some creature that had been spotted and never came out. People went searching for him but all they found was a journal, a journal with a drawing of you in it."

"Oh," Doom said before chuckling, "so your his son. I must admit I didn't see it before, but your the spitting image of him."

"So you do know him."

"Yes," Doom said, "and I look forward to seeing you make the same pained face he did, when I destroy you like I did him."

Flash's eyes widened in shock, before they burned with anger. "YOUR LYING!" he charged forwards and attacked Doom, who easily blocked him.

"I'm not," he said, "I hunted him for days, before finally catching him. Oh the sounds he made as I tore him apart, piece...by...piece."

"AAAARRRR!" Flash almost roared as his anger took over and he began slashing wildly at the monster, who could barely keep up with him and eventually felt his sword be knocked from his hands.

"Maybe that was a bad idea," Doom said before feeling Flash use his Dragon Breaker to smash him in the gut and sending him flying into a nearby wall.

With Doom down, Flash readied his Spirit Sabre to end it. Doom had no way of defending himself, so it would be easy for him to do so. As he drew near and raised his weapon, his communicator opened.

"FLASH!" Twilight's voice called out.

"What!?" Flash asked, annoyed that she'd interrupted.

"The others need your help. They won't last much longer."

Flash looked down at Doom, then back at where his friends were. He wanted more then anything to get revenge for his dad, but he knew his dad wouldn't want that if it meant his friends would be destroyed.

"I'll be right there," he said as he turned to leave.

"Hey!" Doom called out as he struggled to get up, "we're not finished here."

"I'll settle the score with you next time," Flash called back before running off to go help his friends.

Said friends were exhausted, after defeating what felt like the hundredth batch of Mirror Rangers.

"Here we go again," Reflector said as he created another load of the fake Rangers.

"I never though I'd say this," Micro said, "but I'm getting really sick of seeing myself."

"Agreed," the other three said.

"Attack my beautiful copies," Reflector said as the Mirror Rangers attack.

"Here we go again," Lyra said as they did battle once again, only now the Rangers were barely putting up a fight after so many battles.

"Those Rangers must be getting tired now," Reflector said, "a few more battles and they won't stand a chance against me."

"Think again," the monster turned and gasped seeing Flash leap at him, Dragon Breaker at the ready. "Head Smash," with one great punch Flash shattered the mirror in his stomach, which sent Reflector flying.

"Flash!" Lyra cheered seeing him.

"Sorry I'm late," Flash said, "but he won't be making anymore copies."

"That's good," Micro said.

"Finish them and let's go get the E-Tector," Flash ordered.

"Right," the four said as they battled with new vigour. Finally the four Rangers were able to bring down the duplicates for the final time.

When Reflector managed to stand himself back up, he looked down at his stomach and gasped seeing his shattered mirror. "No, my Rangers."

"Nothing left but the originals," he looked around and saw the five Rangers ready to finish him.

Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded."

GUARDIAN BUSTER...RED CHARGE!

"It won't work," Reflector said raising his shield, "anything you throw at me, my shield will just send back."

What he didn't know was that Flash, remembering what happened last time, had aimed for the ground in front of him.

As the weapon charged, the Ranger took their positions. "Guardian Buster, Dragon Blast...FIRE!" Flash pulled the trigger and a single powerful blast shot out, which morphed into the shape of the Dragon Zord's head.

It struck the ground infront of Reflector, sending him flying by the force of the explosion.

"Now's our chance to finish him," Flash said.

Up on his ship, Darklight was watching the battle.

"No," he said, "Cogs needs more time." He looked at a Shade and cried out, "fire the Gigatisor!"

The Shade nodded and ran over to the button and hit it, releasing the growing machine which fired.

The Rangers were preparing to finally take down Reflector but at that moment the Gigatisor's beam struck the monster, causing an explosion. In its wake was left a giant Reflector.

"How'd you like me now?" the massive monster asked as he looked down at the Rangers.

"Just more of you to hate," Flash said as he, Micro and Sweetie pulled out their Magi-Chargers.

"Summon Zords," the Dragon, Sphinx and Manticore Chargers flew into the air towards their Zords.

MAGI-CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zords activated and emerged from their hiding spots, before rushing to the Ranger's location

"Let's bring them together," Flash ordered.

ZORDS COMBINED...GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, MANTI-SPHINX FORMATION...READY!

The Rangers warped into the Megazord and prepared for battle.

"Let's crack this mirror," Lyra said.

"I hear that," Micro agreed.

"Battle Mode," Flash said as the Zord activated.

"You think I'm scared," Reflector said as he raised his shields, "you may have shattered my duplication mirror, but my Mirror Shields will return any attack you throw at me."

"He's right guys," Flash told the others, "I've seen first hand how powerful it is."

"We'll just have to find a way around it," Lyra said.

"Let's do this," Sweetie said.

The Megazord charged forwards and swung the Tail Whip at the monster, but it simply raised its duel shields to block the attacks.

"I told you," Reflector said, "my shields can defend against anything."

"Maybe," Sandal said, "but they can only protect against attacks from the front." He pulled out his Magi-Charger before clicking and throwing it. "Summon Fenrir Zord!"

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The wolf Zord's eyes opened as it activated and emerged from its hiding spots, before rushing to the Megazord's aid.

Reflector was currently smashing the Megazord with its round shields. "Just give up," he said, "you can't beat me."

"Think again," Sandal said. At that moment the Fenrir Zord appeared and used its bladed tail, to slash at the monster from behind.

"WHAT!?" Reflector asked as he was thrown forward.

"How'd you like that," Sandal said.

"Nice one Sandal," Sweetie said.

"We'll follow your lead," Lyra said as she and Micro pulled out their Chargers. "Summon, Sea-Serpent Zord."

"Summon, Griffon Zord."

The chargers flew off towards their respective Zords.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The Zords activated and emerged from their hiding spots, before rushing to join the rest of their team.

"It's a Zord stampede," Reflector said seeing the Zords surrounding him.

"And your about to be trampled," Flash said, "ALL OUT ATTACK!"

"Sea-Serpent Zord," Lyra called out, "Fang Flash." The large snake Zord struck the giant's arm with its sharp teeth, holding it in place.

"Fenrir Zord," Sandal ordered as his Zord copied Lyra's and bit Reflectors other arm and pulled it away as the Sea-Serpent did the same, leaving him defenceless.

"Get off me," Reflector said as he tried to pull his arms free, but couldn't.

"Griffon Zord," Micro called out, "FIRE!" The Zord fired its lazers at the monster, who was unable to defend itself with its arms caught.

The blasts struck him and caused him to be sent flying, as the Zords released him, before crashing down on the ground. "This isn't going well," Reflector said as he pulled himself up.

"It's about to get worse," Flash said as the Megazord swung its Tail Whip towards him and wrapped itself around Reflector.

"What the?" Reflector struggled but his arms were tied to his sides.

"Let's finish this," Flash said as they all moved and spoke in sync, calling out their final attack. "Manticore Tail Swipe!"

The Megazord spun around, lifting the monster into the air before letting him go flying. Then it swung the Manticore tail and let it rip, sending it flying towards Reflector, who was incapable of protecting himself in midair, causing the tail to impaled him.

"I thought breaking mirrors was suppose to bring you bad luck," Reflector said before he exploded.

"Guardian Rangers," Flash called out, "victory is ours."

Darklight watched as his monster was destroyed. Quickly switching the feed he contacted Cogs.

"The Rangers are going to be back on the hunt for you," he told him, "you need to finish what your doing and return to the ship."

"I just need a few more minutes," Cogs replied, "the satellite it reconnecting with the device. We'll have everything we need then."

"Well hurry up," Darklight said before cutting the call.

As soon as the battle was over the Rangers rushed back to the area where they'd fought Reflector and his fakes.

"If Reflector was there," Micro said pointing to the spot the monster had been before spinning around, "and we were there."

"Then Cogs had gotta be over that way," Flash agreed. They rushed off towards the area they theorised and looked around until.

"There!" Sweetie pointed towards a high up bridge where Cogs was busy fiddling with the E-Tector.

"What's he doing?" Sandal asked.

"He must be reconnecting it to the satellite to get the Element's signatures," Micro said, "if he get that they'll be able to find all the Elements."

"Then we've gotta stop him," Flash said, "come on."

As the Rangers rushed towards him, Cogs watched as the satellite began transferring the data they'd need. "Almost there," he said, "just a few more seconds."

"We're not gonna make it," Lyra said as they ran.

"The second he has what he needs he'll warp away," Sandal said as they came to a stop.

"No choice," Flash said as he turned to Micro. "I hate to ask you to do this but-"

"I know," Micro said, "but I'd rather my E-Tector be destroyed then have them use it." He stepped forwards and pulled out his Morphin Blaster.

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

Micro inserted his Charger and took aim towards the E-Tector before pulling the trigger.

The E-Tector beeped as it finally had what it needed to find the Elements. "Finally," Cogs cheered, but in the second the E-Tector was blasted by Micro and exploded. "NO!" he said looking down at the machine.

"It's over Cogs," he turned around and saw the Rangers leap up onto the bridge to face him.

"You'll pay for this," Cogs said as a telebolt struck him and warped him away.

With him gone the Rangers gathered around the destroyed E-Tector. "Aw man," Micro said as he picked it up.

"We're sorry Micro," Sweetie said placing an hand on his shoulder.

"It's better this way," Micro said though he didn't seem happy.

Up on the ship, Darklight wasn't happy.

"You had the device and you let it get destroyed?" He asked Cogs angrily.

"I know I messed up," Cogs said, "but it's not a total loss. I managed to study the device thoroughly and I know I can rebuild it."

"You think so?" Darklight asked, "I'll believe that when I see it."

A little while later the Rangers had returned to the base.

Micro, Twilight and Sunset were looking over the E-Tector as it laid on the table in a billion bits.

"So you think you can fix it?" Lyra asked.

"Not sure," Sunset replied, "it looks like several important parts were vaporised by the blast."

"It's not impossible," Twilight said, "but getting the part we need might be tricky."

"Even if you can't rebuild it," Starswirl said, "you made the right decision in the heat of the moment. The other Elements might be in Darklight's hands right now if it had not been for you."

Meanwhile Flash was sitting at one of the tables, looking at his father's journal.

"Flash," he looked up at Celestia, "are you okay."

Flash just looked back down at his book and sighed. "When I was facing Doom Raizer, I asked about my dad and he said he..." He didn't even want to say it.

"Don't believe a word that monster tells you," Celestia said.

"Yeah," Sandal said as he and the others gathered around him.

"Doom Raizer would say anything if he thinks it would make you lower your guard against him," Starswirl told him.

"But it explains everything," Flash said as he opened up the journal to the page with Doom Raizer. "If he was lying then what really happened to my dad?"

"I don't know," Starswirl said, "but whatever it was, we'll find out."

"Together," Lyra agreed.

Flash smiled hearing this. He stood up and held out his fist.

"Yeah," he said, "if today proved anything, it proves we're unstoppable when we're together."

The rest of the Rangers nodded and each brought their own fists to meet his, forming a circle.

"No matter what, we're a team and as a team we're invincible. We're-"

They all threw their arms into the air and yelled in unison, "POWER RANGERS!"

As everyone cheered Flash looked down at his father's journal. They were right, there's noway his father would lose to Doom Raizer. He was out there somewhere and he'd find him, one day.

Author's Note

For those not able to follow my terrible descriptions, Reflector is just Mercurymon with blue in place of green.

Honey I Shrunk the Rangers

Once again we find ourselves up on Darklight's ship, where he, Doom and Heart were watching Cogs work on a device. It looked like the Ranger's E-Tector, only it was black instead of silver in colour.

"Our new detector is almost complete," Cogs said.

"Excellent," Darklight said, "once it's finished we can begin scanning the planet for the remaining Elements."

"And how exactly do you intend to do that?" Heart asked, "when you never got the energy signatures you needed to do find them."

"I have that figured out," Cogs said, "but in order to complete the tracker, I need one more part I can't build."

"Then we'll need to find someone who can," Doom said.

"And where exactly do we find them?" Heart asked.

"Leave that to me," Cogs said, "all I need is somebody to keep the Rangers distracted should they show up."

Darklight hummed for a moment as he though it over. "I know exactly who to send," he said, "a pair of monsters that are guaranteed to cut those Rangers down to size." He turned and left the bridge, heading for the cell block."

"I wonder who he's getting?" Doom asked.

"We'll find out soon enough," Cogs said.

Down on earth we find the Rangers in their base.

Micro, Sunset and Twilight were working to repair their destroyed E-Tector, while the rest of the Rangers were doing some weaponless combat training.

"Hope your ready," Sandal said to Flash.

"Let's find out," Flash said before he charged forward and threw a punch, which Sandal caught at the wrist before tossing him to the side. "Okay," Flash said, "try this." He used an uppercut but Sandal just caught it again, before throwing him a few feet away. "Fine," he said, "that's how you want to play it." He charged forward and did a roundhouse kick, which Sandal caught. "Oh come on," Flash said.

Sandal smiled and placed another hand on Flash's leg, before throwing Flash all the way across the room.

"Woah," Micro said when he and the girls ducked, as Flash flew over their heads and into a nearby wall.

"You okay?" Twilight asked him.

Flash was currently upside down against the wall. "Ask me again when the world stops spinning," he said sounding dizzy.

"Who's next?" Sandal asked. He looked towards Lyra and Sweetie, who both smiled and held up their arms in surrender.

"We're good," Lyra said.

"Really good," Sweetie said.

"Oh yeah," Sandal said, "I am the fighting champion!"

"You know," Flash said as he got up, "being the 'fighting champion' implies that you actually fight, not just throw your weight around."

"That was fighting," Sandal said. "Fighting's all about the stronger one coming out on top."

"Being strong is good," they all turned to see Starswirl had been watching, "but strength alone will not always guarantee you victory. Strategy and planning can be just as useful."

"That might work for most," Sandal said, "but when your as strong as me that's all you need. After all, I'm the Element of Willpower."

"Willpower is the form of inner strength," Starswirl replied, "physical strength has nothing to do with it. One day you'll come up against an opponent who is far stronger then you are, and you realise that pure power isn't everything."

While this was going on Micro was putting the finishing touches to the repaired E-Tector.

"How's it going?" Celestia asked the trio of teens.

"We're almost done," Sunset said.

"We're just missing one component," Twilight said.

"Which one?" Flash asked.

"When we built the E-Tector," Micro explained, "we used pieces from both mine and Twilight's trackers. My tracker, I'd been building for years and the components for it were all from different companies and models. One such component, a necessary one, is a chip that went out of circulation two years ago."

"And without it the E-Tector is useless?" Sweetie asked.

"Pretty much," Twilight explained.

"So we can't complete the E-Tector," Rainbow said.

"There has to be someway to finish it," Rarity said.

"What about the ones who made the chip?" Fluttershy asked, "maybe they have a spare one or could tell you how to build one yourself."

"That's a great idea," Sunset said.

"So who built the origanal one," Applejack asked.

"Give me a second," Micro said as he moved over to a computer and started typing away. After a few moments of searching he came up with, "Buffalo Labs."

"That's in Cloudsdale," Twilight said.

"Looks like we're going on a road trip," Flash said.

"Rangers," Starswirl said, "you head to Buffalo Labs and see what you can find."

"I'll go to," Twilight said, "I've always wanted to see Buffalo Labs."

"Very well," Starswirl said.

"I'll stay behind and see if I can't build something to replace the chip if you can't get one," Sunset said.

"Let's head out," Flash said as the Rangers held out their hands to take their Elements and headed out with Twilight.

(Cloudsdale)

Buffalo Labs, one of the Buffalo Industries most prised ventures, was one of the best tech developers on this side of the company. The scientists there were always coming up with new ideas to further the future.

But today was different.

In the reception a lady was sitting at a desk reading a magazine, when suddenly she heard the door open. Looking up she saw it was the head of the labs Professor Beaker, a man with green skin, red hair and moustache wearing a lab coat.

"Hello professor," she said, "have a nice vacation?"

"Indeed I did," Beaker said, "I even have some pictures I'll be making a slideshow with after work."

"That sound fun," she said.

Beaker nodded and headed up leaving the receptionist to her magazine, however a few minutes later the or opened again.

Putting down her magazine she turned to the door and said, "welcome to Buffalo...Labs." Three figures stepped into the building, cloaked in brown hooded cloaks which concealed them. One was very tall, the second was normal height and the last was quite short.

"Hello," the normal height one said, "we'd like to know how to get a Skyline 30 Mega Chip."

"Okay," the receptionist said before typing away at her computer, "I'm sorry but that model has been outmoded."

"I see," the figure said, "and there's no way to get one."

"I afraid not," she said.

"Very well," he said, "I didn't want to have to do this but." He pulled off his cloak, along with the other two, revealing Cogs and two monsters.

"AAAARRRR!"

"Here we are," Flash said to Twilight and Lyra as they arrived in Cloudsdale, "which way to the place?"

Twilight was using her phone as a GPS. "Turn left here," they followed her instructions and soon they started seeing signs for Buffalo Labs. Arriving there they parked up, Sandal doing the same and parking right next to them, before getting out and looking the building over.

"So this is the place?" Sweetie asked as she jumped out the back of Sandal's truck.

"Yep," Micro said, "somewhere in there is the part we need."

"Then let's head in and see if we can find it," Flash said. They headed for the door, but when Flash tried to open it he found it wouldn't budge. "What the?" He rattled the door but it was defiantly locked.

"That's odd," Twilight said, "their website says they should be open to the public right now."

"Is it some kind of holiday?" Sweetie asked.

"I don't think so," Lyra said.

Flash looked through the door's glass and when he did his eyes went wide. "Everyone hide," he turned and pushed them all away from the door and made them hide in some bushes planted along the side of the building.

"What'd you see?" Micro asked.

Flash didn't say anything and instead pointed towards the door. They waited for a moment and suddenly the door opened and out walked a Shade, who looked around before stepping back into the building.

"What's a Shade doing here?" Twilight asked.

"Maybe," Micro said, "their here for the same reason as us."

"What?" Sandal asked.

"Cogs had the E-Tector for a while. He might have memorised its design and built his own, but he must be missing the same part as us."

"Just another reason to get in there and stop them," Flash said.

"But how?" Sweetie asked, "they locked the doors."

"But not the windows," Lyra said pointing to one not to far off which was opened.

Inside the building, a janitors closet opened and out stepped Micro and Sweetie who had been the only ones able to enter through the window.

They were careful not to be seen as they crept through the building, making sure to avoid the Shades as they patrolled the corridors and rushed to the door. Once the coast was clear they unlocked it and the rest came in and hid in a closet so they could make a plan.

"Great work you two," Flash said.

"I guess being small has its advantages," Sweetie said.

"So what's the plan?" Lyra asked.

"First things first we need to make sure the employees are all safe," Flash explained, "then once their out of here we kick butt."

"Got it," they said.

"We'll split up," Flash continued, "Me and Micro, Sweetie and Lyra, Twilight and Sandal. Stick to the shadows, if you have to fight then do but if you feel overwhelmed then get out of there. Ready?"

"Ready," they others said.

"Break." With that they rushed out the door and went in search of the employees.

Flash and Micro hit the staircase, rushing up it to the next floor. They both had their Blasters at the ready just encase.

Lyra and Sweetie headed up to the third floor in the elevator, making sure to hide around the sides just encase the Shades were there when they opened but they weren't.

"Nothing on the third floor," Lyra told Flash over the coms.

"Same on the second," Flash said, "what about you Sandal?"

"Er, me and Twilight found the employees on the fourth floor."

"Great," Micro said.

"Not exactly."

Sandal and Twilight had made it to the fourth floor and found Cogs and two monster standing in the middle of the room, next to a table with several glass jars on it.

Inside those jars were people, only they were about three inches tall.

"That could be problematic," Twilight said.

"How's that even possible?" Sandal asked.

"No clue," Twilight said, "it must be one of those monsters."

Inside the room Cogs was looking over his many captives.

In his hand was a jar with a single person inside, Prof Beaker, who he was interrogating. "Now," he said gently shaking the jar to make the Professor trip up, "I'll ask again. Where is the Skyline 30 Mega Chip?"

"I told you," Beaker said, "it's out of production. The only way to get one is from someone who's already bought one."

"And how do you expect me to do that?" Cogs asked angrily.

"I don't know," Beaker said in terror.

"Your trying my patience," Cogs told him. He placed the jar one the table and turned to the taller of his two monsters and nodded.

The monsters appeared to be feminine with white armour. A strange device was strapped on each of their right arms and a clawed gauntlet was on the left. The taller monster stepped forwards and pointed its device at the jar.

"No please," Beaker said.

"Last chance," Cogs said, "tell me or be shrunk to oblivion."

"NOOO!" Beaker screamed.

It was at that moment Cogs and his monsters found himself in a flurry of lazer fire, causing them to turn and see Sandal standing there with his blaster.

"Let...him...go!" Sandal said.

"The green Ranger," Cogs said, "what are you doing here?"

"Same as you," Sandal said, "now let the people go."

"I don't think so," Cogs said, "you haven't met my new friends. Mini and Maxine, get him."

"Very well," the taller one said, "lets do this Maxine."

"Okay Mini," the shorter one said.

They held up the devices on their arms and started firing pink beams. Sandal barely dodged the blasts and as he did he noticed that whatever the beams hit changed in size, either growing bigger or shrinking.

"Get him," Cogs said as he turned to the table, only to gasp seeing Prof Beaker's jar gone. Looking around he saw it floating away, towards Twilight who was levitating the jar. "Oh no you don't!" he yelled as he pulled out his axe and ran towards her.

Twilight screamed as she backed away as Cogs drew closer, causing her to drop the Professor's jar which Cogs caught and placed on the table. "Get back," Twilight said as she levitated some office equipment which she threw at Cogs, who slashed them away while the Shades closed in.

"TWILIGHT!" they all turned to see the rest of the Rangers arrive, blasters at the ready, before firing at the Shades. "Get out of there," Flash told her.

Twilight nodded and ran towards the doors.

"Don't let her escape," Cogs ordered.

Hearing this, Mini turned from Sandal and fired a beam at Twilight, hitting her in the back.

"Twilight!" Lyra yelled as she and Flash rushed over to her, only to be hit by Mini's beams. The three glowed pink before they felt the world around them grow larger, as they grew smaller.

"That's not good," Micro said as he and Sweetie saw them shrink.

"Your next," Mini said as she fired at the distracted Rangers, hitting them and causing them to shrink.

"Guys!" Sandal yelled as his friends were made play sized.

"And then there was one," Cogs said as his axe glowed and when he swung it he launched an energy wave which struck Sandal, sending him flying as Mini fired a beam which hit him as he hit the wall and crashed through it.

As the realisation of what had just happened struck him, Cogs could barely believe it. "We beat the Rangers."

"What now?" Maxine asked.

Cogs turned to see the Shades around the room place jars on the ground. Seconds later they lifted them up to reveal five shrunken teens banging on the glass of their jars. "Only five?" he asked looking into the jars and finding the green Ranger missing, "find the green Ranger. Don't let him escape. place the others with the rest."

As the Shades placed them on the table, the Rangers and Twilight shared a scared glance.

"What do we do?" Sweetie asked.

"Bust out of here," Flash said as he pulled out his Magi-Charger and clicked it, but the device didn't activate. "What the?"

"We must be to small," Micro said, "they must not be able to connect to the grid at this size."

"Then what do we do?" Twilight asked.

"Hope Sandal can get us out of here," Flash said.

Sandal's head was killing him as he regained consciousness.

Sitting up he saw nothing but black, making him worry as he wondered where he was. Suddenly light was everywhere, as the sky was suddenly lifted up which turned out to be a piece of wall. Standing there was a giant Shade, who looked down at him.

"Oh nuts," Sandal said as he got up and started running as fast as he could.

The Shade tried to grab him, but Sandal manged to evade him and hide under a filing cabinets. The Shade tried to move it but by the time it did, Sandal was gone. Looking around the Shade couldn't see Sandal anywhere.

Sandal had taken refuge in a vent that had been behind the cabinet, where he stayed absolutely quite for fear of the Shade finding him. Once the Shade finally left, Sandal breathed a sigh of relief. "Okay Sandal," he told himself, "your three inches tall, your friends are trapped in jars and if you don't do something Darklight will have not only their Elements but the means to get the others. But how am I gonna do anything at this size? My strength's gone."

Sandal slide down to a sitting position as he felt his hope disappear, until something flew into his head. What Starswirl had said to him that morning about strength and power only getting you so far, and how strategy can be just as powerful. "Strategy," he said to himself, "it's worth a shot." With that he picked himself up and headed further into the vent, hoping to find another outlet near where his friends were.

Meanwhile Cogs was continuing to interrogate Prof Beaker.

"Now where were we?" Cogs asked, "oh yes you were about to tell me where to find the part I need."

"I told you," Beaker said, "the chips out of commission."

"Well you'd better find a way to get me one," Cogs said, "or your employees will suffer for it." He picked up a jar with several people in it, before raising his axe and holding it close to the jar.

"NO!" Beaker yelled.

"Don't do this," Flash yelled as he banged on the glass of his jar.

"Quite," Cogs said, "now what's it gonna be?"

"I..I," Beaker said, "okay."

"Very good," Cogs said as he put the jar down, "now tell me."

"Like I said the chip's no longer being made," Beaker said, "but we have the blue prints on file."

"Very good," Cogs said as he picked up the jar and tipped it on the ground so beaker tumbled out. "Maxine."

"Okay," Maxine said as she pointed he device at the professor and fired a pink beam. Seconds later Beaker began to grow until he was what the Rangers assumed was his normal height.

"Now," Cogs said as he grabbed Beaker by the lab coat, "get that file."

"I'll need to be at my main computer terminal to get it," Beaker said.

"Then lead the way," Cogs replied. "Mini, your with me. Maxine, guard the prisoners."

"Okay," Maxine said as her sister followed Cogs and the Professor out of the room.

"We're running out of time," Twilight said.

"Whatever Sandal's gonna do he needs to do it quick," Micro said.

"He'll do it," Lyra said, "have faith in him."

What they didn't know was that Sandal had been watching from the vents.

"Come on think," He said thinking. Looking down he noticed Maxine sitting on a chair, looking rather bored as she tapped the glass on one of the jars. It was then that an idea popped into his head.

If he could get to the device on her arm, maybe he could grow his team and together they could beat the monsters. He just need a way to do that without being seen. Looking around he noticed a thermostat just bellow him, which gave him another idea.

Opening the grate of the vent he jumped down and landed on the water cooler next to the device, before carefully moving over to it and began slowly turning the dial. Second by second the heat in the room began to raise.

With nothing to do but watch some prisoners who weren't doing anything and the room growing hotter, Maxine slowly began to grow more and more tired until finally she fell asleep at the table.

"Perfect," Sandal said.

Seeing a Shade walking passed him, Sandal jumped from the water cooler onto its shoulder. The Shade hadn't noticed him and Sandal slowly crept onto its other shoulder just as it passed the table, which he leaped onto.

"Sandal," Flash cheered.

"Shush," Sandal said, "don't wake her up." He slowly moved over to Maxine and climbed onto her wrist device, which only had one button. "Here goes," he said pressing the button and firing a beam that hit the five jars with the Rangers and Twilight in while he jumped infront. As they bathed in the beam they felt themselves begin to slowly grow, until they broke out the jars and were free.

"What the?" Maxine yelled as she was awakened. Looking up and the six normal sized teens she gulped.

Cogs meanwhile was with Mini and Beaker as the professor worked on retrieving the specs for the chip. It had taken a while to find the info they'd needed and now they were uploading it onto the flash drive.

"How much longer?" Cogs asked.

"There's a lot of data that needs to be uploaded," Beaker told him. "A few more minutes and it'll be done."

"It better," Cogs said.

BOOM!

Suddenly a massive blast echoed through the building.

"That can't be good," Cogs said before turning to Mini. "Go see what's happening."

"Of course," Mini said. She rushed out the room towards where the prisoners were being kept and just as she was about to enter, the wall exploded and out of it shot Maxine. "Sister," she kneeled down to her.

"Mini," Maxine said in a whimper, "they took it."

"Took what?" Mini asked.

"This," she looked up and gasped. The five Rangers stood on the other side of the wall, in Sandal's hands was Maxine's enlarger.

"How dare you take my sister's weapon," she said getting up.

"Considering it was the only way to get the others back to normal," Lyra said, "can you blame us."

"I'll make you pay for this," Mini said.

"Let's find out," Sandal said. "Magi-Charger!"

"Ready," the Rangers said as they took out their Chargers and clicked them on, before placing them in their Morphin Blasters. "Energise!" They said spinning the barrel before pointing them up, "Unleash the Power!" Pulling the trigger they unleashed the five heads, which flew around them before biting down and decking them out in their Ranger Suits.

Mini growled seeing them like this.

"Let's do this," Sandal said as they struck a pose.

Flash: Element of Courage...Power Ranger, RED!

Lyra: Element of Trust...Power Ranger, BLUE!

Micro: Element of Knowledge...Power Ranger, YELLOW!

Sweetie: Element of Love...Power Ranger, PINK!

Sandelwood: Element of Will...Power Ranger, GREEN!

All: Protectors of right, ready to fight!

Flash: Power Rangers!

All: GUARDIANS!

"Shades," Mini yelled, "attack!" The Shades entered the room and charged at the Rangers.

"Magitech!" The Rangers called upon their weapons and charged forwards the Shades.

"Twilight," Flash called out as he blocked a Shade's attack, "take the hostages and get out of here."

"Right," Twilight said.

"Here," Sandal yelled tossing her Maxine's enlarger, "unshrink when your to safety."

"Got it," Twilight said before using her magic to levitate the jars into the air and heading to the door, the Rangers keeping her safe.

"Let's do this," Flash said once Twilight was gone, "Head Smash!" He punched the Shade away.

"Power Slash!" Sandal slashed several Shades with his Sabre and Fenrir Fang.

"Griffon Shooter," Micro yelled as he blasted the Shades away.

Sweetie and Lyra were busy fighting Mini. The monster swung her clawed gauntlet at them, but Sweetie defended against it with her shield allowing Lyra to hit her with her staff.

"Hey," Maxine yelled getting up and swinging her own claw at them, "no one hurts my sister."

"Woah," Lyra said as she evaded the monsters attacks.

"Protect your kneecaps," Sweetie joked.

Mini got back up and together she and Maxine began attacking the blue and pink Rangers. Mini attacked Sweetie who blocked the claws, while Lyra tried to fight at a distance from the short monster.

"Girls move," they heard Flash say, making them do as they were told and jumped out of the way. Flash, Sandal and Micro were standing there with their Morphin Blasters, which they fired at the two blasting them back through a wall.

"Good timing," Lyra said.

"Thanks," Sandal said, "what's say we end this."

"I hear that," Flash said as he took out a Magi-Charger. "Magi-Charger!" he held up the device and clicked the button, "Ready. Guardian Buster, activate." He threw the Charger in the air before it transformed into the super weapon, which he caught and activated.

Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded." Sandal placed his into the main compartment and shut it, the white streaks changing to green.

GUARDIAN BUSTER...GREEN CHARGE!

As Mini and Maxine got up they saw the Rangers readying their weapon. "This doesn't look good," Mini said.

"I'm scared," Maxine said as she clutched her sister.

As the weapon charged, the Ranger took their positions. "Guardian Buster, Fenrir Blast...FIRE!" Flash pulled the trigger and a single powerful blast shot out, which morphed into the shape of the Fenrir Zord's head as it flew at the two. Seconds before it hit them, the head changed direction and began flying in random directions while slashing at the monsters. This went on for several seconds until it caused a major explosion around the two. The blast sent Mini and Maxine flying back, through several walls and then through a window out of the building.

Meanwhile...

The download was almost complete and Cogs would soon have what he needed to complete his device.

BOOM!

"What now," Cogs asked looking out the window and gasping, his eyes widening, at the sight of his monsters being blasted out of the building. "Those cursed Rangers." He turned back to the computer and saw the screen showing the download complete. "At least one good thing came out of this," he said as he removed the flash drive from the slot. "With this I'll be able to complete the tracker and find the rest of the Elements, then those Rangers won't stand a chance."

"My ears are burning," Cogs turned around and saw the Rangers standing at the entrance of the room, their weapons ready.

"You don't scare me," Cogs said as he raised his axe.

"let's see about that," Sandal said as he raised his weapons, "surround him."

They did so and soon had Cogs backed into a corner.

Seeing he was in trouble Cogs began swinging his axe wildly, trying to hit all the Rangers at once.

"Sorry Cogs," Sandal said as he grabbed the axe blade between his Fenrir Fang's two blades, "but pure power alone isn't always enough to win." Thrusting the Fenrir Fang up he dislodged the axe from the monsters hand, "you need stratagy."

The four other Rangers chose that moment to leap at Cogs with their Spirit Sabres and slashed him in four different places.

Up on his ship Darklight growled seeing his science officer being beaten.

"We can't let the Rangers destroy Cogs," Darklight said, "I need his know how and his tracker."

"Why not give him a diversion," Heart said.

"Meaning?"

"Give them something to deal with that's more important then destroying Cogs," Heart said.

"Good point," Darklight said before turning to a Shade, "fire the Gigatisor!"

The Shade nodded and ran over to the button and hit it, releasing the growing machine which fired.

Back at Buffalo Labs the Rangers had Cogs down for the count.

"It's over Cogs," Flash said, "hand over the flash drive."

"Don't make us destroy you," Lyra said.

"Never," Cogs said, "you just have to destroy me."

The Rangers would have done it, but in that second the Gigatisor's beam shot down and caused an explosion. In its wake were two huge versions of Mini and Maxine.

"Now who's the tiny one?" Maxine asked.

"Looky here," Mini said pointing at a group on the ground.

Twilight had managed to unshrink the rest of the labs employees, but now they were once again at the mercy of giant monsters.

"We need to save them," Flash said.

"You do that," Cogs said jumping up and pushing through them.

"Hey," Micro said.

"Leave him," Flash said, "let's deal with the bigger problem."

"Right," Micro said as he and Sandal stepped up next to Flash and pulled out their Magi-Chargers.

"Summon Zords," the Dragon, Griffon and Fenrir Chargers flew into the air towards their Zords.

MAGI-CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zords activated and emerged from their hiding spots, before rushing to the Ranger's location.

"Let's bring them together," Flash ordered.

ZORDS COMBINED...GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, FENRIR-GRIFFON FORMATION...READY!

The Rangers warped into the Megazord and prepared for battle.

"You don't stand a chance against the two of us," Mini said as she charged forward, her claws raised.

"We'll see about that," Sandal said as the Megazord raised its Fenrir arm, using its blade to block the claws.

"Well what are you gonna do about me?" Maxine asked as she charged forward.

"How about this?" Micro said as the Megazord turned sideways and aimed the Griffon arm at her and fired a flurry of lazers.

"Hey," Maxine screamed as she danced around the blasts, "no fair."

"I'll make you pay for that," Mini said as she jumped back and aimed her shrinker at the Megazord. "This'll cut you down to size," she fired the pink beam.

"I don't think so," Flash said as the Megazord did a one eighty and started firing the Griffon Zord. The blasts met in midair and cancelled each other out, but the Megazord's blasts fired quicker and eventually one fired before Mini's and struck her shrinker, destroying it.

"NO!" she said seeing her precious device being wreaked.

"Now we don't have to worry about being shrunk," Sandal cheered.

Back on the ground Cogs was watching the battle and frowned seeing the outcome.

"Those two need some help," he said, "I'll just have to put the odds in our favour. Shades arise and merge to form Shadzilla." Several Shades appeared and bunched up before being surrounded by shadows which soon took the form of three giant black reptiles.

The Rangers noticed this and frowned.

"Those things again," Flash said.

The Shadzillas charged, forcing the Megazord to defend against them and causing them to be open.

"Surprise," Maxine said as she and Mini charged forward and slashed the Megazord with their claws, knocking it down.

"This is bad," Lyra said.

"There's to many of them," Sweetie agreed.

"We need to even the odds," Sandal said.

"Then that's what we'll do," Flash said, "Lyra, Micro, Sweetie."

"On it!" the three said, before pulling out their Magi-Chargers and activating them. "Summon Zords!"

The Chargers flew through the air, towards their respective Zords.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

MANTICORE CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The three Zords activated and emerged from their hiding spots, before rushing to join the rest of their team.

"Zord Stampede!" The Rangers called as the three Zords arrived and each attacked a separate Shadzilla, leaving Mini and Maxine for the Rangers.

"No fair," Maxine cried seeing the upper hand disappear.

"All's fair in love and war," Sweetie said.

"Let's do this," Lyra said.

""Fenrir Zord," Sandal called out, "Fang Blade!" The Megazord swiped the bladed arm at Mini, knocking her back.

"Griffon Zord," Micro called out, "Fire!" The Megazord fired its lazors at Maxine.

"Hey," the shorter monsters screamed.

"How dare you," Mini screamed as she charged forwards, but the Megazord swung around and kicked her in the abdomen.

"AAAARRRR!" Maxine screamed as she charged forward, but the Megazord just fired a single blast which struck her arm and destroyed her gauntlet. "My claws."

"Now's our chance," Flash said, "let's take her down."

"Right," the other agreed. They all moved and spoke in sync, calling out their final attack. "Griffon Zord...Fenrir Zord, Blast Cutter!"

"NO!" Maxine yelled before she was struck by the attack, which exploded on impact. "Mini," she said before collapsing in an explosion.

"MAXINE!" Mini screamed seeing her little sister be destroyed.

"Don't be to upset," Sandal said, "you're about to join her."

Mini turned to the Rangers with hate in her eyes, before they wen't wide seeing that the Shadzillas being destroyed by the Zords, who now rushed besides the Megazord.

"Zords," Flash called out, "all out attack!" The Megazord fired another Blast Cutter, while the separate Zord used their own attacks. Mini suddenly felt herself being blasted slashed and claws at, the force of which was to much.

"I'm sorry Maxine," were her last words before she too met her end in an explosion.

The Rangers all cheered at their victory.

"Guardian Rangers," Sandal said, "victory is ours."

Down bellow Cogs wasn't to thrilled at this.

"Darn it," he said, "they may have destroyed two of our monsters." He held up the flash drive he'd taken from Professor Beaker, "but I still have this."

With that a telebolt flew down and warped him back to the ship.

After there battle the Rangers rushed down to meet up with Twilight and the rest of the Buffalo Labs employees.

"Is everyone alright?" Flash asked looking around.

"We're fine," they turned to see Prof Beaker walking up to them, "Thanks to you."

"Just doing our job," Lyra said.

"And I thank you for that," Beaker said.

"It's to bad that Cogs managed to get away with the data he wanted," Micro said.

"You let him get away?" Twilight asked.

"We had to," Sweetie said, "he had him cornered but then the giant twins appeared. It was either destroy Cogs or save you."

"I think you made the right choice," Twilight said.

"But now Cogs has what he needs to finish the tracker," Flash said.

"Not exactly," Beaker said. He went into his pocket and pulled out a flash drive identical to the one Cogs had taken.

"Is that?"

"The drive with the specs for the Skyline 30 Mega Chip," Beaker said, "yes it is."

"How did you get it?" Micro asked.

"Once the download was completed and that monster looked away, I switched the drives."

"Sneaky," Sandal said.

"I also deleted the file for the chip," Beaker said, "this is the only one left."

The Rangers shared a glance and nodded. "Excuse me," Flash said, "but we desperately need that chip. Without it we can't finish a machine we need to save the world."

"Is that so?" Beaker said looking at them quizzically, before smiling. "Then take it," he handed the drive to them, "as thanks for saving my employees and the company."

The Rangers smiled and Twilight took the drive.

"Thank you," she said, "this means a lot."

"Your welcome," Beaker said.

"But wait," Micro asked, "if this is the drive with the specs. What was on the drive Cogs took?"

Beaker smirked.

Up on his ship Darklight waited for Cogs to study the specs on building the part they needed.

"Here it is," Cogs said plugging the drive into their computer.

"Put it on screen," Darklight said.

"Yes master," Cogs said activating it.

They turned to the screen as it switched on and showed...Professor Beaker at the beach.

"What is this?" Darklight yelled.

"I don't know," Cogs said switching to the next image which was Beaker with an ice cream.

"COGS!"

"I was tricked," Cogs screamed.

Drive in hand the Rangers returned to the base and got to work building the chip they needed.

Meanwhile Sandal was explaining how he'd managed to save the day.

"So I turned the heat up to max and made her fall asleep, then I jumped over and used her enlarger to return everyone to normal."

"Impressive," Celestia said, "it seems you've learned what it means to use stratagy."

"Yeah," he said, "at that size my strength was useless. Starswirl was right, power alone isn't enough."

"Good to hear," Luna said.

"And done," they heard Sunset said, "the chip is complete."

"So the E-Tector?" Flash asked.

Sunset didn't respond and instead placed the chip into the repaired device, which activated.

"It's back online," Twilight said.

"Once it finds an Element we'll be one step closer to saving the world," Micro said.

"Then all we gotta do is wait," Flash said.

"Indeed," Starswirl said. "you Rangers have done an excellent job."

"Thanks," Flash said.

With the E-Tector back online the Rangers were back on track to finding the Elements. But what kind of danger is just on the horizon?

Author's Note

Who doesn't love shrinking films. I'd never seen a Ranger series do a shrinking episode so I thought I'd give it a shot.

The Baltimare Gala

In the base we find Twilight Sparkle, working late into the hours on her laptop. The newly repaired E-Tector sat besides her as she worked, plugged into the computer.

"Okay," she said as she typed away, "a little more programming and this should be ready to go." Suddenly her phone went off, making her look away to check the caller ID. Seeing who it was she stopped working and answered, "hey BBBFF."

"Hey Twily," her brothers voice said over the phone, "you coming home tonight?"

"Sorry," she said, "but I've got a lot of work to do here."

"What are you even doing?" Shining Armor asked, "what kind of summer program forces you to stay there overnight?"

"It's not forcing me to stay," Twilight replied, "I want to stay to get it done."

"Twily."

"I'm fine Shining," Twilight told her brother, "mom and dad said it was okay. Now I need to get back to work." With that she hung up her phone, before giving off an exasperated sigh. She hated lying to her family, especially her brother, but she couldn't very well tell them she was helping the Power Rangers. "Out of your head," she told herself, "you've got work to do." With that she went back to her computer and started once again typing.

With find the others, minus Sweetie, on the school field helping Rainbow train for a soccer match her team was going to have against Cloudsdale in a week.

"Pass it," Rainbow yelled to Flash, who was dribbling the ball. He kicked it and sent it right into Rainbow's possession.

Rainbow rushed forwards with the ball, towards Pinkie and Micro who were playing defence.

"I got ya now," Pinkie said running forwards with a smile on her face.

"Don't think so," Rainbow said before kicking the ball right between Pinkie's legs, then rushing around her and regaining the ball.

"Hey," the cotton candy head said as she bent over and looked through her legs at Rainbow.

The only thing between Rainbow and the goal now was the goalie, Sandalwood. "Come at me," he said.

"Sure," Rainbow said charging forward and with one swift kick she shot the ball towards the goal, as Sandal leaped for it. However the ball curved in midair and flew in the opposite direction to where Sandal jumped, making him miss it and the ball go into the goal.

"YEAH!" she screamed.

"Nice shot," Flash said as he panted out of breathe.

"Cloudsdale don't stand a chance," Micro said.

"Thanks," Rainbow said.

They returned to the benches were the rest of the gang were waiting to give them some water.

"So when is this match again?" Rarity asked as she gave Rainbow a bottle.

"Next Thursday," Rainbow said, "it's the best of three matches. First Thursday at Cloudsdale high, then Saturday here."

"Then if it's one match each?" Flash asked.

"A coin toss to decide where we play on Monday," Rainbow replied.

They headed inside while they continued to talk.

"You think the rest of the team is ready?" Lyra asked.

"Hopefully," Rainbow said, "Cloudsdale's one of the best sports teams in the area."

They finally made it to the base where the principles and Sweetie were waiting for them.

"Shush," Sweetie said to them when they walked in. She then pointed to a table where they saw Twilight sleeping.

"Has she been here all night again?" Flash asked.

"I woke up and found her like this," Sweetie said.

"Typical," Sunset said as she moved over to the girl. "Twilight," she said shaking the girl awake.

The purple teen awoke with a start, "what."

"Morning sleepy head," Applejack said.

"What time is it?" Twilight asked rubbing her eyes.

"Almost noon," Micro said.

"How late were you up last night"? Flash asked her.

"Late," Twilight replied, "I was working on a new program for the E-Tector."

"Oh," Lyra said, "do tell."

"I had a thought," Twilight explained, "that the satellite we're using to scan for the Elements might have already picked up on them. The Elements give off an unusual magical energy trait, which is what the E-Tector is designed to register through the satellite."

"Is there a point to all this egghead stuff?" Rainbow asked.

Twilight rolled her eyes. "My point is that maybe the satellite had picked up on the Element's signature before and saved the readings in its database, so I wrote a program to copy said database to our system through the E-Tector."

"And your gonna run the readings through our computer to see if you can find an Element," Micro finished.

"Exactly," Twilight said, "even if there not there now we can use the info we get to narrow down the Element's location."

"So did you find anything?" Sandal asked.

"I fell asleep before the database was finished downloading," Twilight said as she moved over to her computer and began typing. Seconds later it beeped. "Yes!" Twilight cheered.

"You find something?" Flash asked as they gathered around her.

"An energy reading that matches that of the Elements," Twilight said before her computer beeped again, "and another, and another."

"This is better then we thought," Sunset said.

"So where and when were the Elements being detected?" Celestia asked.

"Give me a second," Twilight said typing, "got it...that's odd."

"What is?" Fluttershy asked.

"The coordinates for the three readings are all the same," Twilight explained, "and on the same date. July thirty first, these readings are from last year, same for the other two readings only their from the years before."

"So an Element keeps appearing in the same spot on the same day, for the past three years?" Luna surmised.

"Looks like it," Sunset said.

"Where are the coordinates?" Flash asked.

"I'll put them through the map on the holotable," Twilight said punching them in.

The holotable activated and created a 3D model of the area the coordinates spoke.

"That's Baltimare," Sweetie said.

"And the coordinates point to this building," Celestia said pointing at a large skyscraper in the middle of the city."

"Baltimare Tower," Rarity said, "that's one of Baltimare's landmarks. All the best events in the city are held there."

"You seem to know a lot about it," Flash said.

"I'm always in the know about the high end of society," Rarity explained.

"Do they have any annual events there?" Applejack asked, "on the date shown."

Rarity thought for a moment before gasping, "the Baltimare Gala. It's an yearly charity event on the last day of July. Only the wealthiest of the wealthy are invited."

"Well it seems one of those fat cats has an Element," Sandal said.

"And we're gonna need to get in there to find it," Flash said.

"Thirty first of July," Lyra said, "that's this Monday."

"Then we've got four days to find a way in," Celestia said.

Meanwhile up in space, Doom Raizer was trying to come up with a new plan to destroy the Rangers. "There has to be a way," he told himself, "if I could just get my hands on one Element the Rangers wouldn't stand a chance."

He stepped into the bridge where Heart Breaker and some Shades were watching a monitor.

"What's going on here?" Doom asked as he walked over.

"Watching my favourite gossip show," Heart said, "I never miss an episode."

"Can't you do that in your own room?" Doom asked.

"No way," Heart said, "I don't want to miss a minute."

"And in latest news," the presenter said, "this years Baltimare Gala is drawing closer and the question on everyone's mind is what will the attendees be wearing? Let's take a look at some of last years fashions."

"What a load of dribble," Doom said turning away, only for something to catch the corner of his eye. "Wait," he said pushing through the Shades, "rewind that last part." A Shade did so until Doom yelled, "stop it there." The image froze and he and Heart gasped.

"I don't believe it."

"This is it," Doom said.

"That should do it," Sunset said as she and Micro finished their work.

"You did it?" Rainbow asked. Everyone, minus Flash, Sweetie, Twilight and Rarity, were watching the two hack into the Baltimare Tower's systems to find the guest list.

"Yeap," Micro said, "we now have two invites to the Baltimare Gala."

"Excellent," Celestia said, "once we're in we can use the miniature scanner to track down the Element we need.

"This is a scares opportunity," they all turned to Starswirl, "it is imperative we do not let it slip through our fingers."

"I just wonder which Element it is," Sandal asked.

"It could be the Element of Adventure," Lyra said, "we know that's bonded to somebody."

"But it could be another," Micro said.

"Hey," Pinkie said, "what are the other Elements?"

"Yeah," Rainbow said, "there's Courage, Trust, Knowledge, Love, Will and Adventure, but what are the other four?"

They turned to Starswirl. "Like you said there are those Elements," he said, "but there is also the navy coloured Element of Selflessness which will bond to someone willing to put the needs of others above themselves. There is also the silver Element of Justice, which will bond to one who fights for what is right. The gold Element of Forgiveness, which bonds to a person who can forgive someone even for the most heinous of crimes. Finally there is the black Element of Darkness."

"Darkness?" Sandal asked, "how can Darkness be something good?"

"Darkness is not necessarily evil," Starswirl replied, "it is only evil if one uses it for evil. The same could be said if you used something of the light for evil."

"Point," Sandal said.

"The Element of Darkness bonds to those who accept that darkness is apart of this world and allows that darkness into their heart, but not let it consume them."

"Fascinating," Micro said.

It was in that moment that Rarity and Sweetie stepped out of her room.

"How is she?" Celestia asked.

"Excellent," Rarity said, "if a little reluctant." She turned around and said, "come on out deary."

A few moments later Twilight stepped out and everyone gasped.

She was wearing a dress similar to the one she'd worn at Camp Everfree, only it wasn't as fluid and clung her body more. Her normally board straight hair was now a waterfall of wavy curls that highlighted her face, which had been brightened with a touch of makeup.

The silence was broken when Sandal whistled, "you look good."

"Agreed!" everyone said.

"Remind me again why I have to do this?" Twilight asked.

"We need someone in there who knows how to calibrate the scanner," Sunset told.

"And both Sunset and Micro can't act," Rainbow said, getting a glare from the two.

"I still don't like this," Twilight said, "it's not like I can act any better."

"Your still the best chance we have," Celestia explained placing her hand on the girl's shoulder, "you'll be fine."

"We've set you up as the heir to a multi billion dollar company called Alicorn Industries," Sunset explained, "we're gonna design a whole webpage for it so if anyone starts looking they won't get suspicious."

Twilight frowned knowing there was no way she was getting out of this. "Please tell me I'm not going in alone."

"Of course not," Celestia said.

It was in that moment that someone stepped into the room, making them all look around to see Flash enter looking very James Bond. He wore black and white tuxedo and bow tie, with his hair combed back.

"Nice," Rarity said, "glad to see the suit I made fits."

"Perfectly," Flash said.

"Great," Celestia said pushing Twilight over to him.

Side by side the two definitely looked like they belonged at a high society party. "Perfect," Sunset said, "no one will think twice about them being there."

"I don't know," Rarity said, "looking the part isn't enough. If you two want to blend in then you'll need to act like you've been to hundreds of these events."

"And how do we do that?" Twilight asked.

"Relax darling," Rarity said, "we have three days before the Gala. In that time I'll teach the two of you everything you'll need to fit in."

Flash and Twilight shared a nervous glance at this, not liking were it was going.

Over the next three days Flash and Twilight endured Rarity's lessons on acting in high society.

Turns out being rich and fancy was harder then people made it look. There was etiquette, talking right and of course ballroom dancing. That last one had been the hardest, since neither had ever done anything like it and ended up stepping on each other's toes more then anything.

Finally the night of the gala arrived and the two were on their way to Baltimare Tower, in a limo Celestia had hired so they'd make an authentic entrance.

"Do you two read me?" Sunset asked. Both Flash and Twilight were wearing ear pieces so the others could talk to them.

"I'm here," Twilight replied.

"I hear ya," Flash said.

"Okay Twilight," Sunset said, "the micro camera on your glasses is working. When your in the gala I'll switch it on."

"Got it," Twilight replied, "nice work with the scanner by the way." Sunset and Micro had redesigned the scanner to be hidden in a necklace like accessory, similar to the one Twilight had used during the Friendship Games minus the absorbing magic part.

"Thanks," Sunset said "you should be at the party in about five minutes." With that the feed was shut, leaving the two alone.

"You nervous?" Flash asked.

"A little," Twilight said, "mainly about what happens if my family find out what I'm doing."

"What'd you tell them you were doing?" Flash asked.

"I said I was at a slumber party," Twilight replied, "what about you."

"My aunt's out of town right now," Flash replied.

"Aunt?"

"I live with her," Flash explained, "my mom died when I was very little and then after my dad...you know, I went to live with my mom's sisters."

"Oh," Twilight said, "I'm sorry."

"It's fine," Flash said giving her a smile.

Five minutes later their limo pulled up infront of the Baltimare Towers.

Once parked Flash went to open the doors only for them to be opened up from the outside, and Rainbow Dash looked in dressed like a body guard. "All clear sir," she said sounding official.

Flash nodded and climbed out, seeing Applejack in a similar suit and sunglasses, before offering his hand to Twilight to help her. Applejack and Rainbow escorted them as they walked the red carpet, the paparazzi snapping photos as they did, until the reached the doors and Twilight and Flash stepped in.

Once they were inside Rainbow and Applejack turned to leave. "Red Hawk to Pink Lily do you copy," Rainbow said before hearing Fluttershy reply.

"Er Pink Lily here."

"The eggs are in the nest," Rainbow said, "do you copy?"

"Not really."

"She means Flash and Twilight are inside," Applejack said.

Up on the roof of a higher building Fluttershy and the rest of the Rangers were on stake out encase anything went wrong.

"Okay," Micro said as he tapped away at a laptop, "Twilight's video feed should be coming on." The computer came to life and showed everything Twilight saw. "Sunset you getting this?"

"Crystal clear," Sunset replied from back at the base, "now let's hope we can find that Element."

"That's up to Twilight and Flash," Micro said.

Flash and Twilight had ridden the elevator all the way to the top floor, where the party was being held and when they walked out they found themselves at the top of a velvet carpeted staircase.

A man in a suit and tie stood next to them at the top of the stairs, before announcing to the room. "Lady Twilight Sparkle and Master Flash Sentry."

Everyone turned to look at the two as the descended the stair case, waving as they did so.

"This is embarrassing," Twilight whispered.

"Just smile and wave," Flash told her as they looked around.

The ballroom was beautifully decorated with purple carpet, with tables scattered around the room which were each decorated with silver cutlery and flowers. on the far end of the room was a wall made entirely of glass, which showed the entire city.

"Lady Sparkle," they turned to see a couple walking over to them. A man with greyish skin and black hair, along with a woman with yellow skin and grey and white hair. "Pleasure to meet you," the man said, "I'm Jet Set and this is my wife Upper Crust."

"Charmed," Upper Crust said.

"Indeed," Twilight said trying to remember Rarity's speaking lessons, "most excellent of meetings."

"And you Mr Sentry," Jet said, "a pleasure."

"Yeah," Flash said panicking, "like wise."

"Indeed," Jet said looking at him suspiciously before turning back on Twilight. "So madam, what is it the Sparkle family is known for."

"Oh," Twilight said, "um...Alicorn Industries. We're really starting to make headway in the corporate world."

"Self made," Upper Crust said, "nothing better."

"Yes," Twilight said.

"Well it was a pleasure meeting you," Jet said, "but so many more people to talk to."

"Indeed," Twilight said, "a pleasure. Come along Flash."

"Right," Flash said as the two groups split. "Well handled."

"I'm just glad I went to the bathroom before coming," Twilight said.

"Excellent Twilight," Rarity said over the ear pieced, "Flash you need to be more formal."

"Cut me a break," Flash said, "Twilight's got it easy. She went to Crystal Prep, she's used to people like them."

"Anyway," Celestia said, "Twilight do you have a lock on the Element yet?"

Twilight looked down at her locket and frowned, "nothing."

"And I think I know why," Sunset said, "the E-Tector's satellite's locked onto the building but it's only picking up a mild energy trace. The Element's not there."

"So all this was for nothing?" Flash asked.

"Not necessarily," Micro said, "there's still a mild energy trace. That means that even though the Element's not there, someone there has had long time exposure to the Element."

"So if we find this energy trace then we might find someone has or has had the Element for a long time," Twilight guessed.

"Exactly," Sunset said, "but your gonna need to get close to them for the scanner to pick up the weak signal."

"Looks like we got more introductions to do," Flash said.

"Right," Twilight said.

As the night went on Twilight and Flash traversed the room, making conversation with anyone they could find long enough to scan for the magic. Unfortunately they found nothing.

"Oh my," Mrs Orange said as she and her husband laughed at a joke Flash made.

"I know," Flash said as he and Twilight chuckled.

Looking down at her pendent disguised scanner, Twilight frowned seeing no magic reading. "Well we must be off again," she said, "so many people to meet."

"Indeed," Mr Orange said, "but we must meet again some time. Flash my boy, do you play squash?"

"No but I've always been interested in learning," Flash lied.

"Well next time your in Manhattan, do drop into the club," he said.

"Wouldn't miss it," Flash said as he and Twilight walked away. "I think I'm getting the hang of this," he told her once out of ear shot.

"But still no sign of the Element," Twilight said but in that moment, her scanner started glowing. "Wait," she said picking it up, "I think we've got something." They followed the device and it lead them to a group of people, some they'd talk to and some they hadn't.

"Oh Lady Sparkle," she looked up and saw Jet Set and Upper Crust, "come. You must meet my good friend." They moved over to the group and the two pointed to a beefy looking man in a tuxedo with a brown beard. "Lady Sparkle, lat me introduce the chief CEO of Buffalo Industries Thunderhooves. Thunderhooves, this is the Alicorn Industries very own Lady Twilight Sparkle."

"A pleasure to make your acquaintance," the large man said.

"The pleasure is all ours," Twilight said, before noticing a girl her age practically hidden behind Thunderhooves, "and you are."

"My apologies," the girl said, "my name is Little Strongheart." Strongheart was dressed in a brown native american dress.

"A pleasure to meet you," Twilight said.

"And you," Strongheart before turning to Flash, "and you are?"

"Flash Sentry," Flash said doing a slight bow.

"Charmed," she said.

Twilight looked down at the scanner and saw the energy level at the highest it had been. One of the people in the group had come in contact with an Element, but which one?

"So my dear," Thunderhooves said, "one business man to another. What's Alicorn Industries up to these days?"

"Er," Twilight said, not sure how to respond.

"I'm afraid that's trade secret," Flash said.

"Of course," Strongheart said, "we understand." She then stepped away, "if you'll excuse me, bathroom."

"Of course," Flash said.

Strongheart left, allowing Flash and Twilight to talk to Thunderhooves.

Back with the Rangers everything seemed to be going well.

"They running out of time," Micro said, "there's only an hour before the party begins to wind down."

"They'll be fine," Lyra said.

However, things were about to get a whole lot more complicated. A bolt of lighting came out of nowhere and struck the top of Baltimare Tower, which the Rangers all recognised.

"Oh no," Sweetie said as she grabbed a pair of binoculars and looked over at the roof. There she saw a ton of Shades along with Doom, standing next to a new monster whose body looked to be made of ice. "this isn't good," she said.

Back inside Flash and Twilight continued to talk to Thunderhooves until.

"Flash!" Lyra called out.

"Excuse me a moment," Flash said moving away and taking out his phone. Putting it to his ear he pretended to be talking into it.

"You've got company," Lyra told him.

Not a second after she said the an explosion went off at the entrance stairway, causing several people to be blown away. Seconds later Doom Raizer, Shades and the ice monster appeared.

"Hope you don't mind we decided to crash the party," Doom said.

"What is this," Thunderhooves said.

Flash looked around, trying to find a way out so he could morph.

"Blizzard," Doom said turning to the ice monster, "capture them."

"Cool," Blizzard said running down the stairs with the Shades. "This'll freeze you in place," he said as snowballs formed in his claw like hands, which he threw at the doors. On impact the snowballs exploded and sealed the doors in blocks of ice, trapping everyone inside.

"Hey!" they all turned and saw Flash standing in the centre of the room, "knock it off."

"Who's gonna make me," Blizzard said, "Shades attack!" The Shades charged forwards, while Flash took a battle stance and countered the Shades with punches and kicks.

"Quite a brave boyfriend you've got there my dear," Upper Crust said as they watched Flash fight.

"Er yeah," Twilight said watching in worry.

Flash continued to fight, but the numbers were becoming a problem for the unmorphed Ranger. Several Shades pulled out their daggers and began swiping at him, forcing him to dodge them and back into a table. Looking for something to fight with, he saw an empty silver tray which he grabbed and began swinging around. He used it to block the Shade's daggers and then hit them on the head, knocking them down.

"Impressive," Thunderhooves said.

"So annoying," Blizzard said as he began throwing snowballs at him.

"Flash behind you!" Twilight yelled, getting his attention.

Looking around he saw the snowballs coming and ducked, causing them to hit a few Shades and freeze them. "Thanks Twi," he said jumping away from some more snowballs which hit more Shades.

"You imbecile," Doom said, "don't just throw them at him wildly." He looked over at Twilight, remembering the interaction between the two, "throw one at her."

"Okay," Blizzard said, before throwing one at the purple teen.

"NO!" Flash yelled rushing towards her. Just as the snowball drew closer, Flash grabbed Twilight and attempted to pull her out of the way but the snowball struck him in the back and exploded.

"FLASH!" Twilight yelled, as the mist dispersed and Flash was shown with ice covering his back.

The attack had taken a lot out of him and Flash fell to his knees.

"Stay with me," Twilight said.

"Finally," Doom said, "now we can do what we came here for.

"I don't think so!" Everyone looked up at the skylight, which smashed open as four brightly coloured suited people flew down and landed infront of Blizzard. "Morphin Blaster fire!" the four unleashed a flurry of lazer fire upon the ice monster.

"Power Rangers!" Upper Crust cheered.

"We're saved," Jet Set said, "but aren't there suppose to be five of them."

"Pink," Lyra said, "go help that guy." She, Micro and Sandal pulled out their sabres and charged towards Blizzard.

"Right Blue," Sweetie said before pulling out her sabre and rushing over to Flash. "Hold still," she told him as she lined the weapon up and swung down, hitting the ice and shattering it. "Your okay now citizen," she said as she helped Twilight stand him up.

"Thank you," Flash said as he grabbed her hand, "truly."

Sweetie nodded and ran back to her friends.

Said friends were battling Blizzard and several Shades, using their Sabres to deflect the monsters snowballs.

"Spirit Sabre," Sandal said, "Power Slash!" he swung the sword and slashed the projectile in half.

"Morphin Blaster," Micro aimed, "fire!" he unleashed a flurry of lazer fire, destroying two or three snowballs and hitting some Shades as well.

"Magi-Charger" Lyra hit the button on her Sabre, causing the compartment to flip open. Opening her belt she pulled out a Magi-Charger and clicked it, before placing it in the slot and shutting it.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Power...Slash!" She swung the blade at Blizzard, slashing him several times and throwing him back.

"Your so annoying," Blizzard said getting up. Looking up he saw the Shades all gone. "Let's see how you like this," he said placing his hands together forming a giant snowball which he threw at the Rangers.

"Magitech," Sweetie jumped infront of the others and held up her Sphinx Shield, blocking the snowball which exploded.

Blizzard looked through the explosion and saw the blue, yellow and green Rangers holding their Morphin Blasters.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Morphin Blaster," they said aiming at the monster, "Final Strike!" They pulled the trigger and each fired off a blast, that took the form of their Zord's head, which flew toward Blizzard and struck him.

"Let's end this," Sweetie said pulling out a Magi-Charger. "Guardian Buster, activate." She threw the Charger in the air before it transformed into the super weapon.

Being the best shot, Micro grabbed it and pulled the forend activating it.

"Magi-Chargers," they said, as they activated their Chargers, Sweetie holding both hers and a red chargers.

Twilight was confused about how the pink Ranger had Flash's charger, until she remembered Flash grabbing her hand. He must have had the charger in his.

"Locked and loaded." The Rangers placed their chargers in the compartments before shutting them, Sweetie placed her into the main compartment, causing the white streaks to change to pink.

GUARDIAN BUSTER...PINK CHARGE!

As the weapon warmed up, Lyra and Sweetie got behind Micro while Sandal knelt down and held the weapon steady at the barrel. "Guardian Buster, Sphinx Blast...FIRE!" Micro pulled the trigger and a single powerful blast shot out, which morphed into the shape of the Sphinx Zord's head as it flew at Blizzard. Just before it hit him, the head changed direction and flew straight up. In a flash of light the head then changed into a large boulder, which fell atop Blizzard and exploded.

The blast sent Blizzard flying back and into the glass wall, breaking through it.

"No!" Doom yelled seeing his monster be beaten, but he had bigger things to worry about as he suddenly found himself on the wrong end of the Guardian Buster.

"Give it up Doom," Lyra said, "you can't win."

Up on the ship, Heart was watching the situation unfold. "Doomy," She said seeing her precious Doom Raizer in trouble, "I have to save him."

"Heart Breaker!" she turned to see her brother enter the bridge, "where's Doom Raizer?"

"Oh," Heart said as she slowly scooted over to the red button, "I'm sure he's around here somewhere." She pressed down on the button, releasing the growing machine which fired.

Back at Baltimare Tower the Rangers drew closer to Doom Raizer, until.

The Gigatisor's beam shot down and caused an explosion, in its wake was a huge version of Blizzard. "Time for a big freeze!"

The Rangers saw this and knew they needed to deal with it.

"Pathetic Rangers," Doom said as he turned and ran out the room.

"This isn't good," Lyra said glancing at Flash. Without him they couldn't form the Megazord, so they'd have to defeat the monster without it. "Let's do this," she said as they pulled out their Magi-Chargers and activated them.

"Right," they said as they threw the chargers, "summon Zords!"

The Sea-Serpent, Griffon, Sphinx and Fenrir Chargers flew into the Zords mouths.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zord's eye opened and soon they emerged from their hiding spots, before rushing to the Ranger's location.

"Let's go," Lyra said as the Rangers jumped out of the window onto the Zords backs as they charged towards Blizzard.

"Time to make some extra large snow cones," Blizzard said as he threw his his giant snowball at them.

"Fenrir Zord," Sandal ordered "Tail Slash." The wolf like Zord spun around and cut the giant snow ball in half.

"Sea-Serpent," Lyra called out as her monster slivered towards Blizzard and spun around, to whip him with its tail.

"Sphinx," Sweetie and her Zord charged forward and slashed at the monster with its claws.

"Griffon Zord fire," Micro ordered from the skies as his Zord unleashed a flurry of lazer fire.

"This isn't very cool," Blizzard said as he formed a snowball, "take this." He threw the ball at the flying Zord.

"Nice try," Micro said as his Zord fired its lazers at the snowball, vaporising it.

"No fair," Blizzard said, "well try this." He formed another snowball, only this one was much bigger. "My multi snowball strike!" He threw the snowball which flew towards the Griffon Zord.

"Bigger doesn't mean better you know," Micro said as he aimed his blaster, but in that second the giant snowball broke apart into hundreds of normal sized snowballs. "WHAT!" The Griffon tried to blast them down but the amount was to much and eventually they struck the Zord and exploded, encasing parts of the Zord in ice. "I'M HIT!" Micro yelled as he fell.

"MICRO!" the Rangers screamed seeing him fall.

"Your next," Blizzard yelled, throwing snowballs at the distracted Rangers and encasing the Zords in ice.

back in the tower, Flash watched in horror as his team were being beaten.

Looking around he saw everyone around him, making it impossible to morph. Even summoning his Zord was give him away.

"I have to do something," Flash said.

"You can't," Twilight told him.

"I can't let my friends keep fighting like this."

The Rangers were trying to reactivate their Zords, but nothing they did worked.

"Come on," Sandal said as he tried to chip the ice of with his sabre, but it was to thick.

"It's not working," Micro said as he fired at it, but for nort.

"Keep trying guys," Lyra told the others

"But it's to thick," Sweetie said.

"This is it," Blizzard said as he stepped forwards, "I'm going to destroy the Rangers."

"This can't be happening," Thunderhooves said.

"They're going to be destroyed," Upper Crust said.

"Where is the red Ranger?" Jet Set asked.

"I'm sure he has a good reason for not being here," Twilight said.

"Good enough to allow his friends to be destroyed?" Jet asked.

Hearing this Flash nodded. He may lose his secret identity, but it didn't matter.

He pulled out his Magi-Charger and was about to click it when.

BOOM!

Flash looked up and out the window to see Blizzard be struck by a lightning bolt.

"WHAT!" The monster yelled as he was blasted.

"Where did that come from?" Twilight asked.

Flash looked up and his eyes went wide at what he saw.

From out of nowhere a new Zord appeared. It was bird like in design with dark blue armour, red beak and talons with red lighting bolts painted on it. on each wing was a rectangular cannon like device.

"No way," Lyra said.

"Incredible," Micro said.

"A new Zord?" Sandal questioned.

"But who's controlling it?" Sweetie asked.

The Zord flew towards Blizzard, as a lightning bolt shot out of its beak.

"HEY!" Blizzard screamed as he was electrocuted.

With the monster down the Zord swung around and fired another bolt, this time hitting the ice encasing the Zords cracking them.

"Alright," Lyra said as her Zord broke through the weakened ice.

"We're free," Sweetie cheered.

Back in the tower, the people were shocked at what they were seeing.

"What is that creature?" Upper Crust asked.

"I know it," Thunderhooves said, "it is the ancient guardian beast of my tribe. The mighty Thunderbird."

"A Thunderbird Zord?" Twilight asked.

"But where did it come from?" Flash asked.

Blizzard pulled himself up and gulped seeing the five Zord ready to fight.

"Let's do this," Lyra said, "Zord Stampede attack!" The Sea-Serpent charged forwards, swiping the monster with its tail.

"ATTACK!" the rest of the Rangers screamed as their Zords attack, blasting, clawing and slashing the monster down.

The Thunderbird let out a mighty screech as the cannons on its wings opened and unleashed a storm like amount of lightning, which struck Blizzard and caused him to scream.

"That's just cold," were the monsters last words, before collapsing as an explosion engulfed him.

With the monster destroyed the Rangers celebrated, until another screech directed their attention to the Thunderbird Zord as it flew off.

"Where's it going?" Sweetie asked.

"Back to where ever it came from," Micro guessed.

"But if another Zord's awake," Sandal said, "that means there's another Ranger out there."

"But which one?" Lyra asked.

Inside the Thunderbird Zord, a lone Ranger stood.

His suit was like the others, only his was mainly dark blue with red in place of white. On his chest of an upside down pentagon with an image of the Thunderbird's head.

Up on the ship, Doom Raizer had just returned and enter the bridge when suddenly.

"DOOM!" he turned to see Darklight standing their waiting for him, "what were you doing down there?"

"I was following a lead on an Element master," Doom explained, "I didn't want to trouble you encase I was mistaken."

"And what was this lead?" Darklight asked.

"I'll show you." Doom moved over to the monitor and pulled up the video. "This was taken last year, I was trying to find this girl."

He pointed to the still image of Little Strongheart.

"What's so special about her?" Darklight asked.

"Look at what she's wearing around her neck," Doom replied.

Darklight did and started hard at her, until he saw it. "That's."

"Yes my lord," Doom said, "the Element of Selflessness."

The two stared at the navy blue Element, tied around the girls neck.

Back at Baltimare Tower. Flash and Twilight were sitting down to recover from the ordeal.

"Are you okay Flash?" Twilight asked.

"I'm fine Twilight," Flash said, "I'm just worried."

"About that Zord?" she asked.

"About a lot of things," Flash said, "I couldn't help my team. I'm suppose to be the leader but."

"This wasn't your fault," Twilight said. "It was just bad timing."

"I guess," Flash said.

"Are you okay Flash?" They looked up to see Little Strongheart and her father.

"I'm fine," Flash said.

"That was quite the hit you took," Thunderhooves said, "your lucky to be alive."

"It was nothing."

"Quite modest" Strongheart said, "you've got a keeper there Twilight."

"Thanks," Twilight said, "I hope your alright."

"We're fine," Strongheart said, "when I came back and saw what had happened I went and hid."

"Good thinking," Twilight said.

"Yeah," Flash said, "well we better be getting home."

"But you can't," Strongheart said, "the dancing's about to start."

"Isn't the party over after what happened?" Twilight asked.

"Not this charity event," Thunderhooves said.

"We really need to be going," Flash said only to feel Twilight grab his hand.

"One dance can't hurt," she told him before whispering, "for appearances."

"Okay," Flash said with a sigh.

As the music started, the two went onto the floor and started to dance. They hadn't been able to find the Element, but they now knew there was another Power Ranger out there. And they would find them and bring them into the team.

Author's Note

This was interesting to write. So a new Zord and a new Ranger. Wonder who it is?

The Thundering Hero

(Cloudsdale)

The city of Cloudsdale is well known for its many attractions, Buffalo Labs being one of them, but another was Cloudsdale High, a school which boasted some of the best young athletes in the country.

Today a team of those athletes, the Wonderbolt Soccer Team, was facing one of its minor rivals. Canterlot High's Wondercolts.

There was only one minute left on the clock and the score was tied two all and the ball was in the Wondercolt's possession. "It's over," Rainbow said as she dribbled the ball, "straight to the goal." She ran as fast as she could towards it, but the the Wonderbolt's defensive players stood in her way.

Among them was a teenage boy, with light blue skin and dark blue hair. His name was Soarin Skies and he intended to get the ball away from her. "You're not getting passed me," he said as he blocked her off keeping in perfect step with her and preventing her from advancing.

"Heath!" she called out passing the ball to one of her teammates.

"I got it," Heath Burns said ready to receive it, only for the Wonderbolt's captain Spitfire to intercept and take it.

It was over in a flash, Spitfire raced across the field and scored the winning goal just as the whistle blew.

A little later, Rainbow was saying goodbye to her teammates. "Sorry again Rainbow," Heath said.

"It's cool," Rainbow said, "we'll get them next time."

"Right!" They all agreed before going their separate ways.

As Rainbow turned the corner she felt herself bump into somebody. "Hey," she said looking up, only to see it was Soarin, "oh it's you."

"Hey," he said, "you did pretty great out there."

"Thanks," Rainbow said, "I guess you did okay too."

"Thanks," Soarin said, "I'll see you Saturday."

"Yeap," she replied, "and get ready to lose."

They went their separate ways and headed off, Rainbow heading to a bus stop that would take her back to CHS. The sun was setting as she walked through the streets of Cloudsdale, but Rainbow wasn't scared. However as she turned onto the street the bus stop was suppose to be, she found herself in front of a group of punks.

"Hey there sweetheart," the leader, a guy with a mohawk, said to her, "you looking for a good time?"

Rainbow wasn't scared. She could easily beat these creeps and even if she couldn't, her super speed would get her to safety. As she tried to push through the group the mohawk head grabbed her arm.

"I asked you a question," he said.

"Get lost," she said pulling her arm away, only to get shoved into the wall.

"Don't make me do something rash," Mohawk said as he pulled out a knife while his friends surrounded her.

Okay, Rainbow was getting scared now, but they didn't know she wasn't just some girl. Raising her hand she reached for the jewel around her neck to activate her speed, only for her heart to skip when she found she didn't have it. Further panic ensued, when she remembered she'd taken it off for the game and hadn't put it back on.

"So what's it gonna be missy, you gonna play nice?"

"Maybe you should learn a new game!" A voice from above spoke, catching their attention as a sudden bolt of blue lightning struck the ground between Rainbow and the punks.

The punks all looked up at one of the nearby buildings and screamed, seeing someone on the roof. "It's the Thundering Hero," one screamed.

"Let's get out of here," another said as they began to run.

"Get back here cowards," Mohawk said, "it's only one guy."

"That's just enough to beat you," the figure on the roof yelled as a blinding flash of light appeared, causing both Rainbow and Mohawk to flinch and close their eyes.

Second passed for Rainbow as the light continued to burn, while the sounds of fighting caught her ears. Eventually the light died down and Rainbow opened her eyes, though still had blurry vision, and saw Mohawk on the ground with the figure standing over him. Though she couldn't make out much, Rainbow recognised the form standing in front of her and gasp. Finally managing to blink her eyes back to normal she looked around, but by now the figure was gone.

"No way," she said, "was I just saved by a Power Ranger?"

"Your sure it was a Ranger?" Flash asked.

It was Saturday morning and Rainbow had just retold the story of what had happened two nights ago at Cloudsdale.

"I'm telling you," Rainbow said, "I know what I saw."

"It is the most likely explanation," Micro said, "who else could do the things Rainbow described."

"But which Ranger is it?" Lyra asked, "the orange Ranger?"

"Or it could have been whoever was piloting the Thunderbird Zord," Sweetie said.

"For all we know it could be one of the other Elements," Twilight said, "we just can't be sure."

"One thing's for sure," Flash said, "we'll be heading to Cloudsdale to look for some clues."

"I wish I could have told you all yesterday," Rainbow said, "but with my match on Thursday and the match today my dad wouldn't even let me leave the house or have my phone."

"Your dad's extreme," Sandal said.

"He just doesn't want me being to tired for my match," Rainbow said.

"Well good luck with the match today," Celestia said.

Suddenly the holotable activated, showing a hologram of Vice-Principle Luna. "Twilight," she said, "you need to get up here."

"What is it sister?" Celestia asked.

"Is something wrong?" Twilight asked.

"Your brother is here," Luna replied.

"What?"

Up in space Darklight, Doom Raizer and Heart Breaker were on the bridge of the ship, watching footage of all the Ranger's battles while trying to come up with a way to defeat them.

"There has to be a way," Darklight said.

"The problem is there's to many of them," Doom said, "one's strong enough to defeat a horde of Shades and we can't risk allowing more then one or two monsters free. The five of them together will be impossible to beat."

"So we need to find a way to split them up," Heart said.

"But the question how do we do that?" Doom asked.

Suddenly the main screen burst into life and showed Cogs. "Master."

"What is it Cogs?" Darklight asked.

"I have something incredible to show you," Cogs said, "meet me in the main lab."

The three of them headed down into the lab, where they found Cogs working at the computer of some kind of machine which was a tub like chamber with a tinted glass like door.

"What is this?" Darklight asked.

"My newest creation," Cogs said, "the reanimator."

"And what pray tell," Heart asked, "does the reanimator do."

"With it we can return the monsters the Ranger's destroyed," Cogs said, "I've inputted the data of every monster we have. Not only that but we can improve them in any way we want."

"Is that so?" Doom said, "then prove it."

"Indeed," Darklight said, "revive a monster."

"With pleasure," Cogs said, "and I know the perfect one and how to improve him." He typed away at the computer before the machine burst into life, sparking and beeping as the chamber filled it smoke.

Finally the machine came to a stop and slowly the door opened and released the smoke, before something stepped out. It was a familiar white machine monster, with a computer screen for a head and on one of his arms was an looking contraption.

"Gigabyte," Heart screamed looking at the revived monster, "this piece of scrap metal is your idea of a perfect monster to revive?"

"Yes," Cogs said, "because now I've upgraded his systems to match that of the latest super computer."

"I guess we could try the Digitiser plan again," Doom said.

"Unfortunately," Cogs said, "he didn't have his Digitiser when he was destroyed."

"Then what's the point?" Doom asked.

"I've uploaded him with all the data on the Ranger's battle style," Cogs said, "plus their Zord and Megazord information. There's nothing the Rangers will do that's surprise him."

"He's right," Gigabyte said, "I've already come up with three hundred and sixty two ways of defeating the Power Rangers. I swear I'll get you those Elements in no time master."

"I've also reprogrammed him to be unconditionally loyal to you master Darklight."

"Impressive," Darklight said, "you and Doom head down to earth and bring me an Element."

The group had all rushed upstairs, where they found Luna, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack and Pinkie in the cafeteria. Next to them stood a man of about twenty years old, with white skin and blue hair. He wore a long white overcoat.

"Shining Armor," Twilight said, "what are you doing here?"

"Can't a brother come see his little sister?" Shining asked her.

"I know but we're kind of busy," Twilight said, "especially with the match on."

"We finished most of that yesterday," Sweetie told her, "enjoy yourselves."

"Besides," Shining said, "I'm also here on business." Shining Armor was a detective for the Canterlot Police Department.

"What business?" Twilight said in confusion.

Shining's face turned from a happy smile to a dark frown. "Well you see I've been put on the Baltimare Towers case."

Everyone went completely still hearing this.

"You've all heard about it haven't you?" Shining said.

"Who hasn't," Rainbow said with a nervous laugh.

"Yeah," Applejack said, "good thing the Power Rangers showed up when they did."

"That's right," Shining said, "I watch the whole thing on the security system and something quite interesting caught my eye." He took out his phone and began swiping at it, until he showed it to everyone. It was a picture, or more like a still image, of Twilight and Flash during the battle between the Rangers and Blizzard.

"Oh," Twilight said seeing it.

"You wanna explain this sis," Shining said.

"I'm sure that's not her," Flash said, "how would she get into a big important party like that."

Shining turned to Flash and then took a second look, before glancing down at his phone and then back at him. "This is you."

Flash gave a nervous laugh as he scratched the back of his neck.

"Alright punk," Shining said getting to close for comfort, "what's the deal with you and my sister at the most important party of the city?"

"Um," Flash said.

"Shining Armor," Twilight said getting between them, "leave him alone."

"Twilight I love you," Shining said, "but even though your my sister I have no choice but to take both you and this punk down to the station for questioning if I don't get some good answers."

"Okay," Twilight said, "I'll tell you everything you want to know, but only after the game. I promised my friends I'd help them." She gave him her best puppy dog eyes.

Shining Armour sighed before saying, "okay. But I'm sticking around to keep an eye on you," he then turned to Flash, "and you!"

Flash just gulped.

A little while later the Rangers and there friends were finishing the field's setup. while Rainbow and her team were getting changed for the game.

Shining Armor was sitting on the bleachers watching everyone, glaring at Flash whenever he got to close to Twilight.

"You're not really going to tell him are you?" Sweetie asked Twilight.

"No," Twilight replied, "but hopefully this match will be long enough for me to come up with an excuse."

"Let's hope," Lyra said.

It was then that a bus pulled up outside the school, with the Cloudsdale Wonderbolts stepping out.

"It that them?" Micro asked.

"Yeah that's them," they turned to see Rainbow step out of the changing room.

"They look really serious," Sandal said.

"They are," Rainbow replied, "that's because they've got a reputation to uphold. They've won the intercity championships five years in a row, so there's a lot of expectation for them to win."

"Sounds harsh," Flash said, "that guy doesn't look to serious though." He pointed at the one teen who was smiling.

"That's Soarin," Rainbow said, "he may not look it but he's the most serious player on the team."

"What position does he play?" Fluttershy asked.

"Defence," Rainbow said, "he's one of the best spotters. He's also a wide receiver and safety for their football team and is third base for the baseball."

"Not very exciting positions," Rarity said.

"Maybe," Rainbow said, "but he does them to the best of his skill."

"Impressive," Twilight said.

Several minutes passed and the Wonderbolts exited the changing room, kitted out and ready for the game. There was several minutes of stretching, while spectators took their seat on the bleachers.

Flash had the unfortunate luck of having Shining Armor sit next to him, while Twilight was on her brothers other side. The two had hoped to talk and get their story straight, but it looked like that wasn't happening.

Once the players were warmed up and in position, the ref blew his whistle and the game was on. Rainbow hadn't been kidding when she said that Cloudsdale was skilled, as the entire team worked like a well oiled machine with each player being right where they needed to be.

Rainbow was working over time, as she was the only on on the Wondercolts whose skill matched that of the opposition. However Soarin seemed to live up to Rainbow's praise, as he managed to keep Rainbow in check and prevent her from really pulling ahead. With her severely blocked, the rest of the team didn't stand a chance and just before the end of the first set they managed to score.

"You weren't kidding when you said they were good," Rarity said as she passed Rainbow her water bottle.

"Told yeah," Rainbow replied.

"That Soarin fella was on you like a fly on a cow's rear," Applejack said.

"He might not be playing the staring role," Micro said, "but he's doing exactly what his team needs him to do."

"Exactly," Rainbow said.

Meanwhile Flash had gone into the equipment shed to find the spare ball, as the ref had checked the current one which had become a little under inflated. "Where is it?" Flash said looking around.

"Looking for something?" he turned to see Shining Armor had entered the shed.

"What do you want?" Flash asked.

"Figured we can finally talk," Shining said, "without my sister in the way."

"Well like she said you can wait until after the game."

"I don't have to wait," Shining told him, "I'm doing so because she asked me. I could bring you in right now if I wanted to."

"On what charges?"

"Interfering with a police investigation, wasting police time."

"Like you'd dare do anything like that," Flash said as he grabbed the ball.

"You think you're tough?" Shining asked, "I've dealt with punks like you before."

"Trust me," Flash said, "I'm not like anyone you've ever dealt with."

"Is that a threat?"

"It's a warning."

The two stared at each other for several moments, neither daring to blink. It felt like an internal struggle of wills which could have lasted forever, except.

"AAAARRRR!" they looked around hearing the scream, before they both bolted out the shed and back to the field.

The soccer field was in chaos, as Shades ran all over attacking the innocent.

The Rangers had rushed onto the scene as soon as they'd realised what was happening and were fighting to the best of their abilities, but being unmorphed against this many was proving difficult. Twilight and her friends were helping evacuate the field.

"Everybody get inside the school," Twilight yelled.

"Go to the Cafeteria," Rarity continued, "you'll be safe there."

"Careful guys," Lyra said as she roundhoused a Shade, "we gotta keep these things at bay until everyone's safe."

"But there's so many of them," Sweetie said.

"Don't give up," Micro told her, "we just need to hold out a little longer."

"Shades aren't that tough," Sandal said, though he had to admit they weren't as weak when he didn't have his Spirit Sabre.

Suddenly however the Shades pulled back and away from the Rangers, confusing them some what. "What's happening?" Lyra asked.

"Not sure," Micro said.

Suddenly the four of them found themselves being attacked by a powerful lightning bolt, which struck the ground around them causing an explosion which sent them all flying with a scream of pain and surprise.

"Greetings Rangers," they heard as they tried to pick themselves up off the ground. Looking up they saw two all to familiar monsters.

"Doom," Lyra growled as they stood up, only to recognise the other monster. "Gigabyte?"

"Nice to see you all again," Gigabyte said with a sinister chuckle.

"I thought we crashed this computer?" Sandal asked.

"We did," Micro said.

"Then how is he here right now?" Sweetie asked.

"You may have beaten me once," Gigabyte said, "but I'm back and better then ever. Say hello to Gigabyte two point oh."

"They can revive monsters we've defeated?" Micro asked.

"So much for my hopes that they'd one day run out of monsters," Lyra said.

"What's it matter," Sandal said, "we've beaten that pile of junk before."

"And we can do it again," Sweetie agreed.

"The place is clear," Micro told them as he looked around to see if their were any stragglers.

"Then let's do this," Lyra said as she stepped forwards, "it's Morphin Time. Magi-Chargers," she pulled out her gear and clicked its button.

"Ready," the four said doing the same.

The blasters appeared in the teen's hands, which they loaded the chargers in and locked the slot shut.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Energise!" They yelled spinning the barrel before pointing the blasters at the sky, "Unleash the Power!" They all pulled the triggers and their four Zord heads flew out and bit down on them, decking them out in matching outfits.

The Rangers took up a battle stance as the Shades grouped around Doom and Gigabyte. "Attack!" Doom ordered, causing the monsters to charger forward.

"Magitech," the Rangers called upon their weapons and met the Shades head on, all the while unaware that they were being watched.

Inside the cafeteria the citizens were hiding from the monsters.

"You should be okay," Fluttershy said while she bandaged up a boy who'd hurt his ankle while fleeing in terror.

"Here," Sunset said as she handed to ice to Spitfire.

"Thanks," Spitfire said taking it, "is it always like this around here?"

"You get used to it," Sunset replied.

"I just hope the Power Rangers show up soon," Misty Fly said.

"Oh I'm sure they're on their way," Sunset said before turning to leave. She noticed Twilight looking worried as she looked around, "you okay?"

"Shining Armor's not here," Twilight said, "I'm worried he might have got caught up in the fighting."

"I'm sure he's fine," Sunset said, "the Rangers aren't gonna let anything happen to him."

"I'm sorry," Twilight said, "but I've gotta make sure." With that she rushed out of the Canteen.

"Twilight!" Sunset called out.

"Don't worry," She turned to see Rainbow behind her, "I'll keep an eye on her. If things get to hairy I'll speed us back here." With that she rushed after Twilight.

Back outside the Rangers were continuing to battle the Shades.

"This is more like it," Sandal said while slashing away at the cloaked monsters.

"So much easier when you can just blast them," Micro agreed as he shot down the Shades in rapid succession.

"Don't get cocky guys," Lyra told them.

"We still have the windows reject to deal with," Sweetie said.

Meanwhile Flash and Shining had just arrived at the field to see the battle.

"The Rangers," Shining said.

"Maybe we should leave them to deal with the monsters and get to safety," Flash said.

"Coward," Shining said, "I'm not gonna let others fight for me. I'm apart of the police and we do what we have to to protect the people." With that he charged forwards, getting the attention of some Shades. "Take this ya freaks," Shining said as he preformed some pretty impressive martial arts moves on a few, knocking them down.

"He's nuts," Flash said before running to help him. Unlike Shining, Flash didn't have any special training fighting style and kept to his usual street fighter style to knock the Shades down.

"Stay out of this," Shining said, "I don't need some punk getting in my way."

"I'm trying to help you," Flash said.

The Rangers meanwhile had finished off the rest of the Shades and were now planning to take on Gigabyte.

"Let's end this," Lyra said as the charged forwards.

"Analysing," Gigabyte said, his screen showing images of the Rangers before he started moving out of the way of the Ranger's attacks. Lyra tried to grab him with her staff, but he spun to the left and made her miss, while Sweetie and Sandal charged forwards and swung their Spirit Sabres and Fenrir Fang. Gigabyte seemed to see this coming and side stepped the slashed, before doing a full ninety degree back bend to dodge Micro's blaster flurry.

"How'd he do that?" Sweetie asked once they pulled back.

"Somehow he saw all of our attacks coming," Lyre replied.

"He wasn't kidding when he said he was new and improved," Micro said.

"I have the data on every battle you Rangers have ever thought," Gigabyte said, "with my new super computer brain I can predict what you'r gonna do before you do it."

"That's impossible," Sandal said.

"Not impossible," Micro said, "just highly unlikely."

All the while Shining and Flash were fighting off the Shades, but with no actual weapons all the two could do was stun the monsters for a few seconds. "Don't you have a gun or something?" Flash asked as he body checked a Shade.

"This isn't the movies kid," Shining said as he did some cool looking kung fu move on one.

"Great," Flash said.

"Shining!" they both turned around to see Twilight rush onto the field, followed by Rainbow.

"What's she doing here?" Shining asked.

"It doesn't matter," they turned and saw Doom rushing towards them, "because you will all be destroyed."

"I don't know what you are," Shining said, "but you won't touch my sister." He rushed towards Doom and the two started fighting, Shining trying his kung fu, but Doom was far stronger and shoved the man away before pulling out his sword and firing a lightning bolt at him.

The bolt struck Shining and sent him flying back, crashing into the ground.

"SHINING!" Twilight screamed as she and Rainbow reached her downed brother and held him, "are you alright."

"If he is," Doom said, "I'll soon change that." He raised his sword again, but before he could strike he found himself in a flurry of lazer fire.

They looked around and saw Flash pointing his blaster at Doom. "This ends now," he said as he took out his Magi-Charger and activated it before placing it in the blaster.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

Flash ran forwards while firing at Doom.

"Try me Ranger," Doom said swinging his sword around to deflect the blasts before trying to strike Flash.

The teen used his blaster to block the attack, before forcing the sword down to the ground and scrapping the barrel down it. "Energise," he called out before jumping back and pointing the gun at Doom, "Unleash the Power!" He pulled the trigger and the Dragon Zord's head appeared and flew at Doom, knocking him down before it circled around Flash and biting down to suit him up.

Shining Armor couldn't believe what he had just seen. That punk kid was the red Ranger.

"Dragon Breaker," Flash called out his weapon and charged towards Doom, who raised his sword in response.

The two fought head to head, seemingly even matched.

"Enough," Doom said pushing the Ranger back, "I'll leave Gigabyte to deal with you." With that the telebolt warped him away.

"Flash," Twilight said, "the others need your help."

"Got it," Flash said before he looked down at the still frozen Shining Armor, "you'd better get him to safety."

"Right," Twilight said as she and Rainbow picked him up.

"What's going on?" Shining asked.

"I'll explain later," Twilight told him as they dragged him away.

The Rangers were having a tough time. Everything they tried to do, Gigabyte seemed to predict and defend perfectly against it.

"This is exhausting," Micro said, "we haven't even landed a hit on him."

"We have to keep trying," Lyra said.

"Guys," they turned to see Flash running to them, "sorry I'm late."

"Your here now," Sweetie said, "that's what counts."

"Then let's finish this," Flash said as he pulled out a Magi-Charger and clicked. "Guardian Buster, activate." He threw the Charger in the air before it transformed into the super weapon, which he caught and activated.

Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded."

GUARDIAN BUSTER...RED CHARGE!

"Analysing," Gigabyte said as images of the Guardian Buster appeared on his screen.

The head flew towards Gigabyte, but he wasn't scared. "Power Cord," his metal cable shot out and literally grabbed the blast.

"WHAT!" The Rangers screamed seeing this. They watched as Gigabyte spun around and released the Dragon Blast, sending it back at the Rangers.

"Look out!" Sandal yelled but it was to late.

BOOM!

The Rangers were blasted by their own attack and sent flying, demorphing as they hit the ground.

"I did it," Gigabyte yelled, "I beat the Rangers." He stepped closer, ready to finish them off, when he was suddenly bombarded by soccer balls. "What!"

"Back off," everyone turned to see Twilight, Rainbow, and Shining rushing towards them, Twilight throwing the balls at the monster with her magic.

"I told you guys to get to safety," Flash said as Shining helped him up.

"We couldn't just leave you," Twilight said.

"You think a few balls will stop me?" Gigabyte said, "Shades!" a legion of Shades appeared to surround the eight of them.

"This is bad," Rainbow said.

"We can't fight them all off in our condition," Micro said.

"What'll we do?" Sweetie asked.

The answer came in the form of blue lightning, striking a load of Shades and knocking them down.

"What was that?" Twilight asked.

"Who cares," Flash said "it's given us an escape route."

They all rushed out of the circle and back towards the school.

"That lightning," Rainbow said, "I know I've seen it before." It was then that the distracted Rainbow tripped over a rock, falling on her face.

"Rainbow," Twilight yelled as the others rushed back to help her.

"My ankle," Rainbow said grabbing her left foot.

Suddenly a Shade was above her, dagger at the ready, about to strike.

"RAINBOW!" Twilight yelled.

And then it happened.

From out of no where someone leaped at the Shade and delivered a powerful kick, sending it flying back towards the group. The figure landed infront of Rainbow, allowing the others to see who it was and they were shocked.

"Soarin?" Rainbow said seeing the boy standing above her.

Soarin Skies looked back at the girl and smiled. "You looked like you could use a hand."

"You gotta get out of there," Flash said, "It's not safe."

"I ain't running," Soarin said, "not while people need my help."

Suddenly all the Rangers felt something and pulled out their Elements, which were glowing.

"What's going on?" Lyra asked.

"They're reacting to something," Micro said.

"But what?" Sandal said until they turned to look at Soarin.

"Out of my way human," Gigabyte said, "I don't have time to waste on a weakling like you."

Soarin just smirked, "who said I'm a weakling." He went into his bag and pulled something out, which glowed navy blue.

"Is that?" Flash asked, but his suspicions were confirmed when Soarin opened his hand to reveal a dark blue crystal hexagon.

"An Element!" Gigabyte screamed.

Soarin just smiled and tossed the Element into the air. "Thunder Morpher!" Electricity surged around his left arm and took the form some kind of device which was dark blue with red trim, with a slot on the top and the front shaped like a bird head. The Element landed inside the slot which Soarin closed before grabbing a rip cord lick trigger which he pulled.

"Unleash the Power!" A blast of dark blue energy shot out of the bird mouth, which flew upwards as it took the form of a metal bird head that circled Soarin and then bit down on him before exploding into light.

The light faded and standing in Soarin's place was a Power Ranger, in a navy blue suit with red in place of the usual white. His visor was shaped like a V and on his back were a pair of red lightning bolt shaped flaps.

"No...way," Rainbow said.

The others were just as dumb founded.

"Another one," Darklight yelled seeing the new Ranger.

"Where'd he come from?" Heart asked.

"This doesn't bode well," Cogs said.

The new Ranger took up a battle stance. "Hope you're ready," he said, "because your about to face the wrath of the Thundering Hero."

"Shades attack!" Gigabyte said, making his minions charge forwards.

"Blitz Bolts," Soarin aimed his Morpher at the first wave and pulled the rip cord, unleashing a flurry of electric darts that struck them down. "Who's next?" He asked as he charged forward and attack the Shades with punches and kicks, which proved effective.

"He's good," Sweetie said.

"Just as good as us," Lyra said, "maybe even better."

"Now try this," Soarin said as the flaps on his back stretched out like a pair of wings allowing him to take flight and soar forwards, cutting down the Shades.

"He can fly," Sandal said in amazement.

"Fascinating," Micro said.

"You've worn out your welcome," Gigabyte said as he charged forward.

"You want some?" Soarin asked as he leaped forward and dealt a kick to the monster, sending him backwards. As Gigabyte tried to get his bearings, Soarin held his hands to the sky. "Summon Thunder Sabre!" A bolt of lightning struck his hand, which took the form of a sword with a dark blue handle and yellow crossguard in the shape of a lightning bolt. Soarin took his Element and placed it in a slot in the swords handle, which he then closed.

ELEMENT OF SELFLESSNESS...ENGAGED!

Electricity surged up the blade as Soarin swung it around.

Gigabyte stood tall and saw Soarin's move. "What's going on," he asked as his screen flashed several images of the Rangers, "I have no data on this."

"Well I'm sure this'll be an electrifying experience," Soarin said as he raised the lightning sword up above his head in both hands. "Thunder...Sabre...STRIKE!" He swung the sword downwards a fired a massive bolt of lightning at Gigabyte, which struck him and electrocuted him.

"Your frying my circuits," he screamed before been thrown back in an explosion.

Up in space, Darklight wasn't to happy. "So much for your perfect monster Cogs."

"We've never seen this Ranger before," Cogs said.

"It matters not," Darklight said, "you said Gigabyte had info on the Ranger's Megazords?"

"Yes."

"Then that's how we'll beat them," Darklight said before turning to a Shade, "fire the Gigatisor!"

The Shade nodded and ran over to the button and hit it, releasing the growing machine which fired.

Back at the school Soarin was preparing to finish off Gigabyte, when suddenly the Gigatisor's beam struck him and caused an explosion. when it cleared the sight of a giant Gigabyte met them.

"Now this is what I call a major upgrade," the monster said.

"So you want to go big do you?" Soarin asked as he pulled out the Element and raised it high, "Thunderbird arise!" The Element glowed and fired a blue lightning bolt into the sky, which formed a black thundercloud. Seconds later a familiar squawk could be heard and out of it shot a Zord the Rangers all recognised.

"No way," Lyra said.

"That's the Zord that saved us at the Gala," Sweetie said.

"Then that means he was the one who saved us," Micro said.

Soarin leaped into the air and disappeared.

Inside the Thunderbird Zord Soarin reappeared and took out his Thunder Sabre, which he placed in the podium to his right. "Thunderbird Zord, ready!" he said as he took a surfing stance.

The Thunderbird flew at Gigabyte and unleashed a lightning bolt from its beak, firing at Gigabyte.

"Not this time," Gigabyte said as he dodged the attacks, "I do have data on this thing."

"I that so?" Soarin said from within the cockpit, "then I'll just have to switch it up a bit." He pulled his sabre from the podium and held it up. "Activate Thunder-Charge Megazord!"

THUNDER-CHARGE MEGAZORD...ENGAGED!

The twin cannons on the Thunderbird's back detached and reshaped into a pair of legs, as its head folded into its stomach and the talons locked in around its head. The legs connected to the bottom, with the tail shaping into a skirt like ascetic. The ends of the wings detached revealing a pair of arms which folded down as the wings reshaped into sword like devices that the Megazord caught. A warrior head folded out of the Zord's back, completing the new Megazord.

THUNDER-CHARGE MEGAZORD...READY!

"He's got a Megazord too," Sandal asked.

"Who is this guy?" Lyra asked.

"And how have we never seen him before?" Sweetie asked.

Gigabyte and the Thunder-Charge Megazord squared off, with the Megazord charging forward

"Game on," Soarin yelled as his Megazord used its two sword to slash away at the monster.

"Power Cord," Gigabyte unleashed his metal cable, which wrapped around the swords.

"Nice intercept," Soarin said, "now let me show you mine." Electricity surged around the blades, travelling up the wires and electrifying the monsters.

"Hey," Gigabyte yelled as he let go and tried to recover from the shock.

"Wing Blade Slash," Soarin and his Megazord moved in perfect sync, slashing away at the monster who was unable to fight back for fear of being electrocuted.

"Try this," Gigabyte unleashed his cable and wrapped it around the Megazord's leg before pulling it. This caused the Megazord to trip up and fall on its back. "Now you're mine."

"I don't think so," Soarin said as the Thunderbird mouth opened, "Beak Bolt!" A lighting bolt shot out of the beak, striking Gigabyte and sending him backwards and allowing the Megazord to stand up. "Time to end this," Soarin said as he pulled his Thunder Sabre out of the podium, "Thunder-Charge Megazord, Final Strike!"

The Megazord leaped into the air and raised its two blades, which both began to surge with electrical energy. "Twin Sword Cleave!" The Megazord brought the blades down in an X formation, unleashing and and X shaped lightning bolt which flew towards Gigabyte and struck him.

Gigabyte screamed in agony as the electricity surged through his body.

"This was a shock," were his last words before he was consumed by an explosion.

"Back of the net," Soarin cheered seeing the monster be destroyed, before the Megazord transformed back into the Thunderbird Zord and flew off.

"RRRAAARRR!" Darklight screamed, terrifying his minions.

"Now calm down bro," Heart said trying to prevent her brother from doing something he'd regret.

"What will it take to finally end these Power Rangers?" Darklight asked.

In was at this moment that Doom Raizer entered the bridge.

"YOU!" he yelled rushing over to the spiky monsters, "you fled instead of destroying the red Ranger. What use are you if you can't even defeat one?"

"I thought Gigabyte could defeat them," Doom replied, "I won't make that mistake again."

"You'd better not," Darklight said, "or I'll destroy you myself and have Cogs reanimate you as a brain dead simpleton. Now get out of here and don't come back until you've gotten me an Element."

"Yes master Darklight," Doom said before turning to leave the bridge."

It had taken awhile but everything had been put back to normal after the fight.

The Rangers and the mane seven were working on repairing the field. "Soarin?" Applejack said, "that fella from Cloudsdale."

"He's a Power Ranger," Flash said, "the one who saved us from Blizzard at the gala."

"I can barley believe it," Rainbow said, "I've played against that guy a ton of times but I never would have guessed this."

"That's because I keep it well hidden," they turned to see Soarin walking up to the, with a smile on his face, "like any good superhero should."

"Could have sworn you high tallied it," Flash said.

"Well you would have found me anyway," Soarin said, "so I thought I'd just save us all some time and come back and explain myself."

"Good," they turned once again and this time saw Shining standing a ways off, "then you can explain it to me as well."

"Oh boy," Lyra said.

"So much for our secret identity," Sweetie said.

"Shining," Twilight said, "please you can't tell anyone about what you saw today."

"I won't," Shining said, "as long as I get some answers."

The Rangers all shared a glance and then nodded, before pulling out their Elements.

"Those look just like my Thunder Stone," Soarin said.

"Your Thunder Stone," Flash told him, "is actually a Guardian Element."

The Rangers went on to explain everything about the Equestria, about the Elements and about how Darklight wanted to get his hands on them.

"And we've been helping them," Twilight said, "but we couldn't tell anyone." She turned to Shining, "that's why I've been working at the school over the summer and it's why Flash and I were at the gala. We thought an Element would be there."

Shining's face was one of concern as he took the information in.

"Your sister's been a big help to us," Flash told him, "we'd be dead without her."

"Please Shining," Twilight said, "don't tell anyone."

Shining remained still for a moment, before sighing. "Very well," he said, "I will keep what I learned here today a secret. But I want to be kept in the loop from now on, so I can help."

"Really?" Sunset asked.

"I can't leave saving the world to a group of kids," Shining said before turning to leave. "Good luck, and Flash."

"Yeah?"

"I was wrong, your no punk." And with that he was gone.

"Well that was something," Sandal said.

"Glad we're not getting arrested," Micro said.

"Now the only question," Lyra pointed to Soarin, "what do we do with him?"

The Rangers had just reach a new pinnacle of their lives as heroes. How will a new Ranger change things?"

Author's Note

FOOLED YEAH! I thought everyone would figured out who the sixth Ranger was from his suit colour, but I guess I was wrong. How will Soarin fit into the team?

Magnetic Attraction

Up in space Darklight, Heart Breaker and Cogs were working to reanimate the monsters the Rangers had previously destroyed.

The machine was at work, filling with smoke as it revived another monster. Finally it was complete and the door opened, as Gigabyte stepped out.

"Alive again," Gigabyte cheered.

"You're lucky I decided to revive you again after your last failure," Darklight told before turning to some Shades, "take him to the cells."

The Shades nodded and grabbed the computer monster, before dragging him out of the room.

"Wait master," Gigabyte yelled, "give me another chance." The rest of his screams couldn't be heard as the doors shut behind him.

"Is that all of them?" Darklight asked Cogs.

"All the ones we have in the system," Cogs said, "we don't have the data for Crushclaw, Shellblast, Warper or Boombox. But any other monster you want revived can be."

"Good," Darklight said, "the only question now is do I send a revived monster or try someone new?"

"Master," they all turned to see Doom enter the room with a new monster. He was made out of black metal and had a large magnet shaped instrument on each shoulder. "I have selected a monster for the next attack."

"And why should I agree to allow this monster the chance?" Darklight asked.

"I'll get you an Element," the monster said.

"Magnetron here has a very tricky skill that the Rangers will have a tough time dealing with," Doom said turning to Magnetron, "do it."

Magnetron looked around the room and spotted a Shade. He then reached for his hip as something shot out of it and into his hand, a thick round metal disk, which he held up to his mouth. "Positive," he said to it causing the disk to turn from silver to red, before he threw it at the Shade which it stuck to.

"That's it?" Heart asked.

"Wait," Doom said.

Magnetron did the same thing, pulling another disk out of his hip and holding it to his mouth. "Negative," he said as the disk turned blue and he threw it towards the ground.

The blue disk hit the ground near the Shades feet and barely a second later, the Shade was pulled towards the ground.

"Fun trick," Darklight said, "but I doubt the Rangers will be so easily beat."

"There's more," Magnetron said as they looked back at the Shade, "negative turn positive."

The blue disk suddenly changed to red and a second later the Shade was pushed off the ground and floated in the air.

"Those Rangers won't know which way is up," Magnetron said.

"Fine," Darklight said, "go with him Doom and don't fail me."

"Yes master," the two said before leaving.

We find the Rangers in their base, showing the newest Ranger everything there was to know about being on the team.

Soarin looked around the hidden room with wide eyes. "Incredible," he said doing a full three sixty, "I never knew this sort of stuff even existed."

"It is impressive," Sunset told him. She and Twilight were in the lab, where the Element of Selflessness was being scanned. "And with it we can refine the power of your Element."

"Yeap," Twilight said, "and once that's done we can make..." she went to the computer and pulled out a dark blue Magi-Charger with the picture of the Thunderbird Zord on it, "Magi-Chargers." She held out the Charger for Soarin to take as Sandal and Micro stood next to him, Sandal holding the Thunder Sabre.

"With these," Micro said, "you can use your powers more easily like activating your morpher."

"Or in your Thunder Sabre," Sandal said handing Soarin the weapon.

Soarin took the sword and placed the Charger in the slot.

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Awesome," Soarin said.

"Now remember the Chargers powers aren't limitless," Twilight told him.

"That's why we have these," they turned to see Flash and Lyra near the crystal beds. "Just put your Chargers in the slot and Element here," he showed him as his Element flew between the crystal stalagmite and stalactite.

"Give it a try," Lyra said pointing to the empty crystal bed.

"Right," Soarin said holding out his Element, which flew out of his hand and into the crystal bed. "Awesome."

"You bet it is," Sweetie said.

"You know," Rainbow said, "I'm still having a hard time believing your a Power Ranger."

"Hey," Soarin said, "I had a hard time believing there were others like me."

"So how did ya get Element partner?" Applejack asked.

Soarin smiled as if remembering a childhood memory as he spoke, "it happened just under a year ago."

Soccer practise had run late and I was on my way home.

Soarin was walking down the street, as the street lamp began to light. It seemed like every other day, until.

"AAAARRRR!" Soarin spun around at the sound of the scream and before he could even think, he shot off in its direction.

Arriving at an alleyway his eyes went wide at what e saw. A girl about his age surrounded by older teens in leather jackets, each carrying a knife.

Her name was Little Strongheart and she was on her way home when she'd been cornered by street thugs.

"Just give us yer purse sweetheart," one said.

"Hey!" they all turned to see Soarin, "why don't you leave her alone."

"Make us pretty boy," the leader said as he turned to his gang, "get him."

The gang members ran towards Soarin, who in turn charged at them. Using his sports bag Soarin swung it around to knock the weapons out of the hands of two or three of them, before throwing it at another who caught it but was unable to defend against a punch from the young teen.

He then threw a few punches and kicks at the punks, knocking them out cold.

"Oh come on," the leader said as he charged forward with his knife, swinging it around as Soarin dodged it. Grabbing a trash can lid he held it up as a shield, which the knife cut through allowing Soarin to yank it out of his hand and then swung the lid back up and slammed it into his face.

With the thugs unconscious Soarin picked up his bag and moved over to Strongheart.

"You okay?" he asked.

"I'm fine," Strongheart said, only for her eyes to go wide, "but you're not." She pointed to his side where it appeared a lucky strike from the leaders knife had cut Soarin.

"Oh," Soarin said just noticing it.

"Come on," she said grabbing his bag, "my house isn't to far. We'll call a doctor from there."

She took me to her house, more like mansion, where I met her father Thunderhooves.

"Here you go," Thunderhooves said as he helped Soarin sit on a sofa. "The doctor will be here soon."

"Thank you," Soarin said.

"No," Thunderhooves said, "thank you for saving my daughter. That was a very selfless thing you did."

"Thanks," Soarin said, "I just did what needed to be done."

It was then that I felt it, a surge of energy which directed me towards a box sitting above their fire place.

"What's that?" Soarin asked pointing to the box, which was glowing.

Thunderhooves and Strongheart turned to the box and gasped seeing the glow. Thunderhooves moved over to it and opened the box, before picking it up and taking it over to Soarin who looked in to see the dark blue crystal. "The Thunder Stone."

"Thunder Stone?" Soarin asked.

"It has been in our family for generations," Thunderhooves explained, "passed down father to son, mother to daughter. Now it appears the Thunder Stone is calling out to you."

"Why me?"

"Maybe it senses your good heart," Strongheart said.

"Take it," Thunderhooves said, "it's your now."

Soarin sat up and held out his hand, slowly taking the Thunder Stone in his grasp. The second he lifted it out of the box he was surrounded by blue energy, as visions of ponies in similar armour flooded his mind before the image of a bird surrounded by lightning flashed.

"That was the day I became the Thundering Hero," Soarin said, "though I guess the right name would be...Thunder Ranger."

"So it was Strongheart who had the residual energy trace," Twilight said.

"She called you didn't she?" Flash said, "at the Baltimare Gala."

"Yeah," Soarin said, "I rushed over there as soon as I got the call, but by the time I got there you guys were fighting the giant monster."

"You really saved our bacon then," Sandal said.

"Your welcome," Soarin said. Turning to the crystal bed he held out his hand as the Element shot into it. "Well," he said, "this was fun but I really need to be going. I hope we meet again someday."

This confused everybody.

"What do you mean?" Micro asked, "you part of our team now."

"No, I'm not," Soarin said.

"Yeah you are," Flash said, "we're Power Rangers...we kind of come as a set."

"Look," Soarin said, "you guys are pretty cool and all, but I never signed on to be part of a team. I've been doing just fine on my own." With that he turned and walked out the room, leaving the rest of them dumb struck.

"What's he mean he didn't sign on?" Sweetie said, "he is a Power Ranger he doesn't have a choice in who's on his side."

"We've got to find a way to get him to agree," Lyra said.

"But how?" Pinkie asked.

"We show him just how good we are," Flash said.

It was in that moment that the holotable activated, showing the holomap with an area circled.

"Magic energy surge," Sunset said.

"It's down near the docks," Twilight said.

"Let's go," Flash ordered making them all rush out the base.

A little while later the Rangers, suited up, arrive and find Doom, Magnetron and some Shades terrorising civilians.

"Just as planned," Doom said.

"It's almost like they're attracted to trouble," Magnetron said.

"Let's be careful guys," Flash said, "we don't know what this monster can do."

"Well then come and find out," Doom said, "Shades attack!"

The cloaked drones charged forward, while the Rangers did the same.

"You hood heads never learn," Micro said as he blasted his way through the horde, back flipping as a few tried to stab him only to get blasted as they did. "Bullseye," he said.

"Magitech," Lyra and Sweetie yelled as they call upon their weapons. Lyra used her staff to pole-vote over the Shades, before slashing them from behind.

"Bye bye," Sweetie said as she used her shield to push a bunch of Shades to the end of a pier, before doing a spin kick to send them into the water. "Hope you guys can swim."

"Power Slash," Sandal yelled as he cut down Shade after Shade. "I wonder how many of these creeps I can beat down in an hour. Probably lose count after a million."

Doom and Magnetron were watching this as that saw Flash fighting off some Shades nearby.

"Go prove yourself," Doom said to the monster.

"I will," Magnetron said as he charged towards the red Ranger.

Flash saw the monster running at him and pulled out his Spirit Sabre. "Time to cut you down to size," he said charging forward.

"I don't think so," Magnetron said as he threw one of his disks, which hit Flash's sabre.

"What the?" Flash said looking over the disk.

"Positive," Magnetron said making the disk turn red. He then took out another one, "negative," before throwing it and hitting the ground.

"WHOA!" Flash yelled as he felt his weapon pull him to the ground.

"Not so tough without your sword," Magnetron said.

"It's like it's glued to the ground," Flash said pulling at the sword.

"Negative," Magnetron then said, "change to positive." The blue disk changed to red and the next thing Flash knew he was flying in the air.

"Oh come on," Flash said as he hung by his sword.

"Hang on Flash," Micro yelled as he jumped towards him. "Morphin Blaster, fire!" he shot several shots at the monster.

"Magna Guard," Magnetron threw four disks, two red and two blue, which spun in a circle and created some kind of magnetic barrier which blocked the blaster's attack.

"What?" Micro asked only for a red disk to connect to his blaster, sending him flying up.

"Guys," Lyra yelled as she, Sweetie and Sandal ran towards them.

"Negative," Magnetron said throwing the disks at them, which attached to their suits and pulled them down.

"I can't move," Sweetie said.

"Me neither," Sandal said.

"It's over Rangers," Doom said as he walked forward and pulled out his sword.

"Blitz Bolts," he and Magnetron were bombarded by lightning darts.

"It's Soarin," Flash said as he watched the Thunder Ranger leap into the scene.

"Thunder Sabre," Soarin called out as he landed and used his sword to slash the disk on the ground, freeing the Rangers before charging toward the monsters. "Thunder Sabre Strike!" Soarin yelled slashing away at Doom and Magnetron, electrocuting them.

"That little brat," Doom said.

"We'll be back," Magnetron said as they were teleported away.

With the danger gone the Thunder Ranger turned and leaped away.

"Wait," Flash yelled but he was already gone.

"If we wanted to get Soarin on our team," Lyra said, "that wasn't the best way to impress him."

Up in space Darklight wasn't to happy when Doom and Magnetron arrived back on the bridge.

"You ran away," Darklight said to Doom, "again. It seems a thousand years on this rock has made you as weak as those humans."

"The new Ranger was just to strong," Doom said, "he's style of battle is different from the other Rangers."

"He's right," Heart said, "but it looks like he's not working with the rest of the Rangers."

"Yes," Cogs said, "but if he does join them then we'll have the power of six Elements to deal with."

"Then the solution is obvious," Darklight said, "destroy this new Ranger before he can join the others." He turned to Doom, "I'll leave that to you and your monster. But know, if you fail me and are unable to being me an Element then I'll throw you...in the Pit."

Everyone who heard this gasped. The Pit was their solitary confinement, where the most powerful of Darklight's monsters were kept. Only two prisoners were seen as dangerous enough to be placed in it and no one wanted to go there.

"Understood master," Doom said, "I won't fail you." With that he Magnetron turned to leave.

"All I need is one Element," Darklight said once they were gone, "with it I can power any weapon I want and the rest of the Rangers will fall."

Back on earth a little later we find Soarin in the park, practising his sword training with a kendo stick.

"Not bad," Soarin stopped and turned to see Rainbow leaning on a nearby tree.

"Thanks," Soarin said.

"So," Rainbow said, "you wanna tell me what the whole no team thing is."

Soarin frowned, "don't know what your talking about."

"Give it up Soarin," Rainbow said, "I've known you for a long time and your one of the best team mates I've ever seen. So why are you so determined not to be on this one."

"Doesn't matter," Soarin said as he swung the sword again.

"It kind of does," Rainbow said.

Soarin just sighed, he wasn't getting out of this, so he turned to Rainbow. "It's like you said, I work on a team great, but that's all people ever see...a team. No matter what sport I play I'm always stuck in support, never getting to do anything like score the winning goal or bat the winning pitch. Being a Ranger, the Thundering Hero, it's the first thing in my life I'm doing on my own."

Rainbow raised an eyebrow. "That's your reason?"

"Yeah."

"Not a very good one," Rainbow said, "you're refusing to join the team because you want to keep playing hero."

"You don't get it," Soarin said, "you're the best player at your school. You don't know what it's like to be over shadowed by everyone."

"It doesn't matter," Rainbow said, "you have a responsibility as a Ranger to join this team."

"I don't have to do anything," Soarin said.

"But you're in danger," Rainbow said, "as long as you have an Element you're a target for Darklight. He'll stop at nothing to get one and that means destroying you."

"I'll be fine," Soarin said, "I'm the Thundering Hero." With that he turned and left.

"That block head," Rainbow growled before turning and leaving.

At the base the Rainbow told the Rangers what Soarin had told her. To say they weren't impressed with his reasons would be an understatement.

"That's why he doesn't want to join?" Lyra asked.

"I kinda feel bad for him," Sandal said.

"That doesn't excuse him," Micro said.

"Maybe the Element made a mistake when it chose him," Sweetie said, "he's not sounding so selfless."

"The Elements are never wrong," they all turned to see Starswirl, "not only did it chose him because he was selfless, but it also chose him because he can work on this team. You must simply prove that to him."

"He's right," Flash said, "we can't give up on him yet. Darklight can revive his monsters now, and if Gigabyte was anything to go by, he can make them way stronger."

"He's right," Twilight said, "we need him."

Suddenly the holotable started buzzing, before showing an image of the park.

"Magic energy signals," Sunset said before gulping, "near Rainbow's last location."

Everyone's eyes went wide.

Soarin was still in the park, frustrated about what Rainbow had said, while he swung the stick around.

"I don't need anyone else," he said, "I can probably take this Darklight guy out all on my own."

"I very much doubt that."

BOOM!

Soarin suddenly found himself in a flurry of lazer fire, which sent him flying back.

"This should be fun," Soarin looked up to see Doom, Magnetron and some Shades standing a ways off.

"You guys made a big mistake coming here," Soarin said as he got up.

"I doubt that," Doom said, "you may have gotten us by surprise before, but we're ready for you now."

"We'll see about that," Soarin said as he pulled out his kendo sword and charged forward.

"Shades!" Doom ordered as his minions charged.

Soarin began swinging the sword around, knocking the Shades down while blocking their attacks. He mainly tried to take out the legs, knocking them down. This worked for a while until Doom ran towards him.

"Let's see how you do against me," he said swinging his sword around.

"I'll do fine," Soarin said swinging his kendo stick. However Doom simply stood still as Soarin struck him with the wooden sword, which simply bounced off the monsters chest.

"That tickled," Doom said before he swung his sword.

Soarin tried to block but on contact with Doom's sword it shattered.

"Uh-oh," Soarin said seeing it brake. Soarin reached for his Magi-Charger, but Doom swung his sword and slashed Soarin back.

"Take this!" Doom yelled firing off a lightning bolt from his sword, which flew at Soarin and struck him, sending him flying. "Now Magnetron."

"Right," the monster said as he threw four red disks at Soarin, which landed in a square around him. He then took another red disk and threw it at the Ranger, which latched onto his chest.

"What the," Soarin said only to feel himself go completely still.

"He's trapped," Doom said with a chuckle. "Now that he can't move, he's defenceless." He held up his sword and slowly walked towards Soarin, ready to finish him.

Soarin tried to escape but it appeared impossible. Fear filled his mind as he watched the monster draw near. The images of the other Rangers flashed infront of him, making him realise how stupid he'd been. Fighting alone meant he would lose...alone.

"Finally," Doom said raising his sword, "an Element will be mine." He swung the sword down towards the Ranger.

Accepting his fate, Soarin closed his eyes and waited for the end.

But it never came.

Soarin opened his eyes and saw Flash, Spirit Sabre out, in front of him blocking Doom's sword.

"You!" Doom screamed.

"Me," Flash said pushing the monster away and then pulling out his blaster he fired several shots.

"Flash," Soarin whispered seeing the red Ranger come to his rescue.

"Soarin," he turned and saw the rest of the Ranger come to his aid, each using their sabres to destroy the disks freeing him.

"Are you okay?" Micro asked helping him up.

"Yeah," Soarin said.

"Not for long," they turned to see Magnetron charging at them, but Lyra, Sweetie and Sandal jumped in front before blasting the monster. "HEY!"

Seeing his monster be knocked down, distracted Doom enough for Flash to Power Slash him away.

Flash regrouped with his team and Soarin.

"I didn't need your help," Soarin said.

"Yeah," Flash smirked, "right."

"I could have handled it."

"No you couldn't," Flash said, "he would have destroyed you and you know it. Look I get that you want to be the hero, but this is about more then just you. If you keep fighting on your own, eventually Darklight's gonna send a monster you can't beat and then what'll happen? You be destroyed and Darklight will take your Element."

"And him getting his hands on even one is bad news," Lyra said.

Soarin took what they had said to heart. Was he being selfish trying to hog the glory to himself?

"There's nothing stopping you from still being a hero," Flash said, "but we need you and you need us. It's the only way we're ever gonna stop Darklight."

Soarin looked Flash in the eyes and saw he was serious, which made something in Soarin crack.

"Okay," Soarin said, "I guess I could try working with you."

The Rangers smiled hearing this.

Doom and Magnetron had finally recovered from the Ranger's attacks, when they saw the six of them standing in a line a ways off.

"So you lot are working together now?" Doom asked, "I'm so scared."

"You should be," Soarin said, "because it's Morphin Time!" He took out his new gear and smiled as he said, "Magi-Charger."

"Ready!" the five said holding out theirs. The six of them activated them and each placed them inside their morpher.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Oh boy," Doom said.

"Energise," They said charging up their morphers before pointing them to the sky, "Unleash the Power!" The six heads shot out and flew around them, before biting down on them and equipping them in their suits.

Doom and Magnetron looked the six over as they prepared for battle.

"Now this is more like it," Flash said as they took a battle stance.

Flash: Element of Courage...Power Ranger, RED!

Lyra: Element of Trust...Power Ranger, BLUE!

Micro: Element of Knowledge...Power Ranger, YELLOW!

Sweetie: Element of Love...Power Ranger, PINK!

Sandelwood: Element of Will...Power Ranger, GREEN!

Soarin: Element of Selflessness...Thunder Ranger READY!

All: Protectors of right, ready to fight!

Flash and Soarin: Power Rangers!

All: GUARDIANS!

In that second an explosion occurred behind them.

"Shades!" Doom ordered, sending his minions after the Rangers.

"Let's do this," Soarin said.

"Together," the other five said as they charged.

Soarin and Sandal both pulled out their swords and began slashing the Shades down, working in perfect unison to achieve victory.

"Power Slash," Sandal said.

"Thunder Sabre Strike," Soarin said.

The two attacks struck the horde and destroyed the Shades.

"You got skills," Soarin said.

"Thanks bro," Sandal replied

Meanwhile Micro was blasting away at the Shades, unaware that one was sneaking up behind him.

"Blitz Bolt," Micro spun around to see the Shade suddenly get blasted by the Soarin, who was running up to him.

"Thanks," Micro said.

"I never leave a teammate hanging," Soarin said as he ran off and left Micro with the last of that group.

Lyra and Sweetie were back to back, fighting off Shades with their sabres.

"Heads up," Soarin flew towards them and spun in a circle, thinning out the herd before landing next to the girls.

"Thanks," Lyra said as she and Sweetie finished off the last of the Shades.

"No problem," Soarin said as he ran off.

Flash and Doom were fighting each other.

"This is the end for you red Ranger," Doom said as they clashed.

"Hope your hungry," Flash said as he blocked the sword before pushing him away and dealing a powerful slash, "because you'll be eating those words."

"The only thing I taste is your defeat!" Doom yelled.

"Hate to interrupt good trash talk," Soarin said as he ran towards them, "but can I get a few swings in?" He and Flash worked together to block and slash Doom, dealing incredible amounts of damage to him. "Take...this!" Soarin slashing the monster upwards, causing him to scream in pain.

"You worms!" Doom yelled as he clutched his shoulder, "I'll leave Magnetron to deal with you." With that he disappeared in a telebolt.

"Coward," Soarin said.

"We'll get him next time," Flash said.

The two turned and rushed towards their friends, who had finished the Shades and were fighting Magnetron.

"You won't beat me so easily," the monster said as he tried to fight off the four.

"We'll see about that," Lyra said as she and Sweetie both dealt a kick to the monsters chest.

"Morphin Blaster," Micro and Sandal said charging their blasters, "fire!" They blasted the monster as the girls leaped out of the way.

"Magna Guard!" Magnetron yelled as he threw the four disks which formed the barrier that blocked the attack.

"Gotta get through that shield," Micro said.

"But how?" Sandal asked.

"Leave that to me," Soarin said as he and Flash arrived on the scene. "Magi-Charger," he held up his charger and activated it, before placing it inside his Thunder Sabre.

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

Soarin charged at the monster as his weapon sparked.

"One little Ranger doesn't stand a chance against me," Magnetron said as the two fought.

"We'll see about that," Soarin said as he leaped up and over the monster's head, causing it to turn around. "Thunder Sabre...STRIKE!" he swing the blade and unleash the lightning bolt, which flew towards the monster.

"Magna Guard!" forming the shield, which blocked the electricity though it pushed him back. Eventually Soarin was out of energy and stopped his attack. "Was that all you've got?" Magnetron asked while laughing.

"Yeap," Soarin replied happily, "but they've got tons more." He pointed behind the monster, who turned around to see the rest of the Rangers with the Guardian Buster out.

GUARDIAN BUSTER...RED CHARGE!

"Guardian Buster," they yelled in unison, "Dragon Blast...FIRE!" Flash pulled the trigger and a single powerful blast shot out, which morphed into the shape of the Dragon Zord's head.

"Magna Guard!" the monster tried to summon his defence shield, but the attack was to fast and he was blasted and sent flying.

"Oh yeah," Soarin said as he returned to the Rangers.

"Told you we'd be stronger together," Flash said.

Up on the ship, Doom had arrived on the bridge just in time to see Magnetron get destroyed.

"Great," Heart said, "why do they have to get along so well?"

"This isn't over yet," Doom said before turning to a Shade, "fire the Gigatisor!"

The Shade nodded and ran over to the button and hit it, releasing the growing machine which fired.

Back on earth the team saw the red beam come down and hit Magnetron, causing an explosion. When the smoke faded the sight of a giant Magnetron met them.

"Looks like it's Zord time," Flash said.

"Then let's have our Zords fight together," Soarin said.

"Now you're getting it," Flash said as he, Soarin, Micro and Sandal pulled out their Chargers before throwing them. "Summon, Dragon Zord!"

"Summon, Griffon Zord!"

"Summon, Fenrir Zord!"

"Summon, Thunderbird Zord!"

The four Chargers flew through the air, towards their allotted Zord.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The Zords activated and made their way towards their Rangers.

"Activate Thunder-Charge Megazord," Soarin ordered.

THUNDER-CHARGE MEGAZORD...ENGAGED...THUNDER-CHARGE MEGAZORD...READY!

"Zords combined," the rest of the Rangers ordered.

ZORDS COMBINED...GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, FENRIR-GRIFFON FORMATION...READY!

The two Megazords stood side by side.

"Let's do it!" The six said.

"Bring it on," Magnetron said as he threw his magnet disks towards the Megazords.

"Stay back," Soarin said as his Megazord stepped forward and began slashing the disks to pieces, however a red one managed to latch onto one of the swords.

"And now," Magnetron threw four red ones onto the buildings surrounding him, creating a large magnetic blockade.

"I can't get through," Soarin said.

"But we can," Micro said as the Megazord raised its Griffon arm and started firing.

"Hey," Magnetron yelled as he was forced out of his blockade by the blasts.

"Now you're mine," Soarin said charging forward, "Wing Blade Slash." The Megazord swung its massive swords, slashing away at the monster.

"And we're next," Sandal said as the Megazord swung the Fenrir arm, slashing Magnetron.

"Let's end this," Soarin said.

"Agreed," the others said.

All six Rangers moved in perfect unison. "Thunder-Charger Megazord, Guardian Megazord, Double Final Strike!"

"Blast Cutter!" The Megazord's two arms began to glow. It raised its Griffon arm and charged up a blast which it fired, before spinning around and swinging the Fenrir arm around to fire an energy slash which struck the griffon blast and accelerating it towards Magnetron.

The Thunder-Charge Megazord leaped into the air and raised its two blades, which both began to surge with electrical energy. "Twin Sword Cleave!" The Megazord brought the blades down in an X formation, unleashing and and X shaped lightning bolt which flew towards Magnetron.

As the two attacks struck him, Magnetron let out a mighty scream of pain. "I couldn't stick with it," he his last words before being consumed by a fireball.

The Rangers all cheered seeing their victory and seeing their newest member working so well on the team.

"Now that's team work," Flash said.

"And it was awesome," Soarin said as they looked over the destroyed monster. "Guardian Rangers, victory is ours."

Up in space Darklight was dragging Doom through the ship.

"I warned you Doom Raizer," Darklight said.

"But master," Doom tried to reply.

"But nothing," Darklight yelled as they walked passed the cell blocks. At the end of the corridor was a large metallic door, covered in metal blocks with four Shades standing guard. "OPEN IT!" he ordered.

The Shades nodded and each moved over and pulled a leaver, which each caused one of the blocks to retracted into the wall. The door opened and Darklight dragged Doom inside the room, where more large metal doors waited.

Opening one up he threw Doom inside.

"Master," Doom called but Darklight slammed the door shut, locking him in. "MASTER!"

As Darklight turned to leave the room, a voice caught his attention.

"Good help is hard to find," this voice came from another of the Pit's cells.

"Silence Havoc," he said.

"I'm just saying."

"Well keep your mouth shut," Darklight said, "or do you want to end up like your father."

The being named Havoc went silent.

"As I thought," Darklight said before leaving and slamming the door into the Pits shut.

"I will have my vengeance," Havoc said once he was gone.

Later one the Rangers were back at the base with Soarin having his Element's abilities removed by Starswirl.

"And done," Starswirl said ceasing his magic, "you will now start ageing once again."

"Thanks," Soarin said to him before turning to the rest of the Rangers "and thank you all for helping me. I'm sorry about how I acted. I've been nothing but the supporter my whole life and it felt good to be the one in the spot light for once. But you guys were right, this is about more then just me."

"I'm glad to hear it," Starswirl said.

"So does this mean you'll join the team?" Lyra asked.

Soarin nodded. "Yeah," he replied, "I'll join your junior glee club."

"That's great," Flash said, with the others nodding.

"But I still get to solo as the Thundering Hero," he said firmly, "it's my version of me time."

"Deal," Celestia said "Welcome to the team."

"It's gonna be great having you here," Rainbow said.

"Indeed," Twilight said, "and we've got a little something to make you feel more part of the team." She handed his a newly built Communicator.

"Thanks," he said as he took the device and put it on his wrist.

"And that's not all," she said as she turned to Rarity, "is it done?"

Rarity nodded, before pulling out a box which she held out to Soarin. "Specially made."

Soarin raised an eyebrow and took the box, which he placed it down on the table to open. Once he did his eyes went wide, "whoa." he pulled out a new jacket that looked just like the rest of the Ranger's jackets, only it was dark blue and had red in place of white with the pentagon on the back showing the head of his Zord. "This is awesome."

"Try it on," Sweetie said.

Soarin took off his own jacket and replaced it with the new one, which he left open. He stood next to the rest of the Rangers in a line, as the others looked them other.

"You guys look great," Sunset said.

"Darn tootin," Applejack agreed.

"Your Ranger-tastic," Pinkie said.

"I like it," Fluttershy said.

The Rangers all looked each other over and nodded. Their team was now stronger then ever and Darklight wouldn't stand a chance. But they couldn't get complacent, as four more Elements were still out there to find.

Author's Note

So now Soarin's officially on the team. Six down, four to go.

Smoke in Your Eyes

Up in space Heart Breaker was sulking around the ship.

"Those rotten Rangers," she said in anger, "I'll make them pay for what they did to my Doomy."

She turned into the cell block, where Darklight and Cogs were. "Now," Darklight said, "which of you should I send down next?"

The monsters in the cells all screamed, trying to be picked to be sent down. Ever since the reanimator came into the picture, the number of monsters willing to fight the Rangers has skyrocketed.

"Pick me master," Reflector said, "if we get all the Rangers together I can clone them and cause them to fight to exhaustion. If I do it on all of them then we won't have the same trouble as last time."

"No me," Brainwave said, "I'll hypnotise the Rangers into destroying each other."

"Send me down," an armoured monster said. He was red with silver trim a silver pipes coiled around his body which ended around his arms and atop his shoulders. "The Rangers will know what to expect when fighting them, but send me down and I'll put those Rangers into a haze."

"Don't you mean daze?" Cogs asked.

"No," the monster said, "haze!" With that purple smoke shot out of the pipes and surrounded Cogs.

"Hey!" he said as he tried to fan it away.

"Alright Smokescreen," Darklight said, "you get your chance."

"And I'm going down with him," they turned to see Heart walking up to them.

"You?" Darklight asked.

"I wanna make those Rangers pay for what happened to Doom Raizer," she said.

"very well," Darklight said, "but know that if you fail, you may end up sharing his fate."

"I...won't...fail."

Down on earth the Rangers were in the park enjoying a game of baseball.

The teams were Flash, Soarin, Micro, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie vs Lyra, Sandal, Sweetie, Sunset, Rainbow and Fluttershy.

"And we have the final pitch of the round," Twilight said, Spike on her lap, as they watched from the sidelines. "So far the blue team has two bases loaded and their captain is up to bat, but with two players out this could very well be the deciding play."

"What's with the commentator voice?" Spike asked.

"It's called enjoying the moment," Twilight replied.

Rainbow walked up to the pitch, bat in hand while Soarin stood on the mound ready to throw.

"Nothing fancy," Flash said from behind Rainbow, "just get her out."

"Hope you're ready," Soarin said, "no one's ever been able to hit my Thundering Fastball."

"We'll see about that," Rainbow said.

The two stared each other down as Soarin prepared to fire off his fastball. He pulled back his arm and with one great throw, shot the ball towards Flash. The ball was moving so fast, it was like a bolt of lightning.

"Not yet," Rainbow said to herself, "not yet...NOW!" she swung the bat and struck the ball, causing it to go flying. The ball soared overhead and out of the field

"Home run!" Twilight said.

Flash moved over to Soarin, "I said nothing fancy."

"Relax," Soarin said, "we'll just make up the points in the next round."

In said next round, Flash and Micro were on the bases while Soarin was up to bat.

"Bottom of the ninth and bases loaded," Twilight said, "new comer Soarin Skies is up to bat. If he hits this his team should be able to win, but if he's stuck out the blue team wins."

"Come on Soarin," Flash said from third base, "doesn't need to be great but just good enough to get me home."

"Right," Soarin said, "one home run coming up."

"NO!" Flash said looking annoyed.

Rainbow threw the pitch and it flew towards Soarin, who struck the ball at full force causing it to go flying.

"Home run!" Twilight said.

"I don't think so," Rainbow said before yelling, "Fluttershy!"

"W-What?" the frightened girl asked.

"Hold your glove as high as you can," she told her.

"Okay," she said as she shut her eyes and held her gloved hand up, only for the ball to land straight in it.

"You're out," Sunset said being the back stop.

"WHAT!?" Soarin screamed.

Rainbow's team cheered having won.

"Seriously Soarin," Flash said, "you just needed to bat the ball enough for me to get home. Did you really have to try for a home run?"

"What?" Soarin asked, "not my fault we lost."

"Well technically," Micro said.

Before the conversation could continue however, the Rangers got a call on their coms.

"What's up?" Flash asked.

Celestia's voice replied. "We just detected a magical energy surge in the centre of town."

"We're on our way," Flash replied before turning to the others. "Come on guys," he said, "let's get over there."

"Right!" the five said.

A little while later the Rangers arrived at the area where Celestia had sent them.

"See anything?" Flash asked the team.

"Not yet," Soarin said, "why don't we split up and look around?"

"To dangerous," Flash said, "we stick together and have each others back."

"That's lame," Soarin said, "what's the worst that could happen?"

"He's got a point Flash," Lyra said.

"We stick together," Flash told her.

"Fine," Lyra said, "but seriously what's the worst that could happen?"

Her answer came in a flurry of lazer fire, which struck them and sent them flying back.

"What the?" Flash asked picking himself up.

"SURPRISE!" they all looked up and saw Heart Breaker, Smokescreen and some Shades walking up to them, "hope you're ready to be destroyed Rangers."

"We'll see who gets destroyed," Flash said as he and the others stood tall, "it's Morphin Time. Magi-Chargers!"

"Ready!" the team said as they pulled out theirs. Clicking the buttons to activate them, the six then placed them inside their morphers.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Energise!" They yelled charging their weapons, before raising them high. "Unleash the Power!" The six heads shot out and flew around the Rangers, before biting down on them and decking them out in their Ranger suits.

Flash: Power Rangers!

All: Guardians!"

"Shades," Heart yelled, "attack!"

"Let's do this," Flash said as the Rangers charged forward.

"Magitech!"

"Summon Thunder Sabre!"

The Rangers called on their weapons and started doing battle.

"You know," Sandal said as he kicked a Shade back into its group before cut them down, "these guys are so weak I bet we could beat them without our weapons."

"I'd take that bet," Lyra said as she spun her staff around in a pin wheel motion to cut down a large group of Shades.

"But it's just so much more fun this way," Micro said as he blasted down several more down with his twin blasters.

"Plus," Sweetie said as she blocked a Shade's dagger with her shield, "do you honestly want to touch these creeps."

"Point," Sandal said.

"Hey," Flash said, "if it ain't broke then don't fix it." He used his Dragon Breaker to smash on into the air, before blasting it with his Morphin Blaster.

"Thunder Sabre," Soarin said slicing through several more, "Lightning Blade." He spun the sword in a pinwheel motion, causing it to fire off several lightning bolts that struck the Shades down.

"This isn't going well," Heart said seeing a good portion of their minions being beaten.

"Why'd you even use those things?" Smokescreen asked, "their useless."

"From what I've heard," Heart said, "they caught you didn't they."

"I was only beat because I had to fight off over a hundred of them," Smokescreen replied.

"Excuses," Heart said.

"Excuse us," they turned to see the Rangers had finished off the Shades and were now focusing their attention on them. "We can come back later if you're to busy squabbling," Flash joked.

"Yeah," Lyra said, "get a room."

"We're not like that," Heart said pushing Smokescreen towards them, "take care of them."

"Fine," he said as more Shades appeared around him, "we've got this."

"Oh," Soarin said, "I'd like to see that."

"Don't get cocky Soarin," Flash told him, "we don't know what this monster can do."

"What I can do," Smokescreen said, "is this!" the purple smoke shot out of the pipes and surrounded the Rangers.

"What's this?" Sweetie asked. as the Rangers stood back to back.

"Smells like my house after taco night," Sandal said.

"Okay," Lyra said, "that's gross."

"Micro?" Flash asked.

"It's some kind of fog," the yellow Rangers said, "though I'm not sure exactly what it's made of."

"Twilight," Flash said over his coms, "Sunset."

At the base the team had been watching.

"We hear you Flash," Sunset said.

"Can you do a scan on this stuff," Flash asked.

"Already on it," Twilight said. She typed away at the computer, using the weather satellite to test the fog.

"Until their done," Flash said, "we play defence in this stuff. No blasts, no attacks"

"But we're sitting ducks," Soarin said.

"Defence," Flash repeated. At that moment something flew out of the fog, towards the red Ranger who barely managed to block the dagger coming his way. "Woah," he said raising his Dragon Breaker in defence.

The rest of the team soon found themselves getting attacked, unable to see it coming soon enough to made a proper defence against it.

"Twilight where's that scan?" Flash asked.

"Almost done," Twilight said.

"This is nuts," Soarin said. It was then he saw a large outline he recognised as Smokescreen. "Enough defence," he said as he raised his sabre a ran forwards.

"Soarin wait!" Flash yelled but it was to late.

"Thunder Sabre Strike!" the Thunder Ranger unleashed his signature attack, with the lightning bolt flying through the smoke and striking the figure.

"AAAARRRR!" Smokescreen yelled as he was thrown back.

Seconds later the fog cleared and the Rangers saw the Shades coming in, allowing them to properly defend.

"That's more like it," Micro said as he fired off his blasters and struck them all down.

"So much for your perfect plan," Heart told Smokescreen.

"A lucky shot," the monster said, "we'll get you next time Rangers."

And with that a telebolt came down and struck them, warping them away.

With the threat gone the Rangers de-morphed and Flash turned to Soarin, looking none to happy. "What the heck was that!?" he yelled to him.

"What?" Soarin asked.

"I said to wait until Twilight was finished scanning!" Flash yelled.

"I saw an opportunity to take the bad guy down and I took it," Soarin replied.

"Against my orders," Flash said.

The rest of the Rangers were growing nervous seeing the two of them argue. They had a feeling this wouldn't end well.

Back in space Heart and Smokescreen continued their argument all the way to the bridge, where Darklight and Cogs were waiting.

"What was that you were saying before about not failing?" Darklight asked his sister.

"Not my fault," Heart said, "you chose a monster whose only power is blowing smoke. How was I suppose to work with that?"

"Maybe you're right," Darklight said as he turned to Smokescreen, "you're no use."

"Wait," Smokescreen said, "my smoke isn't very offensive true, but with the right plan it's quite useful."

"And what kind of plan do you have?"

"I keep the Rangers distracted long enough for your lot to do a sneak attack," Smokescreen said.

"Or," Cogs said, "something even better."

"Go on," Darklight said.

"I can build an explosive powerful enough to blow the Rangers to kingdom come," Cogs said, "we plant it somewhere and then Smokescreen will lead the Rangers to it. Once it goes off-"

"No more Rangers," Darklight realised. He turned back to Smokescreen, "fine. You get your chance, but know that if this fails."

"It won't," Smokescreen said.

"Then get to work," Darklight said as he sat down while Cogs lead Smokescreen to his lab.

Back on earth the Rangers had returned to the base with Flash still not happy.

The rest of the group weren't to pleased with Soarin either.

"What?" Soarin asked, "I beat the guy right?"

"Soarin," Celestia said, "you can't just go charging off like that."

"Why not?"

"Because we're a team," Lyra said, "and we need to work as a team."

"Well as a team," Soarin replied, "we were getting a butts handed to us. I saw the guy and knew it was our best shot of winning."

"And that makes disregarding my orders okay?" Flash asked.

"You're just scared there's someone on this team that's better then you," Soarin said.

"This isn't about who's better then who," Flash said, "this is about you respecting my authority as team leader."

"Well maybe this team needs a new leader," Soarin said, "one which isn't a wimp like you."

Flash just smirked. "Do you honestly think I would let you lead, after seeing you put the rest of your team in danger because you want to play hotshot."

"I didn't put them in danger," Soarin said.

"You can't even see it," Flash said, "and that's why until you learn to think before you act, you're off Ranger duty."

Everyone froze hearing this.

"You can't do that," Soarin said.

"I can if I think you're a risk to the safety of this team," Flash said.

"So first you fight tooth an nail to get me to join this team," Soarin said, "and now you want to kick me off."

"Not off," Flash said, "you just won't be fighting."

"You can't do that," Soarin said.

"He can," he turned to Celestia, "as team leader Flash has the right to make these decisions."

"And you guys are okay with this?" Soarin asked turning to the rest of the team. They all didn't look happy, but all nodded.

"It's Flash decision," Lyra said.

"And I agree it's what's best," Micro said.

"Sorry bro," Sandal said.

"It's not forever," Sweetie said.

"That's that," Flash said, "until further notice, you won't be Rangering up." With that he turned a left the base.

"I'm sorry Soarin," Celestia said.

"Who does that guy think he is?" Soarin asked, "he expects people to just obey him unwillingly."

"Not unwillingly," Lyra said, "we trust Flash."

"And you've got to admit he's not wrong when he said you need to learn to think before you act," Micro said.

"What do you guys know?" Soarin said.

"Oh would you just think for a minute?" Sunset told him sternly.

"Soarin do you know why Flash asked us to do that scan?" Twilight asked.

"No," Soarin said.

"Because we'd never seen that monster before," Twilight explained, "we had no idea what it's abilities were or what that gas was made of."

"Every time we come across a new monster," Lyra told him, "when we rush in we usually end up getting our butts handed to us."

"Let me ask you," Twilight said, "what would have happened if that gas had turned out to be combustible?"

That got Soarin thinking. Remembering the fight he realised that if it had been, his lightning attack would have ignited the gas and they would have been...oh.

"Now'd you get it?" Sweetie asked.

"Yeah," Soarin said. He sat down as the idea flowed through his head

"I know you're still learning how to be on a team," Lyra said as she sat down next to him, "but jumping in like that is the worst possible thing to do."

"Yeah," Soarin said, "you're right." He stood up and headed to the exit.

"Where you going?" Micro asked.

"To find Flash and apologies," he replied as he left.

"Finally," Cogs said, "it's done."

"The bomb?" Smokescreen asked.

"No my lunch," Cogs said sarcastically, "yes the bomb." He held up a black sphere with a rectangular device in its centre. "This little baby has enough power to blow up a half mile."

"Perfect," Smokescreen said, "once we have a location we plant the bomb and I'll lead the Rangers to it."

"The only question is," Cogs said, "where to plant it?"

Soarin found Flash sitting on the roof of the school. (AN)

The red Ranger was sitting against the glass roof looking out at the horizon.

"Hey," Soarin said.

"Hey," Flash replied not looking at him.

Soarin slowly stepped over to him and sat down next to him. They sat in an awkward silence as they watched the sun move across the sky.

"Look," Soarin said braking the silence, "I'm sorry about what I said. I was wrong and you were right."

Flash remained silent.

"I get it you don't like the way I do things. Because I'm so different from you."

"You're not," Flash finally said.

"What?"

"You're not different from me. If anything you're exactly like me, or how I was."

"How?"

"The first time we fought Gigabyte, I rushed in without thinking."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I was stupid and didn't think about the rest of my team and it ended up putting them in danger, because of my recklessness. We almost lost three of our Rangers that day."

"Wow," Soarin said, "I didn't know."

"Ever since then whenever we come up against something new," Flash replied, "I think back to that day and feel unsure on how to react. I don't want you making the same mistake and end up doubting yourself."

Soarin let what Flash had just said sink in. He was being so hard on him...to help him.

"I'm sorry I said you couldn't fight," Flash said.

"No," Soarin said, "You were right to do it. And I'm sorry I said you weren't a good leader, you're a great leader."

"Thanks," Flash said, "I never asked to be one. I did it because I had to, but it ain't easy. I've learnt a lot about being the leader since I started. You have to put everything else before yourself. You have to be the first to attack and the last to retreat, and you have to consider every angle."

"Wow," Soarin said, "I never thought of it like that. I don't think I could handle it."

"I can barely manage it on my best day," Flash said.

The two looked at each other and shared a grin, before their attention was caught by their coms going off.

"Talk to me," Flash said.

"Magical energy surge," Sunset replied, "the rest have already headed out."

"I'm...we're on our way," he closed the channel and stood up, before offering a hand to Soarin. "Ready to save the day."

Soarin smiled and took the hand, getting pulled to his feet. "Lead the way."

Canterlot was in chaos as Smokescreen and his Shades attacked the town.

"That's right you pathetic weaklings," Smokescreen said, "flee for you lives." He unleashed a burst of his purple smoke, which caused people to run even wilder for fear of possibly being poisoned. "Now where are those Rangers?"

The sound of four engines caught his attention, making him turn to see four of the six Rangers racing towards him on their Magicycles.

"Right on cue," he said as he saw the Rangers pull their bikes to a stop.

"It's over Smokescreen," Lyra said, "give it up."

"And miss the best part," he said, "no chance." With that he unleashed a cloud of smoke, thicker then the last, which caused the Rangers to practically go blind.

"What's he doing?" Sweetie asked as she shielded her face from the gas.

"Is he making it so we can't drive?" Micro asked.

"Possibly," Lyra said, "be on guard."

However, in that moment the smoke began to fade.

"What the?" Sandal asked.

"Hey," Micro said, "where'd he go?"

Smokescreen had disappeared, leaving behind a trail of smoke.

"He got away," Sweetie moaned.

"But he left us a trail to follow," Lyra said pointing to the trail, which followed around a corner. "Come on," she said kicking her bike into life and racing after the smoke.

"Right behind you," Sweetie told her as she and the boys revved their Magicycles and shot off after her.

They raced through the town, following the smoke, until they managed to catch up to Smokescreen who was...flying. Smokescreen was using his wrist pipes as thrusters to propel himself into the air.

"That's new," Sandal said.

"And probably defies like...eight laws of physics," Micro agreed.

"Who cares," Lyra said, "blast him!"

They fired off their lazer blasters, but Smokescreen turned out to be a nimble aerial flyer and managed to dodge each and every attack.

"That's right Rangers," he said to himself, "keep following me. By the time you realise I'm leading you to a trap, it'll be to late."

At a construction site in the centre of town, a telebolt struck the ground and Cogs appeared carrying the bomb.

"Now I just need a place to put it where the Rangers won't see," he said looking around. He then noticed a wheelbarrow which a large cloth inside it, which was perfect. He rushed over and placed the spherical device inside and covered it up, before stepping back and making sure it didn't look out of place. "Perfect," he said before pulling out a com device, "the bomb is set."

"Perfect," Smokescreen's voice replied through it, "activate the timer and get out of there."

"Right," Cogs said.

"And don't forget to warp me back to the ship ten seconds before it's set to go off."

"I know," Cogs replied as he returned to the bomb and pressed a few buttons.

The device beeped before the digital display flashed showing a few numbers.

10:00

9:59

9:58

"Perfect," Cogs said recovering the bomb and stepping away, before a telebolt came down and warped him away.

Meanwhile Flash and Soarin were racing towards their friends locations on their Magicycles, Soarin's being dark blue and having the head of his Zord.

"Twilight," Flash said, "where's the monster heading now?"

"He about to turn into Canyon Boulevard," Twilight replied.

"This doesn't make any sense," Flash said.

"How'd you mean?" Soarin asked.

"Why would a monster try to get away on foot," he said, "when he can just warp away?"

"Maybe he was kicked off the ship," Soarin said.

"Not really Darklight's MO."

"Then maybe...he's leading the others somewhere."

"An ambush?"

"Or a trap."

"Not good," Flash said as he opened the coms to Lyra.

"Little busy Flash," Lyra told him.

"Lyra," Flash replied, "be careful. We think he might be leading you into a trap."

"Right," Lyra said, "that would explain it. We'll be sure to be on guard."

She closed the channel, leaving Flash and Soarin to continue racing onwards.

Smokescreen turned into where the construction sight was and landed, hearing the Ranger getting closer he leaped up to girder until they turned into the site.

"Surprise!" he yelled as he unleashed his gas, causing the whole area to be filled with it.

"I can't see," Sweetie said only to scream when a girder appeared in front of her, forcing her to leap of her bike which smashed into the pillar.

"Sweetie," Lyra screamed after hearing the smash but couldn't see.

"Don't get distracted," she heard Smokescreen say as something suddenly flew down and struck the blue Ranger in the chest, knocking her off her bike and into another pillar.

"We're sitting ducks here," Micro said. As if proving his point Micro was suddenly struck by an energy bolt, which blasted him off his bike and onto the ground.

"GUYS!" Sandal said but he to was blasted and sent flying, hitting a girder and crashing into the ground.

"Four down," Smokescreen said.

Shades appeared and surrounded the recovering Rangers, forcing the four back to back as they pulled out their weapons. They tried to see how many there were, but Smokescreen unleashed another cloud of smoke to mask them.

"There's to many of them," Micro said, "and they could come out of no where."

"What do we do?" Sweetie asked.

"Same as last time," Lyra said, "defence."

"No need," they heard from above.

Looking up they suddenly saw Soarin fly overhead at high speed, the gust he caused being strong enough to blow the smoke away.

"Hey," Smokescreen said as the cloud was blown around him.

"Have a taste of your own medicine," Soarin said as he landed next to the Rangers.

"You think a little smoke is enough to stop me?" the monster asked.

"No," Smokescreen turned to see Flash running along the girder with his Dragon Breaker, "but this is." He used the Dragon Breaker to bite down on one of his shoulder pipes, crushing it shut.

"Hey!"

Flash then grabbed the other shoulder pipe and leaped over him, causing the pipe to bend.

"That should weaken the amount enough," Flash said.

"You little punk," Smokescreen said charging forward to fight him.

Meanwhile the rest of the Rangers were busy dealing with the Shades. Without the smoke to hide them, the cloaked monsters were no match for the Rangers.

Looking up, Soarin saw Flash fighting and realised the girder they were on gave the Rangers and advantage. Leaping up he landed behind Smokescreen, who noticed he was now fighting a battle on two fronts.

"Bye bye," Soarin said slashing down at the monster, who spun around to block the attack.

"Watch your back," Flash said using his Dragon Breaker to smash into the monsters back, sending him flying off the girder. "Great work," Flash said.

"Thanks," Soarin said, "I was just thinking ahead."

The two leaped off the girder and landed next to the rest of the Rangers, who'd finished off the last of the Shades, and faced a now standing Smokescreen.

"Give it up Smokescreen," Flash said.

"No way," the monster said, "I just need to keep you here a few minutes more for the bomb to blow...oops."

"BOMB!" the Rangers yelled together.

"So that's what he was leading us here for," Lyra said.

"Let's finish this fast and deal with the bomb after," Flash said as he pulled out a Magi-Charger and clicked it. "Guardian Buster, activate." He threw the Charger in the air before it transformed into the super weapon, which he caught and activated.

Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded."

GUARDIAN BUSTER...RED CHARGE!

"Magi-Charger," Soarin said holding out his own and clicking it, "ready." He placed his Charger is his sword.

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

Flash aimed the weapon with the Rangers taking position behind him, while Soarin readied his own attack

"Guardian Buster, Dragon Blast...FIRE!"

"Thunder Sabre...STRIKE!"

They fired both attacks and the lightning bolt and Dragon Zord head flew towards the monster, both striking him at the same time.

"AAAARRRR!" Smokescreen said as he was blasted away.

Up in space the the villains were watching Smokescreens defeat.

"There's still three minutes left," Cogs said, "we can't allow the Rangers any chance to defuse it."

"Then give them something big to deal with," Darklight told him.

"Right sir," Cogs said rushing over to the console and striking the big button, which released the growing machine that fired the red beam.

Back on earth the team saw the red beam come down and hit Smokescreen, causing an explosion. When the smoke faded the sight of a giant Smokescreen met them.

"We don't have time for this," Micro said as they looked up.

"I'll deal with this guy in the Megazord," Flash said stepping forward, "the rest of you need to find that bomb."

"Right!" The others said as Lyra and Sweetie stepped forward and pulled out their Magi-Chargers.

"Magi-Chargers ready," they clicked the button then threw them in the air, "summon Zords!"

The Chargers grew and flew through the air, flying towards their respective Zords.

MAGI-CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zords awakened and left their hiding spots, heading towards their Rangers.

"Activate," Flash said, "Guardian Megazord Sphinx-Serpent Formation!"

ZORDS COMBINED...GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, SPHINX-SERPENT FORMATION...READY!

Flash appeared in the cockpit and prepared for battle.

"Bring it on," he said as the Megazord charged forward and did battle with Smokescreen.

"Come on," Lyra said to the others, "we need to find that bomb."

"Right," the others said as they ran around looking for it, but Soarin was still and looked back at the battle.

"Maybe that could work," he said and ran off.

The Megazord and Smokescreen charged at each other, the Megazord slashing at him with his Tail Sabre.

"Let's see how well you fight with smoke in your eyes," Smokescreen said as he fired a stream of purple gas at the Megazord.

"No thanks," Flash said as the Megazord raised the Sphinx Shield and blocked the gas, before swinging the Tail Sabre at him. "Your smoke won't stop me you wind bag."

"Maybe," Smokescreen said as he pointed his pipes at the ground below him, "but I have the high ground." He unleashed a high pressured amount of air, which lifted him off the ground.

"He can still fly?" Flash asked. How was something that big still able to be lifted like that.

"How'd you like me now?" Smokescreen said as he flew above the Megazord and covered it in smoke.

"I can't see," Flash said trying to wave the Megazord's arms around to fan away the air, but it was no use.

"So you won't see this coming!" Smokescreen yelled as he flew down and kicked the Megazord down.

"Woah!" Flash yelled as the robot lost its footing.

"Good bye Ranger," Smokescreen said as he prepared to finish the Megazord off, only to be struck by a bolt of lightning. "WHAT!?"

Flash looked up at the source of the lightning and saw the Thunderbird Zord flying towards them. "Soarin?"

"Flash," Soarin said over the coms, "I think it's time our Zords combined their power."

"You mean merge your Zord with the Guardian Megazord?" Flash asked.

"I know it sounds risky," Soarin said.

"It is," Flash said, "but right now I could use a little risk."

"Then let's do this."

"Right."

The two Rangers moved and spoke in perfect sync. "Activate Thunder-Guardian Megazord, Sphinx-Serpent Formation."

The Thunderbird Charger flew out of the Zord's mouth as the Dragon's head folded up and opened its mouth, ejecting its own Charger which was quickly replaced.

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

ZORDS COMBINED!

The Megazord ran up the street with the Thunderbird Zord flying behind it, which grabbed it by the shoulders with its talons. The Megazord leaped into the air as the Thunderbird Zord began reshaping itself, its lazer cannons disconnecting and the body folding in until it looked like a pair of wings coming out of the Megazord. The Megazord's head was struck by a bolt of lightning which shaped itself into a new helmet.

THUNDER-GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, SPHINX-SERPENT FORMATION...READY!

Soarin warped into the cockpit alongside Flash.

"Glad to have you aboard," Flash said.

"No problem," Soarin said, "now let's take with wind bag down."

The Megazord and monster both took to the skies, ready for an aerial battle.

Meanwhile the rest of the Rangers were searching the construction sight for the bomb.

Sandal noticed a wheelbarrow with a cloth over it and rushed over, pulling the blanket away and revealing the bomb. "Found it!" he yelled to the others as he looked the bomb over and saw the timer.

1:55

"There's less then two minutes left," he told them.

"We have to get it out of the city," Lyra said.

Sandal picked it up and slowly began moving.

"Cogs," Darklight yelled seeing what the rest of the Rangers were doing.

"What is it master?" Cogs asked rushing over to the computer.

"If the Rangers get rid of that bomb before it blows-"

"We need to stop them," Cogs said, "grow the bomb so they can't move it."

Darklight nodded and turned to a Shade, "fire the Gigatisor at it."

The Shade nodded and rushed over to Gigatisor and fired it, causing the weapon to fire.

The Rangers had just moved the bomb out of the construction site when the Gigatisor beam struck it.

"What the?" Sandal said as he dropped it.

The bomb expanded and grew until it was now twice as big as the Rangers were tall.

"Oh no," Micro said seeing the time.

1:40

"We have to evacuate," Lyra said.

"How?" Micro asked, "there's a minute and a half left and this thing could take out the whole city."

Back in the battle Smokescreen found himself outclassed.

The Megazord was just to fast and managed to out manoeuvre him every step of the way.

"Wing Slash!" Soarin yelled as the Megazord flew passed and slashed him with its wing.

"Tail Sabre Strike!" Flash yelled as the Megazord spun around the slashed him with its sword.

"I can't let it end here," Smokescreen said.

"Well we can," Flash said.

"Let's end this," Soarin told him.

The two moved and spoke in perfect sync. "Thunder-Guardian Megazord Final Strike!." The Dragon Zord's mouth opened, releasing a stream of fire which flew around the Tail Sabre. Lightning then surged from the wings around the sword. "Flame Sabre, Exploding Volt Edge!" The Megazord flew towards Smokescreen and struck him, both burning and shocking him.

The monster let out a powerful stream as he was struck. "I didn't see this coming," were his last words before being consumed by an explosion.

"Alright," Flash said, "Guardian Rangers!"

"Victory is ours," Soarin finished.

"Guys," Micro's voice said over the coms, "we've got a problem."

"What is it?" Flash asked.

"We found the bomb but the only person strong enough to lift won't get here in time."

"I've got an idea," Soarin said, "but it's risky."

"I say go for it," Flash said.

Soarin nodded. "We're on our way," he said as the Megazord flew to their coordinates.

0:55

"There's less then a minute," Lyra said.

Suddenly a powerful gust appeared as the Megazord flew down.

"Is that?" Sandal asked.

"The Megazord," Sweetie said, "with wings?"

The Megazord swooped down and grabbed the bomb, before soaring back up.

"Guys!" Lyra yelled, "where are you going."

Back at the base the others were watching.

"What are they doing?" Rainbow asked.

"I think," Twilight said, "their flying the bomb into outer space."

Flash and Soarin flew up as fast as they could to try and break through the stratosphere.

0:25

"It wouldn't be right if we didn't offer to return this thing to its owner," Soarin said.

"I agree," Flash replied.

The monsters were waiting for the explosion.

"Give me an update," Darklight said.

"Any second now the bomb will blow the city and the Rangers to dust," Cogs said.

"You mean that BOMB!" Heart screamed pointing to the monitor, which showed the Megazord flying towards them.

"WHAT!" Darklight yelled, "raise the particle barrier and fire the forward cannon!"

The two Rangers saw the attack coming and began dodging the blasts that flew their way.

0:10

"Let's do this," Flash said.

"Prepare," Soarin said, "for my Thundering Fastball."

0:05

The Megazord threw the bomb towards the ship, the force making it look like a comet.

"FIRE EVERYTHING!" Darklight yelled, but it was to late.

The bomb struck the hull of the ship just as its timer read.

0:00

BOOM!

It detonated and blasted the ship away but it remained intact.

"YES!" the two yelled.

"We did it," Soarin said.

"Together," Flash finished.

The two Rangers fist bumped in congrats, before flying the Megazord back down to earth.

A while later everyone was at the base, listening to the two's story.

"We pulled back," Soarin said as he and Flash mimicked what they did.

"And let her rip," Flash said.

"Wow," Pinkie said, "you went into outer space."

"And carrying a bomb no less," Twilight said.

"It was Soarin's idea," Flash said, "I guess being a little reckless can work."

"But thinking ahead is also a great way to work together," Soarin said.

"I'm glad to see you two have finally learned how to work together," Celestia said.

"It's a lot better then fighting each other," Luna said, "now you can focus on fighting the bad guys."

"Agreed!" the others said.

"Yeah," Flash and Soarin said.

"Hey," Rainbow said, "why don't we put you're new teamwork to the test? Another game of baseball anyone?"

Everyone agreed and rushed out the base, ready for another friendly game.

Up in space the monsters were busy trying to fix their ship.

"I've had it with those Rangers," Darklight said.

"And what exactly do you intend to do with them?" Heart asked.

"I don't know," he replied, "but whatever it is, it'll be something truly horrifying." With that he turned and left the bridge.

Author's Note

So now Soarin's learned to work better in the team. What'll happen next?

AN: Click here

Do You Dig It

We find Twilight, Sunset and Micro busy in the base burning the midnight oil.

Twilight and Sunset were working at the computers, while Micro was in the middle of the room with his Morphin Blaster and a silver Magi-Charger in hand.

"You ready Micro?" Sunset asked him.

"As I'll ever be," Micro replied.

"Then let her rip," Twilight told him.

"Okay," he said as he held up the Magi-Charger. "Prototype Charger," he said as he clicked it, "ready." He placed it in his blaster and pointed it at the target they'd set up.

"Energy levels look stable," Sunset said as she read them off the computer.

"Power levels rising," Twilight said before looking up and Micro, "we ready."

"Fire!" he pulled the trigger and a blast of light shot out of his blaster.

"Power levels rising," Sunset said.

"Stage two engaged," Twilight said.

Micro felt the pressure rise as the light slowly began to spread up his arms. "It's to much," he said feeling the strain.

"Hold on Micro," Sunset told him.

"I...can't." He was proven right when the light exploded, creating a blast so powerful that it sent Micro flying back and crashing into a wall.

"Micro!" Sunset yelled as she and Twilight rushed over to him.

"I'm okay," the teen said as he sat himself up.

They all turned to the target and saw it had a perfect circle blown out of it.

"I guess we gave it to much power," Twilight said.

"The power's fine," Micro said, "I just couldn't handle it. Flash and Sandal should do fine with it once it's perfected."

"Hope so," Sunset said.

Meanwhile up in space Darklight and Heart Breaker were waiting on the bridge.

The doors opened and Cogs stepped inside, followed by a monster that looked a humanoid rabbit standing at about seven feet. He had cream coloured fur which was hard to tell since the only parts of his body you could see, were his stomach and his upper arms and legs. The rest of him was covered in green and silver armour, with his chest having a rounded triangular armouring and around his hips was a ball like armour in green. Large silver half ball shoulder pads, while his arms had green cylinders with three long red mechanical claws. Most of his three foot long ears were covered in green armour, with red on the end.

"Master," Cogs said, "I brought the monster you requested."

"You unleashed one of the B Cell prisoners?" Heart asked.

The B Cells were their cells which held the extra dangerous monsters they had captive. More powerful then their usual monster in the C Cells that they usually used, but not dangerous enough to be thrown in the A Cells AKA the Pit.

"I told you I was through playing around," Darklight said as he stood up out of his throne. "Rabbit Fire, I've decided to give you a chance at destroying the Rangers.

"Thank you master," the monster named Rabbit Fire said, "don't worry, I'll blow those fools away."

"You'd better," Darklight said, "or I'll throw you in the Pit alongside Doom Raizer."

Rabbit Fire began shaking at that. He needed to succeed.

The next morning Micro and Sandal were in the base training.

Sandal was deflecting tennis balls with his sabre, while Micro was doing some target practise. They were set to quickly flip up and then down after a few seconds, but Micro was hitting them with tones of time to spare.

After deflecting the final ball, Sandal looked over at Micro. The Yellow Ranger was hitting every target with ease, without even trying.

"Hey little dude," Sandal said, "do you ever practise...anything else?"

"What'd you mean?" Micro asked, not looking away from the targets.

"All you ever do is practise shooting," Sandal explained, "how come you never practise with your Spirit Sabre or hand to hand."

"Why should I?" Micro asked looking at him, "I'm this team's best shot. I need to stay focused."

"But if you focus all your efforts on one skill," Sandal asked, "what happens when you face an opponent that's a better shot then you?"

"That's why I keep training," Micro replied, "so no one is a better shot."

"There's always someone better," Sandal said.

Before the two could continue their conversation, an alarm sounded overhead.

"That's not the danger alarm," Sandal said.

"That's the E-Tector," Micro said as he rushed over to the computer which the E-Tector was plugged into.

"You think it's found something?" Sandal asked.

"Maybe."

They called the rest of the team who, besides Soarin, quickly arrived.

"So?" Flash asked.

"It's hard to tell," Twilight said as she and Sunset continued trying to pinpoint the signal.

"The signal was barely picked up by the satellite," Sunset said.

"So it's not an Element?" Sweetie asked.

"If it is an Element," Micro explained, "it's either being masked by something or it's just a residual trace and the Element's been taken."

"Either way," Celestia said, "it's worth a look once they've pinpointed the location."

"Got it," Twilight said, "looks like some kind of cave." She put it on the holotable, which showed the location of a forest with a circle on one part.

"That's Samson Caverns," Rarity said.

"You know this place?" Micro asked.

"My father used to take my sister and I there all the time," she explained, "we used to go looking for gems in the caves."

"Then you can be our guide," Flash said.

"Of course," Rarity said.

"I think I should come to," Applejack said, "you might need some heavy lifting."

"Good point," Twilight said before her eyes went wide. "This might help to," she said as she went to the Magi-Charger programmer and pulled out a silver Charger. She walked over and handed it to Flash.

"What is it?"

"The Magi-Drill Blade Charger," Twilight explained, "our newest weapon. It's got a lot of power behind it, so it might come in handy if you need to do some digging."

"Drill Blade," Flash said, "sounds awesome."

"But remember," Twilight said, "its got a lot of power, so be careful how you use it."

"Noted," Flash said before he pocketed the Charger and they all headed out.

It didn't take long to reach the area where the cave was located.

Once they'd arrived at the forest, Rarity had directed them towards the cave. They found it in a clearing, an average sized opening about five foot wide. They set up a base at the mouth of the cave, where they got to work.

"Okay," Flash said once they were ready, "me, Micro, Sandal, Rarity and Applejack will head down to see if we can find anything. The rest of you stay out here and be ready if we need you."

"Of course," Luna said, she, Rainbow and Pinkie had decided to come and help.

"We'll keep watch," Lyra said.

"No fair," Rainbow moaned as she sat on one of the chairs they'd brought, "I wanted to go spelunking."

"Stop whining," Sweetie told her.

"I brought games," Pinkie said showing a bag on her back, "we can have just as much fun."

"Fine," Rainbow said.

"With that out of the way," Flash said turning to his team, "let's go."

The others nodded and quickly got ready to head in, placing torch mounted helmets on their heads and tying ropes around their waist that were pegged to the ground, which they could follow back should they get lost. Once they were ready they headed in.

Despite to slightly small opening, they were relieved to find it got bigger as they went deeper in.

Micro had one of their smaller scanners out, trying to get a lock onto the trace signal.

"Anything yet?" Flash asked him.

"Not yet," Micro said only for the machine to ping, "hang on...yes I've got something."

"And Element?" Sandal asked.

"A Zord?" Applejack asked.

"Not sure," Micro said, "defiantly not a Zord but I can't be sure it's an Element." He thought for a moment then an idea popped into his head, making him turn to Rarity. "You said you and your sister used to come looking for gems," he said to her, "are they known to be found here."

"Just rumours," Rarity replied.

"Who wants to bet an explorer came in here and found the Element," Micro said.

"And the news spread and others came looking for more gems," Flash caught on.

"So the Element's not here?" Applejack said.

"Not anymore," Micro replied, "we just picked up the trace energy."

"Back to the drawing board then," Flash said has he went to his coms. "Guys we're coming back up," no one answered, "guys?"

Suddenly the whole cavern shook, making them almost lose their balance.

"What was that?" Sandal asked.

"No clue," Flash said, "but we need to get out of here quick."

They turned back and rushed back to the exit, more shakes happening and becoming more frequent.

Outside things were not going to well.

The others had been enjoying a game of snap, until they'd been attacked and found themselves facing off against a horde of Shades.

"Where'd these things come from?" Sweetie asked as she and Lyra fought them off.

"No clue," Lyra said.

Meanwhile Luna, Rainbow and Pinkie were fighting off the straggling Shades that came after them.

"Come on," Rainbow said as she used her super speed to out outmanoeuvre them. She would get behind them and then deal a swift kick or punch to their backs.

Pinkie kept them at a distance using her explosions, while Luna showed she had quite a knowledge of martial arts.

"Be careful," Luna told them, "if they're here then the monsters won't be far."

"CORRECT!" a voice yelled before they found themselves getting blasted by a powerful attack, which sent them flying away. "Weren't expecting that were you?" They looked up to see Cogs and Rabbit Fire walking into the clearing.

"What is that thing?" Rainbow asked.

"It's Angel packing heat!" Pinkie almost screamed.

"Looks like the other Rangers aren't here," Cogs said before turning to the rabbit monster, "lucky you."

"Then I'll just destroy these two and get the others later," Rabbit Fire said as he aimed his arms at Lyra and Sweetie. The openings of the cylinders began to glow as energy built up, before shooting out towards the Rangers.

Lyra and Sweetie realised what was coming and pulled out their blasters. "Energise!" They yelled spinning the barrels, before leaping out of the way of the blasts. "Unleash the Power!" A flash of light and they were now decked out in their Ranger suits.

"Now we're getting serious," Rabbit Fire said as he ran at the Rangers.

"Morphin Blaster," Lyra said as she and Sweetie aimed their weapons, "FIRE!" They fired their shots, but the monster didn't even flinch as the blasts just bounced off his armour.

"No way," Sweetie said.

"What's this guy made of?" Lyra asked.

As he ran, Rabbit Fire began firing his blasts at the Rangers who dodged them barely.

"This is bad," Lyra said as they ran for their lives.

Sweetie tripped and fell on her face, making her an easy target for Rabbit Fire. "Oh no," she said seeing the monster above her.

"Sweetie!" Lyra yelled seeing her friend in trouble.

"Bye bye Ranger," the monster said as his blaster charged.

"Thunder Sabre Strike!" A lightning bolt came down and struck Rabbit Fire, sending him flying away from Sweetie.

The Thunder Ranger leaped down next to the pink Ranger, before offering a hand. "You look like you could use a hand."

"Thanks," Sweetie said taking it and getting pulled up.

"You can thank Celestia for calling me," he said, "I rushed over as soon as I heard."

"You got here just in time," Lyra said.

"One extra Ranger," Rabbit Fire said to them, "no matter."

"We'll see about that," Soarin said as he raised his sword and charged at the monster, giving it a powerful slash down his chest but found it did nothing. "What?"

"You can't destroy me that easily," Rabbit Fire said as he dealt a powerful kick to him. "My armour is made out of the strongest metal in my universe," he told them, "nothing can damage it."

"Nothing's indestructible," Lyra said.

The three charged forward and tried to battle.

Meanwhile at the cave entrance the others had just finished with the Shades.

"Guys," they turned to see the others exit the cave.

"What happened?" Flash asked.

"One of Darklight's creeps showed up," Rainbow said.

"The others a battling him," Luna said.

"Then let's go help them," Flash said.

"I don't think so," they turned to see Cogs rushing towards them, axe in hand.

"Looks like we gotta deal with this guy first," Micro said.

Flash turned to the others. "Get out of here," he said.

"Will do," Luna said as she, Rainbow and Pinkie rushed off.

"What about us?" Applejack asked, them still being tied with the ropes.

"Hide in the cave," Micro said.

"Okay," Rarity said, "good luck."

"Thanks," Flash said before turning back, "let's do this."

They pulled out their blasters and spun the barrels. "Energise!" They rushed forward and fired, "Unleash the Power!" The heads shot out and flew around them, before flying back and biting down causing them to Ranger up.

"Spirit Sabre!" Flash and Sandal said as they pulled out their swords and started fighting the monster.

"Go help the others," Flash told Micro.

"Right," the yellow Ranger said as he rushed off.

"Let's end this guy," Sandal said as he slashed at Cogs, who blocked with his axe.

"I don't think so," Cogs said.

Micro rushed over to the other Rangers, who were have trouble fighting off Rabbit Fire.

"Hold on guys," he said rushing over to them.

"Micro," Lyra yelled, "stay back."

"Bomb voyage," Rabbit Fire yelled as he blasted the yellow Ranger.

"WOW!" Micro yelled as he was blasted back.

"MICRO!" the others yelled, only to be blasts as well.

"Not cool," Micro said pushing himself up. Taking out a Magi-Charger and placing it in his blaster, "Magitech!" He spun the barrel before firing, "Online!" His weapon formed in his hand. "Griffon Shooter," he aimed both weapons at the monster, "Morphin Blaster...Duel Shot!" The weapons fired off consecutive shots, but they just bounced of the monster's armour. "I can't get through."

"Nothing can," Rabbit Fire yelled firing another shot that send Micro flying back.

Flash and Sandal were busy battling Cogs when they saw Micro land a ways off.

"Hold on little buddy," Sandal said as he and Flash slashed Cogs away.

"Guys," Micro said picking himself up, "we need the new weapon."

"You sure?" Flash asked.

"It's the only thing that can break through this guy's armour," Micro said as he ran forward, "I'll keep him distracted."

The rest of the Rangers were rushing to them as well.

"We'll help," Soarin said only to find Cogs leap in the way. "Out of the way."

"Not happening," he said as he charged forward.

Micro ran at the monster, blasting him as much as he could but Rabbit Fire's armour was two strong.

"My turn," he said spinning around and using his ears at swat Micro away, his weapons going flying.

"Micro!" Sandal yelled.

"Come on," Flash said pulling out the new Charger.

"Right," Sandal said pulling his out.

"I don't think so," Rabbit Fire yelled as he launched another pair of blasts.

They struck in front of the two Rangers and sent them flying back, landing at the entrance of the cave.

"Are you okay?" Rarity yelled as she and Applejack rushed over to them.

"I think so," Flash said.

"Let me correct that," Rabbit Fire said as he stepped forward and charged another blast.

"NO!" Micro yelled running forward and tackling the monster, causing him to launch his attack higher them he wanted. The blaster flew over the Ranger's heads and struck the top of the cave, which caused the rocks to come loose and begin falling.

"Look out," Flash yelled as he grabbed Rarity and Applejack, before he and Sandal leaped into the cave.

"GUYS!" Micro yelled as the dust settled and the cave entrance was shown to be completely blocked. "Oh no," he said as something else caught his attention, making him look down to see a pair of Chargers. Picking them up he saw they were the new ones, which Flash and Sandal must have dropped when they got blasted.

The other Rangers saw this and gasped.

"Regroup," Lyra said, "we need to get out of here."

"We can't just leave them," Soarin said.

"We can't help them right now," Lyra said, "come on."

She and Sweetie rushed off, followed by Soarin. Micro took one last look at the cave and then followed.

"Hey," Rabbit Fire said, "get back here."

"Leave them," Cogs said, "we have two Elements trapped. We'll focus on that first."

The Rangers had taken cover out of their range and had met up with Luna and the others.

"We should be safe here," Lyra said.

"I can't believe we just left them," Soarin said.

"You couldn't have helped them," Luna said, "that monster's just to strong."

Suddenly their coms beeped, making them open a channel.

"Guys," Flash's strained voice called out.

"Flash," Micro said, "you're alright."

"Yeah," Flash replied, "but we're trapped."

Inside the cave Flash, Sandal, Applejack and Rarity were trapped.

Rarity had created a shield bubble that was preventing the rocks from collapsing on top of them, but if she moved even an inch it'd break.

"We okay for now," Flash told them, "but Rarity's shield won't holdout forever."

"Hold on," Micro said, "we'll save you."

"But you'll need to beat that monster before you can attempt to do so," Luna said.

"What about the Guardian Buster?" Sweetie asked, "that might be strong enough."

"Except we need five Rangers to use it," Lyra said."

"There's no choice," Micro said as he held out the Chargers he'd found, "you'll need to use the Magi-Drill Blade to save them."

"You think it'll work?" Soarin asked as he took one.

"Their our only hope," Micro said.

"But Twilight said they might be to powerful," Sweetie said.

"They are," Micro said, "but you won't need to control them for long."

"Just long enough to save the others," Lyra said as she took the other one.

"Maybe Micro should use it," Sweetie said, "you know the most about it."

"I can't handle it," Micro replied, "it's just to powerful for me."

"If you say so," Soarin said, "now let's go save our friends."

"Keep firing," Cogs said as Rabbit Fire continued to unleash his attacks on the cave entrance. "Keep blasting until their flattened."

"I'm pretty sure they already are," Rabbit Fire said as he ceased firing.

"Well I want to make sure," Cogs said, "so keep firing."

In the cavern the teens weren't doing so good.

Rarity's force field was beginning to crack and she was growing weaker.

"How you doing sugarcube?" Applejack asked her.

"I'm fine," Rarity said though her voice was strained.

"Guys," Flash said over his coms, "Rarity can't hold out much longer."

"We're on are way," Micro replied.

The Rangers arrived at the cave, catching the monster's attention.

"Back for another beating?" Cogs asked.

"Not this time," Soarin said.

"Me and Sweetie will distract him," Micro said, "you guys use the Drill Blade."

"Right," the two said.

"Let's go," Micro said as he charged forward.

"Right behind yeah," Sweetie said.

"Take them down," Cogs said.

"Right," Rabbit Fire charged forward, firing his blast at the two.

"Magitech," they called on their weapons and did their best to fight back.

Meanwhile Soarin and Lyra had the Magi-Chargers out. "Magi-Charger, ready!" The clicked the button and placed them inside their morphers. The pointed their morphers out and aimed them at Rabbit Fire, "Magi-Drill Blade," they pulled the triggers. However a powerful burst of light shot out their morphers with a force so powerful it caused the two to be pushed back.

"It's to powerful," Soarin said.

"I can't control it," Lyra said.

Finally the power built and sent to two flying back and slamming into a tree.

"Guys!" Sweetie yelled.

"No!" Micro yelled, only to look down and see the Magi-Charger on the floor a ways off. Rushing over and grabbing it, he tried to think of a new plan.

"Micro," Sweetie called out, "use it."

"I can't," Micro said.

"Micro!" Sandal's voice came over his coms, "you need to get us out of here now."

"But I can't," Micro said, "it's to powerful. I'm not strong enough."

"Yes you are," Sandal said, "you just need to believe you are."

"That's nuts," Micro said.

"No it's not," Sandal said, "true strength isn't about bench pressing a bus. It's a state of mind, having confidence in yourself. If you have a good enough reason you can find the strength you need inside of you."

"Strength inside of me," Micro said.

"Wakey wakey Ranger," the Ranger looked up and saw Rabbit Fire coming at him, throwing a kick.

Micro managed to narrowly dodge the attack.

The cracks were growing bigger and Rarity was shaking as she forced herself to remain strong, but it was growing to much.

"She's about to give out," Applejack said.

"We need to get out of here now," Flash said.

"I can do it," Rarity said only to fall to her knees.

Hearing Rarity's pained voice, Micro finally made up his mind.

"I am strong enough," he said as he held out the Charger and clicked it, before placing it in his blaster. "Magi-Drill Blade," he pointed the weapon forward, "activate!" He pulled the trigger and unleashed the blast, which began pushing him back but Micro remained strong. "I'm...in...control," he said as the power rose and the light spread up his arms. Finally the light took physical form and transformed into a pair of silver gauntlets, with a drill half at the wrist pointing up his arm.

Micro looked down at his arms and couldn't believe he'd done it. "Woah," he said.

"Nice trick," Rabbit Fire said as he aimed one of his cannons at him, "now let me show you mine." He fired a blast at Micro.

"Micro!" Lyra called out.

Micro didn't flinch. The drills on his arms moved, folding back ninety degrees then spinning one eighty before and then back down so they covered his fists. "Drill Blade," he swung his arm up as the blast reached him, "slice!" The blade sliced right through the blast, cutting it in two and missing him.

"What!?" Rabbit Fire asked in shock.

"Woah," the Rangers said.

Micro charged towards Rabbit Fire, who fired off more blasts but Micro continued to slash his way through them until they were a few feet away. "Slice!" he swung the blade and slashed at the monsters armour, creating a large scratch which was enough to gain Rabbit Fire's attention.

"What?" Rabbit Fire asked as he looked down at the slash.

"Again," Micro spun on his heel and slashed again, and again and again until the scratches grew large enough that they became cracks.

"This can't be happening," the monster said.

"Magi-Drill!" Micro yelled as he ran forward and then linked his hands together, causing the drills to become one. He leaped forward and spun, "Spiral Attack!" He transformed into a tornado like figure, which flew towards Rabbit Fire and struck him in the chest.

"AAAARRRR!" the monster screamed as he was pushed back by the spinning attack. His armour began to crack as he was drilled, before it broke and he was sent flying back.

The tornado disappeared and Micro flew out of it and landed on the ground.

"I don't believe it," Cogs said in horror, "they beat him."

"And you'll be next."

He looked around and saw the rest of the Rangers standing besides Micro, their weapons at the ready.

"Unless you move aside," Soarin said.

Cogs weighed his options and came to a distinct conclusion. "Bail," he said as a telebolt flew down and warped him away.

"Wimp," Sweetie said.

"No time to worry about him," Micro said as he turned and rushed towards the cave. Once there he combined the drills and placed them on the rock. "Spiral Attack!" He once again spun into the tornado, his drill cutting through the rock and tunnelling his way through.

Flash was the first to hear it. The strange sound that reminded him of an electric drill.

"What's that noise?" he asked.

Suddenly however that thought was pushed from his mind as Rarity's shield finally smashed and the rocks began to fall towards them.

"OH NO!" they yelled as the rocks drew closer.

However.

A tornado appeared out of no where and blew the rocks away, saving them.

"Need a hand?" They looked up and saw the yellow Ranger standing there, looking down at them.

They smiled.

The Rangers waited with baited breath for their friends.

Suddenly the cave exploded as the yellow Ranger leaped out along with the others.

"Guys!" Lyra yelled as they ran towards them, helping them up.

"You okay?" Soarin asked as he picked Flash up.

"We're good," Flash said before having a coughing fit.

"Thanks to Micro," Rarity said as they turned to him.

"It was nothing," Micro said, smiling under the helmet, before falling to his knees and demorphing. "That's it for me."

"It was enough," Sandal said.

"I wouldn't be so sure," they all looked up to see Rabbit Fire standing a few feet away. His armour was badly damaged but his blasters seemed operational. "Now who shall I blast first?"

"How about we blast you," Flash said as he pulled out a Charger, "Soarin." He held it out to the Thunder Ranger, who took it.

"Thanks," he said before as he helped Flash sit down and then stepped forward, holding the Charger out and clicking it. "Guardian Buster, activate." He threw the Charger in the air before it transformed into the super weapon, which he caught and activated.

"Catch," Sandal said as he and Micro threw their Chargers at Lyra and Sweetie.

"Thanks," they both said. "Magi-Chargers," they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded."

Soarin placed his Charger in the main compartment and shut it, causing the white streaks along the blaster to turn navy blue

GUARDIAN BUSTER...THUNDER CHARGE!

As Soarin aimed the weapon, Lyra and Sweetie took position behind him. "Guardian Buster, Thunderbird Blast...FIRE!" Soarin pulled the trigger and a single powerful blast shot out, which morphed into the shape of the Thunderbird Zord's head as it flew at Rabbit Fire.

"Oh no," Rabbit Fire yelled as he was struck, getting zapped by the attack. A second later the monster was blasted away and sent flying into a tree, braking even more of his armour.

Up on the ship Cogs had returned to the bridge.

"Why is it every time we step up our game," Heart said, "they step up theirs?"

"It matters not," Darklight said, "let's see what they do against a bigger blast."

"Gigatisor?" Heart asked.

"Gigatisor!" He yelled to a Shade, who nodded and ran towards the console before slamming down on the button.

The device was unleashed and fired the beam towards the planet.

Back on earth the team saw the red beam come down and hit Rabbit Fire, causing an explosion. When the smoke faded the sight of a giant Rabbit Fire met them.

"Much better!" He yelled.

"Not good," Flash said.

"You guys stay here and rest," Soarin told them, "I'll take this guy in the Thunder-Charge."

"You'll need a shield to defend against those blasts," Sweetie said as she stepped up next to him.

"I might not be able to form the Tail Sabre," Lyra said doing the same, "but my Zord should give yours enough power to beat that creep."

"Then let's do this," Soarin said. He, Lyra and Sweetie held out their Chargers.

"Magi-Chargers ready," they clicked the button then threw them in the air, "summon Zords!"

The Chargers grew and flew through the air, flying towards their respective Zords.

MAGI-CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zords awakened and left their hiding spots, heading towards their Rangers.

"Activate," they said together, "Thunder-Charge Megazord Sphinx-Serpent Formation!"

The Thunderbird Zord squawked as it turned towards the other Zords before the three opened their mouths. Their Magi-Chargers flew out with the Sea-Serpents and Sphinx's Chargers went into Thunderbird's.

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

It bit down on the first Charger before it flew out and was replace withe second Charger.

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

It bit down on the second Charger before it flew out again and the last Charger flew in.

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

ZORDS COMBINED!

The Thunder-Charge Megazord formed like normal, except instead of transforming the wings remained as they were and spun around revealing a pair of plug like nubs which the Sea-Serpent and Sphinx linked to like they would on the Guardian Megazord.

THUNDER-CHARGE MEGAZORD, SPHINX-SERPENT FORMATION...READY!

The three rangers appeared in the cockpit.

"Woah," Sweetie said looking around.

"Little different from the Guardian Megazord huh?" Soarin asked.

"Let's take this guy down," Lyra said.

"Right!" They both said.

The Megazord and monster squared off, staring each other down and they got ready to do battle.

"Try this," Rabbit Fire yelled as he fired a blast at the Megazord.

"Sphinx Shield!" Sweetie yelled as the Megazord raised the Sphinx's head to block against the attack.

"Serpent Punch," Lyra yelled as the Sea-Serpent Zord threw a punch at the monster, but it did very little against him.

"I think a fly just landed on me," Rabbit Fire joked after the attack.

"Well try this," Soarin said as the Thunderbird's beak opened, "Beak Bolt!" A lighting bolt shot out of the beak, striking Rabbit Fire and sending him backwards.

"We need a new stratagy," Lyra said, "without the Tail Sabre my Zord's not got much power."

"We still have part of the Tail Sabre," Soarin said.

"Just the handle," Lyra replied.

"How's that gonna help?" Sweetie asked.

"Maybe we can channel my Zord's lightning through it," Soarin said, "It's worth a try right?"

"Let's find out," Lyra said as she had her Zord pull out it's tail.

"Now what're you planning?" Rabbit Fire asked.

"You'll find out," Soarin said as his Zord unleashed an electrical surge from it's right wing, which spread down the Sea-Serpent and into the tail handle.

"Now what?" Sweetie asked.

"Er...wave it," Soarin guessed.

"Here goes," Lyra said as the Megazord swung its arm and from the handle shot out a rope of electrical energy, which struck Rabbit Fire.

"AAAARRRR!" the monster yelled as it was electrocuted.

"Woah!" Soarin said.

"We created some kind of...lightning whip," Sweetie said.

"This'll do," Lyra said.

The Megazord kept swinging the new weapon, slashing at the monster again and again. Rabbit Fire tried to fight back by blasting it, but the Megazord raised the Sphinx Shield to defend before doing a clockwise spin and slashing him again with the lightning whip.

"I say we finish this now," Sweetie said.

"I'm all for that," Soarin said.

"Let's end this," Lyra said.

The three spoke and moved in perfect sync. "Thunder-Charge Megazord, Final Strike."

The Megazord unleashed all its power into the Sea-Serpent's tail, making it spark and fizz. "Ten Thousand Volt Strike!" The Megazord swung the whip, which unleashed the most powerful lightning rope yet, which flew at Rabbit Fire and wrapped around him.

The monster screamed in agony as the lightning surged through his body. Finally the lightning faded and he was left standing, though wobbly, until finally he spoke. "Well this blows." With that his legs gave out and he collapsed, getting consumed by an explosion.

"Yes," Soarin said.

"Bet that was a shock," Sweetie said.

Lyra nodded at that. "Guardian Rangers, victory is ours."

"RRRRAAAARRRR!" Darklight yelled as watched another of his monsters be destroyed.

"Now calm down," Heart said trying to stop her brother's rage before he destroyed something, mainly her.

"Are you telling me that not one of the multiverse's most feared monsters," Darklight said, "can't destroy six pathetic human teens."

"I'm sure there's one," Heart said, "we just have to find it."

"Rabbit Fire almost did it," Cogs said.

"Almost isn't going to get me and Element," Darklight said.

"Well what do you want to do?" Heart asked, "there's only two monsters on this ship that can definitely destroy the Rangers and neither is going to help you."

"Havoc," Darklight growled.

"And don't forget the other one," Cogs said shaking, "remember the last time that thing got out of it cell. We lost half our prisoners to it."

"Well you'd better find a way to bring me an Element," Darklight said, "or I will unleash it." He sat back down in his throne, his anger still apparent.

The Rangers had returned to the Command Base, where Celestia and Luna checking that Flash, Sandal Applejack and Rarity hadn't been injured in anyway due being locked in a cave.

"I hope this is the last time I have to do this Mr Wood," Luna told Sandal.

"Same here," Sandal said.

Celestia had just finished her check on Rarity, who was still feeling the effects of holding her shield spell for so long. "I suggest you don't over exert yourself for a little while," she told the teen.

"I won't," Rarity said, "thanks." She then turned to Micro, "and thank you for the save."

"It was nothing," Micro said.

"It wasn't nothing," Twilight told him, "the fact you were able to learn to handle such a powerful weapon so quickly is incredible."

"It's Sandal you should be thanking," Micro said, "he's the one who helped me find the strength I needed."

"That was all you bro," Sandal said.

"It's like you said," Micro explained, "I just needed a good enough reason to have the strength. Saving my friends is definitely a good enough reason."

"And we're proud to be those friends," Flash said with a smile.

Everyone nodded at this.

"But don't forget," Luna said, "today's monster was more powerful then anything you've faced before."

"She's right," Lyra said, "Darklight must be getting desperate if he's willing to unleash more powerful monsters."

"Meaning we need to get stronger," Flash said, "that means we also need find the other four Elements."

"But don't forget what else today has brought us," Celestia said, "you didn't find the Element, but did find a trace."

"Which means someone has an Element out there somewhere," Sunset said.

"You think there's another Ranger?" Rainbow asked.

"Hard to tell," Lyra said, "just because someone found the Element doesn't mean they bonded to it."

"She's right," Sweetie said, "my Element got passed down for years in my family before it bonded to me."

"Same with mine," Soarin said, "Strongheart and Thunderhooves said it was a relic of their tribe."

"We'd better be on the look out all the same," Flash said.

"He's right," Twilight said, "we'll most likely run into it eventually."

In a warehouse in Canterlot, a crate stood.

As the owners began locking up, none of them noticed the silver light shinning through the gaps of the crate. The light grew brighter and brighter as whatever was inside shinned in the darkness of the warehouse. Finally it stopped and all was normal.

Author's Note

Not much to say really. Go Micro. :yay:

Next Time: You've all been waiting for it.

Ultimate Justice Punch

In a sleazier part of Canterlot we find a group of men in a warehouse.

These men were wanted criminals who were wanted for several acts of theft. They would steal whatever they could get their hands on, before selling it on the black market and tossing whatever they couldn't.

"Come on," the leader said to his men, "get those crates open so we can see what loot we have."

"Right boss!" the others said as they grabbed their crowbars and moving towards the crates.

Suddenly however the door of the warehouse burst open.

The men turned towards the door and were confused by what they saw. A robot, white it colour, it was humanoid and had a visor in place of its eyes.

"What the heck?" The gang leader asked as he watched the robot step towards them.

"Where'd this tin can come from?" One of his men asked.

The robot looked around the room. "Criminals detected," it said with a very robotic voice, "attack." It held up its hand, before a blaster barrel folded out of its palm, and fired several lazers at the criminals. The lazers struck the criminals and electrocuted each of them, causing them to fall to the ground.

"Freeze!" A voice yelled as several armed police officers charged into the room and surrounded them. "You're under arrest."

A little while later the warehouse was visited by two men. One was Shining Armor, while the other was an older man with greying hair. This was Canterlot's police chief By The Book.

"Well Armor," By The Book said as he looked around, "looks like my little test worked out well."

"I never said it wouldn't sir," Shining replied to him, "I just said it was risky having the test be an actual bust."

"Nonsense," the older fellow said, "this was the perfect test. And now we can move onto bigger things."

"I still think you should leave the monster attacks to the Rangers sir," Shining said, "a bunch of thugs is one thing but what they face is a whole other level."

"I'm not letting a bunch of vigilantes run around willy nilly and putting my citizens in danger," By The Book said, "it's time the police department did what it was suppose to do. With this new robot we'll be putting those punks out of business in no time."

"If you say so sir," Shining said.

"Now I'm off back to the office," Book said, "finish bagging the evidence."

"Right away sir." And so Shining Armor supervised as the lower officers worked to check the contents of each crate before they could move it. "What do we have here?" Shining asked as one crate was opened.

"Looks like rocks sir," an officer replied, "probably stolen from a museum and geology school."

"Go look in the rest of them," Shining said, "I'll bag these ones."

"Yes sir," they said before rushing off.

Shining opened the crate again and began checking through the rocks, making sure they weren't hiding something underneath, only to find that they were. As Shining shifted one of the bigger ones away, his eyes suddenly spotted something very familiar. "No...way."

After his shift was over Shining returned to his apartment, a simple bachelor pad, where he threw his coat over the couch and pulled what he had found out of his pocket. A silver hexagonal crystal similar to the ones he'd seen which only belonged to one group of people.

"An Element," he said. Memories of meeting his sisters friends, finding out they were Power Rangers and how they got their powers flowed through his mind. Twilight had been keeping him informed like he wanted and many time hearing her tales he wished he could help them. "And now I can," he told himself, "with this." He held out the Element and yelled at the top of his lungs, "Energise!" But nothing happened. Shining looked himself over, but he didn't look or feel any different. He held out the Element again and yelled, "Unleash the Power!" Still nothing. "Why won't it work?" He asked himself.

Meanwhile up in space Darklight and Heart Breaker watched as Cogs revived their latest failure.

"I'm alive," Rabbit Fire yelled when he stepped out of the machine.

"And just as useless as ever," Darklight told him, "get him back in his cell."

Several Shades appeared and grabbed the monster by its arms.

"Wait master," Rabbit Fire yelled as he struggled, "give me another chance."

"So you can just fail again!" Darklight said, "I think not."

"Why do you insist on reviving these monsters if you're not gonna use them?" Heart asked her brother.

"Resting in peace is to kind for those who fail me," Darklight said, "the only way these monsters will be free is to get me an Element."

"Please master," Rabbit Fire yelled. One of his struggles sent one of the Shades flying off him and smashing into one of the console, which started sparking. The lights flickered before dying out.

"What's happening?" Darklight asked.

"That console was linked to the energy grid," Cogs said running over to it, "damaging it's messed with the power feed. I'll reroute but our power is knocked out."

"So we're drifting through space now?" Heart asked.

"Yes," Cogs replied, "but it looks like the back up generators working. We've just lost power to the lights, engines and door controls."

"Door controls," Darklight said before yelling, "DOOR CONTROLS!" He spun around the ran to the door, forcing them open and running down the corridor.

Doom Raizer was sitting in his cell when the lights flickered and suddenly died out. Suddenly the cell doors clicked.

"What?" Doom asked as he rushed towards the door opened pulled it open. "If the powers out then," Doom looked over at the other cells and saw they were open as well. "Oh no," Doom said.

One of the doors was slowly beginning to open.

"Oh no you don't," Doom said as he rushed over and body slammed the door closed.

"Out of my way," the voice behind it said.

"I don't think so," Doom said, "Heart told me about you. I know you getting out of that cell can't happen."

"But what about the other cell?"

Doom looked over at the other cell and heard strange noises coming from it.

"Do you know what that is?" The voice asked, "inside that cell is a creature spawned from the one my father chased through the multiverse. Its daddy has destroyed countless dimensions. If you stay here once it's figured out how to open that door."

"I don't care," Doom said as he watched the cell slowly open.

Something slowly slivered around it, a tentacle like appendage, dark red in colour.

Suddenly a lightning blast flew into the Pit and struck the tentacle, causing it to retract back into the cell.

Doom looked around and saw Darklight standing at the entrance, having just fired a blast. "Secure these doors," he ordered as a horde of Shades appeared and took Doom's place at the door as well as the other cell.

"Good timing master," Doom said.

"Doom," Darklight said, "you tried to prevent Havoc's escape."

"I am and always shall be your fateful servent," Doom replied.

"Maybe I was a little to hasty in throwing you in here," Darklight said. "I never leave an act of loyalty unappreciated, so I'm going to give you another chance."

"Thank you master," Doom said, "I won't fail you."

"Don't make me regret this," Darklight said as the two left the Pits.

The next morning the Ranger were hanging out, on their way to Sugarcube Corner where they were gonna meet up with the Mane Seven.

"So," Soarin asked, "you manage to find anything?"

"No," Micro said, "we've been investigating Samson Cavern's history but so far nothing about finding a crystal like the Elements."

"It could be someone found it and just kept it without telling anyone," Lyra said.

"Or found it and it was stolen," Sandal said.

"Can you imagine if an Element fell into the hands of someone like that?" Sweetie said, "if Darklight found them they'd probably just hand it over."

"That's why we need to find it before anyone else," Flash said.

"To bad you won't survive long enough to find it!" From out of nowhere a lightning bolt flew down and struck the Rangers, sending them flying back.

As they got back up they saw Doom and his Shades standing not to far off, ready to fight.

"There's a pin head we haven't seen for a while," Sandal said.

"Where you been Doomy?" Flash asked, "vacation?"

"After you humiliated me I was discarded by master Darklight," Doom explained as he raised his sword, "but I've finally earned another chance to destroy you!" He slashed the sword down and unleashed another lightning bolt, which flew at the Ranger who pulled out their morphers.

"Energise!" They activated them as they leaped out of the lightning's path, "Unleash the Power!" In a flash they were suited up and ready to fight, which they did as they charged forward.

"Shades attack!" Doom yelled as his minions ran forward.

"Magitech!"

"Summon Thunder Sabre!"

Summoning their weapons the Rangers and Shades met and began their battle. "Don't you Shades ever learn?" Sweetie asked as she blasted one away while blocking the attack of another.

"You need to have a brain before you can learn anything," Micro said as he leaped over a group while blasting some down.

"That explains why they never learn how to dress in this century," Lyra said as she used her staffs blade to cut several more down.

"I don't know," Sandal said while fighting off several more, "at least they'll be dress for their own funeral."

Meanwhile Flash and Soarin were fighting against Doom, using their swords to counter his.

"Let's take this walking pin cushion down," Soarin said as he blocked one of his swipes before dealing a few of his own.

"I'm all for that," Flash said as he did the same.

"You beat me once Rangers," Doom said as he slashed at them, "but you did not defeat me."

"Then we'll just have to correct that mistake," Flash said. He and Soarin charged forward and slashed at Doom together.

While this was happening the Rangers continued to fight the Shades off.

"Power Slash!" Sandal slashed at a few of them, before seeing on charge at him. "To easy," he said as he prepared his Fenrir Fang to attack, only for a bolt of lightning to fly passed his shoulder and strike the Shade, sending it staggering back a few steps. "What the?" Sandal turned to look at where the bolt had come from, only for his eyes to go wide at the sight of a robot walking down the street.

"Is that?" Sweetie asked when she saw it.

"A robot?" Lyra finished.

"Fascinating," Micro said.

"You guys think it's another of Darklight's minions?" Sandal asked.

He got his answer when the robot fired off several shots, striking the Shades.

"Guess not," Lyra said.

"It's trying to help us," Sweetie said.

The robot fired another load of blasts, this time at the Shades the Rangers were fighting, causing them to duck or get hit. "Well it's not doing a very good job," Micro commented.

"It's weapons don't seem to be very effective either," Lyra said pointing to the Shades it had just shot were getting up. "Let's leave them to the bucket head."

They rushed over to the red and thunder Ranger, firing their blasters at the monster. All the while the Shades were busy fighting the robot, which just kept blasting willy nilly.

Doom wasn't having a very easy time. "I can't fight all six of you," he said.

"Which is why the six of us are attacking," Lyra told him as she grabbed his sword in her staff and threw him away.

"Shades," Doom yelled as more of his minions appeared and attacked the Rangers, giving him the opportunity to escape and run into an alleyway. "I must not fail Darklight again," he told himself as he watched the battle, "I need a new plan."

Meanwhile the Rangers had just finished off the Shades, but saw Doom was gone.

"He got away," Soarin said.

"We'll get him next time," Flash assured him.

"I think not," they spun around and saw Shining and By The Book walking down the street.

"Shining Armor," Flash said, "what are you doing here."

"You know these punks Armor?" Book asked.

"We met when they saved my sister from a monster attack," Shining explained.

"I see," Book said as he moved over to the robot.

"So is this hunk of tin yours?" Micro asked.

"Yes," Book said, "the latest in crime fighting technology. With it we can battle those monsters instead of you."

"You're joking right?" Sandal asked.

"This thing didn't even beat one Shade," Lyra said.

"It wouldn't stand a chance against those monsters," Sweetie agreed it was at that moment the robot began moving around, as smoke flew out of its head.

"Maybe a few tune ups to the weapons are needed," Book said, "but it will work. It's designed to only attack those whose face are in its database and no one else."

"I'm not sure that's such a good idea," Flash said.

"I think it would be better to leave fighting these things to us," Lyra said.

"No way," Book said, "if I had my way you'd all be under arrest, but the higher ups have this deluded idea that you're heroes. Well I know different, that's why I had this robot built. Once it's perfected I'll mass produce it and you lot won't be needed any more." He looked around to recall the robot, but couldn't find it anywhere.

"Missing something?" Soarin asked.

"What'd you do with my robot?" He asked.

"Sir," Shining said, "they were right here this whole time." By the Book growled as he went to look for his robot. "Sorry about him," Shining said once they were clear.

"It's cool," Flash said, "but we'd better get going."

"Right," he said, "but can I have a word with you later Flash?"

"Sure," Flash replied, "I'll meet you at Sugarcube Corner."

"Great," Shining said.

Up in space Doom watched as the Shades carried By The Book's robot into Cog's lab.

"What do you want me to do again?" Cogs asked.

"Reprogram this thing so it goes after the Rangers instead of us," Doom explained, "what better why to destroy them then with their own technology."

"If you say so," Cogs said, "but it might take some time depending on how well this things software is protected."

"Just get it done," Doom said.

Later on Flash and Shining met up at Sugarcube Corner.

"So," Flash said as he sat down and passed Shining his milkshake, "what can I do for ya?"

"I was hoping you could tell me more about the Elements," Shining said, "especially how you got yours."

"Really?" Flash asked, "why so curious?"

"Well if I'm gonna help you guys I figured I'd need to know a bit more."

"And why couldn't you ask Twilight?" Flash asked, "she was there when I got my Element."

"She was?"

"Yeah," Flash said. He then went on to explain how he found his Element and ended up joining the Power Rangers. "And then the Element floated into my hand and bonded to me."

"Wow," Shining said before looking confused, "what do you mean by bonded?"

"Well you can't just find an Element and bam you're a Power Ranger," Flash explained, "an Element has to bond to you before you can use its power."

"And how does one bond to an Element?"

"Well that depends on the Element," Flash said, "each one is different. My Element of Courage bonded to me because I proved myself to be courageous."

"So each Element represents a different trait?"

"Yeap," Flash said, "anything else you want to know?"

"Just one thing," Shining said, "what other Elements are there other then the ones you and your friends have?"

"Well," Flash thought for a moment, "we know someone's already bonded to the Element of Adventure because the Manticore Zord's awake. So that just leaves the gold Element of Forgiveness, the black Element of Darkness and the silver Element of Justice."

Shining's eyes went wide hearing this.

"Well," Flash said as he finished off the last of his shake, "I gotta get going. You okay?"

"Yeah," Shining said smiling, "thanks punk."

"Still calling me that huh?" Flash said as he left with a smile on his face.

Once he was gone Shining reached into his coat and pulled out the Element. "Element of Justice huh?"

Over the next though days Shining Armor was like a man possessed, working tirelessly on any case he was given.

At the scene of an armed robbery he dusted literally every inch of the room, finding a print which allowed him to track down the thief. "You're under arrest," he said as he handcuffed the young man. Looking around he saw bags of money scattered all over the place.

"Great work sir," an officer said when they came to collect and bags.

"It was nothing," Shining replied. Once he was out of sight he pulled out the Element, but it was still the same causing Shining to frown.

Later on Shining was called to the scene of an assault, where an elderly man had been attacked and put in hospital. Looking around the area Shining noticed a surveillance camera one the end of the street, which he was able to get into and see which way the criminals had run. Using more cameras he was able to keep track of them until he'd got an image of their faces, leading him to positively ID them.

Those men were quickly found and arrested, to which the elderly man was able to pick them out in a line up.

"Thank you my son," he said once they were carted away.

"It was nothing," Shining told him. Quickly walking off Shinning then pulled out the Element, but again it remained dormant.

The next day Shining was doing his paper work in his office when the chief walked in.

"Sir," Shining said as he stood up.

"At ease," Book told him.

"How's the investigation going?" Shining asked, referring to the chief's missing robot.

"Nowhere," he said gruffly, "it's like the thing just vanished into thin air."

"I'm sure it'll show up eventually," Shining told him.

"I hope so to," Book said, "but I came to tell you well done. You've really been pulling out all the stops lately," he explained, "it's almost like you've got something to prove."

"It's nothing sir," he replied with a smile.

"Well keep up the good work," Book said before leaving the room.

Once he was gone Shining's smiled dropped into a frown, as he sat down and pulled out the Element. "What more can I do?" He asked. He considered his options and after much sole searching he came to a decision, before pulling out his phone.

"Hello?" Twilight's voice came out of his phone once she'd picked up.

"Hey sis," Shining said.

"Hey bro," Twilight replied, "what's up?"

"Could you and the Rangers meet me in town?" Shining asked, "there's something I want to talk to you all about."

"Sure," Twilight said, "we can be there in an hour."

"Great," Shining said before he hung up. He looked down at the Element again and sighed, knowing this was for the best.

Doom rushed into Cog's lab.

"I got your message," he said to the mechanic, "is it done."

"It is," Cogs said making them both turn towards By The Book's robot. "once I managed to get passed its defences, reprogramming it was a cinch. I deleted its old database and uploaded a new one containing the images of the Rangers. It'll attack anything that even looks like a Ranger."

"I'll believe it when I see it," Doom said, "stop talking and show me."

Cogs nodded and grabbed a picture showing the red Ranger, which he gave to a Shade. He then moved over to the robot and activated it.

The robot came to life and scanned the room, stopping when it saw the picture. "Ranger detected," it held up its hand and fired a blast, which struck the picture and then the Shade knocking it down.

"Impressive," Doom said.

"I also upgraded its weapons," Cogs said, "those Rangers won't know what hit them."

"Excellent," Doom said, "now all I need to do is find them." With that he turned and left the lab, followed by the robot.

Back on earth we find Shining, his sister and the Rangers outside a cafe in the park.

"So what's up?" Twilight asked once they were all seated, "you sounded really serious on the phone."

Shining sighed as he tried to think about what he would say. "You see," he said sounding hesitant, "when I join the police force I did so thinking I could help people. But when I found out who you guys were and what you were working to achieve, I wanted nothing more then to stand by your side and help. Then a week ago I thought my wish had been answered."

"What do you mean?" Lyra asked.

Shining didn't reply and instead reached into his pocket and pulled out the Element, holding it up for all to see. Everyone gasped when they did.

"The Element of Justice," Sweetie said.

"Why didn't you tell us about this?" Flash asked.

"I was hoping I could get it to bond with me," Shining explained, "I tried everything I could but."

"No luck?" Twilight asked.

Shining shook his head. "Clearly I don't represent the justice this Element deems worthy of being a Power Ranger." He held out the Element to Flash, "maybe you can find someone more fitting."

Flash nodded and took the Element. "Thank Shining," he told him, "this means a lot."

It seems the Rangers were one step closer to completing their mission, however.

A telebolt came down and struck the ground, in its wake Doom, some Shades and the robot appeared. "Surprise Rangers!"

The Rangers instantly froze seeing the monsters. Shining had to do a double take when he saw the robot.

"That's the chief's robot," he said.

"Guess now we know where it went," Soarin said.

"Time to crush you, with your own technology," Doom said.

"Oh please," Flash said, "that bucket head couldn't even beat you. What chance has it got against us?"

"This isn't the same robot I stole," Doom said as he pointed his sword at them, "robot attack."

The robot raised his blaster hand and fired, sending out a powerful blast which struck the Rangers and sent them flying back.

"Okay," Micro said once they'd recovered, "looks like they gave it some upgrades."

"Attack!" Doom yelled as he and the Shades charged forward.

"Flash," Lyra said once they were all stood up, "get Twilight and Shining out of here."

"Right," Flash said turning to the two, "come on." With that he and the siblings raced off towards the park's exit.

"Let's do this," Lyra said as they charged forward and did battle.

"Robot," Doom ordered as he fought Soarin and Sandal, "get the red Ranger. He's on his own."

"Attack...red...Ranger," the robot said as it turned to follow them.

It found them nearing the park's exit. "Stay here," Flash told them once they were there, only for them to find themselves in a flurry of lazer fire. Turning around they saw the robot approaching. "Stay behind me," Flash said as he pulled out his blaster and ran at the monster.

"Fire," the robot said as it fired off blast after blast, which barely missed Flash as he charged forward.

"Fire," Flash fired his own weapon, but was unable to get a clear hit as he tried to avoid the blasts. Finally he was within arms length of the robot and began fighting it hand to hand, only for the machine to show it to had some fighting skills as it blocked and threw its own punches.

"That things good," Twilight said.

"I had no idea the chief built it for hand to hand combat," Shining said.

Flash tried to fight the robot, but being unmorphed his attacks couldn't even dent its metal body. He tried to throw a punch into its chest, but the robot simply took it before grabbing his arm. "Uh oh," he said before the robot dealt him some powerful punches and then tossed him in the air, kicking him as he descended and sending him flying backwards.

"Flash!" Twilight yelled trying to run to him but Shining grabbed her and pulled her back.

"It's to dangerous," he told her.

As Flash pulled himself up, he saw the robot aim its blaster at him as it charged. Quickly glancing back he growled before standing up straight. The blast fired and flew at Flash, exploding in his face and sending him flying backwards and crashing into the ground.

"FLASH!" Twilight broke out of her brothers grasp an ran to the red Ranger, kneeling down and pulling him up. He didn't look good. "You idiot," she said, "why didn't you dodge that attack?"

Shining knew why. The attack would have fired even if he had dodged and the blast would have flown at them, causing them to get blasted. "He did it to protect us," he said.

Despite beating Flash, the robot didn't seem to think its job was over and once again aiming at the red Ranger and his sister. Not even having a chance to think, Shining shot forward towards the machine and did a jump kick to its arm, throwing its aim off and firing wildly in the air.

"Shining!" Twilight yelled.

"Stay back," Shining told her as he began fighting the robot off.

"Threat detected," the robot said before beginning to fight back.

Shining knew he didn't stand a chance without any powers, but he didn't care. "I might not be a Power Ranger," he said as he dealt a powerful kick to it, "but that doesn't mean I can just sit back and let you hurt a bunch of defenceless kids."

Seeing this Flash and Twilight were amazed, but their attention was soon diverted when a silver light began to radiate from Flash's pocket. Reaching in he pulled out the Element of Justice, which had a weak glow to it.

"Is this what I think it is?" Twilight asked him.

After Shining dealt it another powerful kick, the robot stepped back before aiming its blaster at him and charging its attack.

"Go ahead," Shining said, "I ain't moving." He stood perfectly still as he shielded the two teens, while the robot unleashed its attack.

Shining remained still, but just as the blast was about to hit him. The Element of Justice exploded with light, before shooting out of Flash's hand and flying infront of Shining. Once there a force field of some kind formed around him, which the attack struck and then bounced off, sending it flying back towards the robot and sending it flying back.

The light was seen by the rest of the Rangers.

"What's that?" Sweetie asked.

"I don't know," Lyra said, "but it can't be good." He kicked a Shade away and began rushing towards the light, followed by the rest of the Rangers.

Shining continued to watch as the Element floated infront of him. "What's happening?"

"Take it!" Flash yelled to him, "it's your Element of Justice!"

"My Element of Justice?" Shining repeated before realising what was happening. As the other Rangers arrived, they saw Shining reach out and take the Element before he was surrounded by silver energy.

Shining was bombarded by images. The first was a gargoyle like creature, followed by a multiple of ponies wearing similar armour. The final image was that of a humanoid bull, before the visions suddenly faded and Shining was back in the park.

"Shining Armor," he turned to the other Rangers. "Does this mean?" Lyra asked.

"Shining's a Power Ranger," Flash assured them.

In that second something appeared in Shining's hand, which was the stone Morphin Blaster. Which Shining examined in amazement.

"Principle Celestia," Sandal said over his coms, "you will not believe what just happened.

"Another Ranger!" They turned to see Doom and his Shades standing next to the robot. "It matters not," he said, "you'll be destroyed just like the others."

"I don't think so," Shining said as he turned to Twilight, "get Flash somewhere safe."

"Okay," Twilight said as she helped Flash to his feet.

"Hey Shining," Flash called out getting his attention, "take them down."

Shining nodded and turned back to the monsters. "I've been waiting for this," he said as he stepped forward, "It's Morphin Time." He held out his Element, "Element of Justice!"

"Magi-Chargers," the others said as they placed them in their morphers, Shining's changing into a black and silver one. "Energise...Unleash the Power!" They pointed their morphers in the air and pulled the triggers, unleashing the heads which flew around them and then bit down on their bodies. In a brilliant flash of light the Rangers were decked out in their suits, with Shining's being silver and white. The pentagon on his chest have the insignia of a bull's head on it.

"Attack!" Doom yelled as the Shades and robot charged at them.

"Let's do this!" Shining yelled before he and the others charged forward.

"Magitech," the others called on their weapons as they engaged the Shades.

"Hey guys," Sandal said as he slashed away at them, "how many of these things do you think you'd need to screw in a light bulb?"

"I don't think enough of them exist to do it," Micro said as he shot several more down.

"There won't be after we're done," Lyra said.

While they were fighting the Shades, Shining was busy facing off against the robot.

"Attack...Ranger," it said as it swung a punch, but Shining found fighting this thing was much easier now.

"This feels incredible," he said as he blocked the attack and dealt his own punch, "I've never felt so much power. And I'm gonna use all of it to turn you into a pile of scrap," he threw a roundhouse at the robot before elbowing it in the stomach. The robot however just kept coming.

"Attack...Ranger," it said as it threw another punch which hit Shining in the stomach and sent him skidding back.

"This things tough," he said as he got his footing.

"Blast...Ranger," it said as it aimed its blaster.

"Oh boy," he said as the robot fired and he leaped out of the way.

"Summon Thunder Sabre!" Soarin said as he called on his weapon as he battled against Doom.

"Without your leader you Rangers don't stand a chance," Doom said as he countered the attack.

"I might have learned how to fight on a team," Soarin said as he continued to swing his blade, "but that doesn't mean I forgot how to fight on my own."

"Besides," Sweetie yelled as she ran at them, "he's not alone." She swung her Spirit Sabre at Doom, who had to push Soarin away and block her before trying to slash at Sweetie who defended with her shield. "Now Soarin," she said.

"Thunder Sabre Strike!" Soarin swung his blade, which struck Doom and sent him flying back.

"I told the chief your battery life was overkill," Shining said as he continued to fight against the tireless robot.

He leaped over the robot and tried to deal some attacks to its back, only for the robot's head to spin around and continue to fight backwards. "Doesn't this thing have a blind spot?" he asked as he blocked several strikes while trying to deal his own. The robot's body spun around and they battled like normal, which Shining growing weaker with every hit.

"Blast...Ranger," he once again aimed its blasters and fired at the silver Ranger, who was blown back and into a nearby fence.

"Shades!" Doom yelled as he leaped away from the two Rangers, "rise and merge to form Shadzilla!" Several Shades appeared and bunched up, transforming into the giant black lizard. "I'm out of here," Doom yelled as he rushed off

"Get back here," Soarin said trying to follow, only for him and Sweetie to be surrounded by Shades.

"Attack...Ranger," the robot said as it pinned Shining up against a fence.

"You already said that," Shining said, only for a roar to catch his attention and make him look up to see the Shadzilla. "What the?" He didn't have long to think as the robot threw him to the ground. Using this moment he swiped its legs, knocking it down.

Suddenly a beeping in his helmet caught his attention, before his visor was filled with the image of Celestia. "Shining Armor," she said, "the others need you to call your Zord."

"Wait," Shining said, "aren't you the school's principal?"

"That doesn't matter," Celestia replied, "just throw you Magi-Charger."

"I'll do what I can," he said as the image was cut. Opening up his belt he pulled out a silver Magi-Charger and clicked it, "Magi-Charger ready." With all his might he threw the charger, "summon Minotaur Zord!"

The Charger flew through the air, growing as it did so, before flying off into the forest area near Samson Caverns. Smashing through the mountain, It arrived in a deep cavern, where it flew into the mouth of a creature.

MINOTAUR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The creature opened its eyes. Seconds later it smashed its way out of the mountain, revealing itself as a silver humanoid bull with giant horns. The rushed off towards its Ranger.

Said Ranger wasn't doing so well. The robot continued to hit him again and again, as the Shadzilla loomed overhead. However, in that moment a mighty roar was heard, causing Shining to look over and see the robotic bull charging towards them. "Wow," he said.

The Zord charged forward and headbutted the monster, catching it in its horns and swinging it around before letting go and sending it flying.

"That's my Zord?" Shining asked.

The rest of the Rangers had finished off the Shades and were rushing towards Shining, when they saw the Minotaur Zord fighting.

"Wow," Micro said.

"So that's Shining's Zord," Soarin said.

The Minotaur Zord continued to slash at the monster until it appeared dizzy and barely able to stand.

The Zord's horns then began to glow as it charged forward and headbutted the monster one last time, sending the glowing energy surging through its body and causing it to roar in pain. Finally the Zord let it go and it was sent flying, before it crashed into the ground and exploded.

"Alright," the Rangers cheered seeing the Zord's victory, only to turn to see Shining staring down the robot.

"If my Zord can destroy those creatures," he said firmly, "then I can destroy you." He smashed his right fist into his left palm as it glowed. "Power Ranger," he spun around and with all his might he punched the air," Ultimate Justice Punch!" From his fist fired a powerful burst of energy, which flew at the robot and struck it as Shining spun around and had his back to it.

"Error...error...errorrrr," the robot sparked as it fell to its knees and then on its face before being consumed by an explosion, destroying it as Shining posed triumphantly.

"Guardian Rangers," he said, "victory is ours." He looked up at his Zord, who was staring down at him. He nodded and the Zord did the same, before turning away and rushing off back to its hiding spot. "Thank you Minotaur."

Up in space Doom was trying to sneak around the ship.

"If I can just stay out of the way long enough," he said as he slowly crept down the corridor.

"DOOM!" the monster spun around the see Darklight rushing up to him. "I give you another chance at defeating the Rangers," he said, "but instead you end up making more of them. Give me one good reason I shouldn't throw you back in the Pit?"

"It's true I failed," he said, "but no one want revenge more then I. Give me another chance."

Darklight was still for a moment, until. "My patience will run out, just like your usefulness." With that he turned and walked away.

Back on earth the Rangers were in the command base.

Flash was all but recovered from the battle and now the Element of Justice rested in the crystal bed. Shining was staring at it, now dressed in a new overcoat that was similar in design to the Ranger's jackets but was white with silver trim.

"I understand now," Shining said to everyone, "doing all that stuff I tried proved how much I didn't need the Element. I was able to do it on my own, so the Element had no reason to bond with me." He turned to Starswirl for confirmation.

"The Element of Justice will only bond to those who are willing to do the right thing," the wizard explained, "even though they lack the necessary means. Protecting Flash and your sister, despite knowing you'd most likely be destroyed proved your worth as the silver Ranger."

Shining smiled as he turned to the others. "I wish I could stay but-"

"We know," Lyra said.

"Your job is just as important as ours," Micro said.

"And I promise to protect the Element of Justice," Shining told them, "use the Minotaur Zord and Chargers in your quest to find the remaining Elements. But if you ever require the help of the silver Ranger," he turned and held out his hand, which the Element flew into, "I will return."

Everyone nodded, before Twilight rushed over and threw he arms around Shining. "I'm so proud of you," she said, "great work BBBFF."

"You sure are a worthy Ranger," Flash said.

"Thank you," he said as his sister pulled away.

"So what are you gonna tell your boss about his robot?" Soarin asked.

"I'll just tell him one of the monsters did it," he replied making everyone laugh. With that he turned and left.

Seven Elements were now accounted for, but three remained out there somewhere and the world wouldn't be safe until they were all found. But the question it, where?"

Author's Note

So yeah, you all guessed it. Shining was one of the Rangers.

What did you think of his first Ranger episode?

Suck it Up

Up in space Heart Breaker was skipping through the cell block, brandishing a set of keys. "Looky what I got," she said as she spun them on one finger. Seeing the keys the monsters all charged at their bars, trying to swipe them from her but she was too far away. "I don't think so," Heart said, laughing as she did so. "Messing with you losers is too fun."

"We'll see who's a loser," a robotic monster with white armour said. On his back was a square box like instrument with five attachments, shaped like vacuum heads. He grabbed on and pulled, revealing a rubber pipe coming out. Throwing it through the bars the vacuum head connected to Heart's back, before the machine turned on and made the same sound as a vacuum.

"What the?" Heart asked looking around, only to glow red and freeze into place. Seconds later the red glow was sucked into the vacuum and travelled up the pipe, before disappearing into the machine. "Uh," Heart said holding her head, "what happened?"

"Nothing happened," the monster said, "but why don't you do me a favour and open this cell."

"Oh," Heart said, "OK." She stepped towards the cell and was about to place the key in the lock, when a familiar hand grabbed her wrist.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Darklight asked his sister angrily.

"Opening the cell," Heart replied, "why?"

Darklight's eyes narrowed before he turned to the monster inside the cell. "You! Vacuumon! What did you do to my sister?"

"I sucked out her meanness," the now terrified monster named Vacuumon replied, "but I can put it back."

"Oh you will," Darklight said before he stopped, "um. What else can you suck out of someone?"

"Any trait or emotion," Vacuumon replied, "why?"

"Because I want you to suck out the Ranger's greatest traits," Darklight replied, "without them the Rangers won't be able to use their Element's powers." With that he laughed loudly.

Down on earth the Rangers and their friends were enjoying a new roller rink slash skate park that'd just opened.

Soarin, Rainbow, Applejack, Sunset, Lyra and Sandalwood were on the skate park area, enjoying the many ramps and bars.

"WOW!" Rainbow cheered as she ground on a bar, followed by Applejack.

"YEEHA!"

Sunset, Soarin and Sandal were enjoying the ramps.

"Oh yeah," Soarin said as he flew up a ramp and did full three sixty spin before rolling down it.

"Nice," Sunset said

"Righteous move," Sandal said.

Meanwhile Sweetie, Pinkie and Rarity were enjoying the roller rink.

"Race ya," Pinkie said as she rolled forward.

"It's on," Rarity said.

"Same here," Sweetie agreed.

Micro had opted for the arcade and Fluttershy was simply sitting on the sidelines, enjoying watching her friends with Spike.

Flash and Twilight were on one of the smaller rinks where newer attendees could practice before going out onto the bigger one. After hearing Twilight had never skated before, Flash and agreed to help ease her into it.

"Now remember," Flash said, "it's all about looking ahead and relaxing." He shot forward in demonstration, doing a quick circle around the rink before returning to her side.

"I don't think it's that simple," Twilight said nervously.

"It is," Flash assured her, "once you get the hang of it it's as simple as breathing."

"If you say so," Twilight said as she pushed away from the edge and rolled forward, slowly and wobbly.

Flash rolled in front of her and spun around, now rolling backwards. "You got it," he said, "now remember not to panic."

"And what happens if I panic?" Twilight asked as she waved her arms around to keep her balance.

"Your instincts get dampened and you fall," Flash said, "you need to let your mind go blank."

"Easy for you to say," Twilight said before one of her feet slipped out from under her and she hurtled to the ground with her glasses going flying off. "Ow," she moaned.

"You panicked didn't you?" He asked as he rolled over to where her glasses had dropped and picked them up.

"What do you think?" Twilight replied.

"I think maybe you should take a break and rest your bruised butt," Flash joked as he squatted down and placed her glasses back on her face. Helping her up Flash skated her over to the edge and off the rink, where Fluttershy was waiting with a drink for her.

"Thanks," Twilight said as she took a sip, "maybe rollerblading isn't for me."

"Don't say that," Flash said, "it's like my dad always said. You've only truly failed at something when you've stopped trying to get better."

"I guess," Twilight said.

Not long afterwards, the others came in and they all got some lunch.

"So how was your first time skating?" Sunset asked Twilight.

"Painful," she replied.

"You'll figure it out," Rainbow said.

"Yeah," Flash said, "it took me forever to do it without falling.

"How do you know so much about rollerblading?" Sweetie asked.

"Before I could drive I had to rollerblade to school, since none of the busses that pass my place go passed the school," Flash explained, "you get pretty good at something to have to do if you don't want to be late," he said, "It's like I said, it's all about not panicking."

"Easy for you to say," Twilight said, "not everyone's fearless."

"I'm not fearless," Flash replied, "if anything I'm usually the most scared out of all of us."

"But you're the Element of Courage?" Applejack said, "how can you be the most scared?"

"And you're the Element of Honesty," Flash replied, "does that mean you can't tell a lie?"

"Point," Applejack said.

"He's got a point," Sunset said, "without having a negative trait like fear, greed or suspicion, you can't have a positive trait live courage, selflessness and trust."

"Exactly," Flash said.

"Fair point," Lyra said, "I sometimes feel suspicious of things, but I just try and see passed my first impressions."

"Same with me," Soarin said, "I try and ignore my greed when it flare's up."

"It's all about choosing to be that way that makes us who we are," Micro said, "I often have to remind myself to think a situation through before I jump into action."

The others nodded in agreement.

Before they could say anything else however, their coms beeped.

Sweetie was the first to answer. "Hello?"

"Rangers," Celestia's voice said, "magical energy surge near your location."

"Understood," Flash said as they closed the channel and got up, "let's head out."

"Right!" The other Rangers said.

"We'll head back to the school," Sunset said.

Splitting up the two groups headed off to their destination.

Screaming was all that could be heard as people ran for their lives.

Vacuumon and his Shades casually strolled down the street, enjoying the looks of terror everyone made as they fled.

"That's right," Vacuumon said, "run for your pathetic lives."

He saw a woman ahead trip in her fear, making her fall on her face. As she tried to get up she saw the monster step closer. "The first victim," he said as he pulled out several vacuum tubes and pointing them at her. A powerful suction began and started pulling her towards them.

She screamed as she clawed at the ground, but nothing was stopping her. As she drew closer and closer Vacuumon chuckled at her terror, until he and his Shades were assaulted by a barrage of laser fire. "HEY!" He yelled as the vacuums stopped, freeing the lady.

"Stop it," the woman looked up and saw six teens run up to her, blasters in hand.

"Are you okay," Sweetie said as she knelt down to the lady.

"I am," she replied.

"Good," Sweetie smiled, "now go get to safety."

The woman nodded and ran away as soon as she was on her feet, leaving the Rangers to face the monsters.

"Just who I was looking for," Vacuumon said once recovered.

"You're gonna wish you hadn't found us," Flash said, "it's Morphin Time." The six of them pulled out their gear, "Magi-Chargers!"

"Ready," the others said as they all clicked the buttons. They then placed them inside their blasters and shut the tops, as the morphers began to power up.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Energise!" they all yelled before pointing the weapons to the sky, "Unleash the Power!" Pulling the trigger they unleashed the heads, which flew around them and bit down on their bodies. In a flash of light they were decked out in their suits, before pulling their poses and saying.

Flash: Element of Courage...Power Ranger, RED!

Lyra: Element of Trust...Power Ranger, BLUE!

Micro: Element of Knowledge...Power Ranger, YELLOW!

Sweetie: Element of Love...Power Ranger, PINK!

Sandelwood: Element of Will...Power Ranger, GREEN!

Soarin: Element of Selflessness...Thunder Ranger, READY!"

All: Protectors of right, ready to fight!

Flash: Power Rangers!

All: GUARDIANS!

"Shades attack!" Vacuumon yelled.

"Let's go," Flash said as they charged forward.

The two groups meet and began their one sided battle. "Power Slash," Sandal said as he cut several close Shades down, while Micro was next to him blasting away at the ones a ways off.

"Magitech!" Sweetie called on her Sphinx Shield to block the Shade's daggers, before cutting them down.

"I know we're suppose to be fighting these things to save the world and all," Lyra said as she blasted a few more down, "but man are taking these things down a good work out."

"I know," Flash said as he grabbed one by the arm and flung it over him into several more. He pulled out his blaster and fired at them.

"Thunder Sabre!" Soarin called on his weapon and began slashing several more down.

Once the number of Shades were down, Flash looked over at Vacuumon. "Sweetie, Sandal," he said, "finish these things off. We'll handle the monster."

"Right!" The green and pink Ranger said. The others took down their last Shade and ran towards the monster.

"I don't think so," Vacuumon said as all five vacuum pipes folded out and pointed at them. "Vacuum Guard!" The five vacuums each unleashed a powerful burst of wind, which combined into a full on gale force attack.

The Rangers suddenly found themselves being pushed back by the wind, which they tried to push through.

"It's to strong," Soarin said.

"Keep pushing," Flash ordered.

"It's like I'm pushing against a brick wall," Micro said.

"There has to be a way through this," Lyra said.

"And...NOW!" Vacuumon yelled as the vacuums switched off suddenly stopping the wind, causing the Ranger to rush forward and lose their balance.

"WHOA!" They yelled falling over.

"NOW!" The monster yelled as he unleashed four of his vacuums, which each attached to a Ranger and began sucking. "Say good bye to your courage, trust, knowledge and selflessness," he said as the lights appeared and were sucked into the pipe. Once that was done the four Rangers were thrown away, demorphing as they collapsed on the ground.

"Guys!" Sweetie yelled, seeing her friends fall.

The four of them all held their heads as they got up.

Vacuumon laughed as he got closer. "Now you don't stand a chance," he said "I've stolen your strongest traits. Without them you're all nothing," he neared Flash, "I'll start by destroying your not so fearless leader."

Flash looked up and his eyes went wide, only to narrow as he leaped up and grabbed the monster's vacuum pipes. "I'll show you who's not so fearless you stupid wimp," he started shaking the monster around, before swinging him by his pipes and sending him flying.

Vacuumon crashed a ways off. "What's going on?" he asked, "you should be quaking in fear. I have your courage."

"Think again," Flash said as he got closer, "I'm not scared of you."

"Is it possible I made a mistake and stripped you of something else?" Vacuumon said.

"It's highly likely," he heard Micro say, "I calculate a ninety eight percent chance that the emotion you may have stolen from him is actually his timor animi."

"His what?" Vacuumon said.

"His fear."

"Sounds right to me," Lyra said, "I trust that."

"What is happening?" Vacuumon asked, "I gotta get out of here and find out what went wrong." Suddenly a telebolt appeared and warped him away.

"Get back here coward!" Flash yelled, "I'm not done with you so come back!"

"Guys," the four Ranger turned to see Sweetie and Sandal rushing over to them, demorphing. "Are you all okay?" Sweetie asked.

"To early in our findings to give a conclusive answer," Micro said.

"What?" Sandal asked.

"We should get you guys back to the base for some tests," Sweetie said.

Getting them back to the base had been a trying experience, with Sandal and Sweetie learning exactly what the creature had done to the others.

Soarin was being overly generous, allowing everyone to get in the car before him and scrunching himself up so the others had loads more room. Micro would barely do anything they asked him to do, instead simply explaining every eventuality that could happen in gibberish they couldn't understand. Lyra had been a little easier, doing anything they asked without question. But Flash had been nothing but trouble, refusing to do anything they asked.

"Sit...down," Sweetie said, trying to get Flash to stay seated while Twilight and Sunset did a scan on him.

"Sitting's for wimps," Flash said as he pushed her away.

"This is nuts," Rainbow said.

"Why are they acting this way?" Rarity asked.

"They are not themselves," Starswirl explained, "because they have have part of them stolen."

"He's right," Twilight said after Sandal had finished explaining what had happened in the battle. "They've each had a particular trait stolen from them."

Sunset nodded. "Flash's fear, Lyra's suspicion, Soarin's greed and Micro's reckless streak."

"Why would it take those ones?" Fluttershy asked.

"Yeah," Pinkie said, "wouldn't he want to leave the bad traits?"

"Maybe it was a mistake," Sweetie said as she remembered the battle. "He thought he'd taken Flash's courage, but instead it took his fear."

"It's possible the Element's power protected those traits," Starswirl explained, "and instead the monster was forced to take the exact opposite trait."

"Isn't that a good thing?" Rainbow asked, "if Flash is fearless won't that mean he's stronger."

"Not necessarily," Starswirl said before turning to the others. "Rangers, take your Elements."

The Rangers looked at each other confused, before getting up and holding out their hands. The Elements of Love and Will shot out of the crystal beds and flew into their Rangers hands, but the remaining four Elements stayed where they were.

"What's going on?" Twilight asked looking at the Elements. The Elements normal glow appeared to be fluxing.

"As I feared," Starswirl said, "without those specific traits the Ranger's Elements are being effected."

"But why?" Fluttershy asked.

"It's like what Flash said earlier," Sunset said, "without fear Flash can't be brave."

"And without greed, Soarin can't be selfless," Rainbow caught on.

"If we don't do something to restore them back to normal," Starswirl said, "their connections to their Elements might be broken...permanently!"

No one liked the sound of that.

"What do we do?" Sweetie asked.

"If you defeat the monster, you might be able to free their traits," Starswirl said.

"I can do that," Flash said smacking his fist into his hand.

"But without your Element you can't morph," Twilight told him.

"Who needs to morph," Flash said, "I'll take that guy down with my own two hands." With that he rushed over to the crystal bed, yanked his Elements out, and left the base.

"Wait!" Sweetie told him, but he was gone.

"Let me help," Soarin said following him, "I can distract him while you finish him off."

"That's a great idea," Lyra said, "can't wait to see the plan in action." She and Micro followed the two out of the base.

"This is bad," Sandal said.

"It's weird how removing one part of someone can change them so much," Rainbow said.

"We are all like a puzzle," Starswirl said, "without every single piece we are incomplete."

"I guess," Sweetie said, "I just wish we knew how to fix them. Without being able to morph beating that monster might be tricky."

"I could try using the Magi-Drill," Sandal said.

"That might work," Twilight said, "but just in case." She moved over to the Magi-Charger Programmer and pulled out a new Magi-Charger, which she handed to Sweetie. "This is an upgrade we've been working on for the Morphin Blasters. It hasn't been tested yet, but it should double its power."

"Sounds good," Sweetie said taking it. With that the two remaining Rangers rushed out the base.

Up in space, Darklight was enjoying the new Heart Breaker.

She wasn't talking back or complaining whenever he told her to do something, while Cogs also got to work without her bothering him. All in all nothing could ruin this moment, except his monster coming back without an Element.

"You failed," he said growling.

"It's not my fault," Vacuumon said, "I tried to take the traits of the Rangers you wanted, but something stopped me from doing it."

"It must be the Elements," Cogs said, "protecting them."

"I did get some of the traits, but not the ones you wanted."

"If that's true," Darklight said, "they should be out of of sync with themselves. Get back out there and destroy them before they can recover."

"Yes master," Vacuumon said before leaving the bridge.

Down on earth, Flash, Soarin, Lyra and Micro were walking through town, looking for them monsters.

"Where are those weaklings?" Flash growled as he stepped down the street.

"I'm sure they'll come down soon," Lyra told him, "remember to get our Elements they need to destroy us. And when their here you'll destroy them like you said you would."

"Highly improbable," Micro said, "more likely that without our powers we'll be atomised."

"Maybe an overthinking wimp like you will be," Flash said, "but not me."

"Don't worry," Soarin told Micro, "if the monsters try and atomise you, I'll step in their way."

"But then you'll be atomised," Micro said, to which Soarin just shrugged.

"Look enough talking," Flash said angrily, "here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna go back to the base and get Twilight and Sunset to make us a few nuclear warheads and strap one to my head." He smiled, "I'll nut the wimp to oblivion." He did a headbutting motion.

"Now that's a plan," Lyra said.

"I'll help you if you want," Soarin said.

"It would be interesting to see the outcome of that scenario," Micro said.

"Well to bad you won't get the chance."

The four of them turned to see Vacuumon, Cogs and some Shades a ways off.

"Just the idiots we were looking for," Flash said with a smile.

"Time to finally take you down," Cogs said.

"Shades attack!" Vacuumon yelled as the cloaked monster ran forward.

"GO!" Flash yelled as he and Lyra ran forward.

"After you," Soarin said.

"No," Micro said as he pulled out his phone, "I have to calculate the exact why to beat these creatures perfectly."

"Okay," Soarin said as he jumped infront of him and grabbed a Shade before it could plunge its dagger into the yellow Ranger.

Flash and Lyra began trying to battle against Cogs and Vacuumon. Flash furiously punched at Vacuumon, but nothing he did could get passed the machines metal armour. While Lyra was dancing around Cogs, dodging him as he swung his axe around her.

"To slow," she said as she back flipped away from him.

"Take this," Flash said punching Vacuumon, "and this and this and this and this." His attacks were doing more damage to his hands then to the monsters.

"Wow," Vacuumon said, "I think a few butterflies landed on me."

Flash got angrier and dealt a spin kick to him but it did nothing.

"Useless," Vacuumon said, as he unleashed two of him pipes and wrapped on around Flash and the other around Lyra. He lifted them up and and slammed them into each other a few times before throwing them away.

The two landed near Soarin, who was trying to protect Micro but wasn't doing a very good job since the Shades surrounded them.

"So what's the plan?" Lyra said as they got up and stood back to back as Shades surrounded them.

"I don't have a plan," Flash said.

"Well we do!" At that moment a hail of laser fire shot down the Shades.

The green and pink Ranger leaped into the fray, blasters at the ready, taking down the Shades. They landed next to Flash and Lyra and aimed their blasters at Cogs and Vacuumon.

"Not going to worry about your little friends?" Cogs said pointing at the two still surrounded Rangers.

"We're focusing on you," Sandal said, "and leaving the Shades to our backup."

"Who?" Cogs asked.

Suddenly some of the Shades surrounding Soarin and Micro were knocked away, by a blue blur that flew by them.

"What the?" Vacuumon asked.

"Surprise!" The blur came to a stop and showed itself as Rainbow.

Some of the remaining Shades attack the two, only to bounce off a force field made of diamond shaped panels.

"Need a hand?" They looked around to see Rarity, Applejack and Pinkie standing a ways off.

"Party time!" Pinkie yelled throwing her sprinkles at the Shades, blinding them in an explosion of colour. Seconds later the Shades found themselves getting clobbered by a super strong blonde.

"Take that y'ah varmints."

The four girls used their abilities to drive off the Shades leaving Cogs and Vacuumon defenceless.

"We'll take them out," Sweetie yelled as she and Sandal ran forward and started blasting.

"I don't think so," Vacuumon said as he jumped in front, unleashed his five pipes and sent out the gale wind barrier to block the attacks.

"Take them down," Cogs said.

"With pleasure," Vacuumon said as he battled the two while Cogs stepped away.

"I don't think so," Cogs heard Flash say as he and Lyra leaped at him. "You're ours."

"Like that'll happen," Cogs said as he swung his axe at them.

Meanwhile Sandal and Sweetie battled Vacuumon, but his pipes were becoming a nuisance.

"There's no way you can beat me," Vacuumon said, "not with only two of you."

"Don't be so sure," Sandal said as he leaped back and pulled out a Magi-Charger. "Magi-Drill-Blade!" He clicked the button and was about to place the blaster.

"Power Suction!" Vacuumon yelled pointing his vacuums at him and creating a suction force. It was so powerful that it pulled Sandal's Magi-Charger out of his hand and sucked it down on of the pipes.

"HEY!" Sandal yelled before pulling out his Sabre, "give that back."

"Like that'll happen," Vacuumon said.

"Sandal!" Sweetie said, only for more Shades to appear around her. "There's to many of them," she said. It was then she remembered the Charger Twilight had given her. "It's worth a shot," she said as she pulled the Charger out, "here goes. Magi-Charger!" She clicked the button and placed the Charger inside her blaster. "Morphin Duel Blaster," she pulled the trigger, "activate!" A blast of light shot out of the barrel and took form, becoming an attachment for the blaster. It lengthened the barrel and now had two blaster heads side by side. "Whoa," Sweetie said seeing the upgrade.

Suddenly two Shades ran towards her and on instinct she aimed the blaster and fired, unleashing two laser blasts which struck them both down. "Awesome," she cheered. She blasted her way through the Shades, taking them out two at a time, only to notice a small button on the side of the new barrel. Curiosity getting the better of her, she pressed it and with a swoosh a blade flipped out from between the barrels. "Double awesome," she said. With that she slashed a blasted her way through the Shades, finishing them off and turning towards Vacuumon and Sandal.

Sandal found himself in trouble, when Vacuumon wrapped two oh his hoses around his arms and keeping them still. A third pipe folded out and attached itself to the Rangers chest. "I wonder which trait I'll be getting from you," he said as he started sucking.

"None!" he heard Sweetie's voice yell. The pink Ranger leaped at him from behind and slashed at the machine on his back, creating a crack.

"Hey!" He yelled trying to turn around, however Sandal grabbed his vacuum pipes and held him in place.

"Do it Sweetie," he said as he held on.

Sweetie pushed her blaster into the crack and pulled the trigger, sending the blast right through it and into the machine. Seconds later the machine began to smoke and crack, before exploding and sending the three flying. Form out of the broken machine five different coloured energy balls flew out, one flying into the air and the other four towards the other Rangers.

Flash and Lyra were having a hard time fighting off Cogs, until two of the energy balls flew at them and hit them in the chest before exploding. The light surrounded them and then faded.

The same thing happened to Soarin and Micro, which was noticed by the others.

"Do you think this mean?" Rarity asked, only for a Shade to creep up behind her and was about to plunge its dagger into her, when a blast shot it down.

The origin of the blast came from Micro, who spun his blaster around and smiled. "We're back," he smiled.

"Oh yeah," Soarin said.

Cogs didn't like the look of this, as Flash and Lyra smiled.

"How do you feel?" Lyra asked Flash.

"Scared," Flash said, "and happy to be."

"Oh boy," Cogs said.

Up in space Darklight was sitting on his throne, as Heart walked in carrying a try.

"I got you a drink brother," she said holding the try out.

"Thanks," Darklight said, "I'm loving this new Heart."

Suddenly an energy ball flew in and hit Heart, making her glow. Once it was finished she looked at Darklight and frowned, before knocking the drink out of his hands.

Looking at his sister, who crossed her arms, Darklight sighed. "I take it this means you're back to normal?" Heart just nodded. "Great," he said activating the communicator. "Cogs, what happened?"

"A little problem master," Cogs said.

"Oh no problem," he turned to see the four now morphed Rangers standing before him, "for us."

"Ah," Cogs said, seeing them pull out their sabres and place their Magi-Chargers inside.

"Power Slash!"

"Thunder Sabre Strike!"

The four of them slashed through the air and blasted the armoured monster, sending him flying back and crashing into a wall.

"That's it," he said getting up, "I'm out of here." With that a telebolt flew down and struck him, warping him away.

"Wimp," Flash said before they all ran over to Sandal and Sweetie.

"Are you guys back to normal?" Sweetie asked.

"Sure are," Lyra said, throwing her arm around her best friend.

"Thanks to you guys," Soarin said.

Suddenly a red beam shot down from on high, striking Vacuumon and causing an explosion. When the smoke faded it revealed a giant Vacuumon. "How'd you like me now suckers?" He asked as he towered over them.

"That's not good," Flash said.

"It's Zord time," Lyra said.

"And I know the perfect combination," Micro said as he pulled out the Minotaur Charger.

The others nodded and pulled out their own. "Magi-Chargers, ready." They clicked the buttons and threw them through the air, "summon Zords."

The Chargers grew and flew through the air, flying into the Zord's mouths and activating them.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

MINOTAUR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

Once awake the Zords left their hiding places and charged towards their Rangers.

"Activate Guardian Megazord," Flash said, "Mino-Serpent Formation!"

ZORDS COMBINED!

The Guardian Megazord formed like normal, but the Minotaur Zord's legs and arms folded in as its rear attached to the Dragon and became a new left arm. The horns acting like a crab pincer.

GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, MINO-SERPENT FORMATION...READY!

"Activate Thunder-Charge Megazord!" Soarin said.

THUNDER-CHARGE MEGAZORD...ENGAGED...THUNDER-CHARGE MEGAZORD...READY!

The five Ranger appeared in the Guardian Megazord cockpit and placed their blasters in the podiums, while the Thunder Ranger appeared in his own and placed his sword in it. The two Megazords stared Vacuumon down, ready for battle.

"You think you can stop me?" Vacuumon said as he unleashed him five pipes and sent them flying at the Megazords.

"I got this," Soarin said as his Megazord stepped forward and started swinging his swords around, slashing away and the hoses.

"Hey," Flash said as the Guardian Megazord stepped forward, "don't hog all the fun for yourself." The Megazord slashed the Tail Sabre at the pipes.

While this was happening Micro saw an opening and deciding to be reckless he launched forward and used the Minotaur Zord. "Mino-Claw!" he said as the horns locked around the five pipes holding them still.

"Hey!" Vacuumon said as he tried to pull his pipes free, but the Minotaur Zord's grip was to strong.

"Here's our chance," Micro said.

"Got it," Soarin said as he raised his blades.

"Us too," Lyra said as the Guardian Megazord raised its own sword.

Using all their strength, the Megazords slashed downward and cut the pipes to ribbons.

"NO!" Vacuumon yelled losing his best weapons.

"I think it's time we send this oversized dust buster to the garbage dump," Flash said.

"Right!" The others agreed.

All six Rangers moved in perfect unison. "Thunder-Charge Megazord, Guardian Megazord, Double Final Strike!"

The Dragon Zord's head's head opened as the Megazord placed the Minotaur Zord infront. Drago unleashed a burst of fire which spiralled around the Minotaur horns, creating a flaming pincer. "Blazing Horn Vice!" The Rangers yelled as the Megazord ran forwards.

Vacuumon was struck by the Twin Sword Cleave attack, getting electrified, before Guardian Megazord reached him and swung the Minotaur Zord and catching him in the horn's grip. The flamed around the horns consumed the monster and burned him, making Vacuumon scream in agony before the Guardian Megazord spun around and sent him flying into the air.

"Well this sucks," were his last words before being consumed by an explosion.

The Rangers cheered seeing the monsters destruction, happy he was gone and wouldn't be stealing any more human traits.

"Guardian Rangers," Flash said, "victory is ours."

Up in space Darklight was getting an earful from his sisters.

"I cannot believe you didn't make him change me back right away," she told him, "of all the selfish things you've done. Trying to destroy the Rangers and steal their Elements, overthrowing a tyrant and stealing his ship, using my shampoo without my permission. This is the most selfish thing out of all of them."

"Oh great," Cogs said as he entered the bridge, "she's back to normal."

"And you," Heart said turning on him, "I thought we were friends." She pulled out her heart shaped hook and pointed it at him. "Give me one reason I shouldn't let you join Vacuumon?"

"Er...I'm the only one who can fix your hairdryer if it ever breaks," Cogs was spit balling here.

"Good enough," Heart said removing the hook form his face, causing Cogs to sigh it relief.

Darklight just slumped in his chair. "I've lost another monster and I have to listen to Heart Breaker's whining, can't I ever get any good news."

At that moment Doom Raizer ran onto the bridge. "MASTER DARKLIGHT!"

"This better be good Doom," Darklight said.

"It is," Doom Raizer replied, "I've managed to track down the Element of Forgiveness."

This got everyone's attention. "YOU HAVE!" Darklight asked getting to his feet, "excellent! Go get it."

Doom nodded. "I'll pick a monster to take with me and I'll get you take Element."

"And if the Rangers show up?" Heart asked.

"I have a way around them," Doom said turning back to Darklight, "but it requires releasing more then one monster."

Darklight nodded, "very well. Do not fail me."

"I won't," Doom said before leaving the bridge.

Down on earth the Rangers and the four girls returned to the base, where Flash, Lyra, Micro and Soarin were getting a scan to make sure there wasn't any permanent damage.

"Everything looks in order," Sunset said as she looked at the screen, "you're all perfectly fine."

"That's a relief," Flash said as they removed the brain scanner.

"Tell me about it," Lyra said, "never thought I'd be happy to be suspicious."

"Or greedy," Soarin said.

"Or not having a hundred thoughts a minute," Micro said.

"We're glad to see you're all back to normal darlings," Rarity said.

"Yeah," Applejack said, "you guys just weren't right without those traits."

"It's like what Starswirl said," Sweetie said, "every little piece of us makes us who we are, even the bads stuff."

"I just hope Darklight doesn't send him back again any time soon," Sandal said.

"I doubt we've seen the last of him," Twilight said.

"She's right," Flash agreed, "until Darklight's gone we can't relax. Who knows when something big might happen."

In that moment an alarm went off, which they all recognised.

"The E-Tector," Twilight said as she and Sunset rushed over to the machine. Typing away they tried to pinpoint the energy signature they'd just picked up.

"Found it?" Flash asked.

"Almost," Twilight replied, "the location should come up any...moment."

"You get it?" Micro asked.

"Yeah," Twilight replied.

"Great," Soarin said, "so where is it."

Twilight was quite for a moment, until she finally looked up and said two words. "New York."

Author's Note

For those of you wondering where I got this idea from, Red Dwarf.

Rangers in the Big Apple

New York City. Also known as the big apple, it was an amazing place housing eight point four million people.

And this is where our story begins, at the John F Kennedy Airport where six young teens had just arrived.

"We're here," Flash said as he and his friends grabbed their bags from of the carousel.

"This is great," Lyra said, "I've always wanted to go to New York."

"Yeah," Sweetie said slightly downed, "great."

"Oh," Lyra realised, "that's right. Sorry Sweetie."

"It's okay," Sweetie said.

"When was the last time you were here?" Micro asked.

"Not since the day I bonded to my Element," Sweetie replied, "I left as soon as I got out of the safe. Didn't want to risk them coming back and making another attempt on my life."

"It's okay," Lyra said as she pulled her into a hug, "just relax."

"I guess you also won't be much of a guide," Flash said, "then we'll need another info source."

"No problem," Sandal said. He walked over to a help desk and asked the woman behind the counter. "Hello, me and my friends are new in town and were wondering where's the best place to get information."

"Oh," the lady said, "I don't know where's the best place, but I know who. Grand Hoof, he's a local celebrity, he was retired from the police force last year and set up his own detective agency in Midtown."

"Thanks," Sandal said before turning to the others. "Sometimes you just gotta ask."

"Well," Soarin said, "looks like we're going to Midtown."

Getting to Midtown from the airport took most of the morning.

First they had to get themselves a map so they could route out the best possible way there, before hailing a cab. Once squeezed in the six were taken to the local subway station, where one train ride later they were walking up the street of Midtown.

"Is this it?" Micro asked as they walked up the busy street.

"I think so," Lyra said, "where's this guy suppose to live again?"

Sandal pulled out the map he had and looked it over. "One hundred and fifty, Sugar Hill. Over there." He pointed to an apartment building a ways off.

"Okay," Flash said, "let's go." Walking up to it he climb the steps and pressed the buzzer on the intercom.

Seconds passed and nothing, until final it buzzed back and someone spoke.

"Yes?" a male voice said

"Mr Grand Hoof?" Flash asked.

"Yes."

"Me and my friends were told you're the one to come to when looking for info about New York."

No reply, but a second later there was a buzz and Flash saw the door unlock. Opening it up the six teens climbed the stairs, before coming to the door they wanted. Flash knocked.

The door opened ajar and a man's face filled the gap. "So you're looking for info aye?"

"Yes sir," Flash replied while the rest nodded.

The door closed, before the sound of several locks unlatching caught their ears. The door opened, this time fully, and the man stood on the other side. He was about sixty years in age, with grey skin and grey hair. A faded scar could be seen over his left eye. "Grand Hoof," he said holding out his hand.

"Flash," the red Ranger replied taking the hand, before turning to his friends. "This is Lyra, Micro, Sweetie, Sandal and Soarin."

"Pleasure," Grand said as he moved aside and let them in.

They entered the little room and saw it just a work desk, three chairs and an old couch. Grand Hoof sat on a chair behind the desk, while Flash and Lyra sat on the other two. Soarin, Sweetie and Micro sat on the couch while Sandal stood

"So what can I do for you all?" Grand asked.

"Me and my friends are here to find something," Flash said.

"Okay," Grand replied, "what?"

"We can't tell you," Lyra said.

"Okay," Grand said, "well what does it look like?"

"We can't tell you that either," Sweetie said.

"So...what can you tell me?"

"Nothing much," Flash said, "but we were hoping you could tell us about anything...out of the ordinary? Anything that you wouldn't expect to see in the city."

Grand thought for a moment, but then shook his head. "Sorry, I can't think of anything like that."

The Rangers all deflated hearing this.

"I'm sorry," Grand said, "but New York is a pretty normal city all things considered."

"It's okay," Flash said, "sorry to have wasted your time."

"It's fine," Grand replied.

They all got up and headed for the door, Flash noticed the wall was covered in several frames with newspaper covers inside. All of them showing headlines about a policeman stopping some kind of crime. "So how long were you a cop for?"

"Over forty years," Grand said with a smile, "joined right out of school. Was walking the beat ever since."

"Why'd you leave?"

"Didn't want to," Grand replied, "I was injured last year. Since I wouldn't accept a desk job they were forced to have me retire. Didn't stop me though."

"I can tell," Flash said

“You interested in becoming an officer of the law?”

“Not sure,” Flash said, “I don’t really have any goals after high school.

“Well I’m sure you’ll find your calling one day,” grand said.

“Thanks,” he replied as he walked through the door.

"Sorry I couldn't be of more help to you."

"It's cool," Flash said, "it was a long shot anyway."

"If you ever have any questions you need answered," Grand said, "don't hesitate to ask."

"We will," Flash said.

Meanwhile up in space, Darklight stepped into the transport room to see Doom along with Reflector, Blizzard and a new monster.

With one was red and yellow in colour, with a bulky form and pink spikes along his back. He didn't have hands, instead his arms ended in tube like appendages.

"Heatwave," Darklight said before turning to Doom, "this is the monster you selected?"

"Yes master," Doom replied, "his psychokinetic abilities will roast the Rangers."

"Forgive me if I don't believe you," Darklight said, "the Rangers will easily defeat him."

"Not with these two along with him," Doom said as he pointed to the other two monster. "They know the Ranger's fighting style and will be able to counter them, leaving Heatwave open to finish them off."

"Very well," Darklight said as he turned to the monsters, "if you each get me an Element I'll set you free. But if you fail."

"We won't fail," Heatwave said.

"You'd better hope so."

Back on earth the Rangers had found a little cafe to have lunch and were going over their battle plan.

"Okay," Lyra said, "the first thing we want to do is hit up all the most likely places we'd find an Element in."

"Museums and such," Micro agreed.

"Okay," Flash said, "how many museums are there in New York?"

"About a hundred," Sweetie said.

"A HUNDRED!" The others yelled.

"Maybe more."

"This'll take forever," Soarin said.

"If we split up it could cut our search time in half," Lyra said.

"I doubt that," Sandal moaned.

In was in that moment that a woman who'd just passed them let out a loud scream. "MY PURSE!" She pointed to a teen who'd just run passed their table, a brown purse in his hands.

"Come on!" Flash yelled as they all jumped up and began to run after him.

They ran as fast as they could chasing after the purse thief, but said thief proved to be incredibly agile. They saw him a ways off, turning around a corner.

"We're gonna lose him," Lyra said.

However, when they rushed around the corner they found the thief waiting for them. He was laying on the floor, his hands and feet being tied together by...a Power Ranger.

"No...way," Micro said as they were in shock.

This Ranger was gold in colour, with white around the shoulders which traced down towards the chest forming a white triangle along with white arms and boots. On his chest was an upside down pentagon, with a carving of a bird’s head on it.

"The gold Ranger," Soarin said in amazement.

The Ranger looked up and saw them before freezing.

"So the Element of Forgiveness is what the E-Tector picked up," Sweetie said.

Flash slowly stepped forward. "Listen, we need to talk to you."

However the new Ranger didn't appear to chatty, as in that second the spun on the spot and ran off.

"Wait!" Flash yelled as they raced after him.

Whoever this Ranger was he wasn’t incredibly fast or agile, but he seemed to know the streets and used that advantage to keep ahead of the Rangers.

"Please stop," Sweetie said.

"Slow down," Micro yelled.

The gold Ranger did slow down and come to a stop, when he was suddenly struck by some kind of fireball which exploded right in front of him. "What?" He said as he waved the smoke away.

"Surprise Ranger!" he looked up to see Heatwave and some Shades standing a ways off, "looks like I'll be getting my freedom. Hand over the Element."

"I don't know what you're talking about," the Ranger said.

"Keep telling yourself that," Heatwave said, "Shades attack!" The cloaked monsters charged forward.

"What's happening?" He asked as he watched them get closer.

"Destroy him!" Heatwave yelled.

"Not happening!" Suddenly out of no where, six brightly coloured individuals leaped into the fray. They landed in front of the gold Ranger and took a battle stance.

"Who are you?" The gold Ranger asked.

"Power Rangers!" The six replied before running forward.

Flash was the first, somersaulting forward to dodge the Shades and causing them to fall down. He then pulled out his blaster and fired at them. "To easy," he said as he battled some more.

"What's the matter?" Lyra asked as she knocked some more down, "you guys leave your fighting skills back in Canterlot?"

"What fighting skills?" Sweetie asked as she knocked down several more.

"Have a slice of this!" Sandal said as he slashed away at some more.

"And have a blast with this," Micro finished as he fired his blaster at some more.

The gold Ranger meanwhile was still perplexed by the situation. Suddenly some more Shades showed up infront of him.

"Stay back," Soarin told him as he leaped between them, "I'll handle these guys." He pulled out his Thunder Sabre and slashed away at them.

Eventually all that was left was Heatwave.

"Fry you freaks!" The monster yelled as he held out his arms and flames shot out of them.

"Magitech!" Sweetie called on her weapon and blocked the flames.

"Morphin Blaster," the four other Ranger said as they spun their blasters barrels to charge them, before aiming at the monster. "FIRE!"

"Thunder Sabre Strike!" Soarin said as he unleashed his blue lightning.

The five attacks struck the monster, who was consumed by smoke.

"Want some more?" Flash asked, but as the smoke cleared Heatwave was nowhere to be seen.

"He got away," Lyra moaned.

"At least he didn't get the Element," Micro assured her.

They demorphed and turned back to where the gold Ranger was still standing.

"I didn't think there was anyone else like me," he said as he watched them walk up to them.

"Well there are," Flash said, "and we're here to help."

"Wait a minute," the gold Ranger said as he took a closer look, "I know you." He was consumed by a bright flash of light, which quickly faded revealing some else in the gold Rangers place. It was someone they all knew.

"Grand Hoof?" Flash asked seeing the older man standing before them.

"Hello," he replied.

"You're a Power Ranger?" Micro asked in disbelief.

"Is that what they call it when I change?" Grand asked.

"You know it," Sandal said.

"And what's this?" He reached into his jacket and pulled out a familiar crystal, gold in colouring.

"The Element of Forgiveness," Lyra said. She and the rest of the teens pulled out their own and showed it to him.

"It's a magical crystal from another world," Soarin explained, "if it's bonded to you, it means you're meant to join our team."

"Team?"

"We're on a quest to retrieve all the Elements," Flash explained, "that monster you saw was trying to steal it to take to someone named Darklight. He wants to use the Elements for evil."

"But now you can help us stop him," Sweetie said.

"Incredible," Grand said, his eyes filled with wonder. "I'm in."

The others cheered hearing this.

Up in space, Doom was berating Heatwave for running away.

"You were suppose to call me and the others once you'd found the Element!" He yelled.

"I know I was," he said, "but it was only one Ranger. I thought I had it, until the other ones showed up and made a mess of everything."

"Well this time I'm not letting you out of my sight," Doom said, "and if you do what I tell you to, I might just be willing to let you give the Element to Darklight."

"Yes sir," Heatwave said, "total obedience here."

"Good," Doom said, "now we have to find them again."

Back on earth, Grand Hoof had taken them to a nearby park so they could train and get into sync.

"Okay kids," Grand said as they stretched, "the course I usually run is three miles."

"You sure you can handle it?" Micro asked.

"Please," Grand said with a laugh.

"Let's go," Flash said

And with that they were off, Grand taking the lead with the rest of them behind. For the first mile he stayed well ahead, but on the second mile he dropped back and ran with them. On the last mile Grand had fallen behind, until he was the last to cross the finish line.

"You okay there old timer?" Soarin asked.

"Watch who you're calling old," Grand said as he worked to get his breath back, "I may be getting on in years, but I'm as fit as I was in my prime."

"Right," Sandal said sceptically as they all sat down and pulled water bottles out of their bag.

"So Grand," Flash said, "how did you get your Element?"

"Oh," Grand said, "it was about a year ago."

It was just like any other day. I was on the beat keeping an eye out, when suddenly.

As Grand strolled down the street, a young teen suddenly burst out of one of the nearby stores before rushing down the street. Seconds later the store owner rushed out. "Stop him!" He yelled as he pointed at the teen, "thief!"

That was all I needed to hear. I rushed after him, but he was fast. I chased after him for several blocks, until.

As Grand Hoof drew closer to the teen, they suddenly rushed onto a busy road and into the path of a speeding car. The driver saw them and tried to come to a halt, but it was to late and the car struck Grand.

The next thing I know I'm waking up in a hospital. I wasn't to badly injured, but considering my age they decided not to take any chances. However the next day.

Grand Hoof was relaxing in his room, when suddenly the door opened and in stepped the teen he'd been chasing.

He'd come to apologise, as well as turn himself in. He asked for my forgiveness and offered me something in return.

The boy held out the Element of Forgiveness.

He said it'd been in his family for years and that giving it to me just felt right. I accepted it and his apology, and then.

When Grand took the Element, he suddenly felt a rush of energy. He was then bombarded by images of ponies in similar golden suits of armour, before the image of a giant bird flashed and suddenly he was back in the room.

"And ever since then I could turn into a Ranger," Grand finished his story.

"That's amazing," Flash said.

"It sure is," the older man replied, "after I was discharged I still wanted to help stop crime. The one thing I'd kept from the force was a police radio, so ever since then I've been stopping bike thieves and arresting purse snatchers."

"And now you can help safe the world," Flash said.

"Now that sounds amazing," Grand said.

Suddenly the Ranger's coms beeped, showing a message from the base that they'd detected a magical energy surge.

"Let's go," Lyra said.

"Ready to show the world what the gold Ranger can really do?" Flash asked Grand.

"Just you watch," Grand said.

New York was in chaos, as either fire or ice flew through the air.

Doom Raizer, Blizzard, Reflector and Heatwave walked down the street. Blizzard and Heatwave firing their flame and ice attacks to cause mayhem.

"That's it," Doom said, "cause as much destruction as you can. Those Rangers are drawn to it like a moth to the flame."

"And even if they don't show up," Heatwave said, "I haven't had this much fun in six hundred years."

"Well I hope you enjoyed it!" They all turned to see the seven Rangers standing on the top of a flight of stairs, "cause it's the last bit of fun you're ever gonna get."

"I told you they'd come," Doom said.

"Four monsters?" Grand asked.

"Darklight must be getting desperate," Soarin said.

"You're in trouble now Rangers," Doom said, "three times the trouble."

"We've beaten you before," Lyra said.

"And we're ten times stronger now," Flash finished.

"We'll see about that," Reflector said.

"We'll freeze you in place," Blizzard said.

"Before melting you into nothing," Heatwave finished.

"I doubt that," Grand said as he stepped forward, "because it's Mopping Time."

The rest of the Rangers looked over to him in confusion.

"Er...," Micro said, “it’s Morphing Time.”

"Oh right," Grand replied sheepishly.

"Let's do this," Flash said as he pulled out his gear, "Magi-Chargers!"

"Ready!" The others said as they held up their Chargers while Grand held out his Element.

They placed them inside their morphers which began to power up. "Energise!" They spun the barrels before pointing them to the sky, "Unleash the Power!" They pulled the triggers and unleashed the Zord heads, which flew around them and then bit down on them. In a flash of light they were in their Ranger suits, ready for battle.

Flash: Power Rangers!

All: GUARDIANS!

"Shades attack!" Doom ordered as the cloaked monsters appeared and charged forward.

"Magitech!"

"Summon Thunder Sabre!"

The seven Rangers charged forward and collided with the Shades.

"You're all going down," Grand said as he attacked the Shades, who were able to leap out of the way of his punches and kicks and causing him to fall over. "This might be harder then I thought," he said as he tried to get up.

"I got your back," Flash said as he smashed the Shades away with his Dragon Breaker.

"Sorry," Grand said as he got up, "these things are faster then what I'm used to."

"Relax," Flash said as he punched some more away, "you'll get the hang of it."

"Freeze yellow Ranger!" Blizzard yelled as he launched his snowballs at Micro.

"No thanks," Micro replied as he dodged the snowballs or blasted them to bits, "I'm just getting warmed up."

Sandal meanwhile charged at Blizzard from behind, Spirit Sabre and Fenrir Fang in hand. "You know," he said as he slashed away at the monster, "I could really go for some shaved ice."

Sweetie and Lyra were fighting against Reflector, who was blocking their attacks with his shield.

"Power Slash!" Sweetie said as she slashed at him.

"You'll never get passed my Mirror Shield," Reflector told her. At that moment, Lyra used her Serpent Staff's jaws to grab his other shield and yank it out of the way.

"We'll go around it then," she said.

"Morphin Blaster!" Sweetie said as she pointed her weapon between the two mirrors, "Fire!" Pulling the trigger she fired and caused Reflector to be sent flying back.

“Nice shot,” Lyra said as they high fived.

“Thanks,” Sweetie said.

“Let’s see how well you fight against yourselves,” Reflector said as he got up and images of the two appeared in his stomach mirror.

“Let’s go,” Lyra said before running forward, followed by Sweetie.

Just as the mirror images finished forming, the originals were on top of them and with one strong slash cut through them.

“Morphin Blaster!” They both said as they span the barrels and aimed, “FIRE!” The both pulled the trigger and unleashed the two blasts, which combined and struck Reflector in the stomach shattering his mirror.

“Not again!” Reflector cried before being attacked by the female Rangers.

Soarin and Heatwave were fighting each other, the monster unleashing several fireballs at the Ranger.

"Sky time," Soarin said as his wings extended and flew him into the air, dodging the attacks. Seconds later he flew down and used his Sabre to slash down at the monster, sending him flying back.

"You little punk," Heatwave said as he picked himself up.

"There's more where that came from," Soarin said as he charged forward.

Meanwhile Flash had finished off the last of the Shades with Grand's 'help', and turned to the gold Ranger.

"You okay?"

"I am," Grand replied, "sorry about that."

"Hello again red Ranger!" The two turned to see Doom walking up to them.

"Back off Doom," Flash said as he put away his Dragon Breaker and pulled out his Spirit Sabre.

"Not happening," Doom said as he charged forward with his sword.

"Let me help you," Grand said as he took out his own Spirit Sabre, before charging forward.

"Wait Grand!" Flash said as he chased after him.

Grand swung his sword, but Doom easily deflected the attack and kicked the Ranger back. He then tried to strike the Ranger, but Flash jumped in front.

"Where'd you find this guy?" Doom asked as he pushed Flash away, "a fossil museum?"

"Watch who you're calling old!" Grand yelled as he jumped up, but Doom just swung his sword and sent the gold Ranger flying into a wall demorphing him.

"GRAND!" Flash yelled before turning to Doom, "you'll pay for that!" He charged forward and began swinging his sword around, out matching Doom's speed and managing to get a few good slashes in.

"AAARRR!" Doom yelled as he fell back.

"You give up?" Flash asked.

"For now," Doom said, "I'll leave my monsters to deal with you." With that a telebolt flew down and warped him away, leaving Flash and Grand behind.

"Grand!" Flash said as he turned and rushed over to the older Ranger.

"Are you alright?" He asked as he kneeled down.

"I am," Grand replied, "and I'm sorry. I just got in the way."

"Don't say that," Flash said.

"It's true. Those monsters were right, I'm to old to be a Ranger. It's the same reason they forced me to retire, because I can't keep up anymore."

"It doesn't matter how old you are," Flash told him, "the Element bonded to you, so that means you're worthy of being a Guardian. So what if you're not as fast or strong as you once were, you've got your own strengths that no one else has."

"I guess," Grand said.

"Good," Flash replied, "I'm gonna got help my friends. You gonna be alright on your own?"

"I will," Grand told him, "go."

Flash nodded and ran off to find his friends.

Said friends were doing pretty okay against the monsters.

"I thought you two'd faced these twerps before?" Heatwave asked the others.

"We have," Reflector said.

"Their just way stronger," Blizzard said.

"We warned you," Soarin said as the Rangers lined up.

"Guys!" Flash yelled rushing over to them.

"Glad to see you're here," Lyra said.

"How's Grand?" Sweetie asked.

"He'll be fine," Flash replied, "now what do you say we take these guys out?"

"Oh yeah," the others said.

""Magi-Charger!" Flash said as he held up the device and clicked the button, "Ready. Guardian Buster, activate." He threw the Charger in the air before it transformed into the super weapon, which he caught and activated.

Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded."

GUARDIAN BUSTER...RED CHARGE!

"Magi-Charger, ready!" Soarin said as he placed his own Charger inside his sword.

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

Meanwhile Soarin swung his blade. "Thunder Sabre Strike!" From the blade fired a giant blue lightning bolt, which took the shape of the Thunderbird and flew towards the monsters.

The two attacks merged and flew at the monsters.

"You don't scare me," Heatwave said as he pointed his arms at them and unleashed a flurry of fire.

The two Zord heads struck the flames, ripping right through them. A second later the flames struck Heatwave, creating a powerful explosion which consumed him and sent Blizzard and Reflector flying away.

Doom stepped onto the bridge and growled.

"Defeating one monster I can buy, but how the heck did they defeat three?"

“Somehow I’m not surprised,” Darklight said as he slunk back in his throne.

Doom growled before rushing over to the Gigatisor and slamming down on the button, unleashing the growing device that fired the red beam of energy.

The Rangers were preparing to finish Heatwave off, but at that moment the Gigatisor's beam struck the monster. An explosion occurred and its wake, a giant Heatwave stood looking down at the Rangers.

“That’s a big problem,” Soarin said.

“We’ll need the Megazord,” Micro said as he pulled out his Magi-Charger.

“Wait,” Flash said looking around, “where’s Blizzard and Reflector?”

The rest of the Rangers looked around, but couldn’t find hide nor hair of the two other monsters.

“We’ll have to look for them later,” Lyra said.

“I’ll go find Grand,” Flash said, “he’s not safe with those two out there. You guys think you can handle that oversized camp fire?”

“No problem,” Sandal said.

“Go,” Sweetie told him.

Flash nodded and ran off, leaving the others to deal with Heatwave.

Soarin, Micro and Sandal stepped forward and held out their Magi-Chargers. “Magi-Chargers, ready!” They clicked the devices before throwing them in the air.

“Summon Thunderbird Zord!”

“Summon Griffon Zord!”

“Summon Fenrir Zord!”

The Chargers flew into their Zord’s mouths.

THUNDERBIRD CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The Zords awakened and left their hiding spots, heading towards their Rangers.

“They call this place the big apple huh?” Heatwave said as he aimed his arms, “we’ll I like my apples extra crispy.” Before he could burn New York to the ground however, a lightning bolt came down and struck him which caused him to fall back.

The Thunderbird flew onto the scene, followed by the Griffon who was carrying the Fenrir in its claws.

“There they are,” Micro said pointing to the Zords.

“Let’s do this,” Soarin said.

"Activate," they said together, "Thunder-Charge Megazord Fenrir-Griffon Formation!"

The Thunderbird Zord squawked as it turned towards the other Zords before the three opened their mouths. Their Magi-Chargers flew out with the Griffon and Fenrir’s Chargers went into Thunderbird's.

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

It bit down on the first Charger before it flew out and was replace withe second Charger.

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

It bit down on the second Charger before it flew out again and the last Charger flew in.

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

ZORDS COMBINED!

The Thunder-Charge Megazord formed with the wings spinning around and revealing the plug like nubs which the Griffon and Fenrir linked to like they would on the Guardian Megazord.

THUNDER-CHARGE MEGAZORD, FENRIR-GRIFFON FORMATION...READY!

The five rangers appeared in the cockpit, before placing their weapons into the podium. “Battle Mode!”

The Megazord and Heatwave stared each other down.

“Time to make some Roasted Rangers!” Heatwave yelled as he unleashed a flurry of flames, which flew at the Megazord.

“Into the air,” Soarin said as the Megazord jumped up and used its wing shoulders to glide up and dodge.

“Griffon Zord,” Micro said, “fire!” The Megazord aimed its left arm and unleashed a flurry of laser fire, which rained down on the monster.

“Fenrir Zord,” Sandal continued, “Fang Blade Strike!” The Megazord soared downwards and sliced its right arm down to slashed the monster, sending it back several hundred feet.

“You guys are really starting to get me steamed,” Heatwave said.

Meanwhile Grand was watching the battle from a distance, marvelling at the sight before him.

“Grand,” he turned to see Flash running over to him.

“Flash,” Grand said pointing to the Megazord, “where can I get one of those things?”

“That’s a good question,” Flash said, “we’ll discuss that later. Right now we need to get out of here.”

“Why?”

“SURPRISE!” They both spun around the see a giant snowball flying at them.

Instincts kicking in, Flash managed to shove Grand out of the way, before the snowball struck him and exploded. The force sent him flying back, crashing into a wall as the ice froze over and trapped him.

“FLASH!” Grand yelled before turning back to see Blizzard and Reflector calming strolling up to them.

“Looky what we have here,” Reflector said, “two little Rangers.”

“That’s one Element each to take back to Master Darklight,” Blizzard continued.

“Stay back,” Grand said as he stepped between Flash and the monsters, “I’m warning you.”

The two monster looked at each other before laughing.

“What are you gonna do you old geezer?” Reflector asked.

“Wave your walking stick at us?” Blizzard asked.

“Grand,” Flash called out, “get out of here.”

“No,” Grand told him firmly, “I won’t leave you.” He pulled out the Element of Forgiveness and held it up, before he was consumed by golden light which morphed him into his Ranger suit.

“You’re kidding,” Reflector said, “you’re kidding right?”

“What’s the matter?” Grand asked as he pulled out his Spirit Sabre, “to scared of being beaten by an old man to fight?”

“You asked for it,” Blizzard said, “just don’t go having a heart attack on us.”

“We’ll see who has the heart attack,” Grand said as he and the monsters charged at one another.

Meanwhile the Megazord was continuing to strike the monster with its blaster and blade.

“That’s it,” Heatwave said, “time for something I picked up from Smokescreen.” He held out his arms, but instead of unleashing flames he fired a large cloud of smoke which enveloped the Megazord.

“I can’t see,” Sweetie said.

“He’s hiding from us,” Micro said.

Suddenly a large fireball shot through the smoke, striking the Megazord and causing it to lose balance and fall.

“This isn’t good,” Sandal said.

As the Megazord tried to get back up another, another fireball flew at it and struck it in the back making it fall once again.

“We can’t keep this up,” Lyra said.

“We’ve gotta clear this smoke somehow,” Soarin said.

“Wait,” Micro said, “I’ve got an idea.” He pulled out a Magi-Charger and clicked it, before throwing it. “Summon Manticore Zord!”

The Charger flew through the air, growing as it did so, before flying off and into the Manticore Zord's mouth.

MANTICORE CHARGER...ENGAGED!

The creature opened its eyes. Seconds later it shot out of the waterfall and towards the battle.

The Rangers continued to have trouble with smoke and fireballs, but suddenly the smoke began to clear.

“Hey!” Heatwave said as he was revealed, “what’s happening?”

Both he and the Megazord looked over to see the Manticore Zord, which was spinning its tail to fan away the smoke.

“That’s cheating,” Heatwave told them.

“Show me the rule against it,” Micro said, “Manticore Tail Whip!”

The Manticore charged at the monster and spun in a circle, swinging its tails and hitting Heatwave again and again.

“Great idea Micro,” Lyra said.

“Now let’s try something new,” Soarin said.

They moved and spoke in perfect sync. “"Activate Thunder-Charge Megazord, Manti-Griffon Formation!"

The Manticore Charger flew out of the Zord's mouth as the Thunderbird opened its mouth, releasing its Charger which was quickly replaced.

MANTICORE CHARGER...ENGAGED...ZORDS COMBINED!

When its Charger flew back in the Manticore's mouth, it transformed and replaced the Fenrir Zord.

THUNDER-CHARGE MEGAZORD, MANTI-GRIFFON FORMATION...READY!

The new Megazord stood against Heatwave, ready to do battle.

“What’s that suppose to do?” Heatwave asked.

“It’s suppose to do this,” Soarin said as the Megazord swung the tail whip at him, slashing away at the monster.

Meanwhile Grand was trying to fight off the two monster, swinging his Sabre around but he was just to slow to hit them.

“I’m not sure whether to laugh or feel bad for him,” Blizzard said as he dodged him.

“I’m sure,” Reflector said before bursting out laughing, followed by Blizzard.

“Laugh it up you clowns,” Grand said as he pulled out his Morphin Blaster and spinning the barrel, before firing off a few shots.

“Dark Reflection,” Reflector said as he held up his shield, which the blast flew into. He then held up the other shield as the blast flew back out and struck Grand, sending him flying back in an explosion.

“GRAND!” Flash yelled while trying to free himself from the ice.

As Grand tried to pick himself up, the two monsters just laughed.

“To think he’s actually trying to kick our butts,” Reflector said.

“The only thing he’s gonna kick is the bucket,” Blizzard replied, making them both laugh harder.

“Don’t listen to them,” Flash called out, “you might not be as strong as them, but you’re a hundred times smarter. You just need to start fighting smart.”

That actually made a lot of sense to Grand. “He’s right.” Getting up he charged once again at the monsters.

“Here we go again,” Reflector said as he and Blizzard stepped out of his way.

“I’ll teach you two to respect the elderly,” Grand said as he swung his blade are, which the monsters simply dodged until they were on either side of him.

“This is getting boring now,” Blizzard said as he created a snowball which he threw at the gold Ranger.

Seeing it coming, Grand’s brain went into overdrive as an idea formed in his head. As the snowball got closer, Grand leaped out of the way and caused it to miss and instead head for its new target.

“Wait!” Reflector said as the snow ball flew at him and exploded at his feet, encasing them and his legs in ice.

“Whoops!” Blizzard said

“You idiot!” Reflector screamed as he tried to break free of the ice.

“Now you’re all mine,” Grand said as he span his blaster’s barrel again and aimed at him, before pulling the trigger.

“You’re going senile old man,” Reflector said, “it’s my legs that are frozen, not my arms.” He held up his shield, as the blast flew in. “Dark Reflection!” He raised the other one and fired off the blasts.

“Gotcha,” Grand said before once again leaping out of the way, making the attacks new target Blizzard.

“Oh no,” Blizzard said as he was struck by the attack and consumed by the explosion.

“BLIZZARD!” Reflector screamed, seeing his partner get blown up.

“Perfect,” Grand said before taking out his Sabre and walking over to Flash. “Hold still,” he swung the sword and shattered the ice, freeing Flash.

“Thanks,” Flash said as he jogged on the spot to warm himself up.

“No,” Grand said, “thank you. You were right, I had to stop trying to force myself against stronger opponents.”

Flash nodded with a smile, before they turned to the still stuck Reflector. “Shall we deal with him together?”

“Those shields will make it difficult,” Grand said.

“Oh you’ve already dealt with the shields,” Flash told him as he stepped around the monster so he and Grand were facing his back. “They only really protect his front.”

“Oh,” Grand said happily.

Pulling out their Morphin Blasters they span the barrels and aimed.

“Wait!” Reflector said as he tried to look behind himself, “can’t we talk about this?”

Flash and Grand pulled the triggers and fired a blast which struck Reflector and exploded, consuming him completely.

When the smoke cleared it showed Reflector was gone.

“Oh yeah,” Flash said as he and Grand high fived before demorphing. “You did great.”

“Thank you,” Grand said before frowning, “but this has made me realise something.”

“What?”

Grand was silent for a moment, looking down at his Element before looking back up at him. “I can’t be a Power Ranger anymore.”

The battle between Heatwave and the Megazord seemed to be nearing a conclusion, as the Megazord continued to strike the monster with its giant whip.

“That’s getting really annoying,” Heatwave said as he tried to aims his arms at them.

“Tail Whip!” The Rangers yelled as the Megazord swung the whip, which wrapped around the monster’s arms.

“Hey!” Heatwave yelled as he struggled against the bindings.

The Megazord used this opportunity to blast the monster with the Griffon Zord, and being bound made it so Heatwave was forced to take the full brunt of it until the Megazord decided to let him go.

“Let’s end this,” Soarin said.

“Right!” The others agreed.

They all moved and spoke in perfect sync. “Thunder-Charge Megazord, Final Strike!”

Electrical energy surged from the Thunderbird and through the Manticore, as the Megazord swung the Tail Whip over its head. “Electron Tail Swipe!” The Megazord swung the whip, which had been charged with lightning, at Heatwave. It wrapped around him and sent all the electricity into him.

The monster screamed in agony as the lightning surged through his body. The Megazord then spun around, throwing Heatwave into the air before letting him go flying. "I’m all burned out," were the monsters last words before exploding in the air, creating a fireworks display.

“Oh yeah!” The Rangers cheered seeing the monster be destroyed.

“Guardian Rangers,” Soarin said, “victory is ours.”

A little while later, the team were in the park.

When he’d learned Grand no longer wanted to be a Ranger, Starswirl had transported himself to New York so as the perform the unbonding.

“Are you sure about this?” Flash asked Grand as they prepared for the task, “you’d make such a great Ranger.”

“I think this is for the best,” Grand assured him, “besides, New York is my home. There’s just no why I could leave it. Plenty of other people can be a Ranger, but no here can replace me.”

Flash sighed.

“Grand is right,” Starswirl told the red Ranger, “his duty as the gold Ranger was to keep the Element of Forgiveness safe. Now his work is done.”

Grand nodded, before turning to Starswirl. “I’m ready Starswirl.”

The wizard nodded and held up his staff, as Grand took out his Element. The staff and Element glowed a golden light, before the Element of Forgiveness floated out of Grands hand and above his head.

“Element of Forgiveness,” Starswirl chanted, “this Guardian’s time as champion of your will has come to a close. Release him from your hold, so he may live a life as himself once more.”

Suddenly Grand glowed, before the light was pulled upwards and into the Element. Finally the glowing stopped and the Element, still glowing, flew into Starswirl’s hand.

“It is complete,” the wizard said, “I thank you Grand Hoof, for keeping the Element safe.”

Grand simply nodded. Starswirl then turned and walked off, before disappearing in the puff of smoke.

“There’s something you don’t see everyday,” the ex-Ranger said.

“It’s been a pleasure sir,” Flash said as he held out his hand for Grand to shake.

Grand just smiled and pulled Flash into a hug.

“So what are you going to do now?” Micro asked once the two pulled away from each other.

“This adventure made me realise that I have to accept my age,” Grand said, “but that doesn’t mean I have to just sit back and do nothing. I called a few old friends in high places in the force and managed to get myself a new job.

“I thought you said you didn’t want to do desk work?” Soarin said.

“And I won’t,” Grand replied, “tell me. What can someone with forty years experience do once they can no longer put it to use physically.”

The Rangers weren’t sure how to answer that, until Flash realised.

“Teach that experience?”

“Exactly,” Grand said, “I’m off to the police academy.”

“That’s great,” Sweetie said.

“You’ll be like a sensei to the next generation of cops,” Sandal said.

“You bet I will,” Grand said with a smirk.

Suddenly a load beeping noise caught their attention, making them look over to see a taxi.

“That’s our ride,” Lyra said.

“Well you’d best be off,” Grand said.

“Goodbye Grand,” Flash said as they hugged again.

“See ya kiddo,” Grand replied, “and if you ever feel like joining the force, just come and see me. I’ll teach you everything I know.”

“I’m not sure I’d make a good cop,” Flash said.

“No you’d make a great one,” Grand replied, “now go on, get out of here.”

Flash nodded and ran to join his friends in the taxi.

The Rangers had found the eighth of the ten Element, but their work was far from over. What new surprises will New York City hold for them? They’d soon find out.

Author's Note

And thus the Gold Ranger is revealed...before giving up his power. Oh well.

Flight of the Phoenix

Up in space Darklight, Doom and Cogs were walking through the corridors of the ship.

“We may have failed at getting the Element of Forgiveness,” Doom said, “but we haven’t truly failed unless the Rangers get the Zord that the Element’s linked to.”

“The last time one of us went after a Zord,” Darklight said, “the only thing that happened was the Rangers getting their hands on it.”

“That was Heart Breaker,” Doom told him, “this is me. I’ll destroy that Zord and the Rangers to.”

“And how do you expect to do that?” Darklight asked.

“I’ve got Rabbit Fire ready to head down with me,” Doom said.

“But I must warn you,” Cogs said, “the reanimator couldn’t restore his armour the way it was before.”

“So he’s even weaker then before?” Darklight asked, “how do you expect to beat the Rangers with a monster that’s weaker then when they last beat it?”

“Leave that to me,” Doom said, "he may not be as strong but he's been improved with more speed and agility. The Rangers won't stand a chance against him now." With that he turned and left for the transporter.

Meanwhile down on earth, the Rangers we still in New York.

“I know you guys were all set to come home,” Celestia spoke to them over the coms, “but we need the Zord the Element of Forgiveness is bonded to.”

“But we don’t even know what kind of Zord we’re looking for,” Micro asked.

“We know a few things,” Lyra said, “we know it’ll be some kind of mythical creature that lives in Equestria. We also know it’s avian, since Grand said he saw visions of some kind of bird when he bonded to the Element. So that gives us some clues about what to look for.”

“Except Grand never actually saw the Zord after he bonded to his Element,” Flash said.

“It could be on the other side of the country for all we know,” Soarin said.

“From what we’ve seen the Zords appear to rest in close proximity to the Element’s location,” Twilight’s voice spoke over the coms, “meaning this Zord should be close by to.”

"That's right," Starswirl's voice said, "once the Element is close to the Zord it will glow."

Flash went into his pocket and pulled out the Element of Forgiveness, which the others stared at. It wasn't glowing, so the Zord wasn't anywhere nearby.

“We’ll just have to split up and search every corner of the city,” Lyra said.

Flash nodded, before putting the Element away. “Okay I’ll take Queens, Micro you take Manehatten, Sandal the Bronx, Lyra Staten Island and Soarin you take Brooklyn.” The others nodded, “now Sweetie you take-” Flash looked around and found the pink Ranger missing. “Where’s Sweetie?”

Sweetie had just arrived in an area of Queens and as she got off the bus, she looked around at the all to familiar street.

“Home sweet home,” she said sadly. Despite having a job to do, Sweetie knew she couldn’t come to New York without checking out the place she’d grown up.

As she walked down the street, she recognised so many things from her childhood. The corner shop she and her mother would go to, the park where she and her brother would play and of course...her house.

As she looked up at the two story building she couldn’t help but remember the last time she’d been here.

Reaching into her pocket, she pulled out the one thing she’d kept from her last time here. It was a picture of her family which was of her, her father, her mother and her older brother Forest. Forest was a teen who was five years older then her, with light brown skin and green hair.

As Sweetie looked down at the picture, her mind flashed back to when she and him had been younger.

Sweetie and Forest were in the park, where her older brother was trying to teach her how to ride a bike.

"Don't be scared," ten year old Forest told her, "you'll be fine."

"Promise you won't let go?" five year old Sweetie asked.

"I promise," Forest told her, "I won't let go until you're ready to ride on your own."

"Okay," Sweetie said.

"You ready?" Forest asked as he grabbed the bike and began pushing the bike as Sweetie started peddling. "That's it," he told her.

"Yay!" Sweetie yelled as she peddled away, "I'm doing it."

"You sure are," Forest's voice said from far away. She looked around and saw Forest a ways away. Suddenly she felt herself lose confidence and began to wobble, before she fell.

"Sweetie!" Forest yelled as he ran to her.

"Why'd you let go?" Sweetie asked as he picked her up, "you promised you wouldn't."

"I promised I wouldn't until you were ready to do it alone," he told her, "and you were. I let go and you were doing perfect on your own."

"I was?" Sweetie asked

Forest just nodded and ruffled her hair.

Looking the image over, Sweetie sighed before putting it back in her pocket.

However, when she turned to leave she felt herself bump into someone and fall back on her butt.

“Oh,” a male voice above her said, “sorry.”

“It’s fine,” Sweetie said before she looked up at him and froze.

Standing above her was Forest, though his eyes were a different colour, smiling down at her.

“Hey,” he said as he held out his hand and helped her up, “I’m Forest.”

“Forest?” Sweetie asked, her heart beating fast.

“Yeah,” Forest replied, “family name.” He looked at her closer, “do I know you?”

“NO!” She screamed before taking a deep breath, “I doubt it. I should really be going.”

“Oh,” Forest said, “okay. See you around.”

“Yeah,” she said. Turning to leave she began to rush along the street, but looking over her shoulder she saw Forest walk into her old house. Could he be...her brothers descendent? Her nephew?

Suddenly her coms went off. “Hello?” She asked as she answered.

“Sweetie,” Celestia’s voice called out, “the others are under attack. Where are you?”

“Send me their location,” Sweetie said, “I’m on my way.”

The Rangers had been trying to find Sweetie when Doom had appeared before them with a bunch of Shades. Quickly morphing they charged against them.

"Magitech!" The four Rangers called out as their weapons appeared.

"Summon Thunder Sabre!" Soarin called out as a bolt of lightning hit his hand and formed a sword.

"Destroy the Rangers!" Doom yelled as the Shades charged forward and attacked the five.

"Let's do this!" Flash ordered as the rushed the monsters.

"You guys don't give up do you?" Lyra asked as she slashed down several Shades with her staff, before using it to grab one and throw it into a whole group.

"What'd you expect?" Micro replied, "giving up would be the smart move." He held out his twin blasters and fired them off in rapid succession, mowing the Shades down.

"I'd love to know where Darklight keeps getting these things," Sandal said as he slashed the Shades away. "We must have destroyed over a hundred of them already."

"Maybe they were having a sale at loser minions are us," Soarin said as he slashed away a few Shades before blasting others with his Blitz Bolts.

Flash meanwhile was fighting off against Doom. "Are we seriously doing this?" Flash asked as he caught Doom's sword with his Dragon Breaker, "how many times have we beaten your sorry behind?" He yanked the sword from the monsters claws and threw it away, before using his Dragon Breaker to smash him away.

"AAARRR!" Doom yelled as he fell back, "just because you've beaten me before, doesn't mean you'll beat me now."

"I think it does," Flash said.

Suddenly however, the ground around Flash exploded and sent him flying back. Crashing into a nearby wall, Flash fell to the ground. "What was that?"

"Surprise red Ranger." Flash looked up to see Rabbit Fire leap infront of him.

"This guy?" Flash asked as he got up, "you realise we've already beaten him right?"

"Maybe so," Doom said, "but let's see how you do this time around."

"Let's," Flash replied as he held up his Dragon Breaker and charged forward, trying to throw a punch at Rabbit Fire.

The armoured rabbit however, leaped up and over the red Ranger which caused him to lose balance and roll forward.

"Morphin Blaster," Flash pulled out his weapon and aimed it at the airborn monster, "FIRE!" Pulling the trigger he shot a blast right at Rabbit Fire.

"I don't think so," Rabbit Fire replied as he bounced off the side of a building and dodge the attack. "My turn!" He yelled as he launched a pair of rockets at the Ranger.

"Wow!" Flash yelled as he leaped out of the way, before the ground exploded and he was sent back. Coming to a rolling stop, Flash tried to get up only to find Rabbit Fire standing above him.

"Bye bye red Ranger," the monster said as he aimed his blaster at him.

"Magi-Drill Blade!" Micro leaped in between the two and slashed the monster away.

"AAARRR!" Rabbit Fire yelled as he staggered back.

"Thanks Micro," Flash said as the Micro helped him up.

"You!" They turned to Rabbit Fire, "I was hoping we'd meet again. I owe you for the last time we met."

"Well this time you're dealing with all of us," Soarin said as he, Lyra and Sandal ran up next to them.

"All?" Rabbit Fire asked, "shouldn't there be six of you."

"Where is Sweetie?" Flash whispered.

"Celestia said she's on her way," Lyra whispered back.

"Oh well," the monster said, "I'll destroy her after I've done with you." With that he jumped into the air and fired of several blasts.

"Scatter!" Flash ordered as they all leaped out of the way of the missiles.

Several explosions appeared along the street, with the Rangers barely dodging the blasts.

"Morphin Duel Blaster!" Flash, Lyra and Sandal said as they leaped out of the smoke and aimed at Rabbit Fire. The only problem was the second they got a lock on his, he jumped somewhere else.

"I can't keep track," Sandal said as they tried to follow him.

"Peekaboo!" They looked right up and saw Rabbit Fire right above them, before he fired a blast which sent them flying back and into a wall.

"GUYS!" Micro and Soarin yelled, only to be blasted by a lightning bolt which sent them into the wall as well.

"Perfect," Doom said with a laugh, as he and Rabbit Fire watched the Rangers try and pick themselves up. It was then he noticed something on the ground, which made his eyes go wide. "The Element."

In the blast, Flash had lost hold of the Element of Forgiveness and it had landed several feet away.

"No," he said as he tried to pick himself up.

"To late," Doom said as he reached down for it, "it's mine."

"Power Strike!" From out of no where a pink blur zoom into them with such a force, it sent the two monsters flying back and away from the Element. Sweetie, having just used Burst Mode, pulled her Magicycle to a stop and leaped off before reaching down and picking up the Element.

"Sweetie," she looked around to see the others finally picking themselves up, "great timing."

"Thanks," Sweetie said.

They would have kept talking, but in that moment something else caught their attention. The Element of Forgiveness was glowing, a dim but noticeable light.

"What's going on?" Sweetie asked.

"It's glowing," Flash said, "just like Starswirl said. But that means-" before he could finish that sentence, the sound of a loud bird call filled the air, making them look up.

From out of nowhere was a robotic bird, similar to the Thunderbird but it's armour was mainly gold with red streaks along its back, wings and tail.

"Whoa!" The Rangers all said in unison.

"It's a Phoenix," Lyra said in amazement.

"A Phoenix...Zord," Micro said.

The Phoenix Zord looked down at them and gave an unusual squawk, which sounded weak and pained.

"What's wrong with it?" Sandal asked.

Sweetie looked down at he hand and saw the Element's shine grow brighter. "I think it wants the Element," she explained.

However, before they could find our if she was right the Zord was suddenly attacked. Looking over the Rangers saw Rabbit Fire launch his rockets at the Zord, which gave a pained cry as it was struck.

"Destroy the Zord!" Doom yelled.

The Phoenix took to the skies, retreating from the assault.

"Wait!" Sweetie yelled out, but the Zord was already gone.

"We can't lose it," Doom said as he and Rabbit Fire left to follow.

"No!" Soarin said once they were gone, "the Zord was right there."

"We'll find it," Flash assured him.

"We'd better," Micro said, "before Doom does."

Later...

The Rangers had contacted their friends in Canterlot and had sent them images they'd recorded through their helmets. Sunset, Celestia and Luna were on Flash's holographic coms.

"It's definitely a phoenix," Sunset said, "it looks just like one I knew in Equestria."

The Rangers nodded.

"But," Celestia said, "we have some worrying news."

"What is it?" Flash asked.

"We analysed the video you sent us," Sunset said, "and judging by the sounds the Zord made when it showed up, we think it might be sick."

"Sick," Micro repeated, "how can a machine get sick?"

"The Zords are techno organic lifeforms," Celestia explained, "living machines. Their just a susceptible to illness as you or I."

"Okay," Sandal said, "then why is it sick."

"When awakened," Luna went on, "some Zords need to come in contact with their Elements to fully energise them. "

"Yeah," Flash said, "like when Drago first woke up. He was draining energy from my Element."

"That's only because it came in close proximity to your Element," Luna said, "if the Phoenix Zord has been awake for almost a year without being even remotely close to the Element of Forgiveness, then its power must be running really low."

"That must have been why it fled when it was attacked," Lyra guessed, "it wasn't strong enough to fight back."

"So we find the Zord," Soarin said, "give it the Element and everything will be fine."

"Except you don't have a lot of time left," Sunset replied, "we estimate the Zord's power level has dropped to twenty three percent. If it drops bellow ten percent...it could die!"

The Rangers didn't like the sound of that.

"So what do we do?" Sweetie asked, "we have no idea where the Zord could be."

"That's where I come in," Twilight appeared on the feed.

"What you got Twilight?" Flash asked.

"I did a search of the area around where you said you saw the Zord heading," Twilight explained, "and I think I know where the Zord might be hiding." The image changed to a map with an area circled, which the Rangers looked over.

"That's Harriman State Park," Sweetie said, "my parents used to take us camping there when we were kids."

"It's the perfect place for a Zord to hide," Twilight explained, "and there's more. I was researching the the park and I found an article." The image changed to one of an open landscape with blurry bird shape image in the air.

"Is that?" Flash asked.

"Over the last year many reports of a giant unknown bird having been reported in Harriman State Park," Twilight explained, "and a month ago this image was taken by a wild life photographer." The image changed yet again, this time to a man with brown skin and green hair.

Sweetie's eyes went wide seeing this, which didn't go unnoticed.

"You okay Sweetie?" Lyra asked her.

"That's Forest," Sweetie blurted out before slapping her hand over her mouth.

"You know this guy?" Flash asked with a raised eyebrow.

Sweetie sighed, before she explained her trip to Queens.

"So you went to your old house and ran into your brother's descendent?" Micro summarised after she was done.

"Pretty much," Sweetie said.

"This is great," Flash said, "you can ask for his help. He can take us to where he saw the Phoenix Zord and we can go from there."

"Why would he agree to help me?" Sweetie asked, "what am I suppose to say? Hi how you doing, you won't believe this but I'm actually your great grand aunt and was wondering if you'd help me find a giant robotic bird."

"Okay," Flash replied plainly, "maybe not say that."

"Just tell him your a descendent of...you," Soarin said, "if he looks like your brother then it's not to far to say your great grand child wouldn't look like you."

"It's worth a try?" Lyra said.

They all looked at Sweetie with expectant eyes, hoping she'd say yes.

Sweetie felt uncomfortable with this, but eventually sighed. "Damn peer pressure," she said, "okay I'll do it."

"Great," Flash said.

And that was how the six teens headed over to Queens and were standing outside Sweetie's old house.

"You ready for this?" Lyra asked as she placed her hand on Sweetie's shoulder.

Sweetie took a deep breath and then nodded. "Yeah, I am." Walking up the steps, Sweetie looked up at the big oak door she'd once effortlessly open and knocked.

Seconds passed, until finally the door opened and Forest stood on the other side.

"Oh," the man said seeing her, "it's you again."

"Hello," Sweetie said with a bow, "I'm Sweetie Drops and these are my friends." They others waved at them. "We were wondering," she pulled out a print out of the picture he'd taken, "if you could help us find this creature."

Forest looked at the picture with wide eyes, before he sighed. "So what are you guys, another group of fame seeking animal hunters. You're not the first ones to ask for my help.

"We don't want to find it for fame," Sweetie told him, "we think this creature might be sick and we was to help it."

Forest raised an eyebrow at her claim, obviously not buying it.

"Please," she said, "you have to help us. If you don't this creature could die."

Forest noticed how serious Sweetie was, which made him feel unsure.

"I don't know," he said.

"I didn't want to do this," Sweetie said as she pulled out another photo, "but would you do this as a favour to family."

Forest's eyes went wide as he took the photo, looking it over and then back at her.

"I've seen this photo before," he said, "this is my great grandfather. And...this is you."

"It's my great grandmother," Sweetie said, "she was your great grandfather's sister."

"I was told she was killed in a mob attack," Forest explained.

"She survived," Sweetie said, "and she thought her brother was also dead. She ran away and started a new life."

"So is this why you were here earlier?" Forest asked her.

"Yes," Sweetie replied, "I wanted to see what her old home looked like. Imagine my surprise when I bump into you."

"I guess," Forest said. Looking down at the photo, Forest sighed before nodding. "Okay, I'll help you."

Sweetie smiled before throwing her arms around him. "Oh thank you thank you thank you," she said, "you have no idea how important this is."

"Sure," Forest replied, a little unsure he'd made the right decision.

Up in space, Doom was trying to find the Phoenix Zord.

"What do you mean you lost it?" Doom yelled at Cogs as he typed away at the computer.

"We were tracking it," Cogs said, "but we lost it as it left the city."

"Well find it again," Doom told him, "we have to destroy it before the Rangers get their hands on it."

"I know that," Cogs said, "but it's not as easy as you think." Suddenly the computer began beeping.

"That better be you finding the Zord," Doom told Cogs.

"It's not," Cogs said, "it's the Rangers. They've left the city and are heading north west."

"But why?" Doom asked, "they wouldn't leave without the Zord."

"Maybe they've found the Zord," Cogs guessed, "and are heading to its location."

"Then that's where we'll go," Doom said, "keep track of them. Once they stop, me and Rabbit Fire will warp to their location and destroy the Phoenix Zord." With that he turned and left the room.

Forest and the Rangers finally arrived at Harriman State Park, getting out of the car they'd hired.

"Okay the trail to the hill where I saw the creature is fairly steep," Forest explained, "so I hope you guys are up for a climb."

"We'll be fine," Micro said before leaning over to Sandal, "we fight monsters on a daily bases. How hard can a hill be to climb."

"Are we there yet?" Micro wheezed out as they continued to walk the trail.

"Half way," Forest explained.

The boys smirked as they all looked down at Micro as he collapsed on the ground and moaned.

Lyra and Sweetie were at the back of the group.

"So how are you doing?" Lyra asked her.

"I'm okay," Sweetie said, "it just feels weird. He's my last remaining relative, but it just feels awkward. Plus the fact he looks exactly like my brother is..."

"I get it," Lyra said, "none of us can imagine what you've been through, but we have a job to do."

"I know," Sweetie said, "I'll just have to suck it up and forget about it until we've found the Zord."

The group eventually arrived, or carried in Micro's case, at the top of the hill where Forest had seen the Zord.

"This is the spot," he said, "but I don't know what you expect to find. I've been up here a few more times and I haven't seen anything."

"Well we'll be doing more then just looking," Micro said as Sandal dropped him. Once he was up, he took out their magic scanner and began sweeping the area.

"Anything?" Flash asked.

"Not yet," Micro said as he turned to Forest, "you said you saw the creature to the west right?"

"Yeah," Forest said, "but it could be anywhere in this park by now."

Suddenly Flash's coms went off, getting Forest's attention.

"Excuse me," Flash said as he quickly moved away. Once a distance away, he opened the channel. "What you got?"

"Reports of seismic activity," Sunset explained, "from about a year ago around the time Grand bonded to the Element. It could be from when the Zord awoke."

"Send Micro the coordinates," Flash said, "we'll check it out." He closed the channel and returned to the others. "New lead team," he said, "Micro you got the email?"

Micro checked his coms and nodded. "Got it," he said.

"Let's check it out," Flash said before turning to Forest, "thanks for the help, but we got it from here." With that, he and the boys rushed off.

As Sweetie passed him she turned to Forest. "Thank you, I'm sorry we have to leave you like this." The two stared at each other awkwardly for a few seconds, until she turned and ran after her friends.

Once they were gone, Forest glared. There was something about this lot that didn't add up, and he was gonna find out what.

"Their on the move again," Cogs said as he watched the monitor.

"They must have found the Zord's location," Doom said as he turned to leave. "I'm going down there, direct me to their location."

"Right," Cogs said, "and try not to mess this up."

Doom growled as he left.

The Rangers made their way towards the coordinates.

"How much further?" Soarin asked.

"About a mile," Micro said. Suddenly they all heard a beeping coming from the yellow Ranger's backpack, which he took off and opened before pulling out his scanner. "It's picking up something."

"So the Zord is here," Flash said.

"Definitely," Micro said, "follow me."

And so they did, as Micro followed the scanner and eventually they came across a large opening, which lead into a dark cave.

"Wow," Sandal said as they looked inside.

"Definitely big enough," Lyra told them.

Sweetie wanted to be sure. She reached into her pocket and pulled out the Element of Forgiveness, which started to glow as they heard something coming from within the cave.

"It's in there," Flash said.

"Guys," Micro said sounding worried, "there's a reason we didn't pick up the Zord's trace sooner." He was looking at his scanner, "the energy levels are way lower then they should be. I think Sunset's estimations were off."

"Are you saying it's weaker then we thought it was?" Sweetie asked.

"Critically," Micro said, "we need to get the Element to it now."

Suddenly a clicking sound caught their attention, making them look around and see Forest standing a ways off. A pistol was in his hand, which he currently had pointed at them

"No one's going anywhere," Forest said, "not until I get some answers. How'd you know about this cave? I've been here hundreds of times and I've never heard of it. And what's with that machine the four eye's has got?"

"Four eyes?" Micro asked.

"Forest," Sweetie said getting the gun pointed at her, "you have to let us help the creature in that cave."

"Help it," Forest said, "for all I know you're gonna capture it and sell it on the black market."

"We're not," Sweetie replied, "we just want to help it. You have to trust me."

"Trust you!" Forest almost yelled, "I don't even know you. You show up and tell me you're some kind of distant relative of mine, before asking for my help. Now I want some answers! Who are you and what is that creature in there."

The Rangers all looked at each other, before one by one they nodded and turned back to him.

"Okay," Sweetie said, "we'll tell you everything. Just put the gun down."

Forest glared at them for a moment, before he finally lowered the gun. "Talk."

"Well," Flash spoke up, "the first thing you need to know is it's not a creature."

"Then what is it?" Forest asked.

"It's a Zord," Lyra told him, "the Phoenix Zord."

"A Zord," Forest repeated, "but only Power Rangers...use...Zords." His eyes went wide as he looked them over. "So you're?"

"Power Rangers," Sweetie finished as she drew closer to him, "and if we don't get to that Zord it'll die. Please, you have to let us help it."

Forest didn't look convinced. "How do I know you're really Power Rangers? You could just be after the Zord for yourself."

Before they could answer, the ground around them exploded and they were all sent flying.

"Surprise Rangers!" They all looked up and saw Doom, Rabbit Fire and some Shades enter the clearing.

"That enough proof?" Flash asked as he got up.

Forest look petrified, "I'm convinced."

"Then go hide," Sweetie told him.

The six teens got up and stood in between Forest and the monsters, while he got up and ran inside the mouth of the cave.

"Nothing's gonna stop us from destroying that Zord!" Doom told the Rangers.

"Nothing except us," Sweetie replied as they pulled out their chargers, "It's Morphin Time! Magi-Chargers!"

"Ready!" The others said as they held up their Chargers and clicked them.

Forest's eyes went wide in amazement at what he saw. "They weren't lying," he said as he watched the six pose.

Flash: Power Rangers!

All: GUARDIANS!

"Shades attack!" Doom ordered as the cloaked monster charged forward.

"Magitech!"

"Summon Thunder Sabre!"

The Rangers called on their weapons and charged forward, meeting the Shades head on.

"Eat dirt freak," Flash said as he punched a Shade face first into the ground.

"To slow," Sweetie said as she blocked the attack of one of the Shades, before dealing a few swift kicks to it.

The rest of the Rangers were easily taking the Shades down, which irked Doom tremendously. "Come on," he told Rabbit Fire as he pulled out his sword and charged forward.

"Right," Rabbit Fire said as he followed.

Soarin saw Doom coming and raised his sword, just in time to block the monsters attack and getting pushed onto one knee.

"You're going down thunder Ranger," Doom said as he applied more pressure to Soarin.

"I don't think so," Soarin replied as he suddenly swept Doom's feet and knocked him down. Once back on his feet, Soarin swung at the downed monster only for Doom to roll away and jump back to his feet.

The two stared each other down, before charging forward and clashing swords several times.

Rabbit Fire meanwhile was facing off against Lyra, Micro and Sandal.

"Bet you can't hit me," he said as he jumped from place to place.

"Stay still," Micro said as he tried to blast him.

"Like I'd do that," Rabbit Fire said as he bounced off a tree and into the air, where aimed his blasters and fired.

The Rangers had no choice but to leap out of the way, as where they had been suddenly exploded.

"This is nuts," Sandal said, "he's way faster then he was last time."

"Looks like they gave him some upgrades when they brought him back," Lyra explained.

"Just keep shooting," Micro told them, "we're bound to hit him eventually." And so they did, Lyra and Sandal using the Duel Blaster mode, firing at anything that moved but so far not one blast hit.

"Nice try," Rabbit Fire said as he launched his own attacks which unfortunately did hit, sending the three flying.

Meanwhile as Sweetie continued to take on the Shades, she felt something. Once she'd kicked the one she'd been fighting away, she pulled out the Element of Forgiveness and saw it was glowing.

"The Zord must be calling to it," she said. Suddenly a Shade charged at her, grabbing her attention until it was blasted down. Looking over at Flash she saw he had his blaster out.

"Go!" he told her and he continued to blast them away, "get it to the Phoenix Zord."

Sweetie nodded, "you've go it." She turned towards the cave, before running in passed Forest.

"I'll hold them off here," Flash called out as he jumped infront of the mouth of the cave and made sure nothing got passed him.

"Rabbit Fire!" Doom yelled as he pushed Soarin away, "stop her!"

"Right," the rabbit monster said as he ran away from the other Rangers.

"Hey," Micro said, "get back here." However, more Shades showed up and blocked them from following.

Rabbit Fire ran towards Flash, who was busy fighting Shades, before leaping over him and landing in the mouth of the cave before running inside.

Forest watched him pass and realised what he was gonna do.

"Here I come Phoenix!" Sweetie called out as she ran, but in that second she was blasted into a wall and the Element thrown from her clutches. "Oh no!" Sweetie said

"HAHAHAHA!" Rabbit Fire laughed as he walked into view.

"What do you want?" Sweetie asked as she tried to pick herself up.

"I'm going to destroy that Zord," Rabbit Fire explained as he drew closer, "and then I'm going to take the Element of Forgiveness and the Element of Love."

"Not happening!"

"And who's gonna stop me?" Rabbit Fire asked.

"How about me!" A voice called out as Rabbit Fire felt himself get kicked in the back, sending him falling.

Forest jumped over the monster, toward Sweetie and picked up the Element. "I've got it," he explained as he stood up with the Element in hand.

"You!" Rabbit Fire said as he picked himself up, "give me that Element, or I'll blast you into a million pieces."

However a new, more powerful, sound echoed through the cave as the Elements glow grew stronger. The Zord was calling to the Element.

"Throw the Element," Sweetie told Forest, "hurry."

Forest nodded and turned to the cave depth. With one powerful swing he threw the Element into the darkness, which suddenly went from simply being thrown to flying. It flew into the deepest part of the cave, which suddenly exploded with light as the Phoenix Zord let out a more powerful roar.

"NO!" Rabbit Fire yelled.

"Wow," Sweetie said as Forest ran over to her and helped her up.

"The Zord's re-energising!" Rabbit Fire yelled. Suddenly the light in the cave's depths grew bigger, as if it was getting closer which the three realised it was. "This can't be good!" Rabbit Fire yelled as he ran out the cave.

"Come on!" Sweetie said as she and Forest followed after him, while the light drew closer.

Flash and the others had just finished off the Shades, when they saw Rabbit Fire running out the cave.

"I've messed up again," he said as he ran.

Sweetie and Forest were next to leave, barely getting out before the cave's entrance was filled with that of the Phoenix Zord.

The Zord shot out the cave and flew into the air, before it looked down at Rabbit Fire. It was then the monster remember what had happened the last time they'd met, making him very scared.

The Phoenix Zord's wings suddenly ignited, before it flapped them which caused several fireballs to fly down and strike the area around Rabbit Fire. The explosion was so strong that Rabbit Fire couldn't escape and was sent flying into the air.

Doom had seen this and growled, as he leaped away from Soarin. "That useless bunny," he said, "Darklight will be furious." With that a telebolt flew down and warped him away.

"That's right," Soarin said, "run away." With that he regroup with his friends, who were in awe at the Zord.

"Amazing," Lyra said.

"It sure is," Flash said.

"And we have Forest to thank for saving it," Sweetie told them.

"It was nothing," Forest blushed as he scratched the back of his head.

Up in space, Darklight growled as he watched the battle on his monitor.

"I'm not letting that Zord get away," he said before turning to a Shade. "Fire the Gigatisor!"

The Shade nodded and ran over to the button and hit it, releasing the growing machine which fired.

Back on earth the Rangers saw the red beam of light fly down and hit an area of the forest, which caused an explosion and in its wake stood a giant Rabbit Fire.

"Should have seen that one coming," Sandal said.

Suddenly the Phoenix Zord flew overhead and let out a squawk.

"What's it saying?" Micro asked.

"It think it's asking us to get on," Sweetie said.

"Well then," Flash said, "let's not disappoint."

The others nodded and ran off, leaving only Sweetie and Forest. "Thank you," she told him.

"You're welcome," Forest said with a smile, "now go save this park."

Sweetie nodded and followed after her friends, who all leaped up and into the Phoenix Zord.

The six of them appeared in the Zord's cockpit, placing their weapons in the podiums.

"Awesome," Soarin said looking around.

"I can feel the power of this Zord," Lyra said.

"Then let's put it to use," Flash said.

Sweetie nodded. "Activate Phoenix-Wing Megazord!"

PHOENIX-WING MEGAZORD...ENGAGED!

The Zord's head, neck, wings and tail detached as the rest of the body split in two and reshaped. The bottom half reshaped into a torso like design, with it's talons connecting together and moving onto its right side to become one arm, while on the other side, a shoulder like shape folded out which opened and allowed a more human like arm to fold out. The top half reshaped into a pair of legs which connected to the bottom of the Megazord's torso. The tail split in two and connected to the bottom of the legs to become feet, while the Phoenix's head and neck connected to the talons to complete the right arm. The wings reconnected to the Megazord's back, as a warrior head folded out and completed the transformation.

PHOENIX-WING MEGAZORD...READY!

The Megazord flew down and landed on the ground, where Rabbit Fire was waiting.

"I'll destroy you if it's the last thing I do!" Rabbit Fire said as he fired his rockets at it.

"To the skies," Sweetie said as the Megazord flew back into the air and managed to dodge the attacks, before flying down and raising its bird like fist.

"Phoenix Fist!" The Rangers called out as they all threw a punch, which the Megazord copied and struck the monster.

"AAARRR!" Rabbit Fire yelled as he was thrown back.

"Wildfire Wingbeat!" The Rangers called out as the Megazord's wings ignited and with a single flap, it sent fireballs out which flew at the monster.

"Not this time!" Rabbit Fire yelled as he leaped into the air and dodge the attacks. "You missed!" He laughed.

"Maybe," Sweetie said, "but now you've got nowhere to run."

The Megazord flew up, heading straight at Rabbit Fire who had no way of dodging in midair.

"Wait!" The monster yelled but it was to late.

"Phoenix Fist!" The Megazord punched the monster, which caused him to go flying even higher into the air.

"I'm gonna be sick!" He yelled as he spun through the air.

"Let's finish this," Sweetie said, "I like my rabbit extra crispy."

The others nodded. They all moved and spoke in perfect sync. “Phoenix-Wing Megazord, Final Strike!”

The Megazord's wings ignited again, only this time the flames flew up and formed a giant ball of fire just above its head. "Firebird Fury!" The fireball shot forwards towards Rabbit Fire, before it morphed into the shape of a giant blazing bird. It drew close to the monster and then spun around him, creating a ring of fire around the him which suddenly exploded into a flaming tornado.

After a full minute the flame tornado finally went out, revealing an incredibly burnt Rabbit Fire. "Not again!" Were his last words before being consumed by an explosion.

The Rangers all cheered seeing the monster destroyed, hopefully for good.

"Oh yeah," Flash and Soarin said.

"This new Megazord is incredible," Micro said.

"It's sure is," Sweetie said, "thank you Phoenix Zord." The Zord gave a happy squawk in reply, making Sweetie smile. "Guardian Rangers, victory is ours.

Up in space, Darklight wasn't to happy at Doom when he returned to the bridge.

"I gave you another chance and what do you do?" Darklight asked, "fail to destroy the Zord, get the Element and destroy another of my monsters. What do you have to say for yourself."

"Please master Darklight," Doom begged, "I have an idea."

"NO!" Darklight yelled as he stood up, "no more of your ideas. They only ever lead to failure. From now on I'm going to make my own plans and finish those Rangers off myself."

A little while later, Sweetie and Forest walked out of his house with smiles on their faces.

"Thanks," Sweetie said, "it was nice seeing the old homestead again." After they'd returned from the battle Sweetie had told Forest who she really was, knowing she could trust him to keep her secret.

"It's fine," Forest told her, "and if you ever want to see it again don't hesitate to come visit."

"I'd like that," Sweetie said.

Suddenly the familiar sound of the Phoenix Zord filled the air, as it flew overhead.

"That's my ride," she told him.

"You're heading back home," Forest said, "good luck."

"Thanks," Sweetie said.

"And don't worry," Forest went on, "your secret's safe with me, great grand aunt Sweetie."

They both laughed at that, before sharing one last hug. Once over Sweetie turned and leaped into the Zord.

Forest watched as the Phoenix Zord flew off. "I'm related to a Power Ranger," he said to himself, "awesome."

Inside the Phoenix Zord, the Rangers were plotting a course home.

"Goodbye New York," Flash said, "you were one heck of an adventure."

"Maybe one day we can come back again," Sandal said.

The others nodded at this.

"Principle Celestia," Lyra said over the coms, "we're coming home."

"Excellent work Rangers," Celestia replied.

"Yeah," Sunset said, "not only did you find the Element of Forgiveness, but the Phoenix Zord to."

"We're getting stronger everyday," Micro said, to which the others nodded.

"And soon," Flash said, "we'll take down Darklight and keep the world safe for good."

"YEAH!"

The Ranger's adventure in New York has come to a close. With the Element of Forgiveness and Phoenix Zord now safely in their hands, they're one step closer to completing their mission. But who knows what dangers lurk on the horizon.

Author's Note

Tell me what you think of the Zord and Megazord?

It's All In The Cards

It had been three days since the Rangers had returned form their mission in New York.

In the command center, Sunset Shimmer was waiting as the schematics of the Phoenix Zord were being scanned into their computer system. Hopefully this would allow them to better understand the Zord and help them design Megazord formations using it and the other Zords.

While wait for the upload to complete, Sunset was sitting at a table writing in a very familiar book. Ever since finding out about the Rangers, Sunset had been writing to Princess Twilight about all their adventures.

Dear Princess Twilight.

It's hard to believe how far we've come in such a short time. We now have eight out of the ten Elements under our protections and hopefully, the rest will soon follow.

Right now our biggest concern is finding a new Ranger for the Element of Forgiveness to bond with, but forgiveness isn't the easiest quality to test a person. What are we suppose to do? Do something horrible to a random person on the street and hope they forgive us? That'd go down great.

I'd love to hear what you think.

Your Friend, Sunset Shimmer.

Sunset closed the book and looked up at the Element of Forgiveness that was in its crystal bed. Hopefully they'd find someone worthy of its power soon.

Her thoughts were broken when she noticed the laptop's time display, making her realise she was late to meet up with her friends at Sugarcube Corner.

"Dang it!" She said as she got up and ran out the room.

Meanwhile the Rangers and Mane Six were walking through the street.

"This is nuts," Rainbow moaned, "not one person who could be a Ranger."

"It's not like those qualities are common," Lyra replied to her, "after all the Elements have been here for a thousand years. If it was easy to become a Power Ranger, they would have bonded to the first person they touched."

"Good point I guess," Rainbow said.

"As difficult as it may be," Twilight said, "we still need to find someone. An unbounded Element is extremely dangerous."

"She's right," Flash said, "if Darklight or one of his goons manages to get his hands on it, we won't have a Ranger to simply recall the Element. Plus another Ranger could come in handy."

"Exactly," Twilight said, "so we have to keep looking."

Unknown to them however, Doom Raizer was watching from a nearby alleyway and had heard the conversation.

"So the Element of Forgiveness is unbounded," he said, "that could come in handy."

"And what about me?" Doom looked around to see a female monster, dressed in a dark blue dress and a stage mask hiding her face. Her dress was lined with pockets.

"You Terror Card are coming back to the ship with me," Doom explained, "Darklight may want to rethink his plan once he knows."

"And by rethinking his plan," Terror Card said, "you mean possibly lock me back in my cell before even getting the chance to destroy the Rangers."

"If that's what Darklight wants," Doom said.

"Unacceptable," Terror Card said, "I want my freedom."

"Well you're not getting it," Doom said as the strode over to her.

"I don't think so," Terror Card replied as he reached into her pocket and pulled out a card with a star on the front. "Arcana of the Star, LIGHT!" She threw the card as it suddenly exploded in a burst of light, which forced Doom to shield his eyes.

"WHAT!" Doom screamed and he tried to fight off the light, but eventually it died down. Once it was completely gone, Doom looked up and saw that Terror Card was gone. "Curses!" He spoke, "but if she manages to get an Element we still win. Either way, the Rangers are going down."

Meanwhile the teens were walking through the market place on their way to Sugarcube Corner. They were going over the list of people they knew, who could potentially be their worthy Ranger.

"Trixie?" Rarity asked, "you never know."

"Yeah right," Rainbow said, "like she's Ranger material."

"She'd probably reveal herself to the world for a little attention," Applejack said.

"Ringo?" Sandal asked Flash, suggesting his band mate.

"Not very forgiving," Flash replied, "you should have seen what happened when I broke the strap of his guitar case."

"How about Derpy?" Pinkie asked.

The eleven teens looked around at her and gave her an 'are you serious' look.

"What?" she asked, "she might surprise you."

"Let's just forget about it for now," Applejack said, "I'm sure the perfect Ranger will show up eventually."

"Yeah you're right," Twilight said, "let's talk about something else."

"Good point," Rarity said, "how about how a certain someone here managed to get the learners permit, while the Rangers were away."

Everyone turned to a now bright red Twilight.

"That's great Twilight," Sweetie told her, "though it was probably a cinch for you."

"Thanks," Twilight said, "Shining Armor's gonna give me my first lesson tomorrow."

It was in that moment that Terror Card showed up and spied on the Rangers. "I need to find a way to destroy those Rangers," she said as she looked around, "but how?" She then noticed a fortune telling booth close to her, where an old woman sat with a deck of cards. "Perfect," she said as he hands glowed and she shot a spell at the booth, making the cards glow. "Now the Ranger's fates are sealed," Terror Card said as she used another spell to make the old woman notice the teens.

"Children," she called out getting their attention, "do you wish to have your fortunes told?"

"Not really," Flash said, while the others nodded.

"Oh come now," she replied, "wouldn't you want a glimpse into the future? Who knows what you might learn."

"Oh please," Micro said, "tarot cards are nothing but hue."

"Though to be fair," Sandal said, "given what we've seen, it can't hurt to give it a try."

"He's got a point," Applejack said, "why not just try it."

"I guess it couldn't hurt," Lyra said with a shrug.

"Okay," Sweetie said as she and Lyra stepped forward.

The old woman shuffled the deck and then spread the cards out onto the table. "Take a card a see your future."

Lyra and Sweetie both chose a card and revealed it to the woman.

"The Hangman," she said to Lyra, "this card represents control, but how that control exists is up to you to discover. Are you in need to let go of control and trust others to do what is needed, or do you need to take back control of your life."

She looked at Sweetie's card. "The Temperance," she said, "this card represents balance. Accepting the past and living your life by its lessons, but not allowing the past to block your future."

"That's not so much fortune telling is it?" Micro said.

"Tarot Cards are suppose to represent the path to the future," Flash explained, "how that future turns out is what you do after seeing what the card represents." Flash looked around and saw the others looking at him with raised eyebrows. "What I read."

"Anyone else?" The old lady asked.

"Sure," Sandal said, "Soarin?"

"Why not."

The two stepped forward and both drew a card, showing them to her.

"The Pope," she said looking at Sandal's, "this card represents spiritual balance. You should try and stay on the spiritual path you are on, for it is your true path." She then looked over at Soarin's card.

"The Emperor," she said, "a card representing masculine prowess. With this arcana you should focus on your most manly qualities, for they will lead you to what you must do."

"Awesome," Soarin said, "this stuff's better then I thought."

"Anyone else?" The old lady said, before noticing Twilight. "How about you deary?"

"No thank you," Twilight said, "I don't believe in that stuff."

"Awe come on Twilight," Flash said, "think of it like an experiment. If nothing happens you can gloat you were right, but if it does you'll know."

"Fine," she said, "but you're doing it to."

"Fine," Flash said.

The two stepped forward and each took a card, showing them to the old woman.

"The Chariot," she said looking at Flash's, "it represents trials ahead of a goal you've set. Whether you overcome this trial will determine the reward you've been seeking." She then saw Twilight's card.

"The Lover."

"Oow," Rarity said.

"It doesn't necessarily mean what you think it does," the old woman said, "it can represent seeing someone in a new light. Someone you've known for a while, but could never see the true them until now."

"I see," Twilight said as she put the card back, "I'll be sure to keep an eye out for that."

"Good luck to you all," she said.

"I'm telling you," Micro said once they were out of earshot, "she was just making it up as she went."

"Maybe," Flash said, "but it could be fun to keep an eye out for what she said."

As they left, they didn't notice Terror Card watching them. "And so it begins."

Up in space, Doom had returned and told Darklight about Terror Card.

"You idiot," he said to his minion, "how could you let her escape?"

"It doesn't matter," Doom replied, "I overheard the Rangers. They're looking for someone to bond to the Element of Forgiveness."

"Is that so," Darklight asked.

"How's that help us?" Heart asked.

"It's not like the Rangers will give us the Element," Cogs said.

"Maybe not us," Darklight said, "but there's one being on this ship they might give it to." With that he turned and left for the cells.

"Master," Doom asked, "who is it we're releasing."

"The only creature who can trick the Rangers into thinking he's a human," Darklight replied, making Cogs and Heart Breaker gasped.

"No master," Cogs said, "not him. He's to dangerous."

"He's no threat to me," Darklight replied, "I beat him once."

"Why would he even agree to help you anyway?" Heart asked, "he hates you."

"Maybe," Darklight said, "but I can be quite persuasive."

He arrived at the entrance of the Pit, where the four Shades were standing guard. "Open it!" They nodded and quickly pulled the four leavers, opened the iron door. "HAVOC!"

Seconds passed, until finally the sound of heavy footsteps could be heard. Eventually a voice spoke out and said,"so you've finally realised what you needed to do to win."

"Get out here!" Darklight almost yelled.

From out of the cell stepped a new figure. He looked like a human teenager, with light grey skin and spiky black hair. He was dressed in all black clothes, with a black leather overcoat. He had a long faded scar running down his face, starting just above his left eyebrow and going diagonally and ending at the right check. Around his neck was a control collar.

The teen stretched his body and looked around. "Glad to see you've kept the ship in...reasonable, shape."

"This is the guy you've told me about?" Doom asked, "he's human."

"Half human," Heart corrected, "his father married a human woman from another universe."

"He might look human," Cogs continued, "but he can take a monster form for a short time."

"Interesting," Doom said.

"So Darky," Havoc said as he stepped forward, "ready to make a deal?"

Darklight growled at this, "I'd rather die."

"That can be arranged," Havoc replied. However, a second later lightning surged around his body, making him scream in pain and fall to his knees until it stopped.

"You forget that I have your life in my hands?" Darklight asked, "think of betraying me and you'll go the same way that your father went."

Havoc growled as he looked up at Darklight. "What do you want from me?"

Flash and Sunset were in the command centre. Flash was gently practising his guitar, while Sunset was working on a new Megazord configuration.

In that second Twilight walked through the door, a frown on her face. She walked passed the other two without so much as a good morning, before going over to working on a computer. This did not go unnoticed by the two, who shared a glance at each other.

"So," Flash said nervously, "how'd the driving lesson go."

Twilight's head slowly turned towards him, giving him a look that could make milk curdle.

"That bad?" Flash asked.

"I didn't get my lesson," Twilight explained, "Shining got called into court to give evidence on a crime."

"Ouch," Sunset said, "well I'm sure you'll get your lesson another time."

"But I wanted to drive today," Twilight whined, "I reread my drivers handbook last night just for it."

Flash felt sorry for her, until a thought popped into his head. "Well," he said, "my cars in the parking lot. If you want I could give you a quick lesson?"

Twilight's eyes literally sparkled at that suggestion, making her rush over to him.

"Then come on," she said grabbing his hand and pulling him up off his seat, "let's go." She literally dragged the red Ranger out of the command base, "see you later Sunset."

"Have fun," Sunset replied, a smirk on her face.

Meanwhile the rest of the Rangers and Mane Six were cleaning up the cafeteria.

"Did you remember to clean the cooker?" Lyra asked the group.

"Already done," Rainbow said as she came out the kitchen.

"The window's need to be clean-"

"Way ahead of yeah," Applejack said as she and Pinkie walked into the room with buckets of water and window wash.

"Well what about-"

"Relax Lyra," Sweetie said, "we've got it covered."

"Yes darling," Rarity said, "we've done this enough times to know what to do."

"You seriously need to learn to relax," Rainbow said.

"You should do what I did and get these special candles," Sandal said, "their all natural and their smoke is suppose to cleanse one's aura."

"Come to think of it," Soarin said ignoring Sandalwood, "every time I'm here I see you working. Do you ever take a day off."

"Of course I do," Lyra replied.

"Really," Micro said sceptically, "when was the last time you did so."

Lyra was about to reply, but then stopped and thought of a moment. Finally she replied, "huh can't remember."

"Thought so," Soarin said.

"That's it," Sandal said, "you're taking the day off."

"But there's stuff that needs doing," Lyra replied.

"And the others can handle it," Sweetie told, "why don't we go see a movie or something."

"We've got this," Rainbow said.

Lyra thought and then sighed. "Fine," she said, "one movie."

"Great," Sweetie said as she grabbed her arm and pulled her out the cafeteria.

"Man that girl's a control freak," Rainbow said once they were gone.

"I guess her fortune was right," Sandal said, giving Micro a look.

"Coincidence," Micro replied. He then noticed Sandal's neck was looking red, "that doesn't look good."

Meanwhile up in space, Havoc was being brought up to date on the plan.

"So you push this button and I'd grow to be about ten times my normal size?"

"Yes," Cogs said.

"And you call it the Gigatisor?"

"Yes," Cogs said

"That's the stupidest name I ever heard."

"I can throw you back into the cell you know," Darklight said as he got up, "just stick to the plan."

"Relax Darky," Havoc said, "it's cool. I trick the Rangers into giving me the Element, then you warp me back up. How can that go wrong."

"In my experience, quite easily."

"Well I'd better be on my way," Havoc said, "wish me luck."

"Remember I'm keeping an eye on you," Darklight said, "if you fail me."

"Yeah yeah," Havoc said, "you'll destroy me, I get it." With that he left.

"I'm starting to regret this," Darklight said as he sat in his throne.

"I'll go keep an eye on him," Doom said as he left the bridge.

Meanwhile down on earth, Twilight's driving lesson was going quite well.

Flash turned out to be a rather good teacher and with his instruction, she managed to figure out most of what she needed to do.

"Not bad," Flash told her once she'd parked up, "a few mistakes but that's common for beginners."

"Thanks," Twilight replied as she killed the engine, "I still stalled a few times though."

"That's bound to happen to beginners," Flash assured her, "you just need to watch the clutch. Give it enough time and you'll be able to do it without even thinking. When I first started learning, I stalled every couple of feet and almost ran over an old lady."

Twilight giggled at this, before she noticed the time and where they'd parked. They were outside a fast food restaurant she loved, which gave her an idea. "Come on," she said as she got out of the car, "my treat."

"Okay," Flash said before getting out.

They ordered their food and sat outside to enjoy the beautiful day.

"Thanks by the way Flash," Twilight told him, "today was great."

"My pleasure," Flash said, "I'm always there for my friends."

"Yeah I know," Twilight replied, "getting to know you and the other Rangers this summer has been great. I'm glad we got involved."

"Same here," Flash said, "despite almost being destroyed more times then I can count, this summer has been the best one of my life. I got to meet so many amazing people and helped protect them from danger. I think, that I've really changed over this summer. We all have."

"Yeah," Twilight nodded, "I can see it. You've grown into an amazing leader, worthy of being a Power Ranger."

Flash smiled at the praise, with Twilight smiling right back as she took a bite from her burger.

"Too bad the summer ends in two weeks," Twilight said after swallowing, "it's gonna be weird going back to school after all this."

"Tell me about it," Flash said, "though if this year's anything like our last, we'll be in for a heck of a time. This whole years been an adventure."

"It's only been six months for me," Twilight told him, "I think you're thinking of the pony me."

"Oh yeah," Flash said blushing, "sorry."

"It's fine," Twilight said, "I guess it is hard to tell us apart."

"Maybe at first," Flash said, "but once I got to know you, telling you apart is easy."

"Really?" Twilight asked, "I thought we were suppose to be perfectly alike."

"Maybe on the surface," Flash said, "but passed that it's obvious how you're different."

"How?"

"Well," Flash said as his face flushed in embarrassment, "it's your eyes."

Twilight blinked at the statement, totally confused. "Eyes?"

"Princess Twilight had a look in her eyes that was more confused then anything," Flash explained, "probably just because of her unfamiliarity with this world. But when she saw something magical, she had this air around her that said she'd seen worse."

"And me?"

"You've always got this look of wonder in your eyes," Flash explained, "when you see something new, even though you don't know what it is you want to learn more about it."

Twilight wasn't sure how to answer that.

"Sounds silly I know," Flash said, "but it's just something I noticed."

Twilight's unsure face changed to that of a smile. "Thanks," she said, "I never really thought about it that way." She then looked up at him, "so how are things between you and her?"

Flash was a little taken aback by that question. "Well to be honest, considering she lives in another universe I realised nothing was ever really going to happen between us."

"Oh," Twilight said, "I'm sorry to hear that."

"It's fine," Flash replied, "I have more important things in my life right now other then pursuing a relationship."

"Right," Twilight said, "being a Ranger is important."

"Yeah," Flash said really wanting to change the subject, "what about you?"

"Me?"

"You and Timber," Flash said, "how are things going between you two?"

"Oh," Twilight said, "their okay. We write sometimes, but to be honest ever since I started helping you and the Rangers, I haven't given him much thought."

"Oh," Flash said feeling awkward.

"Yeah," Twilight said with a blush, "I guess we've both been a bit distracted."

Flash smirked at that, Twilight smirking back, before they both broke out laughing. They went on like this, before they both caught each others eyes and blushed as they looked away.

"I'm just glad I got to help you," Twilight said as she looked back at him, only to see Flash focused on something else. "Flash?"

Flash was staring over the crowd of people, straight into the eyes of someone he hadn't seen in years. "Dad," he whispered.

The man he stared at looked like an older version of him, wearing an orange overcoat. As quickly as he saw him, the man turned and left.

"DAD!" Flash yelled jumping up and following after the man.

"Flash!" Twilight called out, "where are you going?"

Flash didn't reply and quickly rushed off in the direction the man went. He pushed through the crowd towards the man, who had just entered a park like area. However, as Flash turned the corner and entered the park he found nothing.

"What!" He said looking around, "dad!"

"Surprise Ranger!" Before Flash could react, he found himself being struck by a bolt of lightning which sent him flying into a tree. Quickly recovering, Flash looked up and saw Terror Card standing before him. "Now you're mine."

Flash growled as he stood up. "I don't have time for this."

"Don't worry," Terror Card replied, "this won't take long." She pulled out a card from her pocket. "Arcana of the Sun," she threw it into the air, "FIRE!" The card transformed into a fireball, which flew at Flash making him jump out the way. "Arcana of the Moon," she held up several of the same card, "ICE!" She threw them as they morphed into icicles, which Flash was barely able to dodge. "I can do this all day," Terror Card said as she pulled out more cards.

"HEY!" The monster looked around and saw Twilight enter the park, her hands glowing with magic. "Take this," she used her magic to throw a nearby trash can at the monster, who didn't have time to react.

"This is not going as I foretold," she said as she picked herself up.

"You okay," Twilight asked as she ran over to Flash.

"I'm fine," Flash replied.

"You won't be soon enough," Terror Card said as she pulled out another card. "Arcana of the Tower," she threw it at them, "LIGHTNING!" A lightning bolt shot out the card, flying straight at them.

"Watch out!" Flash yelled as he grabbed Twilight and leaped out of the way, causing them to tumble down a hill.

"I don't stand a chance unless I'm fighting one on one," Terror Card said, "I'll have to try another time." With that she ran off.

Meanwhile Flash and Twilight came to a rolling stop at the bottom of the hill. Once the world had stopped spinning, Twilight looked down to find Flash underneath her. The two looked eyes and remained silent for a full minute, until Twilight finally broke the silence.

"Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Flash replied, "thanks for the help back there."

"No problem," Twilight said.

"So," Flash said looking embarrassed, "I don't suppose you'd be willing to get up off me would you?"

"OH!" Twilight said and she jumped off him, "sorry."

"It's fine," Flash said as he got up, "but that monster."

"Yeah," Twilight said, "we need to get back and warn the others."

Flash nodded.

Meanwhile back at Canterlot High, Sunset had just walked into the cafeteria where the others were almost finished cleaning the windows. Rainbow was standing on a tall ladder, scrubbing away at a particularly stubborn smudge.

Sunset sat down with a soda she'd got from the vending machine. As she did she pulled the Element of Forgiveness out of her pocket.

"So," Soarin said as he finished mopping, "any new ideas on a gold Ranger?"

"No," Sunset said, "finding someone who's not only forgiving but willing to put their lives in danger is proving difficult."

"Maybe you should go see that fortune teller we met yesterday," Soarin replied, "she seemed to know what she's doing. Lyra's fortune came true."

"Oh yeah," Sunset said, "well what did she predict for you."

"That I should keep being the manliest man," Soarin said, "which I totally got covered. All I need's a damsel in distress to save."

In that moment, Rainbow scrubbed the dirt so much that it shook the ladder and made her lose balance. She let out a cry as she fell, getting Soarin's attention and making him kick into action.

Jumping over to her, Soarin managed to catch her before she hit the ground.

Rainbow looked up and saw Soarin holding her, making her blush. "Er...thanks."

"No problem," Soarin replied with a smirk.

Rainbow's blushed grew stronger. "You can let me down now," she said.

"Oh right," he replied gently dropping her.

"So yeah," she awkwardly said, "thanks." With that she turned and hurriedly walked off, hiding her face.

Sunset meanwhile was thinking what she'd just seen over and got up, before heading towards the exit.

"Where are you going?" Soarin asked her.

"To the fortune teller," Sunset said, "I know it sounds nuts, but if she can help me find a Ranger then I'm going." And with that she was gone, leaving Soarin who suddenly grabbed his back and made a pained face.

In the command base, Micro was at a computer typing something on his computer.

Sandal meanwhile was sitting next to him, his face covered in red splotches which were driving him crazy.

"Don't scratch," Micro told him as he watch him in the corner of his eye.

"I can't help it," Sandal said, "my skin's driving my crazy."

"Here we are," Micro said as the computer screen changed to that of the candles Sandal had described. "Says here these candles were recalled because they cause a rash in eight out of ten users."

"Crud," he replied.

"There's a hotline to call for a special cream to reduce the rash," Micro said, "you might want to order some."

"You think," he said sarcastically, "why is this happening? I was just trying to stay on the spiritual path I'm on."

"Right," Micro said slowly.

In that moment, Soarin walked in with a hand on his back. "Ow," he said as he placed his Element into its crystal bed.

"You okay?" Micro asked.

"Not really," Soarin said, "I think I might have injured my back when I helped Rainbow. Being manly is painful."

Micro thought for a moment about what the two had just said.

A second later, Lyra and Sweetie walked in. Lyra was covered in some kind of liquid.

"What happened to you?" Micro asked.

"I did what you said and tried to relax," Lyra said, "and I ended up chatting with a guy in the movie plaza."

"That sounds good," Sandal said.

"His girlfriend didn't seem to think so," Sweetie said.

"She pushed me into the soda machine," Lyra said, "which then spilled its contents onto me."

"Ouch," Soarin said.

In that second Twilight and Flash entered the room.

"I'm glad you guys are here," Micro said, "we need to talk about-"

"Our fortunes?" Flash asked.

"You know?"

"Both our fortunes came true," Twilight said, "but then they went bad."

"I saw my dad," Flash said, "the thing I've been seeking. When I went after him I got attacked by a monster using tarot cards."

"You think there's a connection?" Lyra asked.

"It can't be a coincidence," Flash said.

It was in that moment that Soarin's eyes went wide. "Oh no," he said, "Sunset."

"What about her?" Sweetie asked.

"She's gone to have her fortune told," Soarin explained, "she's hoping it'll lead her to a new Ranger."

The others all gasped.

"You guys need to find her," Twilight said.

"Let's go," Flash said as they all turned to the door and recalled their Elements before leaving.

Sunset had just arrived at the fortune tellers box.

"Hello my dear," the old woman said, "do you wish to have your fortune told?"

"I'm hoping you could help me find something I'm looking for," Sunset explained.

"I can try," the woman said, "the future is not always clear on what it wishes to show you." She shuffled the deck and then spread the cards out. "Take which ever one you want."

Sunset picked a random card and showed it to the woman.

"The Magician," she said, "this card represents change. What you seek may be closer then you think, but be warned for the magician also represents deception. Someone may try and deceive you."

"Is that so," Sunset said. She put the card down and left the table, what the woman said ringing through her ears.

Meanwhile the Rangers had just arrived at the area and saw Sunset leave the table.

"We're to late," Sweetie said.

"Come on," Flash said as they rushed after her.

Sunset was crossing the road when she heard her name being called, causing her to turned and see the Rangers. However, a car was speeding down the road. When Sunset heard the car and turned to see, it was to late for her to move.

"SUNSET!" The Rangers screamed as they watched the car get closer.

Suddenly Sunset felt someone grab her and pull her off the road, just missing the car.

"Are you okay?" Sunset looked up at the voice, only to see a teen with grey skin, black hair and a scar on his face look down at her.

"I'm fine," she replied, "thank you. I'm sorry I made you do that, you could have been hurt."

The teen smiled down at her and smiled. "It's no problem," he said, "just try and be more careful next time."

And with that the teen turned and left, leaving Sunset to think about what had just happened. He'd risked his life to save her and wasn't angry at her for being careless. He was so...forgiving.

"Sunset!" Flash said as the Rangers crossed the road and surrounded her, "are you okay?"

"I'm fine," Sunset said, "better then okay." She stepped forward towards the teen, "excuse me?"

The teen looked around and smiled back at her. "Yes?"

"I was wondering if you could hold something for me for a second," she said as she pulled out the Element. She held it out to him, his eyes seemed to sparkle as he reached for it.

"Sunset wait!" Lyra said.

However, before the teen could even touch the Element, a fireball suddenly flew at them and exploded. The force of the explosion knocked the Element out of Sunset's hand and sending them all flying.

"Finally," the Rangers looked up and saw Terror Card step towards the Element and pick it up. "An Element, all mine."

"Wrong!" Terror Card looked around and saw Doom standing a ways off, "it's mine." He swung his sword and unleashed and thunderbolt, which struck the monster and threw the Element from her grasp and making it fly into Doom's hand. "Gotcha," he smiled as a telebolt flew down and warped him away.

"No!" Terror Card said.

Havoc pulled himself up and looked at Terror Card with anger, but his anger faded when he noticed his hand sparking. Not wanting the others to see, Havoc ran off and hid behind a building as he looked at his hand. It sparked and shined to signal that his powers were working, but that would only happen if. He felt around his neck and felt the control collar was loose, allowing him to pull it off. "Perfect," he said with a smile before rushing off.

"I can still win my freedom," Terror Card said, "if I can destroy the other Rangers."

"That's not happening!" The monster turned around and saw the Rangers a ways off.

"It's Morphin Time!" Flash yelled as he pulled out his gear. "Magi-Charger!"

Ready!" The others said as they held up their Chargers and clicked them.

"You don't scare me," Terror Card said.

"We'll see about that," Flash yelled as they rushed forward.

"Arcana of the Tower," Terror Card spoke as she held out the card, "LIGHTNING!" A lightning bolt flew at them.

"Thunder Sabre!" Soarin held out his weapon and blocked the attack, which charged up his own. "My turn," he said as he swung the sword, "Thunder Sabre Strike!" A blue lightning bolt flew out and struck around the monster.

"Magitech!" The Rangers called upon their weapons and charged forward.

"Arcana of the Sun," Terror Card yelled as she threw a card, "FIRE!" The card changed into a fireball, which flew at the Rangers.

"Sphinx Shield block!" Sweetie held out her weapon as the fireball bounced off.

"Griffon Shooter," Micro yelled as he aimed his weapon, "fire!" He pulled the trigger and fired of a flurry of fire, which struck Terror Card.

"No fair," she screamed.

"Our turn!" Flash yelled as he, Lyra and Sandal charged forward.

"Fenrir Fang!" Sandal yelled as he slashed at the monster.

"Serpent Staff!" Lyra yelled as she did the same.

"Dragon Breaker," Flash yelled as the punched the monster, "Head Smash!"

Terror Card went flying back.

"Let's end this," Flash said as he pulled out a Magi-Charger and clicked it. "Magi-Charger, ready. Guardian Buster, activate." He threw the Charger in the air before it transformed into the super weapon, which he caught and activated.

"Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded."

GUARDIAN BUSTER...RED CHARGE!

"Magi-Charger, ready!" Soarin said as he placed his own Charger inside his sword.

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

Meanwhile Soarin swung his blade. "Thunder Sabre Strike!" From the blade fired a giant blue lightning bolt, which took the shape of the Thunderbird and flew towards the monster.

The two attacks merged and flew at Terror Card, who screamed as she was sent flying.

Up in space, Darklight growled as he turned to a Shade. "Fire the Gigatisor!"

The Shade nodded and ran over to the button and hit it, releasing the growing machine which fired.

Down on earth the Rangers watched as the red beam flew down and struck Terror Card, causing an explosion with a giant Terror Card stepping out of the the smoke.

"Rangers!" The six turned to Sunset. "Call the Phoenix and Minotaur Zord," she said, "I've designed a new combination with them."

"Got it," Flash said as he and Sweetie pulled out the Chargers.

"Magi-Chargers," they said as they clicked the buttons, "ready!"

"Summon Minotaur Zord!" Flash yelled as he threw the Charger.

"Summon Phoenix Zord!" Sweetie yelled as she threw the Charger.

The Chargers flew through the air and into their Zord's mouths.

MAGI-CHARGERS...ENGAGED!

The two Zords awakened and left their hiding place, heading to the Ranger's location.

"Let's go," Flash ordered as they jumped into the Phoenix Zord's cockpit.

"Let's do this," Lyra said.

"I hear that," Soarin said.

Flash nodded as the specs for the new Megazord appeared. "Activate Phoenix-Wing Megazord, Minotaur Formation."

ZORDS COMBINED!

The Phoenix-Wing Megazord formed like normal, but its left arm remained inside the shoulder which spun around revealing a plug. The Minotaur then connected to that plug, becoming the new arm.

PHOENIX-WING MEGAZORD, MINOTAUR FORMATION...READY!

The Megazord landed infront of the monster, ready for battle.

"You don't scare me," Terror Card said as she pulled out several cards. "Arcana of the Moon," she threw them, "ICE!" The cards morphed into giant icicles, which flew at the Megazord.

"Wildfire Wingbeat!" The Rangers said as the Megazord's wings ignited and unleashed fireballs, which struck the icicles and melted them.

"What!" Terror Card cried in shock.

"Mino-Claw!" They said as the Megazord flew over to the monster and struck it with the claw like horns.

"AAARRR!" Terror Card yelled as she stepped back.

"Phoenix Fist!" The Megazord punched the monster.

"Arcana of the Chariot," Terror Card yelled as she held up another card, "WIND!" From the card, a tornado flew out and pushed the Megazord back.

The Megazord used the Minotaur Zord to grab a nearby building and prevent itself from going flying, before it jumped into the air and flew out of the tornado.

"Let's end this," Flash said.

"Right!" The others agreed.

The Megazord flew down and grabbed Terror Card in its horns.

"Hey!" Terror Card yelled, "let go!"

"Oh we will," Lyra said.

"But you'll wish we hadn't," Micro said.

The Megazord threw the monster up over its head, letting go and sending Terror Card flying before following. As they drew closer, they all moved and spoke in perfect sync. “Phoenix-Wing Megazord, Final Strike!”

The Megazord's wings ignited again, only this time the flames flew up and formed a giant ball of fire just above its head. "Firebird Fury!" The fireball shot forwards towards Terror Card, before it morphed into the shape of a giant blazing bird. It drew close to the monster and then spun around her, creating a ring of fire around the her which suddenly exploded into a flaming tornado.

After a full minute the flame tornado finally went out, revealing an incredibly burnt Terror Card. "I should have seen this coming," were her last words before she was engulfed in a massive explosion and destroyed.

The Rangers cheered seeing the monster destroyed.

"Guardian Rangers," Flash said, "victory is ours."

Meanwhile up in space, Darklight stood perfectly still as Cogs worked to upgrade his armour.

Cogs opened his armour's chest plate before placing the Element of Forgiveness inside a slot he'd made especially for this moment. "Done," he said as he shut the opening, "Now the Element's power is yours to command."

A second later, golden energy surged around Darklight's armour. "Yes!" He cried out as he felt the magic flow through him, "finally the power is mine."

However, a clapping sound caught their attention, making them spin around and see Havoc in the corridor.

"Congrats," Havoc said, "you finally got an Element, and what did it take only...a thousand years."

"Mock me if you want," Darklight said as he moved over to him, "but now that I have an Element, the rest will soon be mine."

"We'll see about that," Havoc replied.

"If I'm correct," Darklight said, "you didn't get the Element, so that means our deals off." He pushed passed him, "throw him back in his cell."

Two Shades rushed over and grabbed Havoc by the arms, as he simply smiled. "I don't think so," he said as his hands pulsed with magic, which struck the Shades and destroyed them.

Darklight spun around and saw this. "What?"

"Look what got damaged by your monster's attack," he said as he pulled out the control collar.

Darklight growled.

The two stared each other down, as magic pulsed around their fingers. Suddenly the two both shot magical blasts at the other, which connected and pushed against each other. Finally the golden blast coming from Darklight overpowered Havoc's, sending him flying back and smashing into a wall.

"Get that collar back on him!" Darklight ordered, as Cogs rushed over and grabbed the collar, before refastening it around his neck. It activated an Havoc felt his powers once again being suppressed. "Pathetic," Darklight said, "you couldn't defeat me when you had your full power and now I'm a hundred times stronger, while you are even weaker. Face it kid, you'll never defeat me." With that he spun around and walked away. "Throw him back in his cell!"

The Shades grabbed Havoc and pulled him up, before throwing him back into the Pit and locking it up.

Havoc just growled at this. "You will pay," he said.

Back on earth, the Rangers were all depressed as they walked into the Command Centre. They may have beaten Terror Card, but they'd lost the Element of Forgiveness.

"This is bad," Flash said as he sat down away from the others.

"It'll be alright," he looked up to see Twilight sitting down next to him, "you'll get the Element back."

"I hope so," Flash said, only to realise something. "Hey, you said your fortune came true."

"Yeah?"

"So who did you see in a new light?"

Twilight's face turned bright red, causing her to not look him in the face. "Oh," she said quickly thinking, "I saw...myself."

"What?" Flash asked.

"When you said all that stuff about me," she said, "it made me rethink my opinion of myself."

"Oh," Flash said, "well glad I could help." With that he got up and went to the others."

"Yeah," she said before sighing, "thanks."

The rest of the group were all depressed.

"This is all my fault," Sunset said.

"No it isn't," Lyra said, "if anything it's our fault."

"It's no one's fault," Celestia said, "we win some we lose some."

"But if we didn't decide to take those fortunes," Sandal said.

"You can't change the past," they looked around to see Starswirl enter the room, "but you can learn from it."

"He's right," Flash said, "it's happened, so now we just need to deal with it."

"But now that Darklight has an Element," Luna said, "you'll have to be very careful."

"He may have an Element," Soarin said, "but we've got six."

"Plus one more," Micro reminded as he looked over at Twilight, "we're gonna need Shining Armor for this."

Twilight and the others nodded.

"So what do we do?" Sweetie asked.

"We fight," Flash said, "and we end this once and for all."

"But how?" Rainbow said.

"Darklight's really dangerous now," Fluttershy said.

"And don't forget Doom, Cogs and Heart," Applejack said.

"And whatever monster they decide to have help them," Rarity said.

"This isn't gonna be fun," Pinkie said.

"It doesn't matter," Flash said, "no matter what's happened we've always come out on top, because we've worked together. And we're gonna do the same thing now."

"He's right," Twilight said, "we can't give up after on little setback."

The others agreed. Darklight might have the Element of Forgiveness, but it would take more then that to beat them. Now matter what the Rangers will win and Darklight, will be destroyed.

Author's Note

You can thank my favourite MLP Fanfic, Persona EG, for this monster idea.

So how will the Rangers get back the Element of Forgiveness? Keep Reading to find out.

Protectors of Right, Ready to Fight

Up in space, Darklight had assembled all his Shades into the Bridge.

"Over the last thousand years," he said, "I have travelled the multiverse. I've defeated many a foe, destroyed many a monster and left many worlds as nothing but ashes and dust. It wasn't until I came to this world that I found a foe that my forces could not over come, the Power Ranger!"

The Shades all let out a chorus of hisses at that name.

"I know," Darklight said, "they've destroyed many of your kin and left us beaten and humiliated. But that all changes today." He lifted up the Element of Forgiveness for them all to see. "With this, we can match the Rangers and take the rest of the Elements."

Doom Raizer, Heart Breaker and Cogs were watching from the side, nodding in agreement. Today the Power Rangers would meet their end.

"It is time to reclaim what is rightfully ours," Darklight called out, "to take the Elements!"

The Shades all raised their fists in the air, letting out horrid sounds of cheering.

"I'm coming for you Rangers," Darklight said to himself.

Down on earth the Rangers were also preparing for what would hopefully by their final battle.

Sandal and Soarin were sparing with their blades, both countering the other's moves perfectly. Micro and Sweetie were on the firing range, blasting away at the many moving targets. While Flash and Lyra were practising hand to hand combat, Flash throwing multiple punches at Lyra who deflected them while trying to get in some of her own hits.

While this was going on, the Mane Seven were watching.

"I've never seen them train this hard before," Rarity said.

"They know they need to be at their best for today," Applejack told her.

"They're facing their toughest challenge yet," Rainbow said, "I think all this training is their way of keeping their minds off it."

"I just hope no one gets hurt," Fluttershy said.

"Don't worry Fluttershy," Pinkie said happily, "they got this. They're not gonna let some horrid monster beat them."

"Got that right," Rainbow said.

Meanwhile, Twilight, Sunset, Celestia and Luna were in the lab working on something.

"How's the conductor holding up?" Luna asked as she types away at the computer.

"It's power levels look to be holding steady," Sunset said from another computer.

"Ready for a test run?" Celestia asked as she placed four devices around the Element of Courage that was on the table.

"Let's give it a try," Twilight said.

The Rangers and Mane Seven looked over at them, wondering what they were doing.

"What are you doing?" Rainbow asked.

"We think we've come up with a way to stop Darklight from using the Element's power," Sunset explained, "a dampening field."

"We plant the four device around Darklight and activate them," Twilight explained, "the field will seal the Element's power while inside, allowing you guys to take it from him."

"A sound theory," Micro said, "but will it work?"

"That's what we're about to find out," Sunset said as she activated the device. The four devices light up and fired an energy beam which struck another, forming a square which surrounded the Element of Courage. The Element's usual glow began to weaken, before stopping all together.

"It's working," Twilight said as she read the computer, "the Element's power is remaining inside it."

They switched off the devices and took the Element out, before handing it back to Flash.

"And that's how we'll beat Darklight," Sunset said.

"But how are you going to get the devices around Darklight?" Sweetie asked them.

"Leave that to me," Rainbow said, "I'm fast enough to do it."

Sunset nodded. "We'll need all the help we can get to pull this off," she said before smiling, "including the silver Ranger."

Everyone looked around and smiled seeing Shining Armor enter the base.

"Hey guys," Shining said, "ready to do this?"

"Shining!" Twilight ran over to her brother and pulled him into a hug.

"Hey sis," Shining replied before they pulled away.

"Thanks for the help man," Flash said as he moved over and shook Shining's hand.

"Anytime," Shining replied.

"Okay everyone," Celestia said grabbing everyone's, "we know how we're gonna beat Darklight. All we need now is the opportunity."

In that second the alarm went off, before the holotable activated showing a location.

"The park," Luna said as they rushed over to it.

"Looks like Darklight wants to end this the same place we first fought," Flash said.

"These readings are the biggest we've ever seen," Twilight said, "I think he's brought his whole army this time."

"All those Shades," Lyra said, "could be difficult."

"Then we'll come to," Applejack said, "we can handle the Shades."

Flash nodded. "Twilight and Fluttershy, you stay here. The rest are with us."

Everyone nodded.

"Then let's do this," Flash said as he and the rest of the Rangers stood in a line and pulled out their gear. "Magi-Chargers!"

"Ready!" other six said as they held them out. They clicked the button and each placed them inside their morpher.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!

GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

THUNDERBIRD CHARGER...ENGAGED!

MINOTAUR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

"Energise," They said charging up their morphers before pointing them to the sky, "Unleash the Power!" The seven heads shot out and flew around them, before biting down on them and equipping them in their suits.

The seven Rangers stood tall, ready for the fight that lay ahead.

The Rangers soon arrived at the entrance of the park, riding in on their Magicycles.

"Okay," Flash said as they got off, "Sunset, Rainbow and Soarin, you guys go plant the dampeners. We'll keep Darklight and his goons busy."

"Got it!" Everyone said.

"Then let's go," Flash said, as they rushed into the park.

Heading to the coordinates they suddenly realised they'd arrived in the same spot they'd fought Darklight the first time.

"Long time no see Rangers," they spun around and saw Darklight, Doom and Heart step out of the wooded area, followed by the biggest horde of Shades they'd ever seen.

"Darklight!" Flash yelled, "give us back the Element of Forgiveness."

"Like that's gonna happen," Darklight said before pointing at them, "ATTACK!" His two minions charged forward, followed by the Shades.

"We got the Shades," Applejack said.

"Got it," Flash said as he got into a fighting stance, "let's do this!"

"RIGHT!" They all yelled as they to charged forward.

And just like that, the two factions collided and did battle.

Applejack, Pinkie Pie and Rarity thought off the Shades. Pinkie throwing exploding sprinkles at them, while Rarity used her shield to block and push them away. Applejack was simply walking through them.

"Magitech!" The Rangers yelled as they leaped over the Shades and attacked the two monster.

Lyra and Sweetie were fighting Heart, while Sandal and Micro battled Doom.

Meanwhile Flash and Shining battled against Darklight.

"We're not gonna let you take our Elements," Flash said as he threw his Dragon Breaker into him, "and we're not gonna let you keep the one you stole."

"Like you can stop me," Darklight said as he grabbed the weapon and stopped in dead.

"But we can," Shining said as he threw a kick into the monster's back, sending him falling back.

When he looked up, Darklight saw Flash and Shining had pulled out their blasters.

"Energise!" They said as they spun the barrel and aimed the weapon, "FIRE!" They both fired a blast, which struck Darklight and sent him flying back.

Meanwhile, Sunset, Rainbow and Soarin were watching and waiting.

Soarin had had to take care of a few stray Shades that found them, but so far things were going as planned. When they saw Flash and Shining blast Darklight away, they realised this was their chance.

"Do it Rainbow," Sunset told the speedster, who nodded back.

"On it," she said before zooming forward.

Darklight was getting his baring when he saw a blue blur circle him, but before he could react it was gone and four devices lay on the ground around him.

"NOW!" Flash screamed, before Sunset activated the devices and created the barrier.

Darklight soon found himself in a magic force field, which would drain the Element's power and weaken him in the process.

Everyone stopped their fights as they saw Darklight smash against the barrier.

"Got him," Flash cheered as he watched the monster struggle.

"Like Tartarus you do!" Darklight yelled as he suddenly smashed through the barrier with his bare fists.

"WHAT!" Flash yelled.

"Let me guess," Darklight said, "a dampening field to de-power anyone with an Element?" He chuckled, "that would have worked if I'd had the Element on me."

"But then where is it?" Shining asked.

"Up on my ship," Darklight replied, "powering a little something I had Cogs build."

Suddenly out of nowhere, a golden energy field appeared from above. The Rangers suddenly felt themselves grow weaker.

"You're not the only one who thought of a dampening field," Darklight said, "I just made mine on a bigger scale."

"So long," Doom said as she slashed Sandal and Micro.

"Bye bye," Heart said as she did the same to Lyra and Sweetie.

They all went flying and landed next to Flash and Shining, who were on their knees.

"Guys!" Applejack yelled, but the Shades continued to surround her and the others.

"I have to help them," Soarin said as he went to attack, but Sunset grabbed his arm and stopped him.

"The second you enter that field you'll be de-powered to," she told him.

"Maybe," Soarin said before he realised something. "I have an idea," he said, "I'll be back." With that he ran off.

Darklight chuckled as he drew closer to the Rangers.

"Finally," he said, "after a thousand years the Elements will be mine. Once I take yours, no one will be able to stop me." He reached out to take Flash's, only to find himself being shot and sent flying backwards.

"What?" Flash said as he looked around and saw Starswirl standing behind him.

"The Elements will never be yours," Starswirl said, "not so long as I'm here."

"Then I'll destroy you first," Darklight said as he got back up.

"Master Darklight," Doom said as he and Heart drew near.

"Stay back!" Darklight yelled, "he's mine." He looked over at Starswirl and growled. "It's time to pay you back you old fool."

"As the youth of this day say," Starswirl said, "bring it." He held out his staff and charged forward, as Darklight did the same. The two collided and traded blows with each other, Starswirl swinging his staff while Darklight used his claws. Eventually, Darklight grabbed Starswirl's staff and yanked it from his grasp before throwing over to where Flash stood.

"Take THIS!" Darklight yelled as he fired a magical blast at Starswirl, sending him flying backwards.

"STARSWIRL!" The Rangers screamed seeing him be sent flying back.

Sunset gasped as she watched.

"That was fun," Darklight chuckled as he watched some Shades grab the old wizard. "I'm not done with you yet," he said, "take him back to the ship."

The Shades nodded and pulled Starswirl over to where Heart and Doom were.

Sunset knew she had to do something, but only one thing came to mind. Stealing her courage, she stepped out of the trees and over to the back of the group just as a telebolt flew down and warped them away.

"Now," Darklight said, "where was I? Oh yes, I was about to take the rest of the Elements." He stepped over to Flash and used his magic on him.

Flash let out a cry of pain as he felt Darklight drain his energy, eventually the Element of Courage flew off him and into the monsters claws.

"It's mine," Darklight cheered as he watched Flash demorph. "Now to take the rest of them," he said as he moved over to Lyra.

Flash however, felt his strength beginning to return. He realised that without an Element, the dampener had no effect. Thinking fast he grabbed Starswirl's staff and leaped up, before smashing Darklight's claw away from Lyra and hitting him a few more times.

"You little runt!" Darklight growled.

"Surprise!" He heard as he felt someone slam into him.

Applejack and the rest of the Mane Seven had beaten the Shades.

"Hold on," Rarity said as she rushed towards the Rangers and created a shield which blocked out the energy of the field and allowed them to move.

"Thanks guys," Flash said.

Suddenly, a squawking sound made them look up and see the Thunderbird Zord flying overhead.

"Here's our chance," Lyra said as they all leaped into the Zord's cockpit.

"NO!" Darklight yelled in anger.

The Rangers and Mane Seven were in the Thunderbird Zord.

"Thanks Soarin," Flash said.

"Yeah," Rainbow said, "great timing."

"Thanks," Soarin said.

"Wait," Sweetie said, "where's Sunset?"

They looked around and like she said, the red and yellow haired teen was gone.

Suddenly a beeping on their coms caught their attention. They opened the channel and saw Sunset.

"Sunset," Lyra said, "where are you?"

"I'm on Darklight's ship," she replied.

"WHAT!?"

Sunset was indeed on Darklight's ship, hiding behind a console from the few Shades that were in the room with her.

"I sneaked on through the telebolt," she said, "they didn't notice me. I'm going to save Starswirl."

"That's to dangerous," Flash said, "that place is crawling with monsters and you can't exactly fight."

"I don't care," Sunset said, "I'll call you back when I can." With that she closed the channel.

"Sunset!" Flash yelled but the line was dead.

"Great," Micro said, "now what do we do?"

Darklight meanwhile had also warped back onto the ship and entered the bridge.

"Cogs!" Darklight yelled.

"Yes master?" Cogs replied.

"I'm done playing games," Darklight told him, "release our most powerful monster."

"Are you sure?" Cogs asked.

"YES!" he cried, "unleash the Entity!"

The Rangers were still flying, when they saw a telebolt appear before them.

In its wake was a giant monster. It looked like that monster they'd seen in their English literature class, Cthulhu. It was dark green in appearance, with large bat like wings and sharp claws. From its head, it had long red tentacles that whipped around wildly.

"What is that thing?" Sandal asked.

"Whatever it is," Applejack said, "it's heading into town."

"We have to stop it," Shining said.

"But what about Sunset?" Pinkie asked.

Everyone looked to Flash, who for once wished this wasn't his call. Eventually he decided and went to his coms.

"Twilight?"

"Yeah?" She replied.

"Send the Phoenix Zord," he told her, "I'm going to Darklight's ship."

"What?" Twilight told him, "that's insane."

"Just do it," Flash told her before closing the channel. "The rest of you need to take that thing down," he told the others.

"Are you sure?" Lyra said, "maybe one of us should go with you."

"No," Flash said, "you guys are gonna need all the power you can get to destroy that monster."

"Alright," Soarin said, "we trust you."

Flash nodded and he, Micro and Shining pulled out their Magi-Chargers.

"Summon Zords!" The activated the Chargers and threw them, causing them to fly off towards their Zords.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

MANTICORE CHARGER...ENGAGED!

MINOTAUR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

ZORDS COMBINED...GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, MINO-CORE FORMATION...READY!

Flash and the girls dropped out of the Zord, as they watched the Megazord and the monster square off against each other.

"You guys think they can take it?" Applejack asked.

"Of course they can take it," Rainbow said, "their the Power Rangers after all."

"She's right," Flash said before hearing a squawk and looking up to see the Phoenix Zord flying overhead. "My rides here," he said as he ran off, "wish me luck."

"Good luck," Pinkie said.

"Be careful darling," Rarity said.

"I will," he replied before he jumped up and warped into the cockpit. "Let's do this," he said.

"Let's."

Flash looked to his left and his eyes went wide seeing Twilight standing on the Phoenix's control podium. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm coming with you," Twilight told him.

"No you're not," Flash told her, "it's to dangerous."

"No more dangerous then it is for you," she replied, "at least I still have my magic. Without your Element your weapons will only be at half their power. Besides," she said, "Sunset once saved me. I'm not gonna let her be up there alone."

Flash growled, but couldn't deny her logic. "Alright," he said, "but stay with me okay."

Twilight smiled as the Phoenix Zord flew up.

Meanwhile the Megazord and Entity charged at each other.

"Tail Whip!" Micro yelled as they swung the whip appendage at it, but the Entity used its own whip like tentacles to deflect.

"Mino-Claw!" Shining yelled as his Zord tried to grab it, but the monster grabbed the horns in its sharp claws.

"It's to strong," Sweetie said.

"We can't give up," Lyra said.

"She's right," Soarin agreed, "not yet."

The Megazord struggled against the monster, which was wrapping its tentacles around it.

Meanwhile on Darklight's ship, a Shade was walking down a hallway.

Suddenly a door to its right opened and someone grabbed it, before yanking it inside. Not to long afterwards the door opened to show Sunset, now in the Shades cloak, exiting. She smiled as she looked back at what remained of the Shade, since she'd used her mind reading power to memorise the ships lay out. Pulling the hood over her face, she walked through the corridor trying to move like Shades did.

Eventually she stepped into a room where Cogs and some more Shades were.

"Against the Entity those fools don't stand a chance," Cogs said, "I almost feel sorry for them." Then he pulled out something that made Sunset's eyes go wide. The Element of Forgiveness, which he placed in a small metal box. Cogs looked around and saw Sunset, thinking she was a Shade he pointed at her. "You, come here."

Sunset's heart raced as she moved closer, only for it to burst when Cogs handed her the box.

"Take this to the vault," Cogs said.

Sunset nodded and took the box, before turning away. Making sure no one was looking, Sunset opened the box and snagged the Element before shutting it again. Handing the box to another Shade, Sunset quickly made a beeline for the exit only to see Darklight walk through it.

"Cogs," he said as he pushed passed Sunset, "your dampener worked perfectly. Now I want you to reconfigure the Gigatisor into a laser cannon, using the Element of Courage."

"Oh," Cogs said as he thought before nodding, "I can do that." He took the red Element from Darklight and turned to a computer.

"Once it's done," Darklight said, "we'll blast the Entity and the Megazord, destroying them both."

Sunset didn't like the sound of that. She needed to get the Element of Courage back somehow.

Meanwhile back on earth, the Megazord was getting slammed by the Entity.

"This is bad," Micro said.

"It's power's on a whole other level," Shining agreed.

"Maybe a new formation will work," Sandal said.

"It's worth a shot," Lyra said.

"Okay," Soarin said as he pulled out his Magi-Charger. "Activate Thunder-Guardian Megazord, Mino-Core Formation.

ZORDS COMBINED...THUNDER-GUARDIAN MEGAZORD, MINO-CORE FORMATION...READY!

The new Megazord took to the skies, trying to outmanoeuvre the monster. However the Entity simply spread its wings and also took to the sky.

While this was happening the Phoenix Zord was coming up on Darklight's ship.

Flash and Twilight were looking for an access point, while praying they wouldn't be seen.

"This is it," Flash said, "let's do this."

"Right," Twilight said.

Meanwhile Sunset and Cogs were on the bridge, where Cogs was inserting the Element of Courage into the Gigatisor's console.

"Perfect," he said, "once it's fully charged those Rangers are history."

Sunset knew she needed to grab the Element soon, but how?

Her thought was interrupted when a console she stood next to started beeping.

"Security alarm?" Cogs said, "what's going on?"

Sunset looked on the screen and gasped seeing the Phoenix Zord. Acting before she could think, she grabbed a spanner out the tool box she'd been holding for Cogs and started hitting the console.

"What are you doing!?" Cogs said as he ran over and grabbed Sunset by the shoulder, before tossing her to the floor.

Cogs looked over at the console and saw it was completely totalled, making him growl back at Sunset.

Before she could react, Sunset was grabbed by two more Shades which hoisted her up.

"What is wrong with you?" Cogs asked as he got closer, only to notice something around her neck. Reaching out he grabbed her gem necklace, ripping it off and looking at it.

Sunset struggled against the Shades, but doing so only gave her away and Cogs grabbed her hood and ripped it off.

"A human!" Cogs gasped seeing her, "how'd you get on the ship?"

"Let me go!" Sunset cried out.

"I don't think so," Cogs said as he dropped her gem on the floor, before crushing beneath his armoured boot.

"NO!" Sunset screamed, but it was to late. Cogs removed his boot, revealing nothing but dust where her gem had been. Sunset felt her heart break.

"Take her away," Cogs said.

The Shades nodded and pulled Sunset out of the bridge.

The Megazord wasn't doing to well.

The Entity was much faster then it, allowing the lovecraftian monster to strike it with its sharp claws before flying back to a safe distance.

"I've had it with this monster," Lyra said.

"I'll say," Micro replied.

"Let's finish this," Sweetie said.

"Electron Tail Swipe!" They all said together, as the Thunderbird sent its electrical power into the Manticore before the Megazord swung the weapon at the Entity.

However, the Entity suddenly threw its tentacles towards the whip and caught it. Doing so sent the lighting into his body, but he didn't seem to feel any pain from it.

"What!?" Soarin said in horror.

"It's immune to electricity?" Micro asked.

"What is this thing?" Sandal asked.

He didn't get a chance to have an answer as at that moment the Entity spun around, swinging the Megazord along with it before throwing it downwards.

The Megazord hit the ground with a power crash, knocking the Ranger around.

"He's to strong," Sweetie said.

"We can't give up," Shining said as he tried to pick himself up, "everyone's depending on us."

"He's right," Lyra said, "get up everyone."

The others nodded and began to pick themselves up.

"Let me go!" Sunset cried as she was pulled into another room.

"I don't think so," Cogs said, "we'll see what master Darklight wants to do with you and your crusty old friend."

"Sunset?" She looked up to see Starswirl, his hands shackled together, standing in the middle of the room.

"Starswirl," she said as the Shades tossed her towards him. "Are you alright?"

"I am," Starswirl said, "but that remains to be seen."

Sunset looked around for anything to use as a weapon, but the only thing in reach was an empty metal box.

Darklight, Heart and Doom entered the room. "Aw Starswirl," he said with a chuckle, "I see you've brought a friend to join you in your final moments." Magic surged around his arms. "I've been looking forward to this," he said before unleashing the magic at the two.

However, on instinct Sunset raised the metal box.

The magic struck the reflective surface and was suddenly repelled downwards to the ground, causing a massive explosion.

"What happened?" Heart asked as she fanned away the smoke.

"That human deflected Darklight's blast," Doom told her.

"How infuriating," Darklight said, "well she won't this time."

However, as the smoke cleared Sunset and Starswirl were gone.

"WHAT!" Darklight screamed, "where are they!?"

"Look," Heart said pointing to the floor, where a massive hole could be seen.

Sunset and Starswirl had taken their chance in the explosion when they saw the hole, jumping down it into a lower section.

They finally came to an undignified landing.

"Where are we?" Sunset asked.

"I am not sure," Starswirl said as he looked around.

"You're in the cells," the two looked up and wasn't to happy to see Brainwave standing over them. "I don't know where you came from," he said as he raised his staff, "but you'll soon wish you were back there." he ran towards them.

"I'm still shackled," Starswirl said.

"Don't worry," Sunset said as she jumped in front, "I've got this."

"You've got nothing," Brainwave said as he swung his staff at her, only for her to catch it before dealing a few strong kicks to him. "Hey!" He yelled as he staggered back, "you'll pay for that." His hand went to the wheel on his chest, "Hypno Dial!" He span in around and for a few moments it spun until it finally stopped, with the arrow pointing at an image of a blue face looking ashamed. "Guilt!" He said as the crystal on his staff glowed before firing a red beam which struck Sunset.

Sunset fell to her knees as images flashed before her eyes. They were from the time before she had her friends, when she stole Princess Twilight's crown, tried to humiliate her and then brainwashed the whole school and turned into a raging she demon.

"Oh," Brainwave said as he to saw the images, "looks like we know who the real monster in this cell is."

"No," Sunset said as tears formed in her eyes.

"You're such a horrible person," Brainwave said, "you don't deserve the forgiveness your friends gave you."

'Maybe he's right,' Sunset told herself mentally, 'I don't deserve everything my friends have done for me."

"Don't listen to him," Starswirl said catching her attention, "yes you've done some terrible things, but think of everything you've done since then."

Starswirl's words rang in her head and suddenly new images flew through her head. Defeating the sirens with the Rainbooms, stopping Twilight from destroying this world and helping to stop Gaia Everfree. Then the images of how she'd helped the Rangers flew through her head.

"What's happening?" Brainwave said as he saw the crystal on his staff begin to crack.

"Starswirl's right," Sunset said as she stood back up, "I'm though feeling sorry for myself. I've payed for may mistakes. I know that and so do all of my friends, so get out of my HEAD!" With that last shout the magic shot back at Brainwave and shattered his crystal.

"NO!" He screamed.

Sunset smiled at what she'd done, but her attention went to her pocket as she noticed a glowing. Reaching in she pulled out the now glowing Element of Forgiveness.

"What?" She asked, only for the Element to burst with energy which surrounded her. She was suddenly bombarded with images of ponies in golden armour, before seeing a image of a phoenix.

Brainwave and Starswirl watched as in a brilliant flash, Sunset was replaced by the gold Ranger.

Sunset looked down at herself and realised what had just happened. "It chose me," she said.

"Time to earn my freedom," Brainwave said as he ran forward and swung his staff.

However, Sunset pulled out a Spirit Sabre and slashed at him, cutting through his staff and sending him flying back with the force.

"You'll regret that," he said as he picked himself up. But in that moment some invisible force threw him back against the wall, keeping him there. "What's happening?"

Suddenly the doors to the cell opened and Flash and Twilight rushed in, Twilight using her magic to keep the monster trapped.

"Starswirl," Flash said happily before noticing Sunset, "gold Ranger?"

Sunset didn't say anything and instead turned to Starswirl and slashed his shackles off.

"Well done Sunset," he said, "being able to forgive oneself is sometimes the hardest thing to do. You've proven yourself worthy of the Element's power."

"SUNSET!" Flash and Twilight yelled.

"Hey guys," she replied, "pretty cool huh?"

Suddenly an alarm sounded above them.

"Let's celebrate after we get off this ship," Flash said.

They rushed out the cells and down the hallway.

"How'd you find us?" Sunset asked.

Twilight pulled out the scanner they'd used to find Element. "We just followed this and hoped it'd lead us to the two of you."

Sunset nodded before she got a call over her coms.

"Flash, Twilight," Lyra's voice said, "have you found Starswirl and Sunset."

"This is Sunset," she replied.

The Rangers all looked at the Ranger on screen and gasped seeing her in her suit.

"What?" Lyra asked.

"We've got Starswirl and are on our way out of here."

"Hold on a sec," Soarin said, "when did you become the gold Ranger?"

"I'll explain later," Sunset said, "Sunset out."

"Let's go," Twilight said, "the Phoenix Zord is this way."

However, when they heard footsteps they realised they had to hide.

Starswirl and the girls hid inside what looked like a broom closet, while Flash hid behind a large crate.

"Cogs," Darklight said, "how much longer until the laser's ready."

"Soon master," Cogs replied, "the Element of Courage has given it enough power to destroy a small planet. When it's fully charged the Megazord won't stand a chance."

"Excellent," Darklight said.

With that the two walked off.

Once they were gone, Flash moved over and opened the door to let the others out.

"We have to get out of here," Twilight said.

"Let's go," Sunset said.

However as they headed down the corridor, Twilight looked around and saw Flash hadn't moved. "Flash?" She said.

Flash turned to her and held out his hand. "Give me the scanner," he said.

Twilight was confused, but gave it to him anyway. "Why'd you need it."

"If I don't get my Element back," he explained, "Darklight will use it to destroy our friends. I can't let that happen."

Twilight's eyes went wide. "I'm coming with you."

"No," he told her, "you're the only other one who knows where the Phoenix Zord is. Get Sunset and Starswirl out of here." With that Flash was gone, running down the corridor.

"FLASH!" Twilight called out.

Flash rushed through the ship, following the scanner as best he could. Finally he managed to get a lock on his Element and smiled.

The Phoenix Zord detached from the ship, before flying back down to earth.

"Hold on guys," Sunset said.

"Flash," Twilight whispered.

"He'll be fine," Starswirl told her, but to be honest he wasn't so sure himself.

The Megazord was in serious trouble.

The Entity wrapped its tentacles around it, before constricting the Megazord.

Inside the Megazord the cockpit was going crazy, as sparks flew around them.

"We're going down," Micro said.

"We can't stop it," Shining said.

Up in space the others saw the Megazord being defeated and knew they had to help.

"Activate," Sunset said, "Phoenix-Wing Megazord!"

PHOENIX-WING MEGAZORD...ENGAGED...PHOENIX-WING MEGAZORD...READY!

"Let's do this," Sunset said.

The Megazord was about to go critical and nothing the Rangers did was working.

"Is this the end?" Lyra asked.

However, from out of nowhere a giant fireball struck the Entity. The explosion made the monster let go of the Megazord and allowed the Rangers to escape and land on the ground.

Looking up they saw the Phoenix-Wing Megazord fly down.

"Alright," Soarin said.

"Great timing," Sandal said.

In that moment, Starswirl and Twilight appeared in a puff of smoke.

"Starswirl," Lyra said.

"Twilight," Sweetie said, "you're okay."

"We are," Starswirl said.

"But Flash needs your help," Twilight told them, "he stayed on Darklight's ship."

The others nodded.

"Sunset can handle that thing until we get back," Lyra said, "let's go guys."

With that they rushed off.

"Phoenix Fist!" Sunset said as the Megazord punched the monster with its bird like fist.

The monster was pushed back by this.

"This is awesome," Sunset said as the Megazord continued to fight.

Suddenly the Entity was smashed, as the Dragon Zord rushed it.

"Thanks Drago," Sunset said.

The Minotaur Zord followed, grabbing the monster around the waist in its horns.

"Wildfire Wingbeat!" Sunset yelled as the Megazord's wings ignited and fired off the fireballs which struck the monster.

Up in space, Flash had followed the scanner and found himself on the bridge.

The few Shades in there soon felt themselves be blasted, as Flash ran in and shot them all down.

Looking around Flash suddenly noticed a red glow coming from one of the consoles, which he'd recognise anywhere. "My Element," he said as he rushed over to it.

BOOM!

Before he was even close, an explosion sent him flying across the room.

"Not so tough without your Element red Ranger," Darklight said as he entered the room.

Suddenly a voice from the console spoke. "Energy level ninety nine percent."

Darklight laughed, "any second now the cannon will be fully charged and your friends will be done for."

"Then I've still got a few seconds," Flash said as he stood up and aimed his blaster at Darklight.

"Seriously," Darklight said, "you couldn't beat me when you had an Element. What makes you think you can beat me without one? Does that thing even have any power left in it."

"Maybe one blast," Flash said nervously.

"Is that so," Darklight replied with a chuckle, "then I'll be generous and give you a free shot."

Flash smiled at this as he took aim and pulled the trigger, shooting a blast right at Darklight.

However.

The blast flew over his shoulder and struck something behind him, making Darklight laugh.

"I give you a free shot and you go an miss," he said, "pathetic."

Flash however, just smirked. "Who said I missed."

Darklight was confused, until he looked around and saw what the blast had hit.

The Gigatisor's console was now blown to bits, with a large opening showing the Element of Courage.

"No!" He said as he reached for it, but Flash held out his hand and the Element flew out the console. "NOOO!"

The Element landed in Flash's hand, before he was consumed by red light and replaced by the red Ranger.

"Now this is more like it," he said as he put away his blaster and pulled out his Dragon Breaker.

"If you know what's good for you," Darklight said, "you'll hand the Element back to me."

"I don't think so," Flash said as he got into a battle stance.

"So be it," Darklight said as he to got into a battle stance.

At the same time the two charged at each other, both equally trading blow for blow.

Flash managed to grab Darklight's fist in his Dragon Breaker, before dealing several swift kicks to his stomach. Darklight growled as he staggered back, before magic pulsed from his claws.

"It's over Darklight," Flash said as he pulled out his blaster and aimed it at the monster.

"It's only over when I say it's over," Darklight said as he unleashed his attack while Flash pulled the trigger.

Both fired a powerful blast, which connected in the centre of the room. It seemed they were perfectly matched as the combined blasts began to build more and more unstable, until finally.

BOOM!

The blasts exploded and sent a wave of power through the bridge.

Flash felt the explosion push him back against the wall, as said wall began to crack and eventually shattered throwing Flash out the ship where he grabbed hold of the side.

Back on the bridge, Doom, Heart and Cogs rushed in.

"What's happening!?" Doom screamed as they looked around.

"I don't know," Cogs said as he rushed over to the remaining consoles. "Everything's going haywire. Controls, thruster, dimension jump and backup power are all going nuts. We're out of control!"

"Where's my brother?" Heart asked.

"I don't know," Cogs said, "he's suppose to be in here."

"We'll he's not," Heart said.

"Focus on that later," Doom said, "were losing altitude and fast. We need to level out."

"There's nothing we can do," Cogs said as he typed away, "everything's offline."

"WE'RE GOING DOWN!" They all screamed.

Flash was holding on for dear life, but seeing the ship about to crash into a large mountain side he knew he only had one option.

"Dad," he said, "wherever you are, I hope you're watching." With that he let got and was sent flying into midair, as the ship finally crashed into the mountain and caused a massive explosion.

It seemed Flash was about to go the same way, as the ground drew closer and closer. "Looks like this is the end of both of us Darklight," he said.

However.

A loud squawk filled the air, as Flash turned to see the Thunderbird Zord fly in and grab him. The next thing he knew, Flash was in the Zord's cockpit surrounded by his friends.

"Nice of you to drop in," Lyra said with a chuckle.

"Guys," Flash said as he got up.

"And you had a go at me for being reckless," Soarin joked.

"Reckless, me?" Flash joked, "no way. I knew you'd catch me."

"You know it," Micro said.

"We're always their to help out friends," Sandal said.

"Now let's go help our other friends," Sweetie said.

"Right," Flash said.

"Sunset," Lyra said over the coms, "Darklight's ship as crashed. We have Flash and are on our way."

The Thunderbird Zord flew over the Phoenix-Wing Megazord, as seven different coloured lights flew out of it and into the Megazord.

All eight Rangers now stood in the Megazord cockpit, as the Dragon Zord rushed up to it.

"Relax Drago," Flash said, "I'm okay buddy." His podium's screen then lit up and showed Twilight and the rest of their friends.

"Flash!" She said, "you got you're Element back."

"You know it," he said, "and Darklight and all his cronies are history."

"Thank goodness," Twilight said.

"So all that's left is this thing," Sweetie said.

"Which means we have to beat it," Lyra said, "now more then ever."

"She's right," Flash said, "we've never been stronger. Let's put an end to this, once and for all."

The others nodded.

"And I've got the perfect combination to do it," Sunset said. "Activate Phoenix-Wing Megazord, Mino-Drake Formation."

The Megazord returned to its normal form, before it squawked as it turned towards the other Zords. The three opened their mouths, before their Magi-Chargers flew out with the Dragon and Minotaur's Chargers went into Phoenix's.

DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!

It bit down on the first Charger before it flew out and was replace withe second Charger.

MINOTAUR CHARGER...ENGAGED!

It bit down on the second Charger before it flew out again and the last Charger flew in.

PHOENIX CHARGER...ENGAGED!

ZORDS COMBINED!

The Dragon Zord transformed like it usually did, but its wings instead detached from its body. The Phoenix split apart like it normally did, with with arms folding out and then detaching as well. The arms then attached to the Dragon Zord, as the Minotaur took its place and connected to the left shoulder. The Phoenix's wings then linked to the back of the Dragon, while the tail split in two and connected to the Dragon's feet. Finally, the Dragon's head flipped down a part of the Phoenix attached, folding out to form a new helmet.

PHOENIX-WING MEGAZORD, MINO-DRAKE FORMATION...READY!

All: Protectors of right, ready to fight!

The new Megazord landed in front of the Entity, as the Rangers prepared for their final battle.

"Let's do this," Flash said as the Megazord charged forward.

The Entity also charged, raising its giant claws as its slashed at the Megazord.

The Megazord however, used the Minotaur to grab it by the wrist.

"Phoenix Fist!" Sunset yelled as the Megazord punched it and sent it flying.

The Entity used its wings to stabilise itself, before unleashing its tentacles at the Megazord.

"Mino-Claw!" Shining yelled as his Zord grabbed the tentacles in its grip, before pulling the monster towards them.

"Dragon Blast!" Flash yelled once the monster was close. The Dragon Zord's head flew up and it fired at close range, burning the monster alive.

"Ultimate Fireball Finish!" They all said.

The Phoenix wings ignited, before the flames flew into the Dragon Zord's mouth.

"Three!" They said as they pulled their weapons out of the podiums.

"Two!" They aimed the weapons at the monster.

"ONE!" They pulled the trigger.

"FIRE!" The fireball flew out the Dragon's mouth, creating an flaming arrow which flew at the monster.

Before the Entity knew what was coming, it was struck by the blast and sent flying into the sky before being consumed by an explosion.

"RRRRRAAAAAOOOOORRRRR!" was all it said as it was engulfed by the flames.

The explosion lasted a full minute, but when it finally subsided and the smoke cleared, there was no trace of the monster.

The Rangers all cheered seeing the last of Darklight's monsters be destroyed, happy that it was finally over.

"We did it," Sunset cheered.

"Finally," Lyra said, "it's over."

"Yeah," Flash said, "because we worked together."

They all nodded at this.

"Together guys," Flash said, "Guardian Rangers!"

"VICTORY IS OURS!"

Everything after that seemed like a blur.

The Rangers returned to the base, where Flash and Sunset explained how they got their Elements. The rest of the team explained their battle with the Entity and soon everyone was up to speed.

Sunset, now dressed in a gold version of the team jacket, was looking over at the crystal bed where her Element was resting. She may have lost her gem, but this more then made up for it.

"Eight of the Elements have been returned," Starswirl said, "and I have you Rangers to thank for it."

"Now that Darklight's gone," Celestia said, "you can return to your normal lives."

"I can't believe it's over," Micro said.

"This summer's been amazing," Sandal said, "it's gonna be hard to return to normal life."

"There may come a time you will need to take up arms again," Luna said.

"She is correct," Starswirl said, "until the time that we have all ten Guardian Elements, you will remain bonded to them."

"And we'll be here," Flash said, "if the world ever needs us."

The others nodded at this.

"It's been an honour to fight besides you all," Shining said.

"And our honour to fight with you," Lyra said.

"We're all so proud of you," Twilight said.

"You faced a great foe," Applejack said.

"And you came out on top," Rainbow finished.

"I'm glad I could be there to see it," Fluttershy said.

"Hey," Pinkie said, "you know what this calls for?"

"Let me guess," Flash said.

"A PARTY!" They all said in unison.

"Yeah!" Pinkie said.

"We've still got two weeks of summer left," Soarin said.

"Let's enjoy every second of it," Sweetie said.

"Yeah!" They all agreed as they left the command centre, happy that their world was safe.

Meanwhile, in the remains of Darklight's destroyed ship.

The corridors were silent, nothing but the odd spark from a piece of busted tech. The entrance of the Pit slowly opened, as a metallic hand reached out and grasped the edge.

"My turn."

Author's Note

And that is that. I hope you all enjoyed it.

Next up in the series is Power Rangers Guardians vs Power Rangers Revolution X, which will be out soon.

Until next time, see you.

Intro 2

Thank you Brian Sheil. Only way this could be better was if you used the music I used in the other theme song.

Intro

Author's Note

You voted for it and so I give you my MLP Power Rangers story.

Here's the opening, I suggest listening to this whilst you read it.

Intro

Centuries ago, the evil known as Darklight tried to steal the greatest power in the universe...the Guardian Elements. However, the Elements were thrown through a portal and lost in another world.

A thousand years have passed and now Darklight has arrived, to take the Elements once and for all. But standing in his way are...

Pow-er-Rang-ers.

Power Rangers, Guardians.
GO, GO, GO!
Power Rangers, Guardians.
GO, GO, GO!

Starring...

Magical warriors will save the world today.

Flash Sentry as: Red Ranger.

With the Elements they'll show us all the way.

Lyra Heartstrings as: Blue Ranger.

Make make the bad guys all run and hide away.

Micro Chips as: Yellow Ranger.

GO, GO, GO, GO, GO, GO, GO, GO, GO!

Sweetie Drop as: Pink Ranger.

Sandelwood as: Green Ranger.

Pow-er-Rang-ers.

Also Starring...

Power Rangers, Guardians.
GO, GO, GO!

Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, Applejack and Fluttershy.

Power Rangers, Guardians.
GO, GO, GO!

Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Celestia and Luna.

POWER RANGERS
GUARDIANS!