My Little Pony Rangers: Enter the Nightmare

Chapters

The Mare in the Moon
The Mare in the Moon (Rewrite)
Thunder Struck
No Laughing Matter
Sorry, No Muffinzord
Blackmail
The Swarm
Trixie's Tricks
The Twilight Zone
Derpy's Gambit
Eye of the Storm
Thunder Strikes Twice
Double Down
xanderman1201 Crossover Chapter #1 Part 1
Xanderman1201 Crossover Chapter #1 Part 2
xanderman1201 Crossover Chapter #1 Part 3
The Battle Begins (At the Gala part 1)
Midnight Dawns (At the Gala part 2)
SEASON 2 HAS BEGUN! :D

The Mare in the Moon

Requiem

"A long time ago... there was a great chaos brought upon by the mighty Discord. But, two aliacorn sisters defeated him using the Elements of Harmony. Discord was turned to stone, but unknown to the two, an eerie green fog leaked from the statue...

"Many years passed since that day. The two sisters kept Equestria in balance by raising the sun and the moon with their powers. However, one day, the younger sister, Princess Luna, refused to lower the moon so the sun could be raised.

"The two sisters fought, and eventually, Luna was defeated and sealed in the moon. However, she did not leave her sister untouched... Princess Celestia, the older sister, was sealed in a time warp, waiting for the day that she must battle her sister once more..."

"Are you reading those pony-tale books, again?" asked Rainbow Dash as she pounded playfully on the dining room table.

"But these are really cool," replied Scootaloo in protest. "You should give them a try."

Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo were in a small house in Cloudsdale. It was a brilliant morning and Rainbow was on her way to meet Applejack at Sweet Apple Acres.

"Yeah, you keep reading," said Rainbow, mockingly. "But at school, it's Tuesday, and I want to get you there fast before the storm today."

"Stop treating me like a baby, sis. I can fly." (Oh, yeah, in this series, Scootaloo can fly well and Sweetie Belle can use magic well)

“Okay, see ya,” and with that, Rainbow Dash was off.

“I’m so glad you think you can take care of the farm, yourself. But you have school today.”

Applejack and Applebloom were standing in front of the barn. Applejack was on her way to Pinkie Pie’s cafe, reminding Applebloom that she had school.

“But I’m always made fun of by Diamond Tiara. I don’t want to go until I have my cutie mark,” said Applebloom, indicating her blank rear.

“Well, I’m sorry you feel that way, but if you stay with your friends, she might back down, a little.” (I know, you don’t want a hidden lesson in coping with bullies.)

“OK,” sighed Applebloom.

As Applebloom left, Rainbow Dash flew in. “Hey, Applejack,” she said. “Are you ready for Pinkie’s party?”

“Yeah, sure,” replied Applejack. Then, they were off to Sugarcube Corner.

In Canterlot castle, we see a white aliacorn with a flowing rainbow mane and tail in a tube. She seems to be sleeping, but suddenly, her eyes jolt open. “Oh no,” she said with fear in her voice. “She’s back...”

PART 2 COMING SOON

A/N: No, this chapter wasn't spectacularly important to the story. Also, I assumed Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo were sisters, I didn't know they weren't... we'll say they are, in this story (it will fit the plot much later).

The Mare in the Moon (Rewrite)

The Mare in the Moon

Foreword: From what I have heard, an “aliacorn” (which I likely spelled incorrectly) is a Pegasus-Unicorn. Now, Chapter 2:

Pinkie Pie was throwing her weekly party at Sugarcube Corner. Her friends Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy, were all there.

“Oh, this party is truly one to behold!” commented Rarity.

“Yeah, I think you really topped yourself this time, Pinkie,” added Fluttershy, quietly.

“Oh, you guys are just saying that,” replied Pinkie.

“No, you really topped yourself,” said Applejack, indicating whipped cream on Pinkie’s mane.

Pinkie noticed it as the others sat there, laughing. “Hehe... I have been kinda busy lately...” said Pinkie Pie, slightly embarrassed.

Meanwhile, there was a hatch on the moon that looked like a garbage chute. There was a small red gem that began to glow. Suddenly, the hatch exploded open, and there stood Nightmare Moon, an aliacorn with a dark black coat, a flowing mane that resembled the night sky, and a crescent moon cutie mark. “Ahh!” she said. “After 1000 years, I’m free! It’s time to bring Equestria into eternal night! But not without my minions. Come out! the door is open!”

As Nightmare said this her minions came out one by one. First, a Griffin named Gilda. Then, a blue unicorn named Trixie. After Trixie came a zebra decorated with gold rings named Zecora. Last, a manticore.

“It is nice to finally be out,” commented Zecora. “Now our plans will succeed without a doubt.”

“Honestly,” said Trixie, “I don’t see why we failed in the first place.”

“It was my sister, Celestia,” replied Nightmare. “She used the Elements of Harmony to seal us here. But she is trapped in a time warp and unable to escape. Now we will conquer! But first, lets put a scare into the Equestrians...” As she said this, her horn began glowing and a large ball of energy formed at the tip. After it got bigger, she hurled it down to Equestria. It hit and caused a large earthquake.

At Canterlot Castle, there was a purple baby dragon named Spike, and he was going crazy with the earthquake. “It’s the big one! I knew it was coming! We’re all doomed!”

Suddenly, the head of Princess Celestia appeared in a large tube. “Calm down spike!” she said. “It’s Luna, she’s escaped. Teleport to us five able-bodied and over-emotional ponies.”

“No!” Spike protested. “Anything but tenagers!”

“We have no other choice, Spike.”

“Fine,” sighed Spike.

Back at Sugarcube Corner, the effects of the earthquake were not being ignored. Ponies were running left and right. Even pegasi forgot they could fly in the panic and continued to run.

“Everypony!!!!” exclaimed Pinkie. “Try to leave in an orderly fashion!”

“Pinkie!” said Rarity, “Even I can’t think about fashion at a time like- oh, I see what you are talking about.”

As Pinkie and her friends were running, they were suddenly stopped by an invisible force.

“What’s going on?” asked Fluttershy.

“Everypony hold on to something!” shouted Rainbow Dash as they were instantly turned into beams of light and carried into the air, speeding toward Canterlot Castle.

When they finally stopped, they found themselves in a strange, dimly-lit room, full of computers.

“Well, ah’ll be,” exclaimed Applejack. “We are definitely not in Ponyville, anymore.”

“No, you’re in Canterlot,” said Spike, coming out of the shadows behind them.

Fluttershy jumped with fear when she saw Spike. “That’s a... that’s a... that’s a dragon!” she exclaimed.

“Oh, he’s so adorable!” said Rarity, her comment being met with a one of those days stare by Spike. “Eh, why are we here again?”

“That will come in due time,” said Celestia, appearing in the tube. “But first, I am-”

“Princess Celestia!” exclaimed Applejack, cutting Celestia off.

“Yes,” replied Celestia. “I am the guardian of your world, raising the sun and the moon every day and night.”

“And I’m Spike,” said Spike.

“You five have been sent here to protect Equestria from the evil clutches of Nightmare Moon and her army of Putty Ponies.” Then, necklaces with gems on them were placed on the ponies. Rainbow Dash’s had a lightning-bolt gem, Rarity a diamond, Applejack an apple, Fluttershy a butterfly, and Pinkie Pie a balloon. “To do this, you will need the power of the Elements of Harmony and the dino-zords. Pinkie Pie, playful and ecstatic, you will command the element of laughter and the pterodactyl zord.” As Celestia said this, a rainbow went down the entirety of Pinkie’s body, morphing her into the Pink Ranger. “Fluttershy, caring and agile, you will command the element of kindness and the Sabretooth tiger zord.” The same happened with Fluttershy, except morphing her into the Yellow Ranger. “Rarity, selfless yet strong, you command the element of generosity and the mastodon zord,” Rarity morphed into the Black Ranger. “Applejack, truthful and fearless, you will command the element of honesty and the triceratops zord,” Applejack morphed into the Blue Ranger. “Rainbow Dash, strong and brave, you will command the element of Loyalty and the tyrannozord.” Rainbow Dash morphed into the Red Ranger. “When you are in danger, wear your Elements and call their name out loud morphing you into an elite fighting force known to one and all as... the Pony Rangers.”

The five just stood there, de-morphed, as if they had heard something that changed their lives forever. Then, Applejack started walking away.

“Applejack,” called Fluttershy, “where are you going?”

“Off the loony express,” she replied. “Dinozords? Elements of Harmony? Pony Rangers? It sounds to me like one big prank.”

“I have to agree with AJ, here,” said Rainbow Dash.

“Girls, Princess Celestia chose us, specifically to save Equestria,” said Pinkie. “And besides, I know a prank when I see one, trust me.”

“You can leave,” said Spike, “but you’ll be as powerless as any other pony and therefore, doomed.”

“Well, I do happen to like these morphers,” said Rarity, indicating the gem on her power morpher.

“Well, mah decision is final,” said AJ as she walked off.

“Yeah... this doesn’t seem like it would be very exciting,” said Rainbow Dash, following AJ.

As the ponies were walking out of the castle, Nightmare Moon noticed them from her lunar base. “ZECORA!” she shouted. “Are the putty ponies ready yet? They should have been done by now!”

“I apologize for the delay, my lord, but patience is something that we must afford,” said Zecora. “This machine has been idle for some time-”

“And it isn’t worth a dime!” said Nightmare, cutting Zecora off. “Hurry it up!”

The manticore walked in, seeming impatient. “Why can’t I just go down there, myself?”

“You underestimate the Elements of Harmony,” said Trixie from a corner of the room, seeming to come out of meditation. “Celestia used them to seal Lord Moon here. They could make short work of you, on your own.”

“Fine,” said the manticore.

“The last of the putties are almost ready. You will not regret this, you shall see.” said Zecora, putting one more dozen of putties in the oven. “This last dozen will fight those mares, five. They will not be able to survive.”

Meanwhile, the ponies were leaving the castle through a large and empty field. They seemed lost, both physically (being in the middle of nowhere) and mentally (pondering the “Pony Rangers” happening).

“I’m not sure if we should have walked away like that,” said Fluttershy, breaking a long silence. “That all seemed pretty legit...”

“Legit, my hoof,” replied AJ. “The only way I’d believe all of that is if we happened to run into a group of her putty ponies.” At that exact moment, they were all jumped by a group of putty ponies, moving around them intimidatingly. “Ok,” said AJ, “I believe everything Celestia said, now.”

“We have to fight them,” said Rainbow Dash.

At that, the five went in different directions to take on separate groups of putties.

Applejack went head on toward two putties, ducking at the last second to split-kick them both to little effect. The two putties took advantage of Applejack being off balance and threw her into a large rock.

Pinkie Pie pulled a cake out of nowhere that said “Yay! Friends!” and handed it to her group of putties. The putties looked at eachother for a moment, then one took Pinkie’s head and smashed it into her cake. When Pinkie got up, her cake said “Go bronies!” “How is that even possible?” she asked herself. Then the putties knocked her into Applejack, who was just then getting up, only to be knocked down by the thrown Pinkie Pie. “Cake?” she asked Applejack, holding the smashed desert in her hoof.

Rarity, being a unicorn, used her magic to hurl small rocks at the putties with little success. She was then knocked into the air by a putty behind her and thrown toward the others. As she fell, she used her magic to make a large lounge chair appear where she was falling, which happened to be on top of the others. Rarity landed safely, but the others were stuck under the lounge chair. “Well, you didn’t expect me to land on the ground and get dirty, did you?” said Rarity, trying to justify her actions.

Rainbow Dash was flying toward her group of putties, knocking some of them to the ground, but she was having little success in keeping them down. She was fighting very well until several putties swarmed her at once, throwing her by the wings into the pile of the others.

Fluttershy was being closed in on by several putties. When she noticed what happened to the others, she just casually walked over to the others and sat.

“There’s no way we can beat them,” said Rarity.

“Wait,” said Applejack, “Celestia gave us these Elements of Harmony for a reason. Ah think we need to use ‘em.”

“Ok,” said Rainbow Dash. “It’s morphin’ time!”

“Honesty!” shouted Applejack.

“Kindness!”

“Laughter!”

“Generosity!”

“Loyalty!”

As the ponies shouted their respective Elements, they morphed into Pony Rangers.

“They did it!” shouted Spike. “They morphed!”

“That’s good,” said Celestia. “Teleport them back to Ponyville, Luna’s manticore is attacking!”

The Rangers were then teleported to Ponyville, where they battled a large number of putty ponies with surprising ease. Then, after the putties were gone, they all went after the manticore.

“The rangers are stronger than we first thought,” said Zecora, “Perhaps it is time for a change in our plot.”

“Just one minor change,” said Nightmare Moon. “Or should I say... a mega change.” She then walked outside of her lunar base, charging her horn. “Powers of the moon, make manticore... grow!” she shouted as she fired a ball of energy from her horn down to Equestria, hitting the manticore square on.

In Ponyville, the Rangers noticed the ball of energy hit the manticore. Suddenly, the manticore started growing to enormous proportions.

“Now, I will crush you rangers to dust!” shouted the now gigantic manticore.

“Ohmygoodness! Ohmygoodness! Ohmygoodness!” repeated Fluttershy out of fear.

“How are we going to fight him now?” asked Rarity.

“We need dinozord power, now!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash.

“How did you know you had to say that?” asked Pinkie.

“I dunno... instinct?”

At that moment, the dinozords came charging in. There was a red tyrannosaurus, a blue triceratops, a black mastodon, a yellow sabre-tooth tiger, and a pink pterodactyl. The rangers jumped in to their respective zords and started charging at the manticore. However, the manticore was too fast, and managed to easily dodge the attack.

“We need to form the megazord, now!” shouted Rainbow Dash.

“Right,” replied Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rarity.

The sabre-tooth and triceratops tucked in their legs, revealing wheels. The tyrannozord folded it’s legs, causing it knees to face forward. The tyrannozord’s knees then connected to the triceratops and sabre-tooth. The mastodon split it’s head from it’s body. It’s body came up in front of the tyrannozord, forming the chest, while the head came up behind it, it’s tusks going over the tyrannozord’s shoulders. The mastadon’s tusks became guns as the tyrannozord grabbed them with its tiny arms, and the tank-like zord coasted to a stop.

“Now, we’re ready for battle!” shouted Rainbow Dash as the tank started charging toward the manticore, guns ablaze. However, the guns did not seem to do as much damage as the rangers would have desired, and the manticore knocked the tank on its side. “We’re sitting ducks!” shouted Rainbow Dash.

“WE LANDED ON DUCKS?” shouted Fluttershy, obviously scared.

“No, Fluttershy, we didn’t land on any animals,” said Applejack, reassuring Fluttershy.

“You’re still all mine,” said the manticore, advancing on the fallen tank.

“Not if I have anything to say about it!” shouted Pinkie Pie, charging at the manticore with the pterodactyl zord. The zord’s wing started to glow as it slashed the manticore away from the tank.

“That’s why we weren’t strong enough,” said Rarity. “We left Pinkie out.”

“Ok, Rangers,” called Rainbow Dash, “Let’s try this again. Megazord, go!”

“Megazord sequence initiated,” said a robotic voice coming from the zord as it went into a standing position. The guns spun around until they were hands. The pterodactyl flew toward the zord, tucking in it’s wings and head to form a chestplate. The head of the tyrannozord tucked in, being replaced by a human-like head. As the pterodactyl chestplate attached to the megazord, the horns extended from behind the zord’s head. The completed megazord went into an offensive stance.

“Megazord, complete!” shouted the Rangers in unison.

“Now, to call the Power Sword!” said Rainbow Dash.

A large sword came from the sky and stabbed itself into the ground in front of the megazord. The megazord then grabbed it and held it toward the manticore.

“No, you are not killing me with that,” said the manticore. “I’m outta here.” Then, the manticore teleported away.

The megazord then went into a triumphant stance as the rangers inside celebrated their victory. Then, Pinkie raised her hoof to quiet the others. “I have something very important to say,” she said. The others paid attention. “This calls for a...” but the rangers knew what she was going to say.

“USELESS!” shouted Nightmare as the manticore returned. “You fled from the battle when the Pony Rangers showed you their greatest power!”

“This wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t run in with your guard down,” said Trixie.

“I’m sorry,” said the manticore. “I will try to get more data next time.”

“You better,” said Nightmare. “Now leave me alone, I have a headache!”

Later, Pinkie Pie was holding a party to celebrate the Pony Rangers (who were there, but not morphed) and their defeat of the giant manticore. Doctor Whooves and Derpy (dropping tray after tray) were helping Pinkie serve the large crowd of ponies.

“I can’t believe Pinkie threw this party,” said Rarity.

“Really?” asked Rainbow Dash. “Really? This is Pinkie Pie. She throws a party at the drop of a hat.”

“I’m just glad she has help,” said Fluttershy, noting Doctor Whooves.

“Yeah,” said Applejack sarcastically, noting Derpy, “Help.”

“I know I should be having fun here,” said Rarity, “but I can’t sit idly with the thought of what happened today. It was all just... and Canterlot Castle...”

As Rarity was saying this, Sweetie Belle was walking up to her, but stopped. “Why is my sister talking about Canterlot Castle?” she asked herself. “Eh, it’s probably nothing,” and she walked off.

TO BE CONTINUED!

Thunder Struck

Foreword: I don’t know much about the original series, so the plot will trail off pretty quickly... CHAPTER 3!

The scene opens with Derpy delivering the mail to ponyville. Nightmare Moon is watching her.

“HER!” she suddenly shouted, waking Zecora and Gilda.

“What has stopped my slumber?” asked Zecora, “This will put my productivity under.” (I’m desperate for rhymes.)

“What are you shouting about, Lord Moon?” Gilda asked, drowsily.

“I know who should be the Green Pony Ranger!” said Nightmare.

“No, offense, my lord,” said Trixie, walking in, “but is it not the Pony Rangers who are trying to stop our plans?”

“Not the Green Ranger. She will be drawn from the powers of evil, a power that is greater than that of the others.”

“Very well, my lord. I will send putties to your accord.”

“Also, I would like you to go down as well.”

“What? But-”

“But nothing! You always brag about how you’re so great and powerful so you should go prove it.”

“Very well,” and with that, Trixie was off.

At Canterlot, Spike was watching Stupid Mario Brothers on Youtube when Celestia suddenly warped in, making Spike jump and burn his computer.

“I wasn’t goofing off,” said Spike.

“Nevermind that,” said Celestia. “I’ve spotted Trixie on her way to Ponyville with a group of putties. Warn the rangers.”

“Ok,” said Spike, pressing a button on the console in front of him.

At Ponyville, Derpy gave Rainbow Dash her mail. She was reading it when she heard a noise from in her house. She ran in to find out that she had received an email from Spike. She read the email, then dropped her paper mail and rushed to get Fluttershy. When she got to her house, she flew into the window leading to Fluttershy’s bedroom, only to get caught on the curtains and fall into Fluttershy’s bed. Fluttershy awoke quickly.

“Who’s there?” shouted Fluttershy.

“It’s me,” said Rainbow Dash.

“What are you doing here?”

“There’s a group of putties on their way to Ponyville.”

“I think they’re already here!” Fluttershy pointed out the window to indicate an attacking group of putty ponies led by Trixie.

“We have to stop them,” said Rainbow Dash. “It’s morphin’ time!”

“Kindness!” called Fluttershy, wearing her Element.

“Loyalty!”

The two, morphed, flew out to take on the putties, but were met instead by Trixie.

“Stop right there,” said Trixie. “You aren’t going to interrupt my master’s plans!”

“And just who is your master?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“I thought you rangers were smarter than this. Let me just say, that’s not going to get better,” said Trixie with an evil chuckle.

“Just tell us why you’re here,” said Fluttershy. “I mean, if that’s okay with you.”

“Well, that’s not okay with me, so I’ll just be off.” Trixie then ran off, her trail being covered by putties.

“Fluttershy,” said Rainbow Dash, “I’ll follow Trixie. You keep these putties off me.”

“Right,” said Fluttershy.

Rainbow flew off in pursuit as Fluttershy charged at the putties.

Trixie finally caught up to Derpy as she was sitting for a muffin break. “Derpy Hooves!” shouted Trixie, “Nightmare Moon has chosen you!”

“I’M EATING MY FREAKING MUFFIN!” replied Derpy.

“You can finish your muffin at the will of your new master, Nightmare Moon.”

“No”

“This will be tough...” Trixie said to herself. Then, with an idea, she turned to Derpy and said “If you come with me, you can have all the muffins you will ever eat,” only to be knocked down by an excited Derpy. Then she teleported away with Derpy.

“I’m not impressed with your demonstration of your abilities but at least you got my green ranger.” said Nightmare as Trixie returned.

“I will take that as a compliment, my lord,” said Trixie.

“Zecora, throw the mail mare into the chamber!”

“I have a better idea, my lord,” said Trixie, holding up a muffin. “Go get the muffin!” she said to Derpy, throwing the muffin into the chamber. Derpy eagerly ran after the muffin, not even realizing that the door shut behind her. “This should make our job easier.”

“Zecora, you can at least start the Thunder Chamber,” said Nightmare.

“Yes, my lord, Nightmare Moon,” said Zecora, pressing a button on a console, “The green ranger will be brought about soon.”

Time passed, and eventually the chamber opened, releasing lots of green smoke. Derpy was standing in the middle of the chamber, holding a coin in her hoof. Her expression was different from before. Her eyes were straight and she wore a more serious and evil look.

“Now,” shouted Nightmare, “morph into the green ranger!”

Derpy held the coin she was holding in front of her. “Thunder!” she shouted, then she morphed into the green ranger.

“Yes!” exclaimed Nightmare, “Success! Trixie! Get a picture of me with Derpy!”

“Actually, we need to send her down to Ponyville immediately.” said Trixie.

“Very well,” said Nightmare, “Zecora, make some putties.”

“No,” said Derpy, “I will go alone. My powers are far greater than you may think.”

“Very well, go.”

In Ponyville, rumors regarding Trixie’s appearance as well as Derpy’s disappearance were spreading like wildfire. But there were only five ponies who knew the truth of what was going on.

“Fluttershy and I looked all over Cloudsdale,” said Rainbow Dash, coming to the other three rangers.

“And ah looked around the Everfree Forest,” said Applejack.

“Maybe we have to go in the Forest,” said Rainbow Dash.

“ARE YOU CRAZY, WOMAN?” shouted Fluttershy. “The Everfree Forest is full of really creepy things. I’ve heard that Zecora and the manticore come from there.”

“Then we’ll go morphed,” said Applejack.

“And I did not talk at all in this scene,” said Pinkie Pie.

“Thank god,” mumbled Rarity.

“Here we are,” said Applejack as the rangers stood in front of the Everfree Forest.

“Okay,” said Rainbow Dash. “It’s best we don’t take any chances. It’s morphin’ time!”

“Honesty!”

“Kindness!”

“Laughter!”

“Generosity!”

“Loyalty!”

The now morphed rangers then carefully proceeded into the forest. Little did they know, a grey pegasus was flying just over their heads.

“That’s right, my little ponies,” said the pegasus, “Walk right into my trap.” The pegasus then followed the rangers.

The rangers proceeded into a strange clearing in the forest.

“Well, that’s odd,” said Pinkie Pie.

“Yeah, and it’s quiet,” added Rainbow Dash.

“Then let me make some noise,” said Derpy to herself as she flew down to meet the rangers, morphing before she was in their view.

“What’s that?” shouted Fluttershy as she noticed Derpy (morphed) coming down toward them.

“Move!” shouted Rainbow Dash as Derpy came to the ground.

The rangers leapt in different directions as the green ranger hit the ground where they were.

“Pony rangers,” said Derpy, “I come bearing a message from Nightmare Moon.”

“And just who are you?” asked Rarity. “And where did you get that uniform?”

“I am Nightmare Moon’s green pony ranger. The one who will destroy all of you.”

“If you’re a pony ranger,” said Rainbow Dash, “you should be fighting Nightmare Moon, not helping her.”

“For you rangers, it may seem a strange concept. But you will soon see that Nightmare Moon is truly the ultimate power. But first, you will succumb to the power of thunder.” Derpy then charged at Pinkie Pie, who was caught off guard and thrown to the ground before she could react.

“Now that was a dirty trick,” said Pinkie.

“I’m just getting started,” said Derpy. “Who’s next?”

Derpy was met by Rarity, charging at her head-on. “Take this, you ruffian!” shouted Rarity. She managed to hit Derpy, but to little effect.

“Was that supposed to hurt?” asked Derpy, throwing Rarity into Pinkie Pie.

“Fight a pegasus with a pegasus!” shouted Rainbow Dash, charging at Derpy.

“You might actually be a challenge,” said Derpy, quickly going airborne.

“You’re not getting away that easily,” said Rainbow, chasing Derpy.

The two fought in the air. Rainbow seemed to have an advantage over Derpy, until Derpy spotted a cloud just out of Rainbow’s view. She went for the cloud and flung it at Rainbow Dash, seeming to do nothing until Derpy came up from Rainbow’s side and knocked her into the ground.

Rainbow Dash hit the ground hard, shaking several trees. Then, she de-morphed from taking so bad of a beating. When Derpy came down to finish Rainbow, she found out the identity of who she was fighting. “I will finish you another time, Rainbow Dash,” said Derpy as she teleported away.

The other rangers came to Rainbow’s side to try to help her. Then Pinkie asked, “Do you think it’s a bad thing that that weird green ranger knows who you are?”

“I think it’s really bad,” replied Rainbow Dash.

“You were unable to defeat them?” scolded Nightmare Moon as Derpy returned.

“No,” replied Derpy, “but I have something better... the identity of the red ranger.”

“I’m curious... tell me.”

At Canterlot castle, the rangers met with Spike and Celestia.

“How can there be an evil pony ranger?” asked Applejack.

“I don’t know,” replied Celestia. “My sister has powers that I cannot even fathom.”

“You girls are lucky to even be alive,” said Spike. “That green ranger has some really strong powers that we can’t understand. I’ll have Celestia’s student study today’s battle.”

“Who would that be?” asked Rarity.

“You will find out in time,” replied Celestia. “For now, we must ready ourselves for what is to come...”

TO BE CONTINUED!

No Laughing Matter

Foreword: This is where the plot trails off. Derpy is the green ranger for more than one episode and she knows the identity of the red ranger (Rainbow Dash). Also, Derpy and Rainbow Dash will be rivals, so this will turn interesting very quickly. This foreword has gotten too long...

The scene opens on Derpy standing in the middle of a room at Nightmare’s moonbase, waiting for her. Then, Nightmare walks in.

“Derpy,” she said, “I have something very important for you to do.”

“Whatever it is,” said Derpy, “I’ll do it.”

“I need you to go back to Ponyville and-”

“What?” shouted Derpy. “Why do I have to go back? What have I done wrong?”

“You have done nothing wrong,” said Nightmare. “I only need you there so the ponies down there don’t become suspicious of you being gone.”

Derpy stood there, about to say something in protest, but instead sighed. “Very well,” she finally said. “If it your wish, I want nothing more than to fulfill it.”

“Very good, and in return, I will have a surprise for you.”

“Is it a muffin?”

“No, it is much better, and you will be able to easily defeat the Pony Rangers with it.”

“Can I still get a muffin while I’m at Ponyville?”

“Yes, you can have your muffins.”

“Thank you, Lord Moon.” After she said that, Derpy walked out of the room. She then teleported down to a clearing in the Everfree Forest where no-pony would have seen her. “If it is Nightmare Moon’s wish,” she said to herself, “it’s as good as done.” Then she flew out of the forest to Cloudsdale.

At Cloudsdale, we see Rainbow Dash talking with Scootaloo.

“No, Scootaloo,” said Rainbow Dash, “I’m not going to tell you where I’ve been the past two days.”

“Why not?” argued Scootaloo. “it’s not like you’re some super pony who’s saving the world.”

Rainbow flinched a little on the inside, but kept calm. “No, you’re right, but I’m still not going to tell you.”

“Fine,” said Scootaloo as she flew off.

Rainbow was about to take off when some pony crashed into her. It was Derpy.

“Derpy!” shouted Rainbow Dash, “what are you doing?”

“Nothing,” said Derpy, “just flying around.”

“The way you are, I’m not surprised,” Rainbow mumbled to herself, but her comment was still heard by Derpy.

“I’d better go,” said Derpy. “See you soon, Rainbow Dash.” Then Derpy flew off, saying “Real soon...” to herself.

Rainbow Dash stood there for a moment. “Is it me,” she finally said, “or is Derpy... different? Eh, it’s probably nothing.”

Rainbow Dash flew off, but Derpy remained hidden where she was. “So,” Derpy said to herself, “it was Rainbow Dash I saw yesterday... this will be fun. But first, I need a muffin.” Derpy then flew off.

At Canterlot Castle, Fluttershy and Spike were discussing the battle with the green ranger.

“I did see something on her suit,” said Fluttershy.

“Really?” said Spike, “What was it?”

“I’m not sure... It looked like... bubbles on her flank.”

“That might be her cutie mark. This is a very important detail.”

“I’ll go tell Rainbow Dash right away.” Fluttershy then flew off to get Rainbow Dash, but she walked in just as Fluttershy was about to leave.

“Fluttershy,” said Rainbow, “where are you going?”

“I was about to go get you,” replied Fluttershy. “I think we can ID our green ranger.”

“Really? How?”

“I saw what her cutie mark was.”

“What is it?”

“Bubbles.”

“That’s the evil green ranger’s cutie mark? Bubbles?”

“Yes... at least I think so.”

“Hmm...” Rainbow stood there thinking to herself for a moment. “I can’t think of any-pony it could be.”

At that moment, Celestia warped in. “It had to have been a pegasus,” said Celestia. “That will narrow down the search.”

“Also,” said Rainbow, “I did get a faint view of her eyes. They were yellow.”

“We better go try to find out who this green ranger is before she does something dangerous,” said Fluttershy.

Derpy was at Sugarcube Corner to order a muffin. A pink earth pony with a curly mane was at the counter with her back turned.

“Can I get a muffin to go?” asked Derpy.

“Sure,” said Pinkie Pie turning around.

“Do I know you from somewhere?” asked Derpy.

“I don’t think we’ve met before. I’m Pinkie Pie.”

“Okay, I’ll have a muffin to go.”

“Coming right up,” said Pinkie as she heard the phone ring in the kitchen. “I’m sorry, but I have to take this call.”

“Not a problem,” said Derpy as Pinkie went to answer the phone.

Pinkie answered the phone. “Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie Pie speaking... Oh, hi Rainbow Dash! What’s up?... The identity of the green ranger?... Ok, I’ll be on the lookout for somepony like that... Ok, bye.” Pinkie then grabbed the bag with the muffin in it and gave it to Derpy.

“Thank you,” said Derpy as she grabbed the bag and walked off.

As Derpy was leaving, Pinkie noticed Derpy’s cutie mark, bubbles. Before Pinkie could put 2 and 2 together, Derpy had left. Then, Pinkie had a grave realization. “Oh, no,” she said, “I gave her a cupcake!” At that moment, Derpy walked back in. “I’m sorry, ma’am, here’s your muffin,” said Pinkie, giving Derpy a different bag.

Derpy set the other bag on the counter. “Thank you,” she said as she grabbed the other bag.

Pinkie noticed the color of Derpy’s eyes, yellow. Everything came together in Pinkie’s mind. Derpy was the green ranger. “I’m sorry, ma’am,” said Pinkie, “but can you stay here for about five minutes while I make a phone call?”

“I could,” replied Derpy.

Pinkie was backing into the kitchen. “Good, now don’t move.” When Pinkie got out of Derpy’s sight, she pressed herself against the wall and started breathing heavily. “Should I morph and fight her?” she asked herself, “or should I call Rainbow Dash for backup?” She stood there for about a minute until she finally decided to call Rainbow Dash.

She was about to get the phone when she was stopped by a voice behind her saying, “Have to make a call?” It was Derpy standing in the doorway. “Well, don’t let me interrupt anything, pink ranger!” Pinkie tried to reach for the phone, but Derpy tackled her to the ground.

“Why, Derpy? Why are you serving Nightmare Moon?”

“Because she gave me muffins.”

“Really? If I gave you a muffin right now, would you fight against Nightmare Moon?”

“No, she also gave me the power of thunder. Now, no pony will think of me as the old Derpy Hooves. Now, ponies will fear me.”

“Not if I can help it!” Pinkie then threw Derpy off of her and sprang up on her hooves.

“Bad choice,” said Derpy as she flew at Pinkie. Pinkie tried to counter-attack, but Derpy swerved out of the way at the last second and came back around and knocked Pinkie against the wall, unconscious. “Huh,” said Derpy after a pause, “Walk in for a muffin; defeat a pony ranger. I can live with that.” Then, Derpy heard the phone ring. “Hmm... if I’m correct...” She then went over to answer the phone. Rainbow Dash was on the other line.

“Hello? Pinkie?”

“No Pinkie, here. Just your old pal, the green ranger.”

“What!? What have you done with Pinkie Pie?”

“Oh, she’s alive. But if you want to see her again, you’ll be waiting at Canterlot Castle, where I will attack. And you will be alone.”

“Fine.”

Later that day, Rainbow Dash was waiting, already morphed. At the same time, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy were searching Ponyville for Pinkie Pie with little success. Suddenly, Rainbow Dash saw a large green dragon-like figure in the distance, and it was headed straight for Ponyville!

TO BE CONTINUED!

Sorry, No Muffinzord

Foreword: This series will have its own plot. It’s only loosely based off of MMPR. Now, the thrilling debut of the Dragonzord!

Rainbow Dash stood in awe as she saw the Dragonzord advance over the horizon. “Oh, no,” she said, “the others are still in Ponyville. I guess I have to work with just the Tyrannozord.” Rainbow Dash then ran to the top of the castle, where she manually activated the Tyrannozord. It burst to life and jumped out of its fissure. Rainbow Dash flew up and entered the Tyrannozord. “It’s just you and me, big guy,” she said to the Tyrannozord. “Now let’s go steal somepony’s thunder!”

The Dragonzord was being piloted by Derpy, who was attacking Ponyville as an attempt to draw out Rainbow Dash. “Call me Derp now, Ponyville!” she shouted as she sent the Dragonzord rampaging.

The Dragonzord was about to stomp out town hall when it was tackled by the Tyrannozord. “We meet again, green ranger,” said Rainbow Dash.

“Indeed we do,” replied Derpy. “Does my new ride have swag written all over it, or what?”

Rainbow Dash was a little confused by the question, but after seeing that it wasn’t an attempt to distract her, she replied. “No, not really.”

“Oh,” said Derpy. “Oh well, moving on from that... DIE!” She then sent the Dragonzord charging towards the Tyrannozord.

Rainbow Dash moved the Tyrannozord out of the way and into position for a counterattack, but Derpy’s green ranger powers made her much smarter than Rainbow Dash planned for, which resulted in the Tyrannozord taking a powerful hit to the chest. The zord was damaged, but Rainbow Dash got it back up. Derpy charged, but Rainbow Dash had more than one trick up her sleeve. She used the Tyrannozord’s powerful jaws to try to get a grip on one of the Dragonzord’s arms with little success. However, that was just to distract Derpy while an attack was made with the Tyrannozord’s tail. The attack landed, knocking the Dragonzord 5 football fields away. Derpy tried to get the Dragonzord back up, but it was too heavily damaged. “I’ll get you next time, red ranger!” shouted Derpy as she teleported the Dragonzord away.

Back at Ponyville, the other three rangers were still looking for Pinkie Pie.

“Rarity,” said Applejack, “have you found Pinkie yet?”

“No,” she replied, “my unicorn magic isn’t strong enough. If only-”

“Look!” Fluttershy suddenly shouted. “I think I see Pinkie!” Fluttershy pointed to an area on the outskirts of Ponyville where Pinkie Pie was battling a group of putty ponies who tried to capture her.

“Let’s go help her,” said Applejack.

The three then rushed to Pinkie’s aid. They only just got there when the putties retreated.

“Thanks girls,” said Pinkie, “I really needed that help.”

“Don’t thank us,” said Fluttershy, “They left before we got here.”

At that moment, Rainbow Dash flew in. “I saw a group of putties, where did they go?”

“I’m not sure,” said Rarity. “We should get back to Canterlot and plan out what our next move is.”

The five then rushed to Canterlot. Sweetie Belle was hiding behind a corner listening to the whole conversation. “Well,” she said, “this is going deeper than I thought it would. I can’t wait to see the look on Apple Bloom and Scootaloo’s faces when they find out our sisters are the Pony Rangers.”

At the moon base, Derpy was talking to Zecora about the Dragonzord. “It works like a charm,” said Derpy, “But it was beaten by one zord. It needs power that rivals that of the megazord.”

“This is a problem, indeed,” said Zecora, “but perhaps it is their power that we must impede.”

“So, what you’re saying is that we need a way to lower the megazord’s power?”

“I would have said that in faster time, but I can only speak with rhyme.”

“Then I’m going straight to Nightmare Moon. Hopefully she will be less annoying.” Derpy then walked off.

“It is not my fault I talk like this, but this language gives me bliss.” Zecora said that to herself and then went to work on the Dragonzord.

At Canterlot Castle, the rangers were discussing what they should do about the Dragonzord. Princess Celestia and Spike were also in the conversation.

“It’s a good thing the Tyrannozord was able to combat the Dragonzord,” said Celestia, “but after playing the battle video several times, I found that the Dragonzord Rainbow Dash fought may have been a prototype.”

“You record our battles?” asked Applejack.

“Yes,” said Spike, “but we’re getting off topic.”

“Princess,” said Rarity, “the Dragonzord may not be our only concern at the moment.”

“Yeah,” added Rainbow Dash, “we have to find out who this green ranger is. If she knows my identity, it could spell real trouble.”

“Pinkie,” said Fluttershy, “didn’t you get attacked by the green ranger when she was de-morphed?”

“Yes,” Pinkie replied, “but I think I have mild amnesia. All I remember is that she ordered a muffin, and... AND I GAVE HER A CUPCAKE!” Pinkie started bursting into tears.

Rainbow Dash stood there thinking out loud as Pinkie cried. “Muffins... muffins... I think we can really narrow this down. Fluttershy, come with me to Cloudsdale. I think I have an idea as to who the green ranger might be.”

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash flew off, leaving the others at the castle. “We should probably search Ponyville,” said Applejack.

“Ok,” said Rarity. As Applejack started walking out, Rarity stopped her. “Aren’t we forgetting something?” asked Rarity, indicating Pinkie Pie, still crying over the cupcake.

“Pinkie,” said Spike, “if you stop crying, I’ll give you a cupcake.”

“Okay,” said Pinkie, cutting her crying and going straight to her usual happy mood.

“I will never understand that pony,” said Celestia. The rangers then walked off in search of the green ranger.

At Cloudsdale, Derpy had returned. “Now,” she said, “I just have to wait down here for a few more hours while Zecora finishes the Dragonzord.” Derpy then flew off.

Rainbow Dash happened to be flying towards Derpy. As they passed each other, Derpy shot Rainbow Dash a strange glare. “I wonder what that was all about...” Rainbow Dash said to herself. “And it wasn’t just Derpy being Derpy, either. Something’s not right.” She then began to follow Derpy.

Derpy noticed Rainbow Dash following her. “Oh,” she said, holding her iPhone, checking her Twitter, “I’d better follow her back.” She then clicked the “follow” button. Suddenly, she saw Rainbow Dash flying toward her. “Unfollow,” she said as she unfollowed Rainbow Dash. She turned around to meet her. “Hi, Rainbow Dash.”

“Derpy, what was with that glare you gave me?”

“Um... I’m cross eyed?”

“Derpy, I need to talk to you.”

“About what?”

“About the pony rangers. Have you heard of them?”

“Who hasn’t either heard of them or had their house stepped on by one of their zords?”

“How do you know what a zord is?”

“That depends... HOW DID YOU KNOW I WAS THE GREEN RANGER?”

“You’re the green ranger?”

“Um...” Derpy, obviously exposed, then took out the green dragon coin. “So, you know who I am. Now, the question is, why haven’t you and your friends figured it out sooner?”

Rainbow Dash pulled out her morpher. “I guess we didn’t expect you. Nightmare Moon must be trickier than we thought.”

“Oh, she’s full of surprises.”

“Well, here’s your surprise.” Rainbow Dash flew quickly towards Derpy and punched her. She then flew down to Ponyville with Derpy following her.

At the moon base, Nightmare Moon had found out that Derpy had been exposed. She then shouted in anger. “ZECORA! THERE’S NO PONY TO BLAME HERE, SO I WILL BLAME THE ZEBRA!”

Zecora just turned to her console. “You don’t give me enough credit,” she said pressing a button.

“Aren’t you going to make one of you’re annoying rhymes?” asked Nightmare.

“I would make a rhyme, but the author has no time.”

Nightmare stood there for a second, then spoke. “What did that button you pressed do?”

“It sent the Dragonzord to Derpy’s aid. It is improved, and ready to raid.”

Back at Ponyville, Derpy and Rainbow Dash were fighting. Many ponies were watching in wonder. They took their fight past Carousel Boutique, Sugarcube Corner, and even the market. The two ended up near Sweet Apple Acres.

“Huh,” said Rainbow Dash, “that worked out better than I thought.”

“Really?” asked Derpy. “There’s no pony around to help you.”

“I wouldn’t be too sure.” As Rainbow Dash said that, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy (who happened to be at the market when the fight passed there), and Applejack ran in next to Rainbow Dash. “It was my plot to gather the attention of the other rangers. Now, make this easier on the author and morph with us.”

“Fine,” said Derpy. “Go ahead.”

All the rangers (including Derpy) pulled out their morphers. “It’s morphin time!” shouted Rainbow Dash.

“Honesty!” shouted Applejack.

“Kindness!” shouted Fluttershy.

“Laughter!” shouted Pinkie Pie.

“Generosity!” shouted Rarity.

“Loyalty!” shouted Rainbow Dash.

“Thunder!” shouted Derpy.

All the pony rangers were morphed and ready for battle. Derpy took the first move, scattering the rangers. Fluttershy charged at Derpy, but Derpy dodged her attack and counter attacked. Applejack went at Derpy with a volley of kicks, all of which Derpy dodged. Pinkie tried to attack Derpy from the air, which wasn’t a good idea to do on a pegasus. Rarity tried to use her magic to attack Derpy, but it wasn’t strong enough. After defeating the other four rangers, Derpy turned her attention to Rainbow Dash. The two then began circling each other.

“So,” said Rainbow Dash, “I finally find that you’re the mystery mare.”

“To be honest,” said Derpy, “I’m surprised you didn’t find out sooner. Now, prepare to die.” As Derpy said this, the Dragonzord that Zecora sent down earlier. “Oh, I didn’t call that, but it works.”

“Rangers!” shouted Rainbow Dash, “we need dinozord power, now!”

The dinozords then came out of where they were hiding. They then rushed towards the rangers, who got into their respective zords. The zords then combined to form the megazord.

“You really think that will be enough for my finished Dragonzord?”

“Yes, I have a feeling it will be more than enough.”

The Dragonzord and megazord clashed. The megazord had more power than the Dragonzord, but it was slower as well. The Dragonzord got many hits in, but the megazord was still standing. At least until it got tripped by the Dragonzord’s tail. The Dragonzord went in for the kill, but the rangers weren’t about to give up just yet. “We need the power sword, now!” called Rainbow Dash. The power sword came down from the sky and struck the Dragonzord. The megazord then grabbed the power sword and hacked and slashed at the Dragonzord until it retreated. Victory belonged to the rangers.

Afternote: Here’s where the rangers hide their morphers (for those who are bugging me):

Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Derpy: tucked behind their wings.

Rarity: summoned by magic

Applejack: hidden in hat

Pinkie Pie: hidden in her poofy-as-hell mane

Now you know.

Also, I KNOW I'VE MIS-SPELLED ALICORN! STOP BUGGING ME!!!

Blackmail

Foreword: I am now semi-active with my blog, so... NO MORE FOREWORDS/AFTERNOTES! :D Anyway... you may resume your reading.

Derpy was walking through the moon base towards the muffin bar when she caught an angry gaze from Gilda. “What do you want?” asked Derpy.

Gilda stood and walked over to Derpy. “You think you’re Nightmare Moon’s air mare?” she asked.

“Yes, considering you’re a griffon, not a pony.”

“I walked into that one...”

“What’s your point?”

“My point? My point is that since you’ve gotten here, Nightmare Moon has been treating you like you’re a cut above the rest of us... No flight pun intended.”

“Well, maybe I am. Or maybe you’re just too scared to volunteer to go down to Equestria and fight the Pony Rangers.”

“At least I don’t have to waste time shouting something to be ready for combat.”

“You did NOT just go there. I could beat you without morphing.”

“Could you, now?” The two were about to fight when Nightmare Moon walked in.

“You two are getting along, I hope,” she said.

“Yes,” said Derpy through gritted teeth. “We’re the best of friends.”

“Good. Now, one of you go down to Equestria and try to defeat those Pony Rangers. Zecora said she has a new strategy this time.” Nightmare walked off.

“Stay here, pony,” Gilda said, getting up. “Leave this one to the professionals.”

“Fine,” replied Derpy. “I’d like nothing more than to see you getting owned by those Pony Rangers.”

“I’ll destroy all six of them, green. Lucky for you, I’m focusing on the first five... for now.” Gilda walked off.

At Canterlot, Spike is conversing with an unknown purple unicorn. Rainbow Dash comes in as the unicorn walked off. “Who was that?” Rainbow asked Spike.

“The princess’ student,” he said. “But she really wants her identity to be a secret for as long as possible.”

“Okay...”

“Anyway, what did you want?”

“I wanted to talk to Celestia about Derpy. Her powers are obviously greater than any of ours. We need to devise a new strategy.”

“Okay. The princess’ student is already working on upgrading the zords. I guess we can have a strategy.”

“Thanks, Spike.” Rainbow walked to the room where Princess Celestia was.

“Hello, Rainbow Dash,” said Celestia. “How are you?”

“I’m fine,” said Dash, “I wanted to discuss a strategy against Derpy.”

“Okay, let’s see what we can come up with.”

At Cloudsdale, Fluttershy was doing a little flyby when she noticed Derpy below her. “What is she doing here?” Fluttershy said to herself. She flew down to meet Derpy. “Derpy,” said Fluttershy behind Derpy, “what are you doing here?”

“Apparently, there are elements at the moon that keep me from staying there, so I’m forced to stay down here.”

“Did you really think you could stay here in peace?”

“No. That’s why I have blackmail on my side.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“If you expose me as the green ranger, I’ll make sure you and your friends suffer the same fate.”

Fluttershy stepped back in horror. “You wouldn’t dare.”

“Try me. In the meantime, I shall take my leave.” Derpy flew off.

“I have to get this to the princess.” said Fluttershy flying towards Canterlot.

Back at the castle, the rangers (except Fluttershy), Spike, and Celestia were all trying to determine what the best approach against Derpy would be.

“Ah did see Derpy still here in Ponyville the other day,” said Applejack.

“Maybe we can expose her to the public and get her somehow thrown out of Ponyville and eventually Equestria,” added Rarity.

At that moment, Fluttershy walked in. “Fluttershy,” said Celestia, “where have you been? We just agreed on a strategy for defeating Derpy.”

“I was in Cloudsdale on my way over here.” said Fluttershy. “I ran into Derpy. We didn’t fight, but she did say she was going to be permanent down here in Equestria. But that’s not the worst part. She threatened to expose our identities if we exposed her.”

“Damn,” said Pinkie Pie. “That was our whole strategy. Now what are we going to- MNPH!” A bar of soap was suddenly flung into Pinkie’s mouth by Spike. Pinkie spat the soap out. “I likely deserved that.”

“Anyway,” said Rainbow Dash after a short pause, “if Derpy’s threatening us with blackmail, then we’re just gonna have to live with her among us.”

“That may not be so easy at the moment,” said Celestia, bringing up video of putty ponies attacking Ponyville.

“We’ll deal with Derpy later,” said Dash. “It’s morphin time!”

“Honesty!”

“Kindness!”

“Laughter!”

“Generosity!”

“Loyalty!”

The scene cuts to Derpy seeing Gilda’s attack. “I told her to leave this to the professionals,” she then took out her power coin and morphed. “Thunder!”

The rangers fought a large wave of putty ponies at Ponyville. Fluttershy tried to get all the civilian ponies to safety. Rainbow Dash went for Gilda, who was leading the attack. However, she was knocked to the ground by Derpy. “Derpy!” said Dash, “I should have known you would have something to do with this.”

“Surprisingly enough,” said Derpy, “I have nothing to do with this attack. I just hopped on the train as it left the station.”

“What?”

“Blame agent_cupcakes.”

“Who?”

“The author of this story.”

“Why?”

“Because he’s the one who writes this stuff.”

“How?”

“I don’t know. Why are you asking me these questions?”

“Blame agent_cupcakes.”

“Here we go, again.”

“You know I hate dialogue.” Dash then punched Derpy to get her off. Derpy got up from where she fell and charged at Dash. Dash dodged Derpy’s attack and gave her a mule kick, knocking Derpy to the ground again. Dash charged, but was hit by Gilda, who decided to join the battle. “Come on,” shouted Dash, “I’ll take you both on if I have to.” Gilda and Derpy charged at Dash. She tried to fly to dodge them, but she forgot they could fly as well. She was trying to outfly them, but the two kept advancing.

“Derpy,” said Gilda, seeming to stay fixated on Dash, “why are you here anyway? This is my attack.”

“I told you to leave this to the professionals,” replied Derpy.

“Okay, so leave,” said Gilda, bumping Derpy out of the way.

Derpy stopped advancing for a moment to try to recover. “You did not want to do that, Gilda.” Derpy started flying at twice her previous speed, except not towards Dash, but towards Gilda. Derpy caught up with Gilda and tried to knock her out of the way. Gilda counter-attacked, but Derpy barely took any of the hit. Derpy tried to get behind Gilda to attack her from behind, but Gilda grabbed Derpy’s hoof and threw her to the ground.

Rainbow Dash was just flying idly, watching the two fight. “Huh,” she said to herself. “For a moment, I thought I was really gonna have to fight them both. Well, only thing to do now is get a better seat for this show.” Dash flew to the ground to see Gilda and Derpy fight each other, both taking no notice of the Pony Rangers looking on.

“Um,” said Fluttershy, “should we do something?”

“Nah,” said Applejack, “I think they’ll wear each other out and we’ll just finish the winner.”

Gilda and Derpy continued to fight until Derpy broke away from the fight. “You idiot!” she said, “you didn’t notice that the Pony Rangers were here watching us the whole time?”

“Oh,” said Gilda, “It’s not like you tried to tell me.”

Derpy started to get angry. She was the green ranger, but you could see her face turning red. “I WAS TRYING TO STOP YOU THE WHOLE TIME, BUT YOU KEPT FIGHTING ME WHEN YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIGHTING THEM!”

“Yeah,” said Pinkie, “I think we should fight them now while they’re arguing.”

Four of the rangers attacked Gilda, but Rainbow Dash went for Derpy. They all fought for a long period of time. Nightmare Moon was watching from her lunar base. “Well, this turned out to be a bad idea,” she said. She then walked outside, charging her horn with dark energy. “Lunar powers, make Gilda... GROW!” She then fired a ball of energy towards Equestria. “Zecora, send the Dragonzord.”

The ball of energy hit Gilda and caused her to grow. At the same time, the Dragonzord landed after being launched from the moon. Rainbow Dash stepped forward. “We need dinozord power, now!”

The Tyrannozord jumped out of the fissure it was hiding in and ran towards Rainbow Dash, who entered the zord. The mastodon ran out of the iceberg it was kept in and ran towards Ponyville, showing off its power by charging through any icebergs in its way. When it got to Ponyville, Rarity jumped in. The triceratops rose out of the sand of its desert and rolled towards Ponyville on wheels. Applejack entered the zord. The sabre-tooth tiger came out of its jungle, showing off its dexterity and speed by leaping over the tall trees. Fluttershy flew into the zord. The pterodactyl flew out of its volcano, causing a minor eruption. Pinkie Pie leapt up into the zord. The zords, save the pterodactyl zord, combined to form the tank zord. The zord stood and the pterodactyl flew in to form the chestplate of the megazord. The rangers then took an offensive stance against their two opponents.

Gilda and the Dragonzord charged at the megazord. The megazord ran at the two as well. The megazord gave Gilda a left roundhouse, knocking her over, but leaving the rangers open for a fire blast from the Dragonzord. The rangers quickly dodged. “We need the power sword, now!” shouted Rainbow Dash. The power sword fell from the sky into the megazord’s hand. Gilda and Derpy didn’t back down. The rangers slashed at Gilda, but she blocked the attack with her talons. However, the rangers gave Gilda a left hook, opening her for a successful hit.Gilda teleported away in defeat, but Derpy wasn’t backing down. She readied the Dragonzord’s finger rockets. The rangers braced for impact as Derpy fired. All 10 of the rockets hit, but there was barely a scratch on the megazord. The rangers saw their opportunity and charged at the Dragonzord. They sliced the Dragonzord’s finger rockets in half. Derpy saw this and teleported away in defeat. Once again, the pony rangers were victorious.

The Swarm

(Back in the saddle, again. Pun intended.)

“Zecora, you have done nothing to try to destroy those Pony Rangers! NOTHING!”

Nightmare was circling Zecora as she scolded the zebra. Gilda and Trixie stood in the corner of the room, watching what was going on. “I apologize, mighty lord of the night, but this time, I have an idea that requires only brains, not might..”

“I’m listening.”

“Those Pony Rangers care much about their town, so my strategy is to bring it down. All we need to do to make them pay is to bring more deadly creatures into play.”

“Okay...” Nightmare then turned to Gilda and Trixie. “Can someone here explain what she’s talking about?”

“She wants to destroy the town the Pony Rangers live in in order to deal a massive mental blow to them, making them weaker than ever using a deadly creature that comes from Equestria,” explained Trixie.

“Very well.” Nightmare then turned back to Zecora. “Now, how do you plan to destroy Ponyville?”

Zecora walked over to her lab. She then held up a heavy cylinder. “This creature is capable of much damage. The entire town, it will ravage. Behold, a creature of untold might. Behold, the powerful Parasprite!” She opened the cylinder and inside was a tiny blue ball with giant eyes and wings. It chirped a little and flew onto Nightmare’s nose.

“That is adorable,” said Gilda. “The zebra wants to play with tiny woodland critters and call them ‘dangerous.’”

Nightmare shook off the Parasprite and got in Zecora’s face. “Do you think this is some kind of joke? Do you see me laughing?”

“I apologize, my lord, for their lack of size, but they have true evil beneath their giant eyes.” She then pulled a basket of muffins off the table.

“Muffins?” asked Trixie. “Somepony won’t like that.

“Not our problem,” said Gilda. “Couldn’t eat more than half a muffin, anyway.”

The Parasprite sniffed at the basket of muffins for a little while, then began devouring the entire basket. In less than two seconds, there wasn’t a crumb of muffin left. Trixie and Gilda fell over, laughing. Nightmare looked on, then turned back to Zecora. “And how, exactly will this help us?”

“They have a voracious appetite, and when they eat enough, they cough up yet another Parasprite. The Rangers will fall, and very soon, Equestria will be your’s, Nightmare Moon.”

“It is impossible to understand you, but that’s a brilliant idea! I want you to send them down immediately!”

“Yes, my lord.” Zecora then walked off to her lab while Nightmare walked off to her throne room.

“This is going to be good,” said Trixie.

Back in Equestria, Fluttershy was trotting around the field just outside Ponyville, picking flowers and humming a cheerful tune. She was about to pick a large yellow flower when she heard a chirping noise. She jumped back a little when she heard it, but then the Parasprite appeared before her. “Oh, aren’t you just the cutest thing,” she said. She then reached into her saddlebag and pulled out an apple. “Are you hungry, little guy?” The Parasprite sniffed the apple a little, then flew around into Fluttershy’s saddlebag and ate every single apple. “Goodness! I guess you were hungry.” The Parasprite flew out of Fluttershy’s saddlebag and nestled itself cozily into her mane and took a nap. “Oh, I’m sure my friends would love to see you. Let’s go meet them right now.” Fluttershy then trotted off back to Ponyville. Meanwhile, Derpy watched from behind a tree.

“What are those?” she asked herself. “Maybe I should go investigate.” She then flew off to Ponyville, trying to get there before Fluttershy.

Back at Sugarcube Corner, Rarity was talking to Pinkie Pie about some upgrades to the zords that the princess’s student installed.

“She said something about upgrades to the tank megazord as well as upgrades to your Pterodactyl zord.”

“That sounds great!” shouted Pinkie, jumping up and down. “Now I can fight monsters on my own like Rainbow Dash?”

“Yes. And we can fight effectively if you’re nowhere to be found, as well.”

“I have no idea who this student is, but I like her.”

Just then, Fluttershy flew into the room. “Rarity! Pinkie Pie! I’m so glad you two are here. I found something and I thought you two might want to see it.”

“Really?” asked Rarity. “What is it?”

“Come on out now, little guy,” she said to the Parasprite hidden in her mane. The Parasprite then popped out and started flying, followed by two more Parasprites.

“Oh, they’re adorable!” said Rarity.

“But I only had one when I came back to Ponyville. I have no idea where these other two came from.”

“I can take one off your hooves,” Rarity replied as one landed in her hooves. “Pinkie, would you like one?”

Pinkie just gagged. “A Parasprite? Are you crazy? Now I have to find a trombone.” She then stormed out of the building.

“A Parasprite?” asked Fluttershy. “And why is she going to get a trombone?”

“It’s probably just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie as usual,” replied Rarity. “Well, I’d better be off.” She then trotted out of the building.

“I guess we’d better get you two home,” Fluttershy said to her two Parasprites.

Just as she had walked out, she heard an all too familiar voice behind her say “Nice day for a little trot, isn’t it?”

Fluttershy turned around and gasped in horror when she confirmed that it was, indeed, Derpy behind her. “Derpy? What are you doing here?”

“Getting a muffin. Why else would I still be in Ponyville?” Just as Derpy said this, one of Fluttershy’s Parasprites flew over and nestled itself into Derpy’s mane. “Hey! What is this?”

“That’s a-”

“It’s adorable! I’m evil and I can’t even refrain from “d’awww-ing.”

“Oh... would you like to... keep it, maybe?”

Derpy was so busy nuzzling the Parasprite that she almost didn’t hear Fluttershy’s question. “Sure,” Derpy finally replied. “I suppose I can take a break from trying to destroy you and your friends to admire this little guy.”

“Okay, sure... I guess? I’ll just be going, then.” Fluttershy then backed away as though Derpy had gone crazy.

“Let’s go back to Cloudsdale, little guy,” Derpy said to the Parasprite. “You must be hungry.”

In Canterlot, Applejack and Spike were discussing how Derpy’s powers and Dragonzord could work.

“I’m sure it isn’t a pure evil energy,” said Spike. “There’s something about her powers and techniques that just doesn’t add up. It’s almost as if... it isn’t Nightmare’s power that holds Derpy. Something entirely different.”

“I’m gonna have to agree with ya, there, Spike,” AJ replied. “Somethin’ just don’t add up.”

Just then, one of the computers began beeping loudly. Spike ran over to see what the trouble was. “Oh no! Nightmare’s sent a monster to Equestria! It’s in Ponyville.”

“I’ll head over there right now. You contact Rainbow Dash.”

AJ rushed out of the room while Spike tried contacting Rainbow Dash. “Rainbow Dash, are you there?”

Back in Cloudsdale, Rainbow Dash was spying on Derpy’s house. Suddenly, her Element began buzzing and Spike’s voice was on the other line. “Uh, yeah. I’m here, Spike,” she said. “What’s wrong?”

“Nightmare’s launched an attack and it’s focused in Ponyville. You need to get down there.”

“Sure, I’ll be right there.”

“Dash, are you spying on Derpy, again?”

“No- maybe- yes,” she said, hanging her head in shame.

“Good. Maybe you should stay there. It would be better if you could intercept Derpy before she could join the fight.”

“Will do.” Dash then put her Element away and resumed her spying. Much to her surprise, however, Derpy was flying back to her house, carrying something. “I’ve got you now, Derpy.” She then charged and tackled Derpy.

“Gah! Rainbow Dash, what are you doing?” shouted Derpy. “You could have hurt my new pet!”

“‘New pet?’ What’s that supposed to mean?”

“This little guy,” Derpy said, showing Dash the Parasprite. “Isn’t he adorable?”

“Uh... sure. What exactly is he?”

“I’m not sure. Fluttershy never told me.”

“Oh. You never said Fluttershy gave it to you.” Couldn’t possibly be Nightmare’s monster, Dash thought to herself.

“Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to feed muffins to this guy.” Derpy then stormed into her house and shut the door.

“Well, I guess there’s no real reason to stay-” she was cut off when she heard Derpy scream from in the house. On instinct, Dash bucked open the door and ran in. “Derpy! Are you okay?”

Derpy was laying on the floor, sobbing. “He- he- he ate everything. Every single muffin. Not one left for me.”

Dash ran over to Derpy’s side. “Derpy, what happened?”

“The little creature. He ate every single muffin I had in a matter of seconds. I ran out of the kitchen, but it’s still in there.” Derpy pointed to the kitchen, then resumed her sobbing.

Rainbow Dash slowly approached the kitchen, where she was instantly bombarded by about a hundred Parasprites, knocking her unconscious. Just then, Spike called Rainbow Dash’s Element. “Rainbow Dash, are you there? Rainbow Dash?”

Derpy got up and answered Spike’s call. “This is Derpy. Rainbow Dash is out cold.”

“Derpy? What have you done to Rainbow Dash?”

“Absolutely nothing, I swear. She was knocked unconscious by a bunch of tiny flying things.”

“That’s what I was calling about. Those tiny flying things are very dangerous creatures called Parasprites. They do nothing but eat food and multiply until they have a force strong enough to destroy their enemies.”

“That would explain both the one Parasprite eating all my muffins as well as the hundreds that appeared out of nowhere. Is there anything I can do to help?”

“How can we trust you?”

“They ate my muffins. Isn’t that reason enough for you? How about this? I’ll help you destroy these Parasprites, but after that, I’m back with Nightmare Moon. Call it a cease-fire?”

“Absolutely not,” said Rainbow Dash, getting up. She then walked over to Derpy and snatched her Element out of Derpy’s hooves. “And give me that back. Spike, fill me in.”

“The small creatures are Parasprites, and they’re extremely dangerous. Also, Derpy’s with us for this battle.”

“First, absolutely not. She tried to kill us several times in the past. Second, have you informed the others?”

“That’s just it. The others were who informed me.”

Some time earlier, Rarity was in her shop, using the Parasprite to help her with some things. “You are such an inspirational little creature. Thanks to you, finally got the last few pieces of imagery I need to finish my new dress line. Here have an apple.” She gave the Parasprite an apple, which it devoured in one bite, nearly taking a piece of Rarity’s hoof. “Hey! Be careful! I worked all morning shining these.” As if not listening to Rarity, the Parasprite began to gag a little. It then coughed up what seemed to be another Parasprite. Sure enough, it was yet another Parasprite. “Ugh! I won’t have a creature that does something so unsanitary and impolite! Out with you two! Out!” She tried to shoo the two Parasprites out, but they wouldn’t budge. Rarity then screamed and galloped out of the boutique, trying to call Fluttershy using her Element, but there was no answer. That’s when she ran into Applejack, who was also running through Ponyville, looking for the others. “Applejack? What are you doing here?”

“I came to warn y'all,” AJ replied. “Nightmare’s launched an attack and the monster’s in Ponyville.”

“I just tried calling Fluttershy, but she wasn’t answering. We need to get there.”

“Where are Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie?”

“Not sure. I haven’t heard anything from Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie stormed off awhile ago for some reason.”

“I’ll call Spike after we get Fluttershy so we can have him look for the others. Let’s go.” Rarity and Applejack then raced off to Fluttershy’s cottage.

Meanwhile, Pinkie Pie was hopping along the road with a shining new tuba hanging around her neck and symbols in her saddlebags. However, she wasn’t looking where she was going and took a wrong turn into a dark alley. “Hey,” she said when she finally looked around. “Where am I?”

“A nice day for a trot, Pony Ranger?” a voice asked.

“What? Who said that? How do you know I’m a Ranger?” Pinkie looked everywhere for the source of the voice, but she couldn’t find it.

“Little do you know that your friends are in danger,” the voice continued.

“Show yourself! Come out here and fight!” As if upon request, Zecora stepped out in front of Pinkie. “Who are you? How do you know that I’m a Ranger?”

“I am Zecora, a minion of Nightmare Moon, and my Parasprites will be your doom very soon.”

“YOU sent the Parasprites? I should have known. This one had Nightmare Moon written all over it from the start. You’re not gonna get away with this.” Pinkie tried to pull out her Element, but it was knocked out of her hooves by a Putty Pony that appeared behind her. She tried to fight off the group that came with the first one, but they quickly overpowered her and pinned her to the ground.

“Oh silly little Pinkie Pie. You cannot defeat me, you should not even try. My Parasprites will destroy you all and all of Equestria will soon fall.”

Back in Ponyville, Applejack and Rarity finally made it to Fluttershy’s cottage. “Fluttershy?” Rarity called as she knocked on the door. “Fluttershy! Open the door.” For while, there was silence. Then the two heard Fluttershy struggling and screaming.

“Fluttershy’s in trouble!” shouted Applejack. “My turn to ‘knock.’” Rarity stepped back as Applejack got in position to buck open the door. Just before Applejack could kick the door down, it exploded open, knocking her and Rarity back in a flood of Parasprites. Fluttershy was also thrown out the door. “Fluttershy!” shouted AJ, running to the downed pegasus.

“Applejack, Rarity, these are dangerous creatures!” Fluttershy said as she got up. “I’d be willing to bet they were sent by Nightmare Moon, but I can’t be sure.” Just then, all three of their Elements began beeping all at once. “It’s a distress call!”

“It’s coming from Pinkie Pie’s Element,” said Rarity. “She must be in danger. I’ll try to find her. You two call Spike and have him call for Rainbow Dash.”

“Okay,” replied Applejack. As Rarity galloped off, AJ turned back to Fluttershy. “You call Spike. I’ll try to get rid of these.”

“Got it,” replied Fluttershy.

Applejack then pulled out her Element and put it on. “Y’all will pay for hurtin’ my friend... IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME!” She then morphed and charged at the wall of Parasprites, who’s eyes all suddenly turned red. They then began charging back at Applejack. AJ tuck-and-rolled to avoid the charge and recovered to buck the wall of Parasprites from behind. (Get your minds out of the gutter -_-) She didn’t really hit anything, however, because the Parasprites dispersed before she could hit one, causing her to fall.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash and Derpy had just gotten Spike’s call and were flying down to Fluttershy’s cottage to help with the battle. “Now, Derpy,” said Rainbow Dash, “we’ll be watching you closely. If you make one step out of line, it will be my pleasure to destroy you on the spot.”

“Will you stop worrying, Dashie?” asked Derpy. “I don’t plan on double-crossing you until I’ve avenged my muffins.”

“Well, start with the vengence now. Look.” Dash pointed down to the wall of Parasprites attacking AJ and Fluttershy. “Ready, Derpy?” Dash asked as she pulled out her Element. Derpy pulled out her Thunder Coin in response. “Okay... IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME! Loyalty!”

“Thunder!”

The two pegasi morphed and rushed down to join the other two Rangers in the battle.

On the other side of Ponyville, Rarity was galloping around, trying to find Pinkie Pie when she suddenly bumped into Sweetie Belle. “Sweetie Belle?” asked Rarity. “What are you doing here?”

“I was looking for you,” Sweetie Belle replied. “There are a bunch of weird creatures flying around all over the shop!”

“Ah! I completely forgot about the two I left there! Sweetie Belle, go...” Rarity quickly racked her brain for somewhere safe for Sweetie Belle to stay. “Go to Sweet Apple Acres with Applebloom while I try to get rid of the Parasprites.”

“The what?”

“Nevermind. Trot along, now,” she said as she pushed Sweetie Belle away.

“Um, sis? Sweet Apple Acres is that way,” Sweetie Belle said, pointing in the other direction.

“Right, now get going.” As Sweetie Belle trotted off, Rarity galloped at top speed towards Carousel Boutique. When she got to her shop, she remembered why she was in town in the first place. She still needed to find Pinkie Pie. “Oh, those Parasprites are probably in there ruining my shop. Oh, but Pinkie Pie could be in danger. I can’t call one of the others out of battle, but my dresses...” Rarity took a deep breath, then sighed. “Don’t worry, Pinkie Pie. I’m coming.” She then reluctantly galloped away from her shop to continue searching for Pinkie.

She eventually decided to check Sugarcube corner, despite the fact that she figured that was the last place anypony trying to defeat the Rangers would hide Pinkie of all ponies. “Pinkie Pie,” Rarity called when she walked in. “Are you here?” She walked cautiously into the dark room, using her horn to light the area around her. She was about in the center of the room when she heard hooves moving around on the floor. “Pinkie? Is that you?” Rarity reached for her Element of Harmony, just in case. She was right to do that, because as soon as she turned around, a wooden staff was being swung right at her head. She dodged, barrel rolled, and morphed, ready for combat. “Who are you?”

Zecora stepped out from the shadows where she was hiding, carrying a wooden bo staff in her hooves. “Good to meet you, Black Ranger. I’m sure that, to you, I’m a stranger. My name is Zecora, a zebra, as you can see. I am the one who captured your friend, Pinkie.”

“I never would have guessed that Pinkie would be overpowered by somepony who wasn’t even a pony. Let alone somepony who can’t even talk correctly.”

“My method of speech is quite true. I don’t need any criticism from you. But it doesn’t matter how I talk. When I’m done with you, you won’t even be able to walk.” Zecora then charged at Rarity with her staff, narrowly missing her. Rarity tried to use her horn to fire a few bolts of magic at Zecora, but her magic wasn’t strong enough to do any real damage. Instead, Rarity tried using hoof-to-hoof combat and was actually working quite well. Her Element amplified her natural abilities, including her melee combat, so she actually stood a chance against Zecora. Zecora wasn’t completely outmatched, though, because she was the one with a weapon. She swung her staff at Rarity with strength, speed, and consistancy. The unrelenting barrage barely gave Rarity any chance to breathe, but still she blocked the attacks with her hooves and even got several hits in on her assailant. After several hits, Zecora had enough. “You are great at combat, I will give you that. When next we meet, you will be beat.” Zecora then teleported away, leaving Rarity to continue her original mission.

“Now, then,” she said to herself, demorphing, “back to finding Pinkie Pie.” It didn’t take much searching before Rarity heard muffled shouting from a nearby closet. When she opened the door, Pinkie Pie, tied up and beaten, fell out of the closet. “Pinkie!” Rarity shouted, tearing the tape off of her friend’s mouth. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah,” Pinkie replied as Rarity finished untying her. “I’m fine. Where are the others? The parasprites are dangerous.”

“We kind of figured that out, already. Come on, the others need us.”

Rarity tried to pull Pinkie out, but Pinkie stopped just before they left the buliding. “Wait. There’s no way we can take them on. There’s too many of them.”

“Don’t worry, Derpy’s with us for this battle.”

“No, I mean Rangers won’t be enough to take on a constantly growing force.” Pinkie stopped for a moment, thinking. Then, she suddenly had an idea. “Go help the others. I’ll be along in a moment.” She then galloped off away from where the others were.

“Pinkie! Wait!” However, Pinkie was already too far away to hear Rarity’s calls. “As though her antics didn’t get us in enough trouble.” Rarity just rolled her eyes and galloped off towards Fluttershy’s cottage to help the other Rangers.

Meanwhile, the other Rangers weren’t exactly having a picnic with the Parasprites. They were outnumbered at least 478 to 1, and the Parasprites were taking advantage of this. “We can’t keep doin’ this for long,” Applejack shouted, getting knocked back and forth by several groups.

“Derpy!” Rainbow Dash shouted, flying away from one attacking group. “Don’t you know how to beat these things?”

“Does it look like I have the solution, here?” Derpy shouted back, trying to dig her way out of a pile of Parasprites. “Fluttershy, aren’t you good with animals, or something?”

“Yes!” Fluttershy squealed back, trying to wave some Parasprites away. “But these aren’t ordinary animals! I have no idea what to do!”

“We’d probably stand a chance if we weren’t down two ponies,” Rainbow Dash said just before getting knocked out of the sky by several kamakaze Parasprites. “Where are Rarity and Pinkie?”

Just then, several pieces of debris were launched at the Parasprites, scattering them all over the place. “Did somepony call me?” asked Rarity from down the path, morphed and ready for action. She then galloped over to join the other Rangers, who were now in a tightly-packed circle. “So, what’s the situation?”

“My count is about 1,912 Parasprites,” Derpy replied. “With you here, our odds are about 382.4 Parasprites per Ranger.”

“Derpy,” Rainbow Dash said, “you realize Pinkie Pie’s the comic relief in the series, right?”

“I know,” Derpy replied, “but she wasn’t here, so I figured I’d fill in for now.” Just then, a Parasprite flew by and smacked Derpy in the face. “Hey! No attacking during a 4th wall breach!” But the Parasprites didn’t seem to listen and instead started dive-bombing the Rangers, who were pretty much defenseless and getting pummeled by the Parasprites.

“We can’t hold out much longer!” Fluttershy shouted. “Where’s Pinkie Pie? She’d make our odds a little better with about 318.666667 Parasprites per Ranger.”

“You two, Fluttershy?” asked Rainbow Dash. Fluttershy just gave a nervous smile befere getting knocked to the ground by several Parasprites and being de-morphed. “Fluttershy! Are you okay?”

“Yeah,” Fluttershy replied. “I’m still alive. LOOK OUT!” Before Rainbow Dash had any time to react, she got knocked to the ground past Fluttershy and was demorphed, herself. Applejack, Rarity, and Derpy suffered similar fates.

“Looks like we’re finished,” said Rainbow Dash. “Nightmare’s won. There’s no hope.” Just as she said this, the Parasprites reared up for the final blow. But before the Parasprites charged, the Rangers heard a noise in the distance almost like a screeching. The Rangers looked up to find the Pterodactyl zord dive-bombing the Parasprites, who were scattering all over the place.

“Hey!” Pinkie Pie called from the cockpit. “Who told you you could throw a party and not invite me?”

“Pinkie Pie?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“So that’s what you galloped off to do,” said Rarity. “Sorry I ever doubted you.”

“I forgive you, Rarity,” Pinkie called. “Now, back to these Parasprites.” She then turned the Pterodactyl zord back to the Parasprites and started firing the Pterodactyl’s flamethrower, completely incinerating the fleeing Parasprites. “Roasted Parasprite, anypony? Sorry, but it’s a little burned.”

“Great job, Pinkie!” Rainbow Dash called as Pinkie flew the Pterodactyl zord back to its volcano hangar. Dash then turned back to Derpy. “And same to you, Derpy.”

“Me?” asked Derpy. “What in Nightmare’s name are you talking about?”

“I knew you had some good in you.”

“Oh, you think I have good in me, do you?” Derpy then pulled out her Thunder Coin and used it to summon the Dragonzord. “Let me be the first to tell you. I don’t.” She then flew up into the cockpit of her zord.

“Should have seen that coming,” Dash said, rolling her eyes. The other Rangers galloped up into combat position, but Dash stopped them. “I’ll handle this myself.” She then took out her Element of Harmony and used it to summon the Tyrannozord into combat. She then flew into the cockpit of her own zord and moved the Tyrannozord to face the Dragonzord.

“Ha!” Derpy laughed. “You think you can beat me?”

“Well, sure,” Dash replied. She then moved the Tyrannozord to strike the Dragonzord with its tail. The Dragonzord stumbled a little, but Derpy wasn’t about to give up that easily. She fired the Dragonzord’s fire breath, striking the Tyrannozord square in the chest. Rainbow Dash struck back with a laser blast from the Tyrannozord’s eyes. Derpy tried to block this attack, but the Dragonzord wasn’t strong enough to defend or fast enough to evade. The Dragonzord was knocked to the ground and comepletly defenseless. Derpy teleported away in defeat and frustration. “One day, Derpy, I promise to show you the light.”

Later at the moon base, Nightmare was scolding Zecora and Derpy. “Zecora, I honestly expected a little success from you. You had one of the most dangerous species on Equestria under your control and you let them get incinerated.” Nightmare then turned to Derpy. “And you. How dare you help the Pony Rangers foil yet another plan. I should launch you into orbit right now for doing such a thing.”

“They attacked me,” Derpy said, not looking up at Nightmare.

“Did they now? Now there’s an interesting development.” Nightmare then turned back to Zecora. “Care to explain?”

“In my defence, Lord Nightmare, I lost control of them, once they got there,” Zecora said. “As they multiplied, my control would divide. This complication was unforseen, but the blame still lies on the Ranger of green.”

“That’s it!” Nightmare shouted, getting frustrated. “Both of you are to blame, but I’m in no mood to punish either of you.” The then trotted out of the room.

Meanwhile, at Sweet Apple Acres, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were all sent there by their sisters. “Does anypony know why your sisters sent you here?” Applebloom asked.

“I dunno,” Scootaloo said, “but Rainbow Dash has been acting kind of strangely, lately. Applejack and Rarity, too?” Applebloom and Sweetie Belle nodded their heads.

“I think I might know what’s going on,” Sweetie Belle said.

“Really?” asked Scootaloo. “What is it, then?”

Sweetie Belle paused for a moment before speaking. “I think our sisters are the Pony Rangers.”

Trixie's Tricks

Rainbow Dash walked into the computer room in Canterlot Castle to find Princess Celestia talking to another pony that Dash didn’t recognize.

“I understand your concern,” Celestia said, “but we just can’t keep you a secret much longer.”

“Um, Princess,” Rainbow Dash called. “Are you busy?”

The other pony galloped off as Celestia turned to Rainbow Dash. “Not at all, Rainbow Dash. What did you need?”

“I was just thinking, Derpy helped us quite a bit the other day with the Parasprites, even though she did double-cross us at the last minute.”

“So, what’s your point?”

“Is there any chance there could be... a sixth Ranger? For our team, I mean.”

Princess Celestia thought about this question for a moment before she answered. “There just might be, but all in good time. Anything else?”

“Not really. I just came by to ask that one question.” Rainbow Dash turned and flew off. “Who was that pony?” she asked herself, flying towards Cloudsdale.

Meanwhile, at the moonbase, Nightmare was scolding her minions for their failures. “Manticore, you underestimated the Rangers and fled before the battle even really began. Gilda, your feud with Derpy cost you both victory. Zecora, you’re monsters were completely out of control, attacking Derpy.” Derpy shot a smirk at Gilda and Zecora, but it quickly vanished when Nightmare walked over to her. “And you, my ultimate weapon, failed not once, but several times, even when you worked without the others. I would have expected better.” Nightmare then walked down the line to Trixie, who was meditating. “Finally, we come to the one clean slate on this base. I expect you to have a plan for an attack that will succeed.”

“Actually, my lord, I do have a plan,” Trixie said, getting up.

“Oh? Let me hear it.”

“All of them, even the Red Ranger, are dependent on somepony to guide them and give them their power. This one pony, in fact, is your sis- I mean, rival, Princess Celestia.”

“Good save,” Derpy whispered to Trixie.

“As well,” Trixie continued, “your primary goal was to see Celestia gone, anyway. Therefore, my plan is to sneak into Canterlot Castle and cast a spell that will cause Celestia to disappear, leaving the Rangers defenseless.”

“That is incredibly crazy,” Nightmare finally said after thinking about Trixie’s plan. “There’s no way it could possibly fail. I suggest you go down and begin immediately! Derpy, take some Putty Ponies and create a distraction in Ponyville.”

“Really?” complained Derpy. “I’m a distraction now?” Nightmare just stared at Derpy with an angry gaze. “Very well, my lord. I shall go to Ponyville immediately.”

“Good,” Nightmare said, walking to the observation deck on the base. She looked out over Equestria. “This time, Celestia, you and your precious Pony Rangers will fall.”

Meanwhile, back in Ponyville, Rainbow Dash was flying casually by, watching everypony go about their regular day. “Not a bad day,” she said to herself. “Too bad there’s a storm in the forecast for this afternoon.” She then continued flying until she got to Fluttershy’s cottage, landing in front of the door and knocking. “Fluttershy, you there?”

Fluttershy opened the door slowly, looking fairly tired. “Yeah,” she replied yawning. “I’m here.”

“You all right, Fluttershy?”

“I’m fine. Just didn’t get much sleep, last night, that’s all.”

“Anyway, you ready for some cloudbusting?”

Fluttershy yawned again. “Yeah, let’s go.” The two began flying off, but Fluttershy got less altitude than usual and eventually collapsed to the ground. Rainbow Dash flew down and woke Fluttershy up again.

“Hey! What were you doing last night, anyway?”

“Scootaloo came over and just gave me an unrelenting barrage of questions about the Pony Rangers. It was weird but I couldn’t just shoo her away. By the time she found out that I had no information to give her, it was about ten.” Fluttershy yawned loudly again. “But I’m still good for cloudbusting.”

“Fluttershy, get some sleep. I can handle cloudbusting with the other pegasi.” Rainbow Dash looked back at Fluttershy, but she was already asleep. Dash rolled her eyes and carried Fluttershy inside. She then flew off, stopping when she spotted Derpy and a group of Putties. “Not now, Derpy!” Dash said to herself. She then used her element to call the other (awake) Rangers into battle and flew down to meet Derpy, herself.

“Ah,” Derpy said, noticing Rainbow Dash. “Exactly as planned.” She then morphed and got ready to greet Rainbow Dash.

“Derpy!” Rainbow Dash shouted, landing and morphing in front of Derpy and the group of Putties. “What are you doing here?”

“What? I can’t take the Putties out for a little trot? ATTACK!” Upon Derpy’s command, the Putty Ponies charged at Rainbow Dash. However, there were only about 6 Putties and they were no match for one morphed Ranger. Dash practically knocked them all out in one kick.

“There’s something going on, Derpy,” Dash said, looking down at the fallen Putties. She then looked back up at Derpy. “What’s your game, this time?”

“Oh, Dashie,” Derpy said with a chuckle. “Do I need a ‘game’ to spend time with an old friend?” Derpy then charged at Rainbow Dash, but was knocked to the ground by a... was that seriously a cake that downed Derpy?

“You called for us?” Pinkie Pie asked as she stood several feet away with Rarity and Applejack behind her.

“Pinkie Pie!” Rainbow Dash called. “It’s good to see you.”

Pinkie and the others galloped over to where Rainbow Dash was. “Where’s Fluttershy?” Rarity asked.

“Asleep. We’ll need to do this one without her. I’m already morphed, so you know the drill, Applejack.”

“Thanks Rainbow Dash,” Applejack said. She then stepped up with Rarity and Pinkie Pie behind her. “IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME!”

“HONESTY!”

“LAUGHTER!”

“GENEROSITY!”

And just like that, it was four Rangers against one. “Well this hardly seems like fair odds,” Derpy said. “How about we even things out? MORE PUTTIES!” Instantly, about 20 Putty Ponies teleported into the battle.

“You three take care of the Putty Ponies,” Rainbow Dash said to the others. “As always, Derpy’s mine.” The others nodded and charged at the Putty Ponies while Rainbow Dash charged at Derpy. Derpy didn’t just see this attack coming... she was expecting it.

“Come and get it,” Derpy said to herself. Just as Rainbow Dash was about to land a punch, Derpy flew up into the air and began flying away.

“Hey!” Dash shouted. “Come back here, you coward!” She then began chasing Derpy through the air.

Meanwhile, at Canterlot Castle, Spike was on DailyMotion, watching tomodachi wa mahou. (For those of you who are fairly out of the loop, this is the Japanese version of MLP.) “Man,” he said to himself, “why do they make me sound more like a girl than usual?”

At the same time, Trixie was busy sneaking her way into the computer room, past Spike who wasn’t paying any attention, anyway. She made her way to the time warp tube where Celestia was imprisoned. “Now,” she said to herself, “bye bye, sun.” But before she could cast her spell, a voice behind her suddenly stopped her.

“Hey!” the voice shouted. “What do you think you’re doing here?”

“Let’s see,” Trixie said sarcastically. “I’m certainly not a Pony Ranger, so what do you think I’m doing here? Delivering pizza, or trying to destroy Celestia? Your guess.”

“I won’t let you do anything to the Princess,” the voice said sternly.

“Ha! You fool. You dare to challenge the great and powerful Trixie?”

“Yes. Yes I do.” The source of the voice was about to charge at Trixie, but Trixie cast a simple beam of magic, causing the other pony to fly across the room and into the corner.

“Now, where was I?” Trixie asked, turning back to the time warp. Her horn began glowing as she cast her spell, but this caused Celestia to wake up before the spell was complete.

“Trixie!” Celestia shouted. “Spike, contact the Rangers now!”

“Too late, fair princess,” Trixie said as she fired a ball of magic towards the time warp. It hit the tube and caused Celestia to start fading away.

“Princess!” Spike shouted, calling the Rangers.

“Too late, little dragon,” Trixie said, using her magic to throw Spike across the room into the other pony and galloped out of the building, teleporting when she got outside.

Back at Fluttershy’s cottage, Rainbow Dash was still chasing Derpy around, the others were still fighting the Putty Ponies, and Fluttershy was still inside, fast asleep. That’s when they all got a distress signal from Spike in Canterlot. “Ah,” Derpy said. “I’m going to assume that Trixie’s plan worked.”

“Trixie’s plan?” Dash asked. “What are you talking about?”

Derpy stopped and let Dash catch up to her. “You mean you didn’t recognize this as a distraction? Our plan all along was for me to create a distraction here in Ponyville to keep you Rangers busy while Trixie breaks into Canterlot Castle and attacks the unprotected Celestia. And now I can see that it worked, so my work here is done.” Derpy then teleported away along with the Putty Ponies.

“What happened?” Applejack asked.

Rainbow Dash flew down quickly to answer Applejack’s question. “This attack was a trap,” she said. “Another of Nightmare’s minions attacked Canterlot directly and did something to Princess Celestia. We need to get over there, now!”

“How are we going to get there in time?” Rarity asked. Suddenly, the four were engulfed in a white light and instantly found themselves in the computer room in Canterlot.

“Thanks, Rarity,” Pinkie said, “but I never knew you could do that.”

“That wasn’t me, Pinkie.”

“Then who was it?” asked Dash. “Spike?”

“It wasn’t Spike,” a voice said. “It was me.”

“And just who are you?” Dash asked.

Just then, there was a bright flash of light in front of the Rangers and the silhouette of a unicorn stood in the middle. The unicorn then stepped forward and stood in front of the Rangers. Her coat was a bright purple and her mane a darker purple with a hot pink and lighter purple stripe through it. “My name... is Twilight Sparkle. And I am Celestia’s secret weapon.”

The Twilight Zone

(Is that not the most generic/cliched title you can think of?)

The Rangers (again, minus Fluttershy) stood in general shock as the Princess’s student, Twilight Sparkle, stood before them after so much secretivity. “Are you ponies okay?” Twilight asked. “You act like you’ve never seen a unicorn before, and I know that would be a lie.”

“It’s just...” Rainbow Dash tried to say. “Why didn’t you reveal yourself sooner?”

“If I revealed myself too early, Nightmare would have focused her attacks on me, and I’m supposed to be some ‘ultimate weapon’. How could I do that if Nightmare sent attack after attack directed at me?”

“Even still,” Rarity said, walking up in front of Twilight, “why didn’t you do anything to stop Trixie when she came and attacked Celestia?”

“Actually, I did try to do something. I tried fighting her, but her magic was well beyond mine, so it was pretty much a mouse against a bear.” Twilight then walked past the Rangers over to Spike. “Spike, can you localize Celestia in the Time Dimension?”

Spike typed some stuff into the console, but all that happened was the computer making a buzzer noise. “Sorry, Twilight,” he said, “but Trixie’s spell is blocking Celestia’s signal.”

“Great.” Twilight then turned to back to the Rangers. “Now, the way I see it, there’s only one way to save Princess Celestia.”

“What do ya have in mind?” Applejack asked, still skeptical.

“We need to take the fight to Trixie. If we can manage to defeat her in combat, her spell might wear off and Celestia will be saved.”

“Hold on a second,” Rainbow Dash said, flying towards Twilight and hovering next to her. “Girls, we hardly know this pony. For all we know, she’s the one who made Celestia disappear!”

“Your skepticism is healthy, Red Ranger,” Twilight said, gently pulling Rainbow Dash back to the ground, “but I can assure you that I’m on your side. Right, Spike?”

“It’s true,” Spike said. “When she first enrolled in Celestia’s schoolf for gifted unicorns, her entrance exam was hatching me from an egg.”

“Okay,” Pinkie said, “If she has Spike’s vote, then I’ll trust her.”

“Me too,” Applejack said.

“Same here,” Rarity added.

Rainbow Dash just stood where she was for a moment before answering. “Fine. What’s your plan here, Twilight?”

“I just told you. Defeat Trixie to reverse the spell.”

“I mean for drawing her out. She isn’t just going to stay here in Equestria and wait around for us to find her.”

“Actually, Dash,” Spike said, waving her over to his console, “you might not be too far off. Trixie’s still in Ponyville.”

“That’s good news, Spike,” Dash said, flying over to where Spike was sitting. “But how’d you find her?”

“Lucky guess,” Spike sarcastically replied, indicating his screen, which showed Trixie leading a group of Putty Ponies through Ponyville.

“There’s no time for you Rangers to lose,” Twilight said to the others. “Go do your job, and when the time comes, I’ll show you why I’m Celestia’s secret weapon.”

“Okay,” Rainbow Dash replied. “Let’s move, Rangers.” The four ponies then galloped out of the building towards Ponyville.

“Wait!” Twilight called. “Don’t you remember that I can teleport all of you directly to Ponyville?”

“Oh, right,” Rarity said. “That reminds me, you need to teach me that spell, one of these days.”

“Sorry, Rarity, but spells like that are only for higher lever unicorns, and it takes years to achieve that title. For now, let me be the secret weapon the princess expects me to be and back you Rangers up however I can.”

“Okay, Twi,” Rainbow Dash said, “Do your thing.”

“Good luck,” Twilight said as she prepared to cast the teleportation spell. As she did this, her horn began to glow first a faint purple, then gradually increased in color intensity until it was lighting most of the area around Twilight. After it looked like the room couldn’t get any brighter, Rainbow Dash and the other Rangers were teleported away, leaving Twilight to colapse onto the ground and breathe heavily. “I’ll get better at that spell, Spike,” she said between breaths. “Trust me.”

Meanwhile, the Rangers fell in a heap just outside of Ponyville thanks to Twilight’s teleportation spell. “That hurt,” Applejack said, getting up.

“I should remind Twilight to work on that spell,” Rarity said. “With magic like that, I could just as easily give her lessons.”

Rainbow Dash recovered instantly and flew up next to the pile of others. “Hey, everypony! We still have an attack to stop and a princess to save!”

“You’re right, Dashie,” Pinkie said, bouncing up as though she hadn’t taken any of the impact. “Come on, we need to get going.” Applejack and Rarity finished dusting themselves off and followed Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie into town.

Meanwhile, at the moon base, Nightmare was busy celebrating her supposed victory. “Yes! Yes! Yes!” she shouted, skipping about happily. “Celestia is no more! Victory is mine!”

Just then, Derpy walked in, rather terrified of the scene she found. “Uhh... is this a bad time?”

Nightmare practially stopped in midair when she heard Derpy, the resumed her regular, imposing and intimidating state as best she could. “No, why? What made you think it was a bad time?”

“But weren’t you just- nevermind. I have an interesting development regarding the Pony Rangers.”

“Yes. Without a guide, they’re crumbling, just like Trixie planned.”

“Actually, that’s not what I meant. In fact, it seems they’re about as organized as ever. But that wasn’t what worried me. What worried me was that they just appeared in Ponyville near Trixie’s current location out of thin air.”

“Well that was magic, Derpy, dear. They have a unicorn on their team.”

“No, the black ranger, Rarity, isn’t capable of such magic, and the only other ally they could possibly have that could do such a thing is Celestia herself. That means it would seem...” Derpy stopped for a moment to count in her head. “It would seem Player 14 has entered the game.”

“Player 14? You mean to tell me that they have yet another ally and this one seems capable of magic that’s on par with Celestia?”

“Actually, I was trying to say that we’ve hit 14 primary characters in this story. Way too many. But what you said, as well.”

` “Well then what are you waiting for?” Nightmare then began shooing Derpy out of the room. “Get down there and do something about it!”

“Yes, my lord,” Derpy replied, flying away.

Nightmare turned around and looked out at Equestria. “Don’t think I’m giving up that easily, Rangers.”

Back in Ponyville, the Putty Ponies were all over the place, attacking buildings and stands and, of course, ponies, all being led by Trixie. Trixie trotted happily through the town under fire. “Ah,” she said to herself, “nothing like destroying an unguarded town to celebrate a total victory.”

“Not so fast, Trixie!” Rainbow Dash shouted, galloping into view along with the other Rangers. “We aren’t finished yet!”

“You think we’re through just because of one little setback,” Applejack shouted.

“But we don’t give up easily,” Rarity added.

“Yeah!” Pinkie added. “And even if we do, we get right back up like a springboard! Ooh! Guys, can we get a springboard? I think that will really help us in future battles. ^_^”

“The point being,” Rainbow Dash resumed, “you may be able to get rid of Celestia, but we’ll always keep fighting.”

“FOR EQUESTRIA!” they all shouted at once, pulling out their morphers.

“Good for you, Rangers,” Derpy said, flying in and landing next to Trixie, Thunder Coin in hoof. “But did you really think Nightmare wasn’t expecting you to get up and dust yourselfves off like that? We’re prepared to give the killshot directly.”

“Then it looks like this will only go one way,” Rainbow Dash said, putting on her Element along with the others. “IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME!”

“HONESTY!”

“LAUGHTER!”

“GENEROSITY!”

“LOYALTY!”

“THUNDER!”

The four Pony Rangers stood against Trixie, Derpy, and the group of Putty Ponies that Trixie used for her prior attack. “CHARGE!” Trixie shouted to the Putty Ponies, who charged towards the Rangers, Derpy and Trixie at the head of the pack. Rainbow Dash flew forward to meet Derpy, Pinkie and AJ taking on Trixie, and Rarity battling the Putties.

Pinkie and AJ split up and attacked Trixie from two separate directions. However, Trixie’s powers were a little stronger than either ranger expected and Trixie teleported several feet away, causing the two rangers to nearly hit each other. However, they quickly recovered before they impacted and instantly began looking around for where Trixie was. They were still looking around when a blast of magic nearly hit them, revealing Trixie standing behind them. Applejack charged head-on at Trixie while Pinkie tried to do a flanking maneuver. Not such an easy combonation for Trixie to counter. Trixie fired at Applejack, but she was knocked to the ground by Pinkie Pie, who charged head on with full force. Trixie was thrown back a little, but she landed on her hooves. “Two earth ponies against the Great and Powerful Trixie?” Trixie shouted. “You two don’t stand a chance. Prepare to- OOF!” She was knocked to the ground by Applejack, who took her chance to attack while Trixie was distracted.

Rarity wasn’t having too much trouble dealing with the Putty Ponies. Sure she was outnumbered 10 to 1, but they were no match for even a single Ranger. Rarity battled with her usual grace, knocking Putties to to the ground left and right. She even used her magic to knock downed Putties into others.

Rainbow Dash and Derpy squared off once again, both trying to do combat at high speed. They flew all around the area where the others were battling, exchanging blow after blow with each other, some making contact, some being blocked. “You better not be holding back because you think there’s some ‘good’ in me, Dashie,” Derpy said with a sinister smile, even though it couldn’t be seen from under her helmet.

“Don’t say that, Derpy,” Dash replied. “I know for a fact that there’s good in you, but Nightmare doesn’t want you to see it within yourself.”

“Silence!” Derpy shouted as she punched Rainbow Dash in the face, causing her to start falling. Dash quickly recovered though and flew up to charge at Derpy head on. Derpy flew down at top speed to do the same.

“You don’t need to be evil, Derpy!”

“That’s what you believe, Dashie.”

The two continued flying at each other, neither one planning on evading the other. They just kept flying, not thinking of anything else but the moment of their impact. Both their expressions as serious as they could get. They were 50 feet from each other. 40. 30. 15.

BOOM!

The two collided, creating a massive explosion, sending up a massive rainbow colored cloud that crackled with thunder and lightning. The wind knocked the other Rangers, Trixie, and all the remaining Putty Ponies off their hooves and tumbling in all directions. When the wind died down, Trixie was facefirst on the ground, the other Rangers were demorphed, and Derpy and Rainbow Dash were in the epicenter of where the explosion was, both on the ground, knocked out cold. Rarity got up slowly, followed by the other Rangers. “What was that?” she asked.

Applejack looked over to find Rainbow Dash and Derpy on the ground. “Look!” she shouted to the other Rangers.

“Rainbow Dash!” Pinkie Pie shouted, galloping towards the fallen Ranger, followed by the other two.

“She’s alive,” Applejack said, “but it looks like she’s out cold.”

“Too bad for you Rangers,” came a voice from behind the three remaining Rangers. They turned around to find Trixie standing behind them, seeming like there wasn’t a scratch on her.

“What?” Rarity shouted. “You weren’t caught in the blast?”

“Of course I was,” Trixie replied. “But being so great and powerful, I have access to a wide variety of spells... including healing spells.” Trixie paused for a moment to brush her mane out of her face. “But I have one more surprise. I know one of Nightmare’s most powerful spells.” Her horn began glowing brightly, the glow quickly encasing her whole body. “I know the Mega Spell!” She then cast the spell and she grew to about 30 stories tall, causing the Rangers to step back a little.

“Great,” Applejack said. “How are we supposed to fight her now without Fluttershy OR Rainbow Dash?”

Just then, their morphers went off. Twilight was trying to contact them. “Hey, Rangers,” she said over their comms. “I see you have a small problem on your hooves.”

“A small problem?” Rarity asked.

“Nevermind the joke. I’m sending you your zords now.”

“Hang on, Twi,” Pinkie Pie said. “We can’t form the Megazord without Fluttershy or Rainbow Dash.”

“Don’t worry. I can use my magic to pilot both of them. Just trust me. Here they come.”

The dinozords stampeded towards Ponyville, the Tyrannozord and Sabre-tooth Tiger zord moving as easily as if they were being piloted by their actual pilots. “Wow,” Rarity said. “Now that’s what I call magic.”

“Come on, Rarity,” Applejack said. “We still need to pilot our own zords.” She then galloped off, followed by Pinkie and Rarity. They all morphed and leapt into their zords. “All right, Twilight, lead the way.”

“With pleasure,” Twilight said. “I’m casting the Megazord Formation Spell, now.”

Using the spell, Twilight combined the zords and formed the Megazord in about a fourth of the time as it usually took for the rest of the team to form it. All the pieces literally leapt into place. The Sabre-tooth, Triceratops, and Mastodon zords just flew onto the Tyrannozord. The Tank zord leapt into the air and flew right into the Pterodactyl zord, landing perfectly on its feet. The Megazord drew its power sword and stood ready for battle against Trixie. “That was fast,” Applejack said.

“Ha!” Trixie scoffed. “Do your really think your little machine has a chance against the Great and Powerful Trixie?”

“Yeah,” Pinkie Pie replied. “We’re going to beat you, then they’ll have to call you the, uh... Not So Great and Less Powerful Trixie?” Pinkie turned to the other Rangers. “Right? Does that sound good?”

“Anyway,” Rarity said, ignoring Pinkie’s bad pun. “The point is, we’re going to defeat you and save Princess Celestia.”

“You think defeating me will bring back your precious princess? You slly fillies. There is no possible counterspell for what I used to make Celestia disappear. She’s gone forever!”

“You shut your muzzle, Trixie!” Applejack shouted. “Let’s do this, Rangers!”

“Leave this to me, Applejack,” Twilight said over the Megazord’s comm. “Let me show Trixie what real magic is capable of.” Twilight then activated the Megazord’s loudspeaker. “You hear that, Trixie? This is our rematch!”

“That voice,” Trixie said. “You’re that unicorn from Canterlot, aren’t you?”

“Correct,” Twilight replied. “And I’m here to finish what we started before.” The Megazord then aimed its sword at Trixie, ready for combat.

“Um, Twilight,” Rarity said. “Are you sure you don’t need us for anything?”

“No, Rarity. I got this.”

“Fine. This is your battle, then.”

“Thanks. Now, on to you, Trixie.” The Megazord then charged at Trixie, who teleported behind the Megazord and bucked it to the ground.

“Is that all you’ve got?” Trixie asked.

“Hardly,” Twilight replied, getting the Megazord back to its feet. “I’m just getting warmed up.” Twilight then sent the Megazord charging again, swing its sword just as Trixie got within range. Trixie just barely dodged, but she did take a little bit of damage from catching the tip of the blade. Trixie countered by sending a powerful blast of magic towards the Megazord, but Twilight blocked the attack with the Power Sword, even managing to deflect it back at Trixie. Trixie fell to the ground in defeat.

“You...” Trixie said, getting up but unable to fight. “We’re not finished, Twilight Sparkle. I will have my revenge.” Trixie then teleported away back to the moon base.

Back at Canterlot, the three remaining Rangers were standing around Twilight, who was still trying to figure out what happened to Celestia. “I just don’t get it,” Twilight said. “How could Trixie have cast such a spell that doesn’t have a counterspell?”

“Maybe she really is the strongest unicorn in Equestria,” Spike said.

“No,” Twilight said. “It’s just a lesser known spell, that all.”

Just as Twilight said that, Fluttershy flew into the computer room, carrying Rainbow Dash. “Hey, everypony,” she said, yawning. “Did I miss anything?”

“Not much,” Pinkie Pie replied.

“Oh. Then what happened to Celestia and Rainbow Dash? And who’s that purple unicorn.”

Applejack sighed and walked over to Fluttershy. “It’s a long story. I’ll fill you in.” She then turned to Twilight. “Can you take care of Rainbow Dash?”

“Self-healing spells are pretty difficult, but I know some medical spells that I can cast on other ponies.” Twilight then carried Rainbow Dash out of Fluttershy’s hooves and took her out a door on the other side of the room. “She’ll be all right in a couple of hours.”

“But until then,” Spike said, stopping Twilight, “Celestia is still gone.”

“I know, but Rainbow Dash is our immediate priority. After I’m done here, I’ll get to work on a spell that should bring back Celestia. Until then, you Rangers head back to Ponyville. Who knows what Nightmare’s next move will be.” Twilight then walked out of the room with Rainbow Dash.

Back on the moon base, Trixie stood proud in front of Nightmare Moon. “Congratulations, Trixie,” Nightmare said. “You came up with a plan that actually worked, for once.”

“Yes,” Trixie replied, bowwing. “But unfortunately, I think the Red Ranger finally finished the Green Ranger.”

“Oh? That’s too bad. Oh well. Now that Celestia is no more, it won’t be long before those Rangers fall.” Nightmare then started walking out of the room. “We won’t even need Derpy, anymore.”

Back in Equestria, Derpy still lay where she was knocked out by Rainbow Dash. Suddenly, she opened her eyes and stood quickly. “What happened?” she asked to nopony but herself. She looked around to find that nopony was around any more. She had been left there. “Trixie left me? I should have known. They were all against me.” She then looked over to find Canterlot in the distance. “I’ll show them. I’ll show them all. Nightmare and the Rangers. And I know exactly where to start.” She then flew towards Canterlot with on final goal in mind. The destruction of Rainbow Dash.

Derpy's Gambit

Rainbow Dash walked into the computer room where the other Rangers stood, worried and waiting. “Hey, guys,” she said to the other Rangers.

“Rainbow Dash!” Pinkie Pie shouted, spriting over and hugging Rainbow Dash. “We were all soooo worried about you! And I’m sooooo happy you’re all right.”

“Pinkie Pie,” Twilight said, walking into the room after Dash, “I can only heal Rainbow Dash once. Don’t go breaking her back for me.”

“Okay,” Pinkie replied, letting go of Rainbow Dash.

“So, how do you feel, Dash?”

Rainbow Dash took a second to breathe again. “I... actually feel pretty good,” she finally replied, though still short on breath. “Aside from a backache.”

“Good. My magic is improving. Maybe I’m close to that ‘destiny’ Princess Celestia keeps telling me about.”

“Speakin’ of Princess Celestia,” Applejack said, “have you found her yet?”

“No, but I do have an idea for bringing her back.” Twilight walked over to the console where Spike was still hard at work. “While I was healing Rainbow Dash, I couldn’t stop thinking about how this time last year, I couldn’t even dream of such feats of magic. Then it hit me, and don’t ask me how. The only way I’m going to counter Trixie’s spell is with a stronger spell. Since her spell affected Celestia’s time warp in this dimension, I figured it was worth a try.”

“So how do you plan on preforming such a spell?” Rarity asked. “Surely Trixie used a very powerful spell if she didn’t even know of a counterspell.”

“I know, that’s just the problem. I’m not even sure my magic is capable of such power. I won’t let that stop me, though. Starting now, I’m going to keep working until I’ve perfected a spell for bringing Celestia back, even if it kills me.”

“Best of luck to you, then, Twilight,” Rainbow Dash said. “Come on, Rangers. We’d better give her some space to work.” The other ponies nodded and folloed Rainbow Dash back to Ponyville.

Meanwhile, at the moonbase, Nightmare trotted around the main room with general worry. “Might I ask what’s troubling you, my lord?” Gilda asked, walking in.

“It’s nothing,” Nightmare replied. “Just Derpy. I’m trying to figure out how she was defeated. Obviously the Rangers didn’t have enough power to finish Derpy in one fell swoop. Something was wrong.”

“That doesn’t matter, my lord. All that matters is that we have removed Celestia from the equation. We need to take advantage of this opportunity.” Gilda walked over past Nightmare. “How about I go down there and stir up some dust? With Derpy out of the picture as well, I have a little score to settle with the red ranger.”

“Very well,” Nightmare said. “Get down there and ‘stir up some dust’.”

“Thank you, my lord. You will not be disappointed.” Gilda then flew out of the room and towards Equestria.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash and the other ponies were in Ponyville, awaiting word from Twilight on her spell for bringing back Celestia. Rainbow Dash cloudbusting, Fluttershy working with some bunnies, Applejack trying to sell some apples, Rarity making her “secret masterpiece”, and Pinkie Pie throwing a party as usual. Everypony, however, was performing their jobs fairly half-heartedly, filled with worry about Celestia. Just when everypony was sure they were going to get fired from their jobs, there was a sudden flood of panicked ponies running down the street. Rainbow Dash was the first to notice and used her Element to send the word to the rest of the Rangers. Rainbow Dash flew down to see a group of Putty Ponies being led by her old friend Gilda. (Story notes: Gilda and Rainbow Dash never knew each other. Gilda was Nightmare’s minion her whole life in this story, just like the rest of Nightmare's minions.) “Well, well, well,” Gilda said as Rainbow Dash flew down in front of her. “If it isn’t the Red Pony Ranger, Rainbow Dash.”

“Good to see you too, Gilda,” Rainbow Dash replied. “Is there any chance you came by just because our old friend Derpy is out of the picture? Because I saw how you ran with your tail between your legs last time.”

“Oh, I can assure you that I’m staying to finish the job, this time.”

Just then, the other Rangers ran up behind Rainbow Dash. “Still staying to finish the job?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“Oh, I’m staying.”

“So be it.” Rainbow Dash then pulled out her Element of Harmony, followed by the other Rangers. “IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME!”

“HONESTY!”

“KINDNESS!”

“LAUGHTER!”

“GENEROSITY!”

“LOYALTY!”

The now morphed Rangers then charged at Gilda, who commanded the Putties to charge back.

Meanwhile, back at Canterlot, Spike and Twilight were working together to figure out a spell for bringing back Princess Celestia. ,At the same time, Derpy snuck her way inside undetected. Twilight began walking out of the room. “I’m going to go get some more quills for writing these notes down,” she told Spike. “I’ll be right back.” When Twilight left the room, Derpy saw her chance and came up behind Spike.

“Having fun, dragon?” Derpy asked from behind Spike, causing him to instantly jump and at the same time freeze from fear. “I take it that’s a yes.”

Spike slowly turned around to see that his worst fear was confirmed. It was, indeed, Derpy standing right behind him, intimidating as ever. “D-D-Derpy,” Spike barely said, stepping back a little. “Y-you’re alive.”

“Alive as ever,” Derpy replied, advancing a little on Spike. “Also angrier than I’ve ever been before.”

“But... but what are you still doing here in Canterlot? Surely you don’t have anything to do with keeping Celestia gone.”

“You’re right. I honestly don’t care about that, anymore. However...” Derpy paused for a moment, just to advance a little further on the whimpering Spike. “You are going to tell me something.”

“What could I possibly tell you?”

Derpy backed Spike up against the wall and leaned her face in closer to Spike, just to watch him cower. Then she whispered “You’re going to tell me where Rainbow Dash is... so I can finally destroy her.”

Spike didn’t even hesitate before spilling the beans. “Rainbow Dash and the other Rangers went to Ponyville while Twilight and I worked on the spell for bringing Celestia back. They probably won’t be expecting you.”

An evil smile crept across Derpy’s face. She then reached for Spike’s head with her hoof, causing him to whimper louder than ever, and she did something Spike never would have expected. She pat him on the head like she was petting a dog. “Thanks, Spike,” she said. “I guess I’ll let you live... for now.” Derpy then turned around and flew out of the room and towards Ponyville. That’s when Twilight walked back in and noticed Spike cowering in the corner of the room.

“What happened in here?” Twilight asked, but Spike was whimpering so much, he didn’t say anything.

Back at Ponyville, the Pony Rangers were battling Putty Ponies while Rainbow Dash went straight for Gilda, who was happy to have Rainbow Dash to herself. Gilda put every ounce of energy into every swipe and blow that she sent Rainbow Dash’s way. Rainbow Dash was taking a couple of hits, but she was holding her ground pretty well. After a severe volley of tallons, Rainbow Dash took an opportunity and knocked Gilda off balance, leaving her open for attack. Gilda never saw it coming and was bucked to the ground by a single, well-place kick from Rainbow Dash. Gilda crashed, but got back up with a mighty roar. “You think you’re somehting special, Red Ranger?” Gilda asked. “I’m going to enjoy peeling that armor right off your body.” Gilda then charged back at Rainbow Dash, but was stopped suddenly by something flying into her. It was Derpy.

“Back off, Gilda,” Derpy said. “I’m going to finish Rainbow Dash, myself.”

“Derpy? But Trixie said you were finished!”

“Yeah, well, so was Rainbow Dash, and obviously she’s still here.” Derpy then turned to Rainbow Dash, who was slowly decending back to the ground. “Good to see you again, Dashie.”

“Can’t really say the same for you,” Rainbow Dash replied. “What brings you back so soon?”

“You’re still alive. It’s as simple as that.”

“Hey!” Gilda shouted at Derpy. “I didn’t ask you to come by and ruin my battle with Rainbow Dash! Back off.” Gilda stepped up and tried to push Derpy out of the way so she could get to Rainbow Dash.

“Keep your talons off of me, griffon,” Derpy said, knocking Gilda off. “Rainbow Dash is mine.”

“Fillies, please,” Rainbow Dash called, breaking the two up. “There’s no need to argue over me. You’ll both get your chance against me. In fact, I’ll go ahead and take both of you on. How about that?”

Gilda and Derpy looked at each other for a moment. “Fine,” Gilda finally said. “Provided this little filly is content with the scraps.”

“Oh, I think you’re going to be the one picking at the feathers,” Derpy said back, pulling out the Thunder Coin. “I’ll let you have the yellow one, though.”

“Stand aside, Derpy. This is your last warning. I’ll fight you, as well if I have to.”

“Good. I was hoping I wasn’t going to have to say that first.” Derpy then morphed in a flash and flew straight towards Rainbow Dash, followed closely by Gilda. Rainbow Dash leapt out of the way of Derpy’s attack, leaving Derpy to get slashed by Gilda’s tallon. Rainbow Dash took her opportunity and flew straight at Gilda, knocking her to the ground. However, she forgot about Derpy for a split-second and was that much too late to dodge a mule kick from Derpy. Rainbow Dash was knocked over and was open to an attack from Gilda, who had flown right into another attack from Derpy at just the right time. Derpy took this as an advantage rather than a mistake and continued attacking Gilda. “Stand down before you break one of your precious talons,” Derpy said while attacking Gilda. Rainbow Dash flew in between them, knocked Gilda aside, and tried to do the same to Derpy, though she managed to block the attack.

“You both need to stand down,” Rainbow Dash said, turning away from Derpy just in time to block an attack from Gilda.

While these three were fighting, Fluttershy looked up from her battle with the Putty Ponies to se that Rainbow Dash was in trouble. “Girls,” Fluttershy called. “I’m gonna go help Rainbow Dash.”

Applejack threw a Putty Pony over her back before turning to Fluttershy. “Go ahead,” she said, bucking another Putty. “We’ll be all right.”

Fluttershy nodded and flew up to the battle taking place over everypony else. “I’m coming, Rainbow Dash,” she called, charging straight at Gilda. Gilda was caught off guard and knocked several feet back by Fluttershy’s charge. She then turned to Rainbow Dash and gave a nod. Rainbow Dash nodded back and continued fighting Derpy.

Gilda recovered quickly and found Fluttershy hovering in front of her. “Now the Red Ranger is having her teammates fight her battles for her?” she asked. “Pathetic. I would have expected more from her.” She then charged at Fluttershy, who managed to avoid Gilda’s attack and counter with a strong mule kick.

“Just you and me now, Dashie,” Derpy said to Rainbow Dash. “A battle to the end?”

“To your end,” Rainbow Dash said. “All this time, I thought there might have been some good in you, but attacking your own teammates for a little revenge? You aren’t just evil, Derpy, you’re dangerous. Dangerous to anypony around you, good or evil.”

“At long last, you understand that. Congratulations. Either you’ll die with that in mind, or you’ll have to live with that until Nightmare defeats you and your friends. Let’s find out which of those two holes I’m throwing you down.” Derpy then charged at Rainbow Dash, who charged back. Derpy was the first to attempt an attack, but Rainbow Dash saw the attack coming and blocked it pretty easily. She then tried to counter with a kick to Derpy’s side, but Derpy grabbed Rainbow Dash’s hind leg before the kick could make contact and threw her into a nearby cloud. Rainbow Dash recovered and launched the cloud at Derpy. Derpy easily blocked the attack, but it was just a distraction that allowed Rainbow Dash to come up behind Derpy and buck her as hard as possible from behind. Derpy was completely unprepared for this attack and was sent plummeting to the ground. Rainbow Dash took this opportunity and tackled Derpy before she had a chance to recover, forcing her into the ground where the two impacted with a force that was enough to form a small crater. Rainbow Dash stood over the defeated Derpy, who was demorphed and unconscious.

“You’ve brought this upon yourself,” Rainbow Dash said, even though Derpy couldn’t hear her.

Meanwhile, Fluttershy was having a hard time battling Gilda. Gilda’s speed and strength was way too much for Fluttershy to handle, but she had to stay strong and keep Gilda off of Rainbow Dash. “You don’t look so good, Yellow Ranger,” Gilda said, and it was true. Fluttershy was breathing heavily and looked like she could barely stay airborne. As well, her eyes were filled with tears under her helmet, though Gilda couldn’t have seen them. Just as Gilda charged to give Fluttershy the killshot, she was hit by a small blast of magic from Rarity. The shot wasn’t very powerful, but it gave Fluttershy enough time to decend to the ground with the other Rangers.

“I’m all right,” Fluttershy said to the other Rangers. “I just needed a second to breathe, that’s all.”

Gilda flew to the ground to face the other Rangers, who had defeated all the Putty Ponies. “You ponies have some nerve...” Gilda said, extending her talons for combat. “I’m gonna enjoy this.” Just as she said this, she was hit by a massive blast of magic from the sky. It was Nightmare Moon casting the Mega Spell on Gilda, who grew to an enormous size. “Now I’ll crush you Rangers like rodents.”

“Rainbow Dash!” Applejack called. “Mega trouble.”

Rainbow Dash got out her morpher and tried to contact Twilight. “Twilight, are you there?”

“I’m here,” Twilight replied over the comm. “I’m sending the zords now.”

“Go ahead and pilot mine. I’m bringing Derpy back to Canterlot. I think I may have an idea.”

“Okay, I’ll trust you. Everypony else, your rides are here.” Just as Twilight said this, the zords came stampeding in. The Rangers (minus Rainbow Dash) jumped into their zords. “Megazord Formation Spell, go!” Twilight cast the spell and all the zords leapt into place just as quickly as last time. The Megazord stood before Gilda, who wasn’t backing down this time. The two charged at each other, blades (Gilda’s talons and the Rangers’ Power Sword) drawn.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash picked up Derpy and began flying towards Canterlot. “Let’s see what you can do for us, my friend,” she said to Derpy while flying, leaving the battle behind her.

Gilda blocked every attack the Megazord gave using her talons. Once the Megazord was off balance, Gilda sent her talons right into the chest plate or the Megazord. “Hey!” Pinkie shouted. “I just had the Pterodactyl zord repainted!” The Megazord gave another thrust of its blade, hitting Gilda square in the wing and cutting off a couple of feathers. Gilda wasn’t about to let this small injury keep her out of the battle. She leapt back at the Megazord, but Applejack used the Triceratops zord to give Gilda a hard kick to the side, injuring the other wing. Gilda was defeated, but she was reluctant to teleport, at least until the Rangers were about to bring the Power Sword down for the final blow. Gilda rolled over to avoid this attack, but was too badly injured to continue fighting.

“Someday, Rangers,” Gilda said, breathing heavily. “I’ll make you pay.” Gilda then teleported away back to the moon base.

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash brought Derpy to Canterlot, where Twilight looked her and the Thunder Coin over. “So?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“‘So’ what?” Twilight replied.

“‘So’ did I bring back anything useful for you?”

Twilight walked over to the Thunder Coin and looked at it for a second. “You just might have. If I can figure out how to get the Thunder Coin to work for me, I might be able to use its power to cast the spell I need to bring Celestia back.” She then turned back to Rainbow Dash. “Thanks, Rainbow Dash. You may have saved us all with your mercy. I can probably patch Derpy up after I separate her power from that of the Thunder Coin, but for now you need to go back to Ponyville and tell the others the good news.”

“Okay,” Rainbow Dash said. “Good luck, Twi.” She then flew out of the room back to Ponyville.

Twilight then turned back to Derpy, who was lying bound to an examination table. “Now, let’s see what secrets you can tell.”

Eye of the Storm