The moon loomed over equestria as great and beautiful as Luna could possibly make it. On the surface in a crevasse a figure paced back and forth as they roared and complained.
“UGH! How- how could they do this to me. ME, GOLDAR!” he yells into the eco of the moon.
“Fret not my friend.”
Goldar looks around erratically as he draws his sword “who’s there?” he demands
“Who? Why would you ask who when there is no who. The question you want is, what is there?” the soft mesmerizing voice calls
“Fine, what’s there?” he says brandishing his sword
“Just the remains of a mighty being that should have ruled. Come, I besiege the, tell me why you wheal with such a familiar sounds of betrayal.”
Goldar felt a strange peacefulness with whatever this was “if you must know, I was a general for the mythical sorceress Rita Rapulsa, and then lord zed. Ugh! Several failed attempts mostly due to their own incompetence and repeating of the same plan, than after failed attempt
a million and infinity they blamed ME! They blamed me and banished me HERE!”
“Ahh” the un-faced voice spoke like honey to goldars ears “so you are a general are you? Not only that but one adept to the use of magic, I could have a use for you.”
“Forget it! I’m done working with sorceress and lords alike. You have nothing I-”
The voice chuckled humorously “don’t be so quick to disregard the queen of the moon. I have a proposition for you”
“Wait, the moon?” goldar asked suspiciously “AGAIN WITH THE MOON!” he roared angrily
“Not a fan I take it? Well like you I was denied proper respect and banished; now I sit here without body or power.”
“Than what could you have to offer? You have nothing.” Goldar took delight in being on the delivering end of the stick for once.
“Perhaps not, but” the voice said oozing with delightful sound “what magic I control could be used to poses a body, however I can’t get it myself. If say, someone was to go down to the world below and fetch one for me” goldar was intently listening as the presents of the voice surrounded him “they would be presented with a reward of power, nobility,-”
Goldar “Respect!”
“Whatever they desired and more”
“Give me an hour to think about It.” goldar replied with a thoughtful expression
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“Good morning ponyville! This is DJ pony coming at you live for ponyville radio station with a special message.” The radio called out happily as pinkie turned it up. “There is a special event going on down at sugar-cube corner today where those adorable school ponies and cheerolie are trying to raise money for the cantorlot orphanage. Good luck to ya’ and don’t forget to tune in for all your party pony jams today.”
As the little ponies went to work on preparing for their special event three specific ponies, the cutie mark crusaders practice their comedy for an act they were going to do as their part in the fund raiser. Scootalo stood on one font hoof as sweetie belle balanced a bucket on her head and apple bloom did poorly practiced Crain kicks
“Wait, we are doing what exactly?” scootalo asked trying to keep her balance.
“Yea, what are we doing apple bloom?” sweetie belle asked dropping the bucket
Applebloom dropped on her honchos “I don’t know. As long as it’s funny, does it matter?”
The three sit there as they begin to try and figure out how to end their comedy act when scootalo catches two ponies walking up towards them.
“Watch out, devious duo at 2:00” scootalo warns flipping her head to the side to avoid eye contact.
“Hey blank flanks!” the two girls say with uncanny symmetry
The three fillies ignore the teasing bullies as they go about their conversation about how to end their performance.
Diamond scoffs “don’t ignore us.”
The cmc’s ignore the bullies to the best of their ability which results in them walking away and into snips and snails
“Hey there s-silver spoon” snails says very curiously
Snails grins as wide as possible “hello diamond tiara”
The two girls turn away as snails starts to speak up.
“So, diamond, silver how would you like to get a couple of milk shakes with the two coolest most handsome guys in class?” He says waving a hoof over himself and snip “after the event of course”
“We’d love to!” silver says with a grin looking at diamond
“But they’re both out sick.” Diamond finishes as they walk away laughing.
Snips and snails paw the ground sadly as the cmc’s walk over to console them. Before reaching them cheerolie stops them asking them to go down to the basement to retrieve some paint.
As the cmc’s are making their way to the basement goldar makes his decision on whether or not to join.
“Ahh, so you return. Made a decision have you?” the voice speakes as a blue fog encircles him.
Goldar looks down a moment before jerking his head up “I’ll do it. Give me your word that I will be treated with respect and I’ll join you.”
The voice laughs pleasantly “you have my word, now then about our deal.”
While goldar and the voice go over the details of the deal the cmcs make their way out the sugar cube basement with a few large paint cans.
“Need some help” diamond asks
The three fillies look at one another a moment before apple bloom goes to pass a paint bucket to diamond, however as she gets ready to receive it she jerks away letting it fall to the ground. The two bullies laugh as the paint can tumbles with a loud thud.
“HEY!” apple bloom yells “what’s the big idea? That could have made a mess everywhere.”
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In distance cave with a few large computers and a massive crystal a robotic pony with a circular head paces about the equipment when one detects an anomaly.
“oh no! Zordon, zordon wake up!”
A head fades into the massive crystal.
“Yes pony-3, what is it? Have the monitors detected anything?”
“They have zordon. Their picking up readings from something called a goldar. Zordon, what is a goldar.”
“I fear this is more troubling than it may appear at the moment, pony recruit five ponies who can take on this difficult task, it’s time to start project PR.”
“oooh, are you sure zordon?” he ask anxiously nervous
Zordon reaffirms him “yes, if my suspicions are true than this world is jeopardy.”
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Goldar and the blue fog look over the planet ready to begin their plan.
“So this luna was part of your original form.” Goldar asks.
The sweet voice speaks as the blue fog incases a large nearby rock “indeed she was.”
“So than, how do I get her for you?” he inquires
“With this” the blue fog leaves the rock having formed it into a jar.
Goldar looks at the jar before turning on the fogs voice “wait! You told me that you couldn’t use any magic without a body.”
“On the contrary I can use some, but only a very limited amount.” She stated in a soothing tone
Goldar takes the jar and departs to the planet. He teleports straight into the castle where celestia and luna live.
“Alright, if I were a pony princess of the night where would I be?” he said pondering scratching his cheek “AHH! I’d be sleeping” he suddenly starts whispering “oh, right. I may need to be quiet in case there are guards around.”
Goldar starts skulking across the halls ducking out of sight of guards every while as they pass noticing the frequency of their sighting growing.
“GAH! What’s going on here it’s like there’s a war or something.”
Suddenly multiple black ponies with large bug eyes and holes lining their legs appear. They stare down goldar as he draws his sword. The bug ponies’ drop into menacing stances as one of them yells attack.
“You want a piece of me? Bring it on you bugged freaks!” he declares charging his foes
Goldar swings his sword expertly as the bug ponies attack with aim to destroy as one openly declares. Without letting go of his jar he swings the sword with a free hand swiping away at the opponents sending them back, some of the others were pondering retreat. As they delegate among the moments of fighting the armored foe three ponies clade in armor join the situation to which goldar sees as a perfect time to leave as things are growing dangerous.
Goldar runs off in the opposite direction as the two groups of ponies’ engage stopping at an open door seeing a much larger female pony bug creature among multiple smaller ones and a few others trapped in strange goo.
“Whoa, looks like a hostile takeover, I’m getting out of here.” He leaps up turning into moon light and vanishing.
He shifts back into his physical form landing on the moon sitting down the jar gently and sheathing his sword.
“Welcome back, were you successful.” The voice asked
Goldar fired back with rage in his voice “NO! It was a disaster; there were ponies and bug ponies everywhere. There was even a larger bug pony that captured a bunch of other ponies; I had to retreat before being captured my-self. Worst, I never came close to finding this princess Luna.”
“How unfortunate” She answered “if there is no getting to Luna than I have another idea. Bring me the one who ruined my plans, bring me twilight sparkle!”
“Oh no, I’m not going anywhere else without backup, I’ve fought enough ponies on my own for one day.” He rebuked
“And you expect what from me!” the voice called furiously.
Goldar looks around spotting a particularly large rock. He draws his sword thrusting it in the direction of the rock firing a beam from it blowing up the rock into little pieces. After collecting some he brings them to the blue fog sitting them in five lines of seven.
“You used your magic to make the jar, try using it to make some foot soldiers to command.” He asks.
Without a word the fog engulfed the rocks, goldar watched as they twisted and formed into tiny pony figures before growing and being brought to life before his eyes.
“There, one squad of moonions.” The voice said slightly annoyed “you’ll find the pony you seek in ponyville. Now go”
As the cmc’s ready for their act in the sugar cube corner store the two bullies come in for one more teasing attempt before the event officially starts. Sweetie belle spots the two and warns her friends who equally ignore their approach. As diamond and silver ready to insult them the ground begins to shake violently.
“What’s happening?” sweetie belle squeaks in shock
“It’s an earthquake.” Scootalo answers
The fillies look around as everything shakes while jars and bowls fall as silver spoon sees the basement door “quick the basement!” She hollers
Apple bloom bucks open the door and they race down the stairs.
“Great! What now?” diamond says glaring at the cmcs
Before scootalo could fire back the five are transformed into beams of light and fly off into the sky landing in a cave surrounded by large computers and crystals. The five fillies look around the room pony-3 watches from the background.
“Wow, what is this place” silver spoon asked checking out one of the nearby computers
“No, no, no, no. please, please don’t touch that.” the robo-pony nervously blurts as he rushes out of his hiding place.
The ponies look at the robot pony as he nervously backs up
“COOL!” scootalo calls
Sweetie looks at the bot skeptically “uh, is that a robot?”
Pony-3 paces in place a moment before giving a proper greeting “oh, sorry. Hello I’m pony-3 and autonomous robotic intelligence that serves as the main operator of the substation control headquarters.”
The large metal towers between a massive crystal pulled magic up into large glass domes that focused and fired the magic into the crystal bringing forth a head that caused a few of the little ponies to drop. Apple bloom and scootalo stood in awe of the act as the head addressed them.
“Hello. I’m zordon. I am very pleased to meet you.” He looks over the five before noticing something off “wait. Are you-?”
Scootalo interrupts “whoa! Are you like some kind of super being or something?”
“What are you exactly?” apple bloom asks curiously.
“I’m a wizard trapped in an inter-dimensional anomaly.” He explains “now I-”
“Why are we here?” diamond demands
Pony-3 interjects to explain “zordon asked me to bring him five individuals who could help in our fight against evil. Those chosen are you, you are the pony rangers.”
“Cool!” sweetie calls
Silver spoon throws a hoof up “awesome!”
Scootalo adds “this is going to be the adventu-”
“NO!” zordon yells “I’m sorry but I won’t allow such young children to take on the incredibly dangerous responsibility of fighting against the forces of evil.”
“What?! Why not.” apple bloom asks “we go up against diamond tiara and silver spoon all the time.” Sweetie and scootalo snicker at the last part.
“HEY!” silver blurts loudly as diamond sticks out her tongue
Ignoring the two she continues “I don’t know what you are but I sense your trust worthy. Come on give us a chance.”
“A great show of courage from one so young but-”
Zordon’s cut off by a beeping noise from the monitors
Pony-3 scans the computers and screens “O, zordon I’ve lost the signal tracer. What do we do now?”
“Hey what’s the problem? How can we help?” scootalo asks hastily
“There is nothing you can do, I’m sorry but we will be looking for someone else to take on this responsibility” zordon says with kind sternness.
Silver spoon walks up to the large crystal housing the disembodied head “whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on just one second, you can’t just teleport us here letting us see all of this as well as telling us our lives and loved ones could be in danger and expect us to do nothing.” She scolds
“Yes he can” diamond says dismissively
Zordon expresses condolences to their concern “Everything is going to be fine, I promise once we find new recruits well-”
“What if this ‘evil’ attacks before you find new recruits?” She fires back stopping his explanation “look, at the moment you have noting, but with us you’ll have something so-”
Zordon raises his voice “I said no, I won’t put children in dangerous situations like this.”
Apple bloom steps up “silvers right, what if there’s an attack first. You need a place holder; at least until you find your replacements, after that we’ll just walk away no ands, ifs, or buts.”
Zordon ponders a as pony-3 reminds him of the danger before summoning the morphers which appear on their wrists as oval stones with a carved picture in them “alright.” The fillies all cheer in excitement except diamond “settle down.” Zordon asks politely “Now than I’m going to entrust you with these magic morphers and teach you how to activate them, however as to the current arrangement I want you to keep low and only use them when absolutely necessary.” The fillies all agree as zordon continues “very well, each morpher is tied to a shared power source and gives command of a specific mytho-zord when combined they will form the formidable mythology-zord. Scootalo; courageous and head strong you’ll command the cragadile zord.” A black light sweeps over her. “Diamond tiara; smart and imaginative you shall command the tatzlworm zord” a wave of pink light sweeps over her. “Silver spoon; wise and loyal you command the ursa zord.” A blue light sweeps over her. “Sweetie belle; tactful and cunning you control the manticore zord.” Yellow light sweeps over her. “Finally apple bloom;
strength and determination you are the commander of the phoenix zord and leader of the team.”
“Why does she get to be leader?” diamond protest
“Because she’s exceptionally qualified and has a show of humility and patients best befitting a true leader.” That seems to shut her up. “One last thing, there are some very important rules you should know about being a pony ranger. Pony-3”
Pony-3 walks back up to the fillies “Yes zordon.” He answers “alright little ones pay attention. Rule one- never revel your identity to anyone. Rule two- you may never use you ability’s for personal gain or ill content. Rule three- you are the defenders of the world and as such should never be the ones to attack or escalate battle unless forced. Do you understand these rules?”
“Yes sir!” they answer diamond seeming irritated all the while.
Zordon request their attention again “alright now pay attention, in order to use the morphers you must hold them up calling the name of your creature. Understand?” they answer him understanding “good, now go back to ponyville and keep an eye out for now, but please do stay out of trouble and remember only use your powers in emergencies. For the moment you’re the world’s only hope against this evil. For now you are the magic morphin pony rangers, good luck”.
“You can count on us zordon.” Apple bloom reassures as they turn into light of their own color and fly off.
“Good luck pony rangers.” Pony-3 exclaims.
Apple bloom and the others materialize back in sugar cube corner.
“Okay, what now?” sweetie asks
Scootalo ponders “well zordon said to be on alert but not to go looking for trouble.”
“Like we’d do that” diamond scoffs
Sweetie fakes being in pain “I…I ha- I hate to…admit…it” she straightens up talking normally “but she’s kind of right on this one.”
“So what should we do ‘leader’?” diamond asked mockingly
Silver bumped diamond hushingly as apple bloom pondered “I don’t know. Go to the fund raiser and then go home, I guess.”
The four of them shrug at the lack luster plan in understanding and exit the building. As they enter the town from the building they see everything is deserted. The stands the other fillies spent hours building were empty, some even smashed or worst. There was an eerie silence over the entire area.
Silver ducked her head folding her ears down “I don’t like this. Its scary quiet” she exclaimed somewhat frightened.
The fillies search the area cruises as to what happened. Scootalo looks up to the stage where I look as if some sort of fight had happened. She walks toward the curtain as it slightly ruffles more and more on her approach, when she reaches for it a large grey pony with dark grey hooves and face burst from back stage as others with the same pattern surround the little fillies.
Apple bloom runs up the stage stairs charging the strange pony bucking it only to be bucked back and sent flying into scootalo both tumbling off the stage and onto the ground. Sweetie belle runs to them but is charged and tackled by another of the strange ponies. Diamond and silver spoon stand surrounded when diamond decides to make a break for it but one of the ponies blocks her escape as it proceeds to knock her away into sweetie belle, shortly after their corralled over to apple bloom and scootalo who are both surrounded.
Silver spoon decides to run for help only to be halted by the grey ponies. She turns to buck one of them getting smacked away causing her to flip into the air and land on her side, the others watch as she’s surrounded by more grey ponies. Silver looks to the morpher on her foreleg coming to the conclusion that this definitely counts as an emergency.
She removes the device from her leg holding it up with both fore hooves proclaiming “URSA!”
The others watch as the ponies go flying away from silver spoon one after the other. Finally with the last gone and the rest focused on her, they catch a glimpse of the filly turned pony ranger. Her suite is a bright blue color with a white belt and gloves for all four hooves with a helmet styled like an ursa head with a black visor along the area of the eyes across it.
As the grey ponies charge the ranger the others leap to their hooves grabbing their morphers mimicking what silver spoon just did proclaiming the name of their creature loudly.
“cragadile!” scootalo yells
“tatzlwurm!” diamond announces
“Manticore!” sweetie belle squeaks loudly
“Phoenix!” apple bloom declares
In a flash they are all wearing suites similar to silvers, but in their own color and their helmets design fitting their specific creature.
“Whoa! This is awesome!” sweetie says looking over her suite
“I have to admit, I feel…good” diamond complements
“Hey!” silver calls “less gawking and more help please!” she asked annoyed as she kicks away another menacing pony.
The now pony rangers look to apple bloom who quickly notices their stares
“What? Oh, oh right. Uhhhh, CHARGE!”
The four charge in to fight the grey ponies, each finds themselves doing exceptionally well against the malevolent ponies that had earlier given them trouble.
“heyah! Take that!” scootalo yells
Apple bloom bucks one sending it flying into the stage “HA! That’s for bucking me and scoots earlier.”
As the pony rangers demonstrate their new abilities the grey pony foes run off in the opposite direction.
“Hey there getting away!” diamond calls out
“Oh, no they’re not!” Sweetie rebukes
Apple bloom raised a hoof pointing at the fleeing foes “after them!”
They give chase to the grey ponies as they run form sugar cube corner to the middle of town where other ponies can be seen hiding in homes and bushes in fear as the moonions guard against escapees. The girls see a large creature pacing back and forth in golden armor brandishing a sword.
“Twilight sparkle, If you care about your precious town and its inhabitants you’ll reveal yourself and submit.” goldar cries loudly, his voice rings out into the quite town street.
The moonions run right up to goldar ducking their heads and spouting weird noises as he stomps up to them.
“What! What do you mean retreat? What’s going on you useless idiots?” he looks up seeing five different colored ponies.
“What? No, NO! This can’t be. You’re not them!”
“Okay that thing is weird” diamond comments
“Is that the great evil zordon warned us about?” sweetie asks
Scootalo scoffs “he’s not so tuff”
Silver sighs at scootalo “he’s big monkey in armor holding a sword.”
“I’m. A. GORILLA!” he roars charging the rangers
The pony rangers charge the gorilla knight. He swings his sword as they dodged, ducked, and even flipped out of the way of his weapon before coming up with the plan to run in a circle as he swung missing the circling ponies. They stop every few seconds to buck him around a bit before diamond positioned herself behind him as apple bloom stopped in front of him bucking him back as he trips over diamonds back falling to the ground.
“Had enough?” apple bloom asked ferociously
Goldar laughed “on the contrary, I’m just getting started.”
He leaps to his feet swinging his sword striking diamond and sweetie belle. Sparks fly form their suites as the fly back. Apple bloom and silver spoon jump up double drop kicking goldar away.
As the fogged voice watched she got an idea and quickly formed a hollow moon rock pony with slits for eyes as well as on going down the neck and a hole in the back. The fog entered the hollow rock as it followed from the slit in the neck and hole forming what seemed like a mane and tail. The statue cracked and broke in correlations to joints locations as she forced the head and legs to move. She aimed down the horn on her new head firing a beam of magic that struck goldar making him grow in size.
Goldar walks through the town laughing victoriously as he stomps down attempting to crush the pony rangers. They dive out of the way in the nick of time
“What the?” diamond said panicking
“That’s not fair; he was already bigger than us! Now he’s a giant!” silver spoon said dumfounded
“Then it’s time to even the odds!” she places her hoof to the side of her head “Zordon; we need those mytho-zords you mentioned.”
“Oh, no. what do we do zordon?” pony-3 pleaded
Zordon answered “the mytho-zords are yours to command, call them forth and they will surly come.”
“Got it!” apple bloom answered before looking to her fellow rangers “phoenix zord descend!” she said striking a bird like pose as the phoenix zord flew through the sky.
“Ursa come forth!” silver spoon called striking a bear like poses while the appeared from the forest.
“manticore zord charge!” sweetie belle yelled taking a predatory pose while the manticore zord swiftly ran through the forest.
“cragadile emerged!” scootalo calls striking a crocodile pose as the cragadile zord rose from a nearby lake.
“taztelwurm arise!” diamond tiara declared as the taztelwurm zord rose from underground.
The five lunge into the air and into their zords. All five find themselves strangely able to operate their zords as if they always knew how.
“Wow! It’s like I’ve always known how to work this” diamond comments
The five zords charge across the terrain toward a ready goldar, the phoenix swooping down forcing him to duck away as the manticore zord swipes at him and the taztelwurm zord throws him in the air. Goldar recovers landing on his feet taunting the rangers.
“Is that the best you can do? Pathetic”
“Okay everypony lets bring it together.” Apple bloom commands
“Yea!” the others cry in excitement
They active the joining sequence, causing the cragadile and manticore zords to fold in on their selves forming arms as the cragadile tail flies of into the sky as the head comes together at the sides forming a shield. The ursa zords head and legs fold into the body as it opens forming the base as the cragadile connects to the left side and the manticore to the right. The tatelawurm zord pulls in half as the head and tail form feet taking their place as the legs. Finally the phoenix zord folds up reviling a face and the wings connect to each side in a spread out manor.
“Zordon they formed the mythology zord!” pony-3 yells with delight
“Maybe now they’ll have a chance.” Zordon comments hopefully.
Goldar and the newly formed zord face off as he steps menacingly toward the zord. Goldar strikes the zord with his sword hitting it but the ponies retaliate with a kick to the shin and a punch to the chest.
“That didn’t do anything!” scootalo yells in angered disbelief
“Maybe not, but this will, tail sword.” Apple bloom declares loudly
The cragadile tail descends from the sky as the mythology zord catches it. The zord swings the sword hitting goldar who stumbles back a bit before swinging his own sword. The first blow is blocked by the shield, but the second strike hits the zord dead on. The ponies shake as the zord is struck.
“Come on girls, we can do this!” apple bloom says raising their spirits.
Goldar swings only for the zord to catch his sword and use it to throw him forwards. As he falls they strike him in the back with the tail sword followed by a smack to the face with their shield as he turns around.
Goldar comes to the conclusion that this fight isn’t worth the risk “this isn’t the end rangers, mark my words” he places his fist on his chest
disappearing.
“WOHOO!” the girls yell
Pony-3 dances with delight as zordon breathes a sigh of relief “that was to close, but they managed to pull victory in their favor”
Goldar rematerializes on the moon seeing the fogged voices moon stone body
“Who are you?” he says threatening
The voice chuckles “goldar, I- am nightmare moon!”
“GAH! Mistress forgive me.” He begs dropping to one knee bowing “those pony rangers they-”
The stone form of nightmare moon “fear not my loyal general; I too am surprised by their arrival. If they are anything like these other rangers you mentioned” she looks menacingly with cold stone eyes toward the world below “they will be dealt with, in time.”
“Yes, mistress” goldar relies standing up
“For now I still need a body” she says turning her back on the planet “and we need a plan.”
“Mistress Nightmare moon” he says gaining her attention “I think I just got an idea of where to get you a body.” He says grinning
“Really?” she states somewhat surprised “very well, first I want you to ‘collect’ a few things for me.”
As the two forces on the on the moon skim the pony rangers return to zordons underground headquarters.
“That was awesome with the BOOM,and the BAM, and heyah ” scootalo states all worked up on adrenalin and excitement.
Diamond notices zordons expression “okay, what’s the problem? Of all of us here you should be the most excited.”
Silver spoon glares at her “look zordon, I know you took a chance on us and we didn’t exactly keep a-”
“No, diamond tiara is right” he interrupts
“What!” diamond and the cmc’s collectively blurt, diamond realizing what happened glaring at them.
Zordon continues “I misjudged you; I assumed you wouldn’t be able to handle the power and responsibility. You’ve proven me wrong and for my perceived notions I’m sorry. You are all acceptingly skilled and dedicated to the roll of a pony ranger. I couldn’t be prouder, nor more appreciative of being proven wrong. You all may continue to act as equestrias defenders, however given the circumstances, if you ever feel that it is too much or it becomes too dangerous you may step down and replacements found.”
The five look over one another nodding in agreement as apple bloom steps forth “you can count on us zordozordon, we’ll never quite. We’ll keep fighting until all of equestria is safe from goldar and his allies.”
“Thank you pony ranger, may the magic protect you”
THE END
Go, go pony rangers
Go, go pony rangers
Go, go pony rangers, you magic morphing pony rangers
Author's Note
hi,
this is my very first story upload. I know it may not be the best, but it's a start. with time I know I can do even better. let me know what you think and how I can improve.
thanks for reading
Beyond the skies of equestria the moon looms over head as Goldar and Nightmare Moon plan their next move.
“Mistress Moon, what is your plan?” Goldar asked kneeling to the stone body of the mare of the moon.
The stone forms head turns with a harsh rock rubbing on rock sound “Goldar, please, Be patient. Raise my general”
“Sorry mistress.” He said standing up
“It’s fine, Now on to the matters at hand. Ponyville is without the protection of the bears of the elements of harmony. We now have a perfect opportunity to enact our plan.”
“I’m at your command my mistress. What is your biding?”
Nightmare Moon approaches Goldar levitating the capture jar “Take this with you, you’ll need it for phase threes oh the plan. Do you remember phases one and two?”
Goldar bumps his head a few times “GAH! Phase one: steal the book from golden oaks library.” He ponders a moment “Right, Phase two: bring you my candidate for your new body.”
“Phase three: go to Tartarus and bring me the ones named Tirek and Sombra.” She watches the world below as the mane-six fall back behind a shield fleeing a black fog. “Soon equestria will sing of its new ruler. Go.” she commands
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Scootalo and Sweetie Belle are sitting at the club house board out of their minds when Apple Bloom comes galloping up the tree house.
“Hey girls, what do ya’ll want to do today?” she asked with ragged breaths
The two look at each other “first, tell us why you’re so out of breath.” Sweetie asked.
“tried…to get my….chores.” she stops to collect her breath “Bleh! I ran do finish my chores and come here as soon as possible so we could spend the day getting our cutie marks.”
“psh! We have our cutie marks, so why should we even be here.” Sweetie and scootalo perk their ears to the sound of diamond tiaras complaints
“Why are they here?!” scootalo barks
Apple Bloom frowns looking between them “Well, I just thought. I-”
Silver spoon approaches Apple bloom “I think she wanted us all her as a way of coming together as a group.” She looks to a relieved Apple Bloom.
“Okay, Goldar hasn’t made a move since we beat him and he’s probably somewhere planning his next move. We have to be ready and we have to be able to work as a team.”
Diamond tiara looks at the cmc’s and then to silver spoon, with a I don’t care sounding sigh she asks what they are going to do today.
The three fillies look at each other “Cutie Mark Crusaders trash collectors!”
“And guests.” Scootalo added
“Really?” diamond and silver asked in unison
As the girls discus what they have planned Goldar makes his way to ponyville from the moon. He materializes in the center of town being sure as to not be seen. He sneaks around the town keeping a look out for any ponies who could spot him and pony rangers who could delay him.
He climes a building looking for the library “Hmm! Tree library, tree, tree. Ha-ha there it is.”
He quickly drops from the building and sprints for the tree. Upon reaching the library he takes in the sight of the large tree and the door with a lite candle design over a bright red canvas. Next to the tree is a large sign with a picture of an open book, above the book read golden oaks while at the bottom it read knowledge is REAL magic.
“HA! Yea right!” Goldar exclaimed
He opens the door which was left unlocked due to the often quiet nature of the town.
“Oh no, no, no!” pony-3 exclaimed as he watched Goldar on the monitor “Zordon, Zordon come quick.”
The towers pulse with magic firing into the massive crystal bringing forth the being known as zordon.
“Pony-3 what is the problem?” he asked attempting to calm the robo-pony
Pony-3 paced in fright of the situation “Goldar is breaking into the golden oaks library.”
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Apple bloom is about to knock on the door to raritys boutique when a beeping on her foreleg catches her attention. She looks around before quietly sneaking around the back.
She turns on the built in communicator “Zordon? What’s going on?”
“Apple bloom, Goldars breaking into the golden oak library.” Zordon explains
Apple bloom has a sudden realization “OH, no! All off twilights books and spell scrolls are there.”
“You must stop him; the others are on their way.”
Apple bloom closes her communicator and makes for the library twilight calls home. As she runs to the library she catches up with Scootalo and Silver Spoon.
Scootalo looks over as apple bloom comes up beside them “Hey apple bloom, zordon call you?”
“Yea, goldars at golden oaks. We got to get to him before he steals any of her books or scrolls.”
Silver spoon adds “hey should we go ahead and morph?”
“No, remember never escalate a fight unless necessary.” Apple bloom reiterates.
Goldar is skulking threw the library looking for the right book. He scans the book shelves throwing books across the floor, he grabs a book with a silver cover and four rings on the spine.
He looks the book over “HAHA! This is it.”
The door flings open as five colorful fillies fill the doorway.
“Hey! Stop! What you doing in here?” a small pale yellow pony asked.
Goldar placed his arm across his chest “sorry kids, no time to stay and play.” He disappears in blink.
The fillies look in irritation as the gorilla disappears before them.
“Great, what now ‘leader’.” Diamond asked sarcastically
Apple bloom gave a dull look of annoyance “let’s just clean this place up before she gets home.”
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Nightmare Moon looks over the planet as a black unicorn in metal armor is engulfed in light and explodes.
“Poor fool, those ponies are quite formidable even without the elements.”
She turns her attention from the earth as her general returns, she walks to the gorilla knight as he kneels presenting the book.
The stone body of Nightmare Moon walks with crackling sounds as she approaches the knight “Hmm, perfect. Very good my general, now attend to the next phase of the plan.”
“Yes, my mistress” He stands up and disappears from sight in an instant.
Nightmare Moon watches as the general vanishes before turning back to the world below.
“Hopefully the pony rangers will be at bay for now.”
Goldar approaches two stone pillars with the top stones carved in the shape of pony skulls, both facing each other with a black chain hanging from a ring clenched in their mouths. The chains trail down towards large metal door, the door was large enough for the most sizeable of creatures to easily pass through. The dense dark edge of the forest gave a haunting chill as Goldar drew his sword; he raised it to the sky letting two beams of magic pour form the tip and grasp onto the rings holding the black chains.
As he slowly stepped backward tugging the massive pony skulls from their gage of each other to the forest he could hear the crackling and moan of the large metal door open. Once open he walks confidently to the edge of the door, as he looks over the edge of the inner sight of the gate to Tartarus he see’s nothing more than a long dark pit into an empty void.
“Well here goes nothing.” He says as he plunges his way into the black abyss.
As he descends the darkness is slowly over taken by an eerie lighten glow with a vast number of paths to stone plateaus with spiked walls to each side. Below the level where he stood he could see the great beast Cerberus pacing between the third level of the Tartarus’s many and unfathomably vast floorings. Upon taking in such a sight Goldar is unconsciously forced to take a step back.
”Mistress Moon wasn’t kidding.” He exclaimed
With a deep breath he shock off his nerves and plunges down into the lower levels. He drops down into the third level of the under-prison which to slight dismay alerts Cerberus. With the sound of light thud the six ears of the three headed beast perk up as one head turns to assess the cause. When the head spots Goldar the other two join as he turns to face the gorilla knight. Goldar glares into the six red eyes as his large paw scrapes the ground and Goldar draws his sword.
“GAH! Bring it on!” he cries as the beast charges.
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Silver spoon was checking over the second to last using twilights alphabetized list of her book as the others used the sections lists to finish putting the strewn books back onto the shelves as diamond ‘supervised’. Sweetie belle trots up with the last book clenched in her teeth by the spine, she passes it to apple bloom who in turn tucks it into its spot on the shelf. Scootalo looked over the shelf list as she noticed the open space on the shelf.
“Uh, girls we’re missing a book.” Scootalo commented scratching her head.
Diamond gets up from her chair with an annoyed sigh “Which one?”
Silver spoon scans over the lists “Magical Incantations and Rituals.” She dips her head back a moment “wh-why would he need a book on that subject?”
“I don’t know but, we need to find out where he is and stop his plans.” Apple bloom explains as they walk out of the golden oaks library.
Puzzled the five fillies decide to return to the tree house so as to figure out what their next move is and how to deal with Goldar when or if he decides to strike. Their stopped on by the approach of an excited snips and snails.
Snips begins “Hey, hey! We have BIG news. Guess w-”
“Uhh, sorry guys, we’re really in the a hurry.” Apple bloom interrupts before she and the others galloped off before they could finish telling them their big news.
……………………………………………………………………………………………………................................................................................................................................... Goldar stood with his blade ready in both hands as he charges the three headed guardian of Tartarus. Both strike with all their might as they rush past each other, a moment later the victor known as Goldar sheathes his blade. He turns to see Cerberus in a heap on the ground before turning to pathway toward his goal. As he ascends the jagged and crooked path he takes caution so as not to lose his footing and plummet into the awaiting abyss of the lower levels.
Finally his walk ends when he reaches the circular platform of the spire. In the center sits a cage, in the cage sits a feeble looking centaur who simply mocks the approaching golden gorilla.
“No, you’re not my brother, who are you?” the monkey centaur asked demandingly
Goldar pulls out the moon jar “You’ve been invited to my mistresses’ hospitality, I’m merely the Chauffeur and this is your limo.” He said as he opened the jar sucking the centaur through the bars into the containment of the jar. “That was easy. Haha.”
With that he has only one other thing to pick up. After a second extensive walk he reaches another platform of the same design, this one a pony face amidst a mass of fog floats about with the sound of howling roars and groans filling the immediate area. Goldar opens the jar, the black haze fights back against the pull of the jar as Goldar stretches it out closer as to capture the dark force. Finally the pull of the capture jar is too strong for its opponent who is sucked into its grasp as Goldar claps down the lid on the jar. With both his goal literally in hand he disappears from the world of Tartarus.
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Nightmare Moon stands in wait of Goldar and her two needed assistance. Goldar rematerializes behind the mare as he kneels presenting the capture jar to her.
“Very good. Your action and promptness makes me wonder about the wisdom of your former leaderships.” She says appraisingly.
“None are wiser than you my mistress.”
With her stone horn she levitates the jar from goldars hands “Now then, we can finally move on to phase three.” She looks at the awaiting knight “you look weary, rest. The next part of our plan can wait while you regain your strength.”
Goldar quickly stands up “No my mistress, I will rest only after you have a proper form.”
Nightmare Moon chuckled amusingly “Very well.” magically turning the jars lid in the opposite direction she released the captured occupants.
Tirek lay on the ground as the ghostly fog that is sombra stretches out into the vast lunar ‘sky’
“Welcome, I am Nightmare Moon.” She introduces with a bow
Tirek staggers to his hooves “Why should I care, pony?”
Sombra gives a harsh growl as his black fog grows closer to Nightmare Moon.
“Very true my friends, why would we have any reason to speak if not for a common enemy.” She explains with a soothing tone “The princess’s, the elements of harmony.” She says looking between the two “A lack of proper respect and a denial of aspirations, the four of us have been wronged by the ones who have control over our world. Alone we were weak but, together we will be strong. Together we can bring vengeance on those who denied us. Together we will defeat our foes and rule equestrian!” she looks over the band of failed villains “who will join me?”
“I am by your side my mistress.” Goldar proclaimers
The ghostly form of sombra gives a growl that nightmare moon reads as his acceptance of her offer.
With a scoff “I humbly accept your offer, Ms. Moon” tirek declares.
“Excellent, Now on to business.” She floats a moonion figure in front of tirek “I want you to craft me creatures more for formidable than these, I also want you to sculpt more of these current figures. Forming as well as awakening them is…exhausting.”
“You’re serious?” nightmare moon glares through him eye slits “very well.”
“Craft about 30 moonions, they are needed. 20 will go with Goldar to retrieve our ‘special’ guest. The other ten I have a special job for.” She turns her attention to the fogged form of sombra “I know the feeling of being without a body. As a token, take this stone form for yourself.”
She exits the stone body as it falls to chunks on the ground. Sombra swops down into the hollow rock bringing it back to its hooves. The others watch as a mane, tail, and horn made of dark crystals form over the body. Two large spiked crystals pultrude from the shoulders of his forelegs and he gives a stretching yawn of relief.
“I believe a thank you is in order.” He speaks regally
“Your welcome, now with your new form I would like you to do something.” She asks string the conversation back on track.
Puzzled he asked “What is it?”
“My general is going to be busy, so I want you to take the remaining moonion to ponyville and deal with a few pests; they call themselves, Pony Rangers.”
“As you wish, Nightmare Moon.” He says bowing.
Tirek looks to the blue fog of Nightmare Moon “I’ll begin my work immediately.”
“Good. Goldar, be ready” she addressed
Goldar kneeled again “I will mistress, I won’t fail you.”
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As Apple Bloom paced through the tree house the others sat with various states of waiting. Diamond continuously watched her as she paced back and forth.
“Ugh, have you thought of anything yet?” she says with obvious distant
Apple bloom stops in her tracks “No.” she answers with a slight hint of anger.
“Well hurry up, jeez I could have come up with like 10 plans by now.” Diamond said insultingly as possible.
“Well ya’ know what” Apple Bloom fires back “I’d like to hear one of these ‘great plans’ you got cooked up.” She says while paired with the movements of her hooves.
“Fine” she answers with a victorious smile “We sneak into his hideout, see what he’s doing and then stop him before he can do it.”
“WOW! That’s a great plan.” Diamond attemps to give a smug thank you when Apple Bloom springs up into her face “IF we knew where to find him.” She shoots back.
“That’s why if I was leader I’d have us out there looking for him, not sitting in a tree house twirling our hooves.” She retorts
“By us, you mean us while you sit on your flank ‘supervising’.” Scootalo says pretending to be secretive about it.
Diamond turns to comment but, is interrupted by silver spoon “That’s enough!” she roars “Look your both right. We do need a plan for when we find him or he shows up again, however he has to be found before any plan can be enacted.” Diamond ignored the silver manned filly while apple bloom rested on her haunches.
Before Silver could go on a beeping rang in the fillies ears.
“What is it Zordon?”
“Pony Rangers, Ponyville is under attack. Head to the center of town, I fear someone an old foe is here with Goldar.”
“Why’s that?” sweetie belle asked
“Because a monster was just teleported into the town.” He explains
“This monster is different from Goldar; he’s more destructive and violent. Also he’s giving off a dark fog that springs forth dark crystals on whatever it touches” Pony-3 informs.
“Okay, were on it.” Apple Bloom replies.
“Caution rangers, May the magic protect you.”
The five reach the center of town to see a large pony made of stone and crystals standing among the towns ponies. As quickly as possible they darted behind a building so they wouldn’t be seen.
“That defiantly isn’t Goldar.” Sweetie exclaimed
“Who is he- she? It?” diamond inquired
“I don’t know but, I do know what time it is.” She said with a grin
“Cragadile” scootalo calls
“Tatzlwurm” diamond tiara calls
“Manticore” sweetie belle calls
“Ursa” silver spoon calls
“Phoenix” Apple Bloom calls
In a flash the five fillies are transformed into the pony rangers.
“What was that?” sombra demanded of the towns ponies
“That was us?” apple bloom answered.
“Let them go creep.” Silver spoon added.
“Were the pony rangers” sweetie chimes in.
“We defend equestria from creeps like you.” Scootalo announced.
“So save yourself the trouble and give up.” Diamond advised.
Sombra laughs off their speeches and poses “FILLIES! Nightmare Moons greatest foes are fillies.”
“Nightmare Moon?” silver repeats
“HAHAHAHA! Annihilating you will be as easy as when I crushed the hopes and dreams of the of the crystal empire.” He says with a threateningly pleased tone.
“That’s what you think.” Apple bloom rebukes “let’s get them!”
“Crush them!” sombra commands of the charging moonions.
The rangers and moonions collide as the battle begins. The moonions separate the group and begin to cause real trouble for them. Scootalo is trapped between three monions playing keep guard as she tries to escape the circle. Silver Spoon is backed up against a wall while sweetie belle dells with three of problems of her own. Apple Bloom spins on her hooves bucking her assailants away before charging and tackling another.
Diamond bucks away a moonion as silver and scootalo each dispatch two of the moonions with ease. Apple bloom is quickly surrounded but, thanks to sweetie belle’s assistance they were just as easily dealt with.
“Fools” sombra exasperated as he snorts black fog from the nostril slits in his stone mussel.
“Run! Don’t let that fog touch you.” Apple Bloom exclaimed
The rangers run from the approaching haze as it encases the moonions. As the fog lifts the pony rangers are shocked to see that the moonion now have now gained jagged crystals littering their bodies. Sombra laughs as he watches the crystalized moonions once again charge the pony rangers. Once again the pony rangers are over put on defense by the moonion.
Pony-3 panics “No, no, no. zordon, the rangers are in trouble! What do we do?”
“Calm down, it’s time to introduce the pony rangers to the hoof mounted pharos blasters.” Zordon reaffirms
The girls are all on the edge of defeat when something suddenly they each notice something appear on their fore legs.
“Whoa!” scootalo said in excitement
“Those are the phasor blasters, only to be used in absolute emergences. Simply aim and fire with your hoof.”
“Got it zordon” Silver spoon answered.
“Every pony ready.” Apple bloom asked “FIRE!”
The five rangers raise their fore legs and open fire on the moonions, one by one they fall as the rangers fire with well given precision. After a few moments the moonions are dispatched and only the stone and crystal pony is left standing.
“No pony in their right mind would give fillies weapons.”
“Bring it on shiny.” Scootalo challenges
Sombra scrapes the ground snorting as he charges. The five fillies raise their blasters firing on the charging pony, seeming to dodge most of the shots as he reaches the group. He rears back slamming his front hooves on the ground causing crystals to sprout from the ground incasing their legs. Scootalo rolls out of the way however and fires on sombra blasting on of his shoulder crystals.
She blasts the others free, and the blasters disappeared.
“Thanks scoots” sweetie belle applauds.
Sombra stands back up as the fillies ready for round two.
“Had enough?!” Apple Bloom asked
Sombra laughed as his horn glows “Actually, I’m just getting started” in an instant he towers over the like goldar had previously.
He stomps down on the ground with one hoof but, the pony rangers dodge it.
“Time to get mythological on your flank. Phoenix zord descend.” She proclaimed striking a bird pose as the phoenix zord descended from the sun
“Ursa come forth!” silver spoon called striking a bear like poses while the ursa appeared from the forest.
“manticore zord charge!” sweetie belle yelled taking a predatory pose while the manticore zord swiftly ran through the forest.
“cragadile emerged!” scootalo calls striking a crocodile pose as the cragadile zord rose from a nearby lake.
“tatzlwurm arise!” diamond tiara declared as the tatzlwurm zord rose from underground.
The rangers enter their zords and charge the colossal pony. The manticore zord pounces but is swiftly blocked with a magic blast. The
ursa zord swipes at him but is met with a magic shield blocking the attack. The tatzlwurm zord strikes from underground knocking him to
the ground, he retaliates by throwing it into the Cragadile zord before standing back up.
“I’m going to enjoy destroying you!” he threatens
Apple Bloom looks to the other zords “you all okay?” they all give an account of their status prompting her to make the call “Alright ponies, let’s form the mythology zord.” With the press of a button from each of them the zords come together forming the mythology zord. “Okay, let’s end this.”
The zord walks up punching sombra across the face, sombra retaliates by kicking the zord away. Regain balance the zord readies for another attack when sombra fires a magic blast right at its center.
“It’s no use, he’s too powerful!” Diamond says with a worried tone.
Apple bloom calls the tail sword which descends landing in the zords hand.
“Try this on for size!” scootalo calls out.
Sombra fires more magic but, the shield deflects it with ease. They trike with the sword over and over though he raises a shield to block them.
As the pony rangers do battle a train caring the elements of harmony comes to the final stretch of its journey as it exits a tunnel heading for ponyville.
“Well that was an experience, rainbow-” applejack looks over as she sees rainbow staring out the window. “What is got you so-” she cut, speechless as she tries to phantom what she is seeing.
She grabs twilight whom was enjoying a good book and turns her head toward the window.
“What in equestria is that?” she asks
“Oooh, it looks like a giant robot made of other giant robots fighting a giant pony made of rocks and crystals. Go giant robot go.” pinkie exposits snacking on popcorn as she watched.
“Good, heavens. You don’t suppose that monstrosity is related to king sombra.” Rarity inquires.
Twilight shook off her dazed expression “I don’t know, however I’m a little more concerned with whom that ‘robot’ is aligned with.”
The mythology zord charges in for another attack. Sombra strikes with a magic blast which gets deflected by the tail sword into his face. Sombra roars as the smoke fades revealing his face to be broken open slightly at the eye as black fog spilled out of the hole.
“Okay, I think it’s safe to say it’s on the good side for now.” Rainbow comments
“What will it take to stop this guy?” Diamond questions
“When I shot the crystal on his shoulder, he was weakened and even pained by it.” scootalo stated
Silver Spoon interjects “Okay, how do we get past the shield spell.”
Sweetie looks at her reflection in the glass “His horn, if we cut off his horn he’ll be unable to use his magic.”
“That’s pretty extreme.” Apple bloom comments “although, I suppose we don’t have a better plan.”
With a group unease for the plan they were about to enact the readied as sombra dropped the shield ad fired another blast of magic. With their shield raised the mythology zord grew closer as he lay on the magic energy. Once close enough they swipe at his horn with the tail sword, his horn shatters in half causing his magic to dispel and his head to whip back in shock.
Twilight and rarity give an uncontrolled wince to the sight of his horn being ‘removed’.
“Oh…my.” Mutters the shy yellow Pegasus
Enraged sombra charges the zord striking it with his for hooves; they counter with the shield and strike the crystal on his left shoulder. He gives a yelp of furious anger as he pulls away. He turns snorting black haze at the zord which swings the sword wildly as it tries to escape the fog. Sombra goes in to finish the ponies but, upon getting in close a lucky swing shatters the crystal on his other shoulder.
“GAHHHH!” he roars
“There, we have an opening.” Apple bloom exposits
Sombra slowly stumbles to his hooves as the pony rangers ready the final blow. The zord raises the tail sword as it begins to glow as bright as the sun.
“MAGICAL ENERGY STRIKE!” the five rangers’ callout in unison
With a few waves of the sword the energy strikes fly into sombra causing him to collapse and his body to explode into rubble. Twilight and the others are flabbergasted by the defeat of the stone and crystal pony.
“Yay!” fluttershy called just within hearing ability.
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The ghostly form of sombra returns to the moon enraged as Nightmare Moon and Tirek wait.
“A new body, customer crafted to better suit you.” Tirek says presenting the stone body.
Sombra seeps into the body as his crystal horn, mane, and tail return “That was an utter disaster. Now that’s twice in the same day I’ve been blown up.”
The blue mist of Nightmare Moon cooed “Oh, I’m sorry. I had a feeling they’d figure something out. In truth you were only the distraction.”
“What!” sombra roars, his voice echoing through the moon.
“Everything is going according to plan. Once goldar returns we can begin the final act in my reformation and then” she chuckles “Then the real plan for the conquest for equestria can begin.”
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The cmcs return to town just in time to catch the train stopping in at the station. Applejack and Rarity storm from the train scooping up their sisters
“Sweetie Belle you’re ookay.” Rarity says relieved hugging her sister.
Applejack pats Apple Bloom on the back “how ya’ doin’ apple bloom.”
“I’m fine.”
Rainbow looks trots over and places a wing around scootalo “you alright squirt?”
“ye-yea.” Scootalo answered blushing
“Glad to hear It.” rainbow stated with a smile “Where’d you fillies hide.”
“Oh we found a place.” apple bloom said grinning
“Yea, we found the perfect place to watch the whole thing.” Sweetie exclaims excitingly
Twilight walks in the middle “All that matters is that you’re alright, and ponyville is safe”
With that the cmc’s and the mane six return home ready one group ready for a well-deserved rest and the other to give any need assistance in any need to repair the town. As the apple sisters return home apple bloom gets a call on her communicator
“Yea zordon?” she answers
“I just wanted to congratulate you on a job well done.” He congratulates. “While you were at the train station silver spoon filled me in on battle as well as the mention of Nightmare Moon. Pony-3 and I will look into this matter, for now you and the others rest and enjoy you victory.”
Apple Bloom smiles “Thanks zordon”
“No Apple Bloom, thank you, all of you” zordon retorts
The End
They’ve got a magic and a force no ponys seen before.
They’ve got the Magic to morph and equal out the score.
Nopony will bring them down.
They know the magic is on their side.
Author's Note
sorry about the cmc trash collectors bit, they already did all the good stuff in the actual show.
