Power Ponies: The New Heroes

Red smiled returning to the base with Fleur, his sister, as Lone did with Gem, and the others in tow. "C'mon Fleur, I've got something for you." He said as he got in the elevator with her, to go up to his room.

"What is it," she asked, glad to be back with her brother.

"You'll see..." he said as he held her close happily, as they got to his room and he lead her inside. "Alright, here." He said as he picked up the device he had been working on. "Here...for you...I've been making it." he said as he offered it to her, and shown her his own morpher on his left wrist, to tell her that it was one for her.

"My own. . . does that mean?" she asked in disbelief.

Red nodded "Yes it does. I've been making it. How about we give it a test? I can train you."

Fleur took the morpher in her hand and hugged here brother saying, "I'm glad you came for me."

Red smiled and helped her put it on her left wrist kissing her head "You can count on it Fleur. I'd always come for you." He said holding her, as they left going into the elevator to the training floor.

Meanwhile, Lone and Celestia were helping Gem movi into her room, just a few floors below Lone's, but next to Celestia's.

Celestia opened the door to the room to show it to Gem, saying, "And this'll be your room while you stay here, Gem."

"Thank you, your Highness," Gem said as she looked at her room in awe.

"Please, it's just Celestia now."

She nodded "Of course, Celestia. Thanks again." She said as she soon entered and tore off the burlap sack that had been covering her as she goes to shower.

Outside her room, Celestia said to Lone, "You should at least talk to her. She needs someone."

"I know, and I will," Lone said, "once I get used to the fact the stallion who ruined my sisters life and mine is dead."

"I'm pretty sure that won't be too hard." She said smirking considering he wanted Fancy dead for some time.

"Maybe, but I still have to get used to that. My hate for the guy was one of the driving factors of me becoming a Ranger. Now, that would include finding my sister, protecting the planet, and you, Tia," Lone said.

Celestia smiled blushing a bit "Awww..."

"Now, if you'll excuse me," Lone said, "I'm going to serve Grimlock up a new meal. I call it "Jackass steak", or at least I will once Gem gets out, if only so she can meet Grimlock. Fleur too, seeing as how she probably wants to see him go down a robotic gut, to then be dissolved by acid."

"Hmm...I believe Fleur is with her brother on the training floor." She said

"Then both of them," Lone said. "I know for a fact Red wants to see the body destroyed."

"Aren't you wooried about Twilight and Cadence finding out?"

"Already have a cover story. Home invasion. Fancy and his, ahem, 'Wife' were kidnapped, no evidence as to who took them, and multiple valuables stolen. By associates of ours that handle clean-up with these situations, I'd like to point out," Lone said. "If we were sloppy, we'd have already been discovered by the power ponies."

"Okay then..." Celestia said, still a bit worried.

In the Training Floor. Red smiled standing infront of Fleur both unmorphed "Alright Fleur, let's see you morph, I wanna make sure it works just like it should." He said smiling at his sister.

Fleur nodded, and activated her morpher. When the nano-machines began to come out of the morpher and engulf her, she began to freak out, until she saw Red completely relaxed, meaning this was supposed to happen, and she calmed down. She let them completely engulf her. When they stopped moving and took on shape and color, the end result was an outfit similar to Greta's, but the main color was pink, and the symbol on the helmet was a butterfly.

Red nodded and gave her a thumbs up "Nicely done." He said smiling. "Alright then. I suppose it's my turn huh?" He asked smirking, as he moved to morph himself.

Red smiled and pushed his own Morpher's button, and began to morph, as the Nano machines spread out, and turned into a black outfit, that held gold spots along the side, similar to Lone's costume as Rex. the Helmet was a little different and it had shoulder armor on it as well.

"Alright Sis...next up, is to see how you fight..." He said smiling behind the helmet.

"Before that, though," the two heard Lone say, to which they turned, "I thought you guys might want to see something. Plus, it's time you meet our AIs, Fleur."

Both nodded and changed back, to follow him.

Once out of the training room, they saw Gem as well, now wearing a short sleeved, white shirt with knee length, gray shorts and her mane cut short. "What's Gem doing here," Fleur said.

"Because this is something I've wanted to see for a while," she said cryptically, though the two of them could now easily guess what was going on.

"Death to that jackass." Red said with a dark smirk as he looked around.

"Follow me then," Lone said, leading them to the elevator and pressing the button for the lowest floor it could reach, which was even lower then the garage they had entered with Royal their first night. Once the elevator stopped, the doors opened, and the four of them walked into a large room. They saw what appeared to be three large, mechanical animals that had an angular appearance t them. They all had a steel gray body with red and gold highlights. Lone lit his horn, and a two familiar bags, both zipped up, appeared. "Grimlock! Got something for you!"

Red actually takes the smaller bag back, as it contained his head "Actually this is my trophy." Red said smirking a bit, still darkly.

"Okay," Lone said, a little creeped out. "Come on, Grimlock. "I know your watching."

"Your no fun," Grimlock growled before one of the bodies moved.

"Oh cmon. Your creeped out? You probably wanted his head on a pike for years." Red said.

"I wanted him dead. I don't want his head mounted on a pike," Lone said. "We may be considered monsters by others for killing, but I won't become one because of that. We're doing the wrong things for the right reasons. What you want to do is just plain savage, both in the means and the reason."

"Hmm. Fair enough then." he said smirking "Hey Grimlock, go long!" he said as he moved to toss the smaller bag.

"PULL!!" Lone yelled, to which Red through the small bag, which Grimlock caught before it was even a quarter of the was across the room.

"Let me guess," he said. "Head of a jackass?"

"Bingo," Lone said. "But before I give you the rest, I want to introduce you to a few ponies," he said gesturing to Fleur and Gem, both of whom had looks of fear and awe on their faces. "The one on the right's Red's sister, Fleur." Said mare rose her hand slowly in greeting, to which Lone rolled his eyes. "He won't attack you for just saying hi, Fleur. The other mare is my mother, Alluring Gem. And no, you can't eat her."

The large Metallic T Rex hung his head "Aww, I was hoping I could due to how you were angry at them earlier. but it's good to know you've seemed to make amends with her at least." He said as a small smile crossed his lips.

"I'm giving her a chance. At this point, the fact she at least talked with Fleur is enough to stop that," Lone said. "For now," he added in a whisper.

"Well...still is a good thing. Now where's the rest of the jackass?" Grimlock asked.

"Impatient as always," Lone said before using his magic to toss the second bag, which Grimlock roasted, then caught and ate.

"Mmmm..." He said as he munched it down.

"I still don't fully understand him," Lone said, "and I'm the one who made him."

"Why's that," Gem said.

"He asked for his robot body to be able to digest stuff. Why, I don't know, but he did."

"Who knows. Probably to feel a bit more organic maybe?" Red suggested.

"Maybe, but the others didn't," Lone said.

"Night Shade did, and I'm the one who made HER..." Red corrected.

"I was referring to the other two dino-bots. I know Nightshade did, but you have to keep in mind that she's more pony looking than them."

"Speaking of which, girls, meet Slag and Swoop." Red said as he motioned to the other two as they stepped out, Slag looking like a Tricera tops, with his shield around his head and three horns, along with gold head, and mainly gray body, and Swoop flying, hovering in the air on his wings looking like a Pterodactyl, that had silver feet, blue body, and a gold beak with a crimson head.

Slag walked up to the two mares, and said, "Hello, you two."

Both clearly seemed a bit frightened, but smiled and waved back.

"Do not worry. I will not eat you, nor will Grimlock or Swoop," Slag said, reassuring the two mares.

"Oh....Okay..." They began to smile, calming down a bit, quickly warming up, as Fleur instinctively held onto Red's arm as her protector.

Just then, Rush came running in. "Lone, Red. You need to see this," she said, holding out a newspaper. Lone took it, and saw that the headline said, "Visiting Noble from Canterlot and wife missing, presumed dead. Princess Cadence says she will be visiting to check to see if her aunts, former princesses Luna and Celestia, are okay. Due to arrive day after tomorrow."

"How did this get to the press this quickly," Lone asked, as Rush worked at the news department when ever she was in Maretropolis.

"Anonymous tip," Rush said. "Greta and Nightengale are looking into it on the streets, while Orion, Vortex, and Night Shade are using our tech connected to the camera we set up for it. I'm heading back to the newspaper to make sure nothing else comes out."

"Right," Lone said.

"I doubt it," Gem said. "It was probably the Kings, another gang that Fany used to be in. They hated mares, and thought the only things we're good for is being arm candy and giving birth. They might be doing this for revenge, and to get a princess as a slave, maybe even recruit her husband so they'll have a prince with them so the can come closer to the world they want."

"We know he was with the kings but, even then, how could they have found out this fast, much less, got the news out this fast...either way, I think we should tell Cadence the truth....on top of that, we need to be protecting her from *Snap of fingers* The moment she shows up here to protect her from just that."

"Well," Lone said, "we got a few days, so, Fleur, welcome to Ranger training."

"What about me," Gem said.

Lone and Red looked to one another. Red nodded, and Lone sighed before reaching to his pockets and taking out a morpher that looked like a profile of Slag's head and tossed it to Gem. "You too."

Red smiled "Lone, I'll let you train Gem...she's your mom...I'll train Fleur. deal?" He said smiling as he hooked an arm around Fleur.

"That's what I was planning on," Lone said.

Red smirked as he took Fleur and went to go back to the elevator to train her properly now.

"Come on, Gem," Lone said, going to the elevator as well. "Your training is going into overdrive if we're going to get you ready for day after tomorrow."

"Okay, Gem," Lone said. "First thing first: morph. Now."

"How?"

"There's two buttons on the side of the morpher, one ecah. Press them, and the nano-machines in the morpher will take care of the rest."

"Why not use magic? It'd be simpler."

"Because then any lucky unicorn could have our powers. We keep this tech to ourselves so that it isn't an issue. Believe me," Lone said, "once we get it to the point where it's hard to obtain morphers except for military and police, we'll patent everything we use, except the tech that went into the bodies for Grimlock and the others."

"Right," Fleur said before activating her morpher, her outfit being the same color, but having a shield as the visor, and white highlights on the chest coming from over the shoulders and just above her belt.

Red smiled, and morphed as well, taking on a form that looked near identical to hers, except it was Red in color, and the Shield looked more like a firemans, whilst hers was more for a medic. "Okay, nicely done. Gem? It's that simple."

"Right," Gem said, a little cautious.

Lone helped her out by morphing as well. Once it was done, he said, "It may be a little scary at first, but you get used to it. Anypony could tell you that. It isn't hard."

Gem nodded, and pressed the two buttons on her morpher, causing the top to open, and a flood of nano-machines to engulf her.

They all watch as she changes into a blue version of Lones costume, with a triceratops motif for the helmet.

"Wow," Fleur said as she saw the outfit.

"Enough gawking!" Lone yelled. "Gem, give me one. Thousand push-ups. Now."

"WHAT?! You can't expect me to do THAT MANY!!!" She said surprised at how many he demanded of her.

"Don't worry, the nanos in your suit will allow you to be able to take the punishment. These suits don't make us invincible, only allow us to take more physical punishment, so go on, it'll be a breeze with these suits." Red exlained, as he smiled at Fleur, drawing his blaster, before switching it to baton mode. "So, Fleur, shall we...Dance, as it were?" he said, clearly a joyful and playful tone in his voice.

"Of course," she said as she drew her sword, which had a dulled edge for training, and Gem began her push-ups.

Red smiled behind the helmet watching Gem get to work as he turned his focus to Fleur.

Brother and sister circled one another, each looking for an opening to use to start the fight.

"Alright, sis, let's do it!" Red said as both of them charged in, clashing their blades, as they fought. "Remember Fleur, We've got more than just our blades." He explained, as both jumped back, switching to blaster mode, and fired, their shots exploding in mid air as they met, before Red switched to a different, pole like weapon, that seemed similar to a Lance, as Fleur did the same, infact she appeared to get the upper hand here. "Oohhh...My sister did a little secret training eh? I'm impressed." He said laughing.

"Unfortunately, one thing the Kings did was put me and other mares into an arena," Fleur said. "Had to learn quickly to survive." They began to circle one another again.

"Hmph. The Kings will suffer for this then...but it seems to me you prefer the lance to a blade....Interesting." He said as they resumed their training bout.

This went on for a few minutes. Ten, to be precise. Gem finished her push-ups in this time, and went on to her weapon training.

Red and Fleur are taking a break now, to rest and watch as Gem manifests her weapon, a large blue shield, shaped similar to Slag's head.

The weapon Lone had was a staff with alternating red and white stripes, with a gold spike at the bottom, and a small head resembling that of Grimlock's at the other end. He twirled it around like a master, then slammed the spiked end on the ground.

Red and Fleur smiled at each other, as they watched "This will be interesting..." He mused.

"Never has a fight between Mother and Son been so serious." Fleur said in response giggling a bit.

The two went at each other instantly, and without mercy. When ever Lone swiped with the staff, Gem blocked it with her shield, and vice versa when Gem attacked. It was this way until a few minutes into the fight, when, while his staff was locked on Gem's shield, Lone drew his sword, which also had a dulled edge. He pushed with his staff, causing Gem to stumble back. He then brought his staff and sword into an 'X', formation, Gem's neck being just at the outer angle of it.

"Given the fact this is your first time against me," Lone said, "pretty good." He then had the nano-machines in the weapons dismantle themselves and place them in the morpher.

Red smirked, and changed his ranger state to the black suit he shown earlier, and drew his pistol, which was a crimson version of the one wielded by Gem and Lone, and fired at Lone, a smirk hidden behind the helmet. He was effectively challenging him to a duel now.

Lone dodged the blast and said, "After we make sure the princess is safe, Red. We both know how worked up the both of us can be when we lose."

"You said yourself." He said as he stood, switching it to it's sword mode, in his left hand, and drawing another sword, which was silver, and had gold accents, and the back of it looked like a brachiosaurus's head and neck. "We have time to help them get trained, so why don't we have a little fun to show them how it's done eh?"

"No," Lone said. "I won't duel you because you feel like it, Red. You give into impulse to easily when it comes to fighting. Only a fool wants to duel to show off their skills when a problem is coming up."

"Hmph. No need to be rude about it Lone. Least we can do is keep ourselves trained just as much as we train them." He said referring to Fleur and Gem. "But if you don't want to do this, then hand over your morpher. I've got something for you." He said, as he transformed back to normal.

"True, but we both know that when we duel, both of us are out of commission for a few days," Lone said, taking off his morpher and handing it to Red.

Red took it, and began to work, on modifying the Nano machines in it's system, to add in two forms for Lone "I'm giving you both a new form, and a power up." He explained.

After a few minutes, Red handed the morpher back to Lone. Once it was back on his wrist, Lone activated the display button to show the new forms.

According to the display, it reads that the Triassic Powers are unlocked, along with another form, which was a dark red in color, with black pants, a gold belt, gold armor over the knee, silver mesh over the collar, and arms, dark red torso, gloves, and boots, with gold shoulder armor, and a dark red helmet with a gold portion around the black visor, which contained a small section sticking up similar to beetle horns. It also appeared that there was another form or two as well.

"New outfits?" Lone asked. "Couldn't this have waited until after?"

"The situation is changing. We could use more powers." He said smirking.

"Fine, but I decide when to train in them. With Gem and Fleur, we don't have time to train ourselves."

The other outfit he had gotten, looked like a blue version of Nightengale's outfit, with a handheld turbine weapon.

"Now then," Lone said, "come on Gem. You aren't getting off easy because I got new powers."

Red smirked and went back to Fleur, changing back to the red costume that was like hers. "C'mon Fleur, it's time to train you with our vehicles. specificially, Motorcycles."

"Right," she said, following Red out of the training room.

"As for us," Lone said to Gem, "I want you to practice with your shield."

"How?"

Instead of answering with words, Lone used his horn to create ten orbs of magic. "Block these."

She nodded and began to work to do so.

She had some trouble to start off with, which was expected, but, with the nano-machines giving her feedback via her helmet, she was able to improve quickly.

Soon, Gem was actually reflecting them back rather than simply blocking or deflecting them.

Whenever one was reflected, Lone brought his own shield to do the same. His shield was an odd looking one, as it had a color scheme of red for a primary, and gold and black as secondary. It had eight crests along it's sides, four on each. The first two were at the top of the shield, and they went down from there. In the very center of it, starting in what looked like a face of another dinosaur, was a streak of silver that became a sword when the user needed it. The entire thing became a game of pong.

Whilst Mother and Son played Pong, Brother and Sister were training on the Motorcycles on another floor down. "Looks like you're getting the hang of it Sis...how about a little fun...wanna race?"

"Who's going to be the one who's going to hold the flags, though," Fleur asked her brother.

"I wouldn't mind doing so," Chrysalis said as she walked next to them, as she was coming here so she could challenge Rush to a race.

Red smirked "Sounds good Chrissie. Rush, you've got good eyes for high speed movement..I want YOU to be watching for when we cross the finish line, to be able to call which one of us wins if it isn't obvious. So Sis, what will the loser do? After all, everything's a bit more fun when there's a bet to win." He said laughing to make it a friendly wager.

"When I win," Fleur said, "you have to wear a short skirt for an entire week. In public, including dates."

"Better more embarrassing idea. Same time frame, but loser has to wear a tribal outfit for a week? you know, like in your case, a tribal bra and loincloth and me being just the loin cloth?" He suggested, as that would be far more embarrassing.

"No, dear brother. At least then, you can bend over to pick stuff up. Besides, you can do that on your own time. Now, what will I have to do if you win?"

"Hmph. Well, I don't know. I was originally gonna suggest something like you know, loser buys winner dinner wherever they want...but if you're wanting to do that, I'd say you wear a sexy maid costume and you've gotta clean my room for the week." He said shrugging.

Smirking under her helmet, Fleur said, "Deal. Oh, and you have to go commando for that week."

"Now that's just too far Sis. I ain't doing that. Besides. You said Deal before you added it, SO it is nulled!"

"Okay then," she said. "On three?"

"On Three..."

"ONE. TWO...THREE!" He counted as the moment he said three, both of them peeled out racing to Chrysalis's location on the track, as Rush waited to watch for the victor.

Red and Fleur crossed the finish line so close in time to one another, Rush had to come in to say who won.

"Even though it was close," she said, "Red won the race, guys."

"YES!" Red said victoriously, as he hugged Chrysalis.

"So, when do I start," Fleur asked, demorphing. She wore a white, short sleeved shirt with her cutie mark on the shoulders, over where they would be normally, and a pair of jeans.

"After the current situation with Cadence is finished." He said hugging her as he also demorphed.

"Fair enough," Fleur said.

"Uh, Red," Chrysalis said, as Red was still hugging her.

"What, your cuddly. Besides, don't you like the affection?" He asked smiling as he let her go.

"It not because of that," he said.

"It's because of us," Luna and Nightmare said.

"Oh...Hello loves. How can I help you?" He said smiling as he went to approach them. It was very obvious that he loved them very much, both of them, and Luxi are whom he loved far more than any, save for possibly his sister. He was somewhat nervous at the moment, as he was worried of what they would think now.

"We came to tell you two, Rush, and Chrysalis, that it looks like Lone and Gem unintentionally started a new competition, and we came to see if you wanted in," Nightmare said before eyeing Chrysalis. "Trying to add a new member to our herd?"

Red began to snicker "No, I'm fine with you two and Luxi...but I might be game. What's the competition?" He asked as he went to walk with them.

"It's actually multiple ones, and it includes one they came up with by accident. That one is basically ping-pong, but using orbs of magic that shock you when they touch you, and you have to use a shield to reflect it to the other player," Luna said.

"Okay, what about the others?" Red asked smiling at Luna.

"Mostly, they're just other sports, like running, wight lifting, and trivia."

"Okay...Huh...guess I may as well ask him then..." Red said.

Red and the others then made their way to the elevator so they could get entered in the contest.

Meanwhile- unknown location

Sombra smiled happily "Well, as we planned, the story was leaked to Canterlot, and Cadence is coming down to make a visit and perhaps investigate herself...Shall I have the Kings go ahead to take her? Perhaps also Recruit her husband to keep his wife as his own pet, but also to be able to have a man in the Crystal Empire?" He asked Element.

"No, not yet. Wait until they arrive," Element responded. "I imagine the Rangers will come after us if they learned the two were taken while on their way here. We wait."

"The Rangers are likely planning now for our attack...they likely know of the news story and planned for us to attack them..." He said "But as you wish. We will wait for now...Infact....I suggest we let the Rangers go to her first...as they will likely go to her to explain what happened...assuming she doesn't believe them...we let the Kings move in?" He said.

"Agreed," Element said. "Do you have any spell to make sure Shining Armor answers to us?"

"Yes," the dark unicorn said. After all, he thought, I need a general for when I take over the Empire again, as well as this pitiful world.

"Then cast it upon him once he's here."

"Of course, Element," he said before leaving the small room they were in. Once he was certain he was far enough away, he lit his horn and sent out tendrils of dark magic, each searching for his lieutenants so they would come, as well as the other gang leaders, so that they would be loyal, yes, but not to Element, but to him.

Element had believed him but she planned on if he would betray her. She's too good for that, so she already has ideas on what to do when he does.

Soon after Sombra left, she got up and left the room as well, and went to training room so she could continue to work on her abilities.

Ranger tower

Red arrives with the others and laughs, entertained by the partial Pong game going on.

The current score was tied, both for the current game, and overall, as this was the tiebreaker. "They sure got here quickly," Fleur said.

"No kidding...that's an interesting game...wonder what else there is other than simple competitons..." Red mused standing by his sister, and the two lovers who were the former princesses of the Night.

"I heard the winner gets what ever they want from a place of their choosing, and the loser has to pay." Chrysalis said.

"Nice...very nice..." Red said eagerly.

"It's a shame that registering is over with," Luna said.

"Agreed," the other night alicorn said.

"Making what up," Luna said.

"That registration's closed. They just started it didn't they?" he asked looking at Luna.

"And yet they're on the tiebreaker event. They got through the other events quickly."

"That," Rush said, "would be because those were being held at the same time, only finished earlier."

"Well now that's just not fair to us now is it?" He asked as Luxi nodded in agreement.

"It can't exactly be helped," Nightengale said

"Still is not fair to us." Red said, still annoyed by this.

"Next time," Greta said.

"Better be a next time..." He grumbled.

"I'm certain there will be", Orion said.

"There has to be, given the fact just about everybody's here," Vortex added.

"Yeah yeah, still. freaking better be." Red said.

They continued to watch until Night Shade and the other AIs stopped the event, and declared it a tie, which would normally mean no reward, but, seeing as how both of them had scored over five hundred, both of them would get a half-a-day doing whatever they wanted, and also get to travel in a few months to a place of their choosing.

"Ha, nicely done." Red said in approval.

Celestia walked up to Lone and gave him a full kiss for a few seconds and said, "Good try there, Lone."

"Thanks, Tia," he said.

"So this is the mare that got your heart," Gem said with crossed arms."

"Yeah. So?"

"Nothing," she said as she walked up to Celestia and gave her a small hug and peck on the cheek. "Welcome to the family, Celestia," she said.

Celestia blushed "Aww, thanks..." She said smiling, as she also hugged Lone.

"I just hope Cadence is okay with this," Celestia said.

"Us too," Luna said as she, Nightmare, Luxi, and Red walked up to them.

"I'm sure Cadence will be fine with it my dears..." Red said hugging both Luna and Nightmare. "After all...she's the Princess of Love...she can't deny where love blossoms."

"We meant us being in the Rangers," Nightmare said.

"She can't fault you on what you choose to do. Plus, she can't exactly tell you what you can or can't do anyway, she may be top princess now but you all are well...older than her..." Red said hoping to make them feel better.

"Not that we're with you, but because it was the Rangers that killed Fancy, and killing is looked down upon in the extreme by the general populace," Celestia said.

"Even we're still getting used to to fact all of you are willing to kill," Luna said.

Red shrugged and replied, "There's a saying I like. 'One sword keeps another in it's sheath.' Sometimes the threat of violence alone is deterrent. Sometimes, by taking a life, others can be preserved."

"To be honest Luna, I don't want to kill anypony...there are just, a certain few...like Fancy, that I wanted to kill because of what he did..." He said looking to her.

"Plus," Lone said, "it did save Fleur and Gem."

"Exactly." Red said nodding, though Luna could tell he obviously still kinda regretted killing Fancy, even if he knew it was the best option.

"Red," Lone said, trying to cheer up Red, "we both know things would have gotten worse if we hadn't killed him He only would have gotten another mare. If Gem and Fleur had been poor and homeless, I'd still be pissed at him, but at least there, their lives would have been better. They already had good lives, and it got worse when they became his slaves."

"Agreed." He said, smiling a little.

"Now," Lone said, "BACK TO YOUR TRAINING, GEM. YOU TOO, FLEUR!"

Red and Fleur promptly Morph as Red begins to put her through the ringer now.