My Brave Pony Starfleet Human

by PikachuSkitty

Episode 8: Gaining Confidence

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One morning, Susnet, Rainbow, Twilight and Jewel were in history class, unfortunately, so were the Jazzies.

Jewel was going through her backpack, until Nikki burst in and deliberately kicked it over.

"Hey!" Jewel said. Nikki flicked her hair at her, "Oh, sorry, you cheap backpack was in the way." Nikki replied. Amber and Donnie chuckled.

"Just leave me alone." Jewel said.

"And if we don't what are you doing to do about it?" Amber instigated.

Jewel didn’t respond, being too scared and shy. Jewel just turned around.

"That's what I thought." Nikki added.

Nikki and the Jazzies took their seats leaving Jewel feeling sad. This didn't go unnoticed by her friends, They exchanged looks of concern at each other.

After history came lunchtime, everybody was in the cafeteria eating their lunch and talking to their friends..... well almost everybody.

In the school soccer field, Jewel was by herself eating her lunch in private, which didn't last very long.

"Hey!" Jewel looked and saw the Jazzies walking towards her in a threatening manner.

"W-What do you want?" Jewel asked, nervously.

"We're don't want anything. We're just here to teach you a little lesson. Girls!" Nikki snapped her fingers and Amber and Dinnone charged Jewel. She ran away with the two girls in her heels.

Jewel was soon cornered behind the school by the three girls, "This is what happens when someone messes with the Jazzies." Nikki declared.

The Jazzies then punched, kicked and threw Jewel around multiple times. When they were done, Jewel was covered in bruises, she could hardly see straight and she couldn't feel anything.

"Let this be a warning to you. But the next time, we won't be so easy on you." Nikki threatened.

"Yeah." Amber and Dinnone added.

The Jazzies walked away and back inti the school. Jewel tried to get up but she was too weak and sore. No matter how many times she tried, she ended up laying flat on the ground. "Ugggh.... Help." She groaned. Unfortunately, nobody heard her because they were all in the cafeteria.

However, one animal saw everything and dashed into the school.


After lunch, the rangers were in cooking class. "Alright students, today we well bake some cookies." Ms. Cake said. The students all cheer at the word 'cookies'. Before Ms. Cake could say another word, the sounds of screaming came from the hallway.

"What is that?" Sunset asked.

The rangers walked into the hallway and saw the same gray wolf from before!

"What's that wolf doing here again?" Rainbow asked. The gray wolf trotted up to Fluttershy and softly barked and growled. Fluttershy gasped in horror when he was done.

"What is it Fluttershy?" Rainbow asked.

"The wolf said he saw Nikki and the Jazzies beating up Jewel behind the school. Now she can't get up or even move! Fluttershy explained.

The rangers gasped in extreme horror.

"Let's go!" Sunset ordered.

Following the wolf, the rangers dashed out of the school and went behind it. There, they saw Jewel laying on her back, moaning and groaning. The wolf immediately went to her and licked her bruised face.

"JEWEL....!!!"

The rangers rushed to their friends side.

"Jewel are you okay?" Rainbow asked.

Jewel only respond with a moan. The wolf whimpered and gently nuzzled her faces, trying its best not to cause her anymore pain. “She doesn’t look so good.” Rainbow said. "We've gotta get her to the hospital!" Sunset cried.

"Come in! Let's go!" Buddy said.

Sunset carefully lifted Jewel into her arms and they all rushed her to the hospital. Celesto, Principal Celestia and Twilight were all informed and arrived at the hospital to meet the gang.

Soon, Jewel was in a hospital room, laying in bed with bandages around her torso, head and arms. Also, she was hooked up to an IV to keep her hydrated.

"She looks so..... lifeless." Fluttershy said.

Rainbow clenched her fists, furious, "When I get my hands on Nikki, I'm gonna-"

"Rainbow, don't." Sunset objected.

"Yeah. Beating up Nikki and the Jazzies isn't gonna help Jewel." Lightning agreed. The wolf whimpered. Normally animals aren’t allowed in hospitals, but the doctors saw that the wolf won’t leave Jewel’s side so they were forced to let it come in into the hospital with the rangers.

Everybody suddenly heard some moaning, they looked and saw Jewel opening her eyes and slightly sitting up. "JEWEL....!!!" Hearing her friends delightful cried, Jewel looked up and saw all her friends around her bedside. "Guys?....Ngggh..... What happened?" Jewel groaned.

"Nikki and her friends beat you up and left you behind the school." Sunset explained.

"We're so glad you're awake." Celesto praised. The wold pit it’s front paws on the bed and licked Jewel’s face, “Hey it’s you again.”

“The wolf let us know you were in trouble.” Fluttershy added.

"So how long will I be in here for?" Jewel asked.

"For a couple weeks, Ms. Jewel," everybody turned towards the door and saw Doctor Penny entering.

"A couple weeks....?!" Jewel repeated.

"Indeed. It will take about two weeks for all your injuries to heal completely."

"TWO WEEKS! B-But what about my school work?" Jewel asked.

"Don't worry, you can still catch up when you get out." Lightning reassured.

"B-But." Jewel studdered.

"Relax, Jewel," Rainbow added, "Your acting like Twilight over a test."

"I do not act like that!" Twilight announced.

The others rolled their eyes. "Well..okay." Jewel sighed. The others left so Jewel could get some rest. Then, Jewel fell asleep in her bed.


Two weeks have passed and Jewel was back in school. However, since she returned her friends started noticing her acting strange; she's been skipping classes that she usually has with Nikki (which is about four) and she's been hiding in the bathroom during P.E and lunch. When her friends tried asked Jewel what was wrong, she only respond with "I'm fine."

Soon, they had enough and decided they would a confront Jewel about this.

It was Tuesday afternoon, just after third period, Jewel was in her locker getting what she needed for fourth period. When she closed her locker, she was surprised to see all her friends, Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna standing beside her, with serious faces.

"Ummm.... what are you guys doing here? Hehehe." Jewel asked nervously.

"We're here so we can ask you what's wrong....again." Sunset replied.

"What do you mean, there's nothing wrong." Jewel reploed.

"That's not true Jewel. You've been skipping classes and nobody sees you at lunch. This is extremely unlikely of you," Lightning stated, "Please Jewel, tell us what's wrong."

Jewel knew that she couldn't hide the truth any longer, "Okay the truth is....I'm.....scared of Nikki and her friends after what they did to me."

Th gang gasped in shock, "But Jewel why didn't you tell us bout this?" Celestia asked.

"Well....Nikki said that she would do the same thing again....but I'd end up more injured. And that I would be a talletale, which nobody likes." The group were disgusted by this.

"That's low even for Nikki." Rainbow said.

"Yep." Luna added.

"Jewel you're our friend, we'll always like you." Fluttershy stated.

"Jewel, you did the right thing, telling us, it's not bad to tell a friend about a bully." Lightning reassured. Then music began playing and the group sang a song to Jewel.

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After the song Jewel began to feel a little better.

"Are you okay now, Jewel?" Buddy asked.

"I feel a little better, but how can I stop Nikki from bullying me?" Jewel asked.

"Well first you need confidence." Rainbow answered.

"How?" Jewel asked.

"Come on." Rainbow grabbed Jewel's hand and led her to the gymnasium. From there she stood in front of her while the other rangers stood on the sidelines.

"Okay, Jewel. I want you to pretend I'm Nikki. Now I'm gonna say something and I want you to say 'no!' Okay?" Rainbow asked. Jewel nodded.

Rainbow cleared her throat and said, "Give me all your lunch money!"

"Ummm. No." Jewel said quietly.

Rainbow sighed disappointed, "Say it again louder."

"No." Jewel said quietly...again.

"Louder!"

"No."

"Louder!!"

"No."

"LOUDER...!!!"

Jewel took a big breath of air and said. "No." in the same voice volume. Rainbow face-palmed and fell to her back.

"Too loud?" She asked.

The other rangers just shook their heads, disappointedly.


The other rangers tried helping Jewel gain confidence in their own way. Rhymey and Fluttershy tried getting Jewel to speak in front of others.... ending in Jewel running out of the area, whimpering.

Lightning and Rainbow tried getting Jewel to play a sport to increase her self-esteem.... also ending in Jewel running away from the field, leaving Lightning and Rainbow frustrated.

Every attempt they tried to help Jewel's confidence, either ended in Jewel running away or just looking at them, scared.

By the time the end of the day came, the rangers went to Mr. Grandruler's mansion to discuss.

"Everything we've tried, failed." Lightning said.

"Even Fluttershy was easier to give confidence to then Jewel." Rainbow added.

"Nothing we've done seems to work." Buddy added.

"Well, maybe Jewel needs to gain confidence in her own way." Grandruler replied.

"Her own way? What do you mean?" Lightning asked.

"I mean, Jewel has her own style when it comes to gaining confidence." Gandruler explained.

"But how?" Rainbow asked.

"Think about it. When does Jewel gain the most confidence?" Celesto asked. All the rangers thought for a moment, "When she's battling with us!" All the rangers exclaimed.

"Jewel is always confident when we're in trouble during a battle!" Lightning added.

"But how can we use that to help her gain confidence?" Fluttershy asked.

"I believe I can help you with that." Everybody turned around and saw a monster with a cage for a head and bars for arms and legs with a lock-shaped body. The monster blasted the rangers, Twilight, Celesto and Celestia, trapping them in a cage. The rangers tried morphing but they're morphers weren't working because of the bars magic.

"Looks like you all got caged." The monster said.

"Let's us go!" Twilight cried.

"No way! Once I get my hands on your little animal ranger, I'll destory all of you for good! HAHAHA!" The rangers exchanged worried experssion at each other.


Meanwhile, Jewel was walking in downtown, thinking to herself, "I'll never be confident like my friends. I'll just be a pushover forever."

Suddenly, she heard people screaming and saw people running away. She ran in the opposite direction of the people and saw what they were running from.

A monster was imprisoning people in cages and to her horror, she saw her friends locked in a cage as well.

Soon the monster appeared in front of her, "Hello there animal ranger, the name is Steel, you like my cages?"

"Let my friends and those people go now!" Jewel squeaked, shaking like a leaf.

"Oh please, you couldn't even save them if you tried." Steel taunted.

Jewel knew she had to free her friends and the people but she had to get pass Steel first.

"I can do it! For my friends!" Jewel took out her morpher.

Morphing Sequence, Ready!

Jewel's morphing scence was different form the other rangers. She jumped up and landed on the back on a horse. A falcon charged in a collided with Jewel, magically donning on her magenta suit.

"Cool!" Lightning cried.

"Time to put you in a cage. Lingos!" At his command a swarm of Lingos appeared and charged Jewel. Jewel charged head on and began punching and kicking all of them. In no time, she dashed up to Steel.

Steel used his arms to block every attack Jewel threw his way. Not having a weapon on hand, Jewel could only resort to fruitless punches and kicks.

"I've had enough!" Steel blasted a large wave of power at Jewel, sending her flying back and rolling onto the floor.

"JEWEL..!!!" cried the rangers.

Jewel stuggled to get up, but she was too weak from the attack. "Now time to end this ranger once and for all!" Steel said, approaching Jewel.

"I can't give up! My friends need me! And I won't let them down." Jewel thought. Suddenly, Jewel began to glow light yellow, stopping Steel in hi tracks.

"What's happening to Jewel?" Lightning asked.

Jewel began to change in front of everybody; her hands and feet turned into powerful paws with sharp claws, she grew a thin tail with a tasile of fur on the end, her canine teeth grew two inches longer, shaking for her mouth. Jewel got down on all fours and roared, dispelling the light and revealing....

....she changed into a female lion!

"Jewel transformed again..?!" Rainbow asked.

"Uh oh!" Steel whimpered. Lion Jewel roared and charged Steel jump in up and slashing I'm hard. It caused massive damage. Then she walked over to the cage with her friends in it and slashed it with her claws, breaking it in half!

"I see,
We're free!" Rhymey cried.

Fluttershy petted Lion Jewel, who purred in response.

"Thanks Jewel." Lighting praised.

Lion Jewel stood up and licked Lightning's face, causing him to laugh.

"I'm not done with you yet!" Everybody looked and saw Steel standing up again. "Jewel, to free the people, we'll take care of him." Lightning ordered. Lion Jewel nodded and dashed away to free the trapped people.

Celesto and Twilight secretly went to a jump-tube to the underground labs.

Let's go!" cried Sunset.

Morphing Sequence, Ready!

STARFLEET MAGIC....POWER ON!

"Cosmic Comet...Power on!"

Steel charged the rangers and Sunset and Lightning summoned their weapons.

"Star Sceptar!"

"Comet Gantlets!"

The other rangers then summoned their weapons.

Rainbow: “Sonic Cannon!”

Rhymey: “Raid Blade!”

Fluttershy: “Strong Shield!”

Rhymey tried slashing Steel with his sword, but he blocked every attack. Buddy tried to lasso him with his whip, but Steel grabbed it and pulled Buddy towards him, then punched him in the face.

"Bring them together guys!" cried Sunset.

“Weapons combine!”

“Star Slammer… Ready!”

“Let's boost it up.” Lightning said.

“Comet Gauntlets, Engage!”

“Comet Trail… Fire!” He charged up the Star-Slammer, and the others aimed it at the monster. “STAR-SLAMMER… ULTRA-STRIKE!!”

The monster roared in agony and exploded.

"Keto do it!" Nacluv cried. Keto nodded, "FORTISSIMO!" His mugic traveked all the way to Mystic Island and turned Steel into a giant.

“Launch Star-Jets!”

“Summon Zords!”

The Jets were launched and came to the rangers’ aid.

“GIGANTIFY!” Lightning shouted, and he pressed on his morpher.

“Giant-Mode, ready!”

With that, he grew into a giant, and at the same time, the other rangers combined their zords.

“Jet-Star Megazord… Ready!”

"Let's cage this creep." Sunset said.

"RIGHT!!" the others agreed.

Meanwhile, Lion Jewel freed all the people and transformed back into normal Jewel and she saw her friends battling.

The maega zord charged Steel and tried punching it but Steel bloacked it with his arms. Lightning tried attacking from behind up Steel moved out of the way and kicked Lightning sending him rolling to the ground.

"Ugh, this dude is tough!" Lightning groaned.

"You wanna see tough, well here it is." Steel created a large cage and hurled it at the rangers. "Watch out!" Rainbow cried.

Both Lightning and the megazord got caught in the cage! Jewel gasped in horror. The rangers pounded the controls while Lightning tried to smash through it, but nothing worked.

"It's no good! All the controls aren't working!" Buddy cried.


At the base, Twilight, Celesto, Spike and Krysta as everything.

"How are they going to get out of this one?" Spike asked.

"I can't send them the Ultra Star Megazord! The cage is interfering with the summoning controls."

"Lightning!" cried Kyrsta.

"This can't be happening!" Spike added.


Jewel could only watch as Steel tossed her friends around the cage like ragdolls. "I've got to help them! But how?" She asked herself. The bracelet on her wrist glowed and a stone with a lion symbol on it appeared.

"Woah! A lion stone, but where's the zord?" Jewel got her answer when she heard some quiet breathing behind her. Turning around she saw a golden yellow lion zord with golden mane, staring down at her. "Amazing!"

Lion zord opened it's mouth and Jewel walked inside and entered the cockpit.

"Alright big boy, let's do this!"


The megazord and Lightning were taking a beating! Steel tossed and hurled them around with pleassure. "I don't know about you guys, but I can't take much more." Lightning groaned.

"Me either." Rainbow added. Steel laughed as he approached and picked up the cage. "Time for you rangers to be free....of living!" Steel was about to finish it when,

"ROOOOOOAAAAR!"

Steel and the rangers looked and saw in the sunlight a Lion zord and Jewel in the cockpit. "Put them down!" Jewel demanded.

"HAHAHA! Why would I listen to you and that pussy cat?" Steel taunted.

Lion zord growled and leaped at Steel, it knocked the cage out of it's hands and Steel to the ground. Lion zord then walked over to the cage. It lifted up its paw, extending it's sharp claws. Then it slashed the cage in half, freeing the rangers.

"Alright Jewel!" cheered Buddy.

"Awesome!" added Rainbow.

"Ummm. I don't wanna be the bringer of bad news but we're almost out of power." Sunset stated.

It was true! The megazords have taken so much damage, rendering their power nearly gone.

"Now what?" Fluttershy asked.

"I've got this," Jewel said, she tapped the wolf stone in her bracelet.

"Wolf Zord, Summon!

Wolf zord arised from the first valley, howling. It rushed over to the battle field and stood next to Lion Zord.

"Wolf Zord, NATURE'S BLESSING!, heal the megazords." Wolf zord reared up and leaves swirled around it. Its fired a ball of leaves of its mouth and the leaves twirled around the two megazords, restoring them to full health!

"Alright!" Lightning cried.

Steel got up again and saw the megazords standing, Uh oh!" He whimpered. The megazords were about to charge but, "Guys, let me finish him off." Jewel suggested.

The rangers looked at each other and nodded. "To right ahead." Sunset ordered. Lion zord roared and stalked towards Steel.

"Now, buddy, THUNDER BAZOOKA!"

Lion zord became covered in electricity and ran full speed at Steel, it leaped up and spun forwards with its claws extended as it flew towards Steel. Lion zord hit Steel with the electricity, actually imprisoning him in a capture sphere.

"Incredible!" Celesto cried.

Lion zord landed and roared proudly. "Mission Completed, Monster Captured!" Jewel declared. The rangers and the civilians below cheered and rejoiced her the victory.


All the rangers returned to the base,

"Jewel! That was amazing!" Spike declared.

"Yes, you've shown incerdible battling skills, Jewel." Celesto praised.

"Thank you sir." Jewel said.

"So how did Jewel manage to change into a lion? She did the same thing before when she turned into a falcon." Buddy asked.

"That's a mystery, but one we will solve together." Celesto added. All the rangers nodded.

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