Power Rangers Starfleet

by PikachuSkitty

Rating: everyone
Tags: Principal Celestia, Alternate Universe, Human, Sad, Original Character, Fluttershy, Equestria Girls, Sunset Shimmer, Adventure
Length: 41030

A girl hiding a big secret and has a dark past suddenly finds herself meeting new friends and new enemies

Lightning Dawn, Sunset Shimmer, Buddy Rose, Fluttershy, Rhymey and Rainbow Dash net a new girl at their school who isn’t who they thought she was. When they discover an old enemy has her in his sights, they will have to make her one of them to protect her.

Published 2018-08-26 11:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2018-11-05 12:41:37 UTC

Prologue

It was another day at Canterlot High and all the students were in walking to class. A special group of friends were walking to their history class; Rhymey, his girlfriend, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Buddy Rose, Lightning Dawn, Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer.

“I can't wait for history class!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Ugh. You are such an egghead, Twilight." Rainbow dash complained.

"I'm not an egghead." Twilight countered. Everybody else rolled their eyes. They walked into their history class and Lightning took his seat at his teacher's desk while his friends took to their normal seats.

Just when Lightning was about to start talking, Principal Celestia came with a new girl; she had peach skin with aquamarine hair with a pink streak in it. She wore a dirty white t-shirt with a old, faded jean jacket over top and jeans.

There were small patches of dirt on her face and her hair seemed a little messy. Also, the girl had small scratches on her arms and face too, but they were hardly noticed by the class.

"Hello Lightning, this is Sapphire Sunlight, she’s going to be a new student in your class.” she said.

Sapphire tried to his behind Principal Celestia. “She’s really shy, for some reason.”

“Alright. Sapphire, you can take your seat next to Twilight, okay?” Sapphire nodded and quickly walked over to her seat, avoiding eye contact with anybody.

And so Lightning began to teach his class. Today’s topic was World War I. As usual, Twilight answered most of the questions, but when Lightning asked for Sapphire to answer on, she just stayed quiet and looked away from him. “Sapphire? Are you okay?”

Sapphire just nodded still not saying a word. Twilight and the others could sense something was bothering Sapphire.

On the other side of the classroom, there was girl about a foot taller than Sapphire was, with long blonde hair, wearing a tilted pink beret with a matching pink sweater and white windbreaker.

This was Nikki Trent, a popular girl at the school, but definitely a Queen Bee, who liked to insult other students she regarded as nerdy.

With her were her two underlings, Amber and Dionne. Amber had long red hair and wore a black shirt with tan pants, and Dione had long black hair and she wore a white T-shirt with matching white pants.

Together, they were called “The Jazzies” a rather odd name, but Nikki picked it and no one dared question her about it for fear of her wrath. Trent, a popular girl at the school, but definitely a Queen Bee who liked to insult other students she regarded as nerdy and so far Sapphire fit that description.

Soon, class ended and the student were going to their next class. “Sapphire, can I talk to you for a moment?”

Sapphire stopped walking and turned towards Lightning, not making eye contact. “Sapphire, is there something bothering you?”

Sapphire shook her head. “Then why wouldn’t you answer when I called on you?”

Sapphire still didn’t reply. Lightning could see he wasn’t going to get an answer out of Sapphire yet so he decided to let it go… for now.

At the end of the school day, Sapphire was walking by herself through downtown when the gang came beside her. “Hey Sapphire, where are you going?” Rainbow asked.

“H-Home.” Sapphire replied, surprising the gang as to that was the first word she’s said all day.

“So where’s your home?” Buddy asked. Sapphire shrugged and quickly walked away from the gang. “Well that was weird.” Lightning commented.

Sunset was starting to become suspicious of Sapphire. “Let’s follow her.”

The others agreed and they all quietly followed Sapphire. Eventually, the came to an ally with trash cans to the mouth.

Peeking into the ally, they could see Sapphire crawling into what looked to be a makeshift shelter; a cardboard box with old blanket inside. “What is she doing in a cardboard box?” Fluttershy whispered.

They saw Sapphire take off her jean jacket and could see she was profoundly thin for her age she even had a few ribs showing. Sapphire wrapped herself in the old blanket she fell asleep.

“What’s going on?” Lightning asked. “Sleeping in a cardboard box, really thin and dirty.”

“Guys… I think she’s… homeless.” Sunset said. Everybody gasped softly.

“Homeless!” Rainbow exclaimed.

“Oh my goodness!” Fluttershy cried.

“So what do we do?” Buddy asked.

“Let’s quietly take her to Mr. Grandruler. He’ll know what to do with her.” Sunset suggested. The friends agreed and Lightning and Rainbow silently tiptoed to the box Sapphire was sleeping in and slowly lifted Sapphire out of the box and Lightning cradled her in his arms..

“Okay let’s go.” Rainbow whispered.

Soon, they arrived at the mansion and Sapphire was sleeping soundly in the living room couch with a fresh, clean blanket wrapped around her.

They told Mr. Grandruler, his wife, Principal Celestia and her younger sister, Vice Principal Luna, what they found out about Sapphire.

“My goodness.” Celestia said. “And you all just found this out?”

“Yes.” Sunset replied.

“Poor dear. No wonder she looked a little… unhealthy.” Luna said.

Fluttershy looked over at Sapphire peacefully sleeping. “So what do we do with her?”

“We’ll keep her here for a while and see how’s she’s doing.” Celesto suggested. The others nodded and all went off to do their activities, leaving Sapphire in the Grandrulers’ care.

Celesto and Celestia looked at Sapphire. “Wonder what happened to her.” Celestia wondered.

“Hopefully we’ll find out soon.” Celesto replied.

Meanwhile, On a tiny rocky island, a few hundred miles from Mystic Island, the prison tower still stood undiscovered, and still house so many different monsters and villains from the dimensional universe.

On the shores of the island, three despicable creatures, Vulcan’s former minions, wearily climbed up out of the waters where they had been swimming for weeks since falling from the sky.

Marla: A very beautiful humanoid lady. She had pale grey skin, pointy ears, long, flowing light pink hair that ran all the way near the ground. She wore a red, sparkling, armored vest with a black skirt attached and matching black boots on her feet, and long fingerless black gloves. If her ability to create more Lingos was as skillful as her diva-attitude… who knows what she’d be capable of.

Bronc: A big muscular armored creature, and the computer and technological expert of the group. He was much taller and muscular than the others. Very little of his actual body was scene as he was covered in head to toe in white and blue armor, complete with a helmet hiding his features. He almost looked robotic, but he wasn’t.

Keto: A mage, though shorter than the others, about up to Marla’s upper-body. He skin was gold colored, he wore a black witch hat, a red cape, a green robe, and he carried a long metal staff with an upside-down crescent-moon with a large red ruby in the center at the top.

All three of them were soaked to the bone and panting stressfully, “I never thought we’d make it!” cried Keto “I’ll never swim again for the rest of my life!”

Marla tweaked her nose in attempt to clear her sinuses from all that salt water. “My hair, my clothes, by nose…!” she whined “You two are going to pay for this! I MEAN IT!! It’ll take a miracle to make me beautiful again!”

Keto sighed, “How can you be thinking about all that at a time like this!”

“I think about my looks all the time.” sneered Marla.

Bronc could only grumble to himself, “I should’ve let the rangers destroy me when I had the chance than put up with this!”

The minions retreated to the top of the tower where they used to meet with Vulcan in the lab.

“What are we supposed to do now?” asked Keto.

“I don’t know!” sneered Bronc “With Vulcan gone, we need a new plan!”

“…I couldn’t agree more.” said a voice from across the room. The minions looked towards the entrance of Vulcan’s private lab and saw someone standing in the shadows.

“Who are you supposed to be?” Marla rudely asked.

The creature stepped forth, and much to the minions’ surprise, he looked exactly like Vulcan; humanoid like alien, and he wore a black armored vest, with a black overcoat, with matching black pants, black boots with spikes at the toes.

Only he was half Vulcan’s size, his scaly skin and his fiery hair were blue instead of red.

“…Vulcan?” Bronc asked in disbelief.

The creature snickered and said, “Not really. The name is Nacluv, and I’m your new boss.”

Marla raised an eyebrow, “Nacluv?”

“It’s “Vulcan” spelled backwards.” said Keto.

“That’s correct.” hissed Nacluv “Your leader, Vulcan, created me in his image and gave me his very thought patterns. His reasons were that I would continue his legacy, if in the unlikely event he’d fall. So here I am.”

“Uh, yeah… like I’m going to take orders from a shrimp.” Marla teased, “Now, if you’ll excuse me. I’m going to hit the hot-tub.”

Nacluv didn’t take kindly to her insults, and demonstrated, by blasting a blaze of fire at, just missing her, but making a huge hole in the wall, frightening her and her comrades.

“Did I forget to mention Vulcan gave me his powers as well… and they’re JUST as lethal? So maybe you ought to show a little more respect next time!”

Marla fearfully turned round, and as for Keto and Bronc, they also gave in and bowed their heads to their new master.

“That’s more like it.” hissed Nacluv. “Now, go and feed the prisoners and report back here! We’ve got a lot of work to do…”

“YES SIR!!” the three shouted, and they dashed off to get to their duties, while Nacluv sat himself in the big chair by the computers, “I think I’m going like being in charge, and my first directive: Destroy the rangers, and then conquer the world!" He laughed wickedly, but then his voice cracked, “I think I need time to work on that.”

Meanwhile, Marla was walking down the round walkways, passing by each cell and inspecting the prisoners on their looks.

“Ugh! Too dark!

Too hairy!

Ew, gross! I think I’m going to gag!”

The three creatures did not take kindly to her scoffing at them and would have loved nothing more than to teach her some respect as they hammered at their cells, snarling at her.

Marla just blew them a raspberry, “Tough bricks, boys!”

She got out her compact mirror and gazed at her beautiful face “It’s so hard to be ravishing in a world of ugly creatures.”

More creatures overhearing felt very offended and Marla then heard one of them speak out from a cell behind her, “Beauty isn’t the only thing you know…!”

Marla felt so shocked, not just by that outburst, that she nearly dropped her mirror. “That voice! Oh, no… it can’t be!” she turned and looked in the cell behind her, and inside was a female humanoid, devil-like creature with red skin, and white horns on her red. She even had a devil’s tail.

“Devila!” sneered Marla.

“It’s been a while hasn’t it, old friend!” Devila hissed.

“Ha! You and I were never anything more than partners in crime…”

Marla recalled how she and Devila were once the greatest notorious of intergalactic jewel heisters in the entire Dimensional Galaxy from their world.

With Marla’s incredible charm that could stun just about anyone, and with Devila’s cunning… as well as a super special trick she could perform… they robbed whole star-systems of their precious jewels, ores and refinery materials.

…But then, one day, while during a heist in trying to take a set of crown jewels being donated to a museum on a planet. Things went horribly wrong, Marla and Devila were about to capture the crown jewels, when Marla realized she had horrible split ends in her hair, and a hangnail, which made her scream out in shock… giving both crooks away and alerted the guards.

It also turned out that the crown jewels they tried to steal belonged to Grand Ruler Celesto, the commander-in-chief of Starfleet, and ruler of the planet Unicornicopia, whom was donating his crown jewels for a charity cause.

The ladies were caught and arrested, and from that moment on they become such bickering ninnies, that the guards threw them in separate cells in the tower.

“Why Vulcan lets an overbearing diva like you serve him directly, I’ll never know.”

Marla was losing her temper and protested, “At least I’m not trapped in a cell anymore!”

The bickering was getting so annoying, many of the prisoners hid under their mattresses to drown out the sound.

“QUIET!!!” Nacluv shouted as he appeared before the bickering ladies.

The ladies trembled before him and his look of fury and annoyance, and he unlocked Devila’s cell, turning her loose. “Since you both claimed to be old accomplishes, you can both get out there and find a way to crush those rangers.”

“WHAT?!” the ladies whined, not looking forward to the idea of working with each other again, but Nacluv flared up and thundered “…GET GOING!!”

The ladies freaked out and left the tower in the blink of an eye.

Bronc saw the whole thing, “Very well done sir.”

Nacluv snuffed “At least it stops them nagging. Now they’re the rangers’ problem.”

It was in the afternoon when the rangers returnd to Celesto’s mansion to check on Sapphire. Entering the living room, they found her sitting up eating some bacon and eggs. “Sapphire.” Fluttershy called. Sapphire looked at them and waved, “Hi.”

“Feeling better?” Lightning called. Sapphire nodded. “M-Mr. Grandruler and P-Principal Celestia are very nice.”

The rangers smiled a little. “Um… Sapphire can we ask you something?” Buddy asked.

“Umm… okay.”

“How did you end up in the alleyway?”

Sapphire sighed sadly, “It’s something I guess I have to tell you.” Unknown by any of them Mr. Grandruler and his wife came into the room. Sapphire explained,

“It all began in a hidden lab where I was created. The people who made me gave my the DNA of every single animal that ever lived on the Earth.”

“Even dinosaurs?” Lightning questioned.

“Yes. Even dinosaurs. They put me through tests to see how efficient I was with my powers; from shapeshifting to communicating with animals.

They even had genetically engineered dinosaurs in the lab they brought back to life. There were five that were my favorite. Four Velociraptors and an Indoraptor.”

“Indoraptor?!” Everybody exclaimed.

“It’s a hybrid of Indomious Rex and Velociraptor. Anyway, the raptors took care of me like I was one of their own; they kept me warm, had me food when I was hungry, they even protected me when some of the people threatened to hit me if I didn’t behave.

Then one day, two years ago, the raptors and the other dinosaurs broke free from the lab and escaped. The raptors took me with them as brought me to alley you found me in. Before they disappeared, they told me they’ll keep in touch, call on us when you need us and to stay safe. And that was the last I’ve heard of them.”

The rangers and the Grandrulers’ were amazed and shocked at Sapphire’s story. “So you’ve been living in the streets for two years!” Rainbow exclaimed with concern, “How come we never noticed you?”

“I used come out at night to avoid people, but since I’m attending school I guess I’ll have to change that. Even when I came out at night, I traveled the globe, making new animal friends.”

“So why were you avoiding eye contact with everybody?” Sunset asked.

“I was scared and I didn’t have much social interaction in isolation.” The rangers and Grandrulers’ felt pity for Sapphire.

“Well that changes today.” Rainbow said. “From now on, you’ll be with us. We’ll teach you everything you need to know about being a normal teenager.”

“Normal teenagers don’t have magic or are Power Rangers.” Sunset pointed out, giving Rainbow a look of disdain. Rainbow shrugged, “Whatever.” Sunset rolled her eyes and looked back at Sapphire. “Like we said, we’ll help you.” Sapphire smiled and hugged Sunset. “Thank you.” Sunset hugged Sapphire back as the others watched with happy faces. It looked like a bright future for Sapphire. The moment was ruined by the jewel on Celesto’s cane going off, meaning there was trouble a foot! “What’s that?” Sapphire asked.

“The red-alert. There’s trouble in town. We’d better get going guys.” Sunset replied. The rangers nodded and dashed off.

“Come on Let’s go to the base.” Twilight said and she took Sapphire’s hand, “You can come too.”

The four of them arrived in the underground base. Twilight went it the monitors and saw what was wrong. There was a hold up at the First National Bank. The goons in the suits, the hostage-- but no signs of any dangerous alien activity. Just as they saw it, it seemed to be nothing more than a simple bank holdup.

But Twilight was rather concerned about the looks of those goons on the roof. “What are you thinking?” asked Spike.

Twilight didn’t answer and began to type on her keyboard, and the scanned showed what was really going on. “Oh, no!” she cried softly.

Even Spike growled angrily at what he saw.

“I’ve got to warn them.” said Celesto, and he ran off to the radio!

At the bank roof, Marla was growing impatient as well as uncomfortable in hiding, “What’s taking those rangers so long?” she wondered.

Before long the people in the crowd began to holler…

“The Power Rangers…!”

“They’re here!”

The rangers came leaping in from out of nowhere and onto the bank roof, and they just stood where they were, not saying a word.

The goons all turned and gazed at them, even turning their hostage towards to face them, and that’s when Sunset whipped out her Star Scepter and fired at the hostage and the goons holding her.

Much to the horror of everyone in the crowd below, even the Crusaders were shocked and livid. “They… they shot the hostage?!” cried Sweetie.

“What in tarnation are they thinkin’?” snapped Applebloom.

DD looked closer, “Wait a minute… Look!”

The goons that got shot got up, revealing to be Lingos in disguise, just like all the others.

“We’re not fooled by your little trick!” sneered Sunset.

“Good thing, Twilight warned us in time.” said Buddy.

The hostage woman angrily got up, and her eyes glowed furiously red as she transformed into her true form-- Devila. “You rangers got lucky, but it won’t save you this time…

…GET THEM!!”

All the Lingos threw off their disguises and attacked the rangers.

“Let’s go, guys!” said Sunset.

It was quite brawl as the rangers fought their way through the swarm of Lingos. Then they stood to face Devila, and though she didn’t seem like it, she was rather strong and swift, which she demonstrated by blocking their every attack, and hitting them back with strong punches and kicks. She even head butt them hard in the chests with her horns, and swatted them with her long devil’s tail.

…even knocking Sunset’s scepter out of her hand, sending flying far, far off the roof and way down into the streets. “No!!” she cried.

The scepter soared far, landing far up the street. Devila laughed, “Too bad, Red Ranger. What’cha gonna do now?”

Sunset clenched her fists furiously, but before she could answer, the other rangers were suddenly grabbed by long threads of familiar pink hair.

“Marla!” shouted Sunset.

“Surprise!” Marla teased…

…That’s when Devila extended her long tail and ensnared Sunset, binding her tightly.

The rangers struggled all they could, but they couldn’t’ seem break free from bondage.

“Looks like our little trap worked out after all.” said Marla.

“Our… trap?” sneered Devila “It was MY idea.”

“Yeah, but without my help you wouldn’t have caught all the rangers, would you?”

“Shesh, you two sound like sisters fighting over a doll.” teased Rainbow. That only angered the ladies, and made Marla tighten her grip around the five rangers she had. “Take it easy, we’re not melons!” cried Buddy.

“You think that’s rough?” teased Marla “Just you wait until we take you to Vulcan. I’m sure he’ll enjoy breaking you all limb from limb as we would have.”

“But first we’re going to have a little fun of our own.” hissed Devila “Sorta… soften you up a bit!”

With that, Devila sent a wave of burning energy through her tail, harming Sunset greatly, sparks flew all around as she groaned in pain, while Marla bashed and crashed the other rangers into one another, making more sparks fly, and each slam was more harder than the last.

“We’ve… got to… get out… somehow!” screamed Fluttershy.

“Yes… OW!
But how…?” cried Rhymey.

“Wow, this is so incredible!” cried Marla “Serves you rangers right anyway for causing us so much trouble.”

Devila laughed and continued to burn at Sunset.

Down below the crowds watched in horror, but were ultimately powerless to do anything about it.

Sapphire, Twilight and Spike watched everything on the monitors, and the power levels for the suits were reading critical! “They’re getting their cans kicked.” said Spike “We’ve got to try and help them.”

“I… I don’t know what to do!” cried Twilight.

“Try activating their Able-Boost.” Celesto ordered.

“Right.” Twilight said. “Hang on guys, help is on the way.” She hit the send command, but the computers showed a flashing sign saying “Error: Cannot Transmit”

Celesto grunted in frustration, “The evil energy from the monsters is blocking the signals. The rangers need to break free first, or we can’t help them.”

Twilight and Spike whimpered in fear, and turned back to see the thrashing! Unknown by any of them, Sapphire slipped out of the main room and secretly took on of the jump tubes to the bank. When she arrived she saw Sunset’s scepter on the ground. She knew what she had to do. She just hoped it would work.

Grabbing it, she raced into the bank which was unharmed due to everybody, including the guards, busy staring up at the battle.

”Hang on guys, I’m coming.”

The rangers were already beginning to look really beat up, and the all felt very woozy.

“Can’t… defeat… us!” groaned Sunset.

Devila snickered “Oh, really… and she slammed her down hard on the ground, and Marla did the same.

“Okay, that one really hurt!” groaned Rainbow.

Marla laughed, “I think that’s about enough punishment. Time to take you rangers for a ride…”

“…To meet your end!” hissed Devila.

The rangers grunted and growled, but still were hardly able to do a thing to stop them. Suddenly, someone called out to the evil ladies, “Drop those rangers!”

“Huh?”

“What?”

The rangers looked up, and even through their weariness, they could see Sapphire, holding Sunset’s scepter.

“Sapphire!” cried Sunset.

“What are you doing here?” called Buddy.

Marla and Devila gawked at one another and then turned back to face the her. They couldn’t help but laugh hysterically. “A ranger wannabe brats? This is just too rich.” laughed Marla.

Devila’s eyes flashed red, “You believe you are match for us? Puh-Lease… we’ve beaten the real rangers, and if you value your life we’ll give you one chance to leave!”

Sapphire was growing a bit nervous, but she refused to go anywhere. “No, we’ll give you one chance.” she sneered “Let my friends go, or else!”

“Sapphire what are you doing?!” cried Fluttershy.

“Please little one!
…Just run!” Rhymey called to the her, but she still would run.

Spike and Twilight were freaking back at the base. “What is she doing?! Is she crazy?!” Spike exclaimed.

“I think she is. She’s no match for them!” Twilight added. Even Celesto looked worried, fearing for Sapphire’s life.

“You had your chance…” hissed Devila, and her eyes began to glow “You were fools to come up here, and now you’ll regret it!”

“Sapphire… Run!!” shouted Rainbow “You can’t help us! Just go!”

“I think you’ll regret messing with my friends.” Sapphire said. That’s when she did a raptor call. “Hahaha! You think that will save you give a break.” Marla sneered.

Just then, five roars came in and the Sapphire was surrounded by four Velociraptors and an Indoraptor.

The Velociraptors were all 6 feet high and 16 feet long while the Indoraptor was 10 feet high and 24 feet long

The beta (female in charge) has bluish-gray skin with a white stripe with metallic blue in the middle going horizontally from her eye orbit down to the tip of her tail. Name: Blue

The second raptor is green with black vertical stripes running down her back. Name: Charlie

The third is a teal color, with no stripes on her back or tail. Name: Delta

And finally, the fourth is brown with dark blue striping as well as having dark blue around her eyes. The most noticeable trait is the scar on the left side of her muzzle. Name: Echo

The Indoraptor’s appearance is primarily black with a golden-yellow streak running from the base of the neck to its tail, which bears strong resemblance to Blue's metallic blue streak. Name: Indigo.

The crowds below and everybody at the base were shocked.

“What the heck!” Twilight cried in shock.

“She called dinosaurs!” Spike cried.

“Of course! She said the raptors will come whenever she needs them!” Twilight explained. “She used the raptor call to contact them. That must have been her plan.”

“Let’s hope it works.” Celesto said.

The raptors were hissing at the ladies. “Your little lizards are no match for us!” Marla sneered. Marla launched her nails at them but Indigo blocked them.

It roared at Marla and pounced on her, pinning her to the ground. It used its claws to slice her pink hair, freeing the five rangers, much to Devila’s chargin.

“MY HAIR! YOU RUINED MY HAIR!” Marla screamed.

“Who cares we still have the red ranger.” Devila reminded.

“Not for long. Blue!” On command Blue dashed over to Devila and bit her tail hard. “OW!” Sunset was free and she regrouped with the others.

Devila and Marla growled at Sapphire. “You’ll pay for that!” they were about to charge when the rangers came between them. “I don’t think so.” Sunset sneered.

Knowing they were badly outnumbered and outmatched the ladies sneered. “We’ll get you next time, rangers and your little human friend as well!” and they vanished.

The crowds below cheered happily in victory. The raptors nuzzled Sapphire. “Hehe, you all did great.” Sapphire praised.

The raptors made clicking sounds as if saying ‘thank you’. The raptors turned and dashed away from the scene.

“Ahem.”

Sapphire turned towards her friends, whom were de-morphed and were staring at her with upset expressions. She laughed nervously. “Uh-oh.” she whimpered.

At the base, the rangers, Celesto, Twilight, Spike and even Krysta has Sapphire a good, long scolding for her behavior. Repeatedly saying it was irresponsible and unorthodox.

Finally, after an hour, they all calmed down.

“I’m sorry.” Sapphire squeaked.

“You should be. You could have been killed!” Lightning scolded. Sapphire lowered her head.

Sunset sighed seeing Sapphire sad, “Sapphire, we know you wanted to help us but you’re not equipped for battle, so it’s too dangerous for you to intervene. Promise you won’t intervene unless it’s necessary.”

“I promise, Sunset.” The two girls hugged each other as the others smiled at the scene. “Now come on, let’s go out for dinner.”

Sapphire nodded and followed her friends to go get something to eat.

In the shadows near the mansion, the minions were watching the rangers and Sapphire. “Time to put our plan into action.” Bronc said. He and the others snickered evilly and vanished.

Episode 1: New Ranger Rise

The next morning, Sapphire woke up and went downstairs to have some breakfast. When she entered the living room she noticed the ominous silence. “Mr. Grandruler! Principal Celestia!” she called.

No response.

"Where is everybody?" She thought. She looked all around the house and found no sign of them. That’s when Twilight’s talking dog, Spike and Krysta, Lightning's talking pet robin came up to them.

"Spike, Krysta, have you guys seen Lightning and the others?" Spike and Krysta shook their heads.

"They weren’t there when we woke up either. This isn't like them. Where could they have gone?" Krysta asked.

Just then, a big screen appeared in front of Canterlot High and everybody could see and hear it. Nacluv appeared on the screen. Sapphire shivered at the sight of him while Spike growled. “What does he want?” He snarled.

"Greetings people of Mystic Island. We have your little rangers and their team mentor." Nacluv began. The screen changed to see Twilight, Lightning, Sunset Shimmer and the rest of the team, including Mr. Grandruler and Principal Celestia! They were all tied to the outside of the rocket with thick chains.

“Lightning!” Krysta cried.

“Twilight!“ Spike added.

"If you ever want to see them again, meet me in the cave at the Hawaiian Island.....if you dare!" The video ended. The people were in a mass panic! Spike, Krysta and Sapphire knew this was bad without the rangers, Mystic Island is defenseless. "Not good!" Spike said, How did they even kidnapped them?"

"They must have snuck into their homes and the mansion then nabbed them while they were asleep." Krysta said, "Now what?"

"Don't worry, they have their morphers, so they should be fine." Spike reassured.

"Uh, you mean the morphers I found on the mansion floor,right?" Sapphire asked.

"Oh no! They don't have their powers. That's so not good." Krysta said.

"What do we do now?" Spike asked in panic.

"We'll have to rescue them." Krysta said.

"How? We don't have the powers we need to rescue them or fight those monsters!" While Spike and Krysta argued, they suddenly heard Sapphire speak up, "I'll do it"

"Huh?" they both asked.

"I'll go to the Hawaiian Island and rescue my friends." she added.

"WHAT?! Sapphire you can't! You almost got creamed the last time if you didn’t call your raptors. It too dangerous!" Krysta objected.

"I know, but it’s a risk I’ll just have to take. If we don’t do something our friends are goners." Spike and Krysta saw that there was no way to talk her out of this.

"Then we're going with you." Spike said.

"Us too." A voice added. Krysta, Spike and Comet turned and see Vice Principal Luna, Celestia's sister and Celesto's sister-in-law, Cadence and Shining Armor, Celestia and Celesto's niece and nephew. "We wanna help too. No creep is going to threaten my family." Luna said. Cadence and Shining Armor agreed.

"Right! Let's go!" Krysta said.

Soon, the friends all arrived at Hawaiian Island, by flying Celesto's limo that turned into a rocket. Luna landed the rocket-car and they all exited. Looking at the ominously, quiet environment. "Creepy” Cadence complimented.

"Come on let's go find the cave and rescue our friends!" Spike announced. The friends all cheered and dashed off. Racing down the beach they saw the cave Nacluv was talking about. They also heard some voices and entered, tracking the voices lead them to a large cavern, the group saw their friends and the monsters. They peeked in and listened.

"Finally, we'll get rid of these pests for good!" Marla declared.

"You won't get away with this!" Mr. Grandruler sneered.

"We've already have, nobody's coming to save you. They won't even know what happened to you..... once we launch you into space!" Nacluv exclaimed.

Cadence, Luna, Shining Armor, Spike, Kyrsta and Sapphire gasped in horror.

Marla pressed a button on the control panel and a timer appeared starting at five minutes and counting down. "Once this timer reaches zero, you'll be blasted into space with no way to come back. HAHAHA!" Nacluv added. Marla, Keto and Bronc all laughed.

"We've got to stop them." Luna said.

"You think?!" Shining snapped.

"We have to get to that rocket and free our friends." Cadence said.

"Spike, Krysta, You two will hide while me, Cadence and Shining Armor distract the minions. Comet, you try to free the others." Luna ordered. Everybody nodded. Luna stepped into the cavern.

"HEY!" she called.

Marla and Keto looked, "What are you doing here?" Marla snarled.

"We're here to rescue of friends." Shining added, stepping forward.

"Well you'll be too late. Lingoes… Attack!" Lingos came out and attacked the friends. Comet managed to sneak pass all of the fighting and made her way to her captured friends.

"Sunset, Lightning, Everyone!" She whispered.

"Sapphire?!" Lightning said.

“What are you going here?!” Sunset asked. “You shouldn’t be here!”

“Just be glad she came, Sunset.” Rainbow added.

"Don't worry. I'll get you out!" Sapphire was about to untie them when. “Oh no you don’t!” Nacluv came in and rammed her, sending her into into the wall.

"No! Sapphire!" Mr.Grandruler cried. She slowly got back up onto her feet and saw, to her horror, that the Lingoes overpowered Luna, Cadence and Shining Armor and tied them to the rocket as well!

Nacluv charged Sapphire, but she dodged making him hit the wall. However, Keto blasted her with his staff, sending her to the ground. "Ooh. Too bad you couldn't save your friends, huh? Now you'll never see them again." Bronc taunted.

Sapphire couldn't stand this at all! Her friends were in trouble and she was powerless to help them.

She wasn't about to give up. "I won't give up!" She yelled. She began to glow a light magenta color.

"What's happening to Sapphire?" Sunset asked. Krysta and Spike peeked out from their hiding place and saw her glowing as well. She glowed brighter and brighter, until it was too bright for anybody to see. The light dimmed and everybody saw Comet had transformed; her hair grew longer and was in a ponytail and gained magenta, yellow and red highlight strips. Also, a tail sprouted from her lower back. Her ears turned into pony ears and

"I WILL SAVE MY FRIENDS! NO MATTER WHAT!” Sapphire shouted. Lingoes charged her and she blasted them all with a pulse of magic turning them all into dust. She dashed at the minions and knocked them all over, causing great damage. “Awesome!” Rainbow cried.

Sapphire fired a beam at Nacluv and the minions but they teleported away at the last second. Breathing heavily, Sapphire glowed again and she changed back into her normal self. Krysta and Spike came out of their hiding spot and ran to her. "That...was...awesome, Sapphire!" Spike cried.

"Incredible!" Krysta added.

"Umm... hate to break this up, but we're about to be BLASTED INTO SPACE!" Lightning cried.

Sapphire and the pets looked at the timer and gasped only five seconds were left! There wasn’t any time for her to deactivate the timer. It reached zero and the rocket’s engines started up and blasted through the cavern’s roof and into outer space.

"AHHHHHHH!" The gang cried.

The pets and Sapphire raced outside and saw the rocket zooming up though the sky. "We have to go after them!" Spike cried.

"How?" Sapphire asked.

"Celesto's rocket." Krysta suggested.

"That's not fast enough to catch up with that rocket!" Spike added.

"So now what?" Sapphire said desperately.

Sapphire, Spike and Krysta saw no way to save their friends. Just then, Sapphire’s chest began flashing a white light. “Huh? What’s going on with my chest?” Suddenly, a line of white magic appeared and lead towards a mountain.

“What does it mean?” Kyrsta asked.

“I don’t know, but we should follow it.” They all dashed off towards a mountain. The group followed it and saw it enter a tunnel. Still following it, the stone led them to a enormous, mechanical jaguin (hybrid of a Jaguar and macaw)

The body was light yellow with black spots and the wings were also yellow but with black highlights. “Woah, a Zord!” Spike exclaimed. The Zord seems to have heard them because it’s eyes shot open and it stared down at the trio.

Lowering its head, it examined Sapphire while growling at her. “Easy boy, it’s okay. I’m a friend.” Sapphire cooed. Sensing the kindness and sincerity in her voice the Zord nodded and opened it's mouth. “Let’s go, you guys.” Sapphire and the pets walked inside. In the zord was a cockpit with a control panel, complete with handlebars and special buttons and weapons. "Awesome!" Sapphire complimented. She sat in the seat behind the handlebars and grabbed them. "Now....how do I drive this?" she asked.

"Figure that out later, we have to save our friends!" Spike said.

"But we don't know how far they are. They could be in space by now." Krysta added.

Just then, the radar destroyed something in the Thermosphere. “That must be the rocket!” Spike identified.

"Oh no! They're almost to space. We have to catch them!" Krysta cried. Sapphire grabbed the control and pushed them forward. “Hold on!” The zord flapped it's massive wings and soared out of the mountain.

"WOOOOHOOOOO!" she cried. Spike and Krysta grabbed onto her clothes, trying not to get thrown into the back wall. In minutes, the zord was in the Thermosphere.

"There they are!" She cried.

"Let's go!" Spike added.

"Right!"

Lightning and the gang were in extreme panic. "What are we gonna do?" Fluttershy asked.

"There's nothing we can do." Buddy replied.

"If help doesn't come soon,
We will meet our doom!" Rhymey said.

"That's supportive." Rainbow grumbled.

It looked hopeless, until Mr. Grandruler spotted something big and metal coming towards them. "What's that?" Everybody saw it and as it got closer they realized what it was and who the pilot was. "Is that a… Jaguin zord!?” Sunset asked.

“With Sapphire.... driving!?” Celestia added. Sapphire drove the zord over top of the rocket. “Don’t worry, guys, I got you.” Sapphire was about to grab it with the Zord’s powerful claws when the rocket jerked to the right. “Huh?” She tried again and it moved to the left. Then the rocket flew away from the Zord. "What's going on?" She asked, totally confused.

"I bet Nacluv is controlling it!" Spike said. Sapphire steered the zord, following the rocket.

Meanwhile, back on earth, Keto was busy controlling the rocket with a remote control. "Hehehehe. That weakling will never be able to catch my rocket." He declared.

"Hey! I built it!" Bronc declared, insulted.

"Oh suck it up!" Marla snapped. Bronc and Marla began getting in each other faces and began pushing each other.

Soon they knocked into Keto, making him drop the control on the ground. The remote broke into a million pieces. "Now look at what you've done!" Nacluv thundered.

Back in the sky, the rocket's engine began stuttering,

"What's going on?" Rainbow asked. That's where the rockets gave out! "The engines must have died!" Grandruler cried.

"If the engines died that means we're gonna....!" Lightning started.

".......FREEFALL!" Everybody cried. The rocket began dropping like a rock. The people all over Mystic Island saw the rocket falling and were deeply afraid. "WE ARE DOOMED!" Mr. Grandruler and Celestia screamed.

"Roar!"

Just then, they saw the Jaguin Zord diving towards them in a powerful dive. Sapphire lined up with the rocket and extended the claws. The claws gripped the rocket “Gotcha!” she pulled up on the handlebars. The zord began pulling up, slowing down with the rocket. Soon, the zord and rocket gently floated down to the ground. The civilians all rejoiced and went to untie the gang.

Sapphire landed the zord and it lowered its head. She and the pets climbed out of the zord and raced towards their friends.

"Lightning! Guys! Are you all okay?! Krysta asked.

"Yeah, We're okay. Thanks to you guys." Grandruler replied.

"Actually, you should thank Sapphire. She's the one who really saved you guys." Spike said.

Sapphire blushed and said "Oh. I didn't do that much." The gang was shocked.

"Not much?, Sapphire you saved our lives! Without you, we would have been goners." Sunset replied. The civilians all cheered and rejoiced for Sapphire. Sunset and Lightning lifted her up onto their shoulders and walked into the crowd, where Sapphire was cheered for, because of her heroic rescue.

Meanwhile, the villains were watching the whole thing from the tower monitors. “You win today, Sapphire. Next time won’t be so easy.” Nacluv sneered and his minions agreed.

That night, a party was held at the Mr. Grandruler's mansion in honor of Sapphire. Everybody was dancing and having all kinds of fun. The rangers all gathered around and listened to Grandruler's speech.

"Sapphire Sunlight, today you've shown great bravery in the face of danger. Even when you were against all odds, you never gave up and succeeded in rescuing us from certain doom. We are ever so grateful to you." Her friends all cheer and clapped for her, making her embarrassed again. "And now, we have a gift for you."

Principal Celestia came in front of Sapphire with a red box with a pink morpher, like her friends, "Sapphire, on behalf of all of us, you are the newest Power Ranger. The Animal Ranger!" Grandruler concluded.

Sapphire gasped softly, "R-Really?!"

"Really. You’ve earned it.” Grandruler approved.

"Thank you. This is the best day ever!" she exclaimed. She took the morpher and placed it on her shirt. They both shined in the moonlight. Sunset and the rest of her friends were proud of their new teammate.

Episode 3: Sapphire’s Roar

It’s been two weeks since Sapphire discovered her shapshifting ability. Since then, the rangers have been helping her master her new power and her nature magic. Progress was going really well.

Sapphire could now fire nature energy from her horn perfectly, shapeshift into many different species of animals, even prehistoric animals like dinosaurs and smilidons. The rangers the team were nothing short of impressed at their teammates improvement.

Now, Sapphire was walking by herself after school hours.

She was just thinking about everything that’s happened to her in the few weeks she’s met Celesto, Celestia and their friends. They helped her change her life around completely and now she was in store for a brighter, better future; going from a escaped experiment on the streets, to a power rangers with lots of friends.

She was downtown near the First National Bank. She saw people staring up at the roof for some reason. Sapphire saw the exact same thing she saw before. The rangers bounded by Marla and another girl monster. Sapphire spotted Sunset's secpter on the ground and picked it up "Sunset's secpter. Huh? Dejavu." she looked up at her friends. "... I've gotta help them."

She managed to sneak into the bank due to everyone, even the security guards, being busy starting at the horror on the roof. She went to the elevator and went up to the roof. "Hang on guys, I'm coming."

Meanwhile, at the base, Celesto, Twilight and Spike saw everything on the monitors, “They’re getting their cans kicked!” cried Spike, “We’ve got to help them!”

Twilight couldn’t think of anything, “Able-Boost won’t work while their bound. I don’t know what to do!” She cried.

“Oh,” Celesto groaned while holding his head, “This is so not good.” Twilight and Spike whimpered and looked back at the trashing.

The rangers were getting really beat up. Marla and Devila, a devil-like monster two two horns on her head and a devil's tail, were laughing,

"Oh. This is too rich!" Marla said.

"Enough of this, let's destroy these pests for good!" Devila exclaimed. The rangers groaned and grunted, still unable to free themselves.

"Let my friends go!" A voice shouted.

The rangers, Marla and Devila turned around and saw Sapphire in a battle stance with the Star Scepter in her hand.

"Sapphire!" cried Sunset.

"What are you doing here?" Lightning asked.

Marla and Devila looked at each other and burst into laughter. "Look at who's trying to be a hero." Marla taunted. Devila's eyes glowed red. "You've made a big mistake. We'll give you one last chance, leave or else it'll get ugly." Sapphire was starting to sweat nervously, but she kept her brave face. "No! I'll give you one last chance! Let them go! Sapphire threatened.

"Comet! Get out of here!" Lightning cried.

"You can't save us! Just go!" Rainbow added.

Comet was staring down Marla and Devila, waiting for one of them to make a move. "We gave you a chance, now you'll regret it." Devila snarled. Marla and Devila launched themselves at Sapphire but at the last second, she quickly turned around and flipped over them and slashed them with the scepter.

Everybody was shocked!

Marla and Devila charged at Sapphire again, but she swiftly dodged and kicked the two. "Let my friends go, now!" she demanded.

"No! And if you take one more step." Marla added. Marla and Devila placed the rangers over the edge of the roof, if they let go the rangers will fall to their deaths! “They’re done for.”

"*Gasp* No!" Comet cried. Something inside her snapped! Clouds began to form near the area and the wind began blowing. "What's happening?" Marla asked. Even the rangers didn't know what was going on.

"Let.. them.. GO!" As soon as she yelled' go' the clouds behind her turned into roaring lions.

(Like This)

Seeing this shocked everybody in the crowd, the monster, the rangers and the base. Marla and Devila were so shocked they moved the rangers back on the roof and dropped them. Sapphire roared again and stared intensely at Marla and the Devila.

The girls in fear retreated away. The people cheered down below. The rangers de-morphed and looked at Sapphire in amazement.

At the base, the rangers, Celesto, Twilight, Spike and Krysta all had the same question. "HOW DID YOU DO THAT?"

Sapphire, recovering from the yelling, replied, "I don't know. Something just.. snapped inside of me when Marla and that other monster threatened to drop you guys."

"Well that wasn't natural, that's for sure." Lightning said.

"And according to my reading on it, that roar is very powerful." Twilight informed.

"How powerful?" Rainbow asked.

"Strong enough to destroy and entire forest." The rangers were taken aback by that reply. "Woah, that is powerful." Spike added. Everybody else agreed.

"So what do we do? Nacluv might know about her roar from those monsters." Fluttershy with worry. None of the rangers liked that. When Nacluv finds out Sapphire has this new, powerful ability, he'll no doubt try and capture her. He's already after her magic. "So I've become a definite target for Nacluv. Great." Sapphire whimpered.

Sunset placed a shoulder around her. "Sapphire, remember, we promise we won't let Nacluv lay and single finger on you." The rangers all nodded, making Sapphire be a little better. "For now, you must continue your magic training, okay, Sapphire?" Celesto asked.

"Yes, sir."

"Good, now all of you get some rest. You've got school in the morning."

The rangers agreed and went off to get some sleep.

At the tower, Nacluv had called Marla, Bronc and Keto to the top of the tower, their meeting place. "I'm sure you've all know the reason I've called you here."

Marla nodded. "That Animal Ranger has another ability."

"Yeah, that roar has devastating power." Bronc added. Nacluv smiled sinisterly. "We need that power. With it we'll be able to destroy the rangers once and for all!"

"Umm, I hate to be the wet blanket but the rangers won't let us anywhere near the Animal Ranger. How are we going to get her by herself? Keto asked. Marla yawned. "Can't we talk about it in the morning?"

"I agreed." Bronc said, rubbing his eyes. Nacluv looked displeased and rolled his eyes. "Fine, go off to bed." The minions were off to their rooms to get some sleep while Nacluv stared out the window at the island in the distance. "Soon that ranger will be ours and we'll finally destroy the rangers and take over the universe." he thought to himself as he fell asleep himself.

The next morning, Twilight and Professor Brain were working hard in the laboratory, within the rangers’ base.

“Right, are we ready, Twilight?”

“Ready, Professor!”

“All right then… power on!”

Twilight switched on the controls, and Spike ducked down behind her leg nervous shaking as powerful beams of energy fired at a monster dummy at the end of the room, imprisoning it in a sphere within a split second.

“Oh, wow!” Twilight cried, “IT WORKS!!”

“Satisfactory! Most-Most-Most Satisfactory!” added Brain.

Spike howled in joy, but then he stopped and asked “Um… what did you just do again.”

"We’ll explain when the others get here.” replied Twilight. After that, all she, the professor and the lab technicians did was ogle proudly at their success.

Later that day, the rangers were all summoned to the base for the announcement of their new success.

First, Twilight made them all view footage of past battles, at the precise moments when the rangers used the Star Slammer to finish the monsters off the first time. “You called us here just to show us all that?” Rainbow asked.

“No, there’s more.” said Twilight “Now you all know what usually happens at this point.”

Sunset nodded, “Just before the monster is captured and imprisoned, it grows.”

Surely enough, the next bit of footage showed just that-- Keto’s Fortissimo mugic working its magic and making the monster grow, thus sparing the creature from capture.

“So what’s all this about?” asked Buddy.

“Well, that’s just it…” Celesto cut in, “Professor Brain has…” he stopped when Twilight cleared her throat and gave him a straight look, “Ahem, Professor Brain and Twilight…” Twilight nodded at him “…Have increased the capturing power.”

“So, we’ll be able to capture the monsters much faster then?” asked Fluttershy.

“Correct…” replied Celesto, and he typed into the controls and showed every one the blue prints. “Once we transfer the upgrade to your weapons. As I just answered Fluttershy, you’ll be able to capture the monsters much quicker before Nacluv can order that they be grown.

So, I’m afraid I’ll have to ask you all the leave your morphers here for a while so we can make the transfer.”

Now the rangers all felt concerned,

“But what if a monster should appear?
We’d be in such trouble. That is clear.” said Rhymey.

“Well, let’s just hope that doesn’t happen.” said Lightning, “We could use this upgrade after all.” With that, he and the others turned in their morphers, promised to have them back soon.

“We better go or we’ll be late for first period.” said Sunset.

“Oh, joy!” groaned Rainbow.

'Yeah! School!" Sapphire squeled as she dashed off.

"... I swear she like another Twilight." Sunset commented. The rangers chuckled and they all walked off together, and Twilight had to go with them. She couldn’t be excused with exams coming up, and the technicians could easily perform the upgrade without her being there. She took Spike with her, stuffing him into her knapsack. She was allowed to bring him to school, leaving him in the care of her Principal Cadance, sister-in-law, Celesto sighed as he watched the rangers head through the jump-tubes, “You do so much for us, rangers. It makes me proud to know and help all of you.”

That day, the five rangers and Twilight all shared the same Home Cooking class and the class was taught by the Cafeteria workers, Cupcake and Carrot Cake.

“All right everyone…” said Mr. Cake “Today, we have a very special guest joining us. Please, Welcome Cookie Dough, Mr. Grandruler and Principal Celestia’s personal home chef.” The rangers knew Cookie Dough very well, having had many meals at Celesto’s mansion cooked by him, while the other students seemed honored and amazed he was there, and they whispered about to one another…

“That guy’s a world-renowned chef!”

“I heard he once cooked for the Queen of England.”

Cookie Dough cleared his throat, “Now, everyone, your teachers have asked me to take part in this special assignment of yours. All of you are going to use whatever foods are provided for you, and try to create the best kind of dish that you can, and I personally shall sample your dishes.”

Rainbow raised her hand “You mean this is some kind of cook-off?”

“That’s correct…” said Cookie Dough “And I’m a master chef, so I have great expectations, but try not to let that get to you.”

Fluttershy already was shuddering nervously as the pressure got to her.

“There’s one other thing…” Cookie continued “If you manage to score more than 90 points with me… you’ll be excused from your written exams and have passed this course.”

Many faces light up with joy, while Twilight seemed shocked of the thought of skipping the written portion, and she raised her hand, “Um… why should we not have to do our written exam?”

Cookie chuckled, “Because, Cooking isn’t really just something you learn on paper. It’s all about making it real. Knowing all the types of food and tools is just part of it, but actually using them is the real task. So, if you get it right… then you already have proven you’ve learned all you need.”

With that said, everyone got straight to work, but they didn’t have to rush as the project would last for a few days, in case other people had to prepare meals that required a waiting period, and at least students were allowed to work in groups of two or three.

Rhymey and Fluttershy worked together, naturally being distracted by one-another, and blushing, but they managed to work well together.

Twilight was working with Sunset, and they had so many different kinds of foods that Twilight literally calculated how many different kinds of dishes they could make and then how they could be prepared.

“Come on, Twilight… let’s just pick a dish and get to work.” said Sunset.

“We will, I just need to calculate how much time we need to spend working on it.”

Sunset sighed, “This could take a while.”

Sapphire was looking through a cookbook Celesto bought her. She decided to make some cookies. "These are going to be great. Hehe." she said to herself in happiness.

Meanwhile, Rainbow and Buddy were already hard at work creating their own meal, while noticing that Nikki and the Jazzies weren’t doing a thing. They were just standing at their stations looking grimly at the tools and foods as if they had never cooked in their lives, which Nikki suddenly confirmed…

“Why am I even doing this?” Nikki complained “As if theses skimpy aprons and these gross bandannas didn’t already make me want to puke.”

“I don’t touch knives!” whined Amber.

Dionne simply turned on the stove, and the soft pilot light from the element surprised her. “Okay, this is really freaking me out.”

“What’s wrong Girls; you never cooked before?” Rainbow teased.

Nikki didn’t take kind to that and marched over to their station and sneered, “I don’t cook, I eat, and I’ve eaten finer things than you dweebs ever could cook.”

She then noticed a bowl of tomato sauce Buddy had made, and put her pinky in it “So there…” and she proceeded to lick her finger clean.

Buddy quickly tried to warn her, “Uh… Nikki I wouldn’t do that! That sauce has…” but Nikki had already taken a lick, and at once, she gasped, and he face went bright red as steam shot through her ears, and she took off round the room gagging and screaming!

“…Ghost peppers in it.”

Nikki dashed back to her station panicking, “Water…!! WATER!!!”

Panicking themselves, Amber and Dionne grabbed the faucet nozzle, switched on the water and sprayed Nikki hard, drenching her from head to toe.

The entire class laughed at her, but the teachers and Cookie Dough were from impressed. “That’ll be enough mischief ladies.” snapped Mr. Cake, “Your grade as well as part of your future depends on how well you can cook.” added Mrs. Cake.

The girls felt humiliated and in disgrace, while Nikki was infuriated, especially with Buddy and Rainbow, “I’ll fix those two, and pass this course at the same time!”

Amber and Dionne had a good feeling it was time for a Jazzie revenge.

Meanwhile, Keto was demonstrating her new idea to Nacluv and the others. “Behold, Fryer Chuck!”

The creature seemed to resemble that of a large cooking cauldron, with a passive frying pan shape for his head, and his special ability was creating vast amounts of heat that cooked anything it touched, as well as summoning large cauldrons to cook his victims.

“The heat is on.” he hissed “Do you like your rangers charred, or well done?”

“Hmm…” Nacluv said “How about… extra-crispy?”

Marla and Keto snickered along with their master at the joke, "Get out there, Fryer, and cook those rangers good for us. And bring me that Animal Ranger.” Nacluv said.

“You got it!” Fryer hissed, and he prepared to teleport off.

Meanwhile, Vice Principal Luna was out walking Spike, since Principal Cadance was far too busy. “I still find it amazing how intelligent you are, that you still require a walk to do your… business."

“…It’s a dog’s life.” retorted Spike.

Krysta came flying along while out on her patrol, “Hiya guys, what’s new?” she asked.

“More as in what is old.” Luna groaned as she pointed down at Spike. She really wished he would hurry up and do his business, but suddenly, her perked up his head and sniffed the air deeply. Then he growled angrily!

“What’s wrong?” asked Krysta.

“I smell something foul, and it isn’t what I want to do!” replied Spike. Then he took off, yanking his leash out of Luna’s hand. “Spike… Stop…!” Luna shouted as she chased after him.

“Oh, boy…!” Krysta groaned as she pursued after them both.

They arrived in the park, and all three of them halted when they saw Fryer Chuck, with a massive cauldron pot, and a whole gaggle of civilians he had captured, bound by chains and dangling over the pot.

He turned round and looked right at the trio, “Well what have we here?”

“RUN!!” shouted Luna, but as she and the pets turned to flee, they were suddenly surrounded by a swarm of Lingos.

The pets managed to slip past them, being small and swift, but Luna was unable to overcome the swarm and was taken hostage.

Soon, she was dangling over the hot cauldron as well, and the heat was just sweltering, making it almost hard to breathe.

“This ought to get the rangers attention.” Fryer hissed, “And once they get here we’ll have a real cook-off!”

The pets saw everything behind the shrub. “We’ve gotta go get the rangers!” cried Krysta. “But wait… they still don’t have their morphers.” Spike pointed out, “We can’t just ask them to rush into battle without their powers.”

Krysta would have agreed, except seeing all the poor people suffering and fearing for their safety… even Spike suddenly agreed, “You’re right… let’s go!”

Back at school, the period had ended, and all the students decided to finish their food project the next day.

“I hope Cookie Dough likes our dishes.” said Sunset.

“So do I.” added Rainbow “It’ll be nice to have less exam to worry about.”

Fluttershy was still rather nervous about the project. “What if I make some sort of mistake? What if Cookie dough doesn’t like the dish Rhymey and I make? What if he fails us so badly he’ll never let us cook again!!”

She was really starting to panic.

“Calm down, Fluttershy, nothing will go wrong.
Not as long as we work together, things will go right along.” said Rhymey.

The others agreed and gave Fluttershy more confidence. “It’s just a test, Fluttershy. You don’t need to be super perfect. Just pass it…” said Buddy.

Fluttershy smiled, but suddenly Lightning came running down the hall while the period had changed. “Lightning, what’s up?” asked Twilight.

“There’s trouble… Krysta and Spike called me form outside my window. There’s a monster in the park and he’s got hostages!”

“HOSTAGES?!” the others cried softly.

“Yes, including Vice Principal Luna.”

“Come on, let’s go!” cried Sunset, and the six of them dashed off.

While the classroom was totally empty the Jazzies snuck in and crept to the refrigerators where the rangers had stored what little bits of concoctions for their projects to use the next day.

Nikki then held her hand out to her friends, and they each passed her two shakers full of extremely hot pepper flakes. “Let’s spice it up a bit.” Nikki hissed as she began to sabotage the rangers’ foods but sprinkling large amounts of flakes into the foods which would soon melt away, but leave the foods super spicy.

Amber and Dionne snickered.

Later on, the monster was growing impatient. “Where are they? I’m getting a heatstroke waiting for those rangers to show up.” The rangers and Twilight hid behind a bush with the two pets. “Oh, those poor people!” cried Fluttershy.

“We can’t just sit here. We have to do something.” said Rainbow.

Twilight called Celesto on her cellphone and informed him of the situation.

“I was afraid of this…” Celesto said, but unfortunately he could not get the morphers to the rangers yet, “The upgrade isn’t fully finished yet. If we disrupt the process, the morphers could get damaged, possibly beyond repair. We just can’t risk it. The second it’s done I’ll get them straight to you.”

With that, he hung up. The rangers continued to watch the hostages suffering, and finally decided that powers or not, they to help the people somehow. “Let’s go.” said Sunset, and she and the rangers leaped through the bush. Sapphire was about to do the same thing when, "No Sapphire, you have to stay here." Sunset said.

"Stay? Why?"

"We can't let you be left vulnerable without your morpher." Sapphire sighed and watched as the rangers went to the scene, leaving Twilight to look after the pets.

“You there…!” Sunset shouted.

Fryer turned round, “Ha! There you are. Like moths to the flame.” then he noiced something. "Hey! Where's your Animal Ranger? I have to bring her to Nacluv."

“You let those people go right now!” shouted Lightning.

"Yeah and you're not getting Sapphire." Rainbow added, but the monster only laughed, “Someone’s hot-tempered, and speaking of heat…” he demonstrated another specialty of his by unleashing a heat blast from his very face… as it was a frying pan after all.

KAPOW… there were big explosions that struck the ground, just barely missing the rangers, and still knocked them all back.

Fryer laughed at them, “What’s the matter, not hot enough for you?”

Infuriated, the rangers jumped back onto their feet and charged! “So that’s how it’s going to be, huh?” snapped Fryer “Lingos…!” and at his command, his swarm of followers rose and charged at the rangers.

Even while morphed, the rangers fought valiantly against them.

“Take this!” Rainbow shouted as she gave a Lingo a good kick in the chest.

Fluttershy was ambushed by two more, “Couldn’t we talk about this?” she asked, but her enemies charged her, forcing her to attack and knock them both down with one swing of her fist, “I guess not.”

Buddy leapt in the air over a swarm of Lingos taunting, “Ever play leapfrog?” He landed right behind them and then gave a swift spinning kick, tripping them all over. “STIIII-RIKE!”

Rhymey was faring well too, as he punched, kicked and tackled the Lingos to the ground.

“You’re going down,
You sick clowns!” he shouted. He almost didn’t make a legit enough rhyme, but it didn’t bother him much. At least the Lingos were down!

Lightning and Sunset managed to break-through the ambush and attack Fryer, but even with their combined efforts, he was much stronger than the Lingos were; skillfully blocking their every attack, and then proceeding to attack them back.

Lightning and sunset managed to avoid getting hit and rolled away from him, regrouping with the others.

“This guy’s tough!” Sunset groaned.

“How are we going to beat him?” Lightning wondered.

“You’re not…!” snarled Fryer, and he used his powers it make another huge cauldron appear from under the rangers.

“Hey!” snapped Rainbow.

The monster chuckled, “And, for an extra bit flavor…” he created a large barrier of flames around the pot so the rangers couldn’t jump out. “The heat is on!”

“It’s getting hot,
Here in this pot!” cried Rhymey.

“Tell me something I don’t know.” snapped Buddy.

“If we don’t get out of here, we’ll be cooked!” cried Rainbow.

“That’s what you get for not having your powers.” chuckled Fryer, and with that, he intensified the heat, “Coming up, rangers stew!”

The rangers were suffering horribly. It was getting so hot it was hard to breath, and all they were sweating so hard it was horrible to watch. Twilight and the pets could only watch helplessly from the bush. “Lightning…! Guys…!” cried Krysta “Oh, I can’t watch this!” and she hid her face behind her wings.

“We’ve got to help them somehow!” cried Spike.

“Yeah, but what can we possibly do!” cried Twilight. She was right. They had no way to beat that monster, or stop his cooking powers. "You three can't do anything but I can." Sapphire said. She was about to step out, but Twilight said. "Sapphire, NO! You don't have your morpher."

"But I have my magic, Shapeshifting and my roar. That's enough for me."

"But that may not be enough." Spike said.

"I don't care. I'm not leaving my friends." When Sapphire said that, her wrist began glowing and a bracelet appeared. It was golden with a red ruby lighting bolt in the center. Krysta peeked at the bracelet. "Woah, what's that?"

"No time." Sapphire dashed out of the bush and towards the scene.

The rangers were starting to lose consciousness from the heat.

“Some…body… help!” groaned Fluttershy.

“So… hot!” cried Lightning “So very… very hot!”

Fryer laughed “Your goose it cooked rangers! MORE HEAT!” and he increased the heat even more!

"Not so fast!" Fryer turned and saw Sapphire. "So the Animal Ranger has showed up."

"Let my friends go now!" Sapphire said as she clenched her fists, which began to glow blue.

"Fryer laughed. "And what are going to do about it?"

"I can do this!" She roared like yesterday and the lion appeared, only this time instead of sending strong wind currents, the lions launched four large stream of water to Fryer Cook, hitting him extra hard. He flew through the air and crashed to the ground. His cooking powers stopped and the people and the rangers were freed, through weary from the heat.

"Alright, Sapphire!" Rainbow cried.

Fryer was not amused. “That does it! Now I’m really getting boiled!” snarled Fryer “I’ll just have to finish you off the old fashioned way!”

The rangers stood ready to brawl again, when suddenly Celesto showed up. “Rangers…!” he called to them, “Here…!” and he tossed to them their morphers, now fully energized.

“Thank you, sir!” Sunset called to him.

“Insolent human!” shouted Fryer, and he launched a blast at Celesto, but he ran for cover.

The rangers clipped their morphers back on, and Sunset shouted, “…It’s Morphin’ Time!”

“Morphing Sequence… Ready!”

The first five rangers morphed, “STARFLEET MAGIC… POWER ON!!”

Then Lightning morphed, “Cosmic Comet… Power On!!”

The rangers then summoned their nearly supped up weapons. They all looked exactly the same as before, but the rangers trusted Celesto when he promised they had been upgraded. “All right! Time see what these new babies can do.” said Sunset

“I’ll roast ya!” shouted Fryer, and he charged forth, as did the rangers.

Sapphire lunged and transformed into a leopard. She pounced on Fryer, slashing him with his claws. "Agh! Get off of me!"

While the five rangers dealt the monster, Lightning leapt over to the hostages. They were all passed out a little from the heat, so they hadn’t seen Celesto giving the rangers their morphers back. So secrecy was safe.

“Hang on, folks. I’ll get you down.” Then he blasted at the chains with his comet gauntlets, breaking the metal, and all the people fell with a thud, but it wasn’t that bad. They began to come to their senses and were delighted to be freed.

Celesto and Twilight dashed over, and Celesto said “We’ll take care of them. Go help the others!”

“Right…!”

Meanwhile, the others were fighting hard against the monster.

Rhymey slashed at him hard with his sword, and the monster blocked his attacks with his strong arms, but as an expert fencer, Rhymey found his way around and slashed the monster hard. Sparks flew and the creature backed away a bit.

“My turn…!” shouted Buddy and he lassoed his whip round the monster’s leg. “Here, let me take you for a spin!” and he whirled the monster around and around like a hammer-throw.

“PULL!!” shouted Rainbow, and with that, Buddy let the monster fly, letting Rainbow and Sunset shoot at him with their weapons, hitting him in midair.

“That does it!” shouted Fryer, “Take this!” and he fired the biggest and strongest heat-blast he could muster up, which headed straight for the girls. “No…!!” Fluttershy shouted as she leapt in the way with her shield armed, intercepting the blast and sending it right back at Fryer.

KAPOW!!

“That burns!” he groaned.

Lightning rejoined the group just in time, “Did I miss anything?” he asked casually. “No, you’re just in time for lunch; monster soup.” said Sunset “Bring ‘em together guys!”

“Weapons combine!”

“Star Slammer… Ready!”

“Let me 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 as he watched the rangers slam him hard, enveloping his body in sparks and flames, “WHOA!! TOO HOT TO HANDLE…!!”

KAPOW!! He exploded, and thanks to the weapons upgrade he was already imprisoned in a sphere!

Nacluv was furious, and he thundered at Keto, “Don’t just stand there! Make him grow!”

“I can’t! He’s already been captured! My spell won’t work!” cried Keto.

Nacluv flared up in anger, ready to roast the little mugician. “Yikes…!” Marla cried as she ducked behind a counter, not wanting to watch.

“I got this." Bronc said, he pressed on a remote control he held, and at once a beam of light shot out of the tower, and flew over the sea heading straight for Mystic Island…!

Meanwhile, the rangers rejoiced in their victory. “They really worked!” cried Rainbow. Sapphire joined them and changed back into her human

“Now Nacluv won’t be able to make the monster grow.” added Buddy.

With that, Sunset picked up the monster in his sphere and decided to call it, “Monster Captured… Mission--!”

Suddenly, there was a loud crash, and something huge appeared! “What’s that?!” cried Sapphire.

“It’s a giant robot!
That is what!” cried Rhymey.

The Robotic Knight stomped its huge feet and raised his sword to strike.

“Look out!” cried Sunset, and she and the rangers all jumped away just in time before the huge blade could hit them. Sunset then contacted the base, “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!”

Sapphire called her "Jaguin Zord, I choose you!" and she was beamed into the cockpit.

“Let’s take this creep!” said Sunset.

“RIGHT!!” the others agreed.

The Knight glared at the zord and lunged forth, while Lightning leapt up and began to attack the robot’s metal plating, only to then get slashed at with his sword. “Whoa! This guy’s strong!”

The megazord then grabbed the knight by his right arm, only for the robot to saw it with his left arm, creating a shower of sparks. “Veer off!” cried Rainbow, and she pulled on the controls getting the megazord away before its arm was sawed off.

Back at the tower, Bronc laughed, “Thanks to special ore I fused, not only is my Robotic Knight gigantic, but his power is increased immensely. The rangers have finally met their match!”

“Hmm… well done, Bronc.” said Nacluv “Perhaps I’ve underestimated your talents.”

Bronc snickered thankfully.

The Knight slashed at the megazord, bashing it hard back, and kicked at Lightning hard with his strong legs sending him rolling along. "Hey nobody messes with my friends!" Sapphire drove Jaguin Zord hard into the Robotic Knight and made the zord bite it actually piercing the coated armor!

The Zord then tossed the Robotic Knight high into the air. "Woah!" the rangers cried. "Now FINAL THUNDER! "

(It works like this)

The robot sparked, and small explosion erupted from its body, and it fell over and really exploded… nothing fake. Since it was not a monster, and could not be captured, it was really blown to scrap-metal.

The rangers all rejoiced, and as the monster had already been defeated earlier, sunset merely called, “…Mission Complete!”

At the Tower, the minions and Nacluv were speechless. "Such power!" Nacluv exclaimed softly. The minions were also impressed with the Zord.

Bronc was upset, "She destroyed my robot with one attack!" Marla and Keto chuckled to themselves. "This will give you another chance to come up with something better, next time, Bronc." Nacluv scoffed as he walked away.

"There's more to that human than meets the eye. Let's see what she does the next time." Nacluv said to himself.

Back at the base, Sapphire showed the rangers her new bracelet. "Awesome, but what is it?" Lightning asked.

"It looks like one of the Elements of Harmony." Sunset said.

"Elements of Harmony?" Celesto questioned.

"They are magical and powerful artifacts that exist on United Equestria; Loyalty, Honesty, Kindness, Generosity, Laughter and Magic." she looked at the bracelet. "and it looks like Sapphire got the Loyalty element."

"So will she gained more in the future?" Flutershy asked.

"That I don't know."

"If it is true,
We must keep and eye on you." Rhyemy said, looking at Sapphire.

Rainbow groaned irritably. "Sapphire's becoming more and more of a target for Nacluv." The others could tell she was frustrated with all the new powers she was getting, making Nacluv even more interested in her. "I know, Rainbow, but look on the bright side. With her powers, we'll be able to defeat Nacluv faster." Fluttershy reassured.

Rainbow smiled a little. "I guess."

"In the meantime, we should keep this Element bracelet hidden." Celesto suggested. "if they are as powerful as Sunset says, we can't risk them falling into Nacluv's hands."

The rangers agreed and decided they would keep the bracelet in the base in a secure room. Still, one question was one everyone's mind. "What will come next for you, Sapphire?"

The next day at school, the rangers all got back to their cooking class, still unaware of Nikki’s sabotaging their foods, and Nikki actually came in with a terrine containing an actual dish she seemingly made.

“Good luck dorks.” she teased at them.

“We don’t need luck, Nikki.” Sunset sneered at her.

“Ah, just ignore her.” said Twilight “Let’s concentrate.”

She and Sunset made a special chili, with beans, ground meat, and some of Buddy’s hot sauce to spice it up.

Rainbow and Buddy blended up some vegetables to make a special vegetarian drink for an athlete, promising that one glass would have the nutritious equivalent of a full steak meal.

Rhymey and Fluttershy made spaghetti, with a few vegetable mixed into the noodles, and topped it off with a golden mushroom cream sauce.

All of them used food they had prepared the previous day that Nikki had spiked with hot-pepper, and Nikki couldn’t wait to see the looks on Chef Cookie Dough’s face when he tried their dishes.

“Okay class… let’s taste those foods.” Cookie announced.

He started with Nikki’s meal. “Hope you like it sir. We spent hours making it.”

She pulled off the lid of her terrine, revealing a delightful casserole made with rice, pork slices, and melted butter.

Cookie tasted it, “Mmm… this is fantastic ladies.” he didn’t rate it just yet, he had to wait until had tasted everyone’s dishes.

He tried other students’ cooking. Some were good, some were not, but he gave them all confidence and encouragement.

Then it came to the rangers.

He tasted the chili, “And it was pretty spicy, but not insanely spicy, just enough to make Cookie fan his tongue. “Fantastic! Just like chili should be!”

"Ahh, nice flavor, Sapphire." Sapphire smiled.

He sipped Buddy and Rainbow’s drink, “Oh, my! The vegetables combined with the ground up spices; it’s like an entire meal in one drink!”

Rainbow and Buddy slapped each other a high-five.

And then he tried Rhymey and Fluttershy’s pasta, “Oh… Oh, my! This is… exquisite!” he shouted “The mushroom sauce spiced with the pepper, the way it mixes with the noodles and the flavors of the vegetable to reduce spice and sweetness!”

Rhymey and Fluttershy were confused by what he meant about spiciness, since they never added anything spicy. “You… really like it?” asked Fluttershy.

“Like it… I LOVE IT!!” cried Cookie. “That also goes for you all.” He said to the other ranger, “All of you definitely get the passing requirements, and are excused from the written exam!”

The rangers and Twilight rejoiced, but the Jazzies were outraged “How can this be!” cried Nikki.

Amber wasn’t so sure, “I think maybe when they cooked up and prepared their foods, the spices got mixed in too well!”

“No way!” said Dionne “I think I have a book that can totally confirm that.” she reached into her knapsack to pull out a book, but something fell out.

“What is that?” Cookie asked.

Nikki gasped and stood in front of the object. “What’s what sir?” she asked trying to play innocent, but Twilight picked up the object, which was an empty plastic food tray with a price tag on it. She read the label aloud…

“Chinese Pork and Rice, with melted butter: Simply heat in microwave and serve. Your local grocery store: $12.95.”

Some of the students laughed, and Cookie tapped his foot in front of the Jazzies. The girls tried to cover up their deceit, but Cookie said to them, “You get A for effort, ladies, but I suggest you study hard if you want to actually cook.”

The girls sighed in humiliation, knowing they would have to take the written exam now.

“I am, like, so embarrassed!” Nikki groaned, and she picked a small bean out of a salad bowl near her, forgetting she had spiked, and unlike the other cooked foods… she got blasted by the spice hard, and took off at a fiery pace!”

“Nikki, here!” Sapphire cried as she used her magic to spray cold water at Nikki, soaking her completely, making everyone laugh at her more.

Episode 4: Elements of Harmony

Sapphire found herself in white, space-like void with stars all over. "Woah... what is this place." Then a figure appeared. It was teenage boy with blue hair and his skin was peach colored. “Who are you?”

“My name is Flash Sentry. I am a friend of Sunset and her friends. I am here to tell you about the other Elements of Harmony."

"Sunset said they are powerful artifacts."

"That is correct. The other five Elements of Harmony are hidden in a secret temple. Only a person who had proven their worthiness can unlock the powers of the Elements." Sapphire nodded. Suddenly, the void began to waver, "What's going on?"

"You are beginning to awaken, I must go now, but I'll leave you this one clue to the Elements; look behind your locker. Good luck, Sapphire and Farewell." In a bright flash of white, everything faded out.

Sapphire awoke in a shock. Her dream seemed all too real, she believed it was true. If she was going to find the rest of the Elements of Harmony, she’s going to need help. She gathered up all the rangers and Twilight and they met at the outdoor cafe for a quick breakfast and told them about her dream.

“You’re sure about this?” asked Twilight. “I’m positive.” replied Sapphire.

Sunset rubbed her chin. "This is weird, in my home-world, when ponies have dreams like that it’s usually for a reason, like a message. Wonder why Sapphire got something like that?"

"I know it sounds crazy, but I think we should trust in what Flash had to say.”

A moment of silence followed, and Rainbow broke the silence saying, “I believe you…”

“So do I.” added Buddy.

Sapphire felt a little flattered, “You do?”

Rhymey nodded and explained,

“For three years we’ve had strange powers and fought evil beasts,
After all that’s happened, nothing seems impossible to say the least.”

Fluttershy agreed, “How can we not believe you? Besides, if it’ll help us beat Nacluv, who are we to question?”

Sunset smiled warmly was most thankful for her friends, but neither she nor the others realized that Keto was hiding behind the corner and listening to everything they said. “Wait until I tell Nacluv this!”

He got back to the tower and told Nacluv Marla and Bronc. "You sure this isn't a hoax, Keto?" Nacluv asked.

"Yes, master, the rangers are going on a little treasure hunt to find the remaining Elements of Harmony, which they plan to use against us.”

Bronc winced once, “Oh, are they now?”

Marla poked into the room, “Elements? Power…? Sounds like something maybe we could use as well. We’ll just have to find them before they do.”

“…And I know just the monster that can help us.” Bronc added.

He led his comrades to a cage where a monster named Prospector sat. He looked very much like his name, a plump yet strong looking monster, with a shaggy beard and a bent up cowboy hat. He was armed with sticks of dynamite on a sash, a strong shovel and a sharp pick on his back. His weapons couldn’t help him while he was locked up, but he was very surprised when his cell was opened. “What in tarnation is goin’ on?” he asked.

“Get up, Prospector!” said Bronc “You’re coming with us on a little treasure hunt.”

At first, Prospector didn’t seem interested, “I’ve been in this here cell for over a-hundred years, and I ain’t about to leave for…” he suddenly snapped upright, “…“Treasure” did you say? Well, saddle up and let’s ride! YEE-HAW!!”

Marla and Keto were starting to feel unimpressed.

Meanwhile, the rangers contacted Celesto and asked for him to unlock the school. When he was told of Sapphire's dream, he, too, was rather enthusiastic of seeking the remaining Elements of Harmony. Sapphire was wearing her Loyalty element bracelet, just to be safe.

It was rather dark inside the school. All the lights were out, and all the windows were covered with shade flaps to keep the sunlight out of the building and heating things up over the holidays. It was still bright enough to see where to go anyway, and everyone took a moment to pass Flash’s memorial plaque in the school entrance hall. It read…

“Dedicated to the memory of Flash Sentry.
A strong-minded individual who showed us all the true meaning of honor, and that sometimes, life and people’s actions are not actually carved in stone, but you can choose how to shape it.”

The rangers and Celesto held their heads low, taking a moment to remember him, and though Twilight didn’t know him that well, she bowed too.

Spike poked his head out from Twilight’s knapsack, “Um, remind me what happened again?” he asked. “I’m not trying to be disrespectful.”

Rhymey filled in everything with his rhymes.

“The real human called Flash had died long ago
And this Flash took his place, this we did not know,
Until he and his mother revealed who they were,
…Evil aliens or wickedness and power!

They sought to control our world as it was,
And Lightning Dawn came to stop their cause
It was there that we first gain our powers and might,
And we confronted they aliens and engaged in a fight.

In the end, Flash’s mother had been destroyed,
While her son was attacked, turned humanoid,
His evil power had gone, they were no longer there
But Flash lost his memories, and his mind was bare.

So he lived the life of a normal Earth boy
There were many things that he did enjoy.
Then, a while back, while we were all at camp
The Sirens and the Demonites did tramp,

These evildoers reawakened Flash’s mind,
The memories of his evil ways he had left behind.
His powers crept forth, and while he became very strong,
He chose not to be evil, he knew that was wrong.

He could never betray the goodness he had come to great terms
So he fights on our side against the evil worms!
The battle was won, and victory was claimed
But Flash had been struck, he was badly maimed.

He died right there, he had met with his end.
We were all heartbroken to have lost our dear friend.
So we made this plaque to honor his memory.
And that brings me to the end of this summary.”

Rhymey clutched his chest, feeling deeply moved by his own poetry. The others all felt deeply moved. “That was beautiful, Rhymey.” said Celesto “Very moving.”

Fluttershy held her boyfriend’s hand to calm him, and Rhymey caught hold of himself.

“Okay, what was it that Flash told you, Sapphire?” Rainbow asked. “He told me to look behind my locker locker.” replied Sapphire.

The rangers went to Sapphire's locker, it was near Sunset's locker. There was no lock on the door, but the locker was completely empty inside. “Great! Nothing at all.” groaned Spike, “Maybe it was just a dream after all.”

Sapphire shook her head; “Flash said to look BEHIND the locker, which may mean…” she reached out for the coat-hook on the back of the locker and just as she thought, it was a fake wall that fell forward revealing a hole in the solid school wall.

“Incredible.” said Celesto. He examined the hole, “This alcove has been carved out of this solid concrete, and yet it was here all the time and no one noticed.”

“Can you see anything?” asked Fluttershy.

Celesto switched on the built-in flashlight in his walking-stick to see. The alcove was very small, but there was a small metal box inside it.

“What is that?” asked Buddy.

Nobody could tell, but Celesto opened it, and inside was nothing more than an ordinary white stone with a hint of blue.

Twilight scanned it with her alien-tracker, “It’s definitely not of Earth origin, but I can figure out what it is.”

“I know what it is.” Sunset said as she took the stone, “I used to study these things back in my world. This is a location stone. It acts like a sort of radar whenever you’re near something magically linked to it. The Elements must’ve been hidden away and enchanted this stone to help him find it.”

“Well that’s fine and all, but how do we use it to find the power?” asked Rainbow. That's when the stone began glowing brightly and floated into the air and into Sapphire's arms. Suddenly, she began glowing brightly as well, "Umm... guys." she whimpered. Next, there was a bright flash.

The rangers, Celesto and Twilight covered their eyes cause of the flash. When it was gone..

"Wh-What happened?" Fluttershy asked.

Everybody gasped when they saw Sapphire... was gone! All that was left was a scorch mark. "Sapphire! Where'd she go!" Rainbow said.

"That stone must have teleported her." replied Sunset.

"TELEPORTED!" Everybody cried

"To where?" Spike asked.

"That's the question."

The rangers were now getting worried. "Let's get to the base. Maybe I can track her." Twilight suggested. Everybody agreed and they rushed to the base, hoping their friend was okay.

The minions and Prospector peeked out of the bush nearby. "Great, now we'll never get those Elements." Marla whined.

"Quit your belly achin'. I can track treasure from miles away. He held up his treasure detecting device. "Aha! Got her! Follow me!" Prospector flew off and the minions shrugged and followed.

In a puff of smoke, Sapphire appeared on her stomach in the middle of very lush forest and the stone was at her side.

“*Cough Cough* Wh-What happened?” Looking around she didn’t find any sign of her friends.

“Sunset... Lightning.... Anybody?” She called out but got nothing in response. “Okay, so I’m all alone in a big, scary forest with no supplies and just a glowing stone.” Sapphire said to herself. “Well I do have my morpher, so that’s good.” Seeing the stone starting to blink slowly, she knew she had to continue on. “Well I’d better find the Elements and hope my friends find me.”

With that, she walked off into the forest holding the stone. Passing tall trees and hearing the sounds of monkey screeching and birds chirping, Sapphire just continued on.

Walking further into the forest, Sapphire noticed the stone glowing brighter and faster. Soon, she came to a hill and saw, in the distance, a temple covered in vines and a few bushes. "Woah, looks like I found the temple. Let's hope the Elements are in there." Sapphire carefully walked down the hill and soon found herself at the entrance to the temple. The door was closed.

"Wonder how I get in." she saw that the door had a hole shaped like a bracelet. "Weird, that looks like my Element Bracelet. But that's back at the base." As soon as she said that, her Element bracelet appeared, floating in the air. The Element magically went into the hole and the whole door glowed and opened, revealing a dark hallway. "Well... I guess I go in." She took the bracelet out of the hole and entered the temple.

Marla and the others poked their heads of some bushes. "Well I'll be darn. This temple his huge!" Prospector exclaimed. "Hurry, let's get in there before the door closes!" added Bronc. The monsters quickly followed and made it in side as the doors closed with a SLAM.

It was pitch black in the temple. Sapphire could barely see a foot in front of her. "Great. How am I supposed to see?"

The stone began shimmering, lighting up some of the hallway. "Well, that's helpful." Sapphire slowly walked down the hallway. On the walls were animal drawings, from footprints to ancient animals, like mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Sapphire was amazed by this. "Incredible. What my friends wouldn't give to see this." Soon she came to a large room that had a spiral on the ground and pedestal in the center.

Sapphire walked over to the pedestal. "I wonder." she placed the stone onto the pedestal and immediately, it started glowing as well as the spiral on the ground. In an instant, the ground gave out from under Sapphire. "Uh-oh." she squeaked.

She fell down for quite some distance before slamming into the ground on her stomach. "Uuugggh. That hurt."

Getting to her feet, she found herself in a cavern. The walls were sparkling with crystals. At the end of the cavern, she saw something she didn't expect to see. Five jewelry items. She already has her loyalty element.

Then, all of the Elements floated into the air and fused together, turning into a sword.

Next, the top of her head glowed and another elements appeared. This one was a magenta five-pointed star.

The sword floated into her hand. "Woah. Now what?"

"You had over that sword. That's what." Sapphire gasped in horror and turned around. She saw Marla, Bronc, Keto and Prospector slowly walking towards her threateningly.

“W-What are you doing here?” she asked nervously.

“Why else?” Keto replied. “For you powers, including the sword.”

“Hand it over, missy, and no one gets hurt.” Prospector threatened.

Sapphire held the sword tightly and backed away from the villains as they stalked towards her, “Just hand over the staff, ranger.” Marla added.

“N-Never!”

“Oh yes.” Bronc snickered. “Since you’re not giving us the sword willingly, we’ll have to take it by force.” The villains were only a feet away from Sapphire when…

“Comet Trail... Fire!”

The villains were hit and sent flying back. “Guys!” she cried happily. The rangers leaped down from the ceiling in front of Sapphire.

“Are you okay, Sapphire?” Sunset asked.

“I am now,” she responded. "How'd you find me?"

"Twilight tracked your DNA to this temple. We noticed the minions and the monster were here as well. We knew they were trying to steal the elements from you, so we came here as fast as we could.

“You rangers always ruin our plans.” Keto snarled. The villains stood up again and charged the rangers. The rangers charged the and brawled.

Marla battled with Buddy and Sunset, punching and kicked them hard, and while they blocked her attacks with their arms and legs, she tripped them up with her long hair. “Have a nice trip?” she teased, and then she launched her nails at them. The two rangers barely managed to roll out of the way, but as they looked ahead, they could see Prospector…!

“Give it up missy.” Prospector demanded. Sapphire backed away in fear.

Rhymey and Fluttershy saw the monster and dashed for him, “Oh, no you don’t!” Keto sneered, and he raised his staff shouting, “Surge Song!” casting his mugic upon himself, his comrades and Prospector, increasing their strengths and speed.

“Nice!” hissed Marla, and she punched Buddy and Sunset hard in their chests making sparks fly.

Bronc blasted Rainbow hard and Keto took one swing of his staff, like a bat, and sent Rhymey and Fluttershy soaring off and crashing onto the ground.

“Guys..!!” Sapphire cried. Just then, Marla wrapped Comet up in her hair, forcing her to drop the sword. “No!” She cried. The villains chuckled and Keto approached it, “This thing's as good as ours!” he declared.

“Not good!” Sunset cried.

However, when Keto touched the sword, it shocked him with high voltage of electricity, sending him flying back and the into Marla, freeing Sapphire. “Watch it!” Marla grunted.

“It’s not my fault!” Keto retorted, “the thing shocked me!”

“Umm, Guys.” Bronc said, pointing at the sword, which was now floating in the air and glowing. “What’s going on?” Lightning asked. None of the others knew what was happening.

The sword floated into Sapphire's hand and made her glow as well. “Let’s see what this baby can do!” She exclaimed. She slashed the air and the sword released a pulse of magic, striking the villains hard.

Sapphire stuck the sword into the ground. It created a shockwave of power, throwing the villains into a wall! "Awesome!" Rainbow cried.

"Amazing!" Sunset added.

The monsters got up. "Now! Sapphire concentrated and the sword glowed. She twirled the sword in front of her like a staff and the five elements symbols appeared in front of her, glowing with power. "HARMONIC FURY!" All the elements shot towards the villains at blinding speeds. "Let's split!" Keto cried.

"For once I agree!" Bronc agreed and he and Marla teleported to the Tower, leaving Prospector alone. "Hey!"

The blast struck Prospecter. "I'm beaten by the treasure!" he cried as he fell over, exploded and was imprisoned in sphere. Sapphire smirked, "That's how it's done." The other rangers went up to her. "That was incredible, Sapphire!" Sunset cried.

"Thanks."

Lightning took a good look at the sword. "Impressive sword, Sapphire."

"Now can we go home now?" Sapphire asked. "I've had enough excitement for one day." The rangers chuckled and they all the way home to Mystic Island.

At the tower, Nacluv was watching the video the minions got from their battle. "This girl is very powerful. I'll have to test her; one-on-one. She may have won this round, but she won't win the next round." he laughed evilly.

At the base, Twilight was scanning the sword. "Anything?" Celesto asked.

"It appears this sword is a combination of the Elements of Harmonys' magic. It also appears to be and only be responsive to Sapphire's voice."

"So she the only one who can use it?" Fluttershy asked. Twilight nodded.

"Well look on the bright side, Sapphire has her won weapon now." Rainbow reassured.

Celesto sighed, "While that is true, Rainbow Dash, I believe we should let Sapphire master her magic first before she attempts to master her magical artifact." The rangers sighed sadly but he had a point.

"Looks like you'll have to wait until you'll be able to use your sword." Lightning claimed. Sapphire smiled, "That's okay, I have enough powers to use in battle already." The ranges all smiled at Sapphire.

Episode 5: Musical/ Magical Talent

Ever since, Sapphire retrieved the Element of Harmony sword, Twilight and the lab boys have been studying it non-stop. They discovered the swords power is equivalent to Sapphire magic. Now, it was Tuesday evening in Mystic Island and the rangers were at Grandruler's manor having a nice dinner. "Hey Sunset, What are you going to do on the talent show on Thursday?" Lightning asked.

"Hmmm, I don't know." Sunset replied.

"Well, I'm gonna play my awesome guitar skills." Rainbow bragged. The rangers rolled their eyes at Rainbow's bragging.

"Comet, what are you gonna do?" Rainbow asked. Sapphire looked up from her plate with a sad expression. "Ummm. I.....don't think I'll enter." she replied.

The friends gasped in shock and confusion, "Not enter, why not?" Buddy asked.

"I don't have a talent to show." Sapphire replied.

"That can't be true! Sapphire, everybody has a talent." Lightning reassured.

"Everyone has a talent to show,
There are many things that you know." Rhymey added.

"Yea, you're good with your raptors. Maybe she could use that in the talent show." Rainbow suggested.

"She can't, Fluttershy is already good with animals. If she does that, it won't be that good or entertaining." Lightning objected.

"What about her magic?" Sunset wondered.

"Sunset, she still needs to train more with her magic." Celesto pointed out. Sunset sighed. "Well is she can't do that, then what can she do?"

Sapphire sighed. "I'm gonna go to bed, guys. Night." Sapphire walked upstairs, leaving her friends, feeling a little sad, for their friend.

Marla, Bronc and Keto were walking down the hallway of the Prison tower looking at all of the creatures inside.

"Too ugly."

"Too bulky."

"Ugh, Too lame."

"None of these monsters are useful!" Keto cried.

"They couldn't even beat the rangers' grandmothers." Bronc added.

"ENOUGH!" Nacluv yelled, gaining the minions attention. "I've found a monster that's sure to crush those pesky rangers." He opened the cell and a monster came out.

The creature resembled a large music book with a music note for a head. It's special ability was making loud, irritating music that would render its victims powerless. It's name was Singer.

"I'm at your service, Master Nacluv." Singer said.

"Good. Now make those rangers pay for all the trouble they've caused me!" Nacluv ordered. "You've got it." Singer replied and teleported away.

The next morning, Sapphire and Sunset were in history class, their last class of the day. Lightning passed out a test to everybody and by the end of the class, everybody was done. "Pass your tests to the front please." Lightning called.

After the school bell rung, Sapphire was walking by herself when Nikki and the Jazzies came up to her. "Hey Sapphire, word is, that you're not participating in the talent show. Too bad, a nobody like you could never outshine me at anything." Nikki taunted.

Amber and Dionne laughed at her. She tried her hardest not to cry, even with tears forming in her eye. "HEY!" The girls turned and saw Sunset and the rest of her friends walking behind Sapphire. "You leave her alone." Sunset said.

"And just so you know Sapphire is entering the talent show and she will win!" Buddy said.

Nikki scoffed and walked off with Amber and Dionnee following. Sapphire turned to her friends, "But guys, I don't have a talent.”

"Sapphire, you do have a talent. You've just haven't found it yet." Sunset replied.

"Yeah. One day you'll find your talent." Rainbow added. Sapphire smiled. Suddenly, the rangers coms began beeping.

"Rangers there's a monster terrorizing downtown. Check it out!" Celesto said.

"Let's go!" Lightning said. The rangers dashed off to downtown and sported the monster. "Hey!" Sunset yelled.

"Ah. Looks like I've found an audience." Singer said. "And now for my owning act...Lingos attack!" Singer made Lingos appear and they charged the rangers.

"STARFLEET MAGIC....POWER ON!!!"

"Cosmic Comet....Power On!!!"

The rangers charged through the Lingos and attacked Singer. Singer blocked every attack they threw and blasted them.

"Time to sing." Singer declared.

Singer blasted out sound waves and the rangers stopped and dropped to the floor in pain.

"Ahhh! My ears!" Lightning cried.

"This....is...torture!" Rainbow added.

For some reason, Sapphire didn’t seem to be effects by the loud music at all. Singer laughed and blasted near the rangers sending them flying. “No! Guys!” she cried.

“Hey! How come you're not on the floor? No matter, I’ll just destory you the old fashion way.” Before Singer could do anything, Sapphire turned into a falcon and flew off with the rangers. "No!” Singer cried in frustration. “Well they'll be back."

Back at the base, the rangers were resting their eardrums. "Man, his music is awful!" Lightning declared.

"It's like nails on a chalkboard." Buddy added.

“How come Sapphire wasn’t affected?” Rainbow asked.

“She must have a high resistance to that kind of music.” Celesto replied.

"How are we gonna beat him?" Sunset asked. Twilight came in with a scanned of the monster. "Guys. I found that the only weakness this monster has in smooth, gentle music."

"So, we have to sing something smooth and gentle to render his attack powerless!" Rainbow concluded. “Easy!”

"Only one problem....if you guys are fighting, who's going to be singing?" Spike asked. The rangers realized he was right. They can't sing and fight at the same time. That shot down Rainbow's enthusiasm. "Then what do we do?" Fluttershy asked. The rangers thought hard until Spike's ears perked up. "Spike what is it?" Krysta asked.

"I heard some....singing." Spike replied.

"Singing?!" The rangers repeated. Following Spike, the rangers traced the singing to the lab. The lab workers were absent. Inside they found an unlikely and amazing sight....

.....It was Sapphire singing a beautiful song:

Hush little one
And close your eyes
Dream of our hearts side by side
The moon and stars will be your guide tonight

As she was singing, everyone could see a string of magic coming out her chest. The string moved along the floor, creating flowers and planets, surprising everybody.

Hush little one
And say goodnight
Two stars shine as one tonight
So make a wish
And close your eyes
And may your wish come true
Tonight

Hush little one
Goodnight

When she stopped singing, she heard clapping behind and quickly turned around and found her friends and Celesto looking at her. She immediately blushed with embarrassment.

"H-How long have you all been standing there?" she asked.

"Oh, just long enough to hear what a. amazing voice you have." Krysta complimented.

"Where did you learn that?" Lightning asked.

"I came up with it a few years ago. It helped me go to sleep." Comet replied.

"How'd make flowers grow with you singing?" Buddy asked.

"That's a new one for me." Sapphire replied.

"Maybe it's another power from the Elements." Sunset suggested.

"That does make the most sense." Krysta agreed.

"Well you've got a voice is smooth and gentle." Spike said. Suddenly Twilight said, THAT'S IT!"

She sudden shout frightened the rangers for a second. "What's it?" Sunset asked.

"If Sapphire sings while you guys are battling them, the monster will be powerless.” Everybody was on board with the plan, expect for Sapphire. "M-Me! Sing! Oh....I don't know. I-I never sang in front anyone before." she said. Sunset could tell that she was letting her shyness take hold. "Sapphire, you can do, you just have to close your eyes and sing." she added.

"That's it?" Sapphire asked and Sunset nodded.

"Okay. I'll do it!" Sapphire declared. The rangers cheered for joy. Now they had a new plan to take down Singer.

Meanwhile, in town, Singer was using his power to hurt people. They all fell to the ground, holding their ears.

He sighed irritably. "Ugh! What's taking them so long?"

"HEY!" a voice shouted. Singer turned and saw all the rangers running towards him fully-morphed.

"Ah, finally! Now, let's finish what we started." Singer said.

"Bring it!" Sunset countered. The rangers all charged Singer. Rhymey tired slashing him with his sword, but Singer blocked every attempt.

Buddy tried his whip, but Singer grabbed it and pulled Buddy towards him and punched Buddy, sending him flying back.

Sunset tried her scepter, but Singer blocked that attack as well. Sunset regrouped with the others.

"This guy's tough." Sunset groaned.

"Now, let's add some music to this show." Singer activated his sound waves and once again, the rangers fell to the ground in pain. Nacluv, and his minions were watching via the monitors. "Finally, we'll get rid of the rangers for good!" Marla cried.

Singer approached the rangers, preparing for the final move. "Time to end you rangers." he said.

Suddenly,

"Hush little one and say good night,
Dream of two hearts side by side~"

"Huh, what is that horrible sound?" Singer asked. Singer turned and saw Sapphire walking towards her friends while singing. Her voice began to corrupt his soundwaves, freeing the rangers.

"No! You ruined my plan!" Singer cried.

Sapphire continued to sing, much to Singer’s annoyance.

"Hush little one and say good night,
Two stars shine as one tonight,
So make a wish and close your eyes,
And may your wish come true tonight~"

Singer tried to attack her, but the rangers blasted him with their weapons, "This isn't sounding good at all!" Singer said.

"Bring them together!" Sunset called.

"Hush little one,
Goodnight-"

“Weapons Combine…!”

“Star Slammer… Ready!”

Singer whimpered.

“STAR SLAMMER, ULTRA-STRIKE!” The blast hit Singer and he went up in a huge explosion. The rangers all rejoiced.

"Keto!" Nacluv called.

"On it! FORTISSIMO!!” Keto launched his magical Mugic out and off to Singer's aid…

.....Singer turned into a giant! "Time for an encore!" he thundered. The rangers all gawked. Sunset contacted the base, “Launch Star Jets!”

“Summon Zords!”

As the base, the jets were already well prepped up and launched at once through the tunnel.

The jets arrived near the beach in almost no time, and the rangers beamed into their cockpits. “Okay, let's end this creep's music career!” said Sunset.

“Zords Combine!”

“Comet Striker, Armor up!” Lightning shouted as he grew big and his armor encased him.

“Jet-Star Megazord… Ready!”

“Comet Striker… Ready!”

Once the megazords was fully mobilized, it was time to brawl. Singer charged at the rangers and the megazord tried slashing him but Singer blocked the attack and bashed the megazord. Lightning tried attacking from behind but Singer turned around and dodged him then kicked him, sending him rolling across the ground. Singer then punched the megazord again, rocking the rangers inside.

"This isn't working!" Sunset cried.

Lightning help the megazord to it's feet. "Keep trying!" Lightning replied. All the while, Sapphire watched from the ground. "I've got to help them. And I know just he Zord to do it."

"Dire Wolf Zord, I choose you!" she called out. The Zord burst from the ground and leaped towards the battle, beaming Sapphire into the cockpit.

Lightning and the megazord were looking really beat up. Now they were laying on the ground to damaged and exhausted to fight back.

"What are we gonna do?" cried Fluttershy.

Singer snickered wickedly, "Time to end your careers, rangers." Singer rushed towards the megazords, ready for the kill.

"Watch out!" Rainbow cried.

Suddenly, a blur bashed into Singer, knocking him away from the rangers. The rangers and Lightning looked and saw Dire Wolf Zord. "Leave my friends alone!" Sapphire yelled. Singer got back onto his feet, furious! "Your little dog's got nothing on me!" he sneered. Singer charged the Zord but it howled and leaped high into the sky,

The Zord spun around and lasers came out of it's tail and hit Singar, exploding on impact. The Zord growled at Stingar,

"HOWL PULSE!!!"

The Zord howled and a stream of rings came out of it's mouth, damaging Singer even more.

"Alright Sapphire!" Lightning cried.

“That’s the way!” Buddy added.

Sapphire guided the Zord over to her friends, "What is she doing?" Sunset asked.

The Zord snarled and rushed at Singer, it leaped up and bit him with it's powerful, sharp teeth. Singer struggled to free himself, but it was in vain. Comet was getting rocked inside with all the shaking and turning.

"Finish him you guys! Hurry!" she called, struggling to keep a tight grip.

“Tractor-beams, capture-mode, ready!” Sunset said.

“Tractor-beam Engage!”

“FIRE!!”

The megazord launched their beams at the weakened monster, at the last second the Zord released it's hold on Singer and leaped out of the way. It beam blasted him hard and actually shrinking him down. Singer was imprisoned and beamed into Sunset’s cockpit. “Monster Captured! Mission Complete!”

The rangers cheered.

At the tower, Nacluv was not happy with the minions. "You three never succeed in beating the rangers!" he thundered.

"It's not our fault, it's the prisoners and the pesky Animal Ranger!" Marla replied. Nacluv flared up, looking ready to fry them, when he suddenly calmed down, much to the minions relief. "Well, then... I'll just have to make an adjustment to the Animal Ranger then." The minions didn't know what he was talking about, but judging by the way he was laughing ii would be bad new for Sapphire.

Back at the base, Sapphire spoke to the gang.

“Guys, I think I’m gonna enter the talent show.”

“Really?” Rainbow said. "What made you change your mind?"

"I just thought I should a least try to sing for the talent show. If I can sing in front of my friends, then I can sing in front of a crowd of people." The rangers were happy Sapphire was going to enter the Talent Show.

That night, the talent show was in full swing! Lightning was in audience along with Celesto, Celestia and their babies.

As planned, Rainbow played her guitar, Buddy painted one marvelous painting and Rhymey and Fluttershy both did a small tap dance.

It was Nikki's turn now. She was wearing high heel shoes with a blue dress with sparkles and had a necklace around her neck.

Nikki sang a song about....well....herself.

https://m.

The crowd clapped for her and she went backstage where Comst was; she was wearing a white dress with pink and purple striped on it. "Beat that." Nikki taunted.

Sapphire gulped and took a drop breath.

"And now for our final performance give it up for Sapphire!" Twilight announced. Sapphire came out on stage and made an announcement. "This is a song that I want to dedicate to my friends, who always believed in me." The crowd was touched by the speech and she began singing;

https://m.

There was a time when the road was dark
All of my dreams were torn apart
Then I found my souls,
Made some friends started on my way again
You lifted me up into the sky
Found my groove and I could fly
So don't lose hope when love's away
Cause it'll come back to you some day

Find a forever home
And I'm there right now
Been a cool journey
I will never forget

If I lose my way
Let my heart be strong
And love will surely carry me
Right where I belong

Right where I belong

Just like in the lab, a string of magic came out of Sapphire's chest but instead of making flowers, the magic made ghostly images of pheonix appear. They flew around the crowd, who gazed in awe as Sapphire continued.

You helped me break away
When all my skies were gray
Someone pulling me through
Yeah, yeah
I know the way from here
'Cause I know I'll persevere
I know I'm heading
Where the skies are blue

It's a forever home
But I'm not there yet

Made some good friends
That I'll never forget
If I lose my faith
Let my heart be strong
And love will surely carry me
Yeah, yeah
Right where I belong
Back right where I belong

She ended the song and the pheonix disappeared. The crowd stood up and roared with applause, the rangers even shed some tears.

All the competitors stood on stage, "And now the winner of the Canterlot High Talent Show is... Sapphire Shimmer!" Twilight announced.

The crowd burst into applause and Sapphire was shocked that she won. Twilight came in front of Comet with a trophy reading "First place winner!" The other rangers came on stage and hugged Comet. “Way to go, Comet! You won!” Sunset cheered.

Sapphire blushed. “Yeah… I guess I did.”

Nikki, on the other hand, was far from happy, "What how could she have beaten me?" she asked.

"Well it could be that I'm not a self-absorbed diva..... like you." Comet replied.

Nikki gasped and nearly felt like fainting, and she did, right into Amber and Dionne’s arms.

“Oh, you are so going to rue the day you said that to us!” growled Amber.

“Totally.” added Dionne, and then she and Amber dragged their miserable leader away, much to the gang’s humor, and they shared a good laugh.

Episode 6: Sapphire's Battle

In the Prison Tower, Nacluv was training by himself; launching his fire powers and punching and kicking Lingoes. The minions were curious as to why he was doing this. "Umm.. Master." Keto called. Nacluv stopped and stared at the minions. "Why are you suddenly training?"

"Because you idiot, I'm going to get rid of that Animal Ranger, once and for all."

"What?!" Marla cried. "But Master, she's way too powerful, even for you." Bronc and Keto tried to shut her up but Nacluv laughed softly. "Do not worry. I have a plan."

The minions looked at each other with curiousity.

Meanwhile, at Celesto's mansion, Sapphire and the rangers were doing some training of their own. The rangers were doing push-ups, sit-ups wall climbing, even weight lifting to boost their physical strengths. They even ran through an obstacle course while each carrying heavy water buckets to work on their agility.

Meanwhile, Celesto and his lab staff were working hard to improve the rangers’ weapons and their morphing abilities as best they could. Even still, they couldn’t give them too much of a boost or the surge and strains would have horrible effects on the rangers physically.

Sapphire, on the other hand, was honing in on her magic. Now she could make large trees grow, change clouds into different types like thunder or rain.

With she shapeshifting, she could change into many animals without getting tried. She even sparred with a few of the rangers and won. The rangers were proud of her.

After finishing her training for the day, Sapphire went into the mansion and sat on the couch. Rainbow gave her a towel to dry herself off while Lightning gave her a bottle of water. "Thanks."

"You're getting better and better, Sapphire." Sunset praised.

"Yeah. At this rate, we'll beat Nacluv soon." Rainbow added. Sapphire smiled at her friends.

Outside, the rangers heard some people gasping and screaming. "What's going on?" Lightning asked. They all raced outside and were met by a large holographic image of Nacluv.

"Nacluv." Lightning snarled.

"What does he want?" Sunset added.

"Hear me Animal Ranger, I challenge you to a battle!"

"A BATTLE!" the rangers, except for Sapphire cried.

"Accept my challenge. and meet me at Central Park in one hour. If you don't I'll fry your city to the ground!" The image disappeared.

Now, the minions now saw what he was doing. "So you're gonna force her to fight, cause you know she would do anything to protect her friends. Great idea." Bronc commented.

"Indeed. It's an offer she cant refuse."

"But what if she tried something, like trick you?" Keto asked.

"Well, that's where you three come in."

The three minions were surprised and curious about what Nacluv had in mind.

"You have to refuse!" Rainbow cried. The rangers had gone to the base and told Celesto what happened. You can bet he was shocked and flustered. "Sapphire can't fight Nacluv by herself! That's suicide!" Lightning added. All the others agreed.

Twilight and Celesto were already there and had heard everything. “What do we do, sir?” Sunset asked.

“There’s no way we're letting Sapphire fight that monster all by herself and to the death!” Rainbow exclaimed in anger. Twilight sighed. “I don’t think she’s has a choice, guys.” she said.

The rangers turned towards Sapphire. “Don’t worry guys, I-I’ll be fine.” she said nervously. The rangers could easily see she was extremely nervous due to her fidgeting and their complaining wasn’t helping her either.

“Sorry, Sapphire, guess we’re not helping you feel any better, is it?” Sunset asked. Sapphire shook her head. Rainbow cake over and placed a hand on her shoulder. “You’ll beat the stuffing out of Nacluv. I just know it.” she encouraged. Sapphire looked at all her friends and took a deep breath. “Okay, guess I better get going.”

With that, Celesto sent her to the via the jump tubes. “Do you think she’ll be okay, sir?” Twilight asked.

“We just have to hope that she will be.” Celesto said. “However, I get the feeling Nacluv has something up his sleeve.” Hearing that, made the others worry about their friend.

An hour had passed, Nacluv appeared in the park alone. "Now where is that ranger?"

Sapphire appeared on the other side of the park. "Looking for me?"

Nacluv smiled. "Why, yes. I'm glad you accepted my offer." Sapphire frowned, "You made it hard to refuse." Nacluv grinned and took a fighting posture. "Now then, shall we get on with this?"

Sapphire took a fighting stance too. "Yes." she transformed...

"STARFLEET MAGIC... POWER ON!"

Nacluv lunged at Sapphire. She leaped into the air and blasted Nacluv with her magic. Nacluv growled and blasted fire at Sapphire, whom used a shield to protect herself. "Stop using your magic, coward! Fight!" Nacluv thundered as he lunged at her. "You asked for it."

Sapphire lunged at Nacluv and the two were engaged in a ruthless fight. Punching, kicking and even scratching each other. It was lke two big cats fighting over territory. The rangers watched everything from the monitors. "Woah, look at her go! She's doing really well." Spike said.

The others agreed but Sunset couldn't shake the feeling that Nacluv was up to something.

Sapphire and Nacluv separated and skidded on the ground. Nacluv growled and coated himself in all his fire power. "TIME TO END THIS! RANGER!"

Sapphire coated herself in her magic. The two charged each other and full speed, roaring like warriors.

They collided.

KABOOOM!

A massive explosion erupted, shaking the ground. "SAPPHIRE!" the rangers cried. When the smoke cleared, they saw Nacluv and Sapphire laying on the ground, not moving. The rangers feared the worst. "No." Sunset whispered.

Then, Sapphire twitched as well as Nacluv. The two were badly banged up. The explosion was enough to de-morph Sapphire, leaving her in her tattered clothes. She was covered in scratches and bruises. Even the slightest movement equaled large amounts of pain. The two struggled to stay standing when Nacluv began laughing.

"What's... funny?" Sapphire groaned.

"You... didn't think... I would lose... this easy, did you?" Nacluv replied. Sapphire didn't know what he meant until she saw Marla, Bronc and Keto appeared. Keto pointed his staff at Nacluv, “Song of Resurgense.” The power of the melody magically took away the pain from Nacluv, actually healing his wounds, to Sapphire's horror.

The rangers were outraged. "That sneaky creep!" Rainbow cried.

"It was a trap!" Lightning added. "He wanted to weaken Sapphire, so he could capture her."

"We've got get to her, fast!" Sunset said. Celesto agreed and he sent them through the jump-tubes to the park. "Hurry, guys." Twilight thought as she didn't like what she was seeing on the monitors.

The minions chuckled as they approached Sapphire. "Looks like the tables have turned, huh?" Marla said. Sapphire painfully tried to crawl away, but she was in too much pain to do so. "Time for some fun." Bronc said. He fired lasers from his helmet while Keto fired from his staff. The blasts send Sapphire flying and crashing to the ground. "Uuuugggghhh." she groaned.

The four monsters laughed at the thought of victory. "Capture the ranger and let's leave." Nacluv ordered. The minions complied and Marla sent her hair towards Sapphire.

At the last second, a creature burst from the brush and bit Marla's hair, tearing it. "AAAAHHH, MY HAIR, YOU DID THAT?!" she screeched.

Thats when four other creatures came out of the bush.

The first one was about six feet in height and eighteen feet long. It had a frill with horns all over and along nose horn. It was green with yellow markings. The second one was twenty eight feet long and thirty nine feet in height. The third was extremely long with spikes down it's neck. It was thirty three feet long and nine feet high. The last creature was fifteen feet long and six point sis feet high.

The four creatures didn't like the villains and growled aggressively at them. "What are those things?" Marla questioned.

"I don't know, but they aren't gonna stop us from destroying that ranger." Bronc answered. Bronc and his comrades charged the dragons. The largest creature roared and swung it's tail and the minions, smacking them into a tree. Nacluv seem interested in these creatures. "Impressive."

At the base. Twilight and the others were shocked. "What the heck are those things doing here?" Spike cried.

"There dinosaurs!" Twilgith exclaimed. "A Styracosaurus, Fukuisaurus, Allosaurus and Amargasaurus and they're protecting Sapphire." Twilight replied.

'Well, that's good at least." Krysta added.

"Let's hope it'll stay that way." Celesto said.

Nacluv and the minions just stared at the dragons while the rangers appeared on the scene. "Woah, what are those things?!" Lightning asked.

"They looks like dinosaurs, but that's impossible." Sunset stated.

"Well, whatever they are, they're standing between us and Sapphire. Let's get them." Rainbow said. She rushed towards Sapphire, but the Allosaurus looked back and bashed Rainbow back. "Rainbow!" Sunset cried. Rainbow grunted as she got to her feet. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm good."

The Styracosaurus grabbed Sapphire they all headed towards the forest. "Hey, they're gonna get away!" Sunset cried.

"Not for long, COMET TRAIL... FIRE!"

The attack headed towards the dinosaurs but he was too late. The dinosaurs were already gone with Sapphire. "No, they got away!" Buddy exclaimed.

"With Sapphire!" Fluttershy squeaked. The monsters weren't happy either and they teleported away.

"Let's get back to the base." Sunset suggested.

"And then they just ran away with Sapphire." Lightning finished explaining. Twilight was busy trying to track Sapphire. "And one of them bashed into me." Rainbow added.

"But why would they do that?" Sunset asked.

"Well from what we saw on the monitors, the dinosaurs were protecting Sapphire from the monsters. When you guys showed up, they acted the same way." Krysta replied.

"So they thought we were a threat to Sapphire?" Fluttershy added.

But we're Sapphire's friends,
Why would they think that,
We're friends till the end." Rhymey said.

"We may know that, but the dinosaurs don't." Celesto revealed. The other began to catch on to what Celesto was saying. "So all we have to do is show the them we're friends, instead of enemies." Sunset suggested.

"Only one problem." Spike pointed out. "Those dinos could have taken Sapphire anywhere." The rangers winced, being reminded of that. "Guys! I've got her signal." Twilight called.

"Where?" Lightning asked.

"She's in the forest near Canterlot High."

"Let's go!" Sunset snapped.

Meanwhile, at the forest, Sapphire was layed up against a tree, groaning in pain. The Styracosaurus gently rubbed against her. "Easy, Shock. I'll be okay."

The other dinosaurs watched with concerned eyes. Sapphire smiled at her dragon friends. "I'm okay, guys."

Bushes behind them began to rustle. The dinosaurs growled at the spot. That's when the rangers, un-morphed appeared. "Woah, woah, woah." Sunset said with her hands in the air. "We come in peace." The dinosaurs snarled and narrowed their eyes at the rangers, suspicious of them. Fluttershy saw Sapphire and gasped. "Oh you poor thing." she rushed towards her and examined her. "Where does it hurt?"

"Ugh... everywhere."

"You need help right away."

The dinosaurs were still acting hostile. "We just want to help Sapphire, that's all. But we can't do that if you four don't let us near her." Buddy pleaded. The dinosaurs looked at each other and they back up a little. Trust had been established. The rangers went to Sapphire's side. "We've got to get her to the hospital, quickly." Lightning stated.

The others agreed, but before they could pick her up...

"Hold it, rangers."

The rangers turned and saw Nacluv and the minions again. The dinosaurs roared at them. "What are you doing here, again? Haven't you caused Sapphire enough pain?" Buddy asked, annoyed.

"Yes, and we're back to cause her even more pain." Keto replied.

"Fluttershy, Rhymey, get Sapphire to the hospital, we'll deal with the monsters." Sunset ordered.

Fluttershy and Rhymey nodded and Fluttershy carefully picked up Sapphire, bridal-style. Shock came up to her and nodded towards her back. "You want us to get one?" Fluttershy guessed. Shock nodded. "Alright then." the two leaped onto the Styracosaurus and dashed to the hospital.

"Alright, now let's deal with these three." Lightning said.

The others agreed and morphed. "STARFLEET MAGIC... POWER ON!"

The minions and Nacluv lunged at the rangers but the Allosaurus and Fukuisaurus rammed the four villains."Nice shot!" Rainbow commented. The villains growled and charged again. This time the Allosaurus roared and flashed light blue for a second. "What's that?" Lightning asked. The dinosaur dashed towards the villains super fast and vanished for a moment. Then it rammed the villains multiple times, causing massive damage. It dashed away and the four villains collapsed on the ground.

"Woah, it took them out with one attack!" Buddy exclaimed with awe. The villains staggered to their feet. "You rangers won't get away with this. We'll get your Animal Ranger, if it's the last thing we do!" Nacluv declared as the four teleported away. The dinosaurs roared in victory. "Come on let's get to the hospital." Lightning suggested. The others nodded and they all headed towards the hospital.

You can bet when the rangers showed up with prehistoric, living dinosaurs at the entrance to the hospital, people were amazed and shocked. The rangers ignored them and asked about Sapphire. They were taken to her hospital room where Fluttershy and Rhymey were present. "How is she?" Lightning asked.

"The doctors say she'll be fine, but she'll have to stay here for a few days." Fluttershy informed.

Sapphire came to and saw her friends. "Hey guys."

"Sapphire... how are you feeling."

"Dizzy and woozy." she replied in a groggy voice.

"Just take it easy." Sunset suggested. Sapphire nodded and closed her eyes. "How are my dinosaur friends?"

"They're fine. We'll ask you about them when you get discharged, alright?" Sunset added. Sapphire nodded and Sunset suggested that they should leave to give their teammate some well needed rest.

Outside the hospital they saw a crowd of people around the dinosaurs.

"Actual Dinosaurs!"

"Amazing!"

"They're beautiful!"

"We better get them to the mansion." Lightning whispered to the others. They nodded in agreement and they leaped onto the Allosaurus. "Come on, big fellas." Lightning ordered. The dinosaurs obeyed them and they walked off to the mansion.

Celesto, Celestia and Twilight were waiting outside when they saw the five dinosaurs walking towards them. The two were shocked and amazed by the huge creatures while Twilight's eyes sparkled. "Wow, real, live dinosaurs. Amazing!"

The rangers hopped off of the Allosaurus. "So what do we do with these big fellas?"

"We can keep them in the here and near the mansion. They won't cause too much trouble... will they?" Celestia asked.

"Not as long as you show them your friends." Sunset said. "Anyway Sapphire will be in the hospital for a few days."

"Right, until then, why don't we show our new friends where they will be staying." Celesto said. The others helped Celesto and Celestia guide the dinosaurs around the coast of the island. Their new home.

Episode 7: Mega Shark Problems

The minions were all put hard to work, cleaning the tower from top to bottom, feeding and tending to the prisoners, cleaning the equipment, all under Nacluv’s orders. “And do a good job…!” Nacluv thundered from the top floor “If you can’t even beat the rangers, then at least do your chores right!”

And he left the grumbling minions to their work on the lower floor.

“Ugh, this is insane!” whined Marla “I just had my nails done!”

Keto and Bronc were more fed up with her whining, but they too were just as disturbed by Nacluv’s treating them. Ever since he had hatched he acted like a self-absorbed control-freak child. Despite the fact he WAS a child in body that was no excuse.

“At least when Vulcan was in charge, he didn’t treat us this cruelly.” grumbled Keto “Well… okay, maybe he did, but not this much.”

Much as Bronc hated to admit it, “You’re right; he is no master. He has squandered his position. Something will have to be done.”

That Saturday morning, rangers were in the base and Professor Brain was scanning Sapphire with a magic analyzer. Twilight was interested as too how Sapphire sprouted wings and a horn when she came to rescue them from Nacluv and the minions. The other rangers were interested as well so they decided to try and find out how and why.

Sapphire layed down on an examination table as Brain moved the analyzer over her body and check the results on the computer. "What have you got Professor?" Celesto asked.

"According to the results, Sapphire has an a large amount of magic within her body, but I do not see anything that can lead us to how or why she transformed the first time." he replied.

The team sighed. A dead end. "We'll be have to figure it out." Rainbow said. "Just think with Sapphie's new form on our side, we'll be unstoppable!" The others shared her idea, but Celesto calmed her down, “Now now, Rainbow, while all this is fascinating, we still have to keep an eye on her.”

“He’s right, Nacluv and the minions might try to capture her to get a hold on her magic.” Fluttershy added.

“Those creeps won’t lay a hand on, Sapphire." Rainbow said. The other agreed to that. That’s when Twilight came into the lab. “Guys! I found something on the radar. Off the coast." The rangers looked at each other in concern and they all went to the main room. Twilight showed the item on the radar; it looked like a metallic blue shark. “What is that?” Buddy asked. The shark was about 50 feet long. Half of it's body was blue and the bottom half was white.

“Looks like a giant shark.” Sunset said.

“But they never grow that big and they are not metal.” Fluttershy replied.

“It looks like a Megalodon Zord.” Sapphire suggested.. Twilight scanned the item. “I think you’re right.”

“But what it doing out in the ocean?” Buddy asked. “It must be a wild Zord.” Twilight claimed as she further scanned it and discovered something disturbing. “Uh-oh.”

“What is it Twilight?” Celesto asked.

“It says here that the Zord is unstable.”

“Unstable?” Lightning asked.

“Since the Zord is wild that means it doesn't have a regulation on it's powers, it may attack somebody or hurt itself.” Twilight added. The rangers looked even more concern. “So what do we do?” Sunset asked.

“The only way is for one of you to tame the Zord.” Twilight replied.

"One of us?!" Rainbow cried. The rangers looked at each other in shock and concern.

"The Zord will only respond to one of your morphers. Once you get close enough the Zord will turn the same color as you."

“But who can do that?” Buddy asked. "There's no way one of us can get even close to that thing."

"There's one person who has a chance." Sunset said turning towards Sapphire. Sapphire saw all of them looking at her and caught on to what they meant. “Me?”

“You’re the only one who even has a chance at befriending that thing.” Rainbow stated.

“But-“

“And you tamed four zords already.” Buddy added. Sapphire rubbed her arm with a really nervous look on her face. “Yeah but... it’s a large shark. That thing might swallow me whole.”

“Don’t worry, nothing will go wrong,
Things will go right along.” Rhymey reassured.

Sapphire looked between the rangers and the Megalodon Zord. She knew if the shark goes out of control it may kill someone and she couldn't allow that to happen. She sighed and said. “Okay. I’ll do it.”

The rangers cheered. “Then let’s get you prepared.” Celesto stated.

Meanwhile, at the Prison Tower, Nacluv and the minions saw the Megalodon Zord too. “We need that Zord.” Nacluv stated. “With that kind of power, the rangers won’t stand a chance against us.”

The minions liked the sound of that. “I’ve already selected a monster to help you failures” Nacluv added. The minions took offense to that but they didn’t dare protest. “Whirlpool!”

The creature appeared. His face was a wave and his body was blue and in a water shape style. He had a wand in his hands that allowed him to control water currents, making big waves and storms.

“Whirlpool, at your service.” he said. “Those rangers paint know what hit them.” Nacluv smiled. “Now go get that zord!” he ordered. “As if you fail again, I’ll make you into sushi!” His minions and Whirlpool nodded rapidly and teleported to Mystic Island.

Back at the ocean, Sapphire was swimming in the ocean with her suit in aqua mode; it had a thruster on the back propelling her through the water and a oxygen tank was also attached allowing her to breath within her helmet. Her suit now had fins on the ends to make it easier for her swim.

She was looking for any sign of the Megalodon Zord. She didn’t like the eerie surroundings of the dark ocean and being all alone didn't help.

“Guys... I have a bad feeling about this.” she whimpered. “It’s really dark out here.” The rangers contacted her via radio. “Don’t worry, we’re tracking you, so if anything happens we will know right away.” Celesto reassured. That made her feel a little better.

The radar beep and a blue blip appeared. “Sapphire, there’s a blue blip near you.” Twilight informed.

“What is it?” Sapphire asked.

“It may be the Zord.” Lightning said.

“Go check it out, Sapphire.” Celesto stated. She gulped nervously but compiled and swam towards the blip. When she reached the blimp her question was answered. “I found the Zord.” It was just swimming around in a circle.

“Okay, I’m going in.” She carefully swam to the Zord. She had a good feeling about this... until the Zord saw her. “Uh-oh.” she squeaked. The Zord began swimming towards her. She stayed completely still as the Zord circled her curiously.

At the base, the rangers, Twilight, Spike and Krysta were worried. “What’s it doing to her?” Spike asked.

“It’s circling her.” Krysta said.

“Not good. The Zord gonna attack her!” Fluttershy cried.

“Now, now, Fluttershy, don’t jump to conclusions.” Celesto replied. “Let’s see what happens.” The rangers looked at him in disbelief but they trusted their mentors word and continued watching with nervous eyes.

Sapphire watched the Zord stopped circling her and sniffed her. She closed her eyes, fearing the worst. Just then, she felt something rubbed up against her chest. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that it was the Megalodon Zord rubbing her. "At least it's friendly."

"So what do I do now?" Sapphire asked.

"You have to place your morpher on the top of the zord's nose. I'll recognize you as it's controller and become stable." Twilight answered. Before Sapphire could take her morpher off...

“Not so fast!” a voice came suddenly. Sapphire gasped and she whirled around and saw the minions and Whirlpool beside them. “Nacluv’s minions and a monster!” Spike cried.

“What are they doing there?” Sunset asked.

“They’re there to steal the Zord!” Krysta said.

Sapphire swam in front of the Zord with a sour look on her face. “What are you doing here?”

“We’re here to take the Zord, why else?” Marla said. Sapphire knew she couldn’t let them take it, knowing they would experiment in it. The Zord roared and thrashed violently at the villains. It opened it's mouth and made a large suction of water. "Watch it!" Keto cried. The villains scattered but Sapphire unfortunately, was in the direct path of the suction and got sucked inside the Zord! "AAAHHHH!" and all she saw was black.

"Oh no!" Twilight cried.

"Sapphire!" Lightning added. The others were just as worried as their friend.

"Rangers." Celesto said.

"Yes, sir. Come on guys, let's go!" Sunset snapped. The rangers nodded and headed to the hanger bay. "Please be alright, Sapphire." Sunset thought to herself. It was the same thing running through the others heads as they flew their Star Jets to the zords' location.

Sapphire woke up a little groggy and dizzy. Looking around she found herself in a large... something. It was dimly lit but her lion night vision helped her see better. The walls were made of metal and there were what looked to be muscle around her. "Where am I?"

Suddenly her morpher began emitting static. "Sapphire... are... okay?"

"Twilight?"

"Say... something."

"I'm okay, but I don't know where I am."

"Zord... you... stomach."

"What?"

"Inside... stomach."

"I'm inside it's stomach!"

"Yes."

Sapphire squeaked at that response. The last place she ever thought she would be would be a Zord's stomach.

"Don't worry... help.. coming."

"Alright." All Sapphire could do was sit and wait for her friends to come and rescue her.

Meanwhile, the villains saw the whole thing and were laughing. "Now with that ranger out of the way, we'll capture this Zord and use it for ourselves." Marla said. "Whirlpool?"

"Yes, ma'am." Whirlpool made a string of water and launched it at the Zord. The Zord roared and swarm away quickly. Sapphire felt a large movement which sent her flying backwards. She grabbed the floor with all her strength. "What the-?" Then there was a jerk and she was sent flying upwards and crashed back down. "What's going on out there?" Another jerk sent her sliding across the floor. "Woah."

Whirlpool kept trying to lasso the Megalodon Zord but it evaded every attempt. Until a laser came in and blasted the water lasso. "What?" Whirlpool snarled. The monsters looked and saw the rangers in their Star Jets. "Leave the Zord alone, you creeps!" Buddy said.

The monsters snarled. "Lightning, you me and Fluttershy will go and rescue Sapphire." Sunset ordered. "Buddy, Rainbow, Rhymey hold off the monsters."

"Yes, Sunset." Rainbow said.

"Ready and Steady." Rheymey added.

Sunset and Fluttershy steered their jets towards the Megalodon Zord. The Zord was still smoothly swimming along. Now they were closer to Sapphire so the signal was strong. "Sapphire, are you alright?" Lightning called in.

"Yeah... I'm good. Just a little dizzy." Sapphire replied in a dizzy tone. All the Zord's dodging had knocked her around the stomach like a pinball, making her head spin. "Don't worry, we'll get you out of there." Fluttershy reassured.

Rainbow, Rhymey and Buddy were blasting the monsters with their Star Jets lasers. They were affective but the monsters had their own tricks. Marla used her hair and grabbed Rainbow's jet. "Hey!" She tossed it towards Buddy's Star Jet. "Watch it!" Luckily, he swerved out of the way and the jet stopped on it's own. Rainbow shook her head. "Alright, it's on!" Rainbow pushed the controls, sending her jets rushing towards Marla. The jet rammed her, knocking her back. "That's no fair!"

Meanwhile, Buddy and Rhymey were blasting Keto and Bronc with their misslies. The rockets knocked the two back. Whirpool came in. "Alright, time for some waves." He waved his wand and made a large water spout and hurled it towards the three Star Jets. "Uh-oh." Buddy whimpered.

"Brace!" Rainbow cried. The three jets were sucked up into the spout. The three rangers were spun around inside. "WOAH!" The monsters laughed. "Now let's get that Zord." Bronc called. His comrades nodded and all four of them dashed towards the Megalodon Zord.

"How are we gonna get Sapphire out of this Zord?" Lightning asked.

"Maybe we can force it to stop?" Fluttershy suggested.

"That may work, but how it Sapphire going to get out of the stomach?" Sunset added. Just then, the two Star Jets were blasted from behind. "What was that?!" Fluttershy cried.

Whirlpool, Marla, Keto and Bronc appeared in front of the jets and Zord. "Hand over the Zord, rangers." Keto demanded. The Zord roared at the monsters and swarm quickly away, rocking Sapphire inside, "WAH!" she was tossed backwards.

"Get it!" Marla cried. The monsters chased the Zord. "After that them! We can't let them get it!" Sunset snapped. The three jets followed the monsters. Sapphire's came in on the radio, "Guys... help!"

"Hang in there, Sapphire." Lightning answered. "We're working on it." The monster fired at the Zord, but once again it dodged each one, rocking Sapphire inside. Once again she was tossed around inside the stomach. "Woah! Gah! Ugh!"

Finally, the Zord decided it had enough of running. It turned around and blasted the villains with a powerful beam of water, actually blasting them out of the water and high into the air. "Woah!" Lightning cried. With them gone, the water spout holding the other three rangers dissapeared.

"Hey, what happened?" Rainbow asked.

"No time for that, let's go." Buddy said. The three of them drove to Sunset and Fluttershy. Sapphire was glad the Zord settled and stopped tossing her around. "Now how can I get out of here?" Sapphire asked. Then, the Zord glowed and launched a stream of water from it's mouth and Sapphire came out as well. "... What just happened?" Buddy asked.

"I think the Zord threw up Sapphire." Fluttershy replied. Sapphire shook her head, shaking off the dizziness from the launch. She looked at the Zord, "Thanks, boy."

The Zord roared in response and Sapphire took off her morpher and placed it on the Zord's snout. All at once the Zord and morpher glowed. "The Zord's becoming stable!" Twilight called in. Once the glowing stopped the Zord seemed calm and cool. "The Zord is completely stable."

"She did it!" Lightning cried. The others cheered in joy. The Megalodon Zord beamed Sapphire into it's cockpit, finalizing her control. "Alright gang, let's go home." Sunset said. The team drove the Star Jets and Zord to the surface... only to be faced with a giant Whirpool. "Surprise, rangers."

Rainbow grunted, "Enough is enough. Let's take this creep down already."

"You read my mind." Sunset agreed.

“Launch Star-Jets!”

“Summon Zords!”

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

Lightning leaped out of Sunset's jet, “GIGANTIFY!” 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 take this creep!” said Sunset.

“RIGHT!!” the others agreed.

Whirlpool fired water spikes at the team, but Megalodon Zord flew in and smacked them back at Whirlpool with his tail. The water spikes struck Whirlpool, causing damage. "Alright, Sapphire!" Sunset cheered. Whirpool got up and waved his wand, forming a large water spout. "Time to do the wave!" he launched it at the zords, "Watch it!" Sapphire dove the Zord away.

Unfortunately, the Megazord and Lightning were consumed in a giant water spout and lifted up into the air. "WOOOOOAAAAAHHHH!" the rangers cried as they were spinning around. Whirpool laughed with glee as Sapphire couldn't bear to watch this,“Guys! I’ve gotta help them!”

That’s when a button glowed in the Zord’s console. It had a picture of the Zord inside a large stream of water. “What’s that, ...well no time to find out.” Sapphire pressed the button. “AQUA JET" the Zord roared and charged into the water spout covered in large amounts of water. It burst in and pushed the Megazord and Lightning out of the water spout and they crashed to the ground. "You guys okay?"

A little dizzy, but we're okay." Sunset answered sickly.

"Take it easy, guys I'll take care of him." Sapphire turned the Zord back towards Whirlpool. "Ready, boy?”

Megalodon Zord roared. "Now, ULTIMATE WATER!"

The zord roared and charged Whirlpool while geysers of water appeared in the background. It bashed into him and he exploded, shrunk down and was imprisoned in a sphere.

(Skip to 5:08)

The Zord sent out it's tractor beam and beamed the monster inside the cockpit. "Monster Captured, Mission Complete!" Sapphire declared. The rangers cheered in joy.

The minions returned to the tower and were met with an infuriated Nacluv. “How Vulcan was able to stand you three and your miserable failures is beyond me.” He growled. “You lost the Zord and failed again.”

The minions tried to come up with an excuse but “Silence, seems I’ll have to teach you three a lsesson.” He powered up his fists with fire balls. “About failing.”

The minions freaked and ran away with Nacluv firing fireballs at them. The minions only screamed and ran. “Come back here! Don’t run while I’m firing at you!” He roared.

When, they got back at the base, Twilight and the others were glad to see Sapphire unharmed. "You sure gave us a scare when that Zord swallowed you." Krysta said.

"I'm okay. Really." Sapphire said.

"Anyway, now we have a new Zord added to our team." Celesto said. "One step closer to defeating Nacluv."

The team nodded. "Anyone hungry? Pizza is on me." Celesto added. Everybody cheered and went out for some delicious dinner after an eventful day.

Episode 8: Ocean Danger

On an offshore oilrig somewhere in the Pacific the drillers had just struck a new batch of oil after days of hard work and digging. The oil was now loaded into shipping drums and these were being loaded onto a large taker boat to take the oil to the mainland.

This tanker was one that belonged to Celesto’s company, and the foreman of the oil drilling contacted him by satellite phone. “It’s all loaded, Mr. Grandruler. Thanks to your tanker, we’ll reach the mainland ahead of schedule.”

“Very good, just remember our deal. I need some of that oil myself.” Celesto said, “Okay, thank you.” then he hung up. He now had just enough time for a little breakfast and coffee before heading for work.

Celestia had already eaten and was now feeding the babies their breakfast. Luna was helping her sister feed her little niece and nephew, before she would have to head for work herself. She wasn’t on maternity leave like her sister.

As Celesto stood at the sink in the massive kitchen, cramming his toast and sipping his coffee, he couldn’t help but gaze at his loving family. His wife looked over her shoulder and gazed lovingly at him, “You know, you could help feed your own children.” she teased.

Her husband pretended to be insulted, “I paid for their food. So in a way, I already did my share.”

They shared a small chuckled, and a smooch. Then Celesto gave his kids a small peck on their little heads. “You-two be good for your mommy.” he cooed.

“I must go too.” said Luna, and she pecked her niece and nephew goodbye. “Have a good day, sister.” she said to Celestia.

“Oh, kids…” Celestia cooed to the babies, “One day you’ll understand how it feels to work, and maybe you can help your Daddy fight evil.” She giggled softly, but the babies just looked confused.

Meanwhile, Nacluv gathered the minions before him. “I suppose you’re all wondering why I brought you here. I’m wondering myself since I hate the stinking sight of you all for your constant mess ups.”

The minions took offense to that!

“However, I’d like to show you all the setup for what will be our latest plot to crush the rangers.” He activated the monitors and showed them the images of the oil tanker traveling across the sea.

“An oil tanker?” asked Keto, “How can that help us?”

“Obviously… we’re going to make a deal with the rangers.” sneered Nacluv “From what we know, these humans can’t bear it when an international disaster occurs. Therefore, we’re going to threaten the ocean with that boat and the oil it has.”

“Ah, I see…” said Bronc “Instead of fighting the rangers with brute force, we’ll fight with logic. They would have to surrender.”

Nacluv nodded, “For this, I have selected just the monster we need: Aquarian.”

The creature walked in. She resembled that of a grey fish-woman, but with silvery crystal armor and ghastly green hair, sharp fin blades on her arms and legs. She even had a large shark tail coming out behind her back, and she had gills on her neck.

She was rather beautiful looking. Keto and Bronc couldn’t help but ogle at her, which instantly irked Marla. “I suppose you do look pretty, but I’d hardly consider you on my level.”

Aquarius gave Marla a simple glare and approached her. Once right in front, she gave a huge roar, exposing her immensely sharp teeth, which according to her profile were strong enough to bite through steel.

Marla yelped and hid behind Bronc.

“That’s not even the best of my powers.” Aquarius explained, “My best specialty is that I can meld myself in water, making myself completely invisible. That taker won’t even know what hit it.”

Nacluv snickered, “Now that’s my kind of girl monster.” much to the annoyance of Marla.

The bell rang for lunch period. Sapphire was struggling to finish a test. It was a history test. There were alot of subjects in school she was good, but history was difficult, if it didn't involve animals, she was lost. “Sapphire…!” Lightning suddenly called to her “Exam’s over. Hand it in please.”

“Uh…?” Sapphire looked down at her history test and realized she only answered two questions out of twenty. Lightning also noticed this, “Sapphire…” he said looking at her with concern, but seeing how she was already looking distraught and he took pity on her, “If you want to talk about it, I’ll be here during lunch, okay.”

Nikki overheard this, and while she would have loved to have laughed at Sapphire, she quickly rubbed out all her own answers on her own paper, hoping Lightning would want to see her at lunch as well.

“It’s not going to work, Nikki…” Lightning said as he picked up her exam, “And besides… you wrote the answers in pen. You can’t erase that.”

Half the class laughed at her, and even Amber and Dionne couldn’t help but let out a small chuckle each, which irked Nikki.

Sunset, Rainbow and Twilight however, felt concerned about Sapphire.

Meanwhile, Krysta was flying about over the sea, away from the island, where she enjoyed the silence and privacy. Just she and the salty sea air-- Then again, a flock of seagulls here and there were pleasant company.

“Hey guys, what’s up…?!” Krysta called to them…

The seagulls only wailed at her. They couldn’t speak English like she could, but she could still understand them. “That’s easy for you to say…” she joked, and she soared off.

A little later, she looked down below and saw the big oil tanker that was still on its way to the mainland with its shipment. Onboard the massive boat, the sailors were all keeping a watchful eye on their course, speed, and schedule. They could see the mainland ahead, and they were bang on schedule, unaware of the imminent danger they were in. Aquarius was lurking in the water, and she spotted the boat from afar. “This should be easy.” She snickered, and with that, she melded into water, completely disappearing and dashed for the boat.

“Captain…” one of the sailors called “Sonar has detected something moving in the water off the port side.”

The Captain looked with his binoculars, but he couldn’t see anything on the surface, but he suddenly could see the motion of the water as something seemed to be coming at the boat with incredible speed. “Veer Off, Hard to Starboard!” he shouted.

The sailors prepared to veer off, but suddenly, they were grabbed by large threads of pink hair, and pulled away.

“What the…?!” the captain cried, and suddenly, Keto appeared behind him and gave him a huge whack to the head with his staff, knocking him out cold. The security alarm was sounded and guards rushed into action with their weapons ready.

“Ha! Try this…!” Keto shouted, “Refrain of Denial!” His powerful mugic disarmed the guards and rendered all their weapons useless. Keto was pleased that while his mugics couldn’t affect the rangers due to their upgrades, at least it still had a good use to overpower normal humans.

The guards were still not willing to give in and were willing to fight hand-to-hand, when suddenly the ship was hit and rocked hard, knocking them all off their feet. That’s when Aquarius leapt out of the water and onto the deck, breaking through large boxes with her massive teeth!

Her presence frightened guards so badly that they surrendered and groveled like babies.

That’s when Nacluv and Bronc appeared. “Well done! The ship is ours.” hissed Nacluv.

Bronc then proceeded to opened more crates which contained the drums of oil. “With all this oil at our hands, we can hold the entire world in demand!”

“My thoughts exactly.” agreed Nacluv, “And now we even have hostages to further enforce the world to our whim. Nothing can stop me this time!”

He laughed loud and manically.

Krysta saw everything from way above and away. “I’ve got to warn the rangers!” and off she flew towards Mystic Island.

Meanwhile, at lunch, Sapphire came to talk to Lightning, and the others rangers came for moral support. “Fluttershy, you shouldn’t let the exams get to you like this.” said Lighting.

“I know…I try, and I try but it’s still hard. I just know history with animals, not people.” The friends understood. Sapphire been more around animals than people so she knows alot about them. Sunset placed a comforting hand on her shoulder, “It’s really not that bad, Sapphire. If you had lived my old world of Equestria, the tests I used to take were nothing like this.”

“What we’re they like?” asked Buddy. The others wanted to know as well. Sunset agreed to explain, though it felt kind of rough on her as she would have to remember all the bad times!

“In my world, as Queen Celestia’s former student-- when she was Princess Celestia-- my exams weren’t just reading and writing and basic skills. I had to master my own magic and spells, but…” she paused, having a look of regret on her face, “I was younger and blinded by my own greed and spoiled attitude. I couldn’t get what I wanted fast enough. So I abandoned my studies, and that’s how I came here to this world.

…I think you all know the rest.”

The others all nodded, and it all brought them a bit of sickly feeling remembering when Sunset used to be evil.

“To be honest, you didn’t crack nearly as much as I did.” Sunset said to Sapphire, “You can do it, because you have a better reason to.”

“She is right… we all do.
That’s why I know we can all make it through.” said Rhymey.

Sapphire began to feel better, and Lightning was pleased. “Nevertheless…” he said “…As your teacher, I still expect you to come by after school and retake the test.” Sapphire nodded in agreement.

Suddenly, there was a tapping sound outside the classroom window. “Krysta…” cried Lightning, and he let his little friend inside. The poor little bird was exhausted. “What happened to you?” asked Rainbow.

Krysta looked insulted and through her panting sneered, “You try flying fifty miles as fast you can and tell me you’re not ready to fall to pieces!” She finally caught her breath and explained what she saw.

“Nacluv hijacked an oil-tanker?!” cried Sunset.

Krysta nodded, “I saw it myself. I don’t know what he wants with it though. I couldn’t hear him from that far away.”

Suddenly there was a sound of a sinister laugh echoing outside, “Attention, Power Rangers…!”

“That voice…!” cried Buddy, and outside, in the skies above the city, Nacluv appeared as a large image of himself. Many of the citizens all over looked up in fear and in worry.

“This is an ultimatum, Rangers.” Nacluv declared, and the images changed to show the tanker out at sea. “I have seized this tanker and all the oil it had loaded on it. I plan to dump it all into the ocean, thus polluting the waters and killing all life it touches.”

You can expect, the rangers, especially Fluttershy were livid and shocked. “And if you’re thinking of trying to stop me this time, you should know I have hostages as well.” The next images shown were all the sailors and guards aboard the tankers. All of them were bound and gagged and under the watchful guard of the Lingos and the minions. “I will give you one chance, Rangers.” hissed Nacluv, “Surrender, and hand your morphers over to me. If you fail comply within two hours, I will sink this vessel, releasing the oil and destroy these men. Surrender or your ocean pays the price.” he laughed wickedly, and the images vanished from the skies.

“We better get to the base.” suggested Sunset. The others agreed and headed out through the window, and went to the nearest jump-tube without being seen.

Meanwhile, Nacluv had taken the boat further out into the ocean. Naturally, the coast guard and the sentinel heard of the hijacking. One of the guards had pressed an emergency alert switch during the struggled before he was bounded.

Naturally, the forces found there was very little could do. They couldn’t shoot at the boat, without risking of making it sink, and taking the oil with it, and Nacluv was prepared to fight off against anything anyone tried to get anywhere near the boat.

Nacluv snickered, “You see, I told you all this is how to form a master plan. Now it’s only a matter of time before the rangers come. They’d be fools not to.”

“But boss…” Keto pointed out, “The rangers are always up to nasty tricks. What if they try to pull another fast one on us?”

“He’s got a point…” added Marla, but Nacluv snuffed them off. “You’re talking a bunch of nonsense. With all this, plus Aquarius patrolling in the water below, we’ve got all the cards.”

“They’ve really got all the cards this time.” cried Rainbow. Celesto was almost inclined to agree, “They certainly what they were doing they planned this. The problem is what do we do about it?”

Fluttershy felt her heart breaking at the thought of the oil being spilled, and all the fish and other sea-life it would kill. “We can’t let them do it!” she cried “We can’t let them kill all those fish.”

“We won’t let them, Fluttershy.” said Buddy. He wasn’t pretending or just trying to cheer her up. He too, as a fiend of the environment and all the plants he looked after, was just as concerned for the nature at risk. “We’ll find some way to work it out.”

A moment of silence followed, nobody seemed to have any ideas. Not even Twilight. “This is Nacluv we’re dealing with, and I don’t think we can trust him.”

Rhymey agreed with her,

“Even if we surrendered, what’s to say?
That Nacluv won’t go ahead anyway.”

Lightning was growing frustrated, “And we can’t take the zords out there either. He’d probably be ready for us.”

Another moment of silence followed, and Sunset finally asked “So… does that mean we… surrender?”

Nobody liked the idea at all, but they just couldn’t risk the tanker being sunk and the oil breaking loose.

“No way!” snapped Spike “You guys can’t just give in. Can’t you just take the risk of it? So what if a little oil leaks out, we can always clean it up after, and who knows, it may not do too much damage.”

Krysta landed right on his head and sunk her talons right into him, shouting “How can you even suggest such a thing?!!”

“Krysta, stop that!” shouted Lightning, and Twilight picked the bird off her dog’s sore head.

“Look, I only meant…”

“Save it, Spike.” Twilight scolded “What you suggested is not only insane, it’s completely foolish.”

“Twilight is right…” agreed Celesto “That boat was carrying enough gallons of oil to kill every fish for miles. But the oil isn’t even the only problem. The tanker itself is nuclear-powered. If they sink that boat and the reactor gets damages, it could kill all marine-life in the ocean as we know it for the next few centuries. It could even cause an irreversible pollutant that could endanger human-life as well.

Do you think, even for one minute, that we can take such a risk?!!”

"I would." Sapphire said, getting shocking faces from everyone. "Sapphire!"

"What?"

"Did you not hear what Mr. Grandruler just said?" Rainbow asked.

"I did."

"Then why are you saying yes?"

"Nature Magic?" A moment of silence passed as the others felt very silly. "Of course, you can use your water nature to purify the water!" Twilight declared.

"But does she know how to do that?" Rainbow asked.

"There's no time to figure out if she can. We have to act now." Sunset snapped.

"Yes, but we can't surrender ourselves to those creeps." Buddy protested. "I think I know a trick we can use." Sapphire said. The others watched as Sapphire concentrated and ponied up. "Woah." Spike whispered. Sapphire's horn glowed and what appeared next to her shocked everyone... another Sapphire. It matched every detail of her from the hair to the clothing.

Sapphire's horn stopped glowing and she opened her eyes. "So what do you think?" the two of them asked. The gang just stared at them with wide eyes. Until Rainbow exclaimed, "AWESOME!"

That snapped the others out of it and they stared in awe. "You made a clone you yourself?" Sunset said. "How?"

"I just thought of another well... me? The personality and all that stuff."

Celesto and Twilight were astounded. "So do you think you can do the same with the others?" Twilight asked. Sapphire's horn glowed again, "Let's see."

A while later, the patrol boats were still near the area of the hijacked tanker, but still unable to do anything at all due to the risks.

“What is taking them so long?” Marla whined, “All this salt air isn’t good for my hair!”

“I’m getting seasick just listening to your whining.” grumbled Keto.

The Lingos kept the ship’s crew under tight guard, and suddenly, one of them pointed up at the sky as a chopper came soaring in. “This is it…” Bronc said “The rangers have arrived.”

Nacluv snickered, “I knew they wouldn’t be able to refuse.”

The rangers came sliding down, unmorphed, on zip-lines, landing softly on the deck of the boat. The chopper then reeled in the lines and flew off, just leaving them there.

The Lingos surrounded them, but did not attack. The minions all stood at the head of the circle, and Nacluv glared wickedly at the friends. “Greetings, Rangers, I’m glad you’ve finally come to your senses.”

“Never mind that…” sneered Sunset “We’re here, now release these men and get off this ship!”

“Uh-uh-uhn…” said Nacluv “First thing’s first: Hand over your morphers, now!”

Lightning held out a small case, and he opened it wide to show the six morpher badges resting neatly in a foam block. “If we give them to you, will you let these men go and leave the boat?” Lightning asked.

“Certainly.” hissed Nacluv “I have the mind of a great business dealer after all.” he referred to Vulcan’s mind.

The rangers didn’t take good comfort in that, but Lightning still handed over the case to Bronc. he snickered wickedly. “At long last, the Power Rangers are no more!”

Nacluv nodded and ordered the Lingos, “Hold them!”

“Hey!” snapped Rainbow “We did as you said! You said you’d let us go!”

Nacluv snickered, “And I will let you go… go down to the bottom of the sea that is. After all, if I’m to takeover this world, I want to make sure than no one interferes again!”

“Why you big…!” Buddy sneered, but he couldn’t find the words to say.

“Throw them over the side and prepare to sink this tub!” Nacluv ordered, and Lingos began to shove the rangers along with the men.

While they struggled, Bronc wired a huge bomb in the center of the deck. “There!” he snapped as he activated the countdown. “This thing will go off in five minutes, and nothing can stop it now!”

Keto was giddy with glee, “I can’t believe it-- we’re actually going to do it!”

“Pinch me, I must be dreaming!” added Marla.

Suddenly, the five star-jets zoomed in overhead. “What?!” snapped Nacluv “What’s going on?”

“It can’t be…!” cried Bronc.

“Oh yes it can!” Sunset hollered. Lightning road in the seat behind her, and the other rangers all saluted from their own jets as well.

Furious and confused, Nacluv blasted the supposed rangers on the deck, with his fire powers, blasting them to pieces and revealing, “…Robots! We’ve been tricked!”

Bronc check the morphers in the case, they were fake too-- made out of plaster. He angrily smashed the case on the deck, breaking the fake morphers.

“Now that that’s settled, I’ll take that.” said Sunset, and she used her Jet’s tractor beam to pull the huge bomb up. “No!!” shouted Bronc, and he tried to shoot at the jet, but Rainbow had already rocketed up high, jettisoned the bomb, and shot at it with her lasers… KAPOW!! Blowing it up harmlessly in the air

“My turn… said Sunset, and she fired her own tractor beam, taking all the hostages with her.

“Oh, no you don’t!” shouted Keto, “Song of Embernova!”

Fireball swarmed all around Sunset’s jet, forcing her to swerve and dodge. The jet got hit a few times. “I’ve got to get these men to safety!”

“Right, I’m doing down. I’ll keep them busy!” said Lightning. With that, he ejected and leapt down hard onto the deck. “Get him!” thundered Nacluv.

The Lingos went crazy, “Bring it on!” Lightning sneered, and he fought back ruthlessly, kicking them down, tossing them over the side and into the water below.

The three minions then went at him. The three of them lunged at him, but Lightning leapt up high causing them to bump into each other hard and they all fell into a huge pile on top of one another. “Must I do EVERYTHING MYSELF?!!” thundered Nacluv!

That’s when he and Nacluv began to brawl hard. Even though Nacluv was very short, he just as powerful and strong as Vulcan was, and his short height made it easier for him to dodge Lightning’s kicks and punches, while he slashed at Lightning hard, making big sparks! He then gave Lighting huge kick, bashing him hard into a box, and the vibrations caused another box of oil on top of it to tip over and fall into the water.

“Oh, no!” cried Lightning, “Guys, get that box before it breaks open!” Sapphire changed into an eagle and swooped down, grabbing the box within her claws. The weight of the box was great, but she didn't give up. "A... little... help... here." she grunted. Fluttershy came in with her jet, "I got you." Using her tractor beam she grabbed the box of oil. "Thanks. Now I'll go help Lightning." Sapphire swooped down and bashed into Nacluv sending the monster in the water. "HA! Nice shot, Sapphire." Lightning praised, giving her a thumbs up.

Sapphire smiled but it went away when she saw the miniosn behind Lightning. She dove towards him, "Lightning duck!"

Lightning heed her words and she sent out a ear piercing, supersonic 'sqwack' at the minions. The force of the attack knocked the minions away and they landed in the water as well.

"AHHH! MY HAIR!" Marla whined. "It takes forever to blow dry all of this hair!" She shook her head and growled, "You are going to pay dearly for this." She launched her hair at Sapphire, but she smartly changed into a pheonix and blasted them with her fire breath, destroying them.

Down below, the other three rangers spotted the crate of oil. It had broken wide open when it crashed on the seabed, but the oil drums were all still intact as they sat in a cluttered pile.

“Oh, thank goodness!” cried Fluttershy.

“Let’s get them out of here before they spring a leak.” said Buddy. He was about to activate his tractor beam and seize the drums, when suddenly his sonar went off with a warning, and something hit him and other jets as well.

“What was that?!” cried Fluttershy. She got her answer when Aquarius appeared out of nowhere. She was also very big thanks to Keto’s mugic.

She laughed at the rangers and sneered, “Surprise, rangers! I am Aquarius: Scourge of the waters, and I shall be destroying you as well as your ocean now.”

“Not if we have a say!
You won’t get your way!” shouted Rhymey.

Aquarius glared at the jets with her sharp teeth.

“Shoot her!” shouted Buddy, and he and the others fired their missiles, but the swift monster zoomed around the rockets and struck each jet hard as she passed.

“She’s too fast!” cried Fluttershy.

Buddy called Rainbow and Sunset, “We need back up down here!”

“We’re on our way!” Sunset responded.

She and Rainbow steered their jets down towards the water, “Cannonball!” Rainbow hollered as she splashed down.

“Hey, fish-face…!” sunset called, and she and rainbow both fired their missiles, but the monster melded into water and vanished. The missiles missed and exploded, and the force of the explosion slit one of the oil drums open.

“Oh, no!” cried Sunset.

“This is not good!” added Rainbow.

“We’ve got to get the drums out of here now!” cried Buddy. He tried to steer his jet inward, but Aquarius rammed him hard and gnashed her teeth at the side of his jet. “Whoa!” Buddy cried.

“It’s no use!” she thundered, “Here in the water I’m twice as fast and slick, and you can’t even try to hit what you can’t even see!”

She demonstrated her wickedness by striking the other jets. The rangers couldn’t even try to pinpoint her on sonar-- she was too fast.

The oil was spilling out even more.

“There’s got to be a way!” cried Fluttershy.

“There is…” hissed Auqaruius “…You get destroyed!!”

She charged again, when suddenly a missile went right past her, frightening her into appearing. “What the?!” she turned round to see a whole bunch of mini-subs, from the coast guard and the sentinel.

They couldn’t contact them over the radio because their communications still worked on different principles, but the lead craft flashed its lights twice at Sunset’s jet, signaling they had come to help!

“Perfect, that gives us all the help we need.” said Sunset.

“Fluttershy and I will get each drum,
You guys fend off that monstrous bum.” said Rhymey.

“Got’cha!”

Rhymey and Fluttershy steered into to grab the drums.

“No! I’ll stop you!” shouted Aquarius, and she melded into water again, vanishing from sight.

“Not this time you don’t!” shouted Buddy, and he veered his jet right in the path the monster was going to reach the others. She was forced to veer another way, and two sentinel subs blocked her way.

“That’s it! Now I’m angry!” she thundered. Her teeth and her finlike blades actually shimmer while invisible. She lunged forth and slashed at all the crafts hard, shaking everyone in their cockpits. “Keep it together, guys!” Rainbow called.

The crafts continued to hold steayd and did all they could to give Rhymey and Fluttershy their opening.

Soon, the two jets reached the leaking drums and grabbed them in their tractor-beams, hauling them to safety. Not too much oil had leaked out to cause much panic.

“Let’s get them out of here!” said Fluttershy.

“Right behind you, dear.” her boyfriend rhymed. Their jets leapt sprang out of water and dumped the drums back onto the boat.

The villians climbed back onto the boat where Sapphire faced them, “Okay, Nacluv, the jig is up! We’re taking this tanker, and you’re coming too, as our prisoner!”

Nacluv turned wound and saw the sentinel and coast guard boast pulling alongside the ship, with men aiming their guns right at him.

Still, he wasn’t quite licked yet. “You could take me in if you desire… but will you risk it?!”

Before anyone would question him, he blasted a huge hole clear through the hull of the tanker, causing it to start sinking!

“Oh, no!” thundered Lightning.

“We can’t let the boat sink!” cried Fluttershy.

While the rangers and the gunmen were all distracted, Nacluv laughed and saw this as his chance to escape, “So long, Rangers!” and he and his minions vanished off the deck.

“A’RGH!!” growled Lightning, but he had no time to be angry now.

The commander of the sentinel mothership called to them with a megaphone, “Lift the boat out of the water and put it on our deck. We’ll handle it from here!”

The rangers agreed, and Sapphire grabbed Lightning and she lifted him up and onto one of the other boats where he’d be safe, and Rhymey and Fluttershy used their jet tractor beams and pulled the boat safely onto the mothership where it, too, would be safe.

Now all that was left to do was beat the monster.

Rhymey and Fluttershy dove back below. Their friends and allies had taken quite a beating, and a couple of sub crafts were down, but still intact, and everyone else still hadn’t given up yet.

“Have no fear,
We are here!” Rhymey hollered.

“Great, we could use more power.” Buddy called.

“All the power in the ocean won’t save you now!” thundered Aquarius, and she zoomed past the crafts striking them all again.

“Okay, that’s it!” snarled Rainbow “We’ve gotta sink this fish right now!”

“And I think I know how…” said Sunset, “Everyone, huddle together.”

All the many crafts huddled in a big circle, pointing their weapons outward, “All right, FIRE!!”

Their lasers and missiles shot out all around, and eventually the monster got hit in a huge barrage. “Whoa…!” she groaned as she reappeared looking all battered and woozy, “I feel seasick!”

“Now’s our chance!” cried Sunset “Tractor-beams, capture-mode, ready!”

“Tractor-beam Engage!”

“FIRE!!”

All five jet’s launched their beams at the weakened monster, blasting her hard and actually shrinking her down. She was imprisoned and beamed into Sunset’s cockpit. “Monster Captured! Mission Complete!”

The rangers cheered, the aquanauts whom helped them cheered, and Ligthning heard the news over his com, and he and the other sailors were cheering as well. “Way to go guys!”

Nacluv was so furious that his screams echoed all over the tower “I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED!!!” and he turned to face the minions “This is all YOUR faults!”

“What? Us?” whined Marla.

“I come up with a perfectly good master plan, and you three messed it all up again!”

Bronc tried to protest, “But master, the ranger…”

“QUIET!!” thundered Nacluv “I don’t want to hear any excuses! GET OUT…!! GET OUT ALL OF YOU BEFORE I BLAST YOU ALL TO THE MOON!!”

“You heard him!” cried Keto, and he and his comrades ran off swiftly, leaving Nacluv to angrily kick over a table. “Ooh… I’ll get you for this, Rangers! Just you wait!”

When the rangers got back to Mystic Island, School had just gotten out for the day, but the rangers were at the base for their debriefing, and Celesto just got off the phone with Washington.

“Good news…” he said to the others, “The sentinel took the taker to the mainland and the oil is still safe; all thanks to you. Well done, Rangers.”

The rangers all nodded proudly.

“And what about the spilled oil in the water?” Fluttershy asked with concern. “It’s all fine…” Celesto assured her “I spoke with the coastguard, not too much oil leaked out and it’s already being cleaned. So no fish will be hurt.”

“That’s wonderful news!” said Buddy “Just the same, we just barley manage to pull it off, thanks to Sapphire's cloning spell.”

Sapphire felt flattered, “Well, what can I say, I have many tricks up my sleeves. Nonetheless, I dare say Nacluv may not fall for the same trick again."

Lightning looked at Sapphire, “Don’t you have a practice test to complete, like we promised?”

Sapphire blinked once, but she didn’t seem to be too nervous about it, or the real exams coming up next week. “If I could get through what we did today, I can pass a little test…” then she acted nervous again “…I hope.”

The others all sighed funnily.

Episode 9: Sapphire and the Sleepless Night

One morning, the rangers all met up at the park where Twilight had invited them on a picnic with her brother, her sister-in-law, and Spike.

“Hey there…!” Shining Armor called, but he suddenly retracted his pleasantry when he noticed how beat the gang looked. Everyone looked tired, frazzled, as if they wanted to fall over any moment.. except Sapphire. “What happened to all of you?” Twilight asked.

Sunset let out a yawn, “We’re just tired.”

“I had to work two whole shifts last night.” said Rainbow “One of the delivery-boys called in wanting to take a Saturday night off and the manager just let him. So I covered his route.”

“I had to cover up the entire community-garden.” said Buddy “The weather was calling for rain last night, and we don’t like our plants to get over-watered.”

Cadance raised an eyebrow, “But it didn’t rain last night. Not a drop.”

“I know!” groaned Buddy “Don’t the weathermen ever get it right?”

Rhymey stretched out and said,

“Well, the weather was just great,
Fluttershy and I went on a date.”

His girlfriend nodded, “We went to the movies, then out for a pizza, and a romantic stroll here in the park.” Everyone awed at how romantic that sounded, “…But we lost track of time, and we didn’t get home until late. We didn’t mean to do it, and our parents understood.”

"And why do you look so rested up?" Cadence asked.

"This girl finished her work in school like 30 mintues early and takes a nap." Rainbow complained.

"It's not my fault, I understand subjects like that." Sapphire retorted with a snap of her fingers.

Still all the rangers felt like coming out on the picnic, feeling the fresh air would do them all good. “I slept like a baby last night.” said Twilight “I was studying for college, and then suddenly I just felt heavy like a rock and I went out like a light.”

“Yeah, thanks to the sleeping powder in your water.” Spike blurted. Shining Armor and Cadance tried to hush him, but he already said it! “Sleeping powder?” Twilight asked, looking at her relatives in shock, “You two drugged me?”

“Well… um… yeah.” Cadance confessed, “Look don’t get us wrong, we know you love your studies, but you need your sleep too. I hate I when you pull those all-nighters, and your.”

Shining Armor chuckled, “One time, she was so tired she left her dorm room in her PJ's.”

The others couldn’t help but chuckle at that, but Twilight sneered sourly, “Believe me, it was far from amusing.”

Still, the rangers soon began to feel more awake after lunch, and playing in the field, unaware that Marla was watching them from within a high tree. “Play now while you can, Rangers. Once my plan is put into action, you’ll be history.”

She snickered and vanished.

By the end of such a lovely day, the sun was beginning to set and everyone felt tired enough to sleep for a week.

“This has been such a nice day.” said Fluttershy, “I really like spending time with all of you.”

“You do?
Me too.” said Rhymey, but then he let out a big yawn.

“I think we all should get home.” said Buddy. Rainbow stretched out and said “I’ll sleep like ten logs tonight.”

The friends bid each other good night, and they all walked their separate ways.

Spike was already super tired, and Twilight scooped him up in her arms. She and her realities began to sing to a song that played as they headed home, and saw how equally tired everyone else was in the city.

(25:36)

[Twilight]

At the end of the day when the night comes
After you’ve had a really long day
And you’re strength is low, and you’ve got a heavy head
Then it’s time for folks to go to bed.

[All four]

At the end of the day when the night comes,
Some people go along their way

[Spike]

To their homes to sleep, and to dream a lovely thought
As they recharge their strengths a lot.

[All four]

At the end of the day when the night comes,
The stars and the moon come out to play.

[Shinging Armor and Cadance]

And the silence stirs as everything is soft and plain
‘Till the day comes round again

[All four]

And the silence stirs as everything is soft and plain
‘Till the day comes round again

As it got darker and the stars came out, Marla stood atop a high-rise deep in town. “This is it…” she hissed, “Are you ready, Sandy?”

Next to her, stood a female, humanoid monster dressed in a purple robe with black stars all around it, a wizard’s, and long black hair. She looked more sinister than charming.

“I’m all set.” she hissed, and she grabbed a large pouch of magic sand. “This sand, when spread out all over town will cast a magical spell that will keep all the humans wide-awake. They won’t be able to sleep even if they want to.”

Marla snickered, “And of course if the humans don’t sleep, they’ll fall into chaos all over, and the rangers… they won’t be able to throw a punch, let a lot stand in battle. Do it, Sandy!”

Sandy nodded and leapt high up, floating on a dark cloud, “Wakey-Wake humans.” She snickered as she poured her cursed sand through the air.

The people of course, didn’t suspect a thing, and yet as the night continued, those whom had gone to bed were tossing, turning, pounding their pillows, readjusting their bedsheets. Some even tried sleeping facing the wrong way-- with their feet at the head of the bed and their heads at the other end...

…But no matter how hard they tried, they just couldn’t seem to fall asleep. Regardless of how sleepy they felt, it was no use. Everyone just remained wide awake, right up until daylight.

Twilight’s radio-clock went off at eight in the morning, and the reporter spoke in a very groggy voice. “Good morning… at to some of you if you managed to sleep… and… oh, heck with it…”

That’s when Twilight pounded the snooze button as she lay flat on her bed, with her eyes wide open and looking very red with bags under her rims. Spike lay at the foot of her bed, and he looked just as baggy-eyed as she did.

He tried to stand up, but he felt so floppy and wobbly that he fell right off the bed. “Spike…!” Twilight groaned as she turned to look over the bed to see her little dog flat on the floor. “I’m so tired right now, that didn’t even hurt!” he groaned.

Twilight then heard a loud crash coming from the kitchen, which snapped her upright softly, and she found a few seconds of strength to rush downstairs. There, she found Cadance attempting to make breakfast for everyone, but she seemed to be a little backwards-- putting a plate in the toaster. Pouring coffee into a potted plant, and all she did was pick up one spoon, and she actually keeled over forward as if her weight had become unbalanced. “I can’t sleep!” she groaned.

Shining Armor was sitting at the table with a newspaper in front of his face, and he let it fall down over the table revealing that he, too, was as weary and baggy-eyed as everyone else.

“How could we all not have slept well?” groaned Twilight.

“I don’t know!” said her brother, “I just couldn’t keep my eyes shut! Even the sleep powder I took didn’t work, and I took three whole dosages.”

Cadance struggled to her feet, “You took that much?!”

Her husband nodded, “And I didn’t sleep a wink.”

Twilight and her family weren’t the only ones in this state; all over town people were baggy-eyed, grumpy and not quite themselves; unable to concentrate due to lack of rest. People were late for work, barely able to bring themselves to walk forward, and people who were driving, ended up crashing their cars into one another, causing traffic pile ups in the streets and loads of delays.

Unfortunately, even some of the police and paramedics were exhausted from lack of sleep, and it was very hard for them to help anyone. However, not everyone in the city was completely exhausted. Those who worked very late at night were still naturally awake, including more paramedics and police and all that, and they were able to help, but even they wouldn’t be up and about for good. They usually went home to sleep in the morning after a long night’s work, but they, too, would soon find themselves unable to rest and be just like everyone else.

..Celesto was among them. He had been working very late, but he didn’t seem too tired yet. He looked down from his office complex, and he began to have a sneaky suspicion. “I’ve got to get to get to the rangers.” He said to his driver, but unfortunately, the driver was too tired to see straight, and of course with the roads all blocked off due to the many accidents, “Um… maybe I’ll just walk.”

“Very… good… siiiiiiiiiir.” The driver groaned and he collapsed over the steering-wheel, right on top of the horn. Celesto moved him off the horn before getting out of the car and heading off.

As he walked along town, he looked all over at all the many people whom were getting grouchier, and falling into more misfortune due to weariness, “This can’t be an act of nature.” he said to himself “This has “evil” written all over it!”

He let out a huge yawn, and he quickly reached into jacket pocket and pulled out a simple bottle of pills. He popped one in his mouth and let it dissolve on his tongue. Within moments, he felt a little better, but he had to hurry and round up the rangers fast.

By using the jump-tube system, he was able to get all over town, and round up each ranger, one-by-one form their respective homes and get them to the base.

He also brought Twilight and her family, as well his own. All of them were suffering from the same problem.

“I hardly got any rest time,
I’m almost too tired to even rhyme!” groaned Rhymey.

Rainbow moaned as she held her head, “I feel like I’ve been to three whole rock-concerts.”

Buddy yawned, “I was so bushed that even a real bush looked more rested than me!”

“What’s wrong with all of us?” cried Fluttershy “Why can’t we sleep?”

“When you find out… fix it!” grumbled Sunset.

Lightning, Twilight and her family looked ready to pass out, but still they couldn’t.

Baby Castor and Leilani were fussing about. They were groaning softly, too tried to cry; which spared everyone even bigger headaches than they already had. Celestia herself was also very exhausted, “I was up all night with them.” she groaned, “They couldn’t sleep. Even I couldn’t sleep.”

Luna let out a huge yawn, “None of the house staff got their rest either.”

Celesto got out a small alien scanning device, and held it over Celestia’s face. “I knew it…!” he said. His wife groggily looked up at him, “Celestia, you’re covered in some kind of alien compound.”

“What…?” groaned Celestia, but her husband then scanned everyone, and surely enough they were all covered in the same substance. He even scanned himself and found that he, too, was covered in it.

He fed the information into the computer. “It’s a kind of sand that seems to be affecting our central-nervous-systems. No matter how tired we get, we won’t be able to sleep even if we want to.”

“Can’t we just wash it off?” asked Spike “You know, take a bath? I can’t believe I just said that.”

Celesto ran a simulation test, but to his dismay, “Whatever this stuff is, it effects as well as outside. Washing it will have no effect at all.”

Everyone, although still groggy and fatigued, understood everything. It took no skill for them to understand this was the work of their enemy. “If we’re not well-rested, we don’t stand much of a chance in a fight, do we?” said Sunset.

This was confirmed as Celesto scanned the city and found the effects were registering all over the island, but the mainland hadn’t even been touched yet.

The monitors showed more and more accidents happening in the city because of people who were so incredibly tired and unable to concentrate on their doings and surroundings.

Just then, the gang heard whistling. "Grr.. what's that?" Shining Armor snarled. That's when they saw Sapphire walking into room. What surprised everyone, even though their baggy eyes, they could see Sapphire was totally rested. No bags under her eyes and no slumping statue. "Good morning every- AH ZOMBIES!" she cried when she saw her friends.

"Thanks for that compliment." Twilight grumbled.

"Why don't you look ready to pass out like the rest of us?" Spike asked.

"I don't know." Celesto scanned Sapphire face and body to discover, "Sapphire, you not covered in the sand that's keeping us all awake." Now that part shocked everyone. "How is that possible?" Sunset asked.

"All I remember is waking up with this peach colored dome around me and the Elements somehow floating in the air in front of me."

"The Elements of Harmony were floating in front of you?!" Sunset inquired. "And a peach dome was around you?" Sapphire nodded her head. "Weird."

"That dome must have prevented Sapphire from being covered in the sand, unlike us." Twilight concluded.

"Lucky." Rainbow grumbled.

Then, the alarm sounded. The loud sound annoyed everyone most irritably. “Shut that off!” shouted Shining Armor.

Celesto quickly shut them down. The babies finally were scared awake enough and began to scream and cry, much to everyone’s annoyance. “We’ll take them to a quieter room.” said Celestia.

Her sister agreed, and they both managed to pick themselves up and carry the frightened babies away. Celesto hated seeing them all bent out of shape and restless, but remembering that the alarms sounded, he saw the source on the monitors; he saw Sandy standing atop a high-rise laughing, “Now that everyone’s wide awake, Come on out, Rangers! I’m waiting for you!” and she leapt down from the building and began to cause havoc in the streets, and the people were so tired they could hardly run.

Celesto clenched his fist in anger, but then he himself began to feel a little weary. So, he popped another one of his special pills, while the rangers were all struggling to get up. “We’ve… gotta go… out there.” said Buddy.

Fluttershy nearly fell off her feet, but caught the chair to balance her, “We can’t! We can barely stand, let alone stand to fight.”

Sapphire helped Fluttershy into the chair. "You guys stay here and take it easy. I'll deal with the monsters."

The rangers and Celesto looked at her in concern. "Alone?" Buddy questioned, receiving a nod from her.

"But Sapphire, there's too many of them; you're outnumbered." Rainbow claimed.

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Sapphire said. She headed towards the jump-tubes. "Sapphire." Celesto called. Sapphire stopped and turned around, "Be careful."

"I will." And Celesto sent her through the jump tube. "Do you think she'll be alright?" Fluttershy asked.

"We just have to hope she will be." Lightning said.

While in town, more and more people were collapsing from being overly exhausted, and still they could not rest. While Sandy, accompanied by Marla and a squad of Lingos were still causing havoc, blasting up the streets, blowing up empty cars, knocking over lampposts, and taking a few shots at some of the buildings blowing small chunks out of them.

“Where are those rangers?!” sneered Marla. “Yeah, it’s way past their waking time.” added Sandy, and suddenly, Sapphire appeared, already morphed. "You called?" Sunset sneered.

Sandy couldn’t believe what she was seeing, “What’s this? You don’t seem as tired as you should be.”

“Your sand didn't even touch me." she sneered.

The ladies were shocked but that didn't stop them, “Ha!” scoffed Marla “You're all alone, ranger. We'll beat you easily."

"Don't count me out yet." Sapphire claimed and she did a familiar raptor call.

In an instant Blue and the raptors came to her side, screeching and hissing.

"These pests again!" Marla whined. "Well they won't stop us.” and she ordered the Lingos to attack! The raptors and Sapphire lunged forth as well and began to attack the Lingos back. Blue and the raptors easily pounced on the Lingoes and bit them in the head, destroying them while Sapphire went after Sandy and Marla. "Elemental Sword!" she called and her elements of harmony sword appeared in her hand.

She slashed the ladies with the sword, making sparks fly. Sandy threw another handful of magic sand up, “Maybe you should… LAY DOWN!!” the sands took on the shapes of daggers. Sapphire amazingly deflected all the daggers and they came soaring back at the ladies causing explosion and the ladies fell to the ground.

They got up and saw the raptors coming to her side. “Oh, we’ll time for the big guns!” snarled Sandy, and she threw more magic sand and caused it to spread into a giant dust cloud. “How can you fight what you can’t even see?!” she called out.

Marla couldn’t stand the sand. “Ugh! I’ve got sand in my hair!” she groaned “I’m getting out of here! You’re on your own now!” and she vanished and was gone. Even though Sapphire and the raptors couldn't see Sandy they could still smell her scent. Sapphire closed her eyes as her sense of smell was firing. Just then,

"Gotcha!" She pounced into the sand and slashed Sandy with her sword, throwing her back and the gust cloud vanished. "Hey, no fair! You can't do that!" she whined.

"I just did." Sapphire retorted. "Now time to capture you." Sapphire's horn glowed ready to strike...

…But back at the tower, Marla saw everything on the monitors, “Oh, no you don’t!” and she turned round to bark at Keto, but he was one step-ahead of her; already at the window with his staff ready. “…FORTISSIMO!”

The mugic reached the island and worked its power, turning Sandy into a giant! “Sand’s ahoy now!” she thundered!

Sapphire gasped and growled. "Jaguin Zord, I chose you!" she called out.

The Zord responding to her call, burst from the mountain and flew onto the scene, beaming her into the cockpit. Blue and her raptors knew she had it from here and disappeared back into the night.

“You think I’m scared of you?” shouted Sandy “I’ll crush you like an empty tin can.”

She rushed forth towards the Zord who lunged at her as well. The two enagaged in struggle until Jagiun Zord pushed his head up and clawed Sandy, knocking her to the ground. "Ugh." Sandy got up again and glared sourly at the Zord, "Grr... You'll pay for that." Once again she made another giant dust cloud but the Zord flew into the air and use it's massive wings blew the dust away.

"Time for bed!" Sapphire sneered. "THUNDER DRIVER!"

Jagiun Zord roared and charged Sandy. He tossed her into the air and leaped high above her. Lightning angry form from it's paws as it dove in a downwards spiral, colliding with Sandy and smashing her into the ground. “IT’S BEDTIME FOR ME!!” she shouted, and she exploded and was imprisoned.

"Victory!" Sapphire called.

With the monster captured, her evil spell was broken. The cursed sand dissolved right off of Twilight, her friends in the base, and every single person in the city, only at that precise moment; everyone just collapsed into a deep and well needed sleep!

The entire island was totally silent. Not a car was moving, not a machine was going, all was silent and still as the people all got their rest. "Time to clean up the city."

While back at the prison tower, Marla felt exhausted and felt ready to turn in. “I feel like I could sleep for a week.” she said to herself as she adjourned to her cell for a nap, only to find Nacluv standing there waiting for her, and they didn’t look pleased.

“And where do you think you’re going?” he asked shyly

Marla let out a yawn, “It’s been an exhausting day, with all that work with the rangers, and getting the sand out of my hair…”

“And FLUNKING your mission as well! Unacceptable. So I've decided as your punishment…” that’s when he dropped a whole load of equipment into Marla’s arms, “You’re going on the night shift tonight; watch all the prisoners, feed them, and maintain the peace.”

“What…?!” Marla whined, “But Bronc and Keto were supposed to be on shift tonight.”

He snuffed and then turned to the guys, “Keto… Bronc… you get the night off. Marla will cover all your shifts.”

The guys laughed wickedly and Keto jumped for joy before running off, much to Marla’s outrage, “But… but I… I’ll be working all night long!” she whined.

"Don't complain. Now get to work!" he snarled. Nacluv wandered off with her, leaving Marla annoyed and upset with a long and exhausting job ahead of her, much to her misery! It was going to be a long night for her.

It wasn’t until sundown that all the people began to awaken again, feeling quite better after getting some rest.

The rangers had awoken as well and made it back to base to find the rest of their friends were back on their feet as well. "Looks like Sapphire did it." Rainbow said.

"Yeah, speaking of which, where is Sapphire."

"Here I am." The gang turned and saw Sapphire entering the room. They gasped at how she looked; bags under her eyes, hair disheveled, a few scratches and she looked ready to fall over at any second.

"Oh my goodness." Fluttershy cried. She and the others raced over to Sapphire. Sunset had her sit down in a chair. "Sapphire, what happened?" Buddy asked.

Sapphire gave a huge yawn, "I cleaned up the... yawn... city."

"By yourself?" Sunset questioned. Sapphire nodded. Celesto looked at the monitors and saw she was right. All the accidents were now gone and all the damage the monsters had done was repaired. "Sapphire, you didn't have to do that." Lightning claimed.

Sapphire yawned again, "I wanted to.. yawn."

"Come on, let's get you to bed for some rest." Celestia suggested. Lightning carried Sapphire, bridal style as they all used the emergency stairs that took them up and into the garden. From there, they entered the mansion and went to Sapphire's room. Lightning placed her inside as Luna pulled back the covers. Sapphire was out like a light, "Sweet dreams.. hero." Luna teased. The gag laughed quietly as they left the room, giving their hero of the day some well deserved rest

Episode 10: Aerial Assistance

Hawaii, almost twenty-five hundred miles away the U.S Coast…

Molt: A muscular creature with shiny red skin, positivity hot to the touch, and he had the power to absorb forms of heat to create molten lava attacks

Vulcan had sent Molt to Hawaii on a special mission, to gather special energy emitted from the lava within the volcanos all over the islands, and assisting him were Lingos wearing special heatproof suits that Bronc had designed for them.

“Come on, you louses, move it! Keep that energy coming.” shouted Molt as he absorbed more energy for the Lingos to store in special containers to take back with them to Vulcan. “Steady there now. We haven’t got all day!”

Unfortunately, their interference and tampering with the molten craters caused even the most long-dormant volcanos to come to life again, threatening to erupt and destroy all of Hawaii.

The rumbling already made the islands start to shake, and all the people, tourists and locals were falling into a panic, but there was already no time to evacuate everyone as those volcanoes would blow within minutes.

As Molt and the Lingos watched the people panic, Molt couldn’t help but laugh, “Run all you like, no one can save you!”

“No one but us you hothead!”

Molt turned and saw the rangers all standing together, having just arrived in their star-jets after receiving the alert.

“You made a big mistake coming here, rangers.” snarled Molt, “I’ll make sure you never leave here alive… GET THEM!!”

The Lingos that were empty handed began to rush the rangers while the others all teleported back to Vulcan’s tower with the energy they had stolen.

“Go guys!” shouted Sunset, and the battle was on, and all at the same time the volcanoes were dangerously close to erupting!

The rangers fought valiantly, punching, kicking and knocking all the Lingos out of their way.

“These guys just never learn.” remarked Buddy

“Too bad for them.” added Rainbow “Now for Flame over there!”

Molt scoffed, “Speaking of flames, take this!” and he drew in a huge breath and unleashed a barrage of molten-fireballs, striking the rangers hard and knocking them over.

“What a shot!
That was hot!” groaned Rhymey.

Molt laughed, “Not hot enough, eh? Well, take another blast!” and he unleashed another wave of fireballs. “No!!” shouted Fluttershy as she leapt in front of everyone with her shield ready, “Strong Shield, show your stuff!” she said as she charged her weapon.

“Strong Shield… Engage!”

Her shield began to glow with a bright pink light.

“Hey, what’s that?” shouted Molt, but he got his answer as his fireballs hit the shield and were actually absorbed and repelled back hard, along with a strong burst of power from the shield itself.

“Alright, it’s time to shine!” hollered Sunset “Bring the weapons together!”

“Weapons Combine!”

“Star Slammer, Ready!”

Molt got up angrily and roared, “The Heat is on!” but then he saw the rangers standing together with their Star Slammer ready “…Or not.”

“STAR SLAMMER… ULTRA STRIKE!!”

The rangers struck Molt hard, “WHOA!! TOO HOT TO HANDLE…!!” Molt shouted, and he exploded and was imprisoned. However, the volcanoes were going crazy as black smoke started to spout from their mouths, and the very islands themselves began t quiver.

“The volcanoes…! They’re going to erupt!” cried Fluttershy.

“The lava will flow for miles insight,
They’ll destroy everything in a fiery might.” said Rhymey.

Back at the base, Twilight was working up all her calculations and trajectories of the area, combining with what information and knowledge she had of geology and volcanic-activity.

“Those mountains are going to blow any second!” cried Spike.

Twilight and Celesto ignored his whining and continued to observe and Twilight finished her computations.But before they could contact the rangers about their plan, Sapphire beat them to it. "Megalodon Zord, I choose you!" The large shark Zord burst from the water and beamed Sapphire into the cockpit. "Sapphire, what are you doing?!" Lightning cried.

"I've got this." Sapphire drove the Zord over the top of the volcano, "Megalodon, HYDRO PUMP!" The large shark launched a large stream of water from it's mouth and into the volcano. The cool water turned the volcanic lava into igneous rock and it quieted down. The Zord did the same thing with the other openings and the volcanic activity decreased completely. The Hawaiians all rejoiced that their home was saved thanks to the rangers, and the rangers all rejoiced as well for a job well done.

Celesto was very proud of them. “Well done, Rangers; mission complete. Return to base.”

Meanwhile, Nacluv was surprisingly calm despite that Molt had been captured. “This volcanic energy is what we really wanted anyway.” he hissed as he watched the Lingos unload it all into a special generator he had hauled out.

“I don’t get it…” said Marla “What do we want all this energy for anyway?”

Bronc whapped her upside the head,

“Ow!”

“We already explained this… it’s for a special project we’re working on; One that will surely bring the rangers to their knees; correct, master?”

Nacluv nodded in agreement, “Unfortunately, this volcanic-energy, powerful as it is, will not suffice. We require another boost of power from a different kind of energy, and not just any kind; something really big, something extreme…”

He then silently thought, “There’s also something else I can use this energy for. Most likely it won’t be needed, but it’s best to be thorough.”

The minions wondered what he was thinking, but didn’t dare ask, seeing the kind of mood he was in. for now, all they could do was wonder where what other source of energy they needed for their project… and where to get it from.

Meanwhile, the rangers were well on their way back to Mystic Island to bring in their catch and to refuel and prep their jets for the next battle.

“Hey, I’m getting something on radar.” said Buddy “…A whole fleet of ships ahead on the water.”

Everyone else got the same blips on their radars. “Hey, I bet it’s the U.S.N Sentinel.” said Rainbow, “Many of their patrol ships come out in this area every day to watch out for potential threats.”

“She is right,
And soon we’ll be in sight.” said Rhymey.

Fluttershy felt very nervous and whimpered “Maybe… maybe we should alter course. I mean, what if they see us? What if they think we’re enemies?”

The rangers all felt that was a possibility, but their current course was the fastest and shortest possible way to get home, and already having used up plenty of power form their getting to Hawaii and the battle and chaos, they didn’t want use up any more without taking too big a risk.

“Well, they can’t track us with their equipment.” said Sunset “Let’s try and fly a bit higher so they won’t see us themselves.”

Agreeing, the rangers made their jets soar up high…but it was already too late!

Onboard the mother-ship, the commander and his crew had already seen the Star-Jets with specialized telescopes. “What sort of vehicles are those?” the commander asked “I’ve never seen anything like them.”

The men and women tried and tried to lock onto the mysterious vessels, but their best tracking equipment came up blank. “It’s no good, sir…” said the lieutenant “Whatever those craft are they don’t show on radar.”

“Have you managed to make any radio contact with them?”

“None sir… We can’t seem to get onto their frequency.”

The commander was starting to feel a little uneasy about this. He knew Washington hadn’t scheduled any target practice for the fleet, and no government agency he knew of could have possibly designed such unusual craft.

He could only assume the worst! “It must a surprise hostile attack from a foreign country. All hands, level-one battle stations. Arm all warheads!”

The ship alarms sounded as all air-missiles were aimed on their launchers and ready.

The rangers of course were much too far away to see, or hear anything that was going on.

“Fire one and two…!” Two small but powerful armed missiles were launched from the first ship and headed straight for the star-jets…

The rangers’ warning alert sounded. “Missiles!” cried Sunset!

“Look out!” shouted Rainbow!

The missiles got closer, and the rangers swerved out of the way causing them to miss, but those missiles were heart-seekers and chased after the jets. Since Megalodon Zord didn't have any jets, the missles just left t alone, but Sapphire didn't like the looks of this.

“Sunset, on your tail!” called Buddy.

Sunset hammered on the controls all she could to shake the menacing missiles, but they kept gaining on her, until she swerved carefully downward, causing the missiles to try and follow, but ended up crashing into each other and exploding.

Everyone felt so relieved, but the danger was far from over.

“Launch missiles three and four!” shouted the commander, and two more missiles were launched.

“Scatter!” shouted Sunset, and the rangers veered their jets away, but the two missiles followed after Fluttershy.

“Help me!” she cried.

While Rhymey dashed to help his girlfriend, Sunset contacted the base to warn them of the attack!

“Can’t you just call them on the radio?” suggested Spike. “That’s impossible, Spike.” said Celesto “Our communications work on an entirely different principle.”

He then ran off to make a very quick emergency phone-call, leaving Twilight to advise the rangers.

It was out of the question for the rangers to return fire to the gunboats, or they’d be really proven to be hostiles to the men and women aboard. “Try using your weapons to blast them!” Twilight suggested.

Heeding her advice, the rangers steered and spun their jets all around to try and get the rockets in sight, while Fluttershy continued to try and dodge them.

Rhymey was closing in, diving straight down from above, and fired his lasers. Kapow! One of the missiles was destroyed, but the second one was still gaining on his girlfriend.

“Guys, heads up! More missiles!” shouted Rainbow. The oncoming rockets forced the rangers to scatter about to avoid being hit, unable to get at the missile chasing Fluttershy.

Sunset saw the missile gaining on her, and it was too close to her now to shoot without the risk of hitting the jet instead, but not wanting Fluttershy to get hit, she did the only thing she thought she could try and rammed straight onward towards the oncoming jet and missile.

“Sunset, what are you doing?!” shouted Buddy.

Rather than answer, Sunset called to Fluttershy “PULL UP!!”

Fluttershy saw Sunset coming straight at her, shrieked, and yanked on her steering gear soaring straight upward, causing the missile to lock onto Sunset’s jet and chase after her.

“SUNSET!!” everyone shouted as the watched the rocket gain on her. She tried her very best to shake it, but it was no good…!

KAPOW!! The missile struck the jet’s back end, and the force of the explosion rocked Sunset hard in the cockpit as her systems began to go haywire “I’ve been hit! I’m losing control!”

The back of her jet was blazing as she began to lose height, but still the rangers were forced to dodge the remaining missiles.

“Twilight, Sunset’s been hit… she’s losing control!” cried Fluttershy.

“We can’t shake off these other rockets.” added Rainbow.

Twilight and Spike had nearly fallen into a state of shock, but Celesto came to them “I’ve just been on the phone to Washington. Let’s hope they can stop this senseless attack!”

The commander was ordering another salvo of rockets to be fired, when the communications console went off.

“Washington, sir… emergency call.” said the lieutenant.

The message was played; “Message to sentinel commander: Stop attack immediately! Unidentified craft are Star-Jet machines belonging to the Power Rangers!”

Everyone was shocked and nearly froze with great fear and shame of their actions, especially the commander. “Quick, stop the launch, and destroy the remaining missiles!”

The remaining two missiles to automatically destroyed, but Sunset’s jet was still blazing in back and she was still losing height.

“Dear god, what have I done!” the commander murmured!

Though the attack ceased, Sunset’s jet was in bad shape. The smoke from the blazes had reached the cockpit, and even with her helmet on, it was getting hard to breathe and see.

“It’s no good, I’m losing control!”

The rangers cried out for assistance from the base, and Celesto called to them, “Sunset, bail out! Rainbow, catch her. The rest of you, use your tractor beams to guide the jet back to base!”

Sunset quickly ejected and was launched from her cockpit in her seat, and her parachute opened.

“Hang on, Sunset!” Rainbow called. Carefully parking her jet in free float, she let Sunset calmly float down. Sunset strapped herself down tightly, “Okay, go!” she called, and Rainbow steered her jet off.

Meanwhile, with no pilot, Sunset’s jet began to take a nose dive to the waters below, but the other rangers fired their tractor beams and steadied the ailing jet, and carefully guided it back to the island.

“Quick, prepare emergency landing pad.” said Celesto.

Right near the island, by the launch bay entrance in the rocky side, a large square pad stretched out from within the rock, and large foam blasters were mounted on it.

The other four Star-Jets were coming in, bringing Sunset’s flaming jet towards the pad, but suddenly, the tractor beams began to flicker softly.

“Uh-oh…!
Power’s low!” cried Rhymey.

“Easy, guys… Don’t drop it!” shouted Buddy.

“It’s no good, I can’t hold it!” cried Fluttershy, but just as things were getting really bad, Rainbow and Sapphire came in and fired their own tractor beams to help stabilize the jet enough to soften the descend.

The jet then landed on the pad with a loud thud, and the flames began to spread.

“Release foam, all sections!” shouted Celesto. While all that was going on, the other jets touched town in a clearing near the edge of the island, and Sunset hopped down from Rainbow’s jet and stared sadly through her helmet at the sight of her wrecked Star Jet.

By nightfall, all the worst was over, and the all the jets were safely back inside the hanger.

The others decided to take Sunset out for dinner, feeling it would help her stay strong.

“Are you feeling okay, Sunset?” asked Fluttershy.

“Yeah, I’m fine… just shaken.” replied Sunset “I can’t believe this happened.”

Rainbow crumpled her napkin angrily “Just let me get my hands on the sentinel commander, and to think, I used to dream about being guys like them!”

“Hey, take it easy, Rainbow.” said Buddy “Getting mad at the sentinel isn’t going to help anything.”

Rhymey agreed and said…

“We should be thankful you are alright,
All that happened gave us quite a fright.”

Sunset smiled softly that everyone was showing good care about her, and it was good to know that Celesto and his team were already working to put her jet right again, but the fact still it would require at least a week or two to make repairs. Until then, it would be impossible to form the megazord.

They just hoped they wouldn’t need it anytime soon.

At the base, Celesto had teams working in round-the-clock shifts, day shift and night shift, to repair the jet.

Professor Brain was pained that his lovely creation was attacked so senselessly.

Twilight came in to deliver him his ordered dinner from the galley. “How’s it coming, Professor?” she asked. “Oh, slowly I’m afraid, Twilight.” replied Brain “Even with our current figures and assets, it will still take quite some time.”

While the workers all did their jobs, Celesto and Spike watched from the observation deck above, and Celestia and Luna had joined them, having heard of the crisis.

“Boy, what a mess.” groaned Spike.

“I cannot believe the sentinel would do this!” said Luna. She and the others were all just as outraged as anyone, but getting angry about it wouldn’t help. The most important thing was to fix the jet and fast.

“I’ve just ordered all the new components.” said Celesto “Once they get here, my teams will have to work round the clock to fix things up.”

Spike felt a little shiver run down his spine, “Are you okay, Spike?” Celestia asked. “I’m just worried, that’s all. I mean, what if the people making all that stuff find out about us. They could find out where we’re based.”

“Oh, don’t worry about that, I took careful steps.” said Celesto “Each and every component I’ve ordered from different aircraft corporations around the world. None of them know what they’re building. It’s only when they arrive here that the puzzle unravels.”

“An excellent precaution.” commented Luna.

“Yes…” her brother-in-law said “But I just hope we get it fixed soon. I’d hate to think of what would happen if Vulcan found out about this.”

Everyone feel silently, fearing disaster if that happened! Vulcan would virtually have a free hand if he found out the megazord was inoperative!

Two days had passed, and there hadn’t been any attacks, or sign of alien activity. A good sign to everyone, and it meant the rangers could catch up on their school-work and other chores.

Twilight, being a student as well, couldn’t spend all her time lurking around at the base. She did have her homework and school assignments to work on as well, but in her every spare moment she spent the time working on her new laptop, configuring programs for the megazord.

“How’s it coming, Twilight?” Sunset had to ask.

“Well, some of the new parts have come, but the Star-Jet was damaged deeper than we thought, and more systems need replacing and re-configuring.” replied Twilight “It could take a little longer than we thought, but we’re doing our best. Let’s just hope the megazord isn’t needed.”

Everyone was very hopeful, but rather uneased at such a thought.

At the tower, the minions were just laying around, “Ugh! It’s been two solid days!” growled Marla “I’m tired of being cooped up in here.”

Bronc looked from his tinkering and scoffed, “Well complaining about it sure isn’t going to make it any livelier.”

Marla clenched her fists and bolted upright, “That’s it! I’m going to send out a monster.”

“Don’t…!” said Keto as he stepped in front of her “You know Nacluv doesn’t like it when we just send monsters without his consent…”

“Pah…!” grunted Marla shoving him out of the way, “Like he’s even going to notice or care since he’s so wrapped up with whatever he’s doing.”

It was in vain that the boys tried to talk Marla out of it, and neither one of them dared to disturb Vulcan, but both feared and said to each other “…She’s toast.”

Nevertheless, Marla sent a random creature out, not even bothering to look at its credentials and files. She was that bored and wanted to stir some excitement.

The monster she chose was female creature called Airdrea; and she was rather ravishing creature; humanoid, with a human like face, but she had talons for feet, claws at the end of her wings like hands elegant silver wings, but the beauty was only skin deep… as she was just as ruthless as any monster, and do powerful air-attacks.

She demonstrated this by flying over the city…

People too one look at her and screamed and ran, which only amused her. “Time for some aeronautics.” she snickered, and her wings shined and she dived down, soaring past the sides of buildings and power pole, slashing at them with her wings like blades, and causing huge explosion and bits of rubble to go flying about.

Airdrea could only laugh at the destruction she was causing, and Marla applauded the joy, “Now this is what I call stirring up chaos.”

Meanwhile, thought he rangers were in separate classes that period, some were taking a test, others doing regular work, their morphers began to buzz warning them of danger.

One-by-one, each ranger excused themselves from class, though the teachers felt slightly annoyed, and many of the other students jealous that they got to leave, everyone more than understood duty was calling. "Ooh one thing." Sapphire said. She used her magic to make another clone of herself. "You go to all my classes and do my work, alright clone me?"

"Right, real me." Clone Sapphire replied. The class and teacher were freaked out, but since they sorta understood Sapphire's magic, they didn;t say anything. The real Sapphire went off to d her ranger duties, while her clone stayed behind for school.

Twilight, quietly giggled at the teacher and classes' reactions. Unfortunately was the only one who couldn’t be excused so simply, and she couldn’t blow her cover and let people know she was in alliance with the rangers, all she could do was with them all luck in her mind.

Soon, the rangers, morphed, were on the scene and in time to find the streets were in such a mess; fallen lampposts, bits of broken debris, blazing cars that were smashed up…

“Oh, my goodness!” cried Fluttershy.

“Just let me get my hands on who did this!” snarled Rainbow.

Suddenly, they heard someone cackling wickedly, and they all turned round to see Airdrea glaring at them. “So, you’re the rangers… you don’t look like much to me.”

“Oh, really…?” sneered Sunset “Then I don’t think you realize what we’re really like." Airdrea clenched her fists, “Lingos, attack!” A swarm of Lingos appeared and lunged for the rangers, and the fight was on.

Four of the rangers trounced the Lingos, while Sunset had smashed her way through the swarm and engaged with Airdrea.

Sunset leapt up high for a jump kick, but Airdrea put her wings out and over her like a shield. Sunset’s feet hit the wings like hitting a solid wall, “Going airborne…” said Airdrea and she flung Sunset up into the air, tumbling backward, but she landed safely on her feet.

The rangers all huddled together. “You okay, Sunset?” asked Buddy. “Don’t worry, I’m fine.” she answered.

“Ha! Not for long you won’t be. None of you will…” Airdrea sneered, and she flapped her wings hard blasting a wave of air at the rangers, that nearly blew off their feet.

“Hey, she’s gone!” cried Rainbow.

They all looked high and low, and suddenly, “LOOK OUT!!” cried Fluttershy, but Airdrea already swooped down and struck them all hard making sparks fly.

Marla jumped for joy, cheering. “This is more fun than an airshow.”

Airdrea halted in midair and zipped back striking the rangers again. “That’ll knock the wind out of you.” she laughed “And soon I’ll knock you out for good along with your entire city!” She came round for another swoop, but this time Buddy felt ready for her, “Plasma Whip!” and he lassoed the creature by her talons. “Got’cha….Whoa… Hey…!”

He thought he had her, but Airdrea flew so hard that she dragged him along with her, way up high.

“Buddy!” shouted Sunset.

“Trying to get me by the tail, huh?” Airdrea called back to him, and she began to fly and swoop in furious circles and dives to shake him off.

Buddy groaned and fretted of being dropped from such a height, but maintained his grip tightly.

“Maybe we should try and shoot her…” suggested Rainbow, and she got her Sonic Cannon, but Rhymey heled her back saying…

“No, that won’t do.
We may hit Buddy too.”

“What can we do then?” asked Fluttershy.

"I got this." Sapphire changed into a eagle and took to the skies. Airdrea was still swerving and diving vigorously to shake Buddy off of her. “Haven’t you fallen off yet?”

"Not... by... a longshot." Buddy replied. Then they both heard a sqwack just before Sapphire slashed Airdea with her wings. "Agh! Pesky bird!"

Sapphire blasted Airdea with a powerful wind current, sending her to the ground, but she grabbed Buddy and safely placed him on the ground. "Thanks Sapphire." Sapphire changed back into her morphed self. "No problem."

The rangers huddled together. “Great job, Sapphire .” said Sunset. Airdrea angrily got up growling, “It’ll take more than that to clip my wings.”

“And much more is what you’re going to get, rangers!” Marla called out, and she called to the tower for Keto to do his thing.

“…FORTISSIMO!!”

In almost no time at all, Aridrea was grown huge! “Talk about your wingspan!” she remarked.

At the base, Celesto saw this on the monitors “I was afraid this would happen.”

He contacted the rangers and told them, “Rangers, Sunset’s Star-Jet is still out of action. We can send the other four jets, but, as you know, you won’t be able to form the megazord.”

The rangers were deeply concerned, but knowing they couldn’t just sit and do nothing while that monster threatened their city. “Send them…” said Sunset “We’ll have to make do with what we’ve got.”

“Right…” said Celesto, and then he called to the staff “Launch the four star jets!”

Soon the four jets were on their way, and the four rangers beamed aboard leaving Sunset behind. “Go get her, guys.” she called to them. Sapphire stayed where she was to see how her friends would do against the monster. Airdrea flew up, up, up over the city to confront the jets and laughed at them, “So you wanna take to the sky, huh? No problem!”

“You got nothing on us, Airdrea!” sneered Rainbow.

Rhymey did the calculations on his onboard computer…

“We will have to weaken her very much,
Then our tractor beams can beat her with one touch.”

“That won’t be easy without the megazord.” added Fluttershy.

“Well then… here goes something.” said Buddy.

The jets rushed forth and fired their lasers. “Oh, yeah!” shouted Airdrea, and put up her wing-defense again. The lasers hardly even scratched her much.

“Try our missiles then!” shouted Rainbow, and she fired a barrage at her, but Airdrea skillfully swerved and dodged each one causing the missiles to fly harmlessly off the island and into the sea. “Not good enough.” she teased and she soared right at the jets, striking them hard with her solid wings.

Each of the rangers were rocked about in their cockpits nearly losing control of their jets, much to Sunset’s horror and Marla’s delight.

“Direct hit…!” Marla cheered.

“This isn’t working.” Sunset called to Celesto at the base, “The jets aren’t strong enough alone. We need more power… a resource… anything!”

"Sapphire, launch your Zord." Celesto replied.

"Alright sir, Jaguin Zord, I choose you!"

The Zord appeared on the scene and beamed Sapphire into the cockpit. "Alright, girl, let's go!" She pushed on the controls making Jaguin ram into Airdrea, sending her towards the ground. She stopped herself a few feet above the ground and launched back up. "I'll get you for that!"

Jagiun charged and bite Airdrea on the shoulder. She cried in pain and shook around violently, rocking Sapphire inside. "Gotta... hang... on." She managed to steady the control and pushed a button, "THUNDER FANG!" Jaguin's jaws emitted lightning energy, shocking Airdrea with amazing force. "Woah, check it out!" Rainbow called. The others and the friends at the base were amazed.

Airdrea flung Jaguin off of her shoulder, "Woah!" The Zord crashed onto the ground. "Sapphire, are you okay?" Buddy called in.

"Ugh.. I'm good." Jaguin stood up again to face Airdrea. "Time to end you little pussy cat." she sneered. Jaguin growled at her and charged her. "Now VOLT TACKLE!" Jaguin covered itself in lightning energy and in a burst of speed, rammed Airdrea, launching her into the air. "Alright Sapphire!" Sunset cheered.

Airdrea crashed on the ground, breathing heavily, showing a sign of weakness. "Get her guys!"

The rangers saw this was their chance. “Everyone, charge your tractor beams.” Buddy called to them.

They all did as told and fired their beams at the creature. The tractor-beam succeeded in shrinking her down, imprisoning her in a sphere, and Buddy hauled it into his cockpit.

“It worked!” he cried. Everyone cheered for joy. “All together guys…” Buddy called to his comrades.

The other all nodded, and altogether they declared, “MONSTER CAPTURED! MISSION COMPLETE!”

Back at the tower, Marla couldn’t believe her eyes. “What… just… happened?!” she squealed.

“Um… I’d say the rangers just won again.” grumbled Keto.

Marla threw such a hissy fit, many of the Lingos walked away covering their ears.

“Ha! You ought to save your whining for when Nacluv hears about this.” said Bronc. However, much to everyone surprise, Nacluv was taking a nap! No one knew why and didn't dare awaken him.

“If either of you tell him of this, I’ll give you guys such a nag you won’t know what hit you!” she threatened Bronc and Keto.

The guys shuddered at such a thought.

The team returned to the base and Sunset hugged Sapphire, "That was wicked, Sapphire."

"Yeah, your Zord has a lot of tricks and attacks." Buddy added. "We couldn't have defeat that feather duster without you." Sapphire blushed at their compliments. Celesto approached the group and cleared his throat, “Sorry to break up this rather touching moment, but shouldn’t all of you be getting back to school?”

The rangers’ features twisted into sour faces, and they groaned softly. Nevertheless, they found themselves back in school, and having missed three periods that day, they were forced to stay an hour after school to complete their tests and missed assignments, plus an extra thirty minutes for running into Cadance and Luna earlier. Sapphire wasn't present cause her clone did all her schoolwork for her so there was no reason for her to stay after school to make it up.

Nevertheless, he ladies found amusing, “Think we’re being too harsh on them?” Cadance asked, but her aunt shook her head, “Despite being close to us, we can’t always pamper and spoil them.”

The ladies snickered, but the rangers all had to groan again.

Episode 2: Elemental Problems

It’s been a day since Sapphire saved her friends from Nacluv and his minions. Now she was beginning to awake in her bedroom.

Sapphire stretched and yawned when a blast of wind shot out of her mouth, blasting the wall creating a hole. Sapphire quickly covered her mouth in shock. “What the-?”

When she got out of bed as soon as her feet touched the ground, cracks began to form in the wood, surprising her. “Woah!” She leaped back onto the bed. Next, she felt something rubbing against her legs. Looking down she saw she somehow grown a blonde tail! “What the-?”

That’s when Celesto, Celestia and Luna came into the room. “Sapphire, what wrong?”

Sapphire showed them her new peach horn, surprising them. “How’d you grow a horn?!” Celesto asked.

“I don’t know, but that’s not all, look.” She carefully stepped on the ground again and cracks formed in the floor again. She retracted her foot again. “Woah, that’s weird.”

“I know, I don’t know-“ she was cut off when she suddenly sneezed and her horn launched a bolt of lightning at the trio. “Wah!” Luckily, they ducked and avoided the bolt.

Sapphire sniffled while the three siblings looked at her in shock and concern. “Did you just shoot lightning from your horn?!”

“I think, I just did.” She waved her hand and strong wind current came out of and made another hole in the wall. Sapphire was really freaked by this. “What’s happening to me?!” Sapphire asked as she shook in fear. Celesto came up to comfort her. “Don’t worry, let’s go to the base. Maybe the lab boys can figure out what’s wrong.”

“I’ll call the rangers and Twilight as well.” Luna said as she dashed towards the phone.

In the lab, the lab boys were scanning Sapphire while the rangers and Twilight watched. “So this just suddenly came?” Lightning asked Celesto.

“Yes.”

“But what could have caused it? You said she expelled lightning, wind, water and made cracks in the ground.” Twilight said.

“Sounds like nature magic.” Sunset replied.

“Nature magic?” The rangers echoed.

Sunset explained, “Back in the Dimensional Universe, there were unicorns who have magic that allows them to control nature and have connections with animals.

Controlling clouds, making plants grow, you name it.”

“So Sapphire somehow acquired nature magic. How?” Rainbow asked.

“That’s the question.” Sunset replied. That’s when Professor Brain approached the group. “Anything Professor?” Celesto asked.

“Well... er... the scans indicate Sapphire has large amounts of natural magic within her body.” he responded. “It appears to be stronger than Sunset’s.”

“Sooo... is it safe?” Spike asked.

“Unfortunately, Sapphire seems to have little control of it. So she’ll need time to learn how to control it.”

The rangers sighed as Sapphire came out of the sickbay. “So... what should we do? If she shoots lightning in school, people will freak!”

“Well, you’ll just have to keep a close eyes on her powers and help her control them.” Celestia ordered.

The others looked at each other and at Sapphire. “Alright, we’ll do it.” Sunset replied.

“Wait! Won’t people freak if they see her with a horn anyway?” Krysta asked.

She had a point. “I know.” Twilight took off her blue hoodie she was wearing and gave it to Sapphire. “Wear this and nobody will be able to see your horn.”

Sapphire took the hoodie and put it on. Putting the hood up the gang saw that it did hid her horn pretty well. “Thanks, Twilight.”

Sunset cut in, “Now come on we don’t want to be late for school.”

The rangers and Twilight headed off to school with Sapphire following. “Are you sure this is a good idea, honey?” Celestia asked.

“I’m sure. The rangers won’t let anything happen to her.”

Luna, Celestia and the Professor all hoped he was right.

The rangers and their fellow students were in P.E that day, doing track and field events to help work on their physical efforts. The rangers thought this an excellent chance to beef up their training and to keep fit for when they had to rush into action.

There was lap running, hurdle jumping, and even shotput throwing and high jumping. Most of the rangers did excel at the events with ease, especially Rainbow Dash. Running the laps and jumping the hurdles were her favorite kind of events.

Sapphire however, was trying to avoid the exercises due to fearing she would release lightning, wind or water or she would break the gym floor.

“Sunlight! High Jump! Now!” the coach growled. Sapphire squeaked nervously and went to the starting line.

Sapphire took a deep breath and bolted towards the high jumping. When’s he got near the high jump in a instant, her entire body glowed and changed.

Slow Motion

Her arms and legs grew shorter and had tanish-brown fur and her body turned into a slender cat with long ears with black fur on the tips. When the glow passed, it was revealed she changed into a caracal!

Leaping completely over the high jump and landing on all fours, she changed back into herself.

Regular Speed

“That wasn’t so bad.” she said until she saw he shocked looks she was getting from the class. “What?”

“You... just... changed into a widl cat!” one student exclaimed.

“Huh?”

“He’s not lying.” Another student added as she showed Sapphire the video she took on her phone. Sapphire was shocked to say the least. “Woah, I really did that?”

Everybody in the gym, even the coach nodded. The rangers were even more surprised. “What just happened?” Fluttershy asked.

The coach blew his whistle, “Alright everyone, hit he showers. Class is up for the day.”

Everybody slowly went to the showers while the rangers came up to Sapphire.

“Sapphire, how did you change into a caracal like that?” Lightning questioned.

“I don’t know. All I was thinking about was jumping over the high jump. I didn’t even notice I changed.”

“So that’s another change we can add to the list.” Buddy stated. “For now, Sapphire, just like the Professor said try to control your new powers.”

Sapphire nodded and she went off to her next class.

At the Prison Tower, Nacluv had called his minions. “I know your wondering why I’ve called you all here. Image been spying on the rangers and discovered on of them has magic.”

“We already knew the Red Ranger has magic.” Marla scoffed.

Nacluv wasn’t amused, “Not her you idiot!” he thundered. “That little human girl who foiled our plan.”

The minions were shocked. “That little wimp has magic?!” Keto exclaimed in shock. Nacluv nodded. "And powerful magic too."

“Not good, Now the rangers have another advantage against us.” Bronc said.

“And this is why we should see this puny human and her magic. We’ll strike when she’s alone and then we’ll take herb magic and use it for ourselves.” Nacluv explained. The minions liked the sound of this.

“And I know just the monster who can assist us.” That’s when a monster stepped into the room. The monster was a female with a burly, burlap sack like body and ropes wrapped around her arms and legs. Name: Lassorella.

“At your service, sir.” she said. "I'll rope that pest faster than a rabbit in the prairie."

Nacluv and the minions chuckled sinisterly.

Sapphire was walking alone in the soccer field at the back of school. Lunch started and she wanted some fresh air. ”First, nature magic and now I can change into animals. What’s going on with me and... why?”

As she was thinking to herself she failed to notice ropes wrapping around her waist. “What the-“ Too late. Sapphire was dragged off into the woods. “AAAHHHHH!” Her scream could be heard from the lunchroom, alerting her friends. “That’s Sapphire’s scream!” Sunset cried. She as the others raced out in the soccer field.

“Sapphire?” Sunset called. "Sapphire?"

“Yoo-Hoo,
Where are you!” Rhymey yelled. Celestia came into the scene. She was taking Spike for a walk when she heard the rangers yelling. “What’s wrong?”

“Something happened to Sapphire.” Fluttershy replied. “We don’t know where she is.”

Spike sniffed the ground, “Guys, I’ve got her scent follow me.” The rangers followed Spike into the forest.

Meanwhile, Sapphire found herself tied to a tree by think chains as surrounded by Nacluv, the minions and Lassorella.

“Wh-What do you want with me?” she asked in fear.

“We’re here to take your magic, human.” Keto replied.

“Y-You can’t have my magic.” Sapphire stuttered. The monsters laughed. “We can and we will once we do, we’ll destory your little rangers friends.” Marla explained. Sapphire struggled to get free but the chains were too thick and tight. “Keto. Do it.” Nacluv ordered.

“With pleasure.” Keto approached Sapphire and raised his staff. Suddenly...

“Sapphire!”

“Huh?”

“What?!”

The monsters turned around and saw the rangers running towards them. "Guys!" Sapphire cried with joy. The monster growled at the rangers. “Stay out of this!” Marla snarled.

“Give us back our friend, you creeps!” Rainbow demanded.

Lassorella laughed. “You’ll have to come and get her if you want her.” She lassoed Sapphire and actually lifted her out of the chains and carried her. “See ya.” The she dashed away. "Help!"

“No!” Lightning cried. Nacluv and the minions laughed but they stopped when he ground began to rumble and quake. “What is that?” Rainbow asked.

She got her answer when another Zord burst from the ground. This time it resembled Dire Wolf. It was green with white paws, underbelly and a tip at the tail. “Where’d did that come from?” Buddy exclaimed.

The Zord howled and smacked its tail at something. That something turned out to be Lassorella. She was sent flying while Sapphire was freed from her grasp. Lassorella crashed to the ground and the Dire Wolf Zord snarled at her. Lightning rushed over and untied Sapphire. "Are you alright?"

"Yes, I'm okay."

Nacluv wasn’t pleased. “Keto!”

”FORTISSIMO!”

In not time at all Lassorella grew. “Time for the rodeo!”

“I think we’re going to need some extra power, guys!” Lightning called to the others.

“Just what we were thinking.” agreed Sunset. “Ultra-Star Megazord… go!”

“Summoning armor!” shouted Lightning, and his Comet Striker armor appeared.

“Zords Combine!”

With that, the armor combined with the megazord!

“Ultra-Star Megazord… Ready!”

“Power’s holding steady!
We are ready!” said Rhymey.

Lassorella charged at the megazord, but thanks to the rocket thrusters on its back, the megazord sprinted out of the way.

“You missed us!” Rainbow teased. Lassorealla wasn't finished. She got out two lassos and tossed them around the zords, pinning the arms.

The rangers pounded the controls, “Its no use. She can’t break free!” Sunset cried. Lightning tried to free himself but it was in vain. “Now for some fire!” Lassorella sent shockwaves from the lasso, damaging the zords.

Next, she began slamming the Zord repeatedly on the ground. “Agh! Not good! We’ve gotta break free!” Rainbow cried. Sapphire saw this from the ground. “I’ve gotta help them, but how?” She felt the Zord nudging her back and she turned to it. “What is it?” The Zord opened its mouth. Sapphire knew what it was saying. “Alright let’s do this!”

Meanwhile, the two Zords looked really beat and they were dented a bit. “Our energy is almost gone!” Sunset cried.

“Hahaha! Time to end you rangers!” Lassorella sneered. That’s when something slashed Lassorella sending her to the forums and freeing the rangers. “Agh!”

“What was that?!” Buddy asked. That’s when the Dire Wolf Zord landed in front of the two zords. “The Dire Wolf Zord! That means... Sapphire!”

“Hey guys!” Sapphire called over the radio. “I’ll take care of this creep.”

The Zord howled as Lassorella stood up again. “We’ll see about that, Ranger!”

She laughed her ropes at the Zord. The Zord jumped clearly over the ropes and blasted her with a pulse of grass energy. “Agh!”

Next the Zord clawed Lassorella repeatedly. “Now for the finishing move... ULTIMATE LEAF!”

The Zord howled and built up a lot of energy and when it was done it charged Lassorella. Making contract, Lassorella jolted up and fell to the ground. “THE RODEO IS OVER!”

She exploded and was imprisoned in a sphere and was beamed into her cockpit. “Alright, Sapphire!” Lightning called.

The others rejoiced as well as Sunset made the call, “Monster Captured, Mission Complete!”

Back at the tower, the monsters saw the whole thing on the monitors. “Very interesting.” Nacluv said. “Looks like there’s more to this human than we thought.”

"Great!” Keto groaned.

“Don’t worry, once we get that little rangers' magic. Well be unstoppable.” Nacluv sneered. The minions looked at each other with curious expressions.

At the base, the rangers showed Twilight and Celesto the gym footage and the battle images they took. They were nothing short of amazed. “Now Sapphire can change into animals?! How cool is that?!” Spike exclaimed.

“That’s amazing!” Kyrsta added.

“Astounding. Seems like each Zords color contributes to a element of nature. And it seems to have the same powers as Sapphire.” Twilight examined. "The Jaguin has lightning and the Dire Wolf has Grass."

“That’s good but now Nacluv knows about Sapphire’s powers.” Lightning pointed out with concern.

“And there’s no doubt he’ll try to capture her to get her magic like he did today.” Sunset added.

“So what do we do?” Fluttershy whimpered.

“We’ll have to help a Sapphire train her newfound powers and keep her safe for Nacluv.” Celesto instructed. The ranger nodded while Sapphire looked really scared and nervous.

“Dont worry, Sapphire. We won’t let anything happen to you.” Sunset reasssured. Sapphire nodded and hugged Sunset. “Okay.” she peeped.

Sunset and the others smiled and vowed not to let Sapphire fall into Nacluv’s clutches.