My Brave Pony: Power Rangers Starfleet

Chapters

Episode 1: Part 1: New Girl
Episode 2: Part 2: New Ranger Made
Episode 3: Elements in the Making
Episode 4: Find the Music in You
Episode 5: Megashark Problems
Episode 6: Speed Stinger Danger
Episode 7: Sapphire and the Sleepless Night
Episode 8: Deep Ocean Danger
Episode 10: Never Judge a Book by it's Cover
Episode 11: Animal Sceptar
Episode 12: Sticky Problem
Episode 13: Zippleback Rescue
Episode 14: Ultimate Rescue: Zords save the Megazord
Episode 15: Death Song Drama
Episode 16: Puberty (Hate it!)
Episode 17: Aerial Assistance
Episode 18: Robot vs Zord
Episode 19: Part 1: Return and Revenge
Episode 20: Final Episode: Operation: Rescue
Episode 9: Sapphire's First Birthday Bash

Episode 1: Part 1: New Girl

It was another day at Canterlot High and all the students were in walking to class. The rangers and Twilight were walking to their history class aka Lightning's class.

“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 looked to be 19 years old and she had peach skin with aquamarine colored hair. 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.”

"Why?" Rainbow asked.

"Something tells e there's more going on with 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. The thought of Sapphire being homeless struck everyone hard. She didn’t look like she was homeless but she is. They knew they had to do something. They couldn’t just leave her out here, especially with the treat of Vulcan.

“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, 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, 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!!!” Vulcan shouted as he appeared before the bickering ladies. Vulcan was a humanoid like alien, the same height and Marla. He seemed rather muscular. He wore a black armored vest, with a black overcoat, with matching black pants, black boots with spikes at the toes. His hands were crimson red and scaly and had sharp claws, like a dragon. His head seemed human shaped, but was red, scaly, his hair was fiery orange with red highlights and stuck up all over like a flame. Yet his facial features were humanoid, and he wore a solid mask like shades across his eyes.

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 Vulcan flared up and thundered “…GET GOING!!”

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

Bronc, a big muscular armored creature, 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 and Keto, a mage, though shorter than the others, about up to Marla’s upper-body. His 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, saw the whole thing, “Very well done sir.”

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

The bickering ladies appeared on Mystic Island, deep within the city, but remained out of sight.

Devila stretched out and took in a huge breath, “Ah, it feels so good to be free again.”

Marla was still being sulky. “Glad you’re enjoying yourself, but just what are we supposed to do now?”

“What do you mean “What do we do?”

“I mean… how are we supposed to get the rangers without a plan?”

“I was asking metaphorically! Gosh you are such a whiner! I already have a plan…and it involves and old trick of mine.”

She demonstrated her little trick before Marla, revealing she still had it in her. “Hmm, somewhat impressive.” said Marla, but she then grinned wickedly realizing what a dastardly trap they could set. “The rangers will never know what hit them.”

It was in the afternoon when the rangers returned 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 a-and P-Principal Celestia are v-very nice.”

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

“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.”

“CREATED?!” The rangers exclaimed. Sapphire nodded, “The people who made me gave my the DNA of every single animal that ever lived on the Earth.”

“Every animal?! 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 treated me like... well... an animal.

They rarely let me have breaks, they would abuse me wheever I didn’t follow their rules and sometimes they didn’t feed me at all.”

The rangers and Grandrulers’ were no doubt disgusted by this information. “That awful.” Fluttershy said, trying not to burst into tears. She went over to her and hugged Sapphire.

“Then one day I broke free from the lab and escaped, met some friends and eventually I found the alley and hid in there, being too scared to show myself in public.” 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."

“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.”

"O-Okay."

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?" 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.

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

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

Sapphire 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.”

Sapphire grunted in anger, but she has an idea. Taking a deep breath she whistled loudly and in an instant four creatures appeared by her side.

The first one was 24 feet long with a 42 feet wingspan. It was white as snow with pink glimmering sparkles all over it's body. Name: Light Fury.

That’s when three other creatures came out of the bush.

The second one was similar in shape but it was 2 feet bigger with a wingspan 3 feet longer than the other. It had lots of ear appendages around it's head. It was jet black with lighter spots. Name: Night Fury.

The third one had two heads and was purple with blue spots. It also had two long split tails. It was 66 feet long with a 38 feet long wingspan. It had two horns on each of their heads. Name: Hideous Zippleback.

The forth creature was purple and yellow and 61 feet long with a 68 feet long wingspan. Double-clawed wings with two pairs of long horns. Sharp spines and snake-like neck along with snake-like tail with frills. Also, it had barbels along with a nasal horn and it had flammable gel on skin. Name: Monstrous Nightmare.

The fifth was 30 feet long with a 42 feet long wingspan it is bipedal, possessed winged forelimbs, and is about the same size as medium-sized theropod dinosaurs such as Allosaurus. Its small yet keen eyes, equipped with poor binocular vision, are one of the tools it uses to stalk its targets. Its body is purple and yellow, with a light beige underbelly, while its wings are mottled, darker shades and purple and yellow. In front of its eyes is its curved nasal horn, which is often used to batter opponents; its lower jaw is shorter and wider than its upper, giving it an overbite. Ringing its skull is a crown of spikes. Coating the tail is a series of spines that can inject venom into a target. When relaxed, its head spikes and venomous tail spines lay flat, and when alarmed, they shoot upward to intimidate its foe. The tail spikes can also be used to make a rattling noise which it makes right before it attacks, similar to a rattlesnake's. Name: Deadly Nadder.

The everybody was in complete shock and awe. "What are those things?!" Spike cried.

"i have no idea." Twilight asked.

"Skystorm, Midnight fetch!" Sapphire said, pointing at her friends. The Night Fury and Deadly Nadder roared and flew towards them. The ladies cried and ducked allowing the dragons to grab the rangers and bring them over to Sapphire. "Good job."

The ladies were not amused. "You'll pay for that!" Marla snarled.

"Smoke, Fire, Flamestripe, Fire!" The Zippleback and Monstorus Nightmare blasted the ladies with their fire attacks, sneding them skidding back. The other dragons hissed and roared at the ladies. Knowing they were beaten they decided to retreat. "We'll be back, rangers!" Marla declared and they both vanished. The crowds below cheered loudly in joy.

The rangers de-morphed and looked at Sapphire in with strange expression. "Uh-Oh."

At the base, the rangers, Celesto, Twilight, Spike and Krysta all had scorned Sapphire for putting herself in danger. "You could have been destroyed!" Rainbow said.

Sapphire hung her head, "I'm sorry."

"Just promise us you won't get involved with something like this again." Celesto said.

"I promise."

"Okay, now that's dealt with... what's with these five?" Lightning asked, referring to the five dragons in the room.

"These are my dragons friends. The Night Fury is Midnight. The Light Fury is Snowflake. The Hideous Zippleback are Smoke and Fire. The Deadly Nadder is Skystorm. And the Monstrous Nightmare is Flamestripe."

"Are these the friends you mentioned?" Sunset asked.

"Yes."

"So where are we gonna put them? They can't all fit in the mansion." Lightning asked.

"How about we placed only two of them in the mansion while the other three are placed in the backyard." Celesto suggested.

"That could work. Midnight and Snowflake, aren't that big, so they'll be housed in the mansion while the others are housed outside." Lightning said.

"For now, let's all get some rest." Celesto said. The rangers agreed and they went to the mansion to get some well-deserved rest.

At the Prison Tower, the Devila reported to Vulcan and the boys. "So there's a new Power Ranger with powerful magic, huh?"

"Yes Master."

"Well then, how about we give this new ranger a test of our own." Vulcan chuckled evilly and the minions chuckled along with him.

To be continued....

Episode 2: Part 2: New Ranger Made

The next morning, Sapphire, Snowflake and Midnight woke up and went downstairs to have some breakfast. When they entered the living room they all 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. She only found their morphers on the ground. Flamestripe and Smoke and Fire joined the search but came up with nothing. 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. Vulcan appeared on the screen. Sapphire shivered at the sight of him, "Whose that?"

"Vulcan. An evil planet broker." Krysta replied while Spike growled. “What does he want?” He snarled.

"Greetings people of Mystic Island. We have your little rangers and their team mentor." Vulcan 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 holding the morphers in her hands.

"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, Sapphire flew on Snowflake while the others took Celesto's limo that turned into a rocket. The dragons landed on the island followed by Luna landing 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 Vulcan was talking about. They also heard some voices and entered, tracking the voices, they all quietly followed them and it 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!" Vulcan 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!" Vulcan 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. Sapphire, you try to free the others." Luna ordered.

"What about my dragons?"

"They can help too."

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. The dragons flew in and blasted the Lingos with their fire attacks, easily destroying them. Smoke and Fire bashed their heads into some of the Lingos as well. Flamestripe wacked them with his tail and Skystorm launched her spines at them. During all the chaos, Sapphire 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!” Vulcan 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!

Vulcan 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. The light caught everyone's attention.

"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 Sapphire had transformed; she grew peach colored wings and a peach colored horn. Her hair grew longer and was in a ponytail and gained light purple, yellow, orange, white and light blue and pink highlight strips. Also, a tail sprouted from her lower back. Her ears turned into pony ears.

"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 Vulcan and the minions but they teleported away at the last second. Breathing heavily, Sapphire glowed again and she changed back into her normal self. The dragons, 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 dragons, 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.

"Snowflake and Midnight?"

"I don't think they'll be able to catch it either."

"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 dragons and pets walked inside. In the zord was a alrge 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 detected 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 Vulcan 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!" Vulcan 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 everyone else 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, rangers. Next time won’t be so easy.” Vulcan 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. The dragons roared proudly for their rider and friend.

Episode 3: Elements in the Making

Thurday 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 squealed as she dashed off.

".....I swear she like another Twilight." Sunset commented.

"Hey!" Twilight cried.

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 six 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 Vulcan 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…” Vulcan 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.” Vulcan 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 noticed something. "Hey! Where's your Animal Ranger? I have to bring her to Vulcan."

“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 un-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 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 and the clouds turned into roaring lion.

(Like this)

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!

Vulcan 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.

Vulcan 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 Vulcan 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 Vulcan “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 Vulcan were speechless. "Such power!" Vulan 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." Vulcan scoffed as he walked away.

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

"But how?" Sapphire asked.

"You didn't want to leave your friends, even though they were in extreme peril." Krysta said. "Maybe that triggered the element."

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

"That I don't know." Sunset said

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

Rainbow agreed, "He's right, Vulcan may want to capture you for your power."

"But look on the bright side. With her power, we'll be able to defeat him 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 Vulcan'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. First, dragons and now a powerful roar "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!”

Then he came to Sapphire's Snickerdoodle cookies. "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 rangers, “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 Sapphire 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 and she offered her a pitcher of water. Nikki grabbed it and splashed it over her face, washing her hat off her head, and soaking herself in the process, making everyone laugh at her more.

Episode 4: Find the Music in You

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.

"Sapphire, 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!" Vulcan yelled, scaring the minions into gaining their attention. They found him standing in the end of the hall. "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 Vulcan ." Singer said.

"Good. Now make those rangers pay for all the trouble they've caused me!" he 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 Dionne 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.

Sapphire's Element of Loyalty glowed and covered her in a red magic shield, protecting her from the music's affects. Singer laughed and blasted near the rangers sending them flying. “No! Guys!” she cried.

“Hey! How come you're not on the floor, ranger? No matter, I’ll just destroy you the old fashion way.” Before Singer could do anything, Sapphire turned into a falcon and launched energy rings at Singer, blasting him away from the rangers. She swooped down, grabbed them and flew off. "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.

"Ugh, Agreed." Sunset said.

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

Twilight replayed the footage of the battle, "It looks like her Element somehow protected her from the monsters' music."

"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 plants, 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." Sapphire 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 you have." Sunset suggested.

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

"Well, you've got a voice is smooth and gentle." Spike said.

Hearing that, Twiliht suddenly cried, "THAT'S IT!" Her 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. Vulcan 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!" Vulcan 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, but how?"

Just then, she heard something coming towards her. Turning around, Sapphire was a large wolf Zord. It was green with white paws and a white tip at it's tail. "Woah, a Dire Wolf Zord." she gasped. The Zord howled and beamed Sapphire into the cockpit. "Alright big boy, let's fight!"

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.

"Sapphire?!" the rangers exclaimed. 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 Singer, exploding on impact. The Zord growled at Singer,

"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.

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 and the Zord howled in victory.

At the tower, Vulacn 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. Vulcan 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 it 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.

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

Sapphire gulped and took a deep breath.

"And now for our final performance give it up for Sapphire!" Twilight announced. Sapphire came out on stage and remembered what Twilight said and she started to sing.

Just like in the lab, a string of magic came out of Sapphire's chest and once again made flowers appear. The crowd gazed in awe as Sapphire continued.

She ended the song and the flowers 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 Sunlight!" 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 Sapphire. “Way to go, Sapphire! 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." Sapphire 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 5: Megashark Problems

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 Vulcan 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 have to figure it out." Rainbow said. "Just think with Sapphire'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, Vulcan 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. The top half of it's body was blue and the bottom half was white. It was swimming around the ocean in circles.

“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 some 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, Vulcan and the minions saw the Megalodon Zord too. “We need that Zord.” Vulcan 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” Vulcan 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.” Vulcan 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. “Vulcan's minions and a monster!” Spike cried.

“What are they doing there?” Sunset asked.

“They’re probably 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. She tried to swim her way out but the suction was too strong and she got sucked inside the Zord! "AAAHHHH!" and all she saw was black.

"Oh no!" Twilight cried.

"Oh dear." Fluttershy whimpered.

"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 effective 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 missiles. 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 disappeared.

"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.

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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 Vulcan “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 lesson.” He powered up his fists with fire balls. “About failing.” The minions freaked and ran away with Vulcan 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 Vulcan."

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 6: Speed Stinger Danger

It was a cloudy day on Mystic Island, Sapphire woke up and found Snowflake staring at her with her cute eyes. "Yes, Snowflake?"

The Light Fury nuzzled Sapphire in the face, making her laugh. "Hehehe... alright alright, I'm getting up." Sapphire climbed out of bed, took a shower and got dressed. Snowflake and Midnight cuddled next to each other. "Come on you love dragons." Sapphire teased. The two dragons followed their rider downstairs.

Entering the living room Sapphire was greeted by the most usual sight. "What the-?!" There were civilians crowded in the living room. Almost everyone whom lived on Mystic Island. Sapphire saw her friends were included in the bunch. Some of the people were frozen stiff with scared expressions. "What's going on here?" she asked.

Sunset and the rangers came to her. "Sapphire, it was awful. They were speedy. So fast! And their sting!" Fluttershy cried.

"Woah, woah, woah, calm down Fluttershy." Sapphire said.

Celesto, Celestia, Cadence, Shining Armor and Luna came up to the group. "What happened sir?" Sapphire asked.

"These creatures came to the island in the middle of the night and cause a panic." Celestia replied.

"What did they look like?"

"They were small, but they were extremely fast and quick. They were green with a large fin on their heads and smaller fins on their backs. They also have a large red stinger on the end of the tail. Their leader was larger and he had red markings on his body."

"They looked like raptors almost Cadence said. "And there was one other. This one was larger than the others and it had three tails, each with stingers on the ends. it was brown and yellow."

"Hmmm...." Sapphire thought. "Not good."

"Do you know what they are Sapphire?" Lightning asked.

"Yes.... Speed Stingers and a Triple Stryke dragon."

"A Speed what and a Triple what?" Rainbow asked.

"One sec." Sapphire rushed upstairs and soon came back down with a large book in her hands. "This is my Book of Dragons. It contains all the information on dragons." She opened the page to the Speed Stinger.

"Speed Stingers are part of the Strike Class of dragons. The can't fly but they are lightning quick and their sting can paralyze in an instant. They have a leader that directs them like a war chief."

"But how did they get here in the first place?" Sunset inquired.

"Speed Stingers have webbing between their toes, so they can run on water like a Basilisk lizard but for much longer. They are scavengers as well so they might be here looking for food."

"And what about this Triple Stryke?" Luna asked.

Sapphire turned to the page with the Triple Stryke dragon.

"This dragon had a prehensile tail with three stingers. Each stinger has a unique venom. The first one numbs the target. The second disorients them with mild hallucinogens, and the third creates the agonizing sensation of your blood burning. This dragon also has a defense roll. When these dragons are not using their stingers they can wrap the tails together creating a whip they can use to hit their opponents."

"Great so now we have a pack of dangerous dragons on our island. Now what?" Rainbow grumbled.

"We have to get rid of them." Lightning said.

"But how, those Speed Stingers will paralyze use in no time." Buddy said.

"There is one thing. Speed Stingers always go where their leader goes. If we can catch their leader and take him somewhere; far away from the island than the others will follow." Sapphire explained.

"That solves the Speed Stingers but what about the Triple Stryke?" Sunset asked.

"We'll worry about him later, right now the Speed Stingers are out priority. I'll go out there and find them."

"Alone?! No way Sapphire!" Rainbow said.

"I'm the only one who knows more about these dragons than you do, so I should be the one who drives them away."

"You can't do that by yourself." Sunset said.

"You need us there with you,
To drive these beasts away
This is true,
And the only way." Rhymey added.

Sapphire sighed, knowing her friends weren't going to back down. "Alright, you can come." The rangers smiled. Soon they were all flying over the city. Sunset and Lightning were riding Smoke and Fire while Fluttershy and Rhymey were riding Flamestripe. Buddy and Rainbow rode Midnight and Sapphire rode Snowflake. "Where did you first see the Speed Stingers?" Sapphire called.

"Near the First National Bank." Rainbow replied. The dragons headed in that direction and landed a yard away from the bank. The Speed Stingers were prowling around the ban for any sign of food. "There they are." Sapphire whispered. Their leader was at the front of the pack. "We have to get that leader."

"But what are we gonna put him in?" Lightning asked.

Sapphire looked around and saw a large dog crate near them. "We'll put him in here."

"Now we have to get him away from the other Stingers." Buddy said.

"We got this. Smoke make some green smoke to confuse them. Fire do not ingite it." Sapphire ordered. "Alright?"

The Zippleback nodded and quietly flew over the Stingers. "Once they do that, I'll swoop in and grab the leader and placed him in the cage then we'll take him and the pack to a deserted island." Sapphire added.

The rangers agreed. Smoke and Fire quietly descended on the unsuspecting Speed Stingers. Smoke unleashed his green smoke covering the entire pack in the smoke. The Speed Stingers roared in confusion. Sapphire changed into an eagle and dove into the smoke, grabbing the Stinger chief. The chief roared for help and the Stingers followed. Sapphire quickly threw the Stinger chief into the crate. Fire ignited the smoke, blasting the Stingers all over the place. "Rainbow, Buddy, now!"

"Right." Rainbow and Buddy mounted Midnight and the Night Fury grabbed the crate and flew off with it. Just as Sapphire said, the Speed Stingers followed the crate and dragon to the coastline and the ocean. They rushed across the water. "It's working!" Rainbow said.

Midnight flew far out into the ocean and eventually came to a deserted island. Midnight deposited the crate on the island and blasted it open. The Speed Stinger pack caught up and roared the Night Fury and humans flying away from the island. "One large pack down, One dangerous dragon to go." Buddy said.

The trio got back to the island and landed near the others. "Now that the Speed Stingers are taken care of now we can deal with that Triple Stryke."

"So how are we gonna get rid of that dragon?" Lightning asked.

"Or better yet... tamed it and train it." Sapphire said.

"HUH?" The rangers exclaimed.

"You seriously want to train that dragon?!" Rainbow exclaimed. "It's way too dangerous!" Sunset added.

"You do know Flamestripe is considered the most aggressive and dangerous dragon, right?" Sapphire deadpanned. The rangers looked at Flamestripe. He didn't look aggressive at all. "If I can train a Monstorus Nightmare than I can train a Triple Styrke."

"Not if we train it first!" a voice said.

The rangers gasped and turned to see Marla, Bronc and Keto!

"What are you three doing here?!" Lightning snarled.

"We're here to train that Triple Stryke." Marla said. "With it we can destory your rangers and take over the world."

"That's not going to happen!" Sunset said.

"We'll see." and the minions dashed off. "We've gotta find that dragon before they do." Fluttershy claimed.

"But we don't know where it is." Rainbow said. Sunset turned to Sapphire, "Sapphire is there anything that could help us?"

Sapphire thought for a moment. "Well... Triple Strykes do live in forests, maybe we'll find it there."

"There the forest near Canterlot High. Let's go." Lightning said. The rangers mounted the dragons and they flew off to the forest near Canterlot High. They landed on the outside of the forest, luckily, there was no sign of the minions. They all walked into the forest. The shadows of the trees danced along the ground and the leaves were dancing in the wind. "It's quiet... too quiet." Sunset said.

"This dragon shouldn't be too hard to find." Rainbow said. Suddenly, they all heard a loud roar. That's when the Triple Stryke leaped out of the brush and struck the ground with it's tree stingers. The rangers and dragons separated. "Well, we found him." Rainbow said.

"How are we gonna tame this thing?!" Lightning said.

"You don't and we take it home." The minions appeared behind the Triple Stryke. The dragons turned around to face them with it's three stingers, ready to strike. "You're not getting this dragon!" Sapphire claimed.

"Try and stop us!" Bronc taunted.

"Sapphire, you deal with the Triple Stryke. We'll deal with the minions." Lightning said.

"Right."

And the rangers morphed.

“STARFLEET MAGIC… POWER ON!!”

Then Lightning went last!

“Cosmic Comet… Power On!!”

They all did their own role call

Sunset: “Evil’s Dread! Starfleet Red!”

Buddy Rose: “Let’s make the scene. Starfleet Green!”

Rainbow: “We’ll see things through. Starfleet Blue!”

Rhymey: “Though peace and Woe! Starfleet Yellow!”

Fluttershy: “Quick as a Wink! Starfleet Pink!”

Lightning: “Fighting all danger! Comet Ranger!”

And altogether they shouted “…POWER RANGERS… STARFLEET!!”

The Triple Stryke roared and flew into the air. It curled up and rushed towards the rangers, who dodged and went after the minions. “Get them!” Marla called to the Lingos.

The rangers all rushed forth!

Rainbow gave a Lingo a huge soccer-kick to the chest sending it crashing into two more.

Fluttershy was surrounded by several other Lingos, but as they all lunged for her at once, she leapt up high at the last moment causing them all crash into each other.

Lightning knocked one Lingo down, then another, and then he jumped and spilt kick another two. “I get a kick out of this.” he joked.

Rhymey fought with Keto, staff against sword. “You didn’t think magic was my only forte, did you?” said Keto.

“So I see,
But you’re smaller than Me.” scoffed Rhymey

CLANG!! The two weapons met in a struggle, and while Rhymey seemed to have the upper-hand, Keto underhandedly cast a mugic on himself. “Song of Fury!” making him stronger, and able to knocked Rhymey back hard.

Sunset fought against Bronc, or rather was dodging and evading his huge fists. Suddenly, she was backed up against a tree. Bronc snickered as he cracked his huge knuckles.

“Uh, we could talk about this…” whimpered Sunset.

“Now where’s the fun in that?” remarked Bronc and he thrust his fists forth, but Sunset rolled to the side at the last moment, causing his fists to become stuck in the tree. She slashed him with her scepter, making sparks fly.

Meanwhile, Sapphire slowly approached the Triple Stryke. Her dragons growled at the Triple Stryke. "Easy there, boy. I'm not gonna hurt you." she cooed. The dragon snapped his claws, trying to intimidate Sapphire. "I want to help you."

The dragon roared and combined his tail and swung them towards Sapphire. She leapt over them, much to the dragons' surprise. She landed and talked to it again. "It's alright. I'm not your enemy." she cooed.

Just then, the rangers were blasted back by the minions, catching the attention of Sapphire, the dragons and the Triple Stryke. "Guys!" she cried.

"Now hand over that dragon!" Keto demanded. Sapphire stood in front of the Triple Stryke. "You'll have to get pass me, if you want him." The Triple Stryke stared at Sapphire, a little shocked.

"Alright then. Song of Embernova!" Keto launched a barrage of fireballs at Sapphire. Sapphire braced herself. "This is gonna hurt."

KAPOW!

There was a large explosion. "Sapphire!" Sunset cried. The minions laughed maliciously.

But when the smoke cleared it was revealed that the Triple Stryke shielded Sapphire with it's wings. "What?!" the minions cried.

The Triple Stryke roared angrily at the minions but looked at Sapphire with a soften expression. That only meant one thing.

Trust had been established.

The Triple Stryke fired it's highly concentrated streams of fire at the minions.

(Like this)

The fire blast forced the minions to jump out of the way. The dragon roared and flew over to the minions and performed his defense curl attack, knocking the minions onto their backs. "Woah!" Rainbow gasped.

The minions got onto their feet. "Luckily, we brought some back up. King!" A monster suddenly appeared on the scene. His body looked like that of a king cobra with the hood and everything. His arms had stingers on the ends as well as his tail. "King is ready for battle!" he said.

"And to help you even more, FORTISSIMO!" Keto used his mugic to make King grow big!

The rangers all winced in shock, and Sunset activated her morpher, “Star Jets… Combine!”

The jets were already on the scene and combining!

“Jet Star Megazord… Ready!”

Once the rangers beamed inside, Lightning saw his chance and activated his own morpher, “Gigantify… Go!”

“Giant Mode… Ready!”

With that, Lightning grew into a giant. “Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about!”

The megazord looked at Lightning and held up its fist like a salute.

King whipped his tail at the megazord striking them hard and rocking the rangers inside. "Guys." Lightning said. King then struck the megazord and Lightning with his tail stinger. The controls in the megazord all went red. "What's going on?" Buddy said. Sunset pounded the controls, but nothing happened. "That sting must have paralyzed us!" Sunset cried. "The controls aren't responding. Lightning tried to move but the venom had paralyzed him too.

"Hahaha, time to give you a real sting!" King said.

Sapphire and the dragons didn't like this. "I need something that can take out those stingers of his, but what?"

Just then, Midnight's appendages perked up. "What is it, Midnight?"

The Night Fury raced over through the forest followed by the others. They came to the edge of the forest to a rocky reigon of the island. There Sapphire saw something moving through the rocks. it came closer and closer to them all and they all got a good look at it.

"A Smilodon Zord?! Awesome!"

The Smilodon Zord a icy blue with long, white fangs and paws. Unlike the normal Smilodon, it's teeth were thicker than normal, so it could handle side-to-side movements. The Zord spotted Sapphire and walked over to her. It purred at the sight of her and Sapphire touched it on the nose. "I need your help, boy." The Zord nodded and beamed Sapphire and the dragons inside. "Let's move!"

Sapphire pushed on the controls and the Zord roared and leaped over the forest and launched itself at King, surprising him "WHA!" The Zord slashed him with it's large white claws, knocking him to the ground. "Nice Sapphire." Rainbow said.

The Smilodon Zord stood in front of the paralyzed Zords. "You can't take me on, little kitty. With my vemon still in affect the rangers are immobilized!"

"Not for long! Dire Wolf Zord, I choose you!"

The prehistoric wolf Zord burst from the valley and howled loudly. It appeared on the scene and growled at King. "Dire Wolf, NATURE'S BLESSING! Heal the Zords!"

The wolf stood on it's back legs and howled as leaves circled around it. It got down on all fours and unleashed a barrage of leaves. The leaves circled the Zords. The controls in the Jet Star Megazord were not red anymore and the controls started working again and Lightning could move again as well. "Alright Sapphire!" Rainbow cheered. "We got control again!"

"Uh-Oh!" King whimpered. He launched his tail stinger at Smilodon Zord. "Look out!" Sunset said.

The Smilodon Zord stepped to the side and used it's large fangs to bit the tail. King screamed in pain and the Zord spun him around and around before finally tossing him up into the air. "Woah!" Lightning said.

"Alright boy, finish this with ICE CANNON!" The Zord's mouth opened and massive amounts of ice energy formed inside. It blasted a large beam of ice energy at King. The blast hit him hard, "THIS IS GONNA STING!" he exploded and was imprisoned in a sphere. "She did it! She did it!" Sunset cried.

Lightning cheered as well. "Yay! Alright!"

"Monster Captured! Mission Completed!"

At the Prison Tower, the minions were cornered by Vulcan. "W-We're sorry, sir." Bronc whimpered.

"Don't give me that, time for your punishment." Vulcan yelled. The minions hugged each other in fear as Vulcan fired his fire attacks at all of them. The minions bolted away from Vulcan as he chased after them bellowing, "DON'T RUN AWAY FROM ME WHEN I'M FIRING AT YOU."

Normally, the prisoners would be scared of Vulcan when he's angry, but seeing him chase his minions around, they laughed.

The rangers want back to the mansion, where all the people were anxiously waiting for their return. "Rangers, how did it- What is that doing here?!" Celesto cried, pointing to the Triple Stryke in fear. "It's alright, he's a friend now."

"... Really?" Celestia inquired.

"Yes. And the Speed Stingers are gone for good." Lightning reported. The people sighed in relief. The one whom were stung by the Speed Stingers were now moving around. "So everyone can go home now." Sunset announced. The people cheered and rejoiced and they all exited the mansion and went back to their respective homes, leaving the rangers and the dragons behind.

"Now what are we gonna do with the Triple Stryke?" Twilight asked.

".... Looks like we'll have to make another space in the yard for you.... what's his name?"

"Oh?" Sapphire and the rangers were so concentrated on the battle that they didn't name the Triple Stryke. "How about Striker?" Buddy suggested.

"That could work, I mean he does have three stingers to strike with." Lightning said.

"So Striker it is." Sapphire declared. Striker roared happily and snapped his claws. He rubbed against Sapphire, "Welcome home, Striker." she cooed, having another dragon to add to the family.

Author's Note

For more information on the Triple Stryke.
http://howtotrainyourdragon.wikia.com/wiki/Triple_Stryke

Episode 7: 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 minutes early and takes a nap." Rainbow complained.

"It's not my fault, I understand some 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 of yours.”

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, Snowflake and Midnight walked into room. What surprised everyone, even though their baggy eyes, they could see Sapphire and her dragons was totally rested. No bags under their 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 three look ready to pass out like the rest of us?" Spike asked.

"I don't know." Celesto scanned Sapphire and the dragons' faces and bodies to discover, "Sapphire, you and your dragons are 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 red colored dome around me, Snowflake and Midnight. Oh, and my Element of Loyalty somehow floating in the air in front of me."

"The Element was floating in front of you?!" Sunset inquired. "And a red dome was around you?" Sapphire nodded her head. "Weird."

"That dome must have prevented Sapphire and the dragons 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. "i have my dragons. Let's go guys." The dragons roared and they followed her. Sapphire." Celesto called. Sapphire stopped and turned around, "Be careful."

"I will." Since Snowflake and Midnight were too big for the jump-tubes, they all headed up the stairs into the garden where Flamestripe and Smoke and Fire were. "Boys, we've got some monsters to fight." she said. The Monstrous Nightmare and Zippleback nodded and followed them all.

"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 with her dragons by her side. "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, "Attack!" The dragons roared and charged the Lingos. "They won't stop us.” and Marla ordered the Lingos to attack! The dragons blasted the Lingos, making a clear path for Sapphire to Sandy and Marla. "Lion Power!" she called and she changed into a male lion.

She slashed the ladies with her claws, 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 dragons 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 dragons 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 and Midnight blasted into the sand and hit Sandy, throwing her back and the gust cloud vanished. "Hey, no fair! You can't do that!" she whined.

"We just did." Sapphire retorted. "Now time to capture you." She powered up her finishing move, 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. Swiftly she changed back into her human self. "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 and the dragons into the cockpit.

“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 energy 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. The dragons roared in victory

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 Vulcan standing there waiting for her, and he 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. Vulcan 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 and her dragons."

"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, "We cleaned up the... yawn... city."

"What?!" 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 and the dragons didn't have to do that." Lightning claimed.

Sapphire yawned again, "We wanted to.. yawn.... they are resting... yawn.... now."

"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, quietly walking not to wake up Flamestripe and Smoke and Fire. From there, they entered the mansion and went to Sapphire's room. Not waking Snowflake and Midnight, Lightning placed her inside as Luna pulled back the covers. Sapphire was out like a light, "Sweet dreams.. hero." Luna teased. The gang laughed quietly as they left the room, giving their hero of the day some well deserved rest.

Episode 8: Deep 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, Vulcan 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 Vulcan “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.”

Vulcan 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 a lot of subjects in school she was good; Biology, Math, Physics, English, 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 the twenty questions. 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 and Snowflake were flying about over the sea, away from the island, where they both enjoyed the silence and privacy. Just them 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, the two 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 Vulcan and Bronc appeared. “Well done! The ship is ours.” hissed Vulan.

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 Vulcan, “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 and Snowflake saw everything from way above and away. “I’ve got to warn the rangers!” and off they both flew towards Mystic Island.

Meanwhile, at lunch, Sapphire came to talk to Lightning, and the others rangers came for moral support. “Sapphire, you've been really struggling with you History tests.” said Lighting. He explained that in the few weeks she'e been in school, she failed all of the History tests cause she only answered only two of three of the questions out of the twenty.

“I know…I try, and I try but it’s still hard. I've never had history in my life.” The friends understood. 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. "Can I retake the other tests too?"

Lightning nodded.

Suddenly, there was a tapping sound outside the classroom window. “Krysta…” cried Lightning. "Snowflake?" Sapphire added, and they let the two friends 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 and Snowflake saw.

“Vulcan 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, Vulcan 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.” Vulcan 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 Vulcan, “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, Vulcan 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 Vulcan was prepared to fight off against anything anyone tried to get anywhere near the boat.

Vulcan 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 Vulcan 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 Vulcan 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 Vulcan 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?"

"My Element?" A moment of silence passed as the others felt very silly. "Of course, you can use your Element of Loyalty 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 the center of her forehead glowed in the shape of a star. "Woah." Spike whispered. What appeared next to her shocked everyone... another Sapphire. It matched every detail of her from the hair to the clothing.

Sapphire's forehead 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 forehead 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.”

Vulcan 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... or in Sapphire's case, fall all the way down and slam into the deck. "AHHHHHHH!"

CRASH!

"OW!"

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 Vulcan 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 Vulcan “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 Vulcan, “I have the mind of a great business dealer after all.” 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!”

Vulcan nodded and ordered the Lingos, “Hold them!”

“Hey!” snapped Rainbow “We did as you said! You said you’d let us go!”

Vulcan 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!” Vulcan 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 and Megalodon Zord zoomed in overhead. “What?!” snapped Vulcan “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, Vulcan blasted the supposed rangers on the deck, with his fire powers, blasting them to pieces and revealing, “…Clones! 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 Vulcan.

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 Vulcan!

That’s when he and Vulcan began to brawl hard. Even though Vulcan 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 Vulcan 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 minions 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 phoenix 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!!”

"Oh Please, fish face!" Sapphire inserted her Element of Loyalty into her Zord's console. The whole console glowed red with the elements' power and the Zord blasted the Element's power at the oil, making it disappear completely. "Great Sapphire." Sunset said.

“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 steady 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. “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 villains climbed back onto the boat where Lightning faced them, “Okay, Vulcan, the jig is up! We’re taking this tanker, and you’re coming too, as our prisoner!”

Vulcan 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, Vulcan 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 beamed Lightning aboard her Zord. She steered her Zord and made it 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. Megalodon Zord blasted her with the Elements' power 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 Lightning heard the news over his com, and he and the other sailors were cheering as well. “Way to go guys!”

Vulcan 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 Vulcan “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 Vulcan 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, The Elements' power completely purified the water, so no wildlife was harmed.”

“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 Vulcan may not fall for the same trick again."

Lightning looked at Sapphire, “Don’t you have some tests 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 10: Never Judge a Book by it's Cover

One morning, Sapphire was in her History class doing her assignment, which was almost done when...

"Excuse me, Lightning."

The whole class stopped whatever they were doing and looked towards the door. Principal Celestia was standing at the doorway with a new student as her side. "This is Emerald Crescent." Emerald looked like a bad boy with a leather jacket, black sunglasses and the black pants and boots. He also had some jewelry on his hands and short, brown hair. The class stared with a mixture of surprised and fear.

"Umm... nice to have you here Emerald." Lightning greeted slowly. "You can have a seat next to Sapphire Shimmer,"

"Sure." he grunted. The walked over to his seat and roughly sat down. None of the students took his eye off of him. Sapphire stared at him for a moment and he noticed, "What are you looking at?" he snarled. Sapphire blinked, "... You."

He growled, "Well then.... don't." He turned to the side, not wanting to have anything to do with Sapphire. "Alright class, back to your assignments." Lightning called to the class. While Sapphire went back to working on her assignment, she couldn't help but look at Emerald. There was something about him that made her curious

Hours went by and soon it was lunchtime. Sapphire sat with her friends while she saw Emerald sitting all alone at a table. She just... didn't feel right, seeing him alone. All the while her friends were talking,

"Have you heard about Emerald?" Sunset asked. The gang nodded.

"I've heard he was in a gang before he came here." Fluttershy whimpered.

"I heard he robbed a few places." Buddy added. As the friends chattered Sunset noticed Sapphire aimlessly staring at Emerald. "Sapphire, are you alright?" she asked.

Sapphire came to her senses. "What? Oh! Yeah I'm fine."

"Then why are you staring at Emerald?" Lightning asked.

"I was thinking of going over there and talking to him." she replied.

The friends immediately stopped chattering when they heard that. "No way Sapphire, he's bad news." Rainbow disagreed.

"Yeah, he could hurt you or rob you." Fluttershy added. Sapphire mentally rolled her eyes. "That's just a bunch of gossip and rumors." Sapphire replied. "I don't believe he did all those things and I'm going to talk to him." Sapphire stood up and walked over to the table despite her friends objections.

Emerald wasn't even touching his food when he spotted Sapphire sitting down across from him. "What do you want, cheery?" he asked rudely.

"Nothing. I just want to talk." Sapphire replied with a cute smile

Emerald frowned at her and gruffly said, "Well, you can talk to somebody else, not me."

"I don't want to talk to somebody else, I want to talk to you."

Emerald growled. He found Sapphire more annoying since History class. "If you don't leave me alone, you'll regret it, girly." he threatened.

Sapphire only smiled, "I'm not scared."

Emerald was now turning red in anger and snatched his food and gruffly got up from his seat and walked away. Sapphire went back to her friends.

"Are you alright?"

"Did he hurt you?"

"Guys, stop worrying, I'm alright. He did nothing except talk rudely to me." The friends gave a sigh of relief. "That's god, but you should stay away from him, Sapphire." Buddy advised.

"No. I'm going to make him talk." Sapphire looked at the area where Emerald walked over to. "There's something else going on behind that 'tough guy' act. I just know it."

The friends only felt concern and worry for her.

Emerald was walking down the hall with his hands stuffed in his pocket. "Wanting to be friends." he grumbled. "Pffft. Pathetic." He stopped for a moment and thought. "Then again, she didn't act afraid of me at all." Remembering how Sapphire seemed oblivious to his frightening demeanor, Emerald had a strange feeling in chest. "Maybe... Maybe..."

Emerald sighed sadly as he took out a picture. The picture was of three people. A man looking to be 35 years old with short, brown hair and light brown skin, wearing a white shirt and a black jacket. Standing next to her was a women who looked to be 45 years old. She was wearing a pink shirt and jeans. In the middle was a little boy. Seeing the picture, Emerald's eyes began to water a little. "Mom, Dad. I miss you." he whispered. "Please come home."

Emerald just stood there in the a hallway quietly sobbing unaware that peeking at him was Sapphire.

In the Prison Tower, Vulcan 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. Vulcan 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 Vulcan laughed softly. "Do not worry. I have a plan."

The minions looked at each other with curiosity.

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 Vulcan 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 Vulcan.

"Vulcan." Lightning snarled. The others stared with angry expressions.

"What does he want?" Sunset added.

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

"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 Vulcan had in mind. "That Animal Ranger will have no choice to refuse."

"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 Vulcan 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 Vulcan. 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 Vulcan has something up his sleeve.” Hearing that, made the others worry about their friend.

An hour had passed, Vulcan appeared in the vacant park alone. "Now where is that ranger?" Sapphire appeared on the other side of the park. "Looking for me?"

Vulcan smiled. "Why, yes. I'm glad you accepted my offer." Sapphire frowned, "You made it hard to refuse." Vulcan 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!"

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

Sapphire lunged at him and the two were engaged in a ruthless fight. Punching, kicking and even scratching each other. It was like 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 Vulcan was up to something.

Sapphire and Vulcan separated and skidded on the ground. Vulcan 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 Vulcan and Sapphire laying on the ground, not moving. The rangers feared the worst. "No." Sunset whispered.

Then, Sapphire twitched as well as Vulcan. 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 he began laughing.

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

"You... didn't think... I would lose... this easy, did you?" Vulcan replied. Sapphire didn't know what he meant until she saw Marla, Bronc and Keto appeared. Keto pointed his staff at Vulcan, “Song of Resurgense.” The power of the melody magically took away the pain from him, 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." Vulcan ordered. The minions complied and Marla sent her hair towards Sapphire.

Suddenly there was a loud and threatening roar heard. "What was that?" Bronc asked.

Bursting from the ground in front of Sapphire were five more dragons but four of them were the same while one was different. Four of the dragons were resemblance of giant gulper eels. One was larger than the others but a lot smaller than the fifth dragon. They were all 95 feet long and 7 feet and 6 inches tall. They all had a large head and mouth with rotating teeth inside. Sharp spines covering their whole bodies and white bulging eyes. Grayish steel green bodies with red highlighted spikes The wingspan was 26 feet and 8 inches.

The fifth one was the biggest. A long snake-like body and a large chomping mouth. Rows of teeth and small wings with spiny frills along underbelly. Red spikes on head. Expandable spiny frill layers on the neck. Albino white with red highlights It was 16 feet tall and 365 feet long.

The monsters and everyone at the base gawked at the dragons. "What the heck are those things?!" Rainbow exclaimed.

"Must be more dragon friends of her's." Sunset said.

"What ever they are, they're standing between the monsters and Sapphire." Spike stated.

"Let's go!" Sunset snapped.

The five dragons roared at the villains. "Let's get rid of these bobble head dragons!" Keto said and he charged the five dragons, but the four dragons roared and launched rings of fire from their mouths, burning Keto. He was black with soot and he coughed a ring of smoke from his mouth. Bronc, Marla and Vulcan gawked at the dragons. They roared and the smaller dragons approached Sapphire. One of them carefully wrapped Sapphire in it's tail (while keeping it's spikes down).

That's when the rangers appeared. "Sapphire!" Rainbow cried. The four dragons stooped them and hissed.

"Get that ranger!" Vulcan ordered. Marla and Bronc charged but the largest dragon unleashed a disorienting shriek. Everybody covered their ears at the sheer volume of the shriek. When it was done, the five dragons flew away. "Hey, wait!" Rainbow said.

The four dragons blasted her with rings of fire, sending her back. "Rainbow!" Lightning cried.

"Grrr... this isn't over. Move out!" Vulcan stated. The minions and Vulcan teleported away, leaving the rangers to compel the situation.

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

"But why would they do that?" Sunset asked. "And what are they anyway?"

That's when they heard Midnight's roar. "Midnight?" Sunset and the others saw Midnight entering the base with Sapphire's Book of Dragons. "Sapphire's Book of Dragons!" Twilight exclaimed and she grabbed the book. "This should help us find out what those dragons were."

".... Got it!" She placed the book on the table and opened it to a picture of the four dragons.

"They're called Whispering Deaths. They are part of the Boulder Class of dragons. These dragons love to live underground and can shoot razor sharp spines from any part of their bodies. They had six rows of rotating teeth. They can dig through dirt and tree roots."

"And what about that large white dragon?" Lightning said with a shiver.

Twilight opened to another page with the large, white dragon.

"It's called the Screaming Death. It's a rare offspring of the Whispering Death. Only one is born in 100 years. They can launched concentrated fireballs from their mouths. Their shriek cane knock a dragon out of the sky and disorient a dragon. They rare extremely fast; able to catch up to a Night Fury aka Midnight. They also love to live in underground tunnels and are protective of their mothers."

Nobody said anything for a moment, "Sooo... those are dangerous adversaries." Celesto said.

"More like deadly!" Rainbow exclaimed. "We can't fight those things."

"But we can't just leave Sapphire with them, who knows what they'll do." Fluttershy added.

"Well from what we saw on the monitors, the dragons were protecting Sapphire from Vulcan and the minions. 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 those dragons don't." Celesto revealed. The others 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 dragons 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 larger Whispering Death gently rubbed against her. "Easy, Whispers. I'll be okay."

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

Bushes behind them began to rustle. The dragons 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 dragons hissed 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 Boulder Class dragons 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 dragons looked at each other and they backed up a little. 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 Vulcan and the minions again. The Screaming Death roared at them and the others hissed. "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. The larger Whispering Death came up to her and nodded towards her back. "You want us to get one?" Fluttershy guessed. The dragons nodded and lowered it's spines. "Alright then." the two leaped onto Whispers 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 Vulcan lunged at the rangers but the Screaming Death rammed the four villains."Nice shot!" Rainbow commented. The villains growled and charged again. This time the three little Whispering Deaths blasted the four villains with their fire 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!" Vulcan declared as the four teleported away. The dragons 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 the dragons 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 dragon 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 dragons.... except the people stood far away from the Screaming Death.

"Actual dragons!"

"Amazing!"

"They're beautiful!"

"We better get them to the mansion." Lightning whispered to the others. They nodded in agreement and they leaped onto Whispers and the Screaming Death "Come on, you guys." Lightning ordered. The dragons obeyed them and they flew off to the mansion.

Celesto, Celestia and Twilight were waiting outside when they saw the dragons hovering in front of the mansion. The two were shocked and amazed by the huge creatures while Twilight's eyes sparkled. Whispers and the other dragons roared and flew up and away from the others. "Bye!" Sunset cried. ".... Please tell me they won't be coming back."

"We'll have to see." Buddy said with a nervous chuckle.

A few days later, Emerald was sitting by himself at lunch. Staring at the other teenagers as they laughed and smiled at each other, he sighed with sadness. Until...

"Emerald."

Emerald jumped and looked, seeing Sapphire standing there with a tray of food in her hands. She still had some bandages on her arms and a gauze on her face from the battle with Vulcan, but overall she was okay now. "Is this seat taken?"

Emerald stared at her for a moment. Sapphire was the only one who showed him kindness ever since he got here. "... No... you can sit here." he replied and for the first time he actually smiled at her. Sapphire grinned back and took her seat next to Emerald. Unaware by both of them, Sapphire's right arm glowed and two more bracelets appeared. One had a pink butterfly in the center and the other had a purple diamond.

Emerald and Sapphire didn't notice and they continued having lunch together as the other watched from their table. "Looks like she broke his tough shell." Rainbow said. "And gained two more elements."

"Yeah, she's full of surprises." Lightning said. The gang continued at watch as Sapphire and Emerald engaged in their newfound friendship.

Episode 11: Animal Sceptar

Sapphire found herself in a strange place; a void filled with stars containing animal constellations all around. It was... beautiful. “Woah.” she gasped.

“Sapphire Sunlight.” a voice called. Comet turned, "Whose there?" and saw a figure behind her. It was teenage boy with short, blue hair and he was peach colored. “Who are you?”

“My name is Flash Sentry. I am a friend of Sunset Shimmer and her friends."

"W-What are you doing here?" Sapphire inquired. "I am here to tell you of a weapon that will aid you in battle.”

“A weapon?”

“Like your friends they all have a weapon they use in battle and now it's time that you have one of your own. The weapon is called the Flora and Fauna Scepter or of you rather the Animal scepter .”

“Animal Scepter ?”

“It is an all powerful scepter that allows the user to unleash the power of nature and animal attacks."

"So it's like what I've been doing now?"

"Yes, but you can only use one or the other; not a combination. Long ago, this weapon entered our world from the Dimensional Universe. It landed in an ancient temple somewhere on the planet. It's location has been kept secret cause it would be feared that in the wrong hands, the scepter would be used for great evil. But I believe that you are the one who is worthy of possessing this scepter and the power behind it.”

Sapphire nodded to Flash, "So how do I find this scepter?"

Flash smirked, "That's something you'll have to find out on your own; look in your locker and bring all the Elements of Harmony that you've unlocked."

"Why?" Sapphire asked confused.

"You'll find out." That's when the void began to waver and everything faded out.

Sapphire awoke in a shock, startling Snowflake and Midnight. They roared in concern, "I'm alright. Just a... dream." Her dream seemed so real, she believed it was true. If she was going to find a powerful weapon, she’s going to need help.

That Saturday morning, she gathered up all the rangers and Twilight and told them about her dream. "How did Flash even know about you?" Fluttershy questioned.

“Are you sure Flash told you about this?” Rainbow asked.

“Yes.” she replied.

“Weird, this sorta thing happens to ponies, not humans.” Sunset stated, confused.

“Let’s worry about that later." Lightning said. "Right now, it sounds like this Flora and Fauna Scepter is really strong.”

“Flash said it is extremely powerful.” Sapphire agreed. "And in the wrong hands, it will be used for great evil."

“So the first clue to finding the scepter is looking in your school locker?” Buddy asked. Comet nodded."But what do you need your Elements of Harmony for?" Sunset inquired.

"Flash said I would find out soon." Sapphire replied.

“Well we’d better start looking.” Fluttershy added. What the rangers didn’t know was that Keto was watching them and heard everything! “Wait till the others hear about this.” he whispered.

He teleported back to Prison Tower and told the others.

“Soooo, the rangers are going on a little treasure hunt to find a hidden weapon which they plan to use against us.” Keto stated.

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

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

“Indeed.” Bronc stated, “…And I know just the monster that can help us.”

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 Marla “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 this powerful item. Sapphire was wearing the Elements of Loyalty, Kindness and Generosity on her wrists.

It was rather dark inside the school, being that it was Saturday so no one was present, so Celesto used the built-in flashlight in his cane to light the way to Sapphire's locker. She unlocked her locker but when they looked inside, nothing appeared to be there. “There’s nothing in here.” Rainbow said.

“Darn, maybe Sapphire's dream really was a dream.” Spike added.

“Wait.... I don’t remember there being a button at the back of my locker.” Comet said. Celesto shined his light into the locker and sure enough there was a small, red button in her locker that wasn’t there before. “What do you think it does?” Rainbow asked.

“Only one way to find out.” Comet pressed the button and the bottom of the locker opened up and a stone floated up and into her hands.

The stone was white with a variety of flora and animal symbols and footprints covering it. Twilight scanned it with her alien scanner, “That’s definitely not Earth origin, but I can’t figure out what it is.”

“So how is this thing supposed to help us find the Scepter?” Buddy asked.

“I’ve seen a stone like that before, it’s a tracking stone; the closer you get to the object, the faster and brighter the stone will glow.” Sunset added.

“Ummm, guys,” Fluttershy said, nervously. “the stone’s glowing!”

Everybody looked and indeed the stone was glowing and so was Sapphire's elements of harmony! “Guys?” she glowed brighter and brighter. The gang covered their eyes and when they opened them Sapphire was gone! All that was left were a few sparkles and a scorch mark in the shape of dog's paw

“Wh-What happened?” Fluttershy asked.

“Sapphire! She’s gone!” Buddy cried.

“Where’d she go?” Rainbow cried.

Sunset studied the sparkles left behind and gasped, “The stone... and the elements... teleported her away!”

“TELEPORTED?!” the rangers cried.

“Teleported her where?” Lightning asked.

“I don’t know.” Sunset replied.

“Oh, not good.” Twilight groaned. "She could be anywhere in the world now!"

“What do we do?” Spike asked.

“Let’s get to the base and see if we can track her.” Celesto suggested. The others agreed and rushed to the base, hoping Sapphire was alright.

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. The light was shining through the treetops and she heard birds chirping and monkey's cries echoing through the forest. “Okay, so I’m all alone in a big, scary forest with no supplies and just a glowing stone.” Sapphire said to herself. She touched the upper, right side of her chest. “Well I do have my morpher, so that’s good.” Seeing the stone and her elements blinking slowly, she knew she had to continue on. “Well I’d better find the scepter and hope my friends find me.”

With that she walked off into the forest. After about two hours, she came across a large pit of mud. “Oh dear. How am I gonna get across this?” The trees were hanging over the mud pit. Sapphire noticed the small openings between the trees branches and figured that she couldn't change into a small bird to get through there, so she only had once choice. She didn’t see any vines she could swing on or anything she could walk across the mud on. “Looks like I have no choice. I’ll have to... *gulp*.... walk across it.”

Carefully wading into the mud with the stone and elements held high, she walked into the mud which got deeper the further she went in. Halfway, the mud was up to her stomach. “Gross.” she whimpered. Soon, she was out of the mud with her pants and half her shirt covered in mud. “Ugh, I’m definitely going to need a bath after this.”

Pushing through, she kept walking forward until she came to a large cliff. Her hair had some leaves in it and she had some scratches on her face and arms. The stone and elements was blinking faster and faster. Soon it begins blinking really fast and Sapphire saw huge temple ruins.

Tree roots covered some of it and it was coated with moss and vines in the distance. “That must be the place.” She walked down the cliff and towards the castle, going through bushes and wiping sweat from her head from the intense heat. Finally she reached the entrance. “Well here goes nothing.” With that, she entered the castle, unaware that the minions and Prospector were watching from the brush.

“We’ve got her now.” Marla hissed.

“Come on let’s follow her.” Bronc ordered.

The others agreed and followed Comet into the castle ruins.

Meanwhile, Twilight was working frantically to try and locate Sapphire, “Anything yet, Twilight?” Lightning asked.

“Nothing yet.” She replied.

“I hope she’s okay.” Fluttershy said. Rhymey placed a hand on his girlfriend’s shoulder.

“Don’t worry we’ll find a way,
And make sure that’s she’s okay.” Rhymey reassured.

“Guys! I’ve got something!” Twilight called.

“What is it?” Celesto asked.

“Some alien DNA coming from the Amazon Rainforest.”

“Amazon Rainforest?” Rainbow said. “Why would alien DNA be coming from there?”

“It must be Vulcan's minions!” Lightning growled. “But why would they be there?” Spike asked.

“... That's probably where Sapphire and the scepter are!” Sunset cried. Everybody gasped in horror. “Those creeps must have followed so thy could steal the scepter!” Buddy stated.

“We’ve got to get there and fast!” Fluttershy cried. “Who knows what those brutes will do to Comet.”

“Right, Let’s go!” Sunset snapped. The team immediately morphed and prepared their star jets for departure. Lightning rode in the backseat of Sunset’s star jet.

“Ready everybody?” Sunset asked.

“Green Ranger: read to fly.”

“Blue Ranger: Let’s kick it.”

“Yellow Ranger: Ready and Steady.”

“Pink Ranger: Um… Okay.”

“Let’s go!” Sunset added.

BOOM! The star jets blasted off to the Amazon Rainforest full speed ahead. "Hang on Sapphire, we're coming."

Just then, the team heard a loud roar and look to the side. "Is that... Jaguin Zord?!" Buddy exclaimed in shock. The hybrid Zord came to the side of the jets. "Yep, that her." Sunset stated. The Zord turned to the team and nodded her head forward. "Something tells me she coming with us." Fluttershy claimed.

"I think you're right, Fluttershy." Lightning said. "Full speed ahead."

Meanwhile, Sapphire was walking down a long dark tunnel with only the stone to guide her. “It’s really... gulp... dark in here.” She whimpered. Her stomach then growled loudly and she groaned and placed hand on her stomach. “I’m starving.” she said. “I really should have brought something to eat.”

Then, she came to two separate tunnels, “Great. Now which one should I take?” Suddenly, the stone began floating out of her hands, glowing and blinking fast. Floating over to the right tunnel it floated down the tunnel, “Wait!” Sapphire called out as she chased after the stone. The stone led her to a huge room filled with plants, flowers and animal drawings and prints. “Woah.”

She gazed around with sparkles in her eyes. She's never saw anything so beautiful in her life.

She spotted the stone floating in the middle of the room. Walking over to it she saw that she was standing in a large spiral marking. The stone floated into the spiral, causing it to light up.

Suddenly the whole room began to rumble and quake, “Woah! What the-!”. Just then the spiral fell into darkness, leaving Sapphire with nothing to stand on. “... Uh oh.” Comet fell down the long hole screaming at the top of her lungs, then she landed with a loud 'THUD', on her stomach, knocking the wind out of her.

“Oooooooh, that.... really hurt.” she groaned.

She slowly got her feet and gazed at the room. There were four light hanging from the ceiling. There were some pillars with animal carvings and pictures engraved in them. At the end of the room sat a small podium with an item floating above it. It was a scepter. It had a yellow staff and mount with a circular jewel with the mark of a paw in the center. “The Flora and Fauna Scepter!” Sapphire slowly walked up to the podium and took the scepter off the podium. The jewel glowed brightly in her hands and lines of it's magic slithered up her arm and into her body. She felt a rush of power rush through her body and her eyes flashed for a second. "Woah." she gasped.

The tranquil moment was ruined when… “Nice staff, ranger.” a menacing voice stated. 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 the Scepter.”

“Hand it over missy, and no one gets hurt.” Prospector threatened. Sapphire held the scepter tightly and backed away from the villains until she was against the podium. “Just hand over the staff, ranger.” Marla added.

“N-Never!” Sapphire tapped her morpher, ready to morph. “Not so fast!” Bronc fired his laser eyes at the morpher, causing it to explode and fall to the floor, completely destroyed! She gulped nervously. “Uh-oh.”

“Oh yes.” Bronc snickered. “Since you’re not giving us the scepter 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!” Sapphire cried happily. The rangers leapt down from the ceiling in front of Sapphire.

“Are you okay, Sapphire?” Sunset asked.

“I am now,” she responded. “but my morpher isn’t.” She pointed to the destroyed morpher. “Don’t worry, we’ll protect you.” Rainbow promised.

“That’s a promise you won’t be able to keep.” 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 her up in her hair, forcing her to drop the staff. “No! The scepter!” She cried.

The villains chuckled and Keto approached it, “This scepter is as good as ours!” he declared.

“Not good!” Sunset cried.

However, when Keto touched the scepter, it shocked him with high voltage of electricity, sending him flying back and the into Marla, freeing Sapphire.

“Watch it!” She yelled.

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

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

The scepter floated into Sapphire hand and made her glow as well. “Let’s see what this baby can do!” She exclaimed.

She pointed the scepter at the villains and a Falcon spirit burst from the orb and ruthlessly slashed the villains with its wings, sending them into the wall. “Awesome!” Rainbow cried. The spirit opened it mouth and launched a blue beam of energy at the villains, damaging them more. “Ugh! I’m leaving!” Keto said.

“Us too.” Marla and Bronc added in unison. The minions teleported at the last second. "Hey, what about me?!" Prospector cried. He beam got closer and Prospector was hit. He exploded and was imprisoned in a capture sphere.

“Alright Sapphire!” Buddy cried. The spirit squawked, vanished and Sapphire stopped glowing and felt extremely exhausted. She closed her eyes and collapsed on the ground.

“SAPPHIRE...!!!”

Sapphire's eyes fluttered open and she was eight blurry figures in front of her.

"Is.... be.... alright?"

"I'm....she.... fine... shy."

“.... he.... wak..... up.”

Her vision cleared and she saw the rangers, Celesto and Twilight looking at her. “Hey sleepy head.” Sunset said, “how are you feeling?”

Sapphire groaned and sat up, holding her aching head. “A little woozy. What happened?”

“You used the Scepter and trashed the monsters!” Rainbow exclaimed.

“But you collapsed afterwards.” Lightning added.

“Why?” Sapphire asked.

“It was because, after using it for the first time , it left you really weak. It’s like your guys Able-Boost.” Twilight started.

“So she will have to use the scepter as a last resort then?” Rainbow asked.

“Not quite.” Twilight quickly added. “The more times she uses the scepter, the less tired she’ll feel, eventually she can use the scepter and infinite amount of times.” She looked and saw the scepter was sitting on a table not far from her. “Looks like you have some training to do, Sapphire.” Fluttershy said. Sapphire looked a little nervous.

“Don’t worry, we’ll help you,
You’ll master your scepter through and through.” Rhymey reassured.

Sapphire gratefully smiled at her friends. “Thanks guys.” Suddenly, everybody heard a gurgling sound, they looked at her, who had an embarrassing expression on her face while holding her empty stomach.

“Umm... excuse me.” she said, sheepishly.

The friends giggled. “Let’s get you something to eat. Sounds like you’re starving.” Sunset suggested. “Okay.” With that, everybody went out for dinner.

Episode 12: Sticky Problem

Sapphire and the rangers were at Celesto’s mansion to help Sapphire train with her Animal Scepter. It's been two days since she recovered it from the temple in the Amazon Rainforest. Rhymey and Fluttershy set up four targets about ten feet from her. The others and all of the adults were watching from the side.

“Okay Sapphire, blast these targets with your staff.” Celesto stated.

“Yes, sir.” Sapphire replied. "Falcon Slash! Lion Pounce!" A falcon and male lion spirit came out of the orb and slashed all the targets in half. “Awesome!” cried Rainbow.

The spirit returned to the orb.

Sapphire fell to her knees, breathing heavily. Her friends came to her side, instantly. “Comet! Are you okay!?” Lightning asked.

“Yeah.” she replied, having caught her breath, “I’m okay.”

“Excellent work, Sapphire. I’ve monitored the energy being emitted every time you summon an animal spirit.” Twilight said. “It’s more powerful than the rangers’ Star Slammer!”

The rangers were amazed by this but Sapphire was still looking down. “Sapphire, what’s wrong?” Sunset asked.

“I still can’t use the scepter without barely passing out.” She complained, “I’ll never be able to fully use them in battle.” The friends knew that she was very discouraged with this situation. “Yes you will Sapphire. It just takes time.” Buddy replied.

“I agree,
You’ll master it in one, two, three.” Rhymey reassured.

Sapphire smiled at her friends. Suddenly the jewel on Celesto’s cane and the rangers morphers began to glow red, meaning there was danger a foot! “What now?” Lightning asked. Vice-Principal Luna came running towards the group. “There’s a monster in the park!” She cried.

“Let’s go!” Sunset called. The others agreed and dashed off to the park.

The monster was trapping people in thick globs of jelly. It had a jelly-like body with thick arms and legs. His name was Stickster. “”This is fun!” he cried.

“Fun’s over!” Stickster turned around and saw the rangers, morphed and ready to battle.

“Like moths to a light.” Stickster sneered.

“Let’s those people go now!” Lightning yelled.

“Never! Lingoes! Attack!” At his command an group of Lingoes came forth and charged the rangers. The ranger broke through the Lingoes, leaving them to Sapphire while they fought Stickster.

They punched and kicked him, however, Stickster skillfully blocked every attack and punched them back.

“Eat this!” he called and laughed five separate globs of jelly at the rangers, trapping them.

“He’s got us!” cried Rainbow.

Lightning tried to wiggle out, “It’s too thick. I can’t move!” Sapphire defeated all the Lingoes and saw this. “Oh no!” she cried.

Meanwhile at the base, Twilight and Spike saw everything on the monitors. “Now what?” Spike asked.

Twilight tried to send them a signal to their morphers but it failed, “That jelly is blocking the Able-Boost signal!” she cried. “Without it they can’t break free.”

“What about Sapphire?” Krysta asked, “she’s still free.”

“Right, but she can’t use scepter, it’s too risky.” Twilight stated.

“Let’s just wait and see what happens.” Celesto replied.

Stickster started to walk towards the rangers, preparing to the kill! “Say goodbye rangers!”

“What do we do?” Fluttershy whimpered.

Suddenly...

“Utahraptor Slash!!” a ghostly Utahraptor came and slashed Stickster, sending him flying and it clawed the jelly, freeing the rangers.

“Mercy me,
We are free!” Rhymey cried.

“But how?” Buddy asked.

“Look!” Sunset cried, pointing at Sapphire, who had her scepter held high. The spirit roared and returned by to the orb. Comet fell to her knees again in exhaustion. Stickster got up and snarled, “You’ll pay for that, ranger!” He launched a blob of jelly at Sapphire.

“Oh,
No!” Rhymey cried.

“Sapphire! Look out!” Rainbow cried.

Sapphire looked up and tried to move, but using the staff made her too weak and was trapped in the jelly. The force made her drop her scepter.

“NO!” Sunset cried.

“HAHAHAHA!” Stickster laughed. He approached the trapped ranger. “Now Let’s take you to the boss.”

“Get him!” Sunset called. The rangers rushed towards him but he teleported away with Sapphire. “Ugh! He got away!” Lightning grunted.

“With Sapphire.” Buddy added. Sunset walked over to Sapphire's scepter and gripped it tightly.

Sapphire knew that using the scepter would make her vulnerable to attack but she did it anyway and saved her friends but she wasn’t caught in the process. She basically sacrificed herself for her friends.

“Come on, let’s get to the base!” Lightning stated.

The others agreed and rushed to the jump-tube. Entering the base, Celesto greeted them. “Are you okay, rangers?”

“We’re okay sir, but we have to find Sapphire and fast!” Lightning stated.

“Before those creeps do who knows what to her.” Rainbow added.

“On it!” Twilight said. While Twilight tried to track Sapphire, the others silently prayed that she was okay.

Stickster had brought Sapphire to the forest near Canterlot High, where Vulcan and his minions were. “Excellent work, Stickster!” Vulcan exclaimed.

“Thank you, master.” Stickster replied.

“Now we’ll finally get rid of this pest!” Marla added.

“Wait!” Nacluv said, “Why destroy her, when we can just steal her magic and use it for ourselves?”

The minions and Stickster liked that idea, but Comet didn’t. “And I’ve got the perfect machine to do it.” Bronc added. Comet gulped nervously. “Please hurry, guys.”

Back at the base, Twilight was still attempting to track Sapphire. “Anything yet, Twilight?” Celesto asked.

“Not yet, sir.” She replied.

“Oooh. I hope she’s okay.” Fluttershy said.

“Don’t worry, we’ll find her soon,
Before she meets her doom.” Rhymey reassured.

“I hope you’re right, buddy.” Lightning added.

“Guys! I found her!” Twilight cried.

“Where is she?” Rainbow asked.

“She’s at the forest near the school.” she replied.

“Come on guys, Let’s go get our friends back!” Rainbow stayed. Everybody cheered in agreement and headed towards the jump-tubes.

Comet was still struggling to get out of the jelly while the villains chuckled. “You’re wasting your time, Dinosaur Ranger.” Marla sneered.

“Time to take your magic. Keto.” Vulcan stated.

Keto nodded and approached Sapphire. She gulped nervously, ”I’m doomed”

Suddenly, blasts came in, sending Keto flying back towards his comrades. “Who did that?” Vulcan bellowed.

The rangers landed in front of Sapphire, “We did!” Sunset called.

The monster growled frustrated while Sunset blasted the jelly and set Sapphire free. “Are you okay Sapphire?” Lightning asked.

“I’m okay, you guys.” she replied.

“Thank goodness you’re safe.” Fluttershy added.

“AGH! Stickster get them!” Vulcan bellowed.

Stickster nodded and charged the rangers while Vulcan and the minions teleported back to Prison Tower.

Stickster skillfully blocked the rangers attacks and punched and blasted them. Sapphire couldn’t morph because the jelly jammed her morpher, but she still had some tricks up her sleeve. She changed into a Jaguar and pounced onto Stickster. The rangers moved out of te way to give her some space. "Agh! Get off of me!" Stickster cried. Sapphire dug her teeth into his shoulder and slashed him with her claws covered in fire energy. "Agh!"

Sapphire wrestled Stickster to the ground and actually tossed him across the ground. "Amazing!" Rainbow said. Sapphire formed a large pulse of fire in her mouth and blasted Stickster. He started sparking, getting ready to exploded. However, before he could...

“Keto!” Vulcan stated.

“Yes master, FORTISSIMO!” He launched his mugic to Mystic Island and made Stickster grow. “Let’s get sticky!”

Sapphire growled and transformed next into her normal self.

“Launch Star Jets.” Sunset ordered.

“Summon Zords!”

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

”Jet Star Megazord… Ready!”

“Comet Striker… Ready!”

“HA! Stay still!” Stickster said and he launched two large blobs of jelly at the Zords, trapping them.

“He’s got us!” Rainbow cried. The rangers pounded the controls and Lightning shook to get out but nothing worked.

Sapphire saw everything from the he ground. "Smilodon Zord, I choose you!"

The Zord burst from it's hiding spot and leaped onto the scene, beaming Sapphire into the cockpit. Stickster was approaching the trapped zords. “Time to end you rangers. he said.

“What do we do?” Fluttershy whimpered. Just as Stickster was about to blast them, a large stream of ice blasted him away from them. “Argh! Who did that!?” he demanded.

That’s when everybody was the Smilodon Zord standing in front of the trapped Zords. "You'll have to get through me if you want my friends." Stickster just laughed at the Zord. “That tin can is no match for me.” He launched multiple jelly blobs at the Zord but it fired ice energy at the blobs actually freezing them and they fell to the ground, breaking into multiple pieces on impact. "What?!"

Smilodon Zord growled and blasted Stickster hard with it's ice, knocking him to the ground.

The Zord then went to the trapped zords. “Don’t worry guys, I’ll get you out of there.” Smilodon Zord froze the blobs with it's ice attack nd slashed the blobs, breaking them and freeing the Comet Striker and Jet-Star Megazord.

“Alright Sapphire!” Buddy called.

“Now let’s finish him!” she added. Stickster whimpered at the sight of the three zords. Prepare for Star Blast Wave! Charging up…!”

The zord’s chest armor, arms and head all glowed brightly as pulsing flashes appeared.

“Energy Charge, Ready!”

”ULTIMATE ICE!”

The Smilodon zord trumpeted and began charging Stickster, covering itself in massive amounts of ice energy.

“Whoa! Hey! You can’t do this to me!” cried Stickster

“Oh, yes the can…” hollered Lightning, “Do it, guys!”

With the energy systems charged, the rangers all shouted together,“STAR BLAST WAVE… FIRE!!” and at once… POW… the zord fired four major streams of energy combining it all into one big golden wave of power that coated the Zord, increasing its power ten-fold!

The Zord rammed Stickster, he exploded, shrank down and was captured in a sphere. “Monster Captured! Mission Complete!” Sunset declared. The Smiolodon Zord roared in victory.

Back at the tower, Nacluv and the minions were outraged. “ AGH! They beat us again!” Marla yelled.

“We’ve got to do something about them now.” Bronc said.

“We will, trust me. Those rangers will be sorry they messed with our business.” Vulcan stated. The minions looked forward to what Vulcan had planned.

When the rangers got back to base with their catch, “With Sapphire's battling skills, Vulcan doesn’t stand a chance now.” Rainbow said cockily.

“Oh, I wouldn’t say that entirely…” said Buddy “Much as I hate to say it, even Vulcan could be capable of finding ways to get at us. That’s why he doesn’t give up.”

The others all agreed, and promised to keep ever vigil for further attacks. "So, how's your scepter holding out?" Twilight asked.

"She's fine but I'm still gonna need training if I'm gonna use her in a battle fully." Sapphire replied.

"Don't worry, we'll help you. You'll be swinging that scepter like Sunset in no time." Rainbow encouraged. Sapphire grinned, "Thanks guys."

Episode 13: Zippleback Rescue

One day Sapphire and Snowflake were playing with the babies, Castor and Leliani. The babies were cooing as Snowflake nuzzled them on their tummies. Sapphire kept cooing, "Who are good babies? You are, yes you are."

The babies laughed as their parents looked on with happy faces. "They've really grown on Sapphire and her dragons." Celestia stated.

"They sure have." Celesto agreed. Luna came in and stated, "Maybe you two should get a dragon?"

They froze for a moment "Luna!" Celestia said.

"What, I'm just saying think about it first. Having your own dragon could be good for you." Luna replied and she walked off.

The two of them looked at each other. The two of them had been thinking about getting a dragon of their own, but they both decided that their lives were too busy for them to care for a dragon of their own.

"Come on, honey, wanna take a walk?" Celestia suggested.

"Of course dear." Celesto replied. The two of them walked out of the apartment while Luna stayed, "Awwww, their so cute together." she cooed.

(Que Intro)

Celestia and Celesto were in the park, watching as children played and adult relaxed on the benches. The two of them just stood in the park gazebo. It pleased them to see everyone so peaceful.

Just then, the two of them were a strange noise. "What was that?" Celesto said.

Everybody in the park heard it too, but they immediately ran away, fearing it was another one of Vulcan's monsters. But Celestia and Celesto didn't think this was a monster. It sounded like a roar of some sort. "Let's investigate." Celesto suggested. His wife agreed and the two of them explored the area where they heard the roar.

They traced it to a bush. They pulled back the bush and gasped. One the ground, roaring in pain was a dragon!

It was a Hideous Zippleback, like Smoke and Fire, except this one was much larger and it was green with blue spots.

The dragon spotted the two humans and roared in fear. "Woah, woah, woah, easy." Celestia said with her hands raised. "We're not gonna hurt you."

The dragon tried to fly away but it roared in pain and stared at it's right wing, which Celestia and Celesto saw was swollen and red! "Oh dear, you're hurt." Celesto said. The dragon warbled as the two humans approached it. Celesto got close enough to examine the swollen wing. "Looks like it's just a sprain." he declared.

"What should we do?" Celestia asked.

"Let's get them back to the mansion."

"Right."

The two of them ushered the dragon to stand and walked all the way back to the mansion. Meanwhile, the rangers were already at the mansion to help Sapphire with her Animal Scepter. She was sparring with Sunset and her Star Scepter. The two scepters collided and Sapphire wracked Sunset with hers'. "Nice Sapphire."

Sunset fired a blast from her scepter. "Elephant Smack!" An elephant spirit came out of the orb and batted the blast away. "Nice work!" Rainbow cheered. The spirit returned and Sapphire blasted a beam from her scepter which blasted Sunset's scepter out of her hands.

Sapphire was breathing heavy and fell to her knees. "Sapphire!" Rainbow and the others raced over to her. "Are you alright?" Fluttershy asked.

"I'm... good." Sapphire panted.

"Good news, You lasted two more minutes than the last time." Twilight said.

"Only two? Awwwww!" Sapphire groaned.

"Now, now, Sapphire, you're getting better and that's what matters." Lightning stated.

"Yeah, don't stress about this so much." Krysta added.

Sapphire sighed, "You're right."

"Ummm, rangers!" Luna called. "You might want to come and see this!"

The rangers looked at each other confused and went inside the mansion. They froze when they saw Celestia and Mr. Grandruler with a larger version of Smoke and Fire. "Woah!" Rainbow cried. "What the heck is that?!"

Sapphire's eyes sparkled and widened in amazement, "Woah, you two found a Titan Wing Zippleback!"

"A what Zippleback?" Lightning asked.

"A Titan Wing Zippleback. Titan WIng's are a very rare type of dragon. They are larger than their counterparts." Sapphire explained and then spotted it's injured wing. "And by the looks of this one, it sprained it's wing."

"We were hoping Fluttershy could help it." Celesto offered.

"Oh! Um, alright." Fluttershy approached the large dragon. The large dragon warbled nervously. "It's alright, I won't hurt you." Fluttershy cooed. Fluttershy placed a simple ice pack on the dragon's wing. "This should bring down the swelling and it should be able to fly soon."

Celesto and Celestia grinned, "That's wonderful." The Titan Wing looked at them and nuzzled them. "Your welcome." Celestia stated.

The rangers, Luna an Twilight all smiled at them.

At the Prison Tower, Vulcan had called his minions before him.

"So what's the plan, Master?" Marla questioned.

Vulcan snuffed, “The last few battles have given me an idea.”

Vulcan went over to the computers and showed everyone an image of Celestia and Celesto, much to everyone confusion. “But sir… they aren't rangers.” Bronc pointed out.

“I’m aware of that!” sneered Vulcan “However, the are tied to the rangers, which leads me to assume they may be in lead with those behind the secrets of the rangers, and if there is one thing business has taught me… “Know more about your enemy than they know of themselves.”

Everyone was starting to catch on to the plan, and Vulcan snickered wickedly as he gazed at the picture of Celestia and Celesto.

Soon, the Titan Wing Zippleback's wing was healed and it could hover without the pain in it's wing. "You're fully healed." Fluttershy praised. The Zippleback warbled and nudged Celesto and Celestia. "Hehehe, awww, your welcome boys. Now run along." Celestia stated.

The Zippleback walked out of the door and flew into the air. The rangers waved goodbye to it. "You wanna take that walk again, honey?" Celestia cooed. Celesto rolled his eyes, but he couldn't say no to his wife, "Alright darling, excuse us." The two of them walked off to the park while the rangers, Twilight and Luna all cooed, "Awwwww."

"Stop it!" Celesto exclaimed.

The two of them were walking through the city. "So do you think that dragon will be alright?" Celestia questioned.

"I believe so." Celesto replied. Just then, people started screaming and running in a panic. "What's going on?" Celestia asked. The jewel on Celesto's cane began blinking. "A monster!"

"Hahaha!" The two of them turned and saw Marla and her swarm of Lingos. "You two are coming with us." she hissed.

The Grandruler's tried to run away but they were blocked by Keto and Bronc. "You two aren't getting away!" Keto added. The three minions were about ready to take them when...

"Leave them alone!" a voice shouted.

Everyone turned and saw the rangers appear. The Grandrulers' were glad to see them. "Let them go!" Lightning cried.

"Not a chance, Lingos get them!" Marla ordered. The Lingos lunged forth and the rangers charged them. Lightning and Sunset gave them all roundhouse kicks. Buddy did a spinning kick, sending multiple Lingos flying. Rainbow easily socked them. And Fluttershy and Rhymey kicked them. Sapphire changed into a jaguar and easily clawed them with her claws.

While the rangers were busy, Marla grabbed the Grandrulers' with her long pink hair. "Hey!" Celesto cried.

"You're coming with us." Keto hissed. The minions were about to escape when Sapphire leaped in front of them and snarled at them. "Agh! This one again!" Bronc whined. Sapphire roared at the three villains. Bronc blasted the ground in front of her with their laser eyes, creating a cloud of dust. Sapphire roared in discomfort.

With that opportunity, the minions vanished.

"NO!" Sunset cried. The others were just as distraught. "Let's get to the base." Sunset snapped.

Sapphire turned back into her normal self and followed the rangers to the nearest jump-tube unaware that there was a pair of eyes staring at them from afar.... scratch that two pairs of eyes were watching them.

Meanwhile, several blocks from the school near a forest edge, Celestia and Celesto were bounded to a tree by thick chains. "What do you want with us?" Celestia questioned.

"Tell us what you two know about the rangers." Marla ordered.

The two of them bit their tongues. They couldn't let the minions discover that Celesto was the ranger's boss or else they would be all sorts of danger. "Tell us now!" Keto snarled.

"Never!" Celestia shouted. "You let us go!"

"Why so you can call your friends?" Keto taunted.

Bronc was losing his patience, and would have struck her, but Keto stopped him, “Bronc… as much as I would like to pound them myself, we need them."

"Besides I may have a way to convince them to talk." Marla hissed.

The Granderulers' didn't like the sound of that.

Meanwhile, as soon as the rangers got to their base, informed Twilight of the situation and asked for his advice. “If they had been kidnapped by Vulcan’s forces, the computer should help you track them.”

With Professor Brain’s help, he located signs of alien DNA. “They are a few miles from here, near the forest edge, south east from Canterlot High.”

“Right, let’s go!” said Sunset.

“I just hope we’re not too late!” cried Fluttershy.

With the jumps already programmed, they jumped in and were off.

“Good luck, Rangers.” muttered Brain.

Marla had her Lingos go and capture Vice Principal Luna and the babies from the mansion. The babies were crying their lungs out so Keto placed them in a sound proof force field while the Lingos held Luna captive. "Let our family go!" Celesto demanded.

"Not until you tell us about the rangers, humans." Bronc taunted. The two of them were flustered. They could see no easy way out of this predicament.

Suddenly, green smoke started crawling onto the scene. "What the-? What's with this green smoke?" Marla asked.

Suddenly, it was ignited and KAPOW! It sent Marla, Bronc and Keto flying.

The Titan Wing Zippleback burst from the brush and bashed the Lingos holding Luna. "You again?!" she exclaimed. The dragon roared softly and nuzzled her. It walked over to the chained couple. "How you find us?" Celestia asked.

"Not so fast, dragon!" Marla said. She launched her nails at the Titan Wing but it blasted the nails away with Ammonium nitrate mixed with anhydrous hydrazine. The Titan Wing blasted the force field around the babies, breaking it so Luna could grabbed the babies and hide. Bronc and Keto were about to fire on Celestia and Celesto. The Titan Wing stood in front of Celestia and Celesto when suddenly the villains were bombarded by powerful blasts, and sent flying back again.

There stood the rangers, morphed and holding their weapons, and Sunset called to the villains, “Party’s over, you creeps!”

Celestia, Celesto and Luna grinned at the sight of them

The villains were not pleased. Another roar was heard and Striker leaped onto the scene and roared in anger at the three villains. He wrapped his three tails together and wracked the villains into the air and blasted them with his concentrated orange flames

BOOM!

The three minions fell to the ground, smoking from the fire. "That's we're done!" Marla declared. The boys grunted and vanished along with her. The rangers rushed over to Celestia and Celesto and untied them. "Are you alright?" Buddy asked.

"Yeah, we're alright. Thanks to him." Celesto replied. The Titan Wing warbled and licked the two of them. "Hehehe, we're okay boys." Celestia reassured.

"Looks like you two have a new dragon friend." Lightning said.

"Us? Really?" Celestia asked.

"Yeah, we saved you and from the looks of it, he wants to stay with you both." Sunset said.

Celestia and Celesto saw the Titan Wing smiling at them. "Don't worry, I'll teach you how to care for him." Sapphire encouraged.

The two of them sighed, "We have no choice do we?" they grumbled.

"Nope!" Everybody replied with a laughed.

The two of them groaned. Their live just got more complicated.

Episode 14: Ultimate Rescue: Zords save the Megazord

The rangers were in the Ultra Star megazord fighting against another monster. This one a female humanoid monster who wore wizard's hate and robe with a staff at her side. Her name was Controller. Her power was to make anything she blasts with her spell go completely out of control and drain their power completely. Sapphire was also helping by using her Mammoth Zord to assist.

The Mammoth Zord bashed Controller to the ground. Controller growled and aimed her staff at the large elephant Zord. "Time to lose control, rangers!" she fried the blast but the Mammoth Zord leaped over the beam and hit the rangers. The megazord's rockets fired on their own and launched the six rangers into the air. "Guys!" Sapphire cried.

Controller laughed. "Now, it's your turn, Animal Ranger."

She fired the same beam again but Mammoth Zord countered with Rock Throw, striking Controller hard.

"ULTIMATE EARTH!"

Mammoth Zord trumpeted and charged Controller at full speed. It rammed right through Controller making her explode and become imprisoned in a capture sphere. "Monster down." Sapphire said.

She quikcly retreated to the base, "Twilight, can you track the megazord?"

Twilight was already tracking the megazord. "I've got it. It fell into an unusually large volcano in Africa."

"You mean Mount Kilimanjaro?"

"No, I mean there's another usually large volcano in Africa that suddenly appeared overnight."

"How is that even possible?" Celesto asked.

"Who cares." Sapphire connected the megazord and saw her friends on the screen. They were pounding the controls but nothing happened. "Guys, are you alright?" Sapphire asked.

"We're alright, but that blast fired all of the controls and drained our power completely. We're stuck!" Lightning stated.

Rainbow looked through the windows and saw the lava beginning to bubble. "Umm guys, is the lava suppose to be bubbling?"

Then the whole volcano started to shake. "What was that?" Buddy asked.

Twilight did some calculations. "Oh, no! According to my calculations, that volcano will blow with that rangers and megazord inside in four hours!"

"WHAT?!" the rangers exclaimed.

"Wait, it gets worse. If that volcano explode it will destroy the megazord and all of you inside." Twilight added.

"Are you kidding me?!" Rainbow cried.

"My match is never wrong!" Twilight replied.

The lava kept bubbling outside, "What are we gonna do?" Fluttershy whimpered.

"I've gotta get to the volcano and rescue them." Sapphire said.

"But Sapphire, you Zords haven't been tested with intense heat before." Celesto said. "They may not be able to handle the heat."

"I don't care. My friends need me." Sapphire said.

"But how are you gonna pull the megazord out of that volcano?" Spike questioned.

"I can use my zords' tow hook." Sapphire replied.

"Your Zord has a towing hook?!" Celesto said. "Oh, come on! Is there anything you Zords don't have?"

"Laser eyes; that's the only thing. They are more sophisticated than the Star Jets."

The volcano began to shake some more and the lava began bubbling again. "You better hurry, Sapphire. Something tells me this volcano is gonna blow soon." Sunset said.

"Hang in there guys. I'm coming." Sapphire said. Sapphire was sent through the test tubes and she raced to the beach. "Jaguin, I need you." The zord burst from the mountain and came to the beaches end. It landed in front of Sapphire and bent down to look at her, "Jaguin, my friends are gonna get blasted into ashes by a volcano, we've gotta save them." Sapphire stated. "We're gonna need your tow hook."

The Zord roared and small hatch opened up on it's back and a large hook and rope came out. "Alright, let's move." The Zord opened it's mouth and Sapphire ran into the Zord and sat in the cockpit. "Next stop, Africa!" The Zord spread it's wings and flew into the air. Music started playing in the background.

Heard ya might need some help
(Let's hook ya on up, hook ya on up)
Get'cha back safe and sound
(A powerful Zord, a powerful Zord)
We're revved and rarin' to go (Wa-ah-oh)
So come on, ready, set, tow!

Tow Zord Team to the rescue
If you're broken down, we'll pull you to safety
Tow Zord Team to the rescue
With tow truck power, we're always ready

Tow Zord Team to the rescue

Meanwhile, at Vulcan's Tower, Vulcan and the minions heard everything. "You three make sure she doesn't reach those rangers." he ordered. "She'll be too late to save them."

"Yes, Master!"

The minions teleported away and Vulcan snickered. "We'll get rid of those rangers and that Animal Ranger is as good as ours. HAHAHA!"

Jaguin Zord was soaring through the air heading towards Africa. "Hang on guys, I'm coming!" she said to herself.

Just then huge pink hair came out of nowhere and grabbed Jaguin Zord. "Woah, Hey!" The Zord struggled to get loose but the hair tied up it's legs and hung it upside-down. "Woah, what's going on?!"

That's when Sapphire heard familiar laughter and there staring at her though the window. "Marla."

"Surprise, Animal Ranger." she teased. Keto used his mugic to make her giant.

"What do you want Marla?" Sapphire snarled.

"Me and the boys are to make sure you don't reach your precious friends in time." Marla explained with a snicker. Sapphire gasped and pushed on the controls, trying to free Jaguin Zord. "You're not getting out of my hair so easily, Animal Ranger." Marla taunted. Sapphire pulled on the controls, but Marla's grip was too strong. Just then, she spotted something out the window, swimming towards Marla, specifically, a blue fin with a white tip!

Megalodon Zord burst from the water and chomped Marla's hair, making her screech and freeing Jaguin Zord. "MY HAIR! MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR!" The Zord landed back in the ocean. "Atta boy, Megalodon!" Sapphire praised. The Zord roared and Marla was defiantely not amused. "You;ll pay for that!" She fired at Jagiun Zord but Megalodon launched itself out of the water again and smacked the attack back at Marla. Sapphire knew this was her chance. She slammed on the controls and rushed away from Marla.

"Phew, that was close."

The screen started beeping and she pressed it. "Guys, how are you holding up?" she asked.

"We're going good so far, but-" Lightning replied but was cut off by another shake from the volcano. "I'm afraid we won't be for long." Rainbow finished.

"Hang in there, guys. Me and Jaguin Zord are coming." Sapphire reassured.

"Okay." Sunset replied and the screen cut off. "I've gotta get there and quick!" Sapphire pushed on the controls and Jaguin Zord zoomed off. Soon, she made it to Africa.

Looking down below, she saw all kinds of animals; Lions, Cheetah, Impala and more. But now was not the time for that. She had a rescue mission to complete. "Alright Twilight, I'm in Africa, now where the volcano?"

"The volcano is due north east by fifteen miles. And you better hurry, the volcano is gonna blow in thirty minutes!" Sapphire gasped and as people say, punched it!

She made it to the volcano and could see the smoke coming out of the top. She drove the Zord to the top and saw the megazord. "Guys! I'm here!" she called.

The rangers looked on the screen and saw her. "Sapphire, you made it!" Rainbow cheered. The lava was starting to bubble a lot more and the shaking was getting worse and worse. "Get us out of here!" Lightning cried.

"Hang on guys." Sapphire drove the Zord to the shaft but suddenly she was stopped by a force field! "What the-?"

That's when she saw a large Bronc and Keto floating on the other side of the volcano. "Like our surprise, Animal Ranger?" Bronc taunted. Sapphire grunted. "This force field is indestructible, combined with my technology and Keto's mugic. Not even your Zord cane break it. So say goodbye to your friends."

"Never!" Sapphire planned to ram the force field but Bronc and Keto bashed her away from the island. "Sapphire!" Sunset cried.

Jaguin Zord recovered and roared at Bronc and Keto. "Outta my way!" Sapphire yelled.

"You'll have to force your way through." Keto said. Sapphire growled and pushed on the controls, but the Zord was stopped in it's tracks but... pink hair! "Marla!"

The female monster laughed, "Thought you saw the last of me, huh?" Marla slammed the Zord onto the ground and a giant Bronc pinned it. "Agh!" Sapphire pounded the controls but the Zord was completely stuck. Worse than that, the volcano was shaking violently now, meaning it was gonna erupt int he next fifteen minutes! She needed to get rid of the minions and save her friends and she had to do it now.

"Finally, we'll get rid of the rangers for good!" Marla cheered. Bronc and Keto laughed.

Just then, something rammed Bronc, pushing him off of Jaguin Zord and knocked Keto away. "What?!" Marla exclaimed. Then something else came and slashed her hair, setting Sapphire and Jaguin Zord free. Marla screeched, "My hair! Not again! Who did that?!"

The figures revealed themselves to be Pheonix Zord and Smilodon Zord. "Phoenix, Smilodon!" Sapphire cried happily. The Zord's roared at the villains. "You wanna fight, pests?" Bronc taunted, "Bring it!"

That's when Twilight called, "Sapphire, the volcano is gonna blow in five minutes! You have to get the megazord out of there now!"

"Right. Phoenix, Smilodon, keep them busy!" Sapphire flew off with her Zord and hovered over the shaft of the volcano. "I've gotta take care of the force field!"

"Jaguin Zord, Use VOLT TACKLE!"

Jaguin Zord flew up, up, up into the air about three hundred feet and folded it's wings in a dive. Covering itself in electrical energy, the speed increased the force of the attack and KABOOM! It smashed right through the force field, much to the minions horror.

The megazord was getting rocked by the lava and the shaking. "We're goners!" Rainbow cried.

"Ah man, this is it!" Buddy added.

Suddenly they all heard a loud boom and spotted Jaguin Zord diving towards them, "Sapphire!" they all cried.

"Hook engage!" Sapphire ordered. The hook and rope released and wrapped around the megazord, securing it. "Hold on everyone!" She pulled on the controls and towed the megazord out of the volcano just as lava and smoke burst into the sky. The rangers all looked and gasped, "Woah!"

Phoenix and Smilodon bashed the minions to the ground and saw the megazord out of the volcano. "Drats, we failed again! Let's beat it!" Bronc stated. The minions agreed and teleported away.

"Now, let's go home." Sapphire said and she and other Zords flew back to Mystic Island.

Back in the base, Twilight and the others praised Sapphire for her incredible rescue. "That rescue was epic, Sapphire!" Spike exclaimed.

"Totally amazing!" Krysta added.

"Thanks for the save Sapphire." Sunset praised. "We would have been toast if it wasn't for you."

"Yeah, thanks." Lightning added.

Sapphire blushed in embrassment. "Thanks guys. Through I still don't know how Megalodon, Phoenix and Smilodon came to help me and Jaguin, I didn't even summon them."

"Maybe they act just like animals, forming a bond with you and they can sense when you're in trouble and they come to help?" Twilight theorized.

"That would make sense." Sunset agreed and the others did too. "Now, onto another matter, why don't we call go out for something to eat, it's on me." Celesto said.

"Yeah!" Everybody cheered and they all went out to get something to eat.

Episode 15: Death Song Drama

Sunday morning, Sapphire woke up to Snowflake and Midnight licking her face. "Morning you guys." She climbed out of bed and exited her bedroom, encountering Striker. "Hi Striker." The Triple Stryke roared a greeting. She entered the bathroom, washed up and put her clothes on.

Right then, she noticed how quiet is was in the huge mansion. Usually she would hear Luna, Celesto and Celestia in the kitchen along with the children babbling. This was... odd. ".... Hello?" she called.

No response.

She walked all around the mansion and didn't find any sign of them or the servants. On the ground was a small substance. It was orange and smooth to touch but hard when she pressed down on it. Midnight, Striker and Snowflake appeared at her side. "I feel like I've seen this before... but where." She exited the mansion and found Flamestripe and Smoke and Fire. "Flamestripe, Smoke, Fire, have you seen Mr. Grandruler and the other?"

The two dragons shook their heads.

"Weird."

"Maybe there's someone in the city that can help us."

Sapphire mounted Snowflake and they all flew over the city. Surprisingly, there was nobody in the metropolis either! No children running around and no parents going to work. She went to her friends respective homes and found... nothing. All that was found was the same orange colored substance she found at the mansion. "Alright, this is weird. There's nobody in the mansion and there's nobody in the city."

Walking through the ghost town she looked around for anything that would help her figure out what happened. Suddenly, she was grabbed by something and pulled into an alley. "Wah!" The dragons dashed into the alley and snarled at whom grabbed Sapphire. Sapphire got free and turned around. ".... Marla, Bronc, Keto?!"

It was true. Vulcan's minions were there in the flesh. "What are you three doing here?"

"What did you do with our master?" Marla asked.

"Huh?" Sapphire replied.

"When we woke up he was gone and all there was was this orange stuff." Keto claimed holding up the same orange substance. Sapphire gasped, "That's the same stuff I found throughout the city!"

"You did?" Bronc questioned. "Then, if Vulcan wasn't taken by you. Then... who did?"

"Looks like we have a real mystery on out hands." Sapphire said. "We have to figure out who took everyone."

The minions were taken aback. "I'm sorry. 'We'? Oh, no, we're not working with a ranger. Forget it!" Marla scoffed. Bronc and Keto weren't too keen on the idea either. "Please, we're the only ones left and my dragons."

The minions still weren't interested. "If we save everyone then maybe Vulcan will respect you a little more." The minions perked up a little. "... Fine, we'll help." Bronc replied gruffly.

"Great!" Sapphire cheered.

The four of them went to the soccer field near Canterlot High to review what they knew. "So when you three woke up, Vulcan was missing?" Sapphire started

"Yes, usually he's screaming at us to wake up." Marla responded. "But today he wasn't"

"All that was there was this orange stuff." Keto added.

"Is there anything else that happened?" Sapphire asked.

"Well... there was this weird noise we heard last night." Bronc added.

"What did it sound like?" Sapphire asked.

"It sounded like a badly written song." Keto answered. Sapphire thought for a moment. There was no animal that could have captured everyone just over night. If there were, there would me lots and lots of footprints on the floor and signs of a struggle. But the fact that there weren't meant that if wasn't an animal that done this act. "Hmmm.... sounds like some kind of dragon to me."
"You think a dragon could be responsible for this?" Bronc inquired.

Sapphire nodded, "There's one dragon in here that can make this substance." she started looking through her Book of Dragons. "Where is it."

Just then, they all hear loud song echoing across the island. "That's it! That's the song we heard." Marla exclaimed. "It sounded like a siren song." Sapphire's dragons seemed to be in a trance for a moment. Their eye pupil's turned small but it was only for a second.

"It came from the far side of island." Sapphire replied. "Come on." Sapphire mounted Snowflake and flew off followed by the other dragons and the minions. The followed the song to a large cove. They all landed and entered the cove.

They all gasped in horror. There were a lot of people trapped in the substance. They struggled to get loose, but the substance was too strong. They all walked into the cove. "This is bad." Sapphire said.

"But what is this stuff?" Marla asked. She went over to one person and tried to pull it off, but it was in vain. "This stuff is thick." she commented. Sapphire looked around and gasped again. "Guys!" she cried. She ran to her friends all trapped in the same substance. They all gasped in joy. "Sapphire!" Lightning cried.

"Thank goodness, you're here." Celesto added.

"Get us out of this stuff." Fluttershy whimpered.

The minions looked around and saw not too far from the rangers was, "Master Vulcan!" The three of them race over to Vulcan who was trapped against a wall. "Are you alright?" Marla asked. Vulcan grunted, "I'm fine." he replied gruffly. "Sapphire, please tell us you know what this stuff is." Lightning pleaded.

"I've seen this before with a dragon-"

"A dragon?!" Rainbow cried.

"Yes, but I can't remember the name."

Just then, they all heard several roars in the air. That's when they appeared.

Three 75 feet long dragons with striking and bright colors of blue, yellow, and orange along with colorful wings , fins on the heads. Long spines along the back and long horns and barbles.

The landed on the top of the cover and roared loudly. Sapphire and the others hid behind some rocks while the dragons snorted and flew off. They came out and went to their friends and master. "What... was that?" Luna questioned.

"Just as I feared... Death Song Dragons."

"Death Song Dragons?" Celesto said, not liking the sound of the them. "Yes, they're part of the Mystery Class of dragons. Very dangerous. They use a siren-like song to lure dragons and in this case, people in their territory and then traps them in an amber like substance that really hard to break."

"You're telling me." Buddy added.

"So, will since they usually lure dragons into here, they're safe right?" Marla asked. Sapphire sighed and shook her head. "Death Songs will prey on anything, but other dragons are their favorite food."

"So those things will..." Celestia started.

"Eat you when they come back... yes." The rangers and the Grandrulers' were horrified. "Get us out here, NOW!" Rainbow screamed.

"Is there any weakness to this amber?" Keto asked, trying to wack the amber off of Vulcan.

"It's weak to dragon fire." Sapphire replied. "Flamestripe, use your-"

Before Sapphire could finish the command the Death Songs came back and roared at Sapphire, the minions and the other dragons. "Aww geez!" Bronc whimpered. They fired the amber from their mouths. "Watch it!" Sapphire shouted. The minions screamed in fear and rushed out of the cove followed by Sapphire and the dragons. They roared loudly, establishing their territory and went back into the cove.

Sapphire, the dragons and the minions caught their breath. "Talk about a close one." Keto said.

"You're telling me." Marla agreed. "We need a plan to get those Death Songs away before Vulan becomes their next lunch."

"And my friends." Sapphire added.

"Whatever."

"Anyway, how are we gonna lure them away?" Bronc questioned.

"We can't battle them, there's too many. Our only hope is for someone to act as bait and lure them away from the cove so someone else can get in a free everyone. But who's gonna be the bait?" Sapphire asked. Then she gave a mischievous smile to the minions and they caught on to what she meant. "Us, bait. No way, No How!" Keto stated. Marla and Bronc agreed.

"Oh come on, you three are the only ones who can lure them while me and my dragons free everyone." Sapphire explained. "Vulcan, may respect you more~"

That convinced the minions, "Alright." they all said.

Back in the cove, the Death Songs approached the people and the rangers, ready to grab them and eat them. "What are we gonna do?" Fluttershy whimpered. Just then, lasers came and hit the Death Songs and they roared in anger. They all saw Bronc and the minions in the air, "Hey lizards, come and get us!" Marla taunted. The Death Songs roared and flew after the minions and thy flew away from the cove.

This gave Sapphire and her dragons the oppurtunity to rushed back into the cove. "Guys."

"Sapphire!" Sunset cheered. "Get us out, quickly!"

"Right, Flamestripe, Smoke, Fire, Striker, Fire!" The three dragons blasted the amber, breaking the cocoons holding the people and the rangers. They set Vulcan and the other wild dragons free. The wild dragons roared and flew away from the cove. "Come on!" Sapphire snapped. Everybody rushed out of the cove and into a field. "We're free." Celestia said.

"Thank goodness." Celesto added.

The minions saw everyone was free and blasted the Death Songs creating a large smoke cloud. The Death Songs were distracted and when the cloud vanished they found the field and the cove empty. The dragons growled an decided to find food somewhere else. There was too much trouble here for food.

The minions and Vulcan went back to the tower while the people and the rangers went back to the city and cleaned up all the amber. "You saved us again, Sapphire." Sunset said.

"Yeah, you and your dragons... and the minions, which is weird." Rainbow said.

"Maybe there not so evil after all." Sapphire smirked. Lightning rolled his eyes, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, but they're still the enemy."

"I know." Sapphire replied. Celesto and Celestia watched all of them with smiles on their faces. Sapphire had really stepped up and became a leader during a crisis and they were most proud of her.

Episode 16: Puberty (Hate it!)

One day, Sapphire woke up to the bright morning sunlight. She stretched and got out of bed and went to the bathroom to prepare for school. However, when she turned the light and looked in the mirror, she screamed in horror. “AAAAAHHH!”

Her scream woke up Mr. Grandruler and Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna. The girls rushed into the bathroom. “Sapphire, what wrong?” Celestia asked then gasped at Comet’s face. It was covered in red, diamond-shaped stones!

“Sapphire, what happened?” Luna asked.

“I-I don’t know, I just woke up went in here and saw these on my face.” Sapphire began scratching her face and then her body. “Wait!” Sapphire unbuttoned her pajama shirt and to her and the girls horror, the stones were covering her body too! “What’s happening to me!” she cried.

“Celesto! Quick, call Twilight and the others!” Celestia called. Celesto raced off to the phone. Soon, the rangers, Twilight and her family were there. Twilight touched one of the stones on Sapphire's face. “Ow!”

“So they just came overnight?” Lightning asked.

“Yes.” Sapphire replied. “I don’t know what’s going on.”

Twilight took out a magic scanner and moved it over her body. “Hmmm.”

“What is it, Twilight?” Fluttershy asked.

“Will Sapphire be okay,
Please tell us without delay.” Rhymey added.

“It said that Sapphire's magic is changing so her body is changing as well to deal with this.”

“Changing? So she's going through... puberty?” Rainbow asked.

"Not exactly, it's something called the Magic Molt, it's extremely rare to occur in the Dimensional Universe. It when magic begins to evolve and the user begins to change to accommodate it.” Sunset explained.

“Change as in how?” Celesto asked.

"I haven't seen it until now, but I know they symptoms and some are not that... tolerable.”

“Symptoms?” Sapphire squeaked. "Like what?"

“Painful stones spots, fire burps, uncontrollable volume shifts and a horrible smell.” Hearing the symptoms made everybody shocked and concerned. “Fire burps!” Rainbow cried.

“Volume shifts?” Lightning cried.

Sapphire's stomach gurgled “Uh-oh” She gagged and out came a large stream of fire. “Woah! Gah! Lookout!” Everybody ducked to avoid it. When it was done, Sapphire coughed and saw that she burned right through the mansion tv! Leaving a large, smoking hole in it. “Oooh.” She groaned.

The rangers looked at the damage. “Well that’s a fire burp.” Rainbow said nervously.

“Yep.” Lightning added.

”Sorry.” Sapphire apologized.

“What?” Lightning asked.

”I said I’m sorry.”

“Did you say lime berry?” Rainbow asked.

I said I’m sorry!”

Everybody winced at her volume shift. Celesto picked his ear. “And I’m guessing that’s volume shift?”

“Yep.” Sunset replied.

“Ooooh. What am I going to do?” Sapphire whimpered.

“How long will this last, Sunset?” Lightning asked.

“It’s hard to say, it could be days or weeks.”

“Weeks!?” Sapphire cried. She ran to the couch and leaped onto it and covered herself with a blanket. The others felt pity on her. Puberty was not an easy thing to go through. “Oh, Sapphire, don’t worry, everything will be fine.” Fluttershy reassured.

Sapphire sighed sadly. “Well, until this goes away, Sapphire will have to stay home for a few days.” Celestia said.

“But what about my schoolwork?” Comet asked from under the blanket. "Make one of your clones." Rainbow suggested.

"Not a good idea, Rainbow. The Magic Molt cause any magic that's used to go completely out of control." Sunset replied. The gang all winced. not wanting to see what would happen if Sapphire tried to use any of her magic. “We’ll get your work for you.” Sunset offered.

“Okay.” Sapphire said.

“Come on, you don’t wanna be late.” Luna said as she ushered the rangers and Twilight out. “Spike, can you stay here with Comet, to keep her company.” Twilight asked.

“Sure thing.” Spike replied.

“You too, Krysta.” Lightning added.

“You bet, Lightning.” Kyrsta said. Snowflake entered the room, having heard all of the commotion. She saw Sapphire hiding under the blanket and nudged it, warbling. "I'm alright girl, just... going through something right now." The rangers, Twilight and the Principals went off to school and Celesto went they off to work, all of them unaware that Marla was watching them on the monitors. She had a strange feeling in her heart as she watched Sapphire suffer from this ‘Magic Molt’ process. “I’ve been there girlfriend. I’ve been there.” she whispered. That’s when the boys barged In. “Marla! Stop being lazy and come up with a plan to get the rangers!” Bronc sneered.

Marla growled and turned. “How about you do something useful instead of telling me the obvious.”

The boys didn’t like her attitude but before they could retort. “HEY!”

The minions flinched and drakes when they saw how angry he was. “How about you all stop arguing like pathetic children and hep me with my plan to destroy the rangers.”

“What’s our plan, Master?” Keto asked.

He presented a feminine monster to the minions. She was seeing a dark purple robe and wizard hat with snakes on it. She held a staff that had a stone snake coiling around it. “Slitherina, at your service.”

Keto and Bronc went goo goo at her Looks while Marla scoffed. “You May be beautiful, but your not my level.” Sliterina walked up to her and peeled a snake marking on it. As soon as it detatched, the snake cane to life and hissed at Marla. “EEK!” she squeaked and hid behind Bronc.

Vulcan chuckled. “Sliterina will destroy those rangers with her little snakes.”

“Right, Master.”

“Now get out there.”

Sliterina saluted and teleprted to Mystic Island.

Meanwhile, the rangers were in lunch, sitting at the same table. “Fluttershy, why aren’t you eating?” Rainbow asked.

“You’re still worried about Sapphire?” Sunset guessed. Fluttershy nodded. To tell you the truth all the rangers were worried about their friend. “Wonder what she’s doing now?” Lightning wondered.

At the mansion, Sapphire fire burped into a metal bucket that miraculously didn’t melt. The burping made her feel sick to her stomach. “Uuuuh... I hate this.” she groaned.

“Aww, cheer up, Sapphire.” Spike said. “Maybe this will give you some new powers.”

“Yeah. Like the ability to fly.” Kyrsta added. Comet smiled a little at the pets. “Thanks for trying to cheer me up.” The pets smiled at her. Snowflake warbled and nuzzled her rider.

“I’m sure she’s fine, Fluttershy.” Sunset reassured.

That’s when the rangers morphers began glowing red. Duty calls. “Let’s go!” Sunset said. They all went to the base and found Celesto and Twilight. “Rangers, there’s a monster in the city.” Celesto reported. Twilight showed it on the monitors. Sliterina was sending her snakes to bite people and infect them with their venom.

“Oh my goodness.” Fluttershy cried.

“Let’s go!” Lightning said.

“Careful, don’t let the snakes bite you.” Twilight cautioned. The rangers nodded and headed out.

In the city, Sliterina was laughing as she watch people groan in pain and fall to the floor. “Now this is fun.”

“Fun’s over, creep.” Sliterina turned and saw the rangers. “Ha, more victims for my snakes.”

“We’ll see about that. IT’S MORPHIN TIME!” Sunset called.

“STARFLEET MAGIC... POWER ON!”

“Lingoes, Attack!” The rangers charged the Lingoes.

Rainbow did a spinning kick, sending two Lingoes into each other. “Not so tough now.” she said. Buddy and Rhymey flipped over some of the Lingoes easily and they crashed into each other. Lightning and Sunset broke through the ambush and began fighting Sliterina. They punched and kicked but she blocked their attacks with her staff and blasted them both, sending them rolling to the ground. “Guys.” Rainbow cried as she and the others rushed towards them. “Are you okay?”

“Yeah. We’re okay.” Sunset replied.

“Time for some fun. Get them my pets.” She said and she sent she snakes after the rangers. Fluttershy shrieked and leaped into Rhymey’s arms. “Watch out!” A snake lunged at Sunset but she dodged it just in time as did the others who were almost bitten by other snakes. Slitherina laughed. “Hahaha! You rangers are about to be snake food.”

Her eyes glowed as well as the snakes and much to everybody’s horror, they all combined into one huge snake about fourteen feet tall and twenty feet long. “I think we’re in big trouble.” Buddy cried.

“Really? I didn’t notice.” Sunset whimpered.

“Get them!” Slitherina ordered. The large snake slithered towards the rangers. “Let’s bring the heavy artillery, guys.” Sunset said. The rangers summoned their weapons.

Sunset: “Star Scepter!”

Buddy Rose: “Plasma Whip!”

Rainbow Dash: “Sonic Cannon!”

Rhymey: “Raid Blade!”

Fluttershy: “Strong Shield!”

Rainbow blasts the snake with her cannon but th snake didn’t seem to be affected by it at all. It retaliated by wacking her hard with its tail sending her to the ground. “Rainbow!” Rhymey rushed towards the snake but the snake grabbed him with its tail and threw him into Buddy. Sunset charged with her scepter ready to fire but the snake fired lasers from its eyes, blasting the scooter out of her hands. “No!” then it hit her with it’s massive tail. Fluttershy was the only one standing and she looked at the snake. She gulped and charged the snake with her shield up.

She rammed the snake but the snake pushed back and sent her flying.

At the base, Twilight and Celesto was the horror. “Their weapons aren’t doing a thing!” Twilight cried.

“The snake must have some thick scales and high resistance.” Celesto said.

“Now what?” Twilight asked.

The snake bashed the ranger again. “Ugh! This thing is too strong.” Fluttershy said. Slitherina laughed. “Time to end you rangers. Wrap them up, my pretty.” The snake obeyed and coiled around the rangers.

“Oh no!” Twilight cried.

At the mansion, Sapphire suddenly sat up and looked concerned about something. “Sapphire, what’s wrong?” Krysta asked.

“My friends, I feel like they’re in trouble.” Sapphire said. Sapphire got up and began heading toward the door. Snowflake and the pets followed her, “Where are you going?” Spike asked.

“I’ve gotta help them.”

“But your symptoms might prevent you from doing that.” Kyrsta pointed out. “It’s a risk I’ll have to take.” Sapphire opened and rushed out the door. ”STARFLEET MAGIC... POWER ON!” she morphed and dashed off to her friends followed by her Light Fury Dragon.

Meanwhile, the rangers were till getting squeezed by Slitherina’s snake.

“What might,
So tight.” Rhymey cried.

“Can... hardly... breath.” Buddy added. They were beginning to lose consciousness. Slitherina laughed. “Finally, You pesky Rangers will be no more.”

Suddenly...

“Raptor Spirit, Arise!”

A ghostly raptor came and slashed the snake. It hissed in pain and let the rangers go. They all took a deep breath. “We’re free.” Rainbow said. “But how?”

“Look!” Sunset pointed and they all saw Sapphire holding her Animal Scepter. “Sapphire!”

“Ahh, so the Animal ranger finally comes out.” Slitherina taunted.

“Sapphire, you shouldn’t be be here, your symptoms.” Lightning called.

”I’ll be fine.” Comet reassured loudly. The rangers covered their ears. ”Sorry.”

“Get them!” Slitherina ordered. The snake hissed as well as the raptor spirit they charged each other and the raptor leaped up and bit the snake on the head. It hissed in pain and threw the spirit to the ground.

“Let’s go!” Sunset snapped. The six rangers and dragon charged forth. Sapphire tried to do the same but her stomach gurgled again. “Uh-oh.” She quickly took off her helmet and fire burped. “Ugh.” Her spots began to itch and she scratched them furiously. “Stupid Symptoms.” She watched as her friends punched the snake and the raptor continuously bite it.

“I’ve.. gotta... help... Agh!” she groaned. Suddenly she glowed red and the spots turned gray and the itching stopped. Sapphire sighed in relief. “Thank goodness.”

Just then, she unmorphed and glowed extremely bright that the rangers, Slitherina and the snake saw it. They covered their eyes. “What’s happening to Sapphire?” Buddy asked.

“I don’t know?” Lightning replied.

When the glowing stopped Comet was on the ground. “Ugh.” Comet stood up “What happened.” She felt something on her head. She went over to a fountain and looked at her reflection. She now had a unicorn horn sticking out of her head!

“I just spout a horn... I JUST SPROUTED A HORN!” she cried with excitement. The rangers couldn’t believe it.

“Awesome!” Rainbow cried.

“Sorry to interrupt, but we have a battle to finish!” Sunset snapped.

“Right!” The rangers all rushed Slitherina and her snake when...

”FORTISSIMO!”

Slitherina and her sale grew big. “What happened?!” Rainbow said.

“Hello rangers.” The rangers turned and saw Keto standing nearby with his staff. “Hope you like my surprise.” He laughed and vanished. “Agh! He is so annoying!” Lightning stated.

“Let’s go, guys!” cried Sunset, “Launch Star-Jets!”

“Zords, Combine!”

“Jet Star Megazord… Ready!”

“Comet Striker… Armor Up!”

“Summon Armor!”

“Comet Striker… Ready!”

The two spots stood ready to fight. “Let’s take care of them.” Slitherina said. The snake Slitherina over to the megazord and wrapped it up. “It’s got us! We can’t break free!” Buddy cried. The rangers pounded the controls but the megazord didn’t move.

“Hang on, guys.” Lightning dashed over to help his friends when Slitherina bashed him away. “Not so fast.”

Sapphire saw this and knew she had to help. “Dire Wolf Zord, Arise!” The Zord burst from its hiding spot and raced to the battle scene. Sapphire was beamed into the cockpit. The Zord pounced on the snake and yanked it off of the megazord. “Thanks.” Sunset said.

“You little doggie won’t help you.” Slitherina added.

“Oh Yeah?” The Zord blasted Slitherina and the snake with it’s laser eyes. It slashed them both twice. “Time to end this! EMERALD GARDEN!!”

The Zord howled and formed a ball of grass energy and launched it at Slitherina. The ball struck her and she felt her strength depleting rapidly "What... is... this?" Soon all of her energy was gone and she was shrunk down and were imprisoned in a capture sphere. “Alright, Sapphire!” Rainbow cried.

“That’s the way!” Lightning added. The people rejoiced and cheered.

Sunset made the call. “MONSTER CAPTURED, MISSION COMPLETE!”

The minions and Vulcan were outraged. “Ugh! Those rangers beat us again!” Marla said as she threw a hissy fit.

“Bronc and Keto were upset as well, but Vulcan was more interestined than angry. “Master Vulcan, What is it?” Bronc asked.

“It appears the little Animal Ranger has evolved.” Vulcan stated. "Interesting."

The minions just looked at each other, "Ummm... sir."

Vulcan turned to them, "Looks like this war got alot more interesting."

Meanwhile, the rangers returned to the base with the monster. “Excellent work, Rangers. Also, congrats on the new look, Sapphire.” Celesto said, referring to her new horn.

“So now what? What do I do with it ?” Sapphire asked.

“Well, I can ask Commander Lightning to send of basic magic spells, so you can practice.” Sunset offered. Sunset explained the Dimensional Universe to Sapphire so she would understand the magic in their world.

Sapphire smiled. “Thanks.”

“Be careful, Sapphire, now that Vulcan knows your magic has grown, he'll stop at nothing to capture you.” Celesto warned.

“Don’t worry, we won’t let that creep get her.” Lightning said. The rangers nodded promising not to let Sapphire fall into Vulcan's hands. “Sapphire's going to be the talk of the town at school tomorrow.” Buddy said.

“Yeah. I can’t wait.” Twilight said. The rangers rolled their eyes at Twilight. “No studying her at school.” Celesto said.

“Aw.” Twilight whined. The rangers laughed. Typical Twilight.

Episode 17: 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, Sapphire leaped in front of them and blasted a large stream of water from her newly acquired horn. “Hey, what’s that?” shouted Molt, but he got his answer as the water blasted him hard. "Nice shot, Sapphire!" Buddy said.

“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, Vulcan 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?”

Vulcan nodded in agreement
The minions wondered what was the project Vulcan was talking about?

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 missiles just left it 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 Megaladon Zord caught it in its mouth and carefully carried 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 Zord was coming in, bringing Sunset’s flaming jet towards the pad. The Zord placed the jet on the pad and with a loud thud, and the flames began to spread. “Release foam, all sections!” shouted Celesto. While all that was going on, Megaladon Zord and 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 Vulcan 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 and the magic-related incidents that have happened in the past, 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!" For a second, the Zord released and it's jaws emitted lightning energy. It bit down on the shoulder with more force this time and also shocking Airdrea. "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 Vulcan hears about this.” said Bronc. However, much to everyone surprise, Vulcan 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, except for Sapphire. "Yeah school!" she cheered but then realize, "Oh, wait, I made my clone. Dang it!" 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 18: Robot vs Zord

Early one morning, Vulcan stood atop his tower. His overcoat fluttered in the breeze as he looked out the miles of ocean surrounding the island “The time is near…” he hissed to himself “After many battles and man failures; I may finally have what it takes to defeat the rangers.”

He teleported inside and yelled for his minions!

Bronc, Keto, and Marla all rushed to him. “You called, Master?” said Bronc. “Yes.” replied Vulcan “The time has come for me to unveil my work to you all. Come with me.”

The minions, intrigued, followed him to his private lab. “Behold, my masterpiece!” said Vulcan as he flicked on the lights and everyone saw it…!

…A large robot, coated in gold and silver armor, with four arms, and it was loaded with all kinds of weaponry; buzz-saws, small cannons, and a spiked-ball on a chain. The minions were in awe. “Whoa!” remarked Keto.

“It’s incredible!” whispered Bronc. Marla didn’t know what to saw or feel, but she impressed no doubt. Vulcan explained that using the remains of the volcanic and comet energies, he used it to create his robot which he named “Vulcano”!

“This will prove to be far greater than any prisoner we have sent.” he picked up a remote control, and a type of visor, revealing he would be controlling the Vulcano himself; almost as if he himself were actually going to be fighting the rangers. “Um, I hate to sound like a downer,” Marla cut in “But what it if doesn’t work?” Bronc and Keto urged her to be quiet so as not to upset Vulcan, but Vulcan actually snickered, “That’s just the point. You see, in business you can never be too certain your plan will succeed or not.

…I know this especially considering the the number of times you all failed in the past!”

“It wasn’t all our faults.” said Keto “The prisoners are the one who…”

“Never mind!” snapped Vulcan “The point is, in business before you do anything with a new machine or a plan, be sure to test it to see how it works.”

He pressed on the controller and Vulcano began to come to life, and it looked raring to go.

Vulcan laughed wickedly, and the minions laughed too.

(Que Intro)

Later that day, the rangers were visiting their friends in the hospital.

After all this time, they still showed no sign of awakening, but at least their bodies felt warmer, and their wounds had healed nicely, but it would’ve been so much nicer if they were awake. Sapphire tilted her head to the side, being that she never met them before, but her friends told her what transpired before they met her and she felt really bad for them. Lightning gazed down pitifully at Starla. “I can’t begin to think of all the stuff they’ve missed out on.”

Fluttershy looked as if she would cry, such thoughts broke her heart. All the picnics she and her friends had been on, all the activities and events at school, why even school itself. “What if they never wake up!” she cried.

Rhymey placed his hand upon her shoulder saying,

“They will awaken, I know they will.
But we must continue to be strong for them still.”

The others agreed, “And watch…” Rainbow joked as she stood near Pinkie Pie “They wake up and she’ll want to throw us the biggest party ever.”

The others all smiled and sniggered softly, except for Sunset. Everyone saw her by Artie’s bed. It had been really hard on her all this time, and she really wished he were awake. “I miss you so much.” she said softly to him as she held his hand.

She remembered all the wonderful times they had when they first became a couple. She thought it so magically that he could ever have feelings for her, but more magically when she discovered her true feelings for him.

All her life she hardly understood passion and true love, and thanks to him and to all her friends, now she knew, and it was all worth it.

“Please come back to us…” she whispered to Artie “…To me.” She didn’t even care that the others were watching, or whether if it was even allowed or not. She bent down gently pressing her lips against Artie’s. All the others thought that was a deep moment; like something in a fairy-tale, but of course her kiss didn’t wake Artie up. Tears flow down Sunset’s cheeks. Buddy came over and comforted her, holding her close. “Come on, maybe we should go. It won’t do you too good to stay here.”

Sunset tearfully agreed.

They all left the hospital where Twilight was outside with Spike. “How are they?” she asked, but the silence she received and the remains of Sunset’s tearful expression told her, “About the same, huh?”

The others all sighed. “I wish we knew how much longer we had to wait until they woke up.” said Buddy. The others all felt the same, but of course there wasn’t much they could do.

“By the way, how’s the status on the portal?” Rainbow asked Sunset. She shook her head, meaning the connection between the two worlds had not yet been repaired. “I even wrote to Commander Lightning, and he said it will still take time, that and he and his friends are up to their ears in danger tracking all the escaped prisoners.”

Spike shuddered, “Just the thought of that ruffles my fur. You guys only face a few monsters a week, but… imagine facing a few hundred at once!”

Fluttershy could actually see it before her eyes; Monsters! Everywhere she looked she could see monsters of many shapes and sizes, all of them laughing and growling at her.

She whimpered nervously as she quivered.

Even the others couldn’t help but find such a thought horrifying.

Meanwhile, Krysta was flying about, humming and singing softly as she, pretty, much patrolled around the island. The suburbs were quiet, the parks were clean, there didn’t seem to be anything bad happening in the city itself.

Krysta heard the sound of the town clock chiming. “Twelve-O-Clock and all is well.” she said as she stood on a roof ledge. Then he stomach gurgled, “Oh… right on que. Lunch time!” she said, and she was about to take off when suddenly she heard people screaming below. She looked down and saw Vulcan’s minions all in the street with a swarm of Lingos. All of them causing trouble; terrorizing the citizens and smashing things up causing a huge ruckus as they shouted out for the rangers to appear.

“Come on out, Rangers!” Marla shouted, and she ordered her Lingos to “Destroy!”

Bronc and Keto fired their blasts at the ground and buildings.

Krysta flew off in a heartbeat to warn the rangers on the other side of the city. She found them all walking down the street from the hospital.

“Lightning…! LIGHTNING…!!”

Lightning looked up “Krysta…?”

She soared down so fast she almost crashed onto the sidewalk. She was panting very heavily trying to catch her breath. Lightning scooped her up in his arms as she tried to explain. “Saw the… city… screaming… monst…”

“What is she saying?” asked Rainbow.

“Don’t look at me, I don’t speak bird, if that’s even what it is.” said Spike.

Krysta finally caught her breath, but as she was about to explain, Celesto called the rangers. “Red Alert…! Red Alert!” he said to them over their coms, “Vulcan’s minions are terrorizing downtown. Proceed at once!”

Lightning looked down at Krysta, “Let me guess… THAT’S what you were trying to say?”

“…Duh!” remarked Krysta.

Twilight took Krysta and Spike, “We’ll head to the base. You guys get going.”

The rangers agreed and Sunset called, “Come on guys… It’s Morphin’ Time!”

“STARFLEET MAGIC…!!”

“Cosmic Comet…!”

“… POWER ON!!”

Sapphire whistled and Snowflake and Striker came to her side.

The citizens continued to run in panic, but a little girl dropped her stuffed dog on the sidewalk and wrenched away from her mother to run and pick it up.

“No! Come back!” her mother shouted as she dashed to catch up to her daughter, only to run right into Keto and a few Lingos. “Hi there…” Keto teased, frightening the lady and child. Snowflake flew in and blasted Keto away and landed in front of the mother and child. This gave the mother and child their chance to escape.

Bronc snickered, “You certainly took your sweet time getting here.”

“Yeah…? Well it won’t take much time for us to get you OUT of here!” sneered Sunset. The other rangers all agreed.

“Get them!” Marla called to the Lingos.

The rangers and dragons all rushed forth! Striker wracked the Lingos easily with it's tail. Snowflake did the same thing and blasted some with her plasma blast. Rainbow gave a Lingo a huge soccer-kick to the chest sending it crashing into two more.

Sapphire barreled the Lingoes with her cheetah speed, slashing each one with her scepter. "I love this scepter!" she cried as she slashed the Lingos. Fluttershy was surrounded by several other Lingos, but as they all lunged for her at once, she leapt up high at the last moment causing them all crash into each other.

Lightning knocked one Lingo down, then another, and then he jumped and spilt kick another two. “I get a kick out of this.” he joked.

Buddy leapt in and attacked at Marla with his whip. “Hold still, will ya?!” he thundered as he kept swinging and Marla kept dodging. Suddenly, she caught his whip and yanked him towards her. “Why don’t you sit DOWN!” she thundered as she swiped him hard with her sharp nails making sparks fly. Just then, Sapphire came in and slashed Marla with her sharp lion claws, sending her flying. "Pesky cat!" Sapphire leaped onto her and clawed her while giving a cat hiss. Marla screamed in pain and horror. Buddy just stared, scared to leap in. That's the definition of Cat Fight.

Rhymey fought with Keto, staff against sword. “You didn’t think magic was my only forte, did you?” said Keto.

“So I see,
But you’re smaller than Me.” scoffed Rhymey

Sunset fought against Bronc, or rather was dodging and evading his huge fists. Suddenly, she was backed up against a wall. Bronc snickered as he cracked his huge knuckles.

“Uh, we could talk about this…” whimpered Sunset.

“Now where’s the fun in that?” remarked Bronc and he thrust his fists forth, but Sunset rolled to the side at the last moment, and Bronc’s fists went straight through the wall; he was stuck. Sunset saw this as her chance to attack, but Bronc turned his head and shot her with his eye-lasers.

“Sunset…!” Fluttershy cried as she and the others ran to her side and helped her up.

Bronc pulled himself out of the wall with ease and regrouped with his comrades. “You seem to be losing your touch, Rangers.” he teased.

Sunset clenched her fists, “Oh, yeah? We’ll show you!”

The rangers all agreed, but as they charged forth, Sapphire and the dragons stopped just as powerful shots bombarded them from out of nowhere, knocking them all down. “What was that?” snapped Rainbow.

“Look…!” cried Buddy as he pointed on ahead, and the rangers all saw a big hulking robot, Vulcano, stomping its way towards them.

At the base, the others saw it, but they could hardly believe it.

“Who or what is that?” snapped Spike, but much to everyone’s dismay, no matter how hard Twilight tried, “I can’t scan it!”

Celesto clenched his fists, “It must have a special coating! We’ll have no way of knowing how strong it is or what it can do.”

Krysta felt a chill run down her back, “That means the rangers will have to figure this out for themselves!”

The gang had their hopes for the rangers, but didn’t dare leave their stations and kept on working to do whatever they could in case of emergency.

Vulcano glared the rangers down. “That has got to be the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.” said Rainbow.

"Hey!" Sapphire cried, feeling insulted.

"Second weirdest." Rainbow changed and Sapphire smiled.

“Well take a good long look, Rangers…!” said a voice over a radio. “That voice!" cried Fluttershy. “…Vulcan!” growled Sunset. Vulcan laughed. Vulcan controlled Vulcano from the safety of the tower and viewed everything through the visor. He spoke into a small microphone, calling to the minions, “Return to the tower at once. I’ll handle things now.” The minions sighed; they were just getting warmed up, but complied with their master’s order, and they vanished out of sight.

“Now then…” Vulcan hissed as he glared at the rangers “…Who’d like to go first?”

The rangers all stood ready to go for it. “Go!” shouted Sunset, and she and the rangers charged forth, while Vulcano remained wear he was, not even moving.

“Attack!” shouted Sunset, and she and each of the rangers aimed powerful punches and kicks mercilessly at the robot’s armor, but of course such pitiful attacks didn’t even move the robot a single millimeter. Sapphire didn't even try to attack with her scepter. She knew something more powerful was needed to deal with the bot. "Snowflake, Striker, come." The dragons obeyed and followed her.
“How pitiful…” Vulcan hissed, and he hit the controls…

…Vulcano extended his strong arms and knocked all the rangers back hard, sending them sailing and crashing along the ground.

“Whoa!” Lightning groaned as he held his arm “This thing’s tough.”

“I guess we should’ve expected that.” agreed Sunset, “Everyone, get your weapons out!”

Once armed, the rangers dashed to attack, but they found that even their weapons weren’t good enough either. Rhymey slashed his sword as hard as he could and Buddy gave his whip a heck of a swipe. Sunset and Rainbow blasted him with their weapons charged high.

“Here I come!” said Lightning “Comet Trail… Fire!”

KAPOW!! All those attacks combined made a huge explosion. The rangers looked with excitement, “Did we get it?” asked Fluttershy “Please say we did.” But they all suddenly heard the sound of Vulcan laughing over the radio, and when the smoke cleared, Vulcano had not even a scratch on him.

“I don’t believe it!
He took every direct hit!” growled Rhymey.

“Now, let me show you some real weaponry!” hissed Vulcan “Engage cannons!”

Two cannons on Vulcano’s back took aim. “Watch out!” cried Sunset, and the rangers scattered about as the cannons fired small shots that made big explosions, and though the shots missed the rangers the force of the explosions still knocked them all back hard.

“Launch the buzz-saws!” Vulcan shouted as he hit the controls, and five circular saws were launched like flying discs. They flew furiously like boomerangs, actually curving and made comebacks forcing the rangers to dodge like crazy.

Lightning and Rainbow tried to blast the saws, Rainbow with her cannon, and Lightning with his Comet trail, but the saws took the hits like nothing and kept right on going forth, hitting them both hard.

Fluttershy held up her shield, catching two saws that buzzed furiously against the surface of the shield making showers of sparks, and the force of the push was actually shoving Fluttershy back softly.

“Help me!” she cried.

Rhymey, responding to his girlfriend’s cry came leaping in and took a big swing with his sword knocking the two blades away like baseballs and the two blades plopped onto the ground, having run out of speed, as did all the others.

While the rangers felt a slight relief, Vulcano blasted them with his cannons knocking them all over again. Then, Vulcan activated a special magnet that brought all the saws back to his robot, and launched them again.

Vulcan laughed as he watched the ranger dodge fruitlessly. “I haven’t had this much fun in five-hundred years!”

The minions watched the battle from the monitors in the main laboratory. “A right and a left! OOH, Chi Wawa!” cheered Keto.

“Chi Wawa…?” Marla asked in confusion “How does that even work?”

Keto shrugged.

“Quiet!” snapped Bronc “He’s coming around again!”

He then pressed on the controls and made Vulcano extend the balls on chains on two of his arms.

Swinging the balls wildly, Vulcano dove straight at the rangers. “Let’s move!” shouted Sunset, and she and the others all leapt up, up, up onto high rooftops. “This should give us some space to think of something.”

Buddy gawked ahead, “Uh… I don’t think so! Look…!” Everyone looked to their horrors as Vulcano was levitating, via rocket-boots. “You didn’t think you could lose me that easy, did you?” teased Vulcan.

Vulcano jumped onto the roof and fought like crazy, swinging his chains and hitting the rangers with the spike-balls and even punching the rangers with his two free arms, knocking them off the roof.

Budd skillfully lassoed his whip round a flagpole sticking out of the building and swung across grabbing his friends forming a human chain allowing them all to land safely in the street.

“Great job, Buddy.” said Sunset.

Buddy gave the team a high thumb, but Vulcano glared at them from above and leapt down “Ready or not, here it comes…!” Vulcan called as he launched the saws and fired the cannons, forcing the rangers to dodge about again.

From the base, the others were watching everything, powerless to help or even come up with a solution.

“They can’t last much longer like this!” cried Krysta.

Twilight continued to try and scan the robot and any possible weakness it had, but to no avail. “Ugh! This is ridiculous!” she groaned as she pounded the keyboard “I can’t come up with anything. Even the Able Boost won’t work against that thing.”

Spike pulled on his ears in frustration. “Man, how much bigger can our problems get!”

Celesto suddenly got an idea from hearing that. “Normally it’s against better principles, but the situation calls for it. Send out the Star Jets! We’re going to fight this machine-to-machine!”

"Wait, sir look!" Twilight cried pointing back at the screen.

Two of the saws struck Lightning and Sunset.

Vulcano then swung his chains, hitting Rhymey and Fluttershy with the spike-balls, and finally shot at Rainbow and Buddy with his cannons.

The rangers were starting to look and feel pretty beat. Their suits had scorch marks from the numerous attacks they had sustained, while Vulcano had hardly been scratched.

“I don’t know about you guys, but I can hardly take much more of this.” Lightning groaned as he stood.

“Me either.” added Rainbow.

Vulcan laughed, “Getting tired, are we? Well, you’ll all be taken a long rest soon enough!” Vulcano prepared to bash the rangers again when...

Snowflake and Striker blasted Vulcano. Then, Jaguin Zord bashed Vulcano away and Dire Wolf Zord slammed into it. "Snowflake, Striker, Jaguin and Dire Wolf Zord?!" Rainbow cried.

"Sapphire!" Sunset cheered.

"So you wanna take me on, Animal Ranger?" Vulcan challenged. , Vulcano, Jaguin and Dire Wolf Zord circled each other like predator and prey ready for battle. The Zords were crouched low to the ground while Vulcano towered over them.

"Bring it, creep!" Vulcan grinned widely and very wickedly.

The minions could hardly believe this; Vulcan being cool about it.

“I’ll make the robot grow.” said Keto, and he was about to cast his spell, “No…!” Vulcan thundered, causing Keto to slip off his footstool and fall to the floor. “But sir…”

“I said No!” snapped Vulcan “…That will not be necessary this time.”

Marla whispered to Bronc “Has he flipped his lid?”

Bronc shrugged as he didn’t know, but he and the others continued to watch.

Jaguin Zord roared and pounced onto Vulcano, latching onto the front of it's body and it dug it's calws into the armor. Vulcano jumped and leaped around trying to shake the Zord off and rocking Sapphire inside. "WOAH, YEOW, GAH! SNOWFLAKE, STRIKER, DIRE WOLF, HURRY!" The dragons charged forth and blasted the robot and Dire Wolf howled and leaped into the air, spinning quickly and curling up into the ball, at the last second Jaguin Zord detached itself and the Wolf Zord slammed into Vulcano, sending it crashing to the ground. "Awesome!" Lightning cried.

Vulcan growled and got up again. "Time to cut you down to size! and he launched the buzz saws. The Zords blasted beams from their mouths and the dragons combined it with their fire, actually deflecting the saws back and they reattached themselves to Vulcano. "Insolent pest!" Vulcan yelled. He fired the lasers at the Zord but Jaguin Zord and Dire Wolf Zord leaped into the air and dodged. Striker was beginning to pant. Using his high concentrated fire attacks took alot of out him. "Striker, here boy." Sapphire beamed Striker into the cockpit so he could rest.

Vulcano launched the cannons at the Zords. Jaguin Zord blasted the beam back with it's electric energy negating it. "Time to end this Vulcan!" Sapphire called.

"Same here!"

Vulcano glowed brightly with massive amounts of energy ready to charge the Zords. "Ready girls?" Sapphire said.

The Zord roared and howled charging up as well. Sapphire inserted her scepter into the console. The scepter glowed and the console glowed with power. It was increasing the Zords' powers by ten-fold! Sapphire beamed Snowflake into the Zord for safety.

The rangers below looked on in concern.

Twilight and Celesto had been monitoring the Zord's energy levels. They were off the carts! "Sapphire, that’s too dangerous.” Celesto said trying to discourage her, but it was no use. "The force of his charge may destroy you and the Zords!" Twilight added. “I'm not running away, Twilight! Ihave to do this!” she responded.

“Is she crazy?!” snapped Buddy.

“I’d say so.” said Rainbow. Vulcano finished charging up. "SAY GOODBYE, RANGER!" He rammed the controls and Vulcano charged the Zords. "ULTIMATE THUNDER AND LEAF!" The Zord roared with amazing power and charged head on towards Vulcano....

The three machines collided.

BOOM!

The explosion was so great it was seen and heard all over the island!

The smoke cleared and there was an ominous silence. "SAPPHIRE!"

There was a large figure standing... when the smoke was completely cleared it revealed to be...

...Jaguin and Dire Wolf Zord with Vulcano nothing more than pieces of scrap metal.

The rangers sighed in great relief while everyone at the base cheered with joy. "SHE DID IT! SHE DID IT!" Spike cried.

Jaguin and Dire Wolf roared and howled in victory.

Back at the tower, the controls and images in the visor had gone dead with the robot’s destruction.

The minions were all trembling with fear that Vulcan would start lashing out in fury at this loss. “I don’t know about you guys, but I’m ready to run!” whimpered Keto.

“Not before me you aren’t!” said Marla.

However, Vulcan didn’t seem angry at all; he was laughing rather hysterically as he pounded the wall like a madman.

“He doesn’t seem that mad to Me.” said Bronc.

The minions all approached their laughing master. He was laughing so hard he coughed and hacked a bit trying to catch his breath.

“Uh… sir…?” Keto asked trying to get Vulcan’s attention. At least he calmed down a bit and wasn’t laughing so hard.

“How can you be laughing? Your plan didn’t work!” said Marla.

“I’m quite aware of that…” Vulcan sneered.

“But sir…” Bronc try to inquire, but he was cut off when Vulcan held up his hand. “I told you all, didn’t… This was merely a test, and regardless of the failure, I now have all that I require.”

The minions were all confused.

“In business, you should always be sure to have a backup; cover your losses… and I have just the thing.”

He showed them all the blueprints of what was surely his ultimate plot, which the minions all took a shine too.

“Wow!” cried Marla.

“Cool!” said Keto.

“Magnificent!” Bronc said in astonishment “When do we begin…?”

Vulcan only snickered.

Meanwhile, the rangers, dragons and Sapphire made it back to base.

“Hail the conquering hero!” Spike sang, and he and Krysta acted like it was a big parade show, hoping around and throwing confetti. Sapphire smiled at the little, cute scene, but the rangers didn’t seem so optimistic, as was hinted by their deeply concerned looks.

Twilight and Celesto looked exactly the same way.

“Come on, what’s with you all?” asked Krysta “Sapphire sent that bucket of bolts to the scrap-heap.”

“Yeah, almost getting herself destroyed in the process…” said Rainbow. The rangers glared at her and she gave them and nervous smile. "She took a huge risk and managed to survive, but that may be different the next time."

“I can hardly believe Vulcan would actually send a robot after us.” Lightning said. Sunset had a sickening feeling in her stomach, the way the battle had gone and how Vulcan nearly crushed them all if it wasn't for Sapphire, her dragons and her Zords, “…I think… he was just testing us.”

“It is very possible he was.” agreed Celesto “We have no way of knowing for sure what Vulcan has gained from this, or what he plans to do next, but rest assured… we must be ready for it.”

Everyone agreed, promising to train hard and be ready for whatever lay ahead.

Episode 19: Part 1: Return and Revenge

As the days past, the rangers spent their every free moments buckling down and training hard for whatever surprises Vulcan would throw at them. Sapphire had told them about gaining to more Elements of Harmony which Sunset described to be Kindness and Generosity, making it three Elements in total now.

A whole week had passed since he had sent Vulcano after them, and he hadn’t shown himself since, nor made much of a move to attack the city.

They did 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. Sapphire just trained using her animal powers. Sunset contacted Commander Lightning a while a ago and she got some basic spell books; to help get used to her magic and when she had mastered all the spells in that book, then she'll slowly move up in advance. For now she was practicing combat with her animal powers. Her dragons, meanwhile, were getting a nice break.

Of course Celesto didn’t want them training far too hard that they would over-exhaust themselves, especially considering he wouldn’t allow them to take time off school either (though Sapphire didn't need a reason to take time of since she could make a clone to do all her schoolwork for her).

“Nothing is more important in being a ranger than a well-developed mind.” he said, and everyone was inclined to agree; as cunning and as wicked as Vulcan was, and despite his somewhat impressive improvements… he really wasn’t all that smart to them, and that would always be their advantage over him…

…They hoped!

Meanwhile, Vulcan, his minions, and a large army of Lingos were hard at work outside the tower, producing Vulcan’s ultimate plan. The whole place sounded like a big factory as everyone worked hard welding, fitting, and building whatever it was they were making, but it was big… really big! “Keep that welding coming!” Bronc shouted to the Lingos, rushing them along, while he himself did programming and wiring.

Marla, being lazy of course just sat on a crate of parts filing her nails. Keto came along and scolded her, “This thing isn’t going to build itself you know!”

Marla simply blew on her nails, “I’m aware of that, but I’m not messing up my manicure, or my hair.” Outraged and sick of her laziness and vanity, Keto stirred some of the dust with his cape getting it all over her, “Hey!” she screamed. “There, now you’re dirty. Now get to work!” snapped Keto, and walked off before Marla could even try and retaliate.

As for Vulcan, he kept on forging and melting the sources he had from the volcanic and comet energy he had collected, and using his own fire powers to create plates of armor which the Lingos would then take to put together with everything else.

“Oh, this is wicked!” Vulcan snickered. “So perfectly wicked, I can hardly believe it. Once my project is complete, this planet and everything in it will be mine, and not even the rangers will be able to do a thing about it!”

He laughed softly…!

(Que Intro)

Saturday afternoon, Celesto invited the rangers all to his place for lunch, as well as a good rest break from all the hard work and rigorous training. Shining Armor and Principal Cadance were invited too, especially because they wanted to visit the babies.

It felt rather nice just to kick back and relax for a while, but it still ate everyone up; just sitting around and waiting for Vulcan to make his move! Snowflake and Krysta came back from her patrol around the island, and even found time to visit the mainland for a short spell. “Anything girls…?” Lightning asked. The little bird and Light Fury shook their heads, “It’s never been so quiet. It’s almost frightening.” Snowflake nodded in agreement.

Vice Prinicpal Luna felt relieved “At least it means everything is still safe; for now.” Sunset sighed, almost irritably, “A whole week and no sign of anything…! Why doesn’t Vulcan make his move already?”

"Oh, quick rushing it." Sapphire said while having her head buried in her spell book. Sunset gave her a straight face. "I can sense your straight face from here." Now she rolled her eyes.

“Maybe… he’s decided to just give up?” Fluttershy suggested, but you can expect everybody else, even Rhymey gave her the “Don’t be ridiculous” expression, “… Just a thought.” Fluttershy said sheepishly.

“Whatever Vulcan’s up to, I’m sure he’ll unleash it when he’s ready.” Celestia said as she fed the babies their food.

“Do you really think he’s up to something that big?” asked Cadance.

“Most likely so,
That’s all we know.” said Rhymey.

Poor Lightning still couldn’t get over it all, no matter how much the others told him it wasn’t his fault. Then again, they could hardly blame him, especially Twilight and Sunset.

Sunset being reminded of her evil days, and Twilight when she became so obsessed she became Midnight Sparkle.

Shining Armor changed the subject to snap everyone out of their droops. “So… um… Twily, how are things in the base? You cooked up anything new for the team?”

“Nothing really…” his sister replied, and she got out her laptop looking at all her scraped ideas. “Each and every one of them either can’t be done as we don’t have the proper equipment, or it can’t it be done because it’ll hurt the rangers.”

"What about Sapphire's scepter?" Spike asked.

"Well... me and the lab boys have been scanning it, but it seems there's this lock on the scepter that we can't unlock."

"A lock?" Lightning asked.

"Yeah, we can't 'dissect' the scepter. It seems like Sapphire only has to unlock all the scepter's abilities before we can analyze them."

Fluttershy sighed, “If only we had our energizers back. Then we could use our actual Starfleet Powers and things would be easier.” but she and the others knew fully well that the portal was still down. Rainbow was down below in the garden field kicking her soccer ball, “Well…” she called up to everyone “I guess we’ll just have to rely on our own skills. We’ve done okay up to now.”

Buddy seemed calm though as he tended to the flower-beds. He always found time to do some gardening each day and it kept him calm. He treated them all like they were… children to him.

“Don’t worry little ones.” he would say softly to them “We’ll protect you especially.”

Celestia and Celesto admired how calm he was, and how wonderfully he treated the plants; that and they were glad he could treat them as the gardener was off that day.

It made them only worry about whatever was coming even more.

Celesto looked way out to sea and wondered for himself, “What are you up to, Vulcan?”

At the tower, work was continuing, and Marla was whining and complaining as usual. Her sharp nails were now dull and cracked, and darker in color due to all the dust and soot from working. Her hair was all tangled and full of scraps of metal and scorch-marks. “When I finish this I’ll have to spend a week at a salon!” she whined.

Keto only pulled his hat down over his pointed ears to block out her irritating voice and kept on working.

Bronc soon reported to Vulcan, “Construction is completed, Master.”

“Excellent!” said Vulcan “It’s better than I ever imagined.” He gazed up at his creation; a colossal version of Vulcano, which he called “Vulcano II”, but still, called it simply “Vulcano”: It was as tall as any of the rangers’ megazords were. It had the same weapons it did before, but with newer added weapons-- Laser-Eyes, tractor beams, missiles and etc.

Where Vulcan was able to get all this was beyond a mystery!

Keto and Marla joined the others on the bridge overlooking the robot’s massive head, and they were both mesmerized by how frighteningly wicked it looked.

“Only thing remains now!” Vulcan said, “We need to activate it, but it hasn’t enough energy.”

The minions were confused. “I thought the volcanic and comet energies we got were all that we needed?” asked Keto.

“It is not enough!” snapped Vulcan “To give it complete and full power we need to give it… bio-logical energy; vast amounts of biological energies.”

Marla gulped “You don’t mean… from us do you?”

“Not just from all of you, and myself included… we need a ton of it, and I know just where to get It.” he motioned at the tower hinting all the many prisoners still locked up inside.

Inside, all the prisoners were still hammering and rattling at their cells. Vulcan appeared inside at the top of the tower chuckling at how foolish the prisoners all seemed, but also to check on one very important thing in his private lab.

There was one thing he had created which his minions still didn’t know about, and he wanted to be sure that it would be protected from what was about to happen.

Using his powers Vulcan covered his secret with a special lead blanket that would protect it. “I can’t let your energy be stolen.” he whispered to it.

He then held his arms; under his sleeves were many cuts and scars from when he did his experiments, and the many empty jars of his blood that stood on the workbenches. “A true businessman always makes sure to cover his loses.” he hissed under his breath.

Then he teleported back outside, to his minions. “It’s time! Come with me, all of you.”

Then he teleported inside the massive robot, and his minions followed him.

The Inside of Vulcano II was like a small complex; complete with corridors and hallways, engine room, work-stations, and of course the main control bridge within the robot’s massive head. Unlike the rangers’ zords, the bridge was about the size of two classrooms, and filled with all the natural refinements; consoles, stations, seats including a big one in the center for Vulcan.

A large army of Lingos were already making last checks to see that everything was fine; which it all was.

The minions all took their positions at the front of the bridge, each manning their own respective consoles.

“Engines ready.” said Bronc.

“Systems ready.” added Marla.

“Defenses charged and ready.” said Keto “We’re ready to pull out.”

Vulcan snickered as he took his seat, “…Let’s go!”

POW!! The massive rockets fired from the robot’s massive feet, propelling the large hulk up, up, and away!

The robot could not be traced by any computer or radar, not even the rangers’ technology could spot it on, but two patrol jets flying over the sea for the coastguard; the pilots did see it.

“What the heck is that?”

“I don’t know. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

They were about to report in to HQ about the sighting, but Vulcan could see them and he nodded at Keto.

“Fire!” shouted Keto, and the robot fired two heat-seeking missiles and it’s lasers at the jets, forcing the pilots to eject and drop into the sea on emergency life-rafts.

“Direct hit!” cried Marla.

“That was too easy.” hissed Bronc.

Vulcan snickered, “The weapons work perfectly. Now, set course for Mystic Island, it’s time for the main event!”

Long after lunch, while the rangers, except for Sapphire stayed at the mansion for a little extra training. Sapphire was with Celestia and Celesto who were now walking side-by-side through the park pushing the two baby carriages softly. Sapphire wore her four Element bracelets on her wrist. It was much too beautiful a day to be working all the time, despite of the impending dangers, plus even Celesto felt a nice walk with his family would do him good from his constant working. He gazed lovingly at his wife, and she gazed back at him, but the moment was interrupted when Celesto stepped on a twig, snapping it loudly. “What was that?” he snapped as he looked all around.

“Honey, calm down, you just stepped on a twig.” said Celestia. Her husband felt very silly, “Look at me, I’m panicking at every little sound thinking Vulcan’s shown himself.”

Celestia sighed, but the babies cooing from their carriages made both parents lose their worries.

The three of them bent down to softly touch the babies’ faces. Sapphire tickled their tummies, making them laugh. Suddenly it got all dark by a shadow covering up the sunlight.

The parents and Sapphire looked up, along with everyone else in the park and in the general area for that.

“What is it?”

“What can it be?”

“I don’t like it one bit!”

People were whimpering in fear or staring in awe at the object, but Celesto and Celestia had that sickening feeling this was it… especially when they heard the sound of a familiar laugh.

“Vulcan!” they both sneered.

“Attention inhabitants of Mystic Island…!” Vulcan announced “You are now observing my greatest creation, one that I shall use to destroy your island, and conquer your planet! But being a reasonable being of business, I offer you a bit of mercy; Surrender now and accept your places by my side… as slaves, and become part of what shall be the greatest planet-broking business in the galaxy!

…If not, then prepare to be wiped out!”

His voice was so loud and the robot was so big, the rangers could see it from the mansion, and all of them clenched their fists tightly, realizing this was the moment they’d been waiting for.

“Look at the size of that thing!” cried Shining Armor.

“This is it…!” said Sunset, “Everyone ready?”

The rangers all bravely nodded.

“I’ll head to the base.” said Twilight “Once I’m there, I’ll send you the Ultra-Star Megazord.”

“We’re coming too.” said Cadance. Shining Armor agreed. They with Twilight and the pets headed for the big tree concealing the secret-elevator that lead down to the underground labs.

“Good luck guys.” said Spike.

“Please be careful!” added Krysta.

Then they were gone, while Vice-Principal Luna agreed to stay behind at the mansion to get in contact with her sister and her brother-in-law. “I cannot seem to reach their cell-phones. The signal is being jammed.”

“Keep trying, we’re on our way.” said Sunset. The others all stood ready and shouted together, “…IT’S MORPHIN’ TIME!!”

“Morphing Sequence, Ready!”

“STARFLEET MAGIC… POWER ON!!”

“Cosmic Comet… Power On!”

Meanwhile, the minions had lost patience waiting for the people to answer. “Can’t we just zap them all now?” Keto asked. “Be still!” sneered Vulcan “The rangers should be here any moment. That is what we are waiting for.”

Suddenly, the Ultra-Star Megazord landed near Vulcano.

“They’re here!” cried Celesto.

“Thank goodness!” added Celestia.

Many of the people cheered for the rangers’ arrival as well, but some were rather skeptical due to the megazord being a tad bit smaller than that of Vulcan’s robot.

The rangers remained undeterred! “Okay, Vulcan! This time you’ve gone too far!” Sunset called to him.

Vulcan, able to hear them on his frequency, snorted, “On the contrary; the day you rangers first stood in my way was going too far! But this time you’ll find victory is beyond your grasp! I’ve made great modifications to Vulcano. Even your strongest weapons won’t be able to even dent it!”

At the base, Twilight and friends were able to hear over the radio as well, and Twilight, once again, was unable to scan the robot and calculate anything about it, and she pretty much didn’t have to as pretty much anyone could tell just by looking at the massive robot that it was much stronger than the last one they fought.

“Guys, it’s no good. I can’t seem to calculate a weakness.” Twilight said to the rangers.

Buddy sighed and said “Well, I guess we’ll have to give it everything we’ve got.”

“Well, here goes something, then.” said Sunset “Go!”

The megazord charged forth, aided by its rocket thrusters, but Vulcan and his minions only laughed from their bridge, but they didn’t make any attempt to even touch the controls. They just sat back and watched the megazord fruitlessly punch, kick and smash at the robot’s thick armor. Sparks did fly, however…!

“Stop…! Stop…!” Fluttershy cried as she read the damage meters “We’re only causing damage to ourselves.”

“Ugh! Every hit we sent,
And we didn’t make a dent!” groaned Rhymey.

“Let’s try the weapons.” suggested Lightning.

“Right…” said Rainbow, “I’ll aim straight for the head, where the bridge is!”

Vulcan watch the megazord rocket up higher, and he only snickered and made a teasing face at the rangers, still giving no orders to fight back or anything. “Come and get me!”

The rangers felt their bloods boiling, but they charged up their weapons to full.

“Energy Charge, Ready!”

“Weapons fully-charged!” said Sunset “Let him have it!”

Everyone agreed, and all six shouted together, “STAR-BLAST WAVE… FIRE!!”

POW!! The massive beam was launched and hit the bridge full-force. While the light was rather blinding and all the villains inside covered their eyes from the glare… in the end, not even a scratch was made on the special surface.

“It didn’t work!” cried Celestia.

“The Ultra-Star Megazord isn’t powerful enough!” added Celesto.

"But I know some Zords who are." Sapphire said. "Jaguin, Mammoth Zord, I choose you!" The Two Zords responded to her call and burst from their resting places and rushed to the battle.

The rangers were all deeply in shock and couldn’t this was happening, while the villains sat ready, and Vulcan hissed “…Now!” and his minions hit their controls making the robot move, ready to swung it’s two back arms at the zord.

“Look out!” Sunset cried. The rangers rammed on the steering and veered the megzord to the right just missing the two arms.

“You can’t get away that easy!” shouted Keto, and he raised the other two arms with the spike-balls on chains. “Watch it!” shouted Buddy, but the zord already got hit extremely hard, twice!

The rangers were rocked about hard as the megazord tilted to the side. “We’re going over!” cried Rainbow!

CRASH!! The zord hit the ground so hard making everything nearby shake. Many of the people already took a well gained hint and began to run for their lives.

“Come Celestia! Bring the children!” cried Celesto!

From on Vulcano’s bridge, Marla laughed at the people, “Where do you think you’re all going?” and she activate the tractor-beam, which fired from the robot’s massive chest cannon, shrouding all the people below, including Sapphire and the Grandruler family, sucking them and all the civilians up and inside. However, in an instant. Sapphire's four elemental bracelets glowed brightly and magically teleported her out of the tractor beam and back onto the ground.

“No! The civilians!” shouted Sunset.

At the base, all the friends and staff gasped in horror…

…as did Luna as she watched everything live on the news! “No! Celestia, Celesto, the children!”

Vulcan laughed wickedly, “These humans will do nice to supply us with more power.”

“Vulcan! You let those people go!” Sunset shouted at him.

“Ha!” sneered Vulcan “You’re in no position to make demands.”

"Hey! The Animal Ranger escaped!" Marla cried.

"What?" Vulcan stated. Vulcan could see for himself that Sapphire was still where she was before. "Destroy her!" Marla sent lasers at Sapphire. "WAH!" But the rangers made the megazord blocked the attack. "Hands off, our friend!"

"Make me!" Vulcan challenged.

The rangers felt themselves ready to explode and furiously made the megazord stand on its feet.

“Not a smart move!” said Bronc and he fired the robot’s laser eyes shooting the megazord down on its back again.

The megazord rocked so hard, Sunset fell out from the cockpit.

“Sunset!!” cried Lightning.

Sunset fell down, down, down through the trees, softening her fall a bit. She still landed with a huge thud and her suit powered down automatically.

The next thing that happened, the robot fired its tractor-beam again, ensnaring the megazord with the other five rangers still aboard! “No!!” cried Sunset.

The rangers held on to whatever they could as the felt the megazord rocking about as it was lifted off the ground.

“I’ve got them!” cried Marla “They’re not getting away!”

“Of course not…! That’s what I had it planned for.” hissed Vulcan “Not only do we now have the rangers as our prisoners, we’ve captured their zords as well; a profitable gain to expand this business! The very weapons they used against us, we shall now use to conquer the planet!

…Take us up, now! We’ll prepare for things privately.”

With that, the rockets fired, and the robot took off, up, up, way up and into space, taking the rangers, their megaozrd and all the civilians with it!

“NO!! GUYS…!!” Sunset screamed as the robot went higher and higher. Before it could get away, Jaguin Zord rammed Vulcano II hard. "What was that?!" Vulcan cried.

"The animal rangers' Jaguin and Mammoth Zord!" Bronc said. The two Zords growled at Vulcano II "And they're blocking our path."

"You wanna fight? Bring it!" Vulcan said.

The minions rammed on the control, making Vulcano lunged at the Zords. Jaguin Zord flew higher into the air and blasted the Zord with a ball made from electrical energy. The Mammoth Zord bashed Vulcano on the side, making it crash into a building. Luckily, they were evacuated. "We have to get out of here." Keto said.

Vulcan saw Sapphire on the ground and got an idea. "Blast the Animal Ranger."

Bronc manned the lasers and sent them towards Sapphire. Sapphire gasped and braced for impact, but Jaguin and Mammoth Zord came in and shielded her from the lasers. But the smoke caused from the lasers, gave Vulcan and the minions the opportunity to escape.

Krysta was hammering and pounding on the monitors screaming, “No!! No, Lightning!! LIGHTNING…!!”

Twilight grabbed her and pulled her away from the screens so she wouldn’t damage them. “Krysta, stop… Stop it!” she cried, trying not to burst into sorrow herself “…They’re gone!”

Shining Armor angrily pounded the work bench. Cadance grabbed the front bangs of her hair in outrage and frustration!

“I’m dreaming!” cried Spike “I gotta be dreaming! Come on, Spike, wake up! WAKE UP!” but it was no good what he was doing.

As for Sunset, all she did was waltz up to where the robot and the megazord were standing. The ground was all charred from the rocket thrusts.

She fell to her knees and pounded the ground furiously as more tears fell from her eyes. “I’m sorry, guys!” she sobbed softly “I’m so sorry!”

To Be Continued…!

Episode 20: Final Episode: Operation: Rescue

Sunset was still grieving most miserably at the sight where the battle had taken place. This was extremely heart-breaking to her; first she lost half her friends when they got hit by that explosion landing them in the hospital in comas, including Artie, and now they rest of her friends were taken by Vulcan into space, including the Grandruler’s, their babies and all the civilians that were nearby. Worst of all, because Vulcan had the megazord with him, she couldn’t even try to follow him up there.

“Guys…” she cried softly “I’m sorry… I’m so sorry!

Sapphire came over to her. The Zords went back to their resting places now that the battle had ended. Sunset was so lost in her misery that she didn’t hear her com go off or Twilight calling to her. “Sunset, Sunset, answer me. We need to you and Sapphire to come back to base.”

At the base, everyone viewed her on the monitors, but she didn’t move at all. Sapphire tried to comfort her but it didn’t work. “Poor girl, she’s way out of it.” said Shining Armor.

“I don’t think I can blame her.” said Cadance. She too felt just as crushed losing her friends, as well as her family to Vulcan.

“Here, let me try something.” said Spike as he walked near the mic, “You all may want to cover your ears.”

Everyone blinked in confusion at him. “Do it!” he snapped, and everyone complied, covering their ears tightly. Then Spike drew in a huge breath and howled loudly into the mic…

…Creating a huge high frequency feedback. “A’RGH…!!” Sunset and Sapphire yowled as Sunset snapped out of her trance covering her ears.

She finally answered her com, “What was that for?” she asked sternly. Sapphire was shaking her head to get rid of the ringing sound.

“Sunset, Sapphire I know things are hard now, but you’ve got come back to base.” replied Twilight “Once you get back we can try to figure this out.”

Sunset sighed, “Okay, I’m coming.”

Sunset still felt a little distraught, but she stood up, and took a minute gaze sharply into the sky, clenching her fist angrily a she thought of Vulcan and what he had done to her friends.

Then they ran for the nearest jump-tube.

Way up high, Vulcano II was orbiting the Earth, with the Ultra-Star Megzord attached to it by walkways and grippers.

Vulcan’s minions were viewing the monitors of the prison deck below. All the people they had captured were held within cells like at the prison tower, held in by bars and a powerful force-field projected by the comet energy.

The rangers, un-morphed, were each thrown into individual cells, shielded by a barrier that matched their proper color.

“This is just too good!” Marla laughed “We’ve finally got all the rangers locked up, and we can torture them like flies in a jar.”

“Don’t get carried away, Marla.” said Bronc “You heard what Vulcan said; we must have the rangers alive and well as they are vital in programing their own zords, as well as supplying energy into Vulcano to keep us in business.”

Marla grumbled. How she longed to get back at the rangers for all the times they had trounced her and her comrades. “You always have to ruin my fun.” she muttered to herself.

Keto checked the monitors viewing the rangers in their cells, when he noticed something! “Hey! We don’t have all the rangers!”

The others turned round sharply, “What are you talking about?” Marla asked as she came over to the console, shoving Keto out of his seat. “See, there’s Comet Ranger, Pink, Yellow, Blue, and there’s Green… and--” she gasped when she realized the final cell next to Buddy’s was empty; there was no Red Ranger!

“I don’t believe this!” cried Marla.

The doors in back slid open, “Neither do I!” snarled Vulcan “You let the Red Ranger escape! Without the Red Ranger, we cannot pilot all of the star-jets!”

“But Master…” Marla whimpered “I could’ve sworn she was stuck in the megazord when I took it in with us.”

Vulcan flared up as if to broil her to the bone, which frightened Keto and Bronc as well, but Vulcan suddenly calmed down, “Never mind…” he walked over to his chair “We still have enough good resources anyway, and besides, she’ll be bound to come after us.”

“I see…” hissed Bronc “And when she comes, we shall be ready for her.”

“Exactly.” said Vulcan “In the meantime, prepare the humans for their… extractions, and get ready to attack!”

The civilians were all frightened and outraged.

Baby Castor and Baby Leilani were crying their little lungs out in fright of the darkness and coldness of the cells. Celestia held the babies ever so close doing all she could to stop their cries, but really, she herself was as frightened as they were, but tried be brave for them.

Meanwhile, her husband tried every communications device he had on him, but nothing worked. “It’s no use. I can’t get a signal.” He angrily kicked the wall of the cell, which made the babies cry louder.

“Honey, the children!” his wife scorned.

Celesto felt ashamed, and took hold of his crying baby girl trying to soothe her, but he never felt so helpless before; unable to see any way out of this predicament, but he seemed more concerned about all the other prisoners, preferably the rangers.

Lightning slammed his bed hard into the bars and the barriers hoping to break them, but the bars were super strong, and the force-field just repelled him off each time. “It’s no good! It’s like trying to get to get past the Great-Wall of China!”

The others were able to hear and communicate with each other, but poor Fluttershy was so scared, she curled up in a corner of her cell and weeping tragically. “I don’t like it here. I really don’t!” she cried.

“Oh, Fluttershy,

Please don’t cry!” said Rhymey. He hated seeing her cry so much, and hated it more that he couldn’t be next to her to try and comfort her. The sobs almost made him feel like crying!

Rainbow angrily pounded the wall of her cell, “If only we could morph we could try and blast our way out of here, and break every cell in Vulcan’s body!”

“We can’t, Rainbow.” said Buddy “Our morphers won’t work while we’re behind these force-fields. We’ve already tried.”

“Quite correct rangers!” Vulcan said over the intercom. The entire prison area went silent as everyone gazed up. The rangers’ and the Grandrulers’ expressions hardened at the sound of his wicked voice.

He spoke to the civilians, “Hope you’re all comfortable in your… accommodations.” he chuckled “There’s something I just thought you’d all like to know, I’ve built one final special edition into your cells.”

With that, the walls of every cell began to glow, but the rangers’ cells stayed normal. “What’s happening now?” cried Fluttershy.

Within each cell, the civilians began to glow too, and some of them were starting to feel a bit woozy. “Their energy is being sapped!” cried Lightning. “Right again…” Vulcan hissed over the intercom “You see it takes quite a lot of power and energy to work this creation of mine that we all sit in, I hope you don’t mind.”

He laughed and cackled as the civilians lost more of the energy by the second. “Stop it!” shouted Rainbow “If you don’t stop I’ll…!” she was cut off when her cell as the other ranger cells began to glow as well, levitating them up and holding them all in fields of light in each of their respective colors.

“I can’t move!” cried Buddy.

“I like it,

Not one bit!” said Rhymey.

“…I’ve fixed up something extra special for you, rangers.” Vulcan said to them, and wait until you find out what it is.

Lightning had a horrible feeling he knew what was about to happen!

Vulcan snickered and turned off the monitor. “How are the power levels coming?” he asked to his minions.

“Power steady and weapons charged.” replied Bronc “Ready when you are, sir.”

Marla and Keto sat anxiously at their stations, and Vulcan nodded at all three of them, “Let’s level this planet once and for all!”

He laughed wickedly as outside… the robot’s lasers and cannons were charged and fired upon the Earth below.

Towns in countries and states across the world suffered serious blows, and the armed forces jumped into action; spotting the robot through telescopes, they launched powerful missiles straight into orbit in attempt to shoot the robot down… completely unaware of the many civilians onboard!!

Not that it mattered anyway; the minions could see the missiles coming straight at them. “Oh, no you don’t!” hissed Keto. He inserted his staff through a large outlet in his console,

POW!! The robot launched the mugic out, and the mugic unleashed a wave of fireballs, even in void of space, and shot at half the missiles, blowing them to smithereens.

More missiles were still coming, but Marla snickered and pulled on her controls, making the robot swing its spike-balls, smashing the missiles like they were bugs.

The armed forces saw everything, and their leading officers were outraged. “Prepare to fire another round!” shouted the Supreme General. His officers complied and set another slew of missiles to be launched.

The countdown was started, when suddenly another officer burst into the control room yelling, “Stop the launch!”

“What’s going on?” the General demanded to know, but the officer passed him a message from Washington, informing him that were civilians onboard that thing! “STOP THE LAUNCH!!” the general shouted.

It was Vice Principal Luna who got hold of Celesto’s phonebook and called Washington to warn the forces of the situation.

Once that was done, she immediately headed to the base beneath the mansion grounds to join the others. “They have agreed to hold the attack for now, but they cannot see any alternative and may start up again soon!”

“Monsters!” snapped Cadance “Don’t they realize there are innocent people up there?”

“Yeah, but what about the rest of the world?” asked Shining Armor, and he motioned at the monitors that hacked into the news reports showing that many major cities and countries around the world had suffered massive damage from the shelling, and more and more places were being attacked every second. The poor people had no place to run to or hide!

Sunset was most outraged, and stamped her foot angrily. “We’ve got to go back up there! We’ve got to try and save them and all put that thing out of commission.”

The others knew she was right, and they couldn’t just sit and do nothing. “Um… one problem,” Spike said “One: Their up in space; how are you even going to get up there without your Star Jet?”

“What about my Zords?” Sapphire suggested.

“That just might work.” Twilight said.

“Yeah!” Sunset cheered.

“Whoa-Whoa-Whoa, back a minute, Sunset!” said Twilight “Vulcan may be expecting you two to go up there.”

“Yeah… and what if he spots you?” added Shining Armor.

Sunset’s enthusiasm seemed to disappear all at once. “You’re right, and even if we do get inside… what then?” That's when they all heard some growls. They turned around and saw Snowflake and the other dragons in the lair. "I think they have the answer." Sapphire said.

".... How'd you all get in here?" Shining Armor asked.

"Not important right now, brother." Twilight said.

Everyone thought deeply, and as they thought, the news continued to play on the monitors.

Cadance’s eyes widened, “That’s it!” she cried. Everyone gawked at her and she explained her idea, “The armed forces can fire another salvo of rockets at the robot, distracting it so Sunset and Sapphire can slip through.”

Everyone was practically livid at such a suggestion; the very thought of deliberately firing at Vulcano and risking the lives of all the people on board, including their friends. “Oh… I guess it’s our only shot and it could work.” said Twilight, “But even if you do get inside, you’ll be completely on your own.”

Sunset just looked at her straight and deeply, telling her she was willing to take the risk. “I am Starfleet Officer, as well as a Power Ranger, but above those things… I am a friend… and I owe it to all the others.”

The others felt deeply touched by what she said. "And remember I have fpur of the six Elements of Harmony." Sapphire reminded. "They'll protect me from any danger."

“Well, let’s get to work.” said Spike.

The others agreed. They all just hoped their friends were still okay.

Vulcano hadn’t fired on the Earth due to the power on the weapon systems running low, and worse all the civilians had been sucked of a lot of energy, that absorbing anymore out of them would kill them, consequently costing Vulcan his power supply.

“It’s no use, sir.” Bronc said “We’ll simply have to wait until the humans rest up and then take what energy we can from them.”

Vulcan angrily pounded the arm of his chair. “I should have captured more civilians. Well, there’s another fine mess you’ve all gotten us into!”

The minions felt insulted for him blaming them, but didn’t dare protest.

Vulcan stepped up to the viewport and looked down at the Earth below. It was still felt great to him, finally being able to level a planet. Soon he would strike again and purge it of all life. Then he would sell the Earth to the highest bidder!

He began to snicker softly, “After all these ages, I’m back in the game! It feels wonderful! I would have been on top of the Dimensional Galaxy, but Starfleet interfered, and tossed me into jail where I rotted for five-hundred years!

And now…” he paused and chuckled “…Everything will be fine!”

By sundown, the Jaguin Zord was ready and now sat outside the mansion. Also, Sapphire had her dragons with her in the zord for extra assistance. Luna got off the phone with Washington. “The army is ready. They will fire when you give the word.”

Sunset and Sapphire nodded thankfully, and now it was time for her to go. She took a moment to gaze deeply at everyone and they gazed at her back, offering their luck, best wishes, and deep concern for her. “It’ll be alright… I promise!” she said bravely, and then they morphed. “Starfleet Magic, Power On!”

They were all beamed into the Zord and powered up the systems. "Ready dragons?" Sapphire asked.

The dragons roared. "Alright then."

“Everyone, get back!” cautioned Brain.

The Zord roared, spread it's wings and burst into the sky. In no time at all they all made it into orbit.

She contacted the others to tell them she was okay. “I’m going to make my way towards Vulcano.”

“The army is ready when you are.” said Luna “They have you in their telescopic sights, and non-heat seeking missiles ready for launch. They’ll try their best not to hit you.”

"Jaguin can take there misslies no problem." Sapphire gloated. Sunset sighed with an eye roll, “Wait for me to call in again. Over and out…” she signed off and took the controls “Okay, Vulcan! Ready or not, here we come!” and with that, the Zord rocketed off!

Meanwhile, after a long after-noon of resting, as well as being fed-- Vulcan’s forces knew the humans had to be cared for… if they were to function properly-- the humans began to feel physically well again, only to immediately get their energies sucked out of them again and fed into the robot’s system.

The humans all groaned and groped as they struggled to stay away. The Grandrulers could hardly take much more of this torture, but felt more worried for their babies; Castor and Leilani were not looking so good, almost as if they were getting sick!

“The… chil… dren!” Celestia groaned “They can’t… can’t take… much more of… this!”

Celesto, barely hanging in there himself, hated seeing his wife, his children, not to mention all the innocent people suffering, but hated even more that he saw no way of getting out of this one so easily, especially with five of the rangers imprisoned as well.

The rangers were still held in their force-fields, still levitated off the ground and being infected with whatever magic was being cast on them.

Suddenly, the lights went out, and the rangers all stood transfixed with their eyes wide open, and their pupils were all glowing red.

That’s when a swarm of Lingos came down the hall, deactivated the force-fields and opened the rangers’ cells and began to march them all out and down the hallway.

“Hey!” Celesto called “Where are you… taking them?!”

Naturally, the Lingos didn’t respond, and neither did the rangers; they all acted as like robots following orders and just kept right on marching.

Now Celesto was exceedingly worried. Even though he knew Sunset was still out there, and was likely on her way, what was there to expect when and if she arrived?

…Absolutely ANYTHING!

Up on the bridge, Keto reported to Vulcan “The rangers are ready, Master.”

Bronc checked the consoles, “Weapons nearly charged at full-power and standing by.”

Vulcan snickered while twiddling his fingers wickedly “Then I guess we’re ready for round two. Ha! Begin the attack!”

Marla sat at her station ready to pull the triggers, when the warning radar beeped. “Something’s coming at us.” she cried. As he blip got closer to the center of the screen, everyone could suddenly see the strange craft on the approach.

Vulcan zoomed in on the craft and switched to view inside, “Red Ranger… I knew it. She’s come to save her friends just as I planned.”

He was about to give orders, when suddenly the alarm sounded. “Missiles! We’re under fire again!” cried Keto. Vulcan growled, “Well don’t just sit there; destroy those them!”

The minions compiled and began to fire at the oncoming rockets.

“It’s working!” Sunset said into her com, “The missiles are keeping them busy. We’re going in!”

“Be careful, you two, it could still be a trap.” said Twilight.

The girls agreed and steered towards the colossal robot. “Sir, Red and Animal Rangers are getting closer!” said Bronc.

“Let them through.” said Vulcan “I want them alive, and besides, once they are aboard, they’ll soon find themselves in their proper place.”

Marla nodded, “Activating tractor beam.”

The robot fired its beam at the Jaguin Zord. “Hey! What’s going on?” Sunset yelled as Sapphire fought for control, and they were all soon brought aboard the massive hulk, Zord and all. They now sat in a huge empty room with no visible hatchway or entry point that lead out into space, other than the tractor-beam valve that brought her in.

They exited the Zord, dragons as well. “I guess we were invited in.” she said to herself, but she knew full well it meant Vulcan was aware she was on board and would most likely be coming for her.

Her fears were soon answered as she the sound of loud footsteps coming from a single door at the end of the room. The girls and dragons vanished from sight just as several Lingos came in, obviously sent by Vulcan to get them.

The Lingos looked through the eye windows of the Zord to find no sign of Sunset or Sapphire. Suddenly, the dragons dove out from hiding and surprised the Lingos, and attacked them viciously. All the Lingos were knocked down and vaporized into bits of dandruff.
“So much for them.” said Sunset, and with the door still open they all slunk out of the room and made their way down the hallways.

Up on the bridge Bronc in formed Vulcan “The missiles have ceased, but I’m afraid we’ve depleted a good amount of our freshly obtained power.”

“Really…? Tell me something I don’t know.” Vulcan sneered in a snarky voice. “Well sir…” replied Bronc “Sensors also indicate the Red and Animal Rangers are aboard, but they apparently avoided capture!”

Vulcan looked madder than ever, “Then why are you wasting time with me instead of putting my backup-plan into action?!!”

“Uh… yes sir!”

Marla and Keto gawked at one another and shook their heads.

“And what are you two shaking your heads for?” snapped Vulcan “Keep those systems stable and standby for further orders!”

“Yes sir!” the minions said together.

Vulcan sat in his chair and viewed Sapphire and Sunset dashing down the halls with the dragons.

Sunset and Sapphire slunk down one way, and then another, being careful to avoid being seeing by passing Lingos working their shifts. “This thing looked so much smaller outside.” she said to herself.

"Tell me about it." Sapphire agreed. Snowflake and Midnight's ear appendages perked up and they warbled. "What is it?" Sapphire asked.

Suddenly, they both could hear voices up ahead, or rather the sound of groping and groaning, like people who were cringing on for life. “…The civilians!” Sunset cried softly. When the way was clear, they both dashed down the hall and found the prison chamber where all the prisoners lay weak and frail-looking from having their energy sucked out again.

“Oh my goodness…!” Sunset cried, and she made her way to the Grandrulers’ cell. “Mr. Grandruler! Principal Celestia!”

The couple opened their eyes, wearily. “Sun… set? Sapp... hire?” groaned Celestia. Celesto could hardly bring himself to speak, but he felt his eyes lift up with a little hope.

“Hang, we'll try and get you out.” Sunset said, but just as they was about to touch the control-box to the side of the cell, someone grabbed Sunset by the wrist; Green Ranger!

“Buddy…? What are you…?” before she could continue, Buddy shoved her and Sapphire hard forcing her back. The two of them stood up “What’s happening to you?”

Buddy didn’t answer, and then the other rangers appeared and stood near him, all morphed and all glaring at her.

Vulcan’s voice was then heard over the intercom, “Welcome, Animal and Red Ranger…! We’ve been expecting you, and it seems you found our little reception.”

Sunset’s features hardened behind her helmet. “What have you done to them?”

Vulcan snickered as he gazed at his screen. “Why, the same thing that’s going to be done with you, and once you are a part of our little… enterprises… I will have you pilot your precious megazords to help me level your planet faster.” That’s when Marla and Bronc appeared.

He then gazed over at Keto who was at his station. His console was the main source to the brainwaves controlling the rangers. “All power-levels are steady, master.” he said to Vulcan.

Vulcan nodded, and then ordered the other five rangers, “…Seize her!”

Before Sunset and Sapphire could protest, their brainwashed friends rushed forth and began to attack. The girls served, dodged and did put up defenses to block their attacks, but made no attempt to hit her friends back.

“Come on, guys, snap out of it!” Sapphire pleaded.

Her only response was Rhymey fly-kicking her hard and sent her rolling along the floor.

“It’s no use…” Vulcan warmed Sunset and Sapphire, “The brainwaves cast upon them are far too powerful. They only serve me now. How does it feel… being beaten by your own friends?”

Sunset and Sapphire clenched her fist furiously, but Rainbow and Fluttershy tried to grab her and take her hostage. “Oh… I hate do this to you guys, but I promise I’ll make it up to you!”

With that, she elbowed them both hard and flipped them both off of her. Buddy and Rhymey lunged at her, and she served dodging them both, but Lightning held up his arms and blasted her with his Comet Trail, sending her crashing hard into the back wall.

“That… really hurt!” groaned Sunset, and the next thing she knew, all her friends were standing over her aiming all their charged weapons straight her. There was no place for her to possibly run.

“No… Sun…set.. Sapp… hire!” cried Celesto groaned.

Vulcan watched and laughed wickedly. “Well done, rangers…” he said to them “You see what happens when you get on the winning team!”

"What now?" Sunset whimpered.

Then, Sapphire's Elements started glowing. She was wearing them underneath her suit when they appeared in front of her. "What are your Elements doing?" Sunset asked.

"Beats me." The four elements circled and circled creating a ring of their pure magic. They blasted five beams, each hitting the brainwashed rangers in the center of their heads. The brainwashed rangers could see memories of their friendship with Sunset and Sapphire and they could feel the brainwash diminishing. Keto's console was blinking red and sparking. "What happening?" Vulcan snapped.

"It's the elements's magic! It's overloading the system!" Keto cried. And the console blew up just as the rangers snapped back to their senses. “Whoa, what happened?” asked Buddy.

Rainbow rubbed the top of her helmet, “Last thing I remember I was in my cell and…”

"Glad to have you back guys." Sapphire said.

"Sapphire, Sunset!" Fluttershy squealed.

Vulcan was furious, "Those rangers will not get away with this. Come with me!" he thundered. The minions followed and MArla whistled calling a swarm of Lingos for assistance.

The dragons blasted the controls to the cells with their fire, deactivating the force fields and bars. Smoke and Fire grabbed the Grandruler's and placed them on their backs. Despite having only a short rest after another energy drain, the prisoners managed to find enough strength to get up and walk, but they had no time to feel grateful, especially when a swarm of Lingos came running down the hall.

“I’ll hold them off, you get them to the megazord!” Lightning said to Rhymey.

Rhymey agreed, and shouted to the civilians,

“Don’t delay,
Come this way!”

The civilians followed him and ran down the halls as Lightning, Sapphire and the dragons fought against the swarm of villains. Things got even worse when Vulcan and the minions showed up. "Destroy them!" The minions and Lingos charged forth. “Let’s go guys!” shouted Sunset, and the brawl was on. Sapphire howled loudly and the soundwaves instantly destroyed the Lingos.

Fluttershy, showing more courage than she had ever before, punched and kicked like crazy knocking the Lingos down going “Monsters…! Bullies…! Get away from me!”

Rhymey fought against Keto, not even bothering to draw out his sword. He had studied Keto’s fencing style since their last, and knew his every move.

Keto swung his staff furiously, but Rhymey blocked it with his fists and kicks. Finally seeing an opening, he kicked the staff away leaving Keto defenseless, and gave him a huge hard kick into the wall! “You… fool…!” Vulcan shouted “I’ve worked too long and hard to get this far, AND NO ONE IS GOING TO TAKE IT FROM ME AGAIN!!”

“Nobody, but us!” shouted Sunset “IT’S TIME TO SHINE!!”

Meanwhile, the army had waited long enough. “Prepare to launch the bomb!” the general ordered. He ignored the many piles of contacts and messages from Vice Principal Luna. The only person who could order him not to fire was the President of the U.S.A, and it was under the very President’s orders that the missile be launched.

Both the President and the General hated that they were going to be shooting down the civilians onboard the robot, but again, the planet of billions were at stake.

“…LAUNCH!!”

POW!! The missile launched up, up, up…!

At the rangers’ base, the team saw the whole thing on the news. They could actually see the rocket flying up into the sky.

“No!!” cried Cadance “We’ve got to warn the rangers!”

“We can’t!” cried Twilight “I can’t make connection with them while their inside the robot!”

Shining Armor looked as if he could crash through a steel wall, while the pets were freaking out madly, but Luna was easily as disturbed! “Celesto… Celestia… Castor, Leilani!”

While on the prison area, Vulcan and his minions brutal beat on the rangers hard. Marla gave Buddy a huge hit with hair knocking him over and then jumped on him to pummel him with her fists “I don’t care if I ruin my nails… YOU’RE FINISHED!!” she thundered.

“Think… Again…!” Buddy snarled and managed to kick her up over him and then kicked her hard across the floor.

Bronc and Keto lunged at Rainbow, and she gave them a good shot with her Sonic-Cannon, sending them both crashing into the consoles shorting them out, causing a massive system overload in the entire robot.

Vulcan didn’t seem to notice or care much as he was furiously brawling with Sunset and Sapphire. He slashed at them hard with his claws making sparks fly and sent them skidding into the wall. “You just don’t know when to quit… DO YOU?!” he thundered at them.

The girls bolted upright and grabbed their respective scepters, “You’re right, we don’t!” and they lunged forth, swerving Vulcan’s attack and slashing him hard across the chest. Then Sapphire kicked him hard into the wall, actually denting the metal platings.

Meanwhile, Rhymey was in Ultra-Star Megazord’s cockpit. He used the tractor beam to gather all the civilians in a giant bundle, as it was the only possible way to get them back to Earth that would protect them from the deadliness of space.

He used the short-wave communication to inform the others that they were ready to go and to hurry up and get to the megazord…

Suddenly, he looked out the view-port and saw a huge missile rocketing straight for them.

“IT’S COMING QUITE NEAR!!
WE MUST GET OUT OF HERE!!!”

Everyone else could see the missile coming from the bridge, but it was already too late to do anything!

“LOOK OUT!!” screamed Fluttershy.

KAPOW!! The missile struck the robot hard in its legs. The whole thing rocked violently shaking everyone about. The legs of robot were complete destroyed, and without its thrusters causing the robot to fall from orbit towards the Earth’s atmosphere.

“We gotta get outta here!” snapped Rainbow.

“Come on, let’s go!” added Buddy, and he Rainbow and Fluttershy dashed out the door to run for the megazord. “Sunset, come on!” Fluttershy called.

“Right…!” snapped Sunset, but as they tried to follow them, Vulcan blasted them with his flames sending them hard into the wall. “I’m not finished with you!” and he lunged at them still brawling like crazy.

“Sunset! Sapphire!” cried Fluttershy.

“Just go, We'll catch up!” shouted Sunset.

"No! Sunset, you go with your friends. I'll deal with Vulcan." Sapphire said.

"What?!" Sunset exclaimed.

"Not time to argue! GO!" Sapphire thundered.

Fluttershy felt her eyes coming to tears behind her helmet, but Rainbow grabbed her and dragged her along the hallway with Sunset following behind. The robot was falling faster than ever and heating up upon re-entry. Fortunately the metal shielding protected it, the megazord was also protected by its own shelling, and the tractor-net kept all the civilians safe as well.

Six of the rangers and dragons were in the cockpit and contemplating the situation. Lightning called Sunset over the com, “Sapphire! Where are you? We have to go now!”

Sapphire was stuck fighting with Vulcan so hard she barely found time to answer. “Just go! Get the civilians to safety!”

“But Sapphire!” cried Buddy!

“JUST GO!!!”

Fluttershy felt like weeping, but even she, just like the others knew they had to go!

“You heard her so…
AWAY WE GO!” shouted Rhymey as he activated the controls and the Megazord literally broke off the attachments on the decaying robot and rocketed off through the atmosphere, towing the civilians all in the tractor-net. The poor people were rocked and tossed about like being on a sickening roller-coaster ride.

Some of them even felt like hurling!

The friends at the base tracked them, and Twilight was finally able to contact them. “Rangers, listen to me!” she cried “I’m glad you’re okay, but that robot is falling too fast. It’s heading towards San-Francisco! At its speed and size, when it hits the ground it’ll cause a massive shockwave, like a meteor, and level the entire city!”

The rangers all gasped. “So you’re saying we’ve got to knock it off course?” asked Buddy.

“Yes, and slow it down!” said Twilight “I’ve calculated some figures…” she sent them at once “If you can deflect and slow the robot just enough, it should crash in a large stretch of outback where it won’t cause much damage.”

The rangers studied the figures and agreed that it would work, “Except for one thing…!” said Fluttershy, “Sapphire's still on that thing!”

Everyone at the base gasped!

Inside, Vulcan’s minions knew it was time to flee. “Master!” cried Bronc “We must escape, now!”

“I’m not leaving!” thundered Vulcan, and he glared at Sapphire “I’m finishing you off once and for all!” and he blasted her hard into the wall again. “Not if I do that first!" she growled.

Vulcan still didn’t seem to interest and lunged at her.

“Forget this, I’m bailing!” cried Keto. “Wait for me!” hollered Marla. Even Bronc was with his comrades and decided to bail out! Their teleporters were damaged in the battle, so they jumped by parachute, over the Pacific Ocean, but the winds were so strong that their parachutes were broken to pieces causing them all plunge down, down, down… splashing hard to the waters below!

The rangers saw them, and almost felt sorry for the minions, feeling neither of them could have survived a fall like that; even hitting water from such a height would be like hitting concrete.

That was the least of their problems, the mainland was coming up fast, and the robot would crash into the city in approximately one minute.

…Even with all this, all Vulcan cared about was finishing off Sapphire, and he wouldn’t let her leave. “You see, Animal Ranger… this is business, MY business, and in my business EVERYTHING GOES MY WAY!!”

He blasted at her again, but this time she rolled out of the way making the blast hit the wall, damaging it but not breaking it. “You forgot one important thing about all business, Vulcan!” she sneered at him “…Always double check your figures! An error could slip by!”

Sapphire powered up combining her Element's magic and natural magic as Vulcan powered up with his fire powers. They both roared and charged each other. They collided and Vulcan flew into the wall, trapping him while Sapphire was launched out of the robot completely!

"Look, it's Sapphire!" Rainbow cried.

"Quick! Catch her! Fluttershy added. Before anyone could make a move, Jaguin Zord burst from the falling robot and caught Sapphire on it's head. "Thanks Jaguin." Sapphire said. Jaguin gave the robot a huge bump level it off its steep dive so it flew over the city heading straight for the outback lands.

Sapphire concentrated and the elements appeared once again as the clouds moved in. The elements moved into the clouds and made them glowed in the respective colors. Sapphire gave her Roar of Harmony and the four roaring lions blasted a beam in the color of the elements. “…SO LONG, VULCAN!!” Sunset called.

Inside, Vulcan, unable to free himself from bondage, screeched with all his might, “MY LEGACY WILL LIVE ON…!!!!!!!!”

BOOM!!! KAPOW!!! A massive explosion followed by two more explosions, a final SUPER BANG, which made a large crater and stirred up a lot of dust, but the dust harmlessly bleed away to nothing in the winds!

The civilians and the rangers could hardly believe what Sapphire had just done!

The megazord touched down, and finally released all the civilians safely on the ground. “Thank heavens we made it!” cried Celesto.

Celestia hugged him deeply and they both held their children in their arms. They still were looking rather sickly, but most likely it was just from extreme fatigue and malnourishment which was easily treatable.

The rangers, de-moprhed, and all regrouped as Jaguin Zord landed near them. Sapphire leaped off the Zord and the rangers hugged her in a big group-hug, delighted she was alright. “We… did it.” Sunset said softly, and then she cheered “We really did it!”

The rest was all drowned out by everyone cheering loudly, as the crowd of people rushed over to hoist the seven rangers up for their heroic triumph in helping to save the world!

The gang at the base were cheering and hugging each other as well. even Krysta and Spike hugged each other!

Though the robot had caused much damage across the world, people were banding together to rebuild, inspired by the rangers’ heroisms, and those whom were injured were receiving the finest treatments there was.

The very next day, Celesto held a big party within the base, though it usually wasn’t the greatest of places to hold a party; for once he was willing to make an exception

“I’d like to propose a toast.” he said, and the entire room went silent. “To our Power Rangers …Sapphire Sunlight... Sunset Shimmer… Buddy Rose… Rainbow Dash… Rhymey… Fluttershy… Lightning Dawn… You have gone far beyond the calls of duty, and protected your town, your planet, the entire galaxy. Words can never express how grateful we are to you.”

The rangers all smiled proudly.

“And to you… Twilight Sparkle, Professor Brain, and all of you at this laboratory; your expertise as well as technological and scientific contributions, we would be lost without. Thank you, for a job well done!”

Everyone cheered!

As the party continued, “Do you really think we should be celebrating?” asked Fluttershy “I mean there’s still a huge tower of monsters out there somewhere.”

“Yeah, there is…” said Buddy “…But look at it this way: with Vulcan and his minions gone, there’s nobody there to let them out of their cells.”

Twilight agreed with him, “Eventually they’ll all go hungry from not being fed or tended to. I know that seems rough, but we just can’t help it. At least it means no more trouble.”

“We’ve worked hard and done our best.
Now I think we deserve a rest.” said Rhymey.

Fluttershy looped her arm around his and pecked his cheek deeply. “A chance for some peace and quiet…”

Rainbow strummed her guitar, “More time for excellence and things.”

"Yeah, and I can study more, Yeah!" The rangers sweat dropped at her. "Mini Twilight~" Rainbow sang.

"I heard that!" Twilight exclaimed with a small tick mark on her head. The rangers laughed.

“Yeah, but some of us actually have to work.” Lightning pointed out. The others looked at him jokingly. “Okay, let’s party!”

Everyone agreed and it sure was a great one, especially when Rainbow played her guitar to a soundtrack and everyone dances wildly.

“I call this “Doin’ the Dog.” Spike said as he boogied about. “That’s nothing; check this out.” Krysta said as she twisted and twirled in the air like dancing as she flew.

The party was all so wonderful and everyone was so preoccupied, no one noticed Sunset had excused herself to head over to the hospital to tell her friends the good news, especially to Artie.

“We did it, Vulcan’s gone, and everything’s going to be okay. I know it will.”

She felt Artie’s hand give a small twitch. It was just a muscle reflex, but to her it was a very good sign that soon he would awaken, as probably would all the others. “We’ll always be a team…” Sunset said as she gazed at all her friends and touched her morpher “…Always.”

Far, far away on the island where the prison tower stood, all the many prisoners still locked up were hammering on their cell for someone, anyone to come and let them out or at least feed them.

“We’re starving here!”

“I’m going to rot away to nothing!”

“SOMEBODY… ANYBODY…!!”

From within Vulcan’s private lab, that huge led blanket he put over his special project fell off, revealing a gigantic egg-like pod… and it was quivering softly as something pounded on it from inside.

Suddenly, POW… a fist shot right through the pod, dripping with a slimy substance, followed by a small crack higher up on the shell. Inside a pair of glowing red eyes shone, followed by the soft sound of snickering…

“…Now it begins!”

Episode 9: Sapphire's First Birthday Bash

The rangers and Twilight were walking to their gym class together. "So how's Striker fitting in?" Sunset asked.

"I went to the mansion this morning, he's doing really well." Twilight replied. It was true. The Triple Stryke dragon was fitting in well with the other dragons at the mansion and the people. The servants didn't seem to mind him. And Striker didn't mind them either. When they introduced him to the children, they cooed in awe at the brown and yellow dragon. He moved one of his claws to Castor and the little one cooed and touched the claw, laughing innocently. The parents aww'd at the scene.

The rangers and Twilight saw Sapphire walking towards them, looking really sad for some reason. She passed them and Rainbow called out, "Hey Sapphire!"

But Sapphire didn't seem to notice her and just kept walking. "What's wrong with her?"

"No idea, she's been like that all morning." Sunset replied.

In her classes so far, Sapphire didn't seem to notice anything around her, not even the teachers or the assignments. The teachers asked her what was wrong but she didn't answer them and kept looking down.

"What do you think is wrong with her?" Fluttershy inquired.

"No idea, but we have to find out." Rainbow said. The others agreed.

Soon, the final bell rang and the students stampeded out of the school. Sapphire sluggishly walked out of the school, still looking down in the dumps. The rangers and Twilight caught up with her. "Hey Sapphire!" Twilight called.

".... Hmm?"

"What's the matter?" Sunset questioned. "You look really sad."

"... It's nothing." she replied sorrowful.

"Sapphire, we can tell something's bothering you. But we can't help you unless you tell us what the problem is." Fluttershy cooed.

Sapphire sighed and turned to face her friends, "Alright... it's my birthday today."

"Really?!" Rainbow said. Sapphire nodded.

"But why would that make you unhappy?" Sunset asked. "it was the day you were created."

"Kinda hard to celebrate when you never actually celebrated a birthday before." Sapphire replied downhearted. The rangers and Twilight gasped softly. "You mean... you never celebrated your birthday! Ever?!" Lightning inquired.

Sapphire nodded. The gang felt horrible for her. She never had a day where she could celebrate herself in 19 years! "Anyway, I'm going home... bye guys." Turning back around, she walked away.

".... I can't believe Sapphire's never had a birthday." Spike lamented.

"Yeah. It's horrible." Sunset added. "We need to do something for her."

"Like what?" Buddy added.

"We could throw her a party for her birthday." Rainbow suggested.

"Perfect!" Sunset exclaimed. "We'll do it, tomorrow, okay?"

"Right." the others agreed.

It was agreed that Rainbow and Fluttershy would be in charge of the decorations. Buddy would handle the treats. Rhymey and Fluttershy would handle the activities and Lightning and Sunset would keep Sapphire distracted until the party. "Alright. Operation: Sunlight Party is a go!" Rainbow said.

"Yeah." They all gave high fives to each other.

The next day, the rangers explained to Mr. Grandruler, Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna about their plans to give Sapphire her first, real birthday. The trio were proud of them for doing this for Sapphire and agreed to help them with the plans. "Alright, let's get started." Sunset said.

Everybody nodded and Sunset and Lightning went to find Sapphire to keep her distracted while the others prepared for the party.

Later that same day, Bronc had released another prisoner for an idea he had.

“Master Vulcan…!”

Vulcan approached the duo and he gazed at the monster; a ogre like creature, his head had multiple expressions on it; happy, sad, angry and etc. His body looked like a giant box.

“What can this creature do, Bronc?” Vulcan asked.

“Afya has the power to steal the emotions from anyone he fires at.”

Afya spoke in a thick Brooklyn accent “I’ll make them rangers fall in so deep in depression, they won't have the spirit to fight."

Bronc nodded, “I even plan to accompany him this time, if you will permit me, sir.”

Vulcan hesitated and thought it over “Very well, Bronc, but Marla shall go with you as well.”

Bronc didn’t like the sound of that, and neither did Marla. “Excuse me, but I just did my nails. Why can’t Keto go?”

“Hey!” sneered Keto “Maybe it’s about time you did something useful around here besides looking in your mirror all day.”

“Ah!” snapped Marla “Why you little…!”

“Enough!” shouted Vulcan “I said you will go with them, Marla… NOW!!”

Marla winced, and then she wined, “But my nails are still wet.”

Vulcan angrily zapped them with a blazing blast, turning them from pink to black, making her scream in horror. “And guess what I’ll roast next if you don’t get going!” thundered Vulcan, he hinted at her long pink hair.

“Okay, Okay… I’ll go!”

Bronc sighed as he and Afya prepared to depart, and Vulcan walked off growling in annoyance!

Meanwhile, Sunset and Lightning found Sapphire sitting along in the park gazebo. She looked broken hearted with her knees up against herself and her head lowered. "Poor Sapphire." Sunset whispered.

"Yeah." Lightning and Sunset approached Sapphire and sat next to her. "Hey Sapphire." Sunset greeted. Sapphire's head perked up.

"Oh... hi."

"Sapphire, we hate seeing you like this. All gloomy and sad." Lightning said. "We want our happy Sapphire back."

"We ant our bubbly and cheery Sapphire back." Sunset teased, getting a blush from Sapphire. "Hehehe, I'm bubbly." she smiled.

"There's the Sapphire we love." Lightning cooed.

Sapphire grinned an hugged her friends. Unfortunately, the moment was ruined when they heard yelling.

"You are so stupid!"

"You are such an idiot!"

They saw people in the distance with a red mist surrounding their bodies. "What's going on?" Lightning asked.

That's when Afya appeared. "Ahhh, fighting and anger. I love it!"

"Hey!" He turned and face the three friends.

"Ahhh and my main targets are here." He sent a blast at the three who leaped out of the way. That's when Rainbow and the others appeared on the scene.

“It’s Morphin’ Time!” Sunset said.

“Starfleet Magic… Power On!!”

"Cosmic Comet... Power On!"

"Lingos Attack!" A swarm of Lingos rose and charged the rangers and they charged them. The rangers easily dealt with the Lingos and went after Afya. "Time to be blue!" he blasted the rangers, except for Sapphire and they all suddenly started shouting at each other. "Who are you looking at?" Sunset snarled.

"You that's who!" Lightning said.

"Why you little-" Buddy said and the five started waling on each other.

"Oh no!" Spike said. "Now only Sapphire's left!"

"Twilight caluclated the magic. "That spell is really strong. We need something that can break it."

"But what can do that?" Celesto wondered. Sapphire could only watch as her friends kept wailing on each other while Afya laughed with glee. "Anger and bad emotions. That's what I like."

"Anger?" Sapphire thought. If Afya gets his powers from negative emotions then Sapphire could counter that with her bubbly emotions. But she needed to spread to the whole area. But how?

"... My singing magic!"

"Huh?" Afya wondered. "What are you up to?"

"This." Happy music began playing and Sapphire started to sing.

I'm Sapphire Sunlight (hello!)
And I here to say (how ya doing?)
I'm gonna make you smile
And I will brighten up your day

She walked over to the people infected by the spell.

It doesn't matter now (what's up?)
If you are sad or blue (howdy!)
Cause cheering up my friends
Is just what Sunlight's here to do!

A stream of magic came out of the chest and circled the people. Instantly the red mist vanished and their eyes no longer glowed red. They started smiling at one another.

Cause I love to make you
Smile smile smile
Yes I do!
It fills my heart with sunshine all the while
Yes it does!

Cause all I really need's a
Smile smile smile
From these happy friends of mine!

She went around the area, cancelling the spell Afya had casted, much to his horror. "Hey, stop that."

I like to see you grin! (awesome!)
I love to see you beam! (rock on!)

The corner's of your mouth turned up
Is always Sunlight's dream! (fistbump!)
But if you're kinda worried, and your face has made a frown

I'll work real hard and do my best
To turn that sad frown upside down!

Cause I love to make you
Grin grin grin
Yes I do!
Bustin out from ear to ear
Let it begin.

Just give me a joyful
Grin grin grin
And you fill me with good cheer!

She went over to the other rangers who stopped fighting when they heard her singing. The red surrounding their bodies went away and they felt happy.

It's true some days are dark and lonely
And maybe you feel sad
But Sunlight will be there to show you that
It isn't that bad
There is one thing that makes me happy
And makes my whole life worthwhile!
And that's when I talk to my friends
And get them to smile!

I really am so happy
Your smile fills me with glee
I give smile, I get a smile
And that's so special to me!

Soon she had the whole area, beaming with happiness. On her left wrist another bracelet appeared this time it had a blue balloon in the middle.

Cause I love to see you
Beam beam beam
Yes I do!

Tell me what more can I say
To make you see
That I do!

It makes me happy when you
Beam beam beam
Yes it always makes my day!

Come on everybody
Smile smile smile
Fill my heart up with
Sunshine sunshine

All I really need's a
Smile smile smile
From these happy friends of mine

Come on everybody
Smile smile smile
Fill my heart up with
Sunshine sunshine

All I really need's a
Smile smile smile
From these happy friends of mine

The song powered up the element along with everybody singing along. It glowed brighter and brighter.

Yes a perfect gift for me
Is a smile as wide as a mile!
(Come on everybody)
(Smile smile smile)
(Fill my heart up with)
(Sunshine sunshine)

(All I really need's a
Smile smile smile
From these happy friends of mine)
To make me happy
As can be!

Smile! Smile!
Smile! Smile!
Smile!

The Element blasted Afya with it's magic. He began to spark up, getting ready to blow.

Come on and smile!
Come on and smile!

Back at the Tower, "Keto." Vulcan called.

"Right." He pointed his staff out the window. "FORTISSIMO!" his sent his mugic to Mystic Island...

... and made Afya grow gigantic.

"Time for the party!" he bellowed. The rangers grunted while the civilians ran for safety.

“Launch Star Jets!”

“Summon Zords!”

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

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

"Mammoth Zord, I choose you!" The huge Zord burst from it's hiding place and charged onto the scene, beaming Sapphire into her cockpit.

“Zords Combine!”

“Jet-Star Megazord… Ready!”

“Comet Striker… Ready!”

Afya started off with firing at the Zords, but Mammoth Zord trumpeted and stomped the ground, creating a large wall of rock, shielding them all from the attack. "Hey, no fair!" Afya whined. The rock wall vanished. The Jet Star megazord and Lightning charged forth. The three were throwing punches to each other. Finally, Afya had enough.

"Take this." He fired his spell at them, striking them hard. The controls went red and the two zords began fighting each other. "Not this again." Lightning groaned.

Mammoth Zord tried to break them up but the Jet Star Megazord slashed it away with the Star Saber. "Agh!"

"Sapphire!" the rangers cried. Mammoth Zord shook it off. "Now what, boy?"

The Zord trumpeted loudly into the air, like a distress call. Just then another Zord flew over the battle. This one was a large bird with a red body with yellow markings symbolizing flames. "Woah, a Phoenix Zord!"

The large bird hovered above the fighting megazords and cried majestically, sending magical waves, breaking the spell on them. Afya wasn't amused. "You little pest!" He fired upon the Zord but the Zord flew up into the sky and came dove towards him, covering itself in fire energy.

KAPOW!

Afya was sent flying backwards and the Zord hovered in front of the team, squawking majestically. “Great going.” said Sunset “Now let’s finish him! Charge up Star blast!”

“Energy Charge, Ready!”

“Star Blast-Wave… Fire!!”

KAPOW! The strong energy wave fired, striking the monster hard. “I HAVE LOST MY EMOTIONS!" he shouted, and he exploded and was imprisoned.

The rangers and Zords rejoiced and Sunset made the call. "Monster Captured, Mission Complete!"

Back at the Tower, Vulcan wasn't happy.

"Now the rangers have a new Zord on their side!" he yelled. The minions cowered in fear at his anger.

"A thousand pardons, Master." Keto squeaked.

Vulcan growled angrily and the minions took that as a sign to run for the hills. They dashed out of the room, before Vulcan could fry them. "You win today, rangers. Next time, won't be so easy."

Dusk had fallen and Sunset had told Sapphire to follow her to the mansion. The reason why, she didn't say except, “You’ll see.” Sapphire followed her into the living room which was dark for some reason. “Ummm, Sunset, what’s going on?” she asked but she got no answer, “Sunset? Hello?”

Suddenly the lights came on and the rangers, all the adults and Twilight and her family, popped out yelling, “SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAPPHIRE!” Sapphire's face lit up with excitement and disbelief. The whole room was completely covered in streamers, balloons and decorations. There was a table with all sorts of refreshments and snacks on it. “What’s this?” she asked.

“It’s your birthday party, silly.” Lightning stated.

“My birthday party?” Comet repeated.

“We wanted to give you your first birthday party true,
So we decided to throw this party for you.” Rhymey replied.

Sapphire was really touched by this, “Aww guys, thank you.” she praised.

All her friends smiled at her, “Well what are we waiting for LET’S PARTY!” Sunset cried. Everybody cheered in agreement.

Music played and the rangers tossed Sapphire in the air as she laughed. Sapphire received all kinds of presents from her friends. The rangers all made her one singular necklace with gems in the color of their respective suits on them and they each got her individual gifts. Lightning got her a book on animals. Fluttershy brought her a necklace with a small charm shaped like Snowflake on it. Rhymey recited a poem he wrote about how great Sapphire was. Buddy made her a flower veil, like the kind some brides wear during a wedding. And Rainbow got a bracelet and small kitten charms on it. Celesto, Celestia and Luna got her new clothes. "I love them, thank you." Sapphire praised.

They all played Just Dance on Celesto’s tv. Sapphire defeated Buddy and Rhymey... twice and the boys were not amused. “OH COME ON!” Buddy cried. “I swear you keep cheating!”

"How can this be
What's wrong with me?" Rhymey added.

"She’s just way better at this game then you two.” Sunset teased. Buddy and Rhymey growled.

Everybody laughed.

Next it was Sapphire verses Lightning Dawn.... Sapphire won.

Rainbow was on the floor, on her back laughing at the top of her lungs. “Lightning! You suck!” Rainbow yelled while laughing. “Shut up Rainbow!” Lightning replied.

After that, they all had cake.

While Fluttershy and Rhymey were eating, cake flew onto their faces and then cake flew onto Celesto and Celestia’s faces as well.

“Huh?” Everybody looked and saw Rainbow laughing while her hand was covered in cake crumbs.

Sapphire looked at Rainbow with a smirk and a piece of cake in her hand as well as the others. Rainbow smiled nervously and the cake flew all over the room and everybody had a good laugh.

Then everybody did a conga line all around the living room.

After partying, everybody settled down for some refreshments. Spike, Snowflake and Midnight tried to sneak a bite of Celestia’s burger, but they got caught. “Nice try, you three.” Celestia teased.

The dragons growled like if they were saying 'darn'. Spike whimpered and used his puppy dog eyes on Celestia, but she didn’t fall for that even other. Sapphire laughed at her mischievous dog. “Guys, thanks for doing this for me.” Sapphire praised.

“No problem, Sapphire. Everybody deserves to celebrate their birthday.” Lightning stated.

“Well this has been the best birthday ever!” Sapphire declared and her friends couldn’t be happier.

"Well... how about we make this birthday even more better." Celesto said.

Everybody looked at him , confused. His wife brought out some papers and handed them to Sapphire with a small grin on her face, "What's this?"

Sapphire took the papers and she read them. Her eyes widened in shock. "Sapphire... what is it?" Lightning asked.

"Sapphire." Celestia said. Sapphire looked up from the papers. "We know that you didn't have any parents for many years." Celesto started. "We don't know how lonely that must have felt for you."

"So, we want to give you a family of your own; ours." Celestia added. The rangers gasped softly.

Sapphire was at a lost of words. "R-Really?"

Celestia, Celesto and Luna nodded. Sapphire's eyes teared up and she hugged the three.

"Y-e-es!" she sobbed happily. The team, Twilight, Cadence and Shining Armor all cheered happily. Spike howled in addition. "Thank you." she whispered.

Celestia and Celesto grinned happily. "Your welcome." Luna smiled at the three of them. Now Sapphire has something that she's hasn't had in many, many years. A Family.