My Brave Pony: Power Rangers Starfleet

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....