Power Rangers Super Megaforce: Equestrian Adventure

by ariellewilson

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Alternate Universe, Grogar, Other, Romance, Comedy, Adventure, Princess Celestia, Crossover, Main 6
Length: 56992

When the Super Megaforce Rangers got trapped in Equestria, a place filled with colorful ponies, by one of Levira's inventions, they meet up with Elements of Harmony.

When the Super Megaforce Rangers got trapped in Equestria, a place filled with colorful ponies, by one of Levira's inventions, they meet up with Elements of Harmony. However, it also turned out that Prince Vekar and the rest of the Armada are in the pony world too, teaming up with the other villains - Cozy Glow, Chrysalis, Tirek, and Grogar, as well as new, evil changelings.

(Note: Inspired by Cheetara's crossover fanfic).

Published 2019-10-05 20:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2021-11-30 18:33:03 UTC

Chapter 2: Twilight's Dream

Fluttershy stepped out of the Ponyville Hospital, her right wing wrapped around with a white bandage as she made her way to the town of Ponyville, the rain soaking her coat and mane, including her tail. Her hooves began to get muddy from the road she is on once she got to the small town, watching ponies running to safety.

“Hey there, Professor Fluttershy!” The yellow pony stopped, seeing one of her students from the School of Friendship waving a hoof at her. He trotted up to her, glancing at the bandages. “Yona’s hoping you’re not mad at her for slamming your wing against the door,” the teenage colt said, digging his hoof at the ground, his mane dripping wet.

“I’m not mad,” she assured him. “I’m not mad at all, Sandbar. What she did is completely an accident. Now I suggest you get out of the rain before you catch a cold,” she advised him.

“Okay, see you tomorrow!” Sanbar began galloping away, sending mud behind him. Fluttershy giggled, shaking her head, continuing her way to the Castle of Friendship, which is basically where the school is at. However, when she arrived, she saw Applejack in her cowgirl pose with a green weed in her mouth, Rainbow Dash flapping her wings, hovering in mid air, as Pinkie Pie jumped up and down on a dirty puddle while Rarity had this annoyed expression on her face.

“Hey, girls,” Fluttershy greeted, getting all their attention due to her soft voice.

The orange earth pony smiled, spitting out the weed. “Howdy there, Fluttershy.” She tilted her cowboy hat, returning the greeting.

Rainbow looked at Fluttershy’s wing. “Looks like you can’t play buckball, huh?”

“Don’t worry, Dash. Dr. Stables said it’ll heal within a week. It’s only a sprain. Plus, I’m not big on flying.” She grinned, walking over to Pinkie. “Thanks for taking over my class. It was nice of you do fill in for me while I was at the hospital,” the shy pegasus appreciated.

“No problem,” the bubble gum colored pony grinned. “I’m happy to help out. Plus I can’t believe we’re in the second chapter of the story! Although, I wonder what the story is called.” That’s when all of her friends gave her odd expressions. “What?” she asked, the smile not leaving her face.

“Chapter?” Applejack questioned with squished brows, the water tripping off of her hat.

“Story?” Rainbow added, cocking her head to the side. “Pinkie Pie… we’re not in a story. You may be random, love parties, dance, and all those other things, but we’re definitely not in some kind of story.”

Pinkie giggled. “Thanks. I would love to have a dance off with someone, though.” She began dancing on the puddle, splashing dirty water everywhere.

“Ah!” Rarity let out a shriek when the nasty water got all over her fur. “Pinkie Pie!” She sent her irritated eyes. “Will you please stop jumping in the puddle? I don’t want to-” A stallion pulling a cart ran past them, having all the ponies, except for the white unicorn, jump out of the way as he passed by them, sending lots of water - at the dressmaker. “Ugh!” The girls stepped away from her when she let out a frustrated scream. “I hate rain! Rainbow Dash, go clear the sky right now!”

“No can do, Rarity,” the blue pegasus spoke. “We need to make up the rain fall we missed last week,” she stated, landing on the castle steps, folding her wings to her sides.

“Can you at least punch a hole in the cloud? My beautiful mane is soaking wet.” She didn’t mean to whine, she just can’t help it.

“Sorry. We need rain.” Hearing the speedy pony say that made Rarity’s ears go back on her head. “Don’t worry, it’ll stop until tomorrow.”

“And you can take a nice, warm shower whenever Twilight gets back from the school. And we’re going to have the best sleepover.” Pinkie went back onto the same puddle, jumping in it again with Rarity climbing on the steps to avoid the yucky water. “It’ll be like in the episode where A.J. and Rarity had their fight over each others differences.” She stopped for a second, tilting her head to the side. “What was the episode called again…? Oh yeah! Look Before You Sleep.” She giggled with a hop. “Too bad I wasn’t in that episode.”

Of course, she got the same looks. Fluttershy walked over to her. “Pinkie...what are you talking about?”

“Pfft!” Pinkie swept a hoof over her cotton mane. “You know what I’m talking about. Just trust your auntie Pinkie Pie.” She patted Fluttershy’s hair.

Fluttershy narrowed her eyes. “I’m a year older than you.” She turned over to Applejack. “When will Twilight be here? Is she still at the school?”

“Yep, she’s still over at the school, sugarcube. She’s still worrying about taking Luna and Celestia’s place to become the new leader of Equestria. I’m not even sure if she’s been sleeping or not. But don’t worry, she’ll be-”

“I’m here, I’m here!” The ponies looked to see Twilight galloping over to them with Starlight Glimmer with her, while Spike flapped next to her. “Sorry for being late, girls,” the alicorn quickly apologized before going over to timid pegasus. “How’s your wing?”

“It’s fine, Twilight. The doctor said it’ll heal within a week.” She glanced at her injury. “I’m lucky since I’m not a big flyer - even though I’m a pegasus pony.”

Twilight nodded, making her way to the large doors. “You may not be a fan of heights, but you only fly when it is necessary.”

“I know. Like the time where I had to help Dash with the tornado when Cloudsdale needed water,” Fluttershy remembered, digging her hoof, getting the tip of it all muddy. “I thought my wing power wasn’t strong enough for it, turning out I was wrong all along. I may not be strong or fast like the other pegasi in Equestria like Rainbow Dash, but it doesn't matter what my wing power is, even when it's too little."

“That's right!” Rainbow did a flip, landing back on the steps, the bang of rainbow hair flipping back before settling back into place. “Man, I do wanna race somepony. I’m the fastest pony ever,” she boasted with pride, receiving annoyed from her friends. “Eh, heh, heh.” A nervous laugh came over to her. “Went a little overboard there.”

“Uh huh.” Twilight rolled her eyes, lighting up her horn, getting the doors open. “We’ll be sleeping in the library,” she told them.

All of her friends went inside with her. Rarity went to the other direction when she got stopped by the party pony who jumped in front of her. “Where are you going?”

“To the bathroom to take a long, hot shower,” Rarity answered, stepping around her. “Thanks to the rude stallion, my coat is all messy.”

“I bet he’s glad for doing that.” A beaming smile formed on the pink earth pony’s face. Rarity just rolled her eyes, leaving the area.

When Rarity is out of sight, the rest of the ponies shook their bodies, their manes and tails flapping from side to side, getting as much rain water off of them.

“I’ll dry up the floor,” Spike offered as they all finished, the floor now becoming wet and slippery.

“You don’t have to, Spike.” Fluttershy rung her mane, doing her best to get the water out for how long it is.

“But I want to,” he insisted, going over to the closet, pulling out some towels. “Besides, I don’t want to join your sleepover. They’re for girls.” He stuck out his tongue, sticking his claw in his mouth.

“Aww, you don’t want to have a makeover?” Applejack teased, rubbing the little dragon’s scaly head.

“You don’t like makeovers, Applejack.” Applejack glanced at the defiant blue pony. “Don’t look at me like that!” Rainbow returned the same manner. “You don’t like makeovers at all.”

“Just because I don’t like makeovers doesn’t mean I don’t want any. I don’t mind going to the spa every now and then. I remember when you refuse to let the spa ponies file your back hooves.” The cowgirl gave her friend a teasing smirk.

Rainbow ran her hoof over her face. “I don’t like ponies touching my hooves… Anyways, I don’t go to the spa everyday. I only do it when I want to. Plus, the Wonderbolts already know about it.”

“Speaking of Wonderbolts…” Starlight came over to them. “When will be your next practice?” she asked.

“Probably until the fifteenth of December,” the rainbow maned pony answered with a flick of her tail. “In fact, that’s when I started as a trainee when I first enrolled there,” she grinned.

“It’s also when you met Lightning Dust.” Rainbow shot Pinkie an angry look. “Oh…” Ceasing her jumping, she knew why she got the expression from her. “I forgot, she’s reckless… Sorry, Dashie. I’ll do my best not to bring her up again.”

Sighing, Rainbow placed a hoof on her. “No need to feel sorry. I’m still mad at her for putting Scootaloo in danger from a stupid stunt she made her do. It makes me furious thinking about it. Also, I never wanted to see her again like the last time when I found out she’s the leader of the Washouts.” She turned away, eyes narrowed at the floor. “She deserves to be kicked out of the Wonderbolts, as well as getting her hoof caught by the rope,” she lightly snorted, stomping her hoof on the floor, creating a sharp sound.

Fluttershy stepped forward up to her rainbow maned friend. “Is there another way to give her a second chance?”

Rainbow scoffed in disgust. “Give Lightning a second chance? She doesn’t deserve a second chance. Like I said before, I don’t want to see her ever again. She’s so…”

“Reckless?”

“Yeah,” she responded to the party pony’s answer. Then she shook her head, getting the memory out of her head as she turned to the orange pony. “When will you make those caramel apples?”

“Soon, but I need somepony to help me with the harvest. Big Mac hurt himself again and Apple Bloom is getting a cold.” Applejack removed her hat, shaking it, water spraying everywhere. She then placed her hat back on her head. “I would love to have Granny help me, but for her age...I don’t want her to hurt her hip or anything. I need to find another pony who’s strong enough to help me.”

The yellow pegasus put on a light smile. “I hope you can find that pony.” The smile was now replaced with a frown. “And I hope your brother and sister don’t miss out on Nightmare Night.”

“They’ll probably get better before than,” the cowgirl hoped in a thoughtful way. “I already know what I wanted to be for this year.”

“Well, you girls have fun for Nightmare Night. I’m not going.” All the girls turned to Fluttershy at what she had stated. “Oh, come on, girls. Remember what happened last year and the year before that? I was too afraid to go out on Nightmare Night because of all those scary things out there, and last year I scared you guys at the corn maze, never liking it at all.”

“But it’s was only for fun, Shy.” The other pegasus patted her on the back, careful not to touch the injured wing. “Being scared can be fun sometimes.” She laughed. “This year, I’m going to scare the living daylights out of those people.”

“Not with those storm clouds.” Applejack eyed her in a stern manner.

“Maaaybe.” Rainbow snickered, thinking on what she’s going to do for Nightmare Night, having the blonde mane pony roll her green eyes. “Come on, Twilight is waiting for us at the library.” Rainbow zoomed away before anyone as they made their way to the castle library.

Arriving, they saw Twilight set all the cots up, placing pillows and blankets on them, making sure they’re straight. When she was done, she saw the girls walk into the library. “There you are,” she expressed happily. “Where’s Rarity?” she then asked.

“Shower,” Starlight shortly answered. “She’ll probably be in there for awhile. You know Rarity.” All the girls laughed until Spike came into the room.

“Spike, can you do me a favor and bring the snacks I made for the slumber party?” the princess requested.

“Aww.” The little dragon released a groan. “I was about to grab a book.”

“You can grab a book after you get the snacks.” Folding her legs underneath her, she laid down on the floor in front of her own bed.

Spike grumbled. “Fine.” Leaving the room, he stopped at the doorway. “Don’t make me join your sleepover. It’s for girls.”

The other girls giggled as the alicorn spoke back to him. “Sleepovers aren’t just for girls, Spike. Even guys can have them.”

Of course, he left, ignoring her as he made his way to the kitchen, leaving the girls to laugh at his childish behavior.

When the laughter died down, Rarity appeared with a towel wrapped around her mane. She released a satisfying breath from her mouth. “A good shower is a nice shower.” She joined them, laying down on the floor.

Pinkie Pie took a big sniff, getting into the unicorn’s personal space. “You smell like strawberries,” she commented, taking another sniff.

“Yeah…” Pushing her away, she made sure she wasn’t too close to her. “Thank you, darling. But please don’t get close to me. I’m a lady pony unlike A.J. who’s a tomboy.”

“Hey, I may be a tomboy, but I don’t mind wearing a dress every now and then.” Removing her hat, Applejack went back to her cowgirl pose, crossing her right hind leg over her left one, putting her arms behind her head, leaning against the bedpost of her cot. “I’m wondering about those Gala dresses you’re making,” she said in full honesty. “I don’t want any frillies on my dress.”

“No worries, dear. Anywho, the Gala isn’t until May sixth.” Unwrapping the towel off her mane, Rarity used her magic to pick up a bunch of hair curlers from the inside of one of her saddlebags, putting them in her dark, purple mane, doing the same with her tail. “I already did the sketching,” she told her. “So the next thing I’ll have to do is get you girls’ dresses made - including mine. Oh, and I’ll be working on Spike’s tux too.”

“You know what I just remembered?” All the mares leaned their heads towards Pinkie, wanting to know what she’s going to say. “May sixth is when The Best Night Ever episode was aired. On December fifteenth is when the Wonderbolt Academy, which is in season three, of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, aired on TV.” She released a squeal. “Though I wonder what this story the author is writing about. We’ll see in one of the other chapters because the author has to think before she writes.”

Twilight raised a brow, tilting her head to the side. “Pinkie, what are you saying?”

“You know what I’m saying, Twi.” Again, the bubbly earth pony giggled. “I love this story!” she exclaimed in full burst of happiness when Spike came into the room with trays of cupcakes and apples.

“Here you go. Have fun.” Handing the trays to Twilight who used her magic to hold them, the young dragon opened his wings, flapping out of the library after grabbing a book off from one of the book shelves.

Setting the trays down, everyone each grabbed a cupcake with white icing slathered on the top, along with an apple. They began eating when Rarity remembered something.

“Fluttershy, are you free to join the Pony Tones? One of my singers won’t be there because she’s going to visit her parents at Delamare.”

Swallowing her bite of her cupcake, Fluttershy shook her head. “No, thank you. I don’t want to join. I don’t want to sing in front of a lot of ponies. I struggle with stagefright, knowing it’ll never go away. Basically, you have to find someone else who has a good singing voice.” She turned her eyes on the floor. “I...hope you’re not disappointed in me,” she spoke softly, barely getting the words out.

The unicorn sighed, getting her attention. “It’s alright, dear. I understand that you’re still struggling to sing in front of lots of other ponies. I can find someone else. I have lots of time.”

They continued enjoying their snacks, talking about lots of things while Twilight is worrying about becoming the new leader of Equestria, thinking about telling her mentor that she doesn’t want to replace her, but fears she’ll disappoint her, knowing both her and her sister will be retiring fairly soon.

Twilight has to admit, she doesn’t want them to leave, and she doesn’t seem ready to take it. She wants to tell them, but as for right now, she can’t. No need to say anything yet, knowing she needs time to think about it, wanting to give out the right words before she says something to them. She’s okay being the Princess of Friendship and the Element of Magic, as well as being Head Mare at the School of Friendship. But when it comes to take her mentor and her sister’s place, it makes her nervous.

She’s been her mentor’s private student ever since she was filly after she passed her entrance exam for Celestia’s School of Gifted Unicorns when she had to hatch a dragon’s egg, also earning her cutie mark in the process.

In fact, Rainbow Dash was the one who helped them find their special purpose in life when she did the Sonic Rainboom at Flight Camp, racing against the young colts who teased Fluttershy for being a weak flyer, despite being held back.

Fluttershy can be shy, which states her name, but she doesn’t have anymore problems standing up for herself - except she needs someone to stand up to her instead in case she can’t handle teasing anymore.

Soon it was getting late, and Twilight suggested they all get to bed so they won’t be tired to teach their classes.

Agreeing, they said their goodnights, getting into the beds. Applejack hung her hat on the bedpost, tucking herself in.

Turning off the lights in the library, Twilight flopped her head onto the pillow, turning her body, facing towards the bookcases, closing her eyes, drifting off into a deep sleep.

Twilight’s legs galloped across the foggy place of Ponyville, hearing a sound she was too familiar with. It was the sound of buzzing chasing after her, sounding like...like…

Suddenly, her hooves came to a halt when six figures in colored outfits - red, yellow, green, pink, blue, and silver - appeared in front of her, almost bumping into the red one who has unicorn horn poking out from his helmet, as well as the other unicorn. Not only that, but two pegasi had their wings exposed, while the other two are earth ponies.

Seeing them caused her to back away from them, her horn ready to fire at them, standing her ground, opening her wings when she felt something - or someone - grab her from behind, wrapping its arms around her.

She let out a scream, kicking her back legs from behind, getting whoever - or whatever - grabbed her, forcing it to let go, quickly turning around, and shot out a ray of magic at...some kind of gray pony. The pony fell to the ground, dropping the staff that was clutch around its hoof, until more came, along with…

A gasp escaped from her, not believing what she was seeing. Before she can process at what they are, knowing what they could be, the suited ponies stepped up in front of her, holding what looked to be pirate swords and guns. The silver one had a different weapon - a Spear, using one of his wings to hold it as he hovered in the air.

The alicorn then saw more grey ponies, including large blue ones coming out from the thick fog, as well as more familiar disgusting creatures she and her friends fought before.

The red one took the lead as the others joined him in the fight, until she saw him take out something. It looks like a key as he pulled out an item she has never seen before in her entire life.

Turning to the five other figures, the stallion nodded his head as they all stood up on their back legs, following his lead as they too, took out keys and the strange looking objects, inserting them. They each turned the key at the same time, their outfits suddenly changing into different ones with japanese outfits. Each of them pulled out new weapons, fighting against their enemies.

“Look out!” Twilight suddenly cried out, seeing the creature charge at the red one. Before she can do anything, the hideous creatures with fangs, their bodies the color of black, their mane and tails looking like short webs, came buzzing towards her, smothering her into the darkness...

Sitting up from her bed, Twilight woke up with a start, the bang of her mane matted to her forehead covered in sweat, releasing panting sounds, clutching the blanket close to her chest, looking around the library, seeing all her friends asleep in their own beds.

The vivid dream swam inside her head as she regains her composure, trying to process at what she saw. She saw these ponies is colored, suited outfits with helmets covering up their entire heads… She saw them fighting off these gray and blue ponies, along with...changlings…

No! It can’t be. It doesn’t make any sense to her. The changelings got reformed all thanks to Starlight and Thorax, with Thorax becoming the new leader of them. Only now there are new evil ones. How can this happen? The dream felt so real that… it didn’t feel like a dream at all… She knew something’s going to happen here in Equestria. She and her friends are already dealing with Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, Tirek, and Grogar. They already defeated King Sombra, and she knows she has to stop the rest of their enemies. But new changelings? When did the changling queen got new changelings?

Questions ran all over her as she got out of her cot, setting her hooves softly on the floor, not wanting to wake anybody up. Tip hoofing, she made her way to one of the bookcases, pulling out a book titled Mythical Creatures Of Equestria.

With the book in her magic, she walked quietly out of the room, heading her way to the kitchen to read it, wanting to get answers.

When she got to the kitchen, she flipped the switch on, setting the book on the nearest counter. She opened the book to the letter C, reading about the changlings.

It says here that a queen changeling can create more changlings whenever she wanted. Both if they’re dead or when she needed more. Of course, her last horde of those creatures turned good, so they didn’t die. So she has a theory that Queen Chrysalis made brand new changelings, but she wasn’t sure if it was yesterday or not.

I have to report this to Celestia, she thought, shutting the book, taking it with her as she ran to her bedroom, right past the library, her hooves clicking the hard floor.

Getting to her room, she stopped at Spike’s bed. “Spike!” she whispered both loudly and softly. However, Spike kept on sleeping, hugging a Rarity plushie close to him. “Spike!” she repeated his name.

A moan came over to him, holding the doll close to his chest. “I love you so much, Rarity…” he mumbled in his sleep, having Twilight smirk with an eye roll. “Do you like the gems I found for you…?” Obviously he’s having a dream - a nice dream other than the strange one she had.

Placing her hoof on his shoulder, she gently nudged him. “Spike.” Nope, he continued sleeping, adding in some snores, getting her frustrated at failing to wake him up.

Grabbing the blanket with her teeth since she’s holding the book with her magic, she ripped the covers off of him in one swipe.

Spike woke up, feeling the sudden air go all over him. “Hey-!” He sat up from his bed, dropping his Rarity doll on the floor, startled. “Twilight?” he exclaimed, seeing her in front of him. “What are you doing?” he asked, retrieving the toy from the floor. “Why are you up?”

“I have to tell you something,” she replied frantically. “Something important.”

Spike groaned, rubbing his eyes. “Can’t you wait until Celestia raises the sun? I’m tired.”

“Spike, please, I need you to listen to me,” she pleaded, shuffling her hooves nervously. “I had a weird dream about these ponies in colored outfits and helmets, these gray and blue ponies fighting them, along with… changelings!”

“Changelings?” he questioned. “Twilight, the changelings got reformed, remember? There’s no way the queen can make more.”

“But I need to report this to Celestia.” She knew she was losing it, her mane getting frazzled. “The dream I had is important, and I want her to tell Luna to see if she was watching me in the dream I had.”

“Twilight-” A scroll and quill was shoved into his hands. “Alright, I’ll write to the princess…” he gave in.

“Okay.” Twilight then spoke out loud for what Spike needed to put down on paper. “Dear Princess Celestia, about an hour ago I had this dream of these ponies wearing colored outfits fighting off these ponies in the color of blue and grey. And even though this would not make sense to you, but it seems like Chrysalis made a whole new army of evil changelings. You’re private pupil, Twilight Sparkle.”

“Twi...light Spar...kle.” Spike finished the letter. He showed her the letter, letting her read it.

The alicorn beamed. “Great, now send it.”

“Now? Can’t you wait until tomorrow?” he said, becoming tired.

“Send it!” she cried, looking desperate. “I don’t care how late it is, I want you to send it. Now!”

Spike leaned back from her sudden outburst. “Okay, okay, okay.” Rolling up the scroll, he tied it with a red ribbon. Taking a deep breath, he used his dragon breath to send Twilight’s letter to the princess. “There, it’s going. But you can’t expect her to-” Suddenly, his cheeks puffed up as he grabbed his stomach, letting out a belch as green, glittery fire came out of his mouth when a letter appeared.

“That was quick.” Taking the letter, Twilight read it. At first her eyes seemed normal, until they got wide, shifting them forward. “...I was right.”

“Right? Right about the dream or right about ‘the new army of evil changelings’?”

“Celestia said Luna was in my dream, seeing the suited ponies, but she wants us to come to Canterlot.”

“Oh. When?” Spike laid back down on his bed.

Of course, she hung her head. “She said we have to be there tomorrow. Turns out there’s no school for the students. I can let all of them before we leave.” With a sigh, the lavender princess walked out of the bedroom when she saw her friends waiting for her.

Starlight was the first one to speak. “Did we hear you say that there’s a new changeling army?”

With her head down, Twilight nodded. “It’s a theory, but Celestia wants to see us tomorrow. Possibly first thing in the morning. I’ll let the students know that school is off that day. Come on, we better get some shut eye.”

Taking her advice, the rest of them went back to the library. They went back to their cots, going right back to sleep.

But the dream still nagged Twilight mind. Who were those suited ponies?

It was then until tomorrow she found out.

Chapter 3: A Whole New World

The lights of the Command Center switched on the next day, relighting the entire room. Tensou, letting out a little robotic groan, carefully sat up, wheeling over to Gosei.

“Are you okay, Gosei?” the young robot asked his master on the wall.

“Yes, Tensou, I’m completely find,” he answered in his booming voice. “I never expected us and the Rangers to get a new place until the next day,” he said honestly.

“Rangers…” Tensou suddenly remembered the humans being with them during when the wormhole pulled the Command Center from the device Noah accidently hit. “Rangers! Gosei, are they Rangers still here? What if they-”

“Tensou, we’re fine. But you may want to turn around because you’re not going to believe this…”

“What are you-?” As he spun around, a shriek was let out. There he saw a horse - a small horse - about half the size of the panels, wearing Troy’s clothes and sneakers. Upon looking at him, five more peaked their heads around the panels, all wearing the Rangers' clothes and everything before they stepped over to him, joining the first horse.

Looking at them closely, Tensou’s eyes lit up in surprise. “Rangers?!” he finally exclaimed. “Oh, what happened to you, guys?”

“I don’t know…” Orion answered, looking at his hands now replaced by hooves, lifting one of them up, then setting it down on the floor.

Emma tapped her new hooves - all four of them - on the ground, seemingly to trot in place. “Okay,” she spoke, “I have to admit, I’ve always wanted to have my own pony since I was little. Only I never wanted to be a pony.”

“Yeah,” the ponified Gia agreed. “I like ponies, but becoming one is totally strange.”

Jake went up on his back legs, trying to walk on them “Whoa. Ah!” He tried to regain his balance he kept walking - and landed on top of Gia.

The pony gave him a sharp glare, her new pony ears going slightly back. “Jake! Get off me!” she yelled, placing her hooves on his chest, shoving him off.

“Sorry, Gia,” he apologized. “I was wondering if I can walk on two legs.”

“Jake, ponies walk on all fours; not two,” Noah told him.

“He’s right.” Troy nodded his head. “It’ll be difficult for us to walk on two legs now since we need center of balance,” he said, flicking his tail he never had before, matching his hair style.

“Yeah, you’re right.” He helped Gia off the floor. “But what is going on, though?” he wondered towards his ponified pals. “Why are we ponies?”

“I believe our DNA has been changed, having us have these forms as ponies because I don’t think there are humans in whatever world we’re in now.”

“Huh?” Orion couldn’t understand what Noah stated.

“He means we turned into ponies to blend in,” the Red Ranger explained, making it easier for them to understand.

Jake tilted his head. “Blend in?” he responded. “What kind of world are we in to blend in as ponies?”

“Allow me to tell you, Rangers.” Gosei seemed to know what’s going on, so they went over to him. “Look at the panels while I explained,” he instructed them. They did, each one going to their respective panels. Since they’re about half the size of them, they had to go on their back hooves, placing the front on the consoles for balance. “The place we’re at is known to be Equestria…”

“Equestria? What’s that?” the Green Ranger questioned.

“Jake, let me explain,” their mentor calmly said. “Equestria,” he continued, “is a place filled with ponies in all kinds of shapes, colors, and sizes. There are three types of ponies living here in this new world. The first group of ponies are the earth ponies. These ponies are known to be close to nature, taking care of woodland creatures, planting plants, and other things. However, these ponies are known to be the strongest in the group. Jake and Gia have earned their strength, becoming these types of ponies.”

The two of them observed their forms, gazing at them from afar. A smile spread over Jake’s muzzle. “Even though I like my original form better, this new form...it’s not that bad.”

Gia smirked at him, glad that not everything has changed. “And you’re still a goofball,” she added, making Jake chuckle.

“At least you’re the tough girl, even when you’re a beautiful horse.” This made her cheeks turn pink when he gave her that nice compliment.

“What about us?” Emma piped in. “What kind of ponies are we? We now know that Jake and Gia are earth ponies. But what about us?”

Gosei, again, calmly answered. “Don’t worry, I’ll tell you other types of ponies are there.”

Orion raised his hoof. “Sorry to interrupt you, but I couldn’t help but notice how light I am. I don’t feel heavy at all.”

“Yeah!” Now Emma realized it too. “It feels like I’m floating. Only I’m on the ground.”

“And there’s a reason for you two to feel that way. Emma, Orion, you two have transformed into pegasi. Pegasi are known to control the weather, creating sunshine, rain, and all kinds of storms. Also, they're the only ponies who can fly and walk on clouds all thanks to their light weight. They’re also known to be called weather ponies.”

Emma glanced behind her, gasping to see wings on her narrow shoulders. She opened them, ruffling her feathers as a smile spread over her face. Moving her wings in an up and down manner, her hooves left the floor, lifting her entire body in the air. “I can’t believe I’m a pegasus,” she beamed happily, doing some summersaults.

Orion joined her, giving his new wings a test fly as he too, picked himself off the ground. “This is so cool.” He flew around the room, creating a silver streak behind him. “And we can walk on clouds? Awesome!” he declared in full delight.

“You guys are lucky.” Despite being an earth pony, Jake felt jealous, watching them fly. “You get to walk on clouds while the rest of us are stuck on the ground.”

“Come on, Jake.” Noah elbowed him. “Being an earth pony won’t be so bad. You did that this new form isn’t awful.” However, Jake breathed out of his nose, his eyes on the pegasi Emma and Orion. “Stop being green with envy,” he told him, giving him another elbow nudge.

He rolled his eyes as Emma and Orion lowered themselves back down, placing their hooves back on the floor. “Lucky,” he repeated in a muttered tone. “So what about Troy and Noah?” he directed at their mentor.

“Ah,” Gosie let out. “The last group of ponies are the unicorns. Unicorns are ponies who have horns to help them do things - like magic. They can levitate objects, teleport to different places if needed. They can even use their magic for defenses and offensive spells. Unicorns are known to be the most intelligent out of the group of ponies, which is why both Troy and Noah got these forms.”

Troy shifted his eyes upwards, noticing a horn planted on his forehead. “Whoa…” he breathed. “Okay, I know I said I had a dream about ponies, only I never dreamt we’ll become ponies because I thought it'll never happen.”

Noah nodded. “Yeah… I mean, I don’t mind being a unicorn. But I don’t know how to do magic.”

“Don’t worry, you’ll learn how to use them someday.” This made the two Rangers smile at Gosei assurance. “Even though there are three types of ponies, there is a fourth type.”

“Fourth type?” Gia replied. “You said there are three types of ponies.”

“Yes, there are three, but the fourth type of pony is very rare - the alicorn.” On the panels, two alicorns showed up. “Alicorns are mixed with three ponies. They have the strength of the earth pony, fly and walk on clouds like the pegasi, and have both unicorn and alicorn magic. What you see here are the two rulers of Equestria. The white one is Princess Celestia and her younger sister Princess Luna. Together, these two create harmony around their home. Celestia is the Princess of the Sun, while Luna is the Princess of the Night. When the sun rises, Luna lowers the moon. When the moon rises, the elder one sets the sun down. These two are both leaders of their world, helping and protecting their people on every land.”

Tensou released a sigh. “I sure do miss those two.”

Hearing this, Emma raised a hoof. “Hold up! You guys were here before?”

“Yes, Emma. It was a thousand years ago. Me and Tensou had to help them defeat a villain who enslaved the ponies at a place called the Crystal Empire, where a dark unicorn known as King Sombra who took over them. We gave them weapons for them to defeat him, banishing him to the arctic north, only to leave a curse at the Empire.” The Rangers watched as the dark unicorn with a curved red horn got trapped between the ice, his face giving off the defeated yell. “That wasn’t all, though,” he went on. “Years later, Tensou had to create something else for them to defeat another villain who created chaos - Discord. Instead of swords, Tensou made something called the Elements of Harmony, six gems that are powered up by each kind of friendship. The two Royal Sisters each have three elements. Celestia wields magic, generosity, and kindness, while Luna has the elements of honesty, loyalty, and laughter. Using those elements, they used them to turn Discord back into stone, bringing peace back on their land again.”

“Ooh.” Tensou shuddered. “Sombra was a lot more terrifying than him, giving me nightmares.”

“But why did you guys came to earth?” Troy asked after they watched the screen, watching the strange looking creature get transformed into stone.

“We decided it wasn’t safe for us while Discord tried to take over this world, leaving me and Tensou with no choice but to leave right after we gave them the Elements of Harmony,” Gosei explained. “However, I sense that something is going to happen in this world, so I need you Rangers to find them.”

“Alright. Tell us where they live.” Troy stepped forward, stating their mentor. “And we’ll bring them here.”

“Okay, they live in Canterlot, Capital of Equestria. They live in a large castle, you cannot miss it. I wanted to see them again, to let them know something is here that aren’t friendly. We’re not far so you Rangers can walk to that place.”

Nodding his head, Troy turned to his teammates. “Let’s get going,” he led before running out of the Command Center.

The others followed, their hooves clicking the floor, following Troy in search of the two princesses.

When they left, Tensou rolled over to the tiki head. “What do you mean something bad is going to happen?”

“I just know it, Tensou. I just know it. Equestria isn’t peaceful all the time."

In Equestria and not too far away, laid the Armada Ship on the ground, surrounded by the smaller ones. Vekar’s vision came back into view, lifting himself off the floor when he realized something because as he got up, he noticed right away that something isn’t right. He tried to walk, except he was losing balance, falling back down onto the floor.

However, being stubborn as he is, he picked himself up again, going back onto his two feet, trying to walk forward, but failed, landing harshly back on the ground on his side, releasing a frustrated growl.

“What is going on?” he demanded angrily, slamming his hand down on the floor. A sound came from the floor as he did so, bringing his attention to his hand he brought down. At first, he thought nothing of it until he expected it even more. It was then a scream erupted over him, echoing off the walls. “No! What happened to me?!” he shrieked, going to a sitting potion, examining his hands, now hooves. “Help! Levira, Argus, Damaras, help me, I turned into some kind of freak of a horse!” he cried out desperately, not happy about the new form.

“Calm down, sire. There’s no need to freak out.” The prince’s ears perked up when he heard Levira, seeing them in front of him. “You need to stay calm, not freak out,” she assured him.

This got him more ticked off. “Not freak out?! You guys are horses too!” he pointed at them. “You got a horn…” He pointed at the scientist. “...you got wings…” He changed his direction towards Argus. “...and you...you just look like a normal horse.” Lastly, he jabbed a hoof at Damaras. "Why are we horses? Is this some kind of sick joke? Where are we?” he rambled, giving them question after question. “What kind of place made us turn into horses?”

“Sire, please control your temper.” Damaras went up to him, placing his large hooves on the leader’s shoulders. “We’re not horses, we turned into ponies,” he corrected. “We have no idea where we are.”

“B-But I don’t understand!” he began to panic, getting back up, this time on all four hooves to keep balance. “How can this happen? How can we-” He stopped, his eyes hitting at his bodyguard. “You…” he hissed. “You did this! You brought us here!” he blamed.

“No, I didn’t!” Argus proclaimed, raising his hooves in defense. “It’s not my fault. The Blue Ranger hit the device with his move, not me,” he argued.

“It’s your fault!” Vekar went to charge at him, only to be pulled back by the warrior. “Let go of me! I’m going to give him a piece of my mind for what he had done to the Armada.”

Damaras kept his grip around the prince. “It’s not his fault,” he defended, refusing to let go. “And we can’t do anything about it now.”

Vekar began jumping up and down, throwing a fit. “No, no, no, no, no!” His generals backed away from him as he continued to vent. “It’s not fair! I want to get rid of the Rangers, but it turns out we got sent to a different world instead! I’m already beginning to hate this new body! I want my old one back, right now!”

“Stop it!” A loud voice came over the large pony, making the prince fold down his ears to block the sound out. “Stop it now. We’re not the only ones who got turned into ponies, look outside.”

Even though he was angry, Vekar did as he was told, walking over to the window. There he saw his henchman, all confused by their new pony bodies, leaving their ships, failing at walking on two legs, falling down on the dried up ground.

Seeing them made him smack his hoof on the window. “We got to get rid of those Rangers. Only we need to get out of here.”

“I got an idea. Why not look for help?”

Vekar scoffed at Levira’s suggested. “Yeah, right. You’re idea is lame.”

Levira blinked her orange eyes. “Really? Then what’s your idea?” she replied, ready for what he has to say.

“We go look for help.” Levira smacked her hoof onto her face when he said that, shaking her head. “But where are going to find help?” He went back over to his generals. “We’re in the middle of nowhere.”

“Well, we can’t stay here. We have to get moving.” Argus began towards the door. “Actually, you guys stay here. I’ll go look for help.” The doors open, letting him step out of the room, leaving the others behind.

When he was gone, the prince let out a yell. “I’ll never get used to this new form! I’m going to my room!” Releasing an angry breath through his nostrils, he stomped out of the room, heading to his bedroom.

In the bedroom, he shoved a table near the wall, knocking it down before throwing it across the room. He was ticked off to the point where he began destroying his bed, throwing all of his blankets all over the place.

During his fit of rage, he grabbed a picture frame off the wall, throwing it across the door. He never wanted this to happen, never wanted to be a cute, little pony. He’s a prince! He wanted to get rid of the Rangers, wanting to send them to a new world. But no, it turned out he failed. Again!

“Those Rangers got me to the last straw…” he seethed, gripping one of his pillows. “They’ve gone too far this time. When we get back home, I’ll destroy them once and for all!”

“But what if they’re here?” Damaras voice caught his attention, snapping his head to see him at the doorway.

He set the pillow back down. “Why do you say that?” His eyes went down, staring at the object in his hooves.

“I’m saying that the Rangers might be here too.” Stepping into the room, he made his way over Vekar whose ears are laying back on his head, showing how irritated he is. “We won’t know for sure since the screen isn’t working. I checked. And before you ask, I have no idea how long we’ll be here. Besides, maybe being a pony won’t be bad after all.”

Shrugging, the ponified prince climbed onto his bed, looking at the golden colored pony, the cape touching the ground. He picked up the pillow, lifted it up - and smacked Damaras across the head with it.

A shock looked came over him after he felt that, his mouth dropped open. “Ow! Why did you hit me?” Damaras rubbed the side of his head.

Another hit came to him when he got his answer. “For saying the most stupidest thing in the world.” A third hit. “You think I’ll be happy in this dumb pony body!?” he yelled, giving him more hits. “You think it’s cool to be this way!?”

The hitting went on until the pillow got snatched away from him, having it be thrown out of his reach. “Enough!” Vekar glared at him when he was ordered to stop. “I think you need to stay here.”

“Don’t tell me what to do, Damaras. I’m the Prince of the Armada! I get to do whatever I want! It’s all Argus’s fault!”

Now the warrior was getting mad. “Stop blaming him. You should be glad he’s going for help. You stay here and don’t come out until you calm down.”

“I’ll never calm down.” Except he had already left, causing Vekar to throw all the pillows across the room. “If he doesn’t bring back help...I’ll kill him.”

Flopping down onto the mattress, he covered up his face, waiting for Argus’s return.

Chapter 4: City Of Canterlot

During the same day, all the ponies, including Spike, got on the train for Canterlot after Twilight told the students there’s no school, having them leave to go back to their homes, her front hooves fidgeting on her seat, her eyes gazing out the window as the station moved away while the train made it look like it was doing so, seeing the other ponies waiting for their ride.

While she looked at the green grass swaying back and forth, her mind on the dream was planted inside her head, refusing to go away. It never made sense to her for at least a second because the changlings are now good, not evil anymore.

But Twilight has something she wanted to tell them right away. Something very important to the point where she began to get anxious, her forehead brimmed with sweat. She got off her seat, walking back and forth in the train car.

The dream… Who were those suited ponies? They don’t seem to be evil, fighting off those other ponies along with new changlings.

While she pondered this, Fluttershy went over to her. “Are you okay, Twilight? You seem tense,” she said in concern.

“I’m fine.” Twilight sighed, lowering her head down. “The dream keeps on bothering me. Why would there be new changlings?” Even she couldn’t come up with an answer of how much it didn’t make any sense to her, making her more worried. First for taking the Royal Sisters place and now this? She wished to teleport there right to the city, but she didn’t want to leave her friends behind.

Her hopes her theory of Chrysalis creating new changlings will be wrong, knowing for a fact she’ll need a male to help her since all babies are made by mares and stallions, unless she used some kind of spell to make brand new ones.

She had a hard time getting back to sleep, though, thinking of what’s going to happen. She’s known to panic over the smallest things, like missing a deadline or having to fix every object within her castle. Plus, she has to make sure the school is running smoothly, going according to her own rules, making sure the lessons are fun. She didn’t want them to get bored unlike last time when she first opened it.

Going back over the window, she climbed back on her seat, letting out a yawn, thinking a good nap will help ease the worry off of her.

A loud whistle went through her ears when the train stopped, screeching on the tracks, causing Fluttershy to fold her ears down due to the loud noise when it reached the station. She took her hooves off her ears, letting them go up, watching the other passengers get off the train, being replaced by new ones.

Twilight grabbed her saddlebags, setting the strap over her back, the bags hanging on each side after she woke up, feeling almost refreshed. Even though the princess wants to see them right away, she suggested her friends go home quickly to grab some things in case they have to stay overnight.

Of course, everyone packed light unlike Rarity who has suitcases full of everything, like a raincoat, despite how sunny it is for being on the season of autumn. She opened one of them up, taking out a sunhat, placing it on her head right behind her horn.

Rainbow secured her bag, tightening it as she spoke. “Do you need all those, Rarity?” she asked. “We won’t know for sure if we’ll be there overnight for whatever reason why Celestia wants us for.”

“You won’t know what the weather will be like, Dash,” Rarity responded, giving her mane a few good combs. “Besides, I don’t want to burn my eyes from the morning sun.” She put her comb away. “Spike, would you mind carrying my bags?” She batted her eyelashes at him.

Spike, whose face turned a different color, blushed. “Sure, I’ll do anything for you.” He held out his arms, letting her put all her suitcases on him. He grunted from the weight, retaining his smile.

“Rarity, why can’t you pack like the rest of us?” Applejack checked to make sure she has everything. “It’s like you brought your whole entire wardrobe,” she commented, looking at all the suitcases, seeing three of them halfway shut from all the stuff she has in them.

However, she didn’t care what others think of her packing. She wanted to be prepared for anything.

Pinkie hopped up and down. “I wish I knew what kind of story this is. I don’t like waiting, but I’ll figure it out soon in no time.” Her statement only got weird looks in return. “Hey, don’t look at me like I’m some kind of crazy pony. Plus, you can’t rush the author.”

“What author?” Rainbow seemed to get annoyed by the pink pony’s randomness. “Pinkie Pie, what the hay is up with you? There’s no author. There’s no story. Quit saying we’re in a story, it’s driving me like an apple core.”

She giggled at her response, patting the blue pegasus on the head, batting her mane. “No need to feel frustrated, Dashie. You’re only feeling this way because the author is putting words into your mouth, and she’s doing the same with all of us.” Smiling, she left the train, the others going with her.

While they made their way to the castle, Starlight was next to the alicorn, a worried look on her face. “Do you think there are new changlings?”

Twilight wasn’t too sure to the point where she couldn’t answer. To her, it was crazy, even though she read about it in a book last night. She hopes everything will be fine. But since the princess wants to see them, it must be something important. Also, the dream keeps bouncing inside the inners of her skull.

Taking a deep breath, she finally answered. “Starlight, I’m not too sure. The dream I had about the changelings felt vivid. Celestia said Luna was watching me in my dream, with me wanting to tell her more about it. The dream was so...crazy.” Picking her head up, she turned to her student. “Only worrying about it will make it worse. Celestia will know what’s going on, right?”

Thinking about it, Starlight decided she’s right. Plus, the princess should know what’s going on, even when things seem to be normal.

Reaching the Canterlot Castle, they walked past the gate, heading to the white palace, entering inside, walking on the royal carpet, making their way to the Throne Room.

Arriving, the guards saw Twilight and her friends, giving the princess their full attention. She walked over to them, her wings opened them in a regal manner.

“We’re here to see the princess,” she told them. “She wants to see us since yesterday.” She did her best to sound royal, like a real princess would sound like. “Tell her we’re here.”

“Yes, your majesty,” the first royal guard bowed.

“We’ll be right back,” the other one told her before the two opened the door, walking inside the room. They then came back. “She’s ready for you,” the second one said, going back to his potion, their faces glued in a stern manner.

The young alicorn nodded. “Thank you.” She led her friends into the room to see Celestia on her throne with Luna right beside her, along with Thorax on the other side. “Princess Celestia.” Twilight trotted over to her mentor, climbing up the steps, giving her a hug.

Celestia returned the hug, like she wouldn’t see Twilight ever again, giving her a nice embrace. “Twilight Sparkle, I’m glad to see you. How’s my number one pupil doing?” She released the hug, stepping back to view her.

Twilight, again, hung her head. “Not good, princess. I...have a theory about my dream, about the…”

“New evil changelings? Thorax came here to tell us since yesterday,” she informed, the good changeling nodding his head. “It seems like Chrysalis who’s with Grogar and the other villains have created a new army of them in order to take over Equestria.”

“A few have been spotted here,” the new leader of the changelings said, stepping forward. “But I won’t be able to go to all the places here in this place in case there’s more. You girls need to keep a lookout for them, letting the guards know.” He shuddered. “It seems like the queen got tired of being the only bad changeling.”

Luna nodded her head. “And Twilight, we’ll talk about your dream later. For right now, all of you need to keep a sharp lookout. Clear?” All of them nodded. “Good, you can set your bags down. We’ll let the guards take them to your rooms.”

“Alright.” Twilight took off her saddlebag, placing it on the floor, the others doing the same. Spike, however, dropped them. “Wait, what about the suited ponies?” she then remembered. “Does the dream has to do with anything with them?”

The Princess of the Night, put a hoof to her chin. “I did see them in your dream, except I don’t know who they are. Fear not, Miss Sparkle, like I said, we’ll talk about it later.”

“Okay…” Sighing, she led her friends out the door, giving one last glance behind her before walking out of the door.

Once they were gone, the white alicorn gazed out the window. “Be careful, my little ponies,” she wished them.

Outside at the castle gates, Twilight gathered them up. “Okay, the princess says we need to keep a lookout for the new changelings. Rainbow, you take over the sky.”

“Got it.” Rainbow gave her a salute before zooming off into the clear sky.

“Applejack, Pinkie Pie, you check the bakery,” Twilight continued to instruct the roles for each of them.

“No problem, Twi. Come on, Pinks, let’s get going.” Turning around, the farm pony walked away, letting the party one bounce right next to her.

Rarity adjusted her hat. “I’ll be over at the fabric store. I do need new fabrics for the Gala dresses, and I don’t have enough at home.”

Shrugging, Twilight seemed to be okay with it. “Fine by me. Just make sure you don’t get too distracted, though. Changlings can form into anypony - even to make them look like us. So don’t trust anyone. Got it?” Making sure she was clear, the unicorn nodded. “Okay, now go on. Me, Spike, and Starlight will be at the library.”

“Aww, I wanna go with Rarity,” Spike pouted.

Twilight rolled her eyes. “Okay, you can go with her.” She watched him leave with her, flapping his scaly wings. “Oh, Spike,” she sofly chuckled. “Fluttershy,” she suddenly turned and said.

“Yeah?” Fluttershy traced her hoof on the road. “Don’t forget I have an injured wing because I’m not going to fly.” She showed her the injured wing, thinking that she’ll be told to fly.

“No, I’m giving you two choices.” The shy pony opened her ears, ready for her choices. “You can either go to any store to check for anything suspicious, or you can ask anypony if they saw anything weird. What do you choose?” Since Twilight knows her fairly well, she knew what the answer would be.

It took a few seconds for her to respond, but Fluttershy finally decided what she’s going to do. “I do need to get food for Angel… so I’ll stick with the pet store. After I’m done, I’ll take whatever I bought back to the guest room I’ll be staying at,” she chose.

“Okay, me and her are going to the library. Good luck.” Using her magic, she used it to teleport both her and Starlight, leaving Fluttershy alone on the streets.

Looking around, the timid one made her way to the pet store, in hopes she doesn’t run into anything dangerous.

Getting to the pet store, she went inside, going up to the counter. The pony on the other side grinned. “Hello, how may I help you?”

“Yes, where do you keep the bunny food?” Fluttershy asked.

“Over there,” the shopkeeper directed in a friendly manner. “My, you are so pretty. Has any guys asked you out?” She placed her hoof on the countertop. “You’re way too pretty for some colt not to stay away from you.”

Fluttershy bit her lip. “Ohh, um…” In her whole life, she never heard anyone say she was pretty. “N-No,” she answered, feeling a tad nervous. “No stallion ever came up to me and asked me out. I think it’s because I’m...weak.” She wasn’t afraid to admit it.

“Nonsense. You basically haven’t found the right one. Besides, you’re hair is a lot better than mine,” the pony deflected. “Some stallions like girls like you with long hair. Mine’s really short. Anyways, the food - the bunny food - is right over there. Let me know when you need anything else.” It was then she saw something. “Oh my, sweetheart, what happened to your wing?”

Shyly, Fluttershy gazed at it. “...one of my students slammed a door on it. It’s nothing to major about, it’s only a sprain. It’ll heal within a week.”

The shopkeeper sucked in a breath. “Ouch. It sounded like it hurt,” she said. “Also, it was an accident, right?”

The pegasus nodded. “Right. It was all an accident. I’ll be right back.” Leaving the counter, she headed to where the bunny food was at, remembering the directions. “Aha!” she proclaimed. “Bunny food.” Grabbing a bag, she went back to the counter. “How much would that be, miss?”

“One bag of bunny food costs four bits.” Taking the food, she put it in a bag while she got her bits from her client. “Thank you. Here you go, have a wonderful day,” she waved, handing the bag over.

Using her mouth, Fluttershy grabbed the bag with her teeth. “Thanks, you too.” She then left the store, heading back to the castle, not wanting to look for any bad changlings until she met somepony she thought she’ll never see in her whole life.

Canterlot was a big city, the Rangers can tell. When they crossed the bridge, they were amazed at all the buildings. They saw ponies, mostly unicorns, holding their heads up high as they walked.

Some of them stopped, turning their heads, seeing the new ponies. For some reason, they weren’t happy about what they saw, seeing the outfits they’re wearing. Troy sensed this, casting each pony a look, causing them to let out a huff, going back to their walking.

Jake looked around, uncomfortable the way the ponies are staring at them. “Why do they look at us that way?” A stallion with a top hat caught his attention, giving him a friendly wave. Only the stallion scoffed when seeing him, walking away. “It’s like their snobs.”

“Ignore them,” Gia advised him. “I bet these ponies are uptight about everything. I mean, they wear better clothes than us.” She saw a mare with a dress, holding an umbrella over her head. “Like, there’s nothing wrong wearing a leather jacket,” she said.

“Same with silver…” Orion added into the conversation. “I hope not all of these ponies are uptight.”

“Uh huh. We should look for the visitors booth to get a map,” Emma suggested, looking around. “There’s one.” Pointing her hoof, the others followed her direction.

“Good eye, Em,” Noah praised with a smile.

Troy went ahead, the others right behind him. But when he got there, he stopped. “Huh,” he released, reading the sign. “It seems like whoever owns this is on vacation. It looks like we have to ask somebody for directions.”

Jake, not liking the idea, shook his head. “No way, dude. I know I’m the nicest person ever, but…” He looked around. “...I don’t want to get criticized by all means.”

“We can asked them.” Noah pointed his hoof on the other side of them where there are two ponies - a female and a male - seated at a table, a cup they each have in front of them, with a teapot at the center of the table. “I’ll go up there, asking them for directions to the castle,” he told them.

"Noah... I don't think it's a good idea..." Only he walked over there anyway, seemingly to ignore the warning from his new pegasi friend Emma, who stayed close behind, standing next to Troy, the others doing the same thing, all watching him go over to the table.

The two unicorns sipped their tea when they noticed a shadow creating over them. The mare set her cup down to see a stallion with glasses on his face. “Yes?” Her voice sounded something Noah had never heard before. “Is there something we can help you with?”

“Uh, yes, hi. I’m Noah Carver,” he greeted, sticking out his hoof. “What are your names?” he pleasantly asked.

“I’m Jet Set,” the stallion introduced. “This is my wife, Upper Crust.” Behind the Blue Ranger, he heard Jake let out a stifled laugh, possibly from the posh accent. It was cut off, probably from the Yellow Ranger.

“Nice names.” He kept his hoof out, waiting for it to be shook. “Me and my friends are not from here, we’re from Hardwood County,” he spoke.

The two unicorns scrunched up their noses, wrinkling them. “Hardwood?” Upper Crust repeated, sounding disgusted by the place. “You and your friends are from… Hardwood?”

“Yeah…” Putting his hoof down since they’re not going to take it, he started to get uneasy around these two. “Is there something wrong…?”

“Something wrong?” Jet Set took a sip of his tea. “The place you mentioned sounded uncouth unlike here in Canterlot,” he criticized, having a shock reaction come over to the new horned pony.

It was then he got mad, placing his hooves on the table. “Are you going to tell us where the castle is? We need to see the princess; it’s important.”

“Please, the princess doesn’t want to have anything to do with you. Look at yourself. Where did you get your clothes? From the trash bin?” Laughing like a high horse, the mare levitated her cup, bringing the rim to her lips. A frown spread over her as she moved the cup away from her. “Seriously, those clothes are not appropriate for these ponies to see. So go away, you’re making my eyes bleed.”

“You heard her, get lost, you filthy boy.” They went back to their tea.

Stunned, Noah took his hooves off the table, feeling hurt by the harshness he received. No one has ever spoken to him the way they spoke to him, calling him a filthy boy. It was bad to the point where he backed away from them slowly, afraid he’ll end up doing something bad.

What rude comments. It seems like they are too uptight to help him and his friends for how they treated him. All he did was being nice, despite being a bookworm, wanting help to know where the palace is at.

Troy saw his friend walking backwards, his head halfway down, his tail tucked between his legs like a frightened puppy, or in this case, a pony. “Noah, is something wrong?” Seeing his friend upset made him concerned.

“Those ponies…” Noah manage to say. “They don’t want to help us. They said that the place we’re from sounded ‘uncouth’. She-” He directed towards the mare. “-made fun my of clothes I’m wearing. They already hate us.”

Jake shook his head. “I knew you shouldn’t ask them…”

Looking at the couple, Troy turned towards Noah. “I’ll be right back…” Walking over to the table, he stopped. “Excuse me?” he spoke.

Upper Crust let out an annoyed sigh. “What?” She saw another unicorn in front of her. “What do you want? Are you the stallion’s friend? Because it seems like you’re worse than the other one.”

“Don’t give me the rude attitude.” He jabbed his hoof at her. “What makes you think you can’t help us despite the place we used to live? You shouldn’t talk to us the way you did,” he chastised, keeping his cool.

“We can talk the way we want,” her husband disputed, pouring himself another cup, the brown tea barely up to the rim before setting the teapot down. “You ponies shouldn’t even be here in this high class town.”

Now Troy wouldn’t put his hands - or hooves in this case - on a rude person. Instead, he narrowed his eyes. “Seems like you don’t respect other people for who they are.”

“We respect the ponies who live in Canterlot, not the ones who don’t live here.” This caused Troy to slam his hooves on the table top, causing it to shake, the tea cup tipping over, losing its balance, spilling the liquid everywhere. “Hey!” she cried in alarm.

He ignored her outburst. “Tell us where the castle is. I’m tired of your attitude. Tell us where the castle is.”

“Jet Set, get rid of him! He’s ruining our morning tea.” Upper Crust avoided the brown drops dripping in front of her.

Getting off the fancy pillow, he stood up, planting his hooves on the ground, lighting up his horn, his eyes in a angry matter.

“Whoa!” Feeling himself getting picked off the ground, the Ranger found himself being levitated. Gosei did say unicorns can lift objects with their magic, but he never stated to where they can lift other ponies. “Ahh!” He was flung back over to his friends.

“Stay away from us!” the rude stallion growled, sitting back down.

The others helped him up. Troy fixed his shirt while Jake was about to go over there. “Don’t.” He was stopped by his leader. “Let’s find someone more polite who lives here,” he suggested.

The others almost hestited, until they decided he’s right. They bet there are a lot nicer ponies around here then the ones they saw. Maybe they’ll find one with a map they can borrow. They do need to find the castle, to bring the princess to the Command Center where Gosei is waiting for them.

By the time Troy got his shirt and jacket straightened out, he began walking again, away from the snobby couple, the other five right behind him.

They reached the center of the city twenty minutes later, unable to find someone nice enough to help them until they saw a mare holding a rolled up paper. Troy, thinking she’ll be kind enough, went up to her. “Hey, miss?”

The mare turned, smiling. “Yes.” She also turned out to be a unicorn. “Can I help you?”

Knowing this was his chance, he sent her the same smile he was getting from her. “Why yes. I see you have a map there, right?”

“Mhm.” She nodded her head with closed eyes. “Do you want it?” she offered kindly. “I don’t live here, I was on vacation.”

“Yes, thank you,” Troy thanked.

“Okay, here you go.” Handing the map over to him, she made sure he grabbed it. “My name’s Lyra Heartstrings,” she then introduced.

“Hi, Lyra, I’m Troy Burrows.” He gave her a nice greeting in return. “Thanks for the map.”

“You’re are certainly welcome,” she returned. She waved, heading off to where she’s going next, smiling at each of the new comers.

Going back over to his pals, Troy presented the map. “Now we can look to see where the castle is at.” He went over to the table, his friends joining him, unrolling the map for everyone to see. “Hmm…” he thought. “We’re right here at the center of the city, with the castle right over there.”

While they studied the map, Noah looked around, seeing no other ponies around here when he spotted a yellow pony with wings, one of them wrapped with a white bandage, indicating she hurt herself somehow. She also had a long baby pink mane, her tail dragging across the ground, carrying a bag in her teeth. On her flank are pink butterflies.

In all his years of being a computer tech back at home, he never saw a girl that's was so pretty before, unable to take her eyes off of her, smiling in hopes she’ll notice him.

His ears caught the sound of something rolling, breaking his attention to see a cart going down the hill.

Wanting to make sure she doesn’t get hurt since she wouldn’t be able to fly away, he began leaving the table.

Gia, seeing him depart at the corner of her eye, saw him walking away. “Noah? Where are you going? Get back here.”

Except he didn’t go back, he just went on, watching both the cart and the yellow pony, most likely on her.

At first it was a simple walk, until he picked up the pace, trotting to see the cart picking up speed. It was then the cart was going down too fast, and Noah switched his trot into a full blown gallop, time seeming to stop moving. He sucked in a breath before yelling out to the girl.

“Watch out!”

Immediately, she stopped in her tracks when she heard a holler. Turning, Fluttershy saw the cart heading her way, going straight towards her. She froze up, her body stiffened, clutching the handles of the bag tightly around her jaw, watching the cart unable to move. She was too terrified to move to the point where she thought it was the end of her life.

Before it could happen, a sudden force, something heavy, tackled her out of harm's way, the bag dropping out of her mouth, her back landing on the ground, stunned.

The cart went by her, hitting a wall from another building. With pupils small, she turned to the source, to see who - or what - saved her life.

There, right on top of her, is a young stallion with a light brown coat under a blue shirt and jeans, glasses on top of his muzzle, his hair black and curly. His brown eyes locked on her cyan ones.

Her face filling up with red, she managed to find her voice. “Um… I...I think you can get off of me now.” Her eyes darted from side to side. “Please,” she added it in. “You don’t need to be on top of me anymore.”

Noah snapped out of his trance. “Oh. Sorry.” He got off of her, getting back onto all fours, holding out a hoof. “Are you okay?”

Grasping his hoof with her own, Fluttershy picked herself up along with some help. “Yes, thanks to you.” Her voice sounded soft, yet gentle. “It’s nice to have someone like you around.” She shifted her head towards the floor.

Seeing her this way, he thought it was adorable the way she was acting around him. So he decided to give her his name to make her feel more comfortable. “I’m Noah Carver. What’s your name?”

“I’m...Fluttershy.” The redness around her face refused to go away, knowing straight away why she’s feeling this way.

“Fluttershy… Cute name. Fits you very well.” The girl smiled at his wonderful comment. “I want to apologize right away for what I did, I never wanted you to get-”

“You pushed the cart down on purpose!” a loud shout cut him off, bringing the two to whip their heads around to where the sound came from. “I’m going to have to call the royal guards on you!” a male pony threatened the other one. “Go over there and apol-”

The pony brought back his hoof, punching the angered stallion, getting away from the scene, galloping past both Noah and Fluttershy.

“Do you think he…?”

“I believe so. Come on.” Noah ran off with her right with him.

Emma saw him run past the table. “Noah? Noah, where do you think you’re going?” she called, but he fell on deaf ears.

“Noah, get back here!” his leader hollered out to him.

“Where’s he going?” Orion wanted to know. “Also, who was with him?”

“There’s only one way to find out.” Abandoning the map, Troy began leaving, the others close to his tail, following their teammate who has a pony with him.

Chapter 5: Battle Against Changelings

The two ponies chased the stallion around the corner, him tossing boxes and bins across the alleyway, wanting to slow them down except they dodged each object, Noah jumping over them while Fluttershy ducked in order not to get hurt besides her wing.

They went on, following the pony. Noah wanted to give this guy a piece of his mind for what he tried to do to her, his blood fueling.

The stallion stopped, kicking a cart down filled with junk, covering up the entire street, causing them to slow down, stopping from the other side of it. Smirking, he faced them, his tail waving from side to side.

“Come and get me, you slowpokes,” he taunted before running off, laughing loudly. “You’ll never catch me!” he called over his shoulder.

Shoving everything out of the way, they burst through the trash. “Get back here!” Noah hollered out, refusing to give up. Fluttershy said nothing, following him. “When we catch you, you will say sorry.” When he said it, the stallion let out another laugh, picking up the pace with them doing the same thing.

It wasn’t until he got trapped between a wall and them, skidding to a stop. Looking back, he saw the two coming to a stop as well with Fluttershy panting from the speed she had to use. “Now…” she wheezed. “...tell me you’re sorry this instant,” she demanded in a bold voice.

The third pony grinned, followed by two more who emerged from the shadows. “I don’t need to apologize…” A burst of green flames came from the ground, the other two getting the same thing. Once the flames went down, there stood three creatures in the color of black with fangs like a vampire.

Fluttershy gasped in fright unlike Noah who is processing what he’s seeing now. “Changelings!”

“Huh?” Noah turned to her, confused. “What are changelings?” he asked, unaware by the species despite being a nerd.

“Changelings can transform into anypony, feeding off love. But these are new evil changelings,” she explained, for he was more confused than ever. “I know it’s hard to understand, but…” A loud hiss came from one of them, its tongue slithering out like a snake. “Let’s...back away slowly,” she suggested.

Nodding his head, Noah moved backwards. “Good idea.” Eyeing at them, they carefully moved back, making sure the creatures don’t follow them. “Alright, I think we’re safe,” Noah confirmed when they’re back on the main street, looking around. Until a bunch more came, possibly over a hundred stepping out from the corners.

“Uh, I think you spoke a little too soon.” Fluttershy used him as a shield, wanting to hide from them but they were trapped; surrounded by all the changlings. “There’s no way out. What do we do?” she panicked, fear getting the best of her.

Noah stood his ground. “We fight them!”

Hearing this made her feel nervous to the point where she shook her head. “Noah...I’m not a great fighter. I can’t fight at all.”

“Then do your best. I’m not a perfect fighter either. Besides, I learned you don’t need strength to be a good person. I can barely lift up heavy objects unlike my best friend. We have no other choice, the only way through is to battle them.”

Unwilling to do so, she decided to help him. The two got up on their hind legs, going back to back. While she had terror in her eyes, Noah’s was full of fury, waiting for one of the changelings to make a move, watching them stalk, their mouths parted open, licking their lips.

The first changeling, the closest one, jumped forward, and Noah punched it across the face, knocking it down onto the ground, the fight now up at its game. He punched, kicked, throwing the ugly things off of him while Fluttershy used her own moves - ducking.

One changeling released a growl at the Blue Ranger, leaving him to hit it across the face, stomping on top of its head when he saw another one going after Fluttershy, for he charged at it, giving it a good kick on the neck.

Yelping, the timid pony heard a hiss behind her, having her buck at it when a screech popped out of the changeling's mouth.

The more changelings went after them, the more they kept up the battle. They’re never going to stop once these things are down and out, running through them, wanting to get away from them as possible.

Changelings yelped, getting beaten up by the two, trying to hit right back at them for they dodged each move they made.

Noah spun around, kicking the one right in front of him, causing it to flung back, smacking against the stone wall of a house, falling to the floor.

By the time all of them are down, something fell off of him, clattering right next to him. Fluttershy noticed this, examining the item. It looked strange to her, having her tilt her head in curiosity, pointing at it. “What’s this?”

Before he could answer, the object beeped, startling the poor pegasus. Picking up the object in his hoof, he spoke into it. “Yes?”

“Dude, where are you?” It was Troy, calling him. “We lost you around the corner. Tell us where you are.”

“We’re outside the alleyway,” Noah told him, speaking into the device like a phone. “We ran into a problem.”

On the other end of the line, he heard Troy questioned him. “Was it the stallion you were after?”

“It wasn’t a stallion, it was a changeling!”

“Who’s that?” the other one exclaimed. “Who’s with you? Was it the pony who went with you?” he said. “Nevermind, tell us where you want us to meet you at.”

“Meet us at the castle gates,” Fluttershy spoke up. “If you can’t find it, look for the Canterlot Library. There, you’ll see Twilight along with Starlight. After you get them, look for the others.”

Once she sent her message, Noah went back to the device. “You got that?”

“Got it. We’ll meet you there.” There was a beep when it got hung up.

Putting the thing away, the two galloped, with Noah right behind the young mare since she knew where she was going.

Reaching the gates, they waited for the others, seemingly the first ones there. As they waited, Fluttershy wanted to know what the object was, facing him. “Tell me, Noah, what did you have there?”

Noah bit his lip. “I’m not sure… I don’t want someone to get mad.”

“Why not?” She saw how hesitant he was. “I know we met about twenty minutes ago, but you can trust me. I’m only curious.” She gave him a smile.

Sighing, he was about to tell her when their ears picked up the sound of buzzing, grabbing their attention to the sky, now being filled with black. It was more changlings, a lot more than they could handle.

Getting onto the ground, the changelings' eyes glared at them, letting out aggressive hisses and snarls, their legs creating breaking sounds.

Pressing against the gate, Noah got ready, even though there’s a thousand of them with Fluttershy covering her face with her arm, ready for another attack when something fired at them.

Something shot on the ground, making the changelings back away when they turned to see who - or what - did it.

Following their gaze, both Noah and Fluttershy saw the other ponies running to them. Noah saw Troy running alongside with a lavender pony with wings and a horn, his Mega Blaster out, giving another shot, forcing the evil things to back up more.

All eleven ponies, plus a dragon, stood in front of Noah and Fluttershy. Gia was the first one to step forward. “Get lost or else we’ll shoot you for a third time.” The threat seemed to work, the changelings looking at each other. They moved their insect wings, flying away from the seen, knowing all too well they’ll be destroyed within minutes.

When they’re gone out of sight, Troy put his weapon away, directing over at Noah. “Why did you run off? You shouldn’t have done that,” he seemed to scold.

“Sorry, Troy, I was with Fluttershy.” Noah placed his arm around her, causing her face to turn red again.

“Fluttershy?” Emma questioned, seeing the pegasus lower her head, her long mane draping over her face. “This was the pony who was with you when you ran off?”

Nodding, he took his arm away from her. “Yes,” he answered. “She was the one who was with me.”

Fluttershy peeked out from behind her pink mane, moving it out of the way. “I don’t mean for him to run off like the way he did.”

“Hey, it’s alright,” Troy smiled. “By the way, what are your names?” he directed to the other colorful ponies.

“Oh, I’m Twilight Sparkle,” the lavender one introduced. “This is Starlight…” Starlight closed her eyes in greeting. “...Spike…” The young dragon waved. “...Applejack…” Applejack tipped her cowboy hat forward releasing a grin, showing her straight rows of her teeth. “...Rarity…” Rarity gave them a graceful bow. “...Rainbow Dash…” Rainbow gave them a salute in mid-flight. “...and this is-”

“I’m Pinkie Pie!” The Rangers got startled by the pink pony’s sudden appearance. She pressed her face against Jake’s, their noses touching. “I never seen you before because I know everypony and everypony is my friend,” she brightly smiled. “And since I never seen you guys before it means you’re new, and when you’re new it means you have never been here before,” she babbled on. She took a breath in. “Are you the ponies from a different world where you have a tiki head as your mentor alongside with a little robot who helps you guys when you need any help?” Gasp. “Like, you have these keys where you can transform into any kind of hero, is that true? Is it? Is it? Is it?” Another gasp. “I figured out what this story is. It’s a crossover! Yay!” She clapped her front hooves together, finally giving him space.

Emma turned to Rarity. “Is she always like this?”

“Yes, darling,” she responded. “She’s like this all the time.”

“Yeah...she’s random,” Twilight chucked. “Anyway, what are you’re names?”

“Oh. Well, I’m Troy Burrows,” the one in the red shirt introduced. “This is Gia Moran, Jake Holling, Emma Goodall, and Orion. I already stated Noah’s name.”

All of his friends waved their hooves, giving them a greeting smile. Rainbow brought her attention to Orion. “Awesome jacket, it makes you look twenty percent cooler.”

“Thanks, the girls helped me pick out some new clothes.” Orion fixed his sleeves. “They’re good at picking out outfits.”

“Yeah, only you guys wear the same clothes all the time because you have your own TV show like us.” Pinkie’s statement had Troy lift an eyebrow. “Like the one episode where he-” She placed a hoof on Noah. “-had a hard time lifting Jake’s weapon.”

Everyone seemed at a loss to what she was talking about, only they never asked. Pinkie is being Pinkie. During her hopping, two royal guards came over to them, opening the gates, their spears gripped around their hoof.

“We saw what happened out here,” the first one informed in a gruff voice. “Are you alright?” he asked Twilight.

“Yes, she seems to be fine.” Princess Celestia stepped between the guards with them bowing their heads, stepping back. “Twilight, I saw what happened. I know you look fine, I only came out here to make sure.”

“Don’t worry, we’re fine. All thanks to them.” Twilight gesture her head at the newbies. “They scared off the new changelings with whatever Troy had,” she said, explaining it to her.

Celestia walked over to the Troy, bowing her head. “It was nice of you, ponies, to help out my student. It’s such an honor.”

Troy, taken aback, swept his hoof over his hair. “You’re welcome.” A beeping sound was then erupted. He retrieved it off his belt, the device beeping non stop. “Mind for me to take this?” Celestia gave him a warm smile, allowing him to do so. Answering, he spoke into it. “Yes, Tensou?”

Tensou’s voice came through. “Rangers, where are you at? I saw these crazy creatures. I was about to teleport you guys back here in case you wouldn’t be able to use your powers.”

When Celestia heard him, she couldn’t help herself, going over to Troy. “Tensou, is it really you?” Her gentle voice swept over the item into the speaker.

“Princess!?” A happy joy came through it, having her chuckle. “Princess Celestia, it’s you! You have no idea how much I miss you,” he chirped.

Laughing, she gave him a response. “I missed you too. Does Gosei need me for anything?”

There was a pause before he spoke again. “Yes. Gosei has a feeling that something isn’t right, wanting to talk to you about it right away.”

Celestia, gazing at Troy, smiled. “Can he teleport us to wherever he and Gosei are at?” She waited for his answer.

The stallion nodded. “Yes. Tensou, teleport…” He counted silently in his head, making sure the number is right. “...all fifteen of us at the Command Center.”

“You got it.”

Everyone disintegrated, heading back to the Command Center, finally bringing the Princess of the Sun to their mentor who’s waiting for them.

Arriving at the Command Center, Twilight saw five panels in the color of red, green, blue, yellow, and pink, the walls made out of stone, the floor feeling cool to the touch. On the walls, she saw rows of different color keys from red to gold, all of them a different type.

Making her way to the right side of the wall, she went up to the first set of keys, taking a good look at them.

“Wow, pretty colors!” Catching the sound of Pinkie Pie, she moved out of the way as the pink pony started jumping to see the keys. “Look at all the pretty colors!” Jumping higher, she pointed at one of them. “Pink! There’s pink ones! Ilovethe color pink. And my name is- Oh, robot!”

Stopping, Tensou saw her zooming towards him, unable to move out of the way in time. “Ah!” he yelped, getting knocked to the floor with her on top of him.

Grinning a big grin, she pressed her face towards him. “Hi! I’m Pinkie Pie, what’s your name?” Before she could say more, she was yanked off of him.

Spitting out her tail, Applejack gave her a stern look. “Pinkie, give the little guy some space, would ya?”

“But-”

“Give him space,” the farm pony proceeded through tight teeth clenched together. “Mind giving me a hoof, Gia?” she turned and asked.

“No problem.” The two tomboys helped him up. “You alright, Tensou?” she asked once they got him back up on his wheels.

He nodded his rectangular head, his eyes blinking. “Yes, I’m fine. It’s a good thing I don’t have lungs.”

Applejack patted him. “It’s a good thing you’re fine. Forgive her, she loves making new friends.” Glancing over her shoulder, she watched the pink pony jump all over the place. “And please excuse her excitement,” she excused with a small laugh.

While they chatted with him, Rarity took off her sunhat, glancing around the place. Seeing this made her shudder, disliking the way it looks. To her, it was too dull, having the urge to primmet it up.

To her, the place needed some decorating. Gems shall work to brighten it up from all the dullness. Only she doesn’t have any with her as for right now. Maybe there are gems inside the gave walls.

Lighting up her horn, she went over to one of the walls, her horn aglow. She hummed, searching for anything sparkly until Emma tapped her on the shoulder, causing her to lose her concentration. “Yes, darling?” Rarity kept her horn lit.

“What are you doing?” Emma questioned.

“Why, I’m looking for gems,” she answered, sweeping her head side to side. “The issue is…” Her horn went off like a candle on a candlestick. “...I’m not finding any.”

Emma fluttered her wings, seemingly amazed by what this unicorn can so. “Oh, well, you’re not going to find gems here.”

“Yes, you’re right.” Picking up her hat, she placed it back on her head. “I have the urge to make this...place more…” She twirled her hoof, thinking. “More...glammery. You know, with gems everywhere.”

Emma glanced around the Command Center. "I can see your point. But like I said, you're won't find gems in here." The statement had Rarity's ears slightly down. "I know it's a cave, except there are no gems in these walls," she shrugged.

Seeing she has a point, the fashionable horned pony licked her lips. “You’re right, dear. Do you like fashion like I do?” She showed the sunhat as an example.

“Yeah, me and Gia were the ones who helped Orion pick out his outfits.” She directed a hoof at him, who is chatting with Rainbow Dash, having her wonder what the rainbow maned pony is telling him.

“...Seriously, I really do like the silver jacket you’re wearing, dude,” Rainbow complemented, her hooves off the ground, flapping her wings gently to make sure she’s not too high off the ground. “I would like to have one. I think now silver is my favorite color.” She lowered herself back down, folding her wings together, giving her tail a good flick. “Though I could beat you in a race…” she bet, sending him a challenging expression.

Orion tilted his head to the side, his lower eyelid going up, showing her a questioning look. “What’s a race?” he asked, not recognizing the word in no detail.

Gasping, she grasped her hooves on his shoulders. “You don’t know what a race is?!” she exclaimed, her face close to his, using her wings to lift herself up higher from the ground. “What kind of stallion doesn’t know what a race is? Orion, dude, I - Rainbow Dash - will show you what a race is. To me, you seem slow, so I believe I can win at any race,” she bragged, placing a hoof on her chest in full of pride, eyes closed to show it.

“Rainbow, don’t boast; it’s rude,” Twilight hissed scoldingly.

“It’s fine. I can be awesome too at times,” Orion admitted.

“Yeah, like when you fused two keys to form into one Ranger,” Troy recalled, remembering the time when it happened.

Ranger? Twilight thought, unaware by the term, seeing all the keys, the dream flashing back to her.

As she was thinking about this, Fluttershy saw a large tiki head on the wall, her curiosity getting the best of her. She moved towards it with precautionary measures, seemingly to inch her way to it. Once she was close enough, she reached up her yellow hoof to touch the tiki head made of metal.

“Hello there!” it boomed in a loud voice, the mouth flashing red as it spoke.

“Eeeeeeeeeek!” Jerking her hoof back, she let out a startled scream, scrambling backwards, tripping, and hid behind the first thing she saw - Noah, hiding between his front arms and back legs, her hair covering her face up along with her hooves, her body quivering.

Standing there, Noah watched Celestia walk up to the mascot of the Rangers. She stopped, the smile on her face on her lips. Opening up her mouth, she spoke to him.

“Hello, Gosei,” she greeted warmly.

Seeing her being this way, the Blue Ranger turned his head at the frightened pegasus. “It’s okay, he’s not going to hurt you.”

Moving her mane out of her eyes, she peaked out at him, unknowing to trust him or not. But the way he gave her the smile made her feel that she can trust him. Carefully, she crawled out from underneath him.

Standing next to him, her eyes looked up to Gosei. “H-Hello, I’m Fluttershy,” she shyly introduced herself, lowering her head down, her mane covering her face. She used her hoof the put it behind her ear. “I’m sorry for screaming like the way I did,” she apologized, picking her head up to look at him. “I...get startled easily…” she did her best to explain, wanting him to understand so she wouldn’t have to hear any harsh yelling from the metal face.

“It’s alright, Fluttershy.” It doesn’t seem he was mad at all. “I apologize for scaring you. Like Noah said, I mean no harm to anyone.” For him being made out of metal, his voice showed kindness in the whole room. Then he spoke to Celestia. “Celestia, it’s nice to see you again. How are you and your sister doing?”

The Princess of the Day closed her eyes in a happy way. “We’re fine, thank you. Me and her missed you very much when you had to leave when we had to defeat Discord, all thanks to the Elements of Harmony you made for us years later,” she returned gracefully. “The same goes for the weapons we have to use against King Sombra to save the Crystal Empire.”

“You’re most certainly welcome. Do you still have the Elements to this day?” Chuckling, the white alicorn shook her head. “Oh, then who wields the Elements now?” Gosei persuaded in interest.

“Yeah,” Tensou chimed in. “Who now has the Elements of Harmony I made for you?” he questioned rather curiously about it.

“We do!” Pinkie answered for the tall pony.

Celestia smiled. “Yes, like Pinkie said, Twilight and her friends each have an Element that they hold dearly thanks to their friendship. Twilight Sparkle, my private student, bears the Element of Magic and is the Princess of Friendship. She’s even going to take me and Luna’s place to become the new leader of Equestria.”

Twilight bowed her head in respect. “I’m worried about it…” she spoke softly, the needing to tell her she doesn’t want to take their place. But she has to wait until the right time. “This is Spike,” she then directed to the baby dragon. “He’s my number one asisstent.”

“Hi,” he waved. “And this is Twilight’s student - Starlight Glimmer.”

“Nice to meet you,” Starlight smiled. “I don’t hold any Element, but I’m a good friend.”

“Except when you had the ponies back at your town to have the same cutie marks with equal signs to make everybody the same- Ow!” Twilight had smacked him behind the head, with him rubbing the pain away.

Getting to his level, she looked at him in the eye. “Don’t bring up her awful past. We all know what happened; don’t bring it up.” She took a deep breath, letting it out. “Don’t mind him,” she excused to Gosei. “He’s young.”

“Quite alright, Princess Twilight. I’m sure he never meant it. Celestia, since you told me about her Element, what about the others? Which Elements do they hold?”

“Glad you asked. Applejack, a farmer here, represents the Element of Honesty. Her honest ways makes her the friendliest ponies I ever met.”

Applejack gave out a wink. “I sure am, partner.” She tipped her hat forward.

“Rarity, a fashion designer, wields the Element of Generosity. She’s known to give and share, her heart the color of gold.”

Rarity giggled. “Thank you,” she expressed deflightfully. “I’m also a singer too. I work with the Pony Tones.”

“Over here is Rainbow Dash. She keeps the Element of Loyalty. She’s the fastest one I have ever seen in my entire life, much faster than any other pegasi I’ve met.”

“Don’t forget that I can create a legendary move - the Sonic Rainboom,” the athletic pony reminded. “Also, I’m a Wonderbolt as well.” She puffed out her chest, flipping her mane in full tryumph. Applejack rolled her eyes to the side. “Fluttershy owns the Element of Kindness. She’s caring and takes care of critters, to where she has her own animal sanctuary.”

Smiling, the timid one nodded. “It’s true. And Pinkie Pie got the Element of-”

“Laughter,” the hyper pony beamed out brightly. “I like to throw lots of parties, make new friends, and love to make all the ponies happy.”

“Nice to meet you all,” Gosei expressed. “Just like me, it seems like these little ponies who each owns an Element are the heroes in your world.”

“What do you mean?” Rainbow asked with an arched brow.

“I mean, I have people that I guide - the Power Rangers Super Megaforce!”

“Huh?!” Twilight and her friends couldn’t grasp at what he was talking about.

“I’ll explain. After me and Tensou left, we’ve been asleep for a thousand years. When we woke up, we noticed an attack at our home - earth - from the Warstar Aliens led by Prince Vrak. I had Tensou teleport five teenagers - Troy, Gia, Noah, Emma, and Jake. They started off with cards to morph in Megaforce Rangers. They started off with animals. Troy, a martial artist, is the leader of Rangers. He’s the Red Ranger; Fury of the Dragon, controlling the dragon zord. Jake, an athlete, is the Black Ranger; Venom of the Snake, having the snake zord. Gia, a strong person, is the Yellow Ranger; Claw of the Tiger, with the tiger zord by her side. Emma, who is very caring, is the Pink Ranger; Flames of the Phoenix, to where she has the phoenix zord to guide. And Noah, the brains of the Rangers is the Blue Ranger; Bite of the Shark, possessing the shark zord. With their powers and Megaforce weapons, alongside with the zords, transforming them in Megazords.”

“Hold on, hold on,” Applejack interrupted. “What about these here keys?” She directed at the row of keys before gesturing her head at Orion. “And what about him?” she questioned.

“I’m getting to the part about the keys right now,” he stated. “When Vrak left with us unknowing about his return, another threat came to earth - the Armada, led by Vrak’s older brother known as Prince Vekar. I knew it was time to give the Rangers new powers…” One of the panels - the red one - turned on where everyone saw different Rangers in different colored costumes. “...to fight against the xborgs and bruisers. These Rangers you see here are the Legendary Rangers from Mighty Morphin to Samurai. Each of my Rangers have their keys decating to their colors. Troy has the Red Ranger keys, Noah gets to have the Blue Ranger keys, Emma deserves the Pink and White Rangers, Gia is free to have the Yellow Rangers, Jake as the Black and Green Rangers, and Orion, who came later, is the Silver Ranger, who has all the sixth Rangers in the past. They use Legendary weapons and Legendary zords to create Legendary Megazords, becoming the Power Rangers Super Megaforce.”

As they saw the Megazords, Rainbow turned to Orion. “For somepony who doesn’t know what a race is, your zord looks awesome. Wish I had it.”

When Twilight saw this, her eyes widen. “My dream…” she murmured.

Her mentor placed a hoof on her. “Indeed,” she spoke.

“Okay, since we know these here ponies are Rangers who live on earth, then how come you guys are in Equestria?” Starlight asked, picking her hoof up.

“Noah accidently hit a device made by Levira when he was fighting against Argus, having it go off, sending us here,” the robot explained.

Feeling bad, the Blue Ranger lowered his eyes. “...I never meant to hit it, I was trying to get Argus. I always fight him.”

“It’s completely fine, Noah,” the Rangers' mentor assured him. “However, I’m having a bad feeling…”

“And what may that be?” Celestia inquired, stepping forward.

“Since we came here, I got the feeling that the Armada came with us from the wormhole. I don’t know where they are, but I know they’re here somewhere in your world, Celestia. You’re subjects aren’t safe from them.” His voice is filled with concern. “I hope you don’t have anything to worry about.”

Sighing, she gazed at him. "Actually, we do have a problem. It turns out Queen Chrysalis seemed like she created new changelings. Her first horde got reformed all thanks to Thorax, the new leader of the changelings. I know there are many of them, and I'm guessing it's the same for the Armada's xborgs and bruisers... I don't think my student and her friends can fight them. Plus, there are other villains with her all together by Grogar."

“Hmm.” Thinking about, Gosei had an idea. “How about I’ll let the Rangers help them.”

“But Gosei, what about earth?” Gia piped up. “Our real home?”

“Yeah,” Orion nodded. “I have to work for Ernie at the Brainfreeze. I don’t want to be late for any day I work there.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll build something for all of us to take us home,” Tensou assured them.

“How long would it take?” Jake asked, examining her pony body, probably still in the same shock for what he and his friends have now become. “I have soccer practice next week for the next game,” he said, worrying about his coach yelling at him for being at for it.

“To answer your question…” Bringing out a blueprint, Tensou grabbed a pen, drawing the thing he’ll be building. “It’ll take up for a whole year to finish,” he told him.

Emma put her hoof on her forehead. “Great. Where are we going to stay at?”

Celestia smiled. “I believe my student and her friends will let you stay at their places. However, I want to know if you all are in to help out my ponies in this kingdom. Are you in?”

The first one to step up is Noah. “I’ll stay to protect your citizens.” This made Fluttershy smile.

“Even though I’ll miss my soccer practices…” Jake stood next to Noah. “I’m ready for anything.”

“I’m there too,” Gia stepped in, standing next to him, her hoof close to his.

Orion smiled, also stepping forward. “I had lost my world before I joined the Rangers on earth, so why not do the same for your world.” Opening up his wings, he flapped them, moving himself off the floor.

Then there was Emma, a bold grin on her face. “Count me in. I don’t want anything to get hurt from the Armada and the bad guys you’re dealing with.”

Everyone then glanced over at Troy. He has his hoof up to his chin, his head down, completely deep in thought. Being a unicorn is crazy to him, even though he doesn’t show it, it doesn’t mean he isn’t. It’s been confirmed by Gosie’s assistant that whatever he’s building won’t get done within a year, having him wonder what ponies do here in this world. Nevertheless, staying here wouldn’t be so bad. To him, Equestria is like earth - filled with ponies.

“Troy?” His name was called by Emma, getting his to snap out of his thoughts. “Well…?” She smiled at him.

Seeing her smile made him smile as well. “You guys do need my leadership, so yeah, I’m in.”

“Great!” Beaming up them, the while alicorn raised her hoof invitingly. “I now welcome you to Equestria, Power Rangers Super Megaforce!” She bowed her head at them, and they bowed back.

“We’ll do anything to keep your ponies safe, princess,” Troy promised.

“Please, call me Celestia,” she answered. “Any friend of Gosei is a friend of mine. I’m proud of you all are going to help us, making me please.”

“You’re welcome,” the brown haired pegasus spoke with closed eyes.

“Alright, Rangers, have a great time here in Equestria,” the tiki head wished. “And may the power protect you.”

“And since I’m honored to have you all here, you’re welcome to spend the night at my palace.” The invitation got everyone beaming. “Though tomorrow you are going to get up early for the train to get to my pupil and her friends’ home,” Celestia told them.

“Don’t worry, it’s fine by us,” the Red Ranger replied. “Tensou.” He turned to him. “Teleport us back to her castle.”

“You got it, Troy.” Going over to one of the panels, he got ready to teleport everyone back to Canterlot.

Before they left, Pinkie got between Jake and Noah, wrapping her arms around them. “I’m going to throw you guys the most greatest welcome party ever. Eeee!” By the time those words got released from her mouth, they had disintegrated.

“Good luck, Rangers and Elements of Harmony,” Gosei wished them one more time once they’re gone. “Tensou, get started with the device.”

Tensou nodded his rectangular head. “Yes sir.” He went off to grab some tools to get ready to build a new device to help him, Gosei, and the Rangers to get back on on earth. It may take up to a whole year to finish, but he’ll be done in no time.

The Rangers are going to have a great time here in Equestria, helping their new friends fight against the bad guys, along with theirs. It’s going to be a Super Mega awesome.

Chapter 6: Taken

Vekar walked out of the room, feeling a bit calmer, but most likely still mad for being in this new world where he and his henchman are ponies. He hated how his hooves make these clip, clip, clip sounds on the floor, getting him on his nerves. Not only that, Argus has not gotten back yet.

When he entered back in the Command Room, he walked up to Damaras, showing his irritated face, unable to hide it, stopping behind him.

“Where’s bird pony at?” This got the golden pony’s attention. He turned away from the window, his new rusty mane whipping his neck for how long it is.

“Bird pony?” he questioned. “Do you mean Argus?” This made Vekar give him a sarcastic answer.

“No, I meant a flying whale. Yes, I mean Argus. Where is he?” the prince demanded, grabbing Damaras’ mane, yanking it. “It’s getting late and he hasn’t been back yet!” he yelled in his face.

“Ow!” Taking his mane away from the angry prince, he placed it back where it belongs at. “Relax, he’s probably getting help now.”

Vekar scoffed at the large pony’s theory, coming up with his own one. “He’s probably got lost since we’re in a land full of horses-”

“Ponies,” Levira corrected from the other end of the room.

“Whatever!” he yelled. “He’s probably got lost since we’re in a land full of ponies where there are no humans in this stupid, colorful place,” he tried again, flicking his tail in the color of light blue with two dark streaks running down from it. “He’s stupid enough to get us here, now he’s more stupid to get lost.”

“Argus is not stupid,” the green unicorn said, walking over to the two, her hooves creating the clipping sounds. “He’s smart enough to know his way. Plus he has wings. He can fly over the land.”

Rolling his eyes, he went over to his chair, sitting down in it, placing his hooves on the arms each side on the chair. He looked down, his mane almost in his eyes, matching his tail, looking down at the consol full of buttons and switches, the screen right in front of him. The one he uses for watching the Rangers fight against his henchman.

He’s lucky nothing got damaged from landing here in the pony world with no humans in sight. It should’ve made him happy, but no, it never did. He’s mad for being here, receiving a pony body, unable to walk on two legs. If he tried again, he’ll end up meeting the floor.

Not only he was irritated for being an animal who eats hay all day, he was most likely irritated for his bodyguard for having them all here - even when the Blue Ranger used the attack on him. To the prince, it sounded like excuses. Argus should've grabbed it when he went to move out of the way, it was all his fault. His fault.

Anyways, for right now, he wondered where his bodyguard is at now.

The forest Argus is walking through is filled with trees, vines, and various plants. Critters scattered across the path, with him keeping on going with his mission to get help in the green and brown woods with dotted flowers on the bushes. A bumble bee landed on one, using its straw to slurp up the nectar for the hive.

The bee buzzed, getting off the flower, going over to the white pegasus pony, inches away from him, his big, black eyes looking adorable, adding with a smile, sending it to Argus.

Paying no attention to the black and yellow striped insect, he continued his way down the dirt path, creating hoofprints on the ground, pretending the bug is invisible.

Buzzing, the little bee waved its little arm, wanting attention from the white pony with wings. But again, Argus never paid any attention to it, eyes locked ahead of him.

Tilting its head to its side, the little insect landed on Argus’s muzzle, stopping its white wings, giving out a happy grin with its mouth opening.

Stopping and narrowing his eyes down at the buzzing bug, Argus ears went back, telling the bee in no words that he’s getting irritated, sending it a message.

The message hasn’t gotten through the cute bumble bee as it rolled onto its back, seeing the now annoyed pony at an upside down view, the black eyes sparkling with joy, seemingly like the little guy made a new friend.

But Argus wasn’t sending off the same feeling as the bee rolled over, getting back on its little legs, letting out a squeak sound. He flicked his tail, scrunching up his nose, flaring his nostrils. Lifting a hoof, he raised it towards the bee - and smacked it off his muzzle.

The bee let out a scream, smashing into the bark of the tree, landing on the ground, with one wing kind of wrecked. Two wood chips fell on either side of it.

Getting back up and fixing up its wing, the bee made angry eyes, fluttering its wings. “Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz.” Buzzing, the bee got in front of Argus again who only took two steps before stopping again. The bee’s black eyes glared at him, his stinger ready to sting him. Bees only sting to defend themselves or when someone bothers them or gets them mad. “Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz,” it continued to buzz, more loudly than ever instead of the small, friendly ones it used before.

“Go away,” Argus gruffed at the bug, unafraid of the stinger ready to jab him at any moment.

“Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz!” The bee refused to leave, demanding in its own language. “Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz!”

“Quit it.” The buzzing was starting to get on his nerves.

“Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz!”

“I don’t speak bee!”

“Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz!”

“English!”

“Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz, bzzz!”

“Will...you...be…” Sucking in a lung full of air, he shouted at the bee. “Quiet!” Shutting up, the bee flew back a few inches, startled by the loudness of his voice. “Shoo!” he ordered, ready to grab his sword.

The bee let out a sad buzz for how awful he is. Frowning, the bee flew off, looking for more flowers.

Watching the bee fly off, the bodyguard can still feel the legs on his muzzle. He rubbed it, getting the feeling off and kept on going, following the trail.

As he continued on, he hadn’t realized he was being watched. Two large, blue eyes in the shape of almonds poked through one of the bushes, making a soft rustling sound. Another pair came through too, also spying the pony.

The one on the right fluttered its wings, flicking its web-liked tail. It brought up a wragged hoof up to the branches of the bush, lowering it to get a much better view.

“Who do you see?” the one on the left also brought down some branches, his fangs glistening with saliva. A drop landed on the grass, inches away from him.

“Shh!” the first one placed hoof on his lips, hushing his partner. “It’s a white pegasus pony with a sword,” he told him, releasing the branches while the other one did the same thing. “He could be a threat to Queen Chrysalis’s new colony she made by the new book Cozy Glow got for her. We have to take him to Grogar at the headquarters.”

“You got it, partner.” They both bumped their rickedy hooves. “Tirek can even have some of his magic too!” he proclaimed.

“Hush!” his partner exclaimed. “On a count of three, we ambush him. Got it?” His partner nodded his head. “Okay. One…”

“Two…” the second one added in with the count up.

“Three!” With a sudden leap, they both got in front of pegasus, startling him as he let out a horse noise.

“What the-?! Who are you!?” Argus demanded, standing his ground, his hoof ready to grab his sword at any attack. They sent him evil eyes, flapping their clear wings quickly like that little bee did. “Get out of my way,” he growled in a menace tone.

Their curved horns glowed in the color of green, saying nothing. Argus quickly pulled out his sword, preparing himself for a fight when he got lifted off the ground. “Hey-!” He found himself off the ground, the green aura wrapped around him. “Put me down!” He struggled against the bond.

The two creatures glared at Argus, one of them speaking. “You’re going to see our master Grogar and Queen Chrysalis.”

“Don’t forget Tirek and Cozy Glow,” the other one seem to remind the first one.

Snickering, the first one made eye contact with Argus, his hoof gripping the handle of his weapon. “Yes, them too. Tirek will even drain out your magic.”

“Magic?” he questioned. “What magic? Put me down this instant!”

But the creatures flew off with Argus, taking him to see their queen and everybody else who are waiting for their return.

Author's Note

Hey guys. Sorry for how short the chapter is. But I have something to say. Something important. The Internet is going to be off for who knows how long. This does give me more time to think up of ideas for this story, though. However, I will come back next year somewhere around October, which will take a long time for my next updated chapters, especially the one I really want to write. Along with chapters for winter, spring, and summer.

Again, I apologize. Please wait patiently for next year of 2020 for October chapters. Thank you :twilightsmile:

Chapter 8: Night In The Castle

The palace of the inside is as big as it is from the outside with Celestia giving the Rangers a full tour, starting off with the throne room within this majestic place. Guards stood alert, holding spears, their eyes locked ahead. Whenever the white alicorn passed them, they bowed their heads with respect.

Troy noticed some art work on each window. More likely to be known as stained glass with one of them being Twilight Sparkle and her friends in what seemed to be a dark alicorn among them, though it lacked Starlight. He guessed it was before they met her. He also saw a stained glass of Twilight in her alicorn form in which she is now. There was also one of a stone creature looking terrified.

Every stained glass is different. There’s even another window of a pink alicorn and white unicorn touching horns, creating a heart.

While Celestia spoke to the ponies, another one walked into the room for she’s an alicorn, too, her coat in the color of a night time blue with a stary mane and tale flowing just like Celestia’s mane and tail. She wore light, blue glass slippers, and black collar with a crescent moon. Behind her horn is a black tiara. Her flanks each have a black splotch with the same crescent moon on each of them.

The tall one saw her. “Luna, it’s so nice to see you tonight.”

“We are glad to see thou, too, big sister,” Luna spoke. “We came to talk to Twilight about her dream of the suited ponies.” She stopped when she saw six ponies she had never seen before. “What do we have thou here?”

“Sister, these are the ponies Twilight saw in her dream. They’re known as the Power Rangers,” Celestia introduced them. “They came from Gosie, you know, the one who made the Elements of Harmony many years ago. I’m sure he won’t mind me telling you for we can keep their identities a secret.”

The younger princess got quiet for she went up to them, and bowed her head at them. Again, Troy was taken aback like last time. “It’s nice to meet you, fellow Rangers,” she said, lifting her head up. “Now I have the answers to Twilight’s dream.” She dropped the royal ‘we’, studying each one of them. “Tell the Princess of the Night about yourselves for I need to know what you are capable of.”

“We use keys to transform into Power Rangers, different kinds, too, along with Legendary Megazords,” Troy told her. “I’m their leader - the Red Ranger.”

“Interesting…” She seemed to be intrigued. “What about your friends, then?”

“Well, Gia here is the Yellow Ranger, Emma being the Pink Ranger, with Jake as the Green Ranger, Noah the Blue Ranger, and Orion the Silver and sixth Ranger.”

His friends smiled when he mentioned each of them when they heard a rumble. Fluttershy yelped, scooching over to Noah. “W-What was that?” she stammered with fright.

Pinkie giggled. “Don’t worry, Shy, it’s just my stomach. I’m hungry for cake.”

“It’s pretty late to have sugar at this time of night,” Starlight said, followed by a rumble of her stomach.

“Here, I’ll take you all to the dining room,” the white princess offered, leading them out of the throne room. “Oh.” She halted to a stop. “Luna, please write to Shining Armor, Cadence, and others in whom we can trust. We want to make sure they can keep the Rangers' identities a secret from anypony else.”

Luna tilted her head forward. “I shall do it right away.”

“Thank you,” she thanked her. “They’re staying here for the night and they’ll get up first thing in the morning to catch the train for them to be taken to Ponyville by my pupil for they will have places for them to stay at.”

“You’re welcome.” The night time princess smiled at the new ponies. “Have a nice sleep and have pleasant dreams, my friends.”

“We will, “ Emma grinned. “Come on, I’m starving. I wonder what ponies eat.”

“Basically plant based food,” Noah shrugged. “Ponies are vegetarians.”

“Wait, since we’re ponies, does this mean we have to eat hay and oats.” Everyone laughed at Jake’s question. “I’m serious. Do we have to eat hay and oats? Ponies do eat those things.”

“No need to worry, Jake.” The party pony patted him on the top part of his back. “Your friends are new at your forms, so you are free to eat anything you want.” She began jumping down with joy. “Plus, I’m still gonna throw you guys the biggest welcome party ever in Ponyville. Maybe we can have it at the School of Friendship.”

He has no idea what the School of Friendship is, and neither does his allies. Though they’re sure enough they’ll have their questions answered.

With the tall pony taking them to the dining room, Fluttershy kept looking at Noah who seemed to send her a glance back. She couldn’t believe a stallion would end up saving her for most of the time the other ones will simply get tired of her distress.

He seemed to be a nice guy, as well, despite looking like an egghead in her opinion. She isn’t sure if it’s the right term for him since they had just met - by him slamming into her so she doesn’t get hit by a cart.

As for Noah, his heart skipped a beat each time the two shared looks at each other. He never had this sort of feeling around girls, especially around Gia and Emma. He certainly couldn’t have Gia whom Jake likes, and as for Emma, she seemed to be into their leader of the Ranger team.

Orion doesn’t seem to have any crushes, at least of yet. Noah believes he hadn’t found his type, unless he has one of course.

Fluttershy seemed adorable in the Blue Ranger’s opinion for her shy nature and her pink hair that seemed to almost touch the floor.

When they got to the dining room, everyone sat in the chairs as Celestia told the waitress what to get them.

The Rangers seemed to be pleased when they got plates of mash potatoes, corn, and green beans - basic meals for them, excluding any type of meat. Spike, of course, has his own food, a bowl full of gems.

Everyone chatted as they ate, enjoying each other’s stories from everyone one of them, while the Princess of the Sun left the room for them to settle for a bit until it was time for bed.

When they finished, she came back. “It’s time to hit the hay. I wanna make sure you’re not tired the next morning since you have to get up early to catch the train,” she reminded them. “Follow me. I do have spare guest rooms in this castle.”

Getting off the chairs, everyone followed her. Noah felt Fluttershy trip over him, her landing on the ground. He helped her back up and her face turned pink, and the two of them walked out of the dining room together.

“Here are the guest rooms,” Celestia directed to each room. “Goodnight, little ponies.”

“Night,” the others returned.

When she walked away, Rainbow yawned. “We better get to bed like the princess says.”

“Yes,” Rarity agreed, “I don’t want to have bags under my glorious eyes.”

Applejack stretched out her limbs. “I need to continue my apple harvesting and take care of Apple Bloom’s cold.”

“Too bad your brother cannot help you this time for his injury,” Twilight said, yawning. “Well, like what we’ve been told, we better get to bed.

Everybody agreed, waving goodnight as each of them headed to each guest room. Noah opened the door to his room, stepping inside where he saw a bed, a lamp on a table, and other things within this room.

Going over to the bed, he got on the mattress, laying his head on the pillows, seemingly to stare at the ceiling, thinking about his home, wondering if his friends are having the same thoughts as him.

He was about to go to sleep, when he heard a knock on the door. Flinging the covers off his body, he got down to the floor to answer it, and when he did, he saw his leader standing before him.

“Hey, Troy.”

“Hey,” he answered in reply. “I came here to ask you something.”

“Oh? What would that be then?” Noah asked.

“I’m wondering if our families know we’re gone. We hadn’t even asked Gosei about our home.” The nerd watched as his friend went over to the window, looking at the night time stars, the moon at its highest peak. “Like, what about the people back on earth? Mr. Burly and Ernie don’t know about our absence.”

“Maybe time froze,” the blue one theroized. “I’m sure they’re fine, dude. For now, we have to help our new friends with their evil forces since they’ll do the same for us.”

However, the other unicorn frowned. “I’m glad we’re joining sides with them, but we’re only going to be in Equestria for a year while Tensou is creating something to bring us back home.”

It was then something came across in Noah’s brain. “What if… What if we never wanted to go home?” This got the leader’s attention, for he faced away from the window, a little surprise from what he said. “Like, what if there’s someone I like, and that I refuse to go home?”

“You mean Fluttershy?” Troy turned his entire body away from the glass. “Noah, I’m not sure if you can be with her forever. Not saying you two are great together, it just means you’ll be with each other for a year, and when we have to go home, you won’t have a choice but to say farewell to her. Did you already develop feelings for her?”

Digging the tip of his hoof on the floor, Noah turned his head away. “...I never saw a girl so pretty before in all my life of studying. While you and the rest are studying the map, she-”

“You two need to get to bed.” The two of them got startled when Pinkie came out of nowhere, placing her hooves on Troy, pushing him out the door. “You guys don’t wanna be tired for your first welcome party, am I right?”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa.” Troy planted his hooves firmly, forcing himself to not be pushed anymore, facing the hyper pony. “How did you-”

“No questions, new friend,” Pinkie shook her head. “Go to bed. Remember, I wanna throw you guys the biggest welcome party ever and I’m gonna invite everyone, including the students who go to the School of Friendship.” She twinkled at Noah. “Goodnight, you better get some shut eye for the train tomorrow.” She paused. “Cupcakes!” She zoomed out of the room, leaving Troy and Noah to stand there.

“Wow,” Noah finally broke the silence. “Twilight is right, she is one random person. Why did she suddenly yell out cupcakes?”

“Because Pinkie Pie loves cupcakes, that’s why.” A cupcake got tossed into the pink pony’s mouth when she popped out of nowhere again, chewing it down. She also held a tray full of them. “Mmm, want one?” They both shook their heads. “Huh, oh well, more for me, but no fret, I can batch up lots of goodies for your welcome party.”

“Uhh, where did you get those cupcakes from?” Troy asked, wanting to know where she got them.

Licking the icing off her face, she tossed another small, fluffy cake. “I found them in the kitchen. They seemed-”

“Hey, come back here with those cupcakes!” a pony hollered.

“Oops, gotta bail. See ya the next morning.” Balancing the tray on her hoof, she ran on three legs.

“Those cupcakes aren’t for you!” The two Rangers watched as the pony went after her. “You better put the tray down or else I’ll call Luna, understand?”

When the pony was gone, the two boys laughed. Troy caught his breath. “She sure is gonna get in huge trouble.”

“Maybe it’s why she’s giddy all the time,” his friend chuckled. “Anyway, have a goodnight. We shouldn’t be tired by the next day.”

“Right. See you in the next morning.” By the time the leader walked out of the guest room, heading to his own, leading Noah to shut the door.

Heading back to the bed, he removed his glasses, setting them on the small table, climbing back on the mattress, pulling the covers over his neck, turning on his side before closing his eyes to get some rest.

Troy is deep within his thoughts, laying on the comfortable bed. He’s been processing what happened to him and his friends for being turned into four legged animals who lack fingers.

This has him thinking about his strange dream. Honestly, he never knew this would happen. He’s smart that dreams hardly come true except the war ones he kept having.

He’s also surprised how this world chose him to be a unicorn, alongside with the brains of Rangers, who has the same form as he does. Jake and Gia are complete earth ponies, while Orion and Emma are pegasi, where they can walk on clouds due to their mentor’s explanation on all the types of ponies living here in the world.

Going onto one side, his eyes shifted to the moon. He breathed heavily, exhaling a lot of air out of his nose, wondering about his family and the other people who are back on earth. He should’ve asked Gosei what’s going back at home.

Shrugging it off, he thought of something else, about how the ponies live here. They do use utensils when they eat, so it’s similar to his home.

The ponies he and his team met seem to be friendly towards them and are heroes of their world where they hold the Elements due to their personalities.

It might not be easy as a small pony for the first time. They don’t eat meat, completely vegetarians, let alone eating sweets.

Getting out of his bed, he went over to the window, placing his hooves on the windowsill, looking outside, seeing a garden. The leaves on the trees are in red, yellow, and oranges, meaning the weather in this world is autumn, just like at home.

He seemed to be in a trance, a deep trance, when a knock came at the door. “Come in,” he called, his eyes still out in the garden.

His ear swiveled, hearing the door open. “Troy?” His name was called from Twilight, getting him to break his gaze from the outside world. “Why are you up?” she asked.

“I was about ask the same thing,” he returned.

“I’m doing a little reading,” she told him, stepping into the room, going over to the window. “What about you?”

“Nothing, really. Pinkie Pie mentioned about a school, am I right?”

“Yep, and I’ll tell you about it tomorrow while we’re on the train,” the lavender alicorn said, promising him.

“Thanks, and why does she have to throw my friends and I a welcome party?” he then asked. “We can simply hang out, you know, like what new friends would do. Friends having new friends don’t throw parties for them.”

Twilight chuckled. “A simple hang out isn’t on her list. She always throws a welcome party whenever a new pony comes into Ponyville. She threw me a welcome party in the library I once had before it got destroyed by Tirek, getting replaced with a castle.”

“Wow,” was all he could say.

“I would say the same thing, too.” Placing her hoof on the windowsill, she sighed. “I wish I had my library, but these things happen.” She turned her head away. “Though I’m still nervous about taking Luna and Celestia’s place to become the new leader of Equestria. I wanna tell Celestia, but I want to wait for the right moment.”

“Will she get mad?” Troy wondered.

“She isn’t the type of princess who can get mad all the time. Yes, she can be disappointed at certain things, like the time where I went completely insane, casting a Want It, Need It spell on my Smarty Pants doll so everyone can fight over it, so I can fix the ‘problem’, and write a letter to her about a friendship lesson I ‘learned’. But it’s all in the past.” Walking away, she faced the Red Ranger. “See you the next morning.”

Troy waved his hoof in reply, watching as the Princess of Friendship stepped out of the room, closing the door in the process.

After looking out the window for a few more seconds, he went back to the bed, got in the covers, and went to sleep, waiting for a new day to start.

Chapter 9: Welcome To Ponyville, Rangers

The next day, everyone got up first thing in the morning just like Celestia had said, her royal guards waking them up.

Noah stepped out of his room, rubbing his eyes. He placed his glasses on when he saw Fluttershy carrying in what seemed to be two saddles on a strap between her teeth. Probably because of her injured wing.

Going up to her, he stuck out his hoof. “Allow me to carry it.”

“You don’t have to…” Fluttershy muffled, looking into his eyes. “It isn’t heavy.”

“I want to be a nice gentleman- I mean, stallion,” he said, quickly correcting himself. “May I?” His hoof was still at an outreach.

Smiling, she placed it on his back. She was right, her bags aren’t heavy. In fact, he wondered if she packed anything at all.

Once it was on him, the two of them caught up to the rest of the group. Jake noticed his pal, stepping up besides him. “Who are you carrying for?” he asked.

“Fluttershy,” Noah simply answered. “I wanna carry this for her.” He saw a smirk on his athlete’s face. “Jake, I’m doing this since I…”

“Since you liiike her.” He snickered, punching the nerd on his shoulder. “Looks like you found your type.”

“We hardly know each other, man.” Noah adjusted the saddlebag, wanting to make sure it won’t fall off his back. “We had met since yesterday.” Taking a look at the girl, he couldn’t help when his lips curved upwards. “Besides, she’s pretty. I should also add that she’s adorable, too.”

The earth pony’s brows went up. “You should tell her your feelings.”

Of course, the other one scoffed. “Too early.”

Jake nudged his friend. “It isn’t too early to develop feelings for somebody.”

Noah dodged him away when he was about to nudge him again, with Fluttershy’s bags flopping on his sides like stirrups. His friend does have a point. It’s never too early to like somebody right away, like when he started having feelings for the Yellow Ranger, with Noah noticing it every time Jake took a look at her.

Normally, he wouldn’t think about girls, let alone not think about them at all. Like what he said back at home, he probably hadn’t found his type, until yesterday.

With his thoughts on the mare he certainly likes, he trotted when he realized he’s been slowing down, catching up to everyone else when he saw Spike carrying stacks of suitcases with no problem. His face was blushing when he looked at Rarity.

He doesn’t seem to have any trouble carrying all the stuff for her for being such a small dragon. Noah could have sworn he saw hearts popping around the little one.

“Spike, are you sure you can carry all that?” he heard Troy asked the youngster.

“Yep.” Spike adjusted them when one of the suitcases began to fall. He caught it quickly before it could hit the ground. “I’m a strong dragon from eating a lot of gems.” This led the stallion to form a crooked grin, getting all quiet like he usually is.

When they reached the Canterlot train station, they all waited for the train to pick them up. None of the Rangers ever been on a train in their lives. They also never were on one made for ponies, either.

Pinkie has been jumping up and down like a spring on the way here, excited when she made new friends who she never saw. “This is gonna be the best day ever!” Beaming, she gave the Green Ranger a tight squeeze of a hug. “When I first saw you guys I was like…” She let out a loud gasp. “When I was the little robot, I was like ‘hey pal’.” A second gasp. “This is gonna be a great story.”

Rainbow inwardly smacked her face. “Pinks, we aren’t in a story. How many times do we have to tell you this?” the pegasus said, knowing how weird her friend can be. “You can be hilarious, but this is getting ridiculous.”

Releasing Jake, Pinkie seemed to ignore her rainbow maned friend. “It’s been a year since the author wrote it. I read the note from her last chapter where she promised she’d continue to write this, stating that this fanfic started in October, and wanted to write chapters for winter, spring, and summer.” Tilting her head, she placed a hoof on her chin in thought. “It’s similar to another story she had read, inspiring her to make her own version.”

Starlight looked at Twilight, along with everyone else. When Applejack went to say something to the party pony, they all heard a loud whistle.

“Here comes the train.” When the alicorn announced this, Pinkie let out a happy squeal, hugging Jake tightly then before.

“Pinkie Pie, let go of him this instant.” Using her magic, Rarity removed her off of him. “You’re gonna end up cutting his airway.”

“Aww.” Pouting, she stuck out her lower lip until her mood changed. “Look, look, the train’s getting closer. Ooo.” Her body shuddered with joy when her stomach growled. “I’m hungry. Anyone else?”

“We’ll eat breakfast on the train.” Pinkie’s smile widened when Applejack answered her.

By the time the train reached the station, the doors flung open. All the suitcases were taken by the conductor who would put them in the back with others while each pony got on the train, the last being Spike.

Once on the train, they all went to the dining car, and each of the ponies sat down with each Ranger. Twilight, Fluttershy, Starlight, and Spike shared a table with Noah and Troy, Rarity and Applejack joined a table Emma and Gia, while Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash shared a table with Jake and Orion.

For their breakfast, Twilight and her friends ordered daisy and rose petaled pancakes, hash browns, and fruit with a side of apple juice. Spike had his own kind of pancakes with blue, sapphire gems inside of them. Troy and his friends ordered pancakes with blueberries, hash brown, and fruit, along with apple cider, too.

When the breakfast plates arrived, they all ate together like they did last night, having their own conversations.

Twilight set her fort down, straightening it out on the napkin. “It’s nice to meet other heroes rather than us.” She took a drink of her cider. “Where are you from anyway?”

“We’re actually from another world called earth,” Noah said, eating some of his fruit. “At a place called Harwood County.”

“We aren’t ponies when we’re there, we were humans,” Troy added, finishing his plate.

Twilight gasped. “You’re from the human world? I went to the human world - twice. One to get my crown back and the second time where I helped defeat the sirens.”

“I went there, too,” Starlight said, levitating his fort with a piece of pancake on it, popping it into her mouth. “While you were out of Ponyville solving a friendship problem,” she added towards the princess.

“I was a dog when I was with Twilight when we were in the human world,” Spike said.

Twilight giggled and faced the Red Ranger. “How long have you’ve been a leader?”

“For a while,” he answered. “I actually moved to Harwood County, and I was new there. I hadn’t had any friends until that day when I first met Jake, Gia, Emma, and Noah when we became Power Rangers. Orion came later.”

Setting her glass back on the table top, she realized his story is similar to hers. “Nice how you say you’re new at Harwood and never had friends in at the start. It’s like how I was. I lived back in Canterlot, and my mentor sent me to Ponyville to create some friends. I started off being a loner until I found my group of pals when we first unlocked the Elements of Harmony to defeat Nightmare Moon. I bet Harwood sounds like a great place.”

“It is a nice place,” the Blue Ranger nodded. “Though I would love to learn about your world.”

“You can stay at my castle,” Twilight offered when Fluttershy frowned. “Is something wrong, Flutters?” she asked her.

“I was hoping that Noah could stay at my place…” Fluttershy looked at Noah. “I would like you to stay at my cottage. It’s my way of saying thank you for rescuing me from yesterday.”

Noah played with his glasses. “I would, but…” He hadn’t finished when he saw her giving him the puppy look, her eyes getting all shiny, getting her pupils to widen where they filled in her eyes, adding lots of highlights. Her lower lip stuck out and she brought her front hooves up close to her chest. He tried to shake it off like it was nothing, ending up failing when he laughed. “Okay, I’ll stay with you,” he gave in. “Just no more puppy faces.”

Fluttershy relaxed, releasing the adorable face she made him fall for. “Thank you. You’re lucky I hadn’t used The Stare on you. You’re too much of a gentlecolt for that sort of look.”

“Well, Fluttershy, since you’re having Noah stay at your place, Troy can stay at my castle,” Twilight said. “It also has the School of Friendship next to it. Basically, it’s a school where everypony and every creature learns about friendship. I’m the Head Mare of the school while Starlight is the counselor, where she helps the students solve their problems they may have. The rest of my friends are the teachers at that place.” She ate her hashbrown. “What about you? Do you go to school?”

“Yes, we go to Harwood High.” Placing his fork down, Troy leaned back on the booth. “Except we learn actual stuff like science for example, not friendship.”

“Maybe you can be Twilight’s Head Mare assistant.” The dragon finished his piece of pancake. “Twilight can get stressed out from time to time,” he frowned, looking at her.

“I do not get stressed out.”

“Oh, yeah? What about last year when you panicked about not getting everything done on time for Hearth’s Warming Eve?”

“I was behind schedule.”

“I’m sorry,” Noah cut in. “But what’s Hearth’s Warming Eve?”

“It’s a holiday where we put up trees to decorate, have snow, and get lots of candy and presents,” Starlight told him, answering his question.

Troy blinked. “Sounds like the holiday we have back at home, only we call it Christmas. What other holidays do you have?”

“Well, we do have Nightmare Night where everyone wears costumes to be someone else. It’s coming up in several weeks..” The pegasus shuddered in fright. “I’m really not into it. I feel more safe at home than being out there with everyone dressing up as monsters.”

Twilight placed a hoof on her shoulder. “They’re just costumes. It’s only for fun.”

“Not when a pony jumps out and yells something scary,” she shook her head, her pink mane swaying. “What about you guys? Have you ran into any monsters?”

“We do, and we have to fight them,” Noah answered. “I once had a duel with Skatana - a one on one with him.”

“Sounds terrifying.” The pegasus let out another shiver. “Even his name sounds scary.”

“It does, but I’ve been dealing with Argus, the prince’s bodyguard.”

“Yeah, we battle lots of monsters from Vrak’s villains to Vekar’s own,” Troy put in.

“And Vekar is the one your dealing with now?” Starlight assumed.

The Red Ranger moved his head up and down. “We certainly are. And with Vrak, we have no idea where he’s at. The last time we saw him is when we defeated the Messenger.” He turned away. “It was also the last time where we had Robo Knight with us.”

“You two were pretty close,” the princess bet.

“We are.” Playing with his napkin, he sighed. “I’ve been searching for him for days, and I can never locate him, but I know he’ll turn up someday.”

“I’m sure he will.”

“Heh, I don’t think I’ll find him here in your world,” he slightly smiled.

On the right side of them, Applejack and Rarity have been talking to Gia and Emma. Rarity is surprised that Emma could sing.

“You should join the Pony Tones,” she said. “One of them will be off to Delamare, visiting her parents, and I do need someone with a good vocal cords.”

“Sure,” Emma accepted. “Just let me know when it is.”

“I will, darling,” the fashionable unicorn promised. “I just need to know when she’s going since she’s also thinking when she’s going to that area. It’ll only be for one day, though.” Rarity brought her hoof to her chin. “I’ve been eyeing your outfits for a while, and they’re not the best things to wear for the Grand Galloping Gala that’s scheduled on the sixth of May.”

“What’s the Grand Galloping Gala?” Gia asked.

“It’s a party that Celestia hosts,” Applejack replied. “It’s a great experience to have. Unless it gets ruined of course. Our first night there didn’t go well. The same being for the second time when Discord brought the Smooze.” She sipped her apple cider, making a face. “You know, the apple cider I make is a lot better than this. Except, I need help with the Applebuck Season which will be over soon. My sister is getting a cold and my brother injured himself, and I need a strong pony to help get the job done.”

“Gia can help you.” The Pink Ranger wrapped her arm around her best friend. “She’s really strong.”

“Really?” The cowgirl perked her ears up. “Then she could stay with me and my family. We do have a spare bedroom you can sleep in. You do have to get up early to do all the farm chores. You may not look like a farm gal, but I know you’ll love it.”

Gia seemed to like the idea. “Seems like a good change of scenery. Our home is a city, so being in the country will be a nice experience,” she replied. “Yeah, I can help you with your Applebuck Season, whatever that is.”

The orange pony smiled. “Thank you. I’ll tell you about Applebuck Season when we get to Sweet Apple Acres after Pinkie Pie’s welcome party.”

When the two decided to stay with each other, Emma looked at Rarity. “Since Gia will be staying with her, I guess I’ll be staying at your place.”

Rarity dapped her face with her napkin, folding it in half. “Yes, though I do hope you won’t mind my little sister, Sweetie Belle, and my cat , Opal.”

“I won’t mind,” Emma replied smiling.

As their conversion continued, right behind them, Rainbow and Pinkie are having their own talk with Jake and Orion.

“Wait, you’re an alien?” Rainbow exclaimed, after the new pegasus stallion told her and Pinkie about himself. “And you lived on a planet called Andresia?”

“I used to live in Andresia,” he answered, looking at his silver bracelet on his wrist. “Until it got destroyed, killing my friends and family.”

“Sorry to hear that, pal.” The sky blue pony showed sympathy for him.

Orion looked up from his wrist jewelry. “It’s nice to hear you say that. Really, I mean it. It’s a lot to take in when you lose the people you’re close to.”

“Speaking of families, did your parents ever give you support?” she asked, remembering how her parents were. “My mom and dad were too supportive. I always hated it when they got excited for every little thing I do. I had once hung up a towel in the locker room at the Wonderbolt Academy, causing them to get hyped up. They can be supportive, but they learned not to be too supportive. I actually started off as a trainee…”

“Where you met Lightning Dust,” the cotton maned pony perked up, getting a harsh stare from the other mare. “Sorry.” She leaned away from her. “I should’ve brought her up like I did last night.”

“Lightning Dust?” Jake gave Rainbow a questioning look. “Who’s she?”

“Somepony I met, like Pinkie said. We were friends until I realized how reckless she is,” Rainbow snorted out of his nostrils. “She almost demolished my friends and she put my sister, Scootaloo, in danger by making her do a dangerous stunt for the Washouts for she’s the leader of the group. I never wanted to see her ever again in my entire life.”

“Well, from the information you gave, she does sound reckless,” Orion said, thinking about the name. “Did you ever try talking to her?”

Rainbow scoffed. “Talk to her? Yeah, right. She’ll have her ears plugged. Trust me, Orion, you do not want to come across her. Her and I are rivals for life - forever.” Brushing her ex-friend off her mind, she looked at Jake. “What about you, dude? Tell us about yourself.”

“Hm.” Jake thought for a second. “I’m an athlete for the soccer team and I have a crush on Gia.”

“Ooo, you should play buckball some day,” Pinkie said, munching on her pancakes. “I’m sure you’ll love it, and we can teach you. In fact, Rainbow is an athlete, too, so you can stay with her while Orion can stay with me.”

Chuckling, Rainbow patted her shoulder. “We probably need to switch up. Jake’s an earth pony, and the only ponies who can walk on clouds are pegasi and alicorns.”

“Lucky how you can walk on clouds…” the Green Ranger muttered, a little jealous again.

“Aw, don’t worry, Jake, you can stay with me,” Pinkie offered. “I live in Sugarcube Corner where I bake lots of pastries alongside the Cakes and their twins. Oh, do you dance? Cause I can dance.”

“Yeah, Pinkie sure can dance to get you moving and grooving.” Jake smiled when Rainbow mentioned this.

“I got good moves,” he shrugged. “Though, I do have one question?”

“And that would be…?” Pinkie began to wonder, swallowing her piece of pancake.

“Why do you ponies have tattoos on your flanks?” This got the two girls laughing, with them hitting their hooves on the table, leaving him confused. “All I asked is why you have tattoos on your flanks. I wasn’t telling a joke even if I wanted to.”

Breathing in deeply, Pinkie stopped laughing, while her friend did her best to control her snickers. “These aren’t tattoos, silly, they’re called cutie marks.”

The Silver Ranger tilted his head. “Cutie marks? What are those?”

When Rainbow calmed down a little, she explained. “Cutie marks are these symbols that appear on ponies' flanks. The ponies get them once they find their purpose in life, getting them when they’re kids. I got mine when I raced these three colts who were teasing Fluttershy, creating my first Sonic Rainboom. You have to see it some time, it’s awesome!”

“I would like to see it,” the alien grinned.

The Rangers and their new friends talked on and on, until they arrived at the Ponyville station. They all got up from their seats, with the alicorn leading the way.

Crossing the bridge, the Rangers saw that they’re in a village, seeing different types of ponies doing their own thing from watering their gardens to relaxing in the sun shine.

Troy looked around. “Nice place,” he commented. “Though it could use less pink.” Emma nudged him by the shoulder. Before she can say anything, the party animal got between them.

“No time for standing, it’s time to throw you a welcome party. Twilight, can we have it at the school?”

The princess shook her head. “No, but we can give them a tour of our school. Let’s have their welcome party elsewhere.”

“Sure thing.” Pinkie hopped away. “I know a perfect spot. It’s where we hosted Rainbow’s birthday and anniversary with the help of Cheese Sandwich.”

“What about our stuff?” Fluttershy reminded. “We have to bring them to our homes.”

“We can do it after their welcome party.” Jiggling with joy, the hyper earth pony let out an excited cry. “I shall grant you new ponies the best and biggest welcome party you’ll ever see.” She began jumping away.

“Follow the hopping pony,” Noah said laughing.

They all followed her, with Noah being with Fluttershy who is taking her time. Looking at him, she moved her mane behind one ear. “We do want you and your friends to like this place,” she hoped, smiling. “Plus, Pinkie Pie promises to give you guys the best welcome party ever.”

“I sure hope so. My friends and I never had a welcome party,” he replied, smiling back in return. “We can get to know each other a little more while we have it,” he winked, getting her heart to drop a beat.

“Sure, I would love to know more about you, even when we are different,” the shy one responded.

While they walked, Noah had this love trance around her from being next to her as they went with their friends to where Pinkie Pie is taking them for the welcome party, unable to keep his eyes off the yellow pony.

So much so, he ended up bumping into one of his own allies without paying any sort of attention, knocking him out of it. “Sorry,” he apologized embarrassed for not looking where he was going.

Jake chuckled. “It’s fine.” He looked at Fluttershy. “He’s a great guy- I mean, stallion - to be with.”

“I’m sure he is,” she spoke softly. “He’s such a nice colt.”

“Time to party!” Fluttershy yelped when Pinkie jumped out of nowhere like she normally does. “We need streamers, balloons, confetti, presents, a table to put the cake and candy on, a banner with the words Welcome To Ponyville with your-” She poked the nerd on the chest. “-names on it, of course, and I’ll invite everyone here to the party. They’re gonna be your friends for sure.”

“Uh, Pinkie, how are you gonna set everything up?” Orion asked as they continued walking.

“No need to fear, Pinkie’s got your back.”

Troy and his friends have no idea what she meant by, but they shrugged it off. If she knows what she's doing, then she knows what she is doing.

Reaching the area, she pulled out her party cannon. “This is what I use to set up a party a lot faster.” Pressing the red button, the cannon exploded, and within zero seconds the whole place was decorated. Streamers hung from the trees, with balloons right by them. There was even a table that she somehow crammed into the cannon with lots of different candies with a cake at the center. She put it away. “I’ll be right back with lots of friends.”

“Pinkie, maybe we should-” Twilight hadn’t finished her sentence when she ran off, going door to door of each home. Sighing, she looked at Rangers. “She’ll be back. I think she had some sugar last night and it didn’t seem to fade off.”

The new ponies laughed, knowing how right she was when Pinkie Pie came back without a sweat.

“I invited everyone here, including our favorite students,” she reported. “We’re gonna have the best party ever! Eee!”

The party seemed to go well like Pinkie had stated who she is busy greeting other ponies. “Hi, thank you for coming. Hi, thank you for coming. Hi, thank you for coming,” she would say to each guest when they got to the area where the party is being held outside.

When everyone arrived, the party pony introduced them to the new ponies. “This Troy, Jake, Noah, Gia, Emma, and Orion.” She gave Jake a warm hug. “They’re new so let’s all give them a nice welcome.”

With that, the guests greeted the newbies with them doing the same. Once Troy and his friends got to know their guests, they started having fun, playing games, tearing opening presents to eating candy despite the breakfast they had on the train.

Well, not all them. Noah had separated himself from the group with Fluttershy, the two sitting face to face near a pond.

Fluttershy laughed as Noah told her stories about what’s been going on back at home, like when Jake dressed up as a fro-yo.

Hearing her laugh made him grin. He could just be doing this to impress her or it may be from something else.

Looking down at the water, Fluttershy laid on her stomach with Noah mimicking her, laying down on his stomach, too, their hooves barely touching each other’s.

The water reflected from the morning sun, creating a mirror to show themselves. “So how long were you a Power Ranger?” Fluttershy kept her voice low for no one else to hear.

“I’ve been a Power-”

“Professor Fluttershy.” He was interrupted when he saw what looked to be a yak coming up to them. “Professor Fluttershy’s wing okay? Yona hopes it’s okay. Yona never meant to hurt you with the door.”

“I’m fine, it’s just a sprain. It’ll heal within a week,” the pegasus answered, having her student sigh with relief. “Next time, watch when you close the door, and maybe this time, don’t slam it.”

“Yona understand.” Yona noticed Noah. “Who’s this?”

“Yona this Noah, Noah this is one my students, Yona,” Fluttershy told each of them.

“Nice to meet you, Yona.” He stuck out his hoof.

“Nice to meet you, too, Noah.” She shook hooves with him. “Yona is glad to meet new friend.”

Taking his arms away, he chuckled. “Have you met my other friends yet?”

“Yes, and they’re friendly, like Yona,” she said, pointing at herself. “Will there be school tomorrow?” she asked Fluttershy.

“Yes, there will be school tomorrow. I’ll see you in class then.”

“Okay, Yona will see you tomorrow,” the yak waved, stomping off.

With her out of sight, Noah placed his foreleg over the other one. “So, what do you teach in your class?” To him, it seemed great to have a friend who’s also a teacher.

“I teach them about kindness,” Fluttershy told him. “It’s one of the traits of friendship.” She sat back up with him doing the same, the two of them getting back up. “It’s always important to be kind, even to our worst enemies, and our kindness sinks into them.”

“I don’t think your kindness will seep into the enemies my team and I are dealing with,” he said honestly. “They’re too heartless for any sort of kindness.”

Fluttershy frowned. “They need to learn that being evil isn’t a good thing.”

“I’m telling you, they rather destroy your homeland.” Elbowing her, he gave her a friendly smirk. “Let’s continue on with the party. I’m in the mood for some cake - unless I can eat it. Troy and I have never been unicorns so we don’t know any magic.”

“...I can feed you a piece of cake,” she offered, digging her hoof in the ground, her timid nature coming all over her. “Unless you want me to, of course,” she quickly added, wanting to know if it’s okay.

Noah shrugged. “Eh, sure.” They went over to the table where the cake is, this time in half from being eaten by all the other ponies, cutting each piece of cake for their own, going back to their previous spot by the water.

With her teeth, the pegasus picked up the end of the fork, stabbing a large crumb of the Blue Ranger’s cake, bringing it to his mouth.

Taking it off the fork, Noah enjoyed the dessert. “You want me to do the same for you?” he asked before taking another bite.

“I can manage.” As she continued to feed him the pastry, she began to wonder something. Is it bad that she’s falling too quickly for him? Or is it normal? They had met since yesterday, and her feelings for him are beginning to grow.

It’s too early to be more than friends, in which these two are fine with.

For now.

Chapter 10: School Tour

The party went well throughout the morning, with everyone having a great time. Pinkie sure did put on the best welcome party for Troy and his allies, who’ve been having a blast. Noah and Fluttershy had joined back with the group when they finished their cakes, playing some games, like Pin the Tail on the Pony.

Gia was the first to go, her eyes being darkened by the blind fold the pink pony put on her.

Spinning her around, Twilight and the rest of the ponies, minus the newbies stated a phrase prior to the game. “Round and round and round you go, where you stop nopony knows!”

When Gia was done being spun, the pink pony let her go. “Go over and pin the tail on the pony.” She gave her a push, with the earth pony stepping forward to the picture of a pony, holding the tail. It may seem to be a childish game for a children’s birthday party, but it seems like these ponies enjoy it.

Pinning the tail, they all clapped for her. “Way to go, Gia,” her best friend praised.

Taking off the blindfold, she saw how close she was, the tail on the pony’s flank. “I was close.” She took the tail off, the tap peeling off the picture, going up to her winged pal. “Your turn, Em.”

Getting a hold of the tail, Pinkie put the blindfold on Emma’s eyes this time like she did with Gia. Then she spun her around.

“Round and round and round you go, where you stop nopony knows!” the guests repeated the phrase, this time Troy and his friends doing the same, catching on.

When she was stopped, the pegasus began to walk forward, more like hovering in the air, using her hoof to guide her to the pictured pony.

Feeling something, she placed the tail on the picture. Or, at least she thought it was a picture when full blown laughter filled her ears from the party guests, the pink pony being the loudest, laying on her back, laughing her head off, kicking all four of her legs.

“Emma…” Taking a deep breath, she managed to control her laughs long enough to speak. “You pin the tail on the wrong pony.”

“Huh?” Removing the blindfold, Emma saw what she meant. Troy was standing there with the tail stuck to his nose, between his nostrils. Blinking, she put herself on the ground, her face turning a light pink. “Oops,” she slipped out, giggling, noticing how silly it looks.

Shifting an eyebrow up, he took the tail off his muzzle. “You have a great sense of direction,” he joked, his lips turning upwards. He can still feel the tap on him.

“Troy’s turn!” Jumping back up on her hooves, Pinkie had Emma hand over the blindfold in which she did.

Once the blindfold is on him, Pinkie Pie spun him around quickly.

“Round and round and round you go, where you stop nopony knows!”

It seems like this phrase will be said every time someone gets a turn. Also, he thought it’s pretty catchy when they say it. Even his friends thought it’s catchy since the phrase is similar to pin the tail on the donkey.

By the time he stopped, he heard Jake say something from behind him. “Be sure not to pin the tail on the wrong pony, dude.”

“Haha, very funny, Jake,” Troy responded, walking up to the picture. “Hmm… There!” He stuck the fake tail on the pony.

Everyone clapped their hooves. “You won, Troy,” Noah said.

Troy removed the blindfold to see Pinkie giving him a prize. “Here you go, buddy.” She handed it to him. She giggled. “Go ahead, open it.”

Grabbing the ribbon, he slipped it off the presence - when something popped out. “Ahh!” Dropping the present, he skittered back. “What is that!?” he cried, unaware of what it is.

Giggling, the Element of Laughter picked it up. “Spitting snakes!” Pinkie declared.

“Pinkie, that wasn’t very nice,” Twilight scolded, while Troy calmed down.

“Aww, I wanted to give him the special prize,” she pouted. “I bet he thought it was funny, right Troy?”

“It...gave me a surprise alright,” he managed to say. Pinkie giggled.

“So what’s his prize anyway?” Orion asked. “Another snake popping out of a present?”

“Nope. He gets a ribbon.” Troy felt something stick to his chest. “A nice, blue ribbon with the word Winner on it,” the party pony stated. “You did great, bud.” He felt her pat his head. “I got other ribbons, but you can only get them if you pin the tail correctly on the pony,” she explained, going up to Jake, placing the blindfold on him.

The game went on. Even the guests played. A few of them won like Troy did, but all in all, it was a great game to play.

By the time the party was over, everyone said goodbye, leaving the place to get back home or to catch up on some things.

“Do you, Rangers, want the tour of the school?” Twilight offered, picking up some trash, stuffing it into the trash bags that she brought with her magic. “I did say I can give you the tour after the party.”

“Sounds like a great idea,” Gia smiled, helping Emma. “I wanna know what it looks like.”

They finished picking everything up. Pinkie managed to fit all the necessities back into her party cannon, and they all headed to the School of Friendship.

The school was massive when they arrived. It was in the color of different shades of purple, with tall hills behind it, along with several waterfalls rushing down in a lake that has a path over top of the clear liquid with rocks on the water.

The Rangers followed their new friends across the path, amazed at how huge the building is. They’d never seen schools like this before in their life. It was a fantastic sight, and the lake went down like a river across the castle.

At the doors, Twilight lit up her horn, opening them up, walking inside with the others right behind her.

Troy saw how big it was when they entered the lobby of the building. There were statues on the tables and huge windows to look outside.

“Wow…” Emma breathed in. “This place looks amazing.”

Gia agreed. “Yes, our school back at home is nothing compared to this.”

“I would sure like to go to a school like this.” Jake trotted over to the trophy case. “I would repeat what Gia said, our school back at home is nothing compared to this.” Placing his hoof on the glass, he eyed at one of the medals. “Maybe I can try out for buckball.”

The Yellow Ranger arched a brow. “Buckball?”

“What’s that?” Emma added.

“I have no idea since Pinkie mentioned it on the train,” he replied, removing his hoof, placing it on the floor.

“I never heard of buckball before,” Troy spoke, unaware of the game.

“Oh, it’s a great game to play,” Pinkie said. “Applejack and Rainbow can teach you guys someday.”

“I’m not sure…” The Pink Ranger hesitated. “I’m not the sporty type.”

“Aww, you don’t have to be an athlete to play sports,” she smiled. “Look at Fluttershy. She isn’t into sports, but she plays buckball anyway. In fact, her and I played our first game against Appleloosa, and we went on from there.”

“Mhm.” The yellow pegasus nodded. “I always have a great time. I would play, except for when I have an injured wing. By the way, when is the next buckball game and who are we against?”

“We’re up against Coltifornia in December,” Rainbow told her.

“December?” Orion scratched the back of his head. “Wouldn’t it be too cold to play?”

“No, because it never snows there,” she explained, bumping her hoof on his shoulder.

“You know,” Noah piped up, “when you said ‘Coltifornia’, the name sounds like California.”

“You’re right. Rarity said something to Gia and I about one of her Pony Tones going to Delamare to visit her family,” Emma mentioned, remembering the conversation on the train.

Troy tilted his head, his eyes looking towards the ceiling. “I guess Equestria is similar to earth.” It was then Jake let out a laugh. “What?”

“I think it’s funny how the places here in this world sound similar to the ones on earth,” he chortled. “Does Equestria have like, I don’t know, Manehattan?”

“Yes, it does,” Pinkie Pie spoke, her face all serious. “Our world is basically like your world, Jake. It may sound strange to you, but it’s not strange to the other ponies.”

Once Jake quit his laughing, this got Noah the opportunity to ask Twilight something. “Does your school have a library?”

“Why, yes, Noah, it’s the first place we’ll go to,” she responded, leading the group down the halls. “You ponies are new in this world, so I believe you want to learn everything about Equestria.”

“Ugh…” The Green Ranger swept his hoof down his face. “I’m not in the mood for studying. I'm in the mood to learn about buckball.”

“What about soccer?” Hearing this from his teammate, Troy would never have thought his friend would try out for a different sport for he’s a great soccer player of all time at their high school. Jake had always done neat tricks with the soccer ball. He also used it against the loogies he and the others encountered for the first time when they first became Power Rangers. “Are you sure you wanna try to get your hands - I mean, hooves - on a game you hadn’t heard of?”

His pal moved his head up and down. “I would like to try it. Plus, Pinkie said that she and Applejack can teach us someday. Maybe we can play against Coltifornia.”

“Maybe…” Troy isn’t an athlete - unless martial arts counts as a sport. It’s the one and only thing he likes to do when he’s by himself when his friends are off doing something else. Not that he doesn’t want to hang out with them, but it’s nice for him to take some time off on his own.

During his thinking, his eyes caught on the pictures hanging on the walls with different ponies. There was one picture that has a pony with five creatures with him, each looking different from the other.

He’s still amazed at how excellent the school looks, nothing compared to Harwood High. This type of school teaches about friendship, while the other school he and his friends, minus Orion, teaches them actual subjects.

Something popped into his head. “Orion, are you going to live in this school?”

“Unless there are lockers here.” Orion looked around. “I haven’t seen any so far.”

Rainbow bumped him on the chest with her elbow. “You don’t have to live in the school, you’re staying with me, remember? Pinkie and I did a switch up on you and Jake since you can live with me at my Cloudominium.”

“Cloud-what?” he questioned, unable to say it.

“Cloudominium,” she explained. “It’s a house made out of clouds.” She gave him a challenging smirk. “Though, I can still beat you in a race. You seem too slow even though you have to idea what a race is.”

“Heh, well I do have silver speed.”

“Is it part of your Ranger powers?”

“I believe so. I did use it once. It did surprise my new friends since they never expected someone like me to run past them so quick like a blur, so I would use it again.”

“Great! I would love to see your speed. You're a pegasus, for crying out loud, and most pegasi have speed while others are graceful. I don’t do gracefulness since I’m the best flier of all of Equestria.”

“Dash, quit bragging,” Applejack spoke, breaking into the conversation. “No one wants to hear your boasting.”

“No, it’s fine,” Orion assured her. “I think she’s cool.”

The farm pony rolled her eyes, but smiled with a shake of her head.

“Here we are.” They all stopped when Twilight halted in front of the doors. “The Friendship School Library,” she announced, her horn igniting, opening the double doors.

The Rangers stepped inside, their mouths dropping open. “This library is a lot bigger than the one at our school!” Noah was the first one to exclaim, going over to one of the shelves, with his best friend next to him.

Reaching out his hoof, Jake pulled out a book. Or the better term, dropped the book on the floor. “We better hold our weapons when we fight the civilians,” he hoped, examining his pony form.

“I shot the changelings with my blaster,” Troy said. “Don’t ask how I held my blaster because I don’t even know how I did it.”

With the book on the floor, the light brown unicorn lowered his head at it. “History Of Equestria,” he read outloud. He did his best to pick it up, only for it to slip out of his hoof. He tried again, this time sitting down, managing to get a hold of the novel, flipping it open. “Wow, Troy’s right, Equestria is similar to our home. For example, Baltimare is the same name for Baltimore.”

Jake laughed. Pinkie gave him a look of seriousness. “It’s funny,” he said, “how you ponies’ places sounded similar to ours.” He then went down the shelves, tipping a random book over, letting it fall. “Equestrian Sports.” Flipping the book open with the tip of his hoof, he looked into it. “Cool, they have the same sports we do, as well as the ones we never heard of. There’s a thing called Running of the Leaves.”

“Is it a sport?” Orion asked as Troy went over to Jake, who slid the book in front of him, so the Rangers' leader can read the information out loud.

“The Running of the Leaves is a competition in which ponies run through White Tail Woods to shake the leaves off the branches by their thundering hooves. Once the leaves have been shakin’ off, the pegasi from Cloudsdale, a mobile city in which they live, will bring in winter from the weather factory, the clouds filled with snowflakes to bring in the snow.”

“Wow,” Emma said after he finished. “Cloudsdale is a city that moves? How amazing. And it has a weather factory?”

Rainbow smiled. “It sure does. The weather factory has all sorts of weather. We had rain before yesterday and all the pegasi from Cloudsdale brought the city over, brought out the dark clouds full of water so our village can have rain since we had to make up the rain we missed the other week.”

“It was also me and Dash’s first home,” Fluttershy added. “If you want, we can take you there someday,” she offered.

“Nice,” the Pink Ranger beamed before giving a soft frown. “Too bad the rest of you cannot go,” she said to the others, looking at all of them, mainly at Troy. “Gosei did say that pegasi and alicorns can walk on clouds.”

“Twilight knows a spell where we can all walk on clouds,” Pinkie told the Rangers. “Though she did give Rarity butterfly wings until they evaporated into thin air from her being too close to the sun, and Rainbow saved her. She even made the Sonic Rainboom while she did it.”

“Sonic Rainboom?” Gia questioned. “Rainbow, what is a Sonic Rainboom? You told us you can create it, but you never went into any detail.”

“I can show you some time,” the rainbow maned pony offered. “I may even use it against your villains when they really need it.”

Jake rolled his eyes in disbelief. “Yeah, like a rainbow will destroy the henchman we’re dealing with.”

Rainbow got close to him, looking him into his eyes. “Are you saying my Sonic Rainboom is lame?”

Stepping back, he began stuttering. “N-No, I-I wasn’t saying it’s lame...I mean… I’m just-”

Unable to keep a straight face, she let out a chortle, slapping him on his back. “I’m joking, dude. Can you ever take a joke? I was messin’ with ya. And don’t doubt my legendary move wouldn’t work on the henchponies. Got that?”

“Heh, heh, heh,” he chuckled nervously. “You’re right, I shouldn’t doubt it. We do wanna see it, though.”

Emma went over to one of the other bookcases. Rather than using her hoof, she used one of her wings to grab a book off the shelf. “Mythical Creatures Of Equestria.”

“I have the same book at my library in my castle,” Twilight told her. “In fact, every book here are the same books that I have.”

Opening up the book with her other wing, she went to a random page. “Aww,” she gawked. “Look at this, Gia.” She showed her the picture. “They’re called parasprites.”

“And they look cute,” Gia added, looking at the picture.

“Blah!” Snapping their eyes off the picture, Gia and Emma, including the rest of the Rangers, looked at Pinkie Pie who had her tongue out. “Those things are pests. And they’ll eat the food in seconds, causing them to multiple. Twilight put a spell on them to make them stop eating the food.”

“Yeah, and they ate different objects instead,” Rainbow remembered, glaring at her alicorn friend.

“I thought the spell would work. I didn’t know they end up eating objects like apple baskets and so on,” Twilight defended. “When I had the Golden Oaks Library, they ate the words off the pages of my books. Guess how many books got to be replaced? A lot. A lot of my books have to be replaced since they slurped up all the words like they were noodles.”

Now the Rangers are looking at each other. “They...ate the words off your books?” Troy faced her, an eyebrow in the air. “How did they…?”

“I have no idea,” she shrugged. “I’m still irritated to this day. If you see one, stay away from it. They’re harmless but they’re distructived.”

Slowly, Emma closed the book. “You don’t really think they’re pests, right?”

“Yeah,” Rarity scoffed, sitting down and crossing her arms. “They ruined my dresses I made, eating them up into rags.”

“They ate my barn,” Applejack spoke, shuddering at the memories. “My family and I had to rebuild it and replace our things.”

“They wouldn’t stop bothering me,” Rainbow proclaimed. “They kept touching me and they wouldn’t stop.”

“I tried to get them to stop what they’re doing…” Fluttershy rubbed the floor. “But they wouldn’t listen to my pleas. I know I love animals of all kinds, but Pinkie Pie’s right, they’re pests, and like Twilight stated, if you see one stay away from it.”

“I saved a flute,” Pinkie randomly jumped in. “It was in Rarity’s Boutique Shop. She was there to witness my rescue.”

“And you left me behind!” the fashionable pony cried.

“How did you get rid of them?” Starlight asked as Rarity looked at the pink pony with an annoyed look. “I was living in Our Town so we never had parasprites there.”

“Easy. I created a one pony band,” Pinkie told her. “Music helps get rid of them since they’re drawn to it.”

Placing the book back, Emma cannot believe such cute little bugs can be destructive. But if the princess says they’re pests, then she and her friends should stay away from those round insects.

Flipping the page after page, Noah stopped at one. “Did you know ponies can pay for the food and stuff they buy with bits?”

Orion blinked. “Bits? Are they those metal things you put in the horses’ mouths?”

He shook his head. “Not a horse bit you use for a bridle. These bits are gold coins in which ponies use to pay for the things they buy. They use them for currency. It’s like how we pay for the stuff we buy with money.” He flipped more pages over. “This book has so much information about this world.”

“Do you want it?” Twilight asked him. “I have lots of spare ones, so you can have that one.”

“Really? Thanks.”

Jake elbowed Gia. “Nerd,” he whispered, and she elbowed him back, harder than him.

“Okay, everyone, let me show you the rest of the school,” the alicorn led with a wave of her hoof.

As everyone was leaving, Noah stood up, dropping the book in the process. He was about to pick it up when Fluttershy picked it up for him with her mouth.

“I’ll carry it,” she said, her voice muffled. She even had her saddlebags on her back this time. Like she said, they aren’t heavy so it didn’t hurt her injured wing even though he did carry them for her to the train station. “And I insist,” she added. “You carried my stuff, and I’ll carry your new book in return.”

“No, no, I should be the one carrying it,” Noah told her, reaching for the book.

Fluttershy leaned her head back. “Noah, I can carry it, really. Besides, unicorns and alicorns use their magic to pick things up, and you, including Troy, as well, are new at being unicorns. You two don’t know any spells.”

She’s right. Both he and his friend are new at being unicorns, and their mentor did say they’ll get used to their horns, even though they don’t know any types of magic unicorns and alicorns use. He did learn that they can also pick up other ponies from what he and his friends saw Troy being levitated and being thrown back towards them by the snobby ponies in Canterlot.

Emma and Orion have wings, and when he saw Emma grab a book with her wing, opening it up with the other one, he knew those two won’t have a problem with picking stuff up.

For Jake and Gia, he had no idea how they’re going to hold things, but when he saw Fluttershy use her mouth to pick up the novel, he guessed they’ll have to do the same.

But Troy was holding the blaster, and he doesn’t know how he did it, so Noah guessed that earth ponies can pick stuff up with their hooves. After all, hooves are basically hands. The difference is that they lack fingers and thumbs.

He had to admit, it was pretty funny to see his best friend try to walk on two legs, resulting in him landing on Gia.

There’s another thing he also noticed. The names. He and other Rangers, excluding Orion since he can get away with his name since he’s from another planet, have human names. No one in this world has human names like Jake for example. Like, what pony out there has a human name?

Forcing the question out of his head, he followed Fluttershy, who had turned away and began to catch up with the others, merely stepping in her own hair, falling down, dropping the book in the process.

“Looks like you need a haircut,” Noah said, helping her up.

“Nah, I like it when it’s long,” Fluttershy declined his suggestion, reaching down to grab the book, this time using her good wing to hold on to it.

Noah smiled. “So do I, it makes you look pretty.” This got her cheeks to bloom. “I was joking when I said you needed a haircut.”

“I knew that. Come on, let’s catch up with the rest.”

They walked down the halls, with Noah unable to keep his eyes off of her, his heart telling him to let out his feelings for her, but he knows it’s too early to do so, and maybe Fluttershy has the same thought in her head.

To him, it’s best to wait for the right time and for the right moment.

The tour of the school went well. The Rangers saw everything from the school library all the way down to where Twilight’s office is at. Now they were outside where there’s a fountain in the middle of the pond which created a river with four bridges going over it.

When they all got back to the front of the school, they walked back across it, going in front of the castle.

“Okay, everyone knows where they’ll be staying, right?” Twilight asked, getting on one of the steps. “Troy is staying with me, Spike, and Starlight here in my castle. I know Fluttershy has Noah, so I’m not sure about the rest of you.”

“Gia is going to be at my place,” Applejack told her. “Let’s go, Gia.”

“I’m right behind ya.” She followed her to her home place.

“Emma will be staying with me,” Rarity said. “Come along, darling,” she gestured to the pegasus.

“Lead the way,” Emma said, going with the unicorn.

“Jake’s coming to stay at Sugarcube Corner. Oh, we’re gonna have the best time. Come on, Jake, I wanna show you where I live in that building.” Bouncing right behind him, she took his tail with her teeth - and sped off, running backwards quickly, dragging the Green Ranger.

Twilight blinked when she was gone. “Okay then…” She looked at Rainbow Dash. “I’m guessing Orion is staying with you.”

“Yep.” Lifting herself off the ground, Rainbow smiled at him. “Wanna know what a race is, huh?” she said to the stallion.

“Yes, show me what a race is,” Orion replied.

Smirking, she flew a few inches higher. “Alright… One, two, three, GO!” Counting quickly, she sped off, leaving a rainbow streak behind her as well as some dust in the air.

“Uhh…” He was stunned on how fast she moved.

“You better go, or else she’ll win, dude,” Noah told him. “You want to know what a race is and she’s showing it to you.”

Opening up his wings, he, too, bolted off, leaving a trail of his own in the color - silver. His speed caused Fluttershy’s mane to get messy.

“Bye, see you later!” Troy called up to the blue sky. He looked at the others. “He’s long gone.”

Twilight chuckle. “Maybe he’ll win his first race.” She looked over at the yellow pegasus and Noah. “And I know you two will stay together at your place since I was at the same table you were at on the dining car on the way here.”

“He sure is,” she beamed, hugging him before blushing and getting off of him. “Taxi!” she then hollered, and a stallion came with an old fashioned taxi, with both of them getting on. “To my cottage, please,” she requested, placing the book next to her, with Noah on the other side, so she can speak clearly.

When they were gone, Twilight opened the doors of her palace. “Alright, Troy, let me show you around my castle.”

“Okay,” he responded, and he followed her inside, with Starlight and Spike going inside, too. He has never been inside a castle, so it’ll be a nice experience to have.

And it was. Twilight showed him every room, even the one where he’ll be sleeping at, which is her bedroom.

“I’ll bring a cot in here,” she offered. “I know it’s a castle, but I only have one spare bedroom, and that’s where Starlight sleeps, unless she’s willing to lend it to you.”

“It’s fine. I can manage a cot,” he said.

“Are you sure?” Starlight asked. “We don’t want your first night to be bad.”

“Starlight, I’m okay with sleeping on a cot,” he assured her.

She nodded. “I’ll be in my room doing some reading.” Turning away, she walked off, her hooves clicking on the floor with each step she made.

With just him, Twilight, and Spike, he wondered how the rest of his friends are doing.

Chapter 11: Getting Settled

Applejack had led Gia to her farm from outside of Ponyville, far from it, where the Yellow Ranger saw tons of apple trees with apples on them, along with leaves in the color of red, orange, and yellow.

On the left side of her, there was a cornfield with plants in which Gia is guessing, looking to be ready to be picked off the ground since she isn’t a cowgirl like her new pony friend.

There is a well and a chicken coop, along with three, red sheds. She even saw cows and sheep grazing, chickens squawking and flapping their wings, and pigs rolling in the mud.

“Woof, woof, woof!” It didn’t take her long until she found herself on the ground after she was knocked down by something furry, licking her face all over the place. “Woof, woof, woof!” The animal lapped her up some more when Gia smelled the breath of the critter, realizing it was a white and brown collie, wearing a red collar.

Applejack laughed. “Looks like Winona likes you.”

“I can tell,” Gia smiled through the globs of drool.

Still laughing, the orange pony grabbed her dog by the collar, getting her off of Gia. “Settle down, girl. Yes, we have a new guest and she’s staying here with us for a while.”

Winona barked, wagging her tail as Gia stood up, her tongue lolling out, panting. Drips of drool dropped on the ground, creating a small puddle in front of her paws with her owner petting her head, rubbing the back of her ears.

“Wanna see my barn?” Applejack asked, finishing calming down her pet. “You’ll meet my Granny Smith and my siblings there. And after we’re done, I can put you to work.”

“I would like to see your barn, please,” she replied, watching the dog run off.

“Follow me.” Taking her over there, Applejack swung the door open. “Granny Smith!” she called. “Where are ya?”

“In the kitchen,” Gia heard a pony peeped, sounding elderly, the two of them going over there when Gia saw an old, lime green colored pony with droopy ears, wrinkles around her face, knobby knees with thin legs, orange eyes, and a light gray mane and tail which are tied up into buns. “Hello, Applejack, who is your friend?” the pony asked.

“Granny Smith, this is Gia,” Applejack introduced. “Gia, this my grandmother, Granny Smith.”

Gia stuck out her hoof. “Nice to meet you, Ms Smith.”

“Please, call me Granny Smith,” the old pony smiled. “This here is Big McIntosh, only we call him Big Mac for short,” she directed to a large stallion in the color of red looking like amaranth, his coat thick and long, the fur around his light yellow hooves. His mane and tail are a bright orange, with green eyes, and a yolk on his neck. Around his midsection are white bandages. He was over at the stove, stirring something in a pot.

The blonde maned pony went up to him. “Are you making soup?”

“Eeyup,” Big Mac shortly answered, stirring the liquid.

“Big Mac, is my soup ready?” came a voice from upstairs, followed by a series of coughing.

Taking a bowl and a spoon out, the red pony put the soup in it when Gia held out her hoof. “I can take it up to her.”

“How thoughtful of you,” the Element of Honesty smiled at the kind gesture from her new friend. “I’ll show you where Apple Bloom is at.”

Holding the bowl full of the warm, brown liquid, she followed the farm pony up the stairs, being careful not to spill it.

Applejack took Gia to her sister’s bedroom where she saw a yellow pony with a red mane with a light, crimson bow tied to it. She was in her bed, having a coughing fit. She sneezed several times.

“Hi, you must be Apple Bloom.” In front of the filly is another pony she had never seen before when she spoke. “My name’s Gia,” the pony told her.

“Nice to - achoo! - meet you,” the filly answered, smiling at her. “I would give you a hug, except I don’t want you to catch my cold. Achoo!” She sneezed, turning her head away, covering her nose and mouth with her elbow.

“Bless you,” Gia blessed. “Here you go. I wanna give you the soup your brother made. You know, to start me off for being a good friend.”

“Thanks.” Taking the bowl, Apple Bloom set it in front of her. “By the way, where are you from?” she asked, taking the spoon, sipping some of the liquid into her mouth, swallowing it down.

“My friends and I are from Harwood County,” Gia told her, who continued to enjoy the liquidy food.

Apple Bloom scooped up another spoon full. “Harwood County?” She looked at her older sister. “Is that a place here in Equestria? I hadn’t seen it on the Map of Equestria.”

“I don’t think Harwood County is here, sugarcube,” her sister chuckled. “I believe it’s far away from Equestria, right, G?”

“You can say that.” She went over to the window, looking at all the apple trees. “You did say you tell me what this Applebuck Season is all about when Emma and I were talking to you and Rarity on the train.”

“Yes, yes, of course.” The farm pony almost forgot all about it. “I’ll tell ya when we’re in the orchard.” She went up to the little pony. “Rest up, or else you won’t be able to come out of Nightmare Night that’s coming up.”

She obeyed. “Yes, sis. See you later - achoo! - Gia.” She waggled her spoon with her hoof clutched around it.

The earth pony waved back, going with the farm pony outside to where the orchard is at, walking over there with her dog yapping, running in circles around the two equines as they headed on over there.

Getting there, Gia saw how the apples shined from the sun, looking good enough to eat. Except, they’re too high to reach, and since Applejack said the word ‘applebucking’, she guessed that they don’t use ladders in order to get the fruit off the branches.

“So…” she began to speak. “Tell me what Applebucking Season is.”

“Okay, Applebucking Season is where we harvest all these apples off the trees,” the orange pony started to explain, gesturing her hoof at each tree, the ones still with apples on them. “When they’re picked, we sell them for bits and we make apple treats out of them like apple cider. You can see that we Apples don’t use ladders in order to get our famous fruit off our trees.”

“I see..” Nodding her head, she went over to one of the trees that had red and green apples hanging on the branches. Standing on her back hooves, she tapped the tree with her front ones. She may be one of the strongest members of the team, but none of the apples fell off. “They won’t get off the branches,” she turned and told the farm gal.

“That’s because you’re doing it wrong. The reason why it’s called applebucking is because we buck them off the branches. Here, I’ll show ya.” Going over to a different tree, Applejack faced forward, curled her back legs in like a spring - and shot them back, her back hooves connecting to the base of the tree. The tree shook and every single apple fell to the ground. “See?” She crossed her right front hoof and back one over her left ones, holding her head up proudly. “Nothing to it. Just a good kick with your back legs.” She then gave the Ranger a serious eye. “Do be careful, though,” she warned. “If you don’t get the bucking just right, you could injure yourself.”

“Got it,” she affirmed, knowing how serious it can be.

“Good, let’s go get some baskets and get you started.” Applejack smiled, going over to where the baskets are at with the new comer right with her.

Meanwhile, Fluttershy and Noah had arrived at a cottage, far from Ponyville. They got off the taxi once the shy pegasus got her stuff as well as the book Twilight lent to the Blue Ranger for he could learn everything about this world.

By the time they got off the taxi, the pony who was pulling it galloped off, leaving him and her in front of a small bridge.

Noah looked at Fluttershy’s home, observing how small it is with burrows and trees around it, as well as bird houses hanging on the branches.

Fluttershy seemed to notice. “I know it’s small, but we can make it work.”

“I like it. It’s cute - like you.” This caused her to grin at his statement as the two of them went over there, up to the door. Opening the door, Fluttershy let him step into her house. “You even have bird houses in your cottage,” Noah noticed straight away. He even saw holes in the wall, indicating that where mice will go in.

Fluttershy took off her saddle bag, dropping it on the couch, placing the book right next to it. “I’m glad you like it.” It was then a white bunny came up to her. “Hi, Angel, did you behave?” Angel crossed his arms, stomping his furry foot on the floor. “Yes, I know, I know,” she talked to the rabbit, with Noah being amazed on how she can talk to him. “I got your-” She gasped, placing her hoof on the side of her face. “Oh, no. The bunny food. I...I left it back in Canterlot when you tackled me,” she panicked, facing away from Angel to now looking at the unicorn.

This got the bunny mad for he went up to Noah, jumped up, and began kicking his side. Due to his furry paws, it didn’t hurt him one bit, leaving the pony to stand there with a raised brow as the bunny kept lashing out on him.

His owner didn’t like that, pulling him away from her new friend. “Angel! That isn’t nice. It’s not his fault.”

“No, Fluttershy, it’s fine,” he assured her when she was to scold her pet even more. “His feet are made out of fur. It didn’t hurt.” He looked at the clock on the wall. “We can go over to a store and get him the bunny food he needs.”

“We can, except he likes the food from Canterlot.” She walked back to the front door. “I guess I’ll go to Sweet Apple Acres to grab him some carrots. It’s one of his favorite things to eat.”

Before she could open up the door, the door got opened by Noah. Grinning at his politeness, Fluttershy stepped out of her home, and he stepped out, too, closing the door in the process. “I’ll go with you. I want to see Sweet Apple Acres. Sounds like a farm.”

“It is a farm and A.J.’s home,” she beamed at his correct guess.

“A.J.? Does that stand for Applejack?” he guessed correctly for the second time, having her nod. “Huh, we sometimes say G when we’re talking to Gia and she calls her friend Em sometimes.”

“Nice. Here, I’ll take you over to Sweet Apple Acres. I do hope Applejack’s got carrots to spare,” she said, walking over the bridge with Noah right by her.

Like last time, he couldn’t take his eyes off of her..

Noticing this, she looked at him, starting up a conversation. “So...you like learning about things?”

“Yes, I do,” he answered, making sure the conversation doesn’t get awkward. “Back at home, I’d always been into science. I love learning everything about it. And when I became a Power Ranger.” He looked down at the ground. “At first, I thought I wasn’t cut out for the team. It started out where I couldn’t lift my best friend’s Snake Axe.”

Fluttershy fluttered her good wing, moving her hair out of her face. “A Snake Axe?”

“It’s his weapon when he’s in his Megaforce form,” he explained. “Jake, Gia, Emma, Troy, and I each have their own weapons when we’re in our Megaforce form. But when we became Super Megaforce Rangers, we used all kinds of weapons, using them to fight off the Armada.”

“You Rangers must be brave to go up against them… Especially you when you and I - well, mainly you since I keep on ducking away from their attacks,” she blushed, both embarrassed and along with something else. “But what do you mean by your best friend’s Snake Axe? What was wrong with it?”

“Nothing was wrong with it. Jake’s axe is just heavy,” he shrugged, remembering the whole thing. “He brought it to school to the computer lab, needing it to be adjusted for it being a little off balance.” A small smile formed on his lips. “He wanted to impress Gia with it for how much he likes her. I couldn’t lift it for how much weight it had, thinking I should work out like him. And like I said back in Canterlot, you don’t need muscles to be a strong fighter. It’s all about believing in yourself. I did manage to pick up his weapon to strike at Virox, a monster who infected the people, turning them into loogies.”

“I never heard of loogies,” Fluttershy said, not recognizing the term.

“They’re the first henchman my Ranger team fought,” he responded in explanation. “Sent by Vrak.”

“Who you don’t know where he went.” During her right statement, he nodded his head. “I can imagine him being terrifying. I mean, my friends and I never saw him, along with Vekar when Gosei told us about them.”

“He’s somewhere. Troy’s worried about Robo Knight after we finished off the Messenger.” Glancing at the sky, he saw two pegasi, though he couldn’t tell if it’s Rainbow and Orion.

The walk went on, while Noah looked at every single pony who was simply taking strolls to selling items from fruits to other items. Foals played and frolic in the village, simply having a good time.

He noticed that there are no vehicles, except the ones they have to pull. From being on the old fashioned taxi, he bet it was a carriage, designed as a taxi. The train he and his friends are on runs on heat, being added with coals to keep the train going.

A stallion walked past them, a cart attached to him filled with oranges. He waved at him and he waved back.

I guess the ponies here are a lot more nicer than the ponies in Canterlot, Noah assumed to himself. Except the one mare Troy met when he asked her if they can burrow the map, resulting in the pony to end up giving to him for she doesn’t live there.

He isn’t sure about all the Canterlot ponies being rude, but knows that most of them are unicorns. He doesn’t want to call them rude, snobby, hostile ponies, even though they have been giving him and his teammates dirty looks. Jake waved at a stallion that was there when they first arrived at the glamorous city, resulting in the pony to walk off with no wave back.

Of course, he believed the most impertinent ponies are the unicorn couple. Those two said pretty harsh things to him from not liking where he and his friends are from down to the outfit he wears. They were even rude to Troy. Troy, a guy who’s cool as ice.

Two foals - a filly and a colt - ran past him and Fluttershy, laughing as they galloped off, their little legs going as fast as they could go. It was like at home, children playing in the playground having fun. Even his friends fool around sometimes, the memories of them going down a sandy hill like they were sledding in the snow while he and Robo Knight at the time were playing chess, only for the robot to win on the board game for being made out of metal.

Too bad that he disappeared with no sign of him anywhere.

Reaching the place he assumed to be Sweet Apple Acres, he and Fluttershy entered the farm. “Applejack!” Fluttershy called out. “Where are you at?”

“Over here, sugarcube,” Applejack’s voice rang from the orchard, the two ponies following it where they both saw her and Gia.

Noah saw the autumn colored up trees with apples on them, with the other apples in the baskets. “How do you get the apples off the branches?” he wondered, looking at each tree with apples on them. “I don’t see any ladders.”

“You buck ‘em,” Applejack explained.

“You…” He retracted his right arm back. “What?”

“You kick the trees and the apples fall off,” Gia told him. She kicked a tree, letting it shake, and every apple fell in the baskets.

“Oh. Is it hard?”

Applejack shook her head. “No, unless you stay up everyday with no shut eye. I did that before and learned my lesson that I needed help from my friends.”

“Uh, A.J., do you have carrots I can have?” Fluttershy walked up and asked. “I left the bunny food on the street in Canterlot.”

“How come?” she asked, bucking another tree, letting all the fruit go in the baskets. One didn’t make it, and she picked it up by the step with her mouth, placing it with the other apples.

Fluttershy’s face went a little red. “Noah knocked me out of the way from an incoming cart,” she explained, digging her hoof in the ground. “It caused me to let go of the food I bought.”

“I see,” she understood. “Don’t worry, you can have some of my carrots. Let me just run in the house and get them for ya.” She galloped off to her barn. When she came back, she held the basket by the handle with her mouth full of orange, crunchy carrots. “Here you go, girl,” she offered, handing it to her shy friend.

Fluttershy took it with her own mouth. “Thank you,” she muffled. “Let’s go, Noah,” she directed towards him.

“I’m right with you. See ya, G.” Waving he walked with Fluttershy, going back to her cottage.

When they got back, they both saw Angel in the middle of the living room, thumping his furry foot on the rug, his tiny arms crossed over his chest when he saw his owner with her new friend holding the door open like a gentlecolt.

Setting the basket in front of him, Fluttershy stepped back. “Here you go. I know it’s a lot of carrots, but don’t eat them all in one day, alright?” He huffed, rolling his eyes as he took out a carrot from the basket, munching on it. “There you go.” She petted his fluffy head. “Want me to give you a tour?” she asked Noah who stepped into the small house.

“Sure,” he grinned.

“Okay, this here is the living room,” she started off with the room they’re in now. “This here’s the kitchen as well as a dining room,” she then led him to another area. Noah saw more holes in the walls before they left to go upstairs. “This is the bathroom,” she pointed to her left, “right next to my bedroom.” They both entered her room. “I do have a spare bedroom, unless you want to sleep on the couch.”

“I’ll have the spare bedroom,” he accepted, looking around in her room. “You have a nice bedroom,” he complimented.

“Thank you,” she grinned. “It isn’t really big like the rest of the cottage.”

“I still like it, though. It has a cozy feeling to it,” he grinned back.

“I’m glad you like my home.”

“Though, I do have a question to ask.”

“Oh? What would you like to ask?”

“How come your home is further away from the village?” His question got her frowning. “Too much? Look, I’m sorry for-”

“No, it’s fine,” she told him. “I just like being away from Ponyville with my home being all the way here, even though the Everfree Forest is behind it.”

“Ever-what?” he questioned.

“The Everfree Forest,” she repeated. “It’s a scary forest, and it isn’t natural. The plants grow, animals take care of themselves, and the clouds move on their own.”

Now he was more confused. “Huh? Fluttershy, plants grow all the time, animals can care for themselves, and it isn’t weird for the clouds to move by themselves.”

“Noah, you don’t understand. We grow the plants here, we take care of the animals, and the pegasi move the clouds to bring in rain or snow,” Fluttershy explained, going over to her bedroom window with him right next to her. “I’ve been in there several times. I once encountered a cockatrice in there when I was babysitting three fillies.”

Of course, being the egghead he is, he doesn't believe that a forest can do things that ponies find it weird, while he and his friends won’t find it strange since they’re new at being ponies. He doesn’t believe in ghosts, either, stating that there’s science behind it, though he does believe in the lockness monster.

But here in Equestria, mythical creatures are real from the book Emma pulled out back at the school library when she looked at the section about parasprites.

Leaving the window, he headed to the bedroom door. “I’m gonna read the book Twilight gave me,” he gave Fluttershy a heads up. “I need to learn about your world.”

“Don’t you want to see my animal sanctuary?” she asked, turning away from the forest that’s outside, facing away from the window.

“Maybe some other time, I need to-” He stopped when the girl titled her head, giving him the puppy-dog look. The same one she did on the train. He tried to brush it off, but due to her cuteness, he had no choice but to give in. “Fine,” he smiled, shaking his head. “I can go with you. Can I bring the book along with me, though?”

“Sure,” she answered, happy that the puppy face worked the second time. “We can put it in my saddle bag so it’s easier for you to carry it.”

“Sounds good to me,” he shrugged as they went back downstairs. Fluttershy took out her stuff from the saddle bags, replacing it with his book. Picking it up, Noah placed it on his back on his own without any sort of help from the pegasus.

Fluttershy went to open the front door, when Noah beat her to it, grabbing the door by the handle, opening it for her. “Ladies first,” he politely said.

Smiling warmingly at his nice gesture, she stepped out of her home with him closing the door behind them, and they headed off the animal sanctuary.

The sanctuary was phenomenal when they both arrived there, filled with all sorts of animals from bunnies all the way down to a giraffe.

The sanctuary, Noah saw, had a river with a bridge going over it that made a good size pond, large rocks bigger than any other rock with small caves, along with a waterfall rushing down, logs in the ground, step ladders on the boulders with a couple of trees, as well as trees in the background.

Of course, all the trees’ leaves aren’t green due to the fall weather and may fall at any time soon.

A bird flew over to them, chirping at Noah. Fluttershy giggled. “He’s saying ‘hello’ in bird language.”

“I see that,” he replied, the bird flapping around him. “But aren’t these birds supposed to fly south at this time of season?”

“No, they fly south when winter gets here,” she told him, watching the bird fly off. “And all the animals will sleep through that season when it’s here. And when Winter Wrap Up comes, we wake them up.”

“What’s Winter Wrap Up?” Noah asked, the two of them crossing the bridge.

“It’s where we clean up winter,” she said, settling down at an oak tree. “I believe the book you have will tell you more information about it,” she pointed at one of the saddle bags, containing the book within it.

Taking the book out, Noah opened it to the table of contents, searching the chapter about it. Finding what page and chapter it’s on, he flipped through all the pages, getting to that spot. He set the book on the ground, and laid on his stomach since Fluttershy’s doing it, mirroring her.

He read a few paragraphs. “Cool,” he said, liking what he’s seeing. “So you ponies simply clean up the snow, plant new plants, wake up the animals, and so on. But how long does it take?”

“Well, we all get up really early, the day before spring, and we’ll be up all night until the next day - the day spring arrives.”

“Must be hard work to get everything done.”

“It is,” she nodded. “You know, before Twilight moved to Ponyville, we kept on being late for spring.”

“Late? From what?” he questioned.

“We would argue all the time, and I mean all the time,” she told him. “But thanks to Twilight, Winter Wrap Up is a lot easier now, and do you know what I do during that time?”

“Waking up animals?” he guessed.

“Correct, how do you know that?” she smiled.

“Is it obvious? Your flanks have three, pink, butterflies on them. Though I have no idea why ponies have those marks on their flanks,” he said, wondering about it.

“Our cutie marks each represents a pony in a different way from their talent all the way down to a favorite hobby. Ponies get them when they’re little when they find their purpose in life.”

“I get it. Like, if a pony likes science, they’ll have a science type of cutie mark,” he gave a good example.

“Yes, you probably have one.”

“Heh, yeah, right. And I refuse to remove my clothes, even though it’s strange that my friends and I are wearing full on clothing, shoes, and boots,” he said. “Even though we did see some Canterlot ponies wearing outfits, but not full on like us.”

“It’s not strange to my friends and I,” she said, placing her arm over the other one, crossing them. “The only time we wear clothes is when we dress up for Nightmare Night and wear something warm for winter.”

“And Nightmare Night isn’t your thing, right?” Fluttershy nodded. “Why?" Noah then asked. "Twilight did say that those ponies dressing up are just pretending to be someone else.”

“I just don’t like it. Last year, I decided to scare my friends, when I realized it wasn’t fun at all,” she frowned. “I prefer celebrating it in my home, anyway.”

“What about me going with you this year?” he offered kindly. “Maybe it’ll be a lot better when I’m with you.”

Blushing, she accepted it. “Sure… I’ll be out for Nightmare Night as long as you're with me. What do you want to be for Nightmare Night?”

“Back at home, I dressed up as a mad scientist, and I may want to be that again this year.” He looked down at the book, the page he’s still on. “What about you? What are you going to dress up as?” he asked, his ears open for the answer she’s going to say.

“I’m not sure, actually,” she responded, thinking about it. “Last year, I dressed up as two different things - a masquerade ball without the mask and ended up being a vampire fruit bat to scare my friends. I guess I wanted to be, I don’t know, dress up something that isn’t scary.”

Noah pictured what Fluttershy will dress up as for this year. Something cute, he saw, the image bouncing around in the inside of the inner of his skull. Turning the page of his book, he had another question to ask. “When did Hallo- I mean, Nightmare Night came to be?”

“It came when Princess Celestia banished her sister to the moon when she turned into Nightmare Moon,” she told him. “But we still celebrate it even when her sister is turned back into Princess Luna, and she joined the Nightmare Night Festival while I was at home, and she loves the holiday. She wasn’t there last year, so maybe she’ll come this year. I know a friend who knows the tale of Nightmare Moon.”

“My friends and I would like to hear it,” he said, looking at her.

“You sure? I never heard of it since I’m always cooped up in my cottage every year during that time of holiday,” she replied worriedly. “But since I’ll be out this year, maybe it won’t be so bad when you’re with me,” she then smiled.

Smiling back, Noah shut the book, looking around. “Your animal sanctuary looks really nice.”

“I know. It’s where all the animals come here after they visit Dr. Fauna, a vet pony, to recover here.” She dug her hoof into the soil. “I did have three experts help me, except they don’t understand animals like I do. They practically wanted the sanctuary the way they wanted to look. They didn’t respect my visions. The only expert I can trust is Big Daddy McColt, along with my friends help to make my dream come true. What about you? Do you have any dreams you want to accomplish?”

Noah raised his eyes up in thought, playing with his eye wear. The question caught him off guard. Not much, just a little. “I do want to be a scientist…” he said slowly, thinking about it. “But I’m always too busy fighting off monsters with my teammates to think it thoroughly.”

Fluttershy looked at her sanctuary. “You know, animals are part of science. You can probably be an animal biologist,” she suggested.

“Great idea,” he said, smiling at her with her smiling in return. He stood up, placing the book back inside one of the saddlebags. “You wanna go?”

“Yeah, let’s go,” she replied, standing back up. They had crossed the bridge when someone trotted up to them, and that someone is Starlight Glimmer. “Hey, Starlight,” Fluttershy greeted with a wave. “What are you doing here? Noah and I are about to head back to my place.”

“Rarity wants you two to be at her Boutique right away,” Starlight told them. “The others are already there.”

“Why does she need us?” Noah asked.

“She wants you for something, nothing else,” she replied in answer. “The only thing she mentioned are measurements.”

“Measurements?” Fluttershy looked at Noah and back at Starlight. “Oh, I see, she wants to get measurements from us, right? For the Grand Galloping Gala.”

“No, just the Rangers,” she confirmed. “Let’s go, she’s waiting for you.” Using her horn, she teleported away, poofing away.

“What’s the Grand Galloping Gala?” Noah asked when she was gone, he and Fluttershy crossing the bridge.

“It’s a party that’s held at the Canterlot Castle,” she answered, as the two of them headed out of the animal sanctuary. “My friends and I have been there twice, but it never went well. Maybe this year it’ll be a lot better when you and your friends are with us - especially you,” she bloomed.

“Well, my friends and I never been to a Gala nor went to any school dances from all the monster fighting we have to do, so it’ll be a nice experience to have,” he nodded. “What is there to be expect at the Gala?”

“There’s dancing, great music, food, everything,” she listed the things that happen at the Ball. “The first time my friends and I went there, I was in the Canterlot Garden where all the animals and birds were, except they kept running away from me. I don’t know why they did, and I got frustrated to where I ended up hollering.”

“Frustrated?” Noah can’t even imagine an adorable pony being frustrated. “Were the animals afraid of you?”

“Mm, I was being a teensy bit insane…” she recalled. “Guess that’s the reason why they kept scampering off.”

“What about the second time?”

“The second time we were there was doing fine. I had a friend to be my plus one. Think of it as a date, but not in a romantic way. Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash had their sisters be their plus ones, and it was their first time going there last year.”

“But what happened last time, though?”

“Discord brought the Smooze, ruining everything, simply because he was jealous of me having a new friend.”

“Discord? Who’s that?”

“A villain that’s been redeemed by me.”

“Oh. And does Celestia get mad when the Gala gets ruined?”

Fluttershy shook her head. “No. She says the Gala is boring every year, but when something happens, it makes it less boring.”

“Huh. Are you ponies doing the plus ones again this year?” Noah asked.

“I’m not sure,” she said, thinking about it. “Why?” She gave him a cheesy grin. “Is there somepony in particular?”

“Ehh, maybe. Unless you are doing the plus ones, that is,” he chuckled, rubbing the back of his head, this time his face blooming, and the two of them continued their onward to Rarity’s Boutique.

Chapter 12: New Villains, Same Henchmen

The Armada Ship was full of changelings, buzzing all over the place like bumble bees, flying all over the place from either inside or outside the ship. The xborgs and the bruisers have been confused by the new villains they saw, even getting chased multiple times by the buzzy pony-like creatures.

They quit when Chrysalis threatened them that Tirek would suck up all their magic if they didn't stop, while Cozy Glow flew up to each of Vekar’s henchmen, shaking their hooves in a friendly manner.

Grogar had taken a liking to the huge ship, especially the Command Room where the prince is there every day, which he is now.

Vekar has been walking all over the place, his ears pinned back for how annoyed he’s getting with all the noise, disturbing his inner thoughts on how he and the new villains will help get rid of the Power Rangers.

He hated every one of them, but the one person he hated was his younger brother, who took all the glory. Vrak has been proving he was a lot better than his older brother, making him feel like an idiot.

He also hated how his allies say that Vrak never had temper tantrums when something goes wrong, causing him to be more jealous than ever before.

Stopping, he turned to see the doors slide open, seeing Cozy Glow flying in, her chubby cheeks all happy until it turned into a frown. “What’s wrong, new friend?”

“Hmph,” he huffed, casting away from her, the changelings inside the ship getting louder. “Shut up!” he finally cried out, so loud that even Tirek and Chrysalis heard it from outside. He looked back at the filly. “How come you’re a villain even when you’re…” He doesn’t want to say the word for how it grosses him out.

“Adorable?” Cozy giggled, closing her eyes. “Villains aren’t always scary, they can be cute, too. Well, I’m cute, and everypony falls for it. I can walk up to someone with tears, asking for help.”

“Does it work?” Vekar can never believe that there are adorable villains like her.

“No, it doesn’t work,” she then frowned. “I onced tried it on a guy back on Mount Everhoof, asking him to help me get up the mountain, except he said no.” Rolling her eyes, she went up to the window. “Golly, I hope this ship does get off the ground, including the smaller ones. Levira did say that she can’t use that, um… what’s that thing called again?”

“A Magma Beam,” Vekar muttered, walking back to his console, shoving an xborg out of the way. “We won’t be able to use it unless we’re off the ground. Or it won’t work.” He crossed his forelegs in front of his chest. “I would rather be back at home, taking over the earth. It’s all Argus’s fault for bringing us here.”

“You’re still blaming me for this mess?” the bodyguard spoke up, shoving Grogar out of the way. “It’s the Blue Ranger’s faut, not mine.”

“Suure.” The prince rolled his eyes. “It’s his fault that he activated the device which you stepped out of the way from his attack.”

“I had to, I won’t let Blue destroy me!” Argus yelled angrily.

“Do you and this Blue Ranger always fight each other?” Grogar wondered.

“Yes, he does,” Vekar answered before the pegasus can, casting him a glare. “He’s a failure, too,” he criticized. “Thankfully, I’m smarter than any of you. Smarter than my brother.”

Grogar blinked. “You have a brother?”

“And what’s his name?” the evil filly added. “I would love to meet him.”

The prince placed a hoof on his forehead. “...His name is Vrak. No you cannot meet him. He’s somewhere back at home into hiding. I would rather not talk about him for he’s better than me.”

“Aww.” Wrapping an arm around his neck, the little one gave him a hug. “You’re just as good as he is.”

Vekar shoved her off. “Don’t ever touch the prince!” he shouted. “Plus, he will always be better at everything, proving to be my dad’s favorite, even though I’m the first in line for the throne! Do you know how hard it is for me not to get jealous of my brother!? Do you!?” Cozy and Grogar looked at each other. “A lot!” He kept on going. “I’ve always been jealous of everything that he does to make our father proud, and he wants ME to be the first one in line for the throne?! What?! How come he loves my brother more than me, despite me being the first one for the throne? I know, I’ll give it to my younger brother! ‘Hey, Vrak, take my throne, I won’t need it for how much of an empty headed blunderer I am’. I’m sick and tired of him being better than me!” Hopping off of his seat, he brushed past the ram, walking up to Levira. “What are you doing?” he rudely asked. “You are supposed to be working on the device to get us back at home.”

“I’m working on the blueprints, first, sire,” she told him. “I won’t build it unless I know what it should look like.”

This got him steaming mad. “Work on it already! You also said you wanted to make sure this stupid ship can still be in the air! You won’t be able to use the beam thingy to grow anything! I wish we had those stupid zombats that Vrak has. Oh, wait, we can’t. We have to use our own stuff.”

“When I’m done with the blueprints, I’ll see if this ship can still fly, including the other ones,” she said patiently for she’s always been like that.

“Do it now!” he ordered. “God, I’m so peeved that I’m gonna punch Grogar right in the face.”

“What did you say?” Vekar felt himself being lifted up off the floor, being pinned on the wall by the malicious ram. “You dare use those words upon me? I don’t like it…” he hissed, watching the prince struggle against the magical bonds. “She said she’ll check to see if these ships can still fly once she’s done with the blueprints.”

“Okay, okay, okay!” Surrendering, Vekar quit his struggles. “Put me down already.” Grogar released his hold on him. “Oof!” Plopping on to the floor, he landed hard on his stomach. “Not like that!” he cried out, annoyed that he’s been dropped rather than being set down nicely. “Even my own father would never do that to me even though he loves my brother more.” He stood up, brushing off his chest.

“Where are you going?” the little pegasus asked, watching him walk up to the doors.

“None of your business…” The doors slid open, and he stepped out when she went right through before they could close up again. “Are you deaf? I said, it’s none of your business.”

Cozy fiddled with her hooves. “You do seem green with envy from your brother…”

“Gee, I wondered how you figured that out when I already mentioned it,” he rolled his eyes sarcastically, heading forward. “And don’t follow me!” he shouted, feeling her right behind him.

“But us villains are getting together,” she said, grinning from ear to ear. “I want to know everything about you. We can’t be friends unless we know each other first, and all I got was your name.”

“I’m the Prince of the Armada,” he said quickly. “There, that’s everything about me. Now go away.”

“Golly, it must be hard work for being a prince,” she smiled, seemingly ignoring his command, following him. “You know, you do have a nice ship. It’s a lot nicer than Grogar’s lair.”

Vekar grumbled underneath his breath, annoyed by this filly. He wanted to be left alone for a while, except it won’t happen unless this girl is off his back. Plus, he still can’t believe that this type of villain is the adorable type. Like, aren’t villains supposed to be less cute? And like he said before, he hates anything that is cute.

Cozy flew in front of him, flying backwards as he kept going forward. “Wanna know something about me?” She didn’t give him a chance to say anything. “I tricked these three filles to let me be in the school. I pretended to be a good filly, a good pony, so everypony can be my friend since friendship is powerful. I had these artifacts where I was draining out all the magic of Equestria, except six friends ruined it!"

“Let me guess… It was Twilight and her friends.”

“No,” she scoffed. “It was these students who go to the School of Friendship. They’re the ones who saved the day, ruining my plans, and getting me sent to Tartarus where Tirek was at before we got summoned by Grogar. My friends and I sang a song about being a better way to be bad. You wanna hear it?” she grinned.

“No, no singing on my ship,” he responded rather fast, hoping he won’t hear any songs from this little equine. “Can you please leave me be? I want to be alone.”

“Sure thing, Vekar,” she respectfully answered. “Or should I call you Prince Vekar?”

He stopped at his bedroom, turning to face her. “My generals call me ‘sire’ most of the time.”

“Oh, well, I’ll see you later, sire,” she saluted. “I hope this ship can fly. I want to see Equestria when I’m a lot higher in the sky.”

“I hope so, too,” he mumbled, pushing the door open of his room. Before the filly had anything else to say, he slammed the door right behind him with one kick of his hind hoof.

He waited until Cozy was gone, listening to her fly away. It was hard to tell, though, whether she flew back to the Command Room or not for how quiet her wings are. He decided to not open up his door, going over to his bed, flopping down on his back, his mane sprawled out, his eyes up at the ceiling.

He couldn’t believe the Rangers were here, wanting to get rid of them for good more than ever before. He has to admit that he’s glad to have more help in getting rid of them, as long as he and his allies do the same for them.

Getting up, he was already starting to get bored of being inside his room with nothing else to do. He would rather be in the Command Room anyway.

And that’s what he did. But when he got there, he saw that Levira wasn’t there this time. The only ones he saw are Cozy Glow, Argus, Damaras, and Grogar, looking out the window. Even Chrysalis and Tirek had made their way inside, they too, gazing outside.

Vekar stepped over to them. “Where’s Levira?” he broke the silence.

“She’s working on the little aircrafts,” Argus told him. “She thought it’ll be a good idea to start those off first since they need those things to fly over to where the Rangers are at,” he explained. “No worries, sire, she said she’ll check to see if this ship can get off the ground, too.”

“She better,” the prince grumbled.

“I’ll go see if she needs any help.” Cozy was about to go out when Argus grabbed her by the tail.

“She can work on them on her own,” he said.

“Can we send our henchman to destroy the Rangers and their friends?” Vekar interrupted.

“Vekar, we have no idea where they’re at,” Damaras spoke, bringing up a good point.

“Hmph.” Sitting down on the floor, he crossed his arms over his chest. “Why don’t we look at Grogar’s orb?”

“Great idea - for once,” Damaras nodded, and Vekar glared at him. “What?” he shrugged. “All I said that you had a great idea for once, since all of your other ideas failed miserably.” This got the prince to turn away from him, watching as Grogar went over to the orb, which was sitting on the table next to Levira’s blueprints.

The orb began to glow. Vekar got up off the floor, heading over to the orb. Grogar’s eyes hadn’t blinked as the orb turned on, this time showing a small village.

“What’s that?” Vekar asked. “The place, I mean.”

“That’s Ponyville.”

“Ponyville?” he repeated to the little pony. “Ugh, the name’s even worse than Equestria.”

“Actually, Ponyville is in Equestria,” Grogar frowned. “It’s one of the places here in this world, along with other ones.”

“Whatever!” he yelled. “Now, are the Rangers there or not?”

“Yes, they are, your highness.” Pointing his hoof at his orb, he showed Vekar where the Rangers were. He saw them walking to somewhere, but he has no idea where. The village is making it difficult for him to vocus.

“Send the henchmen there now,” he ordered. “I don’t care if they have to walk to get there, send them anyway.”

“Half of our xborgs have wings. We can have them carry the ones who don’t have wings,” the bodyguard suggested.

“Fine. Chrysalis, have your army go with them. We need your changelings to get rid of these Rangers and their new friends. Maybe with a whole bunch of them, we can destroy them.”

“Yes, sire.” She faced the changelings that are inside. “Go to Ponyville,” she commanded. “And make sure to help his hench ponies get there, too.”

Doing a salute, the changelings buzzed off outside, talking to their new allies before grabbing each of them, the ones who don’t have wings, and buzzed off. The xborgs, the ones with wings, helped out, grabbing each a bruiser.

When they were gone, Vekar rubbed his forehead. “I hope their ships will fly.”

“Yeah, I don’t think they want to carry each other every time they get sent somewhere,” Cozy agreed, watching them go.

Rolling his eyes, he looked at the orb, waiting for the changelings and his henchman to wreak havoc among the village to get the heroes attention, and hopefully get rid of them.

Too bad it didn’t work.

Chapter 13: Destruction In Ponyville

The bell rang when Noah and Fluttershy entered the Carousel Boutique, belonging to Rarity, which is also her home, who’s been waiting for them, wearing her thick red rimmed glasses on her muzzle, balancing it, while she had a tape measure draped over her shoulders.

The rest of Noah’s friends are here, too, including Fluttershy’s. Noah looked around, seeing a lot of fabric, spools, and other things that the white unicorn has in order to make clothing.

A white persian cat was on one of the fabrics on the floor, laying on it, licking her paw, and rubbing it over her ear. She had this serious look to her, and when she saw Noah, she got up, stretched, and padded away.

Rarity walked up to Troy and his pals with Emma by her side. “Thank you all for coming,” she smiled. “You may be wondering why I called you all here. I called you all here to get measurements from each of you so I know what size each of you are when I’m creating your suits and dresses.” Using her horn, she picked up six, white pieces of paper. “I drew what your outfits should look like for the Gala that’s going to be here around the sixth of May. I have to admit, it was hard to choose which Ranger style each of you should go with.” Setting all the papers back on the table, she flipped her curls in a precise manner. “Now, let me get your measurements. Troy, you first.”

Stepping up to her, he stood still as she measured him with the tape measure, swifting it around quickly. She also was levitating an ink pen and a notebook while she was levitating the tape measure all at the same time, humming to a similar song she sang with the Pony Tones.

Finished him up, each of his friends went next, until Rarity got finished with Emma, writing down her measurements like she did with the others.

“My, I cannot wait to see what your outfits are gonna be like for the Gala,” Twilight said.

“We can’t wait either,” Troy replied.

“Yep.” Noah nodded. “Fluttershy did say that you had plus ones go with you last time,” he brought up, looking at the pegasus. “I was wondering since this me and my friends first Gala ever, we should do plus ones again.”

“Funny how you said that, Noah, because Celestia sent me the tickets to give to you guys to find your plus ones.” Bringing out the tickets, Twilight used her magic to hold them. “My plus one will be Starlight Glimmer. She’ll go as my ‘date’ for the Gala.” She gave the ticket to the unicorn, who took it with her own magic.

“Thanks,” she said, once she has the ticket.

“Can Rarity be my plus one, please?” Spike begged. He went up to Rarity, taking a bow. “May I be your plus one?”

“Sure thing, Spike,” Rarity appreciated, when the tickets went over to them, and they took them.

“Wait, what about Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle?” Rainbow suddenly said. “Last year, I was Scootaloo’s plus one. They’re still too young not to have a grownup with them.”

“Hmm…” Twilight counted the remaining tickets she had. “Is there somepony in particular you want to bring?” she questioned the sporty pony.

Rainbow brought a hoof to her chin. “There’s Soarin, but he’ll be with the Wonderbolts at the Gala. Mm…” She gazed at Orion. “You mind being my plus one?”

“I won’t mind,” he nodded as he spoke, the tickets coming up to them. He took one into his hoof. “I’m guessing when you say plus one, it doesn’t mean an actual date, right?” he assumed, already regretting what he said.

“It’s kind of like a date, but you're not exactly dating. It’s basically a friendly date and not a romantic one,” she told him and to the others.

“Yepper,” Pinkie piped up. “My sister Maud Pie was my plus one last year, but this year, she’s bringing her coltfriend.” Looking at Applejack, she went up to her, but the cowpony spoke first.

“Sorry, Pinkie Pie, but I’m deciding to let Apple Bloom be my plus one again,” she told her.

“Phooey.” The energetic mare made a sad face.

“Hmm. I should write to Celestia about this. Normally, a plus one is two ponies going together, not three. But let’s see what we have here. Troy, who do you want to be your plus one?” The alicorn faced the Red Ranger.

“Emma,” he shortly answered. This got Emma smiling.

“Jake?”

“I choose Gia.” Jake grinned at her.

“Fluttershy?”

Her face blooming, she tossed her head to the side. “I want Noah to be my plus one.”

“Okay, we got Jake and Gia, Noah and Fluttershy, Troy and Emma, Rarity and Spike, Starlight and me, and Orion and Rainbow Dash. So it looks like it’s just you two, A.J. and Pinkie.”

“Oh, alright,” the cowgirl finally gave in. “I can be Pinkie’s plus one.”

“Yeah!” The pink earth pony let out a cheer.

“I’ll just have to write to Braeburn about having Apple Bloom to be his plus one. My brother would be, except he’s bringing Sugar Belle.”

“A.J., I will write to the princess, telling her to send three extra tickets for the little ones. They can just hang out with us. They can still go to the Grand Galloping Gala even if they don’t have plus ones like they had last year,” Twilight said.

“Good idea, sugarcube,” she agreed. “I’m starting to think he may already have one.”

“I’ll write to her tonight about it,” the alicorn responded.

Pinkie got close to her face. “Do you Pinkie Pie promise?”

Sighing, she did the Pinkie Pie swear. “Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” Doing the motions, she did the promise by making an X over her heart, flapped her arms like a bird, and shut one eye to place a hoof on it, pretending to place a pastry there. “Luckly, I shut my eye this time. The last I did this, I jabbed a hoof in it. It hurt like hay.”

“Hahaha, yeah. There was this one time where you broke a promise when you shouted, ‘Spike has a crush on Rarity’.” Rolling on the floor, the pink earth pony let out belly laughs.

“Rarity knows.” The dragon couldn’t help but blush. “I told her when we were falling to our doom, unknowingly that Rainbow and Fluttershy were going to save us.” This got him a hug from the girl he likes. “We may be different, except I couldn’t keep my eyes off of her. She’s the beautifulest pony I've ever seen ever since Twilight and I first arrived here in this town.”

Applejack chuckled. “Alright, lover boy, simmer down,” she said by the time the girly unicorn let the little guy go.

Spike giggled, along with everyone else laughing. That is, until a loud explosion caused the shop to shake. The loud sound startled Fluttershy. She scrambled, darting underneath the work table rather than underneath Noah who went over to her while the rest went over to the window.

Looking outside, everyone saw the changelings running amuck, chasing the Ponyville ponies all over the place, except Twilight nor her friends recognized the gray and blue ponies who were also there. “What are those things?” The remaining fell by the time she finally figured it out. “No, it’s those ponies that I saw in my dream!” she declared, watching one of the gray goons going after a mare and a child. “What are they, anyway?”

“Xborgs and bruisers…” Stepping back, the leader of the Ranger team stood where he stopped. “It seems like the Armada found us,” he told everyone.

“And those must be the changelings that Noah and Fluttershy saw before we saw them, too, at the gates at the palace,” Emma said. “I never knew what changelings were when they were mentioned. They’re gross looking.”

“Yeah, they don’t even look like ponies,” Jake observed them.

“Guys, there’s no time for chit-chat,” the leader stated firmly.

“He’s right,” Twilight agreed. “We cannot stand here and talk about what’s happening out there.”

“Th-Then what do we do?” Fluttershy stuttered after she was coaxed out of her hiding spot thanks to Noah, standing close to him.

The screams rang from outside, followed by other loud sounds. They heard the civilians out there.

“Help us!”

“What are these things!? I've never seen these types of ponies in my life - and they’re not friendly!”

“The changelings are back to being evil?! Please, somepony, anypony, help!”

“Come everyone, they need us.” Everyone followed Troy when he stated his phrase, galloping out of the dress shop. There, they saw all the xborgs, bruisers, and the changelings terrorizing the locals. They didn’t waste any time, going after the baddies, fighting them off. And while the local Ponyville ponies are running around in fear, the leader of the Ranger team pulled out his morpher and key. “It's Morphin Time!”

“Right!” The rest followed suit, pulling out their keys and morphers. “Super Mega Mode!” They inserted their keys into their morphers.

“Super Megaforce Red!”

“Super Megaforce Yellow!”

“Super Megaforce Green!”

“Super Megaforce Pink!”

“Super Megaforce Blue!”

“Super Megaforce Silver!”

“Earth defenders, never surrender!”

Twilight’s mouth dropped open when she saw them transform into heroes, the ones she saw in her dream. The outfits look to be like a pirate, with pirate symbols on their helmets and on their chests.

Pulling out his Saber, Troy charged at the henchman with his team right behind him. Their new allies continued to help them out, and the Rangers saw how they fought. Twilight and Starlight used shot out beams from their horns. Pinkie used her party cannon as her weapon, using it against the bruisers, giving them a huge surprise when she pressed the red button. Applejack used her apple bucking skills, kicking them to Rarity who used her martial arts techniques. Fluttershy, of course, used her own method the last time she fought, only this time she never had to fight xborgs and bruisers before, ducking at them, letting them run into each other, and Rainbow was in the sky, punching at the xborgs, the ones that can fly, along with the changelings, hitting them as well. As for Spike, he used his dragon breath.

The Rangers helped out. Troy sliced and diced with his sword at the henchmen, helping Twilight and Starlight, including the dragon. Emma and Gia helped out with the farm pony and the fashion designer, using their Blasters. Jake was with the party animal, slashing at a few changelings, while Noah is with Fluttershy, defending her with his own sword, and Orion was in the sky with the sky blue, rainbow maned pegasus, his Silver Spear creating blue streaks with every strike he made.

An xborg got close to a stallion and his family. Quickly, Noah came to them, knocking it down with one shot of his Blaster. “Get out of here. Find somewhere to hide,” he told the family, shooting another gray pony with his gun. “My friends and I got this.” The family understood him, galloping somewhere to hide. When they were gone, Noah looked over at his teammates. “Let’s double up our power.”

“You got it, dude. Catch!” With a quick toss, his best friend gave him his Saber, getting another Blaster in return, shooting at the bad guys.

“Emma!” Getting her friend’s attention, Gia threw her Blaster at her.

The Pink Ranger caught it with her wing. “Thanks. Here you go.” Using her other wing, she tossed her Saber to the other pony.

With two Sabers in each hoof, Gia was surrounded by changelings. “Saber Whip!” The changelings have no idea what she meant at first, until finding out in two seconds flat when they were getting hit nonstop at the incoming weapons.

While she did that, Troy saw a bruiser running up to the dragon. “Spike, right behind you!” Spike turned his head, and blew out some green flames, burning the bruiser. “Good job, buddy,” he praised, rubbing the dragon’s purple scales.

“Heh, thanks,” Spike thanked, then went after another bruiser. “You’re doing a fine job yourself.” He blew out some more green fire. He then gasped. “Twilight, Starlight, look out!” he called, waving his arms.

Twilight saw a few xborgs running towards her and her friend. Together, they tapped their horns together, their magic flaring, shoving them away, knocking them to the ground.

Up in the sky, Rainbow looked down, seeing a familiar pony backing away from two xborgs. “Scootaloo!” Recognizing the orange coated pony with a purple mane and tail, she waved her arms. “Get away from her, you hunks!” The xborgs seemed to ignore her shout.

On the ground, the filly tried to be tough. “Go away, you freaks!” She backed up some more when she ended up tripping over backwards, landing on her back. This gave the xborgs an opportunity to draw out their Staffs.

The blue pegasus shouted even louder. “Up here! Don’t you dare hurt my sister!” Again, these things decided to plug in some cotton balls in their ears. “Get away from her!” She was about to go after them when Orion used his Spear to stop her.

“I got this, Rainbow.” Using his Silver Speed, he zoomed to where the child is at, standing in front of her. “Spear Blaster!” he called out, the Spear turning into a Blaster, shooting at the two bad ponies, until more came. “Super Silver Spear!” His weapon back to its original form, swinging it from side to side, going after the next one and the next one.

Scootaloo’s mouth was agape, surprised to see a suited up pony wearing a helmet over his head, unable to see his face. She watched in amazement as this pony until Rainbow landed in front of her. “Who is he, Dash?” The little filly pointed her hoof at the person who was still fighting off the xborgs. “And who are they?” Her hoof directed to each pony in different colored outfits and helmets.

“Let’s go Legendary!” the red one called out as the rest joined him, pulling out a different key. The others followed his lead.

“Legendary Ranger Mode - In Space! Let’s Rocket!” They all inserted their keys into their morphers.

“Red Space Ranger!”

“Yellow Space Ranger!

“Green Space Ranger!”

“Pink Space Ranger!”

“Blue Space Ranger!”

“Silver Space Ranger!”

“Power Rangers Power Up!”

Scootaloo’s jaw dropped to the ground - literally. “Wow!” She got, getting in front of her older sister, watching the suited ponies in action. “Go get them, whoever you ponies are!” she cheered out widely, fluttering her wings, moving her hooves inches off the ground.

“Scoots.” Scootaloo dropped to the ground, looking up at her big sister. “You need to go and hide somewhere,” she told her. “My friends and I, and those ponies in the colorful suits are fighting these bad ponies and the new evil changelings out of our town, so you need to do me a favor and hide somewhere safe.”

The little pony arched her brow when she heard Rainbow say new evil changelings. Instead of questioning her, the filly galloped away, her short legs going as fast as they could go.

With the Spiral Saber, Troy had the weapon in its normal mode, performing a blue energy slash against the henchman.

His team pulled out their Legendary Ranger weapons. Jake used his Lunar Lance against the xborgs, along with Gia using her Star Slinger, firing pellets at a rapid rate.

Using the Super Silverizer, Orion put it in Blaster Mode, firing quick shots at changelings from above the sky. He opened up his wings, switching the Blaster Mode to Sword Mode, delivering a powerful, blue slash at the other ugly, looking ponies who are buzzing all around him.

Back on the ground, Noah used his Astro Axe, putting it on Booster Mode, creating an Astro Blaster, firing shots at the bruisers with the help from Emma who is using her Satellite Stunner, projecting pink rings of energy at them.

Twilight and her friends kept helping their new friends fight off the bad ponies until none of them were left, exploding when they got defeated. Even changelings got so beat up, they buzzed away, but the Rangers and their allies know they’ll come back once they’re healed.

The Rangers went back into their Super Mega outfit, while the ponies came out of their hiding spots.

Fluttershy went up to the Blue Ranger. “You were amazing, No-” She stopped when all the ponies looked at her, and Noah and his friends stiffened up. “You were amazing, guys.” The Rangers relaxed, and the blue one smiled behind his helmet. Fluttershy smiled back at him, sending him a wink before going back to her pals, waving her hoof with him doing the same.

He and his teammates huddled up, talking about how Armada found them, wondering if he’s with the foas Twilight and her friends have dealt with in the past. And while they spoke, Mayor Mare went up to the purple alicorn.

“Princess Twilight.” The Mayor dipped her head, bowing it.

“Mayor Mare, you don’t need to be formal around me. I may be a princess, but I’m normal like everyone else,” she responded to the pony’s extra polite manner. “You also don’t need to bow to me, either.”

The Mayor picked her head up. “Sorry.” After she apologized, she went up to the ponies she and the others had never seen before, a look of curiosity written all over her. She tapped the red one and he turned around. “Who are you?” she questioned him. “Who are you six, I mean?” She was about to ask again when Scootaloo came up to them, getting in front of the Mayor.

“You. Guys. Are. Amazing!” she declared, getting all wild again. “You fought those baddies like they were nothing, especially with those weapons. And when you changed outfits by using those keys and those things you put them in - amazing.” She went up the pony in the silver suited up pony. “You saved my life, and it’s all thanks to you.”

The pony in his silver outfit smiled behind his helmet, roughing up the little girl’s mane. She laughed and trotted away all happy.

“Uh, yes, anyway, who are you?” the Mayor questioned them the third time.

Troy and his friends backed up. “We’re your friends - the Power Rangers,” he told her.

“Power what?” She thought she hadn’t heard him right. “How can we trust you? What if you are foes?”

“We’re not foes,” he continued to grin. “We’re Power Rangers.”

“Yeah, Power Rangers,” Scootaloo called out, standing next to Dash. “I heard them say, ‘Legendary Ranger Mode’, before they changed their outfits.”

“Power Rangers? Legendary Ranger Mode? This doesn’t convince me to believe-”

“We’re your pals,” the red one repeated gently. “We won’t hurt you and your citizens,” he told her, taking out his morpher. “Tensou,” he spoke into it. “Teleport us somewhere, where we can unmorph so none of the ponies know what our true identities are.”

“You got it,” a chirpy voice responded, having the Mayor widen her eyes, and before she can ask any other questions, the suited up ponies, the ones they call themselves Power Rangers disintegrated in the colors of red, pink, blue, green, yellow, and silver.

By the time they’re gone, the Mayor saw Twilight coming up to her. “I still don’t understand. What are Power Rangers? Why did they yell out ‘Legendary Ranger Mode’? The red one keeps saying they’re our friends. But we shouldn’t trust them.”

“You can trust them,” Twilight assured her. “They’re Power Rangers Super Megaforce for a reason.”

“That’s right.” Applejack crossed her legs.

“They’ll always help us,” Pinkie grinned with joy.

“Really?” Now the Mayor is starting to believe that these suited ponies can be trusted. “How long will they be around? Or is this a one time thing?”

“They’ll be around with us for awhile, darling,” Rarity told her.

“Yep, those heroes will keep us safe from those bad hench ponies who tried to hurt you,” Fluttershy nodded.

“I see… But how come the changelings are back to being evil?” The Mayor couldn’t believe that the good changelings are back to their evil ways.

“Oh, no, no, no.” Shaking her head, Starlight explained this question shortly. “These are new evil changelings, all made by Chrysalis so they can take over Equestria, but the Power Rangers Super Megaforce will be on our side.”

They Mayor seemed to understand. “I see…” Going over to the stage, she got on the platform, going up to the microphone. Tapping on it, she got everyone’s attention. “As you all heard from Twilight and her friends,” she began speaking, “Chrysalis had made new evil changelings, so seemed to have team up with bad ponies we’ve never seen in our lives, but they won’t ever hurt us all thanks to six new spirits who will always protect us at any cost, calling themselves the Power Rangers Super Megaforce!”

The Ponyville ponies rang out cheers, stomping the hooves on the ground, excited to have super heroes in Equestria.

This got Twilight and her friends smiling, and they all knew that the bad guys don’t have a chance to win because heroes always win and bad guys always lose.

Chapter 14: Soup For Two

Noah and Fluttershy had gotten back to the cottage as the sun was setting in the sky, turning it a night time purple to blue. Fluttershy held the tickets with her good wing, reaching for the door with her. Of course, the Blue Ranger grabbed the knob before she could, opening up the door.

The nice gesture caused her face to bloom, grinning at him, stepping inside, setting the tickets somewhere, where they know where they are. “I cannot believe I asked you to be my plus one.”

“Me neither. Normally a guy would have to ask a girl out on a date,” Noah replied, going over to the couch, removing the saddlebags off of him, as he got on the furniture. He pulled the book out, setting it next to him. “Except it isn’t a romantic date,” he had to add in.

The mare nodded. “I know. It’s nice though, anyway. Twilight did say that this plus one thing is a friendly date, not a lovey dovey one. I think Rainbow is glad it’s that way. She may be a tomboy, but she isn’t big on lovey dovey stuff.” She looked up at the clock. “I’m gonna make dinner. How do you feel about veggie soup?”

Noah beamed. “Sounds great. I’ll help you out.” He got off the couch, following the pegasus to the kitchen. “You aren’t gonna feed me this, are you?” A jokingly smile came over him. “I held my weapons, keys, and morpher, so I bet I could have it without any problems.” He raised his eyes to his horn. “Troy and I do need to learn how to use these things that are on our foreheads.”

Pulling out a good size pot, Fluttershy filled it up with water. “You and your friend can be taught by Twilight someday.”

“What?” The running water is too loud for the unicorn to hear her, due to her soft, gentle voice.

“I said…” Turning the water off, Fluttershy placed the filled up pot on the stove, turning it on. “...you and your friend can be taught by Twilight,” she repeated, going over to the fridge, opening it up, and pulling out some vegetables. “Wanna help cut these up? The knives are over there.”

Noah went over to the counter where a knife block is at, filled with knives, the handles facing up while the blades faced down for safety measures. Grabbing one of them, he carefully walked with it, facing the sharp part down on the floor. Fluttershy placed the vegetables on the other counter with a cutting board next to it.

It’s when Angel came hopping in, looking up at the vegetables. As Noah was about to cut up the celery, the bunny got on the counter - and stole it, hopping away. Noah was left standing there, watching the little rabbit.

Fluttershy saw this, and was about to go get it back when she was stopped. “It’s fine,” Noah halted. “He can have it. By the way, when do the animals get fed?”

Going over to one of the cupboards, Fluttershy pulled out some animal food. “They get fed now. I doubt Angel will eat this. He prefers his bunny food over this. Luckily, he got a celery,” she said, looking at her pet who is chomping down on the green vegetable. “It seems like he ate all of the carrots,” she observed from afar, seeing how empty the basket is that was once filled with carrots.

“Looks like it,” the Blue Ranger agreed, chopping up a new celery, cutting it down to bite size pieces. “Want me to help you feed your critters?” he offered while standing on his hindlegs, pulling a cupboard door open. There inside is a bowl and he took it down off the shelf, shut the door, and set the dish on the counter.

Fluttershy denied his offer. “Nah, I’m good. I’ve been doing this a long time ever since I was a filly.” Then, she went into the living room, calling out to her animals. “Dinner time!” she announced. “Come get your food. Yum, yum, yum.”

All the small animals came out from their hiding holes while the birds flew in. The little animals made squeaky noises. The birds flapped and chirped, getting on the floor as everyone waited patiently for their owner to feed them.

Everyone but Angel. He had already eaten up the celery and is now stomping his foot on the floor where Noah is at, wanting more celery.

Noah noticed, placing the knife down. “No, Angel.” He used his hoof to gently push the rabbit away. “This is for the soup Fluttershy and I are making. Go eat the food that she’s giving out.” Due to his failure of shooing this bunny away, Angel got on the counter - and took a potato. “Hey-!” The unicorn made a quick swift to take it away from him, missing him by inches.

Angel hopped back on the floor, bouncing backwards with the potato in his tiny paws. He blew a raspberry at the stallion.

“Angel.” Angel stopped with his spitting, seeing his owner looking down at him with angry eyes. Fluttershy’s eyebrows are raised, eyeing at her pet. “You don’t need any more veggies. I laid each pile of animal food for each of you to have.” She held out her hoof. “Give back the potato and go eat.” Angel shook his head, refusing to give it back to her. “Please?” She gave him a smile - a cute smile in Noah’s opinion. That didn’t work for Angel stuck out his tongue at her, leaving her to sigh. So with a firm and gentle swift of her good wing, she took the potato out of his grasp. “Go eat with the others,” she firmly ordered.

Wow, Noah had thought. For being such a shy pony, she isn’t afraid to assert herself. She may not be a good fighter, though she’s good at standing up for herself. She may be able to stand up against the rich couple he tried getting help from.

Due to this, this got Angel mad because he bagan throwing a fit. “No, Angel,” the pegasus stated boldly, placing the potato with the other vegetables that are still left to be chopped. “Shoo!” she commanded in a gentle voice, but also continued to be firm with him. “There’s plenty of animal food for you and your friends to have right in there.” Her hoof directed to the living room where all the woodland animals and birds are eating, gobbingling down the food like there’s no tomorrow. Noah watched as her bunny kept up his act. “You don’t wanna eat? Suit yourself. You won’t get any dessert tonight.” It wasn’t a bribe. She wasn’t bribing him one bit. It did get him to stop throwing a temper tantrum. “Good boy,” she praised, her frown turning upside down. “Now, please go eat.”

Although he wasn’t happy being told what to do, he rolled his eyes, hopping to the living room. Fluttershy watched, making sure he doesn’t do anything except eat the food with the others.

“There,” Fluttershy released, happy to see him gobble up his pile. She looked over at Noah, the smile glued to her face. “Let’s continue with making our dinner. I’ll help you cut up the vegetables considering how slow you are.”

“Slow!?” She let out a laugh when Noah gave out his reaction after what she had stated. “I’m taking my time, here, ya know?” he pretended to get mad, defending himself in such fakeness. It isn’t easy for him to get mad at her for real for how pretty and cute she is. “I’m sure enough you won’t cut all these up.”

Knowing he was teasing her, she chuckled. “You wanna see who can cut these up the quickest?” she challenged, grabbing a knife from the knife block. “I know I can cut up more than you,” she bet, and at first it seemed she was flirting with him, but she wasn’t, was she? She hadn’t called him handsome or anything.

She stood next to him, helping herself to a carrot, and began chopping away.

“Careful, I don’t want you-” Noah began to when the girl let out a squeak. “Are you alright?” he asked when the knife clattered on the floor when Fluttershy released it. His answer came to him when he saw a small streak of red leaking out of the tip of the yellow pony’s left hoof. “You seemed like you cut yourself…” He knew it sounded lame, except he couldn’t help it.

“I can see that.” Luckily, she didn’t give him a sarcastic response to his oberveness. She went over to the sink, turning the water on. Placing her hoof under the warm water, it turned red as she began cleaning her cut.

When it seemed like it was done bleeding, she turned the faucet off, only for the small cut to start leaking out the red crimson.

Ripping off a piece of paper towel, Noah handed it to her. “Where are your bandaids?”

“In the bathroom cabinet,” she told him. “Though you don’t have to-” She hadn’t finished when Noah trotted out of the kitchen. She put on a small smile, rolling her eyes, waiting for him as she gently pressed the paper towel against her cut.

The cut doesn’t hurt. It stings a little, but all in all it doesn’t hurt that much.

Patiently waiting for him, she went over to the vegetables, seeing that she only chopped a few pieces of the carrot before hurting herself.

Her ears caught the sound of Noah coming back, and she turned to see him carrying a box of bandaids and a small bottle of ointment.

Placing the two items on the counter, far from the vegetable plants, he had her come over to him. When she did, she showed no signs of hesitation. It seemed like she trusted him already - and they had met since yesterday. Is it possible for her to gain his trust too early? Maybe? She hadn’t really trusted a lot of ponies, let alone stallions. But Noah is different from the other stallions, minus his friends who are boys in the Ranger team.

“Place your hand- I mean, hoof - on the counter, please,” he requested nicely, opening up the box of bandaids. Fluttershy did as she was told. “Boy, you got a lot of bandaids.” Shifting through the bandaids, he pulled one out. “This one suits you well.” He showed it to her. “You’re adorable like a bunny.”

Fluttershy’s face turned a shade of pink, biting her lower lip in the process. Noah laughed at her reaction, with her laughing with him. He a tiny amount of the ointment on the cut, placing a bandaid over top of it after peeling the white pieces off the sticky part off the ends so it can keep it in place.

It was a little awkward, Fluttershy had to admit. A good type of awkward.

The two stared right into their eyes, and Fluttershy shook her head. “Um, let’s finish up dinner,” she broke the deep silence with Noah agreeing with her.

“Yeah, and be careful this time. We don’t want you cutting yourself again.” Taking the items in his hoof, he began to walk out the kitchen. “I’ll put these away.” He went back upstairs to put the box of bandaids and ointment away, returned, and the two finished up cutting up the vegetables.

Fluttershy dumped the vegetables into the boiling water that has been sitting on the stove for awhile.

When it was done, she poured the soup into two bowls, got two spoons, and set the bowls on the table. “It’s ready!” she announced ever so softly, though loud enough for Noah to hear her, for he sat on one side of the table while Fluttershy sat on the other side.

While the two ate, Noah kept looking at the yellow pony. He spoon fed himself with the warm liquid with the vegetables floating around. But his attention was on her and only her.

She noticed this. “What?”

Noah snapped out of his trance. “Huh?” He shook his head. “Oh, uh, nothing. Nothing.” He stirred the spoon in his soup. “What do you wanna do for Nightmare Night?” he asked, changing the subject.

“I’m not sure…” Fluttershy shrugged her shoulders. “I don’t know what I want to dress up as. Definitely not anything scary.” She shivered - with fright.

“You can be a butterfly,” he suggested, except she shook her head. “You can be a caterpillar,” he said, coming up with another option for her.

“A caterpillar costume won’t do. Neither would a butterfly costume.”

“Hmm. How about a ladybug?”

Thinking about it, she thought it’s a perfect costume to wear this year. “Sure. I like ladybugs. They’re really cute with the red and black spots.”

Like you, Noah thought, keeping the words to himself.

After they finished, they headed upstairs for bed. “Goodnight, Fluttershy,” Noah said, getting ready to go into the guest room. “I’ll see you after you’re done at school, right?”

“Mhm,” Flutteshy responded. “Or you can go to school with me,” she offered.

“Sure, I’m down for it. Even though the school is different from the one back at home, I’m sure my friends and I would like it,” he assumed with no second thoughts. “See you in the morning.”

Fluttershy waved. “Same goes for you.” The two headed into their own rooms.

Noah got underneath the covers, taking his glasses off, setting them on the small table next to the bed he’ll be sleeping in.

He wanted to tell her his feelings - his true feelings around her. It’s too early for that. He needs to wait for the right moment. He knows that Gia likes Jake. He knows that for a fact, even though she hadn’t admitted it yet.

Placing the back of his head on the pillow, he shut his eyes, waiting for sleep to get to him.

Author's Note

What on your thoughts on Noah x Fluttershy? What should the ship name be?

Chapter 15: Teachary

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Chapter 16: Spying

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Chapter 17: Save The School

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Chapter 18: Nightmare Night

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Chapter 19: In A Bad Situation

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Chapter 20: Power Ponies!

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Chapter 21: New Members On The Team

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Chapter 22: The Attempt

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Chapter 23: Mount Aris And Seaquestria

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Chapter 24: Tea Time

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Chapter 25: Centuar Attack

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Chapter 26: Bringing In The Winter

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Chapter 27: Hearth's Warming Eve

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Chapter 28: Kingdom Of Saddle Arabia

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Chapter 29: The Somnambula Village

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Chapter 30: Love Curse

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Chapter 31: Breaking The Spell

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Chapter 32: Fighting The Queen

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Chapter 33: Rangers Wrap Up Winter

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Chapter 34: Rangers At The Spa

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Chapter 35: Fight In The Everfree Forest

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Chapter 36: Gokaigers, Rangers, Ponies

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Chapter 37: A Gokai Welcome Party

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Chapter 38: Preparing For The Gala

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Chapter 39: Let's Party, Rangers!

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Chapter 40: Gala Disruption

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Chapter 41: A Hang Out?

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Chapter 42: A Washout Silver Ranger

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Chapter 43: Foal And Filly Fair

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Chapter 44: A Plan For The Baddies

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Chapter 45: Fallen Heroes, New Rangers

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Chapter 46: Saving Equestria

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Chapter 1: The Day When It Happened

The High School doors burst open of Hardwood County, rain splattering everybody, soaking them through their clothes as all the high schoolers scrambled to their buses or to their cars to get home and out of the rain. None of them knew it was going to be pouring like a shower unlike Noah Carver, who stepped out of the school, the strap of his bag on his shoulder.

Looking through his glasses, he saw his best friend, Jake Holling, jogging up to him with a soccer ball in his hands. His black sweatshirt is soaked right through him, but it didn’t bother him at all. From the proud smile, Noah had to say something.

“Your team won again?” he assumed as his best friend dropped the ball, bouncing it up and down with his right knee.

“Yep,” Jake replied, catching the ball in mid-air. “You should’ve been there, dude. We almost got creamed by the other team,” he expressed in full delight. “I thought we won’t win like last time, until I gave them one of my special soccer tricks.” A grin spread over his face, feeling proud of himself. “The coach was very impressed by what I did out there, saying I should be team captain of Hardwood High!”

Noah beamed at the excitement centered around them. “That’s great, dude!” he exclaimed. “Hey, I’m going to meet up with the others at the Brainfreeze.” He looked at the sky, covered up in dark clouds. “I want to get out of the rain. I don’t want to catch a cold.”

“Is Gia there?” Knowing Jake, he couldn’t help but laugh at the question. “Well, is she there?” he questioned, placing the ball underneath his arm once the geek stopped snickering.

“I did say I’ll be meeting up with the others, so...yeah, she’ll be there. Come on, I’ll race ya. Last one to get to Ernie’s gets to pay for the fro-yo.”

“You’re on, man.” The two of them sprinted off to the Brain Freeze where the mall is at. “I’m gonna beat you!” Noah heard Jake call over to him. “Looks like you’re paying for it!”

“Not a chance…” Picking up his feet, the grass made squishing sounds from showering rain, almost slipping in the process. “Ah!” he yelped when he stepped on a mud puddle, falling flat on his stomach. “Great…” Getting off the ground, he decided it was best to just walk there, even though he’s going to have to pay for the treat.

By the time he reached to Ernie’s Brainfreeze, he saw Jake waiting for him outside the store. “Where have you been? Playing in the rain?”

“Haha,” Noah answered with an eye roll. “Looks like I’m paying for the fro-yo.”

“Nope.” Getting out the money, Jake patted Noah on the shoulder. “You did your best. Besides, I want to impress Gia.”

“You always want to impress your crush.” Grabbing the door, Noah swung it open, letting the water drip down onto the floor. “Hey guys,” he waved, spotting the rest of the group at a table near the wall.

Emma Goodall was the first one to notice both him and Jake walking up to them. “Hey,” she greeted back, lightly elbowing Troy Burrows, who picked his head up from a deep thought.

Gia Moran saw Jake with ten dollar bill, smirking. “You’re paying, huh?”

“Me and Noah raced here to see who gets to pay for the fro-yo for losing the race,” he explained, rubbing the back of his neck. “Instead, I’ll pay. Even though he didn’t win.”

“Hey, I did my best.” Noah sat down at the table. “At least you can dance too. I’m not much of a dancer.”

“Since when?” Jake tilted his head to the side and asked. “You were dancing when Tensou gave us some music for when we celebrated our Ultra Power.”

“I’m not a dancer, Jake.” He took off his glasses, trying to find a dry spot of his shirt, having it be near impossible. So he used one of the napkins to dry the lenses, getting all the droplets off. “Since we didn’t get a call from Gosei yet, maybe we can enjoy the fro-yo for once,” he hoped, placing his glasses back on his head.

“Yeah, I hadn’t tasted any in weeks because of the Armada. I’ll be right back.” Jake walked over to the counter with Orion passing by him with a tray, placing it on a table where a couple are at.

After getting a nice thanks from them, he went over to his friends. “Jake’s paying?” he said, seeing him talking to his boss. “Does he always have to pay for the fro-yo? You know we won’t get to eat it.”

“Maybe this time we will,” the brunette girl beamed before noticing that Troy was frowning, going back in his thoughts again. “You okay, Troy?”

“I’m fine…” he told her softly. “I...just had a weird dream last night. And it wasn’t about the war.”

“What do you mean?” Gia furrowed her brows in confusion. “What did you dream about this time?”

Troy drummed his fingers on the table. “I dreamt that all of us were in a different place; a different world.” Now the rest have baffled looks on their faces. “Come on, guys,” he spoke, picking up their reactions. “I’m smart enough to know that the dream I had will not come true unlike the war ones.”

The others nodded, knowing he's right about it. He may be quiet, but he knows some things - like martial arts, smart enough on what moves to use against the Armada.

The dream Troy had was plain weird and strange, with nothing making any sense. All he can remember are these horse creatures he saw. He didn't understand what the dream was about, but it has to do with them and these...villains teaming up with Vekar and his army, battling each other in fight.

That wasn't the only thing weird about the dream. Another thing about the dream is that... "It's never gonna happen," he told himself, rubbing his eyes.

"What's not gonna happen?" Jake went back over to the table as Orion fetched to get the order. "Did I hear you say you had a strange dream about a different world?" he recalled from overhearing over at the counter. "Is it like the place where we got the RPM Car Zord?"

"No." He shook his head as he answered. "It was more...colorful. I remember these little horses - ponies - in the dream. They're not big ponies; little ones. About half the size of the panels at the command center," he began to remember. "We were helping them, with them doing the same in return."

"And?" Gia prompted him to say more.

"It's all I remember, Gia." He swept his hand over his slicked, brown hair, which seemed to match Emma's perfectly. "I wish I can tell you guys more, but...I can't for right now."

Everyone sat there, wanting to know more. But knowing Troy, he wanted to take things one step at a time. He's smart enough to know dreams can't really happen in real life. So they sat there, talking to each other while Jake sat down next to Gia since Troy is next to Emma. Noah wasn't by himself, being surrounded by his pals.

"Looks like you need a girlfriend." This got the nerd's attention.

"Huh?" he questioned. "Girlfriend? What do you mean, Jake?"

Jake playfully waved his hand up and down. "You know what I mean, Noah. I'm not teasing you or anything, but it seems like you spend more time on science stuff. You need to focus on something more important - Girls." Gia shook her head at his goofy gestured towards her. "From all the years being friends, I haven't seen you ask a girl out. Just because you're an egghead doesn't mean you can't date."

Noah sighed. "Maybe it's because I hadn't found my type yet. Everyone likes a certain someone. You like Gia because she's hot." Jake stifled in a giggle when he said that out loud, Gia having to elbow him as she tried not to blush. "And who knows, Troy might ask Emma out," he then grinned.

Emma grinned over at the statement, while Troy seemed to space out again as per usual.

"We can go on hiking together as our date, have a nice picnic, look for butterflies. I can teach him how to sing too. Me and him can sing my song as a duet."

"You should join the chorus at school."

"I know, Gia. But they already have enough people for it. I have a wonderful singing voice since I love nature. I got it from my mom," she said, brushing her hair behind her ear.

"I wish I get to see your mom... I only met your dad when you and me became friends," her best friend responded. "Remember the time back in first grade where the kids were stomping all over an ant hill, with you trying to stop them?"

Emma gasped. "Yes, I do," she instantly remembered. "You wanted to beat them up." Both girls laughed at the memory, recalling out funny it was to see the kids run off like cowards. "You may be a tough and strong, but you do like to go to the mall with me. Especially when we got Orion a new makeover."

"He could've borrowed clothes from me," Jake simply muttered, chewing on a straw found from the table top. "You girls don't know about guy fashion." Hearing those words from him, the tough gal punched him on the upper arm. "Ow!" he cried, the straw landing on the floor between his feet.

"We do too, know about you boys' fashion," she asserted, placing her arms on the table. "I have to admit, I'm both tough and strong, but I am a tomboy." Jake opened his mouth to say something. "And don't say I don't like to wear a dress." She smiled, watching him close his mouth ever so slowly.

"Jake did want to help Orion pick out some clothes," Noah chimed in, running his fingers through his black, curly hair, all damp now. His clothes are still wet, knowing he'll have to change when he gets back home after he's done hanging out with his friends. "Me and Troy had to keep pulling him back down to the chair."

"While I was asleep," Troy recalled, giving one of his rare smiles of how serious he is most of the time, except when he wants to have some fun.

They laughed, waiting for their fro-yo to arrive at their table.

"I wish we can get rid of those pesky Rangers! They keep ruining my plans!" A trash bin was thrown, knocking down one of the xborgs off the seat. "Every time I send down a commander, they destroy him. Twice! It's not fair! My father loved my younger brother than me, knowing how special he is."

"Don't worry, Prince Vekar, we'll get rid of those Rangers in no time."

"Shut up, Damaras!" Vekar snapped angrily, throwing the same trash can at his second-in-command. "My father says I'm a worthless prince unlike Vrak. I wish there some way to get rid of those stupid Rangers. Only, there's no other monsters to use against them!"

"How about I build something to get rid of the Rangers by placing them in a different world?" Levira, who's a scientist, suggested.

"That won't work..." The prince began thinking, until an idea came to his head. "I know!" he proclaimed. "Levira, build something to use against those annoying humans on earth, like something to place them in another world."

"She already said that..." Argus, Vekar's bodyguard, spoke up. "And when she's done, I'll take it down to earth," he offered, hoping it'll ease his mood.

"Whatever." Going back to his seat, he sat down, looking at the screen. "Ugh... Rain. I'm glad I live up there and not...blah."

"You mean earth?" Damaras presumed.

"No, I mean the space," the prince answered in a sarcastic manner. The warrior shut his mouth. "Levira, hurry up with whatever you're making!"

"I didn't get started on it yet, sire," she answered to his demand. "You can't rush when I create my new inventions."

"Only to have them ending up failing," he added carelessly. "I want the Rangers to be in another world where we can take over the planet full of humans, taking it at as our brand new home."

"Unless we get rid of those Rangers. They beat every commander every time with those Legendary keys and everything." Vekar casted the golden robot a nasty glare. "I'm just saying, your highness," Damaras calmly stated. "We don't have anybody else like you said. Though, I thought Pacha Chamak would've destroyed those Rangers."

Vekar turned his head away from him. "Knick Knack Paddy Whack had no attempt in getting rid of those annoying people in colored outfits. Levira, are you done now?"

Levira set down her hammer on the table next to the other tools, her expression annoyed. "Say it one more time, or else I'll let you build this thing." Getting the message, Vekar shut his mouth, the mood still in him. "I'll have this done in one hour," she told him, picking up the same hammer.

"One hour!?" he cried in alarm. "You're telling me - Prince Vekar - leader of the Armada, that whatever you're building will take one hour to finish!? Ugh!" He got up, making his way to the window, shoving an xborg in the process. "Look at it. I want to destroy the planet it front of my eyes now..." Staring at the green and blue planet, it only made him angrier; furious. "Those Rangers ruin all of my plans, destroying the monsters, using those useless keys! It makes me..."

"Mad?" his bodyguard finished.

"How dare you complete my words, you piece of-"

"Whoa, sire! Language," the golden robot halted before the prince can finish his sentence.

Crossing his arms, Vekar muttered back the warrior. "I wasn't going to swear... I'm a good prince - for the Armada."

"With temper tantrums," Levira added from the work table, receiving a harsh look in return. "I'm just saying. Vrak never had temper tantrums when his plans fail...unlike you."

That got him ticked off even more. Stomping over to her, he shoved all the tools onto the floor, inches away from his feet, glaring at the green monster, hitting his now curled up fist on the table top. "Since when did I ever have temper tantrums? I don't have TEMPER TANTRUMS!"

"From the Rangers ruining your ideas, from them destroying the commanders you send down there, and right now," she listed the reasons on why the leader acts like a child, rather than an adult. "Vrak is much more mature than you." Gathering all the tools off the floor, she put them in her tool bag. "I'm going to work on my new invention somewhere else." With that, she headed her way out of the Command Room, the doors sliding open as she stepped out of there, closing after she left.

"Vrak is much more mature than you," the prince mocked, mimicking her once she's gone. "Tch." He let out a scoff. "Vrak shouldn't even been born. He had been my father's favorite ever since he learned how to walk while I had trouble standing up on my own. Why can't my father see that I'm better than my younger brother? It's not fair for how Vrak is better than me. I'm his big brother, I should be the favorite! He has no right to be my father's favorite!" During his venting, he picked up the trash can, throwing it at Damaras. It hit him on the chest, only he didn't seem to care about it as it hit the floor, rolling away from him. "You failed me!"

Confused, Damaras replied. "I didn't do anything."

"Exactly!" The prince walked back over to the large control panel, shoving the same xborg out of the way, knocking him back onto the floor. "You never did anything to stop the Rangers," he blamed, sitting back down in the chair.

"Hey, you're lucky that Argus is going to send the Rangers into a different world once Levira is finished with the new invention," the golden robot spoke, slightly fed up by the attitude he's getting.

"Yeah, except she won't finish it within an hour! I want to know what the Rangers are doing now. Probably having a lot of fun down in the awful place they call home. They think they can win for such powers they got with those ridiculous 'Legendary keys' they use against the monsters with those 'Legendary Ranger morphs', along with those 'weapons' they use all the time. It drives me insane!"

"Sire, you need to calm down," his bodyguard advised. "Like I said earlier, I'll take it down to earth for you."

Not saying anything else, the prince sat there in his chair, crossing his arms over his chest, the frustration on getting rid of the Rangers. Every time he sends someone down there, he'll end being blown up by the colorful heroes by their Ranger powers - twice.

His father has always had eyes on his younger brother, for he never fails him, like this prince. Though he never admitted, he's frankly green with envy when it comes to both of his parents talking about how great Vrak is about everything, causing him to have pity for him, knowing he should be the favorite, not his younger brother who takes all the credit.

Thinking about him made Vekar want to go find him, to give him a piece of his mind. The trouble is, he has no idea where is so call brother is at. Why can't his father see that he's doing his best with everything he's doing? It seems like he loves his little brother than him since he overheard him talking to Damaras, saying he needs to keep an eye on him so he doesn't do anything stupid. In other words, babysit him. Something he never liked.

Not only did his father tell Damaras to keep his eyes on him, but he also heard him say he's a fool and an empty headed blunderer, nothing compared to his favorite. Nonetheless, Vekar is the first born, even though his dad has been favoring over for Vrak for years, having him believe his father loved his younger brother more than him for being a fool for every task he does, ending up failing at the process.

Getting fueled up by rage, he stood up, kicking the console, resulting some pain afterwards. He cried out, feeling it go up his leg while the others watched him hop up and down, holding his injured foot. "I hate those Power Rangers! By the time Levira is done with the new inventions, they'll be gone from earth, and I - Prince Vekar - will take over the puny planet, ridding all humans. Why can't my plans ever work on them? It's not fair! It'll be better for us to team up with other villains, for they can help us."

"Not a bad idea actually..." Argus stepped up. "By the time we do find villains to help us, we sure will take over the earth."

"Yeah, only here's the problem... Where are we gonna find other villains to help us?! We had Professor Cog and his henchmen work with us when the Rangers got back from this one place, hoping they'll be trapped there forever."

"After his henchmen stopped battling our henchmen for them to work with us," Damaras recalled, remembering the time when it happened. "They ended getting destroyed like always."

Vekar slowly turned to him. "Don't you dare say such a thing! I want to get rid of those Rangers now! And stop being taller than me!" The answer he got was a simple head shake, hearing the strongest villain mutter something. "Did you say something?" he asked paranoid.

Damaras shook his head again. "I said nothing, sire." However, Vekar can only glare at him, wanting to hear the truth. "Alright. I said you're acting like a child."

"A child?! Me?! Why would you say such a thing!?" The warrior opened his mouth, but the prince kept at it. "I'm no child, Damaras. I'm the best villain in the whole universe," he bragged, placing a hand on his chest. "I'm much better than Vrak since I'm first in line for the throne."

"But Vrak never threw fits," Argus stated, now getting a glare from the armada leader. "It's true. Whenever something fails, you'll end up throwing a temper tantrum unlike him. Sorry to say this, sir, but Levira is right. Your younger brother is much more mature than you are."

That set him off. "Stop talking about Vrak, you imbecilic. You know better than to bring him up." An xborg walked over to him, except he got knocked back on the floor for like the third time in a row, having him look down at the henchman. "What do you think you're doing? Sleeping? Get up!" he commanded, forcing the xborg back on his feet by grabbing his wrist, tossing him away from him in the process. "I will get rid of those Rangers by the time the new invention is done," he vowed with a tight fist. "I will get them to another world for it is the last thing I'll do."

Yeah... the last thing he said.

The teenagers orders has arrive at their table by Orion, who gave the cups out to them, also having his own all made by Ernie. It was the first time they'll ever get to eat it without any interruptions.

Jake has been enjoying his fro-yo, finally able to eat it. "Man, I'm glad I can have some of this stuff. I hate how I'll end up paying for it, only for us to leave because of you know what." He finished his before anyone else. "When will it stop raining? It's been raining ever since fall arrived."

"It'll stop raining tomorrow," Noah replied, finishing up his fro-yo as well. "Fall is more damp than the other seasons, more wet."

"I actually like the rain," Emma piped in. "It helps the trees and plants grow; the flowers blooming."

"Yep," Gia grinned, spooning another spoonful of her fro-yo. "Taking the words from Jake, I'm glad I can have some this stuff." She glanced over at Troy, who is simply stirring his own cup of fro-yo. "Is something wrong, Troy?" All she got was a shrug. "The dream is still stuck inside your head, huh?" This time she got a nod. "Don't worry about it," she assured him.

"I know." Raking his fingers through his hair, he sighed. "I want the dream to be gone," he wished. "Besides, it's a silly dream," he added with full confidence. "I'm not stupid about the dream coming true. I'm smart enough to know it'll never happen - except for the war dreams I keep having." He smiled, showing his pals not to worry about him.

"War dreams?" Orion looked at Troy, questioning him. "Is it after the weird dream you had last night?"

"No." He shook his head, answering boy's question. "It was after the war dreams. All I can remember are these ponies, helping them fight off these strange, looking creatures. I'm not sure what they are, but they're...nasty looking. But hey, it's just a weird dream I had. It'll never happen," he shrugged off.

The others agreed, knowing he's right about it. However, if it was true, than their in for a big surprise.

An hour has come up and Levira stepped into the command room with a new device in her hands. "It's done, sire," she announced.

"It's about time. Argus, go down to earth and take the thing with you," the prince ordered. "I'll send down my henchman so the Rangers won't stop you."

"Yes, sire," he obeyed, taking the object. He then got teleported to earth, along with the henchman, arriving at a beach. Argus laughed as he set the device up. "You Rangers will be gone for good, and we'll take over this planet." He let out a laugh.

"Stop right there!" a voice commanded, halting the bodyguard.

Argus turned. "Well, well, well. It's the Power Rangers," he mused in his metal voice. "Are you here to surrender your home?"

"Not a chance!" Troy declared, stepping in front of his teammates, taking the lead. "It's morphin time!" he called out, bringing out his key and morpher, the others following in suit.

"Super Mega Mode!" Inserting their keys into their morphers, they began to morph.

"Super Megaforce Red!" Troy declared

"Super Megaforce Yellow!" Gia shouted.

"Super Megaforce Green!" Jake hollered.

"Super Megaforce Pink!" Emma yelled out.

"Super Megaforce Blue!" Noah chimed in.

"Super Megaforce Silver!" Orion ended.

"Earth defenders, never surrender!" they all finished together.

"Get them!" Obeying the order, all the henchman - both xborgs and bruisers - charged at the now morphed up Rangers, who have their Sabers and Blasters ready, while Orion pulled out his Silver Spear.

As the Rangers fought off the henchman. Troy used his Saber to knock down some xborgs, along with doing his martial arts skills, blasting them at the same time. Emma blasted a bruiser before turning to Gia.

"Let's double up our power." She tossed her Saber to the Yellow Ranger.

"You got it!" Doing the same thing, she threw her Blaster at her Pink Ranger friend. With two Sabers in her hands, she flicked her wrist, letting the Sabers fly every where with black cords attached to them, knocking down the xborgs while Emma continued to blast them.

As they were doing that, Jake and Noah are working together with a couple of bruisers. "Here Noah, take my Saber." The Green Ranger dropped kicked his weapon.

"Thanks, dude." The Blue Ranger gave his Blaster in return, catching the other Saber in his other hand, continuing to slash at the large, blue henchman as Jake kept on blasting them as they worked together.

Orion, using his Spear, twirled it around, creating blue streaks as he hit each gray guy onto the ground when he saw one getting away. Using his silver speed, he stopped it. "Super Spear Blaster!" When the Silver Spear transformed into a Blaster, he fired right away.

The fight went on when Troy pulled out another key. "Let's go Legendary!"

"Right!" they all exclaimed. "Legendary Ranger Mode - Magical Source, Mystic Force!"

"Mystic Force Red Ranger!"

"Mystic Force Yellow Ranger!"

"Mystic Force Green Ranger!"

"Mystic Force Pink Ranger!"

"Mystic Force Blue Ranger!"

"Solaris Knight!"

"We call forth of magic, together as one, united for all time. Power Rangers Mystic Force!" With their Magi Staffs, along with Laser Lamp in Orion's hand, the battle went on. Orion shot some laser blasts as Jake got his Magi Staff on Axe Mode, creating shock wave and fissures strikes on the ground, while Gia used Crossbow Mode, firing bolts of electricity at the enemies.

Emma channeled her Magi Staff to create wind power, blowing the xborgs right at Troy who has Magi Staff into Sword Mode. The blade created a fiery flame, striking right at them.

"I'll take care of Argus!" Noah charged at him. "Wave Power!" With the ocean, the water rose in the air, but the robot stopped him.

"Solar Slash Energized!" With his sword, he made his move, his weapon glowing in the color of pure white. Making an X, the white beams knocked the Ranger to the ground, demorphing him out of Legendary mode. "Are you gonna lay there, or are you gonna fight? Come on!" Argus provoked, challenging him.

Getting back on his feet, he glanced at device on the ground. Their mentor had called them earlier for them to retrieve it so Tensou can take a look at it. So with a yell, Noah charged right back at him, his sword ready.

The two fought against each other, swords clashing together. "You'll never defeat us, Blue. Your world will be the Armada's."

Noah scoffed. "Not a chance." He swung the sword, wanting to strike him. Argus blocked the attack with ease, grabbing the other end of the Blue Ranger's Saber, bringing it down. "You'll never take over this planet," the Blue Ranger continued to vow.

Argus forced the weapon down ever lower. "Oh we will..." he mused. "We have a plan in order to get rid of you and your lousy friends."

"Don't you call them lousy, metal head!" Ripping his weapon out of robot's hand, he called out his own move, similar to Argus's. "Radiant Saber!" With the Saber glowing blue, he made the same X mark, sending it at the robot.

Argus got away, the move hitting the device. The device went crazy, and Noah realize he made a big mistake. He ran to it, only to get hit by a power shock of electricity, sending him to the ground, getting him out of Ranger mode completely.

"Noah!" he heard Emma cried out as rest came over to help him.

"No! Don't! Stay back, or else-" But the powerful strings of the electric came towards the rest of Rangers as they all fell to the ground, also getting out of Ranger Mode - both Super Mega and Legendary Mode.

The yellowish, thin beams began shocking everything, including the henchman and Argus, the ground shaking, strong wind picking up, sending the rain water everywhere.

"What's going on!?" Emma picked her voice up over the loud wind.

"I don't know!" the Red Ranger returned. "We have to get to the Command Center. We'll get an answer from Gosei. Let's go!" Gesturing his hand, he led the Rangers to the Command Center with the bolts continuing to strike at everything.

At the Command Center, Tensou wheeled around all over the place. "Gosei, what's happening? The earth is going to explode!" he spoke frantically, the lights on the ceiling going on and off. Before he got an answer, the Rangers rushed in. Troy stepped up to their mentor.

"Do you know what's happening?" he repeated the little robot's words. A loud crash almost knocked the Rangers on the hard floor, using the panels to support themselves up.

"I'm not sure, Troy," Gosei answered loudly enough for them to hear him. "It turns out Noah's move caused the device to act up. I sense a wormhole being opened up - both here and out in space! It's strong enough to lift the Command Center, so get down and hang on!"

Doing as they're told, everyone grabbed ahold of the panels, feeling the Command Center, which is basically a cave, rise off the ground as a large hole in the sky opened up, big enough for the Command Center to fit through.

It was then when something came over to Noah. "Where do you think we'll be at?" he asked in a full voice.

"We'll have to wait and see," their mentor responded. "All you Rangers have to do is hang on," he advised. That's when the lights went off.

In the darkness, Tensou accidently rolled into a rocky wall, causing him to get knocked out, the Command Center getting sucked into the large hole in the sky.

Up in the space, all the Armada ships - the big one and the little ones - got shocked by the electric strings from the device down on earth, the large hole getting larger by the second. Vekar began to get furious. "Get Argus up here!" he bellowed at one of the xborgs. And once he got Argus back on the ship, the prince charged at him, only for Damaras to hold him back. "You!" He pointed a finger at him. "You failed me!" he screamed, struggling against the hold as all ships began to get pulled in one at a time, the large Armada ship being the last.

"Vekar, you need to calm down. We need to hang on," Damaras said, failing at calming down the prince.

"It's all your fault!" Vekar ignored him, sending the phrase at the white robot.

Argus was about to defend himself until they got pulled into the hole, having them all fly towards the wall. Vekar hit his head, falling to the floor, blacking out.

Both wormholes closed up, and both Rangers and the Armada are wondering where they'll be at. The dream Troy had flashed back to him, wondering if it's going to come true.

Only he has to wait and see.

Chapter 7: Villians Meet Villains

Deep within the swamp, the new changelings have run amuck inside Grogar’s Lair, a creepy cavernous looking like an evil ram in which Grogar is being made out of stone, being surrounded by murky water, vines and droopy trees.

There are no critters within this area for how eerie it seems to be with no one living there - except for two evil people who are doing their best to get the changelings under control that Queen Chrysalis had made all thanks to Cozy Glow who had the idea in first hand, believing that since the changeling queen lost her laste horde, he suggested her including the other two baddies that having these new insect-like creatures will help end Twilight and her friends.

Of course, these new changelings have been chasing Cozy Glow and Tirek, wanting to absorb their love - of friendship.

“Grr, get away you stupid changelings!” the pink pegasus yelled in frustration, her temper going up. The changelings hissed, their tongues slithering like a snake, stepping closer to her. “Back off!” she screamed with a straining face, her eyes wide, showing veins on her forehead. She shoved one out of the way when another one whacked her away. “Ugh! How are we gonna keep control of these pony-bugged creatures if they won’t listen to us!?” Gozy let out a snort through her nostrils, flapping her little wings to avoid them, forgetting that they can fly, too, chasing after her. “Quit it! You shall not have my love! Tirek, I need your help! Get these creatures to stop going after us!”

Tirek kicked a changeling off of his back leg, throwing the next one with his fist. “What do you think I’m trying to do?” he responded to her cries. “They’re after me, too, you know!”

“Well, why don’t you suck up their magic, then!” Cozy suggested, continuing to fly around the room. “They have magic to transform into any pony or creature! Drain it out! It’ll keep them from chasing after us!” Another changeling got in front of her, close to her face, snapping its fangs together. “Ahh!” Screaming her head off, she quickly went behind the red and black centaur. “Hurry, eat up their magic before-”

“Before what?” The adorable child was interrupted by Chrysalis who stepped inside the lair, her wings buzzing like a wasp, her green eyes looking down on them. “You are not going to suck up their magic,” she said, pointing a straggly hoof at the slightly muscular half horse and half something else.

“It’s her idea!” Tirek pointed at the young pony. “It’ll be a lot better when these brand new changelings are drained from their magic. It’ll get them to listen-”

“-to listen to me! I’m the queen from the last changelings. Their leader until Starlight Glimmer ruined them!” Cozy went to say something when the queen sent daggered pupils at her. “And you. I’m in charge this time.”

This got the youngest one hopping mad. “Grogar is the one who left me in charge! I was the one who suggested we worked together when we were retrieving the bell at Mount Everhoof.”

Crossing his muscled arms, Tirek kicked a changeling away when he responded. “You’re not in charge - I am!”

“No. You’re. Not!” the other two yelled in his face.

“I’m the leader!” Cozy tossed a crown on her head. “You shall listen to the Emperor of Friendship,” she said, adjusting the head wear.

“Ha!” Chrysalis let out a laugh, taking away the crown, placing it on her head. “I’m the queen, you two shall bow to me!”

“No way!” Tirek snached the crown, placing it between his curved horns. “I shall wear this thing for I am Lord Tirek,” he stated, licking his thumb, rubbing it on the golden material where it can shine.

“Give it here!” It was taken by the little pony who got a good grip on it. “This is mine. I was also the one who’s been draining the magic of Equestria.” She put it back on her head when the evil queen poked her hard in the chest, causing the crown to fly off as it hit the wall, clattering onto the floor.

“Youfailed to destroy Equestria and the pony heroes,” the tall creature reminded her. “Tirek also failed by defeating Twilight and her ‘precious’ friends.”

“So did you, Chrysalis,” Tirek also gave her a reminder. “You should’ve sucked up all the ponies love.”

“I would have done it if Starlight hadn’t corrupted my last subjects along with Thorax taking my place and taking over the hive.”

Cozy rubbed her forehead, groaning. “Good thing I’m in charge…”

“You’re not in charge!” Chrysalis and Tirek yelled in her face again, practically screaming.

She raised her head up, her face turning red with anger, growling at the two villians. “I’m in charge because I’m way smarter than you two.”

Chrysalis rolled her eyes. “Yeah...right. Smart enough to fail to destroy Twilight and her friends since you believe you can make more friends than anybody else.”

“I can, too, have more friends,” Cozy bickered with a stomp of her little hoof. “Everyone says that friendship is magic, when it’s actually power. Twilight explained it when she and the rest came back from Tarturus. I, of course, simply didn’t care what she said. I also hate it when I have to say the Elements names. Blah!” Sticking out her tongue, she waved her head from side to side. “Those stupid Elements kept their friendship.”

“Actually, it’s their magic of friendship that kept them together…” Tirek muttered in which she heard.

“Whatever! At least I don’t talk in my sleep, mentioning my gram-gram.”

“Don’t bring her into this conversation.”

“What conversation? We’re simply chatting in ticked off voices because you two think I shouldn’t be in charge!” Going back to where the crown is at, the pegasus placed it back on her head for the third time. “There,” she smiled, getting off the ground, flapping her little wings. “Since I’m wearing this, it means I’m in charge.”

“No, I’m in charge,” Chrysalis said, snatching the crown when Cozy grabbed the other end of it. “Let go of it, you pethetic foal!”

“You’re the one who’s pathetic, your majesty.” The crown got yanked out of the changeling's hoof when it also flung out of her own hoof, sending it out of the lair. The three of them listened to it roll away until they heard a splash. “Look at what you’ve done! You lost my crown,” she blamed.

“You were the one who snached it away from me for how stupid you are.” The cute, little winged pony didn’t like what the queen said, clenching her teeth together. “Besides, Grogar is the one in charge because he brought us here.”

“Fine, let’s have Grogar be in charge,” the filly gave in. Tirek and Chrysalis smiled at the idea. “Anyway, why did you send some changelings to Canterlot?” she asked.

“They were there until they flew back here,” the queen answered annoyed. “They told me that they’ve been fought off by the yellow pegasus and some unicorn with glasses on his face.”

“Is this unicorn a nerd?” Chrysalis glared at her. “What?” Shrugging her shoulders, Cozy had no idea why she’s getting that awful look.

“How should I know? I wasn’t there.” Pinning her ears back, Chrysalis kept firing her eyes at the tiny pony. “They even reported that there are other ponies with Twilight and her friends. They never saw them before since I never told them since I only told them about the seven ponies and the little dragon.”

“Maybe those new ponies should be on our side to take over Equestria.” Sitting down on a stone, the youngest villain thought it would be a great idea. “In fact, they should kidnap those heroes in better to help us-”

“We caught someone in the swamp.” Being interrupted again, Cozy went to yell at whoever cut her off when she saw the two changelings bringing over a white pegasus pony, dropping him on the floor, pinning him down. “We found him and brought him in the swamp,” the first changeling reported. “We have no idea why he’s there, but we figured that Tirek should drain his magic.”

“What are you talking about?” The white winged-pony struggled to get free. “I have no magic. I am the bodyguard of Prince Vekar who was simply minding my own business when you two kidnapped me. Now, get off me!” Bringing out his sword, he swiped at the changelings, forcing them to get off of him. He stood up, placing his sword back on the place where he keeps it, looking around. “Where am I?” He faced the other three.

“Golly, this here is the lair belonging to Grogar,” Cozy told him, walking up to him with a smile. “I couldn’t believe that those nasty changelings wanted Tirek to absorb your power. No need to fret, though, you can help us by destroying Equestria and the Elements of Harmony. By the way, what’s your name, sir?”

The white pony stared at her for a long time, unable to believe how small she is for wanting to destroy this world. “Hang on, what did you say?”

“I asked what your name is,” Cozy replied.

“No, no, the other part. About Equestria. What’s Equestria?”

“I’ll tell you once you tell us your name.” The little one placed the side of her face next to his. “I’ll go first. My name is Gozy Glow. This here is Lord Tirek…” Tirek huffed out a breath. “...and this is Queen Chrysalis and her army of changelings,” she then pointed at the queen and her horde. “By the way these are new changelings. Her last subjects got redeemed all thanks to…” She let out a guttural groan. “Starlight Glimmer.” She smiled again, replacing it from the disgusted expression, wrapping her arm around the newcomer’s neck. “There, I told you who we were, so now it’s your turn.”

“It’s Argus…” he said, pushing her away. “Now! Why did these 'changelings' bring me here? And answer this instant,” he demanded. “Or else I’ll use my sword against you three,” he threatened, ready to pull out his weapon.

Cozy placed her hoof on the handle of the sword, stopping him. “No need to destroy your new friends, Argus. There’s just been a misunderstanding.”

The two changelings, the ones who brought Argus here, growled when one of them spoke. “A misunderstanding? He’s probably one of the heroes in Equestria.”

“Excuse me, but do I look like a hero?” Argus faced them, pulling out his sword. “Should I show you what I can do?” He hadn’t waited until they answered him when his sword began glowing white. “Solar Slash Energized!”

The insect ponies had never had enough time to react when an X was made, sending them across the room.

They landed on the ground, rubbing their heads when the rest of the changelings saw what happened, stunned at what they saw. They stayed where they were, knowing what will happen when they get close to the one who showed them what he could do to them.

Argus, putting his sword away, smirked. “A hero would never do that unless they are defending their home - like earth.”

“Earth?” Chrysalis seemed intrigued, rubbing her chin. “Tell us about earth.”

“Why would I tell you?” The bodyguard took a step back. “I cannot trust you for who I have no idea what you three are up to,” he said paranoidly.

“Oh, there’s no need to not trust us. We’re the bad guys.” The youngest villain flipped her curls, giggling. “You can totally trust us. By telling us what earth is, we should tell you about Equestria.”

Hesitant, the white pony cleared his throat. “Alright. I’ll tell you about earth. Long story short, the prince’s scientist made something to get rid of the Power Rangers except we were brought to this world instead.”

The three villains exchange looks when Tirek said something. “Power Rangers? What are ‘Power Rangers’?”

“Yes, what are Power Rangers?” a gruffly voice spoke up. There, walking to where they’re at, is a blue ram wearing a red collar with bells on it, jingling with each step he took. “And who are you supposed to be?” he directed at the newcomer.

“Hey, Grogar, this here is Argus. He’s a new friend we’ve made.” Doing a cute grin, she placed a hoof on the pony she called friend. “Argus, this here is Grogar. He’s the one who brought us here.”

The two of them stared at each other and Argus took a step away from the ram. “Are you a villain, too?”

“Hmph” Letting out a huff, the ram’s collar glowed a bright gold, levitating the newcomer off the ground. “Why would you ask such a question?” He brought him close to his face. “How do we know your somepony who isn’t with Twilight and her precious friends?”

Argus struggled to get down. “You wanna know if I’m a villain, eh? Okay, I’ll show you.” Whipping out the sword, he used it to knock the evil animal to the floor, the collar not glowing anymore as he went back onto the floor. “There, does that answer your question?” Putting the sword away, he began walking away. “You four, including those things you call changelings, are wasting my time. I better find someone else for help. Someone who can take the Armada back to earth so we can get rid of the Rangers.”

Grogar got back up on his hooves, ran, and stood sideways, blocking the bodyguard. “Stop right there. You hadn’t answered my other question. What are Power Rangers?”

The evil centaur stomped his hoof, creating a crack on the floor. “I’d asked him the same thing thirty seconds ago.”

Grogar gave him a warning look before turning back to Argus. “Who are the Power Rangers? Give me every detail. The name sounds too huroundess for some people to be called such a thing.”

Argus nodded his head. “The name indeed sounds awful. The Power Rangers are these heroes that use Legendary keys and Megazords to stop every commander we send down in the home world where we live. It drives the prince insane to where he throws temper tantrums.”

Blowing out of his nostrils, another question seemed to pop into the evil ram’s evil brain. “By ‘we’ you mean the Armada?”

Argus nodded his head. “Yes, sir. Levira created something in order to get rid of the Rangers. Except, the blue one used a move similar to mine, and the Armada has been brought here instead of those heroes we always wanted to destroy.”

After he was finished, Grogar went over to the orb in the color of goldish-brown with a thick, black line on it. Standing behind it, he began to activate it. “Are you sure the Rangers hadn’t come to this world, you say? Maybe this here orb will give you the answers. It shows different things, mainly what’s happening now.”

Rubbing the back of his head, the pony shrugged his shoulders. “Our screen in the Command Room isn’t working.”

Chuckling, the blue animal had the pegasus look into the orb.

At first he saw nothing of it. Then he saw fifteen ponies and what seemed to be a dragon at a table in a big room. The table was long, covered by white table cloth where it touched the floor. He saw the six ponies he recognized, eating, enjoying a meal with the other ponies he hadn’t seen before, laughing as they chatted with each other.

He saw the one Ranger he’s always been fighting - the blue one next to a yellow pegasus with a long pink mane. The two of them kept grinning at each other while the rest talked about stuff, their mouths moving even though he couldn’t hear what they were saying.

His eyes are completely locked on the one Ranger with the yellow pony. When the Blue Ranger took a look at her, she swift her head away. He has no idea what these two are up to, but all he wanted is that Ranger.

The orb seemed to shut off, and Argus took a step back. “The prince needs to hear this.”

Cozy raised her hoof. “Bring them here instead. I’m sure we can figure out a way to stop those Rangers.”

“Mm, yes…” The queen nodded her head, agreeing with her. “If they’re with those ponies, they’ll be on their side for sure. What do you think, Tirek?” The four of them looked at him, waiting for his answer.

He broke his gaze at his muscles, seeming to snap out of a daze. “Oh, uh, yes. You can bring them here.” He crossed his arms over his chest. “Though, I wish I could absorb your sword’s magic,” he muttered under his breath.

“It isn’t a magic sword, it’s a powerful sword. I use this thing to fight the Rangers, mainly the blue one since he’s always getting in my way.” He turned around, glancing over his shoulder, opening up his wings. “I will be right back.”

He was about to leave when Grogar halted him. “I’ll go with you and I’ll bring the orb along with us, then we can bring them here.” Picking up the orb, he went back to Argus. “By the way, when you mention a Command Room, what do you mean by that?”

“We came from a ship. The Armada Ship, I should say. It might be broken, though Levira can fix it. She can fix anything and build stuff, too.”

Closing his eyes, Grogar chuckled. “Well, why are we standing here? Let’s go meet these people and show them about the Rangers you mentioned being here in Equestria.”

“I still have no idea what Equestria is,” Argus responded.

“Don’t worry, I’ll tell you once you take me to the location,” he promised, placing the orb on his back, balancing it perfectly. He faced the other three baddies. “Stay here until we return. No arguing either, got it?”

Chrysalis, Tirek, and Cozy Glow answered him with different replies.

“Yes, sir.”

“No problem.”

“I’ll be in charge since I’m always doing it.” Both Tirek and the changeling queen gave the little pony with freckles angry eyes. She saw this, giving them the same look. “I’ll be in charge until he gets back.”

Of course, that led into an argument, the three of them talking over to each other. Rolling his eyes, the blue ram began walking out of the area with Argus right by him, hovering as he flew next to him.

The arguing seemed to fade away when they got outside the lair, the swamp looking darker than before.

Knowing where this white pony is going, the ram followed him, making sure not to drop the orb in the process.

Grogar turned his head to the lair. He doesn’t hear any arguing from where he and Argus are at, but it doesn’t mean they won’t stop until he gets back. Those three have always bickered, wondering who should be in charge, even though he was the one who brought them together.

It seemed they hadn’t gotten over their differences completely, yet, so maybe once they bring the prince and the rest here, they can come up with a plan, like helping them get rid of the Elements of Harmony as well as their new allies.

An evil smile submerged from his face, using his hoof to push away a tree branch, knowing it’ll be a great idea. Plus, he wondered what the prince looks like, too.

Vekar paced back and forth inside the Command Room, getting impatient by the second, his hooves clicking, getting him more irritated, kicking his back legs, sending a ponified xborg out of the way without him knowing it was right behind him.

Gazing out the window, he saw the rest of his henchman walking around, slowly getting used to their new forms. This gave the prince a chance to see what types of ponies are. Half of the xborgs seemed to be regular ponies while the rest have wings. Even the bruisers are normal ponies, bigger than the gray guys.

Grunting, he slammed his hoof on the glass window, pressing his forehead against it, wondering where Argus is at for how late he is.

He’s completely stupid, he thought, turning away from the view, going over to the chair he had gotten up minutes ago. He’s the one who brought us here. He keeps stating that the Blue Ranger is the one who activated the device, when he could’ve stopped him from doing so.

He sat down on the chair again, tapping the button for the screen to turn back on.

Nothing. The screen hadn’t turned on. This got him more annoyed as he kept hitting the button over and over. He knows the ship is wrecked despite landing in this new world, so why isn’t the screen turning on?

The hitting turned to slamming, his face getting strained with pure frustration. “Levira!” Yelling out loud, he punched the button this time with a curled hoof. “You need to fix this screen! I’m tired of it not being on anymore!” He pounded the button some more. “Turn on, you stupid thing!”

The unicorn went up to him, frowning. “You do realize it cannot hear you…”

“Whatever! Fix this thing or else I’m gonna hit Damaras with his huge sword,” Vekar said, retrieving a look from the warrior. “Who says you can look at me?” He noticed this, casting an angry glare back at the golden pony. “And quit being bigger than me! I’m the prince, I should be the biggest one! I’m the older brother of Vrak, who isn't as smart as I am.”

“Actually, he is…” Damaras responded after the prince took a breath.

Vekar got off the chair, landing on all fours. “No, he isn’t! I’m better than him and always will be. I’m the first in line for the throne. My father said so, except I heard him having a chat with you, telling you to keep an eye on me. He never had to do the same for my younger brother, proving he loves him more than me. Vrak had always had our father at his side because he thinks he can do better things than I can do, like taking his first steps while I’m having trouble standing up on my own, and I HATE IT!” he screamed, throwing another fit, hopping up and down like a spoiled child. “If my dumb brother were here, maybe he’ll help us out of this mess, but nooo, he’s somewhere back on earth, the world I wanna take over.”

The warrior placed his hoof on his forehead. “Your temper tantrums are giving me a headache, sire.”

“You’re the headache,” the prince pointed, pressing the button a lot more than ever, failing to get the screen back on. “Arrrrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhh!” Releasing an infuriated holler, he slammed his hoof on the screen, creating a huge crack on it. “Fix this stupid thing, right now, Levira! It now has a crack not made by me!”

“Will you stop yelling? It driving me nuts,” Levira said, pushing him away from the screen.

Vekar stumbled back, almost falling, catching his balance. “How dare you shove the mighty prince of the Armada. Now fix the dumb screen. I’m beginning to wonder if the Rangers are here in this pathetic world all thanks to Damaras for thinking the same thing first, which isn’t fair since I should be the one who thinks first while you generals think last. I always come up with good plans, as well before you guys can.”

“In which they failed.” Vekar gave the large pony a nasty look. “Yeah, give me those expressions; like it’ll scare me away.”

The ponified prince scoffed. “I can creep you out with my stares.” He widened his eyes, showing cracks within them. “Ahh!” He suddenly shut his eyes. “My eyes are burning! What’s happening!?”

“Have you blinked your eyes?” The scientist checked the screen.

“No, why would I do something like that? I never blink except when I go to bed.” Another painful sting came to his eyes. “Ow, stop burning this instant.”

“Blink your eyes,” she told him firmly.

“No,” he refused, rubbing his closed up eyes. “Your idea is lame.” He sat on the floor as he continued to try to get rid of the fire within his eyeballs. He felt the two generals looking at him through his eyelids. “Fine, I’ll blink my eyes,” he finally gave in, blinking them fast until his aching eyes stopped burning. “Stupid how I have to blink my eyes for how stupid it is. In fact, everything around here is stupid.” He got back up. “And you know who’s dumber than this? Argus. When he gets back, I’ll give him a piece of my-”

The doors suddenly slid open. Argus came walking in, and Vekar was about to go after him when he saw someone with him.

He was about to say something when Damaras beat him to it, his ears going back, as he got peeved. “Who’s this, Argus? Someone you ran into?”

“Nevermind that!” the prince barged in. “Just tell us who you are so I can give my bodyguard a piece of my mind.”

Smirking, the blue ram stepped up to the ravenous pony. “You’re the prince, aren’t you? Have to say, you have lots of tantrums despite being a royal being.” Vekar gritted his teeth together, hating every bit of this guy. “Seems like you get mad pretty fast, don’t ya think?”

Feeling like he was offended, Vekar poked the ram’s chest. “Mad? Why would I get mad? I’m not mad, I’m annoyed, all thanks to him-” He shoved a hoof in the bodyguard’s face. “-for bringing us to this world where we turned into cute ponies. And I hate cute!”

The ram walked around in a circle, eyeing at the prince, letting out a gruff chuckle deep within his throat. “You wanna know where you people are at? The land filled with ponies and other creatures with no humans in sight?”

“Yes, now get to it or else I’ll hit Argus,” Vekar answered, getting impatient.

Chuckling, he stopped mid-walk. “You’re in a place called Equestria, filled with ponies and other creatures with no humans whatsoever. This place has always been filled with happiness and friendship all thanks to Twilight Sparkle and the rest of her pals…”

“I don’t care who Twilight Sparkle is, all I care is about getting out of here,” Vekar said. “Plus, thanks to Damaras, I’m wondering if the Rangers are here. I never thought that before until then.”

“Curious, huh?” Bringing the orb in front of the prince, he held it with his hoof. “Go ahead, take a peak.”

Steering his eyes to the right, Vekar lowered his head to get a better view. Just like with Argus, he saw nothing of it, until he saw six familiar people in pony forms at a table, eating dinner, having a good time with other ponies and a dragon.

There was even a tall, white pony with wings and a long horn in which Argus hadn’t seen when he first looked at it.

All the Rangers got up from the chairs along with what seemed to be their new pals. He also saw a yellow pegasus tripping over the Blue Ranger, falling to the floor in which he helped her up.

Watching, the prince saw the yellow pony blush at the light, brown unicorn for his assistant before the two of them walked together, leading the orb to switch off.

Taking a step back, Vekar’s mouth popped open. “The Rangers are here in this place called Equestria? We have to destroy them - now!”

“Wait! How about you let him and his allies help us?” Argus piped up. “He’d said he would bring you guys to them, too.”

“His allies?” Damaras arched a brow. “Who are his allies?”

“Who cares?” Vekar barged in again. “He hadn’t told us who he was, and I demanded for him to tell us his name.”

The blue ram snickered. “I, your majesty, am Grogar.”

“Grogar? What kind of ridiculous name is that? Nevermind, take us to your allies.”

“As you wish…” Taking the orb back, Grogar turned his back, heading to the doors. “Follow me, please.”

“Follow me, please,” the prince mimicked. “He should be following me.”

“Let’s go, your highness,” Levira said, walking along with Grogar.

Groaning, Vekar followed the rest of the gang.

Reaching back to the swamp, a few flies buzzing around the prince, driving him up the wall as he kept swatting them away. “Get away, you bugs!” he commanded, the dark insects flying all over him. “Damaras, these flies won’t leave me alone! What should I do?”

“Use your tail to shoo them away,” the warrior suggested expressionless, seemingly to ignore the bugs around him.

Vekar swatted a fly that landed on his ear. “Why would I use my tail? I’m not an actual pony, you know.”

“Sorry, it was only a suggestion.”

“Sorry doesn’t cut it.” A fly landed on his muzzle, leading him to smack himself in the face. “Agh, when will we get there!?”

“Glad you ask because we’re already here.” Upon Grogar's response, Vekar and his generals saw a large cavernous in the shape of a ram just like Grogar. Vekar’s ears flattened, as if he was offended by this place.

“This is where you and your allies live? It looks like it came out of a Dumpster.”

“Uh, it’s literally made out of stone, sire,” Argus told him.

“This place is disgusting,” the prince ignored his bodyguard. “I’m going back to the Armada Ship.” He only took one step when Levira grabbed him by the ear. “Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.” This time, the unicorn ignored him. “Release my ear at once or else I’ll send you into the murky water.”

His wish hadn’t been granted until they got inside where they heard arguing. By the time they got to a certain area, he saw what seemed to be Grogar’s allies.

It was hard to tell what they’re saying since they’re talking over each other. Grogar stepped up to them, his collar glowing, getting them separated. “We brought these people here,” he announced. “This here is Prince Vekar and his own generals.”

The smallest one flew up to them. “Nice to meet ya, pal.” She shook hooves with him. “I’m Gozy Glow, and that’s Tirek and Chrysalis and her new horde of changelings. We’ve been told about the Power Rangers and what they can do.” Releasing his hoof, she placed her hooves on the ground. “Tell us your names.”

“It’s Prince Vekar,” he introduced with a frown, wondering why this one seemed really cute while the rest seemed to be evil. “And this is Levira…” he directed at the green unicorn. “...and Damaras,” he finished by then gesturing at the golden pony. He turned to his own generals. “Okay, we met them, let’s get back to the ship. I want Levira to build something for us to get out of this…” He shivered. “...world.”

“But sire, what about the Rangers? We need to destroy them.”

“How are we gonna do that, Damaras? Normally, they’ll defeat our commanders - twice. Except now it won’t happen since the Armada Ship is on the ground and Levira has to use a magma beam to grow the allies into giants, and the only way she can use it if the ship is off the ground.”

“We can still get rid of the Rangers, I just need to make sure it can fly. The ship probably still works,” the scientist said. “Except for the screen you broke,” she added.

He simply rolled his eyes at the short reminder from her. “What about the Rangers' new allies? Should we get rid of them, too?”

“Yes.” Chrysalis stepped up to him. “I’ve been thinking...if you help us destroy Twilight Sparkle and her friends, we’ll help you get rid of the Rangers. My new horde of changelings will help along the way as long as you have your own subjects at their side.”

Everyone looked at Vekar with him looking back at them. It doesn’t sound like a bad idea at all, but there’s a catch. “Levira, if you were to build something to bring us back home, how long would it take?”

“Mm, normally it doesn’t take me long to build something, but since I need to create something to bring us home, it’ll take up to a year to get it done.”

“WHAT!? A YEAR!?” the prince exploded in pure madness. “I cannot wait for a year, I wanna go home now! I wanna go back where earth is at!”

“Too bad, it’s gonna be awhile until I finish it. Besides, Chrysalis’s idea is great. If these people help us get rid of the Rangers, we can return them the favor in getting rid of this Twilight Sparkle and her pals.”

Of course, Vekar still isn’t pleased when she mentioned it’ll take up to a year to make this device to send them back home. Though again, the idea isn’t so bad. He faced Grogar, giving him his hoof. “We’ll help you get rid of Twilight Sparkle, whoever that is, and her allies while you do the same for us.”

“It’s a deal.” Taking his hoof with his own, the two of them shook on it. “Now, shall we get back to your place then?”

“Yes, and bring your allies and the horde of changelings. I do hope the Armada Ship can still fly.”

“I hope so, too,” Levira responded as everyone followed the prince out of the lair. “The magma beam won’t work unless we’re in the sky where I can aim it perfectly.”

Vekar didn’t care for his words because he isn’t in the mood for what she has to say. All he cared about was getting rid of the Rangers and their new friends they seemed to team up with.

Once those heroes are gone for good, he and his generals will go back home to take over the earth with them out of their way.

He hated it when he was told it could take up to a year for Levira to build something to get them out of Equestria. He hated his new form more than ever, but he guessed he had to get used to it somehow.

He sighed quietly for no one could hear him. He basically wanted to go home this instant, though he knew it wouldn’t happen right away.

Oh well, at least his generals and him are going to have help in getting rid of the colourful heroes.

And that’s the only thing that is in his mind besides going home. Getting rid of the Rangers and their new pony friends, plus a dragon.

It’s all he wanted. With a bigger group, he’s sure to end those heroes for good.

And he couldn’t wait.