Cruger was in a good mood.
Why wouldn't he be? It was a nice day, he was out on his custom ATV, and SPD was beginning to fill up with qualified personel again. It was especially good to see his sorta nephew Gray Ghost join the ranks, though no surprise as he thought of Cruger as his father. It was truly a shame, son of Princess Luna, who became Nightmare Moon shortly after the Discord incident, and King Sombra, cruel tyrant of the Crystal Empire. No small wonder he set himself up in a time dilation bubble. Still, it was good to see the squirt try to make his name stand for something good. While the dark powers his father forced upon him were too unstable for Patrol work, his steel trap mind would make him a grade A Inspector in due course.
Cruger's mood soured slightly as he recalled what had happened to Luna. While he saw both princesses as little sisters, he connected a mite more with Luna. When Luna learned of the experiments that Sombra was performing on her own son, it was Cruger's shoulder she cried on. He saw the signs of Luna's desire for more ponies to appreciate her and the night she brought, and was able to keep them in check. If it wasn't for Discord, there would probably be no such thing as Nightmare Moon. At least in modern times that was no longer a problem.
The ATV hit a bump,bringing Cruger back to the present. He did enjoy his ATV, which he named the Delta Striker. It was one of the only two pieces of SPD equipment the the R&D team wasn't normally allowed to touch, the other being the Shadow Saber, his trusty blade.
Cruger's thoughts enevitibly drifted towards his budding R&D department, which honestly didn't get to do much back in the old days. His current research chief, Fetch, was a prodigy of cyber-magi systems, it took him about 5 seconds too figure out how to use a Crysterminal. He also knew more random trivia than a champion game show contestant, in fact, he probably was one.
His counterpart in maintanence was an odd duck named Steam Gear. While normally as talkative as Fluttershy, if you got him on the subject of wings, well.
Let's just say it's easier to get Pinkie to shut up, Gear didn't like cupcakes.
Cruger was silently glad that the Runner Bays were still shut down, poor colt might have a heart attack if he saw Delta Runner 2, to say nothing of the Delta Wingers.
Of course there was also that new assistant, Lunar Fang. Poor guy, in the 3 weeks since SPD resurfaced, the young thestral had gotten zapped, had somthing blow up in his face, or got whacked by somything at least a dozen times. Luckily one of the perks of belonging to SPD was that there was a state of the art medical center on site.
Speaking of thestrals, his new Head Trainer, Edge Case, was straight from Luna's personal guard. He filled every possible definition of elite guard. The only reason that Cruger didn't make him a Patrol Trooper was that he would be much more useful training other Troopers.
Cruger frowned slightly as he thought of the current state of the Patrol Squads. There were dozens of applicants, most of which went straight to the bottom of the pack, D Squad. Several transfers from the Guard, as well as some exceptional recruits, went to C Squad, which comprised the bulk of SPD's forces. What troubled Cruger was that not many qualified for the elite B Squad. To enter B Squad required the right blend of ability, experience, and character. Ponies like that Dual Star, former Royal Guard who considered anger to be a weakness. Of course he wasn't too upset that no-one qualified for A Squad, that was Cruger's personal squad. Nobody but NOBODY entered A Squad without being hand picked by Cruger himself.
Although there was at least one mare who he had his eye on.
Cruger's communicator started beeping. Pulling over, Cruger was a major opponent of driving while on the phone, he answered it. It was one of his Dispatch Operators, Blue Rush if he wasn't mistaken.
"Sir, Miss Song asked me to tell you that RIC was ready."
"Acknowledged," Cruger replied before hanging up, smiling. He thought of SPD as his family, and every good family should have a pet.
It was time to bring the family dog back from the vet.
Just as he was about to leave, he noticed a famillier blue figure on a low grey cloud.
"Good afternoon miss Dash."
Rainbow Dash turned around. While most people wouldn't have noticed, for the split second between her turning around and her seeing Cruger, there was a sad, confused look on her face which she quickly replaced with a friendly grin.
Cruger was not most people.
"Hey Cruger! What's up?"
"Nothing much, is something troubling you?"
"Well kind of," Dash admitted, "nothing really."
"Mind if I join you so you can talk about it?" Cruger asked with a friendly smile.
Dash laughed. "I'm on a cloud, you don't have wings, how do you expect to join me?"
Cruger's smile turned into a mischevious grin, "if i can stand next to you on that cloud, will you tell me your troubles?"
Dash returned the grin and nodded, "sure, why not?"
Grinning wider, Cruger walked next to the cloud, grabbed the edge, and vaulted onto it. Dash just watched, mouth wide enough to safely pass a supertanker through. Cruger just smiled and pointed at a small gem on his boot, "cloudwalking charm, birthday gift from Luna. Celestia got me a coffee machine that year, still don't know which one is more useful." His grin dropped, "now, what's wrong?"
Dash's expression returned to the one Cruger saw earlier, "nothing really. It's just that all my life I wanted to become a Wonderbolt. To protect the skies of Equestria and delight massive crowds with my raw awesomeness. To prove to everyone that I'm the best flier in all Equestria, if not Equis. But then you come along and bring SPD with you, which sounds just as awesome as being a Wonderbolt, if not more. I mean seriously, you have a giant robot, hard to get more awesome than that. So here's me, on one hand being a member of SPD might be more awesome than being a Wonderbolt, and on the other is a dream I've had before I could even fly. Do I follow the dream I had since I was little? Or do I abandon it because I found something I want to do even more?"
Cruger said nothing for a minute. "Well, I can't make up you mind for you, but if it helps," he said while standing up to leave, "a few Wonderbolts have transferred to SPD."
Dash raised an eyebrow, "really?"
Cruger nodded. "Now if you'll excuse me," he said while jumping off the cloud, "I need to get back. RIC's coming back from the vet."
As Cruger rode off, another question entered Dash's mind.
Who's Rick?
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he's the robot dog that can turn into a cannon
6506932 hmmm i actually have seen Dekaranger, so i am almost familiarized with all the things you are talking about, but in Dekaranger(original japanese version of SPD) it doesn't have the robot cannon dog thingie (as far as I can remember)
6506954 yes it does.
6506995 yep, just finished checking (I was stranded on chapter twentysomething, thats why i didn't see it in action) sorry for the incident boss!
Fetch WOULD be a champ game show contestant, except for one problem: he gets stage fright in front of large crowds. (I knew I forgot something in his bio. Sorry.) Oh, and he also doesn't like cupcakes (sorry Pinkie). He likes apple goodies. :)
Well color me impressed so far! Nice collection of OCs...and is this some hinting Dash may be trying out for SPD? And if she does, what color ranger would she be? Even more interesting, who would be her Squad-mates? Main Six? Secondary ponies like Derpy, Time Turner, Lyra, ect? Oh boy...this is gunna be good!
6506995 I'm going to have my avatar be part of this spd. Also if you really want to know what race shadow ranger is all I can say is check the wiki. I'll send a bio and you can clearly see the image from my portait.
FUCK YEAH RIC!!! YEAH!!!
i think commander Cruger is a nerubian something ?
also i prefered the japanese version (in it the commander ACTUALLY looks like a dog, not a crossbreed between a dog and a lizard (sorry about that commander)
If I may ask... are you still accepting oc?
I like it an am already thrilled to see the character interactions between the OC's. With so many different personalities there sure is a lot of potential!
6507097 To ensure that the Fic strays as little as possible from cannon, and to show how much I love you guys, the vast majority of SPD personel will be OCs created by the readers.
6507839 Until the story has a completion tag, though you might want to hurry up if you want a senior position.
6507388 Please note, I didn't do a whole lot of description concerning what Cruger looks like. You can decide for yourself if he looks like his sentai version, ranger version, or (this is me personally) somewhere in the middle.
6508120 ok... my oc is a ex assassin pegasus name NightStalker... He has a blueish grey coat and a red and black mane. Personality friendly and surprisingly open about himself... I won't bore you with the whole back story. in short he was betrayed and left for dead... now he's looking for a fresh start
6508158 I realize I forgot to put down his skills and flaws... he's very good at blending into the crowd, stealth, hand to hand combat, but his most vital skill is his most dangerous one... He can easily earn the trust and friendship of any one... he's flaws are that he's easily trusting and his most dangerous flaw is... he's unable to lie.
6508222 I've already said this so many times, and mark my words this shall be the last, any OCs not submitted through the dedicated blog will not be concidered.
really my oc is the only one in the B squad.... how this happened?
6508538 Give it some time, not a lot of people applied for Trooper.
6508538 just read the bloag i have a friend yay now i want to know this thunder rift dude
6508684 sudelly got an more completed backstory to my oc (witch also includes the unknow reason of why he got tranfered and more) but no telling you yet
6508422 oh sorry...
6508720 Not to spoil anything but, I have a cunning plan concerning the private thoughts and interactions between SPD personel. Keep you eyes open once chapter 10 is up.
6509552 Sirians is the race of anubis sir! The name of the planet cruger came from Is Sirius that was destroyed by grumm. Thought you should know.
6509916 I am aware.
I don't know a lot about Power Rangers SPD, so I'm gonna go with Dash on this question.
Who exactly IS RIC?
I'm a little on the fence about Rainbow Dash being conflicted there. On one hand, it's logical the SPD would appeal to her. On the other, it's a bit weird for her to actually question whether she can be in both or only one before hand. RD feels like she might have to have that pointed out to her.
That said, I DO like RIC being introduced.
That is quite a number of OCs in a very short time. I'm not even going to try to remember any of them right now.
I'll read on a bit more, but OC overload like this is a significant turn off for me. It's one of my bigger issues with many displaced fics...
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When RD thought "who is rick?"..one thought came to mind...
"IM PICKLE RICK!"
Because let's face it...he would need a vet XD. Wonder if anybody has displaced as Dan VS yet...?
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If I recall correctly and I think you know this already it's a robot dog.
RICK ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLL
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