//------------------------------// // Episode 1: Part 1: Curse From the Stars // Story: POWER RANGERS STARFLEET (Starfleet Humans:) // by DakariKingMykan //------------------------------// When the evil does call, and our world starts to fall A hero will fight to make things fine! With our friendships so bright, we will fight with all our might just as the stars and goodness must shine…! GO, GO POWER RANGERS Believing is all that we’ve got! GO, GO POWER RANGERS Make evil forces prevail naught STARFLEET FOREVER, POWER RANGERS… ALL TOGETHER! GO, GO POWER RANGERS Believing is all that we’ve got! GO, GO POWER RANGERS Make evil forces prevail naught STARFLEET FOREVER, POWER RANGERS… ALL TOGETHER! POWER RANGERS… STARFLEET!!! EPISODE ONE It all began sometime after the adventures of Starfleet Events… In the Dimensional Universe-- an alternate dimension of the human world… Commander Lightning Dawn of Starfleet, and his team of friends, the best fighters in all of Starfleet had gone off on a mission to the planet Mangola, where reports had come in of an invasion of aliens that were terrorizing the good people. As the planet was within the Starfleet territory, it was up to Lightning and his team to thwart the evil doers and bring them to justice! During his absence, back on the planet United Equestria… within the laboratories of the royal palace in New Canterlot, something mysterious was happening…! The Mirror-Gateway, the portal which connected their world to the human world was glowing in a weird way, and giving off abnormal flows of power. Professor Brain and his team of experts examined the portal with all that they had. “Strange… most strange.” said Brain “The portal generators don’t seem to be powering down regardless of what we do.” He sent for their royal majesties. Grand Ruler Celesto, his wife Queen Celestia, and Celestia’s younger sister, Princess Luna. Celestia was able to determine immediately what was going on. “Every thirty moons the gateway opens by itself. This is done by a combination of light emitted from the full-moon absorbed by the solar panels on the palace, with magical energies we all have yet to understand.” Princess Luna agreed, and recollected, “Durring the great war, when my evil side had invaded Equestria of old, the mirror was damaged, and though United Equestria had formed, the mirror had remained powerless… until Lightning was able to redesign and reconfigure it… these of course were based of plans he knew from Twilight Sparkle.” Mentioning Twilight’s name, everyone fell silent for a moment, feeling a little down that she had been dead for almost a full year after being killed in action. Once they all got a hold of themselves, Grand Ruler checked the calendar, “Tonight must be the night, when it opens naturally for the first time in two and a-half years since it was repaired. That would explain why it’s glowing.” Everyone figured that when the portal was redesigned to allow instant and anytime access to the human world that had something to do with the portal’s now abnormal behavior. “Do you think this could be… dangerous?” Celestia asked. “That I am uncertain of…” said Brain “I’m afraid that only Lightning shall be able to assist in this, as he did design the gate.” Grand Ruler shook his head, “Lightning hasn’t returned Mangola yet. I don’t know when he’ll be back, but I would suggest we try and shut the portal down. We don’t want things to get any worse.” Everyone agreed, and Princess Luna went to the window and looked up at the full moon. “I shall attempt to block it out to stop the flow of energy from the light.” She began to cast her magic, creating thick dark clouds in the night sky to cover the moon and block out the light shining from it. While she did this, the others decided it best to disconnect the portal from all power sources, hoping it would stop glowing. While all that was happening, a few dimensional-lightyears away, was Conva, base of one of Starfleet’s largest prison facilities, housing so many dangerous creatures captured from all corners of the galaxy for crimes committed-- murder, conquest, theft, endangerment of life, revolutions, and various violations of the law in space and of other worlds. The main complex housed thousands of creatures, but there were other smaller facilities, towers, and various complexes all over the planet, each housing their own set of imprisoned monsters and convicts. All this was run and managed by the head warden: Colonel Cerise Wonder. A space alicorn, whom strongly resembled and sounded like Princess Cadance, and also had a rare golden horn and the ability to use the Uniforce. “You’ve got to be tough to run a huge place like this.” she would always say, and she was right; all those roaring and snarling beasts hammering at their cells, others causing riots in the courtyards, and even some getting into fights with another on enforced labour assignments. Cerise and her legion of guards and staff worked extra tight schedules to ensure that the prison was run properly, and to maintain the hold on the prisoners so that none would ever escape, which was why that day a maintenance team was scheduled to come and give all the systems and other things around the prison a good tune up to keep everything fine. Unbeknownst to any of them the danger that was about to befall… A grey Earth Pony, a technician with a bad attitude whom came with the maintenance crew from United Equestria, who detested Starfleet and the way many praised them, and wanted to think of some way to make them suffer or humiliate them… He had crept away from his work team and over to an unmanned console for the main complex. “If I can just release a few criminals, Starfleet will get the blame for inefficiency and people may wake up and realize what lamos they really are.” The only problem was, though he was good with simple wiring and tightening bolts and things like that, he had absolute no idea how the controls before him worked, or what they did. He didn’t dare break them open, for fear of really doing something wrong. Still not thinking straight due to his bad obsession, he foolishly thought of pressing just one little button; what harm would it do? So he pushed one large green button, and nothing really happened, just a yellow button began to flash. Still being foolish, he pushed that one two, causing a big red button to flash over a console with a label above it saying: “Prison Cellblocks” He grinned very naughty. “This is it…” he hissed softly “This is what I’m looking for. Now all I have to do is release just one or two… nah, better make it five.” Unfortunately, every switch he hit did nothing, as if the controls were locked. Only the big red button in the center of the console was flashing. “I’ll bet this unlocks it…” Brass said, and he pressed it right away. In the cellblocks, the guards were still doing their rounds, when suddenly the shields around the cells deactivated, one-after-another! The angry prisoners bust through their cells roaring and screeching loudly. “What the…!” cried a guard, and before he knew it he and his fellow guards were fighting off all the escaping convicts. “JAILBREAK!!” another guard screamed as more and more and more monsters escaped from their cells. Cerise heard the commotion and raced to the scene, “SOUND THE ALARMS!!!” She shouted. “We can’t, the systems are still down!” called a guard. Before long an extreme prison riot had broken out, as pretty much every single creature in the entire complex escaped and began to fight their way through. The worker ponies panicked and fled for their lives, before they got hurt… …While Cerise called out the entire army in the complex to come and detain the prisoners. The soldiers only equalled to less than half of the hundreds of prisoners, but fortunately for the soldiers, the prisoners were still very weak, some had even grown very old from being locked up for such a really long time, and when they saw Cerise powering up her golden horn they knew they were in trouble. “You’re not getting away that easy!” Cerise shouted, “UNIFORCE!!” Unleashing her power, she knocked many of the prisoners out cold, and trapped many of them back in their cells using the Uniforce energy as barriers. One of the guards ran up to Cerise in a panic. “Colonel…! There’s a fault in the power systems! It’s spreading along the powerlines! It could cause more power failures all over the other complexes!” Cerise knew this was serious. “Quickly, activate emergency shut down.” “Already have, ma’am… the fault is still spreading!” cried the guard. He then looked behind him at a series of power lines, “There goes one now!” Cerise looked and saw a speaking blue jolt of power heading along the lines. “It’s heading for that tower!” cried the guard “…It’s Tower Number Seven!” Cerise gassed, “Oh, no! Not Number Seven! One of our most dangerous creatures is locked up in there! He could escape!” “Let’s get over there!” shouted the guard. Tower Number Seven was just one of many identical prison towers on the entire planet. Five stories high-- about the size of a small apartment building-- it was round, metallic, and super high tech to keep all the many floors and rows of prisoners contained Spectacular but functional living quarters, including main control ops, galley, and a laboratory were based at the top of the tower for the staff and guards on shift. The guards, already well alerted of the crisis were doing they could to keep everything from flying to pieces, when suddenly that surge entered the tower through the wirelines. “Stop it!” shouted the Captain “Don’t let it short out the power-grid! The prisoners will escape!” but it was already too late…! The surge had hit a bank in the lines, splitting into one large one and three smaller ones. The three smaller surges had hit three cells on the main floor shorting out the power to the shields around the cells. Three creatures broke free. One of them was Marla: A very beautiful humanoid lady. She had pale grey skin, pointy ears, long, flowing light pink hair that ran all the way near the ground. She wore a red, sparkling, armored vest with a black skirt attached and matching black boots on her feet, and long fingerless black gloves. Another of them was Bronc: A big muscular armored creature, much taller and muscular than the others. Very little of his actual body was scene as he was covered in head to toe in white and blue armor, complete with a helmet hiding his features. He almost looked robotic, but he wasn’t. The last was Keto: A mage, though shorter than the others, about up to Marla’s upper-body. He skin was gold colored, he wore a black witch hat, a red cape, a green robe, and he carried a long metal staff with an upside-down crescent-moon with a large red ruby in the center at the top. “We’re free!” cried little Keto. Marla ran her hands through her long hair, letting it flow out as she stretched and sighed “Even after a hundred years, I’m still gorgeous,” she then cracked her knuckles, “…And ready to kick some butt!” “Well, what are we waiting for then…?” said Bronc, “…Let’s blow this joint!” Now that they were out of their cells, and thanks to the power surge, the magical manacles that prevented them from using their super strengths or special powers had gone dead. The guards rushed to the scene to detain the escapees, and Marla saw this good chance to use an old move of hers. Her eyes glowed and her hair bulged out in all directions, releasing little dandruff like flakes to the floor, “Lingos, rise…!” Marla shouted, and the flakes began to glow and take shape… Suddenly the whole floor was crawling with a swarm of humanoid creatures. Every single one of them had white head, with very little facial features, except for red eyes. They all wore silver, shiny spandex like outfits with red armor vests like Marla’s. All of them were growling in high raspy moans as they looked ready to brawl. “GO!!” shouted the captain, and mega brawl ensued. Though the Lingos were rather ugly looking, and tried to put up a valiant effort, they were not exactly the best of soldiers, and got pummeled by the guards. “Come on! You think you can take me!” Bronc shouted as he faced three of the guards down. The guards charged at him, and all jumped on him, but Bronc, flexing out his huge muscles, repelled them all off. Several of the male guards challenged Marla, but she fluttered her eye lids at them and flicked her hair in a pretty girl stance. The men could hardly resist her charm and froze in a daze. “Works every time.” chuckled Marla, and hollering like a warrior princess, she leapt over and punched, kicked the men away… she even whipped her hair like a large club, bashing them all to the wall. She blew the pitiful guards a flirtatious kiss As for little Keto, he was surrounded by more guards, and though he was outnumbered like a little kid being cornered by bullies, all he could do was chuckle and tap his staff once on the floor. Large beams then fired from the top of his staff hitting each of the guards, making sparks fly. However, what no one noticed was that final surge of energy had traveled along many wires and was now shorting out the seal to a very large cell on the main floor. A cell that seemed much thicker, stronger and much more concealed than any cell the tower, and for good reason! There was a large crash making everyone freeze and turn towards the cell, followed by the several smaller crashes, as though someone inside was pounding on the strong seal. Cerise and another team of guards had just entered the main floor through the tower doors just as the cell burst wide open in an explosion! “Oh, boy…!” Cerise cried under her breath. Everyone watched fearfully as someone walked forth through the smoke, leaving the cell. “Who’s that?” Keto asked. The other criminals weren’t sure. The creature came into full view; he was a humanoid like alien, the same height and Marla. He seemed rather muscular. He wore a black armored vest, with a black overcoat, with matching black pants, black boots with spikes at the toes. His hands were crimson red and scaly and had sharp claws, like a dragon. His head seemed human shaped, but was red, scaly, his hair was fiery orange with red highlights and stuck up all over like a flame. Yet his facial features were humanoid, and he wore a solid mask like shades across his eyes. He snickered wickedly as he cracked his knuckles, and then pulled off his dead magical manacles and threw them to the floor. “I am Vulcan, planet broker extraordinaire!” he snarled “For five-hundred years I’ve locked in solitary confinement, robbed of my prime and glory!” He began to heat up and smoke like a seething flame, which warned everyone that Vulcan was not going to be an easy one to handle. Meanwhile, Princess Luna had almost complete blocked out the moonlight with her dark veil of clouds, and the others had nearly disconnected all power sources from the mirror gate, but it was still glowing, pulsating brighter and faster than ever. “This isn’t working.” said Grand Ruler. “Maybe when it’s disconnected entirely, it’ll deactivate.” said Celestia. They and Professor Brain continued to disconnect the systems and things, when suddenly…! The alarm on the console went off! The power levels were starting to climb to critical levels! “Oh, my!!” cried Brain “It’s a system overload!” That’s when the mirror glowed brighter than ever and began to vibrate violently, and it actually shook itself off the generator it was built on and began to bounce along the room like a mad creation! “Look out!” shouted Grand Ruler. Princess Luna got distracted by the ordeal, and broke her eye contact, causing her spell to cease and her clouds outside to fade off, once again unveiling the full moon. “Quickly…! Try and hold it steady!” cried Celestia, and she and the others used their magic to halt the mirror in its tracks… directly by the window, but at that exact moment the moon had moved to that precise spot in the sky, putting it in perfect alignment with the stars. Suddenly, POW… a large beam of bright moonlight shot right through the open window, right onto the face of the mirror, and instead of merely opening the gateway, because the mirror was no so unstable, it instead combined the gateway magic with the light that shining on it and fired it way out into space! Then the mirror just keeled over onto the floor and shattered. Everyone in the lab was shocked and totally silent by what had just happened and they were all especially worried with wonder about where the light was going, but there was no time to actually track it, or even warn anyone as it was traveling too fast! Back on Conva, Cerise and all her guards banded together ready to take on Vulcan and the other prisoners, whom were marching along with the Lingos and the soldiers were backing out of the tower, while the aliens all stood directly at the doorway. “And now…” Vulcan sneered “It’s time for a little payback!” “Bring it on!” said Cerise, but just as the brawl was ready to begin, the sky went really bright. Everyone looked up and saw a mysterious beam of sparkling light heading straight their way! “LOOK OUT!!” shouted Cerise, and she and her soldiers dashed for their lives just as the light slammed hard into the tower, forcing Vulcan and the others back inside. All at once, the place began to warp! “What’s happening?!” cried Marla. “It’s some kind of trans-warping magic!” shouted Bronc. “I think I’m going to be sick!” groaned Keto, and as for Vulcan, “No!!” he shouted “My revenge!! This can’t be happening!” The entire tower was enveloped in the light, and in a bright flash the light had ceased, but the tower and the prisoners were nowhere to be seen! Cerise and the soldiers could not believe their eyes, and though it was a deep concern to figure out what happened, the prison riot was still happening and they were needed elsewhere to try and contain the other escaping prisoners. Valiantly as they tried, in the end, all the prisoners from the main complex had escaped out into space. (1:51) “Oh, No…!” Cerise whimpered. The guards were equally as shocked and frightened as were the workers. This was a disaster to top all disasters! *** Planet Earth, in the human world… the next day or so! Mystic Island, just twenty miles off shore of the coast of California, home to a beautiful metropolis and the main base control of the Starfleet forces from that world, led by Major Sunset Shimmer. It had been her home for quite some time after her many adventures, ordeals and other things many were already aware of. In all that time, or rather more of it, she and her friends maintained the peace by using their powers handed to them by Commander Lightning Dawn and the deceased Princess Twilight Sparkle to battle evil and injustice that happened all over their world. Unfortunately, they were all on an official hiatus from their heroic lives. Recently, Commander Lightning Dawn had returned and had taken all their energizer transformer badgers back with him to his world. “Your energizers are in need of a good tune up so they can continue to work properly. Unfortunately, you don’t have the right magic or the proper technologies to do that here. So I’ll take them back with me. It will take a little while, but as soon as we’re done I’ll bring them straight back.” Heeding his advice and trusting him, the team gave him their energizers, and had been without them for a few days now and thankfully there had no crimes and no dangers for them to worry about. Right now, the friends were on their final years as students at Canterlot High. All of them were ready to graduate High School. School was out for the day, and everyone was hanging out on the front steps of the building. Yet each and every one of them seemed more downhearted about things as they all “Just think, one more semester and we’re done here.” said Sunset. “Does that mean… we all just go our separate ways?” asked Buddy Rose. “No!” snapped Pinkie and she grabbed the two Spanish twins, Dyno and Myte, “We can’t! We won’t! We mustn’t! We’re friends to the end! Inseparable! Stuck like glue!” “We get the idea, Pinkie!” groaned Dyno. “Por Favor! Please let us go!” cried Myte. Pinkie let them go and backed sheepishly away and the twins breathed in relief. “We can still keep in touch…” said Starla Shine “I mean we are a team.” “A team would be too simple, dear.” said Rarity “Why, I actually think of us as… dare I say… family?” Everyone agreed with her. “The family that picks together, stays together.” said Applejack. “What are you basing that on?” asked Artie. Rainbow Dash seemed to be the only one whom wasn’t too fazed by the possibility of long separation as she casually kicked a soccer ball and did her usual show off of tricks. “Well, on a plus side. No more school means we’ll have more times for things we like. Like sports…” she kicked the ball hard, clear across and all the way to the football field, hitting the goal line. “Or even music…!” she whipped out her guitar and began to rock out. Some of the others jumped in and danced along with the music. Fluttershy gripped Rhymey’s hand, and Rhymey smiled at his girlfriend. “I just bet You’ll be a great vet.” She giggled softly, “Well, your idea to open up your own poetry corner and café sounds really good too, but… well… I--” she paused “Whatever happens, I hope we can still be together.” His response; a tender peck on her forehead… The others thought that was very sweet. Artie then felt Sunset place her hand over his, and then she pecked him on the cheek. “What was that for?” he playfully asked. His girlfriend smirked, “I’ll tell you over a milkshake… your treat.” “Yes, my treat.” They got up, bid their friends goodbye, and walked off arm-in-arm. “Awe, they are so cute together.” cooed Pinkie Pie. “I couldn’t agree more.” added Rarity “You’d think they were meant to be together.” Buddy chuckled softly, and when the others asked he answered, “Well, I promised not to tell sunset, but not you guys…” he motioned them all to come closer and whispered what he knew. …everyone suddenly was bustling with excitement and anxiety, “He’s going to pop the question to Sunset?” Rainbow squealed softly. Buddy nodded, and explained… A week ago, he tending to his school garden in the front yard, when he noticed Artie was all alone, and he was talking to a tree, pretending it was Sunset because of the way he kept saying her name, and then he held out a ring he had bought and was practicing proposing to Sunset, using the tree as a figure. Naturally, he had to ask about it, and he got his answer. “I’m going to ask to Sunset to marry me, Bud. I’ve made up my mind.” “Whoa! That’s a big step man. Are you sure about this?” Though Sunset was an alien from the Dimensional Universe, and she was a former evil villainess, that was all in the past. She had come a long way, and was proven to be a very caring and loyal person. “And it’s not all that…” Artie said “I want to give her a good home, and share my life with her, so when we’re done school, maybe she’ll have a lot more to think about.” He had a great point there. Canterlot high was practically the only lifestyle Sunset ever knew. The Twins had tears in their eyes, “Man, that is so deep.” cried Dyno. “It’s so deep, it’s… beautiful!” added Myte. The others all agreed, and some of the girls had tears in their eyes. “Do you think she’ll accept?” asked Fluttershy. “Well, it’s up to her…” said Applejack “But if I were here, I’d take what I could get.” Just then, Twilight Sparkle-- the original human-- came walking along with Spike riding in her backpack. Her friends called over to her. Rainbow called to her, “Hey Twilight… we’re heading out for some grub. You want in?” “Can’t, I’m busy.” replied Twilight. “Yeah, she’s going to help Grandruler with his secret project.” Spike added, but Twilight quickly covered his mouth, not so he wouldn’t blurt out the project. “Spike… there’s too many people around. We can’t let them know you can actually talk.” Spike felt annoyed, but he complied as he slipped back into Twilight’s backpack and Twilight apologized to her friend again before walking off. Buddy Rose sighed, “Gee, that girl works way too much.” “Well, it was nice of Mr. Grandruler to offer her a job with his companies.” said Fluttershy. “Especially since we all know how much busier he’s gonna be in a few more months.” Rainbow teased. Rhymey chuckled and recited… “First came love, and then came marriage… And soon, there will be a baby carriage.” “More like two carriages.” said a voice, and there was Principal Celestia, six months pregnant, standing at the doors. “Two?!” cried Pinkie “You mean you’re…” Celestia nodded and stroked her large, swollen belly, “I had my ultra sound yesterday… it’s Fraternal Twins!” More happiness and more joy spread through the gang. Celestia even received a few hugs and congratulatory handshakes. “Congratulations!” cried Starla. “Oh, I’m so happy for you!” added Rarity. Celestia chuckled, “Thank you everyone. Oh, I can hardly wait, and neither can Celesto. He’s been working so hard to make sure everything is okay… as well as spending time on his secret project.” Vice Principal Luna came out, “Come, sister, you should get home. The doctor told you to get plenty of rest. You’ll be on maternity leave soon.” Celestia rolled her eyes, but bid her students goodbye before heading off with her sister. Pinkie Pie was grinning so wide, the others though she was going to break her jaw. “Um, you okay, Pinkie?” asked Rainbow. “Oh, I’m just sooooo happy!” cried Pinkie “Think about it. Celestia’s pregnant, we’re all going to graduate soon, and Artie’s going to propose to Sunset…! …I think this is the happiest day I’ve ever known!” The others couldn’t help but agree with her. So much love, so much happiness, apart from their little sad worries about separation. They couldn’t think of anything that would make things go wrong! On a very tiny island, somewhere in the pacific, Prison Tower Seven had long since materialized after that freak accident on Planet Conva, All the systems still seemed to be functioning despite the minor damages, and thanks to the solar panels on the tower outside. Marla, Bronc and Keto had awakened, and were stumbling about, as well as some of the Lingos. “What a wild trip that was?” groaned Keto as he leaned against Marla. “Eww… get off me, shrimp.” Marla grouched as she shoved him off of her. “Hey!” he snarled. “Somebody sure has a temper.” Bronc muttered. Then Marla shrieked, “My hair… My nails… my everything… AHAA-OW! It’ll take me forever to make myself look pretty again!” The guys were already annoyed with her, “Hey, at least we’re free!” said Keto “And we don’t have to put up with Starfleet.” “That may be…” agreed Bronc, then he looked out a window and could see nothing but ocean for miles, “But exactly where are we? That trans-warp force could have sent us anywhere.” “…We’ll soon find out!” hissed a wicked voice. The others all looked and saw Vulcan stepping out from the shadows. He glared at the three and practically demanded at Marla and her Lingos, “You… send those, whatever you call them out to find out where we are.” then he glared at Keto “You, you’re a mage, some way to get those creeps going so they can scout out.” Finally he looked at Bronc “And you… help me make this place livelier. It’s a mess!” Keto blinked nervously, feeling intimidated by Vulcan’s appearance and voice, but Marla bolted upright and sneered, “Hey! Who died and put you in charge?” Her answer was Vulcan heating up with fury, as was evidenced by the way his hair glowed a bright yellow, and he aimed a powerful blast at several Lingos, vaporizing them in a heartbeat, which made Marla fall to her knees, and quivered. All three of the creatures could see Vulcan meant business as he stated, “Let what you have just seen be a warning to all of you. I don’t tolerate such attitudes thrown at me.” Knowing they didn’t have a chance against such a powerful creep, but still frightened by his intimidation, they couldn’t seem to bring themselves to answer. Vulcan cleared his throat and calmly said “Of course, being a man of business, I can make you a good offer. You see, as a successful, but hard-working guy, I could use a helping hand to obtain my goals. I suppose I can… SHARE my soon to be wonderful, bountiful glory with all of you like the many before I have worked with.” The others were starting to feel less intimidated and rather interested. “However…” Vulcan stated “Let’s get one thing straight: I’m in charge! What I say goes… and anyone who dares to defy me… oppose me… or get in my way…” he paused as he charged up for another blast “…Let’s just say it won’t be pretty.” Realizing their options, and feeling it’d be better to stick close for survival. “But of course… Master Vulcan.” said Bronc “Anything you say… sir.” added Keto. Even Marla had to comply, “Yeah, what they said.” Vulcan snickered “That’s more like it...” then he looked out the window at the sea surrounding the island. Though he still wondered how much more there was out there, he had a feeling that this world would bring him a pretty handsome price in his Planet Broker business, and maybe more. “Yes…” he said, “…If all goes as I think it will, this world will be mine! Mine… MINE!!” He laughed wickedly. The others still felt a little nervous, but the thought of having so much power made them grin sinisterly. To Be Continued!