SPD Emergency

by cyberlord4444


Case 46: Galwit Mysto

Twilight sighed as she and Cruger walked down the hall of her castle, “I’m still not sure this is one-hundred percent necessary.”

“For the last time,” said Cruger, “having your own personal guard is something you have to have as a princess. Besides, Ponyville and the Tree of Harmony are also part of their charge if it makes you feel better.”

“But they still answer to me. I don’t know anything about leading a guard division, I’m going to mess this up, which means that Celestia…” Before she could go into a full blown nervous breakdown/rant, Cruger snapped his fingers in her face.

“You’ll be fine, you have me, Celestia, and Luna to ask for help if you need it. Ready to meet them?”

“No.”

“Too bad,” said Cruger as he opened a set of doors to a large room that held 5 rather interesting looking individuals.

The first one was a white furred unicorn with a black mane and tail. He is wearing a suit of leather armor with plate segments overtop for extra protection. On his right hip was a bastard sword, and on his shoulder was a phoenix. His eyes were his most defining feature, them being an icy blue, and slitted like a dragons. “Greetings.” He said, nodding his head, “I am Thunder Quill.”

Beside him was a red furred unicorn in a traditional neighponise kimono. His mane was black and red. On his left side hung a wakizashi that he held his right hand over in a palm up position to show he had no intent to draw his sword. As Twilight looks at him, he bowed in a neighponise traditional greeting shallow to show respect while not so deep as to reveal the back of his neck. “Konichiwa.” an accent easy to hear in his voice. “I am Nise no Ken. You may call me Ken if you prefer.”

Next in line was yet another red unicorn, his mane an electric blue and yellow. He wore basic brown combat pants and boots, a blue shirt that matched his hair, and a black trenchcoat with yellow flame patterns around its edges. “Pyro Mance, Princess Twilight,” he introduced himself, putting an arm over his chest and nodding. “At your service.”

But the next one in line shocked Twilight with his presence, having already faced him once before. Standing there was a unicorn with an olive coat and gray mane, his blue navy jacket reaching to his knees while also covering up the old, rusty cutlass at his hip. With a sigh he opened his mouth to speak, His gold tooth shining as it always did. “Ello there Miss. Sparkle,” He slurred without even the slightest bit of respect for the lavender alicorn in front of him. “You remember ole’ Jolly Rodger, don’t ye?” He asked with a cheeky grin, enjoying the angry and confused face that Twilight gave him.

“Put a sock in it,” said the last one. Unlike the others, she was a pegasus. To be specific, a blue one with a white mane in a Wonderbolts uniform, “Fleetfoot reporting.”

“Explain this to me Cruger, why are these the ponies that are going to protect me?” questioned Twilight. “Especially, Him!?” she asked as she pointed at the smug pirate unicorn.

“Well, to be honest, the specific Ranger team that I chose required users that are rather elementally inclined, so to speak. These are the best of the bunch. Roger’s here because A: this is rehab for him, B: like it or not, he’s an incredible Aquamancer, and C: I couldn't really find anyone else.” That wanted the position, was instantly what Twilight tacked on at the end.

“So that means you're stuck with me!” Jolly cackled with delight. “I can tell that this will be a good day,” he added as his laughter came to an end.

Pyro rolled his eyes at the eccentric pirate. “I’m not sure about the others, yet, but I’m guessing more than a few of us have experience protecting something or somepony we care about.”

“I was a crown certified bounty hunter and mercenary for several years.” Thunder commented, “I am well aware of how to protect beings.”

“And while I, may or may not have protected others, protecting ye is my only ticket out of here so ye have my word, Miss Sparkle.”

“This is far from my first time protecting a noble, Princess. Back home in Neighpone I was a samurai for many years before my lord fell ill. Just because I am ronin does not mean I can not keep you safe.”

“I joined the Wonderbolts more for the whole ‘emergency response force’ thing than the shows, although I have to admit, the fans, they weren’t so bad.”

“Alright fine, I get that their qualified for their station I understand that, but where will they be positioned, I’ve got my own experiments plus Friendship missions that I have to do.” Mentioned Twilight, trying one way or another to have this not happen to her.

“Well, you’re always saying that you’ve got too much castle,” said Cruger, “I’ve already identified an entire wing that’s both out of the way from your living space, and ideal as a barracks. It’s got a great balcony for launching the Racers too.”

“Sir, what are the ‘Racers’ exactly?” Ken said, curiosity on his face.

Cruger just opened up a closet and pulled out a broom.

“Um, seriously?” Pyro Mance asked in confusion.

“Just give me a second, what was that spell again?” Cruger rubbed his chin for a few seconds before snapping his fingers, “Now I remember, Galwit Mysto Aerotan!” With a flash, the broom turned into a futuristic looking motorcycle, except for the fact that it had no wheels and hovered in midair.

“Dibs!” said Fleetfoot.

Ken just stood still, mouth open in shock. Before quietly whispering to himself, “Yata!” With a fist pumping by his side.

Thunder looked between the Racer and Cruger, “Can I try that for myself?” He asked.

“I got to get meself one of those!” Jolly whistled.

“Oh, Mira is going to be so jealous,” Pyro said as he rubbed his hands together.

While this was happening Twilight somehow got a few pieces of machinery into the room and was doing some tests on the changed broom and one of the still brooms.

“Cool your jets, that’s merely the least of the toys you’ll be getting,” Cruger said as he placed his hand on a recessed panel, causing a hidden drawer to extend. Inside were 5 cell phones, one of which he tossed to each of the 5 new bodyguards.

“Cool!” Pyro said enthusiastically until his brow forwarded. “What is it?”

Thunder examined the device, “It looks like, I think people call them Cell Phones?”

“Nani?” Was all Ken muttered as he caught his. Obviously curious once more.

“What is this “Cell Phone” that ye speak of?” Jolly questioned as he held the device.

“Open them up, then press the little button on the side,” said Cruger.

Shrugging, Pyro did as Cruger said, only to have the cell phone in his hand unfold into what looked roughly like a wand. Pyro simply stared. “What?”

Doing the same, Thunder noticed the special insignia, “What does this symbolize?”

“Let’s just say it’s your personal insignia and leave it at that for now,” said Cruger, “so, ready to give them a test drive?”

Thunder nodded, “Ready as I'll ever be.”

Jolly looked at the phone, still confused a bit. “I guess I be willing, if I get me freedom and all.”
     
“Ready,” Pyro answered simply.

“Hai.” Ken said. His tone matching Pyro exactly.

“Sounds like fun,” said Fleetfoot.

“So how are they going to do this “test drive”? The SPD rangers didn’t have such a thing as they do, it seems overly complicated.” said Twilight standing behind Pyro to examine his phone.

“These are your Mystic Morphers, they are also your primary tools,” said Cruger. “While in wand mode, you can use various spell codes to activate various effects, everything from physical augmentation to summoning weapons. As you gain familiarity with them, I’ll unlock new spell codes for you to use. Ready for your first one?”

Thunder nodded, “Again, I'm ready.”

Jolly nodded his bony head until it almost fell off. “I would like that.”

“Sir!” Ken said, finally returning to a language the rest of the room understood.

“Let’s get going already,” said Fleetfoot.

“Alright then,” Cruger said, pulling a large book from the drawer, “Xenotome, let’s start them off easy, unlock spell code 1-2-3, morphing sequence.” As soon as he said that, the book, as well as the 1, 2, and 3 buttons on their morphers started glowing. “Have fun.”

“Let us try it out then.” Ken said as he looked at the others. He than proceeded to punch in the code.

“How do these work?” Jolly asked as he punched in a bunch of random numbers at once, not having a single clue what he was doing.

“This should be fun,” Pyro said as he input the code with his thumb.

Thunder punched in the digits in on his morpher, “It’s morphing time!”

“Let’s go,” said Fleetfoot, punching it in eagerly.

In a flash of light the five figures changed to that of Rangers.

Thunder stood there, admiring his new uniform. The primary color was that of red, with black lines and gold highlights. His visor shape was that of a phoenix with it’s wings spread, and a red cape flowed behind him. “This is amazing!”

Ken looked down at his hands, now garbed in green. The color scheme was the same as Thunder’s yet the red switched for green and his visor depicted a Minotaur’s head. “Shinseina fakku.”

Pyro looked down at his yellow uniform, the visage of a Thunderbird on his helmet. “Well, isn’t this… shocking.”

Jolly looked down at his uniform, his jacket somehow being above the blue ranger outfit. He tried to move only to discover that his uniform was tight...very tight. “For fuck sake! This is a mare’s uniform! I’m wearing a fucking skirt!”

“Sorry,” Cruger chuckled as he leafed through the book, “original Mystic Force Blue was female. Let’s see, Titans, Solaris Knight stuff, ah here we go.” With a flash, Jolly’s suit became more suited to his gender.

“I don’t suppose I could get a color change,” Fleetfoot said, wearing a pink version of what Jolly was wearing a few seconds ago, with a butterflyesq visor, “I hate pink.”

Thunder stopped admiring his new outfit for a moment and looked to Cruger, “Will we be able to use that spell for the Racers?”

“In due time,” Cruger replied, “let’s start by getting used to the initial toolkit shall we?”

“You mean these?” Pyro asked as he pulled out the scepter hanging on his belt.

Cruger nodded, “Those are your Magi Staves, they’ll act as a focus for your magic, plus they can transform into weapons, give ‘em a try.”

Ken reached down for his Magi Staff drawing it and willing the weapon to form. As the shape of a Battle Axe was taken he drooped his head saying “Burūto no buki.” disappointment clear in his tone.

Pyro looked between Cruger and his Staff before he shrugged and mentally commanded it to transform. Light glowed from the staff and it changed into the shape of a crossbow. “Huh,” Mance said, “Guess I'm going to be visiting the shooting range a lot more.”

Jolly held his staff in his hand, not really caring as he mentally commanded it to change. In a flash, the staff turned into a trident. With a smile he twirled it around with his one hand. “Ah...fitting.”

Thunder drew the blade with a flourish, noting that the ‘M’ of the blade could seemingly slide. Sliding it a few inches, he gripped the former top of the staff as a blade shot out of the other end, forming a full sized blade. “Now that’s what I’m talking about!” He exclaimed, flourishing it a bit more.

Fleetfoot slid the M section down halfway the shaft before it stopped, then rotated one of its arms 180°. The staff glowed as it shifted into an oversized 4-bladed throwing glaive. “Now this looks like it can do some serious damage,” she said appreciably.

“I could help you learn to use that with great skill, friend.” Ken said after seeing Fleetfoot’s reaction.

“Appreciate it Kenny,” Fleetfoot replied.

“My name is Nise no Ken, or Ken for short. Please refrain from turning it into ‘Kenny’.” Was the dull toned response to the sudden nicknaming. “If you’ll excuse me a moment, I need to check on something.” With that he darted out of the room, still in morph.

Thunder sheathed the blade and looked back to Cruger, “Is there anything else in the ‘toolkit’?”

“Nope, that’s your starting gear in a nutshell,” Cruger said as he put the book away, “but once you get the experience, you’ll get access to all kinds of neat tricks. For example, there’s a reason you’re the only division without a Zord hanger, if you get my meaning.”

“Understood, Sir. Fleetfoot if you wish for me to help train you with a glaive, meet me at the path into the Everfree tomorrow,” Ken said.

“Sir.” Thunder said, “I’m not sure what you mean by we’re the only division without a Zord Hanger.”

“You don’t have Zords, I’m pretty sure that it was pretty obviously what the statement that Cruger constructed meant.” said Twilight having been taking notes about everything the whole time and she was looking at them right as she responded to Thunder.

Pyro had a sudden flashback of one of his lost abilities. “We’re going to get a great look of Ponyville from above, aren’t we?”

“Well you do have flying vehicles.” stated Twilight like it was obvious.

“Perhaps I could just give you a taste,” Cruger said as he pulled the book back out, “Activate spell code 1-2-5, single use, red only. Better go outside for this.” Twilight turned to look at Thunder with a great attention, a notepad and quill in hand.

Thunder glanced at Cruger as they walked outside, with slight concern, before shrugging and pulling out his wand before punching in the spell code. A loud echoey voice called out, “Galwit, Mysto, Prifior!” As magical energy began to surround Thunder. As a spell seal began to form around Thunder’s feet, his phoenix companion, Eterna, swooped down and landed on his shoulders. “Mystic Phoenix!” Thunder yelled as the magic surrounding Eterna completed, the seal reaching her, and Thunder was replaced with a massive, armored figure. A sword appeared in his hand, and he gave it a bit of a flourish as he finished transforming.

“...I want,” Mance said in awe after coming out to watch the display.

Thunder looked over his new form as he towered above all the other buildings. “Now this, is amazing.”

Twilight look up in awe before a huge worried look came into her eyes and she started to rant to Cruger on how much chaos this event alone would cause and how this was all such a bad idea. Sadly for our Commander this is what could be discerned from long words and paragraphs and paragraphs of ranting and raving.

“Calm down Twilight,” Cruger said, “they can’t do that unless you or I unlock the Spell Code for them. Besides, I think that Ponyville’s used to giant robots walking around, don’t you.”

“We’ve seen them launch, we’ve seen them in the distance training, but they haven’t actually ever been inside of Ponyville.” Countered Twilight as she thought about it, “Instead we have more displaced appearing here and we’re quite used to having somepony appear out of midair.”

“You mean, like this?” Ken said with a laugh as he popped out of the air in front of Twilight, who reacted automatically and tried to punch him. “Sorry, you’ll need to have better form if you wish to surprise me.” He said after executing a simple block with a swipe of his hand taking the fullforce of the alicorn’s punch.

“Either way, looks like the populous seems rather keen on the Mystic Titans,” Cruger said, pointing out the window where several kids were trying to climb Thunder’s foot.

“... Honestly you should make toys out of these designs.” said Twilight with a huff, “Maybe also ask them to read a book for a change.” She then got a little serious and looked at Cruger after stepping away from Ken who had her distrust, “I don’t trust at least two of them and I only fully trust Fleetfoot, can’t you have somepony looking over them in case they do try to do something?”

“I have somepony looking over them, somepony very responsible, you,” Cruger replied, “you should really trust yourself more, I do.”

Thunder was trying to keep still, so that he didn’t accidentally hurt somepony with his newer, larger, and more metallic form. “As amazing as this is… It might be a smart idea for me to change back to normal.” He said, “I don’t want to hurt somepony.”

“Just think of shrinking,” Cruger yelled up to him, “the Spell Codes are for activating abilities.”

Thunder nodded, before concentrating on being smaller. After a moment, he was back to his normal size and form, with his phoenix companion flying beside him. “That… Is really cool.”

“I wonder.” Turning to Cruger, still unfazed by Twilight’s punch, Ken asked a question that just popped into his mind. “Sir, What would the rest of us become using this spell?”

“While not exactly the same, Thunder’s Titan is based on a phoenix, your Titans are,” Cruger pointed to Pyro, “Garuda,” Ken, “Minotaur,” Jolly, “Mermaid,” Fleetfoot, “and Sprite.”

“Don’t think I’ll be letting you use those forms any time soon,” stated Twilight to the others still disliking the whole guard situation, “I’ll just use them for experiments… yeah, that and all of their abilities and equipment aswell, just think of this as a big experiment.” She then looked at Ken and Jolly, “A very very irritating experiment.”

“Come now, Princess,” Pyro said, stepping forward while trying to defuse her mistrust. “We’ve all sworn to protect you, and your town, even if some of us have… questionable motives.” At this he glanced at Jolly Rodger before turning back to her. “It’s just like back in my classroom, only now the entirety of Ponyville’s citizens are my students.”

“I can tell you do not like me, Princess. I mean to keep from you no secrets, ask and I shall reveal.” Ken said, a look of seriousness on his face.

“Well, as much as I’d love to stay and help you work out the kinks, I have business in Manehatten,” Cruger said before half bowing in Twilight’s direction and turning to leave. “2 down,” he muttered to himself, “1 to go.”