Midnight Rangers!

by mentalshock


Episode three: First Fight.

As the new rangers landed they got a good look at the monster, and the six mares trying to fight it. It was a large panda with bee wings and a stinger. The five of them jumped on the bug-bear. Flicker gave the mares a thumbs up to let them know it was okay for them to leave. Steel was thrown off first. Being as strong as he is he was used to fist to fist, and immediately went to throw a punch at the monster. What he didn't notice was his hands being covered by big steel gloves until he pulled his arm back. There was a gold star on the back of them. the rest was dark yellow like his costume. The punch made the monster howl and lurch forward giving Silver the perfect strike position. She held out her hands behind her like she held an ax or hammer. As her arms swung a pitch black hammer impacted the monster's back. The monster swung around striking Flicker and Gold. Scroll jumped over them holding an odd crossbow. The pink ranger fired four shots in quick succession of one another. They burned into and pushed the monster back. Flicker and Gold got back up and charged the monster. Flickers left arm generated a shield that she slammed into the monster with her brother having a scimitar that sent the monster flying down the street.

"Rangers! Combine your weapons to finish off this foe!" The white stallion said through the wireless receivers in the helmets.

"Yes sir!" They said together. Scroll extended his crossbow revealing the weapons' slots. Steel gripped the limbs of the crossbow after slipping his hands out the massive gloves locked in place. Silver's hammer was used as a brace. Gold's blue scimitar was the sights of the combined weapon. Flicker locked her shield to the front to act as an extension to the power pack. The weight required all five to hold on to it. Black and Yellow up front. Pink and Blue at the sides. And Red at the trigger.

Flicker began to monologue a bit, "Welcome to Equis. Where everypony lives in a Harmonic balance between good and evil. We are the planet's newest protectors. We harness the magics of the night, and alien energies to keep it safe. We are the Midnight Rangers! Now! FIRE!" With that the Red Ranger pulled the trigger as a darkly colored rainbow bolt, or rain-bolt, destroyed the bug-bear leaving behind a blue blood stain and the stinger. The Rangers sigh lowering their weapon as it split apart before dissipating into a mist. They celebrated until the ground shook, literally. They looked around until they noticed the stinger growing and regenerating the main body.

"What the heck!?" Scroll shouted towards the giant monster.

Flicker pressed her hand against her helmet to here the response better, and ask the white stallion on the screen, "Got anything for growing monsters?"

"Yeah like giant robots!?" Gold asks excitedly looking up to the shuttle in the sky hopefully.

"Actually Gold, Flicker, I have exactly that." The stallion states as spinning compartments open in the center of the shuttle to launch out the five Zords. A giant rover, a massive bipedal exosuit, a satellite, an booster rocket, and finally a landing pod.

"That is so awesome!" Sliver squeed running towards the pitch black rover, and scrambling up the latter into the cockpit.

"I can agree with that." Steel said beaming into the dark yellow satellite.

Scroll jumped into the hatch of the faded pink landing pod, "Elegant yet powerful. Just like magic."

Gold flew into the deep blue booster rocket, "This should make it a bit easier."

"And you just jinxed it," Flicker stated as she climbed into the giant, maroon exo.

"Rangers press the your interlocks buttons immediately!" The screen stallion told them.

"Roger that, sir." They say hitting the buttons at roughly the same time. The pod split in two, and transformed to become the arms. They slide into place over the exosuit's arms. The rover and rocket turn into legs and feet fitting in place rover on the right; rocket on the left. The satellite formed a helmet as the head unit popped out of the top of the exosuit. The helmet clamped into place with everypony running to a central control room inside the now Megazord.

*****Monster View*****

The Megazord took a fisticuffs style fighting stance as Steel's yellow gloves forms on its hands. It charged at the beast punching it into a nearby, empty building. There they pinned it throwing punch after punch to its stomach. Eventually the monster threw them off. At this distance the monster shot its stinger at them three times. The Megazord dodged out of the way as the weapons become a pink crossbow allowing them to shoot back at it. The monster fell to the ground in pain as the Megazord approached it this time with a hammer. The monster lunged up at them this time scoring a real critical hit on the rover and exosuit with its claws and stinger. The Megazord smacks the bug-bear off with the hammer. The bug-bear tries another strike just to be blocked by a maroon shield. To add injury to insult the Megazord used a blue scimitar to cut an X into the monster's chest causing it to bleed. The monster stumbles back coughing up blood. It looked up to see the weapon that had killed it earlier. That last thing it heard was, "FIRE!"

*****Rangers View*****

Everypony in the control room pumped their power through the Megazord to form their combined weapon, and yelled, "FIRE!" as loud as they could. This time five rainbolts spiraled around one-another until each collided with the bug-bear causing it to explode into blue blood on the grass. After such an exertion they passed out demorphing as they slept. When they awoke they were someplace knew. Based on the color of the walls they were back on the shuttle apparently in the crew quarters.

"Good afternoon Rangers, and well done on your first of many fights," the screen stallion congratulated them. The Rangers hugged each other giving off small whooping noises still bone tired.