<Three Months Later>
The city of Canterlot was enjoying another amazing day of peace.
It had been a week since any kind of monster had attack, not since the Power Rangers defeated the giant lovecraftian monster. Many people had begun to suspect that that monster had been the one behind the other attacks and with it destroyed, the city was completely safe. The Power Rangers had brought peace back to the city.
And where were the Power Rangers you ask?
Four of them were at Sugarcube Corner, enjoying their last few days of freedom before school started back up next week.
Flash Sentry, the Red Ranger of Courage, was sitting on the end of a couch lazily playing his guitar.
Micro Chips, the Yellow Ranger of Knowledge, was sitting on a chair opposite him playing a video game on his phone.
Sandelwood, the Green Ranger of Willpower, was sitting on the floor meditating.
Sunset Shimmer, the Gold Ranger of Forgiveness, was sitting on the other end of the couch enjoying a nice cup of coffee.
Despite no longer being in activate duty, they all still wore their colour codded Ranger Jackets.
The last member of their group, the only one not a Ranger, was Twilight Sparkle. She was sitting between Flash and Sunset, nodding her head to the Red Rangers music while reading a book. Her dog Spike was sitting on her lap, lazily snoozing away.
Pinkie Pie was also there, manning the register but with no one else in the place she was leaning on the counter looking bored.
Each member of the group were doing their own thing, but enjoying it in each others company. However, they all came out of their little worlds when Flash finally stopped playing his song halfway through a tune. They all turned towards him and saw he had a small frown on his face.
"What's up?" Twilight asked as she closed her book.
Flash didn't reply for a moment, obviously trying to put his thoughts into words, until finally he sighed and turned to them. "Is anyone else...bored?"
The four all stared at him for a moment, before all sighing in relief.
"I'm so glad someone asked that," Micro said as he shut off his game, "I was worried I was the only one."
"Same here," Sandel said, "everything I used to enjoy doing now seems so..."
"Low stakes," Sunset finished, getting a node in agreement at this.
"Its understandable," Twilight said, "after everything that's happened this summer, everyday life wouldn't seem as exciting."
"Tell me about it," Flash said, "I'm even having trouble sleeping. All the energy I used to use kicking monster butt is just there keeping me up. I'm considering trying to do a hundred push ups before bed, just to see if it works.
"You guys don't even know you're born."
The group turned to see Lyra Heartstrings, the Blue Ranger of Trust, walk in alongside Sweetie Drops, the Pink Ranger of Love. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy also arrived.
"We were Rangers long before you guys were in the mix," Lyra said, "you've only spent a summer doing this."
"Try doing it for almost a hundred years," Sweetie said.
The others all nodded at this, knowing the two had a point, but still it didn't change the fact that they were all incredibly bored right now.
"I'm happy that we were able to stop Darklight and save the world," Flash said, "but I just wish something exciting would happen. Heck, I'm actually starting to miss Doom Raizer."
Everyone else chuckled at this, before deciding to change the subject.
"So how's Soarin?" Twilight asked Rainbow.
"He's doing okay," the teen girl replied, "unlike the rest of you, he's actually doing stuff."
"Getting ready for this years soccer season I'm guessing?" Micro said.
"Yeap," Rainbow said, "they look to win the Intercity Championships again this year. Since it's Soarin's senior year and he's hoping to get a scholarship, he's working even harder then usual."
"We should go cheer him on during his first game," Pinkie said, "it'll be great."
"Unless he's facing us," Rarity said, "but it would be nice."
"Agreed," Applejack said.
"I think Soarin would like that," Fluttershy said.
"Sounds good to me," Flash said.
In that moment, a familiar beeping caught their attention. They all grew concerned hearing it, before Flash reached for his wrist and rolled up his sleeve to show his communicator. He then pressed the blue button to open the channel.
"Rangers!" It was Principle Celestia, who sounded rather concerned.
"We're here Celestia," Twilight said, "what's up?"
"Are you near a TV?" This time it was Principle Luna who spoke.
"Yeah," Flash replied glancing over at the one attached to the wall, "why?"
"Switch on the news," Celestia replied, "you'll see why."
They all grew concerned and turned to Pinkie, who'd grabbed the remote and switched it on. The TV burst into life and showed what the two principles had been concerned about.
Canterlot was under attack.
The once peaceful city was now in chaos as humanoid robots had suddenly appeared and began reeking havoc, blasting the laser guns which they had in place of a left hand.
Many people were running in a panic, trying to escape this new threat.
Flying above the mechanical army was a small egg shaped vehicle, no bigger then an old fashioned car, which was silver in colour with a tinted triangular window on the front. It hovered above the robots firing its own more powerful lasers.
The Rangers watched in horror at what was unfolding.
They couldn't believe this. Only a week after defeating their last enemy and now someone else was trying to do the same thing. Who were they? Where had they come from? Were they connected to Darklight in some way? Were they also after the Elements? All these questions raced through their heads.
"How?" Flash asked.
Before anyone could answer however, the TV suddenly switched feeds. Now the screen showed nothing but darkness, though they could see the outline of someone in it.
"Greetings,"
The voice was deep and menacing, Fluttershy practically shrunk in fear from simply listening to it.
"I am sending you this message so you know who it is that had conquered you. I am the brilliant scientist known as Doctor Mechano!"
The eleven teens all stared at the screen in shock, not knowing how to feel.
"I have conquered my home dimension and have now chosen to set my sights on yours. You will all bow down to me. Your government cannot stop me, the heroes you call the Power Rangers cannot stop me. Soon, your world will be under my total control and there is nothing you can do to stop me. Heed my warning and surrender."
With that the screen went blank and the room fell into silence.
"This can't be real," Rainbow said, breaking the silence.
"I get the feeling it's completely real," Sunset said.
"What do we do?" Sweetie asked.
Everyone turned to Flash, expecting an answer. The teen rocker thought about what he'd just heard, how this Doctor Mechano had said that they didn't stand a chance against him. Darklight had said the same thing and look what happened. Flash smirked at the memory, before nodding and turning to the others.
"What do you think we're gonna do," he replied, "we're gonna kick this creeps butt and send him packing back to his own world."
The others all smirked at this and nodded.
"Let's get to school and grab our Elements," Flash told them, "then we'll Ranger up and take this guy down."
"No need Rangers."
They all looked back down at their communicators, hearing the voice of Starswirl the Bearded.
"Are you all alone?"
"It's just us," Micro said.
"Then I'm free to do this."
Suddenly there was a puff of smoke and as it faded, they saw something now laying on the table. It was a cone shaped metal case, with a line running down the middle which looked like it opened up.
They gathered around it as Twilight pulled the case open. Inside were eight familiar hexagonal crystals of different colours. The Guardian Elements.
The Rangers all smiled as they took all but two of the Elements.
"Okay," Flash said as he held his Element to his heart, "new plan. Me, Lyra, Micro, Sandel and Sweetie will head out. Sunset, Twilight and the rest of you head back to the base and be ready for anything. We don't know this guy, so he may send a second wave out. Contact Soarin and Shining Armour. If he does send out something else, head out and take care of it."
Sunset nodded, though a little sad she was being put on the bench, and they all headed towards the door.
"Here," Flash said as he handed Twilight his keys, "I'll get a ride with Sandel."
Twilight nodded and they all headed out the door, ready to take on a new adventure that awaited them.
The town centre was a mess.
The robots and ship had turned the whole place into a warzone, with rubble from the destroyed buildings littering the place. The Guardroid robots continued to march through the city, firing their blasters at anything that moved or shined.
As one Guardroid stepped passed a wall, it turned towards it and then fired a blast at it. The wall exploded and as the dust faded, the Guardroid saw a small group of people were all huddled behind the remains. The group of people all saw the robot and all began screaming, as it slowly stepped towards them with its blaster raised.
While this was happening, a hooded robed figure was rushing through the rubble. When they heard the screams they turned to see the Guardroid getting closer to them.
However, before the figure could react, five different coloured blasts flew out of nowhere and shot the robot down.
The figure turned to the origin of the blast and saw five teens, blasters in hand, rushing towards the army of robots.
Flash and his team ran as fast as they could towards the robots, blasting any that got to close. Eventually they were at a close enough distance that the mechanical army recognised them. The Guardroids all turned their attention to the five and stared at them, as if studying them intensely.
The space ship then flew down and landed at the front of the army, a trio of legs folding out and taking the wait.
"Well well well," a familiar voice got broadcaster from it, "let me guess. The Power Rangers."
The five simply stared at the egg ship, none of them amused by the person inside.
"And you're Doctor Mechano I'm guessing," Flash said, "why don't you stop hiding and show yourself."
"Very well," the voice said, "look upon the face of your future ruler!" The ships window slowly opened, releasing a white smoke that kept the person within hidden. Finally the last of the smoke cleared, revealing the figure inside.
Doctor Mechano was a middle aged man with greying blonde hair. His entire left side of his face was covered with a robotic mask, while his left eye appeared to have been completely replaced with a red cybernetic one. He wore a black metal suit and his right arm appeared to have been replaced by a robotic one.
The Rangers stared at the man in near horror, seeing his half robotic form.
Mechano just smiled as he saw their stares. "Not the usual villain that you're used to am I?"
"How would you know what kind of villains we're use to?" Lyra asked, she and the Rangers getting over their original shock.
"Oh you'd be surprised what I know about you," Mechano said, "I've been keeping my eye on you for a long time."
"For how long?" Micro asked, "how long have you been here?"
"I first arrived in this universe three months ago after escaping my own universe."
"Escape," Sweetie said with a raised eyebrow, "that implies things weren't going well."
"So much for conquering your world," Sandel said.
Mechano growled at this. "My claim was not completely unjustified," he said, "I was able to take control of ninety nine point nine nine percent of my own universe."
"But I'm guessing that last zero zero one percent was proving to much?" Micro said.
"There were...resistances," Mechano said, "a nuisance, not a threat. However their efforts to stop me, diminished my resources and my world was running low on obtainable ones. I needed to get my hands on a new method of gathering those resources."
"So that's why you're here," Lyra said.
"Why is it every interdimensional power hungry tyrant keeps coming here to cause us trouble?" Flash asked before turning to his team, "did we miss a meeting?"
"Enough of your jokes," Mechano said as the lid of his ship came back down and the ship took off, "you cannot defeat me. Surrender and maybe I will allow you to life as my personal henchmen."
"Like we'd ever work for a monster like you," Sweetie said.
"Then you will be destroyed," Mechano said.
"Now where have I heard that before?" Micro asked in mock confusion.
"Oh I know," Sandel replied, "from another psychopath who wanted us to give up."
"Exactly," Flash said as he stepped forward, "and we all know how that turned out."
"Well you won't find me so easy to defeat," Mechano said, "Guardroids!" The robots reactivated, raising their weapons and readying themselves to attack on command.
"It's Morphin Time!" Flash called out as the five of them each pulled out a familiar battery shaped device. "Magi-Chargers!"
"READY!"
With a click the devices shined, before the five placed them in their Morphin Blasters and shut the slot..
DRAGON CHARGER...ENGAGED!
SEA-SERPENT CHARGER...ENGAGED!
GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!
SPHINX CHARGER...ENGAGED!
FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!
"Energise!" They yelled spinning the barrel, before pointing the blasters to the sky. "Unleash the Power!" They all pulled the triggers and five different heads flew out and bit down on them, decking them out in their Ranger Suits.
"Power Rangers," Flash called out as they posed and said together. "GUARDIANS!"
"Impressive," Mechano said from the safety of his ship. He then pressed a button on his control panel, "attack!"
The Guardroids received the command and all did as they were told, marching forward and firing their blasters at the Rangers.
"Let's do this," Flash said as the Rangers pulled out their weapons and charged forward.
Micro was the first to strike, using his blaster to shot down several Guardroids as he ran forward. He then leapt up and over some of the robots, landing in an empty space between two groups. Before they had a chance to react, he fired away with precision accuracy. "It's feels good to be doing this again," he said as he ducked down to dodge a blast, before firing his own in response, "these things might be easier to beat then a Shade." He reached into his belt and opened the buckle, before pulling out another of his chargers and then clicking the button before placing it in his blaster.
GRIFFON CHARGER...ENGAGED!
"Energise!" He said as he spun the barrel, before pointing the weapon at a large group of Guardroids. "Morphin Blaster, FIRE!" He pulled the trigger and unleashed an extra powerful attack, which flew at the robots and destroyed them.
Sweetie meanwhile took out another Magi-Charger and clicked it. "Magi-Charger, ready!" She then placed it in her blaster. "Morphin Duel Blaster," she pulled the trigger, "activate!" A blast of light shot out of the barrel and took form, becoming an attachment for the blaster. It lengthened the barrel and now had two blaster heads side by side. She held the weapon with both hands and aimed it at the Guardroids. "Power Blast!" She began to fire rapidly, the twin barrels doubling the power and striking multiple enemies at once.
Several Guardroids managed to get close to her, by Sweetie easily dodged them while she continued to blast away. "Blade Mode!" She pressed a button on the side and a blade flipped out from between the barrels, which she used to slash at the Guardroids she had just dodged.
"Spirit Sabre!" Sandel pulled out his cutlass like sword and began slashing away at the Guardroids. He then hit a button on it, causing a compartment to flip open. Opening his belt he pulled out a Magi-Charger and clicked it, before placing it in the slot and shutting it.
FENRIR CHARGER...ENGAGED!
"Power Slash!" He spun around and cut down the most of remainder of the Guardroids. "Righteous."
Lyra flip jumped into another group of Guardroids, before dealing a barrage of powerful kicks which sent the robots flying. She then pulled out both her Spirit Sabre and Morphin Blaster, slashing away at the robots before blasting them from a distance. "Blast Cutter!" She screamed before blasting the air and then slashing the blast, sending it flying towards the group before exploding.
Flash was fighting off the second to last group of Guardroids, using fighting skills he'd learned from the rest of his team. Sweetie's stylish dodging combined with fighting moves Shining had taught him, then he pulled out his blaster and sword to use in a combination of Micro and Sandel's skills. "Now this is more like it!"
Once they'd finished up, the Rangers grouped up to face the final batch of Guardroids.
"Magi-Charger!" Flash said as he held up the device and clicked the button, "Ready. Guardian Buster, activate." He threw the Charger in the air before it transformed into a larger version of the Ranger's blaster, which Flash caught and activated by pulling the forend. Four compartments opened up on the side, with a fifth opening at the back.
Magi-Chargers," everyone said, as they activated their Chargers and placed them in the compartments before shutting them. "Locked and loaded." When Flash placed his into the compartment and shut it, the white streaks changed to red.
GUARDIAN BUSTER...RED CHARGE!
As Flash aimed the weapon at Guardroids, Lyra and Micro placed their hands on his shoulders and hips while Sandal and Sweetie did so to them. "Guardian Buster, Dragon Blast...FIRE!" Flash pulled the trigger and a single powerful blast shot out, which morphed into the shape of the Dragon Zord's head as it flew at the robots.
The blast struck the ground and created an explosion, which consumed the Guardroids and fried them to a crisp.
On the sidelines, the cloaked figure watched the battle.
"Their skills and teamwork are top notch," he said, "but they don't know what their dealing with. Maybe they can help us, but can we trust them."
From his transport, Mechano watched the battle and had to admit he was impressed. "Almost as good as the others," he said, "but I know they don't stand a chance against these." He pressed another button on his dashboard. "Megabots, engage!"
With the Guardroids destroyed, the Rangers turned to Mechano's ship.
"Got anything else to throw at us?" Flash asked confidently.
In that second they heard the sound of heavy footsteps getting closer. Looking around they saw a group of Megabots marching towards them, ready for battle.
"You had to ask," Lyra said.
"Those things look a lot more advanced then what we just took out," Micro said.
"Then let's advance our own tech," Sweetie said.
"Sounds good to me," Sandel said.
"Let's do this," Flash said as he pulled out another Magi-Charger.
The clicked them on and then placed them in their Morphin Blasters.
"Magitech!" They all yelled spinning the barrel, "Online!" The fired the blasters and out came the heads again, only instead of biting on their bodies they bit the rangers arms. There was a flash of light and when it died down, the Rangers were shown holding new weapons.
"Let's do this," Flash said as he and the other Rangers charged forward. "Dragon Breaker!" He called out as he reached the robots, "Head Smash!" Throwing all of his might into his arm, he swung forward and punched the first Megabot with the dragon shaped metal glove. However, though the Megabot was pushed back, it remained in tact and once again began moving forward. "What?"
Lyra spun her Serpent Staff around and used the bladed end to slash at the robots, but the weapon barely scratched the metal. "What are these things made of?"
"Griffon Shooter," Micro said, "Morphin Blaster, Duel Shot!" He fired his two weapons at the robots, but they simply bounced off the armour and only seemed to cause them to stumble of a second.
Sandel was currently slashing away at the robots with his Fenrir Fang, but like with Lyra his weapon was doing nothing more the scratching the paintwork. "Not righteous," he said.
"Sphinx Shield!" Sweetie called out as she held up her weapon along with her Morphin Blaster. She fired at the robots, but like with Micro the blast simply bounced off them. The robots all aimed with shoulder mounted blasters at the Pink Ranger, before firing a barrage of lasers at her. She tried to guard with her shield, but the force of the attack was just to much and she was sent flying back.
She collided into a nearby wall and then fell to the ground, the rest of the Rangers rushing over to guard her.
"Sweetie," Lyra said as she checked on her, "are you okay?"
"I think so," Sweetie said, "but these things are to strong."
Back at the base, the rest of the team were watching the battle and were beginning to grow concerned.
"Their getting their butts handed to them," Rainbow said.
"Why aren't their weapons working?" Rarity said, "they worked fine of the first group of robots."
"Those robots were made of a basic metal alloy," Twilight said, "whatever these ones are made of, it's not something from this world."
"If we could get an exact reading on the metal," Sunset said, "we could re-calibrate their weapons to deal with them. But our sensors can't make heads or tails of it."
"There has to be something we can do?" Applejack asked.
"I don't think there is," Twilight replied, as she turned back to the screen.
The Rangers found themselves in a tight spot, with their weapons completely useless against the robots they quickly found themselves out of options.
"It's over Rangers," Mechano said as his army fired off their weapons.
There was a powerful explosion, which sent the five flying back. They hit the ground with such a force, that they demorphed and were now helpless.
"Goodbye Rangers," Mechano said as the Megabots re-aimed their lasers at them, "you have no idea how happy destroying Power Rangers is going to make me."
The Rangers tried to pick themselves up, but they couldn't. All they could do was watched as the Megabot's blasters charged up. It seemed like this was the end for them.
"Evolution, Revolution!"
From out of nowhere, a barrage of red laser fire flew over the downed Rangers and struck the Megabots. The robots were all pushed back and their blasts sent flying into the sky.
"What the?" Flash asked as he tried to look behind him, but before he could see where the blasts had come from, something leapt over him and then landed on the ground infront.
The five's eyes went wide as they saw the one who'd saved them was actually a Red Ranger, who was kneeling on one knee having landed like that. The Red Ranger looked up from the ground and then stood tall between the downed Rangers and the Megabots.
"YOU!" Mechano screamed from his ship.
"Surprise," the Red Ranger said, "wasn't expecting to see me here were you?"
"So you leapt through the gate after me," Mechano said, "well it makes no difference. You will be destroyed alongside these Rangers."
Flash and the others managed to push themselves to their feet, as the new Rangers glanced back at them over his shoulder.
"Who are you?" Flash asked.
"A friend," the Red Ranger replied as he turned to the Megabots, "leave these guys to me."
"ATTACK!" Mechano screamed as the robots charged forward.
The Red Ranger also charged forward, meeting the Megabots head on and knocking them back with precision accurate kicks and punches. When he struck the robots, they stayed down.
"He's good," Micro said.
"True that," Sandel said, "I've never seen anybody move like that, not even it those old martial arts movies."
The Megabots fired their lasers at the Ranger, but he saw this coming and leaped backwards. He did a midair back flip and dodged the blasts effortlessly, before landing a ways away before he went to his belt and pulled out two a pair of weapons. A futuristic blaster and rapier, which he started wielding with perfect skill. He fired at several of the robots, blasting them down before slashing at some more with the rapier.
"Whoever this guy is," Lyra said, "he's obviously been doing this for a long time."
"Yeah," Sweetie said, "but who is he?"
"I don't know," Flash said, "but he's on our side, that's what's important."
The Red Ranger had taken out the majority of the robots, leaving only a small group of the left. He turned to them and nodded. "Time to end this," he said as he put his blaster away and spun the rapier in his right hand around until her was holding it in a backhanded grip. Bringing it up he took his left hand and began tracing two fingers along the blade, which began glowing red as he did this. "Energy Blade," he called out before spinning on the balls of his feet and doing a backhanded slash through the air, "Power Slash!" An energy wave flew off the blade and struck the ground around the Megabots. The Red Ranger spun to face the Guardian Rangers, as an explosion occurred behind him completely destroyed the remaining Megabots. "Oh yeah," he said.
The Rangers had to admit, that was badass.
Mechano didn't share this sentiment and his ship began to leave. "You win this round," he said to them, "but I have bigger plans. This world will be mine." And with that the ship zoomed off.
"Not while I'm here," the Red Ranger called out to the retreating ship, before turning to the others.
Flash and the team all stared at him, causing the Red Ranger to grow nervous.
"So," he said, "um...hi."
"Hi," Flash said suspiciously, "that's all you're gonna say."
"Well what do you want me to say?"
"How about a name," Lyra said.
"And where you came from," Sandel said.
"And how you somehow knew that psycho," Sweetie said.
"And how your weapons worked against those robots while ours didn't," Micro said.
"Okay," the Ranger said, "fair enough."
Before he said anything else, there was a flash of red light and as it faded the cloaked figure was revealed. He then reached up and pulled off the cloak, revealing his true form. He was a human male, roughly twenty one years of age, with jet black hair a pale skin. He wore a red aviator jacket with a stylised number one on the back and on his wrist was an odd look device.
"My name is Christopher Davis," he said, "I'm the leader of the Power Rangers Revolution X."
The others nodded at this, Flash stepping up, "I'm Flash Sentry, leader of the Guardian Power Rangers."
"It's good to finally meet you," Chris said, "I've been watching you guys since I learned this world had Rangers."
"So how long have you been here?" Micro asked him.
"Three months."
They all turned to see a woman in a cloak like what Chris wore walking up to them.
"Who's this?" Lyra asked.
"My mother," Chris said as she stepped over to her, "Doctor Catherine Davis."
"It's a pleasure to meet you all," Catherine said.
"The pleasure's all our," Sweetie said, "especially since your son just saved our lives."
"We should probably talk somewhere else," Flash said, "let's head back to the base so we can get up to speed with each other."
"What's there to be up to speed with?" Sandel asked, "a mad scientist from another dimension's trying to take over our world and a Power Ranger from that would's come to stop him."
"It's more complicated then that," Catherine said.
"Please," Lyra said, "anything you can tell us will be of great help."
Catherine nodded. "I'll tell you everything. It's a story of how we lost our world and of a single city, a city called Hope."