Power Rangers SUPER Starfleet (Starfleet Humans)

by DakariKingMykan

Episode 1: Vine with Me (The Rangers Return)

On a tiny rocky island, a few hundred miles from Mystic Island, the prison tower still stood undiscovered, and still house so many different monsters and villains from the dimensional universe.

On the shores of the island, three despicable creatures, Vulcan’s former minions, wearily climbed up out of the waters where they had been swimming for weeks since falling from the sky.

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. If her ability to create more Lingos was as skillful as her diva-attitude… who knows what she’d be capable of.

<Bronc: A big muscular armored creature, and the computer and technological expert of the group. He was 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.

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.

All three of them were soaked to the bone and panting stressfully, “I never thought we’d make it!” cried Keto “I’ll never swim again for the rest of my life!”

Marla tweaked her nose in attempt to clear her sinuses from all that salt water. “My hair, my clothes, by nose…!” she whined “You two are going to pay for this! I MEAN IT!! It’ll take a miracle to make me beautiful again!”

Keto sighed, “How can you be thinking about all that at a time like this!”

“I think about my looks all the time.” sneered Marla.

Bronc could only grumble to himself, “I should’ve let the rangers destroy me when I had the chance than put up with this!”

They all entered the tower, and all the prisoners were roaring and groaning loudly.

“We’re starving!”

“We haven’t been fed in weeks!”

“Let us out of here!”

The minions ignored the whining and retreated to the top of the tower where they used to meet with Vulcan in the lab.

“What are we supposed to do now?” asked Keto.

“I don’t know!” sneered Bronc “With Vulcan gone, we need a new plan!”

“…I couldn’t agree more.” said a voice from across the room. The minions looked towards the entrance of Vulcan’s private lab and saw someone standing in the shadows.

“Who are you supposed to be?” Marla rudely asked.

The creature stepped forth, and much to the minions’ surprise, he looked exactly like Vulcan; humanoid like alien, and he wore a black armored vest, with a black overcoat, with matching black pants, black boots with spikes at the toes.

Only he was half Vulcan’s size, his scaly skin and his fiery hair were blue instead of red.

“…Vulcan?” Bronc asked in disbelief.

The creature snickered and said, “Not really. The name is Nacluv, and I’m your new boss.”

Marla raised an eyebrow, “Nacluv?”

“It’s “Vulcan” spelled backwards.” said Keto.

“That’s correct.” hissed Nacluv “Your leader, Vulcan, created me in his image and gave me his very thought patterns. His reasons were that I would continue his legacy, if in the unlikely event he’d fall. So here I am.”

“Uh, yeah… like I’m going to take orders from a shrimp.” Marla teased, “Now, if you’ll excuse me. I’m going to hit the hot-tub.”

Nacluv didn’t take kindly to her insults, and demonstrated, by blasting a blaze of fire at, just missing her, but making a huge hole in the wall, frightening her and her comrades.

“Did I forget to mention Vulcan gave me his powers as well… and they’re JUST as lethal? So maybe you ought to show a little more respect next time!”

Marla fearfully turned round, and as for Keto and Bronc, they also gave in and bowed their heads to their new master.

“That’s more like it.” hissed Nacluv. “Now, go and feed the prisoners and report back here! We’ve got a lot of work to do…”

“YES SIR!!” the three shouted, and they dashed off to get to their duties, while Nacluv sat himself in the big chair by the computers, “I think I’m going like being in charge, and my first directive: Destroy the rangers, and then conquer the world!”

He laughed wickedly, but then his voice cracked, “I think I need time to work on that.”

(Que Intro)

Sunset Shimmer, Rainbow Dash, Buddy Rose, William Stirskewer-- also known as Rhymey, his tight girlfriend, Fluttershy, and their ally and part-time History teacher, Lightning Dawn…

The former Power Rangers… we’re in a deep dry spell.

It had been three weeks since their victory over the evil planet broker, Vulcan, and ever since then, there hadn’t been any new monsters sent to attack Mystic Island; not even a single Lingo.

It meant the rangers could catch up on their normal lives.

Lightning continued to teach his history classes at Canterlot High, while being constantly annoyed by the local school diva, Nikki Trent, trying to flirt with him!

Of course, the other rangers had their own part-time jobs and major hobbies as well.

Fluttershy continued her work-study, to be a vet, at the animal shelter. Even the most ferocious of ill-tempered animals seemed to melt by her gentle attitude… that or if she gave them a strong STARE every so.

Rhymey gave poetry-readings at the town Library, to teach children more about it and to like it; sort of like a poet-laureate.

Some of the children even began to adopt his style of talking in rhyme.

Buddy did loads of work at the community garden, and took time to work at the Farmer’s Market selling flowers and vegetables he grew.

Meanwhile, Sunset decided to do some volunteer work at the hospital. This way, not only could she help other people, as well as the hospital staff, but she could also be close to her other friends.

Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Starla Shine, Dyno and Myte, and of course, Artie, her really tight boyfriend; all of them still lying in coma’s which they had been for two months ever since being hit by that big explosion caused by Vulcan and his minions.

Dr. Penny Sillion assured her, “They’re getting stronger every day, they won’t be out of it forever, you’ll see.”

Sunset really hoped so. She missed her friends dearly, especially Artie. She stood by his side and held his cold hand. “I’m here for you, Artie.” and she looked at all her other friends “I’m here for all of you.”

Suddenly, she felt Artie give her hand a tiny squeeze, even though Dr. Penny told her they were just soft muscle reflexes that would occur every now and then, each and every time she felt one, Sunset’s hopes grew brighter, feeling that Artie and the others would wake up soon.

As for Rainbow Dash, when she wasn’t busy practicing her guitar or her mad soccer-skills, she worked as a part-time Pizza Delivery girl. With her speed and efficiency, she got loads of tips, and every now and then, she’d run into a little problem…

Today, she was delivering two pizzas to a nearby neighborhood, when she spotted a bunch of punks stealing from the outdoor food stands.

“Hey!” the grocer shouted, which alerted the punks to scram, and dash up the streets. “Stop those kids!” the grocer begged.

Rainbow put down the pizzas on the steps towards the apartment house, and ran off after the punks cutting them off by taking a short cut through the allies.

“Hold it right there!” she yelled at them. The punks stopped, and turned round. “Hey, who are you? The cops?” the leader joked. “Nope, I’m a pizza delivery girl.”

The punks laughed hysterically at her, thinking this was a joke, but Rainbow could see this was going to get ugly.

“You just delivered yourself a death-wish, girl!” the leader snapped, and he lunged forth to punch her, but Rainbow skillfully swerved, and kicked the guy hard in the gut, making his other four punk friends jump at her.

Rainbow narrowed her eyes, and cracked her knuckles, “Go ahead… Make my day.” she hissed.

The fight was on, but even though the punks were much bigger than she was, Rainbow evaded all their attacks, and easily punched, kicked and knocked them all down like bowling pins until they were all lying flat in the street, “Did I also mention I’m the blue ranger?”

The police came and apprehended the punks, but Rainbow didn’t have time to stick around and endure the praise she would get. She had pizza routes to get on.

Little did she realize, she was being watched by Nacluv and the minions as the hid within the shadows of another alley.

“I say we go for her now!” said Keto.

“Not, yet!” snapped Nacluv “We’ll wait until they all get in one place, and then capture them all at once.” He turned and asked, “You think you can handle that, Vinery?”

A green planet like creature, covered in green bark like skin, and a vine-line tentacles hissed, “No problem, boss. Once those rangers are bound by my vines, I’ll suck the energy and the power right out of them!”

The rangers all met up for lunch in the park that day; all six of them. “And this is supposed to be a Saturday?” groaned Buddy “I’ve never worked so hard, either that or it’s just the boredom talking.”

“I don’t mind working on Saturday…” said Fluttershy “I just love taking care of all the animals at the shelter. The doctor says I’ll make a fine vet someday.”

“If it’s something you like to do,
No one has the right to question you.” said Rhymey.

“I couldn’t go a day without my poetry,
Without it or my rhymes… it just isn’t me.”

Rainbow sighed boringly, “Well, pretty much trashing those punks in the alley were the most exciting thing that happened to me all weak, and they were lightweights.”

“Hmm…!” Lightning said “I guess we all miss a little of the action, but then again it’s not like we should wish for the world to be in danger again.”

All the rangers agreed, especially Sunset. She had just finished writing a letter in the magic journal to Commander Lightning Dawn in the Dimensional Universe to see how he and Starfleet were going on.

“How’s it going back there with them?” Buddy asked.

“Not very good.” replied Sunset “Up until now they’ve only captured barely half of all the escaped prisoners, but their galaxy is still in grave danger. On top of that, they’re still nowhere nearer to fixing the portal in their world, so we still won’t get our energizers back for some time.”

Everyone sighed, still feeling the rut they were in sink into them.

Fluttershy then turned her head and saw a familiar couple walking down the street. Celesto Grand Ruler, their team mentor and his wife, Principal Celestia taking their infant children on a stroll.

The gang waved over at them, and the couple waved back and then strolled over and joined their friends.

The babies, Castor and Leilani, cooed from their double carriage. “Aw, aren’t you two cute.” Fluttershy cooed as she playfully tickled their little chins.

“Trust me, they aren’t so cute when they’re spitting up on you all the time.” Celestia joked.

“At least it gives you both something to do.” said Buddy.

Celesto sighed, he was well aware of the rangers’ boredom, “If only you all understood and were as into work as I am, you’d be so busy you wouldn’t have time to complain, and speaking of which…”

He reached into his pocket and passed them each their respective morpher-badges, which had been upgraded for stronger powers.

“Funny, they don’t look any different.” said Rainbow. “I assure you, we’ve managed to update most of the ranger technology and equipment.” said Celesto “Twilight’s been working non-stop, even after I tell her to have a break. I practically was willing to pay her to stop and have a rest.”

Everyone chuckled, and Rhymey said,

“That’s our Twilight, a worker so tight,
And she never stops working, ‘til things are all right.”

Back at the rangers’ secret base, located deep under the island, Twilight Sparkle was working harder than ever with Celestos team of scientists to keep all the ranger technology updated, much to the chagrin of her pet talking dog, Spike.

“Twilight, when are you going to stop…? It’s been weeks since a monster attacked.” Spike groaned.

“Spike it’s more than just keeping the tech up-to-date,” said Twilight “I’m doing what I enjoy, and I’m expanding my own mind by improving things. Just imagine what I could do for the world someday, I could be the greatest female science-engineer in history!”

With that, she got right back to work, while Spike groaned and went back to sleep.

While back in the park, the babies looked sleepy themselves. “Uh, oh; I think we should get you two home for your nap.” their mother cooed.

“Yes, we should go.” agreed Celesto “We’ll see you all later.”

“Say bye-bye, babies…” Celestia cooed, as she playfully made the kids wave their tiny hands.

Soon they were gone, and the rangers finished their lunches. “Well, how about we hit the soccer-field?” Rainbow suggested. The others all agreed, but Sunset and Lightning both had to use the portable restrooms first after eating so much.

“We’ll catch up with you guys later.” Sunset called. Then she and Lightning hurried off, while the other four rangers hit the field to play two-on-two… unaware of the imminent danger at hand…

Vinery peered round a tree and snickered, “They may not be all together, but at least I’ll have most of them, and the last two will follow. Master Nacluv will be pleased.”

While the four rangers played about, they played guys against girls. Naturally, Rainbow was a superstar at scoring goals, but when Fluttershy got the ball, she just gave simple kicks with her feet, allowing the boys to easily steal from her and catch up in goals.

“Come on, Fluttershy, you’ve gotta do better than that.” groaned Rainbow.

“Sorry, I’m still not all that into extreme sports.”

Rainbow sighed and decided to take the next shot herself.

“Come on, we’re ready.” shouted Buddy.

“Ready and steady!” rhymed Rhymey.

Rainbow welcomed their challenge, and narrowed her eyes as she positioned herself ready for the big kick.

She took a running lunge for the ball, but just as she was about to kick…

…She was ensnared by large vines!

“Rainbow!” cried Buddy, and then he and rhymey were ensnared, followed by Fluttershy, and they were all dragged off.

Meanwhile, Sunset and Lightning finished in the portable washrooms, both feeling much better. “I can’t play too long now, I still have to get Monday’s history lesson ready.”

“Oh, joy to that…” Sunset teased, but when she and Lightning got to the field, they couldn’t find the gang anywhere; just Rainbow’s soccer ball lying on the ground. “That’s odd…” said Sunset “Rainbow wouldn’t just go off and leave her favorite ball lying here.”

Lightning suspected a prank and called out, “Come on, guys… joke’s over.” but nothing happened. Both he and Sunset were getting worried.

Meanwhile, Lightning’s pet talking robin, Krysta, was happily flying about like she always did, as free as the breeze. “Ah, yeah… this is my idea of relaxation.” she said to herself.

She flew in lower, over the forest near the park, when she suddenly spotted what looked like a monster. “What the…!” she cried as she perched herself on a tree limb.

She looked down and saw four of the rangers bound to four separate trees by thick vines. The four of them were struggling hard.

“What’s with these vines!” growled Buddy “They’re not like anything I’ve seen.”

Vinery and Nacluv approached them snickering, and Nacluv hissed, “And they’ll be the last thing you see as well, Power Rangers.”

“It can’t be…!” cried Fluttershy.

“Who the heck are you?” asked Rainbow.

Nacluv chuckled, “I’m… you’re worst nightmare come true.”

The rangers struggled, but they still couldn’t break free, nor could they reach their morphers to call for help.

“It isn’t over yet!
There’s still Lightning and Sunset.” said Rhymey.

Vinery and Nacluv laughed, “I haven’t forgotten about them.” said Nacluv “By the time they even figure where you are, it’ll be too late.”

He snapped his fingers allowing Vinery to proceed. “Say bye-bye, rangers…” he hissed, and his eyes began to glow red, at the same time, the vines binding the rangers glowed softly as did the rangers.

“The vines, they’re sucking out our energy!” cried Buddy.

Krysta couldn’t bear this, “I’ve got to find Lightning and Sunset!” she cried, and figuring they were somewhere in the park, she flew off as fast as she could.

Lightning and Sunset had spread out and looked all over the park. “Did you find them?” Sunset asked.

“Obviously not, and neither did you.” replied Lightning

“But we found you!” snapped a voice. The two rangers turned round and couldn’t believe their eyes; it was Marla, Bronc and Keto. “It can’t be!” cried Sunset.

“That’s right… we’re baa-aack.” chuckled Keto, and his comrades snickered with him.

“Did you miss us?” Marla teased.

Lightning clenched his fists and snarled, “Where are the others?”

“That’s the least of your concern!” said Bronc “Soon they’ll all be destroyed, but don’t worry, we’ll make sure you’re there to greet them on the other side!”

With that, he fired his helmet eye-lasers, forcing Sunset and Lighting to jump for it!

“Song of Ember Nova!” Keto shouted, and as the Chaotic Mugician he was, his song played, and unleashed a barrage of fireballs at the two rangers, forcing them to hightail it into the shrubs.

Kapow!! A big explosion!

“I got ‘em!” Keto cheered, and he began to dance like a goofball celebrating his victory… when suddenly…

Sunset and Lightning, came leaping out from the shrubs, both morphed for the first time in a while. “You got nothing!” snapped Sunset, “Nothing but a good beating coming to you!” added Lightning.

The minions growled, and Marla decided, “Well… why don’t we tune things up a bit!” and she threw a few threads of her hair into the ground creating a swarm of Lingos-- her army of drones.

“It’s been a while…” said Sunset “…It’s time to Shine!”

Lightning agreed, and the two of them leapt in and began to attack the Lingos mercilessly having never lost their touch.

“It’s a good thing we stuck to our training all this time.” Lightning said as he punched a Lingo hard.

“You got that right…” Sunset added as she kicked down two more.

As they continued to make short work of the Lingos Krysta came flying in shouting “Lightning…! LIGHTNING…!!”

“Krysta…?”

“Lightning, I found the others! They’re in a clearing in the forest, and they’re in big trouble!”

Sunset and Lightning gawked at each other, with concern expressions behind their helmets.

While deep in the woods, the rangers were already starting to feel weak and were fading fast.

“Can’t… keep up… much longer!” groaned Rainbow.

“It’s no use, we can’t break free!” cried Buddy.

Rhymey and Fluttershy struggled, but it was hopeless to escape, especially in their weakened state, while Vinery only laughed at them and he spoke to Nacluv, “What do you think boss?”

Nacluv snickered, “Well done, Vinery. Just keep it up a little longer. I want them to have absolutely nothing left when we deliver the kill!”

“I’ve got to go after them.” said Sunset, “Lightning, keep me covered.”

“You got it.” Lightning agreed, “Krysta, show her the way!”

“Right!” cried Krysta “Follow me!” and she flew off with Sunset running after her.

“Oh, no you don’t!” shouted Marla, and she prepared to lung for them both, but Lightning leapt in and kicked her hard and sent her crashing into the other two, knocking them down.

“I’m going to make you guys wish you never came back!” he sneered at them.

“Pretty big words for a lonesome ranger!” scoffed Bronc.

“Let’s get him!” shouted Keto.

The fight was on!

Meanwhile, Krysta led Sunset through the woods. “Come on!” she called to her, and Sunset stayed close behind. Soon, they both arrived in the clearing and saw the others nearly passed out while bound to the trees.

“Hang on, guys, I’ll get you out!” cried Sunset, and she pressed on her morpher, followed by the female automated voice shouting, “Summon Weapon!”

“Star Scepter…!” Her weapon appeared and she gripped it tight, but before she could make a move, “Sunset, look out!” Krysta screamed, but a pair of vines whipped her, knocking the scepter out of her hand, making sparks fly.

“Welcome, red ranger…!” Vinery called as he came into view, “I was expected you’d come; now I get to destroy you and your fellow rangers all at once!”

Sunset growled, but then she looked over at her friends, feeling she had to free them and fast, but as she took one step towards them, Nacluv appeared right next to Fluttershy, with his claws just inches from her neck, sneering “I wouldn’t do that if I were you!”

Stunned for just a split second, Sunset just stood there, and Nacluv then blasted her hard and sent her crashing back. He laughed at her, and then turned to the monster, “She’s all yours, Vinery.”

The monster snickered, and approached Sunset, “Time for you to get under wraps!”

Sunset looked ahead, and saw her Scepter laying ahead of her, “I think not…” and she jumped just as the vines were launched, missing her, and she rolled along, grabbing her weapon, and blasted at the creature, and then she quickly spun round on her heel blasting at the vines that bound her friends, and making Nacluv jump away.

The four weakened rangers didn’t get up, not having the strength to, but remembering what their morphers were capable of, Sunset jumped over, “Hang on guys,” and she activated their morphers transferring large bursts of energy into their bodies, restoring their strength.

“Sunset?” groaned Rainbow.

“What’s going on?” added Fluttershy.

“It’s okay guys. Right now I need your help.” said Sunset “You up for it?”

“Are you kidding? We’ve been waiting for some action!” said Buddy.

“Nothing to it
But to do it.” agreed Rhymey.

The four rangers stood together, and Rainbow made the call. “It’s Morphin’ Time!”

“Morphing Sequence… Ready!” said the automated voice, and all together the rangers shouted, “STARFLEET MAGIC… POWER ON!!” and pressing their badges, they morphed into their ranger outfits.

“Yeah, we’re back!” cried Sunset “And ready to shine!”

Nacluv growled angrily, “I’ve gotten what I need to know. Let’s get out of here!” he called to Vinery, and he teleported away thanks to the new devices Bronc whipped up.

“He’s gone!” cried Fluttershy.

Vinery, on the other hand refused to leave, “I’m not leaving so easily! I said I’d destroy you, and that’s what I’ll do!” he launched his vines at the rangers, forcing them to evade, and he then proceeded to whirl them around like whips, hitting each of the rangers, making sparks fly.

“That does it!” snapped Buddy, and he summoned his own weapon, “Plasma Whip…!”

Gripping his whip tightly, he skillfully lassoed the vines all together.

“Hey, let go of me!” shouted the monster.

“Sorry, you didn’t say “please!” Buddy teased, and he gave his whip a huge yank sending the monster soaring, and then crashing on the ground hard.

The other rangers then summoned their weapons.

Rainbow: “Sonic Cannon!”

Rhymey: “Raid Blade!”

Fluttershy: “Strong Shield!”

“You think I’m scared of those puny toys of yours?!” shouted Vinery, “Time for you to get under tight wraps!”

“We’ll see about that.” snapped Sunset, “Go, guys!”

The rangers all lunged forth, and while Vinery put up a valiant effort, the rangers managed to strike, slash, and blast at him hard.

“This isn’t going how I planned!”

“You should’ve run while you had the chance!” shouted Sunset, “Okay, guys… bring ‘em together!”

“RIGHT…!!” the others agreed, and the merged their weapons together.

“Weapons Combine!”

“Star-Slammer… Ready!”

It had been quite some time since they last used their faithful Star-Slammer, but they all stood together as Sunset held the mighty weapon, and she whirled it round and round over her head like a lasso, that began to glow brightly.

Altogether, the rangers shouted, “STAR-SLAMMER… ULTRA-STRIKE!!” and Sunset gave the weapon a huge slam, hitting the monster hard over his head. Vinery screamed and roared as his body was enveloped in multi-colored lightning bolts, and he exploded… KAPOW!!

The rangers rejoiced in their victory.

While outside the woods, Lightning punched Marla, kicked Bronc, and threw Keto hard, still staying as strong as ever. “You guys give up yet…?”

The angry minions growled at him, but they weren’t ready to quit just yet… that is until they noticed the explosion lifting from above the forest.

Back at the tower, Nacluv saw the whole thing on the screens, and as if he were outraged enough that Vinery didn’t listen and retreat when he told him to, “Keto… do your thing!” Nacluv shouted into the new radio system.

Keto acknowledged, “Time to grow up,” he teased and then held his staff up shouting, “FORTISSIMO!” and he launched his most often used mugic, which brought Vinery back from the explosive waves and grew him to gigantic proportions.

“Now this is what I call feelin’ Vine!” the huge monster joked!

“Ah, man!” cried Lightning, and the minions snickered and decided to leave him and his fellow rangers at the monster’s hands before teleporting away, much to Lightning’s chagrin, but he and the others rangers now had bigger problems to deal with.

Sunset contacted the base, via her morpher-com, “Launch Star-Jets!”

“Summon Zords!”

From their secret base under the island, the five mega jets soared through a long launch tunnel and flew out over the sea, then made a huge turn heading back towards the danger site.

Once the jets were in view, the automatically beamed the rangers into their respective cockpits, ready for battle. “Okay guys, let’s bring ‘em in.” said Sunset.

“WHOO-HOO! This is going to feel awesome!” cried Rainbow.

The other three all shook their heads playfully at her giddiness, but really they also felt as eager as she did deep down.

“Zords Combine!”

For the first time in a while, their zords combined once again.

“Jet-Star Megazord… Ready!”

“Go get him, guys!” Lightning called up to the megazord.

Vinery on the other hand was not impressed, “Bring it on!” he snarled as he charged forth, striking the megazord hard with his vine-whips, but the megazord just stood there taking every hit and not even flinching.

“Oh, you think you’re so tough, huh?”

“We don’t think; we know!” barked Sunset.

Rhymey then pulled on his controls, making the Megazord raise its arm and sock the creature hard in the chest, and Fluttershy made the other arm punch him again!

“Our turn…!” Buddy said to Rainbow, and they both made the megazord jump and give the monster a good flying kick, that sent him rolling along the ground.

“Good shot, but not good enough!” shouted Vinery, and he unleashed his vines, ensnaring the zord tightly.

“He’s got us! We can’t move!” cried Fluttershy.

The rangers pounded at the controls, but their megazord couldn’t move an inch.

“Here, let me give you a lift!” sneered Vinery, and he rasied the megazord up high and slammed it hard on the ground, rocking the rangers about inside!

“So much for your first fight…!” Vinery roared, but suddenly his vines were blasted at and snapped from the side. “What?!” he shouted as he turned round and saw a giant Lightning whom had fired the blast from his gauntlets, “It’s my first battle back too, you know!”

The monster was outraged, while the megazord stood and brushed the vines off. “Thanks, Lightning…!” Sunset called “Now let’s finish this creep!”

With that, the megazord drew it’s sword from behind.

“Uh, oh! This isn’t good.” cried Vinery.

“Charge it up…” shouted Sunset.

“Star Saber… Engage!”

The saber began to glow, and the megazord whirled it once in a big circle, creating a large star in front.

“STAR SLASH… GO!!” shouted the rangers, and the megazord gave a huge slash, sending the star soaring at the monster, hitting him hard.

Once again, Vinery began to flare and jolt! “THAT’S A WRAP!” he shouted as he exploded once again-- actually, the explosion was just a powerful transformation; the flames were not real at all. The monster was magically shrunk down and imprisoned in a clear sphere which was beamed aboard the cockpit.

“Way to go guys!” Lightning cheered. The other rangers all rejoiced as well, and Sunset called it for the first time in a while, “Monster Captured! Mission Complete!”

Back at the Tower, the minions were all outraged!

“I can’t believe it!” Bronc thundered at Nacluv, “We almost had them, and you told us to retreat?!”

“Looks like you’re not all like Vulcan as you claimed.” Marla teased, but this only earned her an angry blast from her boss, burning the ends of her long hair. “Hey!” she shrieked.

“Next time, I’ll aim straight at your face!” Nacluv hissed, “Today was just a test. Obviously those rangers aren’t as out of practice as I thought. After all, you shouldn’t underestimate your enemy.”

“I get it…” said Keto “At least I think I do.”

Nacluv sighed, but he knew this was just the beginning, and he vowed that he wouldn’t quit until the rangers were beaten for good!

Meanwhile, the rangers rode the zords back to base where Celesto, Twilight, Spike, and all the gang were waiting for them, and Rainbow immediately asked, “How come the alarms didn’t sound when that monster attacked?” to which Twilight embarrassingly admitted “Would you believe we were working on the console then…?”

The rangers all sighed irritably.

“Okay, okay, settle down now.” said Celesto “Things still worked out alright in the end, since all the other controls were working.”

“Don’t forget me…” said Krysta “I helped out too.”

Lightning stroked her little head, “We’re all grateful, Krysta.”

Buddy then clenched his fists, “Just the same, it was close. That Nacluv almost actually got us.”

Flutterhy agreed, “He’s just as cruel and as nasty as Vulcan ever was.”

“And don’t forget the minions, too,
So it’s obvious what we have to do.” said Rhymey.

The others all agreed, and Sunset said, “Looks like our dry-spell is over. The Power Rangers are back and ready for action.”

The others all agreed, and now there wasn’t much to do but prepare for the long war ahead.