EPISODE SIX
On an offshore oilrig somewhere in the Pacific the drillers had just struck a new batch of oil after days of hard work and digging. The oil was now loaded into shipping drums and these were being loaded onto a large taker boat to take the oil to the mainland.
This tanker was one that belonged to Celesto’s company, and the foreman of the oil drilling contacted him by satellite phone. “It’s all loaded, Mr. Grandruler. Thanks to your tanker, we’ll reach the mainland ahead of schedule.”
“Very good, just remember our deal. I need some of that oil myself.” Celesto said, “Okay, thank you.” then he hung up. He now had just enough time for a little breakfast and coffee before heading for work.
Celestia had already eaten and was now feeding the babies their breakfast. Luna was helping her sister feed her little niece and nephew, before she would have to head for work herself. She wasn’t on maternity leave like her sister.
As Celesto stood at the sink in the massive kitchen, cramming his toast and sipping his coffee, he couldn’t help but gaze at his loving family. His wife looked over her shoulder and gazed lovingly at him, “You know, you could help feed your own children.” she teased.
Her husband pretended to be insulted, “I paid for their food. So in a way, I already did my share.”
They shared a small chuckled, and a smooch. Then Celesto gave his kids a small peck on their little heads. “You-two be good for your mommy.” he cooed.
“I must go too.” said Luna, and she pecked her niece and nephew goodbye. “Have a good day, sister.” she said to Celestia.
After they left, Celestia sighed. She actually missed going to work, but someone had to take care of the children; which she enjoyed anyway… and the school term was almost over anyway.
“Oh, kids…” Celestia cooed to the babies, “One day you’ll understand how it feels to work, and maybe you can help your Daddy fight evil.” She giggled softly, but the babies just looked confused.
Meanwhile, Nacluv gathered the minions before him. “I suppose you’re all wondering why I brought you here. I’m wondering myself since I hate the stinking sight of you all for your constant mess ups.”
The minions took offense to that!
“However, I’d like to show you all the setup for what will be our latest plot to crush the rangers.” He activated the monitors and showed them the images of the oil tanker traveling across the sea.
“An oil tanker?” asked Keto, “How can that help us?”
“Obviously… we’re going to make a deal with the rangers.” sneered Nacluv “From what we know, these humans can’t bear it when an international disaster occurs. Therefore, we’re going to threaten the ocean with that boat and the oil it has.”
“Ah, I see…” said Bronc “Instead of fighting the rangers with brute force, we’ll fight with logic. They would have to surrender.”
Nacluv nodded, “For this, I have selected just the monster we need: Aquarian.”
The creature walked in. She resembled that of a grey fish-woman, but with silvery crystal armor and ghastly green hair, sharp fin blades on her arms and legs. She even had a large shark tail coming out behind her back, and she had gills on her neck.
She was rather beautiful looking. Keto and Bronc couldn’t help but ogle at her, which instantly irked Marla. “I suppose you do look pretty, but I’d hardly consider you on my level.”
Aquarius gave Marla a simple glare and approached her. Once right in front, she gave a huge roar, exposing her immensely sharp teeth, which according to her profile were strong enough to bite through steel.
Marla yelped and hid behind Bronc.
“That’s not even the best of my powers.” Aquarius explained, “My best specialty is that I can meld myself in water, making myself completely invisible. That taker won’t even know what hit it.”
Nacluv snickered, “Now that’s my kind of girl monster.” much to the annoyance of Marla.
(Que Intro)
The bell rang for lunch period. Exams were now only a week away, and the school was preparing the students by giving practice exams, which didn’t have all of the actual questions and problems to solve as the real tests would, but it would give students a feel so they wouldn’t fall into any panics. Whether they passed or failed didn’t matter... they were just practice tests.
Sadly, even with all this easing, Fluttershy was still a bit nervous. It was hard for her to concentrate as she imagined hearing all the problems were laughing tauntingly at her, and the broke off the page and circled round her head, mocking her for her inadequacy.
“Fluttershy…!” Lightning suddenly called to her “Exam’s over. Hand it in please.”
“Uh…?” Fluttershy looked down at her History exam and realized she hadn’t answered a single question. Lightning also noticed this, “Fluttershy…” he said looking at her with concern, but seeing how she was already looking distraught and he took pity on her, “If you want to talk about it, I’ll be here during lunch, okay.”
Nikki overheard this, and while she would have loved to have laughed at Fluttershy, she quickly rubbed out all her own answers on her own paper, hoping Lightning would want to see her at lunch as well.
“It’s not going to work, Nikki…” Lightning said as he picked up her exam, “And besides… you wrote the answers in pen. You can’t erase that.”
Half the class laughed at her, and even Amber and Dionne couldn’t help but let out a small chuckle each, which irked Nikki.
Sunset, Rainbow and Twilight however, felt concerned about Fluttershy.
Meanwhile, Krysta was flying about over the sea, away from the island, where she enjoyed the silence and privacy. Just she and the salty sea air-- Then again, a flock of seagulls here and there were pleasant company.
“Hey guys, what’s up…?!” Krysta called to them…
The seagulls only wailed at her. They couldn’t speak English like she could, but she could still understand them. “That’s easy for you to say…” she joked, and she soared off.
A little later, she looked down below and saw the big oil tanker that was still on its way to the mainland with its shipment.
Onboard the massive boat, the sailors were all keeping a watchful eye on their course, speed, and schedule. They could see the mainland ahead, and they were bang on schedule, unaware of the imminent danger they were in.
Aquarius was lurking in the water, and she spotted the boat from afar. “This should be easy.” She snickered, and with that, she melded into water, completely disappearing and dashed for the boat.
“Captain…” one of the sailors called “Sonar has detected something moving in the water off the port side.”
The Captain looked with his binoculars, but he couldn’t see anything on the surface, but he suddenly could see the motion of the water as something seemed to be coming at the boat with incredible speed. “Veer Off, Hard to Starboard!” he shouted.
The sailors prepared to veer off, but suddenly, they were grabbed by large threads of pink hair, and pulled away.
“What the…?!” the captain cried, and suddenly, Keto appeared behind him and gave him a huge whack to the head with his staff, knocking him out cold. The security alarm was sounded and guards rushed into action with their weapons ready.
“Ha! Try this…!” Keto shouted, “Refrain of Denial!” His powerful mugic disarmed the guards and rendered all their weapons useless. Keto was pleased that while his mugics couldn’t affect the rangers due to their upgrades, at least it still had a good use to overpower normal humans.
The guards were still not willing to give in and were willing to fight hand-to-hand, when suddenly the ship was hit and rocked hard, knocking them all off their feet. That’s when Aquarius leapt out of the water and onto the deck, breaking through large boxes with her massive teeth!
Her presence frightened guards so badly that they surrendered and groveled like babies.
That’s when Nacluv and Bronc appeared. “Well done! The ship is ours.” hissed Nacluv.
Bronc then proceeded to opened more crates which contained the drums of oil. “With all this oil at our hands, we can hold the entire world in demand!”
“My thoughts exactly.” agreed Nacluv, “And now we even have hostages to further enforce the world to our whim. Nothing can stop me this time!”
He laughed loud and manically.
Krysta saw everything from way above and away. “I’ve got to warn the rangers!” and off she flew towards Mystic Island.
Meanwhile, at lunch, Fluttershy came to talk to Lightning, and the others rangers came for moral support. “Fluttershy, you shouldn’t let the exams get to you like this.” said Lighting.
“I know…” peeped Fluttershy “I try, and I try but it’s still hard.”
Sunset placed a comforting hand on her shoulder, “It’s really not that bad, Fluttershy. If you had lived my old world of Equestria, the exams I used to take were nothing like this.”
“What we’re they like?” asked Buddy. The others wanted to know as well. Sunset agreed to explain, though it felt kind of rough on her as she would have to remember all the bad times!
“In my world, as Queen Celestia’s former student-- when she was Princess Celestia-- my exams weren’t just reading and writing and basic skills. I had to master my own magic and spells, but…” she paused, having a look of regret on her face, “I was younger and blinded by my own greed and spoiled attitude. I couldn’t get what I wanted fast enough. So I abandoned my studies, and that’s how I came here to this world.
…I think you all know the rest.”
The others all nodded, and it all brought them a bit of sickly feeling remembering when Sunset used to be evil.
“To be honest, you didn’t crack nearly as much as I did.” Sunset said to Fluttershy, “You can do it, because you have a better reason to.”
“She is right… we all do.
That’s why I know we can all make it through.” said Rhymey.
Fluttershy began to feel better, and Lightning was pleased. “Nevertheless…” he said “…As your teacher, I still expect you to come by after school and retake the practice test.”
Fluttershy nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, there was a tapping sound outside the classroom window. “Krysta…” cried Lightning, and he let his little friend inside. The poor little bird was exhausted. “What happened to you?” asked Rainbow.
Krysta looked insulted and through her panting sneered, “You try flying fifty miles as fast you can and tell me you’re not ready to fall to pieces!” She finally caught her breath and explained what she saw.
“Nacluv hijacked an oil-tanker?!” cried Sunset.
Krysta nodded, “I saw it myself. I don’t know what he wants with it though. I couldn’t hear him from that far away.”
Suddenly there was a sound of a sinister laugh echoing outside, “Attention, Power Rangers…!”
“That voice…!” cried Buddy, and outside, in the skies above the city, Nacluv appeared as a large image of himself. Many of the citizens all over looked up in fear and in worry.
“This is an ultimatum, Rangers.” Nacluv declared, and the images changed to show the tanker out at sea. “I have seized this tanker and all the oil it had loaded on it. I plan to dump it all into the ocean, thus polluting the waters and killing all life it touches.”
You can expect, the rangers, especially Fluttershy were livid and shocked.
“And if you’re thinking of trying to stop me this time, you should know I have hostages as well.”
The next images shown were all the sailors and guards aboard the tankers. All of them were bound and gagged and under the watchful guard of the Lingos and the minions.
“I will give you one chance, Rangers.” hissed Nacluv, “Surrender, and hand your morphers over to me. If you fail comply within two hours, I will sink this vessel, releasing the oil and destroy these men.
Surrender or your ocean pays the price.” he laughed wickedly, and the images vanished from the skies.
“We better get to the base.” suggested Sunset. The others agreed and headed out through the window, and went to the nearest jump-tube without being seen.
Meanwhile, Nacluv had taken the boat further out into the ocean. Naturally, the coast guard and the sentinel heard of the hijacking. One of the guards had pressed an emergency alert switch during the struggled before he was bounded.
Naturally, the forces found there was very little could do. They couldn’t shoot at the boat, without risking of making it sink, and taking the oil with it, and Nacluv was prepared to fight off against anything anyone tried to get anywhere near the boat.
Nacluv snickered, “You see, I told you all this is how to form a master plan. Now it’s only a matter of time before the rangers come. They’d be fools not to.”
“But boss…” Keto pointed out, “The rangers are always up to nasty tricks. What if they try to pull another fast one on us?”
“He’s got a point…” added Marla, but Nacluv snuffed them off. “You’re talking a bunch of nonsense. With all this, plus Aquarius patrolling in the water below, we’ve got all the cards.”
“They’ve really got all the cards this time.” cried Rainbow. Celesto was almost inclined to agree, “They certainly what they were doing they planned this. The problem is what do we do about it?”
Fluttershy felt her heart breaking at the thought of the oil being spilled, and all the fish and other sea-life it would kill. “We can’t let them do it!” she cried “We can’t let them kill all those fish.”
“We won’t let them, Fluttershy.” said Buddy. He wasn’t pretending or just trying to cheer her up. He too, as a fiend of the environment and all the plants he looked after, was just as concerned for the nature at risk. “We’ll find some way to work it out.”
A moment of silence followed, nobody seemed to have any ideas. Not even Twilight. “This is Nacluv we’re dealing with, and I don’t think we can trust him.”
Rhymey agreed with her,
“Even if we surrendered, what’s to say?
That Nacluv won’t go ahead anyway.”
Lightning was growing frustrated, “And we can’t take the zords out there either. He’d probably be ready for us.”
Another moment of silence followed, and Sunset finally asked “So… does that mean we… surrender?”
Nobody liked the idea at all, but they just couldn’t risk the tanker being sunk and the oil breaking loose.
“No way!” snapped Spike “You guys can’t just give in. Can’t you just take the risk of it? So what if a little oil leaks out, we can always clean it up after, and who knows, it may not do too much damage.”
Krysta landed right on his head and sunk her talons right into him, shouting “How can you even suggest such a thing?!!”
“Krysta, stop that!” shouted Lightning, and Twilight picked the bird off her dog’s sore head.
“Look, I only meant…”
“Save it, Spike.” Twilight scolded “What you suggested is not only insane, it’s completely foolish.”
“Twilight is right…” agreed Celesto “That boat was carrying enough gallons of oil to kill every fish for miles. But the oil isn’t even the only problem. The tanker itself is nuclear-powered. If they sink that boat and the reactor gets damages, it could kill all marine-life in the ocean as we know it for the next few centuries. It could even cause an irreversible pollutant that could endanger human-life as well.
Do you think, even for one minute, that we can take such a risk?!!”
Spike hid behind Twilight, cowering in fear of all the scorn he was getting. “Okay, I get the idea.”
Just as they were about to consider surrendering again, Professor Brain entered the room, “Begging your pardon everyone, but I feel I just may have the solution to your problem.”
Everyone turned to face him with eager eyes. “What have you got, Professor?” Celesto asked.
“Well, sir… it had always come to my, eh… er… suspicion that Nacluv would try and force you into a surrender. So I had begun a special project just for the occasion.”
He then clapped his hands for his team of experts to present his idea to everyone. (Off Screen)
Everyone saw the idea, and couldn’t believe their eyes.
“No way.” said Sunset
“I can’t believe it.” added Buddy.
“Wicked…!” cried Rainbow.
“This is marverlous,
And great for us.” said Rhymey.
“Wow.” Fluttershy simply peeped.
“Professor, how did you do all this, and why didn’t you tell us?” asked Lightning.
“Yes, why didn’t you tell us?” added Celesto, he seemed rather strict as to why he was not informed. “As I had said…” replied Brain “I had created this for just such an occasion. I thought it best to keep it aside until so.
And in any case, this will still involve a great risk.”
Again, a moment of silence came as everyone pondered over the plan. Twilight calculated the odds and risks. “Well, it’s not as dangerous as it was before, and it’s the best we’ve got.”
Everyone looked over at Celesto, “All right, then. But I don’t have to say this twice, Rangers… Be extremely careful!”
A while later, the patrol boats were still near the area of the hijacked tanker, but still unable to do anything at all due to the risks.
“What is taking them so long?” Marla whined, “All this salt air isn’t good for my hair!”
“I’m getting seasick just listening to your whining.” grumbled Keto.
The Lingos kept the ship’s crew under tight guard, and suddenly, one of them pointed up at the sky as a chopper came soaring in. “This is it…” Bronc said “The rangers have arrived.”
Nacluv snickered, “I knew they wouldn’t be able to refuse.”
The rangers came sliding down, unmorphed, on zip-lines, landing softly on the deck of the boat. The chopper then reeled in the lines and flew off, just leaving them there.
The Lingos surrounded them, but did not attack. The minions all stood at the head of the circle, and Nacluv glared wickedly at the friends. “Greetings, Rangers, I’m glad you’ve finally come to your senses.”
“Never mind that…” sneered Sunset “We’re here, now release these men and get off this ship!”
“Uh-uh-uhn…” said Nacluv “First thing’s first: Hand over your morphers, now!”
Lightning held out a small case, and he opened it wide to show the six morpher badges resting neatly in a foam block. “If we give them to you, will you let these men go and leave the boat?” Lightning asked.
“Certainly.” hissed Nacluv “I have the mind of a great business dealer after all.” he referred to Vulcan’s mind.
The rangers didn’t take good comfort in that, but Lightning still handed over the case to Bronc. he snickered wickedly. “At long last, the Power Rangers are no more!”
Nacluv nodded and ordered the Lingos, “Hold them!”
“Hey!” snapped Rainbow “We did as you said! You said you’d let us go!”
Nacluv snickered, “And I will let you go… go down to the bottom of the sea that is. After all, if I’m to takeover this world, I want to make sure than no one interferes again!”
“Why you big…!” Buddy sneered, but he couldn’t find the words to say.
“Throw them over the side and prepare to sink this tub!” Nacluv ordered, and Lingos began to shove the rangers along with the men.
While they struggled, Bronc wired a huge bomb in the center of the deck. “There!” he snapped as he activated the countdown. “This thing will go off in five minutes, and nothing can stop it now!”
Keto was giddy with glee, “I can’t believe it-- we’re actually going to do it!”
“Pinch me, I must be dreaming!” added Marla.
Suddenly, the five star-jets zoomed in overhead. “What?!” snapped Nacluv “What’s going on?”
“It can’t be…!” cried Bronc.
“Oh yes it can!” Sunset hollered. Lightning road in the seat behind her, and the other rangers all saluted from their own jets as well.
Furious and confused, Nacluv blasted the supposed rangers on the deck, with his fire powers, blasting them to pieces and revealing, “…Robots! We’ve been tricked!”
Bronc check the morphers in the case, they were fake too-- made out of plaster. He angrily smashed the case on the deck, breaking the fake morphers.
“Now that that’s settled, I’ll take that.” said Sunset, and she used her Jet’s tractor beam to pull the huge bomb up. “No!!” shouted Bronc, and he tried to shoot at the jet, but Rainbow had already rocketed up high, jettisoned the bomb, and shot at it with her lasers… KAPOW!! Blowing it up harmlessly in the air
“My turn… said Sunset, and she fired her own tractor beam, taking all the hostages with her.
“Oh, no you don’t!” shouted Keto, “Song of Embernova!”
Fireball swarmed all around Sunset’s jet, forcing her to swerve and dodge. The jet got hit a few times. “I’ve got to get these men to safety!”
“Right, I’m doing down. I’ll keep them busy!” said Lightning. With that, he ejected and leapt down hard onto the deck. “Get him!” thundered Nacluv.
The Lingos went crazy, “Bring it on!” Lightning sneered, and he fought back ruthlessly, kicking them down, tossing them over the side and into the water below.
The three minions then went at him. The three of them lunged at him, but Lightning leapt up high causing them to bump into each other hard and they all fell into a huge pile on top of one another.
“Must I do EVERYTHING MYSELF?!!” thundered Nacluv!
That’s when he and Nacluv began to brawl hard. Even though Nacluv was very short, he just as powerful and strong as Vulcan was, and his short height made it easier for him to didge Lightning’s kicks and punches, while he slashed at Lightning hard, making big sparks! He then gave Lighting huge kick, bashing him hard into a boc, and the vibrations caused another box of oile ontop of it to tip over and fall into the water.
“Oh, no!” cried Lightning, “Guys, get that box before it breaks open!”
“We’re on it!” said Buddy, “Rhymey, Fluttershy… let’s go!”
“All right!” cried Fluttershy.
“With all our might!” rhymed Rhymey, and with that, the three jets dove into the water.
Nacluv laughed, “Try all you like, it’ll do you no good!”
“Oh, yeah!” sneered Lightning, and he leapt over, kicking him hard in the chest, sending him skidding along the deck.
“Master!” shouted Bronc “Let’s help him!”
His comrades agreed and attacked Lightning hard, but Lightning knew he still had to buy the others some time.
Keto saw there were going to need more power to deal with the rangers below, and he held his staff over the side of the boat, “FORTISSIMO!” and shot his mugic into the water!
“What’s he doing?!” Lightning wondered.
Down below, the other three rangers spotted the crate of oil. It had broken wide open when it crashed on the seabed, but the oil drums were all still intact as they sat in a cluttered pile.
“Oh, thank goodness!” cried Fluttershy.
“Let’s get them out of here before they spring a leak.” said Buddy. He was about to activate his tractor beam and seize the drums, when suddenly his sonar went off with a warning, and something hit him and other jets as well.
“What was that?!” cried Fluttershy. She got her answer when Aquarius appeared out of nowhere. She was also very big thanks to Keto’s mugic.
She laughed at the rangers and sneered, “Surprise, rangers! I am Aquarius: Scourge of the waters, and I shall be destroying you as well as your ocean now.”
“Not if we have a say!
You won’t get your way!” shouted Rhymey.
Aquarius glared at the jets with her sharp teeth.
“Shoot her!” shouted Buddy, and he and the others fired their missiles, but the swift monster zoomed around the rockets and struck each jet hard as she passed.
“She’s too fast!” cried Fluttershy.
Buddy called Rainbow and Sunset, “We need back up down here!”
“We’re on our way!” Sunset responded.
She and Rainbow steered their jets down towards the water, “Cannonball!” Rainbow hollered as she splashed down.
“Hey, fish-face…!” sunset called, and she and rainbow both fired their missiles, but the monster melded into water and vanished. The missiles missed and exploded, and the force of the explosion slit one of the oil drums open.
“Oh, no!” cried Sunset.
“This is not good!” added Rainbow.
“We’ve got to get the drums out of here now!” cried Buddy. He tried to steer his jet inward, but Aquarius rammed him hard and gnashed her teeth at the side of his jet. “Whoa!” Buddy cried.
“It’s no use!” she thundered, “Here in the water I’m twice as fast and slick, and you can’t even try to hit what you can’t even see!”
She demonstrated her wickedness by striking the other jets. The rangers couldn’t even try to pinpoint her on sonar-- she was too fast.
The oil was spilling out even more.
“There’s got to be a way!” cried Fluttershy.
“There is…” hissed Auqaruius “…You get destroyed!!”
She charged again, when suddenly a missile went right past her, frightening her into appearing. “What the?!” she turned round to see a whole bunch of mini-subs, from the coast guard and the sentinel.
They couldn’t contact them over the radio because their communications still worked on different principles, but the lead craft flashed its lights twice at Sunset’s jet, signaling they had come to help!
“Perfect, that gives us all the help we need.” said Sunset.
“Fluttershy and I will get each drum,
You guys fend off that monstrous bum.” said Rhymey.
“Got’cha!”
Rhymey and Fluttershy steered into to grab the drums.
“No! I’ll stop you!” shouted Aquarius, and she melded into water again, vanishing from sight.
“Not this time you don’t!” shouted Buddy, and he veered his jet right in the path the monster was going to reach the others. She was forced to veer another way, and two sentinel subs blocked her way.
“That’s it! Now I’m angry!” she thundered. Her teeth and her finlike blades actually shimmer while invisible. She lunged forth and slashed at all the crafts hard, shaking everyone in their cockpits. “Keep it together, guys!” Rainbow called.
The crafts continued to hold steayd and did all they could to give Rhymey and Fluttershy their opening.
Soon, the two jets reached the leaking drums and grabbed them in their tractor-beams, hauling them to safety. Not too much oil had leaked out to cause much panic.
“Let’s get them out of here!” said Fluttershy.
“Right behind you, dear.” her boyfriend rhymed.
Their jets leapt sprang out of water and dumped the drums back onto the boat.
Lightning was still struggling with Nacluv and his minions. Marla shoved him hard, Keto bashed, him, Bronc shoved him again and Nacluv gave Lightning huge slash sending him skidding up the deck, and his suit ran out of energy, and powered down.
“That’s one ranger down!” sneered Nacluv, and he rushed into finish Lightning for good, but Rhymey and Fluttershy hovered their jets down and pointed their lasers right at him, making him back away, right with his minions.
Lightning got back onto his feet.
Fluttershy contacted him through his morpher, “Are you okay, Lightning?”
“I’m fine, just a little bruised.” He answered, and then he sneered at the villains, “Okay, Nacluv, the jig is up! We’re taking this tanker, and you’re coming too, as our prisoner!”
Nacluv turned wound and saw the sentinel and coast guard boast pulling alongside the ship, with men aiming their guns right at him.
Still, he wasn’t quite licked yet. “You could take me in if you desire… but will you risk it?!”
Before anyone would question him, he blasted a huge hole clear through the hull of the tanker, causing it to start sinking!
“Oh, no!” thundered Lightning.
“We can’t let the boat sink!” cried Fluttershy.
While the rangers and the gunmen were all distracted, Nacluv laughed and saw this as his chance to escape, “So long, Rangers!” and he and his minions vanished off the deck.
“A’RGH!!” growled Lightning, but he had no time to be angry now.
The commander of the sentinel mothership called to them with a megaphone, “Lift the boat out of the water and put it on our deck. We’ll handle it from here!”
The rangers agreed, and Lightning leapt off the sinking ship onto one of the other boats where he’d be safe, and Rhymey and Fluttershy used their jet tractor beams and pulled the boat safely onto the mothership where it, too, would be safe.
Now all that was left to do was beat the monster.
Rhymey and Fluttershy dove back below. Their friends and allies had taken quite a beating, and a couple of sub crafts were down, but still intact, and everyone else still hadn’t given up yet.
“Have no fear,
We are here!” Rhymey hollered.
“Great, we could use more power.” Buddy called.
“All the power in the ocean won’t save you now!” thundered Aquarius, and she zoomed past the crafts striking them all again.
“Okay, that’s it!” snarled Rainbow “We’ve gotta sink this fish right now!”
“And I think I know how…” said Sunset, “Everyone, huddle together.”
All the many crafts huddled in a big circle, pointing their weapons outward, “All right, FIRE!!”
Their lasers and missiles shot out all around, and eventually the monster got hit in a huge barrage. “Whoa…!” she groaned as she reappeared looking all battered and woozy, “I feel seasick!”
“Now’s our chance!” cried Sunset “Tractor-beams, capture-mode, ready!”
“Tractor-beam Engage!”
“FIRE!!”
All five jet’s launched their beams at the weakened monster, blasting her hard and actually shrinking her down. She was imprisoned and beamed into Sunset’s cockpit. “Monster Captured! Mission Complete!”
The rangers cheered, the aquanauts whom helped them cheered, and Ligthning heard the news over his com, and he and the other sailors were cheering as well. “Way to go guys!”
Nacluv was so furious that his screams echoed all over the tower “I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS HAPPENED!!!” and he turned to face the minions “This is all YOUR faults!”
“What? Us?” whined Marla.
“I come up with a perfectly good master plan, and you three messed it all up again!”
Bronc tried to protest, “But master, the ranger…”
“QUIET!!” thundered Nacluv “I don’t want to hear any excuses! GET OUT…!! GET OUT ALL OF YOU BEFORE I BLAST YOU ALL TO THE MOON!!”
“You heard him!” cried Keto, and he and his comrades ran off swiftly, leaving Nacluv to angrily kick over a table. “Ooh… I’ll get you for this, Rangers! Just you wait!”
When the rangers got back to Mystic Island, School had just gotten out for the day, but the rangers were at the base for their debriefing, and Celesto just got off the phone with Washington.
“Good news…” he said to the others, “The sentinel took the taker to the mainland and the oil is still safe; all thanks to you. Well done, Rangers.”
The rangers all nodded proudly.
“And what about the spilled oil in the water?” Fluttershy asked with concern. “It’s all fine…” Celesto assured her “I spoke with the coastguard, not too much oil leaked out and it’s already being cleaned. So no fish will be hurt.”
“That’s wonderful news!” said Buddy “Just the same, we just barley manage to pull it off, thanks to the Professor’s robot dummies of us.”
Professor Brain felt flattered, “Well, you know as they say: Fool the mind, and…er… victory is yours. Nonetheless, I dare say Nacluv may not fall for the same trick again. I must prepare to work on more projects.”
He went off to the lab.
“Speaking of working…” Lightning said while looking at Fluttershy “Don’t you have a practice test to complete, like we promised?”
Fluttershy blinked once, but she didn’t seem to be too nervous about it, or the real exams coming up next week. “If I could get through what we did today, I can pass a little test…” then she acted nervous again “…I hope.”
The others all sighed funnily.