Theo and Lily were on their once a month lunch “appointment” in Ponyville. Lily had been trying to get him to call it a date, but he insisted on calling it an appointment. Lily knew there was no getting through to Theo’s thick skull, so she gave up after a while.
The two walked into the restaurant. Inside were a couple of other ponies. To their surprise, none of the locals seemed to be surprised at the humans. Theo shrugged and pulled out a chair for Lily.
“I thought it wasn’t a date,” Lily smirked.
“It’s not, but that’s no excuse for not acting like a gentleman,” Theo responded.
Lily rolled her eyes and looked at the menu. She noticed that this place was extremely similar to a fast food restaurant back on Earth. She looked at Theo, and the two exchanged agreeing nods.
A few minutes later, the two received their food: a hayburger for Theo and a haydog for Lily. Theo bit into his food.
“Not bad, but I still prefer food from Earth,” Theo said.
Lily chuckled and took a bite of her food. She immediately understood what Theo was talking about.
Before either of them could continue, their morphers went off. Theo looked into his and saw a group of Rinshi approaching Ponyville.
“Duty calls,” he told Lily. The two got up as Theo went to pay the check.
“This is in the house. I wouldn’t dream of making a ranger pay for his meal in my restaurant,” said the manager. Regardless, Theo left a few bits on the table as a tip.
The two rangers ran to face the Rinshi. They jumped into battle. Theo used his agility to his advantage. He jumped over some Rinshi and kicked down others. He then swept another down to make it fall on one of its allies. Lily threw a flurry of attacks at her enemies and took down several at once. One Rinshi managed to get a hold of her, but she gained control and threw him around.
Once the Rinshi were defeated, a monster ran directly through Theo and Lily. It had a long snout and a nose ring. It also had square horns. It was the spirit of the bull.
“Jungle Beast! Spirit Unleashed!” Theo and Lily morphed and went to fight the monster. The monster got low and charged through them again. Theo and Lily went flying over the monster.
“Guys, we need some help up here,” Theo said.
“We’re on our way,” Casey replied.
Theo pulled out his tonfas and sent a charge at the monster. This seemed to stop it in its tracks. Lily did the same with her staff, and they held him there until Casey and RJ arrived. The monster broke free of the shock and charged the rangers again. They all jumped over the monster. RJ took the opportunity to blast the monster with his morpher. The blast hit the horns, but it didn’t seem to do much. The monster turned back and charged again. Lily pulled out her mace and swung it at the monster. The monster head butted it and sent it back at the rangers. They managed to avoid it, but they were still hot by the monster.
“I have an idea,” said Theo. Theo got directly in front of the monster and taunted it. The monster charged again as Theo began to run. The chase went on for a few minutes until the monster caught up with Theo. Theo was hit hard by the monster and demorphed.
“Let me try that,” said Lily. She taunted the monster as Theo did. She took off with the monster hot on her tracks. She was only running at a fraction of her speed. She didn’t want to lose the monster.
She took the chase through town. A bunch of the locals dove for cover as they saw the monster run by. The fear energized the monster, and it began to run faster. Lily picked up the pace just enough to match the monster’s speed. She saw Twilight’s castle coming into view. She turned to the waterfall behind it. She sped up until she reach the pool at the bottom. She turned and saw the monster still charging. She waited until he got just close enough. Right before he hit her, Lily jumped out of the way as the monster fell into the pool. Lily waited for him to surface, but he jumped out and escaped.
Casey and RJ regrouped with Lily as the all demorphed.
“That thing was tough,” said Casey.
“Yeah, we should go get Theo so we can come up with a way to beat it,” said RJ.
“I’ll do that, and we’ll meet up at the castle,” said Lily.
Later
“So it has strong horns, a fast pace, and anger management problems. How can we use that to beat it?” RJ asked.
“Maybe we can lure it into a trap,” suggested Theo.
“That seems like a good idea. I could outrun that thing no problem,” said Lily.
“Now the question is: how do we trap it?” Casey asked.
“I know. What if we run it into the side of a mountain and cause a bunch of rocks to fall on it?” Theo said.
“Would that really destroy it? I feel like that would just make him even angrier,” said Lily.
Just then, Twilight entered the room. “Hey, what as with that monster from earlier, chasing Lily through the town?”
“Sorry about that. I was just trying to lead it away. We’re trying to figure out a way to beat it,” Lily answered.
“We figure if we can lead it out of town, we can lead it into a trap,” Theo said.
Twilight put on a sly grin. “I have an idea that might work. Lead it toward the castle again and leave the rest to me.”
“Are you sure? Remember, magic won’t affect it,” RJ reminded her.
“Trust me. I’ve got it covered,” Twilight insisted.
Later
Lily was waiting for the monster to return. She didn’t appreciate being the bait, but she remembered that she was the only one who could outrun the monster. She looked around and saw no sign of it.
Rainbow Dash came flying up to her. “Hey, Lily. What’s up?”
Lily tried to act like nothing was going on. “Just waiting for Theo,” she responded.
“You mind if I wait with you? I’ve got nothing going on right now,” Rainbow said.
Lily got worried. She had to get rid of Rainbow before the monster returned. “Are you sure? I mean, don’t you want to practice your tricks or something?”
“No, it’s fine. I don’t mind waiting. Maybe we could even get to know each other a little better.”
“Really, Theo usually takes a long time.”
Before Rainbow could respond, the monster gave a war cry and charged st the two of them. Rainbow screamed, and Lily grabbed onto her. She morphed and took off. Rainbow caught on to what was going on. She got out of Lily’s grip and started to fly on her own.
The monster was even faster than before. Lily was having trouble finding the right speed. She couldn’t get too ahead of it, but she didn’t want to get hit either. Luckily, she saw Twilight waiting for her. She ran past Twilight, and Twilight cast a spell on the ground the make a large hole appear. The monster was running too fast to stop in time, and he fell into it.
“A little impractical, but affective,” RJ complimented.
“Thanks,” responded Twilight.
The rangers looked down into the hole to see the monster. Too their shock, it just jumped right out, causing the rangers to fly back. The monster got up and stared down Lily. She tried to get up and run, but the monster charged her. She demorphed and hit the ground. Casey and Theo tried to attack, but the monster hit them with its horns. They both demorphed as well. RJ tried to get on the monster’s back and attack from there, but the monster crushed RJ with its body. It then picked up RJ and threw him toward the castle. RJ tried to recover and counter attack, but the monster charged him again. RJ demorphed, leaving Twilight to be the monster’s last target.
Twilight backed away, but tripped on her tail. The monster huffed in anger and started to approach her. She kept trying to back away, but she knew it was only a matter of time before the monster would charge her at full speed. She closed her eyes and shivered in fear of what was about to happen.
“You leave her alone,” said a new voice that Twilight had never heard before. She opened her eyes to see another human with a very round head and a white jacked.
“Rhino Morpher, activate!” he shouted as a large metal hand appeared on his hand. He pulled a switch on the contraption. “Jungle Beast! Spirit Unleashed!” There was another deal of roars and flashing lights, and Twilight saw a new ranger. This one had a white suit with orange streaks. He also had a horn on the front of his helmet.
“With the power of a rhino! Jungle Fury, Rhino Ranger!” he shouted. The monster charged at him, but he stood his ground and stopped the monster with a swing of the hand. He then swung it back and sent the monster flying.
“Are you alright?” he asked Twilight.
“Y-Yeah. Are you Dominic?” Twilight said in response.
“That’s me. It’s nice to meet,” Dominic answered. The monster got back up and went after Dominic again.
“We’ll have to make proper introductions later,” Dominic said as he struck the monster again. He then charged the monster himself. He punched it with his weapon and gained the upper hand pretty quick. Twilight couldn’t help but be impressed by the way he was fighting.
“Rhino stampede!” Dominic shouted as his morpher shot a deal of lasers at the monster. The monster charged again, but Dominic absorbed the blow. He took the monster by the horns and threw it down.
“Rhino Morpher, blade mode!” Dominic shouted as he activated another switch on the morpher. A huge blade appeared on the side of it. He swung it at the monster, cutting off one of its horns. He did the same thing, and the other horn went flying off as well. The blade then began to flame. Dominic swung it around and delivered one final shot on the monster, causing it to erupt into a fit fo sparks and explode.
Dominic went to tend to RJ. “Are you alright?”
“Dominic? Is that you?” RJ asked.
“Yeah man, it’s me,” Dominic replied.
“Then I guess I’m fine,” RJ said.
Before Dominic could go help his other friends, the monster regenerated and grew. It was even angrier and was prepared to charge.
“Rhino Steel Zord!” Dominic shouted. The monster charged toward the castle, but a giant, white rhino zord stepped in front of it and stopped it. Dominic jumped into the cockpit of the zord and prepared for battle.
The monster leapt at Dominic, but he simply used the rhino horn to knock the monster away. The rhino zord then turned toward the monster and gave it a taste of its own medicine: it charged and hit the monster hard. The monster changed into a taller warrior with a sword that looked like it was made from the horns of the monster. It slashed at the rhino zord, and Dominic took a couple devastating hits.
Before the monster could finish the job, the rhino zord began to glow. The stood straight up and folded its head in. It detached its sides and turned them into arms. The horn on the top became a blade to hold. The Rhino Steel Megazord was now ready to fight. The monster attacked again with the blade, but Dominic blocked it. He then attacked with his own and cut down the monster’s weapon. The monster had no way to defend itself as Dominic attacked again. He began charging energy to the sword as prepared the final attack. The monster went in for one last charge. It ran headfirst into Dominic’s blade and was defeated.
Later
Theo was just now coming to. The last thing he remembered was fighting the bull monster. He shot up and prepared to fight. But when he went out of the room he woke up in, he saw everyone waiting for him; including Casey, Lily, RJ, Twilight, Starlight, Pinkie, Rainbow, Rarity, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Dominic.
His eyes shot wide open when he realized Dominic was there. Looked around the room and saw everyone else stand up. They all asked him if he was okay, and he told them he was fine.
“Dominic, when did you get here?” Theo asked.
“Earlier today. I saw what happened with the bull monster and fought it,” Dominic explained.
Theo began to relax again as his morpher started going off again. He put them on and saw Carnisoar and Jellica staging an attack.
“It’s the Overlords,” Theo said.
“Let’s go get them,” Casey said.
“They’re going down this time,” said Lily.
The five Jungle Rangers all morphed and faced the Overlords.
“You’re too late to stop us,” Carnisoar said.
“We’ll just see about that,” said Dominic.
With that, the rangers jumped into battle with the Overlords. Casey, Theo and Lily fought Carnisoar while RJ and Dominic fought Jellica. They were all evenly matched. Casey used his blades to counter Carnisoar’s dagger. Theo slashed at Carnisoar using his fans. Carnisoar avoided the attack and ascended into the air. Lily wrapped her mace around him and pulled him down. Carnisoar simply used the momentum to throw a very strong attack with his claws. The rangers were forced back.
Dominic countered Jellica’s spear with his morpher. She pushed him back with a wave, only for RJ to attack her from behind. Jellica turned toward RJ, leaving herself vulnerable to Dominic’s rhino stampede attack. Unfortunately, she avoided the blast, and it ended up hitting RJ. Jellica then used her spear to jab at Dominic. He tried to defend, but Jellica shot down his morpher before he could do anything. She hit him with her spear, and he went down.
Carnisoar and Jellica backed off a little and started to emit their auras. The held their power together and focused it in one place. There was a bright light and a sinister laughter.
“It can’t be,” said Casey.
“That’s impossible,” said Theo.
“We destroyed him,” said Lily.
“There’s no way,” said RJ.
“Not a chance,” said Dominic.
When the light receded, it revealed none other...than Grizzaka, the Overlard of the land.