//------------------------------// // Part 3: The Truth Verses A Lie. // Story: The Summer Sun Stakeout // by TheSuperTransformerFan //------------------------------// The Rangers and Elements minus Twilight and Starlight made their way inside the archive tower of the castle. When they got there, they noticed that it was a spiral staircase. But, THAT was not a problem! “How did Cozy and the others even know we were here?!” Steel said. He knew something was amiss, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on it. “I don’t know, Steel.” Nate said. “But if we’re gonna prevent them from getting that book, we have to work fast!” Rainbow Dash tried as fast as she could, but try as she might, she couldn’t get everyone else back up there! The red ranger was too have some trouble. “I wish we all had cheetah speed, or YOUR speed!” He pointed to Rainbow Dash. She groaned. “But you gotta remember: we’re not the same! We’re two entirely different species of creatures! I just wish we we could’ve stopped them in time, with Twilight...or Starlight! THEY’D know what to do!” They almost made it at the top of the tower, when Ravi got an idea. “Guys!” He said. I just found out how we could beat them!” “What?!” Pinkie Pie asked. “Whoa, no way!” Spike said. “HOW, Ravi?” Rarity asked with curiosity. Ravi got his wrist com and decided to talk to Twilight via his morpher! He didn’t know HOW to do before, but he HAD to try... it HAD to work! He contacted Twilight, and sure enough, she received his message via her horn. “Twilight, do you copy?” She got the message, and communicated through his morpher. “I read you, Ravi!” She said. “What’s up?” “Twilight, it’s total CHAOS out there!” Ravi said. “I don’t know what we’re going to—!” His friends were totally SHOCKED that he was contacting Twilight, ESPECIALLY since he was contacting her for help! “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” The others said, and tried to cover up the morpher, and get him to hang up! Twilight couldn’t make heads or tails of their conversation, but she did get the “NOOOOOOOO!” Loud and clear! “No, what?” She asked in confusion. “Uh...” Ravi started to say, but Rainbow Dash TOTALLY cut him off! “What Ravi’s trying to say is...we don't know what to do now that everything's all ready!” She said. She even forced out a chuckle to cover it up in this situation!” “ I guess I was too organized. I'll try to come up with a few last-minute errands for you before sunrise.” Twilight said calmly. “I’ll see what you can do!” She hung up on his morpher. “Yeah, sounds good!” He said, just before HE hung up. He turned to the others with an angry look on his face, wondering what the heck that was all about. “Explain to me why none of you told the truth?!” He scolded them. “Oh, Twilight is finally learning not to let her stress get the better of her.” Rarity said in shock. “If she finds out everything went wrong, it could be devastating!” “Oh, she would be so upset.” Fluttershy said in agreement. “She'll totally freak out!” Devon said in agreement. “Well, what do y'all suggest?” Applejack asked her teammates. “Ooh, ooh, ooh! Let's just fix it all before she notices.” Pinkie Pie suggested. “No lying necessary.” Zoey immediately took notice of the villains. “No time for that!” She alerted. “They’re already breaking in the archives!” They took a good look. “Come on!” In the archives, Cozy Glow and the REST of the bad guys were trying to make it in. “Not here. The Archives are in a different part of the castle.” she warned them. “Then let’s relocate, Cozy!” Vargoyle said. Cozy agreed and they made it into a different part of the castle. They made it inside the archives where Cozy was excited. They searched for the book high and low, they couldn’t find it. However, she noticed that the book was all tied up with chains. “All right!” She said. “Blaze! Roxy! Chrysalis! Tirek! Vargoyle! Look!” They took a good look and apparently saw the book all bound up. “Huh?” Blaze wondered. “I wondered why we didn’t notice THAT before.” “Stand back!” Vargoyle said. And slashed the chains to pieces, freeing the book! “For you, Master Cozy!” He handed to book to her, The chess filly was victorious. “Oh..my...goodness!” She squealed. She wanted to snatch the book. “Best... road trip... ever!” she shouted with glee. However, the Rangers and ponies already made their way inside...due to Cozy’s really loud squeal. “Unfortunately, this is The worst road trip ever for you!” Nate shouted. He aimed his morpher DIRECTLY at her, who just cowered in fear. “Uh, oh!” She thought. “TRANSPORT!” All heroes shouted as they aimed their weapons at them. However, Tirek had a trick up his sleeve. “Uh, you’re forgetting something.” He pointed to the three robotrons. Who were JUST right behind them! “What?!” Nate asked in shock. “Oh, it HAD to be the robotrons!” Rainbow said in frustration. “We’d love to stay and chat, but you know...ta ta!” Roxy said, and they teleported back to the cyber dimension! “NO!” Devon said. “Oh, and we almost had them!” “No time for that now!” Steel warned them. “It’s robotron crushing time!” He got his saber ready, as the ponies readied their elements of Harmony!” “We’re taking this outside!” Nate said. “Alright!” Rainbow Dash said in agreement “I was HOPING you’d say that!” The Rangers and ponies jumped outside, while robotrons followed suit! “Tronics!” FireTron announced, and purple foot soldiers appeared RIGHT before them! Steel groaned. “Is there no end to this?!” “Not a problem!” Rainbow Dash said. “Let’s go!” And they all charged at some tronics. Some of the heroes kicked them in the gut, some used the Elements to blast them, others...used sabers to strike them down. Either way, the tronics were NO match for the heroes, as they were easily vanquished one by one!” “Take that, tronics!” Devon said, as he wiped some out without even breaking a sweat! “The distraction worked!” PieTron said, as he hurled a few pies toward Pinkie, Applejack, and Ravi! “Whoa nelly!” Applejack said in shock! “Sorry, PieTron!” Ravi said, as he walked over to him and used his gorilla strength. “...but kitchen’s closed!” And he threw PieTron from up in the air and the robot landed with a thud!” Rainbow, Fluttershy and Zoey were still going at it with WeatherTron as he hurled some storm clouds right to them! “Time for someone to rain on their parade!” He said evilly. Unfortunately, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were on to him, as they went out the robotron’s vision! “What?!” He asked. “Where did they go?.” “Right here, Sucker!” Rainbow Dash announced, as she and Fluttershy kicked the robotron in the back, knocking him down! “Beast Blast!” Zoey shouted as she aimed her blaster and fired at the weather bot. The robotron exploded. Nate, Steel, Spike and Rarity were also going at it with FireTron who fired fire from his hands! “Now see the Elements and Rangers destruction!” He said, but Rarity, Spike, and Nate and Steel retaliated, by deflecting the fire using their sabers, horns and Spike’s fire breath, which Singed the robotron! He later regrouped with PieTron, while the heroes did suit. “Let’s finish this!” Rainbow Dash said! The others whooped in agreement. “BEAST-X BLAST!” The Rangers got their cannons ready. “STRIKER SABER...STRIKE!” Nate and Steel got their swords ready and sung in the form of their horn motifs on their helmets! “ELEMENTS OF HARMONY...UNITE!” Rainbow Dash announced, as they aimed their weapons at the monsters! “UH, OH!” Both robots said. “FIRE!” They shouted, and in a flash, all their combined finishers easily destroyed all the robotrons in no time flat! “Alright! We did it!” Rainbow Dash whooped in excitement. “We did it!” Rarity said. “And Twilight didn’t notice!” “Alright!” The Rangers said in unison. “YAY, US!” Pinkie pie shouted in excitement. “Who hoo!” Fluttershy said calmly. She wasn’t used to letting her emotions out, but this was a time to express their victory! “But Twilight doesn’t know!” Spike said in alarm! “...And we want to MAKE sure we keep it that way!” Steel said, further frustrating Nate. (Back at Canterlot Castle...) Twilight Sparkle was just finishing up some last minute preparations to the festival. It was almost time, and she was fully in control of her freakouts. She was just about to add the finishing touch. “Okay...” she said. “I think we should be able to get the amulet ready for raising the sun and the moon, and then—“ Just then, Braeburn came in feeling tired, but also proud that the magic was returned to him as a result of the battle. “Earth ponies were sick... Food Was missin'... Couldn’t...bake... anythin'...Power Rangers saved us...” he struggled to say. Twilight was a little shocked about what had happened to him, but nonetheless, she was calm and pretended as if it were nothing. Just then, the chief weather pony just rushed in, alert to talk to Twilight. “Princess! I beg your forgiveness! It's entirely my fault!” he shouted a little frightened. “What is?” she asked. “That!” he pointed to aftermath of the Rangers’ and Ponies’ battle with the three robotrons. Twilight looked outside, and saw the result of what happened outside. She was a little surprised about what happened. “What’s going on?” She asked worriedly. Just then, Fire Flare came in a little angrier than usual. “Princess Twilight!” She shouted. “Please inform Celestia and Luna that we will not be performing! A simple fireworks show is beneath us! We're better than that!” Twilight was a little confused. “What’s going on, Fire Flare? What about ‘aiming for perfection’”? “We've set our sights higher.” she boasted to her. “Higher than perfection?” Twilight asked. “Higher than putting on a silly little show for the other ponies.” Fire Flare said a little confident and angry at the Princess. Twilight couldn’t believe it! Her jaw dropped as if everyone was going to cancel the Summer Sun Festival for good. “But you were so excited before. What changed?” She was a conbination or shocked, confused, worried and horrified. “Is this about the special privileges you wanted? Because this seems a little extreme!” “The special privileges?! The last thing on my mind is special privileges!” The troupe leader shot back. Just then, the Rangers and the rest of elements including Spike just came in at that moment. Something in Twilight’s mind clicked. She turned to the heroes. “What’s going on, guys?” All the heroes stood there frozen. They didn’t know what to say, and Twilight wanted to know what really happened. Finally, Devon decided that there was no way out of it. He simply HAD to come clean, as with the rest of their friends. “We tried to fix it ourselves, Twilight.” He said to her. “We fought Tirek, Chrysalis, Cozy Glow, And Vargoyle—“ “Don’t forget Blaze and Roxy!” Steel finished. “And we also got caught up into fighting some robotrons and tronics, and we wanted you to think that everything was going to be okay, but we couldn’t hide it from you because it was obvious you’d find out what happened. We managed to defeat the robotrons, and well....”Devon felt a little guilty with what he about to say next. “...you know the rest.” “I thought everything was fine!” Twilight was now a little angry with her friends that they didn’t tell her the truth earlier. “I can’t believe you’d lie to me about something like this!” She scolded her friends. “If anything happens at the Summer Sun Festival that didn’t go as planned, and if the WHOLE thing is messed up...I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!” She was so mad, she just couldn’t speak. “It’ll be all on us.” Devon said. “We know. And we’re sorry.” Twilight wasn’t so sure about what she wanted to say next because her friends lied to her. But after she saw the reactions on their faces, she finally thought of something to say. “I’m sorry too...” she said, “...about what happened.” “So...Steel said. “...you do forgive us?” “Yes, guys.” She said. “I’m sorry about what happened and I see now that you were trying to save the festival and it wasn’t fair of me to be mad at you. Do you forgive me?” “Are you kidding?” Steel asked. “Of COURSE we forgive you! Why would we not forgive you for making a mistake?” “We sure do, Egghead!” Rainbow Dash said. “Darn tootin, Sugarcube!” Applejack agreed. “Of course, Darling!” Rarity said. “Would we ever forgive you if you just made even the littlest mistakes?” Fluttershy asked. “Of course we do, Twilight!” Pinkie said. “I forgive you too, Twilight.” Nate said. “We all do.” “Definitely.” Zoey said. “You got it!” Ravi said. “Yeah!” Devon said. “We do forgive you, Twilight!” Spike said. And they all hugged Twilight as hard as they could, “But, how are we going to get the place all fixed up for the festival?” Ravi asked her. “Live in the friendship moment, Ravi.” The violet alicorn said. “At least I do.” The friends all embraced this moment together. At least the festival was saved...for now, and they had all managed to forgive each other. But just as things were about to get better, a problem was going to arise, and it was a BIG problem!