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"PREVIOUSLY ON MY LITTLE PONY"
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Rainbow Dash: "Hey guys, do you see that? Is it just me or is that a meteor?"
Twilight Sparkle: "It's too small to be one. There's someone inside this bottle, someone alive!"
King Sombra: "There is a bottle missing."
Grogar: "Twilight Sparkle dared to send the spirit of chaos to spy on me! Welcome back to the land of the living, Arabus."
Ninjor: "Free at Last!"
Lockdown: "What's the meaning of this, Sombra?!"
King Sombra: "It seems like you are not who you say you are, Lockdown. I had a feeling you couldn't be trusted, and it seems my hunch was right."
Grogar: "You are not really Lockdown or a Predacon! If it isn't the spirit of chaos himself spying on me! How utterly utterly expected."
Rainbow Dash: "I think we're in big trouble!"
Arabus: "I am Arabus, king of the winds, and you have something Grogar wants!"
Katherine: "Tommy, what is it?"
Tommy: "It's Ninjor! He's alive! I can feel it!"
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Scorpan and his fellow prisoners were sitting in their cells when they heard the sounds of the doors opening, followed by the sounds of struggling and grunting.
"Let's go, creature of chaos!" One of the donkey soldiers shouted as Scorpan approached the bars of his cell. "Move it!" Then without warning, the sound of a whip was heard and Scorpan watched as the shadow of a mismatched creature was seen amongst the shadow of a lone lamplight held by another donkey soldier.
"What's happening?" Scorpan asked himself, looking back to the captured protohumans who couldn't speak with his tongue. "Is that, Discord?"
A few moments later, the shadow of Grogar came down the stairs of the dungeon, following the donkey soldiers as they led their prisoner into a large room.
Just then several more shadows appeared, the first shadow belonging to King Sombra and then Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy Glow.
Seeing his brother, Scorpan cried out to him. "Brother!" He called out to Tirek, catching the centaur off guard. "Brother!"
"What does he want?" Tirek muttered to himself as he approached. "What do you want, Scorpan? It's too late to beg for mercy."
"What is the meaning of this?!" Scorpan demanded. "What is happening to Discord?! What did you do to him?!"
"He's been punished for spying on behalf of Princess Twilight and masquardering under false pretenses," Tirek answered, placing his hands on the bars of the cell. "But it doesn't matter to you. So if I were you I'd keep your mouth shut."
Proceeding to turn away to join his fellow villains, Tirek was interrupted yet again by Scorpan. "Are you going to allow this?" Scorpan asked, causing Tirek to stop walking. "Are you going to allow an innocent creature to be brutally tortured? Is that really what you want?"
For a moment, Tirek felt conflicted, almost as if he would bow to the pressure of his brother's question. "I don't make the decision of whether or not he lives or dies," Tirek replied in a firm voice. "That is Grogar's decision alone."
This news stunned Scorpan, but he wasn't surprised. "Father would never have killed spies just for being exposed!" Scorpan protested, turning around and facing his brother again. "He would have…"
"-Father was a poor excuse of a ruler who got what he deserved!" Tirek retorted. "Press me even further, Scorpan, and you will be joining Discord in whatever his ultimate fate will be!"
"Tirek?" An old voice belonging to Sendak called as he came down the stairs. "Grogar wants all of us to witness Discord's punishment. Please come at once, we mustn't keep Grogat waiting."
Heeding his mentor's call, Tirek turned back to his brother. "Whatever happens in the torture chamber is none of your concern, brother," Tirek warned, stepping back from the cell and briefly turning his attention to the protohumans. "And that goes for the rest of you too!"
Walking away from the cell, Tirek followed Sendak into the torture chamber where all of the Legion was gathered around Discord, his mismatched limbs stretched out and tied against a rack.
Grogar stood in front of the captured spirit of chaos with a disgusted look on his face. "If you are thinking of escaping," He warned. "Don't even try it. I've cancelled out your chaos powers with the power of my bell."
To prove his point, Grogar showed Discord his uncontrolled chaos powers stored in the bewitching bell. "It's humorous, really," He continued, walking up to him. "Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends were stupid enough to send a dumb minded creature like you to spy on me. Tell me, Discord, what were you thinking of sharing with your so-called 'friends'?"
Discord looked up at Grogar weakly, a sense of fear and dread billowing inside of his body, almost as if he wasn't going to survive what was about to transpire.
"Answer the question, creature of chaos!" Sombra ordered, pointing a long spear at Discord's throat.
"Grogar," Discord whispered nervously but defiantly. "I know…we go a long way back…but I've always thought of you as a party pooper. Choosing to make ponies lives miserable solely because they took over your land."
"Well you were in the same boat once," Grogar sneered. "You made ponies lives miserable with your chaos powers for the sake of your little 'games'."
"But I had my limits," Discord cried, struggling against his bonds. "At least I didn't kill ponies, unlike you! My only regret is that I couldn't be more of a help to the ponies who never gave up on me."
Angered, Grogar motioned for Cozy Glow to come forward as he took a whip from a donkey soldier. "Come forward, my child," He said to the pegasus turned alicorn filly and Cozy complied. "Take this," Without hesitation, Cozy took the whip and held it in her aura. "Strike him 3 times!" Grogar commanded.
Growling, Cozy Glow flung the whip at Discord, striking him in the stomach. Grogar then stopped her and refocused his attention on Discord. "Now answer my question, lord of chaos! What did you share with Princess Twilight?!"
"Why not feed me to your big teddy bear?" Discord asked in a sarcastic tone. "In fact, if I still had my powers, I would have done so already! You think I'd tell you anything?!"
Even more angered, Grogar threw Discord back onto the rack and motioned for the donkey soldiers to tie him back down.
"You will not insult Scarface if you wish to live!" Sombra warned, placing the tip of the spear at the back of Discord's neck.
"He's not answering," Chrysalis whispered to Tirek. "Not even putting up an ounce of fight. This is pathetic."
"His will is strong." Tirek answered.
"So was Zeb's," Lavan muttered as he proceeded to walk up to Cozy Glow. "But I can break spirits easily."
"You shall stay where you are! We need Discord to be kept alive, for now," Grogar commanded to the lava demon before turning to Discord. "And you will answer my questions one way or another, Discord! Now, what did you do with Ninjor?! Where did you send him?!"
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Meanwhile, on the stairs of her Castle of Friendship, Twilight Sparkle stared up at the creature of wind that had come in the name of Grogar.
"So, are you going to give me the ninja spirit or not?!" Arabus demanded. "I haven't got all day."
"Whoever you are!" Applejack shouted above the tempest as she tried to hold onto her hat. "Ara... what's your name, you'd better get back to where you came from this instant, unless you want the beat down of a lifetime!"
But Arabus saw Applejack's threat differently. "Such strong words from a weak pony," He sneered, bending down to Applejack and smugly smiling at her. "You couldn't even rope a twister!"
"Hey!" Pinkie Pie shouted, floating up to Arabus with her tail spinning behind her. "You're talking to the Princess of Honesty, blow hard! For the record, we're ALL princesses!"
"Oh yeah? Well you don't scare me either!" Arabus snapped, tossing Pinkie down to the ground hard. "I am much older and stronger than any of you! You've never dealt with the likes of me before." Almost to prove his point, Arabus blew out a gust of wind and sent the ponies flying everywhere.
Spike attempted to fight against Arabus by using his fire breath, only for Arabus to turn his fire breath into a fire tornado. Sending the twister into the air, Arabus watched in delight as he took advantage of the young dragon's weakness.
Getting to her hooves, Twilight fired her magic at Arabus. But much like with Spike, he easily deflected it. "Grogar will have the ninja spirit, you cannot stop me!" Arabus shouted.
"Oh yeah?" Rainbow Dash shouted before headbutting Arabus in the stomach. "Well first you're gonna have to get through this Wonderbolt!" Raising her left foreleg, Rainbow prepared to administer a punch to Arabus, but suddenly saw Arabus' forehead fire a laser blast at her!
Ducking out of the way, Rainbow watched as the laser blast almost hit the School of Friendship!
"Defend the school and the castle!" Twilight shouted to her friends! "He won't be getting anything or anypony!"
Almost as if on cue, Tempest came out with several guardsponies who all immediately threw spears at Arabus.
"You won't hold me forever!" Arabus roared "I will have that spirit for Grogar no matter how many of you I must destroy!"
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Back in the human world, Tommy pulled into the parking lot of Canterlot High and together with Katherine, he slowly approached the statue containing the portal to Equestria. "Alpha," He asked into his communicator. "Are you sure this is the portal to that other world Ninjor currently resides in?"
"Yes, Tommy," Alpha Five answered. "Ninjor should be just on the other side. But be careful, the world you will enter is unlike anything you have encountered before."
Reassured yet still slightly nervous, Tommy turned back to Katherine. "He's in there, Kat," He declared. "I just know it!"
"But Tommy, what if he isn't?" Katherine wondered. "I mean, it could be an illusion or a trap."
But Tommy didn't want to believe it. In his mind, he sensed that the keeper of the Temple of Power was still alive. And he'd be darned if he was going to leave a friend behind again. "Kat, you need to trust me," He pleaded. "Ninjor was not lost in the battle of Eltar after all. Somehow his spirit survived, and we're going to bring him back no matter what it takes."
Without saying another word, Tommy approached the portal and stuck his hand through only for his communicator to come back on. "What is it, Alpha?" Tommy asked as he tapped on it.
"Tommy," Alpha 5 answered. "The other world that Ninjor is believed to be in is a world inhabited largely by ponies. According to the scanners, if you cross through the portal you'll become a pony yourself."
Not willing to let this detail get him down, Tommy accepted his fate. "I'll take the chance! I must save Ninjor, I must!" He declared before turning off his communicator, much to Katherine's shock.
"Tommy…" Katherine started to say. "It could be dangerous."
"So is Ninjor's power falling into the wrong hands," Toomy countered, walking up to her. "I have to take this chance. Don't worry, I'll be back soon, I promise."
Without a hesitation, Tommy hugged Katherine and then turned around towards the portal. Taking a deep breath, he stepped through the portal.
But no sooner did Tommy step through the portal than did Katherine's instincts and love for Tommy kick in, and she followed him into the portal to Equestria!
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Back in the dungeons of Grogar's castle, Discord continued to suffer while Grogar continued to demand the whereabouts of Ninjor.
"My patience is wearing thin, Discord!" Grogar thundered. "What did you do with the ninja spirit?!"
"I sent him…away," Discord gasped in pain. "Far away from you!"
Those words weren't enough to satisfy Grogar who motioned to Cozy Glow to keep whipping.
"That's not good enough!" Grogar snapped in a loud voice. "I know you were sent by Twilight Sparkle to spy on me and do whatever it took to defeat me! She wouldn't send you unless she was really desperate! What else did you do to try to undermine me?!"
As they continued to watch, Tirek began to feel very uncomfortable at what he was seeing. He began to get a sickening feeling in his stomach. "ENOUGH!" He finally cried, stopping Cozy Glow and catching the attention of Grogar. "Enough already!"
Angered, Grogar walked over to the centaur, glaring at him. "Why do you interrupt me, Lord Tirek?" He asked.
"My…emperor," Tirek answered, taking an enormous gulp. "I…I…"
Even Chrysalis was stunned by what her lover was trying to do.
"I… I just t-think…" Tirek stammered. "That there's a much better way to get him to talk."
"There is no other way, centaur," Grogar coldly retorted. "I deal with spies the same way I have always dealt with them. So keep your mouth shut and watch!"
But getting herself an idea, Chrysalis decided to go against her character and support Tirek's decision. "Wait!" She cried, causing Grogar to become further irritated. "I…I think Tirek has a point, my emperor."
"You support his suggestion too, changeling?" Grogar asked. "And to think you once instilled violence on your disobedient subjects."
"Let him…let him go back to Equestria," Chrysalis suggested with a gulp. "Yes, that's it. Let him go back to Equestria in the weakened condition he is in now. That way it can serve as a warning to Twilight Sparkle and her friends of what is to come if they don't stop interfering in your plans!"
"My emperor, it's a trick!" Sombra protested! "They are merely trying to save his hide." But he was ignored.
"Perhaps you might be right, changeling," Grogar declared, much to Sombra's shock. "Killing the lord of chaos would be all too easy and would make him a martyrer. I wouldn't mind seeing Twilight Sparkle and her friends react to their former ally in the condition he's in, realizing that their plan has failed."
"Release him," Grogar then ordered to the donkey soldiers and they complied, releasing Discord from his bonds as he collapsed to the floor in pain and exhaustion. The sight of seeing Discord in such a battered state caused Cozy Glow's stomach to turn ever so slightly.
Walking over to Discord once more, Grogar picked up Discord by his head again. "Deliver this message to Twilight Sparkle and her friends, Discord: Any more continued interference will result in no creature being spared my wrath, not even you!" Then he turned to his donkey soldiers. "Get this creature out of my sight and clean up the mess!"
Doing as they were told, the donkey soldiers began to clean up the mess while Grogar dismissed his allies.
However, he kept Chrysalis and Tirek behind for a brief moment. "Don't make me regret this decision," he ordered, pulling down on Tirek's beard. "Because if he reveals anything that could tip the scales…"
"-He won't," Chrysalis interrupted. "Discord is weak, there's only one creature that will still stand up to us once he returns. If there is anyone who deserves to be whipped, it's that meddlesome Twilight Sparkle! Taking her out will demoralize the rest!"
Once they were dismissed, Tirek returned to the cell where Scorpan and the captured protohumans were caged.
"You still have good inside of you, brother," Scorpan remarked. "I heard about what you did with Discord."
"I only stopped the whipping because it would've been an unsatisfying way to get revenge," Tirek replied to his brother. "Just because I saved a life, doesn't mean I can't take one if I have to."
"But…" Scorpan started to say, only for Tirek to walk away from him. Once he was gone, Scorpan let out a deep sigh. "I know there is still goodness in you, brother. Someday you will see it whether you want to or not."
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Meanwhile, the mirror portal to the human world sent Tommy and Katherine through. And opening his eyes, Tommy looked down and saw the green forelegs he now had. "What…what's happened to me?" Tommy asked, looking down and seeing the master morpher he had on his wrist.
"Tommy!" Katherine cried, now a pink pegasus pony! "What…what's happened to us?!"
"We're ponies, Kat," Tommy whispered. "I think we're in… Equestria."
"Equestria?" Katherine blinked.
Tommy nodded. "Yes, this is Princess Twilight's home world. The world Ninjor now resides in. I heard one of my students mention it briefly. Somehow, I knew she wasn't joking."
Suddenly,both heard the sounds of windows breaking as Tommy began to sense that Ninjor was close by thanks to the power of his unicorn horn. "Ninjor!" Tommy cried as he tried to walk only to struggle and fall over. "He's here! Ugh! Gotta work on walking on all fours!"
"And I need to..." Katherine wondered, trying to flap her newly given wings.
"You can walk too, you know," Tommy hastily replied. "Come on!" "Ninjor! Ninjor!" Tommy called as Rainbow Dash suddenly came flying through one of the castle's windows, catching the two former Power Rangers off guard. "Hey, are you okay, pony?"
"Yeah!" Rainbow cried in reply! "Who…who are you? How did you get here?! Can't you see that we're in a fight here?!" Trying to take to the skies, she attempted to fly but fell back down due to her wounds.
"She's hurt, Tommy!" Katherine cried, tending to the injured Rainbow Dash. "Go find Ninjor! I'll do what I can here."
Doing as his girlfriend told him, Tommy continued his search for Ninjor and finally he ended it in the throne room. "Ninjor!" Tommy called, running over to the ninja master and hugging him. "You're alive! Oh, I'm so happy to see you again, old friend!"
"Yes, Tommy, the feeling is mutual. But those ponies out there are trying to protect me from some wind monster," Ninjor answered, looking over Tommy's new pony body. "And it seems you must have become one of them."
Just then, they saw Pinkie Pie crash through the ceiling of the throne room and land hard on the friendship map! The pink party pony struggled to get to her feet much to Tommy's shock.
"Are you okay?!" Tommy asked Pinkie Pie, who struggled to open her eyes up.
"Mommy…I don't want to go to…" Pinkie muttered before falling unconscious.
Then suddenly, Tommy heard the screams of Twilight and realized he needed to help her and fast! "Ninjor, stay here!" Tommy ordered while he began tapping into the powers of his master morpher. "Back to action!"
"Tommy, be careful, please!" Ninjor cried as he looked down at the injured Pinkie Pie as a few moments later, Applejack and several guardsponies came flying into the throne room from above.
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Outside, Twilight and the rest of her friends continued to try and hold their own against Arabus, but by now, the wind creature had caused a considerable amount of damage to both the Castle of Friendship and the nearby school.
"Just admit defeat, Princess Twilight!" Arabus shouted, gloating to the supreme princess. "You cannot defeat me!"
Grunting, Twilight fired a blast of magic from her horn to which Arabus shrugged off in amusement.
"I will have that Ninja spirit even if I have to kill you for it!" But then suddenly, Arabus was struck with a beam of green magic right in his face that nearly caused him to fall over on his side. "Who dares strike at me?!" He roared in defiance!
"Me!" Tommy called, glaring at Arabus much to Twilight's delight. "You want Ninjor you big blowhard?!"
Growling, Arabus quickly got to his feet and brushed off the wounds he had sustained.
"Then, you'll have to get through me!" Tommy declared, tapping into the powers of his master morpher. "It's morphin' time!" In a cloud of green magic, Tommy morphed into his first ranger form. "Dragonzord!" He called, assuming his green ranger powers and wielding a small sword in his aura. "I call on the power of the Dragonzord!"
Placing the dagger to his lips, Tommy began to play a fanfare and a few moments later, in the oceans of Equestria, a powerful metallic creature began to emerge from a portal, letting out a loud, shrieking roar as its long tail flung itself out of the water!
"You mess with these ponies," Tommy cried, levitating himself onto the top of the Castle of Friendship. "You mess with me and the Dragonzord!"
But Arabus was up to fighting this new opponent as Tommy teleported his old friend from the sea, landing it in front of the castle and the school. The Dragonzord had arrived in Equestria!
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With this new and unexpected enemy in his way, Arabus charged towards the large metallic creature as the Dragonzord fired missiles from it's fingertips, striking Arabus and stopping him in his tracks.!
Playing on the dagger, Tommy commanded the Dragonzord to begin attacking Arabus, using its tail to hit Arabus several times in the chest.
But the wind creature was not going to give up easily. Tapping into the powers of the green diamond on his forehead, Arabus fired a laser blast at the Dragonzord, striking it in the chest.
"Come on, old friend! One more time!" Tommy pleaded and the Dragonzord's chest lit up and the tip of its tail spun around like a drill, flinging itself at Arabus! It struck the wind god, causing him to suffer an injury to his chest.
Realizing that he had been wounded, Arabus felt that he needed to retreat. "This is not over, ponies!" He declared with a hiss and a snarl. "Grogar will hear of this!" With those words said, Arabus disappeared from view as the Dragonzord let out a loud roar.
Returning it to the sea via teleportation, Tommy then turned his attention over to Twilight and Spike as he helped Twilight to her hooves. "You okay, princess?" Tommy asked Twilight.
"Great, now that you're here, Dr. Oliver." Twilight chuckled.
"Who?" Spike asked, looking confused at Tommy's presence as the former power ranger produced a small smile.
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Back on the moon, Grogar was just about to leave the dungeons when he detected Arabus' return. "What is it, my emperor?" Sombra asked as Grogar turned back to him.
"Arabus has returned," Grogar replied to his second-in-command. "And he failed to obtain the ninja spirit!" Growling, Grogar raced up to the throne room and thrusted the doors open as Arabus hastily bowed down to him.
"My emperor…" Arabus started to say.
"Get up!" Grogar ordered as he stormed to Arabus. "You failed to accomplish the mission assigned to you! What have you to say for yourself?!"
"My emperor," Arabus nervously began. "The spirit was well protected and there was another pony who fought me and he had a creature of his own…"
"Enough!" Grogar snarled, gruffly sitting down on his throne. "I will not hear anymore of your stupidity, Arabus!"
The wind god recoiled with the sound of Grogar's voice ringing in his ears. Suddenly, Grogar began to get another suspicion. "However, it appears that this isn't entirely your fault," He said, much to Arabus' shock. "To this end, you shall join my ranks for the time being."
"Thank you, my emperor," Arabus gasped, bowing to Grogar again. "I shall not fail you again! I swear it!"
"See that you don't," Grogar warned, as he looked over to his crystal ball. "In fact, I have a way to deal with any outside interference." Looking at his ball, Grogar felt that the time would soon come for even more additional help and the help he would get would have knowledge of the humans that would likely aid Equestria in their fight against him.
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Meanwhile, all of the ponies had regrouped in the library of Twilight's castle along with Sunset Shimmer and Starlight Glimmer, who had been protecting the students and faculty of the School of Friendship.
"So that's the whole story," Tommy explained. "Ninjor was targeted for his powers."
"And you say that he came back from the dead?" Pinkie Pie asked, feeling a slight twinge of pain from one of her wounds. "Weird!"
"Yes, it's weird," Rainbow Dash replied as Katherine placed a bandage on the pegasus' wing. "And that wind dude…who or what is he anyway?"
"Arabus is another one of the creatures that was defeated by Cosmo and Galaxia," Twilight explained. "But now it seems Grogar might have just gained himself another ally."
"So what can we do?" Applejack asked.
"There is one way," Sunset suggested, walking up to Tommy. Ninjor, if what you say is true, you need to give the ninja powers you harness to my friends in the human world! They've faced down evil forces multiple times, and know a thing or two about being superheroes."
Without saying another word, Ninjor agreed. "I shall begin making preparations right away," He said as Katharine joined him and Tommy. "The ninja powers must not fall into evil hands, whoever they may be! And if today was of any indication, then they are better off where we are going."
"If you ever need us," Tommy said to Twilight, bowing to her. "You know where to find us."
"Good to see you again, Dr. Oliver." Twilight replied before activating the portal to allow Tommy, Katharine and Ninjor to step through.
Once the portal had been closed, Twilight and her friends were left to deal with the damages of their latest battle.
But no sooner did Tommy and the others leave than did the ponies hear the sounds of Fluttershy screaming from outside the library. "Twilight!" Fluttershy screamed and she, Starlight and Sunset raced to find Fluttershy holding the wounded Discord in her forelegs. "It's Discord! He's… he's hurt!"
Taking a deep gulp, Twilight realized what had likely happened. "He knows what we were doing," Twilight whispered. "Grogar knows now that Discord was spying on our behalf." All Twilight could do was think of the consequences of these events, but she had the advantage that whatever Discord learned could be used against Grogar, hopefully.
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