//------------------------------// // Chapter 32: Fighting The Queen // Story: Power Rangers Super Megaforce: Equestrian Adventure // by ariellewilson //------------------------------// Jake needed help - fast. His powers are continuing to drain from him; his strength got weaker with each movement he made. The Rangers knew that their powers won’t stand for long, for they only have them for a short amount of time, and when those powers are weakened, they’ll struggle to stand back up, in which case happened here. Argus had created another attack, sending the stallion a few hooves away from him. The Ranger landed hard on his back, the air being knocked out of him. This also knocked him out of Super Mega Mode, the helmet and spandex vanishing off his body. Laughing at his attempt to get back up, which he wasn’t doing so well, Argus walked up to him, a smile of glee on his face. “No more strength left…” he sneered, watching the hero trying to get back for like the sixth time. He collapsed back on the ground. “Haha, looks like your time is up, Green. Normally, I wanted to end Blue’s life. So instead, I’ll end your life. Goodbye, Green Ranger!” Jake let out startled cry, using his arms to shield himself from the incoming sword when nothing happened. Opening his eyes, he saw Noah in Super Mega Mode using his Saber to stop the other weapon. Pulling out his Blaster, he shot a few rounds in his dueler's face. The sudden move got the pegasus to fly up in the air. “Looks like you’re not in the love trance anymore,” he noted, seeing that the Blue Ranger seemed to be in a normal state. “Neither is Fluttershy!” Noah exclaimed, ready to fire at his arch nemesis. The others helped his friend off the ground. “Let’s go. Let’s fight each other like we always do.” He got into a fighting stance. Smirking, the bodyguard hovered in the air, putting his weapon away. “We’ll fight another time - when we’re alone without any of your dumb friends.” Fluttershy let out a snort. “Call his friends dumb again, and you’re gonna get it.” Her threat wasn’t even frightening, for the bodyguard let out a laugh. “For being a shy pony, you sure do scare me.” They all can tell he was being sarcastic. “Fair well, Rangers,” he pretended to say kindly, though they know better. “I’ll deal with you, Blue, some other time,” he promised. Flapping his wings, he flew off, heading back to the Armada Ship. Once he was gone, Noah tilted his head to the side in order for his friends to follow him. “Come on, let’s go help the others.” “Right behind you, dude.” The rest followed the galloping unicorn. Jake, Emma, and Gia morphed in mid-run, along with Ice, Mythic, Cobalt, Sugar, and Hazel, who got Power Pony Up. Starlight, Rarity, Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Spike are close behind. They skidded to a stop, seeing the Red Ranger fighting off some bruisers. Twilight was helping him out, blasting beam after beam at the incoming changelings, stunning them. Lacy was twirling her rope, catching bruisers, flinging them to Orion, who used his Spear in Blaster Mode, shooting at them. A gnashing changeling went after the Silver Ranger. He seems unaware of it, too busy shooting at the bruisers who are continued being roped and flung towards him. Raising her lightning bolt, Lightning Twister brought in one storm cloud. Just one. The dark cloud shot out a bolt of lightning at the changeling, who ended up being destroyed. Noah caught his eye on a tall changeling, advancing towards a couple with a baby. The mom had her arms around the young filly, while the dad was in front of them, wanting to keep his family safe. Guessing she was the queen, the Blue Ranger went towards the family and, with a quick swing of his weapon, he knocked the queen away from them. “Get out of here,” he spoke to the family. “I’ll take it from here.” Seeing the Blue Ranger spirit, they did as they were told. The mom picked up her daughter by her short mane with her mouth, thanking him as she and her husband ran off, as well as thanking the other spirits who also came, as well as thanking the Power Ponies that the Mayor had announced several months back, also claiming that they’re helpful spirits, too. Chrysalis got up from the sudden blow, shooting out green beams at the Blue Ranger, who dodged away from them. “The poison! It didn’t work.” “The poison did work,” Noah stated profoundly, stopping the sudden beams with his Blaster. “Yet, my friends figured out a cure for it.” “Grrr!” Growling, the changeling used her ragged horn as a weapon of her own, swinging her head from side to side, like she was threatening the male pony. Not feeling threatened by the moves she’s making, Noah used his Saber to stop the incoming horn. He blasted her in the face, stopping her threatening moves. The blast enraged the queen. Opening up her mouth, she chomped down on the unicorn’s tail with her fangs. Lifting him up, she threw him across the dirt street in an aggressive manner. The hard tossed had him hit the right side of his body on the side of a house. He grunted, landing on the ground. His side was in pain, yet he managed to stand up. Just in time to see the queen going towards Fluttershy, who had her back turned, fighting an x-borg with punches, punching as hard as she can at it . Like his gears had kicked into overdrive, he took out a key from his belt. “Legendary Ranger Mode - Jungle Fury! Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!” he called out. “Blue Jungle Fury Ranger! Jungle Tonfa!” Attaching the ends of his weapons, he used them to swing at Chrysalis. Fluttershy, unaware of what was about to happen, quit punching to see her crush in front of her in a Legendary Mode. The x-borg went to escape when Gia shot at it. Troy turned to see his Blue Ranger pal in a different mode. “Let’s go Legendary,” he told the others. “Right,” the rest of his Ranger team nodded, taking out their Legendary keys, following their leader. Troy and his team inserted their keys into their morphers. “Legendary Ranger Mode - Jungle Fury! Jungle Beast, Spirit Unleashed!” They twisted the keys. “Red Jungle Fury Ranger!” “Yellow Jungle Fury Ranger!” “White Jungle Fury Ranger!” “Purple Jungle Fury Ranger!” “Jungle Fury Bat Ranger!” “We summon the Animal Spirits from within! Power Rangers Jungle Fury!” After morphing, Troy made the first move. “Battle Claw Unleashed!” He swiped at a few changelings. “Purple Wolf coming through!” Troy got out of Jake’s way, who made his own attack, similar to his leader’s. “Junglechucks!” Pulling out his weapon, Troy swung it at some x-borgs. Up in the sky, Orion and Emma attacked in turns. “Rhino Morpher - Super Blade Attack!” She made quick slashes on the pegasi x-borgs, when Orion came over. “Jungle Fan!” Opening up his main weapon, he took the next move after the Pink Ranger. Opening up the fan, he used it as an offensive weapon, finishing off the x-borgs. Back on the ground, Gia was using her Jungle Bo on two bruisers. She swung it around, until the one end got a hold of one, flinging it in the air. The bruiser got shocked by a bolt of lightning, thanks to Lightning Twister. Meanwhile, Noah was still dealing with the queen, who was blasting out beams at him, though he used his weapons to stop her attack. Chrysalis wished that she had a sword or something, rather than just using her horn. She blasted another beam, this time getting him. The beam knocked him out of Legendary Mode. He got up, facing her. “Think I’ll go down that easy.” He went to walk, ending up falling to the ground. Troy finished up the changelings, seeing one of his team members on the ground. Demorphing out of Legendary Mode, he helped his friend up. His friend pushed him away. “Noah-” his leader went to say when his friend held out his arm. “I’m fine; let me handle the queen.” “You? Handle me? Don’t make me laugh,” the queen smirked. The other Rangers, who are back in Super Mega Mode, came, along with the Power Ponies, the Elements of Harmony, Spike, and of course… “Starlight Glimmer, how nice to see you.” Chrysalis gave a ‘warm’ smile at the Twilight’s student - her pupil. “Are you glad to see me and my new horde of changelings? Because my last horde got corrupted!” Her mood changed from a sneer to a scowl. “I did not corrupt your previous subjects!” Starlight stomped her hoof. “I taught them that they can share love. They didn’t need to feed. They don’t need to starve their entire lives. The same should be taught by your new subjects.” “I decide what's best for my new subjects! Not by anyone else,” she hissed. “Thanks to Thorax, he took over my hive, my old subjects - everything that I wanted!” Everyone backed up except for Noah. “He shouldn’t have betrayed his leader all because he was forced to do something he doesn’t like.” “A leader doesn’t force their subjects to do something that they don’t want to do.” Noah stepped forward. “My leader isn’t someone like you. The option to end you is to destroy you.” The changeling knocked the Ranger on the floor. “Destroy me or my new subjects won’t have a leader.” “Noah, we got your back.” Jake stood next to him. “No, I can handle her.” He stepped in front of his best friend. “I know what the final strike I need. The one I used on Skatana.” Twilight, her friends, Orion, and the Power Ponies had no idea what he was talking about. Yet, most Rangers knew what he is up to. Troy, Emma, Jake, and Gia, gave Noah their Sabers. Taking their swords, he took out five Blue Ranger keys, inserting them into the Sabers. “Ultimate Ranger Saber Strike - Activate!” The Sabers began glowing a bright blue. “Go ahead, do it.” Chrysalis got herself ready. “You ask for it.” He spun around. “Fire!” Five Blue Rangers charged at the queen when he did his move. “MegaForce! Samurai! Mystic Force! Ninja Storm! Lost Galaxy!” He called out each Ranger as each one struck at the queen with their weapons. “Super Mega Blue!” Lastly, he came in the air, turning, and slashed at Chrysalis. He landed on the ground, back turned, hearing the explosion from the queen Seeing her explode enraged the prince, demanding someone to enlarge her. “I’m not going to make her grow, someone else needs to do it. Levira!” he yelled, slamming his hooves on the console, the orb barely falling to the floor. Cozy Glow picked up the magma beam. “I’ll do it, I’ll do it.” “Oh, no you don’t.” It got taken away from her. “Levira is in charge of this thing for she made this,” Vekar said, keeping it out of reach from the filly. “You won't be able to point in the right direction.” The pegasus stomped her hoof on the floor. “I can do it! I can point in the right direction! I know where Ponyville is at!” “Too bad. Levira!” Levira walked into the Command Room. She didn’t say anything. It looked like she was getting irritated by her sire. Nothing less, she was given the magma beam. Not saying anything, she pulled the trigger, shooting out the beam, aiming it towards the down queen. Chrysalis laughed as she began to grow. She wasn’t the only one for some of her changelings joined her, the buzzing so loud that Fluttershy had to cover her ears, hiding behind Noah. Troy got out his morpher. “Summon Skyship!” The ship came. Like last time, the ropes went down. Five of the Rangers, minus Orion, got a hold of them, the ropes bringing them up. “Release the Zords!” Again, the Super Mega Wheeler, the Super Mega Sub, the Super Mega Racer, and the Super Mega Jet, came out of the Skyship. “Zords combined!” The five Zords got put together like a puzzle. “Legendary Megazord - Ready!” Placing the Quantum Ranger key in his morpher, the Pegasus stallion closed the top part of it. "Summon Q-Rex Zord!" Pressing the Quantum Ranger button three times and raising his morpher to the sky, Orion called out for his personal Zord to come his way. He got into it when it came. "Q-Rex Megazord - Activate!" His Zord began transforming. "Q-Rex Megazord - Ready!" The Rangers faced the queen and the changelings, ignoring the laughs from her. “You’ll never bring me down again!” “Watch out!” Troy alarmed. All together, they dodged their Megazords from incoming beams. The Q-Rex Megazord got grabbed by two giant changeling subjects. Using the controls, the Ranger got them off of him. He rammed both the drill arm along with his T-rex fist, opening the jaws open to pick them up. The changelings had no idea what’s going on until they got spun around, tossing them to the other Megazord. Seeing them coming their way, they slashed them with the Megazord Sabers. The rest came, the same action being repeated. Orion twirled them around, while Troy and the others work together. The changelings blew up like a bomb from a military base. Their friends below cheered them on. Rainbow did a flip in the air. “The Q-Rex Megazord is amazing! Whoo!” She let out a cheer, doing another flip. Unhappy at what she was seeing, Chrysalis charged at the Rangers, mouth opened wide like she wanted to eat them up. Raising on her hind, straggly legs, she used her messed up hooves, striking the Legendary Megazord with great force. The Rangers’ Megazord toppled over, bumping into their friend’s Megazord. “We need to go Legendary in order to destroy her,” Gia said once their Megazord regained its balance. “And I know which one we can use,” Noah stated, taking out a key. Troy beamed inside his helmet. “Good idea.” He and the others took out the Legendary Ranger keys, similar to what their friend has. “Mystic Force Legendary Dragon Zord - Activate!” The Rangers in the Legendary Megazord slipped the Mystic Force Ranger keys into the key holes, turning them. Outside of the Megazord, the wheels turned. The Super Mega Jet and the Super Mega Racer opened up, with dragon wings coming out of it; the Super Mega Sub and Super Mega springing open to reveal dragon claws; the chest of the Megazord, which is part of the Skyship, opened up, revealing the head and neck of a dragon - a red dragon - with a mini arms and legs, letting out a roar. “Legendary Mystic Megazord - Ready!” The ponies are amazed, especially the princess for her reaction was priceless. She never knew the Rangers could use their keys to change their Megazord into something else. Spike seemed too excited, happy to see a dragon even though it’s a robot. Chrysalis laughed. “You may change your robot machine, yet, nevertheless, there’s no way you’ll destroy the queen.” Her wings buzzing, she flew off. “Hahaha- huh!?” She stopped mid-laugh to see the first Megazord going after her. “No way, it can fly!” Pinkie bounced up and down. “A Megazord that can fly! Isn’t this amazing Fluttershy?” “Yay!” she cheered then lowered her volume. “I mean, yay…” she softly rooted, keeping the same jubilant expression. Flying the Megazord, the Blue Ranger called out an attack. “Dragon Blast!” The dragon shot out fiery flames. The flames caught the queen’s web-like tail. Panicking, she flicked the fire off of her before it could do anymore damage. Snarling, she kept shooting out green beams at them. They moved away from her shots. They shot out more flames, burning her wings to where they almost fell off. Landing on the ground, she hadn’t noticed Orion’s Megazord until it was too late, for he bored a drill at her. “Guys - let’s finish her off!” “Right!” His friends turned their keys. “Ancient Power - Mystic Spell Seal!” The dragon launched out of their Megazord. “Super Mega Final Strike - Triple Drill Attack!” Their friend did his own attack. Together, both attacks came at the leader of the changelings. First, the Mystic dragon circled around her. The movement made three, magical circles around the opponent, crushing and constricting her like a python. Next, the three drills came at her. She hadn’t had time to react because the attacks came out of nowhere, unprepared for them. She let out a raged holler. “No! Nooo! Now my new horde won’t have a queen to guide them! Oh, whatever, one of my changeling guards can take over.” After she said this, she exploded, just like what happened to Lord Tirek. “Super Mega Rangers, that’s a Super Mega Win.” The Rangers hooted after Troy claimed the victory. They had helped their pony friends and dragon defeat the changeling queen. Vekar wasn’t happy with what he saw. He was beyond angry where he picked up Grogar’s orb, throwing it across the room. The ram caught it, turning angrily at the prince. He went to say something when Damaras came in. “Sire, maybe you can be-” “I won’t be the changelings’ new leader! Besides, how many times are these heroes gonna beat us?” The prince stomped around like a colt. “Let’s see..” the youngest villain pondered in thought, “if there are six Rangers, seven Power Ponies, six ponies who wielded the Elements of Harmony, a dragon, plus Starlight…” “That wasn’t a serious question; it’s called venting, you loathed foal!” Cozy shut her mouth, putting hooves on her little hips, not happy that the prince cut her off. “Have one of Chrysalis’s changeling guards be in charge of her horde.” He stopped, bringing down one of the Hearts and Hooves Day direction. “And take this stuff down!” he ordered, then left the room, grumbling to himself. He didn’t really leave the Command Room. He was outside of the sliding doors. He went up to a wall - and began banging his forehead on it. Part of him wanted to break the wall. He couldn’t believe that the Rangers got rid of the queen. He almost wanted to cry like a baby, except he didn’t, for bad guys don’t get upset. His head banging stomped. “Aaagh!” A frustrated cry erupted. He wanted to do something about this. He wanted the Rangers to be gone. He wanted their new friends to be gone. On top of that, he wanted to go home. He bet the Armada’s new are getting frustrated too. Like, they do need to get rid of the Rangers, and above this, they had not yet got rid of their friends in the process. Except he doesn’t care about his allies concerns, only his. He went back to the Command Room, to see the pink directions off the walls. It pleased him a little, though nothing can make this prince glad. The orb was back on the console. Instead of looking at it, he went up to the window. He blocked the chatty girl. He needed to think, except his mind was empty. Normally, he can come up with ideas. In defeat, he went back to his chair. He watched the Rangers get out of their Megazords, rejoining Twilight and her friends, not giving any new orders at this time. Noah and Fluttershy went back to their picnic they left behind during the spell they’ve been put on. He was told by Fluttershy that this was the first time that Hearts and Hooves Day is being celebrated in the winter since it doesn’t have snow during this time of day. He made a theory about this, though he wasn’t sure if he believed what he stated. The food was in good use. There weren’t any insects because they’re in a deep slumber. Fluttershy had enjoyed the chocolates, sharing them with the unicorn. This had been the best Hearts and Hooves Day ever.