//------------------------------// // The 5 symbols of hope // Story: Chōriki Sentai Ohpony // by neozigma //------------------------------// “Twilight!!!” The purple pony turned around to find her friends already out of the forest and at mere centimeters from her. The Orange pony had called her name, her eyes searching for something in the surroundings “Have ya seen a filly ´round these parts?” “A filly? No…why ?” “Horseapples!!” Applejack´s face changed to a worried one “ I just hope she is right” “Anyway dear, where exactly are we?” Rarity looked at the finely decored door, even if it was hit by the sands of time, it still possessed some of its beauty “And what is this fashionably door doing here? Unless Celestia want us to go in here…” “I suppose so…” And with the arrival of the last member (Fluttershy) the earth started to shake, the doors in front of them slowly opening, inviting our equine friends to its dark insides. The ponies stood there for a second, her eyes widening at the sudden invitation. Of course they were snapped back into reality by Rainbow Dash “Well ? what are we waiting for !? Monsters? Secret tunnels? This smells just like one of Daring Doo´s adventures!!” Rainbow Dash was the first one that “dashed” inside, being followed by the rest of the crew. As they entered, strange lights started to illuminate their path, as if they knew that they were here, of course this didn’t stop Rainbow dash. “Oh wow, look at that!! What do you think those things are ?” When the crew managed to catch up with Rainbow Dash, they found themselves in front of strange machines of all sizes and forms, making it look it more like some kind of science fiction novel that Twilight used to read long ago “ I don’t know, Rainbow, but whatever it is…its not magical…I cant feel any sort of magic coming from “ “Its because its not magic, you dummy” A familiar voice ( for Applejack at least ) alerted the girls of someone else on their backs. The 5 creatures that they found on the forest were at mere centimeters from them, the green minotauros and the now gallant lion having the moai and the dogu on their backs respectively, making Rainbow dash and Applejack take a defensive position while Fluttershy just curled herself at the back “There is no need to be afraid of us, really, after all you girls had already passed the test “ “Excuse me…what test are you talking about?” The filly just smiled before continuing “Wait, You weren’t here for our power? It’s the first time in 90,000,000 years that we heard that, it actually makes us sort of happy” And suddenly, silence. A silence that was broken by a high pitched scream “90,000,000!!!?” The mane six screamed it with all of their pulmonary strength, a veil of confusion and even fear was upon them. And for some strange cosmic reason, Fluttershy decided to be the first one to talk, being for some cosmic reason less shocked than the rest of the girls. “E-excuse me, Celestia told us that you…um…would help us…if you want to, that is…I mean, I would be really thankful if you help us saving Ponyville and the animals back at my cottage…if its not too bothersome for you…” “So you wanted our powers, after all…” “But at least she asked for them, unlike that other pony that thought that he could defeat me on hand to hoof combat” The minotaur punched his palm “I like that girl’s hidden boldness, is that the reason why you choose her, Moai?" he Taurus slowly placed the moai on the floor, trying its best not to break its friends “body”. Fluttershy’s eyes widened at her second encounter with the giant head, but unlike her friends that looked at the statue with fear and curiosity, the yellow pony just offered a smile “Too bad my encounter with you wasn’t as heated as I wanted to, of course the odds would have been the same” this time, the minotauro’s gaze was placed upon the cyan Pegasus with rainbow-colored mane “Next time you can maaaaybe defeat me, if I want that, of course” Knowing full well her opponent’s strength, Rainbow dash growled at him, but she wasn’t going to let him win with this time “Ha!! In your dreams you horned idiot” “Want a piece of me, Carpet eater!?” If it weren’t for a certain bandaged lion that decided to intervene on that moment, there would have been a disaster so big that the entire mountain would have been in danger. “Tauros, please. Don’t you see that we have guests here ?” Each one of its steps made the bandages slowly slide from its body, slowly revealing an imponent lion with a beautiful, golden helmet that was connected with two powerful-looking shoulder pads of the same material and blue colored imperial clothes made from what looked like some kind of high quality silk “I apologize for the behavior of our dear friend tauros, I hope you girls don’t mind him trying to prove himself as the alpha male” “What the hell Sphinx? Oh you are so dead, you flamboyant kitty” Disregarding the stupidity of his friend’s words, the lion simply walked its way towards Rarity which such elegancy that sort of scared the fashionista. Her worries were trashed aside when the lion suddenly took the mare’s hoofs and kissed it “It is the first time since I have seen such an elegant creature with such a kind heart, most creatures that decide to take the path of aesthetic perfection are nothing but spoiled brats who just want to dress good without knowing that true beauty is not only showing everyone the last piece of clothes you are wearing, but showing everyone the beauty of one’s heart.” “O-Oh my, thank you for such…errm…” still disturbed by the bizarre situation, the fashionista just retrieved her hoof from the beast’s claws Pinkie Pie was just jumping around the dogu, annoying the poor statue with various topics that seemed to come out of nowhere “W-what is going?” Twilight was confused at the strange familiarity of the creatures with her friends, but her question was quickly answered by the filly with the phoenix as her cutie mark “Right, you came here for a reason” and with those words, each beast was silent, looking at the filly with a serious gaze “And our answer is yes, we will aid you in your struggle against the invaders, young ones” “Wait a minute, how did ya’ now that ponyville was in danger?” “There are many things on this world that we are well aware of, but lets leave this chit chat for another time, don’t you girls want the power to save the lives of your kin? “ Crimson Phoenix slowly trotted to her friends, the minotaur and the lion dragging the statues to reunite with the filly “But we don’t give that kind of power to anyone but the ones we have selected, that’s right, we know about the story of the elements of harmony and knew that 5 of them would be fit to receive our power” “ 5 ? but there are six elements of harmony” Asked Twilight “We are well aware of and you were one of the first choices, but we are not sure how would our power affect you considering your mana pool, we have scanned you and your internal power, and we have come with the conclusion that giving you even the slightest of our energy would probably have unknown consequences” And suddenly, strange lights started to illuminate the entire mountain, revealing 5 buildings, the central one being a pyramid surrounded by the other four that consisted of a giant Moai, a giant Dogu, a Sphinx and a Parthenon. --------------------------------------------------------- The once beautiful ponyville was now but a warzone…no...it looked more like a total massacre, while no pony was killed, the population was treated as mere slaves, being chained by the neck and transported to strange metallic cubes that will be later transported by the ships and then carried to the mothership. The worst thing of all? Celestia and Luna were among them, their once beautiful white and black fur was stained with blood and injuries, a sight that was necessary to break the hopes of anyone who had the wild idea to oppose to them. Of course that was not enough to please the cruel machine empire, for Celestia was still dangerous for them, having lost a great amount of their ships because of her was not something they would overlook, the same destiny was going to be shared by her sister, Luna, having defeated most of the foot soldiers. Dragging the two royal sisters by their collars, two of the mechanical foot soldiers prepared their weapons, letting every single pony to be witness of the fate to those who make the machine empire their enemy. Celestia and Luna just lowered their heads, having failed to their subordinates, The sun goddess trying to calm her now devastated sister that had now broken down to tears. “Princess Celestia and Luna” one of the robots declared their names with a robotic voice “You have been ordered to be publicly executed for trying to resist against the Machine empire, any last words, bag of meat?” “No…” Celestia looked upon the lifeless eyes of the machine, still showing a great fighting spirit “...words are not necessary for monsters like you” “So be it, executing command 0789654” Five foot soldiers readied their weapons, pointing them at the princesses head. It was as if time stopped for everypony, some of them closing their eyes, others decided to pray for anything to save their beloved princess and other’s eyes widened at the 5 strange colored beams of energy that came out of nowhere. The 5 foot soldiers had been decimated in a mere instant before they did anything to the princesses, a strange pony wearing what looked like red latex stood in front of them. The white parts of her extremities were limited with strange gold-colored rings with various symbols that looked like geometric figures. The helmet had nothing but a star that seemed to be some kind of visor, a closer inspection revealed that there was a strange notch in the form a mouth. Four other ponies with the same costume yet different colors and shape of visors appeared, decimating the remaining foot soldiers at speed that was hard to follow for the common pony, all they could see was but a bunch of colored beams suddenly destroying the entire army that had given problems to the two princesses combined. “Identify yourself!!” one of the remaining machine soldier ordered to the 5 masked ponies that had gathered in the same spot having 5 different colors each : red,blue,green,yellow and pink with different shapes of visors: A star, square, an inverted triangle, two rays and a circle. Each one with their respective color. “Want to know who we are, yah bunch o’ screws?” Applejack, the pony behind the red star, gave one step forward “How about we introduce ourselves, girls?” It is your decision to be infused with the power of the ancestors But there is no going back so think about it carefully Your bodies will be made into powerful weapons That’s the reason why we had to test you, girls But if you accept, you will be granted powers that exceed anything you could dream off You will be known as… “Super-Powered squad!!!” “OHRANGER”