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// Chapter 1: A Walk In Town 
// Story: Power Rangers Super Megaforce: New Lives For The Heroes 
// by ariellewilson 
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It had been a whole year ever since the pony saviors saved Equestria. Ponies chatted, laughing, even bringing up about when the new found heroes would return sometime, protecting them from the evilness they've dealt with, including those awful henchmen and the changeling queen's new horde that are not around anymore, including their leader. Tirek being demolished, the Armada gone away from their home they care for, living back with peace and harmony like it always is moons ago.

The ponies who saved those in need are proud of what they accomplished, knowing they won't have to worry until new enemies arrive. They do have to worry about Cozy Glow, not knowing when she'll turn up in the future.

The Armada damaged a lot of things from homes to buildings, having the royal guards fix everything up, making it look like the way they should be. It took a while to clean the mess the Armada left behind, the Moon Princess placing a spell to keep today as today when the big attack entered promised by Grogar whom Twilight and her allies defeated with their new Ranger powers with the spare Elements of Harmony their new friends' mentor and assistant gave them, completely forgetting he had them after he was told about the Tree of Harmony being demolished by King Sombra whom the mentor's people never met before. The ponies here hope he won't return, praying that their magic of friendship got rid of him for good.

The others hoped as well, even though they've never seen him before. They're happy they've never came in his path, knowing how dangerous he is after being told about him, about the story their mentor stated that happened years ago, when he and his assistant were in Equestria, giving the royal sisters weapons to get rid of him, where he took over the Crystal Empire, banishing him before he returned. Then, a new villain arrived, having the assistant create, despite coming from the royal sisters first mentor, the Elements of Harmony to turn him into stone.

The heroes - the Rangers - are astonished by this, remembering every word about it, repeatedly happy that they won't come across him, unless that changes.

During their first arrival in Equestria, they have no idea what to do and where to stay at, until they're offered to stay at the Princess of Friendship and her pals' homes, their mentor's right hand robot deciding to build something to bring them back home within a year.

Everyone agreed to this, as well as helping out by sweeping the bad guys off the floor with the Element Holders. They worked together like a team should, bashing each x-borg, bruiser, and each new changeling. The Rangers help defeat Lord Tirek at Mount Aris, getting rid of Chrysalis during Hearts and Hooves Day after she trick she gave to the Holder of Kindness and the smart Ranger with the love poison she gave to them to drink, with the geek finishing her off with his Legendary Modes, along with his team who transformed their Megazord into a Mystic Force kind after doing a second round like it was some kind of video game.

A few months before defeating the first two villains, they came across the Power Ponies during Nightmare Night when the Holder of Honesty's sister was ordered by Gia to get the others, unaware she's the Yellow Ranger.

They came, fighting the Element of Harmony's counterparts until the Day Princess came, removing the corruption spell by the evil queen of the changelings, much to the Armada's prince dismay.

Fast forward, Noah and Flutteshy were walking out of the Everfree Forest after locating Fluffy, with the unicorn leading the way when they were 'greeted' by ponies they've hadn't encountered, the one in the red pirate jacket slamming into the pegasus on purpose. The one in the red jacket excused those two of being changelings, not believing them at first when the Ranger claimed about not being a faker, including the pony he liked.

Of course, the Asian unicorn, the leader of his own group, didn't believe a single word when the blue hero morphed, shocking them, the leader excusing him for copying one of his friends, confusing the smart one, then got all defensive when he called the animal lover weak by throwing in a blastful blow with one of his white, gloved up hooves. He also used his Saber, the energetic winged pony who flew towards Fluttershy after she yelled at him at the base of his neck, giving him time to shove her to the direction he needed her to go, telling her to get their friends here.

He was stunned when they transformed like he and his teammates, calling themselves Gokaigers. The caption was more furious when he exclaimed, yelling at the horned pony who can change into different Super Sentias from Goranger to Goseiger when Noah went into Samurai Ranger Mode.

Like with the Power Ponies, the Rangers' counterparts were under a spell by a changeling in disguise, explaining why they acted in such a way until the Blue Super Mega Ranger's teammates and friends came with Fluttershy, the battle between the Asian ponies and the Rangers, along with their ponified pals.

The Rangers were in the Samurai Mode, like the geek was in, the same with their equals which they call Shinkenger.

With the help of the Elements of Harmony, Starlight, and the Power Ponies, the Rangers managed to group all the Gokaigers into one spot, letting their alicorn friend free them from the spell. When the Japanese ponies have been free, they have no recollection of what has happened, then joined with the saviors, with the party pony throwing them a welcome party for them.

Since then, they made new friends, one of each of them staying with each Ranger they match with, even though they aren't exactly alike.

Hazel Blossom, one of the Power Ponies, asked Joe to be her plus one for the Gala. Unaware of the term, he was explained by Noah, saying it was like a date, though a friendly kind of date.

Joe accepted the offer, getting a hug from the pony he had a crush on since he first saw her after being free from the corruption spell. He may be the serious one in his team, yet he has a good heart inside of him. He wondered if any of his friends would have someone to be with. Marvelous and Ahim, yes. Luka and Don? He isn't quite sure about those two. Gai? Probably.

When the Gala came, all the ponies, including Spike, along with the fillies, had a great time. Rainbow's plus one and her little sister encountered her enemy, saying no guy would want to be with her.

This hadn't stopped the Washout, and it didn't help when Orion would get red in the face, for he hadn't received these kinds of feelings before, even after saving her from the bruisers when a monster that the Gokaigers have been dealing with came to crash the high class party.

The Gokaigers had finished them off, though none of the ponies knew about them despite seeing them there with the Rangers and the Power Ponies, as well as the Princess of Friendship and her friends. Noah even made a good point about it the one day on the train, wondering when he and his friends' matchers will be in the newspaper like him and his friends, the same going with Twilight and the Element bearers' conquals.

Those groups of heroes never knew about it, thinking somepony sneakily took pictures of them for a news story.

Speaking of pictures, Lightning Dust, the pegasus Orion saw at the Ball, had taken pictures of him morphing and in complete Ranger Mode. She hadn't revealed it to him until she wanted him to 'hang out' with her at the restaurant of her hometown. She was proud of what she did, though got a different reaction from her silver hero, who yelled at her, scolding her on what she'd done, knowing who he really is, claiming what she did is unthinkable, completely stupid on her end. He had the guts to bring up what she did to Dash's little sister.

Dust said she was sorry, except he wouldn't take it, too angry at her - until x-borgs, bruisers, and the new changelings came in, attacking the place they're at. Damaras and the prince were there, also.

During that day, Orion had gone from Super Mega Silver to Dino Thunder White, fighting the warrior who brought down to his home planet. He had seen two changelings gripping their hooves on the mare he was mad at, being told by the prince he had plans for her.

Even though he wasn't happy for what the mare had done, he knew he couldn't risk getting her hurt. However, a sudden move from the large, golden earth pony had knocked him to the wall, leaving him to lose his Legendary weapon in the process.

Seeing the bad pony about to finish him off, the Washout made a big decision, knowing she had to save the Silver Ranger pegasus pony. The first thing she could think of is to use the Drago Sword to cut the chain to make the chandelier to land on the prince, to get the warrior to face away from the alien.

Seeing his Legendary Ranger weapon being held by the pony he was mad at, his anger had vanished, shocked at what she had done with amazement, with her thinking about it in a different way. No one has ever used his or any of his friends' weapons at all who are not Rangers.

He got rid of the Armada prince and the warrior by creating Laser Arrows with the Drago Sword, firing at them.

Afterwards, he went back to his Silver Ranger spandex, being cheered and praised by the ponies he saved within the restaurant. He was happy for what he did without any help from his team members, except he was searching for the mare who returned the rescue, until he found her at an open green field, where an oak tree is at.

Dust repeated how sorry she was, upset, guilty for what she'd done. She felt it with her heart, for she hadn't felt sorry before until that day, believing what she did to the weapon was a horrible thing to do.

The alien on the other hoof, forgave her when he gave her a kiss on the cheek and let her know what she did wasn't a bad thing. He isn't angry at her anymore, especially when she found out he was a Power Ranger. They went back to the restaurant, he told her the days of his home in Andresia, how he found the Silver Ranger key, the morpher, how he came to earth where his friends once lived there until their food finally arrived at their table. They had a great hang out - or in this case - a date. A first date these two have ever had.

Of course, Rainbow was pure stunned, yelling out a swear word. Orion had even given his bracelet to the Washout, saying he'll come visit her as long as she does the same.

More months passed by, until the bad guys had enough with the heroes, trapping them in Tartarus, except the heroes, excluding Starlight, Twilight and the rest of the Element Holders, along with Spike have been knocked out.

While at the Command Center, with the Gokaigers, Power Ponies, and the Rangers on the cots, all sore from what happened, Gosei made a choice to let Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy become the new Super Megaforce Rangers when all the ponies and the dragon saw different areas of Equestria being attacked on the consols. Though the Wonderbolt hoped that her enemy would get destroyed, getting displeased looks from everyone else.

Fluttershy didn't like the idea of becoming a Ranger, knowing how bad she'll be at it, resulting in giving her key and morpher to Twilight's pupil. Noah, being a good and smart Ranger, knew she would do great, then finally admitted his feelings about her, getting a kiss on the lips from the cute girl.

Getting the courage she needed, she helped her friends at the first location until the rest of the heroes came thanks Starlight for giving them a healing spell, then all those ponies, including her, morphed, lending the saviors of Equestria a helping hoof.

They went from location to location, until they reached Canterlot where they were met by an evil filly, along with Argus, and then Grogar. They managed to defeat both Grogar and Argus, with, again, not knowing where the filly went off to.

They celebrated with a party, during the next day, though Luna did a spell to make yesterday to make today, explained by the new Super Megaforce Red Ranger, though nopony understood what she said, though thought nothing of it.

Twilight and her friends sang to the Rangers, even with Troy doing his own solo, adding that the Power Ponies and Gokaigers came along when there was trouble to be dealt with.

The ponies of Equestria have been proud of their new found friends, with Starlight Glimmer stating that the Rangers, Gokaigers, and the Power Ponies have inspired everyone around them.

Again, they celebrated, with Pinkie Pie singing on how the pony heroes saved the pony world, knowing they'll be back anytime, on any day.

For now, it's peace time until new enemies get in their way…

Today, a Ranger was walking around the Ponyville town, the same sun warming up the place, heading off to see one of his friends.

Mares saw him, swooning at his appearance he endorned. He can tell they all wanted to be his girlfriend, though he'd chuckled at the thought of it, knowing straight away who his future girlfriend will be. To add to this attention from the mares he hadn't requested, he had found out one day why they look at him the way they do.

It's all because he's a unicorn. It may sound crazy, except it's a fact. Unicorn stallions are a big hit for these female equines, especially on Hearts and Hooves Day. He was told by the lavender alicorn that it's normally spring during that time of year, unlike last year where it was still winter.

Thankfully, after Hearts and Hooves Day, all the ponies managed to get spring to come on time, so the next Hearts and Hooves Day will be a springful sunny one like all the other ones before the Rangers and the heroes ever came to this cute, colorful world.

He walked by the Flower Shop, run by three mares, who saw him. The three of them waved, with him doing the same in return. He went on his merry way, seeing ponies doing their daily activities they do everyday - working, selling, hanging out with their friends, anything. Two colts ran by him with a blue striped ball, heading to an open field, laughing.

One of the colts - an earth pony one - tripped over his own front two hooves, the ball bouncing out of his mouth.

Picking up his right hoof, the walking pony stopped, catching the rubbery toy to keep it from rolling going any farther.

The earth pony colt, along with his buddy who is a pegasus, waited for him to return the ball back to them.

Smiling, the stallion gave the ball a gentle kick, being caught by the pegasus colt, the two sending gleeful smiles.

It seems all of these folks like to smile. He hadn't spotted a frown anywhere on anyone.

He continued his way - when something hit him. "Oh!" he grunted from the force, landing on something wet and squishy, figuring out it was mud, covered from his hair to his sneakers. He felt something on top of him, making him see who - or what - it is. "Gai…" he said in a low tone, several mud droplets running down his mane. "You're on me."

"Heh, heh, heh," the Gokai Silver pegasus returned with an embarrassing titter, flapping his wings to remove himself from his leader's parallel. "Um…excuse me?" The pony in the wet dirt can only roll his eyes at this pony's questionable apology, sitting up, the mud making squishy sounds. "Here, let me help you." He zoomed off, leaving the unicorn there.

The unicorn stallion let out a sigh, standing back up, a little grossed out when all of the sudden, he went from being muddy to wet. It doesn't take long for him to see it was water from the rain cloud coming down on him, brought by one of his own team members' counterparts.

The water had indeed washed the mud off, though now he's completely soaked, his clothes sticking to him, his once slicked back hair hanging limp. His tail was all droopy.

He heard laughter. "Oops, I think that's too much, um…" All of the sudden, strong wind came, created by this flying pony who went in circles around the wet unicorn. "This should help you out. My own blow dryer." During this, all the unicorn can see is different shades of silver, until it wasn't there anymore. "There you go," Gai smiled with pride. "Nice and-" He stopped, looking at the Ranger. He tried to hold his laugh in, but it came out with big chortles, leaving him to fall backwards onto the ground.

The Ranger's mane wasn't at its usual place. Rather, it was sticking up like Frankenstein's hair.

However, with the pegasus laughing his head off, the horned pony doesn't find it funny for one bit. All he did was stand there with annoyance, something none of his friends ever saw in him. After all, he is the quiet one other than the rest who are chatty, him being in his own world, spacing out like he usually does with one of them wanting to know if he's okay or not.

Taking a deep breath, he fixed up his hair to its natural position. "Have you ever looked where you're flying, dude?" he responded once the Silver Gokaiger got a hold of himself. "You could've seriously gotten me hurt," he made a good point, flicking his tail, seeing it, too, wasn't the way it's supposed to be. "I know it's cool being a creature who can fly, though in reality you should look where you're going. I look both ways when making my way in order not to run into somepony or a pony not running into me by accident." He and his friends had picked up the pony language, similar to the language back in his home world.

"I know, I know," Gai swept off like it was no big deal. "Though it's really fun to fly at high speeds," he proclaimed in his hyper act self, throwing his front arms out to the sides. "It's great, I tell you!" he sort of shouted with joy. "It'll be great if you had wings, Troy," he wished, keeping the same grin, picking himself off the floor. "Then you can race us fast pegasi ponies."

"Racing isn't my thing," Troy replied. "Although me and most of my friends ran the Running of the Leaves while the pegasi brought the snow."

His friend tilted his head to the side. "What's the Running of the Leaves?"

"It's something ponies do every year. They run through White Tail Woods, while the pegasi bring in the snow. Gia won the race." A small laugh came from the Red Ranger. "Jake wanted to win for her, except he never crossed the finish line, all out of breath from all the running he's done."

"Poor Jake. I bet he likes her," the pegasus assumed.

"He sure does. He's always been trying his hardest to get her attention, doing a lot of crazy things to wow her." Troy shook his head, remembering how the Black now Green Ranger would act around her, doing everything he can think of.

To be honest here, half the time the athlete is being stupid. Though he's a fantastic soccer player, the unicorn had to say, recalling the time where Jake used his soccer ball on the loogies.

However, last year, after he and everyone went to Califoalnia to watch Fluttershy and Rainbow play buckball, those two ponies had taught him and his friends on how to play the sport.

It seems like the earth pony stallion seems to like buckball more than soccer, apparently.

He still wanted to laugh when Jake was stunned when Gia bucked the ball to the basket that was quickly stopped by Orion who is Jake's teammate, who is on defense, with Emma doing the same, being Gia's team player.

Jake did say back at the School of Friendship that maybe they can play against Califoalnia, but of course, they had to be taught after the game by the farm pony and the rainbow haired speedster - both athletes.

Of course, Mythic Diamond and Ice Crystal are the ones who held up the baskets to catch the red, rubber balls since both Troy and Noah don't know how to use their unicorn horns.

"Anyways…" the team leader of the Ranger team continued, turning to get ready to leave. "...I better get going."

"Alright, nice crashing into you, man." All the unicorn can do is shake his head at the energetic pony's humor. "Gotta fly. See you later, bud."

"Same goes for you!" Troy called out, after the Gokaiger sped off into the sky. "Watch out for other ponies!" he hollered, hoping this guy had heard him for how high he is in the air. "Oh well," he then shrugged, a small crooked grin on his face. He went on his way to the location he was heading to.

Arriving at the place, he opened the door, the bell jingling above his head of the Carousel Boutique run by none other than Rarity.

Stepping into the home of the Element of Generosity, he swept his head from side to side of the first workroom floor. "Emma." He waited for a response when he hadn't heard anything back. "Rarity. Mythic. Ahim. Are you girls here?" There was still nothing. "Hello, anypony here?"

Since no one replied to him, especially Emma, he decided to leave the shop until he heard sounds of hooves on the floor.

He stopped, seeing Gokai Pink walking down the stairs. She saw him, grinning from ear to ear. "Hi, Troy, what brings you here?" she greeted, grabbing some frantic.

"I was wondering if Emma would like to take a stroll with me."

"You can go ask her," Ahim said, giving off a giggle. "She isn't going to deny your request," she said, placing the fabric on her back. "After all, you are an attractive unicorn. No offense to Noah, Joe, and…Marvelous."

Troy saw a hint of pink on her cheeks. "It's the reason why you wanted him to be your plus one from last year's Gala," he had to guess, the two walking upstairs.

"You got it," she answered with no hint of regret. "Speaking of the captain on my team…how is he?"

"Doing his normal things he does on a daily basis," the Ranger replied, once these two ponies reach the top of the steps, heading to a bedroom that belongs to Rarity, which is another workroom of hers.

The sewing machine was on, with Rarity sitting on a stool, her front arms moving to keep the frantic she's using in place, the needle going on and out of it, the thread stitching it together.

Emma was next to her, a pincushion between her teeth.

Ahim went up to the clothes maker. "Here you go, Rare."

The sewing came to a stop as the mare saw her with the fabric. "Ah, thank you, darling," she obliged, lighting up her horn, folding up the fabric, placing it on her work table when she's ready to use it. "All we have to do is wait for Mythic to return with the gems." Her direction turned when she spotted the young stallion. "Troy, what a surprise."

Emma set the pincushion down. "Hey, Troy." She came up to him. "Nice seeing you here," she grinned, fluffing her wings like she was going to fly.

"Hey, Em, you wanna take a walk?" Her leader made no hesitation on what has been on his mind. "We can also stop somewhere to eat, like the Hay Burger."

"How lovely of you, Troy," Rarity spoke up. "Emma, you go on ahead. Ahim, you may also go if you want," she allowed, going back to her sewing.

"Okay, I'll go see Marvelous." Ahim opened her wings, soaring out the opened window.

Once she left, the Pink Ranger hadn't washed her beam away. "Where do you want to go?" Both the equines went out of the prim and proper pony's bedroom, heading back downstairs to the main floor.

"I'm not sure. Maybe at Sweet Apple Acres to see Gia, Luka, Lacy Lasso, and Applejack, to see what they're up to," he decided.

"Fine by me." The two walked out, making their way to Applejack's farm.



A grunt was heard by the time the two made it there. They heard the sound of something falling on the dirt ground.

Troy and Emma entered the farm, seeing Gia with a yellow horseshoe between her teeth, with Jake standing next to her.

There was a second horseshoe, a green one, a few inches away from the peg that was sticking up from the ground.

"Let's see how close you can get to," the earth pony stallion challenged. "You beat me at a friendly game of buckball, there's no way you can beat me at any other sport known to stallion."

"You should've thought otherwise," Gia muffled, giving him a playful elbow to his ribs.

"Hah, yeah, sure," he shortly laughed with a scoff. "Go on, toss it," he continued to challenge the tough one, pushing her.

She stepped forward, eyes on the target. Then, she flung it forward, releasing the horseshoe she's been holding, allowing it to fly out of her mouth.

It sailed ahead, yet it didn't make it to the peg, her own horseshoe landing behind Jake's. "Dang it," she let out, stomping a hoof.

"Looks like this soccer player can toss better than the somepony who can buck apples off these trees," Jake bragged, playfully flicking the Yellow Ranger's mane. "It's a surprise how you ended up working on a farm. Not sure about calling you a cowgirl or not."

"Alright, alright, you got one more throw, pony boy." Lifting up a hoof, she slammed it on the second green horseshoe that is next to the second yellow one, getting it to fly up, and land on her opponent's nose.

Using his body, he tossed the object, except it flew out of range. A loud crash was heard from somewhere.

Gia chuckled. "Jake, the object of the game is to see who gets to the closest to the stake, not the farthest," she reminded him.

"Yeah, yeah, I still have the closest throw," he responded, thinking it still counts.

"Yeah, you got the closest throw, alright ." She put a hoof on her forehead. "Seems like it must've left the farm grounds," she believed with observation.

"Pfft!" the Green Ranger wiped off, getting her to look back at him. "Whatever," he dismissed, "Applejack has plenty of other ones. Now, it's your turn again. Let's see if you can beat me." He gave a small kick to Gia's second horseshoe.

Picking it up, the mare concentrated on the peg. She threw the horseshoe forward, and the horseshoe got close to the peg to the point that it made contact with it. "Whoo hoo!" she cheered, waving her front hooves with a jubilant smile. "I won!" She gave Jake a playful shove. "You lost to a mare, you athletic stallion. Hah!"

Jake gave her a jokingly angry look. "Let's go for round two. Best out of ten."

"You're on," she acceptingly agreed. "See if you can find the horseshoe you lost. I'll gather the rest."

Jake made his way to search for the horseshoe, while the girl he likes collected the rest of them.

After watching their friendly competitive game, the unicorn and the pegasus made their way up to Emma's best friend since their childhood.

"Must've been great to win a game on the sporty one," Emma's voice was heard, having Gia turn the direction where it came from.

"Heh, heh, sure is," she said, picking up the first horseshoe. "He thought he could win."

"Since when did you two play horseshoe toss?" Troy asked Gia, as he and Emma watched her put the first horseshoe where she and the other earth pony were at.

Dropping the horseshoe, Gia gave her answer to his question. "We started today, actually. Applejack, Luka, and Lacy are out in the orchard until Jake came over and said he and I should do a nice friendly game. You probably heard him say that he thought I wasn't going to win." Trotting, she picked up the next horseshoe, came back, setting it down. "I know what he's going with but I'm not falling for it."

"It's because you're stubborn," Jake came into the conversation, the horseshoe he found between his teeth.

"I'm not stubborn. I'm just good at buckball and now horseshoe toss." Gia went to grab the last horseshoe.

"Since you're good at those games, you should've thought about joining the soccer team I was on back home."

"Nah." She set the final horseshoe with the others. "Besides, the team already had enough players."

"You got me there," her secret lover agreed with her. He looked over to his other friends. "You can play with us. There's plenty of horseshoes in the barn."

"Why not. I would like to play," the Yellow Ranger's best companion replied happily.

"I won't mind…" Troy smiled in a laid back manner.

"Great, I'll go get the two of you two horseshoes - two for you, Troy, and two for Emma," Gia smiled delightfully. "Wait here."

While she went into the barn to fetch the horseshoes, Troy caught the jock studying him. "What?"

"Hm, it got me thinking…since you two share the Sky Element, this world would have you be a pegasus instead of a unicorn," Jake said, responding to him.

"Don't ask why this world has me be a unicorn," Troy shrugged unknowingly about what to say about the topic. "I've seen unicorns using their horns to pick up stuff…"

"Does it…bother you?" Emma questioned with a bit of concern.

"No," he shook his head. "It doesn't bother me one bit. Like, there's no shame in not knowing magic."

"But Emma and Orion flew like they were born to be pegasus ponies." Placing a hoof on his chin, the sports stallion thought about something. "When I think about it…maybe it's because Orion flew one of the Armada ships that he shot at his home planet…"

"You could be right," Emma nodded at his theory.

"Yes, though I'd wish I could walk on clouds; I bet they're soft like a pillow."

"Twilight did say she knows a spell to get non-pegasus to prance on clouds," Troy recalled, remembering what Pinkie Pie had told him and his friends at the tour of Twilight's school she had.

Too bad it isn't around anymore thanks to the attack.

And when the Ranger team leader thinks about it, it may or may not be rebuilt. After all, he and none of his friends are builders. And he isn't sure if their counterparts can build the same being with the Element Holders' equals.

He'd seen the school after the assault, seeing pieces all over the place, broken stones, everything.

He felt awful for the princess, knowing how hard she worked on getting a school of her own.

Though he was glad that she told Celestia, the Rangers' new mentor, that she didn't want to take her and Luna's place.

Celestia is everyone's mentor, not for the Rangers only.

The ponies here need to know about the Gokaigers ever since they saw them at the Grand Galloping Gala.

He made a note to himself to write about it to the princess.

"I'm back; here you go, guys," Gia announced, returning back with four horseshoes - two red and two pink. "Who wants to go first?"

"Remember, this is best out of ten," Jake reminded his crush, and told the other two.

"I'm going to laugh if you lose again," she replied, watching his face change expressions.

"You're in the wrong. Troy." He stomped a hoof, letting one of the red horseshoes fly up and land on his leader's muzzle. "You have the first throw."

With the horseshoe on his muzzle, the Red Ranger tossed it off his nose, catching it with his teeth. Looking at the stake, he gave the object a throw, close to it though it wasn't a ringer.

Emma went next, and her horseshoe landed next to Troy's.

"Master horseshoe thrower is up next."

"You mean master of throwing horseshoes out of range," Gia rolled her eyes at Jake's words, with both Emma and Troy stifling a laugh.

"You think you're funny, don't ya?" He returned the same gesture, picking up his horseshoe. "It was one horseshoe; like it'll happen twice." Well, after he said it, he ended up throwing it too far - again.

"Ow!" they heard a cry. A pony came over, rubbing her forehead. "Who threw this horseshoe at me?" she questioned, walking up to them a basket full of apples on her back.

Jake was first to release a weak laugh. "I did, Luka."

"Can you at least aim it at the peg? You can seriously hurt someone - like me."

"I did aim for it," he almost shouted.

"Really? Because it seems like your aim is way off," Troy kidded, earning a hard shoulder from the earth pony guy.

"At least it didn't get too far this time."

"Whatever," Luka responded to the pony in the hoodie, like she doesn't believe him. "I better get these apples in A.J.'s apple cellar; I don't want her to think I'm dawdling." She walked past her friends, onward to the apple cellar where the apples and other crops get stored away.

Then Applejack and her counterpart came, both carrying the same thing that Gia's counterpart had, with one of them with a horseshoe between her teeth.

"You should be careful with these things. You could hurt somepony," Lacy offered a friendly warning.

"Too late." Jake took back his horseshoe. "It hit Luka." The cowgirl and the Power of Super Strength's eyes widen. "It wasn't on purpose, I swear," he quickly had to put in.

"Aw, it's okay," the farmer assured him. "Accidents in games do happen from time to time. Trust me, I have my fair share of accidents."

Placing his own horseshoe down, he put a simple shrug to what she mentioned. "...I'm a good thrower," he supposed, brushing his hoof on the floor.

"By throwing things far." Jake gave Gia a joking glare when she put in her remark. "Having said that, you might be good at pitching balls for baseball. You may end up striking people out of bat," she complimented gratefully, taking her own horseshoe. "As long as you don't throw it out of the field," she sniggered before giving a toss. The horseshoe ended up where the stake is at. "Yes!"

"I think I'm done playing this game," Jake decided, eyes at the ground. "Let's do something else."

"You can help us at the apple orchard, sugarcube; we got a lot of apple trees that need bucking." Applejack showed her example of the crunchy fruit.

"No, it's work," he shook his head. "I was too busy with Pinkie, Sugar Cupcake, Don, and the Cakes that I needed to make up time to spend with someone."

"We all know who that is," Emma smirked, elbowing her best friend, teasingly. A blush formed on Gia when she bit her bottom lip.

The blush vanished. "Yeah… anyway, we should put these away."

"Since you're going back to work, I'll be heading back to Sugarcube Corner to play with the twins."

"We'll be making apple pie, Jake."

"Pie?" Stopping, he turned to the cowgirl. "There's going to be pie?"

She lightly laughed. "Absolutely."

"Awesome!" He pumped his curled hoof.

"Though you have to help out," she added, causing Gia to laugh out loud.

"Aww!" This time it was a groan. "Ah well," he said otherwise, "I'll help you girls with the apple trees. Yet, not in my life have I ever kicked a tree filled with apples."

"It's easy as long as you do it right," Gia told him.

"Right?" He arched his brow.

"I mean you don't wanna end up with a sprain hoof," she explained, no laughing matter written on her eyes that couldn't be ignored when Jake looked into them. Her volume is also solemn, clear it wasn't a joke. "So far I haven't sprained any back hooves, and I'm not letting you have one either," she said.

Her seriousness got him a bit nervous. "I'll take your warning," he accepted.

"Good." Her serious expression is replaced by a small grin, trotting in front of him as his whole self around. "I'll show you what A.J. had shown me. I'm pretty good at bucking apple trees. Heh, heh, heh." She flicked her tail in his face before trotting off to the orchard.

Jake trotted after her with a love-struck look. Troy and Emma decided to leave and waved their hooves as they left the farm, heading back to town.

Reaching back to town, Emma took notice on how the other girls were looking at the head Ranger, so she questioned it. "All these mares are looking at you… Why?"

"It's been like ever since we first came to Ponyville," he explained, seeing a mare known as Diamond Mint - sometimes called Mint Jewelup by some - who happened to see him and ended up getting in front of him.

"Hi, I think you're totally a handsome stallion in all of Ponyville." She saw Emma, smiling bigger. "I see you have a girlfriend."

This made both secret Rangers turn a bright red. "We aren't dating…" Troy made it clear awkwardly.

"Yeah…" Some of Emma's mane got in her face. Brushing it aside, she did add something. "Though he did ask me to be his special somepony on Hearts and Hooves Day…"

"Cute!" the unicorn commented with gleeful eyes. She put an arm around Emma, whispering in her ear. "You two will make a good couple in my book. It's like how I wish the Super Megaforce Red and Pink Rangers would get together, the same with the Green and Yellow Rangers."

"Is that so…?" Emma turned to Troy.

"Mhm. Though when I saw a double of each Ranger at the Gala, I was shocked that they have powers to make equals," she assumed out of line. The two ponies she is talking to look at one another. "Was there something I said?" she asked worriedly.

"No, no, you didn't say anything bad, it's that…" Emma searched for the right explanation about her and her teammates' counterparts. Boy, since none of these ponies and creatures know about the Gokaigers, it's bound to be questioned. "Well…"

Seeing she's having trouble, Troy spoke up. "I'll have the Red Super Megaforce Ranger talk to Celestia about it."

Diamond Mint choked in a breath by surprise. "You're friends with the Power Rangers Super Megaforce?!"

All ponies stopped their daily activities when she screamed - and raced over to where the three ponies were at, excitedly yelling questions to the two ponies that the unicorn was chatting with.

"Since when did you become friends with the Rangers?"

"Are they friends with the Power Ponies?"

"What do they look like without their spandex and full-headed helmets?"

"How beautiful are the Pink and Yellow Rangers?"

"Where did they come from?"

"Are they truly spirits?"

"Are any of them dating?"

"During the attack that one year, there were Rangers that were with the Super Megaforce Rangers, along with the duplicate Super Megaforce Rangers, including one that looked like a robot, does that mean there are other Rangers besides the ones we know?"

"Yeah, were you there when the huge assault happened?"

"Have you had a meal with them?"

"Who were those double Super Megaforce Rangers from the Grand Galloping Gala?"

"Do they have kids?"

"Will they do meet and greets?"

"Can they do autographs?"

"Can they come to my child's birthday?"

"Will they attend the children's cute-ceanera?"

"Why do they call out 'Legendary Ranger Mode' when using those things? Like my husband said earlier, are there any Rangers besides the Super Megaforce ones?"

"Tell me, will they return?"

"How long were the Super Megaforce Rangers around? Before Celestia and Luna's time?"

"This isn't a question about the Rangers, but I keep seeing Princess Twilight walking around town every so often, does it mean that the royal sisters canceled their retirement? Does that mean the Summer Sun Celebration is returning?"

"If that's coming back, can the Rangers be there?"

The questions keep coming on, getting mixed from one another to the point where they sounded like a bunch of buzzing bees. The hidden Rangers, unknown by this crowd, took a step back.

They hadn't known how popular they and their friends were. It shouldn't be a surprise, at all, seeing a lot of action figures, plushies, bedsheets, blankets, anything with them on it.

Honest, Troy had been in stores whenever the Princess of Friendship had him pick up some things.

Eyeing at one another, the secret Pink Ranger got off the ground. "Ponies, ponies," she attempted to get them to settle down. "We understand that you want these questions to be answered…"

"...And they will be once I talk to the Red Ranger to have a word with Princess Celestia," Troy promised, adding to what his team member is saying.

"Do you Pinkie Pie promise?" a pegasus filly, much younger than the ones at the Ponyville Schoolhouse, said, hugging what appeared to be a Yellow Ranger plush toy.

"Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye," the two ponies recited at the same time.

Emma cleared her throat . "The two of us should be going; we got others we want to see."

"Yes," her leader agreed. "Gotta trot - or fly." The two either trotted or flew, the crowd moving out of their way to let them through, and the ponies went back to what they were doing.

The two Rangers made their way to Sugarcube Corner, the smell of cupcakes, cookies, pies, and cakes, invaded the ponies' noses.

They went inside, to see Pinkie Pie at the front of the counter with desserts displayed behind the clear glass. She saw them and greeted them brightly.

"Welcome to Sugarcube Corner, what would you like to order?"

"We're not here to order," Emma replied to her.

"We're just dropping by to see you guys. We already know Jake is at the farm," Troy told the party animal.

"You sure you don't want to sample any brownies?" The double doors that lead to the kitchen opened up, with Pinkie's counterpart bringing in a tray of brownies, setting them on the countertop. "Her, Don, and I have been baking brownies this morning." Then Don came with a tray of his own on his hoof. "Thanks, you two," she said to both of them.

"No problem," Don smiled while setting his tray next to the other one.

"I'm sure tons of ponies will come here," Sugar added, looking at the front door like it'll bust open any minute.

"I did tell everyone about them."

Gokai Green turned to the pink pony. "Maybe we should set up a sign."

Pinkie thought about it, then happily beamed. "Great idea, Donster. I'll be back in before the next set of brownies are done baking in the oven!" The Gokaiger ducked out of her way as she sped off upstairs to her bedroom.

"It's Don, not Donster!" he yelled from the staircase. "Why does she have to call me that?" he asked no one in particular.

"Call you what?" Troy couldn't help over hear what the guy had mentioned.

"Pinkie keeps calling me 'Donster'," he said, like he wanted to complain about it. "You know, I went from Doc to Don, no thanks to Gai."

"Wait, your name wasn't Don?" Emma responded confused.

He shook his head. "No, it wasn't. I'm known as Doctor. My friends had always called me Doc until we had our sixth member who is a fanboy of all the past Super Sentais." He laughed a bit. "Whenever we see a Super Sentai that came before my team, Gai will always want an autograph."

"It's like meeting a celebrity," Troy compared, picturing how the pony he got run into got all hyped up when seeing a Super Sentai.

"It's kind of annoying…" Gokai Green muttered. "No offense, but he can be annoying. I don't know how he and Orion are counterparts. Orion is chilled, while our silver hero is always jittery. I remember I would get envious of him. No, I felt pathetic."

"What do you mean by that?" Sugar said with raised brows.

"I mean that I'm not like my teammates. Believe it or not, I will hide behind either Joe or Luka. Sometimes behind Ahim. I wanted to avoid fighting. I started off as a weak Gokaiger. I always rely on my Gokai Gun."

"You don't use your Gokai Saber?" Pinkie joined the conversation, coming down the stairs with a piece of paper and a roll of tape.

"I do and I will switch it for another pistol from one of my comrades. Until I met Jane Kandou, having me take my physical training more seriously."

"And it helped you get stronger at fighting the bad guys?" the pegasus guessed.

"And less of a coward. I still hide behind any of my friends from time to time," he added. "Not as bad as it was before." The sound of a timer went off from within the kitchen. "I'll go get the next batch of brownies," he volunteered, leaving to go get them.

Pinkie went to the front door on the outside of the bakery, placing the sign she made on it, knowing the ponies will come here at any moment.

After doing so, she shouted, "Free brownie samples, everyone! Free samples!" She walked back inside. "There," she approved. "That'll be a good reminder for all the ponies. No one can turn down a free sample." Don returned with a third tray of the baked brownies. "How many trays do we-"

"Don't you dare call me Donster," he warned her, his eyes saying he's serious.

"How come? I know Don is short for something," she believed.

He groaned, running a hoof down his face. "My name isn't short for anything, Pinkie."

She got in his personal space. "Some of my friends have nicknames."

"I don't care, but I don't want to have a nickname…other than Don." He realized how confusing this talk is getting at, leading him to change what he mentioned. "Never mind, Don is better than Donster. It better not be a new name for me," he hoped for the better.

"Since you're the doctor in your crew, what do you do?" Sugar asked curiously.

"I cook, making sure everyone eats a healthy meal…unlike some folks." Everyone looked towards the party planner who had a cupcake, eating it. "Sweets are fine, however, from what I see in my point of view, she's been eating too many sweets."

"Hey!" Pinkie heard him, feeling displeased. "Sweets are my thing. I'll let you know that I eat my fruits and vegetables!"

"I'm taken aback on how your teeth don't hurt," Don said, narrowing his eyes.

"It's because I brush my teeth everyday," she answered, stuffing her cupcake into her mouth.

Of course, this Gokaiger rolled his eyes. Not because the pink pony brushes her teeth everyday, it's from her eating too much junk food.

A few seconds later, the Cakes came over, each one holding one of the twins, and Mrs. Cake was first to see the Red and Pink Rangers, setting Pound Cake on the floor where the baby toys were. "Hi, dearies, here to-"

"They're not here for anything," Don interrupted the mom. "They came to stop by."

"I see. No problem with what these love birds are doing," the twins' mother said, getting the unicorn and the pegasus to glow on their faces.

Are all these ponies going to think these two secret Rangers are boyfriend and girlfriend? Like it isn't horrible, it's just that they cannot assume that these two are a thing. Actually, it's more of a mistake than an assumption. Emma's redness eased away when she explained to the bakers.

"Troy and I…we're not a thing…"

"Yes…" Troy went next delicately. "We're not a couple. We're friends."

"Oh." It was the wife's turn to blush. "I'm really embarrassed now."

"No need to feel that way, honey bun," Mr. Cake cheered up, setting Pumpkin Cake next to her brother.

"I know, it's that these two look great for one another." One of the twins went up to their mother with a rattle, shaking it. "It's like when ponies saw us before we became an official thing."

"Heh, yep," her husband recalled the memory that none of the others, besides the Cakes, remembered. The twins don't count.

"Mind telling us how you two met?" Emma requested politely.

"It was a while ago," Mrs. Cake started, watching Pumpkin, the one who has the rattle, go up to Don. "I was at Idahoof at a baking contest for Great Baker of Equestria. I baked one of my finest cakes and I happen to know to be standing next to him," she gestured to her beau. "We both wanted to win, when it turned out we got tied for second place. After the contest, he asked me out. I don't know about you, but I'm not the kind of person to be asked out by a guy on day one. I basically told him it was too early to date since we've only just met. I told him where I lived, and he'd come over almost every day until he asked me out again, having him and I go out on our first date at the movie theater where we got to see Honey I Shrunk The Foals. A classic movie, I should add in. Then a couple of years later, he asked me to marry him."

"We still have our wedding rings." Pulling out a drawer, Mr. Cake pulled out two chains with, of course, wedding rings. "And here's Cupcake's engagement ring." He then pulled out a third ring attached to a nice chain.

"They're beautiful!" Troy's team member gushed with stars in her eyes. "It's safe to say that your type and pegasi have to wear them like necklaces."

"Since unicorns can wear them on their horns," the secret Gokaiger had to add, holding the couple's daughter. "Yowch!" The rattle came down on his forehead, and he quickly put her back on the floor, rubbing the area where he got whacked.

"Unicorns are lucky, although not every single one will want to wear them on their horns." Putting the rings away, the husband shut the drawer. "There are ones who prefer how my kind and pegasi wear rings."

"Then how come you're not wearing them anymore?" Troy questioned. "My friends and I came from somewhere else," he explained to the married ponies.

"Ponies only wear them during their engagement and on their wedding day," Mrs. Cake said. "I never saw any married couple wearing one after their wedding."

"Well, if I get married, my ring won't be coming off," the pegasus spoke up.

"Your choice." The mom and the dad went back to the kitchen. "Keep an eye on the twins," the husband told the others.

"We will," Pinkie guaranteed. "Want to help watch the twins?" she directed towards the Red and Pink Rangers when her bosses were back in the kitchen.

"We would love to, but it seems like we need to get going," Emma replied, looking towards her leader to see if she's right.

"We should." The two of them went to the door. "See ya, guys."

"Later."

"Bye."

"We'll save you some brownies in case there will be any left."

"Goo!"

Their friends, including the twins, said their farewells when the heroes went out the door - just in time since a bunch of ponies came barreling inside, the two side-jumping out of the way.

"Want to check out the Gem Cave?"

"Sure," Troy answered causally, the two going back to their stroll.

"Great! I'll show you the way," Emma led, trotting onwards, with the horned pony behind her tail.

Passing through the village, they reached an ordinary cave. The Pink Ranger grabbed one of the hard hats that were leaning against the outside of the cave, then hoofed one over to the Red Ranger.

"Thanks." He took the hard hat, placing it on him. It covered up his entire head, including his horn unlike his Ranger helmet.

"No problem."

Entering the cave, the red hero marveled at the gems on the cave walls. There are big ones, medium ones, small ones, each a different color.

The gems seem to sparkle.

"Rarity said Mythic is here," he remembered, admiring the gems.

"Yep. We may run into her." When the pink hero said that, she literally ran into something - or someone. "Looks like we found her," she chuckled lightly. "You sure have a lot of gems there," she commented on all the jewels at Rarity's equal in observation. She picked up a flashy pink one.

"Be careful, they break," Mythic Diamond warned, putting more of the fancy gems in the cart that she's hitched to. "And thank you," she added, pulling the cart, the ponies following her.

"I can see why Rare needed the gems."

"Yes, it helps bring her hoof-made clothes to stand out," the Power of Beauty replied to the unicorn's comment. Lighting up her horn that's hidden due to her hard hat, she picked up a gem, then put a loupe over one of her eyes to take a look at the small details more closely. "She had looked for gems at the Rambling Rock Ridge."

"Rambling Rock Ridge?" A questioning expression formed on the red hero.

"It's a place where she used to hunt for gems," the flying one said, picking up a gem, placing it in the cart to give the unicorn mare a helping hoof. "She told me the one day she and Spike were scouting for gems when she said these diamond dogs ponynapped her."

"How did she manage to get free?" her lead Ranger replied.

"Eh, she said she kept on talking, whining, having them serve her, and then she cried when one of the diamond dogs called her a mule. "

Troy felt bad. "Those jerks."

"No, no, it's fine. She wasn't actually upset."

"Then…why was she sobbing…?"

"She's been fake crying," she simplified.

He blinked before understanding what she meant. "Ahh… I got it. Seems like she's a good actor."

"Haha, I thought the same thing."

It was then the three of them heard humming, a light shining, having the three ponies to see who's coming.

It was none other than Spike, holding a straw basket. "Let's see…" The tween dragon inspected the gems from on the walls left to right. "I need the perfect gems for my gem chip cookies," he talked to himself, unaware of the others.

"Gem chip cookies?" The dragon let out a startled cry when he heard someone, this time seeing he wasn't by himself. "Ah, dude, we didn't mean to scare you," the unicorn stallion apologized. "We saw light and it turned out it was you." He put a hoof on his chin. "It amazes me on how your type can eat gems."

Emma exchanged a look at Mythic, then asked what Troy meant. "Dragons…eat gems?"

"They do," he answered simply.

"How? The gems will break their teeth off," she exclaimed.

"Dragons' teeth aren't like ponies' teeth and other creatures' teeth," Spike said before Troy can explain.

"Wouldn't those jewels hurt your stomach?" Emma questioned, a little troublesome.

"Nah, us dragons' stomachs can handle gems like how your stomachs can handle hay, grass, and oats, for example."

After Spike listed out what he said, Troy's stomach rumbled, making him blush. "Eh heh," he released an embarrassed chuckle. "I think that Emma and I should go…"

"We should get something to eat at the Hay Burger," she agreed, until her stomach made the noise, seemingly to take a turn as her cheeks got all rosy. "Ha…ha…" A slow laugh got out of her mouth. "Let's move on, Troy."

"I cannot believe our diet has changed," he said, knowing equines don't eat meat. Not even the equines in the real world eat meat. Though he'd never seen a pony in this world graze on grass unless it's a sandwich.

It seems most of the things ponies eat is hay and grass. This includes different flower sandwiches, flowers on their own, different fruits, especially apples, vegetables, especially carrots, wheat, oats, and sweets.

He'd seen ponies eat chips and drink soda. Eat carrot dogs, enjoy hay burgers, hay horseshoe fries, literally with anything with hay. Drink coffee and tea, different juices.

He ended up getting a huge surprise when he found out these ponies in this world will have any dairy product and eggs. No equine in the real world can have that stuff.

He had to guess these ponies are almost like the ponies in the human world.

He still couldn't believe him and his friends' diet went from eating what they'd normally eat back home until they came here. If they try to order a hamburger, they know they'll get confused looks.

Heading out of the Gem Cave, the two of them made their way to the Hay Burger.

As they were making their way, they spotted Rainbow Dash and her counterpart, Lightning Twister, clearing clouds away. Both the Red and Pink Ranger gave a wave.

Rainbow is first to notice. "What's up?" She laughed. "Get it?"

"Haha, what a laugh!" Twister slapped Dash's back. The two flew down, inches off the ground. "Are you two heading somewhere?" the Power of Forces of Nature smirked nicely.

"We're heading to the Hay Burger," Emma told Dash and Twister.

"Or else we'll starve," Troy added humorously, before his stomach rumbled, causing him to get a bit irritated. "Looks like almost all the clouds are gone," he stated, looking at the sky.

"Yeppers. Thanks to her and the boys," Dash replied, placing a hoof on her equal, the boys meaning Orion and Gai, "we get it done in less than ten seconds flat."

"Speaking of Orion, is he back at your place?" the red savior asked.

The proud grin got restored to a frown, getting all four hooves on the ground, along with a hint of anger. "He went to Shireville to visit Lightning Dust," she answered, feeling irked. "It disgusts me to where I wanna puke. That mare and him shouldn't be together. No way in the buck will he and her get married. No way will they have kids. Dust is a horrible mare who shouldn't have a boyfriend!" She reared up, slamming both front hooves back down.

"You should be happy for them…"

"No!" she yelled out, not wanting to hear what the pink savior had to say. "It's completely unnecessary. There are other mares Silvy can be with but instead he wants to be with someone who likes to put others in danger!" The Pink Ranger opened her mouth. but never got the chance when Rainbow Dash interrupted. "Don't say Dust has changed and I will take her apology someday."

"She apologized?" the Pink Ranger managed to respond to the ticked off pegasus's rant.

"Not yet, except when she does, I won't take it." Flapping her wings, Rainbow got off the ground. "Some folks don't deserve a second chance."

"Does she come over to your place?"

Like she was controlling a bomb inside of her, she gritted her teeth before responding to the head Ranger. "Yes, she does…" Air came out of her nostrils. "I cannot say anything bad to her because Orion wouldn't allow it. Whenever I want to say something to her or tell her to get lost or die, he'll come to her defense. It sickens me like a moldy celery. She once brought pineapple pie when he invited her over for dinner one evening…"

"Aww, how generous of her." After saying that, Emma caught the fury in the multicolored mane pony's eyes. "Uh…"

"I HATE pie!" Dash exclaimed. "Pie is gross. When she presented it to us, I was furious! I took the pie, shoving it in her face, then took the pie tin, smashing it into a flat pancake."

"Gai and I were there," her counterpart added.

"And you two got mad at me," Dash directed towards her angrily. "Like how Orion felt."

"You were being mean," Twister said, making a clear point.

"She deserved it…" the Wonderbolt ignored.

"Dash, she didn't know."

"I don't care! I want her to…!"

Troy and Emma decided it was a good time to get going, not wanting to stick around when those two are squabbling, their voices distancing away as they walked further and further until they heard a loud sound, before seeing a rainbow trail crease through the sky from Dash, with Twister going after her, leaving the left over clouds behind.

Boy, she must be ticked, the unicorn thought to himself. He hoped Dash wouldn't be arguing with Orion about his girlfriend. Though, he highly doubts she doesn't.

None of his friends or their counterparts hadn't met Lightning Dust, with the exception of Gai, Lightning Twister, and Orion, since those three live with Dash.

He wondered if he and his friends would have their own homes to live in.

As they neared the restaurant, they saw Noah's counterpart and Fluttershy's counterpart, heading their way, with Gokai Blue talking to his girlfriend.

Troy trotted with Emma doing the same. "Yo, Joe, Hazel, nice to see you two," Troy greeted, the four ponies stopping in front of each other, stopping at the Hay Burger Restaurant. "We're here to eat something," he told Joe and the Power of Fury, gesturing his head at the building.

"Are two going to eat here, too?" Emma asked grinning.

"No, we're heading over to the Cafe Hay," Joe answered.

"Not to be confused with the Ponyville Cafe," Hazel added smiling.

"Okay. Well, she and I are going to have a chow at this place," the red hero said. "Enjoy yourselves at the Cafe Hay," he wished them.

"You too," Gokai Blue returned, as he and his special somepony walked on.

"I can't believe him and Noah are counterparts when they're completely different from one another," Emma stated, as Troy opened the door.

"The only difference is that Noah is smart," he acknowledged, letting her go in first before letting himself in. "My counterpart, your counterpart, and Gia's counterpart aren't different. Don, Joe, and Gai are nothing like Jake, Orion, and Noah are," he compared, the two of them going up to the line of ponies, the smell of hay burgers, horseshoe fries, and regular hay fries lingering in the air.

"I have no idea why it doesn't surprise me," she shrugged. "The Power Ponies have the same personalities like Twilight and her friends - with the exception of Starlight since there's no Power Pony that resembles her."

"True." The line moved and they moved, too. "Although…it makes me wonder…"

"About what?"

The leader of the Rangers shook his head. "I had been wondering why Noah fell in love with Fluttershy. Not that it's a bad thing, but why her?"

"Troy… Jake likes Gia. They do say opposites attract."

"I know." He looked down at the floor.

"Troy?" Emma's call got his attention. "Is everything okay?"

"Y-Yeah, I was thinking about our old home," he answered quickly.

"I miss it, too," she understood compassionately, keeping her tone down. "We have no choice. You know what will happen if we try to leave."

"I hadn't forgotten… I did ask Twilight about our keys and she promised to write about it to our new mentor," he responded, recalling the day where all the ponies, including the secret heroes, celebrating about the Armada and the villains Twilight and the rest of the Elements of Harmony, and Starlight had been dealing with.

"Has she written to her?"

"Not sure; she's been busy lately."

"With what? She isn't ruling Equestria."

"Doesn't mean she isn't busy."

"Good point there."

The line soon disappeared, the ponies walking to the tables with their trays of food they ordered.

"Hi, welcome to Hay Burger, home of the Hay Burger, how may I take your order?" The cashier, an earth pony mare, did her slogan, seeing the unicorn and the pegasus coming up to the counter, the unicorn getting her awareness. Boy, he sure is fetching. "What would two love birds wanna have?"

Emma wanted to roll her eyes, though thought better than that, knowing it's an assumption mistake. "We aren't dating."

"I'm sorry, it's that…" Too flustered, the mare on the other side of the ordering counter cleared her throat. "How may I take your order?" she repeated kindly.

"I would like to have a hay burger with lettuce and tomato with ketchup. No mayo, pickles, mustard, and onions. With that, I would also like to have hay fries and a caramel smoothie," Troy ordered pleasantly, after looking at the menu that's on the wall above them.

"And I'll have a hay burger with cheese, mustard, pickles, and lettuce, no tomatoes, ketchup, mayo, and onions. And I'll take the horseshoe fries, along with an orange smoothie," Emma happily went next.

"That'll be twenty bits in total," the cashier confirmed.

Troy dug in his pockets on his black leather jacket, putting twenty gold coins on the countertop. "Keep the change."

"Thanks." Opening up the register, she put the coins in there, the coins creating a clink sound when they dropped onto the other ones.

The pony employees came over with the trays with the food and smoothies, placing them down.

The trays in the two Rangers' right hooves, they made their way to a table to sit at. Since this is a fast food restaurant, customers can sit wherever they want, so Troy and Emma sat at one of tables that are next to the windows.

They placed their food on the table, sitting on the round, wooden seats.

Troy opened up the box his hay burger was in, the smell intruding his nose. He picked it up, taking a bite. He swallowed his first bite, then put some hay fries in his mouth, chewing them away, then took a few sips of his smoothie.

Emma ate her food, too, along with taking a drink of her own smoothie.

"If I were still human, I wouldn't dare myself to eat horse food," she said, picking up one of the horseshoe fries.

"I couldn't agree more." Finishing up his hay burger, he continued eating his hay fries. "It's too bad we cannot eat meat anymore."

Munching on his hay fries, he saw the door swing open.

It was Fluttershy and Noah. Troy waved his hoof and the two love birds saw him and Emma. Noah and his girlfriend walked over to the table.

"I didn't know you'd be here," the Blue Ranger said surprised. "Fluttershy suggested she and I should eat here."

"Have you been here before, Noah?" Emma asked, putting her cup down.

"No, first time here," he answered. "What about you two?"

"I've been here with Twilight a couple of times," his leader said.

"There was a day where Rarity was working on a dress that she didn't have time to cook so I volunteered to get something for us to eat. She requested a hay burger meal as well as the others." The Pink Ranger picked up her half eaten hay burger. "She told me where it was and I got us something to eat. I even got Sweetie Belle a hay burger meal."

"It's surprising how we can eat hay," Noah said amazed. "Normally it wouldn't be good for us. Not anymore, though."

"What did you guys eat when you were on earth?" Fluttershy asked naturally.

"Foods like fruits and vegetables…including meat," her boyfriend answered. "We never ate flowers and other foods you ponies eat."

Fluttershy tilted her head. "What's meat?"

The three Rangers glanced at one another until Noah came up with a reply. "You don't want to know." He took her hoof, taking her over to the counter so they could order their meal.

With them over there, Troy carried on eating his hay fries, his thoughts on his home. He truthfully does miss it. It's like he moved here - with his friends joining him, like he does a lot since he has a military background and when he and his dad moved to Harwood County, he ended up living with his uncle - until he came here.

He's lucky his spirit is there, including his friends' spirits, at their old home.

He watched the ponies eating their food, spotting a unicorn carrying his tray with his levitation spell.

His eyes went upwards as he looked at his own horn. He'd watched Twilight, Ice Crystal, and Starlight using them back at the castle.

While it doesn't bother him, he wondered if it bothers Noah, Joe, and Marvelous.

When Noah and Fluttershy came back from the counter with their food, Troy stopped the blue heron. "Noah, I need to ask you something."

"Sure thing," he accepted as Fluttershy walked to a table, sitting down and waited for her boyfriend.

"Does it trouble you and Joe that you haven't known how to use your horns? I may have to ask this about Marvelous when I get back to the castle."

Noah thought about it before shaking his head. "No, but I did try to pick up my spoon with it. It didn't work out." He chuckled. "Twilight promised to teach us how to use them."

"I'll ask her if she can teach us today," Troy said, finishing up his hay fries. "Marvelous could use a lesson, as well."

"She isn't going to teach us the advanced magic she does, more likely the basic ones." The Blue Ranger looked to see a unicorn picking up her cup with her magic, taking a long drink. "Like levitation," he made an example. "I'd seen unicorn kids using their horns like they already knew how to use them." It was then Emma chuckled, leaving the blue heron with a puzzled expression. "What?"

"Rarity's sister didn't know how to do magic." She finished her chuckling. "Her sister and her two friends would go to Twilight for Twilight Time she used to do for the three fillies. Sweetie said she couldn't lift up a broom, claiming it weighed a ton."

Noah and Troy looked at one another. "No way a broom can weigh a lot," the Red Ranger disbelieved.

"I may not be a unicorn…" Emma ate more of her hay burger, swallowing. "..though I'd seen unicorns carrying things that weigh a lot."

The boys thought about what she stated. "Hm, it makes sense…" The lead Ranger rested his chin on his hoof, thinking. "Lifting objects by hooves and magic aren't any different than I thought it would be."

"I honestly thought levitation will make things lighter."

Emma shook her head. "Picking things up doesn't mean they'll be light, Noah." She completed her meal, pushing her tray away.

"When all of us help each other out with a heavy object it will be light," Noah said, then remembered something his best friend told him back on earth. "You don't need strength to be good at something; it's all about believing in yourself," he recalled the day when he thought he was a slowdown for the team. "I better eat before this gets cold. Let Joe and I know when the princess could teach us spells."

"I won't forget," the second unicorn stallion guaranteed watching as his team member made his way to the yellow pony who is using her wings to pick up her cup of whatever kind of drink she's got. "I have to say, ponies with wings sure are lucky. Their wings are like extra…hooves."

"Wings are like that," the pony on the other side of the table smiled like it was no biggie. "Too bad the first group of ponies have to use their mouths to carry stuff."

"Except when some of us don't know how to use magic and when our entire head and face are covered up by our helmets," the red savior talked quietly out of ear shot range to make sure the others weren't hearing him. "I'm surprised no one recognized us."

"I'll take a wild guess since some of us have features exposed," Emma spoke softly, gazing at her feathers. "The Power Ponies don't have a lot of covering for their faces; only their bodies. Twister and Hazel have their wings out in the open, with Mythic's horn out of the blue since Ice's horn gets covered up."

"We can ask Rarity about it." Emptying his cup, he got up, picking up his tray heading to a trash bin with a swinging lid with the pink heron behind him. He threw his trash away, placing his tray on the other ones, with the pegasus repeating the process. "We don't want ponies getting, you know, suspicious."

"I wouldn't say suspicious, Troy. More like wondering," the pegasus corrected her friend's reply, keeping her voice down to keep anyone out of ear shot whether they were eating or walking by them, putting her tray on the others, too.

"That's what I said." The two walked out of the restaurant, a butterfly landing in Emma's mane, making it look like a beret, resting itself there. "I have to say...it's nice having a team member who cares about the environment," the red hero complimented, seeing the butterfly move to another spot on the pink hero, going on to her nose. "You promised to make sure nothing gets hurt by those villains who were here."

"We all promised," she reminded him, recalling since day one when the Super Megaforce team made their guarantees to keep this world out of harm's way, gazing at the butterfly as it got off of her, flapping away, when she witnessed pink ovals on her lead Ranger's cheeks. "I have a feeling you wanna say something else."

"No, I have nothing else to say," he responded too quickly, the pinkness fading away.

"You were blushing," she said obviously. "It's clear that you have more to tell."

"I wasn't blushing," he denied defensively, mixed with a sheepish smile. "I have nothing more to tell, either," he also put in.

"Uh huh..." Emma nodded, an eyebrow lifted, observing the odd behavior invading off of the unicorn.

The Red Ranger felt his face heat up again while the two stared at one another, having the nature lover waiting for him to say something, knowing he had something in his mind. Rapidly shaking his head, he changed the subject. "I'll take you back to the Boutique," Troy said a little too quickly.

She giggled with her hoof over her lips. "How thoughtful of you."

"I got to be a gentleman- I mean, gentlecolt."

The two made their way back to the Boutique, Troy opening up the door for her. Thanking him, Emma went inside, brushing her right wing on his muzzle, tickling his nose she extended.

Unsure if she was being flirtatious or not, he grinned, telling her to have a good day, releasing the door, with his team member wishing the same thing to him, shutting it.

He stood there for a few minutes, thinking about hanging out with her in the shop and Rarity's home, though he thought it may be better to leave since she will probably be back to helping the designer. So, he decided to go back to the Castle of Friendship.

Of course, with Troy going by, mares in all directions giggled at his appearance, unable to get their eyes off him. In all fairness, no girl back in the human world will be admiring him since he's the type who keeps to himself. None even asked to be his soulmate. He doesn't mind, although he does wish sometimes for these pony girls to stop staring at him like he's a celebrity or some kind of pony of royalty. Hey, sometimes the Ponyville ponies will bow to the Princess of Friendship. She is part of the royal line, yet, she doesn't want ponies to keep kneeling to her all the time since it gets her a bit annoyed. Like, they don't need to be formal since she's like everypony else. Troy hadn't seen ponies bowing to him and his friends when they saved them from the dangers from those henchponies, changelings, and the villains.

Speaking of the gesture, he couldn't believe his eyes when the Sun Princess bowed to him after he and his friends when they met up with Noah and Fluttershy at the castle gates when the changelings - the new evil changelings - were about to attack them after Gia made them halt using her Blaster. He was surprised at what the white alicorn did. He didn't take it the wrong way, for he wasn't used to seeing someone do that to him or his teammates all due to not coming from this world.

A few hooves away from the castle, the rubble and pieces of the School of Friendship are still there, the waterfalls falling loosely into the river. He was sorry for Twilight when it got trashed, knowing her dreams of having a school to teach about friendship tore apart like a new art picture. There have been times where Twilight will go there, shifting through all the remains of her demolished education building, knowing deep in her heart it may not be the same if it does get rebuilt.

The Ranger bet she taught lots of ponies, including creatures, about the magic of friendship. He, too, had gone there a couple of times at night, wondering how he can fix it. He had helped fixed the Legendary Megazord from some monster who was stealing happiness with his staff while Orion and Emma tried to take the staff away from the villain, leading the expert martial artist to laugh when the Silver Ranger showed him and his friends pictures of her with Emma finding out when she got to them when she brought basket of food, as well as kite for Orion when he saw one.

He had no clue on how to rebuild this. And even if his friends help out, it might not be the way it looked before.

Thinking about school made him remember how he had to go to a new school in Harwood County, a new student in Harwood High School, being late for his first class where his future friends were before they actually became friends and heroes of earth.

Then there was Robo Knight. No matter where this stallion is at, he couldn't locate the robot who was asleep for a really long time. He looked for him everywhere when his friend dragged himself away on the beach after they defeating the Messenger, leading Vrak to let Metal Alice to blow up like a bomb before getting away after taking the advice from the white evil robot to make himself scarce of the Armada soldiers as none of them will recognize him in his cyborg form.

Troy is constantly worried about Robo Knight, unable to stop. He wanted him back, he truly did. However, being in a world full of pretty colorful ponies, he knows deep down that there isn't a chance in finding him. He still doesn't believe the robot is here, including Vrak, or rather, Prince Vrak to be here either. None of the Rangers knew until it was revealed by the Messenger.

Orion wasn't there when there were only five Rangers dealing with the Warstar monsters compromised as instectoids, led by Admiral Malkor who got destroyed by Rangers when they first saw him. He was the leader of the Warstar before he got destroyed by their final attack by the Ultra Gosei Great Megazord, along with the Warstar Ship.

He and his team are glad they won't have to deal with those insect monsters and the evil robots after destroying them with their Megaforce powers.

Still, he sure does miss Robo Knight.

Heading onward, he made his way to the ruined school, seeing the same pieces and rubble on the ground. He picked up a piece he believed was one of the walls, then set it back down. This school is unlike the school he went and his friends went to, with the exception of the silver hero who practically lived there since he didn't have a home to live at until they came here when Dash offered him to stay at her place.

Going through the pieces, he found books from the library that was part of the school Twilight took them to when she gave him and his friends a tour. They were tattered, papers crinkled, and crisped. He opened up one of them only for the front cover to completely tear off, despite doing it gently.

Dropping the front cover, he continued to go through the rubble when he saw a hint of something. He dug more, seeing what looks to be a horn before fully getting the pieces of the school to get a better view.

It looked like a helmet. He picked it up, observing it. Unlike the school and everything else along with it, it was in good shape. There weren't any dents or scratches on it.

Wondering if there's anything else that wasn't ruined like this thing, he went back to shifting the pieces, finding what looked to be an amulet to be next.

He gaze at it, seeing how it was in good condition. Placing it next to helmet, he went back to searching, like looking for a needle in a haystack.

A talisman came into view. He looked at the object, rubbing a hoof on it. He set it aside before finding what looked to be a crown. It seemed to shine in the sunlight. He put it down, moving broken pieces, his eyes catching what looked to be a shell.

He'd never seen a shell like this in his life. It wasn't a turtle shell or any kind of shell.

He put it away with the other stuff, his curiosity of finding these objects got the better of him. Continuing on, the leader of the Rangers went on the search, like looking for Easter eggs on an Easter holiday unless the ponies celebrate it like the humans do back on earth, until he found a cloak.

Grasping the fabric material, he held it in front of him, tilting his head to one side, curious to know who wore it.

Like what he did to the rest, he set the item down with the others. He sat down in front of the objects, seemingly unable to get his eyes off of them, especially the crown.

Should he mention that ponies in this world sit like how a dog or cat would sit? Yeah, ponies sit down like that unlike real equines who don't sit like how these ponies do.

It was kind of weird at first, not being able to sit down like a human again. After some time, he, maybe including his friends, got used to sitting down like this.

While checking out the items, he hadn't been paying attention when he heard someone. "Hey, Troy." He moved his eyes to see Twilight's student coming up to him when she stopped. "Nice, you found the Magical Artifacts of Equestria," Starlight grinned pridefully. "Twilight thought they were ruined by the Armada attack."

Raising an eyebrow, he picked up the crown. "These are the artifacts? The ones that Cozy Glow used to try and drain all of the magic of Equestria? The same girl who thinks she can gaslight others by becoming their only friend?" Troy inclined, recalling what he and his friends were told.

"Those are the ones," she certified, levitating one of the artifacts. "Twilight won't believe it; it's going to make her happy like getting a new book she will order from time to time," she said happily. "Here, help me take them to her."

"Starlight?" Standing back up, he pointed at his horn. "I don't know how to levitate stuff."

She blinked. "Right, right. No problem, I can carry them myself." Her horn still glowing, each artifact got an aura surrounding each one of them, along with the crown. "My teacher is going to be happy," she repeated, seemingly to do a skipping trot.

"I'm sure she would," he agreed lightly, following her back to the castle. "I'm surprised they're not destroyed. Guess they're too strong for something like that to happen to these things."

"I've been thinking the same thing," she said.

"I can't believe Cozy tried to drain the magic out Equestria." Opening up the door, the unicorn stallion let her go inside the castle first. "I cannot wrap my mind around that she's a villain." They walked down the hallway to the library. "Like, she's a kid. The same age as the school children."

"Looks can be deceiving. She was Twilight's friendship assistant and top student at the School of Friendship before any of you, your friends, the Power Ponies, and the Gokaigers came here."

"Really?"

"Really. She would help out students who are new to show them where their classes are at, pick up any trash, get the mail, greet everypony and every creature, hand out fliers..." The list went on as Starlight told Troy what the filly has done, with Troy becoming surprised at what he's hearing. "And before we knew it, she was trying to suck up all the magic with these artifacts, including ponynapping me," she finished peeved. "She has no idea how important these things are."

"I see what you mean," he responded to her little rant, looking at the crown. "I cannot believe she did such a thing. Magic is important for all of you. Without it..." He wasn't sure what to say next, when he remembered what Cozy's cutie mark meant when she explained it to them. "She has the talent in dividing ponies against each other to gaslight them. She wanted them to believe she's their friend. She wished she should've divided us apart, wanting us to not want to be friends like we always are. I can't imagine without having any friends."

"Neither can I," she replied when they reached the doors to the library. "There's no need to worry about it, anyway."

"I know, yet I want to know where the little...brat went off to," he wondered, feeling a teeny, tiny bit bad for calling some kid who is adorable a horrible name. "We demolished her Megazord and she flew off to who knows where. I doubt she has a family."

"I don't think her family wants her."

"That's...a bit harsh."

"You are the one who called her a brat."

"Yeah, well... Never mind, let's give these to Twilight."

Going into the library, they saw the Princess of Friendship laying on the couch, an open book in front of her. Ice Crystal was there, too, reading. Spike and Cobalt are doing the same thing.

Closing her book, Twilight went to put the book away when she saw the two unicorns. "We're reading. You're welcome to join us. Marvelous is with Ahim when she came over to get him." Her eyes then widened. "The artifacts," she almost exclaimed, in which it didn't take long to notice them. Lighting up her horn, her aura replaced her student's, levitating them to her. "There's no dents, no marks, all in great shape," she examined with excitement. "The Amulet of Aurora, the Talisman of Mirage, the Helm of Yksler, the Crown of Grover, the Knuckerblocker's Shell, and Clover the Clever's Cloak. Ohhh, this is wonderful." She carefully put them down on the coffee table. "I was sure they got ruined along with the school."

"You can thank Troy for finding them," Starlight pointed to him.

"It was no biggie," the Red Ranger shrugged.

"No biggie?" The alicorn went up and put a hoof on his shoulder. "Troy, you found the important artifacts of all of Equestria."

"How can that junk be important to Equestria?"

"Cobalt!" Ice scolded.

"What?" he questioned.

"You heard what Twilight said," she continued on with her scolding, "they're important. We may have come from a comic book; it doesn't mean we shouldn't be disrespectful."

"I wasn't being disrespectful," he explained. "I don't understand why they're important." Abandoning his book, he picked up the cloak. "This cloak looks like a normal cloak whoever Clover the Clever was."

"Clover the Clever was a unicorn who lived long ago and one of the six founders of Equestria," the princess told him, gently taking it in front him. "He was Princess Platinum's royal advisor and an apprentice to Star Swirl the Bearded. Clover also knew a lot of magic that he studied. Many are used today like what I'm using."

"Who's Star Swirl the Bearded?" Cobalt questioned.

"He's a unicorn who made the Elements of Harmony before they got passed down to Gosei, even though they were by Tensou," Troy explained to the little colt. "None of us met him," he turned and said to Twilight. "He was one of the Pillars, am I correct?"

"Yes."

Troy thought about something. "My friends and I never met the rest of Pillars. Well, I met Somnambula when you and I went to the village named after her."

"My team and I never met any of the Pillars," the lead Power Pony said, flipping a page.

"Neither did the Gokaigers," Twilight put in, tapping her chin. "Hm. Since none of you met the Pillars, aside from Troy who met one of them, I can write a letter to the princess about it."

"Good, because we would like to meet them, even though I'd already met one of them," the red hero appreciated. "Oh, yeah, don't forget about the keys," he reminded her.

"I can put that down on my letter until Spike comes back with the gems for his gem chip cookies."

Troy nodded when he saw Ice looking at him, questioning her. "Mind telling me why you're looking at me the way you are?"

"It's that...you're an attractive unicorn," is all she can come up with. "Like, really attractive. I wouldn't be surprised if any mares are staring at you."

"They have," he sighed. "It isn't a bad thing, but my mind is set on Emma."

"I can totally see you two together," Twilight smirked playfully. "I still remember you and Emma on the dance floor at the Gala from last year."

"She had been my special somepony last year for Hearts and Hooves Day," he grinned, blushing a little bit.

"You seem to have a crush on her," Starlight pointed out, adding more blush to the guy.

All he can do is shrug. "You aren't wrong... She is amazing. Positive, too." He went over to the books, tipping one over. "Heh, almost forgot, us new unicorns need to know some spells," he referred to himself, Noah, Joe, and Marvelous.

"I can't believe you don't know any spells- Ouch!" The colt got hit in the back of his head, earning angry eyes from his leader, like a mother who caught her child doing something naughty.

"No worries, Troy," the alicorn responded to the request. "We can start today. Once I write to the princess with the help of Spike, I can teach the four of you some spells. Starlight can help, too."

"I'll go get the guys." Forgetting about reading, he went out to get his Ranger teammate and the two unicorn Gokaigers, so all four of them can learn as much magic as possible.