//------------------------------// // Leader [Full Version] // Story: Power Rangers, Nature Fury: Beginnings // by Zoom zoom //------------------------------// The women stood in front of a hologram of Zebb, They were wondering why they were being summoned at once. Berry Punch lightly swaying left and right crossed her arms in drunken disgust, Gilda showing how much patience she has started to groan and sigh every 5 seconds, Lightning Dust sharing the same feelings as Gilda, started to tap her feet behaving as though she has something better to do, and Fluttershy was feeling uncomfortable around her newly established teammates. she felt the hostility of the group and and started to stare at the ground. “Hello Rangers now I’m sure you’re wondering why I called you” said Zebb. Berry Punch interrupts Zebb and in a slurring way says, “Is there any danger right now because we’ve been standing here for five minues and all we’re seeing right now is your ugly sss-sliouette. If you have something important to say hurry up i’m the middle of my happy hour and I have to go home and make my daughter’s afternoon snack." Zebb, now about to complete a sentence said, “sorry Rangers I just never had the time to show off your weapons. And since it seems Maladora won’t be making the mistake of randomly attacking again I figure it’s best you learn what you can now.” The Rangers turn to the wall adjacent from the hologram to see it open up and reveal a white glowing space. “Wait... how did that wall move?!?” exclaimed Twilight “Oh hello,” Zebb replied without looking at her. “Just had some redecorating after I woke up.” Twilight got over her slackjaw and yelled, “When did you put that in?” “Just long enough to just get used to the place.” “Wa- what else did you do the the castle?” Twilight continued, “I demand you tell me now!” “I wouldn’t give me that high and mighty attitude,” replied Zebb. “Snoring doesn’t make you very princess like.” “How did you...” “I watch you guys sleep now and then to pass the time, your siblings give a good show.” Twilight tried blasting Zebb with magic, forgetting he was only constructed of light and it passed through him. Lightning groaned, “Do you guys need a room or something cause the rest of us are busy.” “Since you’re all in a hurry I’ll show you your weapons. Mama Bear you’re first.” Berry Punch walked towards the glowing wall and pulled out a toy hammer. “stiss a flakink toy?” slurred Berry angrily. Zebb explain the weapon, “Where I’m from it is called a Kadocha it may look like a toy to you but is a very powerful weapon and you shouldn’t think too lightly of it. This is created from deep within your heart.” Berry turned and look that the manly hologram “Yes, because deep within my heart I wanted a toy to protect my only cha.” Berry said Sarcastically. “Actually yes,” he countered, “but now is not the time to go into why.” “You really have an issue with that,” commented Twilight as she stepped out from behind him. “And that is just mean since Kadocha means ‘child’s toy’” Berry’s anger was pretty clear to everyone due to her sudden sober state as she replied. “You’d better give me a good explanation the next time you summon me.” Zebb directed his attention to Lightning Dust, “Lightning Dust please place your hand in the light.” “This better not be a toy.” muttered Lightning Dust low enough for only Gilda to hear as she walked towards the vacant wall. She placed her hand inside and tried to pull out a weapon but it would not budge. she had a use her other hand to pull the whole thing out and it turned out to be a giant ax, two thirds her height. “Well as doesn’t look like a toy but why would I need this? It is not practical in battle.” “Lighting Dust,” Zebb replied calmly, “This weapon was crafted based solely on who you are: Fierce and...” he whispered under his breath. “It is practically your creation. The Lighting Axe.” Lighting Dust just shook her head, “So you want me to bring this heavy ax to a fight when I can just use my gun or even the easy to carry knife it turns into for goodness sake!!” Gilda now filled with so much frustration seeing that both women obtain the least desirable weapons, she frustratingly stomped her feet to the vacant wall and with a swift action pulled out her weapon but instead of getting a toy she got set of two thin blades. “Now that’s more like it!” exclaimed Gilda Zebb happy that someone likes what they got said,“Well I’m happy you like what you have here. It is called -” But before Zebb could finish his sentence Gilda interrupted saying “too bad I never fenced before.” “Ahem as I was about to say you obtained the Lion’s Fangs. You don’t need to worry about never fencing because of the suit’s programing. But it may be a good idea to learn in case.” Gilda smiled while looking at the other two rangers and what she thinks are useless weapons “I think I’m going to like you glow boy. ” Still looking at the ground said “Oh… so it’s my turn” Fluttershy slowly walk towards the wall and began to see a silhouette a giant broadsword. The blade looked as if it was 6 feet long. “Oh… That looks too heavy for me to pick up” said Fluttershy quickly. She turned to run but was caught by the sight of her teammates and turned back. She took a deep breath and reached in again pulling out the weapon: a small 4 feet long sky blue Katana. Gilda started to laugh “even miss scaredy pants got a good weapon” Zebb arched an eyebrow, “I thought it would be bigger… well never mind, I will bring you ladies back to whatever you were doing. This was more to see what my programs had decided was best for all of you.” Zebb then realized that he forgot something as he shouted for their attention, “i will change the orbs into you morphers now” the orbs turned into giant rectangles looking like notepads “These look too big to walk around with.” said Gilda. The rest of the rangers agreed Zebb was at a lost for words. He never planned for the women to complain about the size of the morphers. he had to think fast. “well you ladies can put your morphers in your purse” All the rangers including Twilight was stunned by Zebb comment. Lightning Dust couldn’t hold back but to shout out, “You dirty, sexist, idiotic, MOTHER F----” “Teleport!!!!” Exclaimed Zebb All the girls were sent back to where they were, Fluttershy was back at home with her irritated pet rabbit, Angel. Gilda was back with her friends acting like nothing happened. Lightning Dust returned in front of Spitfire and her latest vain to show from her head, and Berry Punch made it just in time to greet her very hyper and happy daughter Ruby Pinch. “Mommy, mommy!!!” exclaimed Ruby holding up a piece of paper, “look what I made it’s you me and daddy!!!” Berry looked at the picture that her daughter made for her. A small smile crossed her face. Then just as suddenly, she held her daughter close to her, catching the young child off guard and the sudden embrace. Ruby started to pull on her mother’s white tank top, “Are you okay mommy? Are you as hungry as I am?” Berry laughed at her daughters comment and released her. Berry could see her hyper child quickly slow down as she started to look for her afternoon snack. So she put down Ruby’s picture and walked towards the fridge and pulled out the grape juice and one of pinkie pie’s pastries that she bought the other day and gave it to Ruby. Berry smelled the grape juice before she gave it to Ruby, not wanting her “special batch” to be given to her young daughter. “I hope you are ready for me to check your homework” Berry said as Ruby started swallowing her snack in chunks. “Um,” said Ruby unable to look her mother in the idea. “Not just yet mommy. I’ve still gotta make sure I didn’t....answer in the wrong space. Yeah answer in the wrong space.” Berry shook her head as her daughter ran out of the room, forgetting her manner again about putting dishes away. She had always wanted more for her daughter tending to now put a lot more of her time and energy making sure that her daughter was ready for anything. “If something happens to me,” she thought, “Ruby could be left all alone. This ranger business makes that even more plausible since I’m right there on the front line. Maybe I should have told Zebb to take back his morpher and pick someone else.” All thought of that ended however when she saw the happy face of her daughter. “She wouldn’t be here right now if I didn’t take up this power either. I guess for now I can only prepare her for the days to come.” “Alright,” Berry exclaimed, “Let’s get started.” *** Chrysalis twitched her eye in annoyance as Bumbul recanted his mission to the changeling queen to explain how so many of her children had fallen. “You were winning against all of Canterlots soldiers but you lost to spandex women!?!” screamed Chrysalis. “Do you expect me to take you seriously at all!!!!?”She walked up to the pink bellied golem carrying one of her meals and started to beat him across the head with it “never in my life have I seen such cowardly behavior ” “I’m so sorry my Queen” Bunbul was trapped under his belly rocking back and forth trying to ask for forgiveness. “I AM NOT YOUR QUEEN!!!!” Chrysalis screamed so loud that all of her changeling ran away from the fortress and caught the attention of the true leader of this army. The Sombre Knight and his partner Illuminati both flew down with the Maladora and all three of them now looked annoyed at Chrysalis. Chrysalis now losing her powerful demeanor kneeled down, “I am so sorry my high and powerful sorceress” “What was all that screaming for!?! Thanks to you, I can’t go back to sleep!!!” moaned the old woman in a voice so booming it caused normal changelings to hide in their cots. “I’m so sor-” Maladora inturped Chrysalis “Quiet you're giving me such a headache!!!” she continued “Since my Bolder boy failed You I will send him back to make it right” Bunbul looked up “What!?! No no no no no no I’ll get killed by those multicolor terrors.” Maladora cackled at her Golem and collected some rocks together and casted a spell and the rocks started to shape into a human like form. “Meet your little brother, Dunbul Spir.” Spir stood up, he was standing over everyone. He was about 7 feet tall. He was rocky looking all gray except for his shoulders which were round and bright red. “I am here to serve mother” Maladora placed her hand on her new creation and with a loving voice said, “Spir, I want you to help your big brother deal with whatever made him run back home okay?” Spir looked at his big bolder brother seeing Bunbul rocking on his giant belly. A disgusted sneer crossing his face as he did so. “Now you two get along and make mama proud!!!” Maladora then turned to Chrysalis and her loving voice changed into a hateful voice as she shouted, “Now get your useless Changeling’s and make them prove your usefulness to this cause. Or you could just go yourself, though in that case I’d have to keep hold of the army.” Chrysalis lowered her head to confirm her obedience. She loved her children too much as a whole to leave them with the even worse fate of being Maladora’s puppets directly. Detest leaked through only a bit as Chrysalis was trying to keep her hatred inside knowing how strong this woman was. “I will send some of my strongest to help your sons, my sorceress.” A new day began and the citizens of Canterlot left their houses and started their daily routines, but for the new Rangers their routine was a little new. Angel was jumping up and down on Fluttershy’s bed but Fluttershy didn’t budge an inch, forcing him to him to jump harder. Even though she only transformed once, it still took a toll on Fluttershy mentally and physically. Angel was hungry and could care less about how tired Fluttershy was. so Angel climb to the top of her bed head so that he can jump off and land on her . Angel arched his back in places, front paws was at the edge of the surface as if he was an Olympic diver planning to make a big splash. But before Angel could jump there was a loud bang on Fluttershy’s front door causing her to panic and jump out of bed and making Angel land on her lap instead of her head. Fluttershy walked up to the door and there stood Gilda wearing her baggy gray sweatpants and white sport top “Oh… hello gilda what brings you here?” asked Fluttershy Gilda put on a devious grin “As your leader I will need you to be ready for anything, so I will be training you!” Fluttershy didn’t hear anything about who was the leader of the group so she just lowered her head and agreed with her and asked, “Ok leader what ter- training should I do?” All Gilda could think was that she had the best weapon and that her animal represent. “well being the Lioness i am, your first task is to...” “Learn who your real leader is!” lighting dust flew down and landed right behind Gilda startling her. “why would you follow an army brat when you should follow the person that has been involved in the fight all along.” Fluttershy just lowered her head and said, “yor- Your right.” Gilda turned her head to Lightning Dust and pulled her multi-tone green camo tee-shirt “you think you think you can lead? My father was Commander of the Griffin air battalion so I know what it takes to be a leader.” Lighting Dust then grab Gilda’s arm and with a quick turn she threw her over her shoulder and Gilda hit the ground. Gilda quickly got back up and ran in to tackle lightning dust. Lighting dust ascended into the air and Gilda then followed. Both of them came at each other intending to hit one another and then both of them started to glow. They disappeared before their hits even connected. Fluttershy started to glow as soon as the others disappeared and she reappeared at the base in front of Zebb. Berry was the last one to appeared in the base and she looked irate. “What the hell do you want!”screamed Berry. Zebb said nothing as he was just waiting for Berry to calm down. He knows that she want nothing to do with him after taking her away just to show off some weapons but this time it was important. “well?” Zebb then started to talk in a snarky voice “well mama bear I did bring you here to save your only home that rock monster came back and he brought a friend.” All of the ranger see Zebb hologram change into a giant screen. From an airborne point of view they see Bunbul and Spir attacking people at the Canterlot market. Gilda and Lighting both stood at opposite ends of the base, still angry at each other, and both said, “let’s go rangers!!!” both of them looked at each other with detest as they were about to morph. They all pulled out their bulky morphers and bellowed, “Unleash the Fury.” As soon as the rangers morphed Zebb teleported them to the location of the golem brothers. “No not them again!” exclaimed Bunbul Dunbul Spir just turned around and shook his head and said, “this is what you're afraid of a bunch of spandex girls?! I’ll take care of them” Spir then shot some lasers at the rangers but the rangers scattered before they could reach them “Ok it’s time.” Though Gilda She accessed her suit OS and transported her weapon the Lion’s Fangs with a quick swing Bunbul fell to the ground but instead of being stuck on his belly he was stuck on his back. “That is it!” screamed Bunbul, “Changelings come Forth!!” Bumble’s belly open up like a egg and out came pouring the 24 changelings, knocking back Gilda in the possess. Gilda then jumped back up. The changelings swarmed the area turning their bright sunny morning into an artificial night. The the changelings split up into four teams of six making sure to separate the Rangers. “Follow my lead” said Gilda Lightning dust annoyed with Gilda said and replied, “who said you were the leader army brat?” she turn to Fluttershy and pulled out a gun and gave her a nod and Fluttershy too pull out a gun. The changeling then systematically attacked the Rangers keeping them from working together. Through the eyes of assistance that changelings plan seems redundant. Fluttershy was stuck between Gilda and lightning dust orders while Berry did not listen to the two girls than all. All Berry was trying to do was survived. Even though it was six against one, Berry had an easier time beating the changelings down. As the others were having a hard time. Fluttershy was getting knocked around while Gilda and Lighting Dust were still bickering on who should lead the group. “Come on Fluttershy you know who you should follow!” exclaimed Gilda “You know who the experienced one is in battle right Fluttershy?” said lightning dust “That is it I had enough!!!” Berry jumped in on Fluttershy’s assailants and said, ” don’t listen to those little girls and follow my lead.” Fluttershy nodded her head and prepare to follow Berry. The six changelings split into groups of three. All three of them tried to attack Berry at once but she started avoided their blows while using her entire body to shove one of the changeling into each other. Berry seemed as though she was drinking a little too much so the changelings, even though they seen her single-handedly defeated six of their siblings, didn’t think too much of her of. They kept trying to attack her with a flurry of kicks and punches and Berry just dodge them. Fluttershy on the other hand couldn’t do it the way Berry did, but she was dodging the changelings as well. Lucky enough Zebb programmed a basic set of fighting skills in the suits, how they would use them was up to their preferences. Fluttershy was straight forwarded with the program so it was basic hand to hand combat for her. As for Berry she made it look like she was drunk (which she was.) so all the moves she was using were the same as Fluttershys but looked different. As soon as Fluttershy and Berry took down their six enemies, Berry jumped into help Gilda. For some reason she was only able to take down one of the six changelings the others kept their distance. The changelings were Shooting lasers out their eyes and directly at her. All Gilda could do was deflected beams with her blades. Before she even knew it a warning appeared on her screen. “How is it possible that my two blades have an Energy Supply!!!” exclaimed Gilda Berry jump in the air and knocked one of the changelings onto the ground. She turned to Gilda and said, “Put those blades away we do not have time for that.” Berry continued, “all we need right now his hand to hand combat if you keep on using the heavy stuff it won’t be there when you need it.” Gilda then put her weapons away, and started accessing the fighting program. “yeah thats more like it!” shouted Gilda. For some reason Gilda ignored punches in the program and started to kick and incorporated what she learned as a child and she herself knew that her feet were more than enough to take care of the remaining enemies she had without any more help. As soon as Berry seen that Gilda had a handle on things she turned her head and shouted at Lighting Dust who was shooting at all six of the changeling and missing every shot. “Dust I know you were train in aerial combat! Holster your gun and take to the sky!” Lighting Dust realized that she was right and flew up to quickly take them down. The Rangers all group up as soon as they took down the enemies, just leaving the Bolder Brothers. Bunbul was back on his feet and quickly rolled into a ball headed directly to the Rangers as for the brother shots lasers. the rangers jumped out of the day and bumble crashed into a building wall. And both lightning dust and Gilda exclaimed, “Rangers toget-“ Before they can finish their sentence Berry shouted, “shut up girls! we are all aiming for the big guy! ” All the two could do was nod their heads in agreement. Gilda and Lightning Dust seen Berry take out her hammer, so they followed suit with Fluttershy being the last to take out her weapon. Spir saw what they were doing and began to shoot more lasers out of his shoulders. Berry, hoping for the best, swung her toy hammer and knocked the laser to the ground. Fluttershy, with the sudden burst of adrenaline, slid underneath Spir cutting his legs in the process. Gilda then threw her blades directly at Spirs shoulders causing his red boulder like shoulders to shatter like glass. And lightning dust dealt the finishing below with he falling from the sky with her giant ax cutting him directly in half. Back at Maladora’s fortress she felt her new creation being destroyed instead of letting him die she cast a spell of regeneration causing the brother to heal from all his injuries but something went wrong, not only was he healing he started to grow. Dunbul look that his brother and said, “looks like you have this all under control. I’m gonna go back home!” Dunbul then rolled off into the distance. Lightning dust tried to keep him from getting away but spir kept her from his big brother. “Finally they get the use them... I mean, Rangers I have a tool that you can use to take down this enemy.” Said Zebb Their screens showed them mechanical animals with a command saying, “Zord mode Commence.” Which all the rangers said. out of nowhere the four giant robots appeared out of nowhere. All four of them ran to their respective animals Fluttershy went to her giant bunny, Gilda hopped on her giant ferocious lioness, lightning dust jumped into her eerily hovering robot dolphin, and last but not least Berry punch jumped into her giant pink elephant. Dunbul spur was not impressed by these giant mechanical wonders. He began to shoot beams at Berry and Fluttershy. The two then retaliated with Fluttershy’s Robo rabbit jumping up into the air landing on Dunbul in biting his head and Spir fell on his back. Dunbul still wasn’t impressed by their power but before he could get up Gilda took her a lioness and started scratching him with her Robo claws. “OK Gilda jump out of the way” exclaimed Berry. She then directed her attention to the lightning dust, “dust all you need to do now shoot some water and I don’t know if you could but just does do something!” Lightning dust looked around her control panel and saw button that she could use. “by the matter of fact I can” replied lightning dust. A robot dolphin started shooting beams of water at the chest of Dunbul. “Last but not least activate elephant hammer!” exclaimed Berry. The giant hammer appeared at the end of the robotic elephant’s trunk and Berry had the elephant run towards him and her hammer and trunk extended up into the air and landed straight where the water hit Spir chest causing Dunbul to shatter and explode. After the battle and the cleanup the Rangers returned to the base. “Good job rangers you all learned a good lesson in teamwork.” Said Zebb Gilda and Lighting Dust both replied, “Yes because of my- Hey!!!” both Gilda and Dust stared at each other Fluttershy interrupted the two and said, “It was all thanks to Berry, she a natural leader” They both looked at Fluttershy then to Berry and both said at the same time, “yeah your right” Zebb was more happy than they could know. He now knows that this team is not going to fail. “well the vote is in, mama bear you are the Leader of the Nature Fury.” Berry not expecting this sigh and said, “okay whatever, just take me home I need a drink.” Zebb said, “okay... off you go girls!” the four were transported to the last place they were before. Mentally patting himself on the back, Zebb started double checking his work as Twilight stepped out into the chamber. “You do realize you just made the most infamous alcoholic from my old home the leader right?” Zebb stopped moving, and Twilight got a good laugh as the long profanity left his lips.