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// Red Team-up 
// Story: Pony Rangers Lightspeed Rescue 
// by Shazam 25 
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Back in the Theater Base, all the Rangers were gathered, just to hang out for a bit. Derpy was filling a bag she was holding with muffins and a helmet. Gilda frowned in confusion. "So what'd your family say? I mean, having derpy eyes and wanting to do some stunt flying's dangerous!"

Derpy shrugged, zipping the bag up. "They obviously said, 'Don't be stupid, flying's crazy!' Actually, everyone said that since I was a kid. And obviously I'm being more careful now, but I always answer with a simple nod. Luckily Dinkie understands…" Everyone blinked in confusion.

"...Dinkie?" Vinyl finally asked, as bewildered as everyone else. "Who's Dinkie? Is she your best friend or something?"

Derpy giggled at that, shaking her head. "Of course not, she's my daughter!" Everyone froze, before Gilda asked what was on everyone's mind.

"...Since when did you have a daughter?" She blinked slowly. "And… who's the lucky guy?" She smirked at that, teasing the pegasus slightly.

Derpy shrugged. "I've had her for a few years now, honestly. And… well, he's a time traveler, so oftentimes we run into the other before we fall in love." She shrugged. "But I'm glad they both understand and accept my passion! I like being the best mailmare, but it doesn't have that rush."

Vinyl chuckled. "Hey, I get that! After all, I love music a lot! In fact, when I was a filly, I actually made my own stereo and started blasting my music as loud as I could! It actually shattered the windows of my apartment!"

Everyone laughed before Trixie rolled her eyes jokingly. "That's not just crazy- that's stupid! The Great and Powerful Trixie is surprised you're not deaf!"

Then Vinyl turned to her, smirking. "Oh yeah? Well, what about you? Did you always wanna be a stage magician? Even before all the craziness with Nightmare Moon?"

Trixie shook her head, surprising them all. "Not really… Well, not until one day, at least… When…" She sighed, remembering when she saw a magician performing for an audience… but she couldn't see their face since she was so far away…

"When what?" Zecora asked, confused. She had never heard about this from Trixie before, and she was intrigued. "Do not just leave us with an out!"

Trixie shook herself out of her thoughts. "O-oh, nothing…" She shook her head, and everyone began pestering her for information before Luna's voice rung out from the speakers.

"Rangers, to the training area! Double time!" Trixie blinked before shrugging at them sheepishly and rushing off towards another part of the Theater Base. The others frowned, but followed her, forgetting about pestering Trixie on what happened.

Once they got there, they got in a line with Trixie at the center. "Ten hut! Salute! Rangers ready for training!" They all put their hooves/claw to their forehead, before putting it back down, seeing Luna in a classic coach's uniform.

"Ready?" She held up a stopwatch in her hoof, and everyone watched it in anticipation. "GO!" She clicked it and instantly they rushed into action, knowing they couldn't use their horns or wings for this exercise.

Derpy and Vinyl were first, clearing the wall in front of them before beginning to crawl on their stomachs, military-style. They both quickly got there and began to jump through tires, making it back to Luna and saluting. "Time!" they both shouted.

Luna nodded, clicking the stopwatch and smiling. "A minute, thirty. Good." She then went back to watching the course as the two doubled over in pain, gasping for air.

Meanwhile, Gilda and Zecora were helping a filly doll out of a burning building filled with smoke. Gilda carried it while Zecora used her potions to help make it heal as Luna came over. They then both stood up and saluted, seeing the alicorn princess click her stopwatch. "Two minutes… Not bad." She nodded to them before walking over to see Trixie's performance as the two high-fived, smiling.

Trixie was using bolts of light to fire at cardboard dummies. She hit the first one every time, and when the second came to a door, she fired at it, missing a few times, but getting it down. She then rushed outside and saluted, smirking. "...Fifty-two seconds." Luna smiled, impressed. Trixie cheered, as the others began to congratulate her. However, the alicorn walked inside and looked around, slowly becoming unimpressed.

She walked outside, frowning sternly. "Trixie!" she shouted, making the unicorn blink before walking over. "You may have had the fastest time… but you got the lowest score." She said this while not looking at her.

Trixie frowned in confusion, not understanding. "T-the lowest? The Great and Powerful Trixie.. She doesn't understand, how did she get the lowest?"

Luna then looked at her. "You're a sharpshooter, but you have to use your mind before you EVER use that horn in a real battle!"

Trixie frowned, now upset. "B-but Princess, I hit every target, and-"

"And that means nothing!" Luna interrupted angrily, glaring. "Sometimes the obvious choice… is the wrong choice." She then turned and walked away, the other ponies working there following her and leaving Trixie to her thoughts.



Meanwhile, in the dark room below Ponyville, the monsters were reviewing the footage from the Rangers' fight with Heat Wave. Sunset glared angrily as Diamond spoke up. "That Lightspeed Megazord is really powerful, more so than even the Element Rangers' Megazord! To destroy the town, the Rangers, AND destroy the Princess' precious sun, we need to defeat it, and fast!"

Sunset nodded solemnly. "Agreed… After all, Nightmare will be very unhappy if she returns and the sun is still moving." She then turned and began to walk away, bringing some Batlings with her. "But you know what they say… You wanna destroy a city? You have to do it from the ground up." She then walked through a portal and the other monsters began to laugh, realizing her plan.



In the small town of Ponyville, meanwhile, an earthquake was hitting the town. The Element Rangers were away again, off to fight another monster. Luna frowned, though, seeing a monitor with a peculiar reading. "..That's no earthquake…" She turned to the others. "Preparation mode, stat!" she barked. "Rangers to Transport Bay!"

With that order, the Lightspeed Rescue Pony Rangers quickly got into a car that was custom-designed for them and quickly drove into town. In a nearby building, the Batlings were pounding what looked like spinning daggers into the ground, causing the earthquakes. Sunset growled angrily, "Faster! Before the Lightspeed Rescue Rangers can get here, I'll destroy Ponyville with an earthquake!"

Suddenly, Trixie's voice rang out. "Not if we can help it!" Sunset growled, turning around and seeing the Rangers, already morphed. Trixie blinked behind her helmet. "...Y-you're going down, Sunset Shimmer!" Derpy and Vinyl blinked, glancing at her in confusion.

Sunset smirked, a yellow unicorn with a shimmering sun as her cutie mark. Her mane was both yellow and red, as she laughed mockingly. "Well, well, well… If it isn't the Pony Rangers. For the two of you who DON'T recognize me… I am Sunset Shimmer, Princess Celestia's former student before she banished me! I may miss three of you… But I'm glad we've met so I can destroy you!"

She sent her Batlings after the other Rangers, while Trixie dodged them and went straight for the other pony. "Oooh, looks like SOMEONE'S angry!" She laughed again, using her horn to utterly dominate in the fight. It was over in a few seconds since Trixie wasn't using HER horn to even things out, and she smirked, before running off. Trixie frowned, struggling to go up and after her, startled that she was running just like that. She then ran into a bunch of ponies trying to run. "Get out of my way!" She fired off a few shots from her horn, nearly hitting most of them.

"NO!" Trixie quickly jumped over Sunset Shimmer and stood in front of her. "I won't let you harm these ponies!" Sunset merely smirked, firing off another shot from her horn, but Trixie kicked it, sending the beam through the wall. Sunset glared, preparing her horn, but this time so did Trixie. "Stop charging your horn…. Nice and easy. STOP." Sunset gritted her teeth before noticing a can of fuel was nearby. "I said stop charging it!" She merely smirked, before firing off another shot, setting it on fire and causing Trixie to back up. Sunset laughed before teleporting away.

"W-wha!? Where'd she go!?" Trixie looked around, shocked, before seeing the ceiling beginning to crack. "The ceiling's coming down! I have to get these people out of here!"

Luna frowned, seeing all this on a monitor. "Negative, put out the fire." she commanded.

"N-no, Princess, they'll die if I don't save them!" Trixie said stubbornly. She was about to go help them, but Luna screamed in her ear.

"PUT OUT THE FIRE, NOW!" Trixie winced, but sighed, putting out the fire before going to help the ponies. It was too late, though, as the ceiling crumbled, nearly crushing a little colt… Trixie stood, shell-shocked, as the other Lightspeed Rescue Rangers arrived at the scene and began to help.

"...R-rggh!" She then turned and ran off, with both Vinyl and Zecora blinking before trying to stop her.

"T-Trixie, wait!" Zecora frowned, both of them reluctantly stopping… Trixie was too fast…



Trixie, unmorphed, stormed up to Luna in her office at the Theater Base. "I shouldn't have listened to you!"

Luna sighed, shaking her head, "You did the right thing…"

Trixie stared at her in disbelief. "Wha- NO! No I didn't! Because I listened to you, a little colt got hurt!" With that, she stormed out of the room, not looking back.

Luna frowned, looking at the quickly retreating unicorn almost in pain. "..."



Trixie almost was growling as she stormed to a nearby park. "Stupid Princess…. Just because she gave us a second chance, she thinks she can just tell us all what to do…" She continued to growl before her vision was obscured by a certain rainbow mane. "GAH!" She fell back, glancing up to see Rainbow Dash in front of her. "...Well, look who it is. Come to drag me back to the base? I doubt you even know where it is." She turned away, fuming.

Rainbow Dash frowned, shaking her head. "Trixie… I heard what happened from Derpy. You accidentally got someone hurt… right?" Trixie's eyes widened, but Rainbow Dash continued. "I know how that feels… to be unable to save someone even though you want to. I was the original Red Ranger, remember?"

Trixie frowned, looking at her slowly. "...Y...Yeah, I remember… But so what? You… You don't know what I'm going through…"

Rainbow Dash sighed. "I do, though… And there's one more Red Ranger who does too… She was the original in her group too." She stood aside, and let an orange pegasus with purple hair step forward. "This is Scootaloo. She was the original Red Ranger for the Jungle Fury group. I found out after they let their spirit beasts go free."

Trixie froze. "B...Both of you… Why are you… Why are you here? I don't get it… I mean, you both were the best of your times… I… I'm sure nobody got hurt when you were around!"

Scootaloo shrugged, "Actually… We both saw a lot of ponies get hurt… Yeah, it happens, but we have to get over it. Maybe we can train you a bit! Where do you normally train?"

"..." Trixie eventually sighed. "Follow me… but I don't even understand why Princess Luna said I couldn't use my horn in battle…"

Rainbow grinned, following her. "Maybe we can find out! But she might be right- you're pretty impulsive, Trixie. Maybe you missed something you didn't see at first!"

Trixie shook her head as they reached the training area. "No, I couldn't have… I was just doing some training with my horn, how would I have missed something?"

Scootaloo blinked, noticing something near one of the enemies. "...Trixie?" She pointed at a can… which had 'Explosive' written on it. A small scorch from Trixie's horn was on it, showing she had hit the can.

"W-w-what!?" Trixie spluttered in shock. "T-the Great and Powerful Trixie… hit an explosive can?" Then her mind began to race. "...Hang on…! We need to head back to the scene!"

Scootaloo and Rainbow Dash blinked, but quickly followed Trixie to the building Sunset had been in. They all looked around before Trixie gasped; where the fire was heading… there was an explosive barrel! "I-if I hadn't put out that fire…. The whole place would have exploded, and we all would have been hurt, if not worse…!"

Then Luna's voice spoke up behind them, startling the three: "Sometimes… The obvious choice is the wrong choice." She sighed, shrugging.

Trixie's eyes widened. "Y-you KNEW the canisters could explode in the training exercise!" Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo blinked, startled, as Luna nodded.

"I did. And it isn't easy being a leader. You learn tough lessons, every day, as these two can tell you." She gestured to Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo, who nodded. "I'll arrange it so you three can train together, as well as giving Trixie more advice on BEING a leader. But-" Luna was cut off by another earthquake.

Trixie frowned, glancing at her morpher. "...I'm not sure I'm cut out to be a Ranger… but I guess I don't have a choice." She sighed, before morphing. "LIGHTSPEED RESCUE!"



Meanwhile, in the sewers below the town, the four Rangers were getting their butts kicked by the Batlings and Sunset. Derpy groaned, barely able to stand. "N-no…! Don't do it!"

Sunset smirked, and was about to use a hammer to cause an earthquake that would finally destroy the town before Trixie's spell hit it, forcing the hammer away! "I've had enough of your mind games, Sunset. It's time we ended this now."

Sunset glared angrily. "Trixie! ...No… Red Ranger… You will pay for this!" She tried to attack Trixie, but the Red Ranger dodged, instead going for the spikes. "No! STOP HER!"

Trixie blasted all the Batlings away, destroying one of the spikes with ease. "Guys, we need to destroy the spikes first!" The other Rangers nodded, and before Sunset Shimmer could blink, all the spikes that had been causing the earthquakes were destroyed. "Your plan is done, Sunset!"

Sunset glared at them, as the monsters watched from the cave. "...She might need some help. Garble?" Garble nodded, taking a card and tossing it into a cauldron. It flashed, beginning to create a monster.

Back in the sewer, Sunset was running away as fast as she could. "I'll go after her!" Trixie ran after Sunset Shimmer, as the other Rangers continued to fight the Batlings.

Soon, they reached the outside, but Sunset Shimmer was nowhere to be seen. Instead, as the other Rangers reached Trixie, a bunch of bats combined to create an ugly monster that almost looked like a giant Batling! Trixie glared, before pressing a button on her morpher. "Rescue Zords, mobilize! Megazord Mode, activate!"

With a flash of light, the Rail Rescues appeared, and the Rescue Zords popped out of it before forming the Rescue Megazord. The Rangers quickly hopped in, before the monster charged them. They began to fight, and the Rescue Megazord kicked the monster down before it grabbed the back hooves! With that, the Rescue Ladderarms were activated, forcing the monster back down.

Trixie glared determinedly, pressing three buttons. "Alright! Blaster Grips, lock on! Lightspeed Megazord Saber!" The symbol on the belt of the Megazord then detached and formed a sword, which the Megazord grabbed by standing on its back hooves. "IGNITE!" The Megazord drew a circle made of fire, before slashing through it, completely annihilating the monster. The ponies cheered, and Trixie noticed Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo cheering even louder, flying above the crowd. She smiled, as the Megazord made it's victory pose.



Trixie gulped as she reached the hospital door that the colt had been in. She was nervous about seeing the damage she had done, but Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo placed their hooves on her shoulder to reassure the showpony. She nodded at them gratefully, adjusting the present she was carrying on her back, before opening the door.

The three of them blinked, seeing nobody in there. They looked around, before Scootaloo noticed the kid in the waiting room and nudged Trixie. She turned, and noticing the young colt, slowly walked up. "...Hey… So are… Are you gonna be okay?" she asked nervously; she was never too good with kids.

The colt nodded, smiling. "Yeah, thanks to you!" He smiled before noticing the present on Trixie's back. "Hey, what's that?" He tilted his head in confusion.

Trixie blinked, before noticing the present. "Oh… This?" She smiled, glancing at him. "It's… for you. As a get-well-soon present." The colt's eyes widened in shock before he hugged her. She staggered for a moment before smiling, none of them noticing Princess Luna watching them from the doorway. She smiled, beginning to walk away as Trixie laughed. "Well, go ahead, open it!"