The moon loomed over equestria as great and beautiful as Luna could possibly make it. On the surface in a crevasse a figure paced back and forth as they roared and complained.
“UGH! How- how could they do this to me. ME, GOLDAR!” he yells into the eco of the moon.
“Fret not my friend.”
Goldar looks around erratically as he draws his sword “who’s there?” he demands
“Who? Why would you ask who when there is no who. The question you want is, what is there?” the soft mesmerizing voice calls
“Fine, what’s there?” he says brandishing his sword
“Just the remains of a mighty being that should have ruled. Come, I besiege the, tell me why you wheal with such a familiar sounds of betrayal.”
Goldar felt a strange peacefulness with whatever this was “if you must know, I was a general for the mythical sorceress Rita Rapulsa, and then lord zed. Ugh! Several failed attempts mostly due to their own incompetence and repeating of the same plan, than after failed attempt
a million and infinity they blamed ME! They blamed me and banished me HERE!”
“Ahh” the un-faced voice spoke like honey to goldars ears “so you are a general are you? Not only that but one adept to the use of magic, I could have a use for you.”
“Forget it! I’m done working with sorceress and lords alike. You have nothing I-”
The voice chuckled humorously “don’t be so quick to disregard the queen of the moon. I have a proposition for you”
“Wait, the moon?” goldar asked suspiciously “AGAIN WITH THE MOON!” he roared angrily
“Not a fan I take it? Well like you I was denied proper respect and banished; now I sit here without body or power.”
“Than what could you have to offer? You have nothing.” Goldar took delight in being on the delivering end of the stick for once.
“Perhaps not, but” the voice said oozing with delightful sound “what magic I control could be used to poses a body, however I can’t get it myself. If say, someone was to go down to the world below and fetch one for me” goldar was intently listening as the presents of the voice surrounded him “they would be presented with a reward of power, nobility,-”
Goldar “Respect!”
“Whatever they desired and more”
“Give me an hour to think about It.” goldar replied with a thoughtful expression
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“Good morning ponyville! This is DJ pony coming at you live for ponyville radio station with a special message.” The radio called out happily as pinkie turned it up. “There is a special event going on down at sugar-cube corner today where those adorable school ponies and cheerolie are trying to raise money for the cantorlot orphanage. Good luck to ya’ and don’t forget to tune in for all your party pony jams today.”
As the little ponies went to work on preparing for their special event three specific ponies, the cutie mark crusaders practice their comedy for an act they were going to do as their part in the fund raiser. Scootalo stood on one font hoof as sweetie belle balanced a bucket on her head and apple bloom did poorly practiced Crain kicks
“Wait, we are doing what exactly?” scootalo asked trying to keep her balance.
“Yea, what are we doing apple bloom?” sweetie belle asked dropping the bucket
Applebloom dropped on her honchos “I don’t know. As long as it’s funny, does it matter?”
The three sit there as they begin to try and figure out how to end their comedy act when scootalo catches two ponies walking up towards them.
“Watch out, devious duo at 2:00” scootalo warns flipping her head to the side to avoid eye contact.
“Hey blank flanks!” the two girls say with uncanny symmetry
The three fillies ignore the teasing bullies as they go about their conversation about how to end their performance.
Diamond scoffs “don’t ignore us.”
The cmc’s ignore the bullies to the best of their ability which results in them walking away and into snips and snails
“Hey there s-silver spoon” snails says very curiously
Snails grins as wide as possible “hello diamond tiara”
The two girls turn away as snails starts to speak up.
“So, diamond, silver how would you like to get a couple of milk shakes with the two coolest most handsome guys in class?” He says waving a hoof over himself and snip “after the event of course”
“We’d love to!” silver says with a grin looking at diamond
“But they’re both out sick.” Diamond finishes as they walk away laughing.
Snips and snails paw the ground sadly as the cmc’s walk over to console them. Before reaching them cheerolie stops them asking them to go down to the basement to retrieve some paint.
As the cmc’s are making their way to the basement goldar makes his decision on whether or not to join.
“Ahh, so you return. Made a decision have you?” the voice speakes as a blue fog encircles him.
Goldar looks down a moment before jerking his head up “I’ll do it. Give me your word that I will be treated with respect and I’ll join you.”
The voice laughs pleasantly “you have my word, now then about our deal.”
While goldar and the voice go over the details of the deal the cmcs make their way out the sugar cube basement with a few large paint cans.
“Need some help” diamond asks
The three fillies look at one another a moment before apple bloom goes to pass a paint bucket to diamond, however as she gets ready to receive it she jerks away letting it fall to the ground. The two bullies laugh as the paint can tumbles with a loud thud.
“HEY!” apple bloom yells “what’s the big idea? That could have made a mess everywhere.”
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In distance cave with a few large computers and a massive crystal a robotic pony with a circular head paces about the equipment when one detects an anomaly.
“oh no! Zordon, zordon wake up!”
A head fades into the massive crystal.
“Yes pony-3, what is it? Have the monitors detected anything?”
“They have zordon. Their picking up readings from something called a goldar. Zordon, what is a goldar.”
“I fear this is more troubling than it may appear at the moment, pony recruit five ponies who can take on this difficult task, it’s time to start project PR.”
“oooh, are you sure zordon?” he ask anxiously nervous
Zordon reaffirms him “yes, if my suspicions are true than this world is jeopardy.”
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Goldar and the blue fog look over the planet ready to begin their plan.
“So this luna was part of your original form.” Goldar asks.
The sweet voice speaks as the blue fog incases a large nearby rock “indeed she was.”
“So than, how do I get her for you?” he inquires
“With this” the blue fog leaves the rock having formed it into a jar.
Goldar looks at the jar before turning on the fogs voice “wait! You told me that you couldn’t use any magic without a body.”
“On the contrary I can use some, but only a very limited amount.” She stated in a soothing tone
Goldar takes the jar and departs to the planet. He teleports straight into the castle where celestia and luna live.
“Alright, if I were a pony princess of the night where would I be?” he said pondering scratching his cheek “AHH! I’d be sleeping” he suddenly starts whispering “oh, right. I may need to be quiet in case there are guards around.”
Goldar starts skulking across the halls ducking out of sight of guards every while as they pass noticing the frequency of their sighting growing.
“GAH! What’s going on here it’s like there’s a war or something.”
Suddenly multiple black ponies with large bug eyes and holes lining their legs appear. They stare down goldar as he draws his sword. The bug ponies’ drop into menacing stances as one of them yells attack.
“You want a piece of me? Bring it on you bugged freaks!” he declares charging his foes
Goldar swings his sword expertly as the bug ponies attack with aim to destroy as one openly declares. Without letting go of his jar he swings the sword with a free hand swiping away at the opponents sending them back, some of the others were pondering retreat. As they delegate among the moments of fighting the armored foe three ponies clade in armor join the situation to which goldar sees as a perfect time to leave as things are growing dangerous.
Goldar runs off in the opposite direction as the two groups of ponies’ engage stopping at an open door seeing a much larger female pony bug creature among multiple smaller ones and a few others trapped in strange goo.
“Whoa, looks like a hostile takeover, I’m getting out of here.” He leaps up turning into moon light and vanishing.
He shifts back into his physical form landing on the moon sitting down the jar gently and sheathing his sword.
“Welcome back, were you successful.” The voice asked
Goldar fired back with rage in his voice “NO! It was a disaster; there were ponies and bug ponies everywhere. There was even a larger bug pony that captured a bunch of other ponies; I had to retreat before being captured my-self. Worst, I never came close to finding this princess Luna.”
“How unfortunate” She answered “if there is no getting to Luna than I have another idea. Bring me the one who ruined my plans, bring me twilight sparkle!”
“Oh no, I’m not going anywhere else without backup, I’ve fought enough ponies on my own for one day.” He rebuked
“And you expect what from me!” the voice called furiously.
Goldar looks around spotting a particularly large rock. He draws his sword thrusting it in the direction of the rock firing a beam from it blowing up the rock into little pieces. After collecting some he brings them to the blue fog sitting them in five lines of seven.
“You used your magic to make the jar, try using it to make some foot soldiers to command.” He asks.
Without a word the fog engulfed the rocks, goldar watched as they twisted and formed into tiny pony figures before growing and being brought to life before his eyes.
“There, one squad of moonions.” The voice said slightly annoyed “you’ll find the pony you seek in ponyville. Now go”
As the cmc’s ready for their act in the sugar cube corner store the two bullies come in for one more teasing attempt before the event officially starts. Sweetie belle spots the two and warns her friends who equally ignore their approach. As diamond and silver ready to insult them the ground begins to shake violently.
“What’s happening?” sweetie belle squeaks in shock
“It’s an earthquake.” Scootalo answers
The fillies look around as everything shakes while jars and bowls fall as silver spoon sees the basement door “quick the basement!” She hollers
Apple bloom bucks open the door and they race down the stairs.
“Great! What now?” diamond says glaring at the cmcs
Before scootalo could fire back the five are transformed into beams of light and fly off into the sky landing in a cave surrounded by large computers and crystals. The five fillies look around the room pony-3 watches from the background.
“Wow, what is this place” silver spoon asked checking out one of the nearby computers
“No, no, no, no. please, please don’t touch that.” the robo-pony nervously blurts as he rushes out of his hiding place.
The ponies look at the robot pony as he nervously backs up
“COOL!” scootalo calls
Sweetie looks at the bot skeptically “uh, is that a robot?”
Pony-3 paces in place a moment before giving a proper greeting “oh, sorry. Hello I’m pony-3 and autonomous robotic intelligence that serves as the main operator of the substation control headquarters.”
The large metal towers between a massive crystal pulled magic up into large glass domes that focused and fired the magic into the crystal bringing forth a head that caused a few of the little ponies to drop. Apple bloom and scootalo stood in awe of the act as the head addressed them.
“Hello. I’m zordon. I am very pleased to meet you.” He looks over the five before noticing something off “wait. Are you-?”
Scootalo interrupts “whoa! Are you like some kind of super being or something?”
“What are you exactly?” apple bloom asks curiously.
“I’m a wizard trapped in an inter-dimensional anomaly.” He explains “now I-”
“Why are we here?” diamond demands
Pony-3 interjects to explain “zordon asked me to bring him five individuals who could help in our fight against evil. Those chosen are you, you are the pony rangers.”
“Cool!” sweetie calls
Silver spoon throws a hoof up “awesome!”
Scootalo adds “this is going to be the adventu-”
“NO!” zordon yells “I’m sorry but I won’t allow such young children to take on the incredibly dangerous responsibility of fighting against the forces of evil.”
“What?! Why not.” apple bloom asks “we go up against diamond tiara and silver spoon all the time.” Sweetie and scootalo snicker at the last part.
“HEY!” silver blurts loudly as diamond sticks out her tongue
Ignoring the two she continues “I don’t know what you are but I sense your trust worthy. Come on give us a chance.”
“A great show of courage from one so young but-”
Zordon’s cut off by a beeping noise from the monitors
Pony-3 scans the computers and screens “O, zordon I’ve lost the signal tracer. What do we do now?”
“Hey what’s the problem? How can we help?” scootalo asks hastily
“There is nothing you can do, I’m sorry but we will be looking for someone else to take on this responsibility” zordon says with kind sternness.
Silver spoon walks up to the large crystal housing the disembodied head “whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on just one second, you can’t just teleport us here letting us see all of this as well as telling us our lives and loved ones could be in danger and expect us to do nothing.” She scolds
“Yes he can” diamond says dismissively
Zordon expresses condolences to their concern “Everything is going to be fine, I promise once we find new recruits well-”
“What if this ‘evil’ attacks before you find new recruits?” She fires back stopping his explanation “look, at the moment you have noting, but with us you’ll have something so-”
Zordon raises his voice “I said no, I won’t put children in dangerous situations like this.”
Apple bloom steps up “silvers right, what if there’s an attack first. You need a place holder; at least until you find your replacements, after that we’ll just walk away no ands, ifs, or buts.”
Zordon ponders a as pony-3 reminds him of the danger before summoning the morphers which appear on their wrists as oval stones with a carved picture in them “alright.” The fillies all cheer in excitement except diamond “settle down.” Zordon asks politely “Now than I’m going to entrust you with these magic morphers and teach you how to activate them, however as to the current arrangement I want you to keep low and only use them when absolutely necessary.” The fillies all agree as zordon continues “very well, each morpher is tied to a shared power source and gives command of a specific mytho-zord when combined they will form the formidable mythology-zord. Scootalo; courageous and head strong you’ll command the cragadile zord.” A black light sweeps over her. “Diamond tiara; smart and imaginative you shall command the tatzlworm zord” a wave of pink light sweeps over her. “Silver spoon; wise and loyal you command the ursa zord.” A blue light sweeps over her. “Sweetie belle; tactful and cunning you control the manticore zord.” Yellow light sweeps over her. “Finally apple bloom;
strength and determination you are the commander of the phoenix zord and leader of the team.”
“Why does she get to be leader?” diamond protest
“Because she’s exceptionally qualified and has a show of humility and patients best befitting a true leader.” That seems to shut her up. “One last thing, there are some very important rules you should know about being a pony ranger. Pony-3”
Pony-3 walks back up to the fillies “Yes zordon.” He answers “alright little ones pay attention. Rule one- never revel your identity to anyone. Rule two- you may never use you ability’s for personal gain or ill content. Rule three- you are the defenders of the world and as such should never be the ones to attack or escalate battle unless forced. Do you understand these rules?”
“Yes sir!” they answer diamond seeming irritated all the while.
Zordon request their attention again “alright now pay attention, in order to use the morphers you must hold them up calling the name of your creature. Understand?” they answer him understanding “good, now go back to ponyville and keep an eye out for now, but please do stay out of trouble and remember only use your powers in emergencies. For the moment you’re the world’s only hope against this evil. For now you are the magic morphin pony rangers, good luck”.
“You can count on us zordon.” Apple bloom reassures as they turn into light of their own color and fly off.
“Good luck pony rangers.” Pony-3 exclaims.
Apple bloom and the others materialize back in sugar cube corner.
“Okay, what now?” sweetie asks
Scootalo ponders “well zordon said to be on alert but not to go looking for trouble.”
“Like we’d do that” diamond scoffs
Sweetie fakes being in pain “I…I ha- I hate to…admit…it” she straightens up talking normally “but she’s kind of right on this one.”
“So what should we do ‘leader’?” diamond asked mockingly
Silver bumped diamond hushingly as apple bloom pondered “I don’t know. Go to the fund raiser and then go home, I guess.”
The four of them shrug at the lack luster plan in understanding and exit the building. As they enter the town from the building they see everything is deserted. The stands the other fillies spent hours building were empty, some even smashed or worst. There was an eerie silence over the entire area.
Silver ducked her head folding her ears down “I don’t like this. Its scary quiet” she exclaimed somewhat frightened.
The fillies search the area cruises as to what happened. Scootalo looks up to the stage where I look as if some sort of fight had happened. She walks toward the curtain as it slightly ruffles more and more on her approach, when she reaches for it a large grey pony with dark grey hooves and face burst from back stage as others with the same pattern surround the little fillies.
Apple bloom runs up the stage stairs charging the strange pony bucking it only to be bucked back and sent flying into scootalo both tumbling off the stage and onto the ground. Sweetie belle runs to them but is charged and tackled by another of the strange ponies. Diamond and silver spoon stand surrounded when diamond decides to make a break for it but one of the ponies blocks her escape as it proceeds to knock her away into sweetie belle, shortly after their corralled over to apple bloom and scootalo who are both surrounded.
Silver spoon decides to run for help only to be halted by the grey ponies. She turns to buck one of them getting smacked away causing her to flip into the air and land on her side, the others watch as she’s surrounded by more grey ponies. Silver looks to the morpher on her foreleg coming to the conclusion that this definitely counts as an emergency.
She removes the device from her leg holding it up with both fore hooves proclaiming “URSA!”
The others watch as the ponies go flying away from silver spoon one after the other. Finally with the last gone and the rest focused on her, they catch a glimpse of the filly turned pony ranger. Her suite is a bright blue color with a white belt and gloves for all four hooves with a helmet styled like an ursa head with a black visor along the area of the eyes across it.
As the grey ponies charge the ranger the others leap to their hooves grabbing their morphers mimicking what silver spoon just did proclaiming the name of their creature loudly.
“cragadile!” scootalo yells
“tatzlwurm!” diamond announces
“Manticore!” sweetie belle squeaks loudly
“Phoenix!” apple bloom declares
In a flash they are all wearing suites similar to silvers, but in their own color and their helmets design fitting their specific creature.
“Whoa! This is awesome!” sweetie says looking over her suite
“I have to admit, I feel…good” diamond complements
“Hey!” silver calls “less gawking and more help please!” she asked annoyed as she kicks away another menacing pony.
The now pony rangers look to apple bloom who quickly notices their stares
“What? Oh, oh right. Uhhhh, CHARGE!”
The four charge in to fight the grey ponies, each finds themselves doing exceptionally well against the malevolent ponies that had earlier given them trouble.
“heyah! Take that!” scootalo yells
Apple bloom bucks one sending it flying into the stage “HA! That’s for bucking me and scoots earlier.”
As the pony rangers demonstrate their new abilities the grey pony foes run off in the opposite direction.
“Hey there getting away!” diamond calls out
“Oh, no they’re not!” Sweetie rebukes
Apple bloom raised a hoof pointing at the fleeing foes “after them!”
They give chase to the grey ponies as they run form sugar cube corner to the middle of town where other ponies can be seen hiding in homes and bushes in fear as the moonions guard against escapees. The girls see a large creature pacing back and forth in golden armor brandishing a sword.
“Twilight sparkle, If you care about your precious town and its inhabitants you’ll reveal yourself and submit.” goldar cries loudly, his voice rings out into the quite town street.
The moonions run right up to goldar ducking their heads and spouting weird noises as he stomps up to them.
“What! What do you mean retreat? What’s going on you useless idiots?” he looks up seeing five different colored ponies.
“What? No, NO! This can’t be. You’re not them!”
“Okay that thing is weird” diamond comments
“Is that the great evil zordon warned us about?” sweetie asks
Scootalo scoffs “he’s not so tuff”
Silver sighs at scootalo “he’s big monkey in armor holding a sword.”
“I’m. A. GORILLA!” he roars charging the rangers
The pony rangers charge the gorilla knight. He swings his sword as they dodged, ducked, and even flipped out of the way of his weapon before coming up with the plan to run in a circle as he swung missing the circling ponies. They stop every few seconds to buck him around a bit before diamond positioned herself behind him as apple bloom stopped in front of him bucking him back as he trips over diamonds back falling to the ground.
“Had enough?” apple bloom asked ferociously
Goldar laughed “on the contrary, I’m just getting started.”
He leaps to his feet swinging his sword striking diamond and sweetie belle. Sparks fly form their suites as the fly back. Apple bloom and silver spoon jump up double drop kicking goldar away.
As the fogged voice watched she got an idea and quickly formed a hollow moon rock pony with slits for eyes as well as on going down the neck and a hole in the back. The fog entered the hollow rock as it followed from the slit in the neck and hole forming what seemed like a mane and tail. The statue cracked and broke in correlations to joints locations as she forced the head and legs to move. She aimed down the horn on her new head firing a beam of magic that struck goldar making him grow in size.
Goldar walks through the town laughing victoriously as he stomps down attempting to crush the pony rangers. They dive out of the way in the nick of time
“What the?” diamond said panicking
“That’s not fair; he was already bigger than us! Now he’s a giant!” silver spoon said dumfounded
“Then it’s time to even the odds!” she places her hoof to the side of her head “Zordon; we need those mytho-zords you mentioned.”
“Oh, no. what do we do zordon?” pony-3 pleaded
Zordon answered “the mytho-zords are yours to command, call them forth and they will surly come.”
“Got it!” apple bloom answered before looking to her fellow rangers “phoenix zord descend!” she said striking a bird like pose as the phoenix zord flew through the sky.
“Ursa come forth!” silver spoon called striking a bear like poses while the appeared from the forest.
“manticore zord charge!” sweetie belle yelled taking a predatory pose while the manticore zord swiftly ran through the forest.
“cragadile emerged!” scootalo calls striking a crocodile pose as the cragadile zord rose from a nearby lake.
“taztelwurm arise!” diamond tiara declared as the taztelwurm zord rose from underground.
The five lunge into the air and into their zords. All five find themselves strangely able to operate their zords as if they always knew how.
“Wow! It’s like I’ve always known how to work this” diamond comments
The five zords charge across the terrain toward a ready goldar, the phoenix swooping down forcing him to duck away as the manticore zord swipes at him and the taztelwurm zord throws him in the air. Goldar recovers landing on his feet taunting the rangers.
“Is that the best you can do? Pathetic”
“Okay everypony lets bring it together.” Apple bloom commands
“Yea!” the others cry in excitement
They active the joining sequence, causing the cragadile and manticore zords to fold in on their selves forming arms as the cragadile tail flies of into the sky as the head comes together at the sides forming a shield. The ursa zords head and legs fold into the body as it opens forming the base as the cragadile connects to the left side and the manticore to the right. The tatelawurm zord pulls in half as the head and tail form feet taking their place as the legs. Finally the phoenix zord folds up reviling a face and the wings connect to each side in a spread out manor.
“Zordon they formed the mythology zord!” pony-3 yells with delight
“Maybe now they’ll have a chance.” Zordon comments hopefully.
Goldar and the newly formed zord face off as he steps menacingly toward the zord. Goldar strikes the zord with his sword hitting it but the ponies retaliate with a kick to the shin and a punch to the chest.
“That didn’t do anything!” scootalo yells in angered disbelief
“Maybe not, but this will, tail sword.” Apple bloom declares loudly
The cragadile tail descends from the sky as the mythology zord catches it. The zord swings the sword hitting goldar who stumbles back a bit before swinging his own sword. The first blow is blocked by the shield, but the second strike hits the zord dead on. The ponies shake as the zord is struck.
“Come on girls, we can do this!” apple bloom says raising their spirits.
Goldar swings only for the zord to catch his sword and use it to throw him forwards. As he falls they strike him in the back with the tail sword followed by a smack to the face with their shield as he turns around.
Goldar comes to the conclusion that this fight isn’t worth the risk “this isn’t the end rangers, mark my words” he places his fist on his chest
disappearing.
“WOHOO!” the girls yell
Pony-3 dances with delight as zordon breathes a sigh of relief “that was to close, but they managed to pull victory in their favor”
Goldar rematerializes on the moon seeing the fogged voices moon stone body
“Who are you?” he says threatening
The voice chuckles “goldar, I- am nightmare moon!”
“GAH! Mistress forgive me.” He begs dropping to one knee bowing “those pony rangers they-”
The stone form of nightmare moon “fear not my loyal general; I too am surprised by their arrival. If they are anything like these other rangers you mentioned” she looks menacingly with cold stone eyes toward the world below “they will be dealt with, in time.”
“Yes, mistress” goldar relies standing up
“For now I still need a body” she says turning her back on the planet “and we need a plan.”
“Mistress Nightmare moon” he says gaining her attention “I think I just got an idea of where to get you a body.” He says grinning
“Really?” she states somewhat surprised “very well, first I want you to ‘collect’ a few things for me.”
As the two forces on the on the moon skim the pony rangers return to zordons underground headquarters.
“That was awesome with the BOOM,and the BAM, and heyah ” scootalo states all worked up on adrenalin and excitement.
Diamond notices zordons expression “okay, what’s the problem? Of all of us here you should be the most excited.”
Silver spoon glares at her “look zordon, I know you took a chance on us and we didn’t exactly keep a-”
“No, diamond tiara is right” he interrupts
“What!” diamond and the cmc’s collectively blurt, diamond realizing what happened glaring at them.
Zordon continues “I misjudged you; I assumed you wouldn’t be able to handle the power and responsibility. You’ve proven me wrong and for my perceived notions I’m sorry. You are all acceptingly skilled and dedicated to the roll of a pony ranger. I couldn’t be prouder, nor more appreciative of being proven wrong. You all may continue to act as equestrias defenders, however given the circumstances, if you ever feel that it is too much or it becomes too dangerous you may step down and replacements found.”
The five look over one another nodding in agreement as apple bloom steps forth “you can count on us zordozordon, we’ll never quite. We’ll keep fighting until all of equestria is safe from goldar and his allies.”
“Thank you pony ranger, may the magic protect you”
THE END
Go, go pony rangers
Go, go pony rangers
Go, go pony rangers, you magic morphing pony rangers