POWER RANGERS STARFLEET (Starfleet Humans:)

by DakariKingMykan

Episode 4: Going Underground

EPISODE FOUR

Monday morning, and despite all that happened, School still continued, which meant the rangers still had to keep up their studies and classes.

Of course, since practically everyone knew who the rangers were, their popularity had sky-rocketed around campus. Students flocked all over them practically asking for their autographs or to take selfies with them. Even the school clubs invited the rangers to join their societies with a promise of more popularity, which of course each ranger refused… it wasn’t about fame to them, and it wasn’t a game either, but they did give out a couple of autographs and let a few pictures be taken here and there.

Sadly, Twilight felt isolated from the rest of her friends as she watched them please the crowds of fans. She wasn’t a ranger, and nobody knew she was the one aiding them. No one was allowed to know either.

“You okay, Twilight?” Spike whispered. He was careful not to let other people know he could speak.

“Oh, I’m okay.” Twilight said “Come on, we had to drop you off with Principal Celestia so she can look after you while I have class.”

She scooped him up in her backpack and walked into the school through a side entrance, away from all the crowds, but as she walked down the hall some of the students did look her way, but didn’t bother to say anything to her.

Some still remembered her as the evil Midnight Sparkle, despite that was months ago.

Some of the students she could even hear remarking.

“Look, it’s the evil one.”

“She hides it well behind those glasses of hers.”

“Innocent on the outside… a heart of black inside.”

She simply ignored them, knowing fully well she was not truly evil and long since mended her ways since she came to be a student at Canterlot High.

…but, she still felt a little hurt, a little downhearted, and Spike as a dog could sense this. “You’re really alright, huh?” he asked.

Twilight sighed “Sometimes I can’t just help but think back when I was an anti-social study-geek, and even though I’ve got friends these days I still can’t help but feel a little different from the others.”

Spike rolled his eyes, still unable to believe she still let it get to her like this.

“Talking to yourself again?” said a rude voice.

Twilight looked on ahead, and saw a girl about a foot taller than she was, with long blonde hair, wearing a tilted pink beret with a matching pink sweater and white wind breaker.

This was Nikki Trent, a popular girl at the school, but definitely a Queen Bee who liked to insult other students she regarded as nerdy.

With her were her two underlings, Amber and Dionne. Amber had long red hair and wore a black shirt with tan pants, and Dione had long black hair and she wore a white T-shirt with matching white pants.

Together, they were called “The Jazzies” a rather odd name, but Nikki picked it and no one dared question her about it for fear of her wrath.

“No, she was talking to her little hamster again.” Amber teased.

Spike growled at them, but he didn’t speak so not to break his cover.

“He’s not a hamster. He’s a dog.” Twilight corrected the girls.

“Like, whatever.” sneered Dionne.

Twilight decided to ignore the girls and continued to walk on her way, but Nikki put her foot out and tripped her. Twilight fell to the floor and her glasses fell off.

“See that, you can’t even stand on your own feet, geek.” Nikki laughed.

Twilight felt really annoyed and Spike leapt out of the bag and barked at Nikki. “Whoa, what’s your problem?” Nikki sneered at Spike, but the little dog just continued to bark at her.

“Either you shut up your little mutt or we’ll shut you both down!” Nikki threatened.

Twilight stood up, and put her glasses back on. “Um… can you repeat what you just said, I’m not sure the Principal heard what you said.”

The girls turned round and saw Principal Celestia standing behind them, glaring angrily at them with her arms folded. “Ladies…” she said with a deep sneer.

Nikki and the others stuttered and stammered, and then they just ran off.

Celestia sighed, and then took Spike from Twilight.

“I’m really sorry about this.” Twilight said.

“Never mind…” Celestia said while smiling at her “But I really think it would be easier if you put Spike in a day camp, than letting me look after him all day. I can’t always watch him for you, you know.”

“I can’t afford a day camp.” said Twilight “And no one else I know can watch over him.”

The bell rang, and they had to end their little discussion so Twilight to get to class. “You behave yourself.” she said to Spike, kissing him on his little nose and then walked off down the hall.

Celestia couldn’t help but notice the faint tears in the back of Twilight’s eyes as she turned away.

“Is she alright?” she quietly asked Spike.

“Oh, it’s the same old story again.”

Celestia sighed, “The poor dear.”

(Que Intro)

Later that same day, Bronc had released another prisoner for an idea he had.

“Master Vulcan…!”

Vulcan approached the duo and he gazed at the monster; a mole like creature, wearing a hate with spikes atop his head, and his teeth were as sharps as blades. He seemed a little chubby but strong and tough nonetheless.

“What can this creature do, Bronc?” Vulcan asked.

“Groundling has the power to tunnel his way beneath the ground.”

Groundling spoke in a thick Brooklyn accent “I’ll make them rangers fall in so deep they hardly remember what happened. They’ll be outta’ your hair faster than you can say “Hole in the ground.”

Bronc nodded, “I even plan to accompany him this time, if you will permit me, sir.”

Vulcan hesitated and thought it over “Very well, Bronc, but Marla shall go with you as well.”

Bronc didn’t like the sound of that, and neither did Marla. “Excuse me, but I just did my nails. Why can’t Keto go?”

“Hey!” sneered Keto “Maybe it’s about time you did something useful around here besides looking in your mirror all day.”

“Ah!” snapped Marla “Why you little…!”

“Enough!” shouted Vulcan “I said you will go with them, Marla… NOW!!”

Marla winced, and then she wined “But my nails are still wet.”

Vulcan angrily zapped them with a blazing blast, turning them from pink to black, making her scream in horror. “And Guess what I’ll roast next if you don’t get going!” thundered Vulcan, he hinted at her long pink hair.

“Okay, Okay… I’ll go!”

Bronc sighed as he and groundling prepared to depart, and Vulcan walked off growling in annoyance!

At lunch Twilight was sitting alone at a table in the cafeteria. Normally her friends joined her, but once again they were held up by another mob of fans wanting more autographs and pictures. Some girls even tried to get Buddy Rose’s phone number.

Twilight couldn’t help but think of that song she once sang…

Finally, the others managed to break from the crowds, get their lunches and meet Twilight at the table.

“Wow, I never thought being popular was so hard.” said Fluttershy.

Rainbow acted smug as she sat down, “Yep, but you get used to it. That’s how it was with me when I became captain of nearly every sports team on campus.”

As the friends continued to chat on, Sunset noticed Twilight feeling a little down. “Is everything okay?” she asked.

Twilight sighed, “How many people are going to ask me that today?” she grumbled.

“Well, excuse me.”

Twilight apologized for being gruff, “I assure you guys, I’m fine.”

Nikki came along with her stooges and teased, “Yeah, she’s just upset because she’s nerdy and not popular.”

The girls laughed, but the rangers were not amused at all and poor Twilight, having had a lot of that combined with her sorry feelings all day, she ran from the table and out into the school yard.

“Twilight!” called Buddy, but she was already gone. “Nikki, that was low!”

“You talkin’ to me?” Nikki sneered.

Buddy growled.

Meanwhile, Twilight had already raced out to the ball field in back of the school. She tripped over a rock and fell to the ground, losing her glasses again.

She actually began to cry. She felt so silly to be fretting this much over her past and pretty much her present insecurities.

“What’s wrong with me?” she sobbed to herself “I can’t let this keep getting me down!”

Suddenly, the ground she lay on began to rumble, and before she could react to anything, the ground just collapsed into a huge hold and she fell through, leaving her glasses behind.

She slide down a long rocky tunnel and had fallen into a deep cavern, with torches burning along the walls, but without her glasses and being in the dark she could hardly see too well.

“What’s going on?” she called out “Where am I?” She tried to walk forward, but because she couldn’t see two generator pillars, she walked right into an invisible force-field that shocked her and threw her back.

Bronc, Groundling and Marla approached her. “Hey, you’re not a power ranger.” growled Groundling.

Now Twilight was more than convinced she was in real trouble, surrounding by creeps working for Vulcan! “Who are you? What are you doing to me?”

Marla took one look at Twilight and scoffed “Ugh… it’s just another nerdy kid. Look at that ponytail and that sweater and tie. Ack!”

“Does anyone mind if I munch her down. I could use a snack.” said Groundling.

Twilight shuddered nervously.

“No, wait…!” snapped Bronc “She may not be a ranger, but she’s the perfect bait we need to lure into our clutches.”

The trio snickered, while Twilight shivered with worry!

Back in the lunchroom…

“Tell me, why do you guys hang out with that geek-girl anyway?” Nikki rudely asked.

“Let’s think… uh… because she’s our friend!” said Rainbow.

Amber and Dionne snickered, “You guys so missed the new trend this year.” said Amber, and Dionne added, “Totally… Popular peeps like you and us don’t hang with her kind.”

Rhymey stood and said to the mean girls…

“Well we prefer things our way.
And friends with Twilight we shall stay!
You’ll pardon me if say with fuss,
But popularity means nothing to us!”

Amber and Dionne gasped, and Nikki looked as if she swallowed a fly “Nothing? Popularity… means… NOTHING?!”

The other rangers agreed, “We don’t need to be popular to know we’re all special, and neither does Twilight.” said Fluttershy

Sunset nodded and then suggested they all look for Twilight like real friends would.

They all ran out the door into the field.

“Twilight…!” Sunset called out.

“Hey, Twilight!” Rainbow shouted.

“You, hoo…
Where are you!” Rhymey hollered.

Celestia came along with Spike, giving him his afternoon walk during lunch break, and getting herself some much needed fresh air due to her pregnancy, when she saw the students in the yard.

“What are you all doing out here?” she asked.

“We’re looking for Twilight.” replied Fluttershy.

“What? What happened to her?” Spike asked in concern.

Before anyone could explain “Guys, over here, quick!” Buddy Rose hollered

Everyone ran over to where he was, and he held up a pair of glasses he found lying on the ground. Everyone recognized the style of frames anywhere, and Spike sniffed them, “Yep, they’re Twilight’s alright.”

They had no idea what had happened to her. The hole in the ground was gone, as if it had never been there to begin with.

“Something is definitely not right here.” said Rainbow “She wouldn’t run off and leave these here.”

“But where is she?” asked Fluttershy.

“We better keep looking.” suggested Sunset.

“I’ll go and call Celesto.” said Celestia, and she headed for the school, leaving Spike in the rangers’ care as he wanted to stay behind and help look for Twilight too.

Fluttershy and Rhymey stayed with Spike while the others all split up and looked all around the schoolyard, front and back.

Spike sniffed all over the area where they found Twilight’s glasses. He was able to pick up her scent, but only from the doors to the lunchroom right up to the spot where the glasses were found. “Nothing.” he said “It’s like she vanished into thin air.”

The two rangers felt they weren’t getting anywhere with this.

As for the others…

Buddy Rose checked near the gardens he had planted, still calling out to Twilight hoping for an answer, but he got none.

“Where is she?” he grumbled.

Suddenly, he could feel the ground vibrating beneath his feet. “Whoa!!” he cried as he fell through a large hole that opened wide.

Rainbow saw that as she came round the corner. “Buddy!” she cried, but then she herself fell through the ground.

Sunset came round the corner herself, having heard the shouts. “Rainbow, Buddy…?” she called, but she stopped dead in her tracks when she could see the two holes in the ground…

…the two holes magically seemed to vanish without a trace.

She ran up to where one of the holes was, and found what appeared to be a rainbow wristband—Rainbow Dash’s wristband-- lying on the ground.

“Guys!!” Sunset shouted as she ran to catch up to the others.

“Sunset…?” Fluttershy hollered, but suddenly she and Rhymey felt the ground vibrating.

“Watch out!” shouted Spike and he rushed right into the two knocking them out of the way as another hole opened.

Fluttershy broke out into a near faint.

Rhymey felt just as freaked out as well, and Sunset dashed up to them all telling them about Buddy and Rainbow. “I think it’s safe to say they didn’t just vanish.” said Sunset.

The others agreed, and then they felt the ground vibrating again.

“Come on…!
…Run!” shouted Rhymey, and they all got off the field as quick as their legs could run.

“That was scary!” cried Fluttershy “I don’t think I can take another surprise like that.”

Suddenly, their coms beeped, and she jumped into Rhymey’s arms, but quickly calmed down.

Sunset tapped on her morpher, “This is Sunset.”

It was Celesto calling, “Celestia told me what’s been happening, and just now the monitors register small amounts of seismic activity all over the schoolyard.”

“We know…” replied Sunset “There were strange holes appearing in the ground. We’re pretty sure Twilight, Buddy Rose and Rainbow Dash got swallowed by them. Can you help us find them?”

“Already working on it…”

A moment of silence followed as Celesto worked the computers to locate the sources of the other rangers’ morphers. “I’ve got them! They’re in a small cavern at the southern beach, a few miles from your current location. I’ve already prepared a jump tube for you.”

“We’re on our way.” said Sunset.

She then triple clicked on her morpher, which scouted out and scanned the location of the nearest jump-tube. “Here, in the wall.”

She felt around for a secret switch, and one of the bricks pressed inward revealing the jump-tube. “Let’s go!” she said to the others, and they all jumped in. Fluttershy even brought Spike along with them.

“WHOA!! This is scary… but fun too.” Spike shouted as they all soared along.

Meanwhile, Buddy and Rainbow found themselves trapped in the cave along with Twilight, kept bound by the same barrier keeping her in.

They tried to morph or contact the others, but their morphers didn’t function. “It’s no use, rangers.” said Bronc “The electo-magnetic waves of that force-field have blocked out the keys to your powers. There’s nothing more you can do but sit and wait.”

Marla snickered “It’ll only be a matter of time before we get the rest of your ranger crew, and then… it’ll be lights out for the lot of you! Master Vulcan will be very pleased.”

“You won’t get away with this, you ugly creeps!” snarled Buddy Rose.

Marla took extreme offense to that “You… called me… UGLY?!?!” she screamed. It was so annoying the prisoners covered their ears. Even Bronc was annoyed.

“The last person who called me ugly… I broke him in half!” snarled Marla “You’re punishment will be way worse!”

“Calm down, Marla…” sneered Bronc “We must be ready to capture the remaining rangers…”

“Hey!!” Someone called out from outside the cave

“…And I think I hear them now.”

Upon arriving at the beach, the rangers and Spike could see the cave up ahead, and Sunset called out to them “Twilight… Buddy… Rainbow…!”

The only response was wicked laughter as Marla, Bronc and a swarm of Lingos marched out of the cave. “Well, well, you finally showed.” Marla sneered at them.

The team had never seen these two before, but already could tell they were really dangerous, and obviously more of Vulcan’s followers.

“What have you done with our friends?” Fluttershy demanded, but then she softened up “Um… please…”

“They are safe, for the moment.” replied Bronc, “But if you ever wish to see them again, you will surrender to us immediately.”

The rangers were losing their patience.

“Like we’d do that,
You dirty rat!” snarled Rhymey.

“Wrong answer!” shouted Marla, and she motioned for the Lingos to attack!

“Let’s go!” shouted Sunset, and without even morphing, she and the others jumped into battle.

Fluttershy threw a bunch of sand at a Lingo’s face and then kicked it hard to the ground. Another tried to grab her, but she swerved and then grabbed it by the arm, flipping it down.

Rhymey flipped over a few rocks as three Lingos leapt over after him. He punched one…

“Up High…!”

He kicked another…

“Down low…!”

The last one lunged straight at him…

“In the middle…!”

He ducked down and trip-kicked the creature over, “…Too slow!”

Sunset already had knocked the rest of the Lingos that attacked her away, but suddenly she was ensnared by Marla’s long hair, like being wrapped in a vine.

“Let go of me!”

Marla laughed, “Now why would I and to do that.”

“Sunset!” cried Fluttershy. She and Rhymey charged to help her, but Bronc leapt out in front of them “Going somewhere?”

The two tried and tried to get past him, but Bronc shoved them back really hard with his great strength.

“We’re inviting you to have lunch with a special friend of ours.” hissed Bronc. That’s when the ground rumbled, and in a huge burst, Groundling popped out, snarling and laughing wickedly “Yo’ when’s lunch already!”

The rangers felt frightened.

“Struggling and fear only makes him hungrier.” Marla teased.

From inside the cave, the others, unguarded, heard everything. Buddy Rose even gave Twilight back her glasses so she could see better.

“Sounds like the others are in big trouble.” said Buddy “We’ve got to try and help them!”

Rainbow tried, foolishly, to break through the barrier by charging at it, only to get thrown back every time. “Well, anyone else got an idea?”

Twilight, now able to see, got a good look at the generator pillars that powered the barrier. “If we could just knock the generators over somehow, it could disarm the shield.”

“But how can we do that?” asked Buddy.

Twilight suddenly remembered that the shield was using electro-magnetic charges. She turned to face Buddy “Give me your belt.”

“Huh?”

“I’ve got an idea.”

Curious, Buddy gave her his belt, “I hope this works.”

“What are you doing?” asked Rainbow.

Twilight shaped the belt as a loop snare “If I’m right, the cloth material of the belt strap should pass through the field.”

She then tossed the strap, and sure enough, it passed through the field and grabbed round the pillar. Then she gave a huge pull, yanking the pillar, snapping it at its base. It fell to the ground shorting out, and with its destruction, the other pillars couldn’t control the power-flow and shorted out, disarming the shield.

“All right Twilight!” Rainbow cheered.

“Ha! Come here you!” Buddy said giving her a friendly noogie.

As much as Twilight felt grateful and flattered, as well as a little better with her confidence in herself being restored, she motioned to her friends to go and help the others quick.

Outside, Bronc held Rhymey and Fluttershy up by their collars so they couldn’t run or fight back and Marla still had Sunset trapped in her hair, while Groundling was licking his choppers ready to chow. “I haven’t had a good meal in two-hundred years. Much better than them jail foods they always served!”

“Hurry up!” whined Marla “We haven’t got all day.”

“Alright already…! Sheesh! What a grouch!”

Nonetheless, he stomped forth ready to chow some rangers, when suddenly he got blasted at from behind. “Hey!”

Bronc and Marla suddenly got lashed by the end of a plasma whip, causing Bronc to drop Fluttershy and Rhymey, and the whip slashed through the end of Marla’s hair, freeing Sunset.

“MY HAIR…!!” Marla screamed in terror as she clutched her snipped hair.

Buddy and Rainbow, already morphed, stepped out from the cave holding their weapons. “Did you miss us?” Rainbow teased.

“They’ve escaped!” cried Bronc.

Sunset and the others were most pleased, “Looks like your plan’s about to backfire bigtime.” She said to the villains.

The villains growled angrily!

The unmorphed rangers stood together, ready to go. “It’s Morhpin’ time!” said Sunset.

“Morphing Sequence… Ready!”

“STARFLEET MAGIC…!! …POWER ON!!”

Once morphed, all five rangers stood together and called out their mottos.

Sunset: “Evil’s Dread! Starfleet Red!”

Buddy Rose: “Let’s make the scene. Starfleet Green!”

Rainbow: “We’ll see things through. Starfleet Blue!”

Rhymey: “Though peace and Woe! Starfleet Yellow!”

Fluttershy: “Quick as a Wink! Starfleet Pink!”

“…POWER RANGERS… STARFLEET!!”

The villains were growing impatient, and the rangers all held out their weapons. Let’s get ‘em!” shouted Sunset, and she and the rangers charged forth.

Fluttershy and Rhymey charged at Bronc, wanting to get back at him. Fluttershy got knocked away, but Rhymey managed to slash at him with his sword, only to then get punched hard and knocked away.

Marla extended her nails into sharp claws, and hissed at Rainbow and Buddy. “Come on!” she thundered.

The two rangers came at her with all they had, but Marla successfully knocked Rainbow’s cannon away and kicked her hard, and just as Buddy Rose was about to sneak from behind with his whip, Marla swiftly leapt up and behind him, slashing twice with her claws and making spark fly as Buddy got knocked away… “That was for slashing my hair!”

As for Sunset, she tried firing blasts from her scepter at Groundling, but his body was so big and pudgy the attacks hardly made him flinch, “That best you got, toots?”

“I’ll show you!” snarled Sunset as she rushed forth, but collided right into Groundling’s spongey gut, springing right off of him.

“Ooh, that tickled, but this won’t!” said Groundling, then his teeth, claws and the spikes on his helmet glowed and her swiftly burrowed underground.

The Rangers all grouped together, but not one of them could tell where the monster was.

Suddenly, they could all see the patches of ground coming straight at them as Groundling moved in close

“LOOK OUT!!” cried Fluttershy, but everyone already got struck hard as Groundling burst through ground like a missile and struck them all with his claws.

“Can ya dig it!” the monster teased.

Bronc and Marla were very amused and pleased with the progress as they joined their ally by his side goading at the rangers. “Face it rangers, this is your end.” sneered Marla.

“We’re not through yet, not by a longshot!” said Sunset. The other rangers agreed.

“Wrong answer!” shouted Bronc, and he fired two huge beams from the eyes of his helmet.

The rangers all jumped out of the way avoiding the blast, and the villains charged for them again…

…Only to suddenly step into small ditches in the ground making them fall.

“What’s happened?” asked Buddy.

That’s when Spike leapt out, looking very dirty and saying “I happened…” and he told the others how he, unnoticed by all had dug small holes along the ground like the dog he was, “figured it would slow ‘em down for you.”

“Good boy, Spike!” Sunset said as she patted his head “Alright, before they recover let’s bring ‘em together.”

The rangers agreed and combined their weapons.

“Star Smasher… Ready!”

The villains looked up, “Oh, no!” cried Marla “I’m outta here!” and she quickly activated her transporter, teleported away.

“Get back here!” shouted Bronc.

“Hey look!” cried Groundling, as the rangers stood ready for the kill. “Time to Shine!” shouted Sunset, and she and the rangers all shouted together…

“…STAR SLAMMER, ULTRA-STRIKE!!”

“Look out!” Bronc cried as he zipped out of the way, but Groundling had already gotten slammed by the attack, and even his helmet didn’t protect him.

He fell to the ground and was nearly ready to explode…

…But Vulcan saw everything on his computer screen! “Keto…!!” he hollered.

“I’m on it…” replied Keto as he hopped to the window. “…FORTISSIMO!!” launching his magical Mugic out and off to Groundling’s aid…

…and Groundling turned into a giant! “From the ground up!” he thundered.

Bronc was impressed too, but the ranger gawked and grunted irritably.

Sunset then contacted the base, “…Launch Star Jets!”

“Summon Zords!”

As the base, the jets were already well prepped up and launched at once through the tunnel.

The jets arrived near the beach in almost no time, and the rangers beamed into their cockpits. “Okay, the ground this creep!” said Sunset.

“Zords Combine!”

“Jet-Star Megazord… Ready!”

Once the megazord was fully mobilized, it was time to brawl.

“URGH!! I’ll ground y’all into bits of gravel!” Groundling growled as he stomped forth.

“Bring it on, Big Boy!” Rainbow sneered.

The big hulks collided together through their fists and claws at one another. The megazord tried to punch the monster in his gut, but ricocheted right off the pudgy, spongey creature, which gave Groundling the chance to slash at the rangers hard and knocking the megazord onto its back.

“Come on, guys!” Buddy hollered as they all pulled hard to stand back upright.

Twilight and Spike watched from the cave entrance, and Bronc watched from where he was, not even notice them as he was too preoccupied with the battle going on. “Finish them off!” he hollered up

“Come on, guys! Don’t give up!” said Twilight

Just as the megazord got back on its feet, Groundling decided, “Going down…” and he burrowed again.

“Where’d he go?” asked Fluttershy.

“I don’t know!” rhymed Rhymey.

Sunset then spotted the rushing grounds coming before them “Swerve right!”

The megazord then jumped aside making Groundling miss his mark, but he rushed at them again.

“Now left!” said Sunset, and the megazord dodged again.

Groundling popped up fuming angrily “That’s it, now let’s really Rock!”

He then curled up and did a huge rollout smash right into the megazord, rocking the rangers hard in the cockpit, and knocked them down again.

“Rock ‘N Roll!”

The rangers groaned and grumbled as they made the megazord stand upright again. “That’s it! Time to take this up a notch.” said Sunset.

With that, the megazord drew out its saber.

Groundling didn’t really seem to care and did another roll out straight for them.

“Now!” shouted Sunset, and with that, the megzord gave a huge slash, hitting Groundling hard as he came forth, making a huge shower of sparks fly and Groundling flopped onto his belly, but his claws and his teeth were totalled!

“Hey! My claws! My teeth!” he shouted.

“Alright, that got him!” said Rainbow.

“Right, let’s finish him off.” added Sunset.

“Star Saber… Engage!”

The Saber glowed brightly.

“STAR SLASH… GO!!”

The megazord waved the saber round, generating the shocking star, and slashed at Groundling, striking him hard, causing his body to jolt and flare, “I’VE HIT ROCK BOTTOM!!” he shouted… and he exploded!

Twilight and Spike cheered and rejoiced, but Bronc was outraged. “Vulcan won’t like this one bit!” he grumbled as he teleported away and was gone.

As the rangers rejoiced in the cockpit, the tractor beam was fired and Groundling was beamed inside, trapped in a sphere.

“Monster Captured. Mission Complete.”

Back at the prison tower, indeed Vulcan was not pleased with this failure, and as punishment he put Marla in charge of feeding time, giving her a cap, an apron and a trolley of food to feed all the prisoners in the entire tower. “What…?! Every single prisoner on every single floor?” she whined.

“That’s what you get for leaving the battle like a coward!” hissed Vulcan.

Bronc and Keto scoffed at her, but Vulcan turned to them and sneered “And the two of you may help her!”

“But, Master…” said Bronc.

“What? I didn’t do anything wrong.” added Keto.

“This was your plan Bronc, and you failed to beat a SINGLE ranger!” growled Vulcan. He then glared at Keto “And you; your growth spell is as ineffective as these two are!

…Now get to work! The prisoners need nourishment!”

The minions gazed out at all the floors and the many rows of prisoners hammering at their cells demanding to be fed.

While the minions contemplated over their long job ahead, Vulcan stomped off fuming, “I’m not done with you yet, Rangers. Not Yet!”

After sending the megazord back to the base to be refueled and ready for the next fight, the rangers and Twilight headed back to campus… feeling they would really have to catch up for missing a period or two, despite their duties and saving the island.

As they all walked down the hall, Twilight apologized for everyone getting into danger because of her. “I’ll try not to let my insecurities get me down so much again.”

“You shouldn’t really let them get to you at all, Twilight.” said Fluttershy. “You don’t have to be popular or anything, like that, to be special to us.”

“She’s right…” agreed Buddy Rose “You were the one cleverly bust down that barrier or Rainbow and I couldn’t have gotten out.”

Sunset put a comforting hand on Twilight’s shoulder, “I know how it feels to be haunted by my own insecurities, and believe me, it really stinks, but I know I’m better than that now, especially with all my friends around me and the good that I’ve done to now.”

The others all agreed, and Twilight felt a whole lot better.

“And this time remember it…” said Spike.

Twilight smiled, promising it.

As the friends walked along, they ran right into The Jazzies, and of course, Nikki was far from impressed to see the rangers hanging with Twilight and enjoying themselves. “I cannot believe you guys.” she scoffed. “I hate to say it, but you’ll never be as popular as me.”

Amber and Dionne agreed, but the gang gazed at her pitifully.

“We already told you this before,
We like our own ways, nothing more.” said Rhymey.

“That’s right.” sneered Rainbow “Twilight’s special to us just the way she is.”

“Besides…” added Twilight “If being popular means we have to be a stuck up diva, I’ll pass.”

Nikki gasped and nearly felt like fainting, and she did, right into Amber and Dionne’s arms.

“Oh, you guys are so going to rue the day you said that to us!” growled Amber.

“Totally.” added Dionne, and then she and amber dragged their miserable leader away, much to the gang’s humor, and they shared a good laugh.

Author's Note:

Lucky I managed to squeeze all this in. I almost exceeded the allowed WORD LIMIT (At least 4000 but not over 6000 words per episode.)

That's what happens when you add too much drama and other things when under MY rules

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[ponylover2]

awesome I'm enjoying this story