The Storm Rages
Livewire hovered through the streets of Canterlot, electricity crackling from every inch of his body. Looking out at the nearby citizens, he saw them quiver at him and his form and power. Casting a sinister gaze, he clicked his fingers, creating jagged gates of electricity that soon surrounded them and caused them to scream. They tried to run, but as they made contact with the electric cages, the energy shot all up their bodies and stunned them on the spot, while also causing their hairs to spike and frizz.
“Dinnae bother tryin’ ta escape. No-one can withstand a Nimbian’s weather powers,” he said to the rest of his captors. “And besides, the Power Rangers need an audience to witness their destruction. How ye humans always keep running away from the Wolfpack ah don’t know. We’re totally harmless; s’long as ye let us in...”
All he got from his prisoners were more whimpers and blubbering whines as he towered above them. He smirked at them while coiling lightning around his fingers, then sending it trailing through the cages, giving everyone gentle static shocks; yet still strong enough to make them flinch.
“What? Are ye scared of a little lightning?” He taunted, his hair erupting in the fashion of a tesla-ball. Volts spat out in every direction, with his hair thrashing and flailing with each and every one. “Bah! You earth folk are such babies. Why, when I was a lad, I was spitting these out with merely a thought.”
“That’s far enough!” Sunset called out from behind Livewire, with the rest of her Ranger team by her side. “Step away from those humans and set everyone free! Now!”
“Well, well, well. If it ain’t the ragtag children who’ve been giving my captain a right pain in the neck...” Livewire turned to face his prey, creaking the bones in his neck as he locked gazes with them. “You lasses have been a nuisance for the Wolfpack ever since you took down Preda’Tor. He and I would share drinks in the mess hall by the gallon, and now he’s buried on this wretched tomb planet.”
“If it’s any consolation, you’ll soon be joining him!” Rainbow Dash pointed her blasters at him. “We’re not scared of some human in a spandex suit!”
“It’s not SPANDEX!” Livewire howled, launching a chunky bolt of lightning through the Rainbooms’ legs, hitting the ground behind them. The resulting explosion launched them all towards Livewire, who threw his hands into the air and released more lightning, which danced and contorted through the skies before striking them in the back mid-flight. “That’s just an insult to us Nimbians. These suits represent who we are and the legacy we lead. To call them by such an unappealing name is just revolting; even for superheroes like yerselves.”
"Rrgh... He's strong!" Rainbow Dash struggled to find the energy to get back up. "And we haven't even had a chance to make our first hits yet!"
"I've barely even tapped in to my lightning powers yet, and already the Rangers are squirming by my feet. Honestly, the Captain keeping you all around is a mystery I may never unravel." Livewire snapped his wrist back to his hand, static shocks trailing between his fingers. "Between you and me, he should have given you mercy; cause clearly ye don't deserve to stay alive after these poor performances."
"And who are you to judge?" Sunset finally got back to her feet and readied her sword. "You're not a monster. You're a human! Why do you wanna serve the Wolfpack? What do you gain out of it?" Yelling, she charged towards Livewire, swinging her sword down at him.
Livewire immediately reacted to this and grabbed the sword with one hand, stopping it in its' tracks. He pulled Sunset towards her and kicked her in the chest with both feet before gliding over to her side again. "You wanna know why? Because I need to exert my power, and lord only knows my fellow Nimbians weren't gonna give me the chance."
Rainbow Dash let lasers fly, all of which hit Livewire in the back and caused him to stumble over Sunset's body. Snarling, he turned back to the rest of the rangers and watched as they all stood before him.
"Cheap shot." Livewire spat towards the ground.
"See what you think of this, then!" Rainbow Dash immediately modified her blasters, bringing them both together and coalescing the barrels together, creating a large gun with a pump underneath it. "Twin Blasters! Shotgun Mode!"
"You'll have to get close. And I don't do close-quarters!" Livewire clapped his hands together, sending a massive wave of electricity towards the Rangers.
"Terra Hammer!" Applejack swung it viciously into the ground, creating a massive stone spike that caught the lightning attack and detonated once it impacted, leaving the girls unharmed. "Think ya'll skipped a class on lightning that day!"
"Earthbending powers, eh? Oh, you're gonna be a fun lass to play with. Ah can tell it from the look on your face..." Livewire gave Applejack a sadistic grin and flew towards her, wings of pure electricity visible on his back. "Tempest Trident! Come to me now!" As he approached Applejack, he raised his hands into the air, causing a singular bolt of lightning to rain down upon him. He caught it and moulded the energy into a makeshift trident, before swinging it at the Rangers.
Applejack's hammer met with his trident, and Rarity's swords were soon to follow. Every strike they made was fast, but he was able to match them for speed and power. Every single time the weapons struck each other, literal sparks flew off and danced in the air around them momentarily before fizzling out. Neither side gave the other an inch, but eventually, Livewire's strikes were too much for the girls to match, and he broke through, poking both of them with the tips of his trident.
He stomped forward, trying to drive the weapon further, but Rainbow Dash's shotgun blasted him in the back, causing him to fall to his knees. Pinkie was quick to follow with a pair of uppercuts, with her cannons launching as she made her strike. Livewire was sent flying, and Fluttershy's flute followed up with a dive from the falcon, before Sunset caught the falling Wolfpack agent with a shockwave hurled from her flame sword.
"Ya think this is powerful? This is nothing compared to the pain I had to go through!" Livewire growled loudly, the energy in his hair growing in power with every second. "But why should I let you know about my story when you're about to die?" He clicked his fingers, and a group of Hounds appeared before him. Driving his trident into the ground, he created electrical veils around each of the footsoldiers. "Voltaic Hounds! CRUSH THE POWER RANGERS!"
"Voltaic Hounds?" Sunset could only watch as the electric grunts moved in on the rangers, trailing volts as they ran and surrounded them. "I've never seen this before!"
"Voltaic Hounds?" Twilight repeated as she watched the Hounds begin to attack the Rangers, every claw swipe, kick, and punch being assisted by electrical energy. "Did Mar'Zek enhance them since our last battle?"
"No. The Hounds are still as they've always been. They've just been powered up by this new agent." Elaris pointed closely towards the electric outline that the Hounds all had. "Whatever this guy did, it seems to have amplified their power by giving them elemental properties. And I'm pretty sure that everyone in the Wolfpack is seeing this as well, and will most likely use it for later encounters."
"While we're on the subject, do you have any clue what that guy could be?" Twilight said, panning the screen's camera to show Livewire, casually passing the time by turning his trident into other weapons while the Rangers fought against his Hounds. "He's a human, but he still works for the Wolfpack. Any ideas?"
"Well, judging from his appearance, he could be an infiltrator species designed to look human while still maintaining full lightning-powers or..." She began typing away at the console, bringing up a detailed scan of Livewire. "Oh no... This is not good."
"What? What is it?" Twilight asked, quickly laying a hand on the console.
"I thought they were all destroyed! I thought that Nimbus-12 had been completely wiped out!" She said, bringing up more and more information on Livewire through her monitor. "Unless... he's the sole survivor of his species."
"Elaris? Who is this guy? And why did you freak out over him?" Twilight stepped in front of the screens, breaking Elaris out of her trance.
"Sorry about that, Twilight. What we're dealing with is a Nimbian; a human who has the power to control weather effortlessly. On Nimbus-12, what weather element you had determined where you would live, and since he controls electricity, he must have lived in the Voltic Sky City of Cumulo." As she continued to type, she brought up images of Nimbus-12, and the different corners of it. "But then... there was an accident. One day, one of the Nimbians went rouge, and ended up using their powers to drop everyone else on the planet; even going so far as to assassinate the King of the Elements; the ruler of the whole planet."
"You think that was him?" Twilight pointed to Livewire. "The same guy, I mean? Not the king, but the one who killed all those others?"
"Yes. Though he serves the Wolfpack, there are still some who know him well. His real name was lost in the accident, but ever since, he has been serving under the Wolfpack under a codename chosen out by Mar'Zek," Elaris finally pulled up what looked like a sigil engraved on his back. It showed a massive lightning storm, with bolts raining down from the clouds above, striking archaic markings with intricate patterns. "Livewire; the Wolfpack God of Lightning."
"God of Lightning? Do you think he was the one who destroyed the power station as well?" Twilight saw the screen rapidly change back to show the Rangers struggling to fend off the Voltaic Hounds. Quickly, she darted over to a speaker by the front of the ship. "Rangers, we've got a problem."
"Yeah. We've got a problem alright, Twilight. And it's trying to hit us right in the face!" Sunset said, deflecting an attack with her sword, only for the aftershocks to knock her back into her friends.
"These Hounds are way too tough for us to handle!" Rainbow Dash shot down one with her shotgun, only for two more to punch her in the gut, then immediately follow with an uppercut. She was sent flying, causing a small bolt of lightning to impale her and send her back to the ground, vanishing upon impact.
"Yeah! Whatever that guy did, it made these meanies even meanier!" Pinkie said, barely being able to vault over her enemies anymore, as the lightning fields repulsed her and sent her stumbling backwards. She tried to fire her party cannon wrist launchers, but her shots were deflected by the Hounds' strikes.
"This is nothing. You Rangers are nothing. And yer an insult to the power you hold," Livewire scoffed, turning away. "I'll leave you all to die now. If by some miracle you manage to stop the Hounds, ye aren't gonna be able to stop me from blowing out the rest of the planet's comm lines and power stations."
"N-no! You're not getting away from me!" Sunset twirled her sword and drove it through the earth. "Eruption!" Yelling loudly, she caused pillars of fire to erupt beneath the Hounds' feet, lifting them high into the air for a few moments. "Girls! After him!"
"Right!" The other rangers nodded and fled the scene as fast as they could, leaving the wolves to tumble to the ground. But as they ran, they didn't see the Voltaic Hounds run after them, gaining more and more speed as the energy trickled out of their bodies.
"Running away from Hounds is not what we call strength. It's cowardice." Livewire turned back and spread his arms out wide. "And here's what we do to cowards!" Slamming his arms down, he created a wall of pure lightning that smashed head-on into the Rainbooms, throwing them all back to the Voltaic Hounds.
All of the Rangers were struck by the Hounds once they were in range, sending them back towards Livewire. He quickly followed up with another lightning wall, before driving it and the Rangers into the Hounds, creating a massive electrical explosion that destroyed every single window and lightbulb in the city.
The force and magnitude of the explosion was so powerful that the Rangers were all de-morphed, strewn about on the roads, looking up at Livewire and the Hounds. All of them let out pained groans and moans as they tried to get back up, only for him to create a snare net and the weighted balls to hold it down with, before throwing it over their bodies.
"This is a right royal mess. You are a mess. You are so pathetically weak that I'm gobsmacked you even have those crystals in the first place." He looked Sunset in the eyes. "I'd be going against the captain's orders, but so what? As far as I'm concerned, your funeral starts right now."
"Girls! We... need to... morph again..." Sunset couldn't even reach out for her crystal, the force of the lightning net already beginning to sap her of all of her remaining stamina.
Just as Livewire was about to charge his next attack, the device on his arm transmitted a screen to both him and the Power Rangers.
"Livewire. I've seen enough," Mar'Zek said as his picture appeared on the screen. "The Power Rangers have fallen. Your mission is complete."
"You want me to put them out of their misery? Retrieve the crystals for ye, captain?" He asked, tearing his vision away from his felled foes. "They clearly dinnae deserve to even be held by them."
"No. I will decide what happens with them." He said, putting his hands together. "Do you see now, Power Rangers? You. Cannot. Win. If you cannot even defeat Livewire, then you stand no chance of defeating me, the leader of the Wolfpack."
"We're not... done yet!" Rainbow couldn't even get her words out properly with how violent the shocks were to her body.
"You have two options now, Power Rangers. Accept defeat and join my crew, and I will let you keep the crystals that you hold. In fact, I will even give you proper training with them, and transform you into the real Perfect Ones that you are meant to be." He held one claw up, before lifting the other. "Or, you can choose to die peacefully, If you do, my crew will immediately leave, and the crystals will go to your graves. Either way, you cannot choose to defy us any longer."
"Option... number three. You choose... to leave us alone... and get stronger!" Rarity tried to fight back against the net, but only found the pain getting stronger and stronger the more she tried to thrash around.
"I gave you multiple chances to get stronger, but you are not improving at all. If anything, you are at a stand-still." Mar'Zek stood back up and cracked his knuckles. "You have no new forms. No different techniques. No way of surviving. You. Are. Weak. And I HATE the weak."
"No. You just haven't given them any time!"
Everyone turned to see Twilight Sparkle and Elaris standing before the Hounds and Livewire, all dripping with sweat and breathing heavily as all of them held a number of glowing chips in their hands.
"Well, well, well. There's the Harmonite who managed to steal from us and get away..." Mar'Zek chuckled and zoomed in on Elaris's face. "I knew that I would see you someday, my brave little pillager."
"You stole the crystals for yourself. I wouldn't allow it to go unpunished!" Elaris barked, tossing the chips to the Rangers. "The only reason your Wolfpack still breathes today is because no-one has ever been brave enough to stand against it. Well, now, that day has come. And even if we die, then so be it. At least we died fighting the most powerful fleet of killers in the universe!"
"An interesting hypothesis... So death merely drives you?" He just chuckled to himself. "Well, if that's the case, let's see that drive. Livewire. Kill this Harmonite, and the girl next to her. Then, you may return."
"On it, Captain." He turned the screen off and stared down Twilight and Elaris. "I was just about to destroy your friends. But, eh, I'll take what I can get. I'm not a picky guy, after all." Pointing his hands to the sky, he threw a large column of lightning into it, forming a massive black cloud over the heads of all of them, which violently spat lightning out in all directions. "Electric Monsoon!" He threw his hands down, causing as many lightning bolts to fall as there were raindrops in a cloud, coating the entire street with explosions.
In the wake, Elaris had held up her hands, but had been reduced to her knees, as a small shield surrounding her and Twilight vanished, causing her to tumble unconsciously to the ground. As for the Rangers, the net had disappeared, and they were all standing proudly before the Voltaic Hounds and Livewire. Their suits were back on, only now, they had lightning bolt patterns across the sleeves and legs.
"The cockroaches still squirm. Interesting." Livewire grinned and clicked his fingers, conjuring another strong aura of electricity around the Hounds.
"You're not stopping the Power Rangers today." Twilight continued to breathe heavily. "Girls. I've bought you time, but that Thunder Chip is only temporary. You don't have long to break through Livewire's defences. Do what you can and return to the ship."
"How long do we have?" Fluttershy asked.
"I'd say around three minutes before the chips burn out. Now go! Stop the Hounds and get back here, so we can discuss a way on stopping Livewire!" Twilight reached over Elaris's body and lifted it up over her own, before running off out of the city with her.
"Looks like we're on even terms now, you bully!" Pinkie grinned and smashed her cannons together. "And we're gonna take that and run with it!"
"Running. Something you were given the chance to do, but didn't take it. Hounds! Deal with them!" He turned away from the Rangers, letting the Hounds charge in on the girls.
"We need to do this quickly. Before these new forms deactivate!" Rarity charged her swords with her geode's powers before rubbing the blades together, creating massive electrical sparks. "Diamond Discharge!" She created a string of reflective discs around her and stuck her swords into two of them, creating a web of energy that clipped each of the Hounds together."
"Confetti Bombardment!" Pinkie shot herself into the air and let a barrage of shots fly down onto the chained wolves, each and every speck of confetti landing on them and exploding shortly after. The kinetic shocks then leapt to the other Hounds, causing them to stumble and stagger even more.
"Stone Slinger!" Applejack swun round on the spot, swinging her hammer as she did so. This caused rocks to rise from the ground and orbit around her, impaling the Hounds with each rotation.
Animal Flute! Bees!" Fluttershy blew out some notes, causing a swarm of ghostly bees to drive themselves through the Hounds rapidly. Each and every sting bouncing between the Hounds and adding to the ever-growing chain of attacks that beat them senseless.
For the Hounds, it was all too much for them to handle, and before Sunset and Rainbow Dash could add their own attacks, the Hounds fell to the ground and exploded around the Rangers.
"Finally have your strength back, do ya?" Livewire teased, sliding his foot along the ground. "Good. Now, let's put an end to this silly nonsense, shall we?"
"Infernal Trail!" Sunset's sword burned ferociously with blue flames. Holding it to her side, she ran towards Livewire and slashed him across the chest twice with the sword, leaving a slash mark on his suit. After that, she ran a circle around Livewire and trapped him in a massive wall of fire.
"Weak!" Livewire swung his hands out, dousing the flames immediately. "A Nimbian controls weather itself!" He floated higher and higher into the skies above the Rangers and clapped his hands together. "Electric Monsoon!" He called, bringing down his signature attack once more on the girls."
"Not this time!" Rarity brought the girls together and activated her powers, causing a forcefield of her own to surround the Rangers and collect all of the lightning that blitzed down on them. She aimed the collected energy at Livewire, then lowered the shield, sending the whole attack towards him.
"Got him!" Rainbow fist-pumped.
"Not yet!" Pinkie called, as Livewire simply snapped his neck back to the girls and grinned sadistically.
"This is more like it." He laughed as he called more and more lightning around him. "Now, you Rangers are giving me a fight. And going all out on me like that? Well, that's just making it more and more exciting."
"Well, we're just getting started!" Applejack's grip on the hammer grew tighter as she smashed it into the ground. Vaulting herself up into the air she performed a somersaulting move with it and smashed Livewire in the back, leading him towards the ground. "Landslide!" Applejack hit the ground with her hammer, causing a series of giant boulders to tumble from the sky and bury Livewire beneath them.
It didn't last long, though, as the rocks all self-destructed, revealing Livewire beneath them, bruised from the attack. Panting to himself, he stood back up and faced the Rangers once again.
"Well, now. You're really not holding back anymore, are ye?" He grinned, laughing lightly under his breath. "Maybe this is what being a Power Ranger does to you, and right on the verge of being slaughtered too." He was still radiating pure electricity, even when his hair looked like it was falling out. "Guess I need to go all out too, then."
"Don't even try it, Livewire. We all know that's just gonna end badly for you," said Sunset.
"On the contrary, Rangers. It's gonna end badly for you. Especially when you consider that I, a weather-controlling Nimbian, was only really getting warmed up by our last tussles." Clapping his hands together, he formed yet another storm cloud; one that covered the entire sky this time. He floated high into the air and gathered the resulting ionised energy forming in the clouds. "I'm about to change all the rules!" After that, he just left out a fit of maniacal laughter.
"Hold on!" Pinkie pointed towards Livewire. "You're gonna go giant on us like the other Wolfpack Wolves, aren't you?" She yelled. "You saw what happened to your friends, and we can totally crush you with 'em!"
"Don't flatter yourselves. Ye kilt-less lassies ain't even worth that kind of punishment," he chuckled, as the thunderbolts masked the light on his face. "I have something more fitting in mind for you..." He reached into the air directly above him, causing all of the lightning stored in the clouds to gather around his location and stream down onto the ground, creating a massive, blinding lightning bolt. "Voltic Titan! Rise up and flatten these tiny Rangers!"
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Well, that was something... Talk about a lot of puts on sunglasses High Voltage. Nope, still not ashamed.
Love the new hounds by the way. Guess I'll have to take that Blade meme/joke back, considering Livewire's not human.
1.Why do you keep calling Livewire human? 2. How does Livewire know who Zeus is?
So how will the girls deal with this? I would love to see this guy take on Thor. I don't think he would come after the lightning.
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Yeah, that's a weak explanation. Livewire's an alien, so unless he did some reading on a culture I highly doubt he or the Wolfpack cares for, I don't think he would know who Zeus is.
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Okay. I’ve fixed that little issue with the Zeus thing. Thank you for bringing it up.
Huh, so he is "human" in the sense of Power Rangers Humans, fair enough.
Yeah, totally harmless...
Pot meat cattle.
Huh, so that is how this feels on the other side.
That monster, he spray painted the costume, how despicable!
We'll see about that.
Well, they are not Kamen Riders, Power Rangers relatively rarely get new forms.
A brand new toy!
Oh for the love of... stop calling him bully, he is way past that!
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The Irony is Real.
Could be worse, he could have just covered them in glitter.
Well, if it's Pinkie, the most childish of the group I think we can let it slide.
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This has to be one of my favorite versions of that joke.
Don't remind me of that... Or he could just get a second Twin Breaker... wait, wrong franchise.
Yeah, sure, that was more pent-up frustration because I have seen that everywhere and I just think trying to murder people is a good amount above bully.