Equestria Rangers

by Shadowmane PX-41

The Voltic Titan

From the blinding pillar of lightning, a massive, physical form emerged. First, the feet, which were curled upwards at the toes. Next, came the knees, that were jagged and sharp. Following that, the chest and arms, which were buff and muscular. Finally, the head, which looked to share the same hairstyle as Livewire, but donned what looked like a helmet. Every single part of the giant beast was made out of pure lightning, with not a single physical part to be seen. It gained a pair of blue tesla ball like eyes, before throwing its' arms to the side and roaring into the skies, causing massive deluges of lightning bolts to rain down on the city.

"Yer gonna need more than just a Megazord to beat this thing, lassies! But by all means, go ahead and try." Livewire folded his arms and flew upwards, resting delicately on the shoulder of his new giant. "Should be amusing to see you try and fight the thing that assassinated the King of Elements back home!"

As the Rainbooms all took up stances, a light seemed to fade away from their chests. And with it, the lightning patterns on their bodies began to disappear as well, reverting them back to their original Ranger outfits.

"Looks like the Electric Chips wore off. We're gonna have to be really careful against this guy now." Sunset turned to the rest of the crew. "We're not gonna be able to beat him until Elaris and Twilight finish on the permanent versions. Until then..." She turned to the skies, where the Voltic Titan stood directly over their heads. "We're gonna have to fight that thing first."

"Right. Let's call the Zords." Rarity gave a nod and reached for the sky. "Everyone! Megazord combination!"

"On it!" The other Rangers chorused. "Zords! Come to us!"

One by one, the Zords fell from the skies, before quickly contorting and fusing into the Equestrian Star Megazord. The Rainbooms all leapt into the cockpit and took their positions on their pedestals as the mech sprang to life before Livewire and his Voltic Titan.

"If you can handle this, Rangers, then you'll be able to a least stand a chance against me." Livewire grinned and tapped his fingers together. "Doesn't mean you'll win, though. Wolfpack agents are far stronger than you could ever think."

"How 'bout you stop boasting and get on with it!" Rainbow barked as the Megazord trudged towards the Voltic Titan.

"Okay then. It's yer funerals!" Livewire leapt off and watched as the Megazord punched the Titan, only for it to coil around its' body like a snake. The beast quickly lost its' form and regained it around the Megazord, before channelling its' energy inside, and causing a series of electrical explosions to detonate on its' captive, before leaping out and landing before the girls once more.

"Nngh! What just happened?" Sunset watched as the Voltic Titan slammed its' hands into the ground, spreading electrical coils throughout the city. All around them, glass began to shatter and machines began to explode, causing a catastrophic chain of chaos across the city. Some screams even rose up from the surface streets during the attack.

"Ye realise that you're in way over your heads, girls. Captain Mar'Zek has hand-picked the most powerful warriors from across existence. No cheap knock-offs or goofy phonies here. We are the real deal." Livewire's face grew a malicious smirk as he clenched his fist tight. "If you have any sense of intelligence, you'd give up right now and join our crew. Otherwise, we'll just keep pushing you closer and closer to the brink."

"What makes you think that we'd ever give up to you?!" Applejack roared, slamming her hands down on her Megazord Podium, causing the mech to perform a punch attack. It missed Livewire entirely as he threw himself off of the Titan's shoulders and flew onto its' head.

Livewire just let out another deranged laugh. "Are ye serious? Yer still fighting me? That's just priceless!" He slapped his knees and balled his body up in his fit, as the Voltic Titan grabbed the Megazord's kneck with both arms and send virulent electrical energy across it. Small explosions rang out, and the cockpit was filled with sparks.

"Sunset! Any ideas?!" Rarity called as she desperately clung onto the podium she stood on, the Megazord shuddering and shaking from the excessive voltage.

"The Voltic Titan. It's made of lightning. We just need to find something that electricity can't touch and we might have a fighting chance." Sunset frisked the area as the beast backed off and returned to Livewire's side. "Now then... what is there that we can use?"

"You're stalling!" Livewire bellowed, channelling more electrical energy through his hands. "If there's one thing I hate, it's people who take time with fighting. And yer about to see why!" He threw his hands skyward, launching bolts of lightning into the air. "Electric Monsoon!"

The same amount of lightning bolts rained down on the Megazord, causing another wave of explosions to run up and down its' body. The shocks and shakes were so violent that it threw the Rainbooms off of their control stands and into the back wall of the cockpit.

"This isn't going anywhere!" Sunset groaned as she just ran back onto her stand and threw her hands forward. She moved the Megazord, which was starting to crumble at the seams towards Livewire. She ran it straight through the Voltic Titan, the static energy coiling through her body and causing everyone's hair to stand on end as she barrelled through and charged down the street.

"Seriously? We're running away from this thing?!" Rainbow Dash groaned as she wobbled back onto two legs and lurched back towards her stand. "You know that Mar'Zek's gonna blow this planet up if we do that!"

"I know, I know! But we're getting our butts kicked out here and I'm not just gonna be a punching bag for the Wolfpack!" Sunset snapped her neck towards Rainbow, a seething glare in her eyes invisible behind her visor.

"You're running away? Now that is rich." Livewire folded his arms and watched as the Megazord disappeared into the town. He grinned and stretched his arm out, gathering up more and more energy with each passing second. Then, as they got farther and farther, he just shrugged and turned his back. He activated his comm device, bringing Mar'Zek back onto the screen. "Captain. The Perfect Ones have fled. Shall we decimate the planet and move on?"

"No. As much as I am disappointed in their actions, you were no better, Livewire." Mar'Zek grumbled and folded his arms. "Always fight those on your same level. They clearly aren't. If we were to kill them now, it would be an act of mercy. And you know my zero tolerance policy for mercy."

"It's not mercy if they've killed some of your wolves!" Livewire gnashed his teeth. "Preda'Tor. Ahn'Taier. Para'Noia. They've made this personal by spilling our blood!"

"Personal or not, my crew served their purposes. Call it expendable if you wish, but they clearly fell behind in their power and skill as Wolfpack Wolves." He rapped his claws against the side of his chair. "As for you, return to the ship at once. You have violated one of my golden rules."

"Who cares what ye think? I've slain gods! I've served your crew and slaughtered many a fine foe in me time!" Livewire snapped, his eyes viciously bulging out of his head as he threw his arms downwards. "You can punish me by killing me for all I care. I am ENDING those Perfect Ones right here and now! Then, I'll destroy the planet of my own accord, seeing as you are clearly lacking in proper judgement!" He threw the comm device to the ground, watching as it shattered against the torn up roads. "You think that you can play cat and mouse with me, Power Rangers? Well, the joke's on you. I've never lost that game once in me life." Livewire clicked his fingers, causing the Voltic Titan to turn into a serpent of lightning energy. One that dashed off with its' master towards the distant Megazord.

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Sunset Shimmer, the other Rainbooms, and the Megazord sped across the outskirts of Canterlot towards the sea, just past a small wood. Trees toppled to the ground and splintered underneath the robot's gigantic feet, and a large path was led behind in the stampede of metal. As they approached the beach, they saw that it was almost empty. People had likely evacuated after having heard the distant devastation that had been going on in the city.

"The beach?!" Rarity yelped before turning towards Sunset. "As much as I do love some sun, sand, and sea, we've still got to fight Livewire and his Voltic Titan! How are we supposed to do that here?"

"Rarity, I know that it's a bit confusing, but I've got a plan." Sunset just stood firm on her podium and pounded away at the controls. "Do you remember that science class about Canterlot High, how glass was made?"

"Nope." Rainbow shook her head.

"Nuh-uh!" Pinkie joined in.

"I have... some faint memory of it." Fluttershy lifted a finger. "Though, I don't really know how that has anything to do with the situation."

"Let's put this into a scientific perspective, shall we? The Voltic Titan is made out of lightning energy, right?" She asked, getting nods from her peers. "Well, if that's true then we just need to figure out what can stop lightning dead in its' tracks. There's some good options there, but I doubt that rubber or wood would work at this rate. If there is a giant excess of rubber, then Livewire would just find someway around that and just go for us himself. And trust me, I bet he's worse than that big, lumbering oaf of a monster he's got."

"Cut to the chase, Sunset! How are we gonna stop Livewire?" Applejack helmet-palmed and shook her head.

"Just trust me on this, girls. We'll need to be in perfect sync with each other to pull this off." Sunset, underneath her Power Ranger outfit just gave a grin.

Just then, a ferocious arrow of bright white lightning cleaved through the sky, splitting the clouds apart for a brief instance. It contorted and twisted before crashing down into the ocean, creating the Voltic Titan and Livewire. As they stood in the ocean's waters, it crackled with electricity, spreading out across the distance and into the great beyond.

"YOU! You have broken the Wolfpack's rules, Power Rangers." Livewire howled as his Voltic Titan ran towards the Megazord, kicking up water and sand around him. "You have dissatisfied our lineage, by showing weakness! As an honourable Wolfpack Agent, I will end your life right now, take those Crystals for myself, and blow this entire planet to pieces! Then, and only then, will I stomp out the Captain and take my rightful place as a champion of champions!" His Titan grabbed onto the Megazord's legs and threw it out into the waters, before drilling its' hands into the sea. The lightning was conducted all across the mech, and the Rainbooms were once more launched from their positions into the ceiling. "Do you have any last words before I blow that puny Megazord of yours to pieces?!"

"Actually, I've got two." Sunset kicked herself off and smashed into the central button on her panel. "Zords! Separate!"

The Megazord broke back into its' original six pieces. Battered and torn, they all leapt out from the electrified ocean and darted towards Livewire and his Voltic Titan. The Kangaroo and Lynx behind him, the Bear and Bull in front of him, and the Falcon and Phoenix flying overhead.

"Divide and conquer? You must be getting desperate." Livewire just smiled as his Voltic Titan smashed the ground, causing an electrical explosion to spread out around him, blowing the six Zords away. "You. Cannot. Win. Accept that and lie down like the dogs you are!"

"Hey, blondie! Call this desperate?!" Rainbow Dash slammed the joysticks of her Falcon Zord, causing it to charge at speeds akin to that of a fighter jet. It cut through the sky, leaving a powerful slipstream in its' wake as she came back to the beach and struck Livewire directly in the chest with the beak of her Zord.

"Ground team! Now!" Sunset barked through her visor's microphone, causing Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, and Fluttershy to get to work with their Zords.

The Kangaroo Zord bounced, the Bear and Bull Zords dug and threw sand up around them, and the Lynx Zord channelled Rarity's barrier magic around the Voltic Titan. All of these combined actions whipped up a tall tower of sand around the Voltic Titan, corralled and stacked together within the walls of diamond. The Voltic Titan roared as loud as it could and generated a lightning storm around the Rainbooms, throwing down bolt after bolt onto the Zords in an attempt to stop what they were doing. While some of them landed their marks, the others were dodged by the team of girls, or blocked by some extra barriers formed by the Lynx Zord.

"Rainbow Dash! Keep Livewire busy! We're just about to bury the Voltic Titan!" Sunset called.

"Got it! I've been waiting to give that punk a beatdown!" Rainbow gave a thumbs up and shot her Zord off across the sea, jetting back towards Livewire.

"You... You... YOU! DISGRACEFUL! UNETHICAL! IMMORAL! DISRESPECTFUL LITTLE TWERPS!" Livewire bellowed at the top of his voice, giant towers of electricity burying into the ocean, causing a massive tidal storm to form around him. "I'LL BURY THE LOT OF YOU AND DANCE ON YOUR GRAVES!"

Rainbow Dash had to jerk the controls of her Zord around as plumes of water burst up from the sea, while the sky spat more bolts of lightning down from the heavens. The windscreen was a complete blur as she just swiveled, dove, swooped, and swerved through the ongoing carnage and pandemonium. One strike would have been enough to end her flight, so she needed to be as careful as could be. Eventually, she broke through and fired at Livewire with a series of missiles and gunfire, only for him to generate a bubble of pure voltic energy around himself, causing every single shot to explode and disintegrate on impact.

Back on the beach, the Voltic Titan began to climb out of the sand by laying its' hands on top of the walls around it. In response, Sunset's Phoenix Zord fired quills out at the wall's apexes, causing a wall of flame to stand atop them, which then turned into a dome, encapsulating the Titan as the other Rangers finally filled it to the top with sand.

"Sunset! Now!" Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, and Fluttershy cried out as they all began to push the diamond walls inward, crushing the Voltic Titan and letting the sand bulge out of the top.

"Infernal Spiral!" Sunset declared as she took control of the Phoenix Zord's controller and thrusted it in towards the frame. The Phoenix Zord spun around and around as it dived to the ground, its' fires growing bigger and bigger with each second. When she made it to the box's top, she pulled the device back out, causing the Phoenix Zord to stop and beat its' wings as strong as it could, causing a humongous spiral of fire to engulf the sand-drenched Voltic Titan, transfiguring all of the sand holding it into a glass rectangle, with the monster deep in its' center.

"Finish it!" Sunset called out as the diamond walls holding the prism of glass vanished.

Rainbow Dash, hearing the command, stopped firing on Livewire's shield and flipped backwards towards the beach. The engines fired and launched her at supersonic speeds back through the supercell-levels of wind, lightning, and water being swung up around her. She took much more hits on the return trip, with some parts of her wings being torn off in the confusion. Some alarms began to blare in the inside of her Zord's control room, but she didn't care. She finally cut back out through the damage and returned with the other Rangers.

"Zords! Fusion Attack!" The Rainbooms all chorused as they put their hands on the center of their Zords' control mechanisms. The six robotic animals all glowed brightly before they lurched towards the giant block of glass and struck hard. The Kangaroo, Bear, and Bull Zords dealt heavy ramming attacks to it, while the Falcon, Phoenix, and Lynx followed up with an array of claw strikes, leaving thousands upon thousands of cut marks on the glass slab. With the damage on full display, the Zords leapt skyward and fused back into the Megazord one more time. "Final Attack! Titanbreaker!" The Megazord fell from the sky like a meteor and punched straight through the top of the glass, It shattered all around it, along with the Voltic Titan itself as the Megazord impacted the ground, causing a gargantuan wave of sand to spread out across the impact zone. When the dust began to settle, nothing more than shards of glass remained. The Voltic Titan was no more.

"Sweet mother of..." Rainbow caught her breath for a few moments as she looked down at the wreckage. "We did it! We actually beat that thing! We're even more awesome than ever!" She leapt for joy on the spot and even pulled the other Rangers into a tight hug.

"Don't celebrate just yet, girls. We've still got one more guy to beat before the day's done." Sunset turned the Megazord back around, back out towards the ocean, where Livewire stood with his storm raging in the distance. "Him."

"Ye... actually beat the Voltic Titan?" Livewire stood gobsmacked, dumbfounded even. His storm began to wither a tad, but still raged on. All he did was hang his head and chuckle to himself slightly. That chuckle evolved to a small laugh, then maniacal. "Oh, NOW it gets interesting! I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but now I don't need to hold back anymore! I can just destroy you with ALL of my powers!" He laughed some more as the winds whipped up beneath him, causing a colossal tornado of water and lightning to form around him. "Power Rangers. You've awoken a sleeping dragon. And it's time you felt its' full force! PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR GRAVES DUG!"

Comments

[badninja]

Not a bad plan Sunset. Now how will you stop this guy?

[The Bricklayer]

Creative use of the powers, I gotta say. Makes one wonder what else these Zords can do as they evolve...

As an honourable Wolfpack Agent, I will end your life right now,

Yeah, pretty sure the honor thing went out the window as soon as you started up with poison gas, Wolfpack. Let me introduce you to Koragg sometime. That's being an honorable warrior. You lot are anything but.

"Now, Power Rangers. You've awoken a sleeping dragon. And it's time you felt its' full force! PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR GRAVES DUG!"

Eh, sorry, dragons are Ryuga's thing. Are you ready? Wake up burning!

[Ze1a7in]

...Y'know, I can't help but compare this to the Spider-man Shattered Dimensions Electro fight. Something about a titan of electricity, a storm, and copious amounts of water.

Good chapter!

[Layton13]

"Yer gonna need more than just a Megazord to beat this thing, lassies! But by all means, go ahead and try."

That is what they always say.

"Nngh! What just happened?" Sunset watched as the Voltic Titan slammed its' hands into the ground, spreading electrical coils throughout the city. All around them, glass began to shatter and machines began to explode, causing a catastrophic chain of chaos across the city. Some screams even rose up from the surface streets during the attack.

...Well, someone is pulling out all the stops

No cheap knock-offs or goofy phonies here

Yeah, because the skeleton was SO serious. Still want him to return, the guy was a blast.

Always fight those on your same level. They clearly aren't. If we were to kill them now, it would be an act of mercy. And you know my zero tolerance policy for mercy.

Seriously, I like the guy.

You can punish me by killing me for all I care. I am ENDING those Perfect Ones right here and now! Then, I'll destroy the planet of my own accord, seeing as you are clearly lacking in proper judgement!

Oh... shit

We'll need to be in perfect sync with each other to pull this off.

Ah, that is why you don't tell them, brilliant

As an honourable Wolfpack Agent,

Honorable? Really?

You... You... YOU! DISGRACEFUL! UNETHICAL! IMMORAL! DISRESPECTFUL LITTLE TWERPS!

Ever heard of projecting?

When she made it to the box's top, she pulled the device back out, causing the Phoenix Zord to stop and beat its' wings as strong as it could, causing a humongous spiral of fire to engulf the sand-drenched Voltic Titan, transfiguring all of the sand holding it into a glass rectangle, with the monster deep in its' center.

Clever

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Are you ready? Wake up burning!

\GET CROSS-Z DRAGON!/

[FastManCam]

"Ye... actually beat the Voltic Titan?" Livewire stood gobsmacked, dumbfounded even. His storm began to wither a tad, but still raged on. All he did was hang his head and chuckle to himself slightly. That chuckle evolved to a small laugh, then maniacal. "Oh, NOW it gets interesting! I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but now I don't need to hold back anymore! I can just destroy you with ALL of my powers!" He laughed some more as the winds whipped up beneath him, causing a colossal tornado of water and lightning to form around him. "Power Rangers. You've awoken a sleeping dragon. And it's time you felt its' full force! PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR GRAVES DUG!"

Oh boy, it looks like all hell broke loose.