Ponyville: Ponyville Park

Meanwhile, unaware of the new Org on the loose and the fact that he’d already claimed the souls of her fellow Ranger and the Princess of Empathy, Sunset Shimmer, Vapor Trail was enjoying the day at the park. She’d taken out a beautiful shaved wooden acoustic guitar and was strumming it softly to herself as she sat on a park bench. A soft, haunting melody began to echo from her lips, drawing the eyes of every passerby, it was beautifully sung and everypony was keen to listen in on it thanks to Vapor’s soft singing voice.

“I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
and I fear no evil because I’m blind to it all…
and my mind and my sword, they comfort me,
because I know I’ll kill my enemies when they come.”

As Vapor strummed along to the song and ponies, whether just walking by or spending time with their friends, they all took time out of their day to listen to the absolutely beautiful music being played in their midst. Vapor smiled at this and felt joy fill her heart. She was just singing because she wanted to, not to make any money or anything of the sort. But her fellow ponies, they thought it was good. They had stopped whatever it was they were doing and just listened. Everyone just enjoyed it for what it was, plain and simple. Well, almost everyone.

“Ugh, I hate that music. Always have hated music. Ooh, if I had blood it’d be boiling right about now.” Artilla grumbled to himself as he, Camera Org and Turbine Org stood hidden away in some bushes unseen.

“Do we attack now?” Camera Org asked eagerly, ready to take his next shot.

“No… I don’t think so. Being the brilliant tactician that I am, she needs to be worn down a bit. Attacking her head on would be just stupid, as she could easily call her fellow Rangers in to help her out.” Artilla snapped and Turbine Org whirled around to face her in surprise.

“Wait, that little bitch is the Purple Levithan Ranger now? Huh, looks like that idiot of a Manehattenite passed on his powers before he died.”

“Didn’t you face her once before?” Artilla asked, and if he could raise an eyebrow, he would have.

“And soundly get beaten?” Camera Org put in with a chuckle.

“W-Well it was dark, I couldn’t see her face! Plus, there was that traitorous Duke Org Zen-Aku with her to back her up!” Turbine Org refuted.

“...Remind me to deal with him later.” Artilla grumbled to himself.

“Anyways, that’s besides the point. Don’t we have this one to deal with right now, and then worry about the others? One step at a time and all that.” Turbine Org reminded.

“I see your point. And I have just the things to deal with her.” Artilla said and then called out “Tengas!” before teleporting away. He had the utmost confidence that his warriors and the two Orgs could handle things from here. It was just one Ranger after all.

Suddenly, Vapor saw ponies screaming and scattering as appearing in flashes of feathers were purplish black anthropomorphic crow like creatures with the beaks of parrots and demonic like yellow eyes, cawing and flapping their wings threateningly.

“Yeesh, I could see I was attracting fans but this isn’t the kind I want. Time to put you back in the birdcage where you belong!” Vapor remarked as she put her guitar to the side and took a fighting stance.

“Get ‘er, boys!” The lead Tenga cawed out and the murder of crows charged towards Vapor and she kicked one Tenga in the head but was pulled away by two more but Vapor extended her wings and blew them away in gusts of wind before grabbing a Tenga and tossing it towards two of its fellows. Just then, Shayla rang.

“Kinda in the middle of something here Princess.” Vapor answered before catching a Tenga’s punch with her free hand and holding it as she then made it spin several times in midair and land on it’s backside and into the grass with a simple twist of her arm.

“Vapor, Sunset Shimmer has gone missing, along with several other ponies in Ponyville. I suspect Org influence.” Shayla informed.

“Oh gee, you think?” Vapor asked sarcastically as she kicked another Tenga right into the sword tip of one of it’s fellow’s swords, purple blood oozing from the wound as the second Tenga’s eyes widened as he realized what had happened and who he had accidently killed.

“Hey, that was my nestmate! We grew up together since we were chicks!” The Tenga exclaimed angrily.”

“I believe that the Orgs are making a list of your fellow Rangers and targeting them one by one.” Shayla continued, seemingly oblivious to Vapor’s situation. How the Princess couldn’t have noticed the sounds of Tengas cawing and cawing along with the screams of pain was beyond her.

“Yeah, I might have noticed. Seems I might be next on that list.”

“What makes you say that?” Shayla inquired curiously.

“Call it a hunch.” Vapor replied dryly before she hung up. “Time to take things up a notch. Legendary Wild Access! Hah!”

With a flash of purple light, she was once again in Ranger form and her Crystal Saber drawn. She spun around in a circle and sliced down a multitude of Tengas that were attempting to surround her in a flurry of quick cuts. Next, she drew her trident and impaled a Tenga with it, swung it around and threw it into some other of the bird like warriors.

“She’s too powerful for us, c’mon boys, let’s get out of here!” One Tenga yelled, and he and the rest of his murder flew away into the sky. Vapor let out a sigh of relief, resting her trident against her shoulder, demorphing. Then she heard a voice. A voice all too familiar to her and one that haunted her every nightmare.

“Just what I was waiting for!” Turbine Org laughed as he and Camera Org appeared from the brush.

“N-No… It can’t be you! I thought you were dead!” Vapor said in disbelief, her eyes widening behind her visor.

“Might have blinded me in one eye, but I’m still kicking, Org healthcare is a lot better than what you ponies get.” Turbine Org taunted as he spun up his turbines and sent Vapor spiraling backwards into a tree with gale force winds.

“Look at you now, unmorphed and perfect for a portrait on the Master Org’s walls. Might spruce that old cave of ours up a bit.” Turbine Org chuckled as he and his fellow Org approached. Camera Org nodded silently, the aperture in his lens narrowing at Vapor Trail.

“My my, this seems awfully familiar doesn’t it? Two orgs up against one Purple Ranger, and she’s at the end of her rope as well. Those powers of yours have to be a curse, as everypony who uses them ends up dead in the end!” Turbine Org cackled before several blades of yellow energy crashed into him, sending the Org sprawling.

“Who the fuck!?” The surprised Org shouted angrily, picking himself up.

“You shall not touch her.” Zen-Aku stated simply, walking out from the shadow of a tree and stepping in front of Vapor Trail. He turned his head to the shocked Vapor.

“See, I told you the loyalty of a Wolf is forever.” The Duke Org said, giving her a fang-filled grin. Vapor smiled back, nodding before readying her trident again. Zen-Aku did the same, leveling his crescent blade at the two Orgs before him.

“You two, leave. Now.” He growled, “I will not repeat myself.”

Camera Org’s lens refocused on the bipedal wolf, “Who do you think you are?” He asked angrily.

“Zen-Aku, the Wolf of the Night. Leave now before I do things I will not regret.”

“Oh, you’ll be leaving alright. Watch the birdie!” Camera Org laughed, pressing the trigger button in his hand, snapping a picture of Zen-Aku. The loyal wolf vanished on the spot, as though he had never been there at all.

“And now for you.” Turbine Org commented as he looked at Vapor before he turned to Camera Org.

“May I do the honors?” He requested.

“It’d be my personal pleasure!” Camera Org laughed and with a loud click Vapor’s world faded away into white…

Ponyville: Ponyville High School

Elsewhere Sunburst AKA the Black Vampire Bat Ranger was in the middle of studying a particular type of science. That was, seeing how long one could hold a kiss with one’s fiance. He moaned as Galaxy trailed a hand around his back as they stumbled into the Science Lab together muzzles locked in a passionate kiss and Galaxy’s wings wrapped around Sunburst. With a light shove, Sunburst was pushed up against a wall as Galaxy practically pounced on him and wrapped his legs around Sunburst’s waist and ground his hips into Sunburst’s own before he broke the kiss and gave his lover a fanged smile.

“My my my… What would your students say if they saw this?” Galaxy asked seductively as he booped Sunburst on the nose. “You, their nervous wreck of a teacher making out with Canterlot’s native psycho? Oh, the gossip that would wander.”

Sunburst blushed and pushed up his skewed glasses with his magic. “I… I don’t care what they’d say. I just want to be with you.”

“That’s the spirit. Now, did you say you wanted to be with me or WANTED to be with me? It’s all in the wording, you know.” Galaxy chuckled before he unbuttoned his fiance’s shirt and placed a trail of kisses down Sunburst’s chest as the orange unicorn groaned in pleasure as Galaxy reached for his pants and let them drop to the floor. Suddenly, a voice came from behind them.

“My my, caught with one’s pants down. This’ll make for a particularly embarrassing photo!” Camera Org laughed. The hulking figure fixed it's lens on the twosome, it's aperture dilating as though it was glaring at them. It looked like a camera on legs, a hideously scarred torso and legs jutting out from the bottom of the device, two horns jutted out of the top of it's head. Both Galaxy and Sunburst dropped what they were doing and reached for their Morphers.

“Unleash the-

“Legendar-

But like Sunset before them, they never got a chance to finish their calls before there was a clicking sound and they were both gone, their discarded clothes being the only clue that they were there.

“Hah, two Rangers in one shot! I’m on a roll today!” Camera Org gloated as he walked out of the lab.

On the Animarium, Princess Shayla was watching in horror as each of the Rangers got their picture snapped and their souls taken. Now there were only two Rangers left, Shining Armor and Lightning Dust. Behind her, Robert watched in concern. He didn’t know what the Princess was seeing through the fountain, but he knew it couldn’t be good judging by her body language.

“Princess, if you need help, just let me free! I promise, I won’t go after Princess Genocide and help!”

Shayla gave him a grateful smile at his help but then she frowned, reminded of Robert’s current mental state.

“I’m sorry Robert, but I cannot be sure of your mind’s focus. You’re far too dangerous to let loose. How do I get a guarantee that you won’t let your lust for revenge for what’s been done to your species overwhelm your concern for my Rangers?” Shayla asked, and Robert couldn’t find an answer to that, remaining silent as he grit his teeth in barely suppressed annoyance.

In Cloudsdale, Lightning Dust was practicing her tricks and rocketed through clouds punching holes in them and weaving in between the cloud columns the city was famous for before leaving the city’s tall pillars of cloudiminiums, doing a series of loop-de-loops and then rocketing down towards the ground below as it rushed up to greet her but at the last second pulled upwards and rocketed skywards leaving a powerful Sonic Rainboom behind her. She smirked triumphantly. After months of practice, she’d finally pulled it off!

“There, now how can’t anypony be impressed by a trick like that? Rainbow Dash, watch out, I’m coming for your record of being the fastest flyer in Equestria, and then my dad’s.” Lightning smirked as she pulled her goggles off her face and let them rest on her forehead. Suddenly, from behind her she heard a fast approaching mechanical whine and turned around to see Helicos, using her propellers to keep her in the air.

“So… Only two Rangers left and one of them claims to be one of the fastest flyers in the sky. Well, let’s test that theory with a little race shall we?” The Duke Org challenged.

“How bout I destroy you instead and do the world a favor?” Lightning asked in response but Helicos wagged a finger.

“How about a little wager. We race, and whoever wins gets to destroy the other. Sounds fair, doesn’t it?” She asked, and Lightning considered the offer. It didn’t take very long to make up her mind.

“Deal!” Lightning smirked before rocketing off into the distance, Helicos following close behind. They weaved in between clouds and left jet-like contrails behind them. Helicos slowly gained on Lightning.

“That all you got, little pony?” She taunted, pulling up alongside her. Lightning Dust smirked.

“Nope!” She yelled, tucking one of her wings in and rolling into a spinning heel kick into Helicos’ eye, drawing a pained shriek from the Org.

“Oh, that little bitch. She’s going to pay for that. You want to play dirty? So be it! Blade Shuriken!” Helicos drew back her arms, grabbing several spare propeller blades and hurling the whirling pieces of sharpened metal after Lightning. The pegasus’ eyes widened as she tucked her wings in, narrowly avoiding the buzzing blades as she plummeted off toward the ground again.

“Not done yet, freak!” Lightning Dust snarled as she pulled out of her dive and chased after Helicos, placing her Growl Phone next to her ear. “Legendary Wild Access!”

In a flash of blue light, she transformed. “With the lightning speed of the Thunderbird! Aqua Thunderbird Ranger!”

She put on another burst of speed, easily catching up to Helicos and began trading blows with her mid-flight.

“Persistent little pest, aren’t you?” The Org crowed, parrying Lightning’s Crystal Saber with her own propeller blade.

“I could say the same to you!” Lightning snarled back, kicking Helicos back and rocketing forward.

“Yes… persistent… and very, VERY stupid.” Helicos chuckled as the blades she had thrown earlier came falling back down, slicing into Lightning Dust’s wings as she gasped in shock and pain, falling toward the hard ground below with only Equus’s natural magical field protecting her from certain death, even as the Camera Org chuckled.

“Just like Icarus, she flew too close to the sun… and lost her wings~.”

Canterlot: Royal Guard Barracks

Meanwhile, the last Ranger left was hard at work in training his newest recruits for Royal Guard duty. He’d put up a magical illusion that hid the Magna Defender’s blade and made it look like Shining’s original sword. He’d also hidden away his bracers that allowed him to morph.

“Hold your sword steady in your hands, and swing!”

With grunts, the recruits swung their blades in time with Shining.

“There, that’s good. Now, for a beheading strike.”

But just as Shining was about to show them the maneuver, he found himself on what could only be the Animarium. And then walking out of the treeline was a beautiful Alicorn mare, with a worried expression on her muzzle.

“Shining Armor, I request your assistance in a matter of grave importance.”

“Who are you?” Shining asked, not willing to trust an unfamiliar mare that spoke to him right out of the blue without even introducing herself.

“Oh, I forgot. Where are my manners? I am Princess Shayla, leader of the Power Rangers Wild Force.”

“So you’re the Princess that Sunset’s been taking orders from on the side. Don’t act so surprised that I know that the Gold Ranger’s her. That horn and wings combination is a dead giveaway.”

“Yes, I will have to lecture Sunset about keeping her identity a secret later… If we can get her back that is.”

“If? What’s happened?” Shining asked, cocking an eyebrow.

“There’s an Org, not as powerful as the one you first fought, but he’s been capturing the Rangers one by one. You’re the last left, and I suspect he will be coming for you sooner or later.”

“If that’s true, it’ll probably be on the sooner side. If he wants to meet me, he’ll get a Canterlot worthy welcome from the Magna Defender. Do you have any idea where he is now?”

“In the warehouse district. That’s where you’ll find him. But be warned, I have reasons to believe he isn’t alone. There’s no way one single Org could have pulled this off by himself.”

“I’ll be careful. I didn’t get to my position by being reckless.” Shining said. Shayla smiled before he was transported back down to Earth and then Shining looked at his second in command, Steel Sentry. It was a sign of Sentry’s unquestionable loyalty that he didn’t remark on Shining’s vanishing act and subsequent reappearance.

“Can you take things over from here? Something just came up.”

As Shining took off for the warehouse district, he clicked his bracers together and shouted “Magna Power!” and was transformed once again into the Magna Defender. It wasn’t long before he arrived at the scene and aimed his Riot Blaster at the Camera Org.

“Give those ponies back. Now. I won’t ask again.”

Then two more figures stepped into view. Artilla and Helicos had arrived. Shining’s eyes widened, it was a trap!

“Ooh, isn’t he a brave one, taking on all three of us at once! Let’s see if the famous Shining Armor is up to the task, Blade Shuriken!”

“Cannon Shot!”

A combination of Helicos’ shuriken and Artilla’s cannon blast sent Shining flying before he could even get a chance to fire off a round and the next thing he knew, he was wrapped up in rolls of film, far too thick to rip or tear. The lens of Camera Org whirred as he lined up his own shot. Just then, a loud rumbling sound filled the air and then, bursting through a chainlink fence was a very familiar green car, inside it a phone blaring some very loud punk rock. And then, stepping out of the car as it pulled itself to a halt was Robert Williams, in a pure black trench coat, the very same in fact, that he had thought was for people who were trying way too hard to be badass. He pointed at Camera Org, who took a step back at the pure rage etched on Robert’s face.

“You… You, Camera Org are going to give those souls you took back. Most of all Sunset, the day you touched her was the day you signed your death warrant. She was one of the only ponies who was ever kind to me, and by taking her you’ve lined yourself up for destruction.” Robert snarled.

“Get out of here Robert! You can’t take them alone!” Shining shouted.

“Oh yeah? Watch me.” Robert smirked before running into a nearby warehouse. He knew cameras needed light to take very good pictures, and if the Org didn’t have that, no more soul stealing for him and Robert could take him on fair and square. Just as Robert predicted, the Org was dumb enough to follow him in. Artilla shouted after him.

“What are you, stupid? You’ll lose your light!”

“Oh, I know how this is going to end… This is not going to be a good day for Orgs.” Helicos muttered to herself before she and her brother teleported away. Meanwhile, Camera Org and Robert stood each other down.

Robert let out a war cry and charged towards Camera Org before leaping up to a piece of scaffolding and kicking some metal barrels down at him. As Camera Org tried to readjust and refocus his lens for Robert, the man in question grabbed a chain and used it to run along the walls of the warehouse and leap onto another platform before kicking some cardboard boxes down at the Org, who jumped out of the way to avoid them and Robert grabbed another chain and swung to another platform and then cried out “Call to the Beast inside! Free the Fox!” and unleashed his animal spirit at the Org and the misty claws scratched away at the monster, cracking his lens. Robert smirked, he was out of danger now.

With a flip, he jumped down from his platform, falling towards the Camera lens with a downwards axe kick. His heel collided with the cracked glass, shattering it easily, causing a torrent of astral blue fireballs to rocket out of the Org’s shutter and rocket towards Ponyville.

“Now… You’re free.” Robert said softly and all over Ponyville, from the Carousel Boutique, where Rarity, Zephyr, Bon-Bon, Lyra and Sparkler had been snapped, to the Ponyville Park where a few more unfortunate souls had been captured and even to where Robert was now, where the souls of the Rangers and Zen-Aku landed and formed back into their bodies. On the Animarium, the Red Lion roared loudly from his clifftop perch and his green eyes flashed. A great deed deserved a great reward. And so, Robert saw an orange orb float down to him and transform his fox pendant into an orange fox’s head on a necklace.

He turned back to the Camera Org. He knew exactly what to do now.

“Henshin! Legendary Wild Access!” Robert cried out as he slammed a palm down on his new necklace and he was transformed.

Morphing Sequence

A flash of pure blue flames enveloped Robert as he stood in one of the red gate lined pathways that led up to Inari’s sacred shrine on Mt. Inari and was given an orange form-fitting costume with tooth marks going diagonally across the left side of his chest and a golden fox’s head on his right breast. Then, a cape flamed into existence and a misty orange nine tailed fox bit down on Robert’s head and formed his helmet.

Morphing Sequence Ends

“With the Cunning of the Fox, Orange Kitsune Ranger!” Robert yelled out as an explosion of orange smoke appeared behind him.

“Oh, it’s so good to be back! Sa... dohade ni ikuze!" Robert smirked under his helmet as he pulled out an orange blaster with a fox shaped head from his holster. Robert fired off several golden blasts of energy at the Org and the final blast was enough to make him crash through the wall behind him. At about that moment, one of Thrax’s grenades came flying out of the sky and Robert looked at it and shook his head.

“Sa seru ka!” Robert remarked before throwing his Crystal Saber at the grenade and destroying it before it ever had a chance to reach the Org and it boomeranged right back to Robert’s outstretched hand before he pointed his Fox Blaster right at Camera Org, who knew exactly what was coming.

“Kitsune Blast!” Robert cried out after combining his Crystal Saber with the weapon and pulling the trigger, unleashing a flaming orb that turned into a giant fox’s head that bit down hard on the Org and caused him to stumble over backwards.

“Seibai!” Robert said, resting the blaster on his shoulder and giving a thumbs down as the Org erupted into flames and exploded.

“Ugh, I feel like I’ve just woken up from the longest nap in history.” Lightning muttered before they all picked themselves off the ground and almost at once, turned their heads towards Galaxy and Sunburst and noted their state of undress. Vapor blushed red and Lightning burst out laughing.

“Uh… We can explain this…” Sunburst stuttered out, blushing as red as a tomato.

“I can, you two were doing the horizontal mamba, or were about to anyways before you got captured.” Lightning cackled.

“...Oh, I’m never going to hear the end of this am I?” Sunburst moaned. Then, they along with Shining saw the newest Ranger step in front of them.

“Who…?” Vapor trailed off and Sunset’s eyes widened in shock. No, it couldn’t possibly be. But she, along with the others was in for the shock of her life when the newcomer demorphed in an orange flash of light and gave a very foxlike smirk.

END

Author's Notes:

Well, I think Robert's words say it all about this chapter, eh? So, Robert's finally regained his powers, or should I say gained new and more powerful ones. Anyways, now that all the Rangers are assembled, we'll start focusing on their individual personalities. After all, Sunburst and Lightning have pretty much been background characters since they've first appeared and we hardly know anything about them. That's about to change. Anyways, translation time:

Seibai: Execution or Judgement

"Sa... dohade ni ikuze!": "Now... Let's make this really showy!"

“Sa seru ka!”: "As if I'd let you!" or "I don't think so!"

(Also, huge thanks to the The Villain in Glasses for making Lightning's duel with Helicos more epic and doing the same for Robert's fight with Camera Org and providing the Japanese phrases.)