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Equestria Rangers

by Shadowmane PX-41

Chapter 3: Prologue: We Are Not Alone Part 3

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"Captain! We have a situation." One of the wolves aboard the Wolfpack flagship tapped on a monitor which showed a bright red light blinking on and off on a star map.

"Speak up, Scal'zek." Mar'zek stood up from his throne and stomped over towards the screen. "What is it now? We destroyed the fleet of Harmonites with our superior weaponry. Heck, the salvage is coming back as we speak." He leaned over and hung the nails of his claws over Scal'zek's shoulders. "What is so important that we need to stow off now?"

"I'm reading a powerful energy signature from co-ordinates 0-7594 Omicron. A planet called Earth." He punched in some buttons on his console, showing a projection of the planet to him and Mar'zek. "More specifically, down in this large chunk of land known as the United States."

"It is a vegetation planet. Nothing there could possibly be of interest to us." Mar'zek waved his claw as he turned away and crossed his arms behind his back. "Turn the computer off and return to the homeworld once the salvage is fully loaded on the ship."

"No, sir! Don't leave yet! It's a signature unlike anything we've ever seen before!" Scal'zek poked his head out from behind his chair as he watched the captain leave the room. "It's the same resonation as the Power Crystals.

At that note, Mar'zek stopped in his tracks and turned his head towards the wolves. "Power Crystals? As in the ones that the Harmonites keep close to their hands?"

"Yes, sir!" Scal'zek nodded.

"If the Power Crystals are out in the open, that means that we can swipe them easily and make ourselves the strongest pirate force in the universe!" Mar'zek ran straight back to Scal'zek. "Wolves! Initiate hyperdrive sequence! Prepare for a jump to this E-arth world!"

"Roger that, captain." Scal'zek activated the ship's PA system and spoke into the microphone. "Attention, all wolves! Captain Mar'zek has had to cut the salvage operation short. The Power Crystals have been sighted on a planet known as Earth!" his voice echoed throughout the entire ship and transmitted to the other ones. "Return with whatever you have and prepare to jump into hyperspace!"

All of the wolves burst out of the destroyed Harmonite ships with their arms loaded with ship parts and valuables. They all wore black spacesuits with thrusters on the back so that they could propel themselves through the tractionless void of the cosmos. Within a few minutes, the wolves had landed back on their respective ships and took their suits off before preparing to make the jump to Earth.

"For too long have the Power Crystals slipped through my fingers." Mar'zek pushed his fingers against each other as a wicked smile grew on his lips. "The work of my father and his ancestors before him will finally come to fruition. At long last, the Wolfpack shall seize control of the Power Crystals and become the most powerful beings in all of existence!"

"Hyperdrive systems engaging. Waiting for your mark, Captain Mar'zek!" Scal'zek called out from his seat as a massive blue vortex with the Solar System on the other side of it appeared in front of the fleet.

"LAUNCH!" Mar'zek thrust his arm out towards the portal.

The Wolfpack ships' engines fired up and began to slowly push the ships forward. As they began to move, huge crystals similar to the ones that Elaris had used to avoid being blown up in the battle beforehand appeared around the ships' rear ends. They all glowed as the ships generated blue ripples around them. Once the streams of light around them formed an arrow, the ships shot forward and hurtled through the portal. After making the jump successfully, the wormhole behind them closed itself up.


"This. Is. So. AWESOME!" Pinkie pie bounced around Elaris's ship in her new pink suit. She performed cartwheels and handstands as she felt the entire suit stretch and bend around her. "I've always wanted to be a Power Ranger ever since I was a little kid! And now, I am! I can punch bad guys in the face, fire guns that go pew-pew, and get my own animal zord!"

"Pinkie Pie, I appreciate the situation, but I think that you should calm down a little." Rarity walked up to Pinkie and gave her shoulders a gentle push downwards. "Our fashion sense is completely out of whack here! We look like astronaut suits without the faces!"

"Rarity. Does everything have to be fashion with you?" Sunset tilted her head and held her hand out. As she did, a fireball shot out of it and flew straight past Rarity and Pinkie before hitting a wall and dissipating into embers. "Whoa! Where did that come from?!"

"The Power Crystals are beginning to embed themselves into you. New powers are beginning to emerge as we speak." Elaris smiled as she watched the other girls feel themselves down and move in their new uniforms. "Still, of all the people in the universe, I would never have guessed that a bunch of teenagers from E-arth would have been the chosen ones."

"First of all, it's Earth, not E-arth." Rainbow Dash shook her head at Elaris as she reached down towards her feet. "Second of all, would you mind explaining why we're dressed up like this?"

"The Power Crystals' strength coats you in these new battle armours, enhancing your physical strength and agility ten-thousand fold." Elaris smiled and clasped her hands together as she watched the Rainbooms gather together in a line. "You are what my people like to call the Perfect Ones."

"For the sake of the suits, though, I think that we're just gonna stick with Power Rangers, if that's alright with you." Pinkie raised her finger.

"Whatever you wish, Perfect Ones." Elaris bowed before the Rainbooms and knelt down on one knee. "I am your humble servant. I will do whatever you say and abide by whatever choices you make."

"What about me?" Twilight put her hand to her chest and looked Elaris in the eyes. "Are you my servant as well?"

"No," Elaris said.

"Well, that was pretty blunt of you, weren't it?" Applejack crossed her arms.

"Did I do a bad thing?" Elaris hung her head and slid towards the Rainbooms with her hands put together. "Forgive me, Perfect Ones! I was a little too rash. What may I call your assistant?"

"She's not our assistant. She's our friend," said Sunset Shimmer. "Her name is Twilight Sparkle, and if it's alright, we'd like it if you were to treat her with as much respect as you would with us."

"I understand. I will make sure that this Twilight Sparkle human isn't left out." Elaris took a brief look around the damaged ship. "I'm sure that I can find some way that she can contribute to our battle against Mar'zek and the Wolfpack."

"What is Mar'zek? What is the Wolfpack?" Twilight took a few steps towards Elaris. "Do you think that you could explain it to us?"

"Ah, yes. What are the Perfect Ones if they don't have an enemy to fight?" Elaris nodded and walked over towards the front of her ship. She tapped a button on the pilot's seat, causing a small disk to spring to life out of the top of the room, projecting images towards the glass. "They are the most feared pirates in the universe. They shoot to kill, take no prisoners, and leave nothing behind when they pillage and plunder." The next image showed two wolf claw marks forming a diagonal tic-tac-toe grid, with blood dripping down off of the bottoms of each scratch. "They are the Wolfpack. Led by Captain Mar'zek, son of Captain Sli'tra, son of Alpha Ji'gra, they destroy everything in their path to obtain ultimate power."

"So, they're a bunch of wolves?" Fluttershy lifted one of her eyebrows underneath her Power Ranger suit.

"Typical. The most horrific creatures in the galaxy are a bunch of ragged wolves." Rarity scoffed and pulled her hands from her hips, causing a pair of white swords with flowers blooming out of the hilts to appear in her hands. "Whoa! Where did these come from?"

"Rarity? You have swords? That's so cool!" Pinkie Pie tapped the tip of the blades with her middle finger. "Usually, it's the Red Ranger that gets the swords, with a few exceptions here and there."

"Truth be told, I was not aware of the power of the crystals myself..." Elaris walked closer and felt the blades of Rarity's swords, hearing a high-pitched and melodical whine as she slid her hands over them. "So beautiful..." She smiled.

"Swords out of thin air? Intriguing." Twilight came up to the blades and nearly impaled herself on the razor-thin tips. "If I had the proper time to analyse this sort of thing, we could be making all kinds of groundbreaking discoveries. But this whole thing's a massive discovery in itself." She gazed towards Elaris. "We have the answer to one of the planet's biggest questions! We are not alone in the universe! There are other forms of life out there! I feel so excited!" She beamed and bounced on the spot.

"Strange. Do all humans act like this when they discover us?" Elaris watched Twilight's euphoria.

"Well... just Twilight." Rainbow Dash came back over to her side. "She gets a little bit over-excited about this kinda stuff; especially considering that you're an alien from another planet and all."

"So, if I might ask a question?" Applejack raised her hand. "What in the heck do these suits even do? Aside from making us look like a bunch of spandex-wearing ninnies?"

"I'm not really sure myself. My father always said that the ones who can control the crystals would be gifted with so many different powers." Elaris put her hand on Applejack's chest. "Already, from this touch, I can tell that these suits give you superhuman strength. And as this Rarity of yours demonstrated, special weapons tailored to you and your personalities."

"When you say weapons, what do you mean by that?" Rainbow Dash asked, holding her hands out. Almost immediately, two blue guns with lights on the side of the barrel and wings at the back warped into them. "Whoa! I've got lasers!"

"Lasers, Rainbow?" Pinkie asked, before her own weapon appeared. Hers was like one of those toy guns that blast air at the kids, but it was all coloured pink with cupcakes and candy on the paint. Inside of the cannon was a mass of swirling magic that looked like it was covered with confetti and sprinkles. "Ooh! I got a Party Cannon!" Pinkie's eyes lit up. "Well, I mean, I already had one anyway, but now I've got one that can fight against bad guys too! I'd better make sure to put some labels on 'em when I get home; just so I don't mix the two up."

"Hold on, now. Before we get too carried away with our new things, we've gotta get our bearings first." Applejack examined each and every part of Elaris's control room. Sparks crackled off of the broken wires and electronics and steam slowly hissed from the pipes. The screen sitting in front of the pilot's seat was cracked and chipped, with all kinds of signals flickering on it. "We've gotta try and fix Elaris's ship. She can't make it back home with how bashed up it is."

"I appreciate the offer, Perfect Ones, but there is a few problems with that." Elaris walked over towards the exit. "First of all, this ship came from my home planet. The materials and technology are much more advanced than you might think. Second, the Wolfpack will have tracked me here and will start ravaging this planet until they get what they want."

"Well, I'm sure that we can handle the Wolfpack just fine." Sunset nodded. "We've fought magic before and battled creatures from other worlds, so I think this is just another day in the life, really."

"The Wolfpack aren't your average bunch of wolves, ladies," said Elaris. "They're vicious, dangerous, unwilling to listen to reason, and have horrible breath."

"Oh my..." Fluttershy shuddered. "They sound awful."

"That's because they are." Elaris looked out to the night sky, poking out of the back of her ship. "Whenever they go pillaging, they make sure to leave nothing behind. Entire settlements disappear overnight whenever they attack. And the lifeforms they don't kill? They torture and interrogate them until they wish they were dead."

"But... why would this Wolfpack want to attack you anyway?" Twilight asked, pushing her glasses closer to her face. "What do you have that they could possibly want?"

"Those crystals your friends now wield." Elaris pointed at each of the Rainbooms' chests. Moreso, to where the crystals now laid. "The Wolfpack will stop at nothing to keep on powering themselves up. And with the power of of these jewels, they will become unstoppable."

"So... these crystals are our only hope, then?" Twilight leaned in closer to the one in Fluttershy's suit. "Then we'd better hold on to them. And make sure that those wolves don't get their claws on them."

"I just wish we could talk this out every once in a while. Having to fight wolves makes me feel uncomfortable..." As Fluttershy sat down and crossed her legs, she felt something else appear in her hands. A bright yellow flute, with a rainbow-coloured neck piece close to the mouth hole. "Oh. What's this?" She felt the slender textures of the flute as she lightly grasped it with her fingers.

"It looks like a flute..." Applejack squatted down and took a look at the glowing neck piece. She saw animals flash by, one after another like a slideshow. "Fluttershy. Can you play the flute?"

"Not really. All I can play is the tambourine." She shook her head and held the flute up to her mouth. "But... I suppose I could always try to learn it."

As Fluttershy blew into the flute, a picture of a flock of birds flashed on the top of the flute. Streams of yellow energy flew out of the end of the flute, summoning ghostly forms of birds, which glistened a pale shade of yellow as they flapped around the control room and landed on her shoulders.

"Oh. Hello, little guys." Fluttershy patted the birds, listening closely to their melodic cheeps. She chuckled at the affectionate display and played on the flute some more, causing the birds to vanish. "Oh!" She jumped at how sudden the disappearance was.

"I see." Elaris helped Fluttershy back up. "So, that is your weapon, Fluttershy." She grabbed the neck piece and twisted it around, changing the animal on top from a bird, to a bear, to snakes, and many more. "Interesting. From the looks of it, the creature on the top is the one you can summon, and then I would assume that these other holes give it commands."

"Yes. That sounds about right." Rarity came to Fluttershy's side. "So you can control these animals all on your own. I suppose that works well for a girl like you, Fluttershy."

"You think I can still be a good asset to the team with this?" She asked as she clutched the instrument in both hands. "I mean, I don't even know how to play the flute; let alone use it to fight evil."

"Aw, c'mon, Fluttershy. You're very useful." Rainbow Dash patted her back. "You could call animals any time before. Now, you can do it two different ways! You'll be able to tear the Wolfpack a new one easily!"

Before anyone could say or do anything else, a large rumbling noise broke through the air, reverberating all throughout the control room. As everyone lurched backwards at the sound, Elaris scrambled to the back door of her ship, running as fast as she could.

"Oh no..." She moaned as she looked out into the skies above, seeing a fleet of ships appear high in the sky. "They're already here."

"Who's here?" Sunset ran out of the ship, looking up at the wide fleet in the stratosphere.

"Let us at 'em!" Rainbow readied her two hand lasers. "We're ready!"

"The Wolfpack..." Elaris just stared in horror at the large fleet of ships. The sheer size of them made her body freeze up and caused her arms to tremble like jelly.

"Hey! What are you doing in there?" One of the soldiers guarding the spaceship turned to see Elaris and the Rainbooms standing on the edge of the crashed ship. "This area is off-limits to the public!"

"Sorry, mister, but we don't have time to talk right now," said Twilight as the others soon joined her. "We've gotta save the world from—"

"Let me handle this." Elaris conjured a stream of rainbow-coloured magic from her two hands and made a bright ring of light. She threw it in the air and spread her arms out to the sides, widening it until it was the size of the ship and the girls inside it. "We just landed here, militants, and would prefer it if you gave us some privacy!" She threw down both of her arms, causing the ring to transform into a bright pillar of light that disappeared just as fast as it had arrived. Once it dissipated, both the ship and the girls had completely vanished from sight, leaving all of the men standing there looking thunderstruck.


The very same pillar of magical energy that had caused the girls to disappear from the park now reappeared on the top of a hill, conjuring the ship and Rainbooms into being. Because the ship was back on solid land and not partially buried, the girls all had to hold onto the frame as it rocked and tilted on re-entry.

"Whoa..." Rainbow Dash stared out and saw the city of Canterlot out in the distance. The rest of the town looked so much smaller from the hill that they were now situated on, so it was natural that she would be moved by it. "You. Are. Amazing!" She turned back to Elaris. "How'd you do that?!"

"Harmonites like I have powerful magic at our disposal." Elaris smiled and held both of her hands together at her navel. "Though, I'm just starting out myself, and I really just wanted to erase their memories or at least knock them out. I didn't mean to teleport us away."

"Either way, that was some next-level stuff right there." Sunset was also awestruck at how much distance they had moved in that short period of time. "I don't think I've seen teleportation magic since I left Equestria."

"I'm glad that you all like it. But I still wish that I could have more control over it." Elaris sighed and hung her head. "How am I ever going to fend off Mar'zek and the wolves in this condition?"

"Well, we've got those super-duper power crystals. We could shake those wolves off your backs." Pinkie smiled. "Plus, we've gotta break in these new weapons one way or another."

"Yeah. Speaking of which, what's mine?" Applejack asked, and received her weapon as if it had been a scripted part of a play. The next weapon to appear in her hands was a large sledgehammer, with apples adorning the cheeks. A large jagged circle was on both ends of the hammer, with an orange hilt underneath it. "Well, speak of the devil..." She held it up firmly using both of her hands to do so.

"Five weapons. All that remains is yours, Sunset Shimmer." Elaris tapped one of the edges of Sunset's crystal, seeing a radiant light begin to poke out of it like a chicken hatching from an egg. "Let us see what weapon you shall fight the Wolfpack with."

As Sunset saw the light emerge from her chest and twirl around in front of her face, she saw a red handle appear out of nothingness. As she grabbed onto the handle and pulled it out of the cosmic light, she found herself holding onto a large, sharpened sword with a circular frame for a hilt and a flame pattern on it.

"This is... a sword?" As Sunset got a feel of the new weapon, she felt a button on the hilt. As she pushed it in, the sword she was holding suddenly split in half down the middle, and one of the two halves of the sword moved to the other end of it, transforming the single sword into a large twin-sided one. "Okay. That's pretty cool." As she said that, she felt another button by her little finger. As she pushed it, both sides of the sword suddenly span up like a helicopter blade, nearly pulling her away at how fast they were slicing. "Wh-whoa!" Sunset pushed the button again, stopping the rotation straight away.

"Alright. Now that's a pretty cool sword; especially for a Red Ranger." Pinkie pointed out as Sunset transformed the sword back into one.

"This is all so much to take in..." Sunset sighed as she tried swinging the weapon around in its' single form, before switching to the double form. "An alien crash lands in Canterlot, we get another set of crystals, and the seven of us have to stop an army of wolves from destroying the world just to get our new powers for themselves. You would never think we lead a normal life in the first place if this ever got out."

"I know that it is all a bit sudden for you, but if you could help me out in repelling these wolves and fixing my ship, I would be most grateful." Elaris bowed before them. "Can you save this world—no, this universe from Mar'zek and his Wolfpack?"

"Well, of course." Sunset nodded. "We're always up to save the world. We've done it a few times before, and we're not gonna let it all end right here and now. Right, girls?"

"Nuh-uh! Those wolves are gonna go running back home to their mamas with their tails between their legs!" Pinkie fist-pumped.

"They set themselves up and we'll knock 'em down!" Rainbow Dash nodded and smiled confidently.

"Ah shucks. Ah'm in too. Wouldn't want a pack of wolves messin' up my home and friends." Applejack gripped the handle of her hammer tightly.

"It's only fair that we teach those beasts some manners after what they did to Elaris's poor spaceship." Rarity held the swords she had to her side.

"I'll help too. I mean, that is, if you want me to." Fluttershy poked her head out of the other girls.

"Then it's settled." Elaris nodded and held the girls' hands together. She opened the palm of her right hand down and poured a small beam of light into their hands, causing it to travel up their veins and around their bodies. In the Rainbooms' eyes, they saw very brief flashes of giant robots shaped like animals and coloured like their suits. "This light of mine should give you strength. In case the Wolfpack give you a hard time, your new powers will allow you to summon powerful machines to stem the tide of the surging wolves."

"Ooh! Are those our zords?" Pinkie's eyes lit up once again. "Thank you thank you thank you, Elaris!" She violently and vigorously shook her hand. "Now, we're full and complete Power Rangers! And when the Wolfpack comes running, we'll be ready and waiting!"

"I still wish we had a better name for the group." Rarity muttered. "But, I suppose that it does have some sense of authority to it, so that's what we're going with, I suppose."

"For now, though, we should probably get some rest." Twilight climbed off the ship. "It's getting late and we need to take some time to process all of this. We'll see you in the morning, Elaris."

"Oh. Before you go, I want you to have these." Elaris took out six little chips. "These also came with the crystals. They're fashioned in the shape of... something, but I don't know what they are."

"Those look like SIM cards to me." Applejack picked up the orange one. "We earthlings put these here into our phones, and they give us the power to use the internet on the go."

"But, since these ones are magical, they must give us access to talk to you, Elaris!" Pinkie Pie squealed and took hers right away. "What's your phone number? Do you have one?"

"Oh, no no no. That won't be necessary." She waved her hands after the other girls took their cards. "Just put it into your phones and you'll have a direct link to my ship. I'll be able to monitor everything from there once we get the repairs done."

"I'll help you out with the ship." Twilight installed her SIM card first. "Since I don't have a crystal of my own, I figure that I could give you a hand in making the repairs while my friends fight the Wolfpack. Just until I get a crystal of my own later on."

"I'd like that." Elaris smiled and patted Twilight on the shoulder. "Very well, Twilight Sparkle. I'm looking forward to working with you."

"We should all chip in too." Sunset nodded as she put her card into her phone next. "With this Wolfpack coming, we'd better come prepared. Or Earth is finished..."

Author's Notes:

So, you're probably wondering why the heck this story's back from the grave, right? Well, the reason is that, my friend, The Bricklayer, has kinda inspired me to keep on writing this story after he showed me and allowed me to collaborate with him to write his own Power Rangers story. Gotta say, thank you, Brick. You've really re-lit a fire that I thought would never go out.

Now, I've got plenty of ideas back in my head and I'm looking forward to sharing them all with you. This Power Rangers crossover is back, baby! And hopefully, it's here to stay.

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