Chapter 11

Ponyville was in absolute chaos, and Luna was loving every second of it. The town was filled with the fearful and frantic screams of people running from the monsters that she summoned. She wanted to hunt down the remaining Power Rangers, but now that she had enough gold she could summon Goldar and prepare to reclaim the Crystal Heart. She figured rather than wasting her time hunting down a group of helpless teenage girls, she should try to move her plans forward.

“Krispy Kreme… Krispy Kreme… where is Krispy Kreme?” Luna wondered, skipping around town in her green armor as her putties attacked the citizens and destroyed buildings, cars, everything in their path. Ahead of her she saw a truck trying to drive out of town. Just because she could, and she wanted to see if it would explode, she charged up her sword and sent a shock wave out at the truck, slicing it in half. It instantly exploded, killing whoever was inside of it.

Luna clapped her hands excitedly, “That makes 257! Only 243 more measly humans to go!”

She continued to saunter through town, working with her summoned soldiers to get to the legendary place known as “Krispy Kreme”. She'd summon Goldar there to save time.

Macintosh went into town to search for Applejack, but freaked out once he saw the state of the town. Was Applejack somewhere in this mess? Was she in danger? She was a lot of things, but she wouldn't have stayed out past curfew without a good reason.

“Please be alright, Applejack!” Macintosh prayed. As he drove his red truck through town, one of the stone creatures tackled the truck knocking it off the road and making it topple over. He tried to get out of the truck, but saw those monsters approaching him. There was no way he could get out of there.

Just as he was about to surrender himself to his fate, he saw something odd. It looked like someone was running toward the truck, fighting the monsters. Based on their body, they were female, and were wearing skintight red and silver body armor and a red helmet. They punched and kicked the putties away from the truck, and then knelt down by the window pulling the door off.

“Give me your hand!” the red warrior said, causing Macintosh to freak out a bit and try to escape through the other door.

“W-who are you?! What are you?!” Macintosh asked in full panic mode.

“There's no time! This truck's gonna blow in a bit, now give me your hand now!” the red warrior demanded, Macintosh still not calming down, “Macintosh!”

Wait, what? How had she known his name? He looked at the face of the warrior's helmet, sensing a gentleness from her, along with an air that he recognized.

“I swear, you're safe with me,” the red warrior said softer, “Now please, let me help you.”

Was that…? No, it couldn't have been. Either way, something was now telling him that she was trustworthy, so he took a deep breath and held out his hand. The red warrior grasped it tightly and pulled him out, carrying him over her shoulder as they ran away from the truck, minutes before it exploded.

The explosion knocked them forward onto the ground, and Macintosh looked back at the truck in shock. He then looked at the red warrior as she stood up and dusted herself off.

“Ya need to get to safety,” she said helping Macintosh to his feet, “Head back home an' protect your family.”

“Hold on!” Macintosh called out stopping her, “Is that… you-”

“I'm a Power Ranger,” the red warrior said cutting him off, “That's all ya need to know.”

With that, the red warrior ran off, continuing to fight the stone warriors as she ran. If that was who he thought she was, then he prayed that she'd be alright. Still, he did wonder where all that power came from.

Applejack ran back to the center of Ponyville, where she saw the rest of her team gathered together and fighting putties. Unlike before when they were training, all of them were fighting on a pro level, actually managing to take a few out.

Applejack ran in to join the others, kicking a putty away from Rarity right before it attacked her.

“Ya alright?” Applejack asked.

“Please, this is too easy!” Rarity said, spin kicking another putty into pieces, “I could take these guys out in my sleep!”

“I know, right?” Pinkie Pie said, dodging the swiping blows of the putty in front of her, “This is actually kinda fun!” she jumped into the air lifting her leg up, and then came down on top of the putty with an axe kick, knocking it to the ground.

Twilight and Fluttershy were fighting side by side, knocking a putty back with a combinations of powerful punches and well placed kicks. Twilight actually pulled off a mid air double kick on the putty, knocking it off balance and Fluttershy followed up by jumping after it and actually slashing it with what looked like clawed hands.

The five of them managed to clear out the putties in the town square, but looked out to see more of them gathering around and approaching them.

“Um… you were saying?!” Fluttershy asked.

“There are too many of them!” Twilight cried, “At this rate we're not going to get to Krispy Kreme in time!”

Rarity looked ahead and gasped in shock, “Everyone, look out!”

As soon as she said that, a green shock wave blew all of them back. Thankfully they managed to all flip in the air and land on their feet, but then saw Luna walking over to them with a scowl on her face.

“I don't believe this!” Luna hissed, “How is this possible?!”

“Um, hello! We're the heroes!” Pinkie Pie said, “That was stupidly easy, Luna!”

Luna looked at Twilight and narrowed her eyes, “And you! You're supposed to be dead!”

“Wait, really? I had no idea! I guess I just can't die properly, huh?” she folded her arms and nodded, “That was sarcasm, by the way.”

“Whooo! Twilight, that was savage!” Applejack said, patting Twilight on the back.

“Want some ointment for that serious burn, Luna?” Fluttershy asked, all five of them laughing hard. Luna's face was turning red, she was so angry.

“You… little brats!” Luna seethed, “Children like you are a disgrace to the Ranger legacy!”

“Says the bitch who turned her back on her fellow Rangers!” Rarity said, placing her hands on her hips and leaning forward, “We're at least using our powers for what they were meant to be used for! All you're doing is playing around, using your powers to do whatever you please!”

“Your virtue is supposed to be loyalty,” Applejack said, “Yet ya betrayed your people, your team, an' worst of all, your sister! Even now she still believes in you!”

“Hmph! As far as I'm concerned she's nothing but a ghost! You children have no idea what this power is, or what it is capable of! It is for that reason that you will all fall here! Putties, change of plans! I want all of you to put your main focus on these 'Power Rangers'! Make sure that they do not stop me from reviving Goldar!”

All the putties ran toward the Rangers at once, this time pushing them back and overwhelming them.

“Um, we have a problem here!” Fluttershy gulped.

“Damn it!” Applejack shouted. She looked past the crowd to see Luna smirk at her and saunter off, “We need to get past this fast! She's gonna get to Krispy Kreme before us!”

“Her armor looks like it's alive…” Twilight mumbled to herself as she fought, “The way it forms on her body combined with her powers…”

“Um… Twilight?! Now really isn't the time to be in your head!” Pinkie Pie cried.

“The armor is controlled with our minds, and even seems to act like a second skin as opposed to a suit of armor…” Twilight roundhouse kicked a putty and walked off a bit, deep in thought, the cogs in her mind whirring rapidly, forcing the rest of her team to have to cover for her.

“Um, should we be allowing her to do this?!” Rarity asked.

“Her strength is her mind!” Applejack said, “Trust her! She's gonna think of somethin’”

“So in that case, I am one with the armor, so I know what the armor knows and vice versa, Could it have the memories of the previous Blue Ranger as well? If that's the case, then all we have to do is tap into the experience of the previous Rangers…” she had no idea, but two putties were rushing over to her.

“TWILIGHT!!!” Fluttershy screamed.

“I got it!” Twilight said immediately. She then turned around to the putties as a fancy double sided lance materialized in her hands. She spun the lance over her head and slashed the putties in half.

“Whoa!” Pinkie Pie shouted, “Where did that come from?!”

“I think we all have one!” Twilight said, slashing putties away with her new weapon, “The armor is a part of us, and as such we all-” she cut herself off as she blocked two incoming attacks, “No time to explain! Just think of a weapon, and it'll come!”

Fluttershy nodded and concentrated, an image of two daggers appearing in her head. Immediately, those same daggers appeared in her hands, “I can use these!” she then began fighting the putties more offensively, fighting almost like a large cat, hacking and slashing viciously at the putties,

Pinkie Pie followed suit, materializing a fancy looking bow. She pulled the string back, materializing a cybernetic looking arrow and fired it at the putties in front of her, shocked when it pierced through it and hit two others behind.

“This is awesome! I have unlimited ammo too!” Pinkie Pie cheered.

Rarity and Applejack stood back to back, and nodded to each other before materializing their weapons: a fancy sword for Applejack, and a scary looking axe for Rarity. The two of them slashed at the putties surrounding them, killing them with each slash instantly.

“Well, this is a little better,” Rarity said, “But we're still stuck in this section of Ponyville!”

Fluttershy pounced on a putty, knocking it to the ground and slashing it in the chest, destroying it, “I think my Ranger armor can climb! I can climb on top of a building to see where Luna is!”

“While she's doing that, I can figure out more of what the armor is capable of!” Twilight said, “I have an idea, and if it works, we'll be able to get closer to Krispy Kreme!”

“Alright, go for it!” Applejack commanded, “We need to get to Krispy Kreme, and fast!”

Fluttershy nodded and rushed off to a building while Twilight ran someplace away from the fighting to take cover. Meanwhile, Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie stayed on the surface, fighting their way through the putty army.

Fluttershy landed on a roof and looked out into the town. She saw Luna making her way unhindered, getting dangerously close to the Krispy Kreme.

“That's not good!” Fluttershy cried, “Applejack! She's almost there!”

“Don't go by yourself!” Applejack shouted thrusting her sword into a putty, “We need to wait for Twilight!”

“Hey, what if we tried calling those giant robots?!” Rarity asked, “Spike said they're for emergencies, right? Well, I'd say this counts as an emergency!”

“I knew you'd see the novelty of having giant robots!” Pinkie Pie cheered.

“Twilight, can ya work that out?!” Applejack asked.

“Way ahead of you!” Twilight called out running back to the group, whacking a putty aside with her lance, “I figured it out! The armors, the weapons, even the Zords are all connected through the Morphing Grid, and our minds are the keys to manipulating it all!”

“So, what exactly?” Fluttershy asked landing next to Twilight, “Can we call the Zords like we called our weapons?”

“Actually, yes!” Twilight said, “We focus on the Zords and request their aid, and the Morphing Grid should send them to our general location for us to use! Sort of like Star Fox Assault, if anyone's played that game!”

“Oooh! Oooh! I have!” Pinkie Pie chirped raising her hand, “I loved that game!”

“Thank you!” Twilight exclaimed, “I'm sick of people trying to tell me that it's a bad game!”

“Um, girls? Can we stay focused?” Rarity asked nervously, watching the putties approach them slowly.

“Let's try it!” Applejack said. The other Rangers nodded and stood in a line holding up their hands.

“BATTLE ZORDS! COME FORTH!” all five Rangers shouted at once.

Back in the castle, all five of the Zords came to life at once and roared. Spike ran into the hanger and looked up in shock.

“Wait…! Did they figure out how to call the Zords?!” Spike asked. Celestia's gleeful laughter echoed through the hangar before she manifested next to him.

“I knew it!” Celestia said with a hopeful smile, “They truly are Power Rangers!”

The Zords all vanished in streaks of bright light that shot out of the hanger.

Back in the city, five multicolored lights: one red, one blue, one yellow, one pink, and one white, all shot down from the sky and landed in a circle around the Rangers, knocking the putties back. The Rangers all looked up at their Zords in awe.

“My God…” Rarity breathed looking up at the Mastodon Zord.

“They actually came…” Fluttershy whispered to herself in awe, staring at the Sabertooth Tiger Zord.

“This, is, the COOLEST THING EVER!” Pinkie Pie screamed before running right at her Pterodactyl Zord, “Let's do this!”

“I figured this out?” Twilight asked, looking at the Triceratops Zord. Applejack patted her on the shoulder.

“Good job, Blue Ranger,” Applejack said. She could almost feel Twilight's bright smile behind her helmet, “Alright Power Rangers! Let's plow through 'em!”

Applejack jumped into her T-Rex Zord, the other Rangers following suit. The five Zords then ran, or flew in Pinkie Pie's case, toward Krispy Kreme, plowing through all the putties in their way.

“This is crazy!” Fluttershy exclaimed, “I actually know how to drive this thing!”

“Remember? Spike said that the Zords would connect to us!” Twilight said.

“Either way, this makes things a lot easier!” Applejack said, “We should be able to make our way to Krispy Kreme now with these!”

It took a while but they eventually reached the Krispy Kreme, where they saw Luna sitting on a nearby bench with her legs crossed elegantly, eating donuts from a box.

“These are surprisingly good,” Luna said, completely undaunted by the appearance of the Zords.

“Don't tell me you just sat here and waited for us?” Rarity asked from inside the Mastodon Zord.

“Yes, actually,” Luna said, “I was prepared to just summon Goldar right away. But I saw the light of your Battle Zords come down from the sky, and a thought came to mind. You see, I trained all of my life in the art of combat,” Luna said, rising up and walking toward the Zords, pulling out a second donut and eating it, “It's only natural that I would become the greatest Power Ranger of all time,” she bit into the donut, her eyes widening from the taste, “Excuse me, this is really good.”

“Is this bitch for real?” Rarity asked, dumbfounded by Luna’s behavior, the other Rangers appearing on screens in front of her.

“I think so, scarily enough.” Fluttershy said.

“However, the five of you are different,” Luna continued, throwing her empty box aside and eating her last donut, “You only had a few days of training, yet you already mastered morphing, calling your weapons, and you can even summon your Zords. I find all of you… intriguing.”

“Intriguing?!” Pinkie Pie asked.

“Yes, Pink Ranger,” Luna said, finishing her donut and licking the icing off her armored fingers, “My master wished for me to just ignore the five of you and continue with our mission, and while this might not be the smartest idea, I just have to know. How did these five little girls become Power Rangers? As such, I opted instead to wait for all of you so I may issue a challenge.”

“What sorta challenge?” Applejack asked, tightening the grip on the controls of her Zords.

“I will summon Goldar now, and the five of you will fight him,” Luna said with a smirk, “You will either die like the disgraceful children you are, or you will awaken to this strange potential that you seem to possess and defeat us.”

“How about instead, we just take you out right here!” Rarity shouted. The Mastodon Zord raised a foot to stomp on Luna, but she shot her hair out to slash at the Zord, knocking it back.

“Rarity!” Applejack cried, using the T-Rex Zord to catch the Mastodon Zord.

“Careful!” Twilight urged, “She's arrogant, but she's also just as strong as she boasts!”

“Very good, Blue Ranger,” Luna said with a smirk, “At least one of you is smart enough to realize your plight. Now darkness, make my monster GROW!!!!” Luna thrust her sword into the ground, sending gold liquid into the ground. Said golden liquid spread out and took the form of what looked like a putty almost, but slightly different. First off, this monster was at least ten stories tall. It was sleeker, and had lean build, large wings on its back, and clawed hands.

All five of the Zords backed away from the monster as it took form.

“Um, what are we supposed to do with this?” Fluttershy asked trembling.

“This, is definitely an emergency!” Rarity said.

“Believe me now?” Pinkie Pie asked, her voice shaking a bit, “You always need a giant robot…”

“Applejack?” Twilight asked, “Are we going to fight that monster?”

“We have to!” Applejack said, gripping the controls tightly, “As long as we stay together it should be fine! Focus on your Zords' individual strengths, and cover each others' weaknesses! Let's go Rangers!”

All five Zords roared loudly, mirroring their pilot's thoughts. Goldar knelt down to pick up Luna, who merged with Goldar, slowly sinking into Goldar’s seemingly liquid golden form giving the large golden creature a green hue. Goldar and the Zords all rushed toward each other, the Rangers prepared for what would be their toughest fight yet. This was almost like the final test to prove whether or not they were Power Rangers.

Author's Notes:

Donut anyone?

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